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The SERU survey will be available to grad students for the first time.
Minnesota’s soccer team fundraised the entire $93,000 spring break trip.
Last week, the U hosted events to honor the late alumnus’s career.
University to pilot global graduate student survey
Gophers traveled to Spain for spring break
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U celebrates Borlaug’s 100th birthday
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STUDENT LIFE
New app could up safety A student-created service lets users request security monitor escorts with their smartphones. BY VANESSA NYARKO vnyarko@mndaily.com
By the end of the month, University of Minnesota students will be able to request a campus security escort on mobile applications or online.
The new service is expected to bolster use of the security escort program by improving access for students with language barriers or deaf students who may have difficulties making a phone call to ask for a safe walk home. A team of seven University students — six engineering students and one design student — collaborated to create the safety program, called Usafe. It will be accessible online and on Android and iPhone applications.
John Wilson, a sociology senior and program director for the Disabled Student Cultural Center, is deaf and said in an email interview that he often has to rely on others to call 624-WALK if he needs to walk home alone late at night. Being able to use the Usafe application to request a security escort would make deaf students or students whose first language isn’t English feel safer on campus, he said. u See SAFET Y Page 3
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Hollins takes court one last time
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Local high schools host residencies U medical students will work in high school clinics to gain experience with adolescents. BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com
Family medical residents from the University of Minnesota will work in Minneapolis schools as part of a new five-year partnership set to launch next academic year. Minneapolis City Council members approved a plan Friday that gives third-year medical residents from the University’s Family Medicine Residency Programs the opportunity to provide care for youth, while gaining experience and expanding the University’s reach to the community in the process. Prospective medical specialists often complete a residency after graduating from medical school, during which they practice alongside professionals to develop skills specific to their field. Medical director of School Based Clinics Nicole Chaisson said there’s been a movement in the industr y toward training in clinics rather than in hospitals, and now is an opportune time to establish the u See RESIDENCIES Page 12
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Austin Hollins has played more games than any player in Gophers history, and he will finish his run this week. lackluster outing, ready to handle inquiries
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about another potential collapse.
t was the beginning of Februar y, and
That’s been his calling card ever since
the Gophers had just lost 55-54 to
he arrived on campus. Regardless of the sit-
Northwestern at home — their second con-
uation, win or lose, Hollins has always been
secutive loss to a team they should have
there. He’s been the model of leadership,
beaten.
the epitome of consistency.
It was likely the most dejected the locker room was after a game all season. As members of the media poured in, most players scattered to the showers, not wanting to talk about the disappointment.
Those two qualities have led head coach Richard Pitino to repeatedly use the same word to describe the senior guard this season: professional. “We’re going to miss him,” Pitino said.
Amid it all, there sat Austin Hollins
“When he walks in the gym, he’s always
perched at his locker — one of the three
going to bring it. He’s always going to be
or four Gophers who stuck around. Hol-
positive. In every single rep of every single
lins, still in full uniform, sat ready to take
drill, he maximizes his potential. That’s
questions, ready to answer for his team’s
hard to replace.”
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Lawmakers take closer look at study abroad Two bipartisan bills would mandate more transparency on students’ safety overseas. BY HALEY HANSEN hhansen@mndaily.com
State leaders are urging Minnesota colleges and universities to publish safety records of study abroad programs, citing poor safety and the need for transparency between schools and the public. While the University of Minnesota says it already does its best to ensure students’ safety, many agree the change is necessary and students and parents will benefit by having access to evaluate the risks in global areas. “We have tremendous oversight over almost ever ything,” said the bill’s author, Terri Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka. “But when it comes to sending students into other countries, we don’t have that oversight. The University currently only reports incidents like deaths, accidents, illnesses and sexual assaults upon students’ requests. The proposal mandates that schools display the statistics online and report them to the Office of Higher Education. Without u See ABROAD Page 4
BUSINESS
Drivers dish trade secrets Delivery drivers deal with a lot on the job, from strange customers to physical injury. BY ZACH SIMON zsimon@mndaily.com
This fall, Dave Searle was attacked with a hammer. The man who attacked him made away with $20 in cash, Searle’s bicycle — which he recovered after chasing the man down — and an order of Jimmy John’s sandwiches. Searle, a Jimmy John’s delivery employee, has his share of stories from his time on the job. Employees from restaurants around the University of Minnesota area, who deliver everything from sandwiches to pizza, on bicycles and in cars, have seen it all — injuries, odd customers and even run-ins with the law. Their stories are as diverse as the
customers they serve, but not always what those who haven’t done the job might imagine. “There is no other job like it,” Searle said. “There’s no way I’d be a 26-year-old delivery guy if it weren’t for the bike. If you love riding a bike, it’s worth it.”
Street smarts It took Robin Berenson, a Domino’s delivery driver, about three months on the job to learn all the tricks. On one of his first routes, he visited a maze of an apartment building — a common obstacle for delivery employees. He’s also learned the value of shortcuts, and the importance of bypassing the heavy traffic that GPS directions might lead into. There’s also a lot to be said for knowing how to park efficiently. Many delivery drivers said parking is one of the job’s u See DELIVERY Page 8
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Delivery manager Nate Coles collects orders in preparation for a Mesa Pizza delivery Friday.
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SIMFEROPOL, Crimea — Russia said Monday it was pulling a battalion of several hundred troops away from the Ukrainian border but kept tens of thousands in place, prompting a worried response from the Kiev government about what the U.S. warned was still a “tremendous buildup.” Russia moved quickly to strengthen its economic hold on Crimea, with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev arriving in the newly annexed peninsula with promises of funds for improved power supplies, water lines, education and pensions for the elderly. Russia’s takeover of the strategic Black Sea region, its troop buildup near
Ukraine’s border and its attempts to compel constitutional changes in Ukraine have markedly raised tensions with the West and prompted fears that Moscow intends to invade other areas of its neighbor. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin told German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a phone call Monday that some troops were being withdrawn from the Ukraine border, Merkel’s office said. The withdrawal involved a battalion of about 500 troops, Russian news reports said. The U.S. reacted cautiously to the Russian troop movement, with Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel saying that “tens of thousands” of Russian forces still remained along the Ukrainian border, a
situation he called “a tremendous buildup.” The new government in Ukraine said the action only increased its uneasiness about Russia’s intentions. “We have information that Russia is carrying out incomprehensible maneuvers on the border with Ukraine,” Ukrainian Foreign Ministry spokesman Yevgen Perebyinis said. “Troops in some places are moving backward, some of them are moving for ward. Which is why, obviously, we are worried by these movements of armed forces. We have no clear explanation from the Russian side about the aim of these movements.” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry also discussed Ukraine by
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PARIS — President Francois Hollande named former Interior Minister Manuel Valls as France’s new prime minister Monday, just 24 hours after his Socialists suffered heavy losses in nationwide municipal elections. Valls is consistently voted France’s most popular Socialist in opinion polls and is considered part of the right wing of the party. He replaces unpopular Jean-Marc Ayrault. The 51-year-old has drawn comparisons with former conservative French President Nicolas Sarkozy and is also the most popular Socialist among France’s conser vative right. In a prerecorded televised speech, Hollande said it was time for a France to enter a “new phase” and pledged Valls would lead a “combative government.” He spelled out some key policy changes that included announcing new unspecified tax cuts and confirming a plan to slash 50-billion euros in government spending. Valls is the Socialists’ hardliner on immigration and security and has held very controversial stances while serving as interior minister. He allowed officials to ban shows by a comic considered anti-Semitic, Dieudonne M’Bala M’Bala and once praised a policy of destroying illegal Roma camps and expelling their residents from the country. His bid for the Socialist presidency failed in 2011, when he got less than six percent of the votes. But the next year Hollande gave him the high-profile post of communications director of his successful bid for the Elysee in 2012.
PERTH, Australia — Although it has been slow, difficult and frustrating so far, the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet is nowhere near the point of being scaled back, Australia’s prime minister pledged Monday. The three-week hunt for Flight 370 has turned up no sign of the Boeing 777, which vanished March 8 with 239 people bound for Beijing from Kuala Lumpur. Ten planes and 11 ships found no sign of the missing plane in the search zone in the southern Indian Ocean, about 1,850 kilometers (1,150 miles) west of Australia, officials said. The search area has evolved as experts analyzed Flight 370’s limited radar and satellite data, moving from the seas off Vietnam, to the waters west of Malaysia and Indonesia, and then to several areas west of Australia. The search zone is now 254,000 square kilometers (98,000 square miles), about a 2½-hour flight from Perth. Items recovered so far were discovered to be flotsam unrelated to the Malaysian plane. Several orange-colored objects spotted by plane Sunday turned out to be fishing equipment. Those leading the effort remain undaunted, with Prime Minister Tony Abbott saying officials are “well, well short” of any point where they would scale back the hunt. In fact, he said the intensity and magnitude of operations “is increasing, not decreasing.” “I’m certainly not putting a time limit on it. ... We can keep searching for quite some time to come,” Abbott said at RAAF Pearce, the Perth military base coordinating the operation. “We owe it to the families, we owe it to everyone that travels by air. We owe it to the anxious governments of the countries who had people on that aircraft. We owe it to the wider world which has been transfixed by this mystery for three weeks now,” he said.
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Undercover bouncer nabs dance floor phone thief Also, a house was ransacked in Marcy-Holmes. BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com
On the dance floor at Blarney Pub and Grill early Sunday morning, Augsburg College student Tina Angok’s phone was stolen from her purse. Blarney security monitor Kyle Andersen said he was watching a man who appeared “suspicious” and that he noticed him take a cellphone from Angok’s purse. Andersen said he followed the man and notified the head of security, who called the police and held the man there until police arrived. Angok said she didn’t notice her phone was missing until she was getting ready to leave the bar. By
the time she and her sister contacted security, they had already recovered the phone from the suspect. On busy nights, additional security watch the Blar ney dance floor in plain clothes in order to watch for thefts like this one, Anderson said. Blar ney owner Mike Mulrooney said he works with the Minneapolis Police Depar tment’s 2nd Precinct to find the most ef fective ways to prevent and handle crime. Blarney staff call police the most over the weekend, Mulrooney said, but calls can var y from zero to seven in one night. “Police response time is awesome,” he said. Security staff rarely face issues turning thieves over to the police, Mulrooney said, a success he partially attributes to scanning patrons’ IDs when they come in.
Angok said she’s been to the bar before and she doesn’t worr y much about crime in Dinkytown, because she’s careful to stay in a group. “I always feel safe there,” she said. Police arrested the man for theft as well as two misdemeanor warrants. Minneapolis police public information officer John Elder said it’s common for Minneapolis police to make warrant arrests after coming in contact with a suspect for another reason. Police officers also occasionally perform “warrant sweeps,” Elder said, a more active search for anyone with a warrant out for their arrest in a certain precinct.
Renovation break-in, theft
When Rachel Commerford arrived at the construction site of her future home
in Marcy-Holmes on Saturday morning, she knew something was wrong. The house’s front door and garage doors had been kicked in. Inside the house, Commer ford said she saw a copper pipe on the ground. About 60 feet of pipe was missing from the house, along with power tools wor th about $1,500, according to the Minneapolis police repor t. The suspects also broke lights in the house and kicked holes in the walls of newly finished rooms. Commerford and her fiance, who works at the University, recently bought the property, which they plan to live in after remodeling it. The Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, which encompasses Dinkytown, had 431 cases of petty theft in 2013, according to Minneapolis police data.
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OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: When: Where: Info:
Theft Wednesday Ronald McDonald House A family staying at the Ronald McDonald House called police because the wheels of their 2010 Chevy Suburban were taken. The vehicle was left sitting on cement blocks.
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Indecent exposure Friday Wilson Library Police officers responded to a call about a male exposing himself. The man was gone when police arrived.
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Theft Friday Mariucci Arena An iPad was stolen from an unattended booth at a robotics competition in the arena.
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Public urination Friday Recreation center An officer noticed a man urinating in the landscaping outside of the Recreation and Wellness Center.
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Vandalism Saturday Stadium View Apartments A University student noticed that the side of his car was scratched and someone appeared to have urinated on it. This is the third time the student’s car has been keyed. The student suspects the damage was done by a man who was upset at him after the two got in a traffic accident.
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Consumption of liquor by a minor Sunday 17th Avenue Southeast An officer saw a female scream at the top of her lungs and drop a plastic bottle. The officer retrieved the bottle and noticed it smelled strongly of alcohol. The woman submitted to a breath test, which resulted in a BAC of .139. SOURCES: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD
University to pilot global graduate student survey The SERU survey will be available to grad students for the first time. BY BLAIR EMERSON bemerson@mndaily.com
Come fall, University of Minnesota graduate students will be among the first in the nation to take par t in a sur vey measuring their experience at research institutions. In an ef for t to better understand graduate students’ issues, outcomes and overall experience, the University will pilot a graduate-level version of the Student Experience in the Research University, or SERU, which was previously available only to undergraduates. The University of Califor nia-Berkeley’s Center for Studies in Higher Education administers the sur vey, which is currently administered to undergraduate students in top-tier research universities worldwide on a variety of topics ranging from academic per formance to sense of belonging. A version of the survey, tailored to graduate students, will not only provide new insights about the specific issues that students face, but it will also allow for comparisons among graduate institutions. “Their experiences are ver y dif ferent [from undergraduates], and their needs are ver y dif ferent,” said Ronald Huesman, the University’s principal researcher for the sur vey in the Of fice of Institutional Research. For example, he said, the graduate version of the sur vey will measure topics like research and teach-
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University Rutgers University of Michigan University of Pittsburgh University Purdue of Iowa University University of Indiana Virginia University University of North Carolina
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ing experiences — major components of graduate programs. Currently, undergraduates at more than 30 research institutions around the world may take the sur vey, including 23 in the United States and 10 in-
ternationally. Each of the institutions pays $20,000 per year to take part in the sur vey, Huesman said. When the sur vey is completed, responses will be shared among par ticipating schools so they can compare results with their
New mobile app could up safety Safety u from Page 1
Many deaf students rely on videophones to make calls, he said, but these must be hooked up to a TV, so they can’t be easily transported like a cellphone. “Having a mobile app on my phone would allow me more independence,” he said. “I would not worry about getting around campus without someone to walk with or looking for someone to call for me.” The students behind Usafe approached University Services with their idea, said the office’s chief of staff, Leslie Krueger. She said she found the idea to be innovative and responsible, so she referred them to the Public Safety Emergency Communication Center. “I really applaud the students for using their skills to seek innovative ways to help
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peers, Huesman said. “It’s good to know if a group on your campus is low or high in a particular area,” he said, “but is that normal or is that atypical compared to other universities?” Cur r ently, ther e ar e
few sur veys available for graduate and professional students at public research institutions. One of SERU’s principal investigators, Gregg Thomson, said the problem with many similar studies is that they don’t measure the experience of graduate students during their educational careers. “There’s nothing that was capturing the graduate student experience as they were going through the experience in their first year on,” he said. SERU, however, studies the entirety of an academic experience instead of just one specific point. The University’s Council of Graduate Students currently administers a biennial sur vey to graduate students. The 2014 sur vey was administered Monday. COGS President Andrew McNally said the group’s study has been useful in determining which issues are relevant to graduate students. “It cer tainly red-flags the issues that are important to us,” he said. For example, COGS’s last sur vey found that 65 percent of graduate students said student fees wer e a bur den, so the council created a resolution to address that, McNally said. Once COGS has pinpointed specific issues, the group uses the sur vey results to present researchbacked findings to the University administration, which McNally said is helpful. “It’s much better to have some statistical evidence to say there’s a large group of graduate students ... that think this should be a priority for the University,” he said. Huesman said using
the COGS sur vey in conjunction with SERU will be more efficient and provide a better picture of graduate students’ full educational career.
Seeking a global comparison
SERU is cur rently active at 10 undergraduate research institutions outside the U.S., and officials want to make the graduate sur vey worldwide, too. This fall’s pilot sur vey will likely include Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, but some hope to boost the number of international universities in future studies. “This is a huge need internationally,” said SERU principal investigator John Douglass. “We need to learn more. … American universities need to be aware of the world outside.” He said research universities often use SERU to help retool their programs. It also ser ves as an opportunity for similar institutions to discuss their shared challenges. “There are organizational and cultural differences, but there’s a lot more in common,” Douglass said. Sur vey results will likely be different for each institution, he said, but still follow a similar theme. The undergraduate version of SERU works like a census, Huesman said, and he hopes the graduate-level version will produce similar results. “The University relies on good information for improving the experience for graduate students,” said Melissa Anderson, associate dean of graduate education. “We really have high hopes that the sur vey will provide good and valuable information for us.”
USAFE APP ELIMINATES THE NEED TO CALL 624-WALK
“Having a mobile app on my phone would allow me more independence. ... I would not worry about getting around campus without someone to walk with or looking for someone to call for me.” JOHN WILSON Program director for the Disabled Student Cultural Center
their fellow students be safe on campus,” Krueger said. The emergency communication center helped the students better understand how dispatch works in the University’s security services, Krueger said, which helped the students design their program. Graphic design senior Matt McVeigh, who worked on Usafe, said that the team put in about two months of work on the project. The group hasn’t asked for money from the University and is prepared to give Usafe to the University, McVeigh said. But the deal isn’t yet finalized, he said, and the school may offer
the students some money for their work. Regardless of whether the group members are compensated, they think students will be more inclined to use an application or go online to request an escort than they are to call, said computer engineering senior Joe Selvik, who worked on the project. Animal science junior Karissa Huynh said she thinks many students may not be aware of the escort service, or feel like they shouldn’t use it. “I almost feel I’d be bothersome calling,” she said, “even though it’s a service for us.”
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U supports crime prevention contest The contest will award cash prizes for projects that could help prevent crime. BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com
After an academic year marked by worries about crime, University of Minnesota student groups and administrators are partnering to award students who can come up with ways to stop crime. Student groups Co-Lab and The Echo Spot founded the monthlong Crime Innovation Contest, which begins Wednesday, in response to a spike in violent and brazen crimes during the fall semester. Students will be able to submit their ideas for creative ways to prevent crime, and the winning projects — judged by other students, community members and University police officers — will win prizes. The contest begins April 2, with a submission deadline of April 10. While the University has attempted community outreach programs during and after the crime wave, Co-Lab President Jon Melgaard said it’s been a “one-way conversation,” and students remain an untapped source of potential for ideas and solutions. Among University-hosted events were a forum with Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges and a Student Safety town hall forum intended to gauge student opinion about the issue. But those events have limits, Echo Spot President Nadya Nguyen said, and neighborhood residents and students with schedule or transportation constraints often can’t attend them. The new project, which will exist primarily online, takes place over a longer time period and will mitigate these concerns, she said.
“What if a student comes up with a website or [smartphone] app that is effective for crime prevention? That would be phenomenal,” Nguyen said. “It’s about starting that conversation, and implementation is a bonus.” The groups are asking students to submit their projects online, where other students and community members can comment and offer feedback. Students will present the top-10-voted projects May 1 at a showcase event, where members of the involved student groups and University police officers will act as judges to award $1,500 in cash prizes. Nguyen said winning projects could then look for funding from the University or other sources to actually implement the ideas. Multiple groups have signed on to back the project, including the Minnesota Student Association, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Of fice for Student Affairs and the Office of Public Engagement. Nguyen, a senior finance major, said she was pleasantly surprised when University administrators reached out to get involved. “I’ve worked with student groups my entire career at the [University], and collaborating with administrators has always been difficult,” she said. “This is the first time they’ve come to us.” University police Chief Greg Hestness will also host an online Ask Me Anything, or AMA, on The Echo Spot’s website as part of the project. Hestness said it’s difficult for police to hold a dialogue with the
University’s large student body. Police often feel they’re making worthwhile contact with community members, he said, but then find that they’re only reaching a small segment of the population. “There are just a lot of things we probably could respond to and would have good information for,” Hestness said, “but they just don’t get to ask, and we don’t get to answer.” Hestness said he’s looking for ward to the AMA and expects the amount of crime, police action plans and concerns about racial profiling to be the major talking points. “I want to let people know we get it and we’re working on these sorts of things, even though the communication isn’t always possible,” he said. Assistant Dean of Students Amelious Whyte said the contest is a great way to engage students on the crime issue. The contest could end up being a platform that the University uses to crowd-source solutions for other campus issues, he said. “There are a variety of things that students may think, ‘Wow. I wish [the University] could do this better,’ ” Whyte said. “This has the opportunity to bring people together and find solutions in a creative fashion.” Across the countr y, Whyte said, colleges are using technology to address campus safety. One example that stood out to him was at Virginia Tech, where a victim of the 2007 shooting invented a smartphone app that alerts students during emergencies. “What that said to me was creative ideas don’t necessarily come from the experts,” he said. “They can come from students and other people, too.”
Sumatran rhino dies in captivity BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CINCINNATI — The death of the Cincinnati Zoo’s lone female Sumatran rhino has dealt a blow to a breeding program aimed at saving one of the world’s most critically endangered species. The rhino, named Suci, was one of only 10 in captivity worldwide and died Sunday after showing symptoms of a disease that killed her mother, although
zoo of ficials say it will be months before the final results of a necropsy are available. The zoo’s breeding ef for t to mate Suci with a sibling followed a crisis summit in Singapore where conser vationists concluded that as few as 100 of the two-hor ned, hair y rhinos might remain in forests in their native Indonesia and Malaysia. The species has become endangered through loss
of forests and poaching of the animals’ horns, which are believed by some Asian cultures to have medicinal properties. “Suci was a symbol of hope for her entire species, one that is quickly losing ground in the wild, and her absence will leave a hole in our hearts,” Terri Roth, director of the zoo’s Lindner Center for Conser vation & Research of Endangered Wildlife, said in a statement Monday.
Arsenic possibly found in University key ring The manufacturer is disputing the findings, and the U is looking into them. BY KRISTOFFER TIGUE ktigue@mndaily.com
A Michigan-based environmental nonprofit is claiming it found high levels of arsenic in a University of Minnesota Gophers key ring purchased from a major retailer on the Twin Cities campus. Officials from the Ecology Center tested 65 different fan products from 19 dif ferent universities for toxic substances, like lead, arsenic and mercur y. Of those products, 46 contained at least one or more chemicals they said were a “concer n,” including a University-branded key ring purchased from the Walgreens on Washington Avenue, though the test’s validity has been disputed. While standar ds for a r s e n i c h a v e b e e n e stablished for things like g r o u n d w a t e r a n d c h i ldren’s toys, there aren’t clear limits set on consumer products like the University key ring, which is marketed to adults. This leaves chemicals like arsenic in a strange gray area, regulated in some products but not others. “We tested a wide range of university gear, spor tsthemed products,” said Ecology Center Research Director Jef f Gearhar t. “Most of the chemicals that we’re screening for, many of them are not covalently bonded to the material, so they are prone to being released.” Since the chemicals they screened for weren’t chemically bonded to the products, Gearhar t said, he’s wor ried that they could potentially come of f and get into the body. There, arsenic can lead to skin problems, hear t disease and cancer. John Killen, President of WinCraft Inc., the company that produces the University key ring tested, said their products meet all the regulation standards required by their licensees and state and federal law. “ We ’ r e t h e l o n g e s t standing licensee with the NFL, so we take testing ver y seriously,” he said. “We’r e c ompl i a n t w i t h Disney. We’re audited and cer tified by Wal-Mar t and their testing or ganizations. We’ve passed all the quality standards for the NFL, Major League Base-
ARSENIC FACTS Arsenic is a naturally occurring substance that can be found in air, groundwater, soil and rocks. Previously, arsenic was used in pesticides and fertilizers. Before 2003, arsenic was used in a common type of wood preservative. A one-time dose of 60,000 micrograms of arsenic (about 1/50 of a penny) is fatal for most people. Most people consume about 6 micrograms of arsenic a day. High exposure to arsenic over many years can cause skin problems and digestive problems, and it can increase risk for cardiovascular disease and certain cancers. Arsenic naturally occurs in some foods we eat, like fish and rice, but in very small amounts. The EPA has set a limit of 10 parts per billion for arsenic in drinking water. There are NO federal limits set for the amount of arsenic found in consumer products. SOURCE: MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
ball, NBA, NCAA.” Killen said the company’s engineers test their products for quality standards annually. When those products don’t meet standar ds, Killen said, they send them to cer tified labs to find out why. But Killen said he doesn’t tr ust the results from the Ecology Center, since WinCraft’s tests showed up negative for any sign of arsenic. “We didn’t find any levels of anything that would be inappropriate,” he said. Killen said he hopes the Ecology Center is willing share their test results so that the issue can be resolved. The differences in their test results may be due to dif ferent testing methods or dif ferent equipment, Gearhar t said. In the seven years that the Ecology Center has been per forming these tests, he said, they haven’t found any inaccurate readings. Carlson School of Management supply chains and operations professor Enno Siemsen, an exper t in product development, said it’s common to find quality pr oblems even when something is highly regulated, especially if a company makes cost-saving decisions like switching suppliers. “The blame for this can fall on many,” he said. The manufacturer may not be careful with their suppliers, the retailers may not regulate where they get their products or the government may not establish pr oper r egulations, he said. The Ecology Center is testing products par tially to push for more regulation, said Deanna White, co-director of Healthy Leg-
acy, a Minnesota-based par tner of the Ecology Center. “You see more federal action on chemicals like lead,” she said. “One of the challenges that exist when we talk about chemicals like arsenic is that the policy framework … is broken.” White said the government doesn’t have enough regulations on arsenic and she hopes these tests will pressure institutions like the University to set higher standards for manufacturers who license out their brand name. University Trademark Licensing Director David Lindquist said in a written statement that their licensing agent, Collegiate Licensing Company, is reviewing the Ecology Center repor t and testing products against its findings per the University’s request. “Consumer product safety is critical, with any officially licensed University of Minnesota product,” he said in the statement, “and we appreciate efforts that bring attention to product safety.” The Ecology Center’s results showed an arsenic level of 246 par ts per million in the University key ring. In drinking water, where arsenic is naturally present, the Environmental Protection Agency requires levels below 0.01 parts per million. Ultimately, White said she hopes their tests will open up dialogue and make regulations for things like arsenic less ambiguous. “It’s going to take retailers, manufactur ers, consumers, governments, nonprofits, all working together to fix this,” she said.
Lawmakers take closer look at study abroad safety Residents Abroad
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passing state-set marks, institutions would not be able to grant academic credit for the travel experiences. Sheryl Hill founded the Clear Cause Foundation in 2011 to increase safety on study abroad trips after her son died in on a People to People Ambassador Program trip in Japan, and she strongly supports the bill. “I think you have the right to know when you are escorted into a foreign country what the safety record is of the organization you are trusting your life and your future to,” Hill said. Ann Hubbard, who works for the American Institute for Foreign Study, said she agrees with the purpose behind the policy change but noted it doesn’t necessarily guarantee students’ safety abroad. “It’s not a directly preventative measure,” she said. Program Director for the University’s Global Programs and Strategy Alliance Stacey Tsantir said the University already maintains safe practices and the legislation won’t significantly change operations for programs administered by the University, like those from the Learning Abroad Center. “Our processes and policies are very strong, and we are very proud of the way that we handle education abroad
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[like] health and safety and security,” she said. The University requires students and faculty traveling abroad to obtain insurance approved by the Office of Risk Management. The University also endorses the recommendations from the For um on Education Abroad’s Good Practices, which creates standards for national programs. “Even without the requirement to report,” Hubbard said. “[Schools] do all kinds of things trying to make certain people on our
programs are safe.” Tsantir said other schools might have a harder time with the change due to their track record of poor practices in the past. Sen. David Osmek, REden Prairie, who is co-sponsoring the bill, said students and parents will benefit from the change because they’ll be able to better analyze potential risks associated with studying abroad. “It’s important that families have the information on safety records for these programs so they can make
informed decisions,” said Rep. Yvonne Selcer, DFLMinnetonka, who is heading the House’s version of the bill. Osmek said by increasing transparency, students shouldn’t feel inhibited to make plans to study abroad, and they should instead feel more secure. Universities with high marks on the reports could potentially use the evidence as a marketing tool, Osmek said, proving its programs are safe, and schools with poor statistics should re-evaluate
their procedures. Jodi Malmgren, director of international and offcampus studies at St. Olaf College, began discussions by meeting with legislators in the fall. She co-chairs a committee for Minnesota Study Abroad Professionals. New York and other states are considering similar proposals aiming to increase transparency, but Malmgren said more can be done at the national level. The Associated Press contributed to this report.
ST. PAUL — The call center for Minnesota’s online health insurance marketplace strained Monday under a cr ush of people tr ying to beat the midnight Monday deadline for open enrollment, while residents lined up to take advantage of locations offering in-person help. MNsure said its call center logged about 17,000 calls by 4 p.m. Monday, taxing the phone system and pr eventing some people from getting through to agents. The average wait time was 20 minutes. The call volume was about four times that seen on Dec. 31, an earlier enrollment deadline for coverage that took ef fect Jan. 1. Minnesota is one of 14 states plus Washington, D.C., that chose to r un their own exchanges rather than using the federal system. People who couldn’t get through or encountered difficulty signing up online were urged to fill out an enrollment attempt form on MNsure’s website so an agent could contact them later to complete the enrollment process.
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HEALTH
The gateway drug label is dangerous A warning The notion that pot is a gateway drug limits children’s grasp of safer substance use.
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awmakers who are critical of marijuana often point to the drug’s status as a “gateway” to harder substances. However, recent studies suggest that alcohol consumption and tobacco use are more likely to lead to hard dr ugs than marijuana. With these results in mind, Minnesotans should question their view of pot while lawmakers are on the verge of considering medical marijuana. A 2012 study in the Journal of School Health revealed that alcohol ser ved as gateway dr ug for high school students, leading to tobacco, marijuana and more illicit dr ug use. In addition, the 2013 Boynton Health Ser vices sur vey shows that 23 percent of all tobacco users at the University have used other illegal drugs (not including marijuana) in the past year, compared to just 3.5 percent
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of non-tobacco users. Given statistics showing loose links to numerous drugs, rather than pot as the sole instigator, we need to re-evaluate dr ug education and future legislation. The Jour nal of School Health’s findings show that the majority of high school students who used dr ugs consumed alcohol more often than any other substance. Tobacco and marijuana also had a role, but alcohol was the closest to a “gateway drug.” Moving past the gateway drug hype, parents and educators need to focus on teaching kids about the effects of alcohol consumption and provide children with role models who use the drug correctly, if at all. The par-
ents and instructors who told children that alcohol was bad and never let them sample or understand it only built up a taboo in children’s minds. They made the product desirable, while also ignoring safe or safer drug use. This is like teaching abstinence-only education and expecting kids to have safe sex. Lawmakers recently proposed medical marijuana legislation in the Minnesota Legislature and several other states. Former Gov. Tim Pawlenty vetoed a similar bill in 2009, and Gov. Mark Dayton has said he intends to strike down any bills legalizing marijuana until the law enforcement community decides to support it. I believe that legislation making the drug illegal, especially for medicinal purposes, is counterproductive to states’ interests because it prevents patients from receiving the drug, while people continue to abuse it recreationally. If anything, legalizing the drug would make it less desirable for young people to experiment with. Parents will ideally be able to explain safer
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use of the drug to their kids and the ramifications of improper use. But the legality of the drug is not the real issue here. No matter what parents do and what educators say, teenagers will always have access to illegal drugs. Parents and teachers can protect children from misusing drugs, if we teach them more than simply turning away from such substances. Rather, we must go further and demonstrate how to find information and the health risks of using drugs improperly. If an illicit drug like Molly tempts a teenager, they’re less likely to accept, and in turn misuse, if they know more than “drugs are bad.” The logic of defining one drug or another as a “gateway” goes against the issue of keeping illegal and dangerous drugs from harming Minnesota’s youth. Better education, more than better laws, is how we can save children. Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.
CRIME
Sexual abuse in the black community This month we should recognize the resources available for survivors of sexual violence.
Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR Employment opportunities, not security infrastructure, will address campus safety at the U In the past few months, the University of Minnesota has faced an uptick in crime on and around the Twin Cities campus. These crimes have varied from petty theft to aggravated assault and have occurred across neighborhoods to victims of varying demographics. The crimes have had but one thing in common: the perpetrators. The perpetrators reported in many cases were young black males between the ages of 16 and 30. The University has reallocated $4.1 million so far to address this issue. These funds have been budgeted to increase security infrastructure on campus in the form of security lighting, security monitors and cameras. By all appearances, the University falls slightly short of building a security wall parameter to keep the criminals out. These interventions, while commendable, are not suf ficient to address the racial disparities that seem to be the root cause of the problem. To propose solutions to this perplexing situation, one would begin with the basic question of why these par ticular perpetrators? Why aren’t University professors or even white youth the perpetrators? The answers to these questions would then provide an ideal baseline to develop informed interventions. In 2009, Minneapolis was shown in a nationwide study to have one of the highest unemployment disparities for any metropolitan city, with African-Americans being more than three times
more likely to be unemployed when compared to their white counterparts. Institutional racism, disadvantaged social backgrounds and lower education completion rates were the main factors identified for this problem. A unique factor to Minnesota that perpetuated this problem was the racial disparity in imprisonment rates. Minnesota had the highest black-to-white imprisonment disparity in state prisons, with one white inmate for ever y 25 black inmates. A more recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center showed that Minnesota had the highest recidivism rates among 42 states at 61.2 percent. Recidivism refers to relapse to criminal behavior and consequent reincarceration despite being punished. These studies demonstrate the hopelessness that exists for young black men in Minnesota. Many black youth in Minnesota have less than a high school education, are unemployed and have a criminal record. These three factors predispose them to a life of crime, according to a framework developed by a prominent economist. Economist Gar y Becker proposed a framework that attempts to provide context to why criminals break rules despite known negative results. The concept of the framework is that criminals rationally weigh the benefits and costs of committing a crime and then act accordingly. If the reward is sizable and the probability of being caught is low, then the benefits of committing the crime outweigh the cost, and the criminal is more likely to commit the crime. The same applies vice versa. This framework provides context to why black youth are the key perpetrators of
crime in Minnesota and to why increased security infrastructure will not be sufficient to dissuade them. The unemployed youth with limited skills to earn a living wage will always find that the cost of crime is minimal compared to the benefits. The system has been developed in a manner in which prisons have more people that look like them, crime is a viable source of income and minimal socio-economic structures defy the above notions. Consequently, they will continue to commit the crimes lest alternative opportunities are created for them. In fall 2013, only 4 percent of the incoming freshmen at the University were black. This is despite the fact that African-Americans comprise more than 18 percent of the population of Minneapolis. The college completion time and dropout rate was significantly higher for black students compared to their white counterparts. The ultimate goal of any program that seeks to address the issue of safety in Minnesota should be geared to minimizing the systemwide issues that cause perpetrators to commit crimes. As a land-grant institution, the University has a unique opportunity to not only ensure campus safety but to meet its objectives of fulfilling the education needs of Minnesota’s changing demographics. It can attain both through community engagement programs that groom black youths from disadvantaged backgrounds and diversity programs at the University that assist these students to succeed. Bruce Rwabasonga Master of Public Health candidate School of Public Health
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pril is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and though statistics mark improvement, sexual assault is still a problem that requires our attention, specifically in the black community. Sexual assault has proven to be a continuous issue in the U.S. Fortunately, the U.S. Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey shows a decrease in reported sexual assault rates over the past decade. The rate of sexual assault is greater among the black community, especially black women. The Department of Justice estimates that — on top of the disproportionate rate — for every black woman who reports a sexual assault, 15 black women do not report theirs. Sexual violence can be taboo. We often associate shame with victims of sexual violence. There are other issues of oppression in regard to both race and gender that are likely to contribute to higher numbers of reported and unreported sexual assault cases in the black community. Many sexual assault sur vivors don’t know about the resources out there. Women of color already used to institutional racism might find trusting sexual assault survivor centers or shelters especially difficult as they cope with potential victim-blaming behavior. Sexual Assault Awareness Month should drive us to pay more attention to the very real issues that can take place under the radar. We must also help to make available resources known and encourage survivors to report their stories so that we can seek justice and prevent future violence, regardless of race. Crime has been an ongoing issue for the University of Minnesota and surrounding neighborhoods, and University students have reported sexual assault this academic year. The Aurora Center offers services to all victims and survivors of sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking at the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College. Minneapolis has many other available resources for survivors, including the Sexual Violence Center and the Rape and Sexual Abuse Center. I urge students, faculty and staff to attend Sexual Assault Awareness Month programming and arm themselves with more knowledge on sexual assault. TIFFANY TRAWICK columnist
Tiffany Trawick welcomes comments at ttrawick@mndaily.com.
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The NCAA could avoid a union movement by treating players like students, not professionals.
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ivision I college football players sometimes devote up to 50 hours a week to their spor t. Coaches regulate their weekly schedule, social media use, dress code and off-campus travel. The schools they play for will see hundreds of millions of dollars in profit from their sport. These were some of the key factors that went into Regional Director for the National Labor Relations Board Peter Sung Ohr’s decision to allow Northwestern University’s football players to form a union. The surprising legal victory comes at a time of growing tensions between student-athletes, their respective schools and the NCAA. There have also been serious criticisms of the way that the NCAA handles concussions. The NCAA requires athletics programs to develop and implement their own concussion policies, but the NCAA does not review or enforce these policies. Earlier this year, the NCAA consolidated almost a dozen lawsuits into one case because all suits had to do with the league’s knowledge of concussions and how it went about protecting players. Like many, the NLRB’s decision surprised us. Our Feb. 10 editorial prior to the ruling acknowledged logistical and legal barriers that might prevent a players union from forming. Those same barriers may still come into play as Northwestern says it will appeal to the full NLRB in Washington. Player unions are not an ideal solution for improving college athletics. Though it may be an apt label, officially calling and treating athletes as employees further removes them from the mission of higher education. The opposite needs to happen. If the NCAA doesn’t want to see a player union movement proliferate, it should emphasize academics more and allow student-athletes official representation in decision-making processes. A more collaborative and transparent NCAA would benefit students without the potential hostility and legality issues of a fullfledged union movement.
Students should also work abroad The University could help more students study abroad by finding work and internship opportunities.
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n a rapidly globalizing educational community, more college students are studying abroad while receiving credit toward their degree. The University of Minnesota has hundreds of study abroad programs for various majors, but many undergraduates still view study abroad as an unattainable experience during their college career, often for financial reasons. Students unable to find scholarships to study abroad often take out loans or find other means of handling costs. Resorting to other means can complicate an other wise unique and beneficial experience. The Learning Abroad Center hopes to alleviate some of that burden, the Minnesota Daily reported last week, by raising funds for additional scholarships to give more students in an international learning experience. Right now, a third of University of MinnesotaTwin Cities students graduate with an experience abroad. The University wants to up this to 50 percent and raise $1.5 million for scholarships annually by 2019. Lack of funds can be a deterrent for students when deciding to study abroad. For some, scholarship funds may not be enough. The University should not only work to boost the number of students studying abroad, but also the number of programs offering work-study positions. Developing more paid internships and job opportunities would likely push the University closer to its goal. Job opportunities outside the classroom, especially in English-speaking countries, are important if the University wants to get more students abroad.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
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Minnesota guard Austin Hollins dribbles the ball up the court March 9 against Penn State.
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On the cour t, Hollins scored more than 1,000 points as he and junior guard Andre Hollins have established themselves as a formidable Big Ten backcour t. He’s also donned the maroon and gold more times than anyone in the histor y of Gophers basketball. Still, of f the cour t, he was so much more. Hollins, a captain for the last two seasons, was a steadying force on a team marred by peaks and valleys seemingly every year. “He’s a great leader,” Pitino said. “He’s a calming influence. Those are things you don’t coach. I didn’t get that out of him. [That’s] his upbringing, his family and him as a person.” Hollins fought through arguably the worst slump of his career in the middle of the Big Ten season. He averaged slightly more than eight points per game
during a 13-game stretch — well below the standards he’s set for himself throughout his four-year tenure. Pitino said Hollins never moped or made excuses during that span, but instead utilized his work ethic to find a solution. Hollins busted out of his rough patch in style, saving the best basketball of his career for last. In the Gophers’ past eight games, he’s twice set a new career high in scoring, the most recent a 32-point showcase against Southern Miss that helped the Gophers earn a trip to Madison Square Garden in New York. “Since he went through that slump, he’s been probably the best player on the team ever y game,” junior guard DeAndre Mathieu said. “It’s big-time. He’s a senior. He doesn’t want it to end.” This season was supposed to be a huge transition for the Gophers in their first year under Pi-
tino’s tutelage. They had to adjust to new players, a new coach and a completely new style. And because of that, many projected the 2013-14 campaign to be mediocre at best. It wasn’t, largely in part to Hollins. His leadership helped make the transition nearly seamless. In the first year of the Pitino era, the program has made great strides, and Hollins helped lay the foundation for the future. “I think this program is definitely moving forward,” Hollins said. “To be the foundation for what [Pitino is] trying to build, it definitely means a lot.” Still, one thing Hollins hasn’t done at Minnesota — sans a Puerto Rico TipOf f title during his freshman season in 2010 — is win a championship. That could change this week. The Gophers are two wins away from winning the NIT and ending Hollins’ career with a victory — a rare feat in college basketball.
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“I’ve been here for four years, and I’ve worked so hard and put so much into this,” he said. “[To win a title] would mean a lot.” And even if they don’t, it’s a good bet Hollins will
be available after ward to reflect on the outcome. It’s also a safe bet that he’ll handle the aftermath professionally, as he’s done all season and throughout his career — all 139 games of it.
SOCCER
Gophers traveled to Spain for spring break Minnesota’s soccer team fundraised the entire $93,000 spring break trip. BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com
The Gophers women’s soccer team spent its spring break overseas, immersing itself in one of the world’s most soccer-crazed cities. Minnesota’s entire team traveled to Barcelona, Spain, during the break, where it played three games, toured the city and even caught an FC Barcelona game. “It was amazing — definitely a once-in-a-lifetime experience,” captain Katie Thyken said. Minnesota head coach Stefanie Golan said she spoke with a few donors about the trip at the beginning of last year. “I wanted to do it before I really had a full team of players that I recruited,” the second-year head coach said, “because I really wanted to invest in the players that were already here.” The Gophers fundraised the entire $92,528 cost of the trip by hosting soccer clinics and an auction and by participating in a phone-a-thon,
among other endeavors. Golan said the team wouldn’t have taken the trip if it had not met its fundraising goal. She said she knew around December that the trip would happen. The Gophers left for Spain on March 14 and arrived in Barcelona after about 20 hours of travel. They spent their first three days traveling and touring the city and attended the FC Barcelona game on the third night of the trip. That night, Barcelona’s Lionel Messi broke the club’s all-time scoring record, notching a hat trick in a 7-0 win. Minnesota played its first of three games March 18 and defeated Badalona CF 7-0. It played its second game the next night, against the top-tier club CF Sant Gabriel, and lost 3-0. The Gophers played another top-tier club, RCD Espanyol, a night later and lost 1-0. They gave up an early goal that night, Golan said, but settled in and played better during the rest of the game. Thyken said the Spanish teams played a technical and possession-oriented style, something the Gophers hope to emulate next season. She said her team started to click more during the third game. “The passes started get-
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ting right to feet instead of being 5 yards off either way,” Thyken said. “The communication and everything just started to flow.” Minnesota players and coaches spent their final two days in Barcelona sightseeing before returning to Minneapolis on March 23. The trip was the highlight of the team’s spring schedule. Minnesota also hosted and won two indoor tournaments during the spring season and tied Wisconsin 0-0 in a scrimmage Sunday. Golan said she could see the trip’s positive impact during the Wisconsin scrimmage. “The first 30 minutes, we totally dominated the play,” she said. “We had the ball,
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Minnesota’s Ashley Pafko, Tarah Hobbs and Simone Kolander attend FC Barcelona’s game against Osasuna during spring break in Barcelona, Spain.
and we had it in their end a lot.” The Gophers will scrimmage Minnesota StateMankato on Sunday and then will focus more on individual training. Golan said the team
would like to do a trip like this ever y four years, if possible. “For us to go to a culture where soccer is No. 1 and it is a focus point, I think was a tremendous opportunity,” she said.
he NCAA tournament this season has been nothing short of phenomenal. It’s featured down-to-the-wire finishes, upsets galore and Cinderella stories. But the NIT? Not quite as exciting. Still, the Gophers are alive and will play for a shot at the NIT title at Madison Square Garden before the season wraps up. Whether the team wins it all or comes up short, the first season of the Richard Pitino era will be in the books at week’s end. And all things considered, it was a big success. While preseason polls had Minnesota pegged near the bottom of the Big Ten, the Gophers stayed afloat and were competitive for most of the year. Minnesota also earned a signature win over Wisconsin, a team that just locked up its first Final Four berth in the Bo Ryan era. In the end, it wasn’t enough to garner an invitation to the Big Dance, but the current NIT run is proof that the team was right on the brink. Yes, Pitino’s boys still had a minor meltdown in Februar y — and there were a couple questionable home losses during the season — but the good outweighed the bad. Pitino brought in a trio of players who all turned out to be key contributors on this year’s squad. DeAndre Mathieu was the team’s best player and played with a fearlessness that the program hasn’t seen in years. Malik Smith, a senior transfer from FIU who came to campus with Pitino, displayed unwavering confidence from the perimeter that helped the team win a few games. And Joey King, a transfer from Drake, started 13 games at the power forward position. He’s played well down the stretch and will be around another two years. Mathieu will be back next season, too, and so will Elliott Eliason and Mo Walker — former nonames turned valuable big men. In just a year, Pitino’s proven that he knows how to develop players. That’s huge for Minnesota, which doesn’t attract the five-star talent that can turn a program around. In the NCAA tournament, three of the remaining four teams rode veteran players — guys who weren’t ready for Broadway right away but sure as hell are now — to the Final Four. That’s the ticket in college basketball, and Pitino gets that. Next year, there will be loftier expectations. Mathieu, Walker, Eliason and leading scorer Andre Hollins will all be seniors, and junior college transfer Carlos Morris is expected to step in and play right away. That means the Gophers will have some of that veteran know-how that’s necessary to win. So when fans tune in to the NIT this week, they should do so with an open mind, knowing that the foundation for bigger and better things is in place. Thanks to Pitino. Ya feel me? Sam Gordon welcomes comments at sgordon@mndaily.com or on Twitter.
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FASHION
The Fashionista is in: Transitioning seasons in style Say goodbye to your marshmallow coat. Layers on layers Ever yone is tired of wearing (and seeing) big, puffy coats. Even if the cold temperatures say otherwise, it’s April. Ditch your parka, and learn to love light jackets and vests. It might require a little denial, but wearing flannel under a leather jacket will feel much better than your knee-length North Face. Just think about the range of motion! Similarly, throwing on a chic, utilitarian vest will make your lighter layers look a little more weatherappropriate, while also providing a small amount of warmth to your core.
Pants are the enemy After being cooped up in the same few pairs of jeans and leggings for months, it’s time to let your legs breathe a little. As it starts to warm up, take a risk and wear a pair of cutoffs over sheer black tights. Add a rebellious edge with combat boots instead of the typical ballet flats. If that seems too aggressive, go for a maxi skirt. The longer hemline will keep your pale legs covered in a trendy way until you feel brave enough to rock something shorter.
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ith this unpredictable Minnesota weather, making your war dr obe work for winter and spring requires a slow transition
rather than a quick switch. As nice as it would be to go straight into wearing tank tops and shor ts, it’s not realistic. By adding some new pieces to your closet and altering the way you wear some of your winter clothes, you’ll look stylish on 30-degree
days and 60-degree days alike.
Lighten up The simplest way to transition your wardrobe from winter to spring is to simply start wearing spring colors. Ditch your basic black pieces for something
in a bright shade of yellow or pink. A bold purple skirt will look fresh with a black sweater, tights and booties. Tr y lightening up your look by incorporating stark whites, pastels and even light, distressed denim with your dark winter pieces.
Sundresses are synonymous with spring, summer and sunshine. The earlier we can start wearing them again, the happier everyone will be. Be smart about it, though — a sundress will not be sufficient for 50-degree days. Your flowy, floral dress is surprisingly easy to wear in these transitioning temps. Throw on a long cardigan or an open button-up over your
dress. Pair it with tights or a pair of tall socks (or both) for a look that’s weather-appropriate while still hinting at spring.
Bare your ankles Although this might’ve been scandalous back in Queen Victoria’s day, ankles are totally fair game now and deserve some fresh air. The simplest way to do this is to avoid all tall boots — just throw them out; you’re sick of them anyway. Ankle booties are your source of joy now. The easiest trick for wearing ankle booties is to thinly roll your jeans so they hit right above the top of the shoe. It evens out your proportions so you don’t have cankles. Other great shoe options include moccasins, ballet flats and peep-toe wedges. You’ll be amazed at how free you feel.
Fun makeup If you still want to wear your winter clothes until you’re 100 percent positive the weather is going to stay consistently warm, you can amp up your look for spring with some new makeup. Bold lipstick in hues like magenta, orange and purple will instantly make you look happier. Aqua eyeliner is a perfect way to add a pop of color to your look. Draw a thin line to the top lid to avoid looking like you’re trapped in the ’80s. If you want to trick people into thinking you’ve spent time outdoors, apply bright pink blush to the apples of your cheeks and some bronzer to your forehead, the bridge of your nose and under your cheekbones. It will give you a perfect sun-kissed glow with minimal effort.
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challenges, and they sometimes settle for illegal spots. For those who don’t drive, the skill set is a little different. Dave Searle, who delivers for Jimmy John’s, relies on a knowledge base that ranges from knowing when to use riding gloves and where to safely stow his bike to the best route from a sidewalk to a building’s elevator.
Attitude An experienced driver like Nathan Coles, who has worked for Mesa Pizza since September 2010, knows that fast delivery directly translates to the approach behind the wheel. He can’t drive up to an intersection and hesitate when he sees a group of students dipping their toes in the crosswalk. He said he has a “proceed with caution” philosophy that roughly translates to efficiency that verges on aggressive. This includes things like changing lanes without doubt and creeping up to a crosswalk on a right turn. “If you gotta drive the wrong way down a one-way for a few seconds for the sake of expediency, it’s for the greater good,” Coles said. Having had little experience with the police, Coles said he feels officers have better things to do than stop
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a delivery driver who’s speeding or parking next to a fire hydrant. The job also requires a sense of humor, Berenson said. He’s gotten a lot of unusual tips, from $4 in quarters to a 93X radio station calendar, and he has found that the part he likes most about his job is “meeting all the interesting people.”
99 problems Sometimes, the most interesting parts of the job are the worst at the same time. Two bicycle officers once approached Searle after he biked down the sidewalk from the Jimmy John’s where he worked to a one-way street nearby. He ended up getting two $100 tickets — one for facing the wrong way while entering a one-way street and the other for riding on the sidewalk. And two months after the hammer incident, Searle was asked to deliver subs to the train tracks near TCF Bank Stadium. Like the previous incident, he was asked to bring change for $50, and Searle started getting nervous. But the customer went on to explain that he was a train conductor who was parked on the tracks and was just looking for a quick bite. It seems that train people, much like delivery people, have their own little tricks of the trade.
ASSISTANT A&E EDITOR Emily Eveland eeveland@mndaily.com
HOLLY PETERSON, DAILY
Mesa Pizza Delivery Manager Nate Coles checks to make sure a customer received a side of Ranch dressing outside Hennepin Square on Friday.
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
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Yesterday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
Today’s Birthday (4/1): This year sparkles with creativity. Happiness is the name of the game. Romance and partnership bloom after the lunar eclipse in Libra (4/15).
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — The next two days could get quite profitable, although it’s not a good time to expand or risk. Finish a job before going out.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Don’t let a windfall evaporate or follow a hunch blindly. There could be a disagreement over style. Keep your eyes open, and research options.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — You’re getting stronger and more confident. Inspire, rather than demand. Listen to a good coach.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Lean on a gentle partner for the next few days. Keep a treasure hidden, even from friends. Accept an offer of assistance.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Financial success fuels optimism. Nonetheless, slow down and contemplate. Let yourself get retrospective today and tomorrow.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Put your heads together. Start by learning the rules. Don’t advance ... simply maintain position.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — You have more friends than you realized. Together, you share goals to realize a vision. A new trick won’t work. Don’t take financial risks.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — A barrier diminishes. Use your connections to push forward. It’s not a good time to travel, though.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Take on new responsibilities today and tomorrow. Consider all possibilities. Choose reality over fantasy. It’s a miserable time to gamble.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Neatness counts double for the next couple of days. Take it slow, and review work before finalizing.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Your luck’s shifting for the better again. Play ball! Investigate possibilities to take new ground over the next two days.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — Get lost in your studies and work. Prepare your position. There’s a test or deadline ahead, taking precedence.
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DAILY CROSSWORD Los 1 8
From BabyBird
Well Networkia I’m back. You may remember me from such sexual blunders as the Christmas snow in my eye. Net: Is that what the kids are calling it now? As the sight has fully returned to my left eye, I write to tell you the tale of my most recent misfortune. Yesterday afternoon I decided to take a nap before my night class. I asked my boyfriend to make sure that I was awake on time and of course, he forgot. I woke up from my peaceful dream only to realize that I had to be in class in 15 minutes. Net: Wait a minute, what if waking up was, like, a dream too, and this e-mail is part of the dream? That’s so freaky, dude. That would mean that like, you’re writing our response to your e-mail in your dream, and we’re like not even here and stuff. Whoa. Obviously, there was no time for dinner as I rushed out the door. Three hours later I returned home with an unbelievable appetite. My boyfriend was on the phone but I noticed that he had left some nachos on his computer desk. I decided not to disturb him and just eat what was leftover before I made myself a meal. I gobbled up the chips and as I swallowed the last one my stomach began to rumble and I felt oddly full. Net: Now YOU can be the Nacho Man! He hung up the phone and noticed the chips had been eaten. He started laughing, “did you eat my chips?!” I nodded. Unbeknownst to me, my boyfriend had missed me more than anticipated while I was gone and had to satisfy his own hunger. Sitting at his computer watching porn, he had nowhere to relieve himself but on the plate in front of him. Never have my mother’s words, “don’t eat that, you don’t know where it’s been,” rung so true. Needless to say I wasn’t hungry for dinner, and he’ll be doing the dishes for the rest of the month. Net: In a word: Squick! It seems, madam, that you have confused us with another newspaper column where the correspondents are mocked. It’s not that we don’t care to
hear about your sexual misadventures of course — we do — but eew! Tell us more of the funny ones and less of the just gross ones.
From Hombrejeff
Greetings Net, haven’t talked to you in a while. Net: You haven’t talked to us ever, man. You’re writing an e-mail. Just how drunk are you? The last time that I did my ideas focused on men’s hockey. As they are done now, I have decided to focus my concern on the women’s basketball team. As far as I know, they won the right to play in the NCAA Final Four for the first time in school history. Net: Yes, that would seem to be the case, Captain Obvious. Following an early morning Mac’s related hangover I made a stop in Blegen to pick up my copy of the Daily. Both of the real newspapers in town featured cover stories on the women’s team, so I expected the same from the Daily. Net: Real papers? REAL PAPERS?!? Those are fighting words, mister man! The Daily is a real paper (well, sort of) and we’ll be forwarding your contact information to the Office of the Publisher goon squad so they can make sure you never forget it. We would not like to be in your shoes when “Big Joe” McKenzie and Shane “Toecutter” Hoefer hear about this. You’re lucky that “Knuckleduster” Fordham is out on parole, otherwise he’d be coming too. The broadsheet is neat, and made it easier for the University-hating elitists to push the biggest story of the day to the bottom. I figured this error would be fixed within the sports section, and I was awarded a picture, but nothing more than a half page of writing. Worse yet, the “a family’s waiting room” photo from the cover is half dark, and impossible to gain anything from. Net: Oh man, now you’ve pissed off Photo too! Possibly a win in the Final Four will bring the Women’s basketball team the coverage that they deserve.
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4/1/14 DOWN Monday’s Puzzle Solved 1 Colorful parrot 2 Counters with beads Like a crested Key-punch bus. 3 Flying ’50s41film bird Michelangelo's monster 42 Comes out into chapel City the 4 on Graph paperthe open 43 People prone Strait of design to giving lip Gibraltar Of5a Itchy painful skin 45 Incense spice 49 Ciao on Kauai spasmodic inflammation 54 U.S. voter attack 6 Up and about 7 Bit of dust 8 Gang land 9 Look up to 10 Casual vodka order 11 Prepares for the cattle drive 12 Three, in Turin (c)2014 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 4/1/14 13 Distress letters 21 “Water Lilies” 54 Govt. security 36 Greenhouse painter Claude 55 One with an container 22 Ranks below unsettling look 38 Physics particle marquises 56 Irritating 40 Decree in 26 Fully attentive 58 One may be on imperial Russia 27 Loses energy a woodpile 41 Practical joke 28 Timely benefit 59 Wood-shaping 29 Source of a shot 47 Coffeehouse tool orders 31 Orchard tree 49 Old reception aid 60 Badge bearer 32 Work on a wall 61 One who 51 Last Olds made 33 Cattle drive succumbed to a 52 Writer Jong concerns serpent 53 “Correctomundo!” 35 Ladder lead-in By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke
dr. date Dr. Date,
My girlfriend’s good friend is really sick, so my girlfriend has, understandably, been a wreck lately. She’s really worried and has been crying a lot. I’m embarrassed to say that I’m completely at a loss for how to help. I feel like the things I’ve been doing to comfort her haven’t helped at all, and I never know the right thing to say. What should I do?
—Anonymous
Anonymous,
First thing you need to do is join the club and not worry about being completely at a loss. As someone who has sat in both the driver and passenger seats in these situations, I can say there’s no standard recipe for the perfect way to comfort someone, no 100 percent-effective chicken noodle soup for the soul. Some people respond best to the fatherly “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality, some are more receptive to the “everything will work out in the end/get better” approach, and some are incapable of being consoled. Let’s be clear here, though — what do you mean by “really sick”? I’m responding to this question as though this friend has cancer or something borderline terminal — if your lady friend is torn up because her bestie has strep throat or bronchitis, I’d tell you to quit writing in, because that ain’t a biggie. Anyway, keep it simple. Be there to listen. If she’s upset, you don’t even have to talk or try to draw the raw emotion from her — your physical presence will be enough. If she wants to talk, engage, but don’t prod.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I have a story for you. Boy meets girl. Girl lives in a different state. Boy doesn’t care and sleeps with girl anyway. Girl flies
home and says she’ll call. Girl doesn’t call, but sends boy a poem she wrote about their night together. Boy reads the poem and calls girl. Boy and girl talk all night, and he starts to fall in love with her a little. They hang up, and two weeks pass. Boy contemplates calling girl again. Boy wonders if the girl A) eloped B) died C) doesn’t like him anymore. Boy writes in to Dr. Date to ask for advice.
—Boy
Not Fully Grown,
Dr. Date reads question. Dr. Date wonders why you adhered to that question structure for so long. Dr. Date contemplates how best to respond to someone who is clearly confused. A’ight, that’s enough. But seriously, what’s up, brother? I don’t understand your mentality going into this situation. You knew it was a dumb idea to get involved with this gal, and you did it anyway. You thought you might fall into a trap, so you saw the front frickin’ door and, not heeding the wise words of Admiral Ackbar, walked right in. Do you think you’re going to have some serendipitous moment at an airport or something? Are you going to move to her state? You’re indulging in a pipe dream, fella, so why lose sleep over something that could only work in a two thumbs down rom-com? By the way, she wrote a poem about your night together? Ick. At least she seems to be of a similarly misguided persuasion. … And why the heck are you running through all of these permutations of her current state when you haven’t even picked up the phone? It sounds like you are perfectly content to chill in Minnesota and lament what could have been, without doing anything about it.
—Dr. Date
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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U celebrates Borlaug’s 100th birthday Last week, the U hosted events to honor the late alumnus’s career. BY MITCHELL YURKOWITZ myurkowitz@mndaily.com
In high school, Tessa Ries watched a movie clip on Nobel Peace Prizewinning Norman Borlaug, a University of Minnesota alumnus who is credited worldwide with helping developing countries through his research. The segment inspired Ries to pursue a career in plant pathology and apply at the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. The Global Youth Institute — a foundation Borlaug star ted —selected Ries to study food security, and she continues to travel around the world continuing Borlaug’s work. Borlaug died in 2009, and the University honored the scientist with a series of events for his 100th birthday last Tuesday. Administrators also unveiled a statue of Borlaug during a conference at the McNamara Alumni Center. “We all know Norman
Borlaug made enormous contributions to feeding the world, and he is a great source of pride for this University,” University President Eric Kaler said at the conference. Borlaug’s legacy inspires students and others to make a difference, Ries said, noting that his work saved millions from starvation by creating disease-resistant and high-yielding wheat. Reis and plant pathology senior Margaret Krause took the podium last week to discuss the role Borlaug’s career plays in their studies. Krause researches ways to use technology crop data to help alleviate famine. “Technology and data is really changing how we can solve problems,” Krause said. In addition to his Nobel Peace Prize, Borlaug was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. He is one of several people — including Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and Mother Theresa — to be honored with all three awards. Last Monday, CFANS celebrated Borlaug with its annual Plant Breeding
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University President Eric Kaler, Jeanie Borlaug Laube and Regent Dean Johnson unveil a statue of Nobel Prize winner Norman Borlaug on Thursday at the conclusion of the Borlaug 100-year celebration.
Symposium and a social at the St. Paul Student Center the next day, where guest speakers, students and faculty members dis-
MN priest to be deported BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WINONA — A Minnesota priest was taken into custody at his Monday sentencing and will be depor ted after admitting he fondled a girl while attending dinner at her grandmother’s home. The Rev. Leo Koppala will be held by the Department of Homeland Security until his depor tation proceedings and likely sent back to his native India, according to a statement from the Diocese of Winona said. Koppala pleaded guilty March 17 to second-degree
criminal sexual conduct involving a victim younger than 13. He was sentenced to 25 years of super vised probation and ordered to register as a sex offender. The Diocese of Winona says the 47-year-old Koppala was assigned in 2009 to the Catholic Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Blue Ear th and to St. Mary’s in Winnebago. He was placed on leave in June 2013. The diocese said it had permanently removed Koppala from ministr y and dismissed him from employment as of Monday.
It also said it had informed the Vatican and an Indian bishop of his conviction “so that appropriate measures can be taken upon his return to India.” “Our hearts and prayers will continue to be with the victim of this case,” Bishop John Quinn said in a statement. “I encourage anyone, or any organization, with information regarding the abuse or exploitation of children or young people to immediately report that information to law enforcement, as well as all of those who have suf fered child sexual abuse.”
cussed global food issues. W ith Borlaug’s help, many countries, including Mexico, Pakistan and India, were able to
significantly increase their crop yields following decades of star vation. Ries said the crop researcher’s legacy has
gr eatly influenced her time at the University by pushing her to excel in her studies and never underestimate far-reaching goals.
Koreas trade fire, locals evacuate BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEOUL, South Korea — North and South Korea fired hundreds of artillery shells into each other’s waters Monday in a flare-up of animosity that forced residents of five front-line South Korean islands to evacuate to shelters for several hours, South Korean officials said. The exchange of fire into the Yellow Sea followed Pyongyang’s sudden announcement that it would
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par tnership as the family residency program develops a new, adolescent-focused track. Chaisson is also the associate director for the University’s Smiley’s Family Medicine Residency, which includes clinical and hospital care for Minneapolis residents. She said the collaboration with the city will help advance the program’s goal of creating a stronger track for studying adolescent medicine. The chance to work with young people is ver y relevant training for residents at the University who are pursuing careers as fullspectrum family doctors, she said. “I’ve always thought that it would be a great rotation for residents,” Chaisson said. The majority of schoolbased clinics nationwide are located in high schools, she said, though some are in elementary schools. The city’s School Based Clinics program provides care to students in seven Minneapolis
conduct live-fire drills in seven areas north of the Koreas’ disputed maritime boundary. North Korea routinely testfires artillery and missiles into the ocean but rarely discloses those plans in advance. The announcement was seen as an expression of Pyongyang’s frustration at making little progress in its recent push to win outside aid. North Korea fired 500 rounds of artillery shells over more than three hours, about
100 of which fell south of the sea boundary, South Korean Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok said. South Korea responded by firing 300 shells into North Korean waters, he said. No shells from either side were fired at any land or military installations, but Kim called the North’s artillery firing a provocation aimed at testing Seoul’s security posture. There was no immediate comment from North Korea.
high schools, each of which will have its own clinic. One resident will practice in a clinic each month, Chaisson said, and six residents will rotate through clinics each year. School Based Clinics Manager Barbara Kyle said the clinics offer access to more health care ser vices than schools traditionally do. Students can receive comprehensive care, including nutrition and mental health services, regardless of whether they have insurance, she said. Residents rotating through the school-based clinics will bring a “fresh approach,” she said, and will support the clinics by tending to more patients, participating in research and doing community outreach. “I think it’s a very good learning experience,” she said, noting that in a traditional hospital or clinic, residents might see a variety of patients, but the schoolbased rotation will let them focus on just adolescents. Chaisson said she considered creating the University-city partnership earlier, but School Based Clinics
recently transitioned to an electronic records system and the additional change would have caused too much of a stir. School-based clinics in the Twin Cities first started popping up in the 1970s, Chaisson said. At that time, increasing health coverage for adolescents was an area of interest. “We were missing opportunities to provide teens with good care,” Chaisson said. Minnesota currently has 20 school-based clinics statewide, according to the SchoolBased Health Alliance. Becky McIntosh, director of administration at the Minneapolis Health Department, said the University is an important stakeholder in several areas across the city. The city partners with the School of Nursing and has worked with the Clinical Laboratory Sciences program in the past. Providing specialized care in a clinical setting is critical for residents, Chaisson said. “When they get out into the real world, they’re going to be providing these services,” she said.