The Sword, September 2011
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Golden Bears Take Down Wolves in Home Opener Redshirt freshman, Jared Russo, leads Golden Bears to a, 27-22, victory over Northern State Univ. By Cody Wilcoxson The Golden Bear football team returned to Sea Foam Stadium for the first time in 2011 and da2zled the crowd with a hard-fought victory, 27-22, over Northern State University last Saturday. In a must-win con ference game, the Bears got a gritty performance from redshirt freshman quarterback Jared Russo. Russo, a native of Milwaukee, made his first collegiate start in place of injured veterans Spencer Ohm and James Pe terson. Beginning the season third on the depth chart did nothing to deter Russo as he was efficient running the offense. Replacing Peterson following an injury against St. Cloud State the week before, Russo tossed five interceptions in a, 41-13, loss to St. Cloud State. But the young signal caller took the reins on Saturday night, engineering scoring drives of 65, 51, 42 and 60 yards. Russo kicked off the scoring wnth a 59 yard strike to Tre Mason to put the Golden Bears on top, 7-0, near the end of the first quarter. Russo would con nect with senior receiver Charles Gilbert in the second quarter to get the Golden Bears back on top following a Northem State touchdown. Russo would throw his third and final touchdown pass in the third quarter when he again connected with Mason from 11 yards out. Senior running back, Sam Campbell, capped the scoring when he Photo courtesy of Justin Oakman Photography plunged in from 16 yards out to seal the victory for the blue and gold. Campbell was instrumental in the Golden Bears offense, carrying the ball 24 times for 98 yards and the lone fourth quarter touchdown. Campbell gained key yards in crucial situations, and also assisted with pass blocking to give the freshman quarterback more time to find an open receiver. Russo finished his first start 13 of 27 for 208 yards and three touchdown strikes. He spread the ball around efficiently, con necting with six different receivers. Mason led all pass catchers with four receptions for 85 yards and two scores. Returning all-conference performer, Gilbert, was limited to three receptions for 33 yards, but did haul in a Russo pass for an eight yard touchdown reception. The reception was the shortest of the senior's 16 career touchdowns. The defense stood strong against the Wolves offense. Senior middle linebacker, Al Quaye, tallied a game-high 13 tackles, while sophomore defensive back, Mike Willet, made 12 stops and had a crucial pass break up in the end zone to stop the Wolves on fourth and 12 from the Golden Bear 19 yard line late in the fourth quarter. The Golden Bears stay at home this weekend when they host Minnesota State University, Mankato for homecoming. Kickoff is set for noon on Saturday, Sept. 24 at Sea Foam Stadium, Turn to page 14 for a feature story on Golden Bear sophomore James Phofo courtesy of Justin Oakman Photography Peterson and the team's season opening victory over MInot State. CSPnewsupdater The Sword Newspaper CSP.edu/Sword [email protected] c r. r 4 ^ - . y ?• y-# .i V .• •• / s 2 September 2011 THE SWORD TABLE OF CONTENTS FRONT PAGE: Golden Bear Football P-1 NEWS: Archeology Dig p.3 Homeconning p.4 1 Message from Student Senate p.4 Nice Ride_Bikes p.5 Dear students, faculty, and Concordia community members. Religious Diversity p.5 First of all, welcome back! It was a long and hot summer — especially for those of us without air conditioning. However, we are now on the home-stretch to winter, where we can bust out the ARTS & VARIETY , : , ; . •' V.', • • , shorts any time the thermometer hits 33—only In Minnesota. Bon Iver p.6 A new school year brings many firsts for our new students and many last-firsts for our seniors Poetry Slam Club p.6 on the way out. For me, this is my first address to the CSP community as Editor-in-Chief of The Sword, Book Review p.6 but I just experienced my last first day of school (the possibility of graduate school notwithstanding). Album Review p.l 1 This is officially my last yedr as a college student, baseball player, and financial dependent of my Dear Chloe p.l 1 parents. Ylkes! With just nine months standing between me and my "future," I have adopted a new motto Food Review p.l 2 for the year: As College As Possible (trending on Twitter as #ACAP). It means to experience all that Shakespeare Under the Stars p.l 2 college is while you still have the chance. I have many things I want to accomplish as part of this Grocery Shopping p.l 2 #ACAP motto. Starting with attaining the ever-impossible 4.0 GPA for a semester, attending 34 Concordia athletic events (Including one of each of the 15 NCAA Division II sports—Swim team not BEST OF CSP AREA p.7-10 : Included), and getting students to actually read The Sword, among other tasks. The Sword would like to be a staple of Concordia and to be read by students, faculty, and community members going through the first-firsts, last-firsts and everything In-between of university SPORTS: •-"a; life. Volleyball p.l 3 Cheerleading p.l 3 '' r f.r- • 'c' Football Feature p.l4 Cross Country p.l 5 Best wishes, Bear Backers p.l 5 Cody Wilcoxson Editor-in-Chief, The Sword Golf p.l 6 TN« MKK » A STUIKin n«liaTtON NOT AN OmCIAl CONCORDIA PUBUCATtON AND THI VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE NOT NECESSARilT THAT OF THE UNIVERSITY, BUT OF THE WRITERS AND STAFF INVOLVED IN THE PUBLICATION. • . .J-;. • • THE SWORD STAFF EDITOR IN CHIEF PRODUCTION MANAGER FACULTY ADVISOR Cody Wilcoxson Kristi Loobeek Eric Dregni NEWS EDITOR COPY EDITOR CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Kelsey Dunlevy Chloe Taipale Larissa Arnold, Danielle Bredy, Andrea Flowers, Levi Gribbon, ARTS & VARIETY EDITOR PRODUCTION Paige Joosten, Dakota Lee, Jake Savannah Nolen Kristi Loobeek, Chloe Weinberg Loftus, Rebecca McDermeit, Tara Rupiper, Bethany Saros, Arielle SPORTS EDITOR COLUMNISTS Stimson, Monica TIachac, Chloe Sam Campbell Chloe Taipale Weinberg, Charlie Wirth THESWORD 3 Students "Dig" Hippos Arclieological Summer Trip A month-long excavotion yields final piece to a mosaic By Keisey Dunlevy A group of seven Concxtrdia students, ted by Theology and Greek up some tessera ProfiesscM-, Dr. Mark Schuler, arrived in Israel on July 1 for a month long (pieces of mosaic excaration adventure at Hippos of the Decapolis. The archeological dig floor), and these is cali^ the Northeast Insula i|Projec:t. The seven Concordia students who were not like any went on the summer trip were David Edwards, Siar^aW ^dsdelni Meghan of the other tessera O'Neill, Dylan Olsen, Ann Shaw, Kyle Sorkness, and Jackie Wiebold, and we have found ear each kept a blog during their time excavating Hippos. lier," Dylan writes. Reasons for embarking on the summer trip varied for the students. "I turned to Anna "As a Christian, I've wanted to visit Israel for quite some time now to see and whispered, '1 the places we read about in Scriptures, walk where Jesus walked, and found a mosaic better understand how God's amazing plan of salvation came to be," said floor!'" The mosaic Anna Shaw, a Junior majoring in K-8 math education. "On the archaeology flooring that Dylan side of things, I was excited for the rare experience to participate in and found contained an Anna Shaw and Dytaii Olson an tlw Jwly 2011 dig. learn something I knew nothing about." While David Edwards, a member inscription and was of the University Honors Program, said, "1 just saw this as an awesome located under a doorway. "A rough translation is, 'GocxJ fortune to opportunity to travel across the globe with some good friends, one of my the builder,'" said Schuler in his blog, July 19. "Dr. Schuler and his fiavorite professOTs, and dig in the historically rich country of Israel." teams have not found anything like this in seven years—and they have Hippos was a Greek city that was part of the Decapolis, a league been going for ten years," said Olsen. of ten Greek dties. Hippos is k)cated about one mile east of the Sea of Digging Hippos wasn't the only thing the students did on the Galilee on the mountain Sussita in Israel. "It is the only city that was on trip. Two of Edwards' favorite memories ate of a spontaneous team a hill, and is very likely the dty Jesus was referencing when he talked swim in the Sea of Galilee after a hard day of work and swimming about the 'dty on a hill' in Matthew 5:14," said Shaw. Excavation first in the Dead Sea. "We walked down across the beadi into the sea began tfiere in 1950. The Concordia team is responsible for excavating [of Galilee] with boots, jeans, shirts, and hats, the whole shebang— a site approxirtiately 80 right into the sea," said Edwards. "It was somettiing you don't get meters long by 50 me to do every day." Of swimming in the Dead Sea, Edwards said, "I ters wide, located in the vras blown away by how incredibly buoyant I actually was in the sea, northeastern quadrant of I could literally sit in the water, as if I was redining in a lazy boy, Hippos. and be perfectly buoyant." During the first week The team completed their work in two excavation zones dur of the dig, Shaw un ing the month-long trip to Israel.