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Thousands protested against the Washington redskins name sunday. By daily staff
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hants and dr um beats rang out Sunday mor ning as hundreds of people marched down University Avenue Southeast in what some called the largest protest of the Washington Redskins’ name in the NFL team’s history. “Change the name! Change the name!” demonstrators repeated as they joined other groups protesting outside TCF Bank Stadium. About 3,500 people crowded near the stadium’s Tribal Nations Plaza, some of whom gathered hours before the Minnesota Vikings faced the Washington Redskins. The game followed months of controversy over the visiting team’s moniker, which many have called demeaning and offensive to American Indians. Thousands of frustrated protesters joined city, state and federal leaders for one of the largest oncampus demonstrations in the University of Minnesota’s history. But school and city officials have said they have no legal authority to ban the name or logo from campus.
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In the background, south Minneapolis resident Patricia Siebert, middle, holds a sign and yells at a man in a Washington Redskins jersey. Amanda Snyder, Daily
i’M ADDRESSING EVERY wASHINGTON FAN. wE DON’T WANT TO BE THEIR MASCOT. mY SON DOESN’T WANT TO BE THEIR MASCOT. OUR CULTURE ISN’T FUN AND GAMES. ... wE’RE EDUCATING PEACEFULLY.
SAMUEL WOUNDED KNEE American Indian, South Dakota
Mikah Burnette, 7, holds a sign surrounded by other protesters outside TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday. Amanda Snyder, Daily
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Jeff Johnson and a star actor campaigning for Al Franken visited campus last week.
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It was a regular Sunday inside TCF Bank Stadium, despite a more than 3,000-person protest right outside the University of Minnesota stadium’s gates. But as one of the largest demonstrations in campus history stirred, creating a commotion on the facility’s lawn, the NFL players didn’t seem distracted. After the Minnesota Vikings defeated the Washington Redskins 29-26, tight end MarQueis Gray said the Vikings blocked the protest out of their minds and only focused on playing football. “We were on the field playing, so we had a bigger distraction in tr ying to win this game,” Gray said. There were no visible posters and signs, or audible chants, protesting the Redskins name inside the stadium. And as protesters u See GAME Page 6
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Vikings cornerback Captain Munnerlyn intercepts the ball against the Washington Redskins on Sunday at TCF Bank Stadium.
Just days before voters hit the polls, University of Minnesota students and employees became targets for the campaigns vying to win two of the highest offices representing Minnesotans. Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson made a last-minute pitch on Thursday, discussing his platform with students and faculty members. And the next day, U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., apparently flexed his Hollywood ties, as comedian and actor Fred Armisen made a stop on campus to campaign for the incumbent. Johnson, who ser ves as a Hennepin County commissioner, is running against Democratic incumbent Gov. Mark Dayton u See CAMPAIGNS Page 4
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ST. PAUL — U.S. Sen. Al Franken and GOP challenger Mike McFadden are set to meet for a third and final debate Sunday evening, capping off a campaign that for McFadden and Republicans looks like the race that could have been. Despite Franken’s narrow win in 2008 and promises from outside organizations to back McFadden this time around, the race never evolved into the drag-down fight some were predicting. Republicans are bullish on their chances to gain six seats and win back the Senate majority thanks to a favorable map — 21 Democrats are up for re-election, with many in conser vativeleaning states. But with vulnerable incumbent Democrats on the ropes in states like Nor th Carolina, Alaska and Colorado,
outside Republican groups mostly skipped over Minnesota and spent their millions elsewhere. McFadden ran an energetic campaign on his own, putting hundreds of miles on the campaign pickup truck ever y day for cozy gatherings across the state, but never slimmed Franken’s steady lead in public polling. The investment banker and first-time candidate held to his vow that his campaign wouldn’t tap into his considerable personal wealth. Outside cash started to trickle into Minnesota as Election Day neared, with Democratic groups spending money on ads backing Franken. Independence USA PAC, a political action committee bankrolled by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, spent more than $500,000 in Minnesota to air an ad highlighting Franken’s legislative portfolio.
McFadden’s campaign said Franken’s image as a bipar tisan workhorse doesn’t jibe with the facts, pointing to the oft-cited statistic that the freshman Democrat sided with the president on 97 percent of votes since taking office in 2009. For its par t, Franken’s campaign hammered McFadden with a series of ads criticizing the Republican candidate’s business background, suggesting his firm avoided paying U.S. taxes and was responsible for layoffs. In each case, McFadden decried those ads as false and misleading. His campaign rebutted an ad suggesting his firm was responsible for the closure of a Montana paper mill by producing bankruptcy documents showing another firm was involved in the deal. But McFadden never matched Franken on the
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Minnesota trainer Minnesota candidates scrounge for late votes turns unbroken horse into champ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ST. PAUL — A St. Paul trainer took an untrained horse and turned him into a national champion in eight months. Jerusha Steiner t and her 4-year-old Nokota named Mesabi Warrior bested about 30 other competitors to take grand champion honors in the American Horsewoman’s Challenge. Contestants had eight months to turn an unbroken horse into a show-ready equine, according to the St. Paul Pioneer Press. The event in Oklahoma was open to women trainers from the U.S. and Canada. “She went up against some of the top horsewomen in the United States and she showed them how it was done,” said Jim Hutchins, the competition’s organizer and producer. “People should be incredibly proud of her accomplishment. The entire (horse) community should be proud of what she’s done.” This was the inaugural run for the three-day competition held in October. The 34-year-old Steinert has been a trainer since 2006 and a horsewoman most of her life. At best, she hoped to break the top 10. “I was so floored that I won because usually, when I do whatever I want to do, people think it’s weird,” Steinert said with a laugh. She plans to enter next year with another Nokota, sponsored by a spectator who was taken with Mesabi. Steinert said she hopes her win will bring attention to the breed. The Nokota breed is descended from wild horses that once roamed the badlands in western North Dakota, according to the Nokota Horse Conservancy.
OAKDALE, Minn. — The leading candidates for Minnesota’s top offices hustled around the state Saturday, giving pep talks to the party faithful who went off to knock on doors and call voters in the campaign’s closing weekend. Democratic U.S. Sen. Al Franken told canvassers in a St. Paul suburb that races are “won at the door” and reminded them his 312-vote win in 2008 proves nothing can be taken for granted. Franken put millions of dollars into his ground ef for t, which often gets overshadowed by television commercials. “I’m not taking my foot off the gas,” the first-term senator said as he headed off to a pair of events in Minneapolis. At a lakeside rally in Buffalo, Senate challenger Mike McFadden told GOP backers “don’t stop praying because we can feel it.” He campaigned with former state Rep. Tom Emmer, who is vying for an open 6th Congressional District seat. The district is heavily Republican, so the GOP is banking on an Emmer victory of 25 percentage points or more to ripple through the ticket. Though the Senate race was largely overlooked nationally and polls showed the incumbent comfortably ahead, McFadden said victory was still within reach. “America might be shocked but Minnesota is not going to be shocked because we know what’s going on,” he said to a crowd bundled up to guard against a chilly lake breeze. In the governor’s race, Democratic incumbent Mark Dayton appeared at some northern Minnesota rallies as a party caravan moved into the typical stronghold. The area is home to a U.S. House race featuring Democratic Rep. Rick Nolan and Republican rival Stewart Mills that’s been among the nation’s most competitive and expensive. “Turn those votes out,” Dayton, dressed in a hockey jersey, urged in Grand Rapids as he plugged the “DFL team” he credited with helping pass his legislative agenda.
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Student card counters try to beat odds Students learn how to count cards in an attempt to increase their chances of making a profit. BY CHRISTOPHER AADLAND caadland@mndaily.com
Student coaches on the craft of card counting meet with a group of about a dozen fellow classmates in a crammed Pioneer Hall dorm room once a week — but not for an underground gambling ring. The new school group, Card Counting at the University of Minnesota, aims to teach rookies the fundamentals of counting cards and to help the more experienced members sharpen their skills through imitating card games, like blackjack, where counting may give players an advantage. Card counting is a technique in which blackjack and other card game players tr y to keep track of cards dealt in an attempt to increase their chances of breaking even or making a profit. The group’s president, Mark Ruprecht, a mathematics and statistics freshman and self-proclaimed avid blackjack player, said the group’s long-term goal is to attract more members and to improve its skill level to the point where it can create its own method of counting. He said counting cards not only increases a player’s chances of turning a profit, but it also stimulates the mind.
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From left to right, freshmen and University card counting group members Jake Rzeszutek, Tony Perrault, Jack Flood, Mark Ruprecht and Jake Amiot play multiple rounds of blackjack to practice their skills during a meeting in Frontier Hall on Friday.
The group tries to emphasize the mathematical aspect of counting, Ruprecht said, because sharp arithmetic and statistics skills will help players analyze odds on the spot and make smart bets. “If you’re into stats, it’s really interesting,” he said. “It’s all based on statistics.” Cale McElroy, one of the group’s of ficers, said the 2008 film “21,” which was based off a real group of card-counting students
Mpls. officials try to iron out ‘granny flat’ legal wrinkles Some city leaders expressed concerns over potential illegal housing issues and accessory dwelling units. BY BARRY LY TTON blytton@mndaily.com
A proposed amendment to city code could let residents legally house family — especially extended or elderly family members — in conver ted garages, attics and basement spaces called “granny flats” or “mother-in-law apartments.” While proponents of the change say it would provide greater housing flexibility in urban neighborhoods where space is tight, some city of ficials and residents have concer ns that some would misuse the self-contained home additions. At a City Planning Commission on Thursd a y, t h e a m e n d m e n t ’ s author, Ward 10 Councilwoman Lisa Bender, and her staff fielded questions about how to legalize accessor y dwelling units while avoiding unintended consequences. The ADUs would be home additions or renovations that function as individual dwelling areas, Bender said. She said a homestead requirement in the ordinance would forbid renting ADUs to anyone but the homeowner’s family to ensure they wouldn’t become a rental commodity. Community members star ted approaching city of ficials this spring with the hopes of legalizing ADUs, she said. Since then, her staf f has held four public meetings, sur veyed nearly 200 residents and consulted with the planning commission twice to iron out the proposal and engage communities in the process. “I’m really excited about this policy change because legalizing accessor y dwelling units is addressing demographic changes,” Bender said, noting that the change would expand housing options for baby boomers. But three city planning commissioners expressed concer n Thursday over
the possibility of architectural issues, like the amendment’s maximum height requirements as well as adequate building material options and subsequent costs. Discussion then turned to addressing the possible misuses of granny flats. Ricardo McCurley, the neighborhood coordinator for the Southeast Como Improvement Association, said he shares those reser vations. “Nobody likes the idea because of the enforcement side,” he said. “But nobody is opposed to the idea in principle.” Due to the neighborhood’s abundance of student renters, McCurley said, city zoning laws are already broken regularly in Southeast Como. JoAnn Velde, the city’s director of housing inspection ser vices, said she understands how the adoption of granny flats could be problematic. “[It could] create some illegal housing issues,” she said. Between the cost of renovation or construction and the requirement that only allows family members to live in the units, Velde said, it might not be a popular housing option. Those financial and legal limitations should deter individuals from tr ying to make a profit by renting them out, she said. “I don’t foresee many people doing it,” Velde said. “Renovations could cost from $80,000 to $100,000.” Leaders of the MarcyHolmes Neighborhood Association and the Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association — which are both part of the University’s housing district — said their respective neighborhoods had no position on the ADU amendment. Bender said she is confident that the Minneapolis City Council will pass the zoning amendment at an upcoming Dec. 5 meeting.
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the inspirations for the group’s creators. Rupr echt said ther e wasn’t any concern from the University when the group tried to establish itself, emphasizing that the group doesn’t advocate for gambling or wagering with money during group meetings on campus. While the group doesn’t encourage gambling or play with money at its meetings, its
members don’t deny that many of them enjoy gambling. Some students in the group occasionally test out the counting techniques that they learn on blackjack tables in local gaming venues, Ruprecht said. “I don’t want to have a passion that’s going to be taking money from me,” he said. “Why go [to a casino] if you know you’re going to lose, and you don’t take the time to make the odds in your favor?”
Counters vs. casinos
Although counting car ds isn’t illegal, casinos try to prevent players from cheating the system. Often, casino officials will kick out or ban gamblers who they suspect are counting cards. Counters and casinos are engaged in a constant game of trying to outwit one another, said Bill Zender, a casino consultant, former professional blackjack player and former agent on the Nevada Gaming Control Board.
Casinos exist because they make money through stacking the odds against players, McElroy said, and gamblers sometimes try to counteract that by counting cards. “I look at [counting] as part of the game,” Zender said. “The casino is there to take your money, and you’re there to take money from the casinos.” Zender argued casinos overreact when it comes to counting in their casinos because they make most of their funds through games like slot machines. Card counting isn’t seen as a serious threat to casinos’ business models, he said. And while the University students attempt to reach the next level of counting by outsmarting casinos in the constant cat-and-mouse game, Vender said there’s much more to gaming the casinos out of large sums of money. Gamblers like the MIT students were highly successful with their counting because they were well-organized and funded by outside investors, he said. “It had nothing to do with them being a bunch of smart college kids,” he said. Despite the University group’s desire to perfect the practice, McElroy said he hopes to provide members with a fun environment for playing cards that doesn’t carry any consequences or pressure to make money. “The counting aspect adds a little bit more fun for me rather than just sitting there and watching [dealers] flip over cards,” he said.
Food-to-booze ratios hit the polls Mpls. residents will decide whether to axe a rule requiring restaurants to generate a percentage of revenue from food. BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com
Minneapolis voters will decide on Election Day whether to repeal a decades-old r ule requiring that some restaurants make no more than 30 percent of their income from alcohol sales. Although the r ule was designed to keep rowdy bars out of r esidential neighborhoods, its opponents say the requirement is ar chaic and hinders business. Tuesday’s ballot measure follows recent pushes to remove the law. “This is the finishing touch on what the City Council has already done,” said Ward 3 City Councilman Jacob Frey, adding that he hopes voters will decide to remove the law. In September, the City Council axed a similar rule that required restaurants to make at least 60 percent of their revenue from food. Since that was an
ordinance, it only required a vote from the full council. But the 70-30 r ule, established in 1966, is outlined in the city’s char ter, so it can only be nixed if 55 percent of residents vote “yes.” Frey said a unanimous vote from the City Council could repeal the law, but he didn’t think all council members would agree. Sixty-eight restaurants, which are outside Minneapolis’ downtown zone, are bound by the 70-30 rule, including Cupcake in Prospect Park and Obento-ya Japanese Bistro in Southeast Como. “It restricts us,” said Derek Grams, owner of Signature Café and Catering, another affected Prospect Park business. “Sometimes I have to tell a customer they can’t have a beer without ordering food.” This is fr ustrating, he said, and diminishes the revenue the establishment
FOOD RATIO REQUIREMENT BALLOT QUESTION Shall the Minneapolis City Charter be amended to remove the requirement that businesses holding onsale wine licenses in the City must serve food with every order of wine or beer and to remove mandatory food to wine and beer sales ratios?
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can bring in. “If people want to sit on our beautiful patio and just have a glass of wine, they can’t,” Grams said. He said his restaurant is able to operate because fewer people drink alcohol at lunch than they do at dinner, so much of his revenue comes from food ordered around midday. City of ficials plan to combine a repeal of the 70-30 r ule with fur ther policy changes that they say would put restaurants in different districts on an equal playing field. The proposed amendments include new r equir ements to monitor
noise levels and criminal activity, while also giving the City Council more flexibility in issuing licenses and restricting hours of operation. Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon, who represents par ts of the University of Minnesota area, said he expects Minneapolis residents to vote “yes” on Tuesday. There are enough regulations in place to mitigate noise and disturbances in residential areas, he said, adding that he thinks it’s time for the 70-30 requirement to go. “It doesn’t fit moder n times,” he said.
Obama pushes for Democrats in gov. races BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — President Barack Obama’s final campaign swing of the midterm election season Sunday came down to part nostalgia tour and part test: Did he still have the chemistr y with voters who gave him two terms as president to drive them to the ballot box one more time? Seeking to mobilize his election coalition of young people, African-Americans, women and Latinos, Obama on Sunday made a lastminute push in Connecticut seeking to save Democratic Gov. Dannel Malloy from defeat in a neck-and-neck contest two days before the election. Obama also made a case at the Bridgeport rally that many Americans are better off today than when he came into of fice and they shouldn’t let critics deter them from voting. “Despite all the cynicism, America is making progress,” Obama told the crowd of about 1,900.
“Despite unyielding opposition, there are workers who have jobs today that didn’t have it before. There are families who have health insurance today that didn’t have it before. There are kids going to college today that didn’t have the oppor tunity to go to college before. There are troops in Afghanistan now here with their families because of your vote.” Obama relied on the old rallying cries of hope, of being of fired up and ready to go, that branded his 2008 and 2012 contests. By his own wistful account, Sunday’s was probably his last ramble down the campaign trail for an election affecting his presidency. He was closing out the day in Philadelphia, rallying votes for businessman Tom Wolf, the Democrat who appears to have the edge over GOP Gov. Tom Corbett. Malloy and Foley are in a rematch of the 2010 race that Malloy narrowly won. Four years ago, Obama also made a last-minute
appearance for him. Obama’s Bridgepor t speech was interrupted at least four times by protesters seeking changes to the nation’s immigration laws. “I am sympathetic to those who are concerned about immigration,” Obama said. “It’s the other par ty that’s blocked it. Unfortunately, folks get frustrated and they want to yell at everybody.” Obama’s appearances highlighted competing pressures on the president as he balances his unpopularity in states where Democrats face tough Republican challenges and the need for Democrats to energize crucial elements of their voting bloc. Obama has focused this past week’s appearances on candidates for governor in states that he carried in both of his presidential runs. On Saturday, he headlined a rally in Detroit for Senate candidate Gar y Peters and Mark Schauer, who’s running for governor, and earlier in the week he
campaigned in Wisconsin, Maine and Rhode Island. Though any Democratic losses probably would raise questions about the strength of his popularity even among his biggest fans, Democrats said not campaigning carried bigger downsides. “There is a bigger risk in not doing ever ything he can to hold a Senate majority and elect Democratic governors,” said Ben LaBolt, national spokesman for Obama’s 2012 campaign. “Republicans are likely to say he didn’t perform to 2008 and 2012 levels regardless.” Democrats outnumber Republicans in Connecticut, so motivating core voters was essential for Malloy’s survival against Foley. First lady Michelle Obama, who campaigned for Malloy on Thursday, called him an “instrumental partner” of the president, and she citied Malloy’s success in raising the minimum wage and with the state’s rollout of the federal health law.
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Create-your-own pizza comes to Dinky Pizza Studio will open its second restaurant in the Twin Cities area. BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com University of Minnesota students are used to the speed of Mesa Pizza and being able to customize their pie toppings at other pizza chains. Now, a new Dinkytown restaurant will of fer the best of both worlds, as well as a salad option. Pizza Studio, a fastcasual restaurant chain, finds its newest home on Monday at the space between Five Guys Burgers and Fries and Pagoda on Fourth Street Southeast. The eater y lets its patrons customize their pizza from crust to toppings — and ever ything in between. Thanks to a specialized oven, customers wait about two minutes to leave with a whole pizza. Like at Chipotle or Subway, two other fast-casual restaurants, Pizza Studio customers travel down an assembly line and tell employees what kind of crust, sauce, cheese and toppings they want. The restaurant’s service model is popular because it can be either a to-go or a sit-down joint depending on the patron’s
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Nick Hoyer prepares pizza dough at Pizza Studio on Friday in Dinkytown. Pizza Studio opens to the public on Monday.
mood, said Joe Remsa, the company’s market operator. Reducing the pizza’s cook time while maintaining the quality, he said, has made Pizza Studio successful at its West Coast locations. The Twin Cities has one other Pizza Studio location in the Mall of America.
“They like the speed and the customization, [and] it’s really for timecrunched people,” he said. “It allows pizza to be competitive at lunch.” Like many other newcomers to the area, Pizza S t u d i o s et u p s h op i n Dinkytown because of its proximity to campus, but it’s also ideal for ser ving
sur r ounding neighborhoods, said Chief Operating Officer Hank Simpson. The other Stadium Village and Dinkytown pizza options don’t worr y Pizza Studio, he said, because of the eater y’s unique concept. “Obviously, pizza is a ver y popular item in all cities,” he said. “We just
think we bring something a little unique to the pizza space with the create-yourown style of pizza.” Mesa Pizza, also located on Fourth Street Southeast, is about a block down from the new restaurant. Its employees say they don’t feel much pressure from the newcomers, said counter manager Jenny
Dotson. “From a business standpoint, it might be competition, but it’s nothing that isn’t healthy,” she said. “Plus we’ve been here for a really long time, and I do believe that Mesa Pizza is a staple student food.” Pizza Studio has some limitations. For example, it doesn’t deliver or ser ve by the slice, and its customer can only purchase an 11-inch pizza — no larger. Its hours are 11 a.m. to 10 or 11 p.m., depending on the day of the week. Most of Pizza Studio’s nearly 40 employees are students from the University and surrounding colleges, general manager Gar y Moss said. The Dinkytown location employs more people than most of its other locations to accommodate their schedules, he said. One of those employees, psychology sophomore Rauol Moore, spent much of last week learning, cleaning and pr eparing for the pizzeria’s opening with his new co-workers. Though he’s a recent Illinois transplant, he said he thinks the restaurant fits in well in Dinkytown because it contributes to the variety of foods available in the area. “It’s as quick as Chipotle with the same food as Dominos,” he said.
Hodges, Harteau talk safety in Cedar-Riverside Participants discussed homicide, racial inequality and education opportunities. BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com
Public safety-minded residents filed into the CedarRiverside neighborhood’s Brian Coyle Center to talk with the Minneapolis mayor and police chief on Thursday evening about community attitudes toward city officials. While Mayor Betsy Hodges and Police Chief Janeé Harteau touted proactive police recruitment, affordable family housing and neighborhood relations initiatives, some in the crowd voiced skepticism and concerns over the city leaders’ work. The meeting, moderated by community member Degha Shabbeleh, focused on topics of public safety, but citizen speakers raised a broader set of issues. For example, members of the Somali American Autism Foundation said the area’s constant presence of
police lights and fire trucks is harmful for the neighborhood’s autistic children. Har teau said the city plans to continue providing its emergency crews and law enforcement officials with instructions on how to interact with autistic citizens. Another resident from the crowd of about 150 addressed Hodges with concerns that 2008’s “Blueprint For Action” — a city-implemented strategy aimed at curbing violence — lacked Somali representation and input. The resident said the measure wasn’t curbing violence between the neighborhood’s youths. Hodges said that the plan has its flaws and may require updating. “While we’ve had successes, we’ve realized more clearly that there are needs specific to the East African community,” she said at the meeting. The mayor then highlighted policies like a
proposed $1 million budget for affordable housing and the continuation of the Community Service Officer program that encourages Somali recruitment to the Minneapolis Police Department. She also pointed to recent hires in the city’s communications and neighborhood relations departments. Some attendees held signs that questioned police accountability and suggested racial profiling within the city department. Hodges — who wore a hijab at the gathering — said at the meeting that she, too, is worried about racial inequalities in Minneapolis. “That is what animates me when I get up in the morning, and that’s what I reflect on at night,” Hodges said. At the meeting, Shabbeleh said the event’s two-hour duration was not enough time for the community forum, adding that she hopes the mayor and police chief return to the area soon for another community discussion. “We need more of this. This was too shor t,” she said.
Virgin Galactic spaceship disaster renews criticism of fatal ’07 explosion BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOJAVE, Calif. — The loss of an experimental spaceship that broke up over the Mojave Desert, killing one pilot and seriously injuring another, has renewed criticism of the way the craft’s designer and Virgin Galactic handled a deadly explosion seven years ago. Space enthusiasts watching Virgin Galactic’s race to send tourists on suborbital flights have complained for years about a 2007 explosion that killed three people on the ground and critically injured three others during a ground test in the development of a rocket engine for the same vehicle that crashed Friday. “Now we’ve got another person killed, another person seriously injured. So we’ve got a lot that has hurt the industry,” said Geoff Daly, an engineer who has filed complaints with several federal agencies over the use of nitrous oxide to power the ship’s engine. SpaceShipTwo tore apart Friday after the craft detached from the underside of its jet-powered mothership and fired its rocket engine for a test flight. Authorities have not given any indication what
caused the accident. National Transportation Safety Board investigators were on the scene Sunday. The agency could take up to a year to issue a final report. Daly was co-author of a critical report on the 2007 incident at Scaled Composites, the Nor throp Grummanowned designer of SpaceShipTwo. The report was critical of Virgin’s claims that nitrous oxide was safe to use in engines for passenger flight, and it complained that the public was never given a full accounting of what happened. “Something is wrong here,” Daly said Sunday. “We offered to talk, give our experience. It was either ignored or totally dismissed.” In a June 2013 letter, Daly asked the FAA to put a hold on an experimental flight permit for SpaceShipTwo to ensure the safety of personnel on the ground and in the spacecraft. “Remember, three people have been killed and numerous persons injured by a prior explosion involving (nitrous oxide) in this motor design,” he wrote as a member of a group that he said numbered about 300 people in the aerospace industr y worldwide.
“We do not need another incident on the ground/flight line or in the air.” The FAA said it would look into his complaint, according to memos posted online, but Daly said no flights of SpaceShipTwo were halted. Carolynne Campbell, a co-author of the report on the explosion, posted a statement on her website after Friday’s accident, saying “if the truth about the 2007 accident had come out,” the SpaceShipTwo disaster “would probably not have happened.” A report by the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health said the 2007 blast occurred three seconds after the start of a coldflow test of nitrous oxide. The engine was not firing during the test at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Whether nitrous oxide had anything to do with Friday’s disaster remains to be seen. The nitrous oxide is used with fuel to provide propulsion. Engineers had recently changed the fuel system, switching from a r ubber-based fuel to one that used plastics. The new fuel had been tested on the ground but not in flight until Friday.
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Jeff Johnson speaks at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs Humphrey Forum on Thursday.
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in Tuesday’s election. On Thursday morning, Johnson spent an hour with a group of about 40 students and faculty members at the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs’ Humphrey Forum, where he addressed what he described as problematic trends in higher education. For the University, Johnson said he wants to examine administrative expenses and the recent hikes in tuition costs. “What we’ve got do
within the system is figure out what we can do to bring down the cost cur ve,” he said. “A tuition freeze for another year or two would be fine, but long term, that is not going to solve the problem.” The gubernatorial race so far hasn’t had a strong emphasis on higher education, instead focusing on issues like the state’s health care system and the economy. Armisen’s Friday visit for Franken, which was sponsored par tly by the University’s College Democrats, also served as a rally aiming to get University
students out to the polls. Students seemed excited by the “Portlandia” star’s appearance, with some posing for photos with him. Armisen was flanked by both Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman. Polls as of Sunday night showed Franken had about a 10.5 percentage point advantage over Republican challenger Mike McFadden. In the guber natorial race, polls showed Dayton having about an 8.5 percentage point advantage over Johnson.
Climate report gives warning, hope BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
COPENHAGEN, Denmark — Climate change is happening, it’s almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this centur y, the U.N.’s panel on climate science said Sunday. The four th and final volume of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s giant climate assessment of fered no surprises, nor was it expected to since it combined the findings of three reports released in the past 13 months. But it underlined the scope of the climate challenge in stark terms. Emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, may need to drop to zero by the end of this century for the world to have a decent chance of keeping the temperature rise below a level that many consider dangerous.
The IPCC did not say exactly what such a world would look like but it would likely require a massive shift to renewable sources to power homes, cars and industries combined with new technologies to suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The report warned that failure to reduce emissions could lock the world on a trajectory with “irreversible” impacts on people and the environment. Some impacts already being observed included rising sea levels, a warmer and more acidic ocean, melting glaciers and Arctic sea ice and more frequent and intense heat waves. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the report’s launch in Copenhagen. Amid its grim projections,
the report said the tools are there to set the world on a low-emissions path and break the addiction to burning oil, coal and gas which pollute the atmosphere with heat-trapping CO2, the chief greenhouse gas. “All we need is the will to change, which we trust will be motivated by knowledge and an understanding of the science of climate change,” IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said. The IPCC was set up in 1988 to assess global warming and its impacts. The repor t released Sunday caps its latest assessment, a mega-review of 30,000 climate change studies that establishes with 95-percent certainty that most of the warming seen since the 1950s is man-made. The IPCC’s best estimate is that just about all of it is manmade, but it can’t say that with the same degree of certainty.
Editorials & Opinions
Monday, November 3, 2014
SCIENCE
Houston, we have a privatization problem Two separate accidents have challenged the idea that it is safe to privatize space travel.
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wo separate accidents have made this past week a nightmare for the movement to privatize space exploration. Orbital Sciences, a private firm contracted by NASA to refuel the International Space Station, released the Antares Rocket with supplies totaling $200 million. The rocket held impor tant scientific equipment and food for the six astronauts on the space station, in addition to classified cr yptography equipment. About 15 seconds after the rocket lifted of f, it all came down in a ball of fire. Local news stations repor ted that the force of the explosion knocked down ceiling tiles and broke windows at businesses miles away from the liftoff site. In an unrelated incident on Friday, Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, a new aircraft designed to provide the impetus for commercial space travel, crashed in the Mojave Desert. One of the two pilots was killed, and the other was severely injured. Before these two disasters, investors claimed that space would be the travel
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destination of the future. They placed the value of the space travel market at $300 billion and argued that amount was expected to double by 2030. Now, even the owner of Virgin Galactic, Sir Richard Branson, predicts that these crashes have compromised the entire industr y. Furthermore, they question the future of the modern space race’s privatization. Privatization is not the best course for the future of space exploration. A few years ago, the Obama administration announced a plan to privatize parts of NASA by contracting functions of the organization to private corporations — as happened to Orbital Sciences. However, this idea opened up the possibility for private corporations to explore space travel as a business. This possibility is practically and economically disadvantageous, and it involves tremendous safety concerns. First, privatization of the space industr y would require a massive data-sharing program that would be unpopular among NASA workers. For example, companies
that aren’t working with NASA would need either to conduct their own research on how aircraft re-entr y works or buy the patents to the space program’s algorithms. Most critics argue that NASA alone is simply too expensive. People who aren’t directly benefiting from the program criticize government spending on it, declaring it unnecessar y. Never theless, the adverse ef fects of privatization are even more problematic. The dispersion of NASA would likely result in a government regulation agency to set safety requirements for private businesses to follow. Red tape is inef ficient and expensive. Regulative agencies would be costly and would require additional government spending anyway. This isn’t to say that private space travel won’t be possible someday. Given the resources and increased cooperation between NASA and private corporations, as well as other countries, it’s conceivable to see private space travel as a viable future to work toward. But for now, the stars are still far, far away. Anant Naik welcomes comments at anaik@mndaily.com.
DAILY DISCUSSION Minnesota’s actual energy future
In a previous letter to the editor, titled “Minnesota’s energy future,” the student writing described a future in which coal is still hailed as the primar y source for power. This is not a viable option. I don’t mean that the United States doesn’t have enough. I mean that at the rate we’re going, we will soon have reached the point of no return. At that time, we will have dumped more carbon dioxide, a major byproduct of burning coal, into the atmosphere than is safe. To me, it seems that solar power is being criminally underutilized at less than 1 percent of our total energy supply. It’s also not correct to assume that the sun has to be shining all the time to make solar a viable option; solar panels build up reserves to use when the sun doesn’t shine. No one is suggesting that we freeze to death. Realistically, it’ll take a while to completely divest from coal sources. But until then, we need to take steps because climate change is happening and it’s happening fast. Megan Siegle University student
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“The current inequity in food access” is a myth. In Minneapolis, anyone can get on a bus and go to Cub, Rainbow, Aldi or a Target. I ride the bus, so I see this all the time. This is an imaginary problem. Buster via mndaily.com CONTACT THE EDITOR Martin Jaakola mjaakola@mndaily.com @mjaakola1
I am neither a University of Minnesota student nor an alumnus. In fact, I graduated from the University of Illinois in 1983 and eventually served for 25 years in the United States Army. I was in attendance at the Minnesota-Illinois football game last weekend — our homecoming at Illinois. My family and I recently moved back to Illinois, and this year, I bought season football tickets. I’m writing not about what happened on the field during the game, but about something that occurred before the game —specifically during the national anthem. As it happened, we had some Minnesota fans seated near us. This wasn’t unusual, since we’ve had opposing team fans sitting near us at all the games so far. As a veteran and an American, I take great pride in standing for and singing along with the national anthem. The words
EDITORIALS Change depends on commitment
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housands of people gathered outside TCF Bank Stadium on Sunday to protest the use of the Washington Redskins’ name and mascot, which many feel are offensive misrepresentations of American Indian culture. Among the protesters was Minneapolis mayor Betsy Hodges, who joined activists in chanting, “Change the name.” Later, Clyde Bellecourt, a renowned Twin Cities activist, denounced Redskins owner Daniel Snyder for ignoring the harm his team’s name causes. Although University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler denounces the Redskins’ name, University of ficials have said the institution has no legal authority to ban its use on game day. Similarly, not ever yone was convinced of the protests’ message. Some football fans argued that the protesters were oversensitive, noting ironically that the Vikings’ name could offend people of Scandinavian descent. Now that the game is over, we remind ever yone that even successfully banning the Redskins’ name from the campus stadium wouldn’t have remedied the cultural conditions that fostered that name in the first place. Instead, we feel that the long-term success of the protesters’ efforts will depend on their persistence beyond Nov. 2. Sunday’s football game was a rallying point — but the greatest danger to long-term activist movements is often the short-term appeal of rallying points. To that end, we encourage those involved in the protests to release a plan of action informing interested University students how they can continue their activism in the coming months.
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ENVIRONMENT
Recycling still a practical solution
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he Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a repor t on Sunday suggesting that major reductions in emissions are necessar y in order to avoid further negative consequences of human-caused climate change. One major question related to this repor t is what to do with our garbage. At the moment, trash is either thrown into landfills or incinerated, and then it is converted into energy through waste-to-energy technologies. Minnesota has 10 facilities for converting waste into energy. These can reduce the two main emissions that landfills produce — methane and carbon dioxide. However, far from being a miracle solution to climate change, incinerating garbage has its downsides. Municipal waste incinerators can emit up to 14 times more mercur y than a typical coal plant. Incinerators also produce fly ash, bottom ash and wastewater sludge, which are all released back into the environment. Additionally, they sometimes release ultra-fine particles into the air. Is there a way to address this problem as both solutions still emit toxins?
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Respect our national anthem
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contained therein are power ful and are meant to inspire great pride in our nation and the heroes who have given us so much over the years. Many have sacrificed so much to ensure our freedom, and they deserve our utmost respect. We were singing the National Anthem and came to the last line of the song, “O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” That line means so much. We are free, and it is because of the brave that we have such freedom. Nevertheless, several of the Minnesota fans inserted the word “Gophers” in place of the word “brave.” My wife and I were completely shocked and appalled that anyone would do such a thing. I consider it a great affront to all the brave souls who have come before to desecrate our national anthem in such a way. I’m all for team spirit, but I believe there are lines that should not be crossed. This shouldn’t be read as an anti-Minnesota
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One thing we could do is reduce the amount of recyclables that find their way into garbage. The Environmental Protection Agency believes that 75 percent of solid waste is recyclable. Unfortunately, only about one-third of this waste is actually recycled. Recycling is cheaper than creating more incineration plants and landfills. It’s also a simple way to save a great deal of energy and reduce carbon emissions released from both processes. We must make an ef for t to maximize recycling in Minnesota by providing people the education, resources and infrastructure they need to actually recycle instead of just throwing ever ything away. Keelia Moeller welcomes comments at kmoeller@mndaily.com.
Our nation, veterans, military, public servants and citizens deserve the respect that the national anthem, sung in the correct manner, gives them. rant. I would be equally disturbed if I heard Illini fans doing likewise. My wife spoke to one Gophers fan during the game. He told us that this practice has become commonplace at some Minnesota sporting events. I don’t know if that’s the case, but if it is, I would hope that organizations or individuals with sway would encourage the fans to forgo this practice. Our nation, veterans, militar y, public ser vants and citizens deser ve the respect that the national anthem, sung in the correct manner, gives them.
he presidents of Dartmouth College and Stanford University have sent a joint letter to apologize to about 100,000 Montana citizens after three of the schools’ political science professors conducted an unethical experiment involving the state’s voters. The voters received letters providing political information about candidates running in the state’s Supreme Court election that were marked with the official state seal. But they actually came from the three professors who were studying whether the mail would affect voting patterns. Similar mail was sent to voters in California and New Hampshire. According to a Stanford spokesperson, no institutional review board at Stanford approved the experiment, although a board at Dartmouth may have approved an earlier version of it. Montana officials have accused the researchers of violating four laws, and the professors have remained silent. However, the universities’ apology letter clearly states that no experiment should ever risk altering an election’s outcome. Still, some critics have questioned the apology’s sincerity, noting that one of the accused professors previously conducted a controversial experiment that examined legislator-constituent relations by sending Texas lawmakers more than 1,000 emails that appeared to come from voters. We urge all those in the social sciences to remember that the world is not a laboratory. Experiments often have real-world consequences that sometimes outweigh the benefits of scientific knowledge. Ethical codes are the only thing protecting people from being studied unwittingly. 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
Kloos hat trick leads Minnesota to split Sophomore forward Justin Kloos netted the first hat trick of his college career. BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com
The Gophers played their first tr ue away game of the season — and showed that they’re vulnerable. The Gophers went to St. Cloud State on Friday and lost to the No. 7 Huskies 4-1. But the Gophers and sophomore for ward Justin Kloos rebounded the following day, winning at home to split the series. Minnesota’s first loss was a sloppy af fair for the team, and head coach Don Lucia said the team couldn’t af ford many mistakes in the Huskies’ building. “St. Cloud’s a good team,” Lucia said. “You have to give a great effort just to give yourself a chance [in their arena].” Penalties plagued the Gophers throughout the game. Six dif ferent Gophers committed penalties, and the Huskies capitalized, scoring two powerplay goals. The Huskies got on the board first with a goal 15 minutes into the game. Then, with three seconds left in the first period, they scored again to head into the break up 2-0. Power-play goals in the second and third periods widened St. Cloud’s lead to 4-0. Sophomore for ward Hudson Fasching put the Gophers on the board with a goal early in the third period, which junior defenseman Mike Reilly assisted. The goal was Fasching’s fourth in six games, a number that ranks second to Kloos
Forward Justin Kloos fights for the puck during the Gophers’ game against St. Cloud State on Saturday evening at Mariucci Arena.
on the team. Kloos scored his fifth goal of the season Saturday, an overtime tally that sealed a victory for the Gophers. The goal also gave Kloos his first collegiate hat trick. The Gophers star ted strong Saturday after their lackluster performance Friday, outshooting the Huskies 12-2 in the first period. “There’s no question Friday [that] we came out flat, and I think that was one thing we were going to prevent,” Kloos said on
S a t u r d a y. “ I f w e w e n t down, we were going to go down with speed and effort.” Kloos put the Gophers on the board first, 12 seconds into the second period. Kloos tapped in a pass from senior captain Kyle Rau and crashed into the net after his shot. St. Cloud scored two goals in the second period to take the lead, but Kloos struck again with approximately 12 seconds remaining in the period to tie the game.
The two teams exchanged goals in the third period to keep the game tied 3-3 at the end of regulation. That allowed Kloos to play hero in overtime. “Obviously, it was Kloos’ night tonight,” Lucia said. “Kloos was in the right spot, where you need to be in front of the net and quick pass out and a nice, quick shot for the win.” The Gophers came out of the weekend with a couple of injuries, and Lucia said he expects senior
for ward Travis Boyd to miss about a month due to a lower-body injury. Junior defenseman Brady Skjei suffered an injur y in the second period of Saturday’s game and did not return. Lucia said he is day-to-day. The Gophers will continue to face tests in nonconference play going forward, as they take on Notre Dame next, which was ranked coming into the weekend. “Obviously we’re not going to be undefeated this season,” sophomore
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Gophers falter in series with Bemidji State Minnesota tied on Friday and lost on Saturday to the Beavers at home. BY GRANT DONALD gdonald@mndaily.com
Three of the Gophers’ top players didn’t play in Saturday’s game, and the team didn’t score in a 1-0 loss to Bemidji State — marking its fourth loss in the last 110 games. The loss came a day after the team skated to a 2-2 tie and fell in a shootout to the Beavers, a team that was ranked last in the conference heading into the weekend. Junior Hannah Brandt and sophomores Lee Stecklein and Dani Cameranesi didn’t play in Saturday’s loss because they had U.S. national team commitments in preparation for the upcoming Four Nations Cup. “Those guys account for over 40 percent of our offense,” head coach Brad Frost said. “It has kind of unfortunately been the story of the first month here. We haven’t been getting a lot of secondary scoring.” The Gophers had their chance to put the puck in the back of the net, as they outshot Bemidji State 36-19 on Saturday. But the Beavers’ goalie, sophomore Brittni Mowat, put on a show over the weekend, making a combined 83 saves and limiting an explosive Gophers attack to just two goals. “We gave ourselves a chance to tie it up, but their goaltender played fantastic, and they blocked a lot of shots,” Frost said. “They did what they need to do, so credit to them.” As the third period
Senior Meghan Lorence carries the puck against North Dakota at Ridder Arena on Oct. 24.
progressed Saturday, it was evident that fatigue was setting in for the Gophers, who were playing with only three lines and no substitutes. “We definitely had a short bench tonight,” senior forward Meghan Lorence said. “It was a good test for us, and I think we responded the best we could with who we had and the numbers we had.” Friday’s game featured more scoring chances for both teams, as both goalies dealt with constant action in the front of their nets. Freshman Kelly Pannek
took the puck coast to coast to score her first collegiate goal, giving the Gophers a 1-0 lead in the second period. “There is nothing quite like scoring a goal,” Pannek said. “You just feel like you are contributing and doing your job. It is always nice to get the first one off your shoulders.” Bemidji State scored the next two goals to take the lead before Cameranesi deflected senior Rachel Ramsey’s shot to tie the game with 1:18 remaining in
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the third period. The teams skated through a scoreless overtime before the Beavers edged the Gophers in the shootout 2-1. “Unfortunately, we are better at losing shootouts than we are at winning them,” Frost said. Senior captain Rachael Bona made it clear that the weekend’s results were nothing to get worked up over, and she is confident in her team’s ability to rebound the next time it plays. “I think this is normal
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY 1 2 3 OT FINAL 2 Bemidji State 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 2 Minnesota
SATURDAY 1 Bemidji State 1 0 Minnesota
2 0 0
3 0 0
FINAL 1 0
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and this is what happens to normal teams,” Bona said. “We are still a great team. I mean, it’s only one loss.”
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MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY 1 0 2
Minnesota SCSU
2 0 1
3 1 1
FINAL 1 4
SATURDAY 1 2 3 OT FINAL 0 2 1 0 3 SCSU 4 Minnesota 0 2 1 1
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forward Taylor Cammarata said. “There’s a lot of good teams out there, and anybody can win any night.”
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booed, fans watching the game also voiced dissatisfaction aimed at referees or instances of poor play from Minnesota. Vikings fullback Jerome Felton also said the game felt like business as usual. “I didn’t even know anything was going on,” he said. “That’s out of our control. ... The only thing that affected us was telling our family which route to take [to the stadium].” The Washington team has faced protests from groups nationwide for years. “In that locker room,” quarterback Robert Griffin III said, “we focus on what’s going on in there and what’s going on on that field. You can’t really worry about the negativity that’s swirling around. Someday, that’ll stop, and I truly believe that.” Washington had other troubles to overcome Sunday besides the protest. On top of losing the game on a fourthquarter comeback by Minnesota, the team got into a bus accident just hours before game time. Prior to the contest, one bus transporting Washington players rear-ended another team bus about five minutes away from the stadium. Griffin said the accident affected the team. “We saw the bus, hit the bus and we both thought we were going to fly out the window shield,” said Griffin, who was sitting in the bus’s front row next to fullback Darrel Young. Griffin said he thought some of his teammates had gotten whiplash from the accident, and he said it was an eyeopening event for the team. “A lot of guys had their lives flash before their eyes, and it was not a good moment,” he said. “You don’t expect that being on a bus heading to a game … especially a wreck that bad that could have been catastrophic.”
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VOLLEYBALL
Minnesota’s road woes continue R
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Gophers sophomore Paige Tapp hits the ball against Wisconsin on Oct. 15 at the Sports Pavilion.
With the loss, the Gophers have now lost five of their last six games. BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com
The Gophers entered their match at Purdue on Saturday night winless in Big Ten road games. That didn’t change this weekend, as the Gophers (14-9, 4-8 Big Ten) lost to the Boilermakers in straight sets to drop to 10th in the conference standings.
Head coach Hugh McCutcheon said the team committed too many unforced errors in the loss. “We shot ourselves in the foot a little,” he said. Minnesota started slow Saturday night, falling behind 14-7 in the first set. But after a timeout, the Gophers went on an 8-1 run to tie the set 15-15. However, Minnesota couldn’t maintain that success and dropped the set. “In the ver y beginning, we were a little frantic,” sophomore middle blocker Paige Tapp said. The second set was
more of an even match between the two teams and remained tight until the end. “When it gets into the red zone, we just really need to make the other team play,” sophomore outside hitter Sarah Wilhite said. “The first and second set especially, we got a little frantic in the last couple points. If we just clean that up, then we’ll be able to … end up winning those sets instead of losing them.” In the third set, Minnesota came out with more confidence. But halfway through, the Gophers reverted back
to playing with less energy and dropped the set and match. Tapp said the team had a difficult time cutting back on errors and managing its side of the net. She also said the team needed to start off playing strong. “We got behind and had to work really hard to get back in it,” Tapp said. “If we establish ourselves early, that will help us out a lot.” Wilhite and Tapp both said the team per formed well defensively, but Minnesota’s blocking could have been better Saturday.
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The Gophers entered the weekend leading the league in blocks and blocks per set, but they had only six team blocks Saturday night to Purdue’s 10. Next weekend, Minnesota will continue its road trip at Michigan State and Michigan.
SOCCER
Gophers lose last regular season game Sophomore goalie Tarah Hobbs made nine saves in the overtime loss. BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com
Tarah Hobbs stood firm in the Gophers’ last match of the regular season, but her team’s attack wasn’t able to provide any support. Minnesota (10-8-1, 7-5-1 Big Ten) fell to Northwestern 1-0 in double overtime on Saturday. “This is obviously a really, really disappointing result for us and a tough way to close out the regular season,” head coach Stefanie Golan said in an audio statement for GopherSpor ts.com. “We really, really struggled to find the game. We were not as clean as we typically are technically.” Hobbs recorded nine saves in the match, and she faced plenty of pressure during the game, as the Wildcats outshot the Gophers 20 to three. None of the Gophers’ three shots were on goal. Hobbs didn’t let the ball into the net for well over 100 minutes of play, though, as the teams went through regulation and one over time period scoreless. The tie was broken in the 107th minute of the game, as Nor thwester n freshman for ward Michelle Manning scored to give her team the victor y. Both teams had plenty
SOCCER RESULTS SATURDAY 1 2 OT1 OT2 FINAL 0 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 1 Northwestern 0 0 0 1
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to play for. The victor y vaulted Northwestern into the Big Ten tournament, while the Gophers’ loss moves them down from their place in the standings last week. “Nor thwester n was playing desperate,” Golan said in the statement. “They knew that a result could put them into the tour nament, and they played for it, and they played hard.” The Gophers came into the weekend in a threeway tie for third place in the Big Ten, but they now fall to the No. 6 seed in the conference tournament. With their regular season concluded, the Gophers will have a shor t week to prepare for their first game of the Big Ten tournament against Michigan on Wednesday. The two teams played once this season, and the Gophers lost 2-1 in overtime on the road. The Gophers will likely need a strong showing in the conference tour nament to solidify a potential NCAA tournament bid. “Regardless if it’s a win or a loss, we turn the page the next day,” Golan said in the statement. “There could be a lot of soccer left to play. And that’s what we’re planning.”
acism, prejudices and hatred have littered the streets of the United States for centuries. People of this nation have perpetually fought to tear down these discriminations, and it was no dif ferent Sunday as thousands of people took to University of Minnesota streets to protest the Washington Redskins’ team name. Members of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux tribes, as well as people from several other groups, participated in Sunday’s demonstration. The makeup of the protest’s attendees reflects the need for a resolution to the controversial team name debate, but more impor tantly, that the American Indian community should make the decision. The 566 federally recognized tribes should decide the future of the Redskins name. Though reaching a widespread consensus could be challenging, the collective movement is key if those on either side of the issue want to do what’s best for American Indians. Years ago, Florida State and the University of Utah both received consent to continue using their team names because the Seminole and Ute tribes gave approval, respectively. So let members of the tribes be the people who decide the Washington Redskins issue, too. Maybe all of the tribes would decide that the Washington Redskins name isn’t of fensive and that the team should keep its logo. Or, the decision says the opposite, and Washington should find a new team name. But consider the controversy sur rounding the name’s place in the countr y’s histor y. One historian from the National Museum of Natural Histor y, Smithsonian Institution, told the Washington Post in 2005 that the origin of the Washington team’s name began rather amicably. Senior linguist Ives Goddard told the organization that when the name first appeared as an English expression centuries ago, “it came in the most respectful context and at the highest level.” “These [situations] are white people and Indians talking together, with the white people tr ying to ingratiate themselves,” he said. Others, including members of the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media, argue the name is offensive. “The name is a racial epithet,” Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said after speaking to protesters from a University-provided stage. “There’s no room for that in the 21st centur y anywhere, let alone on a public stage and platform like the NFL.” But the controversy’s resolution shouldn’t be decided by city officials, like Hodges, or even the Washington Redskins’ owner, Daniel Snyder. Instead, American Indians and those involved in their community should choose the name’s future. David Nelson welcomes comments at dnelson@mndaily.com or on Twitter.
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Men, women overcome Iowa at home
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University of Minnesota freshman Brooke Zeiger starts the 200-yard breaststroke against Iowa on Friday evening at the University Aquatic Center.
The women’s team remained undefeated with a commanding win. BY DANNY CHEN dchen@mndaily.com
A false start disqualified the Gophers in their first event of Friday’s meet. But they overcame that en route to a commanding 195-105 victor y over Iowa at the University Aquatic Center. “On the women’s side, I think so many people stepped up and did a great job. It’s hard to pick out just one or two [performances],”
head coach Kelly Kremer said. Senior Kiera Janzen made a strong impact, winning both the 1,000-yard freestyle and the 500-yard freestyle, along with earning a second-place finish in the 400-yard freestyle relay. “She really took control of the races and got out in front and gave us some big wins in the distance freestyles,” Kremer said. Janzen said she has been changing her stroke this season, adding that she’s finally seeing results of the change. “It has been kind of a frustrating process because anytime you make major stroke changes, it is kind of hard to see it in practice and
hard to see it in meets,” Janzen said. “This meet, I felt like I am starting to see it more and starting to feel that difference in the races.” In addition to dominating in the pool, the Gophers were successful in diving. Sophomore Yu Zhou finished first in the 1-meter competition, while sophomore Lexi Tenenbaum placed first in the 3-meter.
Men win tight meet Despite splitting event victories with the Hawkeyes at the meet, the Gophers came out with a victory on Friday, thanks to the efforts of senior CJ Smith and sophomore Jakub Maly. The Gophers and
Hawkeyes were close going into the final individual event, the 200-yard individual medley, when Maly came through with a crucial first-place finish that put the team in the lead. “That’s my event,” Maly said. “I know the race, [and] when I do my job and do what I have to do, I can just do great.” Kremer said he was proud of the performances by Maly and senior Andrew Hartbarger, who took second in the 200-yard individual medley. “They knew that they needed big swims, and they went out and did it for us,” Kremer said. “That was just outstanding.”
Smith finished the meet placing first in both the 1,000-yard and the 500-yard freestyle. “I think that I did what I needed to do for the team, [and] I think a bunch of the other guys did as well,” Smith said. “So that was mostly [what was] on my mind, and times were second. I was just happy to see the team do well.” Junior Manny Pollard swept both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving competitions for his fourth and fifth event victories of the season. Minnesota lost its last Big Ten meet but rebounded against Iowa. “We are getting better ever y week,” Kremer said.
SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS MEN’S FINAL
Iowa Minnesota
137 163
WOMEN’S FINAL
Iowa Minnesota
105 195
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“That was our goal coming into this meet. We just wanted to be better than we [have been] so far this season, [and] I know the progress we are trying to make is there.”
CROSS COUNTRY
Berkholtz leads Gophers to fifth The women placed fifth and the men finished seventh at the Big Ten meet. BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com
The Gophers might be youthful, but they still managed to come away with a fifth-place finish at the Big Ten championships on Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa. The team’s inexperience was a big question heading into the race, but head coach Sarah Hopkins said Minnesota’s younger runners stepped up at the meet. “The people that haven’t been here before raced pretty darn well. Danielle [Anderson] ran great. She was our No. 4 again and just has been really, really solid all year. And Haley Johnson had the race of the meet for us. I was really, really proud of the way she competed today,” Hopkins said. Redshir t junior Liz Berkholtz led Minnesota and finished 16th in a field of 123 runners. Berkholtz and fellow
redshir t junior Becca Dyson were the only two runners on the team who competed in the meet last year. Berkholtz said the younger runners had the oppor tunity to learn from the meet. They appeared to do just that. “Any first-time Big Ten meet is a whirlwind. You learn so much, and they’re going to take this experience,” Berkholtz said. “I’m really happy with how they ran.” Getting out to a fast star t has been a point of emphasis for the Gophers in the past few meets, and this meet was no exception. “ U n f o r t u n a t e l y, w e needed to run a little better 1K to 3K to put ourselves in a better position, but I was really proud of the way we fought the second half of the race. We could’ve ver y easily been sixth or even seventh,” Hopkins said. “We just need to be more of a confident team [in the] first 3K.” Dyson said some r unners were hesitant to come out fast, which contributed to the slow star t. But the Gophers recovered later in the meet.
WOMEN’S MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
RESULTS
BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 1. Michigan State 2. Wisconsin 3. Michigan 4. Ohio State 5. Minnesota
SCORE 26 55 93 127 139
BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS 1. Wisconsin 2. Michigan 3. Penn State 4. Indiana 5. Michigan State
SCORE 47 77 92 95 117
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“We really had a great [3K] through 6K, but this is a challenging course, and I think we were a little tentative going in,” Dyson said.
pack star ted engaging in the race, we started falling back,” Bartnik said. Bartnik was the top finisher for the Gophers, placing seventh in a field of 106 runners. Bar tnik praised freshman Obsa Ali, who finished second on the Gophers and 26th overall. “Obsa ran ver y, ver y well. [I’m] ver y proud of him,” Bartnik said. Ali was one of three Gophers runners to set a new personal record at the meet. “We all learned something today about racing at the collegiate level, myself included. I think the main message we want to get from this race is to learn how good the Big Ten is and respect that,” Bartnik said.
Men finish seventh While traveling back from a seventh-place f in i s h at th e Bi g Ten championships, junior r u n n er Aa r on Ba r t n i k had only thr ee wor ds to describe the team’s performance. “We were disappointed,” he said. Bar tnik said the Gophers were too energized at the start of the meet, which hur t their per formance down the stretch. “We went into this race ver y excited, and we had a lot of guys at the front of the pack … early in the race. Once the rest of the
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Junior Aaron Bartnik runs the final stretch of Roy Griak Invitational at Les Bolstad Golf Course on Sept. 27.
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
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Today’s Birthday (11/3): This is your year for fun at work! Expand professionally. A new personal phase began with the New Moon Solar Eclipse in your sign (10/23). After 3/20, begin a new adventure.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written by Nancy Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Make an investment (of time or money) for your family’s future. Plant a tree, maybe. You have the confidence for action today and tomorrow.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Go along with a decisive person who agrees with you. Together, you can commit to what you want, despite fears.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — The intensity could seem to increase. Slow down and contemplate over the next two days. Conclude arrangements and plans.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — It’s action packed, today and tomorrow. Lurch ahead suddenly. Get back to work, big time. Provide great service, and invoice for it.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Team projects go well over the next two days, and community participation provides satisfaction.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Plan some fun for today and tomorrow. Friends offer good advice. Your loved ones encourage you to take on a new challenge.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Focus on your career. The next two days are good for decisions and transformations. Get clear on your aim.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Home calls to you today and tomorrow. Get into a domestic project. Use the grapevine to find connections. Pay back a debt.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Dream big. Make an interesting discovery about love. Family comes first. Today and tomorrow favor study and research.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — You can absorb and report facts well over the next few days. Clear communications come easily. Hone your persuasive skill.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Pay bills and handle financial matters over the next two days. Wheeling and dealing may be required, or a decision.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — The next two days could get busy and profitable. Pay expenses and stash savings. Invest in your career.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2005
FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 3, 2014 13A
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
DAILY CROSSWORD 1
Nothing soothes candy constipation better than a Network full o’ Carlson hate…
From IrateLeprechaun
To CarlsonHOTA$$: Time to face the future. Net: “The future, Conan?” When the oil runs out and we’re all back to subsistence farming, management skills and the Chicago school of economics won’t help you earn that income you’re planning on. Net: Never underestimate bureaucracy’s abilities in self-preservation. IT students will still be useful because they can fix stuff and whatnot. Net: Maybe they’ll even get to clean some pipes. Carlson students will be eaten during lean winters, simply because they’re ass-goblins. Net: And because their pampered upbringing has kept them nice and tender. You want to know who’ll be making 5 times our income? Net: Landowners. Take a trip to the St. Paul campus. You can get used to the smell of manure while you’re there. Also, theatre majors will strike it rich, but that’s a discussion for another time. Net: Even a subsistence farming society needs waiters and cashiers.
From Exalted Engineer
CarlsonHOTA$$, it is so clever how you first make an attack (very originally) on IT students’ sex lives. Nice defense mechanism. I am no psychology major, but it is obvious you’re compensating for something there, buddy. Net: Not everyone is as witty as you IT folk. Then you claim that IT majors are useless ... when all the cars, buildings, roads, and computers (and pretty much EVERYTHING else in this world) that YOU use and take for granted are designed by engineers! Net: With the notable exception of women. In fact, no other majors are more crucial to global society. Net: As if. Recreation and leisure studies majors are the cornerstone that society is built on. Maybe you will make a bit more money … if any employer could ever handle the terHEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:
rible stench of your douchebaggery without vomiting. Net: That’s what overpriced cologne is for. We can smell the Cool Water now. Unfortunately, you will one day wake up to realize you haven’t done anything with your life except be a middle management tool in some piece of NUTT corporation. When that epiphany strikes, we will all be laughing at you.
From SickofCarlsonNUTTs
What’s up ShowMeTheMoney!? So do you honestly believe that you’ll be making more money than me? At the end of college I’ll be starting out with a nice salary of around $60,000 a year while you’ll be delivering my mail to me for $35,000 a year. While you’re busy giving me my mail and sucking NUTT to get promoted, Net: At least those stain-resistant button-downs will come in handy. I’ll be getting my fully paid for PhD that will double my salary, not to mention all the raises that will come along the way. But if I really did want to be a candy ass and manage people, I could take 12 credits of jack off classes, get my management minor, and take your sorry ass job from you. But I’d rather not have to gargle balls in my mouth when I go to work so I think I’ll take my worthwhile degree and do something meaningful for a living. Net: Reinventing soap on a rope would be a good start.
From ShowMetheMoney!
AbleMindedAuthor, your moronicness is only exceeded by your douchiness. If you think that high tech innovations are brought about by philanthropists and public funding, you are even less worthy to live than I thought. Net: In reality, its solid management ideas like Hawaiian Shirt Day that really drive innovation. Show an engineer some flower patterns and their creativity knows no bounds. So take you’re quiet satisfaction and your food stamps to Harvard Market, maybe they’ll care about your physics test.
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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 41 November 1, 2005 Yo Doc!
Wud up? I’ve got a problem that I hope you can help me with. I’ve been with my gf for about two years now. At first, the sex was great. Two summers ago we lived apart for the summer. I lived with my mom north of the cities and she lived with her sister and her sister’s family in Mpls. Because of that fact, we really had no privacy; we didn’t have sex much that summer, and since then our sex life has gone downhill. We used to have sex at least once a week and now for the past year or so she is never in the mood. I’m lucky to get sex once a month and that’s only because she feels like she has to because she is my gf. We’ve tried different positions, types, etc., but nothing is helping. I love my gf, but I don’t love the extreme lack of sex. Now don’t get me wrong, sex isn’t everything, but in our relationship now, it’s nothing. Do you have any suggestions?
— Sexless in St. Paul
Dear Sexless in St. Paul,
When the physical spark lapses in a relationship, and you’re left holding it in your hand in the corner of your shower before you head off to your depressing job, it usually means you’ve been married for years and you can’t keep your eyes off that damn fine woman down the street. When you’re in the middle of college, in many ways at your sexual peak, however, you shouldn’t have to worry about your significant other’s significant lack of a sex drive. You’re still kids! She should be coming home after class and literally ripping your clothes off. Or at least giving you oral sex every other Tuesday … The point is that you guys are young; you shouldn’t have to worry about a going-nowhere sex life. That’s reserved for when you get your first job and just don’t have time for it. She’s your girlfriend; talk to her. Let her know that it’s just not normal for two college kids who’ve been in a physical and emotional relationship to just quit playing sheet karate, if you know what I’m saying. You shouldn’t have to wait for a full moon to unleash her wild beast.
— Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
I am really in a dilemma right now. I just met this guy on a Halloween Hookup, probably the best I’ve ever had. He really made me scream. I really liked him and all of the things that went on. However, I have a phobia of seeing guys in the morning after a hookup, so I got out of there as fast as I could to start my walk of shame. I felt really bad leaving after such a great night because I actually like this guy. But, there is someone else. I have this awesome guy friend; I love to party with him. He had to see me leave with the Halloween Hookup, and I think he was devastated. He actually tried to save me from the Hookup, not knowing how great Halloween Hookup is. I’m getting the vibe that he is interested, but I can’t even imagine being more than friends. I still want to be able to hang out with him and have it not be awkward. I just don’t know what to do, as I am waiting for a call from Halloween Hookup. So I am looking for two things, how to face the morning after the hookup, and how can I be with Halloween Hookup without hurting my friend.
— Anastasia Beaverhousen
Dear Anastasia Beaverhousen,
I’m hoping you’re some sort of Soviet-bloc era porn star holdover; at least that’s the gist I’m getting from your pseudonym. First off, stop using the phrase “Halloween Hookup” like it’s some clichéd and renowned term. (Only the Good Doctor can make up catchphrases and terms and act as if they are wellknown.) Regardless, your buddy (the real buddy, not your ghoulish hookup), if you are right in assuming he likes you, is going to present you with an awkward and tough situation. You’ve probably got to be up front about it with him, but don’t just blurt out, “I know you want this, but you can’t have it … ever.” Wait for this baller to actually attempt to act on his (presumed) feelings — it’s going to be awful, and you’ll both probably (hopefully?) be too drunk to remember exactly what happened, but you’ll feel that ill-at-ease tinge in the back of your throat, like so much stale beer (and Halloween Hookup juice). Just start seeing the new fella you’ve met; it’s your life and your relationship. You may lose your friend over it, but that’s a decision you’ve got to make. Do you go with Slimer, who can make you scream, drips a strangely familiar viscous fluid and can fly through walls? Or do you take into consideration the feelings of Egon, who secretly pines for you, appears mild-mannered and quiet and is a huge nerd? ’Sup, to you. But if it were up to me, I’d go with Dr. Peter Venkman, he made Sigourney Weaver turn back from that demon thing she turned into and he said, “Hold your sticks!” … “Heat ’em up!” … “Make ’em hard!” and finally … “Let’s show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown! THROW IT!” Boo yah,
— Dr. Date
Hey Dr. Date,
I am writing this to comment on the letter written by Not a fan of awkwardness on Friday. I was recently in a similar situation, but the person I was crushing on wasn’t going to start a relationship with someone. Since I had spent my whole life being reserved about my feelings for girls, I decided to try being open and honest, and I was completely surprised by the outcome. My biggest concern for Not a fan of awkwardness is that she doesn’t take into consideration her feelings about possible outcomes. If you remain silent and he doesn’t like you, you will still have him as a friend that could possibly become more. However, if you remain silent and he does like you, you could miss out on a lot of good times. Conversely, if you are open and he doesn’t like you, you risk losing him completely in every aspect (however, he could theoretically come back). But, if you are open and he likes you too, you could end up in an awesome relationship. Whatever you decide, I would encourage you to think it through because I didn’t, and when I got shunned, it was a complete surprise, and now I can only wonder what could have been.
— Still Wondering “What if?”
Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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dr. date Dr. Date,
Recently, I met a girl, and we hit it off from the moment we met. Now, our interaction has hit that semi-awkward stage at the beginning, where the modern art of “texting” rules the main course of our communication. Me? I find textual messages to be vague and often ambiguous as to the intentions of the sender and so on with women. Therefore, I turn to you with my question: Is it OK to just not reply to her message? For example, it’s Sunday afternoon, and I’m watching football with the bros. I enjoy receiving a message from her, and I follow her SMS banter briefly. But soon, I find myself at a loss.
—Abraham Lincoln
It’s All Right to Be a Luddite,
Not replying to her text messages will have one of two effects: She’ll either think you’re a bad boy who’s hard to get, or she’ll think you’re extremely rude and move on from the relationship. So any way you slice it, texting isn’t an ideal form of communication when new romance is budding. Words and intentions can often be misconstrued with nonverbal communication. That said, we live in a time when plans are made and relationships are grown through texting, so it’s important to reply to her messages. While adapting and complying with her chosen method of communication might work in your favor, don’t be afraid to carry things forward the old-fashioned way, too. Let your crush know how you prefer to be contacted and when, and she’ll understand. She’ll likely find your assertiveness attractive and appreciate your old-school charm.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
After five years, my boyfriend and I are in a pretty serious relationship. We live together, and we’ve talked about getting married, but we both agree it’s something that we want to wait on until after we graduate — maybe three or four years down the road. My best friend, on the other hand, just got engaged to her boyfriend after only five months of dating. Five months?! How can you make that sort of commitment after knowing someone for such a short time? She says they’re in love, and he’s “the one,” but I don’t buy into it. I think she’s making a mistake that could ruin her life. I’ve told her this multiple times, and our discussion always ends up turning into a huge fight. She immediately gets defensive and takes little digs at my relationship with my boyfriend, ultimately saying we’re too chicken to tie the knot. How can I make her understand that she’s rushing into things? Should I just let her make this mistake? Help me, Dr. Date.
—Anonymous
To Tie the Knot or Not,
Though it may be hard to believe, your friend and her boyfriend might be taking the steps of their relationship at a pace that’s comfortable for them. So who are you to judge? Getting engaged after five months may seem foolish to some, but to those who are in the midst of love, it often feels like the right thing. It’s all a matter of perspective. Just because you and your beau are taking things slow doesn’t mean you have the right to criticize others’ decision to get engaged quickly. Put this matter to rest, and keep taking your relationship at the pace that’s right for you.
—Dr. Date
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Name controversy continues Questions over whether Washington’s name and logo should have been allowed at the University have persisted for months. The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community donated $10 million in 2007 for the construction of TCF Bank Stadium, the largest gift Gophers athletics had ever received at the time. That funding helped establish the stadium’s Tribal Nations Plaza, which honors the 11 American Indian nations in the state. Conversations leading up to the protest ignited on a national level in June when U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., sent an open letter to Vikings owner Zygi Wilf that asked him to speak out against the name, which she said violates University policy. “The time for debate has ended — the name of the Washington franchise is clearly an offensive racial slur,” McCollum wrote in the letter. University President Eric Kaler also condemned the name in an August letter to McCollum, saying he wanted to eliminate use of the logo and name on all game-day material. “I agree that the current name is offensive and should be replaced,” Kaler said in his response. However, University and city officials have weighed in on the controversy in recent weeks and said they don’t have legal authority to ban the team’s name from the stadium. The University sponsored educational programming on American Indian issues during the week leading up to the game, and University Ser vices provided a stage for protesters outside the stadium and helped organize the march from Northrop Auditorium. Minnesota is home to
many American Indian leaders, which was one reason for the protest’s scale, said David Glass, president of the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media. “The time is right to do this,” he said, “and we’re going to be following the Redskins around to every game.”
Hours of protests The pr otests began hours before the game, as only the most dedicated of Vikings fans were tailgating near the stadium. American Indians from at least four states bused in for Sunday’s protest, organizers said. More than two dozen groups of American Indians and activists were in attendance.
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Several city and University-based groups formed three separate protests, which converged outside TCF Bank Stadium around 10 a.m. Two of the protests started on campus, with members of the American Indian Student Cultural Center gathering at Appleby Hall and national groups holding a rally at Northrop Auditorium. “This is something we can march for and change,” said child psychology senior and AISCC member Marie Armstrong. The American Indian Opportunities Industrialization Center organized a third protest, which drew hundreds of demonstrators to the stadium from its headquar ters on Franklin Avenue East. Marches to the stadium remained largely peaceful, though a few hecklers on both sides yelled and swore at each other. University officials and protest organizers gave var ying estimates of the crowd’s peak size. Some said it reached 5,000, but several Minnesota Daily reporters obser ved roughly 3,500 protesters. The Minneapolis Police Department deployed two bicycle teams of seven officers each to secure protest perimeters and to keep people off University Avenue Southeast, said Second Precinct Inspector Kathy Waite. Alexandria Greybull said she left her South Dakota home at 4 a.m. to make it to the protest. “We don’t want to be out here represented badly,” Greybull said. “It’s really disrespectful for them to use the Redskins name knowing the definition of it.” Lauren Johnson, who wore the Washington team’s burgundy and gold colors on Sunday, said she respects the protesters’ purpose but
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Christian Gueropro stands with other performers before his group’s performance on Sunday outside TCF Bank Stadium.
doesn’t think the name needs to change. “When they named the team, they weren’t doing it to be derogatory — it [connotated] power ... warriors, and fighters,” she said as demonstrators chanted for a name change yards away. “It’s just part of the history and the team.” Samuel Wounded Knee, an American Indian from South Dakota, said changing the name would be easy. “I’m addressing ever y Washington fan,” he said. “We don’t want to be their mascot. My son doesn’t want to be their mascot. Our culture isn’t for their fun and games. … We’re educating peacefully.” After hours of marching and chanting, the protest had quieted by game time, as most demonstrators listened to speeches outside the stadium from local and American Indian officials. “The name is a racial epithet,” Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges said after speaking to protesters.
EVENTS LEADING UP TO SUNDAY’S PROTEST
MAY 21
About 50 U.S. senators, including Minnesota Democrats Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken, send a letter to the NFL’s commissioner urging the organization to “endorse a name change for” the Washington team.
JUNE 18
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office cancels the Redskins’ trademark registration, saying the name is disparaging to Native Americans.
JUNE 19
U.S. Rep. Betty McCollum, D-Minn., sends a letter to Vikings owner Zygi Wilf and University President Eric Kaler, among others, asking the team to take a stand against the Redskins name, saying that it violates the University’s policies against racism.
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Kaler sends a letter to McCollum denouncing the name but says the University doesn’t have the authority to ban the name at TCF Bank Stadium.
OCT. 3
The Minneapolis City Council votes to investigate whether the city can ban the Redskins name and mascot while playing at TCF Stadium.
“There’s no room for that in the 21st century anywhere, let alone on a public stage and platform like the NFL.” The Washington team has said the name honors American Indians. But others, like Robert Lilligren, president and CEO of Little Earth of United Tribes, say that’s an invalid argument. “To hold it up as anything we should be proud of or should celebrate is really false,” the former Minneapolis City Council member said, “and the community’s voice has been saying this for a long time.”
A legal stalemate
down, Vice President for Equity and Diversity Katrice Albert voiced the University’s disappointment with the NFL for allowing the team to keep its name. “Sports logos and names that are of fensive to oppressed communities need to be changed,” she said. “The University wants to be on the right side of the issue.” The city also couldn’t ban the name, though council members have discussed revisiting the issue when Washington plays at the new Vikings stadium, which is set to open in 2016. Minneapolis City Attorney Susan Segal previously said that although her office would have liked to sue the team, banning the name would violate Washington’s First Amendment rights to free speech. Some protesters praised the University for doing as much as it could to minimize the name and logo’s presence. Many others said the name is hurtful and more should be done to retire it. Chuck Norcross of Champlin, Minn., said people called him “redskin” when he was growing up. “Even as a little kid growing up, I knew the name was not a very good name,” he said. “So I think [the team] should be renamed. In my lifetime, I hope to see it.”
Several protest leaders called Sunday’s demonstration the largest of its kind. But even the officials who spoke out against the Washington name conceded they were unable to keep it off campus. The Vikings pay the University about $300,000 per game to use TCF Bank Stadium for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. As part of that agreement, the school can’t prohibit the Washington team name and logo, President Kaler said last month. “We are leasing the stadium to the Vikings, but our contract does not allow us to dictate their schedule and who they play,” he told the Daily in an October interview. As the protest wound
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1:15 P.M. 800 CROWD REMAINS AT THE END OF RALLY EVENTS SOURCES: MN DAILY REPORTING, UMPD LT. TROY BUHTA
OCT. 13
The University’s American Indian Student Cultural Center formally announces plans to protest the Redskins name on game day. It also sends a letter to Kaler denouncing the name.
OCT. 21
The Minnesota Student Association approves a position statement supporting the AISCC’s actions after a debate at its forum.
OCT. 22
The Minneapolis city attorney says the city doesn’t have legal authority to ban the name and doing so would violate freedom of speech. SOURCES: MN DAILY REPORTING, LETTERS
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