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Adrian Martinez rides the Green Line light rail in Minneapolis on his way to a day job on the early morning of Nov. 22. Martinez said he carries his belongings with him almost everywhere so he doesn’t have to pay $7 a day to secure them in a locker at a shelter. Photo by Bridget Bennett, Daily.
SCHOOLS STATEWIDE have very little data on homeless college students.This makes it HARD to helP them. -- bY bLAIR eMERSON
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fter a full day of studying or working, Adrian Mar tinez leaves school at about 5 p.m. each night to secure a space at a local homeless shelter. When Mar tinez migrated to Minnesota from New Mexico in 2004, he came fr om a family with a histor y of substance abuse. Now he’s going to Minneapolis Community and Technical
College so he can be a social worker and help youth and families dealing with addictions. He has lacked stable housing for three years. Mar tinez is not alone. Many lowincome and homeless students face extreme barriers to accessing and achieving success in college. But post-secondar y institutions statewide, including the University of Minnesota, don’t keep
data on how many students are homeless — a problem that many state and school of ficials say needs to be addressed if the schools are to help. A recent upward trend in homelessness has led to an increased focus on how policymakers, school leaders and youth shelters can identify and suppor t more homeless students.
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“We could do better at training faculty and staf f on how to tackle student issues,” said Amelious Whyte, the University’s senior associate vice provost for advocacy and suppor t. “Homelessness is something we need to look at more centrally.”
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U reacting Out of Iraq, research flourishes Wanted: equality of to online bathrooms attacks
Some students say the U needs more gender-neutral restrooms to make all people comfortable.
Data breaches at the school last year lost nearly 4,000 records, prompting new security efforts.
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reprieve from the violence plaguing his home countr y, where Matny said deteriorating security conditions impede the work of scientists. “Baghdad now is not secure,” he said. “When I contact my father, ever y time he tells me, ‘The security is not good. If you can, stay there [in Minnesota].’” Matny, an assistant plant protection professor at the University of Baghdad since 2006, said he is working to turn his Twin Cities visit into an extended stay to avoid such violence, and he hopes his family will eventually join him from Iraq. Currently,
Sarah Klyman searched the University of Minnesota campus to find bathrooms that weren’t designated for men or women. As a social experiment, the individualized studies junior limited herself to only using the University’s gender-neutral bathrooms for one day. But the task was more challenging than she expected. “It was exhausting,” Klyman said. “I had to plan my schedule around how I was going to be able to use the bathroom, which is a huge inconvenience that you don’t think about.” Though the University has some nongender-specific bathrooms sprinkled across campus, some students and faculty say the school needs to add more to make trans and non-gender-conforming people feel more comfortable on campus. Lars Mackenzie, who identifies as transgender, was part of an effort by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Programs Office’s Transgender Commission to create a map of all gender-neutral bathrooms on campus. The map includes more than 130 gender-neutral bathrooms on the Twin Cities campus. Though the map is a step in the right
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Incidents of cybercrime and data breaches have jumped in recent years — and higher education institutions like the University of Minnesota are responding. High-profile data breaches have hit several college campuses in recent years. And although they aren’t hackers’ top targets, some institutions, including the University, are evaluating their information security programs and determining how to minimize future breaches. The University’s information technology employees have presented to the Board of Regents for months, describing the network and efforts to protect the school’s information. For example, current policies require computers connected to the University network to have virus and malware protection software. Also, University community members can store the institution’s private data only on school networks unless they get prior approval to store it elsewhere. Despite these measures, the University faced 29 data breaches last year that resulted u See CYBERCRIME Page 4
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Assistant professor Oadi Matny stands inside the greenhouse where he works on the St. Paul campus on Tuesday.
A visiting researcher finds a better workplace at the University. BY PARKER LEMKE plemke@mndaily.com
During his six months at the University of Minnesota, plant pathologist Oadi Matny has had access to equipment, chemicals and facilities that, he said, far outstrip the laboratory resources available to him in his native country, Iraq. By using them, Matny has harnessed molecular tools and DNA sequencing techniques to study the genetic diversity of the soil-borne fungal pathogen Fusarium sp, a cause of crown rot disease that can attack the roots and seed spikes of wheat. His six-month visit has also meant a
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K I E V, U k r a i n e — Ukraine’s parliament approved the formation of a new government Tuesday, bringing an end to weeks of behind-the-scenes political wrangling following an October election that ushered in a group of pro-Western parties. The new Cabinet has come together as government troops and Russianbacked separatist forces agreed on a tentative ceasefire in one war-stricken region along the Russian border. That may provide much-needed breathing space to a national leadership that will have to work fast to keep the anemic economy from collapse. W ith the backing of parliament now secured, Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, 40, will continue in
a position he has occupied since February. Five political blocs, including Yatsenyuk’s Popular Front party, last month formed a parliamentary coalition that has vowed to enact an agenda of drastic economic and political reform. Ya t s e n y u k s a i d t h e countr y is exhausted and drained by war, Russian military aggression and political conflict. “The country needs radical changes and reforms,” he told parliament before the Cabinet vote. Tasks to be completed by the incoming government before year’s end include bringing in laws to give more budget-raising powers to local authorities and reducing the number of taxes, Yatsenyuk said. U.S. Vice President Joe Biden welcomed the formation of the new government.
“Today’s announcement on the formation of a new government sets the stage for the difficult but necessary process of implementing reforms and delivering results,” he said in a statement. “The United States will support Ukraine’s new government to stabilize its economy, strengthen democratic institutions, and fight corruption.” New Cabinet ministers include several figures who received Ukrainian citizenship by presidential decree, including Finance Minister Natalie Jaresko, an American with experience working for the U.S. State Department. Many of the ministers in the Cabinet retain their posts, including the foreign, defense and interior ministers. The incoming government has vowed to root out
cor r uption and re-orient Ukraine toward Europe. President Petro Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk have both said they eventually want to see Ukraine join the European Union and NATO. Approval of the Cabinet had been expected to sail through parliament. The vote was marred by some last-minute controversy, however, when a group of deputies demanded that ministers be approved on an individual basis. After hours of debate, the Cabinet was approved in the proposed form. The creation of an Information Ministr y, which is intended by the government to counter what it says is a campaign of anti-Ukrainian disinformation by Russian state media, has also been greeted with ample criticism.
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BRUSSELS — NATO nations on Tuesday agreed to bolster its defenses against Russian aggression, continuing the military alliance’s return to its founding mission by focusing on nearby threats as it steps back from more than a decade of combat in Afghanistan. The 28 member countries approved a new interim quick-reaction militar y force to protect themselves from Russia or other threats, with an initial unit to be up and running next year, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said. The interim force will be supplanted in 2016 by a permanent one, Stoltenberg said. “We are protecting our allies and supporting our partners,” Stoltenberg told reporters at an annual meeting of NATO’s foreign ministers. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged diplomats from other nations to contribute their fair share to the alliance, noting “we can’t have 21st century security on the cheap.” It was likely to be the last meeting of foreign ministers who oversaw the International Security Assistance Force, made up largely of NATO troops, which has sought to stabilize Afghanistan since shortly after the 2001 invasion. “In one way or another, we have been tested repeatedly by those who want to divide us, or to cause us to retreat from the basic commitments that we have made to one another — both within and beyond the NATO arena,” Kerry said. “These tests are difficult, and they will continue to be difficult in the new year. But history has shown just how tough the alliance of free nations can be.” The ministers also authorized the launch of an advisory mission in Afghanistan on Jan. 1, when NATO-led combat operations there are scheduled to end. “We are determined to master our destiny, to overcome our past,” Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said. The foreign ministers also approved maintaining measures through 2015 initiated to reassure NATO nations nearest Russia, Stoltenberg said. Such measures include stepped-up air patrols over the Baltic Sea and the continuous rotation of NATO military units in and out of countries like Poland and Baltic republics.
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VIENNA — Iran says that the UN atomic agency is out of line in pushing for new information on allegations that the country worked on nuclear weapons, and appears to serve notice that it will not cooperate with such an investigation. The probe is separate from newly extended talks between Iran and six world powers meant to reduce Iran’s technical capacity to make nuclear weapons by reconfiguring what it says are purely civilian projects. But its failure would throw hopes of a deal at the talks into doubt because the U.S. says an agreement can be reached only if the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency is satisfied with the probe and its final results. In its statement on the IAEA’s website, Tehran said the agreement signed last year with the IAEA did not include any pledges of cooperation by Tehran in any investigation of the alleged weapons work. “Iran has not recognized such irrelevant notions,” said the note dated Monday. In another indication that the newest probe would fail, the note repeated language Tehran used rejecting cooperation during past investigations. It said the allegations are based on “forged documents” and hinted they were the work of Israel or the U.S. Iran denies wanting — or ever working on — nuclear weapons and pledged late last year to cooperate with the latest effort by the U.N. atomic agency to investigate “outstanding issues.” But the statement, dated Monday, appears to reinforce what diplomats have told The Associated Press for months: The probe has fizzled after being launched early this year by the IAEA, which touted it as a potential breakthrough in a decade of failed efforts to follow up on the allegations. The IAEA sees the term “outstanding issues” as encompassing the alleged weapons work. But its requests for access to people, places and documents potentially linked to such activities, have been rebuffed by Iran.
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MSA passes sexual assault resolution The resolution maps out the group’s partnerships and plans for the spring. BY HALEY HANSEN hhansen@mndaily.com
Leaders of the Minnesota Student Association have plans to retur n to campus after winter break and tackle national issues in higher education. Along with promoting college af fordability and addressing stigmas surrounding mental health, the assembly passed a resolution at its final meeting of the semester Tuesday evening that formalizes its rollout of a sexual assault prevention and awareness platform next semester. While the group has been working on its sexual assault platform since the summer, MSA President
Joelle Stangler said, the resolution outlines its specific plans to par tner with the University of Minnesota to improve the campus’s climate. They plan to host educational programs and evaluate sexual assault policies. The resolution includes a plan to create a task force that partners with the University’s Of fice for Equal Oppor tunity and Af firmative Action to evaluate the implementation of an affirmative consent policy, which would potentially mirror California’s recently passed “Yes Means Yes” law. The law requires “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity.”
In emails, Jobs was determined to keep iPods Apple-only BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKLAND, Calif. — Legendar y Apple CEO Steve Jobs had seven words for a subordinate when he learned that a rival company was about to introduce a program that would let music fans buy songs anywhere and play them on Apple’s iPod devices. “We may need to change things here,” Jobs said in a terse, 2005 email that was shown to jurors in federal court Tuesday, on the opening day of trial in a billiondollar antitrust lawsuit that accuses Apple Inc. of using unfair tactics to maintain its dominance in the digital music business. Attor neys for an estimated 8 million consumers and iPod resellers say Jobs’ email spurred an internal campaign to keep Apple’s popular iPods free of music that wasn’t purchased from Apple’s own iTunes store. By updating the iTunes and iPod software to block music from competing online stores, Apple maintained a closed system that discouraged consumers from buying competing music players, plaintiffs’ attorney Bonny Sweeney argued Tuesday. That froze out makers of rival devices, and allowed Apple to sell iPods at inflated prices, she told jurors. Plaintiffs’ attorney Patrick Coughlin also showed jurors a 2003 email from Jobs, written about the launch of another competitor’s online music store, which said, “We need to make sure that when Music Match launches” their store, “they cannot use iPod.” Apple lawyers deny the company competed unfairly. Several high-ranking Apple executives are expected to testify during the trial. And while Jobs died in 2011, he is a central figure in the class-action case. Sweeney said she will show a video of Jobs testifying in a 2011 deposition later this week. A partial transcript of
that session shows Jobs asserting he couldn’t remember details of actions taken several years earlier, while also betraying signs of his legendar y impatience. In one exchange with attorneys, Jobs acknowledged that he helped write a press release statement that accused RealNetworks of “adopting the tactics and ethics of a hacker to break into the iPod.” Jobs’ statements have turned out to be pivotal in other antitrust cases that Apple has faced in recent years, including one in which a judge found Apple conspired with publishers to set e-book prices. In another, a federal judge cited “compelling evidence” that Jobs was a central figure in an alleged conspiracy by leading tech companies to abstain from hiring each other’s employees. A Stanford economist will testify later in the iPod trial that Apple overcharged iPod buyers by nearly $350 million. Under federal antitrust law, the Cupertino, California company could be ordered to pay three times that amount if jurors agree that Apple’s actions were anticompetitive. But attorneys for Apple said their own experts will testify that the plaintif fs’ economic analysis is deeply flawed. Apple lawyer William Isaacson also told jurors that Apple had legitimate competitive reasons to update its software with new consumer features as well as code that blocked music from other sources. Legitimate product improvements are allowed under antitrust law, regardless of their impact on competitors. The close integration between Apple’s iPods and its iTunes store allowed them to work better for consumers, Isaacson said, adding that software developed by rival music sellers such as RealNetworks could have posed a security threat to the iTunes software.
Another part of the resolution outlines the implementation of mandator y sex education that would focus on consent and additional bystander inter vention training for incoming University students. MSA communications director Drew Coveyou said MSA has worked extensively on the plans within the resolution. “We star ted working on this the day we took of fice in July,” he said. “I’m excited to really start working on some concrete ideas about how we can really get these messages to the broader campus community.” Stangler said MSA has been working with campus groups that focus on sexual assault prevention to ensure the organization’s ideas align with existing
school initiatives. The resolution maps out the group’s plan to coordinate with various groups on campus, including the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, T ransgender, Ally Programs Office and the Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education. Coveyou is leading one of three MSA task forces that will focus on policy changes, awareness and training ef for ts. He said MSA’s relationships with other groups have helped with developing the plans. “We need a lot of people on board if we want to make an impact on campus, and the way we do that is through relationshipbuilding,” he said. The resolution was written by a group of undergraduate and graduate students, including the
Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Council of Graduate Students leaders. GAPSA President Alfonso Sintjago, who co-authored the resolution, said GAPSA might introduce a similar resolution regarding sexual assault in the future.
State of the campus The final meeting also included the MSA president’s state of the campus address. During her speech, Stangler outlined key areas that MSA will focus on in the upcoming months. They included sexual assault prevention, college af fordability and mental health. Stangler also announced her plans to run for a second term next year.
FALL SEMESTER RESOLUTIONS AND POSITION STATEMENTS Resolutions • Student Group Space resolution • Trigger-Warning resolution • All-Campus Election Commission’s signature requirement resolution
Position statements • Syllabi release position statement • American Indian Student Cultural Center position statement on Washington football team SOURCE: MSA DOCUMENTS
“Ser ving a second term would help reset an organization that has struggled in recent years to retain senior members — something that is necessar y to make sure we’re as ef fective as possible.”
After leaving Iraq, researcher’s work flourishes at the University Matny u from Page 1
he’s set to go back this month. He returned in June to the U.S. — where he was born in 1977 and spent the first two years of his life — with the help of an Islamic Development Bank scholarship. “We were happy to welcome Oadi to our lab,” said Brian Stef fenson, a University plant pathology professor and Matny’s adviser.
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For professors in Iraq, Matny said, stress can result from threats to their lives and freedom. Last year, the Iraqi army arrested one of his coworkers who remains imprisoned without charge, he said. And earlier this year, another one of his colleagues — the dean of the University of Anbar’s agricultural college —
was killed by a car bomb, Matny said. “Having to deal with something like this — I can’t even imagine it,” Steffenson said. Lack of security also prevents scientists in Iraq from applying their research, Matny said. “This is a big problem in Iraq,” he said. “If you have some results, good results — you can’t applicate it in a farm.” Still, Matny said he hopes his r esear ch on plant pathogen diversity can help farmers in Iraq, wher e wheat impor ted for human consumption can sometimes introduce foreign diseases that local plants aren’t able to fend off. “When we impor t this wheat to Iraq, some farmers use [it] to seed [and] grow it in the farm — they don’t know it’s just for consumers,” Matny said of the seed that contains those pathogens. Matthew Mar tin, a lab manager and par t-time
plant pathology doctoral student at the University, said plant pathogens pose a par ticular challenge to farmers in developing countries. “It’s a big problem in certain parts of the world, where people can’t af ford fungicides and their resistance genes are no longer effective,” Martin said.
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As a dual citizen of the U.S. and Iraq, Matny is tr ying to obtain a sabbatical leave from the University of Baghdad so that he can retur n to Minnesota after leaving this month, Steffenson said. “He’s tr ying to see if ther e’s an oppor tunity for him here,” Stef fenson said. “He’s afraid for his family, you know. Who wouldn’t be?” Those who have worked in the same lab with Matny say they’ve appreciated his presence. “Oadi is a … self-capable person,” Mar tin said,
adding that he’s noticed Matny’s willingness to help others with their projects. “He comes in early in the morning, stays all day [and] leaves later than I do, usually.” University plant pathology r esear ch assistant Matthew Haas said he has enjoyed learning about his colleague’s homeland, as Matny often brings Iraqi food to lab meetings. Stef fenson said his department frequently hosts researchers visiting from foreign countries. “It’s a great way to exchange knowledge and link up and network with folks that are investigating similar things,” he said. “We learn a lot from the scientists coming here — I hope they learn something from us.” That networking takes place outside of the lab, too. “ We f o u n d o u t o n Wednesday that [Matny is] a pretty good bowler,” Stef fenson said. “I think he rolled the highest score among 10 of us.”
Michael Brown’s stepdad investigated for comments BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Police are investigating Michael Br own’s stepfather for angr y comments on the streets of Ferguson after a grand jur y decided not to indict the police of ficer who fatally shot his stepson, a spokesman said Tuesday. Officials want to talk to Louis Head about his comments as part of a broader investigation into the arson, vandalism and looting that followed the Nov. 24 grand jur y announcement, St. Louis County Police spokesman Brian Schellman said. T welve commercial buildings were destroyed by fire. Brown, 18, who was black and unarmed, was
killed Aug. 9 by Dar ren Wilson, who is white. Wilson, who resigned from the Ferguson depar tment last weekend, had told the grand jur y his life was being threatened, but some witnesses said Brown was tr ying to surrender. Video widely circulated after last week’s grand jur y announcement shows Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, on top of a car and breaking down as the decision blares over a stereo. Head, her husband, comfor ts her then yells angr y comments, including “Burn this bitch down!” Family attor ney Benjamin Cr ump has called the reaction “raw emotion,” but “completely inappropriate.” He did not
immediately retur n messages seeking comment Tuesday. Head has not yet been inter viewed by police, and there is no timetable for when the investigation will be complete, Schellman said. He declined to discuss what specific charges Head could face. A message left with a spokesman for St. Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch was not immediately returned. Ferguson Police spokesman Jeff Small said that depar tment is not conducting a separate investigation of Head. Most of the violence occurred in the first two days after the announcement. Peaceful protests have continued, including one T uesday involving
students who walked out of classes from three Ferguson-area high schools. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that teachers joined the students and the Ferguson-Florissant School District provided buses to pick them up and retur n them to classes by mid-afternoon. It was their first day back in class after Thanksgiving break was extended a day due to bad weather M o n d a y, w h e n s i m i l a r walkouts were staged across the countr y. While daytime protests continue, nighttime demonstrations have waned. There were 124 arrests in Ferguson in the five days following the grand jur y announcement, but none since Friday.
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in the loss of more than 3,800 personal records. Other higher education institutions have experienced breaches that were far more severe and led to the exposure of hundreds of thousands of records. In Februar y, a system breach at Indiana University uncovered the personal information of 146,000 students and recent graduates from across seven campuses. In that same month, the University of Mar yland fell victim to a breach that leaked more than 287,000 records of students, alumni, staff and faculty members. At Indiana University, the majority of breaches are simply instances of security holes where outsiders could have accessed information, rather than planned attacks, said Mark Bruhn, the school’s associate vice president for public safety and institutional assurance. He said administrators and staff members are implementing new policies, like reducing the amount of technology departments use, to mitigate possible breaches. “Instead of eliminate, we’re trying to minimize the chances of those things happening here,” Bruhn said. As technology evolves and cybercrime becomes more advanced, protecting information has become a pressing issue, said Lillian Ablon, a researcher at RAND Corporation, a global
DATA BREACHES AT THE U IN 2013-14
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policy think tank. “We’re coming to this world where it’s not just computers connected to ser vers, but we have this world of devices,” she said. “That offers a greater attack landscape for potential attackers to go in through.” A recent RAND repor t shows that many cyber criminals target retail companies and financial institutions to collect credit card information and other information that can be easily monetized. But at higher education institutions, cyber criminals typically go after personal information, rather than that of credit cards, Ablon said. “When a university has been breached,” she said, “it is not so much a case of
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INDIANA UNIVERSITY February 2014
BETHESDA, Md. — Declaring the “fight is nowhere close to being over,” President Barack Obama on Tuesday heralded strides in the ef fort to confront Ebola in West Africa and in protecting the U.S. against the spread of the deadly virus. He said squelching the disease remains an urgent priority even if the American public’s attention has shifted elsewhere. “We cannot let down our guard, even for minute,” Obama said. “We can’t just fight this epidemic, we have to extinguish it.” Obama spoke after touring the National Institutes of Health in Washington’s Mar yland suburbs where he witnessed advances in Ebola-fighting research. He highlighted the NIH’s progress in developing an Ebola vaccine, calling the initial results “exciting” while cautioning that there are “no guarantees” about the vaccine’s ultimate success. NIH researchers last week reported that the first safety study of a vaccine candidate found no serious side effects, and that it triggered signs of immune protection in 20 volunteers. U.S. health of ficials are planning much larger studies in West Africa to tr y to determine if the shots really work. “No potential Ebola vaccine has ever made it this far,” Obama said. He prodded Congress to approve his request for $6.2 billion in emergency spending against the outbreak, urging lawmakers to act before they break for the holidays. “We can’t beat Ebola without more funding,” he said. “It’s a good Christmas present to the American people and to the world.” The public attention to Ebola by the president comes as Congress is assembling a massive spending bill to keep the government operating. But the legislation has become entangled with Obama’s
executive actions on immigration, which Republicans want to block. Any final spending bill is expected to contain a pared down version of Obama’s Ebola request. Obama asked for $2 billion for the United States Agency for Inter national Development, $2.4 billion for the Depar tment of Health and Human Ser vices, and more than $1.5 billion for a contingency fund, the first item that lawmakers would likely trim. The White House said T uesday that Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain, in an update to Obama, repor ted that the U.S. is better prepared to deal with Ebola at home and that administration ef for ts to confront the virus in Liberia, Guinea and Sier ra Leone are fur ther along than two months ago. Obama called attention to the administration’s announcement Tuesday that it has set up a network of 35 hospitals across the countr y to deal with Ebola patients. It also said that the number of labs that can test for Ebola has increased from 13 in 13 states in August to 42 labs in 36 states. The White House said the administration has also increased the deployment of civilians and militar y personnel in West Africa, bumping the U.S. presence to about 200 civilians and 3,000 troops. It said the U.S. has opened three Ebola treatment units and a hospital in Liberia. The upbeat White House repor t contrasts with an assessment from Doctors Without Borders, which said Tuesday that the international response to the Ebola crisis in West Africa has been slow and uneven. It said the international community has for the most part concentrated on building Ebola management structures, but most of the hands-on work is being done by local people, national governments and non-gover nmental organizations.
U responding to cybercrimes, data breaches
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interdisciplinar y work in a 2013 Graduate School interdisciplinar y interests survey. But meeting that demand requires resources. While interdisciplinar y initiatives like the commons have funds through this year, Field said it may be a challenge to secure future funding. The growth of the commons center and other interdisciplinary initiatives depends on how much money the Graduate School funnels into that type of work, she said. “I think depending on the success of our initiatives this year … that experience will help create a request for funding,” Field said.
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projects you’ll come up with.” Interdisciplinar y work is also essential to solving complex global challenges, Field said. The University’s strategic plan released this fall highlights the need to increase interdisciplinar y work in order to solve issues like food security and climate change. “The whole idea of global challenges really speaks to the importance of not only interdisciplinar y education but research,” Kreitzer said. Cross-field work is also an emerging trend in higher education, Field said. More than 60 percent of students expr essed interest in participating in
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A group of graduate students from academic fields across the University of Minnesota gathers twice a month in the Nolte Center with the aim of collaborating with people from outside their departments. Many people who study multiple subjects say this interdisciplinary work can be tough to do. However, the Graduate School has this year expanded its resources for doing so through programs like the
Interdisciplinary Commons, with a goal to increase the pool of students studying across disciplines. “There’s been a lot of concern of ‘How do we create incentives, and how do we remove barriers to make interdisciplinary work more ef fective and more possible?’ ” said Mary Jo Kreitzer, director of the University’s Center for Spirituality and Healing, which conducts health-related interdisciplinary research. The Graduate School created the Interdisciplinar y Commons because
funding inter disciplinar y graduate group competitions, which award groups of students, faculty and staf f members with similar interdisciplinary interests between $3,000 and $12,000 to tackle a crossfield question, Field said. Nicole Scott, a doctoral student who studies cognitive science, said working across disciplines with other students and faculty members helps develop fresh approaches to projects and research. “Getting your hands on as much information as possible and getting to know as many people as possible –– that’s what interdisciplinarity is all about,” she said. “You never know what kinds of
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students didn’t have a space to do their cross-departmental work, said Vicki Field, director of the Graduate School’s Office of Interdisciplinary Initiatives. The new program offers resources like research feedback and guest speakers for students interested in interdisciplinary work. The program is on a trial basis for this year, Field said, and will continue if the Graduate School includes funding for it in the budget request this spring. The school requested and received an $80,000 allocation to support interdisciplinary work for this year, which included funds for the commons, she said. The allocation is also
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The U’s Graduate School created the Interdisciplinary Commons this year to give students a space to collaborate.
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them being targeted, [but] more of a case of they happen to be insecure or be less secure.” Still, University of Minnesota officials are taking extra measures to address information security and have formed several new policies. To get an outside perspective, they’ve scheduled an external review of the school’s information security program that will offer recommendations on how to improve. Regents will discuss the findings at a May committee meeting. “This is an issue that the entire community is discussing,” said Brian Dahlin,
the University’s chief information security officer. To ensure that these new policies are properly implemented and that the University community is aware of them, of ficials formed a group of staf f, faculty members and administrators — called the Information Security Formal Community of Practice — to tackle information security and other issues. “With a topic like security, that’s a responsibility that we all share, and we all should be concerned about our information and data security,” said Gabe Garlets, University Services IT director and member of the group.
Adrian Peterson did not testify at appeal hearing BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Adrian Peterson did not testify at his appeal hearing Tuesday, according to a person familiar with the case. Peterson gave a statement, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither side is discussing the case publicly. Peterson left without comment after spending more than three hours at the hearing. His attorney, Jef frey Kessler, said only
that the hearing will continue Thursday. The proceedings were held before longtime hearing of ficer Harold Henderson. Peterson is seeking reinstatement after NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended him for the rest of the season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy. Peterson will not be considered for reinstatement before April 15. The 2012 NFL MVP hasn’t played for the Minnesota Vikings since Week 1 after he was charged with
child abuse in Texas. He was placed on paid leave while the legal process played out, and he pleaded no contest Nov. 4 to misdemeanor reckless assault for injuring his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch. The NFL Players Association called the punishment “unprecedented, arbitrar y, and unlawful.” The union is arguing that Peterson should get credit for time ser ved on the exempt list. The NFLPA submitted a tape of a conversation between Peterson and
Troy Vincent in which the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations tells Peterson he would be credited with time ser ved and receive a two-game suspension if he attended a disciplinary hearing Nov. 14 with Goodell. Peterson skipped that meeting. The union wants Henderson to compel V incent to testify Thursday. Vincent testified in Washington on Tuesday before a Senate Commerce Committee hearing about domestic violence in professional sports.
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Let local businesses extend their hours When city ordinances force businesses to close early, they miss opportunities to help out.
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f they don’t have special licenses, most Minneapolis businesses outside of downtown cannot admit patrons after 10 p.m. on weeknights or 11 p.m. on weekends, according to the current city ordinance. The City Council is voting Friday on an amendment to that ordinance. This amendment would allow businesses to keep their doors open later on 35 days out of the year, with closing times decided on a case-bycase basis. The proposed ordinance was originally designed to assist Minneapolis residents who are Muslim, so it allows 35 days of later hours to cover the season of Ramadan and a few extra days throughout the year. Businesses could potentially use these extra days for special occasions or celebrations when business may remain steady beyond standard closing times, like the Chinese New Year and the Zombie Pub Crawl. Businesses should close to the public overnight because nighttime is generally an inefficient and dangerous time for doors to be open. This city ordinance is intended
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to protect business assets by ensuring that they lock up at a reasonable time. However, when there is demand for later hours — such as during Ramadan — the city should work with its businesses to better reach the base of customers by allowing them to keep their doors open for longer hours. Deciding the new hour restrictions on a case-by-case basis would ensure that different businesses have their own opportunities to work with the city to agree on a schedule that works for customers, while also keeping businesses safe and profitable. Re-examining the successes and failures of those with exemption licenses annually would help signify if the additional hours have been profitable to the business. Even though businesses are already able to apply for extended hours on a conditional use permit, passing this amendment would standardize and simplify the process.
A Cedar-Riverside business shouldn’t have to apply for more than 30 exemptions to cover the entirety of Ramadan. A Cedar-Riverside business shouldn’t have to apply for more than 30 exemptions to cover the entirety of Ramadan. If the amendment does pass, it will be interesting to see how events play out. If businesses are successful in the late-hour exceptions they receive for Ramadan or other special happenings, they may petition for even more hours to maximize revenues — impinging on the original intent of the ordinance. Based on the interests of the par ties involved and the need of specific communities, I urge City Council members to approve this amendment and allow businesses to keep the lights on longer. With one of the state’s largest Muslim populations concentrated in Cedar-Riverside, businesses have much to gain if this amendment is passed. Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.
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Comments on ‘Support the fossil fuel divestment resolution’ The real impact here will be to deny access to energy for billions of the world’s poorest. And a city that is a stockholder in an energy company has a voice in that company. Sell out and you are nothing. Rolf Westgard via MNDaily.com
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Shop till you drop, or just wait?
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hen I was a 16-year-old, I eagerly agreed to wake up early to go shopping on Black Friday. I was unaware of just how many people would be at Target that morning. There were enough of them to make me feel claustrophobic, want to leave and never shop on Black Friday again. Other shoppers must have shared my sentiment, as Black Friday and Thanksgiving weekend sales fell by 11 percent this year. Big box retail stores like Best Buy need to realize what the rest of the population has realized: Thanksgiving is for friends and family — stores should save the sales for a later date. That later date could just be Cyber Monday. Online sales actually grew 8.5 percent this year, for a total of $89 billion. By having the same sales online as in stores, companies eliminate the competitive need to get in line four or five days early to beat the other shoppers to buy that $500 TV. Now, it’s simply a race of who has their credit card nearby. Alternatively, stores could spread out the sales. Wal-Mart spread its deals out over five days. Target also gave shoppers
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Voters call for middle ground It didn’t take long after the GOP took control of the Minnesota House for all the hand-wringing and fear-mongering to start about a house divided and the mayhem that will ensue. Calmer obser vers pointed out that voters decided to end complete Democratic control of state government. They must have found something amiss with one-party control. But rather than using the results as a wake-up call and learn what went wrong, the Democrats set up a scenario of preemptive blame. Immediately after the election, Gov. Mark Dayton warned about another shutdown if Republicans didn’t work with him. Later, he appeared a little more conciliatory but not much. “I’m not going to give up everything I believe in,” Dayton said. And he warned the GOP leadership to be more
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he Minneapolis City Clerk’s Office is encouraging the City Council to promote an initiative that would station professional translators at polling places. If the City Council agrees, it will propose the idea to the state Legislature when its session begins in January. Minneapolis currently provides voter information materials in four languages: English, Somali, Spanish and Hmong. Minnesota law also allows voters to bring an interpreter to the polls or to ask an onsite elections judge for translation assistance. However, Minneapolis doesn’t have enough elections judges to adequately meet ever y voter’s translation needs. To become an elections judge, one must fulfill a number of stringent qualifications. Additionally, by law, each polling site must have one judge from each political party. We would support a proposal to station interpreters at polling sites. Minneapolis is becoming more diverse, with linguistic and cultural minorities playing an increasingly important role in elections. Those opposed to the idea of professional translators argue that the state shouldn’t fund such a potentially expensive initiative. However, we believe it’s unlikely that many areas outside the Twin Cities metro would need to hire many interpreters. Beyond the metro area, costs would likely be minimal. Ultimately, we also believe that voters who cannot speak English may face obstacles before they even reach the polls. Therefore, to help increase voter accessibility, we urge lawmakers to consider what else could be done to help non-English speakers to vote.
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Calorie counts are worth a try
What other stock or financial item can get the same return on investment? Few, if any. Using the same money “gained” from divesting is rarely, if ever, going to produce the same return on investment because there are few other investments that could be made to replace it. That is why fossil fuel sees the investment, while wind and solar don’t. Those options simply cannot provide what is needed.
Natural gas, the highest consumed energy source in the state, is a necessity, especially with our terrible winters. Furthermore, we have two nuclear plants that already generate 21 percent of our energy in the state. Wind and solar will not even be able to get close to that amount of power. Sure, we can reduce coal consumption, but then we will need more nuclear facilities. The second-highest consumption is fuel for our vehicles. Divestment in energy companies will not change this.
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accommodating than they had been a couple of years ago. Hamline University political science professor David Schultz described to the Minnesota Daily the differences between the parties as an “ideological gulf” and said, “I think the potential is there for a shutdown.” Recently, Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk told Minnesota Public Radio that he feared a repeat of 1985, when there was a Democratic governor, a DFL Senate and Republican House. “I would characterize it as kind of a disaster. It did not go well.” In the coming weeks, we will find out how well this message was received as legislators begin to craft a two-year budget. A calmer Dayton said last week, “We’ll make that work because we need to for the sake of Minnesota. We’ll show Washington, D.C., how to do it right.” House Speaker-Designate Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, joined in that sentiment, saying,
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an early preview for discounts. Spreading out sales or pushing them back for a few days will also allow families to be families. Instead of rushing through Thanksgiving dinner and dashing off to the stores, families will be able to savor the meal and the time with their in-laws. Arguably, this is what Thanksgiving is all about. Retailers may not like the idea of pushing sales back, and I understand. Black Friday generates billions of dollars of revenue. It is hard to give up that opportunity. But spreading out the sales or pushing them back could potentially generate even more revenue. Americans want to shop on their own schedules, not those of stores. Martha Pietruszewski welcomes comments at mpietruszewski@mndaily.com.
The election was about governing; it was not about party dominance. “If we focus on the problems that Minnesotans care about, and we focus on real solutions that will solve those problems, I don’t see any reason why we would have a shutdown or why we wouldn’t be able to work very well together.” It would be folly for either party to believe voters would not see a government shutdown as a failure regardless of blame. The election was about governing; it was not about party dominance. Voters did not decide they wanted a shutdown; they decided they wanted a balance in government. They want both parties to find a middle ground — not a battleground.
estaurants and other locations will need to make calorie counts and other nutritional information more visible on menus, according to a recent announcement by the federal Food and Drug Administration. The new requirements extend existing rules to other venues where consumers purchase food, including vending machines and movie theaters. The new rules will take effect over the course of the next few years. The FDA says its rationale for extending calorie counts is that “posting calories … will fill a critical information gap and help consumers make informed and healthful dietary choices.” The effectiveness of calorie counts on menus is currently ambiguous. A Stanford University study indicated that displayed calorie counts on menus reduced people’s consumption of calories in food — but not beverages — by 14 percent. Other studies have found no significant effects. One major criticism is how expensive these changes will be to implement. Some estimates place costs for labeling and upkeep at nearly $1 billion — costs that would be passed to the customers in the form of higher prices. Although long-term research is still needed to determine whether providing calorie counts changes consumer behavior in any meaningful way, we don’t see a downside to making nutritional information available. Furthermore, it seems likely that the labeling costs are overestimated. A good compromise would be to test this policy in a range of locations to gauge its effectiveness. However, without clear evidence yet, we believe that the benefits of implementing the labels outweigh the potential drawbacks. 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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BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Adrian Martinez flips burgers at TCF Bank Stadium as part of a job that he has through a temp agency. He moved to Minnesota to pursue a career in addiction counseling. “I feel like I’m working at Wendy’s again,” Martinez said. “I came here to become a counselor, but now I’m back doing this again.”
INVISIBLE on campus h o m e l e s s FROM PAGE 1 tracking the unknown As the number of homeless Minnesotans grows, college students aren’t immune to the problem. A one-night study conducted by Wilder Research in October 2012 found a 6 percent increase in homeless adults, youth and children statewide compared to its 2009 report. White people make up the biggest portion of the adult homeless population. But Wilder Research found some racial disparities in its study, including an overrepresentation of black, American Indian and Hispanic people with housing instabilities. Mar tinez, who comes from an American Indian family, lived on a reser vation in New Mexico that was rife with poverty. Like many other students, Mar tinez relied on student loans to pay his living expenses in Minnesota. But he was evicted from his St. Paul apar tment when his financial aid was put on hold, forcing him to drop out of school and find a job. Whether Mar tinez’s story is an outlier or a common occurrence is unclear; data on homeless students in higher education is scarce. “What we do understand right now, at this point, is there aren’t a lot of postsecondar y institutions that actually track students who are homeless,” said Diane O’Connor, deputy commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. The little data that does exist suggests that between 3 and 5 percent of college students str uggle with episodic homelessness, according to the OHE. Homeless students face a number of challenges while pursuing postsecondary education. They are often unaware of suppor t available to them, including college advising and scholarships, according to the National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth.
The OHE held events in June and October with various institutions, shelters and organizations across the state to raise awareness of the issue. O’Connor said the state of fice is creating a campaign aimed at getting institutions to start thinking about tracking homeless students, and then perhaps designing specific services for them. The state’s plan to prevent and end homelessness was the driving force behind the events, she said. That plan, introduced in 2013, includes two goals: to prevent and end homelessness for families with children and unaccompanied youth by 2020, and to end homelessness for veterans and for people experiencing chronic homelessness by 2015. O’Connor, who helped draft the plan, said a group of stakeholders started to think about homeless students and youth who have aged out of foster care, are low-income and face other challenges while finding a place to live. But building awareness is just part of the issue. Jar rett Gupton, an assistant professor in the University’s College of Education and Human Development, researches how homeless and highly mobile youth navigate postsecondar y education during what’s known as their transition years — ages 15 to 24. He also studies the suppor t ser vices that colleges and universities offer those students. Gupton sur veyed higher education employees across the state last year between spring and fall, measuring how aware they were of support services offered to homeless students. The results of those sur veyed showed many of those employees were unaware of the resources their schools have available for homeless students. Most four-year schools said they don’t of fer resources to those students at all, Gupton said.
Struggling to stay in school University senior Faiza Hassan lived in campus dorms before she dropped out of school for a semester last year to find housing for her mother. She re-enrolled for the spring 2014 semester but
application and they would get back to me in a week or two, and I just remember thinking, ‘I still don’t know where I’m going to stay for a week or two,’” she said. “She made it seem so easy.” Hassan said she didn’t think housing would be so hard to find. Like many students often do, she stayed
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found herself homeless. Hassan recalls contacting the University’s Housing and Residential Life office to say she needed a place to stay. “I remember the housing lady told me — she was really nice, but she wasn’t exactly helpful — she told me that I could fill out an
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with friends until she could find a place to live. But she experienced some issues with the people she was staying with and instead spent most of her time sleeping in Coffman Union. This problem isn’t unique to the University. Homelessness also affects
students at Minneapolis Community and Technical College, where Mar tinez was enrolled before he lost his apartment. Many people who work with the homeless population say MCTC has one of the highest rates of student homelessness in the state. The college struggles to keep up with major housing and financial needs of many of its students, said Mar y Ann Prado, an adviser there who works with homeless students. Most of the school’s students come from urban neighborhoods or are immigrants or refugees, she said. An informal study conducted in 2010 found that 10 percent of student respondents were homeless or in need of food. And four years later, the need is still there, Prado said. “We have a lot of students that have housing-related issues, financing issues, obviously mobility issues,” she said, adding rent, food and child care to the overgrown list of student burdens. “We have so many needs.” Wilder Research found that 7 percent of homeless adults sur veyed in 2012 were enrolled in higher education institutions. Of those, 78 percent were in two-year college programs, 21 percent were in four-year programs and 1 percent were graduate students. Hassan was homeless for three months while enrolled at the University. She’s now found a job and an apartment, but she said homelessness could affect any college student. “This could happen to anyone — housing falls through for most college students. I just feel like it’s not a reliable thing,” she said.
a network of support Hassan managed to overcome her homelessness. But some University students who find themselves in similar situations may not know where to turn.
The University doesn’t have a specific staff member who solely works to help homeless students, said Whyte, who works in the Of fice for Student Affairs. The school also lacks data on how many of its students are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. Whyte said not knowing how many University students could be homeless is a problem, and the school needs data to properly assess the issue. “While I don’t have a real sense of the issue, I’m sure it is [one],” he said. Whyte said he’d like to work with students to address income, housing and food insecurity in the next year and a half. Possible solutions could include a University food shelf and an emergency loan program for students who need immediate financial support, Whyte said. The student affairs office would be the school’s means of providing suppor t to homeless students, Whyte said. But he said he would like all staf f and faculty members receive training in responding to the issue. Gupton, the assistant professor, agreed there needs to be more systematic training for dealing with homelessness. And he said it’s not an issue that the student affairs office should handle alone. “Given the diversity of the [homeless student population], we can’t always bet they will go to one person,” he said. At the same time, Gupton said the lack of a single point of contact at the school for homeless students means they’re passed from office to office. Gupton said he and the University’s Urban Research and Outreach-Engagement Center are currently evaluating nine principles of effective care and outreach to homeless youth adopted by many shelters in the Twin Cities. Stakeholders across the University want to know if they can translate those principles to training higher
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014 education professionals, he said, and what that training would look like. Amy Kampsen directs the University’s TRIO student support services, a federally funded program for low-income students who are firstgeneration college students and come from underrepresented backgrounds. Kampsen said she wants her program to work more with shelters and organizations to better connect students with ser vices in the Twin Cities. Her program currently includes five homeless University students, and in the past two to three years, the program has had only three or four homeless students recommended to it from other University offices. Gupton said he would like to see a pilot model on how to train University employees by fall 2015. “Yes, we are driven to discover — we do a lot of research, there’s teaching, there’s ser vice,” he said, “but supporting people to make sure they can stay and benefit from the University is a big part of what a lot of us do here.”
varied financial strains A lack of University resources to identify and track homeless students could mean the problem is bigger than it seems. For example, some
students find themselves homeless as a result of their sexual orientation or gender identity. A growing number of homeless youth identify as transgender, according to the Wilder research. Garrett Hof fman, a research assistant in the University’s Depar tment of Organizational Leadership, Policy and Development, works with some transgender students and serves as a resource for many of them. Hof fman said many transgender students face significant barriers to education, specifically financial ones. These monetary barriers can be even higher if the student wants to change genders through medical procedures. When Hof fman medically transitioned genders without insurance, the procedure and hormones cost more than $30,000, he said. These high bills are a reason some students choose to drop out while transitioning genders, he said. “When it comes to getting an education or purchasing hormones, people oftentimes will choose hormones,” Hoffman said. When Hoffman worked at the University of Missouri, he said he had a student named Kelly who came out as transgender to her family. The family responded by saying they would no longer pay for her education. Kelly then had to seek financial aid and didn’t have
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BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY In hopes of getting work for the day, Adrian Martinez checks in at TCF Bank Stadium on Nov. 22 in Minneapolis. Martinez works various temp jobs but is struggling to find permanent employment.
assistance from her parents, Hoffman said. This caused her to drop out for more than a year because she couldn’t afford to go to school. Many students, like Kelly, struggle after losing financial support from their families. For some, the end result leaves them homeless. Congress passed the College Cost Reduction and Access Act in 2007, making it easier for homeless students who lack financial
support from their parents or guardians to apply for federal student financial aid using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. The act expanded the definition of an “independent student” to include “unaccompanied homeless youth,” which it defines as a student who is 21 years old or younger or a student who is enrolled in high school when filling out the FAFSA.
BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Adrian Martinez walks over a bridge after leaving his shelter just after 6 a.m. on Nov. 22 near downtown Minneapolis. Residents of the shelter have to leave by 6:45 every morning.
addressing the issue Helping students who are homeless or low-income get into college is only part of the solution. O’Connor, from the state Office of Higher Education, said it isn’t enough for educators and policymakers to focus solely on whether low-income students enroll in college. It’s also important to track how they fare once enrolled, she said. “The main issue is keeping them in college until they complete, because if they don’t complete they’ve accumulated student debt, and they don’t have any additional credentials that might qualify them for jobs,” she said. “They’re actually almost in a worse place than if they hadn’t gone [to school] in the first place.” Although the state office doesn’t have any specific plans for future events aimed at tackling student homelessness, O’Connor said she hopes stakeholders will continue the conversation and get more Minnesota lawmakers involved. “We have an opportunity here because of the [federal and state focus],” she said, adding that it is important to get policymakers on board because they can allocate resources to address the issue. Cathy ten Broeke, director of Minnesota’s effort to prevent and end homelessness, said the state’s plan to stop homelessness was created to establish housing
stability for all Minnesotans, including college students. “If we want our kids to succeed in school and we want to build a stronger workforce — which obviously those two things are very connected — then we need to increase the housing stability of those students,” she said. In addition to creating more housing oppor tunities, ten Broeke said a crucial step to combatting the issue is educating more postsecondar y institutions about homelessness. Some students at MCTC are already working to support other students experiencing homelessness. Martinez is the co-founder of an MCTC student group designed to connect homeless students with resources on campus. The group, Students Against Hunger and Homelessness, gives donated food to students weekly and helps them find housing. “It is helping us to not be so much worried about ourselves,” Martinez said. SAHH members said they want to expand their outreach to other schools in the Twin Cities, including the University, to ensure all homeless students are aware of the resources and support services available. As for Martinez, he’s currently looking for a job so he can afford stable housing. He plans to re-enroll at MCTC as soon as possible so he can obtain his twoyear degree and begin a professional career.
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Daughter joins dad at U Caitlyn Merzbacher committed to play tennis for her father at Minnesota. BY SAM KRAEMER skraemer@mndaily.com
Head coach Chuck Merzbacher has had a particular talented tennis player on his recruiting radar since she was 8 years old. Merzbacher kept tabs on the tennis player as she competed throughout the years, knew she excelled in the classroom and, once he came to Minnesota, figured she’d be a nice addition to the Gophers. But when it came to recruiting her for the 2015-16 season, he did his best to distance himself so the recruit would make her own decision. Because the touted recruit is his daughter, Caitlyn, a two-time singles champion at Edina High School who is one of the best players in the state. Caitlyn Merzbacher committed to the University of Minnesota on Nov. 20. “I think I just wanted her to want to come to Minnesota on her own,” Chuck Merzbacher said. “My job was really to just say, ‘Caitlyn, go and
look, because you [already] know what’s here.’ ” So that’s what she did. Caitlyn Merzbacher looked at schools across the country. “It was kind of hard not to be biased toward Minnesota,” Caitlyn said. “I loved it so much as soon as I moved here. I tried to just have an open mind with the other schools.” After an official visit and a brief conversation with her dad, Caitlyn had a hunch that Minnesota was the right choice. But instead of calling her dad about her decision, she sent an email to him and associate head coach Whitney Taney to keep communication formal. “I wrote an email because if I talked about it with my dad or Whitney, I wasn’t sure how seriously they’d take it,” Caitlyn Merzbacher said. Her decision to stay close to home made her mother, Cherie Merzbacher, happy. Though she wasn’t involved in the recruiting process, Cherie hoped all along her daughter would play for the Gophers. “I stayed out of it and prayed that she was going to stay close to home,” Cherie said. She got her daughter a Gophers cake on the night
she made her commitment. And with the recruiting process completed, Caitlyn is now eager to play for her dad at Minnesota. “I’ve never had my dad for a coach in a team environment,” she said. “But I’m excited. He knows my game and how I like to practice … and I think that’s going to help a lot.” But she didn’t choose Minnesota for that reason alone. The University’s Baseline Tennis Center and the Carlson School of Management were also strong factors in her decision, Caitlyn said. She was in high school when her father took over the head coaching position at Minnesota, which caused her to transfer to Edina High School, where she spent two years. In addition to her individual success, the Hornets won team state championships in both of her seasons at the high school. When it comes to college, Caitlyn Merzbacher is following in her father’s footsteps. Her dad was a three-time All-Big Ten selection at Minnesota. Still, Chuck Merzbacher doesn’t want Caitlyn’s collegiate tennis career to be viewed as a product of a
family connection. “I had my day here. I loved it and everything about the University,” he said. “But this is going to be her experience.” And he’s confident Caitlyn will make a name for herself during her time with the Gophers, rather than follow in his footsteps. The third-year coach said she will likely assist the Gophers right away in doubles. “She’s one of the best doubles players in the Midwest, if not the country,” Chuck Merzbacher said. To all the parents of his players, he says, he’ll “treat your kid like I treat my daughter.” But with 11 players vying for six starting spots, Caitlyn won’t earn a starting spot just because she actually is the coach’s daughter. “I want her to have a fair shot at everything,” Chuck Merzbacher said. “She’s worked really hard, so I’m not going to make it overly hard for her. But I’m not going to make it easier for her, either.” And that’s just fine with Caitlyn. “If anything, I want him to go harder on me,” she said. “I think I have to prove myself even more to be in the lineup. I want my teammates to think that I earned it.”
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Chuck, Caitlyn and Cherie Merzbacher pose at the Baseline Tennis Center on Oct. 24. Caitlyn Merzbacher committed to play tennis at Minnesota late last month, where her father is the head coach.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Gophers top Wake Forest Senior guard Andre Hollins led Minnesota with 27 points in the win. BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
One day before facing Wake Forest in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Tuesday night, Mo Walker lamented Minnesota’s tendency to play stretches of games conservatively. “We just need to play more aggressive the whole 40 minutes,” the redshirt senior center said. The message hasn’t yet reached the Gophers, though, as they pulled out a 84-69 victory against the Demon Deacons with spurts of inspired play and other moments that could leave some fans scratching their heads. The inconsistency began from the opening tip when Walker turned the ball over on Minnesota’s first two possessions. Walker redeemed himself midway through the first half, blocking back-to-back shots. His defensive effort helped spur a 7-0 Gophers run, which resulted in an early
eight-point Minnesota lead. But Wake Forest (4-4) erased the Gophers’ advantage after questionable shot selection followed consecutive turnovers by Andre Hollins and Joey King. After closing out the first half with another run and subsequent lapse, Minnesota (5-2) blew the game open at the start of the second frame with a 16-3 run that gave it a 48-34 lead. From that point on, the Demon Deacons struggled to reduce Minnesota’s lead and weren’t able to get closer than nine points. “They were ver y calm; they were very poised. We got open looks,” head coach Richard Pitino told 1500 ESPN after the game. “We grew as a team today.” King was crucial to Minnesota’s success from the beginning. The junior forward floated around the perimeter and was lethal, either making the extra pass to an open teammate or hitting one of his four 3-pointers. Hollins was even more effective from behind the arc, nailing seven 3-pointers to lead Minnesota with 27 points. He was also active on the glass, collecting seven
MINNESOTA 84, WAKE FOREST 69 Minnesota Wake Forest
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WAKE FOREST FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast Thomas 20 1-4 2-4 2-8 0 Leonard 16 0-1 0-0 0-2 1 Hudson 15 3-6 0-1 1-1 0 Wilbekin 33 3-10 1-3 0-3 1 Miller-McIntyre 21 4-9 2-4 0-0 2 Rountree 21 2-4 3-5 4-6 2 McClinton 3 0-0 0-0 1-2 1 Mitogiou 21 3-6 1-4 0-3 0 Jones 28 3-6 2-2 0-0 2 Overton 21 3-8 7-8 1-4 0 Total 200 22-54 18-31 10-31 9
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rebounds. Rebounding has been one of Minnesota’s weaknesses early in the season. Coming into Tuesday’s game, the Gophers were tied for 69th in the country in rebounding. But while facing Wake Forest — which was tied for 10th nationally in rebounding prior to the contest — the team won the rebound battle 37-31. “I said, ‘Guys, I don’t want to sit there and do rebounding
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Redshirt senior forward Mo Walker pushes toward the hoop against UMBC on Nov. 22.
drills all the time. I don’t like doing that stuff. Let’s just figure this out,’ ” Pitino told 1500 ESPN. “And I thought against St. John’s we were playing really good defense; we just weren’t rebounding the ball.” Walker tied Hollins for the team lead in rebounds
with seven, which went along with his 10 points and three blocks. Carlos Morris was a defensive menace, recording eight steals to go along with 15 points. The junior also had six turnovers, punctuating the
night of partial productivity from the Gophers — but also underwhelming performances during stretches. “We’re really just working on finishing games and fighting through adversity,” senior guard DeAndre Mathieu said Monday.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
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Quick turnaround has Gophers back on the road out east
Athletic dept. increases ticket prices
Minnesota will face North Carolina State in the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge. BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com
The Gophers traveled to Florida, played three games, jour neyed home and flew to the East Coast — where they will take on a defense-oriented North Carolina State team Wednesday — in just under a week’s time. The total trek covered more than 4,500 miles. But senior guard Rachel Banham said the quick turnaround won’t factor into the team’s upcoming performance. “I don’t think we’re going to let it affect us at all,” she said. “We’ve battled through more adversity than that, and we have to be tougher than the other team.”
The Wolfpack allows its opponents to score an average of 59.6 points per game. Minnesota head coach Marlene Stollings said NC State’s defensive presence will be a challenge, but Minnesota’s up-tempo offense is ready to go. “They’re a good defensive team. It’s going to be really impor tant for us to get stops on the defensive end of the floor and rebound the ball,” Stollings said. She also said her team needs to get more steals and deflections so it can run in transition. “We’re going to really tr y hard to get out in our great pace,” Stollings said. NC State’s tenacity on the defensive side of the ball has given it an average of 10.6 steals per game. Minnesota’s ball control hasn’t been an issue, as it has committed only 99 turnovers in seven games. Freshman guard Carlie
Wagner said ball control will play a big role in the team’s strategy. “We have to be poised when we play,” she said. “[We] have to make good decisions.” The Gophers found some success from behind the arc over the weekend, and Banham said 3-pointers will continue to be a par t of their strategy in Wednesday’s matchup. “Coach loves the threes.” Banham said. “It’s still in the game plan to go down [the court] and shoot it.” Stollings said the team’s goal each game is to get to the free-throw line at least 20 times. But Minnesota will have to be more aggressive against the Wolfpack, as NC State is allowing its opponents just 17.5 attempts per game. One way the Gophers can become more aggressive is with the help of senior forward Shae Kelley.
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WHERE: Raleigh, N.C.
Kelley leads the team in free-throw attempts with 51, and Stollings said her aggressiveness is essential to the team’s success. “[Kelley] sets the tone for ever ybody else on the team. She gets people involved and follows her shot. We expect her to get better at that and expect her to get better at the free-throw line,” Stollings said. Kelley also provides the Gophers with a strong allaround per formance each game. She ranks in the top 10
in the NCAA in doubledoubles, and her aggressiveness has helped spark the team’s offense. Minnesota’s rebounding has struggled lately. At the Gulf Coast Showcase last weekend, Minnesota was outrebounded 131-107. “We have a long way to go in a lot of areas,” Stollings said. “It’s exciting for us to be able to play that caliber of competition. Our schedule doesn’t slow down, so we have to clean up quickly.”
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
The athletics department announced Tuesday that the price for scholarship seating, or premium seating, at TCF Bank Stadium will increase over the next three years. The change will increase revenue for the athletics department. This should help offset added expenses to the Gophers’ budget, as well as the cost of attendance, which has increased by 20 percent since 2009. The Gophers first implemented a premium seating plan when TCF Bank Stadium opened in 2009. The new plan expands scholarship seating across the stadium. Season-ticket holders who have scholarship seats pay an extra “gift amount” on top of the ticketed price, which the athletics department uses for student-athlete support.
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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
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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.
12/3/2014
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Today’s Birthday (12/3): Fun, creativity and adventure are key themes this year. Articulate a bold vision before 12/23, and launch after that.
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 — You can make extra cash over the next two days. Get creative! Then focus on your next gig. Check the path ahead.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Work out the numbers and sign papers today and tomorrow. Don’t buy toys. You theory could get challenged.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Take charge ... no more procrastination. Let someone know what (or whom) you need. You’re gaining authority today and tomorrow.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — You have more help over the next two days. Try to understand other people’s feelings. Learn by listening. Enjoy a partnership phase.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Deadlines are looming, so better get back to it. Work slowly and methodically. Changes are required. Talk in generalities at first.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Postpone expansion for now. Focus on finishing old projects for the next two days. Lay the groundwork and clear space for the future.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Don’t go anywhere. Slow down and take it easy. Stay calm. Talking with friends today and tomorrow clears up a concern.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Plan some fun for today and tomorrow. Don’t be wasteful ... get only what you need. Clean up communal living spaces.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — There’s fun and positive career mojo ahead. Move quickly to stay in the loop. Listen to the unspoken as well as what gets said.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — You’re in for a busy few days at home. Conserve resources, even if money is tight. The next two days are good for renovation.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — You can take new ground over the next two days, but you may not follow the route originally intended.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — You’re extra brilliant for the next two days. Don’t believe everything you’ve learned ... you don’t have the full story yet.
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
from the archive
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
BACKTALK
From ItsAGroSto
Siskel’s Nemesis brought up some pretty bad flicks on his/her list, but I feel I had to add a few more: 5. Pretty much any Joel Schumacher movie. Net: Except for “Saint Elmo’s Fire”,. The Brat Pack at its best. 4. “Dungeons & Dragons” Net: You know Hollywood is running out of ideas when they start making board games into movies. We have to admit though, we’d pay good money to see a Hungry Hungry Hippos movie. 3. “Glitter” Net: “It’s sucking my will to live!” 2. “Gigli” Net: Bennifer version 1.0 1. “Battlefield Earth” Net: John Travolta in platform shoes and silver dreadlocks. What more can we say? That’s a big NUTT you to old L. Ron Hubbard. And a possible topic for tomorrow... best Jean-Claude Van Damme movies. Net: We can only hope …
From Dr. Date
I’d like to have a conversation about our backtalk readers. Net: Lay it on us. You think you’re experiencing a drought, Net? Apparently, every single person on campus has solved all of their love troubles. Or they’ve all lost their fingers in battle and have therefore lost the ability to type. Or they’ve all become asexual. Net: No, they’ve just discovered the wonders of desperation mixed with alcohol. Whatever the reason, they are taking the fast track to no-e-mail land, and this saddens the good doc. Because of this drought I’ve been forced to comb through my “rejected” e-mails, and we all know it’s a sad day when that has to be done. Net: We’ve found blackmail to be helpful on occasion. Just ask Studly McStudlyson. Come on already, backtalk readers. Come back to life!
From Angry Fat Man
Guten Tag Net! What the hell is the deal with all these idiots wearing clothes from their high school days? Net: Silly nillys, don’t they know this is a nude camHEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:
pus? Even worse are the ones that celebrate one damn sport. Net: For shame! We get it, you went to random suburban high school where you played football/basketball/baseball or were on the track team. We don’t care. You look like a jack ass. You’re in college now you should be comfortable enough as a person to not cling to the groups you joined in high school. Net: Indeed, college is a time to cling to overpriced brand names and designers. Grow up, or the next person I see wearing a high school sweatshirt I may just snap and give you a swirly (or a wedgie, whatever strikes me as appropriate). Net: We’ve always found the swirly to be much more effective, especially when used in an unflushed toilet.
From BIRD
I guess this is goodbye, Networkia! Net: Check ya later! First snowfall, that’s my cue. Net: Snow angel time? Me and my fellow good looking ladies are packing our bags for camp. Hot girl camp that is. Net: “Giggity giggity giggity” It should be a good couple of months, we’ve got some new seminars and activities on the agenda: 1. Stiletto relay races. 2. Strapless bras: The age old mystery. 3. A battle against gravity — tube tops and you. 4. The ancient art of lip gloss application, and of course, my personal favorite… 5. Frat boys: to do or NOT to do. Net: You forgot about The Art of Topless Pillowfighting. Wish me luck ... Ladies, see you there. Boys, don’t worry — we’ll be back this spring.
From keepITcool
Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 60 November 30, 2005
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So Net, I really hate the new Sudoku puzzles. And by hate I mean love with every inch of my body and my grades will soon be destroyed by. I totally boned the last two puzzles, more than once each ... Net: We hope you used protection. I can’t wait until they whip out the black belt on us. The math maze, however, leaves a lot to be desired.
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By Bruce Venzke and Gail Grabowski
ing nice is a bad thing, but I have found it does not ward the other. There’s nothing wrong with having sex, howevcause much for attraction in members of the opposite sex (more applicable to females not being er, the reason why you have sex is what we should ponder before hand. Having sex ’cause you love attracted to “nice” males I think ... ). So I would imagine the approach is the most and care about each other, that’s good. But having important aspect to answering the question: “Does sex just so you will satisfy your own demands ... waiting to have sex (i.e. being friends first) mat- that’s a problem itself. Sincerely, ter?” I think it does, but the major influence is the type of friendship you have with the said signifi— Just A Thought cant other. If she looks to you for someone to talk to and Daddy-o Doc, share “personal” stuff with, then for some reason, How’s it hangin’? Swell. Enough chit chat. I’m she does not look at you as a potential boyfriend. If in a bit of a predicament. I do not return affections your relationship consists of a hanging out mentali- from a good friend, let’s call him Garth. Yes he’s ty where each party openly makes fun of the other, nice and all, but the sparks just don’t fly on my end. or teases the other, then I think probabilities rise. I have told him this, but he has mentioned that The short and simple is this: You have to offer his deep infatuation exists nevertheless. I have something that she cannot get from any oldHey friend.Doc, been watching what I saytime and howhas I act, but how much toI fear If you are the same boring “nice” guy that she al- that my mere acts of friendship are being interpretpass it’s known that you ways talks to, then why would she see you asbefore dif- ed incorrectly because his lust hasshould blurred his viferent? You do not “stand out” in a exchange crowd, and sion. holiday gifts with your signifithere is no spark of curiosity. So the entire thing is Perhaps you could give a list of behaviors to cant other? Also, are some goodI enjoy probably situational. avoid to keepwhat all parties on the same page? friendship and he isn’t being creepy — just try— The Outside Observer gift ideas his for people who just started ing to make something out of nothing.
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really strong feeling that if she moved back, we would get back together. And here’s the problem: I have a new girlfriend now. My high-school ex and I broke up when she moved away, and it was probably the most emotionally exhausting dating? I started seeing this guy about Dear Dr. Date, — Lovin’ my pink bod Every relationship that I’ve been in that we experience of my life. It took months of two weeks ago, and I don’t want to freak waited at least a couple weeks has lasted pretty Dear Lovin’ my pink bod, long. So I do agree that waiting ahim little while say, your name’s a little creepy. Not sadness, anger and frustration, and only out withGotta something too expensive, does help if you’re looking for a long term rela- gonna lie. a year after we ended things did I start or extravagant, I also tionship. As for me, I’ve never datedthoughtful anyone afBut in the midnight of yourbut wondering why this ter having sex the first night. If they (tr)uck on the you, let me offer this: I stuknow how feeling confident enough to start dating don’t wantis happening to give tohim something first night, they’re not dating material. you feel. I bet most of us have been on both sides again. pidly cheap. Help! of this situation, and since he is a good friend of — WhamBamThankyouMam yours, we have to be careful about this one. My new girlfriend is great. Things —Santa Stuff I don’t think you should do anything drastic like Dear Dr. Date, have been going well, but even just the I waited for about 5 months before having sex cut off contact with him or feel awkward and conworried around him. with my boyfriend, not because we didn’t want to stantly hours I spent with my ex over the weekThe Perfect Present, But at the same time, I think there are things (tr)uck each other like crazy, but to make sure we isdoathat short amount of that end made me think of our times togethyou could could help remind him established an emotional relationship first. Two weeks you’re not interested, or at least make him er and feel nostalgic. I miss her — there, I know so many people who jumped right in to time to be together, so there’s nonotneed having sex and never built up an emotional rela- think you are. to buyob-your Watch manout anforextravagant gift. suspicious physical contact. I said it. tionship, making their emotional relationship, Whereas away gentle brush of the shoulder may viously, nonexistent and their sex life While pretty much I want us to talk like we used to, and there’s no to know how long sucked anyways. I think a lot of people, especially mean nothing to you, it could mean the world to your relationship will last, buying a gift Garth. A hand on the shoulder, to him, could sym- ever since our discussion at the party, I girls, tend to get sex and love confused. bolize the final action he has been waiting for all haven’t stopped thinking about her. But So waiting to have sex gets rid of that forconfusion your significant other says, “I care because you know what love is and how it feels, this time that shows that yes, you want his I feel guilty about it. What should I do? you,” and helps keep the novelty lovechild. making relationships better and longerabout lasting. BeFurthermore, if you truly have made it clear I feel like I’ve overcome so much heartsides, sex when you’re in love is the best because it of the relationship alive. Get him someactually has meaning, and the other person tends that you’re not interested, don’t feel like you have to censor you talk abouteyeing, (i.e. I like thisor guy … ache that one wrong move could be a to care if it’s actually good for you thing if they care small thatwhat he’s been but I don’t want to talk about him in front of Garth about you. major step backward. take him out for a nice dinner. These So my message to campus is stop being a because I don’t want to hurt his feelings). —Anonymous be careful, and bring your feelings up bunch of whores and keep your pantsgestures on for a few areJust thoughtful and intentiondates, if nothing else it’ll save you from a lot of again if you feel like his affections are getting out of al, and they will mean a lot more than control. awkward relationships. — No Name Nellie — Dr. Date Rekindling the Fire, something lavish. Revisiting an old romance for nostal—Dr. Date Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com. gia’s sake is a fool’s errand. It’s human nature to recreate positive memories Dr. Date, from the past and wonder what could Like a lot of U students, I went home have been. Your ex-girlfriend is strugto my small rural Minnesota town over gling, but that’s not a reason to get back Thanksgiving weekend, and it was like a together with her. You can offer her suphigh school reunion with all of my longport and encouragement to pursue her lost friends from the past. dreams without re-establishing your roMy buddy threw a party, and it was mantic relationship. just like old times. I had this super-inFocus your energy on your new retense discussion with my ex-girlfriend. lationship at school. You’re spending I found out she’s struggling really hard time with a new woman who, by your with school and work, and she’s conadmission, is great. Deepen that relasidering moving back home. Right now, tionship instead of running back to your she’s a film studies student on the East ex. Change is an inevitable part of life. Coast. Embrace it by living in the present — not I want to see her follow her dreams returning to the past. and succeed, and it sucks that’s she’s —Dr. Date not doing well right now. Also, I have a
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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direction, Mackenzie said, it shows some areas the University could improve upon. “You can see on the map that there are a lot of these bathrooms in use. But they’re not in ever y building; they’re not on ever y floor,” he said, “and for people who are seeking gender-neutral bathrooms, it’s a health issue.” Mackenzie said students who use genderneutral restrooms might stress about finding a safe bathroom if one isn’t located in the buildings they frequent, and some may not be able to use the restroom at all while on campus. “For a lot of people, it doesn’t seem like a problem,” he said, “but it’s a huge, constant stressor for people who don’t feel safe using sex-segregated spaces.” After her experience, Klyman created the student group Safe 2 Pee, which advocates for gender-neutral bathrooms around the University area. The group began in the fall and focuses mostly on increasing the number of gender-neutral restrooms at businesses around campus. “The Twin Cities is one of the most GLBT-friendly areas, and the University of Minnesota itself is one
of the most GLBT-friendly campuses,” Klyman said, “but I was thinking about how our sur rounding campus is not so friendly to folks who identify as trans.” Klyman said her group wants at least 15 businesses to add gender-neutral restrooms to their stores in the coming year. She said the group is using local businesses that already have the spaces, including Your Yoga, the Hard Times Cafe and Espresso Royale, as models for other area shops that want to follow their lead. Jenna Landr y, a member of Safe 2 Pee and the University’s chapter of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, said she got involved with the cause after MPIRG focused some of its effor ts on creating a safe environment on campus for transgender students. Landr y said though she thinks the University’s GLBTA Programs Of fice has done well in advocating for transgender students and providing some safe spaces for them, the school could include gender-neutral bathrooms in all buildings. “I think having that goal of gender-open bathrooms in ever y building on campus is a really impor tant goal to have,” she said, “because that makes people aware that transgender people want to feel
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Nathan Shrader says he knows how to save the University of Minnesota money. His plan: reduce its heating bill. The management senior said a new company called 75F could save the University millions of dollars by installing a heating system that recycles air and reduces energy consumption — one of many cost-cutting ideas students are proposing as part of a contest that aims to trim the institution’s spending. “It’s taking dif ferent pr ocesses that haven’t changed for decades and revamping them to cut significant costs,” Shrader said. The student-r un innovation group Co-Lab and the Minnesota Student Association are of fering a $1,500 reward to the student who can submit the most creative and feasible
option for saving University funds. The contest, dubbed OPEX, is designed to help students contribute to University President Eric Kaler’s “operational excellence” initiative to slash $90 million in administrative spending by 2019. “Ever yone has a role to play in Operational Excellence,” Kaler said in an email statement. “This competition, created and executed by our students, is an innovative way to advance a shared goal.” Any University student can post an idea or contribute by commenting and voting on other students’ proposals, said Co-Lab Director Martha Radtke. Based on students’ “up” and “down” votes, the two student groups will choose finalists on Jan. 19. Faculty specialists and the Co-Lab team will then help them develop their ideas before the students present to a final panel of judges Feb. 19. Shrader’s idea is currently
in second place on the student-r un for um called The Echo Spot. Ideas must be designed to optimally reduce waste, whether that means environmental detriment, unnecessar y costs or excess time allocated to menial tasks that keep the University running, Radtke said. “To run a university of this size, it takes a lot of money, and unfortunately a lot of this money … has to be spent doing things that [don’t] really add value,” she said. “If we can heat a building cheaper, that means that we can take that money and pump it into research.” Student proposals include implementing energy-efficient building strategies, developing a University navigation app and focusing on native plant species for University landscaping. Although many of the ideas may not make up a large part of the total $90 million in savings Kaler is calling for in his recent costcutting initiative, Radtke said, they could still help improve the University
ST. PAUL — Gov. Mark Dayton is braced for a repeat struggle over the Minnesota Lotter y and said Tuesday that its director faces a challenge in tr ying to preser ve online ticket sales that many lawmakers want to outlaw. Dayton expressed little doubt that the Legislature will again attempt to bar most vir tual ticket sales, and acknowledged that the veto he used to short-circuit their push last spring might
not hold up. At the urging of Lottery Director Ed Van Petten, Dayton str uck down the proposed curbs that the House and Senate passed by wide margins. Lawmakers had adjourned the session so they had no chance to override the veto. “The bottom line is if the vote is in both bodies as it was this spring, if I vetoed it, they would override it,” Dayton told reporters after a State Board of Investment hearing. “The director has his work cut out for him,
but he deserves the chance to make his case.” Republican Rep. Joe Hoppe, the incoming House Commerce Committee chairman, said discussions about reining in the lottery will probably begin earlier in the session. “This is one of those rare issues that you get pretty strong bipartisan support for,” Hoppe said. “You had some people who didn’t like gambling, you had some people who didn’t like to see it expanded online and you had the biggest
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Jigna Desai, a professor in the gender, women and sexuality studies depar tment, said in addition to adding gender-neutral restrooms, the University should allow students to
community or make it more efficient. As a way to control the cost of attendance, MSA has also advocated at the state Capitol for a tuition freeze, said John Reichl, the group’s vice president. But he said targeting smaller University expenses is another way to address cost spikes. “It is going to be a lot of small solutions added together, as opposed to one big swipe,” he said. MSA will suppor t students by recruiting top administrators to be involved with the competition, Reichl said. Capital Planning and Project Management will be an impor tant par tner, Radtke said, since it can implement student ideas into the University’s long-term plans. To Shrader and other students, the competition is an incentive to affect University policy. “What’s cool about this contest is that it connects … people with ideas to the people who have influence,” he said.
contingent of people who didn’t like it being done without legislative consent.” The Democratic gover nor has said he believes the lotter y has the unilateral authority to set up virtual instant-play games that launched in February. Lawmakers disagreed and also tried to strip the lottery of the ability to sell tickets via gas pumps or ATMs. Dayton said he opposes far-reaching restrictions that are done solely to limit competition from other lottery vendors.
Minnesota health exchange targets the uninsured BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL — Aided by a multimillion-dollar marketing budget, MNSure is aiming to sign up the remaining 5 percent of Minnesota residents who don’t have insurance. The new ef for t, coming in the second year of the state-run health insurance exchange, uses market research and targeted ads to persuade uninsured people to sign up for the exchange. It’s geared toward people who think they don’t need in-
surance and those who think they can’t afford it, as well as people who need to re-enroll. “The low-hanging fruit is gone,” according to Joe Campbell, director of marketing and communications for MNsure. “So our campaign and our whole marketing strategy is really focused at getting people that are in the shadows of the uninsured and bringing them out and make sure that they know what options are available to them.” One of the new commercials targets millennials, who
may not think they need insurance, Minnesota Public Radio News reported. It features a 20-something who’s working on a bike as he tells a friend how easy and affordable the health insurance exchange is. Two of the other ads are more serious, featuring an uninsured woman who’s worrying about a mark on her upper chest and uninsured parents who are concerned about their feverish child. Many Minnesota residents who aren’t covered but want health insurance
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list their preferred gender pronouns when registering for classes and educate faculty on gender sensitivity. “There should be places where students, staf f
and faculty can use the bathr oom, [and] ther e should be more courses [about gender issues],” she said. “There is a lot more work that needs to be done.”
Pope’s anti-slavery initiative receives multifaith support BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VATICAN CITY — Religious leaders from a half-dozen faiths signed a new Vatican initiative Tuesday to end modern-day slavery by 2020, declaring that human trafficking, organ trafficking and forced labor and prostitution are crimes against humanity. Pope Francis was joined by the Hindu guru Mata Amritanandamayi, known as Amma, as well as Buddhist, Anglican, Orthdox, Jewish, Shiite and Sunni Muslim leaders in signing a joint declaration at an unusually highprofile ceremony inside the Vatican walls. The declaration commits the signatories to do everything in their power within their faith communities to work to free the estimated 35 million people enslaved across the world by 2020. “In the eyes of God, each human being is a free person, whether girl, boy, woman or man, and is destined to exist for the good of all in equality and fraternity,” the declaration read. Francis has made
eliminating modern-day slavery one of the key priorities of his pontificate, inspired by his ministry in the slums of Buenos Aires. Earlier this year, the Vatican launched the Global Freedom Network, a multifaith initiative to encourage governments, businesses, educational and faith institutions to rid their supply chains of slave labor. One of the network’s founding members, the Walk Free Foundation, estimates that five countries account for 61 percent of the world’s population living in slavery: India, with an estimated 14.2 million people enslaved, China, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, and Russia. Tuesday’s ceremony, held in a palazzo in the Vatican gardens, added more faith leaders onto the network’s initial roster. Francis sat between Amma, the ebullient Indian guru known for her marathon sessions hugging complete strangers, and the small, bald Sister Chan Khong, the first ordained monastic disciple of Zen Master Thich Hnat Hanh, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist.
Ireland says the UK tortured IRA suspects in 1971, asks for review BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBLIN — Ireland has accused Britain of tor turing 14 Irish Republican Army suspects in 1971 and formally petitioned the European Cour t of Human Rights to review its original findings on the case, reopening one of the biggest legal disputes from the Northern Ireland conflict. Foreign Minister Charlie Flanagan said Ireland sought to reopen the case with reluctance, given its close relations with Britain today. But he argued Tuesday that a trove of newly uncovered documents in London indicated that Britain withheld important evidence from 1970s court proceedings that, if considered now, would overturn the court’s 1978 ruling. That landmark judgment r uled that British security forces in 1971 employed inter rogation techniques against the 14
men which were “inhuman and degrading” but fell shor t of meeting legal definitions of tor ture. The United States cited that judgment as par t of its legal defense a decade ago of various aggressive inter rogation practices, including waterboarding, of al-Qaida suspects in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. A British gover nment inquir y in 1972 found that the 14 suspects — dubbed the “hooded men” be cause their heads were kept cover ed for days in custody — had been targeted by experimental sensor y deprivation techniques intended to disorient the men and break their will to resist questioning about IRA activities. They were denied sleep, food and drink, exposed to continuous white noise, and forced for protracted periods to stand spread-eagled against a wall.