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By Grayson LederSports DirectorIn the world of

sports there are so very few truly beautiful mo-ments. I’m not talking about the perfect pass or the half-court heave, but the reuniting of a mother and daughter.

Sophomore wom-en’s basketball player Puni Timu of Kodiak, Alaska was reunited with her mother Sina af-ter being apart for over a year and a half (since she had been dropped off to start school) as a part of “Operation Surprise.”

Timu’s roommate sophomore Hannah Wise came to Coach Greg Ul-land to seek his help.

“Hannah came in and asked me what my thoughts were about getting a plane ticket for Puni’s mother, Sina, and surprising Puni at a game. Quick and easy answer, absolutely,” Ul-land said.

With the help of the other Jimmie players as well as a donation from Hannah’s mother the plan was put into place.

Two months ago the

ticket was purchased, and then it was a waiting game. The day fi nally came and the anticipa-tion built for everyone in on the surprise as Puni discussed how much she was missing her mother.

Coach Ulland stated, “I had goose bumps for most of the day, and all the players were so ex-cited for this also; it’s all we could talk about. We were all so excited for Puni,” Ulland said.

Wise’s mother Leaann picked Sina up at the airport, and “the package” was en route.

Just prior to the event Coach Ulland with a big grin stated that they were waiting to “surprise Puni with her mom.”

A simple statement that hides the enormity of the team’s efforts for their teammate.

The Jimmies went through their usual pre-game routine, they had the pregame talk and then walked to the gym to start their warm-up.

It was there that Puni saw her mother standing at the end of a tunnel of Jimmie fans there to

cheer on the team. It was a precious

moment that can only be described as truly beauti-ful. Puni broke into tears of joy as her mother em-braced her as her loving teammates looked on all smiles.

“Oh my gosh that was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen,” said fellow sophomore Jessica Buck afterwards.

The moment was short lived as the JV had to go play their game, but afterwards mother and daughter got to spend a few days of quality time together, and could be seen walking across campus together hand in hand.

Puni’s new home was made so much more special by having her old home join her here “That truly was one of the greatest things I have ever been a part of.

Not only the surprise for Puni, but the tears of joy shed by her team-mates, the willingness to help pay for the ticket knowing what happiness it will bring to a team-mate.

This group is pretty special, I’m so proud and blessed that I get to coach them and have them in the Jimmie fam-ily,” said Coach Ulland after all was said and done.

Being a gracious young woman, Puni only had this to say at the time:

“Thanks to ev-eryone and the Jimmie Family for making this night special. You all have no idea how much this means to me. I love you all.”

This was another perfect example of the character of Jimmie ath-letics.

A teammate was feeling down and her teammates came up with a way to bring her up.

The NAIA has long prided itself on its Cham-pions of Character initia-tive, and in this the Jim-mies proved themselves to truly be champions.Grayson Leder can be

emailed at gleder@uj.edu

Photo courtesy/ Jimmie Athletics

Sophomore Puni Timu and her mother, Sina, em-brace after being reunited after over a year apart. They hail from Kodiak, Alaska, which is more than

3,200 miles away from Jamestown

UJ administration hold meeting with students to discuss construction plans and residence hall changes.

See Page A2

Women’s Basketball headcoach Greg Ulland comments on how his team is handling No. 6 national ranking

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A2 FridayDecember 6, 2013

By Tracy OrtmanInformation

DirectorIn a meeting held on

Nov. 21, University of Jamestown Student Senate and Jimmie Ambassadors were asked to meet with some of the Jamestown faculty to discuss possible changes for the campus.

Lori Listopad-Student Life Director, Polly Pe-terson– Vice President for Institutional Advance-ment, Scott Goplin – Vice President of Enrollment Management and President Robert Badal were all pres-ent and ready to inform the students about the potential changes the administration has outlined.

Many of the changes that they presented at this meeting are not set in stone. These are merely ideas that they have been considering and have done extensive re-search on.

Peterson led the group through discussion and pre-sented the new ideas to ev-eryone present.

She mentioned that stu-dents touring the university do not fi nd Kroeze or Wat-son to be very appealing. The remodeling of Wat-son dorm into suite living will begin in the upcoming spring semester.

There will be fewer people in this dorm and it

will be split half and half between men and women.

As of right now, the idea behind these dorms is to have freshmen and sophomores living in them. They also are considering setting academic qualifi ca-tions for getting into the Watson dorm.

It is their goal to have this project completed by the end of the summer and ready for next year’s in-coming freshmen. Changes for Kroeze will not be oc-curring as of now.

The students at the meeting expressed their love for Kroeze and the way the layout of the dorm gives new students the ability to get to know one another. The students did however suggest that Kroeze needs a few renovations such as new windows, carpeting, and addressing the alleged mold situation.

The administration also suggested having a few single rooms in Kroeze for upperclassmen that would prefer living alone.

Several senate mem-bers were not pleased with the idea of having seniors living with freshmen. In-stead they suggested put-ting the single rooms in Seibold.

The students also ex-pressed their desire to keep both Watson and Kroeze as

freshmen dorms to preserve the tradition.

Since the University began, there has been an ongoing debate as to wheth-er Watson or Kroeze is the better freshmen dorm.

The residents devel-oped a sense of pride in their respective residence hall. Many of the students at the University of James-town would like to keep it this way.

The other dorms that will possibly be getting renovated include Seibold, Prentice, and Neirling. The following are updates that are being considered and discussed.

The plans proposed for Seibold include upgrading the lounges, installing air conditioning, and adding a kitchen.

In Prentice they are considering upgrading the kitchen and lounges and adding air conditioning.

The prospects for changes in Neirling are cur-rently being looked into. A suggested proposal for the campus apartments would be to change the limit to three students per room.

Students at the meet-ing pointed out some of the problems that the apartment has, and consideration will be given to fi nding a solu-tion to these issues.

So far Wilson is the

only dorm that has no fore-seeable renovations. If a decision is made to put air conditioning in the dorms, it should be completed by fall.

Administration in-formed the students that air conditioning would be extremely costly, and some students questioned the need for it since tempera-tures are hot for only a short period of time.

These renovations will not be inexpensive. They will cost the university hefty amount of cash.

With the extra costs for renovations may come premiums that the students would possibly have to pay on top of their tuition to live in these newly renovated dorms.

Suggested premium prices would be between $600-$1400 per year. This price range is based off of what the Jamestown mar-ket is charging for equiva-lent style living. Annie Schmaltz spoke out against adding premiums and aca-demic qualifi cations for getting into the dorms by stating, “It may create la-bels such as “smart kids,” “dumbs kids,” “rich kids,” “poor kids;” which could reduce the community feel-ing,” Schmaltz said.

One of the big proj-ects that the administration

is in the process of acquir-ing is the new dorm that will be built by the skating rink.

This dorm is going to be set up like an apartment. It will include four separate bedrooms, a mini kitchen with an island and refrig-erator, living room, bath-room, and a small washer and drier for each unit.

The idea will be to give the feel of living off campus while still being on campus. There will be full kitchens on each fl oor of the dorm as well.

The response to the new dorm was positive, but suggestions were made that the campus should become a wet campus so that these older students would want to live in the new dorms.

Megan Baker reminded the group that the fact that Jamestown is a dry campus is a huge reason why so many students are attracted to it. The administration is also looking into making it a requirement for students to live on campus for three years instead of two.

Many students at the meeting shared that they feel we would lose students by making them stay on campus.

Peterson explained that there would be allow-ances for living off campus, which would include being

21 or older, a Jamestown resident, or a married stu-dent.

The administration’s reasoning for making stu-dents live on campus is to increase the likelihood for students to graduate and also to help build commu-nity.

One of the questions that was presented to the faculty from the students was, “What happens when the cheap dorms fi ll up, are the rest of the students forced to pay more to have to live in the expensive ones?”

The students expressed that they would like more options for living areas that won’t require them to pay a premium. Some feel that the premium price should not be based on the average prices of rentals in James-town.

These renovations and ideas are all at the begin-ning stages. Some may never happen and others will be starting soon.

The administration is taking the necessary steps in implementing these changes, and reminds stu-dents that this is a process that will take time to be done correctly.

Tracy Ortman can be emailed at

tortman@uj.edu

Possible Renovations for UJ

Here Soph. Karrie Puckett along with many more UJ students were invited to the Reiland lobby on Dec. 3rd to come and see what job

opportunies are available around the Jamestown area.

Photo courtesy/ Tiffany Armstrong

A3FridayDecember 6, 2013

By Tom ConmaySocial Media

DirectorThe Student

Senate met on Tuesday, Novem-ber 19th, 2013 to go over the issues around campus.

C o n s t i t u e n t Concerns: Sena-tor Nickeloff stated that many girls went to the defense class and really liked them. Many of those girls want to see the class of-fered more often.

S e n a t o r Schoeneberger said that many students would like to see more trash cans sta-tioned outside.

Senator Romel-fanger informed the Student Senate that the dryers in Pren-tice Hall are not working correctly.

The Prentice third fl oor plumbing is not good. Toilets are backing up in fi ve different rooms. President Caldwell recommended that students clean out their sink traps.

Senator Paul-son recommended that garbage cans be set up at the end of each hallway, in Prentice, to prevent

vomit from being on the carpet every weekend.

Campus Af-fairs: Senator Ny-hus reported that a group of senators met with the in-dividual who will be replacing Neil Hleibucuck in the café. The new food service director was not impressed with the food service and is looking to make a lot of changes.

There was a meeting with the Executive Board and they talked about getting Tom Heck to go along on safety walks to see how dark areas on campus are.

The security task force met and they were not happy with senators just saying there needs to be more lighting.

Senator Romel-fanger asked how the keycards are coming and Presi-dent Caldwell in-formed the Senate that they will be coming quickly, but fi rst the University needs to fi nd one that is compatible with the schools computer system.

The Student Senate also met Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013 to discuss issues around cam-pus. The Student Senate President was absent from the meeting.

C o n s t i t u e n t Concerns: Senator Ward reported that a student is very concerned with her Biology course be-cause she is not get-ting her tests back. The Student Sen-ate informed Sena-tor Ward to tell the student to into that professor’s offi ce to discuss her issues.

Senator Baker informed the Stu-dent Senate that the second TV on the right, in the Foss, is stuck on Soccer.

Senator Larson said that many stu-dents are enjoying the changes in the café, and would like to have bleu cheese.

Campus Af-fairs: Outside trash cans are in the bud-get for next spring. There is a growing crack on the ceil-ing near the Hall of Fame; however, there are plans to move the Hall of

Fame. The dryers in Prentice Hall are being looked at and could be potentially fi xed soon.

C o m p l a i n t s about the Café: There are two complaints about the café. The fi rst complaint is that the breakfast area has been in an odd order, and the sec-ond complaint is that there have been dead fl ies under the sandwich bar.

The AED grants have been approved, details to be revealed soon.

The Student Senate approved the Knights Soci-ety to receive $275 for the Christmas Jazz Knights. The Knights Society will use the money for Christmas deco-rations and “mock-tail” ingredients.

Jazz Knights will be help on De-cember 7th, 2013 in L2.

Meeting ad-journed. Tom Conmay can

be emailed at tconmay@uj.edu

Senate Notes

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FARGO, N.D. (AP) — State Board of Higher Education members expressed concern Thursday that a proposed plan to improve North Dakota college graduation rates might set the admis-sions bar so high that it would exclude students who could have succeeded, particularly at the state's two research universities.

The board dis-cussed the so-called Pathways to Student Success plan at its monthly meeting

in Mayville. The idea was originally proposed last year and is scheduled to be fully implemented in 2015.

Figures present-ed to the board show that 41 percent of the University of North Dakota students who started at the school in 2006 wouldn't be have been eligible to enroll under the proposed admission index. That fi gure would be 36 percent at North Dakota State University.

"These are suc-cessful students.

These are students who have walked the stage and got their degrees," said Larry Skogen, the univer-sity system's interim chancellor. "I think we just need to back up and look at the data again."

The index is based upon a combi-nation of high school grade point average, core courses and col-lege entrance exam scores. The formula gives a minimum combined score of 210 to NDSU and UND. At Minot State, where the

cutoff is 190, only 5 percent of students who started in 2006 and graduated would be rejected in 2015.

"It appears that when you look at Minot, 190 is proba-bly the right number. And should 190 be the right number for UND and NDSU as well?" Skogen said. "I don't know."

At least one board member isn't convinced that the admission index needs tweaking. Duaine Espegard, of Grand Forks, said the program is meant

to get students in the right place.

"What I hear to-day is that you're try-ing to make it work so it doesn't affect as much," Espegard said. "The Pathways program is aspiring to raise — particu-larly at the research colleges — the bar up a bit. I feel that we're working and moving the bar down so it fi ts.

"It's not all about the money. It's about moving the colleges forward," he said.

Graduation rates for fi rst-time stu-

dents who enrolled in 2005 are 54 per-cent for NDSU and UND, 42 percent for Valley City State, 41 percent for Dickin-son State, 33 percent for Minot State, and 26 percent for May-ville State.

Skogen said the Pathways plan needs to include a "conver-sation about what's going on in K-12" to prepare students for college. Research shows that 1,900 freshman students who enrolled this fall at NDSU (41 per-cent) and UND (46

percent) would not be eligible under the admission proposal.

Douglas Munski, the faculty represen-tative to the board, said the fi gures show why it's important to improve prepara-tion beginning in 8th grade or earlier.

"All I'm saying is this is going to look a lot different once you get things rolling along and we actu-ally gets the students who are prepared," he said.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — North Dakota's U.S. senators are split on changes to Senate proce-dures that will now allow for the swift confi rma-tion of some controver-sial presidential appoint-ments.

Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said she wished Democrats didn't have to alter fi libuster traditions in the Senate, but she said doing so was necessary to stop the chamber from becoming gridlocked.

Republican Sen. John Hoeven said Demo-crats made a shortsighted decision that could hurt the chances of big bipar-tisan legislation, some of it key to North Dakota's interests.

Senate Democrats moved Thursday to alter Senate practices that had allowed Republicans to block many Democratic nominees on procedural grounds. After squab-bling with Republicans for months over certain presidential appoint-ments, Democrats used a 52-48 vote, led by Senate Majority Hary Reid, that will allow most presiden-tial nominees to move forward on a simple ma-jority votes, not the 60 votes previously needed to invoke cloture.

The changes do not affect legislation or Supreme Court nomi-nees, both of which will still require 60 votes to proceed.

Democrats used a parliamentary maneuver to make the change, by establishing a new prec-edent under the existing Senate rules, rather than formally changing the rules. The move upended a century of tradition.

Hoeven joined his Republican colleagues in decrying the move, saying it was nakedly political and designed to distract attention from problems with rollout of President Barack Obama's signature health care law.

He noted that legisla-tion, like the change to Senate practices enacted Thursday, was done with only Democratic votes.

"It's got to be to change the dialogue from Obamacare," Hoeven said.

Hoeven said he feared the move would poison any spirit of bipartisanship just as several key bills — in-cluding the farm bill and a water infrastructure bill — are locked in bipartisan negotiations between the Democratic-controlled Senate and the

Republican-led House. Both bills contain key provisions for North Dakota, he said.

"I think it defi nitely will make it harder," Ho-even said. "No question."

For Heitkamp, the changes in the Sen-ate were nothing to celebrate, but she said Democrats needed to act to make sure the Senate was fulfi lling its duties.

"I'm really sad-dened by what happened today," Heitkamp said. "I feel like I've worked very hard over the last eight, nine months here to build collegiality. ... But I also told people during the campaign (in 2012) that I would change the fi libuster if it moved us forward and out of gridlock."

"To me this was something, which I have said all along, that I think is needed to get back to some kind of regular order," she added.

Heitkamp said she was not worried that negotiations on the farm bill and the water bill would be harmed by the move.

The Senate has no more votes before Thanksgiving and is not scheduled to return until the week of Dec. 9.

N.D. state senators spliton presidential appointments

opinion A5FridayDecember 6, 2013

By Dan ArensColumnist

For decades, Iran has been one of the great “prob-lem children” of the world.

After the revolution which created the Islamic Republic, fi fty-two Ameri-cans were taken hostage during the Carter administration’s last days.

This crisis created a fi asco that helped en-sure that Carter’s one term in of-fi ce was his only term.

The so-called “Iran-Contra affair” marred Presi-dent Reagan’s term in offi ce as he attempted to deal with the growing threat of a de-termined Islamic state that grew increasingly to be de-fi ned by gross human rights violations, threats against Israel and the United States (the two “Satans”), and radical leaders seeking the means to achieve their goals (including fi nding the means to create nuclear weapons).

The fear that Iran would gain the power to utilize nu-clear weapons grew during George W. Bush’s term in offi ce.

Tensions fl ared con-stantly throughout the fi rst decade of the twenty-fi rst century as the world waited for Iran to suddenly strike out at the hated Jewish state of Israel or for Israel to sud-denly strike out at the most dangerous threat to the ex-istence of such a Jewish state.

Now, at last, we can begin to breathe freely. Un-der the guiding star that is Barack Obama, a deal has fi nally been reached with our former adversary that will guarantee peace and prosperity for all. Or not so much.

The deal that was reached with the Iranian leaders has done quite little except briefl y pause Iran’s development of nuclear missiles.

One truly positive thing that can be said about recent foreign policy is that the harsh economic sanctions placed on Iran by the US

and United Nations were having a marked effect on Iran’s economy.

Iran agreed to speak with the United States about possibly reducing these tough sanctions.

Instead of using our po-sition to ensure that Iran cooperated, we decided to vacillate and give in to Iran’s requests without gaining anything ex-cept the usual: false promises and false assurances.

The deal still al-lows Iran to enrich uranium for the process of making a nuclear weapon.

Yes, I know the deal says Iran can only enrich to the benevolent fi ve per-cent needed for producing nuclear energy (as opposed to weapons), but that deal only holds on specifi c loca-tions where Iran is known to be testing.

It does not keep Iran from maintaining some of its already enriched ura-nium, which has a 20% en-richment value.

We will supervise Iran’s nuclear sites, but only select ones which Iran has agreed to let us see.

We will not supervise the others where the shahs will be quickly trying to continue nuclear ambitions as planned.

We will help construct centrifuges for the enrich-ment of uranium in Iran, even though we won’t in-stall them. And we lose our advantage in negotiation through our tough sanc-tions.

The Iran deal slows that nation’s march towards gaining “the bomb”, but it doesn’t stop it. It gives Iran a grace period where the hostility of other nations to-wards their ambitions will lessen (with the notable ex-ception of Israel).

To deal with rogue states like Iran, the enrich-ment process cannot merely be curbed; it has to be abol-ished.

North Korea’s actions have proven a case and point example of this; but, it doesn’t appear that anyone

has learned that.Furthermore, much of

the agreement that Iran has to fulfi ll is voluntary; it does not involve cohesive Amer-ican involvement in making sure the regime lives up to its so-called obligations.

We have agreed that Iran deserves the right to create nuclear power as a source of energy as other countries do, but we have not taken into account Iran’s status as a country.

As mentioned above, North Korea has played the same game with the United States in the past and is now closer than ever to achiev-ing its own nuclear ambi-tions.

While the US and some European and Asian allies have agreed to this deal, it is being rejected not only by Israel but by Saudi Ara-bia and other actual allies of ours in the Middle East.

It has given Iran le-gitimacy as a partner in the international world, an act that could have been a historic achievement if it wasn’t tied to such negli-gible change on the part of the Iranian leaders.

The Iran that has re-peatedly proclaimed its intentions to wipe Israel from the face of the earth and contend even if pos-sible with the dictatorship of America and her allies in the West has not vanished.

The same people call the shots in Iranian policy, even if the nation’s fi gure-head appears to be more ac-commodating.

Any well-meaning at-tempt on Iran’s part to reach a genuine deal with West-ern powers will be quickly overshadowed and thrown aside by the radical Islamist elements and the ruling shahs.

The process of enrich-ing uranium is slowed, but it continues nonetheless. If the United States does not learn its lesson, sooner or later precipitate action will come in the Middle-east as Iran and Israel continue to face off.

Dan Arens can be emailed at

darens@uj.edu

A catastrophic deal

By Jacob StrassOutdoor Sports Reporter

Well this semester has fl own by so fast. One minute I was in the heat wave play-ing football and now snow has arrived. As I look back at the hunts I got to be a part of up here so far away from my home I have learned a lot from being out of my element.

The fl at plains make it just a little tougher to hunt, and the reason is because most days you have to deal with the wind and most of the time that makes it a lot colder than it should be.

The big problem I had starting out is that every animal up here could see you for miles. However, back home people dream of coming up here to do a duck or goose hunt and I got to do it and I am grateful that I did.

I have taken my fair share of ducks and geese. I will return though to North Dakota one day to hunt and hopefully bring back my southern friends to experience what I got to enjoy for two years.

Please email me jstrass@uj.edu and tell me what weapon you like to hunt with be it a rifl e, pistol, shotgun, or bow. I would really like to get some feedback. Tell me what you would like for me to talk about ask me questions, and I will be more than happy to answer them in the next issue of the newspaper.

Now I know it seems like it’s really far away but with the snow coming down all I can think about is spring time and we all know what that means. Turkey season is right around the corner.

Start getting ready now. Get those calls out and start practicing because a bad call could be the difference between a turkey on the table and a bird fl ying away. Turkeys have really good eye sight but poor hear-ing.

You, as a hunter, should take advantage of that and set down your decoys up about 15 yards in front of you. I also would use a decoy that moves. This would take the turkeys eyes away from you and on to the decoy leaving you free to grab items you need as a big tom comes strutting in.

Now say it’s getting dark though and those birds are getting hung up out there. I got the solution for you; always have a tur-key fan with you in your backpack. When those big toms see that it’s almost time to roust up in the tree they will hang back and wait for the hen to roust.

Give that big tom a few clucks and then pull out your turkey fan and fl ap it to make the sound of a turkey leaping off the ground to roust for the night. Give it about fi ve minutes and the big tom will do the same.

Now mark this spot on a map or G.P.S and come back to that same spot tomorrow morning remember put out your hen decoy and set up 15 yards from it and give a few clucks and that tom will be waiting for that hen to jump out of that tree.

That tom will them come to the sound of you purring and clucking and strut right into your decoy, giving you a perfect head shot. Now for a blind I either like to use my double bull blind I have or I will make one from nothing.

Just fi nd you a long limb lean it against a tree and grab two more branches and lean them against the stick. Grab the leafy branches away from where you sit and put them up against the sticks that you laid to-gether.

This makes for a fast easy blind that will hide you. Remember do not over call. Turkeys know the differences between you rattling off call after call and a real turkey. The only rule against this is if you hear a gobbler out there and you call and he im-mediately calls back to you. This sign gives you the go ahead to call but make sure that tom calls back fi rst.

However, it’s never a bad thing to play hard to get with that tom. He’s out there looking for you. When I call I like to throw out a few clucks fi rst then I’ll fi nish with a

few purrs to keep the attention. Sometimes the turkey will run with the

deer. The reason being is that the deer can hear really well and the turkey can see well. Now if you happen to run into this, be very careful what you do because like a robber in a bank you got eyes all over you, and any move you make will be seen.

This is why camoufl age is so impor-tant. I myself like to use a gilly suit. You probably know this already but it works great. I myself look like a huge bush. Ani-mals never suspect a thing. Well that’s all I have to say for now about that.

If you have and questions on what calls to use or anything just email me and I will get with you as soon as possible. Thanks for reading now for your backwoods prayer.

Dear lord thanks for letting us hunters go out into the woods and hunt the game that you have given to us to nourish our bodies, and thanks for the time spent with friends and family.

May we always respect the animals that we harvest and give them thanks also for giving their lives. May we always be true to the land and you. In your name I pray amen. Have a safe hunt y’all.

Jacob Strass can be emailed at

jstrass@uj.edu

Tips from the hunt: Turkeys

Issues with IranBy James

RomelfangerColumnist

Welcome back every-body from Thanksgiving break! I know how excited I was to not be in school for about a week.

Sadly, we are back. On the bright side, only a couple more weeks and we are going on Christ-mas break.

This is very ex-citing; I love Christ-mas break and being home for weeks, just playing vid-eo games and participating in hijinks.

With Christmas in my house comes religion; be-ing the member that only goes to church on the high holy days (Easter, Christ-mas, etc.).

With church comes the Pope. Yes, the Pope. For some odd reason I have al-ways had some weird fasci-nation with the Pope.

I have always loved the Pope, and I don’t know why. I think it is the thought of the hat. The Pope’s hat has always mesmerized me.

I think the movie Eu-rotrip solidifi ed the love of the Pope or the love of the Pope’s hat for me.

In recent news, Pope Francis has been mak-ing headlines. He recently

came out and said he was a bouncer at a nightclub in Argentina.

He did not speak much more about his tenure as a bouncer, and only revealed it to a few people, but the

Vatican news took with the story.

It’s very in-teresting since the Pope has always been thought of as just a fi gurehead and

not having such an interest-ing background outside of the papacy.

I always thought of the Pope as a disciple of God, not as a bad a** nightclub bouncer.

Another thing the Pope has made headlines in is his stance on gays in the Ro-man Catholic Church. Pope Francis has spoken out for gay marriage: that’s right, the Pope is for gay mar-riage.

The head of the Ro-man Catholic Church, who hasn’t always been tolerant towards homosexuals, is in support of gay marriage.

Surprisingly, the Pope’s approval rating is through the roof. Many of the de-vout Catholics are in favor of the Pope’s new stance on certain progressive issues. Does this mean the Catho-

lic Church is becoming pro-gressive?

I think the church is making an attempt, but any real change is a long way down the road.

I like to think that church is becoming pro-gressive, but in actuality I don’t think that they can. The Catholic Church real-izes that attendance in the Catholic Church is down and has been down for quite some time, but what appeals to people?

Pressing issues do if the Catholic Church starts talking about being more open towards issues that have always been viewed as “sins”.

With the church talking more about issues viewed as sins, there has been an increase in activity of par-ticipants in the Church.

It would be great if the Catholic Church could be more open towards social issues that everybody is dealing with.

Instead, I think the church is just scraping the surface on these social is-sues. They probably won’t handle the issues in full for a long time.

James Romelfanger

can be emailed at jromelfa@uj.edu

Isn’t our Pope wicked awesome?

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Peter Odney- Editor in Chief

Josh Grindheim- JCTV Station Manager

James Romelfanger- KJKR Station Manager

Ashley Domino- Enterprise Director

Grayson Leder- Sports Director

Tracy Ortman- Information Director

Dan Arens- KJKR News Director

Tiffany Armstrong- Chief Photographer

Andrea Brenno- Copy Editor

Thomas Cooke- Online Sports Editor

Theresa Heier- Assisstant Online Editor

Mark Lybeck- Managing Editor

Rebecca O’Toole- Online Editor

Jessica Walters- JCTV News Director

Dear Collegian,I would like to express my apprecia-

tion to the University for inviting me to at-tend the Student Media Reunion celebrat-ing the 100th Anniversary of the Collegian and other student media. Special thanks go to Professor Steven Listopad, Director of Student Media, for organizing this event and making all of us who attended feel welcome!

I was editor of the Collegian during the 1964-65 school year and have to count that experience as one of the most memo-rable during my four years at Jamestown College. Though my academic experience was excellent, it was the process of putting out the college newspaper and working with fellow students who were the report-ers, photographers, business managers, and editorial staff, that made Jamestown College the special place it was for me. Even though the school has grown dramat-ically since the 1960′s, it still retains the same opportunities for students to become involved in those extra-curricular activities that add so much meaning to the college experience.

It was especially fun to attend the Student Media Reception and meet former

Collegian editors and other student media staff. Earlier in the day I had a chance to tour the very impressive Student Media Center and see the nerve center for the Collegian. Back in the “old days” we compiled all the stories in a cramped room in the basement of the Chapel. Then a few of us carried the typewritten copy down to the Jamestown Sun, whose staff retyped everything on linotype machines in preparation for publication! Now once copy is ready you simply press “send”! Well maybe not quite that simply, as the current editor reminded me! Congratula-tions to the Collegian Staff for putting out such an excellent professional publication. And, after reading a few recent editions of the Collegian I was heartened to see that paper is still providing a balanced edito-rial response to local and national political issues!

Once again, thank you to all those who made this Student Media Reunion such a wonderful “homecoming” for re-turning editors and media staff.

Ralph Roberts Class of ’65Littleton, Colorado

Letter to the Editor

By Grayson LederSports Director

Over the past few years, the Twitter explosion has taken over the world. Lately, it has also been tak-ing over college campuses.

A new rage in campus life is “confession pages”. In March of 2013, James-town got one of its own. It started off as being both awesome and hilarious. Students were anonymous-ly posting their dirty little secrets.

From “I have a crush on this girl” to “I did this deed in this place this one time.” It was fun! Students were fl ocking to the account to laugh at the hilarious an-tics of their fellow students. Then it all changed.

The private confessions turned into faceless bash-ing. Students could insult their fellow Jimmies with-out even having to step out of the shadows.

Anonymous slanders became the norm for an account that began as fun. Why is this necessary? Why has it become nor-mal to point out someone’s fl aws or bring to light issues you have with someone else in a cowardly manner?

I am not speaking to you as a bigot who is anti-fun. In fact, I have posted on the confess page a few times (mostly because it is easier to say a girl is pretty

when she doesn’t know it’s you). I have laughed along with you, I have comment-ed on something someone posted while sitting with friends, but I have left it at that.

This campus is a won-derful place with wonder-ful people: that guy you sit next to in your English class who makes jokes about the content with you, the people you have lunch with every day, and even the faculty and staff who care about you (even when they give you a poor grade). So I ask all you wonderful people out there: why do we stand for this? Why do we participate in this ter-rible thing?

The only thing this ac-count has done now is make us mistrust our fellow Jim-mies.

You wonder who it is that posted about you. You stare at the people who know about that one tweet about you and wonder who aired your dirty laundry. This poisonous activity is doing nothing but tear our campus apart.

In a campus this small, we know at least who ev-eryone is. Do we really need to know that some faceless fool has an issue with them? Or that some person did some dumb ac-tion at some party?

This article is a call to

you, Jimmie Nation. I’m calling you out. Stop com-plaining about this cam-pus anonymously, sharing someone else’s dark secrets, or trash talking someone you probably don’t even know that well.

What have you done lately to improve this cam-pus? What have you done lately to improve a broken relationship with someone?

What have you done lately to change a world that every day shows itself to be a little more broken? In a world that continues to fall apart, what are you doing to hold the pieces together?

I can’t wait to be shown the tweets about how much of an idiot I am from those of you that ignore my words.

To those of you that see the issue I do, I have a mes-sage for you. I look forward to working with you toward the goal of making the Uni-versity of Jamestown the wonderful place it has been for me these past four and a half years.

I have one semester left after this one. I can’t wait to see the changes that are coming about. As those Twitter people would say, “Thank you and #GoJim-mies”

Grayson Leder can be emailed at gleder@

uj.edu

Campus cancer

Is there an anonymous evil among us?

sports A7FridayDecember 6, 2013

By Thomas CookeSports Reporter

Injuries and eligibility problems left the Jimmies missing Pat Nord, Michael Nord, and Dillon Kifer – ironically three of the stron-gest wrestlers on the squad – for their home dual last week.

Fortunately, Antonio Lopez stepped up and the depth of the group came to the forefront as some encouraging performanc-es were seen despite the team’s key absences.

The team fi nished 7th overall.

Lopez led the way in the heavy weight division, fi nishing second behind Brian Klevis of Dickinson State in a 4-0 score.

Tyler Schnaubert also wrestled well, this time in the 157 category. Here, he placed fourth after a team high three wins over the weekend.

Things could have gone even better for Jaykob Mill-er after he won two of his fi rst three matches; how-

ever, a previous back injury fl ared up.

This gave Coach Campbell a tough decision over whether Miller should be allowed to persist.

The decision was ulti-mately no. Miller unfortu-nately could not build on his promising start.

The meet comprised of eight teams, half of those NCAA D-II opponents.

Th omas Cooke can be emailed at

tcooke@uj.edu

Eligiblity andinjuries plaguemen’s wrestling

Jimmie men still

fight strong

By Josh KnutsonSports

ContributorThe Jimmie

Men’s basketball team was able to get their fi rst win in al-most a month by de-feating Crossroads Bible College on Nov. 15 by a fi nal score of 91-56. This win over Knights was the fi rst since Oct. 19 when the Jimmies played Canadian Menno-nite at the Mayville Classic.

As he has done in many games before, senior All-American guard Mark Hoge lead the way for the Jimmies going 5-6 from be-yond the arch in the fi rst half to help Jamestown jump out to a comfort-able 42-31 halftime lead. Hoge fi nished the game 7-8 from 3-point range and ended with a game high 21 points. He also added 9 assists and 3 steals.

The fundamen-tals were key in this game as the Jimmies were able to out-score the Knights 25-49 in the second half, outrebound 37-26 for the game, and force 24 total turnovers with 17 of them in the second half. "We've got a long ways to go, but it was good to see some carry over from practice on the defensive end.” said Head Coach Justin Wieck, "I've said a lot that we're re-ally close to being a good team. We haven't quite got there yet, but today was the fi rst step."

The Jimmies next contest was two days later In Mankato at an exhi-bition game against the Minnesota State Mankato Maver-icks. In this game the Jimmies were outscored 26-49 in the fi rst half but kept it close in the second, however they could not over-come the defi cit and lost 59-81.

Tanner Alder lead the Mavericks with 19 points, fol-lowed by four other

Minnesota Mankato players with double digit games rang-ing from 16 to 11 points. James-town got balanced scoring across the board, however Mark Hoge was the only Jimmie in dou-ble fi gures with 10.

The Jimmies were able to re-bound from their loss to Mankato nicely with a good win over Dickin-son State on Nov. 20 at home. James-town cruised to 73-64 victory over the Blue Hawks with Matt Wingo leading the way for the Jim-mies with season highs of 16 points and nine rebounds.

Other key per-formances came from Mark Hoge and Brequan Tucker who had 15 and 12 points respectively, Hoge also had a game high 7 assists. Beny Collins and Jesse Behm played big roles in the defensive and re-bounding game and gave the Jimmies lots of productive minutes.

D i c k i n s o n ’s Tevin Russell led all scorers with 17 points. The oth-er Blue Hawk in double fi gures was Brock Boos with 11 points.

The last two games of the Jim-mies short home-stand featured games against the NAIA Divi-sion II Minnesota Crookston Golden Eagles and the NAIA Division I Montana State Uni-versity Northern Lights. Both were tough games that tested the Black and Orange in many ways.

In the game against Crookston not even fi ve Jim-mie players in dou-ble fi gures could overcome the very physical Golden Eagles. Brequan Tucker lead the way for UJ with 18 points, followed by Matt Wingo (16), Breshion Tucker (15), Mark Hoge

(15), and Taylor Newton (12).

C r o o k s t o n ’s Brandon Burns lead the Golden Eagle’s attack with 26 points to lead all scorers. Other Crookston players in double fi gures were Ashton Harrell with 19, and Der-rick Red with 18. John Hughes domi-nated on the boards and ripped down 12 to lead all rebound-ers. The Golden Ea-gles outrebounded the Jimmies 43-24.

The Jimmies would end up falling to Crookston 88-79, which dropped their record to 4-5 on the year.

Tough Lights defense and poor shooting were the theme in the fi rst half of the game against Montana State University Northern. The Jim-mies were held to just 5 fi eld goals in the fi rst half which equated to a shoot-ing percentage of .208. In the second half however, UJ was able to close the gap somewhat shooting .440 over-all. However, the Jimmies did not connect on a single 3-pointer in the entire game, and would eventually lose to MSU-N by a score of 57-69.

Mark Hoge again lead the Jim-mies with 16 points, 3 assists, and 2 steals. Matt Wingo and Brequan Tucker were the other Jim-mies in double fi g-ures with 12 and 10 points apiece. Beny Collins lead all re-bounders with 8.

The Lights were lead by Jesse Vaughan with 19 points, Alfi e Miller with 12, and Gabe Finley with 11. Jamestown fell to 4-6 on the year overall with this loss.

Two days later the Jimmies were back in action in another exhibition game, this time against NCAA Division II MSU-Moorhead. The

Dragons were 4-0 at this point and av-eraging 93.2 points per game in pre-conference play. This game would be no different as the Dragons would defeat the Jimmies by a fi nal score of 93-69.

J a m e s t o w n was unable to stop a 13-2 run by the Dragons in the fi rst half which opened up the MSUM lead to double digits for good. They took a 39-23 lead into the half, and opened it up further in the second half, end-ing the game with a blistering shoot-ing percentage of 58.6%. Tyler Vaughan lead the Dragons with a ca-reer high 23 points. The other MSUM player in double fi gures was Urbane Bingham with 12.

The Jim-mies were lead by Brequan Tucker with 13 points. No other players for Jamestown reached double fi gures, however all 14 var-sity players saw the fl oor, and 11 of them scored. "We challenged our team to play really hard," Jimmies head coach Justin Wieck said. "They're a really good team. We did some really good things. I'm proud of how our guys fought, especially inside with their size."

The Jimmies are currently sit-ting at a record of 4-6 overall for the year. The sched-ule doesn’t get any easier from here on out as the Jimmies will leave for a two game road trip to Iowa that will fea-ture a game on Dec. 6 against the Saint Ambrose Univer-sity Bees, who are ranked #22 in the latest NAIA Divi-sion II poll. The game on Dec. 7 is against the Ashford University Saints. Josh Knutson can

be emailed atJoKnutso@uj.edu

Busy November schedule for Jimmie men’s B-Ball

Photo courtesy/ Tiffany Armstrong

sportsA8 FridayDecember 6, 2013

By Peter OdneyEditor in Chief

When a team sched-ules exhibition games, they usually look for teams they know they can beat.

Teams use exhibition games as glorifi ed scrim-mages, and as a test run for what will and what won’t work when the regular sea-son begins or resumes.

The Jimmie women’s basketball team has taken that approach and taken it the opposite direction.

The Jimmie women have played four mid-sea-son exhibition matches, and they certainly have not been weaker teams meant for padding a win total.

Minot State, Concor-dia-St. Paul (M.N.), and Augustana College (S.D.)

are all NCAA Division II schools, and Augustana is coming off a 28-7 sea-son, including a trip to the NCAA D-II Final Four.

To top off the exhibi-tion schedule, the Jimmies took on an NCAA D-I school, the University of North Dakota.

After hanging tough but ultimately losing these four exhibition games, the Jimmie women have run a gauntlet of talent and depth in their opposition.

While these “losses” may be disheartening to some, they are a necessary evil in preparing for confer-ence and postseason play, according to head coach Greg Ulland.

“We want to fi nd out our weaknesses and get

them corrected in order to become the best team that we can. We want to be peaking towards the end of the season and hopefully have a chance to compete in the post season. The only true way to fi nd out certain things is by playing a lot of talented teams that play dif-ferent styles of basketball. We feel that we are expos-ing our team to those situa-tions,” Ulland said.

Also on the docket for the Jimmies are tough non-conference games against nationally ranked oppo-nents St. Ambrose (No. 20), Midland (No. 10), Morn-ingside (No. 12), Briar Cliff (No. 15), and two games against conference foe Mayville State, currently ranked No. 25 in the coun-

try. These games should go

a long way in preparing the Jimmies for the long haul of the conference season, which begins Jan. 22 at home against Mayville.

The Jimmies seem to have responded well to the new situations Ulland men-tioned so far this season, cruising to a 9-1 regular season record and a No. 6 national ranking.

The ranking is the high-est in program history, and refl ects the depth and scor-ing ability of this year’s squad.

The only blemish on the record, a slim 10-point loss, came at the hands of undefeated perennial pow-erhouse, Northwestern (IA) College. The Red Raid-

ers are currently 10-0 and ranked No. 3 nationally.

While a high ranking and a nice won-loss record look good, Ulland is more concerned about the team keeping a level head, taking each game as it comes, and not looking too far into the future when the team must concentrate on the present.

“We focus on taking one drill, practice and day at a time. Trying to get bet-ter every day. That is a goal. We focus on us and what we need to do to become better and understand that we can only control what we can control. Plus, we don't talk about rankings or record. Mention it once and it's done. Record is a byprod-uct of us taking one game at a time, the biggest game

of the year for this crew is always the upcoming game. We don't look beyond any game or situation,” Ulland said.

The Jimmies play their next two games on the road on Friday and Saturday as part of a road trip to Iowa.

The team will take on No. 20 St. Ambrose on Friday and unranked but always dangerous Ashford University on Saturday.

The Jimmies play their next home game on Dec. 11 against Trinity Bible Col-lege at the Civic Center.

Peter Odney can be emailed

at podney@uj.edu

Jimmies use tough schedule to advantage

Photo courtesy/ Tiffany Armstrong

Junior Maggie Seter drives between two Northwestern defenders during the Jimmies 96-86 loss on Nov. 1st. Seter finished with 5 points and added 2 assists.