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Program leaders say they don’t have enough money or staff, so they’re seeking outside help. BY TAYLOR NACHTIGAL tnachtigal@mndaily.com
With only one full-time faculty member, the University of Minnesota’s Department of Chicano and Latino Studies is concerned for its future. Among worries that the department is running on fumes with few faculty members and low funding, department leaders say the University doesn’t consider their program a priority. Now, the department is turning to the community to garner support and to find solutions. On Saturday morning, the leaders held a meeting with about 60 community members, University faculty and students at El Colegio High School in Minneapolis to discuss the issues the department is facing and to brainstorm ways to grab the University’s attention to resolve them. Edén Torres, chair of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, said she’s had several meetings with University u See DEPARTMENT Page 4
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City targets problem properties Eight U-area properties made a city “Good Cause” list that calls out problematic rentals. BY BARRY LY TTON blytton@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota student renters have long complained of poor living conditions and uncooperative landlords. At University Student Legal Ser vice, housing issues account for 30 to 40 percent of the total case load, said staff attorney Bill Dane. Now, a list from the city of Minneapolis officially pinpoints properties that it deems problematic, including eight in the school’s surrounding neighborhoods. City officials hope that the list system, which they began implementing in July, will keep trouble proper ty owners from expanding. Seven owners are responsible for those eight University-area properties listed on the most recent, third-quarter “Good Cause” list, released earlier this month. One landlord declined to comment, and three did not respond to multiple requests for a comment. u See LANDLORDS Page 14
Minnesota will now face Wisconsin for a shot at going to the Big Ten West title game. is going to happen, you just have to be ready.” After a 17-yard touchINCOLN, Neb. — Mindown r un by Cobb at the nesota’s victor y over beginning of the second No. 21 Nebraska on Saturhalf, the Gophers’ training day ignited the team’s Big staf f examined the r unTen West hopes — with one ning back’s left leg on the more victor y, the Gophers sideline. will advance to the conferCobb walked around and ence title game — and redrode an exercise bike during shir t senior running back the game, but he did not reDonnell Kirkwood played a turn to play. huge role in the victory. “Adrenaline will get you Head coach Jer r y Kill where you need to go. It’s has been using Kirkwood after the adrenaline stops all year as an example of when [his hamstring] how the Gophers should apgrabbed on to him,” Kill proach each game. said. After suffering an injur y Cobb finished the day AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY early last year, Kirkwood Top: Senior running back David Cobb is congratulated by a fan after with 80 rushing yards and lost his starting spot to fel- the Gophers’ victory at Memorial Stadium in Nebraska. one touchdown. The star low senior David Cobb. running back tweeted after Bottom: Gophers fan Ben Hinrichs cheers after a call is made in But Kirkwood has always Minnesota’s favor on Saturday at Memorial Stadium. the game that he would be prepared like he was the ready for next weekend’s starting back, something that saved the Kirkwood ran the ball seven times for clash at Wisconsin. Gophers on Saturday when Cobb went 32 yards, and junior Rodrick Williams With Cobb out of the game, most of down with a left hamstring injury in the added 22 yards and a touchdown to com- the pressure shifted to redshirt sophothird quarter of the 28-24 victor y over plete the Gophers’ comeback. more quarterback Mitch Leidner to comNebraska. “I’m always prepared,” Kirkwood plete the comeback from a 21-7 halftime If the Gophers defeat Wisconsin next said. “David is a hell of a running back, deficit. week, they will advance to the confer- I’ll be the first one to say that. Coach u See RALLY Page 6 ence title game next month. always harps that you never know what BY GRANT DONALD gdonald@mndaily.com
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U pushes research from the labs to the market The number of patents filed by the University has more than doubled in the past five years. BY PARKER LEMKE plemke@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota has encouraged its researchers in recent years to report more of their innovations to the school’s Of fice for Technology Commercialization. To capitalize on new scientific breakthroughs, the OTC has ramped up its work
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of transferring innovations developed on campus — ranging from computer applications to new crop varieties — to industr y partners that can manufacture and market the discoveries. As a result, the of fice’s patent filings have more than doubled since 2009. Scientists disclosed some 330 inventions to the OTC in 2013, and the University filed 148 patents. Chemistry professor Andreas Stein said he has noticed a University-led push for researchers to patent their work into applicable technologies. “In the last year or so, I’ve seen more
encouragement from [the OTC],” he said. The institution’s increase in patent filing is part of a nationwide trend of commercializing research, said Leza Besemann, an OTC technology strategy manager. “That [trend] spills down to the funding agencies that fund most of our research,” she said. “More and more, they’re requiring our faculty and researchers to say how their research is going to end up benefiting society.” The trend comes at a time when the University’s patent revenue is recovering from u See PATENT Page 3
Mpls. may allow later hours Some council members want to allow businesses to extend their open times into the night. BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com
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Afro Deli owner Abdirahman Kahin takes orders Wednesday night. A proposed ordinance change would allow businesses to extend their hours of operation 35 days a year.
Abdirahman Kahin, owner of the West Bank’s Afro Deli, sees fewer customers during Ramadan, the monthlong Muslim daytime fast. His restaurant is only open until 9 p.m., a time that’s too early for many Muslims to eat during the fasting period. But an amendment to an existing Minneapolis ordinance may soon allow him to cater to the Muslim community during Ramadan. The amendment, drafted by Ward 12 City Councilman Andrew Johnson, would allow businesses outside of downtown to
apply to stay open later than 10 p.m. on weekdays and 11 p.m. on weekends. Though it was written with Ramadan observers in mind, Johnson said he hopes other restaurants will use it to take advantage of the Chinese New Year or sports events. “Depending on a particular location’s hours, they may close right after dark,” he said. “This is about creating reasonable flexibility for businesses.” Cedar-Riverside, a neighborhood filled with halal markets and East African restaurants, would be particularly affected by the change, Johnson said. The amendment would also allow grocery stores in the area to stay open later. “It’s harder for families to pick up a few things at a store during Ramadan,” said Ward 6 City Councilman Abdi Warsame. u See AMENDMENT Page 4
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MINNEAPOLIS — Adrian Peterson’s hearing for the appeal of his suspension will be held on Dec. 2. And it will not be in front of NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. The NFL announced Friday that longtime hearing officer Harold Henderson will preside over the proceedings involving the Minnesota Vikings star running back. Goodell has the authority to decide whether to hear the appeal himself or appoint someone else. Peterson has not played since the opening week of the season while dealing with child abuse allegations in Texas. He was placed on paid leave while the legal process played out, and he pleaded no contest on Nov. 4 to misdemeanor reckless assault for injuring his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch. Goodell suspended
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MINNEAPOLIS — Eleven suspected gang members and their associates have been indicted on federal gun charges after a multicity takedown that authorities said will cause a significant blow to those behind recent armed robberies, thefts and a gang war that has led to several shootings. The defendants include three leaders of the Stick Up Boys gang and one leader of the 1-9 gang, authorities said. The other defendants include prominent gang members and associates who supplied the gang with firearms, according to the indictment announced Friday. The indictment said the two groups are closely related and have been in a gang war with two rival gangs, the Taliban and the YNT, also known as Young ‘N Thuggin’. This has led to shootings in which six gang members died and nine were wounded, the indictment alleges. Hennepin County Sherif f Rich Stanek called the arrests a “huge win” for law enforcement and area residents, and said it will put a dent in the gangs’ operations for some time. U.S. Attorney Andy Luger said the arrests took down the gang leadership and got them off the streets. All 11 defendants are charged with conspiracy, and some face additional charges such as being a felon in possession of a firearm or making a false statement during a firearm purchase. If convicted, the main defendants could each face more than 15 years in federal prison.
MINNEAPOLIS — Activists who want bird-safe glass installed at the new Minnesota Vikings stadium are asking Gov. Mark Dayton to remove the chairwoman of the Minnesota Spor ts Facilities Authority board. Members of Minnesota Citizens for the Protection of Migrator y Birds are upset that Michele KelmHelgen has br ushed of f requests to not use a transparent glass that could lead to bird collisions. The board approved a number of changes to the stadium design at a public meeting Wednesday, Minnesota Public Radio News repor ted. That shows there’s still time for bird-safe glass to be installed at the stadium instead, according to group member Wendy Haan. “We’re confused that the Vikings can make design changes, but the citizens can’t,” Haan said. “We thought this was our stadium too.” But the transparent glass is already being manufactured and slated for installation at the beginning of next year, Kelm-Helgen said at a Friday meeting. After the governor denied a request to meet with bird advocates, he urged them to voice their concerns to the stadium authority board, according to Minnesota Citizens for the Protection of Migratory Birds. The authority has already promised to turn off lights in the building during migration season. Kelm-Helgen has also said she’s still willing to meet with the group to discuss other ways their concerns can be addressed besides replacing the glass. Dayton said in a statement Friday that he believes Kelm-Helgen is “doing an outstanding job.”
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Students guide path for Ebola volunteers Using U-Spatial and OpenStreetMap, nursing students are plotting roads and individual homes in Fish Town, Liberia. BY HALEY MADDEROM hmadderom@mndaily.com
As health volunteers pack up and head to an Ebola clinic in a small Liberian village this month and next, a group of University of Minnesota nursing students are constructing maps of the place, which is practically invisible on Google and Bing maps from thousands of miles away. In some of the University’s nursing courses, students create regional maps to trace roads, mark exits and entr y points between jurisdictions and plot individual housing units to aid volunteers’ efforts in the mapped areas. In one course, students are mapping Fish Town in Liberia’s River Gee County. “I’m ver y hopeful that this generation of nurses — especially if they’re practicing in public health
nursing — that this will just be a natural par t of their toolkit,” said nursing associate professor Madeleine Ker r, the class’s instructor. Three University nursing professors are already in Fish Town, Liberia, and a public health professor is scheduled to join them in December to aid the American Refugee Committee in monitoring and treating Ebola. Meanwhile, students at the University are mapping the area to assist those overseas. “We dr ew all of the roads going into Fish Town so that now the relief workers know where people are coming in [and] where people are leaving,” nursing junior Noah Dietsche said. Dietsche, who works o u t o f A n o k a C o u n t y, Minn., and his classmates are using a free and public online mapping forum
21 Indian reservations joining buyback program BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BILLINGS, Mont. — Federal officials on Thursday doubled the number of American Indian communities involved in a $1.9 billion government effort to return lands on reser vations to tribal ownership. Twenty-one Indian communities in 12 states will join the land buyback program by 2017, said Deputy Secretar y of the Interior Mike Connor. That brings the number of locations in the program to 42. “Right now the program is accelerating,” Connor said. “Our outreach efforts and coordination with tribal leaders and government is becoming more effective.” The buyback program was a central piece of a $3.4 billion settlement in 2009 of a class-action lawsuit filed by Elouise Cobell of Browning who died in 2011. The lawsuit claimed Interior Depar tment of ficials mismanaged trust money held by the government for hundreds of thousands of Indian landowners. The 1887 Dawes Act split tribal lands into individual allotments that were inherited by multiple heirs with each passing generation. As a result, parcels of land on some reser vations are owned by dozens, hundreds or even thousands of individual Indians. That can make pr oper ty all but impossible to sell or develop. The buyback program aims to buy land with “fractionated” interests and consolidate ownership of the parcels under tribal governments. “We have some plots of land that have 500 owners on one, little 20-acre tract,” said Grant Stafne, a member of the executive board
for the Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the For t Peck Reservation in northeast Montana. “We would have control over our land instead of individual Indians. It would make it easier to lease land.” In the buyback’s first year, $225 million was paid to individual Native Americans for restoring the equivalent of 375,000 acres to tribal governments, Connor said. During testimony before Congress earlier this year, tribal leaders including Stafne criticized the program for its slow pace. They also said they were being shut out of decisions on what land to buy. Connor said Thursday the gover nment is making adjustments as the program grows, but Stafne said problems persist. One thing his tribes want is to put the buyback money into their own interest-bearing account. “We could buy land on that interest alone,” he said. For t Belknap T ribal President Mark Azure said Thursday that a cooperative agreement with federal officials had eased some of his earlier concerns about the program. But Azure said For t Belknap leaders still have too little say over which parcels are chosen. He added some landowners remain reluctant to participate in the federal program, but if the tribe had more control over it those landowners might be willing to sell. “That’s where we as tribes hopefully provide answers to all of their questions,” he said. “They would lean more toward tribal government in bringing in answers that are going to make sense.”
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the recent expiration of its patents for the lucrative HIV drug Ziagen. “When [a] patent expires, you lose the revenue source, and so you’re always trying to get new patents,” said law professor Thomas Cotter, who specializes in intellectual property law.
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When she arrived at the University eight and a half years ago, Besemann said faculty were more reluctant to work with OTC on licensing their research. Now, they have opened up to the idea, a phenomenon she attributes to the office’s support services and its history of past successes. The process starts when
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called OpenStreetMap to plot Fish Town’s neighborhoods and conduct health assessments. “When [you] start mapping, you kind of go into a trance. … You could probably map the whole countr y if you really wanted to,” he said. At a nursing school event earlier this month, students of fered their newfound exper tise to teach others how to use the free online program. One University nursing faculty member, who ar rived in Liberia last week, hopes to recruit locals there to contribute to OpenStreetMap and make adjustments to her students’ work, Kerr said. U-Spatial, a University pr ogram that pr ovides
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suppor t for the school’s spatial research, gave students access to cur rent satellite footage of Fish Town, associate director Len Kne said. Without that data, students would have to use images taken in 2005 on a day when cloud cover lowered the visibility of the roads and buildings there, he said. Since then, the village has also tripled in size, Kne said. Though public health has been using geo-spacial information systems for a long time to investigate epidemics, Kne said, the method has become more prevalent as web-based programs have expanded the public’s access to GIS. “It’s just easier and easier to collect these vast
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amounts of data,” Ker r said. “And we’re getting the processes and, I think, the techniques to be able to handle that and … to tell stories from that data.” U-Spatial star ted with about 50 GIS training workshops when it was created in 2011. In 2014, it put on just over 900, Kne said. Ker r said she has incorporated geo-spatial mapping into her courses for the past two years, so
her students can apply the skills used to their future careers. Dietsche said it is rewarding to contribute to a health crisis that is half a world away, even if it is from behind a computer screen. “It’s a way to make a difference in conflicts that actually affect their world, and we’re actually using our clinical education,” he said.
Student group raises awareness about relationship violence The Women of Asia student group met with University representatives to discuss awareness. BY SARAH CONNOR sconnor@mndaily.com
A group of students stood at the front of a darkened room in the University of Minnesota’s recreation center on Friday, reading narratives from victims of relationship violence. “I could have said no, but I didn’t,” the voices repeated at the end of each story. The Women of Asia student group gathered with representatives from the University’s Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education, the University Police Depar tment and the gender, women and sexuality studies department Friday afternoon to discuss the sometimes hushed problem of relationship violence in the University community. Women of Asia President Alice Xie said many people don’t understand what’s considered relationship violence, and the event aimed to clearly identify that. At the University, relationship violence is “causing physical harm or abuse, and threats of physical harm or abuse, arising out of a personal, intimate relationship,” according to the school’s sexual assault, stalking and relationship violence policy. Xie said her group views relationship violence as a big problem within the University community, and one that is often overlooked. “I personally have friends who have been through this problem, and the frequency
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Junior and Women of Asia event coordinator Ziyi Zhao dances to stories shared by students at the Recreation Center Friday evening. Women of Asia hosted its first event informing students how to “say no” to relationship violence.
that it’s happening is pretty astonishing,” she said. Since 2009, there have been 32 reports of domestic assault within UMPD’s jurisdiction, said Coordinated Response Team Leader Sgt. Jim Nystrom. He said the number of reported incidents is likely lower than the reality, though, because many go unreported. Students in the audience Friday shared possible reasons that some assaults aren’t reported. They said some victims may feel embarrassed or may not want to betray their boyfriend or girlfriend. Xie said her group aims to help Asian women and all University members become more educated and self-confident so they are
U pushes research from labs to the market a faculty member repor ts his or her findings to the OTC, which evaluates the disclosures for commercial viability and determines whether they are patentable, Besemann said. Once an invention makes its way through the United States Patent and Trademark Of fice, which on average takes two to three years, research universities usually license the patent’s rights to an outside party, Cotter said. It typically takes about seven years for an invention disclosure to translate into a licensing deal, Besemann said. So it’s commonly perceived that applied research favors shor t-term projects over long-term ones, he said, but that’s not necessarily the case. “We can’t just bet on short-term things, because most innovations, especially
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“I’m very hopeful that this generation of nurses — especially if they’re practicing in public health nursing — that this will just be a natural part of their toolkit.”
here at the University, take several years until they’re going to hit the commercial market,” she said. Stein said the need for faculty scientists to perform basic research, partly to train doctoral students, hasn’t changed. “[Doctoral students] still have to do publishable work … and that’s usually basic research,” Stein said. “However, there is now a stronger link between the basic research and the applications.” He said graduate students are often eager to see their work contribute to usable technologies. Stein said his research benefited when a private company approached him and one of his colleagues to investigate composite materials that use nanoparticles, like graphene, to improve plastics. Changes made to a federal
patenting law under the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act has also encouraged researchers to file patents more promptly, Cotter said. Pr eviously, the U.S. awarded patents to inventors who could prove they had developed a technology first. Now, whoever files a patent first wins the rights. “It causes us to sometimes act more quickly,” Besemann said. “But overall, it hasn’t really made a big impact.” Though the number of disclosures continues to rise, Besemann said, the OTC can never predict when the next blockbuster patent will come along, and it has to bet on technologies at very early stages. “We’re definitely driven by revenue, but we’re first driven by knowledge transfer and benefiting society,” she said.
comfor table in repor ting relationship violence and sexual assault incidents. “We hope not only to help people to get aware of this issue, to know that it happens and it happens a lot,” she said, “but to educate people and give people the tools to protect themselves as well.” Though the event focused mostly on issues involving women in abusive relationships, Nystrom said it’s important to remember men and all students can be victims of relationship violence. “It’s not just a female issue, not just an issue with heterosexual relationships. It’s all types of relationships,” he said. Britt Heinz-Ambor n, sexual assault counselor at the Aurora Center, said
sexual violence is a large problem in the LGBTQ community. More than one-third of gay and lesbian students and almost half of bisexual students said they’ve been a victim of domestic violence, according to a 2013 Boynton Health Service College Student Health Report. Heinz-Amborn and Nystrom gave the event’s attendees resources to turn to if they or their friends experience sexual or relationship violence, adding that both the Aurora Center and UMPD help advocate for survivors of assault. “Even just mentioning that the issue occurred is the first step,” Heinz-Amborn said, “and that’s the one that we have to support the most.”
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U researchers look to state for funding A state commission hopes to fund several environmental aid projects. BY LOGAN WROGE lwroge@mndaily.com
A state commission is recommending that lawmakers dole out more than $13 million to University of Minnesota researchers as part of a larger funding request. In its annual budget recommendation, the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources said it would like to allocate about $45 million next legislative session to projects and research with the goal of improving the state’s environment. The University hopes to receive nearly 30 percent of the commission’s funding when the plans are brought to the Legislature next year. Anthony D’Amato, a forest resources professor, works for an ongoing project exploring the impact emerald ash borers have on Minnesota’s tree population and potential solutions to the problems. He said the project, which began with the help of the commission, is
seeking resources for its second phase set to last five years. “I think the state is really fortunate that we have this model, and the University is very fortunate that we have this [commission] as a resource that we can use to fund research,” D’Amato said. The commission, which funds environmental research projects sponsored by organizations throughout the state, comprises both legislators and citizens. Five senators and five representatives sit on the commission alongside seven citizens. Members of the commission chose 65 of 152 proposed projects to bring to the Legislature in the 2015 session. To approve the recommended projects, at least 12 of the commission’s members need to support a bill that outlines the funding recommendations. But legislative suppor t for the bill doesn’t mean ever y project will receive funding. Legislators can still
UNIVERSITY-AFFILIATED PROJECT FUNDING $13,233,000 funding for University projects
$5,000,000 of the funding for University projects would go to the Terrestrial Invasive Species Research Center
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adjust which projects will be approved and how much they will receive. Most funding for the commission’s proposed projects originates from the state’s Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund.
Forty percent of the net proceeds generated from the Minnesota State Lottery feed the fund. The state invests that money to grow it. During years the stock market isn’t doing well, the commission has fewer
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administrators over the past year to discuss adding more faculty members, but they haven’t taken any action yet. “The University of Minnesota has never really invested in this department,” she said at Saturday’s meeting. “After months of negotiation, I can really only see this as a deliberate act. Our only resource is to go to the community.” Torres herself is not a faculty member in the department — she’s on loan from her home depar tment in gender, women and sexuality studies. With only one full-time faculty member, the department relies heavily on contingent faculty and graduate and doctoral students to teach its courses, Torres said. “You can’t have consistency if almost all of your faculty is temporary,” she said. Last spring, Louis Mendoza, the department’s only
tenured professor, left to take an administrative position at Arizona State University, cutting the department’s fulltime faculty in half. With an open spot, Torres said she petitioned administrators to allow the department to hire another faculty member. This fall, the College of Liberal Arts chose which departments could hire more faculty members, but the Chicano and Latino studies department didn’t make the list. The college could only authorize seven new faculty searches across all departments this year because it’s strapped for funding, CLA communications director Kelly O’Brien said. And decreasing faculty numbers is a trend the entire college has seen in recent years. “[CLA has] less funding, we’ve had a recession [and] our student enrollment numbers are lower in [the college] than they used to be,” she said. The college prioritizes
funding allocations by student enrollment in a department’s classes, O’Brien said. Historically, she noted, the Chicano and Latino studies department has never had more than two full-time faculty members. But some in the department argue the funding woes especially stretch across the college’s ethnic studies departments. “To anybody looking, it may seem like a financial decision,” said Jesús EstradaPerez, an American studies Ph.D. student and Chicano and Latino studies instructor. “It shows what they stand for as a University. They are literally contradicting their mission as a University.” Non-tenured assistant professor Jimmy Patiño — the department’s only fulltime faculty member — said while the University administrators say the school values diversity, their actions don’t mirror that. “There’s a disconnect between the rhetoric that the University has put out there
and actually investing time and resources,” he said. Last fall, Torres, in collaboration with the departments of American studies and gender, women and sexuality studies, proposed a restructuring that would allow for collaboration among their classes and research in an attempt to ease the burden on the small number of faculty members and stabilize the departments. But the University didn’t approve the proposal, Torres said. “The University is all about interdisciplinary studies,” she said, “but any interdisciplinar y things the department has proposed has been shot down.” Torres said CLA Dean John Coleman contacted her on Friday to set up a meeting next week to discuss the department’s problems, but she’s war y about how impactful that will be. “We’ve gone through this before — it seems like every few years we have to justify the department’s existence to the University,” she said.
resources to back projects, said Sen. David Tomassoni, DFL-Chisholm. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and the University can get up to 60 percent of the money the commission recommends, said Tomassoni, a commission co-chair. Out of the commission’s $45 million in recommended projects, the University has asked for more than $13 million to help with research. A University research center focusing on terrestrial invasive species is the most costly project on the commission’s plan. The center is asking the Legislature for $5 million to support research over eight years. State lawmakers previously awarded $4.8 million in general funding to establish the center last spring. As completely eradicating invasive species is unlikely, the center will focus on adaptation strategies and reducing the environmental and economic impact of invasive species, said Brian Buhr, dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences. If the recommendations
are approved, the University research center could appropriate money for 10 to 12 projects on invasive species, like the one D’Amato is a part of, Buhr said. That would reduce the number of projects that need to go to the commission directly for financing during the legislative session, he said. “We’re not waiting, necessarily, for the LCCMR funding,” Buhr said. “Of course, if we don’t get the LCCMR funding, that will really narrow down what we can do with those general funds.” D’Amato said the resources the commission allocated for his project helped researchers secure money from additional sources. Tomassoni said the state Legislature will change who sits on the commission from the House next legislative session, and possibly how many projects are approved. “It’s all relative to how they look at the projects and whether or not they believe they should be funded or if the money should be used for something else,” Tomassoni said.
US tells Iran to consider nuclear talks extension BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VIENNA — The U.S. told Iran Sunday that it’s time to consider extending nuclear talks, in the first formal recognition by Washington that frenzied last-minute diplomacy may not be enough to seal a deal by a rapidly approaching deadline. A senior U.S. official said that with the Monday evening cutoff date a little more than a day away, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry proposed to Iranian Foreign Minister Mohamad Java Zarf that the two sides start discussing post-deadline talks in their latest meeting since Kerr y arrived three days ago to add his diplomatic weight to the talks. At the same time, two Wester n diplomats said, negotiations were continuing with Iran on tr ying to bridge differences on reducing Tehran’s ability to make nuclear weapons to levels acceptable to Washington while giving the Islamic republic the relief it seeks from international sanctions over its atomic activities. All three of ficials demanded anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss the diplomatic twists and turns of talks that have been under a blanket of confidentiality since the sides star ted negotiating a comprehensive nuclear
deal eight months ago. The U.S. official said a number of options were under discussion. “An extension is one of those options,” the official said. “It should come as no surprise that we will also engage in a discussion of the options with the Iranians at some point as well.” Foreshadowing the developments, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier told German television: “If there isn’t quite a conclusion, we will have to search for possibilities to ensure that nothing breaks of f here and the process can be continued.” But reaching an agreement that allows for more negotiations could be difficult. Beyond assurances that the Iranians aren’t just talking for the sake of winning time, the U.S. administration wants to show to congressional skeptics that there is sense to continuing the talks. That means Washington might push the Iranians to accept at least one of their demands on the table. Should such a plan be agreed upon, talks could resume in early December when Kerry plans to return to Europe for a previously scheduled NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, and an international conference in London.
Minnesota researches mountain pine beetles BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Costumers Karen Monahn, left, Muna Khalif and Barni Hussein eat and work at the Afro Deli on Wednesday evening.
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Business owners in the neighborhood say they hope the City Council will approve the amendment on Dec. 5. “This will mean more business for people who want to come in later,” said Ali Jama, manager of West Bank Grocery, adding that “business is dead” on some days during Ramadan. Business owners not directly affected by a change in hours say they’re also interested. Hussein Ahmed owns a money services consulting
business on Cedar Avenue, a location surrounded by groceries and restaurants. He said if they stayed open later, it would draw mor e business to him indirectly. “As a business owner, them being open during Ramadan would be a huge benefit to us,” Ahmed said. The rule change would especially give an extra boost to smaller businesses, said Ilhan Omar, Johnson’s senior policy aide. “It would create an equitable environment for small businesses,” she said. The Hard Times Cafe on Riverside Avenue is open
from 6 a.m. to 4 a.m., long enough for observers of Ramadan to eat there. But the diner doesn’t see more customers during Ramadan, said co-owner Anna Lohse. The amendment only applies to businesses outside of downtown without a liquor license, but Warsame said the city is looking to expand it to businesses that currently don’t qualify. Warsame said there should be suppor t from business owners, but right now the city will examine how it affects business if it passes. “We’ll see how it does,”
he said. “We’re exploring other options. It’s a change in the right direction.” The amendment allows businesses to apply to extend their hours 35 days a year. The temporar y closing time would be decided on a case-by-case basis. Warsame said the 35 days should be enough to allow for Ramadan and a few extra occasions. Kahin said the ordinance would help the whole community. “We want to have more accessibility; we don’t want to be limited,” said Kahin. “This neighborhood, West Bank, its life is community.”
MINNEAPOLIS — The mountain pine beetle has devastated huge swaths of forest in the Rockies, and scientists fear the insects could threaten the majestic pines of Minnesota and states farther east someday. Initial results from a three-year, $250,000 research project by the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Depar tment of Agriculture back up some fears about the risk. There’s no evidence that the insects have gained a beachhead in the state yet, but the researchers caution that they can’t be sure that some pests aren’t already hiding someplace, waiting until conditions are ripe to launch an attack. They’re al r ead y es tab l i s hed i n the Black Hills of South Dakota. “This is one problem that we have to take ver y, ver y seriously,” said Brian Aukema, a forest entomologist at the university. The scientists wanted to confir m in the first phase of the study whether the beetles would find the most common species of pines in Minnesota delicious and nutritious.
Experiments this summer in the Black Hills show that they do, Aukema said. Some dead mountain pine beetles were found in a shipment of logs to Minnesota two years ago. The initial screening of pheromone-baited traps placed across the state this year didn’t tur n up any living specimens, but a more detailed analysis hasn’t been completed, said Mark Abrahamson, an entomologist with the state agriculture department. Mountain pine beetles are the most devastating forest insect in Nor th America. They’ve damaged almost 125 million acres of mature pine forests in the West, including 45 million acres in a current outbreak in Canada. Minnesota has around 191 million red, white and jack pines that are large enough for the insects to attack. Cold winters historically have kept the beetles in check, but the trend toward warmer winters has fueled devastating outbreaks in the Rocky Mountains. So it’s feared they could eventually reach the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes region, with serious damage to the Northwoods ecosystem, outdoor recreation and the forest products industr y.
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RELIGION
20+ event inclusive, but not for everyone Attempting to attract young, enthusiastic Christians risks failing to win over converts.
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fter I walked several blocks past the Hennepin Avenue train station on Monday, the flashing lights of the Pantages Theater came into full view. A large crowd stood on the narrow sidewalk, seeming to spill onto the street. I had the opportunity to attend “20+,” an event staged by the River Valley Church. The event focused on bringing young adults closer to the message of Jesus for what was labeled as “the greatest party of the season.” As a Hindu and Universalist, my experiences with religion were incredibly different than the one I had there. I was brought up in an environment that emphasized the sacredness of the academic nature of religion. However, emotion seemed to be the main focus at 20+. As the event started, I definitely didn’t find myself in what I considered a place of worship. The stage was set up to match that of a rock concert and was occupied by singers in large shirts, beanies and skinny jeans. The music they were playing was also not music I stereotypically associated with a Christian church. As a Hindu, I don’t necessarily subscribe to the views the church presented. Hinduism holds that there are many ways to get to the
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same God. However, 20+ emphasized that Christianity is the only salvation for our souls. What was interesting, though, was the seeming merger of youthfulness and devotion to the Gospel message. Young adults and teenagers my age were jamming to music with a message that truly mattered to them, and that was rather inspiring. Later that evening, Carl Lentz, a charismatic pastor from the Hillsong Church in New York City, delivered an emotionally charged message that challenged everyone in the room to consider their values and prioritize the importance of God in their lives. Even though I was an outsider to this community, it became evident why the 20+ movement is growing. From what I experienced, this environment does indeed break from how I perceive Christian church services. This new path makes 20+ attractive to Christians who could feel disillusioned or uncomfortable with their traditional church. But that was just it. It was an opportunity for Christians alone.
As I left the theater, it occurred to me that I still hadn’t felt like a part of the church’s message. There were many facets of the event that I had no experience with, and thus I felt intrigued but also uncomfortable. At the event, concepts such as praying for someone else were entirely foreign to me and challenged my beliefs. Why can someone else connect to God for me? Why do we put our hands in the air to pray? Questions like these left me more puzzled than I had expected. To me, it seemed as though the target audience of such a movement was Christians who no longer felt inclined to go to traditional church settings any longer. The rock music and emphatic sermons all speak to that demographic. One question remains, though: Is it enough? Is it enough to bring people shying away from organized religion back to celebrating the Gospel message? Should the church try to reach out to other denominations or religions? Only time will tell. Anant Naik welcomes comments at anaik@mndaily.com.
Editor’s note: This is the second column in a two-part series. The first printed Nov. 17.
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This issue (gay men not being allowed to donate blood) does not simply stem from shortages at blood banks. The fact is that HIV, transmitted in many ways, including but not limited to unprotected sex, is still being marked by the means of singling out gay men as the main carriers. Apparently, our own gover nmental regulator y agencies still cling to this homophobic notion as if Ronald Reagan were still in office, at a time when we as a society refused to conduct any research on this new epidemic because of that ver y labeling. Although gay men are at higher risk for contracting HIV if they have unprotected sex, it is a virus that does not discriminate, and to reiterate, it can also be contracted through other ways.
As a “conventional” dair y farmer, I would like to inform you of the potential health risks associated with drinking raw milk. The laws are in place for public health safety. The presence of harmful bacteria is a risk of consuming raw food products, whether they are animal or plant related. Please take note that harmful human pathogens are ever ywhere; these are possible even on a pasturebased system. Animals naturally take care of bugs that they are immune to, but these bugs can still be harmful to people. Fur thermore, people take precautions to prevent the ingestion of harmful bacteria on their fruits and vegetables by washing them. Animal products have proper cooking temperatures and prevention measures such as pasteurization to prevent inadver tent pathogens. If you are adamant about consuming raw food products such as raw milk or meat, please research these diseases that you are at an increased risk for: campylobacter, brucellosis, E. coli and salmonella. There are dairy products at your local grocery stores that are safe, antibiotic-free and hormone-free and produced by farmers like me. Anonymous via mndaily.com
By signing troubled but very talented running back LeGarrette Blount, the National Football League, the New England Patriots organization and team owner Bob Kraft proved yet again that the only thing that matters is winning. According to media reports, Blount has been a cancer in the locker room and at times on the field dating back to his playing days at the University of Oregon when he sucker-punched a helmet-less player from Boise State University following an Oregon loss. In August, Blount, who was signed by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the offseason, was arrested for marijuana possession on route to catch a team flight to Philadelphia for a preseason game. Blount’s most recent less-thanshining moment came near the end of the Steelers’ Monday night victory over the Tennessee Titans in Nashville. With the Steelers clinging to a three-point lead near the end of
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he Graduate and Professional Student Assembly is weighing a major restructuring for next year, the Minnesota Daily reported Thursday. The group has recently experienced a significant amount of organizational turmoil, and it seems a change is necessary. The proposed change would split GAPSA into separate groups for graduate and professional students, which each have distinct needs. Nevertheless, the Daily reported that some GAPSA members are concerned with the change. The revamp would have the overall assembly meet only a couple of times each year. GAPSA Vice President Ashley Hall told the Daily she’s apprehensive of the restructure because it may diminish the group’s importance. It’s normal for any big changes to spark apprehension within an organization. But with a group like GAPSA, which is under investigation for financial discrepancies and is struggling even to fill seats at meetings, change is necessary. GAPSA will soon need to make a decision on whether to split into two groups, as the deadline to apply for student ser vices fees is Jan. 24. The assembly received more than $390,000 in fees last academic year. With such a large sum of money potentially at stake, it’s crucial that GAPSA gets its organizational issues straightened out immediately. The bottom line here is that students’ money and voices are at risk because their governing and advocacy body is failing. Graduate and professional students need a voice through student government and the grants it can disburse, and a new structure for this group may help.
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Inmates suffer injustice at MSOP Sex offenders should not be indefinitely detained; rather, they should be rehabilitated.
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he Minnesota Legislature was able to accomplish many tasks over its last few sessions, but one issue that it failed to adequately address is the Minnesota Sex Offender Program. Many individuals convicted as sexual predators are sent to the facilities in Moose Lake and St. Peter to be rehabilitated and, when they are ready, integrated back into society. In 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of the roughly 700 clients, who are currently being held in these facilities for indefinite detention, which the lawsuit argues is unconstitutional. MSOP has released only one individual since 1994. It promises to free convicts but fails to let inmates back into society — even after they serve lengthy terms and show no signs of reoffending. A cour t hearing is scheduled in Februar y to decide whether some of the inmates should be unconditionally released.
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the game, Blount walked off the field, apparently upset over his lack of playing time. In doing so, Blount abandoned his teammates, coaches, organization, fans and himself and yet again showed his true colors. On Tuesday, less than 24 hours after the incident, the Steelers cut Blount. While I applaud the Steelers for cutting ties with Blount after yet another despicable act, the simple fact is that given Blount’s history, the Steelers should have never signed him in the first place. Less than 48 hours later and like a cat with nine lives, the Patriots gave Blount another chance to earn millions of dollars playing a game. This is despite the fact that the NFL and its teams know that children and adults alike idolize players, even those who have had troubled histories and multiple scrapes with the law. Do the Patriots really believe that in the 48 hours that Blount was out of work, he had an epiphany that will ensure that in the future he will be a model teammate and citizen?
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However, additional legislative action could streamline the process and guarantee justice for these inmates. Legislators should make MSOP reforms a top priority during the 2015 session. An expert jury panel recently proposed reviewing inmates on a case-by-case basis and establishing a timetable to release these individuals upon their arrival to the facilities. These policies would ensure justice for these ostracized Minnesotans. If one believes in jurisprudence, governmental fiscal responsibility and constitutional rights, then they should demand that state leaders act upon this important issue next year. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.
The NFL and its teams know that children and adults alike idolize players, even those who have had troubled histories and multiple scrapes with the law. The practical reality is that the Patriots simply do not care, as long as Blount helps them win a Super Bowl. Amid countless scandals, including those involving Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson, who has been indicted on charges of reckless or negligent injur y to a child, one would think that just maybe the Patriots and all other 31 other teams in the NFL should have passed on Blount. George R. Farenth II Minnesota Daily reader
ast week, Rolling Stone published an article detailing a gang rape and the ensuing alleged cover-up by a fraternity at the University of Virginia. Initially, the school made no effort to warn students of the incident. Afraid of being labeled a dangerous school, they refused to publish proceedings of numerous sexual assault reports. Only after being publically ridiculed and following numerous other reports, as former students began feeling empowered, has the school suspended fraternities under investigation and begun taking steps to address what seems like gross systemic accountability problems. Unfortunately, stories of rape victims like this go largely unnoticed and statistics related to these problems point to fraternity culture as a main culprit. While one in five women is sexually assaulted in college, only about 12 percent report the incident to police. Furthermore, men who are a part of fraternities are three times more likely than other men on campus to commit rape. Clearly, a number of changes need to happen. President Barack Obama has become involved, challenging 86 schools who have inadequately dealt with sexual assault cases with financial consequences. Currently, University of Minnesota fraternities are attempting to address this problem, and progress is being made. Campus greeks recently gathered to discuss how to fight “toxic masculinity.” The newly elected president of the Interfraternity Council, JD Braun, is promising to address the issue of campus sexual assault. Now it’s up to students to continue fighting to ensure that no one must live in a corrosive culture of fear and predation. 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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FOOTBALL
Leidner leads Minnesota in win Rally u from Page 1
Leidner responded by leading the Gophers on two more touchdown drives, which gave Minnesota its first lead of the day. “The one thing about [Mitch] is he is mentally tough,” Kill said. “It’s hard [being a quar terback] — you’re going to get judged and evaluated ever y day, but he has never changed. He stays in there and battles. He found a way to win today and make some big plays.” Though Leidner threw for 135 yards, he made his biggest impact on the ground, r ushing for 111 yards and two touchdowns. “Just the way the reads were working out, it really just opened up a lot of running lanes for me,” Leidner said. “[The Cornhuskers] knew they were going to have to stop David Cobb, so it was going to be tough for them to stop both of us.” The Gophers came back with some gutsy play calling by Kill. Late in the third quarter, Minnesota trailed by 10 and was facing a fourthand-1. Instead of kicking the field goal and making it a one-possession game, Kill decided to go for it. The gamble paid off as Williams ran for a 19-yard touchdown on the play. “At the end of the day, you are on the road, you’re in Lincoln, Neb. — hey, roll the dice,” Kill said. “If it didn’t work, I would have ever ybody in America telling me how stupid I was. Ever y once in a while, it will work.” While the of fense was chipping away at the Cornhuskers’ lead, the Gophers’ defense held a hobbled Nebraska of fense to just three points in the second half. “We came out [in the second half] with a lot
BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com Minnesota 28, Nebraska 24 Saturday, Nov. 22 Lincoln, Neb.
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The Gophers went into halftime down by double digits and then lost arguably their best player due to injury, but they still defeated a ranked Nebraska team on the road to move to one victory away from the Big Ten championship game. No, that’s not a typo. IT WAS OVER WHEN:
Backup running back Donnell Kirkwood ran 10 yards late in the fourth quarter to run out the clock. KEY PLAY
While trailing by 10 points late in the third quarter, Gophers head coach Jerry Kill opted to go for it on fourth-and-1. Junior running back Rodrick Williams broke right around the offensive line and found the end zone with a 19-yard run that trimmed Nebraska’s lead to three points. FIVE OBSERVATIONS
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Gophers quarterback Mitch Leidner looks to pass to tight end Maxx Williams on Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb.
m o r e e n e r g y, ” j u n i o r Briean Boddy-Calhoun said. “We got a feel for them in the first half, and we just came out in the second half ready to play.” After Leidner ran for a 2-yard touchdown to give Minnesota the lead with 3:25 left in the game, Boddy-Calhoun stepped up to seal the victor y for the Gophers. Nebraska wide receiver De’Mor nay Pierson-El caught a pass at the 2-yard line, nearly giving the Cornhuskers the lead. But Boddy-Calhoun stripped the ball from Pierson-El, which made up for a dropped near-intercep-
tion in the first half. “Whenever I make a mistake, I tr y to make up for it, and I kind of carried [the dropped interception] as motivation throughout the game,” Boddy-Calhoun said. After the turnover, Minnesota needed just one more first down to clinch the team’s second consecutive eight-win season. Naturally, Leidner handed the ball off to Kirkwood. “You get in and do your best job,” Kirkwood said. “I just felt like today was an opportunity where I can know what I am doing out there even though I am limited in game time.”
SCORING SUMMARY SCORE BY QUARTER Minnesota Nebraska
1 7 7
2 0 14
3 14 3
4 7 0
TOTAL 28 24
1ST QUARTER
MINN
NEB
NEB
TD
9:42
Ameer Abdullah 2 yd run (Drew Brown kick)
0
7
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TD
4:43
Mitch Leidner 1 yd run (Ryan Santoso kick)
7
7
MINN
NEB
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TD
10:57
De’Mornay Pierson-El 18 yd pass from Tommy Armstrong Jr. (Drew Brown kick)
7
14
NEB
TD
5:18
Nate Gerry 85 yd blocked field goal return (Drew Brown kick)
7
21
3RD QUARTER
MINN
NEB
MINN
TD
11:14
David Cobb 17 yd run (Ryan Santoso kick)
14
21
NEB
FG
7:19
Drew Brown 30 yd field goal
14
24
MINN
TD
1:47
Rodrick Williams 19 yd run (Ryan Santoso kick)
21
24
MINN
NEB
28
24
4TH QUARTER MINN
TD
3:25
Mitch Leidner 3 yd run (Ryan Santoso kick)
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Gophers’ Big Ten championship hopes alive Minnesota and Wisconsin will play next weekend for the Big Ten West. BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
LINCOLN, Neb. — As Donnell Kirkwood trotted onto Tom Osborne Field with 1:19 remaining, there were just three words in his head. “Hold the ball,” he said. The redshirt senior running back knew what was at stake. All he needed to do to seal a Minnesota victory over No. 21 Nebraska was keep the ball in his grasp and run 10 yards for a first down. He did just that, bursting to the left for a first down that iced the game. A few moments later, he looked up to the scoreboard and watched the clock expire, ensuring that the winner of Minnesota’s game at Wisconsin next week will take home more than just bragging rights and the Paul Bunyan’s Axe rivalry trophy. The victor will also be the Big Ten West Division champion and play in the Big Ten championship game. “I don’t think I need to say anything. There won’t be any motivational speeches. I think we all know we are battling for the axe, battling for the championship, going to Madison. It doesn’t get any better than that,” head coach Jerry Kill said. Minnesota’s annual game with Wisconsin is almost always heated. Last season, the teams fired obscenities at one another on the field after the Badgers won 20-7.
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1. The Gophers are mentally tough. When Minnesota has trailed teams early in previous seasons, things have unraveled. Add in David Cobb’s injury in a hostile environment, and the Gophers could have really tanked. Instead, they rallied and made big plays down the stretch to eke out a victory. 2. Minnesota is only one victory away from the Big Ten championship game. Saturday’s victory put the Gophers at 5-2 in Big Ten play, ahead of Iowa and Nebraska, which are both 4-3. Wisconsin is currently the Big Ten West’s leader with a 6-1 record. But if Minnesota wins at Wisconsin next week, it will be the division champion and head to the Indianapolis for the conference title game. 3. Mitch Leidner took what the defense gave him. The Gophers’ read-option was on point Saturday, with Leidner often faking handoffs to Cobb before tucking the ball and running himself. The Cornhuskers keyed on Cobb, and Leidner took advantage. He ran for a game-high 111 yards. 4. Briean Boddy-Calhoun is the real MVP. Before the season began, there was a lot of attention on Gophers cornerback Eric Murray, who had turned into a lockdown defensive back. Kill called safety Cedric Thompson the defense’s leader. As the year progressed, Damien Wilson emerged as one of the Big Ten’s top linebackers. But Boddy-Calhoun might be the Gophers defense’s real MVP. Just about every game, the redshirt junior cornerback comes up with a big forced turnover. When Nebraska was knocking on the door in the fourth quarter, BoddyCalhoun ripped the ball out of De’Mornay Pierson-El’s hands at the 2-yard line to stop Nebraska from retaking the lead. 5. The Gophers might actually defeat Wisconsin — if Cobb is healthy. After he suffered an injury early in the third quarter, Kirkwood and Williams came in and did enough to get Minnesota the victory. If the Gophers expect to win against Wisconsin for the first time since 2003, they’re going to need all hands on deck. QUOTE OF THE GAME
Gophers running back Donnell Kirkwood runs the ball Saturday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb.
But as the Gophers (8-3, 5-2 Big Ten) head to Camp Randall with a division title on the line on Saturday, there figures to be some added juice. “This is what we have been working for all year. Everybody is excited for it. We get to battle for the axe. It’s going to be a hell of a game,” redshirt senior offensive lineman Zac Epping said. Winning at Wisconsin isn’t easy. The Badgers (9-2, 6-1 Big Ten) haven’t lost at home since November 2013, and they have arguably the country’s best running back in Melvin Gordon.
But Minnesota’s victory at Nebraska showed that the Gophers have what it takes to beat a ranked opponent with an elite running back on the road. “It just proves that we can win in a hostile environment. We played at Michigan over 100,000 people, 90,000 people here. It’s great for us, and we can go into Camp Randall and get a win,” Epping said. It didn’t always look like the Gophers were going to upset Nebraska. After the Cornhuskers blocked a field goal and returned it for a touchdown, the Gophers
went into halftime down 21-7. Despite the deficit, they remained calm. “We came in at halftime, and we didn’t come in screaming or yelling or anything like that. We felt like we were playing pretty good. They just had a couple breaks, and we tried to convince the kids that we just had to go out there and play,” Kill said. Things didn’t look good for the Gophers even after David Cobb ran 17 yards for a touchdown to trim the lead to 21-14 early in the third quarter. The star running back
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limped out of the end zone with an apparent left hamstring injury and didn’t play the rest of the game. But backups Kirkwood and Rodrick Williams did enough to help quarterback Mitch Leidner. A victor y at Wisconsin next week will be hard to come by, especially if Cobb isn’t 100 percent healthy. But at the beginning of the season, a Big Ten championship didn’t look likely, either. Now it’s within reach. “I wouldn’t put anything past our kids right now,” Kill said. “That’s for sure.”
We will enjoy [the victor y] today, and then I think we all know we go to Madison, Wis., and we get a chance to do something that we haven’t done in a long time at Minnesota. Gophers head coach Jerry Kill TWEET OF THE GAME
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Minnesota trounces Mavericks S
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Gophers senior forward Rachael Bona controls the puck at Ridder Arena on Saturday evening.
Sophomore forward Dani Cameranesi scored four goals over the weekend. BY SAM KRAEMER skraemer@mndaily.com
Minnesota State-Mankato entered the weekend home-and-home series against the Gophers without a tally in their win column. The Mavericks kept the losing streak going this weekend, as No. 2 Minnesota swept the team with a 5-1 victor y in Mankato on Friday night, followed by a 4-0 shutout at Ridder Arena on Saturday. The weekend series against MSU allowed the Gophers to spread out their playing time, particularly in the net. All three goaltenders
defended the net for two periods in the series, with junior Amanda Leveille and redshirt freshman Sidney Peters earning victories. Senior Shyler Sletta was in net for the third period both nights. “[We] needed to get [Peters] some time,” Gophers head coach Brad Frost said. “Shyler’s someone who, as a senior, hasn’t played a lot but has earned what she’s gotten.” Friday marked Leveille’s 50th career victory at Minnesota. She saved 14 of the 15 shots she faced. But she also had plenty of help offensively, as sophomore forward Dani Cameranesi scored a hat trick to lead the Gophers on Friday night. “I think we did a really good job this weekend of controlling the puck and creating cycles,” Cameranesi said. “We found a way to
get the puck to the net this weekend, and that’s a huge asset for us.” Junior defenseman Milica McMillen and junior forward Hannah Brandt each had a goal and an assist in Friday’s game, too. On Saturday, the Gophers wasted no time picking up where they left off, scoring two goals in the game’s first three minutes. Cameranesi and Brandt scored the first two goals for Minnesota. The tandem has been prolific on the Gophers’ top line this season. “Honestly, a lot of the time, Hannah does the work and I just use my speed to try and get in open spaces,” Cameranesi said. “She has a way of finding me. … I’m lucky to be on a line with her this year.” The linemates are both in the top 10 nationally for points — Brandt has 24
points, while Cameranesi has 20. Brandt added another goal in the first period before senior forward Rachael Bona scored on the power play in the second. Despite a 4-0 victory, the Gophers had opportunities to score more goals. “We had a lot of chances — could have had a few more goals — but their goalie played awesome tonight and they block a lot of shots,” Brandt said. The Gophers also limited themselves to just four penalties between the two games. Frost said he was happy with his team’s efforts to stay out of the box. “We were taking too many dumb [penalties]. This weekend, I thought we just did a great job,” Frost said. “If we can limit it to one or two [penalties] each game, we’ll be in great shape.”
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY 1 2 Minnesota MSU-Mankato 0
2 2 1
3 1 0
FINAL 5 1
3 0 0
FINAL 0 4
SATURDAY 1 MSU-Mankato 0 3 Minnesota
2 0 1
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Minnesota dominated the Mavericks all weekend offensively, outshooting them 5716 Friday and 52-13 Saturday. The Gophers outplayed a younger Mankato team — 16 of the 23 players on the Mavericks roster are underclassmen. “Unfortunately, they’re so young on the other side. They’ve got some skilled kids, but we were able to just overwhelm them there,” he said.
MEN’S HOCKEY
Gophers lose exhibition to top prospects It was the first time Minnesota had lost to the U.S. Under-18 team. BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com
The Gophers wanted to rebound after getting swept by in-state rival Duluth earlier this month. Instead, they watched a team of players who are too young to gamble celebrate a victor y on Minnesota’s home ice. The away team, the U.S. under-18 team, defeated the Gophers in overtime Friday night 5-4 at Mariucci Arena after Arizona native Auston Matthews netted the gamewinner. “It was pretty frustrating, to be honest,” junior for ward Ryan Reilly said. “We just haven’t been playing the way we can.” Friday was the first time the Gophers had ever lost to the U.S. under-18 team, as they took a 4-0-1 series record into the exhibition game. The Gophers were not playing to win the game from the star t, though. Head coach Don Lucia said the team’s most important goal of the weekend was to give some different players time on the ice. To do that, Lucia played 14 for wards and seven defensemen, and he gave freshmen goaltender Nick Lehr a start. “[It’s the] first time he’s had an opportunity to play,” Lucia said of Lehr. “I thought he made a lot of good saves and did a nice job.” Lehr faced a lot of pressure in his time in net for Minnesota, as the talent of the U-18 team was high.
Gophers forward Ryan Reilly races the puck down the rink at Mariucci Arena on Friday.
“[They’re a] really skilled, really fast team,” said freshman defenseman Jack Glover, who skated in 33 games with the U-18 program before joining the Gophers. “They used it to their advantage. It’s probably one of their biggest assets as a team, and I think that they did a good job. They used their speed well tonight.” The away team’s speed allowed it to get an early jump on the Gophers, as it outshot Minnesota 10-5 halfway through the first period. The young players
struggled to keep control of the puck, though, which allowed the Gophers to stay in the game and build a 2-0 lead in the first period — thanks to goals from Glover and Reilly. “Our [fourth] line hasn’t scored in a while, so I think that was a positive that I scored,” Reilly said. “I think that helps your confidence.” The U-18 team rallied in the second period to tie the game up and again in the third period after the Gophers pulled ahead. But the game seemed out of reach for the young
players when Minnesota senior for ward Kyle Rau scored with just under four minutes remaining to give the Gophers a 4-3 lead. To add insult to injur y, the U-18 team was also called for a penalty on the play, giving the Gophers a good opportunity to ice the game. But the U-18 team showed resilience, and just after players killed their penalty, they rallied to score the tying goal. From there, a sharp shot in over time gave them the victory. “Obviously, it was a
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MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY 1 2 3 OT FINAL 5 U.S. Under-18 0 2 2 1 2 1 1 0 4 Minnesota
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
tough game,” Glover said. “We could just never really recover from the first 10 minutes or so, which is disappointing for us because we were going to try to use this game as a building block in the next couple weeks.”
enior r unning back David Cobb could only watch from the sidelines as Donnell Kirkwood pushed through the Nebraska defense on his way to a first down in the game’s closing minutes. That rush ultimately sealed the game for Minnesota and sends them to Madison, Wis., next week with the opportunity to reach to its first Big Ten championship game. The fact that Minnesota came back to defeat the Cornhuskers in the second half despite being without Cobb in the backfield because of an injur y is an impressive accomplishment. But perhaps something even more shocking is that the talented r unning back was snubbed in the list of 10 semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award last Tuesday. The award, inspired by a former Souther n Methodist University running back, is given annually to the best running back in college football. Apparently, the committee that selects the semifinalists just doesn’t see Cobb as one of the best. It’s dead wrong. For almost ever y game this season, the Gophers’ offense — and sometimes the entire team — has lived and died by Cobb’s play. He’s posted the thirdmost carries in all of the Football Bowl Subdivision and accounted for the ninth-most yards at 1,430. After rushing for 1,200 or more yards during this season and last, Cobb climbed the ranks of Minnesota’s greats in just two seasons. Just imagine where he’d be if he had started all four years. The senior stands just 34 yards shy of the alltime single season rushing record at Minnesota. The current record holder — Laurence Maroney — went on to play for the New England Patriots and helped them reach Super Bowl XLII. But apparently none of this shows Cobb is a superior talent, according to the selection committee. Never mind the fact that out of the 10 semifinalists who made the cut, all belong to better passing offenses than Cobb does. The senior has been the focal point of Minnesota’s offense all season, as the team has had inconsistencies in its aerial attack. It’s important to note that r edshir t sophomore quarterback Mitch Leidner made some key plays down the stretch after the Gophers lost their primar y tailback Saturday. But that doesn’t change the fact that Minnesota needs Cobb to play against Wisconsin next week in order to punch its ticket to Indianapolis. Cobb has been instrumental in the Gophers’ 8-3 season and is the main reason Minnesota kept up with Ohio State. It’s a shame that injury forced Cobb to sit out a majority of the second half of the game against Nebraska. But perhaps the more unjust fact is that the talented r unner never got a chance to quiet his critics. David Nelson welcomes comments at dnelson@mndaily.com or on Twitter.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Walker powers Gophers past Retrievers MINNESOTA 69, UMBC 51 UMBC Minnesota
26 25 — 51 32 37 — 69
MINNESOTA FG M-A 7-11 2-6 4-9 3-9 3-11 3-8 1-4 0-1 0-0 0-1 3-6 2-4 28-70
FT Reb M-A O-T Ast PF 1-2 2-5 1 4 0-0 3-5 2 2 1-2 0-1 4 3 2-2 4-5 8 2 2-4 4-9 1 1 0-0 0-5 4 2 0-0 0-0 1 4 0-0 0-0 0 0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0-0 1-3 0 2 1-4 3-7 1 0 7-14 19-43 22 21
Player Walker King Hollins Mathieu Morris Mason McNeil Shell Martin Konate Buggs Eliason Total
Min 23 25 24 32 28 18 16 2 2 2 13 15 200
Player Houston Joyce Morgan Sparrow Grant Brent Grace Taylor Darley Garner Stenhede Total
FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast 24 1-1 0-0 0-2 4 24 4-9 0-3 0-4 0 30 3-5 5-9 1-2 2 30 6-13 2-4 1-6 2 29 1-4 4-6 0-7 5 14 1-2 0-0 0-2 0 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 15 1-6 0-0 3-5 2 24 0-3 0-0 3-5 0 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 200 17-45 11-22 12-40 15
Pts 15 4 12 8 9 8 2 0 0 0 6 5 69
UMBC
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Gophers forward Mo Walker pushes toward the hoop at Williams Arena against UMBC on Saturday evening.
Redshirt senior center Mo Walker led the Gophers with 15 points. BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com
The Gophers’ defense gave the team plenty of chances Saturday night, but its offense didn’t always capitalize. The Gophers had a poor shooting night, which allowed Mar yland-Baltimore County to stay close for a
large portion of the game. A late r un helped the Gophers (3-1) pull away, though, and they ended up with a 69-51 victory. At first, it looked like the Retrievers wouldn’t be able to handle the Gophers’ defensive pressure, as they turned the ball over on their first three possessions. But the Retrievers responded by hitting their first five shots and drawing plenty of fouls to give themselves extra opportunities. The Gophers’ pressure was relentless, though,
forcing 23 total turnovers on the night, which led to 27 points. “It’s a totally dif ferent team when we bring the pressure defensively,” senior guard Andre Hollins said. “I think we’ll get better at it, just dogging the guards, making them tired.” The Gophers had to shuf fle their own guards throughout the game because Hollins got in foul trouble and left the game midway through the first half. But the team stayed
productive with backup guards Nate Mason and Daquein McNeil in the game, which Hollins said speaks to the team’s backcourt depth. “We have great backups coming in — they’re no drop-offs,” Hollins said. Behind that depth, the Gophers went back to the locker room with a 32-26 lead at halftime. The team led by six but was only 14-for-36 from the field, and head coach Richard Pitino stressed to his players during the break that they needed to go in-
VOLLEYBALL
Gophers sweep ranked Purdue
side offensively. That emphasis led to a big night for redshir t senior Mo Walker, who led the team with 15 points. Behind Walker, the Gophers outscored UMBC 40-14 in the paint. “He’s an ef ficient player,” Pitino said. “We didn’t get him enough touches in the first half.” The Retrievers continued to stick close to the Gophers, but as the second half wore on, the Gophers began to pull away. An 18-4 run that star ted midway through the
PF 1 4 4 3 0 2 0 4 1 0 0 19
Pts 2 8 14 16 6 3 0 2 0 0 0 51
second half allowed the Gophers to stretch their lead to double digits, sealing their third victor y in a five-day period. “It was tough playing three games in a week like that,” Walker said. “But we fought through it.” Pitino said Saturday’s game was a lesson for some of the team’s new players on how to overcome adversity. “We needed to play a game where not everything was going our way,” Pitino said. “That was a good experience for us.” The game also showed some weaknesses the Gophers will have to improve before their level of competition gets tougher. The Gophers shot only 50 percent from the freethrow line, which Pitino described as “killer.” He said the team also needed to work on keeping up the defensive intensity without players like Hollins receiving attention from the referees. “We’ve got to be able to pressure without fouling,” Pitino said. “Our defense has got to be our calling card.”
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Minnesota overcomes adversity in road win The team pushed its record to 3-0 on the season with a win against Memphis. BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com
The Gophers were trailing 29-31 at halftime against Memphis. But they fought back, winning a close 68-62 game to stay unblemished on the season. Early foul trouble for redshirt sophomore center Amanda Zahui B. and senior guard Rachel Banham contributed to the Gophers’ having to overcome the deficit. “I thought we fought through a lot of adversity.
I had to sit in the first half. Amanda sat the end of the first half. A lot of people stepped up,” Banham said. Nearly three minutes into the first game, Banham picked up her second foul placing her on the bench until halftime. “We didn’t have to put her in because we kept it close. Tor y [Jacobs] came in … and kept us under control,” head coach Marlene Stollings said The Gophers had a distinct height advantage over the smaller Memphis team, but the rebounding numbers show otherwise. Minnesota was out-rebounded 48-37 during the game, and Stollings said the team will need to prepare u See BASKETBALL Page 10
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Gophers sophomore Paige Tapp blocks the ball on Saturday at the Sports Pavilion during Minnesota’s match against Purdue.
The team now has just two matches remaining in the regular season. BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com
With the regular season winding down, a victor y Saturday night against Purdue was a necessity for the Gophers to keep their postseason hopes alive. And Minnesota got what it was looking for, taking down the No. 16 Boilermakers in three sets. Head coach Hugh McCutcheon said Saturday’s victor y was critical, especially against a ranked opponent. “It’s really impor tant, relative to our aspirations to be a part of the [NCAA] tournament,” McCutcheon said. “I think we proved tonight that we’re cer tainly worthy of being in the mix.”
Minnesota continued the successful 6-2 formation utilized in Wednesday’s match, allowing the team to have three hitters in the front at all times and put up a big block on a tall Purdue team. Blocks were key in this match, and the Gophers had 13 blocks to Purdue’s four. “I was really impressed with the defensive discipline,” McCutcheon said. “The block and defense was really our strength.” Sophomore middle blocker Paige Tapp led the team with 10 block assists and added five kills to the team’s 37. Junior outside hitter Daly Santana also contributed a game-high 15 kills. In an evenly matched first set, the Gophers took down Purdue. The set victor y was largely because of the Boilermakers’ mistakes — Purdue had 10 hitting errors in the set.
Minnesota’s strong blocks put the team up by seven in the middle of the second set, and its defense at the net remained solid throughout the game, helping the Gophers take down the Boilermakers in the second. “When we take care of the blocks, it frees the defense up to focus on ser ve receive, and it frees everyone else up on the team to focus on other aspects of the team,” Tapp said. “I think that really helped improve our whole game overall.” Santana said the team also had great touches on balls at the net, allowing the defense to make good plays. “We’ve been having a strong block the whole season, but tonight it was everywhere,” Santana said. In their most recent meeting earlier this month, Purdue swept the Gophers in three sets. On Saturday, Minnesota
VOLLEYBALL RESULTS SATURDAY 1 21 Purdue Minnesota 25
2 17 25
3 16 25
FINAL 0 3
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
went into the third set looking to return the favor. Santana said what happened in the two teams’ last match wasn’t indicative of how Saturday was going to go. The Gophers took an early 12-6 lead in the third set, which paved the way for a 25-16 victor y and sweep of Purdue. Tapp said the team had more focus in this match than in the previous meeting with the Boilermakers, and players reminded themselves to “believe, breathe and battle.” “I think it showed tonight that we were ready to battle,” Santana said.
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Gophers forward Shae Kelley jumps to make a basket at Williams Arena on Nov. 14.
Monday, November 24, 2014
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Packers fanbase alive in Minneapolis Many students at the U of M are Packers fans and attended the game. BY SAM KRAEMER skraemer@mndaily.com
When Green Bay’s Eddie Lacy caught a pass at the start of the fourth quarter, eluded his defenders and ran into the end zone, fans in TCF Bank Stadium hollered and cheered. Later, chants of “Go Pack Go” rang throughout the stadium as fans filed for the exits after the Packers defeated the Minnesota Vikings 24-21. Despite being 275 miles away from Lambeau Field, many University of Minnesota students were able to take a short walk to see their favorite team when the Packers came to Minneapolis on Sunday to take on their division rival Vikings. Sunday’s game marked the 109th meeting between the two teams. And with the demolition of Mall of America Field earlier this year, the rivalry moved outdoors to the University’s campus. Joey Smits, a sophomore bioproducts engineering and math major, was happy to don his green and gold Packers attire at the game. “Both my parents grew
Packers fans cheer after a touchdown on Sunday at TCF Bank Stadium. The Vikings lost 24-21 to the Packers.
up in Eau Claire, so I was born and raised a Packer fan,” Smits said. He said he always looks forward to the rivalry, too. “Nothing’s better than a Packers-Vikings game,” he said. Kinesiology sophomore Christina Meyer said her
admiration for the Packers also stems from her hometown in Wisconsin. Meyer said she was happy to attend Sunday’s game because of the proximity to campus. “It made it much more convenient to come,” she said, “and it’s been great.”
And biochemistr y sophomore Joel Zembles said he knew he’d still root for the Packers despite studying in Minnesota. “Whether you go to college in Wisconsin or not, you definitely stay a Packer fan,” Zembles said. But the Vikings didn’t
WRESTLING
Two wins help team stay perfect
seem fazed by the number of Packers fans in the stadium. “I think our fans did a pretty good job of booing out the chants,” punter Jeff Locke said. “Most guys at this level don’t play attention to what the opposing fans are doing anyway.”
Minnesota wraps up season disappointed
BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com
LIAM JAMES DOYLE, DAILY
Minnesota beat Grand Canyon and Michigan State at the Sports Pavilion. BY DANNY CHEN dchen@mndaily.com
With a pin and a technical fall against Grand Canyon and Michigan State, respectively, senior Logan Storley electrified the crowd at the Sports Pavilion on two consecutive nights. No. 1 Minnesota won eight of the 10 matches against Grand Canyon and nine of the 10 matches against Michigan State. These were two dominating performances by the Gophers, but head coach J Robinson said his team still has some things to improve on. “[On Thursday], I thought we came out a little bit flat,” Robinson said. “I talked to the guys about it, and we wanted them to pick it up. I think there [was] more intensity [Friday], and there was more focus. Those are the things that we are going to need to get where we want to be this year.”
Storley had no problem maintaining a high intensity in each of his matches. He dominated T r ey Ronayne of Grand Canyon and pinned him at the 2:25 mark. The following night, he defeated Nick Proctor of Michigan State 16-0, giving Storley his third technical fall victory of the season. The senior said he wants to go into each competition with a statement. “I am really [tr ying] to put my offense on people and making them wrestle me at a hard pace for seven minutes,” Storley said. “Not many guys in the countr y could do that, and I am really showing that this year. Robinson said Storley’s performance this season is the best he has ever seen from him. “[Assistant coach] Luke Becker has been working with him a lot, especially on turns,” Robinson said. “I think that you can see the results when he is wrestling. It’s a ver y positive thing. … I think Logan wants to lead that way and show that when we get to the national tournament or the Big Ten
WRESTLING RESULTS
NO. 1 MINNESOTA VS. GRAND CANYON 125 Brancale 133 Kingsley 141 Rangell 149 Short 157 Ness 165 Wanzek 174 Storley 184 Pfarr, B. 197 Pfarr, C. HWT Kroells
W/L (score) W (fall) L (9-0) W (11-0) W (10-6) W (6-1) W (11-2) W (fall) W (18-4) L (9-0) W (forfeit)
NO. 1 MINNESOTA VS. MICHIGAN STATE 125 Bremer 133 Dardanes, C. 141 Dardanes, N. 149 Lange 157 Ness 165 Wanzek 174 Storley 184 Pfarr, B. 197 Schiller HWT Kroells
W/L (score) L (7-5) W (10-4) W (fall) W (7-2) W (9-1) W (5-3) W (fall) W (6-2) W (fall) W (7-2)
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
tournament, we can score those points.” Another wrestler with a strong performance was redshirt freshman Nick Wanzek. In his first match against Grand Canyon, Wanzek won easily by an 11-2 major decision. However, the second match against Ryan Watts of Michigan State proved to be more of a challenge. Down 3-1 going into the third period, Wanzek overcame the deficit by scoring points from a late escape, a takedown and riding time. He scored a total of four points in the third period,
giving him a 5-3 decision victory. “[Watts] came out ver y strong in the first period,” Wanzek said. “I have to work on keeping my position right away in the beginning of the match, [so] I can keep building my lead for ward and keep scoring.” Robinson said although Wanzek is only a redshirt freshman, he is already accustomed to pressure. “He’s out there, and he is methodical,” Robinson said. “He keeps the pressure on him and scores when he has to. The object with him is to just keep him going the right direction.”
Packers backup quarterback Matt Flynn said he and his teammates enjoy seeing their fans travel with them to away games. “It’s fun for us to see that much green and gold. It makes us feel good as players when we have that kind of support,” Flynn said.
CROSS COUNTRY
The Gophers placed last as a team at the NCAA championships.
Gophers senior Logan Storley wrestles at the Sports Pavilion on Friday evening, where the Gophers men’s wrestling team defeated Michigan State.
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Just eight days after the Gophers placed second at the Midwest regional meet, securing an automatic bid to the NCAA championships, the team fell far short of its top-20 goal. The Gophers placed last at the NCAA championships Saturday, and redshirt junior Becca Dyson said the team was disappointed with the way it raced. “I definitely don’t think we were happy with what happened,” Dyson said. “I think it was kind of just a tough day from the get-go.” Dyson finished 132nd overall and second on the team behind fellow redshirt junior Liz Berkholtz. Only two runners on the team ran in the NCAA championships last year, and Berkholtz said she thought the inexperienced Gophers were nervous going into the race. “On paper, [the results look] pretty awful. It was definitely like a deer in the headlights for some people,” Berkholtz said. Minnesota has struggled throughout the season with getting into position quickly, and head coach Sarah Hopkins said the team fell flat doing that on Saturday. Saturday’s meet included 253 competitors, and Dyson said the team’s inability to quickly get out into good positions with the number of runners present was a big factor in the way the team placed. “If we didn’t get out hard, we were going to get swallowed, and it sounds like that was kind of what happened,” Dyson said. The silver lining for Minnesota was an act of kindness by redshirt junior Kate Bucknam. In the final stretch of the race, Bucknam put a struggling Baylor University runner’s arm around her and helped walk her across the finish line. Hopkins said Bucknam’s actions speaks to her character. “That’s who Kate is. This sport in general, everybody has a common bond no matter what team you’re on, and when it comes down to it, everybody wants to see everybody have a great day and
CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS MEN’S 1. Colorado 2. Stanford 3. Portland 4. Northern Arizona 5. Syracuse
SCORE 65 98 175 188 206
WOMEN’S 1. Michigan State 2. Iowa State 3. New Mexico 4. Georgetown 5. Arkansas
SCORE 85 147 188 189 209
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
compete against everybody at their best,” Hopkins said. “When somebody [is] struggling, you do whatever you’re capable of doing to help.”
Bartnik wraps up season at NCAAs
Redshir t junior Aaron Bartnik capped off a muchimproved season with a 135th-place finish at the NCAA championships. “I was disappointed. I didn’t accomplish what I wanted to accomplish,” Bartnik said. Bartnik was the lone Gophers runner competing at the meet, and he said the competition would have been better if the team had been there. Head coach Steve Plasencia said Bartnik was feeling a bit ill prior to the race, which may have aided in his poor race performance. “Anytime things don’t go the way you want them to go, you’re searching for answers. I don’t think there was any one thing you could put your finger on. Anytime you get into the NCAA championship for the first time, it’s a different experience,” Plasencia said. Bartnik said the competitive field also contributed to his finish. “When I went in today not bringing my ‘A’ game, it definitely showed. The depth of the field definitely made my poor race look even worse,” Bartnik said. Though he’s disappointed with how he ran, Bartnik said wants to take direction from the race and apply it to his races going forward. “My biggest takeaway is to know that things aren’t always going to go my way. You have to accept that and just know that not every race is going to be your best race,” Bartnik said.
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SWIMMING & DIVING
Gophers face Olympians
The Arena Grand Prix series kicked off in Minneapolis at the Aquatic Center. BY DANNY CHEN dchen@mndaily.com
Olympians filled the pool at the University Aquatic Center over the weekend, and some Gophers swimmers held their own against them. The Arena Grand Prix at Minneapolis drew Olympians T yler Clar y, Nathan Adrian and Elizabeth Beisel, to name a few. Clar y won three individual events on the men’s side, while Beisel won three of her own.
In the women’s 200-yard breaststroke, junior Kier ra Smith broke the school record in the pr eliminaries Satur day mor ning with a time of 2:05.89. Later in the finals, Smith broke her own record, finishing first in the race with a time of 2:05.12. She beat out Olympian Caitlin Leverenz, who took third place in the finals. “In the finals, it was so exciting,” Smith said. “[My] team was all there suppor ting me and cheering me [on]. It just felt really fun to race it and really fun to be here with them. I am glad that I had the opportunity.” Head coach Kelly Kremer said Smith’s first-
place finish was due to her preparation for the event. “I think it’s a real confidence booster for her to have a plan [and] to execute a plan,” Kremer said. “To really put up a time [like that] … at this time of the year is really good. She’s right on track to do the type of things that she wants to do.” Fellow Gophers swimmer freshman Brooke Zeiger also had a solid weekend at the Grand Prix. In the 400-yard individual medley preliminaries, Zeiger finished second and came just shor t of breaking the school record. “It was an exciting perfor mance,” she said. “I was really surprised of the
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Olympic gold medalist Tyler Clary swims in the 400-yard individual medley on Thursday evening. The U hosted the USA Swimming Grand Prix at the Aquatic Center over the weekend.
time when I hit the wall. I felt really relaxed going in to it, and I wasn’t caught up in a stressful plan. I kind of just swam without
any negative thoughts in my head. [Overall], I was really happy with myself.” Zeiger later finished fourth in the finals, recording
a time of 4:09.42. On the men’s side, Jakub Maly took fourth in the 200- and 400-yard individual medley finals. He competed against Olympians T yler Clar y and Conor Dwyer in the 400, and then Darian Townsend and Dwyer in the 200. “I was quite happy with [my] races,” Maly said. “I think I did a good job, especially on the strokes that I need to improve on. The [Grand Prix] is like a test meet for the worlds in two weeks.” Maly was refer ring to the FINA swimming world championships in Qatar, which Clar y will also attend. Clar y, who won a gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics in the 200-meter backstroke, said he enjoyed his time in Minneapolis. “It’s good to be here this year,” Clar y said. “[Minneapolis] always throws a good meet, and all the fans that we have in the stands are ver y avid. It’s cool to have ever yone here.”
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itself for future opponents that will challenge them on the glass. “We’ve obviously got outstanding rebounders on our team. I thought that they were just a little bit quicker to the ball. Certainly we’ll continue to work on that area,” Stollings said. Senior for ward Shae Kelley said the team has room to improve its rebounding. “We just have to find bodies and really box out. We definitely have rebounders. We just need to find those bodies and key in on people so we can grab those boards,” Kelley said. The Gophers defensively caused chaos for Memphis in the second half, and the Tigers finished shooting 32.4 percent from the floor. Banham said the team’s defense was what helped it stay in the game. “I thought we played much better defensively than we have in the past. I think we disrupted a bit. We were really tough on them, and it made them uncomfortable,” Banham said. The Gophers struggled scoring of f the bench, totaling only seven points, all from junior Kayla Hirt. Kelley turned in an allaround per formance for the Gophers, coming away with 20 points and eight rebounds in a game-high 38 minutes. “[I had to] kind of lead the team verbally and lead by example,” Kelley said. The Gophers were without starting guard Shayne Mullaney, who Stollings said didn’t travel with the team due to an injury. Her replacement, junior Mikayla Bailey, gave the team an additional scoring presence from beyond the arc, tying a career-high in 3-pointers with four. Stollings said the ability of the Gophers’ bench to give them a physical presence on the court was helpful in the victory. “I’m just so proud of our bench for stepping up and helping us stay poised,” Stollings said. She also said the team impressed her in its first road game. “I thought we handled the adversity of our first r o a d t r i p b e a u t i f u l l y, ” Stollings said.
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
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Thursday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
Today’s Birthday (11/24): Travels, studies and exploration call you out this year. Plan your itinerary. Practice and gain skills, abandoning worn-out tricks (for a year beginning on 12/23). Learning comes easily.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written by Nancy Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — The next two days favor a rise in your professional status. Associates boost your morale. Get back to work! You can get what you need.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — A home project grows bigger than imagined. Find what you need in your own closets or attic. You’re good at solving problems.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Figure out the budget, so you can take off on a trip. The data tells you a story. New opportunities present themselves.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — You’ve got the talent; now do the homework over the next two days. Soak up information like a sponge.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You gain a financial advantage. Collect data for review. Talk about the numbers with your partner. Make a commitment.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Crank up the action and you can earn more today and tomorrow. Pay expenses before divvying up the loot.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — A good coach makes learning much easier. Everything gets farther with teamwork over the next few days. Everything seems possible.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Make future plans. You’re extra confident today and tomorrow. You’re getting stronger (and more impatient). Start out now.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Focus on the fun side of your job. Go for the gold. It’s another busy day, and your work’s in demand. Don’t hesitate to enlist assistance.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Private plan proceeds on course. You personal vision is right on the money. Meditate in seclusion. You’re extra sensitive now.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow bubble with fun. It could even get profitable. Play with a talented and competent team and improvise together.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Your career benefits from social interaction and networking today and tomorrow. Accept encouragement.
Monday, November 24, 2014
from the archive
Monday, November 21, 2005
From StrawLana
Network!! Net: What!?! What’s up brah? Net: Ah, you know … maxin’ and relaxin’. I just want to say to WhiningHungryPerson: if you worked at UDS (much less in Centennial), would you be very cheerful? Net: That depends. Would there be prescription drugs involved? Wouldn’t you want to shoot everyone who came to eat? I’m sure there are plenty of douchebags who roll through there every day. Net: Poppycock. There aren’t any douchebags on this campus. Least of all in the dorms. And to Slanted&Enchanted: that’s statutory, brother. Net: A wiseman once told us: “If there’s grass on the field, play ball.” Then again, he’s doing 25 to life at a federal pound-me-in-theass prison. Watch yourself. Oh, and a shout out to the mighty SSC for the rail jam they put on. Midwest represent. I’m out like your mom.
From Fox9isSweet
Dude! Net: Dude? Did you catch Fox 9’s latest investigative report? Net: Nope. We were far too busy with more important matters; such as organizing our vast sock collection by thickness and color. Cold pizza. Net: The breakfast of champions. Leftover lasagna. Nothing is safe from these break room bandits... Personally, my mind is finally at rest knowing that my tupperwarecontained lunch will be safe from thieving coworkers. I can’t imagine a better way to spend 15 minutes of my life than being educated about this dangerous epidemic. Net: A few things come to mind, but doing tequila shooters with Jack Black tops our list. And I don’t know about you, but I think I smell a Pulitzer... Net: No, that’s just the week-old meatloaf in your fridge. In all actuality, however, I’d probably rather spend my post-primetime evening watching The Insider. Or better yet, we should go back to the age before Ron BurHEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:
gundy-esque news anchors were hilariously ironic, before the local news was forced to weather Ronald Reagan’s kick-me-in-the-balls 80’s. I love you, Robin Robynson. Net: Your love is wasted our friend. For she has but one passion: jewelry making. Look it up.
From Duncan Zydeco
Network, didja have a good weekend? Net: Well, let’s just say we’re out a kilo of coke, a case of vodka, and a there are two comatose hookers on our couch. Hey Fanatic, I’m sure it has been really hard to be a Packers fan over the last decade. Net: That’s what beer was invented for. We will see what happens to your fan base after Brett Favre receives a career ending MCL tear tonight! Net: Better to burn out than to fade away. Even if that doesn’t happen there is no chance of Favre sticking around after this year is over. Net: That’s what you think. If he backs out of his lifetime contract, he has to give the Packers his first born child and three hundred cases of High Life. Besides, what’s he going to do with his time? It’s not like he can tour the lecture circuit or anything. The Packers will be at the bottom of the division with Detroit once he’s gone. Oh, and just because the Sconnie colleges suck so bad y’all have to come here, doesn’t mean the unusually high numbers of Packer fans are distributed across the country. Packers NUTTing suck.
From Doodie
I just want to say that I agree with Slanted&Enchanted one-hundred percent. Hermione is hott. “Goblet of Fire” was kickass. I saw, I came, I laughed, I cried. In that order to. Net: That’s just gross. My date even enjoyed it. Net: Sorry, but your grandma doesn’t count.
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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 55 November 21, 2005 Dearest Dr. Date,
I have quite the problem. I’ve been dating this guy for a little while; he’s cute, smart, sweet, very into me, and amazing in bed. The only problem is we don’t spend enough time in the sack. It’s already been a few weeks and the future doesn’t look too promising. He’s incredibly busy with school and neither of our living situations make for a good place to get busy. And a girl has needs, you know? I’m beginning to think maybe I should scrap the monogamy and get myself taken care of. Would it be a mistake to leave such a great guy just because we don’t spend enough time between the sheets? Or should I suck it up and replace the batteries in my vibrator — again?
— Clearly the guy in this relationship
Dear Clearly the guy in this relationship,
It’d be easy to say a relationship can’t survive without the physical aspect. And that if this dude isn’t taking the time to tend to your knitting, as it were, then you should ditch him. But the fact that you don’t have time to get down (or get off) might touch on a greater issue of the two of you not having enough time together. If you don’t have the time to indulge your primal urges, who’s to say whether you’ll have the time to indulge your emotional, personal, sentimental, etc., urges? So methinks this one’s up to you. Are you craving so hard for a hard-on that you’d risk your relationship? I know as well as anyone that a woman has needs, but if this dude’s the man (who’s the man?) with the master plan in the bedroom, and he’s a good boyfriend to boot, maybe you should replace those batteries. In the meantime, sit this baller down. If he’s as good at the old hot-and-sticky as you claim, tell him. Maybe the fact that you appreciate his bumpand-grind so much will be incentive enough to keep him come-ing back, on the regular. And if he doesn’t, and you feel like you’ve had enough (or should I say not enough?), I’m sure you can find some other fella to fill that void.
— Dr. Date
Dear Doc,
I have a really strange problem. I am not usually very sexually driven, but there’s this thing about guys with beards that gets me all riled up! This is not usually a problem, but now that it is getting cold out guys are starting to let their facial hair go a little more, and I am going crazy. The big problem is there is a hunk that is in studio with me, and he’s been growing this amazing beard. It looks so good. I want to ask him out, but only because of his beard. What should I do, ask him out, or just wait for him to shave his fuzzy face so I can cool off?
— red-haired love quest
Dear red-haired love quest,
The Good Doctor shares your love of beards. The skill and poise with which a man shaves, cares for and carries his beard is the sexiest thing on the planet. If I could bottle that raw, animal sexuality and sell it on the black market, I’d be a billionaire (I hit millionaire status a few years back through an elaborate pyramid scheme). I say ask the fella out, many girls are frightened by the sexual potency of a man with a beard (or maybe it’s because he looks like he’s got a ferret wrapped around his mouth); the fact that you embrace it will send this guy reeling. Let him know who your favorite bearded bandit is as a conversation starter. I say, Castro, Grizzly Adams or Al Gore. But that’s just me.
— Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
There is a guy in my life whom I care about greatly. We met at a few parties and slept together well before we knew much about each other. For well over a year, we slept together on a regular basis, but never really defined what our relationship was. Our relationship has always had a lack of clear communication. We even moved into the same place. Recently, he was deployed for military service, and the night before he left there was a party, and drunkenness ensued, and I ended up becoming a ridiculous crying machine and told him how much I loved him and that he meant everything to me. The night continued on, except with more hugging and general closeness with him, and we slept together before he left for the airport. Since then, things between us have gone on as normal. I send him letters, and he calls me, and we talk just like nothing has changed between us. However, I have put the L-word out there, and yet there has been no further discussion. Do I just go with the flow and let things carry on as they are, or do I bring up his last night here? I don’t want to pine away and wait for him to come home only to discover what I said meant nothing. Thanks,
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Lack of Communication With My Soldier Dear Lack of Communication With My Soldier,
Growing up, you usually don’t envision confessing your deep, loving passion for someone and having them return your sentiments with a nice, hearty, “thank you!” But the reality is that’s often the case. And it happens for a number of reasons. Maybe it caught him off guard, or maybe he was skittish about starting something before he left, or maybe, just maybe, he wasn’t really ready to have those sorts of feelings with you, or anyone. Either way, you have to appreciate the fact that he didn’t just say it because you did. So often people can feel pressured into telling someone they feel a certain way just because that’s what’s expected. I’m not sure how long he’s going to be gone, but maybe this is something that shouldn’t be tackled by way of letter or long-distance phone calls. I’m sure what you said didn’t mean “nothing” to him, but I say continue the relationship you have and see what happens when he gets back.
— Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
I am a male and sometimes I am attracted to men. I don’t like that — I want to be a straight guy like other men, so what am I going to do? I don’t want to let that happen; I am confused. I’ve never been with a guy before but why am I attracted? Sometimes I don’t get it. I am attracted to girls more than men. I don’t know what has got into me.
— confused
Dear confused,
I basically have to tell you two things: The first is that it is totally fine if you are attracted to guys. You don’t have to feel bad about that; it may be happening just because that’s the way you are. Second, if you really feel uncomfortable about it, you do not have to act on it. Just because you are attracted to men doesn’t mean you have to date them if you don’t want to. Either way, just do whatever feels right and what you are comfortable with, and you will be OK.
— Dr. Date
Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
Dr. Date,
For my entire life, I have been pretty content with flying solo. I’ve never had a serious girlfriend, and up to this point, I have been completely comfortable with that. However, more recently I’ve realized that I am starting to want a relationship. What makes it worse is that everyone around me is in a serious relationship, and it makes me feel like I am missing out on something. The problem is that without ever having been in a serious relationship, I feel like there is a lot I am unaware of. I don’t know how to go about starting a serious relationship, and I continue to have second thoughts as to whether I even want one. I am really confused, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.
—Lost and Confused
Stop Looking for Love,
The key to entering a serious relationship is not looking for one. Don’t spend your time trying to find the perfect person, because that’s a lot of pressure. Steer your focus away from finding a potential mate, and aim to enjoy people on a human level. There’s no checklist of what to do to net a significant other, so start asking out girls who you’re interested in. If you experience rejection, that’s OK; it means you’re one step closer to a “yes” than you were before because you put in the effort to try and make it happen.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I wish that I had Jessie’s girl. And by “wish” I mean “wished.” And by “had” I mean “have.” Sorry, that was just a quasi-witty intro to my self-inflicted dilemma. My roommate’s girlfriend is cheating on him … with me. The worst part is that he found my sweatshirt that I left in her room last weekend. I think he’s suspicious but still seems friendly. The lie is killing me, and I need to confess. She wants to wait
until they can have the “talk” — something that was supposed to happen a month ago. Please help, Dr. Date!
—I Want to Make Her Mine
These Are My Confessions,
Let his girlfriend confess first. You knew you were getting into risky business when you began your affair with her, but it was ultimately her decision to cheat, so she should deliver the news to your mate. No doubt he’s going to be angry, and there will probably be a strain on your relationship for the remaining time you live together. Use this as a lesson to not meddle in other people’s relationships again, and that sometimes it’s OK to resist temptation when the stakes are high.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I’m not interested in anyone at the moment, but I’ve still found myself in a pickle: Every time I start getting feelings for a girl and I get the feeling that she likes me too, she puts me in the friend zone. I just don’t get it. I’m not a bad-looking guy, I’ve got smarts and I’m funny. What do I keep doing wrong? How can I escape the “friend” tag?
—Anonymous
The Friend Zone Is False,
Try not to focus too hard on the ins and outs of the friend zone. Girls either are or aren’t interested in you. You sound like you’re nervous when asking girls out — being calm and assertive instead of uncertain and awkward is a good rule of thumb. That said, being able to do that is the result of practice — becoming a smooth operator doesn’t happen overnight. Keep playing up your good qualities and taking chances. You may stumble some more, but there will be successes along the way.
—Dr. Date
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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UNIVERSITY-AREA PROPERTIES DEEMED ‘PROBLEMATIC’ BY THE CITY
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620 11th Ave. SE Owner: Mulberry Street, LLC Five police calls, including two citations for disruptive parties, one of which had consumption of alcohol by minors. A letter of non-compliance for violating rental licensing standards regarding delinquent taxes.
Minneapolis targets problem properties Landlords u from Page 1
The owners responsible for the Good Cause list’s 124 proper ties will be denied the chance to add to their rental por tfolios until they address lingering issues on their existing properties, said JoAnn Velde, the city’s deputy director of regulatory services. “It star ts really growing as far as our resource level,” she said. “That is the whole idea here, to tell owners, ‘You can keep your r ental pr oper ties right now — but we don’t want you to add anything new.’ ” For owners to make the Good Cause list, their property must accumulate a certain amount of points for of fenses ranging from unpermitted work or illegal occupancies to police
calls made to an address. S i n c e m i d s u m m e r, the city has been combing through about 23,000 rental proper ties and two years wor th of inspection records, keeping a sharp eye out for real estate that could make the list, said Narin Sihavong, project coordinator for regulator y services.
The best, the worst and ever ything in between
Of the eight University-area “problem proper ties,” three are in Marcy-Holmes, four are in Southeast Como and one is in Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Three belong to either Douglas Doty or Wallace Sax, who are related. Doty declined to comment for this story. Dane said in the past, he has helped Doty’s
former tenants take their landlord to cour t. Dane said he wasn’t surprised to see Doty made the most recent Good Cause list. “Those properties have been on the radar — and to be perfectly honest with you, they’ve got in such poor condition that students aren’t going to rent them,” he said. “They had significant issues, including a ver y significant cockroach infestation.” Doty and Sax — who have had a rental license revoked as recently as Februar y 2014, Sihavong said — have been involved in 17 housing-related court cases since 2004. Harrison Berg, a 2013 alumnus, took Doty to court in 2012. In June 2011, Berg and a friend moved into one of Doty’s properties on Como Avenue Southeast. They approached USLS
after Berg and his friend noticed a broken window and cockroach infestation and, at Dane’s suggestion, had a health inspector review the home. “He came in and saw that the whole place was just like disgusting,” Berg said. Berg said Doty refused to follow the health inspector’s order to contract an exterminator, and instead “went around the apar tment pretending to spray for like bugs.” He said they then went through a legal process he described as self-eviction and moved out after about six months of living at the property. Another addr ess included in the November version of the Good Cause list, owned and inhabited by Eugene Buell, landed there because of two letters of non-compliance for
Lawsuit: Crosiers hid priest’s past BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — A lawsuit filed Thursday by four men who say they were molested by a priest in the 1970s claims a Catholic order created a public nuisance when it failed to warn families that the priest could pose a risk. It was one of two lawsuits filed Thursday in Minnesota against the Crosier Fathers and Br others and the Rev. Gerald Funcheon, who worked in suburban Minneapolis, among other places, and has admitted to abusing minors. The lawsuit alleges the Crosiers are putting the public in danger by concealing the histories of accused priests, and it seeks the full disclosure of accused priests’ files. A similar public nuisance claim against the Archdiocese of St. Paul
and Minneapolis has led to the unprecedented disclosure of tens of thousands of church documents and the names of dozens of accused priests. That lawsuit was recently settled in an agreement that outlines protocols to keep children safe. Mike Finnegan, an attor ney for the plaintif fs, says the Crosiers have shown some willingness to disclose information on their own and as par t of a prior settlement in 2009. The hope, he said, is that they will decide to release the files voluntarily. In a statement Thursday, the Crosiers said they take the claims seriously. “The Crosiers do not tolerate any forms of sexual misconduct, and we are profoundly sor r y for actions committed by Gerald Funcheon while he was a member of our Order,” said the Rev. Thomas
Enneking, prior provincial of the Crosier Fathers and Brothers. Funcheon’s attor ney didn’t retur n a message seeking comment. Finnegan said Funcheon has ser ved in eight states: Minnesota, Nebraska, Indiana, Florida, Hawaii, California, Missouri and Texas; and had more than a dozen assignments. Funcheon was never charged but has been the subject of prior lawsuits, and his ministr y was restricted in 1993. Finnegan said Funcheon admitted in 1992 that he might have as many as 50 victims. During a sworn deposition on Sept. 18, 2012, which Finnegan’s law firm edited and posted on YouTube, Funcheon admitted to far having less. At first he estimated he abused a dozen kids, and when pressed, he said: “I couldn’t count them up. I don’t know — I’ll go to 18.”
In the latest lawsuit, the four men claim they were 11 to 14 years old when they were molested by Funcheon at St. Odilia Catholic Church and School in Shoreview between 1970 and 1974. The claim alleges the Crosiers should have known F u n c h eon mol es t ed a t least one child at a camp in Syracuse, Indiana, in 1965. It also says the religious order failed to tell law enforcement, allowing Funcheon to avoid prosecution and continue abusing kids. In the other lawsuit filed Thursday, one man alleges Funcheon abused him in 1985, when he was a student at Palma High school in Salinas, California. That lawsuit alleges the Crosiers knew Funcheon was a danger and r epeatedly moved him from place to place because of complaints.
White Bear Lake student dies after accident BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHITE BEAR LAKE, Minn. — A White Bear Lake High School student has died, 11 days after being injured in some sort of accident on school grounds. A letter sent to parents on Friday said Sawyer Moeller was a freshman at White Bear Lake’s Nor th Campus. He died Friday after being injured Nov. 10. A police statement issued Saturday said of fi-
cers arrived at the school about 4:15 p.m. on Nov. 10 to find a boy who appeared to have a neck injur y. The officers saw a red mark or abrasion on his neck and administered CPR until medical personnel arrived and took him to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, it said. The statement said there were no witnesses, but that the preliminary investigation indicated it was an accident. Capt. Dale Hager told The Associated Press on
Saturday that police can’t release more details on the accident until they hear back from the medical examiner. He didn’t have Sawyer’s age. Hager said fur ther information likely would be released Monday. The letter to parents included advice to parents on how to help their children cope with the grief, and said grief counselors are available to students. It also said Sawyer will live on
through organ donation. Sisloob Lo, who is also a freshman at White Bear Lake, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis that he met Sawyer through their middle school musical last year. “He was a great choir kid,” Lo said. “He was also one of the greatest crew members the theater program could ever have.” A picture shows Moeller per formed in “Fiddler on the Roof” in middle school.
instances of unpermitted work and delinquent taxes. Buell, who rents out par t of the proper ty, said he never received his two letters of non-compliance and that the unpermitted work stemmed from an attempt to fix up his porch on the cheap. “I don’t want to build a 27-stor y house,” he said. “I just wanted to fix my porch.” Buell said while he was somewhat surprised to have made the Good Cause list, he said he has already met with regulator y ser vices. There, he said, city of ficials guided him toward remedies for the cited problems and of fered him courses on how to become a better landlord. Since Buell has begun cor rective conversations with the city, he said he is essentially on probation.
“If I get another trash ticket, I’m in trouble,” he said. Dane said the city’s list of eight proper ties is not indicative of a widespread problem in University neighborhoods. “We have some of the ver y best landlords in the University area and some of the worst — and ever ything in between,” he said. Velde of regulator y services said the Good Cause list has its faults. For example, she said, it can’t pinpoint proper ties that fall just under its sevenpoint requirement. “Have we captured ever y problem in the city? Absolutely not,” she said. “There are proper ties out there that are at six points or at five points or are on their way up there — but we, as a gover nmental agency, have to create a criteria that is defendable.”
New deportation deal localized for Minn. immigrants BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
S T. PA U L — T h o u sands of immigrants living in Minnesota illegally are awaiting more details about how to obtain new protection from deportation under President Barack Obama’s executive action. State agencies that administer health, tax and public safety functions are likewise studying the implications.
Population profile Minnesota has a relatively small number of people not authorized to be in the countr y legally. Estimates put the population at between 90,000 and 95,000 as of 2012. The Washington, D.C.-based Migration Policy Institute projects that about onethird of them were living with a child who has U.S. citizenship or permanent status, par t of the criteria Obama is instituting for granting temporar y relief from potential depor tation. About 65,000 had lived in the countr y at least five years, which is another eligibility benchmark. More than half were bor n in Mexico. T wothirds were holding down jobs.
Proceeding with caution
Immigration advocacy groups expect some people who could qualify for the
relief will remain in the shadows. While Obama produced an outline of his plan, the technical details will be key. It is expected that applicants will be subject to background checks and will need to supply proof of their living and family status — perhaps through school transcripts, rental records or pay stubs. Not ever yone who applies will be approved and those on the edge might fear repercussions from stepping forward. “There will be people who fit in who don’t decide to do it because of the risk, the uncer tainty and because they’re not sure about what will happen after President Obama,” said John Keller, executive director of the Immigration Law Cen ter, a nonprofit that provides legal ser vices to immigrants. Once Obama leaves office, the next president could reverse course.
Role for the state Enforcement of immigration laws is the federal government’s responsibility, but state ser vices often come into play. Immigrants living in Minnesota without proper documentation don’t qualify for cash or food assistance in welfare programs, though some household members with legal status can get the benefit.