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Skating the winter awayICE UND students spearhead project to make public rink more accessible, practical.

>CHRISTALIN CASINADERThe Dakota Student

“Late Night Skate” was launched last Friday, January 21, and will be taking place every Friday and Satur-day (excluding President’s Day week-end) at the Lake Agassi outdoor rink until the ice melts. The event will begin at 8:30 p.m. and go on until midnight.

The program was created due to an active winter campus here at the

University of North Dakota. North Dakota winters are often seen in a negative light, and “Late Night Skate” is looking to change that view.

The event stemmed from an idea that Matthew Schober, a UND student had in mind when he visited the Mansville hockey arena. Accord-ing to Schober, the arena was fi lled-with people from around the area

skating and having a good time de-spite the cold outside. This inspired Schober to do something similar in Grand Forks as a way of providing the students at the university with winter activities.

“It seemed like a good idea to

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Healthy eating made easyCOOKING UND Dining Services executive chef presents gourmet nutri-tion lecture.

>KATIE BACHMEIERThe Dakota StudentNo matter who you ask, prepar-

ing meals can become a mundane task. On January 26, at 5:30 p.m. UND students who live in resident halls on campus or have a dining meal plan were invited to a “Chef’s Table,” which was presented by UND’s own executive chef. Greg Gefroh prepared special meals for students to enjoy, and UND’s dietician Dustin Frize presented a program concerning nu-

trition and how it correlates with the dining center itself.

Students entered the Wilkerson Dining Center on Wednesday to see formally set tables, multiple forks and spoons. It was a different atmosphere, a different setting and different cui-sine than residents are used to enjoy-ing at their meal time on campus. The evening began with an appetizer consisting of fresh fruits and vegeta-bles in a black bean and mango salsa as well as sun dried tomato hummus, both served on tortilla chips. Execu-tive Chef Gefroh, then proceeded to show the attending students how the salsa and hummus was prepared in a live demonstration. The recipes and ingredients were willingly given to the attending students in hopes they

would re-create the meal provided. Other entrees provided included white chicken chili, Jamaican jerk chicken wings, crab cakes—made with 100% authentic crab meat, asian edamame hummus wrap and the evening ended with a grasshop-per pie in oreo cookie crust.

“There is no budget for the spe-cial meals,” Gefroh said.

In between servings of food and showing the students how to make the entrées, Executive Chef Gefroh talked to the students about his be-ginnings with cooking. Although it was a long time coming for the chef, cooking and creating new and

EXPENSE Student Gov-ernment approves fund-ing for visiting author, UND Concert Choir.

>BRANDI JEWETTThe Dakota Student

Kicking their spending into high gear, Student Senate ap-proved $31,500 in funding for two bills during Sunday’s meeting. The bills were passed with over-whelming majorities and within a time period of ten minutes.

The fi rst bill requested Stu-dent Government to pay $16,500 for a down payment to secure Greg Mortenson for the Honors Program’s 50th Anniversary cel-ebration next fall. Mortenson is a humanitarian and co-author of the bestseller Three Cups of Tea.

The bill was tabled from the previous meeting to allow its pre-senter, Kay Powell, Student Life Coordinator for the Honors Pro-gram, to research questions asked by senators.

Powell said the Honors De-partment will contribute $3,000 to the remaining cost and plans to seek funds from various university departments. Mortenson’s total fee for his services is $33,000.

In an attempt to give senators a cost comparison, she listed off other famous lecturers whose fees

climb to $100,000 or more, in-cluding individuals the university has featured in the past.

“It gets expensive when you get to the big names,” stated Pow-ell.

She said part of the fee would be given to his non-profi t organi-zation. Though Student Govern-ment is prohibited from donating money directly to charities, ac-cording to its advisor Tony Tri-marco, it is able to pay Mortenson as long as he “provides adequate documentation” of his services to the university. With these docu-ments, he is then free to use the money at his discretion.

According to Powell, Morten-son’s contract will be signed in March. The $16,500 is due when the contract is signed and the second $16,500 will be due one month prior to the event. No money will be paid until the contract is signed, but it remains unclear if the deposit is refundable after the signing.

During his time at the uni-versity, Mortenson will assist in teaching a one credit course. Hon-ors students will be given fi rst pri-ority in registering for the class. It will then be open to any interested students until capacity is reached.

The second bill provided $15,000 in funding to the UND

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For those who like their sports rough, fast-paced and fun, roller derby is here to serve. Coming soon to the Alerus Center, Grand Forks’ very own roller derby team is taking on the Deadwood Regulators in “A Bout to Remember.” The Sugarbeat-ers’ fi rst home bout takes place on Feb 19 and starts at 6:30 p.m. Adult tickets cost $12 in advance and $15 at the door, while kids’ tickets are $5 in advance and $7 at the door. Advance tickets can be purchased

from any member of the Sugarbeaters.The Sugarbeaters offi cially became a

team in May 2010 and had their fi rst bout as a team in Fargo on Dec 19. Skater and treasurer Mari Biel, a UND student, is one of the youngest members of her team, which has 18 skaters plus other members; some of her older teammates are in their

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SUGARBEATERS Grand Forks girls get rough in region’s fi rst-ever roller derby team.

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New spring break optionSERVICE Students can earn credit traveling North Dakota and doing volunteer work.

When most college students think about planning their spring break trip, the intended destination usually includes the typical party scene found in places like Cancun, Mexico or Daytona Beach, Florida.

This spring break will be a bit different for a group of fac-ulty and students participating in the Stone Soup Bus Tour. Vans will take them to three rural communities throughout the state of North Dakota for service work.

“It’s a great alternative to the typical spring break,” says coor-dinator Lana Rakow.

Two vans filled with roughly 12 students and three faculty members will disembark on their journey across the Peace-Garden state on the morning of March 14 to return on the eve-ning of March 18.

“This opportunity will give

students a chance to learn about rural North Dakotan communi-ties,” says Rakow. “We’ve had stu-dents go nationwide during break to help out communities; why not have them do it in their own back yard, while learning about their state in the meantime?”

S p e c i f i c projects have been arranged and thought up by the com-munal public of the three intended desti-nations spread throughout the state of North Dakota.

“It’s also much cheaper than a typical spring break trip,” Ra-kow says. “Transportation will be provided, and shelter and meals will hopefully be supplied as well in the communities we are assist-ing.” The trip is being made pos-sible by many local contributions to the Stone Soup fund, with notably large donations from Bremer Bank and the Greystone Group.

Along with having a cheap-er, more service-minded spring break trip, students that join Ra-kow and the Stone Soup Tour will

gain one UND credit in “Service and Rural Communities,” a spe-cial topic in interdisciplinary studies. Students should expect that there will be assigned read-ing to accompany their one credit adventure.

It’s the goal of the tour to meet commu-nity members and under-stand why these certain projects are important to their respec-tive commu-nities.

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to share these experiences with anyone who couldn’t make it on the trip. “It is our hope that the students we bring along will blog or video blog during the entirety of the trip,” says Rakow.

A bit of reading and blog-ging is a small price to pay for memories that will last a life-time.

Applications for the tour are due as soon as possible and are given on a first come, first serve basis. To sign up, call the Cen-ter for Community Engagement at 701-777-0675 or stop by the center at 317 Cambridge Street on campus.

DS> Brian Gendreau is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brian.gendreau@und.edu

‘It’s a great alterna-tive to the typical spring break.

Lana Rakowcoordinator, Stone Soup Bus Tour

>BRIAN GENDREAUThe Dakota Student

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40s. But in roller derby, age is nothing but a number.

“There’s a woman on one of the Fargo teams who’s 62, and she is badass,” Biel said. “She’s fast and she hits hard.”

The Sugarbeaters, the trav-eling team of the Forx Roller Derby league, usually play teams from North Dakota, South Da-kota and Minnesota, but teams exist all over the country and even abroad. Grand Forks and Fargo teams are the most well-established teams in the state, but teams in Williston, Jamestown, Minot and Bismarck are starting to grow. Some men’s teams are popping up as well. One exists in Fargo; it is scheduled to play another men’s team from Min-neapolis.

There are two types of events in roller derby: a mixer and a bout. In a mixer, there are no def-inite teams. Skaters from many different teams come together and play. In a bout, one team competes against another. Each bout is 60 minutes long, with a break at the 30-minute mark. The track contains two lines, one for the blockers and the other for the jammers.

Four blockers from each team skate in what is called a pack. One jammer from each team must try to lap the pack as many times as they can within the timeframe. The first time a jammer passes the pack does not count, but ev-ery pass after the first scores that

jammer’s team one point. The team with the most points at the end of the bout wins.

The blockers’ goal, then, is to help their jammer pass the pack and to prevent the other team’s jammer from lapping them. This can be done through distraction or physi-cal contact. Similar to other sports, certain rules apply. The women can only use their hips and shoulders to hit; no punching, elbowing or trip-ping is allowed.

In this sport, only the ref-erees can wear inline skates. All team members must wear quad roller skates, plus helmets, mouth guards, elbow pads, knee pads and wrist guards. Many also wear crash pads, or padded shorts, to protect their hips and tailbones. Despite the protection, injuries are very common.

One of Biel’s favorite parts of roller derby is the contrast between playing a full-contact sport and “looking girly.” Many team members enjoy dressing up, styling their hair and doing their makeup before knocking people around on the track. She also likes being active without feeling like she’s working out.

“It’s something different,” Biel added. “It’s really fun.”

Not only will the spectators get to see fast-paced skating and colliding at A Bout to Remember, but they also will be doing some good. Since the Forx Roller Der-by is a nonprofit organization, all proceeds from the bout will go to UND’s Nonprofit Leadership Student Association, which is currently asking for donations of used formal wear to give to teen-agers who might not be able to afford prom otherwise.

On February 19, spectators can bring their used formal wear to the event, which includes a mixer with skaters from Minot, Bismarck, Jamestown, Fargo, Williston, Bemidji and Fergus Falls; the bout between the Sug-erbeaters and the Deadwood Regulators; and even a dance-off for the children who attend.

“I think everybody in Grand Forks should come to the bout and fill the Alerus Center,” Biel said. “People are really going to enjoy it.”

As of now, the team has a closed practice policy (mean-ing that a woman must be a team member before she can at-tend practices) but all women are encouraged to join. All new members are required to take a minimum skills test as a safety precaution. For those who want to learn more about the Forx Roller Derby or A Bout to Re-member, the league has a page on Facebook and their own web site, forxrollerderby.com.

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Governor Dalrymple’s recent budget recommendation suggests a cap on North Dakota tuition rates at 2.5 percent for all four-year universities and a freeze on tuition for two-year colleges. A bill introduced by Representative Corey Mock and Senator Mac Schneider takes the freeze beyond two-year institutions and would see the state freeze tuition rates for four-year universities, as well. This discussion has led to some division among the state’s student leadership groups, with UND’s student government in support of the freeze and NDSU’s student leaders against it.

If approved, the freeze would cost North Dakota roughly $19 million over two years. This is not money that North Dakota doesn’t have access to, as there is currently discussion to lower taxes on oil companies in western North Dakota, which has seen a recent boom of economic growth. While this growth has been a positive change for our state in the midst of the current national economic situation, we should be looking toward to the future of the state, not the current “resident” workers taking advantage of the oil boom. Because when the oil runs out, so will the money, and North Dakota will be in the same situation.

A possible positive for the state is to use the money we have fl owing through to improve the current educational environment that is a major draw of college students to our universities and colleges. Furthermore, the best way to get graduates to stay in-state is to give them more opportunities for successful careers in-state, but if our state’s tuition contin-ues to rise, we won’t have the draw of affordability that North Dakota is known for. It used to be that a student could work a summer job and pay for most of the next year’s tuition, but now most students are forced to seek outside sources, some of which include scholarships, but most end up with costly loan payments after graduation, which leads to graduates seeking higher-paying jobs in larger cities—away from North Dakota.

Furthermore, with students continuously racking up debt for their undergraduate and post-graduate educational careers, a freeze on the rapidly rising tuition costs certainly seems to be in the best interests of North Dakota’s student body, and this benefi t is recognized by UND’s Student Gov-ernment, but apparently not by the student leaders of NDSU. In a recent Forum article, NDSU’s Student Body President said that a tuition increase would be in the best interest of the students, as NDSU needs to improve its student-faculty ratio and its facilities. However, do NDSU’s specifi c goals have precedence over the rest of the state institutions’ student issues—the biggest of these being the rapidly rising cost of education? Another argument is that we should pay more for quality education, but were UND students in 2000 getting less of an education when they were paying only $1500 for tuition than students today? Clearly, NDSU’s student leaders are looking out for the best interests not of North Dakota, but of themselves.

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In the past month or two, revolu-tions and protests have been uprising throughout Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Gabon, Lebanon and Alba-nia. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the street and have burned down buildings and dismantled ve-hicles.

Governments have crumbled and unfortunately, some people have died for their cause (as I write this 100 people have died in Egypt). Snipers have been killing some of the people who are protesting. One of the most amazing things I heard is that police offi cers are taking off their badges and uniforms and joining the pro-testers.

People are carrying the bodies of their loved ones through the streets. The military has conveys patrolling the situation. This is a revolution happening before our eyes.

After the many failed attempts in the USA in recent years to create change through protest, I became disillusioned by this form of public organizing. However, the situation in the countries I mentioned above has instilled hope and inspiration in me. People in these countries have either been under years of repression and/or want complete change in their gov-ernments.

People from all political beliefs have been standing up: people of all ages, women, socialists, centrists, liberals and so on. People have come together who have felt the same re-pression that has been weighing on their lives and freedom. They have decided to fi ght for a cause they can all be liberated with.

One reporter said, “Once they have broken that barrier of fear, there is no going back.” In other words, once the Egyptians saw what hap-

pened in Tunisia, the barrier of fear was gone and they decided to fi ght for their lives.

These protests are not like the protests in modern day USA. These are people taking risks, dying and liberating themselves. Watching the events unfold has given me chills. The repressive Egyptian president, Mubarak, put a curfew into place and people have been defying this every night since.

Mubarak gave a speech on the 28th, where he stated that violent

protests are not the answer. Yet, un-der his 30 years of power, there has been extreme poverty, extreme re-pression and no freedom. His reign of power has laid violence out on the people of Egypt. The state of which he has power over has been produc-ing violence against its own people, as many states do. In his speech, he stated he would call for the recogni-tion of his own cabinet and reappoint new people for replacements.

A few questions came to mind: if there hadn’t been these protests, would Mubarak have even assigned a new cabinet? Was it not for the violence that caused him to do something? And lastly, the Egyptian people do not want that. They want someone else in power, they want freedoms, and they want Mubarak to step down. They have been want-ing this for years and nothing has changed.

Have the protests stopped since he has been appointing new people?

As I write this article, they have not. I don’t think they will, either, until the Egyptian people get what they want.

The people in Tunisia have more formal freedom than the people of Egypt. However, what they have is not good enough for them. While women in this country have access to birth control and abortion, they are still on the front lines with everyone, liberating themselves. Men are urging them to be the next president. People in Tunisia have started uprising after experiencing years of concentrated power from one individual, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. They have been rightfully angry about freedom of speech issues, unemployment, cor-ruption, skyrocketing food prices and many other issues involving re-pression. These protests led to Ben Ali stepping down and fl eeing the country. This is what I think the Egyptians want.

As I sit at the comfort of my lap-top in my apartment watching the live stream on Aljazeera, I cannot help but wonder, what is my place in this? Is it okay for me to support such a revolution when I am not there? Yes, of course it is.

I know that people are dying and are injured; yet, I cannot help but feel such inspiration from their struggle. If I were involved in such a fi ght, would I want support from people in the world? Yes, of course. If I did not express my support for them, I would feel as though I was being apathetic and not making a decision about such an amazing cause. How could I not support such amazing acts of brilliant and brave people?

This is going on in my life right now and I urge others to support their brave act of liberation.

‘...I cannot help but feel such inspira-tion from their struggle.

Heather Jacksoncolumnist

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Before I was engaged, my experience with wedding preparation was limited to assisting my sisters in their big day. Partially because of familial dysfunction and partially because one sister had recently changed denominations, these experiences were not really indicative of how wedding preparation happened in the Catholic Church. I had no idea what wedding preparation really meant.

We, that is my fiancé and me, make up a weird demographic for wedding couples. Definitely not traditional but not rebellious enough to forego the wedding tradition en-tirely, after seven years of dating, we decided to make it ‘official’ this summer. ‘Official,’ of course, meaning the exact same to us but legiti-mate to our Catholic families.

Now, neither of us has anything against the Catholic tradition (you know, minus the antiquated viewpoints toward just about every-thing), but we don’t necessarily feel completely comfortable with the entire process. There are a lot of hoops to jump through, but we’re re-minded that it will all be worth it on the day when “one man marries one woman during a traditional wedding ceremony.” We hardly feel a sense of entitlement that it’s okay for us to commit to one another because we have differ-ent sex organs. But, nevertheless, the Church okay’d us, and we set out to do what was neces-sary to get married in our Church.

The first step was going to a weekend re-treat. While most would think such a week-end would be horrendous, we actually kind of enjoyed ourselves. Granted, some of that en-joyment was ironic enjoyment, such as when we watched a video about natural family plan-ning and vaginal mucus, but a lot of what we did was actually quite helpful.

We learned about what makes a couple suitable for marriage (or let’s for my sake just say commitment), and the priest leading our weekend surprisingly contradicted many of the assumptions. Several of the straight-laced couples at the retreat said that marriage meant an end to spending time with friends and fo-cusing solely on the family. The priest then interrupted this 50’s inspired diatribe and said, “Now, I don’t want the bars to start calling me and telling me that I’m making them lose all of their customers. You guys can still go out and have fun, just realize that there is more to life than just that.”

If you think this is shocking, that’s nothing compared to what the priest had to say about religion. He discussed how North Dakota used to be mainly Catholic, “But thank good-ness that there is more variety now.” He then spoke directly to the Catholics at the retreat and told them to lose their superiority com-plexes, because other denominations are just as worthwhile. He even discussed how misun-derstood the Islamic religion is and that it is a shame that there is so much intolerance.

Because this shocking moment of mild tolerance happened at the beginning of the weekend, I was able to let go of my qualms with the Catholic religion and just really listen to what he had to say. That being said, I am well aware that most priests are not as cool and understanding as this. People may have had vastly different experiences. I, however, was forced to check my assumptions at the door, and I was presently surprised with the religious progress I witnessed. Preparing for a wedding consists of a lot of red-tape, but fortunately one event that we thought would make the “red-tape category” actually got thrown onto the “useful pile.”

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A symphony of revolutions

In Egypt, the events of the past week have gripped the attention of the US me-dia. There are signals that the situation in Egypt has a character markedly different from the sort of sectarianism and power plays common to the coverage of events in the Middle East. Police and even mil-itary personnel have left their posts to join the protesters. (Coptic) Churches have opened their doors to Muslims to protect people from the onslaughts of government forces. People who have never been politically active are taking to the streets in defiance of curfews.

What’s important to bear in mind here is what is at stake. Egypt has been under the boot heel of a dictatorship for the last 30 years. Officially designated for those 30 years as a “state of emergency,” it is il-legal to demonstrate in Egypt, on any sub-stantial scale. Thus, those who have been out in the streets have been breaking the law just protesting together. The curfews imposed by government forces have been ignored. On Saturday night, protesters camped out in a central square in Cairo.

What we are witnessing is not limited to a particular group and their limited de-mands; we are witnessing nothing less than

an uprising, a revolt, the refusal of a people to submit, any longer, to the tyranny of a dictator. At the risk of death (the reported death toll broke 100 by Saturday night). Notice that the people are unarmed, yet they have, by sheer will and number, beat-en back government forces and defied the state of emergency such that by Sunday morning, police stopped patrolling the

streets.It is sometimes dif-

ficult to conceptualize world events, grant such events a context and lo-cate such events within one’s own frame of ref-erence. Sometimes it is impossible. What we are witnessing in Egypt is a true revolutionary opening. Beginning a

few weeks ago with the events in Tunisia, wherein what started as a small group of activists demanded economic reforms and a more open society, ended up exploding into a full on revolt with the overthrow, by the people, without compromise, of a corrupt government, and the revolution-ary clamor has spread like wildfire through the Middle East.

Protests in Jordan, Yemen and Leba-non bear witness to an emerging, region-wide revolutionary opening. I say opening because the situation is open, undecided. It is impossible to tell if what has hap-pened in Tunisia will bear the same results in Egypt, if such events will continue to explode across the Middle East, or if these

protests will collapse under the weight of looting (as we are starting to see in Egypt), or splintering of solidarity across social and religious divisions.

The danger, when thinking about this situation, would be to lapse into cynicism and wait for the revolt to collapse. It is important to avoid this trap. Revolutions are ugly, often bloody affairs. This does not mean they are not necessary, or worth risking the possibility of failure. To reduce what’s happening to a pragmatic evalua-tion of how things might turn out misses the point. The point is that the Egyptian people are risking death on the wager of liberation. Live free or die is nowhere truer in the world than it is in Egypt right now.

The events in Egypt could very well de-termine whether such revolts will continue throughout the region. What these events illustrate, with stunning clarity, is that the ideals of the West, ideals concerning politi-cal liberation and economic emancipation, beginning with the French and continuing with the American Revolution are by no means limited to Western countries.

Moreover, given the U.S.’ economic support of Mubarak’s repressive govern-ment over the past three decades, in spite of our rhetoric of democracy at home and abroad, Egypt is showing the U.S. what true democratic emancipation looks like in the 21st Century.

>AAron wentzThe Dakota Student

Appreciating home after traveling abroad

Last semester, I decided to flip my life upside down and venture to the land of lefse, potatoes, fjords, rommegrot and more potatoes. It is a culture where the people greet you with a “Hei hei” and where good friends consistently express that they are “glad” in each other. A place where whale, reindeer and horse are con-sidered the equivalent to our prime rib. And every morning, when I opened my door to walk to the American College of Norway, I saw my backyard framed by a mountain cliff laced with violet wild flow-ers and could hear the rushing of the wa-terfall a few blocks away.

Having the same reaction as Judy Gar-land when she arrived in the Land of Oz, I knew I wasn’t in North Dakota anymore. Learning from my own shock of this un-familiar culture, I can safely say it was the most gratifying experience that I’ve had so far in my life. Although I yearn to go back someday soon, there have been so many things that I have a new appreciation for now that I’m back home.

I was told that most everyone in Nor-way speaks English, which was a great re-assurance for me since I don’t even have a drop of Scandinavian blood in my veins to even attempt to fake it. But despite this fact, daily living was still a challenge. I felt grocery shopping was just a cruel joke God was playing on me. Resorting back to my toddler instincts, I had to read mostly by pictures and guessing. And since the idea of a super store is considered blasphemy in this country, shopping inevitably requires you to go to about five stores to acquire everything on your list.

Even though there was a certain

charming quality to going to many smaller stores, I have to admit that stepping inside my first Target since last summer was al-most a quasi-religious experience for me. Never have I been so relieved to find my favorite hair product, Ziploc baggies and peanut butter all in the same place.

Peanut butter. This deserves it’s own space for discussion. When asked—“If you were stuck on a deserted island, what would you want with you?”—my answer always consists of a tent, Leonardo Di-Caprio but most importantly, peanut but-ter. Now, Norway is not a peanut butter-less country, however their idea of the product needs much improvement. First of all, they have not been introduced to the glory that is Jif and Skippy.

Norway has much stricter nutrition laws than the U.S. does; however, there are some food items that artificial preservatives definitely make better. And it has also become my opinion that it is okay to have some products that come in ten-gallon jars. Natural peanut butter is okay for a while, however my American taste buds desired artificial-sugared-cardi-ac-arrest-amazingness. The name brand I bought while I was there had a pirate squirrel on the front of it to give it some whimsy; however, don’t let that rodent fool you.

Another aspect of shopping I took for granted in the U.S. was cost. Everyone warned me that Europe was very expen-sive. However, I would like to clarify this. If you go visit Norway first, everywhere else in the world seems like you are living the big life by comparison. There is nothing

>eMILY HILLThe Dakota Student

cheap in Norway. A movie ticket costs you approximately $20. The cheapest end hair cut is $60. A beer on tap costs about $10. Ordering out for a hamburger, fries, and a pop is a major luxury that amounts to about $25 dollars a pop. When I bought my first bottle of wine stateside a few weeks ago, granted I do not have high-class tastes, but I almost got a bit emotional when I only paid $10. $6 for an evening at the cinema seems ludicrous. And getting a five-pound burrito at Qdoba for the same amount just makes you believe in a higher power.

With all this being said, the most im-portant aspect about home that I missed was being surrounded by people that I rec-ognize. There was something remarkably humbling about being in a place where you

would walk down a street and no one would stop you to say hello. Riding on a train and not being able to un-derstand one word around me was sur-prisingly peaceful and allowed for a heightened intro-

spection. However, now that I am back, I enjoy the fact that when I walk down Uni-versity, I know that more than likely I’ll bump into someone I know and probably know well.

Although being a stranger in a foreign land is an opportunity that I would en-courage anyone to try once, there is truly no place like home.

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DS> Aaron Wentz is a columnist for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at aaron.wentz@und.edu

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me to help provide students at the university with something more to do for fun in the winter-time. It gets pretty chilly here, so it would be nice if people are too busy hav-ing a good time skating to notice the cold, at least for a little while!” said Schober.

So how does a student go about bringing an idea such as this to life? Schober says that he is part of Emerging Leaders, a student or-ganization on campus and that he received a lot of support and help from the group. Other organiza-tions responsible for the success of the event are the UND Wellness Center and the Grand Forks Park District. Late Night Skate is spon-sored by Nightlife at UND which is funded by the university’s Student Government.

“Late Night Skate is for hockey skaters as well as recreational skat-ers. It doesn’t matter if you’re an ex-perienced skater or just a beginner,” commented Schober. The event seems to be successful. Although the weather was not the best last week-end, people still showed up. Barry

Wakefield, a UND student said, “I really like the fact that people are looking to provide more winter activities for students. Late Night Skate is a fantastic idea!”

First-time skaters are also ex-cited and gearing up for the event. Malith Silva, an international stu-dent at UND said, “My friends and I find the winters here next to un-bearable, but having activities like this would definitely encourage us to go out into the cold and adapt to it. I’m going to go see what it’s like this weekend.”

A heated warming house will be open for use when the program is in operation. Hot chocolate will also be provided. For students who have never skated before, there will be a few pairs of ice skates at the rink, offered free of charge. The skates will be from sizes 6-9. However, students should bring their own skates if they can since there are very few available at the rink.

The program is also interested in organizing a Date Skate night for couples come Valentine’s Day weekend.

healthier recipes is one of Chef Ge-froh’s passions.

“My wife drove me to become a chef,” Gefroh said. When he first came to UND over 75% of meals that were being prepared were pre-ordered and frozen. Today, Gefroh has drastically re-duced this, each day coming up with a way to make more and more meals “homemade” and fresh.

“Every cook has tasted what you eat,” Gefroh said. “They need to know what it is supposed to taste like when they create it [for students].”

Along with making the freshest possible recipes for the dining cen-ters, Chef Gefroh also strongly pro-motes using local ingredients. The dining centers include chicken from Minnesota’s Golden Plump Farms, that produce farm-raised chicken, Dakota Growers pasta along with multiple other local resources. “This

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and pasta,” Gefroh said. “It would be a shame if we didn’t take advantage of it.”

As the evening was wrapping up, UND’s dietician showed the attend-ing students a PowerPoint guide to nutrition and dining center meals at UND’s dining centers and website.

The Power-Point included a step by step guide to the newly imple-mented pro-gram, Guid-ing Stars. The program en-ables students to check the

nutritional value, by looking at the amount of stars that is given for each item. There are stars given for each item provided at the dining center, from three being the highest and one the lowest.

Students took home both quality recipes and insight of what the din-ing centers at UND have to offer.

DS> Katie Bachmeier is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at katie.bachmeier@und.edu

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Concert Choir for their March trip to Belgium and the Nether-lands. The choir will be perform-ing in the Association of Music in International Schools festival.

The trip’s overall cost is $ 155,045. The choir has already confirmed monetary support from the Music Department, the Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, $7,500 and $10,000 respectively. Each of the 55 students traveling with the choir is expected to contribute $1,000 as well.

Prior to the bill’s passage, the choir still needed to fundraise $82,545.

Residence Hall Senator Nate Elness, co-author of the bill and a member of the concert choir, as-sured Senate they will continue to fundraise. He reported a list of alumni who participated in the choir has been compiled and ef-forts will be made to reach out to them for donations.

culture&mediatuesday february 1, 2011DS> Inside: Gilly’s “College Days” and Writers Conference author.

Tickets for the biggest cultural event in Grand Forks are running out. The 49th annual Feast of Nations will be held on February 26 at the Alerus Center.

The student-organized Feast of Nations is one of the most popular events in Grand Forks and has become widely recognized as a festival of diversity. It is an event that showcases and celebrates different cultures from around the world through performances and a delicious full-course ethnic meal.

This year’s presentation includes Fubuki Daiko, a Japanese drum and fl ute ensemble. Their debut CD, Fubuki, received a Prairie Music Award for ‘Outstanding Instrumental Recording.’

Folklore de Mi Tierra is a Columbian dance group. They will perform traditional Columbian dances such as the Cumba, Pasadoble and Bachata.

Walking Wolf dancers and singers aim to promote the cultural identity of aboriginal peoples by showcasing the talents of their culture.

Paradize is a band with Caribbean infl uences and will bring the rhythms of the Caribbean to life at this year’s show with soca, calypso, steel pan and reggae music.Every year the event hosts interna-tional performers as well as student performers from UND. Feast of nations is a great opportunity for students to showcase their talents and gain recognition. It also allows them to contribute something to their community.

“The student performances really add color and vibrancy to the show. Each time we host this event, we are amazed at the quality of their performances. They always get rave reviews from the audience, who comment that the students are just as good as the professional performances,” said the leader of the International Organization.

Auditions for this year’s student performers will be held on February 11 at the River Valley Room of the Memorial Union.

Tickets for Feast of Nations are available at the Services Desk of the Memorial Union. Tickets are priced at $15 for students and children and $20 for non-students. Reservations for a table of 10 will cost $250.

The International Organization aims to enhance goodwill and understanding be-tween cultures within the UND campus and the surrounding communities. IO is not just for international students at UND, but also for individuals who would like share their knowledge, culture and abilities in order to impact society. Log on to www.und.edu/org/intlorg for more information.

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DS> Christalin Casinader is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at christalin.casinader@und.edu

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CaSteLLaNoS Writers Conference featured art-ist to discuss work and inspiration in March.

This March will mark the 42nd year of the UND Writers Conference, where writers of all sorts come from all over to dis-cuss the current state of literature and their writings for UND stu-dents as well as the general public. One of the authors featured this year is the scientist and writer Jim Castellanos. Castellanos has used his experience as an aviation or-dinance technician in the United Space Marine Corps to become a war writer. He has also published scientific research.

Castellanos was born and raised in California, but his fam-ily is from El Salvador, a country Castellanos says is “a country with a rich history of oral storytelling.” Growing up in this type setting had a profound effect on his style of writing. When I asked him how his background shaped his writ-ing, Castellanos said, “As a child I learned a storyteller’s first loy-

alty is always to the listener; one must keep the listener engaged from the first to last sentence for fears of the listener getting up and leaving the room…I always think about this when I am writing.”

Castellanos’ main scientific research has mainly focused on the immune system. At Stanford University, he worked in a lab where they focused on treatment for multiple sclerosis. The main thing he studied here was “why some multiple sclerosis patients improve and others get worse after taking interferon-beta, the staple treatment for multiple scle-rosis, of which little is known.” He is also currently working at the University of Arizona study-ing how immune cells “talk” with one another to mount an immune system response. His scientific re-search can be found in the jour-nal, Nature Medicine.

Castellanos also writes about his experiences in the military, saying that his war writings are “more personal, more intimate and most importantly, because war is difficult to discuss—especially for those who have witnessed the atrocities of war firsthand—and if we ever want to heal those wounds, a dialogue must first be

opened.” Currently his war writ-ings can be found in the anthology Veterans of War, edited by Maxine Hong Kingston. He is also work-ing on a memoir from his time in the Iraq War. This focuses more on his transformation from a Ma-rine to a conscientious objector. “The book revolves around the death of my roommate, Corpo-ral Andrew Brownfield, and how his passing slowly began changing the way I saw the world, eventu-ally leading to me become a more conscientious objector while still serving in Iraq,” Castellanos said as he described his current proj-ect. Castellanos wants his readers to remember, “Don’t be scared to ask veterans about war. The more we talk about war, the closer we get to healing the deep wounds we all carry.”

Castellanos is just one of the many interesting writers to attend this year’s Writers Conference. At the conference he will be featured in the “Conflict Zone” panel as with Benjamin Back Sierra on Thursday, March 31, during the Writers Conference.

“College Days” is quite the dealSPeCIaL Dakota Stu-dent writer discovers specials and entertain-ment at Gilly’s.

>NIChoLaS GowaNThe Dakota Student

It was a gusty and cold night in the valley when four friends and I walked down the icy sidewalks of downtown Grand Forks in search of a deal. It was getting late.

“What should we drink?” we thought. “We are cold and thirsty.” We were told, “ID and Student ID, please,” as we entered Gilly’s. Five dollars got us a wristband and a green cup. “Teas, rails and taps,” we were then told. We could fill the green cups for free with any of the given drink choices.

Usually I drink pop at these es-tablishments, so I asked my friend MB what drink we should have in our green cups and she recom-mended teas. After my first long drink, I could mostly taste Coke.

As it was over an hour since the spe-cial had started (College Days, the $5 all-you-can-drink special that only lasted from 9 p.m. to midnight), seating was limited. Near the middle bar we found a table with just one coat rested over a chair, so we took it. The lone coat was soon grabbed by someone leaving the bar in a hurry. Everyone was excited to be drink-ing at Gilly’s.

The tea hit the spot, and soon I had a second, third and fourth. The liquor taste in them was al-most non-existent, but that was OK because I had important work to do in the morning.

The bars at Gilly’s—there are at least three of them inside—are well stocked, and the knowledge-able staff are able to concoct most drinks for you. My measuring stick for this is whether or not they can build a Caeser. Not necessarily the quality of the Caeser, but just if they have heard of it, as I’ve found

some bartenders in downtown Grand Forks are clueless.

Gilly’s is busier at night than during the day. I know this be-cause I have common sense. Most people go to Gilly’s to dance and drink copious amounts of alcohol.

Walking to the bar is the most convenient way to get there. Lo-cated at 9 N 3rd Street, the streets surrounding Gilly’s are usually full of parked cars, and if you’re going to Gilly’s, you probably shouldn’t be driving. Use Cab Crawler. My friend noticed a pregnant woman who was in the bar and I thought to myself, “Oh good, a responsible young mother is out to spend some time with her friends. Maybe she’ll be driving everyone home.” My friend then informed me she had a wristband like we did, giving her access to the “teas, rails and taps.”

The bar was fairly clean, water was over most of the floors in the main bar area. The line to the la-dies room wasn’t for the loo but the mirror.

The floor plan is fairly open. Tables and booths line the out-side of the bar while a dance floor and bar dominate the interior. Char-itable gaming

and billiards are also found on lo-cation.

During the last two weekends of January, Gilly’s hosted their “College Days,” a $5 all-you-can-drink spectacular. On Wild Wednesdays, $10 gets you about the same deal. Another special they offer on Thursdays is $25 for all you can eat, which also includes a pound of flavored chicken limbs.

DS> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at nicholas.gowan@und.edu

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The North Dakota women’s hockey team extended their un-beaten streak to eight games with a win Friday night over Minnesota State Mavericks 6-3. Unfortunately, UND had their streak snapped Sat-urday night with a heartbreaking loss of 5-3. However, Minnesota State ended their embarrassing 15 game winless slide on the road.

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>TaDD POWerSThe Dakota Student

DeTerreD UND hits a speed bump at home in an otherwise successful season.

Gene Roebuck was hired in June of 1987 to take over the North Da-kota women’s basketball program. 20 plus years later, Roebuck is still on the bench leading UND. There are a number of achievements he has racked up over his tenure at the University of North Dakota includ-ing three DII NCAA champion-ships. But against Houston Baptist, Roebuck reached 600 wins which represents the longevity of his success at UND. It was a special day for the North Dakota coach and it helped that his team helped get win No. 600 in dominating fashion.

UND walked out of the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center with a 104-54 victory. It was UND’s sixth win in a row and fourth straight in con-ference play. Senior Corey Lof had an impressive performance recording a double-double with 18 points and 10 boards. Lof was one of four play-ers for North Dakota who finished with 15 points or more. Despite win-ning the game by 50 points, it was a closely contested contest through much of the first half. North Dakota finished the half strong but with 1:42 remaining in the first half they only led by nine points.

A 5-0 spurt over the final minute and a half gave UND a comfortable 14-point lead heading into the break. Both teams shot the ball startlingly well in the first half with UND at 58.1 percent and HBU at 57.1 per-cent. North Dakota got off to a fast start in the second half building a 21-point lead just four minutes in.

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DS>Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2@und.edu

CONGraTS The cor-nerstone of women’s basketball reaches 600 victories.

It didn’t get any better for the Hus-kies, as their offense stalled and was unable to buy a bucket. UND con-tinued to shoot well, especially Carly Rothfusz, who scored 12 of her 15 points in the second half. She nailed four of seven three-point attempts for the game and added three free throws to go with it.

North Dakota took advantage of 16 second half turnovers from the Huskies to run away with the game. By the 10 minute mark in the second half the game had reached laughter status, as UND owned a 72-41 lead. It was no longer a ques-tion of if Roebuck would reach win No. 600, but instead, when. By the end of the game fans were clamor-ing for UND to top the 100-point plateau for the first time this season. Charnise Mothershed delivered with 1:23 remaining on the clock when she nailed a three-pointer.

It was a dominant performance from UND, especially in the sec-ond half where they outscored the Huskies 57-21. The win improved UND’s record to 8-11 overall and 4-0 in the Great West Conference. HBU dropped to a dismal 2-18 on the year and 0-5 against conference opponents. After the game was fin-ished, Roebuck was honored in the middle of the court where he received a standing ovation from over 2,000 plus fans in attendance. It was a spe-cial day for the UND coach, which was made even better by his team’s play on the court. Roebuck ranks in the Top 20 in wins among all of the NCAA’s women’s basketball coaches.

North Dakota will try and get win No. 601 for him this Saturday on the road against border-rival South Dakota.

>BraNDON BeCKerThe Dakota Student

been bountiful for UND. North Dakota was 6-0-1 entering their first lost in 2011. UND had de-feated opponents by at least three goals or more in each of those six wins, but Coach Brian Idalkski said after the lost, “We were winning hockey games and we were putting up some goals, but by no means were we dominant and sharp from start-to-finish.”

So far, this year has a been a memorable one for UND, setting program records all year round, re-cords for assists, points, wins,and everything else in between. This year’s team is making UND his-tory every game they play. How-ever, North Dakota has not quite achieved elite status, being that the

opposition seems to fear North Da-kota when the puck drops. There’s no doubt that they’re on their way. “This is part of the growing pains of being a mature hockey club that knows and understands how to win game-in and game-out,” Idalkski said after the lost.

UND (13-7-2-0 WCHA) is only one point away from the Uni-versity of Minnesota (13-7-2-1) in the WCHA standings. UND had a chance to take sole position of sec-ond place in the standings but were unable to hold their 3-1 lead against the Mavericks. Alyssa Wiebe and Ashley Furia scored two phenom-enal highlight reel goals. Candace Molle scored to take the 3-1 lead. Within five minutes they saw their

lead crumble with two goals on de-fensive breakdowns. The next two Maverick goals were scored when Mavericks outnumbered UND players on opposing sides of the rink. North Dakota failed to pick up the rebounds and back-check. Go-ing into in the third period, UND looked to be careless and rushing the puck. The Mavericks played an annoying neutral zone trap, which UND couldn’t break.

Minnesota State scored two un-answered goals to beat the streaks, 5-3 in a heartbreak.

Jocelyne Lamoureux extended her point streak to eight games with an assist on Saturday night. On Fri-day night she had a goal and three assists. In those eight games she ac-

cumulated an astounding stat line of nine goals and 13 assists. She now holds the record for most points in a season for UND with 42. Sister Monique Lamoureux-Kolls is one point behind at 41.

UND will play an under .500 team next weekend in Columbus, taking on the Ohio State Buckeyes. It is crucial for UND to sweep the Buckeyes and six points, because the next two weeks they play the num-ber one Wisconsin Badgers the and number two in the WCHA, Min-nesota Golden Gophers to round out their regular season.

DS> Tadd Powers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at tadd.powers@und.edu

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This past Saturday, the UND track and field teams competed at the Bill Bergan Invitational. The meet was hosted by Iowa State University. There were some fa-miliar teams running at the meet along with some new competi-tion. Some of the regulars includ-ed South Dakota, South Dakota State, North Dakota State and the University of Minnesota.

A few of the teams UND has not competed against often were Marquette University, University of Missouri and the host school, Iowa State. Both teams only travel

to Iowa State twice during the in-door season and none during out-door.

The indoor track facility at Iowa State is an excellent place to host a meet. It boasts a fast 300 meter track, which is different than most, because many have only a 200 meter track. Even with this difference, a few ath-letes from UND still managed to break school records again. Hurdler Jessica Butler was able to break her own school record in the 60 hurdles. On the men’s side Josh LaBlanc destroyed his school record in the 3000 meters by 14 seconds.

Last weekend at Boise State, Butler placed third in the 60 me-ter hurdles with a time of 8.97. It was just fast enough to better the record. This weekend she took even more time off with an 8.87 clocking. Butler took second over-all in the race just behind Whit-ney Carlson of NDSU who ran 8.71 seconds.

UND had several other run-ners get top eight at the Bergan Invitational.

Sophomore Paige Kuplic placed fourth in the 60 meter dash in a time of 7.98 seconds. In the 3K, Lindsay Anderson took fifth place in a time of 9:55.06 while sophomore Kristen Haas placed seventh in the 60 meter dash in 9.29 seconds.

In the field events, senior Sar-ah Fegley took sixth place in the triple jump with a leap of 10.56 meters.

As a team, the UND women finished in eighth place with 10 points.

The 3,000 meter race on the men’s side had a spectacular finish with LaBlanc cruising to a third place finish overall in 8:19. Last year at this same meet, he also broke the school record for the first time, which was then 8:36. Now after only one year, it has dropped by 17 seconds. Early on in the race, LaBlanc was settled in the middle of the pack. But with four laps to go he started to kick catching three then four runners. He was closing in on a Marquette runner but didn’t have enough room, taking third place. The winner of the race was 8:17.33.

Another great performance of the day was by thrower Brandon Quesenberry. He was able to place fourth out of 16 with a toss of 16.36 meters.

Just like the women’s team, the men scored 10 team points to finish in eighth place.

The men’s and women’s track team will compete again next weekend in Notre Dame. They will take place in the Meyo Invi-tational. Top teams from all over the country will be in South Bend. Also on Saturday, the team will send some athletes to North Da-kota State, competing in the Bison Open.

New records set at Bergan Invite

>Kyle ROSSeauThe Dakota Student

DS> Kyle Rosseau is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at kyle.rosseau@und.edu

MIDWeST RaCe UND created new standards in school history last week-end in Iowa.

UND denies Huskies

DS> Joel Adrian is the Sports Editor for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at joel.adrian@und.edu

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DeFenSIVe North Dakota held the explo-sive conference foes to under 80 points.

Thanks to draining free-throw shots and strong defense, UND was able to maintain a late game lead over conference foes Houston Baptist. With the win-ning score of 83-73 and Gene Roebuck attaining UND athletic immortality earlier in the day, the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center was the clear celebratory venue in Grand Forks.

There was the Rodeo in town, and the constant allure of down-town festivities are attractive of-fers, but UND basketball was astounding this weekend. Sports-center should have had a camera crew here this weekend filming these milestones for North Da-kota.

After hosting a six game home stand, UND battled home court well enough to attain a 5-1 record in that time frame. Overall, North Dakota is now 3-1 in GWC com-petition.

The visiting Huskies gave UND trouble in the beginning, North Dakota ballers Aaron An-derson, Josh Schuler and Brandon Brekke amassed for 46 points in the competition with 12 coming from Anderson’s free throw shoot-ing. With 4:55 remaining in the game, Breke gave North Dakota a one point lead, while Anderson and Schuler scored the final 13 points for UND. The win is the first victory over the Huskies this season in conference play.

North Dakota seemed to play with a tenacity that could have la-beled them as “ball-hogs.”

UND head coach Brian Jones was able to scheme together a de-fense that frustrated Houston Bap-tist. GWC Preseason Player of the Year Andrew Gonzalez scored 23 points in the game, but only sank six of 18 shots from floor. The

strong defense was able to hold the frothing huskies to scoring on 42.4 percent of their shots.

Throughout the contested game, the lead was casually trad-ed six times before ending up to favor UND.

The Australian Chris Clausen scored a season high of 10 points in the victory for UND. Ander-son led the team in scoring with 16 points on the court. Junior Patrick Mitchell added 11 points for North Dakota and snagged a game high of 8. In an interesting statistic, HBU out-rebounded UND 33-30, but did turn the ball over 17 times compared to UND’s 10.

North Dakota returns to the court on the road against the bor-der baddies of USD. The team will play after the women’s game, which coincidentally plays UND as well. Tip-off for the men is at 8 p.m. in Vermillion, SD.

12 SPORTS tuesday february 1, 2011

Hurting in Colorado

Another WCHA weekend split has North Dakota looking forward to an off week.

UND’s hockey team will re-turn to Grand Forks happy with a 6-0 win Saturday, but unhappy with their 4-2 loss Friday, their third straight Friday loss, all part of their fi rst road trip of the second half of the season against Colorado College.

And with the possible loss of defenseman Chay Genoway, this weekend created more questions than answers.

Genoway was lost in the second period of Friday night’s game with what is being described as a “lower body injury.” NCAA and federal regulations restrict the university from providing further details, but the senior captain had to be helped off the ice and did not return this weekend.

Chay left when the team was already down 2-0, and UND could not recover from that setback, al-lowing CC to tally two more goals and put the game out of reach. Dakota Eveland, Alexander Krush-elnyski, Jeff Collett and William Rapuzzi all scored for the Tigers.

Jason Gregoire continued his impressive start to 2011 with a pair of goals to pull UND within two. His fi rst goal was a highlight-reel goal, as the junior forward made a brilliant through-the-legs pass and fi nished by beating goaltender Joe Howe with a top-shelf shot.

Gregoire later scored on a 3x5 breakout pass from teammate An-drew MacWilliam. Gregoire scored his second of the night and twelfth of the year on that breakaway at-tempt.

But that comeback was ulti-mately thwarted by a few penalties, most notably a fi ve-minute major created by a Mario Lamoureux contact to the head penalty. That took the wind out of their sails and they could not fi nd the net again.

The fast paced game saw CC outshoot UND 40-38, a rarity for North Dakota.

Saturday, North Dakota came roaring back. Brock Nelson’s goal at 5:03 of the fi rst period, the fi fth of his freshman season, marked the fi rst time in eight conference games that UND scored fi rst.

One goal would have been enough, as Aaron Dell (21 saves) and tight defensive play kept Colorado College (15-12-1, 9-9 WCHA) out of the way. But UND kept on the gas for fi ve more goals.

Brett Hextall scored his fourth

of the year to open a four goal sec-ond period. For Hextall, it was his sixth career goal against the Tigers. Later, Carter Rowney followed with his third of the season.

Senior Matt Frattin would end what was a four game goal drought with a hard shot from the high slot. His 21st of the year, Frattin’s power play goal put him in second in the nation in goals, behind two Ni-agara forwards (Brian Haczyk and Paul Zanette) with 22.

Two defensemen rounded out the scoring for North Dakota. Der-rick LaPoint launched a point shot that found twine to make it 5-0. And in the third, it was a special

FIRST UND stands alone in WCHA stand-ings, but Genoway injury may haunt tournament.

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moment for sophomore Joe Glea-son, who scored his fi rst career goal.

Dell’s four shutouts this sea-son put him fourth on the all-time single-season record.

North Dakota recaptured fi rst place in the WCHA thanks to the win because of the idle UMD and Denver. UND’s coming off week is their fi rst of the season other than the holiday break. They will return home to host Alaska-Anchorage at the REA February 11-12.

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Date Idea: Listen to sax player Matt Corey this Friday at the Union!

Guard Nicole Smart drives to the hoop last weekend. The victory over conference opponent Houston-Baptist marked head Coach Gene Roebuck’s 600th win while at the helm of the UND Women’s Basketball team.

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