Before I worked at the U
My 15 Minutes of Fame
Advocacy & Support Units
Gopher Confessions
Goldy's Rules of Engagement
100

This Advocacy & Support team member won a city-wide Spelling Bee in the 5th grade.

Who is finn schneider?

100

This Advocacy & Support Team Member was once invited to participate in the Judge Judy show after her parked car was totaled by an uninsured driver who fell asleep at the wheel

Who is Melanie Soland?

100

Besides serving the UMN community, the Aurora Center also provides confidential services to this nearby private university.

What is Augsburg University?

100

This Advocacy & Support Staff member can't say no to an Einstein Bros. Bagel

Who is Na King Xiong?

100

To secure good luck before an exam, students traditionally rub this specific body part of the bronze Goldy statue outside Coffman Union.

What is the teeth?

200

This Advocacy & Support team member sang the National Anthem at the Target Center to kick off the State Dance competition.

Who is Ashley Harrington?

200

This Advocacy & Support team member once had their baby son kissed by Jonathan Bennet, the Male Lead from Mean Girls, at the Mall of America?

Who is Katie Eichele?

200

If an informal resolution fails, a Student Advocate can formally accompany you to and help you prepare for this event in front of the Campus Committe for Student Behavior. 

What is a formal hearing?

200

This Adovocacy & Support team member says drinking water is overrated?

Who is Katie Koopmeiners?

200

This is the official name of the legendary, massive, annual campus-wide /music festival/carnival held at the end of the spring semester.

What is Spring Jam?

300

Before relocating to Minneapolis, Kate Schmidt called this Minnesota town home, a place famous for its historic, two-story outhouse.

What is Belle Plaine, MN?

300

This Advocacy & Support team member once met Lizzo at the Hard Times Cafe on the West Bank as an undergrad?

Who is Bronte Stewart?

300

SOS operates under this core philosophy, meaning they do not take sides or advocate for one specific party in a dispute.

What is Impartial (or Neutral)?

300

This Advocacy & Support Team member secretly can't stand reality TV

Who is Chloe Vraney?

300

If you are "Spinning the Gopher" or performing a "Gopher Motion," you are doing this iconic, dizzying hands-on-head touchdown dance.

What is the Ski-U-Mah spin?

400

This Advocacy & Support team member sold Cutco knives and served as a toilet paper roller on a road construction team before working at the U?

Who is Rachel Ross-Farmer

400

This Advocacy & Support team member is featured in a a Montelupo-Fiorentino archeology mesuem due to an artifact she found.

Who is Aryn Ladd?

400

This unit operates the oldest and largest operation of its kind in the United States.

What is the Student Parent HELP Center.

400

This Advocacy & Support Team member and their cousin were interviewed by the Travel Channel at the State Fair for a feature on Martha's Cookies. Unfortunately, the segment never aired because their cousin had spent the whole day at the beer garden.

Markku Makinen

400

Stepping onto this circular stone design in front of Northrop Auditorium is a known campus superstition—legend says if you do it, you won't graduate on time.

What is the University Seal?

500

This Advocacy and Support team member draws perfect circles and once worked at Karmelkorn?

Who is Elaine Vue?

500

This Advocacy and Support team member once won a rubber duck made to look like Shakespeare for being able to deliver the longest correct monologue from A Midsummer Night's Dream 

Who is Maggie Druschel 

500

The Office for Community Standards operated under this name until 2017.

What is the Office for Student Conduct and Academic Integrity.

500

This Advocacy & Support Team member is studying to be on Jeopardy with an Amazon playlist of songs that list US Presidents, the Periodic Table of Elements, Countries of the World, etc.

Who is Katie Jackson

500

Goldy Gopher belongs to this highly specific, subterranean biological species—not just a generic gopher.

What is a Thirteen-lined ground squirrel?

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