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Volume 131 | Issue 32 Tuesday February 11, 2014 THEDAKOTASTUDENT Reaching the students, faculty and staff of the University of North Dakota since 1888 | www.dakotastudent.com Alumni— 12 former and compete current UND athletes in 2014 head to WinterSochi to represent Olympics their home countries By Ashley Marquis and Parise, who is team cap- The Dakota Student tain for Team USA, plays for the Minnesota Wild. Team The University of North USA’s men’s hockey team will Dakota is well represented in begin play on Feb. 13 at 6:30 Sochi, Russia this year at the a.m. versus Slovakia. 2014 Winter Olympics with Monique and Jocelyne 12 UND students and alumni Lamoreux — natives of Grand competing or serving in the Forks, North Dakota — will be Olympic games. playing for Team USA’s wom- Students and alumni will en’s hockey. The Lamoreux Michelle Karvinen Jocelyne Lamoureux Tanja Eisenschmid Susanne Fellner be representing four countries twins competed in the 2010 in the games — five for Team Olympics and took home a sil- USA, two for Team Canada, ver medal after losing to Team three for Team Finland and two Canada. Team USA’s women’s for Team Germany. hockey began with a 3 – 1 win “It is a source of great pride against Finland. Team USA for UND and North Dakota will play again Feb. 10 at 4:00 Athletics to be so well repre- a.m. versus Switzerland and sented at the Olympic Games,” Feb. 12 at 6:30 a.m. versus UND Athletic Director Brian Canada. Faison said. “And for the ath- The fifth UND alumni serving in the Games for Team letes competing, it speaks to Monique Lamoureux Max Markowitz Brad Pascall Jonathan Toews the quality of student athletes USA is Jason Switzer, a 2007 that we recruit at UND and the UND graduate with a bach- great job our coaches and sup- elor’s degree in athletic train- port staff do in helping develop ing. He will serve on the USA those student athletes.” Snowboarding staff as a physi- Nine of the twelve at the cal therapist. Olympics are current or for- For Team Canada, Jona- mer UND women’s and men’s than Toews will be compet- hockey players. ing in men’s hockey, and Brad T.J. Oshie and Zach Praise Pascall, former UND defense- will be playing for Team USA man, is the vice president of men’s hockey. Both men also hockey operations for Hockey Jason Switzer Susanna Tapani TJ Oshie Zach Parise compete in the NHL; Oshie A dozen former UND students are in Sochi, Russia for the 2014 Winter Olympics. plays for the St. Louis Blues SOCHI page 6 Photos submitted. Second concert funds approved TedX— Speeches educatesenjoyed at Empire communityArts Center and online By Emmy Erbes leased to the public at the Open states across the nation. — Student Senate greenlights show The Dakota Student Mic Night in January at the Fire TED, which is an acronym Hall Theater, where 30 student for “Technology, Entertainment, By Megan Hoffman ther concert to suffer since we are The Grand Forks commu- tickets sold out immediately. and Design,” is a nonprofit or- The Dakota Student putting so much effort and money nity found challenges worth ac- The other 70 tickets sold out a ganization formed in 1984 that into Spring Jam,” Emmonds said. cepting at the first-ever TEDx- few days before the event. focuses on “Ideas Worth Spread- Senate passed a bill Sunday Parking issues GrandForks event on Friday. A live stream viewing party ing.” funding another concert, this time State Governmental Affairs Presentations related to the in the Memorial Union Load- TEDx events are indepen- put one on by the Association of Coordinator John Mitzel brought theme “Challenge Accepted” ing Dock was sponsored by Stu- dently arranged in cities all Residence Halls. The concert will back results from last week’s Tues- were given by nine speakers dent Government for those who around the world to give people feature Logic, an up-and-coming day Twos. The questions focused at the Empire Arts Center in could not attend in person. “We an experience similar to a TED hip-hop artist. It will take place on parking and received a lot of re- downtown Grand Forks. had about 40 people watching conference. sometime in mid-April, before the sponses. Over 82% of the respon- “We chose the Empire be- during the first group of speak- TEDxGrandForks was or- big Spring Jam concert in May. dents said they considered park- cause we really like downtown ers,” student senator Alan Oberg ganized by UND alumni Becca “This is a way to bring a big ing at UND to be unsatisfactory. Grand Forks, and Minot and said. Grandstrand, Tyrone Grand- event for ARH,” ARH Program- Mitzel is planning a meeting and Fargo hosted their TEDx events The crowd’s size varied as strand and Emily Burkland, as ming Board Treasurer Johnny encouraged all senators to attend downtown,” said Tyrone Grand- students would come and go well as current UND students Roche said. “This is a fun, free way to find ways to improve parking on strand, curator of TEDxGrand- between different sessions of Hannah Bahnmiller and Hana to do that and bring people back to campus. Forks. speakers. Mattern. the residence halls.” “We need to identify some of The sold-out audience con- The live online stream was Tyrone Grandstrand served No date is set yet for the con- the problems,” Mitzel said. “We sisted of 100 people and 50 utilized by over 720 viewers in as emcee for the event, which cert, but ARH is looking to hold need to figure out what we can do volunteers. Tickets were first re- Canada, Mexico and several was organized into three dif- it in the ballroom at the Memorial to work with the parking office to ferent sessions. Breaks between Union. better serve students.” each session provided food, ac- Senator Kristin Emmonds was They covered a wide variety of ideas worth tivities and discussions with fel- not in favor of the bill because it is Megan Hoffman is a staff writer low audience members and the for The Dakota Student. spreading, which was exactly the point. speakers. so close to the Spring Jam concert. 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