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Michigan Tech has been known for its focus on cultural

awareness thanks in part to the Center for Diversity and Inclu-sion. Though unbeknownst to some students and faculty, the or-ganization also deals extensively with Native American customs and rituals around our commu-nity.

Next week, the Rosza Center for Performing Arts will host Kevin Locke (or Tokeya Inajin, which means in the Lakota language as “The First to Arise”). Locke is a traditional Native American storyteller, educator, musician, and Hoop Dancer among other things.

Locke began learning about his heritage at a very early age. His mother, Patricia Locke; uncle, Abraham End-of-Horn, and many others are the key inspirations that lead him through his life. As time went by, his ambitions grew to ex-perimenting with music, teaching, and storytelling.

Throughout his life, Locke has led a crusade towards understand-ing and acceptance of different customs and traditions through-out the world. His goal, as he puts

it, is to “raise awareness of the Oneness we share as human be-ings.” One of the key rituals used to manifest those understandings is through the traditional Hoop Dancing. “It reflects the roles and responsibilities that all human beings have within the hoops, or circles, of life,” says Locke.

Flute playing is also a major pursuit within his life and has been a long practiced tradition among Native Americans. According to scholar and flautist Edward Wapp, flute playing is meant to evoke the natural beauty of the environment in which one lives. The Lakota, a nation of which Locke belongs to, is an excellent example of where the flute is widely used.

The Lakota and Dakota nations stem from the northern prairies of what is known as Maka Wita or “Earth Island”. The Lakota flute is used to reflect the winds which move through the meadowlands. According to Lakota tradition, there are seven notes that repre-

sent four distinct ideas; direction, the Earth, the heavens, and the heart.

“It is so hard for people to re-late one to another because we all come from different back-grounds,” says Locke. “But no matter where we come from, we can all connect with music.”

Aside from the flute, Locke also plays the drums, voice, and the rattles. He combines all four instruments to create a form of music known as “Olowan”. The Olowan is played to reflect the characteristics of a thunderstorm.

Twelve albums have been pro-duced by Locke in the past 28 years. These albums accompany the many traditions that highlight society within the Lakota. Some of his more notable albums include; Dream Catcher, Open Circle, and Keepers of the Dream.

Teaching and educating through storytelling are also delegations that Locke follows. He strives to display the importance of not

only Native American rights but of others as well. Some literature includes the plight of the Ameri-can Indian during the early years of American history.

Up until the early twentieth cen-tury, Native Americans were seen as inferior to the average “white” American. Rampant discrimina-tion was discernable in many communities populated by white majorities. The Trail of Tears in the 1830s serves as a prime exam-ple of this discrimination which led to the displacement of over 45,000 Native American tribes from their homeland to “Indian Territory” or Oklahoma.

In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill claim-ing American Indians as citizens of the United States. From this point, many American Indian reservations were made which al-lowed for the creation of schools, buildings, and roads. In 1968, the American Indian Movement (AIM) was passed to prevent on-going discrimination of Native Americans and for educational purposes.

“All of the people have the same impulses, spirit and goals. I want to create a positive aware-ness of the Oneness of humanity,” says Locke.

Locke has been touring the world for more than 20 years and

has lectured and performed in many countries around the world including the United States, Ger-many, Turkey, and Brazil. He also works extensively with envi-ronmental relations and resource conservation.

The event will take place on April 20, Tuesday, from 7:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Rozsa Cen-ter for Performing Arts. Tickets will be $25 for the general public and $20 for students. For more information regarding the event contact the Native American Out-reach at (906) 487-2920 or by vis-iting their website at http://www.mutlicultural.mtu.edu/programs-native.php.

Lode WriterZACHARY PAGE

“I want to create a positive awareness of the Oneness of humanity”

-Kevin Locke

Just the factsWho: Kevin Locke

What: Native American dance and culture

When: April 20th 7:30-11:30 p.m.

Where: Rozsa Center

How much: Students-$20 General public-$25

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When I asked one stu-dent how they would describe what hap-

pened in the McArdle Theater on MTU’s campus this past weekend, they were able to sum it up in just one word, “epic.” As twenty groups of musical wonders made their way across the Keweenawe-somefest stage over the course of three days, college students, high school students, adults, and toddlers alike swayed, jumped around, and sang.

The weekend of awesomeness began on Thursday. Keweenawe-somefest Night Zero, as it was dubbed for all of the computer junkies at Tech who think count-ing starts at zero, featured four area favorites. Starting off the night, a local favorite, This is Deer Country, who credit Keweenawe-somefest as being one of the main reasons they formed, warmed up the crowd.

Matt Jones and the Reconstruc-tion made the trek up from Ypsi-lanti haunted concert-goers with his Indie/Folk music, and as WM-TU’s website says, the best way to describe it is “everyone loves Matt Jones.” If his set wasn’t enough for MJ lovers at Tech, he then played the drums with a similar group from the A^2 area, Drunken Barn Dance. Along with them, Chris Bathgate made the journey from Ann Arbor, and as usual, he didn’t disappoint.

Friday night had eight more groups lined up to dazzle the crowd, and dazzle they did. Be-tween Cedarwell’s “monkey nois-

es”, White Pines’ incorporation of the crowd in a repeating melody in the song “Foot of the Cross”, Drink Up Buttercup’s “Beatles-y” sound, and Cotton Jones’ extreme-ly original “psychedelia-tinged rock”, there was something for absolutely everyone.

Thom Sullivan, an MTU first year, said his favorite part of the night was Drink Up Buttercup, be-cause of their stage presence and how well they connected with the crowd. A personal favorite was the Photographers, with their breath-taking harmony and extremely amusing “Mustache Song” which expressed that that’s the way to get the ladies; not with a little bit of peach fuzz, a full-grown mus-tache, a la Salvador Dali, Col. Sanders, Friedrich Nietzsche, Zorro, and Burt Reynolds.

Saturday night was just as ex-citing, with one of the highlights being Graham Parsons & The Go ‘Rounds from Kalamazoo. Par-sons has been entertaining the Keweenaw for quite some time now as a solo act, and as a mem-ber of the Squeaky Clean Cretins, as he grew up north of Calumet, but this was the first time that the Go ‘Rounds have made an appear-ance at Kfest.

Millions of Brazilians also rocked out the McArdle, and won the affection of one student in par-ticular, James Mills, who said the best part about the weekend for him was their high energy per-formance. Listeners weren’t the only ones who had a good time though; it appears as if MOB had an equally awesome experience. Their Facebook page’s status up-date from Monday claims “the 20+ hours of driving for one show

was definitely worth it, HOUGH-TON was uh-mazing.” In fact, MOB weren’t the only musicians who praised the weekend. White Pines’ status claimed “White Pines is still reeling from his week with Cotton Jones. So fun, so tired... thanks to everyone who helped us with shows, it was truly a magical trip.”

And last, but in no way what-soever least, Electric Six showed Houghton exactly why their Mys-pace profile has more than a mil-lion views. One critic’s review of them says, “The Electric Six have a knack for mixing a dash of Sat-urday Night Fever with a whole lot of MC5 and just a smidgen of Jack Black” and that’s exactly what we got. With their hits such as “Gay Bar”, “Body Shot”, and “Danger! High Voltage”, Electric Six left their mark on Houghton.

Overall, the three days of mu-sical awesomeness were a huge success, with Saturday night not only selling out the McArdle but going beyond that, were simply unbeatable. Why is the weekend such a success? Gabi Elser said, “I really liked how personal and intimate the whole event was. The McArdle is a small theatre and I felt like I had one on one time with the band.” Mills wasn’t a man of many words on the sub-ject, and was able to just sum it up with two, “simply awesome.” To listen to the bands, purchase CD’s, and anything of that sort, you can go to wmtu.mtu.edu to see a full list of who entertained at the event, and most groups have a Myspace site. For pictures of the event, you can visit Mostly Mid-west Photography at www.most-lymidwest.com.

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Kweenawesomefest reviewLode Writer

MOLLY HOLMSTROM

K-fest 2010: Matt Jones & the Reconstruction performing Day 2 of K-fest

Photo courtesy of Mostly Midwest Photography

3AThursday, April 15, 2010Michigan Tech Lode Pulse

HOUGHTON, MI, April 12, 2010 - - Boukman Ekspery-ans has rescheduled their Rozsa Center performances for Wednesday, April 14 at 7:30p.m., and Thursday, April 15 at 7:30p.m.. Earthquake af-tershocks in Haiti temporarily halted all travel and prevented the group from performing on the originally scheduled dates. Tickets purchased for these events will be honored for the April shows. For details and more information please con-tact the Rozsa Box Office at 487.3200.

Boukman Eksperyans ush-ered in a musical revolution with their Grammy-nomi-nated debut album, Voudou Adjae. This brilliant release introduced the world to Bouk-man’s worldly high energy sound fusing traditional Hai-tian and Caribbean rhythms with rock and reggae. Voudou Adjae brought the band in-ternational prominence and made them spokespeople for Haitian people.

Since their emergence on the scene, Boukman has continued to release revolu-tionary critically acclaimed albums and mesmerize audi-ences world-wide from Haiti (where they draw tens of thou-sands of fans per show) to the Caribbean, throughout North America, Canada, Europe, Japan, and Africa – both as a headlining act and alongside Wyclef Jean, Femi Kuti, and Baba Maal.

The Rozsa Center is proud and honored to present the Haitian roots band Bouk-man Eksperyans for two en-ergy-filled evenings of music – Wednesday, April 14 and Thursday, April 15 at 7:30p.m.

Sponsored by the James and Margaret Black Endowment.

Ticket prices for the general public are $20 and $15; MTU student prices are $15 and $10 (MTU student ID required). To purchase tickets con-tact the Rozsa Box Office at 487.3200, The Central Ticket Office (SDC) at 487.2073, Tech Express (MUB) at 487.3308 or go online at tickets.mtu.edu. No refunds, exchanges, or late seating, please.

BoukmanEksperyans performing

this week

On Saturday April 10th, Elec-tric Six played in front of what was the biggest crowd

to ever occupy McArdle Theater. Dan Haefs, a staffer on WMTU, said that there were 500 tickets print-ed, all of which sold out, and that people continued to file in all night. Many of these people were at K.Fest just to see Electric Six, a rock band

from Detroit, perform. I was fortu-nate enough to hang out with the members of Electric Six before their set. Electric Six got their start 14 years

ago, known then as The Wild Bunch. They played the Detroit scene for several years until they hit it big in the late 2000’s, thanks, in part, to collaboration with Jack White of the White Stripes. “Working with Jack was amazing,” said lead singer Dick Valentine. “It was just what we need-ed. We changed our name to Electric Six right after that so we could sign to a label, and there was already a Wild Bunch out there.” Valentine added that the band doesn’t particularly like their name. In fact, some of them hate it. “The name is kind of stupid, we admit. It was just the least stu-pid name we came up with, and no one quit when we changed-so that’s good.”Electric Six has been touring North

America and Europe ever since, go-ing on tour for up to 40 days at a time

twice a year. “We have to travel a lot, but we love it,” said Valentine. “I owe our success to my amazing band, a bunch of guys who are total profes-sionals. Our drummer has played professionally in over 35 bands, and is really one of the best musicians out there.” On top of their touring re-sponsibilities, the group also puts out an album every October. Electric Six has previously per-

formed only once in the Upper Pen-insula, and this was their very first time in Houghton. Overall they were highly impressed! “It’s so beautiful here,” Valentine said. “I would love to perform here in the U.P. more often, and maybe even buy a house. Every time we play somewhere new it’s a feather in my hat.” After discussing the best places to eat and sightsee in the area, Valentine said, “The Upper Peninsula needs to be preserved in amber. When the rest of the humans die out and we need to reseed and re-populate, we’re coming here. This is not the last time you’ll see us.”

Backstage with Electric Six

Lode WriterNICK BLECHA

Press ReleaseROZSA CENTER

Bring ad in for -$2 OFF-

Just the facts

Who: Boukman Eksperyans

What: Musical Performance

When: April 14th & 15th at 7:30 p.m.

Where: Rozsa Center

How much: Students-$15/$10

General public-$20/$15

Sponsored by the James and Margaret Black

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KeweenAWESOMEfestMichigan Tech’s campus was rocking this past Friday and Saturday with the arrival of Keweenawesomefest. McArdle Theatre was transformed as a multitude of bands hit the stage.

Band ProfilesCotton Jones

Cotton Jones describes itself a “bluesy folk” group from Cumberland, Maryland that has been perform-ing for about three years. Originally named “The Cotton Jones Basket Ride” by its founder Michael Nau, it shortened its name to “Cotton Jones” after more members joined. Although the group normal-ly tours with seven people, only three were available at Keweenawesomefest. They have released two al-bums and three EPs.

John the SavageTaking their name from one of the protago-

nists of Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World, John the Savage has been playing for three years. The Milwaukee band describes its music as “dirty rock and roll.” Unusually, in its music the band uses violin, viola, cello, string bass, and accordion in addition to the standard instrumentation, and most of its members are multi-instrumentalists. The band has one album and one EP, with another EP to be re-corded in the fall. Although the band has never played in Houghton, member Rachel Icenogle calls the UP her “favorite place” and says it’s “really nice to be here.”

Good GriefHailing from Stevens Point, Wisconsin,

Good Grief has been performing what it calls “cushion punk”–softish punk with a mixture of rock and pop–for a little over a year. This is the band’s second time in Houghton, having performed a small show here last year. The band says that it’s “really fun to come up and work with another col-lege radio station.”

The Daredevil Christopher Wright

The Daredevil Christopher Wright struggles to define its mu-sic, though it gives “indie folk” as a working definition. Having played for six years, the Eau Claire, Wisconsin band has been successful enough to recently see their album South by South-west released in Europe.

White Pines

The project of Joseph Scott, White Pines has been perform-ing for two years. Scott de-scribes his music as folk that’s “a bit psychedelic” with “lost of effects.” The band has been to Houghton several times, with Scott describing the city as “one of my favorite cities to play in.”

Bear ClawPerforming since 2002, Bear

Claw is a “noise rock/ post punk” band from Chicago consisting of two bassists and a drummer. Spun off from a separate band, they took the name “Bear Claw” from the bear claw pastries they used to toss to audiences during per-formances. They have already released two albums under the label Sick Room Records, with a third to be recorded in June.

Millions of BrazilliansThis band from from Taylor, MI has

been playing for two and a half years. They describe their music as “attack-oriented,” and the intended effect as a certain biological impossibility. Their name comes from a joke in which for-mer President George W. Bush mistakes the work “Brazilian” for a number.

Graham Parsons & The Go’RoundsGraham Parsons & The Go ‘Rounds hail from Kalamazoo, Michigan where they perform at the Strutt. The band

has never played in Houghton before, although Parsons says that he has lived in the UP most of his life. Their mu-sic is a mixture of rock and soul.

Lode WriterRAEANNE MADISON

Dear Sassy

I am on an email list of a student organization I am involved in. We use the list to easily communicate with everybody and give updates on meeting times, projects, etc. Lately, however, some members of the group have been using the email list to air their personal grievances against each other. It makes the group look unprofessional and I am plain sick of getting nasty emails in my inbox. What is your take on this?

Sincerely, Infiltrated Inbox

Dear Infiltrated,

I highly encourage people to send their personal thoughts about each other to email lists. It provides unending entertain-ment for the rest of us. It’s hilarious to hear about how Sally thinks John is using a fundraiser to boost his prestige. And it’s gut-busting to read Tom ranting about how Jimmy purposely scheduled the meetings so Tom couldn’t go to them. Look past the unprofessionalism and enjoy it. You, however, should not participate in this. Not only will it make you look juvenile and unprofessional, it’s never a good idea to put your personal thoughts about someone in writing much less send it out to an entire group of people.

Dear Sassy

Every day I get more and more annoyed with mainstream mu-sic. When I turn on the radio, all I hear is cliché, cheesy pop songs. Independent bands seem to be making the only good music out there. Do you have any suggestions for some good indie bands?

Sincerely, Indie lover

Dear Indie, I couldn’t agree with you more. The radio is filling the air-waves with formulaic, forgettable music. If music gets popular enough to be on the radio, then it’s bad. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Pink Floyd are examples of forgettable bands that were on the radio, got popular and sold out. Most independent bands are good because no one has heard of them. Because they have limited commercial success, they are able to faithfully pursue their art instead of cater to the pub-lic. Good music, after all, is determined by the taste of an in-dividual artist, not the feedback of thousands of listeners. It’s really a shame when a band gets successful; their music would be so much more valuable if they kept playing in crummy coffee shops and had only 500 Myspace fans, instead of 5,000,000. Then again, maybe the level of a band’s popularity doesn’t af-fect the quality of their music. Maybe there are terrible popu-lar, signed bands and terrible indie bands. Maybe we should all just listen to and buy whatever music we like. Just a thought.

Dear Sassy

I feel extremely stuck-up writing in about this issue, but it’s really bothering me. One of my friends always wears pants that are just too short. I want to yell at them, “Where’s the flood!?” They really look ridiculous and for $15 they could look 100 times better. Is it polite to give them some fashion advice?

Sincerely, High-water hater

Dear High-water,

Yes, you certainly should make this person aware of their prob-lem; you’ll be doing them a favor. Celebrities pay thousands for fashion advice and you’re willing to give it to your friend for free; sounds like a good deal to me. It’s hard for anybody to look good all the time, much less be in style every day of the week. But in this day and age, there really is no excuse for pants that are too short. You should tell your friend that there are many varieties of jeans out there for all budgets. Offer to go with them to pick out clothes that fit. If they are offended, then it’s their loss. They are turning down good advice that will help them to not look like a complete idiot on a daily basis. In today’s modern world, high-waters are sim-ply not acceptable. Oh, but it’s just the inside that counts, right?

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I received a phone call the other day from my younger brother.

He had gotten a detention in school and wanted to tell me about it. As a student in his high school, it is against the rules to have your "cellu-lar device" out during class. I knew this was the rule, yet I remember breaking it mul-tiple times during the four years I attended that partic-ular institution. My brother’s trouble, however, is that he got caught. Schools all over the country regulate the use of cell phones and students all over the country still try to sneak their use under teachers’ radar in order to see their latest text message. As an avid "texter", I found myself hiding my phone from my teachers countless times during high school.

After four years of torture had come and gone, I was ecstatic when I found my-self in the huge lecture halls of Michigan Tech. Here, no one would notice or even care if I checked my text messages during class. Heck, once I even took a phone call in Fisher 135. Amongst the numerous students and

the noise, nobody noticed. I realize the importance

of paying attention during a lecture, but this article is not about my failure to lis-ten. My trouble, however, is when I am placed in a class smaller than the enormous lecture halls we all know and love. I feel that most professors could care less if students are texting during class. The only trouble being if that student is interrupting the lecture or disturbing the class. If this is the scenario then by all means put that phone away! No one appre-ciates a loud, annoying ring tone. However, if your phone is on a soft vibrate setting or on silent, then how can you disrupt the class? As long as it is not disruptive, I think that there is nothing wrong with texting during class.

Now this past semester I had a professor who feels otherwise. Even when he was not lecturing he got irri-tated when I had my phone in sight. As I am always one to push the limits, it finally got to the point where my professor threatened to hand out zeros if he saw another cell phone. This is where I complied and I have not had my cell phone out since. But it still irritates me. If you go with the train of thought that

the students are "custom-ers" of the institution and that we pay the professors for our education, profes-sors indirectly work for us. With this in mind, the "cus-tomer" should have a say as to whether cell phone usage is allowed during class.

The customer is always right! Right? I personally could not find anything strictly prohibiting cell phone usage in the Michi-gan Tech Handbook, aside from during exams but that goes without saying. The whole cheating thing is not really my gig anyway. It ap-pears that the regulation of cell phone usage is left up to the discretion of the individ-ual professors.

The key to this whole ar-gument is whether or not using a phone during class is a disturbance. I bet you my professor feels no matter what, my phone is a distur-bance, even if it is just sit-ting there doing nothing. I disagree. But with the threat of a zero looming over me, I have no choice but to com-ply in that class. In all other classes I will continue to use my phone in a non-disturb-ing manner and I encourage all other students to do the same.

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A fight for phones!

The amount of attach-ment we have to objects is ob-scene. A few days ago, my new cell phone got its first scratch from loose change in my pocket; it wasn’t a good day. Despite be-ing personally disgusted with this attachment, I regularly place ma-terial objects and acquisition of money as a top priority. Maybe I’ll blame Wal-Mart or our con-sumer-driven economy. Maybe I’ve been brain-washed by the bourgeoisie. Or maybe I’m just selfish and like to have pretty things. Needless to say, I’m a capitalist pig.

Recent discussions in a philos-ophy class about capitalism and its influence on our character got me thinking about how money makes our American world go round, for better or for worse.

We all know that money is the root of all evil. It is surpris-ing then, that we spend half of our lives laboring to acquire more of it. Karl Marx had some pretty interesting ideas about the

true value of human labor. It’s a shame so many immediately as-sociate Marx to figures like Stalin and Mao. Although those dicta-tors promoted a political system based vaguely on Marxist ideals, they hardly give a good indication of successful practice of Marxist philosophy in society. So before you blacklist me, hear me out.

After reading some of his writ-ings, I began examining the role of money in our society. Marx believed that a person being paid for their labor was alienat-ing and degrading. At first, this idea seemed ridiculous to me. A person who puts in time and works hard should be compen-sated for it. But, oddly enough, prostitution helped put it all into perspective.

If a person had a one night stand, there is nothing too alarm-ing about it. At worst it’s consid-ered trashy, but it is perfectly le-gal and happens all the time- not a big deal. Having one too many drinks at an office Christmas party and waking up in your co-worker’s apartment usually won’t cause any moral outrage.

Now, if one paid 50 bucks for

that one night stand, the act is perceived entirely differently. We now call it prostitution and de-nounce it as an immoral, danger-ous and illegal act, unless you're in Las Vegas. So why does the a t t a c h m e n t of monetary value to a per-son's services cause such a dramatically different per-ception? Ob-viously, the money ob-jectifies that person. Their labor, which o r d i n a r i l y would be done for love or enjoyment, is now a product to be bought and sold.

So why is the attachment of money to one service deplorable while attaching it to any other service is customary and not questioned at all? Isn't human labor in any form worth valuing by itself? It's something to con-sider. If I want to be a teacher, I

should teach because I love it and believe it is important. How can hours spent teaching, an incred-ibly important job, be quantified in a dollar amount? Surely, the education of our children is price-

less…like- well, a one night stand.

Granted, I’m not sure how you would thoroughly exercise this ideal into our society. But I don’t wish to lay out a prac-tical plan for Marxist revolution

in American. Instead, I’d like to encourage others to examine how monetary compensation af-fects their occupational choices. Obviously money has to factor in. Otherwise we’ll end up in the proverbial van down by the river. But if income were abso-lutely not a factor, I wonder what we’d all choose to do. If I wasn’t

being paid to write this article, I wonder if it would have ever been written. I told you I was a capital-ist pig.

Unfortunately, where we live, what job we have and what col-lege we go to are all heavily influ-enced by how much money they will put in or remove from our bank accounts.

It’s important to remember that in your eulogy, they’ll say the names of your family and friends. They’ll talk about how you liked to spend your free time and where your favorite vacation spot was. But not once will they men-tion the amount in your checking account.

Although I regret to end this article on such a sappy, cliché note, I believe Marx (among oth-er philosophers) is on the right track regarding the compensa-tion of human labor. Maybe in the years ahead, the United States can grow up, look past the stereotype of Marxist philosophy and use it to our benefit. Because the more I learn about capitalism, the more its glorified, golden im-age begins to fade and its weak-nesses are revealed.

...the more I learn

about capitalism, the

more its glorified,

golden image begins

to fade and its weak-

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Opinion WriterJACK AMMERMAN

After a disappointing 2-8 season last fall, the Michigan Tech football team has been practicing hard this spring to rebound. They have been prac-ticing Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays since March 29 on Sherman Field. They have also been scrimmaging each Satur-day, leading up to this Saturday’s spring Black-White game at 1 p.m., open for all fans to see.

The Huskies signed 24 re-cruits to national letters of intent in the offseason, and bring back several key position players, in-cluding quarterback Steve Short and running back Phil Milbrath.

Wide receiver is one of the key position battles entering the fall. The offensive line has been one of Michigan Tech’s strengths for many years now, which will be another position to watch, hav-ing lost several seniors.

On defense, the Huskies had the fewest takeaways in the GLI-AC last year, so they are hoping to bolster their secondary and get a few key players back from injury. The punting and kicking game also needs to work on con-sistency if the Huskies are to be a force in the GLIAC this fall.

Be sure to check out the foot-ball team’s progress at the spring game, which again kicks off at 1 p.m. at Sherman Field, and check back to mtulode.com for a full recap.

After dropping five straight GLIAC matches, the men’s ten-nis Huskies head into the GLI-AC Tournament riding high af-ter sweeping this past weekend’s matches against Tiffin and Ferris State to finish their regular sea-son 8-8 overall and 2-5 in the GLIAC, good for the sixth-seed this weekend.

With their sixth-seed place-ment, the Huskies will likely face either Wayne State or Fer-ris State in their opening match. Both the Warriors and the Bull-dogs are 5-1 at this point in GLIAC play with one match to go. The Huskies lost 5-4 to the Warriors on Mar. 26, and 8-1 to Ferris State on Mar. 21.

The Warriors (13-6 overall) are paced by sophomore Ber-trand Moulin (19-3 overall) who has posted a 14-2 record in dual matches this season in the number one spot. Senior Britton Steele (5-13 overall) has a 4-12 record in the number two slot. Freshman Thomas Ducret (13-5 overall) has posted a 13-2 record in the number three spot.

The fourth singles player, freshman Oscar Gamarra (9-8

overall) has an 8-7 record in dual matches. Senior Roberto Gomez (9-4 overall) has been the most effective fifth slot player with a record of 5-2 in dual matches. Freshman Jon Groszek (10-3 overall) has a 9-1 record at the number six spot.

For the Bulldogs (9-6 overall), Kyle Revall, a senior, leads the way, having posted a 6-7 record at number singles thus far this season. Classmate Ahmet Demir (7-7 overall) has a 6-6 record at number two singles. Sophomore Jack Swan (9-6 overall) at num-ber three singles is 8-5 in dual matches.

Junior Steven Roberts (11-3 overall) has a 4-2 record at num-ber four singles and a 6-1 record at number five singles. Sopho-more Justin Hermes (6-8 overall) is 4-1 at number five singles but is 2-6 in the number four slot. Freshman Tyler Marengo (9-3 overall) is 8-2 in dual matches at number six singles.

Of course, should the Hus-kies survive their opening match with a win they will likely face No. 15 Northwood in the second round of the tournament. The Timberwolves (8-4 overall, 5-0 GLIAC) are limping a little bit after falling over the weekend to No. 20 Drury, 5-4.

For the Hus-kies, sophomore Luka Stupar (10-9 overall) contin-ues to play strong tennis, going 8-8 in dual matches at number one singles. Sopho-more Anders Sandholm (9-7 overall) is 9-6 at number two sin-gles. Junior David Heuer continues to earn victories at number three singles as he is now 9-4 on the season.

S o p h o m o r e Douglas Yossida (9-8 overall) is now 6-6 in dual matches at num-ber four singles. Junior Chris Ver-hulst (8-8 over-all) is 3-0 at number four singles and 5-7 at number five singles. Senior Tim Viola (7-8 overall) has posted a 5-6 record in dual matches this season at number six singles.

The Huskies will be keeping an eye on the final four GLIAC matches over the next few days

in order to find out who their first opponent will be. Wayne State faces Northwood on Tues-day. On Wednesday, Ferris State travels to Grand Valley State and Findlay faces Tiffin. Finally, Findlay faces Northwood on Thursday to finish the GLIAC Regular Season Schedule.

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GLIAC wins picked up by the Men’s Tennis team after a home series last weekend. The Huskies downed Tifin 7-2 and Findlay 8-1 at the Gates Tennis Center.

24student-athletes that the MichiganTech Football team has signed to national letters of intent. 12 offensive players, 11 defensive players and 1 punter.

10 home Women’s Soccer games during the 2010 season. All games will be played at Sherman Field and have start times ranging from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

1,160miles will be traveled by the Michigan Tech Track and Field teams in the upcoming week. They travel to Duluth and St Paul, Minn. both in a week of time.

Schedules/Results

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Lode WriterDAVER KARNOSKY

Sports EditorSTEPHEN ANDERSON

is the school record for the Men’s 800-meter run, this record was set by Ken Gilkerson one year ago at the Twilight Meet that took place at Minneapolis, Minn.

Men’s Tennis punches their ticket to the GLIAC Tournament

Track and FieldApr. 17 @ Minn.-Duluth

Men’s Tennis (8-8, 2-5 GLIAC)

MTU 8-1 FindlayMTU 7-2 Tiffin

Apr. 21 @ Twilight

Full standings at gliac.orgApr. 17 @ GLIAC Tournament

Editor’s ShootoutThe Editor’s Shootout is a competition of knowledge, luck and wits between sports editor Stephen Anderson, business manager Jacob Vehring, pulse editor Luke Gublo

and online editor Jeremiah Baumann. Stephen won two years ago with former opinion editor Rob Devaun winning last year. This will be a weekly feature where each editor picks his winners of the three biggest games/series of the week and backs up his decisions with a short rant. THIS WEEK:

San Francisco Giants at Los Angeles Dodgers, Detroit Red Wings at Phoenix Coyotes , Pittsburgh Pengiuns vs Ottawa Senators

Well since I for all intensive purposes out of the running for the lead, I will try to at least win the last two weeks. The San Fransisco Giants will definitely win one game with a two-time Cy Young winner vs. essentially a rookie, but I think the Giants will lose the first and win the last two. The Detroit Red Wings are my personal favorite team and think they will win this series in 5 games; lead by great goaltending by Howard. The Penguins are way too good of a team to lose in the first round. They win the series in 5 games also.

Finally we are in the season of hockey playoffs! And what a year this will be. However, before I get to the exciting stuff, I will talk about MLB.. I Picked LA on a coin toss. Enough with that, back to Hockey. Obviously the Wings are on a hot streak now, and with playoff experience is their game, they should be able to get the Win. Now, Ottawa and the Penguins, now this is a hard match. You’ve got Crosby firing away, but I think this series will go 7 with Ottawa showing why hockey came from Canada.

Dodgers 2-1Red Wings 4-2Senators 4-3

The Giants are off to a hot start this year, and they are out to prove they can compete with the Dodgers for the NL West crown. The Dodgers have struggled, and while I expect them to turn it on soon, the Giants will take this series in the rubber game. I think the Wings are the hottest team in the NHL and will take the series with Phoenix in five. Finally, as much as I dislike the Pens and their crybaby leader, they’ll eke out a seven-game series win over Ottawa.

Dodgers 2-1Red Wings 4-1Penguins 4-1

3-0 Last Week, 44-31 Overall

STEPHEN ANDERSON

Sports Editor

1-2 Last Week, 38-37 Overall

JACOB VEHRING

Business Manager

2-1 Last Week, 42-33 Overall

LUKE GUBLO

Pulse Editor

3-0 Last Week, 38-37 Overall

JEREMIAH BAUMANN

Online Editor

The Dodgers got off to a rough start in Pittsburgh, but they get to face their west-coast rivals this upcom-ing weekend. The Giants are red hot, but the Dodgers always play well at Dodger Stadium, so I think they’ll take the series. The Red Wings are the hottest team in hockey, and I think they’ll prevail against the Coyotes. Pittsburgh and Ottawa should be competitive as well. But just as the NHL wants, expect Crosby and the Pens to take the series.

Dodgers 2-1Red Wings 4-2Penguins 4-2

Giants 2-1Red Wings 4-1Penguins 4-3

Corrections, complaints, compliments, comments?

Email Stephen Anderson at steander@mtu.edu

FootballSat. Intrasquad game, 1 p.m.

This week, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on April 16, the Michigan Tech Student Foundation will run their annual Oozeball tour-nament in parking lot 15E. Oo-zeball, a mud volleyball tourna-ment, will be part of the Spring Fling activities. This year will have forty teams of six people competing for the champion-ship. Some of the teams will be co-ed, and others will be women only.

Previous Oozeball tournaments had tak-en place on the Walk-er lawn. However, due to the recent ex-pansion of Townsend Drive making that impossible, the tour-nament was moved this year to parking lot 15E, which is lo-cated between Wads-worth Hall and West McNair. To assist in the development of a new Oozeball court, MTSF has received funding from the Michigan Tech Par-ents’ Fund. The new court itself has been built by a Michigan

Tech senior design team.Registration for the tourna-

ment was open up until April 5. The tournament is free to watch.

Spring Fling brings Oozeball

Lode WriterNICK BLECHA

Football prepares for intrasquad contest

Check mtulode.com for updates from Oozeball

Lode file photo

Photo by Stephen Anderson

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Like many young aspir-ing basketball players, Katie Zimmerman started shooting hoops in her driveway with her dad. Unlike most, however, Zimmerman earned the op-portunity to play and start for an elite level squad for much of her collegiate career, ultimately eclipsing every three-point shooting record in Michigan Tech history.

Both of her parents played high school basketball, encour-aging Katie and her siblings to do the same. Zimmerman did so, and stood apart from her peers all through high school. She started on the Green Bay East (Wis.) High School all four years, leading the Fox Riv-er Valley Conference in scoring her final three years, earning her All-FRVC First Team hon-ors during those three years.

She was also named all-state honorable mention, which cer-tainly caught the eyes of Michi-gan Tech head coach John Barnes. “The first year was a huge learning year, getting used to how Coach Barnes wanted things to be run up here,” said Zimmerman. “I learned that defense was a huge part of the game, which was never taught to me like it was at Tech.” Dur-ing that first year, she appeared in all 28 games, but only started one. Her 44.3 three-point field

goal percentage was the fourth best in school history, and she especially excelled against Northwood, scoring 14 and 20 points in two games against them.

She continued her progres-sion the following year, leading the team and the GLIAC with 78 made three pointers, land-ing in the top 10 in all of Divi-sion II in three-point field goal percentage at 44.1 percent. She also made a remarkable 43 of 44 free throws, hitting her final 39.

Finally, early in her junior campaign, on Dec. 4 against Wayne State, she cracked the starting lineup, which was one of her fondest memories. She would go on to start every game the rest of her career, eventually eclipsing the school record for games played. She continued to progress that year, leading the nation in three-point field goal percentage at 48.1 percent, shattering the school record in that, along with season and career three-point field goals at 99 and 212, respectively. She

earned All-GLIAC North Di-vision First-Team and NCAA Midwest Regional and GLIAC All-Tournament Teams for her performance.

This year she joined the other five seniors in making their second consecutive Elite Eight appearance, joining Ka-tie Wysocky, Danae Danen and Sarah Stream in the 1,000-point club. She also set the school re-cord with eight three pointers in a game against Ferris State, ultimately concluding her ca-reer with 305 made three-point shots.

With all her three-point and free throw shooting success, it is easy to wonder what her se-cret to success is. She summed it up by saying, “The key for both is making sure your me-chanics are in check. I shot everyday growing up as a kid and when you shoot that much, sometimes it just becomes second nature once you figure out the correct way for you to be successful. I do have to say both are extremely mental and you cannot get down on your-self, because if you do it can af-fect your next shot.”

It’s hard to imagine going to a Michigan Tech game in the future without a few Zimmer-man three pointers, but the memories created by this year’s senior class will not be forgot-ten soon, by fans or the play-ers themselves. “We had an incredible team and it was spe-cial to win our last game here in the SDC with the players I have been playing with for four years now. Looking back, we accomplished individual goals with the team goals as our main focus,” said Zimmerman.

“I’m proud to say I was for-tunate enough to play with outstanding athletes and some of my best friends here at Tech.”

As you look back on the amazing season that the Michi-gan Tech Women’s Basketball season put together one of the main components were the se-niors that truly led this team. One senior in particular led her team especially when it count-ed the most. During the NCAA Regional Tournament, Danae Danen had the best game of her entire collegiate basketball career and she could not have chosen a better time to do so. With thirty points in the con-test, Danae Danen added her name to the massive award list that the Huskies compiled this season by earning the honor of being named the tournament’s most outstanding player.

Love is the word that Danen gave to describe her team this season. “I am going to miss ev-erything and everyone!” is her response now that it is all said and done. In regards to the off-court relationship with her and her teammates, “We get along so great off the court and I think it showed on the court. Some-times it felt like I knew what someone else was going to do next.” No doubt did it seem like that it showed on the court, as this team became the first ever to break the 30 win mark.

With several records being broken this season, it is only fitting that the basketball team would bring a huge crowd to the SDC Gymnasium during their final home game of the season. “Having that many fans there is amazing. We have loved every-ones support and it is so greatly appreciated! It is definitely more fun playing in front of all those people. It almost makes you work harder because you

feel as though you don’t want to let them down” is how Danae responded to having the record breaking crowd. Indeed though the team did not let us down as they won their final home game of the season and advanced to the NCAA Division II Women’s Basket-ball Elite Eight for the second straight season.

“It was a great ex-perience and a lot of fun. We knew we had something to work towards,” was how Danen summed up the 2009 Elite Eight Ex-perience. The Hus-kies lost to eventual national champions both years in a row, and to this Danen had this to say, “I think losing to the winners proves a lot about our team and shows people that we could compete against the best of teams.”

Even though the team did not win the NCAA National Cham-pionship like they had hoped to, they can definitely not be disap-pointed one bit on the remark-able season they had. Even with one minute remaining in the contest the Huskies were down but not out. When asked how special that this season was Da-nae responded, “Very special. We would have liked to go out with a win, but we are all proud of what we have accomplished.” Looking back on her career as a whole at Tech, the one thing that Danen said that was her fa-vorite moment was “Every mo-ment that was spent with my teammates.”

The Michigan Tech Track and Field teams have perhaps the hardest schedule of all Michi-gan Tech athletics as far as travel goes. The Huskies do not have a single home meet all year long and this can make things dif-ficult especially when it comes to having two meets within five days of each other. This is exact-ly what the Huskies have in store for them in the upcoming week. First the Huskies make the trip down to Duluth, Minn. for the Bulldog Invitational on Saturday. Four days later, they hit the road again making their way back into Minnesota this time with the destination being the Twi-light Meet in St. Paul. The Hus-kies will travel over 1,000 miles round-trip during this week’s competition.

Last year the Huskies did fairly well in the Bulldog Invitational placing fourth in the Men’s com-petition and sixth in the Wom-en’s. Leading the Men to their finish last year was Ken Gilker-son who is back on the squad again this year. One year ago Gilkerson finished the 800-me-ter run with a time of 1:54.96. Gilkerson has not only been a threat in the 800-meter run this year but he has also been mak-ing his presence known in the 400-meter dash. At the UW-Os-hkosh meet Gilkerson took first place in the 400-meter dash and would like nothing more than to repeat that in the Bulldog Invita-tional. On the Women’s side of action Molly Wiltzius had suc-cess in her throwing events. She took third place in discus with a throw of 129-2 and sixth in the shot put with a toss of 38-4.25.

The Huskies will be making their debut to the Twilight meet in St. Paul this year. However one year ago at a similar type meet that took place in Minneapolis, Minn. Ken Gilkerson broke the school record in the 800-meter run with a time of 1:52.50. Gilk-erson will be looking of course to reset his place in history this year

and in the process earn himself a national championship qualify-ing time. On the Women’s side of competition the Huskies will be missing Lauren Wiza who graduated last year. However this year a few of her teammates have stepped up and are having some really strong performanc-es. One year ago at the Women’s Twilight competition the Lady Huskies had a strong showing in the 5,000-meter run and would like nothing more than to im-prove on that.

With two meets so close to each other, only time will tell if traveling over 1,000 miles in a matter of four days will affect these athletes. Make sure you check out www.mtulode.com/trackandfield for recaps of both of these meets.

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Danae Danen shuts down a shot by Findlay. This is just one of her 178 career blocks which is the school record.

Track and Field heads to Minnesota...TwiceSenior spotlight: Danae Danen

Lode WriterMIKE METZGER

Career Highs

Points: 30Rebounds: 12Assists: 4Blocks: 5

Career Totals

Points: 1,296Rebounds: 499Assists: 103Blocks: 178**- School Record

Senior spotlight: Katie Zimmerman

Career Totals

Points: 1,227Rebounds: 290Assists: 162Steals: 61

Lode WriterMIKE METZGER

Ken Gilkerson attempts to get into first place in the 800-meter run.

Top five 800-meter performances

1. Ken Gilkerson 1:52.50 20092. Pat Lencioni 1:54.40 19873. Ken Gilkerson 1:54.74 20094. Ken Gilkerson 1:54.91 20085. Ken Gilkerson 1:54.96 2009

2010 Best Performance:

1. Ken Gilkerson 1:56.90 2010

Career Highs

Points: 26Rebounds: 6Assists: 5Steals: 3

Photo courtesy of Ian Connick

Photo by Ben Wittbrodt

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What is your

favorite dessert?

Hanna Smith

Drew BrennanAngel food cake be-

cause it’s made by angels.

Biomedical Engineering,First year

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Spring FlingWhere: Campus Mall

When: April 16,12:00 PM - 5:00 PMA Ferris Wheel and Fun

During Spring Fling

Lankton Book LaunchWhere: JR Van Pelt

Library East Reading Room

When: April 16,4:00 PM - 5:00 PMSACS Comedian

Rob O’Reilly Where: MUB Ballroom

When: April 16,10:00 AM - 11:00 PM

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President Franklin Roosevelt signed legislation ending Prohibition in the United States.

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CarolineD’Ambrosio

Cannolis, my dad makes the best ones.

Biomedical Engineering, Second year

Yiming CaoCheesecake. I just love it, it’s sweet

Nate CartagenaPeanut butter date

(like the nut) balls because they have chocolate and pea-

nut butter in ball form.

Math Major, Third Year

Michel Lancina

Brownies! They go with any-thing and are easy to make.

Biomedical Engineering, First year

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Mechanical Engineering, First year

My grandma’s lemon meringue pie because it reminds me of Christmas at her house.

Finance, Fourth year

Two more weeks! How are you guys doing? These two weeks are really important and you shouldn’t waste any time. From my experience, a good exam grade can bump your final grade at least one level. Of course, if you slack off during these two weeks, you may have to retake some of your classes next year.

These two weeks are probably longer for me than anyone else. I cannot wait to go back home. I had a dream last night that I met my family and high school friends. The dream was so sweet that I didn’t wake up from it. I almost missed my 9am class to-day. I didn’t realize I would miss home so much. I have never told you guys about my family back-ground. I think now is the time.

I was born in a teaching family. My grandpa and my parents are all teachers. That‘s how they fig-ured out how to send me abroad to get a better education. Being a teacher is not the best way to earn money. My parents are not rich but they still spends thousands of thousands dollars on my tuition fee. Compared to American col-lege students, I feel so bad that I still rely on my parents. When I was China, I heard that Ameri-cans were very independent since they were teenagers. My own ex-periences prove this.

All my American friends pay for college by themselves. Some of them have scholarships and some of them work hard to make the money. In China, it is a totally dif-ferent culture. Because of the “one child policy”, most of the families have only one child. Parents take care of everything for us. We are a so-called “spoiled generation”. Some still live off parents’ money when they are 30’s.

In Chinese culture, family is the strongest social structure. China used to be a monarchy for thou-sands of years. The Imperial fam-ily can only inherit the position of being a king. Man has absolutely all the power in a family. A son has to obey his father. Because of this, lots of businesses in China are family businesses. It passes from one generation to another for hundreds of years. In this way, lots of unique skills are saved and the torch gets passed along. May-be that’s why my mom chose to be a teacher and married my dad who’s also a teacher. Hundreds of times, my dad told me the best job for me is to be a university professor. Unfortunately, I have no interest in teaching. Sorry mom and dad, I probably will end to being an engineer instead of a teacher. I feel bad that I end the “family business”. Well, not re-ally. I can make my son to be an engineer then and start my own business.

Nowadays, things get a lot bet-ter. But the whole family theory is still strong in the society. Once you have your child, you no lon-ger live for yourself. You are liv-ing for your child. That’s the core of your life. At least my mom told me her life was changed the day I born. All she thinks of is about me. Parents spend so much on taking care of their children that they also expect equal payback. Usually, your first month salary is supposed to be given to your par-ents. It means you’re starting to make money and taking respon-sibility to support your parents. Health insurance in China is way worse than in America. Parents expect that they can live on their children when they get old. Also, children have the responsibility to take care of their old parents.

Thanks to my parents, I can have such a good education. It’s my goal in my life to let them have a wonderful old age.