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The Blue Key Nation-al Honor Society named the 2012 Distinguished Educator at a banquet at NDSU on Dec. 6.

Canan Bilen-Green, a professor in the industrial and manufacturing engi-neering department, was honored with the award.

Green is the interim chair of the IME depart-ment as well as a Dale Hogoboom professor. Ed-ucators who have received the Dale Hogoboom presi-dential professorship have given at least eight years of service to NDSU.

In addition, Green is the executive director of the FORWARD program at NDSU, a program that

works to make NDSU a better place for women to work. She is also the vice provost for faculty ad-vancement.

Green is also involved with the Society of Wom-en Engineers and the Tech-Gyrls program, which works to make young girls more interested in science and math.

Luke Brodeur, a Blue Key member and student body president, led the invocation before the din-ner and presentation of the professorship to Green.

The first speaker was Stephanie Erickson, a for-mer student of Green’s.

Erickson said that Green is a good leader for women in engineering and that people look up to her.

The second speaker was Gary Smith, a colleague

of Green’s in the IME de-partment. Smith said that he had been working with Green for 12 years and that she turned the IME depart-ment into a success due to her dedication.

Finally, Green took the podium and offered her thanks and explained how surprised she was to get this award.

She talked briefly about her work and what she has done with the IME depart-ment and expressed that she really enjoys what she does.

“It doesn’t seem like work to me,” Green said.

The NDSU chapter of the Blue Key Honor So-ciety was established in 1927. The society names a distinguished educator each year.

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Canan Bilen-Green (from left) receives the Distinguished Educator Award alongside Blue Key members on Dec. 6, 2012.

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NDSU coach Saul Philips and UND coach Brian Jones coached barefoot at the Sport-ing your Barefeet basketball game to support Samaritan’s Feet’s cause to distribute shoes to impoverished chil-dren.

Coach Philips joined over 1,000 other coaches across the states to raise awareness for the Barefoot for Bare Feet Movement, which tries to in-spire people to donate shoes or money to purchase shoes for children that have none.

This is the second year that Coach Phillips and Jones have gone barefoot in effort to help bring awareness.

The campaign encourages donations as little as ten dol-lars to help provide one pair of shoes for a child. There were many volunteers from NDSU and local churches in the area.

The Barefoot coaching movement began in Novem-ber of 2007 when a repre-sentative had asked a col-lege basketball coach to take his shoes and socks off to raise support for Samaritan’s Feet. Since then thousands of coaches have done the same to help in the efforts to bring children shoes.

According to the Samari-tan’s Feet website the organi-zation is “…a humanitarian aid organization that shares a message of hope and love through the distribution of new shoes to impoverished children around the world.”

Since 2003, Samaritan’s Feet has distributed nearly 4,500,000 pairs of shoes to impoverished children in more than 60 countries. Sa-maritan’s Feet Partners with businesses, community orga-nizations, schools and indi-viduals who want to make a difference and help those in need by leading awareness

campaigns, distributions and fundraising efforts.

Manny Ohonme, an NDSU graduate, founded Samaritan’s Feet with a goal to help children in countries around the world.

Ohonme grew up in Nige-ria. He came to the states to pursue a degree in computer science, and taking a job in a leading technology company, he decided to pursue efforts to bring children shoes all across the world.

“The misery and the pov-erty that I grew up in, God was going to turn that into my ministry,” Ohonme said. “To whom much is given much is required.”

Ohonme’s organization has been able to help over 10 million people in the world.

“[We get to tell them] that the God of the universe has a plan for them…” Ohonme said.

The organization sets out to wash the feet of the chil-dren about ready to receive the shoes and then places them on their feet.

“We don’t always allow our lives to be interrupted because we get so busy think-ing how can the world use me to change someone’s life?” Manny Ohonme said.

First International Bank and Trust West Bank of Fargo businessman Greg Mastrud also helped lead and support the event.

“The main goal we were trying to accomplish was to create awareness of the need of shoes and work of Samari-tan’s Purpose and to drive people to give a minimum of 10 dollars,” Sadie Rudolph, Flint Communications, said.

The game took place on Dec 9 at 4 p.m. at the Fargo-dome. NDSU played the rival game against UND with the final score of 72 -52.

For more in formation or to donate go to http://www.samaritansfeet.org.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing an end-of-the-month deadline, the Obama administration is calling gun owner groups, victims’ or-ganizations and representa-tives from the video-game industry to the White House this week for discussions on potential policy proposals for curbing gun violence.

President Barack Obama has ordered an administra-tion-wide task force to send him proposals by the end of January. The group, led by Vice President Joe Biden, was formed in response to last month’s horrific mas-sacre of 20 children and six adults at a Newtown, Conn. elementary school.

Biden will meet Wednes-day with gun violence vic-tims groups and gun safety organizations, a White House official said. On Thursday, he will hold talks with gun ownership groups, as well as advocates for sportsmen. The vice presi-dent also plans to meet this week with representatives from the entertainment and

video-game industries. The official was not au-thorized to discuss the meetings before they

were publicly announced and thus spoke on condition of anonymity.

Obama has called the Dec. 14 shooting in New-town the worst moment of his presidency. It catapulted gun control to the top of his priority list for the first time in his presidency and also led some pro-gun lawmak-ers on Capitol Hill to ex-press a willingness to con-sider new measures.

But less than a month af-ter the school shooting, gun control already has taken a backseat in Washington to economic issues. The presi-dent and lawmakers were consumed at year’s end by efforts to avert the combi-nation of spending cuts and tax hikes known as the “fis-cal cliff.” Congress will face another set of equally press-ing economic deadlines in March.

Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell, the top Repub-lican in the Senate, said the next round of fiscal dead-lines will occupy the atten-tion of Congress and push off the consideration of gun

legislation for at least three months.

“There will be plenty of time to take a look at their recommendations once they come forward,” McConnell said of Biden’s upcoming proposals during an inter-view Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

Obama aides say the president still plans to act quickly on Biden’s pro-posals. They worry that as the shock of the Newtown shooting fades, so too will the prospects that pro-gun lawmakers will work with the White House to tighten restrictions.

“I believe most Ameri-cans would disagree with the idea that in the wake of what happened in Newtown, Conn. that we should put off any action on the issue of gun violence,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday in response to Mc-Connell’s comments. “It’s certainly not a sentiment the president supports.”

Biden’s recommenda-tions are likely to include proposals for legislation, as well as executive action Obama can sign into law without lawmakers’ ap-proval.

The president already has called on Congress to reinstate a ban on military-style assault weapons, close loopholes that allow gun buyers to skirt background checks and restrict high-capacity magazines. While the president may consider additional gun control mea-sures, he also has ordered his administration to ex-amine ways to improve mental health coverage and consider cultural issues like violence in video games and movies.

Pro-gun lawmakers on Capitol Hill have said any comprehensive effort to respond to the Newtown shooting must include more than just tighter gun control.

In addition to Biden’s meetings this week, Educa-tion Secretary Arne Duncan will meet this week with parent and teacher groups, while Health and Human Services Secretary Kath-leen Sebelius will meet with mental health and disability advocates.

The White House said other meetings are also scheduled with commu-nity organizations, business owners and religious lead-ers.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administra-tion spent more money on immigration enforcement in the last fiscal year than all other federal law enforce-ment agencies combined, according to a report on the government’s enforcement efforts from a Washington think tank.

The report on Monday from the Migration Policy Institute, a non-partisan group focused on global immigration issues, said in the 2012 budget year that ended in September the government spent about $18 billion on immigration en-forcement programs run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the US-Visit program, and Customs and Border Protection, which includes the Border Patrol. Immigration enforcement topped the combined bud-gets of the FBI; Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; Drug En-forcement Administration and U.S. Secret Service by about $3.6 billion dollars, the report’s authors said.

Since then-President Ronald Reagan signed the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986 — which legalized more than 3 million illegal immigrants and overhauled immigration laws — the government has spent more than $187 billion on immigration enforce-ment. According to the re-

port, “Immigration En-forcement in the United States: The Rise of a Formidable Machin-

ery,” federal immigration-related criminal prosecu-tions also outnumber cases generated by the Justice De-partment.

The 182-page report concludes that the Obama administration has made immigration its highest law enforcement priority.

“Today, immigration en-forcement can be seen as the federal government’s high-est criminal law enforce-ment priority, judged on the basis of budget allocations, enforcement actions and case volumes,” MPI Senior Fellow Doris Meissner, a co-author of the report, said in a statement released with the report.

Critics are likely to bristle over its findings, es-pecially those who have ac-cused the administration of being soft on immigration violators.

“There has been some progress,” said House Homeland Security Com-mittee Chairman Michael McCaul of Texas. “But the bottom line is that we are far from having operational control of our borders, par-ticularly the Southwest bor-der, and there are no metrics to quantify progress.”

The report by MPI’s Meissner, Muzaffar Chishti, Donald Kerwin and Claire Bergeron comes amid re-newed interest in immigra-tion reform from Congress and the White House. In the immediate aftermath

of the November election, congressional Republicans suggested the time was right to begin reform talks anew. President Barack Obama, who won a record share of Hispanic voters, renewed a previous pledge to make im-migration reform a priority.

In the lead up to the elec-tion, Obama made several administrative changes to the immigration system, including launching a pro-gram to allow some young illegal immigrants to avoid deportation and work le-gally in the country for up to two years. His administra-tion also refocused enforce-ment efforts to target crimi-nal immigrants and those who posed a security threat. And just last week, the ad-ministration announced a rule change to allow some illegal immigrant spouses and children of U.S. citizens to stay in the country while they ask the government to waive either three or 10-year bans on returning to the United States. Immigrants who win the waiver will still need to leave the country to complete visa paperwork, but will be able to leave without fear of being barred from returning to their fami-lies for up to a decade. The rule, first proposed last year, goes into effect in March.

Republican lawmakers have widely criticized the policy changes, routinely describing them as “back-door amnesty.” Many of those same lawmakers have said the border needs to be secured before reform can be taken up.

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From NDSU’s Office of Institutional Research:

The Office of Institutional Research and Analysis will be administering the National Survey of Student Engage-ment (NSSE) to NDSU first-year and senior students start-ing the first week of February. Institutional Research has ad-ministered this widely-used survey six times since 2000 and considers it to be one of the most useful ways to gage students’ engagement and satisfaction with their college experience.

Over 1,000 first-year and senior students completed the survey in 2011, and NDSU has put their feedback to use in several important ways. The Council on Improv-ing Academic Advising was formed in 2011, and an Ad-vising Pedagogical Luncheon was held in early December, 2012; both are efforts to make academic advising as useful as possible based on feedback students provided by com-pleting the NSSE. In addi-tion, every college and major on campus receives results specific to their field and uses this information as an indica-tion of how they are doing. Dr. Kevin Brooks, chair of the Department of English, notes that NSSE results confirmed English majors are very satis-fied in several key areas and that seniors feel the English curriculum is relevant and applicable to life after col-lege. The English department is also using NSSE results as an indication that students are up for a challenge with both coursework and grading ex-pectations.

540 academic in-stitutions participated in the NSSE in 2012, and NDSU compares its results with comparable peer institutions to see how we rank. Results are made available to college deans, department chairs, fac-ulty, the provost, and students via report summaries, the In-stitutional Research website and in-person presentations by our office. The feedback provided on the NSSE allows students to have a direct im-pact on their college experi-ence.

Watch your NDSU email for an invitation to par-ticipate, and in appreciation for your effort, every partici-pant is entered into a drawing to win one of 50 Walmart $50 gift cards.

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ZAATARI, Jordan (AP) — Syrian refugees in a Jor-danian camp attacked aid workers with sticks and stones on Tuesday, frustrat-ed after cold, howling winds swept away their tents and torrential rains flooded mud-dy streets.

Police said seven Jor-danian aid workers were injured when they were at-tacked by dozens of refugees while distributing bread for breakfast.

The refugees may be about to face even deep-er misery with warnings of a major snowstorm on

Wednesday.“It is hell — boiling hot

in the summer and freezing cold now,” lamented Ahmed Zibi, 45, who said he spent the night watching over his five children when his tent collapsed. “Rain flooded the tent and its shafts submerged and collapsed on us.”

The riot broke out after the region’s first major win-ter storm this year hit the Zaatari refugee camp, home to nearly 50,000 refugees, at least half under the age of 18, in Jordan’s northern desert.

Ghazi Sarhan, spokes-man for the Jordan Hashem-ite Charitable Organization, said frustration over the harsh conditions triggered the riot. The charity runs the

camp along with the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR.

UNHCR says 597,240 refugees have registered or are awaiting registration with the agency in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Some countries have higher estimates, noting many have found accommo-dation without registering.

The World Food Pro-gram also said Tuesday it is unable to help 1 million Syr-ians who are going hungry inside Syria.

WFP spokeswoman Elisabeth Byrs said the agency plans to provide aid to 1.5 million of the 2.5 mil-lion Syrians that the Syrian Arab Red Crescent says are internally displaced. But the lack of security and the

agency’s inability to use the Syrian port of Tartous for its shipment means that a large number of people in the some of the country’s hardest hit areas will not get help, she said.

Fadi Suleiman, 30, said Zaatari camp conditions were “worse than living in Syria,” where rebels are fighting a civil war against authoritarian ruler Bashar Assad that has killed some 60,000 in nearly two years of fighting.

“It’s one misery after the other as the international community sits idle, doing nothing to help us get rid of the tyrant Assad,” he said. “But this one is dangerous: There’s a serious storm that could kill children and old

people.”The U.N. has regis-

tered 128,628 refugees in Jordan, but the Jordanian government says more than 280,000 Syrians have fled to the country since the upris-ing against Assad began in March 2011.

Zaatari has been the site of several previous violent refugee protests over harsh living conditions.

Imad al-Shummari, head of the al-Marj munici-pality, said authorities were helping the refugees rein-force their tents, providing alternative shelter and dis-tributing heaters and extra blankets.

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Coming back to school after a long break can be both exciting and challeng-ing. Some find motivations right away, while others need a little more of a push to get it in gear. Here a few tips that will help you ease into the semester.

1. Clean it upA clean and neat liv-

ing space is a good place to start. It will help you to know where all of your course ma-terials are, and will hopefully eliminate losing any impor-tant items that you may need to succeed in your classes. Also, if you like to study at home, rather than campus, an uncluttered space is much more appealing to sit and read about organic chemistry than a messy one.

2. Pencil it inA daily/weekly planner

can be a time-saver, as well as keep you on track. The start of your semester may not be busy at first, but as the later part of the school year approaches projects, papers and meetings often begin to pile up. A planner is an awesome tool that will help keep all your engagements straight, and helps to remind you of where you need to be and what you have due.

3. Make it routineJust as New Year’s resolu-

tions seem to fade and fizzle after about two weeks, so can your clean room or the habit

of using your planner. Get-ting into a routine can help prevent this from happening. If you can stick with your schedule and make time to do the little things—such as organizing your living space or writing down your assign-ments in your planner, you will find yourself experience a lot less stress.

4. Work it outCollege students are

busy people…people who have class schedules, work schedules, social schedules and meetings for student or-ganizations. Oftentimes, stu-dents forget the importance of physical fitness, and how it can benefit them. Not only is it good to stay in shape, but working out is a great stress reliever. If you get in the routine of going to the Well-ness Center on a regular ba-sis, it will help take the edge off when stress seems to be building up.

5. Make it positiveEveryone experiences

challenges throughout the semester. We all face road-blocks. But in the end, it’s important to remember that we learned something from our mistakes, mishaps or misfortunes. If you get a bad grade on a test or paper, take what you can from that situation and make it posi-tive. Looking at certain cir-cumstances from a positive standpoint will only benefit you in the long run.

Fort Meade: 2:03 p.m.Martin was in Fort Meade

before 2:00 p.m. He settled down in his office chair and logged on to his database. Accessing the central da-tabase built up from ECH-ELON records, NSA now had a record of every hu-man present in USA, legal or illegal. Most of these were undocumented immigrants with suspected terror links; some from Mexico and Co-lombia, most from Middle East. There were also a few undocumented immigrants who had made a good life and stayed off the DHS radar, but not the NSA of course.

These were the people who had no records, no criminal backgrounds and had been away from trouble generally. NSA called them “dormant trouble,” as most of these people had awak-ened their ideologies once they had made it big. Run-ning the name of Ed through the database, Martin’s com-puter gave him 124,000 hits.

He narrowed it down by country of origin and city of residences, and also checked the box that said “no criminal records.” He liked the results this time; 172 hits. He chose the ninth entry on the list, Eduardo Perez, son of Mari-cruz Caritina Gomez. Name of father unknown, except for the last name, country of origin unknown, suspected El Salvador. Bingo!

He picked up the secure phone and dialed his assets on the field.

Stuyvesant Town, NY 9:25 a.m. the next day

Eduardo left for his class-es as usual. He had only one class, Intellectual Property Rights, today and then it was off to work. Melissa left for her work and the house was locked.

The assets on the ground were Robert Lynd and Ruf-fiano Corleone. They were known as the “placers.” Their job was to implant evi-dence and disburse informa-tion to the right authorities. Robert was a novice, but he was learning fast. He was paired with the best, Ruf-fiano, who was a Navy Seal for four years before he was framed for the murder of his C.O. on the field.

This was an NSA tactic and “Ruff,” as his friends knew him, was well aware of it. He played along and when they offered him an offer he could not refuse, he bit it like a shark, however, with a little bit of drama.

They were in an un-marked Buick. The call had come last evening and they had packed their hardware and left Washington, reach-ing New York at 6:30 a.m. They had been parked in

front of the subject’s location for three hours now, behind a tree. It was cold but they could not keep the car run-ning. All those training days did not teach you to beat the weather; the life in the field did.

Ten minutes after the subject left, Ruffiano got off and followed him. One man needed to keep an eye on the subject while the implanta-tion was in progress. They knew Melissa’s routine was strict, so there was no need to have a spotter for her. Robert checked his list and picked the bag of evidence from his trunk. He kept his fake police badge, put on his long detec-tive’s jacket and snugged in his colt in his socks, just in case.

Ruffiano was following Ed at a good 150 meters, he was known as the shadow in the field. But Ed was not stupid. He noticed the shab-bily dressed man following him after 15 minutes of leav-ing the house. The man was inconspicuous and good, ex-cept for two occasions, when they were crossing the street. He saw him looking at him from the corner of his eye. He was late for class and did not want to play Sherlock Holmes, so he ignored him and reached his college.

Robert was quick in picking the lock. When he entered the house, he real-ized that this was actually a woman’s house, just like the information said. The walls were painted with pink tex-ture paints. Everything was neat and organized except for the bedroom.

He set down his bag and removed the finger print trac-er, dusting the bedside table for prints. After a while he found a decent set of prints on the drawer knob. He could tell this was Ed’s side of the bed because the bed was made on the other side; the lady had left earlier. But this side was still crumpled; Ed had left in a hurry.

This was Ed’s print, but he had to make sure. He ran the cellophane impression sheet on to the ST/Upek fin-gerprint scanner. It matched with the data that Eagle Nine had uploaded; Eagle Nine was Martin at the NSA HQ. Field assets did not have ac-cess to handler identities. The faces were never known and the voices were altered with digital modulation be-fore they heard it.

He picked up the Glock 18 that was similar to the one used for the murder of Mario Ramirez, the gunsmith from Flatbush Avenue. Robert placed the thumb print par-tially on to the left side of the grip. He needed at least two other prints of different fingers--the refrigerator was his next target. He obtained another print from the fridge and the toilet flush knob.

The flush knob was the

most difficult but the static charged graphite picked up the most recent print. The static charged graph-ite mixed well with fresh layer of graphite when this place would be dusted by the NYPD; after they had received the call form the anonymous informer about the murder on Flatbush Av-enue.

The gun was ready now. Robert wiped off the residue from his target locations and placed the gun in the flush

tank after draining it. He shut off the valve so that the tank would not fill up. He took one last look and

packed his bag, making sure nothing was out of place. He made his way to the car and made the call. “The seed has been sown, you may water it now.” Robert said. Martin did not reply, just hung up. It was time to call the “Rat.”

The “Rat” was Rueben Carter, an information spe-cialist. His job was to pass on the right, and sometimes the wrong, information to whoever was looking. Rue-ben, a high school dropout, was a computer genius and had hacked into the NSA da-tabases in 2009. Some say he was responsible for the leak about ECHELON and Room 641A to the media. The NSA moved quickly and con-tained the controversy, de-spite of the lawsuit by Elec-tronic Frontier Foundation. At least they saved the Bush administration from further embarrassment.

They tracked down Rue-ben to a small basement in Larimore, North Dakota. He was passing the information to FOX and CNN through secure email servers based in Warsaw, Poland. When confronted, he just walked with the officers and seeing his composure, they knew this was a guy worth hiring. They would never give him an inside job though; he was a dangerous and valuable as-set.

Rueben had helped the NSA contain the pictures and viral videos from Guan-tanamo Bay prisons and also helped in subduing the wikiLeaks controversy. To-day he had an important job. He always used his own equipment, most of which he bought off the Serbian black market. He used a Voice Dig-itizer bought from Amazon and made the call to the fifth precinct. Rueben knew the telephone numbers of every police precinct in New York.

“I have information on the Mario Ramirez murder in Flatbush Avenue,” he said. The desk officer, a pregnant female officer who had re-cently requested a desk job transfer during maternity, was ready with a notepad. “Who is calling?” she re-plied. She didn’t have much experience and it showed.

“Wrong question my lady!” Rueben was hissing into the phone. “He is an undocumented immigrant; Eduardo Perez from El Sal-vador, address is east 14th Street, Stuyvesant Town, 1403, apartment 16. The weapon is probably at the residence, the perpetrator is still unaware,” he said and hung up without a warning.

The female officer quick-ly reported to her superiors and got down to tracing the call. Needless to say, the call was made through a comput-er ISP based in Finland. The detective on duty sent out a team immediately.

And that’s another Bi-son… National Champion-ship! Back-to-back!

What an exciting week and season it has been for the NDSU football program. With the win against Same Houston State last week-end, the Bison football team

secured another national championship title—we did it folks! It’s difficult to ex-press the excitement, not only in Texas, but also across the country, after the big win last Saturday.

And just as the Bison community did last January, we will continue to relish in the successes that our green and gold squad achieved dur-ing the 2012 season. Most will hold on tightly to their bragging rights up until the start of the 2013 FCS football season, while others will slip back into the habit of forget-ting to where the green and gold on Bison Pride Fridays.

It is more important now than ever that BisoNation continues to show its sup-port of NDSU, and not forget what it means to have Bison pride—simply because an-other exciting football season has come to a close.

Students, alumni and fans have always been and were definitely a huge factor in the winning season the football team had, as the “12th man.” It’s important to remember and recognize that you can be the “12th man” for other groups at NDSU throughout the year as well.

We have an entire semes-ter left of this academic year to show support to not only the winter and spring athletic teams—basketball, baseball, golf, softball, track and field and wrestling, but to also show support to other organi-zations and groups within the NDSU community.

Check out the upcoming spring play, go to a presenta-tion that is being given by a new organization or if noth-ing else where your green and gold on Bison Pride Fri-day. Whatever way that you choose to show support, do it with Bison pride.

We have so much to be proud of here at NDSU, whether it is our academic programs, athletic program or organizations around cam-pus. Do not let your pride for the green and gold fizzle out with the end of the football season.

Being a Bison is not about just showing your pride dur-ing four quarters every Satur-day during the fall—no, be-ing a Bison is a lifestyle.

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“It’s important to remember and rec-ognize that you can be the ‘12th man’ for other groups at NDSU throughout the year as well.” –Stephanie Stanislao

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Winter is here and we’re back in business for your instant beauty guides. This season’s weather is full of snow and gloomy days, but it will be easy to stand out in this month’s trend: stripes.

Stripes have been around for a couple of seasons, but this time they are more apparent than ever. However, the best thing about the trend is that you can pair it with anything brown, khaki or gray—colors that already are in your closet.

Still need more help? Here are three easy stripes outfits to feature for your next day in class.

Classic brownThose of you who are

against black and brown combinations you have met your doom because these two colors go great with stripes. Match your stripe top with black jeans, a brown belt and brown boots.

Ladies: Add a black bag and a black pearl necklace.

Gentlemen: Add a black leather jacket.

Keeping it khaki

When you think of khaki this season think of keeping it classy. For men, khaki normally is a great alternative to the typical dress pants. Add-ing stripes only brings the look to a modern style, yet keeps a classy look.

Ladies: Match your striped top with a khaki blazer and black dress pants. Add a long gold necklace and khaki heels.

Gentlemen: Match your striped top with khaki pants and a black blazer. Add black boots.

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great to use as a neutral tone while still keeping its darker roots.

Ladies: Match a black dress with a striped gray jacket. Add black floral tights and black combat boots.

Gentlemen: Match black jeans with a gray t-shirt. Add the open striped top to your outfit and black boots.

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What happens when two award-winning science fic-tion authors collaborate to-gether on a book? A work of hard science fiction, like the novel, Bowl of Heav-en, is born! This novel is a new collaborative work by Gregory Benford (a Nebula-Award winning author and astrophysicist at the Univer-sity of California in Irvin) and Larry Niven (author of the Ringworld series, which has won Hugo, Locus, Dit-mar and Nebula awards). It combines an intense plot and wonderful storytelling with big scientific ideas and theories, resulting in more than just an average science fiction novel; however, for some avid fans of the hard-science genre, it may disap-

point.Bowl of Heaven tells the

story of a group of scientists who set off on the ship Sun-seeker for a distant world called Glory. It is set in the future, a few hundred years past the present, where hu-mans have nearly destroyed Earth with pollution and are looking for new habit-able worlds. Glory provides promise in this regard, so they train a crew of scien-tists, engineers and officers to travel there and explore it. After being put into sleep for the centuries-long voy-age, biologist Cliff Kam-mash is suddenly awoken prematurely because of two problems: one, the ship is losing speed; and two, they have discovered something impossible on their way—a massive, bowl-shaped ship propelled by a small star. That’s not all, either-- the ship is heading the same way

as them.Cliff, his girlfriend Beth

and the crew aboard Sun-seeker are then faced with a high-gravity decision. Do they keep going forward even though they are losing speed and resources, or do they visit this strange world in hopes of help?

It is an epic story of survival, wisdom and ex-ploration, not only into the unknown cup-world, but into what it means to be hu-man. The crew is split up, faced with ideas that seem impossible, and they end up impressing not only them-selves, but the strange crea-tures called Astronomers that control the Bowl who are hunting them down. As they travel across the huge lands inside the bowl, both Cliff and Beth’s teams en-counter mysteries they could never dream of, build bonds and lose friends.

It has received much criticism from the scientific world, with complaints rang-ing from its lack of real sci-ence to its abundance of ac-tion. Readers on goodreads.com, where it received a rat-ing of three point one-six out of five, had the consistent complaint that it resembles too keenly Niven’s earlier series Ringworld. Some fans of the authors said that it suf-fers in comparison to their earlier works; this is my first book from either of them, so perhaps my judgment is skewed.

For casual readers, Bowl of Heaven is filled with cre-ative, mind-flexing ideas. If you are interested in starting out with hard science fiction, this would be a great start. Get ready for a huge cliff-hanger, though, and prepare for the sequel, Shipstar, which will come out some time in the near future.

The Amazing Spider-Man #700 marks the end of Marvel’s flagship series and the beginning of its replace-ment, The Superior Spider-Man.

Reviewing this issue properly without talking about the ending is would be impossible, and if you have been keeping up with ASM before now you have likely already guessed what hap-pens. That being said, if you haven’t caught up with the Dan Slott’s latest arc for the webhead and just can’t stand to have it spoiled, you had best stop reading now and come back later. You have been warned.

Before getting into the story, however, I’d like to make special mention of French artist Mr. Garcin’s collage cover. It’s just the sort of once-usable piece that should be used to mark such a momentous event in comics, and the fact that it was actually picked out of the wild by the creative team and not made especially for the issue lends some neces-sary heart to the whole en-deavor.

Unfortunately, little of that heartfelt feeling trans-lates into saying goodbye to Peter Parker. Yes, if you hadn’t figured it out already, ASM #700 marks the death of Marvel’s favorite son. The great reveal at the end of the issue is that Doc Ock’s plot to swap bodies with the hero and take over his life actual-ly succeeds. Peter sacrifices himself and Ock’s fragile, dying body in a last-minute bid to stop the villain. Ul-

timately, the real Spidey is unable to kill the madman. However, he does manage to transfer his memories and morals into the psychotic killer’s psyche before dy-ing within his swapped-out body. Otto, with his appar-ently newfound empathy for the human race (though still with his characteristic arro-gance and poor social skills) vows to take Peter’s place and become the new, “supe-rior” Spider-Man in Peter’s stead.

The problem is that it’s all incredibly rushed. Slott squanders the extra-large is-sue playing “what if” games with the two foils. What if Spider-Man had access to Doc Ock’s arsenal? What if Octavius knew the identi-ties of Peter’s friends and family? These are questions that could have been an-swered in any old issue, and detract from valuable time that should have been spent reflecting on the characters and saying goodbye. As it stands, the issue is so “nor-mal” and so rushed that it is hard to suspend one’s disbe-lief for even a moment and actually buy that this is the last of the Peter Parker we all know and love.

Putting the primary story to one side for a moment, the book does boast some truly superior side-stories in the form of “Spider Dreams” and “Date Night.”

“Spider Dreams” is a sur-real, possibly unreliable tale of an alternate universe’s Spider-Man that’s long past his prime. It’s wistful, poi-gnant and in many ways feels like it could have been

a great way to close the book on Spider-Man alto-gether with a few canonical changes. It’s definitely no “Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow,” but it’s in that ballpark.

“Date Night” is, on the other hand, and for lack of any other more appropriate word, adorable. It feels a bit out of place, but a little levity is always a welcome addition to the often-over-wrought world of comics.

Finally, the book closes out with some old-school Stan-swers – a questions and answers segment penned by none other than Spider-Man co-creator Stan Lee himself. It’s always fun to see Lee in such a nostalgic capacity, and it’s especially amusing to see that even he doesn’t believe that his character is dead forever. If ASM #700 was meant as a way of say-ing goodbye to Stan Lee in-stead of his creation, I would say they succeeded.

Of course, no one ever actually expected Peter to stay gone for long (this is hardly the first time another character has taken up the Spider-Man mantel, though it has been some time), but the real trick to a good comic book story is making the readers believe that this time, just this once, maybe it really is all for keeps.

That doesn’t happen here. What we get instead is what feels like a solid, well-drawn and completely normal Spider-Man story. As the final chapter in a decades-long saga, this issue had to be more than that. It had to be amazing.

Now at least we can all look forward to the real Spi-der-Man’s inevitable return in 12 issues or so.

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Of Verona makes a strong showing in their first full album, “The White Apple.” The futuristic rock group delivers beautiful vo-cals backed up with a driv-ing beat and fantastic guitar work, all working together to deliver an excellent lis-tening experience.

The infectious melodies and haunting vocals of this Los Angeles-based group have been making waves in indie circles since 2011, when the group released the “Fall Like Roses” EP to extremely positive reviews. Several publications listed them as bands to watch af-ter its release, including in-dustry giants such as Hits Magazine and MTV.

The album features some impressive range, with tracks that jump from soulful piano accompani-ments to textbook Alterna-tive, to “Centipede,” a track that almost sounds like a dubstep recording with pop vocals. Astoundingly, every song flows into the next, in large part due to the con-tinued presence of Perkins’ mesmerizing vocal talent, which has been compared to the work of other strong female leads like Florence Welch of Florence & The Machine. These vocals are the cornerstone of every song on the album, and are,

in my opinion, the most ex-ceptional thing about the group as a whole.

Many of the songs fea-tured in “The White Apple” were taken directly from the band’s original EP, with only half of the album being fresh content. This is not a knock against the album’s quality, however, as the old music stands toe-to-toe with the new. The EP did not see a wide commercial release, and was primarily made available via free down-loads in order to increase publicity for the group.

Overall, “The White Ap-ple” delivers a pleasant lis-tening experience for those who enjoy fast-paced pop and indie rock. The vocals are the crown jewel of this album, with the instrumen-

tals providing a solid beat throughout. “Castles,” track one, features a sound that is more or less indicative of the rest of the album, so I would start there if you’re debating picking this one up. If you aren’t hooked by “Castles,” try track four, entitled “Take Me,” which stays a little closer to the present with its intense al-ternative guitar riffs.

This is a futuristic indie rock album with extraordi-nary vocal performances.

I give “The White Ap-ple” by Of Verona an eight out of 10.

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The New Year was made just a little brighter as FMCT’s Children’s Studio Theatre put on “The New Year’s Musical Revue” re-cently at The Stage at Island Park. Adults and adolescents came together for a truly en-tertaining production that united a cast of diverse de-mographics, and set the bar high for an amazing year of performances at The Stage.

Over thirty of the theatre’s most well-known musicals were brought to life on stage by the performers, a cast that went above and beyond ex-pectations. One performance was example of just this.

“Consider Yourself from ‘Oliver!’” was a song that brought together children of all ages, and put two little stars right in the spotlight. The boys who led their con-temporaries in the revue’s seventh song of the night could not have been more than five years old, and their performance defied expec-tations. With such a large amount of little children on stage, it was surprising that

none of them mucked up the musical number, but they pulled it off, sure enough.

Another group can also lay claim to one of the night’s most memorable numbers. “With Catlike Tread” from “The Pirates of Penzance” was pure delight. The men and boys behind it were clearly an audience favor-ite by the end, and between the dancing, acrobatics and hilarious chorus, it was hard to know what the audience loved the best.

Other performances also met well with audience re-actions. “Poor Unfortunate Souls” from “Little Mer-maid” was a familiar favor-ite for the Disney lovers in the house, and “Stepsisters’ Lament” from “Cinderella” was as rowdy as it was rip-roaringly fun. “The Addams Familys’” “Pulled” was sa-distically sweet with the confessions of an adolescent Wednesday combined with a background human voodoo doll.

Many of the night’s num-bers dazzled and delighted the adoring audience. A small number of songs fell short of their potential to be real shin-ers, however. “Let’s Hear It For the Boy” of “Footloose” fame opened the second act,

and seemed to be running on low power the whole time. The performers (all females) seemed afraid to kick it up a notch, and the performance could have been a lot more stellar if a little excitement was injected into the second act’s first song.

Just a couple numbers went up like cheap bottle rockets, however. The ma-jority of the show was a theatrical fireworks show. It was enjoyable to watch, and a wonderful way to spend a Friday night. Besides see-ing many familiar musical numbers performed onstage, it was nice to know that the youth of our community had put in the time and effort to make such a great show.

FMCT’s Children’s Stu-dio Theatre certainly got a great head start on the 2013 theatre season in the F-M Area. With many shows ap-pearing at The Stage in the coming months, “The New Year’s Musical Revue” will be memorable for being the remarkable match that lit off the start of the season.

“The New Year’s Musical Revue” was presented by the FMCT’s Children’s Studio Theatre from Jan. 4 to 6 at The Stage at Island Park.

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Steve Bug is no stranger to success, and his new al-bum “Noir” shows exactly why that’s the case. Com-posed by the German DJ/producer over the course of three years, Steve Bug’s fifth offering features a much darker tone than many of his previous works, and embraces the melancholy aesthetic of the Film Noir genre. Many of his song ti-tles feature direct references to such films, notably among them “The Spiral Staircase,” “Somewhere in the Night,” and the relatively obscure “The Seventh Victim.”

The dark tone of the al-bum is realized through the use of echoing synth chords, playing over a driving bass line. The combination of the urban beat with the surreal-ity of the chords evokes a darkened metropolis, and the secrets hidden within. While the album takes on jazz influences in some tracks and a club electro style in others, the result al-ways sounds like the beating heart of a thriving city.

This album represents something of a departure from his previous works, as it forms more of a unified whole. Many of Steve’s pre-vious albums have had no underlying theme associated with them. While ‘Noir’ be-gan as a pure genre album, a more electronic sound began to emerge over the course of production, and ended up working to its benefit.

Steve Bug specially de-signed “Noir” to be played from start to finish, only featuring a few tracks you would call “dance” music.

“If I had worked longer

on the album, I probably would have replaced even more of the dance tracks with listening tracks,” says Steve on the album’s web-site. “I think a lot of albums in dance music are not con-vincing as albums – more a collection of tracks than a coherent whole.”

This feeling comes through exceptionally clear-ly, as each song sports at least some of the core fea-tures of the album.

Backing Steve Bug up are a few exceptional sup-porting artists. In track four, entitled “No Adjustments,” Johnny Dangerous, “The Foremost Poet,” brings a strong spoken word per-formance backed only by the vibrations of the bass, giving the track a very dis-tinct sound. In track six, “Moment of Ease,” up-and-coming vocalist Emilie Chick delivers a sultry per-formance accompanied by jazz piano chords, lending the track a brighter melody reminiscent of the Las Vegas strip.

Overall, “Noir” is an exceptional musical experi-

ence for those seeking a less frantic alternative to mod-ern club music. I personally recommend tracks two, five, and seven, but for the full-est experience, listen to the album in one sitting. Despite being nearly two hours in length, “Noir” doesn’t over-stay its welcome, and makes every moment worthwhile. If you appreciate the elec-tronic music genre in any ca-pacity, this album definitely deserves your attention.

From the first swirling synth note to the final beat of the bass, this album de-livers.

I give “Noir” by Steve Bug a nine out of 10.

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Well, after an as always, altogether-too-short break, it’s back to the grindstone for me, you and the rest of cam-pus. Back to the books, class-es, study sessions, friends and instructors that so enrich our lives during these precious few years we have in college.

I always appreciate the be-ginning of a new semester. By the time first semester winds down, I have become bored with my classes – even those that I enjoy very much have become stale, even repetitive, and begin to draw down my enthusiasm for school.

With a new semester comes new classes, new teachers to learn from, new classmates to meet, new chal-lenges to overcome. Riding the enthusiasm of last semes-ter’s successes and learning from its shortcomings, we dive headlong into our stud-ies, inching (or, sometimes, racing) towards our future.

For some, this will be only your second semester in col-lege. You’ve got one solid half-year under your belt al-ready, and hopefully you’re ready to keep on keepin’ on into the new year – getting ready to check off a fresh set of classes from what seems like an eternity of courses standing between you and graduation. Though it seems as though the road ahead of you is long, believe me when I say that time is deceiving – the horizon of graduation will be at your feet before you know it.

Those of my fellow veter-ans out there currently enter-ing their final semester will be nodding their head know-ingly at that. Myself, as a part of a five-year program, I am fortunate enough to be facing three more semesters, and not just one.

Though I am sure every-one has a different feeling about the matter, four years definitely isn’t enough time spent in school for me. Some of you, no doubt, are itching to walk – or sprint, as is more likely the case – across the stage this May. And as happy as I am for you, in no way do I envy you!

No, I’m hoping that just one more year’s worth of school will have me prepared to move on into the real world and begin conquering an en-tirely new set of challenges. But to those of you who feel ready now, I do wish you all the best in your final semes-ter!

I suppose that as this se-mester wears on, it will play out much like all the rest. It will have its upsides and downsides alike; its success-es and failures. One way or the next, we will all emerge in May having survived the stresses and rigors we are about to face; and hopefully, we will be a little wiser for the wear.

I wish you all the great-est success these next few months!

Nathan is a senior major-ing in landscape architec-ture. Follow him on twitter @nwstotts.

For those of you read-ing this that will be new to NDSU, a very large wel-come is in order! It will be an adventure in more ways than you can EVER imag-ine. Be prepared, tighten your seatbelts, slap on that Bison gear and take it on like the Bison you are, and the Bison you forever will be. For those coming back, of course a welcome is in or-der, but a welcome back to a second home and second family!

It has been one crazy Christmas break ladies and gentlemen! This first article will be a light hearted one as the break has proved its worth, with family, friends, no homework, no deadlines, the space and time to re-motely breathe and, let me not forget, the love of the Bison Nation! It is a new semester, a fresh start for some and a dreadful start for others. During the last few months I have been debat-ing on taking a year off of school, but thanks to some passionate caring friends I have decided to stick around this blustering, elevation-deprived state until my brain cells are pounded with cred-its and information.

Over the break, work ab-sorbed a lot of my free time

before the holidays, and I am sure many of you have experienced just the same. I went home to a warm fam-ily, a full meal without Ra-men, loving friends, insane-ly ecstatic dogs and a niece I have missed very dearly. I hope most of you that went home took away the love of a familiarity and the sense of home you left for your next adventures in the book you are writing of life on both worn and new pages.

As I type this article I have come to many conclu-sions aside from the obvi-ous reality that I have been slacking in checking my e-mail inbox. But beyond that, all the great memories made this break, the most I will take away from it is our Bi-son winning another cham-pionship and being there to experience it in the stands in Texas! I cannot get over the excitement, the thrill and the love felt beaming out of those stands as the Bi-son made Texas their nation once again, and did it with so much pride and stride I could not wipe the grins and smiles off my face even with the grittiest, nastiest, cruel-est piece of sandpaper.

Without much further ado and an end to this de-layed article, welcome to NDSU, freshmen! Welcome back sophomores, juniors, seniors and to those who decided to take a break and come back stronger than ever! It’s going to be a great semester. I wish you all the best of luck and much love from this Minnesota girl and I look forward to seeing you all around this semester!

Suzy is a junior majoring in journalism.

Well folks, after arriving safely back in Fargo after my second trip to Dallas in two years to watch our Bison football team win a National Championship, I can say it is good to be home. Not be-cause I have any great love for Fargo, but mostly be-cause spending 32 hours this weekend crammed into a Pontiac with four of my best friends is far too long a time spent in such close quarters.

Yet, in the end, it was all worth it to be present at the biggest and one of the most exciting Bison foot-ball games this season. My friends and I were some of the lucky few – we were able to snag a set of student tick-ets to the game. I can tell you that the stress leading up to our confirmation email was far worse than the stress of trying to access the crashed ticketing system on home-coming – and the elation at getting tickets was equally as intense.

I was incredibly dis-appointed to find out that NDSU was only allotting 400 tickets to students for the

game. Though the intentions here are understandable, I still have to question the pri-oritization used here. First and foremost, this is a colle-giate athletic event, with col-lege students competing on the field, cheered on by their peers in the stands.

The more peers the team has in the stands, the stron-ger the connection between the team, the crowd and stu-dent fans are much easier related to than alumni. With a strong connection between crowd and team, the energy level at each game is ampli-fied – one of the most fore-boding characteristics other teams face when travelling to the Fargodome.

Moving on from this, though, I am sure everyone was as excited as I was to see Bison fans outnumber-ing their SHSU counter-parts nearly two-to-one in the stands. And considering the price of tickets in the last weeks leading up to the game, the scarcity of stu-dent tickets and the immense pride we all share, I have no doubt that we could have sold out that stadium single-handedly – that stadium, 16 hours and over 1,000 miles away.

With two back-to-back National Championships, our head coach signed to an eight-year contract, and

a constant stream of talent moving through the program, Bison Football is poised for FCS dominance into the near future. With only two losses in the last two seasons, one playoff loss in the last three, and victories over schools such as Minnesota, Kansas and Colorado State, it cer-tainly will have some people wondering: could NDSU be successful in the FBS?

Though nobody can be certain as to how any one team will fare when moving from the FCS to the FBS, one can trace the histories of similar programs over the past few years. But it is important to remember that the move from FCS to FBS is not only about success; it also involves increased expenses, a required invite from an FBS conference, and a sustained attendance requirement.

Though NDSU is a re-cent entrant into the FCS, it would seem that it is poised to rocket itself into the big leagues of college football. Stay tuned to the opinion section, as I will be breaking down the move from FCS to FBS in Monday’s issue.

Nathan is a senior ma-joring in landscape architec-ture. Follow him on twitter @nwstottler.

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OpinionNathan StottlerOpinion EditorPhone: 701.231.6287 | Email: opinion@ndsuspectrum.com

To the Editor:As a student of Computer

Engineering here at NDSU, I have found a small pleasure in sitting on the second floor of the Electrical and Com-puter Engineering building (ECE) on late afternoons when the light of the sun is coming through the win-dows. In one of those times in which I was enjoying the spectacle of life and smiling at my luck of just being part of it, I suddenly realized how small the female presence is.

It is true that over the last few decades there have been many attempts to ex-plain this phenomenon, but what surprises me most is that people don’t realize that besides diversity, there are intellectual benefits women can bring to their male class-mates or coworkers such as an increase in creativity and the improvement of both decision-making processes and the ideal environment for teamwork.

As the president of the National Academy of Engi-neering, William W. Wulf states “engineering is a very creative profession [and] without diversity we limit the set of life experiences that are applied, and as a re-sult we pay an opportunity cost – a cost in products not built, in designs not consid-ered, in constraints not un-derstood, and in processes not invented.” Biologically,

the brains of women tend to be wired slightly different than their male counterparts. Consequently, they can have a different interpretation of their surroundings which is fundamental to boost cre-ativity.

I asked one of my profes-sors on the ECE building – Dr. Samee U. Khan – what are the benefits of increas-ing the number of female students in the majors of Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering and he stated that, “women are more patient by nature and men are not very patient when making a decision.” In other words, the participa-tion of women can improve the process of decision-mak-ing inside a team.

Proportion and numbers can be an obstacle to notice female achievements and contributions. Let us take a hypothetical scenario: sup-pose that there are a thou-sand male students pursu-ing some engineering major and that only one percent of them – that is 10 students – would be able to significant-ly contribute with new ideas or innovations. Now, if this same ratio of bright people exist among female students but their total population in the same engineering ma-jor only tops 100 women – 10 percent of the student population - there will be only one female for every

10 men who, in the foresee-able future, will make a sig-nificant contribution. Given this numbers it is easy to see how female contributions may seem negligible.

This example is in fact astonishingly close to real-ity. Here at NDSU, accord-ing to the office of the ECE building, as of the fourth week of fall 2012, there were 474 students in total pursu-ing an Electrical or Com-puter Engineering degree. Among those 474 students, 12 are female graduate stu-dents and 40 are female un-dergraduate students. This means that the population of women represents only about 11 percent.

My point is not a claim made while waving a femi-nist flag in mid-air. It is rath-er a call to consider women as clever beings and to re-ally appreciate their intel-lectual contributions in the fields of engineering. I am totally convinced that when we have more women in the ECE building, we will be more creative, knowledge-able, united and able to make more astonishing discover-ies. And this one definitely is a flag that I’d be more than happy to wave. Won’t you wave it with me?

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Men’s BasketballSince the end of finals

week, the NDSU men’s bas-ketball team won all five of their games, three of them being against conference op-ponents. The Bison started the holiday break strong on December 15 in Towson, Maryland. Coming off the bench, Mike Felt’s 16 points and four rebounds gave the Bison the spark they needed in the second half. The Bi-son outscored Towson 37-23 in that half to get the con-vincing 65-48 win.

On December 21, NSDU proved to Bison fans that it wasn’t the end of the world against Moorhead State at the Bison Sports Center. Starting forward Marshall Bjorklund gave the Bison 20 points and nine rebounds while going 100 percent from the field. Guard Taylor Braun also contributed 19 points and seven rebounds to help give NDSU the 69-49 win over MSU.

Next on the schedule, the Bison played the South Da-kota State Jackrabbits at the BSA in a Summit League matchup. Bjorklund, Felt

and Lawrence Alexander combined for 49 points and led NDSU to the 65-63 win over SDSU. This win ex-tended the Bison’s home win streak to six games.

Then the Bison went to Vermillion, South Dakota to play the University of South Dakota, another con-ference rival, on January 3. Bjorklund scored 23 points while bringing down eight rebounds and was a big part of the 52-26 first half. NDSU held onto their lead in the second half to get the 92-66 Summit League win.

Two days later, the Bi-son went to Missouri to play Kansas City in another Sum-mit League game. Forward TrayVonn Wright scored 17 points and got 10 rebounds for a double-double that helped NDSU in a 63-44 win. This capped off the Bison’s undefeated holiday break, giving them a total re-cord of 13-3. The Bison will play their Summit League ri-val Fort Wayne today at the BSA.

Women’s BasketballNDSU’s women’s bas-

ketball team had a tougher time during the break, going 2-4 to give the team a 5-10 record. The Bison’s first game during the break was

against Creighton in Omaha, Nebraska on December 16. Creighton’s defense held the Bison from having a double-digit scorer, giving them an upper hand in NDSU’s 42-63 loss.

On December 18, the Bi-son went to Green Bay, Wis-consin for their second game during the break. Despite Katie Birkel’s 12 points and four rebounds, NDSU couldn’t slow down Green Bay’s offense, which led to their 37-72 loss.

The Bison got them-selves going in the first game at home during the break against Milwaukee on December 23. Berkel, Dani DeGagne and Jamie Van Kerk combined for 45 points to help give the Bison a con-vincing 60-48 win.

One week later, the Bi-son went to Brookings, South Dakota to play South Dakota State in a Summit League contest. DeGagne, Birkel and Holly Johnson all scored 11 points each, but it wasn’t enough to take down SDSU. The Bison were handed their first conference loss, 57-76.

On January 3, the Uni-versity of South Dakota’s team went to the BSA to play NDSU for the Bison’s second conference game.

DeGagne scored 17 points and Van Kerk chipped in 14 points, but the Bison fell short on their home court 52-73.

For the last game during the holiday break, Kansas City came to the BSA to play NDSU in yet another confer-ence game. It was largely a team effort for the Bison, as four NDSU players scored in double digits. This helped lift them over their Summit League rival to get the 59-48 win. The women’s team will also play Fort Wayne today at the BSA.

WrestlingNDSU had only their

dual against Iowa State on December 16 during the hol-iday break. The Bison got wins from No. 4 Trent Sp-renkle, Josh Rodriguez, Joe Garner and Steven Monk, but fell short to ISU 22-18. A few days later, the Bison went to Evanston, Illinois for the Midlands Champion-ships on December 29 and 30. Sprenkle and Monk both finished in the top five in their divisions to help get the Bison a ninth place finish as a team out of 34 teams. The Bison are now 2-4 and have the Virginia Duals in Hamp-ton, Virginia on January 11 and 12 next on the schedule.

Wow, what a weekend.There’s a typical state-

ment from an NDSU college student but this last weekend was a little different. Thou-sands upon thousands of Bi-son fans were making that statement in Texas. And what a weekend it was.

The NDSU football team captured their second straight FCS national championship in convincing fashion with a 39-13 win over Sam Houston State. The Bison proved they are, without a doubt, the top team in their division. They weren’t the only ones who proved something. Bison fans showed once again that they might be the best fans in all of college sports.

Last year, the green and gold took Frisco by storm. Mayor Maher Maso and the NCAA were both shocked and impressed by the amount of northerners that traveled over a thousand miles to sup-port their team. Bison fans showed up in packs, drank the town dry and turned FC Dallas Stadium into a home game.

This year, Frisco was pre-pared. Yet, I think the town was still overwhelmed. Why? Because thousands more fans joined last year’s Herd. Yes, literally everywhere you looked, whether it was in Frisco or on the drive down, you could see at least one Bi-son fan.

It was about the coolest thing I have ever seen.

By now, the reputation of Bison fans is something ev-eryone knows about. Every-one knows these fans travel well, tailgate hard and sup-port their team with undying passion. But this year in Fris-co, it was turned up a notch.

Every single Bison event down there was packed with fans. I mean, the day-before walkthrough saw fans sur-round the field just to watch the players jog around in their helmets in jerseys.

The pep rally that night may go down as a legend in Frisco. The rally was moved to Dr. Pepper Ballpark be-cause of the thousands of fans

planning to attend. Officials planned to shut the doors af-ter 8,500 people, but there were easily 10,000 Bison fans there.

Can any team, even a BCS team, get that many fans to come to a simple pep rally?

“People have been tell-ing me everything is bigger in Texas,” Maso said at the rally. “But I’m not so sure anymore.”

The place was rocking. And the fact that the Embassy Hotel that housed the Sam Houston State players rose above the stadium just one block down brought the noise level even higher. It is very likely that some Bearkat play-ers were peering through their windows to watch the festivi-ties take place. And when a surprising display of green fireworks went off, shades in the windows could be seen closing.

And then, it was gameday. I’ve never seen tailgat-

ing packed with that much energy. At one point, I saw about 12 people dancing on top of an RV. It was looking more like We Fest for a little bit there.

Rumors and speculations on the amount of Bison fans that would be inside the sta-dium turned out to be true when 70 percent of the crowd was green and gold. With that amount of support, it is hard to lose a football game. The Bison players agreed.

“Having all of our fans down here was a big help for us,” junior tackle Billy Turner said. “Just to get the mo-mentum from the crowd and transition that into our play-ing was obviously a big deal for us. And with all the guys coming down here from up north, it really just benefitted us more than anything.”

Last year, the champion-ship ceremony had fans fill the field from the 50-yard line. The entire field was nearly full this year. It sure was a sight to see.

Junior receiver Ryan Smith summed it up when he said, “I think we have the best crowd in America, personally, because they’re crazy.”

If this team of talented un-derclassmen returns to Frisco next year, the fans may go from crazy to absolutely in-sane.

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The Bison football pro-gram captured their tenth national title and second FCS title in as many years last Saturday. As usual, the road to Frisco was long and bumpy, but that didn’t stop the Herd from going back-to-back for the first time since the legendary run in 1985 and 1986.

A championship sea-son was nowhere near as improbable as the Vikings making the playoffs, but it wasn’t guaranteed like Tony Romo choking in late De-cember. Each season has its own story. In the beginning of the year, expectations were high and the skill level and experience of the team were put into question. After a post-homecoming hang-over loss to Indiana State and a couple nail biters later, the Bison didn’t look like a team ready to be crowned champs once again.

The Bison had one aspect

that was never questioned throughout the year—their terrorizing defense; The same defense I was skepti-cal of in the beginning of the year. Needless to say, they shut me up quickly.

What was more impres-sive than all the ridiculous stats and accolades the de-fense accumulated during the season was how they went about it. Before kick-ing off the season, they lost the little depth they had at linebacker when Brendon Jemison was dismissed from the team with a wardrobe malfunction.

Then the woes contin-ued when the Bison trav-eled to Fort Collins to play their lone FBS opponent, Colorado State. After only letting up one big play on the first drive, the Bison de-fense pitched a near perfect game. Everything was going smoothly until Colton Hea-gle bent his knee the wrong way in the third quarter that ended up sidelining him for the rest of the season. The Bison couldn’t catch a break.

Another important note from Colorado was the emer-

gence of the senior transfer from Northern Iowa, Andre Martin Jr. After a sub-par opening game performance and a blown assignment against the Rams, Brendin Pierre was replaced by Mar-tin to play the corner oppo-site of all-American Marcus Williams. When Martin en-tered the starting lineup, he was thrown at constantly. It wasn’t because of his lack of coverage skills; it was sim-ply because no one wanted to throw to Williams’ side because when they did, more often than not, he would make them pay.

After the birth of his first child, Martin went out against his former team in Iowa and played his best game of the year up to that point. Martin made five tack-les, including one behind the line of scrimmage against his old teammates. Things finally came full circle as he recorded his first intercep-tion of the season against Sam Houston State in the biggest game of his life.

With the emergence of players like Martin and Grant Olson, the defense

definitely relieved the pres-sure on the Bison offense. Putting the defense in posi-tion to win the game was a reoccurring theme through-out the year, and was really THE story of the year. Not a bad strategy when your de-fense only allows 234 yards a game and 21 touchdowns in 15 games. To put in per-spective how good this de-fense was, even Craig Bohl crowned them the best de-fense he has ever coached in a press conference earlier this season.

You know what the scary part about this defense is? Nine of the 11 starters from the championship game will be back next season. Add Heagle back in the second-ary and the Bison look more than poised to make a third consecutive run at a Nation-al Championship.

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The NDSU football team came into the 2012 season off the heels of a FCS na-tional championship, yet the Bison were ranked No. 2 behind Sam Houston State in the majority of the pre-season polls.

In a rematch of last year’s title game, the Bison proved they are the top team once again, thrashing the Bear-kats 39-13 to win their sec-ond straight national cham-pionship in front of 21,411 fans Saturday. NDSU beat Sam Houston State 17-6 last year.

“This was an extremely competitive game,” NDSU head coach Craig Bohl said. “We knew it was going to be. Quite frankly, I was a little bit surprised at the margin of victory in the second half.”

NDSU’s 29-point second half blew open a tie game at halftime that had resem-blance to last year’s tight matchup. The Bison took advantage of four intercep-tions and converted three of those turnovers for scores.

“You’re just not going to win with a minus four [turn-over margin],” Sam Houston State head coach Willie Fritz said. “They had some timely interceptions and we didn’t get any takeaways.”

Despite a 3-3 tie after the first quarter, the Bearkats were in control of the game, moving the chains efficient-ly while the Bison offense struggled to convert on third downs. But NDSU capital-ized on Bell’s first mistake when all-American corner-back Marcus Williams out-jumped a Bearkat receiver down the middle for his 17th career interception, moving him to the top spot in NDSU history.

The Bison rattled off three straight runs of 20-plus yards on the ensuing pos-session, the last from quar-terback Brock Jensen who

juked one final defender that sent him into the endzone with a discount double-check celebration.

“There’s no panic when-ever it’s a close game,” Jen-sen, the game MVP who finished with three rushing touchdowns, said. “We just trust the play call and we try to go out there and execute the plays as best as pos-sible.”

SHSU showed some fight and rebounded on their next drive to tie the game at 10 right before the half as Bell found KJ Williams wide open from one yard out.

“We felt good as an of-fense the first half,” Sam Houston State receiver Richard Sincere said. “We knew that we needed to just play clean and play smart and that we would be suc-cessful.”

The Bearkat offense was unable to do that in their opening possession of the second half when two huge mistakes swung the game. All-American running back Tim Flanders busted a 41-yard touchdown, but a holding penalty brought the score back. On the next play, Bison linebacker Carlton Littlejohn dove in front of Bell’s pass and secured the ball for an interception.

“That’s a big turning point,” Marcus Williams said. “Whenever a team scores a touchdown but it gets taken off the board it’s big, because it gives us more momentum and football is a game of momentum.”

NDSU took that momen-tum, and from then on, it was all Bison.

NDSU went on a vintage drive with their power run game and timely comple-tions. Behind the legs of Sam Ojuri, a 19-yard completion to John Crockett and an end-around to Ryan Smith, the Bison drove 60 yards and capped the drive off with a one yard sneak from Jensen.

Down 17-10, SHSU’s drive stalled on a fourth-and-

one when Kyle Emanuel blasted Bell as his throw fell well short of his receiver.

The Bison offense domi-nantly drove the length of the field again, highlighted by a 31-yard flea flicker to Zach Vraa. Ojuri finished the drive with a two yard touchdown run on a fourth down play. A bad snap on the PAT led to a series of events that made the top spot on Sportscenter’s Top 10 Plays.

Holder Ben LeCompte scooped up the errant snap and as a Bearkat defender was wrapping him up, he tossed the ball back to kicker Adam Keller. Keller found defensive end Mike Hardie in the endzone and Hardie made a great grab for the two-point play and a 25-10 lead with 2:00 remaining in the third quarter.

“Sometimes there are plays that happen in the game when you think, you know what, this is probably going to be our day,” Bohl said. “A play that we had

never planned or designed turned out to work extreme-ly well.”

The Bearkats could not garner any momentum after that play. SHSU did make a 32-yard field goal on their next possession but the Bi-son responded immediately with a score of their own. NDSU covered 65 yards in six plays and did so with a little trickery. On third down, Crockett took a hand-off and stopped right before the line of scrimmage. He found tight end Kevin Vaad-eland and hit him on a per-fect jump pass. Jensen snuck into the endzone two plays later from one yard out and the Bison had a 31-13 lead.

NDSU wasn’t done yet. A banged up Bell left the game and senior Andre Mar-tin Jr. took advantage. Back-up quarterback Chris Grett’s pass was tipped and fell into the arms of Martin Jr. and he returned it to the Bearkat 30-yard line. Three plays later, Ojuri busted a beautiful run where he shed multiple

tackles for an 11-yard touch-down midway through the fourth quarter.

Ojuri finished with 92 yards on the ground while Crockett rushed for 83. Both backs surpassed the 1,000-yard rushing mark with their performance.

“At halftime, (the coaches) told us once we get back out there and get the ball, we’re just going to take it and start pounding,” NDSU tackle Billy Turner said. “Once we get the ball in the second half and keep pounding the ball down the middle, eventually they start bending and breaking.”

Down 39-13, Bell re-turned to the game and tried to air the ball out for some points but to no avail. On the second play of the drive, Williams stepped in front of a pass for his second inter-ception of the game and the celebration was on as the NDSU offense ran out the clock. Bison players were met at midfield by a mob of fans in a déjà vu image for

the Bearkats. NDSU players and

coaches eventually reached the stage above the endzone and ceremoniously raised the national champion-ship trophy for the second straight year.

“A tremendous amount of sacrifice and dedication by everybody in our organi-zation,” Bohl said on the dif-ficulty of repeating. “It was certainly a long process.”

The Bison are only the fourth team in FCS history to repeat as national cham-pions.

“It’s got to be the hard-est thing to do in sports is to repeat a championship,” Jensen said. “It takes a great deal of resiliency from a group of young men like us and also our coaching staff.”

NDSU finished their sec-ond straight 14-1 season and had three more wins than any other FCS team.

The Bison finished No. 1 unanimously in the fi-nal Sports Networks and Coach’s Top 25 Poll.

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