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THURSDAY | OCTOBER 11, 2012 | SERVING NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1896 | VOL 116 ISSUE 13

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Pink-washed BisonAlpha Gamma Rho students raise money for breast cancer.

NDSU Defeats UNDWomen’s volleyball takes the game on home court

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Kayla Houchin, a se-nior majoring in health and physical education, is bak-ing cupcakes this month to help raise money for those fighting breast cancer.

Education students whom have had the privi-lege of taking classes with Kayla Houchin, a senior majoring in physical and health education, know that this girl can bake a mean cupcake.

However, she isn’t only baking and bringing in cup-cakes for her classmates. Instead, this month Kayla is using her baking skills to sell cupcakes that will help benefit breast cancer fight-ers around the Fargo-Moor-head area.

Her cause is called “Cupcakes for a Cure” and the cupcakes will be sold for $5 each. The two fla-vors available are chocolate chip cookie dough and va-nilla almond. Each cupcake is topped off with a sugar cookie in the shape of a breast cancer ribbon.

This is the second year Kayla has baked cupcakes for this cause, and last year she was able to sell roughly 500 cupcakes.

All of the proceeds from Kayla’s cupcakes will bene-fit Bras on Broadway, which

helps those in the F-M area fighting breast cancer.

“I really liked the fact that all the money that they raise stays local – it all stays in North Dakota and north-western Minnesota – so it didn’t take me long to de-cide like that’s where I want the money to go,” Kayla said.

A big inspiration for Kayla to raise money for

this particular cause is Toni, her mother. Toni is a breast cancer survivor who also has a knack for fundraising.

When Kayla and her siblings were growing up,

Toni knew a new running track needed to be built for the students in their home-town of Pheasanton, North Dakota.

“She was like, ‘I want my kids to run on a track – I don’t want them to run on a dirt road.’ She got lots of help and basically built the track, and that was around $30,000.” Kayla recalled. “If she ever wants to do

something, she’ll just do it. That’s where a lot of my motivation comes from.”

Even though Toni helped give the students of Pheasanton a place to run,

she remains very humble about her love for help-ing others. “I’m sure she’s raised over $100,000 [for different causes] and she doesn’t talk about it. She thinks it’s nothing but it’s actually a lot.”

While Toni was sick, she managed to be present for every single sporting event that Kayla and her three brothers participated in. “It

was almost like she didn’t even have it. She didn’t stop doing anything that she did before,” Kayla said. “She just acted like it was noth-ing, which was crazy.”

Kayla’s dad, Clay, would drive Toni to her che-motherapy appointments at 5 a.m. all the way from Pheasanton to Bismarck and she still managed to come home afterwards to work and be there for her kids’ games.

After having a single mastectomy, Toni is now cancer-free. “She’s always been very selfless. I think I took her for granted a lot because I didn’t really real-ize all that she’s done until I came to college,” Kayla recalled.

Just like Toni had the community to help her build a track, Kayla is also not alone in her fundrais-ing endeavor. Many of Kayla’s friends have been helping reach her goal of $5,000 for Bras on Broad-way. “We have our eyes set on [$5,000], but we have no idea what will happen,” Kayla added. “I’d be pretty happy if it was anything over $5,000.”

Being involved in the campus organization Blue Key also helped propel her to want to do something for others. She mentioned that a lot of the people in that group are focused on help-ing others, which then rubs off on her.

“Everybody in that group basically inspires me one way or another, and some of the people from there are helping me a lot.

We have this great team and it’s a great group of people,” Kayla said. “I’ve always found that whenever I’ve felt really good is when I’ve done something for others.”

Her passion for baking was sparked as a young girl when she would watch her babysitter bake for her and her siblings growing up.

“[Baking] is something that I guess I’m good at, and I think it’s a gift from God. I think we each get special talents, and to honor them and to honor Him we should use them to our best ability as much as we can,” Kayla mentioned. “By do-ing this little thing I think I’m honoring this gift that He gave me, and I love to do it.”

Kayla understands that it only takes a little effort from one person that can truly create change.

“It baffles my mind when so many people think that they can’t do anything or they can’t make a differ-ence,” Kayla added. “But it’s always the little things that add up and make such a big difference, and if we can all do a little something, we can all do so much I think.”

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Bison Walk to Create Awareness for Diabetes

The NDSU community will participate in the annual walk “Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes” while wear-ing yellow and gold and supporting those who have diabetes.

The American Diabetes Association initiated this walk in order to raise funds to find cures for diabetes, do medical research and to organize public awareness campaigns.

“Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes” will be held on Oct.13 at the Fargo Scheels Arena. Participants will be checked in at 8:30 a.m. and the walk will take place from 9:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Ev-eryone is encouraged to par-ticipate and show their bison spirit.

“Let’s walk for Diabetes fundraising and fill Scheels arena with green and yel-low Bison”

Jingyang Xiao, commit-tee member of the American Pharmacists Association-Academy of Student Phar-macists at NDSU, said.

At NDSU many student

and non-student organiza-tions are competing to raise funds for this cause.

Currently, the College of Science and Mathemat-ics is competing against the College of Pharmacy, Nurs-ing and Allied Science to raise more funds. These two teams have created a healthy competition that has encour-aged other organizations to raise more money.

Eric Heitkamp, the team leader of the College of Sci-ence and Mathematics walk-ing team, said that the spirit of this competition inspires all the organizations that are taking part in this walk.

“I hope this will be an yearly competition and with each passing year it will grow to create a com-petitive sprit amongst those involved,” Heitkamp said, “which will ultimately raise more money and increase support for such a great cause.”

According to American Diabetes Association web-site, more than 150,000 par-ticipants from over 130 walk events across the country came together last year to raise over $20 million.

This year from the NDSU community, various aca-demic and cultural groups are participating from stu-dent organizations to de-partments and colleges. The goal as a campus is to raise $5,000 and fill the Scheels

arena with green and yellow walkers.

For some participants, diabetes is a personal is-sue related to their loved ones. Kara Gravely-Stack, the walking team captain of Equity Diversity and Global Outreach, walks to support her daughter.

“My daughter was di-agnosed a little over a year ago with Type 1 Diabetes,” Gravely-Stack said. “Other members of my family, as well as my daughter, are walking in support of efforts to find a cure.”

During the walk, partici-pants get the opportunity to speak to “Red Striders” who are actually living with type 1, type 2 or gestational dia-betes.

Participants are encour-

aged to cheer when they see Red Striders, who are identi-fied as those wearing red.

Eric Patterson, Operation Diabetes Chair of the Amer-ican Pharmacists Associa-tion-Academy of Student Pharmacists, joined the walk last year. He also met Red Striders and was inspired by the event.

“When you do the walk you get to meet individuals who live with diabetes and hear their stories. They will sit there and talk to you, and you will get a chance just to see how complicated [it is] to have diabetes in their lives,” Patterson said.

For more information or to donate go to www.diabe-tes.org/ndsu.

Samantha WickraminsgheContributing Writer

NDSU Archives offers a whole new way of viewing Fargo and NDSU history through its channel on His-torypin.

Historypin is a web-site developed in 2011 by the company We Are What We Do in partnership with Google. It allows users to pin old photographs onto a global map. These old pho-tographs are overlaid with the current Street View from Google Maps, which allows users to compare locations today with how they looked at different moments in his-tory.

NDSU Archives began the Historypin project this fall. It currently has nearly 350 historic photographs uploaded to its Historypin channel in five collections of Fargo: Hawthorne Neigh-borhood, NDSU campus, Clara Barton Neighborhood,

Downtown District and the Tornado of 1957.

Each photograph is ac-companied by a description and some historical back-ground.

Viewers can also take a virtual tour of the NDSU campus. This tour includes photographs from Ladd Hall in 1926, the Memorial Union in 1950 and the old Chemistry Building that was destroyed from an explosion in 1909.

For example, viewers can get a glimpse of what Old Main, the first building on campus, looked like in 1893, when NDSU was known as North Dakota Agricultural College.

The Street View shows several old photos of the University gates superim-posed on the image of the gates today.

Other collections show old photos of houses from Fargo neighborhoods and downtown businesses.

Archives Associate John

Hallberg said the most inter-esting thing about the Histo-rypin project is seeing how locations have changed over time.

“It makes history more real,” he said.

NDSU Archives, along with many other libraries and schools throughout the

world who use Historypin, view it as a good tool to share history and stories with the public.

“It gives a way for people who aren’t in Fargo or in our state to see what NDSU Ar-chives has,” Archivist Trista Raezer said.

Halberg also said His-

torypin could be useful for architecture and history students, people doing site plans or people who are just curious.

So far, NDSU Archives has received plenty of posi-tive feedback on the project, Halberg said. Their Histo-rypin channel has received

nearly 18,000 views in the short time it has been in ex-istence.

“It was pretty cool to see how quickly it was catching on,” Halberg said.

He foresees the project’s popularity growing as time goes on.

“We hope people will continue to tune in,” he said. “We will continue to add new photographs to keep people interested.”

This will be a continuous project for NDSU Archives. New photos will be added as archivists have time. Raezer said they hope to add photos of other towns in North Da-kota as well.

The Historypin website is user-friendly. A google email address is needed to create an account, but pho-tos can be viewed without an account as well.

The NDSU Archives Historypin channel can be viewed at http://www.histo-rypin.com/channels/view/id/12313037/.

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The NDSU Archives Historypin channel allows viewers to see old photographs compared to what the location looks like today, such as a photograph of the Old Main building in 1893. (Courtesty of NDSU Archives)

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Students have the chance to apply for a program that provides the opportunity to work on graduate-level research in preparation for their future as a graduate student.

The McNair Scholars Program was established in 1989 to prepare “First gen-eration, low-income and un-derrepresented students” for the challenges of graduate school, said Anna Sheppard, the NDSU TRIO McNair Scholars program interim director.

The program recently received the news that they will continue to be funded for the next five years, effec-tive Oct. 1. The program can fund 29 students with this opportunity, and this semes-ter the program is accepting applications for eight open-ings.

The program was named after Ronald E. McNair, a

physicist and Challenger as-tronaut. Now the program is at over 200 universities, but NDSU is one of the original 14 to receive funding.

Sheppard is looking for “a student who can commit to McNair for two semes-ters” at least, and is moti-vated, passionate and driven to complete a graduate pro-gram after receiving his or her bachelor’s degree, she said.

Two semesters gives the students time to do the nec-essary amount of research to complete their honors paper and presentations. Once a student is accepted in the program, he or she will be able to stay as long as they are still working toward a bachelor’s degree.

There is no hard dead-line for applications, but they will be accepted into the program as they come in if they meet the require-ments.

During the program, stu-dents will participate in ei-ther a full-time or part-time track. Full-time is 40 hours per month; part-time is 20 hours per month.

Once their research and honors papers are finished, they will present their re-search at different venues to give them learning room and more experience that can be put on an application for graduate school, Shep-pard said.

Students will present their research in a half-hour spring or winter forum that is open to the campus and give a poster board presen-tation.

Taylor Heck, a senior majoring in dietetics, was featured in the September 2012 publication of McNair Scholars.

“As a McNair scholar, you learn more than just be-ing a scholar; you are able to work collaboratively,” Heck said. Through his experi-ence as a McNair scholar, Heck had the opportunity to do research at the John’s Hopkins University School of Medicine.

If interested in apply-ing for the program, con-tact Anna Sheppard at [email protected] or visit www.ndsu.edu/trio/.

Program Prepares Students for Graduate SchoolMcNair Scholars Program accepting applicants

Emilee RuhlandContributing Writer The College of Arts, Hu-

manities and Social Sciences is offering students and fac-ulty the opportunity to get the most out of this year’s presidential debates, as well as highlighting the strengths of the college of AHSS.

The college of AHSS is hosting watch events for the presidential debates from 7:45 to 9:30 p.m. today, Oct. 16 and Oct. 22. Many stu-dents attended the first presi-dential debate watch held on Oct. 3

“We felt we had a great deal of expertise from various departments in the college that could help add to the debate experience,” said Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Ann Bur-nett. “We wanted a venue in which all interested NDSU students could gather and re-flect on the debates.”

Burnett feels the de-bates are a beneficial experi-ence, and wanted to provide a way for students to take part.

“Presidential de-bates are unique political speech acts,” said Burnett. “So simply being a part of the rhetorical experience is

really important.” Burnett also feels

that the debates provide clar-ity for undecided voters.

“Debates give voters one final chance to evaluate the candidates before Election Day,” said Dr. David Silk-enat, assistant professor of history and education. “Un-like the convention speeches and the campaign ads, the presidential debates allow voters to see the candidates side by side.”

Along with providing a common place to watch the debates, moderators will also conduct discussions and ac-tivities before and after the debates. Silkenat hosted a bingo game during the first debate on Oct. 3. Participants crossed off key words on a bingo card whenever a candi-date said it during the debate.

More important than the Bingo were the conversa-tions students had before and after the debate about the is-sues and the candidates, Silk-enat said.

Other events will take place at the upcoming de-bate watches. The NDSU forensics team will lead a division of the house event; the Campaign and Elections class, taught by Peter Balega, will run a Twitter feed during the debates; and Drs. Thomas Ambrosio and Nick Bauroth will lead a political science

oriented discussion after the final debate.

Silkenat added that the election poses many con-cepts for students to think about, including federal fi-nancial aid, insurance and the job market. The college of AHSS hopes students will watch the debates in order to become more aware of the world around them.

“The debates bring the voting public together to lis-ten to the candidates running for the top office in the land,” Burnett said. “Every voting citizen should fully partici-pate in the process, including the debates.”

Schedule of debate watch events:

Oct. 11 – Debate on for-eign and domestic polity

Parliamentary style divi-sion of the house in IACC 104 with NDSU forensics team

Oct. 16 – town meeting format debate on foreign and domestic polity

Simultaneous national Twitter feed in Minard 222 with Peter Balega’s cam-paigns class

Oct. 22 – Debate on for-eign policy

Political science discus-sion in Minard 222 with Thomas Ambrosio and Nick Bauroth

Presidential Debate WatchesCollege of AHSS provides events to inform NDSU voters

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The orange season is about to turn pink. As the world observes the breast cancer awareness month through October, NDSU students are also contribut-ing to the cause.

Alpha Gamma Rho, the fraternity that believes in making better men, is lend-ing a hand to make healthier women (and men, too). The AGR boys have actively taken up the issue of breast cancer plaguing the Ameri-can society recently. They are working toward raising money and awareness for the breast cancer problem.

Last week the Alpha Gamma Rho had organized a Pink Out Grill Out cam-paign where a delicious meal was served to fellow Bison for only $5. The pro-ceeds from this event were forwarded to the American

Cancer Society. The people who came

to the Grill Out were very excited and happy about do-ing their small but important part in uprooting the cancer evil.

Andrew Maidl, a junior in crop and weed sciences at NDSU said, “I have had family friends who have been through cancer and I re-alize that no amount of con-tribution is ever big enough for this. People don’t know how badly breast cancer is

affecting our society.”He, like many other stu-

dents, attended and pitched in their support for the cause. Andrew adds that, “I would love to help out in any other way I can to this noble cause.” This feeling was resonated across cam-pus when large number of students came forward to participate in the event mak-ing it a grand success.

AGR Philanthropy Chair Levi Hall was very happy about the turnout at the

event. He says, “We didn’t expect so many people to join us, it was overwhelm-ing to see how the young community is actively par-ticipating in these activi-ties.”

The AGR raised about $3,000 in just one evening through the Grill Out event. They are also selling Pink Out t-shirts for $10 each and Levi expects to raise another $3,000-5,000 through the t-shirt sales.

“We bought 300 T-shirts

on our first day and all got sold out within the day,” he said.

October 10 will be ob-served as Pink Out Campus day when all the supporters will wear their pink t-shirts.

This is the first year of this program and AGR ex-pects the coming batch of students to keep the cam-paign alive.

“We had a cook with us for the past many years and when she was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, we real-

ized how this disease affects not only the person but also their family as well as ev-eryone associated with that person,” Levi said.

The Philanthropy Chair at AGR, along with Ameri-can Cancer Society, wishes to raise even more money in the coming semesters and also want to hold edu-cational programs to spread awareness about breast can-cer.

Making a home away from home is not an impos-sible feat. As international students we come across many situations where in we have to adjust to our new home. We adapt to the local food habits, weather and a lot of other “anomalies” in our host city.

However, the impact is most felt at the time of festivities. Celebrating an important festival, while be-ing away from family and friends, is strange and un-known to most of us. But the Chinese students at NDSU may have learned the trick.

Last Saturday the Chi-nese students of NDSU teamed up with other Chi-nese folks form Fargo-Moorhead to celebrate the mid-autumn harvest festi-val, also popularly known as the Moon Festival.

The humble celebra-tion of the Chinese Lantern Festival was held at the First Presbyterian Church

across Klai Hall in down-town Fargo. A merry crowd of Chinese families and our own herd of students from

China joined the festivities by singing Chinese songs and playing card games.

The students had an

amazing opportunity to share their culture as they had brought along non-Chi-nese guests to the event. As

a writer for this newspaper, I was lucky to experience the celebration of a Chinese festival for the first time in my life.

The moon festival in China is usually held in Sep-tember through October as it coincides with the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chi-nese lunar calendar.

People eat moon cakes, float sky lanterns and light up incenses in reverence to the Goddess of Moon Chang’e on the occasion of Moon Festival. Guessing of “Lantern Riddles” and drinking of tea are also part of the celebrations.

This day is also a roman-tic festival as most places in China hold matchmaking events. One of the ways in which this is done is

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Homecoming is one of the more memorable events that take place on campus each fall and some may be remembered more than oth-ers. Several days of celebra-tion are climaxed by the foot-ball game, which has always been the centerpiece of it all.

Although it certainly doesn’t hurt to field a team that can absolutely obliterate the nation’s top competition, there are other traditions and happenings associated with the week that have been etched in the minds of those who have gotten to experi-ence it.

The Bison may still figu-ratively be on fire following last Saturday’s romp in the dome, but almost exactly 60 years ago a large portion of the stands at old Dacotah

Field literally burned to the ground only a couple of days after the Homecoming game.

Fortunately for NDSU, the blaze didn’t get in the way of its own festivities, but it flared up a problem for Concordia College, which was set to play their home-coming game at the site one week later. Perhaps this 1952 occurrence ended up overshadowing the parade, dance and game itself that year.

Pressing the pyro issues further, the week used to fea-ture a pregame bonfire and in 1962 there was concern that somebody would light up the woodpile if it were built too soon. Since this tradition obviously no longer exists it would be interesting to know when and why it eventually ended.

They more than likely ig-nited a fire that year, but the Gold Star Marching Band lost their formation practice field to the construction of

Burgum Hall and was there-fore forced to stay seated in the stands for their halftime performance. These could be quirks that Alumni en-rolled at the time my now bring up in conversation as they now enjoy retirement.

Fast forwarding another 10 years, the homecoming theme in 1972 was “Off and Running.” The mainstay activities, as they still are, were the heart and soul of the party, but there was a bit of a twist to this one. A na-tionally popular duo known as “The Carpenters,” who some of you may have heard of, was hired to christen the freshly finished Bison Sports Arena.

I got a chuckle out of a caption attached to a Spec-trum report that read, “Karen Carpenter gets it on during the concert Saturday night. The sellout crowd loved the Carpenters concert and gave the brother-sister duo a standing ovation.”

This was an interesting choice for a college campus concert, but it probably lin-gers as a great memory for many.

While the football team had once again established itself as a top national power the year before, there had been a few changes home-coming that gave it a differ-ent flavor in the 80s.

Jackie Ressler, 1982 event adviser, probably said it best, “Our activities may not be new, but they’re im-proved to better fit the tastes of SU student’s.”

Those tastes seemed to be pretty consistent with a “Re-venge of the Nerds” movie, but what could be more fun than that? Student activities were made up of competitive events such as nail pounding, log rolling, balloon shaving.

At the other end of the spectrum there was a kissing booth, near-beer chugging and a cussing contest. De-spite all those things being a

good time, the John Wayne and Dolly Parton look-alike contest might very well be the number one thing that students who were around then have stored in their minds.

Now that I’ve analyzed a few previous eras, let’s take a look at my own. NDSU Homecoming 1996 was the 75th anniversary it so just how did that one stack up with the original from 1921? Back then the main focus was for current students to reminisce with alumni. There definitely was some of this type of socializing going on during the ‘90s, but I can’t recall it being a priority.

We, no doubt, were en-tertained at the Homecom-ing Show sponsored by Blue Key, stayed up late doing what college students of a certain age do and then willfully drug ourselves to the next morning’s parade. Recharging for the game seemed to somehow take

care of itself.As alum I think back to

those exciting times for the purpose of rekindling good feelings and wonder how my current fellow students will remember what they experi-enced last week. After mov-ing on with your life, there’s a good chance that your at-titude about homecoming week will be similar to what was written by Pamela Enz, who was the Spectrum Edi-tor in Chief 16 years ago.

“It’s a week well suited for reflections of the past. This is the week when alumni return to their for-mer haunts. They check out places they recall fondly (or not so fondly) and see faces of people they haven’t seen in years.”

But for now, continue to build on the memories that you already have and contin-ue to create new. Since some will be forgotten, it’s best to come away with as many as you can.

This fast-paced culture in which we live leaves very little room for taking time to smell the roses … or the cui-sine.

As obesity rates sky rock-et and dieting becomes a fad, we should stop to consider some of the natural methods of slimming down. How we eat impacts how we look just as much as what we eat, and prolonging our mealtime pat-terns is one method proven to fight fat gain.

Ann MacDonald, edi-tor of the Harvard Mental Health Letter, explains the physiological effects of eat-ing slowly. A filled stomach is not the only indicator that you are “full;” the brain re-ceives signals from diges-tive hormones communicat-ing your body’s satisfaction, whether you need to eat more or stop eating.

Pausing between bites This will help you to slow

down your dining. Talk with the people at your table after every other bite or sip your drink between bites of food.

Setting down your sil-verware

Simply setting your sil-verware down can also help you resist shoveling. Taking the time to set down your fork, chew your food and then pick up your fork again will slow down the eating process significantly. Practic-ing this method takes consid-erable concentration, but it is certain to keep you eating at a slow and steady pace.

Savor the taste of your food

Try mixing up flavors by biting into different dishes in-stead of focusing on one dish at a time. Eat a chicken nug-get, next a scoop of peas, and then a slice of apple. Make your mind and taste buds fo-cus on each separate entrée, savoring the flavor of each bite.

Taking smaller bites and chewing slowly

This method forces you to devote more time and energy

to chewing than scooping. As food travels to your stomach and then to your small intes-tine, chemicals are released to your brain that signal how much more you can consume without overeating. Several seconds pass before food reaches your stomach, so the slower you eat, the full-er you’ll get without eating more than your stomach can hold.

Use chopsticksBelieve it or not, eating

with chopsticks can reduce your chances of overindulg-ing. Chopsticks constrain you to smaller bites and cause you to focus more on picking up your food than shoveling it in, resulting in a slower eating process and a healthier you.

Moral of the story: Pay attention to what you’re eat-ing and how you’re eating it. Avoid mindless eating! Be-ing conscientious of how the food on your plate and the fork in your hand are affect-ing your body plays a vital role in forming health-pro-moting habits.

He Said: “When they constantly check your text messages, phone calls and Facebook,” Joey Mack, a junior majoring in mechani-cal engineering, said.

She Said: “I would have to say when they are too clingy and they don’t try. I just hate it when guys don’t treat girls like they should!” Hailey Boner, a freshman majoring in business mar-keting, said.

Bad habits such as nail biting, mumbling, saying “like,” and burping at the dinner table frequently be-come a cause for annoy-ance, but these small things usually do not constitute ending a relationship. On the other hand, people con-stantly hear about definite deal-breakers: lying, exces-sive smoking or drinking, cheating and abuse.

The habits that rarely get mentioned, though, are the ones of interest. Everyone knows people with one of these tendencies, and no one wants to date them. So in

case you are wondering why people keep avoiding you or sprinting in the opposite di-rection when you walk by, it could be because you really need to “cut the habit.”

The most obvious deal-breaker: poor hygiene

Just to clarify: If you take pride in the fact that you can go for weeks without show-ering or brushing your teeth, your breath alone will be a deal-breaker. Likewise, not knowing how to operate a washer is no excuse to wear the same shirt four days in a row. Bad hygiene can be a major factor in how you come across to the opposite sex.

A less obvious deal-breaker: the “One-Upper”

This guy is the one who always has a better story than the one that was just told. If you find that people constantly reply, “Cool sto-ry, bro” to your awesome-ly exaggerated tales, you might be this guy. Few peo-ple want to date someone who is constantly outdoing them. Cut this habit fast.

Along the same lines: Mr. or Mrs. Always Right

No matter what gets said, these people always believe that they are more right than the rest of the group, and they will proclaim it to their death. But if you do not want to die alone with a lot of useless opinions, tone it down. People appreciate in-telligence, just not when it is shoved at them constantly to prove that they are wrong.

One very important re-minder is to gage the other person’s reaction. When the conversation focuses less on you being awesome or cor-rect, and more on listening to what the other person has to say, you have a much bet-ter chance of being liked. And hey, a shower never hurts either.

Next week’s question: “Is it okay to lie to a sig-

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where young single wom-en throw their handkerchiefs to a crowd of young men, and if one man catches the handkerchief and returns it, he has a chance of romance.

Like any other traditional Chinese festival, Moon Fest is filled with stories of the immortal deity Chang’e and how she happened to live on the moon forever.

One version of the story is this: According to legend, Chang’e and her husband Huoyi were immortals in heaven. When the Jade em-peror’s 10 sons turned into 10 suns, the Emperor asked help from Huoyi, who was

an expert archer. Huoyi shot down nine of

the 10 suns and left one sun for the earth. The Jade em-peror was not happy about the killing of his sons and ordered Huoyi and Chang’e to live as mortals on earth. Chang’e was upset about this and so Huoyi asked the Queen Mother of the West to give him an immortality pill.

She warned him that only half a pill is to be taken by each person. But when he took it home, Chang’e out of curiosity swallowed the whole pill and floated away to the moon. She now lives there with Jade Rabbit and

Wu Gang the Wood cutter. The Jade Rabbit also known as the Moon Rabbit is the tra-ditional icon.

“The main idea of Moon Fest is about the whole fam-ily getting together. We had a lot of fun even so far away from home. We played poker and sang songs and munched on some delicious moon cakes,” said Qianhui Zhao, a freshman majoring in bio-logical sciences, said.

She and other Chinese students wish to keep fol-lowing the traditions of their ancestors, no matter where they are.

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Anyone who needed a little brushing up on their knowledge of U.S. presi-dents would have had no shortage of the stuff at Con-cordia College Theatre’s recent production of “44 Plays for 44 Presidents.” A veritable history lesson uti-lizing nearly every aspect of theater, this presidential pro-duction was not lacking in entertainment or education.

Comprised of five men and five women, the cast gave collective glimpses into each presidency of the Unit-ed States, and in a different style every time. Whether it was humorous, sad or odd, with speech or silence, lit up with light or drenched in darkness, every president’s story was told in a unique way.

Each actor took turns

portraying a president, from Washington to Obama, which made for an interest-ing theatrical experience but proved distracting at times. As we all know, every president has been a man, but that did not mean that they could not be portrayed by the women in this play. It just did not look right for John Adams to be wearing a polka-dot dress or for Jimmy Carter to be walking around in high heels.

Another slight distraction was the light that flashed on whenever a direct quote from a president or historical figure was stated by one of the cast members. At first it was somewhat enlightening (in more ways than one!) but then became annoying as the production progressed. Af-ter all, who in a dark theater wants a bright yellow light switched on and off at infre-quent points during a play?

There were, however, several aspects of the pro-duction that made up for these minor negatives. Dur-ing each short play, a screen to the left of the stage showed a picture of the president be-ing portrayed as well as their years in office, which literal-

ly helped set the stage for the performance. Audience par-ticipation was encouraged at times, which was especially interesting when John F. Kennedy’s short play called for older audience members to share memories of his as-sassination.

Other memorable scenes included any of the ones about a president who died in office. How the cast told the stories of those presidents’ deaths was different each time, but the main themes seemed to be humor and sorrow. These two themes ran rampant throughout the performance. Although this aspect of the short plays was slightly limited, the ways the cast depicted the presiden-cies was very different in-deed.

James Garfield’s presi-dency was presented through a dance, Richard Nixon’s was a musical, Chester Ar-thur’s a Q&A and Woodrow Wilson’s a college lecture. Herbert Hoover’s term in of-fice was analogized through a bad Rube Goldberg ex-periment while John Tyler’s tenure was a series of mean jokes. Perhaps the funniest presidents portrayed were

Ulysses S. Grant (a proverbi-al rockstar), William Howard Taft (“I don’t wanna be pres-ident! President’s a stinky job!”) and Warren G. Hard-ing (“I don’t know anything about this European stuff.”). Other scenes were some-what sad (Franklin Pierce and Harry S. Truman), and a few were just downright strange (Millard Fillmore and Gerald Ford). The whole production came to an aus-tere end with Barack Obama trying to avoid tripping up while playing Double Dutch jump rope.

Concordia’s rendition of “44 Plays for 44 Presi-dents” was an enjoyable and educational experience, and seemed an appropriate play for the time, right in the heat of the presidential election. The cast included Ali Abdul-lah, Hannah Amundson, Jac-qui Backer, Britainy Bruce, Theodore Coonradt, Domi-nic Hillberg, Rachel Honz, Ryan Modahl, Meghan Ol-son and Martin Pederson. The show ran at Concordia College Theatre from Oct. 4 to 7.

First when people thought of television they looked at ABC, CBS, FOX and NBC. Then cable televi-sion started getting into the game with channels such as FX, AMC and subscription-based channels like HBO and Showtime. Now Netflix is trying to make their mark on the television landscape.

Netflix’s original series “House Of Cards” officially has a release date. The show will premiere on Netflix Feb. 1, 2012. In a change of pace, unlike other shows where viewers have to wait a full week between episodes, all 13 episodes of the entire first season will be released on the same day. Let the mara-thons begin.

“House of Cards” is adapted from the BBC dra-ma of the same name. From executive producer David Fincher (“Fight Club”), the show stars Academy Award winner Kevin Spac-ey (“American Beauty”) and Robin Wright (“For-rest Gump”). In the show, Spacey will play ruthless politician Francis Under-wood who, along with his wife Claire (Wright), will stop at nothing to get to the top. The show will also star Kate Mara (“American Hor-ror Story”).

Over the last year, the streaming service has been building an impressive col-lection of television shows including current hits and past favorites to their watch instantly catalogue. How-ever, Cards marks the first time a high profile show will debut off television. Instead of going to a premium chan-nel such as an HBO, Cards will go online to Netflix. If

the show succeeds, it could change how people view television going forward.

Along with “House of Cards,” the streaming ser-vice made headlines last year when they brought back fan favorite “Arrested De-velopment.” The critically acclaimed show ran on FOX from 2003 to 2006 before being cancelled by the net-work. Netflix picked up a fourth season of the show. The ten-episode season should premiere sometime early next year. The whole cast is expected to return.

It has also been an-nounced that Netflix has picked up a series from horror director Eli Roth (“Hostel”) titled “Hemlock Grove.” Based on the book, Hemlock stars Famke Jans-sen (“X-Men”), and is about the gruesome murder of a girl in a Pennsylvania steel town. The project is being described as smart, dark, complex, and at times, ter-rifying. Like “Arrested De-velopment,” Grove is set to premiere sometime in the New Year.

Netflix is an interesting place to create shows, be-cause, unlike standard tele-vision, the show can be as dark as it needs to be with-out network interference and standards. The move also guarantees at least a full sea-son, which is not always the case on standard television.

No one knows how well these new shows will do when they debut on Netf-lix in the coming months, but the idea certainly opens up new possibilities mov-ing forward. At the very least Netflix is another me-dium for original content from some creative people that may not have found a home on standard television, which is never a bad thing. The only thing left to do now is wait for February to see how it all unfolds.

Jack DuraContributing Writer

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‘44 Plays’ a Humorous History Lesson Through Theatre

Last year, DC Comics rebooted their entire line of books in the event known as “The New 52.” While the quality of the new series has been a mixed bag, the immediate sales boost for the company was not. Now, Marvel is trying its hand at the comic book re-launch game with “Marvel NOW!”

While DC decided to

overhaul its entire continuity from scratch (to various de-grees of impact) Marvel has chosen to retain their previ-ous continuity. That means that while every new book in the standard Marvel line-up will be restarting from issue one, just like in The New 52, everything that happened within the previous fiction will remain.

But that doesn’t mean that there won’t be changes. The NOW! reboot will see every major title in the Mar-vel 616 canon starting new storylines with new creative teams and new directions for

the characters. Some heroes and villains will receive de-sign overhauls, while others will be featured in entirely renamed series.

The re-launch acts as a response to the “Avengers vs. X-Men” storyline that just wrapped up last week. With the world of Marvel going through some major changes during the cross-over, there’s a lot of room for upheaval.

The first new lines of books will start next Wednesday with the brand new title, “Uncanny Aveng-ers” #1. After that, we’ll

start to see a mix of new and returning (restarted) titles with new and familiar char-acters as they deal with their freshly cleaned slates.

Teaser images for up-coming projects include what is thought to be a Wol-verine series from Frank Cho and something that has only been teased as “Supe-rior,” which is rumored to be the new Spider-Man book.

For more details, just go to your local comic book store and find out what’s next for yourselves.

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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2’s “Favela” mul-tiplayer map has been re-moved from the game over references to Islam.

The reference in question comes in the form of a paint-ing. The painting in the map features a quote from holy scripture on the frame. The text reportedly reads, “Al-lah is beautiful and He loves beauty.”

This in and of itself might not have been an issue, however the digital paint-ing is found in a bathroom in part of the map. This is,

according to Youtube user “KhaleDQ84EveR,” “a dis-respectful place,” for the quote to be featured.

Activition, the publisher behind the “Call of Duty” franchise, has responded by temporarily pulling the map from regular online rotation as they prepare a title update to remove it from the game

entirely. They stated, “We apologize to anyone who found this image offensive. Please be assured we were unaware of this issue and that there was no intent to offend. We are working as quickly as possible to re-move this image and any other similar ones we may find from our various game

libraries.”The company issued a

statement to Kotaku, which was later reprinted on their website.

It stated, “We are ur-gently working to release a Title Update to remove the texture from Modern War-fare 3. We are also working to remove the texture from Modern Warfare 2 through a separate Title Update. Un-til the TU is ready, we have removed the Favela multi-player map from online ro-tation.”

They continued, saying,

“Activision and our devel-opment studios are respect-ful of diverse cultures and religious beliefs, and sensi-tive to concerns raised by its loyal game players. We thank our fans for bringing this to our attention.”

While the petition against the placement of the texture only pertained to Modern Warfare 2, Ac-tivision’s statement seems to imply that it is also featured in Modern Warfare 3.

For context, Modern Warfare 2 was released nearly three years ago in November of 2009. The fact

that this is only now becom-ing an issue could insinu-ate that this is only an iso-lated incident concerning a single fan or a small, vocal contingent of players upset over the issue, as that’s how these things tend to start. It’s entirely possible that the majority of Muslim Call of Duty fans aren’t upset by the placement of the texture.

However, given Activi-sion’s history of controversy concerning Modern Warfare 2, it’s understandable that they would want to keep the issue contained.

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Despite the theme of fear, the first annual “The Tell” drew a lot of laughs at Studio 222 on Tuesday, Oct. 2. The event began at 7 p.m. and allowed anyone to put their name in a hat for the chance to go on stage and tell their story.

The Tell does have rules, however. The story must re-late to the theme, take five minutes or less, be true and firsthand and use no notes or props.

While listening to stories on The Moth, Laura Egland realized that she wanted “to bring storytelling to Fargo.” The idea of bringing a story slam to Fargo was on Eg-land’s bucket list for over a year before she decided to go for it; “I just got really brave

one day,” she said.Egland wants to foster

and grow what she already sees in the Fargo commu-nity: “acceptance, and a will-ingness just to listen.” For Egland, a story slam is not all about the competition. Instead, it is all about “con-necting through stories,” she said.

To begin the event, Eg-land told a story about her father and breaking the rules. After skipping school, driv-ing off with her boyfriend and crashing the car, it’s no surprise the sound of her fa-ther’s boots coming towards her in the hall scared her. She kept the crowd laugh-ing right up until sh and the

crowd were in tears as she said, “my dad had a heart attack,” and all she wanted was to hear those menacing boots come down the hall-way again.

After her story, ten peo-ple’s names were chosen from a hat, and they told their story. One contender, Maria Bosak, told her story,

named “Sixteen.”“I grew up in the South—

South Dakota,” Bosak began with a grin. Her story was full of memorable one-lin-ers and she kept the crowd laughing with one disastrous event after another, includ-ing her boyfriend stealing a car, then getting mad at Bo-sak and deciding to “run [the car] into a tree, where it of course starts on fire.” After a mad dash to get her home be-fore curfew—and failing—Bosak concluded by saying, “this is one of the reasons I hope I never have a teenage girl!”

NDSU student Jacinta Thieschafer came to watch the event, but after hearing a joke about a tall Russian, she realized she had to come up and tell her fear story. “My story is called ‘Slice on Slice,’” she began.

Thieschafer’s story had the crowd laughing as she re-told of her encounter with a looming Russian man, twice

her size, came up to her at the deli in Hornbacher’s and asked for ham, slice on slice. “I had no idea what he meant,” Thieschafer said.

She finally realized he meant he literally wanted the ham stacked “slice on slice,” but not before she was thoroughly intimidated by him. The judges agreed and named Thieschafer the win-ner of this month’s The Tell.

Next month’s theme is “Whoops,” and will be held in the same venue, Studio 222, and is Tuesday, Novem-ber 6 at 7 p.m. There will be four other evenings of story slams leading up to April’s The Tell Off, a head-to-head competition between the five winners from each month.

To learn more informa-tion about the upcoming Tells, visit TheTellFargo.Blogspot.com.

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If you have listened to the former Beatles singer/songwriter John Lennon’s song “Jealous Guy,” the title should look familiar to you. What I like about Lennon’s song is the identification and expression of his feeling throughout the song. I feel that many of us suffer from jealousy because we are not trying to identify the feel-ing. Now, I do not want to be a sort of spiritual guru who tells you how to feel, but I do wish to share my knowledge and experiences of jealousy and explain ways that can help us to deal with it.

Jealousy can arise when we see other people’s suc-cesses and happiness. As dictionary.com defines it, “resentment against a rival, a person enjoying success or advantage or against anoth-er’s success or advantage it-self.” It may also arise when we have negative emotions such as disappointment and despair. Also, we sometimes

feel jealous when we try to guard our loved ones. How-ever, the question is how can we deal with jealousy when it actually comes and smash-es our hearts?

I have a classic cliché type story that I hope many can easily relate to. After I came to the United States as an international student, I met loads of other interna-tional students who had re-lationships with a significant other in their home countries. They maintained long dis-tance relationships with great efforts, but once I saw how one of my friends was terri-bly affected by jealousy. He locked himself in his room, and when asked about his worries, he gave no answers. Later on, I learned that his significant other has told him about this amazing other guy and he was ashamed to admit that he was jealous about this “unknown person.” As I wit-nessed he suffered more and more by not identifying the way he was feeling. Eventu-ally he explained to me the way he was feeling, and he realized that he was jealous. I shared some of my personal experiences of being jealous

with him, and in talking to him, I understood that when we identify and respect jeal-ousy it would stop bothering and nagging us.

This little story may not explain a whole lot, but I’m sure there should be many occurrences like this happen-ing in our own campus.

In order to deal with jeal-ousy, I would like people to consider jealousy as any oth-er feeling such as, happiness, hatred and disappointment. By saying this, I don’t mean that jealousy is such a noble feeling; in fact it is a terrible feeling. As I see, jealousy oc-curs because of the imperfect success-driven world that we are living and it is almost im-possible to avoid it. What we have to do is not to run away from it, but sit and feel it or tell someone how we feel about it.

There can be people who may not feel jealous, who are spiritually high in their mind-sets and free from suffering. I do envy their abilities and I will try my best to become one of them. But until then, I know that I will be just a jeal-ousy guy.

Big headlines sell com-mercials. And after the Presi-dential Debate on Wednes-day, I didn’t need to look far for evidence. “Romney Dominates Debate,” “Econ-omy focus of debate show-down” and “Not Debatable: Obama Stumbled.” These are the three headlines that flashed on CNN.com, CB-SNews.com and Politico.com shortly after the debate Wednesday night. I pretend-ed to wonder if the 90-min-ute (minus commercials) duel lived up to the hype.

Feeling guilty for ignor-ing the debate and instead reading a fiction novel, I thought I’d seek amnesty by catching up online. It wasn’t long before I threw up my arms in surrender to the bold dramatic headlines shrouded with red, white and blue photographs of Presi-dent Obama and Candidate Romney pointing fingers in an attempt to appear stern, confident and presidential. All this, of course, posted along big numbers recording the polled “winner.”

Before long, over-whelmed by the magnitude of the headlines, I escaped to a news venue across the pond hoping the distance might foster an objective story. “U.S. election: Obama and Romney debate economy in Denver,” was the headline at BBCNews.com. Alas! An approachable article worth the risk of either candidate yelling “Outsourcer!”

I don’t deny the fact that debates offer an opportunity for Mitt Romney to outline his plan for America and try establishing himself in his own terms directly to the voter. It’s true that President Obama could use his share of the 90 minutes to defend his record as President and outline his vision for another term. But to think that the nearly priceless undecided and swing voters’ decisions hinge on the debates makes me sick.

Are we really going to vote for our leader based on how well the candidates practiced delivering stor-yline-worthy quips? Does looking into the camera on stage really prove one under-stands the needs of a nation’s people? Does a live sum-mary of the $361 million that has been spent so far in nega-tive commercials really help voters understand each can-didate’s vision of the country of our future?

I hope that for a day we all treat elections as more than an evening spectacle. Ultimately, the resulting rig-orous, well-varied discussion from multiple candidates will indeed be newsworthy. Until then, I can look forward to a couple more nights of be-ing entertained by another paperback fiction of my own choosing.

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With the first couple weeks of October, we enter the last month of the elec-tion season. With that last month, of course, come the presidential debates. Though their result may have little to no effect on polling numbers nationwide, as the candidates really are not saying anything they haven’t already said yet in their campaigns, there is one gaping hole in the Ameri-can political system that the debates highlight.

In today’s political cli-mate, Republicans and Dem-ocrats are leaning further and further away from each other with every passing day. Our congress has never been more polarized in its nearly 250-year history. And yet, this is no accurate representation of the American citizenry.

The majority of Ameri-cans are not far left, nor are they far right – they hover somewhere in the middle. And yet, each election year, they are forced to split in two – forced to pit themselves against each other, though their beliefs may be shock-ingly similar.

There are, of course, third parties in America that people can vote for. I voted absentee this year, and I can tell you that there are nearly as many candidates for President as there are for all the other of-fices on the ballot combined. We really do have a multitude of choices when it comes to selecting a president, yet, if you are watching the debates, you would never know it.

A third party with sig-nificant clout to throw off the balance of power in govern-ment right now could shake our political system to its roots. If another party were to rise to power, it could suc-cessfully bridge the growing gap between conservative and liberal in America.

And, if voters were smart, that third party could even surpass the power of the two current parties. Can you imagine? An American gov-ernment united under one party, with one goal: coopera-tion and forward progress for a better tomorrow.

But how to do this, you ask? Let us first look at why no third party could possibly gather as much clout as the Republican or Democratic parties in today’s political cli-mate. First off, the two parties have their roots in the begin-

ning of our democracy. They have changed names and platforms over the last two and a half centuries, but their histories are long and illus-trious. Because of this, their support bases are incredibly deep.

Most third parties, on the other hand, are relatively new. The last time a third party won electoral votes was in 1968 when Richard Nixon (R) defeated Hubert H. Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace (I).

Since then, no third par-ty has been able to garner enough support (in terms of either votes or monetary sup-port) to make serious inroads upon the electoral college. The pockets that back the two parties are far too deep and far too richly lined for any third party to possibly com-pete.

So how do we get a third party candidate to be taken seriously? First, let’s put a cap on the amount of money a candidate can spend on a campaign. By doing this, we put all candidates at an even level. No candidate can be ruled out simply because he or she represents a lower class of citizen that cannot pump millions or billions of dollars into his or her cam-paign.

Second, let’s open up the presidential debates to a third party candidate. Give the American people a true side-by-side of their most viable options. Keeping the debates strictly Democrat vs. Repub-lican is unfair and completely biased.

The final suggestion that could help a third party burst onto the scene is an all-star candidate. Much like Ted-dy Roosevelt and his Bull Moose (Progressive) Party, an upstart candidate that al-ready has significant politi-cal clout (Al Gore, anyone?) could represent a third party and give them a fighting shot at the presidency.

It’s radical. It’s revolu-tionary. It may even be a bit scary. But it is clear that our two-party system is just not functioning at the high level it has historically. If our rep-resentatives cannot learn to get along, make sacrifices and reach compromises, then perhaps it is time for a third party to step in and represent the American people for what they really are – a people will-ing to do whatever it takes to make forward progress.

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While reading Joshua Haider’s opinion column on Tuesday, several incon-sistencies and gaps in logic came to mind. First, Joshua insists that his anti-gay mar-riage stance, which “hurts society,” is “not to demean or imply inferiority of LGBT individuals.” However, it seems quite clear that he is setting up a value-system that ranks “traditional mar-riage” as distinctly better than “same-sex marriage.” In fact, he doesn’t even grant this comparison be-cause, ultimately, same-sex marriage does not qualify as a valid marriage. This cer-tainly seems to imply inferi-ority. The least he could do is admit where he stands and what its evaluative implica-tions are.

Second, Joshua’s use of Aristotle was both frustrat-ing and anachronistic. Frus-trating, because Aristotle’s view of “telos,” or purpose, is very, very complex, and the rhetorical weight in-volved in “name- dropping” Aristotle perhaps lends un-qualified weight to the argu-ment. The use of Aristotle was anachronistic because Aristotle’s views on “pur-pose” have long since gone out of vogue. That being said, it doesn’t mean Joshua is necessarily wrong. With-out getting into a complex analysis of Aristotle—be-cause this issue shouldn’t be intelligible to only a nar-row audience—one ought to

consider some of its conse-quences. If “purpose” de-pends on knowing what hap-pens consistently in nature, we must identify this pattern at the most foundational lev-el. However, at present, we cannot determine the exact patterns of motion and posi-tion at the atomic level. Ac-cordingly, we do not know what happens always-or-for-the-most-part at the most basic, foundational level of existence.

Without delving that far into science—which always has the possibility of be-ing re-modified—one can also look toward real-world examples. These include assumptions about what is naturally best, such as the years of unfortunate history where Europeans assumed that they were superior to other races and cultures, some using similar argu-ments as Joshua that since these “primitive” people consistently act this way, it must be their purpose, their intrinsic nature to be “primi-tive.” This validated injus-tices that don’t need to be described here.

One might simply ask: What would be Joshua’s opinion on sterile men or women? They cannot con-ceive. Indeed, “consistent-ly,” sterile men never con-ceive. Is it their “purpose” not to conceive, and there-fore their marriage should be annulled? That seems absurd. Should elderly peo-

ple, beyond the age of con-ception, get divorced? Are couples who choose to focus on their careers instead of child- rearing “immoral?”

Indeed, Joshua might say that these are “exceptions” that would still be amenable to his overall viewpoint. However, it would create a moral spectrum, and once this spectrum is granted, Joshua’s black-and-white analysis becomes incredibly complex. One might be bet-ter off focusing on obvious injustices, like food short-ages, nuclear disarmament, etc., instead of pursuing what Joshua perceives as a conceptual ideal.

Last, there is always a degree of instability within families, and there might very reasonably be more instability in a “traditional marriage” than in a same-sex marriage. In fact, the very obstacles in place for same-sex marriages may indicate how loving these potential parents can be. Joshua ought to consider whether he has a serious ethical point, or if he has accidentally taken the pre-established order (i.e. “traditional marriage”) and assumed that it is the “pur-pose” of society. Remember, there have been many bad things that were once cus-tomary. Including the appeal to some vague and intangi-ble “conjugal purpose.”

-- Jim Steele

On Monday, I read the “Head-to-Head” articles in the opinion section and I just wanted to give my take on the issue. I personally am against same-sex marriage. I, too, am openly Catholic. The rash assumption is al-ways that we are “anti-gay.” This is not the case.

The Catholic church con-siders homosexual acts to be sinful. It is not considered a sin to have homosexual thoughts or desires. It’s just like any other sin--if you have a desire to steal, it is not a sin. But as soon as you perform the act of theft, it is sinful.

If you believe God cre-ated everyone for a purpose, then you would have to be-lieve that God chose to cre-ate homosexuals. He has a purpose for them as well, but

that plan does NOT include getting married to the same sex because that would be a sinful act. Perhaps he cre-ated them to be openly gay and still protest gay mar-riage.

Shannon Suehr brings up that as Christians, we are supposed to “love and respect each other.” I com-pletely agree with this. But allowing same-sex marriage is not showing love. People who favor gay marriage regularly seem to make the argument, “It isn’t hurting you at all, just worry about yourself.” I find a huge problem with this claim. As Christians, our goal in life is to make it to heaven. This is where the “just worry about yourself” claim comes into play.

However, as Christians we are also called to evange-lize. Not only is it our duty

to get ourselves to heaven, it is our duty to get as many others to heaven as well. By allowing same-sex marriage, we are allowing these people to commit a sin, thus keeping them further from heaven. If I allow others to sin, I am not doing my duty to evangelize, thus keeping myself further from heaven. So the argu-ment of it not hurting me at all is false.

Marriage is a sacred act created by the church. It was designed to create a connec-tion between one man and one woman so that they can produce children. Period. Our society has sadly lost the idea that marriage is a religious bond, not a legal bond. As a Minnesota resi-dent, I will be voting “Yes” for the amendment. I hope you do the same.

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Yes, this article is about grunge metal, but it is more universal than that. I realize it might seem ridiculous that I could derive life lessons from music that is typically associated with immorality. Beyond the music though, it is about raw, uninhibited passion, it is about outsiders finding their place in the sun. It is about the vitality that finding such passion brings to life.

You might hate heavy metal and all of the negative connotations that come with it: a raging migraine from all of the screaming, wail-ing guitars, high wattage and sound-crushing ampli-fiers. Even worse, metal has been associated with ritual-istic animal sacrifice, drugs and bad pleather. Some of those things are true, indeed. Don’t worry, I’m not going to slay any small animals or start wearing all black.

I will start at the begin-ning of my music evolution. I admit I stopped listening to bands that had choreo-graphed routines to match their songs after elementary school. I dabbled in listening to heavier mainstream mu-sic such as the Deftones and Rage Against the Machine in junior high. I was too much of a weird band and newspa-per geek to explore anything really edgy until I left home.

The proverbial seas part-ed and I discovered Slayer, and thus grittier, heavier, more underground bands such as The Melvins and Karp. The music hit me like shattered glass right through

my jugular. The sound itself is so angry, raw, so power-ful. Listening to it feels ca-thartic. All of my anger, pain and resentments bleed away with each thrashing guitar and thumping bass line.

This has gotten me in trouble with my neighbors and my eardrums. I have ticked off a few neighbors, like the lady in the apart-ment beneath me who used to take her broom to the ceil-ing to tell me to turn it down. Whoops.

Beyond simply enjoy-ing the music, it might not seem like a 25-year-old girl could really identify with the late eighties-early nineties (pre-Nirvana) grunge metal bands. I do not look like a scene kid. I am blond, I took out my facial piercing years ago, and I have a solitary tat-too on my upper arm. But the rad (to use the lingo from the time) thing is that early nineties grunge metal bands was not about projecting a certain image unlike current “hardcore” bands that seem more focused on an image.

What resonates with me about the early nine-ties grunge-metal bands is their ability to be create their own world outside the mainstream and do what they love. In the documen-tary about the band Karp, the members discuss being total outsiders and nerds in high school.

Karp was bullied and compared high school was a sort of dystopian prison. They formed a band to “break out of their prison.” They did not care what other people thought of them, they just went for it.

Breaking out of the high school clique-ridden prison did not come quickly or

easily, but they were de-termined. Karp said they sucked at their instruments at first. They were persistent in practicing together and improving their playing. It’s very inspiring for a band you admire or any sort of artist to admit that they did not come out of the womb talented and skillful. Rather, it takes practice, diligence, patience and loving what you do.

After getting the loud-est equipment possible and years of playing together, Karp gained a devoted fol-lowing in Olympia and the Pacific Northwest. They just wanted to play music, have fun with friends and live simply. Karp members simply did not see them-selves melding their futures into some sort of mundane nine to five existence, nor did they want to become the next Nirvana.

My romantic notions might cloud some of the re-alities of the lifestyle bands or people with creative jobs lead. Yet, there is some-thing incredibly exhilarat-ing to think about making a simple, modest living fol-lowing your passion. Sure, a nine-to-five existence is reality for most people, can be satisfying, and it pays the bills. For many people, the rat race is mind numbing and soul stripping. Life’s too short for that.

In fact, life’s just too short for listening to music quietly. Turn the volume up louder. Metal taught me that. It also taught me that anger and disillusionment are part of life. You can suppress it or use it as fuel. Whether or not you like metal, when you find something you love and it resonates from deep with-in you, embrace it.

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Coming off an emotional homecoming slaughter of Youngstown State, the num-ber one ranked Bison will square off in another con-ference showdown against Indiana State University on Saturday at the Fargodome.

The Sycamores will come into chilly Fargo looking to do something they have not been able to do since the NDSU football team joined the conference back in 2008: beat the Bison.

The Bison will be riding a ten game winning streak into Saturday afternoon, as Shakir Bell and the 4-2 Sycamores look to end a four game losing streak against the Bison.

Bell comes into Satur-day’s contest ranked third among Indiana State’s all-time rushing leaders with 3,256 yards. Last season, the Bison were able to bottle him up for a season low of 79 yards on 16 attempts.

“We’re going to use last year’s tape as a principle and see what we can learn from that,” said Coach Bohl in his press conference Monday. “He’s a very talented running back and is very electric.”

The junior from India-napolis is among the leaders in the FCS in rushing at 937 yards in six games for the Sycamores. Defenses have been struggling all year to keep the 5’8 Bell out of the end zone as he has crossed the goal line eight times al-ready this season.

“We’re not going to stop him, we need to neutralize him,” said Bohl.

And neutralize him is what the top ranked Bison

defense plans to do. The Bi-son defense is coming off one of their more impressive outings of the year, stalling a good YSU offensive at-tack last week. The defense forced three turnovers, one to start the game when Chris-tian Dudzik pounced on a fumble, and another leading to six points by Marcus Wil-liams.

“Marcus’ play changed the dynamic of that game,” said Bohl.

With last week’s inter-ception, Williams not only swung the momentum, he is making his way into the record books himself. Wil-liams is now tied for second in school history with 14 in-terceptions and the return for a touchdown was his fourth in his spectacular career thus far.

On the other side of the ball, Brock Jensen and his Bison offense will look to come out firing against a suspect Sycamore second-ary. Jensen has continued his consistent play from the first snap of the season and is even gaining the praises of Coach Bohl. Jensen has thrown the ball 121 times this season and is still yet to throw an interception. Not counting his fumble that was quickly pounced on by the Bison last week, Jensen has been doing a masterful job with ball security all season long.

Jensen will look to lead the Bison once again and inch closer to another Mis-souri Valley championship, but in the words of Coach Bohl, “It’s not far from the penthouse to the outhouse, and in the Missouri Valley play you need to be playing well or you’re going to get beat.”

The Bison women’s soc-cer team competed well against a talented Fort Wayne squad Sunday, but could not overcome a first-half goal by the Mastodons.

IPFW junior Cassie Egle scored the game’s only goal in the 32nd minute, putting back a rebound from the Bi-son goal to make the final 1-0.

Though the Bison had a rough weekend in Summit League play, positives were seen. Sophomore Anisha Kinnarath, nearly put the Bi-son on top in the 13th minute with a shot on goal.

Kinnaratha again almost equalized the score in the 54th and 78th minutes, end-ing the match with five shots and three shots on goal.

Another solid perfor-mance was by NDSU fresh-man goalkeeper Sierra Bon-ham, making five saves and giving opportunities for the Bison offense to score, but no shots found the back of the net.

IPFW edged NDSU 14-12 in total shots and held a sig-nificant advantage in corner kicks at 11-2.

NDSU will return home to host two Summit League matches next weekend. The Bison will take on Western Illinois at 4 p.m. Friday and then play IUPUI at 12 p.m. Sunday,

As I was scrolling down the WDAY sports page early Sunday afternoon, some-thing caught my eye that sent chills down my spine. No, it wasn’t a headline on how the Bison annihilated the No. three ranked team in the country or on the Concordia Cobbers’ heartbreaking loss against Bethel. Amidst all those headlines, the one that jumped out to me was an ar-ticle titled “South Carolina high school football player collapses, dies.”

I dove into the article and was stricken with sad-ness and grief when I was finished.

Ronald Rouse, an 18-year-old senior lineman for the Hartsville (S.C.) Red Fox football team, collapsed during the second quarter of Hartsville’s homecoming game. The 6’3”, 320-pound Rouse called a timeout and then collapsed as he walked towards the sideline. Four doctors and two trainers were able to revive him after sev-eral minutes and he walked with assistance to the side-line.

Rouse was talking to his father on the sideline when he collapsed again. Doctors used a defibrillator this time but attempts to revive him again failed. Rouse died in the emergency room of sud-den cardiac arrhythmia. He was one week short of his 18th birthday and the third Hartsville High School stu-dent to die since April-- one suffered a seizure and an-other was killed in a car ac-cident.

The whole sequence of events is shocking and downright devastating. The fact that Rouse was revived, talked to his father, and then collapsed again is nothing short of mind numbing. Not to mention, this tragic event was the third in this town and occurred during a foot-ball game, in front of his best friends, fans and family, is truly heartbreaking.

Football, a passion in Rouse’s life, did not kill him. An enlarged heart did. His condition could have killed him when he was singing and

dancing (something Rouse loved to do), fooling around and making people laugh with his buddies or doing his best to cheer up a classmate who looked sad.

Instead, Rouse’s condi-tion decided to take action during an athletic event. Sports are supposed to be some of the best memories for high school kids, memo-ries that will last a lifetime. For the players on the Harts-ville football team, the mem-ory of that night on the field may never escape them. But their memories with Rouse off the field should always overshadow that night.

And that’s how it should be. Too many times, athletes, fans and boosters think the results on the field are the most important thing in the world. Whether it is high school, college, or the pro-fessional level, sports are often considered a second religion. Many need to rec-ognize that there is more to life than sports and it is un-fortunate that events like this make these die-hard sports nuts to realize it.

Sports, no doubt, bring people together. Communi-ties unite to cheer on their team and teammates form a second family on and off the field. Sports are very impor-tant in many people’s lives. But sometimes, we all need to take a second and step back to realize the most im-portant things in life: friends, family, a home and so on.

Hartsville lost a family member and a friend during an event everyone loved on that Friday night. The griev-ing process has been and will continue to be difficult.

As for the football team, they will play again this week. Why? Not because they think football is life, but because that is a way of bringing the population of 7,700 together. The outcome won’t matter for this unde-feated team. The only thing that will matter is giving ev-eryone something to cheer about.

In a small community where young losses are be-ing grieved, the Hartsville football team will go back out under the lights to cheer up the emotional community members, something Ronald Rouse was so good at doing.

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After winning the Jack-rabbit Invitational in Sioux Falls, the NDSU men’s golf team looked to keep the mo-mentum going this past week. The Bison had a great team effort at the Harold Funston Invitational in Huntsville, Texas at Raven Nest. They shot a team score of 877 and ended the invitational as the second best overall team. They trailed only hosting team Sam Houston State by 40 strokes after the three day event.

Going into the final day, the Bison were down 25 strokes after the first two days and couldn’t catch up to a tough Sam Houston team who boasted the top three individual golfers. However, the Bison held on to second and beat out Tyler Junior College by 20.

NDSU was led by the ef-forts of sophomores Trent Olson and Bill Carlson. Ol-son finished at 1-over 214 after ending the first day 2-over 71. Olson took fourth

individually in the tourna-ment.

Carlson had an out-standing last day by finish-ing 2-under par after being 4-over after the first two days. His score of 69 on the third day was the best round from any NDSU golfer in the competition. He finished with a 215, 2-over par, and finished in a tie for fifth as an individual.

After winning the Jack-rabbit Invitational last week, Bison senior Nathan An-derson, shit 9-over par and ended with a tie at 14th. Freshman Connor Holland and senior Nate Varty ended with scores of 227 and 241, respectively.

The Bison will close out their fall schedule at the UMKC Bill Ross Intercolle-giate tournament on Monday and Tuesday. The meet will take place in Overland Park, Kansas at Milburn Country Club.

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The year was 1996, a truly great year to be an American. The Summer Olympics were back on U.S. soil in Atlanta, Bill Clinton defeated some-one named Bob Dole for re-election, and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony introduced us all to “Tha Crossroads.” What does this have to do with the Bison, you ask?

Well, in 1996, a different Thundering Herd won the national title, Marshall Uni-versity. And it just so hap-pens that they were the last division 1-AA team to go un-defeated and win the national championship.

Now before reading any-more, I want to give you all a moment and knock on some wood. (Waiting…) Okay, so now that we just cured any jinx I’m about to put on the Bison (knock on wood, again), there is not a single reason this team shouldn’t clean up the rest of the way and go undefeated (knocking on wood again just for good measure).

With six games to play in the regular season, the Bi-son have already managed to triumph through the meat of their schedule. The remain-ing teams left for the Bison have a combined record of 17-17, which includes road games against a newcomer in the conference, South Da-kota and a winless team in Missouri State.

Outscoring opponents by a margin of 179 points, this may be the strongest Bison team since the 1990 squad that crushed Indiana Pa. by 40 in the division two na-tional championship. That, by the way, ended a magi-cal decade for the Bison that witnessed them winning five out of eight championships before most of us were born.

The key to the 2012 Bison team is simply speed. This team is filled with downright burners. It all starts on the

defense with ball-hawk Mar-cus Williams.

Even Coach Bohl agrees, “He continues to surprise me, I don’t know if there is a more dynamic player in FCS football.”

If you go look back at the tape, Williams’ pick six starts with an outstanding pass rush by the defensive line, which forced YSU’s Kurt Hess to step up in the pocket and make a mistake. Unfortunately for the Pen-guins, that mistake ended up in the hands of Williams, who turned up field and by time he hit the 35, there were no offensive players in sight.

Speed on defense leads opposing offenses to rush their plays making them more prone to mistakes. The Bison defense added to their season total of 13 turnovers causing three against YSU alone. Throw in 14 sacks for a pass rush that has been a pleasant surprise this season, and the Bison defense has been more frightening than imagining Snooki taking care of a young child.

Speed has also been a major x-factor for a Bison offense that has been light-ing it up all season. Where do I begin?

The backfield has been nothing short of extraor-dinary with the one-two punch of Sam Ojuri and John Crockett. After Crockett’s jaw-dropping display of agil-ity and willingness to never go down, he has emerged as a versatile weapon in the Bi-son offense.

But let’s not take any-thing away from Mr. Ojuri, who will be back in the line-up Saturday, ready to prove he can still pirouette through defenses with the best of them.

In this game, speed kills. And I know we have gone through quite a few Presi-dential elections since we have last seen perfection, but something about this Bison team makes me think they are going to blow past the crossroad. Maybe even straight into the history books.

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The last time the UND volleyball team won in Fargo was 1976. They put an end to that streak in front of a season-high crowd of 1,413 at the Bison Bunker Fieldhouse on Tuesday, sweeping the Bison in con-vincing fashion by scores of 25-19, 25-21, and 25-22.

“It’s a big match for us… and I think we definitely should have played a lot bet-ter, especially at this point in the season,” NDSU head coach Kari Thompson said.

UND was the aggres-sor in the opening two sets and took the loud crowd out of the match. After Brynn Joki’s kill put the first score on the board for the Bison, UND rattled off seven straight points. NDSU battled back to 8-12 but the dangerous and talented frontline of UND pulled ahead, eventually winning the opening set 25-19.

UND continued their ral-ly to open up the second set, scoring the first four points. The Bison again battled back and took a 13-11 lead after two Megan Lambert-son kills and an ace by Lau-ren Cammack. NDSU main-tained their lead and looked to be in control of the second set with a 21-19 edge. That was when the Bison squad collapsed. Three NDSU at-tacking errors and a block-ing error contributed to six straight points for UND and the match win.

Down 2-0, the Bison started the third set strong in hopes of avoiding a sweep. Three Jenni Fassbender kills

and a Cammack ace ignited NDSU to a quick 7-1 lead. UND quieted the home crowd again with their own 7-1 run, tying the game at 11. UND and NDSU then went kill for kill down the stretch, tying the game sev-en different times.

An ace and a block for UND finally put them up 20-18, a lead they held for good. UND scored the last two points of the set, win-

ning 25-22 and getting the sweep on their in-state rival.

“We need to execute and stay engaged though long rallies and we’d actu-ally make some good plays and then we wouldn’t get a good second contact on it,” Thompson said. “That’s something that we should be doing at this point.”

UND outhit NDSU .300 to .227 and had a 51-36 ad-vantage in kills and a 57-44

edge in digs. Joki and Lambertson led

the Bison with 10 kills each and Andrea Henning has 14 digs for NDSU.

“We have to refocus now and we have to learn from this,” Thompson said.

NDSU (7-12) returns to Summit League play at 7 p.m. Saturday against the Omaha Mavericks (6-13).

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