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Registration for studentsinterested in living on campusnext year will begin next week.

Beth Conner, housing direc-tor, said students who wish tomaintain their same roomsshould come to the housingoffice Wednesday throughJan. 31 to reapply for theroom.

“Even if they’re looking for

another hall or room optionfor next year, they can stillsign up and claim their ownroom for a safety measure forthemselves so they have aplace that’s comfortable incase another room isn’t readi-ly available for them,” Connersaid.

Students applying for on-campus housing will need tobring $200 for a $50 non-refundable reservation depositand a $150 pre-payment, as

well as a completed applica-tion card and signed contract.The card and contract areavailable at the housing officein Ballard.

Due to changes to the config-urations of the residencehalls, some residents will notbe able to reapply for theirroom. These “displaced resi-dents” will register for roomsfrom Feb. 3 to Feb. 5 in thehousing office.

“It’s important for students

now to pay attention so theydon’t lose priority,” Connersaid. “We certainly are hopefulthat residents will go throughthis process. It’s their oneopportunity to make sure theyhave first claim on availablespace.”

Conner said the remainder ofthe registration process willtake place in the Ballard mainlounge.

“We’ll be doing the apartmentregistration process during

the same time as our otherbuildings,” Conner said.“There will be a part in theregistration booklets that justpertains to the apartments.”

She said there are about 140spaces in the apartments,which filled for 2002-03 with-in the first 12 days of fallsemester.

“The apartments will havethe same sort of format,”

Students will carry an evenheavier financial burden as aresult of Minnesota’s budgetdeficit.

At a hearing Friday in theCMU, legislators said every-one will share the hurt of theprojected $356 million budgetshortfall.

Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s propos-al to fix the deficit would meana $2.5 million reduction forMSUM for each of the next twoyears, said President RolandBarden.

“We’re right on the edge ofthe edge,” Barden said. “Ithink higher education feelslike it was pretty much on thecross hairs of the governor’sproposal.”

Pawlenty’s proposal reduces

spending by about $25 millionfor MnSCU and the Universityof Minnesota system.

Rep. Paul Marquart, D-Dilworth, said higher educa-tion received the secondlargest cut.

“Higher education is undersiege in this state,” Marquartsaid.

Freshman Steven Fick saidhe doesn’t think students area priority with the legislature.

“If that’s happening, I shouldjust quit school and go workfor Pizza Hut,” said Fick, atheater major.

Legislators agreed thatMinnesota residents shouldn’thave to choose between work-ing or attending collegebecause of financial problems.

“I don’t want to see any stu-

Thirty-five years ago, MartinLuther King Jr. died in hisfight to keep his dream alive.

To celebratethe spirit ofthe manbehind thev i s i o n ,MSUM willhost theMixed BloodT h e a t r eCo.’s “Dr.K i n g ’ s

Dream” at 7 p.m. today(Thursday) in HansenTheatre.

The play is free and open tothe public.

Gus Claymore, coordinatorof multicultural affairs, saidthe theater company is highlyrespected and celebrating

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ThursdayJan. 23, 2003

Under the ‘weather’

ARTS, page 6

MSUM’s literary magazinecreates a blizzard of history, controversy.

Student stars in FMCT’sproduction of ‘One FlewOver the Cuckoo’s Nest.’

FEATURES, page 3

Nulle, Eastlack dominatefield at U of M Open.

❒ HOUSING, back page

SPORTS, page 9

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Sen. Keith Langseth (from left to right), Rep. Paul Marquart and Rep. Morrie Lanning respond to aquestion during Friday’s legislative open forum in the Ballroom. The three legislators met with about75 students, faculty and staff members to address concerns about Minnesota’s budget.

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Budget shortfall plagues MSUMStudents face further increases

During the past four months,Owens Hall has been undergoinga three-phase construction pro-ject to improve the drainage sys-tem, relocate the staircase andremodel several offices.

Greenberg Roofing Co. isreplacing the drainage system,which is phase one of the project.Due to the flat roof coveringOwens, reinstallation of thedrainage system could not wait,said David Crockett, vice presi-dent of administrative affairs.“The heating and drainage sys-tem is inadequate and does notprovide the type of air qualitythat the building should have,”Crockett added.

For the second phase of the pro-ject, architecture company FossAssociates reconfigured the floorplan on the north wing of Owens.Prior to reconstruction, theoffices had restricted space.

“The space is now tailored tosuit their business,” FacilitiesDirector Todd Stugelmayer said.

“It will be nice for new studentsand their parents to have a nicesize area with fresh paint andcarpet to welcome them.”

President Roland Barden saidan expanded admissions area isa necessary addition to MSUM.

“We admit openly we had one ofthe least attractive admissionsareas,” Barden said.

The third phase of constructioninvolves the relocation of thestaircase. The new staircase hasbeen built and is located in thenorth wing of Owens. The formerstaircase will be removed withinthe next couple weeks.

The construction project alsoincludes the installation of asprinkler system and fire detec-tion system.

Due to the intensity of con-struction, academic affairs, stu-dent affairs and admissionsoffices were forced to relocate.“It’s a lot of work running backand forth across campus totransfer everything, but I knowthe refinished office will definite-

Grays

Owens nears completionMixed BloodTheatre Co. honors King

On-campus housing registration begins WednesdayBy TERI FINNEMAN

News Editor

By DANIELLE MACMURCHY

Staff Writer


Construction worker Jim Larson works on the newAdmissions portion of Owens. ❒ OWENS, back page

❒ GRAYS, back page

❒ BUDGET, page 2

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1.24MSUM honors orchestra festival,1 to 10 p.m., GlasrudAuditorium, free.

1.25MSUM honors orchestra festival,8 to 10 p.m., GlasrudAuditorium, free.

New activitiesdirector hired

Becky Boyle is the newassistant director forActivities and Organizations

in the CMU,r e p l a c i n gT e r e s aH e l f t e rGlover.

Boyle wasthe formerC a m p u sA c t i v i t i e sBoard advis-er at

Northern State University inAberdeen, S.D., where sheworked for five years andreceived her master’s degreein counseling and guidance.

A graduate of Valley City(N.D.) State University, shealso served as a counselingcenter counselor at NSU.

Boyle

Faculty discussNigerian education

The Global Studies andInternational AffairsCommittee is sponsoring abrown bag seminar from noonto 1 p.m. Monday in CMU227. The event is free andopen to the public.

MSUM faculty membersBeth Virtanen-Armstrong,Yahya Frederickson,AbdelFatah Bashir and BruceRoberts will narrate theirrecent experiences at PrinceAbubakar Audu University inAyangba, Nigeria.

The presentation will high-light challenges faced daily atPAAU.

Students attending the sem-inar may register for scholar-ship drawings from theMinnesota Association ofFinancial Aid Administratorsand Minnesota Association ofCollege Admissions Council.

Dragon Frostsign up begins

With Dragon Frostapproaching, students areencouraged to sign up now toparticipate.

Snow Court nominationforms and registration for theDragon Pride Award competi-tion must be completed byWednesday.

Dragon Frost is a week ofactivities in February for theMSUM community to havesome fun and chase away thewinter blahs.

The event is organized by theCooperative Planning Team,which also organizes DragonFest in the fall. This yearDragon Frost week will befrom Feb. 7 to 15.

More information and acomplete schedule are avail-able at www.mnstate.edu/dragonfrost.

Contact Becky Boyle [email protected] or call236-2524 with any questions.

Educator graduatecourse offered

The course youth at risk:violent, sexual and addictedbehaviors will be offered as aspring graduate course for K-12 and higher education pro-fessionals.

The three-credit course willmeet from 4 to 6:30 p.m.Mondays from Jan. 27 to May12.

For further information or toregister, contact MSUM’s con-tinuing studies at 299-5862 orwww.mnstate.edu/continue.

Water aerobicsoffered Tuesdays

Water aerobics will beoffered from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m.Tuesdays at the MSUM swim-ming pool. The class is free forMSUM students, faculty andstaff.

For more information, call236-2313.

Education techclasses planned

Spring online courses foreducational technologyinclude creating Web-basedcurriculum materials, elec-tronic resources: issues andpractice, assessment strate-gies for technology-enhancedcurriculum and methods ofcomputer mediated communi-cation in education. Call 299-5862 for more information.

January Audubonmeeting planned

The Fargo-MoorheadAudubon Society will discussAlison Wallace’s project ofpartnering MSUM biology stu-dents with area third gradersand their prairie restorationplantings at 6:30 tonight(Thursday) in Concordia’s sci-ence building Room 212.

The program is free andopen to the public.

Student senatepositions open

University committee posi-tions and student senateseats for business and indus-try, undeclared and educationhuman services remain open.

Students may apply atwww.mnstate.edu/stusen orcall the senate office at 236-2150.

❒ OWENS, from frontdent turned away from highereducation because they can’tafford it,” said Rep. MorrieLanning, R-Moorhead.

But with the budget shortfalland Pawlenty’s pledge not toraise taxes, Marquart said leg-islators can’t promise therewon’t be tuition increases.

Although Barden mentioneda 12 percent tuition increasein Friday’s hearing, he onlyused that figure to illustratehow large an impact the bud-get fix could have.

MSUM would make further

budget cuts or reduce theworkforce to keep a tuitionincrease moderate, Bardensaid.

“We’re already into a situa-tion where we’ve reached themaximum that can be coveredby tuition,” Barden said.

Tuition rates at MSUM andother Minnesota state univer-sities won’t be decided untilJune, Barden said. MnSCUmakes tuition recommenda-tions following the legislativesession, which ends May 19.

“It’s very, very difficult for

students to pick up a dispro-portionate share of operatingthe university,” Barden said.“They’re strapped enoughalready.”

History professor Paul Harrissuggested the state raise taxesinstead of dealing only withthe spending side of the crisis.

Langseth said raising taxescould still be an option, butMarquart and Lanning saidit’d be a last resort.

CorrectionThe story “At your service,”

in the Jan. 16 issue of TheAdvocate incorrectly statedthat Habitat for Humanity isbuilding a house for MSUMstudent Paula Wojcik.

Wojcik and her family havecommitted to working a mini-mum number of hours andwill be paying a mortgage onthe house.

The Advocate strives foraccuracy. To report a correc-tion, e-mail us at [email protected].

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The insanity of Nurse Ratchedand the crew at the mental asy-lum is back as the Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatreoffers four more performances of“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’sNest” this weekend.

MSUM senior Eric Gomez, whoplays leading characterMacMurphy, said the play dealswith larger issues of free will andfighting against the tyrannical

oppression of the institution.“The biggest thing that I had to

deal with was being gigantic,”Gomez said. “The character ofMacMurphy is such a large char-acter that it seems no humanbody can contain his spirit.”

He said the basic plot is “abouta guy going into an asylum think-ing he’s getting out of work dutyfrom prison and how his presenceaffects the other inmates.”

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’sNest” was written by DaleWasserman and takes place in

the Pacific Northwest during theearly 1960s. The play is offered tomature audiences only.

“Mostly because the play dealswith mature themes and someviolence that takes place onstage,” Gomez said. “It’s a moving,thought-provoking presentationthat encourages students to chal-lenge the system of the institutionthat they participate in.”

Gomez began acting in Augustwith his performance of Stanley inFMCT’s “A Streetcar NamedDesire.”

“When I want to be involved insomething, I want to make surethe literature is there to drawsome heart and soul to put into acharacter,” Gomez said.

Gomez also has earlier experi-ence with MSUM’s speech anddebate team and said theater wasa natural progression from there.

“I think the greatest thing aboutbeing an actor is it allows you toget in touch with things that arealready inside you and makethem bigger or explore them orchallenge your own belief sys-tems,” Gomez said.

After auditions saw 100 peopletry out, the cast began rehearsingat the end of November. Gomezencourages college students toget involved with FMCT.

“They should support their com-munity in its endeavors to enrichthis area,” Gomez said.

MSUM library instructor LarrySchwartz, director of the play,said he thought being involvedwith “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’sNest” would be fun since heenjoys the storyline.

“The one important question Ihad going into it was would we beable to attract a Native Americangentleman of a certain size toaudition for the part of the Chief,”Schwartz said. “If we couldn’t dothat, we couldn’t do the play.”

Schwartz said he found hisactor busing tables at a localrestaurant. Schwartz told JustinDeegan that he was a directorand needed him for his perfor-mance. Just like that, Schwartzhad his play.

“My approach is straightfor-ward. I don’t think it’s one ofthose shows that lends itself toany kind of dramatically radicalspecial approach,” Schwartz said.“It’s a show that takes place in anasylum. It’s very realistic.”

Schwartz has been involved incommunity theater for 30 years.Schwartz began volunteering atthe FMCT in 1993 and has helped

in a variety of areas. “One FlewOver the Cuckoo’s Nest” is thesecond play Schwartz has direct-ed for FMCT. A few years ago, hedirected “The Visit.”

Schwartz said volunteering atFMCT is a great social opportuni-ty and offers a new experience.

“I think college students shouldtake advantage of the culturalopportunities in the area,” hesaid. “The community theaterprovides an excellent venue for acultural opportunity.”

“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’sNest” will be shown at 8 p.m.tonight (Thursday), Friday andSaturday. A 2 p.m. showing willbe offered Sunday. Tickets areavailable by calling the FMCT boxoffice at 235-6778.

Visiting a place with significanthistory can leave any person withthoughts and ideas that hauntthem from then on.

For Carol Becker, that is justthe case.

Becker, dean of faculty/vice-president of academic affairs forSchool of the Art Institute ofChicago will give a public lectureat 6 p.m. today (Thursday) inKing Auditorium. The lecture,titled “A Journey to My Lai: SocialMemory and the Making of Art,”explores Becker’s pilgrimage tothe Vietnamese village of My Laiand how artists, individuals andsociety respond to places of trau-ma.

In January of 2002, Beckertraveled to Vietnam with 12 stu-dent and two other faculty mem-

bers. Whilein Vietnam,the groupstudied theA m e r i c a nWar (as theVietnamesecall it), con-temporaryVietnamesesociety andart produc-tion in aB u d d h i s t

society.The tour stopped in various

sites of the war including Hanoi,the former Saigon; Da Hang; Hue;the Mekong Delta; Khe Sahn andMy Lai.

“I really believe that to under-stand something you have to

physically go,” Becker said. “Iguess part of who I am is some-one who travels around the worldand, when I can, I try to take stu-dents with me.”

On March 16, 1968, 150 U.S.soldiers invaded My Lai, analleged Viet Congs t r o n g h o l d .Nearly 500unarmed civiliansincluding oldmen, women andchildren wereraped, massacredand burned.

The U.S. sol-diers didn’tencounter a sin-gle enemy soldierduring the inva-sion and the onlyAmerican casualty was a soldierwho shot himself in the foot. Themission’s leader was convictedand sentenced by a court-martialto life in prison.

Becker came back from the tripand began working on a projectabout “social memory.”

The project looks at what it’slike to be haunted by the story ofMy Lai, how the trip affected thestudents’ perception of Americanforeign policy and how the triprelates to the current events hap-pening in Afghanistan.

“I never know, before I go to aplace, what I’m going to writeabout or if I’m going to writeabout anything,” Becker said. “Ijust know that when I come back,something haunts me and thenout of that I generate something.”

The educator, writer and theo-rist’s interests range from 19thcentury American literature to

South African art and artists tofeminist theory. Becker has trav-eled extensively and taken agroup of students to South Africato study art and politics.

After graduating from StateUniversity of New York in Buffalo

with a Bachelorof Arts in Englishand from theUniversity ofCalifornia, SanDiego, with aPh.D. in Englishand American lit-erature, Beckerserved as aFulbright VisitingScholar at IonianUniversity inCorfu, Greeceand was on resi-

dency at Rockefeller Study Centerin Bellagio, Italy.

Becker is also the author of 17books, including “Surpassing theSpectacle: Global Transformationsand the Changing Politics of Art,”“The Invisible Drama: Women andthe Anxiety of Change,” “TheSubversive Imagination: Artists,Society and Social Responsibility”and “The Zones of Contention:Essays on Art, Institutions,Gender, Anxiety.”

“I’m always interested in therole of the artist in society andhow artists insect with socialmembers,” Becker said. “It’sabout how you come to knowand understand something andthen as conscious people wechoose to respond.”

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003 Page 3, The AdvocateFEATURES

The cast of FMCT’s “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” prepares for thisweekend’s debut.

Lemer can be reached at [email protected].

Professor’s trek overseascreates a stir of ideas

Becker encourages student travel, academic opportunities

I guess part of who I am issomeone who travels

around the world and, whenI can, I try to take students

with me.

Carol BeckerDean of faculty/vice-president of

academic affairs for School of theArt Institute of Chicago

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BY BRONSON LEMER

A&E Editor

By TERI FINNEMAN

News Editor



Finneman can be reached at [email protected].

Becker

Cuckoo’s Nest comes to roost at FMCT

MSUM student Eric Gomez, (right), commands the stage during a dressrehearsal of FMCT’s production “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

In response to the concerns ofthe budget cuts at MSU-Moorhead, I would like to make arecommendation.

In last Friday’s USA Today (1-17-03), an article titled “Toughernew academic rules punt on pun-ishment,” discusses the footballteams at various universities,specifically those in the “Bowl”games this year and what per-centage of the players didn’tmake the grade, including theschools’ graduation rates.

For example, in the OrangeBowl, Southern California andIowa have a graduation rate of 65percent and 63 percent, respec-tively. The University ofOklahoma was named the “win-ner” in athletics, but a loser whenit comes to academics with 26percent of the players graduating.Their graduation rate at U of OKbetween 1998 to 2001, accordingto this article, for male basketballplayers who entered as freshmen(on sports scholarships) was zero.Zero! Despite this, neither thesports program or the respectiveuniversity is penalized for failureto educate these students,though they have six years tocomplete their degreee.

It’s not any different at all at theNational Collegiate AthleticAssociation Division 1-A schools,the most competitive in sports.Their national average is 36 per-cent for basketball players and 53percent for football players, whichis nothing to brag about. I’d beashamed of being a student atany of those universities!

What is odd about all of this isthat even though these universi-ties want their students to gradu-

ate, "... school officials argue thatgraduation rates are an 'unfairyardstick' to measure athletes'academic success because col-leges have widely varying gradua-tion rates for all students,"according to the article. To makematters even more odd is thatthese students fail to graduate,but not because of financial rea-sons. These sports players receivelarge financial aid packages,tutors, special academic centersand easy courses. This tells methat the players cannot read orwrite and are dependent upon atutor to do their work for them(remember the scandal at theUniversity of Minnesota a fewshort years ago?). These schoolsdon't even care if their "star ath-letes" graduate! To add insult toinjury, fewer than 2 percent offootball and basketball playersever make the pros!

My proposal for all the collegesand universities in Minnesotathat are having funds cut is this:There has been nothing saidregarding any cuts in the sportsprograms. If we need sportsteams here at MSU-Moorhead,then we need to know how all theathletic players are doing acade-mically, by name, published withtheir grades and GPA's readilyavailable. The administrationshould count the costs to see ifany of the sports programs arefeasible. If any of the players isn'tmaking the grade of at least a 3.0GPA, then have them removedfrom their team's roster until they

can do so consistently. There also needs to be an

accounting done on the amountof funding each team receives,what it's used and spent on,which would be done by an out-side agency not affiliated with theuniversity. Give them each a bud-get minus what the coachesreceive as payment (a.k.a. kick-backs) from athletic apparel com-panies (they require the players towear only their brand of clothing,shoes, etc.). In addition, all sportsteams players should be requiredto live in the dorms on campus,but not together as a group.Living in the fraternities andsororities would be a thing of thepast, so that each of them wouldhave a roommate who doesn'tplay sports. That way, all stu-dents can get to know each otherand experience a sense of com-munity so the players can becheered on by all of us.

Otherwise, we're just wastingour time and energy cheering onpeople who are playing sportshere because they can't play any-where else.

This plan and idea should rallythose in our president’s office andon other campuses to take a seri-ous look at the sports programsand see where their priorities lie.It’s time for the administrators’ ofMSUM to put money where theirmouth is and start getting seriousabout what is important insteadof goofing off and calling it atough day at the office and raisingtuition when there are programsthat aren’t a necessity are gettingtoo much money.

Pete KlecknerMSUM sophomore

Every week I take the timeto grab a copy of TheAdvocate for many reasons.It provides insight and rele-vant information that pertains toissues related to the campus. Italso gives some perspective intowho we are as a campus commu-nity.

I was startled recently when Iread the opinion columns in thepaper. I stumbled upon a comicalentry titled “Less I-Self-Me incolumns.” [Jan. 16] You mightwant to check it out online beforeyou read any further to under-stand the humor I found.

I begin by questioning Jimmy P.Powell’s many assumptionsthroughout the article.Assumptions such as, “Whilemany simply choose not to read it[The Advocate] ...” I guess I neversaw the survey Powell released todetermine who reads the paper.Maybe I missed something.Again, he states, “The generalreader isn’t interested in theirjournal about I-Self-Me.” Funny, Ialways thought that was whatwas contained in top-selling mag-azines such as People, Cosmoand Us. Granted there are fewmovie stars on campus, but it stillis neat to know what is on peo-ple’s minds. Maybe I am wrong.

Also, in regards to commentssuch as, “Now, if you do quit[smoking], that is something we

would like to read about.” Wait ...above he said the reader isn’tinterested in that stuff. Which isit? I guess I am confused. MaybeI’m reading it wrong.

His little comments about NAM-BLA and Rev. Phelps also mademe light-hearted. The writerstates that the pastor and hisgroup are quite insignificant andhave little impact on the daily lifeof the MSUM community. (Here, Ihave to give the writer credit inthat the group has been aroundquite a while and has gained afew members.)

But here is a thought. Let’s takethe Unabomber. Insignificant,troubled individual that wreakedhavoc on many people over manyyears, but all in all, had littleimpact on the majority ofAmericans. Yet, when caught, hedrew major media attention fromall the major news sources. Areyou saying it was absurd for themto cover it?

Maybe I am biased in this situa-tion, but I think the article onPhelps was well put together andinformative in regards to the hatewe as a university communityshould erase.

Seems to me the writer mustknow more about MatthewSheppard than our Advocate

columnists. I suggest hewrite an article to his likingthat completely entails thesituation. He did a nice job

by beginning with, “You couldbetter inform,” and continuedwith dialogue such as info aboutthe class of ‘98.

The writer’s many commentsabout others whining, was againquite comical. Take his ramblingabout Trent Lott. Having theAdvocate columnist write to Lott,would be about as effective asPowell’s article.

Also I speak to the manymotorists who both work andattend MSUM. It is just not thateasy to hop on the bus and get towork and school. THIS is wherethe writer SHOULD conduct asurvey to find out the conve-nience of riding the bus. He justmay be surprised. After the ranti-ng about motorists complaining(And he isn’t?), it is just morebitching.

I can say that I am a proudweekly reader of the Advocate andI am pleased with their “Job WellDone!!” I have seen the dedicationand hard work they put in everyweek to produce the newspaper.We should all be proud that wehave a voice in who we are as auniversity community. That voiceis The Advocate!

Nathen EricksonMSUM senior

Page 4, The Advocate OPINIONAdvocate editorial

Students shouldbe vocal duringlegislative session

Defendants of higher education need to get theirstory out.

Rep. Morris Lanning, former Moorhead mayor andConcordia administrator, mentioned in Friday’s leg-islative hearing that higher education doesn’t havenearly as many supporters as K-12 education.

This is bad news for college students, who are fac-ing a “double whammy” of tuition increases com-bined with cuts in work study and a grant programthat can’t keep up with demand.

Minnesota’s budget woes will undoubtedly put evenmore financial burden on individual students. In1986, higher education accounted for 15 percent ofthe state’s budget. But in 2001, it accounted for 10percent.

Because of less state support, the average collegegraduate leaves school with debt that takes years topay off. According to a Wall Street Journal report,the borrowing of private loans to pay for college grew39 percent to $5 billion in 2001-02.

Unless students speak up, the huge backwardsstep Minnesota has taken regarding higher educa-tion will only get worse. Although Friday’s legislativehearing was well attended, particularly for a Fridayafternoon before a three-day weekend, students cando a lot more to stay informed and speak out.

With Minnesota’s projected $356 million shortfallfor this year and deficit of more than $4 billion for2004-05, no one can afford not to be active this leg-islative session.

Here are ways to get active and pay attention toMinnesota’s legislature:

• Contact elected officials with your concerns.Officials representing the Moorhead area are:Lanning ([email protected]), Rep. PaulMarquart ([email protected]) and Sen.Keith Langseth ([email protected]).Email addresses of other legislators are available

through the directory of the Minnesota LegislatureWeb site (www.leg.state.mn.us).

• Browse Web sites that feature legislative updates.The MnSCU site (www.mnscu.edu) posts an updateeach Friday and highlights bills that are importantto Minnesota state universities. President Barden’sWeb site (www.mnstate.edu/president) also includeslegislative activity links.

• Attend Lobby Day on Feb. 12. Each year, collegestudents from across the state travel to the statecapitol to get their opinions heard. MSUM’s studentsenate organizes transportation and the day’sevents. Many professors consider attending LobbyDay as an excused absence from class. For moreinformation, contact the senate office [email protected].

Your turn

Letters to the editor

boardAmy Dalrymple

EditorTeri FinnemanNews editor

Bronson LemerA & E editor

The opinions expressed in The Advocate are not necessarily those ofthe college administration, faculty or student body. The Advocateencourages letters to the editor and Your Turn submissions. Theyshould be typed and must include the writer’s name, signature,

address, phone number, year in school or occupation and any affilia-tions. Letters are due by 5 p.m. Monday and can be sent to MSUM

Box 130, dropped off in The Advocate office or e-mailed to [email protected].

Thursday, Jan. 23, 2003

Give no special privileges to athletes

Criticism of columnist unfair

I didn’t avoid it intentionally, Ijust had no reason to do it beforenow. The opportunity just never

arose. But,t h i sChr istmasbreak, Icame face toface with it:flying on acommercialairline post-Sept. 11.

H a v i n gheard thehorror sto-ries andseen thechaos, Is t e e l e dmyself for anear trau-

matic experience. I preparedmyself for long lines of tired,cranky people having their per-sonal property (and their persons)thoroughly searched by tired,cranky security personnel. I read-

ied myself for the possibility of anear-strip search to locate theelusive trigger of the alarm.

In short, I prepared myself for avery long day before ever gettingto the gate of the airport.

To my surprise, it wasn’t thatbad. Well, security wasn’t any-way. We managed to get througheach gate in less than 10 min-utes. That includes the time ittook to take off our shoes andhave them sent through the x-rayseparately and for us to be “pat-ted down.” The employees weremostly polite. Most of the peoplewere patient and no one triedrushing or pushing through thelines. Even when our checkedbaggage had to be searched, theagents were engaged in friendlybanter. Things actually went pret-ty smoothly.

Like I said, that was the securi-ty. The horrors we had to facewere the same ones that existedin the pre-9/11 world. Our returntrip took us a total of three days

(if you count the time it took forour luggage to return to Fargo).Keep in mind, we were only inColorado. Normal flight time forour trip was supposed to be fourhours including time betweenflights at Denver International.

It all began in Colorado Springs.We got to our gate early. Weboarded our plane on time. Wepushed away from the gatepromptly.

We got about 20 feet. The pilot then informed us that

there was a mechanical problemthat she thought would only takea few minutes to fix once themechanic was there.

An hour and a half later, theyfinally let our 19-minute flighttake off. We landed at the sametime our connection departed. Wewere rebooked for a later flight.We went and had overpriced foodat one of the airport restaurants.We sat and waited in the gate areaand chatted with other travelers.

Five minutes before boarding,fate struck again.

“We’re having weather in Fargo.” Even though Fargo was com-

pletely fogged in with no wind at 7p.m., the airline decided to fly usout anyway.

We flew all the way to Fargo andproceeded to circle above the air-port for 30 minutes. Rather thantrying to route us to somewherenearby, they flew us back toDenver.

The next day, they flew us toChicago.

When we finally arrived inFargo, our luggage was nowhereto be found. Some of the luggagefrom the circling flight the nightbefore had found its way but notone of our four packages. Theyfinally decided they were donetraveling the next day.

I did learn something from thisexperience however. First, I stillhate the airline that my mother-in-law booked us on. Second,only wear tennis shoes or canvasshoes when flying unless youwant to take your shoes off. And,finally, flying post-9/11 reallyisn’t that different from flying pre-9/11. In fact, I found most of thepeople a little more pleasant upuntil the 26th hour of delay.People start getting a little crankyat that point.

I can’t say I blame them.

Sometimes these things justwrite themselves.

When it comes to your garden-variety polit-ical bric-a-brac, NorthDakota hasalways beenthe Schlitzto any givenl a r g e rs t a t e ’ sAmberbock,but, sud-denly, withthe chang-ing of theyear comesa lava flowof marblesand senses p i l l i n gdown thesteps of the

state capitol. North Dakota’s gov-ernmental figureheads have neverbeen poster boys for having theirfingertips on the pulse of the bus-tle or being adept at sensing theheart of important issues, but

with the state’s legislature kick-ing back into high gear and theirmouths clamoring after thetailpipes of 49 other states, thingsare getting ridiculous and myknees have started to knock whenvisions of our elected officialsbegin dancing in my head.

Take a gander at Rep. LarryBellow from Minot, who’s got it onhis brain to take away the abilityof married couples to file fordivorce based on irreconcilabledifferences. The Republican sayshe wants to keep families togeth-er and, apparently, would ratherthat a man cold-cock his wife or awoman mount her husband’s chi-ropractor than let people jumpout of the road before they getclipped by a street sweeper.

And then there’s my personalchoice for the “Representative-With-a-Penchant-For-Wasting-the-Legislature’s-Time” award -–Michael Grosz, R-Grand Forks,who – get this – has introduced abill to ban all sale and use oftobacco products in the state. IfNASA hasn’t called to recruit Mr.

Grosz by the time this bill comesto a vote later in the session, I’mseriously contemplating a visit tothe capitol to scientifically moni-tor the effect of a room full ofrolling eyes on his face’s pigmen-tation. I know all toppling domi-nos begin with one little push,but coupled with the fact that noother state has ever bannedtobacco is that there’s a few rea-sons why: 1) Philip-Morris wouldbegin moonlighting as politicalassassins, 2) a person’s body maybe a temple but it’s their own

damned temple (also see: pro-choice argument), and 3) it’scalled the wrath of a legion ofpissed-off smokers, simultane-ously going through withdrawalsand armed with the power to votepeople out of office.

But it’s not just the legislatorsthat have started putting theirthinking caps on inside out. Thestate’s attorney general, WayneStenehjem (who was elected pri-marily on his tough stance ondrugs), along with the other 19members of the North DakotaCommission on Drug and AlcoholAbuse, has just finished a severalmonth long brainstorming ses-sion on how to better fight thestate’s war on drugs. The result?They’re aiming to place a limit onthe amount of cold medicine thatpeople can purchase to two pack-ages per trip.

Ol’ Wayne’s reasoning is simple:cold pills contain ephedrine,which is used to make meth, andif you make it harder for people toget their paws on ephedrine – nowcue the laugh track – they’ll have

a harder time making meth. Maybe it would be easier to fully

understand this if we put it into amathematical equation. Lawrestricting cold pill purchasesplus the colossal-sized pain in theass it’s going to cause the averagestuffy-nosed consumer divided bythe fact that the meth entrepre-neurs are going to either drive tothe next store or have a few otherpeople go into the same store tobuy this stuff, and you’re left withthe rather uncomfortable feelingthat this is the best planStenehjem could come up with tofight the state’s drug problem.Hell, while we’re at it Wayne,could we get a law passed outlaw-ing straws from the state’srestaurants because, when youthink about it, they could be usedto snort coke - assuming, ofcourse, that person’s nosed isn’tstuffed like a Thanksgiving turkeyafter you’ve successfully outlawedDayQuil from the state.

Ol’ Wayne’s reasoning is simple:cold pills contain ephedrine,

which is used to make meth, andif you make it harder for peopleto get their paws on ephedrine –now cue the laugh track – they’llhave a harder time making meth.

Page 5, The AdvocateThursday, Jan. 23, 2003

North Dakota leaders are out of touch

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Rausch can be reached at [email protected].

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JENELSTELTON-

HOLTMEIERAdvocate columnist

“Five minutes beforeboarding, fate struck again.”

Airline security improved, baggage handling needs work

Stelton-Holtmeier can be reached at [email protected].

Advocate columnist

CHRISRAUSCH

“But it’s not just the legislators that have

started putting their thinking caps

on inside out.”

How many politicians does it take to screw an entire state?

Having heard the horror storiesand seen the chaos, I steeled

myself for a near-traumaticexperience. I prepared myself for long lines of tired, crankypeople having their personalproperty (and their persons)

thoroughly searched.

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Creative writing can be contagious.Since 1963, creative writing students

have expressed themselves throughwords and images that often tell the sto-ries of their lives, their generations, theirenthusiasms, their joys and their de-feats.

At MSUM, that ingenuity has been toldthrough the campus literary magazine.With a history as complex as humanlives, MSUM’s literary magazine tells thetale of generations of writers, past andpresent, who have tried their hand atcreative writing at MSUM.

The university’s first literary magazine,Convivio, started in 1963 and includedboth scholarly and creative work by stu-dents and faculty. Editors Nancy Berg,John Fuhrken, Margo Larson, ClydeOlson, Elizabeth Senyk and JohnSkonnord launched the magazine bysaying, “To present a new magazine inthis age of too many writers and too fewreaders implies a proud, or defiant as-sertion of uniqueness. We had best ex-plain at the outset therefore thatConvivio is in no way unique.”

By the late 1960s, the magazine shiftedthe emphasis to solely creative work.

Rough beginningsIn 1969, the literary magazine encoun-

tered an obstacle that would eventuallyhalt the publication of the magazine.

Convivio editors Larry Peterson,Richard Callender and Michael Moos,along with advisor Bernard Heringman,put together the annual issue and sentthe magazine to Knight Printing in Fargo.The printing company then contactedThe Forum and informed the newspaperthat they would not typeset a couple ofpieces from Convivio because of obsceni-ties and libelous statements. The newsmade the headlines of The Forum.

Mark Vinz, MSUM English professor,came to campus in 1968 and helped theeditors with the censorship issue.

“The other two editors decided that itwould be better to have a censored mag-azine rather than no magazine at all,”Vinz said.

The two pieces, Larry Peterson’s“American Scene” and Tom McConn’s“Cold Crucifix,” were cut from the maga-zine. As a result of the censorship, LarryPeterson resigned as editor and the issuewas printed with a disclaimer saying,

“We are asked to create cau-tiously, with one eye out forpublic disapproval, and aliterary magazine such asConvivio cannot exist undersuch conditions; therefore,it is an impractical idea.From our position, this ex-purgated issue will be thelast Convivio.”

The May 2, 1969, issue ofthe Mistic, the former MSUM studentnewspaper, ran an article about theConvivio censorship. The article went onto list the words that Knight Printing re-fused to print.

That article, along with other actions,caused Roland Dille, then MSUM presi-dent, to shut down the student newspa-per. The campus was then void of both aliterary magazine and a student newspa-per.

Fighting backWithout means of a student newspaper

or student literary magazine, studentshad few options to express creative workon campus. Student journalists went onto work for various “underground” news-papers including the MoorheadIndependent News and eventually TheAdvocate.

Creative writers had other methods ofgetting their messages heard.

Vinz, English professor Mary Pryor andother faculty and students joined to-gether to form the broadside The FatGiraffe. The stapled-together publicationwas produced in Pryor’s kitchen andlasted only a year. The first issue ran“Cold Crucifix” — one of the stories cutfrom Convivio.

After The Fat Giraffe, creative writingwas limited to classes and readings byvisiting writers and faculty at variousplaces in the community. Few classeswere offered at MSUM until 1969, whenThomas McGrath, a North Dakota nativeand poet, joined the English faculty andbegan developing the creative writingprogram.

Yet, a campus literary magazine ceasedto exist for nearly 10 years.

“Now that I think about it, one of thereasons that the students weren’t terri-bly interested in starting another maga-zine was because there was just toomany issues — publication, censorshipand so on,” said Vinz. “It seemed to methat there was kind of a gap there.”

That gap was filled in 1976, when two

undergraduate English students came toVinz with the idea for a new literary mag-azine.

“I tried to talk them out of it,” Vinz said.David Pink and Allan Honrath talked to

Vinz about restarting the campus literarymagazine. The Three Seasons sprung tolife in the spring of 1977 with the issue“Primal Burst,” which stated in the dis-claimer: “This is only the beginning of abeautiful thing.”

The idea behind The Three Seasons wasto publish three issues a year, one forevery season in the school year. However,the idea proved to be too strenuous, Vinzsaid.

The Three Seasons lasted until 1981,when student editors decided a changewas due.

“Since we’ve gone this far and we’re notpublishing three issues a year and givenhow hard it is to publish three issues ayear, we decided to come up with a newname,” Vinz said.

Vinz and student editors tossed aroundideas for the new name.

“This was in the years of StrawberryAlarm Clock and outrageous names forbands,” Vinz said. “They got to schoolcolors and somebody eventually said RedWeather. I asked if anybody had readWallace Stevens’ poem. I went to my of-fice and got the poem and read it tothem.”

And so the current literary magazinewas established and the first issue wasprinted in the spring of 1982.

Into the futureRed Weather stuck and has remained

the name of the literary magazine forover 20 years. In 1997, Vinz, ShariGross, Kevin Zepper and Carrie Simisoncreated “What Matters: Selections from30 Years of Literary Magazines atMoorhead State.” The book included cre-ative work from Convivio, The FatGiraffe, The Three Seasons and RedWeather.

By BRONSON LEMER

A & E Editor

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Wordyforecast

MSUM’s literary magazine has a history

that speaks volumesfor university’s creativity

1963 - The first issue ofConvivio.

1969 - The controversialissue of Convivio.

1977 - The Three Seasonssprings to life.

1982 - Red Weather pre-miers.

Seasons of change MSUM’s literary magazine has transformed from 1963 to the present. Each issueprovides a glimpse of that generation’s creative ability.

In 1969, Mary Pryor’s kitchen be-came a refuge for literary freedom forFargo-Moorhead writers.

The writer, poet and teacher openedup her kitchen after the student lit-erary magazine for then MoorheadState College shut down because ofcensorship. The university presidentand English department took stepsto eliminate the obscenities from thedepartment publication. The literarymagazine was set to be published atKnight Printing.

When obscenities were discoveredthroughout the publication, theprinting company refused to printthe pieces containing the obscenelanguage.

Pryor and other professors decidedto create their own publication tofight the censorship from the univer-sity.

“A bunch of us decided we wouldstart our own little, stapled-togetherpoetry magazine,” said Mark Vinz,poet and English professor at MSUM.“One of the things we published wasthe pieces that were cut from the lit-erary magazine.”

Using Pryor’s father’s mimeographmachine, the band of idealistic poetsproduced the literary magazine TheFat Giraffe out of Pryor’s kitchen.After several issues, the professorscaptured the essence of poetry andcreative writing in Fargo-Moorheadduring an era when the world wasrapidly changing.

That essence continued throughthe decades as Fargo-Moorhead e-volved into the underdog of literary ex-pression. With poets springing upthroughout the region, Pryor remains astaple in the creation of poetic freedom,which exists through university creativewriting programs, local readings andother events that enable writers to beheard up and down the valley. Satiatedwith history as rich as her poetry, Pryor’slife defines the celebration of life attitudefelt by her New England upbringing, herseveral years of teaching poetry and liter-ature at MSUM, her involvement withother poets in the region and her timespent supporting community events afterretiring.

Born and raised in Massachusetts,Pryor has always loved poetry. Her par-ents began reading their daughter’s po-etry at a young age and Pryor soon foundherself playing around with words andphrases to compile poetic verse.

“I wrote a poem when I was 7,” Pryor ex-plains. “The Boston Herald had a chil-dren’s page and my dad sent the poem inand they printed it. And so the lure ofgetting printed started early.”

Pryor’s call to literature didn’t come im-mediately. She graduated from Grinnell(Iowa) College and earned her master’sdegree from Yale School of Nursing. Afterseveral years as a nurse, Pryor went backto school to get her doctorate at theUniversity of Nebraska, in Lincoln, spe-cializing in Renaissance literature.

In 1965, Pryor accepted a job at MSUM.Being a native New Englander and usedto the rolling hills and autumn colors,Pryor had little experience with life in the

Midwest. Besides family in MountainLake, Minn., Pryor had little knowledgeof what to expect of life in Minnesota.

“I remember coming up,” Pryor said. “Iwas doing a little research about theplace and I thought it was going to behideously cold. Once I discovered thosePac Boots, with the felt lining, I was OK.”

Steeped with New England heritage,Pryor made a home in Moorhead throughthe years.

“I was shocked when I realized that Ihad lived here muchlonger than anywhereelse,” Pryor said aboutMoorhead. “I have thatimprint of New Englandand the New Englandhills, but I’ve learned tolike it here. I like the RedRiver and I like the land-scape as you drive west,towards Detroit Lakesand beyond, where youstart to get trees and thecountry starts to roll abit.”

With Shakespeare,Dylan Thomas, WallaceStevens, Christopher Marlowe and JohnDonne infused into her writing andteaching, Pryor taught Renaissance liter-ature and other course at MSUM fornearly 27 years, at one time serving aschairwoman of the English department.

The English faculty at MSUM had anagreement that they would all teachfreshmen, Pryor recalls.

“It keeps one in touch with reality,”Pryor said.

Pryor also remembers teaching whenthe first computers were being intro-duced across the nation. When replayingsetting up her first Macintosh computer,Pryor glows with excitement as she talksabout hooking up the computer and thengoing to hold onto the doorframe to getrid of static electricity. She goes on to ex-plain how appliances today don’t comewith instructions.

With fond memories, the professor re-calls times when she would take herfreshman-writing class down to the com-puter lab and teach them word process-ing. Pryor remembers one student turn-ing in an assignment written in all caps.The student explained that her husbandwas writing her word processing programand that she’d have both upper andlower cases for the next paper.

Chuckling, Pryor explains the joys with

being involved in something new andexciting.

“It was a good time to be here[MSUM],” Pryor explained. “Theschool was growing and we weren’tworrying about the governor takingaway our funding. Considering what’shappening with computers now, it’sfun to sort of be in on the grungy firststeps.”

Vinz remembers first hearing Pryorread her work after he arrived atMSUM in the spring of 1969.

“We had a lot of poetry readings inthose days,” Vinz said. “There was acoffeehouse on campus and some offcampus, where we had readings, anda guy from NDSU was putting read-ings together. I’m sure I first heardher read in one of those local read-ings.”

Working together in the MSUMEnglish department, Vinz and Pryorcollaborated on several occasions.Pryor published several chapbookswith her mimeograph machine. Vinzlater worked as Pryor’s editor, pub-lishing several of Pryor’s poemsthrough Dacotah Territory, a localpublishing company. In 1992, nearPryor’s retirement, Vinz published“On Occasion,” a collection of se-lected poems from 1968-1992, takenfrom Pryor’s seven chapbooks:“Jawboning,” “No Metaphysics,” “TheBicycle in the Snowbank,” “The Songof the Vowels,” “My Disrespects,”“Face Painter” and “Rondeau.”

“She writes poems like no one elsedoes,” Vinz said. “[Her poems] arevery witty and very technically inter-esting. She uses a lot of rhyme andmeter. She just does things that no-

body else around here does.”“On Occasion” is a collection of poems

about every day occasions. The collectionincludes poems about ice fishing, hand-kerchiefs, duct tape and radios, amongother things. Several of the poems talkabout the Red River Valley including“Red River People,” about sugar beetfarmers, “The Day They Tore Down,”about tearing down an old whore house,and “Highway 10, Minnesota,” a poem

about the highway thatruns through Moorheadand across Minnesota.

Roland Dille, formerMSUM president, workedclosely with Pryor duringtheir time at the univer-sity. Pryor wrote a poemtitled “Poem to Dedicate aBuilding,” about the dedi-cation of the Rolland DilleCenter For the Arts atMSUM. Dille later wroteabout Pryor in the intro-duction to her collectionof poems “On Occasion.”

“It is the promise of dis-covery, a promise she always keeps, thatgives so much pleasure to the reading ofthese poems by Mary Pryor,” Dille says inthe introduction. “The special quality ofthat pleasure comes, I think, from thefact that this journey of discovery leadsus through ordinary days, full of ordi-nary events, occasions, transformed by afar from ordinary imagination.”

Pryor’s poetry has appeared in severalpublications including “AAUP Bulletin,”“Anachronisms,” “Bloodroot,” “TheMainstreeter,” “The Tenth Muse” and“Red Weather,” the current MSUM stu-dent literary magazine.

Through it all, Pryor credits other poetsin the region for helping provide inspira-tion and guidance.

“There have been so many poets in theregion,” Pryor said. “We listen to eachother. We get ideas from each other. Itmakes poetry real.”

After retiring in 1992, Pryor found her-self with more time to attend universityand community events, time she used tospend grading papers. A strong sup-porter of student involvement, Pryor at-tends music performances, literary read-ings and theater productions at MSUM.With a house just off campus on Sixth

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By BRONSON LEMER

A & E Editor SID

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Hot Wax

MSUM English alumna looks backon l i terary creativity on campus

“It was a good time to behere [MSUM]. The school wasgrowing and we weren’t wor-

ried about the governor takingaway our funding.

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Mary PryorMSUM English professor emerita

1.23 - 1.26One Flew Over The Cuckoo’sNest, 8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday,FMCT

1.24Peter Mayer, 8 p.m., BeckwithRecital Hall, $10

Author Anne Raeff, 7 p.m.,Zandbroz

1.25Anne of Green Gables, 7:30p.m., Fargo Theatre

Big Wu, 9 p.m., Playmaker’s,$12

1.26Super Bowl Party, 5:30 p.m.,Newman Center

Mary Pryor has fond memories of her time teach-ing at MSUM.

As leaders of the swimand dive team, seniorChristina Wavrin and

junior Rachel Riopel havedeveloped their childhood loveof the water into a passion forcompetition and teaching others aboutthe sport they love.

Head coach Todd Peters said bothwomen have become the team’s mostvaluable swimmers.

“Both of them have reached lifetimepersonal bests in their events alreadythis year and they both hold multipleschool records,” Peters said. “They set agoal of qualifying for nationals and havebeen working hard to get there.”

Wavrin, who said she hopes to coachswimming one day, said she startedswimming when she was 6 because herelementary phy ed teacher was also thegirls’ swim coach.

“He got pretty much everyone in ourschool to try it for the summer,” Wavrinsaid.

Wavrin swam every summer after thatuntil she decided to start competing inthe fall of her seventh-grade year. Shecontinued with the sport through highschool.

“I started doing the breaststroke andI’ve been doing that ever since, andthat’s been my main event,” she said.

Wavrin, originally from Montevideo,Minn., went to state her junior andsenior years of high school and finishedninth both years.

“That really gave me the confidence tokeep going, to work even harder and I

was able to accomplish thatgoal,” Wavrin said. “I startedthinking about swimming incollege and that’s how I gothere.”

Wavrin received a scholar-ship to swim for the MSUM team andsaid swimming has become a major partof her life.

“It’s something I’ve always done andmy sisters did it, so it’s kind of a familything, too,” she said. “I guess I can’timagine not doing it.”

The swim and dive team practicesabout two hours every afternoon androtates between swimming and lifting.The season begins at the end ofSeptember and goes through nationalsin March.

“A lot of us do out-of-water training[during the summer] so we don’t burnout,” Wavrin said. “Rachel and I did a lotof running and lifting for preseason.”

Wavrin said the highlight of her careeris the improvement she’s seen from herhigh school to college swimming.

“Todd focuses a lot on technique ... soI’m capable of doing everything,” Wavrinsaid. “Just to see my improvementthroughout — setting school recordsand having all of the records in thebreaststroke — it’s fun.”

Riopel, originally from Burnsville,Minn., said her swimming career beganwith a fear of the water.

“I hated swimming lessons. I wasscared to death,” she said. “Then I saw

After nearly a month-longbreak from competition, apoor performance would’vebeen understandable in lastSaturday’s Terry Haws Dualtournament in Collegeville,Minn.

But the Dragons, thenation’s 20th-rankedwrestling team, weren’t look-ing for excuses as they wonthree of four matches.

“We started out a little cold,”junior Cody Ranz said. “It justtook a little bit of time to getour focus back. When we gotup to our match against St.

John’s, we did a lot better.”After falling to the

University of Wisconsin-EauClaire 24-20 in the thirdround, the Dragons toppledhost St. John’s University28-13, taking third-placehonors.

Last year’s NSIC champs,Southwest State University,

Marshall, Minn., edged Eau-Claire in the championshipmatch 22-20.

In their first-round match,the Dragons notched fourpins, cruising past St. OlafUniversity, Northfield, Minn.,47-9.

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Notes by Joe Whetham/sports editor andMSUM athletic Web site

SPEAKING

We dominated everyaspect of the game.Everyone clicked.

Sophomore guard Ben Aalto, onthe Dragons’ 80-54 victory against

Concordia-St. Paul last Friday.

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Eastlack Kruse

The men’s basketball team hasthree players in the NSIC top 10in scoring average per game.Senior guard Jared Bledsoeleads the NSIC with 19.7. Senior forward Jake Kruse ranks13th with 12.5. Senior forwardMarlon Samuel and senior guardKyle Staloch both average 9.9,which ranks 29th.

Sophomore forward ChrisAnderson has hit 50 percent ofhis shots from 3-point range thisseason, averaging nearly sevenpoints in 16 minutes of action pergame.

On the women’s side, junior forward Liz Klukas and sopho-more guard Dana Weibel rank14th and 15th respectively inpoints per game.

This weekend, the Dragonsenter the Cloud Classic indoortournament at St. Cloud (Minn.)State University, the team’s firsttournament of 2003. After leavingNemzek late last fall, the MSUMmen’s lacrosse team is holdingpractice at the Golf Bubble inFargo. The team usually practicesthree to four days a week, withmost practice times beginning at10 p.m. “Right now our team islooking good this year,” said ZachBosh, men’s lacrosse club presi-dent. “We want to get everyoneplaying time at this tournament.”

Junior women’s track and fieldthrower Belinda Eastlack wasvoted female NSIC athlete of theweek Monday after winning theweight throw at the University ofMinnesota, Twin Cities, Open lastSaturday. Senior Chris Nullereceived a nomination for NSICmale athlete of the week for win-ning the weight throw as well atthe Minnesota Open lastSaturday.

TRIVIA 1. What’s the longest winningstreak the MSUM men’s basket-ball team has had to open a season?

2. Who holds the NBA record formost 3-pointers in a single game?

Answers:1,15 — In the1970-71 season, theDragons raced to a15-0 record.

2, Kobe Bryant, who hit12 bombs against the Seattle SuperSonicson Jan. 7.

“Both of them have reached lifetime personal bests in their events already this year ...”— Todd Peters, MSUM head swim and dive coach

Junior Rachel Riopel (left) and senior Christina Wavrin are key contributors to the MSUM swim and dive teamthis year.

PHOTOS BY JASON PROCHNOW/PHOTO EDITOR

Lifelong adorationA CLOSER LOOK Wavrin, Riopel prove invaluable to Dragon

swim team with record-setting careers

Wavrin, a Montevideo, Minn., native,has earned three school records in her

career at MSUM. She’sNo. 1 in the 50-, 100-and 200-yard breast-strokes. She set her100-and 200 breast-stroke records in thesame invitational last

year. She also holds two No. 1 splittimes in relays, both in breaststroke.

ChristinaWavrin

Senior captain

Riopel, a Burnsville (Minn.) High Schoolgrad, holds four school records at

MSUM. She’s made aclean-sweep in thebackstroke, sitting atopthe MSUM record bookin the 50, 100 and 200-yard backstrokes.

She also holds the school record in the100 individual medley.

Rachel Riopel

Junior swimmer

NEWS & NOTES

Dragons third at Terry Haws dualsBy JOE WHETHAM

Sports Editor

By TERIFINNEMAN

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NEWS EDITOR

WRESTLING

❒ SWIMMERS, back page

❒ WRESTLING, page 9

Most coaches would agreethat for a team to be a winner,it must sweep its home gameseries and split the road con-tests.

The Dragon women’s bas-ketball team held up the lat-ter this past weekend, drop-ping a game to Concordia-St.Paul 76-59 on Friday, butbeating a much improvedWinona (Minn.) StateUniversity team Saturday 78-61.

Friday night’s affair provedto be another one of thosetough-to-swallow losses forMSUM (7-9, 4-3 NSIC).

Leading 30-28 at halftime,the Dragons, according tohead coach Karla Nelson,melted down with 12 minutesleft in the game.

The Golden Bears (12-4, 5-2NSIC), one of the top teams inthe NSIC, took advantage,out-scoring the Dragons

48-29 in the second half.Turnovers proved to be the

heartbreaker, with theDragons committing 18 to theGolden Bears, who lost only10.

“We played hard,” Nelsonsaid. “We just didn’t do manythings right.”

Senior Katie Doerr led allplayers with 19 points and 10rebounds, while sophomoresDana Weibel and BeckySchons each scored 10 points.

The Dragons shot just 47percent from the free-throwline in the contest.

While each team attempted66 shots, MSUM knockeddown 34 to Winona’s 21.

“I thought our energy waspretty good,” Nelson said. “Wepicked up our defensive inten-sity.”

Doerr, the team’s lonesenior, put up another greatgame with 20 points and ninerebounds.

Doerr is leading the NSIC inrebounding, averaging 9.7rebounds to go with her 14points per game.

“Katie Doerr is just a greatathlete,” Nelson said. “Sheout-works people.”

Junior post Liz Klukasadded 14 points and 11

boards, and Schons hadanother solid game, with 15points, nine rebounds andseven assists.

Nelson said she has likedwhat she’s seen from Schonsover the past couple of games.

This weekend’s slate will bea vital one for the Dragons.Wayne (Neb.) State College(12-4, 6-1 NSIC) comes toMoorhead on Friday, andSouthwest State University,Marshall, Minn., (13-5, 5-2NSIC) plays Saturday.

Senior Karen Hochstein,who ranks in the top 10 inscoring and rebounding in theNSIC, leads the Wildcats.

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AHEAD

MEN’S HOOPSThe Dragons have a week-end homestand, beginningwith a game against Wayne(Neb.) State College at 7:30p.m. Friday.

WRESTLINGWrestling has a homematch against SouthDakota State University,Brookings, today(Thursday) at 7 p.m.

MEN’S LACROSSEThe Dragons enter the CloudClassic tournament at St. Cloud(Minn.) State University thisweekend. The tournament isscheduled to begin Friday.

WOMEN’S HOOPSWomen’s basketball has twohome games this weekend,beginning with Wayne (Neb.)State College at 5:30 p.m.Friday.

Senior thrower Chris Nulle prepares to start his shot-put rotationin practice Tuesday.


MEN’S BASKETBALL

Mid-season road blockDragons split in weekend road trip, now 4-3 in NSIC

In what can only be described as a midsea-son lull, the men’s basketball team was look-ing to last weekend’s road trip to get back ontrack and leap toward the top of the NSIC.The Dragons are cur-rently fourth in the con-ference.

The Dragons seemedpoised to come throughas they dominated theConcordia-St. PaulGolden Bears 80-54on Friday.

But they fell short oftheir target Saturday,falling to red-hot Winona(Minn.) State University85-77.

The Dragons startedFriday night’s game withthe same intensity thatDragons fans are accus-tomed to seeing, as theyjumped to a 26-6 leadlate in the first half.

MSUM (11-4, 4-3 NSIC)kept the pressure onand by the end of thefirst half had theirlargest lead yet, 45-20.

The Dragons kept firingas they increased theirlead to 31 in the second half at 53-22.

“We changed some things defensively,”MSUM head coach Stu Engen said. “We wereforcing some more turnovers.”

The Golden Bears struggled shooting, hit-ting only 33 percent (18 of 55) from the fieldwhile the Dragons thrived, shooting 53 per-cent. “Everyone was in rhythm, everybodycontributed offensively and defensively”

senior guard Jared Bledsoe said. Bledsoe led the Dragons with 17 points,

also racking up seven assists and fiveboards.

Midway through the second half, theDragons nailed the coffin shut and took theirlargest lead of the game when senior guardKyle Staloch scored on a layup to put theDragons up 72-36, their largest lead of thegame.

Staloch once again came close to earninghis first career triple-double, netting 10points and leading the Dragons with ninerebounds and eight assists.

He also went 5-for-8 from the floor in 26minutes of action.

“It was probably the best we’ve playedtogether all year as a team,” Staloch said.

The Dragons burned the Bears on the glass,out-rebounding Concordia-St.Paul 46-28.

“We dominated every aspect of the game,”sophomore guard Ben Aalto said. “Everyoneclicked.”

After opening their season 1-8, WinonaState succeeded in winning its first six con-ference games, extending its streak to sevenagainst the Dragons.

“Winona State was a tough loss,” Engensaid. “The rest of the league has allowedthem a really fast start.”

The Dragons were beat on the boards 38-24, their worst margin of the season.

“To be dominated on the glass was reallydisappointing,” Engen said.

The Dragons shot well from the field with anhonest 49 percent, but the Warriors shoteven better, hitting 56 percent from the field.

Senior forward Jake Kruse had a game-high22 points and senior forward Marlon Samuelwas MSUM’s only other double-digit scorerwith 18.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Shaky weekend road tour Dragons throttleWarriors, yield to Golden Bears

By DUSTIN MONKE

Staff Writer

By HAYDEN GOETHE

Staff Writer

Ruthless in the ringNulle, Eastlack shine at U of M Open

Goethe can be reached at [email protected].

Monke can be reached at [email protected].

MSUM 80CONCORDIA.-ST. PAUL 54

Chris Anderson had ateam-high 16 points,

hitting 6 of 8 from thefield, in the Dragons’

victory Friday. Despitesenior forward Marlon

Samuel’s 18 points on 9 of 10 shooting,

the Dragons fell to siz-zling Winona (Minn.)

State University 85-77 on Saturday, falling

to 11-4 overall and 4-3in NSIC play.

MSUM 78, WINONA STATE 61The Dragons rebounded from last Friday’s76-59 loss to Concordia-St. Paul, defeat-ing Winona State on Saturday. SeniorKatie Doerr had 20 points and ninerebounds and junior Liz Klukas tallied 14points and 11 rebounds in MSUM’s victoryagainst Winona State University.

Chris Nulle has beenuntouchable this season.

The junior thrower has thenation’s No. 1 mark (61 feet,3/4 inches) by nearly threefeet in the weight throw andis undefeated in two trips tothe University of Minnesota,Twin Cities, in as manyweeks.

Last Saturday, he dustedthree Division I athletes inwinning the weight throw (59-8 1/2), and later placedfourth in the shot put with atoss of 50-7 1/4.

Junior Belinda Eastlack, atransfer from NDSU, won theweight throw with a mark of

55-0 3/4 on Saturday. She ranks fifth nationally in

the weight throw, and similarto Nulle, went unbeaten inthe weight throw at bothMinnesota meets.

Other Dragons making animpact in the highly regardedmeet: Junior Phil Berg placedseventh in both the weightthrow (46-3 1/4) and shotput (47-8 1/2).

Freshman Mike Shonblomtook fourth place in the triplejump with a distance of 42-6 1/4.

Seniors Mary Richardsonand Charan Wilson placed10th and 12th, respectively,in the 200 with times of26.56 seconds and 26.76.

Following a decisive 49-3victory against Rochester(Minn.) Community College inthe second round, theDragons squared off againstEau-Claire.

“We thought we had controlright away, and then we gaveup some pins we shouldn’thave,” Ranz said.

Junior Desmond Radunz,who finished 4-0 in the tour-nament, recording two pins,won by forfeit at 133 poundsagainst Eau-Claire. SeniorMitch Jackson also earned apin at 141 pounds and sopho-more Tony Soderberg earnedfive team points with a technical fall at 174.

But losses at 157, 165, 184and 197 were too much forthe Dragons, who concludedtheir nonconference schedule

with a 3-3 record in duals. Jackson finished the tour-

nament with a 3-0 record andjunior Ryan Kopiasz went 3-1, with all three victoriesresulting in pins.

With a tournament undertheir belt, the Dragons wel-come South Dakota StateUniversity, Brookings, today(Thursday).

The Jackrabbits, ranked No. 7 in Division II, have threenationally ranked wrestlers,but have lost three of theirlast four dual matches.

“They’re always pretty muchrated in the top 10,” Ranzsaid. “We’ll be ready for this.We’ve been waiting for thisone.”

❒ WRESTLING, from 8

Whetham can be reached at [email protected].

ADVOCATE STAFF REPORTS

Zepper, who contributed toRed Weather as an undergrad-

uate and graduate student,had the task of wadingthrough years of creativematerial.

“Each issue has it’s ownindividual underlying theme,”Zepper said. “The magazine asa whole has evolved with eachgeneration.”

The current generation hastaken the literary magazineone step further.

Last fall, the editors of RedWeather released a spokenword CD. The CD includes 31pieces from the 2002 RedWeather. Kristin Garaas-Johnson, master of fine artsstudent, took on the project ofdirecting the CD. MSUMmusic professor James Harleyhelped engineer the CD.

The contributors scheduledto read their work at the stu-dio in the Center for the Arts

last spring and during thesummer.

“The first round was onlyabout 15-20 minutes longbecause everyone was doingpoetry,” Garaas-Johnson said.“If you’re going to have a CD,you want to have people listento it without being bored todeath.”

The readings were thentweaked and altered. Garaas-Johnson organized the CD sothe pieces sounded goodtogether.

“We wanted to have thatunity there where you can rec-ognize that the CD wentdirectly as a companion to themagazine,” said Garaas-Johnson.

Moving forwardRed Weather is also accept-

ing submissions for its spring

2003 edition. Students, facul-ty and alumni should submitup to five poems, two shortstories or two personal essayswith a 5,000-word limit.Entries can be submitted by e-mailing them [email protected] ordropping them off at theEnglish department.

With a wide array of talent atMSUM, the literary magazinehopes to continue producingcreative work from faculty,students and alumni.

“There has been a tremen-dous interest in creative writ-ing,” Vinz said. “Some yearsare better than others butwith professional writers andprofessors on staff, we’ve beenable to offer more classes.”

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❒ WEATHER, from 6

Zepper

Avenue, Pryor finds it easy toattend many of the universityevents.

“It’s not handy when theywant to buy up the land, butit’s very handy when I want togo to events on campus,”Pryor said.

The retired educator also lis-tens to public radio, whichoften provides her with ideasfor poems. While listening tothe radio, Pryor heard thatthe manufactured voice usedto announce weather warn-ings on radios was beingreplaced by more normal-sounding voices. After doingsome research, Pryor foundout that the voice was namedIgor. Pryor then wrote a poemabout Igor and sent the poemto the weather radio company.

She later received a phonecall asking her permission togive the poem to a reporterdoing a story about the radiovoice changes.

“I listen to public radioobsessively and I sometimespick things up,” Pryor said.“I’ll turn on the radio andsomebody will say somethingthat is a little bit weird thatsomeone could take in a dif-ferent way. The next thing Iknow, I’m spinning somethingelse out.”

The poet continues to writeabout comical situations,serious events, political rantsand the absurdities of life, likea poem she recently wroteabout a town in the Midwesthaving tick races. Throughher New England back-ground, her attention to detailand eye for the uncanny, herpast professional career as aneducator at MSUM and herinvolvement in communityand university events, Pryorcontinues to educate, alert,inform and amuse the publicwith her poetry and writing.

And with such strong ties tothe Fargo-Moorhead commu-nity, Pryor has no plans ofleaving the area anytimesoon.

“I’m the old lady on the bicy-cle in the summer time and inthe winter, I walk.”

❒ PRYOR, from 7



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Underground acousticsFreshmen Adam Zavalney (left) and Josh Zeis perform Tuesday inthe Underground Unplugged. Participants compete for a chanceto open for Cabstock, a spring outdoor music festival.


MacMurchy can be reached at [email protected].

Conner said. “Residents whowant to claim their apartmentsfor next year can and availableapartments will be claimed inorder of seniority.”

Sophomore Amanda Kraftsaid living in Neumaier againnext year is one of her options.

“It’s nicer than living with oneperson in the dorm,” Kraftsaid. “If you’re looking for aquieter lifestyle, this is it. Wehave everything right here.”

• Participating in the single ordouble-as-a-single room lot-tery: 9 a.m. to noon Feb. 4.

• Checking the list of roomsand individual ranking: 3 p.m.Feb. 5.

• Choosing a room: women, 9a.m. Feb. 6; men, 11 a.m. Feb.6.

• Selecting a different room inthe same building: seniors, 1to 1:30 p.m. Feb. 10; juniors,1:30 to 2 p.m. Feb. 10; sopho-mores, 8:30 a.m. to noon Feb.11; freshmen, 1 to 4 p.m. Feb.

11. Class rank is based on thenumber of credits completed attime of sign up.

• Selecting a room in a differ-ent building: seniors, 8:30 to 9a.m. Feb. 12; juniors, 9 to 9:30a.m. Feb. 12; sophomores, 1 to3 p.m. Feb 12; freshmen men,8:30 to noon, Feb. 13; fresh-men women, 1 to 4 p.m. Feb.13.

• Making changes to roomselection: housing office, Feb.14.

• Moving back to campus:housing office, Feb. 14 to Feb.27.

• Students wanting to sign

up for a suite in Holmquistshould have four completedapplications and choose theperson eligible for the earliestsign up to reserve a suite forthe group.

If four students don’t signup together, housing willassist in filling vacancies orthe three residents will payfor the vacancy.

Conner said approximately1,650 students may live oncampus and, once current stu-dent registration is completed,housing will focus on registra-tion for incoming freshmen.

She said convenience of loca-tion and the atmosphere of theresidence halls are key reasonsto live on campus.

“It’s a wonderful opportuni-ty,” Conner said. “People wholive on campus definitely feelmore connected to what’sgoing on.”

King has become an annualevent at MSUM.

“I think it [“Dr. King’sDream”] will be a great oppor-tunity for some of the stu-dents to learn about Dr.King’s life and how he hasinfluenced society today,”Claymore said.

“Dr. King’s Dream” featuresMarvin Grays in a solo perfor-mance that chronicles King’scareer. Grays has portrayedKing since 1987 and is said tocapture all of the dignity,courage, devotion and human-ity of the American leader.

Jack Reuler, artistic directorfor Mixed Blood, said the the-ater started in the mid-1970sand is dedicated to the spiritof King’s dream.

“This is at the heart of theorganization. What we as anorganization try to do in gen-eral is to create a world onstage so that Dr. King’s dreamcan live in the shows,” Reulersaid. “We do have people onstage of different races payingpositive attention to eachother’s differences and settingan example of how the worldmight be.”

Mixed Blood is a non-profitprofessional theatre companybased in Minneapolis. Reulersaid the theater has a numberof different shows that thecompany performs at schoolsand colleges throughout theupper Midwest. The companydoes about 500 shows on theroad each year as well as itsMinneapolis shows.

“It’s good entertainmentvalue, good historical valueand the possibility of what livetheater can do,” Reuler said.

❒ HOUSING, from front

❒ GRAYS, from front

It’s important for studentsnow to pay attention so they don’t lose priority.

Beth ConnerMSUM housing director

“

ly be worth it,” sophomoreMisti Mowery said, who worksin student affairs.

Offices that did not undergoconstruction were not forcedto relocate; however, employ-ees were still affected by thedust and noise.

Carolyn Zehren, director offinancial aid, found it a littleirritating and more difficult toconcentrate.

The dust and noise will sooncease. The construction onthe 30-year-old building isscheduled to end Feb. 3.

The original date of comple-tion was set for earlyDecember, but was delayeddue to late arrival of buildingmaterials.

Further remodeling isalready being planned for thenear future.

Stugelmayer said it willinclude replacing all the fur-naces and air handling unitsas well as eventual remodel-ing of all the offices.

Dates of these next phasesof construction are not set,but will be based on fundsprovided.

❒ OWENS, from front ❒ SWIMMERS, from 8 one of our family’s friends hada son who was maybe sevenyears older than I was and hewas swimming competitively. Ithought it was the coolest thingever.”

With her fear quickly vanish-ing, Riopel said she startedlearning the format of swimmeets when she was 7.

“We’d swim for treats. They’dgive you Little Debbie snacks ina brown bag. That’s motivationenough. It kind of still holdstrue,” she laughed.

After trying track and dance,Riopel realized she wasn’t aland person and turned herfocus completely to the water.Even though she was part of alarge team and competing atthe Class AA level, Riopel madeit to state with a relay duringher sophomore year of highschool.

“It was very competitive and alot of fun,” Riopel said. “It madefor a good environment toimprove in or give you some-thing to look forward to.”

In high school, Riopel wasalso voted most improved andwas a member of an All-American relay for two consec-utive years.

She received a scholarship to

swim for MSUM, but her collegecareer will end early as shetransfers to NDSU next semes-ter to complete her architecturedegree.

“NDSU doesn’t have a swimteam. I will be done, unfortu-nately, after 15 years,” Riopelsaid.

However, Riopel hopes tocoach swimming in her future,as she’s aiming for a coachingminor. She hopes to find anunpaid position at MSUM for awhile and eventually be a col-lege coach. She said she preferscoaching at a higher level soshe doesn’t have to focus on

fundamentals.“With my dad, I tried to teach

him one time and he just does-n’t think it’s very fun,” Riopellaughed.

Her favorite events are the100-yard backstroke and the50 and 100 freestyles. She saidwatching others swim inspiresher.

“Anybody I’ve seen who com-petitively swims are the hardestworking people I’ve seen. I wantto be like the people I’ve seen,”Riopel said.

Riopel (left) and Wavrin have set multiple school records in theirswimming careers at MSUM.

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