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September 8, 2011 Inside this edition: Minot State University Printing policy - Page 2 Minot, N.D. 58701 Movies and music - Page 4 Volume 93 , Number 1 Flashback - Page 7 www.minotstateu.edu/redgreen Red &Green Home football - Page 9 Residence Life helps set-up tourney Cassie Neuharth participate in the event. Students Staff Writer will load up the buses at MSU at Minot State University and 11:30 a.m. and arrive at the Peace Brandon University, Manitoba, Gardens at 2 p.m. The tournament will compete in a first-ever, just- begins at 3 p.m. The tournament for-fun dodgeball tournament at will provide supper for all stu - the International Peace Gardens dents at 4 p.m., and then they will Sept. 18. head back to Minot. Participants This summer, Heather Smith, will receive a T-shirt for their uni - Minot State University residence versity, red for MSU and blue for life coordinator, and David BU. Rowland, Brandon University A fun aspect of this event is dean of students, discussed team - that MSU President David Fuller ing up to break a Guinness world and BU President Deborah Poff record for the largest tug-of war will attend the tournament, with a competition. After learning that challenge in place. Each president the contest was too big to tackle, has agreed to wear the winning the pair came up with the dodge - school’s T-shirt. So, if MSU takes ball idea. the crown, Poff will wear the MSU "It is going to be really neat for shirt for the rest of the evening. students to be at the 49th parallel Smith asked Leon Perzinski, and for students to bring the spir - Student Center director, to help it and energy ready for out with this event to coincide Photo by Max Patzner Homecoming Week," Smith said. with Homecoming Week. The pair Flood waters come up to the dike on the west side of Model Hall. Only minor flood Organizers set a limit of 85 stu - traveled north to meet with the damage occurred to the basements of some MSU facilities. dents from the two universities to See Dodgeball — Page 8 MSU faces flood, wins Mara Hintz tens of millions of dollars in the valley, single dorm rooms Comm 281 damages and recovery. have been converted into dou - With flood waters down and Grants from FEMA and the ble rooms and double rooms the Minot State University cam - state of North Dakota will cover into triple. Additionally, 10 self- pus up and running, all is back 97 percent of the cost for the contained 10-person apartments to normal. Sort of. dike. Officials slowed construc - and eight efficiency units are The dike, or “Beaver Dam” tion projects on campus to cover going up near the Gordon B. as it came to be called, protected the cost until reimbursement Olson Library. Initially, efficien - the Minot State campus from arrives. cy units will house displaced water that would have reached Despite the dike, enrollment faculty and staff and later will to the third step of Old Main, at Minot State appears to be become student housing. flooding the south side of cam - down from last year, although Evacuees stayed at the Dome pus, including most dormito - the official numbers will not be for up to five weeks, with num - ries, and leaving only four available until the third week of bers reaching just shy of 200. buildings flood-free. classes, Kluck informed the Red Also, 600 National Guard mem - Only Model, Crane, and & Green. When the University bers, between 500-600 Red McCulloch Halls and Lura of North Dakota in Grand Forks Cross volunteers, 100 truck Manor sustained minor base - flooded in 1997, its enrollment drivers and a handful of public Photo by Max Patzner ment damage. According to dropped 10 percent. Kluck esti - health officers lived on campus. Jenna Skeldum, Kenna Davidson and Daniel Johnson per - Roger Kluck, assistant vice pres - mates any drop in enrollment at With students back on cam - form in “Donʼt Dress for Dinner.” Admission to the play was ident of facilities management MSU will be less significant. pus and a few adjustments, all is by free-will offering, with $4,200 given. The troupe donated at MSU, the $80,000 price tag for To accommodate students normal at Minot State. A new, $1,400 each to the “Letʼs Rebuild Minot” fund, Western the dike was worth avoiding who had living arrangements in thankful normal. Plains Childrenʼs Choir and Minot Public Schools. Page 2 – September 8, 2011 News Red & Green News in brief effect baseball has had on Campus printing policy American culture. Flood forums each for fall semester Four Brown Bag Book Talks will Tuesday Black-and-white printing is be held this semester. The talks are Flood forums will be held in available for students from any open to all. Participants are encour - Aleshire Theater in Hartnett Hall of the campus computer labs aged to bring a sack lunch. every Tuesday until Oct. 4, from 8 and kiosks. Color printing is to 9 a.m. available from Old Main 108 MSU President David Fuller and third floor of Old Main. MSU Summer Theatre and Rob Anderson, special assis - Pick up color copies in Old season wraps up tant to the president, will discuss Main 108. On Aug. 27, the Minot State flood recovery issues. Students need to enter their University Summer Theatre con - user ID and password (student cluded its 46th season with “Don’t ID number) to release print jobs. Dress for Dinner,”a farce by Telethon to be hosted in Each student receives a 500- French playwright Marc Nelson Hall page free print quota each Camoletti. The play was directed The “Bring Back the Magic” semester. For print jobs over by Paula Lindekugel-Willis, flood recovery telethon will be the 500-sheet quota, student Division of Humanities. held from 7 p.m. to midnight on Monday, Sept. 12, in Anne Nicole Photo by Amber Penrose accounts will be charged 1 cent The performance had been Nelson Hall. Sponsored by the A room in Lura Manor, shown before move-in day, is fitted for black-and-white pages and originally scheduled for July but 5 cents for color pages. had been moved due to flooding Minot Area Recovery Fund, the to accomodate three students. Due to the housing crunch in Minot. telethon will air on television, in Minot, rooms in residence halls faced double and triple cable, and radio in North Dakota, occupancy TRiO becomes POWER South Dakota and Minnesota. TRiO Student Support CSO meeting today The goal of the event is to raise Services has been renamed the Today, the Student $1 million for flood recovery. Residence halls face POWER Center. The POWER Government Association will During the telethon, donations Center is supported by a TRiO hold its first CSO (Clubs and can be made by calling 1-855-GO grant from the U.S. Student Organizations) meeting at MINOT (1-855-466-4668). space crunch Department of Education. It 12:30 p.m. in the Westlie Room, Additionally, $10 donations can provides mentoring, tutoring, third floor of the Student Center. be made by texting “Minot” to Devon Flowers built units, will be set up and and other services to eligible All student organizations seeking 85944. Online donations can be Comm 281 called University Heights. students. funding from Student Government made at minotrecovery.com Due to lack of housing in Construction continues on For more information, visit must attend this meeting. Minot, many Minot State Beaver Ridge Plaza, across www.minotstateu.edu/power University students have a third Broadway from campus. or contact Lynn Redden, party in their residence this “It’s a building being built by POWER program assistant at semester. Crane and Lura Manor investors,” Eriksmoen said. 701-858-4047 or Halls have added one extra bed to “They’re leasing the land from the [email protected]. each suite. University Foundation.” Lisa Eriksmoen, student hous - The main level will contain ing adviser, explained that the retail space, a couple of restau - Brown Bag Book Talks Brown Bag school purchased 10, 10-person, rants and more. The three top return Sept. 14 The Brown Bag Book Talks Olympic-style units and is setting floors will be apartments, com - RDON B. Book Talk these up on the west edge of cam - plete with stainless steel appli - will return Sept. 14, in the GO pus, near the library. Currently, ances, washers and dryers and lower level of the Gordon B. OLSON Featuring four of these units are in place, granite countertops. Olson library. The talk will LIBRARY with the rest coming over the next “The university worked with begin at noon and should last Stewart Kelly, couple of weeks. Once finished, those investors, and we referred for about an hour. Philosophy the residents who tripled up will students to the fourth floor, the Stewart Kelly, Division of n Bag move into the units. top floor,” Eriksmoen said. “I Social Science, will discuss the Brow discussing the book “We just tripled those rooms believe that the majority of the book "Summer of '49" by Book Talks “Summer of ʼ49” because we didn’t have those building is actually students and Pulitzer Prize-winning author units here yet, and it’s only for the staff.” David Halberstam. Detailing by David Halberstam short time, Eriksmoen said. Eriksmoen said university offi - the battle between the Boston “We’re hoping it stays like this for cials are trying to accommodate Red Sox and the New York Wednesday, Sept.