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University police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two persons of interest who may be in-volved with vandalism of the recently placed Bison statue.

Several individuals may be involved, but there are two persons of interest the police would like help

identifying through photos.The incident occurred at

approximately 11:40 p.m. on Oct.6, according to an email sent by Director of Univer-sity Police Ray Boyer on Wednesday.

Several individu-als were observed getting out of a vehicle in front of the NDSU library. The in-dividuals crossed the street toward the Bison statue, then climbed and jumped on the statue.

“During the time the indi-viduals were at the location,

it appears at least one indi-vidual intentionally vandal-ized the Bison,” the email read. The individuals left the area when another vehicle approached the scene.

University Police Chief Bill Vandal said he does not assume the persons of in-terests are NDSU students. “They are just two people of interest that we’d like to visit with…We’d like to just get the information, identify them, bring them in just to have a talk with them and see where it goes from there,”

Vandal said.He said a few people

have provided information, and he would appreciate the student’s, faculty’s and staff’s help identifying the two individuals.

“Even though the images I will admit are not the most clear, I believe if people know the person, they will be able to identify them us-ing these photos,” Vandal said.

If anyone has information about the people in the pho-tos, they can communicate

the message using the NDSU Police tip line for voice mail and text messaging at 701-526-6006. This new tip line was introduced as part of the “See something, Say some-thing” campaign at NDSU. This tip line allows infor-mants to remain somewhat anonymous; anonymity cannot be guaranteed under North Dakota open records laws.

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For seven years, “Honor, Humor, Hope” has been the motto spoken in the Hotel Donaldson as they make Bras on Broadway a success in the Fargo/Moorhead area. This year, for the first time,

Bras on Broadway hosted Deck the Bras, an all-age, gender neutral bra decorat-ing party to raise awareness and money for breast cancer.

Unlike other breast cancer focused fundraisers, Bras on Broadway works with the American Can-cer Society, and the money raised through Bras on Broadway stays in North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. The money is

put primarily toward gas cards for women who have to commute to get treatment for breast cancer.

“The idea for Bras on Broadway came from when a friend said to me ‘hey, my sister was at an event where the artists in the community made these beau-tiful bras and auctioned them off. The Hotel Donaldson is all about art in our region, so what do you think?’ and I

said, ‘I think it’s a great try,’” said Karen Stoker, owner of the Hotel Donaldson.

The first Bras on Broadway event sold out, raising over $13,000.

“It’s grown to wear-able work, non-wearable work, being able to donate online, we form teams, we’re having this bra decorating party, and last year we raised $102,000,” said Stoker.

Deck the Bras is

something new to Bras on Broadway this year. A casual bra decorating party with 40 people in attendance sparked the idea last year.

“We thought ‘wouldn’t it be cool if we were the pancake feed of bra decorating?’” said Stoker,

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Police Ask for Help Identifying Persons of Interest

All-age, Gender Neutral Bra Decorating Party Raises Awareness

Bison statue vandalized

Fargo/Moorhead community members decorated bras at the Deck the Bras event to raise awareness and funds for breast cancer.

Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan met to further differentiate the tickets they represent during the vice presidential debate Thursday night in Danville, Kentucky.

Issues covered during the debate began with Libya and proceeded to defense spend-ing, Iran, abortion and when to bring the troops home.

This was the first debate between the two tickets that involved a discussion of how each candidate would deal with foreign policies.

Ryan and Biden dis-cussed the recent murdering of a U.S. Ambassador. Ryan stated that he would make sure all ambassadors had Marine guards, while Biden stated that a request for a guard had never been made, so one was never assigned.

Ryan illustrated the de-fense budget and how he and Mitt Romney will keep the budget strong and growing. Biden illustrated how he and Obama will continue to cut back defense spending.

Biden reiterated the stance on having all the troops withdrawn from the Middle East by 2014. Ryan said that they would like to do that, but in 2013 they will analyze the situation and then make a decision.

On the economy, both candidates guaranteed that they could get unemploy-ment below six percent. Biden answered the question first, stating he could not pre-dict a certain time that this goal would be accomplished, but that it was a top prior-ity. Ryan stated as well that getting unemployment down would be his ticket’s main goal, but said the timeline would be variable as well.

Abortion was brought up for the first time in this series of debates.

Ryan answered the ques-tion first, stating that he is pro-life, and explained how his Catholic faith influences his decisions. However, un-der the circumstances of

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Memorial Union Ballroom

Campus Attractions Lively Arts: Deuces Wild! Dueling Pianos

7 p.m.Festival Concert Hall

Facing the Foibles of Gender: Encounters with the Silly Creatures [Guest Speaker]

NoonMU Arikara Room

Campus Attractions Movie: “The Sixth Sense”

7 p.m.MU Century Theater

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rape, incest and saving the life of the mother, an abortion is acceptable, Ryan said. Biden explained that he is also Catholic and he per-sonally is pro-life, but does not believe the government should decide when an abor-tion is acceptable or not.

The subject of Iran’s de-velopment of nuclear weap-ons was brought up and discussed at length. Both candidates agreed that this was unacceptable in any ad-

ministration. Biden and Ryan disagreed when they debated about how close the Iranians were to actually making a missile.

Ryan said that the Irani-ans are four years closer than before when Obama was elected. He also said that an attack would soon be a real threat.

Biden disagreed. “If you listen to these guys, the sky is falling down,” Biden said. He said that missiles are a

long way away from being a reality, due to the Iranian’s lack of infrastructure.

Two presidential debates remain. The presidential can-didates will discuss foreign and domestic policy on Oct. 16 in Hempstead, New York. The last debate will be held on Oct. 22 in Boca Ranton, Fla., exclusively on the is-sues of foreign policy. All debates can be viewed on major news outlets at 8 p.m. central time.

Student and community volunteers across North Da-kota helped the elderly in community service projects in United Way’s annual Day of Caring event Thursday.

The purpose of the event is to serve senior citizens of the Cass and Clay coun-ties that require assistance, Thomas Hill, community impact director of the United Way of Cass Clay County, said.

“We send out registration forms to over 800 seniors in the community and invite

them to find projects they need help with,” Hill said.

Businesses, individuals, groups, high schools and colleges may all volunteer and are put on teams.

The service teams are matched up with senior citizens who need help with indoor and outdoor chores such as cleaning out gutters, raking leaves, painting and dusting.

The goal is to “get in-dividuals and businesses involved with volunteer projects throughout the com-munity,” Hill said.

Day of Caring started in 1991 with 150 volunteers in a few homes.

The event has expanded in 21 years to now serve

over 410 seniors in the com-munity and now organizes more than 2,000 student vol-unteers statewide and 1,365 local volunteers, Hill said.

Mark Staples, a student council representative from West Fargo High School and the vice president of North Dakota Association of Stu-dent Councils, volunteered last year at the United Way Day of Caring.

Staples thought more students could volunteer. He suggested the event be a statewide volunteer day in-stead of just a local one for the first time in 20 years.

According to Hill, Sta-ples wanted a community project that would involve students across the state.

“Just the experience I had with that [Day of Caring] was just so cool. I thought everyone should be involved in something like that,” Staples said, reported in the Fargo Forum.

Students at NDSU are encouraged to come out and help. It can be a team building activity that builds friendships and bonds, Hill said.

“We value and encourage college students’ participa-tion and involvement in our community,” he said. “We want to hear from college students and mobilize them around issues they are pas-sionate about!”

The United Way Day of Caring took place from 1 to

4:30 p.m. Thursday. There are over 75 pro-

grams United Way supports and many other ways to get involved, Hill said.

The United Way orga-nization is unique to each community it serves. Each service project and program has specific needs to reach out to in the Cass Clay com-munity.

“Please contact me di-rectly… so we know how to assist you in mobilizing vol-unteer projects,” Hill said.

If students are interested in volunteering at another event, contact Thomas Hill at [email protected], or for more information visit www.unitedwaycass-clay.org.

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Family members of NDSU students visited cam-pus last weekend to partici-pate in campus life with their student in a relaxed environ-ment.

Parents, siblings, grand-parents and other fam-ily members could attend classes with their student on Friday as well as other scheduled activities through-out the weekend. Many fam-ily members had not visited campus since the hectic ori-entation weekend when they helped their students arrange classes, move into residence halls and get settled in.

Orientation and Student Success has organized the family weekend since 1996 so that families have an op-portunity to experience a

usual day at NDSU Nancy Mueller, the Student Servic-

es Coordinator, said.The 212 family units

registered for last weekends Family Weekend could see what campus is really like for their students Mueller said.

“To come back, relax, maybe view their student’s classroom,” Mueller said. “Just kind of hang out on campus and it gives parents a good reason to come back.”

Most family members come to campus on Saturday to attend the home football game Mueller said.

Brenda Thompson was visiting her student on fam-ily weekend. Her family at-tended the game, which she said was fun even though the Bison lost.

Thompson said it was nice to see everyone “more in the groove” this weekend compared to the last time she was here on hectic move in day last August.

“It’s an opportunity to get more familiar with campus

and a great time to see our student,” Thompson said.

Not all families could at-tend the Bison game. Muel-ler said getting tickets was trickier this year because the Bison are now division one.

“Tickets are sold out and that makes people unhappy,”

Mueller said. To combat this a “Fam-

ily Weekend Football Game Watch Party” was scheduled. Family members who could not get tickets could watch the game in the Great Plains Ballroom of the Memorial Union. Concession food was for sale as well.

There was also a pre-game barbeque with food and entertainment at the Bi-son Sports arena.

The families responded well to the event especially the food. Thompson said, “The pre-game barbeque was phenomenal!”

A new event scheduled this year was the NDSU Showcase in the Memorial Union. The Family Weekend schedule described the event as “Interactive displays that demonstrate NDSU’s role as a student-focused, land grant, research university.”

Some activities were a tornado machine presented by Dr. Adnan Akyuz, the state climatologist, Histori-cal photos and clothing from

NDSU Archives and Family photos with Thundar.

Orientation and Student Success also coordinate with NDSU community to orga-nize the weekend.

Campus organizations are asked if they have any events they would like high-lighted in the Family Week-end schedule.

Campus Attractions film picks a family friendly film to be played Friday and Sat-urday nights during Family Weekend. Last weekend’s film was Disney/Pixar’s “Up!” The film was free to students and their families.

In the past more than 500 family members have attended NDSU’s Family Weekend. Mueller said ap-proximately 97% of fami-lies are visiting campus to see their freshman students, though some families come every year their students are enrolled. Some parents with multiple students come ev-ery year also.

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The Bison statue is locat-ed south of the South Engi-neering building at the corner of Albrecht and 12th Avenue North. Jim and Sandra Ro-ers, Ronald and Kaye Olson and family, and 2011-2012 Student Government were all contributors to the do-nated statue. It was donated in memory of Les Pavek and Michael William Barner.

Vandal said the vandalism damage occurred within the Bison Plaza, the landscaping area around the statue. He did not comment on specific damage inflicted to the mon-ument. Lights on the monu-ment appear damaged.

At this point in the inves-tigation, individuals who are responsible for vandalizing the statue could face crimi-

nal mischief charges, Vandal said. Other individuals who may be involved but do not say anything to police could face charges of intentional withholding of information.

Vandal described van-dalism as a destruction of property - any action that causes damage in a mon-etary amount. Climbing on the statue is not considered vandalism, but it is preferred that people to not climb on the statue for safety reasons, Vandal said.

“When your mind switch-es over to you’re doing something to someone else’s property that you wouldn’t do to your own, that’s proba-bly an indication that you are moving towards vandalism,” Vandal said.

A similar incident oc-curred when the Bison sculp-ture south of the Bison Sports Arena was heavily vandal-ized and removed as a result in 2002.

Other incidents of vandal-ism have occurred within the past year, but that is not un-common activity on a college campus, Vandal said.

He does not believe that Homecoming festivities had an influence on the damage inflicted on the statue, other than the fact that Homecom-ing draws more people to campus, he said.

Like other crimes, van-dalism is more common during warmer weather and places with a large amount of foot traffic, he explained.

University Police ask that anyone with information regarding these two persons of interest notify officials using the NDSU Police voicemail and text messaging tip line at 701-526-6006.

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ideas of a really great team of people, we’re at the Civ-ic with music and root beer floats. At the hotel where we auction off bras and non-wearables, it has sold out every year. This is a kicked-back, casual way for every-one to come, have fun and contribute money.”

Breast Cancer sur-vivors and women currently diagnosed with breast cancer can be seen in attendance at many different Bras on

Broadway events, modeling and making bras and helping to spread awareness. Bras on Broadway provides scholar-ships for these women each year to bring them to a na-tional convention of breast cancer survivors.

College students in the community also get involved. NDSU students baked cupcakes, took or-ders and raised money at the Deck the Bras event, and college students are encour-aged to form teams, register

online and collect bras and money to donate.

“MSUM students went through the women’s dorms and collected old bras. It’s easy to do, register, col-lect bras and $5 each, and whoever donates the most wins a party,” said Stoker. “MSUM is currently beating NDSU.”

A lot of residual events come from Bras on Broadway as well. Other business owners who have been directly or indirectly af-

fected by breast cancer spon-sor events during October to fundraise money for Bras on Broadway. Others donate some of their proceeds from the month of October to the organization.

“It’s good to know people are helping their neighbors,” said Stoker.

Bras on Broadway bene-fits more than just the Fargo/Moorhead community by raising awareness. One in eight women are diagnosed with breast cancer, and a

small percent of men are also affected.

“Women have breasts, we wear bras, one in eight get cancer,” said Stok-er. “The more we talk about it, the more we take care of ourselves and learn, the bet-ter off we will be.”

The Deck the Bras events took place 7-10 p.m. at the Civic Center Tuesday.

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Paula Deen would be proud of this recipe. There is enough butter to make her heart melt and give her dia-betes all over again.

This recipe came from a blog called “browneyed-baker.”

These salty caramel chocolate cupcakes are a necessity this fall. The fla-vors of fall seem to be found everywhere, which include pumpkin, salty caramel and apple cinnamon.

Just like at Starbucks, the pumpkin spice latte gets its time to shine, yet the salted caramel mocha gets lost somewhere in its cinnamon-y shadow.

But this isn’t Starbucks, and these cupcakes deserve a lot more attention as an autumn must-have. Every-thing about this recipe is homemade -- including the caramel.

However, don’t panic if you’ve never made home-made caramel before. I was surprised to learn that I had never made homemade cara-mel before making these cupcakes and now I feel like a caramel connoisseur … or something like that.

These sweet cupcakes are delicately balanced with a tiny bit of sea salt to give it incredible dimension and an added flavor kick.

The cupcake batter is incredibly moist, the frost-ing rich and smooth, and the caramel sweet and salty.

Skill level: difficultYield: 2 dozen cupcakesCupcake ingredients:1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon

Hershey’s Unsweetened Co-coa

1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon hot water

2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour

3/4 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda1/2 teaspoon salt1 cup plus 1 tablespoon

unsalted butter at room tem-perature

1 2/3 cups granulated sugar

3 large eggs1 tablespoon vanilla ex-

tract3/4 cup sour creamFrosting ingredients:1 cup unsalted butter at

room temperature1 standard package of

cream cheese at room tem-perature (8 ounces)

1/2 cup salted caramel sauce

4 cups powdered sugarSalty caramel sauce in-

gredients:12 tablespoons unsalted

butter at room temperature2 cups granulated sugar1 cup heavy whipping

cream at room temperature

1 tablespoon sea saltDirections for the cup-

cakes:Preheat oven to 350 de-

grees Fahrenheit. Place cup-cake liners in a muffin pan.

Wisk together the hot water, cocoa powder and 1/4 teaspoon of the baking soda in a small bowl. Set aside. Wisk together the flour, re-mainder of the baking soda, baking powder and salt.

Place the butter and sugar over medium heat in a sauce-pan until the butter is melted. Dump the mixture in an elec-tric mixing bowl and beat the mixture on medium speed for 4 minutes until it is cool.

Add the eggs, vanilla and cocoa mixture. Mix extreme-ly well until smooth.

Adjust the speed to low and alternate adding the flour mixture and sour cream. Begin and end with the flour mixture and mix until smooth.

Fill each cupcake liner 2/3 full. Bake for 18-20 min-utes and allow the cupcakes to cool in the pan for 10 min-utes. Once they’ve cooled in the pan, place them on a wire rack to finish cooling.

Directions for the salty caramel sauce:

Place the sugar evenly on the bottom of a large, heavy

saucepan over medium-high heat. Whisk the sugar once it begins to melt and forms clumps. The clumps will eventually melt away.

Quit whisking when all of the sugar has melted. Swirl the pan until it reaches a deep amber color and has somewhat of a toasted smell. Cook until your thermom-eter reads 350 degrees Fahr-enheit.

Add the butter all at once as soon as the caramel reach-es 350 degrees and continue to whisk. Allow all of the butter to melt.

Once the butter is com-pletely melted, add the whip-ping cream very slowly. It will become very violently bubbly, so don’t be alarmed. Whisk the mixture well and then add the salt. The mix-ture should be smooth.

After it is finished being whisked, allow the mixture to cool for 10-15 minutes. Place in a mason jar and re-frigerate for up to 2 weeks. The caramel may be heated up once it has been cooled.

Directions for the frost-ing:

Beat the butter and cream cheese on medium-high speed for 4-5 minutes. Mix in the salty caramel sauce until incorporated. Slowly add in the powdered sugar in 4 different increments until all combined. Mix for 2-3 minutes until light and fluffy.

Spread the frosting on the cupcakes with a spatula or with a piping bag. Top with salty caramel sauce and a pinch of sea salt.

Smoking, drinking, avoiding exercise and prac-ticing unhealthy eating hab-its are common health risks that affect society. However, research suggests that so-cial interaction is as equally important as the aforemen-tioned health hazards and de-serves the acknowledgement that likewise it can be harm-ful to one’s health if abused.

A study published in PLOS Medicine journal sup-ports this assertion, stating: “people who have strong ties to family, friends or cowork-ers have a 50 percent lower risk of dying over a given period than those with fewer social connections.”

Along with increasing longevity, social interaction has also proven to enhance the physical fitness of indi-viduals who intermingle of-ten.

Researchers at Brigham Young University have found that “having few friends or weak social ties to the com-munity is just as harmful to health as being an alcoholic or smoking nearly a pack of cigarettes a day.”

Their study continued, summarizing weak social ties as being “more harmful than not exercising and twice as risky as being obese.”

The idea behind holding social interaction in such high regard is not to label certain individuals as loners or draw negative attention to introversion. In fact, intro-verts can be perfectly healthy due to the fact that they are “energized by solitary,” as Psychology Today words it.

Frequently, introverts are characterized as shy, or even

that they have a personality disorder or social phobia.

Most introverts, however, are fully capable of socializ-ing—they simply choose not to. An article in Psychology Today explains, “the self-styled introvert can be more empathic and interperson-ally connected than his or her outgoing counterparts.”

Nevertheless, if you know you are an introvert, make the effort to surround yourself with other people -- peers, family, friends or even friendly strangers -- at least once every day.

Forming, building and maintaining social relation-ships can help reduce your stress levels, build your con-fidence by providing emo-tional, psychological, and physical support and im-prove your positive outlook on life, according to a 2004 study published in American Psychologist.

Instead of setting up camp in your room -- becom-ing best friends with Netflix

or gossiping via Facebook -- try scheduling social outings into your daily life.

Grab a bite to eat in a campus dining center be-tween classes, give a pass-erby a compliment, make frequent trips to the wellness center and call up mom just to chat.

Once you realize that being around other people makes you feel more ac-cepted, energetic and happy, you will understand how so-cial interaction truly benefits your health.

One of Brigham Young’s psychology professors, Ju-lianne Holt-Lunstad, puts a strong emphasis on the im-portance of social relation-ships, saying that they “en-courage us to eat healthy, get exercise, get more sleep, see a doctor,” and be much healthier individuals overall.

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Honest

Dear Honest Truth,My roommate just got a new boyfriend, and they seem like they really like each other and

are really happy together. It’s exciting because it is her first boyfriend that she’s had in college, and they’ve known each other for a few years now. However, it hasn’t even been a month and she’s already beginning to spend the night over at his house and I am left worried about whether or not she’s OK. It’s unlike her to get super wrapped up in a guy, but I feel like they’re moving a little too quickly. She’s constantly on her phone, not hanging out with her friends, and being really secretive about him; for example, she let him sleep over at our house, and felt ashamed about telling us about it. I’m not sure if me and my other roommate are comfortable with that. He seems like a great guy and cares for her, but I don’t know him well enough to be comfortable with him spending the night in her room. I want to be supportive of their relationship, but I find myself becoming uneasy about the whole thing as it progresses. Help!

Sincerely,Conflicted Cassy

Dear Conflicted Cassy,I understand where you’re coming from, because I had a similar situation happen with one

of my roommates when she began dating a new guy. They seemed great for each other, but it progressively got to the point where he was basically living with us. I was uncomfortable around him because he was trying to control the way we ran things at our house. For example, one day he complained that a cup wasn’t washed well enough and that we need to scrub the dishes more when we do them. Uh, excuse me! Who is he to tell us how to wash our dishes? Finally, I sat down with my roommate and her boyfriend and explained why I was upset about the way things were at the house, including the fact that I was uncomfortable with him sleeping in her room as well as him telling us how to do our chores. After that everything seemed to run more smoothly. He respected me, he didn’t sleep over anymore, and my roommate realized what a douche he really was and ended up dumping him. Everyone won in the end. Try just sitting them down, explaining what’s bothering you, and you’ll be surprised what a difference it’ll make in your house.

Sincerely,Insightful Bison

Dear Conflicted Casey,Even though you may be bothered by your roommate’s boyfriend sleeping over, you should

realize that she is an adult and adults may occasionally sleep in the same bed if they’re dating. If they’re disturbing you, then that’s one thing; however, if you’re simply bothered by the idea that they’re sleeping in the same bed, maybe that’s just an issue with your personal morals. That being said, perhaps you shoving your morals in your roommates face may not be the best idea. Perhaps let her just live her life and make choices on her own. Another thing you might want to do is have a heart-to-heart and explain to her how you’re feeling. Once she knows what you’re going through, perhaps she’ll be more understanding instead of thinking that you’re judging her. The last thing you probably want is to become distant toward one another, so talking through the entire situation will always get things out into the clear and help avoid miscommunication between each other.

Sincerely,Brown-eyed Bison


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On Oct. 20, The Rourke Art Museum in Moorhead will be displaying an exhibit showing off the work of Ger-man pop artist Moritz Götze.

Götze’s work has been on display in museums and art galleries all across Germany and much of Europe, but the Deutsche Kunst (German Art) exhibit marks his first foray into North American audiences.

The centerpiece of the show will be the artist’s take on German-American art-ist Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze’s painting “Washington Cross-ing the Delaware.” However, this version has been done as large-scale enamel with a de-cidedly ironic, modern twist. For instance, a man in the foreground of the piece can be seen scrutinizing a laptop during the titular event.

The centerpiece, much like the rest of the pieces in the exhibit, features the art-

ist’s bright and broad pop art design. Tania Blanich, exec-utive director of the Rourke Art Museum explained her thoughts on the artist in the exhibition’s press release.

“At first glance, his work seems to fall squarely in the Pop art tradition, with its bright, cheerful colors. But delving deeper, one finds an intriguing array of ar-tistic, historical and social commentary, from current politics to Prussian history to Manet’s Dejeuner Sur L’Herbe,” enthused Tania Blanich, Executive Director of the Rourke.

“We’re thrilled to show-case an artist of Moritz’s stat-ure. It’s particularly exciting to juxtapose his work with that of the pop artists includ-ed in our permanent collec-tion, including Lichtenstein, Rosenquist and Warhol.”

The exhibition begins on Oct. 20 and will run until Jan. 20, 2013. Curator and art his-torian Dr. Jörk Rothamel as well as the artist will also be holding a talk at 2 p.m. on Oct. 21. Throughout the ex-hibition’s run, the museum will also be hosting a number

of informal lectures concern-ing the art as well as special tours from art historians.

Some details about Götze and his career were also in-cluded in the press release.

“About the Artist: Moritz Götze was born in Halle an der Saale, in the former East Germany, in 1964. His first artistic medium was screen printing, which proved use-ful in producing concert posters for his punk rock band. Screen printing wasn’t his only link to Pop Art. His father, Wasja Götze, was one of the few pop artists from East Germany. Moritz Göetze’s artistic practice ex-panded to include painting, drawing and enamels. Com-ing of age as an artist in East Germany, Götze had to wait for the Berlin Wall to fall in 1989 before gaining interna-tional recognition. Around the millennium, he began to focus on political themes, often tying historical topics to the present. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout Eu-rope.”

Sony is not very happy with Wildcat Creek Inc. and its owner, Jerry Lambert. They are so unhappy, in fact, that they’ve decided to enter into a lawsuit with the both of them.

Who are they, you’re probably asking? Well, Lambert is none other than the actor that played Kevin Butler, the star character from Sony’s wildly popu-lar “VP of Everything” ad campaign. Wildcat Creek Inc. is the production com-pany that Lambert owns and was behind a recent stint of ads for the Bridgestone tire company. In the adver-tisements, Lambert can be seen playing a Nintendo Wii while a Bridgestone techni-cian extols the virtues of the company’s Nintendo cross-promotion.

Sony claims that Lam-bert was using a character contractually tied to the Playstation brand to talk up a competitor’s product, hence the lawsuit.

Now, the one nagging is-sue here is that at no point is Lambert’s character referred to as Kevin Butler in any manner. Sure, he may be act-

ing in a similarly exuberant manner while playing a vid-eo game, something that the Kevin Butler character was wont to do, but there’s pre-cious little hard evidence of a direct connection between the ad and Sony’s campaign. That being said, if the im-plied connection were to be deemed strong enough, it’s not impossible to see a judge coming down on Sony’s side in this.

Regardless, Bridgestone has since pulled that version of the ad from television and replaced it with an edited commercial sans Butler. The tire company is, of course, denying that Lambert’s two roles are in any way con-nected.

“Mr. Lambert is one of the actors who appeared in the commercial as a Bridge-stone engineer,” Bridges-tone said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. “Bridgestone denies that ‘Kevin Butler’ appears in the Bridgestone commer-cial discussed herein and thus denies that he speaks or does anything whatsoever in the commercial.” Bridge-stone will reportedly fight the suit on the grounds that Sony does not actually own a trademark for the Kevin Butler character, and that “the character has not ac-quired secondary meaning

and that there is no likeli-hood of confusion among consumers.”

Sony had until last Fri-day to either proceed with the case or let it drop.

Sony issued their own statement explaining just how hurt they are about Kevin Butler’s defection.

“Sony Computer En-tertainment America filed a lawsuit against Bridges-tone and Wildcat Creek, Inc. on September 11. The claims are based on violations of the Lanham Act, misappro-priation, breach of contract and tortious interference with a contractual relation-ship. We invested signifi-cant resources in bringing the Kevin Butler character to life and he’s become an iconic personality directly associated with PlayStation products over the years. Use of the Kevin Butler char-acter to sell products other than those from PlayStation misappropriates Sony’s in-tellectual property, creates confusion in the market, and causes damage to Sony.”

The moral of the story seems to be that if Sony’s public relations team of-fers you a job in one of its commercials, just remember that you’re never allowed to work for anyone else again.

This year's reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise might not have been univer-sally received as Spidey's best big-screen outing, but it did make quite a lot of mon-ey. So, unsurprisingly, Sony has decided to go ahead with a sequel to be directed by a returning Marc Webb. Now, reports have begun surfacing concerning the cast of the tentatively titled “Amazing Spider-Man 2.”

While the original three films focused entirely on Pe-ter Parker's most famous love interest, Mary Jane Watson, The Amazing Spider-Man went back to the web head's original, ill-fated significant other, Gwen Stacy (played by Emma Stone in the film). Now, however, Variety is re-porting that Shailene Wood-ley is in early talks to play the new Mary Jane in the sequel. Woodley is probably best known for her role in last year's The Descendants.

A few character break-

downs for possible villains in the sequel are also floating around Hollywood.

It seems that Electro is an early favorite for the position of primary antagonist in the follow-up. Electro, original-ly known as Maxwell Dillon, is a petty larcenist from the Amazing Spider-Man comic series that gains the ability to control electricity after be-ing struck by lightning while working on a power line. It’s possibly worth noting that the post-credits scene in the first Amazing Spider-Man film featured some pretty obvious lightning effects and a mysterious, unidentified baddie.

While even Magneto considered him for a posi-tion in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (claiming that the character had powers rivaling his own), Electro has pretty much been a bor-ing, small-time thug for the entire, regular run of the franchise. He also has just about the worst costume in the history of super-villains, so if they were to bring him into the film franchise you can bet that the screenwriters would likely do some serious

reconfiguring of the charac-ter.

The same paper mention-ing Electro’s possible ap-pearance states that another, unspecified villain as well as Harry Osborn will be part of the cast. Hopefully, this won’t result in the same sort of muddled mess of villains that Spider-Man 3 contended with. The film is said to be going into production next year, so there’s still some time to deal with whom your friendly neighborhood An-drew Garfield will be facing off against in the sequel.

For some context con-cerning the Mary-Jane/Gwen Stacy situation, the two originally occupied a triangle shaped space in Spidey’s love life until Har-ry Osborn (aka the Green Goblin) threw Stacy off of a bridge in the original comics. A version of that scene was depicted the first Spider-Man movie with Mary Jane taking the place of Gwen. However, in the comics, Gwen Stacy wasn’t quite as lucky as her silver-screen replacement and the event became one of the most famous character deaths in comic books.

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This is a bit of an odd one. NBC's dramatic re-imagining of The Munsters, a kitschy 60s sitcom about a group of universal monsters living in the suburbs, will make it to television after all, despite the network hinting otherwise.

Mockingbird Lane is the name of the pilot for a darker, more dramatic take on the Munster family. At first glance, that sounds like just about the worst, most unbearable thing that could be put on television (at least it did, before Beauty and the Beast and The Mob Doctor). However, the project has a surprising amount of talent behind it.

Bryan Fuller, creator of HBO’s Dead Like Me and the absolutely fantastic Pushing Daisies, was brought on to script the pilot while Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects,

X2: X-Men United) was brought on to direct. Mean-while, the cast includes some pretty hefty names including Jerry O’Connell, Portia De Rossi and Eddie Izzard. The pilot was also quite expen-sive, costing NBC about $10 million to produce.

The network didn’t seem entirely thrilled with the re-sulting pilot, and began hint-ing recently that they were not considering picking the pilot up for a full series. However, The Hollywood Reporter is now saying that it seems NBC will be airing the pilot by itself as a Halloween special.

It’s very unusual for any network to publicly air a pilot without some sort pre-scheduled episode commit-ment. It’s likely that this is an attempt on the part of the studio to make back at least a portion of that $10 million budget that would otherwise be totally lost, while giving audiences a chance to react to the show and see if maybe -- just maybe -- Mockingbird Lane is something worth

pursuing.It seems that part of

NBC’s issue with the pilot stems from Fuller and Sing-er being unable to agree as to the tone of their take on the franchise. This was ag-gravated by Fuller’s com-mitment to Hannibal, the network’s TV prequel series based on Hannibal Lecter (which actually is getting a full, 13 episode commit-ment). Because of his work on that series, Fuller was apparently unable to make necessary changes to the Mockingbird Lane script and the pilot came in “below the network’s expectations.”

If ratings are high enough, it’s entirely possible that Mockingbird Lane may be blown out into a full se-ries some time in the future. We won’t know if it’s actu-ally worthy of becoming a full show until the pilot airs.

While no airdate has been confirmed, one would as-sume that a Halloween spe-cial would air sometime this month.

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Whether people consider themselves red or blue, con-servative or liberal, Demo-crat or Republican, a sense of nationalism has swept the country. Nationalism is de-fined as devotion and loyalty to one’s own nation. This de-votion is being executed by citizens of the United States who are joining together to watch debates, voice their opinions as well as persuad-ing the “undecided” of our country to vote for their par-ticular candidate.

This effort is what poli-tics in the United States are all about. The last presiden-tial debate had the highest viewer ratings only behind the vice presidential debate between Joe Biden and Sar-ah Palin in 2008. Americans

are devoted to this year’s election and many of us are involved in some way or an-other. Some people are more serious than others, but the involvement is still impres-sive.

During the presidential debate, many younger peo-ple participated by watch-ing the live meeting between President Obama and Mitt Romney. Drinking games were played throughout the country. This may not be the ideal form of political in-volvement, but it was still a way to get younger people to watch the influential presi-dential debate. Facebook statuses and tweets on Twit-ter blew up during and after the debate with individuals casting their opinions on who won the debate and who had the best, crucial one-lin-ers. It is truly remarkable to see all the support for both candidates as well as a large number of the population not agreeing with either candi-

date’s opinions and policies.I have noticed that it is

almost impossible to have a conversation without some-one mentioning this year’s election. Many people want to know candidate’s poli-cies, opinions on the debates and, of course, who every-one is voting for. And this is not just for the presidential debate; citizens of North Dakota have another much contested race for the open Senate seat.

The race between Rick Berg and Heidi Heitkamp has also accrued popularity from voters across the state. The constituents would like to see a debate between Heitkamp and Berg. The heightened involvement in the presidential election is influencing other races be-tween Democrats and Re-publicans to be just as hectic. The excitement of these rac-es increases the likelihood of Americans casting their votes in November.

Participation and devo-tion in this year’s elections holds a positive influence on the nationalism of our coun-try. No matter what political party Americans vote for, we are all taking part in influenc-ing the direction of our na-tion in the next four years. It is crucial that we all take part in the privilege to vote. This is a right that many Ameri-cans have fought for and it is our duty to honor their effort and sacrifice by casting our vote on the political candi-dates we believe will benefit the United States of America over the next four years. As Abraham Lincoln declared, “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occa-sion is piled high with diffi-culty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.”

Lukas is a senior major-ing in political science

College is a time for growing up, for finding our niche in the world, for mov-ing past the learning-heavy phase of our life and into the doing-heavy phase. It is a time where we reap the fruits of the long hours of de-velopment we went through

as children. And as we reap those fruits, college also be-comes a time when we can see in ourselves – and oth-ers – the ways in which our upbringing defines us as people.

The way our parents dis-ciplined us, the way they catered to our needs (and wants, for the spoiled kids) and the activities we partici-pated in shows us how we became who we are today. This perspective allows us to determine what we think is best in raising children, and perhaps begin to choose those methods we liked or did not like about our own upbringing, in order to culti-vate our own future methods for raising kids. In our gen-eration, we see some of the first kids who grew up with video games.

“Oh, here we go again!” I can hear you saying it now. To our generation, the debate seems as old as time. Are video games okay for kids? Do they cause violence, bul-lying or murder? How much time with video games is too much time? You are about to switch to the next article. I know you’re thinking it! But bear with me, because this actually is important.

I was never allowed video games when I was growing up. My peers couldn’t be-lieve it. They laughed at me and empathized with me, but not much of it made a differ-ence-- no amount of begging in the world would get my parents to change their mind. And I guarantee you if I in-vested in a gaming console even today, they would have something to say about it.

Even though I “missed out” on the gaming gen-eration, even though I “suf-fered” through all of my friends having video games while I moped about not hav-ing them, I must say that to-day I haven’t a single regret. All except for all the time I spent whining and complain-ing about not having video games. I really could have been doing so many better things with my time.

See, my childhood was still filled with adventure.

No, I did not have a televi-sion screen to show me the government agencies I in-filtrated with James Bond or the Nazis I killed play-ing Medal of Honor, but my imagination knew no differ-ence. The baseball bats and broomsticks my brother and I used for guns didn’t shoot any less fake bullets than the guns on Call of Duty. And we even got a workout and a tan while we played!

We were always outside! I distinctly remember one summer afternoon when my Dad sent me out to play af-ter lunch, and told me not to come back until dark. He clearly just wanted me out from under his feet for the day, but what better a way to do it?

When other Dads plopped their kid down in front of a television and hooked up the brain-drain cables to keep their kid occupied for the day, mine forced me to use my imagination, forced me to go and create my own ad-venture, to develop my mind and body in the fresh air and sunshine. He forced me to go out into the world and make decisions on my own, to find the line between right and wrong on my own, and not merely have it told to me.

And what about those rainy days, you ask? What did you do then? How about at night when it was too dark to play, or when you were sick and couldn’t go outside? The answer is right in front of your eyes: I read! Though my parents never invested in video games for my brother and I, they always made sure we had an extensive col-lection of literature to pe-ruse. When I tired of indoor games, farming the carpeted fields of my living room with toy tractors and duck hunting out of my “duck boat” (bed), I took my imagination to lands much further away.

There can be no replace-ment for the hours I spent tramping through tropical rain forests with Robinson Crusoe, feeling the salty sea spray on the deck of the Hispaniola with Long John Silver, or shivering in the icy Youkon winds with Buck and John. And I promise you that my imagination, read-ing and writing have all ben-efited far more from reading books than they ever would have from playing video games.

No, you gamers can keep your CoD and your Halo and your Madden too! Give me a bike, some sunshine, a grassy field, or a dusty baseball diamond. Give me a public swimming pool, a small-town street and ghost-in-the-graveyard with some friends. I may never have the hand-eye coordination or the fine motor skills that my Super Smash Bros. obsessed roommates do, but I would never trade that in for the childhood I had.

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

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Last Saturday night seemed like a perfect prelude to Halloween. The distinctly angry wind howled decisive-ly, pushing leaves off their branches, biting us with the cold, and sending us to take refuge within the warmth of blankets and hoodies.

In juxtaposition to the ominous weather, three of my clients and I had an amazingly fun and nostalgic night decorating our treat-ment facility for Halloween. We pressed Halloween cook-ie cutters into foam shapes of creepy, fun bats, pumpkins and skulls.

Laughter punctuated our decorating. We left scarcely a corner unturned from the touch of spooky and decid-edly tacky decorations. For my clients, it was a distrac-tion from dealing with addic-tion, homelessness and pure boredom. For me, it was a fun bonding experience.

It made me yearn for more times like this, for more freeing moments of play and

laughter. A few weeks ago, I wrote about walking the tightrope of adulthood and how difficult the transition from adolescence to adult-hood can be.

Today I am going to fo-cus on taking a cue from kids and making time play in our lives! I am talking all out free, spontaneous dork-tas-tic stuff! Some ideas: board games, rolling in the leaves and carving pumpkins!

This is something that I love, but admittedly I do not make much time for myself to just play and do my hob-bies. There is not much time left after a full-time job, full course load, writing and keeping up with the other responsibilities of being an adult. I know it’s busy when doing dishes, vacuuming and laundry seems like a vaca-tion. Playing does not seem to come high on my list but it should!

Research even supports play as being positive for our health, happiness, in-telligence, creativity and relationships. Influential developmental human psy-chologist Erik Erikson even encouraged adults to con-tinue incorporating play into their lives.

Cities across the country are finally incorporating play for adults into the hustle and bustle. Specifically, New York City recently built its first adult playground! Ac-cording to the New York Times, the first playground was built in the Bronx and plans to build two dozen more across the five bor-oughs. The goal of adult playgrounds is to encourage exercise and make exercise accessible for everyone. Washington DC even hosted “Adult Recess” events.

These events are part of a new “Play Movement” that unites professors, therapists and human resource spe-cialists. This effort encour-ages playfulness as essential to maintaining mental and physical health. One play scholar Brian Sutton-Smith frankly wrote, “The opposite of play is not work, it is de-pression.”

Another scholar on the forefront of the “Play Move-ment,” named Gwen Gordon, is producing forthcoming documentary called “Seri-ously! The Future Depends on Play.” Gordon hopes to show how vital play is to nur-turing communities around the world. Gordon wrote that

play “simply goes with the grain of the universe.”

That sounds nice and fluffy, but I admit I was a bit skeptical (big surprise, I know). I thought the whole “play” seemed a bit gim-micky at first. Playfulness is not a hoax. There is a bevy of scholarly articles and aca-demic journals that support the notion of play. It is re-freshing to see research and a movement towards a holis-tic, preventative approach to health instead of the tired old medication routine.

I do not think there needs to be thousands of dollars spent to incorporate play into adult’s lives. For me, it’s as cheap and simple as a soccer ball, a playground, a thrift store board game or a tick-ling match. No matter how many papers are stacking up on my desk, I realize I must make time for playing and enjoying the spontaneous moments life provides.

Tessa is a senior major-ing in english.

Our world has good peo-ple and bad. Unfortunately there are many evils out in this planet that we live on, fortunately we have many he-roes trying to protect us from these evils. Heroes are trend-ing the U.S. and probably the world; lately we have had more and more Marvel mov-ies starring all of our favorite action heroes. However, the best kind of protector does not even wear a cape or fly. A real hero is unknown and humble of his or her work. I feel there is a huge problem of people claiming to be he-roes and how we are mislead to find them. I will list sev-eral opinions I have claimed after doing a little observing.

My biggest point and largest pet peeve is the KONY movement. I do not doubt that the organization does good things and has a good motive. But I disagree with a lot of its surround-ing aftermaths. For a month last semester, everywhere I looked on campus, whether it was someone’s profile picture or random T-shirt on campus KONY was being advertised. I never took up the trend, because I wanted to do more research and find out more about something I

would potentially display on myself publically. But now, do any of us see this video that everyone was so excited about trending? I don’t see any shirts or remnants of this large movement. Although Joseph Kony is still at large, I see no more coverage about it. Now I don’t mind when people do good things, but make sure not to claim to do them when you really had nothing to do with them. I highly doubt many people actually donated money or put volunteer time into the project. And simply posting a video wont stop a nation’s child abuse problems. The video that was shown was also altered in a way where it showed truth, but in a warped way that gave the wrong per-ception of the problem. They make Joseph Kony (whom is a horrible person) look like he is the only one to blame, and that if we elimi-nate Kony it will solve all of the problems. Unfortu-nately, Uganda’s problems cant be solved by ridding it of one man. Secondly, Kony doesn’t work alone; he has many followers and people who are just as evil. Don’t get me wrong, I want that country’s problems solved, and I pray for all those who are suffering and rejoice that the movement has made some progress. But, if you really want to help, do some-thing deeper than Facebook: donate money or do service

work. Just make sure the next time you want to be part of a movement, you know all the facts, know what your signing up for and if you re-ally want to be a hero, don’t put it on Facebook.

My second point is that you must research what you are getting involved in. Many movements ask for money to help their cause, but how much of your donation really goes into the end result? Be-fore you donate any money, you should ask what percent of your check will actually go to the cause. I think you would be surprised at where the money actually goes. Most charities give less than 15 percent to their cause, and I believe less than 50 percent is too low. Although these charities want to help a cause, they do need to pay bills and their workers, so you cannot expect all of your money to go to the one cause. So if you remember nothing else, make sure to always ask or research whatever you are becoming involved in. If you do want to do something good, there are many ways to do so in your community in order to directly do some good. Go to the local food shelf, donate time at a home-less shelter or find something else that suits your needs.

I also want to point out that a humble deed is the most special kind of deed. Real heroes in this world are unheard of, because they do

good things out of the kind-ness of their heart. They not only help not to make a scene of it or become more popular, they help because they care. I find it sad that many celebri-ties and politicians do service work with big cameras be-hind their backs to get more voters or fans. Large com-panies do the same; many industries make their work-ers do service work because their customers will be more attracted to them for being a caring country. Where is the kindness in that? I think it is wonderful that they are help-ing people, but isn’t it ironic that they do it more to help themselves? Think about it. So, to all you real heroes that do great things and tell no one, thank you from the bot-tom of my heart-- your work is appreciated.

To conclude, I want to make sure I don’t sound heartless. I love when people want to change our world, because a lot of change is needed. All I want is for people to educate themselves and commit to what they are involved in. Do your re-search and find something that you are comfortable with. But, most importantly, be humble-- real good deeds are not bragged about. Be a real hero.

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I attended NDSU from ’64 to ’68. It was the spring of my sophomore year when I, a friend and my friend’s lady friend decided to have some good, clean, whole-some fun one Saturday night along with another friend, Mr. Buckhorn. We were young, at 18 and 17.

I do not recall the judge making the excuse for what we did as being not smart enough, grown up enough, sophisticated enough. Nor do I recall the lady’s father making those same state-ments to us. He had his own comments for the three of us. Memories.

Later, the federal gov-ernment invited me to go on tour in ‘Nam.

In a plane, flying to ‘Nam, as a young adult, I did ques-tion my smarts, maturity, and sophistication, as staying in school would have ensured my staying out of ‘Nam (I was no senator’s son).

However, the spring of my sophomore year I was old enough, smart enough and understood what I was doing. We just got caught having good, clean, whole-some fun.

‘Nam, I was not stupid. Scared and proud, yes. I was a soldier. I was lucky and came home.

I can understand the con-cept “winning isn’t every-thing, it’s the only thing’ be-

ing used by a coach, athletic director or president of a col-lege. What I cannot under-stand is these same people allowing a judge to call their college students and athletes what the judge did. I cannot understand an individual ac-cepting those statements and excuses about their actions.

I will assume there are a lot of feelings on this issue. In my opinion, the main is-sue is the judge’s statement about these college students. They are young adults, they have been able to leave home and still function and I assume they have been able to succeed academically in a university setting. It would have been nice if they had stood up for their actions.

Judge, you need to step out into the world, respect our youth, as they have more ability than you seem to be-lieve. It just that sometimes, one does not think before do-ing. It’s the high altitude and thin air.

So on Saturday, go Bi-son, cheer for your team, hold your head high, win a championship again. For me, I was expelled from NDSU in ’68 by the athletic director at that time for expressing my opinions to him in a nice way. I have other memories to create.

Forget, as it never ex-isted.

Dennis Berg

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Quarterback Brock Jen-sen came into Saturday’s game against Indiana State with zero season intercep-tions on his stat sheet. The Sycamores put an end to that goose egg, picking off Jensen three times, two by Johnny Towalid that went for touchdowns, on their way to upsetting the No. 1 ranked Bison 17-14.

A Fargodome crowd of 18,164 saw a battle of NDSU’s top ranked defense vs. the third ranked ISU de-fense. Both offenses strug-gled early and often, with the first offensive touchdown coming from NDSU with 9:56 remaining in the fourth quarter.

“That was probably as inconsistent as we’ve been without question this year,” NDSU head coach Craig Bohl said. “Time and time again I think our execution wasn’t where it needed to be.”

Indiana State produced the first score midway through the first quarter with a 48-yard field goal. The Bison answered back, marching down the field and capping the drive off with a 21-yard field goal by Adam Keller to open the second quarter.

NDSU’s stout defense held the Sycamore’s all-American running back Shakir Bell in check the

next possession and forced a punt. The Bison took over on downs at the 14-yard line and that was when Towalid struck first. Jensen’s third-and-4 pass found its way into Towalid’s hands and the cornerback ran 28-yards untouched into the endzone to put the Sycamores up one score with 10:31 remaining in the second quarter.

“There was a little bit of miscommunication with my wide receiver,” Jensen said. “I thought he was going to stretch it out a little bit more and I threw the ball about one yard to the right of him.”

Jensen and the Bison offense responsive march down the field into Syca-more territory ended when Jensen was sacked on third down, forcing a punt.

The Bison defense came up big again on the next pos-session when Kyle Emanuel stuffed Bell on a third-and 1 run. Two minutes later, Jensen found a wide-open Zach Vraa down the middle but the pass bounced off the hands of Vraa. NDSU was again forced to punt two plays later and ISU ran out the clock to take a 10-3 half-time lead.

All-American Marcus Williams gave the Bison an immediate spark to open the second half, returning the kickoff 55-yards to the ISU 45-yard line. NDSU faced a fourth-and two after two Sam Ojuri runs and convert-ed when Jensen hit Vraa on a quick slant. The Sycamore defense tightened up and knocked down a third-and-4

pass and the Bison settled with a 33-yard field goal by Keller to narrow the lead to 10-6.

After back-to-back-to-back punts, NDSU began their possession on their own 20-yard line. It didn’t last long. On a third-and-12 and the first play of the fourth quarter, Jensen’s pass was tipped into the air and Tow-alid again came down with it and again returned it for a 31-yard score.

YSU’s 17-6 lead sparked some urgency for the Bison offense, and this time, they produced. Wide receivers sweeps by Ryan Smith and Cooper Wahlo Jr. and passes to Taylor Nelson and Smith moved the ball past midfield to the ISU 41-yard line. Jen-

sen then hit receiver Andrew Okland for a 31-yard bomb to the 10-yard line. John Crockett carried the ball to the 2-yard line and Jensen snuck into the endzone two plays later. The Bison of-fense stayed on the field for the two-point conversion and converted. Jensen took a QB draw and strode into the endzone untouched and just like that, the Bison cut the lead to 17-14 with 9:56 remaining in the game.

The Sycamores drove against the tough Bison defense and the reener-gized Fargodome crowd to NDSU’s 29-yard line. A third-and-11 pass was bro-ken up and Tann Fritschle’s 46-yard field goal was wide left.

Down three points, a rejuvenated Bison offense again marched down the field, thanks to two pass in-terference calls against ISU on third down. With the ball at ISU’s 29-yard line, Jensen dropped back on second-and-10. Sycamore safety Larry King stepped in front of Jensen’s pass for a back-breaking interception, Jensen’s third, with 3:42 re-maining.

NDSU’s defense strug-gled to get the ball back with the clock ticking. A third-and-9 pass drew a critical pass interference call and resulted in a fresh set of downs for ISU. The Bison finally forced a punt but NDSU’s offense had only 0:17 remaining on the clock

and 80-yards to the endzone when they took over on downs. Jensen was sacked on the first play and the next play saw several Bison later-als eventually stopped as the clock ran out and the Syca-mores ran onto the field in celebration of their upset.

“This team by in large has had a great workmanlike attitude and today we didn’t show up with that attitude,” Bohl said. “We were off and we need to make sure we get that corrected.”

The Sycamores (5-2) snapped a 10-game winning streak for the Bison.

NDSU will travel to Sioux Falls next Saturday to take on South Dakota. Kick-off is set for 6:00 p.m.

Indiana State Shocks the Bison

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Sam HerderSports Editor

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CORRECTION: In The Spectrum’s Oct. 11 issue the article “Bison Sweep UND” is supposed to be “Bison Get Swept at Home Against UND”

Before the start of the soccer game on Friday, North Dakota State was un-der .500 and the Western Illinois Leathernecks were undefeated in the Summit League. This changed after the two teams played at the Ellig Sports Complex Fri-day.

The Bison scored with their second shot of the game 23 minutes into the first half. Senior midfielder Jordyn Wallenborn scored

on a header from an assist from sophomore forward Anisha Kinnarath. This was Wallenborn’s fourth goal this season. Then three minutes later, the Bison fur-thered their lead when junior midfielder Steph Jacobson took a shot that was blocked by WIU’s Laura Atkinson, but Jacobson shot it right back and scored the Bison’s second goal of the game and her third goal of the season.

The Bison’s defense shut out the Leathernecks in the first half, led by redshirt freshman goalkeeper Sierra Bonham, who had four saves in the game. After halftime, the Leathernecks were as-

sertive right out of the gate and broke through for their first goal five minutes into the second half of the game. WIU’s Jordan Walgren got one past Bonham and scored off the assist Katie Condon, making the score 2-1. De-spite the lead, NDSU stayed very aggressive and ended the game with five more shots on goal than WIU, led by Kinnarath’s four.

In spite of this, defenses for both teams stayed stout and didn’t give up a score for the rest of the game. This left the final at 2-1, giving NDSU the win and snapping their two game losing streak.


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The NDSU women’s volleyball team won in three games Saturday against the Omaha Mavericks at the Bentson Bunker Fieldhouse. Carissa Whalen tied her career-high with 12 kills in the win, leading the Bison in 25-12, 25-18, 25-21 wins.

The Bison have now won three straight Summit League games, improving their record to 8-12 overall and 5-4 in the league. The Omaha Mavericks fell 6-15 overall and 1-8 in the Sum-mit League.

Whalen hit .455 with

only a couple errors in 22 attacks. Teammate middle hitter Megan Lambertson hit .600 with 10 kills with only one error in 15 attacks. Bison setter Catherine Yager had 35 assists.

Lambertson had a career high-tying four aces, and Brynn Joki had three aces. The Bison had a season-high nine service aces, and the Bison scored on eight of Omaha’s serving errors.

The Bison ran out with a 13-1 run in the first set, and then Joki gave the Bison back-to-back aces, which gave NDSU a 14-4 lead.

Joki’s six of her nine kills came during the second set. NDSU’s three of their six kills came on an 8-1 run

to put the Bison ahead in the second set. In the third set the Mavericks stayed with the Bison, but Lambertson had a kill, and then back-to-back blocks from teammates Whalen and Yager. The Bi-son were up 22-17 and made Omaha take its final timeout.

Kelly Wollak had a team-high six kills for Omaha, the Mavericks hit a season-low .076 team hitting percent-age. The Mavericks Amy Roberts had a match-high 13 digs.

Up next for the Bison are the Drake Bulldogs at 7 p.m. Monday. The Bulldogs have an overall record of 3-16 and are 2-7 in the Missouri Valley Conference.

Pace MaierContributing Writer

Bison Beat Mavericks in Women’s Volleyball

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NDSU Edges Out Western Illinois

VOLLEYBALL

SOCCER

CROSS COUNTRY

Women’s Cross Coun-try

The NDSU women’s cross country team took part in the UND Ron Pynn Invi-tational at the Ray Richards Golf Course in Grand Forks Saturday. With only 52 sec-onds separating the first and fifth runners of the pack, NDSU went on to maintain five of the top nine finishes in the event.

Placing at an overall second in the 5k race was junior Heidi Peterson with a season best time of 17:37.7. Finishing at No. 2 and placing No. 3 overall was freshman Brecca Wahlund, who finished with a time of 17:44.8. Placing fifth was junior Maddie McClellan at

17:55.9; placing sixth was sophomore Abbi Aspengren at 17:57.0; placing ninth was freshman Tarin Lach-witzer at 18:29.0. Eight of the nine runners recorded season-best performances on Saturday who had partic-ipated in the 5k run before-hand this season.

With the University of Mary, University of Manito-ba, and Minot State compet-ing in the Invitational, the Bison women topped UND by a 17-41 margin, obtain-ing a Division 1 team title.

Men’s Cross CountryThe men’s cross country

team also took part in the UND Ron Pynn Invitational in Grand Forks. With an 18-40 win over UND, five Bi-son runners finished eighth or better overall within 13 seconds of each other.

Sophomore Brett Kelly

led the Bison pack, placing third overall with a season-best 8k time of 26:11.8. Taking fourth was freshman Bryon Schuldt, finishing with a season-best time of 26:14.4; freshman Brendan Skime took sixth with his season-best time of 26:18.6; and junior Moses Heppner took seventh, giving him season-best time, as well, at 26:22.2; sophomore Grady Anderson placed eighth, fin-ishing at a time of 26:24.7.

Both men and women will be back in action on Oc-tober 27 in Rochester, Mich-igan where they will com-pete in the Summit League Championships, hosted by Oakland University.

Bison Men and Women Run Well at UND

Corrie DunsheeContributing Writer

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Senator Tim Flakoll has announced that he has drafted legislation to increase merit based

scholarships to $10,000 per eligible student. Flakoll’s proposal represents a 67% increase to the

current program that he initiated two years ago. He estimates that approximately 30% of

graduating high school seniors will be eligible.

“This has been a wonderful program for students and their families. This merit scholarship

program provides rigor and rewards and helps reduce the need for student loan debt. It also lets

students spend more time with their studies rather than having to work a job unrelated to their

major while in college” according to Flakoll. To date, the proposed legislation has been endorsed

by resolution of the NDSU Student Senate and the North Dakota Student Association, both by

unanimous votes.

“This scholarship plan coupled with needs-based scholarships and significant improvements to

our higher education funding formula will be of vital importance to students, faculty, staff and

well-being of our entire state so I am throwing my full energy into their passage” according to

Senator Flakoll.

Flakoll is an NDSU grad who has served on the Senate Education committee since first elected in

1998. He represents District 44 of north Fargo. Flakoll is Provost of Tri-College University and

Director of Operation for NDSU Downtown.

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