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UND mens hockey had TWO 4.00 GPAs in spring semester. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/news/r...RELEASE_ID=3951 Applause to those two players.

Touche.

"Who's in the best shape?" Lance Armstrong.

Vaht? You mean GF/EGF shouldn't strive to be another little Twin Cities? You're right: I'd rather see GF develop its own personality and niche also. Who wants all the same everywhere. As far as traffic: The roads in Fargo could probably hold the traffic for a few more years, it's just that nobody in Fargo, OK, North Dakotans in general (and Minnesotans are no better), knows how to merge onto an interstate highway.

Downtown GF pre- or post- 1997? Post. That's not even a question. Downtown EGF pre- or post- 1997? Pre. I miss (old) Whitey's, The Bridge, and The Antique. In Fargo, drive from 45th at I-94 up to 13th Ave, east to 42nd St, south to 17th Ave, and back west to 45th and tell me there's anything but chain restaurants, strip malls, a mall, and big box stores. (It's the same in GF; so what.) What's lurking in Fargo's future is the lack of a water supply to sustain growth. (See the Water: $2,500,000,000.00 thread.) In terms of that key factor in growth, Grand Forks, thanks to the Red Lake River and a couple other tributaries, has distinct advantage of a larger nominal flow and a better "available water to population" ratio. As far as rating a school by the city it resides in, ever seen Princeton, NJ? What a hole. How about Ithaca, NY, or South Bend or Bloomington or West Lafayette, IN? How about State College, PA, or even College Station, TX? All are smallish and isolated towns with pretty solid schools. The town doesn't make the school.

I could see UND going to DI but I could see UND going DI without a conference only one way: If somehow UND had a big ol' pot of money handed to them by some benefactor or benefactors.

Hidden away in all of this is that someone might actually be using some logic (finally) in the government. - a big northern Air Force Base - a long, unwatched border - a UAV mission - This: http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/n...al/12118841.htm Wouldn't it be handy if DoD (USAF) and the Homeland Defense could come up with some way to watch 900 miles of border?

And people slow down to look at a good car crash or train wreck too.

Geez guys, rent a (chat)room.

Undrafted free agents generally (unless you are Jeff Panzer or the like) sign smaller contracts and have less bargaining power. That's why 7 instead of 9 rounds.

Saint Luke says it all.

I'll take wondering about those two UND projected line items, Administrative Income $152,500 Miscellaneous Income $150,000 as long as someone can tell me if NDSU's Mr. Inniger raised the last $600k he needed to raise by June 30. Remember: The Forum reported on April 17 that he'd only raised $400k of the $1 million he (alone, not TeamMakers dollars) was responsible to raise of NDSU's projected FY05 budget. He needs to raise another $1 million for FY06 according to the same report.

Would this line item from the NDSU FY02 athletic budget (same source) be the same thing as scholarship waivers? (Hint: Yes.) Institutional support $996,000 Search as I will in UND's FY04 budget revenues (on the UND IAC site) I can't find a similar line item to that either.

NDSU's FY02 athletic budget (from the Market Analysis study NDSU had done) included: Appropriated funds $713,000 Those'd be appropriated (by the state legislature) funds. A recent Forum article said NDSU uses those to pay coaches. Search as I will in UND's FY04 budget revenues (on the UND IAC site) I can't find a similar line item. Nine womens hockey scholarships = ~$90k.

How many proof?

Nobody is questioning that. What the key question is (based on that report) is, "Is it enough to cover all of the new expenses?"

I wish there would have been more explanation behind that statement.

From http://www2.ncaa.org/media_and_events/pres...e_Athletics.pdf (That's the report released last week.)

Are we talking about Ed Belfour here? 1987 NCAA Championship (winning goalie) A Cup with the Stars A Gold Medal with Team Canada Plus, A Calder (NHL ROY) A Crozier (NHL's best save percentage during the regular season) A couple of Vezina Trophies (NHL goalie judged to be the best at his position) Four Jennings Awards (NHL goalie for the team with the fewest goals scored against it)

A link may have been useful. http://www.fightingsioux.com/sports/mbball...RELEASE_ID=3949

Tell him his role and he just goes out and does it. I still believe his strongest suit is on the defensive end. Expect a defensive centerman who wins about 70% of face-offs and with a right-around-zero plus-minus in the pros. And that plus-minus is against just about anybody.

With each federal program comes the responsibility to properly administer it, which means the university must hire and pay people to do the required federal paperwork and accounting. Typically, the feds allow a certain percentage of a grant's budget to be used to pay the university for the costs associated with administering a program (overhead). It's true that UND does not "pay" for these federal programs. But these programs wouldn't be on campus without the institutional support that the programs receive from the University in the form of lab space, office space and equipment. One of the keys to being approved for a federal grant is the ability to prove that the university has the facilities to house the proposed program and the administrative capability to support it. I assume this is what you mean when you say the programs pay the university to be on campus. Yes, they do pay because UND doesn't have a pot of gold sitting around that it can dip into to cover the increased administrative costs that come with federal programs. This is standard operating procedure with federal grants, and it's no different with federal grants for Indian-related programs than it is with grants from DOE, EPA and NIH. So which universities in the state could take on INMED, RAIN and INBRE, programs that are here because the School of Medicine is here? I'm sure other programs are on the UND campus because they're closely associated with one of the university's academic areas. More importantly, they're here because one or more people on the UND faculty or staff made the commitment and effort to bring the programs to UND. If other universities in the state are so big on administering these programs, why haven't they applied for the grants? Or could it be that they don't have the academic qualifications, the institutional commitment or the administrative support that UND possesses? If your numbers are correct, 2 are paid for by UND, but UND provides the infrastructure and effort and will to support all 30.

I am proud of who I am and what I have accomplished. My ethnicity is a small portion of who I am. My identity is established by me and my actions. My identity is not solely tied to flesh-tones.

Yes, Team Makers raised over a million dollars in FY 05. But that was their "had to make it" goal for their portion of the NDSU Athletics budget. (Just for comparison, UND's Fighting Sioux club raised $1.468 million in FY 04.) The money PCM is asking about is the $1 million that Associate AD Inniger had to raise above and beyond anything that Team Makers put together. (On April 18 The Forum reported he'd only raised $400k of the $1 million.)