Since we all care about Hockey...

JaceTheAce

JaceTheAce

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So it looks like it might be a possibility, well, because we all love hockey and are so proud of it :sarcasm: and all students should pay for it since it's so important to the improvement of academics :sarcasm:, we will be having to pay a nice $35 per semester so that the UND Fighting Sigh-oxe can go to Division I. $70 per year!

Pending senate approval.

I'm so glad I'm getting the hell out. What an idiot...Kupchella.
 
Hockey is akin to Acting in CA. Everyone thinks they can do it, but only a select few nutballs actually can.

I never got hockey, you have a stick USE IT!
 
Yeah, I just heard that too, and in 2009 the cost will go up to around 70 dollars a semester. Also, next year all aviation classes have a 25 dollar "special fee."
 
Sorry guys, but hockey is already D-I. The fee is for all other Fighting Sioux sports to move to D-IAA. Happens to every school when they decide to move up. Higher division results in higher fees which results in higher student fees. Hockey team has been there for years. now instead of football playing teams like West Chester, they will be playing better teams that nobody has ever heard of. D-IAA jumps usually include the "opportunity" to play D-I teams like Minnesota and WI. A swell opportunity to watch our team get killed.
 
Yeah, the fee increases are ridiculous. Especially when I have no interests for our sports team and how we do on the national level. The $70 fee increase also wouldn't cover the full cost of going to Division I according to the Dakota Student. So don't be surprise to see the cost rise to $140+
 
i have yet to understand how a sports team benefits the university FOR THE PURPOSE OF LEARNING, which is what a university is for.
 
TXaviator said:
i have yet to understand how a sports team benefits the university FOR THE PURPOSE OF LEARNING, which is what a university is for.
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Well a lot of people judge the quality of a school by it's size and athletics (f-ing stupid, i know). When NDSU nearly upset the U of M that was the best way for NDSU to get their name out. Now we all think that if the Aviation school wasn't at UND the school and town would implode. Truth of the matter is that outside of our aviation community few people know about the UND's aviation program. If they know anything about the school it is the hockey team!
 
TXaviator said:
i have yet to understand how a sports team benefits the university FOR THE PURPOSE OF LEARNING, which is what a university is for.
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Schools such as ND, not that much. Our hockey team brings quite a large amount of $$, thats about it. Look at a D-I school, they make bank off sports teams. Why do u think coaches get fired so often from college football when they dont make it to bowl games? Because the school makes BANK off events like that. More money = more opportunity for growth/new equipment/insert item here. And like nelly said, lots of schools are primarily known for their sports teams and such, its what draws many students to campus and companies to sponsor them.
 
Bignellyxx said:
Well a lot of people judge the quality of a school by it's size and athletics (f-ing stupid, i know). When NDSU nearly upset the U of M that was the best way for NDSU to get their name out. Now we all think that if the Aviation school wasn't at UND the school and town would implode. Truth of the matter is that outside of our aviation community few people know about the UND's aviation program. If they know anything about the school it is the hockey team!
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i already knew that was the counterpoint, but lets look at the east half of campus.... can you point out anything that has directly come from the benefit of hockey sales/money/merch/etc etc etc???

we have academic departments in total shambles, lecture buildings that are desperately in need of modernization, amenities being built that are being funded from student fees....

id love to see a breakdown of where hockey revenue money goes, then id be more willing to support it, if only from a business standpoint.
 
Dugie8 said:
Just out of curiosity, how many sports did ya'll play in HS?
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club soccer, though the vast majority of my time was devoted towards my musical pursuits (jazz band 3 years, marching band, symphony, stage band, pit orchestra, choir accompaniment)

up until highschool i played soccer and baseball.

and even now during the summer i enjoy getting out 2 to 3 times a week to play soccer.

im not a total sports hater, and i do participate in sports and see benefits with them.... i am just hard pressed to see what a small hockey program in the middle of nowhere has to offer.
 
I think this is part of UND's goal to gain a bit more notoriety and become more of a "research" university; at least that's what I've heard from some of the faculty. I'm not completely opposed to it, but I don't think there will be any benefits unless our football team manages to win something; which, umm isn't going to happen. :)

...and in high school I played tennis my 1st year then realized I was pretty good at running long distances (after I beat everyone in my class during the PE mile) and ended up running Cross-Country and Track. I did Cross-Country last year as a freshman at UND, but being in races where almost everyone can keep up a sub-5 minute pace for 5 miles was a little too much for me. And the coach here also kind of hated me since I wasn't "competitive enough." =/
 
oh, and ive been Orienteering ever since I was probably about 8 years old.

I'm not a fast or great runner.... just makes the map reading oh so much more critical! :-D

In JH and HS I regularly could beat all the ROTC drones without breaking much of a sweat. brains > GO GO GO GO RUN RUN RUN!!

anyone know if theres an orienteering club up here? not that theres much uh TERRAIN to navigate though... :-(
 
TXaviator said:
oh, and ive been Orienteering ever since I was probably about 8 years old.

I'm not a fast or great runner.... just makes the map reading oh so much more critical! :-D

In JH and HS I regularly could beat all the ROTC drones without breaking much of a sweat. brains > GO GO GO GO RUN RUN RUN!!

anyone know if theres an orienteering club up here? not that theres much uh TERRAIN to navigate though... :-(
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I did orienteering in Boy Scouts. It was a LOT of fun. Then again, we had one of the largest, most active and funded troops in the entire USA.
 
JaceTheAce said:
I did orienteering in Boy Scouts. It was a LOT of fun. Then again, we had one of the largest, most active and funded troops in the entire USA.
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i was a member of the Houston Orienteering Club.

very big. very active. and VERY CHALLENGING in the deep woods of texas...

oh and the heat.

hahaha
 
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