The school-record 3,131 fans that attended the NCAA Divi-sion II Midwest Regional Cham-pionship game between the host Michigan Tech Huskies and the Drury Panthers were not dis-appointed on Tuesday night. Michigan Tech and Drury bat-tled hard, but the Huskies shot a blistering 65 percent from the floor to punch their ticket to St. Joseph, Mo. and the NCAA Elite Eight with an 84-68 victory.

“I want to thank the commu-nity and everyone that was at the game – what an atmosphere

– they definitely helped pull the team through,” said head coach John Barnes. “I think Drury did an outstanding job. They played really hard, and every time I thought we had them in a hole, they would dig themselves out in a hurry.”

Neither team led by more than four points during the first 14 minutes, and Michigan Tech only led for 41 seconds during the first 12 minutes. Ultimately, the Huskies poured it on at the end of the first half, finishing with a 20-11 run to head into the halftime break with a 42-32 lead.

Drury did not back away, though, starting the second half

with a 9-2 run before Michigan Tech came back with a 13-2 run of their own. However, just as Barnes mentioned, Drury fought back yet again, going on a 16-6 run to cut the lead to 63-59 with 8:23 remaining in the game.

The roller coaster second half continued as Michigan Tech answered with a 15-0 run that turned out to be the final dag-ger, putting the Huskies ahead 78-59 with 4:28 left. The Hus-kies ultimately settled on a 16-point margin of victory as the massive crowd rose to its feet, staying through the trophy presentation and the cutting down of the nets.

“If this team [the Huskies] can shoot the ball that well, and get that kind of inside production…I don’t think anybody can beat them,” said Drury head coach Steve Harold.

Danae Danen had a career day to say the least, scoring a school post-season record 30 points, hauling down 12 rebounds and blocking five shots, earning her the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament award. Katie Wysocky had 19 points while Katie Zimmerman had 18, with five three pointers. The Hus-kies turned the ball over an uncharacteristic 15 times and gave up 15 offensive rebounds, but their 65-43 percent shoot-ing percentage advantage was the difference, including 50-27 percent on threes. Four Drury players scored in double figures, as Katie Pritchard and Lindsay

Ballweg each scored 16, while Melanie Oliver and Caitlin Shouse each pitched in 12.

Looking ahead, the now 31-2 Huskies will travel to the Elite Eight in Missouri, where they face 24-5 Emporia State on Tuesday. The Huskies lost in the Elite Eight round last year, but are relying on that experience to avoid the same fate this year.

“We were there last year, got a little experience, and know what it’s all about,” said Sarah Stream, in her sixth year as a Husky after

two medical redshirts. “We still need to take it one game at a time, but our ultimate goal is to win a national championship.”

The Lode will be following the Huskies’ championship run, with two reporters in Mis-souri, bringing live blogs and thorough coverage throughout. Check out Thursday’s print edi-tion for additional coverage of tonight’s game and a brief look at next week’s Elite Eight, Final Four and National Champion-ship.

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Stress is a common theme in an average college student’s life, but it appears as if Michigan Tech will be taking a big step towards decreasing that stress. How, you may ask? At the re-cent Board of Control meeting, the chairman of the Finance & Audit committee announced that Michigan Tech will be up-ping financial aid by roughly 10 percent for the 2010-2011 school year. Currently, financial aid is $38 million. This increase will raise it to approximately $41.3 million.

This proposed increase couldn’t come at a better time, as students today are suffering from the ill-effects of Michi-gan’s budget shortcomings. Many students were relying on the Michigan Promise Scholar-ship and Michigan Competitive Scholarship to help make ends

meet, but with almost no warn-ing, that scholarship has been pulled out from under their feet, so to speak. Almost 2,000 Michigan Tech students were affected by that decision.

This isn’t the first time in re-cent history that Michigan Tech has attempted to make things somewhat easier for their stu-dents financially in response to the state decisions. When the scholarships were cut in the fall, Michigan Tech picked up the slack, and covered the scholar-ships for the first semester for students.

What exactly does this in-crease mean for students though? Will it mean an in-crease in tuition? Where will the funds for this be coming from? Michigan Tech students are full of questions, praise, and hesitance when it comes to this matter.

Fourth-year Biomedical En-gineering student Dan Hirst praised the decision, saying “I

believe that increasing financial aid would be a good idea. Many students struggle with the con-stantly increasing tuition and by providing more funding to the financial aid program will help them further their education at Michigan Tech.”

It was felt by first-year stu-dents Joe McSweeney and Mike Verbeke that a boost in financial aid would allow for them to fo-cus more on their schoolwork and less on their financial situ-ations, and being sure that their educations were being funded.

To the 91 percent of students who receive financial aid, this glimmer of hope for a greater amount of aid is quite a bless-ing. However, one must look at the other side of the equation. Money must all originate some-where. Where will the univer-sity be getting these funds from? Will tuition rates increase yet again? Third-year Accounting student Steele Lindbloom wasn’t as optimistic as Hirst and Mc-

Sweeney in his response to the decision. “It is an interesting move, but who are the people paying for that increase? The students who aren’t obtaining as much financial aid? Are they going to have to increase tuition even more just so they can at-tempt to recruit even more stu-dents?“

Lindbloom brings up very good points; however, the an-swers to these questions may only be evident as time passes. If our tuition is raised, yet our financial aid is raised, and they balance out, there shouldn’t be a problem. An increase in incom-ing first-years is a positive for all aspects of campus, as more stu-dents leads to more state fund-ing, and more monetary flow.

How effective will this actu-ally be in drawing in prospective students? Well, to get a taste of it, we asked Stephanie Munch, a senior at Calumet High School who is currently deciding be-tween a few different schools

in Michigan, whether or not a slight increase in financial aid at Michigan Tech would help to sway her decision.

“I do think it would help my decision because I’m consider-ing multiple colleges and if one school has that advantage over the other, it would be very ben-eficial. The Michigan Promise Scholarship money would have helped out a lot of people, and since it has been taken away, I feel that colleges should attempt to compensate for it,” Munch shared. For anyone, though, that feels as if the university doesn’t keep them as their first priority, think again. Reassuring words were spoken at the meeting by President Mroz. According to Michigan Tech News article, he stated, “People are our priority. We want every student who val-ues what Michigan Tech offers to come here. Today the board has sent a message that we will go out of our way to make it fi-nancially possible.”

On Thursday Mar. 18, 2010, the Society of Intellection Sis-

ters (SIS) will host its sixth an-nual Bra Show from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the MUB Ballroom. This year’s theme is “Welcome

to Hawaii.” The cost is $2.00 for students and $5.00 for non-students. Refreshments will be provided.

The bra show entails a show-case of decorated bras designed by students, organizations, and

community members that will be modeled in a fashion show by young male volunteers. Kathy Archambeau will be the guest speaker as she will share her personal experience with breast cancer. This event is created to

be an exciting occasion to cel-ebrate women’s health and raise funds for the National Breast Cancer Foundation.

SIS was founded in 1991 on the campus of Michigan Tech. Since its establishment, the or-

ganization has been committed to promoting sisterhood, schol-arship, service, unification, and diversity. For more information about the event or membership into SIS please contact the group via E-mail at sis-l@mtu.edu.

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Lode WriterMOLLY HOLMSTROM

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Michigan Tech Board of Control commits to increasing financial aid next year

“I believe that you shouldn’t have to leave your neighbor-hood to live in a better one.” Green activist and MacArthur Fellowship recipient Majora Carter is on a mission: to lead her commun ity out of poverty and fight environmental injus-tice by bringing green-collar j obs to the area. In just over a decade, Ms. Carter has vaulted from working as a communi-ty volunteer, knowing almost nothing about environmental issues, to becoming a nationally known advocate for environ-mental justice

On Mar. 20 at 7:30 p.m. at the Rozsa Center, Majora Carter will speak on public health, poverty alleviation, climate change, and green-collar job training and placement systems. Her lecture is free and open to the public.

Majora Carter was born, raised, and continues to live in the South Bronx. Her ca-reer has taken her around the world in pursuit of resources and idea s to improve the qual-ity of life in environmentally challenged communities. She founded Sustainable South Bronx in 2001 after writing a $1.25M Federal Transportation grant to design the South Bronx Greenway with 11 miles of bike and pedestrian paths connect-ing the rivers and neighbor-hoods to each other, and to the rest of the city. That project secured over $20 million in funds for first phase construc-tion and serves as alternative transportation, economic de-velopment anchor, storm water management infrastructure as well as healthy recreation.

She has been instrumental in creating riverfront parks, build-

ing green roofs, working to re-move poorly-planned highways in favor of positive economic development, and success-fully implementing the Bronx Environmental Stewardship Training (BEST) program— a pioneering green-collar job training and placement system — seeding a community with a skilled workforce that has both a personal & economic stake in their urban environment.

These accomplishments grow from her notion that self-image is influenced by surroundings—so those sur-roundings should be beautiful! Her vision, drive, and tenacity earned her a MacArthur “Ge-nius” Grant. She started 2007 as one of Newsweek’s “25 To Watch”, ended the year as one of Essence Magazine’s “25 most Influential African Americans”. She has been named one of the “50 most influential women in NYC” by the NY Post for the past two years, and “NYC’s most influential environmen-talist” by the BBC World Ser-vice. Majora is president of the Majora Carter Group, LLC, a board member of the Wilder-ness Society, SJF, and CERES; and host of a special national public radio series called “The Promised Land”.

To learn more about Majora Carter, her projects, and her quest, visit www.majoracarter-group.com.

Sponsored by the Environ-mental Sustainability Commit-tee/Students for Environmental Sustainability, CCE (Committee for Cultural Enrichment), and the Van Evera Distinguished Lecture Series Endowment.

For more information con-tact the Rozsa Box Office at 487.3200 or visit the Box Office website www.rozsa.mtu.edu/boxoffice

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It has been eight years since Metroid Prime was first re-leased for the Gamecube. Widely considered one of the

platform’s best games, it spawned two sequels, Metroid Prime 2: Echoes for the Gamecube and Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for the Wii. However, after eight years, the game has begun to show its age. Enter the Metroid Prime Trilogy,

a collection of all three games on a single disc. Trilogy updates the first two games in the series, giving them updated graphics and Wii controls, as well as Corruption’s bonus sys-tem. For those unfamiliar with the se-

ries, players take control of Samus Aran, a galaxy-famous bounty hunt-er with a serious grudge against the notorious Space Pirates. On a series of missions from the Galactic Feder-ation, Samus repeatedly comes into contact with the Space Pirates and the strange material called Phazon, which the Space Pirates are using to enhance the energy-draining Metroids the series is named after. The player can also find new weap-ons and tools to add to her armored suit. Unlike the “main” series, the Prime games are first-person shoot-ers, though the gameplay often fo-cuses more on exploration than ac-tual shooting. Some of the changes in the games

are graphical. The first two games now have widescreen support (al-though for some reason Samus’s

HUD is still stretched in widescreen mode), and the first game has added bloom lighting. Oddly, the “smoke” effect from heavy weapon fire is now gone. Most of the changes, however, are related to gameplay. The first two games basically adopt the control scheme of Corruption, so aiming is handled with the Wii remote’s pointer and movement by the Nunchuck’s analog stick. In-stead of using the D-pad and c-stick to change visors and beam weap-ons, respectively, they are changed by holding the “-“ or “+” buttons on the Wii remote and pointing to a section of the screen. While the new control scheme works very well for the most part, there are a few minor issues–for instance, play-ers used to the Gamecube setup will probably waste a bit of time select-

ing the wrong weapon, and the ar-rangement of buttons on the Wii remote can make some actions a bit tricky. However, these flaws are mostly outweighed by how natu-ral the point-and-aim system feels. This may very well be the definitive Metroid Prime experience. So is the collection really worth

the $50 price tag? For Wii owners who have yet to experience the se-ries, the Trilogy collection is a must-buy. On the other hand, players experi-

enced with the series may not find it worthwhile, especially if they still own the originals, especially Cor-ruption, which hasn’t been changed at all. However, the changes in the first

two games may make Trilogy worth it by themselves.

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Dear Sassy, My neighbors, who I have only known a few months, recently asked me to watch their dog for a week. I assumed it would involve checking on the dog a few times a day to let it out and feed it. However, they want me to walk the dog five times a day and I have to brush the dog twice day. I want to help them out, but it just seems like they’re asking too much of me and overstepping neighbor boundaries. What do I do?

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Walking into a common grocery store yields a

rainbow for the eyes, year round. Tomatoes, carrots, lettuce and fruits no matter the time of year. No doubt we are largely privileged to have a plethora of fruits and veggies at our access, but it is relevant to consider how such a phenomena came to be. Also to be considered are the implications, the effects, of the transportation of such foods.

It is definitely cheaper to purchase foods that are in season, locally or from a different part of the country. Cheaper for us because the veggies and fruits are more plentiful when they are in season. Also, we can make deals with local farmers and support their farms (especially at the farmer’s market).

When you get a tomato ripe off the vine it tastes so much better than a tomato picked prematurely and then ripened over time, while traveling and being cooled.

Eating locally is excellent but of course there are varieties of foods in season even during winter in different parts of the country. Although it’s not most favorable to have food take a road trip to your mouth it gets a bit hard to eat locally all year in a wintery place such as Houghton.

It can be argued that you become more in sync with the earth and the cycle of the seasons when you eat what is naturally provided. More apparent, buying in season automatically opens doors to considering the community and how buying local helps a community thrive.

Eating foods that are out of season means that the food was grown in artificial conditions

or imported. It takes a great deal of energy for either option but especially to import foods, especially sensitive foods. In order to meet demand, produce may be grown in areas; it would not be growing naturally and extra care is needed, such as irrigation and usage of large amounts of water. This is very problematic for people with a lack of water. “Agribusinesses growing crops for export are claiming more of the water once used by family and peasant farmers for food self-sufficiency.” (Maude Barlow)

In short, doing a little homework and applying a bit of mindfulness to shopping can yield better results for yourself and especially others in the world at detriment to our convenience.

If you really want some fruit for later, I suggest collecting ahead of time and freezing some for later use.

Eating with the seasonWinter: Cabbage, Carrots, Celery, Some Greens, Potatoes, Onions, Winter Squash

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Overview

When looking back at the season that was for the hockey Huskies, it’s easy to place im-mediate blame for a season in which the team finished 5-30-1 overall and 4-24-0 in WCHA play on head coach Jamie Rus-sell and his staff. Most of the community has already done so.

The fact is that Russell and his staff deserves some of the blame, but not all of it. The Hus-kies shot an abysmal 7.9 percent for the season while averaging 26 shots per game. They were seven in the country in penalty minutes with 17.8 minutes per game. They only killed 71.8 per-cent of their short-handed op-portunities.

Sophomore goaltender Josh Robinson only won one game. His goals against average was 4.68, which was worst among goalies who played at least 33 percent of their team’s games.

The Huskies only scored 2.1 goals per game while surrender-ing 4.1. That’s not going to get you anywhere in the WCHA, let alone nationally.

Offense Improves

All that being said, the Huskies offense improved from 2008-09. The shooting percentage was up 1.4%. The power play was up 4% from last season. The shots per game were up nearly a full shot per game. Even the goals per game went up by a half a goal per game.

All of these offensive improve-ments happened while assistant captain Jordan Baker struggled to just 18 points after producing 27 last year.

Assistant captain Brett Ol-son had a tremendous season with 18 goals and 30 points in

32 games. The Huskies sorely missed his offense late in the season when he was lost to in-jury. Olson also picked up three short-handed goals. He was the first to score more than two since Chris Conner and Bran-don Schwartz scored three in the same year.

Captain Malcolm Gwilliam posted 14 goals and 30 points. His previous career high for points was 17.

Freshman defenseman Steven Seigo notched four goals and 19 points, despite hitting a wall of-fensively late in the season.

Senior defenseman John Kivisto picked up four goals and 12 points, which meant he more than doubled his previous ca-reer high of five.

Intangibles

Every season it seems the Hus-kies field a young roster and this season was no exception as they dressed 17 underclassmen at dif-ferent points. Some had immedi-ate impacts: Olson, Seigo, fresh-man defenseman Carl Nielsen and freshman goaltender Kevin Genoe. Others needed time to grow into roles: freshmen wing-ers Mikael Lickteig and Anthony Schooley along with sophomore winger Bryce Reddick.

Some faced injuries: Reddick and freshman forward Milos Gordic.

Before the season was over, however, Olson, Schooley, soph-omore winger Alex MacLeod, sophomore defenseman Ricky Doriott, freshman winger Aaron

Pietila, freshman center Evan Witt, Nielsen, Reddick, and Lick-teig were all regulars in front of the Huskies’ goaltenders.

Looking Ahead

Next season’s senior class will be small, with Baker, winger Ben-nett Royer, center Eric Kattelus, and defenseman Deron Cousens making up the group. Baker and Cousens both had seasons they will need to battle back from. Royer missed significant time in November and December due to injury, but scored nearly a point a game once back.

Kattelus was suspended early in the season, but he made up for lost time the rest of the season, notching 10 points of the final 23 games of the season.

The Huskies will boast seven juniors. The most visible of the bunch is Olson, who is averaging .757 points per game over his two seasons in Black and Gold. He may not be the focal point of the class as Robinson may have that mantle as he looks to build off a strong playoff showing against No. 1 Denver last weekend.

Final Assessment

For the second straight season, the Huskies brought up the bot-tom of the pack in the WCHA. Next season, that ranking would look worse, as two new squads join the WCHA, making the bot-tom spot 12th rather than 10th.

The Huskies will struggle with the additions of Bemidji State (23-9-4 overall) and Nebraska-Omaha (20-16-6 overall). Neither are un-beatable. The Beavers lost to Min-nesota and Minnesota State. The Mavericks lost twice to Northern Michigan and once to Denver.

Next season will be Russell’s eighth behind the bench of the Huskies. Players, fans and alumni will be looking for continued im-provement as this team moves forward.

I hope everyone enjoyed their spring break. Congratulations to our Womens Basketball team. Good Luck next week. I think that Louisville will pull out the minor upset and beat Cal. Kevin Garnett will lead the Boston Celtics over the Dallas Mavericks. Since I refuse to take two Boston teams I will pick the Rangers to beat the Bruins in a shootout.

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3.64teamGPA forthe Michigan Tech women’s basketball team, with 18 of the 19 players above a 3.0 and Sarah Stream and Taylor Stippel earning 4.0 GPAs.

30points by Danae Danenin the NCAAMidwest RegionalChampionship game against Drury, which is a postseason record, and eight points better than her career high.

5 overall hockey wins for the Huskies hockey team in 36 games, including a 2-24-0 record in WCHA contests, the worst since the 1999-00 season.

3,131fans atTuesday’sNCAAMidwest RegionalChampionship game, which is a school record for Michigan Tech women’s basketball. The Huskies won 84-68.

The Editor’s Shootout is a competition of knowledge, luck and wits between sports editor Stephen Anderson, business manager Richard Goodell, pulse editor Luke Gublo and online editor Jeremiah Baumann. Stephen won two years ago with former opinion editor Rob Devaun winning last year. This will be a weekly feature where each editor picks his winners of the three biggest games/series of the week and backs up his decisions with a short rant. THIS WEEK:California Golden Bears vs. Louisville Cardinals, Boston Celtics at Dallas Mavericks, New York Rangers at Boston Bruins

Its tournament time so its the time where everyone is picking college basketball teams. However, I don’t follow college basketball so this will be a total shot in the dark the rest of the semester, so Cali for the win. Dallas will take home court advantage as they give a reality check to Boston. And New York is fighting to get back in the top 8 for playoffs and will be able to get one step closer to Boston and a shot in the NHL Playoffs.

Calif. 98-97Mavericks 98-92Rangers 4-2

California and Louisville both boast strong teams. California played Washington close during the Pac-10 Cham-pionship game, but overall, the conference is much weaker than the Big East. I think Louisville will prevail. Boston and Dallas presents an intriguing matchup. I tend to favor Dallas defending home court against the Celtics. It’s getting to be do-or-die time for the Bruins and the Rangers, each battling for a final playoff spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. I’ll go upset here and pick the Rangers to beat the Bruins in Boston.

Louisville 71-64Mavericks 94-90Rangers 3-2

Louisville 78-72Celtics 107-105Rangers 4-3

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I think Cal/Louisville is one of the best first-round match-ups, and it’s earned a fitting No. 8 vs. No. 9 match-up. However, I think Cal will come away with the victory. I don’t know what to think of the Celtics this year, so I’m going to take the Mavericks in a close high-scoring affair. Finally, the Bruins are at home, and that advantage will pay off with a W over New York.

Calif. 70-62Mavericks 100-93Bruins 2-1

Hockey (5-26-1, 4-22-0 WCHA)

Season is overDenver 4-2 MTU

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W. Basketball (31-2, 20-2 GLIAC)

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Tues. vs. Emporia State, 9:30 p.m. ET

MTU 68-57 FindlayMTU 69-49 Northern Kentucky

Lode WriterDAVER KARNOSKY

TBD Final Four, National Champ.

wins by the Michigan Tech women’s basketball team this season, including playoffs, which is the highest total in school history for the women’s basketball program. They look to add 32, 32 and 34 in Missouri next week.

Denver 2-1 MTU

Nordic SkiingChampionship results online

TennisW Dallas Baptist 7-2 MTUW MTU 5-4 Olivet Nazarene

Season over

MTU 84-68 Drury

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Another difficult season for hockey Huskies

M MTU 8-1 IndianapolisM Cumberland 8-1 MTU

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Photo by Ben Wittbrodt

After starting their Spring Break trip to Orlando, Fla., with a win and a loss, the women’s tennis Huskies finished the same way, winning 5-4 over Olivet Nazarene on Monday, March 8, before falling 7-2 to Dallas Baptist on Tuesday, March 9.

The Huskies (14-6) earned two of three available points in doubles against Olivet Nazarene to take the early match lead be-fore picking up three points in singles’ play. They managed to do all of this without junior Na-thalia Rondelli in the lineup.

The number two pair of ju-nior Asel Otunchieva and se-

nior Danielle Stoll earned an 8-3 win over Claudia Voicu and Ashland Allison. The duo im-proved to 6-3 during the trip.

The top doubles team of sophomore Ploy Suthijinda-wong and freshman Kira Eck notched an 8-5 victory over Erica Engelbrecht and Taylor Stephens. The win came in the first match the pair played to-gether. Suthijindawong picked up her second point of the match by defeating Voicu, 6-1, 6-3, at number one singles. The top Huskies’ player is now 21-1 on the season.

Eck followed her doubles’ partner’s lead, earning a 6-4, 6-1, win over Stephens at num-ber four singles. Eck is now 6-7 on the season.

The other Huskies’ points

came from freshman Chelsea Uganski at number five singles’, 6-3, 6-3, over Allison. Uganski is 2-2 on the season. Despite having Rondelli back against Dallas Baptist, the Huskies fell behind early, dropping all three doubles matches.

In singles’ play, the Huskies picked up points at numbers one and six singles.

Suthijindawong cruised to a 6-0, 6-1, straight set win over Natalie Holmes. Uganski earned her victory at number six singles by not surrendering a single game to Megan Bill-ings, 6-0, 6-0.

The Huskies are now off as they wait to see if their record will be good enough to earn a bid to the NCAA Tournament later this spring.

The Michigan Tech Huskies (31-2 overall, 20-2 GLIAC) will be heading to the NCAA Elite Eight for the second straight sea-son. Last year, the Huskies fell in the first round to Minnesota State Mankato who eventually went on to become the national champion. This year the Huskies hope to get past the first round; standing in their way are the Em-poria State Hornets (27-5, 16-4 MIAA). While the Hornets did not make the Elite Eight last year, they still qualified for the NCAA

Postseason, falling in the second round to West Texas A&M.

This will be the first meeting of these two teams. Hornets Head Coach Brandon Schneider said in the pre-tournament press con-ference that he “knows very little about Michigan Tech except for the fact that they are returning an entire starting lineup.” John Barnes said that he feels that “experience does matter,” when it comes to this tournament. In fact when he was asked to sum his team up he gave the response, “experienced and scholastic,” noting that the team’s grade-point-average is 3.64. Schneider stated that his team has a lot of

“newcomers,” also adding that only two starters are returning from last year’s squad.

Katie Wysocky is leading Michigan Tech in scoring this year. She enters the contest al-ready holding the school record in career points and rebounds. Prior to this contest she has aver-aged 17.8 points per game. An-other factor to Michigan Tech’s offense is Danae Danen who was named the NCAA Midwest Regional Tournament most out-standing player. In the Midwest Regional Championship Danen was 13-17 from the floor and 4-5 from the line. Not only was she scoring points for the huskies,

but she also proved she could play defense as well, as she had 12 rebounds and five blocks in the contest.

Emporia State is led by Cas-sondra Boston. Prior to the Elite Eight game, Boston had averaged 19.4 points per game. In the NCAA South Central Regional Championship, Emporia had four players who reached double digits. These four players were Cassondra Boston, Jamie Au-gustyn, Brittney Miller and So-phia Lenard, collectively contrib-uting 47 of the team’s 76 points in the contest.

This is one of four games that will be taking place in St. Joseph,

Mo. next Tuesday. The other games that will take place are Fort Lewis vs. Seattle Pacific at 1 p.m., Arkansas Tech vs. Franklin Pierce at 3:30 p.m., Gannon vs. Tusculum at 7 p.m. and of course Emporia State vs. Michigan Tech concluding the day at 9:30 p.m. all of these times are Eastern Standard Time.

The Michigan Tech Lode will be attending the NCAA Elite Eight tournament this year. We will be there with our live blog and game recaps. Check back to the Lode website in the upcom-ing days for more information regarding the NCAA Elite Eight tournament.

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Long time no see Michigan Tech! It was a big surprise when I came back last Saturday. When we left Houghton last week, we still had tons of snow. But now almost all the snow is gone on campus. Snow statues collapsed and fell into several pieces on the ground and are now melting. I think Houghton is ready for her spring. I hope everyone had an awesome spring break. Are you ready for my spring break story this week?

Luckily, I got the chance to go down to Texas with the Habitat for Humanity group at Michigan Tech. The city we went to is called Corpus Christi.

It is a very beautiful city along the southern coast. There are too many things to talk about during last week. However, to stick with my column’s theme, I found many cultural di!erences on this trip.

The "rst big di!erence was the road trip. We drove down on Saturday morning at 7 p.m. and didn’t arrive until 2 p.m. on Sunday. A 30 hour road trip was not that easy to handle. I went downstate with my friends couple times before; an eight hour road trip seems like nothing to them at all. The U.S. is well known as a country on wheels. The most common form of transportation is the automobile. The automobile industry is pretty impressive in America, but I’m so proud of the public transportation system in China. If America is connected with highways, then China is connected with railroads. Over

80% of cities in China have their own railway stations. In the past few years, the speeds of trains has had a huge increase. The average can be 200 kmh, which is 124 mph. On the railroad, you don’t have to stop to go to the rest room, to get food or switch drivers. It saves lots of time, gas and money.

If you think we just went to Texas for fun, you are totally wrong. We stayed in Corpus Christi for "ve days and we worked four days on the building site. With a group of retirees, we "nished sheeting and framing two houses. We were not there just for vacation. We were actually doing something good for the society. I think this is what we lack in China. We do have college volunteer organizations but not as widespread as here. In those four work days, we not only learned how to use ahammer, but we also had the

happiness of helping people. All the workers on the work site were volunteers and they did this for nothing. I did some donations when I was in high school for helping people rebuild their houses after Tai Feng. But I have no idea where the money went or how to build a house. We were there in Texas to help and work with those homeless people instead of just giving them money. During the work, we understood how hard their life is and how important a home is for kids who live in these families. By helping them, we give them a hope. We hope the second generation in these families can have a better future just like we have. That’s the main purpose why we were there.

One day, when I get retired, I would like to be like those old guys in Texas: create an organization and help people just for love. Will you join me?

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I feel that each of us has learned more about ourselves and our place in the world because of this experience.

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” Last week, 20 eager Michigan Tech Habitat for Humanity club members spent their spring break in Corpus Christi, Texas helping to build two houses.

Keara Scott Michigan Tech Habitat for Humanity President

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