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DSInsideGaspardo: Mental health an issue, page 5
Ochs: Benefits of music, page 5
Sandstrom: MLK and inauguration, page 5
Empire Arts Center hosts MLK event, page 7
Archives coffee house going strong, page 8
UND lose, tie Gophers, page 10
Green and White falls in Big Sky, page 11
Women’s hockey splits Wisconsin, page 11
Friday January 25, 2013Volume 130 | Issue 30
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Fundraiser for Wilder playground Page 7
Christianson: Social media property Page 4
Men’s hoops trumps Big Sky foes Page 10
Union serves up more calories
State leaders sponsor equal housing
Pipes burst in Wilkerson residencesDAMAGE Open windows cause pipes to freeze in dorm rooms in Selke and McVey halls.
KAITlIN BEzDICEKTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
Frigid temperatures have led to steam pipes bursting in McVey and Selke residence halls.
With little hope of warm relief, according to the National Weather Service’s Wednesday outlook, the UND Housing Office has instructed resident hall directors and resident assistants to tell students to keep their windows shut.
While pipes can withstand the constant open-ing and closing of doors which allow cold air in, when a window is left open for a length of time, the cold air directly underneath a pipe freezes the steam causing an expansion and burst. This results in water damage in the affected room and can even waterfall down to room below.
Freshman student and Wilkerson complex res-ident Jeremy Gusaas was made aware of the pipe situation from posters that have been hung in his hall in this semester.
“It’s super cold outside so my roommate and I keep our window closed,” Gusaas said. “I would be super ticked if a pipe burst, because it could go toward our common damage fee if we don’t know who caused it.”
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HEAlTH Nutritional facts change frequently with Marketplace foods.
Some of the snacks offered in the Union Marketplace have increased in calorie counts since last semester.
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SARAH ERICKSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
How often do you check nutritional facts in Memorial Union’s Old Main Marketplace?
Joey Furst frequently refers to them
in determining which foods to eat. “I found it was easier to determine
what I was going to eat based on what I saw (on the nutrition facts),” said Furst, a junior at UND. “You eat a cer-tain amount of calories each day, and it’s useful in balancing both a healthy and smart diet.”
Although nutritional facts change frequently, Furst doesn’t think those changes need to be advertised other than on the food labels.
“If I were to eat an item regularly,
I’d notice it sooner or later,” he said. “I don’t think (a notification system) is nec-essary.”
UND junior Patrick Olson visits Old Main once every couple of weeks.
“I usually have wraps because they’re healthier,” Olson said as he finished a slice of Sbarro pizza. “I just chose pizza today because I’m in a hurry.”
Although Olson is aware of the Dining Services nutritional website and
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DISCUSSION Press conferences held to discuss gender equal housing in N.D.
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At three places across North Dakota — the state capitol build-ing in Bismarck, The Depot train station in Fargo and the Christus Rex Lutheran Campus Center at UND — state legislators and local community representatives held press conferences Tuesday to meet with community members to dis-cuss a senate bill that, if passed, would make it illegal for employers or landlords to fire or evict people based on gender identity.
Christus Rex Pastor Kathy Fick and UND Student Body President Logan Fletcher were both at the conference at the Christus Rex. Fletcher introduced the bill and
also spoke about it.“I tried to speak from a stu-
dent’s perspective,” Fletcher said.“I’ve heard of too many stu-
dents cornered by their boss and asked, ‘Hey, I heard you were a lesbian,’ or ‘Hey, I heard you were gay,’ and they have to answer it,” Fletcher continued. “Then they get harassed, and eventually they lose their job. They already have classes and their other obligations, and now they have the stress of not having a job. It kills me that these students I represent and work for have that added stress.”
According to Allison Kelly, a
Rep. Oversen (left) and Sen. Schneider. Photos submitted.
spokesperson for the North Da-kota democratic caucus, the deci-sion to have three conferences was primarily to bring attention to the fact that “this isn’t a right.”
“We have protections for ev-erything else that is personal busi-ness,” Kelly said. “But we don’t have it for gender identity.”
The bill was co-sponsored by — among others — Rep. Kylie Oversen and Sen. Mac Schneider, both Democrats representing Dis-trict 42, which is largely composed of UND students. Because North Dakota is currently in legislative session, neither were able to make it to the press conference at Chris-tus Rex.
Oversen was present at the conference in Bismarck.
Previous failureThe bill had been previously
introduced in 2009, making it through the Senate but failing in
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Committee hearsuniversity funding bill
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FORMUlA Bill would standardize university funding from state leg-islature.
The North Dakota Senate Ed-ucation Committee heard testimo-nies Tuesday for a bill to institute a clear and transparent formula dictating how universities receive state funding.
The bill would change univer-sity funding to a per-credit-com-pleted model. Currently, universi-ties haggle with the state legislature over differences between budgets submitted by the governor’s office and ones submitted by universities, with arguments arising from a lack of mutual understanding how the
budgets are calculated.
ArgumentsAmong others, Gov. Jack Dal-
rymple and Sen. Tim Flakoll (R-Fargo) — the committee chair and a co-sponsor of the bill — provided support for the bill.
“At the core, that is the goal, what we are trying to achieve as a system of higher education,” Dal-rymple told the Senate Education Committee. “Course completion is ultimately what you’re after. That alone provides a significant perfor-mance measure.”
Dalrymple has made the intro-duction of a bill like this a prior-ity since July, when audits revealed inappropriate student fee usage throughout the university system.
“You get equity, you get fair-ness amongst all 11 campuses, and
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the House. According to Overs-en, it was re-introduced now be-cause they “believe it is the right thing to do.”
“It’s unfortunate it failed to pass the House back then,” Oversen said. “We’ve been work-ing to gather support since then.”
The bill has been assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee, but has not yet been scheduled for a hearing.
After the hearing, the bill may either sit for more hearings, be denied or be recommended to the Senate proper for a vote.
you get transparency,” he said to the Grand Forks Herald in July. “What we have now is this cloudy fog based on long-ago history.”
FormulaUnder the proposed legisla-
tion, credit hours would be split into 11 categories. Nine of these categories would be further split into four sub-categories based on education level. Credits
would receive a multiplier based on where they fall into these cat-egories and subcategories.
The four levels of education under the bill are: lower divi-sion, upper division, profession-al level and graduate level.
A graduate level aviation credit receives a multiplier of 7.6, for instance, while lower di-vision engineering credit would receive a 2.5 multiplier.
The sum total of all these credits (post-multipliers) would be added together and would
receive one more multiplier de-pending on the size of that num-ber.
Student supportThe North Dakota Student
Association and all 11 university presidents currently support the bill. According to Shane Ger-bert, the state governmental af-fairs commission for UND, the bill has been in the works for around a year. NDSA has been proactive about making sugges-tions to the bill, he said.
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food labels, he’s “not that picky” about reading nutritional facts and doesn’t count each individual calorie. “I usually just go with my gut.”
According to the UND Din-ing Services website, it’s a pri-ority to “offer resources to help you make good menu choices.” With tools such as the Guiding Stars program and online menu and nutrition information, con-sumers have access to all dietary information of Dining Services food.
Recently, The Dakota Stu-dent noticed the calorie count on hummus and pita chips in Old Main Marketplace increased — more than doubling, in fact.
“We were unaware of the in-crease until a student brought it to our attention,” Old Main Marketplace Service Supervisor Joan Jensen said. “As far as we know, we’ve been carrying the same pita chips and hummus for years.”
The Old Main Marketplace offers an A&W Express, Sbarro, Dakota Deli and plenty of a la carte items for students and fac-ulty alike. As A&W and Sbarro are both franchises, UND Din-ing Services are not responsible for main-taining nu-t r i t i o n a l facts on those foods. H o w e v e r , for the re-m a i n d e r of foods in Old Main, a m u l t i - s t e p process goes into determining each and every recipe.
“When dining services build their recipes, they input every single ingredient into our Inven-tory Management System,” Old Main General Manager Jason Gallagher said. That system is designed to automatically up-date the nutritional facts if any changes occur in the process of making the finished product.
When a new product is in-troduced to the dining centers, all ingredients, serving size in-formation and the recipe is up-loaded to the system. If a change occurs, then it will be noted on the recipe. The food labels and
website will immediately reflect that change.
The only way the pita chips and h u m m u s could have c h a n g e d calories was if there had
been a change in the recipe, in-gredients or portion size.
“Every change in our recipes go through me,” UND Executive Chef Greg Gefroh said. “And I can assure you the pita chips and hummus have not changed re-cently.”
Dustin Frize, UND’s head dietician, confirmed Gefroh’s thoughts.
“We changed the pitas at the
beginning of fall semester,” Frize said. “But the hummus recipe hasn’t been changed since 2011.”
Although the pita chips and hummus recipe may not have changed, it’s common for the nutritional facts on foods to change frequently. “We change things all the time,” Frize said. “We change portion sizes and update nutritional facts daily, weekly and monthly.”
For example, dining services recently changed the nutritional facts for lasagna rollups. At first, two rollups were served per por-tion. After realizing that was too much on a plate, however, the rollups were reduced to one. When cutting the serving size in half, all the nutritional facts were cut in half as well.
The food labels are updated on a daily basis to provide the most accurate facts. Nonethe-less, no matter how accurate the labels try to be, errors can still occur.
‘We change portion sizes and update nu-tritional facts daily, weekly and monthly.
Dustin FrizeUND head dietician
“We offer a disclaimer on all our nutritional facts,” Frize said. “If (the pita chip) company changed flour — or something like that — then that would update and we wouldn’t know about it. That’s just a disclaimer we make. As a customer, you just have to be aware of that.”
As for the pita chips and hummus calorie change?
“I don’t know what to tell you,” Frize said. “As far as we’re concerned, everything I see here crosses over correctly.”
There are students who would prefer Dining Services make those changes more no-ticeable.
“Personally, I’d like to know more,” sophomore Joe Lee said. “It would be nice to know about any modifications (to the nutri-tional facts).”
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FREEZING Treks across campus shouldn’t have to involve close en-counters with frostbite.
Friday January 25, 20134
Nearly everyone in America uses it and it has quickly become the pre-ferred online tool for communicat-ing. I am talking about Facebook, and how it both helps you and works against you.
Social media websites like Face-book and Twitter have given us an incredible way to communicate and spread information at light-speed. The concept of instantaneously sending information to a friend half way around the world is amazing.
Only twenty years ago, cell phones were just beginning to appear in the hands of everyday consumers. Now, a personal computer or smart phone can be used to wirelessly up-load images and information onto websites like Facebook from any-where wireless internet is available — now a widespread commodity.
The problem with these social media sites is that they give out way more personal information than most people realize, and the unin-tended consequences could be dev-astating.
Nearly everyone has a smart-phone, computer or iPod that they use to communicate with friends or procrastinate in class. Every time an individual uploads something to Facebook, an electronic signature is recorded and can be used to locate the individual to within as little as a few yards of where they are. You can avoid putting any personal in-formation on the information fields
in your Facebook profile, but that is only a partial solution.
If someone were trying to locate where you spend a lot of time, they need only look back at your previous posts and record patterns of where you were at what times. I find that extremely creepy. You can disable some of the tracking technology, but i n f o r m a t i o n like IP addresses are recorded by the website and stored. That stored informa-tion has the po-tential to make you a victim of hacking.
The other problem with social media sites is the total lack of intellectual property rights. Anything that is posted on Facebook is free game to whoever wants to copy it.
The idea behind social media is that individuals are able to express themselves and share whatever they want with those around them. If one wants to share their work with their friends, there is no way to pre-vent whatever work a person uploads from being copied and stolen by someone sitting at a computer on the other side of the planet.
The only defense against some-thing like that would be to block your information from being viewed except by people you choose. But that only works to a point — sooner or later, intellectual property will leak out through the virtual grape-vine.
The only other option to pro-tect intellectual property is by not uploading that property at all. By not uploading information, a person is essentially eliminating one of the primary uses for social media.
Another reason to be careful around social media sites is what your virtual profile could do to your potential in an already tough job market. By now this is basically com-mon knowledge, but it needs repeat-ing.
Many businesses check social media websites for insight into the
character of po-tential employ-ees. What may be innocent to you could be interpreted as trouble for an employer. I would imagine posting certain images from spring break could have po-
tentially negative consequences for an individual applying to work at their dream job.
Social media also opens up sub-jects like political alliances and re-ligious views to be intercepted by anyone who wants to look. Those types of things should not make a difference in a job application. Un-fortunately, that kind of information can often sway a potential employer in one direction or the other.
Maybe none of that matters to you. The odds of something hap-pening as a result of social media site are relatively small. The usefulness of these networks usually outweighs the risks, and by consciously monitor-ing your activity on social media, the risks can substantially shrink.
However small the risk may be, just remember that every time you upload something online, it can have repercussions.
Facing the risks of social mediaPROFILED Information uploaded on social net-works can have negative consequences.
Adam Christianson is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at adam.christianson
@my.und.edu
ADAM ChRISTIANSONTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
‘Anything that is posted on Facebook is free game for who-ever wants to copy it.
Adam Christiansonstaff writer
Over one billion people currently use Facebook — roughly one seventh of the worlds popu-lation, according to Bloomberg Business Week. Graphic courtesy of Facebook.com.
The idea of stepping outside this week has literally sent shivers down the spines of students before they even open the door. The temperatures and the wind chills have been brutal, raising the risk of frostbite and hypothermia for any student who is forced to spend prolonged spans of time out of doors.
Perhaps the cold wouldn’t be so bothersome if UND had a more extensive tunnel system, or if more of the buildings were connected by skyways. Perhaps we wouldn’t be so cold if we all were issued military-grade parkas or wore boots with thicker soles than those on Ugg boots.
Obviously those are ridiculous expectations of our university. A skyway would never be able to pass from Twamley to Merrifield and forget digging a tunnel under-neath the foundation of Old Main.
What should UND do then? Is there a way to keep classes open and avoid exposing students to potential frostbite while traversing the campus?
We have thought of a way. It is a rather simple solu-tion actually. You might not be able to drive a car from your dorm room to the building where you have class, but there is a bus system that circles the campus from open to close.
The problem with the bus system is that you have to wait for the bus to arrive and sometimes that takes just as long as walking. But instead of getting a nice warm ride, you freeze your cheeks, booking it across the icy side-walks.
What we students need is an extra bus in operation during the super-cold mornings when frostbite is at its highest potential.
Yes, it might cost the university a few more dollars, and it might have to employ a few more bus drivers to be on hand, but wouldn’t it be the safer option? The univer-sity wouldn’t have to close its doors for the day, students could get from one building to another and wouldn’t have to wait so long for a bus on University Avenue where a new bus should pass by every five to 10 minutes.
What is ridiculous is that the National Weather Ser-vice can issue warnings to the public about not going out of doors due to extreme temperatures, but UND will still be in operation, forcing students out of their warm homes.
We can understand that closing a university is ex-tremely difficult and can set programs back during cru-cial periods, but then something else should be done to ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff.
Busing is a simple solution. Get another bus out on the roads during cold days and more students will have the opportunity to get on board and have a warm ride to class. Winter safety should be a prime concern of the university.
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Studies have shown that over the past few years, mental health issues — especially depression — have been increasing among stu-dents.
According to an article by Therese J. Borchard, one in every four college students suffers from some diagnosable mental illness. With treatment, these mental ill-nesses can be manageable. Yet many do not seek help.
In order for students to seek treatment, they first need to un-derstand what a mental illness is and what it is not. Mental illness is not something that makes some-one crazy. Like other illnesses, it is something that affects how a per-son functions.
M e n t a l health carries a stigma, which deters indi-viduals from seeking help from profes-sionals and friends. Many individuals fear that their peers will judge them or that they will be seen as “crazy.”
If those dealing with mental health issues allow fear to stymie discussion on the issue, they allow their issues to continue to grow. This is a problem that can be eas-ily fixed though education on the topic of mental health and how they can seek help.
There are many types of mental illnesses, however as stated earlier, the most common amongst college
students is depression. According to an article by the National In-stitute of Mental Health, 30 per-cent of students reported feeling so depressed that they were not able to function in 2009. As the num-ber of students with depression increases, so does the number of students who do not seek help for their depression. Untreated, this depression can lead to more severe mental health issues or suicide — yet both of these can be prevented.
Once students decide to seek help, they still may not know where to look for the assistance they need. UND has a great coun-seling center, which is a free and safe place for students to go when in need of help. The Counseling Center can also refer students to places to go for further help or treatment.
Counseling can be a very effec-tive way to help treat depression. Therapists can help find ways and tactics to cope with depression.
If we can get students to stop associating mental illnesses with
n e g a t i v e stereotypes and edu-cate them on what a mental illness re-ally is, more people will begin to seek the help they
need. As college students, we have
enough going on in our lives with-out having to struggle with mental illness.
Take a stand against the nega-tivity towards mental illnesses and become educated — in the end you could be saving a life.
I love music. Always have. Always will. Music says the words that I can’t. It perfectly describes my emotions, yet still manages to come molded into a melody. Music is an outlet: a kind of therapy for the soul.
There has been quite a bit of research done lately on the ef-fects music has on our minds and bodies. According to an NPR.org interview with the author of “The Power of Music,” Elena Mannes, music can help alleviate the effects of certain diseases. It does this by stimulating areas of the brain that no longer function or parts that have been damaged, helping patients with diseases such as stroke or Alzheimer’s.
Music also helps improve mental skill. The American Mu-sic Therapy Association claims music improves testing, com-munication and coping skills, in addition to self-awareness and mood.
With benefits such as these, music may be able to help indi-viduals who are suffering from a traumatic experience. Music may also help those who are incarcer-ated to improve social function before being released.
Reports on Livestrong.com explain the effects that music has on infants. In the womb, music can help develop the baby’s brain and prepare it for the outside world. In an article written by Linda Tarr Kent, the theory of the “Mozart Effect” is explained. The theory states that listening to forms of classical music will help an infant’s intelligence de-velop. Exposing a baby to only 10 minutes of classical music per day may actually help boost their development.
It’s hard to believe there are people out there who don’t ap-preciate music. They claim it’s
just loud nonsense that hurts their ears. I think that’s a load of crap. Whether you are a music maniac or a casual listener, we all have that one song that speaks to us in ways that nothing else can.
Maybe you had a bad break up. Maybe you’re in love. Maybe you just feel like no one under-stands you and the world can’t possibly know your pain or your joy. You can’t sit there and tell me there isn’t a song somewhere that perfectly reiterates your emotions. I don’t buy it for a second.
For those of you who have never been to a concert, I don’t know what you’re waiting for.
There is something about seeing and hearing your favorite bands or artists live that really brings the music experience full circle. You stand there in a mass of people and realize that you are all in full understanding of what the songs mean to you. Once you experience that, there is no going back.
You’ll soon realize that those songs and those melodies are a kind of story to your life. Certain ones bring back certain memo-ries. Whether you use that as a
way to reminisce on the “good old days” or just to make you smile, it all means something.
It’s for this reason that I can’t fathom those who don’t like mu-sic. I just don’t think it’s pos-sible.
Music is so much more than something to fill the awkward silences in the car. Music is a sta-ple at almost every major event in your life. You remember the songs you grew up to. You can recall the songs played at your junior or high school dances. You cherish the song played at your wedding.
Music has been around as a source of healing and comfort for humans for centuries. It is something that will continue to inspire the hearts of people for generations to come — no mat-ter what the economy or global stature might throw at us. After all, major events and emotions are the fuel behind the lyrics of some of the greatest songs ever written.
hARMONY The ben-efits of music include more than just back-ground noise.
MARY OChSTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
Mary Ochs is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be
reached at [email protected]
Graphic courtesy of http://www.jamminwithyou.com.
Sam Gaspardo is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be
reached at [email protected]
Music: a melody for the mindHealth is more than just physicalKNOWLEDGE The ta-boo nature of mental health keeps many from seeking help.
SAM GASPARDOTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
‘Once students decide to seek help, they still may not know where to look for the assis-tance they need.
Sam Gaspardostaff writer
It is a rare occasion when the past and present collide, yet that is exactly what happened earlier this week.
On Monday, students slept in and adults stayed home from work as the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This year, the holiday corre-sponded with President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term in office.
Although Monday did not symbolize a political victory for everyone in the nation, it dem-onstrated something much more important — how far we have come in the quest for true equal-ity and civil rights.
A little over 150 years ago, African Americans were still en-slaved by men who celebrated the words in the Declaration of Independence — a document that proclaims, “all men are cre-ated equal.”
Fifty years ago, African Americans were still fighting to be recognized as full and equal citizens under the law. Four years ago, the first African American president was sworn into of-fice. This year, we have the op-portunity to look ahead and see
what will fill the pages of history books in years to come.
The reelection of Obama is a far more important step in the history of civil rights than his ini-tial election to the presi-dency. It is an affirmation of him — not as a black can-didate — but as a president and man.
The quest for civil rights is far from over.
Yes, we are one step closer to racial equality. Yes, law no longer prohibits interracial marriage. Yes, steps have been taken to
ensure equal pay and treatment regardless of gender. But there is still so much more to be done.
The battle for equality is be-ing taken to new fron-tiers. The fight is now for equal-ity amongst those of d i f f e r e n t sexual ori-en t a t i on s , for an end to ageism
and for true equality amongst genders.
The fights will be long. There will be those who disagree. There will be those who lose. There will be those who go down in history.
‘It is an affirmation of him — not as a black candidate — but as a president and man.
Carrie Sandstrommanaging/opinion editor
The legacy of our nation will be carved in these next few decades, more than ever before.
We have an opportunity to be on the cutting edge of civil rights; as a nation we have an opportunity to lead the way.
Five days ago Barack Obama was sworn in for the second time. He stood in the cold January air in front of millions and pledged to work toward equality, echoing the hopes and desires of King 50 years earlier.
It is time to make those dreams a reality.
Inauguration echoes King’s hopes
CARRIE SANDSTROMTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
EQUALITY The U.S. is still working for equal rights 50 years after MLK’s “Dream” speech.
Carrie Sandstrom is the manag-ing/opinion editor of The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Some residents open their windows because they prefer a cooler room temperature than what the dormitory is set at. One room may heat faster than an-other, caus-ing certain rooms to be at a higher temperature. If a resident opens their window to try to cool the room down, a pipe may not be able to with-stand the cold air.
“The best option is to open the door and let the heat out,” said Jacob Nelson, president of the As-sociation of Residence Halls.
If a pipe breaks in a resident’s room, the damage costs incurred will be charged to their account. Damage costs range from $500 to $5,000. There have been four es-timated breaks, with a total range of $2,000 to $20,000 in damage.
Nelson has been in contact with residence hall presidents to remind students to keep their windows shut. Each hall’s Food and Facilities representative has been instructed to speak at hall government meetings about pipes. Some staff have conducted man-datory hall meetings; others have gone door-to-door.
“We have not dictated any one
means to be used in the buildings to communicate this informa-tion,” said Cindy Spencer, direc-tor of Residence Life and Edu-cation. “We have asked resident assistants and hall directors to find the way that will work best for their population.”
So far this year it has only been an issue in the residence halls. The Housing Of-fice decided to make it a campus-wide initiative.
“It doesn’t take a door to be comple t e l y open for a
pipe to freeze,” Spencer said. “We really have tried to be proactive.
“When you consider how se-verely cold it is we could have had a lot more trouble.”
Students who notice even the slightest drop in temperature should contact maintenance as this could be evidence of cold air, Spencer said. As a preventative measure, maintenance employ-ees have been making outdoor rounds, looking for any open win-dows or doors that invite cold air into campus buildings.
Maintenance requests can be submitted to Facilities Manage-ment at 701-777-2591.
‘It doesn’t take a door to be completely open for a pipe to freeze.
Cindy SpencerDirector of Residence Life
and Education
Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be
reached at [email protected]
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Financial Wellness to host open house
UND Financial Wellness Ser-vices will host an open house on Friday, Feb. 1 at 10:15 a.m. on the fourth floor of McCannel Hall to help students understand how to finance a college education.
Students will have the op-portunity to gain one-on-one counseling provided to them by UND Financial Services in which they will be able to meet with a peer counselor by appointment or simply by dropping in.
The ultimate goal is for stu-
dents to gain a greater understand-ing of credit, budgeting, student loans, and savings through a practi-cal course in money management.
The open house will also fea-ture a ribbon cutting with free pizza and prizes for attendees in-cluding a grand prize of a $100 gift certificate to the UND bookstore. A $10 gift certificate to the book-store will also be awarded for the first people that sign up for one-on-one counseling.
Professor to receive award for activism
Assistant professor in the
UND Department of Counsel-ing Psychology and Community Services Rachel Navarro is being recognized for her contributions to the advancement of psychology in minority communities.
As created by the Advance-ment of Ethnic Minority Inter-ests, the Henry Tomes Award is presented to an individual whose work has influenced and demon-strates promise for distinguished contributions toward empowering ethnic minority communities and individuals. Navarro was recently presented with the award in Hous-ton.
Campus Briefs
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Despite the temperature of minus 26, about 50 people gathered outside Grand Forks Central High School at 11 a.m., Monday, singing “We Shall Overcome” and “This Little Light of Mine” in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
They were all part of a Unity March to celebrate the legacy of the former visionary. It was organized and sponsored by UND’s Multicultural Student Services, the Office of Diver-sity and Multicultural Programs at the University of Minnesota-Crookston and the Northstar Council.
“This is the first ever citywide event for Martin Luther King Day. Before this year, we just had one at UND and all the other places had their own too,” Director of Multicultural Student Ser-vices Malika Carter said. “This event is a great representation of the whole community, and it emphasizes Dr. King’s connection to social justice and service.”
“WE ARE CLOSER...BUT NOT THERE YET”
Grand Forks’ first Unity March celebrates the life of Martin
Luther King, Jr.
The free celebration attracted a diverse group of people, including members of UND’s African Student Union, UND’s Black Student Associa-tion, students from UND and UMC and other local residents of all ages and races.
Many simply attended for fun, but some were there as volunteers, includ-ing a group of around seven members of UND’s Delta Gamma sorority.
“It sounded like a great volunteer opportunity and a few of the girls seemed pretty excited when I men-tioned it during a meeting,” Delta Gamma member Setareh Mostofi said, while taping up a green poster full of signatures from people at the event. “It’s important for people to remem-ber such an amazing man.”
The second part of the celebration began at the Empire Arts Center at noon, with a performance of tradi-tional American Indian songs by the River’s Edge Drum Group.
The drum circle was just a portion of the people appearing on stage. The event was hosted by Carter and UMC’s Director of Diversity Programming Lorna Hollowell, along with Grand Forks Air Force Base Commander
Story by Jaye Millspaugh
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UND history professor gives backPARK Local school re-ceives donations from UND and city officials for new play area.
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Eric Burin has been teaching undergraduate history for more than 10 years at UND; but these days, college students aren’t the only ones he’s helping.
Burin, a member of the Wilder Elementary School Parent Teacher Organization, has been working to secure funds to rebuild the Wilder playground, which was damaged in 2008.
“The damaged pieces have never been replaced,” Burin said. “We started this project recently to transform the Wilder playground.”
Burin is a member of both the Wilder PTO and its subcom-mittee, focused on rebuilding the playground. The playground com-
mittee was founded this summer at about the same time as the citywide school playground committee.
“That (committee) has not only members from the Wilder PTO playground committee,” Bu-rin said, “But also members from the school district administration and various other stakeholders including the Icon Architectural Group that’s actually going to de-sign the final playground.”
The final layout of the park hasn’t been decided, but a few mockups have been drawn.
“We’ve got a lot of moving parts,” Burin said. “We’ve got the school district and their interests, the PTO and their interests. This is still kind of a work in progress but you can see the direction that it’s heading.”
Burin would like to see Wilder become “an epicenter for math and science,” and he feels a creative play area for kids would symbolize that.
“We did a lot of our initial fundraising through social media,”
Eric Burin and the Wilder Elementary School have been working to develop a new natural playground, like the one above, at Wilder. Photo courtesy of Eric Burin.
Burin said. A Facebook page and a video
on YouTube have helped collect PARK [page 9]
$20,000 in private contributions. The committee is also looking for outside help to fund the project.
“Now we’re also looking to-
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COFFEE In their fi fth year of ownership, Kopps see no loss of business or interest.
Archives Coffee House has found the combination that makes it successful — owners, employees and customers that enjoy being there each day.
Bruce and Rachel Kopp, along with their 24 year-old daughter and student, opened Archives in 2008. Since then, the coffee house has been increasing in popularity among UND stu-dents and faculty.
“With the economy the way it is, we’re very happy that busi-ness has continued to increase each year,” Rachel Kopp said.
Own ing a business in a tumultuous economy is no easy task.
“ W e ’ v e had a lit-tle bit of a stranglehold on us as business owners,” Kopp said. “All of our vendors have in-creased their wholesale price, so our profi t margin is minimal.”
During their fi ve years of owning Archives, the Kopps have only raised prices one time.
“Because of our student cli-entele, we don’t want to increase prices,” Kopp said. “It’s conserva-tive, but we’ve been happy with it.”
The Kopps have also been happy with the university’s re-ception of their privately owned business.
“We have a really good part-nership with the university,” Kopp said. “We’ve been sponsors for NoDak Nation and Greek life events, and we’ve done projects with the business and psychology colleges.”
At fi rst, students may have
diffi culty recognizing that Ar-chives is a privately owned busi-ness, unlike Stomping Grounds. They soon realize that the coffee house is all about its clientele, however.
“We work really hard at pro-viding a comfortable place for our consumers to come,” Kopp said. “It’s a traditional and true coffee house, with an environ-ment that’s social as well as aca-demic.”
Students attest to Archives’ social and educational attributes.
“It’s so cozy,” freshman Tayler Sundberg said. “The fi replace and the couches are really comfy.”
Sophomore Jana Jorgenson added that there’s a lot of space to study too.
According to barista and key-holder Nick Alghoss, the atmo-sphere is one of Archives’ best features for its employees, too.
“You get to know a lot of people be-cause of the c u l t u r a l l y diverse cof-fee shop en-vironment,” Alghoss said. “I’ve met s t u d e n t s from all over the world and from ev-
ery background, and I’ve gotten to know some professors too.”
He also spoke highly of the Kopps.
“Bruce and Rachel are re-ally, really good people,” Alghoss said. “It’s a lot of fun to work for them.”
Inventory Manager Kayla Evenson has been with the Kopps since they opened Archives in 2008, and says the coffee shop has become more widely recog-nized every year.
“It has a relaxed atmosphere with friendly customers and em-ployees,” Evenson said. “It’s a pri-vately owned local coffee shop, so it has a real family feel. We work hard to keep up standards.”
‘We’re very happy that business has continued to increase each year.
Rachel KoppArchives owner
Archives Coffee House provides a cozy atmosphere for students looking to study or just warm up on a cold day. Photo by Keisuke Yoshimura.
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After his speech, Wood received an honorary beige t-shirt with Dr. King’s face on it from Tesfaye Mu-hammad, the president of UND’s African Student Union. It was the same t-shirt that all members of the African Student Union wore at the event.
The event continued with vocal performances from UND’s Varsity Gentlemen and Yolanda Cox, Presi-dent of UND’s Black Student Asso-ciation.
The Varsity Gentlemen raise money for a different local charity
every year. This year they’ve selected the MeritCare Children’s Hospital in Fargo.
A final prayer, led by Bishop Mi-chael Cole from Gospel Outreach Ministries, ended the event. He played a shofar — a traditional Jew-ish trumpet — and explained how his grandmother taught him to love everyone, no matter their race, be-cause “we are all God’s children.”
There was also a coloring con-test for children attending the event and a “Happy Patrol” that walked through the audience, handing out
over $2,000 worth of colorful side-walk chalk and gift certificates from local businesses.
After the event, a large amount of free catering from Olive Garden, Rhombus Guys Pizza and Walmart was available as people mingled in the lobby of the Empire.
Promoting kindness and com-passion was a main theme of the cel-ebration.
“Any UND student who wants to get more involved should stop by the Era Bell Thompson Multicultur-al Center across from Swanson Hall and talk to someone there,” Carter
said. “We also have the Tunnel of Oppression coming up later this se-mester with the residence halls, plus Black History Month in February and Asian-Pacific Awareness Month in April.”
“Even small acts of kindness can and will have huge impacts,” Bush said. “Get involved and give back. It is with your compassion, courage and leadership that will make the Grand Cities even grander.”
eligible for what are known as com-munity development block grants. We’ll be applying for CDBG mon-ey down the road as well.”
These grants could give the committee anywhere from 25 to 50 thousand dollars, Burin said.
The park holds special impor-tance to Burin on both a profes-sional and personal level.
“My children will go there,” he said. “It’s a perfect location. The benefits of a natural playground are particularly good for low income children. It helps obviously with physical activity, it also helps with psychological health, it helps with academic performance, so it’s not just a nice place to look at, there’s a functionality to it.
“It also is good for neighbor-hoods. You bring your kid to a play-ground, you meet people and you’re more engaged in your community.”
“Now we’re also looking toward public agencies for additional con-tributions like city beautification funds, for example,” said Burin.
The project will need $125,000 to fund the project. In addition to the $20,000 in private contribu-tions, Burin says the school district has 20 to 25 thousand dollars so far.
Wilder said that UND faculty has also contributed to the com-mittee. While he couldn’t specify of how many have, he did say there are “lots.”
“Because I know so many par-ents in town, I know faculty who have contributed to this project, who are actually involved in this project,” he said.
Another source gives money for the development of areas such as the one Wilder’s playground is in.
“Wilder sits on what’s called a ‘low-moderate income area,” Bu-rin said, “And that means that it’s
Timothy E. Bush from the Grand Forks Air Force Base and UMC Chancellor Fred Wood as guest speakers.
“This event is an opportunity to celebrate other cultures that have been marginalized and for everyone else to learn about them,” Wood said. “We are closer to Dr. King’s dream but not there yet. He’d probably be disappointed that we haven’t gotten further.”
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Women’s basketball drops twoPage 11
Women’s hockey splitsPage 12
WHKY Jan. 25-26@ St. Cloud State
St. Cloud, Minn.
WBB Jan. 26vs. Northern ArizonaBetty Engelstad Center
MHKY Jan. 25-26vs. St. Cloud StateRalph Engelstad Arena
Men’s basketball on a rollPage 10
UND Huffs and puffs past competitionWINS UND wins two conference games last week to jump to third in the Big Sky.
Junior guard Troy Huff turned in two huge performances that not only set a personal career high, but garnered him the honor of the Big Sky Conference’s Play-er of the Week, an award that he co-shared with Tate Unruh of Northern Colorado.
While Mother Nature un-leashed a furious barrage of freez-ing weather last week that ham-pered most people’s travel and weekend plans, the UND men’s basketball team turned up the heat to win two exciting home games to improve in Big Sky Conference play this year.
With a 65-47 rout over East-ern Washington Thursday night and an 85-76 down of Portland State Saturday afternoon, UND improved to 4-4 in the Sky (7-10 overall) moving them to third in the conference behind Weber State (13-3 overall) and Montana (12-4 overall).
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North Dakota shooting guard Troy Huff had two great games this past week. Saturday afternoon the ju-nior scored his 1000th career point for the Green and White while scoring 25 points in the game.
Both Weber State and Mon-tana have remained unbeaten in conference play this year, but with last week’s wins, North Da-kota looks poised to make a run to the top of the conference, an attitude that is certainly not lost on UND head coach Brian Jones.
“No question, Montana and Weber State have shown some separation (from the rest of the conference),” Jones said, “but it’s the teams that right now can de-fend the home court advantage and split or steal wins on the road that will pull through.”
UND proved last week that it can defend the home court ad-vantage thanks, in part, to some huge performances by key play-ers.
Against Eastern Washington, Huff dropped 18 points with 11 rebounds, four steals and an as-sist to pull down his second dou-ble-double of the season and led UND to a win over the Eagles.
EWU arrived in Grand Forks seemingly ready to play as the announced crowd of 1,456 wit-nessed what began as a tight bat-tle between the Eagles and North Dakota.
Before the half, the score was tied seven times and changed
hands five times in what looked to be a close confer-ence battle. Coming out of the locker room, UND — led by Huff — took off on a 22-3 run to close the door on East-ern Washington.
With 13 minutes and 6 seconds left in the game, Huff treated the crowd to a spec-tacular sight when he drained a three-pointer to net his 1,000th career point, becom-ing just the 32nd player in UNDw history to do so.
“I definitely think it’s a great accomplishment, but we have bigger things we need to take care of,” said Huff of his achievement, “I think we’re all playing with an offense this year and all guys are stepping up to the plate.”
Other North Dakota play-ers stepped up to the plate in the win against Eastern Wash-ington. Junior guard Aaron Anderson turned in 17 points and six assists while junior guard Jamal Webb dropped 11 points with five steals to help beat the Eagles.
North Dakota stepped up
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North Dakota senior linemates Corban Knight (left) and Danny Kristo (right) both added to the offense last weekend in St. Paul. The players are third (Knight) and fifth (Kristo) on the NCAA points leaders list. Corban Knight is currently the leader in the fan voting for the Hobey Baker award. Photo courtesy of undsports.com.
Rivalry: The end of an eraGOPHERS Minnesota proves their toughness in UND’s last forsee-able visit to Mariucci.
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Elizabeth Erickson is the web editor of The Dakota Stu-
dent. She can be reached at [email protected]
As the final buzzer sounded, a tie was all North Dakota could claim from the series against the Golden Gophers.
Last weekend, North Dakota and Minnesota faced off for the last time as WCHA opponents at Mari-ucci Arena — leaving the ice Satur-day night after a bitter tie.
A two-goal margin separated the teams with just half a period re-maining as North Dakota saw a vic-tory in sight. But it was the Golden Gophers’ two late goals that sent the game into overtime.
“I thought we were a little bet-ter than we were last night,” UND coach Dave Hakstol said. “They’re a good team. They made plays. They’re a big strong team down low. You’ve got to work to contain them but I thought, overall, we were pretty good. I wouldn’t give us an A, but we did a good job. We fought hard.”
For five minutes of overtime, the puck was moved eagerly back
and forth by athletes who wanted nothing more than a victory for their team.
As fans, coaches and players will long remember the teams skat-ed off the ice with a tie — marking the end of a cycle.
Friday night, both teams emerged ready for an intense battle as a scoreless first period left the ri-vals searching for the first strike. It wasn’t until 3:34 of the second pe-riod that Michael Parks opened up the scoring and put North Dakota up 1-0.
Minnesota’s Zach Budish quickly responded with a shot past UND goalie Clarke Saunders to tie that game at one. With just sec-onds remaining in the period, the Gophers found a way to put them-selves up 2-1 to send the Green and White to the locker room trailing by one.
The scoring streak continued as Minnesota extended its lead yet again to leave North Dakota search-ing for a way to make a comeback.
With two additional goals, Minnesota took control of the game, and boasted a 5-1 victory.
Saturday night, North Dakota knew it needed to take the win — and for the majority of the game, it looked as if that would be the result.
With Zane Gothberg getting
his chance in goal, the freshman continuously blocked shots to keep North Dakota’s offense fighting for goals.
“Zane did a good job,” Hakstol said. “Obviously we’ve had some questions about starting Zane on Saturday. It’s not about one day’s performance or anything like that. We were confident putting Zane in the net. Quite honestly, it was be-cause of his performance over the last three or four weeks. He’s prac-ticed very well at that point in time and he’s earned the start.”
Derek Forbort’s slap shot through traffic midway through the first period was sent home on a rebound by Danny Kristo to give North Dakota an early lead.
Minnesota’s quick response left the teams tied to start the second period, but it was Corban Knight’s glove side shot that extended his point streak to 19 games and gave North Dakota the edge.
Rocco Grimaldi continued to extend the scoring range while lead-ing a two-on-one rush down the right wing with a snipe to put the Green and White up 3-1.
With two more back and forth goals by both teams, North Dakota found itself leading 4-2 with just ten minutes remaining in the game.
For Minnesota, playing catch-up was its only option.
Nick Bjugstad and Nate Con-don scored two goals for Minne-sota — enough to send the teams to overtime.
But that still left the teams fighting to keep control of the front of the net.
“We didn’t do a good job tak-ing care of that critical area on top of the crease,” Hakstol said. “It was a good play by them. I think Zane got a piece of it. He played very well for us tonight. I just thought he looked very sound, very confident, fought pucks and did a good job.”
The lingering memories from each previous meeting left both teams wanting to end the rivalry
strong, but North Dakota and Minnesota ended their last foresee-able meeting in a 4-4 tie.
“I thought we played a solid game,” Hakstol said. “It’s disap-pointing, obviously, to give up a two goal lead in the last 10 minutes. I’m disappointed to come away with just one point. Obviously we wanted to control our destiny and get two points. I liked a lot of things I saw from a lot of young guys that are hopefully a good sign for things to come.
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to the plate against Portland State on an equally cold Satur-day afternoon and held off a late Vikings rally to win 85-76 and pick up its second conference win of the week. The Vikings have yet to win a game on the road this season and UND made a point of ensuring that their first road win would not come in Grand Forks.
North Dakota picked up yet another huge offensive contribu-tion from Troy Huff as he scored a season high 25 points to help beat PSU and hand them their eighth road loss of the season.
Aaron Anderson also turned in another big performance, scoring 25, while Jamal Webb contributed 16 points. Offen-sively as a whole, UND shot 52.8% from the field, drained eight of 16 three pointers and even remained perfect on all free throw attempts, nailing 21 out of 21 tries.
With last week’s wins, North Dakota has shown that it can turn out big performances and step up its offensive game in or-der to come away with results.
At third place in the confer-ence, UND could very well be in position to finish the second half of the season strong and even give teams like Weber State and Montana a run for their money.
Only two teams, Weber State and Montana, currently have re-cords better than the .500 mark while North Dakota is the only team at .500. The rest of the Big Sky Conference lies tattered with fewer wins than losses, leav-ing much opportunity to capi-talize on. This weekend, UND will take to the road against Northern Arizona and will look to stay hot as conference play comes into full swing.
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David Butz is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be
reached at [email protected]
This past week, the North Dako-ta women’s basketball team went on the road to take on Eastern Washing-ton and Portland State.
UND’s first game in Cheney, Wash., was a quick paced game with North Dakota coming out strong in the first half. UND went into half-time with a five point lead.
Going into the second half, UND continued its successful offense. Both teams drained a number of three-point shots to help their scoring. Me-gan Lauck of UND contributed five of the team’s seven total three-point shots. The game’s physicality led to a combined total of 33 fouls during the contest.
Despite maintaining the lead
through halftime and part of the sec-ond half, UND’s presence began to fade. UND came back a couple of times, but the three point gap proved too much and Eastern Washington won the game 75-72.
Lauck led all scorers as she tallied 21 points against the Eagles. The next closest player was Lexie Nelson for Eastern Wash-ington with 19 total points.
N o r t h Dakota’s sec-ond game was against the Vi-kings in Port-land, Ore., Saturday after-noon. UND held the lead go-ing into halftime once again, but by a mere one-point 31-30 margin.
Emily Evers and Madi Buck were the scoring leaders in the game with 17 and 16 points, respectively. Megan Lauck also factored in 14 points of her own. Allison Greene of Portland State the most points in the game as she
dropped 18 on the Green and White. In the last three minutes of the
game, Portland State gained con-trol of the pace and took advantage of some late fouls to get a lead that UND could not overcome. Portland State won 73-66.
UND has been struggling in the Big Sky, and has faced problems in
closing out contests. In the last two games UND has played, it held the lead only to lose it late in the second half.
N o r t h D a k o t a ’ s next game
will be against the Lumberjacks of Northern Arizona at 2 p.m. on Sat-urday at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center.
Struggles in the Big SkyLOSSES The women’s basketball team dropped two on the road this past week.
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Rookie goalie shuts out the Badgers
Friday night, UND goaltender Shelby Amsley-Benzie made 19 saves to record her first collegiate shutout and a 3-0 victory over the Wisconsin Badgers at Ralph Engel-stad Arena on Friday.
The freshman’s stellar perfor-mance earned her the honor of being named WCHA Women’s Rookie of the Week on January 22.
“I was pretty excited and it’s awesome that it was against Wis-consin,” Amsley-Benzie said. “It feels kind of like something is off my back and it was exciting.”
While competing with senior goaltender Jorid Dagfinrud for ice
SPLIT UND failed to come away with a sweep this past week-end against Wisconsin.
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time, Amsley-Benzie’s freshman status didn’t mean much when numbers were taken into consid-eration.
“We’ve thought Shelby is a player that could be a No. 1 goaltender for us,” UND coach Brian Idalski said. “And for most freshmen, it takes time to get ac-climated and get comfortable and hopefully she can continue to roll this into some more games where she’s very solid. I really feel that if we get good goaltending with some of the other pieces, we could be a very good hockey team going down the stretch.”
In addition to a solid presence in the net, Jocelyne Lamoureux’s two goals added to the team’s suc-cess while Michelle Karvinen also put a puck in the net.
UND needed to put forth mo-mentum early, and Lamoureux’s
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PER MONTH!fi rst period goal provided the team with the push that it needed.
“Playing with a lead just allows people to be a little more comfort-able and not pressured or pressed and allows the game to come to us,” Idalski said. “We got the lead and we were poised and played solid defense knowing that we didn’t really have to put on a show. It was pretty method-ical all the way around, I thought.”
An evident threatHowever, Wisconsin’s Brianna
Decker proved to be a threat to the team. As a top scorer and excellent force in the Badger lineup, the Green and White were ready to defend the net.
“I thought it was a pretty solid win all the way around,” Idalski said. “We executed a lot of the things we had talked about during the week. We got good goaltending, defen-sively we were solid and Jocelyne (Lamoureux) did a great job not only creating offense but going head to head with Decker. So it was a nice win for us.”
A series sweep was in sight, but Saturday night wasn’t enough for a Green and White victory.
This time, the Badgers held the early edge as they scored a goal just 4:50 into regulation. But it wasn’t long before Jocelyne Lamoureux re-sponded with a goal to end the fi rst period with a 1-1 tie.
Late in the second period, Deck-er was awarded a penalty shot after the puck was covered in the crease by a UND player — but Amsley-Benzie kept a win in sight with a huge pad save.
Although she stopped 29 of the pucks she faced, Amsley-Benzie saw two pucks slip past her and a 2-1 vic-tory was awarded to the Badgers.
“Obviously a disappointing out-come,” Idalski said “I thought that we played well and we executed, sim-ilar to last night, some of the things we wanted to do and that’s the way hockey is sometimes.”
One last shotIn the fi nal minutes of the game,
Lamoureux’s wrist shot hit the post behind Wisconsin’s goaltender and slid in front of the net before it was cleared away.
“We played good enough to win,” Jocelyne Lamoureux said. “We got ourselves out of the penalty kill trouble in the second period and they didn’t get a lot of chances on the power play and I hit the post with a minute and a half left and kind of crappy luck I guess. But now, for the rest of the season, we’ve got to win. To get in the playoffs, we’ve got to keep winning.”
North Dakota falls to 14-10 (9-9 WCHA) and slips into the No. 5 spot in the WCHA.
This weekend, the team will travel to St. Cloud to take on the 8-16-2 (4-15-1 WCHA) Huskies who are currently sitting being UND at No. 8.
“I would play games like that ev-ery weekend if I could,” Idalski said. “Just the caliber of the opponent, the skill level and just learning what it means to be a champion. We need to play more of those kind of games so I think that we’re going to shake it off and go back to work.”
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Elizabeth Erickson is the web editor of the Dakota Stu-
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