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Not quite true. The Legacy Fund currently sits at $3.5 billion and can't be touched until June, 2017. Even at that point, no more than 15% of the principal can be taken out and that requires a 2/3's vote before its considered.

He's talking about Teuvo. http://puckbase.com/stats/faceoff-percentage?player=teuvo-teravainen

Here were the posts that I was thinking of in regards to the reasoning on why they quit turning the lights off coming from people with direct knowledge of why it was done. However, if true I'm very glad Bubba has pushed to go back to having them off during the intro. May take a little extra work but I agree with the many on here who have said it would be well worth it.

The reasoning I have always been given is that it takes too long for them to come back on.

You keep making it sound like everything that Schafer did at UND was needed to be done on the spot, which is absolutely false. Ed knew the second round of cuts was coming (it's like he's had experience in the arena or something) and didn't want to have to pull the Band-Aid off twice. Yes, UND had to make more cuts up front than some of the other schools. However Schafer went above and beyond not only what was required to fix the short-term projected shortfall (due to the legislature capping tuition) and to address the first round of cuts, but also to set up the budget so that it was already in a position to take on the cuts that were coming from the next biennium. UND now is projected for a surplus and is using some of that money to address some deferred maintenance (boiler system) in case the state doesn't fund it next year. It's a novel idea within the NDUS system to use operating expenses to actually take care of some maintenance, which is made glaringly clear when looking at the deferred maintenance list (led by NDSU, with UND next on the list). The McFeely comments that everyone was referring to and you also managed to not bring up were the ones where he didn't differentiate or explain what Schafer did because it was done all once, which he used as a front to try to show that UND was in significantly worse financial shape than the rest of the NDUS when in reality, the only real difference was the small projected deficit. Schafer went ahead and made the permanent cuts that a lot of the other schools gambled on and didn't make the first time through. Even if Schafer was wrong (which he wasn't), it was still something that needed to be done at UND and all the other schools within the NDUS. Edit - The first article you linked had a quote from Schafer on exactly what his point has been the whole time. He knew permanent cuts were needed and coming. It appears that there were apparently people in Fargo that agreed with him, even if they didn't let McFeely in on despite the fact he mentioned multiple times that he "talked to people". He failed to mention anything about the committee being put together to look at permanent cuts until almost two months after his first couple articles and four months after it was put together. Going to go ahead and guess that would have changed the tone of his articles. Or maybe he knew and was being disingenuous for the clicks.

I'm sure Wichita State will send him a thank you note for answering a question they had no intention of asking. But at least they know now...

Borderline. I mean, since you have 16,000+, we already know what you are going to say, yet you say it anyway....

Here's all you need to know: If you want the in-between stuff, Wikipedia has a decent breakdown. Patty V is the senior associate commissioner for the MVC along with being the commissioner of the MVFC and the Pioneer League. The MVFC and Pioneer are the only two football only conferences and don't need a full staff, so they share some overhead expenses with the MVC.

Sometimes a person's reputation and history is taken into consideration when reading a post and what their intent may or may not be, especially after they have 5,300 posts.

Because he ran out of possible long lost relatives of Carson Wentz to interview?

McFeely now openly moving into conspiracy theories. As for the portion below, it seems beyond Mike's capabilities to do some actual reporting and asking hard questions instead of taking verbatim what he's told and "reporting" it as the truth. He just can't fathom that Ed would have actual insight into what is going on and just maybe is on to something. I know providing clicks these blog posts are exactly what he wants but he seems to have stuck his flag in the ground and isn't interested in going back on anything he previously has "reported". To the bold above ----->SHOCKER! Almost seems like exactly what he is doing since there were little to no permanent cuts made, most of it was just kicking some spending down the road with no plan if the state funds don't reappear.

I already did the hockey only one but here is how the school's overall budgets compare (based on operating expenses), it still isn't close. 2012 UND - $416 million MTU - Not available MNSU - $188 million 2013 UND - $429 million MTU - $156 million MNSU - $203 million 2014 UND - $431 million MTU - $160 million MNSU - $206 million 2015 UND - $442 million MTU - $168 million MNSU - $208 million

Related: It is a strange coincidence how you only seem to show up to have any sort of "discussion" when Pittsburgh is doing well....

Donations aren't figured into individual sport's expenses. Below are the actual numbers for the last 3 reported years (2012-2014). UND also has a lower tuition than the other two, meaning that MTU and MNSU have a larger dollar amount in the their budget made up of scholarship money. 2012 UND - $2.7 million MTU - $2.0 million MNSU - $1.8 million 2013 UND - $4.6 million MTU - $2.1 million MNSU - $1.7 million 2014 UND - $3.1 million MTU - $2.2 million MNSU - $1.8 million Because of some "noise" in 2013 of what appears to be some extra stuff attributed to UND's hockey budget, that is a little bit of an outlier. Just taking a glance, it is pretty safe to say UND's average hockey budget is well over 50% higher than MNSU and just about 50% higher than MNSU. So no, not really the same.

Seems accurate from what I've heard. 4 scholarships opened up (Benton, Baker, Cashman, McDermott) and 4 new players were added (Kinsey, Rolls-Tyson, Brown, Walter). Also heard that Rolls-Tyson was slated to head to a different Big Sky school until their admissions staff bungled everything up.

When you have a large group of people selecting something, the generic choice will rise to the top. People have strong and differing opinions on what is "unique", therefore those choices fall further out on the bell curve. People will pick generic over what they deem to be an unacceptable unique name. Kind of like why groups of people tend to order pepperoni pizza. However I do believe that your last two points did play a partial role in it as well.

Pretty sure it doesn't take a college degree to see that there are issues with the SBoHE, NDUS and some of the presidents within it and the relationship of all of them.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought it was strange/amusing that someone with an undergrad from a fairly well regarded University of Colorado Boulder wasn't able to transfer into Montana State. Not a knock against MSU, they are very respectable in academics as well but just seems odd...

Post on Montana State's message board seems to indicate that John Walker, cornerback grad transfer student out of U of Colorado, wasn't able to transfer into their grad program and appears to be headed to UND instead. His twitter would seem to verify that is the case.

As already stated, they do the final tailgate event indoors. It has been that way for at least 4-5 years, if not longer. When renewing my tailgating spots, I talked with them about these exact things. They are aware and continue to try to figure out ways to fix it and make tailgating improve overall. I volunteered my suggestions and they weren't things that hadn't been thought of. The main thing is for the team to continue to its forward progression to get more people out there. As for loosening the rules, I'm not sure what they could do different. We've had zero issues with anything we've done and the rules are quite lenient. Incentives are interesting but I'm not sure what you would be able to do outside of some sort of "attendance" type thing for being there by a certain time and actually using your spots to tailgate instead of park.

Probably steal those from Texas as well?

June, 2007

The med school is a different scenario than what is being discussed with deferred maintenance and facilities not being cared for (something both UND and NDSU are guilty of). The med school was replaced because it continued to become more and more inadequate to try to use a hospital built in 1952 as a med school building, not because it was a deteriorating facility.

They are adding additional computers. They already have the movie stuff and it really doesn't take up much room. Books aren't going away, but the trend is away from them. The amount of physical books you need on hand is decreasing (and this is from someone who prefers an actual book over reading electronically). With technology and inter-library loans, you also shouldn't need to have all books available on hand. People may have to wait a few days to get their books, but that is nothing new.

I don't think anyone disputes the issues with the current library, particularly the ADA issues. Something clearly needs to be done to address that. My overall opinion on the matter comes from people I've talked to about what is proposed and those in favor have done what I feel is a poor job selling on their vision, mainly because they can't decide exactly what they want and more specifically where. I have no issues with the thought of "If you are going to build it, build it right" but that doesn't mean it needs to be extravagant or over the top, especially considering it is being funded by taxpayers. Here's the breakdown of what is being proposed: Entry & Marketplace - 3,300 SF Customer Service - 800 SF Meeting Rooms / Collaboration Labs - 4,300 SF Adult’s Library - 14,000 SF Teen’s Library - 2,100 SF Children’s Library - 5,900 SF Administration & Staff - 3,300 SF Mech/Elec Utility - 10,800 SF All of that adds up to 44,500 SF, leaving another 13,500 for bathrooms and I'm not sure what else. Here is a rough breakdown of what the current library has: Public Service Area -18,928 SF Children's Area - 1,400 SF Library Office Space - 676 SF Meeting Room & Story Room - 1,275 SF Grand Forks Room - 150 SF Board Room - 676 SF Mail order & interlibrary loan area - 1,416 SF Electronic Library - 1,772 SF Cataloging, processing, & overdues - 312 SF Those total 26,605, leaving an additional 10,810 square feet not listed