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Minnesota State University Moorhead RED: a Repository of Digital Collections The Advocate Student Newspapers 10-27-2011 The Advocate, October 27, 2011 Minnesota State University Moorhead Follow this and additional works at: https://red.mnstate.edu/advocate Recommended Citation Minnesota State University Moorhead, "The Advocate, October 27, 2011" (2011). The Advocate. 268. https://red.mnstate.edu/advocate/268 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Advocate by an authorized administrator of RED: a Repository of Digital Collections. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Costume ideas, THE online at www.msumadvocate.com page 6 & 7 Thursday, October 27, 2011DVOCATE A MSUM’s weekly student newspaper Moorhead, Minn. Vol. 41 Issue 8 Coyote found on campus BY KRISTIN KIRTZ [email protected] Trick -or- Treat At 4:05 p.m. on Monday, Tips on celebrating safely, healthily MSUM public safety was called to Ballard because a coyote was sighted next to the building. Brian Klinnert, public safety officer, was first on the scene. The coyote was lying down in the corner of the building by door Brian Klinnert three of Ballard. Klinnert said that the coyote didn’t look normal. animal control officer Steve “It appeared to be injured or Kemper. Kemper arrived and sick,” he said. captured the coyote. Klinnert then called the “I took it north of Moorhead Moorhead Police, who sent and turned it loose,” Kemper said. = Example route = Colleges = Roads Graphic by MATTHEW BECKMAN • [email protected] BY MATTHEW BECKMAN pictured above. It’s heavily (about 160 calories), the total for [email protected] trafficked and partially patrolled the night is 38,720 calories. by campus-safety. The route will “Calories burned are based on Halloween night is rapidly take students around MSUM and your weight so for everyone it is approaching, along with an a part of Concordia’s campus just a little different,” said health onslaught of sugar, cavities (Cobbers don’t deserve all the and physical education professor and potentially unsafe party candy.) Lois Mauch. “Generally conditions. To compensate for the amount speaking you can burn about 100 Students planning on tricking, of candy students will consume calories for every 10 minutes of Submitted Photo treating and partying can plan from their Halloween trekking, moderate to vigorous walking, their nights out accordingly with students are going to have a thus about 300 calories in 30 some simple health and safety heavy amount of hoofing. minutes of walking.” The Advocate is now seeking tips. According to Mars.com, Milky To burn off the calories of Clocking in at 3.3 miles, a Way, Twix and Snickers fun size the night, students would need applicants for assistant editor perfectly safe bars all contain 160 calories per to dismount their brooms and and ad representative positions. trick-or-treating serving. Each standard block walk about 64.53 hours. Walking To apply, or for more route is covers 360 feet. With 5,280 feet at about 4 miles per hour, the in a mile, 14.66 blocks would fit total length comes to 258 miles. information, email advocate@ into each mile. Multiplied by 3.3 Trick or treaters would need to mnstate.edu with “assistant for the sample route, you end up complete the 3.3 mile example editor” or “ad representative” in with 48.39 blocks. Each standard loop 78 times. block contains about five houses. If you trick or treat in a nice the subject line. Also, applications are available Multiply that in for a total of neighborhood where king-size in The Advocate office, CMU 110. Assistant editor 242 houses. candy bars are the order of the applications must be in by Nov. 21. Assuming each house provides one fun-size serving HALLOWEEN, PAGE 11 Speaker discusses traumatic brain injury BY CHARLY HALEY ‘Bella’ couldn’t keep up,” Waters said. different types of brain injury, she is now able to function on [email protected] Waters was invited to speak by “Her friends didn’t know how to and the different symptoms of it. a normal level again, whereas Missy Marsh, a senior majoring in interact with her anymore, so they Of the many possible symptoms, when she was still recovering the When Ellen Waters was 15 communication studies. Inviting ignored her.” some of what Waters suffered traumatic brain injury, she had years old, she survived a near- Waters was part of Marsh’s After vividly describing included decreased attention span, many difficulties. fatal car accident. She was senior seminar project. Bella’s story, Waters revealed trouble processing information, unscarred on the outside but was Waters’ presentation started that she was Bella. depression and a sleep disorder. Struggling left with a wound that is still with telling the story of “Bella,” Now a college graduate, “Today I still have some In her presentation, Waters healing: traumatic brain injury. a 15-year-old girl who was doing engaged and in a “dream job” problems with short attention shared the story of her biggest After waking from a month- well in school, had several friends with the nonprofit Family span,” Waters said. She is also emotional struggle. long coma, Waters couldn’t and was excited for a golf date Pathways, Waters speaks about still being treated for depression As a sophomore in high school, even speak. Years later, on Oct. with a boy she liked. Then she her experience with traumatic and the sleep disorder, and Waters was on the basketball 20, Waters spoke to an audience was in a serious car accident. She brain injury in affiliation with probably will for the rest of her team. On the team bus after a of MSUM students and faculty, ended up suffering a traumatic the Brain Injury Association of life, she said. The symptoms are basketball game, somehow the as well as Fargo-Moorhead brain injury and had to attend Minnesota. different for all victims of brain word got out that as part of her community members in CMU rehab relearn everything. injury, Waters said. injury, she lost her sense of smell. 101. “Once an AP student, when Symptoms Although Waters is still dealing The team’s senior captain asked Waters spoke about the with some of those symptoms, Bella returned to school, she BRAIN INJURY, PAGE 8 Inside The Advocate Briefs......................2 A&E..........................3 Local nightclub gets new look, Opinion................4,5 Katy Ness profiled, Features...............6,7 News....................8,9 Page 3 Page 10 Sports..............10,11 Page 2, The Advocate Briefs Thursday, Oct. 27, 2011 Security Update ampus Director of Public Safety alendar News Briefs MSUM Briefs Greg Lemke C 10/17 10/21 Saddam’s paranoid Cinethusiasts host 10.27-11.03 thoughts revealed 48 hour film festival Suspicious activity reported Marijuana odor complaint in A massive trove of documents The Cinethusiasts Film Club in South Snarr. Messages were Nelson. Moorhead PD responded 7:30 - 11:30 a.m. - Chris written on white board by an and cited one for possession of 10.27 Berg 1100AM The Flag recovered during the American participated in the National Film invasion of Iraq in 2003 give a Challenge this past weekend. unknown individual. No suspects. drug paraphernalia, also referred Radio broadcast - CMU to Campus Judicial. 205 highly unusual look into the most Starting on Friday at 7 p.m., intimate thoughts of a foreign 48 students split into five teams Smoldering fire reported in 11 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. - garbage can on the north end of Phoned in parking complaint in Peace Corps information leader and his government. had 48 hours to write, direct fi fi Lot D. Moorhead Fire Department Lot A. Vehicle issued a citation. session - MC 268 The documents, which include and edit a short lm. Each lm i responded and extinguished the 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m. notes and recorded meetings, had to include a specif c line of i garbage can. Minor damage to Medical in the area of the 14th - Accoustic afternoon - remain mostly classif ed, but dialogue (“Are you sure you the government has released should be doing that?”), a prop (a plastic liner. Street bus stop. Female student CMU main lounge transported to Sanford Hospital 7-10 p.m. - Urbanites a portion of the collection to bag of potatoes) and a character outside researchers. Among the (Cameron Murphy, pizza Burglar alarm sounding at with stomach pains. and Tiny Moving Parts - Affinity Plus in the CMU. MPD CMU Underground revelations: Saddam Hussein delivery person), and had to be in had a conspiratorial view of either the detective/cop genre or responded, area checked and key 10/22 fi holder contacted. 4:30 - 6 p.m. - Hubble 3D the Reagan administration and the lm de femme (strong female 10.28 believed the United States had protagonist) genre. Suspicious person trying to documentary - Science 10/19 gain access into Ballard. Area Lab 118 sold arms to Iran in order to After an grueling 48 hours fi i checked, unable to locate. 7 p.m. - Volleyball vs. prolong the Iran-Iraq War in of lmmaking, the f ve teams fi Suspicious activity on the north Winona State - Nemzek 1986. He badly misread a meeting presented their lms on Sunday with American diplomat April night in King. Both the audience end of Lot D. Group of 15 to 20 10/23 Glaspie, which led him to believe and a panel of judges voted on students gathered around a fire made of sticks in the dirt.

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