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50Editor’s Note: 50 minutes is how long the campus lockdown lasted. The following is based heavily on an interview with Robert Flores’ roomate, Jonathan Castro. The interview was conducted on Nov. 8, 2013. Castro’s comments represent his thoughts and feelings on the events that led to the lockdown of the University of Jamestown. We encourage readers to stay tuned to smcnow.org for further developments on this major campus event.

SMC News interviews Flores’ roommate. Community searches for answers, closure.minutes

By Ashley Domino Enterprise Director

Thursday, Nov. 7, the University of Jamestown went under a complete lock-down.

At 10:44 a.m., an emer-gency email was sent out by Dean of Students Gary Van Zinderen.

The email stated that stu-dents were to promptly get to a secure location on cam-pus. Not a minute later, an emergency text was sent out to students who had regis-tered for the service.

Soon after, the university was under a complete lock-down.

Two emails were sent out informing students that there was a troubled student on campus and that faculty was looking for him.

The troubled student was reported as being Robert Flores. Not soon after the lockdown began, rumors started flying.

It was rumored that Flores

had been involved in satanic rituals amongst other things.

According to his room-mate, Jonathan Castro, Flores was kicked off of the wrestling team in preseason.

Castro believes after Flores was removed from the team, UJ administration became aware of past and ongoing issues with Flores.

Flores, according to Cas-tro, began to show a dis-torted view of friendly teas-ing and joking done by his friends.

The situation became more serious when a female student heard Flores mutter-ing in his sleep, according to Castro.

Castro said Flores told people that he had per-formed a satanic ritual he had read about in a book. However, a female student confirmed it was just Flores muttering nonsense.

The night before the lock-down, Flores heard that campus security was look-

ing for him due to reports by other concerned students.

He was located in Kroeze Hall, interviewed by resi-dence staff, Van Zinderen said. Flores was taken by the police to the state hos-pital, said Jamestown Police Chief Scott Edinger.

“Robert denied all claims that were lodged against him,” Van Zinderen said.

While at the hospital, it was determined that he was not a threat to himself or others, Castro said.

Flores was released that night around 3:30 a.m. and was brought to Nierling, Van Zinderen said.

He was placed in a guest room guarded by security and residence staff until 6 a.m., Castro said.

“It was in his best inter-est and in the best interest of the campus community to not put him back in his resi-dence hall,” Van Zinderen said.

Contrary to other reports,

and according to Castro, Flores was released the morning of Nov. 7 in order to see his probation officer. Flores was previously con-victed on charges relating to underage drinking. When the campus-wide search be-gan, the U of J went into a total lockdown, as previous-ly mentioned.

The lockdown lasted for fifty minutes. Local authori-ties found Flores at a coffee shop in downtown James-town, and according to Cas-tro Flores was emotionally distressed and trying to find a bus back to California.

He was taken into cus-tody.

Flores is no longer a stu-dent of the University of Jamestown, said UJ Presi-dent Bob Badal.

He has been banned from coming back on campus due to the incidents that lead to the campus lockdown, Badal said.

On Friday Nov. 7 Van Zinderen had an informa-tional gathering for only stu-dents and faculty in Voor-hees Chapel.

This meeting was to make any misconceptions that had been troubling them clear.

President Badal was at the gathering and spoke to students and faculty about the incident:

“I want to assure you that we will learn from this first time’s experience with a lockdown, Badal said.

“I think it is pretty clear from some of the informa-tion that we received that things didn’t happen 100 percent perfectly.

“We are trying to serious-ly review all of that infor-mation and learn from it so that if we ever should have to go through an event like this again, we will hopefully do a better job.”

Badal then went on to offer his reassurance to the University of Jamestown campus community, and a request that everyone does their part to ensure that Flores is not allowed on campus.

“Secondly, I just want to reassure all of you that this individual will not return to this campus.

“We will prevent him from setting foot on this campus. As far as any con-tact, if you are ever contact-ed by this individual, you must immediately bring it to

our attention. If you find out this in-

dividual is on the campus, you must dial 911 and find one of us to initiate a crisis warrant.

So, I will ask of your co-operation in that and I hope you all understand what we are going through.”

Now that Flores is off campus and no longer af-filiated with the University of Jamestown, the campus community wants to look ahead.

They are pleased with how the lockdown went and are looking to students for ideas and guidance for things that could have been done differently.

The faculty also asks students to comply with requests from them to alert residence staff on any suspi-cious activity.

UPDATE: Accord-ing to court documents, Robert Flores has been charged with the Class C

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campus newsA2 FridayNovember 15, 2013

By Tracy OrtmanInformation Director

Last Thursday, No-vember 7th, the Student Activities Committee gave the students at the Univer-sity of Jamestown a nice treat by hosting an Open Mic Night. This was a great chance for students to come to L2, listen to other people share their talents, work on homework, and enjoy some treats.

Listeners experienced a real coffee house atmo-sphere. Bars, cookies and Italian sodas were provided to enjoy while listening to the entertainment. The mood was set with low lighting and candles on each of the tables.

Open Mic Night cre-ated a room full of listen-ers who were able to en-joy performances. These performances ranged from singing, playing the guitar or piano, giving speeches, reciting poems, and reen-acting a scene from a play.

There wasn’t a dull mo-ment, and everyone came with something to share.

The event had a good turn out with many differ-ent people willing to per-form and entertain us. Many laughs were had, and it was a great break from the rush of the usual busy day in the life of a college student.

The performers in-cluded Valerie Kerner, who performed an original piece on the piano; Briana VinZ-ant, who read an original Flash Fiction piece; Ali-son Kassian, who covered “Run By” by George Strait and “All Kind of Kinds” by Miranda Lambert on gui-tar; Dacotah Wealot, who shared a monologue piece; Katianne Brockpahler, who performed “Stay” by Ri-hanna and Mikkey Ekko on the piano; Jonah Moore, who read an original poem; Valene Kemer and Kati-anne Brockpahler, who per-formed “Jar of Hearts” by Christina Perri; and Alison

Kassian and Kelly Wolbert, who performed “Breakev-en” by The Script. A round of karaoke ended the night.

The SAC is planning to do a Student Showcase in December that will be similar to the Open Mic Night. SAC Music Coordi-nator Alison Kassian stated, “Since the Open Mic Night went over fairly well, I hope there is just as much involvement and excite-ment for the Student Show-case as well.”

The SAC is still work-ing to get all of their plans in place and are hoping this will be a great chance to have the University of Jamestown students show off their talents.

If you would like to perform something at the Student Showcase you can contact alkassia@uj.edu! It will be something that ev-eryone can enjoy.

Tracy Ortman can be emailed at

tortman@uj.edu

By Tracy OrtmanInformation

DirectorTrick-or-Can is

an event that takes place around Hal-loween where col-lege students have the unique oppor-tunity to dress up, go door to door and collect nonperish-able items.

Tr ick-or-Can gives the students at the University of Jamestown the unique opportunity to do something that benefits the James-town community. The students col-lect food that will be donated to the local food pantry to be given to low-income families.

This year, Trick-or-Can was held on October 29th. Many differ-ent teams were able to take part in this event. These groups included Student Senate, various track teams, SNDU, NSA and ROOTS.

Each organization is given a certain area of the town. The teams have two hours to col-lect as much food as they can and make it back within the time limit.

The community has always been very gracious to donate and thank-ful for the college students who take time out of their night to do this. It provides a unique interaction between college students and the commu-nity. Once all of the items are collected, they are brought back to campus to be counted. Once each team’s items are counted, ev-ery item from each team is combined to get a total count of all the food that was collected.

This year, the winner for the team that collected the most food was

Coach Crawford’s team – Track #1 with 732 items. ROOTS followed with 442 items and then SNDU with 378. SNDU and NSA won the most items per person. The six members on the SNDU team collected 63 items each. Cody Pta-cek’s – Track Team #3 followed with 55.167 items per person. ROOTS was next with 49.11 per person.

The grand total for all the items col-lected was 2,702! This was a giant leap from last year’s 1,500 items col-lected. The ROOTS team, who dressed up as the twelve disciples, was the winner of the best costume of the eve-ning. SNDU came in second dressed up in rainbow col-ors and third place went to Student Senate for dressing

up like superheroes. Overall, the

night turned out to be a great success. The students at the University were able to impact many lives with the food that they collected.

Student Sen-ate, the host of the event, would like to send out a big thank you to everyone who participated and took time out of his or her evening to help out with the event. It could not have been possible without all of you.

The event co-ordinator, Karson Pederson, stated, “It went better than expected. We didn’t have as many people participate as last year, but we got almost twice as many items – so it was very successful in my book!”

Tracy Ortman can be emailed at tortman@uj.edu

Trick- or-can

Men’s track team collects 732 food items

SAC Open mic night

Students show off their talents

By Tom ConmaySocial Media Director

Student Senate got to-gether on November 12th, 2013 for a short meeting.

Senator Tews informed the senate that many stu-dents are upset and fearful for their safety because of the missing master keys. These students believe that the locks need to be changed as soon as pos-sible.

A student recommend-ed that there be a class for Gaelic.

Senator Romelfanger reported that a student is concerned with the dry-ers in Prentice Hall. Even though the dryers have been “fixed”, they are not drying the clothes on the first cycle.

Senator Holte reported

that a group of students is concerned with the Kroeze and Foss parking lots be-cause they are not set up like normal parking lots.

Senator Pederson, who lives in the campus apart-ments, informed the senate that it is still dark and the only light is by the dump-ster.

There have been a lot of discussions in terms of food with the food service including the addition of mini corn dogs.

President Caldwell said that the systems worked well for the “lockdown”. Unfortunately, lockdown means something different to each person.

Fobs (keycards) are coming soon and the keys to the academic buildings are being changed.

Senator Baker wants to make sure that the fobs we get are sturdy because students break their student identification cards all the time.

Funds were requested by ROOTS. ROOTS asked for 200 dollars to do a lock in. Senate approved for Roots to receive 150 dol-lars.

Senate needs to pick a charity for penny wars. Senator Pederson informed the senate that penny wars is a competition in which dorms compete by collect-ing change. The winning dorm gets a prize.

Meeting Adjourned. Tom Conmay can be

emailed at tconmay@uj.edu

Senate NotesKeycards come to campus

Continued from A1felony of terrorizing. A person is guilty of a Class C felony if, with intent to place another human being in fear for that hu-man being’s or another’s safety or to cause evacu-ation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of public transportation, or

otherwise to cause serious disruption or public incin-venience, or reckless disre-gard of the risk of causing such terror, disruption, or inconvenience, the person: 1. Threatens to commit any crime of violence or act dangerous to human life 2. Falsely informs another that a situation dangerous

to human life or commis-sion of a crime of violence is imminent knowing that the information is false. This charge carries a maxi-mum penalty of five years in prison, a $5,000 fine, or both.

Ashley Domino can be emailed at adomino@uj.edu

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On the University of Jamestown campus, Thurs-day has become the new Friday. Instead of students sitting in their dorm and complaining about how there is nothing to do in Jamestown, students have been heading down to the Buffalo Lanes for college night to have some fun and to let loose.

College night is held every Thursday with a start up time at 10pm and lasts till 1am. The cost is around nine dollars including shoes to cosmic bowl all night.

Cosmic bowling is glow-in-the-dark bowling with a dance club atmo-sphere consisting of a light show that rocks the cen-ter with a state-of-the-art sound system.

Along with bowling, if you are of legal age, the Buff Bar & Lounge, which is connected to the bowl-ing alley, has a good deal on adult beverages that are very affordable for the col-lege students 21 and over and to the public.

The deal consists of

rail drinks that start out at a $1.25 at 9pm and every hour that passes the costs goes up a quarter. Accord-ing to a full-time employee, Kirby Weller, college night has been successfully go-ing on for roughly ten years now.

Every Thursday may not be packed full of peo-ple, but once a month col-lege night is themed, which attracts a good amount of college students to come all dressed up and sometimes compete in contests such as best dressed.

Some of the themes they have done are Hawai-ian night, Redneck Fever, and many more. The next themed college night will be held on December 12th with a theme of “I hate win-ter”.

One of the reasons col-lege night was established is not only to generate more business for the bowl-ing alley and the Buff, but also to get college students a chance to be free from campus and have a fun time with their peers.

“I like to socialize, meet new people, and of

course bowl,” said student Nick Erickson, who attends college night nearly every Thursday. “It’s something to look forward to and a break from school during the week to have fun is al-ways needed.”

Not only do college students come for bowling and to socialize but to listen to the music that is being played in the bowling alley. Most students said that they enjoy the music this year unlike other years, thanks to a student here at Jamestown and new employee at Buf-falo Lanes Casey Glenn. The music being played is Today’s new hip-hop and rap station provided by the Pandora internet radio sta-tion.

If this changes your view on college night, or you did not know about this event, then head down to Buffalo Lanes on Thursday nights to get a strike of the experience and enjoy cos-mic bowling and the great atmosphere that college night provides.

Tiffany Armstrong can be emailed at

tarmstro@uj.edu

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By Tracy OrtmanInformation Director

This past Tuesday, Nov. 12, “Moliere Than Thou” was performed in the Reiland Auditorium. This comedic event was planned by the University of Jamestown Convocation Committee. “Moliere Than Thou” is based off of the comedic writings of Moliere.

It is a one-man show that is able to focus on Mo-liere’s playwright’s classic comedies. Tim Mooney per-formed Moliere’s “greatest hits”; a one-man show that performs a collection of speeches from Moliere.

Mooney, who played Moliere, performed rou-

tines from “The Misan-thrope,” “The School For wives,” “Tartuffe,” “Don Juan,” “The Doctor In Spite of Himself,” “The Precious Young Maidens” and many more.

According to the Timothy Mooney Reper-tory Theater website, Tim Mooney was the original founder of “The Script Re-view” and also the “Artistic Director of Chicago’s Stage Two Theatre.”

It was in that theatre he was able to produce al-most fifty plays in only five years. Mooney began to re-write versions of Moliere’s plays by adding a comedic rhyme to them. He has writ-

ten seventeen iambic pen-tameter variations of Mo-liere’s plays.

The main focus of the show was on the inter-action between men and women in a comedic for-mat. He referred to men be-ing Lords and women giv-ing in to all their desires.

He chose a woman sit-ting in the front of the au-ditorium to be his wife and talked to her as if she were a part of the show. In one of his speeches he compared the love between a man and a woman to the love of God; a divine love from the maker of all creation. He involved mostly woman in the audience to demonstrate

this. Mooney recruited

a few different people from the audience to come on stage and read lines with him. Michaela Larson was the first volunteer to make her way to the stage. He made it a very comedic scene where he would often blow her hair in front of her face, hug her close or even dip her.

Her job was to come in when the script told her to. The laughter that she displayed on stage helped make the experience more enjoyable for the audience.

Rebecca O’Toole, a UJ senior, was his second volunteer of the evening.

In this speech he was act-ing as a doctor “inspect-ing” a patient. He did this in a very alluring way that brought humor to the scene. He also selected a male stu-dent from the University of Jamestown onto the stage to read lines with him. This was the student’s first time acting in front of an audi-ence.

There was no lack of audience interaction to-ward the end of the play as Mooney made his way through the rows of the au-dience that were present.

Eventually he made his way back to the stage to end the evening with a short song and a little more

humor. He thanked the au-dience for coming to his show and even more for staying. If you were able to attend last year’s fall play, the “Imaginary Invalid,” you were given a glimpse of one of the scenes from that play.

This was a very unique show that offered a wide range of talents from the performer, who memo-rized the entire show. Be sure to keep your eye open for more unique entertain-ment opportunities in the future!

Tracy Ortman can be emailed at

tortman@uj.edu

Moliere than thou: comedy between men and women

Local/Assoc. PressA4 FridayNovember 15, 2013

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — State health officials are working this week to verify that the recent spill of about 20,000 barrels of oil in northwestern North Dakota did not contaminate groundwater.

Tesoro Corp. found no contami-nation during ear-lier testing, but state crews were at the site near Tioga on Tuesday taking their own samples. Results were ex-pected in a week or two, State Environ-mental Health Chief Dave Glatt said.

The compa-ny "collected one round and we're do-ing a follow-up, just to make sure the first (tests) were ac-curate," Glatt said. "We're up there now, collecting our own, to do a verifi-cation of what (Tes-oro officials) are finding."

Glatt said state officials do not ex-pect to find any groundwater con-tamination, and that there continues to be no indication of any harm to wild-life.

The pipeline rupture was discov-ered in a wheat field in September, and the oil spill cov-ered an area the size of seven football fields. Federal regu-lators have said a lightning strike may have caused the rup-ture in the 6-inch-diameter steel pipe-

line, which runs from Tioga to a rail facility outside of Columbus, near the Canadian border.

The oil spill was one of the larg-est in North Dakota history.

San Antonio-based Tesoro re-started the pipeline on Nov. 1 under conditions set by the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Ma-terials Safety Ad-ministration. Tesoro continues to work on cleanup, a pro-cess the company has said could cost $4 million.

About 5,000 barrels of oil have been collected. Much of the rest will have to be baked from the soil, and the soil renewed and replaced, Glatt said.

"They will need to revitalize it with natural bacteria and nutrients to make sure it's produc-tive," he said.

Tesoro will ini-tiate the soil clean-up next spring. The process could take a couple of years, Glatt said.

In an email Tuesday afternoon, the company said an on-site investi-gation was done "to determine the ex-tent of oil on site."

"This investiga-tion included a thor-ough examination of the site spill char-acteristics including factors such as sur-face area, depth of soil impacted and

soil porosity," Teso-ro wrote.

The landowner and the state Health Department will review the options, which is expected to be done early next year, so the cleanup can be done after the spring thaw, it wrote.

"Which reme-diation option is selected will affect the timeline. We have been and will continue to work with impacted par-ties throughout the remediation pro-cess," the statement said.

The farmer whose land was covered by the oil spill, Steve Jensen, did not return a phone message.

Glatt said Teso-ro is doing more soil sampling as part of the cleanup to bet-ter outline the con-tamination area, but he does not expect the 20,600-barrel spill size estimate to change much. A barrel holds 42 gal-lons.

"I don't an-ticipate significant quantity differ-ences," Glatt said. "As they get into bigger remediation cleanup, they want to know where the biggest contamina-tion is. It's just to provide them more data as they move forward with their remediation plan.

"Their (current) estimate probably is as good as it's going to get," he said

Oil pipeline burst near Tiogo N.D.

No harm to wildlife or water supply

By Tarina Sablan Guest ContributerThe city of Jamestown

has taken an initiative to embrace all things women with the Women’s Expo. The Women’s Expo will be held this Saturday, No-vember 16th from 10 in the morning until four in the evening.

Before the upcoming holiday season, the coordi-nator, Michelle Ascheman of Ingstad Family Media, explained that it is important to recognize women and all they do. In other communi-ties, there are events put on, most commonly known as widows weekends, where women collectively get to-gether to socialize and learn new things.

This Saturday, the women of Jamestown, ranging from youth to se-nior citizens, can come and engage in numerous breakout sessions and view the products available to them throughout town with their friends, sisters, aunts, mothers, and daughters.

Michelle has been col-lectively gathering busi-nesses to take part in this event. The event will be held at the Quality Inn and Suites, located at 507 25th

St SW in Jamestown. It is free to the public. Fifty busi-nesses are donating their time to engage and enrich the women of Jamestown on products like jewelry, scarves, hair, food and other fun activities to participate in. A list of a few mentioned names found on the Wom-en’s Expo flyer by Ingstad Family Media, which can be found on NewsDakota.com, includes: •Origami Owl•Pampered Chef•Leann’s Bridal•Erin Roman’s Photogra-phy•Jordan Essentials•Pampered Chef•Pursnixkity Purses•Celebration Innovations•Tia Tanning•Norwex•King’s Photography•Cookie Lee Jewelry•Jockey for Her•Uppercase Living•Park Lane Jewelry•Rodan + Fields•Traveling Vinyards•RSVP+•Thrivent•Nitschke Therapy•Core Nutrition•Quality Inn & Tapps Lounge•Zonta•High Plains Water

•Paparazzi Accessories•Calamity Jane’s•Tastefully Simple•Ru Lissa•Boresha•Nerium•Pink Zebra•Health to Go & H2O•Daisy Blue Naturals •Top Designers•Buffalo City Rotisserie Grill•Eventide Hi-Acres & Al-zheimer’s Assoc.•Jamestown Travel•Clever Containers•Echo Clothing•Damsel in Defense•Spice to Spice

As you can see from this list, there are a few items, like Pampered Chef, that are known for having house parties to make sales. The Women’s Expo is mak-ing everything convenient, as they are bringing togeth-er all things that are of in-terest to women.

Top Designers Salon and Spa, recently named Buffalo City’s number one hair salon, will be a local vendor taking part in the event. The salon currently involves themselves in many different volunteer activities throughout the year promoting the health, beauty, and empowerment

of women. A few of their stylists will be demonstrat-ing hair and makeup tech-niques throughout the day. A fun fact for all you col-lege attendees: Top Design-ers offers a 20% discount off of services Monday through Thursday.

Along with the ven-dors, participants will have the option to attend the fol-lowing events that last a half hour with fifteen min-ute breaks:

11:00 am-11:30 am - You Can Have Fun! Plan-ning Great Activities for Youth

This session will give ideas on how adults and youth can bridge the age gap and find fun activities to do together.

11:45 am- 12:15 pm- Scarf Tying for Every Sea-son & Style

The focus of this ses-sion is to talk about the best cold whether accessory - the scarf.

12:30pm -1:00pm – Es-sential Oils & Whole Body Health

There will be a spe-cialist discussing the topic of essential oils and their health benefits.

1:15 pm- 1:45pm – Lymphatic Decongestive

TherapyHealth issues that tend

to be of more concern for women are addressed in this session. Breast health is very serious topic that can be quite scary for some to discuss. New technologies will be discussed as well as strategies about how you can work towards better breast health.

2:00pm- 2:30pm - Hair Styles & Braids

Let’s face it: as women, we are all obsessed with our hair. This session will focus on how to achieve certain styles and talk about the current big trend of braids.

2:45pm – 3:15pm – Down & Dirty Way to Pro-tect Yourself: “Don’t Be a Victim”

Dangers lurk all around. This is why self-defense is so important. This session will focus on different self-defense skills any women can easily maneuver.

3:15pm – 3:45pm- Di-rect Sales: is it for Me? In-dependent Sales and Coun-seling

The focus of this ses-sion is to embrace the busy woman. Moms that stay home and are unable to work are focused on. The main focus will be to help

these moms build relation-ships with other moms along with finding a pos-sible at-home style job in independent sales.

From all this excite-ment, anyone would be in-clined to work up an appe-tite. The coordinators have got you covered! Lunch will be offered by the Buf-falo City Rotisserie Grill catering service. They will be donating a portion of their earned funds to a local nonprofit company.

The line-up of different activities makes for a full day of raising awareness for women on a variety of topics.

Ingstad Family Me-dia is bringing together the concept of a commu-nity helping its community. Michelle believes that this kind of event “allows wom-en to be themselves in their own environment, along with allowing time to pam-per themselves.”

This weekend is bet-ter than any to get the girls together and enjoy a day dedicated to you!

Tarina Sablan can be emailed at

tsablan@uj.edu

It’s Never a Bad Time to Encourage Being a Woman

opinion A5FridayNovember 15, 2013

By Dan Arens Columnist Hello! How

has everyone been this week? Super terrific, I hope! I’m excited to see how this semester ends, although I’m more excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks. Just bring on the snow A F T E R Thanksgiv-ing and pref-erably not when any-one is driv-ing!

Well, the po-litical world is sadly unchanged over the last couple of weeks. Conserva-tives are still lam-basting Obamacare and vowing to fight the law until the world’s end-ing. RINOs (that’s “Republicans In Name Only) are continuing to vacil-late and waver, torn between acting like tough, no-nonsense principled conser-vatives and acting like Democrats. The Democratic Party continues to pretend like the world is a lovely place: that health care bigotry has been conquered, that Middle-Eastern crises have been avoided, and that America is a rising star beckoning to all with its, I don’t know, gridlock, dis-mal growth, mas-sive debt and un-ending spending, murders and crime. If we could only rid

the earth of those pesky conserva-tives, everyone’s most wondrous dreams would come true. *Sigh*.

It’s too bad the signature of the president’s policy and legacy, properly dubbed Obamacare, is an absolute fail-

ure. There are still g l i t c h e s , m a l f u n c -tions, and p e o p l e w o n d e r -ing why free health

coverage isn’t com-ing their way (as if it ever will be). Even some Red-state Democrats and liberal late-night comedians have been focusing on Obama’s failure. Smart Democrats are trying to put as much distance as possible be-tween themselves and the president while comedians have quite frankly not had this much fun since Anthony Wiener decided he would make the perfect combina-tion of playboy and mayor/governor/senator/president or whatever he’s run-ning for these days. The administration will continue to lie and lie and lie like they always have, promising perfec-tion when I doubt they’re competent enough to even spell their own names. And conser-vatives will rightly

continue to say, “See, I told you so” (Thank you, Rush Limbaugh).

But we shouldn’t really be looking for change in Washington any-way. Right now in the world, there are weightier concerns. Regardless of how joyful or infuriated you are with my last sentence or with Obama’s track re-cord, there are peo-ple right now who need everyone’s support, whether it be in finances or in prayer or both. The typhoon that recently struck the Philippines is be-ing reported as one of the strongest storms ever actu-ally recorded on the planet. It has left a deep swath of damage in its wake, with around 10,000 people dead, if not more. The United States is al-ready helping out, but there are some things that just can’t be undone. Please take time this week to pray for God’s strength and love for the people of the Philippines. Pray that He would comfort those who have lost homes and loved ones. Pray for Him to strengthen the hands of all those who are help-ing and volunteer-ing in whatever ca-pacity they are able.

This last week, we also celebrated Veteran’s Day. In the midst of bick-

ering over all the aspects of govern-ment that don’t work and are bro-ken, we should take time to remember all those remarkable men and women who work tireless-ly on our behalf, stand firm against threats of all kinds in an increasingly dangerous world, and are always in need of our prayer-ful and loving sup-port. Thank you to all the members of our armed forces. Thank you to those who proudly bear freedom’s standard on land, sea and in the air. Thank you to those in the thick of war, stationed around the world. Thank you to those right here on our own soil. May God continue to bless each of you and your families as you devote yourselves so faithfully to such a greater cause. I am free to write this ar-ticle because of you. It is my hope that, despite frustrations, failures, legitimate arguments and dis-putes, all Americans can still be joined in harmony in unwav-ering support and dedication to our military, serving our men and women in uniform as loyally as you have served and continue to serve each of us.Dan Arens can be

emailed at darens@uj.edu

Dispute, disaster, and devotionRepublicans acting like Democrats

By James Romelfanger

ColumnistO b a m a c a r e :

love it or hate it? Well, appar-ently most of the people in this coun-try don’t like it. I feel that the reason-ing behind these people hating it is that they don’t un-derstand the entire law.

Have you looked at the law? I have. It is 1,025 pages. That’s a lot of pages to read through. I think the fact that there are a bundle of pages in the law deters people from fully understanding what the actual Obam-acare law will do.

Everyone tends to focus on the neg-atives of a subject rather than the posi-tives. This focus comes from both sides of the political aisle.

The pages in the actual law are tre-mendously long and probably boring; however the regu-

lations behind the law are even worse. 10,516 pages in the Federal Register for regulations or more

than eight times as m a n y pages as there are in the G u t e n -b e r g B i b l e ,

which has 642 two-sided leaves or 1,286 pages.

This is just me ranting about how some people are ill-informed because of their laziness and don’t want to ad-vance their knowl-edge and become aware of what is ac-tually going on.

Anyway, there is a lot of hoop-la about how the Obamacare web-site is not work-ing and about how Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was thrown a “How to Make a Website Book for Dum-mies” in the middle of a hearing. This is totally inappropri-ate (but still kind of funny).

With funny things going on all over the politi-cal spectrum, for-mer President Bill Clinton made news headlines again.

Clinton made a comment about the Affordable Care Act. He said on Tuesday that the President should find a way to uphold his initial promises about health poli-cies.

He also went on to say that "[he] per-sonally believe[s], even if it takes a change in the law, the President should honor the commit-ment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they've got”. This comment is kind of disheartening.

Since Clinton is a big member and good at rallying the troops for the Dem-ocratic Party. This statement shows that even the Demo-crats are starting to lose faith in what their “Democratic President” is doing.

If the party starts to lose faith,

it shows. The vot-ers will definitely notice. If the party loses faith, the vot-ers lose faith. When the voters lose faith, they stop voting for their party candi-dates.

Politics are a funny thing. If you actually pay atten-tion to what is going on in government, you will realize that government can be one big, stand-up comedy.

Instead of the act being over in a few hours, govern-ment never shuts down (well, not all the time). With dis-sension amongst the ranks in the Demo-cratic Party, we will soon see public opinions of the par-ty go down.

This will lead to a rise for the Repub-lican Party. They will probably use this to swoop in and take the 2016 Presi-dential Election.

James Romelfanger

can be emailed at jromelfa@uj.edu

Clinton Back in the News?Rise for the Republican Party?

By Jacob Strass Outdoor Sports ReporterIf you don’t know, my home

state is North Carolina. I have lived there my entire life. I have just recently gotten into hawg hunting because they are invad-ing my state. The topic of hawg hunting came up from some peo-ple that have been reading my ar-ticles. They requested that I write an article about hawg hunting, so here it is.

I’ve noticed that North Dako-ta has hawgs every now and again due to the hawg getting away from a farm or something. I have also looked up the law in North Dako-ta. If a hawg is seen, you are not supposed to shoot it. It is illegal to hunt or shoot a hawg in North Dakota. The reason for this law is that there are no known popu-lations of feral hawgs in North Dakota. The law says the closest state to hunt hawg in would be Oklahoma. Persons are asked to call the Game & Fish Department when they see a “wild hawg”.

If you every get the chance to head down south and go hawg hunting, I say go for it. It’s a blast. One thing to remember is that this animal is not the kind that likes to be backed into a corner or pushed around. If you wound it and go try to find it, it’s more than likely gonna’ end up finding you first. So, after shooting a hawg, stay in your stand until you hear a crash in the woods. Then, I would still give it thirty minutes or so before trying something stupid. I am gonna’ tell you about a time when I shot a hawg with my grandfa-ther who came all the way from Oregon to take on this beast.

My grandfather had just flown

into Charlotte in North Carolina. We had to get across the border into Chesterfield, South Caroli-na, where we were gonna’ hawg hunt for the weekend. We drove on down and met up with our buddy Donnie Tysinger, the man who owns the land we hunted. We got settled into our place to stay and then went down to the local outdoors store and picked up our

South Carolina hunting licenses. I believe at that time it was thirty five bucks for a small game li-cense. I think it’s ironic that it says “small game” for hawg when a hawg can reach over 1,000 lbs and a small one is about 120 lbs.

Anyway, we got back to the house and settled down for the night. The next morning we woke up before the sun and breakfast was ready for us. A hunter knows it’s hard to do some killing on an empty stomach. Once breakfast

was over, we got our gear togeth-er and rode the four wheelers off into the swamp.

If you haven’t been out of the Midwest, I’m gonna’ have to paint you a picture here. It’s so dark in the swap that you can’t even see your hand in front of your face. The woods are so thick that a rab-bit would have trouble making its way through the brush.

Luckily for us, my buddy had already made trails to get to the stand. I am the lucky one that gets to hunt with my grandfather in this stand. He had never killed a hawg, so he would be the first to shoot at the ones that come out first.

The morning rolled by like molasses in January. All we kept seeing were deer and hornets the size of a small toy plane. I feel like they could have killed us with a sting! Needless to say, there was

a hornets’ nest in our stand. This made things even better.

Day light was peeking through the trees and waking up all the swamp critters. At the end of our shooting lane was a feeder which would throw corn at seven in the morning and again at about four in the evening. If you have never hunted over a feeder before, it’s like hunting over a dinner bell

for animals. When it goes off, the animals come running. The hawgs came in loud and brought the whole family it felt like. My grandfather got ex-cited and pulled up the 25-06 cal. (which, by the way, is a great hunting round).

I told my grandfather to shoot the hawg behind the ear to take out the ce-rebral cortex in the hawg. This shot is the quickest and best way to kill a hawg out in the swamp. After a few minutes, my grand-father picked out a hawg that he liked the most. He put the cross hairs on him and squeezed the trigger. The hawg dropped and

walloped in the mud for about a minute then got back up and ran out into the swamp.

We sat still for a bit and waited to hear a crash. It was like nothing had happened at all. The hawgs came back into the corn pile that was thrown out by the feeder.

My grandfather handed me my rifle and said it was my turn. I loaded another round and picked out a hawg that was white with black spots. I put my cross hairs on the hawg and squeezed the

trigger. Down he went, just like that. I had placed the bullet be-hind the hawg’s ear to separate the neck bone from the skull. All of my gamers out there know that this is an insta-kill shot.

My grandfather and I climbed out of the stand and walked down the shooting lane. When I hawg hunt, I carry with me my .44 mag pistol for protection from these animals. You never know when you, the hunter, are gonna’ be-come the hunted.

We finally made it down to the end where we shot the hawgs. My hawg was laying in the mud bath. My grandfather’s had wal-loped in the mud enough to clog the bullet hole in its neck and get away. We knew this because the blood trail ended ten feet away from where he shot it.

Later on, we back and sat out back on the porch. We talked about past and new hunts that we had done.

If you would like to hunt hawgs In South Carolina, contact my good friend Donnie Tysinger. His wed address is http://www.hawgsrus.net/index.html

Now, I will leave you with a backwoods prayer. “O God, thank you for your creation,

for the land that sustains us, the game that feeds us, and the hunt that blesses us. Grant us wisdom to be safe. Grant us the patience for a clean shot so that we might be good stewards of ev-ery life you give. Amen.” Happy hunting, y’all!

Jacob Strass can be emailed at

jstrass@uj.edu

Tips from the hunt: Hawg huntin’

FridayNovember 15, 2013A6 opinion/sports

By Grayson Leder Sports Director

They’ve done it. They have finally done it. The egotistical money driven fools on top of the NCAA rules committees have found a way to make the NCAA an even more deplorable organization. How have they done this you ask? (You’re asking this either because you didn’t think the NCAA could be more evil or you didn’t know they were evil) Rule changes.

The NCAA has implemented new rules that are put in place to protect the “free movement of the offensive player”. This essentially means that a defender cannot use his body to stop an offensive player’s movements. All hand-checks must be called. Too much body contact must be called. Post defenders may no longer use an arm bar to create separation. To the av-erage fan, this doesn’t mean much. To the hardcore fan or coach like me, this means every defensive principle we have been taught as players and have taught our play-ers goes out the window. You’re all saying “This couldn’t possibly get any worse”,

right? Wrong. Now they have made it nearly impos-

sible to draw a charge call. To be awarded a charge call, you must now be set before “upward motion starts”. So it is now nearly impossible for a charge to be called. For those of you who are asking “What’s the big deal?”, here is the big deal. The com-bined free throw attempts for teams are averaging over 50 per game! That’s right, over 50 free throws.

The Legion of Doom (that’s a DC com-ics reference to a group of super villains) is what I am now going to name these morons atop the NCAA. This “Legion” wants more scoring. They want to turn the beautifully physical and toughness loaded college bas-ketball into the sickeningly soft, full of ba-bies and divas NBA.

Whatever happened to toughness? Whatever happened to real men? Let us look back at the best era of basketball: the 80’s and 90’s. This was an era that included famous players such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone, Shaq, and of course Charles

Barkley. These are arguably the best men in the history of the game. Back when the game of basketball was war and when the best players took their knocks and won anyway. Back when Dennis Rodman did nothing but physically wear down his op-ponents for 48 minutes. Gone. They are all gone.

These legendary physical players have been replaced by LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Dwight Howard, and of course the most selfish man in the his-tory of the game, the team-killer Carmelo Anthony. These precious daisies can’t be touched without whining about a foul. They are all about themselves. Their attitudes disrespect this beautiful game that I love with all my heart. Because of these diaper dandies, my children will end up playing a perverted form of basketball where the only goal is to score and score and score.

Like Tom Brady destroyed the tough-ness of QBs in the NFL, these criminals of sports history have destroyed the balls of men who play the game. I am a Miami Heat fan who just got to celebrate my team

winning its third championship in my life-time; however I will still make a statement. Shame on you LeBron and your generation of little (I’m going to censor myself on this one). Shame on you for being role models of the game and failing. Shame on you for making the greatest game on Earth the soft-est game on Earth. Shame on you “Legion of Doom” for giving in to this bulls***. You have taken away toughness for the sake of entertainment. I can only hope that after Kentucky wins (because they will benefit more than anyone with their ri-diculous talent) that John Calipari will do something decent for once. I can only hope that after a boring National Championship game full of free throws and without any real defense played, he will throw the cut down net at the President of the NCAA and yell like Maximus from Gladiator “ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?! ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!” and then mock-ingly walk out of the gym.

Grayson Leder can be emailed at

gleder@uj.edu

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By Grayson Leder Sports Director

Six games into the Jimmie Men’s Basketball schedule the quality of the competition is showing. After dominating in the opening weekend, the Jim-mies have played four close games against some of the best teams the NAIA has to offer.

First up was a game against the 15th ranked Northwester College Red Raiders, a team known to have battled the Jimmies hard for the last five years. The Jimmies got out to a solid 11-point lead in the first half, but Northwestern battled back to within 5 at halftime. They kept rolling from there, winning 76-63.

Northwestern All-Confer-ence Guard Zach Leeper ended with 17 points and capped off the game with a dunk. Jimmie All-Amer-ican guard Mark Hoge led the way for the Jimmies with 19 points to go along with six rebounds and six assists. The Tucker broth-ers, Breshion and Brequan, had 11 and 17 points re-spectively.

Next up for the Jimmies was a game against Dordt College. Dordt came into the game unranked. That can be expected to change. The Jimmies dominated in the first half, scorching the net and shooting 73% from the field. The Tuckers led the way for the Jimmies, scoring 23 (Brequan) and

22 (Breshion). Mark Hoge added 16 points and also shared the sugar with 10 assists. Hoge’s shot to tie the game fell short of the rim and the Jimmies fell 96-93. Kyle Lindberg had 33 points for the Defenders and was a matchup night-mare for the Jimmies, who tried six different players guarding him.

After that, the Jimmies flew down for a much an-ticipated exhibition match-up against the University of New Mexico, ranked 23rd in Division I NCAA. The Jimmies battled hard but fell 94-51 to a team with NBA talent. The Jimmies struggled offensively and didn’t score for the final nine minutes of the game.

Their competition, howev-er, showed that they can roll with anybody. Junior guard Taylor Newton led the way for the Jimmies with 11 points on 5-7 shooting. The biggest struggle for the Jim-mies was not getting to the foul line at all in the game, an unheard of phenomenon.

Next the Jimmies trav-eled to Seward, NE to play two of the most tal-ented teams the NAIA has to offer. First the Jimmies played Oklahoma Wesley-an, ranked 13th in NAIA D2. It was a battle. The Jimmies had multiple leads in the half. The Jimmies got multiple players in double figures led by Mark Hoge with 28 points and four as-sists and Brequan Tucker

with 14 points. Beny Col-lins, Devonte Smith and Breshion Tucker had 11 points apiece. The Jimmies fell 85-89. They struggled to defend with the new rules, sending the leading scorer Devin Harris for OKWU to the line 13 times.

Finally the Jimmies played Culver-Stockton, ranked 18th in NAIA D1. They fell 91-100 in a high scoring affair. It was a game of runs and the Jimmies were one run short of fin-ishing the game. They fell behind early, getting behind by as much as 23 points. Despite this deficit, they battled back. Six Jimmies scored in double figures, once again led by Mark Hoge who had 17 points,

four assists, and nine re-bounds. Brequan Tucker also had 17 points. Devonte Smith had 15, Breshion Tucker had 13, and Taylor Newton and Jesse Behm had 12 apiece. It was a back and forth game; however the Jimmies struggled to contain the transition game of the athletic Wildcats, led by Senior Forward James Johnson.

Up next for the Jim-mies is an exhibition game against NCAA Division II Northern State on Tuesday night.

Grayson Leder can be emailed at gleder@

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Jimmies struggle with tough schedule

sports A7FridayNovember 15, 2013

By Thomas Cooke Sports Reporter

When I signed for Jamestown College nearly four years ago to the day, I really had no idea what I was getting myself into in terms of "soccer", life in America, North Dakota and Jamestown, academics, the climate and many other aspects of life we take for granted on a daily basis.

I vividly remember my first thoughts involving the soccer aspect.

I failed the fitness tests and doubted whether I would ever get through those early stages. None other than the Dalai Lama explained how adversity is the biggest teacher of man, a thought that has been fun-damental throughout this juncture of my life. I passed those fitness tests and I nev-er let myself fail another one, something I took great pride in as a goalkeeper.

Being selected for the first regular season game was a huge plus for me. I naïvely expected this, hav-ing come from a culture where goalkeepers play or find another club. This mind-set would later bite me where it hurts!

The memories are again as vivid as if the game were yesterday. They are so vivid that saves made in that game formed part of my mental routine which has served me so well prior to every game I have played since.

Another hurdle came along: being dropped for the second game, despite what I evaluated as my best performance to date.

There is no shame in admitting that I met Coach Bohn in the classroom next to his office, putting to him the ultimatum that if things were to persist as they cur-rently were, I would be on the next flight home.

The magnitude of this conversation can only be

described by the image that followed. I burst into tears as I struggled to contain what had overcome me: the culmination of homesick-ness, relationship issues, academic struggles and time management issues.

Looking back, this may possibly be the standout memory in terms of my maturation and develop-ment as a person. It refo-cused my attention on the many positive aspects of my life!

As the first season pe-tered out, I learned the value of a good senior class which contained some names which I will never forget, regardless of their whereabouts in the world.

My apologies for those I miss, but names such as Gerrit Haerter, Bradley Wolbert, Sawley Wilde, Alex Esquivias and Gas-ton Vodopivec stand side by side with every memory I have from that freshman year. This was a year I attri-bute most of my latter suc-cess to. The latter of that list of names, Gaston Vodopiv-ec, will always hold a spe-cial place in my heart.

He sold his life in order to pursue a dream of play-ing collegiate soccer and boy, we were lucky he did. His energy, experience and sheer care for those around him set him apart from al-most anyone I have ever had the privilege of spend-ing time with.

He is a guy who had such an impact on me that, without his guidance and support, I would 100% have left Jamestown after my first semester for rea-sons that will remain close to Gaston and I. For that, I am truly thankful to Gaston.

There are an awful lots of pieces after that first se-mester, but those mentioned above still stick in my mind so clearly. We moved into the first off-season.

The off-season con-tained lessons a plenty, specifically with regard to weight lifting and train-ing with emphasis on hard work. My technical ability was something that needed drastic improvement.

With the climate as it is, there was no excuse as all of our training revolved around indoor, small space work. With the help of Tom Boerger and Coach Bohn, Drew Jones and I saw as many 6 A.Ms. as we did P.Ms.

It was during this time that my biggest, most con-sistent growth as a player occurred. Speed and ac-celeration cleaned up my footwork, technical drills repeated countless times (well into the 1000's for certain aspects) sharpened my hand-eye-feet coordina-tion, and the environment in which we trained shaped my attitude for a lifetime.

The term "student-athlete" is one that hasn't fetched as far abroad as England.

In my eyes, it is one of the most essential aspects of the young man I have become today. I have be-come a huge advocate for replicating the collegiate athletic system I have ex-perienced in the USA back home.

I feel this is something which would only ben-efit our sporting infrastruc-ture, particularly for those who aren't fully developed sportsmen or women by the age of 16.

This term not only mir-rors the clear importance of ones studies, it also matches that importance with the importance of life lessons gained from an en-vironment created in the collegiate athletic system. Values such as hard work, integrity, honesty, commu-nity, and servant leadership take a whole different per-

spective when applied to a sporting setting.

It is fair to say that my athletic competition has shaped my experience and given me as many benefits - if not more - than my edu-cation alone. How many 21 year old guys have expe-rienced opportunities like those I have been lucky enough to have been liv-ing the past three and a half years?

Such opportunities as visiting and playing soccer in over twelve states and other picturesque locations including Montana, Cali-fornia, LA, Alabama and Salt Lake City, Utah. The soccer aspect is what's kept me going through the tough times, the finals weeks and the days where it is only dark outside at temperatures feeling as low as -50C!

I never used to get that involved with stats and in-dividual awards, but Amer-ica has different ideas so here are a few things that I will always remember from my time here.

The team was 2-16 before the original core (Matt Balshaw, Dominic O'Connor, Lex Raux, JJ, John Bako, and myself) of international boys commit-ted to Jamestown.

The following season, we finished 9-8-1. The sea-son after, we finished 11-7, making our first ever re-gional tournament appear-ance which culminated in a 1-0 loss to University of Great Falls.

The next season brought about a record of 16-5-1 with our first ever conference championship (a 3-0 win over Ashford) and our first appearance at nationals (a 1-0 win over Rocky Mountain College in round 1, and a 3-2 defeat to Auburn Montgomery in the sweet 16).

My senior season fin-ished with a record of 11-

6-1, a third straight con-ference appearance, and a second conference champi-onship appearance.

During that time, the players around me have enabled me to be bestowed with certain individual hon-ors such as Optimist Athlete of the Week, AII Athlete of the Week, AII Confer-ence 1st team, AII Tourna-ment 1st team, National Defensive Player of the Week nomination, Co-Sida All-Region team and All-American nomination and Daktronics NAIA Scholar Athlete.

Individual awards are a product of the team. It is those around me (particu-larly Mat and JJ, as we have formed the core of the back line for all four seasons) who have made all of these honors possible.

There are guys who I have missed who know the impact they have had on me. There is one guy who I will be forever grateful.

Coach Phil Bohn per-sisted in my recruitment - as he did with every single athlete on our team - to a point where I felt so at home with my decision that I really had very few wor-ries about joining his group.

There have been times when we have been a word away from a more severe conversation than many of the heated exchanges we took part in, but this only goes to show the emotion we both have for the now University of Jamestown Men's Soccer program.

This is an emotion shared by almost all of those past, present and to be future Jimmies. The best way I can describe the im-pact this man has had on not just my college career as a player, but on my aca-demics and my life in gen-eral, is my reaction when he called me personally to inform me of his departure

as head coach. I broke down in tears

and seriously considered whether it was the right move for me to re-join the squad in Jamestown or whether I should move down to Central Baptist College in Little Rock, Arkansas where his new coaching position would lie.

It was up in the air. With the set of guys he re-cruited, we stuck it out and had a strong, if not sensa-tional, senior season. Coach Bohn is one of those guys who will put anything and everything into helping in any way possible.

He is certainly a guy who I will remain friends with on the closest possible level. Thank You, Coach Bohn.

As I sit here with just four weeks of my college career remaining, the soc-cer withdrawals are already setting in.

It is something that thoroughly consumes one’s life for the period of time in which one is involved with any such program, as you can probably tell by the way I have tried to write this piece.

It started as a group of individuals coming togeth-er with a common goal and enthusiasm. It ended with a family so close that the majority fall into the cate-gory of lifelong friends and brothers.

To every player I have had the pleasure of setting foot on the UJ field with, every coach who has influ-enced me on the field, and every other individual who has made this ride such a special one, I thank you for the memories that have tak-en the deepest grasp on my character. These memories will live with me forever.

Thomas Cooke can be emailed at tcooke@

uj.edu

Experiencing the will of a Jimmie

By Grayson Leder Sports Director

Their sweep started with a top 10 showdown against Concordia, Nebras-ka, ranked 5th in the last poll. The Jim-mies led by three at the half.

This lead proved to be the dif-ference as they went on to win 77-74. All-American Han-nah Steele led the way for the Jimmies in typical fashion

with 19 points, go-ing 4-6 from deep.

She also had three assists and five rebounds. Ju-nior Forward Jor-dan Bridges also had 19 points and hit two bombs of her own to go along with six rebounds and two blocks.

Next, the Jim-mies had a back and forth battle against Doane College (NE).

The Jimmies

ended up on top in a high scoring affair (90-87).

Hannah Steele showed her All-American pedigree with 24 points and eight dimes to lead the way. Bridges had 13 points and five rebounds.

Jessica Buck provided a spark off the bench with 11 points and six re-bounds.

Morgan Mathi-son had 10 points.

The Jimmies strug-gled with post de-fense under the new rules as both of Do-ane’s athletic stand-outs combined for 49 total points.

This was not enough for Doane, however, as the Jimmies contin-ued their dominant streak.

Grayson Leder can be emailed at

gleder@uj.edu

By Grayson Leder Sports Director

The Jimmie Volleyball team fin-ished the season as expected: sweep-ing the Conference tournament.

The Jimmies entered the NSAA Conference Tour-ney as the #1 over-all seed after going 8-0 in NSAA in the regular season. They received a first round bye and then played Dakota State.

It was a domi-nant performance with the Jimmies sweeping 25-12, 25-12, 25-19. Janna Johnson led the at-tack with 14 kills and an amazing .737 hitting percent-age.

All-American Sarah Becker had 10 kills and also displayed very ef-ficient hitting per-centage of .769 to continue her domi-nant hitting.

She is currently number one in the nation in hitting percentage. Senior setter Kelsey De-ragisch had 23 as-sists in the night and also aced three times.

In the Tourna-ment Championship Game, the Jimmies swept the Mayville State Comets 25-18, 25-19, 25-13 to bring home both the Regular season NSAA title and the Tournament title.

Sarah Becker had 17 kills and blasted accurately with a hitting per-centage of .850.

She also had 3 blocks. Alex Han-son had nine kills and Alaina Brown and Janna Johnson had eight a piece.

Sarah Didy-chuk had four blocks for the de-fense. Kaia Buck had 24 assists to lead that category and Deragisch had 17 assists as well as three aces.

Brown had three aces to keep up her dominant season serving.

The Jimmies now must face the toughest part of their season: wait-ing. To make it into the National Tour-nament, enough teams ranked in the top 25 must win their conference’s automatic quali-fiers. There is no

question that the Jimmies deserve to be there.

Unfortunately, the NSAA does not receive an automat-ic berth until next season. The low level of competition in the region has hurt their chances as the Jimmies are no longer receiving votes in the latest poll.

While the Jim-mies must wait for a potential national tournament berth, they already know that they will be missing four core members of the squad next season.

Seniors Sarah Becker, Kelsey Deragisch, Sarah Didychuk, and Alex Hanson have been contributing mem-bers of the Jimmie volleyball team for the last four years, and their pres-ence will surely be missed on the floor next year. The four are as close as any teammates can be.

Their chemistry on the court reflects the close friend-ships off the court, which has made the past four years very enjoyable.

When asked about her time here at UJ, and about bonding with her teammates, newly minted NSAA Play-er of the Year Sarah Becker replied:

“The team has become like my family here. Some-times you get frus-trated but you al-ways love them.

These girls have gotten me through all the prac-tices, the wins, and the losses.

I have really en-joyed playing with each one of them.

And to finish our careers with a conference cham-pionship this pretty special.”

It’s been a plea-sure to watch these seniors for their four years, and one can be sure that their impression on the team will not soon be forgotten.

Grayson Leder can be emailed at

gleder@uj.edu

Volleyball sweep conference: Core four leave lasting impression

Women’s basketball digging deep for road wins

sportsA8 FridayNovember 15, 2013

By Josh Knutson Sports

ContributorTo say that the

North Star Athletic Association Cham-pionship Football game was “a shoot-out” would be the understatement of the year.

A combined 90 points were scored by Presen-tation College and the University of Jamestown on Sat-urday, November 2nd at Rollie Gree-no Field.

The Jimmies were able to sur-vive the offensive-themed game. They won 49-41, beating the Saints and earn-ing a share of the first ever NSAA football conference title.

Beau Eriksson lead the Jimmies to a fast start that was equally matched by Stephen Braswell and the Saints.

Both teams combined for 682 yards of to-tal offense, 28 first downs (14 for both

Jamestown and Presentation), eight touchdowns on the first nine drives, and a halftime score of 35-27 that favored UJ.

O f f e n s i v e l y, both teams shined, totaling almost 1,200 yards of of-fense. For the Jim-mies, Beau Eriks-son ended the game 24-42 for 327 yards passing and four touchdowns.

He also ac-counted for 42 rushing yards. Chris Johnson lead the Jimmies ground game with 128 yards rushing and a touchdown on 18 carries.

He also had 22 receiving yards on one touchdown catch and played a key role in the re-turn game, taking three kicks for 86 yards total. Senior Jacob Erbes lead all Jimmie receivers with eight catches for 124 yards and one touchdown.

Presentation’s QB Stephen Bras-

well also had a great game, going 25-37 for 440 yards and matching Eriksson with four touch-down throws.

Running back Devin Mohn carried the ball 34 times for 194 yards and two scores. The Saints receiving core had two wide-outs ac-count for almost 75% of all the re-ceiving yards.

Matthew James and Paris Shaw had nine and seven catches respectively for 178 and 162 yards a piece. They also caught 1 touch-down pass a piece.

In the end, after the display of of-fensive firepower, it was the Jimmie de-fense that saved the game and helped UJ win.

Jeremy Cole led the way for Jamestown with 13 tackles, followed by the familiar trio of Jarelle Miller, J.T. Petsch, and Bradley Brooks who had 12, 11, and 11 tackles respectively. Late

in the fourth quar-ter, the Jimmies were able to force a Saints fumble that Anthony Buzzell recovered.

On Presenta-tion’s next and final drive, the Jimmie defense held them at midfield, causing four straight incom-pletions to end the Saints’ chances at victory.

With the vic-tory over Presenta-tion, the Univer-sity of Jamestown ended the year with a 3-1 record in the NSAA, and 3-7 overall.

With the 3-1 conference record, they tied Valley City State Universi-ty in the regular sea-son standings and became Co-Con-ference champions with the Vikings in the inaugural sea-son of the North Star Athletic Asso-ciation.

Josh Knutson can be emailed at

joknutso@uj.edu

Jimmies earn co-conference title after shootout with Saints

By Josh Knutson Sports

ContributorGood weather

and a well-built course are two things that make college cross coun-try runners excited about a meet. How-ever on Saturday the Jimmie men and women teams didn’t need much more to be excited about. The Univer-sity of Jamestown XC teams competed in Lawrence, Kan. at the North Star/Midlands NAIA Championships and came away with 4 individual qualifiers for the NAIA Na-tional Cross Coun-try meet.

In the women’s meet the Jimmies did something that would be hard in any meet, let alone a national qualifier race. UJ scored a perfect score of 15 points, placing in the top 6 positions overall and having 7 out of the top 10. Senior All-Ameri-can Aloena Reyes won the meet with a time of 18:30.59 followed closely by sophomore Saman-tha Goff 19:10.79 and freshman Chris-

ta Lysne 19:19.45. Katie Blais and Kayla Byle rounded out the scoring run-ners for UJ with times of 20:37.59 and 20:58.80 re-spectively. Other freshman runners Brooke Grooters (21:12.89) and Leah Oien (22:01.01) placed 6th and 8th overall, and Ash-ley Mueller placed 17th (25:09.89). UJ won the overall team score with 15, followed by Valley City State Universi-ty with 61 in second place, and Dakota State University in third with 64 points.

Unfortunately the North Star Ath-letic Association did not have the full amount of teams run in order to have a team auto-quali-fier for the national meet. This meant that instead of hav-ing the entire Jim-mie team advance to the national meet, only the top 3 place-winners advance. Reyes, Goff, and Lysne will represent the University of Jamestown on Nov. 23 at the NAIA Na-tional Cross Coun-try Meet that will

be held in the same city of Lawrence, Kan. but at a dif-ferent course. For Reyes, this is the 4th time out of 4 years that she has qualified for the na-tional meet. This is Goff’s second time out of 2 tries, and Lysne’s first.

On the men’s side the Jimmies had similar success, but not to the same extent. UJ came in 5th place scoring 119 points. Val-ley City stole the auto-qualify team spot by winning the meet with a score of 22 and will take their whole team to the national meet. However, individu-ally Jamestown did have one national qualifier in fresh-man standout Andre Aguinaga. Aguina-ga placed 10th in the meet overall with a time of 28:45.90 and earned himself an individual spot in the NAIA nation-al meet. This is his first time qualify-ing which is a good sign since he is a freshman.

Other runners did well for James-town on Saturday

also. Sophomore Connor Doppler placed 15th with a time of 29:21.35 and barely missed qualifying. James-town native Joe Jensen came in 25th place with a respectable time of 29:54.55. Senior Scott Roemmich finishes his college career with a 34th place finish and a time of 31:11.24. Klinton VanHeu-veln rounded out the Jimmies top five with a time of 31:15.33 and a 35th place finish right behind Ro-emmich. Nathan Long (31:15.33) and Adrian Paet-Bullaoit (33:25.87) came in 47th and 50th to finish out the Jimmie runners.

The men’s NAIA National Cross Country Meet will also be held on Nov. 23 in Law-rence, Kan. The race is scheduled to start at 10:30 a.m. and the women’s race will follow at 11:45 a.m.

Josh Knutson can be emailed at

joknutso@uj.edu

Four Jimmies qualify for nationals

Photo courtesy/ Tiffany Armstrong

By Thomas Cooke Sports Reporter

Looking to build upon last season’s first con-ference tourna-ment appearance in close to a decade, the University of Jamestown wom-en’s soccer team came unstuck at the semi-final stage after a comfort-able win over the University of Great Falls in their quarter final match up.

C o n d i t i o n s were set perfect in

Billings, MT for the Unaffiliated Con-ference Tournament hosted by Rocky Mountain College with the assistance of the MSUB (Mon-tana State Universi-ty Billings).

The Univer-sity of Jamestown – seeded fourth – faced UGF in their opening game, a side they defeated twice during the regular season.

The game start-ed well for UJ; but, it was UGF who

took the lead, only for Josselin Cosio to tie things up be-fore the half.

Coach Nick Becker must have chosen some select words for his group as a second half on-slaught led by the Jimmie offense cul-minated in a con-vincing 4-1 score line.

The goals came from senior Kara Wahl and junior Jolynn Warnes.

Nicole LaDouc-er produced six

saves after conced-ing an early effort from long range.

The win was the first in confer-ence for the Jimmie ladies since the ear-ly 2000’s, a founda-tion for stronger re-cruiting this coming spring.

The win placed UJ in a tough spot. The team now faced a semi-final match against host, rival and fierce competi-tor Rocky Moun-tain College, a team the ladies were not

comfortable play-ing against going by their 0-2 record on the season against the same opposi-tion.

Their last game turned out to be memorable for all the wrong reasons.

UJ worked their way to a 0-0 score at the half, but things looked to be im-proving for the Jim-mies when Senior Hannah Langseth netted what looked like a clean goal just after the break.

The ball ap-peared to cross the line; however, nei-ther official was in position to give the goal, keeping the score at 0-0.

UJ did score a legitimate goal late on with Monica Noria notching af-ter what has been an impressive first sea-son. Things looked to be going well un-til, with eight sec-onds on the clock, the UJ forward line switched off.

This allowed

space for the Rocky cross, which was finished to the dis-may of the on look-ing supporters.

This sent the game to overtime. Despite the Jim-mies’ best efforts, Rocky got the game winner to send the ladies home.

Despite this late season setback, the ladies had a hugely promising season in which an impres-sive group of fresh-man earned big minutes.

They will no doubt miss their all-time point scorer Hannah Langseth, but progress at the regional level is sure to promote the level of recruitment available to Head Coach Becker for the coming seasons.

Thomas Cooke can be emailed at

tcooke@uj.edu

Semi-Final woe for UJ women’s soccer