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For June 10: One of the speakers at the 2009 North Dakota Society for Human Resources Management conference was Lane Harstad, former president of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1116.

I found this article on Grand Forks school enrollment interesting. West Fargo passes GF school numbers The article jumbles all the relevant facts throughout, so rather than quote I'll extract: 1970 population/school enrollment G.F.: 40,000/12,732 West Fargo: 5,000/2,464 Today G.F.: 52,000/6,808 West Fargo: 26,000/6,902 It throws us a small demographic bone... Clearly the base was young family heavy. Does the loss of personnel there entirely explain going from 32% of the population in school to 13%? That's crazy (though perhaps not as crazy as West Fargo being at 50% in 1970). Is the long flatness in G.F. population about to be replaced by a massive slide? Has the stable population masked that all the young families are leaving while older people are moving in from the smaller towns? No kids in Grand Forks anymore?

1117 Regular season rushing yards by Milson Jones in 1980 (#7 all time record)

For yesterday... From the Quentin Burdick collection at the Chester Fritz Library...

1119 fans showed up to watch the Sioux women's hockey team lose to the Minnesota women's hockey team on Feb. 13, 2009. And that was with two Lamoureux's playing for the Gophers. box score

For June 6... If, while at UND, you choose to live at Hamline Square in a 2 bedroom apartment, you'll have 1120 square feet in which to spread out.

Ok, NOW I'm rolling in the aisles. The Caps had an off game right when they should have been putting the series away, but wow. Ouch. For the Pens fans -- at least it's not game 7, Pittsburgh will get a chance at redemption. Still just 2 wins away from the Cup.

Eerily similar, isn't it? No one ever thought the Pens would be a gimme, but as well as the Caps managed to handle them in the regular season, the 2-0 start felt pretty solid. It turned out to be a great series, I hope this one does too. Detroit has better goaltending than the Caps (excepting last night) and has been getting more balanced scoring. I also wonder how much being back on home ice is going to help make it easier to shut Crosby back off. My biggest question for Detroit is exactly what you said... why on earth did they give up with 8 minutes to go? Other than that, I'd still feel ok if I were a Detroit fan, they've overall played a better series to date. Affiliation disclaimer: none needed, I'm on record in this very thread as disliking each of the remaining teams Edit, oh, and on HD vs. SD... screen caps from Blade Runner Blu Ray vs. DVD. To me, the little points of light being sharp little points instead of blurs is very obvious when I'm watching t.v. (similarly with the crisp edges). However, for whatever reason about the way they see, some people just don't see it or think it matters that much. To each his own.

It's funny, despite being in Middle School in Grand Forks during the Hrkac Circus, I have absolutely no memory of UND athletics from that time. I know my family weren't big fans, but you'd think I'd have noticed it on the news or in the Herald or something. Once I was at UND I started going to hockey games with my brother at the Old Ralph. These were the days of ~2-3000 attendance, so getting there early wasn't required, but we did anyway so we could get the same seats on the aisle in one of the short rows in the student section each time (GA, and free for students, of course). About an hour early did it, even for the Gopher games. It was also right when UND was starting to give NDSU some games in football, and finally broke the streak. I have some overly romanticized memories of a freezing Thanksgiving weekend at Memorial Stadium, of listening to football games on the radio on cool Fall days, and of stopping by this crazy new restaurant in the strip mall -- Dagwoods (original location, when smoke free was controversial). Then in Fall of 1996 I moved away from North Dakota. I'd been writing Sioux Hockey and Football web pages for a couple years for me and my friends to keep track of the schedule and of how each game flowed (oh yeah, that one with the big comeback!) I thought it would be really nice if that could become a site that I, as a distant alum who didn't have access to Sioux info (neither Herald nor UND Athletics were publishing on the net yet) could use to keep up with the Sioux.

Weston Dressler was named the CFL's top rookie last season after catching for 1123 yds and 6 TDs for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Former Sioux Weston Dressler named CFL's top rookie

For yesterday, According to the University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, the population of people in North Dakota with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome could be as high as 1124. FAS slides

I don't know the Fargo cable lineup, but the game is on Versus and CBC.

For May 30.... Feel like channeling Mark Felt? Want to get a tip out there and prefer the credibility of ink on dead trees? Reach for your landline and call: Wayne Nelson, Grand Forks Herald, (701) 780-1127

The NCAA has been after fantasy leagues for years. See this thread where they considered use of players' names to be illegal commercial use (even though it was simply use of factual stats, the promotion of which the players themselves had nothing to do with). As long as the NCAA continues to punish its members for things outside of the core mission of association membership (i.e. college athletics), lawmakers need to take a look at whether membership is truly voluntary and the NCAA's legal status in wielding this much power over society. Is the NCAA a monopoly? Is the NCAA a cartel? Is the NCAA a state actor?

My guess is no. One of the big concessions the state negotiated in the settlement agreement was that the Sioux nickname is supposed to be able to be displayed in appropriate historical context. I don't have it in front of me, but if they got it worded well enough championships won as the Fighting Sioux should be displayable as such. A lot of people were justifiably upset by the settlement, but examined in the context of a loss being an inevitable outcome, the settlement might have locked in some important points (that most of us probably considered common sense so didn't see as the victories they may have been).

If merchandising were the concern, UND would change the name every 6-8 years. Everyone who cares about the Sioux name is going to stock up on current merchandise, hardcore, once its retirement is official. I would think easily 3-5x a normal year's sales. Assuming UND doesn't botch the new nickname choice (as discussed above), then normal sales rates will resume with the new logo and nickname for new students/fans. However, as the arenas start to fill up with the new logo, hangers-on will start to supplement all their Sioux gear with replacements with the new nickname and logo so they can fit in (remember how quickly the Brien logo forced the replacement cycle to move). That will eventually reach near 100% replacement for all still-active fans (discounting those who have retired as fans because of the change, which I would expect to be small percentage-wise in the medium term.) That will be significantly more UND merchandise sold in a 4- to 6-year span than if we stuck with Fighting Sioux.

Dateline Feb. 23, 2004: The University of North Dakota has named 1,132 students to the 2003 Fall Semester Deans

For yesterday... The Chester Fritz Library's Great Plains Native American Culture, Heritage & Issues video collection contains: source

I think most of those are fine discussions, but if you manage to pull any of them out of the former players thread, I think we'll all appreciate it

I don't think the moderators try very hard to enforce thread drift, especially in the off season, but people did make an NHL playoffs thread. Updates on former Sioux certainly deserve to find their way into this thread, but it would be nice if everyone did their best to sort other NHL playoff talk into the appropriate thread so disinterested parties could avoid it.

And me. Believe me, I understand the challenge. Anyway, here's something different. Manvel, ND: Population density 1136 persons/sq mile, Near college/university: UND

I remain immensely proud of that one. Note that I didn't just get lazy and use the date, as has become so common lately, but actually managed to combine elements of the date with a sports statistic. That's what we had to do back in the 1400s in a world with only 12 months. I personally peaked on the next couple pages somewhere around here, but I was still quite green on filling in for MD and devoting more time than is sustainable.

To be honest, I remember the local press being pretty quiet on the issue (also somewhat surprisingly to the consternation of Bison fans) so it's a pretty small sample. I recall the opinion coverage being somewhat mixed, but whether it was "nearly as critical" or "noticeably less critical" is a qualitative matter of degree, so subject to our own biases and expectations, I suppose. That doesn't affect the usefulness of my response to NDSUguy's question, which is that there were definitely lots of questions being asked by UND stakeholders and there still are a lot of Sioux fans who don't support the move (e.g. check out the nickname forum this week). The reasons are those I listed above.

A lot of people, including some on this board, actually preferred to be a bigger fish in a smaller pond. The local press was (somewhat surprisingly, but to their credit for consistency) nearly as critical of UND moving as they were of NDSU moving. There was a lot of second guessing the potential for competitiveness in any sport other than football, concern about change itself expressed as nostalgia for the "good old days", and big worries about budget impacts (and not just from the Bisonville forensic accounting team).

No doubt the Penguins dominated 20 minutes last night. Unfortunately for them, it was a 66 minute game. In all seriousness, quoting SOG from the box score isn't convincing because not all shots have an equal probability of becoming goals -- we all saw the game and though Varly had a good 1st period, there really wasn't a "hot goalie" on either side. Varlamov kept it close in the 1st and was statistically the better of the two, but with a hardly stifling 4 GA and .905 SV%. It was an exciting game featuring two great offenses trading blows, but neither so unstoppable that a 4-5 final should invoke such a platitude as blaming an OT loss on a "hot goalie". On a different note -- the Pens/Caps series still being alive leaves me torn who to cheer for tonight. I'd rather the Caps face the Canes, but would otherwise prefer to see the Bruins advance. So, I'll throw my hat in with Goon and hope the Bruins win this and force a game 7, to keep all options open.