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An art exhibit featuring artists’ experiences with eating disorders is running through March 14.
There are symbolic and legal reasons to support gay marriage.
Minnesota dominated from start to finish on Senior Day.
Week focuses on eating disorders
Support for same-sex marriage in the queer community
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Students: fund mental health fully Student demand for mental health resources is rising on campus. BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota students protested Boynton Health Ser vice’s under funded student services fees request for more mental health resources at a public hearing Thursday. Several students spoke out against the Student Services Fees Committee’s initial recommendations for Boynton and other administrative units. Increased demand for mental health ser vices in recent years led Boynton to
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request more than $380,000 in fees to fund six new staff positions and to eliminate the $10 co-pay for mental health visits. In the SSFC’s initial recommendations, Boynton’s request was under funded by nearly $100,000. The committee recommended Boynton absorb that amount into its general budget, according to the committee’s rationale. Tim Bell, a senior health advocate, was critical of how the SSFC chose to allocate student services fees at the hearing. The committee should differentiate “nice-to-have”
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Dance Marathon grows in 3rd year The University’s 12-hour dance marathon raised $8,000 for children affected by HIV/AIDS. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN
Budget forecast gets better BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota isn’t backing off on its aggressive approach for state funding, despite an improved state budget prediction. State finance of ficials announced Thursday that their deficit prediction, forecasted at $1.1 billion in November, is now expected to be $627 million, a 43 percent cut. Richard Pfutzenreuter,
u See BUDGET Page 3 Dayton is expected to release a modified budget in a few weeks.
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Juniors Eshaan Rao and Lex Moulopoulos dance at the 12-hour Dance Marathon on Saturday at the McNamara Alumni Center. The event raised money for One Heartland and the Amplatz Children’s Hospital.
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the University’s chief financial officer, said even with the better forecast, the University needs to continue its constant presence at the Capitol as it asks for highly sought-after state dollars. “All of that good news doesn’t really change the challenge that we face at the Legislature,” Pfutzenreuter said. “Revenues are better, but the state still has a shortfall, and there’s enormous competition for limited resources.” Administrators at the University are petitioning for President Eric Kaler’s $1.2 billion biennial budget
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they cheer me up,” Escobar said.
Jose Diego Escobar cried as
The third annual dance
he told the stor y of his aunt’s
marathon raised $8,000, said
battle with AIDS to a crowd of
Evan Symons, co-president of
more than 200 University of
the University’s Dance Mara-
Minnesota students.
thon. A quarter of that amount
Escobar, 14, said after he
was donated by the College of
talked about his aunt’s death,
Science and Engineering, he
he was instantly comforted by
said.
the participants at the Univer-
All of the money raised
sity’s 12-hour Dance Marathon
benefits One Heartland, a non-
on Saturday.
profit organization for children
“They make me feel better;
af fected by HIV/AIDS, and
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STATE OF THE UNIVERSITY
Kaler: U strong, ‘flaws not fatal’ Kaler said the U will reassess grad programs and he will hold office hours.
students, staff and faculty, Kaler outlined the University’s plans to implement new changes amid “the perfect storm for higher education” of economic woes, budget cuts and record-high tuition and student debt. Kaler warned against “knee-jerk” reactions to solving higher education issues while emphasizing the need to embrace “bold ideas.” “I know we’re not perfect, but our flaws are not fatal,” Kaler said, “and the state of the University is strong.”
BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com
Despite past challenges and future financial uncertainty, President Eric Kaler said the University of Minnesota is strong in his State of the University address Thursday at Coffman Union. In front of roughly 250
Kaler stressed the importance of attracting the nation’s top graduate and professional students. “I came here as a graduate student, and I am not about to let our graduate programs slip in terms of national reputation,” he said, adding that Karen Hanson, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, would partner with deans and faculty leaders to create a long-term, sustainable plan for graduate student recruitment.
Kaler said the first step to what he called “graduate school 2.0” would be to increase funding for doctoral fellowship programs by more than $750,000. Graduate and Professional Student Assembly President Brittany Edwards said the investment indicated Kaler was making graduate programs a priority. Kaler said a closer look u See KALER Page 14 Of MOOCs, Kaler said “instructors will not become obsolete.”
SOMALI COMMUNITY
Ellison’s visit resonates with local Somalis Minnesota’s Somali population is the largest in the United States. BY MARJORIE OTTO motto@mndaily.com
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY
Gov. Mark Dayton speaks about the state’s recent budget forecast Thursday at the Capitol. Dayton proposed that money from a lower projected deficit “be returned back to taxpayers and additional tax reductions.”
Last week, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison retur ned from a visit to Somalia, making him the first U.S. politician to visit the countr y after the U.S. recognized the new Somali government in January.
Ellison met with Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and others to discuss Somali refugees and U.S. remittances. Many of Ellison’s Minneapolis constituents who have emigrated from Somalia in the recent decade urged him to visit the country. “It is just going to build a bridge, strengthen the ties that are already there between people of Minnesota and people of Somalia,” said Ahmed Ismail Yusuf, author of “Somalis
in Minnesota.” Many members of the Twin Cities Somali community said the trip is a major step for Somalia-U.S. relations and ser ves as an inspiration for the Somali community as a whole. “Right here in the Twin Cities, people are really being ver y optimistic and happy with the U.S. recognition,” said Abdisalam Adam, board chair of the Islamic Civic Society of America. It’s fitting that a Minnesota politician was the
first to visit Somalia after the U.S. recognition: Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the U.S., with the majority located in Minneapolis. In 2000, there were an estimated 18,597 Minnesota residents with Somali ancestr y, according to the State Demographer’s Office. In 2010, that number had increased to nearly 50,000, 18,000 of which u See SOMALIA Page 4 There’s hope Ellison’s visit will pave the way for other U.S. politicians.
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LUOTUOWAN VILLAGE — China’s fawning state media, jaded social media commentators and even poor corn and cabbage farmers agree: New Communist Party chief Xi Jinping is off to a good start. “General Secretary Xi doesn’t put on any airs. He talks like an ordinar y person,” said 69-year-old farmer Tang Rongbin. The new leader visited Tang’s sparse, dimly lit farmhouse in Luotuowan village in December, bearing gifts of cooking oil, flour and a blanket. Xi has styled himself as an economic reformer, an ironfisted graft-buster, a staunch nationalist and a no-frills manof-the-people — spurring expectations for change. But as he prepares to be appointed to the largely ceremonial role of president, pressure will be growing on him to deliver. China faces rising public anger over endemic corruption, a burgeoning rich-poor gap and the degradation of the country’s air, soil and waterways. Slower economic growth and territorial disputes, especially with Japan, add to the tension. Mounting protests over environmental issues, land seizures and high-handed officialdom point to the underlying social discontent. Days before the party conclave that brought Xi to power last year, thousands of protesters in the eastern city of Ningbo faced off against riot police outside government offices, calling on officials to halt a chemical plant expansion. I think there has been a revolution of rising expectations,” said W illy Lam, an exper t on par ty politics at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “People realize they can get away with even demonstrations to make their wills heard.” Joining the clamor for change this past week were dozens of prominent intellectuals who signed a petition urging the government to ratify an international treaty on protecting human rights and the rule of law.
US releasing millions in aid to Egypt BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday rewarded Egypt for President Mohammed Morsi’s pledges of political and economic reforms by releasing $250 million in American aid to support the country’s “future as a democracy.” Yet Kerry also served notice that the Obama administration will keep close watch on how Morsi, who came to power in June as Egypt’s first freely elected president, honors his commitment and that additional U.S. assistance would depend on it. “The path to that future has clearly been difficult and much work remains,” Kerry said in a statement after wrapping up two days of meetings in Egypt, a deeply divided country in the wake of the revolution that ousted longtime President Hosni Mubarak. Egypt is trying to meet conditions to close on a $4.8 billion loan package from the International Monetary Fund. An agreement would unlock more of the $1 billion in U.S. assistance promised by President Barack Obama last year and set to begin flowing with Kerry’s announcement. “The United States can and wants to do more,” Kerry said. “Reaching an agreement with the IMF will require further effort on the part of the Egyptian government and broad support for reform by all Egyptians. When Egypt takes the difficult steps to strengthen its economy and build political unity and justice, we will work with our Congress at home on additional support.” Kerry cited Egypt’s “extreme needs” and Morsi’s “assurances that he plans to complete the IMF process” when he told the president that the U.S. would provide $190 million of a longterm $450 million pledge “in a good-faith effort to spur reform and help the Egyptian people at this difficult time.” The release of the rest of the $450 million and the other $550 million tranche of the $1 billion that Obama announced will be tied to successful reforms, officials said. Separately, the top U.S. diplomat announced $60 million for a new fund for “direct support of key engines of democratic change,” including Egypt’s entrepreneurs and its young people. Kerry held out the prospect of U.S. assistance to this fund climbing to $300 million over time.
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U, other orgs. take on social media, but consumers still run the conversation
$1,298,037,000
STATE APPROPRIATIONS TO THE UNIVERSITY
$1,101,665,000
request that would keep tuition down for incoming Minnesota-resident undergraduates and further invest in other academic programs. “We’re just going to have to keep pushing,” Pfutzenreuter said. “We can’t let up on the gas here.” Depending on a datadriven, in-depth analysis of administrative costs that will be presented March 15, the likelihood of the budget proposal passing is uncertain. Pfutzenreuter said the state’s economy is doing better because of prior investments made in higher education. “It’s that highly educated workforce that is helping Minnesota,” he said. “You can see it. … Minnesotans are back working, paying taxes and the economy has improved.” The forecast, crafted by Minnesota Management and Budget, offers relief for the current biennium with a positive balance of $295 million. This is an opportunity for the state to look forward for the first time in a long time, said House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis. Most of the current budget’s revenue is supposed to be paid back to the state’s school districts — money owed from previous budget deals. The remaining funds from the positive balance are expected to go into the state’s budget reserve. Gov. Mark Dayton is planning to revamp his budget plan, which was crafted based on the November forecast, to fit with the new predictions. He didn’t say Thursday, however, that he would change his standing proposal to modify the state’s tax system — a plan backed by Thissen and other DFLers. “I do still think strongly that we have to go through this exercise of tax reform to position Minnesota better in the future,” said Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook. The gover nor’s plan would increase income taxes for the wealthiest Minnesotans and expand the base of the state’s sales tax, as well as other changes. House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, who disagrees with the proposed changes to the state’s tax system, said the governor’s plan needs not just revisions, but a complete overhaul. The policies Dayton has proposed would tax middle class people and “be devastating to Minnesota’s economy,” he said. Other options for reform are limited, Dayton said, and
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the discussion will continue to create a budget plan that “will be most effective to continue the positive track” that the state is on. Investment priorities, like education and job development, are steadfast and won’t change, he said. The governor’s budget allocates $240 million more for higher education, with $80 million for the University. A modified budget proposal from Dayton is expected to be released in the coming weeks, and legislators will introduce a final plan by mid-May.
$1,420,098,000
Budget
$1,379,092,000
Social media played a large role at the University of Minnesota’s annual legislative briefing at the end of January. Attendees were encouraged to voice their support for the University on social media. About 35 students armed with iPads acted as social media coaches, helping set up Twitter accounts and craft tweets to legislators. Each social media coach received $25 from the University’s Alumni Association and University Government and Community Relations, which co-sponsored the event. The University is using social media strategically to boost its public profile, rally support and increase community engagement. About 89 percent of ad-
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BY REBECCA HARRINGTON rharrington@mndaily.com
vertisers say they use free social media, according to a Nielsen study. But companies are still new to social media, and its use can sometimes backfire. Students have used the “#UMNProud” hashtag the University created to tweet about things the University wouldn’t be proud of — like “murky” drinking fountain water or being stuck on the Campus Connector. “Sitting on the floor because there isn’t enough chairs in the room #UMNproud,” agricultural education sophomore Eric Seifert tweeted last month. Lindsey Heffern, social media manager for the University, said when this happens, she tries to take on a “customer ser vice” role, responding to concer ns positively. “College students are 18 to 22, and, I think, still maybe learning how to filter some of the things they may or may want to say publically,” she said. “It’s easy to forget that Twitter is public; people can read everything.” Shayla Thiel-Stern, as-
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Almost 90 percent of advertisers use social media for marketing.
’14–’15 ’12–’13 ’10–’11 ’08–’09 ’06–’07 ’04–’05 ’02–’03 *forecasted
STATE BUDGET FORECASTS FOR 2014–15 November 2012 forecast
$1.1 billion deficit
February 2013 forecast
$627 million deficit
SOURCE: MINNESOTA STATE LEGISLATURE, MINNESOTA MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
sistant journalism professor, said companies should be prepared for this possible backlash. “If a company is going to be using social media in some way, they’re going to have to expect that users have a lot of power to take their message, craft it in whatever way they want and throw it back to them,” she said. Seifert said people commandeering hashtags that businesses create on Twitter to use them sarcastically is a beneficial part of social media. “You get to see the real stor y instead of just what they want you to see,” he said. The University largely uses social media to gain support from legislators for state funding, but it doesn’t always work. Kim Norton, DFL-Rochester, who’s on Twitter, said social media isn’t as effective for communicating with legislators as it used to be because “there’s so much out there that you miss it.” She said the most effective communication method is
email. “I encourage people to continue to use social media,” she said. “Just be aware that … it may not be as effective as people think it is.” Heffern said she tries to achieve a “stickiness factor” with social media — being punchy and relevant so the University’s brand messages are more memorable. Diana Ahnemann, 22, is transferring to the University next fall. She said companies have “entered the whole world of friends” taking advantage of how people communicate. “There is a lot of care that needs to be taken in the world of information,” Ahnemann said. “You’ve just got to be a little bit war y. … There are obviously good and bad sides to everything.” Thiel-Ster n said she thinks the ability of consumers to immediately respond and react to company activity is great because it gives them more power. But the immediacy and reach of social media can allow problems like a mis-
used hashtag to get out of hand. Last year, McDonald’s attempted to promote its brand using the hashtag #mcdstories. Tweeters instead repurposed it to share negative experiences with the restaurant, Thiel-Stern said. The important thing in those situations, Seifer t said, is for a company to “stick to their guns.” “I think when something like that happens, a company needs to stick with their values and policies,” he said. Heffern said the University has plans in place to coordinate with public relations in case things ever get out of hand on one of the University’s accounts. Many students said a business being on social media was smart because that’s where their young customers are. Communications senior Tom Wilsey said he doesn’t understand why people feel the need to voice their loyalty to brands on social media. He said he had mixed feelings on universities us-
ing social media to foster brand loyalty. “I think it’s kind of sick,” Wilsey said, “but it’s smart.”
COMPANY SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTION
BY THE NUMBERS
83 percent
OF 18- TO 29-YEAR-OLDS ARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA
89 percent
OF COMPANIES USE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR FREE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING
65 percent
OF USERS LEARNED MORE ABOUT A COMPANY OR ITS PRODUCTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
53 percent
OF USERS COMPLIMENTED BRANDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA
50 percent
OF USERS CRITICIZED BRANDS ON SOCIAL MEDIA SOURCE: NIELSEN, PEW INTERNET & AMERICAN LIFE PROJECT
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the University’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Escobar has gone to Camp Hear tland, a summer camp program organized by One Hear tland, for the past three years. Camp Hear tland allows youth living with or affected by HIV or AIDS to attend camp for free. “It’s ver y impor tant that it doesn’t cost campers anything,” said Nick Boer um, development manager for One Hear tland. “About 80 percent of our kids who come to camp live in pover ty, so they wouldn’t be able to afford a week of camp.” Students attending the Dance Marathon, which was funded by the Minnesota Student Association, said knowing all of the money raised goes toward the organizations motivated them. “We know it’s directly going to folks like the kid who spoke, which is pretty reassuring,” said Preston Bradley, chemistr y and chemical engineering sophomore. “It validates why we’re here.” Mick Hedberg, MSA facilities, housing and tran-
sit co-director, said funding the Dance Marathon is beneficial to the University community. “Ever y dollar put towards this is a dollar well spent,” Hedberg said. “[MSA members] see how an event like this can drive a University’s culture.” Hedberg said he hopes MSA and the Dance Marathon will have a lasting par tnership for years to
come. Dance marathons are widespread in colleges and universities throughout the nation. At some schools, like Penn State University, more than 15,000 students participate in dance marathons and raise millions of dollars ever y year. The University’s Dance Marathon is still r elatively new to campus, but members are hoping it
will grow throughout the years, said Callie Kr ummel, dance relations and morale co-chair for the Dance Marathon. “Getting the word out has been the biggest thing,” she said. Krummel said the marathon had about 150 participants last year. “We have exceeded all of my hopes completely,” she said.
MONEY RAISED FROM BIG TEN DANCE MARATHONS IN 2012 PENN STATE
$10,711,765.43 INDIANA UNIVERSITY-BLOOMINGTON
$2,125,322.20 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
$1,369,147.18 NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
$1,107,670 PURDUE UNIVERSITY
$528,654
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
$510,325.76
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY over $450,000 UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN
$82,500
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON over $64,000 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-CHAMPAIGN
$48,411
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA about $6,000 MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
$1,500
SOURCE: VARIOUS DANCE MARATHON WEBSITES, ANNELISE DOCEL, EVAN SYMONS, HANNAH ALTHOUSE
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Week focuses on eating disorders BY MERITTE DAHL mdahl@mndaily.com
“One pound: a measurement of weight. NOT a measurement of worth,” read a sticky note hanging in Cof fman Union on Thursday. “Maybe it’ll even make someone’s day,” said Elizabeth Pike, a nutrition senior and member of the Student Nutrition Advocacy Collaborative, which hung the notes as part of Operation Beautiful. SNAC is one of several student groups that held events during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week last week. The Emily Program, which provides eating disorder treatment, is hosting an exhibit focused on eating disorders at Art Institutes Inter national Minnesota through March 14. Each piece shares the ar tists’ experiences with their own eating disorders or those of loved ones, according to Emily Program Community Outreach Coordinator Keri Clifton. “ We h o p e t o r e a l l y change the conversations about what eating disorders are, who they impact,” Clifton said, “We just don’t talk about it enough.” Mackenzie Koeck, a graduate student, used her handprint as the star ting point for her painting. “Our hands are tools to care and comfort, communicate, express emotion and really connect with other human beings,” she said. Koeck participated in art therapy for two years while in residential treatment for anorexia through the Emily Program. She continues outpatient treatment today. She said the stigma associated with eating disorders inspired her to paint.
“Any opportunity to dispel some of the myths or any chance to build awareness I see as a great gift and my responsibility to take,” Koeck said. Ar t helps health care professional Mar tha Bird reinforce what she learns in therapy. Bir d has undergone treatment for compulsive overeating and restrictive dieting at the Emily Program since 2007. Her mixed-media piece “Dancing Tree Woman” depicts a woman dancing, but instead of feet, she has tree roots, Bird said. “Dancing is very grounding, in the present; I’m happy, and I feel good,” Bird said, adding that she now takes dance classes three to four days a week. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, according to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. Student group Active Minds, which raises awareness of mental disorders, dedicated its meeting Tuesday to eating disorders. English and psychology senior Rachel Eckes began treatment in her senior year of high school and continues to do outpatient treatment at the Emily Program. “It’s not something you can fix or heal overnight — it takes a while,” she said. Eckes shared her experience with an audience for the first time Tuesday and said the experience was therapeutic. Eating disorders are not gender- or age-specific, she said. “I know some guys with eating disorders,” Eckes said. “I have really good friends in their 60s with eating disorders.” Active Minds Secretar y
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Nutrition senior Elizabeth Pike leaves an encouraging note to promote positive body image Thursday in Coffman Union. Members of the Student Nutrition Advocacy Collaborative left notes throughout campus as part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
Erin McDonald, a psychology junior, spoke about suppor ting her mother, who is in treatment for anorexia. Communication and empathy are important for suppor ting someone with an eating disorder, she said. Middlebrook Hall health advocate Korrina Grif fith said it’s impor tant to talk about eating disorders and other mental health issues in dorms. The “Freshman 15” and other myths related to health can cause stress, said Grif fith, a gender, women and sexuality stud-
ies freshman. Health advocates are trained through Boynton Health Ser vice. They can refer students to mental health ser vices or a nutritionist at Boynton, Griffith said. Although Boynton Health Service did not host any events for National Eating Disorders Awareness Week this year, group therapy, mental health care, medical care and nutrition assessments are available. “It’s really impor tant that people str uggling don’t feel alone and can get help,” Pike said.
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Nutrition junior Erin Ziolkowski posts a note as part of Eating Disorder Awareness Week on Thursday in Coffman Union.
Ellison’s visit resonates with local Somalis
according to Boynton data. “We cannot af ford to lose the momentum we have in mental health right now,” Bell said. When Chris Luhmann was struggling with anxi-
ety and depression in December 2011, his academic adviser suggested he see a psychiatrist at Boynton. But when he tried to schedule an appointment, he was put on a wait list until the next month. In the meantime, Luhmann saw a doctor in his hometown who prescribed him ineffective medication. This problem wasn’t rectified until the University student was able to get an appointment with a mental health specialist at Boynton. Luhmann was among the students who asked the SSFC for full funding of Boynton’s mental health expansion request. The SSFC only recommended funding for four of the requested six new mental health staff positions. “Boynton wanted to hire six new people for a reason,” Luhmann said, “because of the increasing demand for mental health issues that students on campus are facing.” The SSFC will have its final deliberations for administrative groups this weekend, during which it will reconsider the initial recommendations, said Kyle Olson, chair of the administrative units SSFC. “I can’t speak for the committee members … but [Boynton’s request] will certainly be discussed,” Olson said. “We’re not done with it, obviously.” Gary Christenson, Boynton’s chief medical officer, said Boynton officials appreciate the funding and understand the committee’s recommendations. “We wish that it was possible to meet the full request,” he said, “but also accept that
the fees committee has still made a substantial contribution to us meeting the needs of students.”
er sources of revenue to decrease the department’s dependence on student services fees, was also recommended to receive less funding than requested. The committee cut off funding completely for fiscal year 2015, funding the program with $109,400 for fiscal year 2014. Nate Moen, business operations officer and copublisher of the Minnesota Daily, said the newspaper is requesting that the $70,000 balance sweep the SSFC recommended for fiscal year 2014 be the last one. Moen has no control over editorial content. Initial recommendations funded the Daily’s entire $505,000 request, less the $70,000 balance sweep. The previous year, the paper saw a $250,000 balance sweep.
Other administrative units
Student representatives from Nor throp Concer ts and Lectures, the Department of Recreational Sports and the Minnesota Daily also advocated for their groups at the public hearings. Northrop Concerts and Lectures requested $500,000 in fees funding but was recommended to receive about $157,000, according to the initial recommendations. Northrop representatives said they want more funding to pay staff and expand programming. The Department of Recreational Sports’ Advancement Program, which pursues oth-
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and “need-to-have” with fee allocations, he said.
“You can’t put a price on someone’s life.” The Mental Health Clinic saw nearly 3,000 University students in 2012, continuing a steady increase from about 2,000 in 2004,
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as well. The nation now has a parliament, a constitution and a newly appointed president. “It’s a really new excitement for the people of Somalia,” Samatar said. “Hopefully some of the issues that they deal with are over.” Many members of the Somali community said Ellison’s visit is a positive sign for Somalia. “We are reviving, Yusuf said. “…Somalia is coming out of darkness.”
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neapolis School Board and talked about running for mayor in late 2012. Last year, Mohamud Noor ran for the state Senate but fell 339 votes short of securing a Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party nomination, and likely a Senate seat. Noor would’ve been the first Somali-American state senator in the U.S. While Somali residents become more involved in Minneapolis public life, politics in Somalia are stabilizing
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lived in Minneapolis. Somali residents in Minneapolis said Ellison’s trip was very meaningful. “It’s really powerful,” said Osman Ahmed, a community organizer who graduated from the University of Minnesota and worked with Ellison last year. Some hope Ellison’s visit
portunity to start a new community and take care of one another. Many Somalis in Minneapolis settled in the CedarRiverside neighborhood. Now, many residents of that community who came to the state when they were ver y young said they feel more of a community connection to the Twin Cities than to Somalia. Hussein Samatar, who left Somalia nearly two decades ago, sits on the Min-
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out a central government and the ensuing struggle for power destabilized the nation. Many Somali citizens fled to parts of Africa, Europe and the U.S. The Twin Cities wasn’t the first place refugees lived. Many lived in California and the East Coast before settling in Minnesota. Yusuf said Somalis came to Minnesota because of availability of jobs, the hospitality of the state and the op-
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will pave the way for other U.S. politicians. “I would hope to see more U.S. officials … to make similar visits,” Adam said. Ahmed also noted that while working with him, Ellison often said he wanted to visit Somalia. Civil war broke out in Somalia in 1990 and General Mohammed Siad Barre, who was in power for 22 years, was soon overthrown and exiled by clan-based militias. Somalia was left with-
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CLASSROOM
Be considerate Overusing technology in the classroom isn’t only hurting you.
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ast week during one of my classes, the person in front of me spent the entire period using Adobe Photoshop to design an event invitation. Attempting to view the professor and her PowerPoint rendered it impossible to completely block his activity from my vision, and on more than one occasion I found myself getting caught up in what he was doing. As he tested out multiple positions for one of the items in the image, I found myself inadvertently forming an opinion on where it should go. I then realized I had gone 10 minutes without taking notes. My view on his decision to spend the whole class period without once looking up from Photoshop was akin to how I feel when I watch someone sitting next to me play Bejeweled or Words with Friends on his or her phone throughout an entire lecture: Why are you here? Because none of my classes require attendance, I have to believe that people who attend
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class only to pass the time engrossed in alternative activities seem to think they are still getting something out of the experience. Hate to break the news, but our bodies do not have sponge-like capabilities by which we can just artlessly absorb professors’ words. Learning goes beyond that, and research has illustrated that what we think is “multitasking” is really just a significant hindrance on our ability to comprehend material, learn and perform. Moreover, as someone who feels stung when a conversation partner can’t put down his or her phone, I have become increasingly aware of just how disrespectful needless use of technology is to teachers. They’re not oblivious, and we’re not nearly as stealthy as we think we are. No one just ca-
sually falls into the fully downward neck position unless he or she is sleeping, lap-texting or praying, and I doubt your professor assumes the latter. If human decency isn’t a sufficient motivator, consider this: In a time when competitive scholarships and jobs commonly require letters of recommendation, the relationships we maintain with our professors are of utmost importance. Don’t let yours be marked by rudeness and disinterest. I’m not immune to the distraction potential of our devices. I’ll readily admit to sending the occasional text message while in class, but most of the time I turn my phone off and stow it. I shut my phone down while in “sound” mode so I know that turning it back on would broadcast the obnoxiously loud welcome announcement. Interrupting a 200-person lecture with the classic “ba-da-da-da-da-T-MOBILE ” is not how I’d like to define my class contribution, so there’s no temptation. I haven’t always been this willing to take a reprieve from constant connectivity. But as I’ve spent more time in college
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— and watched myself become sufficiently poorer each year — I’ve started to understand that I single-handedly control the value of my college education. Are the menial activities we allow to supersede learning really worth years of student debt or, worse, the realization that we’re grossly unprepared for the real world? Start recognizing the potential our devices have as conduits for distractions and think about what you might be missing out on while lost in cyberspace. If you’ve decided that your own ROI on your education isn’t important, consider those for whom you don’t have a right to make that decision. Be thoughtful of your classmates and realize that your sidetracked moments are not occurring underneath an invisibility cloak. If you choose to spend class time sending duck-face selfies via Snapchat, consider if that activity might be better accomplished if you just stayed home — or at least from the back row. Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.
DRUGS
War on drugs made dangerous synthetics possible
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The University should be ready for gay athletes
Monday, March 4, 2013
University of Minnesota athletics director Nor wood Teague was interviewed March 1 by Dan Barreiro on KFAN spor ts radio. The first question was about whether sports teams are “ready” for an openly gay athlete. Seemingly uncomfor table and unprepared, Teague said, “I don’t know.” He was allowed several subsequent opportunities to announce his suppor t for an out athlete. He said nothing. Teague should understand that the days of a power ful leader in athletics dodging this issue are over. His salar y is publicly funded by citizens of all demographics, including gay people. As such, it is his job to be “ready” for an openly gay athlete. It is his professional and moral responsibility to communicate that all qualified athletes are welcome at the University and that he will work to ensure that a gay athlete is treated with dignity and respect. Perhaps Teague should seek guidance on this issue from Gophers basketball player T revor Mbakwe, whose hear tfelt and impassioned support for gay
marriage made clear that he would treat a gay teammate exactly the way he would want to be treated: as a teammate. At half of Teague’s age, Mbakwe demonstrated twice the respect, leadership and human decency. Teague’s insensitive response only ser ves tofurther discomfort gay athletes who simply want to do what the University should encourage: for all students to discover and live their truth. John Glimmer Daily reader
Keep Minnesota’s energy options open
Energy costs are rising in Minneapolis, which means we have to pay more for our electric and gas utilities. Currently, we pay Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy to import energy using fossil fuels, which works against Minneapolis’ goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. However, Minneapolis Energy Options is campaigning to keep our energy options open and is working to invest in a clean energy future. We ar e cur r ently at the mercy of Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy because Minneapolis is
locked into 20-year contracts with each company. For tunately, we have a once-in-a-generation oppor tunity to change this. The contracts with Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy expire in early 2014 and 2015, respectively. We are on the verge of having a great opportunity to promote the local economy through clean energy. The Minnesota Public Interest Research Group’s Environment Task Force is working to build suppor t for a potential ballot initiative to give the city the authority to create an energy utility if it can prove to provide cleaner, af fordable, local and reliable energy. Before we sign on to another 20 years of investing in polluting energy and increased rates, we should explore all of the options available when deciding our energy future. MPIRG is working with this campaign to urge the Minneapolis City Council to keep our options open. As we move for ward, we need to ensure Minneapolis continues to promote clean energy and move toward our climate action goals. Julie Erdmann Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
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t has been almost two months since Texas teenager Emily Bauer became stable enough to come off of life support after suffering several seizures and strokes, allegedly caused by synthetic drugs. Bauer is now constrained to a wheelchair and has only recently regained the ability to swallow solid food. Like many teenagers, Emily fell victim to the pressures of adolescence and made a bad decision to consume drugs. But instead of suffering from a headache or increased appetite, Bauer suffered blood clots in her brain that led to severe brain damage. The Drug Enforcement Administration and law enforcement are fighting a losing battle against marijuana that some states have already bowed out of. The introduction of synthetic cannabinoids, such as Spice and K2, only helps the argument that marijuana should be legalized by noting that the illicit drug has not proved to cause health risks. Since the legal substances became popular over the last eight years, the federal government and the DEA have fought another losing battle to catch up with the drugs’ manufacturers in order to ban the specific compounds that make up the dangerous products. The problem is that every time a sanction is put in place to make a specific strand of the synthetic cannabinoids illegal, the drug makers are able to produce a different strand that complies with current law that has even more unpredictable side effects. When the government tried to make any product that can be used as synthetic drugs illegal, the manufacturers in turn just marketed the products as potpourri or incense and marked the packages to say that the product is not for human consumption. Emily’s story is one of many stories of how synthetic narcotics have affected those who use it beyond the designed inebriation. It has come to a point where the illicit drugs are a healthier alternative to the synthetic drugs that were designed to emulate the same high as marijuana. The only difference is the controversial legality of marijuana and society’s perception of it. If marijuana were legalized, then synthetic cannabinoids would be useless. Despite marijuana’s illegal status, people will continue to consume drugs or alcohol to become intoxicated. Instead of fighting a legal battle with chemical distributors of synthetic weed, decriminalizing the organic substance that is less potent would serve well. This editorial was originally published in the Oracle of the University of South Florida on Feb. 5.
State of the University President Kaler outlined a number of new initiatives for the University.
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resident Eric Kaler gave his State of the University address last Thursday to a room full of 250 students, faculty and those interested in the University of Minnesota. Kaler said some important things that the higher education community needs to take to heart. Kaler aptly reacted to the House Republicans’ move to cut funding for the social sciences and a move in Florida to charge English majors more, citing a need for critical thinking skills in a complex job market. In regard to the year-round calendar plan Kaler previously introduced, the University will step back but will — as the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board agreed — experiment with two yearround programs in the College of Design. The biggest challenge to the University — as a Wall Street Journal detailed in a Dec. 28, 2012, article — is a top-heavy administration. Once the University receives a third-party report on its budget and structure, Kaler must make a practical commitment to controlling the costs of University administration and administrative salaries. The biggest announcement was a $750,000 boost in graduate student fellowships, as well as looking at the structure of graduate programs. After the University dissolved the Graduate School in 2009, and while professional students were largely left out of Kaler’s address, this is a step in the right direction for graduate options at the University. Finally, Kaler announced expanded of fice hours open for students, which is a great resource that curious students should use to question where their tuition dollars are going. Kaler called for “bold ideas,” and as students, we can be the ones to help shape the University with our own ideas.
SSFC public hearing too soon
Short turnaround time discourages student involvement in fees process.
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ast week, the Student Services Fees Committee issued initial recommendations on 2013-14 funding levels for student groups and administrative units that will determine the student services fees paid by students taking at least six credits. As the fee that students have the most direct influence on, this is one potential area where students have the chance to attempt to maintain their own costs. However, this year, the public comment period for the student groups’ portion fell just two days after the committee issued the initial recommendations. While the committee is to be commended for offering two public comment periods to accommodate different schedules, the short timing is a disservice to both students and the committee and decreases the quality of the comments themselves. Such a short window to review a 103-page document and the many additional pages of supporting materials is simply not feasible. Instead of valuable public comments on the neutral application of the criteria set out, comments are likely to devolve into complaints about the overall cost adding little value to the process. Providing a reasonable amount of time — perhaps a week — for the public to review the recommendations prior to the public comment period would encourage more substantive feedback for the committee. Although comments are accepted via email throughout the process, the oppor tunity to voice one’s comments in person adds significant weight by putting a face to the feedback. This would seem to fit within the published schedule, as the committee is not set to deliberate again until March 8.
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Opinions RELATIONSHIPS
Who is your sugar daddy? With college financial struggles, some students are looking for other ways to pay tuition.
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t’s no surprise how expensive getting a college education has become. Some students have found rather interesting ways to get a good bang for their buck. Imagine a young woman in college. She is sincere about her education, but even with scholarships, parental support and/or a job or two, she is struggling to make ends meet. She finds a way to fulfill her academic aspirations without having to slug it out for countless hours or get buried under loans. She gets herself a sugar daddy. Yes, websites like SeekingAr rangement.com and SugarDaddie.com allow young, primarily female students to ease their financial distress in exchange for some companionship. Users create their profiles, which explicitly lay out their “fee” per month or activity, among other things. Their pictures and a short bio are often enough to catch the fancy of a daddy or mama, often an affluent business professional who spends more time reading financial reports than approaching singles at a bar. Whether out of lust, a desire for a mutually beneficial relationship or simply companionship, daddies get matched with potential sugar babies with a desire to make tuition money in a safe, contractually obligated relationship. The U.K.-based National Union of Students has indicated this is a global trend, prevalent in the U.S. and the U.K. Now there are a lot of people who find such ar rangements questionable on moral grounds and would chastise these women and men, but not me. What is wrong in a contract that ensures somebody is getting paid, getting laid and graduating college? With an average monthly allowance from a sugar daddy ranging from $3,000 to $10,000, many judgmental people are comparing these transactions to prostitution. However, there are significant differences in the “sugar” culture — there are no madams or pimps around to abuse and take advantage of the par ties involved. These women aren’t working street corners and spending nights in jail — they are, instead, managing their own time and boundaries. Our super ficial world values beauty and female sexuality to such an extent that people are willing to put a price on their interactions with them. I am not surprised that there are such outlets out there for working men and women to have these relationships. We should refrain from judgment. While these mutually beneficial relationships arise from high tuition costs, there are also people looking to broaden their horizons, engage in alternative relationships and find companionship. While no two mutually beneficial relationships are the same, it’s the level of consent for those struggling to pay tuition that is worrisome.
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Supermodel Cameron Russell in her viral TED Talk admitted that she has gotten things in her life that she wouldn’t have other wise had she not won the genetic lotter y of being slender, feminine and white. Russell’s line of work is modeling, a profession that clearly subjects women to some terrible things. It is hardly an easy life. She works for a paycheck like the rest of us but believes her Cornell education always places second to her good looks. She is an empowered, extremely humble person who wishes to advise all the young girls tr ying to be like her to, well, not be like her and be more ambitious than to rely on their looks in life. She wishes for a world that gives women respect other than just tr ying to take advantage. Then there are women like Melissa King, the former Miss Teen Delaware who got her crown taken away due to a sex tape that emerged a few weeks ago. The Miss Teen Foundation isn’t enthusiastic about their contestants appearing in an amateur sex video made in a motel. The beauty pageant foundations only objectify women the old-fashioned way, parading them around in swimsuits at the tender age of 16 for sashes and trophies. Many called King a “slut” for making a sex tape. She denied reports at first but then confessed on Twitter that she did, in fact, make the video. She mentioned her idol Kim Kardashian and asked the world to see where Kardashian is after her sex tape went viral. Heck, King admits in the video that she was “doing it for fun and the money.” Are women like Collegechick37, whose profile I stumbled upon a sugar website, any different from King and Kardashian, other than a sex tape circulating worldwide? No. And there is nothing wrong with that. All the aforementioned women know that this society values cer tain bodies. Some women chose to use this as a tool to empower or advance themselves. Is getting supported by a rich stranger to live a contractually obligated lifestyle a stretch when compared to making an explicit video or posing for a magazine? All these are things people do to get what they want in life, whether it’s money, intimacy, thrill or tuition. Such relationships are the byproduct of our highly capitalistic culture, where even the most intimate moments are crafted with materialistic undertones and societal benefits. So I say go ahead, America, sugarcoat everything. Hemang Sharma welcomes comments at hsharma@mndaily.com.
Monday, March 4, 2013
SOCIAL MEDIA
Cut the Facebook umbilical cord We need to keep some social spaces separate from family.
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ocial media certainly has provided an abundance of positive and negative stories. I find this especially true of Facebook. The plethora of Facebook users runs the gamut from the affluent to the downtrodden. Social status isn’t important to Facebook; Facebook welcomes you no matter who you are or where you come from. Of course, this often means that people who you’d rather not be Facebook “friends” with can find you. You don’t have to be friends with them, but in some instances, it doesn’t feel like much of a choice. There are some people in your life who you must be friends with. Otherwise, you would suffer their ire and inquisition. As one who teaches and researches aspects of social media, I find things that happen on Facebook fascinating. In the beginning, Facebook was a “college students only” club. Then, like a virus, it spread and kept spreading until it became a global issue. Suddenly, questions we’d never heard before started arising: “Are you on Facebook? Do you want to be Facebook friends?” For some of my students, the former question is redundant; all of their friends are on Facebook. The latter question similarly becomes redundant because some of my students’ entire social circle is manifest on Facebook. This is not necessarily a bad thing, yet, nor is it a good thing. For some, it is the reality of contemporary sociality and friendship. It would be naive to say Facebook has not changed 21st century social interaction. We see examples pop up that tell us things are different than they once were.
Some data suggests that 92 percent of mothers on Facebook are friends with their children on the social networking site. Close to half of those mothers are on Facebook solely to keep tabs on their children. So your parents might be Facebook stalking you. For example: In 2009, the head of the United Kingdom’s MI6 was accidently exposed and had his cover blown by his wife, a frequent Facebook user. Also, incidents of bullying on Facebook seem to be commonplace. While these issues may not be new, they are intensified by ready Internet access. Despite this, we shouldn’t blame the Internet. People make conscious decisions on how to interact with and embody social media. No one forces people to be unpleasant or degrading. While incidents of a spy’s cover being blown are rare, Facebook has given us another issue to deal with: Facebook-friending parents. It seems only natural that parents would want to keep up with their children. If I ever have children, I will want to keep up with them. But, the entire act of connecting with your child on a social networking site originally conceived for college-age students smells of trouble. We all move in and out of different social circles every day. We interact differently in these circles both consciously and unconsciously. Our identities are swept up in these
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interactions. Thus, it can be quite vexing when one circle begins to coincide with another. Consider this: If you were visiting your grandmother, would you speak to her in the same manner as you do with your roommate? Unlikely. That being said, we can’t always control what happens in our circles or where they’ll take us. I maintain two Facebook rules: First, no family; second, no more than 100 Facebook “friends.” I’ve had these rules since I star ted using Facebook. These rules have kept me sane and have kept my parents from stumbling upon anything too risque. I certainly do not have questionable pictures or status updates on Facebook, and I don’t think my parents would disapprove of anything I do in that space. But that’s not the point. My Facebook space is a different social space than the one I have with my parents. I do my best to keep these two spaces or circles separate. I love my family, but having them interpolated into my social media spaces makes me twitch. Moreover, it seems to make college students twitch, too. Many of my students say they don’t friend their parents on Facebook. They may have good reason. Some data suggests that 92 percent of mothers on Facebook are friends with their children on the social networking site. Close to half of those mothers are on Facebook solely to keep tabs on their children. So your parents might be Facebook stalking you. This isn’t really a big deal, or at least, it isn’t a big deal to me. Facebook’s entire premise is that one person can have a tidy feed of what their friends are doing without said friends knowing when they’re being examined. Therefore, it makes perfect sense for parents to do the same, but it might complicate parental interactions. After every phone call or dinner, you wonder: Did mom see that photo? Did I make sure to set the privacy setting? Indeed, these questions linger over many social interactions that move from Facebook to other social spaces. This syndrome, as it were, seems to establish a relationship in which children are never free from their parents. Certainly, I can understand the unwillingness of many parents to separate from their children after giving birth and raising them. That’s normal and expected. But there must be spaces where children have a place to finally be free from a parent’s scrutiny. It’s a valuable part of life, to enter the world and experience it on your own. Some parents or guardians fail to understand the implications of social media sites. Our relationships with them don’t always translate over the Internet. The umbilical cord should be cut — sites like Facebook should be used with the user’s — not a parent’s — authority. Trent M Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
Support for same-sex marriage in the queer community There are symbolic and legal reasons to support gay marriage.
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n Wednesday morning, state legislators introduced a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry in Minnesota. The bill would overturn a prohibitive statute. Not everyone, however, supports same-sex marriage. Surprisingly, even some members of the gay, lesbian and bisexual community, who directly benefit most from the proposed bill, are opposed to marriage and same-sex marriage. They argue that marriage is a patriarchal and heteronormative institution. Marriage has an oppressive history where women were treated as property in economic transactions between male (father) and male (husband). Marriage and its traditions are designed for heterosexual couples, so why should lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people value and participate in an institution that has no historical relevance to their lives? But these critics seriously miss the point. First, it’s important to distinguish between supporting same-sex marriage or marriage and supporting legal same-sex marriage. It’s perfectly reasonable to criticize marriage as a social institution, and such criticism should be encouraged. But there are other reasons why one should, nonetheless, support legal samesex marriage. These reasons are both symbolic and legal. Regardless of whether you think marriage has any relevance to your life, personally, the fact remains that marriage is a basic civil right . In Minnesota, all persons who desire same-sex partners are expressly denied access to that
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right. Whether you actually support marriage or same-sex marriage is irrelevant. The real issue is that you and every other person who desires a same-sex partner lack access to rights that others are granted, for the sole purpose of designating yours and their relationships as lesser than those of heterosexual couples. In this sense, support for legal same-sex marriage isn’t an endorsement of marriage itself but symbolic of one’s support for LGBTs having equal status under the law. As stated earlier, the new proposed bill would repeal a 1997 statute. This statute is called the Minnesota Defense of Marriage Act. The statute is Minnesota’s version of the federal DOMA — many states adopted versions of this act — which defines marriage as only being between one man and one woman and allows states to deny recognition of same-sex marriages performed in other states. To illustrate, if you were to marry a same-sex partner in New York, where same-sex marriage is permitted, and were then to move back to Minnesota, Minnesota would not recognize your
New York marriage contract. In addition, if you were to marry a same-sex partner in any state that allows such marriages, the federal government currently would not recognize your marriage. This created some problems for some Minnesota district courts, the courts primarily responsible for hearing matters concerning family law and probate law in the state, among others. As a consequence of the Minnesota DOMA, district courts were unable to adjudicate, for instance, the divorce of a same-sex marriage from another state, a case that would otherwise be routine for district courts. This changed Aug. 1, 2012, when a judge of the Hennepin County Probate Court affirmed the ruling of the court’s referee that Minnesota courts have some power to dissolve same-sex marriages from other states with respect to statutory rights. The case, In re: the Estate of Proehl, involves two men who were legally married in California. After one spouse died without a will, the surviving spouse asked the probate court to determine the heir of the deceased spouse. On a narrow interpretation of the Minnesota DOMA, the court held that the intent of the Minnesota Legislature in drafting the law did not include denying same-sex couples married in other states some of the benefits of marriage. So what’s the issue? The courts in Minnesota have interpreted their way around some of the issues created by the Minnesota DOMA, so why should the law be repealed? The court’s narrow interpretation of the statute shows that courts are willing to recognize same-sex marriage in at least some capacity, but the Minnesota DOMA still complicates
that willingness. For example, the parents of the decedent in the Proehl case disclaimed their inheritance, stating that they believed their son’s husband Morrison to be the intended heir. Had the parents not done so, however, Morrison would not have been the heir in that case. In addition to being symbolic of the lesser status of LGBTs under the law, the Minnesota DOMA creates other legal obstacles as a result of so much state variability on marriage and the Minnesota courts’ recent trend in being more receptive to recognizing same-sex marriages. Aside from the argument that marriage is heteronormative and patriarchal, other critics of same-sex marriage point to the law’s unequal treatment of other family types, such as single-parent families, co-habitating couples or families who are otherwise unable or simply unwilling to marry. Why should they be denied the rights and benefits that married couples are afforded? This is a fair critique of the current legal system. Certainly legal samesex marriage is not the end-all-be-all of equality in family law, but legal same-sex marriage is, nonetheless, a practical step in that direction. Not everyone desires to marry, including many gay people who are critical of marriage. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t support legalizing same-sex marriage. Legalizing same-sex marriage goes beyond heteronormativity and patriarchy. Legal same-sex marriage is a symbol of our humanity and recognition that our love for others means something. James Castle welcomes comments at jcastle@mndaily.com.
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Gophers split final home WCHA series
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Minnesota forward Zach Budish skates after the puck against Denver on Saturday at Mariucci Arena.
Minnesota bounced back Saturday after a poor effort Friday led to a loss. BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com
The Gophers gave fans a view of both of their sides this weekend. They showed they could be a team that makes an early exit from the NCAA tournament or a team that can win it all. No. 2 Minnesota (22-7-5, 14-7-5 WCHA) rebounded from its worst performance of the season Friday by beating Denver 5-1 on Saturday. The Pioneers shut out the Gophers 2-0 on Friday. It was the first time Minnesota had failed to score in a game since March 2011. This weekend also marked the Gophers’ final Western Collegiate Hockey Association series at Mariucci Arena. Minnesota will move to the new Big Ten hockey conference next season. Fans have loudly booed a Big Ten commercial during intermissions the past two weekends at Mariucci. Nick Bjugstad scored the game-winning goal on the power play Saturday night, culminating a weekend of power-play struggles for the Gophers. The Gophers went 0-for-5 on the power play Friday and were outshot by the Pioneers 8-2 on Minnesota’s extra man
opportunities. Minnesota head coach Don Lucia said he gave his team an “earful” after Friday night’s anemic performance. The team also had an impromptu meeting after the defeat. “It wasn’t pretty after the game last night,” junior forward Erik Haula said Saturday. “It’s understandable — coaches are going to be on us because they know what we’re capable of.” The talks seemed to work. Seeing a different goaltender might have helped, too. After a 33-save shutout Friday, Denver’s Juho Olkinuora watched teammate Sam Brittain give up four goals Saturday from the bench. Olkinuora has been Denver’s primary goaltender this season, but Brittain had found success against Minnesota in the past. Brittain’s numbers don’t tell the story of the game as a whole, which was played evenly throughout the first two periods. The junior made numerous big saves until the Gophers broke the game open in the third. Zach Budish tied the game at 1-1 in the second when he slammed a rebound past a sprawling Brittain. The junior forward had four points in Saturday’s win. “I was telling the guys, ‘I’m going to lose my mind if we wouldn’t have scored there,’ ” Haula said. “I had a semibreakaway before that and
kind of an open net — I don’t know how he saved that.” Bjugstad’s power-play goal put the Gophers up 2-1. Minnesota pounded the nail in Denver’s coffin a couple of minutes later when Justin Holl and Sam Warning scored in quick succession. Budish added an empty-net goal late. The Gophers have had recent problems following up impressive Friday nights with subpar Saturday ones. They reversed that trend this weekend. Lucia didn’t hide his anger after Friday’s loss. “I’m agitated. I’m really disappointed,” Lucia said Friday. “When you get outshot 8-2 on your own power play, that kind of sums it up.” Fans booed the Gophers a couple of times Friday. “We’re embarrassed,“ Budish said Friday. “We deserved to get booed tonight.” Denver scored first in both games. Minnesota was able to overcome the deficit Saturday, but it fell 2-0 on Friday when the Pioneers added a late empty-net goal. The Gophers’ first line of Kyle Rau, Bjugstad and Budish lacked consistency and chemistry Friday and completed passes between the trio were rare. “They weren’t in the same area code,“ Lucia said. “I thought our [third and fourth lines] had more energy and more effort tonight than our top [line] did.”
MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
Denver Minnesota
1 0 0
2 0 0
3 FINAL 2 2 0 0
Denver Minnesota
1 1 0
2 0 1
3 FINAL 0 1 4 5
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WCHA STANDINGS 1 2 2 4 4 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
St. Cloud State Minnesota North Dakota MSU-Mankato Wisconsin Nebraska-Omaha Denver Colorado College Minnesota-Duluth Michigan Tech Bemidji State Alaska-Anchorage
35 33 33 31 31 30 29 24 21 18 17 10
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Lucia juggled the lines for Saturday’s game. Bjugstad said Friday’s game could be valuable as a late-season wakeup call. “Ever y once in a while we need a reminder,” Bjugstad said Saturday. “We’re college kids, so every once in a while we need a kick in the butt.” Minnesota wasn’t the only team atop the WCHA that had problems this weekend. Conference leader St. Cloud State split its series, which means the WCHA crown will be decided in the last weekend.
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Minnesota forward Christian Isackson reaches for the puck Saturday at Mariucci Arena.
The Gophers trail St. Cloud State by two points and are tied with North Dakota for second place in the conference. Minnesota will finish the season at Bemidji State. St. Cloud State will travel to Wisconsin, and North Dakota
will travel to Minnesota StateMankato. Wisconsin and MSU are tied for fourth in the conference, and 11th-place Bemidji State should be the easiest opponent out of the top three.
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WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Räty sets two records as Gophers advance in playoffs Minnesota shut out Bemidji State twice in the first round of the WCHA tourney. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
The Gophers women’s hockey team started the journey toward its second trophy of the season in record fashion, of course. Minnesota, which has been setting records nearly every weekend this season, beat Bemidji State 5-0 on Friday and 8-0 on Saturday at Ridder Arena in the first round of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playoffs. The Gophers extended their winning streak to 44 games and cemented their spot in the WCHA Final Faceoff next weekend. Senior goaltender Noora
Räty also broke the NCAA Division I career shutout record Friday and season shutout record Saturday. She now has 41 career shutouts and 15 this season. Minnesota head coach Brad Frost said the shutout records seemed out of reach at the start of the season. But the seasoned goaltender proved him wrong. “She’s the backbone of our team and really has been for our program here over the last four years,” Frost said. Räty, who had 20 saves Friday and 19 Saturday, said she doesn’t think about shutouts in terms of records. “As long as I get a shutout, we can’t lose,” Räty said. Räty wasn’t the only player with a record-breaking weekend. Senior defender Megan Bozek set Minnesota’s singleseason record for points by a defender with 52. Bozek scored two goals Friday and
had a goal and two assists Saturday. “We have a great defensive core this year,” Bozek said. “And all six of us can rush the puck, shoot the puck, skate the puck.” Junior defender Baylee Gillanders scored her first goal of the season Saturday, and senior forward/defender Katie Frischmann scored her second goal. The Gophers had eight goal scorers Saturday. “It’s great that Baylee, Katie and Brook [Garzone] all got goals today,” Bozek said Saturday. “It’s playoff hockey, and anything can happen. And for people to step up right now is really big for our team.” The need for a diverse set of scorers was even more apparent with the absence of junior forward Amanda Kessel. Kessel sat out last weekend’s games against St. Cloud
State to rest from an undisclosed injur y. Minnesota scored only five goals in two wins against the Huskies. The NCAA’s leading scorer played only three powerplay shifts and one regular shift Friday. She dressed Saturday but did not play. Sophomore forward Rachael Bona moved into her position. Frost said while playing without Kessel isn’t ideal, it showed the depth of his team. “Teams can try and shut down one line,” Frost said, “but it’s going to be hard to shut down all three plus our [defense].” Saturday’s game also gave Minnesota’s penalty kill a chance to shine. The Gophers were down two players late in the second period. Frost said he doesn’t like his team to be shorthanded, but “it’s another opportunity to rise to the occasion.” They did just that, scoring
a shorthanded goal, one of their five goals in the second period. Bozek said it’s easy to take Räty’s saves against lowerranked teams for granted, but the goaltender earned her shutout during Bemidji State’s power play. Bemidji State had eight shots in the first two periods but picked up its offense as the game progressed, finishing with 19 shots. “I was pretty much just standing there for 35 minutes, so my legs were absolutely burning,” Räty said.” Both teams started slowly Friday. Neither team scored in the first period after a Gophers goal was disallowed 13 minutes in. Bozek said her team didn’t let the lost goal dampen its performance. “The call could have gone either way, and I think that gave us a little momentum,
to be honest,” Bozek said Friday. Räty said she knew a few players on the team were ner vous heading into the playoffs, but once the second period started, they shook the nerves. “The way we played, even the last two weekends, I feel like we didn’t play at our best,” Räty said Saturday. “This was like a whole different team. I feel like they played with more passion and pride than I’ve seen them play in the last few weeks.”
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
Bemidji State Minnesota
1 0 0
2 0 1
3 FINAL 0 0 4 5
Bemidji State Minnesota
1 0 2
2 0 5
3 FINAL 0 0 1 8
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Seniors give emphatic farewell in rout The Gophers beat Penn State by 29 points in their last home game. BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com
The Gophers’ Julian Welch lobbed an alley-oop pass to Rodney Williams with 15 seconds left in the first half of Minnesota’s 73-44 win over Penn State on Saturday afternoon. Welch’s errant pass almost missed Williams, who stretched out his 6-foot-10inch wingspan to grab the ball and dunk it with his left hand. His acrobatics caused the announced Williams Arena crowd of 12,562 to erupt. “The guys said it’s my best [dunk],” Williams said. “So I’m going to go with those guys.” Williams’ 160th career dunk was one of his last at Williams Arena. Seniors Welch, Williams, Trevor Mbakwe and Andre Ingram all started and said farewell to the Barn on Senior Day — the Gophers’ final home game this season. Williams jumped into Mbakwe’s arms before the Gophers went into the locker room at halftime. They led 34-12 at the half after holding Penn State (1-15 Big Ten) scoreless for more than 11 minutes to start the game. Back-to-back wins over No. 1 Indiana last Tuesday and Penn State on Saturday have the Gophers (8-8 Big Ten) playing like they did during their 15-1 start to the season. Minnesota is 5-8 since. “It’s more special now because of the tough stretch we had,” Mbakwe said. Mbakwe has combined to score 34 points and 25 rebounds in the two wins. The Gophers jumped out to a 16-0 lead Saturday and kept their foot on the gas throughout the game. “I was concerned with MINNESOTA 73, PENN STATE 44 Penn State Minnesota
12 32 34 39
— 44 — 73
PENN STATE Player Travis Borovnjak Colella Marshall Newbill Taylor Graham Montminy Wisniewski Ackerman Total
FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF 39 3-11 2-3 0-3 0 3 28 3-6 1-2 0-3 1 3 30 0-1 0-0 0-2 1 5 26 3-8 2-3 0-4 2 4 39 2-16 10-14 1-3 4 3 21 2-6 0-0 0-3 1 2 9 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 2 3 0-0 0-1 1-1 0 0 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 200 13-48 15-23 7-30 9 24
Pts 8 7 0 10 15 4 0 0 0 0 44
how our guys would respond after the good win we had against Indiana,” head coach Tubby Smith said. “But it being a home game, Senior Day, our guys were very focused.” The Nittany Lions shot 0-for-11 from the floor before sophomore guard D.J. Newbill hit a jumper at the 8:42 mark. The Gophers held Penn State to 12 first-half points, the fewest they’ve allowed all season. “I would say these are two of our better games,” Williams said. “When the offense wasn’t as good, we relied on defense. That’s what good teams do.” Penn State implemented a zone defense that many Gophers opponents have used
successfully against Minnesota. Despite starters Andre Hollins and Joe Coleman coming off the bench, Minnesota’s offense didn’t flinch. Senior reserves Ingram and Welch combined for the game’s first seven points. Ingram’s start was the first of his career. Mbakwe and Williams combined to score the next six points and finished with 13 and 10 points, respectively. Minnesota’s four seniors combined for 37 points. “Four years seemed like forever, but it went by so fast,” said Mbakwe, who has played only two full seasons at Minnesota. “Great to see the crowd, the ovation they gave us. I’m going to remember
Percentages: FG .271, FT .652. Three-pointers: 3-14, .214 (Marshall 2-5, Newbill 1-4, Taylor 0-4, Colella 0-1). Blocks: 5 (Taylor 3, Borovnjak, Marshall). Team rebounds: 10. Turnovers: 10 (Newbill 3, Marshall 2, Borovnjak 2, Taylor, Graham). Steals: 4 (Travis, Borovnjak, Marshall, Newbill).
MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 20 2-3 0-0 1-3 0 4 4 Ingram 26 6-9 1-4 6-13 2 4 13 Mbakwe 29 4-6 2-5 1-7 4 3 10 Williams Hollins, Au. 15 2-7 0-0 0-1 1 1 4 24 2-5 5-9 0-2 7 1 10 Welch Hollins, An. 28 3-5 2-2 0-2 3 1 11 13 5-7 2-2 0-0 0 1 12 Coleman 0-1 0-0 1-6 1 1 0 9 Eliason 12 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 1 3 Ahanmisi 0-0 0-0 0-3 0 0 0 8 Walker 0-2 2-2 0-1 1 1 2 7 Osenieks 1-4 0-0 1-1 0 1 2 4 Ellenson 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 3 Halvorsen 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 2 0 2 Shell 200 27-54 14-24 12-46 20 23 73 Total Percentages: FG .500, FT .583. Three-pointers: 5-17, .294 (Andre Hollins 3-4, Welch 1-3, Ahanmisi 1-3, Au. Hollins 0-3, Mbakwe 0-1, Williams 0-1, Ellenson 0-1). Blocks: 5 (Eliason 2, Mbakwe, Williams, Ahanmisi). Team rebounds: 5. Turnovers: 10 (Mbakwe 3, Ingram 2, Andre Hollins 2, Coleman, Eliason, Ellenson). Steals: 6 (Mbakwe, Williams, Andre Hollins, Ahanmisi, Osenieks, Halvorsen). A: 12,562. Officials: Terry Wymer, Bo Boroski, Jim Burr.
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Minnesota forward Rodney Williams makes a move against Penn State on Saturday at Williams Arena.
that for a long time.”
Fans chant at seniors, Vaughn
The Gophers’ student section started many chants during Saturday’s lopsided victory. Echoes of “thank you seniors” reverberated of f the walls of Williams Arena as Minnesota’s four seniors played up until the last few minutes. Williams was the last senior to come off the court, and fans cheered him on with “one last dunk” chants. Williams defer red to Welch, who was fouled trying to dunk, during one of his last possessions. “I wanted to get one last one,” Williams said, “but you can’t always get what you want.” Fans also chanted “we want Vaughn” in the direction of Gophers recruit and Robbinsdale Cooper High School junior Rashad Vaughn, who was in attendance behind the Gophers’ bench. Minnesota athletics director Nor wood Teague and Smith both approached Vaughn during the game to speak with him. Vaughn is ranked as the top shooting guard prospect of 2014 by ESPN and has offers from Kentucky, Kansas, Louisville and Minnesota, among others.
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Gophers players react after a dunk by forward Rodney Williams against Penn State on Saturday at Williams Arena.
Consecutive wins boost confidence, NCAA résumé BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com
Senior Trevor Mbakwe promised he’d repay his scholarship if the Gophers missed the NCAA tournament this year. He probably won’t have to. Minnesota is 5-5 against top-25 teams this season, a reputable mark for playing in the Big Ten conference, where even unranked teams provide a stif f challenge. “I think we’ve made a good case for ourselves,” head coach Tubby Smith said of his team’s NCAA tournament chances. But back-to-back wins, including a victor y over No. 1 Indiana on Tuesday, have the Gophers thinking past an NCAA tournament bid. “We’re real good,” senior Julian Welch said. “When ever ybody’s contributing, in our eyes we’re Final Four caliber.” The Gophers ranked at the top of the nation in strength of schedule last week, and they should remain highly ranked despite playing lowly Penn State on Saturday. Minnesota has a realistic chance to win its last two games at Nebraska and Purdue and head into the Big Ten tournament on a four-game winning streak. If so, the Gophers would finish with a 10-8 record in the Big Ten, Smith’s first winning record in the conference during his six-year tenure. Senior Rodney Williams, who has combined for 17 points and 12 rebounds in the past two wins, said it’s important to get hot at the right time. “For us to catch fire like we have been doing the last two games,” he said, “I think this is a real good time to do it going into the tournaments.”
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Women end Big Ten season strong
Teague confirms Borton’s unpublicized contract extension
The Gophers beat Indiana on Sunday after upsetting PSU on Thursday. BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com
The topsy-tur vy Gophers women’s basketball regular season is over. And while there have been plenty of lows, especially in Big Ten play, Minnesota finished the regular season on a high note that could help propel it into the NCAA tournament. Minnesota followed up its upset of No. 7 Penn State on Thursday with a 59-53 road win over conference cellar dweller Indiana. The Gophers (18-12) won three of their past four Big Ten games to finish the conference season 7-9, a one-game improvement from their 2011-12 record. Junior for ward-center
Micaëlla Riché continued to roll after a 24-point outing against Penn State with a dominant ef for t against Indiana. She had 17 points and a career-high 15 rebounds. Her three-point play with 23 seconds left proved to be the biggest play of the game. It put the Gophers up six and essentially ended any hope for a Hoosiers comeback. Sophomore guard Rachel Banham had 15 points and six assists. Freshman guard Shayne Mullaney added 11 points and five rebounds. Minnesota jumped on Indiana early and led by 10 late in the first half. Indiana made a push to cut the deficit to five at halftime, but the Gophers stretched their lead to 11 early in the second half. Minnesota’s win over Indiana was important for its NCAA tournament chances
but not as important as its win over Penn State. The No. 7 Nittany Lions had already clinched a share of the Big Ten regular season championship before they were upset in Minneapolis. Aside from 23 turnovers, the Gophers were nearly flawless of fensively and shot 67 percent from the floor. Riché’s 24 points led the way. Banham scored 23 points, and junior guard Sari Noga made six threepointers and had 19 points, both career highs. Noga also hassled Big Ten Player of the year frontrunner Maggie Lucas and forced her into an inef ficient night offensively — 23 points on 10-for-24 shooting. Minnesota will play Ohio State on Thursday in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament. The Gophers swept
the season series with the Buckeyes. MINNESOTA 59, INDIANA 53 Minnesota Indiana
26 33 21 32
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MINNESOTA Player Kellogg Riche Banham Mullaney Noga Cotton Hirt Loberg Total
FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast 25 3-5 0-0 2-4 1 33 7-17 3-3 7-15 0 39 5-16 3-4 1-3 6 30 4-6 2-3 0-5 1 35 0-5 0-0 1-7 1 16 2-4 0-0 0-1 4 11 3-6 0-0 0-2 0 11 0-1 0-0 1-2 1 200 24-60 8-10 14-41 14
PF 5 2 1 1 4 3 1 1 18
Pts 6 17 15 11 0 4 6 0 59
Percentages: FG .400, FT .800. Three-pointers: 3-12, .250 (Banham 2-6, Mullaney 1-1, Noga 0-4, Cotton 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Riche, Banham). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 17 (Riche 6, Kellogg 5, Banham 2, Cotton 2, Hirt, Loberg). Steals: 6 (Kellogg, Banham, Mullaney, Noga, Cotton, Hirt, Loberg).
INDIANA Player Rubene Chaplin Sinclair McGhee Bell newbauer Mize Deloach Taufa Total
FG FT Min M-A M-A 3-5 3--4 17 28 6-8 5-5 38 3-12 1-2 40 5-16 1-2 25 1-7 0-0 15 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-4 8 12 1-3 0-0 0-3 0-0 17 200 19-54 13-17
Reb O-T 2-4 3-9 1-3 1-5 0-1 0-3 0-0 1-4 1-3 11-34
Ast 1 2 2 3 2 4 0 0 1 15
PF 4 2 3 2 0 1 0 3 2 17
Pts 9 17 7 12 3 0 3 2 0 53
Percentages: FG .352, FT .765. Three-pointers: 2-10, .200 (Bell 1-5, McGhee 1-2, Sinclair 0-3) Blocks: 3 (Chaplin, Sinclair, Taufa). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 17 (Taufa 4, McGhee 3, Sinclair 3, Rubene 2, Bell 2, Chaplin, Newbauer). Steals: 3 (Chaplin, Newbauer, Taufa). A: 3,145. Officials: Amy Bonner, Gina Cross, Rod Creech.
BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com
Gophers head women’s basketball coach Pam Borton received a two-year contract extension shortly before former athletics director Joel Maturi’s tenure ended in June 2012, current AD Norwood Teague confirmed Thursday. Contract extensions happen all the time, but this particular extension was strange because it wasn’t announced publicly. Borton confirmed the extension to the Star Tribune on Wednesday. The contract pays Borton a minimum of $485,000 annually, and a buyout would cost the University more than $500,000, according to the Star Tribune — up from $167,500 before the extension. Teague, speaking to the
media for the first time in months, said he was not part of the decision to extend Borton. “I would’ve wanted to announce it. I always want to be as transparent as possible — we don’t want to hide anything,” he said. “When you have a high-paid coach sign, you want to do that.” Borton, who has coached the Gophers since 2002, led them to a Final Four appearance in 2004. But Minnesota hasn’t made an NCAA tournament in four years, and attendance is down more than 70 percent — from nearly 10,000 fans per game in 2003-04 to fewer than 3,000 last season. The Gophers wrapped up their regular season Sunday. They’ll likely need to make a run in the Big Ten tournament next weekend to qualify for the NCAA tournament.
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SWIMMING & DIVING
Men take fourth, Michigan wins again The Wolverines have won five of the past six Big Ten championships. BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com
For the third straight season, the Gophers men’s swimming and diving team finished four th at the Big Ten championships while one of its biggest rivals celebrated a conference title. No. 3 Michigan cruised to its third straight Big Ten title Saturday at the Counsilman-Billingsley Aquatic Center in Bloom-
ington, Ind. The Wolverines, who have won five of the past six conference titles, exer ted their dominance over the four-day championships, winning more than half the events, including all five relays. The Wolverines finished with 899 team points. “They’re going to continue to be dominant,” Minnesota head coach Kelly Kremer said. “They’re going to be a handful for anybody, not just in the Big Ten, but in the country.” Indiana took second (664 points), followed by Ohio State (470), Minnesota (378) and Purdue (328). Michigan opened the championships with victo-
ries in the 200-yard medley relay and the 800 freestyle relay Wednesday. The Gophers finished sixth in the 200 medley relay after a strong final leg by junior captain Derek Toomey. Toomey had the fastest split in the event, swimming the last 50 yards in 18.39 seconds. Toomey won the preliminar y round of the 50 freestyle Thursday morning with a pool-r ecor d time of 19.25 seconds. He finished third in the final Thursday night after a poor star t with a time of 19.42 seconds. Freshman diver Manny Pollard took four th place in 1-meter diving, ear ning a career-best score,
but the Gophers trailed Purdue for fifth place after Thursday. A strong showing in the 100 breaststroke Friday propelled the Gophers back into fourth. Sophomore Max Car twright finished four th in the 100 breaststroke followed by senior captain Jared Anderson in fifth and senior Josh Hall in seventh. The Gophers wrapped up Friday night with two top-10 finishes in 3-meter diving and took a 31-point lead over Purdue for fourth place. To o m e y e a r n e d a n other top seed in the 100 freestyle preliminaries Saturday morning but again took third in the finals Sat-
urday night. Senior diver Mikey Ross earned his third top10 finish of the championships with a sixth-place finish in platform diving Saturday, and Pollard took ninth in the event. The Gophers closed the championships with a third-place finish in the 400 freestyle relay. Michigan won the event for its 12th victor y in four days. Kremer said his team has to improve its relays and its overall consistency, among other things, if it wants to compete with Michigan in the future. “Talking to the guys, they’re really hungr y for the time when we can get back into the discussion of
BIG TEN MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Michigan Indiana Ohio State Minnesota Purdue Wisconsin Iowa Penn State Northwestern Michigan State
899 664 470 378 328 277 245 212 161 126
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winning Big Ten championships,” he said. The Gophers will compete later this month at the NCAA championships in Indianapolis, Ind.
GYMNASTICS
Men win big in return home, women improve in loss The Gophers avenged a loss to Iowa from three weeks ago. BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com
The Gophers men’s gymnastics team got revenge during the weekend for its first loss of the season three weeks ago at Iowa. The No. 6 Gophers beat the No. 8 Hawkeyes at the Spor ts Pavilion by more than 11 points in their first test using only five gymnasts on each event. Minnesota used the system to its advantage, winning five of the six events as a team. The Gophers scored a season-high 71.4 points on pommel horse, their weakest event for most of the season. They swept the topfour places individually. Minnesota head coach Mike Burns said the meet was essentially decided after pommel horse. The Gophers also dominated on parallel bars and horizontal bars. Sophomore Steve Jaciuk had the best team score in both events. “He’s got ice water in his veins,” Burns said of Jaciuk. Jaciuk, who won the parallel bars and placed second on high bar, said he wasn’t more ner vous for the five-count system. “I didn’t think about it once,” he said, though he admitted he calmed down after a gymnast fell on the floor exercise in the first rotation. Bur ns said he wasn’t sure what to expect with the initial use of the fivecount system. The team had to count three falls on routines, which is equivalent to three or four points lost. Bur ns said he was pleased the team hit 27 of 30 routines with the circumstances. “What I saw tonight is a team that I think needs to now believe that they can actually do it,” Burns said. “I hope they came away with the same kind of beliefs that I did after seeing them.” Sophomore Sean Bauer, who scored a season-high on vault, said the meet was “a step in the right direction” after a rough weekend in Chicago. “We can show how consistent we are,” he said. “I’m proud of the team.” Minnesota battled only Iowa on the score sheet, but the Spor ts Pavilion floor featured other teams and competitions. The University of Minnesota’s club gymnastics men’s team competed in the building for the first time. The Men’s Inter col legiate Gymnastics Suppor t Program, which is designed to expand collegiate gymnastics oppor tunities across the countr y, held its men’s national invitational as well. Fans for both competitions were mixed into the bleachers, and it was
JAAK JENSEN, DAILY
Minnesota’s Ellis Mannon performs his parallel bars routine Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.
sometimes difficult to know which teams received the most support. The Gophers will see Iowa again in two weeks when both teams travel to Nebraska. Minnesota travels to Illinois next weekend.
Women improve on bars, score well in Florida
The No. 14 Gophers women’s gymnastics team took many positives away from its third straight loss Friday night. Minnesota posted the second-highest team score in school histor y in the loss. The record was set in 2004 at Arizona State. The Gophers scored se ason h igh s in th r ee events Friday, but No. 2 Florida stole the show, winning all four events and the all-around competition. The Gators swept the top-five spots on uneven bars and the top-thr ee
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS
spots on floor exercise. Minnesota head coach Meg Stephenson said she was pleased with the team’s ability to bounce back after two frustrating meets a week ago. “It was exactly what we needed,” she said. “The girls really knew they had to get out here and get it done tonight, and they did.” Senior Shannon Golich said the team learned a lot about itself last weekend. Minnesota has str uggled with bars in competition lately, and it posted its lowest score of the season in the event last Sunday against Iowa State. The Gophers rebounded Friday night and scored their second-highest total of the season. Freshman Lindsay Mable continued to pace Minnesota in the allaround competition. She scored a season high of
MEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS
RESULTS
TEAMS Minnesota Florida
SCORE 197.175 198.425
MINNESOTA LEADERS SCORE Vault Mable, 9.925 Covers, 9.925 Bars Mable, 9.85 Beam Golich, 9.925 Nordquist, 9.925 Floor Schermann, 9.925 All-around Mable, 39.525
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
TEAMS Minnesota Iowa
SCORE 428.75 416.3
MINNESOTA LEADERS SCORE Floor Wokurka, 14.8 Bauer, 14.8 Pommel horse Mannon, 15.05 Still rings Metcalf, 14.8 Vault Kern, 14.8 Bauer, 14.8 Parallel bars Jaciuk, 15.1 High bars Jaciuk, 14.85
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
39.525 to finish four th. Florida had the top-three places. Freshman Hanna Nordquist tied for third on balance beam in her first meet back from a foot injur y. Nordquist, who seemed pleased with her seasonbest per for mance, said
she still has a little pain in her foot. Golich, who set personal bests on beam and floor, said she has waited since freshman year for the high scores to come. “It was the best feeling of my life,” she said of her performance. “It felt so accomplishing.”
Friday was the Gophers’ last regular season road meet. The next time the team travels will be for the Big Ten championships later this month. “This team is ready for anything,” Golich said. “We are a ver y confident team … and we are confident in each other.”
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TRACK & FEILD
BASEBALL
Men seize chance Bats fall short at home to qualify for NCAAs BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com
The women’s team failed to improve any of their marks over the weekend. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
The Gophers men’s and women’s track and field teams had one last chance to qualify for the NCAA indoor championships next weekend. The men took advantage of the opportunity, but the women str uggled to improve their marks. Official qualifiers will be announced early this week. Usually the top 16 in individual events and top 12 in relays compete at nationals. The Gophers men’s distance medley relay finished fifth at the Alex Wilson Invitational in South Bend, Ind. They were ranked No. 12 heading into the event. Minnesota’s relay of seniors Travis Burkstrand, Cameron Boy, Harun Abda and Nick Hutton ran 9:29.22 to break the school r ecor d and solidify its NCAA spot. Hutton said his relay knew it had to run at least
9:30 to secure its qualification. The athletes broke down each leg and set individual time goals. “It was pretty much exactly how we scripted it,” Hutton said. Junior John Simons ran the second sub-four minute mile in Gophers histor y at the Alex Wilson Invitational, finishing third with a time 3:59.32. Simons ranks No. 21 in the nation and has an “outside chance” of making the championships, head coach Steve Plasencia said. Sophomore Justin Barber is in a similar situation. Barber won the weight throw at the Iowa State Qualifier with a distance of 20.46 meters. While his teammates senior Micah Hegerle and junior Jon Lehman are in qualifying position, Barber ranks just outside the top 16. Senior Sean King also ran in the 60-meter dash but did not improve his time. He is also on the verge of qualifying. The Gophers are also expected to qualify their 4x400-meter relay and Abda in the 800-meter run. While the men have sev-
eral concrete qualifiers, the women are in a less comfortable position. “At this point it looks like there’ll be no one at nationals,” head coach Matt Bingle said. “Unless someone scratches … we’re not going to have anybody there.” Several athletes had national rankings in their events before the Alex Wilson Invitational but all failed to improve their marks. Bingle pulled junior Te’Shon Adderley from competition in the 800 because she had a tight hamstring during warm-ups. Adderley now ranks No. 25 in the 800, and her teammate senior Alena Brooks ranks No. 22. Senior TodeaKay Willis is No. 18 in the long jump. Senior Kylie Peterson finished four th in the 60. Bingle said Brooks, Willis and Peterson could not “take care of business.” “Any time you go to a last chance meet, it is definitely more pressurized,” Bingle said. “When you’re just doing it for you and you’re not doing it for your team, it creates a different vibe.”
The Gophers trailed Northern Illinois by a run heading into the bottom of the ninth inning Sunday. Minnesota’s heart of the order had one last chance to save the team from a weekend-ending defeat, but Huskies starter Alex Klonowski wouldn’t have it. Klonowski retired Dan Olinger, Michael Handel and JT Canakes in order, sending Minnesota to a 2-1 defeat, its second in three days at the four-team Dairy Queen Classic. The Gophers (6-5) lost 10-3 on Friday to eventual tournament champion Dartmouth but rebounded Saturday with a 4-1 win over Utah. Minnesota was at Klonowski’s mercy all afternoon Sunday. Klonowski allowed one run on two hits in a complete-game gem. “ We c o u l d n ’ t g e t a rhythm going against him. He mixed it up pretty well,” Olinger said. Minnesota’s lone r un came on third baseman Ryan Abrahamson’s solo home r un in the third inning, which tied the game at 1-1. Sophomore Jordan Jess started for the Gophers and surrendered only one run. He escaped a couple of jams, too, but his afternoon was done after five innings. He allowed five hits, walked two and struck out
two. “ We p i t c h e d g o o d enough; there’s no question,” Minnesota head coach John Anderson said. Freshman Lance Thonvold took over for Jess and allowed the go-ahead run in the sixth inning. Thonvold settled down after that, and Minnesota had runners in scoring position a couple of times down the stretch. But Klonowski held his ground and got the big outs when he needed them. “If you’re going to lose, you might as well get beat and not beat yourself,” Canakes said. Canakes and catcher Kurt Schlangen were named to the All-Tournament team. Anderson said he was impressed with how Jess worked through jams early in the game. He also spoke highly of sophomore Ben Meyer’s performance Saturday. Meyer, an All-Tournament honoree, allowed one un-
earned run in eight innings of three-hit ball in Minnesota’s 4-1 victory over Utah. Schlangen was 1-for-3 with a pair of RBIs, and Olinger and left fielder Andy Henkemeyer each drove in a run. Henkemeyer’s RBI came at a cost. After rounding first base, the senior dove back into the bag and injured his shoulder. Anderson said Henkemeyer’s injury is not short term. Junior catcher Matt Halloran also dinged up his shoulder. He’ll have a chance to return by the end of this week, Anderson said. The Gophers dropped their first game of the tournament an unimpressive fashion. The Mean Green roughed up Minnesota ace Tom Windle for five runs in the fifth inning and coasted the rest of the way. “You’re going to have some of those [losses] in a 56-game schedule,” Anderson said.
BASEBALL RESULTS
Dartmouth Minnesota
1 0 0
2 1 0
3 0 0
4 0 0
5 5 0
6 0 0
7 0 3
8 1 0
9 3 0
R H 10 17 3 8
E 0 1
Utah Minnesota
1 0 0
2 0 0
3 0 2
4 0 0
5 0 2
6 1 0
7 0 0
8 0 0
9 0 X
R 1 4
H 3 9
E 1 3
N. Illinois Minnesota
1 0 0
2 0 0
3 1 1
4 0 0
5 0 0
6 1 0
7 0 0
8 0 0
9 0 0
R 2 1
H 9 2
E 0 1
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
TENNIS
Gophers break slump by upsetting No. 14 Huskies Minnesota beat Washington 6-1 to end a two-match losing streak. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
The Gophers men’s tennis team got a much-needed victor y Sunday as it upset No. 14 Washington 6-1 at Baseline Tennis Center. No. 66 Minnesota had been reeling after 4-3 losses to rival Wisconsin last weekend and to No. 27 Drake on Friday night. The Gophers improved their record to 4-7 with the win over Washington.
“It’s nice to see the guys are … star ting to figure some things out,” head coach Geof f Young said Sunday. “I think we did well against Drake as well, but this one was fun.” Young appeared upset with his squad’s effort last weekend, but he said that effort was improved this weekend. The Gophers entered Sunday as the clear underdog against the Huskies, but they didn’t play like it. Minnesota was dominant from the start and earned the doubles point with wins by its No. 1 and No. 2 pairings. Young switched up a
couple of his pairings during the weekend due in part to recent struggles. He said senior Brendan Ruddock was unable to compete, so the team had to adapt. Those switches worked out for the most par t, as sophomores Jack Hamburg and Mathieu Froment won both of their No. 1 doubles matches. Froment delivered a forceful overhead smash Sunday that gave the Gophers the doubles point, and Minnesota rolled from there. Hamburg followed up his win in doubles with an impressive 6-2, 6-2 win at No. 4 singles. Froment followed suit with a 6-3, 6-2 win at No. 3 singles. Young said he hopes the win against Washington proved to his players that they can battle with the top players in the nation. “I hope guys will now start to believe in themselves when they get into tight spots in some close matches,” Young said. The Gophers will have two weeks off before they resume play at Miami on March 19. Young has plans for his team in the final break before the season starts to pick up. “We’re going to run a lot,” he said, “and get very fit.”
MEN’S TENNIS RESULTS
MINNESOTA 6, WASHINGTON 1 Singles Bonin Toledo Froment Hamburg Ramirez Weber
L W W W W W
Doubles Froment/Hamburg Bonin/Ramirez Frueh/Toledo
W 8-6 W 8-6 L 8-3
3-6, 6-3, 7-5 7-6 (3), 5-7, 1-0 (7) 6-3, 6-2 6-2, 6-2 7-5, 6-2 6-4, 6-4
DRAKE 4, MINNESOTA 3 Singles Bonin Toledo Hamburg Froment Ramirez Weber
W W L L L W
Doubles Froment/Hamburg Bonin/Ramirez Frueh/Toledo
W 8-5 L 8-4 L 8-2
4-6, 6-2, 6-4 7-5, 2-6, 6-1 6-3, 6-2 1-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 2-6, 7-6 (1), 6-4 7-6 (5), 6-3
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Minnesota pitcher Jordan Jess winds up for a pitch Sunday at the Metrodome in Minneapolis.
SOFTBALL
Moulton throws second no-hitter in a row as Gophers go 3-0 BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com
Junior Sara Moulton looks like she’s trying to raise the bar even higher after impressive freshman and sophomore campaigns. Against Middle Tennessee State on Friday, Moulton became the first Gophers pitcher to throw a no-hitter in back-to-back games. The Gophers (10-7) won the game 8-0, their first of three victories on the weekend. Moulton had no-hit Albany last Sunday in a 1-0 victory. “She’s doing a great job,” head coach Jessica Allister said. “We’re playing pretty good defense behind her.” Moulton notched wins in all three of the Gophers’ games during the weekend and now has a 10-4 record. She had 15 strikeouts during Sunday’s 6-4 win over Gardner-Webb. Minnesota blew late leads in its Saturday and Sunday games, but Allister said the games were very different. Gardner-Webb used a three-run home run to tie the game in the sixth inning Sunday, and it added another run in the inning to take
a one-run lead. Minnesota tied it again in the bottom of the sixth and won on a walkoff, two-run home run by sophomore Tyler Walker in the seventh. “Today I think we learned a huge lesson,” Allister said Sunday. “If you let teams hang around … it can come back to bite you.” Allister didn’t seem concerned with the Gophers’ blown lead in Saturday’s win over host Auburn. “Auburn’s a great team,” Allister said. “I’ll take a win against them any day.” Walker went 3-for-4 on Saturday with two runs batted in against the Tigers. Walker’s performance at
the plate was a welcome sight for her coach, who had hoped to see more offensive consistency from her team this weekend. “T yler Walker’s r e ally starting to swing the bat well,” Allister said. “She’s starting to come into her own this season.” Allister said the team’s offense as a whole was better this weekend, too. Minnesota’s game against Charlotte on Saturday was canceled because of cold weather in Alabama. Temperatures were around 37 degrees before the game, and snow flurries fell during the Gophers’ earlier game with Auburn.
SOFTBALL RESULTS
1
2 0 0
3 0 3
4 0 1
5 0 3
6 X X
7 X X
R 0 8
H 0 10
E 1 1
2 0 0
3 1 0
4 0 0
5 0 0
6 0 0
7 0 2
8 2 1
R 4 3
H 4 8
E 3 1
1 0 0
2 0 2
3 0 1
4 0 0
5 0 0
6 4 1
7 0 2
R 4 6
H 5 7
E 1 1
Middle Tennessee State 0 1 Minnesota Minnesota Auburn Gardner-Webb Minnesota
1 1 0
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: men’s basketball POSITION: forward/center YEAR: senior
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM MALE
TREVOR MBAKWE Mbakwe had 34 points and 25 rebounds in the Gophers’ victories over Indiana and Penn State. He dominated Hoosiers player of the year candidate Cody Zeller in the Gophers’ improbable 77-73 win over top-ranked Indiana on Tuesday. Zeller finished with nine points on 2-for-9 shooting and fouled out, while Mbakwe had 21 points on 8-for-10 shooting. The two victories make the Gophers a near-lock for the NCAA tournament.
SPORT: women’s hockey YEAR: senior
FEMALE
NOORA RÄTY Räty broke the NCAA record for career shutouts (41) and single-season shutouts (15) as the Gophers beat Bemidji State 5-0 and 8-0 to begin the WCHA playoffs. Räty has allowed less than one goal per game this season for Minnesota, which has won a record 44 straight games dating back to last season.
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BACKTALK
horoscopes
sudoku
Complete the grid so each row, clumn 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. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
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Thursday’s solution
Today’s Birthday (3/4): Relationships hold the key to fun and creative growth this year. Home improvements thrive and social life bustles. Others are inspired by your unique vision; follow it, and learn everything you need.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 6 — Keep your feet on solid ground, and let fantasies dissolve. Figure out what you really want. A woman you respect has great advice and numbers to back it.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — A private conversation could be quite revealing. Take the considerations of others into account. Keep costs down by using resources wisely.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Set your imagination free, within practical limits. Create romance with thoughtful words and deeds rather than expensive gifts.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Practice being gracious, especially with someone rude. There’s more going on behind the scenes than you know now. Listen carefully.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — Accept responsibility, not more work. Don’t rush off in the wrong direction. Handle disagreements in private. Patience could get tested.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Keep the most interesting things, and get rid of clutter. Discover a hidden problem; romance interferes with business.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — A female challenges your opinion. Make sure you have the facts. Ask for more than you think you’ll get. Don’t forget an important job.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 5 — Don’t make expensive promises, and postpone travel. Get into studies and organization, which are much better investments.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Don’t heed the advice of a skeptic. Get the facts, and make your own decisions. Challenging authority could be appropriate.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Modify a fantasy and stick to the practical route. Someone close by doesn’t like anything now. Don’t let your friends get into your secret treats.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Reassure someone who’s anxious. Analysis of the data plus intuition equals understanding. Get the message across. Handle local errands.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — The news today is unsettling. Avoid getting involved in another’s affairs, financially or otherwise. Something at home gets messed up.
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Monday, March 4, 2013
overheard Guy: “Dude, I hope Mayo Medical School is better than their pens, ’cause this one sucks.”
—Walter Library
“I hate wearing wigs, they make me feel so claustrophobic.”
—Applebee’s
“Why does this taste like blood?”
—Centennial dining hall
“Yeah, I mean we had so much in common, except she did a crap ton of drugs.”
—15th Avenue
“What kid decides to tape a cheetah to their grandma’s back?”
—East Bank Circulator
Girl: “Sometimes girls wear sexy underwear to feel more confident, even if we know nothing is going to happen.” Male CA: “I wish I could wear sexy underwear ... ”
Professor: “LL Cool J stands for Ladies Love Cool James. The guy’s name is James! Sorry, just tryin’ to wake you guys up.”
—Unknown
“That’s not even fair. Judging someone’s dancing at a wedding is like judging someone’s driving while they play Mario Kart!”
—Campus Connector
Guy: “Trust me, having two dicks is no joke.”
—Como Avenue
Girl: “When I was little, I used to watch ‘Elimidate.’ I literally thought that’s what high school was like.”
—Ford Hall
Guy: “He has really poor Snapchat etiquette.”
—Dinkytown
—Middlebrook Hall
“I think every movie should end with someone getting in someone else’s pants.”
—Smith Hall
“You know what I like about this school? They give out free tampons!”
—Territorial Hall
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
ACROSS 1 Rebounding sound 5 Early newspaper magnate 11 “So-o-o cute!” sounds 14 Vietnam neighbor 15 List of printing mistakes 16 Game, __, match 17 WANTED: Dimwitted loiterer, for pietasting without intent to buy 19 __ urchin 20 Año Nuevo month 21 Popular exercise choice 23 WANTED: Boy on the run, for unwanted kissing 27 Fun and games 29 Uncle’s mate 30 Singles 31 Dart thrower’s asset 32 Turn off, as the lights 33 Crime lab evidence, briefly 35 WANTED: Delinquent minor, for breaking curfew and inappropriate dress 41 Isn’t missing 42 Bump into 43 __ sequitur: illogical conclusion 44 Church recess 47 Up to the task 48 Do bar work 49 WANTED: Musical shepherd, for sleeping on the job 53 Harrison Ford’s “Star Wars” role 54 Dispenser of theater programs 57 Pasta suffix 58 WANTED: Merry monarch, for smoke pollution with his pipe 62 Mythical giant bird 63 Takes care of 64 Charity donations 65 “For shame!” 66 Came next 67 Digs made of twigs
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DOWN 1 Otherwise 2 Brother of Abel 3 Dodger Stadium contest, to the Dodgers 4 Fish hawk 5 Half a giggle 6 “Thinking, thinking ...” sounds 7 Onassis nickname 8 Type of missile engine 9 Small, raised porch in front of a door 10 Dramatic ballroom dance 11 Designate, as a seat 12 Hot dog 13 Oater transports 18 Lav in Leeds 22 “Ouch!” relative, in response to a pun 24 Train tracks 25 Noisy shorebird 26 Left hanging 27 Tiger’s foot 28 Untruth 32 Sorento automaker 33 Nerd 34 Picayune point to pick
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36 Sharpens, as a knife 37 Wriggly 38 Space under a desk 39 Electrified particle 40 Finish 44 “Java” trumpeter 45 Baby grands, e.g. 46 Jolly old Xmas visitor 47 Homes
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48 Florence native, for one 50 Free from restraint 51 Funny DeGeneres 52 Haul 55 Big shade trees 56 Break at the office 59 Sunflower St. school 60 Suffix with Israel 61 Silently assent
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dr. date Dr. Date,
How can I kindly tell my guy that this woman needs some more (be) foreplay when we’re getting down? He always seems to rush into it, and it doesn’t help a lady like me get to where she needs to be, if you catch my drift. I don’t want to say anything during sex because I don’t want him to all of a sudden feel like he’s doing something wrong, but when we’re not having sex, there never seems to be a right moment to bring it up. How can I?
—No More Rush Hour
Jackie Chan,
Ah, foreplay. That fickle beast. That fickle, hot, sweaty beast that I love. Hello, my little beast. Lick my palm. I will lick yours. So you want more of it in your life, Rushie? Join the club. Luckily, working it in isn’t as tricky as you might think. This beast is easily tamed. If you think that having a talk is necessary, then that’s what you think, and I’m fine with that, go ’head and chat it up. But honestly, I don’t think you need to verbalize your desire for play to make it happen. Just make it happen. Stave off the penetration for a while and force your dude into a long interlude of touching and licking and dirty talk. When he starts to reach for the condom, slap his hand. Lightly. Tell him you want to do “this” for a while, and then show him just how pleasant “this” can be. (And no, I don’t just mean blow jobs. I mean full-body sensations, I mean doing weird stuff, I mean getting creative in the b-room. Or the kitchen. Or the shed. Or Folwell Hall.) Soon he’ll be dying for a little play every day. Another tactic is to fool around without having sex. Teach your guy that you can both have a decent time without inserting tab A into slot B. One terrible thing that might happen is that he might think you’re trying to not have sex with him because you don’t want to have sex with him
anymore. He might be like, “Babe, what’s the deal? Thought you liked me. Thought you liked doin’ it with me. Thought you always wanted the D.” That’s when you grab his hand (don’t slap it again, ya dog!) and tell him that you do like him, you do like doin’ it with him and that you so desperately want the D. Then calmly explain that sometimes you want more from a sexual experience and that when he treats you like you’re a blow-up sex doll, it doesn’t do much for your bod. Tell him you want to start taking your time with stuff, that you don’t want to think of sex as a race. It’s not a race! Getting cum all up in ya only feels like crossing the finish line under special circumstances. You have needs, damnit! It’s not all about his big O. (I am operating under the assumption that if he routinely skips foreplay, he’s not that concerned with your O.) To sum: Try to make it happen organically — slowly steer the ship toward slower waves. If that doesn’t work? Make him rock you like a hurricane.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I do have a love problem. I think we all do. I think we are all in love with the Gophers basketball team. Wouldn’t you be?
—Everyone
Everyone,
I sure am! Goldy and I were actually just talking about this. Constantly glowing from the Gophers’ triumphant victories, we find ourselves saddled up to the bar often. I said to Goldy, I said, “What do we think of those Gopher dunkers, Gol?” Goldy looked at me very seriously, jumped on top of the bar counter and spun his head. “Does that answer your question?” Yes, Goldy. Yes it did.
—Dr. Date
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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into the graduate programs could result in greater investments in stronger programs and cuts in others — something he said would be “painful.” GAPSA will be involved in the graduate program transition evaluation process to ensure students are involved, Edwards said. “We’re interested in helping design some of the evaluation metrics,” she said. “We just want to make sure that students have a voice and that decisions are made based on student input.” In a list of accomplishments, Kaler highlighted the University’s recent partnering with Coursera to offer massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Kaler said these new offerings are the first steps in developing a comprehensive eLearning strategy on each University campus, but they are not a “silver bullet” tactic for greater cost savings or academic accessibility. Instead, Kaler said, faculty would pair MOOCs and other digital technologies with faceto-face classroom teaching. “Even with MOOCs, instructors will not become obsolete,” he said. Kaler mentioned the budgetary limitations to interdisciplinary work and research that “defines the cutting edge in most fields, and that is critical to solving most of today’s problems.” He called on Hanson and Vice President for Research Brian Herman to develop recommendations to strengthen interdisciplinary teaching and research. Cate Brumm, a third-year dentistry student, said she would’ve liked to hear professional programs mentioned more in Kaler’s speech. “It’s interesting because the professional schools aren’t really mentioned in the push for an increase in graduate funding,” she said. Brumm said the cost of
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After University President Eric Kaler delivered his State of the University address, he answered questions submitted via Twitter at Coffman Union on Thursday.
professional education has increased exponentially, with some dentistry students facing $400,000 in debt. “Proportionally that’s a little out of the same league as undergrads, so we’d like to see the president really increase affordability to professional schools,” she said. “I think it’s in the works, maybe.”
and students on topics from increasing campus diversity to sponsoring a controversial symposium. Kaler said increasing diversity was “critically important,” noting that the University has made progress but is still not satisfactory. He acknowledged that the African-American student population is “nowhere near
where it should be” and that the University would continue to engage with programs in Minneapolis aimed at increasing minority student exposure to higher education. “We cannot claim to be an excellent University without being a diverse University,” he said. The moderator also brought up a question about the controversy surrounding the upcoming Universitysponsored symposium “The Female Orgasm: A Program About Sexual Health and Women’s Empowerment.” Kaler said that the University would not stop hosting events considered controversial or taboo because the University is a place where faculty members and programs have the right to put forth different ideas that may “open the eyes of our students to different ways of thinking.”
Analysis Kaler also responded to questions submitted by faculty members concerned
about structural changes and job cuts that may arise from the current spans and layers analysis being conducted on administrative spending. The University —under fire recently for reports of excessive administrative spending — recently hired a human resources consulting firm to review the administrative structure and provide recommendations for cost savings and increased efficiency. The University will present a report to the state Legislature on March 15. Kaler admitted the impact of the possible changes may seem “scary and frightening” to faculty and staff. “I can’t promise it will be smooth and easy,” he said. “But I can promise to be as fair and transparent as humanly possible.” Math and finance junior Matt Forstie attended the speech to hear the president talk about undergraduate tuition and the University’s commitment to affordability
and access, something he said Kaler “kind of skipped on.” “I think President Kaler could do more. He talks a little about operational excellence and administrative accountability, and I like that focus, but I think there’s a lot more that could be done,” he said. “I guess I’ll wait and see what’s in the March 15 report and what he does about it, but so far I’m skeptical.” Forstie is the chair of the Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition, a student lobbying group at the Capitol. Forstie said he spends “almost every day” at the Capitol and thinks the Legislature is looking for ward to the accountability repor t, but many still have doubts. “I think the University does a lot of great things, and we’ve made a lot of improvements over the last few years,” Forstie said. “We can definitely show those things to the Legislature, but we also have to be accountable.”
Office hours The president announced that he wants to interact more with students by holding monthly office hours on the Twin Cities campus and by traveling to the University’s Duluth, Crookston and Morris campuses. Freshmen Joelle Stangler and Valkyrie Jensen attended the event and said they would definitely take advantage of the office hours. Both Jensen and Stangler are members of the Minnesota Student Association. Stangler, a political science major, said she would like to talk to Kaler about the role he thinks student government should play on campus. “[I’d ask him], ‘What do you want to see from student government?’ ” she said. “Because I don’t feel like they have as large of a presence as they should.”
Diversity and controversy
Following his speech, Kaler answered a few questions submitted by faculty, staff
University President Eric Kaler delivers his State of the University address on Thursday at Coffman Union.
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