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Bulldogs welcome Shakespeare’s first First folio Folio
CONTENTS BUDGET CUTS LEAVE STUDENTS WITH QUESTIONS BEASLEY FINDS NEW HOME WITH BULLDOG FOOTBALL ONE RIVER MANY STORIES SAFE SPACE: THE NEW TRIGGER WORD UMD WELCOMES SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO UMD ULTIMATE FRISBEE CLUB SEASON PREVIEW GET ACTIVE FOR THE LAST DAYS OF FALL
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Budget cuts leave students with questions
By Cole White With $2 million in proposed budget cuts looming over UMD, many students are left to wonder what is going to happen next. The cuts hit the College of Liberal Arts (CLA), School of Fine Arts (SFA) and College of Education and Human Services Professions (CEHSP) particularly hard. CLA’s reductions must equal $1 million. CEHSP must cut $500,000. SFA will cut $400,000. These cuts are largely due to declining enrollment, contributing to the $4.3 million deficit in the university’s budget.
Business (LSBE) is spared from budget cuts due to growth, are expressing concern.
“In meetings they look to us (SA) for perspective from the student body,” Ernst said. “We have a strong voice.”
"I don't know the reasoning behind the budget cut, but I don't agree with it," Maddy Kielsa, a sophomore in SCSE, said. "In order to become a well-rounded person, a few liberal arts classes
Ernst said that students should not feel the effects of the budget cuts directly, with most of the restructuring happening behind the scenes, largely affecting staff and faculty. Ernst said that programs should not be cut, but rather combined to reduce overhead costs.
These cuts are largely due to declining enrollment, contributing to the $4.3 million deficit in the university’s budget.
Even students in Swenson College of Science and Engineering (SCSE), which along with Labovitz School of
Ernst also points out that should a program be cut, the cut will not take into effect until the students in that program graduate. “Your degree will not disappear,” Ernst said.
This is an issue that has left many students with questions. “As a student in the College of Liberal Arts, I am concerned. I pay a lot of money to be here. I want to get my money's worth. I think that we all do," CLA senior Joe Herder said.
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are necessary. They give students the chance to broaden their horizons from classes outside of their major." Student Association President Nathan Ernst expressed concern over the reactions. When asked if students will feel the brunt of these cuts, Ernst said no.
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For questions and concerns, Ernst encourages students to approach SA and the administration. “The three deans of CLA, SFA and CEHSP are very student-friendly,” Ernst said. He added that they are more than willing to field questions from concerned students.
BEASLEY FINDS NEW HOME WITH BULLDOG FOOTBALL
Photo by Terry Norton By Austin Rush University of Minnesota Duluth senior defensive back Tony Beasley has found a home away from home here at UMD playing for the Bulldogs. Hailing from Sacramento California, Beasley finds himself almost 2,000 miles away from his hometown. Beasley, previously a two-year junior college player at Sierra College, has found a family here at UMD among his football brothers. “Junior college football is all about getting out, really. That’s why players go to junior college football–to get out and go to the Division I or Division II football,” Beasley said. “UMD, it’s like a family here. When I came here I made myself at home instantly. They took me in and it was a great experience–I love being here.” The Sacramento native wasted little time falling into stride as he started four of the final five games of the 2015 campaign at cornerback. By the end of the season, Beasley had 13 total tackles and one interception. Beasley found himself a hot commodity during his time at Sierra college, the recipient of plenty of recruiting phone calls from Bulldog coaches. “The coaches called me almost every day. They really showed like a lot of interest in me, so that’s why I made the choice to come out here, and it’s a good football program,” Beasley said. Beasley is one of two players on the roster that took their talents to junior college football in California before coming to the northern tundra that is Duluth. August 2016
“Junior college is different, the college atmosphere is different, but playing-wise it allowed me to mature because I was fresh out of high school,” Beasley said. “Playing junior college, it allowed me to get the basics and when I came out here, I just flowed right on in.” Following the conclusion of this year’s football season, Beasley has his sights set on two significant achievements. “I want to get my degree and hopefully make some tryouts to the National Football League, but the main thing is really to get my degree,” Beasley said. For Beasley, coming to UMD meant he had to leave his entire family back in Sacramento in order to play the game that he loves. Beasley quickly fell into place upon his arrival UMD. “It really made me grow up when I moved out here,” Beasley said. “It’s like a brotherhood here, though. As soon as I got here they came and introduced themselves to me and it just took off from there, since day one.” Being away from his family can be hard on Beasley at times but he isn’t letting that get in the way of doing his job as a student and as a football player. “Family is everything,” Beasley said. “It’s definitely difficult being away from like my mom, my dad, my grandma, my brother.”
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One River Many Stories By Laura Gruhlke The theatre season will kick off Sept. 29 with an original play titled “One River.”
Isbell has been working on this story for over a year now and is still making changes. He says that there were a number of things he wanted to touch on but there were so many stories to choose from.
After attending an on campus session for the One River, Many Stories project last November, Professor of Theatre, Tom Isbell got inspired.
“One thing that became really obvious is that we couldn’t think of this as the definitive collection of stories,” Isbell said.
“I thought it was the coolest thing ever,” Isbell said. “We should have a piece of that.”
“A documentary style play just shows how creative and how excited I think different people were about this project, which is pretty cool,” Hatcher said.
This project inspired Isbell to write and direct the first play of this theatre season “One River”. The One River, Many Stories project focuses on getting everyone in the community to talk about one topic, in this case the St. Louis River. One River, Many Stories member, John Hatcher didn’t expect that this project would become a play. “(We thought) let’s do a journalism collaboration and there is no way that you could guess that someone would do a play out of it,” he said. This play will follow different characters and learn about their personal stories and connections with the St. Louis River. “I just wanted as many different angles as possible,” Isbell said.
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This production will also be entered in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), which is a national theater program involving around 18,000 students from colleges and universities nationwide. UMD enters one production a year and has hopes of this play being selected. “It’s a new type of story telling which would be interesting in a festival,” Isbell said. Isbell hopes that the audience takes away a couple of different things after seeing this play. One of the biggest things would be the value of the St. Louis River. “We can not take those elements for granted,” Isbell said. Tickets for “One River” are currently on sale at the theater box office at UMD. The show will run Sept. 29 Oct. 1 and Oct. 4-8 at 7:30 and Oct. 2 at 2 p.m.
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SAFE SPACE: THE NEW TRIGGER WORD By Cole White In a letter to incoming freshman, the University of Chicago administration wrote that “we do not condone the creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.” The move brought the discussion of safe spaces, or locations where people can be free to express themselves without fear of being made uncomfortable and insecure, back into headlines across the country. Here at UMD, however, the commitment to maintaining the concept of safe spaces remains. Lisa Erwin, Vice Chancellor for Student Life, says that safe spaces are invaluable. “The whole campus should be safe, but the reality is that’s just not true,” Erwin said. She describes safe spaces as “an approach that takes into account the human experience.” “We know from our research that some students do experience UMD as an unwelcoming and not inclusive environment, and those feelings are real,” Erwin said. Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Fernando Delgado, looks at the controversy as a shifting of the politics, particularly in older generations. “How racially, ethnically, genderly... how diverse their educational experience was in terms of who their classmates where and who their faculty were...” Delgado said. “You had
whole swaths of our society that weren’t even allowed in your classrooms. How many tough conversations did you have?” According to Delgado, the presence or absence of safe spaces is an important discussion for teachers to have as well.
“WE KNOW FROM OUR RESEARCH THAT SOME STUDENTS DO EXPERIENCE UMD AS AN UNWELCOMING AND NOT INCLUSIVE ENVIRONMENT, AND THOSE FEELINGS ARE REAL.” - LISA ERWIN “You might not think you need to have a trigger warning, but what happens if you trigger something? How are you going to manage that in your classroom? Are you ready to manage that dynamic in the classroom?” Delgado asked. “A lot of would probably say ‘I’m not so sure I’m ready,’” Delgado said.
“I teach a criminology class and today I’m going to talk about and show you some material that might include some court testimony regarding physical assault,” Delgado said. “Now, do I know in my class of thirty students how many of those students have recently been touched in a physical assault? Nope. Would the data suggest to me that at least one person in the class, statistically, had recently been touched directly by some form of physical assault? Yes.” “Now, can I still have the conversation?” Delgado asked. “Probably, but how I introduce the topic, how I manage the topic, how I allow students to enter in or step away from the topic is relevant because I also am just going to teach the class and seventy five minutes later I’ll send those students out.” “I may have just retraumatized a student. And because I’m not aware of that,” Delgado said, “I’m sending that student emotionally unplugged and unhinged into the world.” If a researcher working with undergraduate students has a responsibility to de-escalate that student emotionally, Delgado said, “Why couldn’t I be held to a similar standard or a different set of strategies if I’m teaching a student in a classroom?” “If we were to do that in a classroom full of US army veterans I think everybody would want us to create safe spaces. So why wouldn’t we extend those considerations and that sensitivity to every student?” Delgado asked.
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UMD welcomes Shakespeare’s First Folio By Laura Gruhlke
The month of October will bring a lot of excitement to the Tweed Museum. Shakespeare’s First Folio will be the main attraction Oct. 4 – 26. The First Folio is traveling around the United States in honor of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. The First Folio is the first collective printed edition of Shakespeare’s plays. Published after his death in 1616 it contained 36 plays, 18 of which had not been published yet. This is the first time that the Folio has toured. This exhibit is making one stop in every state, along with Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico. The location for Minnesota is the Tweed Museum at UMD. Associate Professor Dr. Krista Sue-Lo Twu was instrumental in having the First Folio stop in Duluth. She started the application process around two years ago. There were many other applicants in state, so being able to have this exhibit in Duluth is an honor. “It is something to be very proud of,” associate professor Paul Cannan said, who exclusively teaches the Shakespeare courses at UMD. Twu explained that when they heard the news that the First Folio was going to be in Duluth, everyone was ecstatic. She said when some of the librarians heard the news, they even burst into tears with excitement.
Shakespeare First Folio, 1623. Folger Shakespeare Library. “Without the First Folio, we wouldn’t have 18 plays by Shakespeare,” Cannan said. One of the most famous plays that came out of the publication is “Macbeth.” Cannan said that this particular book
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has “relic status” and is treated as holy. Those who want to see it must have a specific research reason and aren’t even allowed to hold the Folio. An employee wearing gloves will turn the pages for you. “I’ve held (other) unique copies and never been asked to wear gloves. That
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is how much reverence that we have for this text,” Cannan said. When people go see this exhibit at the Tweed, there will be much more than just the book. The Tweed will have different Shakespearethemed exhibits during the month of October. The First Folio will be on display and opened to the famous “To be, or not to be…” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” along with an interactive panel display, which will give some history of the book Shakespeare First Folio, 1623. Folger Shakespeare Library. itself. The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis will also be “There is a great combination of things Being so close to the Canadian border bringing up a Shakespeare costume to see at the Tweed during that month opens the exhibit up to people traveling exhibit displayed along with the Folio. that all interconnect with the First internationally. It may also bring in There will also be a mask exhibit Folio,” Twu said. “A lot (of the events) people from surrounding states for that reflects the theatrical aspect of are on campus and a lot aren’t. It really whom Duluth is a closer location than Shakespeare. brings the city together.” the city it was at in their state. “We have an incredibly exciting array Events range from films at the Cloquet Twu describes this event as an of events,” Twu said. public library and performances at the “exclusive sight for Minnesota.” Lincoln Park Middle School to a writing With at least one event every day When asked why people should come through the month of October, there is contest at the Zeitgeist Theater, along to this exhibit Cannan said, “I believe something for everyone to have interest with all the events happening on campus as well. Ben Johnson said it best when he said, in. ‘He was not of an age but for all time.’” They are expecting Duluth to fill with “The idea of our program is that Shakespearean fans from all over. Shakespeare is for everyone,” Twu said. “No matter what your interest, we should have a program that is a way “This is one of the most international sites for the First Folio,” Twu said. into Shakespeare for you.”
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UMD ULTIMATE FRISBEE CLUB SEASON PREVIEW LakEffect and Northern Lights both looking to improve from last season By Kevin Ott
LakEffect The Women’s Ultimate Frisbee club team has over 20 players from a wide range of experience levels. They have a full schedule this season with three tournaments during fall semester around the Iowa and Wisconsin area, along with four in spring semester - one of which will be taking place in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. One of LakEffect’s biggest strengths as a team heading into this season is their youth. “We have a strong sophomore core that will really benefit the team, not only this year but in the years to come,” sophomore captain Mackenzie Olson said. The young core, while having its benefits, also means that there will be some growing pains as the season progresses. “We’re kind of in the rebuilding stage this year,” senior captain Madeline Crockett said. One goal this team hopes to achieve this year is making the regional tournament (regions). In order for that to happen, they need to place within the top six of the seven teams in their section. If they do make regions, they will have some tough competition as their region has some of the best teams in the nation. “One thing we want to work on is having the mindset of trying to get more competitive and compete with those teams,” Crockett said. LakEffect Women’s Ultimate started in 2005, and while each year has its ups and downs in player numbers, they are hoping for continual growth each year through recruitment of freshman players.
Northern Lights While LakEffect’s strength lies in their youth, the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee Club team has been able to keep the same core group of players, only losing three seniors from last season. Northern Lights could be participating in as many as nine tournaments this year, with four tournaments in fall semester and as many as five in the spring. Despite the continuity of experienced players, junior captain Marty Adams still hopes that the team focuses on improving day-by-day. “Each day we want to come in, work hard and get better at the little things,” Adams said. After achieving last year’s goal of beating their previous seed in regions, Adams has his sights set on Northern Lights placing within the top five in their region this year. Ranking in the top five will likely place the team with much larger schools, such as Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota Twin Cities. It’s a big goal to achieve, but Adams believes it’s definitely possible with this year’s group of players. Even though Northern Lights mostly consists of experienced Frisbee players, they are always open to new players at the start of the season because at one point, they were all in the same position of having to learn an entirely new sport. To keep updated throughout the ultimate Frisbee season at UMD, follow LakEffect and Northern Lights’ Twitter and Facebook pages. Photos courtesy of the Men’s Ultimate Frisbee team
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Get active for the last days of fall By Erik Gaffron With temperatures starting to drop and leaves beginning to change, it’s apparent that winter is coming to the Northland. That being said, there are still tons of fun activities relating to the outdoors left to do in the Duluth area this fall. Hunting season is on its way (or has already started, depending on your choice of game animal). The UMD Recreation Sports and Outdoors Program (RSOP) also still has a lot to offer for students and Duluth community members. Below are a few important dates and events coming up in the month of October (and a few in November) to keep in mind for Duluth’s outdoors enthusiasts.
Hunting: Hunters must purchase a license before hunting. They can be purchased at retailers such as Gander Mountain or your local Walmart. Be sure to purchase a license in the state in which you will be hunting – a Minnesota license doesn’t work in Wisconsin (and vice versa) because Minnesota and Wisconsin regulations vary. For a complete list of regulations and lists of public land to hunt, check out each state’s DNR website, listed below.
Minnesota: dnr.state.mn.us/hunting Wisconsin: dnr.wi.gov/hunt For those who aren’t avid hunters, UMD’s RSOP has a lot to offer as far as activities in October. Here are a few activities to highlight for this month. For a full list of scheduled events check RSOP’s program page online at d.umn.edu/recreational-sports-outdoor-program, listed under “Outdoor Activities & Trips.”
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October 5, 5 p.m.- 7 p.m. “Whittling Make-and-Take” Learn the basics of whittling and make handcrafted cooking utensils. Equipment is provided and there is no previous experience required. No pre-registration. Price: $5 for UMD students, $8 for the general public.
October 7, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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“Bog Walk” Check out a new aspect of nature through RSOP as they explore this unique northern Minnesota habitat. Register by noon on October 6. Price: $5 for students, $8 for general public.
October 8, 4 p.m.-Midnight.
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“30 in 24” Adventure on the Superior Hiking Trail with RSOP as they hike 30 miles in under 24 hours. Safety and opt-out options are provided through the program. Register by noon on October 7. Price: $10 for UMD Students, $22 for general public.
October 18, 7 p.m.- 8:30 p.m.
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“Dehydrating Your Own Campus Meals and Snacks” Looking to save weight in your pack and remain healthy while you’re enjoying the outdoors? Learn to dehydrate your own food for your next adventure. Food and dehydration tool provided. Register by noon on October 17. Price: $3 for UMD Students, $5 for general public.
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