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UMD cuts administration budgetBY KIM HYATThyatt045@d.umn.edu

After a request from Governor Mark Dayton that state agencies cut five-percent from their administrative spending, UMD is in the process of moving $1.158 million from administration and putting it towards instruction.

“We’re not officially cutting, we’re reallocating,” said Michael Seymour, Vice Chancellor of Finance and Operations. “Meaning we’re taking money out of support areas, non-direct instruction areas, and were applying those dollars to our direct instructional priorities.”

It’s sort of like taking money out of one pocket and putting it into the other, according to Seymour.

Trimming administrative costs is how many universities across the country are looking to save money. As funding from the state continues to decline and tuition rates increase, cuts within administration are one way to keep students, and faculty, out of harms way.

A 2010 report by the Center for College Affordability and Productivity (CCAP) concluded that American colleges and universities are “bloated with administrative bureaucracies.” They also stated that if job growth trends continue, administrators would outnumber instructors by 2014.

An employee head count shows that UMD has a total of 117

administrative job positions for the 2012 academic year compared to 606 professional/faculty positions.

A recent article from the Wall Street Journal scrutinized the University of Minnesota’s administration in terms of salary and employment.

The article found the percent of administrators at the University of Minnesota grew twice as fast as the faculty and almost twice as fast as the student body from 2001 to 2012.

When asked if the request made by Gov. Dayton was a result of the article, Patty Mattern, assistant director for national media relations at the UMN Twin Cities campus, said no.

“Looking at administration…and seeing where cuts could be made, that work was well under way before anything else came up,” said Mattern. She added that President Kaler has been focused on ways to improve efficiency since coming to the university in 2011.

Chancellor Lendley Black said that while reallocating the university will do whatever it can to protect its core mission of undergraduate instruction.

“We’re going to do everything within our power to have the impact on [students] be as small as possible,” said Black. “That’s why we are taking such a close look at administrative costs and expenses and seeing what we can trim without directly hurting or

affecting [students].”The trend of administration

growth indicates a shift in priorities among colleges and universities away from “the production and dissemination of knowledge,” according to the report from CCAP. Roughly 25 percent of non-profit 4 year colleges reported having more full-time equivalent administrative support employees than instructors, according to CCAP.

Michael Pfau, president of the University Education Association (UEA) said that the association is pleased that action, such as this reallocation, is being taken to examine and address any inappropriate, disproportionate or unnecessary growth in administration.

“It is the position of UEA that the University ought to focus resources primarily on its central mission to provide quality instruction for students, and research opportunities for both faculty and students,” Pfau said.  “We believe, for the sake both of student access to courses and reasonable class sizes, that the faculty is the last area that ought to be cut during trying budget times.”

At the end of reallocating $1.158 million UMD could see cuts, but not within the classroom.

“The way that services get delivered is by people, so it’s awful(sic) tough to make those kind of reductions without impacting people,” Seymour said. “At the end of the day there’s pain involved for people. They’re either

going to have to do more with less or their going to see their jobs folded into other areas of the institution. So their work life may change or last resort their position may even be cut.”

The reallocation should be wrapping up sometime this week. After that, Seymour said there will be a good sense of what will be done in terms of cuts and reductions.

Black said he is waiting for the “dust to settle” before speculating how, or if, the reallocation will affect students.

“If we don’t get the money from the legislature and if we don’t raise tuition then we’re most likely going to have to make additional cuts,” said Chancellor Black. “But we’ll cross that road when we get to it.”

BY MICHAEL SCOTTscot0459@d.umn.edu

The International Olympic Committee shocked the sports world earlier this month when it dropped wrestling from the games, starting with the 2020 competition.

Connor Pariseau, president of the Wrestling Club at UMD said this decision came unexpectedly. “When we found out, we were all really shocked,” he said. “It’s a huge blow to our sport.”

Pariseau explained that it hurts when they’re trying to promote wrestling in a hockey town. He says most schools in the area don’t even have a wrestling team. The UMD club has reached out to the community in the Twin Ports, helping youth wrestlers and volun-teering at events. He described the action by the IOC as a “slap in the face to our sport” and “really sad.”

Ryan Silbernick, captain of the Wrestling Club, and Pariseau both argued that wrestling is one of the original sports.

Olympic committee delivers huge blow to college wrestlers

For the past several years, UMD has mandated that all campus security authorities take crime and reporting training, and is now streamlining the process by offer-ing the training online.

All colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs must keep track of and disclose information about crime that happens on and near the cam-pus. This is mandated by a federal law known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statis-tics Act—more commonly known as the Clery Act.

UMDPD Lt. Sean Huls, UMD Clery Coordinator, said the act

doesn’t address or mandate a train-ing program for campus security authorities, but UMD has decided to still require the training.

“UMD is making proactive efforts to ensure that campus secu-rity authorities know they’re cam-pus security authorities, and what their obligations are for crime reporting,” Huls said.

The law defines a campus secu-rity authority as: “An official of an institution who has significant responsibility for student and campus activities.” Some examples of campus security authorities are: faculty/staff advisors to student organizations, housing and resi-dential life staff, Office of Student Conduct staff, and athletics staff.

“The intent of including non law enforcement personnel is to acknowledge that many individu-

als, and students in particular, are hesitant about reporting crimes to police, but may be more inclined to report incidents to other campus-affiliated individuals,” Huls said.

Vice Chancellor of Student Life, Lisa Erwin, said this training is not new. The only new thing about it is that it is now offered online.

After some investigating, the Statesman found that six indi-viduals who are defined in the report several of the people who are defined as as “campus secu-rity authority,” but who had never been required to take this training during their past years of advising. Some had never or even heard of it before. it was mentioned.

“Every year we go through an exercise to figure out who (campus security authorities) are,” Erwin said.

Faculty to take online training on how to spot and report crime

UMD Body Image Week urgesstudents to love their bodiesBY MAEGGIE LICHT licht096@d.umn.edu

UMD kicked off its annual Body Image and Eating Disorder Aware-ness Week on Monday, hoping to shed some light on a silent problem that affects many people, especial-ly college students.

“We have been doing an eat-ing disorder awareness week on campus for five or six years now,” said Jean Baribeau-Thoennes, pro-gram director and counselor at UMD Health Services. “We’ve tar-geted awareness and specific audi-ences each year.”

This year, at the request of past

participants, the event hones in on the topic of men and eating disor-ders.

“In 2002, the University of Wis-consin did a study of media with males,”  Baribeau-Thoennes said. “They showed that there was a significant increase in anxiety in boys and men about having well-muscled bodies.”

Media projections of perfection have been shown to leave a trace-able effect on the population.

With hundreds of photographs streaming through Facebook feeds, thin Victoria’s Secret models strutting down catwalks, and the muscles of Abercrombie & Fitch

models glaring out of storefronts, it’s no wonder where the pressure to be perfect comes from.

“The media posts pictures of what most people don’t look like,” Baribeau-Thoennes said. “And, often, what (the person in the pho-tograph) doesn’t even look like.”

The event has many sponsors, including: the Department of Psychology; the Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation; Women’s Resource and Action Center (WRAC); The Minnesota Academy of Nutri-tion and Dietetics-North East (MAND-NE); and UMD Health Services.

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Olympic wrestlingThe sport has a long tradition

with the Olympics, going as far back as the ancient Olympic games in Olympia, Greece. The sport was introduced to the ancient Olym-pics in 708 B.C. When the mod-ern games were brought back in 1896, wrestling was a part of it. It is one of the oldest sports in the world.

For Pariseau, the wrestling competition encapsulates the spirit of the Olympics. It identifies “who is the best physically, who is the fastest, strongest, has the most skill, who is the best warrior,” he explained.

The problem with wrestling is that there is no professional league. Unlike other Olympic sports, such as boxing or tennis, there is no higher level that wres-tling athletes can aspire to. “After college, what level is there?” asked Pariseau. “(The Olympics) is the best of the best—no other compe-tition that even rivals it.”

The decision to drop the sport was a result of a financial decision. ESPN reported: “The board voted after reviewing a report by the IOC program commission that analyzed 39 criteria, including TV ratings, ticket sales, anti-doping policy and global participation and popularity.”

Both Pariseau and Silbernick

were disappointed the decision became a financial one. “If the Olympics is about money, it’s lost its true ideal,” Pariseau said.

Rulon Gardner, Olympic gold medalist at the Sydney games, expressed similar reservations. “It’s the IOC trying to change the Olympics to make it more main-stream and more viewer-friendly instead of sticking to what they founded the Olympics on,” he told the Associated Press.

The committee has received backlash from around the world. The United States, Russia, Iran, and many other countries have expressed their desire to fight the decision.

The decision is not yet final, because wrestling will now com-pete with seven other sports for a slot in the 2020 games. The final vote will take place in September in Argentina.

But according to the Associated Press, “It is extremely unlikely that wrestling would be voted back in so soon after being removed by the executive board.”

The only time wrestling has ever been excluded was in the 1900 Olympics in Paris.

But Pariseau remains optimis-tic, despite his frustration with the decision. He said he is “very confi-dent it’s going to come back.”

BY GRAHAM HAKALAhakal045@d.umn.edu

Students fed up with major financial institutions can seek help from the Minnesota Public Inter-est Research Group (MPIRG), as they set up to explain the benefits of moving money to local credit unions.

On Wednesday, Feb. 27, MPIRG is hosting an event known as “Move Your Money Day,” which encourages students to consider moving their money away from big banks and into local credit union alternatives.

“The main point is to tell people about how the banks gamble with their money, and some of the other shady things banks do,” explains Samantha Bisogno, MPIRG orga-nizer and political science major at UMD.

MPIRG is a grassroots, stu-dent-run organization that seeks to encourage community action and involvement in various areas of public interest. Every year,

MPIRG meets to discuss which issues and campaigns they wish to focus on.

“Corporate accountability is one of our issues that we’re focus-ing on this year,” Bisogno said. “That’s also why we are doing this event.”Bisogno said that this is a statewide MPIRG event that all chapters are participating in. She and other members are hoping to educate students on credit unions and how they are unlike other major banking institutions.

“Credit unions, in general, tend to act more diligently with people’s money,” said Steve Wick, campus organizer for MPIRG at UMD. “They’re less likely to gamble with it.”

“Credit unions tend to be more locally and community focused,” Wick said. “You find, often, that credit unions are big supporters of local initiatives.”

According to Wick, one of the main benefits for becoming a credit union member is the local aspect.

“Because they’re smaller, if you have a problem, you can go to them,” Wick said. “You know that (the credit union office) is the location they are going to make the decision from. Unlike big banks, like Bank of America, the deci-sions they make there can be over-ridden by their corporate office in New York, or wherever it might be.”

The event will take place on campus from 10 a.m. to 2 a.m., where MPIRG will have tables set up near the Kirby Student Cen-ter. A representative from Affinity Credit Union will also be present at the event.

“Our dollars, though few in col-lege, are our vote every day,” said Leewana Thomas, Macalester MPIRG student, in a press release. “The debt we will face after college becomes a reality as we prepare to graduate, and being able to trust where we’ve invested our money matters even more as we work to pay back that debt.”

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Body image weekLindsay Walter, senior health

education major and intern at UMD Health Services,  has done research, tabling, a poster cam-paign, and is passionate about tak-ing this event seriously.

“I really believe it’s important for all people to know and learn about (eating disorders),” she said. “It can happen to anyone.”

For her duties as an intern, Wal-ter conducted some research by surveying groups of male athletes and male freshman on eating dis-order tendencies.

“I found that (eating disorders) are a lot more common than most people realize,” she said. “People think, ‘Oh, I eat food. I don’t have an eating disorder.’ But that’s not always the case.”

Baribeau-Thoennes says Body Image and Eating Disorder Aware-ness week is especially important for college-age students, because they are the age group most at risk for developing an eating disorder. In fact, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders’ 10-year study, 86% of students reported that their eating disorder started by age 20.

“Eating disorders are very com-plicated and unique; they’re bio-psychosocial illnesses,” Baribeau-Thoennes said. “But one reason

college students are more at risk is the risk factor of peer pressure and being away from their support sys-tem. There is a preoccupation with weight, appearance, and addition-al stress with school.”

Walter notes that it’s important to be conscious of eating disorders, whether or not you’ve suffered from one.

“It contributes to people’s over-all health and wellbeing,” Walters said. “It’s important to be aware of whether you have one, large or small.”

Though eating disorders are often held tightly reined and kept hidden, sometimes the signs begin to show up in friends and fam-ily members. Baribeau-Thoennes explains that it’s key to be non-accusatory when addressing the issue.

“With friends, express concern in the most honest, open way pos-sible,” she said. “Tell them, ‘Here’s what I’m seeing.’ Approach it from a caring position. There is a lot of shame about eating disor-ders and that can put somebody on the defensive. Whereas, if you keep it from a caring perspective, that keeps the conversation open. If you name (an eating disorder) right away, that can close it up.”

Though addressing a problem like this could seem scary, Bari-

beau-Thoennes has seen it become a catalyst for people bringing themselves in for counseling.

“They’re a very secret type of disorder,” she said. “There’s a con-tinuum. Maybe it’s not a disorder, but they are struggling with body image. Maybe addressing these issues, an eating disorder could not develop.”

She also affirmed the urgency of an eating disorder or serious body image problem, and shared her professional advice for any-

one who thinks they might have a problem.“For people who develop an eating disorder, these are life-threatening illnesses,” she said. “The first piece of advice is to edu-cate yourself. (Body Image and Eating Disorder Awareness Week) is a perfect opportunity, in a way that’s not quite so overwhelming as sitting down one-on-one.”

Keynote speaker and Director of Nutrition Services at The Emily Program, Hilmar Wagner, M.P.H., R.D., L.N., kicked off the aware-

ness week with a speech Monday evening, with events to continue throughout the rest of the week.

On Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. there will be a Wom-en’s Resource and Action Center (WRAC) Brown Bag workshop on body appreciation with Jean Bari-beau-Thoennes.

UMD Health Services is also open year-round for students who would like to address concerns or make an appointment with a coun-selor.

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According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders’ 10-year study, 86% of students reported that their eating disorder started by age 20.

MPIRG urges students to use credit unions instead of putting money in banks

“We look through the campus and see who fits the federal defini-tion and put a list together of who needs to be trained.”

The training consists of a brief online tutorial followed by a quiz. It also includes resources that can be accessed at a later date, if need-ed. Some of the resources include what needs to reported, whom to report to, locations of the crime and definitions of the crimes themselves.

“The basic premise of the train-ing is to ensure that you know what you have to report, and the location of the crime is also important,” Erwin said.

Erwin feels that providing an online training is a more system-atic and convenient way to ensure that people are being trained.

“(Campus security authorities) don’t have to attend a session and don’t have to take time out of their schedule that doesn’t work for them,” Erwin said. “They can do the training in a time frame that works for them.”

Erwin also feels another benefit of making the training online is it will increase participation, and, in turn, make the report more accu-rate.

“If we have better-trained cam-pus security authorities, that Clery report is going to be more accurate, and therefore more

informative, to everyone in the UMD community,” Erwin said.

Erwin described the training and the report as an annual cycle. First, the university looks over the list of people defined as campus security authorities and makes sure the list is accurate. Then, they have campus security authorities complete the training. Campus security authorities then must fill out a form reporting crimes they have not already reported, and, finally, the report is published in the fall.

Huls also thinks the whole cam-pus will benefit from requiring campus security authorities to take this training.

On top of this training, Huls said there are several policies and protocols in place that address reporting.

“Efforts are made to inform new and current employees of the pro-cedures and reporting options,” Huls said. “UMDPD also partici-pates in outreach efforts through training events and community policing initiatives that help inform faculty and staff of report-ing policies and procedures.”

If any faculty or staff have ques-tions on what needs to be report-ed, or how going about doing so, they can visit the UMDPD web-site for more information.

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BY PATRICK NICKELSONnicke123@d.umn.edu

This morning I was waiting for the bus with my white roommate. A car pulled up, and a white lady got out of the passenger seat and approached me with literature in hand. Without any greeting, she asked, “Are you Chinese?” My response of “no” brought upon her face a flash of disappointment and a fleeting grimace. Then she explained herself: her group dis-tributes Bible materials to Chinese people in Duluth. My white room-mate standing right next to me was not acknowledged at all, nor was he offered any Bible materials. The lady did not ask what his ethnicity was, either. I understand she would not have done so because he isn’t Chinese—but I’m not Chinese either.

I am a Korean American, adopt-ed and raised by white parents in a first ring suburb of St. Paul/Min-neapolis. My name is Patrick. I am a Minnesotan twenty-something doing the same things as other Minnesotan twenty-somethings. I may look Asian, but I do not really identify as such, since I was raised by a white family in a white neigh-borhood and attended schools where the demographic was most-

ly white. And even though I do not identify with being Asian (and that is a different issue altogether), this person made a judgment about my identity because of the color of my skin and the shape of my eyes.

No white person would be asked about his or her ethnicity out of the blue. If that were the case, I imagine the conversation would be rooted in genuine interest about the person’s history, and not simply because they fit a certain demo-graphic based on skin color. Even in that case, most people would be hesitant to ask a white person about their roots as a conversation opener—partly because it’s inconsequential and partly because it’s impertinent.

As she was walking away, I thought to ask her: “Wait. Where are YOU from?” She paused, thought about it, and told me she was Swedish and Norwegian—“a pretty boring background.” I did not say anything after that, and maybe I should have.

It seemed to me that this lady had to think about her own ethnicity before she answered me, and that she had seldom done so through-

out her life. The pause before her answer told me that she had to con-jure up what her background was, like a faint memory. (Or maybe she was as taken aback as I was upon being asked her race.) It seemed she was not in touch with her eth-nic culture at all, or she would not have called her background “bor-ing” and further perpetuated the

idea that white people do not have culture. This is not a judgment, but rather a moment of potential solidarity between us. Instead, she assumed me to be something that I am not (Chinese) and something that I do not identify with (being of Asian descent in general).

Even if she had asked if I were Korean, it still would have been off-putting. That is like asking a man who dresses effeminately if he is gay; it is none of your busi-ness, completely inappropriate and perpetuates stereotypes about gay men. I cannot, and never have, remind white people that they are

white, unless it is to check their privilege. It would be noteworthy and strange if I went around trying to guess white people’s ethnicity. I would bet that many would not even know, which is exactly my point. Many white people never need to think about their race because it does not affect how oth-ers view them, treat them and talk

to them. I am not

pointing any blame to this woman in par-ticular, nor was I offended or hurt by this woman. I was

just shocked and uncomfortable that her first question to another human being was about their race. I almost did not think to ask her where she was from because I was so confused.

But my reaction was meant to expose the erasure of her race and that of my white roommate stand-ing next to me. There is an idea that “white culture” either doesn’t mat-ter or doesn’t exist. I was not try-ing to show actual interest in her background because she showed no care for mine. Instead, I was trying to show that the intentions and consequences of our identical

actions are indeed not equal. The question she asked me becomes powerless when it is posed to a white person. “Are you white?” seems banal and obtuse compared to “Are you Chinese?”—but they are the same question with dras-tically disparate connotations. They don’t seem equal because a white person looks white, whereas any person of Asian descent can appear to be Chinese. Either way, that does not give anyone the right to impose a certain culture upon someone.

Everybody has an ethnic heri-tage. Not everyone is in touch with it. It’s unfair to assume that some-one is something just because of his or her skin. It is fairly easy to change the way you speak, but it is a lot more difficult to retrain your mind to not succumb to stereo-typing. Simply not uttering preju-diced things is not enough. So next time a prejudiced thing comes to mind, train yourself to block your mind from going directly to that thought. It takes a lot of determi-nation and it is hard to rewire what is almost instinct, but if we allow people to continue thinking racist thoughts, then we are doing noth-ing to combat socially hardwired stereotypes.

BY ILIA JONESjone1791@d.umn.edu

I know for a fact that parking gives many of you a headache. I am one of those snarky people who would at first just say, “Well ride the bus!” and then after 10 minutes of waiting for the bus, get frustrat-ed and drive to school. Well, stu-dents, I’m here to tell you to stay strong. The bus is a great option for getting to school, but if you really need that car on campus, there are a few ways to do it.

There are multiple options for parking at UMD—granted, all of them will cost you an arm and a leg. There are meters all around campus with two- and four-hour limits; just make sure you don’t let the time go unnoticed. I myself have received a plethora of parking tickets, and I usually pay them far too late. The UMD parking service tacks on five dollars after 10 days of not paying, and then another 40 dollars after 20 days. Did you read that? 40 dollars if you wait 20 days to pay. I think I’d rather buy some new leather boots. Instead of risking your meter, there are a few other options.

First, for you pass-holders: I’m sure you’re all very special and have an easy time getting a spot, right? Probably not. You probably scan the rows for a spot until, out of the corner of your eye, you see a car slowly edging out and you hit the gas full speed to beat the oth-er three cars to it. This is a ritual

many students go through, mak-ing the mornings a little more dif-ficult than they already are.

A parking pass costs $151 per year and it gives you access to 12 lots around campus. That doesn’t sound too bad does it? Well, con-sidering that some of these lots are a couple blocks away, it’s not too great in negative-degree weather. I recommend leaving about 30 minutes before your class starts in order to weave through the lots at a leisurely pace. If you don’t have a parking pass, however, do not park in the pass lots—they will find you.

Another parking option on cam-pus is the pay lot. It costs $2 if you carpool, and you can leave your car there all day while you mosey around campus. This lot, however, gets full usually around noon. So if you want to use the pay lot, come early and carpool.

I can honestly say that riding the bus is your best bet for get-ting to campus. Whether you like waiting in the cold or not—it’s worth it, people. The bus comes every hour until around 6 p.m., and there are five buses that will take you straight to UMD. If you can figure out the schedules, you will be going strong without hav-ing to use that precious fuel of yours or having to walk from a far lot in this crazy weather. I suggest finding the bus line that’s right for you, and save yourself some stress, along with some carbon emissions.

COMMENTARY

No white person would be asked their ethnicity

out of the blue...

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The difference between culture and race

BY KATIE BENUSAbenus014@crk.umn.edu

Duluth, Minn., and Superior, Wis., make up the Twin Ports; however, aside from sharing the largest freshwater port in the world, these two cities and states are dissimilar in many aspects. The Bong and Blatnik bridges are not only a gateway to a different state, but also to a different culture that harbors many weird customs.

I was born and raised in Min-nesota but I have family that lives in Wisconsin, so I have visited the state many times; so many times, in fact, that the state line gets blurred and I don’t even notice I am in a different state. I always thought that Minnesota and Wisconsin were much alike, but recently I have come to notice how different and truly strange Wis-consin can be.

Wisconsinites take part in are fish boils—if you have ever vis-ited Door County in northern Wisconsin, you might be familiar with them. Thick cuts of white-

fish, potatoes, and onions are dropped

into a mas-sive black kettle sur-rounded by

a wood fire. In time, the dinner bell is rung signal-

ing the “boil over,” which is when the flames are doused in kerosene, generat-ing a massive eruption of flames—which is the best part. This causes the water to boil over thus remov-ing the fish oils that have collected on the surface. If, like me, you are not a big fan of fish, then you do not have to stay for the meal, but watching is free and it is a very neat process to witness first-hand, so I highly recommend going to one.

Another wacky and long-stand-ing custom I recently learned about that residents of America’s dairy land participate in is putting cheese on apple pie. That’s right; Wisconsinites elect to have cheese with their apple pie, which is one of the weirdest things about Wis-consin. What happened to simple vanilla ice cream? In fact, in 1935, the state of Wisconsin declared it is illegal for any restaurant to serve apple pie without cheese. The cheese of choice is usually either cheddar or longhorn, but any kind

of cheese is acceptable. I have tried this seemingly gross concoction and it is actually not that bad; how-ever, it is not an eating habit that I will choose to adopt. I would rec-ommend trying this just to say you did it, because it always makes for an interesting anecdote.

Finally, the most coveted and well known of all Wisconsin tradi-tions is the famous “cheesehead” foam hat. Ralph Bruno popular-ized this tradition in 1987. Bruno found a piece of foam that resem-bled a wedge of cheese while reup-holstering a couch. He molded the wedge into a hat and wore it to a Brewers game. The fash-ion quickly caught on and is now widely worn by Wisconsinites to show their pride. People can even be seen wearing the hats at wed-dings, which is a little too extreme for my taste. I think it is great that Wisconsinites can bond together over cheesehead hats at sporting events; however, it is tacky for peo-ple to wear the foam hats in every-day life—but, to each their own.

It is strange how, here in Dulu-th, we are just a few miles away from Wisconsin, and in those few miles, the culture changes drasti-cally. Fish boils, cheese on apple pie, and cheesehead foam hats are all things that make Wisconsin unique and also just plain weird. (Not to mention the fact that they root for the Brewers.)

School tuition needs to decrease

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Wisconsin weird

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BY MATTHEW BLAKEblake303@d.umn.edu

Tuition rates are skyrocketing exponentially. Since 2001, tuition rates have more than doubled. Students are tired of paying these ever-increasing rates, so they are fighting back.

March 6, 2013 marks the date of the second annual “Bulldog Day at the Capitol.” Students, fac-ulty, staff, and other community members will rally at the Minne-sota State Capitol in St. Paul to combat the rising tuition rates. Throughout the day, participants will meet with legislators to voice their concerns and advocate on behalf of University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler’s proposed tuition freeze. The meetings are

scheduled from 1-3 p.m. and will give students the opportunity to share their stories. It is an excellent way for students to get involved and to show legislators that they care where their tuition dollars are going.

President Kaler’s proposed tuition freeze would use state funds to aid students so that tuition rates do not rise over the biennium. It would save the students at Twin Cities, Duluth, Morris, and Roch-ester campuses $2,500 over four years and $2,100 at the Crookston campus. The tuition freeze would allow for more financial flexibility among students, while providing much-needed time to explore long-term solutions to rising tuition rates. Also included in Kaler’s pro-posal is a request to further develop

advanced research and technology through the MnDRIVE program, and an appropriation to forgive student loans for healthcare pro-fessionals in underserved areas.

College has become more than just an option for students after graduating high school; it has almost become a requirement. The job market is still recovering and it is nearly impossible to get a job without a college degree. In recent years, students have had to turn down opportunities to attend col-lege because of the rising tuition rates. The proposed tuition freeze would make the opportunity to earn a college degree easier for future generations. It will also set the precedent that the students will fight for lower tuition rates.

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Winless stretch grows in final conference meeting with Gophers

SPORTS BRIEF Athlete of the Year

Bulldog track and field stand-out Chanel Miller has been named the NSIC Indoor Wom-en’s Athlete of the Year for her efforts at the conference cham-pionships this month. A year removed from being selected as the NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Newcomer of the Year as a freshman, Miller claimed the NSIC Indoor Pentathlon title earlier this month and was run-ner-up in the 60-meter hurdles, the long jump and the high jump over the weekend at the NSIC Indoor Championships. The Burnsville, Minn., native has also been invited to participate in the pentathlon and the long jump at the NCAA II Indoor Track and Field Championships in Birmingham, Ala. beginning March 7.

Men’s Hockey Alabama-HuntsvilleAmsoil ArenaFriday/Saturday, 7:07 p.m.

Women’s Hockey WCHA playoffs: first roundOhio StateAmsoil ArenaFri./Sat./Sun., 2:07 p.m.

Men’s Basketball

NSIC Tournament: first roundAugustanaSioux Falls, S.D.Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Women’s Basketball

NSIC Tournament: first roundWinona StateWinona, Minn.Wednesday, 6 p.m.

Schedule

A look at the week aheadfor UMD Athletics.

All events are subject to change.

BY EVAN SMEGALsmega001@d.umn.edu

It has now been 40 days since the men’s hockey team has skated to a victory. The winless streak reached nine games over the weekend—the longest under head coach Scott Sandelin in over a decade—after the Bulldogs

failed to upset the second-ranked Gophers in Minneapolis in the last WCHA series between the teams.

UMD (10-17-5, 8-13-5 WCHA) skated to a 5-3 loss Friday night and a 2-2 draw on Saturday. How-ever, it was one of the better week-end series the Bulldogs have put together recently, as they held their ground against the defending

MacNaughton Cup champions.“It felt good to compete at such

a high level against the Gophers,” freshman winger Austin Farley said. “We picked up our play this weekend and came out with a tie (Saturday). We could have played better, but we stuck together and battled back.”

The Gophers built an early lead Friday on Nate Condon’s goal that barely trickled across the line four minutes into the opening frame. Erik Haula doubled the lead about 24 minutes later on his shorthand-ed goal after an errant UMD pass.

Bulldog Justin Crandall con-verted on the power play 37 sec-onds later to make it 2-1 after a shot from Cal Decowski was deflected off a skate back to Crandall. Five minutes later, off a rebound from a Joe Basaraba shot, Farley knotted it at two.

Minnesota would take the lead again, but Farley tied it once more, this time on the power play late in the second.

UMD finally broke out of its special teams slump in game one,

holding the Gophers without a power-play goal and converting twice with man advantages after going 3 for 34 on the penalty in the previous seven games.

“It was nice to finally execute on our power-play chances,” said Farley, who rattled home two of his three goals on the power play, while tying Mike Seidel for the team lead in goals at 13. “On the big (Olympic-sized) rink, we were able to have more time and space to operate and we made the passes we needed to and capitalized.”

But UMD’s third-period strug-gles continued, and the Gophers mounted a two-goal surge in the final frame to put the Bulldogs away 5-3.

It seemed like that trend was going to continue the following night. Farley lit the lamp for the third time on the weekend to tie the game at one heading into the third. But then the Gophers’ Tom Serratore came from behind the Bulldog net and jammed it past goaltender Matt McNeely to give Minnesota a 2-1 advantage with

13:35 left.This time, the Bulldogs respond-

ed on Jake Hendrickson’s fifth goal of the season with seven minutes to play to force a 2-2 tie.

During the weekend, McNeely played a big part in keeping the Bulldogs within striking distance throughout most of the series. He made 67 saves, including a career-high 38 on Saturday.

“(McNeely) played unbeliev-able for us against such a high power offense in the Gophers,” Farley said. “He stood on his head and made amazing save after save for us that kept us in both games.”

UMD currently sits ninth in the conference with 21 points and two league games remaining. The only team they can overtake is eighth-place Colorado College (22 points).

Prior to their final WCHA series with next year’s league realign-ment, the Bulldogs will pair up against Alabama-Huntsville for a non-conference set starting Friday at Amsoil Arena.

Women capture home ice in dramatic fashionBY NICOLE BRODZIK brodz006@d.umn.edu

Coming into last weekend, the Bulldogs knew how important the games against North Dakota would be. Not only was it the seniors’ last regular-season series at Amsoil Arena, but the team was also in a race with Ohio State for fourth place in the conference, with home ice advantage in the WCHA playoffs on the line.

Freshman stopper Karissa Grapp made her debut in goal for the Bulldogs (14-14-4, 13-13-2 WCHA) Friday night, with starter Kayla Black forced to sit out due to injury. The rookie was look-ing for her first collegiate win, but North Dakota had other plans. The visitors drew first blood when Michelle Karvinen tipped the puck in behind Grapp only 1:41

into the game, and pushed the lead to 2-0 on another first-period tally off a Bulldog turnover.

The second period didn’t see scoring until 18:19, when defen-seman Brigette Lacquette sent a bullet from the blue line past North Dakota goaltender Shelby Amsley-Benzie on the power play to bring her team within one.

There would be no more scoring for UMD, but Grapp continued to play with a veteran’s composure, making 27 saves on the night. North Dakota added two empty-net goals to end the game 4-1.

“She had a good game, she did really well considering it’s her first college start. It’s too bad the score doesn’t reflect the game,” head coach Shannon Miller said of Grapp. “(The score was) 4-1 with two empty-netters, but the team knows it was 2-1 and that’s the

real deal, and we can build on that tomorrow.”

The Bulldogs experienced déjà vu Saturday, as they found them-selves once again crawling back from a 2-0 deficit.

UMD started to rally back when senior Katie Wilson put the Bull-

dogs on the board at 8:28 of the second period after she broke into the offensive zone and danced around North Dakota defender Jordan Slavin, before popping the puck top shelf. Minutes later,

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Men split; begin playoffs Wednesday

BY KYLE FARRIS farri060@d.umn.edu

A win over the Bemidji State Beavers on Friday would have given UMD’s men’s basketball team (8-18, 6-16 NSIC) a golden opportunity to close the regular season on a four-game winning streak with an engagement against last-place Minnesota-Crookston awaiting Saturday. But the Bull-dogs couldn’t keep up with the Beavers in the second half, and fell to head coach Matt Bowen’s old club for the second time this year.

Junior center Brett Ervin came

within a point of his season-high against the Beavers Friday with 26, 16 of which came in the first half, to help UMD hang around for the majority of the contest.

The Bulldogs managed to out-shoot the Beavers 46 to 41 percent in the first 20 minutes, but Bemidji State knocked down six 3-pointers and controlled the glass on both ends of the floor to hold a lead or a tie for all but 38 seconds of first-half play.

After an Ervin layup pulled UMD within two 2:43 before the break, Bemidji State held the Bull-dogs scoreless for the rest of the

half and continued to stifle the visitors after intermission.

UMD buried five of its first sev-en second-half attempts, but were held to just 23-percent shooting the rest of the way and watched the Beavers pull in front by 16 with five minutes remaining.

The Bulldogs mustered just one field goal in a 10-minute span that began at the 16:33 mark, but UMD replied with a trio of threes and a Reece Zoelle jumper with 2:34 left to slash the difference to 71-64. Bemidji State put the Bulldogs away by scoring the game’s final eight points to secure a sweep of the season series.

It was the Bulldogs who would be doing the sweeping Saturday, as UMD managed to nip Crookston by two for the club’s second win of the year over the Golden Eagles in as many tries.

Riding season-high 60-percent shooting, the Bulldogs built leads of nine and 11 in the first and sec-ond halves, but saw both advantag-es dwindle away late in each frame.

The Golden Eagles inched with-in 27-26 at halftime, despite falling behind 13-4 in the first seven min-utes and shooting just 37 percent from the floor.

UMD and Crookston traded the lead six times during the early stages of the second half, but the Bulldogs went on an 11-0 run to seize a 58-47 lead with seven min-utes remaining.

The gap was closed to one twice inside the last 20 seconds, but junior guard Jordan Reetz nudged the lead back to three both times with a pair of successful trips to the free-throw line. Reetz sealed the win moments later by commit-ting a foul on the ensuing inbound to send Crookston to the line with two seconds left, preventing the Golden Eagles from getting a look at a potential game-tying three at the buzzer.

Ervin capped perhaps his most impressive weekend of the season by touching up the Golden Eagles for 23 points on the evening, while collecting six rebounds and dish-ing out five assists to lead UMD in all three categories.

Slotted sixth in the North Divi-sion for the NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament, the Bulldogs will face off with Augustana Wednes-day in Sioux Falls, S.D. The Vikings handled UMD 67-52 Feb. 1 in the teams’ lone meeting of the regular season.

STATESMAN ARCHIVES

UMD Bulldog Austin Farley watches his shot cross the goal line on Feb. 22.

Dylan Rodriguez plants before jumping for a lay up during a game earlier this year.

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Brigette Lacquette moves in on goaltender Shelby Amsley-Benzie for the game-winner Feb. 23.

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Jamie Kenyon tapped in the puck after teammate Jenna McParland shot it under Amsley-Benzie’s pad to tie the game.

At the other end of the ice, Black was phenomenal in her return to the Bulldogs’ net, making 20 saves in the game’s final period to keep the score tied at two through regu-lation.

The overtime period continued the same way the third ended—with North Dakota controlling most of the play, and Black, who made nine saves in OT, coming up big for UMD. The Bulldog netminder, who was eventually named player of the game, made 46 saves on the night and assisted on Wilson’s second-period goal.

The game, and home ice for the first playoff series, would be decided in the shootout. It would take a fourth round to decide the winner, as UMD’s McParland and senior Jessica Wong tied it up after trailing 2-0. The winner went to Lacquette, who beat Amsley-Ben-zie to keep UMD at Amsoil this weekend for postseason hockey.

“I like to have the pressure, and, obviously, if you lose it’s not fun, but the win’s always fun as a goalie in the shootout,” said Black, who saved the final two shots she saw in the shootout to clear the stage for Lacquette. “Ohio is a tough team; we’re 2-2 with them this year, so we have to come ready to play for sure. It’s gonna be a good series.”

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Bulldogs enter post-season on high noteBY KYLE FARRISfarri060@d.umn.edu

With the first round of the NSIC Tournament set to commence Wednesday, the UMD women’s basketball team seems to have finally shaken the struggles that nearly derailed the club midsea-son.

This weekend marked the first weekend sweep since early Janu-ary for the Bulldogs (14-12, 11-11 NSIC), who have now won three in a row on the heels of a five-week stretch that saw the team drop eight of nine.

An offensive onslaught Friday at Bemidji State to the tune of 85 points—eclipsing their previous season high of 83—propelled the Bulldogs to their most lopsided victory of the year.

Sisters Katrina and Jessica New-man tallied 34 points between them, while senior guard Court-ney Doucette and freshman center Abbie Whitney came off the bench to pour in 15 and 11 respectively.

UMD overcame a modest 39-percent showing from the floor in the first half by controlling the paint and racking up eight second-chance points off 13 offensive rebounds. The Beavers lingered within seven late in the frame, but a 7-0 Bulldog run opened a com-fortable margin for the visitors and a 41-28 halftime lead.

Jessica Newman virtually put the game away less than three minutes into the second half, sandwiching an old-fashioned three-point play between a pair of 3-pointers in a 25-second win-dow to push UMD in front by 24. Behind a game-high 23 points from Katrina Newman in 25 min-utes of floor time, the Bulldogs widened the lead to 37 with three minutes to play.

The Beavers were held to 36-per-cent shooting on the night and managed just 28 points in each

half, while falling victim to the Bulldogs for the second time this season.

A Saturday clash with Minne-sota, Crookston, which entered the contest with just five con-ference wins, was all that stood between UMD and a .500 confer-ence record for the season, but the Golden Eagles managed to put a scare into the Bulldogs during the early going.

Crookston grabbed the game’s first lead and held on for nearly the entire first half. The Bulldogs clawed back to tie the game at 16 near the midway point of the frame, but a 12-1 Crookston spurt earned the Golden Eagles what would be their largest lead of the game at 28-17.

UMD fired at just 30 percent in the first 20 minutes, compared to 39 percent for the Golden Eagles, and if not for Crookston commit-ting 11 first-half turnovers, the game might have been in danger of slipping out of reach.

The Bulldogs pulled within one with a 10-0 run of their own late in the first half, and wrestled the lead away just before the break when Doucette, who notched a team-leading 18 points , connected on a jumper to make it 35-34 at inter-mission.

The tide continued to turn in favor of the Bulldogs in the sec-ond half, with UMD shooting an improved 42 percent from the floor while holding the Golden Eagles to 32 percent.

By the middle portion of the half, UMD had cultivated a 12-point lead thanks to double-digit contributions from five play-ers, and the Bulldogs coasted the rest of the way to a 78-64 win.

UMD earned the fifth seed in the NSIC for its body of work dur-ing the regular season, and will travel to Winona State Wednesday for the first round of the NSIC/Sanford Health Tournament.

BY EVAN SMEGALsmega001@d.umn.edu

It was a rough start to the 2013 softball season for the UMD, as the club left a five-game trip to Las Vegas with only one win. A week and half later, the Bulldogs are proving that may have been just a fluke.

UMD busted off a 7-0 record

this past week and improved their record to 8-4. Coming into the week, the Bulldogs were on a three-game losing streak.

“We saw a lot of great things,” head coach Jen Banford said. “Our pitchers were consistent and we had individuals step up and give us timely hits to get us wins. These past games are definitely a con-fidence builder for us. I’m very proud of the way we played.”

With snow still blanketing Duluth, UMD turned to the West St. Paul Regional Athletic Cen-ter to play its games. The dome is starting to feel like a second home for the Bulldogs.

“It’s kind of like having home field advantage,” second base-man Tyra Kerr said. “Last year we played on turf at Ordean (East Middle School) for our home games, so we were used to the surface and the bounces. We also played more games than anyone else here.”

Offensively, UMD continued to put up heavy numbers: 44 runs, 60 hits and 12 balls knocked over the fence for the week. Dalyce Gus-tafson, Ashley Lewis and Ashley Schilling all put up their first col-legiate home runs, and Kerr batted .458 with 11 hits, including two doubles and a triple.

Meanwhile, the pitching rota-

tion held opposing teams to a mere six runs, 12 hits and a .085 batting average. Julia Nealer neared per-fection, as she tossed 24 strikeouts and didn’t allow a run in her three starts, two of which were no-hit-ters.

“In my four years here, I have never seen or been on team with so many talented pitchers,” Kerr said. “We all rely on one another, and if someone is having an off day, we can go to our backups and not miss a beat.”

Friday also marked vengeance for the Bulldogs against the Uni-versity of Mary. In the final game of the Desert Stinger tournament in Las Vegas, Mary won an extra-innings game on a walk-off homer. This time, Schilling turned the tables with her walk-off blast in the bottom of the seventh. UMD would go on to sweep Mary later that day.

“We got revenge on a loss ear-lier in the year,” Kerr said. “Over-all, these seven games we played better mentally. We didn’t make errors and we stayed patient at the plate. It was a solid performance by our team.”

UMD will look to continue its strong play in the dome when they square off against Southwest Min-nesota State in a doubleheader Wednesday.

Softball team extends winning streak to 7

Men place sixth, women fourth at NSIC IndoorsBY KYLE FARRIS farri060@d.umn.edu

Led by top individual and team performances, the UMD men and women’s track and field teams finished sixth and fourth, respec-tively, at the NSIC Indoor Cham-pionships over the weekend in Mankato.

Day one of the two-day meet Friday concluded with the men in the fifth position and the women holding down the second spot after each squad saw members earn first-place honors.

Sophomore Amelia Maher took the title in the women’s high jump with a mark of 5-04.25, while teammate Chanel Miller placed second in the event. During the NSIC Indoor Pentathlon on Feb. 10, Miller also took the 60-meter hurdles and the long jump for UMD. The team of Alexandra Rudin, Kirsten Bjork, Tatum Gar-rity and Hannah Olson added a third-place showing in the dis-tance medley relay.

The men’s side also laid claim to the distance medley relay—in con-ference record-breaking fashion. Freshman Tyler Stevens teamed up with Daniel Badhwa, Scott Urban and junior captain Cole Toepfer to post a time of 10:14:37,

which was less than half of a sec-ond faster than the next-fastest courted, yet still good enough for the NSIC’s top mark to date.

UMD failed to produce any champions on day two, but both teams held their own with strong showings.

Miller turned in a second-place effort in the women’s 60-meter hurdles Saturday, and finished the weekend with a team-leading 34 points. Garrity added a third in the 600-meter run with a time of 1:36:16.

The Bulldog men received a

runner-up finish in the 800-meter run from Urban, who was imme-diately followed in the race by fellow sophomore and teammate Chris Wilson. Stevens accounted for UMD’s final top-three finish by clocking in third with a clip of 1:55.22 in the 1,000-meter run.

Both UMD squads lost some ground without the benefit of a win Saturday, with the men ultimately placing sixth out of 11 schools with 51 points for the event, and the women finishing fourth out of 13 schools with 85 points.

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(Left to right) Cole Toepfer, Daniel Badhwa, Scott Urban and Tyler Stevens pose after setting the conference record for the distance medley relay.

Bulldog Megan Mullen hits a homerun against the Univer-sity of Mary on Feb. 22.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 B2OUTDOORS Outdoors Editor / Eric Lemke / lemke082@d.umn.edu

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About the same time some start slipping into footie pajamas and settling down for the night, volun-teer outdoor ice rink flooders are lacing up their boots and heading to the rinks.

Dedicated volunteer hockey parents and UMD’s Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity main-tain Duluth’s outdoor ice skating rinks.

Without these volunteers, maintaining over 17 outdoor rinks wouldn’t be possible for Duluth.

“It keeps the cost down,” said Pat Hall, a volunteer flooder at the Lower Chester ice rinks. Hall was one of three hockey dads flooding the rinks earlier this month. His son plays hockey for the Lower Chester hockey team.

The parents rotate flooding nights in accordance with a sched-ule they sign up for.

The Flooding Process

The flooders arrive at the rinks around closing time.

Before they can do anything, the snow and ice shreds left over from daytime skaters have to come off the ice. The flooders grab

shovels and brooms and go to work, clearing one rink at a time. If there’s a lot of snow, they use a Bobcat tractor to haul the main load.

The clearing process takes at least an hour, sometimes more.

Once the ice is clean, it’s polished with a Zamboni—a machine that can shave bumps off the ice.

Then, finally, it’s time for the flooding.

A thick hose, long enough to reach the far corners of the rinks, is used to spray water evenly onto the ice. When the water freezes, the flooders go back and spray on more.

The goal of flooding is to fill in the cracks and add layers of ice onto the rinks so they are fresh and ready for skating by the next morning.

“There’s a lot of pressure com-ing out of that hose,” said Jeremy Carlson, one of the Lower Ches-ter flooders, as he flooded the rink earlier this month.

He has two children in the Low-er Chester hockey program.

“I wear these cleats on my feet,” Carlson explained, pointing at his boots. “Otherwise, the hose will spin ya right around.”

The hose is long and heavy, and

it takes three people to work it. The headman sprays the water, another helps hold it and a third person helps carry the hose to the next spot that needs to be sprayed.

Facing the Weather

Flooders depend on cold, clear nights for successful ice layering.

“The colder the better,” Hall said. He added, laughing, “Except not for us.”

He’d rather settle for 10 degrees.“It’s a pretty good temperature

because it’s comfortable, yet the ice freezes pretty good so you can get a couple layers on.”

Unfortunately for Hall, the temperatures have been in the negatives recently.

For Carlson, the cold wasn’t a problem, but the slightly snowy weather was.

“We just spent an hour and a half clearing off the rink and now it starts to snow,” he said, frustrat-ed. “This is bad news for the ice, actually… If the snow gets on the rink while it’s settling, it creates all these little bumps.”

Usually in this situation, flood-ers shave off the bumps the next morning with a Zamboni.

Tonight, though, the Zamboni is out of commission, broken

down and sitting in the shed. “There’s a game here tomorrow

at 1 o’clock, and they’re just going to have to deal with some bumpy ice,” he said.

Over at the Glen Avon outdoor rinks along Woodland Avenue in Duluth, flooders were facing the same problem.

“It’s a terrible night for flood-ing,” Eric said, a father of two Glen Avon hockey players. “Tempera-ture-wise, it’s good,” he said. “But the snow is no good.”

He wasn’t too worried, though.“We’ll just shave it with the

Zamboni tomorrow,” he said.

Building Communty

Josie, a novice Glen Avon flood-er and first-season hockey mom, thinks flooding is a good thing for parents.

“There’s a lot of camaraderie in the community that’s built here by the parents at night, hanging out,” she said. “We do it for our kids because they want to enjoy the sport. And, outdoor hockey is a big thing in Minnesota.”

Josie is one of few moms who help flood the ice.

“It’s almost all dads out here,” she said.

One of the men flooding with

her was a high school classmate, and another, her husband.

“It’s a little like hanging out with little boys all evening,” she said.

Most hockey moms volunteer by working the concession stand inside the warming house during hours of play.

Jason Schafer, a junior at UMD and a member of the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, said helping the flooders is one of his favorite volunteer activities.

“It’s like hanging out with everyone is why it’s fun,” he said. “That’s why I like that project. And, they let us skate around.”

The fraternity shovels the Low-er Chester ice rinks Mondays through Thursdays. They also tidy up the warming house.

After all the hard work is fin-ished, the Glen Avon flooders relax and share drinks in the Zam-boni shack.

“You get thirsty,” Eric said, laughing. “It’s for hydration pur-poses.”

Carlson said his crew at Lower Chester likes to drink while flood-ing and afterwards.

“That’s the only way to make it fun and stay warm,” he said.

Rink flooders support youth hockeyVolunteers grab shovels and brooms to clear the excess snow off the rinks before flooding.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2013 B4STUDENT LIFE Student Life Editor / Kaitlin Lokowich / lokow003@d.umn.edu

BY MAEGGIE LICHTlicht096@d.umn.edu

Open on a group of six quirky best friends in Los Angeles, Calif. Each one of them struggles to make ends meet at their day jobs, while trying to pursue act-ing ambitions late into the night. Sounds a bit like a TV show, right? Well, for four UMD graduates and two of their closest friends, it’s both reality and an up-and-com-ing web series.

“I started writing down some ideas about a show I wanted to create,” said Jake Neuman, a 2010 UMD graduate with his BFA in Acting. “I wanted to try writing to try something new.”

Neuman’s writing crafted the outline for the web show, “Nobodies.” Each character in the show is based on the friends, but with a twist.

“It’s about six post-graduates who are sort of loafers,” Jake said. “We’ve exaggerated our charac-ters to be more scummy than we actually are. We started with some truths and then brought out the grungier, lazier, selfish sides of ourselves.”

About ten months ago, Jake pitched the idea to the group of 2010 UMD grads: his fiancé, Erin Muhs, Kinsey Diment, and Brandon Roberts, along with Jake’s brother, U of M Twin Cities graduate, Jeff Neu-man, and a new friend from LA, Brittany Lauren. The group soon got to work.

“I wrote down a couple epi-sodes, and we did a table read,” Jake said. “The ideas started flowing. Everybody really got on board.”

Jeff was intrigued with the idea right off the bat.

“I was pretty excited right away because I saw a lot of promise in the humor,” he said. “It was a good time, in general, to be producing your own content, with things like Kickstarter available. It’s being able to work with your own ideas and put them out independently.”

First things first, they needed to come up with a big enough chunk of change to get the project’s wheels turning. To do that, they made their own Kickstarter, which is an online platform for creative project fundraising.

An initial donation of $2,000 from Jake and Jeff’s mother helped partially fund the cast’s creation of five short promo videos. The pro-mos introduce Kinsey, Jeff, Bran-don, Brittany, Jake, and Erin to the world. With a goal of $8,000 to get the show up on its feet, they waited on pins and needles to see if their package was enticing enough to garner support from the Kickstart-er crowd.

“We were all really nervous,” Jake said. “We probably checked the page 20 times a day. It was close to the three-year anniversary of me and Erin arriving in LA, so we were either going to

be kicking ourselves in the face or really happy.”

On Nov. 6, 2012, the cast was thrilled to see that they surpassed their goal. With 64 backers pledg-ing a total of $8,765, they had enough money to give the project the green light.

“Nobodies” is almost entirely self-produced. The cast members work as writers, producers, actors, and Erin coordinates costume design, as well. The only outside hiring for the creative team was for

the positions of director, director of photography, and actor to play the part of Jeff.

“It’s been a lot of learning with hands-on,” Jake said. “We pride ourselves in working together on writing—something that seems fairly unique, to have our whole team doing. We all have passion to see it through.”

Jeff was excited to work with a group of people he’d been friends with for years.

“It’s really enjoyable,” he said. “We’re working with (our) best friends. I feel very lucky to be with people intelligent and motivated and funny enough to be involved

with a project like this.”With the characters being

adapted versions of their real-life selves, it was up to Erin to find the perfect amount of frump. One of her favorite characters to shape was Kinsey, because she’s “so out there.”

“All of them are fun because they’re trashed up,” Erin said. “We first meet (Kinsey) in a dumpster. I get to make their personalities come out; I’m getting the story out by telling it visually.”

The group of UMD grads appre-ciated their experience as Bulldogs and their opportunities to learn within the Duluth community.

“Doing a lot of productions around Duluth on a small budget helped me learn how to cut corners in the right way,” Erin said. “And a lot of professors were pretty key in my development.”

Brandon—actor, writer, and producer—said one particular professor helped shape him.

“Our teachers in the Acting Department do a good job with naturalism,” Brandon said. “I took a handful of writing classes.

There was one with Bill Payne where I learned the ability to keep my acting grounded, and that keeps the writing grounded.”

They’ve all continued to learn a lot from working through the kinks on set. With two 15-minute pilot episodes set to air on April 13, 2013, the cast is finding its rhythm in long workdays that bleed into the night.

“When we’re shooting, it’s long days—ten- to twelve-hour days. It’s a lot of work with set-up,”

Jeff said. “It’s very physical and exhausting. We shot the five pro-mos over three days. We’re shoot-ing the pilot over March 1-3 and 8-10. Those will be eight- to ten- hour days with around 20 crew-members. It’s not what we expect-ed, but we learn as we go along.”

One of the biggest challenges for “Nobodies” was to overcome the busy schedules of the creators.

“It’s like a second job, and I already work 40 hours a week,” Brandon said. “Everyone’s work-ing regular jobs, doing auditions, and taking improv classes. Sched-uling and organizing is most defi-nitely the most difficult part.”

The pilot episode will actually be two 15-minute webisodes that

could be combined for TV, if desired—a specific and pur-

poseful choice made by its creators. “Nobodies” will

also send their pilot out to the Internet through multimedia websites.

“We’re trying to get it out there every way

possible,” Brandon said. “We’re submitting

to any and every festi-val. We’ve combed the Internet for every video-sharing site. We’ve had a

good amount of traffic for not being well known.”

“Nobodies” aims to put a twist on the com-mon web series by making theirs more refined. Their goal was to be more like the style of series seen on TV.

“We try to break the rules,” Brandon said. “It has a different tone than most internet comedies. A lot of online comedies are shot with shaken cam-

eras and stationary shots. We try to keep it moving in a com-edy style that’s familiar but differ-ent from any show I know.”

So far, it’s working. Each promo has around 1,000 views. Maybe, if “Nobodies” continues to catch on the way it has been, it won’t be long until these young artists are some-bodies.

For anyone curious about catch-ing the cast in action, the pilot debuts April 13 on their many vid-eo sharing sites. Visit their website, nobodies.tv, for more information.

UMD grads create new web show, “Nobodies”

BY KATIE LOKOWICHlokow003@d.umn.edu

This Saturday marks the 45th annual Feast of Nations, an event hosted by UMD’s International Club, which features global cui-sine and entertainment in the Kir-by Ballroom.

“It’s been a dinner, working with UMD catering,” said Shee-win Pananookooln, a UMD senior and president of the International Club. “And it’s been a fashion show, where international students wear clothes from home, and they show off their clothes and tradi-tions. Then we have performances from the students—so, Bollywood dances and Chinese dances.”

This year’s Feast of Nations is centered on the theme “Color Our World,” and offers a few options for students hoping to attend.

“Normally this all happens in the ballroom, but this year we’re splitting up the dinner and the fashion show to be in the ball-room, and then we moved the per-formance part to MPAC so that we can fit more people than the ballroom,” Pananookooln said. “So we just split up the tickets. (Attendees) can do the dinner and the show tickets or the show only.”

The dinner is prepared by UMD Catering, which receives the inter-national recipes well in advance for the event.

“I have my officer, May, working with UMD Catering,” Pananoo-kooln said. “She gives them reci-pes and asks what they think they can cook for us. So, we have tofu stir-fry, we have curry—she’s been

picking out all these varieties of international desserts and appetiz-ers. They do a good job, everyone likes (the food) and they’re very impressed.”

This year the Feast of Nations committee has already sold more than half of the tickets to the din-ner and the show by tabling outside the UMD lower level bookstore.

“I think the maximum capacity in the ballroom is 320 people, and we sell out every year,” Pananoo-kooln said. “It’s a lot of food.”

The Feast of Nations team has been working since the end of fall semester preparing for the event. The planning committee consists of 12 officers, 18 perfor-mance groups, and lots of volun-teers for decorating and usher-ing.

“It’s a very, very involved event,” Pananookooln said. “A lot of performers are practic-ing around the school—you’ll probably see some in front of the bookstore practicing for their performance.”

The event receives support from across the campus, with performances from the Indian Student Association and Funk Soul Patrol.

“This year we have a lot of sponsors from places around UMD,” Pananookooln said. “TCF asked to put an ad in our booklet, and they would give us money to help sponsor us. We have one from housing and RSOP. We’ve received a lot of support from people around campus. Everyone just kind of helps each other out and we take

advantage of our connections.”The group rehearses this Friday

night and starts decorating Sat-urday morning to prepare for the event.

“That’s what I keep telling them at every officer meeting—March 3, we’re just going to sleep all day,” Pananookooln said.

Because it’s Pananookooln’s final year at UMD, the event is a little bittersweet.

“I can’t believe it’s been four years,” she said. “It’s a lot of plan-ning, but I’ll know that I had fun and then it’ll be done. So it’s a good

ending.”The event is put on so students

and community members can experience a global perspective right at home.

“I think it’s just exciting to know that people will have a good time,” Pananookooln said. “So you know just being behind the scenes and setting everything up and just thinking of, ‘Let’s make sure that this is the best that we can do.’”

The Feast of Nations will be held Saturday March 2. Doors open at 5 p.m. in the Kirby Ballroom for dinner, and performances are from

7-9 p.m. in MPAC. Dinner tickets are $10 for students, and perfor-mance-only tickets are $6. A dance will also be offered in the ballroom after the performances conclude at 9 p.m.

“It makes a difference,” Pana-nookooln said. “It’s putting on a show, like a service. You need to have a service mindset, in my opinion—it’s not about us, it’s about providing a fun event and opportunity for people to experi-ence diversity and culture.”

Cast members of the web series “Nobodies,” (left to right) Brittany Lauren, Bob Guck, Erin Muhs, Jake Neuman, Kinsey Diment, and Brandon Roberts work together both on and off the screen.

(Left to right) Idella Sylvah, Tawana Stocker, and Sandra Gbeintor put on a West African dance during last year’s Feast of Nations.

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Indie rock bands have many staples. As more and more music is released you can always count on indie rock bands to have similar music instrumentation. The loud distorted guitar, the poetic but often vague/strange lyrics, and puls-ing drum rhythms. The latest release entitled “Pedestrian Verse” from Scottish rock band Frightened Rabbit puts a few new twists on all the requirements of a solid indie rock album. The opening song “Acts of Man” starts the album with a soft piano line that starts to crescendo and build into a percussive march. The lyrics lamenting the selfish-ness and pervasiveness of the lives of all men while con-trastingly talking about he is desperately trying to improve as Scott Hutchison sings out in his heavy Scottish accent “Sorry, Selfish, trying to improve. I’m here, I’m here, not heoric but I try” This is definitely a fine example of song crafting that keeps showing throughout the album. Other tracks like “The Woodpile” and “State Hospital” use the echo distortion of the guitar and tribal like drumming to keep the listener in a state of inspiration and awe at the raw power of rock and roll. Overall this album is a joy to listen too for all indie rock fans out there. While they never go too overboard with their song writing or do anything to edgy, Frightened Rabbit’s latest release is a definite success in a hopefully long lasting career.

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BY KATIE LOKOWICHlokow003@d.umn.edu

UMD will be showing a live broadcast of the TED2013 con-ference “The Young. The Wise. The Undiscovered.” in the Tweed Museum of Art from Feb. 26-March 1. TED Talks—which stands for technology, entertain-ment, and design—is a yearly idea conference that addresses a wide range of topics within the research and practice of science and culture through storytelling.

“It’s four days,” said Wen Chen, a senior in the business school and the only student on the UMD TED Talks committee. “And we usually start at 10:45 in the morning and then it varies different days. (It) depends on how many speakers and sessions. The latest is like 8:45 p.m.”

This year’s conference is taking place in Long Beach, California.

“That’s why our times really got pushed back,” Chen said. “Because they end at like 6 o’clock in the eve-ning and we end at 8 because of the time change.”

The talks have been offered for free online through TED.com, and over 1,050 talks are now available on the site. The TED Talks series has been viewed over one billion times worldwide, reflecting their

ever-growing global audience. But not all the videos from the con-ference make it online, so the live conference is sometimes the only chance to see these speakers.

“Each one of these sessions 50 people can go to, and some of them are filling up,” said Cheryl Reitan, the UMD Associate Director for External Affairs. “We’re just trying to get the word out and it’s really, right now, only for students faculty and staff. There’s 600 slots and we haven’t opened up to the commu-nity yet.”

TED Talks feature famous speakers who present on “ideas worth spreading,” with session themes like “disrupt,” “create,” “sustain,” and “who are we?”

“This is an opportunity for us to hear the thoughts (of) leaders of the world,” Reitan said. “This is an opportunity for us to see how important, influential people are visioning our future.”

UMD spent $2,500 for the rights to broadcast the conference live, and it is one of few universities in the area to do so. The live broadcast is available to students, faculty, and staff without charge.

“If you want to go to the live show, individually it’s like $7,500 for a ticket, for one person,” Chen said.

The talks are brief, averaging

18 minutes per speaker and each full session lasting an hour to two hours.

“I was constantly watching TED Talks on YouTube, because that really interests me because it’s not very long,” Chen said. “It’s like 10-18 minutes and you don’t get bored. Because they have time constraints, you can only talk so much in that short amount of time so you have to make people go into your idea. That’s what really inter-ests me.”

The 70-plus talks are dedicated to business, science, art, politics, economics, and modern technolo-gies

“It’s like a way to see the outside world,” Chen said. “Just to give young people a lot of different per-spectives, no matter what you’re interested in. I think it’s a really good way to learn.”

To see the full schedule of speak-ers, times, and to reserve a seat, visit z.umn.edu/ted2013.

If the 50 slots have not all been filled, students can try their luck by showing up to the Tweed to try to snag a seat for the talks.

“We don’t want the atmosphere being really like serious or some-thing,” Chen said. “We want it to be relaxed. So people have their coffee or pop and they can just lis-ten.”

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