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Green plans often left off campaigns Experts say voters often mark their ballots based on issues other than the environment. BY MOLLY MICHALETZ mmichaletz@mndaily.com

Protecting the environment may be a priority for many Minnesotans, but that likely won’t be a main factor in who they vote for on Tuesday. While policymakers and exper ts say the environment is becoming increasingly important to the public, voters still tend to mark their ballots based on candidates’ stances on traditional issues, like taxes and the economy. To make environmental policies a priority, experts say candidates need to argue both the ecological and financial benefits. “People are not voting for someone because of their stance on environment but rather on health care or other issues,” said Steve Kelley, a senior fellow in the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. “When decision time comes, voters tend to weigh these issues more highly.” Former state Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch and former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew discussed the role environment plays in this year’s election and the struggles it brings to both

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Many students avoid loans

A report found that students often fund their college education without loans. BY TAYLOR NACHTIGAL tnachtigal@mndaily.com

Rather than owing the government or a private bank thousands of dollars, University of Minnesota sophomore Ashley Kellen is borrowing money to cover her tuition fees from her parents. “I can pay them back a few years after I have gotten out of college — without

interest,” she said. Kellen, like many college students and their families nationwide, is turning to a wider range of options to finance her postsecondary education and is relying less on federal loans that come with high interest rates. Sallie Mae, a leading student lender, released a report earlier this year that shows how college students and their parents have paid for college since 2008. The study found that the number of people financing college through borrowed funds dropped to 22 percent in 2013-14, a 5 percent decrease from the prior year and

the lowest rate in the last five years. Parent income and savings, along with grants and scholarships, covered the largest amount of college expenses, sitting at 30 and 31 percent, respectively. Kellen said her younger sister is also entering college soon, and her family has discussed the burden of covering both of their expenses. She said her parents are considering taking out a mortgage on their home to avoid borrowing student loans, saying the interest rates on the mortgage would be lower. u See REPORT Page 5

NEIGHBORHOODS

Local legend documents Dinky

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CITY COUNCIL

Neighborhood groups decry Hodges’ plan Mayor Hodges’ proposal would divert a traditional source of funding from neighborhoods. BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com

Neighborhood groups in the University of Minnesota community are up in arms over Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’ proposal to put a traditional source of their funding to different uses. For years, revenue from special taxing districts in downtown Minneapolis has been split between the Target Center debt and the city’s 70 neighborhoods. But Hodges’ proposed budget sets aside some of the funds for new endeavors, like redeveloping a barge terminal in north Minneapolis and hiring a neighborhood specialist and two communications specialists. City leaders say the new projects would draw on funding from an increase in taxing district revenue — finance officials expect an additional $1 million in each of the next few years because of increasing property values downtown. Neighborhood groups already have about $16 million that hasn’t been allocated to projects, and city officials expect this pool to grow as more money from neighborhood investments pours in.

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Al Milgrom, long-time Minneapolis film director and University graduate, sits in his editing room at his home in the Como neighborhood on Monday. Milgrom has been part of the Minneapolis film scene for half a century and recently completed the first cut on his feature film “The Dinkytown Uprising.”

Minnesota-born Al Milgrom, a cinema icon, is wrapping up his first feature-length film on the University neighborhood. many hats he’s worn over the years.

BY BARRY LY TTON blytton@mndaily.com

Milgrom has been a University of Min-

hen Al Milgrom arrived in Dinky-

nesota student, a soldier, and an indepen-

town in 1940, Simms Hardware

dent film director, and he founded the Film

was only halfway through its 115-year stint. Now, the building that once housed Simms is the site of Espresso Royale,

Society of Minneapolis St. Paul. “I’m ver y Minnesota-loyal,” he said of his half-century as a Minneapolitan.

whose windows Milgrom, 92, faced Mon-

The local cinema icon is putting to-

day afternoon as he thumbed a scribbled-in

gether the final cut of his feature film, “The

legal pad and sipped a small McDonald’s

Dinkytown Uprising,” which condenses 40

coffee.

years of footage into a 103-minute docu-

Before recounting his lifelong love for

mentary about the Red Barn protests that

Minnesota and cinema, Milgrom unwound

took place in Dinkytown more than four de-

a red woolen scarf from his neck, but he

cades ago.

kept his navy conductor cap on — one of

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He said he hopes to premiere the film

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RESEARCH

Covering fresh ground A University initiative to help state agriculture is underway with $1M from the Legislature. BY PARKER LEMKE plemke@mndaily.com

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University professor Don Wyse, co-director of the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management, talks in the agricultural fields on St. Paul’s campus Friday morning.

In his office, Jim Anderson lifted up a dried pennycress stem, pulled off a pod and sprinkled its small black seeds onto his desk. “We’ve been working on tr ying to kill this thing for over 100 years, probably,” said Anderson, an agronomy and plant genetics professor at the University of Minnesota. The common weed could soon become an actual crop in Minnesota thanks to a University effort to keep more of the state’s 27 million acres of farmland covered during the winter using perennial plants and other crops.

The initiative, called “Forever Green,” seeks to diversify agricultural output, help of fset soil erosion and water pollution, and develop economically viable and ecosystem-friendly crops, said agronomy and plant genetics professor Don Wyse. A $1 million grant from the Legislature to the Forever Green program last spring was parceled out earlier this semester among seven of the initiative’s projects. A decade of work by researchers led up to the state allocation, which will be spent over the next three years, said Wyse, who is a co-director of the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management. All of Forever Green’s projects are designed to have tangible results, he said. Anderson heads a wheatgrass breeding project funded by the state grant that involves using genetic markers to select u See FOREVER GREEN Page 6

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STATE BRIEFING

Barnstorming tours rev up as Election Day approaches BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s Democratic candidates banded together Wednesday for a splashy launch of a six-day statewide bus tour featuring the ticket’s biggest names, while their Republican opponents went their own ways in smaller-scale campaign swings less than a week before the midterm. For the Democrats, it was an attempt to gin up pre-election energy among par ty faithful and Democratic-leaning independents who sometimes skip voting when it’s not a presidential race. Party leaders hope it culminates next Tuesday in the re-election of Gov. Mark Dayton and U.S. Sen. Al Franken while also sparing a shaky state House majority and vulnerable congressional incumbents. Democrats shiver ed outside the state Capitol on a chilly morning as Dayton and Franken joined

other candidates, union of ficials and suppor ters standing next to a coach bus adorned with a wrap that read, “On the Road to a Better Minnesota.” “We are going to present the voters of Minnesota with a fateful decision in six days: Whether we want to continue making progress and moving ahead or whether we want to go back,” Dayton said. N e ith e r Day ton n or Franken was due to be on the full tour, but they planned to join up at various stops it would make on college campuses, labor halls, coffee shops and satellite party offices. The tour ends Monday night with a rally in downtown St. Paul. Jeff Johnson, the Republican nominee for governor, kicked off his own final push at a suburban bus terminal. There, he stationed himself underneath a heater as he greeted commuters. “Hi, I’m Jeff Johnson.

I’m running for governor,” he said as he extended his hand. And he repeated the drill dozens of times. His schedule had him headed later to New Ulm, Fairmont and Worthington. After events around the metro Wednesday mor ning, Republican Senate candidate Mike McFadden headed to Duluth as par t of a swing that will take him across the state. From there, he said he’ll head up the Iron Range, meeting with miners at dawn Thursday before continuing to Grand Rapids. “It’s both conver ting people and it is just driving out our base and continuing the enthusiasm,” McFadden said. The GOP didn’t plan a coordinated barnstorming tour as it has in years’ past. Republican Party chairman Keith Downey said the candidates were doing their own trips with likely intersections along the way. “The thinking is it

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WINONA, Minn. — A 97-year-old Winona resident is preparing to vote for the first time after obtaining U.S citizenship. Chengyi Pan, a retired physics teacher and middle school vice principal, emigrated from Tianjin, China, in 2009 after the death of her husband. She was granted citizenship in September and wants to do all she can to continue to help the U.S. because it’s the best country in the world, she told the Winona Daily News on Tuesday. “I want to be a good citizen and to follow the democratic way,” she said. Chengyi moved to Winona in June 2010 after spending less than a year living with her son in Indiana. She lived with her daughter, a recently retired Saint Mary’s University history professor, before moving into a nursing home last summer. Chengyi has been looking forward to Election Day since she took her oath of citizenship at a ceremony on Sept. 30. Her daughter, Ting Ni, has been helping her collect all of the facts she will need to make informed decisions at the polls next Tuesday. “Both parties are good parties, but I like the Democratic Party,” she said. Although Chengyi already knows which party she will likely support, she feels Nov. 4 bears a much greater significance. “I feel I’m honored to be a citizen and to be able to vote in the American election,” she said. U.S. citizens should pay attention to global issues since their county is a prominent leader on a global scale, Chengyi said. “American elections are not just about the U.S.,” she said. “They’re about the world.”

MINNEAPOLIS — Some first responders in the Twin Cities are tweaking and reinforcing protocols to be ready for Ebola if it hits the area. Moves include 911 dispatchers now asking callers about fever and international travel and passing the information to paramedics, firefighters and police officers. The new procedures, which began this month, are a result of lessons learned in other cities across the country, according to health officials. “It’s (about) taking the appropriate precautions, but precautions based on science, not hysteria,” said Brian LaCroix, president of Allina Health Emergency Medical Services. Ambulances belonging to several local emergency medical service companies, including Allina and Hennepin Emergency Medical Ser vices, have also been equipped with infectious-disease kits that include protective gear like gowns, gloves, hoods, eye shields and face masks, the Star Tribune reported. The goal is to ensure no skin is exposed. Hennepin EMS is limiting the number of personnel it sends on calls related to potential Ebola infections to keep exposure to a minimum, spokesman Robert Ball said. “That may mean not sending in a full complement of police officers, paramedics and firefighters,” he said. “There may be a single police officer or firefighter and one of our paramedics going in to assess the (patient) and remove them.” Experience with other infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis, SARS, Lassa fever and Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome, will help emergency responders be prepared for Ebola, Ball said. “We haven’t spoken publicly about Ebola,” he said. “What we don’t want to do is feed into the panic. We are not talking a lot about it publicly, but it doesn’t mean we aren’t working to be well-prepared.”

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EEOC sues Honeywell over policy BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Honeywell Inc. over a health care policy that requires employees and their spouses to take medical tests or face monetary penalties. The lawsuit was filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis on behalf of two Minnesota employees. The case could define how far an employer can go in shifting health care costs to employees based on their behavior. The EEOC claims Honeywell’s new health screening policy violates the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Star Tribune reported. The lawsuit is seeking a temporary injunction to stop the biometric testing, which can identify smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and other health problems. The Honeywell employee testing was slated to begin last week at a handful of sites throughout the U.S. The screening program is designed to encourage employees to live healthier lifestyles and lower health care costs for them and the company, according to Honeywell. The company denies any wrongdoing because the screening and wellness program “are in strict compliance with both HIPAA and the Affordable Care Act’s guidelines,” it said in a statement. The EEOC alleges the Honeywell program could cause up to $4,000 in penalties for employees if they and their spouses don’t submit to the blood and medical tests. The agency has filed two other lawsuits in the past few months against other companies that have set up similar medical or wellness programs, according to EEOC attorney Laurie Vasichek. In Honeywell’s case, the tests and potential penalties are unwarranted because they don’t align with any businessrelated necessity, she said.

Minorities are growing in politics The population in Minnesota has also grown more diverse recently. BY KEVIN KARNER kkarner@mndaily.com

Minnesota’s political sphere is facing analysis as its population continues to diversify. The University of Minnesota’s Center for the Study of Politics and Gover nance hosted a for um Wednesday on diversity in state politics. The event, which featured Minneapolis City Council members and political exper ts, explored how a diversifying electorate influences campaigns and who r uns for local offices. “The City Council races last year and their results were eye-opening,” said Humphrey School of Public Affairs professor Larr y Jacobs, who moderated the event. “We saw the first Latino, Hmong and Somalis elected to the City Council in its histor y, and I think it reflects a broader change.” M i n n e s o t a ’ s p o p u l ation is aging and diversifying, both racially and ethnically. In the latest recent repor t from the Minnesota State Demographic Center, the office projects that Minnesota’s “nonwhite or Latino” population will gr ow to 25 per cent by 2035, compared to 14 percent of the population in this categor y in 2005. Ward 5 City Councilm a n B l o n g Ya n g a n d Ward 6 City Councilman Abdi Warsame, the first Hmong-American and Somali-American Minneapolis City Council members, respectively, spoke at the event. They said it’s important to remove institutional barriers that come with running for office. “It’s ver y dif ficult for minority candidates to just come in and r un.

“I would say people of color are going to be able to decide elections. Whether [it’s] a Caucasian politician or someone on a bigger ticket, they’ll have to recognize and campaign towards people of color in a different way.” BLONG YANG Ward 5 City Councilman

Fundraising takes a lot of time, as a candidate and official,” Warsame said. “You can’t just follow the [former mayoral candidate] Mark Andrew or [Minneapolis Mayor] Betsy Hodges route. They have a list of ready-made donors that Blong and I don’t have.” Over the next 30 years, the populations of Latino, black and Asian Minnesotans are expected to more than double. This growth is compared to an expected increase of only 9 percent of whites, according to the state demographer report. The reversal is because there are fewer whites moving to the state than a centur y ago, according to the report. “I would say people of color are going to be able to decide elections. Whether [it’s] a Caucasian politician or someone on a bigger ticket, they’ll have to recognize and campaign towards people of color in a dif ferent way,” Yang said, noting that minority groups can swing an election. As an example, he pointed to the election he ran in last fall as a HmongAmerican candidate in a pr edominately AfricanAmerican neighborhood.

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Minneapolis City Council members Abdi Warsame and Blong Yang meet at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to discuss diversity in Minnesota politics on Wednesday. They discussed last year’s municipal election as well as projections for the upcoming election.

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“People have that sense that the party doesn’t care that much about them if they don’t need their votes,” he said. “I think

that’ll need to change.” The conversation comes in the wake of the Brooklyn Park City Council race, in which the first

African-American candidate is running for a seat on the all-white council, despite the fact that less than half the city is white.

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Local legend documents Dinky history Milgrom u from Page 1

at the 2015 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival before finishing two other ongoing projects. “I’m lucky I have an experienced editor to assuage my insecurity,” Milgrom said, “which should not exist at the age of 92.”

‘The Dinkytown Uprising’

Despite his love affair with cinema, “The Dinkytown Uprising” will be Milgrom’s first feature-length documentary. The film is a culmination of his on-and-off shooting over the past 40 years, he said. “All this footage was in my basement, in cans,” he said. The documentar y recounts a 40-day protest that took place in 1970 where Dinkytown’s post office now stands. About 300 students, neighborhood residents and others occupied a space that had been vacated for a Red Barn burger franchise. Demonstrators were forcibly removed by police, and the site was bulldozed. But the protest against the corporate burger joint’s local presence didn’t end there, Milgrom said. “Dinkytown, in contrast to a lot of American cities in the anti-Vietnam era, was not a three-day demonstration,” he said. After the bulldozers destroyed the shops, the protesters returned to the empty lot. “These were student idealists — some of them claimed they were romantic revolutionaries,” he said. In 1970, Milgrom was the man with the camera and 16mm color film in hand. “The Dinkytown Uprising” follows six of the event’s main characters — including dissenters and the Red Barn burger franchise owner — over Milgrom’s switch from analog film to digital. “I’m really interested in what time does to historic memory,” he said. By reviving historic Dinkytown, Milgrom said, he wants the film to also serve as

AL MILGROM OVER 92 YEARS 1922

Milgrom is born in Pine City, Minn.

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Begins his journalism studies at the University of Minnesota

1943

Leaves for Japan to serve on the United States Army Air Corps Photography Laboratory Unit

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Graduates from the University with a degree in journalism

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Works at a variety of newspapers including the Star Tribune, Washington Post and San Francisco Chronicle

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Returns to the University to obtain an advanced degree in humanities and film history

1962

Establishes the Minneapolis St. Paul Film Society, then called the University Film Society, and begins screening films in the Bell Museum of Natural History

1970

Red Barn protest springs, Milgrom begins shooting The Dinkytown Uprising

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Ends his position as a teaching assistant at the University

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Serves as artistic director of the Minneapolis Film Society, works on and off on various films SOURCE: AL MILGROM

a reminder for current locals. “You have the intellectual college professorship from the ’30s onward, even earlier, who shopped here, who lived here, who hung out here, who got drunk here,” he said. Now, Milgrom said, Dinkytown a different scene. “There is not enough hyperbole to describe it. I mean, it’s scandalous. It’s vulgar,” he said. Kristen Eide-Tollefson, owner of the Book House in Dinkytown, said the film’s planned 2015 release is coming at a great time, as she and others in the area are working to combat the new corporate businesses that have flocked to the campus area. From what she knows of Milgrom, she said, he’s dedicated to connecting people’s stories to a bigger picture. “He’s passionate about the place,” Eide-Tollefson said. “He’s passionate about Dinkytown and history.”

From stills to screen Sixty-six miles up Interstate 35 in the small town of Pine City, Minn. — approximately halfway between Minneapolis and Duluth — Milgrom was born to Russian and Polish immigrants in 1922. At age 18, he left for the University of Minnesota to study journalism and feed his love for photography. In 1943, Milgrom said, he was shipped off to Japan to

serve in the U.S. Army Air Corps in a photo lab unit. He was relieved from duty three years later, returned to the states and graduated from the University shortly thereafter. Until the early 1960s, he wrote for a slew of national and state newspapers like the Washington Post, the Star Tribune and Stars and Stripes. He founded the University Film Society in 1962 — now the Film Society of Minneapolis St. Paul — while pursuing an advanced degree at the University. With Milgrom at the helm, the society began screening international films at the Bell Museum of Natural Histor y, which he said exposed the campus to titles outside of the usual Hollywood movie theater billings. “We basically introduced Eastern European film, on block, to Minnesota,” he said. Though he’s been producing his own still photographs and motion pictures for decades, Milgrom is best known as a cinephile and an avid film screener. He was instrumental in creating Minneapolis’ cinema scene, said local film editor Dan Geiger, who is credited for his work in “Fargo,” Prince’s “Graffiti Bridge” and soon, “The Dinkytown Uprising.” Milgrom estimated that the local cinema society he founded has screened 5,000

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY

Minneapolis film director Al Milgrom shows his personal photography in his house located in the Como neighborhood on Monday. He is wrapping up work on his upcoming feature-length documentary, “The Dinkytown Uprising.”

movies since its beginnings in the 1960s, exposing the Twin Cities to a global sphere of cinema. “It was like an extension of film school,” Geiger said. “You could go there, and you could see stuff you’d never see in the movie theater.” The society’s original home base was right in the University’s front yard, Milgrom said. “How many millions of students have passed through the University in 50 years?” he asked. “A certain percentage of kids — [those] who were on the ball — caught a film at the Bell Museum.”

Police ready for holiday, protests Thousands are expected to protest against the “Redskins” name on campus Sunday. BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com

With Halloween on Friday and expansive protests planned for Sunday’s Minnesota Vikings game against the Washington Redskins, police and University of Minnesota staf f are gearing up for what looks to be a busy weekend. The events should boost campus foot traf fic, said Minneapolis police Public Information Officer John Elder, and he said additional police units will patrol areas where heightened activity is likely. But he said the bump in the number of of ficers doesn’t mean there will be an increase in crimes or arrests. Since Halloween falls on a Friday, the upcoming weekend could be “comparable” to Homecoming weekend, University of Minnesota police Lt. Troy Buhta said. UMPD issued 60 citations between Friday and Sunday of that weekend. University police made

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“It would be a better financial decision,” Kellen said. Along with borrowing from her parents, Kellen also works a part-time job to cover living costs during the year, and she works a fulltime job during the summer. “It helps to pay part of tuition, and then I can borrow less from [my parents] the next year,” she said. Julie Selander, director of One Stop Student Services, said many University students are in a similar position

Two days after Halloween, thousands of people are expected to protest outside TCF Bank Stadium while the Minnesota Vikings play the Washington Redskins on the field inside.

Protest groups have stated that as many as 5,000 demonstrators will come to rally against the visiting team’s name. But T im Busse, University Ser vices spokesman and a chairman of the University’s group that handles large-scale special events, said his own estimates are closer to 3,000. He said the University worked closely with event organizers from the National Coalition on Racism in Spor ts and Media and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, as well as Minneapolis and Metro Transit police, to help organize the protests and ensure that they go smoothly. “We want them to be able to express their First Amendment rights as they do their march on University Avenue,” Busse said. “But … balance, with that, the fact that Viking fans will be arriving at about that time.” On Sunday mor ning, a group of protesters will leave from the American Indian Oppor tunities Industrialization Center on Franklin Avenue East and march to Nor throp Plaza,

a press release said. Another crowd, led by the American Indian Student Cultural Center, will arrive at Northrop from Coffman Union, a University spokesperson said. Busse said protesters will then make their way down University Avenue, stretches of which will be closed by Minneapolis police for this influx of pedestrian traffic, depending on turnout. Busse said hopefully at least one lane will remain open to car traffic. Minneapolis police Public Information Officer Scott Seroka said because the protests will happen just outside of MPD’s jurisdiction, the department will leave enforcement at the demonstrations to UMPD. Busse said protesters will end up on the grassy area on the stadium’s south side, which will be outfitted with a stage and speaker systems. The University supports the protests at TCF in condemning what it calls an “of fensive and inappropriate” football team name, according to an Oct. 23 press release from the school.

as Kellen and are trying to avoid hefty student loans as much as possible. “I would cer tainly say their desire is to borrow less, except when they need to,” she said. “For the most part, the trend is people want to borrow less; it’s just ‘How do I do that?’ That’s the question.” Selander said she regularly has conversations with students about the balance between using family contributions, government loans, institutional financial aid, scholarships and workstudy. Selander said that OneStop counsels students about the amount they will owe in

loans after graduation and what their monthly payments will look like. “I think that’s a big surprise for people. Students are shocked and surprised about how much student loan debt they have taken out over the course of their time here,” she said. “We want you to have a ver y clear idea [of what you owe] and what that means.” Selander said the office has ramped up its efforts recently to improve students’ financial literacy and to demystify the confusion with loans. While some students rely on their parents to help pay for school, Jessica Hartwig, a

fourth-year English student, has paid for tuition over the years through a combination of part-time jobs and federal and private loans. But because she’s maxed out the amount she can borrow in federal loans, she now relies on money from her two part-time jobs, food stamps and private loans. It will take years to pay those loans off, Hartwig said. “You’re entering the world at a disadvantage because you’re taking out tens of thousands of dollars in loans so you can afford to live,” she said. “But you’re going to be spending the next decade paying off those loans.”

three alcohol-related arrests on Halloween in 2012 and four on the 2013 holiday, Buhta said. Neither of those Halloweens fell on a weekend. “We’re going to be teaming up with our par tners from Minneapolis,” he said. “We realize it’s a big party night.” In addition to the typical patrols, Buhta said UMPD’s C o or dinate d Re sp on s e Team will also monitor campus and its sur rounding neighborhoods. Buhta said Halloween’s activity could possibly influence law enforcement’s workload Saturday night. “I guess it matters how hard they hit it Friday night,” he said.

Thousands expected to protest outside TCF Bank Stadium

The site of the screenings has moved over the years. Once at the Oak Street Cinema, it’s now located at the St. Anthony Main Theater. Although the location hasn’t been continual, the stream of films has been constant. The screenings, along with Milgrom’s cajoling invitations, have attracted hundreds of filmmakers and theorists to Minneapolis. Among them are Milos Forman, Nikita Mikhalkov, Josef von Sternberg and Pauline Kael. “[Milgrom] was just doing

something he loved,” Geiger said. He is well known across the state, Geiger said. A character in the Coen brothers’ recent movie, “Inside Llewyn Davis,” is named Al Milgrom, and Geiger said he believes the pair of Minnesotaborn filmmakers attended the early Bell Museum screenings. Over the years, Geiger said, plenty of young movie buffs have enjoyed Milgrom’s labor of love. “I know at least 10 people that became filmmakers here because of [the film society], probably more,” he said.

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Professor of agronomy and plant genetics Jim Anderson stands in the Agronomy Seed House on the St. Paul campus Friday morning.

Funding from Leg. covers fresh ground Forever Green u from Page 1

and breed desirable traits in the plant, like improved grain yield and disease resistance. Agricultural researchers at the University have been developing wheat varieties since at least 1895. Since then, the harvesting schedules of the state’s dominant annual crops like corn and soybeans have often left fields barren during the winter, Anderson said. Without plant roots protecting the soil year-round, wind and water erosion can degrade the fields, he said. “Agriculture depends on maintaining our soil,” said Mar y Hanks, director of marketing and development at the Minnesota Depar tment of Agriculture. “One of the ways to do that … is to keep the soil covered for longer periods of time each year.” Water that has absorbed nutrients, including nitrogen nitrate, out of agricultural fields can pollute waterways flowing into the Mississippi River and down to the Gulf of Mexico, Wyse said. Forever Green aims to address the issue with perennial plants and cover crops that protect the soil during the winter. “If you have roots out there, plants out there — all

the time — that nitrate nitrogen is picked up by the roots and doesn’t flow through that system,” Wyse said. Technological advances have lowered the cost of DNA sequencing and fasttracked the plant breeding process, Anderson said. “Things you could only do with corn or soybeans — species that had a lot of genomic resources, a lot of investment — now you can do with virtually any species,” he said. His current focus is creating seeds that are 50 percent larger — which he expects to improve seed yields and make wheatgrass easier to mill. Three out of seven statefunded Forever Green projects feature wheatgrass, Anderson said, whose eco-friendly qualities have already garnered interest from food industry groups. Developing the wheatgrass is a collaborative effor t, he said, adding that fellow agronomy and plant genetics researchers are developing better planting methods for it. Xiaofei Zhang, a research associate working with Anderson, said he came to Minnesota from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences to work on breeding wheatgrass and analyzing its genes. “I believe it is a promising perennial grain crop,”

FOREVER GREEN PROJECT FUNDING SOURCES OVER THE PAST FOUR FISCAL YEARS

$1M Legislative funding

$450,000 Private industry

$1.03M University of Minnesota

$5.43M

TOTAL FUNDING

$1.15M Minnesota Department of Agriculture

$1.8M* Federal agencies

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

TargetExpress and Gina + Will took the spots below the new Venue at Dinkytown and the Marshall apartments this summer, bringing a wave of new costumers to the area with their arrival. A few months later, Target and Goodwill’s strategic decisions to open the stores in the University of Minnesota neighborhood alongside the rest of Dinkytown’s longstanding businesses has proven to be successful, which business leaders say is due to the area’s market. Dinkytown Business Alliance President Mike Mulrooney said the new shops, along with the incoming Starbucks and Great Clips, make for a more diverse collective in the area. He thinks the businesses will attract desired attention. “All business is good for Dinkytown, as long as they can complement each other,” said Mulrooney, who owns

NEW SHOPS IN DINKYTOWN 2014 July Aug. Sept. Nov.

2015 Jan.

TargetExpress Gina + Will Great Clips and Starbucks (announced in a press release) Pizza Studio D.P. Dough (expected)

SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING

Blarney Pub and Grill. The Book House, which has sold books to the University community for nearly 40 years, is one of few businesses in the area that doesn’t serve as a bar or eatery. Owner Kristen Eide-Tollefson said the store has seen almost no impact from the new stores but supports them. They’re an experiment, which is a common theme in Dinkytown, she said. “We still think it’s important that businesses can start up in Dinkytown. We think that’s really important — that this remains a center for entrepreneurial innovation,” EideTollefson said, “which I personally consider the Goodwill and Target enterprises to be.”

IMPROVING WHEATGRASS PRODUCTION

$97,473

PROPAGATION OF HYBRID HAZELNUT FOR MINNESOTA

$147,887

INTEGRATION OF FIELD PENNYCRESS AND CAMELINA WITH FIELD CORN PRODUCTION

$149,310

GENETIC MAPPING OF WHEATGRASS DISEASE AND TRAITS

$149,559

PERENNIAL SUNFLOWER DEVELOPMENT FOR FOOD PRODUCTION AND WILDLIFE SERVICES

$149,825

WHEATGRASS FOOD APPLICATIONS

$150,000

LEGUME COVER CROPS ANALYSIS

$150,000

*Includes U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education, and Department of Energy. SOURCE: DON WYSE

Zhang said “I want to donate my time and energy to [it].”

Funding diverse and resilient crops

Wyse said an economic pull will convince farmers to adopt the crops developed through Forever Green, though he noted that it will take an additional educational effort to introduce them to new planting methods. “People need to see how it works. They need

to experiment with it themselves,” said Hanks, adding that expanding crop variety can help farmers better adapt to shifting climate patterns. ”The more you can diversify what you have out there on the land … your system is becoming more resilient.” Along with the state appropriations from earlier this year, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has also supported Forever Green, Hanks said.

Dinkytown newcomers fit in well More than five new establishments have taken an interest in the area.

FOREVER GREEN MINNESOTA LEGISLATIVE FUNDING PER PROJECT

Goodwill chose Dinkytown because it had an opportunity to be successful there, said Danielle Stager, Gina + Will’s general manager. The company’s low price point, diversity in items and ability to change its selection based on feedback make it popular with area students, Stager said. “I think the feedback that we’ve been getting from our neighbors, as well as customers coming in, is ‘I love this store,’ ” she said, “which has made us so proud because we’ve worked so hard to have a store that we think would be a good fit.” Stager said she feels the Dinkytown community has welcomed the store. The new stores chose the campus area to experiment with their business models, and with good reason, said Carlson School of Management assistant professor Daniel Forbes, who teaches entrepreneurship and strategic marketing. Big-box stores like WalMart and Kmart are fading fast in the retail world, he said. Pressure from online shopping and the Apple Store are pushing bigger stores to learn more about a specific market

and gear their stores more directly toward one community. A college campus, Forbes said, is the perfect place to try such an experiment because it has a high concentration of people with a similar demographic profile. College students also tend to provide feedback to stores via social media, Forbes said, which provides insight for companies into what does and does not work. Target spokeswoman Kristen Emmons said the company chose the University’s campus because there was a demand company officials thought the store could meet, adding that it was important for it to be close to corporate headquarters in downtown Minneapolis so officials could measure its progress. Emmons said she could not comment specifically on the reason Target chose Dinkytown rather than other areas near the University. Mulrooney said Target employees will attend the alliance’s meetings in the coming months. He said he believes that big businesses can coexist with independent stores if the shop owners and corporate newcomers are open to it.

SOURCE: DON WYSE

The three years’ worth of investment from the state came at the right time, Wyse said, though he hopes the project can eventually gain permanent funding. “It isn’t … that you need a lot of money at one time,” Wyse said. “You need a certain amount of money over a long period of time to go through cycles of selection.”

He said each project could apply for up to $150,000, a sum that would allow them to bring more graduate students onto Forever Green’s teams. “We need early support from the public sector to bring these [projects] along until they can be picked up by the private sector,” Wyse said.

Girls’ jihadi quest stirs fear in Colo. Muslim communities BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

AURORA, Colo. — The strange journey of three suburban Denver girls who authorities say tried to join Islamic State militants in Syria has many in their close-knit east African community worried about whether their own children will be the next to be lured to terror. The girls’ voyage has mystified many in the U.S., and has been even more troubling among Aurora’s Somali and Sudanese immigrants, thousands of whom fled civil war and forged new lives in the Denver suburbs, where refugees easily find jobs driving cabs or working in the meat industry. But while the girls’ parents were working to give them a better life, being a Muslim teenager isn’t easy in an American high school, said Ahmed Odowaay, a community advocate who works with youth. It’s easy to feel like an outsider, even as a U.S. citizen. Even his 10-year-old

daughter gets taunts of “terrorist” when she wears her hijab in school, he said. “This community is outcast. They feel like they don’t belong here. They’re frustrated,” Odowaay said from his seat at Barwaaqo, a restaurant hidden in one of Aurora’s low-slung strip malls, where other men dined on goat and spaghetti, a favorite east African dish. “I’m worried their frustrations will lead them in the wrong direction.” Young people in communities like this across the countr y are vulnerable to extremists in Syria and elsewhere who reach out to them online, promising the glory of battle, the honor becoming a wife, or just acceptance. The girls likely won’t be charged with a crime and are safe now, but the father said he is still troubled by lingering questions about their intentions, who recr uited them online and how they were so easily able to board a plane and head overseas.

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STUDENT LIFE

Cirque De-Stress breaks down stigmas Mental health services could benefit all students, especially as school stresses students.

eople don’t wait until they have a broken bone to see a doctor. If you had a chronic cough, you wouldn’t wait for debilitating pain before getting it checked out. But when it comes to mental health, it’s astonishing how quickly people dismiss their own needs. Most people demonstrate compassion toward those who struggle with mental illness — except themselves. Mental health is an issue that few are willing to talk about, so the conversations that do happen are extremely influential. Efforts to normalize mental health at Tuesday’s Cirque De-Stress were one of the most important University of Minnesotasponsored events of the year. Cirque De-Stress is so successful because it seeks to include the entire University community in a dialogue about mental health. It’s a normal event that “normal” people go to. The event isn’t reser ved for outliers in the population, and neither is mental illness. Cirque De-Stress and other mental health awareness events help us realize that nobody is really “normal.” Cirque De-Stress is so powerful because

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it addresses the roots of stigmas against mental health issues. For too long, mental health care has been thought of as a “special” treatment. It’s considered to be a dire, last-call solution for those with severe illnesses. The language sur rounding mental health care indicates the stigmas that we unknowingly hold. People ominously refer to meeting with a therapist or psychiatrist as “getting help,” not “getting a checkup” like we would with a physical doctor. This language creates invisible and unnecessary barriers around pursuing mental health care. People still criticize those with severe mental illness, but this stigma is lessening with the younger generation. We’ve come a long way in recognizing and in supporting members of society who truly are mental health outliers. But the most pervasive stigma is that mental illness has to be severe in order to be worthy of treatment. Mental health issues — severe, mild or

in between — will affect almost ever yone sooner or later, often during college years. Stress and change, two trademarks of college life, can lead to mental illness if they aren’t managed. These are issues that can be addressed in mental health treatment or with any of the stress-reducing strategies presented at Cirque De-Stress. In fact, 40 percent of college students seeking treatment suffer from only “mild mental health concerns.” You don’t have to be on the brink of destruction to make an appointment at Boynton Health Service. Everyone deserves to feel calm, relaxed and happy. Mental health isn’t an Olympics of suffering: Ever yone qualifies. That’s the most important message that Cirque De-Stress spreads. Stigmas about our mental health encompass more than judging or criticizing those with chemical imbalances or clinically diagnosed disorders. The next horizon in mental health care is recognition of mental health’s broad and all-encompassing spectrum. Nearly all of us could seek out mental health care at some point in our lives, and we must be brave enough to recognize it. Camille Galles welcomes comments at cgalles@mndaily.com.

DAILY DISCUSSION

Comment on Election Guide

When reading the Election Guide in Tuesday’s paper, I was disappointed to find that only Democratic and Republican candidates were interviewed. Of the eight races focused on in the guide, six had third-party candidates that were left out. A variety of choices in an election is critical for a healthy democracy. Media coverage is of dire importance for winning an election in today’s political environment, and it is up to news organizations to inform the public on their choices as voters.

You also forgot to mention that the guy in Canada was killed by a “good guy with a gun.” Cartoon by Shea Stoner. Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

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I disagree with Editorial Board on ‘Staple food ordinance’

The board’s conclusion in its recent editorial does not consider the possibility that healthy food distribution options will emerge to meet the demand created by the ordinance. For example, the University of St. Thomas and some community partners are piloting a project embedded in academic activities that aims to deliver high-quality, low-cost fruits and vegetables to Minneapolis corner stores. The staple food ordinance will make this and similar ventures more feasible for other nonprofits and small businesses. I applaud the Minneapolis City Council for working to address the current inequity in food access and health across Minneapolis neighborhoods. Given that 94 percent of Minneapolis corner store customers would buy fruits and vegetables from corner stores if available and affordable, I think the ordinance can help make a significant difference to the food environment in our community. Adam Kay Director of Environmental Science University of St. Thomas

POLITICS

Questions result from firing of Q Should Jian Ghomeshi really have been fired from his job before a verdict was reached?

arly this week, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation fired Jian Ghomeshi, the host of the popular radio show Q, due to multiple allegations of sexual harassment. Considering the fact that this story has sparked considerable controversy, especially on progressive blogs, it’s time to discuss how we can strike a balance between the rights of the accused and the concerns that major companies face when they deal with controversy surrounding one of their employees. In unfor tunate situations where a famous employee is dragged through the court of public opinion, employers seem to side with the critics and either fire the alleged perpetrators or suspend them until the issues are resolved. Their reasoning is certainly understandable — deciding to keep a controversial worker on the job may negatively impact a business. However, there are some factors

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR U students should build on the legacy of our anti-racist past by protesting on Sunday On Sunday, the University of Minnesota will become host to the largest protest on campus in several decades. A coalition of national groups, anchored by local organizations like the American Indian Movement, are coming to campus to demand that Washington changes its football team’s name. Students need to join with AIM and others in protesting racism on our campus and demand that our administration lives up to its promise to improve diversity and provide an inclusive campus climate for minority students at the University. University students have a proud history of opposing racism on campus and of making these kinds of demands on our administrators. This weekend, we need to build on this legacy instead of standing on the sidelines or resigning ourselves to political apathy. Like

Mpls. schools must do more Hmong International Academy protests show a need for action.

n protest of unstable leadership and constantly shifting educational goals, the parents of students at Hmong International Academy marched to the Minneapolis School District’s headquarters last week. The academy has been unable to retain a principal for more than a year over the past several years. Parents said at a meeting with school officials that the district is ignoring the cultural and educational needs of Hmong students. The protest is one of many problems in the Minneapolis School District this year. Dropping enrollment numbers — only two new students enrolled for the 2014-15 school year — and a large achievement gap have the district facing budget cuts and questions about the future of its schools and students. The district has tried to address these problems, in part by rolling out a new strategic plan to help close achievement gaps and ensure “college and career ready” students. District officials are also planning to “market” their schools to parents to improve enrollment. But it’s too soon to judge how effective the plan will be at improving education for Minneapolis students. Regardless of enrollment or budgeting problems, the educational instability faced by thousands of students in Minneapolis schools is a more serious issue. We hope the new strategic plan will be effective in improving student performance and educational experiences for current students, not just future ones. The district must make sure that the focus remains on helping students learn, not merely on bolstering the image of Minneapolis schools through marketing or other means.

Student fundraising for the less fortunate is encouraging.

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EDITORIALS

Haunted House off to a good start

Erik Peterson University student

While technically correct, the implications of your phrase “a good guy with a gun” is a bit off; he was killed by the sergeant-at-arms of the Parliament, not an armed civilian.

the students who came before us, we need take a stand against racism on campus. In 1969, dozens of black students with the Afro-American Action Committee seized and occupied Morrill Hall to demand former President Malcolm Moos to live up to his promises and increase diversity at the University. They demanded an African-American studies department and increased scholarships for black students. They won these demands through protest, and that 1969 Morrill Hall takeover represents the birthplace of our current African and African-American studies department at the University. Similarly, in 1971, Chicano students with the Latin Liberation Front demanded a more open curriculum, one representing their histories and identities, from the University’s administration and eventually staged an occupation of Morrill Hall when the administration proved too slow in putting its words into action.

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to consider before companies make this decision. For example, are there any criminal charges or police complaints? Is the indicter a credible source? Does physical evidence of wrongdoing exist? Did the accused have their say in court? In Ghomeshi’s case, the criminal justice system never analyzed evidence or even heard any complaints. To balance fairness with employers’ wor ries, companies should temporarily suspend any accused workers with pay and promise to bring them back if they clear their names. This ensures a balance between the rights of the accused and the legitimate concerns of the businesses. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

Through this occupation, the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies was born. These protests — while polarizing at the time and seen by some as crossing the boundaries of acceptable political speech — were effective in expanding access to education for non-white students and increased diversity at the University. Now we too are faced with a similar situation. President Eric Kaler has been outspoken about his opposition to the Washington football team’s name. However, the administration is acting in an overly cautious manner, and its strong rhetorical stance against racism on campus has yet to translate into equally strong actions. On Sunday, I hope that all University students will carr y forward the historical legacy that anti-racist protests have had at our university — by both participating in the rallies and marches against the Washington team and by demanding action from our administration.

ith Halloween coming up on Friday, students have a range of choices for how they’ll spend their night. Typically, Halloween staples like the Soap Factor y’s Haunted Basement in Marcy-Holmes and Scream Town are scary, entertaining options. The Students Against Hunger and Wesley Foundation’s haunted house, which promises to scare you while raising money for a good cause, is in its third year and is quickly becoming a popular option for students to enjoy. It costs only $5, and the proceeds are going toward providing meals for schools and orphanages around the world that are struggling. According to the vice president of the Wesley Foundation, Rachael Acevedo, one meal can be made out of just a quarter, so any profits yielded from this attraction could go a long way. We feel that the combined ef for ts of these student groups are commendable and should be lauded. It’s easy to get caught up in self-indulgent festivities and parties this time of year. By providing aid to those in need while having fun, we are pleased to see that many University of Minnesota students are continuing to act selflessly. And in continuing with this positive spirit around Halloween, it’s crucial to consider whether costume choices could be deemed offensive to other students who may have a culture different than yours. If the costume is problematic, avoid it. 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

Gophers exhibit early power-play skill Minnesota scored four power-play goals in a sweep last weekend. BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com

In the early part of the Gophers’ season, there have been two constants: Adam Wilcox in net and success on the power play. Head coach Don Lucia said Wednesday that the team needs to play better 5-on-5 hockey. But with a man advantage, the Gophers have been strong. So far, the Gophers have scored six goals of f the power play in 17 opportunities, and they’ve scored at least one power-play goal in each of their four games — all of which were victories. “Our special teams [have] been good to begin with,” Lucia said. “We have six power-play goals, so right now … that’s strong.” Sophomore for ward Taylor Cammarata said the team’s power play was “discombobulated” a few weeks ago, but it has since become one of the team’s strengths. Power-play goals were cr ucial in the Gophers’ sweep of Bemidji State, with the team scoring four goals in 10 opportunities. One of the reasons the power play has been so strong this season is the unit’s continuity. The Gophers’ top two power-play units boast veteran skaters who are well-versed in the team’s systems. Returners accounted for 34 of the team’s 35 powerplay goals last year. The team’s top powerplay line over the weekend — senior Kyle Rau, sophomore Hudson Fas-

ching and senior Travis Boyd — scored more than half of its combined goals on the power play last year. Rau said returning the same power-play lineup as last year has helped the unit achieve early success. “Familiarity with each other and chemistr y [are] there,” Rau said. “At the same time, we’re shooting pucks, and Travis Boyd’s been putting the puck in the back of the net, so that’s been the success to our power play so far.” The Big Ten named Boyd its First Star of the Week on Tuesday, after he scored two power-play goals over the weekend. Boyd also scored the first shorthanded goal of his college career Friday night. “First time for ever ything, so might as well be tonight,” Boyd said Friday. “Hopefully [scoring] kickstarts me, and [I] get a lot more to come.” Boyd was on the team’s power-play unit last year, and Lucia said maturity has helped Boyd develop a bigger role on the team. “He’s been in good spots,” Lucia said. “He’s always been a good penalty killer. Last year he moved onto the power play, and his shot is much improved.” Rau has also taken notice of Boyd’s improved shot and said his work over the summer seems to be paying off. “He’s just in the right spot shooting the puck. He’s got a good shot [and] he can place it well,” Rau said. “He’s having a good year.” The Gophers powerplay unit will face a steep test this weekend against St. Cloud State, which has been stingy on the penalty

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Gophers forward Travis Boyd controls the puck on Oct. 4 at Mariucci Arena against Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.

kill thus far. But Lucia said the Gophers have worked on impr oving their weaknesses this week, not their strengths. “Right now, I think we’re too easy to play against,” Lucia said. “I don’t think our 5-on-5 play is where it needs to be right now, so that’s been a big point of emphasis this week in practice.”

“First time for everything, so might as well be tonight. Hopefully [scoring] kick-starts me, and [I] get a lot more to come.”

MEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

VS NO. 1 MINNESOTA WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday

TRAVIS BOYD Senior forward

WHERE: St. Cloud, Minn., and Mariucci Arena SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Menefee back, contributing for Minnesota The junior forward did not play in the team’s first four games this season.

BASKETBALL

Basketball program dismisses Lofton BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

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While the Gophers were struggling on the ice during an early-season series against Minnesota-Duluth, Mar yanne Menefee could only watch the game unfold from the bench. The junior for ward from Lansing, Mich., didn’t play in the season’s first two series due to a decision by head coach Brad Frost. “You always want to be on the ice when [your team is str uggling],” Menefee said. “You definitely learn from it, and I’m happy to be back on the ice.” Menefee retur ned to action when the Gophers swept then-No. 1 Wisconsin, but she failed to find the score sheet. However, she notched two goals during Saturday’s 5-0 victor y over North Dakota. “It felt really great to finally get back and contribute. I think it is a role I have to play especially because we have a lot of incoming freshmen that are playing, so we need some production,” Menefee said. Menefee is one of Minnesota’s top r etur ning scorers from a year ago, as she recorded 37 points last season, including 18 goals. “[Menefee] is who she is,” Frost said. “She has ver y good hands, and she is incredibly smar t, and she gets to the net to score goals, which has been a huge strength of hers.” Coming out of high school, Menefee was a member of the U.S. Under-18 national team and

NO. 7 ST. CLOUD STATE

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Minnesota forward Maryanne Menefee brings the puck around Minnesota-Duluth’s net on Feb. 22, 2013, at Ridder Arena.

made an immediate impact for the Gophers during her freshman season, recording 38 points on 16 goals. After putting together two fairly consistent years at Minnesota, Menefee said she is looking for ward to taking the next step and improving her numbers while helping the Gophers win. “I played with Hannah [Brandt] these last two seasons, and I know we have similar styles of play because we both like to pass the puck a lot,” Menefee said. “But I think shooting the puck more would

be better for me and lead to more scoring chances.” Frost said if Menefee can maintain her fitness level, she could continue to see improvements in her game. “She just has to continue to buy into who we are as a team,” Frost said, “[and continue] with her fitness level so she can sustain a high pace of play for 60 minutes.” Brandt and Menefee are in their third season as linemates, and both scored twice in Minnesota’s last game. After the game, Brandt said the chemistr y

WOMEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

VS NO. 1 MINNESOTA

BEMIDJI STATE

WHEN: 7:07 p.m. Friday and 4:07 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Ridder Arena SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

between her and Menefee provides the Gophers with an advantage. “The biggest thing with us is that we just see each other ver y well on the ice,” Brandt said.

“Knowing where each other are [on the ice] is huge. You hardly have to look sometimes.” Ben Gotz contributed to this report.

Zach Lofton has been dismissed from the Gophers men’s basketball program “for failing to meet the expectations and obligations of the team,” head coach Richard Pitino announced Wednesday night. “While decisions like this are always dif ficult, we felt it was in the inter est of our pr ogram to move for ward at this time,” Pitino said in a statement. “We wish Zach nothing but the best in the future.” Lofton can stay at the University under scholarship for the remainder of the 2014-15 academic year, according to the release. The junior guard was redshir ting this season after transferring from Illinois State. In his only season at Illinois State, Lofton averaged 11.3 points per game and three rebounds per game. Before that, the St. Paul native played a season at San Jacinto College. While Lofton was ineligible to play during the 2014-15 season, Pitino regarded him as someone who could contribute in future years. Pitino has praised Lofton in the past for his high potential. “The sky is the limit for Zach. He has all the tools and talent to be a big-time guard. Phenomenal athlete, great length and has the ability to get his shot of f at any time. We need him to be ready next year,” Pitino wrote in a blog over the summer.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

TALKIN’ WITH TEAGUE

Teague discusses bundling, coaches He also talked about the upcoming game basketball game in Puerto Rico. BY SAM KRAEMER skraemer@mndaily.com

The Minnesota Daily met with University of Minnesota athletics director Norwood Teague on Wednesday for the second edition of “Talkin’ with Teague.” Teague discussed Gophers coaches, Gov. Mark Dayton’s letter regarding the athletics department’s ticket bundling policy for this year and other topics. The University recently extended deals with Nike and Bauer. What factors played into these decisions? They’re great partners. They’re great brands. Our student-athletes love the partnership, and it really just works well for us on a number of different fronts. [Was Minnesota] approached by other companies? We only extended [the deals] with them. We didn’t rebid it. Really, the only time you probably get approached is when your contract ends, so we didn’t get approached by anyone. The football team is on the brink of the top 25 and is in contention for the Big Ten West. How would you grade [head coach] Jerry Kill’s performance in reestablishing the program? Jerry continues to manage the program in an incredible way. I’ve said on many occasions that I wish people could see him during the week and how he conducts and manages the program — and that means from a recruiting standpoint, from a practice standpoint, from just everything he does to run it. … The results of that show on the field, and

we’re at a great position. It’ll be a fun year as we play the last four games. The “M” Club [Hall of Fame] just inducted 14 more members this month. How impor tant are alumni relations for the athletics department? They’re tremendously important. Our “M” Club is very interwoven into everything that we do. We’re in a major metropolitan area, and there [are] so many athletic alums that live in the area that suppor t us. To honor them, and to have a conduit for them to be involved in what we do, is very important. … Gov. Dayton wrote a letter to the University this month denouncing the decision to sell bundled season tickets to students. The policy was subsequently changed. Was this a learning experience for the athletics department? I think more than anything, we learned we have to communicate better the “why” of what we’re doing. And the reason why we did that was to package together tickets to reward our ver y passionate and loyal fans. That was the sole motivation. Many times, what you do can be misconstrued. But that was the “why” of what we did. We need to communicate that better moving forward. Have you been in contact with Gov. Dayton about improving the athletic department’s communication strategies moving forward? No. When I say communication, I mean just broad communication to ever ybody to tell why we’re doing it and what we do. We wanted to reward rather than punish in that situation. Brad Frost and Don Lucia are two of the most successful current coaches in college hockey. How high

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Gophers athletics director Norwood Teague answers questions in his office at the Bierman Field Athletic Building on Sept. 18.

are the expectations for the two hockey teams? I’m thrilled with where they are. We’re both No. 1 in the countr y. Can’t ask for more at this point in the season. I think those two guys are doing a terrific job. It’s going to be a fun year. They both have talented squads, and they do a super job. As far as expectations are concerned, I want them to run their program at a high level, and that means across the board. If they can do that, everything will take care of itself.

and we owe that, big time, to our fans. So yeah, it’s thrilling to have them here. Are you going to Puerto Rico for the Armed Forces Classic? I’m not going because we play Ohio State [in football] the next day. To get back here in time would have been tough. And [head men’s basketball coach Richard] Pitino and I talked about it. He said, “You should probably stay here since we’re playing Ohio State.” What does a game like that do for the program’s recognition? First of all, it’s on national TV. It’s on ESPN. And that’s now viewed by about 110 million homes. Being on ESPN is a huge benefit, not just to the athletic department, but to the University as far as branding and marketing is concerned. And then Richard

How important is it for you to have two of the top college hockey coaches coaching in [Minnesota], the “state of hockey?” It’s thrilling for me because Gopher hockey is that important to the University and to the state. Those are two programs that a lot of people follow, to say the least,

SOCCER

Minnesota sees success on the road The Gophers have only one regularseason contest remaining this year.

What have you seen from [head women’s basketball coach] Marlene Stollings since her arrival? Have you discussed any goals with her for her first year? Marlene is doing a great job. Marlene is ver y focused and passionate about what she does. [Stollings] and her staf f have an incredible work ethic. They really get after it. They recr uited well. I’m thrilled about what they’ve done, and it’s going to be a lot of fun watching them on the floor. As far as her goals, I know her goal is to get in the NCAA tournament and advance. She’s going to

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the Gophers have won more games in over time than they’ve lost, with all three overtime victories coming on the road. “Every time we get into over time, we know what it takes, and we’re ready to make our goal happen,” Stiever said. The Gophers have steadily improved on the road throughout head coach Stefanie Golan’s tenure. In 2012, her first year coaching the team, the Gophers ended up below .500 on the road overall and in the Big Ten. This season, the Gophers are guaranteed their first winning record on the road under Golan, both in

SOCCER PREVIEW

@ MINNESOTA WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday

NORTHWESTERN WHERE: Evanston, Ill. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

conference play and overall. But for now, Minnesota is focusing on its last regular-season game. Northwestern will pose a dif ferent challenge because the team plays on turf. The Gophers are planning to practice on tur f Thursday to adjust before leaving for Evanston, Ill.

“We feel like we’ve accomplished a lot to this point, but we still want to continue our season as long as we can. And we know that Northwestern is a very difficult team to play against,” Golan said. “Playing them on their field is a challenge. [It’s] one we’re looking forward to.”

Was it a priority to bring in an up-tempo style to the women’s program? I think the kids enjoy [it], and it’s easier to recruit to an up-tempo program. But that wasn’t the only reason we hired Marlene. I’ve seen her in two dif ferent jobs do a really masterful job at programs that were challenging. And before that, she was at high Division I [programs], and I knew her there. So I’ve watched her grow, and when we were looking at coaches, she rose above the rest. It was an easy decision. Have you had any involvement in the [Washington] Redskins discussion? I have not. It’s been more of a University issue. I’ve stayed on the sidelines with that.

Minnesota falls to Hoosiers in four sets

BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com

Gophers players Josee Stiever and Taylor Wodnick play at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium on Friday.

have high goals. Marlene is demanding of herself, so it’s going to be a fun ride.

VOLLEYBALL

The volleyball team dropped to 4-7 in conference play on the season.

BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com

While Gophers players speak highly of playing home games at Elizabeth L yle Robbie Stadium, the open road has been pretty good to the team, too. After the Gophers swept Maryland and Rutgers over the weekend, they improved their home conference record to 3-3-1. But on the road, the Gophers are an impressive 4-1 in the conference so far, with one game remaining on the schedule at Northwestern. The Gophers already have a spot in the Big Ten tournament, but they are in a three-way tie for fourth place in the conference. One more victory could result in a more favorable matchup next week in the conference tournament in West Lafayette, Ind. The Gophers’ road victories haven’t come easily, but they’ve kept the team in the hunt for the postseason. The team’s conference road games have all come down to just one goal. Four of the five matches were decided in overtime, with two going into double overtime. “I think a lot of it just comes down to our grit and our wanting to really win on the road,” senior captain Olivia Schultz said. “The games have been really good, and I think the ones that we have lost, they’ve been close enough that we’ve played well.” Sophomore midfielder Josee Stiever said the team set a goal at the beginning of the season to not lose in overtime. While the team hasn’t been able to reach that goal,

[Pitino] is playing his dad. That’s more intriguing, so the viewership numbers will be even higher because of that. It’ll be a lot of fun. It doesn’t just help athletics; it helps the University as well.

The Gophers dropped just one match in 11 nonconference games, but the Big Ten hasn’t been as kind to them. Minnesota lost its seventh conference match in 11 opportunities to Indiana on Wednesday night. The Gophers were looking for their first conference road victor y, and though they won the first set, they weren’t able to keep the momentum and dropped the match in four sets. Minnesota has now lost four of its last five matches. Consistency was the issue for the Gophers on Wednesday, head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “When we come out strong, we have to stay strong throughout the whole match,” said junior outside hitter Daly Santana. Santana said the team needed to be more consistent with its serves and its energy. Minnesota led the Hoosiers in the first set, gaining a quick 8-3 lead. Indiana fought back, but the Gophers ended up taking the set. The second set was a different stor y — the teams went back and forth, with five lead changes. But Indiana eventually took a 20-16 lead and finished the set strong to get a victory. Sophomore setter Katie Schau suf fered an injury in the second set, and sophomore Erica Handley replaced her. Schau didn’t return for the rest of the match. Indiana brought its momentum into the third set,

VOLLEYBALL RESULTS WEDNESDAY 1 2 3 4 FINAL Minnesota 25 20 20 33 1 18 25 25 35 3 Indiana

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and even though the Gophers came close to taking an edge, the Hoosiers outplayed them. “There was just a bunch of little things that didn’t really click,” Handley said. To adjust, Minnesota replaced sophomore Hannah Tapp in the middle with freshman Molly Lohman for the fourth set. The small change seemed to work for the Gophers, as they came out with a 6-3 lead on Indiana. The set was tight all the way through, and a service error by Adrianna Nora put the Hoosiers at match point. Despite that, the Gophers rallied back to tie it at 25-25. The fourth set went into extra points, and the Gophers came alive at the end of the set. But on an ace, Indiana ended the long set and match at 35-33. “We had a chance to turn it into a fifth, but it just didn’t go our way,” McCutcheon said. The Gophers’ defense struggled at times throughout the match. “[It was a] little bit frantic back there, [but] other times we were doing well,” he said. “We got caught in the moment. We got away from the plan a little bit.” Handley said the Gophers needed to keep focusing on the next point and stick with their plan. “Essentially, it comes down to us being a little more consistent,” McCutcheon said. “We could have performed a little better.”

Thursday, October 30, 2014

SWIMMING & DIVING

Zeiger sisters make impact in the pool

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Gophers freshman Brooke Zeiger swims the 500-yard freestyle against North Dakota at the University Aquatic Center on Friday.

Blake Zeiger is a senior, and her sister, Brooke, is a Gophers freshman. BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

After being homeschooled in her home state of Rhode Island, Blake Zeiger made a huge transition with her decision to attend the University of Minnesota and join nearly 29,000 other students. A few years later, her sister, Brooke Zeiger, made the same decision. While the change of scener y might have frightened some students, the Zeiger sisters’ performances in the pool show that the women from the smallest state in the countr y have had no trouble making the switch.

“They work extraordinarily hard,” head coach Kelly Kremer said. “They’re kind of what you want in a student-athlete. … They’re exactly what you’re looking for as a coach to build a program.” However, the Zeigers weren’t always swimmers. Senior Blake and freshman Brooke Zeiger traded their gymnastics leotards for swim caps and goggles when they wer e introduced to swimming about a decade ago. “We were gymnasts first, and then I got hurt,” Blake Zeiger said. “We star ted on a summer [swimming] team. We both really liked it, so we decided to tr y club.” Each of the sisters demonstrated the swim talent they inherited from their parents — both of whom raced for the University of Maine — early in their careers.

“It just clicked,” Brooke Zeiger said. When the time came for Blake to make a college decision, Minnesota was in the back of her mind because she wanted to stay closer to home. A phone call with Kremer changed that. “It was really cool talking to Kelly on the phone,” Blake Zeiger said. “So I decided to give it a shot and go for a trip.” When Blake arrived on campus, Kremer said he could foresee there being trouble with her transition. “For Blake, that was a much tougher adjustment than she thought it might be her first year,” Kremer said. “But she got through first semester, and then she got her feet on the ground.” Since then, Blake Zeiger has been a standout for Minnesota, posting three top-13 times at last year’s

Big Ten championships. “Her improvement cur ve is exactly what anybody would want,” Kremer said. “It’s literally been perfect.” Now, Gophers fans get the oppor tunity to watch both Zeigers produce when Brooke dives into the pool. “When you look at the scope of what Blake’s done here, it’s really incredible,” Kremer said. “And Brooke has all that in front of her still.” In three meets this season, Brooke owns victories in seven races. “[I’m] not surprised [by Brooke’s early success],” Kremer said. “We can put her in [any event], and she’ll just go right to it. I’m really happy that she’s done whatever we’ve asked her to do to this point.” Blake Zeiger owns one individual event victor y this season, as well as two

SWIMMING AND DIVING PREVIEW

@ IOWA

MINNESOTA WHEN: 5 p.m. Friday

WHERE: University Aquatic Center SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

victories as a member of relay teams. While both Zeigers admitted they’re friendly with one another on dr y land, they have a bit of a sibling rivalry in the pool. “I could see her a couple of lanes over last Saturday when we were racing,” Brooke Zeiger said. “I did not want her to beat me.” But a year from now, when her older sister graduates, Brooke won’t be able to keep as close of a watch on her pace.

While Blake might be behind her little sister in the rivalr y when it comes to event victories this season, she has a strong resume that she’s built over the past three years. “She’s been a multipletime All-American and been in lots of finals at Big Tens,” Kremer said. “She’s so critical on the Gopher relays and [in] Gopher sprint relays that we’re sure going to miss her when she graduates.”

CROSS COUNTRY

Minnesota heads to Big Ten meet

Both teams will face stiff competition in the conference championship field. BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com

After resting its top runners last weekend, the Gophers women’s cross countr y team should be f r es h f o r t he B i g Te n championships in Iowa City, Iowa, this Sunday. Head coach Sarah Hopkins said the meet is going to be impor tant, but she doesn’t want her runners to overthink it. “A lot of doing well is just relaxing and letting your body do what it’s capable of doing. It’s all about perspective and knowing that this isn’t the be-all, end-all.’ If they build it up into something mor e than it is, that’s when you have some problems,” Hopkins said. Redshir t junior Becca Dyson said the field, which includes No. 1 Michigan State and No. 4 Michigan, will be ver y competitive. Last year’s team took third place at the Big Ten championships. The year’s gr oup is more unexperienced, as only Dyson and redshir t junior Liz Berkholtz ran at the meet last year.

Minnesota will send four underclassmen to the meet. Dyson said if the young group can work together, it should put up a good performance. “ We ’ r e l o o k i n g f o r them to work together as a group and to push themselves. I think they’re fully capable. … They just have to have a little belief in themselves,” Dyson said. Redshir t junior Kaila Urick said people overlook the team because of its inexperience. But despite that, she said the Gophers are going to perform well. “A lot of people didn’t think we’d be doing as well as last year. [That is] kind of fueling a lot of us on the team,” Urick said. “We’re going to come to Big Tens and run a lot better than people expect.”

Men’s team also heads to Iowa

The men’s team will seek to overcome what head coach Steve Plasencia called an “off” performance at the Wisconsin adidas Invitational two weeks ago. Plasencia called the meet “another challenge.” But, like the women, he said he doesn’t want to make the meet bigger than what it is. “You [have to] let the chips fall where they will. I

CROSS COUNTRY PREVIEW

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS

MINNESOTA WHEN: 10:45 a.m. Sunday

WHERE: Iowa City, Iowa SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

“We’re looking for them to work together as a group and to push themselves. I think they’re fully capable. ... They just have to have a little belief in themselves.” BECCA DYSON Redshirt junior

don’t think we do anything special … just go out there and control all the factors you can control,” Plasencia said. The Gophers finished fourth at the Big Ten championships last year, and redshirt junior Aaron Bartnik said the Gophers must have a good team performance to have a podium finish this season. “We have nine guys going down there to race, and any one of those could be in our scoring five. We have a lot of leadership in Blayne Dulian, a lot of experience with Christian Skaret, and a lot of young talent in Obsa [Ali] and Charlie Lawrence,

and out of everyone there, I feel confident that we’re going to perform well,” Bartnik said. Redshir t junior Adam Zutz said he thinks the youth of the team will put up a good performance at the meet. “Our younger guys have shown they can handle the competition and put together a good race. That’s encouraging for us older guys to see the young guys running well,” Zutz said. Bar tnik said the team will come out fast and hard at the meet. “We want to go out there like we have something to prove,” he said.

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Minnesota’s Becca Dyson runs the final stretch of the Intrasquad 5K on Aug. 29 at Les Bolstad Golf Course.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

MUSIC

Slowdrive to play at the Fine Line The band reunited after 20 years for a worldwide tour and will play at the Fine Line Music Café with Low.

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Slowdive reunited after nearly two decades and will play at the Fine Line Music Cafe with Low as part of their North American tour.

BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

fter nearly 20 years of inact i v i t y, B r i t i s h shoegaze band Slowdive has hit the road again for a new destination in their career. Slowdive, composed of Rachel Goswell, Neil Halstead, Christian Savill, Nick Chaplin and Simon Scott, first formed in the United Kingdom in 1989 and released three albums before breaking up in 1995. When the group was offered a spot at Barcelona’s 2014 Primavera Sound Festival, the members decided not only to take it, but also to reunite for a multi-continent tour following the festival. Minnesota band Low will open for Slowdive for

most of their nearly soldout Nor th American tour, including a stop at the Fine Line Music Café on Friday. “I think [reuniting] was something we were thinking about, but [Primavera] focused our attention. That kinda gave us a goal,” guitarist Christian Savill said. The members found themselves star ting from scratch on a project that began nearly 25 years ago. “We har dly had any equipment,” guitarist Christian Savill said, noting that bassist Nick Chapman no longer owned a bass guitar. “It was like totally starting again, really.” After acquiring the instr uments, Slowdive’s next step was to get back in shape. Their rehearsal process preceding the tour spanned five months, partly

because the members now live in dif ferent par ts of Britain. “Some of the songs we could remember, but a lot of them we were like, ‘Oh God, I can’t remember how to play that — you know what guitar change was that?’ But that was part of the fun,” Savill said. “And it was brilliant because we’d play and we’d go out. Those are some of my happiest memories, just the five of us together.” Almost all of their North American tour dates are sold out, and Savill says they’ve received enthusiastic responses from countries they previously never had the chance to tour. Upon arriving in Taiwan, the band realized their gear hadn’t arrived yet because of a typhoon. They used

social media to spread word, and audience members happily lent them their instruments. “It was like a party,” Savill said. “It’s just been crazy, really.” The widespread positive feedback contrasted sharply with their experiences at the end of their initial career. In 1995, the public didn’t take the shoegaze genre seriously. After the release of their third album, “Pygmalion,” the band received numerous negative reviews and their record label dropped them. “When we finished the band, [shoegaze] was kind of just like nothing; it was almost derided. But now … it seems to be a pretty big scene, relatively speaking,” Savill said. Savill said he believes

their fan base comes from listeners who enjoy bands that cite Slowdive among their influences. As a result, their audiences have consisted of primarily young people, as opposed to the band’s expectation of mostly original listeners who are now middle-aged. Instead of adapting to keep up with newer shoegaze bands, Savill said, “We just coast along doing our own thing.” As opposed to their earlier career, they can now instantly receive feedback and feel support from their listeners through social media. Low joined the tour largely because of a Twitter interaction. When both bands happened to play at a show in Iceland, Slowdive members noticed that

Low retweeted an audience member’s tweet saying that Low should open for Slowdive. Savill said this was a push to see if they were interested. “We’re all big fans of Low. … We’d never consider asking Low to open for us because in our minds, they’re like this amazing band who kind of wouldn’t open for us,” Savill said. Alan Sparhawk of Low also cited Twitter as an influence but said he had no idea their retweet propelled the collaboration. “I remember seeing one of them tweeting about being excited to see us, and I thought … ‘Wow, I didn’t even know they knew who we were,’” Sparhawk said. The early years of Low collided with the end of Slowdive’s initial run. Sparhawk said that he recalled listening to their records while driving on tour. “Even though we definitely sound different, they were one of the bands we were listening to that was sor t of reassuring,” Sparhawk said, referencing the bands’ shared use of female and male vocals and loose structure. “It’s not so much an influence as much as it was a camaraderie.” Both Spar hawk and Savill said their respective bands had been musing about doing something special in light of Halloween for their Minneapolis show, but they had no concrete plans yet. Savill said “the fact that people are coming is amazing,” explaining that his band was hesitant to book larger venues for fear of poor attendance. The band especially has looked for ward to their Nor th American tour and plans to create a new album when their time frees up afterward. “Even when ever ything was really pretty horrible back home in the U.K. … the people were really responsive, and some of our best gigs were in America,” Savill said. “But we just didn’t anticipate the kind of response we’ve had, really.”

Slowdive with Low Where Fine Line Music Café, 318 N. First Ave., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. Friday Cost $25-45 (SOLD OUT)

MUSIC

ART

Time for some Nooky Jones

Changing the world with ‘medicinal art’

Nooky Jones plays jazz-flecked R&B made for the bedroom.

Ricardo Levins Morales’ politically edged poster designs have stood up for the little guy since the ’70s.

BY GRANT TILLERY gtillery@mndaily.com

ameron Kinghor n and Reid Kennedy believe that success lies in a name. The lead singer and drummer of Minneapolis soul-jazz sextet Nooky Jones were intent on encapsulating the band’s sexy, seductive sounds in its moniker. But at times, brainstorming proved too taxing an endeavor. “We tossed bands back and for th that have terrible names that are real successful,” Nooky Jones’ dr ummer Reid Kennedy said. “I told [Kinghor n] Hoobastank, [for example]. They probably had a gold record, and no one cared what their name was.” Kennedy and Kinghor n decided on Nooky Jones after a month of deliberation. Tr umpeter Adam Meckler (a University of Minnesota alumnus) formed the band in

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Nooky Jones drummer Reid Kennedy, vocalist Cameron Kinghorn and trumpeter Adam Meckler pose for a portrait Wednesday afternoon on campus.

2013, and he asked Kinghorn — who also studied trumpet at the University — to provide vocals for the group. The name says it all: Nooky Jones plays music people want to get naughty to. They’ll bring

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their sensuous sounds to the 7th Street Entr y for HELLOween with #Mpls. “So far we haven’t set up our own show,” Kennedy said about Nooky Jones’ ease in finding gigs. “We just keep getting

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invited to other people’s.” Nooky Jones’ bedroom soul sound evokes the melodies of Mar vin Gaye and Rober t Glasper. There’s a slight hip-hop u See NOOKY Page 12

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or silkscreen print ar tist Ricardo Levins Morales, where art ends and activism begins is difficult to define. Born in Puerto Rico in 1956, Levins Morales has dedicated his career in poster design to promoting political grassroots movements that aim to change the civil rights climate. Soon after moving to Minneapolis in 1976, he started the political art group Northland Poster Collective, which dissolved after 30 years in 2009. On Saturday, Levins Morales is showcasing his work at the Festival de las Calaveras, a Day of the Dead celebration of the Twin Cities Latin American communities, where he will discuss Northland Poster Collective’s motivations behind the art.

“The desire to change the world was a big one,” Levins Morales said. “We slowly learned what that meant — how you use art to do that.” Despite his Latino heritage, Levins Morales has designed posters for numerous race and civil rights issues, including a woodcut depicting civil activist and fugitive Angela Davis when she was still in hiding in 1970. “I feel like I have a relationship with certain communities and cultural groups,” Levins Morales said. “I have faith that if I simply create something from deep in me, it’s going to resonate with them.” One of his more famous posters, a stark, black-andwhite design of Trayvon Martin, represents a pattern of shootings in the country, Levins Morales said. “In the case of the Trayvon poster, there was a lot of frustration in the black and activist communities, kind of like, ‘My God, does this never end?’ ” Levins Morales said. Martin’s brother requested a signed copy of the poster. “Par t of [why] people u See FESTIVAL Page 12

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

MUSIC

Har Mar Superstar to play First Ave. Sean Tillmann began Har Mar Superstar to explore his Minnesota-raised theatrical side. BY JARED HEMMING jhemming@mndaily.com

espite his tonguein-cheek lyricism and near-constant snicker, it’s clear that Minnesota native Sean Tillmann takes his Har Mar Superstar project seriously. Har Mar Superstar’s fifth album, “Bye Bye 17,” sees Tillmann abandoning his faux-R&B style — as evidenced in songs like “DUI” and “Power Lunch” — for a more genuine, performance-driven foray into old-school soul. “My job is to be an enter tainer, so that’s what I do,” Tillmann said. “I think most people do a poor job of it, especially musicians. So that I can come out and actually be fun to watch is what sets me apart.” In support of the album, Tillmann is bringing Har Mar Superstar back to Minnesota with a show at First Avenue’s Mainroom on Saturday. Tillmann said the new album and show reflect his love of theater, which he honed while in high school at the Perpich Center for Ar ts Education in Golden Valley. “I came from a background of theater and music, and I’ve studied more theater,” T illmann said. “Being onstage and putting on a show is what’s important. I don’t really care what your band’s songs sound like; I’ll stay at home and listen to them. But if I’m going

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Minnesota native Sean Tillmann put forth a serious soul effort with Har Mar Superstar’s new album, “Bye Bye 17.” Har Mar Superstar is playing at the First Avenue Mainroom on Saturday.

to go to your show, you better be fun to watch.” T illmann, who began per forming in the 1990s with his noise band Calvin Krime, began releasing albums in the Internet era, which he said is detrimental to the performer-musician. “The ’90s happened, and ever yone got boring,” Tillmann said. “I think it’s Inter net culture: People are so flash-in-the-pan, they don’t get a chance to become good yet, and then

they get forgotten.” Though Tillmann made a name for himself with his Ron Jeremy/mer r y prankster image, Har Mar’s success has been a dream come true for him. “I always wanted to do plays and be an actor of some sort,” Tillmann said. “And then I talked myself into the idea that it’s unrealistic to tr y to be an actor because there’s no way to make it. So I chose music. ... At the time, it seemed

like a much easier path.” When he first decided to pursue music, Tillmann formed Calvin Krime with his Perpich classmates. The band saw success, eventually getting signed to an independent label, Amphetamine Reptile Records. “I saw a future for myself,” Tillmann said. “But you can’t explain getting signed to an indie label to your parents [as] being something that’s going to change your life for the bet-

ter. It takes getting written up in the ‘Pioneer Press.’ ” To appease his parents’ fears, Tillmann attended the University of Minnesota for a year, though he said he experienced the college lifestyle at his performing arts high school. “After going to Perpich, I had already lived in dorms. I had already learned how to drink, take acid and smoke weed,” T illmann said. “I felt five years older than everybody.”

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Ricardo Levins Morales stands in his shop, the RLM Arts Studio, on Tuesday. Morales designs posters that reflect social change, and his art will be featured at the Festival de las Calaveras on Saturday.

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respond is they feel the humanity of this kid showing through in the sketch,” Levins Morales said. Part of Levins Morales’ perspective comes from his family’s emigration from Puerto Rico to Chicago when he was 12, after his pro-independence parents were blacklisted from Puerto Rican jobs. “I think every generation has to learn [rebellion] on its own,” Levins Morales said. “A lot of times, what you have are kids rebelling against the traditions of their families. In my case, I absorbed it because my parents taught by example.” In Chicago, Levins Morales moved out of his family’s

house when he was 15 and dropped out of high school a year later. “Fortunately, there were a lot of pathways for getting involved in things that were positive,” Levins Morales said. He describes his politically charged work as “medicinal art,” expressions that kept Levins Morales from spiraling down a self-destructive course. “Trauma is when someone’s power is taken away from them,” Levins Morales said. “Healing is a process of restoring that power, whether it’s in an individual who was abused as a child or people who are traumatized by colonialism or racism.” To heal this trauma, Levins Morales said he likes the poster as a medium

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that balances straightforward phrases with indirect imagery. One poster depicts Earth as a sprout with the phrase “The future is in the seeds.” “I think metaphor is a way to be direct,” Levins Morales said. “A lot of these images are nothing that would happen in the real world, but if you put them together symbolically, people instantly know what you’re trying to say.” Festival de las Calaveras director Deborah Ramos said Levins Morales and his work speak to the festival’s goal of reflecting the Latino and Latina community by highlighting issues among undocumented workers struggling in the labor movement. “It’s really highlighting that aspect of who we are,” Ramos said of Levins Morales’

posters. “You can’t separate the art out of the people.” Levins Morales said he strives for community involvement with his work. “In community, the nutrients are stories, messages and values that circulate among people,” Levins Morales said. “That’s the richness of this festival: It creates a space where you get a high concentration of nutritious cultural stories.”

Festival de las Calaveras: Day of the Dead celebration Where Pepito’s Parkway Theater, 4817 S. Chicago Ave., Minneapolis When Noon Saturday Cost $12 (for concert)

bent to bassist Andrew Foreman and keyboardist Kevin Gastonguay’s Fender Rhodes-infused jazz chord progressions that outline smooth R&B songwriting. Kinghor n’s hazy yet rich vocals share inflection with neo-soul crooners like D’Angelo and Maxwell. “D’Angelo is one of my favorite ar tists of all time, and I listen to ‘Voodoo’ all the time,” Kinghor n said. “With ‘Voodoo,’ it’s sometimes a little less str uctured in that it was what was coming to him. There’s hooks and ever ything, but there aren’t as many direct melodies, but it’s such a heavy groove. What we’re doing isn’t quite that, but it’s definitely in there.” Despite the intricate melodies, Kinghor n and Kennedy won’t call Nooky Jones a jazz group, even though all the members come from a jazz background. “The music is really jazz-oriented. The harmonies are not what you find in top 40,” Kennedy said. “But we’re still tr ying to write catchy hooks and make it lyrically appealing. If you call it jazz, people automatically go, ‘It’s too weird for me.’ ” Were the paradigms of jazz modernized, Kennedy said, Nooky Jones would fit better in the genre. “Jazz is dead — you hear that all the time,” Kennedy said. “Jazz is different; that’s what I would say about it. There [are] not people playing big band music all the time like there used to be 50 years ago, but jazz wasn’t meant to be one thing

Meanwhile, Calvin Krime took up most of Tillmann’s time, distracting him from schoolwork. “I felt like I was wasting time at college,” Tillmann said. “The whole time I was touring and skipping school and waiting to leave. I knew college wasn’t going to help me do what I wanted to do.” After Calvin Krime broke up, Tillmann started performing as Har Mar Superstar as a way to blend his love of goofy, theatrical performance and lighthearted pop. “Calvin Krime was a real band; we’d go to the practice space ever y other day and work on songs together,” Tillmann said. “Eventually, Har Mar was the more pop side of that. I was always finding my voice. I’m still finding it.” Today, Har Mar Superstar’s hometown return to First Avenue is a victory lap for Tillmann, who succeeded in making a career out of, as he puts it, “just being weird.” “It was what I wanted to do, but who knew?” Tillmann said. “You can’t really anticipate becoming Har Mar Superstar.”

Har Mar Superstar and the Pizza Underground Where First Avenue Mainroom, 701 First Ave. N., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. Saturday Cost $15 Age 18+

Nooky Jones (with #Mpls) Where 7th Street Entry, 701 First Ave. N., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. Friday Cost $10 Age 18+

forever. It’s been evolving for 100 years. What people associate as being jazz in the past isn’t what jazz is now.” The jazz label gets knocked around fur ther thanks to Nooky Jones’ sharp, polished horn section composed of Meckler and University trombone major Ryan Christianson. Unlike many hor n-based bands, Nooky Jones forgoes the saxophone to m a i n t a i n t h e i r s a s s y, brassy sound. “Adam was in charge of putting together the horns and the sound for it,” Kinghorn said. “Jokingly, [Meckler] said, ‘I don’t want any saxophone players stealing the tr umpet solos.’ ” Settling into their groove doesn’t mean that Nooky Jones plans on recording an album any time soon. They’ve released two tracks through YouT ube, with more in the pipeline. Kinghor n and Kennedy both said there’s no rush to do so and that the band is intent on exercising patience and doing it right. “A lot of groups are really anxious to put out a record,” Kennedy said. “In my experience, the longer you wait and play together as a unit, the better it’s going to sound. If you play gigs for a year and the music star ts to fit like a comfor table pair of slippers, the album’s going to sound that much better.”

By Jackie Renzetti

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

“Hocus Pocus”

Dia de los Muertos

The Generationals

If you’d prefer to keep your Halloween celebration low-key, a movie night would do the trick. If you had a childhood, you’re likely familiar with the famous 1993 Disney flick. As a refresher, high school student Max accidentally resurrects a deceased witch trio and steals their spell book. The trio sets out to find the book so that they can magically steal life from children. Highlights include a lovable talking cat, an adorable teenage romance and an epic performance of “I Put a Spell on You” by the witch trio.

The traditional Mexican holiday Day of the Dead celebrates life as much as it pays tribute to those who have passed away. The celebration inside the Bedlam involves live music, poetr y, dancing and food. It’s worth mentioning a traditional Day of the Dead food is the sugar y bread “pan de muerto,” which is pretty amazing. On a more serious note, the event encourages you to wear clothing from a loved one who has died or to bring remembrance items.

Come on, the party doesn’t end on Saturday. The Generationals consist of Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer, whose dance floor-ready tunes include “Put a Light On” and “Gold Silver Diamond.” The latter appears on the group’s recently released album “Alix.” Esteemed producer Richard Swift deemed “Alix” tracks as albumworthy before he stepped in to spice them up — a testament to the duo’s grooviness.

Where Coffman Union Hours 7 p.m. Friday Cost Free for students

Where Bedlam Theatre Lowertown, 213 E. Fourth St., St. Paul Hours 7 p.m. Cost $5

Where 7th Street Entry, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis Hours 7:30 p.m. Cost $12

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By Jackie Renzetti

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This may come as a surprise — it certainly was for me — but there IS a place to drink on campus, and it’s on the fourth floor of Coffman. “Whaaa?” you’re saying. It’s the Campus Club, and as the name implies, you have to be a member (and pay the ensuing dues) to gain entrance. It has that snooty, old-white-guys-playinggolf-drinking-single-malt type of vibe, but its incognito presence is worthy of note. As a student, you stand to drop $204 for the annual experience.

Eric Jaronsinski gained attention this past year for his tweets as Nein Quarterly — a fictional German magazine that produces zero issues per year. For his display picture, he uses a cartoon of the German-Jewish philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, whose comically stern appearance complements Jaronsinski’s philosophical and grammar musings. Fit especially for people studying German, English, history or philosophy, his nihilistic humor may appeal to anyone.

Commemorate the origin of the high-five before its birth month of October ends. On Oct. 2, 1977, the supposedly first massively witnessed high-five took place between Dodgers baseball players Dusty Baker and Glenn Burke following Baker’s 30th home run of the season. Baker was the fourth Dodgers player to score 30 or more home runs. And to celebrate, Burke inadvertently made the gesture. Despite the fact it wasn’t televised, the high-five spread like wildfire.

OPERA

Hansel and Gretel reinvented The Minnesota Opera brings “Hansel and Gretel” to their recently renovated home at the Ordway. BY LAINI DEVIN ldevin@mndaily.com

photograph of an abandoned funhouse with the phrase “It’s fun to get lost” informed director Doug Varone’s vision for the Minnesota Opera’s production of “Hansel and Gretel.” Varone’s show, which opens this weekend, is set in a carnival-esque scape — “a place that’s both seductive and scar y,” said David Zinn, the set and costume designer. The production’s theme takes audience members to a place that captures both fear and delight. Based on the Brothers Grimm classic, the opera has music com posed by Engelber t Humperdinck. The production first premiered in Weimar, Germany, in 1893. The six-person cast comprises five women and one man. Per former Stephanie Lauricella plays Hansel. “I love being able to play the many different characters that opera has to offer,” she said. “And for me, that means being a boy or a girl.” Lauricella said it is difficult to find the physicality of her character. “As a woman, I tr y really hard to have excellent posture and not slouch,” she said. “While playing a young boy, I need to forget about my needs and think of how a little kid would walk around or play.”

The Minnesota Opera’s Hansel and Gretel Where Ordway Center When Nov. 1-9 Cost $25+

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Stephanie Lauricella, right, and Angela Mortellaro practice for “Hansel and Gretel” at the Minnesota Opera on Saturday. “Hansel and Gretel” will be performed at the Minnesota Opera from Nov. 1-9.

Altering her body isn’t an easy feat; Lauricella uses the orchestrations of the show to assume her character in its fullness. “As soon as I hear the music, my mind and body automatically switch into the character,” she said. “Once we get onstage, I fully expect to become the kid that is scared of the creepy

candy lady and all of her clowns.” Per for mer Marianne Cornetti plays “the creepy candy lady,” also known as the witch. She portrays the mother of Hansel and Gretel, too. The witch character brings the chilling effect that the circus theme mirrors as the show takes audience

members through the impoverished urban city setting of the 20th century. Zinn did extensive research — both collaboratively with the director and lighting designer and on his own — to present a graphic and visual world that comes alive on stage. “I’ve always loved old

circuses and pictures of them, so it’s been really fun to dive into that world and bring some of that gorgeous research to life,” Zinn said. He looked at the desolation of old amusement parks, specifically focusing on carousels, for inspiration. “Sometimes faded,

abandoned beauty is the best,” he said. Together with Varone’s corps of dancers and the orchestration, the creative team takes the audience through an event in ways that are both beautiful and creepy, Zinn said. “This is the only opera that still makes me cr y,” Lauricella said.

MUSIC

Contenders seek connections, not fame or money The Contenders focus on storytelling in their folk-rock songs. BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

he Contenders’ goal isn’t as ambitious as their name may suggest. They embrace their lives’ abnormalities and deliver their soulful harmonies and illustrative lyrics to an audience. The Contenders, a folkcountry-rock outfit composed of singer-songwriters Jay Nash and Josh Day, officially began last December. After Day played drums for Nash’s solo shows throughout 2013, the two decided to create their own EP titled “Meet the Contenders,” which debuts on Nov. 18. On Oct. 15, the duo embarked on a 21-city tour with a stop at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis. Both Nash and Day led separate musical careers prior to the Contenders. In the past 10 years, Nash has worked as a solo singersongwriter, while Day has drummed in various bands, including those of Sara Bareilles and Jennifer Nettles. Nash also previously worked for Room 5, a music club in Los Angeles, and he met Day when he booked Bareilles and her band. Their rapport progressed as they shared bills on various shows. Eventually, they

The Contenders Where 7th Street Entry, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. Thursday Cost $10-12

discovered a mutual deep respect for classic Canadian rock group the Band — a fandom that proved to be a game-changer. “Our initial brotherhood came over talking about the Band,” Day said. The pair prides themselves in creating songs that tell a story, keeping with the songwriting style of Levon Helm and Bob Dylan. They said their musical influences also include Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Grateful Dead. The duo maximizes their sound by simultaneously harmonizing as lead vocalists as Nash plays guitar and Day drums. The EP’s opening track, “The Contender,” exemplifies their stor ytelling and folk-country-rock style reminiscent of the Band. Nash said the song derives from the struggle of their songwriting peers. “Some might be household names, and some might be completely unknown, but [they are] folks that are compelled almost by their DNA to make music,” Nash said. After writing the song, Nash said the pair realized they fit that description as well.

Jay Nash and Josh Day have hit the road for their first tour as the Contenders.

“[We] both kind of count ourselves among them in that we’re not in it for the money, necessarily; we’re not in it for fame,” Nash said. “We’re in it to make music and achieve that connection with listeners.” The duo said that in addition to paying tribute to musical trailblazers and fictional musings, their songs

also originate from real-life experiences, especially those from their travels. “I think every day of our lives touring on the road is weird,” Day said. “Weird is the norm for us.” On one night of their ongoing tour, a man whom Day believed to be homeless approached him, requesting to join the band. Instead

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of avoiding the situation as some folks might, Day listened to his story. As Nash said, this experience will likely make its way into a song. “By and large, I don’t think [the songs] would even happen without the road. They feed each other,” Nash said. “The whole act of going out and touring provides all this experience,

inspiration and father for writing songs.” The duo plans on continuing the cycle of weirdness for as long as they can. “We’re in this thing for life, you know, for better or worse. Making records, touring and getting that connection with audiences is what we live for,” Nash said.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

FOOD

College Kitchen: Bring the beet in Red roots put your love on top. BY CECILIA MAZUMDAR STANGER cmazumdar stanger@mndaily.com

ooking with red beets resembles vegetable murder. The bright juices are sure to stain your food and leave you redhanded. Beetroots have a distinct sweet, earthy flavor. They are delicious roasted with olive oil, salt and pepper — a preparation that stands on its own or ser ves as a valued addition to salads and sandwiches. Often relegated to a few familiar recipes — like borscht — beets are actually quite versatile. Add some color to your palate, because pink is the flavor.

Borscht

Few soups look as hardcore as borscht. The broth’s red hue seeps into all the vegetables, making an elegant bowl of demon blood. Despite its rich color and hearty list of ingredients, this Eastern European soup is light and refreshing. 3 grated beets 1 diced large onion 3 smashed and minced garlic cloves 2 cubed potatoes 3 sliced carrots 1 cup peas (fresh if available) 1 cup sliced green beans (fresh if available) 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1. Coat the grated beets with one teaspoon of salt to preserve the color. 2. In a large pot, sauté the onions and garlic in butter until translucent. Add the rest of the vegetables, ex-

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A blood red beet and vegetable soup garnished with feta cheese and fresh dill.

cept the beans, and pour in enough water to cover.

Rose tinted cupcakes

3. Bring the soup to a boil, then reduce to a simmer. Cook until the vegetables are tender. To maintain their crispness, add the green beans during the last minute of cooking.

This formula was adapted from a Diva’s Can Cook red velvet cupcake recipe. Add more pureed beet to the batter for a brighter red and an earthier flavored cupcake. Strain the beets out of their cooking liquid and use the pink water (or plain hot water) instead of beet puree if the vegetable’s flavor is unappealing to your palate — the resulting cupcakes will look and taste chocolatey.

4. Season the soup with lemon juice, pepper and additional salt, if needed. 5. Garnish with dill and sour cream or fresh cheese.

1/4 cup grated red beets 1/4 cup hot water 1 cup sugar 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 egg 1/2 cup buttermilk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon vinegar 1 cup cake flour 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. 2. Simmer grated beets, salt and water in a saucepan. Puree when the vegetable has softened to the consistency of a cooked potato. 3. Mix together the sugar and oil in a large bowl until well combined. 4. Beat in eggs until mixture is uniform in color. Whisk in the buttermilk, vanilla extract, vinegar and 1/4 cup of

the hot beet puree. 5. Whisk in the flour, then add the rest of the dr y ingredients. 6. Line a muffin pan with cupcake liners, and pour 1/4 cup of batter into each liner. 7. Bake for 18-20 minutes, and let sit in the pan for 5 minutes before transferring the cakes to a cooling rack. Makes 1 dozen cupcakes.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

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Thursday, October 30, 2014

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.

10/30/2014

Today’s Birthday (10/30): Shine like a star this year. Practice and share your talents. Money comes easier this year (especially after 12/23), so put some aside for later.

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 9 — Friends offer fantastic suggestions. Reinforce the structure of your idea. Research supplies and materials.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Duty and tradition provide advancement potential. Take an older person’s advice on methods with a proven track record.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Establish your platform and endorse your community partners. Create flexible structures. Abandon old fears. Disagreement can be okay.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — A friend offers direct support on a home project. Engage in the battle. Cultivate the most practical options.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Keep your treasure buried. Plan your vacation over the next few days. Imagine an adventure in an exotic locale.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — You have stores set aside. Study and practice today and tomorrow. Plan for publication or public display.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Take practical steps to realize a financial dream. Review your budget today and tomorrow. Research options, plot and scheme.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Today and tomorrow can be quite profitable, especially if you work up a sweat. Someone who seems weak actually isn’t.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — The truth comes out, and your theory is confirmed. Get expert advice over the next two days to forward a home project. Let your partner drive.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Make a professional commitment and get empowered. Go ahead and celebrate with confidence today and tomorrow.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — The next two days get busy. Gather support from practical friends. Narrow your focus to put out fires and handle urgencies.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Make sure your partner is on board with the plan. They can provide the practical information you need.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

from the archive

Thursday, October 27, 2005

BACKTALK

DAILY CROSSWORD

Halloween is coming up fast. What are you going to be Networkia?

From TheFrailicher

Dear TiceIsNice. You are an idiot. Net: C’mon now, don’t sugar coat it. Mike Tice should have been fired over a year ago. There was no whomping over the Pack and I repeat you are quite possibly the biggest douchebag (Even more so that the whistling guy, Kevin Federline, Greg Kuehne, and Ryan Cabrera combined) if you think otherwise. Net: That’s a lot of douche. Now I’m with you that the Vikes are the greatest football team in the NFL Net: As reflected by their record. however we possess the most gigantic fecal-smeared coaching staff in the United States (even worse than the Badgers!!) In conclusion, if you were being facetious I applaud you for getting me riled up. If you weren’t, you and I will have to compete in a double-elimination street fight to the death. Net: Wouldn’t it be single elimination by default?

From SickofCarlsonAssNUTTs

Cher Réseau (Dear Network), Net: Your Paristalk does not impress us. I’m tired of not seeing any articles about Carlson NUTTs. Net: Funny you should ask. Check page 3A. Damn we’re good, that’s two days in a row. I do enjoy conversations with them though, about how great they are because they worked hard in high school and how ‘hard’ their classes are now. Net: Putting together a snappy designer outfit and perfectly coiffed fauxhawk every day takes a lot of work. I’m sure Business Statistics ranks right up there with IT Physics in level of difficulty. I’m tired of hearing their douchebag mouths flapping about how prestigious their school is. You’re a NUTT that can’t add so why not go NUTT off and go take your Basic English class. Net: English, shmenglish. Money is the HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:

universal language. Go ahead and gloat your inflated GPA that includes classes like Fundamentals of Federal Income tax, The Business Plan, Managerial Physiology, and Math for Retards. Net: Don’t forget about CSOM 3456 Advanced Middle Management: Getting Others To Do Your Work For You. We hear it’s a doozy. The University should sink more money into this joke of a school; really it would make us great. Forget cutting GC we should cut CSOM.

From Only Olaf

Hey der Netwerkt, how’s it going? Net: Gee golly things are swell. Uff da, I been noticin’ all da negitive comments in da paper der lately, don’t cha know, and I tink that maybe we should all just take a breather, eh? before we go rightin’ into the ol Netwerkt column. Some people can’t help the way they are, eh? Net: That’s why we need to help them to help themselves. we can’t all be lutefisk eatin’, ice fishin’ Lutheran Minnesotans, don’t cha know. Why don’t we all try ta be a little more Minnesota nice, eh? Then maybe when yer sittin in dat der lecture class and a nice person comes and asks if da seat next ta ya is open, you can say, “oh ya, you betcha” and then ya can talk about da cold winter comin’ or da big Gopher game, or if they tink they’re going ta serve more hotdish in dat der cafeteria. Net: Mmm hotdish … the mystery treat. Okay, well...I guess I’ll talk ta ya later...okay...say hi to the family, eh?...Ya maybe I’ll bring you some leftsa from da potluck on saturday, eh? okay....yeahbye.

From Studly McStudlyson

Hey Net-man, I forgot to mention it the other day, but thanks for the gum. Net: You’re welcome. You owe us big time, and don’t think we won’t remember.

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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 38 October 27, 2005 Dear Dr. Date,

There are so many guys out there who only know what it’s like to be the “nice guy.” After I got out of a very long term relationship where I found out those horrible “nice guy” habits turned out to be “perfect boyfriend” habits, I learned the frustrating fact that I was now another “nice guy” on the dating scene. Despite the fact that I am in IT, I have no problem talking to beautiful members of the opposite sex. With a little wit and good conversation I was able to date here and there. This is nice an all, except every girl has agreed: I’m such a nice guy…some girl is going to be really lucky to have me someday … she wants to get to know me as a friend … and plenty of other things I never wanted to hear from the girl I have a crush on. Trying to use the IT smarts for something socially useful, I learned from these situations. By becoming that mysterious, cocky, self-absorbed guy I got a lot more affection (read: action — no alcohol involved) from the ladies. I learned this has two outcomes: First, although she may be interested enough to pursue me, the shallow abundance of getting ass and the depressing lack of a personal connection make the “relationship” pointless. If that isn’t the case, the type of girls this attracts are simply (tr)ucked up in the head. Doc, I’m stuck choosing between being “such a good friend” and “shallow … but makes up for it in bed”? I hope neither has to be the case so I’ll propose one more option: College girls are just as confused as guys when it comes to approaching relationships. If “nice guys” start to man up and ask girls on dates and “good girls” start to appreciate being treated with the romance they deserve then this entire campus could enjoy a chance to be in love. On a sad note, that would mean your column would have half as many people writing in and I would have to pay attention in class. Sincerely

— Troilus

Dear Troilus,

Sing it brutha! Your cautionary tale is one every nice guy out there needs to hear, but at the same time every cocksure rapscallion should also take notice. It’s tough to maintain that balance between Billy Idol (hard-ass, confident brute) and Billy Eliot (lilting, sensitive fellow), and often you’ll find yourself too far to one extreme. When you should be the nice guy, you’re saying “(Tr)uck off, I’m busy,” and when you’re supposed to be the jerk, you’re asking her how she feels. Neither persona is necessarily perfect for dealing with any given situation, and you make an important point — fellas and ladies are in the same boat when it comes to this. Girls have to be one of the guys, but also, purely female. Guys have to be sensitive to their lady’s needs, but at the same time, cocky and, well, men. Frankly, I don’t know that your letter needs much more response, it speaks for itself. I will say this though; let us hope you find your Cressida.

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

Hey good doc, I’ve got a problem. My girlfriend loves going to strip clubs with her friends, and it makes me insanely jealous. In a way, I feel like she’s cheating. I try not to get on her case because I know that it’s typical girl behavior, but inside, it’s killing me. Am I being silly?

— Bada Bing (Name provided by the Good Doctor) Dear Bada Bing,

Now, I’m going to assume you mean she’s headed to Banana Hammocks or Grape Smug-

glers or Footlongs (read: Chippendale’s-style strip clubs), and not down to Sheik’s or the Vu. If that were the case, this would probably be a letter devoted to you (rightfully) bragging. Seeing as it is probably fellas swinging their things that she’s after, you should know one thing — there’s no sex in the champagne room. If you’re going to see chicks or dudes, no stripper is going give you much more than the old tug-and-pull (or the female version of that). Frankly, at the all-male revue, I doubt it even goes that far (I could be wrong). So your girlie has some dude’s coin purse in her face, doesn’t mean it’s going to end up on her chin. I’d say let it go, it’s only the strip club. It could be worse; she could be headed down to Loring Park each weekend…

— Dr. Date

P.S. I don’t know that loving to go to the strip clubs all the time is generally thought of as “typical girl behavior” … just a heads up.

Dear Dr. Date,

You have to help me! There is this guy I know who is in the ROTC program, who looks very nice in his tight uniform, has the most gorgeous eyes, the cutest smile and is also very smart. Right now I am playing the “we’re just buds” role but I’d like to become more with him but sometimes when I do that with guys they don’t get the clue and I wind up losing them to other girls, then they ask me for advice about their girlfriends. What should I do? Is there some sort of self-help book out there with a title like “How to move from friend to girlfriend in 10 short steps?” I need to know your advice if I ever want to have a boyfriend.

— Ivana Hurry Love

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Dear Ivana Hurry Love,

First off, I don’t have to help anyone, I do however, choose to help you. That being said, let’s just get right into it. Top 10 ways to go from late-night conversation to morning-after conversation: 10. When you’re talking about some chick he likes, be sure to mention how you heard she has extra cheese on her taco, if you know what I mean. 9. “I’m not wearing any panties.” Again, he will not only date you but probably also marry you. 8. Just tell him you want something more. (Warning: the doctor is getting tired and resorting to clichés) 7. Casual touching when you’re talking. It starts on the arm, but it moves in toward the body — super sign there’s something there, and, I think, understood by even the dumbest of dudes. 6. Start dressing like a slut. Subtle, very subtle. 5. Knock him over the head caveman style. Drag him back to your dwelling by the hair, and I’m fairly certain he’ll get the idea … or run away screaming. 4. Cut the friend shi(r)t. Don’t act like a bitch to him, but let some slack off on the leash, so he doesn’t think you’re just that chick from “My Girl,” and you’re more like that chick from “My Girl 2.” 3. Tell his buddies you’ve got a thing for him. Odds are they already know it and have been giving him shi(r)t about it for weeks. 2. Drain and rinse the favas and chickpeas and put them in a food processor. Add the onion, parsley, cilantro, garlic, baking powder, salt, cumin and crushed red pepper. Pulse, scraping down the side of the bowl, to form a coarse paste. 1. Just let him know what’s up.

— Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

dr. date Dr. Date,

So here’s the deal: I’m a senior at the University in CSE, male, and quite frankly, I’m lonely. Despite the fact that I’m graduating soon, I’ve never had any form of companionship — no girlfriend, no date, nothing — and not for lack of trying. Admittedly, for a long time, a lot of it had to do with anxiety issues. But those are less prevalent now. I’ve found that even though I’m now able to actually talk with people and get to know them, I still have had absolutely no luck trying to make anything work in terms of beginning a meaningful relationship. It kind of seems like any girl who I’m actually interested in — and who more often than not is receptive and reciprocal — is already committed to someone else. Although I don’t mean it to be so, the following may sound shallow, but it feels like all the good ones are taken in a way. And I don’t really know how to meet more of them. I’m not the kind of guy who does parties or anything like that. I’ve gotten to know girls in my classes, but then the aforementioned issue raises its ugly head. I don’t intend to solicit attention at bars or anything like that, and most of my friends are in CSE, so they aren’t exactly able to set me up with someone either. I kind of wish it were acceptable to just start talking to a random person who seems attractive and/or interesting. But I imagine that’d be construed as strange, so I avoid it. But yeah, I guess I’m turning here, because why not? I’m just kind of sick of being alone. I want the intimacy and closeness of having someone else in my

life, but I feel stuck in a lot of ways. I’m a good guy, smart, have plenty of good friends, a great cook — all that. And it’s disappointing that I’m having so much trouble. Do you have any advice that could help me get that connection and relationship I’m looking for?

—Anonymous

CSlonEly,

What you presume is strange could actually be the first and most important step to make. Just talking to random people who you’re attracted to is how almost every relationship begins. Of course, you don’t want to be an asshole on the street and catcall, but if you meet a girl you enjoy in your classes, chat with her. You say that you don’t do gatherings and you’re not a fan of parties. Unfortunately, you’ll have to get over that and start making your way to a get-together or two, or find an alternative location where people hang out. If you’re a great cook, try to meet folks by taking a cooking class in Minneapolis. If you’re willing to look into realms outside your comfort zone, the options are limitless. I know it’s frustrating to find yourself in this position, especially when you see yourself as someone who makes the effort to connect. The sad truth of romance is that you’ve got to be in the right place at the right time. You could be the most dashing dude and still fail to find someone you click with if the timing is not right. Be patient. Put yourself out there, and don’t feel afraid to confidently pursue someone you’re interested in. Dr. Date believes in you.

—Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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voters and candidates on Wednesday as par t of the Institute on the Environment’s “Frontiers in the Environment” lecture series. “It is true environment is stated as a critical issue for Minnesota, but it rarely reaches the top tier for voters,” Andrew said. During her time in the Senate, Koch, a Republican, was at the forefront of many environmental policy changes. She promoted initiatives like the 2008 Clean Water, Land and Legacy Amendment, which increased state sales taxes to support projects like water restoration, wildlife and the arts. When it comes to the issues politicians choose to promote, voters’ opinions play an important role, Koch said, but “voter concerns often revolve around their pocketbooks.” She said both mainstream parties typically care about both environmental and economic issues, but they need to pair the two together to garner support for the environment. “Both sides are interested in efficiency,” she said. “They want to conser ve resources while saving money.” For example, she said, solar energy has become more popular nationally as a source of power because it has environmental and

“Politicians and other advocates for the environment need to work on ways in which it is economically good for the country and environment to take action on these issues.” STEVE KELLEY Senior fellow, Humphrey School of Public Affairs

financial benefits. “Politicians and other advocates for the environment need to work on ways in which it is economically good for the countr y and environment to take action on these issues,” said Kelley, who is also a former DFL state legislator. Andrew said maintaining a balance between the two is essential to pass environment policies. “Pushing ideas is a balancing act,” Andrew said. “You can’t push for something so hard that you end up losing your credibility, or even the election.” That idea is depicted in the heated debate surrounding the PolyMet Mining controversy. PolyMet is proposing to mine iron and copper from parts of the Iron Range in northern Minnesota. Advocates argue it would create jobs and boost the economy, while opponents worr y about its ef fect on the environment. Gov. Mark Dayton, who is running for re-election, hasn’t taken a stance on the issue, while Republican

challenger Jeff Johnson has publicly supported the project — and that may draw some voters to one candidate or the other. “Balancing job opportunities with protecting the environment will play a significant role in the outcome of the race,” Kelley said. While the environment typically hasn’t been ranked as a top priority for voters, Koch said debates over issues like the PolyMet project are increasing the role the environment plays in elections. “I believe this year’s election is going to be a tipping point for the environment,” Andrew said. Environmental science junior Louis Mielke, a member of the student group Fossil Free Minnesota, said a candidate’s stance on environmental issues, like renewable energy, is a huge factor in who he will vote for on Election Day. “We have the tools to transition towards becoming more energy-efficient; we just need to elect the right people into power,” he said.

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The Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, which has received about $284,000 in special district revenue since 2011, sent a letter of protest on Tuesday stating the organization’s opposition to the mayor’s plan. The group sent the note to a member of the city’s Neighborhood and Community Engagement Commission, a group of elected and appointed neighborhood representatives that advise Hodges and the City Council. “We hope they change their mind,” said Melissa Bean, executive director of the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association. The tax districts’ revenue that has traditionally gone to neighborhood groups is designed to cover “neighborhood revitalization” — the definition of which is vague to some, said Sandy Christensen, Minneapolis’ deputy chief financial officer. But some elected officials said the change wouldn’t take money from neighborhood groups. “Neighborhood associations are not — with a capital ‘N’ — being defunded,” said Ward 3 City Councilman Jacob Frey, who represents neighborhoods near the University. Funding that the budget proposal doesn’t allocate to neighborhood groups could be used for essential city services, Frey said, like road repair and affordable housing. The proposed budget would increase neighborhood

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funding to cover inflation but do little more, said Phill Kelly, interim executive director of the West Bank Community Coalition, the local organization for the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Kelly said his neighborhood’s association, which has received about $320,000 since 2011, is well-funded, but only from an administrative point of view. The group can pay for staf f members and of fice supplies but doesn’t have enough to suppor t youth programs and activities, he said. Southeast Como’s neighborhood organization, which has received about $189,000 in the last three years, is watching the city’s funding discussion with bated breath, said Stephanie Hankerson, a community organizer for the Southeast Como Improvement Association. “We’re operating with near shor tfalls, whether it’s programs or our office,” she said. “We’re

concerned.” The University of Minnesota area has received about $139,000 since 2011, but the area doesn’t have a neighborhood association. The City Council’s Ways and Means Committee approved a plan earlier this month that would reallocate unused money for the area to another neighborhood. Although there are no official plans for millions of neighborhood group dollars, it doesn’t mean those funds will go unused, Neighborhood and Community Relations Director David Rubedor said at a city commission meeting Tuesday. Several neighborhood organizations are planning to use their unallocated funds, Rubedor said, pointing to Southeast Como’s proposal to apply about $20,000 to homebuyer assistance. A City Council committee will discuss Hodges’ plan for neighborhood funding at a meeting Nov. 3.