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Learning to bring life to death Women at the U are increasingly enrolling to study the growing field of mortuary science.
Some members say a proposed new structure for the group would dimish its importance. BY HALEY HANSEN hhansen@mndaily.com
The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly could take on a new form next year, shifting some of its power to an entirely new group. Members are considering separating the governing body’s structure into two groups: one for graduate students and another for professional students. But some members are concerned with how the change would affect GAPSA’s organization and students. Group leaders are proposing the creation of a new student government equivalent to the Council of Graduate Students. The new group, informally named the Professional Student Association, would specifically focus on addressing the needs of professional students. GAPSA President Alfonso Sintjago said with the changes, GAPSA would only meet a couple of times each year to discuss issues that cross between the groups. Its executive committee would be composed of four COGS members and four members from PSA, he said. In order for PSA to receive funding for the 2015-16 school year, the group would need to send a student services fees application by Jan. 24 to meet the Student Services Fees Committees deadline. Leaders introduced the plan for restructuring to the assembly at its meeting Wednesday evening, stirring some concern among members that the group doesn’t have enough time to mull the idea before its implementation next year. GAPSA Vice President Ashley Hall said she’s worried the new structure would diminish GAPSA’s importance. “I don’t want GAPSA to end up just disappearing,” she said. “That would be really disheartening to put all this time and effort into something and then [have] it dwindle away.” Before the plan is made official, the group will likely allow all graduate and professional students to vote on it. The vote would likely take place during next semester. It’s important the new structure is something students want to be a part of, Hall said, and that the changes are well thoughtout and properly funded.
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Mortuary Science junior Abby Lapinoja finds a quiet moment to study in the casket room in Jackson Hall on Tuesday.
science — the study of deceased bodies — sparked. She said the mortician, who compassionately led her family through the funeral process, inspired her to pursue a career in the field. “I want people to say they had a good funeral,” Christ said. She is one of 60 total students in the University’s mortuary science program, in which the enrollment of women is dramatically increasing over time. About 45 years ago, only 5 percent of
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nne Christ’s grandmother’s shaky hands that accompanied her until death were relieved as she rested in her casket, giving Christ peace and an experience that shaped her future. Christ, a University of Minnesota senior, said when her grandmother passed away, her interest in mortuary
students enrolled in mortuary science were female. Currently, women make up more than three-quar ters of the program. Director Michael LuBrant said he thinks the department’s current female dominance is linked to the economy improving and to the overall increase of college women entering the medical field. u See PROGRAM Page 3
GENDER ENROLLMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA’S MORTUARY SCIENCE PROGRAM FEMALE
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Represent.Us wants to reform laws regarding political donors and contributions in Minnesota.
One researcher said Minnesota culture encourages attending college, making for higher debt.
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A new grassroots student group hopes to fight cor r uption in gover nment by changing the laws around political donations at the local and national levels. The University of Minnesota chapter of the national campaign Represent.Us took root on campus this semester with the goal of ridding politics of corruption. The group wants to push for stricter laws pertaining to special interest donations to political campaigns, the transparency of donor identity and more regulations for lobbyists. Shoubhik Sinha, the chapter’s founder and adviser, said he watched a TED talk on the influence of money on democracy a few years ago. “That was my first realization of just how screwed up American politics was and how the system wasn’t working and how much it favored cash,” Sinha said. Represent.Us is a national campaign trying to gain support for the American AntiCorruption Act, which would require more disclosures of political donations and limit some forms of campaign spending. Tallahassee, Fla., was the first success for the campaign, as citizens passed an anti-corruption act with the help of a local Represent.Us chapter. That law
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cycle to get a referendum on the ballot in that city. That would mean collecting about 7,000 signatures to get a measure on the 2015 ballot. In Minneapolis, signatures don’t cut it. The City Council or a chartering committee needs to bring a referendum to the
Chloe Laabs estimates it will take 20 years to pay off her student loans. The Minnesota Student Association member and University of Minnesota biology, society, and environment sophomore said she’ll graduate with about $41,000 in debt. She’s not alone. The average Minnesotan undergraduate earning a bachelor’s degree last year left college with just under $31,000 in loan debt, according to new data released by the Project on Student Debt. University of Minnesota students averaged just over $28,000. This high ranking comes despite a recent tuition freeze at the University, the state’s largest college. Minnesota is the only Midwestern state in the top five. New Hampshire, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island round out the highest-debt states on the list. Numerous factors play a role in the creation of a high-debt state and college, said Matthew Reed, program director for the Institute for College Access and Success and co-author of the repor t, pointing to
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Shoubhik Sinha, adviser of the student organization Represent.Us, leads a conversation during the group’s meeting on Sunday evening at Coffman Union.
incentivized individual donations to campaigns and created an independent ethics board. The University chapter wants to draft a similar referendum for Minneapolis and St. Paul. But writing a referendum and getting it on the ballot is not easy. Sinha said the group would need to collect signatures from 8 percent of St. Paul’s voting population in the previous election
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ST. PAUL — A medical-device company lost out on a hefty Minnesota subsidy on Wednesday after the firm and its leader were criminally charged. The Department of Employment and Economic Development scrapped a potential $800,000 package tied to an expansion and hiring proposal put forth by Vascular Solutions. The decision came Wednesday, a day after The Associated Press reported the deal was cast into doubt by last week’s federal indictment. A hearing to consider approval of the Minnesota Job Creation Fund award had been set for Friday. Agency commissioner Katie Clark Sieben said because of the indictment, “DEED has withdrawn its consideration of an economic development package for Vascular Solutions” and canceled the hearing. Vascular Solutions and CEO Howard Root were federally indicted last week on charges of conspiring to sell a varicosevein treatment device for unapproved medical uses. Company officials have said they’ll fight the charges. A Vascular Solutions spokesman said the firm had no comment on the state decision or whether the subsidy loss would alter a plan to expand in Maple Grove, where the firm is headquartered. The proposed $8.7 million expansion would more than double Vascular Solutions’ physical space in the Minneapolis suburb. As pitched to state officials, it would also accommodate the hiring of 60 skilled workers over the next two years at an average pay of $32 per hour.
ST. PAUL — A day treatment center that works with sex offenders who suffer from traumatic brain injur y or other disabilities may close after some contracts with Ramsey County run out. Dane Jorento, the director of the nonprofit clinic, disagrees with the assertion that ABC Mental Health Therapy’s group approach has fallen out of step with best practices. If the East St. Paul facility closes, the amount of nonprofit options for the state and county would be reduced by 100 percent, he said. Both of the government entities save money by placing sex offenders into treatment rather than lifelong incarceration, according to Jorento. ABC is one of three agencies in the Twin Cities that offer group therapy to low-IQ sex offenders, but it’s the only one to treat a majority of low-income clients. The unique clinic currently treats 30 people, some of whom are enrolled in Minnesota’s Medicaid medical assistance program, known as MA. “A lot of therapy clinics don’t accept clients on MA, because the reimbursement rates are too low,” Jorento said. “Most clinics accept private insurance but not public insurance.” The St. Paul Pioneer Press reports ABC could close in a few weeks, when two of the county’s day-treatment therapy contracts are discontinued by the end of December. “The day treatment services ABC provides are no longer in alignment with the state and county direction toward individualized treatment plans and contemporar y evidence-based practices,” John Siqveland, a spokesman for Ramsey County, said Tuesday.
Macalester students vote to remove organization BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL — Macalester College students have decided to cut ties with a student advocacy organization that’s active on six other college campuses across Minnesota. Student activities fees pay for Minnesota Public Interest Research Group staffing at each participating campus. Students at Macalester can
decline to pay that fee, but many say it’s too easy to miss the emails explaining how to do so. Nearly 60 percent of students who voted this week said the school shouldn’t renegotiate its contract with the organization. Although the student body at Macalester is fairly liberal with ideologies that align with the organization, which
has backed same-sex marriage and environmental protection, it decided to end support of the group on c ampus. “I basically agree with almost everything they did,” said Gabe Garbowit, a student who led the campaign against the MPIRG contract. “I just thought any political lobbying group shouldn’t be taking money by default.”
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New IFC president to focus on safety Current Interfraternity Council President Cameron Schilling will pass the torch to JD Braun on Dec. 7. BY SARAH CONNOR sconnor@mndaily.com
JD Braun never imagined himself joining a fraternity at the University of Minnesota. But when one of his close friends joined the Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity during their freshman year, Braun found a home on campus. Braun, now a psychology junior, is gearing up to take on the role of president of the Interfraternity Council next month, making him head of the governing body of campus fraternity chapters. He plans to use this newfound authority to focus on safety and cohesion in the greek community. Outgoing IFC Pr esident Cameron Schilling said Braun is a great fit for the role and anticipates him to be a successful president. “He’s a ver y driven individual, he knows what his goals are and I think he knows ver y well how to achieve his goals,” he said. “I think he’ll do great things for the Inter fraternity Council.” Braun said he became interested in r unning for IFC president while ser ving as Greek Ambassador Coordinator for the organization, where he created a “best practices series.”
In the series, Braun visited the most successful IFC chapters in areas such as recr uitment and academics and then shared their strategies with the smaller, newer chapters on campus. “I star ted working outside of the Greek Ambassadors, and I really wanted to make a change in the community through the different things that I was working on,” he said. That initiative is in line with one of Braun’s main goals to continue helping small frater nities on campus develop. But as IFC president, Braun said he plans to pay specific attention to safety within the greek community. Ensuring all members are staying safe on the weekends and looking out for one another is essential, he said. “I think the biggest thing I want to push is accountability,” he said. “Just watching out for people in dif ferent chapters … If you see someone in a dangerous situation, being able to have the confidence to step for ward and step in and really take care of our entire community.” He said his safety initiative fits in with his goals to better connect all four greek councils on campus. Nick Lambert, president
After recent practice, ‘death with dignity’ debate gets new life BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
POR TLAND, Ore. — Nearly three weeks after her death, on what would have been her 30th birthday, Brittany Maynar d retur ned to the national spotlight on Wednesday in a video in which she urges states to pass laws allowing terminally ill people to end their lives on their own terms. The video, made in August, was released by an advocacy group that worked with Maynard during the last months of her life in a campaign that prompted a national debate about allowing terminally ill people to hasten their deaths. The group, Compassion & Choices, is hoping that the practice will be expanded beyond the five that already allow it: Oregon, Washington, Montana, Vermont and New Mexico. But even though Maynard’s stor y received national attention, the groundswell of support on a legislative level for laws like Oregon’s has yet to materialize. Compassion & Choices held a conference call with journalists on Wednesday, hoping to build on the momentum generated for the movement while Maynard was alive. After the news conference, the organization released a video that is partly narrated by Maynard. In the video, Maynard says: “I hope for the sake of other American citizens ... that I’m speaking to that I’ve never met, that I’ll never meet, that this choice be extended to you.” The video includes photographs of Maynard before her illness. It also features the voices of other terminally ill patients and their family members. In the conference call, Compassion & Choices officials said legislators in about a dozen states plan to introduce right-to-die laws next year. Also on the call were legislators from Pennsylvania and Wyoming. Rep. Mark Rozzi, a Pennsylvania Democrat whose 63-year-old father died of the same type of brain cancer as Maynard, said the young woman’s campaign and his family’s situation made it apparent why such bills are needed. “I had to watch my father die of cancer... It was the most gut-wrenching
experience our family and he had to endure,” Rozzi said. “He would always tell me this is not the way he wanted to live.” A “death-with-dignity” bill was introduced in Pennsylvania last month. Rozzi conceded that it has been difficult getting bills out of the judiciar y committee when they are opposed by the state’s Catholic leadership. Rep. Dan Zwonitzer, a Wyoming Republican, said he plans to introduce such legislation in his state. Oregon was the first state to allow terminally ill patients to die using lethal medications prescribed by a doctor. Maynard moved from California to Oregon to make use of the Oregon law. The New Jersey Assembly passed a bill last week that would allow physicians to prescribe life-ending drugs to terminally ill patients, with some legislators citing Maynard’s story as a deciding factor in their vote. But Republican Gov. Chris Christie has said he opposes the measure. In California, the West Hollywood City Council this week passed a resolution that urges the Los Angeles County District Attorney to not prosecute physicians and family members who offer aid in dying to the terminally ill. But the state has no current bills or ballot measures on the issue. Some religious groups and social conservatives, including a Vatican official and the American Life League, have heavily criticized Maynard’s decision. Pope Francis denounced the right-todie movement Saturday, saying the practice is a sin against God and creation and provides a “false sense of compassion.” He didn’t refer specifically to Maynard’s case. Compassion & Choices said its website has had more than 5 million unique visitors during the past month, while Maynard’s two previous videos have been viewed more than 13 million times on YouTube alone. “I sense immense momentum right now,” said Barbara Coombs Lee, president of Compassion & Choices. “Brittany Maynard is a new voice for a new generation of activists ... she devoted her precious energy to help ensure other dying Americans would have a choice.”
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Junior JD Braun stands in his fraternity, Tau Kappa Epsilon, on Monday afternoon. Interfraternity Council elections were held last week, and Braun will take over as president.
of the Theta Chi fraternity, said he hopes the IFC’s new president and executive board will direct more focus on streamlining the formal recruitment process. The cur rent process makes it hard for small, new fraternities like his to attract members, he said. “It’s just giving each house an equal oppor tunity to recr uit,” Lamber t said.
He said he also hopes that this year the IFC will work to collaborate more with frater nities hosting philanthropy or other types of events. “Ther e’s still … not a whole lot of collaboration between the individual chapters, and that’s something I’d like to see [the] IFC encourage more,” he said. As conversations regarding campus sexual
assault continue at the national level and campus level with an emphasis on greek communities, Braun said he plans to make the issue a priority. He noted the IFC has a sexual assault prevention task force in place that works to educate its community on sexual assault and to raise awareness about the problem. “ We a r e d e f i n i t e l y awar e of the situation,
and we’re tr ying to combat it,” Braun said. Though he’s still transitioning out of the role as IFC president, Schilling said he’s excited to see where Braun will take the council in the next year. “I’m really looking forward to handing things of f to the next team and empowering the next individuals to car r y on what we’ve created,” he said.
More women in mortuary science Program
MORTUARY SCIENCE AT THE U
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Minnesota is one of the nation’s few states that requires a bachelor’s degree to obtain a license to practice mortuary science. Most states only require a two-year degree. Of the state’s mor ticians, about 86 percent hail from the University, said LuBrant, who is also a mortuary science assistant professor. “We’re a unique profession,” he said. LuBrant said many students in the program, like Christ, find comfort in seeing a deceased body made whole again. The University program includes several classes to help students understand the grieving process and to teach them rituals for preparing the dead for burial or cremation. Students also take microbiology, chemistr y, business, marketing and law classes. In Minnesota, mor ticians also ser ve as funeral directors. And to become a licensed one, students
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must first pass a national board exam and partake in a 10-month internship. When licensed, a mortician’s annual salar y falls between $40,000 and $60,000, LuBrant said. Owning a funeral home can raise that pay up to $80,000 a year, and he said salaries in rural areas tend to reach even higher level since a smaller percentage of morticians live in small communities. To get real-life practice, undergraduate students in the program practice speaking with families who have lost loved ones at funeral homes or cremation centers during their clinical phase.
Also during that time, the students build their embalming skills, lear ning how to preserve bodies once they have perished. “Embalming has been practiced for thousands of years,” LuBrant said. Senior teaching specialist Jody LaCourt said she trains several students each semester in the embalming process. First, she said, students learn to find the femoral ar ter y, and then they use instruments to disperse embalming fluid, like formaldehyde, into blood vessels. Body cavities are restored, if damaged by disease or in fatal accidents, and stu-
dents also learn to wash and sanitize the bodies. “We kind of think of it as surger y for the deceased,” LaCourt said. Some mor tuar y science students say they use the program as a stepping stone to medical school or another medical profession that requires additional years of training, LaCour t said the students start the lab with no prior training, so they usually begin the term riddled with ner ves. But around the seventh week, she said, they become more confident. “This is the best way to learn,” she said.
New US ambassador to Russia has tough job ahead BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — Ask most Russians and they will tell you that the United States instigated the conflict in Ukraine with the ultimate aim of subjugating Russia. This is what they hear from President Vladimir Putin and in a steady stream of reports on state television. Most in the West view it differently, of course. They condemn Russia for seizing the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine, and accuse the Kremlin of arming the separatists whose battles with gover nment troops in easter n Ukraine have claimed more than 4,000 lives. The U.S. and European Union have imposed punishing sanctions, but this has only made Russia more defiant. W ith little common ground between these two nar ratives, tensions between Russia and the West are higher than at any time since the end of the Cold War. Diplomacy has stalled. The arrival of new U.S. Ambassador John Tef ft, a career diplomat with experience in Russia and Ukraine, of fer ed some hope of improved lines of
communication. But his reception Wednesday, when he presented his credentials to Putin, showed his job will not be easy. Putin gave a slight smile as Tefft strode toward him across a vast, gilded Kremlin hall. His words, though, contained both a welcome and a warning. “We are ready for practical cooperation with our American par tners in all fields on the principles of respect for each other’s interests, equal partnership and non-inter ference in our domestic af fairs,” Putin said during the Kremlin ceremony. Rossiya state television sent a sharper message. The news presenter described Tef ft as a “specialist in color revolutions,” a reference to the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine that ushered in Wester n-leaning gover nments a decade ago. Tefft has been the U.S. ambassador in both countries, in addition to having ser ved in Russia and in other State Department posts with responsibility for the region. “They call him a diplomat saboteur,” the pre-
senter said. The implication was that he was sent to Moscow to foment a popular uprising with the aim of overthrowing Putin. The Western sanctions, which target Russian businesses and individuals, including some members of Putin’s inner circle, are seen as part of this effort. Tefft was one of 15 ambassadors to present their credentials Wednesday, but television repor ts unsurprisingly focused almost exclusively on him. Russian television news broadcasts and talk shows seem obsessed with the United States. The state-owned channels churn out programs that por tray the U.S. as the greatest threat to stability and security not only in Russia but throughout the world. This message finds fertile ground with Russians still deeply bitter over the humiliation of the years following the 1991 Soviet collapse. The anti-Americanism also serves to rally Russians around Putin, a leader seen as strong enough to stand up to the West. Tef ft replaces Michael McFaul, the Stanford Uni-
versity professor who was the architect of President Barack Obama’s ef for t to reset relations with Russia. McFaul had the misfortune to arrive in Moscow in the middle of the mass anti-Putin protests of early 2012. A scholar who had long studied the development of democracy in Russia, he was an easy target for the Kremlin as it sought to portray the protests as a U.S. plot. Tef ft has been seen as more likely to be able to work with the Russians, who are accustomed to dealing with professional diplomats. This was the point he made Wednesday: “As a U.S. diplomat for more than four decades, I am committed to maintaining open and frank lines of communication between our two great nations — helping explain Russia’s perspective to Washington and expressing the U.S. government’s views to Moscow,” the new ambassador said in a statement. Judging by the reception he received in the Kremlin and on state television, this will not be easy.
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Experts urge better diets for life, planet A recent University study linked healthy human diets with planetary wellness. BY PARKER LEMKE plemke@mndaily.com
Adopting cer tain diets could help both humans and the planet avoid chronic health ailments. Shifting to diets that buck global trends of increased meat consumption could cut projected greenhouse gas emissions and conserve natural habitats, according to a University of Minnesota study published last week. The research found that an international adoption of regimens low in meat and high in grain and produce would reduce the amount of land clearage necessary to meet global food demands. Converting to Mediterranean, pescetarian or vegetarian diets would also diminish projected agricultural
“[Changing consumption patterns is] going to be extremely difficult ... Diets are a part of culture.” DON WYSE Agronomy professor
production emissions per capita by 30 percent, 45 percent and 55 percent, respectively, the study found. “We showed that the same dietary changes that can add about a decade to our lives can also prevent massive environmental damage,” said ecology, evolution and behavior regents professor David Tilman in a University press release. According to the research, rising global incomes have grown the demand for diets high in refined sugars, fats, oils and meats. “Generally, as people get
more affluent, they eat more calories, more meat and more empty calories,” said Mike Clark, a natural resources science management doctoral student who worked with Tilman and co-authored the twoyear study. Producing more food requires clearing more land, which contributes to rising greenhouse gas emissions, Clark said. Current dietary trends are expediting those environmental impacts, he said. If unchecked, the current global dietary trends could contribute to an 80 percent jump of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 stemming from agriculture, the study said, while also driving an increase in illnesses like type 2 diabetes and coronary heart disease. The research traced worldwide trends using dietar y consumption and agricultural yield data from the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations. It also aggregated
the results of other scientific studies focused on the health outcomes and gas emissions of different diets and foods, Clark said. Switching to the nutritional regimens suggested by the research’s findings would have a major impact across the globe. “This dietary shift would prevent the destruction of an area of tropical forests and savannas as large as half of the United States,” Tilman said in the press release.
The ‘extremely difficult’ road to protecting land, human health
Increased consumption of meat has driven agricultural production away from more efficient plant-based systems, said Don Wyse, agronomy professor and co-director of the Center for Integrated Natural Resources and Agricultural Management. “Most of the production of grain crop products in the
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steep tuition, fees and living expenses. Administrators froze the University’s tuition at $12,060 for undergraduates paying the in-state rate this school year. They plan to hold it at that level next fall. The freeze saves the average resident undergraduate University student between $2,100 to $2,500, Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education Bob McMaster said in a statement. Meredith Fergus, manager of financial aid research at the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, said there’s a sense of urgency among Minnesotans to pursue higher education. “We have a high collegegoing culture here,” Fergus said, adding that employers in Minnesota seek degreeholding applicants. But Laabs doesn’t see a payback for ever y graduate as they enter the labor force. On the contrar y, she said she feels tuition is too costly for students who receive degrees in fields that are unlikely to pay high salaries. “It costs a student in the liberal arts the same to go to college as somebody who graduates with a bachelor of science in computer engineering, where their career outlook is a lot better,” Laabs said. “Where at the
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same time, they’re going to pay back their loans a lot faster.” The numbers show just that, with the mean annual salar y of a photographer coming in at $38,860 versus $108,600 for a chemical engineer, according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Fergus r ecommends that students anticipating the need for loans make a plan for the entire four years of college, not just the first semester. “We need to do a better job saving for college,” she said.
She also recommends that students take advantage of the financial literacy programs and financial planning for low-income students and students of color made available by the state, as well as the state’s 529 college savings plan. Despite high debt in Minnesota, Reed said he still thinks college is worth the cost. “College is still one of the best investments you can make,” he said, citing lower unemployment figures and higher salaries over time as a few reasons to strive for a bachelor’s degree.
When making their college decisions, however, he advises students to consider debt, tuition costs, and available grant aid before accepting their admission offers, as well as using tools like net-price calculators to determine how much they can contribute toward tuition and fees. The University reported numbers slightly different from the national repor t. Among students who took out loans and graduated last year, the average debt level was about $26,400, excluding loans their parents took out. “The fact is that most students leave the U with a high quality education and a degree from the University that pays lifelong dividends,” McMaster said in the statement. Fergus said the Office of Higher Education recently received a grant to research the state’s college students’ borrowing rates and the influences of their debt after college. The study begins this month and extends into 2016. Laabs said she feels the University and the state could do more to help students cope with debt. “I’m in MSA, so I hear a lot about students talking with University administrators about student debt,” she said. “I think the University should be doing more advocating on their own for students and the price that they pay to go here.”
Violent attacks on Jerusalem put city on edge BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Streets are subdued, marketplaces are quiet and people are on edge in Jewish areas of Jerusalem, where Arabs have been using meat cleavers, guns, screwdrivers and even their cars in deadly, smallscale attacks. The holy city — which Israel says must forever stay united — has rarely seemed more divided. In their 47th year of occupation, Palestinians are seething with anger over neglect and discrimination, continued Jewish settlement in their areas, and a belief, despite official denials, that Israel is scheming to take over their most revered site. This anger, coupled with Jewish fears of further violence, has left the city’s 800,000 residents apprehensive, seemingly united in the belief that things will get worse before they get better. “I’m really not safe, and before leaving the house I think twice,” said Sara Levi, a 22-year-old stay at home mother. “We are not calm, and we hope there is going to be an end to this, and that it is not just a beginning.” Levi spoke as she waited at a stop for Jerusalem’s light rail train — a frequent target of Palestinian violence. The trains, meant to serve as a symbol of a united city, are frequently pelted
with stones when passing through Palestinian areas. There have been two deadly attacks in recent weeks by ramming cars into crowded stations. In a separate attack, a Palestinian gunman on a motorcycle shot and seriously wounded a prominent Jewish activist who has pushed for greater Jewish access to the city’s most sensitive holy site — the hilltop compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. The violence reached a new turning point Tuesday when two Palestinian attackers burst into a crowded synagogue during morning prayers, killing four worshippers and a policeman with the meat cleavers and gunfire. It was the deadliest attack in the city since 2008, and gruesome pictures of blood-covered holy books and prayer shawls shocked a country long accustomed to political violence. Those deaths brought to 11 the number of people killed by Palestinian attacks — most of them in Jerusalem — but also in Tel Aviv and the West Bank in recent weeks. At least five Palestinians involved in the attacks were killed. In Jewish parts of Jerusalem, traffic was lighter than usual Wednesday. Fewer people were riding the train,
and the crowds that normally pack the city’s Mahane Yehuda open-air marketplace were thin. “Business is weak today. It was worse yesterday,” vegetable salesman Itzik Shimon said as he stood at his empty stall. “People are afraid. Can you blame them?” In parliament, a group of mothers implored lawmakers to hire more security guards for day care centers. The city says it has increased protection, but many kindergartens remain without guards. “There was a feeling that with yesterday’s attack ... terrorists are trying to send a message that they can get anywhere in Jer usalem,” said Dena Scher, a member of the group. “Ever yone is concerned.” Scher, a mother of two young children, said her routine includes new precautions — such as standing away from crowds at bus stops. “I’m definitely being warier, looking around more when dropping off or picking up the kids,” she said. Identifying the cause of the unrest is an imprecise science. Relations with the Palestinians took a downturn with the collapse of U.S.-brokered peace talks in April. Then Palestinian militants in the West Bank kidnapped and killed three Israeli
teenage boys in early June. Weeks later, Jewish extremists kidnapped and killed a Palestinian teenager in a revenge attack in Jerusalem. The violence widened during the summer when Israel fought a 50-day war against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Jewish nationalists have moved into a tense Arab neighborhood in east Jerusalem, the section of the city claimed by the Palestinians as their capital, and Israel has pushed forward plans to build hundreds of homes for Jews in the eastern part of the city. But perhaps more than anything, Palestinians point to turmoil at the Jer usalem holy site as the cause of their consternation. The Temple Mount, the site of the biblical Hebrew temples, is the most sacred spot in Judaism. It is the third-holiest place in Islam, revered by Muslims as the location where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven, and is home today to the AlAqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. Under a longstanding agreement, Muslims administer the compound under Jordanian custody. While Jews are permitted to visit, they are not allowed to pray. In recent months, a growing number of Jewish worshippers have visited, many of whom seek greater access and the right to pray.
Midwest does not feed people directly,” Wyse said. “Most all of that goes through livestock to produce meat.” We put more protein into cattle than we get back from them, as they require more space and consume large amounts of feedstock, Clark said. “You have 20 units of plants going in to feed one unit of beef,” he said, “whereas you could instead be eating those 20 units of plants.” As wealth in developing countries increases, so does the demand for luxury items — which include meat, he said. Clark said when he visited communities in the Ecuadorian stretch of the Andes Mountains in South America, he saw firsthand how communities tend to model the lifestyles of wealthy nations as they develop economically. “People there would have TVs and cars even if they didn’t necessarily need them,” Clark said. “This is what other people who are
more affluent have, and so they want to strive towards that.” He said it could take a mix of public awareness, education and, potentially, new policies to transition consumption patterns toward more sustainable diets. “It’s going to be extremely difficult,” Wyse said. “Diets are a part of culture.” Researching new agricultural systems that can produce plants to feed livestock while also maintaining healthy landscapes could also address environmental concerns raised in the study, he said. University researchers have been developing ecologically friendly farming methods since the start of the millennium, he said. “What I think the grand challenge is, is to figure out how to do both — how to produce agricultural systems that … provide for landscape health and for human health,” Wyse said.
Judge overturns MT gay marriage ban BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HELENA, Mont. — A federal judge on Wednesday overturned the state gay marriage ban in Montana, one of the last states to continue its legal fight despite rulings from appeals courts that oversee them that found gay and lesbian couples could wed. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris ruled Montana’s constitutional amendment limiting marriage to between a man and a woman violates the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. “This Court recognizes that not everyone will celebrate this outcome,” Morris wrote. “This decision overturns a Montana Constitutional amendment approved by the voters of Montana. Yet the United States Constitution exists to protect disfavored minorities from the will of the majority.” The clerk of district court in Montana’s most populous county, Yellowstone, said she expects her office to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples Thursday morning. “We’re ready to go,” Kristie Lee Boelter said. “For my office, nothing will be different than any other day.” Also Thursday, the ACLU is planning celebrations at county courthouses in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Great Falls, Helena and Missoula. The group will have officiants there for couples who wish to marry immediately, ACLU spokeswoman Amy Cannata said. The 9th U.S. Circuit Cour t of Appeals r uled in September that Idaho and Nevada’s bans are unconstitutional. Montana is part of the 9th Circuit, and
Morris cited the appeals court’s opinion in his ruling. “The time has come for Montana to follow all the other states within the Ninth Circuit and recognize that laws that ban same-sex marriage violate the constitutional right of same-sex couples to equal protection of the laws,” he wrote. Four same-sex couples filed a lawsuit in May challenging Montana’s ban: Angie and Tonya Rolando; Shauna and Nicole Goubeaux; Ben Milano and Chase Weinhandl; and Sue Hawthorne and Adel Johnson. “Calling Tonya my partner, my significant other, my girlfriend, my perpetual fiancée has never done justice to our relationship,” Angie Rolando said. “Now I can look forward to the day when I can introduce Tonya as my wife. “Love won today,” Angie Rolando said in a statement released by the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana. The Goubeauxes, the Weinhandls, and Hawthorne and Johnson all were married in other states. Montana ACLU legal director Jim Taylor said the case was about equality and “basic fairness.” Morris’ ruling recognizes there is no legitimate basis on which to deny same-sex couples the right to marry, he said. Montana’s Republican attorney general, Tim Fox, vowed to continue the legal fight. “It is the attorney general’s sworn duty to uphold and defend Montana’s constitution until such time as there is no further review or no appeal can be made in a court of law,” Fox said in an email to The Associated Press.
NFL video speaks out against domestic violence BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The NFL sent a 17-minute video Wednesday to high school and college coaches nationwide to encourage them to be aware of and act against domestic violence and abuse. Entitled “NFL Call To Coaches — Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Awareness,” the video includes strong messages from Seahawks coach Pete Carroll and Steelers coach Mike Tomlin; NFL football operations executive Troy Vincent; Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin; former player and coach Joe Ehrmann; and Mike Rowe, the coach at Rocori High School in Minnesota. “We recognize the incredible influence coaches can have on their players and how football can be used as an educational tool to af fect change,” Deana Gar ner, the NFL’s director of player engagement and education, said. “To truly change a culture and
behavior, and instill a personal accountability in living a life of character, you need to affect people when they are young.” The video is being distributed to high school football coaches by USA Football, the national governing body for the sport; the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), who will distribute it to high schools and coaches of a variety of spor ts; the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) to its network of coaches; and the High School Player Development program (HSPD) to its network of high school coaches. The video is the latest step in the NFL’s attempts to deal with domestic violence and abuse issues that drew headlines in the cases of Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson. University administrators are among those consulted by the league on revisions to its personal conduct policy and other policies.
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U student group targets corruption in politics
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ballot, Sinha said. Before the group can bring the initiatives to voters, it needs to build a coalition of student groups, local organizations, businesses and educators to discuss the issue of political cor r uption, said Adam Joseph, the group’s president. Joseph said his group has approached members of the University’s College Democrats, the College Republicans, the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group and other organizations about its cause. Sinha and Joseph went to an MPIRG meeting in late September to talk about the Represent.Us campaign and to collect petition signatures, said Mica Grimm, MPIRG’s University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus organizer. Post-election apathy and par tisan boundaries present the biggest challenges to recruiting members now, Sinha said. “You need to approach the Democrats like it’s a Democratic point of view, and you need to approach the Republicans like it’s a
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Republican point of view,” Joseph said. Sinha said the University’s chapter has about 11 members, but interest is
growing quickly. Millions of dollars poured into Minnesota to finance campaigns this year. The super PAC Alliance for
a Better Minnesota contributed more than $1.5 million in a campaign against Republican senatorial candidate Mike McFadden, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Hometown Fr eedom Action Network, another super PAC, spent nearly $350,000 this year to campaign against Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., who defeated McFadden. “It would be foolish to say that money didn’t factor into politics, because if that was true, there would be people who are from lowermiddle-class or middle-class backgrounds running for elected positions more often,” Grim said. Sinha and Joseph said they think the group won’t be able to get a referendum on Minneapolis or St. Paul ballots until 2017 or 2018. In the long term, the group would like to draft statewide legislation, Sinha said. Grimm said she thinks Minnesota will be one of the first states to pass a law addressing corruption and donation reform. “[Campaign finance reform] would be more likely to pass here than a lot of other places,” Grimm said. “That could strengthen the movement nationally.”
Kerry in diplomatic overdrive in London BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — With a deadline for Iranian nuclear deal fast approaching, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry embarked Wednesday on a frenzy of high-stakes diplomacy in a last-minute push to secure an agreement — or at least prevent the process from collapsing. As senior negotiators huddled for a second day in Vienna, Kerry held separate meetings in London. He planned a trip to Paris Wednesday. Kerry was still weighing when he might join the larger effort in the Austrian capital where negotiators are racing against the clock to forge a pact over the next five days to prevent Iran from reaching the capability to produce atomic weapons. Despite his ef for ts, though, signs increasingly pointed to Monday’s deadline passing without a deal and the negotiations being extended a second time. In London, Kerr y met Wednesday at his hotel with Foreign Minister Yusuf bin Alawi of Oman, a
key bridge between Washington and Tehran, a senior U.S. official said. Bin Alawi was in Tehran last weekend and met with Kerry on Tuesday. Their follow-up meeting was unannounced and confirmed only after an Associated Press reporter saw the foreign minister in Kerry’s hotel. Oman is not party to the negotiations among Iran, the U.S., Britain, China, France, Russia, the European Union and Germany. But it is unique among the Gulf Arab states for the close ties it maintains with Iran, having hosted highlevel nuclear talks earlier this month and served as the site of secret U.S.-Iranian gatherings dating back to 2012. Those earlier discussions laid the groundwork for an interim nuclear agreement reached a year ago, which the so-called P5+1 countries now hope to cement with a comprehensive accord in Vienna. Details of Kerry’s meetings with bin Alawi were not immediately clear and U.S. officials were tight-lipped about
American led airstrike hits al-Qaida-held town BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — An overnight American-led airstrike struck al-Qaida militants in northwestern Syria, the U.S. military and Syrian activists said Wednesday. The strike marked the four th time the U.S. has targeted the Nusra Front, al-Qaida’s Syrian branch, as part of its broader campaign against the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. The strike hit a storage facility controlled by the Nusra Front near the town of Harem, U.S. Central Command said in a statement. It was one of five airstrikes conducted by the coalition in Syria since Monday, the military said. U.S. Central Command said the strike targeted the so-called Khorasan group, which Washington says is a special cell within Nusra that is plotting attacks against Western interests. Inside Syria, activists and rebels dismiss the U.S. attempt to distinguish between the two, saying they are one entity. Many analysts also question the distinction. Harem is considered a strategically important border town, because it lies on a chief smuggling route to Turkey from northwestern
Syria. The strike also was reported by local activists and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Obser vator y said the strike killed two Nusra Front fighters. The U.S. says it isn’t coordinating its aerial operation in Syria with President Bashar Assad, whose own air force has been pummeling opposition-held areas from the sky since the inter national coalition’s campaign began in late September. The Obser vator y said Wednesday that Syrian aircraft have carried out nearly 1,600 airstrikes since Oct. 20. It said at least 396 people, including 109 children, have been killed in those strikes. On Wednesday, a government strike hit the northeastern city of Raqqa, controlled by the Islamic State group, killing at least nine people, the Observatory and local activist Fourat Alwfaa said. Alwfaa said the killed were civilians. Another strike hit the town of al-Hara in southern Syria, killing eight people, including four children and a woman, the Observatory said. An activist group in Daraa also repor ted the strikes, but offered no casualty figures.
any role Oman might play beyond that of an intermediary. In Washington, President Barack Obama’s nominee to be Kerry’s deputy at the State Department said he believed it would be difficult to meet the deadline. “It’s not impossible,” said Tony Blinken, currently Obama’s deputy national security adviser. “It depends entirely on whether Iran is willing to take steps it must take to convince us, to convince our partners that its program would be for entirely peaceful purposes. As we speak, we’re not there.” Peter Wittig, Germany’s ambassador to the U.S., wouldn’t rule out an extension and said a nuclear deal could lead to better relations between Iran and world powers on regional crises in Syria and Lebanon. “If these negotiations fail, there won’t be any winners,” Wittig told reporters in Washington. In Paris, Kerry will meet Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. Those meetings are key be-
cause French objections last year delayed the adoption of an interim agreement by several weeks, and Saudi Arabia remains deeply concerned about the potential for its arch-rival Iran to win concessions from the West. The Obama administration also is trying to satisfy the concerns of Republican and many Democratic lawmakers at home. In a twist, many in Congress that previously opposed fur ther extensions of talks with Iran now see that route as a preferable to an agreement that doesn’t do enough to cut off possible Iranian pathways toward a nuclear bomb. Republicans in particular want more time so that they can attempt to pass new sanctions legislation that would pressure Iran into greater concessions. Their plan is to bring up a package of conditional penalties after January, when they take the majority, according to GOP Senate aides who weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the matter and demanded anonymity.
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Some councils may also be in flux with the new structure, members said at the meeting. The Graduate Students in Education and Human Development council represents both professional and graduate students, which left members questioning where the council would fit in the proposed system. GradSEHD representative Michelle Gensinger said GAPSA needs to carefully weigh the pros and cons of the restructuring and that the decision shouldn’t be made with haste. “I think it’s important we get more voices into the discussion,” said Gensinger, who led the creation of a task force to further review the idea. But Sintjago said the proposal will allow GAPSA to focus on the individual
and overlapping issues that impact both graduate and professional students. At the meeting, COGS President Andrew McNally said PSA and COGS would coordinate their fees requests, programming and advocacy efforts. The proposed plan for restructuring comes in the wake of an ongoing state of financial uncertainty for GAPSA. The group’s funding has been frozen for nearly six months while the Office for Student Affairs investigates a $93,000 discrepancy in its budget. Last week, OSA granted GAPSA about one-third of its $232,000 budget for the cur rent school year. “GAPSA has had ups and downs, but it has done a good job in terms of advocacy over the years,” Sintjago said. “And I think we can do an even better job by making these changes happen.”
MNsure sees spike in consumer visits since workweek began BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL — Minnesota’s health insurance exchange has seen a spike in consumer visits in its first workweek since open enrollment began last weekend but is handling the load well, officials said Wednesday. MNsure CEO Scott Leitz told the board of directors there had been no major technical issues and no unplanned downtime since the system went live Saturday morning for its second open enrollment season. After a “soft lead-in” Saturday and Sunday, he said, traffic on MNsure’s website and calls to its help line surged Monday. Unique page views went from about 80,000 on Saturday to about 60,000 on Sunday, then shot up to 140,000 on Monday before dipping back to about 80,000 Tuesday. The system processed over 4,700 enrollments by 9 a.m. Wednesday, he said, including about 3,200 people who joined the public Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare programs for lower-income people, and about 1,500 who signed up for private insurance plans for individuals. MNsure had a rocky debut last year with a largely untested computer system and understaffed call center. Several board members said
they were pleased to see the overhauled system working better. “I’m hearing the words ‘wonderful’ and ‘MNsure’ in the same sentence,” board member Phil Norrgard said, drawing laughs. The board also heard about some fr ustrations. Getting a forgotten password reset takes 20 to 30 minutes on the phone once a consumer gets transferred to an IT specialist. Some board members asked if that process could be simplified. MNsure staffers indicated it can’t be for now. Another issue is that consumers don’t immediately get an email or a clear on-screen confir mation that they’ve successfully enrolled. Chief Operating Of ficer Katie Burns said that function wasn’t ready in time. And while MNsure’s data show that around 95 percent calls to the beefedup contact center in recent days have been getting answered in five minutes or less, an Associated Press repor ter spent 13 minutes on hold before reaching a person around 11 a.m. Wednesday. MNsure spokesman Joe Campbell said the center had an average wait Wednesday of 6 minutes, with the longest about 14 minutes. He said 89 percent were answered within 5 minutes.
Vikings drop hope of Adrian Peterson’s return BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — Adrian Peterson’s last appearance in the Minnesota locker room was nearly 10 weeks ago. The Vikings have played all but one game this season without his swift and strong running ability. Optimism for his retur n remained among Peterson’s teammates, par ticularly following his plea agreement earlier this month that freed him from the court system with only a misdemeanor charge and probation requirements. T h e h ope, n ow, h a s vanished. “We know now he’s not coming through those doors and coming back this year to be on our team,” cornerback Captain Munnerlyn said Wednesday, the day after the NFL gave Peterson a suspension without pay for at least the rest of the season. “We’re kind of hurt that he’s not, but we knew it was kind of coming, so we just have to move on.” Commissioner Roger Goodell ruled Peterson violated the personal conduct policy for the severe injuries to his 4-year-old son he acknowledged to authorities occurred from corporal punishment with a wooden switch.
Even if Peterson were to shorten his suspension with a successful appeal, the Vikings actually using him yet this year would be an implausible scenario given the heat they took for initially reinstating him to the roster. Then add in the long time Peterson has been away from practices and meetings, let alone games. “I guess it is a sense of knowing that it is over with. Kind of, I guess, puts people at ease. It’s not what we wanted, but at the same time we hope that he gets another shot,” r unning back Jerick McKinnon said. “Great player, great mentor, and I’ll still look up to him. I’ll stay in touch. I’m praying for him, hoping for the best.” The Vikings have six games left and host the Gr een Bay Packers on Sunday. “We can’t have a dark cloud over our facility or over our team,” quar terback Teddy Bridgewater said, adding: “We would love to have him, but it’s out of our hands.” Coach Mike Zimmer addressed the Peterson situation with the players Wednesday morning. “I suppor t him and his family and he’s been great with me, but other than that ... we’ve got to move
for ward. It’s just the way life is,” Zimmer said. Regardless of their feelings about boundaries of parental discipline and punishment Peterson might have deser ved for what was originally a felony charge, Vikings players were unanimous in their suppor t for him and his return. Even rookies like Bridgewater and McKinnon raved about the effort Peterson put into being a leader and a mentor. “There were times in training camp where I’d get down on myself because I may have had a bad practice or didn’t like this throw or that throw, and he would always come up to me and tell me, ‘Hey, you’re not going to be perfect. You can’t control what ever yone’s saying about you. You can’t control ever y throw. You just have to trust yourself, play football and trust your God-given abilities,’” Bridgewater said. “Hearing that from Adrian, it just meant a lot.” The Vikings were also in lock-step disagreement with Goodell’s decision. The NFL Players Association has accused the league of handling the process inconsistently and unfairly, believing Peterson has already been punished by being on the exempt list with
pay for the last nine weeks. Goodell has sole discretion to put a player on or take him off the list, which has rarely been used. “Once he got taken care of what he got taken care of in the games he’s already missed, I feel like he should be back,” fullback Jerome Felton said. Peterson’s salary for the season was $11.75 million. He will keep the money accrued while on the exempt list. But the NFL’s punishment has now amounted to a 14-game ban, with six unpaid weeks. That’s the equivalent of a fine of more than $4.1 million. NOTES: McKinnon missed practice Wednesday with a lower-back injury, and so did running back Matt Asiata with a concussion. W ith Joe Banyard the only other ball carrier on the active roster, the Vikings claimed r unning back Ben Tate off waivers from Cleveland. Tate was overtaken for playing time by rookies Isaiah Crowell and Ter rance West after signing as a free agent with the Browns to be their featured back. He sprained his right knee in season opener and missed two games, but returned after the bye week with a bang, rushing for a career-high 124 yards.
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ollege of Liberal Ar ts students, take note: One of the nation’s top lawmakers has just declared your major to be of little worth. House Science Committee Chair Rep. Lamar Smith, RTexas, is renewing a Republican push to restrict national funding for the social sciences. Such a restriction would have disastrous consequences for the entire nation, not just those who study the liberal ar ts. Social science research is essential to bridging the gap between new technology and the people who desperately need it. Neither social nor scientific study can be classified as “more impor tant” — they gain functionality only through each other. Consider the z-Lab, a brand-new disease-screening device developed by University of Minnesota researchers, Mayo Clinic staf f and industr y par tners. The handheld device needs only 15 minutes and a single drop of blood to detect the presence of many diseases. Z-lab is cost-, labor- and time-ef ficient, making it an ideal tool to screen patients for diseases
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early with the potential to save thousands of lives. But the z-Lab device is useless unless the people who need it can access it. New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Protection reveal that in 2012, more than one-third of women diagnosed with cer vical cancer died — despite the fact that 93 percent of cer vical cancer cases are preventable. But for the more than 8 million women who weren’t screened in 2012, early cancer detection and treatment were never options. As our medical and scientific technology continues to improve, it is essential that they remain available for ever yone. That’s where the sociologists, political researchers and other social scientists come in. These kinds of exper ts might not know how to operate z-Lab devices, but they could show you which regions of the countr y desperately need them. Social scientists can examine additional
data — such as the fact that 25 percent of those women with cer vical cancer didn’t have a regular health care provider — and determine the economic, transpor tation and awareness barriers that prevent people from getting treatment. Fur thermore, there’s no way that scientists alone can develop an ef fective health care system that has bipar tisan support. We need people trained in political science and policy work for that. Without the input of exper ts in the so-called “soft sciences,” medical technology remains stagnant. Money is a limited commodity, but actively targeting the social sciences for budget cuts is a horrible idea. A new repor t about structural inequality and barriers to health care won’t save lives, but neither will a z-Lab device that remains only in elite medical facilities. Scientific and social research depend on each other and on appropriate levels of funding. Prioritizing certain research disciplines over others won’t magically provide health care, much less jobs or education to those who need it. Unequal funding will only result in an unequal society. Camille Galles welcomes comments at cgalles@mndaily.com.
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As we wrote in an editorial last week, net neutrality is an important topic to take seriously, as the consequences of losing it would prove to be costly for Internet users — particularly students. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, recently criticized supporters of net neutrality, labeling it as “Obamacare for the Internet.” Thankfully, Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., responded by stating Cruz mischaracterized the debate by misunderstanding the concept of net neutrality. This measure does not intend to change anything — it rather would keep the status quo of the Inter net, while Obamacare was a deliberate attempt to change a health care system that was not working. Let’s hope this grave misunderstanding of an important issue does not hinder positive change. The Editorial Board
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Discrimination in blood donations The ban on blood donations from gay men should be amended to increase supply.
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’ve donated blood regularly since I turned 18, giving once or twice each year. Every time I’ve donated, one of the many queries the questionnaire asked me beforehand was, “[Have you] had sexual contact with another male, even once?” Since the AIDS epidemic of the early 1980s, the United States Food and Drug Administration banned men who have had sex with other men from donating blood. As a result, many potential donors have been incapable of providing this contribution to society. An advisor y board to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services voted conclusively last week that men who have had sex with men should be able to give blood after being abstinent for one year. This period would eliminate the chance of falsenegative HIV tests. Although the FDA has the final say in this decision, it will probably take into account the group’s advice. With the Red Cross regularly reporting
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR On Peterson’s suspension The decision by the NFL to suspend Adrian Peterson for the duration of the football season should have AfricanAmerican parents across the nation concerned. Let me state empathically before I go any further — I am not a fan of football, nor did I know of Adrian Peterson before this bogus criminal charge was brought against him. I know we, African-Americans, are not a monolithic group, par ticularly when it comes to rearing our children. However, I do not believe Peterson intended to hur t his child. I do not believe Peterson is a criminal. I do not believe he committed reckless assault. I do not believe his son has suf fered permanent emotional damage. Peterson unintentionally went too far in correcting his son, but he is no criminal.
EDITORIALS Guidelines set for student protests Colleges expect unrest ahead of the Michael Brown ruling.
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efore the month’s end, the Education Law Association and NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education will release a new handbook advising college administrators how to handle student protests. In Ferguson, Mo., the guide’s release is expected to roughly coincide with a grand jury’s decision on whether to indict a police officer in the killing of an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, this summer. Ferguson officials expect rioting after the jur y’s verdict, which some anticipate will be “not guilty.” Since August, the St. Louis County police have spent at least $172,669 on riot gear, tear gas and other equipment intended to suppress violent demonstrations. On Monday, moreover, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a preemptive state of emergency. Near Ferguson, students at St. Louis University staged sit-ins after Brown’s death. To prepare for further protests, the school has established a call center and assembled teams to scour social media sites for early signs of student unrest. This second measure follows the new handbook’s suggestions, some of which have already been announced. Among other things, the guide recommends that colleges monitor campus moods via social media sites, foster nonviolent engagement with protesters and consolidate campus speech and assembly policies. We’re pleased with the handbook’s suggestions, but we’re somewhat skeptical of their efficacy, as following them is not mandatory. Nevertheless, we hope that campus police departments across the country will do what’s right and that student protesters will remember that it’s their own responsibility to ensure that their demonstrations remain civil.
Don’t overlook abuse in sports
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If you don’t show up, you’re taking a spot from a different student who pays the same student services fees as you. It’s not fair for them. If it’s a mental health issue, that’s a different stor y and should be handled on a case-by-case basis. If someone is severely depressed, they shouldn’t be fined for not going to a session. If they’re taking a spot away from someone else, charge them in full.
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It is time for black families, those organizations representing black families and organizations representing families in general to speak up against this criminalization of black men who are rearing their children. I was reared by parents, and in an extended family, that did not spare the rod. As a result of that, I am a productive citizen of this country. I am not psychologically damaged. This is what my parents knew, and this is what I know as a parent. If we do not discipline our sons, the police will jail them and kill them in the street. When the cops kill our boys, it’s considered lawful; when we discipline them, it’s considered a crime. Discipline in the home will do more to keep our young black men out of the prison system than any government program. We need to involve them with men, we need to ensure they are involved in houses of faith — we need to mentor our sons. I do not need the government telling me
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blood shortages, the nation’s ill could benefit greatly from an additional source of blood. Given that science has proven their blood to be safe, the FDA must implement a plan for gay men to become donors. The United Kingdom and Canada have already revised their policies to allow all men to donate, provided they have not had sex with another man in one year or five years, respectively. Based on those nations’ successes, I would expect the U.S. to move to a model like theirs in the near future. As more research improves early HIV-detection rates, I also hope that the barriers preventing gay men from donating blood continue to disappear. Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.
It is time for black families, those organizations representing black families and organizations representing families in general to speak up against this criminalization of black men who are rearing their children. how to rear my children. Child rearing is the responsibility of the home. I am disgusted, sick, tired and upset with the government interfering with our families. Uncle Sam needs to defend the nation. I will defend my home, and the best way to defend my home and to secure a future for my family is to discipline my sons.
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n light of major accusations against stars such as Jian Ghomeshi and Bill Cosby, debate has resurfaced regarding what can be done about sexual abuse. Victims, who may gain confidence in making accusations after other women publically decry similar types of abuse, sometimes don’t initially feel that anyone would believe them. Recently, an article by Outside magazine uncovered sexual abuse directed at 13-year-old swimmer Anna Strzempko that occurred over a number of years while she was training. The abuse, which occurred at the hand of her coach, was allegedly covered up by USA Swimming in order to preserve its image. This led to the resurfacing of other similar cases that highlighted what seems to be rampant abuse in youth sports like swimming. This problem is not inherent to swimming. Other sports, such as tae kwon do, speed skating and even youth football have also been reported to be plagued by sexual abuse cases between coaches and athletes. College athletics are no stranger to these types of problems, either. Penn State’s Jerry Sandusky scandal is an obvious example. We applaud the courage it must have taken Strzempko to publically discuss her story. Abuse in youth sports — or any activity in which a leader is able to take advantage of their position — should be subject to scrutiny. Anyone shown to facilitate this abuse, especially by cover-up, should also be held accountable. 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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Q&A: Hans Zimmer Grammy-award winning composer Hans Zimmer spoke with A&E about his latest endeavor, “Interstellar.” BY LAINI DEVIN ldevin@mndaily.com
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ans Zimmer’s musical vocabular y is one without words, and one that he described as mysterious and personal. His latest film score comes in “Interstellar,” Christopher Nolan’s feature that opened in the United States on Nov. 7. The award-winning pair has collaborated on movies including “Inception” and “The Dark Knight,” but Zimmer says his music for the new sci-fi motion picture is unlike anything he’s ever done. Zimmer shared the methods behind his work over the phone with A&E, and he divulged the details of finally making music that leaves him completely satisfied. Where did the idea for “Interstellar” come from? Chris and I have known each other for a long time now, and it was this fable about a father and his children, and it was all to do with a conversation we had a few years back about our kids. This letter turned up — this beautiful type, not on a computer, but typewriter, and I knew it was the carbon copy page of what the movie was about. I made this tiny, ver y personal, ver y intimate little piece. I said to him, “Do you want me to send it over?” He came down and I played it to him, and I said, “What do you think?” He says, “I suppose I better make the movie now.” I said, “Well, what is the movie?” What was his response? He goes of f describing this huge space movie celebrating science. I said, “I’ve only given you the ver y intimate, ver y little piece.” And he said, “I now know where the hear t of the story is.” That’s where we star ted, and we kept going back to that. And the bigger the
movie became, the more personal it became. When Chris wrote the piece for me, he wrote it about a father and his son because what he knows is my then-14-year-old son wants to become a scientist. Of course then Chris switched it on me — he’s a daughter in the movie. You and Christopher Nolan worked very closely. Q u i t e h o n e s t l y, t h e inspiration comes from Chris and I spending an inordinate amount of time just talking and riffing. We just work in parallel constantly and communicate in form. Chris is foremost a writer-director, which means reading the script is actually the truth. You’re truly reading the vision, and he writes beautifully. A lot of scripts, what happens is you get great dialogue and the action is sor t of described in an idea, but Chris has such attention to detail that his writing just reads beautifully. Having a director who fiercely protects my process — nothing gets in the way of my imagination. Whatever ideas we have, we at least have to give them a go. He gave me a watch at the end, and there’s a saying on the back: “This is not a time for caution.” When in the process were you brought in to compose? I suppose I was the first person on this movie, because par tly I think the game was when Chris said he was going to send me that page, it actually forced him to write. I sor t of locked myself away in my happy little apartment and wouldn’t go out and wouldn’t see anyone. I was behaving like an astronaut, far removed from society — method composing. The amazing luxur y I have on this project is basically, each pr oject becomes a journey — an adventure, where you can go and suddenly lear n something.
[When working on] “The Da Vinci Code,” I got to hang out in the Louvre in the middle of the night. “Interstellar,” I get to read about science. The score had such a different sound than a lot of your other work. How did you choose which instruments to use? It was this sor t of strange process. For instance, Chris said, “What about pipe organ?” And as soon as he said it, I sort of saw just the shape of a pipe organ; it just looks like one of those rockets. And the other thing that so absolutely drew me to this idea: There’s no sound coming out of a pipe organ unless there’s breath, air coming through those pipes. And it was a great metaphor for being human. We really tried to make use of as many organic instruments as I could possibly find. Each instrument is a piece of technology. I was getting excited about a movie that was celebrating science. The musicians are my actors. I was being ver y particular about who I was casting. Then we recorded in these two ver y interesting sounding churches in London. One is a studio, which Chris and I have worked in a lot over the years, and the other was this place called Temple Church. It was consecrated in 1158. It’s a knight’s temple, and it just happens to have a magnificent organ in it. I placed my orchestra in the ground, all the ef figies of the buried knights, all these string players sor t of grouped around dead knights, and the organ above, and it’s the sort of place where you walk around in the hushed tone, and you unleash the organ. How did writing for “Interstellar” compare to writing for your other projects? The great thing is that I don’t have to do what you do — I don’t use words. My language is a little bit more mysterious. It’s
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Composer Hans Zimmer created much of the “Interstellar” soundtrack with inspiration from director Christopher Nolan.
really hard to catch me at it. I write about intensely personal things. The only way I know how to write is to write from my heart and to write about things that are important to me and to make it a personal journey. Each movie I find my little corner of the thing that they can’t tell to you in words or pictures. This one was sor t of extraordinar y because on
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the one hand, I was forever tr ying to maintain this intimacy of the connection of this father and child, and at the same time I got to work in this huge canvas with a completely new palate and completely new songs. What is it like to hear your music in its finished form in the complete movie? It varies. I’ve done …
100-something movies, and usually I come away going, “Well, this could have been a little different. I wish I’d done a different take on this.” This one was different. A week before we were supposed to be really done, for the first time I found myself going, “I think I crossed all the T’s and dotted all the I’s. This is pretty good. On to the next adventure.”
FOOD
Playing with chaos and control College Kitchen: Quick pickle
Minneapolis native Eric Inkala exhibits new work at Public Functionary — his first time showing work in the Twin Cities in five years
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ric Inkala is colorblind, but that doesn’t stop him from painting large, complicated compositions in vivid hues. “[Colorblindness] has had a lot of influence in how I choose colors. My colors are very bright, and I use a lot of contrast,” Inkala said. “I start with one very dominant color, and [the paintings] branch naturally outward from that. If I was to do a monochromatic color scheme in a painting, I’d look at it and my eyes would just be bored.” His carefully crafted pop style will be on display at Minneapolis’ Public Functionary gallery in “Chaos Complex.” The Minneapolis native’s art career began in his adolescence with graffiti. Inspired by work he saw on freight trains by his house, Inkala began
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Artist Eric Inkala works on one of his paintings in preparation for his gallery show at Public Functionary on Saturday.
creating his own street art. “It was this mysterious thing that I didn’t know what it was or who did it. I got completely obsessed with it,” Inkala said. “I was about 14 or 15 when I started getting really interested in it. For the next couple years, I was a really horrible graffiti writer.” Inkala has since moved on from tagging the nooks and
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crannies of Minneapolis to painting canvases in his New York studio. “I wasn’t bored in Minneapolis, but I felt like I got to a point where I wasn’t pushing myself enough. Part of the reason why I moved was because I was getting too comfortable,” Inkala said. “I fell in love with New York when I was younger, visiting here
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all the time. I got to a point where if I didn’t make that move, I could see myself never leaving Minneapolis.” Tricia Khutoretsky, director and curator of Public Functionar y, approached Inkala about two months ago asking if he would be interested in showing new work at u See INKALA Page 11
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fter the supply of stale crackers and canned meat dwindles, coming across a cellar filled with preser ved vegetables is a godsend in your typical post-apocalyptic narrative. Likewise, pr eser ved vegetables can brighten up meals during those dystopian collegiate months when a trip to the grocer y store sounds like climbing Mount Everest. Boasting most of the fiber and some of the vitamins contained in fresh vegetables, preser ved fare renders winter less dreary. With the aid of refrigeration, home pickling is far from daunting.
Pickled Pink
When your sandwich is lacking that “je ne sais quoi” element, a quick stovetop
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pickle works to brighten up lunch meat. In fact, adding a little acid to bland food tends to enhance pleasant flavors and make for complex dishes. 2 cups water 1 cucumber (sliced) 1 small red onion (sliced) 1/2 cup vinegar 1 1/2 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon sugar 1 teaspoon mustard seeds 1/2 teaspoon crushed coriander seed 2 crushed cloves garlic 1. Simmer the ingredients in a pot until the cucumbers are slightly translucent but remain crisp (5-10 minutes). 2. Allow the mixture to cool to room temperature before pouring the pickles and liquid into an airtight container and refrigerating.
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Street Style: Winter Coats Winter provides the perfect opportunity to create a stylish ensemble. The nippy air is prime for layering and requires warm garments like coats, sweaters and scarves to prevent frostbite and discomfort. The traditional Minnesota winter outfit, however, lacks panache and taste. North Face parkas are a dime a dozen, and sleek silhouettes are eschewed for puffy monstrosities. These jackets keep the wearer warm, but at what cost? Thankfully, there are alternatives. These four students sported ensembles both stylish and seasonally appropriate. Bundle up, folks. Story by Grant Tillery | Photos by Liam James Doyle
Alex Hepburn, senior The blue patches on the arms of Hepburn’s peacoat made it stand out in a sea of solid-colored variants. The patches give the coat a rugged edge without making it look workwear-inspired. A slimmer silhouette and shorter cut than traditional peacoats make this a great tailored piece that works just as well dressed down as it does dressed up.
Kathryn Nardhagen, senior Duffle coats are difficult to pull off, even more so in green. Nordhagen’s thrifted number succeeds thanks to the formidable size and sheer presence of the toggles. The hue is a welcome surprise in the sea of navy blue, black and gray coats. Brown cowgirl boots are a tasteful accoutrement and bring a little bit of countr y to Nordhagen’s look without making it tacky.
Libby Oleson, senior Black on black is a no-fail style move. The reason it works so well for Oleson is that she plays with proportions: Her peacoat blouses out at the waist, while the rest of her outfit has a slim fit. Anchoring the look with a navy scarf and a white hat makes the otherwise monochrome color scheme pop.
Eden Boyongo, sophomore Parkas too often fall victim to poofiness and poor fit, but Boyongo nails it with his slim-fit navy number from ASOS. His parka works because it’s not downfilled and is cut above the knee, unlike many puffier options. Boyongo’s also hip to the slim sweatpants trend, and he pulls off a bandana over his face without looking ridiculous. It meshes with the rest of his look and radiates more personal style than a muffler or face mask.
MUSIC
Soundtrack music: Hardcore Crayons BY JARED HEMMING jhemming@mndaily.com
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nlike most bands that formed while its members were in high school, Hardcore Crayons never went through a covers phase. When they formed in the Twin Cities’ northern suburbs in 2005, guitarist Dan Chizek, bassist Dom Hanft and drummer Jake Kirkman said their taste for complicated arrangements kept them too busy to learn cover songs. “We tried a cover; it’s impossible,” Chizek said. “It took so much effort to do it. By the time we started learning, we were trying to write songs.” Hanft echoed Chizek’s sentiments about their difficulty mastering the barband staple. “We’ve covered a couple songs,” Hanft said. “We have a hard enough time making sure our songs are rehearsed enough.” The band is now celebrating the release of their new record, “Zozzled,” with a show at the Triple Rock Social Club on Friday. The band’s catalogue consists primarily of instrumentals, but some songs include vocals as well. Hardcore Crayons focuses on its sound more than lyrical content in songwriting, Chizek said. “People get pissed I don’t
Hardcore Crayons album release show Where Triple Rock Social Club, 629 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. Friday Cost $5-7 Age 18+
have any lyrics. Who cares? You can hear the melody,” he said. Chizek and Hanft said the band’s songs work like a score for a film. “They make sense for writing a stor y around,” Hanft said. “The vocals are used as an additional instrument, more so than delivering any sort of lyrical base.” The band cited jazz as its members’ common influence and said that jazz nights at the Icehouse in Minneapolis informed how the band approaches playing live. “It’s not improv, but ... there’s a lot of looking at each other,” Chizek said. Kirkman more eloquently elaborated on the band’s live frenetic groove. “There’s certain things that we let loose on,” Kirkman said. “It makes us listen to each other.” He said the band’s complex rhythms have persisted throughout its growth. “It was a transition from weird funk to punk to ska to funk to dub,” Kirkman said. Hardcore Crayons’
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Hardcore Crayons is a punk-prog trio hailing from Minneapolis’ north suburbs. The band is releasing its new album, “Zozzled,” and celebrating with an album release show Friday at the Triple Rock Social Club.
signature sound reflects the band name’s equally strange genesis: the third grade. The name Har dcore Crayons comes from “someone that Dan knew in elementary school,” said Hanft. “He was like, ‘I’m going to name a band Hardcore Crayons, and you better not take that name,’ ” Chizek said. “Little did I know,
right when I got out of high school, I remembered that name.” Now a few albums in, the trio’s upcoming show should reflect the new album’s live feel. Though the band’s first releases were recorded part-by-part, Hardcore Crayons captured “Zozzled” live in the studio to showcase
the music’s time signature craziness. “The way we play of f each other from song to song, we knew that we needed to start recording live,” Hanft said. “It’s frustrating wearing headphones and being by yourself in a room. It feels so less organic than how we actually sound.”
Kirkman and Chizek said the band’s old method of recording to a temposteadying click track was inauthentic. “Focusing on the click for certain changes throws you for a loop,” Kirkman said. “Click tracks are for Green Day,” Chizek said with a laugh.
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“Love’s Labour’s Lost”
“Real Fun: Dance Music and Beyond”
Guantanamo Baywatch
If you’re bored of sitting in your Shakespeare class, spice up your interest in the Bard and catch the Moving Company’s updated version of this early comedy on opening night. The Moving Company — a Minneapolis theater company that bloomed from the demise of the Theatre de la Jeune Lune — will perform director Dominique Serrand’s interpretation of the play, in which the piece’s writers compile the best of Shakespeare’s 36 plays into an economically hilarious performance.
First Avenue’s “Real Fun” dance parties add the “beyond” tag, but who needs it? If you’re looking to jam out at the Twin Cities historic downtown danceteria, look no further than DJ veterans Jim Frick and TML’s face-melting EDM experience. Frick and TML mix anything they can find — from record store snags to SoundCloud surprises — and they bring this eclectic dance party to Minneapolis on the first, second and third Saturday of each month.
Though beach-babe lifeguards and awful torture chambers don’t usually mix, surf-rockers Guantanamo Baywatch tread the water with reverb-heavy guitars and dive off the deep end into crappy B-movie histrionics. Riding the wave from Portland to St. Paul, Guantanamo Baywatch is bringing their sexy-silly stage romp to the Turf Club. Still not convinced? One of the band’s betterknown songs is a frenetic surf ode called “Massage My Taj Mahal.”
Where The Lab Theater, 700 N. First St., Minneapolis Hours 7:30 p.m. Cost $22-32
Where First Avenue, 701 First Ave. N., Minneapolis Hours 10 p.m. Cost $5
Where Turf Club, 1601 University Ave. W., St. Paul Hours 8 p.m. Cost $8-10
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Christopher Owens’ “I’ll Be There” cover
Tracy Morgan’s recovery
As the semester ends, some folks are graduating, and if you like reading the Minnesota Daily’s A&E section, why not graduate to the City Pages’ online blog? You can read all the dirt on Minneapolis’ crackdown on annoying pedicabs and peek into a heartbreaking letter from Minnesota asking Wisconsin for a divorce. According to City Pages blogger Pete Kotz, Minnesota is leaving America’s Dairyland because it “turned into North Mississippi.” Sorry, Wisconsinites.
Minneapolis arts and entertainment coverage went national last week when the University of Minnesota’s Radio K posted a video of indie rocker Christopher Owens strumming to the Jackson 5, and Pitchfork reported about it. Not impressed with this specialty-interest coverage achievement? Even the Russian edition of the Rolling Stone tweeted the video of the former Girls singer mellowing out with a solo rendition of “I’ll Be There.”
Can we ask you to pray? Regardless of your spiritual belief, send out some good vibes to comedian Tracy Morgan, after his lawyer announced that the “30 Rock” and “SNL” actor is fighting a severe brain injury following a June car accident. His lawyer said it’s unclear if Morgan will be the same again. Take a second to watch Morgan’s “Brian Fellow’s Safari Planet” sketch — in which the actor portrays an antagonistic animal talk show host — because it’s always worth a view.
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Illustrator by day, surrealist by night
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Steve Danko, founder of Jean Stephens Gallery, looks at Dr. Seuss artwork Monday afternoon at the Gallery. The exhibit opens Friday.
Oh, the places you’ll go! The art of Dr. Seuss travels to Minneapolis to commemorate over 70 years of creativity. BY LAINI DEVIN ldevin@mndaily.com
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merican writer and ar tist Theodor Geisel is known for his children’s books, many of which ser ve as books for children when they’re just learning to read, but most know him as Dr. Seuss. A collection of Seuss’ surrealist paintings is on display at the Jean Stephen Galleries in St. Louis Park as par t of a traveling exhibit. “[Seuss] told his wife, ‘When I’m gone, share this with the world,’ and she did,” said Bill Dreyer, curator of the Dr. Seuss exhibit. Seuss left ver y little documentation about his works, so as curator, Dreyer had to do extensive research for the exhibit.
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— which are preser ved without the aid of vinegar — is a buzzing topic in the field of nutrition. Regardless of whether these foods have magic health powers, fermenting your own vegetables is a lesson in culinary science that produces delicious results. When working with preserved foods, be extra sanitar y with hands, tools and surfaces. Using spicy ingredients, like jalapeños, affects the flavor of all the vegetables, so be mindful of your tolerance to heat in choosing produce. 8 cups sliced, mixed fresh vegetables (cauliflower, carrots, bell pepper, sweet onion, jalapeños, celery) 2 cloves crushed garlic 2-3 teaspoons salt 1/2 teaspoon oregano 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1 tablespoon coriander seed Distilled water
“We’re able to learn little tidbits and explore what might be the inspiration behind the ar twork. And in many cases, we have discovered friends of his that know about particular artworks,” Dreyer said. Seuss was not only an illustrator, but also an impor tant painter, Dreyer said. The series of 145 paintings on display are known as his midnight paintings. “[They] explor e the depth of his ar tistr y and ar tistic legacy,” Dreyer said. But Dreyer said the collection of unor thodox taxidermy is the star of the collection. In the early 1930s, Seuss created his own wacky taxidermy using real hor ns, beaks, shells and antlers from deceased animals from the Dickerson Zoo in Springfield where his father worked as superintendent. “Seuss recreated what he thought these animals would want to be reincarnated as,” Dreyer said. Also included in the
traveling exhibit is the br onze collection — a tribute created by ar tist Leo Rijn to represent the most well known of Seuss’ characters. “Those [Rijn] sculptures are collected but are also put in impor tant public places — zoos, children’s hospitals, museums and libraries around the world,” Dreyer said. Though those pieces aren’t part of the traveling exhibit, the University of Minnesota houses its own tribute to Dr. Seuss with a collection of children’s literature. The majority of Dr. Seuss’ materials reside in his California estate, but the University archives — deep in the bowels of Andersen Librar y — contain all of the first editions of Seuss’ works, said Lisa Von Drasek, curator for the children’s literature research collections. Von Drasek shared insight on Seuss’ backstor y. “He started as an editorial cartoonist, but he never lost his appeal when he went to children’s books,”
she said. “ ‘The Cat in the Hat’ was written because Theodore Geisel thought the Dick and Jane [books for young readers] were just incredibly boring,” Von Drasek said. Seuss’ editor challenged him to write a book in 50 words or less, she said, but “The Cat in the Hat” was 125 words. “So they came up with ‘Green Eggs and Ham,’ ” Von Drasek said. Besides the humor sur rounding the stor y’s words and how they come together, Von Drasek said, “Green Eggs and Ham” uses sight words — words that ever yone needs to know. She recited the extensive list from memory, adding that the words in the classic story get embedded into people’s minds due to their repetition. “I lear ned to read on that one,” Von Drasek said. The Seussian style appeals to all ages, Dreyer said. “There’s this really
interesting golden thread that r uns through ever ything he does — his children’s books, poetr y and paintings. He has this unique vision of the world and is able to deliver that to us in a fun, fascinating and smar t way,” Dreyer said. Seuss engaged people with his books as well as his artwork, which Dreyer said tells a lot about who he is as a person. “His paintings have a little bit of a wink-wink, nudge-nudge quality that you might not expect from him,” Dreyer said. “The books and ar twork r eally shows us this greater depth and dimension of the man.”
The Art of Dr. Seuss: Retrospective and international touring exhibition Where Jean Stephen Galleries, 4811 Excelsior Blvd., St. Louis Park, Minn. When Nov. 21-Dec. 31
1. In a large bowl, toss the vegetables with spices and salt. Taste a slice — it should be slightly saltier than you would normally eat. 2. Press the vegetables into clean mason jars (there should be ver y little space between slices) and fill with enough water to completely cover them, leaving half an inch of airspace between the waterline and the mouth of the container. 3. Place a clean weight in the jars (a stone, or other heavy object) to keep the vegetables submerged in the liquid. Lid the containers. 4. Ferment the vegetables in a cool, dark place for seven days, “burping” the jars (letting out the gas that forms during the fermentation process) ever y two days. Refrigerate the containers after the week is finished. You will not need to burp them again.
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the gallery. “I wanted to show Eric’s work for a while, being a fan of him as an artist,” Khutoretsky said. “I was waiting for a development in his style. I was seeing his character work and line work for a number of years. He could ride that out for a while, but I was waiting for him to push his work somewhere else.” When Inkala posted a new painting on Flickr, Khutoretsky realized her patience had paid off. Inkala said the work is a departure from what he’s been doing for a while. “I did one painting. I painted it pretty quickly and posted a photo,” Inkala said. “Tricia saw it and texted me and said, ‘Your new direction is crazy; I love it.’” Inkala’s new approach is an abstract take on the character he developed over the course of a decade. It’s common for street painters like Inkala to focus their work on a specific character or symbol, similar to the tags of graffiti artists. “He’s starting to work in shadows, which is really complicated because he uses so many different colors,” Khutorestsky said. “He used to outline ever ything, but he’s taken the outlines away. Now the colors are butting up next to each other, and that’s changing the dynamic.” Khutor etsky wanted Inkala to fill Public Functionary’s November slot, which is the last show of the year, giving Inkala a little more than two months to paint 14 large canvases. “I’ve been painting day and night, working 12-hour days or more in my studio. I haven’t taken a day off in six weeks,” Inkala said. “But it’s been fun. This is what I love to do.” During the preparation for the exhibit, Khutoretsky and Inkala said they had a very collaborative relationship. They kept in constant contact through a message thread on their iPhones. “This is probably the first time that I’ve had this much day-to-day interaction and feedback with an artist who isn’t even in the same city,” Khutoretsky said. “I think that’s really modern. He can send me pictures that I can zoom in on and look really closely at.” Khutoretsky strives to make Public Functionary a space that is responsive to what it means to consume art in the post-Internet era. To achieve this, Khutoretsky transforms the galler y to fit the aesthetic of each exhibit by repainting the walls, changing the furniture and even altering the floor plan. “We always describe Public Functionary as trying to rethink the role of the gallery. We’re trying to make it feel more immersive,” Khutoretsky said. “The model of a white space box gallery is very sterile. I don’t think that’s going to serve young audiences. I think there’s a need for another sort of gallery experience that matches the way we consume culture now.” “Chaos Complex” will also feature a wall mural painted by Inkala the week prior to the opening. And those involved with the exhibit agree — Inkala’s task of covering 14 large canvases and a wall with paint in just two months is incredibly ambitious. “That’s kind of the nature of Public Functionary,” Khutoretsky said. “All of us at the gallery and [Inkala] were like, ‘Let’s jump off a bridge together! Why not?’”
Chaos Complex
Preserving pickles can be an easy task.
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THEATER
A new spin on Shakespeare A new version of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” combines dialogue from all of Shakespeare’s plays. BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com
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hen three playwrights wanted to revamp Shakespeare’s “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” they turned to the Bard’s other work. Writers Dominique Serrand, Steven Epp and Nathan Keepers of the Moving Company, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit theater company, retained Shakespeare’s original plotline of “Love’s Labour’s Lost” and removed its dialogue to make room for lines from each of the playwright’s pieces. Ser rand dir ects the show, while Epp and Keepers play the characters of Don Armado and Moth, respectively. The Moving Company has already performed the piece for a threeweek run in Louisville, Ky., and it will open in Minneapolis this weekend. “It’s one of [Shakespeare’s] first plays, and you can feel that he’s still sort of young as a playwright,” Epp said. “I think it’s easier to take liberty with it when it’s not something that’s as beloved and known.” Scholars cite the original play for its pedantr y and numerous classical allusions to literature or academia. But because those references don’t resonate with moder n audiences, the company’s writers said, those sections were axed for the new piece to make room for more character development. “It’s an early play, so it’s not quite as fleshed out as some of the other ones later in [Shakespeare’s] career,” Keepers said. The co-writers erased some minor characters but
Heidi Bakke and Maggie Chestovich rehearse for “Love’s Labour’s Lost” at the Lab Theater in Minneapolis on Tuesday.
kept 11 main ones. “I think [the characters] ended up being thinner in the original, and we kind of beefed them up a little bit,” Keeper said. The stor yline remains the same — the King of Navarre and his three followers decide to live a celibate, scholarly life after losing a war with France. However, the Princess of France arrives with her three followers, and four couples form among the eight. The plot
shows a mix of love stories between older and younger couples. Meanwhile, a love triangle brews between two clownish characters, Moth and Armado, and a wenchlike character, Jaquenetta. Epp and his co-writers made each love story more specific to the couples and added more depth to the plotline. “What we found beautiful was this journey of the lovers, and it’s the passions of the hearts in all ages and
shapes and sizes and forms, and that’s really what we wanted to focus on,” Epp said. “’Cause Shakespeare, he does love stories better than anyone.” Over the course of a year, Serrand, Epp and Keepers searched Shakespeare’s plays to find the right material to fit into specific moments within the frame of “Love’s Labour’s Lost.” “It’s kind of endless,” Epp said. “I mean, you could go on forever and find a
better line or more language to come from the play; it’s a little bit hard how to know when to stop. It was just a lot of reading and looking and cross-referencing.” The co-writers worked with a dramaturge who specialized in Shakespeare to ensure they used the correct language and retained the iambic pentameter, ultimately aiming to keep the integrity of the Bard’s work. “So when you hear it, it sounds like a Shakespeare
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play, but for people that know Shakespeare, it’s not a play that you’ve ever seen and there’s all these things that sound familiar,” Epp said. Though he refrains from calling the piece a “greatest hits” version, he said the concept of the play is similar to a highlight album of a famous artist. “It’s really a celebration of Shakespeare, and it’s a celebration of love,” Epp said.
THEATER
Another cup of coffee Triple Espresso will open for its 20th consecutive season. BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com
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n 1995, Michael Donley, Bill Ar nold and Bob Stromberg met for a cup of coffee. By the end of the visit, they had decided to create the show that became Triple Espresso, which is opening for its 20th season in Minneapolis on Friday. The comedy ran continuously for 13 years before switching its stretch to holiday seasons. Donley, Arnold and Stromberg will appear along with Brian Kelly, Paul Somers, Patrick Albanese and Dane Stauf fer throughout its run. “Now I know this sounds crazy, but this is the way we were thinking about it. Our goal was to write the funniest play that there is,” Stromberg said. O r i g i n a l l y, t h e t r i o planned to create a show for a small performance at a church. Because the playwrights cut themselves shor t on time, they decided to include sections from their own individual per formance acts to save time. As a result, the characters are largely based on their comic characters and real personalities. William Partlan, artistic director of Cricket Theatre at the time, came to see the first show. “I laughed from beginning to end,” Partlan said. “And that ver y night, I offered them a slot in my upcoming season.” Par tlan worked with the trio to develop the onehour show into a two-hour production, which became the most successful show in the now-closed Cricket Theatre’s histor y. During its r un at the Cricket Theatre, the cast invited Dennis Babcock
to see it. After ward, he agr eed to pr oduce the show for them and now ser ves as the executive producer and president of Triple Espresso LLC. With Babcock’s help, the show ran in multiple cities across the countr y, and at one point, four other countries at the same time. It ran in San Diego for 11 years, appeared in six countries and became the longest-running show in Iowa. To accommodate the demand, the actors set up “Triple Espresso Training School,” Babcock said. Each new actor assimilated into their roles by taking turns rehearsing with the original caf feinated comics. Str omberg said that despite its carefree feel, the play requires a strict script so that dif ferent actors can create the same ef fect. He said that in the case of an illness or emergency, instead of using understudies, they’ll fly in an already trained actor to perform. However, they continue to tweak things in the script each year. “The wonder ful thing about this particular show is that because the guys that wrote it perform it, we always have permission to change it,” Partlan said. The luxur y of a legally flexible script allowed the show to succeed in various places, where they’d swap Minneapolis references for those of dif ferent U.S. and international cities. The show knocks down the four th wall and involves frequent audience interaction. One of the characters designs a singalong for a college freshman orientation, and audience members find themselves as those freshmen. The magician character requires audience volunteers to help complete his tricks. “We make sure that the people we are making fun of are us, not them. It’s
pretty safe to come up onstage,” Partlan said. Loyal audience members have contributed to the show’s continuous runs. “People come and they see it, and then they come back 15 or 20 times and bring ever yone they know. … It’s clean comedy, you could bring your child of 6 years old to it; you could bring your grandmother of 106 to it,” Babcock said. Par tlan said the team gets letters and emails from audience members thanking them for giving them much-needed laughter during or after a rough time. Keith Wander, band director and theater director of Hawley High School, said he brings a group of junior high and high school students on a fourhour drive to Minneapolis to see the show ever y year. “One way or the other, we decided to go because it was such a good show,” Wander said. “It’s relatively inexpensive as far as shows go, [and] it’s ver y family friendly.” This year, the group has 86 students. “I think they love us there,” Wander said with a laugh. He also that he’s looking into bringing the show to their school. Though the show only r uns in Minneapolis this year, Babcock said there are plans to tour the show star ting next fall, and they’re aiming to take it Off-Broadway sometime in 2015 as well. “We’ve played for over 2 million people since we’ve star ted,” Babcock said, “and we’re not done yet.”
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FOOTBALL
Cobb on track to break rushing record
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Gophers running back David Cobb runs the ball on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
David Cobb barely played his first two seasons but has emerged as a star. BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
With at least three games left in his senior season, David Cobb is on the verge of getting his name in the record books. “If you told me two years ago I would be close to this, I wouldn’t believe it,” Cobb said. “It would be huge for me. And not just for me, but for our [offensive] line.” Cobb is eighth in the countr y in rushing yards with 1,350 this season, just 114 yards shy of Laurence Maroney’s 2005 program record of 1,464. Gophers head coach Jerry Kill has repeatedly said Cobb’s mental maturation is the reason for his drastic
improvement. But Cobb’s patience seems to be a major factor, too. He hardly played in his first two seasons at Minnesota, recording just 11 carries for 65 yards, but he kept improving. When thenstarter Donnell Kirkwood went down with a high ankle sprain in the 2013 season opener against UNLV, Cobb took the opportunity to start and ran with it. He broke one run for 60 yards in the contest. And by the time nonconference play was over, Cobb had solidified himself as Minnesota’s starting running back. But Cobb’s improvement from his first season as a starter, in which he finished with 1,202 rushing yards, to now is due in part to his patience on the field. “He’s very patient to the hole; he brings people to him. Linebackers, they’ll step up and then he’s able to make that slide cut and do
what he does,” Kill said. And Kill isn’t the only one who has noticed. “I think he’s just developed into a complete back. [He’s] being patient, knowing where to hit his holes, not trying to force anything,” tight end Maxx Williams said. When asked in July about Minnesota’s receivers, Nebraska safety Corey Cooper said he didn’t remember much about them. And what stood out from his team’s 34-23 loss at Minnesota last season was the Gophers running back. “Cobb, he’s a physical guy, a good player, somebody they leaned on heavily. He was a big part of the offense last year,” Cooper said at Big Ten Media Days. He’s been an even bigger part of it this year. Cobb has carried the ball 254 times, which is the second-highest mark in the nation. The Killeen, Texas,
native is averaging 135 rushing yards per game this season and could nab the program’s record on Saturday going up against Cooper and Nebraska. The Cornhuskers’ rushing defense has been suspect as of late, which could lead to a big game from Cobb. Nebraska gave up a single-game individual NCAA record 408 rushing yards to Wisconsin’s Melvin Gordon last weekend. But after the Badgers blew them out last week, Gophers offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover expects the Cornhuskers to rebound. “They’re pretty salty,” Limegrover said. “I have a feeling we’re going to see their ‘A’ game — playing [Wisconsin], coming off that game, they’re going to be ready to go.” While Cobb is one of the best running backs in the country, his style of running differs from other top Big
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NO. 23 NEBRASKA 8-2, 4-2 BIG TEN
WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday
WHERE: Lincoln, Neb.
Ten runners, like Gordon, Nebraska’s Ameer Abdullah and Indiana’s Tevin Coleman. Abdullah, Gordon and Coleman all have the power to break tackles, but they use their top-end speed to evade defenders. Cobb isn’t as fast, but uses his blocks well and utilizes a more physical running style to chug away at opposing defenses. “He was just so consistent with 4 or 5 yards, and before you know it, he’s rushed for
almost 200 yards on you because he [is] consistently just power, power, power. He’s really good between the tackles, and he’s very underrated,” Abdullah said at Big Ten Media Days. That kind of consistency will likely get Cobb the Gophers’ single-season rushing record. “I don’t really think about it,” Cobb said. “As long as we win, I mean, the r ushing yards will come. If I get it, I get it. And if I don’t, then so be it.”
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FOOTBALL
Big-game experience should help Leidner, Gophers The team must overcome a hostile environment when it goes to Nebraska. BY GRANT DONALD gdonald@mndaily.com
Redshir t sophomor e quarterback Mitch Leidner has had a roller-coaster season to say the least. Whether it was earlyseason injuries, leading the team to major victories against Michigan and Iowa or making costly mistakes against Ohio State and TCU, each week has brought something new to the Lakeville, Minn., native. However, of fensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said one thing has stayed consistent for Leidner — his will to compete. “I sometimes think [Leidner] kind of likes the idea of ‘OK, our backs are against the wall, here we go, let’s fight our way out,’ ” Limegrover said. “We’re not going to do anything to
dissuade his thought process on that because when he’s feeling good, the rest of that group follows behind.” Throughout the season, the Gophers have had a tough time winning when Leidner has struggled. In his six victories, Leidner has thrown nine touchdowns and only two interceptions. In his three losses, he has thrown only one touchdown and an alarming six interceptions. After the Ohio State loss on Saturday in which he threw two interceptions, Leidner said he had to play better. “I think the thing about that with Mitch is we have to play really good up front,” head coach Jerr y Kill said. “We [have] to make sure we do a great job in protection, and the rest of it will take care of itself.” While Leidner has struggled at times in his career, he has also had success in hostile Big Ten environments, including a 30-14 victor y at Michigan Stadium earlier this season. Leidner and the Gophers
will experience yet another hostile environment this Saturday when they travel to Nebraska. “T wo years ago, we played ther e and they made so much noise that we could feel the vibrations in our chests,” senior defensive lineman Cameron Botticelli said. “It’s a tough place to play on the road.” It’s not just the environment that makes playing in Nebraska a daunting task — the Cornhuskers feature an experienced pass rush that feeds of f the crowd’s energy. “[Nebraska has] two defensive ends that are long and can rush the passer and [are] aggressive, good run players,” Kill said. “We’ll have to execute very well to be successful.” Part of being able to execute at a high level is dealing with the crowd noise, something the Gophers have incorporated into practices this week. “Our equipment managers have these massive speakers, and they
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Gophers quarterback Mitch Leidner searches for a target on Saturday against Ohio State at TCF Bank Stadium.
play crowd noise during our practices,” Botticelli said. “[The speakers] can get loud; it is a great simulation.” While the speakers can be beneficial, redshirt
junior Briean Boddy-Calhoun said the best way to prepare for crowd noise is by experience. “You go down to TCU, and that was a hostile environment. You go to
Michigan, which is 100,000 [people],” Boddy-Calhoun said. “We are a veteran team with experience and really have nothing to worr y about heading down to Lincoln.”
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Gophers aiming to regroup after sweep
Gophers sophomore forward Connor Reilly celebrates with teammate Ryan Collins after scoring a goal against St. Cloud State on Nov. 1 at Mariucci Arena.
Minnesota will play an exhibition game this weekend at Mariucci Arena. BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com
For the first time all season, Minnesota is not on top of the college hockey world. After being swept by rival Minnesota-Duluth, the Gophers were knocked down to No. 4 in the USCHO.com poll. The team received 90 percent of first-place votes in the poll last week and none this week. “Monday was not fun coming into the rink,” redshir t sophomore Connor Reilly said. “Ever yone was
pissed off.” Reilly said when the team reviewed film of its 3-0 Friday loss to UMD — the first time it was shut out in more than a year and a half — there wasn’t a lot of screaming from the coaches. None was needed. The players knew it wasn’t good enough. “We saw it,” Reilly said. “That’s not us. I don’t know how we played that poorly.” Head coach Don Lucia said sometimes when he reviews film, the team ends up playing better th an h e fir st th o ugh t . This wasn’t one of those times. “I thought that was one of our worst ef for ts in years,” Lucia said. “They’re a prideful group
— they know when they didn’t play ver y good.” The Gophers won’t get a chance to work their way back up the polls this weekend because they’re playing an exhibition game against the U.S. under-18 team. But Lucia said it was still important for his team to hit the ice and play a game, whether it counted in the standings or not. “It’s an oppor tunity to play,” Lucia said. “I think ... the most important thing [is] that you’re not sitting without game action this weekend, because then you’re a little bit more rusty.” Sophomore for ward Hudson Fasching said the exhibition game comes at a good time because
it allows the team to reorganize. “It’s time for us to regr oup,” Fasching said. “Figure out some of our weaknesses and tr y to make up for them.” One of the weaknesses the Gophers will tr y to address after last weekend is creating scoring chances. The team only scored one goal in two games against UMD, and Lucia said they didn’t give themselves a chance to get many more. “You’re not going to win many games scoring only one goal,” Lucia said. “I don’t think we’ve created enough [oppor tunities].” Lucia said the team’s thir d and four th lines need to contribute more of fensively, but Fasching
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U.S. UNDER-18 TEAM
NO. 4 MINNESOTA WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Mariucci Arena SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
said he needs to step up as well to help generate more offense for the team’s first line. “[I’ve] kind of been tr ying to work on the corners more … be more competitive and beat my guy to the corner,” Fasching said. While Monday was a rough day at the rink, Reilly said the Gophers learned a few hard lessons for the rest of the year.
“Now we know. We understand that it’s going to be hard,” Reilly said. “We know we have a lot of skill and a lot of talent, some big-time players. But if we’re not going to go to work and the other team outworks us, it doesn’t matter how talented we are — we’re probably not going to win enough games. Or as many as we want to at least.”
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Strong power play creates momentum for Minnesota Junior defenseman Milica McMillen leads the nation in power-play goals. BY GRANT DONALD gdonald@mndaily.com
Despite having one of the best power plays in the countr y, the Gophers left Minneapolis last weekend disappointed in their power-play production. Minnesota came up empty on all three of its power plays in a surprising 1-0 loss to Bemidji State earlier this month. However, after scoring three power-play goals in their series against Ohio State last weekend, the Gophers returned as the top scoring power-play unit in the nation. “When we played Bemidji, our power play ended up costing us a couple games,” senior Meghan Lor ence said. “We really focused on the power play during our weeks of f and were able to capitalize [against Ohio State].” So far this season, Minnesota has converted on 35 percent of its power plays, an extraordinar y number that head coach Brad Frost attributed to the depth of his team. “We have two [powerplay] units that can score,” Frost said. “When you are locked down to one unit
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MSU-MANKATO 0-11-1 WHERE: Mankato, Minn., and Ridder Arena SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
that is putting the majority of the goals in, [it] makes it really difficult.” Junior defenseman Milica McMillen is arguably Minnesota’s biggest threat on the power play. She leads the countr y with five power-play goals. “[McMillen’s] main goals have kind of come from the back door,” Frost s a i d . “ S h e h a s i m p e ccable timing down there, and she has the ability to finish.” As a defenseman, McMillen plays a crucial role on both the penalty kill and power play. While the two units have completely dif ferent objectives, McMillen said the impacts of the power play and penalty kill on the game are similar. “Special teams are a really big part of the game,” McMillen said. “If we score or stop them from scoring, it can really change the momentum of the game.” Minnesota experienced the momentum shift
McMillen alluded to firsthand last Friday against the Buckeyes. The Gophers came into the second period hanging on to a 1-0 lead. After two successful power plays, Minnesota found itself with a commanding 3-0 lead. “We talk a lot about just creating momentum off of power plays,” Frost said. “Even if we are just applying pressure, oftentimes we will score soon after that, thanks to the momentum [we] created.” Senior Rachel Ramsey is another defenseman who plays a crucial role in creating power-play oppor tunities for the Gophers. Although she has not recorded a power-play goal this year, her teammates have deflected many of her shots for goals. “If the production is there and we are scoring goals, I don’t worr y about it too much,” Ramsey said. “As long as I am doing something right, I’m happy.”
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Gophers defenseman Milica McMillen handles the puck against Bemidji State on Feb. 8 at Ridder Arena.
The few times the Gophers fail to generate any momentum of f the power play, Frost said, the other team gains confidence. “If you don’t score on the power play or you don’t
get many good looks … the [opponent] will feed off of the energy created,” Frost said. However, the power play is only one phase of the game. “ Yo u d e f i n i t e l y g e t
down on yourself about not scoring, but obviously, things happen in hockey like that,” Lorence said. “You just have to focus on getting it on your next shift or next power play out.”
Thursday, November 20, 2014
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Bigs look to improve rebounding
SWIMMING & DIVING
Grand Prix comes to Minneapolis Gophers swimmers will have a chance to compete against Olympians.
opportunity to race against him in the 100-yard backstroke as a freshman, losing by 1.01 seconds for a third-place finish. “It was unreal,” Turner said. “Last year was actually my first time racing against an Olympian. It was definitely a really cool experience. I was really happy to get that [experience].” This year, Turner will be up against Adrian, a two-time gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics. “Nathan Adrian will actually be in both freestyles with me [at the Grand Prix],” Turner said. “One of the main things that I am looking forward to about this meet is to race against the best. In order to be the best, you have to race against the best. I see it as an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to race fast.” Gophers assistant coach Steve Miller said the Grand Prix will give the swimmers a look at what is beyond the collegiate season. “[When] you think about international swimming, I know that [the Grand Prix] will give our athletes the most exposure,” Miller said. Kremer said the tournament’s format will also be beneficial for the team down the road. “Getting used to a threeday format, where you have prelims, finals and swimming a ton of events, will prepare us for Februar y and March,” Kremer said. “We will be confronted with the same [format] at the Big Ten and NCAA [championships].”
BY DANNY CHEN dchen@mndaily.com
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Gophers center Elliott Eliason looks to pass Tuesday at Williams Arena.
The team’s big men have struggled with rebounding in the first two games. BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
Richard Pitino has high hopes for his redshir t senior big men. Before the season, he said eight rebounds per game was a realistic average for Elliott Eliason. On Tuesday, he said he thinks Mo Walker is going to be one of the Big Ten’s best low-post threats this season. But two games into the season, Eliason, Walker and the rest of the Gophers’ big men have struggled to rebound. “It was tough to rebound out there, but it’s still something [I’ve] got to work on,” Walker said after Minnesota’s 76-54 victor y over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night. Wa l k e r r e c o r d e d a team-high 14 points in the game, but he only came away with two rebounds. Eliason and starting power for ward Joey King came
away with four boar ds apiece. Meanwhile, 5-foot-9inch point guard DeAndre Mathieu and 6-foot-1-inch combo guard Nate Mason led the team with five rebounds each. The same thing happened last week during Minnesota’s loss to Louisville in Puerto Rico. Mason out-r ebounded Walker, Eliason and King — Minnesota’s primary big men. Mason admitted it’s a bit weird to be the team’s leading rebounder as a guard. “I’m tr ying to be out there doing the best I can do,” he said. He’s been surprisingly productive and a solid contributor off the bench this season. The Georgia native has scored 10 points in each of Minnesota’s games and has showcased an ability to play pressure defense better than almost anyone else on the team. M ason said h e h a s learned a lot from playing alongside Mathieu, especially what it takes to consistently compete each day. After Tuesday’s victory, Mathieu said Mason doesn’t play like a freshman.
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VS FRANKLIN PIERCE 2-1
MINNESOTA 1-1 WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday
WHERE: Williams Arena SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“I told y’all Nate was game-ready early. He’s just shown it,” Mathieu said. “He’s not a freshman in his mind.” Mason has been successful early in the season in almost ever y facet of the game, including rebounding. But rebounding isn’t what Mason is on the floor to do. Grabbing boards is usually a job reser ved for players 10 inches taller than him. The Gophers made a conscious ef for t to feed Walker the ball inside for scoring oppor tunities Tuesday night, considering their size advantage over Western Kentucky. “W ith our size compared to them, they were pretty thin at [center]. It
was really important to us,” King said. The Gophers outscored the Hilltoppers in the paint 36-16. But for some reason, that size advantage didn’t translate to more rebounds. Though Walker, Eliason and company’s lack of boards early in the season may be a statistical outlier in a small sample size, Pitino said he wants them to rebound the ball better. “There’s no reason why Mo can’t be one of the top low-post threats in our conference. Besides [Wisconsin’s Frank] Kaminsky, I don’t know who the next-best lowpost threat is,” Pitino said. “He’s got to really separate himself rebounding the basketball.”
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The Gophers have faced solid conference foes, Iowa and Wisconsin, in their conference dual meets so far this season. But that level of competition will be pumped up this weekend as many of the Gophers line up against Olympic medalists. USA Swimming hosts an annual series called the Arena Grand Prix, and Minneapolis is one of its host cities. Head coach Kelly Kremer said the University of Minnesota and his program benefits from the Grand Prix being in Minneapolis. “The eyes of the United States swimming world will be on Minneapolis for those three days, and that’s always positive,” Kremer said. “From a college swimming side, being able to stay at home and participate in a meet of this caliber is [great]. It is an inexpensive way to compete against the best in the world.” Some of the Olympic medalists who will be at this year’s competition include Nathan Adrian, Tyler Clary and Arkady Vyatchanin. Vyatchanin, who earned two bronze medals at the 2008 Olympic Games, also competed in last year’s Grand Prix. Minnesota sophomore Dar yl T ur ner had the
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WHERE: Aquatic Center SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Tale of two halves in matinee win Seniors Shae Kelley and Rachel Banham guided the team to a win. BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com
For Gophers star Rachel Banham, the first half of Wednesday’s 93-76 victor y was forgettable. In a dismal first half, Banham star ted the game shooting 25 percent from the field. The Gophers were in a hole, at one point down 12 points and in dire need of a scorer to come to light. But senior for ward Shae Kelley came for ward, giving the team a much-needed spark. “If someone’s not hitting [shots], someone else is picking up for it,” Banham said. “It definitely helps when someone else is picking it up.” At the end of the half, Kelley recorded 13 points and added an additional spark on defense, recording two steals and a block. She said the Gophers’ fast pace has allowed her to thrive on both sides of the ball. “This is my style of play,” she said. “I think I’ve adjusted ver y well.” Kelley was one of three Gophers to end the game with a double-double. She recorded 21 points and 14 rebounds. In the game, in which the Gophers had a clear height advantage, they only out-rebounded the Vikings by one in the first half. Throughout the first
half, the Gophers’ of fense seemed to be out of sync. The Gophers committed 10 tur novers in the first half, but Cleveland State only scored six points of f of those mistakes. Communication on the defensive end was a problem for the Gophers in the first half, and head coach Marlene Stollings said the team had to improve going into the second half. “We were kind of halfway where we were supposed to be instead of all the way there. And you can’t do that against teams that can shoot the ball as well as they can. We need to star t moving our feet,” Stollings said. Stollings said the Gophers allowed Cleveland State to take too many uncontested 3-pointers. The Gophers went into halftime down 44-41, and Stollings said the team came out of the break with a completely dif fer ent mindset. “We could’ve responded a number of ways when we were down, but I thought we remained ver y poised and confident. [We] stuck to the game plan. We needed to keep the pace moving,” Stollings said. In the first half, Gophers center Amanda Zahui B. was limited in action, playing only eight minutes. But in the second half, the 6-foot-5-inch center became a force in the paint. Zahui B. scored seven points and recorded four rebounds in the first half but fo und h e r r h y th m after halftime, helping
MINNESOTA 93, CLEVELAND STATE 76 Cleveland State Minnesota
44 32 — 76 41 52 — 93
MINNESOTA Player HIrt Kelley Banham Mullaney Wagner Hedstrom Bailey Zahui B. Bessard Total
Min 20 34 36 20 37 1 27 24 1 200
Player Gordon Eckles Aideyman Coleman Green Abshaw Butler Smith Voskuhl Bosley Total
Min 33 25 28 31 22 14 2 20 23 2 200
FG M-A 2-6 10-16 10-23 1-1 7-16 0-1 2-8 7-10 0-0 39-81
FT M-A 2-2 0-3 3-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1-3 0-0 6-11
Reb O-T Ast 2-5 3 5-14 1 0-4 13 1-2 5 1-4 4 0-0 0 1-2 2 2-14 0 0-0 0 15-51 28
PF 2 1 1 0 3 0 2 2 1 12
Pts 6 21 27 2 16 0 6 15 0 93
FT Reb M-A O-T Ast PF 4-6 1-6 3 2 1-2 2-5 5 2 0-1 0-5 2 0 1-1 2-7 5 2 0-0 1-3 4 3 1-1 0-5 0 2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0-0 1-1 3 0 0-0 0-1 3 0 0-0 0-0 0 2 7-11 10-40 22 13
Pts 15 7 8 18 12 7 0 5 4 0 76
CLEVELAND STATE FG M-A 5-11 3-9 3-10 6-12 4-8 3-7 0-0 2-5 2-8 0-1 28-71
the Gophers go on a 16-0 r un to give them a 61-53 lead. “She gave us a tremendous lift,” Stollings said. “Of fensively, we had an incredible size advantage. As long as they stayed man-to-man, we knew we’d attack them at the basket.” The Gophers continued to push the pace during the game and offensively. After her subpar first half, Banham finished the game with a game-high 27 points. “My teammates were running with me. I thought we had great spacing and our posts were r unning in the lanes,” Banham said. Stollings said the team will continue the up-tempo pace it r uns, but it may have to slow it down at cer tain points in future games. “The pace is who we are. And we’re ver y committed to that,” Stollings said.
ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Minnesota center Amanda Zahui B. jumps to block a shot at Williams Arena on Nov. 14.
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Gophers win tight match against Terps Daly Santana had a career-high 23 kills in the match for Minnesota. BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com
A few unforced errors and miscommunications kicked off a rough match for the Gophers against lowly Maryland. But Minnesota rebounded from a loss in the first set to defeat the Terrapins in five sets on Wednesday night. “I don’t think we played great,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. Still, he said the win was essential for the young team to remain in the conversation for postseason play. Minnesota star ted the match slowly, leading to a first-set loss. McCutcheon said Maryland performed well at the service line. “They served the ball very tough,” he said. “That made it hard for us to get stuff going in the middle.” The second set started similar to the first. But midway through it, McCutcheon decided to utilize both of his sophomore setters, Erica Handley and Katie Schau, and run a 6-2 formation — the first time he’s done so all season. “We just felt that when the setter was in the front row, we weren’t siding out at the right level,” McCutcheon said. “We are also fortunate to have enough depth to be able to mix and match a little bit, [and] I think it turned out to be the right decision for us.” Sophomore Laura Caluori also came in during the second set to play outside hitter,
and she contributed to the 2520 victory. The Gophers continued with the successful lineup, winning the third set by a decisive 25-14 score. Junior outside hitter Daly Santana led the team with a career-high 23 kills.
The Gophers were unable to take the fourth set, opening up a window of opportunity for Maryland. But Minnesota won the race to 15 points in the fifth set and didn’t look back. “I thought that it was a really good pull-through in the
WRESTLING
Kroells excels on, off mat Michael Kroells is a wrestler and an aerospace engineering major. BY DANNY CHEN dchen@mndaily.com
After two-time NCAA champion Tony Nelson graduated last spring, the Gophers wrestling program had a vacant starting spot at the heavyweight position. Redshir t sophomor e Michael Kroells has taken Nelson’s spot and has big shoes to fill. The wrestling team has had 22 individual national championships, and seven of them have been heavyweights. Kroells, who is 2-0 to star t the season, has a chance to add to that winning tradition. Head assistant coach Brandon Eggum said Kroells has a chance to become great because of his discipline. “He spends a lot of time working with the coaching staf f and looking at himself as a wrestler and figuring out what his weaknesses are,” Eggum said. “Those are the things that are necessar y if he wants to be a great heavyweight.”
Passion for wrestling Kroells’ father introduced him to wrestling in first grade, and he decided to give it a shot. “I was not ver y good as a young kid, but as I got older, I star ted to do a lot better,” Kroells said. He kept with wrestling throughout his life and realized as a freshman in high school that he might be able to compete at the collegiate level. “In high school, I [just] wanted to win a state championship,” Kroells said. “I was not even ranked my freshman year, but I ended up placing in the state tour nament. … I was like, ‘Wow, I still have three years left. I still have a lot of time to [get better].’ That’s when I realized that I could make a career out of [wrestling]
ZACH BIELINSKI, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Gophers outside hitter Daly Santana hits the ball against Tulsa on Sept. 12 at the Sports Pavilion.
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and use it to get into college.” More than 10 schools, including Central Michigan and Wyoming, were tr ying to recruit him. But he already had the choices narrowed down to two: Cor nell and Minnesota. “I knew Cor nell had a gr eat academic pr o gr am , and th e y h ad a pretty good histor y for wrestling too. [But] Minnesota being my homestate school, and a powerhouse even when I was in high school, eventually drew me here,” Kroells said. As he committed to Minnesota for wrestling, Kroells had another big decision to decide on — his major.
An academic challenge
Coming into Minnesota, Kroells said he knew that he wanted to do something related to science and math, but he wasn’t entirely sure what that was. “When you fill [forms] out for college, the applications would always ask you what you wanted to do. When I was in high school, I didn’t know what I wanted to do exactly. I had no idea, and so I just … picked chemical engineering. However, once he arrived to Minnesota for orientation, Kroells realized that he wanted to do something more physicsrelated. “People made aerospace [engineering] sound like one of the toughest majors in the engineer depar tment,” Kroells said. “So, I thought that I might as well tr y out one of the harder ones. If it doesn’t work out, I
can always drop out of it.” But he hasn’t dropped out. He’s excelled and achieved a 4.0 GPA in past semesters. Kroells said he’s glad he made the decision to stick with aerospace engineering. Roommate and teammate Br ett Pfar r, who has known Kroells since four th grade, said Kroells is ver y intelligent, but he also puts in a lot of work. “Ever y night, he would do three, four hours of homework, and he is ver y committed to [it],” Pfarr said. “He is a smar t guy, but he definitely puts a lot of ef for t towards his classes.”
Goal for the season Even though Kroells isn’t in the top-8 right now, he said it doesn’t make a huge difference to him. “I definitely expect myself to be an All-American this year, but I’ll be honest [that] I am not there yet. … I have a whole year to keep improving. I know that as long as I keep getting better, the results that I want will come eventually,” he said. Eggum said Kroells has potential to become an AllAmerican, but there are still things he needs to improve on. “He’s got to get better on top, he’s got to be able to be quicker at getting away, and he has to be able to score more points for the team,” Eggum said. “He has already proven that he can compete with the best heavyweights in the countr y, but the big thing is that he has to show that he can be consistent and stream together a handful of good wins.”
Santana said though the team is happy with the result, it wishes it would have gotten the victor y sooner. “Obviously, we would have liked to maybe [get] a three-set win, but a win’s a win,” Santana said.
VOLLEYBALL RESULTS WEDNESDAY Minnesota Maryland
1 2 3 4 5 FINAL 21 25 25 21 15 3 25 20 14 25 7 2
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
CROSS COUNTRY
Gophers prepare for final meet BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com
WRESTLING
NO. 1 MINNESOTA
end by us,” freshman middle blocker Molly Lohman said. Lohman, who had 10 block assists, replaced the team’s starting middle blocker, Hannah Tapp. “She got some key plays for us tonight,” Santana said of Lohman.
In what head coach Sarah Hopkins called a “really quick turnaround,” the Gophers will race at the NCAA championships Saturday just eight days after placing second at the NCAA Midwest regional. Hopkins has set the goal of placing in the high teens for the team. At last year’s meet, Minnesota placed 20th in a field of 31 teams. “Improving on last year’s performances is definitely something we want to accomplish,” redshirt junior Liz Berkholtz said. Hopkins said the team has an extra level of motivation at the thought of beating last year’s team finish. “I really think there’s a bit of a competitive nature in all of them. Knowing that the team last year was 20th has everybody in the back of their heads wanting to come out with a finish better than 20th,” Hopkins said. Berkholtz and fellow redshirt junior Kaila Urick both finished with career-best 6K times last week at the NCAA Midwest regional. “We need to just keep doing what we’re doing. We just have one more week, so we need to focus on running and get the job done,” Urick said. The meet will consist of the 30 top teams in the nation, and Hopkins said she expects it to be exciting. “It’s the national championship, so everybody that’s there is good, which makes it fun,” Hopkins said. “In some ways, there’s less pressure even though it’s the biggest meet of the year. If you lose to teams, they’re all good. There’s nobody there that shouldn’t be there.” The race will consist of a large number of runners, similar to the Wisconsin adidas Invitational the team participated in last month. Hopkins said the Gophers just need to run the race they’re capable of running. “At [the national meet], people try to be a hero, people try to do things they’re not capable of, and you catch a lot of people at the end,” Hopkins said.
The men’s team’s lone sur vivor
The Gophers’ season
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MINNESOTA WHEN: 11 a.m. (women) and noon (men) Saturday
WHERE: Terre Haute, Ind. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
LIAM JAMES DOYLE, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Redshirt junior Kaila Urick competes for Minnesota.
came to an end Friday as they failed to qualify for nationals. Though they didn’t qualify as a team, redshirt junior Aaron Bartnik solidified a spot on the national roster as an individual with his fourth-place finish. Bartnik said he expects the meet to be challenging. “I’m extremely excited for the level of competition that will be there, just to be able to see where I stack up,” Bart-
nik said. “I don’t know what I’m capable of yet as an athlete. I’m excited to see what I can do against the best field in the nation.” Bartnik said his teammates were very supportive of his individual effort. “I’m excited that Aaron is going to the national meet,” head coach Steve Plasencia said. ”The only sad news is that we won’t have a full team there.”
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horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (11/20): Your status and influence are on the rise this year. Strengthen networks and delegate. Work gets especially busy after 12/23, for a yearlong boom. Pay debt and stash savings.
sudoku Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
11/20/2014
Yesterday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
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 an 8 — A lack of funds could threaten your plans. Illusions cloud your mind, and imagination grows them. Don’t incite jealousies.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Take advantage of favorable conditions for making money. Ramp up the action! Postpone distractions and deviations from your plan.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Charm your way through a difficult situation. Work in partnership today and tomorrow for best results.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — You’re strong and getting stronger. It’s easier to see your own purpose and inspiration. Hold out for what you really want.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — The pace picks up. Reach your goals through a side route if the road you’re on seems blocked. Don’t pursue a mirage.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Deadlines may loom, so keep in action today and tomorrow. Allow time for exercise, meditation and peaceful rest.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Today and tomorrow could get exceptionally fun and romantic. Get playful and immerse yourself in a delightful game.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Your team comes to the rescue. Gather input from others today and tomorrow. Social interactions provide great benefits.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Take care of home and family for the next few days. Listen carefully to a loved one’s considerations. Clean up a mess.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Be attentive now and for the next couple of days. There’s a test, and discipline is required. Someone important is watching.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Hold off on travel or starting new projects for now. Catch up on studies and reading today and tomorrow.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Travels and adventures call you out. Keep your compass on hand and maps at the ready. Revise old assumptions.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
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Thursday, November 17, 2005
FOR RELEASE NOVEMBER 20, 2014 9B
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle
DAILY CROSSWORD 1 4
From EVERYTHING_ZEN
You can really tell how good looking a girl is when its cold out. If you can manage to look hot with five layers and a hat on, I’d do you. Net: You can pick out the real hotties because they wear scarves. But what the NUTT is with girls trying so hard in winter. I saw this girl with no hat, no jacket, and light pants on. Net: Watching too much “Laguna Beach” has been proven to have adverse affects on intelligence. She looked like she was going to die, and no one likes to cuddle with a dead girl. Net: Except for necrophiliacs. So do us all a favor and put on a hat. Everyone from Carlson is a worthless, ass kissing, douche bag piece of NUTT and should be lined up and beaten to death with a spoon. Net: No silly-nilly. Spoons aren’t for killing. They’re for performing extended percussion solos in grunge rock songs.
From Going Crazy
Ok, I have some more things to complain about now that the semester is working it’s way through. What is up with the kids who try to sneak in line in front of people on the buses? Net: Can’t say for sure, but we’d guess they were trying to get on the bus sooner. Honestly, do you need to cut in front of people so you can get to class like seconds earlier? That is ridiculous. Who likes class that much? The other day, I just got angry with this so I just didn’t go to class at all. Net: You sure showed them. 2) Do people in MN NOT know about Kleenex? Seriously, I think they have been around for a while so how about instead of distracting me with your sniffling all the time just go BLOW YOUR NOSE. Net: Forget Kleenex, use a handkerchief. Not only are they less wasteful, but they’re microwave safe too (in case you need a quick snack later on). Then this all will stop. That is all for now but I am sure I will get angry again soon. Net: We can’t wait. HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:
From GrowUpDumbBoys
I am so sick of turning to my favorite section in the Daily Net: Editorials and Opinions? and reading about how some pervert guy is all horned up and wants “tang” Net: Definitely Editorials and Opinions. (get over it all ready, you are a loser and no woman is going to do anything with your nasty ass) or wants the women on campus to walk around in tank tops! Women are people, not objects! Net: Except for models; they’re just objects. A sack of potatoes has more personality. We don’t wear tank tops in the middle of summer to impress you jerks, we do it cause it is hot out!!!! Net: Of course you do. Low-cut tops enhance circulation of the bosom, thereby venting excess body heat. It’s science. So, flipping grow up boys and treat myself and the other ladies respectfully! Whew, that felt good Net; thanks.
From Duncan Zydeco
Greetings oh wise and glorious Network! Net: Sup. I must say I’m a little disappointed in everything printed in the fish wrap that surrounds thee. Net: Just remember one thing: It’s free. Let’s start with sports. On Monday above the fold in big font is news about the Minnesota Football Gophers’ win. That makes sense. Net: Or does it? (Cue ominous music). What I don’t understand is the above the fold blurb about the Packers winning. Who cares if the NUTTing Packers win?! Net: You’re obviously not familiar with the makeup of the student body here. I would have understood if they would have been mocking those silly Sconnies for only having two wins, but it seemed serious. To top it off, there wasn’t one mention of the Vikings win in the entire newspaper. What the NUTT? Network HELP! Net: We’d really like to help, but we just can’t bring ourselves to get worked up about a bunch of grown men, dressed in spandex, hitting each other over a silly oblong ball.
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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 54 November 17, 2005 Dear Dr.,
I’ve been having this one particular issue for the past 3 semesters but it hasn’t gotten serious until about 5 months ago. You see, I have this tendency to start liking my TAs. Before, I could just dismiss it as a stupid crush. Last semester, I really liked one of my TAs — but I never said anything. He was taken, so at the end of the semester I just let it go. Now, I’m in a class where I have such a thing for my TA. I was wondering if it would be completely inappropriate to ask him out at the very end of the semester. I also think this calls for a top 10 list ... of ways to get your TA to notice you. Best,
— Hot for Teacher
Dear Hot for Teacher,
The Good Doctor did a little of the old research and reporting these hallowed halls at the Daily are so known for (why are you laughing?), and found out whether it’s kosher for a TA to dip his proverbial pen in the University ink. Well, actually, I had an underling handle the actual research while I spent time in my harem, filled with muses and sprites of all colors, shapes, sizes, sexes and stripes. Here’s what my lowly servant found … The University, in its Code of Conduct, as decreed by the mighty Board of Regents from a high precipice on Valhalla, has a section titled “Nepotism and Consensual Relationships.” I didn’t think it was possible for them to make hot student-onteacher action so un-hot, and yet there it is. In this little section, “Members of the University are defined as students, staff, faculty, or anyone involved in any University activity or program.” “Personal relationships” are defined as any marital, committed, familial, or consensual sexual or romantic relationship.” Julie Sweitzer, the director of the department of equal opportunity and affirmative action, and the go-to-person for all things hot-teacher-on-student-related, said relationships between pupil and teacher, in general, are frowned upon and can be in violation of University policy, possibly resulting in disciplinary action. Basically, if you are digging on your TA, and you end up dating the dude (or dudette), what happens when grading time comes around and for some reason get a super-high grade for mediocre work? What happens if the other students notice you making eyes at the teacher, and him returning the favor? (Them damn kids, they’re a perceptive bunch.) How about if the two of you have a bad break up (“But we’re soooo in love!!”)? I’ll tell you what happens, your TA gets screwed (and not in the nice way) and your education suffers (like you give a shi(r)t about learning). If you do start a relationship with your TA, Sweitzer said, the teacher should notify her or a head in the department right away so they can make the proper arrangements. Whether that means you switching classes or the TA not grading your assignments is determined on a case-bycase basis. But if the TA doesn’t let someone know what’s up, they can get into some deep shi(r)t. The point is, if you want to ask him out at the end of the semester, after the grades are in and he’s no longer your teacher, that’s fine. TAs exist in a weird interim world where they’re teachers one minute and students the next, so long as your being involved doesn’t directly affect his objectivity in grading.
As far as the top 10 list you requested, this will be my first denial, and that’s because I wrote a similar one Oct. 7 (about how to get your “dreamy” prof to notice you.) So deal with it. Frankly, I just wish I was Sweitzer, then I’d be privy to all that hot, naughty teacher action … must be fantastic.
— Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
First off, I have some advice for (pre)Mature Senior: He should try counting. I once dated this guy who would add numbers (thankfully in his head) while we had relations. He could last for hours, to this day I’m a big fan of math. On to the real reason I’m writing. I have a problem. See, I’m a very busy girl who has many goals I wish to accomplish. Currently, boys do not revolve around my plans. Basically, my life’s so busy, I’m left with little time to find the right guy to get busy with. I know how to get boys, but I’m having trouble finding one who has similar wants as me. I only meet two types of guys, complete a**holes or guys that are nice, but have no sexual chemistry with me. Frankly, I don’t have the time, or much want, for a relationship. However, I would never hook-up with some random guy, or a guy who is also sleeping with three other girls. I don’t have any guy friends whose friendship I would be willing to risk for some sort of friends with benefits scenario. This message does come with some urgency, my vibrator batteries are running low — again. And I miss human contact and experimentation. So how do I quickly meet a respectable guy and bring up my relationship wants?
— Let’s just get to the point — HORNY
P.S. I just have to tell you, I love your column. Almost every other day it sends me into a fit if laughter during my lit lecture (Sorry, as a result my professor despises you). I know you don’t do interviews, but how about some one-on-one time — no questions asked?
Dear Let’s just get to the point — HORNY,
Sorry, lady friend. Frankly, that’s quite the enticing proposition, but again, ethically I can’t get involved with a patient. Hippocratwic Oath and all that, you know … Even a no-questions-asked type rendezvous … no dice. But do keep sending ’em in, the Good Doctor loves reading them, even if I can’t act on them. (One of these days though Alice … bang, zoom, right to the moon!) See that folks? The Doctor has some ethical standards — I mean, I just turned down a chick who said her vibrator batteries are getting low … now that is restraint. Regardless, you want to find a decent man who can do a decent job pleasing you, but won’t get attached and ain’t looking for a relationship. Lucky for you, you just described a shi(r)t-ton of dudes. My advice is you check with your friends-of-friends. They’re just removed enough (like four degrees from the Full (Kevin) Bacon), so that it won’t really matter if things get awkward. And they’re close enough so that you know they aren’t a bunch of petter-ass perverts. So start talking to your friends’ friends when you’re out at the bar or at a party. Frankly, it’s probably one of the number one ways kids get ass in college.
— Dr. Date
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dr. date Dr. Date,
There’s this girl who I’ve been on a few dates with, and I like her a lot. But our schedules don’t mesh well, and I’m very busy. We haven’t been able to go out in weeks. How do I try to advance our relationship further despite the time crunch?
—Busy Guy
Time to Make Time,
If you really like this girl, you’ll make time for her. College schedules are hectic, making relationships difficult — but not impossible — to pursue. I’m sure if you look long and hard, you’ll find two or three free hours during your weeks that are free. Find those times, and plan accordingly.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
About two months ago, I met this beautiful girl at school. She’s amazingly gorgeous, and I’m a handsome man myself. We hit it off right away. It was awesome; we laughed at each other’s jokes, held hands and went shopping, etc. It was a perfect beginning. Then after class one day, I invited her over to my place to show her around. We were both just chilling in my basement, and then she initiated that she wanted physical interaction, to which I obliged. It was awesome. I was starting to grow strong feelings for this woman. Then a week later, after a few more classes and another date, I asked her to officially be my woman. But then she dropped a shocker on me by saying that was not what she wanted. She said she was very sorry but just wanted to be friends and get closer (basically friends with benefits).
I’m bewildered by how abruptly she has exited my life since. I’ve told her everything about how I feel in an appropriate manner, including how devastated I was. (This was over text to which she replied that she was speechless.) She is now also shocked by my emotions and sadness as well, making cryptic tweets and Instagram posts. What’s going on here? Is she going to realize that true love can’t wait? Or is this fool’s gold?
—Wrecking Ball
Commitment Phobia,
You pursued commitment too soon, and you wore your heart on your sleeve — a combination that’s sure to cause heartbreak. Just because your crush craved physical intimacy doesn’t mean she was necessarily wanting an exclusive relationship. By your account, you’ve only known each other for two months — a pretty short amount of time — and it sounds like she’s not ready for something serious, yet. Keep in mind that a casual relationship isn’t the end of the world. Your crush wanted to get down with you on the regular, and you basically told her “no.” Had you pursued a friends-withbenefits situation with the lady in question, there’s a chance it would’ve grown into something more, given the previous course of your relationship. The good news is, it’s not too late to give it another go. She sounds as confused as you are, and because of that, there’s a chance you can open things up again. Apologize to her and ask her out in a chill manner — don’t pull any grand gestures. Aim for simplicity with your initial communication, and go from there. Good luck.
—Crushing on my BFF
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Engineer from MN killed in Somalia BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Gunmen shot and killed a Somali-American from Minnesota who had left a well-paying job in the U.S. to help the fledgling city government in Mogadishu, an official and relative said Wednesday. Abdullahi Ali Anshur, 60, was an engineer helping the Mogadishu government with urban planning and drainage systems. He was killed after armed militants from the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab stopped his vehicle and sprayed it with bullets on Monday, police Capt. Mohamed Hussein said. Anshur was buried in Mogadishu on Wednesday. He had left his work in Minnesota to help Mogadishu’s municipal gover nment, said a relative who insisted on anonymity for security reasons. Anshur had held a similar job in Mogadishu more than two decades ago before the Somali government collapsed in the early 1990s. His daughter in Minnesota, Mar yan Ali, said she had just communicated with her father over the weekend, and he told her things were going well. He traveled for work frequently, and was heading from Kenya to Mogadishu. She said her dad was a noble man, with a kind
heart, who worked hard to help whomever he could. “He always encouraged us to work hard and to help whoever you can help ... especially your community to better ourselves. He was a great mentor.” Many Somalis who fled the country’s chaos for the U.S. and Europe have recently returned to Mogadishu to use their expertise to help the countr y move past decades of war and Anshur’s killing has sent shock waves through that community. One British-Somali man who returned to Mogadishu to open a cafe called Anshur’s death discouraging. “Insecurity is the biggest threat for now,” said Ahmed Mohamed. A Somali-American in Mogadishu, Hussein Ali, said such attacks leave U.S. and European Somalis scared and disappointed. “It makes many of us contemplate leaving Mogadishu,” he said. Ali said her father got his bachelor’s degree at the University of Somalia, then got a scholarship to pursue a master’s degree in the U.S. He graduated from California State University, Fresno, in the mid-1980s, then went back to Somalia to work until the civil war broke out, Ali said. He managed a public housing unit in St. Paul, Minnesota, and was wellknown in Minnesota’s large
Somali community. He returned to Mogadishu last year. “What happened to my dad was such a shock to us,” Ali said. “We would never have expected something like that. Life surprises you.” Al-Shabab, an ultra-conser vative Islamic militant group that wants to run Somalia by its strict interpretation of Shariah law, once ruled nearly all of Mogadishu. The group was forced out of the capital in 2011 but continues to carry out insurgent attacks and targeted murders. In a separate incident, armed assailants shot and killed a freelance journalist in the central Somali town of Galkayo on Tuesday evening. Three journalists have been murdered in targeted killings this year, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists, which condemned the shooting. Journalists face attacks by al-Shabab, government figures and powerful businessmen, the group said. Ali said many people like her father believe rebuilding Somalia is worth the risk. “They do what they feel like they can do to help rebuild that country to how it used to be, or maybe even better,” Ali said. “That’s the motivation for ever ybody — don’t just sit around, if you want change to happen, you’ve got to get up and do something.”