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Zombies are rising from the graveyards of Great Falls, MT. Don't trust the national media!! http://news.yahoo.com/tv-station-hacker-warns-zombies-montana-002641825.html

ndsu couldn't afford it either.... chapman didn't care

Also, since one of our bizun friends decided to chime in, the law was proposed and pushed by ndsu alum and house majority leader Al Carlson.

The North Dakota state legislature passed a law basically saying we aren't allowed to pick a new name until 2015 in order to give everybody kind of a "cooling off" period. I don't hate being reffered to as just The University of North Dakota, it's certainly better than the UND Spirit or the UND green and white. Most on this board, including me, like it when the sports commentators/writers accidentally refer to us as the Fighting Sioux. Hopefully we start hearing some potential options for a new name from the university soon. If they pick out some !@#!$ name (see: Spirit) I'm guessing most fans will complain and then eventually just ignore it and keep referring to the teams as UND.

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Anybody know the answer to this one about Opara??

As in he's doing it for show?? Trying to get someone else to offer or what? I don't know much/anything about the kid..... is the problem academics or why are we thinking he's not actually coming to UND?

So is Opara pulling a Te'O on somebody or what is going on here?

just curious, where are you going to see the NLI's that are in?

Can probably blame Eide Bailley for the background check, as I'm sure the SBoHE had one done and I believe the state typically contracts with Eide to do them.

Ugh, that view is not very good and I don't see how other seats would be any better. They should've arranged the ice to be closer to the stands somehow. I guess I'm not sure how though.... maybe by not having a hockey game on a baseball field.....

Huh, well good thing there is no shortage of flat, open ground in North Dakota....

It should also be noted that the Sleep in didn't build on land owned by the city/Alerus. That was privately owned land, same with the land to the south of the current Alerus parking lots and on the east side of 42nd St.

Bismarck/Mandan Krolls and Fargo Krolls are 2 completely different places IMO. Bismarck/Mandan Krolls are staffed by people who are actually of german descent.

The hotel to the south didn't take up any parking spots, that area was an empty, unpaved lot. Also, the Alerus added parking to the southwest of that hotel several years ago. IMO, there is ample parking available, people may just need to carpool to the games (which they should be doing anyways to save on the $5 parking charge).

I'd put it at around 85% chance he doesn't make it past June 30, 2013. The one thing that people against getting rid of him will point out is the fact that Grindberg is a Bresciani/NDSU lackey. People complain that the university system office doesn't keep the campuses in check and then they complain when the university system office tries to place limits on the campuses. There's a very fine line that must be walked and it looks like Shirvani wasn't aware of it or just didn't care. The SBoHE made a move of desperation in hiring him in order to get a stronger chancellor, but now it looks like we've gone from an incredibly weak chancellor to a tyrant. The SBoHE needs to find someone closer to the middle and perhaps someone homegrown (raised in ND) who actually cares about the state.

Legislature readying to buy out Shirvani's contract.... http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/255794/

Read the post again. What do the players ndsu has now have to do with the quick success ndsu and SDSU had out of the transition? (in case you still don't understand, that was a rhetorical question and the answer is nothing)

Best burgers in North Dakota can be found at Reza's Pitch in Bismarck.

If you haven't been to Whiteys since they reopened, they probably have the best in town now. They're how the Blue Moose fries used to be. Anybody else notice that the food at the Blue Moose isn't very good anymore since Whiteys took one of their chefs?

I believe SiouxVolley was talking about the upper tier D2 teams.

Apparently you're smart enough to want a quality education regardless of your opinion of the athletic departments.

It's because the Big10 is garbage and we're better than all of them

I don't think Espegard is corrupt, he's just in over his head and has drank the Shirvani kool-aid. The SBHE went all in on Shirvani and they can't be seen backtracking on the choice or it will help fuel a legislative takeover of higher ed. The board attorney's resignation wasn't really his choice, Shirvani wasn't going to let him stay nor will let most of the staff remain in the system office for long. He feels he was brought in to clean house so that's what he's going to do. Shirvani definitely thought that he was going to be coming in to North Dakota and taking control of everything and everybody would bow down to him. Now that the legislature isn't giving him everything he wants he is starting to fall apart. Although I agreed with many of his ideas and I'd like to see a "unified" system of higher ed, the way he's trying to implement his ideas is terrible. At this point I just hope he doesn't cause permanent damage to UND.

mg is a bison fan so you can probably understand why he doesn't like you and your campaign to make people remember how corrupt they are