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U dept. shuttering in 2016 Immigrants find aid in The Postsecondary Teaching and Learning department will be spread throughout CEHD. BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota will close its Department of Postsecondar y Teaching and Learning in two years, school officials announced Tuesday.
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The depar tment’s programs, staf f and faculty members will be disbursed throughout the College of Education and Human Development and continue “under different administrative structures” beginning in the 2016-17 academic year, according to an email announcement from the CEHD dean, Jean Quam. “The cur rent complement of PsTL faculty and staff will provide for the best possible realignment across the college,” Quam said in the email sent to the
depar tment’s students and faculty and staff members. After the Board of Regents voted in 2005 to eliminate a few University colleges, including the General College, the University created the PsTL department, which serves many of the same functions. The department has more than 40 faculty and staf f members. CEHD students spend two semesters in the department’s First-Year Experience program, which acclimates students to the University.
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A new center helps immigrants and refugees navigate the legal system and stay in the country. BY CHRISTOPHER AADLAND caadland@mndaily.com
Pe Paul Goromou came close to getting booted out of the country. Goromou, a Guinea native, sought asylum in the United States shortly after he fled his home, where he said the government tortured him for nearly a week, accusing him of being involved in a coup d’état. But without a lawyer, Goromou was in danger of being deported, until a group — which included students and faculty members at the University of Minnesota’s Law School — stepped in to help him gain asylum. “[I came to the U.S. to] be protected and live as a free man,” Goromou said. Goromou sat in the front row of a packed auditorium at the University’s Law School on Tuesday to help celebrate the launch of the school’s new center that helps immigrants like him navigate the legal system. The Law School’s Center for New Americans opened all three of its law clinics this fall after receiving funding from the Robina Foundation in 2013 to bolster legal services for immigrant communities nationwide. The center collaborates with three local nonprofit organizations and three u See JUSTICE Page 4
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The Cedar Riverside Youth Council advocates for Somali youth and against foreign recruitment efforts by terrorist organizations in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood Tuesday. About two dozen participants marched through the streets, chanting and waving signs.
Cedar-Riverside youth protested terrorist recruitment in the area on Tuesday, saying the neighborhood needs more resources. the area.
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“Our real problems are community de-
group of Cedar-Riverside youth
velopment,” said Mubashir Jeilani, who co-
marched through their neighbor-
founded CRYC with general director Mo-
hood’s streets late Tuesday afternoon to
hamed Jama. “We have so many different
demonstrate against terrorism, the stereo-
organizations claiming that they help our
typing of Muslims and what they said was a
youth, but … they don’t help us.”
lack of community resources.
In recent months, Cedar-Riverside has
Wielding signs and chanting “power to
been the focus of investigations and efforts
the youth,” the protesters, led by the Ce-
to stop extremist terrorist groups like the
dar Riverside Youth Council, said the lack
Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL,
of opportunities and resources for local
and al-Shabaab from enlisting locals to join
young people was due to foreign terrorist
them overseas.
organizations’ recruitment of residents in
While Tuesday’s protesters condemned
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Facing building decay, admins look to state At least 37 buildings on the Twin Cities campus classified as in critical need of updates. BY BLAIR EMERSON bemerson@mndaily.com
Editor’s note: This is the first installment in a three-par t series examining the University of Minnesota’s efforts to garner state funds for building maintenance. Inside Bur ton Hall, sunlight shines through a stained-glass skylight, and marble carvings on the walls bespeak a history filled with countless students roaming the corridors. However, the East Bank building is just one of at least 37 facilities on the Twin Cities campus that University of Minnesota officials say is in critical need of repairs this year. University leaders say increased state funding is necessary to preserve these historic structures, but some legislators say practicality and fairness sometimes stand in the way of fulfilling those requests. The University requests state aid to u See FACILITIES Page 12
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Group kicks low numbers Campus martial arts student groups are aiming to increase visibility and attract members. BY SARAH CONNOR sconnor@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota’s Tae Kwon Do club lined up on the Great Hall auditorium stage in Cof fman Union on T uesday, barefoot and dressed in all white. One by one, each member let out a guttural shout before cracking a pine board with a swift kick of the leg. The students were demonstrating their martial arts skills in front of a small audience for a special exhibition, marking the first time several campus martial arts group met in one place. Following a recent downward trend of par ticipation in the spor t, the groups joined forces for the exhibition with hopes of increasing their visibility on campus and attracting new members.
T r evor Foster, one of the event planning coordinators and member of the Vo Lam Kung Fu student club, said while there’s been some interest in martial arts on campus, par ticipation in the University’s clubs has dropped over the past couple of years. Foster, a longtime practitioner of martial arts, said he hopes Tuesday’s expo will generate students’ interest in the activity. The event included aikido, karate, judo, taekwondo, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and Kung Fu demonstrations. In the past, Foster said, University mar tial ar ts groups have hosted events that targeted certain cultural demographics that the sport reflects, but Tuesday’s event was geared toward students of all backgrounds. “There hasn’t been a big event like this for many, many years with all the martial ar ts groups in one place,” Foster said. “For me, it’s really about creating that sense of community because we all pracu See EXPO Page 12
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Erik Dreyer, Mitchell Le and Kahanh Duong perform at the Martial Arts Expo at Coffman Union on Tuesday. The event is part of an effort to attract new members to martial arts student groups.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Virginia police aren’t saying much at all about their evidence against a suspect in the disappearance of a University of Virginia student, but they seem to be working systematically to link his DNA to an expanding circle of attacks on women, a criminal defense exper t suggested Tuesday. Between searches of Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr.’s car and apartment and his arrest on a charge of abducting Hannah Graham last week, police had ample oppor tunity to obtain genetic evidence connecting him to multiple attacks, said Steve Benjamin, past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. The Virginia State Police announced Monday that Matthew’s arrest had provided a “forensic link” to the unsolved 2009 slaying of Morgan Harrington,
a 20-year-old whose remains were found in a hayfield three months after she disappeared from a Metallica concert on the Charlottesville campus. The FBI said in 2012 that DNA evidence showed that Har rington’s killer also was responsible for a 2005 rape in northern Virginia, so Matthew could be linked to that assault as well, although City of Fairfax police declined to comment, citing their ongoing investigation. Benjamin said Sept. 19 searches of Matthew’s car and home would have been oppor tunities to obtain DNA evidence — perhaps from saliva on a toothbrush or dirty cup — as a preliminary step that could establish probable cause to obtain a search warrant for a more definitive cheek swab. “If you’re going to rely on a DNA match (at trial), police are going to obtain what they call a direct reference sample,” Benjamin
said. “Anything else is helpful, but not as probative.” Matthew showed up at the Charlottesville police station the day after the search and asked to see a lawyer. Benjamin said police could have asked Matthew to voluntarily submit to a cheek swab at that time, perhaps suggesting they were looking to exclude him as a suspect — a common police tactic. It would take only an afternoon to obtain the DNA profile and run it through a databank to link it to other cases, Benjamin said. The only thing police have said about the visit to the police station, though, is that Matthew sped away from officers who had him under sur veillance. Authorities didn’t see him again until a deputy sheriff arrested him Sept. 24 on a beach near Galveston, Texas. By then, police had charged Matthew with abduction with intent to defile, or sexually molest, the 18-year-old Graham.
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PHOENIX — The Obama administration has urged a court to reject Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s appeal of a ruling that blocks the state from denying driver’s licenses to young immigrants who have avoided deportation under a change ordered by the president. Lawyers for the U.S. Justice Department told the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in a filing Tuesday that the state policy is trumped by federal law. They argued the state won’t accept documents issued to the immigrants in question as proof of their legal presence in the country, yet it continues to accept such records from other immigrants. “The state has failed to identify any reason why the same documents should not similarly suffice for plaintiffs,” the Justice Department said in a friend-of-the-court brief filed in a lawsuit by young immigrants who challenged the policy. The federal government didn’t challenge the driver’s license policy, but it was asked by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to offer input on the case. In July, a three-judge panel of the court blocked the driver’s license policy and suggested the rules were intended to express hostility toward the young immigrants. The governor is now asking for a 15-judge panel to reconsider the ruling. The Obama administration said no such review is warranted. The Obama administration also chimed in on Tuesday on another Arizona immigration policy by urging a judge to throw out the state’s 2005 immigrant smuggling ban. The federal government argues the state smuggling law is trumped by a similar federal law, while Brewer’s attorneys contend there is no such conflict with federal law.
DENVER — The protests over a Colorado school district’s proposal to promote patriotism and de-emphasize civil disobedience in American history classes have found their way into the state’s marquee midterm election races, injecting a volatile issue two weeks before early voting ballots land in mailboxes across the state. As hundreds of students in Jefferson County walk out of class, Democrats running for governor and Senate are decrying the proposed changes, while some Republicans question the role of the teachers union, which is in its own battle over merit pay. Statewide contests in Colorado are won and lost in the vast Denver suburb, and partisans on each side hope the heightening passions rebound to help their team in November. Colorado is the site of a top-tier gubernatorial contest and a neckand-neck Senate race that could help determine which party controls that chamber. “This is an issue that seems closer to people’s lives than what they are seeing in the political ads on TV, and it could absolutely impact races up and down the ballot,” said Craig Hughes, a Democratic consultant. Democrats, facing a tough election with President Obama’s low approval ratings, are particularly hopeful the controversy shakes up state politics. The demonstrations broke out more than a week ago. A conservative bloc of three new members was elected to the school board last year, and they instantly became the majority, pushing out the district’s veteran superintendent and clashing with its teachers union and parent-teacher association. At its Sept. 19 meeting, the board proposed creating a committee to review texts and course plans, starting with Advanced Placement history, to make sure materials “promote citizenship, patriotism, essentials and benefits of the free-market system, respect for authority and respect for individual rights.”
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Humphrey School aims to diversify School leaders say a more diverse faculty and student body makes for better future public affairs workers. BY MOLLY MICHALETZ mmichaletz@mndaily.com
Zachar y Hylton entered his final year at the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs last fall as one of about 60 students of color enrolled there. For future years, the school’s leaders and students are tr ying to boost the school’s diversity through new cur riculum and community outreach programs, with the goal of recruiting a more diverse pool of students and faculty to better reflect a changing society. “Things are changing,” said Hylton, former president of the Humphrey Students of Color Association. “We are surrounded by diverse communities of people, including those right here in Minnesota.”
Last year, the Humphrey School had six minority faculty members — making up about 20 percent of all faculty. That year, white students accounted for about 70 percent of the student body, according to the University’s Of fice of Institutional Research. The school’s associate dean, Laura Bloomberg, said diversity plays a huge role in public af fairs careers and is a key element in the Humphrey School’s mission to “inspire, educate, and suppor t innovative leaders to advance the common good in a diverse world.” Diversity doesn’t just include ethnic backgrounds, she said, but also other identity markers like socioeconomic status and gender. She said a career in public
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affairs includes working and communicating with many kinds of people on a daily basis, so it’s essential for students to understand people’s backgrounds to better understand their individual needs when forming policies, Bloomberg said. “As members of a public
affairs community, our experiences, our backgrounds and identities shape how we view issues of equity and fairness in policy and planning,” she said. Hylton, who graduated last spring with a Master of Development Practice degree, now works at Ramsey
County Cor rections and said he’s currently working to address issues for communities of color. In order to interact well with others in a public affairs job, he said, it’s imperative to know how to communicate with a diverse group of people. A new par tnership with Minneapolis Public Schools’ Social Justice Fellows Program that began this fall could also bring a more diverse student body. Through the program, local K-12 students can attend seminars about public policy and affairs at the Humphrey School. The long-term strategy aims to “build a pipeline of potential graduate students in public af fairs,” Bloomberg said. Minneapolis Public Schools Of fice of Equity and Diversity Director Lawrencina Oramalu said the par tnership helps spark students’ interest in the field.
“It is impor tant for them to see the creation of change and its results and to know that they can be change-makers for their society,” Oramalu said. While recr uiting a broad range of students and faculty, the Humphrey School is ramping up efforts to instill diversity in its coursework. In 2006, Humphrey students and faculty created the Cedar-Humphrey Action for Neighborhood Collaborative Engagement to increase its involvement with diverse communities, Bloomberg said. Incorporating diversity into students’ coursework challenges their ideas about diversity and helps students understand how those ideas can af fect their roles as public officials, Bloomberg said. “As a school of public affairs, we have the opportunity and moral obligation to reflect this diverse society that we live in,” she said.
US-led airstrikes hit Islamic State near Turkish-Syrian border BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeted fighters, vehicles and artiller y pieces of the Islamic State group on both sides of the Syria-Iraq frontier Tuesday, including around a beleaguered Kurdish town near the Syrian-Turkish border that is under assault by the militants, activists said. The aerial campaign, which began last week in Syria and last month in Iraq, aims to destroy the extremist faction known as the Islamic State, which has seized control of a huge chunk of territor y stretching from northern Syria to the western outskirts of the Iraqi capital. Despite the coalition airstrikes, the militants have pressed their offensive on the town of Kobani, also known by its Arabic name Ayn Arab, and surrounding villages near Syria’s border with Turkey. The fighting has created one of the single largest exoduses in Syria’s civil war, now in its fourth year: More than 160,000 fled the area into Turkey over the past few days, the U.N. humanitarian chief Valerie Amos said. “Their fear is so great that many people crossed heavily mined fields to seek refuge,” she told the U.N. Security Council. The Britain-based Syrian Obser vator y for Human Rights said Tuesday’s strikes hit Islamic State fighters east and west of Kobani. The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group, also
confirmed the airstrikes on the town’s outskirts. Both groups attributed the strikes to the U.S.-led coalition. The U.S. Central Command said U.S. fighter jets and drones conducted 11 airstrikes Monday and Tuesday in Syria, including three near the Syrian-Turkish border that destroyed one ar tiller y piece, damaged another and knocked out two rocket launchers. It said another strike northeast of Aleppo destroyed four buildings occupied by Islamic State militants. Two strikes destroyed vehicles, artillery and a tank in eastern Syria and near the Iraq border. Kurds and militants battled Tuesday on Kobani’s eastern edge, said Ahmad Sheikho, an activist operating along the border. He said members of the local Kurdish militia destroyed two tanks belonging to the Islamic State group. Militants have been hitting the town with mor tars and artiller y shells. A day earlier, fighting around Kobani killed 57 fighters, including both Kurds and militants, according to the Obser vatory. The situation in Kobani was “ver y dif ficult,” said Nawaf Khalil, a spokesman for Syria’s leading Kurdish Democratic Union Party, or PYD. Just outside Kobani, Islamic State militants captured the deserted Kurdish village of Siftek on Tuesday and appeared to be using it as a headquarters from which to launch attacks on Kobani itself.
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The Cedar Riverside Youth Council walked down Washington Avenue to advocate for Somali youth on Tuesday. Before the march, protesters gathered outside the Brian Coyle Center, calling for more community resources to combat foreign terrorist recruitment.
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terrorism, Jeilani said the larger issue the community faces is a lack of services, jobs and support. Aman Obsiye, a University of Minnesota alumnus, said he joined the protest because he believes recent “provocative headlines” have overemphasized terrorist recruitment from the local community. “Ever y subgroup has bad apples,” Obsiye told the crowd, adding that in other cases, that same lack
of oppor tunities drives young people into gangs or narcotics use. “The real question that needs to be asked is ‘Why are they leaving?’ ” The demonstration outside of the Brian Coyle Center grew from a couple dozen to about 50 people when Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, joined her constituents and echoed their concern for the neighborhood’s young residents. “People who join a [terrorist] group like that are doing it because of discontent,” she said. “We want
[them] to feel they have an oppor tunity here to do good.” Shor tly after Kahn and other community leaders addressed the crowd, about 25 marchers left the gathering to walk along Washington Avenue and Cedar Avenue. Along the way, they criticized Pillsbur y United Communities and its network of neighborhood centers, which includes the Brian Coyle Center. PUC President Chanda Baker said that despite the demonstrators’ calls for increased financial suppor t
for the neighborhood’s youth, the community organization itself does not allocate funds. “It just feels kind of weirdly placed for the protest to be on our grounds where we’re ser ving the community and have no funding to offer,” she said. But Baker said she acknowledges more should be done for CedarRiverside. “I’m not in disagreement that there needs to be more thought put into how we ser ve the community in a ver y dense area better,” she said.
EU says Apple gets illegal tax benefits Luck and instinct determined BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRUSSELS — Apple risks having to repay Ireland tax rebates worth billions of dollars after the European Union’s competition watchdog said Tuesday the company appears to be benefiting from illegal tax deals there. In a preliminar y report into the company’s overseas tax practices, the 28-nation bloc’s executive Commission said the low tax treatment Ireland is granting Apple counts as state aid and could be illegal under EU law. If the finding is confirmed, Apple Inc. could face a huge repayment bill because it funnels the bulk of its international sales through subsidiaries in Ireland. To keep market competition fair, the EU forbids governments from helping individual companies. The EU first announced the tax probe in June, also targeting coffee chain Starbucks and others as par t of a crackdown on multinationals exploiting tax loopholes. The EU Commission is now requesting further
documents from Ireland before making a legally binding decision on whether the rebate granted to Apple is illegal and must be recouped, wholly or partially. The EU probe focuses on exaggerated transfer pricing, where one part of a company charges another par t an inflated price for goods or ser vices to shift profits to low-tax locations. If Apple had to repay some taxes, the money would come as a windfall to Irish state coffers. However, fearful of losing its reputation as a business-friendly country with low corporate taxes, the Irish government is adamant that no EU rules have been breached. The Commission said the tax deals Ireland struck with Apple in 1991 and in 2007 show “several inconsistencies” and may not comply with international taxation standards. The Brussels-based executive body also was critical of the fact that Apple’s applicable tax rate appears to have been the result of “a negotiation rather than a pricing methodology” which a “prudent, independent” tax authority should not have
accepted. The Commission added documents provided by Irish authorities, including minutes of meetings with Apple’s tax advisers, fail to provide a consistent explanation for the agreed tax rates. It did not publish an estimate for Apple’s effective tax rate in Ireland. Apple maintains it has not received a favorable treatment in Ireland. “We’re subject to the same tax laws as the countless other companies who do business in Ireland,” the company said in an emailed statement. “Apple has received no selective treatment from Irish of ficials over the years.” The company added that its tax payments to Ireland increased tenfold since it launched its first iPhone in 2007. In the statement, Apple also said that on a global level, “comprehensive corporate tax reform is badly needed.” Apple’s tax practices have also attracted scrutiny in the United States, where a Senate Committee last year published a scathing repor t on the Cuper tinobased firm’s tax schemes.
fates of Mount Ontake hikers BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOKYO — Huge boulders falling from the sky. Billowing gray smoke that cast total darkness over the mountain. Volcanic ash piling on the ground and fumes filling the air. Some sur vivors of the eruption of Mount Ontake made a split-second decision to hide behind big rocks or escaped into lodges that dot the mountain’s slopes. Outdoors, other hikers fell, hit by rocks or possibly suffocated by gases, and quickly buried in ash. At least 36 people were killed in Saturday’s surprise eruption. Some bodies have been recovered, and search efforts for the other missing bodies resumed Wednesday morning. For sur vivors such as mountain guide Sayuri Ogawa, it was a near-death experience. The experience she recalled on Tuesday and the accounts of others suggest that luck and instinct made the difference between life and death for
the hikers who were in harm’s way. Despite its impressive plume, the eruption was not a major one with lava flow. Yet, it proved deadly, because so many people were at the summit on a perfect day to enjoy hiking and the autumn leaves. The eruption caught hikers by surprise. Seismologists had detected signs of increased seismic activity at Mount Ontake, one of Japan’s 110 active volcanos, but nothing signaled a fatal eruption. One moment, the hikers wer e enjoying the panoramic view at 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) above sea level. Some of them were taking off their shoes and resting their feet after the morning climb. Others were cooking ramen noodles on portable stoves. The next moment, they were scrambling for shelter and running for their lives. Ogawa, 43, was near the summit by herself, rehearsing an upcoming tour she was to escort. She was just starting the “bowl
tour” around the crater when she heard an explosion, something like the noise of big fireworks, right above her head. Some people were taking pictures of the plume rising, but she started running down. She saw big rocks shoot up high into the sky, their shape visible. Already down a bit from the summit, there was no building in sight, so she found a big rock to protect her from falling rocks. In the next moment, she smelled the powerful odor of sulfur. “I couldn’t breathe, and rocks kept falling down like rain,” she said. “I thought I was going to die.” What must have been a few minutes seemed like forever. Then she felt a cool breeze in her face and could breathe. She moved to a place with better protection, ducking between two big rock formations where only part of her right leg was exposed. Smoke repeatedly blacked out any sights, and falling rocks smashed against the formation where she was hiding.
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Government confirms first case of US Ebola BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Benjamin Casper, director of the Center for New Americans, leads a discussion in Mondale Hall on Tuesday. The Law School’s center, which officially launched this fall, will have three clinics for law students to work with local law firms and non-profit immigration advocacy groups.
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national law fir ms’ pro bono programs. The groups pool their resources to help influence federal immigration reform and ser ve clients free of charge, said the center’s director, Benjamin Casper. “The resources here give the Law School an oppor tunity to make an impact on the students and, in tur n, the immigrants they serve,” he said. The center aims to aid immigrants facing legal issues like depor tation, immigrants who frequently face dif ficulties like language barriers and little or no knowledge of the legal system, Casper said. And since immigration cour ts are civil, Casper said, they do not offer the right to a public defender. That can make it dif ficult for a non-citizen to receive
legal ser vices because they often can’t af ford a private lawyer, he said. Minnesota’s large refugee population and the area’s histor y of pro bono work make it an ideal location for the center, Casper said, adding that it ensures the state remains “unparalleled” in its immigrant justice advocacy. “The impact of creating an ethic of public ser vice … in a community this size will really reinforce the strong culture of pro bono service,” he said. So far, cases for the center have been plentiful, said Meghan Heesch, a teaching fellow in the center’s Detainee Rights Clinic. Before the center’s official launch, students and law professionals began working on cases. This summer, the center — with support from its partners and help from clinic students — successfully
petitioned to have one of its cases involving the depor tation of a non-citizen hear d by the Supr eme Court. The court will hear the case sometime this year during its upcoming term. Along with providing help for immigrants and refugees, members of the center say it of fers valuable learning experiences for students. The center’s three law clinics — the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic, the Detainee Rights Clinic and the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic — help students sharpen their skills and get handson experience working with real clients and cases. Thir ty students make up the center’s clinics, which essentially operate as a law firm of student lawyers, Casper said. Students “do all of the heavy lifting” by working on anything from writ-
ing briefs to arguing their cases in court themselves, Heesch said. But students say learning how to be an immigration lawyer won’t come without its challenges. Anna Finstrom, thirdyear law student and the Federal Immigration Litigation’s student director, said although they do ever ything they can for clients, obstacles can sometimes still appear. “Even if we do our jobs the best we possibly can, a lot of times there won’t be an outcome that seems just,” she said. “We run up against that on a daily basis.” Still, Finstrom said her involvement with the center of fers the best opportunity available to hone her legal skills before graduating. “The clinic has been by far the most valuable aspect of my legal education,” she said.
Divorce laws out of sync with same-sex marriage BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Cori Jo Long, 31, and Brooke Powell, 30, did everything right before they married. They fell in love slowly, based on years of friendship stretching back to high school. They planned their nuptials carefully for about a year, choosing to travel from Texas to New Hampshire in 2010 as same-sex marriage spread. Sadly, bad times set in three years later, but uncoupling has proven far more dif ficult. The two women are now trapped in a state of bitter, desperate “wedlock,” an emerging antithesis to same-sex marriage victories for those who want to divorce but can’t find a way around legal snarls that prevent it. Texas doesn’t recognize the marriage of Long and Powell, and a judge there ruled recently he had no
jurisdiction to either void the union or formally grant a divorce. “It’s hard to feel like you don’t exist, like you’re invisible under the law,” Powell said by phone from For t Worth, Texas. Added Long: “It’s a limbo. It’s waiting and seeing. That’s all I can do.” The wait may be a long one as they pursue appeals. Thankfully, the two aren’t fighting over kids, an area particularly difficult in matters of same-sex divorce for couples who traveled to a state granting the freedom to marr y from a state that doesn’t. Same-sex marriage is allowed in 19 states and the District of Columbia, but laws governing divorce have not kept pace, creating a contradictor y patchwork that could take years to resolve. “It’s a mess, the inability to get divorced,” said Beth
Littrell, a senior attorney for the civil rights group Lambda Legal’s Southern regional office in Atlanta. It’s difficult to calculate precisely how many samesex couples have divorced, but watchdogs like Littrell are keeping a close eye on the way judges and state legislatures are responding to wedlock and other divorcerelated problems. “I get hundreds of calls,” New York divorce attorney David Centeno said. “They don’t realize that they’re entering into a marriage that’s kind of like jail. You can’t get out of it unless you move here to New York and you meet the residency requirements. It’s heartbreaking. There needs to be some sort of national reform.” Divorce procedure is generally inconsistent from state to state, but the process has become more streamlined for same-sex couples who travel to a
marriage recognition state to tie the knot. If they’re seeking an uncontested divorce, California, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Minnesota and Ver mont — along with the District of Columbia — have loosened residency requirements, though they won’t address child custody, visitation, support or other issues related to uncoupling. In Iowa and 12 other marriage-granting states, however, residency must be established to divorce, taking anywhere from six months to a year or more. Perhaps the most heartbreaking aspect of wedlock is settling child custody battles, said Littrell and others. Fights over kids are usually decided in heterosexual divorces in the state where kids live, said Cathy Sakimura, family law director for the National Center for Lesbian Rights in San Francisco.
Under-fire Hong Kong leader marks National Day BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s embattled leader attended a flag-raising ceremony Wednesday to mark China’s National Day after refusing to meet pro-democracy demonstrators despite their threats to expand the street protests that have posed the stiffest challenge to Beijing’s authority since China took control of the former British colony in 1997. Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying took part in the ceremony — marking the anniversar y of the founding of communist China in 1949 — as thousands of protesters watching from behind police barricades yelled at
him to step down. China took control of Hong Kong under an arrangement that guaranteed its 7 million people semi-autonomy, Western-style civil liberties and eventual democratic freedoms that are denied to Chinese living on the communist-ruled mainland. The protesters want a reversal of a recent decision by China’s government to screen all candidates in the territor y’s first direct elections, scheduled for 2017 — a move they view as reneging on a promise that the chief executive will be chosen through “universal suffrage.” The growing protests have attracted worldwide attention, with British Prime Minister David Cameron
saying he planned to summon the Chinese ambassador to discuss the dispute, saying it is essential that Hong Kong’s people have a genuine right to choose their top leader. “It is not for us to involve ourselves in every dot and comma of what the Chinese set out,” Cameron said in England. But he added: “I think it is a critical question. Real universal suffrage doesn’t just mean the act of voting; it means a proper choice.” Leung’s rejection of the student demands dashed hopes for a quick resolution of the five-day standoff that has blocked city streets and forced some schools and offices to close. Despite the hardening
rhetoric from both sides, Tuesday night passed with a festive mood and few police were evident, but the crowds and road blockages are expected to grow sharply as Wednesday and Thursday are public holidays. “Frankly, if I was a government of ficial, I would not have a clue how to solve this,” said Chit Lau, a 35-year-old pilot. He thought the stalemate would continue until Leung or some other top of ficial resigned, or the ar my clashed with the people, adding: “This is a test of Hong Kong people’s endurance of a peaceful act of requesting democracy, and so far the citizens have demonstrated a united spirit and discipline.”
DALLAS — The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. was confirmed Tuesday in a patient who recently traveled from Liberia to Dallas — a sign of the farreaching impact of the outof-control epidemic in West Africa. The unidentified patient was critically ill and has been in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sunday, federal health officials said. They have begun tracking down family and friends who may have had close contact with the patient and could be at risk for becoming ill. But of ficials said there are no other suspected cases in Texas. Health authorities would not reveal the patient’s nationality or age. And even though they repeatedly referred to the patient as “he,” they would not confirm the person’s gender. At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Director Tom Frieden said the patient left Liberia on Sept. 19, arrived the next day to visit relatives and started feeling ill four or five days later. He said it was not clear how the person became infected. There was no risk to anyone on the airplane because the patient had no symptoms at the time of the flight, Frieden said.
Ebola symptoms can include fever, muscle pain, vomiting and bleeding, and can appear as long as 21 days after exposure to the virus. The disease is not contagious until symptoms begin, and it takes close contact with bodily fluids to spread. “The bottom line here is that I have no doubt we will control this importation, or this case of Ebola, so that it does not spread widely in this country,” Frieden told a news conference. “It is certainly possible that someone who had contact with this individual, a family member or other individual, could develop Ebola in the coming weeks,” he added. “But there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here.” Frieden said he believed the case also marked the first time this strain of Ebola has been diagnosed outside of West Africa. In Washington, President Barack Obama was briefed about the diagnosis in a call from Frieden, the White House said. Four American aid workers who became infected while volunteering in West Africa have been flown back to the U.S. for treatment after they became sick. They were cared for in special isolation facilities at hospitals in Atlanta and Nebraska. Three have recovered.
Campus Building Access Program looks to next phase Campus autorities say it’s too early to tell if the program will reduce crime. BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com
With the exception of some chicken coops, storage barns and a few other campus buildings that no members of the University of Minnesota community occupy, the Twin Cities campus is secured for the night. A building security initiative is nearing its final phase by restricting access to the University’s tunnels and skyways, and some law enforcement and school officials say the reasons behind the initiative vary. By the beginning of the fall semester, 143 campus buildings had reduced the amount of time open to the general public through the Building Access Program. The first phase of the plan for the program is partly aimed at increasing security over weekends and nights. That phase wrapped up at the end of August, and some say its effects on campus crime are still unclear. “It was not aimed at any particular crime, particular issue, particular group of people,” University Services Assistant Vice President Brian Swanson said. “It was a general sense that the best way of keeping the bad guys out is just to lock the doors when you don’t need to have them unlocked.” In the past, each building had its own set hours of operation. Each morning and night, a custodian would do rounds to unlock and lock doors, Swanson said. Now, campus buildings — which are open without having to swipe a U Card during the day — automatically lock for the night sometime between 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. and remain closed until about 6 a.m. or 7 a.m. In its second, upcoming phase, the Building Access Program will better secure the school’s tunnels and skyways. The initiative’s introduction of card-swipe access is one of many factors that have helped decrease the number of property crimes on campus during the last decade, Swanson said. “Actually, locking the
doors at a regular time and having better access control to outside doors is an excellent step, and certainly a major component of the program,” he said. When University Services Vice President Pamela Wheelock proposed the initiative last fall, Swanson helped lead the team that orchestrated the $2 million in changes to building infrastructure. “What we did with this program was accelerate something we might have done in five years — and did it in five months,” Swanson said. University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said he believes the program has successfully restricted access to buildings after hours, particularly to people not affiliated with the University who he said target campus to commit thefts and other crimes. “This program is really geared towards those types of individuals,” he said. When crimes are committed by people who aren’t affiliated with the University in one of the school’s buildings, UMPD officers often give the suspects a trespassing warning in addition to any other citations, Miner said, to discourage them from returning. Over an average week, UMPD issues three to four of these trespass warnings, Miner said, and only arrests about one individual per month for trespassing — usually when suspects have ignored repeated warnings. During the month of September, police issued eight trespass warnings and five trespassing citations or arrests on campus, according to the UMPD’s daily crime log. Many of the kinds of crimes that lead to trespass warnings happen during normal business hours — before the buildings are closed to the public — Miner said; therefore, that criminal activity isn’t impacted by the Building Access Program. “Public safety from a trespass warning is one aspect of the program, but it is by no means the only aspect of the program,” Swanson said. Miner said the Building Access Program is only one of many factors that help protect campus public safety. “We believe that the improvements that have occurred over many years now have caused an overall decrease in crime on campus,” he said, “This will just add to that.”
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Students boost Green Line ridership The light rail station on the East Bank averaged about 5,100 daily riders in one week in September, and some say that number could still increase. BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com
Stops near the University of Minnesota are among the busiest on the Green Line light rail, and students may be contributing to a boost in daily rides. Students say they’re using the train to get to class and navigate Minneapolis. Transpor tation and government of ficials say the surge of riders doesn’t surprise them, and they expect the growth to continue. The recently installed trains boasted a total weekday average ridership of 37,835 from Sept. 12-19 — more than 10,000 riders above the projections for next year, according to data from Metro Transit. Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon said he hopes people begin to rely more heavily on the trains rather than use cars. Using public transpor tation helps the envir onment by lowering emissions, he said, and eases congestion on roadways. The Green Line’s East Bank station repor ted nearly 5,100 average weekday riders over the first two weeks in September, the highest number of any Twin Cities light rail station. “Being at the hear t of campus, I think we always knew this was going to be a busy station,” said Drew
LIGHT RAIL RIDERSHIP SEPT. 12-19
3,041 WEEKDAY RIDES
Highest average ridership for a Blue Line station (Terminal 2 Humphrey station)
1,733 WEEKDAY RIDES
on average at the Green Line’s Stadium Village station
5,093 WEEKDAY RIDES on average at the Green Line’s East Bank station
2,445 WEEKDAY RIDES on average at the Green Line’s West Bank station
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Ker r, a Metr o T ransit spokesman. As of mid-September, nearly 5,100 University students had one of the new Campus Zone Passes, which allow students free light rail rides between the Green Line’s three campus stops. Another 1,665 of the passes belong to faculty and staf f members. But Kerr said of ficials didn’t hand out a large number of passes, given the roughly 48,000 students enrolled at the Twin Cities campus. Although Green Line ridership is far outpacing expectations, Metro Transit’s projected numbers were conser vative, Ker r said, so the rates aren’t that surprising. Some students echoed Metro Transit, saying
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Passengers wait for the Green Line to pass after getting off at the East Bank station on Tuesday. According to Metro Transit, University of Minnesota stations were some of the busiest in the city during a study conducted this September.
the number of people using the light rail isn’t shocking. “I take the Green Line for ever y class ever y day,” biology freshman Taylor Seberson said. Campus stops also saw incr eased use on football game days. About one-quar ter of fans who attended the Minnesota Vikings’ Sept. 28 game at TCF Bank Stadium took the Green Line light rail to the Stadium Village stop, Kerr said. Mechanical engineering sophomore Dan Oster said the trains make
getting to campus easier, especially because he lives off campus. It makes the area more accessible to people who don’t live nearby, he said. Kerr said it’s too early to tell how colder weather will impact the number of riders, though Metro Transit is hopeful ridership will continue to increase. “Obviously an advantage to taking transit in the winter time is that you don’t have to battle the elements,” he said. Green Line riders also don’t have to deal with winter time traf fic, Ker r
said, which may make people want to take the train more often. Some students say they think ridership will only increase as winter nears. “Once biking season is over, people will probably start taking the Green Line more,” said freshman Madeleine Hermans. The Green Line isn’t only af fecting the University area, some experts say. A study released mid-September showed that, during r ush hour, more pedestrians filled the sidewalks near the Green Line’s tracks along
Nicollet Mall than before the train opened. Foot traf fic in that area averaged about 2,600 people during r ush hour before the Green Line’s opening day, said Peter Bruce, who owns the firm Pedestrian Studies and conducted the research. After the train began running, that number rose to 3,200, he said. Br uce said this shows more people are using the Green Line to get to work. “It shows what more development to a major pedestrian area can do,” he said.
Mexico announces homicide charges in June army killings BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY
ExploraDome operator David Corgan pilots a demonstration at the Bell Museum of Natural History. The Bell Museum, the St. Paul Public School District and Planetario de Medellínare are collaborating to create a new bilingual science program for students.
Bell Museum helps create int’l, innovative science curriculum In June, a team including Bell Museum staff received a $75,000 grant to develop “Stories from the Home Planet.” BY HALEY MADDEROM hmadderom@mndaily.com
A group of St. Paul K-12 students will soon trek to Como Park Elementar y School to make use of NASA satellite footage and the school’s onsite 60-seat planetarium — to lear n Spanish. “Stories from the Home Planet,” a program developed in par t by the University’s Bell Museum of Natural Histor y, aims to help the young students explore the global impacts of climate change in their own backyards and across hemispheres, in Medellín, Colombia. John Iverson, Como Planetarium’s director, said the museum’s new concept is a novel approach to classroom learning. “Planetariums aren’t just for astronomy anymore by any means,” he said. “There’s just a lot of other content areas that we can explore.” When the bilingual
class launches by the end of the year, Iverson said, the St. Paul class will collaborate with students from Colombia at the Planetario de Medellín on conversations about energy consumption, deforestation, biodiversity, and air and water quality. Through software similar to Skype, Colombian and American students will share their experience with the local environment across thousands of miles, said Susan Weller, director of the Bell Museum. The curriculum will also incorporate cultural aspects of environmental issues in both Medellín and Minnesota. The team hopes to incorporate real-time footage from NASA’s Ter ra and Aqua satellites and have students collect data like water samples to share and compare with their international peers. In June, the team of Bell Museum and Como Planetarium staf f, along with about a half-dozen
teachers, received a yearlong $75,000 grant from the U.S. Depar tment of State’s Museums Con nect initiative to develop “Stories from the Home Planet.” Modeled after the Fulbright fellowship program, the grant will cover the cost of sending a small group of teachers abroad to establish the bilingual curriculum. The lessons will be appropriate for either Spanish immersion classrooms in St. Paul or English immersion classr ooms in Medellín, Weller said. Though the primar y aim of the class is to delve into environmental issues across countries and cultures, its secondar y goal is to improve students’ foreign language skills. Betty Tapias-Heinrich, a dual Colombian-U.S. citizen and translation and interpreting instr uctor at the University, stressed the importance of cultural immersion in that bilingual education. “If you want to lear n a language, you r eally do need to be exposed to a culture that speaks that language,” said
“Planetariums aren’t just for astronomy anymore by any means. There’s just a lot of other content areas that we can explore.” JOHN IVERSON Como Planetarium director
Tapias-Heinrich. Weller said the Bell Museum hopes to use the bilingual aspect of “Stories from the Home Planet” — along with its Colombian par tners — to connect with the Twin Cities’ diverse Hispanic population. She said her colleagues hope that the program will eventually become a valuable tool for Minnesotan Spanish immersion programs as well as the state’s most recent immigrants. Once the curriculum is developed, Weller said the project would be accessible to educators for free. “The lessons we create can be shared across the planet,” she said.
MEXICO CITY — Mexican prosecutors announced homicide charges Tuesday against three soldiers in the June killings of 22 suspected gang members in southern Mexico, challenging the army’s version that the suspects died in a shootout. Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam said that after a brief initial firefight the three soldiers entered a warehouse where the suspects had taken refuge and opened fire with “no justification whatsoever.” Murillo Karam of fered no details on whether the suspects had already surrendered, as a witness has said, or whether they were unarmed when shot. The attorney general’s version raised more questions about what really happened that June 30 in the town of San Pedro Limon, especially how three soldiers could kill 21 suspects without anyone tr ying to escape. One suspect was killed in the initial firefight, according to the witness. “Doesn’t it seem strange that eight soldiers face off against 22 suspects and all the deaths are on the side of those with numeric superiority?” said Alejandro Hope, a Mexico City-based security analyst. “What was this, a squad of Rambos? Or had the suspects already been disarmed? Whichever way, this doesn’t smell good.” The military initially said that all died in a fierce and prolonged gunbattle. Murillo Karam said the firefight lasted eight to 10 minutes. A witness to the confrontation who asked that her name not be used for fear of reprisals told The Associated Press that the 21 had already given up and walked out of the warehouse and that soldiers led them back inside and killed them. She also said all of the soldiers at the scene were involved in the shooting, not just three, though she couldn’t remember exactly how many soldiers were present. An AP review of the warehouse days after the shooting showed a few stray shots and no sprays of gunfire within the large
grain warehouse where the alleged gang was hiding. Instead, bullet holes and blood stains indicated some were shot near or against the walls at close range. Photographs from the scene leaked to a local news agency showed most of the bodies against the wall, with guns lying near or propped against them to appear as if they went down shooting. “If they (the suspects) were poorly armed then you could detain them and kill them, but that only makes the army’s argument worse. Because one side was poorly armed and they slaughtered them with no compunction,” said Raul Benitez, a security expert at Mexico’s National Autonomous University. Last week, the army detained one officer and seven soldiers for disobedience and dereliction of duty in relation to the incident. Those charges are separate from the attorney general’s civil probe. Murillo Karam said Tuesday a squad of seven soldiers and a lieutenant were involved. But he said five of the eight-man squad appeared to have stayed outside while the killings occurred. He said there were doubts about one enlisted man’s account that could lead to a fourth set of charges. They would be formally arraigned on Wednesday, he added. “From the start, we had detected some inconsistencies,” he said. But he did not explain why it took federal investigators 2 ½ months to file charges, when the inconsistencies emerged days after the incident. His office would not say when it took the case from the prosecutor in Mexico state, where the incident occurred. AP repor ters revisited the bodega two weeks ago, and there were no signs of a federal investigation. But photographs in the national newspaper Milenio on T uesday showed the warehouse roped of f with attor ney general’s of fice caution tape and markings of the bullet holes, indicating that federal investigators only arrived in the last two weeks.
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Supreme Court should rule on gay marriage Same-sex marriage laws are in limbo; the sooner the Supreme Court rules on them, the better.
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ince August 2013, when Minnesota became the 12th state to legalize same-sex marriage, thousands of same-sex couples in this state have tied the knot. A total of 19 states, plus the District of Columbia, have now granted same-sex couples the freedom to marr y. Furthermore, judges in 16 additional states have ruled in favor of same-sex couples’ freedom to marry, and more cases are going through the appellate courts. Minnesota has already made up its mind on same-sex marriage. Even Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann has said same sex-marriage is “not an issue” anymore. She has since retracted this statement. Nevertheless, a significant number of Republicans have moved away from debate on this issue, especially in states where same-sex marriage is already legal. That said, different states have different rulings and legal definitions regarding same-sex relationships. The time is right for the United States Supreme Cour t to decide on the constitutionality of same-sex marriages. When the lower courts can’t decide on an issue’s constitutionality, it’s
CONNOR NIKOLIC columnist
the role of the Supreme Court to decide for them. Both sides of the debate agree that the Court should not put off the issue any longer. If the Court decides to accept one of several same-sex marriage cases filed for this session, it could hear the case as soon as January and issue a ruling this spring. My view is the sooner the better. With the first private conference of the term held on Monday, the justices may have been waiting for the ideal case to come through to them. Any case involving same-sex marriage would be a fine candidate. Even though proponents of same-sex marriage won these cases at lower court levels, the defendants want the Supreme Cour t to make an official ruling on the issue, as well as on questions unique to each case. Whatever your opinion on same-sex marriage may be, there is no argument to continue waiting. The petitioned cases, all from states with bans on same-sex marriage, have unique reasons for and against being
Whatever your opinion on same-sex marriage may be, there is no argument to continue waiting. selected to represent this issue. The Supreme Court could choose to hear any or all of these cases. Alternatively, it could choose not to address same-sex marriage this year. I’m not going to speculate about how the Supreme Court justices would rule on this issue. What concerns me is that the Supreme Court may not address the issue for another year, as bans on same-sex marriage still stand in multiple states. Until the Supreme Court manages to make a final decision, a gay or lesbian couple happily married in Minnesota would be wise not to move to a state where such marriages are disputed. I will be greatly disappointed if the Supreme Court is unwilling to hear this issue in the upcoming session. Same-sex marriage needs to be addressed as soon as possible, with a resolution coming from such a ruling. Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.
DAILY DISCUSSION A theft at TCF Bank Stadium I wish that I could say, “I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed,” but I can’t, because I am most definitely both. It recently came to my attention that the University of Minnesota is receiving $300,000 from the Vikings for each game the team plays at TCF Bank Stadium. The Board of Regents and the administrative bureaucrats at the University in their infinite wisdom thought that much of the extra money should go to the athletics department. This is not surprising, since they don’t have to worry about the annoying $12.50 stadium fee that is a part of the University’s undergraduate tuition. Is it too far of a stretch to think that the money generated in a stadium that is still being paid for on the backs of students might be used to lessen that load? I am frustrated with the common-sense answers to problems hiding on the edges of their noses, eluding them. So to the Board of Regents and the administrative bureaucrats, I say this — I don’t want excuses; I want solutions when it comes to lowering my overall bill at the University. Garrett Beier University student
Who’s at fault in the Hong Kong democracy demonstration?
Occupy Central, a civil disobedience movement, just turned into a massive democracy demonstration in Hong Kong. Thousands of protesters paralyzed the main financial district and traffic of Hong Kong, demanding true democracy. The majority of Hong Kong’s people are not satisfied with the “democracy” that the Chinese government promoted. This means that the candidates of the chief executive’s election are selected by a group of 1,200 representatives who are biased — not the rest of the citizens. However, I was really shocked when I saw a photograph of the protesting area surrounded by tear gas, people being pepper-sprayed, police officers holding rifles and videos of the harmless students being treated violently. I strongly believe it’s unacceptable to use violence in controlling a crowd of peaceful demonstrators, and I believe the unwise use of weapons, such as tear gas, is an important trigger to anger among citizens. We, the people in America, are fully enjoying the benefits of democracy. However, do we ever think about how unfortunate it would be to not be able to choose our own leaders? Sunny Leung University student
Lea Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.
Eric Lee’s recent letter to the editor, “Learn the lessons of history: Oppose the threat of world war,” suggested that smallscale conflicts like Syria are orchestrated by an international cabal of capitalists whose ignorance may lead to World War III. To suggest that our present world situation mirrors the eve of World War II is to misread history. In the decades leading up to Hitler’s 1939 invasion of Poland, Anglo-American nations were ruled by peace fetishists. Britain’s prime minister declared “peace for our time”; appeasement led to the abandonment of progressive modern states like Czechoslovakia; war-sick youth swore never to take up arms again. America’s population hardened its hear t to the plight of Europe. Isolation gripped America so that it was blind to the plight of Europe. Millions perished while
POLITICS
Polarization leads to divisiveness
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am a Democrat.” Based on that statement alone, you probably want to either hug me or hit me. In a world of polarized politics, it seems like political beliefs define a person’s entire identity. But sorting others into polarized groups paralyzes society. Polarization between America’s two political parties is more pronounced than ever. More significantly, party polarization (between Republicans and Democrats) has become synonymous with ideological polarization (between conservatives and liberals). Today, 70 percent of politically engaged people are highly ideological, compared to 58 percent of Republicans and 35 percent of Democrats in 1994. There used to be such a thing as a “liberal Republican.” Today, the concept is laughable. And when ideology and politics merge, identities form. People with similar political identities are more likely to live in areas with others who share their opinions and develop world views shaped only by people who agree with them. Factual information that threatens these political identities is rejected and dismissed. As each party forms stronger and more
“peaceful” nations did nothing. Socialism and communism were in vogue then far more than now. A passing perusal of western classics like Carl von Clausewitz’s “On War” and Max Weber’s “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism” would teach the reader that ideological failings, not any sinister symptom of class differences, are the cause of war. So long as men and women disagree about the ideal ordering of society, there will be differences whose resolution depends on military force backed by national political will. No one is waiting around peacefully for World War III; I would say that our nation has learned its history lesson well. Limited intervention in troubled regions combined with aggressive diplomacy, would have lessened the intensity of the global conflict in the 1930s and 1940s. Instead, a hatred of might and the false promises of conflict avoidance led to the
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EDITORIALS Dept. close means negative changes
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he University of Minnesota on Tuesday announced that in two years, it will close a department that aimed to help underrepresented students catch up with their peers. The Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning, located in the College of Education and Human Development, will have its faculty and programs dispersed throughout the rest of the college in the next two years. The department is expected to fully close in fall 2016. About 430 students go through the department in their first year, and more than onethird of those are first-generation, low-income or disabled students, according to a Minnesota Public Radio report on Tuesday. In many ways, the department was meant to replace the University’s General College when it closed in 2006. The college’s shuttering was subject to much controversy, as to some it marked the transition from a more accessible University to a more selective one. Others feared it would prevent students of color from attending the University. These fears may have become reality. In fall of 2005 — just before the General College closed — students of color made up 14.6 percent of new freshmen on campus. By fall 2013, that amount increased by only about 3 percent. At the same time, the University has pushed to become one of the world’s most elite research institutions, a goal it set in the early 2000s. ACT scores have steadily risen, and the Honors Program was created. It’s clear that the University has geared itself toward being an exceptional institution tailored to the needs of gifted students and is less concerned with becoming an accessible school for all Minnesotans. We believe the closure of the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning could have detrimental effects for students who need help accessing a college education. As the University continues developing its image as an elite institution, we urge leaders to keep a strong focus on those who need help getting an education.
Research more on chimpanzees
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response to Tuesday’s letter
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CAMILLE GALLES columnist
polarized identities, they hate the other party more. Meeting people who affiliate themselves with an opposing party can cause instant recoil. I’ve experienced it, and I bet you have, too. We presume to know a person’s entire value system based who they vote for, but that gets us nowhere. Real life isn’t divided into two categories of “left” and “right.” Polarization sneaks into our everyday life to prevent us from even attempting to understand those with different political identities. This widespread lack of empathy can harm society just as much as a gridlocked Congress. Polarization doesn’t just paralyze the politicians in Washington — it affects everyone, everywhere Camille Galles welcomes comments at cgalles@mndaily.com.
Ideological failings, not any sinister symptom of class differences, are the cause of war. greatest slaughter in the history of man’s cruelty to man. The same man who saved the benighted west from the crisis of World War II laid out why we must str uggle against religious and political extremists like the Islamic State. In 1898, Winston Churchill published the following words: “[Civilization] is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.” University students should take care not to subscribe to naïve and unreasoning creeds such as socialism and the ideology of the Islamic State, nor to sympathize with such hate-fueled ideological regimes.
study published in the scientific journal Nature is generating debate about the innate behavior of chimpanzees. The study, co-authored by University of Minnesota anthropologist Michael Wilson, compared two hypotheses about chimpanzee violence to determine whether aggression in chimpanzees evolved naturally or is a response to human interaction with the species and its habitats. The researchers concluded that violence in chimpanzees arises naturally and that there is little evidence to support the hypothesis that humans affect the animals’ aggression. Many anthropologists and primatologists agree with this conclusion, citing the strength of the study’s design, the extensive amount of data analyzed and the variety of chimpanzee populations examined. However, other researchers have criticized the paper. Robert Sussman of Washington University told the New York Times that the evidence wasn’t strong enough to reach any conclusions and that the authors “haven’t established lack of human interference.” Others assert that the entire study was based on a flawed premise about evolution and the origins of war. A good example of what research intends to do, we are interested in further developments in this area of inquiry. New questions ultimately lead to new discoveries. EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.
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MEN’S HOCKEY
LOOK AROUND THE BIG TEN BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com
As the Gophers prepare to begin their season, they’ll do so as the top team in the country. Minnesota is the preseason coaches’ favorite to win the Big Ten and enters the season as the No. 1 team in both national polls. The Gophers will host Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in an exhibition game this weekend before beginning their season on Oct. 10.
MINNESOTA
WISCONSIN
MICHIGAN
2013-14 RECORD: 28-7-6
2013-14 RECORD: 24-11-2
2013-14 RECORD: 18-13-4
CONFERENCE FINISH: 1ST
CONFERENCE FINISH: 2ND
CONFERENCE FINISH: 3RD
Wisconsin won the inaugural Big Ten tournament last season, but the 2014-15 version of the team is significantly different. The Badgers enter the season ranked 10th in the USCHO.com poll after losing three of their top four scorers. Wisconsin will enter the season as a young, inexperienced team with 11 true freshmen on its 26-man roster. “As my wife says, ‘They may lack in experience, but what they lack in experience, they bring with enthusiasm’,” head coach Mike Eaves said at Big Ten Media Day. “She makes the analogy, ‘They’re like puppies in a box. They’re going to be trying to get out of the box, and we’ve just got to put them back in, day after day, until they figure it out.’ ” One area Wisconsin won’t be inexperienced in is the net. Senior Joel Rumpel was a Hobey Baker Memorial Award top-10 finalist last season and, like Wilcox at Minnesota, should provide a consistent backbone for the Badgers.
After a third-place conference finish last year, Michigan enters the season ranked No. 8 in the country. The Wolverines will look to head back to the NCAA tournament after missing it the past two years. If they do that, they’ll do it behind last year’s two top scorers, JT Compher and Andrew Copp. Michigan will welcome highly touted freshman Dylan Larkin, who was the No. 15 pick in 2014 NHL Entry Draft. Larkin, a forward, played in 60 games with the United States National Team Development Program last year and finished fourth in scoring on the team. The Wolverines averaged 3.06 goals per game while giving up 2.54, and head coach Red Berenson told reporters at Big Ten Media Day that his team needs to be better on defense. “If you looked at our season last year, we thought we were competitive offensively, but defensively we weren’t, and I think it starts there with our team,” Berenson said. “We have to be better defensively.”
After reaching the national championship last year, Minnesota returns a bulk of its offense, including top scorer Kyle Rau and top goal-scorer Justin Kloos. Following the 2012-13 season, Minnesota saw many of its top players head to the NHL before their senior seasons. This offseason, nobody left early. “I said when the year began a year ago that if we were going to have success, we were going to have to do it as a team,” head coach Don Lucia told reporters at Big Ten Media Day. “… You really didn’t know who was going to step up on a given night.” But goaltender Adam Wilcox, now a junior, was a consistent presence all season, recording four shutouts and finishing second in the nation in save percentage. The Gophers will rely heavily on Wilcox again as they try to make it to the national championship game for the second consecutive year.
OHIO STATE
MICHIGAN STATE
PENN STATE
2013-14 RECORD: 18-14-5
2013-14 RECORD: 11-18-7
2013-14 RECORD: 8-26-2
CONFERENCE FINISH: 4TH
CONFERENCE FINISH: 5TH
CONFERENCE FINISH: 6TH
The Buckeyes turned in a fourth-place finish last year, and based on the Big Ten preseason coaches’ poll, the team could finish in the same place again. Head coach Steve Rohlik told reporters at Big Ten Media Day that the team’s focus is on taking the next step. “When you look at your group, you try to continue to get better, and hopefully you’re playing your best hockey at the end of the year,” Rohlik said, “and I thought we were doing that last year. Now it’s our job as a group to continue to build on that.” The Buckeyes knocked Minnesota out of the Big Ten tournament en route to the championship game, which they eventually dropped to Wisconsin 5-4 in overtime. Ohio State’s two top scorers last year, Ryan Dzingel and Max McCormick, both bolted for the NHL, opening the door for others to make an impact. “That’s why all of us are here … to try to get those guys in the next level, and now it’s time for other guys to step up. I think that’s a positive,” Rohlik said.
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Head coach Jerry Kill said he supports the rule, which took effect April 24.
More than five months after the NCAA’s approval of a new rule allowing Division I athletics departments to provide unlimited meals and snacks to athletes, the Gophers are still becoming acclimated to the new allotment of food. The NCAA’s Board of Directors approved the new rule April 24, and many athletics departments are in the process of determining how to approach the new legislation, which allows athletics programs to provide unlimited food if they choose to. Gophers football head coach Jerry Kill said he endorses the rule change because it benefits his players. “Any time in per formance, you have to have sleep and you have to eat properly,” Kill said. “I think a lot of people benefit from it.” Kill said the increased availability of food allows his players to easily bulk up or lose weight, depending on their positions. For example, Kill said freshman Gaelin Elmore has put on dozens of pounds during the last few months as he has transitioned from tight end to the defensive line. The school’s athletics department has relied on nutritionists to devise menus designed to provide Gophers athletes with a well-balanced diet, Kill said. “Your nutritionist plays such a big role in sports today,” Kill said. “She meets individually with [the players]. … If you don’t feed the body, if you don’t fuel it, you aren’t going to get what you need.” KJ Maye, a junior wide receiver on the Gophers football team, said he is in favor of the new rule. Having options for main
Unlike some of the other teams in the conference, the Spartans will enter the season relatively experienced. Michigan State has a large junior class, with eight players in their third year of eligibility. “The good news is we have a little bit of experience coming back,” head coach Tom Anastos told reporters at Big Ten Media Day. “Our sophomore and junior group were forced to play a lot the past two seasons.” Anastos said juniors Michael Ferrantino and Jake Hildebrand would play a key leadership role on the team. Hildebrand was 20th in the nation with a .923 save percentage last year, recording nearly 1,900 minutes in net. The Spartans’ three top scorers last year graduated. Farrantino, now a junior, was fourth on the team last year with 20 points. “I think there are a variety of our players that will have an opportunity to play and make an impact. We’re going to take a wait-and-see attitude to see how they emerge,” Anastos said.
In their second season as a Division I program, the Nittany Lions struggled to gain traction and finished in the conference basement. “We want to get better. We’re improving, but so is every other program. We all have the same goal — to get better,” head coach Guy Gadowsky said at Big Ten Media Day. “As we improve, so will other programs, but I hope it’s going to be a lot closer than it was last year.” The Nittany Lions managed just three conference victories all of last season. Though the team will return many of its top scorers, Penn State will likely struggle to push itself up in the standings. “We have to improve everywhere. We’re in the Big Ten, so I don’t think we’re ever going to say, ‘Jeez, we’ve arrived, we’re here, we’re good to go.’ We have a lot of room to improve in a lot of different areas,” Gadowsky said.
VOLLEYBALL
Gophers adjust to NCAA meals rule BY SAM KRAEMER skraemer@mndaily.com
Hockey’s starting
meals lets players establish a good routine that coincides with the team’s practice schedule, he said. “We used to spend a lot of our own money on groceries and things like that,” Maye said. Like Maye, redshirt senior defensive lineman Cameron Botticelli is in favor of the new rule. “We’re able to have some snacks for us up in the player’s lounge,” Botticelli told repor ters last month. “As far as just saving us money from buying groceries, it takes a lot to feed us.” The unlimited food and snacks idea didn’t gain traction until April, and Division I athletes have former University of Connecticut basketball player Shabazz Napier to thank for the rule change. Just minutes after winning the Division I men’s basketball national championship, Napier shared his struggles as a student-athlete in front of a mob of media members. “Sometimes, ther e’s hungr y nights where I’m not able to eat, but I still [have to] play up to my capabilities,” Napier, now a member of the NBA’s Miami Heat, told repor ters after the national championship. Shor tly after his comments had been dissected by national media outlets, the NCAA decided to allow Division I athletics departments to give their athletes unlimited meals and snacks. A few months in, the Gophers appear to be happy with the new rule. “You put the right things in your body, you’ll get the right turnout,” Maye said. Jack Satzinger contributed to this report.
Freshman duo shares back row Dalianliz Rosado and Alyssa Goehner have played in every match so far. BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com
Freshmen have brought new life to Minnesota this season. The Gophers are a young team this year with only three upperclassmen. The younger players have had to step up, taking on large responsibilities in the process. Freshmen Alyssa Goehner and Dalianliz Rosado have taken those responsibilities in stride. Rosado said she enjoys the task because she likes challenges, and Goehner said she feels the role gives her a sense of leadership. “I consider myself as more of a leader, so being in the back row, it’s a way for me to control a lot of things,” Goehner said. The two have rotated between playing libero and defensive specialist throughout the season. Head coach Hugh McCutcheon said he chooses who plays libero and defensive specialist based on who can help the ser ve receive more. Currently, Goehner claims the libero starting spot. “Alyssa, from day one, was the best passer in the gym,” McCutcheon said. “She’s earned that spot.” But he said Rosado has been a great help in the back row as a defensive specialist. On the cour t, the two freshmen often play right next to each other in the back row. And their closeness continues off the court. “We spend a lot of time together,” Rosado said. “We are roommates, we have a class together and we walk to that class together.”
ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILY
Minnesota’s Alyssa Goehner prepares to pass Penn State’s serve Saturday evening at the Sports Pavilion. Goehner has rotated between playing libero and defensive specialist.
“We’re fortunate to have two very talented back-row players on our squad. ... We’re going to have some backcourt control for a lot of years.” HUGH MCCUTCHEON Gophers head coach
Goehner said they “clicked from right off the bat” and they get along well because they are alike. “Even though she’s from Puer to Rico, we’re similar in a lot of ways,” Goehner said. “Even par t of our game is really similar — we both read well; sometimes we’ll end up making the same read and we’ll be in the same spot.” Playing the same position can result in a close bond but also a bit of competition. But the competition is healthy, McCutcheon said.
VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW
@ NO. 18 MINNESOTA
NO. 16 ILLINOIS
6:30 p.m. Wednesday in Champaign, Ill.
PREVIEW: The Gophers enter Wednesday’s matchup at Illinois coming off a loss against Penn State on Saturday. The loss dropped Minnesota to 11-2 on the season. Minnesota beat Illinois the past four times the teams have met, with its last loss to the Illini coming in September 2011. Illinois is 10-3 on the season and is riding a six-match winning streak. It is also 5-0 at home. Junior outside hitter Jocelynn Birks earned Big Ten Player of the Week on Monday, her sixth conference award, and senior opposite hitter Liz McMahon earned the same honor Sept. 1. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“The rivalr y is not in any way antagonistic,” McCutcheon said. “I think they’re trying to push each other knowing they’ll help the team.” Rosado said they hold each other accountable in practice so they can improve. “They push each other, [but] they also suppor t each other,” McCutcheon
said. “They’re working well together.” As for the high responsibility for the freshmen, McCutcheon said it bodes well for the future. “We’re fortunate to have two ver y talented backrow players on our squad,” McCutcheon said. “We’re going to have some backcour t control for a lot of years.”
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FOOTBALL
‘The
DRIVE’
Minnesota executed a two-minute drive to end the first half at Michigan that changed the feel of the game. STORY BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
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PHOTOS BY AMANDA SNYDER asnyder@mndaily.com
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It took 12 plays, spanned two minutes and 17 seconds, covered 92 yards, resulted in three points and took sophisticated play-calling that the Gophers offense has rarely executed this season. But when Gophers head coach Jerr y Kill recounted Minnesota’s final first-half possession in its 30-14 victory at Michigan on Saturday, he simply called the sequence “The Drive.” After the Wolverines downed a 53-yard Will Hagerup punt, Minnesota started with the ball on its own 1-yard line with the score tied 7-7. That kind of poor field position is enough to make any coach feel uneasy. “I said, ‘We just want to get out of here,’” Kill said.
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Redshirt sophomore quarterback Mitch Leidner handed the ball off to senior running back David Cobb, who ran between the tackles for just 1 yard.
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The next play, Cobb ran the ball again but broke a tackle to gain 4 yards.
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After a Michigan timeout, Leidner faked a handoff to Cobb and passed to junior tight end Lincoln Plsek near the right sideline for a 21-yard completion. Minnesota found itself at the 27-yard line with ample breathing room.
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PLAY With the clock winding down, Leidner tried to hit Plsek for a short 5 sideline pass, but it was incomplete and stopped the clock.
PLAY With nearly every member of the announced crowd of 102,926 expecting the Gophers to pass to conserve time, Leidner handed 6 the ball off to Cobb again — bursting up the middle for eight yards. [were] going to play some pass defense, so we ran the “ They ball a little bit, and as the thing went, we knew we had a chance to score. I didn’t want them to get the ball back at all. ” Head coach
PLAY Leidner dropped back to pass again, but nobody 8 was open, and he slid after running for three yards.
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PLAY On the next play — a third down — Leidner faked a handoff to Cobb, rolled out to the right and hit redshirt sophomore tight 7 end Maxx Williams for 10 yards.
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PLAY Leidner dropped back again, and Cobb blocked for a few 9 counts but then released and caught a pass — good for 11 yards.
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experience of already playing [at Michigan] was pretty big “ The for me. ...[It’s] not only loud on third down; they’re loud on first and second down. ” Quarterback
Redshirt freshman kicker Ryan Santoso hit a 24-yard field goal as time expired to give Minnesota a 10-7 lead heading into halftime.
PLAY With only one timeout remaining, the Gophers surprisingly ran the ball 11 again and kept the clock running. Cobb didn’t make Kill regret the decision, breaking up field amid diving Wolverines. Once he hit the next level, Cobb pushed up to the 7-yard line before four defenders brought him down. we have that balance, we are “ When more successful as an offense. ” Running back David Cobb
SOCCER
FOOTBALL
MacKenzie Misel stays behind to help coach the players who don’t travel.
Michigan apologizes for poor handling of QB injury
Former captain adjusts to coaching role BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com
Instead of leaving the Gophers soccer program after graduating last spring, MacKenzie Misel exchanged her title of captain for coach. Misel, now a volunteer assistant coach, trains players who don’t travel with the team to road games. While she admits the transition wasn’t easy, Misel said she enjoys helping out the team in her new role. Senior captain Katie Thyken said having a former player and teammate as a coach is helpful, and Misel offers valuable advice due to her experience. “It’s awesome because you know that [former players] gave everything, so you listen to them and … they know what they’re talking about,” she said. “They’ve gone through ever ything that you’ve gone through.” Even before she received the coaching position, Misel was planning to stay at the University of Minnesota this year and work towards her master’s degree in elementary education. Since she was going to stay on campus anyway, Misel said sticking with the team seemed like a great idea. “Being around and being on campus and not being a
part of it would have been difficult,” Misel said. “You want to celebrate with them and enjoy some successes and even some failures throughout the season.” Misel said older players helped her during her college career and she wanted to return the favor by serving as a mentor. “It really is nice to have a teammate that you played with come around, even if they’re not there all the time,” Misel said. Due to Misel’s schedule, she’s not training with the team ever y day. She alternates spending two weeks at the University and two weeks at an elementar y school in Columbia Heights working with secondgraders. Some of the skills Misel has learned in the classroom have helped her think outside of the box, which is a benefit considering that her job is one that comes with more than a few challenges. For example, Misel works with only a few players each practice, some of whom stay behind due to injuries. “Nobody likes to stay home when a team is on the road,” Misel said. “But I try to create a fun, hardworking environment. … I don’t really like my players to dwell on the fact that they’re home. When they come to soccer, I
“I try to create a fun, hardworking environment. … I don’t really like my players to dwell on the fact that they’re home. When they come to soccer, I want to be engaging.”
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MACKENZIE MISEL Volunteer assistant coach
want to be engaging.” During one training session a couple of weeks ago, she said the team was “down in the dumps,” but Misel improved the situation by engaging the players in a game she played with her second graders, called “Coconut.” “It was just funny, because when I was explaining it, they were just like, ‘Oh my gosh, Mac,’” Misel said. “But once they started playing it, they were laughing and having a good time.” Misel oversaw plenty of training this season, considering the Gophers were on the road for eight of their first 11 games of the season. Now, with the team home for six of its last eight games, the rest of the coaching staff will get a chance to witness the effects of Misel’s coaching labor. “Hopefully we’re going
ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY
Volunteer assistant women’s soccer coach MacKenzie Misel graduated last spring and continues to train Gophers players.
to see [the extra work] pay off for some of the ones who haven’t traveled — to put themselves in a position to compete for those traveling roster spots,” head coach Stefanie Golan said. “[Misel has] done a great job.” In the end, Misel said she
is just happy she’s able to stick with the sport and team she loves. “I’ve had a lot of fun. Our coaching staff is awesome. I’m grateful that they let me help out,” Misel said. “I’m really happy to still be a Gopher and a coach.”
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan announced changes to its injur y protocol Tuesday, admitting it made a mistake in handling quarterback Shane Morris following a suspected concussion because of a “serious lack of communication” and “confusion” among the coaching staff. Athletic director Dave Brandon said Michigan plans to have a medical professional in the press box or video booth at future football games after what happened over the weekend. Coach Brady Hoke has been criticized for not immediately sitting Mor ris for the rest of the game after the sophomore took a hard hit in the four th quar ter against Minnesota on Saturday. Hoke said Monday he didn’t see the hit on Morris, and that all he knew at the time was that his quar terback was dealing with an ankle issue. About 12 hours later, Brandon released a statement saying Mor ris had eventually been diagnosed with a probable concussion.
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BACKTALK
horoscopes
sudoku
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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Today’s Birthday (10/1): Creativity and shared fun remain priorities this year. Discipline pays off in cash. After 12/23, creative communications offer greatest reward.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written by Nancy Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Work on practical, short-term objectives. Avoid controversy. Study an issue from all sides. Break through to a new level of understanding.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Stick close to home for a few days. Keep momentum with a creative project. Take a few days for family rest and recreation.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Favor study and research today and tomorrow. Some avenues seem blocked, so come back to them later. Change is inevitable.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Study the angles today and tomorrow. Don’t gamble, shop or waste resources. Be patient. Network, and get feedback from trusted friends.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Study ways to make and keep wealth today and tomorrow. It may require self-discipline. Study the numbers, and review a variety of scenarios.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Stick to your budget. Gather your resources together over the next few days. Listen for what you can learn from a critic.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Partnership and teamwork make the biggest impact today and tomorrow. Listen carefully and speak clearly, to avoid miscommunication.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Let your confidence propel your projects today and tomorrow. Don’t worry about someone who doesn’t understand you.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — The next two days could get busy. Save romantic daydreams for another time. Decrease your obligations by completing tasks.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Study and dig for clues. Stop worrying. Focus on short-term needs, close to home. Fix old problems today and tomorrow. Get methodical.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Get ready to party. Let romance simmer today and tomorrow. Don’t worry about the money (but don’t overspend, either).
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Extra paperwork leads to extra profits. Team projects go well today and tomorrow. Test your work together. You’ll love the result.
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
from the archive
Thursday, September 28, 2006
From I Like Toast
greetings net. how come there aren’t any truely intellectual debates anymore? Net: There are no intellectuals around to have debates anymore. Take CNN’s “Crossfire,” for instance. It’s just some guys who dropped out of grade school screaming at each other. If we wanted to listen to that, we’d just go to Fergus Falls. lately we’ve had to read about entries whining about denny hecker on billboards or disappointing headlines in the paper. Net: Just don’t look at yesterday’s photo of Phyllis Kahn. If you stare directly into her eyes, she will eat your soul. since nobody can come up with a decent topic, i’ve brought up one to discuss: Net: We’re sure you have a reasonable, intelligent and topical issue to discuss. lets add a new foreign language to take at the u - klingon. Net: OK, so that’s about the stupidest topic you could have thought of. i’d sign up for it just because i’d like my transcript to say ‘proficient in klingon’. Net: And next to that line, it would say “Huge Nerd.” qapoh. Net: a)*#jksi#(%&!ma$!oxlp@#!
From Lord Daftwager
You have to help me out Net. I bet half of my (sweet) bippy on who wins the MSA election. Net: Maybe you shouldn’t be so flippant with your bippy. While I was betting dollars to donuts Net: Doughnuts shouldn’t be taken lightly, either. that wearing a pair of pants on your head is awarded by the constitution with three ducks Net: What kind of country are you in? (which I won by the way), I apparently lost! When the hell were those things?! Net: Snakes on a plane, dude, snakes on a plane. I am left with half a bippy. Net: Ah, you weren’t using that half anyway. PS. Jeez net, what smells like updog? Net: Oh, that’s just our headline-writing monkey, Susan.
BACKTALK
From Phee Gee Ninja
WATTAH and KIA NET! Net: Frightening. Before I start I need to get a few quick things out of the way so I can get back to listening to this lecture I am in. Net: Hey, we’re here for you, just call anytime, OK? The Bouncy Otter, if you ever write in about tangling head phones ever again, you will be on the receiving end of a scissor kick to the back of the skull. Net: It’s tough love. Mr. FT, don’t say stupid NUTT like “Cats are mammals.” Net: In his defense, he was legitimately surprised that cats are mammals. It’s something that’s obvious to pretty much everyone else, but Mr. FT needs help sometimes. I pray that you are a freshmen from Madison so that no one else should ever have to feel stupid for having too many things in common with you. Mrs. Smith, Damn Strait! I would like to take you out for a nice steak and seafood dinner. Net: You’ll probably screw it up by quoting “Anchorman” all night. Now that is out of the way, I just want to say its great to be back at the U, and I am Pumped for Gopher Football. Net: Pumped with a capital P. All you fair weather football fans, get your heads out of your asses, support your team win lose or draw. Net: We’re all about team spirit, too, but just be prepared to lose. Glen Mason, start coaching how to tackle, Net: But Mason wants his team to be sensitive to the other players on the field. So instead of tackling, the Gopher defensive line will just ask how the running back feels. give us something to be proud of, no one cheers for losers. Net: Except for other losers. Well, NUTT this noise, something cool just happened in class. Net: Some girl just accidentally glanced in your general direction? I’m popping out of here harder than a 10 inch boner in sweatpants. Net: That’s enough of this entry. Have a nice day, Networkia.
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By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke
him, tap him on the shoulder and blankly stare while reciting, “Hi ____, do you like me?” The good doc suggests tryin’ an easier approach like askin’ him to coffee (which I expect is a kosher co-worker activity). If you’re dead set on seein’ if he’s sweet on ya in secret, hell, ask other trusted coworkers to find out. See if he’s playing this fifth-grader flirtin’ game with other gals. The shameful gradeschool tactic you shouldn’t resort to? Passing him a note with yes/no checkboxes. — Dr. Date
My dearest Lost (and lost is right), You’ve got yourself a sticky situation here. Triple M man, unfortunately for you, is so set on not dating you (or your competition) that he wrote into yours truly for advice on how to let you down. I think that’s pretty telling of how he’s feeling. He doesn’t want to let you down and tell ya he isn’t ready for marriage — he wants to say he’s not smitten with you. I know, ouch. Moving on, so you’ve got a guy you don’t know Dear Dr. Date, if you’re still sweet on — not a rare situation. If So I get on the bus the other day from St. Mr. Magnum is makin’ you think twice about your Paul going to the West Bank, and I pass a man because you’re realizing you could be treated female sitting a few seats ahead of me wearing a better or could be happier, maybe it’s time My to think “Soo Line” sweatshirt.he’s charming, boyfriend is perfect; I met this girl at a party a few weekabout takin’ a break from your boy. Now perhaps I should explain why this is smart and extremely ends ago (disclaimer: I was extremely But if you’re rethinkin’ your relationship because worth writing considerate. about, doctor. TheWe’ve Soo Line was you want to be with another guy (whobeen hasn’t even railroad, nowtwo owned by the Canadian datingafor almost years, and it’s Paintoxicated) and she ended up coming got the guts to tell ya he isn’t feelin’ it), well, I think cific, anyway long story short I’m a big fan of the most serious relationship I’ve ever home with me. We had bumbling, drunk you know what the ol’ doc is gonna say about that railroads and also in turn, model railroading and one. Unless makin’ a move away frombeen your man in.is the Soo Line. Among other interests. sex, which I barely remember, and then to your benefit (and not for another possible — but Now to the question: how do you apBut to beproach honest, it’s almost too seri-sex and passed out — nothing too crazy. The in this case, not really — love), you’d best reasa member of the opposite sess your priorities. introduce yourselfday, without looking likeour a complete ous. At the end of each we cook next morning when we both woke up, — Dr. Date weirdo if you think you might have something in dinner together, have very cordial converwe chatted for a while, and I walked her common? Dearest Dr. Date, Really, as much as news the Campus Connector is all sations about the world’s and our home. It was fun, but I knew I wasn’t inI have a big problem so, of course, the only about helping students connect and the long ride days at work, and thentowe go to bedis at a terested in seeing her again. person I could go to is you! I like this guy that I from Ag-World Minne-no-place conducive to work with and by like, I mean... I really like this meetingIf others, it would be weirdto to start a conver- So here’s the problem: She won’t reasonable hour. someone were anaguy. sation on the bus with “Hey, nice shirt.” lyze kind ourofrelationship, he or think stop texting me. I’ve ignored her multiple We seem to flirt a lot, but it’s a weird Can you help meshe doc?would FWIW, she was a real flirting. It’s more like the little kid flirting of always knockout, too. we are a middle-aged married couple. messages, or I’ve just sent one-word rebeing mean to eachother, but knowing it’s all a big — Tied Up At Cardigan Junction joke. Well at least that is how I am taking it and happy, don’t get me wrong, I just We’re sponses, but she doesn’t get the hint! I this is not the first time a guy has flirted with me Tied Up, sometimes wonder thissome is the right don’t want to tell her straight-up that she in this manner, but I don’t know if he is flirting or if Actually,iftelling sweetie youthing dig her sweat that is just how he is. to skeeve her out a lot less than for me right shirt nowis likely as agoing 20-something-yearwas just a one-night stand and I’m not Anyways back to the real problem. I do like this most pick-up lines — especially if it’s true. It’ll give who take onandthe world. interested, because I think that would guy, but he is a manager at the placeold I work and is I ready you an to in for convo, chances are I’m she doesn’t am not a manager yet. The rules where I work say get a killer amount of kudos for her kick-ass itching for adventure. I want to travel, ex- grunreally hurt her feelings. I don’t want to that we cannot date unless I am a manager too. ge wear. plore date AllasI into know be that guy. I could try for a promotion that I’m not sure Iand am maybe That said, shearound. might not be railroads as ready for so that I am a manager, but wouldtoo re- young you are. she might be into them isI I’m to Or have suchnot a stable andat all. In ally like to know if he does like me in a more than fact, maybe her grandpa gave the shirt to her as a routine life. gift and she was all outta clean clothes. That’s a friends way. Can you help me figure out if he likes me withrisk you’re to take if you want But breaking upgonna withhave him would takea chance out coming out and asking him or at least give me of cozyin’ up with this knockout. onluck, me.andIt don’t would be devasYou’re less of a jerk than you think. a couple ideas? Thanks good Doctor!an extreme toll Good second-guess yourself. — Totally Pathetic — Dr. Date tating on us both. We love each other. I You had the decency to get to know
dr. date
Dr. Date,
Dr. Date,
—Jerk by Default
Cool Jerk,
just wish I could be independent for a few
yearsE-mail and Dr. know could end up with him Need relationship advice? DateI at drdate@mndaily.com.
when I’m ready to settle down. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
—Comfortable But Not Content
Feelin’ Single,
If you have any inclination to date around, break up with your boyfriend. Your relationship is the epitome of monotony. When young lovers live like middle-aged couples, it’s a sign that the spark is gone or was never there in the first place. Take the opportunity to travel, party and cavort. You’d be cutting yourself short if you denied yourself those experiences.
—Dr. Date
your hookup as a person, not just a sex object. Heck, you even walked her home. But I can see why she misconstrued your kindness as romantic interest. The lady in question is going to get hurt because she’ll feel used, unloved and lonely. Your romantic nature made her swoon, and there’s no easy way to let her down when her infatuation with you is intense. What will hurt even more is if you continue dragging her along. Take responsibility and tell her over the phone or in person that your encounter was a one-time thing (talking stings less than texting).
—Dr. Date
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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maintain its buildings, and part of that request is met through Higher Education Asset Preser vation and Renovation funding. In recent years, the institution’s requests for HEAPR funds have been significantly higher than what it receives. This year, University leaders are tr ying out a new strategy to patch the gap in state support. University President Eric Kaler’s proposed approach to the HEAPR request asks the legislature to invest an additional $5 million in the school’s operating budget as a source of revenue for facility repairs and renovations for each of the next two years.
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tice for similar reasons.” John Wulterkens, president of the Tae Kwon Do club, said his group has actively tried to increase participation on campus this year through marketing and events like the expo. And so far, it’s working. “We have been doing a lot more advertising, painting the bridge, putting up flyers,” Wulterkens said. “We’ve had a lot more interest in our group since we started doing that.” While other martial arts clubs are suffering from a decrease in membership each year, Wulterkens said the Tae Kwon Do club
has grown a little — from seven students to about 15 since he joined in 2012. But Wulterkens said the group will continue its ef for ts to increase its visibility on campus and grow, so more students can take advantage of the unique physical and mental sport. “We want to be able to provide low-cost instr uction of taekwondo [for] as many people [who] are interested in par ticipating,” he said. Foster said the Kung Fu club has also been working on new initiatives this semester to attract more martial arts enthusiasts. “We’ve really been getting out on campus more and taking advantage of opportunities to reach new
members,” he said. He added that he was surprised that last year’s string of violent crimes on and around campus didn’t bring more students to the sport. “There’s been more interest in self-defense classes,” he said, “but there hasn’t been that same interest in martial arts.” Even though some groups have had a decline in par ticipation, students who practice mar tial ar ts say they experience the benefits of the spor t regardless of how many people are participating. “For me, I get ever ything out of it,” Foster said. “It’s a community. … You can just lose yourself in it.”
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political process often make it difficult to meet the University’s wishes. Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, who chairs the House capital investment committee, said passing large bonding bills — which HEAPR funding depends on — has been difficult in the past. Some lawmakers hesitate to provide HEAPR funds, she said, because sectors outside of higher education also require state support. “Some people wor r y we have overbuilt higher education in the state,” she said. “ ‘Have we built too many buildings? How can we more efficiently use the buildings we have?’ ” Hausman said she must consider the entire state when voting on funding
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In return, the University would lower its HEAPR request by the same amount each year. Through this tactic, University leaders say they hope to start a conversation with lawmakers on the importance of HEAPR funds in higher education. “I don’t think any of us are satisfied with the progress that we’re making on maintenance and repair,” said Regent Clyde Allen. “That’s why we are looking at a different strategy right now.” Allen also said school leaders hope that because the University is asking for a smaller HEAPR request, it will receive a larger percentage of its request than in past years. But some legislators say scarce resources and the
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allocations and be careful to not overspend on the University. Still, she said some University facilities do seem to need repairs, recalling an event last academic year when state legislators visited some of the school’s buildings included in the University’s funding request. “I can remember being in Tate [Laborator y of Physics],” she said. “There are some facilities that are horrible.”
The Board of Regents’ Facilities and Operations Committee r eviewed a repor t in September that highlighted the cur rent conditions of most University facilities. Nearly onesixth of the buildings on the Twin Cities campus are in critical condition, according to the report. While these buildings are str ucturally sound, their financial needs are ramping up each year, said Mike Berthelsen, associate vice president of Facilities
Management. “The size of the need continues to grow,” he said. While past HEAPR requests have been “sporadic,” the aging of facilities is predictable, Berthelsen said. Many of the buildings don’t need to be replaced but require additional funding to renew their current conditions, Berthelsen said. “It’s like a car,” he said. “At some point you need to star t replacing some components.”
Oklahoma unveils new execution procedures after failed injection BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma prison officials unveiled new execution procedures Tuesday to replace those used in April when an inmate writhed and moaned before being declared dead 43 minutes after his lethal injection began — a situation that renewed debate over what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. The new guidelines allow the state to keep using midazolam, a sedative used in flawed executions earlier this year in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona, although it calls for increasing by five times the dose it gave Clayton Lockett in April. Other changes include more training requirements for prison staff and members of the execution
teams, and having contingency plans in case of problems with execution equipment or an inmate’s medical condition. The new protocols also reduce the number of media witnesses from 12 to five. An investigation ordered by Gov. Mar y Fallin after Lockett’s execution that was conducted by the Department of Public Safety blamed his lengthy death on the poor placement of a single intravenous line in his groin and a decision by the warden to cover the IV site with a sheet. The investigation recommended more training for prison staff and a contingency plan, both of which are included in the new procedures. The director of the Department of Corrections, Robert Patton, declined to
comment on the protocol changes, citing ongoing litigation. Assistant Federal Public Defender Dale Baich, who represents 21 death row inmates who have sued the state Department of Corrections to block their executions, said the new protocols do not solve Oklahoma’s execution problems. “We still do not know what went wrong with Mr. Lockett’s execution,” Baich said. “Discover y and factfinding by the federal courts will address those issues. “The prisoners still do not have access to information about the source of the drugs, the qualifications of the executioners, or how the state came up with the dif ferent dr ug combinations.”