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Budget discussed by Student Senate
OLLI program receives $1 million endowment
Paying it forward
Honors students fi ght starvation
VOLUNTEER UND students hit the road to lend a helping hand in national tour.
AWARENESS Class-based group seeks sig-natures for international charity campaign.
GRANT Support institute for Higher Education and Arts receives funding, joins nationwide movement for simi-lar efforts.
FINANCES Lengthy meeting sees talk of spending, upcoming funds, organizations.
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OLLI@UND, was established in 2007 with a $100,000 grant from the Bernard Osher Foundation. According to its website, the foundation “seeks to improve quality of life through support for higher education and the arts.”
“We provide fun and educational learning opportu-nities for people 50 and better,” says Lynette Krenelka, director of OLLI@UND.
UND is one of 117 campuses nationwide featuring an OLLI program. Lifelong institutes are established with $100,000 grants from the Bernard Osher Foundation. The grants are considered for renewal after two years. If the institution has been able to “demonstrate potential
The recent presentation of a $1 million endowment will allow a university program to continue its mission of providing educational opportunities to community members over 50 years of age.
The Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, referred to as
The students of the Hon 392 class will be taking their volunteer-ing prowess to the streets of UND beginning this week, as they work to gather signatures for the Starved for Attention campaign. This cam-paign is hosted by an international organization MSF, more common-ly known in the U.S. as Doctors without Borders. It is a campaign to raise awareness to the issue of childhood malnutrition as well as to address ways to confront the problem. It is also a movement to encourage ‘donor nations’ such as
the U.S., Canada and many coun-tries within the European Union to provide more nutritionally appro-priate food for children and infants suffering from malnutrition.
The epitome of far-reaching causes, this campaign has ventured all the way up to UND. The stu-dents of Hon 392 are led by Robin David, the Honors Program Asso-ciate Director who had a great deal to say regarding the program and her students.
“Most of my classes include a service-learning component, but going out and volunteering for a large international humanitarian organization like MSF is not feasi-ble. Raising awareness and gather-ing signatures for MSF’s campaign was a great way for us to get in-
A late start to Sunday’s Student Senate meeting made for an even later night for all involved. The 7:30 p.m. start time was delayed to 8 p.m. due to two sub-committees’ inability to meet quorum.
Discussion of the proposed 2011-2012 Student Government budget caused the meeting to last until after 1 a.m. The Student Gov-ernment by-laws were suspended in order to approve the budget, which otherwise would have sat for a week before coming to the fl oor.
The fi rst item to be approved was the Board of Student Publica-tions’ (BOSP) budget. The standing committee’s budget was decreased
from $13,450 to $6,300 for the next fi scal year. The chair salary received a 50 percent cut, bringing it to $500.
Graduate School Senator and former BOSP Chair Jackie DeMolee was the fi rst to speak in the nearly two-hour debate.
“We’re just as important as any other standing committee,” she stated.
Her comments were followed by current BOSP chair Lisa Schock.
“I was shocked when I saw we had $5,000 as a budget for media,” she said.
According to DeMolee and Schock, the committee has been working for the past four years to change its orginal mission. A change would allow online publications and a potential student radio station to be overseen by BOSP.
They maintain the closing of the company Fine Print also affected the
The fi rst eight students from the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) pro-gram at UND will graduate this May. A UAS is a smaller aircraft that is oper-ated by a pilot on the ground versus in a cockpit. “You are sitting in a differ-ent spot when you are fl ying it,” Mark Hastings, Chief Instructor in the UAS program said. The main purpose of a UAS is the camera it carries, providing surveillance for fl ood relief, fi refi ght-ing and law enforcement,” says Hast-ings. Hastings added that homeland security and fl ooding are two main points the program targets.
It was six years ago when Ben Trapnell and Doug Marshall started the fi rst UAS program in the nation. Trapnell said it was “easy to see UAS as the logical next step in the progression of aviation education.” While doing
For many college students, spring semester can be especially hectic. As the academic year comes to an end, students fi nd themselves with a full workload, applying for scholarships and preparing for their next year in college. Amidst all this activity, a spring break would seem to be a welcome respite to kick back and relax—from Cancun to Florida,
Eight students will graduate from new program
>MEGAN TALLEYThe Dakota Student
the options are endless.But some students chose to give
their time and effort to other things. Stephanie Scheurer, a University of North Dakota freshman, did just that. Her spring break involved go-ing to Washington D.C.—but that’s not all. “I went to D.C. as part of the Pay It Forward Tour. It was a great experience,” said Scheurer.
The Pay it Forward Tour was started in 2004 by students at the University of Minnesota as part of Students Today, Leaders Forever, which is a civic organization. The organization is headquartered in Minneapolis and has chapters on 30 campuses, including UND.
This year, around 70 UND stu-
dents spent their spring breaks trav-eling to Denver and Washington, D.C. to help others as part of the an-nual “Pay it Forward Tour.” The tour provides an alternative to the typi-cal spring break vacation, providing students with a way to participate in
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Photo courtesy of Ben Trapnell
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to be housed at the Air Force Base, will be a $500,000, five month, 5,000 square feet expansion to an already massive base facility.
“This building will ensure that UND’s growing UAS research, training and education endeavors continue on a rapid upward trajec-tory in meeting our nation’s civilian and military needs when it comes to unmanned aircraft,” said UND President Kelley.
U.S. Senator John Hoeven, R-N.D said, “UND Aerospace is the premier school of aviation in the country. This now is another step to make sure it is the premier school for unmanned arial systems or remotely piloted aircraft as well.” The UND UAS Center of Excel-lence will feature a state-of-the art unmanned aircraft simulator called the Predator Mission Aircrew Train-ing System or PMATS. UND will be the first civilian operator of this technology in the world. UND un-dergraduates will be able to train on the MQ1 Predator, currently flown by the North Dakota Air National Guard and the MQ Reaper used by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol.
The new facility will ben-efit more than just UND students. Bruce Smith, Dean of the John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sci-ences, said, “the training applica-tion of the PMATS will not only provide sustainability for the UAS Center of Excellence but also help keep the Grand Forks Air Force Base BRAC (base realignment and closure) proof in the future.”
volved right here in Grand Forks,” she stated. With unlimited meal-plans just a card swipe away, it can be easy to take for granted our accessibility to good, healthy food. However, the MSF campaign is a productive step in raising awareness on the UND cam-pus to an ever-present problem in our world today.
Davis explained, “They have been studying this organization all se-mester, and now they can be actively involved in it.” This involvement has also inspired new or adventurous paths for some of her students, as Da-vis said, “a number of my students are considering working for MSF later in their careers…” Kathryn Johnson confirmed the spirit of volunteering and humanitarian efforts that were instilled throughout the course. A freshman with Biology Pre-Med and French majors, she said, “I eventually do want to serve on a medical mission trip further on in my life, most likely after medical school.”
These sentiments reflect exactly what campaigns like this are about. Starved for Attention, while raising awareness to a sad unfortunate reality of malnutrition in children is also of-fering the chance “to change 195 mil-lion stories of childhood malnutrition around the world,” as Kathryn said.
The students of Hon 392 will be collecting signatures and explaining more about the campaign March 31 and April 1 in the Memorial Union and April 5 and 6 in Squire Dining hall.
for success and sustainability” they are rewarded with a $1 million en-dowment.
The program has grown from 20 members at the UND campus to 580 members shared between UND and Bismarck State College, meet-ing the foundation’s criteria. Plans to extend OLLI to other campuses are in the program’s future. Minot State University has conveyed interest in a program on their campus.
Krenelka believes this expansion can be achieved with the funding and says the endowment came just in time. “Our grant funding would have ended,” she states. “The endowment allows OLLI@UND to continue and grow.” The money will be invested with the assistance of the UND Foun-dation. It, along with the membership and course fees, will sustain the pro-gram. Membership costs $35 per year or $60 for three years.
OLLI offers courses, univer-sity tours, daytrips and lectures to its members. Unlike university courses, no credit is received for completing the class. There are also no tests or quizzes.
Faculty, faculty emeritus and experts from the community in-struct the courses and facilitate other events offered through the program. Krenelka says class sizes average 12 to 15 participants and daytrips average 30 participants. Subject matter falls into arts and humanities, politics, natural sciences and social sciences, art, recreation and wellness and other additional areas.
Feedback from members deter-mines what courses and activities the program provides. Recent course topics include Principles of Cartoon and Comic Art, Women in History: The Forgotten Ones, Hitler’s Steppe Children, How Politics and TV Got Married—Modern Politics and Me-dia, Introduction to Poetry and The-odore “Teddy” Roosevelt.
“The history topics—especially-have been well received,” says Krenel-ka. Red, White and Bubbles was one of dozens of courses and events of-fered by OLLI this semester. Taught by Greg Rixen, the general manager of Happy Harry’s Bottle Shops, it allows participants to explore the world’s wines, cheeses and meats from the comfort of Grand Forks. Over 50 wines from locations such as Italy, Germany, and France are featured in the course. An additional course fee of $50 and a lab fee of $30 were required to partake.
Krenelka hopes to continue the success of the program and its com-munity based learning style with the endowment. She encourages interest-ed parties to check out the program.
“It’s great to see people coming together for the love of learning,” she states.
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North Dakota Governor Jack Dalrymple pointed out that this new facility will have three key at-tractions: cutting edge research and development, the ability to test UAS aircraft for national airspace use and will provide quality training and ed-ucation, adding that it has already created dozens of new jobs.
Explaining what still needs to be done, Senator Hoeven said that one of the key steps is creating concurrent airspace that will allow remotely pi-loted aircraft to be flown in the same airspace as conventional aircraft. Ho-even, along with U.S. Senator Kent Conrad, D-N.D. and U.S. Senator John Ensign, R-NV, is working on an amendment that will set up four pilot projects for flight operations in concurrent airspace. He hopes to add it to the FAA reauthorization bill that is currently pending on the floor of the U.S. Senate. The bill is up for a vote this week.
Concurrent airspace, Senator Hoeven argues, will give the UAS industry new opportunities to ex-pand rapidly, and Grand Forks will be perfectly positioned as the best place for research, development, and pilot training. “[Concurrent airspace] is going to serve as a mag-net to draw the top aviation and technology companies right here [Grand Forks].”
“We’re doing things nobody else is doing,” exclaimed Senator Hoeven. “This is about making Grand Forks the premiere center for UAS in the country.”
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This week marks one of the most nationally recog-nized literary events in the world—the UND Writers Conference. The conference, which is in its 42nd year, brings writers and artists from all over the country and the world to campus to give readings, participate in pan-els and interact with the Grand Forks and UND com-munity. While it tends to appeal most to English majors and other fans of literature, conference organizers en-courage outside community involvement. Moreover, the diversity of events makes the conference appealing to a broad audience, with each author selecting a fi lm that is screened at the Memorial Union Lecture Bowl, public receptions, as well as the readings themselves, which are always interesting, even if one is not familiar with that particular author’s work.
This year’s conference looks to be a very good one, with the author list including Maxine Hong Kingston, one of the most important fi gures in Asian American literature, Jamaica Kincaid, poets Susan Deer Cloud and Carl Phillips, as well as many up-and coming names in the literary world.
Some of the most intriguing points of the conference are the panels, where several writers discuss a topic—for this year’s conference, the panels are “Lost in Transla-tion?,” “Confl ict Zones” and “In Between Places.” UND professors moderate all of the panels.
While the Writers Conference doesn’t interest every-one, programs like it are an integral part of the university and academic community and should not be overlooked. It can certainly be easy for students to get stuck in the world of class, studying and exams; there is much more to be experienced as college students. Programs like the Writers Conference, the Upper Midwest Regional Hon-ors Conference (which will be held at UND this year), Time-Out Week, the UNDIA Wacipi Powwow and the Northern Lights psychology conference and many oth-ers are all great ways for students to make their time at UND a comprehensive, unique educational endeavor.
Of course, another reason to be excited about this week is because our hockey team is offi cially playing in the Frozen Four in St. Paul, Minnesota. With a great record behind them, they have total momentum going into the NCAA tournament. Be sure to cheer on UND this weekend, as North Dakota hockey is one of the fo-cal points of our college and is probably the biggest uni-fi er at our school. Also, the Frozen Four is always a great excuse to get your friends together for a night of camaraderie and relaxation.
Post-Spring Break is a tough time of the year; we’re all tired, and the end is just in sight. But try to remem-ber what brings you to the University in the fi rst place—learning, exciting experiences and spending time with friends. This week you can have it all. Enjoy!
DS ViewoPPortUnitieS UND enjoys Writers Conference, Time Out Week and hockey.
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I am in China, and that’s the fi rst thing you need to know. The second is that David Foster Wallace killed himself 12 years after writing, in Infi -nite Jest, “That everyone is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. That this isn’t necessar-ily perverse.” The third is that I have no credentials, that my age is a mere blink in geological time, and that this article has been written before by bet-ter writers than I. That this is all you need to know technically means you can stop reading here, and that’s your prerogative, and just as Britney has hers, you can exercise it. I hope you don’t.
Someone once told me that they were studying abroad because they wanted to experience another cul-ture, and I thought, “admirable,” and I also thought, “impossible.” Then I chose to study abroad, and I spoke similarly. Why China? To learn Chinese. Why Chinese? Challenging, relevant, useful. What do you plan on doing with that? I don’t know. So why China? Uh, I want to... Experience another culture.
But this isn’t entirely possible, be-cause you can only scratch surfaces, and if you try to shoehorn your way into a culture, all you’re really doing is imposing yourself upon it, right? If you think by spending four months in, say, India you’re going to know India, you’re going to somehow be a fount of information regarding India, you’re going to, more or less, become just the tiniest bit Indian, the truth might lie somewhere closer to you poking at India (as if an entire nation of over a billion people were defi n-able) with a yardstick.
Or maybe I’m looking at this wrong. Go abroad, please. But take what you’re learning with a grain of salt, not because those teaching you are untrustworthy—no, they’re prob-ably terrifi c pedagogues—but be-
cause you yourself can’t be trusted. I’m speaking from experience (and here’s the can of worms about my experience: what makes me think I know anything?). If you’re really se-rious about going abroad, please ad-mit that your knowledge is already fl awed, and that it still will be when you return, and that worldliness does not equal knowledge. That knowing and understanding are two different coins altogether.
On March 17th a Buddhist monk in Sichuan self-immolated in re-sponse to 2008 military crackdowns in Tibet, the second self-immolation
since. The thoughts vaporized in that human pyre are not known, and what escaped into the immediate air, fl ar-ing up from a wet bald head, could not be seen.
If you go abroad to some strange place—the neck of some woods—that you don’t understand, realize that the very woods you’re in don’t understand you. This is the fi rst step toward rec-onciliation. If we fear what we don’t understand (source: everyone ever), the problem lies not in what is feared but in our lack of understanding. I’ve seen fi ghts break out due to lack of ability to understand one another on the most basic of levels: language. When you go abroad, you might not be able to get your point across, and in that moment of perfect frustration, ask why you and your conversational partner can’t make sense of each oth-er. Is it because you’re both speaking different languages? Is it because you have differing perspectives? Is it be-cause no matter how hard you try, no
matter how big your metaphorical trepanning trephine, you can never really get into the mind of another person and examine their thought process? Is it because you will always be in your skull and your skull only?
As a semi-offi cial representative of UND’s Study Abroad program, I shouldn’t tell you that you don’t need to study abroad, but you don’t. If it is fi nancially viable and you are willing, by all means, go, you will never regret it, but when I talk about “those who go abroad,” I don’t just mean those who travel; I mean those who want to get at something more, something in the emptiness between minds. You can cover the world and still retain your same opinions, your same Weltanschauung, your kanfa—you can choose to think what you think and always think those same thoughts. But know that there are other perspectives—just know it—be aware of it, and the fact that everyone around you has their reasons for do-ing whatever it is they do might be enough to stop you from blowing your top, or at least slow the boil. I guess what I’m saying is, When I talk about going abroad, I am trying to get at something—for lack of a sim-pler word—something metaphysical. An intangibility. By “abroad” I don’t mean anyplace physical; maybe I’m talking about transcendence.
My god, this is preachy. I’m a dick sometimes, and you might be a dick, and our varying degrees of dickish-ness may be at the root of disagree-ments and minor altercations, but, as Wayne Coyne sang, after ruminating on our deaths, all of our inevitable deaths, “Let them know you realize that life goes fast; it’s hard to make the good things last,” then, as the music moseys along with Coyne’s fragile voice, and the riff comes back, he asks of us, “Do you realize that you have the most beautiful face?” Well, do you?
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‘...the problem lies not in what is feared but in our lack of understanding.
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DS> Josh Brorby is the foreign correspon-dent for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
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With the recent international disasters and countries in need of aid, I thought of the concepts of charity, poverty, capitalism and socioeconomic class. Recently, I came across a remake of the song, “We are the World.” The song initially was created in 1985 as a benefit for Africa, and this time around it was created in hopes of creating change for Haiti after the 7.0 earthquake in 2010. The current version of the song features several artists such as Jen-nifer Hudson, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Lil’ Wayne and many more.
I have several problems with such con-cepts. First, I want to quote Oscar Wilde as a base to start from:
“We are often told that the poor are grate-ful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grate-ful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobe-dient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously in-adequate mode of partial restitution, or a sen-timental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the senti-mentalist to tyrannize over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table?”
In the same essay, Oscar Wilde critiqued the kind slave owner. Basically, a kind slave owner is worse than a brutal slave owner. The brutal slave owner is the symbol of what slav-ery is and giving a grain of truth to the slave’s existence, while the kind slave owner is par-ticipating in the brutality of slavery and not questioning its existence. It is a lie for the slave; it prevented the slave from seeing their brutal and completely unjust existence.
That being said, this song for Haiti may, on the surface, appear to be a heartfelt, warm-ing act of charity, yet it still perpetuates the ex-istence of the poverty in Haiti (and anywhere else). On YouTube, someone commented on the video, “now make one for Japan.” My question is, why? What will that do? Prevent the radiation from leaking into oceans, water supply and food supplies? To rebuild the vil-lages and towns that washed away from the tsunami? To bring aid while still staying at a safe distance?
These artists that participated in this song can easily walk away from the recording and go on living their extravagant, material filled lives. They can act upon charity to look as though they are creating good for the world, and on the surface, they appear to be well-rounded and kind celebrities. Haiti is the poorest coun-try in the Western Hemisphere and minimum wage is around $5 a day (while making the clothes many of us wear, see the DS article ‘UND “fighting” for Haiti?’ by Aaron Wentz)! How on earth does a song change any of that? Has it created any type of change for Haiti? Are people in first-world countries letting go of their ways of living to benefit the poor?
The answer is no. They’re not. Haiti is still devastated from the impact of the earthquake, not to mention the devastation of poverty and a historical legacy of capitalism and dictatorship. Songs and charity will not change the situation in Haiti (or other countries). Sure, it may tem-porarily help people on a very surface and su-perficial way, but charity keeps poor people in their place. And their place is a life stricken to poverty and reliance on other people, the state and charity. It’s no wonder there are riots and revolts from poor people. I do not blame them; they have every right to that.
Charity will not save the world. Charity
Charity and capitalism
Taxes: America’s patriotic duty
I don’t generally write columns about na-tional issues because, despite their importance, I feel there are better topics much closer to home that deserve to be discussed. However, over the past several months there has been a growing debate over how to reduce the national defi-cit. Although many people tell us that the recession is over and the economy is get-ting back on track, the lingering effects have highlighted the unsustainable nature of many governmen-tal practices. At the forefront has been the controversy surround-ing the elimination of collective bargaining rights from public workers in Wisconsin.
By now, everyone should be aware that the legislation in question passed, after it was stripped of all funding language, which al-lowed it to pass the Senate (which lacked any opposition members who were boycotting the legislature to prevent its passage) with a simple majority of members rather than the normal 3/5 requirement. It was a low down dirty thing to do—spectacular cheap shot in a game that is full of low blows and rabbit punches.
As much as I would like to express my out-rage about this turn of events, there is a part of this debate that is not being addressed that makes me even angrier. You see, when times
were fat just a few years ago, many states de-cided to use the rising tide of stock prices to increase the incentives for the people who were essential to city services. They did this by offer-ing better retirement plans and so forth, which could be improved with the value of the stock market and didn’t require additional expendi-tures from local budgets. However, when the bottom fell out of the AAA rated securities that
these funds were in, local and state governments still had to provide the benefits that they promised, albeit without the revenue from the stocks which allowed them to increase benefits in the first place.
Now, it seems to me that it’s irresponsible to blame unions for the deci-sions of city governments
that only turned out to be bad decisions be-cause corporate banks blew up the real estate market making horribly stupid, unsustainable loans that they sold to investors (like local gov-ernments) as a secure investment that would never lose its value. Yet, even this does not de-serve the full measure of my anger.
No, what prompts my column today is the fact that we are engaged in a political battle over discretionary spending, at all levels of Government, when it is not discretionary spending that is causing the problems. We talk about cutting earmarks and government waste that represents at most five percent of the na-tional budget without addressing defense, a social security program that will not survive to
help any college student reading this, and tax rebate programs that comprise over 40 percent of spending.
And God help the politician who suggests we raise taxes on the wealthy, or worse, on ev-erybody. They would be crucified by their own constituents, because although nobody thinks their benefits should be cut, nobody wants to pay for someone else’s benefits. Instead we’d rather call unions greedy while we cut police and fire service, decrease teacher salaries, cut Higher Ed. Funding (that’s you ND, and on a $1 billion surplus, too —jerks) than increase taxes in order to pay for those things that gov-ernment provides. We want the services gov-ernment provides, but don’t want to pay for them.
We suck on the government teat while we rake in profits that are secured through govern-ment subsidies, take advantage of tax loopholes that cost our government hundreds of billions of dollars annually, and when our greed finally gets the better of us, we ask government to foot the bill when our sand houses come crashing down on our heads.
Whether or not anyone admits it, each and every person in this country is going to have to make sacrifices, most of which they will not like. We can either deal with it, like true Ameri-cans, with gritted teeth and firm resolve, or re-ject them in our myopic selfishness. Either way, America survives. Whether it will be as good as it was is up to us.
>DaviD bartaThe Dakota Student
The legality of abortion in America
Abortion is eternally contentious in this country and in most of the world. Rather than argue for or against, my concern here is refram-ing the issue. To be clear, I’m Pro-Reproduc-tive Rights for women, meaning not only am I Pro-Choice when it comes to abortion, I am Pro-Choice when it comes to all aspects of women’s health, the main reason being that I’m not a woman, so these are not my choices to make. That being said, the supreme court case Roe v. Wade established the legality of abor-tion procedures in 1973, by way of extending the fourth amendment’s right to privacy to the question of a woman’s right to choose whether or not to have an abortion.
Since 1973, there has been a steady decline in nationwide support for legalized abortion. For the first time since Roe v. Wade, recently the majority switched from supporting legal-ized abortion to opposing it. This is a crucial development. What this suggests is that a le-gal, medical procedure, which is performed millions of times a year in the U.S. and is safer than childbirth has become anathema to a ma-jority of the population. How did this switch occur?
The first question to ask is why abortion was legalized in the first place. It’s safe to say that Roe v. Wade is enough of an event in the national psyche that people have some sense of its implications. What is less known is what came before Roe v. Wade. The situation prior to Roe v. Wade was a desperate one for most women. If black market abortions were avail-able, they were overpriced and dangerous, generally speaking. If women could afford it, another option would be to travel overseas. In response to this situation and a realization that many illegal abortion providers were not doctors, in 1969 a group of women in Chi-cago formed an underground collective called
Jane. What began as a liaison service wherein the members of Jane would help women find a safe abortion provider (who they themselves had vetted), eventually evolved into a full on abortion service.
The women in the collective realized that they could not effectively control their own re-productive choices if they remained dependent upon outsiders for services. The physician who Jane had relied on initially, eventually agreed to train the members in the abortion procedure. With this newfound freedom, the members were able to train others in the abortion pro-cedure and offer their services at a drastically reduced rate for women who were poor. It has argued that abortion services offered under Jane were overall a better experience than legal abortions in contemporary U.S. society. Jane eventually disbanded after Roe v. Wade for-mally legalized abortion.
The structure and ne-cessity of Jane’s existence is crucial to understanding the state of the legality of abor-tion in the U.S. today. One way to think about the status of abortion in the US would be to imagine if abortion was treated as any other routine medical practice. Why are only 5% of abortions performed in hospitals, even though abortion is so common that 43% of women in the U.S. will have had at least one abortion by the time they are 45 years old (Medicalstudentsforchoice.org)? Why is it that there is a federal law which allows health care practitioners to refuse to perform abortions? Why is it legal to protest outside of and pub-licly harass patients of health care clinics which provide abortions? Why are physicians who perform abortions the targets of intimidation, harassment and violence (up to and includ-ing assassination)? Why did the percentage of medical schools who teach abortion procedures
>aaron wentzThe Dakota Student
drop from over 70% in 1973 to under 15% in 1993?
The obvious answer that those who oppose abortion are vehement, committed to their cause and willing to take extreme measures to fight for it (in some cases), is the wrong answer. Though this is true, the reason for this state of affairs is that abortion is effectively illegal in this country. The only place where abortion was ever legal in this country in the 20th Century was on paper. In the time after Roe v. Wade, there was the opportunity to create a social space wherein abortion was an accepted, legiti-mate, routine medical practice. Unfortunately, this did not take place. In actual practice, abor-tion, as a medical procedure, has been attacked and its availability continuously eroded since Roe v. Wade. Now we’re in a situation where (effectively) the only difference between Jane
and today’s situation is that Jane was un-derground and so the women who received their services weren’t publicly harassed and the abortion provid-ers didn’t have targets on their backs in the public eye.
To be clear, it is important for abortion to be legal. The ques-tion to ask is whether or not this is actually the case. If the conclusion I’ve drawn is the correct one, that abortion is effectively illegal, then the fight is not to retain access to abortion; the fight is to establish it in the first place. Until this is established, in actual practice, the opposition will continue to gain ground until women take matters into their own hands, like the members of Jane, in one way or another.
>HeatHer jackSonThe Dakota Student
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‘...the fight is not to retain access to abortion; the fight is to establish it...
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service, education and reflection.Two buses carrying 30-40 stu-
dents each departed from the Ches-ter Fritz Auditorium around 10 a.m. Friday. One was headed to Denver and the other to Washington D.C. Scheurer was on the bus to D.C. It was her first time in the nation’s capital. “I was really excited about going to D.C. for the first time and getting away from the cold North Dakota weather, but what I loved about this trip was that I could also volunteer and see the country at the same time,” she commented.
This is the sixth year UND stu-dents have participated in the event organized by the university’s chapter of Students Today, Leaders Forever (STLF). During the nine-day trip, each group made six intermediate stops to conduct various service proj-ects and joined up with buses carry-ing students from other schools. The service projects included cleaning up along a polluted river, removing brush from trails, volunteering for charity events and building a house for Habitat for Humanity.
Scheurer thoroughly enjoyed her trip and described her volunteer ex-perience. “In Tomah we did spring cleaning at the Boys and Girls Club.
In Gary, we cleaned and painted a hallway at their MLK Community Center. In Pittsburgh, we stayed at a camp and helped them clean and prepare for the summer when the campers come. And in Hershey, we helped rake and spread mulch at the Hershey Gardens.”
She said it was funny sometimes because a lot of people underesti-mated how much 40 people can get done in such a short amount of time. “It was so rewarding to know that in some small way, all of us made a difference in other people’s lives,” she said. In Washington, D.C. the students met up with the other buses across the Midwest who went on this
tour. They gathered together and picked garbage along one of their most polluted streams. Scheurer said, “It was awesome that hundreds of college students were able to come together and make a difference.”
She added that she had vol-unteered a lot in high school and missed those types of experiences. Another challenging and rewarding aspect of this trip for her was meet-ing new people. “I went on this tour without knowing anyone so that was a big step for me. Not only was this something that I wanted to do, but I felt it was something I needed to do. I love meeting new people and was very excited to do something like
this,” she said.Scheurer was impressed by how
hospitable everyone was; “they all welcomed us into their community and were so grateful for the service we did for them,” she continued. She went on to say, “not only did we impact their lives, but they im-pacted ours as well. The Pay It For-ward Tour was truly an amazing ex-perience. I learned that one person can truly make a difference in the world.”
production of a publication earlier this year, skewing their current bud-get.
The first proposed amendment made to the budget increased the chair salary to $1,000. Aerospace Senator Samantha Curtis disagreed with the increase. “You shouldn’t be paid for something you’re going to put on your resume,” she said.
Another motion was then pro-posed for dropping the salary for all standing committee chairs to $500. This motion was also met with dis-sent. “Think about the individual committees and how much work they do,” stated Jacob Gapp, execu-tive administrator of the Student Or-
ganization Funding Agency (SOFA). Justin Glaser, chair of the University Programming Council (UPC) agreed with Gapp. “So much the chairs do behind the scenes is unrecognized,” he said.
Senate eventually approved a sal-ary of $800 for standing committee chairs and $400 for vice-chairs. The BOSP budget was amended and in-creased to $8,600, to the dismay of its members who were hoping for a budget similar to last year.
“BOSP is the red-headed step-child of Student Government that no one wants to give funding to,” said DeMolee.
Budgets for SOFA ($101,850), the Emerging Leaders Program ($4,850), and the Elections Com-mittee ($2,500) were approved as
proposed. NightLife was allocated $15,000. The program had a pro-posed budget of zero when presented to the senate.
The 2011-2012 operations bud-get for Student Government was also decreased for the next fiscal year. Stu-dent government executive salaries were cut by $500 each. College of Business and Public Administration Senator Remington Zacher, pro-poser of the cuts, believes they were justified because the full-time staffer set to be hired next year will decrease the executive workload.
UPC received a total allocation of $126, 750. The funds are split between its chair, music, lectures, performing arts, union and special events, cinema, diversity, and mar-keting divisions. Senate also passed
one bill. It requested an allocation of $15,000 in additional funding for SOFA.
“Currently we have allocated $100,000 of our $123,000 bud-get,” said SOFA Vice Chair. SOFA has given financial assistance to over 70 student organizations this school year and needed the proposed fund-ing increase to cover remaining re-quests made by organizations over the summer. “This is one of the most important parts of Student Govern-ment,” stated Off-Campus Senator Brenden Jehlicka. “More student or-
ganizations rely on it than anything else.
A second bill, designating $12, 282 for the start-up cost of a student radio station was tabled until next week’s meeting.
Student Government election results were also approved. New senators will take their seats during the “passing of the gavel” ceremony at next week’s senate meeting.
culture&mediatuesday march 29, 2011DS > Inside: Sand Mandala destruction ceremony,
Music Department piano forum
The Conference has Arrived!
Story by Nicholas Gowan
The UND Writers Conference, founded in 1970 as the Southern Writers Conference
of the Arts by English Professor John Little, began as an opportunity to meet up with
friends from out of state. Over the years, the Writers Conference has given the com-
munity a chance to hear authors read their works and talk with them, often before the
writers have become international sensations. The theme this year, [Inter]National
Affairs, has been developed by co-directors and English Professors Heidi Czerwiec and
Crystal Alberts.
The notoriety of the Writers Conference has a lot to do with the large number of
noteworthy authors who have attended in the past. Alberts says, “Since 1970, four
Nobel laureates, twenty-eight Pulitzer Prize winners, Oscar recipients, multiple Mac-
Arthur Geniuses and receivers of a myriad of other awards have graced the campus of
UND. That said, the Conference prides itself in identifying writers whom it believes will
become signifi cant in the fi eld of literature and often invites authors to the Conference
before they become internationally renowned.” The Writers Conference begins today at
2 p.m. with the World Poetry Reading in the River Valley Room in the Memorial Union,
and fi nishes with a community workshop at noon on Saturday, April 2. Movies will
be shown at two and six p.m. Wednesday-Friday, as well as Casablanca, which will be
shown at 6 p.m. on Tuesday. There will be a panel at noon on each day from Wednes-
day-Friday that will bring several of the authors together to discuss different aspects
of literature. On Friday, continuing UND’s Great Conversation series will be “A Great
Conversation with Jamaica Kincaid” at 8 p.m. in the Chester Fritz Auditorium.
When asked if a she had a time machine and could travel back to a previous confer-
ence, Alberts said that would be all but impossible to choose a single year. “I would’ve
liked to have been there for every year of the Writers Conference because, for me, just
to attend the Writers Conference is like being a part of literary history. But, if I had
a time machine, I would defi nitely have attended the 1974 UND Writers Conference,
‘City Lights in North Dakota,’ which featured the Beat Generation. I would’ve also at-
tended the 1975 Conference, which included William H. Gass, John Barth, Ken Kesey,
Ishmael Reed, Alice Walker and N. Scott Momaday (among others). I would’ve made an
appearance at the 1976 Conference, which featured Truman Capote and Tom Wolfe. I
would’ve made sure I was there in 1978 with William S. Burroughs and Amiri Baraka.
I would’ve been there in 1985 to meet Norman Mailer. The list goes on, but luckily, I
didn’t need a time machine to be there for 2010 with Frank X. Walker and Saul Wil-
liams.”
The Writers Conference is a tradition that UND and the community at large should
take pride in. It isn’t every day that such a large number of names in Literature de-
scend onto a small midwestern city, take it by storm, and, more often than not, leave a
fl ood in their wake. More information on the Writers Conference, including a complete
schedule of the events and a list of featured authors, can be found at undwritersconfer-
ence.org.
DS> Nicholas Gowan is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
Studio and the North Dakota Ballet Company paired up to give a per-formance at the North Dakota Mu-seum of Art. Here, select ballet danc-ers performed improvisatory dance to live music performed by UND piano students.
Finally, Dr. Sergio Monteiro,
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The loss of beauty
>Megan sevignyThe Dakota Student
aRT Tibetan monks hold destruction ceremo-ny for Interfaith Week’s Buddhist sand mandala.
As you may or may not have known, last week was Interfaith Week here at UND. Among prayer servic-es, lectures and guided meditation, UND also featured several Tibetan monks who spent a good portion of the week creating a sand mandala painting. For those who never wit-nessed this masterpiece, it was a large (approximately 3x3’), intricate paint-ing that contained an image of Bud-dha, lotuses, snakes, scrollwork and a number of other spiritual icons. It wasn’t apparent from the pictures, or, in fact, in person (unless you look very closely) that this image is made of colored sand. The gradients of colors made it appear more painting-like; however, the three-dimensional effect of the layered sand brought to mind intricate oriental brocade.
Sand mandalas are typically creat-ed as an aid for meditation, and Bud-dhist custom dictates that the sand mandala be destroyed soon after its creation. The destruction represents the idea that nothing is static; things must change and though we may grasp at the present, nothing will re-main as it is now. This ceremony was held Friday at noon at the North Da-kota Museum of Art. The museum was packed and people surrounded the mandala, which was roped off in the center; others watched from the balcony above. Standing space was at a premium as the crowd gathered to watch the destruction of the beauti-ful and painstakingly-created work
of art.The destruction of a sand man-
dala is highly ceremonial; one monk began the destruction ceremony with a low, humming chant that seemed almost too deep to have come from a human throat. The other monks joined in, effortlessly harmonizing. Next, they played a number of in-struments, and then switched to a more song-like chant that seemed to resonate and fill the museum. This process repeated itself for approxi-mately half an hour. To an American who is unused to such events, this
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Music Department holds piano forum
>sTaFF RePORTThe Dakota Student
The UND Music Department hosted their second annual piano forum on last Friday. This forum, though The forum started at 12:00 p.m. with a lecture entitled “Liszt’s Pupils on Liszt,” which was given by musicologist Andrew Haringer.
The forum continued at 1:30 p.m. with a masterclass taught by Nelita True, who debuted at age 17 with the Chicago Symphony. Her career has allowed her to tour the world, produce videos of her per-formances and teachings, and judge prestigious piano competitions.
At 4:30 p.m., the UND Piano 11PianO > page
COnCeRT International musicians converge at UND to lecture, teach and perform last Friday.
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ceremony was strange: melancholy and haunting, for sure, but also surreally beautiful.
After about half an hour of this, a flower was placed in the center of the mandala. A monk with cymbals circled the mandala several times before using a tool to trace four lines, like the points of a compass, through the center. A large, wide brush was then used to sweep the sand in a slightly spiral pattern towards the center of the table. After several rounds, the majority of the sand had been swept up into a glittering, multi-colored mound. The mandala was no more.
The monks then began to scoop the half of the sand into small bags and distribute them to the crowd, which was significant-ly smaller than it had been forty minutes before at the ceremony’s
ART > From page 8 start. We were told to place our
sand somewhere in our house; they said that it would promote healing. The remaining half of the sand was brought to a body of water and released so that it could flow to the oceans and spread to promote the healing of the world.
This was a unique and awe-inspiring event, and we at UND were lucky to host these monks and their incredible artwork. While a few participants may not have shown the respect they should have, a majority of the crowd paid their due respect to these artists who helped promote the messages of Interfaith Week. With any luck, they will return again sometime in the near future, and I highly encourage everyone to seek them out and experience the beauty firsthand.
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Returning the favor; the Manny Ohonme storyGOODWILL Former UND star gives back to his African hometown after an illustrious career.
>TADD POWERSThe Dakota Student
“Shoes to this country are a fashion statement,” stated Em-manuel “Manny” Ohonme, found-er of Samaritan’s Feet, a non-profi t organization. Ohonme, who in fact has some local roots in North Dakota, was a former college bas-ketball player at the University of North Dakota-Lake Region state. Ohonme, who won his fi rst pair of shoes from an American mission-ary group, stated, “They brought
little orange balls, which I later found out were basketballs. Every-thing round in Africa, we kicked.” The missionary group taught the kids of the village how to dribble, shoot and the basic skills of the game. Ohonme was picked at the end of the day by the mis-sionary group to be the recip-ient of a pair of shoes he won in a basketball competition. Ohonme considered them to be the greatest gift he has ever received.
Those pair of shoes opened a
gateway of success for Ohonme who pursued his dream of playing basketball in America. His success in Nigeria led to North Dakota where he played college basket-
ball for Lake Region State College in Devils Lake.
E v e n though his college career didn’t lead to a professional career, he still has made a positive im-
pact in the world. Sadly, when Ohonme returned home to Nige-ria, when he found his father had passed away in 1997. Devestated,
Ohonme saw hundreds of children in his hometown shoeless. He im-mediately remembered his child-hood; kids were shoeless without hope or direction. He returned to America, trying to think of ways he could help and make a differ-ence; he came up with the Samari-tan’s Feet program. The program isn’t just about donating shoes. “Anybody can give away shoes. I wanted to get on the dirty fl oors and wash their feet, and tell them to dream big,” Ohonme said.
Samaritan’s Feet now has a national following; Buick has teamed up with the organization to promote it during the NCAA fi nal four of the Men’s Basketball tournament. Ohonme has recruit-ed professional basketball players
to start programs in their commu-nity giving shoes and motivational speeches.
Ohonme was given one pair of shoes from a group of strang-ers from America, after a compe-tition he had won. That one pair of shoes led to a worldwide orga-nization that has given thousands of shoes to underprivileged chil-dren, providing hope and dreams to all. Can you imagine if Manny Ohonme didn’t win that pair of shoes? Would other recipients have touched the lives of hun-dreds of thousands of children like Ohonme?
DS> Tadd Powers is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
‘I wanted to get on the dirty fl oors an and wash their feet and tell them to dream big.
Manny OhonmeSamaritan’s Feet
UND continues their NCAA missionEAGER Defeating Den-ver has allowed North Dakota to play for an-other championship.
>TIMOTHY BOGERThe Dakota Student
The mission continues.A nearly fl awless weekend for
North Dakota men’s hockey team occurred at just the right time at the NCAA Midwest Regional in Green Bay. Thanks to victories over Rensselaer and Denver—6-0 and 6-1 victories, respectfully—UND earned the right to move on to the 2011 Frozen Four at St. Paul’s Xcel Energy Center. It’ll be the 20th Frozen Four in program history and fi rst since 2008.
N o r t h Dakota (32-8-3) domi-nated an overmatched R e n s s e l a e r team Satur-day in a 6-0 victory to kick off the Midwest Re-gional at Green Bay’s Resch Cen-ter.
The victory was UND’s fi rst semifi nal victory in three years after losing heartbreakers to New Hampshire in 2009 and Yale in 2010.
This time, however, there’d be no heartbreak for the nation’s top-ranked team. A goal at 5:25 of the fi rst by Brad Malone put UND on top for good, but they’d pile on four goals in the second and one in the third to bury the Engineers, who were making their fi rst NCAA tournament ap-pearance in over 15 years.
Malone scored his second goal of the game early in that second period, and Danny Kristo, Jason Gregoire, and Corban Knight fol-lowed with goals of their own. Rensselaer (20-13-5) couldn’t keep up with the high-powered UND offense that ended the day with 40 shots on goal. The Engi-neers, of ECAC Hockey, hadn’t reached the NCAA tournament since 1995 before this season.
Sunday, North Dakota had to face their hated rival, the Denver Pioneers, with a trip to St. Paul on the line.
The Pioneers eliminated Western Michigan 3-2 in double overtime Saturday night and were searching for their fi rst Frozen Four appearance since their na-tional championship in 2005.
Instead, North Dakota pulled away late for a 6-1 victory.
It looked like UND was going to head into the fi rst in-termission with a lead. Mario L a m o u r e u x
took a great feed from captain Chay Genoway on a shorthanded rush and buried a wrist shot over the shoulder of Denver goalten-der Sam Brittain (23 saves).
But Jason Zucker got a fortu-nate bounce on another rush—there were many—and banked a shot into the net off the skate of North Dakota’s goalie, sopho-more Aaron Dell, with just 0.2 left on the clock.
Neither team was outplay-ing the other, and for a while it seemed that it would be another tight, gritty hockey game just like that of the Western Collegiate
Hockey Association’s Final Five eight days earlier. Instead, UND hunkered down and grabbed a lead that, unlike the previous week’s battle, they wouldn’t relin-quish.
Matt Frattin created a rush early in the second, and after a few missed attempts, Evan Trupp fi nally buried his own rebound for the eventual game-winning goal.
North Dakota would score again thanks to a power play goal by Brett Hextall. Hextall’s hard slapshot from the left circle made it 3-1.
Denver had come back from two goals the night before, how-ever, and also came back from a one-goal defi cit to send last week’s game into overtime. They had several good opportunities to get a rally going in the closing min-utes.
But another breakout goal sealed it for North Dakota. Dan-ny Kristo made a great play and a great pass ahead to Brock Nelson, who roofed a top-shelf goal past Brittain.
Malone added an empty net goal and Jake Marto’s late power play goal rounded it out for North Dakota to leave all doubt behind.
The dream season will go on for head coach Dave Hakstol and this year’s team, which has already the best record in his tenure. Their fi fth Frozen Four in Hak-stol’s eight seasons as coach will begin next Thursday at 7:30 p.m. against Michigan, who dispatched Colorado College 2-1 Saturday night. The other semifi nal will be Minnesota-Duluth and Notre Dame.
DS> Timothy Boger is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
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Graphic by Nathan Twerberg > The Dakota Student
11SPORTSthe Dakota Student
UND softball finds momentum in DallasCONSTRUCTIVE The early GWC tournament provided North Dakota with hope for the season.
>BRaNDON BECkERThe Dakota Student
The North Dakota women’s softball team took part in the Great West Conference Early Tournament over the weekend. On Friday, UND played a dou-ble-header against border-rival South Dakota, followed by a dou-ble-header against Houston Bap-tist on Saturday. It’s been a rough start to the season for UND, as they came into the tournament with just 6 wins in 23 tries. But a winning mark coming out of
the Great West Conference Early Tournament would give North Dakota momentum going into the meat and potatoes of their schedule.
Game 1, Friday—UND 4, South Dakota 3
Caralyn Chewning picked up the win for UND—her second on the season—as she tossed six innings and only allowed two earned runs. Amanda Johnson re-corded a hit along with two RBI’s in the game.
Kayelee Schoeny was the only UND player to have a multi-hit game. UND was outhit 10 to 6 by the Coyotes, but UND was patient at the plate and took ad-vantage South Dakota pitcher Mel Johnson’s 11 walks. Emma Gronseth closed out the game for North Dakota in the seventh to
give North Dakota the win.Game 2—UND 3, South
Dakota 2A three-run first inning was
all North Dakota needed to hold on to another one-run victory over the Coyotes. Brittany Bak-er’s RBI double highlighted the three-run outburst for UND.
D e s p i t e Erica Den-ney’s first in-ning struggles on the mound, she was able to bounce back and shut out UND the rest of the game. As impressive as Denney was, Michelle Frank was even better. Frank went the distance, struck out 12 and only gave up 2 runs. It was a dominant performance from the North Da-kota pitcher that would improve her mark to 5-3 on the year. UND came away with a much needed sweep of their rival to get off to a
good start in conference play.Game 1, Saturday—Hous-
ton Baptist 7, UND 2The UND offense was kept at
bay by Jammie Weirdert through-out the game, as she pitched a complete game and was able to hold UND to just two runs. Ken-na Olsen finished with three hits
and drove in the only runs of the game for North Dakota. The Huskies had great success against Gron-seth, tagging her for nine hits and six
earned runs. There were three Huskies who finished with mul-tiple hits compared to just one for UND.
Game 2—Houston Baptist 3, UND 2 (10)
In a pitchers’ duel, the Hus-kies were able to best UND in an extra inning thriller. Both Frank
and Keely Shuler went the dis-tance for their respective teams, but it was Shuler who would end up improving to 4-0 on the sea-son.
North Dakota scored in the opening frame to take a 1-0 lead until the bottom of the third in-ning when Rebecca Rademacher singled to knot the score at one apiece. UND took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the ninth but HBU rallied to tie the game once again before eventually winning it in the following inning. ‘Frank went the dis-
tance, struck out 12 and only gave up two runs.
Brandon Beckerstaff writer DS> Brandon Becker is a staff writer
for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
PIaNO > From page 8
gave a piano recital at 8 p.m. Mon-teiro began studying piano at the age of four and completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees at the National Music School of Rio de Janeiro. During this time, he won thirty 1st prize awards in vari-ous competitions throughout Bra-zil and South America. A brilliant performance at the Second Martha Argerich International Piano Com-petition in Buenos Aires in 2003 led him to work for two years in the prestigious International Piano Academy in Como, Italy, where he worked with some leading inter-national pianists. Monteiro now works at the Wanda L. Bass School of Music at Oklahoma City Uni-versity.
Be sure to keep an eye on the Music Department’s schedule of events if you missed this year’s per-formance. This can be found at http://arts-sciences.und.edu/mu-sic/calendar.cfm.
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Date idea: Take a sweetheart to watch the NDSU Bison take on UND on Friday.
12 SPORTS tuesday march 29, 2011
This past week, the UND tennis team traveled to Las Ve-gas, Nevada to compete against four teams in a three-day span. Only one of the teams is from the Great West conference—Seattle while the other three included Idaho State, San Jose State and Southern Utah.
The first competition fea-tured the Bengals of Idaho State and UND on Thursday. North Dakota dominated ISU, winning their fifth straight. They tallied a 7-0 score, with six wins in the singles and two in first and third doubles.
In number one singles, soph-omore Erin Kappers won her match 6-0, 6-3, defeating Katha-rina Marsela. Freshman Stepha-nie Petsis took the second singles match, cruising to a 6-1, 6-2 vic-tory.
For the number one doubles, the team of Kappers and fresh-man Callie Ronkowski won their match with a score of eight games to five. To secure the team victo-ry, UND’s third team of doubles with sophomores Megan Sween and Hallie Welk won eight games to four.
On Friday, UND competed against lone conference opponent Seattle University. The team’s winning streak came to an end, suffering a tough 4-3 loss. Both teams split the singles matches 3-3, but in doubles Seattle took two of the three matches.
In number two singles, Kap-pers took her match with a 6-2, 6-2 victory. Ronkowski also took her match, but she needed an ex-tra set to do it. She won a tight match, with a score of 3-6, 6-4, and 7-6.
DS> Kyle Rosseau is a staff writer for The Dakota Student. He can be reached at [email protected]
High stakes in VegasTENNIS The North Dakota team broke even while visiting Sin City over the weekend.
>KylE ROSSEauThe Dakota Student
In number one doubles, Kappers and Ronkowski almost pulled out the victory but came up short with a score of nine games to eight. “The match was extremely close and we probably let the match get away from us when we lost the tie breaker at number one doubles,” said UND coach Tom Wynne.
Bouncing back from the tough loss to Seattle, UND rebounded taking down San Jose State 5-2, on Saturday. Freshman Stephanie Biehn won both of her matches at No. 5 singles and No. 2 doubles. In her singles match, she won in convincing fashion, taking it 6-2 and 6-3. In the doubles, Biehn and Petsis won their match eight games to five.
Kappers also continued her impressive play with a victory at No. 1 singles, winning 6-2, and 7-5.
Coach Wynne was very pleased with his team’s perfor-mance against San Jose State. “It was our first match ever versus a
California team and our first win over a WAC team, so it was a good team victory,” said Wynne.
Closing out the trip, UND was up against Southern Utah but came up short. The team lost by only one, 4-3. Overall in Ve-gas, the team finished with a re-cord of 2-2.
Petsis and sophomore Chel-sea Galipeau won their singles matchup against SUU. Petsis won in three sets, 4-6, 6-3 and 6-2. Galipeau dominated in her match with a 6-2 and 6-2 de-feat. UND won all three dou-bles matches with Kappers and Ronkowski winning in the No. 1 match. They won with a score of eight games to four.
UND will travel to Omaha, Nebraska April 1 through April 3. They will square off against Bradley, Creighton and South Dakota.
HEaTHER From page 5
is a way for middle to upper class people and industrialized coun-tries all over the world to feel better about their wealthier po-sitions in the world and create a fantasy of existence. This fantasy is an existence for them and for the poor people. Charity creates a position in which the poor people may not be aware of the brutality of their existence (as the slave of the kind slave holder). In fact, the top 400 wealthiest people in the USA own 50% of the wealth. There certainly is enough wealth to equalize people’s existence in
the world.A better approach is to create
a world in which charity and pov-erty do not exist. People do not need to have an existence of con-stant reliance on charity and wel-fare to live day to day. Capitalism is the problem and there are bet-ter ways for people to live.
DS> Heather Jackson is a columnist for The Dakota Student. She can be reached at [email protected]
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Congrats to uND hockey and their wins!
