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Reviewer Gabe Jorgensen checks out the
newest cheerleader comedy, “Fired Up!”
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Taste
ERICA KNIGGE
Wine flavor all about personal choice
by sarah reinecke
The Volante
After 20 years of drinking wine, appreciating it
and even taking notes, Frank Schieber cannot find
any rules for pairing wine with food.
“In all my travels, I’ve tried to keep a log of what
went with wine, what to have with different meals,”
said Schieber, professor of psychology. “I like red
wine with fish, and you are supposed to drink white
wine. I’ve had white wine with steak and it went
perfectly fine.”
Other times, Schieber said he has opened a special
bottle of wine to pair with a meal, and has had to set
it aside for later and uncork another bottle to drink
with dinner. He said the bottle alone tasted fantastic,
but paired with the meal the two flavors fought each
other instead of complimenting each other.
Pairing wine with food comes down to personal
taste, says Leif Nygaard, associate wine maker at
Valiant Vineyards Winery in Vermillion.
“It’s just what tastes good with your meal,”
Nygaard said.
However, Nygaard said there are a few rules people can stick to. For a red meat like steak, a dry
to semi-dry red wine is the right fit. A semi-sweet
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science
Know how to channel stress during busy days
By josie kerk
The Volante
Being under the gun during
a week of exams is enough to
make students feel effects of
long-term stress in the body,
said Cliff Summers, biology
professor and stress researcher
at USD.
Some of the physical effects
of stress may not hit until after
exam time is over. Illness is
common right after a stressful
exam time, he said, because
the immune system has been
suppressed during the week of
tests and then kicks in again
and begins fighting where it
has been behind.
Of course students don’t
want to hear it, Summers said,
but the key to avoiding stress
during exams is studying.
He has a three-step method
he gives students to help handle exams.
First, students need to study
at least 15 minutes every day,
he said, even on days when
there isn’t class. They should
pick out no more than 15 key
words from each class, preferably right after the lecture, and
write them out.
Next, they should work the
“The truth is, good things also cause the
same charges in the brain ... that bad
stress causes. ”
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on the everyday effects of stress.
terms into a flow chart, and
lastly they should pick three
terms that are important to
them personally to focus on.
This is using stress to your
advantage, he said.
“Good stress,” which not
all of the science community
believes in, Summers said, “is
all about making some part of
what you are studying a little
part of what you are.”
Summers believes that if
people can realize that stress,
especially social stress, is a part
of everyday life, they can take
control of it and use it to their
advantage.
“Stress is part of everything
you do. The truth is, good things
also cause the same changes in
the brain, neurotransmitters
and hormones, that bad stress
causes,” he said.
For students who do feel
stress during exams, Summers
suggests they keep a regular
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“How many?” The curt saleswoman grabbed the garments
from my hand and shuffled
through them, despite the fact
that I replied to her question.
Flinging a number onto the
counter, she pointed in annoyance down the hall. “Women’s
rooms are to the right. Please
bring out your items on the
hangers when you’re done.”
“Sure thing, wench,” I
thought in my head as I scoped
out the rooms.
Calling a sales associate a
wench is not very, well, nice. Yet
finding a sales associate worthy of another name is difficult.
Trying items on is not a task
anyone really wants to undertake. Despite the negative chi
toward the dressing room, we
all muster up the courage to
use them.
Initially, the trip to the
dressing room is awkward. It
is rather like waiting in line for
the bathroom.
You judge the number of
hangers just like you would the
impatient “I have to pee” fidgets. While you are judging your
dressing room cohorts, they are
being questioned by the State’s
Attorney of sales associates: the
dressing room attendant.
If, by chance, you make it
past Try-On Security without
a weapon, nail file, bottle of
water or soda, and the metal
detectors did not go off, you
get to step right up and take a
room.
Room selection is essential.
Too close to the entrance and
that awkward prance you do
while walking toward the large,
multiple-view mirrors will be
seen by the public, who accurately judged that you would
take a while. Too far in and you
will get into wasteland.
Wasteland dressing rooms
are located in the far back. The
attendant does not frequently
practice entering or exiting this
region. The rooms are overloaded with clothes and generally have a stench that makes
one desire an oxygen mask.
These rooms are bad.
Lucky people snare middle
rooms. The middle rooms feature enough clothing leftovers
to find that adorable sweater
in another size, but also maintain enough space to hang your
accumulation.
Middle rooms are ideal
because if you choose to use
the large multi-view mirrors,
you get the effect of yourself at
a distance coming closer, and
no one outside the dressing
room can see.
Unfortunately, as you’re
playing Marco Polo by yourself in the mirror, your dressing
room, which has the density
of a dead body full of lead, will
shut. In these cases it is best
not to panic. Chances are the
doors are set to lock automatically and you are now stranded
in the hallway wearing the closest legal thing to buck naked.
As it settles in that the situation is now “Code Red: stranded in the hallway,” there come
two viable options.
Option A: Crawl under the
door while praying to Jesus that
you don’t become stuck with
your butt half under the door
and half out.
Option B: Go to the dressing
room security wench and ask if
she could please, pretty please,
unlock your door.
Either way, you lose. You
might as well tuck your sullied
tail between your legs and head
home because fashion destiny
is not on your side, my friend.
Reach columnist Erica Knigge
at [email protected].
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ENTERTAINMENTDigest
Relationship Rehab
ALL AROUND
ALL-AROUND
TOP
TOP TEN
TEN
Box Office Movies
1. “Madea Goes to Jail”
2. “Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience”
3. “Slumdog Millionaire”
4. “Taken”
5. “He’s Just Not That Into You”
6. “Paul Blart: Mall Cop”
7. “Coraline”
8. “Street Fighter: The
Legend of Chun-Li”
9. “Confessions of a
Shopaholic”
10. “Fired Up!”
Billboard Albums
1. Taylor Swift, “Fearless”
2. Charlie Wilson, “Under Charlie”
3. The Fray, “The Fray”
4. Nickelback, “Dark Horse”
5. Beyonce, “I Am ... Sasha Fierce”
6. Jamie Foxx, “Intuition”
7. India.Arie, “Testimony: Vol. 2, Love & Politics”
8. Kanye West, “808s &
Heartbreak”
9. Robert Plant/Alison Krauss,“Raising Sand”
10. Lady GaGa, “The Frame”
Campus
Beware of the rats of both genders
Spring break is just a
few days away, and with it
approaches open season
for cheating. I might sound
cynical, but around onethird of all people who live
together have cheated on
their partner at least once.
It’s not cynicism, it’s realistic.
Imagine it: your girlfriend
is in Las Vegas for spring
break, drinking, gambling
and watching Cirque du
Soleil. It would be so easy
to call up that girl from this
summer and arrange a little
rendezvous. Granted, your
girlfriend would probably
kick your butt if she knew,
but she would never find
out because she and all of
her friends are out of town.
What she doesn’t know can’t
get you thrown out of the
house, right?
Wrong.
Somehow, some way, she
will find out and then you
will be in more trouble than
your cheater’s brain is capable of imagining.
To those who do discover
that their partner is cheating, it might be a good idea
to drop them like they’re
hot. Once a cheater, always
a cheater.
Recently, there was a dis-
MELISSA JOHNSON
covery of a gene called “RS3
334” which may prove that
my observations are correct.
I love it when I’m right.
A recent study by
the Karolinska Institute
in Stockholm, Sweden,
explored the possibility that
men might have a monogamy gene similar to prairie
voles. (Insert obligatory joke
about all men being rats.) It
turns out the “RS3 334” gene
can be linked to a man’s
bond with his partner. Men
can have zero, one or two
copies of “RS3 334,” and the
more copies, the more likely
the man is to have problems
with monogamy.
Now guys, your genes
may inhibit your ability to
commit to a relationship,
but that is not an excuse to
cheat at every given opportunity. Genes can influence
behavior; however, they
do not have final say on
actions. Be a man and control your impulses.
Men are not the only
ones who cheat. Women
are just as capable of committing infidelity, but our
society tells us that they are
more prone to monogamy
than males. This being said,
there is less research on
the faithlessness of women
because we are supposed to
believe that it doesn’t exist.
Don’t get worried and
start thinking that every
person out there will inevitably cheat on you. This is
not the case. There are some
really great people out there
who wouldn’t be unfaithful
to you even if some skanky
girl with a short skirt sauntered up and sat right in
their lap.
Search for the good ones,
and beware of the rats. If you
find yourself with a rat, it’s
best to end it before things
become more serious.
You don’t need to waste
your life on some loser who
doesn’t realize your worth.
Someone who cheats on you
is not “The One,” no matter
how much you love them.
You deserve better.
Reach Melissa Johnson
at [email protected].
sudoku
Watch each week in Verve for a new Sudoku puzzle! For those who don’t know how to play,
finding the solution is tricky, but the rules are simple.
The object of Sudoku is to fill the empty cells with numbers between one and nine (one number
only in each cell). A number should appear only once on each row, column and a region.
Remember, there is only one solution for each grid, and you can solve it using logic alone.
rumor has it
Remember the can of whoop-ass that Sharon Osbourne opened up on Megan Hauserman during
VH1’s Rock of Love Charm School reunion special back in December? On Monday, Megan Hauserman filed
suit in Los Angeles, charging Osbourne with battery, negligence, and intentional infliction of emotional
distress, reports The Associated Press. Osbourne lost her cool when Hauserman dissed her husband
Ozzy, and the entire altercation was caught on tape — and broadcast on national TV. Source: www.EW.com
Billboard Songs
1. Flo Rida featuring Ke$ha, “Right Round”
2. T.I. featuring Justin
Timberlake, “Dead and Gone”
3. Kanye West, “Heartless”
4. The All-American Rejects, “Gives You Hell”
5. Eminem, Dr. Dre & 50 Cent, “Crack a Bottle”
6. Lady GaGa, “Poker Face”
7. Lady GaGa featuring Colby O’Donis, “Just Dance”
8. Taylor Swift, “Love Story”
9. Soulja Boy Tell ‘em, “Kiss Me Thru The Phone”
10. Kelly Clarkson, “My Life Would Suck Without You”
“Invaders Must
Die”
LABEL: Take Me to the
Hospital, Cooking Vinyl
Length: 43 minutes, 12
seconds
genre: Big beat,
electropunk
songs: “Omen,”
“Thunder,” “Warrior’s
Dance”
release date: Feb. 23
Music Review
The Prodigy fights to stay relevant with ‘Invaders’
The Prodigy, along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers
and The Crystal Method, pioneered the big beat electronic
dance scene in the 1990s and
brought it to mainstream popularity.
From their initial demo,
“Experience,” to “Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned” in
2004, The Prodigy sold more than
16 million records worldwide,
which is unequaled in dance
music history. Their
Fiction Books
1. “The Associate,” John Grisham
2. “Run for Your Life,” James Patterson
3. “Heart and Soul,” Maeve Binchy
4. “The Host,” Stephanie Meyer
5. “Fool,” Christopher Moore
6. “The Guernesy Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society,” Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
7. “Dog On It,” Spencer Quinn
8. “The Story of Edgar Sawtelle,” David Wroblewski
9. “Among the Mad,” Jacqueline Winspear
10. “True Colors,” Kristin Hannah
WHAT’S
PLAYING
WHAT’S
PLAYING
Council Bluffs, Iowa
Mid-America Center
• Disney High School Musical on Ice
March 15
11 a.m.
Omaha, Neb.
Qwest Center
• Nickelback with Seether and Saving Abel
March 17
7 p.m.
Minneapolis
Xcel Energy Center
•Chris Tomlin with Israel Houghton and New Breed
March 29
10 a.m.
New Releases:
• “Middle Cyclone,” Neko Case
• “No Line on the Horizon,” U2
• “Muse from the 3D Concert
Experience,” Jonas Brothers
• “Feel That Fire,” Dierks Bentley
“Fired Up!”
runtime: 89 min.
directorS: Will Gluck
writers: Freedom Jones
genre: Comedy
rating: PG-13
release date: Feb. 20
company: Gross
Entertainment
Cast: Nicholas D’Agosto,
Eric Christian Olsen, Sarah
Roemer, Molly Sims, David
Walton
STEPHANIE SIMONS
newest release, “Invaders Must
Die,” which hits shelves March
3, is The Prodigy’s first album in
five years and released
on their new label,
“Take Me To The Hospital.”
“Invaders Must Die”
is a return to form for
The Prodigy and their
next attempt to prove
they are still relevant in
today’s fast-paced, electronic music scene. The
Prodigy reigned during
the 1990s in the British
dance music scene, but
by 2004’s “Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned,”
only leader Liam Howlett
remained and the album
was met with indifference.
Now back with Keith Flint and
Maximum Reality, The Prodigy
have recreated the beats that
made them the gods of the dance
scene they were. Even though
the album is nothing new from
The Prodigy, the album is still a
great reminder of their influence
on a lot of today’s acts such as
Pendulum.
The album’s title track, “Invaders Must Die,” starts out as any
electro song from a number of
The Prodigy tracks, but then it
morphs into an electric rock beat
that pumps up the tempo.
“Omen” is one of the best
tracks off the record. It has
such an addictive trance beat
throughout the song, you can’t
help but hitting the repeat button. “Invaders Must Die” and
“Omen” benefit in part from coproducer James Rushent, front
man of “Does It Offend You,
Yeah?”
In “Run With The Wolves,” the
song is based around a drum
part contributed by Dave Grohl
that sounds like the soundtrack
to an adrenaline junkie.
However, tracks like “Thun-
der” are weighed down by the
awkward transitioning between
the chorus and the main
rhythm.
The Prodigy still call for antiauthority in their lyrics, as on
“Piranha” with “they pull you
under if they take hold” or with
“Omen’s” “the writing’s on the
wall/it won’t go away.” The Prodigy are not newcomers to dealing with controversy concerning
their lyrics. 1997’s “Smack My
Bitch Up” caused many women’s
rights groups to protest, saying The Prodigy was advocating
domestic violence.
“Invaders Must Die” does
not really prove The Prodigy’s
relevance so much as it reinstates that they are inspiration
for much of the electronic dance
scene that has evolved.
The Prodigy are old school but
they are still pure fun. “Invaders
Must Die” is electronic pop at
its roots and even new fans can
revel in the beats this trio has
created.
Reach reviewer Stephanie Simons
at [email protected].
Movie Review
‘Fired Up!’ executes the same old Hollywood routine
Cheerleading movies have
always been funny and poked
fun at almost every cheerleading
stereotype known to man. “Fired
Up” takes the hilarity to a whole
new level, but does it live up to
all the hype?
Nick (Eric Christian Olsen)
and Shawn (Nicholas D’Agosto),
two of Gerald R. Ford High
School’s most popular guys
and football stars, are also the
two biggest seduction artists.
They’ve single-handedly dated
almost every girl in their high
school and are living the good
life. Things take a hard left when
they must attend football camp
for three weeks.
Unable to stay away from
girls that long, they formulate
a plan to attend cheerleading
camp, with 300 sexy cheerleaders instead. Unconvinced and
unsure of them is captain Carly
(Sarah Roemer).
While both Nick and Shawn
are having the time of their lives,
Shawn soon falls for Carly and
must find a way to win her heart.
He also needs to help Nick give
the team back their confidence
before the dreaded cheerleading
GABE JORGENSEN
competition final.
This hilarious new comedy,
directed by Will Gluck, really
delivers the jokes. I was laughing pretty loud at some points.
A couple of instances are
when the entire camp is watching “Bring It On” and repeating every single line by heart,
excluding Nick and Shawn of
course, the continuous chanting of all the cheerleaders all the
way to camp, and each of Nick‘s
attempts to seduce the head
counselor’s wife.
Both Olsen and D’Agosto give
comical genius performances.
Olsen’s character Nick is the
classic womanizer who cares
about nothing more than getting
girls, but he makes this cliché
role actually funny.
D’Agosto’s Shawn is similar to
Nick, but you can tell there is
something more to him as he
falls in love with Carly.
Roemer is also a great addition. While she is newer to the
Hollywood spotlight and her
performances are usually rather
dry, she actually fits well into
this role and really comes into
her own in this movie.
But even though this movie
is a great comedy, it has its weak
points.
It is extremely predictable and
very generic, one of many movie
cookie-cutters stashed in Hollywood’s overused pantry. Boy
likes girl, girl likes boy but won’t
admit it, girl has jerk boyfriend,
boy screws up and loses chance
with girl, boy forms plan to win
her back, girl then falls for boy
and dumps sleazy boyfriend.
At times I felt bored and lost
interest. The only thing keeping
me from giving myself a lethal
injection was the continuous
hilarity of the actors.
The movie also lacked emotion or sanity. I know it’s a comedy and I shouldn’t be too picky,
but you just don’t really care
about any of the characters.
I find it hard to believe that
the head cheerleading camp
coach would make two teenage
boys practice a cheer naked after
being caught skinny dipping
with a few cheerleaders; it’s just
a little odd to me.
Another thing that bothered
me was how these two guys
could sleep with almost every
girl at their high school and
most of the cheerleaders at the
camp, most of whom are under
18. These two never get caught,
ever. To know about these two
teens’ reputations and be completely ignorant is ridiculous.
The movie isn’t completely
bad and I won’t say don’t see it. I
encourage you to see it but don’t
have high expectations. “Fired Up” is an amusing and
witty take on the cheerleading
genre of movies, but don’t expect
to walk out of the theatre excited
with “spirit fingers.”
Reach reviewer Gabe Jorgesen
at [email protected].
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eating and sleeping schedule. An internal clock called
the paraventricular nucleus
in the hypothalamus of the
brain regulates hormone
release, he said, and by keeping the clock set, students
can handle stress better.
The stress of having to
pack so much studying time
into this week has been keeping sophomore Alyssa Day
from sleeping, she said. She
goes to bed at 3 a.m. only to
wake up at 6 a.m. and rarely
takes naps unless she feels
too stressed. She has three
exams within five hours of
each other Friday.
“I can’t focus enough to
study,” Day said. “It’s counterproductive.”
Blanking out during an
exam is something everyone
has experienced, Summers
said, and it happens because
of stress. It’s different from the
stress students get when they
are excited to see the test, he
said. That’s good stress. Students should try to keep in
the more positive stress zone
he said.
Handling stress well is
important because it can
change a student’s outlook on
life, as well as their physiology, said Kelly Duncan, assistant professor of counseling
and psychology in education.
“Everything from your face
breaking out and having more
acne than you did to having
psoriasis or eczema,” Duncan
said. “Our muscular system
responds to stress too. We can
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feel muscle pain, back pain,
neck pains. Lots of people
carry their stress in their neck
and back and so they aren’t
feeling as comfortable.”
Many related factors contribute to stress, such as diet,
exercise and sleep, but the
best way to handle stress is to
identify and treat the cause,
Duncan said.
Long-term stress can cause
more than physical damages
like increased blood pressure,
skin conditions and muscle
pains – it can damage relationships too, Duncan said.
A typically easy-going person can “fly off the handle”
if the stress manifests emotionally, she said, changing
relationships with significant
others.
Both Duncan and psychology professor XT Wang
suggest that students take
more time for themselves, a
practice that is disappearing
in today’s world.
“Sometimes when we’re
busy, it’s hard to talk ourselves into taking some time
for ourselves,” Duncan said.
Wang said that an activity such as regularly reading
for pleasure helps students
in two stress-reducing ways
at once. Not only is it personal time away from class
or work, it also expands their
horizons and gives them a
better perception of reality.
Day said she balances her
stress by taking time to do
things unrelated to school.
Treating stress is very
individualized,
Duncan
said. If students need to talk
through a plan or gain perspective on their situation,
there are three different oncampus counseling centers
available to students.
Duncan said rationalizing a career plan or talking
through sources of stress is
helpful to many students.
“Either you’re talking to a
counselor or your best friend
or a medical doctor; that’s
the kind of thing any of them
would want to find out right
away,” she said.
Students in general may
react to stress by increasing
stress factors like caffeine,
alcohol or drugs, Duncan
said.
“That’s certainly not going
to be useful,” she said, “With
the student population, I
think you see a lot of students
that don’t get the sleep that
they really should and their
sleep patterns are really erratic.”
Most students experience a situational-type stress
around exam time, Wang said.
For them, their body reacts to
stress and anxiety adaptively.
They may say that they are
dying but they are just working harder and cramming
everything together to get
it done, he said. Then they
recover by relaxing and going
to sleep.
“When you look at the
good students in school, they
always have a certain kind of
anxiety,” Wang said. “If you’re
not worried about your next
exam, how can you perform
so well?”
A good way for college
students to combat the overwhelming stress that comes
from major life changes in
general is to be well informed
and make realistic, specific
plans about the future, Wang
says.
This reduces uncertainty
as a source of stress, he said.
Wang suggests that students use a backwards-planning model for their future to
reduce uncertainty in both
the future and the present.
“I’m thinking I will be a
CEO of a mid-sized company in seven years,” Wang
explained. “To be able to do
that, you need to be in that
company by at least four
years. Then you go back to
the point now and you know
you probably need to do all
these things.”
Having a well-thought
plan gives students confidence that their short-term
goals will direct them down
the right path, Wang said. But
it’s just as important to be
flexible and consider a contingency plan, he said.
Emotions can be a good
directing force to overcome
anxiety and stress in order
to make a decision, Wang
said. In the past, psychologists viewed emotions as an
interference in rational thinking, he said, but today many
professionals, including himself, view them as necessary.
The dorsal frontal lobe in the
brain is particularly important
for people to experience and
anticipate a risk and make a
decision, he said.
Some students may feel
lingering stress after exam
time, which time can help
to heal, Wang said. Talking
to friends and family about
what causes stress can pinpoint the cause. If a student
feels general anxiety, they
may not be able to verbalize
a specific cause, Wang said,
and that is a feeling that is
no longer dependent on the
situation.
General anxiety, not seen
in the majority of the student body, Wang said, can
be caused by a student’s hormonal profile, personality
biases and genetics.
to sweet white wine or blush
wine goes well with pork tenderloin. For chicken, Nygaard
said many different wines can
work, depending on the sauce
complementing the chicken.
Junior Mike Kubicek likes
drinking wine because he
says it goes well with meals,
and better with food than any
other type of alcohol.
“I like to mix it up, and
I like that Hy-Vee sells wine
now and you can get a lot
of really good wine for really
cheap,” he said.
An expensive price tag
should never be a way to
judge what a good wine is,
Nygaard says. Generally, the
smaller the batch, the more
expensive the wine, which is
why box wine, for example,
can be sold so cheaply.
“Box wine isn’t bad. It
tastes fine, it’s just made in an
obscenely large batch, so they
can mass produce it and cut
costs,” Nygaard said. “It’s just
more economical. It’s corporate hog farm versus family
hog farm.”
Schieber’s favorite wines
are French wines, but he said
he hardly ever drinks them
because at $45 to $75 a bottle,
he can’t afford to.
He said there are plenty of
great wines that can be found
at local stores in Vermillion
for $20 or less.
Schieber said students can
never go wrong with a bottle
of Barefoot Zinfandel, which
costs about $7.
“Barefoot is the leading
bottler in the country, so they
have it down to a science,” he
said. “It’s not going to have
any faults in it. It just tastes
like a nice pleasant wine.”
But for someone who
wants to drink wine every
night, they will get sick of a
cheaper wine like Barefoot,
he said, and will want more
flavor.
People also say glasses
are designed and shaped for
different types of wines, but
Nygaard says the glassware
doesn’t matter.
“I’ve drank wine out of a
coffee cup and it still tastes
good,” he said. “You don’t
have to dress it up anymore
than it is already dressed up.”
Nygaard said Valiant Vineyards wine ranges in price
from $8 to $38 a bottle. Typically, Nygaard said the family business tries to use South
Dakota made products, and
most of the grapes they use
come from the Midwest. If
a supplier is out of a product, they order from a different part of the country. Some
types of grapes also cannot be
grown in the Midwest, so they
buy from elsewhere.
The packaging materials
that Valiant Vineyards use are
not local, and Nygaard said
the label and packaging can
increase the price of a bottle.
For instance, Valiant Vineyards’ Wild Grape bottle is
Italian glass, which increases
the cost by about $2. Also,
Nygaard said labor cost is
involved, because wild grapes
are found in plum thickets
and thorny areas, which make
them difficult to pick.
White wines also tend to
be cheaper, Nygaard said,
because they don’t need to
aged; rather, they are fermented, refined and bottled.
Nygaard said most white
wines have a delicate flavor and do not benefit from
aging. When wine is aged, it
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campus, said USD Psychology Professor
Gerard Jacobs.
The classes would teach preparation
for traumatic events such as large-scale
terrorist attacks or pandemics.
“Traumatic stress tends to be so overwhelming that it challenges the way we
view the world,” Jacobs said.
Jacobs has taught psychological first
aid to communities throughout the
world, from Indonesia to Thailand, for
many years. His proposal for the class is
waiting for funding through a national
organization. In the first year, he aims to
reach 10 percent of the student body.
Classes would be free and open to
the public, Jacobs said, teaching students and members of the community
how to support themselves and each
other psychologically during a largescale disaster.
Family, friends and neighbors, sources of psychological support for as long
as humans have been around, can learn
to help one another deal with traumatic
stress, Jacobs said. About 60-90 percent
of people that experience traumatic
stress can cope through help from family and friends, but others may need
professional help, he said. The class
would identify when someone who has
been through a disaster needs professional help.
One of the core skills taught in the
training would be active listening, Jacobs
said, which can help improve everyday
and romantic relationships.
“The coping skills that you learn are
something that are not going to work
just for traumatic events, it can also help
with day-to-day life,” he said.
Last summer, Jacobs and Beth Boyd,
director of the USD Psychology Service
Center, were appointed with 10 other
specialists to the Disaster Mental Health
Subcommittee by the National Biodefense Board. Their committee proposed
a national mental health plan modeled
from a system used in Denmark since
the 1990s, Jacobs said.
One way Jacobs has helped communities prepare for disasters is to build on
the specific community’s strengths, he
said. The Denmark model proposed for
the United States is tailored to work for
each community, he said.
There are global similarities in how
people respond to disasters, Jacobs
said.
Some traumatic stress can be circumvented by disaster preparation,
Jacobs said. For the Vermillion area, the
community can be prepared for blizzard
disasters by keeping scrapers in cars and
good boots for icy surfaces.
“When people take the actions to
prepare for an event, it tends to help
them be more comfortable,” he said.
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and gives the wine a safe, airfree environment, so it will
not spoil. Nygaard said the
longer the aging process, the
smoother the wine. Most red
wines are aged, he said. Valiant Vineyards sells 23 different varieties of wine, in addition to vodka.
As for the people who
are not avid wine drinkers,
Nygaard says they are looking for the word “sweet” when
shopping for a bottle. Even for
those who think wine is not
for them, Nygaard says they
just have to try a few to find
one that suits them.
“Wine is for everyone, and
it’s to be enjoyed,” he said.
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wine; they just haven’t found
one they liked yet.”
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Cooking all about finding time, recipes
by laura abbott
The Volante
Being a college student
doesn’t mean you have to eat
the college diet of pizza, fast
food and whatever is in the cafeteria line.
Cooking in the dorms is a
way to bring variety to your
plate and can be a learning
experience with friends. It
could save you money, too.
When choosing where to eat,
junior Emily Van Gerpen knows
convenience is important, but
dining out allows her to socalize as well.
One solution to getting more
variety in your food is learning
to cook.
Good, healthy meals can be
made even if you don’t have
all the ingredients from Mom’s
house.
Everyone knows that a wellstocked kitchen is the number
one priority for good cooking.
But living on a college budget
does not always allow for that
kind of luxury.
You can get a few key spices
and ingredients which are used
in lots of recipes for about 50
cents per container at most
grocery stores.
Pepper, salt, garlic powder,
paprika, basil, oregano, cinnamon, onion powder, chili powder, parsley, curry powder and
sage are a good core supply to
have on hand.
Learning how to use your
spices and substitute them for
each other will end up saving
you a lot of money.
If you find yourself reverting
back to familiar recipes, look
on the back of Campbell Soup
cans for more variety and don’t
be afraid to try new things.
Wal-Mart and Hy-Vee both
offer free menu recipe cards
in the store telling you exactly
what to buy and how to cook
it.
Preparation is key for beginners who may not have every
little utensil on hand, according to ProfessionalCooking.org.
Read through your recipe and
make sure everything is accessible before you begin.
If you’re cooking in the
dorms, items such as mixing
bowls and electric beaters can
be checked out from the main
desk.
Investing in a decent slow
cooker can save you time when
you want a hot meal. They can
be a simple option for cooking
meats or vegetables.
“You can make a lot of great
things in a crock pot like soups
or stews. My roommate uses
ours a lot,” sophomore Kelly
Bowman said.
Recipes from magazines
and the cooking section of the
library can be good sources for
beginning cookers, according
to ProfessionalCooking.org.
“I personally like the ‘Easy
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Everyday Cooking Cookbook.’
It has a lot of great recipes,”
sophomore Nicholas Adkins
said.
“Easy Everyday Cooking” is
published by Better Homes and
Garden.
Look online for more recipes
or try cookbooks like Rachael
Ray’s “30-Minute Meals” or
“College Cooking” by Megan
Carle.
These authors know what it
means to cook on a time limit
or with a limited budget. Their
meals are quick and easy and
targeted towards beginners.
Reach reporter Laura Abbott
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Economy having little effect on spring break plans
by catherine patrick
The Volante
With just a few days remaining before spring break commences, students nationwide
are full of plans for rest, relaxation and abandoning the
books.
Suffering from a lack of
money combined with the
effects of the current economy
may make a traditional spring
break a little hard to come by
for some USD students. But that
won’t stop them completely.
Non-traditional spring break
ideas abound: low-budget road
trips and service opportunities
are just as viable as the traditional pilgrimages to the beach.
For senior Becky Larsen, a
traditional beach spring break
wasn’t an option because of the
cost.
Her plans include roaming
the Midwest with a few friends
to visit tourist traps like a statue
of Pocahontas, a giant strawberry and the Maple Syrup Festival
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
“Cancun is too expensive,”
Larsen said. “We’ve always
wanted to road-trip and stay in
really ‘awesome’ hotels, so that’s
what we’re doing.”
Other students, like freshman Danny Meehan, follow the
trends to head south for spring
break.
“I’m going to Boca Raton,
Florida, to visit my girlfriend.
We’re going to be hanging out,
partying, jetskiing, going to
Miami,” Meehan said.
A trip to Florida requires a
bit more planning than a spontaneous road trip.
Meehan
said he has been making plans
and flight arrangements since
Christmas.
“What I thought about was
the price. I didn’t want (my girlfriend) to spend a lot of money,”
Meehan said. “I’ve limited my
spending, saving up for spring
break.”
Meehan has experience saving money on plane tickets. He
frequents cheaptickets.com and
purchased this round trip for
around $400. A normal trip to
Florida is usually around $300,
but Meehan speculated that
the prices are more expensive
because of spring break tour-
ists. Getting good deals is a tossup, Meehan said.
“Sometimes you plan in
advance and it’s cheap, but
sometimes planes need to drop
the price to fill up the seats
(last-minute) and it’s cheaper
that way,” he said.
While some students scrape
up funds for cheap flights
and hotels, others are travelling across the country to help
people that have to scrape up
money for food.
Four different Alternative
Week of Off-campus Learning
(AWOL) spring break trips are
planned for spring break 2009
at USD through the Center for
Academic Engagement. Sophomore Angela Helseth is a leader
for the trip to Staten Island,
New York.
“We’re working with an organization called Project Hospitality and focusing on issues
dealing with homelessness and
HIV/AIDS and doing various
service activities,” Helseth said.
Helseth was attracted to the
idea of a service trip this year
because of a positive experience
with a spring break AWOL trip
to Chicago last year. Returning
to the AWOL program as a site
leader, Helseth has been in the
planning stages of the trip for
months.
“I had to figure out where
we were going, what issues we
were going to be dealing with
and then come up with organizations we could work with and
things we could do on our trip,”
she said.
Planned activities include
working in the soup kitchens
and food pantries, as well as
having seminars with homeless
individuals and HIV victims.
“That’ll be nice because we’ll
get to talk with the people that
are dealing with these issues
and put a face to the concept
and make it more personal,”
Helseth said.
One of the major deterrents
against embarking on spring
break trips is the cost of vacationing.
Patrick Evans, a marketing
and communications coordinator for interntaional travel
agency STA Travel, said that
students are looking to get more
out of their travel experience.
“We have seen a lot of students consider the value of their
spring break trips. This includes
an increase in volunteer vacations and increased domestic
travel instead of international
trips,” Evans said.
His best advice for beating
the economy is to look for student discounts, whether that
be with student travel organizations like STA Travel or asking local businesses if they have
spring break offers. He said
planning travel and budgeting
to avoid emergency spending is
important to saving money on
spring break.
However, once the decision
to travel has been made, cost
doesn’t seem to faze USD spring
breakers. Larsen said the poor
economy didn’t have an effect
on her travel plans.
“We’re not going to splurge,
but I have no budget,” she said.
Meehan agreed. He said his
budget is around that of a normal spring break trip, and aside
from looking for discount plane
tickets, money wasn’t an issue.
For students embarking on
service trips, the cost of the trip
is outweighed by the benefits of
the experience.
Helseth has worked hard to
save the money to spend on this
trip, but she wouldn’t have it
any other way.
“You put all that effort into
working and making money,
but what are you going to spend
it on?” she said. “Would I rather
spend it going somewhere and
hanging out or would I rather
spend it making a difference in
people’s lives and my own life?”
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at [email protected]
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