The Bark January 2019

NO. 13 | JAN 2019 | FREE

L ETTER FROM THE EDITOR: A YEAR IN REVIEW | PG. 2 BULLDOG OF THE MONTH: TERRESA MOSES | PG. 8 S TUDENT FALLS THROUGH SPORTS AND HEALTH CENTER WINDOW | PG. 10

LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: A YEAR IN REVIEW

Hello, my name is Samantha Church. I’m your new editor-in-chief of The Bark. I am excited to take the reins of leadership at our student-run news organization.

I have worked with this news organization since I was a first year student. I have been striving for this position. I have worked hard, covering news stories that are vital for the vein of students to read.

Now that I’m finally in the position I’ve dreamed for, I hope you see change.

Please feel free to reach out to me personally at barkumd@d.umn.edu with any criticism. Your feedback weighs on the production of our content.

This semester, I hope to focus on you, the student. We write for you as students, and it’s hard to write for everyone if they are not all being represented. This is something our organization has struggled with. This semester, we hope you help us and give us feedback. We hope you see our struggle and help guide us in the direction we should be going.

This amazing opportunity allows me to make the changes I hoped to see. I only wish for you to help me along the way.

Samantha Church

Welcome to our first issue of the year. We’ve been The Bark since October 2017, here are some of the strongest pieces we wrote that didn’t make it to print.

E D I T O R - I N - C H I E F.

Samantha Church

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Gold Medal celebration held for Maddie Rooney, Sidney Morin

Student falls through Sports and Health Center window

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Champions of the raddest pad competition discuss their winning room designs.

Letter from the Chancellor

08 Bulldog of the Month: Terresa Moses

15 Puzzles, announcements and corrections

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GOLD MEDAL CELEBRATION HELD FOR MADDIE ROONEY, SIDNEY MORIN

By Tyler Schendel UMD women’s hockey red-shirt junior goalie Maddie Rooney and former defenseman Sidney Morin were honored for their Olympic Gold Medal win in front of a packed house at Grandma’s Sports Garden on Thursday, April 12, as part of a welcome home ceremony.

Morin, who finished playing a professional season in Sweden, scored in the Gold Medal Game against Canada while Rooney had 26 saves and clinched the shootout win.

Morin admitted that there were nerves during the Gold Medal Game, but the goal to win Team USA’s first Olympic Gold Medal in women’s hockey in 20 years drove the team to extraordinary feats.

“I think going into it, a lot of us had to have the mindset that it’s just another game and it’s the game you’ve been playing your whole entire life,” Morin said. “You know it’s the biggest game of your life but you have to approach it just like any other game. I think there was a little bit of nerves but a lot of excitement.”

KBJR Sports Director Zach Schneider asked the hockey stars about their Olympic experience before they signed autographs and took photos with fans. When Schneider told Rooney that she had become a superstar, Rooney was still humble as she recalled the support the Team USA got during the Olympics.

“I’m not a superstar,” Rooney said. “It’s just been really humbling to see everyone’s

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support from going to different cities around the country, it’s been a really humbling experience to go through this with the team.”

Since winning the Gold Medal, Rooney, Morin and the women’s national hockey team had been on a nationwide tour that included being honored at the 2018 NHL Stadium Series Game and appearances on The Ellen Show and The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Morin said that she has since had time to reflect on everything that happened during her eightmonth Olympic journey.

“The moment that it really hit me that we had won a Gold Medal was that first night after we were on Ellen and we went to the LA Kings game,” Morin said. “We stepped down on the ice and the

building just erupted, we had a standing ovation for what felt like ten minutes and it was just so humbling. We knew that people were supporting us back in America but just to be finally on home soil and know that people around the country watched this game and they know who we are now was just incredible.”

UMD Athletic Director Josh Berlo, who was in attendance at the welcome home event, said that this has been a great era for Bulldog athletics, referring to the Gold Medalists and the men’s hockey team’s second national championship. Berlo attributed the success to the student athletes, the coaches and staff and the supportive Duluth community, saying that these achievements would not be possible without the support.

pinnacle of my hockey career but I’m focused now on winning a national championship with this team and I’m really looking forward to our season.”

Berlo expressed how proud he was of Rooney and Morin, not only for their athletic achievements, but also for the example they have set for the young children that were in attendance at the event.

“They’re just two incredible young people, they’re great role models,” Berlo said. “It’s so nice to see them encouraging the young boys and girls that are here to seek their dreams and take advantage of the opportunities that are presented,

they’ve really embraced that role model responsibility and personally and professionally, so proud of them for that.”

While Morin said that her future plans for her hockey career are still up in the air, Rooney confirmed that she has turned her focus to winning a national championship with UMD. “I’m really looking forward to that and being a part of Bulldog hockey,” Rooney said. “Some are saying that I’ve hit the

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CHAMPIONS OF THE RADDEST PAD COMPETITION DISCUSS THEIR WINNING ROOM DESIGNS

By Abigael Smith Tucked in a corner of the 111-116 pod in Burntside Hall lies a room that could have been crafted from the scraps of a dream-like reverie.

“We are the artisans and this is our living space,” said Madalina Artist, gesturing to the entirety of her room.

47 plants, essential oils, rocks and low-power, auto-light fresh

365K lighting, a recycled rug from India and a low-powered fish tank are just a few things that crowned this room as the Greenest Room in this year’s Raddest Pad competition.

Madalina Artist and Audrey Beyer were also this year’s runner-ups for winning the entire competition for raddest pad.

UMD Housing and Residence Life’s Raddest Pad competition

allows students to submit photos of their own dorm or apartment rooms in hopes of winning a gift card, obtaining bragging rights and having their rooms featured on UMD Housing and Residence Life’s social media pages.

The Raddest Pad competition consisted of themes students could choose to enter their rooms under. “Design on a Dime” for best DIY room, “Champ’s Biggest Fan” for most

school spirit, “Greenest Room” for best use of sustainability, “Greetings from MN” for most Minnesotan themed room and “Raddest Large Room” for best triple, expanded or apartment room. For each theme selected, there were separate winners.

Artist and Beyer decided to participate in the competition because they were suggested to do so by multiple people who entered their room before.

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“Every single person just loses their minds and they just look at stuff,” Artist said.

“It reminds me of the fairy garden at the Renaissance Festival,” said Lily Kivens, friend of Artist.

Fairy lights drape across the ceiling, walls and border the windows, dipping the room in a golden glow. A small aquarium gurgles softly in the background, stuffed with plants passed down to Artist. Every inch of counter space is encompassed by plants, emphasized by false strings of leaves nestling the edge frame of the bunked beds.

“Last year we decided to room together and I told her we will probably end up in

a mermaid, gypsy, dragon, hobbit hole,” Artist said.

The room is colored with browns, reds, greens and blues to “help with mood and feeling calm,” Artist said. Both Artist and Beyer said the plants clean the air and company is able to breathe in sync.

“I want a nice planet to live on,” Beyer said. “I would want my planet to continue being a planet because I live here. I grew up in the countryside. I was always surrounded by nature.”

Artist and Beyer received reusable water bottles from sustainability and a Caribou gift card as their reward.

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BULLDOG OF THE MONTH: TERRESA MOSES

By Zack Benz Terresa Moses is a motivated artist who draws inspiration from her passion for social change in hopes to inspire generations with her work. Moses is a professor of graphic design in UMD’s Department of Art and Design.

Moses decided to combine her passion for social justice with her passion for art. She is on the board of the Duluth NAACP, Clayton Jackson McGee Memorial, and the AIGA Minnesota chapter.

Moses hopes to get more young people involved in local programs and movements.

“I’m an artist,” Moses said “I’m a designer and often wonder what I can do as a designer, creator and artist that will help push a lot of these movements and things I’m passionate about forward. It was just a natural click to use my talents to help.”

Moses was born in Panama City, Panama and grew up as an “army brat” traveling with her family around the world.

Moses graduated with her BFA in Fashion Design with a minor in African-American

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Studies from the University of North Texas (UNT) in 2008.

She also completed her MFA in Design Research with a minor in Anthropology from UNT in 2015.

Moses has created numerous projects combining her passions for art and equity.

“I’m creative director at a design studio that I co-founded called Blackbird Revolt,” Moses said. “We do design, art and creativity based around social justice and progressing things forward in our community.”

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If I can do it, and I have the ability to do it and it’s going to help bring justice and equity to people, I’m going to do that.

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According to Moses, Blackbird Revolt is a major project that works with nonprofit organizations in the area. “[Blackbird Revolt] does a lot of branding and campaigns,” Moses said. “We’ll work anywhere from print to digital. We’ll work with a lot of organizations focused on social justice with initiatives to help positively change the negative things for folks of color, LGBT folks, sexual violence and all those things.”

Her own identity helped inspire her to get involved in this kind of work.

“All the injustices that I experienced and that I see definitely inspired me to get into that work,” Moses said. “[Blackbird Revolt] was inspired specifically to create Blackbird revolt because there’s nothing like it that exists.”

Moses stated that Blackbird Revolt wanted to be a socially conscious business.

“We were inspired to do something for movements based on our own talents and what we bring to the table,” Moses said. “We try to tell people that whatever powers you may have or influences you may have in your circles or your talents, you can use that for social justice and make our world a better place.”

According to Moses, Blackbird Revolt tries to live by those values in their business.

Another project Moses had a creative play in conceiving includes Project Naptural (nappy+natural).

“Project Naptural was birthed out of my own naptural hair journey, me not being comfortable with my naptural hair and me not knowing how to take care of my hair,” Moses said. “I interviewed around 200 women and figured out that my story was not just one story but a whole community of women.”

According to the website, Project Naptural is an initiative for awareness, connection and the overall empowerment of black women with naptural hair.

TERRESA MOSES IN FRONT OF SOME OF HER WORKS. PHOTO COURTESY JAY LARSON PHOTOGRAPHY

After the research, Moses started her exhibitions.

According to Moses, there are around 188 different hair textures in this community.

Moses wanted to make sure that she captured all styles so women looking at her pieces could see themselves in them.

Moses first came to Duluth in the summer of 2016 after receiving her position at UMD. “I ended up applying to a lot of positions after graduation,” Moses said. “I was thinking about the freedom of not only inspiring students, but the freedom to be involved in social justice and the community.”

According to Moses, UMD’s teaching position allowed her to do this.

According to Moses, there is a lot of passive aggressiveness in the city and there is still a lot of work to be done.

Moses stated that social change, and leadership roles in it, all starts with personal growth.

“Any of those assessments that come through like strengths, true colors, whatever it takes to find out more about yourself, do those,” Moses said. “Not only is it going to help you hone your talents, but it also helps you understand where you are and where you are at in the spectrum of privilege.”

According to Moses, when you start to know who you are, you understand the privileges you do and don’t have.

Moses believes everyone has a unique opportunity to use what they can for good.

“That’s what I try to live my life by,” Moses said. “If I can do it, and I have the ability to do it and it’s going to help bring justice and equity to people, I’m going to do that.”

According to Moses, we as humans have to get out of the mindset of only thinking about ourselves and our own personal situations, to see how we are impacting our community.

“Whatever talents you have, whatever resources you have, see what you can do,” Moses said. “Don’t just sit back at complain about it.”

“I go into the classroom understanding that I’m probably going to be the only black professor you have in the school of fine arts,” Moses said.

Moses stated that it is very rewarding being able to step into the role and framing a classroom in a way she wants to.

Moses said she enjoys Duluth, but there is some room for improvement.

“I’ve made some really great connections with people here,” Moses said. “That’s what makes it worth staying, but there are some very blatant issues for me, issues like racism, inequity and injustices that I think are happening here.”

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STUDENT FALLS THROUGH SPORTS AND HEALTH CENTER WINDOW

By Samantha Church On Sept. 4, a student fell 12 feet out of the second story window of the Sports and Health Center while playing basketball. According to the University of Minnesota Duluth Police Department, first year student Evan Jones was diving for a basketball and went through the window.

Director of Marketing and Public Relations Lynne Williams released a statement about the incident.

“UMD leaders are aware of a very unfortunate accident involving one of our students while the student used our sports and health center earlier this week. Our first concern is the wellbeing of the injured student and his family. We hope for his full and fast recovery.

In the meantime, UMD staff will continue to provide any support necessary to them during this difficult time. Out of respect for privacy and under

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privacy laws, we cannot provide further details at this time.”

Jones was transported to Essentia Health for the injuries he sustained.

Assistant men’s basketball coach Casey Bruggeman tweeted about the incident.

The tweet featured a video of the window on the ground.

Jones also tweeted with an update on his surgery.

As of Sept. 7 at 11:22 a.m., Essentia Health does not have Evan Jones listed as a patient in their registry. According to Evan’s father, Matt, Evan walked away with an arm injury.

Matt tweeted at The Bark.

Matt reached out to The Bark for comment. His tweet highlighted two hashtags, #miracle and #safetyfirst.

“Evan is in great shape walking away from this with only an arm injury,” Matt said.

Matt believes this injury could

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have been worse, but is glad that Evan is better. Matt has come back to the gym to see where Evan fell. He was disappointed seeing students still using the gym. The window where Evan fell has a barrier in front of it, but no other windows do.

“It feels like a safety concern that they haven’t placed the same barriers over the other windows in the gym,” Matt said.

When asked about legal action, Matt had no comment.

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GREETINGS BULLDOGS! Greetings Bulldogs!

Whether you are a returning student or a transfer student just beginning your UMD career, I want to welcome you and thank you for choosing UMD. Each of us helps to shape the campus community. Each of us contributes to the campus culture and environment through our actions, perceptions, and words. At UMD, we strive to model our core values.

Those values are Learning, Discovery, Engagement, Inclusiveness, Sustainability, Innovation, Integrity, and Excellence. Please work to incorporate these values into your life as part of the Bulldog community.

Throughout the year, you will hear regularly from me and other members of the UMD leadership team.

We will let you know about important initiatives on campus. This summer, we launched the initiative “It Ends Here” as part of a broader U of M system campaign. Contact the Women’s Resource and Action Center (726-6292) to learn more about sexual assault awareness and prevention programming and contact Health Services’ Health Education (726-8155) to take part in UMD’s bystander intervention program called “Got Your Back! UMD.” It’s up to each of us to end sexual misconduct.

I encourage you to get the most out of your college experience. Get to know your professors and your advisors well. Use them and ask them questions when you need help. They are here to support you.

Lendley C. Black CHANCELLOR OF UMD

Interested in research or creative activities? Talk to your professors about their research and creative projects and ask if there is an opportunity for you to assist them in their work. It’s a great way to increase your knowledge and expand your resume.

Get involved on campus. Get to know your classmates, join a student organization, and volunteer in the community. Step outside, explore Duluth, and immerse yourself in all the natural beauty this region has to offer.

Thanks again for being part of the Bulldog community, best wishes for a great semester, and Go Dogs!

Sincerely, Lendley C. Black

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