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DSInsideThe pink effect: feminism and roller derby, page 3.
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Tuesday January 31, 2012Volume 129 | Issue 29
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“Clear Heart Full Eyes” reviewPage 5
Men’s Hockey Page 8
Middle school students arrived bright and ear-ly at UND Saturday morning, some with nervous anxiety and others with pure enthusiasm—all on a mission.
Their mission was to do the best they could at the FIRST LEGO League (FLL) Food Factor Chal-lenge.
Coming from all over North Dakota and North-western Minnesota, students ages 9 to 14 competed with self-built robots that they have been working hard on since the beginning of school in September.
The atmosphere that surrounded the competi-tion was friendly and happy; you would never have guessed that these students were competing against one another.
“It’s not about the competition, it’s about hav-ing fun and learning about food born illnesses” ex-plained volunteer judge Katheryne Guillette. “The students have specifi c goals that they want to ac-complish. For example, they want their robot to turn a switch in order to turn the thermometer.”
The competition The students had a course layout on a table in
which they had 2 minutes and 30 seconds to com-plete many different tasks, all of which represented something to do with food contamination and pre-vention. The table course was not the only thing that participants were judged on.
“They are also judged on their design, a list of core values, a project that they create based on the theme,” team mentor and engineering student Ra-chel Musielewicz said. “The total score is the decid-ing factor in which team wins.”
Being around the students waiting for their next
r o u n d , o n e could feel the tension and nerves in the room. While waiting for the next round, the Dakota Student had the op-portunity to speak with the Dakota Knights, one of the competing teams, and learn about their robot.
“We have learned about food safety and bacte-ria,” said one of the Knights team members. “We have been working on our robot since the beginning of school. We built it and then programmed it to do different things.”
Teams were also awarded points for having team spirit and cheering on their two teammates were op-erating the robots.
While watching the day’s events, it was clear that the teams had all worked hard and were dedicated to learning about engineering, science, and technol-ogy. The teams all supported each other with smiles on their faces, even when they did not do as well as they had hoped to do.
The School of Engineering and Mines hosted the FLL competition, which is held annually at UND. Students from the engineering program vol-unteered their morning and afternoon to make the experience for students competing even better.
The FLL program was created to get today’s youth involved and interested in science and tech-nology.
Women’s BasketballPage 7
HANNAH ROSENTHALTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
TECHNOLOGY Engineers hosts robot tournament for elementary and middle school students.
Robots take on food contamination
Middle school students arrived bright and ear-ly at UND Saturday morning, some with nervous anxiety and others with pure enthusiasm—all on a
Their mission was to do the best they could at
r o u n d , o n e could feel the tension and nerves in
Hannah Rosenthal is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at hannah.
Additional funding passed for SOFASENATE Members ap-prove money for SOFA and hear from Nightlife organizer.
KAITLIN BEZDICEKTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
STAFF REPORTTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
UND named to national lists
A recent article by U.S. News and World Report placed UND in the top 20 most popular national universities.
Basing the rankings off a school’s yield — the percentage of applicants accepted by a college who end up enrolling at that institu-tion — UND is the eleventh most popular school in the nation. North Dakota accepted 3,357 students in fall 2010, and 2,096 of those appli-cants enrolled, giving UND a yield of 62.4 percent.
The pizza and Buffalo Wild Wings have been eaten, and the volleyballs and golf sets have been put away, as offi cial Greek Re-cruitment comes to an end. Yet, both fraternities and sororities plan to continue recruitment in the following weeks.
“I would say that rush went pretty good,” Patrick Fitzgibbons, Sigma Chi’s Recruitment chair, said. Fitzgibbons explained that they recruited fi ve men to join their house. Missy Howard, Vice-President Recruitment of Alpha Chi Omega, mirrored his discus-
sion of how the week turned out.Both Howard and Fitzgib-
bons expressed a concern with the number of people who went through recruitment.
“There weren’t a lot of girls who went through recruitment, so our girls didn’t have enough peo-ple to talk to, so it hurt participa-tion a little bit,” Howard said.
Howard’s concerns were inter-nal; she also had concern with the amount of time for preparation before recruitment began.
Fitzgibbons explained that his house’s brothers participated well in the events and that it was a shame more people did not show up, but Fitzgibbons’ concerns were orientated towards a lack of advertising on both the part of IFC and on the house itself.
“The only way we could im-prove is by advertising more. The lack of advertising falls on our side as much as it does on IFC,”
INVOLVEMENT Some fraternities and sororities see low numbers during rush week.
Greek recruitment wraps up
CULLEN DONOHUETHEDAKOTASTUDENT
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Fitzgibbons said. “We might be looking for a
few more,” Howard said. The process of bidding girls
outside of formal recruitment is called “continuous open bidding,” and that girls who are still inter-ested but may have missed the offi cial week still have a chance Howard said.
“Recruitment will continue over the next few weeks,” Fitzgib-bons said, and with numbers low across, one can assumed that most of the other houses agree with this statement.
For anyone still interested in joining a fraternity or sorority, keep your eyes peeled for event advertisements over the next few weeks.
Cullen Donohue is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at cullen.donohue@
my.und.edu
Harvard University topped the list, with a 75.5 percent yield. Brigham Young University-Provo, Stanford University, Yeshiva Uni-versity, and University of Alaska-Fairbanks round out the top fi ve.
Other area schools on the list include North Dakota State Uni-versity (ranked 19th) and South Dakota State University (21st).
Additionally, U.S. News named UND third in the country for stu-dent services and technology for on-line bachelor’s degree.
Scoring 88.6 out of 100, the ranking looked at services such as career placement assistance, live tu-toring, and live video streaming.
After running out of money, a Student Government standing committee approached Student Senate for more funds Sunday.
Senate passed Bill 1112-23 to grant the Student Organization Funding Agency (SOFA) an addi-tional $25,000 for the school year.
“We are offi cially out of mon-ey,” said Senator Jacob Gapp. “This week there were nine organizations we weren’t able to hear from due to being out of funding.”
SOFA works with student groups to fund events and other opportunities that groups see as benefi cial. The money SOFA al-locates comes from student fees and this year’s budget was cut by
$21,000. This may have caused an in-
crease in groups requesting funds fearing that there would not be enough left by the end of the se-mester.
“We have had a lot of organi-zations fl ooding in because they know we are running out of mon-ey,” Gapp said.
SOFA runs on a fi rst come, fi rst serve basis and groups are rare-ly denied funds requested if SOFA has the money to give out.
“We can’t exclude organiza-tions,” Gapp said. “We are look-ing into different ways to solve this problem of allocating funds but we don’t want to discriminate against certain groups.”
Student Government is fund-ing this bill through its investment account which sparked conversa-tion about the effects of using this money.
“I think it is a dangerous prec-edent to set to extend our spending
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Senate hears from Director of Health and Wellness Edu-cation Becky Lamboley dur-ing Sunday’s meeting.
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outside of our budget,” said Sen-ator Adam Swigost
“SOFA is the only body that is specifically designed to fund student groups,” said Senator John Kappel. “Some of the mon-ey in this investment fund is from students who no longer attend this university because we were too scared to spend from a fund that students pay into.”
With this bill passed, SOFA should be able to provide for stu-dent organization funding for the rest of the school year.
Nightlife woesUND’s Nightlife Program
also experienced a cut in fund-ing this year as their budget de-creased to $30,000. Nightlife has been able to cut spending in the various areas: dining, advertis-ing, supplies, crafts, prizes, and events.
Student Senate inquired about Nightlife’s success thus far as well as what Student Govern-ment can do to aid Nightlife’s future.
Assistant Director of Health and Wellness Education, Becky Lamboley spoke at Sunday’s Stu-dent Senate meeting in effort to explain some of the goals Night-life has and changes going for-ward.
“Nightlife is a significant pro-gram in prevention of substance abuse,” Lamboley said. “Pro-grams such as Nightlife are the way the nation is moving.”
Nightlife has taken steps to record attendance of their events. On a particular documented night, at the most populated time of the evening, 10:30 p.m., there were just over 800 students counted.
Increasing student attendance is a concern of Nightlife coordi-nators and surveys and focus groups have been conducted to determine what students want in the program.
Some students have suggested shuttle services to the event loca-tions, higher quality crafts and dining and events aimed at older students.
“Nightlife should focus on quality events,” Lamboley said.
“Money was not spent to ensure quality over quantity this fall.”
To improve Nightlife and increase attendance, Lamboley urged further participation from groups outside of Health and Wellness. The Office of Health and Wellness has held the weight of running Nightlife this year which has lessened the amount of time spent on other issues in their office.
“Prevention is everybody’s job, not just our office’s,” Lam-boley said. “We need to come back to our mission and coordi-nate and implement the events instead of fully planning them.”
Nightlife is a collaborated effort between several organiza-tions including UPC, Student Government, UPC, Lifetime Sports, Memorial Union, Dining Services, Health and Wellness, ARH, AIM.
Lamboley assured Senators that Nightlife will continue to be developed and catered toward UND students’ interests.
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ADMISSIONS A 62.4 percent enroll-ment rate for newly accepted stu-dents for UND is good news.
Tuesday January 31, 20123
It’s like high school all over again. But instead of being one of those unfortunate souls who find them-selves receiving a swirly in the bathroom, UND has found itself near the top of a list of the most popular colleges in the country.
This list includes schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT. Seeing UND compared to schools considered prestigious by the higher education sys-tem is a great thing.
Yes, our school is located in what some would consider the tundra and yes, our school has made other lists for its students drinking habits, but this ranking shows our school can overcome perceptions like this and attract students.
But while a high percentage chose to enroll at UND after applying and being accepted, not all of them stick around. According to the university’s Of-fice of Institutional Research, the retention rate for freshmen the year 2010 was 77 percent. The reten-tion rate has remained relatively steady for the past decade so we’re not losing an unusually high amount of students.
The fact is perhaps the reason why a large per-centage of students are choosing UND may be be-cause the admission standards are low enough to in-clude people who may not have not otherwise gained admittance to college. It could be argued that the quality of students could be a factor in the high en-rollment rate.
Despite this, the fact is that student interest in UND remains high.
As high school seniors, many of us more than likely applied to multiple colleges. After being ac-cepted by one or more school, we still debated which one we should go to or if we should even go to col-lege at all.
It’s refreshing to see that students are choosing to attend UND even after weighing their options and having months to think about the decision and po-tentially change their mind.
We believe that despite much of the negative publicity that surrounds the school — whether it is from its ongoing nickname controversy or the fact its students are making news because they study the least — this statistic proves that potential students are choosing to spend their early adulthood earning a degree here.
We’ve all heard that UND’s goal is to go from great to exceptional. It looks like this ranking will be another step toward that goal.
In what has probably been my most badass move in a long time, I’m giving roller derby a try. It’s pretty awesome, if I do say so myself, and I sealed the deal a few weeks ago by purchasing all my gear. I already knew what size I needed, so when I collected my new pads and skates, I was stupid and didn’t look in the box to con-firm everything. Several days later, I opened the box, hoping to put on my skates and play around a bit. Much to my surprise and hor-ror, the skates were white and pink. Let me repeat that: white and pink. They looked like princess skates: white with pink wheels.
N e e d -less to say, I was stunned. I im-mediately contacted the store of origin and we sorted it all out. In the meantime, though, I told all my friends about it and we had a good laugh, except for one who accused me of being disgusted by the skates because I thought they were “girly,” not because I simply didn’t like pink. I responded that I seriously didn’t like pink, because let’s be honest, pink is kind of an obnoxious color. I would have had the same reaction if the skates had been white and highlighter
orange, because I like dark colors and earthy tones. I love a good charcoal and my favorite color might be aubergine. I don’t like fluorescent colors, and I certainly don’t like pink.
I may have been stretching my answer, though, when I said that I was going to exchange my skates only because I find pink to be an offensive color. In all truth, I don’t want the excessively feminine qualities of the skates to affect my image, because that isn’t who I am, and I don’t like being “girly” in the traditional interpretation of the word. While I do find pink to be a
blinding col-or just based on hues, I’m not into the cultural at-t a c h m e n t s either. It’s a little strange that when we see pink, we just assume f e m i n i n i t y.
The idea that colors have inher-ent meaning is kind of ridiculous, yet it’s observable. Blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Red is a good color for kitchens. Purple is royal. I could go on.
What are these based on? I have been told that the blue/pink thing used to be the other way around, that boys wore red and it’s related colors while girls wore blue. However, some war came along and due to prices of dye or something, it switched, and we’re none the wiser. Colors don’t neces-
sarily mean anything, yet for some reason, they mean everything. If a guy wears pink, he is either a) gay or b) bold because he is confident and/or comfortable in his mascu-linity. How do you explain that to someone from another country? How do you explain to someone who barely escaped with his life from a war-torn country that he can’t wear pink because it’s cultur-ally unacceptable? Perhaps that would be an extreme situation, but I think we need to examine how we address colors before we pass judgment.
This includes me, because I’ve obviously been a bit hypocriti-cal in ranting about colors while refusing to wear white and pink skates. I will maintain that they are an eyesore, but maybe I am more concerned with what the white and pink would mean for me than I am about how they look in and of themselves. I’m not re-ally helping anyone by exchanging my skates, because I’m perpetu-ating our ideas about colors by rejecting white and pink because they don’t relate to the image I’ve made for myself. On the other hand, maybe I’m actually being progressive by trading white and pink for black. Maybe I’m demon-strating that being female doesn’t necessarily mean liking pink. Who knows? Regardless, the deed has been done, and I will be donning my black skates.
MADI WhITMANTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
‘It’s a little strange that when we see pink, we just assume femininity.
Madi Whitmancolumnist
Madi Whitman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at madisson.whitman@
my.und.edu
The ‘pink’ effect: femi-nism and roller derby
Tuesday January 31, 2012 4 |COMMENTARY
I, like many of you, had it drilled into my brain that I had to go to college and get a degree to have a future. In my fam-ily, college was presented as if it wasn’t an option; it was the next logical step after high school. So, I enrolled at the University of North Dakota and began my life of spending thousands of dollars on getting even more education.
This may surprise you, but I actually enjoy learn-ing, and am interested in getting more e d u c a t i o n before go-ing into the work world; but not for the sake of getting a better job, I just want to learn. Or, at least, that’s the way I felt during my freshmen year of college. Last semester, I took off a bit more than I could chew and burned myself out, and felt less anxiety about being eaten alive by rabid bunnies than doing my homework. All I ever did was homework, and I “enjoyed” an existence devoid of a social life.
This semester I took classes in subjects that I’m highly interested in and should be very excited to attend. However, I’m still feeling the effects of my disillusion, and realized something while staring down at my backpack hoping it would spontaneously combust (A very good, albeit hard to believe, reason for not doing the readings for class); going to college has ru-ined my zeal for learning.
I feel the root of this is mainly an issue of workload. As I men-tioned, my last semester was in-tense, I got little to no breathing room from school. For this rea-son, I knew I needed to take a light course load for this semester and enjoy having some semblance of a life. This has helped, but there’s a bad taste in my mouth about going to school that hasn’t gone away. I’ve talked to plenty of people about this issue, and a few factors have really stood out to me that are common between all the people who feel the same way as I do.
The issue seems to always go back to the way school has been presented to the American youth at large. College isn’t presented an option; in many people’s minds, it’s a necessity. Not being able to
make the choice to go to college is the first step to this dissatisfac-tion. But that’s not all! When you get to college, you have to pick a good major that has plenty of job prospects. For many people, this is distressing; because we’re also told we should do some-thing we love. Let’s be honest, not everyone has the heart of an engineer or a doctor; some of us find our niche in the humanities and the arts. Granted, many em-
ployers are b e g i n n i n g to see the advan t age s of employ-ing people with degrees in different areas, but such jobs are rarely if ever orient-ed around
the subject you love; it’s often something only vaguely related to what you wish to do. There are always Graduate studies and the hope of a professorship down
CAiTliN wildEMANTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
‘When you go to col-lege you have to pick a good major that has plenty of job prospects.
Caitlin Wildemancolumnist
the road, but that requires even more school. Again, you lose that choice of whether to continue your education or not.
For these reasons, I feel the university system in the Ameri-can culture at large is horribly flawed and dooms many students to either failure or dissatisfaction with the system, and with learn-ing at all. This is an opportunity for American society to encour-age conversation about the val-ues that this country collectively places on education. My sugges-tion? I’ve officially become an advocate for taking only around 12 credits and actually being able to put time into classes and still enjoy a social life. Suggestions for the selection of majors? I re-ally don’t have any. The way the college system and the job market interact is a serious problem, and we as students enjoy getting the short end of the stick.
Caitlin Wildeman is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can
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CUlTURE&MEdiA Tuesday January 31, 2012
Minnesota native Craig Finn has a spent a majority of the last decade singing and writing for the New York-based band The Hold Steady. Finn expertly crafts stories involving wayward souls looking for any kind of redemption in a fictionalized drug-filled and vio-lent Twin Cities. “Clear Heart Full Eyes” is Finn’s first solo release and it finds the singer/songwriter at a crossroads.
These aren’t the party anthems that got The Hold Steady crowned “The Best Bar Band in America.” They’re deeper, more intimate tales with less in-strumentation, allowing Finn’s lyrics to stand out the first time around, or at least more than they have in the past. There are times when it feels as though Finn is fighting his urges to write songs that would better fit The Hold Steady; however, with some-one whose writing and singing style is as unique as Finn’s, it’s nearly impossible to not think of past projects.
The album really hits its stride a few tracks in with “No Future.” The songwriting is classic Finn, dropping names like Freddie Mercury and Johnny Rotten, as well as the line from the chorus where he sings, “One thing’s for certain/The devil is a person/I met him at the Riverside Perkins.” Ev-eryday locations and references to clas-sic musicians have always been a large part of Finn’s stories. The song also plays with some of the darker lyrical elements: “I was stuck in my own sense of time/Rigid and depressed/Needy half-way pissed and resigned.”
“Terrified Eyes” also does a great job of mixing the darker lyrical content with an upbeat guitar while Finn sings, “Frustration is a funny friend/Funny enough that he keeps coming up.” This song also shows a strong contrast to the characters found on The Hold Steady’s albums and “Clear Heart Full Eyes.” While Finn’s other characters are constantly hopping bars and enjoying the nightlife, the characters here express, “We can’t go back to the Wagon Wheel/And if we do we can’t go every night/In the middle of the day/she mostly feels okay/but when nighttime comes/she just feels terrified.”
Despite the darker themes on this album, Finn still has his sense of humor. On the acoustic country rocker “New Friend Jesus,” he throws the listener off by ending every line with “I’ve got a new friend and my new friend’s name is Jesus.” Sure, there has always been religious imagery in his songs, but this song is the most blatant about it. Then during the chorus Finn drops the punch line “I wish I was with Jesus when I met you/You’d give yourself right up to me.” These are the kind of characters that Finn writes, characters who while looking for some kind of redemption, but also aren’t afraid to use said redemption to their advantage.
The album’s first single, “Honolulu Blues,” sounds more like a Hold Steady song than any other song on the album. It sounds like a rough-cut from their latest release “Heaven Is When-ever,” finding studio guitarist Ricky Jay Jackson holding back from emulating Tad Kubler, guitar-ist for The Hold Steady. It’s this holding back that keeps the song from reaching its full potential.
“Clear Heart Full Eyes” is a solid effort for Finn’s first solo outing. Having spent so much of the last ten years with a band as original as The Hold Steady, it’s understandable why there are times Finn feels a little uncomfortable playing more stripped-down songs. As a listener who is a huge fan of The Hold Steady, the first two listens were a little uncomfortable too; however, after a few more listens, the barrier breaks and the album really begins to shine.
Review by Matthew Roy
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SPORTS Tuesday January 31, 2012
SCORES&SCHEDULES
Men’s Hockey Sweeppg. 8
WBB Women’s Hockeyvs. Houston Baptist2/2 @ 7 p.m.Betty Engelstad Sioux Center
vs. Bemidji State2/3-4 @ 7 p.m.Ralph Engelstad Arena
OSU splits pair with women’s hockeyDELAYED A slow UND offense allowed the Buckeyes to claim the first game in the series.
MARiAH HOLLAnDTHEDAKOTASTUDENT
This past weekend the UND women’s hockey team took on Ohio State, in Columbus, Ohio. The first of the two games did not go well for North Dakota. The women got off to a slow start with Ohio State get-ting the first goal of the game.
Danielle Gagne recorded the first goal of the game just over three minutes into the first period. Four minutes later, Taylor Kuehl scored
to give Ohio State a two goal lead early in the game. UND still couldn’t get on the scoreboard as Ohio State scored yet again. The goal was tallied by Paige Semenza on the power play to give the Buckeyes a three goal lead.
About two minutes later Natalie Spooner scored on the power play yet again to finish the scoring for Ohio State in the first period. UND was able to get on the scoreboard on a power play goal by Michelle Karvinen late in the period.
Ohio State went into intermis-sion with a comfortable three goal lead over UND. The scoring didn’t start until very late in the second pe-riod. The first goal recorded in the second period was made by Ohio
State. Kari Schmitt recorded the goal for the Buckeyes as they lead by four.
UND did answer back with a goal by Jocelyne Lamoureux on the power play. The goal is Lamoureux’s 26th of the season. The second pe-riod ended with the Buckeyes lead-ing 5-2 over North Dakota. The third period didn’t look any better for UND fans. The only goal scored was by Natalie Spooner for Ohio State; her second of the game. The goal was recorded on the power play as the Buckeyes went on to win the first game of the series 5-2.
The second game of the series started off in UND’s favor. Josefine Jakobsen got the scoring going with a goal 8 minutes into the first period.
The next goal was also for North Dakota as Jocelyne Lamoureux re-corded a power play goal with under a minute left in the first period. The second period started off with anoth-er power play goal for UND.
Kelsey Ketcher tallied the goal with assists going to Jocelyne Lamoureux and Josefine Jakobsen. UND recorded yet another goal when Alyssa Wiebe scored to make the score 4-0 in favor of UND.
Ohio State got on the scoreboard early in the third with a shorthanded goal by Paige Semenza. Melissa Feste scored the next goal of the Buckeyes and pulled their score within two. The final goal of the game and pe-riod came from Mary Loken for
North Dakota. UND went on to win the game 5-2 and earned a split with Ohio State.
The team will take on Bemidji State next weekend in their final home series.
“Bemidji is so difficult to play against, so good defensively, block so many shots, and allof our games have been very close; going back to playoffs last year so I expect more of the same. We gotta be ready to go, they’re a very good club.” said Head Coach Brian Idalski.
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Men griders gather two GWC victories on home courtCOnFEREnCE North Dakota rebounded nicely after losing their first GWC game.
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UND 80, NJIT 63North Dakota basketball en-
joyed a big night from senior Pat-rick Mitchell, during which he re-corded his first double-double of the season and scored his 1,000th career point. “It feels good but in reality it’s just a number,” said Mitchell, who finished with 13 points and a season-high 10 re-bounds. The win was North Da-kota’s first within conference play-
making it all the more important. It also snapped a four-game skid UND had going against NJIT (9-10, 2-1).
UND’s starting five had a big night as they combined for 65 points. Sophomore Jamal Webb led the way with a team-high 16 on 6-of-10 shooting.
With 13 seconds remaining in the first half, Webb nailed a 3-pointer that capped an 8-2 run for UND that would give them a 33-25 lead heading into the locker room. The Highlanders would cut the lead in half early in the sec-ond half, but UND’s hot shooting proved too much to overcome. North Dakota shot 15-of-21 (71.4 percent) in the second half after shooting just 36.4 percent
(12-33) in the first.“We needed tonight,” said
UND coach Brian Jones. “We need some momentum going into the road. We played well but we just need some confidence (going forward).”
UND 71, Chicago St. 61Another big night from the
UND starters was enough to put away the struggling Chicago State Cougars. Mitchell once again played a big role in the UND win as he finished with 18 points that came on six 3-pointers, which tied a season-high for him.
North Dakota got off to a hot start taking an early 8-0 lead that started off with a Mitchell 3-pointer and was followed by five Brandon Brekke points. UND was
able to get the lead as high as 12 in the first half, but the Cougars got to within nine before halftime after an Ardarius Simmons layup.
UND was able to hold a double-digit lead for most of the second half. With 2:13 remaining a Troy Huff free throw put UND on top by 17 giving them their largest lead of the game.
But the Cougars didn’t quit down the stretch and took advan-tage of some sloppy basketball by UND to make the score respect-able.
North Dakota had four of its starters in double figures. Brekke was second behind Mitchell in points for the night with 16, Huff had a double-double (15 points, 10 rebounds) and Webb finished
with 10.The win gave improved
UND’s record to 10-10 and they went to 2-1 in conference play, whereas Chicago State dropped to 1-3 in the Great West Conference and 2-19 overall.
Next up for UND is a tough task as they will hit the road for six straight games where they are currently 0-9. “We just got to play 40 minutes of solid basketball. Continue playing good defense, crash the boards, keep sharing the ball and we will be right where we want to be,” said Mitchell.
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Lady Basketball claims GWC road winsDOMinAnCE UND won two huge confer-ence victories away from Grand Forks.
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The North Dakota women’s basketball team was on the road this week as they faced NJIT and CSU for two Great West Confer-ence games.
UND picked up their first win against NJIT in Newark, New Jersey on Thursday. This was the first Great West defeat for North Dakota this season. NJIT’s record is now 8-12 and 2-1 in the Great West Conference. UND leads 6-0 in the all time series against the Highlanders.
“I thought that we played very good defense and were able to take away their penetration,” said head coach Gene Roebuck. “One of their post players knocked down some three’s, but that was by de-sign.
“Rather than go out and guard her on the outside, we wanted to make sure that we were helping to
stop the penetration. Defensively, down the stretch, we really tough-ened up and made it hard for them to score.”
After 12 minutes, NJIT had clenched the lead of the first half making the score 16-7. North Da-kota fought back with two three pointers from junior guard Nicole Smart, who also responded with a pair of jumpers.
The Highlanders quickly an-swered with a 10-4 run to make the score 20-17 with nine minutes remaining on the clock.
After 11 unanswered p o i n t s , North Da-kota had held the lead by the end of the first half. The score was 33-24.
In the second half, UND took their largest lead of the game by 15 points after a 7-1 run. NJIT quickly responded with a 10-2 run to make the score 47-40 with eight minutes remaining.
North Dakota’s lead was cut
down to only five points, making the score 60-55. The final score of the game was 65-55.
“We just have to keep plug-ging away,” said Roebuck. “We are not going to be a very pretty team, but that’s just the way that we play. We need to keep shooting and we need to improve at the free throw line.”
North Dakota shot 42.6 per-cent from the field, 50 percent at three-point range, and 56.5 percent at the free throw line. UND converted NJIT’s 21 turn-
overs into 15 points and scored 21 points on sec-ond chances.
S m a r t led all play-ers with 16 points, i n c l u d i n g two 3-point shots. Smart also went 2-2
at the line. Senior guard Char-nise Mothershed finished with 12 points. This marked her second straight double figure game, the first career two-game, and double-digit streak.
Sophomore center Allyssa Wall had ten points and nine re-bounds.
After beating NJIT on Thurs-day, the team traveled to Chicago to face the Chicago State Cou-gars on Saturday. This game was UND’s third Great West Confer-ence game. After loosing to the Cougars, North Dakota’s record is now 11-10 and 2-1 in the Great West Conference. Chicago State is now 4-17 and 2-2 in the Great West Conference.
North Dakota was once again led by Nicole smart who had 20 points and netted a career high of five three pointers.
“Smart stepped up and re-ally got us going,” said Roebuck. “She got us going by hitting those three’s at the beginning of the game, and then continued to knock down shots that she is very well capable of making. If she would have scored the entire game the way that she did in the first 10 minutes, she could have finished with 50 points.
“Red shirt freshman center Emily Evers also led North Dako-ta with 15 points and 13 rebounds marking her first career double-double in points and rebounds.
“Evers’ play was huge for us today,” Roebuck said. “This was probably her best game of the sea-son.”
North Dakota shot 45.3 per-cent from the field, 47.4 percent from three-point range, and 74.1 percent at the free throw line. UND scored 21 points off of Chi-cago State’s 20 turnovers and net-ted 16 on second chances.
UND held the Cougars to 38.6 percent shooting from the field and a 42.9 percent from the three-point range. CSU shot 65.2 percent at the free throw line.
Sophomore forward Katie Houdek finished with 10 points and two rebounds. Houdek went 4-for-6 from the field, 2-for-4 at the free throw line. Senior guard Charnay Mothershed tallied seven points and shot 7-for-8 from the free throw line. Charnay also fin-ished with a season-high-tying six assists.
North Dakota will return home on Thursday, Feb. 2 when it hosts Houston Baptist. Tip off will be at 7 p.m.
‘We are not going to be a very pretty team, but that’s just the way that we play.
Gene Roebuckhead coach
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North Dakota’s playoff hopes are alive and well.
In Western Collegiate Hockey Association play at Ralph Engelstad Arena, No. 18 North Dakota outhus-tled and outmuscled the Wisconsin Badgers, sweeping the young Badger squad at home for the first time since 2002.
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UND sweeps UW Badgers heading into bye weekICE TIME North Dakota keeps their playoff hopes alive with two home-victories.
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Friday and Saturday night, but they were able to pull away in both games to get critical points and critical wins in their quest for another NCAA tournament bid.
Apart from being crucial wins, Hakstol said he’s glad his squad gets to enter their second bye week on a high note.
“We get to sit with this result for two weeks. We get a bye week next week so we wanted to make sure we put our best effort on the ice this week. I thought we did that.”
Pattyn gets first goal at a perfect time.
Stephane Pattyn was all smiles af-ter Friday’s 5-3 victory.
His first career goal came at an impeccable time with just under two minutes to play to break a 3-3 tie.
Oh, and Friday was the fresh-man’s 21st birthday.
UND built early leads of 2-0 and 3-2 but couldn’t hold either. Mi-chael Parks, Danny Kristo and Dillon Simpson each had goals in those first two periods but Wisconsin kept the game interesting, rallying to knot the game heading into each of the two in-termissions.
But UND ultimately tri-umphed.
On the game-winning play, Joe Gleason rushed in and fired a shot, which slid off a Wisconsin defender’s stick towards Mario Lamoureux. Lamoureux’s initial shot was blocked, but he got the rebound and fed the puck across the crease to the waiting Pattyn.
“Mario made an unbelievable play. It started with Joe [Gleason] us-ing his speed. Mario just saw me back door and I was wide open – the goalie was nowhere to be seen and all I had to do was tap it in,” Pattyn said. “That was quite the feeling. My best present
for sure.”Brock Nelson’s empty net goal
with :01 left sealed the game for UND.
UND pulls away in second to se-cure sweep
Saturday played out in a similar manner: North Dakota once again built two leads, then lost both before finally pulling away.
Kristo finished off a give-and-go with Nelson at 19:05 of the first period, but ten seconds later another strange bounce allowed Wisconsin to tie it. Keegan Meuer appeared to trip Andrew MacWilliam while racing to-wards a puck in the UND zone. The puck bounced off the end boards and right to Meuer, who banged it home for the controversial tying goal.
MacWilliam was visibly frustrat-ed by the non-call. But two minutes into the second, he got his revenge in the form of a goal of his own, blasting it from well behind the blue line and over the goaltender’s shoulder for his second career goal.
“That’s karma,” MacWilliam said. “I just got the puck, and I’ve rimmed it so much so I just said
‘screw it’ and put it on net. Luckily it went in.”
Wisconsin briefly tied it midway through the second, with John Ram-age feathering a backhand shot past Brad Eidsness at 10:33.
But instead of letting Wisconsin hang around, North Dakota bore down and took a lead they wouldn’t relinquish.
At 15:21 of the second, Parks finished his own chance, cleaning up loose change for the 3-2 lead.
There’d be no answer to that one. Nelson chipped in his own rebound at 6:30 of the third to build that lead, and UND’s defense clamped down to prevent Wisconsin from having any chance at getting within reach.
“We had to grind out the first two periods again and came out of that with the one goal lead. I thought we played an outstanding third pe-riod—we kept our foot on the gas, we pushed pucks, we took away time and space, and I don’t think we gave up a grade A opportunity against.”
Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can
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