UNDBIZ

Allen Lee Sessoms, professor at Georgetown University I was curious how a professor made the cut with all the VPs, Deans, etc. No thanks. UND doesn't need a Chapman.

Back to UND's president search, I'm liking the background of this applicant. UND grad. Currently a VP/CFO at a large research university. Has been a VP at Emporia St (Kansas), Eastern Illinois, Southern Methodist University, Purdue, and Arizona St. Worked as a budget analyst for North Dakota OMB (granted it was 30 years ago) so he has experience working with the executive and legislative branches of state government during the budgeting/appropriations process. Should have good business sense. If this guy is personable and capable of talking to potential donors, he's the one, IMO.

I guess I'm one of the people still stuck in the 50s (as a millennial) struggling to understand how importing a kid from India for 3 years, getting $0 in tuition from him/her, having them work on a noncompetitive grant project or as a teaching assistant nobody from the midwest can understand (while a ND/MN student continues working as a server and paying full tuition), and then them leaving to go back to India with a masters degree (because they were here on a student visa, and thus, can't stay after graduation or work outside of the university), all paid for by the ND taxpayers and other students, is such a great deal for us. Yes that was a terrible run-on sentence. It was meant to be exhausting.

Cags listed as doubtful, per Schloss/Berry.

Maybe, but I'm guessing https://www.minotstateu.edu/president/pages/bio_shirley.shtml

Reading bisonvile again eh?

Even lower than Flying J? Maybe all the talk of boycotting Simonson's finally turned into people actually boycotting Simonson's.

http://www.uscho.com/from-the-press-box/2016/01/18/call-interference-on-prolonged-dump-and-chase-contact-officials-reminded/ Uscho article about the ncaa rules committee sending a reminder to refs on enforcement of interference rules when a player dumps a puck in the zone and is then held up by the d-man. Seems it may tie in with the conversation here on refs and low scoring on the wcha.

Telling those people to go be fans of UND's rival isn't the answer. Time will ebb at the no nickname crowd. Allow it to work. As iluvdebbies said, the booing and Sioux forever chants are already showing signs of losing steam.

Enough of this garbage.

Does Schafer have final say over which firm is selected? Or has another committee been formed?

Good call.

http://www.oregonlive.com/collegefootball/index.ssf/2016/01/portland_state_freshman_lineba.html PSU freshman LB dies of complications from minor surgery to remove tonsils. Thoughts with Vikings team, fans, and family.

Duluth is part of the University of Minnesota system rather than the Minnesota State system. I believe the Duluth president/chancellor answers to the president of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Can't imagine them allowing Duluth to move football to D1.

Not sure how bad the streaming picture is, but the picture seems darker than usual on midco as well

Wilmer was much less talented but was effective on defense and the boards in his later years.

With that said, the University Place apartments aren't bad looking. The Wilkerson complex (including connected dormitories) is bad, the Chester Fritz auditorium is ugly, and the new medical school building looks like a corporate office structure. It seems they've made some attempts to keep central campus with a collegiate gothic style (renovations of O'Kelly, law school, etc.), and the rest of campus is free to go nuts.

It was an ugly building before, and it's still an ugly building after the remodel. The facade after the remodel is very trendy looking, which means it is going to look like absolute garbage in about 10-15 years.

I do wish the newer construction (anything in the last 50 years) had stuck with more of a collegiate gothic style of architecture.

http://jlgarchitects.com/news/010716/und-main-dining-center-has-been-transformed

Not sure it's ever been available on this site. But here's the link on the undsports.com site. http://www.undsports.com//PhotoAlbum_Archives.dbml?ATCLID=210296811&DB_LANG=C&&DB_OEM_ID=13500&SPID=6399&SPSID=58640

Hmm. Perhaps it's an "academic/needs-based" scholarship? I dunno. http://www.scout.com/college/football/recruiting/story/1632176-hunt-talks-valpo-offer-und-commitment

PWO commit Devan Hunt (OL) received a scholarship offer from Valparaiso. May lose him.

Did they finish the season still on the team? I thought I remembered hearing they had quit early on.