DSInsideBSA adresses racial problems — page 3

Amtrak travel — page 4

Nickname: Letters to the editor — page 5

ND space robotics program — page 7

Perfume Genius reviewed — page 8

Men’s basketball, hockey — page 10

NBA All-Star game fair? — page 11

Wild make big personnel changes — page 12

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Many people can remem-ber going on a horrible or just horribly awkward first date at some point in their life.

Comedians Dave Ahdoot and Ethan Fixell are on a mis-sion to help people prevent these situations via their na-tional tour as college dating coaches.

Their tour made a stop at UND’s Loading Dock in the Memorial Union on Feb. 27. A typical show includes come-dic re-enactments of horrible dates that audience members have been on, romantic songs, and interactive lessons about

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Dating hilarity at UnionLOVE Duo dole out advice, laughs in stand-up/sketch com-edy routine.

everything from pick-up lines to kissing.

Besides their usual acts, the show at UND featured a cus-tom sketch about two female students who try to meet guys during lunch time at the Squires Dining Center, a hockey game at the Ralph Engelstad Arena and parties at Pi Kappa Alpha frater-nity house and Level 10 night club.

There was also a mystery bachelor sketch in which a single female student taken from the audience had to choose from three single male students based solely on their answers to silly questions such as “what kind of breakfast cereal would you be and why?”

She couldn’t see what the guys looked like because they were hidden behind a white board and she seemed to struggle with her decision but ended up choosing her male friend who

she’d been sitting with earlier.“We interviewed some

students and the dating scene here seems nearly hopeless, but hopefully better now that we’ve been here,” Fixell said.

Despite his observation, there are success stories on this campus.

“I think it’s a nice place to meet people since you can go to the frats and stuff. I met my boyfriend at a frat party,” UND sophomore Martina Mlikota said.

Dave and Ethan have some of their own personal success stories, too.

During March of 2008, the duo posted a video on YouTube inviting pairs of women to double date them.

“We were out one night together and decided to share

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Dave Ahdoot (left) and Ethan Fixell perform a musical sketch on stage.

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The Student Government Elections Committee has an-nounced the polling times for the upcoming election.

Students will be to vote for Student Body President and Vice President, Student Senators and University Senators on Wednes-day, March 7 from 7:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Voting will be done via Col-legiateLink, UND’s student in-volvement website.

Additionally, the Election Headquarters will be located in the Memorial Union Leadership Room, on the first floor adjacent to the Student Involvement Of-fice. The phone number for the Election Headquarters is (701) 777-2440.

To login to CollegiateLink, go to http://involvement.und.edu/.

UND alum, brewer speaks

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ENTREPENUER Coun-selor-turned-beer maker gives crowd business tips.

Once a substance addiction counselor, now an award-winning brewery president, it’s without question that Mark Stutrud at-tracted many students and mem-bers of the community to the Center of Innovation Idea Lab this past Tuesday to hear his story and acquire some entrepreneurial tips.

“I like Summit Beer,” Senior Will Ott said. “It would be cool to run your own brewery so I wanted

to hear what he has to say.”Mark Stutrud, a North Dakota native and UND alumnus, started

his career working in the clinical social work fi eld. After transferring to a Twin Cities hospital, Stutrud felt stuck in a place of ineffi ciency around incompetent coworkers. Having an interest in beer and brewery busi-nesses, Stutrud took this as an opportunity to change his career path and started Summit Brewing.

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Student fees debatedELECTIONS All three tickets tackle budgets, other topics during fi rst of three debates.

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Three presidential tickets squared off in the first debate of election season at UND.

Held in the Memorial Union Loading Dock Tuesday eve-ning, the debate drew a crowd of about 50 students interested to hear what potential Student Body Presidents and Vice Presi-dents had planned for the uni-

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versity next year. The tickets — Logan Fletch-

er and Eric Watne, Nate Elness and Ryan Fitzgerald and Tyler McAllister and Tate Carlson — answered questions developed by the Elections Committee and audience members.

Tuition and feesStudent fees quickly became

one of the most discussed topics among the candidates.

Both the McAllister/Carlson and Elness/Fitzgerald camps said that altering the current student fee system would be one of the biggest changes they’d like to see on campus.

“We’re interested in redo-ing the student fee process,” Fitzgerald said. He and Elness want to see a system that allows departments to make fee requests tailored to their individual bud-gets and needs each year instead of receiving a set amount of fee money each year.

The pair was also concerned about transparency.

“We want you to know how your student fees are benefiting you,” Elness said.

McAllister also wants to see

Mark Stutrud addresses the audience. Photo by William Gustafson.

NCAA sanctions take effectA letter to Provost Paul LeBel outlines restrictions to UND athletics. See page 3 for more details.

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[MUSIC] Faculty and Guest Violin and Piano Recital, 8 p.m. in Hughes Fine Arts 202. Tickets $3 for students.

(EVENT] Chris Ry-lander book sign-ing, 11 a.m. UND Bookstore.

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[MEETING] Student Senate, 6 p.m. in the River Valley Room of the Me-morial Union.

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a set of goals, yet stay true to our-selves.”

Stutrud’s entrepreneurial move was an uphill battle. He didn’t have a lot of money, nor was he seen by the community as someone with the background to run this type of opera-tion.

“It came down to stubbornness, which is a really important character-istic,” Stutrud said.

After taking out a loan and find-ing enough investors, his brewery be-gan. Since its start in 1986, Summit Brewry Co. has expanded twice, has won awards at a local and national level, and even went through the past recession without much trouble.

“Anything really is possible if you put your mind to it,” Stutrud said. “I chose to follow this wacky fantasy of mine and start a brewery.”

Some of Stutrud’s success can be credited to the connection between employees and the company. Sum-mit utilizes an open book manage-ment system which essentially gives employees the opportunity to under-stand the business as an insider when given information on the cash-flow and company performance.

“When someone joins our orga-nization we can sit down and mentor the employee and tell them where they fit in the business,” Stutrud said. “This individual can make a big dif-ference on a daily basis.”

Also, employees are able to buy

a change in the way fees are used. He spoke of his ticket’s $20 plan.

“Under this plan, each stu-dent can designate $20 of their fees to an organization of their choice,” he said.

According to McAllister, this plan would allow organiza-tions to start the year off with extra money and would serve as a membership recruitment tool.

Fletcher and Watne shared the concern regarding the trans-parency of student fees, naming it as one of their top three issues to address while in office.

“I think we all know that stu-dent fees are a necessity when it comes to maintaining programs and services,” Fletcher said. “But students need to know where their student fees are going.”

A potential tuition freeze was also on the minds of students.

Each ticket stated it was in support of tuition freeze if it meant the university could still function and provide adequate services to students, faculty and staff.

“We just hope that they don’t increase fees to make up for freezing tuition,” McAllister said.

Stu Gov spending Student Government’s spend-

ing habits were also brought up in several questions. Each ticket

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When ignorance has become socially acceptable, people, stu-dents or not, have become afraid to ask the hard questions.

They are afraid to make an at-tempt at learning.

One student organization is trying to combat that, by provid-ing a safe forum for students to ask those questions.

Wednesday night the Black Student Association hosted a live videocast to engage stu-dents in the culture and pro-spective of the black commu-nity.

“People are sometimes in-timidated in the community in which we live,” Interim Di-rector of Multicultural Student Services Malika Carter said.

The Black Student Associa-tion wanted to provide a safe way for them to ask the questions they were afraid to ask.

The event’s attendance was not fantastic, but the event had a lot of heart.

“Ignorance is just a lack of knowledge,” Carter said. She de-scribed how people of the greater Grand Forks area feel intimidated and are afraid to ask the questions and learn.

The first question was about when a united black community could exist. “Once we learn to be

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more of a family and work togeth-er on different issues we can value community,” Yolanda Cox, presi-dent of the Black Student Associa-tion, said.

Cox noted that once people leave their communities for edu-cation, they tend not to return to their communities.

“People associate education with whiteness, that’s a huge mis-take we can make. When we go back home, ‘Why you talking like you white?’” Carter said.

BSA members discussed how this divergent culture and identity was brought on by a separation

of education and class that holds them back in the present.

The next issue that came up was the concept of the “n-word,” and is it appropriate, in what cases?

“It depends on the context in which you’re using the word, if we don’t use it for the sake of our children not knowing the context in which that word came,” Carter said.

She says if we teach our chil-dren how the word was used and why it shouldn’t be used, they can better understand it in the future.

“Sure you’ll have a few knuck-leheads, but that’s free speech,”

Carter said.The third question was wheth-

er or not segregation was bad. “When I think of segregation

I don’t only think of black and white, I think about how within a culture we are segregating. Even here on campus between Black Americans and African Ameri-cans,” Cox said.

Segregation exists amongst many different walks of life. The issue should be addressed on those lines as well.

Though Carter wanted to think about segregation in broader ways, she discussed how, when she grew up, teachers would not be able to teach in colleges and uni-versities.

“Because those teachers couldn’t teach in those places, they were teaching young children. I can only imagine how strong a sense of community and awareness and self pride that this instilled in me,” Carter said.

The final discussion point was about the concept of a post-cultur-al world.

“Your skin color isn’t on the forefront, but its behind the scene,“ Cox said. The people of our world are trying to ignore race rather than accept people for who they are.

“This post-racial world has more ignorance behind it,” Carter said, and that is the major issue. “Sometimes you don’t have any-thing to say, you just say hmm, hmm, hmm.”

‘People associ-ate education with whiteness, that’s a huge mistake we can make. Yolanda Cox

president, BSA

Cullen Donohue is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at cullen.donohue@

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stock in the company for a discounted rate through an employee stock pur-chase plan.

Stutrud isn’t scared of competi-tion in the brewery industry.

“When someone leaves the brew-ery I know they have been well trained and will be a solid competitor,” Stutrud said. “Having good competi-tion out there is a positive thing.”

Matt Dunlevy, a UND graduate student and small business owner was impressed by Stutrud’s versatility.

“He is clearly a genius,” Dunlevy said. “Usually you don’t expect a de-pendency counselor to open a brew-ery. Or you wouldn’t think someone with his incredible public speaking skills would have a career in owning a brewery. It just goes to show the smarter, better-rounded you can be, the more successful you will be. He’s made all the right decisions in life.”

Aviation management student Marry Wallace found Stutrud’s advice applicable to her studies.

“He shows that when you stick to something and put your mind to it, you can make it happen,” Wallace said. “In my major, I have to learn how to take a task I’m assigned to and step up and do it.”

Stutrud’s story may inspire many entrepreneurial hopefuls on this cam-pus as well as provide a great product.

Staff writer Elizabeth Erickson con-tributed to this report.

Kaitlin Bezdicek is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at kaitlin.bezdicek@my.und.edu

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“This year’s senators have been very critical of the bills that have come before them,” Elness said. “Senate has been wise about spending fees.”

McAllister and Carlson felt differently.

“Student Government is pretty much broke,” McAllister said. He contended if Student Government does not stop its spending then student fees may have to increase to compensate.

Fletcher pointed out that Student Government is not “broke.”

“It has $100,000 between its investment accounts,” he said.

Fletcher and Watne said they were in favor of Student Govern-ment spending money as it re-ceives it.

“If we don’t spend what we have now, the fees we pay will benefit students in the future and not us,” Fletcher said.

He and Watne think that changing how student fees are distributed in Student Govern-ment would help it spend them more efficiently.

They suggested combining the Fees Account and the Proj-ects Account to create a larger pool of fees to pull from.

Increasing outreachAll candidates agreed that

Student Government could com-municate with its constituents

better than it currently does.Elness said it could provide

more outreach through its 30 Senate and executive members and groups like SWAG (Student Working Advisory Group), while Fitzgerald suggested live-stream-ing Student Senate meetings and posting these videos online for students to watch at their leisure.

Student Government needs to get out and visit student orga-nizations, according to Carlson.

It also must get involved in all the academic colleges to make sure it is aware of all necessary issues on campus he said.

The solution for Fletcher and Watne is simple.

“Student Government needs to take more time to talk to stu-dents.” Watne said. “It should be reaching out instead of expecting students to come to it.”

Next roundThe final Student Govern-

ment debate will be held in the Memorial Union Loading Dock at Monday 11 a.m.

The second debate took place Thursday in the Memorial Union River Valley Room.

Look for coverage of the Thursday debate in the March 6 issue of The Dakota Student.

Brandi Jewett is the Editor-in-Chief of The Dakota Student. She can be reached at brandi.jewett.1@

my.und.edu

NCAA slaps UND with sanctions

In a letter to Provost Paul LaBel, the NCAA outlined sanc-tions against UND as a result of continued use of the nickname. The letter states that UND teams will not be allowed to use the nickname or logo during any NCAA postseason play.

In a press conference on Wednesday, athletic director Brian Faison and women’s hockey coach Brian Idalski addressed the effect these sanctions will have on the school.

“We had a great season,” Idalski said. “Then to be told ‘re-gardless of what you do, you’re going on the road.’ That kind of stinks.

“This is real, and our kids our going to suffer for it, and that’s unfortunate.”

Faison said that the parameters of the sanctions did not come as a complete surprise.

“Going in, this was a possibility,” Faison said. “But now it’s in black and white. It’s very clear what will happen.”

“To think that the NCAA was going to take their stance and relent because we are passionate? It’s not going to happen, it’s not real,” Idalski added.

The letter defines three sanctions that take immediate effect:1. No University of North Dakota team may host an NCAA

championship round. If a North Dakota team is selected as the lower-seeded team in a championship competition, North Da-kota would be designated as the “home” team but would be as-signed to play at the higher-seeded institution’s venue.

2. If the university accepts an invitation to participate in any postseason competition, the NCAA policy requires that student-athletes, band, cheerleading, dance and mascot uniforms and paraphernalia not have hostile or abusive racial/ethnic/national original references during the NCAA championship competi-tion.

3. If an invitation is accepted and the university must forfeit competition because it has not adhered to this requirement, the NCAA reserves its right to seek reimbursement for expenses in-curred by the Association for travel, per diem or other expenses in connection with the championship.

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NICKNAME Teams not permitted to use nickname during NCAA tournaments, must play all postseason games at opponents’ venues.

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SCANDAL Events at DSU over the last several years have North Dakota Uni-versity System worried about image.

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I took my first train ride this weekend from Grand Forks to Min-neapolis. Somehow the Amtrak was on time, loaded in no time and soon chugging down the rails. Despite what I’ve heard in the past, the train ride was not as horrible as I had been imagining as I waited in the ridiculously long ticket line. I expe-rienced good and bad with Amtrak this weekend, and I have a few tips for those of who have never ridden before.

Tickets; they are checked and double-checked before you board the train, and they are checked again before you get off. There-fore, having your ticket is extremely im-portant. Don’t think you can hop on and jump off again before the porter notices you’re hitching your way home; they’ll find you. Be sure to buy your ticket in advance. When you arrive at the station, es-pecially in Grand Forks, the line to the ticket counter will be long and excessively slow. You cannot print off your tickets online, so you’ll have to stand in line regardless. If you’ve already paid for your ticket, chances are you’ll only spend a few moments with the attendant for her to look up your name and print it off. Also, call Amtrak and speak to an agent before you leave for the station. Amtrak lost my brother’s reservation and he had to buy an-other round trip ticket for nearly twice what I paid for mine. This was the attendant’s error, because when I later called Amtrak, he had

two reservations on file. Check and double-check your reservations. Try and purchase your tickets as far in advance as you can. Ticket prices rise as the train becomes more and more full, therefore if you purchase your tickets a week in advance, you could be spending half as much money as what you would pay if you bought for your tickets an hour before the scheduled departure.

Trains take longer than a car to reach its destination, not because of its speed, but because of the num-ber of stops it makes. However, this difference in time can easily be worth your money; depending on what model of car you drive, a round trip ticket sometimes adds up

to less than the price of one tank of gas. Train cars are long and spa-cious allowing for more than enough leg-room and re-clining space. If you are like most other

travelers who find airplane seats to be tight, uncomfortable and nearly impossible to sleep in, you’ll be de-lighted with train seats. On trains, you are free to stand, walk and use the bathroom at any moment dur-ing the trip. This is a huge bonus when you compare the experience of sitting in a car for 300 miles without a bathroom break to the experience of sleeping on a train where you can also get up and move through cars, drink in the bar car or grab some snacks in the dining car.

One of my biggest worries about taking a train was the move-ment I would be experiencing. You see, I tend to be one of those people who easily find themselves getting sick on planes and in cars; motion

sickness is one of my most loathed foes. After boarding the train, while waiting for it to depart, I took a few Dramamine to prevent motion sick-ness. Trains are smooth, but tend to sway and bob with bends in the rail-way. Not only did Dramamine kick the motion sickness out the door, it also made me drowsy enough to sleep the entire length of the trip.

I fell asleep shortly outside of Grand Forks, and awoke when the Porter informed us we were ap-proaching Minneapolis. This is an-other fantastic perk about train trav-el. Upon boarding, porters hand you strips of paper with your des-tination abbreviation written upon them. You stick these strips above your seat, so that the porters, who move about the cars before and dur-ing each stop, can inform sleeping passengers that they are approach-ing their destination. This way, you can sleep the entire way without the worry of missing your stop. The staff aboard the train are very thor-ough in verifying which passengers are going where and if their tickets are valid so that each passenger can be guaranteed a safe and successful trip.

While car trips can be faster than train travel depending on the number of stops, they can often be cheaper and more comfortable. They are also far safer for travel during bouts of bad weather such as rain, sleet and heavy wind. I en-courage anyone looking for trans-portation back home, to Chicago, or even out west for a spring break ski trip to check out Amtrak for station locations and fares. Plus, if you’ve never traveled by train before, it might be something you could check off of your bucket list.

Amtrak: an enjoyable alternative for travel

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‘Somehow the Amtrak was on time, loaded in no time and soon chug-ging down the rails.

Christen Furlongcolumnist

Christen Furlong is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can

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Dickinson State University can’t seem to catch a break.

This Wednesday, students were evacuated from three buildings on campus after an unidentified individual called the campus’s Alumni Foundation and told them that bombs had been placed in the buildings.

Though the threat appears to be empty, it doesn’t help DSU’s current standing in the North Dakota Uni-versity System – a standing tarnished by more bad news that has broken over the past few months.

The university’s president, Richard McCallum, was fired by a unanimous vote by the State Board of Higher Education in December 2010.

Earlier this year, North Dakota residents were alert-ed to the fact that DSU awarded hundreds of degrees over the past eight years to foreign students who didn’t earn them.

The same day the accusations of DSU being a “di-ploma mill” began flying, Doug LaPlante, DSU dean of the college of education, business and applied sciences was found dead died in Dickinson’s Memorial Park. He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

This tragic series of events could not come at a worse time for the NDUS. With a body of legislators that al-ready view the university system in a suspicious man-ner, this scandal in all likelihood will keep quite a bit of funding out of university hands.

With the overspending debacle surrounding the NDSU and UND president’s houses still fresh in their minds, the legislators have become mistrustful of the higher education system.

We, as members of the university system, need to hold our heads up and continue working with the legis-lature to rebuild this broken trust.

The best way to do this is to band together as a uni-versity and continue to make strides in the areas of aca-demics, research and athletics.

Success in these areas will hopefully prove to the state that we are benefiting the world while we’re in col-lege instead of just coming here to receive job training.

UND’s enrollment continues to increase, many of our programs are ranked high nationally, we continue to award more money through scholarships and grants to students and are experiencing an overall growth pro-motes a higher standard of education that aligns with the goals of the NDUS.

We feel that UND should take the lead and be pro-active in addressing concerns legislators may have about the institution and the university system in general.

By leading through example, UND can remove the stain tarnishing higher education’s reputation and put the university system on a path toward success.

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To the Editor, The retirement of the Fighting

Sioux nickname must continue. For me, the name has always

been a source of pride, tradition, honor and excellence, and always will be. As a letter winner and part of a family of four generations of UND athletes, the Fighting Sioux will always be a part of who I am and those close to me. But those feelings and pride are not the focus of this matter any longer.

In 2012, the issues have ex-tended themselves far beyond the sanctions imposed by the NCAA on teams that use American Indian imagery. Institutions in desirable conferences, in addition to other universities we, by tradition and aspiration, want to compete with, have clearly made known their ab-solute unwillingness to compete with UND as the Fighting Sioux. It is beyond naïve and inaccurate to suggest these facts are wrong.

Given this evolving reality, during the special session last No-vember, state lawmakers reversed an earlier vote requiring UND to remain the Fighting Sioux. The State Board of Higher Education followed by voting to end UND’s use of the nickname and logo, starting January 1.

Two recent petition drives seek to reinstate the name through state-wide votes. The petition turned in on Feb. 7 would repeal the Legis-lature’s November vote, reinstating the law requiring the name. The second would put the Fighting Sioux nickname in the state consti-tution. While I respect those who choose to fight for the name, there

are very real, dire consequences if the petitions are successful. The fu-ture of UND, athletically, academ-ically, in stature and in reputation is at stake.

The following facts guide my opinion:

1. Without a quality Division I conference, UND will be isolated. It is absolutely clear the Big Sky Conference will not accept us as the Fighting Sioux. This clear mes-sage was repeated again this week by Big Sky Commissioner Doug Fullerton. The presidents of Big Sky member institutions do not want a university on NCAA sanc-tions. They don’t want to alienate nearby American Indian tribes. The message is clear: “We don’t want your problems on our cam-puses!” The Summit League also took a similar stance during earlier conference discussions. It is not a stretch to suggest we could find ourselves homeless athletically.

2. Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa all have institutional poli-cies that won’t allow their athletic teams to compete with schools under NCAA sanctions due to American Indian imagery. They each reiterated this in formal terms this week, and this trend appears to be gaining ground. Many have commented on the magical atmo-sphere at Ralph Engelstad Arena during the January men’s hockey series with Minnesota. With Min-nesota moving to a different con-ference, this legendary rivalry will likely never return to Grand Forks if UND is still the Fighting Sioux.

3. Top student-athletes come to compete against the best. As

the Division I transition concludes with our entry into the Big Sky next fall, and the National Col-legiate Hockey Conference begins play in 2013, UND reflects its academic reputation, traditions, and accomplishments through athletics. If we lose the Big Sky and the great competitive history of the Minnesota and Wisconsin hockey series, recruiting will be a nightmare for our coaches. UND’s coaches, administrators, and fan base have combined to put us into an attractive competitive situation. It would be tragic to throw that away, and would effectively reduce UND’s stature.

4. There is no doubt in my mind this great University will be harmed academically. Recruitment and retention of top faculty, ad-ministrators and students is diffi-cult when our academic excellence is overshadowed by controversy.

These facts were not created by someone in North Dakota. They are simply a reflection of our com-petitive environment if we want to contend for championships in Di-vision I.

We are past the point where we must put this issue behind us. The traditions of the Fighting Sioux will always be celebrated, and will always be an important piece of our history. We have spent too much time focused inward, dividing teammates, friends and families while depleting UND’s tremendous potential.

I am completely opposed to the petition drives. Their potential outcomes are not in the best inter-ests of UND, and they especially

ignore the student-athletes of to-day and those we will be proud of in the future!

At times in life, personally and professionally, we have to cut our losses and move on. That time has arrived for the name and logo.

Together, we can continue to accomplish great things. Divided, we diminish our potential and sig-nificantly damage our future.

Sincerely,Tim O’Keefe, ’71Executive Vice President &

CEOUND Alumni Association &

UND Foundation

To the Editor,As an alumnus of UND (’83,

‘85), I, like many others, have an extreme passion for the Sioux nick-name and logo. I am and always will be a Fighting Sioux. While I still hold out some hope that the nickname will remain, it is becom-ing clearer with each passing day that keeping the name may not in the best interest of UND.

While I hate to give up our logo, I find that I am having a more difficult time giving up our nickname. I cannot see myself yell-ing something other than “Sioux” as I cheer on UND Athletics. The name is not only a part of our school songs and cheers and his-tory, it is deeply imbedded in our psyche.

We have such passion for the nickname, in part, because it is unique and powerful. When sports fans around the country hear “Fighting Sioux”, they think “Uni-versity of North Dakota”.

While I would like nothing more than the name to continue, I also do not want any harm to come to the university. So, what do we do? Is there a way to have both the Big Sky and our nickname? I be-lieve there may be a nickname that would allow us to continue our full emergence into Division I with-out penalty while at the same time keeping the name (well, sort of ). While the nickname may be far-removed from North Dakota, it’s really no different than the nick-names for the Utah Jazz or L.A. Lakers.

As a nickname, it’s both pow-erful and unique. I believe the University of North Dakota “Tsu-nami” could have potential. While the Miami Hurricanes are also known as the ‘Canes, we could be known as the “Tsu”.

Even if this nickname is not considered, the point is we can come up with something unique that would not hurt our univer-sity. Personally, I like Tsunami and think it has potential.

Also, as an aside, I feel the NCAA and, to a lesser extent, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin have cre-ated hypocritical, arbitrary and self-serving policies with regard to the Fighting Sioux name and logo. While they may be forcing us to get rid of our incredible logo, I don’t want to give them the satisfaction of also taking away the proud tra-dition of our name (no matter how you spell it). Go ‘Tsu!

Jeff Houdek

Tickets to go see Sir Elton John went on sale this past Mon-day, and I am sure that they will be gone in a few weeks. Who wouldn’t want to go see one of the greatest musicians of our lifetime? If I had the money, I would be holding on to a ticket myself. Then again, I am a lover of what you might call “older” music. However, what you call old, I call real.

Elton John is, in my opinion, one of the last few professional musicians. Now, before you de-cide to storm U Place and string me up for treason, let me explain. What makes music? Is it simply a rhythmic beat? If you knock your knuckles on the counter, can you call that music? Some say yes, others say no. I myself believe that something as simple as that is more musical that what a lot of today’s top “artists” are produc-ing.

I have to say, I am glad that

today’s pop and rap stars are called “artists” instead of “musi-cians”; there is a big difference. When you put a program into a computer and have it create dif-ferent sounds, that is not music. When you sit down and take the

time to learn an instru-ment like a guitar or a piano, then you have the ability to produce mu-sic. Anyone can sit down, download a DJ app, get

good at it and be called an artist. Few people have the patience to become musicians.

I think there may be a reason that so many musicians are going on tour this year. They want us to remember what real music was like. Back in the day people gath-ered to see musicians play their instruments, then smash them on the stage while the drummer drained his glass of Morgan. If you watch footage of other bands from back in the day, they are all doing this. They are having fun. They are on stage because they care about music, and they genu-inely love what they do. Today it

seems like people only care about the money and recognition. Back to the concert; it was amazing to see what concerts were like when bands like Led Zeppelin, the Who and the Rolling Stones were the biggest names on the music scene.

Even those of us who listen to classical music can tell the differ-ence between music and today’s, um, sounds. The absolute mu-sician is someone who plays in band, orchestra or choir. I’m sure that many of the choir students we have here hate the idea of an auto-tuner. It takes so long to learn and perfect all these skills, and these new artists use technol-ogy to do everything for them. Talk about lazy.

Unfortunately for me, the decades of rock and roll are long gone, though this year may be the biggest for touring musicians; Roger Waters (bassist and singer of Pink Floyd), Iron Maiden, Van Halen, Elton John and the Roll-ing Stones are just a few names that are going to be hitting the stage in 2012. I hope that many of our generation give some of this music a chance, and remem-ber what real music was like.

Letters to the editor: nickname and logo retirement

PATRICK CAVANAughTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

‘Who wouldn’t want to go and see one of the greatest musi-cians of our time?

Patrick Cavanaughcolumnist

Elton John: the last and best musician of our time

Patrick Cavanaugh is a something for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at patrick.cavana-

ugh@my.und.edu

Anyone who pays attention to what goes on in the North Dakota University System (NDUS) will have heard about what is happen-ing at Dickinson State University. An audit recently done on the university showed that 400 for-eign students who had received four-year diplomas since 2003 did not complete the graduation requirements. The scandal doesn’t stop there either. The school faces massive fines from the Department of State for student visa violations, and sanctions from other federal agencies. Add to that the tragic new that, DSU professor, Doug LaPlante, 59, was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound and it’s not all that difficult to under-stand that Dickinson State Univer-sity is hurting and in many differ-ent ways.

But, the situation at Dickinson State doesn’t stop casting its shad-ow in Dickinson itself; the shadow extends across the entire state and is a blemish, a terrible, terrible blemish, on the once reputable track record of the NDUS. Now the Department of Education and Department of State will be keep-ing a close eye, not just on Dick-inson State, but on all universities

that are a part of the NDUS; not to mention the pressure that the State Board of Higher Education and North Dakota State Legisla-ture will be putting on universities across the state.

There is a concern that what happened in Dickinson State will hurt enrollment and the image of universities like the University of North Dakota. But, is that a valid concern? Of course it is. But, we, collectively and as a university sys-tem, must realize that this just as easily could have happened any-where else… but, it didn’t, it hap-pened at Dickinson State. The NDUS dragging its feet isn’t going to help anything. Yes, we are—and should be—mourning for the death of Dr. LaPlante, and the damage this scandal has done to the NDUS; but, the point is not to get stuck in that mode of thinking. What do we do? The only thing we can do. The NDUS continues to strive to provide the best education it possibly can to students both in the state and out of state, both in and out of the country. To move forward, you’ve got to be looking forward and that’s what the NDUS has got to do.

jON hAMLINTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Jon Hamlin is the Managing/Opinion Editor for The Dakota

Student. He can be reached at jon.s.hamlin@my.und.edu

DSU scandal shakes NDUS

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our friendship with some ladies since we always have fun together,” Fixell said. As various women from all over the world responded, they began documenting their experiences via online video blogs. After about 200 double dates, they translated their education into a monthly comedy show at the People’s Improv Theater in New York City, N.Y.

Many of their shows there have been for sold-out crowds. They’ve also been featured on TV shows such as The Colbert Report on Comedy Central and The Millionaire Matchmaker on Bravo.

Their most recent project is their national college tour. The next show on the tour is tonight at 8 p.m. at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn.

For more information on Dave and Ethan or to watch their on-line videos, visit their website at daveandethan.com, like their page on Facebook or follow them on Twitter.

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The May deadline is

quickly approaching for UND’s North Dakota Space Robotics Program. The students in the program are feeling the

pressure to create a CubeSat satellite prototype and have it ready to be launched in three months.The NDSRP is an inter-campus program that is sponsored

by the North Dakota NASA Space Grant.Eight computer science students, four electrical engineering

students, and one mechanical engineering student are participating in the North Dakota Space Robotics Program, resulting in a statewide effort to develop a CubeSat satellite-engineering prototype.

“Right now we’re working with Dickinson State to create this prototype, but in the future we’re hoping to get multiple campuses across the state involved,” said Jeremy Straub, the student program director at UND.

“We are fortunate enough to have one space study member, two electrical engineering faculty members, and one mechanical engi-neering faculty member helping us out with this project. Their exper-tise will really come in handy.”

A CubeSat satellite is a miniaturized satellite utilized for space research. The NDSRP satellite is about four inches in length,

height and width. It weighs less than three pounds. “This satellite does basically everything a normal satellite does. It has visual sensors and is able

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“Put Your Back N 2 It,” Seattle-based artist Perfume Ge-nius’s follow-up to his 2008 de-but “Learning” is an album that should not be judged based off of its title.

Given modern pop music’s sudden urge to use internet short hand in their song titles it would be easy to glance at the album’s name and assume it’s an album that is upbeat, emotionless and probably hard to get all the way through.

“Put Your Back N 2 It” is the exact opposite.

The brainchild of Perfume Genius, singer/songwriter Mike Hadreas, is a very emotional and personal project very much deserves to be listened to all the way through.

The opening track “Awol Marine” opens the album with soft piano keys and Hadreas’s

*****MUSICREVIEW“Put Your Back N 2 It”

MATTHEW ROYTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Perfume Genius hits all the right notes with new albumhaunting, almost inaudible vo-cals.

Hadreas has an amazing voice and that is one of the main draws of this album. It’s almost some beautiful hybrid of Sufjan Stevens and Fleet Foxes’s front-man Robin Pecknold.

It’s his vocals that give the songs on the album such a per-sonal and intimate feel that it may almost be a little off-put-ting to the listener at first.

During “No Tears” when he sings “I will carry on with grace/see no tears/see no tears on my face” it sounds like Hadreas is in fact holding back tears and con-vincing himself not to cry.

Because the album is so per-sonal, it’s no surprise that a lot of these songs come from real life experiences of Hadreas.

Hadreas has discussed his past substance abuse and the challenges that he went through being accepted as a gay man. The experiences play a big role in these songs.

“All Waters” finds Hadreas wondering and hopeful for the future that doesn’t judge upon sexual orientation. “When I can take your hand/on any crowded street/and hold you close to me/

with no hesitating.”The track “17” which

Hadreas has described as being a suicide letter the repetition of “I am done/I am done with it” is very haunting. Perhaps even adding to this is the length of the songs.

The longest song on the al-bum is 3:16, so each song almost seems like separate ideas, which eventually all come together.

While most of the album is slow and downbeat, on the track “Hood” things build up wonder-fully as Hadreas sings “I tick like a bomb” and the song transitions into a much faster-paced song than the rest of the album.

“Put Your Back N 2 It” is not what many would consider to be an easy listen.

Hadreas demands your at-tention with his personal and intimate songs.

Give them your attention and you will discover the beauty behind these songs.

Even though songs may deal with topics such as suicide and

substance abuse there is an up-lifting feeling to the album as well.

Few artists these days have

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ferences make up for that,” Straub said.

It will be flown to space at-tached to a high altitude balloon.

The small size of a Cubesat al-lows more of them to be created at a cost much less than producing normal-sized satellites.

“The Airforce and NASA are interested in using these CubeSat satellites,” Straub said. “They’re be-coming the new thing.”

CUBE FROM PAGE[7] The May launching will take

place at central location between the two campuses involved. Following a successful test flight and recovery, it will be retooled and launched as North Dakota’s first satellite.

“I’m just excited about the whole project!” Straub said. “The actual launch will by far be the best part, but using a variety of designs and different activities and tech-niques to make the launch possible is just as fun.”

The NDSRP is part of the North Dakota Space Consortium.

The consortium gets North Dakota faculty, students and K-12 teachers and students involved in space-related research and experi-ments.

It also strives to educate the North Dakota residents about NASA, its purpose and its missions.

For more information about the NDSRP and the N.D. Space Con-sortium, visit http://ndspacegrant.und.edu/.

Emily Aasand is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be

reached at emily.aasand@my.und.

the ability to reach the level of inti-macy with their songs that Hadreas has reached, thanks to his soft voice

and personal lyrics. While it may not be for everyone, those who feel music to-

day lacks these qualities previously mentioned will no doubt love “Put Your Back N 2 It.”

It’s the kind of album that rewards you for coming back as well as listening to it all the way through.

For a complete discography and tour dates you can check out Perfume Genius’s MySpace page: myspace.com/kewlmagik.

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Matthew Roy is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at matthew.roy.2@my.und.edu

UND holds a 7-5 record against non-con-ference opponents, (S. Oregon is in the NAIA) since the DI transition.

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UND basketball outguns UTPA Broncs

STRENGTH The men’s basketball team ex-tended their home-win streak to nine.

BRANDON BECKERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

Sophomore Jamal Webb keyed a 10-0 run to start the game for the Fighting Sioux with fi ve points, as the University of North Dakota cruised to a victory over Texas-Pan American 86-60 this past Monday at the Betty Engelstad Sioux Center. The win was UND’s biggest of the season and it moved the Sioux (14-14, 5-4) into a tie with the Broncs

(11-19, 5-4) for second place in the Great West Conference.

The Sioux rode hot 3-point shooting from the hands of several players throughout the contest. Se-nior Patrick Mitchell and sopho-mores Aaron Anderson and Webb all hit three treys during the contest. As a team the Sioux shot 14-of-28 from beyond the arc, eight of which came in the fi rst half to help give UND a halftime lead of 44-20.

“Our offense was consistent all night. We did a great job with the tempo, pushing the tempo and re-ally sharing the ball... This is how you want to be playing going into March,” UND head coach Brian Jones said.

UTPA was unable to get past UND’s defense throughout the night as the Sioux clamped down and gave a defensive effort that had Jones happy at the end of the game. The Broncs shot just 34.4 percent from the fi eld (21-61) and were even worse in the fi rst half shooting just 29.6 percent.

The surprise of the game was the strong play from little used fresh-man Lenny Antwi, who gave the Sioux a spark off the bench. Antwi scored seven points in the fi rst half and fi nished with a career-high 11 for the game. “It felt like today was one of our best games defensively and offensively,” Antwi said. The Broncs also received a strong effort

off the bench. Josh Cleveland came off the pine and recorded a double-double fi nishing with 15 points and 11 boards, but his teammates were unable to give him much help. The only other Bronc to fi nish in double fi gures was senior Jared Maree, who fi nished with 10 points.

UND was led by Webb’s hot shooting as he tallied a game-high 19 points and eight assists to go with a team-high eight rebounds. He was joined in double fi gures by team-mates Mitchell (11), Anderson (15), Antwi and sophomore Josh Schuler (11).

A look forwardUND will wrap up its regular

season schedule tomorrow at 2 p.m.

against GWC foe Utah Valley. The Wolverines come into the contest 9-0 in conference play and have a chance to fi nish perfect within the GWC if they can beat the Sioux. There is plenty on the line for the Sioux too, who can gain at least a share of second place with a win over the Wolverines.

A win would also give the Sioux a winning regular season and mo-mentum as they look to win the GWC tournament for the second consecutive season. The tournament will take place March 8 through the 10 in Chicago, Ill.Brandon Becker is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at brandon.becker2@

my.und.edu

In describing North Dakota’s perilous playoff situation with three weeks to go until college hockey’s Se-lection Sunday, the clichés pile up.

“I think we’re right on the bub-ble,” captain Mario Lamoureux said.

Or put another way—it’s crunch time. The Fighting Sioux (18-12-3, 14-11-1 Western Collegiate Hockey Association) will fi nish up their regu-lar season slate this weekend against Minnesota State with work left to do in order to solidify their chances of

Men’s hockey set to skate with Mavs’FINALE The men’s Sioux team prepares for postseason with fi nal home MSU series.

TIMOTHY BOGERTHEDAKOTASTUDENT

another NCAA tournament appear-ance in 2012.

The mighty Pairwise Rankings peg the Sioux at 14th, and for now, that’s good enough. But three weeks is still a lot of time for UND to move up or down those ranks.

Regardless, coach Dave Hakstol’s mind has another cliché in mind: One game at a time.

“We control one thing: we con-trol how we play Friday night,” Hak-stol said. “That’s in our hands. I don’t spend a lot of time on the computer trying to fi gure out the numbers. I know where we’re at. I know that the best way to affect or improve where you’re at is by winning. We’re trying to spend our time worrying about hav-ing a good hockey game and how we prepare for Friday night.”

North Dakota went into its fi nal regular season series last year assured of a fi rst place seed in the WCHA (along with the MacNaughton Cup, of course), guaranteed a NCAA tour-nament berth and well on its way to securing one of the top seeds (which they ended up attaining). This season, nothing is guaranteed, outside of the fact that they will host a fi rst round conference playoff series next week at Ralph Engelstad Arena. The Sioux are still in position to construct, or destroy, a playoff resumé in their fi nal games.

The complex Pairwise Rank-ings reign supreme, but Lamoureux knows there’s no reason to fret about what UND cannot change in the na-tional picture.

“If you start worrying about it too

much, you get away from what you need to do to solidify that,” he said. “So staying focused on the next game, next period, next shift is all you have to worry about.”

This weekend, Minnesota State (12-20-2, 8-16-2 WCHA) plays the part of spoiler. Mathematically, the Mavericks can only make the tourna-ment if they storm in as the WCHA tournament winner. That creates a bit of a catch-22 scenario for the Sioux; a sweep won’t get them to the next rung of the Pairwise ladder, but any-thing less than one might torpedo their hopes of controlling their own destiny.

“We have to play with an attitude this weekend that we have to take both games or there’s a chance we won’t get in,” Lamoureux said.

That won’t be easy against the Mavericks, who have squeaked out a winning record of 7-6-1 in the second half.

“Every week brings a different challenge and Minnesota State’s a real good hockey team,” Hakstol said. “They’re probably playing their best hockey of the year.

“But I think for our team, it’s the same approach. We’re worrying about what we’re doing. We’ve got to im-prove our game. We’ve got to improve the consistency of our game from the drop of the puck through 60 or 65 minutes and that’s what we’re work-ing on.”

Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can

be reached at timothy.boger@my.und.edu

Senior center Mike Mathison

Sophomore forward Brandon Brekke

Junior guard Jordan Allard

Sophomore guard Jamal Webb

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The NBA All-Star game (ASG) 2012 tipped off last Sun-day in Orlando, Florida.

Some would call this year’s game the Kevin and Kobe show, referring to Kevin Durant and Kobe Bryant.

Durant, originally from the Oklahoma City Thunder, fin-ished the game with 36 points and accomplished an MVP per-formance.

L.A. Laker Kobe Bryant scored 27 points and broke Mi-chael Jordan’s record of 262 All-Star points on a dunk with 4:57 left in the third quarter.

He now has 271 points for his overall career. Bryant en-tered with 244 and passed Oscar Robertson with 246 points and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar with 251 earlier in the game.

The East had a tough time coming back against the West and lost the game 152-149.

The NBA All-Star game oc-curs every year with the best players from the Eastern Confer-ence and the Western Confer-ence.

The All-Stars are voted in by position, chosen by other coaches from particular confer-ences. Each team is coached by the coach of the team with the best record in each conference as of January 31.

This years teams were filled with players who have appeared in multiple All-Star games.

The starters from the East consisted of guard, Dwayne Wade of the Miami Heat; shoot-ing guard Derrick Rose of the Chicago Bulls, center Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic, forward LeBron James from the Miami Heat and forward Car-melo Anthony New York Knicks.

The 2012 All-Star game

All-Star game displays unfairnessFAVORITISM Does the team affiliation deter-mine playing time for athletes in the NBA?

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marked the third consecutive ap-pearance in the All-Star game for Derrick Rose. For Miami Heat stars Dwayne Wade and LeBron James, Sunday’s game marked their eighth appearance. Car-melo Anthony played his fifth appearance in the game but only his second time representing the East. Dwight Howard received the most votes this year, mak-ing it his sixth appearance in the ASG.

The starters from the West were filled with All Stars like Bryant, Durant, Chris Paul, a guard from the LA Clippers, for-ward Andrew Bynum of the LA Lakers and forward Blake Grif-fin from the LA Clippers. Grif-fin played his second consecutive game while Chris Paul made his fifth consecutive ASG appear-ance.

Yes I’m wondering the same thing, why does all of this matter and what is the point!?

Don’t get me wrong, being chosen to play in an All-Star game is a huge accomplishment for any player, and some play-ers are even happy just being reserves, but what does all this really mean?

The NBA needs to learn how to turn the All-Star game into must see TV. As of now, the only r e l e v a n c y of the game is for all stars, to ult imately show off. No one wants to get hurt (Sorry Ko-be’s nose) and no one wants to jeopardize the remainder of the season. The lack of effort in the NBA All-Star Game is depressing.

The All-Star game is in place to showcase the most impressive, talented and competitive players from teams in the NBA.

A selection to the All-Star team, in turn, is valuable mar-keting for your franchise and

gives consistent NBA fans an in-centive to become acclimated to the league’s talent.

After the All-Star game is played, the lesser-informed fan gets a chance to be exposed the NBA and pick favorites to watch for the second portion of the cur-rent season. This makes sense.

The ASG is essentially a teaching moment, a marketing tactic and a way to bring the best of the best together in one game.

I would argue that having 80-percent of the starters from the same team, defeats the pur-pose of the game. I think the players voted in the 2012 All-Star all deserved to be there.

There is no doubt that credit should be given to talent and hard work and consequently, re-warded to the leaders. However, at end of the day the match is a meaningless scrimmage that de-cides nothing.

All of the starters from the West were all from LA. Either the Clippers or the Lakers. There is no doubt that Kobe Bryant deserved to play in the All-Star game after holding the title of leading scorer in the NBA.

To level the playing field, there should not be more than one person from each team on each All-Star squad.

Yes, Bry-ant and Chris Paul are the two biggest stars from the Lakers, but did Chris Paul really deserve to be a start-ing candidate over Steve Nash from the Phoenix Suns? Nash is

averaging over two more assists a game than Chris Paul is, how-ever Nash only played 5 minutes in the game.

My question is why would Blake Griffin get to start over an up and coming player like Kevin Love from the Minnesota Tim-berwolves?

Love is currently averaging 25.0 points per game, more than Griffin’s 21.4 points per game, and leads the West in rebounds with 14.0 per game, significantly higher than Griffin’s 11.4 per game.

Firstly I think that there should not be more than one player from each team in the NBA, and if there is, they should not all be from the same city. The game is pointless as it is.

I truly believe that the suc-cess that the West had on Sunday was due to the team chemistry between the teammates within the team.

With respect to all the play-ers from L.A., I have never been a Lakers or a Clippers fan, which leads me to the conclusion of why people may not have tuned in last Sunday.

The “All Star” game should have been advertised as the “LA stars” game, to be a bit more can-did with its viewers.

‘To level the playing field, there should not be more than one person from each team on the All-Star squad.

Namara Kibirastaff writer

Namara Kibira is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at namara30@aol.com

Is MN All-Star Kevin Love receiving the same credit as his peers?

Does All-Star Blake Griffin garner more favoritism for playing in Los Angeles?

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Friday March 2, 201212

In the past week there were quite a few disruptions to the “team of 18,000,” with players being moved to different teams.

The Minnesota Wild rebuilt their blue line as the trade dead-line came and went. The first player to fall vic-tim to the t r a d i n g was former Wild de-f e n s e m a n M a r e k Z i d l i c k y, who was traded to the New Jer-sey Devils earlier in the week.

The Wild received a lot for a little in the Zidlicky trade. They received two former Wild play-ers defenseman Kurtis Foster, and forward Stephane Veilleux, plus new addition right winger Nick Palmieri.

The Wild also gathered a sec-ond round draft pick for 2012 and a conditional third round draft pick in 2013. With the Wild receiving five players for one, it seems that they emerged victorious in this deal.

Not to put down the playing ability of Marek Zidlicky, but he wasn’t performing the way the Wild wanted, and he also wanted a new opportunity with a new team.

A few days later the trade deadline was about to arrive and the Wild’s general manager Chuck Fletcher wasn’t done making waves with the team.

Veteran defenseman Nick Schultz was the next victim of the trade. He was sent to Ed-monton in exchange for Minne-sotan Tom Gilbert.

Schultz had been a member of the Wild organization since the start and had always been a strong force on the blue line. He was also the leader in games played for the Wild and is very active in charities.

Tom Gilbert went to high school at Bloomington Jeffer-son and was coached by Tom Saterdalen. He’s a strong, gritty defenseman that can hold his ground and can tally points. It was sad to see Schultz go, being

Wild trades in Minn.SHOCKING For team betterment, fan favor-ites depart and arrive in new environments.

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he was such a fan favorite, but these things happen in sports. Sometimes to improve the team, fan favorites have to leave the locker room.

Hopefully this trade will work out best for both sides and each player can contribute to their respective team.

The last Wild player to be-come part of the trading block was defenseman Greg Zanon. He used to be paired with Marek Zidlicky, and Zanon was a shot-blocking machine. He was the

Wild’s leading shot blocker for the time he was on the team, and he sacrificed his body many times to block the puck.

He even played on a broken foot

that he received when blocking a shot.

Zanon brought true dedica-

‘Sometimes to im-prove a team, fan fa-vorites have to leave the locker room.

Mariah Hollandstaff writer

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tion and experience to the Wild. He is now in Boston and the Wild received Steven Kampfer in return.

Kampfer is a young and up-coming defenseman, who doesn’t have a lot of experience playing in the NHL yet. The fans will have to wait and see what the young defenseman can do when he has a chance to prove himself.

Kurtis Foster, Tom Gilbert, Nick Palmieri and Stephane Vei-ulleux have all played in games for the team and look to make an impact as the Wild hopes to make playoffs.

Hopefully with these new ac-quisitions the Wild can make a run for the Stanley Cup and have a great rest of the season. With Minnesota only eight points be-hind the eighth seed in confer-ence play, it is not uncharacter-istic to have a little optimism for the revamped squad.

Mariah Holland is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at marholl99@hotmail.

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