DSInsideChild injury study, page 2

Christianson: watch corn prices, page 4

Correa: Five movies you should have, page 5

Dakota Texbook, page 6

Summer Set Festival, page 8

Classic car club, page 9

Football coasts to an easy win, page 10

UND-Portland State preview, page 11

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Volleyball wins two Page 10

It only took hours from the time four UND students were placed under arrest Sept. 4, to when federal officials brought them into court, charging them with conspiracy to distribute drugs.

The students, who all en-tered pleas of not guilty, are Casey Rosen, 23; Peter Hoistad, 22; Al-lyson DeSantos, 22 and Steven Bucher, in his early 20s. Their trial is set for Nov. 6 in Fargo.

Their case is the latest in a growing series of federal prosecu-tions of people allegedly involved in the creation and distribution of a batch of drugs that led to the death of two high school students and the hospitalization of at least

five others.Citing the Family Educational

Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law that protects students from having any part or the whole of their education records involun-tarily disclosed, UND spokes-person Peter Johnson declined to comment on any specifics of the situation, including whether the

university was assisting Grand Forks police in their investigation.

“As a general rule, whenever we are asked by the Grand Forks Police Department for help, we try to assist them,” Johnson said. “The same is true of the GFPD when we ask for their help.”

“We have a very good partner-ship with the GFPD.”

The beginningOn June 14, in connection to

the drug-induced death of 18-year-old Christian Bjerk and then-coma of 17-year-old Elijah Stai, as well as several other hospitalizations due to drug overdoses, Grand Forks police arrested 22-year-old former UND student Andrew Spofford after searching Spofford’s rented home on 4th Avenue North.

Bjerk died June 11 in Grand Forks; Stai, who went into a coma June 13 in East Grand Forks, died two days later in Altru Hospital in Grand Forks.

Autopsies determined that Bjerk and Stai died as a result of ingesting synthetic, hallucinogenic drugs. The drugs were part of the same batch, which was allegedly cooked by Spofford.

When he was arrested, Spof-ford reportedly told police that he was a “hobby chemist.” Affidavits filed by state investigators claimed that Spofford said he cooked syn-thetic hallucinogens with chemi-cals he ordered from Europe.

David Pierce, chairman of the

UND chemistry department, told the Associated Press that cooking the drugs in this way allowed him to “bypass many steps he may not have had the knowledge or tools to make.”

DistributorsEighteen-year-old Adam

Budge, a friend of Spofford, was arrested within the next week and charged with the third-degree murder of Stai. Grand Forks po-lice investigator Steve Gilpinthat told the Grand Forks Herald that Budge had “smoked dope” with Spofford and fielded offers from Spofford to cook acid for $4,000 a month.

Budge allegedly either received or stole drugs from Spofford and distributed them to Stai and his friends. One of Stai’s friends, a 15-year-old boy named “C.J.”, was also hospitalized due to hallucina-tory behavior.

On Aug. 31, 18-year-old Wes-ley Sweeney pleaded guilty

4 UND students tried on federal charges

Peter Hoistad (left) and Casey Rosen (right), two of the UND students charged federally with conspiracy to dis-tribute drugs.

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SYNTHETIc Students linked to the deaths of two teenagers this summer.

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Hardrockers not so tough

A 66-0 rout of South Dakota School of Mines and Technology gave UND a 1-0 start to their

season. Turn to page 10 for more coverage.

UND’s commercial aviation and air traffic control divisions, both parts of the John D. Ode-gard School of Aerospace Sci-ences, recently received their

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five-year re-affirmation for ac-creditation by the Aviation Ac-creditation Board International.

AABI is a nonprofit organi-zation that governs the accredi-tation of aerospace programs in higher-education institutions worldwide.

Elizabeth Bjerke, an associ-ate professor of aviation, said that re-affirmation is a way for the programs to review the cur-riculum, students, facilities and

Aviation reaffirmed

The first weekend of the school year was the last weekend for the UND campus to host events planned by Night Life.

Student Senate voted Aug. 26 to pass a bill reassigning the student organization’s budget of $32,500 to the University Programming Council, effectively discontinuing Night Life for good.

UPC, which is part of Student Government, will create a new line item in its budget called Weekend Programming to account for the council’s new responsibilities.

The bill, authored by Student Body President Logan Fletcher, cited the need for Senate to spend “effectively and efficiently,” as well as the extra work that the Health & Wellness Education office, which had served as the parent organiza-tion for Night Life, was putting into planning Night Life events.

Fletcher told the Dakota Stu-dent that there were concerns the extra work was distracting Health & Wellness from its mission.

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faculty to make sure they are producing quality graduates.

“The process involves turn-ing in an application two years before it’s due, followed by a self-study where we review the whole curriculum and finally a review on-site team stops by for a few days to interview students and faculty,” Bjerke said.

EVENTS Student Gov-ernment votes to shut down five-year-old organization.

AEROSpAcE Accredi-tation board re-ups UND programs.

over the summer with Health & Wellness and UPC, we realized it just didn’t make sense where it was,” Fletcher said. “The staff in Health & Wellness that had been running Night Life never had that as part of their job description.”

Created in March 2007, Night Life was intended to “[provide] an alternative to substance abuse,” according to the organization’s of-ficial description.

From 9 p.m. to midnight every non-holiday Friday and Saturday during the school year, the organi-zation hosted events at the Memo-rial Union and Health & Wellness Center. Events included movies, food and grocery bingo; atten-dance was consistently between 200 and 300 people, with spikes around big events like Welcome Weekend.

Night Life often planned events with UPC, because of the two groups’ overlap in missions.

Because of a previous funding allocation made by Student Gov-ernment in the spring semester, the student workers who were the Night Life Lead and Night Life As-sistant will remain on Health & Wellness’ staff. These workers will be focused toward event planning for Health & Wellness.

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A UND master’s student part-nered with local nonprofit organi-zation Safe Kids Grand Forks, as well as its lead agency, Altru Health System, recently released a 10-year chart review of sports-related youth injuries.

Tom Schuch, a master’s de-gree student in kinesiology, headed the committee that produced the report, which included Dennis Caine, his advisor, and Carma

Hanson, the Safe Kids Grand Forks coordinator.

“No such study of its kind has been done in Grand Forks, looking specifically at pediatric sports and recreational injury,” Schuch said. “I wanted to see if youth in Grand Forks were affected by injury in the same way kids in the rest of the na-tion are affected.”

Schuch said since the focus was on injuries reported to the Altru hospital emergency room, the data could not determine if the number of sports and recreation injuries has increased or decreased over the 10-

year period studied.The study was able to provide

a “snapshot” of the occurrence of more serious injuries, as well as an estimate of fatal injuries expected to be brought to the Altru emer-gency room.

The study found that bicycle injuries were most common, es-pecially among children under 14 years of age, according to Schuch.

To read more about the study, go to http://www2.und.edu/our/uletter/?p=31888.

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in federal court to conspiracy to distribute drugs that resulted in death — specifically, the death of Bjerk.

Days before, 24-year-old William Fox, who had lived with Spofford at their rented house on 2200 4th Avenue North, con-fessed to distributing the drugs allegedly cooked by Spofford.

Fox’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 20; Sweeney’s sentenc-ing is scheduled for Nov. 26. Barring a plea deal for Sweeney, both face decades of prison time.

Spofford’s state and federal hearings

On Aug. 6, about two hours before Spofford’s preliminary hearing in Grand Forks court, Tom Falck, the assistant state’s attorney for Grand Forks Coun-ty, was informed that a fed-eral grand jury was indicting Spofford. An hour before the hearing, the same information reached Ted Sanford, Spofford’s defense attorney.

As a result of the federal indictment, Falck moved to dismiss the state-level charges against Spofford. Afterward,

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federal officials moved Spofford to Fargo, where he faced his first federal hearing the next day.

Spofford has yet to enter a plea. His grand jury indictment, recently unsealed, reveals that he faces a litany of federal charges, including conspiracy to distrib-ute drugs and five new charges that the drugs he allegedly made and distributed led to the deaths of Bjerk and Stai and “serious bodily injury” of others.

He was arraigned for the new charges Tuesday.

Andrew Spofford has not yet entered a plea. He is charged with conspiracy to distribute drugs and five other charges.

Zack Schuster is the News Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at zachary.schuster@

my.und.edu

According to the AABI, ac-creditation ensures that profession-al programs achieve and maintain a certain level of integrity, academic performance, and quality that the educational communities they serve will be confident in.

Once a program earns accredi-tation, it maintains it for the next five years.

UND’s aerospace program, consistently touted as one of the best in the nation, currently has over 500 faculty and staff mem-bers, approximately 1,500 students from around the world and the world’s largest non-military fleet of aircraft.

The programs, which were first accredited back in 1992 when AABI was formed, have been re-af-firmed for accreditation every five years since.

For the third re-affirmation cycle in a row, UND was not re-quired to file an interim report for its programs, meaning that AABI did not consider the programs to have any problems meeting accred-itation criteria.

As part of changes made around the last time UND’s programs were

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re-affirmed for accreditation, the ATC program accreditation was changed from Aviation Studies to Air Traffic Control, according to Kent Lovelace, chairperson for the UND Aviation Department.

The change was spurred by the growing number of campuses that were seeking Air Traffic Control as an accreditation, Lovelace said.

AABI also changed their evalu-ation criteria from curriculum-based to outcome-based. Instead of focusing on the length and ma-terials in the course, the organiza-tion compares what students have learned to the institution’s learning goals.

“It’s a positive in that you end up with a better product,” Lovelace said. “It’s difficult in that it puts more work on the staff and fac-ulty.”

Majors offered include air traf-fic control, airport management, aviation management, aviation technology management, flight education, commercial aviation for both fixed-wing airplanes and helicopters, and unmanned aerial vehicle operations.

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RELIGION Tom Short will be making an appearance at UND and blazing a path for free speech on campus.

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This week, travelling evangelist Tom Short is visiting UND. Short has made numerous visits to campus, and he always leaves UND a hotbed of re-ligious discourse by the time he’s done preaching.

Short’s visits to UND have gained a lot of pop-ularity — or notoriety, depending on your view-point. Many students take his visit as an opportu-nity to skip class and support his stances, challenge him in varying degrees of civility or to just watch.

While it is not up to the Editorial Board of the Dakota Student to pass judgment on his messages about scripture or beliefs, it is up to us to take a stand for the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

We would like to commend Short’s bravery for exercising his right to free speech in what will cer-tainly be, at times, an adverse situation. In a pub-lic setting, Short has the absolute right to say just about anything he pleases, and that is something that the Dakota Student can really get behind.

In a recent email, President Robert Kelley wrote about the importance of reaffirming “the important dual principles of freedom of speech and civility.”

Before we explore that email further, a sidebar — it is truly sad that such a reminder to remain civil is necessary. People have always been prone to act rashly when confronted with viewpoints that are different from their own, especially when they are in the majority.

The First Amendment protects the freedom of speech. Kelley is right in his email that “nowhere should this freedom to express ideas be prized more highly than at a university. The free expression of thought is the basis of learning and scholarship, and university campuses have historically been the birthplace of many ideas that, while at times con-troversial, have led to important social change.”

Later, Kelley acknowledges the difference be-tween supporting someone’s right to speak freely and the actual content of their message. This is crucial when looking at the fabric of our society. Even though politicians run smear campaigns against one another, they have the right to do so.

While Short has the right to spread his ideals by verbalizing them in a local place, we have the right to completely agree or disagree with him.

Just so long as we all remain civil and respect-ful.

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Greater Grand Forks community members buy local homegrown fruits and vegetables from the Town Square Farmer’s Market. The market is held every Saturday in downtown Grand Forks until Sept. 29.

As fuel prices near $4 per gallon, you may also notice that horrible pain in your wallet region every time you pull up to the fuel pump. However, fuel is just one facet of the looming money crunch. While fuel may cur-rently be the most apparent inflated commodity, keep your eyes on corn prices. Corn is used in virtually all modern products including food, plastics and fuel.

This summer’s weather left over 50 percent of the U.S. in a severe drought, including the majority of the Corn Belt region. With corn being a staple crop, the drought is predicted to cause a massive increase in the price per bushel of corn. Ac-cording to the USDA, corn prices per bushel could reach nearly $9 — a new record — which means the price of your grocery bill will increase nearly five percent.

In addition to the cost of everyday groceries, on-campus meal plan costs across the country may also rise in the coming year.

This means the overall cost to at-tend higher education will continue to grow as food prices skyrocket.

“Those with current meal plans can relax,” Elizabeth Polsdofer from Iowa State Daily said. “The current meal plan is not affected by the increase in pricing.” Pay particular attention to the upcoming academic year in order to see the full effects of the drought on UND campus meal plans.

While a five percent increase on a grocery bill doesn’t sound all that bad, don’t forget corn is a key ingredient in many different plastics such as bottles and bags. Chances are that many of the plastic products you see contain PLA,

a corn-based resin known as polylactic acid. As the price of corn rises, so does the cost of PLA, which is now even being used in automobile production and in some types of clothing fabric. That five percent grocery bill increase will be amplified by the rise in costs of plastic products used in everyday life — including your car.

M a n y A m e r i c a n s know how i m p o r t a n t ethanol has become to our nation’s fuel supply. Most fuel grades contain ap-proximately 10 percent etha-

nol, and E-85 contains approximately 85 percent.

Because ethanol is a corn-based product, its price may spike due to the drought, further driving up gasoline and bio-diesel prices.

These concerns have prompted some government officials to begin weighing the consequences of sus-pending the ethanol fuel mandate temporarily in order to help lower the rising corn prices.

Currently, the EPA mandates that gasoline should contain at least some ethanol. Despite mounting pressure from concerned officials and farmers, the EPA is unlikely to suspend the ethanol mandate.

If you have stuck with me this far, you may be a little freaked out. The law of supply and demand is in full swing around the country and the product prices in many markets are skyrocket-ing. In the midst of all this, there are some ways to save a buck or two.

With the huge spike in corn comes the increased cost of raising cattle. “Cattle farmers in several states have already started selling off or culling cattle because the drought has ruined grass for grazing,” New York Times

writer Annie Lowrey said. “The price for corn feed has skyrocketed.”

Feed cost increases mean that meat prices may temporarily dip in late summer and fall which should be an indication to consumers, like you, to stock up on beef beforehand. During a meat price slump, take the precaution of buying and freezing more beef for later use as prices will likely rise again near the end of the year.

If you want another way to save a few dollars, buy food in bulk and share the excess with your friends. Stores like Sam’s Club and Walmart have made this shopping style a specialty. You’ll be thankful later when rent is due and funds are low.

Also, carpool. That may seem ob-vious, but it saves the US economy ap-proximately $1.1 billion annually — and some of those dollars can be yours. As a student myself, making the short trips from my apartment to a student parking lot kills my fuel mileage, es-pecially because I drive a truck. While UND provides a very good shuttle ser-vice, the routes don’t always work with every student’s schedule — like mine.

Luckily, in recent years the univer-sity has installed a number of bike racks to facilitate students in their efforts to get to class on time. If you don’t have a bike, you can always walk. It takes me approximately eight minutes to walk across campus to any of my classes.

While that doesn’t include the nine miles to the airport for aviation students, avoiding driving as much as possible will be more than worth it.

Since drought has devastated the agricultural community nationwide, consumers and farmers will need to dig deep to stay afloat. The full effects of this summer’s drought are yet to be fully realized as concerns grow regard-ing a global food crisis sometime in the near future.

‘Corn is used in virtu-ally all modern prod-ucts including food, plastics and fuel.

Adam Christiansoncolumnist

Adam Christianson is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be

reached at adam.christianson@my.und.edu

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Last year, I was one of the first people you’d see lining up at tables signing petitions to keep the Fighting Sioux logo. I’ve spent more than enough money at the Sioux Shop for Fighting Sioux clothing and merchandise, and I still love yelling “Yeah, Sioux Sioux!” at hockey and f o o t b a l l games.

In the North Da-kota election last June, 67 percent of North Da-kotans voted against allowing the University of North Dakota to continue using the Fighting Sioux logo over the 32 percent who voted to keep the nickname. Since then, I’ve given up my for-mer drive and fight to acquire an unwanted acceptance of the idea. We fought and we lost; it’s time to surrender.

Many students have probably seen the men and women staked about campus this week with tables and petitions advocating

for students to join the third or fourth movement against the logo and nickname removal. In the past, I would have stopped and added my name below the hundreds of others who wanted to see the legacy of the Fighting Sioux continue; but now, I can’t bring myself to do it.

It’s time UND moved on to greener pas-tures and be-gan another p o w e r f u l legacy.

As a transfer stu-dent from a private school — where nick-names are awful — be-

ing a member of the Fighting Sioux community became part of who I was as a student, a fan and a member of Grand Forks.

We are all losing a part of our identity, but I think it’s only right that we acknowledge life isn’t always fair and we don’t always get everything we want; hell, we could be the UND Di-nosaurs — how awesome!

Personally, I’m just glad I won’t be around for the change. Without a logo, in some ways we

are able to keep the facade of the Fighting Sioux alive.

I love that there are commu-nity members with the fight still burning within them to a point that drives them to keep pushing back against the decision. Isn’t fighting for what you believe in part of being human — or at least American? Perhaps that’s what defines the Sioux people in general — never giving up.

These petitions serve as a re-minder to the importance of the legacy UND’s logo will forever leave on the Grand Forks com-munity. Every time petitions make an appearance, I smile and cringe at the same time because although I know many students — like myself — have dropped out of the fight, there are still those who are passionate enough to never stop.

UND is a strong advocate of the power of free speech, which allows people to come on campus to hand out fliers, make politi-cal/religious statements and sign petitions.

The university saw this right exercised to its full extent during the previous spring when many American Indian groups were on campus for the annual powwow, using their membership in the tribes as a way to show students

both the positive and negative ef-fects the nickname has on their culture.

If students feel unsure of their feelings regarding the nick-name or logo, they should fire up their personal computers and do some research on the topic. Look into the history of the Sioux peoples and Plains Indian cultures as a whole. Students might see that the history is very dynamic and extensive, playing a large role in the current Ameri-can Indian tribes in the area. Students should also use research to understand the role UND has played in relation to the advo-cacy and the public eye on the Dakota Sioux.

There have been many stu-dents who settled on the issue just by looking at athletics as the only affected party in the situa-tion.

It is true that UND would face issues with hosting and par-ticipating in certain NCAA con-ferences and tournaments. But the NCAA cannot block UND from participating forever, and it’s only a matter of time before they realize the issue has been settled and decided by the North Dakota community in addition to the American Indian commu-nity. Denying our presence in the

organization is an overreaction to individualistic ideals on race. I can understand how many cur-rent athletes feel misrepresented and denied full potential and ex-posure, but

I wish individuals could stop thinking of themselves and in-stead look to the good of the uni-versity and the views of the local Native communities.

Some Native Plains Indians or members of the various Sioux tribes across the Plains may dis-agree with me, but I am fully aware that there are also many students, faculty and fans that believe we should revoke the nickname for good, and we have.

As I’ve said before, I fought for the nickname and I lost. The fight is over. Putting the issue to a statewide vote is as far as we can take it. If the majority of the state votes against UND using it, then we should accept that ma-jority and move forward.

We fought hard, folks; we saw which side won, and it wasn’t the Fighting Sioux fans. How many petitions do we need to sign be-fore we realize this?

I’m tired of the phrase “voting is your civic duty.”

Tuesday, Nov. 6, the presiden-tial election is scheduled to occur. If you believe the hype, it’s the most important election in the history of our nation’s history, be-tween the fascist Barack Obama and the socialist Mitt Romney (or was it the other way around? Which candidate supports bail-ing out businesses, and which one passed universal health care for his constituents?)

We’re told that if one candi-date wins, it’s the end of reality as we know it…or possibly just the end of reality. It is therefore of utmost importance that we make sure the other candidate wins.

It’s not that your choice of candidate shares your ideals or really excites you on a personal level. It’s that, when compared to the opponent, heck, he’s the only choice!

Is it no wonder people aren’t excited about this election?

A July Gallup poll indicated that voter turnout among 18- to 29-year-olds is expected to be lower than it was during the 2004 election — a significant drop to 58 percent from the 40-year high of 78 percent in 2008.

And honestly, when faced with two vapid lumps of moving words — our party candidates —one of the few motivations push-ing me to continue voting is the knowledge that some people actu-ally support the “lump” I think is more likely to end reality.

I’m not voting against some-

one I disdain; I’m voting against people I loathe. And that’s why I think voting is not always, or maybe ever, your civic duty.

When you feel no sense of community with your fellow citi-zens, or when you avoid mention-ing the single most important po-sition in the land because you fear losing what few kinships you have remaining, when you discover, to your horror, that your political intransigence has ended in a crip-pling over-reliance on the very same meaning-bereft buzzwords and code phrases you consciously despise. The concept of “a civic duty” kind of evaporates.

Because, really, making a checkmark on a ballot will not solve your problems. It will be worth it, however, and you should vote anyway because you’ll make a difference and see change. It just won’t often be the kind of change you hoped for.

If Obama is elected, then qual-ity of life may improve, but you won’t feel better inside. If Rom-ney is elected, big businesses may grow, but you won’t feel person-ally profited. You’ll feel the same cold dread you feel every other time you think about the future.

You’ll feel the same lingering emptiness as you ponder just how overwhelmed you feel about the daunting prospect of playing a part — no matter how infinitesi-mal — in deciding who will run America. You’ll feel the same quiet urge to sit in a corner, drink a lot of beer and forget that reality is about to end.

ZACK SCHUSTERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Zack Schuster is the News Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be

reached at zachary.schuster@my.und.edu

CHRISTEN FURLONgTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Christen Furlong is the Manag-ing/Opinion Editor for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at

christen.furlong@my.und.edu

Fighting Sioux nickname petitions make a comeback

Voting: a civic duty?

‘I fought for the nick-name and I lost. The fight is over.

Christen Furlongmanaging/opinion editor

Everyone has a favorite mov-ie, and if they tell you they don’t, that means their favorite movie is something embarrassing like, “Debbie Does Dallas.” As col-lege students, we all need a little reprieve from studying and there is only so much alcohol in the world.

Here is a list of five movies that ought be in your dorm room collection; if they aren’t already, please correct your behavior.

5. SnatchThis fast-talking comedy ex-

plores the underground crime world of England. With a star-studded cast featuring the likes of Brad Pitt and Jason Statham, the characters in this story find themselves in an increasingly complex plot that revolves most-ly around a diamond. Even if you have no interest in movies with constantly changing plot threads, please watch it in order to witness the best film character Brad Pitt has ever played.

4. The HangoverAfter seeing this movie,

you’ll probably have changed a few words in your vocabulary. You’ll switch ‘roofies’ to ‘floories’ and replace ‘purse’ with ‘satchel.’ The plot follows a groom and his groomsmen as they take off on a road trip to throw a bachelor party in Vegas.

The following morning they wake with a few surprises: an infant in the closet, a Bengal ti-ger in the bathroom and no sign of the groom. In order to find their friend, the three men have

to piece together the previous night. Hilarity is bound to en-sue and you’ll be hard pressed to find a funnier movie.

3. The Dark Knight“Why so serious?” Almost

everyone has tried to mimic the Joker’s voice from this movie. This is what makes a film great — when your friends can use it to annoy you. Batman is put to the test when the Joker comes into town stringing along chaos with no motives, something Bat-man has never seen.

Heath Ledger’s performance of the Joker was so striking that you almost want to say, “why is Batman even on the screen?” If you haven’t seen this movie yet, then you’re probably one of two people who don’t like Batman. This film redefined the comic superhero genre, which is why it deserves a spot on your shelf. Now, lets put a smile on that face.

2. The Star Wars Trilogy

S t a r Wars is by no means, a single film, but it is a single expe-rience. It’s really diffi-cult to stop watching after just one Star Wars film, and while I know there are six in all, we should all know which three are clearly the best. If you’ve never heard of Star Wars, may God have mercy on your soul. The original trilogy follows the tale of Luke Skywalk-er, a farm boy from the planet

of Tatooine, after the death of his aunt and uncle, joins an old friend on a quest to rescue a dis-tressed princess of the nearby planet of Alderaan. I know its very straightforward, but hey, these movies forever changed the film industry. These movies have inspired countless novels, video games and toys. Not having it on your shelf would similarly com-pare to slapping Lady Liberty right across her face.

1. The Big LebowskiThis movie has ruined many

bowling nights. It’s almost im-possible to watch this and then not quote it for the rest of your life. The film follows “The Dude,” a loner in Los Angeles who finds himself wrapped up in a case of mistaken identity; a case involving kidnapping, nihil-ists, and, of course, a rug. You’ll wish you had a friend named “Donny’’and you’ll thank your

lucky stars you don’t have one like Walter.

The co-medic trio of Jeff Bridges, Steve Bus-cemi and John Good-man will make you forget all

about those guys from “The Hangover.” If you don’t own this movie, then turn yourself into the authorities.

‘I know its very straightforward, but hey, these movies forever changed the film industry.

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Victor Correa is the Web Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be

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College comes with many ex-penses, all of them painful. After budgeting for tuition, food, trans-portation and everything else that entails living on one’s own, the last thing students want to do is shell out the hundreds of dollars it takes to buy textbooks.

Dakota Textbook, located on 42nd Street and University Ave., is an option for students looking for a bookstore that will help ease the pain.

“Our mission is to save stu-dents money,” Lisa Goenner, the Dakota Textbook store manager, said. “We know that textbooks are expensive, but we try to keep our prices low so we can cover our ex-penses.”

In 2004, a group of students decided they were going to create a bookstore to compete with the campus bookstore prices. Eight years later, Dakota Textbook prides itself in continuing to un-derstand the needs of students.

“Everyone who works here is a student or has recently gradu-ated,” Goenner said. “We try to keep the student’s checkbook in mind.”

In an effort to be price com-petitive, the bookstore honors most competitors’ prices (of-

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fers from individual sellers are a big exception). If a student finds a book offered at cheaper price through a seller such as Amazon or the UND Bookstore, that stu-dent can bring in printed proof to Dakota Textbook.

Then, the bookstore will take the competitor’s price and lower it by an additional 10 percent.

“We really encourage price comparisons and are very compet-itive with other stores,” Goenner said.

Dakota Textbook is also the only local bookstore that will rent all of their books. Goenner said since its rental program started two years ago, Dakota Textbook

has seen an increasing trend to-wards book rentals instead of pur-chases.

“Students really seem to like it,” Goenner said. “About 70 per-cent of our books are rented out.”

Another benefit to buying from Dakota Textbook, Goenner said, is that as a local business it’s invested in the community.

“It’s nice to buy from a lo-cal business,” Goenner said. “If a teacher switches books on a stu-dent, instead of shipping books back we can work with the situa-tion locally.”

As a private business, Dakota Textbook isn’t allowed on campus, yet it does utilize public sidewalks

down University Avenue for chalk written advertisements or hand out fliers. In addition, the book-store has paired with XL93 and Sam’s Club for promotion efforts.

This semester, Dakota Text-book handed out coupons, held drawings for free rentals and gave away T-shirts and jerseys.

Though many students have finished making their semester purchases, Dakota Textbook is another option students can con-sider in future buying.

Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at kaitlin.bezdicek@my.und.edu

Workers at the Dakota Textbook organize stock and do paperwork behind a counter inside the store on Aug. 28. Unlike the UND bookstore, Dakota Textbook includes all of its textbooks in its rental program.

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the students,” Fletcher said.Jane Croeker, the director of

Health & Wellness promotion, said the idea for the change came both from Student Government and from focus groups held with students and faculty.

“This is a good thing as long as the students have consistent late-night activity,” Croeker said. “There is noth-ing that says Health & Wellness can’t do late-night event planning. We’ve told UPC that we’re committed to helping with the transition.”

Fletcher stressed that, while UPC isn’t taking over Night Life, there will still be plenty of programs for students to attend.

“UPC consistently hosts some of the most well-attended events on our campus, and this additional funding will only allow them to improve their weekend events even more,” Fletcher said.

As of now, there are no plans to create a new organization to replace Night Life, though Fletcher said throughout the year, Student Senate will be evaluating the result of this decision and, as they have more infor-mation, adjusting their plans.

“We’re confident that this is the right move at the moment, but we can’t give a definite plan for the future without seeing how this year goes,” Fletcher said.

UPC is currently finalizing a schedule for fall 2012, according to Missy Burgess, the assistant program director for the Student Involvement Office.

The schedule includes events for every weekend except for Veteran’s Day weekend, she said.

Zack Schuster is the News Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at zachary.schuster@

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Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences Kathleen Tiemann and Dr. Phyllis E. John-son Vice President for Research & Economic Development enjoying the artwork. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura

new “Empire” for und’s Art collection

It was 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, on the sidewalk outside the Empire Arts Cen-ter in downtown Grand Forks. Ken Mikula was adjusting the thin, white ropes holding up a large, green sheet against the side of the Empire’s brick exterior.

On either side of the sheet were sets of two � ags — one white � ag with a green pole, one green � ag with a white pole. O� to the side, at a 45-degree angle be-tween the wall and the r o a d , was a p o d i u m a f f i x e d w i t h U N D ’ s seal. Be-hind the s h e e t was a two-deck s i g n composed of aluminum letters that Indigo Sign-works, the company Mikula works for as a sales representative, was commissioned to make.

The � rst deck reads, in large, Times New Roman-esque lettering,

“UND Art Collection”; the second deck, in smaller, equally Times-y font, reads “University of North Dakota”

“The cloth is designed to come down very, very easily,” Mikula said. “I’m mostly here to make sure some kids don’t come by and mess things up.”

The sign was being un-veiled in half-an-hour, as the UND Art Collection Gallery was being pre-viewed to the media. In the alleyway next to the center, a chalk street-art team called We Talk Chalk created a 3-D street paint-ing.

Some of the people who facilitated the orga-

n i z a t i o n and rep-r e s e n t a -tion of art at the Em-pire got up be-hind the p o d i u m and give b r i e f

speeches about how glad they all are that it � nally came together.

These included UND President Robert Kelley, who, when he took o� ce, made it a focus to see the gallery made a reality, and Hal Gershman, head of the board of directors for the

Empire Art Center. Falling under the um-

brella of the “Exceptional UND” program, the gal-lery, which is contracted to run for one year with three shows and the op-tion to extend if UND deems it a success, is part of UND’s e� orts to expand its presence throughout the Grand Forks commu-nity.

It was Gershman’s wife, Kathleen — a p r o -f e s s o r for the E d u c a -t i o n a l Founda-tion & Research at UND — who n e a r l y a year ago sug-gested to Art Jones, the chair of the department of art and de-sign and director of the UND Art Collection, that there be a gallery at the Empire.

A nearly one-hundred-year-old building, the Em-pire was donated in Dec. 1994 by the Midcontinent Corporation to the North Valley Arts Council — for one dollar — and was re-opened in 1998, following a three-year renovation ef-fort that included a restart

Kathleen — a Kathleen — a

Founda-tion & Research at UND — who n e a r l y a year ago sug-gested to Art Jones, the chair of the caused by the Red River

� ood in 1997.Now a stand-alone non-

pro� t organization host-ing over 270 events per year with an estimated 30,000 annual attendees, the Empire was facing a problem — how do they � ll the empty space in the front part of the building?

As soon as Kathleen talked to Jones, the proj-ect seemed to take o� .

“Everyone smelled the co� ee,” Hal Gershman said.

What helped was the then-six years of e� ort that Jones had put into curating UND’s art collec-tion. Mostly a labor of love — Jones had volunteered for the job and, with little funding, had done much of the work without an of-� cial sta� — it had con-sisted mainly of tracking down and categorizing the many pieces of art that UND had collected over the years that were now collecting dust in base-ments, hanging unceremo-niously on walls around campus or even, in many instances, on the verge of being thrown out.

“I really wanted to see art being used in a di� er-ent way,” Jones said. “One thing that bothered me

was that art was being used as decoration. It wasn’t being taken very good care of, it wasn’t being labeled, it wasn’t being protected and of-ten people didn’t even know what it was they had.”

One such instance of people not know-ing what they had was an old Native Ameri-can doll that is a part of the gallery’s � rst show. On its way to the dumpster, it was res-cued along with several other similar pieces by a worker at UND.

By chance, Jones happened to talk to the worker and learn about the pieces, which the worker was planning to sell to raise money for her department. Nearly lost to UND, the doll now stands proudly alongside works by, among others, Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol.

Jones said he could talk for hours about the stories behind the pieces that make up UND’s art collection. One of his biggest hopes, he said, is that

UND President Robert Kelly stands by as Hal Gershman, Chairmen of the board of directors for the Empire Art Center addresses the crowd gathered for the Art Gallery opening.

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‘I really wanted to see art being used in a di� erent way.

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With all of the fun and excit-ing activities that can fill the sum-mer, one of the most outrageous is a music festival.

From Aug. 24 to 26, the city of Somerset, Wisc., hosted the inau-gural Summer Set Festival. It fea-tured headliners such as Big Gigan-tic, Umphrey’s Mcgee and Pretty Lights along with many others..

“All we have is now,” said Erik Nelson, one of the thousands of people attending the Summer Set Festival. People came from all over the country to spend three days camping, partying and celebrating life.

“It’s all about enjoying the short time we have on this earth,” one festival veteran, Ryan Jorgen-son, said.

Shows would start every day around 3 p.m. and end at midnight with the night’s headliner. The fes-tival entertained all kinds of music from jam bands and hip-hop to dubstep.

Other big name acts included Nas, Infected Mushroom, Lotus and Zeds Dead. With three stages playing shows at all hours of the day (two outside and one dedicat-ed to dubstep inside), people had to choose which show they wanted

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to see. Dubstep is one of the fastest

growing genres in the world right now, with new and exciting names popping up everywhere.

When asked about the new genre, another festival attendee, Victor Florea, said, “It is just a new sound that makes you want to go nuts and rave.”

The genre is a form of techno with fast, heavy sound to it. At the Big Gigantic show Andrew Hob-day described the sound as “kind of like the heavy metal of techno”.

Music festivals have been showing up all over the country from the very famous Coachella in Indio, Calif. to the not so heard of Shangri-La in Harmony Park, Minn. It also seems to be a growing trend for young adults to go to the festivals and sell anything (hemp

necklaces, tye-dyes shirts, etc.) so they can raise money for the next festival.

Each night, after all of the shows were over, the festival would hold an after party in the dubstep building for an extra $25. For peo-ple who weren’t willing to spend the extra money, after parties could be found all over the campgrounds.

All sorts of people attend these festivals, from the rave kids that wear almost nothing but animal beanies to the bros with snap-backs and lax pinnies. The festival grounds are created as an entirely new world of peace and bliss where the only thing that matters is the music.

FESTIVAL Summer music festival brings together people from all over the country.

Celebrating music

The gallery, he hopes, will be a big part of that.

But as momentous as it is — “This takes us to another level,” Gershman said of the gallery— it is only one step in the process. Step three, to be exact.

Step one was the publica-tion of “Storytelling Time: Na-tive North America Art from the Collections at the Univer-sity of North Dakota,” a joint venture between Jones and his staff and the University Foun-dation Collection.

Born of a desire to produce a “definitive result” for his work, it proved to be wildly successful.

Published through Hud-son Hills Press in 2010, it was one of thirteen titles — from a pool of nearly 4,000 appli-cants from across the nation, including from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art — named in 2011 as outstand-ing books of the year by the Independent Publisher Book Awards.

It was this, along with step two — placing Audrey Flack’s hand-painted, polyurethane cast sculpture “Daphne” in the Education Building — that Jones believes allowed the gal-

GALLERy FROM PAGE [7] lery to happen.

Step four for Jones is al-ready in the works – an art collection at the new Gorecki Alumni Center. The center, slated to open Oct. 12 as part of Homecoming, will have dis-plays from both the UND Art Collection and the Alumni Collection.

His main focus for now, though, is still the gallery at the Empire.

“I view this venture as a fine collaboration,” Jones said. “From my own point of view, I’m eager to see how it works out for both the Empire and for us.”

The UND Art Collections Gallery officially opened to the public Wednesday, Aug. 29 at 5 p.m.

Zack Schuster is the News Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at zachary.schuster@

my.und.edu

Masses of people jam to the various bands while lights flash sporadically at the many concerts at the Summer Set Festival. Photo by Alex Abernethy.

Street artist Melanie Stimmell and her “We Talk Chalk Team” created a three-di-mensional image out of chalk. The image showcases UND’s eternal flame, Chester Fritz Library and a soaring eagle sculpture by Bennett Brien. The image was fin-ished Friday, Aug. 31st. Photos by Keisuke Yoshimura.

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The Prime Steel Car Club holds weekly Tuesday night cruises in the parking lot of El Roco’s Bar and Bottle Shop. The club members display their cars and cruise around the Grand Forks area showing off their wheels.

Motorheads and car enthu-siasts have a deep love of their cars.

Tuesday, Aug. 28 the Prime Steel Car Club held one of its cruise nights in the parking lot of El Roco’s on the corner of Gateway Dr. and Washington Ave.. The club’s objective is to “promote interest in vari-ous forms of automobile street rodding activities, includ-ing classic & special interest automobiles,” according to primesteelcarclub.com.

The club is a nonprofit or-ganization that donates most of the money raised from various events they have throughout the year to local charities. Each Tuesday from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. the club members display their cars, weather permitting, and enjoy each other’s company.

All kinds of cars can be seen in the lot such as, Corvettes, Challengers and some classic Ca-dillacs. The club promotes safe driving through their excursions

around town. In April the group

will be holding their annual car show at the Purpur/Gambucci Are-nas. If you are inter-ested in learning more about the Prime Steel Car Club email them at info@primesteel-carclub.com.

In April the group will be holding their annual car show at the

Cruisin’ around town with the classics

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CARS Club members take to the streets in shiny steel.

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The Prime Steel Car Club was established in the fall of 1981. Members enjoy getting together and showing off their classic wheels. Photos by Glen-don Gengel

September 8 Wings & Wheels Air Show Fly-In Classic Car Show. Car Show 12 to 7 p.m., Air Show 4 to 6 p.m.. Barnes City Airport. Host-Bridge City Cruisers. Contact; Ter-ry (701)840-8871; Fly-In Info Lori (701)490-1034. Details are at www.bridgecitycruisers.com

September 9 “Cruise To The Island” Sunday in Island Park. Located between Mayville and Portland N.D. Featuring the Front Fenders. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.. No admission fees. Food and concessions available. For more information call Ron (701)430-0434, Jeff (701) 430-1055, Tom (701) 238-3729,

Darin (701) 430-3242 or Troy (701) 430-1522. All Special Interest Vehicles Welcome.

September 14-16 Da-kota Cruisers Season Fina-le. See www.dakotacruisers.comMinot, ND “NDSRA Pick Site”

September 15 First Annual ‘Unorganized Bot-tineau Car Show! The event will be held in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot. There will be people’s choice awards, great prizes and lots of activities. The entrance fee will be one non-perishable item for dona-tion. Call Clint at the Bot-tineau, ND, Chamber offi ce 701-228-3849 for questions.

If you are proud of what you drive, love what you drive, have a completed hotrod or a work in progress you are welcome to come and show it off.

September 16 Rydell Chevrolet’s 7th Annual Charity Ben-

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efi t Car & Bike Show. All Pro-ceeds will go to the L.I.S.T.E.N. Center of Grand Forks. Rydell will be giving a corporate match to all money raised. 2 to 4pm Sunday. Registration forms are online at rydellcarshow.com. Come join us and make this the best show ever.

September 22 FALL FLASHBACK- LRC, Le-gion Recreation Center in Hal-stad, Minn. Car Show 11AM-5PM. $20 Per Vehicle (Includes 2 Tickets to the Dance.) Dance 5PM-8PM. “The Whiteside-walls-Rock ‘n Roll Revue”. Dance Admission $10.00 Per Adult.(Children 12 and un-der Free) “Fun For All” - Prizes for the best 50’s and 60’s attire. Concessions Beer Garden. Con-tacts: Bruce (218)456-2324, Jay/Lori (218)456-2588, or Dave (218)456-2672

September 29 12TH An-nual Pumpkin Fest Car Show. 9am-2:30pm. Free. Contact; Curt (218)238-5581 Lake Park, Minn.

UND holds a 7-5 record against non-con-ference opponents, (S. Oregon is in the NAIA) since the DI transition.

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Despite key injury, UND rolls over Mines 66-0

A blowout performance Au-gust 30 in the Alerus Center was welcome, but a key injury put a damper on the celebration.

Senior quarterback Braden Hanson went down with a leg injury in the second quarter of UND’s 66-0 win over the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology after completing 13 of 14 pass attempts, includ-ing two touchdowns. The North Carolina transfer is expected to miss two to three weeks. Senior backup Marcus Hendrickson en-tered the game and went 5-for-6 with 95 yards and two touch-downs.

The rushing attack domi-nated SDSM’s defense, racking up 370 net rushing yards. Senior starter Jake Miller led North Da-kota with 178 yards on 12 carries and a score. Redshirt freshman P.J. Sparks (12 carries, 97 yards, 1 touchdown), senior Mitch Sutton (8-61-2) and sophomore Adam Shaugabay (10-49-1) also managed big gains against the Hardrockers’ defense.

The UND defense was not overshadowed by the offense, holding SDSM to 142 total

OUCH Even with Han-son injured, UND was able to beat South Da-kota School of Mines.

yards and only 9 first downs. Sophomore linebacker Alex Hickel, a Grand Forks native, re-corded the only sack for UND, and also forced a fumble that ju-nior linebacker Garrison Good-man recovered.

After a botched snap result-ing in a fumble, UND opened the game with a quick scoring drive, highlighted by a 40-yard run by Miller. Hanson tossed a 14-yard pass to senior tight end Seth Wisthoff to open the scor-ing.

Later in the first quarter, redshirt freshman Jameer Jack-son caught a pass on a crossing route, but fumbled the ball. Jackson fell on the loose ball in the end zone to score his first ca-reer touchdown.

A 31-point second quarter effort by UND gave the home team a 45-0 lead at halftime.

Up next: UND hosts Port-land State Saturday at 6:05 p.m. for the Potato Bowl USA game.

Game notes• The season-opening

shutout was the 41st in school history, and sec-ond in a row.

• The 653 yards of total offense broke a school single-game record.

• Attendance was 8,847

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UND running back Jake Miller (center) had an outstanding game against South Dakota School of Mines, rushing for 178 yards.

North Dakota fans got wild... for the first half. After UND went up 45-0, the Alerus Center started to empty.

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Volleyball has mixed results in tourney

North Dakota started their home style in grand style, sweep-ing rival South Dakota.

Three UND players record-ed double-diget numbers in the kills column, helping the green and white win the sets 25-18, 26-24 and 25-10.

Lisa Parlich, the junior co-captain, had six kills on eight swings during the opening set, speeding North Dakota to a 25-18 win.

South Dakota attempted to come back, as they held a 5-2 lead over UND in the second set. However, Lexi Robinson sent the ball blazing past the de-fense, starting a game tying rally.

Parlich continued the rally as UND then went 5-1, giving them a 15-11 lead.

USD came back though, ty-ing the game at 19. The Coyotes

YOUTH UND’s women look to gain experi-ence through their years on the team.

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went on to hold a 23-21 lead over North Dakota.

However, Nikki Husfeldt and Robinson teamed up to get UND back in the lead, giving them the win in the second set.

North Dakota ran to a quick 10-1 lead in the final set, crush-ing the spirit of South Dakota. UND went on to win 25-10. Later that day, North Dakota went on to play University of Wisconsin Green Bay.

“Any win, or positive result will build our confidence,” said head coach Ashley Hardee of the UND women’s volleyball team. The team recently competed against UW Green Bay last Sat-

urday in the UND Classic and won 3-0. Green Bay has a num-ber of tall players, an important factor for UND players to think about.

“Thinking about hitting around them,” said sophomore Emily Asche, reflecting on the size of North Dakota’s opponent.

Asche had a number of kills in the first set that helped North Dakota take the victory after starting off slow.

The second set began similar to the first with Green Bay tak-ing an early lead. Again, North Dakota quickly caught up and battled with Green Bay, taking the set with help from Parlich

North Dakota’s young team hopes to grow and learn together.

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The women’s volleyball squad of Stephen F. Austin State

and Ronni Munkeby. The third set started out

differently as it was in favor of North Dakota from the start.

UND managed to hold a ten point margin over Green Bay be-fore facing a surging Green Bay comeback. North Dakota was able to hold back Green Bay and hold on for the win.

“We knew to be aggressive,” Hardee said. With the physical height of the players being an advantage for Green Bay, UND had to find a way around it. in their win.

A coach’s perspective will vary at how the team looks at the game, but for Asche it was different. “It was a really fun ex-perience, being able to play in front of my hometown,” Asche said after her record game for UND.

Asche had a great start, con-sidering this was her first of-ficial game for North Dakota. She put up career numbers in what Coach Hardee would call a “breakout game.” At one point during the first set, Asche had four kills in five points.

She also recorded 11 kills throughout the game. In her first start, Asche proved that she not

only belongs on the team, she has earned her spot among the women. “Asche played great and hit a high percentage,” Hardee said.

For herself, Asche said the biggest key of the game was “Be-ing able to get into the game fi-nally, and show them.”

To many, a win is a win. But for North Dakota, this win had to be battled for.

“We have a young squad this year,” Hardee said. Hav-ing a young team, any win that the team can get will help build their confidence throughout the length of the season.

Three North Dakota players had double digit totals for digs; Lauren Clarke was one of those players. Parlich and Munkeby both had nine kills and Rob-inson had seven kills. UND’s Husfeldt recorded 32 assists and six kills. UND’s next games are against Rice, Alabama A&M, and Ole Miss at the Ole Miss Tournament in Oxford, Missis-sippi. The games start today and end with UND playing Ole Miss

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Tomorrow marks a very spe-cial occasion not only in Grand Forks, but all of North Dakota as we celebrate the 47th Potato Bowl. The event usually starts on Wednesday and concludes with the annual Potato Bowl football game. Every year, the Alerus Cen-ter is packed with fans from all across the state coming to watch UND try to best their opponent (and, of course, to eat all those French fries).

North Dakota stands confi-dent coming into this game. If all the circumstances are considered, fans might be inclined to join them. For the past nine seasons, UND has won every Potato Bowl game. They have not lost dur-ing the event since the 2002-03 season, in which they fell to Cen-

Like 1981: UND, PSU and Potato BowlREMATCH Some fans hope to see a game similar to the last time these teams met up.

tral Washington 43-7. Last year North Dakota beat Black Hills State 53-19.

When UND takes the field tomorrow against the Portland State University (PSU) Vikings, it will be the third time that the two schools have met. The last time the schools played each other was at Memorial Stadium for the 1981 Potato Bowl. North Dakota came away with the vic-tory 17-10. The all time record between the two teams is tied at 1-1, with UND falling at Port-land State in 1980.

Last week, PSU beat Carrol College 38-20. Carrol College is a member of the National Asso-ciation of Intercollegiate Athlet-ics (NAIA), the same league that UND’s last opponent, SDSM, hails from. PSU freshman quar-terback Kieran McDonagh threw for 192 yards and had a pair of touchdowns. He also recorded eight rushing yards on five car-ries. Other Viking standouts include junior running back DJ Adams, who ran for 82 yards in

14 carries and two touchdowns, and junior linebacker Jaycob Shoemaker, who recorded seven tackles and an interception re-turned for a touchdown. Last sea-son, PSU won both of their final road games.

In the 2011-12 season, PSU went 7-4. Of the games they won, the victory margin averaged out to approximately 17 points. According to the preseason polls, PSU was ranked fourth in the Big Sky. Currently, PSU is ranked 6 in the conference, with UND ranked at 5. For fans fol-lowing the rankings, tomorrow’s game may be confusing to you. Although both North Dakota and Portland State are members of the Big Sky conference, the game will count only as a non-conference game. Because of Big Sky regulations, eight of the 12 games teams play have to be against conference members. The requirements were already met at the time UND and PSU were scheduled to play each other.

Last year PSU went 3-2 on

the road, their first winning re-cord at away games since the 2006-07 season. This may prove to be another factor in UND’s favor, as North Dakota has gone 17-6 at home under head coach Chris Mussman. Of those 17 wins, UND has averaged 37.8 points per game. All time, North Dakota has won 62 games and lost only 12 while playing the past 11 years at the Alerus Cen-ter.

This game looks to be big for both teams. According to UND’s athletic webpage, the team will finally be getting a “taste” of what Big Sky play is like. This will be North Dakota’s first football game against a conference foe.

PSU, on the other hand, sees this more as a “test” than an op-portunity, according to their ath-letics website. The defenses from both teams can expect to fight to the last second as they take on the confident offenses that their op-ponents will surely display.

Both teams will look to come away from tomorrow’s game with

the victory. Fans can expect one of the most exciting Potato Bowls they’ve seen in a long time, as tomorrow should be a close, low scoring game. Kickoff is set for 6:05 p.m. at the Alerus Center.

Patrick Cavanaugh is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He

can be reached at patrick.cavanaugh@my.und.edu

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The Dakota Student would like to take

the time to wish the best of luck to all of

our teams this week-end. We hope to see

another crushing football game along with our soccer team

beating up on the Bison on Sunday.

GO UND!!!

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University left Grand Forks with high spirits on Saturday night after taking down the would-be champions of the UND Classic tournament.

The Ladyjacks closed out the round-robin style tournament with a 3-1 victory over UND at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center, UND’s only loss on the weekend. As a matter of fact, the squad hadn’t lost a set in the tournament until their run-in with SFA.

North Dakota took claim to the first set by taking a com-manding lead early and finishing 25-13. They led the second set early, but it proved to be a test of endurance.

With the score close late in the set, four consecutive points for UND lit a spark in the crowd. UND had three different op-portunities to close out the set. However, they couldn’t complete the comeback. SFA stole the set with a final score of 29-27. SFA (5-2) rode the momen-tum of the rousing second set to an 18-13 lead in the third set.

A pair of aces from Junior Ronni Munkeby closed the score within two, 21-19. The Lady-jacks held a 23-19 advantage, putting them in position to lead. UND was again poised for a rally, but fell just short with the visitors winning, 25-23.

The overshadow from the second set never seemed to dis-appear for North Dakota as SFA raced out to a 14-3 lead in the fourth set and never looked back, winning the match and snapping UND’s nine-match home win-ning streak.

Despite the loss, UND took home the team title for 2012 UND Classic with the best set winning percentage (.700) among the three teams tied at 2-1. South Dakota and Green Bay were the others in conten-tion.

UND (3-3) had a relatively

easy time in the first set, run-ning off seven straight points during one stretch to seize con-trol. Sophomore Dani McNal-lan had back-to-back service aces and following a pair of kills from Parlich, the home team led comfortably, 17-9. North Da-kota out-hit the Ladyjacks .347 to .000 in the opening frame and appeared to be in command.North Dakota, however, found itself down late in the second set. UND had rallied from late deficits in two other sets this weekend and looked to turn the trick one more time facing a 24-21 hole. It was then that the Ladyjacks took control of the match and rolled to a victory.

Parlich was named the tour-nament’s most valuable player, tallying a team-leading 12 kills Saturday night. She joined team-mates Clarke and Husfeldt on the all-tournament team which was announced after the match finished.

Clarke, Husfeldt and Parlich were named to the 2012 UND Classic All-Tournament Team. Katzy Randall, Madison Han-lan, (SFA), Britt Groth (Green Bay) and Amber Aschoff (South Dakota) were the other members sent to represent their schools on the team. North Dakota plays again today against Rice (10 a.m.) and against Alabama A&M (4 p.m.) at the Ole Miss Tournament in Oxford, Missis-sippi.

UND’s next games are against Rice, Alabama A&M, and Ole Miss at the Ole Miss Tournament in Oxford, Missis-sippi. The games start today and end with UND playing Ole Miss at 1:00pm tomorrow.

Sports Editor Patrick Cavana-ugh contributed to this report.

Brian Gendreau and Mariah Hol-land are staff writers for

The Dakota Student. Gendreau can be reached at brian.gen-

dreu@my.und.edu. Holland can be reached at

mariah.holland@my.und.edu.

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