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North Dakota State Uni-versity was recently the subject of a large-scale Eco-nomic Impact Study (EIS) that assessed the overall effects that the school has on its students, taxpayers, and the local and regional economies. The results were clear: NDSU is an economic cornerstone for the region and an excellent investment for students and taxpayers alike.

An Idaho-based compa-ny called Economic Model-ing Specialists International (EMSI) was hired to analyze NDSU’s power within the community and in the sur-rounding region. According to their website, their “study measure(s) not only the impact of college and stu-dent spending but also the impacts created by the ac-cumulated skills and higher productivity of students in the workforce.”

EMSI analyzed an ex-tensive amount of data in or-der to display NDSU’s posi-tive effects on its Service Area, which encompasses the entire state of North Dakota and eighteen coun-ties in western Minnesota. These effects include how much money the school pumps into the economy, what graduates will eventu-ally earn, when students will see a complete investment return and much more. By utilizing information from NDSU’s 2010-2011 fiscal year, they determined that

the university earns just un-der $885 million every year for the NDSU Service Area.

Of the $884.6 mil-lion, $655.4 million alone include the incomes that NDSU graduates of the last 30 years earn annually be-cause they acquired the nec-essary skills in college and obtained jobs with higher income levels. In fact, ac-cording to EMSI’s published report, an NDSU alum who earns a Bachelor’s degree and settles in the Service Area will earn an average of $58,200 a year at the mid-point of their career. Those who graduate with a Mas-ter’s will earn $70, 200 an-nually and someone with a PhD will earn $100,290 per year halfway through their careers. Since these figures are only at the midpoint of a Bison’s career, there is typi-cally still room for increased income.

Despite high earning po-tential in the future, college comes with a hefty price tag. For many students, the im-mediate cost can deter them from enrolling or cause them to withdraw because they question whether or not it is a waste of time and money. EMSI answered this burning question through-out the report, to both cur-rent and potential students, the figures could be quite encouraging. In economics jargon, cost/benefit ratio for Bison students is 5.23; in layman’s terms, that means

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NDSU Earns $885 Million for Region and Proves a Wise InvestmentLisa MarchandContributing Writer

NDSU Faculty Rally for Academic Freedom

NDSU faculty blazed a trail to Old Main as they walked alongside students and colleagues from UND and Tri-College universities in a rally for academic free-dom.

Over 100 proponents of academic freedom gathered on the East Patio of the Me-morial Union and marched to the front steps of the ad-ministration building Tues-day afternoon.

“This is not a protest march,” Bruce Maylath, professor of English, said. “This is a march inviting the public, inviting our adminis-trators to engage in dialogue about what academic free-dom is and why it’s impor-tant.”

Maylath led the rally and addressed the crowd on the

steps of Old Main.“Tests to apply politi-

cal pressure to shut down academic freedom and free-dom of thought date back at least as far as Galileo and Copernicus,” he said. “A university cannot be called a university unless it is a center for the freedom of thought and a center for the open exchange of ideas of all kinds. To cut off the explora-tion of new ideas stemming from research is to cut down the very trunk of the tree of learning.”

Maylath also stated that the spin-off effects of re-search at NDSU make it one of the two largest economic engines in North Dakota.

The rally was in response to a University decision to hold the funds of a $1.2 mil-lion research grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The funds were to implement a

youth program that focuses on preventing teen pregnan-cy and sexually transmitted infections, which includes a partnership with Planned Parenthood.

On Jan. 14, the North Dakota University System general counsel advised the NDSU counsel of two state legal statutes that may con-flict with the implementa-tion of the funds to pay for a subcontract with Planned Parenthood. Valrey Kattner, associate vice president for sponsored programs ad-ministration, said that after the NDUS general counsel alerted her to the issue, she and Philip Boudjouk, vice president for research, cre-ative activities and technol-ogy transfer, decided to hold the funds.

“Boudjouk said, ‘We have a legal issue, let’s keep our faculty safe and freeze the funds,’” Kattner said.

Dan Rice, professor of education leadership at UND, asserted that there was an alternative option to freezing the funds, which would have been more in line with the principle of academic freedom. Rice, former dean of Education and Human Development at UND, was invited to speak at an open forum with NDSU faculty and President Dean Bresciani on Monday.

“Another equally viable decision could have been to continue the grant until there was a definitive legal an-swer,” Rice said at the open forum. “A first response could be to protect the rights of the faculty.”

Rice maintained that it is the responsibility

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Faculty members gather on the front steps of Old Main Tuesday displaying their support for academic freedom.

Josie EyersHead News Editor

Fargo-Moorhead is ex-periencing an epidemic of homelessness, according to Executive Director for the Fargo-Moorhead Coalition for Homeless Persons Lau-rie Baker.

The NDSU Library invit-ed Baker to speak through-out January about current issues surrounding the F-M area.

Baker spoke about homelessness and its impact in Fargo and Moorhead on Tuesday.

“North Dakota and F-M has been experiencing an epidemic of homelessness right now,” Baker stated. “ I

believe that Fargo is a pro-gressive and compassionate community to help these challenges.”

The lecture hit four main points about homelessness and how to help. Bringing awareness to the commu-nity, ending hunger, notic-ing that it is expensive to do nothing and addressing the issues of homelessness will help further that goal.

Fargo-Moorhead Coali-tion for Homeless Persons is one of many in the F-M area. Currently the coalition is working with 60 other agen-cies to help displaced people find a solution.

Over the past 24 months, Fargo’s shelters have been full every night. Forty-seven percent of homeless people

are veterans, and the average age of a homeless woman is 32.

“Anyone without a home… lacks a place in civ-il society that civic authority establishes and recognizes through possession of a home,” Baker emphasized.

Baker asked the audi-ence, “Does a human be-ing deserve a home? Where would you be without it?” She realized that people without a home is a hard thing for other’s to acknowl-edge. We as humans like to know that others have a home; it gives us a sense of belonging.

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Homelessness: A Growing Epidemic in F-M AreaMorgan RichertContributing Writer

Laurie Baker, executive director of the Fargo-Moorhead Coalition for Homeless Persons speaks in the NDSU Main Library Tuesday over the current local homeless situation.

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SANTA MARIA, Brazil (AP) -- The repercussions of a tragic nightclub fire that killed more than 230 people in southern Brazil widened Tuesday as mayors around the country cracked down on such venues in their own cit-ies and investigators searched two other nightspots owned by a partner in the club that caught ablaze.

The government of the country’s biggest city, Sao Paulo, promised tougher security regulations for nightclubs and other places where many people gather. President Dilma Rousseff promised Monday that “we have the responsibility to make sure this never is re-peated.” Mayors in other cities pledged to follow suit, especially with the upcom-ing start of Carnival, which floods nightclubs with cel-ebratory crowds.

Since the fire, a Rio de Janeiro consumer complaint hotline has received more than 60 calls denouncing hazardous conditions at night spots, theaters, supermarkets, schools, hospitals and shop-ping malls around the state.

Blocked emergency exits and non-existent fire alarms and extinguishers top the list of most common complaints.

Meanwhile, G1, Globo television network’s Internet portal, said police searched two other Santa Maria night-spots owned by Mauro Hoff-mann, one of the partners of the Kiss nightclub, for evi-dence that could help shed light on the investigation.

Monday night’s searches yielded no evidence and the site reported that computers that stored images recorded by the Kiss club’s security cameras have not yet been found. G1 cites a police in-vestigator as saying the club owners have insisted the club’s closed-circuit cam-era system hadn’t worked in months.

The actions added to a national sense that the early Sunday nightclub fire, which killed at least 231 people, marked a possible turning point for a country that has long turned a blind eye to safety and infrastructure con-cerns. One of Brazil’s biggest newspapers, O Globo, pub-lished an editorial Tuesday saying it was time for action.

“The tragedy in Santa Maria forces us to seriously reflect over our national cul-ture of leniency, contempt

and corruption,” it said. “We must start from the principle that the mea culpa belongs to us all: public servants, own-ers of establishments that disregard safety regulations, and regular citizens who flaunt them.”

Soccer legend Pele, too, urged the Brazilian govern-ment to “make safety and security a priority in this country.”

“So many young people are no longer with us, they had entire lives ahead of them. I ask God to protect them and take care of their families,” he wrote on Twit-ter.

Preliminary investiga-tions into the tragedy have revealed that there was no alarm, working fire extin-guisher or sprinkler system and only one working exit in the Kiss nightclub, turning it into a death trap.

Police were leaning to-ward the idea that pyrotech-nics set off by a band playing at the time were the cause of the blaze, which killed dozens of students from the Federal University of Santa Maria. Inspector Antonio Firmino, part of the team in-vestigating the fire, said it ap-peared the club’s ceiling was covered with an insulating foam made from a combus-

tible material that ignited.Firmino said the number

and state of the exits are un-der investigation but that it appeared that a second door was “inadequate,” as it was small and protected by bars that wouldn’t open.

The disaster, the worst fire of its kind in more than a decade, raises questions of whether Brazilian authorities are up to the task of ensuring safety in such venues as the country prepares to host next year’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics.

An estimated 30,000 people marched peacefully outside the nightclub Mon-day night to remember the victims, and demand justice. Some carried signs with slo-gans such as, “May God’s justice be carried out.”

“We hope that the justice system ... succeeds in clarify-ing to the public what hap-pened, and gives the people an explanation,” said Eglon Do Canto, who joined the march.

Brazilian police said they detained three people Mon-day in connection with the blaze, while Brazilian media indicated two members of the band Gurizada Fandangueira and the club’s two co-owners had been detained. Police In-spector Ranolfo Vieira Junior

said the detentions were part of the ongoing police probe and those detained can be held for up to five days.

According to state safety codes here, clubs should have one fire extinguisher ev-ery 1,500 square feet as well as multiple emergency exits. Limits on the number of peo-ple admitted are to be strictly respected. None of that ap-pears to have happened at the Santa Maria nightclub.

Rodrigo Martins, a gui-tarist for the group play-ing that night, told Globo TV network in an interview Monday that the flames broke out minutes after the employment of a pyrotechnic machine that fans out colored sparks, at around 2:30 a.m. local time.

He added that the club was packed with an estimat-ed 1,200 to 1,300 people.

“I thought I was going to die there,” Martins said. “There was nothing I could do, with the fire spreading and people screaming in front.”

Witnesses said security guards who didn’t know about the blaze initially blocked people from leav-ing without paying their bills. Brazilian bars routinely make patrons pay their entire tab at the end of the night be-

fore they’re allowed to leave.Inside the club, metal bar-

riers meant to organize the lines of people entering and leaving became traps, corral-ling desperate patrons within yards of the exit. Bodies piled up against the grates, smothered and broken by the crushing mob.

About 50 of the victims were found in the club’s two bathrooms, where the blind-ing smoke caused them to believe the doors were exits.

Most of the dead were col-lege students 18 to 21 years old, but they also included some minors. Almost all died from smoke inhalation rather than burns. The Rio Grande do Sul state health secretary, Ciro Simoni, said 84 people remained hospitalized Tues-day in serious condition.

The blaze was the dead-liest in Brazil since at least 1961, when a fire that swept through a circus killed 503 people in Niteroi, Rio de Ja-neiro.

Sunday’s fire also ap-peared to be the worst at a nightclub anywhere in the world since December 2000, when a welding accident re-portedly set off a fire at a club in Luoyang, China, killing 309 people.

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Brazil Police: Outdoor Flare Started Club FireJuliana BarbassaAssociated Press

Baker said that home-lessness can really happen anytime to anybody.

“Students, in essence, are set up for homelessness with debt and trying to find work right out of college,” Baker said. “We have this ‘bootstraps’ idea, that we need to figure out life for ourselves, but realistically that is a myth.”

Chris Thompson and Bryan Bloemendaal, coun-seling education graduate

students at NDSU, are look-ing for helpful ideas for the homeless communities by trying to take preemptive measures.

“This lecture has really brought more awareness overall and it was disheart-ening to see all the statistics but enlightening to know there is hope,” Thompson said. “The staggering statis-tics of a small community [is huge], but here in Fargo we have so many resources.”

Bloemendaal stated, “It doesn’t just affect the home-less, it affects the commu-nity.” Both of the men are working on a graduate proj-ect to take preemptive mea-sures to help stop the cycle of homelessness.

A big idea that Baker poses to political leaders is that it is expensive to do nothing about homelessness.

“Would you rather give a man a ride to the ER or have the ambulance do it?”

Baker said. “It is your mon-ey either way.” The coali-tion works specifically with the Taxi Ride Program and Sheltering Churches around the area that help people get to and from the hospitals and back to a shelter.

“People need to know that they are not enabling homelessness when they help; they are supporting life,” Baker said.

Baker said it is impor-tant to talk to students be-

cause “they are the leaders of the future and need to be informed of the knowledge and gain awareness.”

“They are the future pol-iticians and business people who can make a difference,” she concluded.

The North Dakota Hu-man Rights Coalition on is bringing a panel of advo-cates to talk more on the is-sues on Feb. 9. “Every North Dakotan Deserves a Home” is the title of the discussion

to be held. Laurie Baker will be the keynote speaker at the event. Registration is $25 and scholarships are avail-able by contacting ndhrc.org.

For more information on homelessness in the F-M area, contact fmhomeless.org.

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Life has its struggles and strengths. However, as human beings, we mostly remember what brought us the most pain. We also remember the worst parts of our days, such as slipping on the ice on campus. What about the positive things in life? Such as drinking a nice cup of coffee or having the luxury of being able to read and write? What I remember and appreciate the most are the people in my life. I feel like every person that I have encountered, even if it were only for three minutes, had a purpose. However, the purpose may not only be for your own benefit, but also for their good. Nonetheless, you could have planted a seed in that person’s life. I have a special friend. Her name is Leah Amundson. She delivers the calmness to my life. She has planted many seeds for me, and there are many more to come. I hope you can start to see what people have delivered in your life.

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Always remember: everything happens for a purpose.

by: Mataya Armstrong, Spectrum Staff

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Leah Amundson, a great person and friend, delivers the calmness to others’ lives.

NDSU students received generous Agriculture Lead-ership Scholarships. Paige Craigmile and Lucas Salfer have each received a $1000 scholarship through the Ep-silon Chapter Alpha Gamma Rho.

Craigmile is a freshman who is studying Microbiol-ogy and Animal Biomedical Science. Salfer is a freshman majoring in Agriculture and Biosystems Engineering. “Individuals are selected for exceptional participation and leadership in ag-related activities (4-H, FFA, etc.) as well as high academic achievement,” said Brant Bigger, Alumni President of the Epsilon Chapter at Alpha Gamma Rho.

“County 4-H and school FFA advisers in MN and ND are sent announcements each spring to encourage their members to apply,” said Big-ger.

Bigger goes on to explain that the recipients do not have to be in agriculture to apply, however past recipi-ents have been involved in ag-related activities. “Join-ing Alpha Gamma Rho [or agriculture] has no bearing on the selection process for this scholarship,” said Big-ger. “[The Chapter] hopes this scholarship will encour-age individuals to excel in agriculture and leadership and pursue careers related to the agriculture industry.”

The Chapter allocates over $9,000 a year to stu-dents that have shown lead-ership qualities, improving

their academics and careers related to agriculture. “Our alumni view their donations as an investment in tomor-row’s leaders of the diverse agriculture industry,” said Bigger.

The scholarship has been awarded since 2008. “The scholarships were created by AGR’s alumni board and are funded through donations of the chapter’s alumni…,” stated Bigger. “An endow-ment has been created with the NDSU Alumni Founda-tion to fund these and other scholarships.”

Even though it is funded by a fraternity, the scholar-ship is available to both men and women…With each

[gender] receiving about half of the awards over the years,” detailed Bigger.

“These scholarships are available to incoming stu-dents (freshmen or transfers) each fall.” Two awards of the Agriculture Leadership Scholarship are given out once a year.

Alpha Gamma Rho was the first Chapter at NDSU and is celebrating its 100th year as of March 24, 1913.

Interested students may send in their applications to http://agrfargo.org/scholar-ship-info.

Contact Brant Bigger at brant.bigger@gmail.com for more information.

Students Receive Agriculture ScholarshipGenerous $1000 Scholarship from Alpha Gamma Rho

Morgan RichertContributing Writer

that for every dollar a student spends on their edu-cation at NDSU, they will receive $5.23 more through-out the course of their career. As stated in the official EIS report, “From an investment standpoint, NDSU students enjoy a 14.4% rate of return on their investments of time and money.”

“If you look at what has been occurring in a lot of our financial instruments in the recent years, 14% would be considered…a very fa-vorable number,” Dean Bangsund, Research Scien-tist from the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics, said.

This high rate of return corresponds to the aver-age payback period of 10.6 years. In other words, the av-erage student will regain all of the money they invested in their NDSU education in that amount of time.

“[NDSU is] affordable and it’s well worth it. That means I’m going to be able to pay off my student loans. I like that statistic,” said se-nior Rachel Geiser, Anthro-pology major.

Bison students are not the only ones reaping the bene-fits of the state’s most profit-able university; state taxpay-ers are receiving a large rate of return as well. Their cost/benefit ratio is 1.03, meaning that every dollar invested in NDSU produces $1.03 and

the rate of return is 3.1% for the state because of higher overall taxable income and avoided social costs. Since college graduates are statis-tically less likely to abuse drugs or alcohol, become criminals, or utilize wel-fare and unemployment, the state saves an estimated $17 million per year thanks to NDSU students.

Bangsund and other members of the Department of Agribusiness and Applied Economics have been in-volved in several economic impact studies that are simi-lar to those of EMSI. Focus-ing on the business perspec-tive as opposed to the social ones, they tracked spending and revenue of NDSU over the last decade. In the most recently published report “Economic Impact of the North Dakota University System in 2011,” there is a clear increase in the amount NDSU as well as other ND University System schools earn and spend.

“The pattern you see here is continued growth,” Bangsund said. “Essentially what we’re saying is that this study reinforces the idea that NDSU has been contributing more dollars into the econo-my at a pretty steady pace over the last decade. It’s also fair to say that some of our other universities have also exhibited similar growth over the period. The whole

North Dakota University System is growing.”

NDSU itself, its out-of-state students, and its thou-sands of visitors account for the remaining $229.2 mil-lion that is surged into the Service Area economy each year. The university pays its employees just above $201 million annually, $75 million of which goes for funding re-search projects. Out-of-state students contribute greatly to the economy by increas-ing the need for new jobs and businesses, and spend approximately $25 million each year. The remaining $3 million comes from out-of-area visitor spending, the majority of which undoubt-edly surrounds the various athletic events and boosts the revenues of area hotels, restaurants, retail stores and more.

EMSI and NDSU part-nered up for this in-depth study in hopes that it would shed some light on the uni-versity’s countless contri-butions to the community. They also set their sights on garnering wider support and increasing student en-rollment in the future. Its results conclude that North Dakota State University is a most wise investment for all parties involved, so the $885 million question is an-swered: this college is worth it.

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Paige Craigmile is one recipient of a scholarship from the AGR Fraternity.

of university administra-tors to hear legal advice and then decide what to do.

“The law itself is not always consistent with aca-demic freedom,” Rice said. “As academic leaders, it’s up to us to make a decision.”

A majority of the fac-ulty’s questions at the forum reflected a concern that po-litical pressure was involved in the decision to freeze the grant funds.

NDSU President Dean Bresciani had spoken about the decision to freeze the funds in a radio interview with Scott Hennen on Jan. 15.

“You are the public spokesperson for the Uni-versity,” one faculty member commented. “By speaking on a conservative talk show before the faculty knew about it – that’s the issue. The faculty feel that they have been thrown under the bus.”

Bresciani affirmed that the decision to freeze the funds took place several levels below him, he has no responsibility for adminis-tering grant money and the decision was made before he appeared on the radio show.

Rice suggested that the next step is to use this op-

portunity to explain the im-portance of academic free-dom to the public. He said the legislatures and the State Board of Higher Education do not know what academic freedom means to university faculty.

It is the responsibility of “the chancellor and presi-dents, as well as individual faculty members” to educate the public audience, he said.

The rally on academic freedom set out to accom-plish just that.

Sean Sather-Wagstaff, associate professor of math-ematics, read aloud the American Association of University Professors’ prin-ciples of academic freedom and the NDSU policy man-ual section 325 on academic freedom at the rally.

The mention of the NDSU policy for an “aca-demic community which takes no ideological or pol-icy position” was received with amens and rousing ap-plause from the crowd.

“Powerful words from our own policy,” Wag-staff said. “These affect ev-ery single one of us in our ability to recruit, retain and promote the best scholars, and that includes faculty and students, and especially ap-

plies to female scholars, for which NDSU has already been demonstrated to have a chilly climate.”

As one of many or-ganizers of the march, May-lath said he has never seen a faculty so united.

“If we are not shielded from political pres-sure, it brings everything to a grinding halt here,” he said. “That’s why there’s been such a shudder sent through the research committee up and down the Red River Val-ley, by what we heard Bres-ciani say on the Scott Hen-nen show.”

Maylath stressed that Bresciani is to be com-mended for his work try-ing to stabilize funding for NDSU, but Bresciani’s previous administrative ex-perience is in working with student affairs, not academic affairs. Bresciani really has not been much involved with academic affairs at NDSU, Maylath said.

“That explains a lot about why he doesn’t have a feel, at least yet, for how deep this issue goes,” Maylath said. “Deep in his-tory, as well as deep into the marrow of faculty. So I hope he’s starting to feel what we feel.”

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As a writer of Interna-tional Perspectives, I dwell much upon the similarities and differences of cultures. And I often get a chance to talk about my culture. The best part about Indian culture is the festivities which would usually require pages of de-scriptions.

One of the most impor-tant and most common fes-tivity of Indian culture is the marriage ceremony. This is grand and dramatic, irrespec-tive of the religious beliefs of people involved. Amongst the numerous celebrations in India, weddings are by far the most colorful and cut across uniformly through all socio-economic strata.

Just this week I had the opportunity to attend my brother’s wedding back in India. One of the shortest trips I have made back home was worth all the effort as we had a typical “great Indian wedding.” The wide array of colors, emotions and rela-tions displayed in the wed-ding were a reminder to me of why I love to discuss my culture.

A typical Indian wedding is at least a month-long af-fair. The event begins with the formal engagement or the ring exchange in some cases. Yes, we exchange rings well before the wed-ding, and I don’t know why. Most likely one would relate this to a business deal where a token is exchanged upon signing the Memorandum of Understanding. I know that is a nasty comparison, but that was all I could come up with.

This is followed by nu-

merous gift exchanges, date scheduling, invitations, shopping and more shop-ping. When all the prepara-tions are in order (although there is no such thing as an order to an Indian wedding, most things are random), the extended family starts pour-ing in to the house, camping on whatever bed they can find, occupying any and ev-ery bathroom in the process.

While the house starts looking, sounding and smell-ing like a homeless shelter’s soup kitchen, the mother of the house struggles and juggles between maintaining order and continuing the pro-ceedings, all to an almost un-successful attempt. The mis-ery is then warmly extended by all the crying kids who

you would otherwise refer to as cute. The amazing thing is how human kids behave like a pack of wolves, all wailing at the same time and compet-ing with each other for deci-bel limits.

The mothers of these lovely devils are busy get-ting their hands smeared with henna and their faces adorned with make-up, while the men of the house try to keep themselves busy in house chores-- just to evade the crying kids. Everyone tries to look better than the other while still looking a little less than the bride or groom and of course his and her mothers. Gossip, jokes and tea keep the environ-ment less hostile and sleep is the last thing on everyone’s

list.It was not just the fancy

dress that I enjoyed in this celebration. I witnessed some of the best fights back home. Yes, fights are an important aspect of Indian weddings. A wise man once said that an Indian wedding cannot be completed without at least three fights. Alright, that wise man was me!

Anyways, the first fight is the one that breaks out in the grooms family, clas-sified as internal fight one. The second internal fight, as you may have guessed, takes place in the bride’s house close to the marriage day. And the last and the grand-est of all fights is the one between the bride and the groom’s family. While the fights may be about mean-ingless issues, it could still turn out to be a fist fight with added unmentionable verbal exchanges. Some lucky ones may even find some popcorn and take pictures during the ensuing battle. We had our own share of these as well.

The worst thing of all was the make-up we all had to put on, just so the photographer could make us look happier than we were. All the grease-paint could not, however, stand the test of time, and came trickling down towards the end of the night. The later pictures of the night remind me of Zombieland.

With all said and done (more said than done), it was wonderful to be home for my elder brother’s wedding. Nevertheless, the “you next” elbow jabs from family el-ders had me wanting to run back to Fargo quickly. Yet, an arranged marriage will al-ways be one of the most suc-cessful traditions in Indian society.

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Features The Spectrum Thursday, January 31, 2013

Among pizza, chicken wings and popcorn, chips and dip are the most popular snacks devoured during the Super Bowl. More specifi-cally, the Nielsen Company reports that almost 46 mil-lion pounds of potato chips are purchased in preparation for the game. An added 177 million pounds of tortilla chips, pretzels and popcorn are sold within the days lead-ing up to this annual event. Dip statistics from the Hass Avocado Board noted that fans consumed over 71 mil-lion pounds of avocados during Super Bowl XLVI in 2012. Overall, it is predicted that the average American will consume a total of about 1,200 calories on Super Bowl Sunday, and that is excluding regular meals, according to the Calorie Control Council.

To preserve these Ameri-can snacking traditions with-out overloading on calories, try the following alternatives to excessively salty potato chips and their fatty comple-ments:

Chip TipsCalorie Count tells us that

a one-ounce serving of po-tato chips contains 155 calo-ries, 10.6 grams of fat, and 1.2 grams of fiber. Medical experts on WebMD.com sug-gest several healthy alterna-tives in one-ounce portions:

Baked Tostitos = 110 calories, one gram of fat and two grams of fiber

Low Fat Kettle Crisps =

110 calories, 1.5 grams of fat and two grams of fiber

Reduced Fat Triscuits = 120 calories, three grams of fat and three grams of fiber

Padrinos Reduced Fat Tortilla Chips = 130 calories, four grams of fat and one gram of fiber

Dip TipsA recipe for French Onion

Dip in Eating Well magazine claims to use 12 grams less fat and half the amount of sodium as its original store-bought contender, while a serving of their Creamy Spin-ach Dip contains 84 fewer calories and 10 fewer grams of fat than traditional reci-pes. These recipes along with several more can be found at www.eatingwell.com.

For cheese lovers: In-stead of Kraft Cheez Whiz Original Cheese Dip, try Tostitos Medium Salsa Con Queso dip. Two tablespoons of the latter contain 50 fewer calories, 4.5 fewer grams of fat and 160 fewer milligrams of sodium.

For salsa lovers: To consume a lesser amount of fat and calories, feast on Ortega Thick & Chunky Me-dium Salsa rather than Tosti-tos Creamy Salsa.

For guacamole lov-ers: Rather than stuffing your body with the 130 calories and 13 grams of fat that two tablespoons of T. Marzetti’s Guacamole Veg-gie Dip has to offer, enjoy the mere 60 calories and five grams of fat found in two tablespoons of Wholly Gua-camole Classic dip.

Dear Breaking the Bank, Isn’t being a broke college student fun? That was

sarcasm, in case you were wondering. I can completely relate to how you’re feeling. First of all, to address your issue with spending money right away, make a rule for yourself when you receive your paycheck. Place a cer-tain amount in the bank, and leave a little for yourself to spend on something that you want to do. The next piece of advice that I’d like to offer is to steer clear of eating out all the time. Instead hit up the grocery store and look for good deals. In the long run, you’ll save quite a bit of money on making your meals at home, and they’ll prob-ably be healthier for you too! Lastly, stop paying for your friends! They’re friends with you, because you’re fun to be around, not because you pay for their meals or buy them stuff. Call me crazy, but I think they’d understand if you only paid for YOU when you guys go do things. Sav-ing money can be a lot of fun, and will probably make you feel a lot better about your financial situation!

Good luck, Bison Blondie

He Said: “I listen to fast-paced, up-tempo music, and I think that reflects that I am a high-energy, posi-tive person. Liking the same kind of music can be a great way to get to know some-one; but it is not necessary if there are other common interests,” Jesse Wagner, a senior majoring in English, said.

She Said: “I think it says a lot about your per-sonality, whether or not you’re a calmer or more high-strung person. It is im-portant for a significant oth-er to share your taste, but it doesn’t have to be exactly the same,” Anna Melicher, a freshman majoring in Phar-macy, said.

Music plays an impor-tant role in relationships: most couples have a rela-tively cheesy song labeled “theirs”; newlyweds pick a meaningful tune to represent their future together; and when a relationship goes sour, heartbroken exes find music to fit their moods. The constant need to define our relationships through song begs the interesting question of whether or not differing tastes in music can make or break a relationship. Ac-cording to psychologists Gosling and Rentfrow and the experts at ScienceOfRe-lationships.com, it can.

Our tastes in music re-flect our personal values and beliefs. When we search for potential mates, we are naturally attracted to those people who share our val-ues. Therefore, we tend to gravitate and appreciate oth-ers with the same musical preferences as ourselves be-cause we feel that they will hold the same values as us.

What your music taste says about you.

While the following de-scriptions are not true for everyone, in general, people listen to the bands that seem to exemplify their values.

Rock-‘n’-Rollers have a higher social awareness, meaning that they are in tune

with the problems going on socially in their society. The term “rock” encompasses all types: punk rock, indie rock, oldies rock, hard rock, etc. Rock-listeners also con-done rebellion, especially as a way to show society how their values differ from the norm.

Pop music lovers hold values that usually follow the norms of society. Evi-dent in popular rap music, they also believe in keeping separate gender roles. Con-formity is not seen as a bad thing; a catchy tune is all they really need to be happy. Keep this in mind if you are someone who wants change and hates the mainstream way of doing things—most likely your values will dif-fer from those of someone who listens to the Top 40 religiously.

People who like blues, jazz, classical and folk mu-sic are likely more liberal and open to new experienc-es than others. Interestingly enough, ladies have free reign to worship Beethoven, Mozart, Haydn and Bach, while men do not. A girl’s interest in classical music makes her more appealing to a guy, but not vice versa. The opposite is true for guys who like heavy metal—girls find it attractive, but guys do not find it as appealing if the girl likes AC/DC more than they do.

Unfortunately for coun-try music gurus, your devo-tion to those twangy tunes diminishes your attractive-ness to the opposite sex (if not a country fan). So if George Strait, Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton are your go-to guys, your best bet is to look for another person who shares your love for them.

Music is a large part of culture, and many people use it to define who they are and in what they believe. If your taste in music is es-pecially important to you, your best chance of finding “the one” will definitely be in the crowd of your favor-ite band, a record or music store or maybe in a band that plays your favorite genre. If you are lucky, maybe you will find your soul mate and a song to call “our song” all in one go.

Savvy Super Bowl SnackingLower-calorie Chip and Dip Tips

What does your taste in music say about you?

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Dear Honest Truth, I am broke, and because of this I am in serious need of

advice on how to better save money. I feel like as soon as I get money I spend it right away. I eat out all the time, I like to buy new clothes frequently and I am always foot-ing the bill for my friends, when we go out and do things together. I like to do nice things for other people, so I tend to go a little overboard and end up paying for my friends to show how much I care. I’m afraid that if I keep up these crazy spending habits that I’m going to end up in debt or be unable to do fun things with friends even oc-casionally. How can I start being more responsible with my money? Any tips? Please help!

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Laughter and lunacy will be unleashed during the Fargo-Moorhead Commu-nity Theatre’s February pro-duction of “Rumors” at The Stage at Island Park. In his lone farce, writer Neil Simon creates a story reminiscent of “Keeping Up Appearances” that unfolds against a mys-tery of hilarious proportions.

“It’s just funny,” said Stage administrative assis-tant/volunteer coordinator Cheryl Julien. “I think Neil Simon will bring people to Island Park because so many people know his name.”

Set in the early 1990s, four affluent New York couples are all invited to cel-ebrate the ten-year wedding

anniversary of the deputy mayor and his wife. Upon the first couple’s arrival, the deputy mayor is found bleeding from a gunshot wound to the head while his wife is nowhere in sight. The plot builds steam as each couple arrives while the oth-ers desperately try to decide what happened.

Things take a turn to get tangled when each person puts appearances above the drastic situation at hand, cre-ating a web of stories that hardly anyone can unravel. With their host shot, host-ess missing and servants no-where to be found, the eight guests struggle to maintain consistency in their con-cocted tales before the police arrive in Act Two. All the while, each character fights to save face and get their

stories in line throughout the two-and-a-half-hour perfor-mance.

“I love Neil Simon be-cause he really creates the characters in the way he writes their voices,” said director Jean Wilhelmi. “He [also] really captures the spirit of the day that was the early 1990s.”

Nineties nostalgia may meander into the minds of those who attend “Rumors” the next two weekends, as will attempts to keep every-one’s stories straight amid a mystery that has surprises around every corner. Al-though the characters know exactly what has happened, they struggle and stumble around to find out exactly why their host has shot him-self while his wife is missing in action.

This promising produc-tion is built upon a seasoned 10-person cast which is sure to enthrall and entertain for each of its seven perfor-mances. With a huge amount of hilarity and a mixed-up mystery, “Rumors” almost ensures a pleasurable night at the theater.

“It’s just good family fun,” said Julien.

Tickets are $16 for adults, $12 for students and seniors and $6 for children, and are available for pur-chase online at http://www.fmct.org/tickets and http://www.thestageatislandpark.org/tickets, as well as at The Stage at Island Park, located at 333 4th Street South. “Ru-mors” runs from Feb. 1 to 3 and Feb. 7 to 10, with five shows at 7:30 p.m. and two matinees at 2 p.m.

Yacht Club, a new group sprung from the mind of prolific Toronto song writ-er/producer/guitarist Ben Cook, delivers a pitch-per-fect tribute to 1980s synth-pop in their premier album, “Nonnavera.” If you’ve ever found something to love from the pop music of the 80s, this definitely merits a listen.

Ben Cook, along with longtime writing partner Matt DeLong, began Yacht Club as a way to express their reverence for the pop genre. Cook has been (and in some cases still is) a member of numerous groups, including F***ed Up, a high-profile hardcore punk band, Young Guv, a “Solo-ish power rap act” and some of his lesser-known projects, such as The Bitters, Marvelous Darlings and No Warning.

The 80s pop aesthetic was such a departure from most of Cook’s other work,

known for anarchic themes and unorthodox recording techniques, that many as-sumed “Nonnavera” to be an ironic offering. Cook, however, embraces the pop genre. In an interview for “Now,” an entertainment magazine based in Toronto, he says that Yacht Club is “his first band where he can fully revel in his reverence for sugary hooks and pol-ished musicianship without ‘playing down or hiding be-hind any lo-fi bullsh**.’”

Yacht Club will not be a one-album project. Accord-ing to Cook, a follow-up to “Nonnavera” is in the works, and will sport a higher pro-duction value and more art-ists’ input. The group will not focus solely on the state of pop in the 80s, but will strive to cover the entire genre over the course of its life.

I personally recommend track one, “Flash,” for its driving beat that gives a good impression of the al-bum as a whole. Track three, “Can’t Leave the Castle,”

offers a slightly more elec-tronic bent on the record’s general theme that even a skeptic may find enjoyable. If you can get your hands on “Nonnavera’s” elusive second disc, try track eight, “Perfect and Normal,” for its upbeat chorus and infectious melody.

Overall, “Nonnavera” delivers a fun, if somewhat divisive, experience. Make

sure to listen to the album before purchasing it. If it’s something you want to lis-ten to, you’ll know within moments of hearing the first beat. If you become hooked, however, you’ll find a lot to love.

I give “Nonnavera” by Yacht Club a seven out of 10.

First there was the big three of ABC, CBS and NBC. Eventually FOX joined, and three became four. Then cable television took over and gave the average viewer more choices than they could handle. In the last few years Netflix has joined the game with original series such as House of Cards. Now Ama-zon looks to be getting in on the fun.

Amazon, the jack-of-all-trades website is negotiating to create a half-hour com-edy based on the surprise hit 2009 movie Zombieland. The movie starring Jesse Eisenberg, Woody Harrel-son and Emma Stone ended up grossing over $75 million back in October 2009.

The movie was about a shy student (Eisenberg) try-ing to reach his family in Ohio, a gun-toting tough guy (Harrelson) trying to find the last Twinkie and a pair of sis-ters trying to get to an amuse-ment park, all of whom join forces to travel across a zom-bie-filled America.

This is a risky proposi-tion for Amazon. On a posi-tive note, Amazon becomes another potential source of quality television, and for the viewing public, more op-tions are never a bad thing. That being said, even though Zombieland was a success as a film, a lot of that can be at-tributed to the chemistry of the cast, who will not be a part of the show.

Television shows based on movies have had mixed results at best. Back in 1972, M*A*S*H based on the movie of the same name two years prior debuted on CBS. The Korean War-based show ended up running for eleven

seasons, with its season fi-nale ranking as the most watched show of all time. Meanwhile, in 2002, My Big Fat Greek Wedding ended up grossing over $350 million worldwide. The following year came My Big Fat Greek Life, which was cancelled after just seven episodes.

If the deal goes through, Zombieland will most likely be a part of Amazon’s fairly recent Prime service, which includes instant streaming of movies and television shows. Zombieland is a step in the right direction for the site as they try to catch up with other movie services such as Netflix.

This isn’t the first time Zombieland almost ended up on the small screen. The con-cept was originally intended as a show for CBS, and once they passed it, was retooled into the movie it is today.

It makes sense for Ama-zon to take a well-known brand to spark interest as their first original show. It is easier to lure viewers in with what they know and then continue to branch out with completely new material af-ter the fact.

No one knows how well Zombieland will translate, especially without the mov-ie’s impressive cast, but at least original writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick will write and executive produce the show. This means the movie’s tone should stay the same even with a different cast.

At the end of the day, zombie shows have been popular thanks to AMC’s Walking Dead, and Amazon hopes that popularity keeps up. Whatever happens, Am-azon enters the television market, keeping things inter-esting. Time will tell how it all plays out.

FMCT Rolls Out ‘Rumors,’ a Farce to Really Talk About

Bringing back the 80s

Amazon Creates Zombieland Television Show

 

“Rumors” cast members Tom Gillen, Leslie Lekatz, Kayla Rice and Evan Christie try to get their stories straight after their host is found shot upstairs.

These synth-heavy grooves will please any fan of 80s pop.

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The Spectrum A&E Thursday, January 31, 2013

If you think you have a story worth hearing and aren’t afraid to share it, you will have your very best chance to do so next month at The Tell.

The Tell is a regular story slam and competition with its fourth event of the 2012-2013 season currently sched-uled for next month. The purpose of a story slam is for anyone and everyone to get in front of a crowd and share their stories and anecdotes with the public.

Each story is told with-out scripts, props or notes and must be true, firsthand accounts. Each speaker has only six minutes to tell his or her story. The tales can be funny, sad, joyful or just plain weird. It’s all up to the storyteller to decide what kind of anecdote they want to convey. The only other restriction is that the stories must somehow tie into the theme that The Tell has cho-sen for that specific month. February’s theme, for in-

stance, will be “love” and should result in some very interesting tales.

One of the ten storytell-ers selected to perform each month is then chosen as a finalist to go on to a final competition called “The Tell

Off” in April. These finalists will compete against each other for a cash prize.

Laura Egland, the found-er of The Tell, based her event on other storytelling organizations like the popu-lar podcast “The Moth.”

It was created with the goal of bringing people from disparate backgrounds to-gether under common cir-cumstances.

“The thing about story-telling from real people is that while, sure, it’s perfor-mance—it’s also something deep and meaningful.” Laura said. “When someone gets in

front of the mic and opens up, you don’t know—they don’t know—if it’s going to be beautiful or if it’s go-ing to be a train wreck. Even well done, some stories are inspirational or hilarious and make you feel fantastic, while others can be horrify-ing, and really make you look inside yourself. It’s real life, retold.”

That sentiment is re-flected in The Tell’s ubiqui-tous approach to selecting its speakers. Absolutely anyone can apply to be a part of the story slam, regardless of age, gender or ability.

The judges for next month’s event will be Maria Bosak of Eco Chic Boutique (which is also the sponsor for the evening) and Shaklee, Lee Schwartz from Sundog Interactive and ArtPulse’s Kris Kerzman.

The Tell will be held at Studio 222, otherwise known as Spider’s Jazz Club, at 7 p.m. on February 9 at 222 N Broadway in Fargo. Doors open at 6:30 that evening.

Admission for the non-speaking audience will be $5 per person.

It was pretty touch and go there for a while, but video game publishing com-pany THQ has finally gone completely under as a result of filing chapter 11 bank-ruptcy. That means the com-pany will be broken apart and sold off to pay its siz-able debts.

But just because THQ is no more, that doesn’t mean we’ll never see its numer-ous, quality properties ever again. Far from it, in fact, as the vast majority of the com-pany’s major developers and intellectual properties have been packaged and auc-tioned off to various other publishers around the globe.

First up, what’s hap-pened to the big one? Where did Saint’s Row go?

In a move that I don’t think anyone expected, Saint’s Row and its devel-oper, Volition, were picked up by Koch Media. You may not have heard of Koch or even its publishing label Deep Silver. However, you may have heard of games like Dead Island, Risen and Two Worlds.

Deep Silver is by no means a huge name, and so to see them walk away with THQ’s crown jewel is in-credibly surprising. Volition is probably responsible for keeping THQ alive as long as it was, with the shocking success of Saint’s Row The Third. Currently, the devel-oper is working on a fourth game in that franchise.

Koch also took on the Metro franchise, which is perhaps a more understand-

able fit.Another big surprise

came when it Relic’s buyer was announced. Sega, the creators of Sonic the Hedge-hog and the Dreamcast, picked up the Warhammer 40,000 and Company of He-roes developer putting them side-by-side with Creative Assembly (Total War) as the company’s primary PC de-velopers.

Relic is probably best known for the Dawn of War strategy franchise set in the Warhammer 40,000 uni-verse. However, the devel-oper is currently working on a sequel to Company of He-roes, a WWII strategy game that was originally set to be released sometime early this year.

Probably the least sur-prising purchase of the auc-tion was Crytek, creators of the Crysis franchise, grab-bing the Homefront name for just $500,000. The de-veloper had already been licensed to develop a sequel to the near-future first-per-son shooter for THQ when the publisher went under. Considering the amount of work that Crytek has likely already put into this project, it stands to reason that they would like to keep what they’ve built.

Take 2, the company that publishes Grand Theft Auto, acquired turtle Rock Studios, the developer of the original Left 4 Dead.

Turtle Rock was listed in the auction as currently working a new title called Evolve on Cry Engine 3. Clearly, Take 2 saw some potential in the developer and their new game and snagged them before anyone

else could.Ubisoft showed a keen

sense of irony at the THQ auction. Not only did they acquire South Park: The Stick of Truth which is in development at Obsid-ian, but they also bought up THQ Montreal.

The Canadian develop-ment house is best known for being headed by Patrice Desilets, a former Ubisoft employee and creative lead behind the original Assas-sin’s Creed. Desilets was headhunted by THQ and spirited away from Ubisoft several years ago.

The Montreal-based stu-dio is currently working on two new titles listed in the auction as Underdog and 1666.

The auction’s most dis-heartening moment came when it was announced that Vigil, the developers behind Darksiders and Darksiders 2, received absolutely zero bids.

However, fans of the studio may take some sol-ace in rumors of Platinum Games’ being interested in the developer. Platinum’s executive director, Atsushi Inaba, voiced interest in the Darksiders license on Twit-ter after discovering its lack of bidders. Meanwhile, a Platinum games headhunter got in contact Darksiders’ lead designer, also via Twit-ter, expressing interest in getting in contact with Vigil employees.

The future of Darksiders and the rest of THQ’s prop-erties is still up in the air, but until we know more we can all at least hope they’ve all found good homes.

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The future is a scary place. Constantly changing, it never looks the same twice and never appears similar to different people. Humans have been trying to predict it since the dawn of time. It is a question that haunts each

and every one of us. Our worries vary – one

day, perhaps, you will be contemplating what job you will be applying for after graduation. The next day, you may be thinking of what you are going to eat for din-ner later on. And another day, you may be thinking about the future of the earth as a whole, and where soci-ety may be headed.

But hold that thought, and allow me to switch gears for a moment. As a student of landscape architecture, I am required to take a studio design class every semester – each semester’s studio has a different content matter. Last semester was urban design, for example, and this semes-ter’s is site reclamation.

We are currently working on a project where, in teams of three, we are to select a site that has been in some way greatly affected by hu-mans in the past. Among sites selected in the class are granite quarries, iron mines, tailings ponds and polluted landfills.

Our task then, as land-scape architects, is to draft a plan for the fixing of that site – we must remediate the damaging effects inflicted upon the environment by other humans. This is just what I got into landscape architecture for – to heal the earth and to restore its beauty and functionality for future generations.

Yet the more I work in this typology, the more it irks me just how much humans have negligently treated the earth on which they depend. My group’s site is Pig’s Eye Dump, located just down-stream of St. Paul on the Mississippi River. Closed in 1972, it leaked a myriad of toxic chemicals into the river for decades until remedia-tion efforts commenced in the mid 2000s.

And while cleaning up twenty years worth of bur-ied, toxic waste is doing the environment, and the sur-rounding communities, a great favor, I cannot help but think that there has to be a

better way to go about this. There has to be a way for hu-mans to live without destroy-ing the places they love the most.

While working on our dumpsite, we are simultane-ously studying reclamation theory. One author proposed that all of these destroyed sites – dumps, mines, tail-ings ponds – are all just as much a part of nature as the forests, rivers and plains they replaced. The author pro-poses that, because nature created humans, the works of humans are, by extension, created by nature.

Which brings us back to the future – Christopher Lloyd style. If humans truly are a part of nature, and their works by extension, what na-ture do you foresee existing ten years from now? Twen-ty? Is it a gleaming, stainless society, a la The Jetsons? Is it a degraded earth, rusted oil derricks dotting the land-scape, as pools of grimy wa-ter collect in the hollows of the bare ground?

Nature will always ex-ist, humans or no humans-- this we know. The History Channel even put on a short series a couple years ago de-tailing what were to happen if nature realized that creat-ing humans were a mistake, and somehow removed them from the equation. The pro-gram showed us images of the environment reclaim-ing entire cities, erasing all evidence of human existence over the course of the centu-ries.

But is that the future we want? One where nature has to remove our existence in order to sustain life on earth?

The choices we make every day decide the future – this we know. Don’t believe me? Ask Marty McFly how things went when he changed even the smallest decisions in his past. He’ll likely tell you to be oh-so careful with your choices, from the food you eat tonight to the job you apply for this summer. It will make a world of difference for you later on, he’ll say.

We may think that only the big movers and shak-ers in our world can sig-nificantly affect the future. Sure, governments can do big things when they want to. Ask Franklin Roosevelt; he got things done. But in an age where our Congress is staler, more polarized than ever, it may be left to us to decide the course of our own future.

So whether you are con-cerned with choosing be-tween ramen noodles and macaroni tonight or with helping decide the fate of humanity, choose carefully – your future hangs in the balance.

Nathan is a senior major-ing in landscape architec-ture. Follow him on twitter @nwstottler.

Nobody should like Tucker Max. He is the epit-ome of everything anyone should hate. In his college years, he was a drunk, licen-tious party boy who took nothing seriously and proud-ly declared himself to be an asshole.

Despite this, he emerged from an undergraduate ca-reer at the University of Chicago with a B.A. in eco-nomics-- probably one of the most marketable degrees conceivable-- and a graduate stint at Duke University with a J.D., though he claims that he rarely went to class and that law school was “a joke.”

These degrees were a moot point, however, as a gag dating website which he created for the amuse-ment of himself and his friends gained popularity and launched a career as a New York Times No. 1 best-selling author of three books detailing the wildest stories of his drinking, womanizing and mischief-making.

He even directed a mov-ie, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, based on his first book of the same name. At the time of the release of his last book, Hilarity Ensues, his fans numbered in the millions, making him one

of the most dependable sell-ers of print books in recent memory.

It shouldn’t be a surprise that he has garnered an equal number of enemies. Where-as his supporters have called him a hero, his detractors have used phrases like “hu-man petri dish,” “reprehen-sible” and something else to express the hatred they feel for him. It seems that people either despise him or verita-bly worship him.

I am probably one of the very few that are firmly in the middle ground. I was introduced to his books by a friend from Boy Scouts, and while I find the obvious lack of morals and unflinching narcissism with which he portrays himself in his books repulsive, I think there is good to be found in every-body. Max serves as a prime example of this principle.

It is impossible not to laugh when he tells the tale of how he commandeered a Duke University campout armed only with a riot-grade bullhorn and a lot of beer, went catatonic at the sight of the dance floor at a Little Person convention and led a clown-themed pub crawl that ended in several thou-sand dollars in damage and general mayhem. The sto-ries’ entertainment factor alone is enough to redeem their lack of morals.

However, for all his claims that school required

minimal effort at most and that he rarely attended class-- at one point, he spent six weeks working in Can-cun while school was in ses-sion-- he’s not an idiot. Max has insights into people that most wouldn’t expect out of a shameless party boy.

In Hilarity Ensues, he claims that there are two types of people who party: there are the “beer and beau-tiful girls” people, who party because they enjoy life and want to enhance it; and the “coke and hookers” people, who “party” so hard that they purposely avoid human con-nections and, instead of us-ing these things to enhance their lives, use them to numb the emotional pain they are unwilling to confront. It de-scribes not so much what you like to party with, Max says, but the intent of your partying.

In the last year or two, he has retired, both from writ-ing fratire and the activi-ties it spawned from. While he warns those who would interpret his retirement as recanting that, “I will never try to disavow who I was or what I did, nor will I ever apologize for having the balls to be the person I want-ed to be,” he acknowledges that his past behavior was rooted in a miserable family life and poor upbringing.

In a January 2012 inter-view with Forbes magazine he said, “I know some of the

stuff I did is, um, beyond the pale or f***-up sometimes, or mean to other people or destructive to myself. But I still did it anyway. I under-stood intellectually in my twenties that this had some-thing to do with unresolved parental, emotional issues. But I didn’t process it.” He is currently seeking psychi-atric help for the issues he has dealt with in his past.

Max spends his time writing frequently on his blog, and he is currently planning an advice book with friend Nils Parker. The blog covers a number of subjects, however most of his articles expound on his “philosophy”: namely, that universities have failed their students, making them woefully unprepared for life, that most people grow up to be “sheep” who mindlessly follow the crowd and repeat what they are told to believe, and that the only way to es-cape this cycle is to start act-ing like the person you want to be right now.

Whether or not you agree with the way he chose to spend the years of his early adult life, it is impossible to refute that he’s learned les-sons from it that most don’t realize in their lifetimes.

Joshua is a senior ma-joring in sociology and phi-losophy.

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On January 20, I attended the All Time Low and Yel-lowcard concert at The Hub here in Fargo. It was my fourth time seeing All Time Low and my third seeing Yellowcard. The tempera-ture was -12 degrees with a windchill of about -30, eas-ily. I had to stand in line for about half an hour in nothing more than a sweatshirt be-cause I didn’t want to have to carry my coat at the con-cert.

Yes, I realize that this sounds crazy to some people. Probably idiotic, but I abso-lutely love these two bands, and to me it was worth it and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

This got me thinking, “Why was it so worth it?” What makes people love their favorite bands so much? Especially when we know that the chances of knowing these individuals on a personal level is slim to none.

I think it starts with the fact that this band may not have necessarily saved your life, but they’ve changed it in one way or another whether you want to admit it or not. And if they did save your life, that’s even bet-ter because they made your life worth living and that’s a beautiful thing.

They’ve probably made you think with their lyrics.

You’ve probably watched some interviews and felt like you could connect with them. Like, they understood you. Maybe you’ve even been blessed enough to meet them, and they made you feel like the most important person in the world, even if only for a moment.

But how do you even get to this level of affection for a band?

Well, speaking from per-sonal experience, it starts with hearing them for the first time; you suddenly be-come intrigued, kind of like a fish swimming past some bait. You innocently decide to check out some more of their songs or an interview, and BAM, you’re caught on the hook that is soon to be your favorite band.

They’re lyrics become so relatable. They reflect uni-versal feelings even through their own personal experi-ence. You can connect on an emotional level with the words that the singer is sing-ing. The lyrics become more than just words, the songs become more than just mu-sic. They become your es-cape from the sad and scary world known as reality.

Watching interviews, seeing them live, or even meeting them makes them suddenly feel relatable. Like, they could possibly be your friends. They’re quirky and odd, just like you. They have that passion and drive that you could only aspire for. They’re human, just like you. They have their

good days and their bad. They have flaws and they have strengths. They aren’t any different than you, and that fills you up with the hope that you can fulfill your dream, like they did.

Nothing else matters when somebody loves a band; it’s an unrequited love. It isn’t reciprocated or understood, but that doesn’t matter. You don’t care, be-cause the love you have for this band can’t be broken. Alex Gaskarth, lead singer of All Time Low, says it per-fectly,

“Loving a band with all of your heart is something you understand when it hap-pens to you. On the surface, others can see it as a petty obsession, but they’ll just never know the feeling of putting so much faith into a few people on the other side of the world. It’s hard to ex-plain it to them, the listen-ing to a song after song on repeat, the anticipation for new albums, the excitement and surreal sensation when you finally see them live. They don’t understand why the lyric give you a sense of comfort, or why you paste photos of them all over your walls. And they can’t under-stand why one band could matter to you so much. And you think to yourself, ‘Be-cause they saved my life.’ But you say nothing, they wouldn’t understand.”

Cassandra is a sopho-more majoring in journal-ism.

I wouldn’t normally con-sider myself a planner. I’ve mastered my procrastination skills since beginning col-lege here five years ago in

about every form possible. However, this is my last spring break as a college un-dergrad, and I know if I want to have one last hurrah and truly have that “spring break experience” before embark-ing on to new adventures, planning ahead is essential.

It seems spring break is forever away, especially in the dead of winter where the only thing to look forward to is one cent taps at the OB on Friday. Nevertheless, this is the time to be making travel

plans, perhaps somewhere warm, to let our frozen bod-ies thaw a little. So why not treat ourselves to something fun, especially after enduring cold weather for long periods of time?

For those who have com-mitted to traveling some-place warm, I suggest you get off the couch and start moving, if you haven’t done so already. Please don’t throw your Facebook friends a curve ball when they see photos of you in a swimsuit that doesn’t fit like it used to anymore. The Wellness Cen-ter is your first stop in shed-ding those pounds that seem to accumulate so “naturally” during the winter months.

Your body is not going to magically make itself look better overnight, or within three weeks. Before you know it, you’ll wish you had braved the cold and joined your roommate in a Zumba class rather than cozy up for another episode of How I Met Your Mother (Surprise! All treadmills and elliptical machines at the Wellness Center are equipped with

personal TVs so you can stay on par with your shows all while getting a workout in. All you need are a pair of headphones).

The countdown has of-ficially begun. spring break is only a mere five weeks away, which doesn’t leave much time to figure out a solid game plan or shed the extra weight in preparation for some fun in the sun. For those of you who like to wait to the last minute and think that the week of no school will “magically plan itself out,” think again.

I’m not suggesting that everyone needs to bail out of Fargo and head to south for a week. I know that it’s not in everyone’s budget nor interest. But whatever you decide to do, plan ahead a little. Save the anxiety of desperately trying to figure something fun out last min-ute or wishing you would have committed to a workout plan more than five days be-fore heading to the beach.

Jeff is a senior majoring in environmental design.

There is never equilib-rium between chocolate for people; it’s always a love for dark chocolate or a love for milk chocolate. Or an-other way to look at it is that you’re either a fan of being super bitter or maybe you want to be sweet.

I apparently like to be su-per bitter because I love dark chocolate-- Ghirardelli Dark Raspberry Chocolate to be exact. I recommend trying it if you are a dark chocolate fan. It’s the perfect snack to fill your chocolate pleasures. It’s really good for baking and can be used as baking chocolate to make some de-licious dark chocolate and raspberry bars or you can put dark chocolate cocoa in with your next homemade chocolate cake to give a de-licious and satisfying taste

for dark chocolate lovers. There are many plus

sides to eating dark choco-late on a regular basis that milk chocolate can’t add up to, and it is the health ben-efits contained in the dark chocolate that can’t be beat. According to WebMD, dark chocolate has ingredients that lower blood pressure and fight disease. It can help your heart and keep your cardiovascular system run-ning well.

Dark chocolate is also a perfect mid-day snack. It contains small and healthy amounts of caffeine in the chocolate. A small piece of dark chocolate is the perfect snack to crave and give you enough energy to survive the mid-day drowsiness in your long days.

Another plus is what’s been said by health officials: “A dark chocolate bar a day keeps the doctor away.” Eating a small bar of dark chocolate once a day is good for your health. An apple a day may keep the doctor

away, but a dark chocolate bar tastes much better.

Milk chocolate, unfor-tunately, can’t add up to these benefits. It can satisfy a sweet tooth, make a delec-table chocolate dessert and some delicious milk choco-late chip cookies, but dark chocolate actually contains a lower percentage of cocoa in the chocolate bar than milk chocolate.

Milk chocolate is full of some milk chocolate cocoa and lots and lots of sugar, fat and many calories that aren’t good for you. It does not have as much caffeine in it as dark chocolate has, lessening your energy boost for the day.

Add another health ben-efit to your life, or maybe add another resolution for the New Year and eat a piece of dark chocolate every day and enjoy the “Moments Of Timeless Pleasure.”

Tiffany is a freshman ma-joring in political science and pre-law.

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How many servings of meat do you eat in a day? How about milk or dairy products? Probably quite a few, right? And how about

vegetables? Probably not as many. Except for those few environmentally aware pre-emptive health “freaks” out there who do what they can to avoid meat and dairy. I’m sure you’ve heard of people like that. Maybe even seen them lurking around the salad bar or picking the veg-etarian option from the menu every day. Yeah, them.

Truth is, I completely hate the stereotype that sur-rounds vegetarians or veg-ans. They all get slummed into this group of tree-hug-

ging, hemp-wearing, non-showering weirdos that are usually scoffed at when they refuse the hotdogs at a fam-ily barbeque. But in all hon-esty, they’re just being pro-active about their health.

Sure, a vegan diet is ex-treme; I mean no cheese, meat, milk or even choco-late? Who would willingly do that to themselves?

But when you have dia-betes, hypertension or are completely overweight, then all those foods don’t exactly seem the best for you any-ways. Have you ever heard of someone transitioning from a meat and dairy filled diet to a plant-based diet and their health decreasing? I know I haven’t. A plant-based diet has actually been known to regresses serious diseases; if that’s not an argument to eat your vegetables I don’t know what is.

If you are what you eat, then Americans really do de-serve the fatty label we carry. With so many preservatives and trans fats in our food, it’s no wonder our stomachs spill over our belts. But I don’t think it has to be that way. So many great foods

are vegan: chips and salsa, popcorn and peanut butter. I mean, eating right doesn’t have to be so hard, right?

If the stereotype of veg-ans and vegetarians wasn’t so harsh, I think people would be more open to the idea. I’ve seen multiple doc-umentaries with dozens of examples each of people eat-ing more plants and getting healthier. A lot healthier.

I encourage all of you to do your research. Is dairy re-ally the healthiest way to get calcium? Does animal pro-tein have an advantage over plant protein? What advan-tages do people who don’t eat meat have over people who do? Could it help you?

We should all be con-scious of our health, and many more people are re-cently in light of the New Year. So maybe after your new routine at the gym you should skip the cheeseburg-er and have a salad. Maybe even go light on the dressing.

Shannon is a freshman majoring in business admin-istration.

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There is nothing sweeter then spoiling another team’s Senior Day. The NDSU Bi-son wrestling team went down to Wyoming and came back with a solid win.

The Bison matched up against the No. 14-ranked University of Wyoming Sunday inside the UniWyo Sports Complex. All of the Bison seniors made sure that the Cowboys weren’t riding off with the win at the end of the day.

NDSU knocked off de-fending Western Wrestling Conference champion Wyo-ming, with the score of 22-15. This is the Bison’s third win over a ranked opponent this season.

Bison seniors Mark Er-ickson (141), Joe Garner (149) and Mac Stoll (184) all recorded victories, and senior Kallen Kleinschmidt battled to a rough 7-4 de-feat against Wyoming No. 4 Alfonso Hernandez at 197 pounds to give NDSU the

cushion necessary to seal the dual victory.

Freshman Josh Rodri-guez (133), junior Steven Monk (165) and sophomore Evan Knutson (285) all earned match victories for the Bison as well.

Wyoming was 24-1 in the Western Wrestling Conference entering the af-ternoon’s dual since head coach Mark Branch took over in 2008. The Bison were also able to avenge a 31-6 loss to the Cowboys in the Bison Sports Arena on Feb. 17 of last season, that win clinched the league title for the Cowboys.

“This was a big win for the North Dakota State wres-tling program,” said NDSU head coach Roger Kish. “It’s the first time we’ve beaten Wyoming since I’ve been here, and I think it was im-portant for our guys to get it out of the way. We’ve taken some licks from Wyoming in the past, but this should serve as a confidence-boost-er for the guys.”

“We’re not sure we wres-tled our absolute best, but

we were still able to compete and win some big matches against a quality program,” said Kish. “I think it gives our guys that confidence they need, and we’ll try to keep it going in the upcom-ing weeks.”

The Bison (7-7, 2-0 WWC) overcame a loss by No. 6 Trent Sprenkle in the dual’s opening match. Tyler Cox of Wyoming posted a 7-2 decision to hand Sp-renkle his second straight defeat.

The Bison rallied with wins in the next three weight classes. Rodriguez won 7-4 over Wyoming’s Kasey Garnhart at 133 pounds, and Erickson rolled to a 15-5 ma-jor decision of Zach Zehner at 141 pounds. Garner de-feated Brandon Richard-son by 6-5 decision at 149 after a video replay upheld the official’s original ruling that a potential Richardson takedown had occurred after time expired.

Wyoming Cowboys (7-4, 2-1 WWC) received a pin from their No. 13 Andy McCulley at 157 pounds,

but the Bison Steven Monk had an answer to the Cow-boys momentum with a pin of Dakota Friesth in 1:46 at 165 pounds to give the Bi-son a 16-9 lead.

The Bison and Cowboys alternated decisions over the final four weight classes, with Stoll winning by 4-1 decision at 184 pounds and heavyweight Evan Knutson posting an 11-4 decision to seal the victory for the Bi-son.

The win over No. 14 Wyoming was the Bison’s third victory in seven duals against ranked opponents this season. NDSU defeated No. 24 Boise State Broncos on Nov. 16 and No. 25 Old Dominion Monarchs on Jan. 12.

NDSU will host a non-conference foe Northern Iowa at 2 p.m. Sunday in the Bison Sports Arena. The Bison will look to get there third win in a row.

Quotes courtesy of GoBi-son.com

Super Bowl week is fi-nally here. The storylines this year have already add-ed some drama for the big game: the Harbaugh broth-ers coaching against one an-other, Ray Lewis’ last game ever and the emergence of star quarterback Colin Kae-pernick.

Game predictions have been tossed around all week, so Joe and I decided to put our own thoughts and opin-ions into a Mega Dual Su-per Bowl column. Mr. Ker-lin mistakenly picked the Ravens to win, while I had a different outlook on the game.

Here is the argument:

49ers- HerderJoe, I’ll be easy on you

here and explain my argu-ment in the nicest way pos-sible. I was going to throw a couple Ray Lewis jokes in here, but I’m sure you have heard them all already.

It’s simple really, the 49ers are the best team in the NFL, and they have been all season. Their ros-ter is stacked with talented players, and I don’t think the Ravens will be able to put up a fight for four full quarters. The Ravens could go toe-to-toe with anyone physically for years. This year isn’t the case. It doesn’t matter if this Ravens team is “rejuvenated” and “inspired” by the nutty Lewis, they will be unable to contain a team that, for being so young and athletic, is the most physical in the league.

Offensively, the 49ers have several players from Frank Gore, LaMichael James, Michael Crabtree, Mario Manningham, Ver-non Davis and even the aged Randy Moss that can pro-duce a huge play. And let’s not forget about the main man himself: Colin Kaeper-nick.

Since replacing Alex Smith as the starting quar-ter, this kid has torn through the league and no team has found an answer to him. The Ravens will need to play mistake free football if they want to contain the dual threat quarterback.

The real life Willie Bea-men has become a star in this league and he will de-servedly finish the year at the top. Kaepernicking will soon override the memory of Lewis’ pregame spastic dance.

On the other side of the ball, Joe Flacco and boys will crumble after three quarters of playing the tena-cious Niner defense. Flacco has been pretty good in this playoff run, true, but the quiet quarterback is bound to throw a crucial pick under the Super Bowl lights. Don’t worry Ravens fans, at least you’re used to seeing your beloved team end a season in disappointment.

The Ravens story has been inspirational this year, but the 49ers don’t need inspiration to carry them through this game. They don’t need feature stories on their players on every ESPN show. They don’t need cam-eras hovering over their hud-dle to catch some emotional pep talk.

No, what the 49ers will do is be more physical in ev-

ery facet of the game and let their athleticism take care of the rest.

Prediction: 23-13 49ersMVP: Boy Wonder, Co-

lin KaepernickProp bet: Ray Lewis

makes an appearance in a fan-favorite Kleenex com-mercial.

Ravens- Kerlin Sorry Sam, I’m going to

have to respectfully disagree with you. The Baltimore Ra-vens will win Sunday simply because they are superior in every facet of the game. Of-fense, defense, special teams and fines from the league of-fice, c’mon how can you ar-gue against that?

Look, the defense is great. They have been great, like, forever. Surprisingly, Ray Lewis is the only guy left from the 2000 team that won the Super Bowl. In fact, Brandon Stokely is the only player besides Lewis still playing football. That should give you an idea of how hungry they are for that ring. Ed Reed, Terrell Suggs, Brendon Ayanbadejo, Haloti Ngata, Matt Birk and Aquan Boldin, all of these guys are thirsty for that Lombardi Trophy.

Joe Flacco will be the x-factor Super Bowl Sunday. Quick! True or false: “Flac-co” was auto-corrected on my iPhone earlier this week to “flaccid.” True!

This is fitting because that’s how some people would have described Flac-co’s performance during the last five games of the regular season. But ever since the playoffs started, he has been rock solid.

Last five regular season games: 193.4 passing yards/game, eight TD’s 3 INT’s. Record: 1-4.

2012 Playoffs: 284 pass-ing yards/game, eight TD’s, zero INT’s. Record: 3-0.

It’s like someone remind-ed him he’s in his contract year and he’s finally playing like it. Joe Cool will be cash-ing in win, lose or draw, but I guarantee he hits the jack-pot with Torrey Smith or Ja-coby Jones with a deep ball against an overrated 49er’s secondary.

Dashon Goldson and Dante Whitner know they will be under a microscope, forcing them to play over the top all evening. This will create an ample amount of running room for the best running back in the league not named Adrian “Purple Jesus” Peterson.

Ray Rice has been de-structive all season and when he’s not picking up fourth and 27’s, he’s usually laying the wood to blitzing line-backers. Needless to say, I’m as giddy to see Rice meet Patrick Willis between the tackles.

It has been a long emo-tional ride for the Ravens and they have made it too far to come this close and not win. Fate, skill and experi-ence are on their side.

Prediction- 23-20 Ra-vens.

MVP- The Assassin, Bernard Karmell Pollard

Prop bet- Beyonce will lip-sing the entire halftime show.

Bison Wrestling Beats Up No. 14 Wyoming Cowboys Mega Super Bowl ColumnHerd’s Hunches vs. the Sports Czar

Peter MaierContributing Writer

WRESTLING

Sam Herder & Joe KerlinSpectrum Staff

WOMEN’STRACK&FIELD

The NDSU women’s track and field team split up this last weekend and partic-ipated in events in Iowa and South Dakota. Both events produced a number of wins and successes.

In Ames, Iowa, team members took part in the Bill Bergan Invitational on Saturday in the Lied Recre-ation Center, hosted by Iowa State.

Junior Antoinette Good-man ran her second fast-est time in her career in the 200-meter dash, finishing in a winning time of 24.54 sec-onds. In three attempts this season, Goodman has won

the 200m every time, claim-ing the leader position in the Summit League event.

In the 400-meter dash, Goodman finished in a sev-enth place time of 57.18.

Freshman Anna Benke claimed her first collegiate victory on Saturday by clearing a season best height of 12-03.50 in the pole vault. This season, she is ranked No. 2 in the Summit League and No. 5 all-time at NDSU.

Senior Katie Johnson took sixth place in the shot put with a personal-best throw of 48-06.25. This puts Johnson at No. 3 all time at NDSU.

Freshman Lexy Boschee cleared the high jump at 5-08.00, putting her in third place. For this event, she is

now ranked No. 7 all time at NDSU.

Freshman Brittany Stan-gl placed fourth in the pole vault with a mark of 11-09.75. Junior Caitlin Mack finished fifth in the pole vault with the same mark.

In Vermillion, S.D., other team members took part on Saturday in the University of South Dakota Alumni Meet in the DakotaDome.

Senior Faith Kruchows-ki placed first in the 800m with a time of 2:16.16, and first in the mile with a time of 5:00.68. Both were won by more than three seconds. Freshman Erin Teschuk fin-ished behind Kruchowski in the mile with a time of 5:03.78.

Senior Ashley Tingelstad

ranks second fastest in the Summit League this season with her win in the 200m at a personal best time of 24.87 seconds. She also ranks No. 6 all-time at NDSU. Senior Brittany Page took second with a time of 25.85 sec-onds.

Tingelstad also went on the win the 400m with a season-best time of 56.82. Coming in third with a time of 57.43 was sophomore Paige Stratioti.

The track and field team will be back in action Friday to host the Thundering Herd Classic in the Shelly Ellig Indoor Track & Field Facil-ity.

Women’s Track & Field Split Between South Dakota and IowaCorrie DunsheeContributing Writer

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Rick Adelman is back on the court and coaching basket-ball after three weeks away to help his wife through a health scare.

His Minnesota Timber-wolves lost nine of 11 games without him to fall behind in the powerful Western Con-ference playoff race.

Adelman helped restore hope in this downtrodden franchise when he came aboard before last season. So the Timberwolves have missed him. In some ways, though, Adelman may need the Wolves as much as they need him.

Adelman ran practice Monday and said he planned to coach against the Clippers on Wednesday night if all is satisfactory with Mary Kay Adelman, who is being treat-ed for an undisclosed condi-tion. Adelman said he de-layed his return until he felt it would be for good. He said his wife is improving and he hopes the worst is over.

“It’s hard,” Adelman said, referring to his absence.

“I’ve never done this. It’s never happened. But there’s some things that are more important than basketball or anything else. I think the team understands that. Hope-fully things will settle down here now.”

Adelman declined to elaborate on his wife’s prob-lems Monday. The issue surfaced this month and re-quired her to be hospitalized while doctors set a treatment plan. Adelman missed prac-tice Jan. 7, then missed his first game Jan. 8, a home win over the Atlanta Hawks with assistant Terry Porter filling in.

Any hopes the team had of navigating the tricky path without their coach ended with a wave of injuries. There were long-term inju-ries to Kevin Love, Brandon Roy, Chase Budinger, Josh Howard and Malcolm Lee. Recently, Nikola Pekovic and Alexey Shved sustained injuries that have kept them out for more than a week. Ricky Rubio is still work-ing his way back from a torn ligament in his left knee last

March.A team that started the

season with expectations of making the playoffs for the first time since 2004 is 17-24 -- 12th place in the West. The Wolves have lost four straight, including a back-to-back on the road last weekend at Washington and Charlotte, where the Bobcats snapped a 16-game home losing streak.

Adelman has been in con-stant contact with his staff during his absence, speaking with Porter daily and with president of basketball op-erations David Kahn about possible roster moves. He returned for a brief meeting Jan. 16 to apprise his players of his situation and to give them a pep talk.

“We’ve got half the sea-son left,” Adelman said Monday. “Even though a lot of things have been thrown our way, life moves on. You’ve got to find a way to get yourself energized and focus on what you can do right now. Like I told the team, everybody’s got to do a little bit more.”

Rick Adelman Returns to Wolves

Senior Casey Organ highlighted the NDSU men’s track and field team Saturday at the Bill Bergan Invitational at Iowa State.

Organ claimed the title in the weight throw with a toss of 61-02.00 (18.64m). Ranked No. 18 in the na-tion, Organ has topped the 60-foot mark three times this season. He also had a potential personal-best throw of 64-plus feet, but the throw landed outside the throwing sector.

The Bison also had some success in the throw-ing events from Organ’s teammates, redshirt fresh-man Brandt Berghuis, ju-nior Trevor Berner and se-nior Blake Elsen. Berghuis recorded a personal best of

52-10.75 (16.12m) in the shot put, ranking him No. 3 in the Summit League this year.

Berner also accom-plished a personal best. His weight throw of 59-01.50 (18.02m) secured him fifth place and moved him up to No. 4 all-time at NDSU. Elsen placed seventh in the weight throw with a personal-best mark of 57-10.25 (17.63m).

The Bison showed suc-cess in the highly competi-tive running events too.

Senior Matt Tetzlaff fin-ished fourth in a fast 60m hurdles final with a time of 8.01 seconds. His time is a new season-best that leads The Summit League.

Alec Espeland led the Bison in the mile, finishing in 14th place with a per-sonal-best time of 4:16.16. Espeland followed that with an 11th place finish

in the 800m with a time of 1:55.06.

Lucas DeGree ran the fastest 3000m time by a Bison this season with an 8:45.95. Freshman Co-lin Paarmann had a good day jumping, finishing fourth in the triple jump with a mark of 43-04.25 (13.21m).

Andy Lillejord, a multi-event athlete for the Bison, placed in two events. He cleared 16-00.75 for fifth place in the pole vault and jumped 22-02.5 for seventh place in the long jump. Teammate Jesse Morrow finished sixth in the pole vault with a mark of 15-07.00.

NDSU will be in action again Friday and Saturday when they host the Thun-dering Herd Classic in the Shelly Ellig Indoor Track & Field Facility.

Men’s Track and Field Compete at Iowa State

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Sam HerderSports Editor

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