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Governor Rick Snyder’s fiscal year 2012 budget proposal calls for a 15 percent overall reduction in higher education funding, but Michigan Technological Univer-sity’s allocation would actually drop 22 percent; from $47.9 mil-lion to $37.4 million. If the Uni-versity limits a tuition increase to seven percent or less, it would be eligible to receive $3.32 million in “tuition restraint” incentives, which would bump the overall allocation back up to $40.8 mil-lion –equal to the governor’s proposed 15 percent cut.

At an open campus forum on Monday, Feb. 21, Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz reassured the campus community that Tech will not make any knee-jerk reactions, but will be prepared to handle whatever the final budget is. Mroz also stressed that the FY2012 budget is only a proposal now, and must pass through the state legislature, which Snyder hopes will be done by May 31. Michigan Tech hopes to have its budget done by then as well, with Tech’s initial budget proposal

coming at the April 29 Board of Control meeting.

The $40.8 million that Michi-gan Tech would receive per Sny-der’s proposal would only ac-count for 19 percent of the total operating budget, which creates a larger need for other sources of funding, including additional research revenues, larger philan-thropic gifts and higher tuition rates; particularly given that fed-eral stimulus funding has come and gone.

Research expenditures have increased in not only STEM fields, but also in Arts, Humani-ties, Business and Education. Philanthropic gifts through the “Generations of Discovery” cam-paign have raised just over $140 million as of the end of January. While tuition has increased, so has enrollment –particularly among graduate students and female students, both of which are at their highest numbers ev-er. Other than tuition increases, Mroz noted that Michigan Tech is showing positive trends in most major categories.

Michigan Tech is trying to properly balance its budget in

Over the next two weeks Michigan Tech’s Information Technology Services and Se-curity department (ITSS) will be implementing a new Infor-mation Security Plan. This new plan represents a replacement of two previous plans with ad-ditional specifications, infor-mation and guidelines. A major component of this implementa-tion is training professors, staff, faculty and even student em-ployees on how to handle sen-sitive information. This change comes from recent changes in the obligations of ITSS, such as the recent Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). The current In-formation Security Plan, Policy 2.1009, can be viewed at http://security.mtu.edu/policies-pro-cedures/ISP_Final.pdf.

ITSS is the department re-sponsible for data services and security on Michigan Tech, in-cluding data servers such as the MTU server on which all stu-dents log in and save files while on campus computers as well

as MTU email and student bill-ing information. ITSS runs and maintains all of these services as well as handles the informa-tion so that privacy and iden-tity are protected, preventing illicit activities such as credit card theft.

ITSS is required to conform to a large range of obligations and standards. These range from government regula-tions such as HIPAA and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act for Disclosure of Nonpublic Per-sonal Information (GLBA), to contractual obligations such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). Examples of these obligations can be viewed at http://secu-rity.mtu.edu/secure-data/com-pliance.php. These require-ments might detail protocols for handling certain types of data, information and technol-ogy; this could mean a certain encryption procedure, a certain configuration of servers, how data is backed up and restored or even how paper documents are handled and stored. Often the obligations or guidelines are intentionally left open to interpretation, often with the

phrase “best practice” to reflect dynamic needs to be addressed –such as the ever-changing security software available, or to respond to developing con-cerns.

Fortunately, students can rest easy knowing that while their information is stored and handled by ITSS, it is not ac-tually read or looked through except by authorized person-nel. Sports trainers and other professionals with relevant need of the information, for example, might have access to health information, and ITSS would be in charge of how it is stored and accessed, but ITSS would not be able read the in-formation they are working with. An analogy would be that they store and handle boxes with sensitive information, but never actually look inside the boxes themselves.

Though ITSS does much to protect the privacy of those under its watch, students need to be aware of security con-cerns as well. You should never share a password for a personal account, of any sort, with any-

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Public universities to receive funding cuts Michigan Tech stands well prepared

Editor In ChiefSTEPHEN ANDERSON

Understanding change: The graph above from President Mroz’s open campus forum from Monday, Feb. 21 shows the last ten years of funding that services like health care, public safety, human services and higher education (public universities) have been receiving. College students will not be surprised to see higher education in the negatives. However, Michigan Tech has a plan to continue with the same quality of education it has been offereing while balancing the university’s budget so students can still afford schooling. Photo courtesy of Michigan Tech

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light of the economic hardships while maintaining its strategic plan, detailed at http://www.mtu.edu/stratplan/. The core mis-sion of Michigan Tech’s five-year budget development plan, as outlined in Mroz’s presentation, is to “instill the knowledge and confidence that graduates need to be top ranked in the degrees we offer.”

Mroz also detailed several guiding principles that will be used to establish Michigan Tech’s budget. This includes no fur-loughs, no university-wide salary reduction, no university-wide hiring freezes, a tuition increase of less than or equal to seven percent, no across-the-board budget reductions and the stra-tegic consolidation and realign-

ment of positions.Michigan Tech is hoping that

its level-headed reaction to the slightly-higher-than-expected FY2012 cuts will pay off in addi-tional funding in FY2013 and be-yond. After 2012, Governor Sny-der has proposed a formula that would “encourage universities to graduate a highly educated work-force in a timely manner and con-duct research that contributes to the overall economic strategy for Michigan.” The formula would measure tangible results, such as the number of degrees awarded, second-year retention rate and graduation rate, and reward pub-lic universities accordingly.

Snyder’s FY2012 budget, which notably calls for drastic changes in the Michigan Business Tax, is

intentionally geared toward help-ing businesses expand. In theory, this investment in entrepreneur-ial innovation will create jobs in Michigan, which will stimulate the economy, which will allow the state to provide additional higher education funding, which will then be given to the most successful universities.

While the proposed budget cuts are a painful reminder of Michigan’s recent financial down-turn, the future looks bright for the State of Michigan and Michi-gan Tech. Mroz encouraged fac-ulty, staff and students alike to voice their comments, concerns and ideas, both to legislators and to Michigan Tech administra-tion: “the best thing you can do is weigh in.”

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Percy Julian nominations soughtDo you know an outstanding

student at Michigan Tech that has gone above and beyond to promote diversity, social equality or racial/ethnic and cultural un-derstanding within the campus community? If so, please do not let their efforts go unnoticed.

The Dean of Students Office is currently accepting nominations for the Percy Julian Leadership Award. This $500 award recog-

nizes an undergraduate student, with a minimum of 2.50 cumu-lative grade point average, who has demonstrated leadership in the promotion of diversity, social equality or racial/ethnic and cul-tural understanding.

You may submit nominations online at http://www.sa.mtu.edu/awards or in person at the Dean of Students Office, room 170 Administration Building.

Nominations may be submitted through Friday, March 4.

As a nominee you will be asked to complete an application form that will need to be submitted to the Dean of Students Office by March 18.

The recipient will be an-nounced at the HAANA Mul-ticultural Banquet on April 7. If you have questions, call the Dean of Students Office at 487-2212.

The last day to drop full term fall semester classes is Friday, March 4, 2011 by 5:00 p.m. All drops must be done in person in the Student Service Center.

Drops cannot be done via the web. Also, please note: The last day to drop track B classes (those classes that begin on February 28, 2011) with a refund is Thurs-day, March 3, 2011.

The last day to drop track B classes with no grade is Wednes-day, March 16, 2011.

The last day to drop track B classes with a “W” grade is Fri-day, April 1, 2011.

According to the University policy on late drops: “After the eighth week of the semester, a student may request a late drop from the Dean of Student’s Of-fice, which will consider those re-quests that involve circumstanc-es beyond the student’s control.” Extenuating circumstances con-sidered are prolonged illness, se-rious accidents and death in the

immediate family or of a close friend, or similar situations be-yond the student’s control. All requests must be made in writ-ing. Instructions for late drops are available in the Compass Office (Wadsworth Hall, G28) or the Dean of Student’s Office (Administration Building 170). No late drops will be granted to avoid poor grades.

Again, only extenuating cir-cumstances will be considered for granting a late drop.

Important class drop notice

On Tuesday, Feb. 22, Dr. Jim Frendewey was officially an-nounced as the dean of Michigan Technological University’s School of Technology. Frendewey, who has been the interim dean since July 2008, was one of three final-ists for the position. Dr. Mark Johnson led the search commit-tee that decided on Frendewey.

Frendewey received his me-chanical engineering undergrad-

uate degree from Michigan Tech before receiving his PhD in man-agement science from the Univer-sity of Colorado. After teaching and conducting computer and operations research at Virginia Tech University, Frendewey re-turned to Tech as a Business fac-ulty member in 1989. He served as the associate dean of Michigan Tech’s School of Business and Economics from 2002-07.

Frendewey named School of Technology Dean

3Thursday, February 24, 2011Michigan Tech Lode NEWS

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one else. You should also never email a password or credit card number, not even to yourself. Computers and email accounts should be logged off or locked when not being monitored. Other good habits for privacy and security can be viewed at http://www.sans.org/tip_of_the_day.php.

Though intentional transgres-sions can occur, students do not need to worry about accidental-ly transgressing, if they follow common sense and common courtesy. ITSS Director Dan-iel deBeaubien said, students are “not going to stumble into territory to violate,” and that “compliance isn’t an issue for students doing student things.” However, more specialized in-formation handling, such as that required for student orga-nizations, might require some special considerations. A stu-dent organization that collects or uses credit card numbers, for example, would have to follow certain guidelines and obtain a merchant ID. Some other con-siderations are important for

preventing sensitive informa-tion from ending up where it shouldn’t be. For example, food allergies are classified as sensi-tive personal information by HIPAA, which a student orga-nization might inadvertently come into possession of when inquiring into dietary consid-erations for a group dinner. To remedy this, student organiza-tions, or other entities, that deal with information that might be personal should inquire with ITSS for proper handling pro-cedures.

The upcoming changes rep-resent extensive work, train-ing and many considerations. Fortunately, the demands and requirements of students will not be directly affected. Most of these changes come down to administrative adjustments within ITSS, or to the addition of training given to personnel that will come into contact with sensitive information. This in-cludes professors, registrars and also some student employees. Students can rest easy knowing their data is protected by ITSS.

Michigan Tech adopts new security plan, from front

Michigan Technological Uni-versity has recently sponsored the Future City Award for the student who has the most in-novative way to use science and technology. The award was given out at the 2011 Engineer-ing Society of Detroit Michigan Regional Future City Competi-tion and was awarded to the Sa-cred Heart hospital of Bloom-field Hills. This competition is sponsored by the National Engineers Week Committee. The committee promotes en-gineering and technology, as well as bringing major accom-plishments and the benefits en-gineers have provided society throughout the years to main-

stream audiences.This year the competition

focused on how to create a vir-tual health care system. The system would need to be just as efficient and effective as a traditional doctor’s visit. This means that the patient must be able to get the proper care and the proper diagnosis from the virtual health care system. The students also had to describe whom they would be help-ing, and the medical care that would be received from this virtual system. They would also have to explain how this would relat back to engineering.

This competition requires the students to create a city of the future, and help flush out ideas about what the future will look like. The seventh and eighth grade students who are par-

ticipating in this competition are getting a whole new look at engineering and technology in general. This program helps students see both of these fields in a new and exciting light, and helps them discover new pos-sibilities through science, engi-neering and technology.

The Michigan Tech Theater Company hosted an astonish-ing contribution to one of Lee Blessing’s famous plays, “Two Rooms”, Friday and Saturday eve-ning in the McArdle Theater and will be shown again this week in the same location from Feb. 24-26 at 7:30 p.m.

Set during the Lebanese Civil War, the story is told from the point-of-view of two separated characters, a wife and a husband, who struggle to find sanity under the daunting imminence of the unknown.

The husband, Michael Wells, has been taken hostage by a group of Lebanese terrorists and is held in a small cell surrounded with explosives in Beirut. The second room is set in Michael’s

home office in Washington D.C. Distraught from her husband’s situation, Lanie Wells attempts to keep herself preoccupied in Michael’s office, which she refuses to leave, in order to reason with her senses.

In the midst of all the turmoil, Lanie must deal with a seemingly incompetent government agent who is working to get her husband back and an overly gluttonous journalist hungry for an interview.

The play is a remarkable reflec-tion of society in that era, which can be examined from the selfish-ness of both the government agent and the journalist. Both characters make an attempt to use phony empathy as a surrogate for their egotism.

One attendee remarked, “I re-member reading about this in the news. Chaos and civil war was erupting in the Middle East and, in the 1980’s, we were on the verge

of becoming a very selfish society. It was an era where we craved in-dividual power at the expense of others.”

He added, “We had just dealt with the Iranian hostage crisis. I remember reading about the care-lessness of the situation; politi-cians and state agents doing little about it.”

Lee Blessing has been active in directing and producing plays since the 1970’s. Some of his major themes deal with the conditions of humanity and the relationship be-tween characters in difficult situa-tions.

To find out more information about the play, visit the Visual and Performing Arts website at http://www.fa.mtu.edu/events.htm.

Tickets for the general public will be $10 and a fee of $5 will be paid by students under 18 years of age. Michigan Tech students will be free of charge for this event.

Lode WriterZACHARY PAGE

The Keweenaw Symphony Orchestra finished its 2010-11 season with a performance Saturday night. Coming off of their Winter Carnival pops concert the previous week, the orchestra performed Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky’s violin concerto along with guest so-loist Solomiya Ivakhiv, in ad-dition to Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring suite.

The Appalachian Spring suite is quite possibly one of Copland’s most well known works. The ballet that the suite was adapted from was origi-nally composed in 1944 near the end of World War II. The work was a departure from some of Copland’s recent work at the time, which had Western themes; Copland instead used Shaker music as an inspiration, appropriately, as the ballet is “a pioneer celebration in spring… in the Pennsylvania hills.” It is a fairly difficult piece, due to the complex timing, which of-ten changes, and uses unusual times such as 5/4 instead of more common times such as 4/4 and 3/4. Interestingly, the original score called for only 13 instruments due to the size of the pit in the original audi-torium. The suite, which in-cludes full instrumentation, is

the much more popular and well-known version.

The violin concerto has an interesting history. Originally composed in 1878, while

Tchaikovsky was traveling abroad in an effort to shake the emotional distress of a disas-trous marriage, the concerto was initially rejected as “un-playable.” It took three years after the work was written for someone to take up the chal-lenge, and at the first perfor-mance the piece was roundly hated. The soloist, Adolf Brodsky, persisted and the piece generally gained popu-larity, with some of its early critics coming to embrace the work.

The KSO’s guest soloist, Solomiya Ivakhiv is an award-winning violinist, who has worked with distinguished groups such as the National Symphony of Ukraine, the Chamber Orchestra of Philidelphia, and the Baltimore Symphony.

The concert was the KSO’s final concert of the season. Instead of performing an April concert, the orchestra will instead work with the Tech Theatre Company as the pit orchestra in their production of South Pacific. The KSO’s next regular concert will be in October, performing among others the popular “Night on Bald Mountain.”

4Thursday, February 24, 2011Michigan Tech Lode Pulse

Pulse EditorNICK BLECHA

“Two Rooms” presents story of Lebanese Civil War

One of William Shakespeare’s most well known works comes to the Rozsa Center this Friday. On Feb. 25, at 7:30 p.m., Aquila Theatre will present its produc-tion of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.

Generally believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” has become one of Shakespeare’s most popu-lar plays, with performances around the world. The play unfolds around the misadven-tures of a group of four young Athenian noblemen and wom-en, who while trying to sort out the various marriage in-terests between them stumble

into the realm of fairies, who proceed to play tricks on them. Complicating the situation are a group of would-be perform-ers who wish to perform the play Pyramus and Thisbe at the marriage of the Duke of Athens, who also stumble into the world of fairies.

Aquila Theatre was founded in 1991 in London, and has been based in New York City since 1999. They have performed and toured several plays, including a number of Shakespeare’s works as well as other works both his-torical and recent.

Tickets are $20 for adults, $18 for seniors, $14 for students, and free for Michigan Tech students. Tickets can be purchased at the Rozsa ticket office at 487-3200 or online at rozsa.mtu.edu. No refunds or late seating.

Pulse EditorNICK BLECHA

Aquila Theatre presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Solomiya Ivakhiv and KSO finish fall season with Tchaikovsky

February 24-25:MUB Commons: Tech Arts Festival

February 24-267:30 p.m., McArdle Theater: Two Rooms

February 25:7:30 p.m., Rozsa Center: Aquila Theater: “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

February 26:5:00 p.m., MUB Commons and Rozsa Center: African Night 20118:00 p.m., MUB Ballroom A: Come Dance with NOSOTROS

March 1810:00 p.m., MUB Ballroom: SACS Comedian Rojiv Satyal

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5Thursday, February 24, 2010Michigan Tech Lode OPINION

Think twice before throwing Coach Russell under the bus

The term “shared sacrifice” is thrown around a lot these days within political circles. Certainly, it has been appropriated often within the current debate in Wis-consin over the benefits and col-lective bargaining rights of state workers. While that story has re-ceived a lot of press and publicity in the past week, another event happened that will have a marked effect on the tuition rates and edu-cation quality that Michigan Tech provides students.

The event being referred to in this instance is the unveiling of

Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s budget. While I commend the governor for seriously address-ing the $1.58 billion dollar deficit that Michigan faces for FY 2011, the fact of the matter is that while the governor says that his budget proposal demonstrates “shared sacrifice,” I’m just not convinced that it is as shared as he indicates that it is.

Among Snyder’s proposals within his budget was the com-plete elimination of business tax credits for the state, increased contributions from state employ-ees to pension and healthcare, and most pertinent to Michigan Tech students, a 5% and 15% per-cent in K-12 and higher education

respectively. In once sense, it could be said

that Snyder’s proposal does share the burden between people of all class levels, the fact of the matter is that cuts on lower income and college bound individuals will be felt much more than those from higher income backgrounds.

It’s simply a study in propor-tionality. There are instances within Snyder’s budget, such as brown field tax credits, that are detrimental to low income house-holds. In addition to that, news of shuttering half of the public schools within the Detroit Public School system will have marked effects on the lives of lower in-come individuals within the state.

In addition to this, another ca-sualty that will affect Michigan is the elimination of the Michigan film tax incentives. In many cases, these have provided jobs to Mich-iganders that wouldn’t have ordi-narily existed otherwise. The de-bate over these tax credits amount to whether the state receives a good deal on the investment. It’s hard to quantify, since increased employment within Michigan will cause increased commerce from the investment in the state, but it’s an honest debate.

Even with this, though, it’s a program that helped provide em-ployment to Michiganders that wouldn’t normally have had em-ployment, and this will be lost with a Snyder budget.

Which brings me to the point of investment in education. While Snyder has claimed that these in-creased cuts will be offset in com-ing budget years by increased in-vestment in education, the fact of the matter is that politicians have a history of saying one thing and meaning another. Furthermore, parents and students will have to endure further increased tuition rates, putting the student even deeper into debt even as him or her try to advance their educa-tion.

In regards to the effect of a Sny-der budget on Michigan Tech, the university will lose 22 percent of funding. The cut would be re-duced to 15 percent if the univer-sity agreed not to increase tuition by 7percent during the next year. In that respect, the resulting blow to the student could be softened by this clause. What’s unknown, however, is the effect that it will have on Michigan Tech’s quality of education and increased em-phasis on research.

For his part, Michigan Tech President Glenn Mroz is insisting that this will not affect Michigan Tech’s goals going into the future.

“While the proposed budget reductions present challenges, we will respond to them, and they will not deter us from our objective of being a world-class technological research university,” said Mroz.

Nonetheless, one remains skep-tical of whether Snyder’s budget really is an excersise in shared sacrifice. While he emphasizes that people of all backgrounds are feeling the cuts, one still feels that these cuts are being made in an uneven fashion, all in the name of fiscal austerity. One can honestly hope that these proposals are only temporary; until such time that the Michigan economy corrects itself. If not, there’s a possibil-ity that growth in the state could continue to slide.

Dear Sassy, I have a professor who is extremely condescending. He seems to take pleasure in besting us with his superior knowledge. He always throws out obscure facts and seems amazed when we don’t know them already. Is it rude to confront him or should I just be a passive student?

Sincerely,Peeved Pupil

Dear Peeved,I’m sure it’s tempting to confront him. It is a supreme annoy-ance when a professor, from whom one seeks guidance and knowledge, acts in such a condescending manner. Classes are not held to boost egos or deflate self-esteem. Your professor’s behavior is unfortunate and a poor reflection on his character.

However, it is your duty as a student to transform such circum-stances into something constructive. Try to learn from your professor’s pigheadedness. In life, one may be granted many tal-ents: physical, intellectual or otherwise. Boasting of these talents or using them as a tool to inflate the go is a sign that they are not fully appreciated. Your professor, who is no doubt extremely in-telligent and accomplished in his field, is teaching you a lesson that is not in your textbook, but is valuable nonetheless.

Dear Sassy,I really want to study abroad this fall, but I’m having trouble deciding where to go. There are so many choices and I know wherever I choose to go will be amazing. Do you have any tips to help me make up my mind?

Sincerely,Travel Bug

Dear Travel,I think it’s marvelous that you want to study abroad. It will be an invaluable addition to your education. Every student should pursue it. Because I am a well-rounded world traveller, I am able to offer you insight on some very exotic locations that will give you an excellent starting point.

Why not take a trip to Mole Hill, Kansas? Breathe in the fresh air (watch out for the crop dusters) as you embrace the wonders of the American prairie. Don’t miss the pie at JJ’s Truck Stop; it’s the best (and only) pie for miles!

Happy trails!

Dear Sassy,I have worn glasses since the 2nd grade. But lately, they’ve been getting on my nerves and I think I want a change. I think I’m ready for contacts. I’m nervous about what people will say. Maybe I’m one of those people that only looks good in glasses. What if I get contacts and look like a complete loser?

Sincerely,Insecure Four-eyes

Dear Insecure,This is a very big decision. It’s probably the most important de-cision you will ever make in your life. You should spend a good deal of time thinking about this.

If you make the wrong decision, it will probably begin a down-ward spiral into ruin. If you get contacts, you’re taking a big risk. Every time your friends see you, they’ll ask you where your glasses are. They’ll wonder why you don’t have your glasses. They’ll probably spend ten minutes gawking at your unadorned face.

On the other hand, the removal of your glasses could unleash your true colors. You might suddenly find yourself unrestrict-ed by your metal and glass prison that has been keeping you trapped for so long.

More likely than not, though, it might be a really minor decision that will have no significant impact on your life whatsoever.

Ask Sassy

A critique of the Snyder BudgetOpinion EditorLUKE GUBLO

Having lived in the local area as long as I have, I swear I have nearly seen it all when it comes to Michigan Tech hockey. I saw the years Randy McKay was here and how competitive the Huskies were. I remember when Shawn Harrison became the first and only Huskies’ skater to lead the Western Col-legiate Hockey Association (WCHA) in scoring. I’ve also seen some of the lowest points: the four-win season under head coach Tim Watters, the six and five win seasons, re-spectively, under current head coach Jamie Russell.

However, I hate to say it, folks, but despite popular be-lief, firing Russell will not solve the problem. I am not a hockey apologist, or even a Russell apologist. I simply understand that college hockey isn’t like professional hockey. You can’t just change coaches and magi-cally become better. It just doesn’t work that way.

It takes years to build a win-ner in college sports. Sure, Don Lucia helped make Colorado College very good very fast, but they were already improv-ing before he got there. He won two national titles in Min-nesota, but it took him three years to build those teams af-ter former head coach Doug

Woog had nearly run the pro-gram into the ground.

Now I’m not trying to say that Russell hasn’t had ample opportunity to turn the ship around, but let’s look at the facts. The Huskies consistently won 10 or more games un-til Watters took over in 1996. Since then, the program has only won 10 or more games four times, with three different coaches. Changing coaches hasn’t fixed the situation. In fact, Russell is the only one of the three to do it twice, 18 and 14, respectively in consecutive seasons.

The Huskies play in the most competitive conference in college hockey. Seven of the 20 best programs in the coun-try play in the WCHA, the closest thing the NCAA has to a superconference. Name a football program that plays a schedule like that. Also, it’s tough to win when six of your top players are injured, just look at the Pittsburgh Pen-guins without Crosby, Malkin, and Kunitz.

While the Huskies have cer-tainly struggled, changing the guard rashly would be a mis-take. This year’s freshman class will all be a year stronger next season. The return of a healthy Jordan Baker and a healthy Brett Olson won’t hurt, either. Barring any more injuries, that bodes well for Russell and his staff.

Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

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Two final tune-ups stand be-tween the No. 7-ranked women’s basketball Huskies and the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tourna-ment. On Thursday, the Huskies will take on the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals and on Saturday, they will face the Northwood Timberwolves. In the previous meetings with these opponents, the Huskies beat the Cardinals by 20, 67-47, and the Timberwolves by 19, 85-66.

The Cardinals are 7-17 on the season including 4-13 in GLIAC play. Since losing to the Huskies at the SDC Gym, the Cardinals have been slightly better, going 3-7, picking up victories over Tif-fin, Lake Erie, and Urbana in a nonconference tilt.

Sophomore forward Cheritee Green continues to be the Cardi-nals most consistent scorer, aver-aging 9.8 points and 8.0 rebounds per game. In the first meeting with the Huskies, she came off the bench to score four points in

22 minutes of action.Senior forward Brittany Bur-

khardt has played well for the Cardinals, averaging 7.5 points and 6.2 rebounds per contest. She was held scoreless in 16 min-utes of action against the Huskies earlier this sea-son.

Freshman guard Kristen Greene is devel-oping into a leader in the backcourt for the Car-dinals. She only scored two points in 22 minutes against the Huskies ear-lier this season, but she averages 9.4 points and 2.7 rebounds per game.

The Timberwolves are 14-9 on the season and are riding a six-game winning streak, all GLIAC wins, to improve to 10-7 in GLIAC play. In fact, the last time the Timberwolves lost was to the Huskies.

Senior forward Pam Wilson remains one of the most dynamic play-ers in the GLIAC, aver-aging 17.7 points and 9.3

rebounds per game. Huskies ju-nior forward Lindsey Lindstrom held her to just seven points in 37 minutes the first time around.

The hockey Huskies will be looking to build off of their split last weekend at No. 4 Denver as they hit the road for a two-game series against the No. 20 Min-nesota Golden Gophers. The Gophers are also coming off a three-point weekend at Wiscon-sin in which they earned a win and tie.

In the previous meeting between the Huskies and Go-phers in Houghton, Mich., the Gophers defeated the Huskies both nights, earning 6-4 and 4-1 wins.

Team Scope: The Gophers: The Gophers return home af-

ter scoring eight goals against the Badgers in a 5-2 win and a 3-3 overtime tie. The Gophers have been having an up and down season and they are currently 10-10-4 in Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) action.

Goaltender Kent Patterson, a junior, has all 10 of the team’s wins this season and remains their top goalie with a .926 save

percentage and 2.34 goals against average.

The Gophers are at .760 per-cent efficiency on the penalty kill and .171 percent on the power play.

Seniors lead the Gophers scoring with four out of the top five point leaders for the team being in their final season. For-ward Jacob Cepis is the Gophers’

top scorer, with 10 goals and 26 points. Forward Jay Barriball and Mike Hoeffel are tied for the team lead in goals with 12 each.

The Gophers’ last loss at home came against Denver on Feb. 11, in a 2-1 loss in the Friday night game, and they are 4-6-2 at home in WCHA play.

The Huskies: Friday night, the Huskies

achieved their first win in 26 games, and even though they lost Saturday, they are hoping to add more wins to their name this weekend. Even though they can’t climb in the WCHA standings, they can make life difficult for everyone else.

The Huskies suffered a big loss when points leader Milos Gordic, a freshman, went down with a season ending injury. His classmates had a big showing last weekend as they had three out of the four Huskies’ goals in the series.

Who’s Hot:The Gophers: Junior forward Taylor Mat-

son had two goals, including the game-winner against the Bad-gers last weekend. Matson has eight goals and two assists on the season and 41 shots on goal.

The Huskies: Freshman forward Ryan

Furne had two goals last week-end, including a shorthanded game-winner on Friday. Furne is tied for second on the team in points, behind freshman Mi-los Gordic with 10 goals and 18 points.

The East may have more star power, and even more so with Carmelo Anthony playing for the Knicks, but the West with Kobe just knows how to win games. Even if it was the All-Star game. The Calgary Flames have been very good at home and St. Louis has been bad on the road, put those two factors together and you get a Flames victory. Jim-mer Fredette, of the BYU Cougars, has been dominating college basketball this year and already beat San Diego State once this year, that will happen again in the rematch. The Knicks have a new team this week, and will have a learning curve and will lose to the Heat who is farther along in their team development.

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Editor’s Shootout

2times Michigan Tech has been featured on ESPN SportsCenter this month. The first time was for a dunk against Wayne State and the second was the goal in Denver.

46blocks this season by senior forward Lucy Dernovsek. Along with her teammates, the Huskies have 132 blocks on the season, a new school record.

6 skiers who placed well enough (top-10)

to earn All-Region honors. Alice Flanders, was the lone first-team

qualifier.

175feet, approximately, that Pioneers player Dave Makowski fired a puck on Saturday night to beat sophomore goaltender Kevin Genoe.

The Editor’s Shootout is a competition of knowledge, luck and wits between sports editor Daver Karnosky, editor in chief Stephen Anderson, business manager Jacob Veh-ring and you, the reader, via online poll. Stephen Anderson won last year and has won two of the last three years (former opinion editor Rob Devaun with the other win). This will be a weekly feature where each editor picks his winners of the three biggest games/series of the week and backs up his decisions with a short rant.

THIS WEEK: St. Louis Blues at Calgary Flames, Brigham Young Cougars at San Diego State Aztecs, New York Knicks at Miami Heat

Each week, we’ll let you the reader vote in our Editor’s Shootout online poll at www.mtulode.com/sports/2011/2/24/editors-shootout-polls-7/. The majority of the vote for each match-up will be the chosen team, and your cumulative record will get put alongside our three wannabe experts. We’ll run this feature through the entire year and see who comes out on top.

Last week’s picks:PredatorsHuskiesWest

The Blues are so young and so fragile right now it hurts. They go out and score nine against the Ducks, but only nine combined against the Hawks and the Avalanche. If this offense can ever figure it out, they will be deadly. Cal-gary is poised to stumble and St. Louis should be just the team to help them fall. Kawhi Leonard scored 22 in the previous meeting with the Cougars, and I think he will continue his hot hand at home against BYU as the Aztecs exact some revenge.

Blues, 6-3Aztecs, 59-57Heat, 101-95

Flames, 4-2BYU, 74-71Heat, 105-871-2 Last Week, 37-23 Overall

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2-1 Last Week, 36-24 Overall

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Editor in Chief

0-3 Last Week, 24-36 Overall

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0-3 Last Week, 27-33 Overall

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Schedules/Results

W. Basketball (21-2, 16-1 GLIAC)

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The Blues desperately need some wins if they’re going to make the playoffs, but they’ll be lucky to take two of three games during their Western Canada trip. Unfortunately Calgary comes last, and the Flames will exercise their home ice advantage over St. Louis. BYU won convincingly over San Diego State a month ago, but they’ll keep Jimmer in check enough to deadlock the season series. Finally, the new-look Knicks have all eyes on them, but Melo and Amare will take a little more time to gel -- expect the Heat to roll big at home.

Flames, 4-2Aztecs, 70-65Heat, 104-98

Hockey (4-24-4, 2-20-2 WCHA)Feb. 18 at Denver, W, 3-2Feb. 19 at Denver, L, 5-1Fri. at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.Sat. at Minnesota, 8:30 p.m.

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senior guard Don Fowler. He

picked up four in Saturday’s come-from-behind win

over Lake Erie.

Hockey Huskies looking for more wins in Minnesota

Feb. 17 vs. Ashland, W, 63-60Feb. 19 vs. Lake Erie, W, 71-68Thurs. at Saginaw Valley, 6 p.m.Sat. at Northwood, 1 p.m.

Feb. 17 vs. Ashland, W, 68-50Feb. 19 vs. Lake Erie, W, 89-49Thurs. at Saginaw Valley, 8 p.m.Sat. at Northwood, 3 p.m.

Feb. 26 at BirkibeinerMar. 7-12 at US Junior Nat’lsMar,. 9-12 at NCAA Champ.

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Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

Visit wcha.com for full standings

Women’s Basketball closes out regular season on the road

Bearing down: Freshman forward Jacob Johnstone stares down Gophers goalie Kent Patterson.

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Scoring touch: Senior center Lynn Geisler shoots a jumper.

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After helping the hockey Huskies to their first win in 26 tries by scoring a shorthanded game-winning goal, freshman winger Ryan Furne has been honored by the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) as the Rookie of the Week. He added a second goal on Saturday.

With the Huskies already leading 2-1 thanks in part to a shorthanded goal from freshman center Patrick McCadden, Furne extended the Huskies’ lead after getting a lead pass from McCadden and powering his way to the net to beat Denver Pioneers goaltender Sam Brittain.

In addition to his two goals, Furne led the Huskies with 10 shots in the two games and a +1 rating. He fired six of the Huskies’ 19 shots on Saturday night.

Furne has played in every game this season for the Huskies and is tied for second on the team in scoring with 10 goals and 18 points.

Furne is the second Huskies’ freshman named Rookie of the Week. Milos Gordic was named Co-Rookie of the Week on Oct. 12.

Furne garners WCHA honor

Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

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The warm weather threw us for a loop in terms of our planned coverage, but, like all the players, we are back on track.

It’s pointless to publish our dai-ly coverage in print since it will likely be outdated by the time you read it, but for now, following is a summary of what we plan to fea-ture during the rest of the broom-ball playoffs, which are scheduled to wrap up this weekend.

Every day we will offer pre-views and reviews of each day

in the playoffs. Perhaps you are focused on a specific match-up, in which case you can get a full grasp for the playoff bracket and how it plays out.

We will also continue our power rankings, but they will be updated daily for the rest of the playoffs, specifically comparing the odds of winning a champion-ship.

Since the number of games is quickly narrowing down every single day, we will start to cover every single game the rest of the way, with online recaps posted each night, along with of course the nightly summary of the full

day.While we are not able to fea-

ture the bracket challenge this year, myself and broomball writ-er Joe Eckstein will post our picks for the remainder of the playoffs at mtulode.com.

An additional feature that we will be offering this year is an in-depth look at ice conditions. Anyone who has placed broom-ball knows that the ice surface has a significant impact on the game play, and by previewing it each day, teams can game plan accordingly.

Keep your input coming, and enjoy the playoffs!

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Riding a three-game winning streak, the men’s basketball have all but sown up a spot in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Tourna-ment. They avenged a home loss to the Lake Superior State Lakers two weeks ago before winning a pair of thrillers over the Ashland Eagles and Lake Erie Storm to fin-ish out their home schedule. The Huskies hope all this adversity will help them give back what both the Saginaw Valley State Cardinals and Northwood Timberwolves gave them, home losses.

The Cardinals beat the Huskies 70-61 earlier this season as part of a four-game winning streak. The Cardinals are now 12-12 overall and 8-9 in GLIAC play, boasting wins over the Timberwolves twice, Grand Valley State, and Ashland.

Junior Greg Foster has been the Cardinals top offensive threat, averaging 16.7 points and 5.5 re-

bounds per game. He came off the bench to score 12 points in 21 min-utes against the Huskies on Jan. 15.

S o p h o m o r e s Michael Fugate and Chris Webb join Foster to give the Cardinals a deadly backcourt. Fugate averages 13.6 points and 3.2 assists per game while Webb notch-es 11.2 points and 2.0 assists. Webb posted 12 points against the Huskies while Fugate was held to nine earlier this season.

Up front, the Cardinals boast an effective big man in junior forward Keithan Jackson.

Jackson averages 12.5 from the floor and 6.9 rebounds per game. The Huskies held him in check earlier this season, allowing him only seven points.

Since beating the Huskies 69-55, the Timberwolves have stumbled a bit, going 3-4. They are now 10-16 on the season, and 7-10 in GLIAC play. They come in-to this week having knocked off Lake Superior State on Saturday, 88-78.

Junior forward Bobby Lewis is one of the top scorers in the GLIAC, av-eraging 15.0 points and 7.0 rebounds per game. Lewis led the way for the Tim-berwolves in their previous encounter with the Hus-kies, scoring 18 points in 29 minutes.

The Timberwolves’ backcourt is tough, featur-ing sophomores Andrew

VanDierenDonck and Cameron Joyce. They sit second and third, respectively, in team scoring, av-eraging 12.0 and 10.0 points per game. Joyce runs the offense ef-fectively, averaging 5.4 assists per game. The duo combined for 17 points against the Huskies earlier this season.

If the Huskies defeat the Car-dinals on Thursday night, they should clinch a playoff spot. The highest they could place is sixth, which could lead to a rematch with Hillsdale, whom the Hus-kies defeated earlier this season in a thrilling overtime contest. There’s also a chance they could face Wayne State again. If that’s the case, they will look to stay off of ESPN SportsCenter for getting dunked on in the playoffs. Should they lose, they must win on Satur-day.

Be sure to check out our web site, www.mtulode.com/sports, af-ter each game for a detailed recap of the action.

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Men’s Basketball still looking to secure playoff spotSports Editor

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Today (Feb. 24): Basketball recapsFriday: Hockey recapSaturday: Basketball and Hockey recapsSunday: Editor’s blogMonday: Looking ahead at the GLIAC TournamentsTuesday: Feature blogWednesday: Hockey, Men’s Basketball, and Women’s Basket-ball previews, Broomball coverage

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Broomball teams target championship as season winds down

Nordic Skiing places third at NCAA Regionals

For the second straight com-petition, the Nordic Skiing Hus-kies skied well on Saturday, but found themselves in third at the end of the day. Despite finishing behind rival Northern Michi-gan and Alaska-Fairbanks, the Huskies did place six skiers on the All-Region teams after the races held at the Michigan Tech trails.

Weather was as much a factor as the trails were. After two days of over-60 temperatures, Friday was marred by 40-mile an hour winds, forcing race officials to the freestyle races to Saturday morning, followed by the classic races later in the afternoon.

Freshman Alice Flanders fin-ished fifth in the women’s five-kilometer freestyle race with a time of 15:08. That was good enough to help her earn first-team honors for her efforts.

“I thought Alice Flanders’ skate race was a real strong re-sult,” said Hus-kies head coach Joe Haggenmill-er. “The com-petition was really tight. The conditions were really good and

really fast.”Four more Huskies finished

in the top-15. Sophomore Lynn Duijndam and senior Kristen Monahan finished in the top-10, thanks to times of 15:12 and 15:30 respectively. They both were named to the second-team.

Freshman Malin Eriksson placed 11th with a time of 15:31. Sophomore Sarah Daniels, who finished with a time of 15:35, placed 15:35.

In the women’s 10-kilome-ter classic race, Daniels earned All-Region honors by placing eighth. She finished with a time of 34:06.

Two other Huskies placed in the top-15. Eriksson, who finished with a time of 34:35, placed 12th. Flanders placed 14th (35:04).

In the men’s races, sophomore Matt Dugan paced the Huskies,

who placed four racers in the top-20 in the 10-kilometer free-style race.

Dugan finished with a time of 27:08, good for seventh. He earned second-team honors for his efforts. Freshman Mikko Harju finished 12th thanks to his time of 27:33. Sophomore Matt Wong place 16th with a time of 27:54. Sophomore Son-dre Sandvik, who finished with a time 28:13, placed 19th.

“I thought Matt and Sondre skied really well,” said Haggen-miller.

Sandvik, who finished the 10-kilometer classic race in ninth with a time 28:48, earned All-Region honors.

Three more Huskies finished in the top-20 in the classic race. Harju placed 11th thanks to a time of 28:52. Dugan, who fin-ished with a time of 29:01, fin-ished 13th. Junior Luke Gesior

rounded out the Huskies’ racers with a 17th-place finish (29:44).

The Huskies return to the trails on Mar.9 when they travel to Stowe, Ver., to take part in the NCAA Champi-onships. Be sure to check Mar. 17’s print edition for a detailed recap of the ac-tion.

Sports EditorDAVER KARNOSKY

Taking the lead: Members of the men’s Nordic Ski team.Photo courtesy of Gowtham

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1 1Girls Fight Back, Panhellenic Council, 7:00 -8:30 PM, MUB Ballroom A2 1Women in Information Systems & Technology, Guest speaker--Anne Herron, Business Intelligence, Vice-President at Allis Information Management. 12:00-1:00 PM, MUB Ballroom A 1Leveling the Playing Field: Women in Sports, 12:00-1:00 PM, MUB Alumni Lounge9 1Mean Girls- Taryn Mack,What to do if confronted by a “Mean”girl, 12:00-1:00 PM, MUB Ballroom A21 1Feminist Work in Humanities Today, 1:00-2:00 PM, Peterson Library,Walker Building23 1Women and Math: How Does it All Add Up? Dr. Bergvall, “Brain Scams: The Real Story about Sex, Brains, and Engineering,”12:00-1:00 PM, Ballroom A-125 1Feminists Making Waves, 1:00-2:00 PM, Peterson Library,Walker Building 1Bra Show: Candy! 8:00 PM, MUB Ballroom, Cost: Donation

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