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Kickin’ it with Kaler Now that the DREAM Act has passed, Kaler says the U is “open for business.” u See PAGE 4
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D.J. Snelten will likely be picked in the first 10 rounds of the MLB draft.
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Congress locked on student loans The Stafford student loan interest rate will double July 1 if a deal isn’t reached. BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com
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Minneapolis mayoral candidates, former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew, City Council members Gary Schiff, Don Samuels and Betsy Hodges, and former City Council President Jackie Cherryhomes, listen to an introduction at a forum hosted by the Somali DFL caucus Friday at Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis. The DFL party will choose a mayoral candidate at the city DFL convention June 15.
The Minneapolis Somali community hosted a mayoral debate last week, the first of its kind. BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com
Somali-American to hold a seat. These men are examples of Somali-
In 2010, Hussein Samatar became the first Somali-American to hold public office in Minnesota.
Americans getting increasingly involved in Minnesota civic life. Last week, the five major DFL can-
In 2011, Mohamud Noor fell 300 votes
didates for Minneapolis mayor debated
short of becoming the first Somali-born
at Safari Restaurant and Event Center in
state senator in the nation.
south Minneapolis to gauge issues im-
In April, Abdi Warsame received the
portant to the Somali community. With a
DFL endorsement for City Council, which
growing population, Somali voters are an
could pave the way for him to be the first
important base for candidates.
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U’s transportation man calls it a career
BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
When Bob Baker came to the University of Minnesota as a residence hall director in 1974, Territorial Hall housed only men. He recalled the testosterone-filled dorm being “kind of crazy” and said he convinced the University to make it co-ed. Nearly 40 years later, Baker said he still considers this one of his big
accomplishments. Baker, now the executive director of Parking and Transpor tation Ser vices, will retire in June. As head of the depar tment for 23 years, he expanded parking space on campus by 50 percent, started the U-Pass program and advocated for the University’s interests regarding the Central Corridor light-rail line’s intersection of campus. After working in Housing and Residential Life for about 15 years, Baker took a job as acting parking u See BAKER Page 4 Baker and a colleague spent six years on light-rail negotiations.
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Book House is relocating, but not done fighting The 37-year-old store will move to a smaller location in Dinkytown. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
The Book House is relocating to a new home just around the corner, but it’s not done fighting for Dinkytown. Its large collection of used and rare books will be moving to a small space above Varsity Bike and Transit in Dinkydale Mall. Owner Kristen Eide-Tollefson said they plan to open by mid-July.
u See LOANS Page 7 President Eric Kaler said he supports Kline’s bill that would tie interest rates to the market.
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After 39 years, PTS Director Bob Baker will retire June 7.
If Congress doesn’t act soon, almost 200,000 Minnesota students could see interest rates double on their college loans. The Stafford student loan interest rate is set to double July 1, but the Republican-led House of Representatives and the White House are pushing opposing plans to address the issue. Each year, thousands of University of Minnesota students take out Stafford Loans, the most commonly used type of federal student loan in the nation. The main bill moving through the House, authored by Rep. John Kline, RMinn., would set market-based interest rates for loans, allowing the rate to fluctuate from year-to-year with the government’s cost of borrowing. The plan, which caps interest rates at 8.5 percent, passed the U.S. House on May 23, but President Barack Obama’s administration said he won’t sign the measure if it reaches his desk. The Democrats have proposed multiple plans, but Obama and others suppor t a
New law center to help immigrants A $4.5 million grant will fund The Center for New Americans at the U. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota Law School will expand its immigration law programming this fall to meet increased demand for representation. The Robina Foundation pledged Thursday to give
almost $9 million to the law school — one of the largest gifts in the school’s history — to fund its Robina Institute of Criminal Law and Criminal Justice and create a Center for New Americans. Law School Dean David Wippman said the immigration law center will help immigrant groups who often can’t afford legal assistance and can have difficulty navigating the legal system. “This will be great for the community,” said Saeed
Fahia, executive director of the Confederation of Somali Community in Minnesota. Fahia said Somali immigrants often have trouble finding lawyers who do pro bono work. The number of foreignborn Twin Cities’ residents increased by about 100,000 people from 2000 to 2010. About 10 percent of the population was foreign-born in 2010, according to Minnesota Compass, a part of the nonprofit organization Wilder Research.
Many immigrants face income and language barriers, said Cathy Haukedahl, executive director of MidMinnesota Legal Aid — a pro bono collaborator that will work with the center to provide expertise in civil legal issues to immigrants. “Minnesota has a lot of immigrants who need help in their own language,” she said. u See CENTER Page 6 The center will give aspiring immigration lawyers experience.
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Williams has a lot to prove in NBA Some analysts peg the ex-Gophers player as a secondround draft pick. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Book House employee Matt Hawbaker said the compact space will be about one-third the size of the current store. The new store will take over the space that the Dinkytown Antiquarian Books bookstore once occupied. Because of the tighter space, the Dinkydale Mall location will be a more curated collection of books, and they’ll be focusing on more online sales, Hawbaker said. Employee Kevin Sell said they previously con-
Rodney Williams wowed Gophers fans with highlight dunks and spectacular athleticism throughout his four-year career at the University of Minnesota. Now that he’s graduated from the team, some analysts are projecting Williams to be a second-round pick in the NBA draft at the end of the month. But some say he’ll need to do more to warrant playing time in the NBA. “Ever yone knows he’s always been a great athlete,” said Flip Saunders, president of operations for the Minnesota
u See DINKY TOWN Page 3 The store is making way for a controversial new development
u See WILLIAMS Page 10 Williams’ poor shooting limited his production with the Gophers.
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Former Gophers basketball player Rodney Williams works out for the Minnesota Timberwolves on May 29 at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Some analysts project Williams to be a secondround pick in the NBA draft June 27.
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HAVANA — Cubans lined up Tuesday to try out computers newly wired to the World Wide Web as authorities began offering Internet at more than 100 public access points around the island. It’s part of a gradual technological opening by the Communist-run government, which has long restricted many kinds of communication. But with an hour on the computer costing around one-fifth the average monthly wage, the new service will likely remain inaccessible to many islanders. “This is a great opportunity. A minimal one for now, but it exists,” said Ariel Valdes, a 38-year-old artist who was one of the first to grab a mouse at a center in Old Havana. Despite a steady morning drizzle, business was brisk and people filled a dozen cubicles painted in the deep blue of the state telecom company Etecsa, which is offering the service. Some signed up for permanent accounts, which offer an associated email address. Others went with the pay-as-yougo option, and loaded foreign-hosted sites such as Yahoo! on their screens. “For us, this is a service that opens doors to the Internet and to a lot of information that was a little difficult to reach before,” said Alberto Tamargo, a 33-year-old dentist. Just 2.9 percent of islanders reported accessing the Web, according to the most recent government figures available. However, outside analysts say the true number is probably around 5 percent to 10 percent accounting for black-market sales of dial-up minutes. For most Cubans who go online through work or school accounts, doing so means accessing an intranet of locally hosted and curated sites. Tamargo, who has been on the intranet for years, said he planned to use the new service to communicate with colleagues in other countries and for research purposes. He and many others will no doubt try to avoid idle surfing. At $4.50 an hour the service will be prohibitively expensive for any Cubans who don’t have a source of income beyond state salaries that average about $20 a month, though they also receive a variety of subsidized goods and services.
Putin: S-300 missiles not sent to Syria yet BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia hasn’t yet fulfilled a contract to send sophisticated S-300 air defense missile systems to Syria to avoid tilting the balance of power in the region. Russian officials have acknowledged that Moscow signed a deal for the delivery of the powerful missiles a few years ago, but have been coy about whether any of them have been delivered. Syrian President Bashar Assad told the Lebanese TV station Al-Manar last week that Russia has fulfilled some of its weapons contracts recently, but he was vague on whether this included the advanced S-300s. Israel’s defense minister told a parliamentary committee Monday that according to “Russian talk,” the weapon has not yet been delivered. Speaking after a Russia-European Union summit in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg, Putin defended the S-300 deal, saying it complies with the international law, but added that Russia hasn’t yet fulfilled it. “It’s perhaps the best such weapon in the world,” Putin said at a news conference. “It’s indeed a serious weapon. We don’t want to throw the region off balance.” “The contract has been signed a few years ago. It hasn’t been fulfilled yet,” Putin said. The U.S. and Israel have warned Russia against delivering the missiles, which would dramatically increase Syria’s air defense potential. Israel has carried out several airstrikes in Syria in recent months that are believed to have destroyed weapons shipments bound for Hezbollah militants in Lebanon. Britain’s U.N. ambassador, Mark L yall Grant, asked about Putin’s announcement at a news conference Tuesday at U.N. headquarters in New York, said: “We would certainly urge Russia not to supply these weapons to the Syrian regime.” The S-300 missile system, which has a range of up to 125 miles and the capability to track down and strike multiple targets simultaneously, could significantly limit the Israeli air force’s ability to act. Israel has threatened to attack the missiles if they are delivered. Russia has been a key supporter of Assad, protecting his regime from U.N. sanctions and providing it with weapons, despite the two-year civil war in which more than 70,000 people have been killed. Putin on Tuesday also criticized the EU’s decision to lift its weapons embargo for Syrian rebels, saying that Russia was “disappointed” by the move, which he said ran contrary to international law.
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Neighborhoods, students confront lack of representation Many say student involvement benefits the whole community. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
During his first year on the University of Minnesota District Alliance board of directors, Phill Kelly listened more than he spoke. “It’s kind of intimidating,” the global studies senior said about ser ving on a board of University staf f, local business owners and representatives fr om nearby communities. “You step into this circle and you’re like, ‘Who am I to speak up against all these things they’re saying?’ ”
“I would think it would be of interest,” he said. “Students are certainly concerned about things that are happening in the neighborhood.” DOUG CARLSON Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association president
Staf f from neighborhood organizations around the University say the disconnect Kelly saw between longtime residents and shor t-ter m student renters is a common issue. University groups and neighborhood organizations are tr ying to get more students involved, even if it’s just temporar y. The Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association will hir e a renter outreach staff member this summer “to solidify the neighborhood’s relationship” with renters, said Lois Willand, PPERRIA’s membership and communication committee member. PPERRIA currently has
no students on its 20-person board. Other neighbor hood organizations around the University str uggle with the lack of student involvement as well. “We’ve tried sideways, crossways and upside down to get [students],” said Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association President Doug Carlson. The MHNA board has two spots designated for students, but Carlson said they’ve been vacant for more than a year at a time in the past. “I would think it would be of interest,” he said. “Students are cer tainly concer ned about things that are happening in the neighborhood.” Last year, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly launched a community engagement board designed to supply neighborhood projects with student participants. “We’ve kind of institutionalized that relationship,” said Chet Bodin, GAPSA vice president for public affairs, so neighborhood organizations know wher e to go when the students they’re used to working with move away. But students are less likely to get involved in a community they may only live in for a few years, said Southeast Como Improvement Association neighborhood coordinator Ricardo McCurley. “A smaller percentage of the neighborhood knows about us and is invested,” he said.
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New doc shines light on LGBT youth homelessness “The Infamous T” shows Jonathan Douglas’ struggles with school and family. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com
At first, Jonathan Douglas was overwhelmed by the idea of a filmmaker documenting his life — his struggles with school, housing and adjusting to a new family. After a year and a half of filming, Douglas said he and Minneapolis filmmaker Melissa Koch felt like brother and sister. “It felt like a big relief to talk to somebody about my life,” Douglas said, “and to be able to tell the world about who I am and what I am about.” The 20-year-old is the subject of a documentary called “The Infamous T” about his experience living with queer host parents through the local Avenues for Homeless Youth GLBT Host Home Program. The program sets up lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth between the ages of 16 and 21 with safe homes and support. Douglas came out to his mother and siblings when he was 16 years old. He said his relationship with them was rocky at first, but now they’re close again. He moved around constantly from homeless shelters to various apartments with his family since coming to Minneapolis from Louisiana in 2006. “I never wanted to leave my family,” Douglas said. “But I realized that I needed to spread my wings.” When he was 18, Douglas moved in with University of Minnesota associate professor Alex Iantaffi, his partner Michael Wright and their 7-year-old daughter through the host home program. “It was a little terrifying at first,” Douglas said. “But we ended up becoming a family.” The 30-minute documentar y shows an 18-year-old Douglas balancing school, fitting in with his host family and struggling with being away from his mother and siblings. Koch named the documentary she produced and directed after the three-person dance crew Douglas is a
part of. “At first we wasn’t even a dance group. We were dancing for the hell of it,” Douglas said. “Before you knew it, we started practicing and coming up with different routines.” The Infamous T has performed in many venues throughout the city, including the University campus.
‘A beautiful and painful illustration’
Koch initially wanted to make the documentary about chosen queer families — families created by circumstance — when she came across the program and Douglas, who was living with five other people in a one-bedroom apartment at the time. Douglas said Koch spent a lot of time making sure he was comfortable with her filming him and asking him personal questions. “As a filmmaker, to be given that kind of access is a huge gift,” Koch said, adding that she connected with Douglas and his friends and family. The film won the audience awards for best short film twice after showing a sneak preview at the Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival in April and the Out Twin Cities Film Festival last Thursday. After Thursday’s screening at the St. Anthony Main Theatre, Koch, Iantaffi, Douglas and others in the film participated in a Q-and-A session, where audience members had more questions than time allowed. “The audience reaction has been phenomenal,” Koch said. “People really love the film and Jonathan and his story,” Koch, Douglas and others from the film will travel to San Francisco for the world premiere of the finalized documentary at the Frameline International LGBT Film Festival in mid-June. Rocki Simoes, the GLBT Host Home Program’s manager, said she plans to use the documentary while she trains future hosts who are willing to bring homeless youth into their homes. “I think ‘The Infamous T’ is a beautiful and painful illustration of all the complexities that lead a young person to experience homelessness,” Simoes said. Like Douglas’s experience, most LGBT youth in the
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Local filmmaker Melissa Koch recently made a documentary titled “The Infamous T,” which focuses on an LGBT-identified teenager named Jonathan who experienced homophobia and homelessness during his high school years.
program are people of color and most hosts are white, Simoes said, which is why hosts get training in white privilege and race. “I think in some ways this documentary shows all of it in a way that I can’t just talk about as a trainer,” Simoes said. “It’s much more intimate, and it’s all there.”
A new adventure After almost two years of dinners, family trips and school events with his host family, Douglas said he has learned responsibility, structure and maturity. “I knew it would be a new adventure,” Iantaf fi said. “None of us are going to get everything right all the time, and that’s OK.” School was often a troubling experience for Douglas. Douglas was bullied for acting effeminate and “sounding like a girl” in middle school, where he got into fights and was eventually expelled. He transferred between
Minneapolis high schools until he found the Minnesota Internship Center’s Safe Circle, which accepts LGBT students. “Finally, I found a class that actually fit me,” Douglas said. “So I could actually be myself.” He said most of his classmates came from a rough background, which is how they were able to relate to each other. He graduated from the school in January and will attend Minneapolis Community and Technical College this fall. “They pushed me to do stuff, which is good,” Douglas said. “Some people, you know, they just need a little push.” He plans to move into his own apartment by July. “I’m a little afraid to wake up to myself and live alone, but I’m ready,” Douglas said. “After I graduate from MCTC, then I can really shoot for the dreams that I want.”
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sidered moving to Prospect Park but decided to stay nearby because “they are an essential part of Dinkytown.” Eide-Tollefson said the store needs to be out of its current 14th Avenue location by the end of June. The Opus Group plans to break ground on a 140-unit apartment building there in August. Monte Bute — who’s been coming to the Book House once a week since the first day they opened in 1976 — said he’ll continue going to the new location, but he’s sad about the move. “Book House is one of the anchors of Dinkytown,” Bute said. “What you find here is serendipity.” The new location will allow the Book House to have a more selective stock, Eide-Tollefson said. But the new space may not be permanent. Hawbaker said the Book House hopes to move back into a larger place in the future, but it seems unlikely if Fifth Street is rezoned for new construction, as Opus has proposed. Developers open spaces in Dinkytown for their offices, he said, and smallbusiness owners can’t afford the higher prices. Although Book House employees said they’re happy the store will stay in Dinkytown, they’ll still
The Book House stock manager Kevin Sell moves boxes that will be brought to the store’s new locations May 26 in Dinkytown.
be fighting against the development of the Opus project. “This deal is not done,” Hawbaker said. Community group Save Dinkytown’s peti-
tion for an environmental assessment of the Opus apar tment project will be addressed at the zoning and planning committee’s June 6 meeting. The city of Minneapolis denied the
application for an assessment, saying the group didn’t provide enough evidence that the project would negatively impact the environment. There won’t be a public
hearing, but a Save Dinkytown representative will have an oppor tunity to address the committee, according to the meeting agenda online. Bute said these wars
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with developers aren’t new and Opus doesn’t understand the culture of Dinkytown. “The Book House is an idea that’s bigger than [the] Opus project,” Bute said.
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U reassesses lecturers’ health benefits The Affordable Care Act may change a handful of University of Minnesota lecturers’ health care eligibility. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
In preparation for the changes the Affordable Care Act could make to employee health benefits, the University of Minnesota is calculating which lecturers will be eligible for coverage. Because the IRS hasn’t specified how colleges should calculate the amount of time non-tenured faculty members spend working, the University is re-examining lecturers’ workloads to ensure it follows the new health care law when it takes effect in 2014. While the ACA uses the number of hours employ-
ees work to determine who should have health care benefits, the University defines workload by the number of credit hours taught. Colleges are grappling with how to translate this into ACA’s terms. At least two colleges — the University of Central Oklahoma and the College of DuPage in Illinois — plan to accommodate part-time faculty with health benefits by creating a special lecturer classification for non-tenured instructors who teach at least 75 percent of a fulltime professor’s workload, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Because the University
will have to offer coverage to employees working 75 percent time — 30 hours per week — or more, the Office of Human Resources is examining the lecturer employee class to see who might be affected, said Dann Chapman, director of employee benefits for OHR. Although a handful of lecturers may be affected by the 30-hour rule, Chapman said OHR has to do further research to see how many people fall into that category. While the academic community has raised concerns that colleges may cut faculty members’ hours to avoid giving them health insurance, Chapman said that isn’t the case at the University. “If there’s somebody that should be eligible that we haven’t caught, we will make them eligible,” he said. If OHR were to find part-
time lecturers working more than 30 hours per week, it would most likely change their appointment to reflect how much they’re actually working, Chapman said. Translating credit hours taught into hours worked is not something OHR has had to do before, Chapman said. It’s currently looking at areas where a clear record of hours worked doesn’t exist, where staff would have to calculate it. The law will not af fect adjunct professors, Chapman said, because they aren’t paid employees and are therefore not eligible for health care. Graeme Stout, who’s worked as a full-time lecturer for the University’s Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and will teach as a par ttime lecturer next fall at the
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, said it can be “scary” for part-time lecturers to approach 30 hours per week. “The school is required to pay your health care benefits,” Stout said, “and some people are quite worried that that will then lead to your dismissal for the following semester.” Capper Nichols, a lecturer for the Depar tment of Writing Studies for more than 10 years, said the University has been “pretty good about benefits” for nontenured instructors. “My sense is that some places are kind of cutthroat,” he said, “but my experience at the [University] has not been that way, not for the most part.” Though his department has been pressured to keep costs down, Nichols said it
has made an effort to hold onto instructors even if they aren’t on the tenure track. “They seem pretty committed to ever ybody working in the department.”
ADJUNCTS AND LECTURERS AT THE UNIVERSITY BY THE NUMBERS
404 NUMBER OF LECTURERS
EMPLOYED BY THE UNIVERSITY IN 2012
221 NUMBER OF ADJUNCT
PROFESSORS EMPLOYED BY THE UNIVERSITY IN 2012
$34,043
MINIMUM YEARLY SALARY FOR LECTURERS SOURCES: UNIVERSITY SALARY DATA, OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Kaler talks the Minnesota Leg., TCF Bank Stadium alcohol sales and gender-neutral housing
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President Eric Kaler answers a few questions in his office in Morrill Hall on Tuesday.
Now that the DREAM Act has passed, Kaler says the U is “open for business.” KICKIN’ IT WITH KALER BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler sat down with the Minnesota Daily on Tuesday to discuss the Legislature’s failed bonding bill, the passage of the higher education bill, alcohol sales at TCF Bank Stadium and genderneutral University housing. The University had a victory in the Legislature this year — the Higher Ed Bill, which offered tuition freezes for the University.
It’s a huge opportunity for us to freeze undergraduate resident tuition for two years, which will save a student entering today about $2,500 over the course of [his or] her four-year career, which I’m very excited about. … We also got a big investment in our research enterprise in the MNDrive initiative … so a very good legislative session this year. Can you talk about how this will impact the University community? There are lots of pieces to this. There’s the direct appropriation to the University community, which is hugely important for our Minnesota resident undergraduate and reciprocity students, but
there was also a significant investment in the … state grant program, and that’s going to enable additional help for our most needy students. I think for a fully Pell-eligible student, it’s going to have $700 of additional state aid they will be able to get. The DREAM Act was included in the Higher Ed omnibus bill that passed last session. You’ve stated in the past you would advance this initiative at the University. How soon will the University be able to accommodate the bill? I think we’re open for business now. The law is the law, and although we’ve pretty much completed admissions for the fall, as we look at transfer students or as we look at students who want to join us for the spring semester, we will be open and evaluate those applications. … I see absolutely no reason to deny that opportunity to young people or adults who have come to this country in a complicated way. I was really glad to see the act pass, and I think it’s the right thing to do for Minnesota going forward. The bonding bill failed in the Minnesota Legislature last session, leaving the University without the funds that were requested for maintenance and improvement projects on campus. How will students feel that on campus? Minnesota has a history of bonding every other year, so even numbered years is the bonding bill and odd num-
bered years typically not. ... While we didn’t get any money, I wouldn’t characterize that as a loss. I’d say we were pleasantly surprised there was a game at all. … We will go back next year, which is the traditional bonding year, with a very healthy request because we have substantial needs to maintain our infrastructure. We have 29 million square feet across all of our campuses, and I think about 30 percent of it is about 70 years old or older, so there really is a need for investment in that infrastructure, and we’ll be back at it. One of the biggest goals in the capital improvement budget was more activelearning classrooms. Will the University still pursue those this year despite not receiving bonding money? I think the need for us to generate more active-learning classrooms is really very acute. … As we begin to take advantage of online activities — MOOCs, other sort of technology enhancements — that sort of active environment will be very important. We will continue to push that, and it needs to be a priority for us. Subsidized Staf ford student loan interest rates are set to change from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent as of July 1 if an agreement isn’t made in Congress to avoid the increase. What will the University do to inform students if this increase happens? I do know that at a high
level we try to educate our students as effectively as we can around issues of financial literacy, and we really have to be able to have people who are taking on this debt … understand the obligations they are incurring and understand what this means to their longterm financial health. One of my favorite programs is [Live Like A Student]. It is very important for people to understand the impact of these loans and to adjust their lifestyle to need as little of that as possible. One of the proposals as an alternative to raising the rate is to tie them to market rates. Do you support this idea? I’ve seen interest rates that are very, very high, and those are awful burdens as you take those on and you move into a ver y inflationar y period. These things are cyclical, and so it’s almost certain that they will come up again. So I think that any conversation about an adjustable rate or a market rate needs to be in the context of a cap so you can have a market rate and then capped at some level. … I also think not having these loan rates in touch with the market in some way creates an artificial situation that is probably not sustainable, so I do think that we need Congress to act. The University recently renegotiated its deal with Aramark to sell alcohol at TCF Bank Stadium. What do you expect in terms of sales next season? We anticipate next year
being much like this year, except, of course, this year we took all of the star tup costs against income, which created the illusion that we couldn’t make money selling beer — which was a crazy situation. So we won’t have those expenses next year, and we have a much better contract, so we anticipate turning a modest profit. What is the status of the University’s master facilities plan for athletics? I’d say it’s on a final lap to completion. It’s comprehensive, and it’ll be a big plan. I like to have some structure around all of the things that we do. It’s worthwhile for us to get a big view of all that we might do, and then we will enter a process of setting priorities and seeing what’s feasible to do in terms of philanthropy that we might raise to support it. What are the possibilities for University genderneutral housing? I’ve been asked that question a couple of times, both at Morris and here. And I’ve asked our housing people to see what’s feasible there. I don’t see any big barriers. We have a very large housing stock, and across the countr y, when gender neutral housing is offered as an option, it’s taken by not many people — some, but not hundreds — so it would seem to me ver y sensible to find a way to accommodate that.
University’s Transportation Systems manager calls it a career Baker u from Page 1
manager for the University’s then-called Parking Services, which he helped to expand to PTS in the early ’90s. One of the biggest problems he worked to address after his move to PTS was the University’s shortage of parking spaces. “We had about 80,000 people coming to the University, and we had about 12,000 parking spaces,” he said. Baker oversaw the construction of six parking garages, including the Fourth Street Ramp and the East River Road Garage. “There is this perception, I think, that’s still out there that parking is hard at the University,” Baker said. “What we tried to do was we tried to make it easier; we tried to make it friendlier.” Though he said building parking garages fulfilled a need at the University, he’s proudest of starting the UPass, an unlimited bus pass for University students. The U-Pass program and a redesign of the University’s campus shuttle system caused campus transit use to skyrocket, which he said was a great way to curb parking demand on campus. “[The U-Pass] has provided a way to bring more people to campus without needing to deal with their ve-
hicles, which is huge,” said Paula Pentel, coordinator of the University’s Urban Studies Program. Pentel said one of the biggest transportation issues the University will face after Baker’s retirement is figuring out how to deal with bicycles on campus, including creating safe bike routes to and around campus. Because it would be impossible for everyone coming to the University to park, Pentel said stepping up transit efforts around campus has been essential to its growth. “You simply cannot build your way out of parking demand,” Baker said. “We quickly discovered that we really needed to change our message and tell people to leave their cars at home and to look for alternative transportation methods.” Associate Vice President of Auxiliary Services Laurie Scheich started working with Baker in 1983 when she came to the University as a residence hall director. She said she’s come to appreciate his commitment to the University as well as his drive. “He can get more done in a day than just about anybody I know,” she said. Baker has great ideas, Scheich said, and is always looking at the future of parking. “I’m gonna miss that ability to pick his brain on ideas,” she said. “He’s a good sounding board to bounce ideas
BOB BAKER’S CAREER
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Oversaw construction of the 19th Avenue Ramp
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EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Executive Director of Parking and Transportation Services Bob Baker discusses details of his transition out of the University with Assistant Director of Finance Dennis Miller on Thursday, May 30, 2013, in the Transportation and Safety Building. Baker, who instituted programs like the U-Pass, is retiring in early June after 39 years with the University.
off of.”
‘At the table’ For the past eight years, Baker has represented the University’s interests in negotiations for the Central Corridor light-rail line, which will run through the University campus when it begins service in 2014. Throughout light-rail negotiations, he said safety, research, aesthetics and future development opportunities were his top priorities. In particular, Baker said
he’s worked to protect the many laboratories on Washington Avenue from light-rail vibrations and electromagnetic interference. “That’s what we do at this University,” he said. “We research, and we take that research and we apply it through teaching and through various business opportunities that we think will benefit society.” Transportation Systems Design manager Sandy Cullen, who worked with Baker for six years on light-rail ne-
gotiations, said she’ll miss the “good cop, bad cop” rapport they used in the process. “It was always great to have that leadership there,” she said. Although his replacement hasn’t been decided, Baker said he trusts his team will be able to carry on smoothly after he leaves. “If you’re gonna have any chance of success,” he said, “you gotta be organized, you gotta be at the table when decisions are made and you gotta be able to delegate, be-
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Oversaw construction of the University Avenue Ramp
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Oversaw rebuilding of the East River Road Garage
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Headed University negotiations with the Central Corridor light-rail project
June 2013 Begins retirement
SOURCE: PARKING AND TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, MNDAILY REPORTING
cause if you try and do everything yourself, it isn’t going to get done.” Baker said he looks forward to fishing, traveling and going for long walks with his wife at their lake home in Nisswa, Minn., where they’ll move as soon as he retires.
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University professor aims to change lung cancer detection process
Also, a fight broke out at Maxwell’s Cafe and Grill on Sunday. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
Several cars near the University of Minnesota campus were broken into late Friday night and early Saturday morning, according to Minneapolis police. None of the cars appeared to be locked, police r epor ts said. The group of suspects seemed to be walking around the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, checking for open vehicles. Only one of the victims — a University of Minnesota-Duluth student — is affiliated with the University. Minneapolis’ 2nd Precinct, which includes the University and its surrounding neighborhoods, has seen 210 thefts from motor vehicles this year, according to police data. That’s up from 193 thefts over the same period last year. Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said the best way to avoid theft from your car is to keep your valuables — “a gold mine” for thieves — out of sight. “The people who do this for a living,” Palmer said, “are going to be looking for cars with something in them.”
Laptop and backpack stolen
A University student had her laptop and backpack stolen from her office Monday, according to a University police report. Journalism junior
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Lashawnda Warpinski said she left the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, T ransgender, Ally Programs Of fice in Appleby Hall momentarily and noticed the items were gone when she came back. A man Warpinski had never seen before had been sitting outside her office before the theft occurred. “A few of us had come up and asked him what he was up to,” Warpinski said. “He seemed that he was waiting for someone.” University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said the man, who is a suspect, told another worker he was there for a meeting.
Disorderly conduct A man was cited for disorderly conduct early Sunday morning outside Maxwell’s Cafe and Grill on Fourth Street Southeast, according to a Minneapolis police report. The man was involved in a large fight inside the restaurant. Palmer said tables and chairs were broken and several people sustained minor injuries. Most of the people involved left when police broke up the fight, but police arrested the man after he continued yelling and arguing with others in the middle of the street, Palmer said.
Robbery on University Avenue
Three men took a University student’s cellphone early Saturday mor ning, ripping it out of his hand, according to a police report. Minneapolis police arrived to find the victim’s friend injured. Palmer said the friend, who is unaffiliated with the University, refused medical treatment and was uncooperative with police. Palmer added that alcohol was involved in the incident. “You’re less likely to be victimized if you’re aware of your surroundings,” he said.
forms of the disease. In 2009, more than 158,158 people died from lung cancer in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. This was nearly four times as many deaths as breast cancer. The researchers’ analyses will examine the financial and physical costs of screening procedures to help health professionals prioritize health care options for different diseases. Once researchers understand the cost of increasing a person’s lifespan by one year by screening for cancer, it can be compared to other options. More than a decade after the study began, Church said he considers the National Lung Screen-
ing Trial the first step in a longer process. “I would hope if all of those things fall in line,” he said, “that we would have a national program of screening for lung cancer among heavy smokers and that ultimately we can save people’s lives.”
UNITED STATES DEATHS DUE TO CANCER IN 2012 160,340 Lung cancer 39,920 Breast cancer 23,540 Leukemia 20,130 Lymphoma 12,190 Skin cancer SOURCE: CANCER.ORG
Judge accepts insanity plea in Colorado case BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — A judge accepted James Holmes’ long-awaited plea of not guilty by reason of insanity Tuesday and ordered him to undergo a mental evaluation — an examination that could be a decisive factor in whether the Colorado theater shooting suspect is convicted and sentenced to die. The judge also granted prosecutors access to a hotly contested notebook that Holmes sent to a psychiatrist shortly before the July 20 rampage, which left 12 people dead and 70 injured in a bloody, bulletriddled movie theater in suburban Denver. Taken together, the three developments marked a major step forward in the 10-month-old case, which at times has inched along through thickets of legal arguments or veered off on tangents. Holmes faces more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder, and prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. He will now be examined by the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo, but it’s not certain when the evaluation will begin or how long it will take. Hospital officials have said that before they meet with Holmes, they want to review evidence in the case, which prosecutors said totals nearly 40,000 pages. Judge Carlos Samour Jr. set a tentative date of Aug. 2 for the exam to
be complete but said he would push that back if hospital of ficials request more time. Samour indicated hwe still hopes to begin Holmes’ trial in Februar y. Holmes, 25, shuf fled into cour t with his wrists and ankles shackled, wearing a long, bushy beard and dark, curly hair that was slicked back. Samour read Holmes a five-page list of consequences of the insanity plea and asked if he had any questions. “No,” Holmes answered in a clear, firm voice. It was only the second time since his ar rest that he has spoken in court, other than occasional whispered exchanges with his attorneys. The findings of the mental evaluation will become evidence in Homes’ trial, but they are not the final word on whether he was legally insane at the time of the shootings. The jurors will determine that. If their verdict is not guilty by reason of insanity, Holmes would be committed to the Mental Health Institute indefinitely. He could theoretically be released one day if doctors determine his sanity has been restored, but that is considered unlikely. If their verdict is guilty, jurors would then decide whether Holmes will be executed or spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. Colorado law defines insanity as the inability to distinguish right from wrong caused by a diseased or defective mind. Marcus Weaver, who
was wounded and lost his friend Rebecca Wingo in the shooting, doesn’t believe Holmes is insane but is grateful the case is moving forward. “As we’ve seen evidence and seen the case unfold, it’s become more evident that Mr. Holmes did what he did, and it had nothing to do with his mental state,” he said. The insanity plea is widely seen as Holmes’ best chance of avoiding execution, but his lawyers delayed it for weeks, saying Colorado’s laws on the insanity plea and the death penalty could work in combination to violate his constitutional rights. The judge over r uled their objections last week, but on T uesday he conceded one point: Neither Holmes nor his lawyers had to sign a statement or say in cour t that they understood the five-page list of consequences of the insanity plea. Samour originally planned to require Holmes and the defense to acknowledge they understood those consequences before he accepted the plea. But Samour said T uesday he had determined that wasn’t required by law. Holmes needed Samour’s approval to enter the insanity plea because a judge had entered a standard not guilty plea on Holmes’ behalf in March. Prosecutors first sought access to the notebook when its existence was made public days after the shooting. Holmes had mailed it to Dr. L ynn Fenton, a University of Colo-
rado, Denver psychiatrist who had treated Holmes. Holmes had been a graduate student in neuroscience at the university. The notebook’s contents have never been officially made public, but media reports have said it contains drawings depicting violence. The defense argued the notebook was protected by doctor-patient privilege. But Samour ruled Tuesday that under Colorado law, Holmes waived that privilege when he entered the insanity plea. Prosecutors said Tuesday that in addition to reviewing the contents of the notebook, they would ask police to do unspecified “additional processing” of it. Cour t of ficials also released nearly 100 pretrial motions Tuesday, most of them from the defense. One signaled that Holmes will seek a change of venue because of pretrial publicity. Others challenged the admissibility of ballistics, handwriting and mountains of other evidence and demanded that prosecutors hand over as many as 2,000 pieces of physical evidence. Holmes’ lawyers appear to be tr ying to humanize their client, who made his first cour t appearances with a mop of dyed orange hair. They filed motions asking that he be allowed to appear before jurors in civilian clothes, instead of a jail uniform, and without shackles. They also asked that authorities ratchet back cour thouse security, including armed guards on the roof.
Center for New Americans to help immigrants Center u from Page 1
Par tnering with three local law firms and three nonprofit organizations, the law school will work to expand essential legal services for immigrant communities and improve the laws affecting immigrants. “By working together, all of us will be able to accomplish considerably more than we could working separately,” Wippman said. The new center will have three new clinics focusing on education and outreach, detainee rights and federal litigation, in addition to the already existing asylum law clinic, Wippman said. One of the goals of the new center is to give law students more clinical oppor tunities and real-life work experience, Wippman said. “Law students will get wonder ful oppor tunities to work with actual clients while they’re still in law school,” Wippman said. There are many individuals in detention both nationally and in Minnesota who can’t afford attorneys, said Benjamin Casper, di-
rector of the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota’s Pro Bono Litigation Project — one of the nonprofits collaborating with the center. On any given night, Casper said there can be up to 300 immigrants held in county jails by the Department of Homeland Security. “[The center] will give a voice to detained immigrants and their families,” Casper said. “[Detention of non-citizens] causes extraordinar y hardships for those families.” Since immigration law reform is making its way through Congress, Wippman said it seemed like a great time to set up the center. Casper said it could give the law school an opportunity to affect national immigration policy since new possible legislation could lead to impor tant litigation. Cr ystal W illiams, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, said she noticed the number of immigration law clinics around the countr y have been increasing to meet this demand. “No matter how many
attor neys there are out there, [immigrant communities] continue to be underser ved,” Williams said. After hiring additional faculty and teaching fellows, Wippman said the clinic will be up and r unning this fall but won’t reach its full strength for about a year. Most of the $4.5 million funding for the immigration law center will go toward hiring new faculty
and space costs, Wippman said, which should fund the center for its first four years. After that, W ippman said he hopes to secure additional funding to operate the center permanently. “It’s going to be an extraordinar y oppor tunity for the law school and the law students,” Casper said. “It’s really going to set the University apar t as a law school.”
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recommendation will be made now that the study has been updated. Church said as the process for creating a recommendation unfolds, the next step for researchers is to do a cost-effectiveness analysis, weighing the pros and cons of procedures. “There’s a lot of ways we could spend our money to improve health, and so we need to know, ‘What are we paying for?’ ” Church said. “We’ll know whether we should be spending it on something like screening for lung cancer or tr ying to prevent hear t disease.” Bruce Alexander, environmental health sciences professor, said lung cancer is among the deadliest
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Church said. “But one of the questions is, ‘Is a 20 percent reduction wor th all of those downsides?’ ” These results are in response to the American Cancer Society’s 2010 statement that fur ther analysis was needed before any recommendations could be made. The study began in 2002 at 33 medical centers in the U.S. Church was the principal investigator at the Minnesota center, the largest center in the study with more than 10 percent of total participants. Lou Har vin, American Cancer Society spokesman, said a statement will be released “in the near future” on whether a national
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cover whether lung cancer screening procedures are wor th the drawbacks for longtime smokers. A nine-year study on more than 53,400 smokers showed spiral CT scan screening resulted in 20 percent fewer deaths than the traditional chest X-ray screening. Spiral CT scans take detailed pictures inside the body using a combination of computers and X-rays, while a chest X-ray uses radiation to create pictures of the inside of a person’s chest. The research team published their latest findings in the New England Journal of Medicine on May 23. “Obviously, we’d like to reduce it by 100 percent,”
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Farmers face tough decisions from delayed planting BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DES MOINES, Iowa — It’s decision time for many Midwest corn farmers stuck in one of the wettest springs ever: Plant late in ground that’s been too wet, replant cor n in muddy fields or collect crop insurance. The U.S. Depar tment of Agricultur e said 91 percent of the nation’s corn crop is in the ground but just 74 percent of the plants have emerged. But some states — leading cor n producer Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri and North Dakota — are much further behind. “We’ve had as much rain in the last month and a half as we did last whole gr owin g seas on,” said Kevin Rempp, 55, who farms in central Iowa near Montezuma. Only 88 percent of Iowa’s cor n crop has been sowed. Normally, it’d be finished by now. Rempp is for tunate to have higher ground, and all 1,200 acres of corn and soybeans are planted. “It’s just one of those deals where Mother Nature has given us a dif ferent hand to play this year and we’re tr ying to make the best of it,” he said. If the skies clear and the growing season is fa-
vorable, it’s still possible to have an abundant corn har vest, which would help moderate price swings and keep food and beverage prices steady. So far, weather concer ns have driven cor n prices up nearly 10 percent in the past week and a half. But farmers can’t look too far into future when they’re faced with waterlogged fields. Wisconsin lags the most with just 74 percent of the crop in the field. John Ruedinger, 57, has only 100 of his 1,300 acres of corn in and about 50 of the several hundred acres of alfalfa he plans to grow to feed the 1,200 cows on his dair y farm near Van Dyne, Wis. The problem is rain keeps coming an inch or two at a time, saturating the heavy clay soil. With little sun and temperatures hovering about 10 degrees lower than usual, fields aren’t dr ying. “About the time it dries up, we get another shot of rain,” he said. Cor n farmers who choose to plant unfinished fields or go back and replant this late will see a sizable reduction in the grain they har vest this fall, said Roger Elmore, an Iowa State University agronomy professor and a corn specialist.
Congress locked on student Stafford loan rates Loans u from Page 1
bill that would extend the current 3.4 percent interest rate another year, giving Congress more time to work out a long-term solution. Both sides say something needs to be done as student debt grows. Last year, more than 15,000 University students took out unsubsidized Staf ford loans, according to Of fice of Student Finance data. Also, the 64 percent of University students who graduated with debt in 2012 owed a median of $27,334. The University isn’t lobbying for or against the issue, but the school has expressed support for Kline’s bill, said Channing Riggs, director of University Federal Relations. The University wants four principles from Congress’ solution: a flexible interest rate, a long-term solution, a cap on interest rates and a way of paying that doesn’t take from higher education funding, Riggs said. “We applaud Congressman Kline because I think it was a ver y reasoned approach,” she said, adding that Kline’s bill has their desir ed principles and “pays for itself.” Riggs said she believes Congress will compromise on a shor t-term solution and address it next year during the Higher Education Act reauthorization. University President Eric Kaler, in an inter view with the “Minnesota Daily” Tuesday morning, said he also suppor ts Kline’s bill. But Brandon Lorenz, a spokesman for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said Kline’s bill could lead student loan interest rates to double, which he said isn’t acceptable. “Congressman Kline is pushing a bill that would raise interest rates … and that’s just not the kind of vision that helps middleclass families af ford college,” he said. M i k e O b e r m u e l l e r, Kline’s Democratic challenger for the 2014 election, said the bill is a “re-
ally unfor tunate and bad policy” for students. He said student loans helped get him through school, and the non-fixed interest rate in Kline’s plan could create problems for students with small budgets after graduating. “The idea of your loans going up, even $100 a month, can make a big difference in your budget,” he said. Riggs said some critics say Kline’s bill is too complicated for students because it makes the loan interest rate different each year. “You do have to sign up for new classes, and you have to find some place new to live,” she said, “and you have to do your loan again.” While the University supports Kline’s proposal, the Minnesota Student Association is pushing to continue the 3.4 percent interest rate for another year or more, said incoming president Mike Schmit. Keeping a low, fixed interest rate is in the students’ best interest, he said. “Student debt is the highest it’s ever been … doubling our interest rate is not the way to fix that,” he said. “Students aren’t the people who should be penalized in this situation.”
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3.4 PERCENT CURRENT INTEREST RATE ON STAFFORD STUDENT LOANS
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Teach for America faces hurdles in Minnesota The governor cut $1.5 million for TFA in the Higher Education bill last month. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
Jonathan Filzen successfully avoided living in the dorms when he attended the University of Minnesota, but he’s making up for that now. Filzen is one of 43 recent college graduates from around the country settling into Comstock Hall on the University’s campus this week to train as Teach for America corps members. Cr ystal Brakke, executive director for TFA’s Twin Cities region, said demand for TFA teachers in Minnesota is high, but the organization has had a few setbacks recently. Last month, the Minnesota Board of Teaching denied a group variance waiver for TFA that would have allowed the organization to receive state permission for the members in Comstock to teach in Minnesota class-
rooms all at once before receiving their full teaching licenses. Without the waiver, TFA will need to get individual permission for each member to teach in the state. Brakke said this would “put an additional level of work on every individual school” that hires a TFA member. TFA will submit a revised request to the board for the group waiver later this month, and Brakke said she is confident the amended request will pass. The Board of Teaching has granted the group waiver to TFA since 2009, when the organization first started operating in Minnesota. Karen Balmer, executive director for the Minnesota Board of Teaching, said the decision to deny the waiver this year was because of questions board members had, including ones about attrition rates of teachers in the program and their placement in high-need schools. Approval, she said, “will depend on whether board members will feel that they have had their questions
answered and want to move forward.” Balmer said she expects TFA’s revised request will be supplemented with more data than the original one. The Board of Teaching isn’t the only group with concerns. Last month, Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a $1.5 million allocation to TFA in the omnibus Higher Education bill. Dayton said in a press release that the veto — his only line item veto of the bill — was because “no competitive grant program was established; no other applications were solicited; and no objective review was made by an independent panel of experts.” The veto will not impact TFA’s current operations in Minnesota, Brakke said. The funds were intended to help the organization increase its members by about 50 teachers. “That’s the dif ference, we won’t be able to bring in those 50 teachers, though we will be looking at other funding routes and sources,” she said. Tom Dooher, president
of Education Minnesota, a teachers union and advocacy group, said the additional funding would have been unnecessary because there’s a surplus of teachers in Minnesota. Dooher is also concerned the five-week training program TFA offers for new members isn’t enough. “We just want to make sure that anyone who becomes an educator in the state of Minnesota meets the high standards we have set for those who are going to teach,” Dooher said. But Brakke said TFA’s goals are aligned with Education Minnesota’s, and demand for TFA teachers in the state has grown in recent years. Minnesota TFA members, she said, are also enrolled in a two-year training program through Hamline University and paired with teaching mentors. “I think sometimes it’s set up as we have opposing beliefs [as teacher unions], and I don’t think that’s true,” she said. “I think we all want the best thing for our students in Minnesota.”
Obesity diabetes study shows pros and cons BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — Obesity surger y worked much better at reducing and even reversing diabetes than medication and lifestyle changes in one of the most rigorous studies of its kind. But the researchers and others warn that possible serious complications need to be considered. The yearlong study indicates that the most common weight-loss surger y, gastric bypass, can ef fectively treat diabetes in patients with mild to moderate obesity — about 50 to 70 pounds over weight, the researchers reported Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Other studies have shown the operation can reverse diabetes in severely obese patients, although sometimes the disease comes back. About a third of the 60 adults who got bypass surger y in the new study developed serious problems within a year of the operation, though some cases were not clearly linked with
the surger y. That rate is similar to what’s been seen in previous studies. But for the most serious complications — infections, intestinal blockages and bleeding — the rate was 6 percent, slightly higher than in earlier research. The most dangerous complication occurred in one patient when stomach contents leaked from the surger y site, leading to an over whelming infection, leg amputation and brain injury. Lead author Dr. Sayeed Ikramuddin, an obesity surgeon at the University of Minnesota, called that case “a fluke.” A journal editorial says such devastating complications are rare, but that “the frequency and severity of complications ... is problematic” in the study and that the best way to treat patients with both obesity and diabetes “remains unknown.” A research review in the journal said more long-term evidence on risks and benefits is needed to determine if obesity surger y is an appropriate way to treat diabetes in patients who aren’t severely obese — at least
100 pounds overweight. More than 20 million Americans have Type 2 diabetes; most are overweight or obese. Diabetics face increased risks for hear t disease and strokes, and poorly controlled diabetes can damage the kidneys, eyes and blood vessels. About 160,000 people nationwide undergo various types of obesity surger y each year. Bypass surgery, the type studied, involves stapling the stomach to create a small pouch and attaching it to a lower part of the intestines. The American Society for Metabolic & Bariatric Surger y says obesity surger y is safe and that the death rate is less than 1 percent, lower than for gallbladder and hip replacement surgery. The study involved 120 patients at five hospitals in New York, Minnesota and Taiwan. All patients got medicines for diabetes, obesity, cholesterol and/or high blood pressure. They all were advised to cut calories and increase physical activity. Sixty patients also had surger y, and the two
groups were compared after one year. The surger y group lost on average nearly 60 pounds and 75 percent lowered blood sugar levels to normal or near normal levels. The non-surger y group lost an average 17 pounds and just 30 percent reached the blood-sugar goal. The surgery group also needed less medication after the operation. The researchers say the diabetes changes were likely due to the weight loss but that hor monal changes af fecting blood sugar may have contributed. The surger y group showed a trend toward having less high blood pressure and elevated cholesterol — both major risk factors for hear t disease, although those betweengroup dif ferences could have been due to chance. Ikramuddin, the lead author, said the study results don’t mean that all mildly obese diabetics should have obesity surger y, but that “in the correct patient, surgery might be an impor tant thing to consider.”
Turkish gov’t offers apology as protests continue BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ANKARA, T urkey — T urkey’s deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government’s violent crackdown on an environmental protest, a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the countr y’s major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of riot police deployed with water cannons around the prime minister’s office in Ankara, the capital. Bulent Arinc, who is standing in for the prime minister while he is out of the country, said the crackdown was “wrong and unjust.” “In that first (protest) action, the excessive violence exer ted on people who were acting out of environmental concerns was wrong and unjust,” Arinc said. “I apologize to those citizens.” Yet the impact of his statement was unclear. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is visiting Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, has undermined previous statements by his ministers and has dismissed the protesters as a fringe minority stirred up by the opposition. Tens of thousands of mostly secular-minded Turks have joined anti-government rallies since Fri-
day, when police launched a pre-dawn raid against a peaceful sit-in protesting plans to uproot trees in Istanbul’s main Taksim Square. Since then, the demonstrations have spiraled into Turkey’s biggest anti-gover nment disturbances in years. Late T uesday night, thousands of people were demonstrating in the square. Many of the streets leading into it have been blocked by bar ricades that protesters have built of over turned dumpsters, metal railings and damaged vehicles to keep police away. At one point, near the German Consulate, police fired tear gas at several hundred protesters who were throwing bricks at the officers. A 22-year-old man died during an anti-government protest in a city near Turkey’s border with Syria, and of ficials gave conflicting reports on what caused his death. Police have been accused of using disproportionate force in tr ying to break up demonstrations. In a boisterous debate in Parliament, Interior Minister Muammer Guler defended police officers’ use of tear gas against demonstrators trying to reach government buildings. “Should we have allowed them to march and take over Parliament?” he asked.
“We do not have the luxury to allow illegal acts and will never have that luxury.” Arinc said he had no information about reports that riot police had erased or painted over numbers on their helmets so people could not repor t them in the event of abuse. Guler, the interior minister, said protesters had destroyed CCTV cameras around Taksim, and the vandalism would make it harder for the government to detect abuse by police and identify perpetrators. The T urkish Human Rights Association said some 3,300 people nationwide were detained during four days of protests, although most have since been released. At least 1,300 people were injured, the group said, although it said the number could be higher. Protests have been directed at what critics say is Erdogan’s aggressive and authoritarian style of governing. Many accuse him of forcing his conservative, religious outlook on citizens’ lives in this mainly Muslim but secular nation. Erdogan rejects the accusations, says he respects all lifestyles. Arinc said the government was “sensitive” to the demands of the largely urban, pro-secular section of society that had not voted for Erdogan’s Islamic-rooted party.
“I would like to express this in all sincerity: ever yone’s lifestyle is important to us and we are sensitive to them,” he said. There were several other efforts to ease tensions. Sir ri Sureyya Onder, legislator from a Kurdish par ty who became a hero to many for standing in front of bulldozers to prevent the destruction of trees in Istanbul’s Taksim square, called on demonstrators to continue protests in a more festival-like manner. The state-run Anadolu Agency said police in Antalya, on the Mediterranean coast, handed over carnations and roses to a group of protesters. Both Onder and Arinc spoke after a meeting with President Abdullah Gul who, contrar y to Erdogan, has praised the mostly peaceful protesters as expressing their democratic rights. Gul and Erdogan could face of f next year in Turkey’s presidential election. The Hatay pr ovince governor’s of fice initially said the man who died, Abdullah Comer t, was shot Monday during a demonstration in the city of Antakya. It backtracked after Hatay’s chief prosecutor’s office said an autopsy showed Comer t had received a blow to the head and there was no trace of a gunshot wound.
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Professors weigh importance of evaluation forms About 148,000 evaluations were processed for fall semester. BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com
T yler Johnson wrote thoughtful responses on the four Student Rating of Teaching forms he filled out this spring. But he noticed other University of Minnesota students tur n the forms in blank, mostly in larger lecture-style classes. “Being that it’s the only real way for students to voice their opinions of faculty, I think it’s impor tant to actually write something useful,” the business and marketing education junior said. SR T forms, the most widely used evaluations at the University, are usually filled out by students during their final weeks of classes and are used in the tenure and promotion process. About 148,000 for ms were scanned by the Office of Measurement Services during fall 2012, representing more than 6,500 courses on the Twin Cities campus alone. Thomas Dohm, OMS director, said three-quarters of the paper-version SR Ts are filled out completely by students, but online evaluations have a much lower percentage. The evaluations include student release questions
at the end that ask about course load and value of assignments. Various students and groups, including the Minnesota Student Association and student representatives to the Board of Regents, have pushed for more transparency in releasing that data. Professors cur rently have the right to decide whether to release that section to students — only about 10 percent do. But Johnson said he thinks the website Rate My Professors is just as useful as SR T forms. Anthropology professor William Beeman disagrees. “Anybody who picked their classes by going on to that site exclusively would be rather foolish,” Beeman said. Johnson said he “knows that some students use the site to just complain,” but students don’t have any other way to judge a class before registering. “It’s a calculated decision,” Johnson said.
‘Not a popularity contest’
While still an undergraduate at Wesleyan University in 1968, Beeman said he designed the first faculty evaluation for m ever used for tenure decisions. Beeman, now the chair of the University’s Depar tment of Anthropology, said he uses similar forms regularly to gauge
the per formance of both himself and other professors in the department. Political science professor Larr y Jacobs pays close attention to the written comments. He said most students write that the course contains too much reading. But he said he pushes his students and that increased reading is par t of the transition into college. “For me, it’s never been a popularity contest,” Jacobs said. “The best outcome for me is when a student comes out of a class saying, ‘You know, I’ve learned a lot.’ ” Beeman, who receives SR T forms for each professor in his depar tment, said the forms are used in decisions of tenure, promotions and awards. He noted that faculty research activities and accomplishments also are taken into account. Chemistr y professor Christopher Cramer said “it’s a little bit of a pity” that the forms are used in the promotion and tenure process. He said it may create poor incentives to “teach to get good evaluations” and that the process may be connected to the grade inflation cur ve that star ted in the 1970s. The data is still useful, Cramer said, but shouldn’t necessarily be tied to salar y and promotions. “It’s a risky enterprise,” he said.
Somali community raises their civic voice in mayoral debate Somalis u from Page 1
“[The Somali community] will make a difference because they vote,” said Hussein Samatar, a former mayoral candidate. “Their numbers are thriving, and they can be a difference for [the election].” Audience members posed questions on issues like the achievement gap, police profiling and the economy at the event, which was the first mayoral debate of its kind hosted by the community. All five candidates expressed similar messages about wanting more SomaliAmerican involvement in city government. Somali groups haven’t made any formal endorsements yet, and debate attendees reacted equally to the candidates on Friday. The DFL will vote to endorse a candidate at its convention on June 15. Education and the achievement gap between white students and students of color in Minneapolis was one of the main issues dis-
cussed at Friday’s debate. Samatar, who had considered running but didn’t due to health concerns, said the achievement gap is “unacceptable” in Minneapolis. “[Somali students] need more help,” he said. “Minneapolis won’t go to the next level without everybody.” Many candidates said they would start addressing the issue in early childhood education. “[Early childhood education centers] save money; they improve the lives of our children,” said candidate and former Hennepin County Commissioner Mark Andrew. “They ought to be expanded.” Current councilmembers and candidates Gary Schiff and Betsy Hodges both stressed improving pre-natal health care as another way to address the achievement gap. Candidates also addressed the issue of police profiling. Councilman and candidate Don Samuels, who came to the U.S. from Jamaica 43 years ago, told the crowd he understands how police can treat immigrants differently.
“I know what it means,” he said, “to feel intimidated by the police.” Possible reasons for unequal treatment from police, Samatar said, are cultural and language gaps. He said police should develop better relationships with all communities to make the city safer. “People can make neighborhoods safe when they feel safe,” he said. Another main topic at the debate was the economy. The candidates all said there should be more Somalis involved with city government to ensure their economic needs are met. Former City Council President and candidate Jackie Cherr yhomes said Somali businesses aren’t “getting their fair share” of contracts to open businesses. She said there should be Somali-speaking employees in the city’s business and regulatory divisions so there aren’t cultural barriers to getting a business license. Schiff pointed out that Minneapolis’ city code is outdated, putting immigrants at a disadvantage. “A modern city needs a modern code,” he said.
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Ilhan Omar, campaign manager for Kari Dzeidzic, reads questions to the mayoral candidates Friday at Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis. The forum was the first of its kind hosted by the Somali DFL Caucus.
Small towns prepare as flood moves south BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. LOUIS — Volunteers were busy stacking sandbags in the tiny Missouri town of Dutchtown on Monday as the rainswollen Mississippi River threatens to send water into about a third of the town’s homes and make another nearby town an island. Heavy rain over the past several days has spur red a second round of spring flooding this year in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. The Mississippi and Missouri rivers have crested in many places nor th and west of St. Louis — but to the south, the worst was yet to come. In Dutchtown, a community of about 100 people, volunteers joined homeowners in adding to makeshift levees left standing from April flooding along the Mississippi. Although floodwater never reached the levees then, it seems cer tainly it will this time. “ We ’ r e t r y i n g t o d o what we can before it gets here,” said Doyle Parmer, Dutchtown’s emergency management coordinator. He said 13 homes are in danger, including three rental proper ties he owns because he moved to Cape Girardeau. Dutchtown has for years sought a gover nment buyout that town leaders say is caught up in red tape. Under buyout pr ograms, the gover nment purchases homes in the flood plain with the agreement that the land will be used only as green space, such as a park. “I’ll take 60 cents on the dollar,” Parmer said. “C’mon, you live where it floods. You need to get out, lick your wounds, count your losses and go elsewhere.” High water could
make nearby Allenville, population 117, an island. Just one county road is expected to remain passable at Allenville, so if it floods, the town would be reachable only by boat, said Cape Girardeau County spokesman Eric McGowen. But he said locals were taking things in stride. “The residents are pretty good at taking care of themselves,” he said. The scenic Illinois tourist town of Grafton, near St. Louis, was largely isolated with the key highway closed. The Mississippi is expected to crest in the town of about 700 residents early Tuesday. “Grafton isn’t closed — just par ts of it are underwater,” Police Chief Chris Sullivan said. “There’s 12 feet of water standing in large parts of town.” Yet Sullivan said locals weren’t panicking, given Grafton’s histor y. The latest predicted crest of 11 feet above flood stage would match that of the 2008 flood, when 20 homes and businesses were flooded, but floods have been worse, including in 1993 during the most severe flooding ever along much of the Mississippi. “I think we’re a little bit wear y,” Sullivan said. “But the people of Grafton are really resilient, and they’re used to dealing with this. They make a living of f the river, and they understand they have to take the bad with the good.” Nearby Alton, Ill., also had flood problems, with the Mississippi River spillover flooding the riverfront and roads near the Con Agra plant. The Argosy Alto Casino is closed due to high water and is expected to remain so until Thursday. In nor ther n Missouri, however, the river was
going down. Clarksville, Mo., stayed mostly dr y thanks to a sandbag-andtarp levee built in April that was r einforced by volunteers in recent days. Several businesses and a few homes took on water in Louisiana, Mo., but the Champ Clark Bridge, which spans the river and connects to Illinois, reopened as water on the Illinois approach receded. Its closure forced commuters to drive an extra 35 miles to the next closest river crossing. No significant pr oblems were expected in St. Louis, but the normally busy road that r uns between the river and the Gateway Arch was closed Monday. Corps of Engineers spokesman Mike Petersen said two Mississippi River levees have been over topped during this round of flooding, both near the confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Petersen said about 20 residents were impacted. The Missouri River was starting to drop in hard-hit Missouri towns including Jef ferson City, Hermann and Washington. Nathan Nickolaus, city administrator in Jef ferson City, said a few homes and businesses were damaged but levees held, even as water lapped near the tops. One of those levees protected the Jef ferson City airpor t, which remained open, though several plane owners moved their aircraft out. Nickolaus credited buyouts of homeowners over the past several years that have essentially cleared out the flood plain in Missouri’s Capitol city. “Years ago this would have been a major event with a lot of homes and businesses impacted, people stranded,” Nickolaus said.
Silicon Valley businesses at front line of global war on cyber security BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Chinese President Xi Jinping and American counterpart Barack Obama will talk cyber-security this week in California, but experts say the state’s Silicon Valley and its signature high-tech firms should provide the front lines in the increasingly aggressive fight against overseas hackers. With China seeking to grow its economy and expand its technology base, companies like Facebook, Apple, Google and Twitter are inviting targets. In fact, all have been attacked and all point the finger at China, which has denied any role. The U.S. gover nment has stepped up ef for ts to thwar t cyber-attacks, but those efforts are mainly focused at protecting its own secrets, especially regarding military operations and technologies. Paul Rosenzweig, a former Department of Homeland Security official whose Red Branch Consulting provides national security advice, said the responsibility for preventing attacks in the private sector lies with the U.S. innovators who created the technology that’s being hacked in the first place. “To some degree, they were getting a pass,” he said. “If a car manufacturer made a car that was routinely able to be stolen, they’d be sued. If software is made with gaps that are a liability, they bear some responsibility, and in recent years there’s been a sea change in high tech firms accepting that responsibility.” Big firms like Google employ thousands of security exper ts who can spot a potential attack on just a few individuals and quickly disseminate protection for ever yone using their products. Google routinely detects unsafe websites that spread malicious software or trick people into reveal-
ing personal information, posting warnings in front of users and contacting webmasters who may have been hacked. But Chinese hackers have managed to hit even Google, and in a book released this spring, Google’s executive chairman Eric Schmidt said China is the world’s “most sophisticated and prolific hacker.” Cybersecurity is high on the agenda for the meeting between Obama and Xi on Friday and Saturday in Southern California’s Rancho Mirage. A recent government report found nearly 40 Pentagon weapons programs and almost 30 other defense technologies were compromised by cyber intrusions from China. Earlier this year, cybersecurity firm Mandiant linked a secret Chinese military unit to years of cyber-attacks against U.S. companies. Mandiant’s chief security officer, Richard Bejtlich, said his firm tracks more than 20 potentially threating groups of hackers in China, some with links to the government and military. China’s government denies any involvement, with Defense Ministr y spokesman Geng Yansheng telling reporters Sunday that the U.S. claims “underestimate the intelligence of the Chinese people.” Frustration is growing, however, as the attacks continue. Although none have come out publically, analysts say some U.S. companies even are considering cyber-attacks of their own as retaliation, even though it’s illegal. Retaliatory hacking was a hot topic at the 2013 RSA Conference on tech security in March, where attorneys and sitting judges even held a mock trial over an imaginary firm that struck back. And on May 20, the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property, headed by former U.S.
Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman and former U.S. Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair, recommended that Congress and the Obama administration reconsider the laws banning retaliation. “If counterattacks against hackers were legal, there are many techniques that companies could employ that would cause severe damage to the capability of those conducting IP theft,” they wrote. Marc Maif fret, chief technology officer at security firm BeyondTr ust in San Diego, warns against private firms going on the offensive. “There are a lot of people lobbying to ‘hack back’ but I think that is a disastrous idea,” said Maif frett, who was a hacker of government sites before discovering the first Microsoft computer worm, “CodeRed.” “Most of corporate America is failing to secure themselves, let alone become competent hackers to hack back against someone like a China.” Tim Junio, who studies cyber-attacks at Stanford University’s Center for Inter national Security and Cooperation, doesn’t expect much to change because of the Xi-Obama talks. “China benefits too much by stealing intellectual proper ty from the U.S., so it’s really hard to imagine anyone convincing them to slow down,” he said. Indeed, the payof f for successfully stealing critical infor mation can be enormous. For example, if a company spends many millions of dollars develo p i n g e x p e n s i v e i n t e llectual proper ty, such as a pharmaceutical firm investing in a new dr ug, it’s ver y cost-ef fective for a Chinese firm or government entity to dedicate a small team of hackers to gain access to that company’s networks.
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Internship survival guide do, so be thankful that you are given something — anything — to pass the time. Feel satisfied that doing so makes you look like a team player in the eyes of your superiors.
Hate it or love it, make your internship work for you.
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Drop your expectations
Every internship is different. My experiences have run the gamut in terms of job duties, direction, trust level and other factors. I’ve had the internship where I was treated like a “real” employee and invited to networking nights and kickball games, but I’ve also had the internship where six hours could pass without anyone saying anything to me if I didn’t speak first. To minimize frustration
Don’t give up BRONWYN MILLER columnist
and disappointment, don’t approach your first day thinking you’re walking into your dream job. It’s better to be pleasantly surprised by a good experience than crushed by a poor one.
Check your ego at the door
Offer to do anything and everything, and always do it with a smile. Yes, you might have to bite the bullet when your most critical task involves making a Starbucks run, but always express gratitude for the tasks you are given, no matter how menial they may be. In truth, the worst case scenario is not mindless activities but pretending to look busy. Hands down, the most agitating and nerve-racking way to spend your time is trying to look like you’re doing something when you have nothing to
I was bewildered by the internship at which I was yelled at on my first day for asking my supervisor to “put me to work,” chastised for expecting to be “babysat.” Be prepared for an internship program that forgoes any training and requires you to seek out your own activities, and tr y your best to prevent the lack of guidance from ruining your experience. Swallow your nervousness and approach as many people as it takes to find something to do every day. Once you reach out to them, though, they will understand the position you are in and potentially seek you out the next time they need help. As I have learned, it’s better to err on the side of overly eager than reluctant. At the very least, even if you never have the opportunity to work on anything too meaningful, you will have made people know who you are and that you are pro-
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active, and you can justify the time you put in with a few solid letters of recommendation.
Look for the silver lining
Even if your internship offers the same mental stimulation as watching paint dry, don’t burn bridges. If you are truly miserable or stressed, consider quitting, but in less extreme situations, salvage the experience as best you can. When you end up hating an internship in the field that you thought was your ideal career, it can spark quite the existential crisis, but consider it a blessing. Finding out what you want to be when you grow up is often best accomplished by narrowing down what you do not want to be, and an internship that guides that realization is in fact very valuable. But remember, even if your mind is made up, resist the urge to stop caring about your position and screw off at work. Remember, it’s only your time that you’re sacrificing — so make it count. Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.
PUBLIC OPINION
Their opinions matter
Adrian Peterson’s recent comments about marriage equality elicited a dangerous reaction of apathy.
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Larry Pogemiller Minnesota Commissioner of Higher Education
a s t month Minnesota Vikings r unning back Adrian Peterson made headlines when, in an interview on MATT HOY S i r i u s X M columnist NFL Radio, he stated that he is “not with” marriage equality. Facebook and Twitter lit up immediately, with people calling Peterson everything from “bigot” to “hero” for expressing his views on the controversial issue. In response to the responses, the more jaded people pointed out that Peterson is paid millions of dollars to run quickly and avoid tackles. His opinion on same-sex marriage, they argue, is irrelevant. This opinion is presented under the guise of common sense, painted as a beacon of reason cutting its way through the over-dramatic waves of malarkey spewed by the more susceptible consumers of opinion media. But the argument is nowhere near that simple. Professional athletes, for better or worse, are arbiters of our culture, nationally and internationally. Everyone knows who Michael Jordan is. And even if most people consider his opinion irrelevant, there will be those who value it. First on this list are children, who, according to a study by the Kaiser Family Foundation, rank professional athletes second behind their parents as the most admired people in their lives. It follows that kids who hear the comments made by Peterson, the current NFL Most Valuable Player and Offensive Player of the Year, might have their own views shaped by Peterson’s stance. Breeding that kind of intolerance is a step in the wrong direction. Peterson’s comments against same-sex marriage were about as innocuous as they could have been, and they came only because he was asked about outspoken punter Chris Kluwe being released from the Vikings. It is important to remember, though, that Peterson’s polite, moderately openminded statements still advocate oppression. No matter how amiable, hands off and tolerant Peterson may be, his position is none of those things. Athletes are entitled to free speech, and their enhanced forum is earned, regardless of their qualifications. We need to stop pretending that their opinions don’t matter.
This is an excerpt from Pogemiller’s commentary, “An investment worth making.”
Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.
Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR An investment worth making You can learn a great deal listening to college students from every region of the state, across all sectors of postsecondar y education. Some are single parents suppor ting children, while others are helping siblings, or even parents, go to school. They understand completing their education is critical to improving their lives and the lives of their families, but the daily challenges of making that happen are daunting. T uition has risen so drastically in recent years that even though some students had a college savings plan, it is no longer adequate to cover the cost of even one year of school. Some were forced to delay starting school, while others have given up on pursuing the careers of their choice. Many receive a grant or scholarship but will still graduate thousands of dollars in debt. Nearly all of them work, and yet when asked if they also had student loans, the majority raised their hands. One student told me directly, “The best thing Gov. Dayton can do for students is help reduce debt.” T wo things became clear from these meetings: Students today recognize that a postsecondary education is more important than ever, and with few exceptions, paying for that education is hard for ever yone. And, despite remaining ver y optimistic about college being wor th it, they all worr y about the longterm consequences of debt. When will they ever be able to buy a home, start a family or follow their heart down a career path instead
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or many college students, summer means more than day drinking and vacations: It’s internship season. Internships are generally considered an invaluable way to garner firsthand, real-life experience, yet they can range from the good, the bad and the ugly. Even if your internship is hardly a cakewalk, sticking it out is often worth a line on your résumé or a prestigious reference. Take note of these tips to help you along the way.
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of their bank account? Each of them are paying the high cost of record cuts to higher education over recent years, record tuition increases and, as a result, record amounts of student debt. Dayton listened and, this year, made higher education a priority. The historic higher education funding package passed by the state Legislature and signed into law by Dayton makes significant strides toward holding the line on the cost of college, expanding access and reducing debt for Minnesota students. Under Dayton’s leadership, direct aid to students will see the largest increase in over 25 years. More middle-class students will now become eligible for a state grant, and current recipients will receive more money. Working adults, who are often suppor ting a family while seeking a new career or a better opportunity, will receive larger grants to help them reach their goals. These new investments in the State Grant Program are especially significant because they reach higher into the middle-income range, wher e students and families are feeling squeezed by the high cost of college. Over 100,000 Minnesota students will receive financial assistance as a result of this new law. Tuition at both the University of Minnesota and all Minnesota State Colleges and Universities campuses will be frozen at their current level for the next two years. Over the past decade, tuition and fees have increased at three or more times the rate of inflation and personal income. Combined, the tuition
freeze at state colleges and universities and the increase in student aid means over $200 million will go directly to students to help stem the rise in student debt. This is welcome news for Minnesota students, who currently rank third highest in the nation in debt, averaging $30,000 for a baccalaureate degree. The University of Minnesota will receive crucial funding for the Minnesota Discover y, Research and InnoVation Economy initiative. With focus on four key areas, brain conditions, securing the global food supply, robotic and advanced manufacturing, and advancing industr y and conser ving the environment, the University is poised to be a world leader in these key industries, strengthening Minnesota’s economy and improving the quality of life for all Minnesotans. With an approaching labor shortage, Minnesota cannot afford to have even one Minnesota student or family believe higher education is out of reach. This year, Dayton and the Legislature halted the trend of disinvestment and took the first steps toward changing the legacy for this generation of students from staggering debt and limited opportunities to a postsecondar y education that is more affordable and attainable. That is an investment in Minnesota’s future worth making, one with the potential for a significant economic and social return.
Prioritizing residents New development may threaten the character of Dinkytown, but it is also displacing students.
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he Save Dinkytown group spurred an environmental review of a new apartment complex last month when it presented a petition to the Minneapolis City Planning Commission claiming the yet-unnamed development could hurt the “unique history, aesthetic character and identity of Dinkytown,” according to a Minnesota Daily article published May 29. The concerns of Save Dinkytown — which has garnered support from students — are legitimate. However, their priorities should be with students, not the interest of businesses or the abstract “character” of the area. The proposed 140-unit development would replace five Dinkytown businesses and two large surface parking lots. Two affected business owners, including Laurel Bauer, owner of the 80-year-old House of Hanson, have supported the project. Just a few blocks away, two other developments are displacing students and current residents. One planned project by local developer CPM will raze existing housing on 17 parcels to make way for 202 new apartments. According to a May 29 Minnesota Daily article, the move came as a surprise to some students in the area, who were told in early May they would have to move out in 60 days. Another University alumna and 22-year resident of the area sold her townhouse to make way for the same development. Dinkytown has a colorful history, and the area is uniquely vital to the University of Minnesota community. However, Dinkytown’s identity is not static nor is it tied to a handful of businesses. Attempting to preserve the area’s small-town charm is not an unworthy goal, but Save Dinkytown should be spending more time advocating for those who live in and around the group’s namesake.
The right to be a family Passing of the same-sex marriage bill gives security to same-sex couples.
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ot yet one month ago, Gov. Mark Dayton gave his signature to a bill making Minnesota the 12th state in America to legalize same-sex marriages. As our nation looks forward with several other states poised to address the same issue, it’s important to recognize how widespread the effect of this bill is on Minnesota’s local communities, including its influence on University of Minnesota students. Last November, over half of Minnesota’s eligible voters struck down an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. In Hennepin County, 64 percent voted against the amendment, and in precincts populated largely by college students, over 80 percent of voters opposed the proposed amendment. The youth vote was heard in a big way with the sound defeat of the marriage amendment, which paved the way for the rightful equality many students now look forward to enjoying. The bill also opens up questions regarding samesex couples’ rights as families, particularly when qualifying for housing. The Como Student Community Cooperative offers family housing for University of Minnesota Students. Marcie Lantz Driver, general manager of CSCC, said in an email that the student co-op has been recognizing same-sex domestic couples as eligible for familial student housing since 1999. Now that legislation has passed guaranteeing same-sex couples’ rights to marriage, Lantz Driver said the co-op may see an increased number of same-sex couples applying for housing, though passing of the bill has not changed any of the co-op’s all-inclusive policies. Lantz Driver also noted that children are not necessary for applications to family housing and that she hopes to see an increase in couples applying to the co-op, regardless of sexual orientation. Hadley Adkins, operations manager of the Commonwealth Terrace Cooperative — another family housing development for University students — said in an email that their co-op is also all-inclusive and that the new legislation will not have an effect on existing CTC policies.
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Timber wolves, after Williams’ workout with the team last week. “But at this level, you just don’t get by with athleticism.” Saunders said Williams needs to work his ball handling, shooting and perimeter game to succeed at the professional level. Williams’ shooting troubles were well documented during his time with the Gophers. He shot 25 percent beyond the three-point line during his collegiate career. That’s well below average for an NBA small for ward, the position Williams said he sees himself playing professionally. The Gophers coaching staff unsuccessfully tried to fix Williams’ shooting form during his time at the University, even placing straps on his left hand to prevent his thumb from touching the ball, former head coach Tubby Smith said. W illiams could have spent more time working on his shooting and ball handling in school. “Ever y once in a while, I think that,” Williams said, “but I’ve just got to look for ward. I can’t take back what I did and what I didn’t do.” W illiams’ lack of improvement in those areas contributed to his inconsistency with the Gophers, ESPN college basketball writer Myron Medcalf said. Williams scored more than 10 points just once in his final 10 games with the team.
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Gophers basketball player Rodney Williams answers questions from the media after his practice with the Timberwolves on Wednesday morning at the Target Center in Minneapolis.
“He didn’t develop on his own the way that I think he could have in four years at the U,” Medcalf said. Smith said W illiams’ shoulder injur y last season aided in his inconsistency, as did the fact that he and fellow for war d T revor Mbakwe played similar roles. Smith said he expects W illiams to
make big strides with his shooting and ball handling without the commitment to education looming over him. “Those are areas he needs to work on,” Smith said, “but you’re not going to find a guy more willing … especially now that he can focus on those things.” Williams said he had
gotten fr ustrated with himself for not playing up to expectations with the Gophers. “For me to be able to kind of get a fresh star t and be able to go work on things I need to work on — I think that was good for me,” he said. Smith said he thinks Williams will be a long-
term player in the NBA and also said Williams has the athleticism to defend some of the league’s top wing players. “He has a good feel for the game,” he said. “He’s a ver y intelligent basketball player, and he’s a ver y efficient player, so ... he could play well in most systems in the NBA.”
Williams said he’s confident he’ll get drafted. If he’s taken in the second round, he’ll likely have to play his way onto a team through the NBA’s summer league. Only firstround selections are guaranteed contracts. “Hopefully I can sneak on a team somewhere,” he said.
TRACK & FIELD
Historic duo prepares for final throws at NCAAs
Micah Hegerle and Quentin Mege have won 4 straight Big Ten titles combined. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Gophers hammer throwers Micah Hegerle and Quentin Mege took two different paths to land in the same position at the end of their illustrious collegiate careers. Hegerle, a Minnesota native, and Mege, a transfer from Chelles, France, have developed into two of the best collegiate throwers in the U.S. The two seniors have competed against each other at some of the nation’s biggest events while building a close bond. “They’ve pushed each other and helped each other overcome a lot of obstacles to accomplish what they’ve done,” said Gophers throwing coach L ynden Reder. Hegerle and Mege will wrap up their careers at the NCAA outdoor track and field championships June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore.
Instant success Hammer throw wasn’t on Hegerle’s radar coming out of Kasson-Mantor ville High School in Kasson, Minn.; he had previously thrown shot put and discus. But when Hegerle arrived on campus, Reder saw his potential in the event. “I r eally thought he had the tools to be a really good hammer thrower,” Reder said. “Most guys come [into college] having not thrown the hammer. ... There’s an oppor tunity to outlearn your competitors.” Hegerle did just that. He quickly adjusted to the dif ferences in footwork and tur ns and won the 2010 Big Ten outdoor title in his first year of competition. Mege transfer red to Minnesota from a school in France before the 2011 season. Reder said he
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Minnesota thrower Quentin Mege throws at the Jack Johnson Invitational on Jan. 19 at the University Fieldhouse.
worked tir elessly with Mege to jump through the hoops necessar y for the transfer. “I really felt like if we stick with this, the payof f is going to be really big for both sides,” Reder said. It was almost immediate. Mege beat Hegerle to win the hammer throw at the 2011 Big Ten championships. The throwers racked up more accomplishments their sophomore and junior seasons. Mege repeated as Big Ten hammer throw champion in 2012, and Hegerle won backto-back Big Ten weight throwing titles in 2011 and 2012. Both earned All-American honors in the hammer throw at last year’s NCAA meet. Mege finished fifth, while Hegerle took seventh.
A throwing family Hegerle reclaimed his Big Ten title in the hammer throw this season, while Mege finished second as he battled back from a broken hand he suffered earlier in the season. Hegerle’s win gave both throwers two conference hammer throw titles. “I think they probably wouldn’t have it any other way,” Reder said.
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PREVIEW: Junior Laura Docherty will be the Gophers’ only female representative at the NCAA championships. She will compete in the 5,000-meter run. Docherty set the school record in the 10,000 meters early in the outdoor season, but she focused on the 5,000-meter run for the postseason. This will mark Docherty’s first trip to an NCAA championships. She qualified ninth overall at the Gophers’ NCAA regional May 25, running a personal-best time of 16:10.63. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Though the two compete, Hegerle and Mege still root for each other. They aim to improve at practice rather than compete, Mege said. They feed of f each other to get better, especially in the of fseason, Hegerle said. “We both like to see each other succeed, but at the same time we want to beat each other,” Hegerle said. “It’s definitely a way to motivate each other in the weight room and in training.” Reder said the time practicing, training, attending meets and traveling has pushed him and the two throwers together. “We’re kind of like fam-
ily,” Reder said. “We probably really enjoy each other’s company at times and want to smack each other at times and get on each other’s ner ves at times.” He said the throwers are also close when they aren’t practicing. “I think it’s a special relationship,” Reder said. “They’ve contributed to not only their athletic success, but maybe even more than that, the overall depth and richness of their experiences here as athletes.” Neither thrower is eliminating the possibility of winning the NCAA hammer throw title, but expectations are tempered. Mege said he wants to fin-
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Minnesota thrower Micah Hegerle throws at the Jack Johnson Invitational on Jan. 19 at the University Fieldhouse.
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PREVIEW: The Gophers will bring 10 members to this week’s NCAA championships, the same number as last year. Seniors Quentin Mege and Micah Hegerle will look to improve on their fifth- and seventh-place finishes last year in the hammer throw. Senior Harun Abda will lead the 4x400 relay while also competing in the 800 meters alongside senior teammate Travis Burkstrand. Junior John Simons will compete in the 1,500-meter run. Senior Oladipo Fagbemi will compete in the triple jump. He set a personal record in the event at the Gophers’ NCAA regional May 25 with a distance of 15.68 meters. Freshman Wally Ellenson will compete in the high jump after clearing seven feet at the regional. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
ish in the top three, while Hegerle said he hopes to be an All-American again. Regardless of this week’s result, both throwers have left their mark on the sport. “They’re going to be in-
separable in the histor y of our program,” Reder said. “[They’re] … definitely the best hammer duo that the Big Ten has ever had [and probably] one of the best duos that the countr y has ever had.”
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BASEBALL
Junior enters draft with better discipline D.J. Snelten will likely be picked in the first 10 rounds of the MLB draft. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
DJ Snelten admits he has flown under the radar for most of his baseball career. This season was no different. The junior lefty enjoyed a successful spring as the Gophers’ No. 2 starter, while ace Tom Windle dominated the headlines. Both pitchers have attracted attention from scouts in the weeks leading up to the 2013 Major League Baseball draft June 6-8. Snelten is Baseball America’s No. 141 prospect in the draft, and he’ll likely be selected in the first 10 rounds. He has an inherent advantage as a left-handed pitcher, as lefties are coveted at the next level. Snelten called it “a blessing in disguise” that Windle attracted most of the media attention this season. “It’s easy to get all caught up looking at clippings of yourself, but when there are less of them you spend more time working on the things you need to work on,” Snelten said. “It’s a lot easier to be more disciplined.” That discipline has translated to success at the college level, especially in Snelten’s junior campaign. He finished 5-2 with a 2.15 ERA and 42 strikeouts this season. Snelten missed the first month of the season with an elbow strain, but he returned to full form after that minor setback. His season culminated with a clutch performance against Illinois in the final game of the regular season. Snelten scattered seven hits and didn’t allow a run over eight innings in a game Minnesota had to win to make the Big Ten tournament. Snelten lost his second game of the season five days later against top-seeded Indiana in the second game of the tournament.
Minnesota junior DJ Snelten pitches against Indiana on May 23 during the Big Ten tournament at Target Field. “DJ … came in as a kid said he struggled to find pick of the San Diego Padres man year. that looked like he had great the strike zone his first two in the 2010 MLB draft. He Anderson said Snelten potential but had a lot of work seasons. He said a lot of his said he considered his profes- came to the Gophers as more to do,” said head coach John problems on the mound were sional options but chose to of a “thrower” and has proAnderson. “It’s been a work in mental, and he has worked play for the Gophers. gressed into a “pitcher.” progress for three years.” to improve that aspect of his Snelten didn’t succeed like “I went to the mound as a Snelten’s repertoire fea- game. he expected in his first year, freshman and threw without tures a fastball, changeup, Anderson recognized though. He made four starts a pitch or a purpose,” Snelten slider and an occasional these struggles as well, and and boasted a 5.22 ERA. said. “I threw the ball and curve ball. His fastball tops he said Snelten’s improve“I came in cocky and just hoped people would get out in the mid-90s, but he said ment with the Gophers has thought that I knew every- themselves out. I learned he leans on his changeup to impressed him. thing about the game,” he over the years that I had to get out of most jams. “He’s worked very hard at said “I had some bad outings, develop more of a plan with “That’s always been my it,” Anderson said. “He’s ele- and the game humbled me each batter at the plate.” bread and butter,” he said. vated his game through hard quite a bit.” Snelten cited maturity as Though he has devel- work, and he’s gotten better He said he’s tried to estab- the reason he’s ready to play oped an “out pitch” with his both mentally and emotion- lish the right side of the plate professional baseball. He said changeup in his third year ally out there on the mound.” and has used his head more he’ll make the jump if he’s with the program, Snelten Snelten was a 30th-round on the mound since his fresh- drafted in the first 10 rounds.
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DJ SNELTEN CAREER STATISTICS 2011 2012 2013
IP 29.1 86.0 58.2
W-L 1-3 4-4 5-2
ERA 5.22 3.24 2.15
SO 18 55 42
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“It’s been a dream since I was a little kid to play professional baseball,” Snelten said. “I’ve matured in my three years with the Gophers, and I’m prepared physically, mentally and emotionally to compete at the professional level.”
BASEBALL
High-schoolers prepare for draft Two top Minnesota players signed with Nebraska, but they could go pro after the MLB draft. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
T yus Jones, Rashad Vaughn and Reid Travis have dominated recent headlines as the “Big Three” basketball recruits from Minnesota. But on the diamond, colleges and scouts have flocked to a less well-known trio of local prospects. R yan Boldt, Logan Shore and Max Knutson are the best high school baseball prospects in Minnesota, and the Gophers didn’t ink any of them to a scholarship. Boldt and Knutson committed to play at Nebraska, and Shore committed to Florida. The three players all rank in Baseball America’s Top 250 prospects list for the 2013 MLB draft June 6-8. Though they’ve all signed letters of intent to play in college, they will have an opportunity to forego their scholarships and make the jump to the next level. If Boldt and Knutson stay with Nebraska, they could terrorize the Gophers in the Big Ten for the foreseeable future. Boldt, a senior outfielder at Red Wing High School, is the top-ranked prospect in Minnesota. But he missed most of his senior season after partially tearing the meniscus in his right knee in the first game. “It’s all about getting healthy and back to the level I used to be at,” Boldt said. “It’s going to be a slow process, but I should be back by
the middle of August.” Boldt garnered attention from college scouts despite his knee injury, but he said the Gophers never offered a scholarship. “They never reached out to me,” Boldt said, adding he was a little surprised with the lack of interest. Boldt visited Nebraska at the start of his junior year and said the campus and athletics facilities caught his eye. Knutson, a stud senior pitcher at Mounds View High School, also said Nebraska’s facilities factored into his decision. He said Nebraska pushed the hardest for his services, but the Gophers recruited him as well. Arizona, Arizona State, Florida and Florida State were also interested. Knutson said it was an honor to get so much attention from his hometown school, but Nebraska was a better fit. “It was a no-brainer for me to go to Nebraska,” Knutson said. “There’s an incredible coaching staf f there, and the facilities are unbelievable.” Though the Gophers missed out on the top-three prospects in the state, the program still boasts a formidable class of recruits. They’ll need those recr uits to step up as they will lose seven seniors to graduation and likely lose pitchers Tom Windle and DJ Snelten to professional baseball. Knutson said it will take a perfect fit to pull him from Nebraska to the pros, but Boldt said he’ll weigh his options after the draft. “I just want to finish out my senior year,” said Boldt, who is graduating the day after the draft, “and then cross that bridge.”
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Mounds View High School senior Max Knutson pitches against Roseville Area High School on May 25 at Midway Stadium in St. Paul.
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Noise in da ’hood The Minneapolis International Noise Conference aims for diverse eccentricity this year. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
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A phenomenon born in the early par t of the 20th centur y, noise rock can be traced to psychedelic rock and fringe jazz experimentation of the ’50s and ’60s. Noise of today is a visceral experience that maintains a subversive, underground status, sharing traits with just about anything that attempts to be dif ferent from the status quo. “Ther e’s been noise around since before it was called noise,” said Rana May, a local comedian and MPLS INC par ticipant. “Noise musicians and comedians both tr y to cross the line, to mess with people’s preconceptions.” Befitting the haphazard nature of the show, Thee Nodes manager and former member Matt Smith admitted that their presence at MPLS INC is coincidence because they “needed a gig.” “We’re expecting a lot of noise — not music,” Smith said. A guy can put a guitar pickup on a piece of sheet metal, play it with a bow, bend it or whack it — the
resulting experience is undoubtedly interesting, though the actual sound could be questionable aesthetically. “I like abrasive sounds,” local musician Paul Metzger said. “When I hear things that are pleasant, I get agitated.” Metzger is known for his guitar and banjo instrumentals, though he’s tinkering with a series of music boxes that he’s altered with distortion to create a sort of analog synthesizer. If all of this has you scratching your head, then May, with her informational speech, can hopefully shed some light on what the hell is happening come this Thursday night.
Year two in Minneapolis The main International Noise Conference happens annually in Miami. It’s the brainchild of Rat Bastard, the main member of the Laundr y Room Squelchers. This weekend’s conference is the second iteration of the Minneapolis spinoff.
“I like abrasive sounds, when I hear things that are pleasant, I get agitated.” PAUL METZGER local musician
Laundry Room Squelchers, Bulgarian group S.D.U. and Montreal rockers Thee Nodes round out what is a predominantly local bill. If an experiment falls flat, the brevity of sets keeps things moving. “Last time I saw a group,
!!! Pronounced using any monosyllabic sound, !!! rose to prominence as clear byproducts of the dance-punk movement of the early 2000s. But as those three exclamations might suggest, the band’s raucous live performances gained notoriety. Now 17 years in, the Sacramento-based band enlisted Jim Eno of Spoon to help on the production side of the album. !!!’s latest “Thr!!!ller” might not recreate the spontaneity of their live shows, but the new material continues in the stripped-down infectiousness of 2010’s “Strange Weather, Isn’t It?” For a primer on !!!, revisit the breakthrough glory of 2003 with “Me & Giuliani Down By The School Yard (A True Story),” the era when co-conspirators LCD Soundsystem first started gaining traction. u Where: Fine Line Music Cafe, 318 N. First Ave., Minneapolis u When: Doors open at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. u Cost: $15 in advance, $18 door u Age:18+
WHAT: MINNEAPOLIS INTERNATIONAL NOISE CONFERENCE WHEN 9 P.M., THURSDAY WHERE HEXAGON BAR, 2600 S. 27TH AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST FREE AGE 21+
it was so long,” May said. “The best punk and noise bands have sets under 20 minutes.” That is a sentiment reiterated by participants: a fundamental dissatisfaction with duration. MPLS INC tapped into the musical impatience of the listener who always wants more, differently. Jaime Carrera exemplifies this: A member of Cock E.S.P. and a solo performer this year, he specifically aims to stand out — as if with so many disparate elements there’s a standard to “fit” with. He’ll be taking the stage as Pudgy, an obscene, shirtless, singing pig-man obsessed with the spotlight. Drew Ailes, front man for local hardcore band Brain Tumors, will reflect on the spotlight, performing spoken word as the Henry Rollins of Minneapolis. “I really am the Henr y Rollins of Minneapolis as a front man for a hardcore band — it’s a burden I have to bear. I just want people to understand what I’ve gone through and feel the way I feel,” Ailes said. “Really I’m just going to get drunk and throw beer on people.” T ypical. Antagonism seems to be a mainstay of noise.
JAAK JENSEN, DAILY Jaime Carrera at a local Mexican market in Minneapolis on Monday. Carrera will be performing at the International Noise Conference on June 6 at the Hexagon Bar.
Voltage
“Hamlet”
Here’s how you suddenly start to understand fashion: You gather all your courage to attend Voltage, MNfashion’s yearly hybrid of local music and design, in spite of your limited wardrobe. While your past self may have criticized the idea of contributing to such a pithy concept — propping up local stars like The Chalice, Aby Wolf, Sean Anonymous and Bomba De Luz — you rethink your former denouncements as wholly unfair. You see the runway as a culmination of a broader local showcase of art, uniting the independent fashion and music of Minneapolis. Or maybe this just serves as a chance to see your favorite local headliners strut the catwalk. It’s up to you. u Where: First Avenue Mainroom, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis u When: 7 p.m. u Cost: $28 advance, $33 door u Age:18+
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JAAK JENSEN, DAILY Paul Metzger winds up the knobs on his handmade music machine that is made up of 21 windup music boxes altered to orchestrate unique sounds. Metzger will be performing at the International Noise Conference on June 6 at the Hexagon Bar.
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yr upy is never a word that’ll be heard in reference to noise music, unless it’s an allusion to sludge, spoiled milk or maybe the way a hand drips down a modified fret board. The best way to describe a noise act is to emphasize the ‘act’ part of the equation. Noise as a genre of music — if you can call it music — is akin to performance ar t. It’s about the experience; there’s a vast dif ference between listening to a recording and crowding into some dank basement while a guy creates sounds befitting an alien transmission. “Ther e ar e so many great bands out there to see, but do you remember them? It’s just another great band,” said Jason Wade, a member of local noise band Cock E.S.P. and event organizer. “You’re going to remember the show where somebody throws a garbage can at you.” This weekend’s Minneapolis International Noise Conference, or MPLS INC, aims to embrace the multiple facets of noise weirdness, including comedy, dance, per formance art and music, from punkrock to the more familiar home-cooked contraptions of noise mainstays. The five-hour long event features 30 acts, each playing a 10-minute set. It will progress relay style, with no breaks; as a nod to noise-rock purists, laptops are not allowed. The organizers want the kind of enlivened per formance that screens and keys interfere with.
Before your eyes glaze over, imagine the perfect place to see “Hamlet,” one of Shakespeare’s most enduring tragedies. To hear the bard’s words spoken aloud at the Globe Theatre back in the day might be the answer, but it’s not the 17th century, and methinks you might not know the difference between a folio and Polonius. Fear not: Theatre Coup d’Etat’s production of the classic uses the intimate setting of the American Swedish Institute’s stage. The sparse and minimal setup allows for the actors to let “Hamlet” breathe for both newcomers and English major show-offs. Unlike the glitzy productions elsewhere (we’re not looking at the Guthrie here), Theatre Coup d’Etat trusts the man from Stratford-upon-Avon himself. u Where: American Swedish Institute, 2600 Park Ave., Minneapolis u When: 8 p.m. u Cost: $20 (pay what you can on Sunday)
CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT
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By Queens of the Stone Age Josh Homme’s hard rock-leaning Queens of the Stone Age find familiar footing with the group’s first album since 2007’s “Era Vulgaris.” Although they utilize everyone from Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl and Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner to Elton John, “…Like Clockwork” satisfies with the band’s recognizable heavy riffs on “Keep Your Eyes Peeled.” Critics make the mistake of labeling the genre stoner-rock, wrongly implying you’d need to chemically alter your mind to enjoy the music. Really, the atmosphere of the new album mirrors more of a comedown. When Homme’s wailing vocals coalesce with the glam guitars for an impending sense of danger on “My God is the Sun,” the feeling’s more sinister than watching Phish in tie-dye.
“A Visit from the Goon Squad” By Jennifer Egan An aging rock exec named Bennie Salazar, his onetime assistant and an assemblage of self-destructive characters somehow associated with the music industry all concern Egan’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. Revolving back and forth through these shards of stories in time, the book first resembles a collection of short stories. Most of the 13 chapters see New York City through the eyes of each of the book’s interwoven identities, but Egan’s flare for new modes of storytelling continues to surprise. One chapter is told with a PowerPoint presentation, while another focuses on a former rock star named Bosco, who declares, “Time’s a goon, right?”
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CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT Patios To start out a sedentary day of boozing and breathing in the outdoor aromas, grab a Bloody Mary at Psycho Suzi’s Motor Lounge (1900 Marshall St. NE, Minneapolis). The quirky Northeast tiki-punk-motohybrid overlooks the Mississippi and features a stellar drink menu. If you find yourself in St. Paul, the Happy Gnome (498 Selby Ave.) is fancy enough to take your folks, but the back porch never feels too stuffy either. Check out Sweeney’s Saloon (96 N. Dale St., St. Paul) for a close alternative. Now for the youngsters inclined to recline around campus, head on over to Palmer’s or Nomad World Pub on West Bank (500/1 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis), where you’ll find bocce ball and plenty of enlightening al fresco activities.
BOOKS
Gangsta’s paradise: “Augie’s Secrets” and Minneapolis mob life Neal Karlen spills the secrets of Minneapolis mobsters like “Icepick Willie,” who dominated Hennepin Avenue in the 1940s and ’50s. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com
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srael “Icepick Willie” Alderman punctured victims’ brains via their eardrums with his namesake tool — that way, an autopsy would fail to detect any sign of a homicide. The hit man, known across the countr y, once resided in Minneapolis. In spite of his grisly crimes, Alderman barely stands out from the surface of the city’s rich history of deviance. Growing up, Neal Karlen heard stories about the peak of the Minneapolis Jewish mafia in the 1940s and ’50s. The former Rolling Stone journalist remembers anecdotes about Augie Ratner, his great uncle and “King of the Hennepin Strip.” Karlen’s book, “Augie’s Secrets,” finally sheds light on the cast of criminal characters, but 20 years ago, Karlen couldn’t find anyone who would talk. “Suddenly in their 90s, ever yone was willing to talk,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s because, you know, they just didn’t give a [expletive] anymore.” Plenty of color ful portraits of bootlegging and gambling give gravitas to the local crime syndicate of Minneapolis, often ignored when compared to the national gangsters who visited St. Paul — John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Ma Barker all holed up in the capital. “But these guys were lightweights compared to the Minneapolis born and bred gangsters who really controlled vice and gambling, not just in Minneapolis, but a big swath of Las Vegas and Miami Beach,” Karlen said. “Augie’s Secrets” shares
PHOTO COURTESY OF MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Bootleggers, gamblers, corrupt police officers, politicians and gangsters all populate Neal Karlen’s new biography, “Augie’s Secrets.”
a loving biography of Ratner while detailing the commonplace corr uption of the time. Bootlegging liquor fueled the growing mob presence as the antiSemitism in Minneapolis grew with the flux of Jewish immigrants, as Karlen recalls. “They all star ted as bootleggers. That was because Jews literally couldn’t get hired in any job,” he said. “So if you had ambition, you went into bootlegging.” Karlen’s enter taining
dir ty laundr y list in “Augie’s Secrets” details the beginning of organized crime connected to the alcohol smuggling of the 1920s. Among the moonshine sellers, he points to Benny Haskell, who paved the way in the prohibition era. “He could provide the best bootleg hooch to the rich gentiles on Lake Minnetonka, who wouldn’t let him in the front door,” he said. Equally interested in the seedy histor y of Minneapolis and all of the vivid
characters involved, criminals or bystanders, Karlen writes with the same obsessive enthusiasm in his music journalism. “I was tr ying to paint a scene, not just of gangsters, but of a time when Minneapolis really was the funkiest place in the world,” he said. “There’s a reason Prince came out of here.” Karlen never met his great uncle, but before Ratner passed away in 1979, the man who befriended the criminal under world
left the writer a gift. “I got a Bar Mitzvah present from him, and it was postmarked Las Vegas — it was two 1927 silver dollars,” he said. The strip club bearing his great uncle’s name, Augie’s Cabaret, still stands as a vestige of the mob’s former presence. Now Karlen can only see the vibrant city in “Augie’s Secrets” whenever he walks on Hennepin Avenue. “I go there and see the 1940s. I think I was born 50 years too late,” he said.
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“I think that would’ve been my time.”
ART
All aboard the art train: Northern Spark at Lowertown The all-night art festival Northern Spark occupies Union Depot this weekend to take attendees on a community journey. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
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enches dotted St. Paul’s Union Depot concourse as Fred Mer tz-types donned fedoras and Ethels tucked compacts into their handbags after one last touchup. Upon hearing the distant blast of a horn, they exited en masse to greet the arrival of the streamlined Zephyr that would whisk them to Chicago. It’s been more than 40 years since the Depot served in that capacity, but this weekend it will see the birth of a new heyday as the third Northern Spark uses it as the centerpiece for this year’s all-night art festival. “It’s a very old building — newly reopened but the first time a lot of people will be there,” said Sarah Peters, the associate director of Northern Spark. “There will be art tucked into all of these little corners.” With the newly remod-
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eled depot and accompanying train yard occupying some 32 acres, there is plenty of space for the work of the 300-plus artists participating in this year’s festival. The Amtrak ticket office, empty until train service begins, will host an existential travel agency where improvisers provide philosophical consultation. Mizna, an ArabAmerican journal, is sponsoring an exhibition along a portion of the carriageway that will allow patrons to spray-paint stencils inspired by street art from the Arab Spring. There’ll even be a fantasy space camp with a dozen artist-built rocket ships, as well as film, musical theater and a signage workshop amid all sorts of interactive experiences. Despite the enormity of the grounds, 2013 and the
PHOTO COURTESY OF PATRICK KELLEY Festival-goers wander through Wil Natzel’s”Night Blooms” during last year’s festival.
year’s 76 projects see a smaller overall festival footprint. Organizers responded to feedback from previous
years requesting a walkable festival. “The experience of wandering and stumbling into
things is the most magical par t of Nor thern Spark,” Peters said. Whether it’s travel in
the physical or metaphysical sense, 2013’s Northern Spark is set to run you off the rails.
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COMEDY
A real housewife of Orange County Comedian Frances Dilorinzo’s comedy gives moms a good name. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
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s F r a n c e s Dilorinzo spins around, the audience realizes that she cleverly tucked her hands into her shir t and her sleeves into her pants pockets, giving the illusion of gigantic breasts. It’s the star t of a joke about homemade implants and the desire to see the results before actually going under the knife. The joke went viral, gathering over three million views and boosting Dilorinzo’s profile. Bor n in Michigan, Dilorinzo resides in Califor nia and has appeared on “Secret Life of a Soccer Mom,” “Real Housewives of Orange County” and “Last Comic Standing.” She’s been a comic for 20 years. “ ‘ Real Housewives of Orange County’ always seemed to cut me out,” Dilorinzo said. “I don’t think my boobs are big enough.” Her feelings about her figure, her unwillingness
to copulate with her husband — or a police officer to get out of a ticket — and how the sexes dif fer on the phone, all are open fodder for Dilorinzo’s effusive standup. “I did not come out of a dark, tor tured past; I actually say in my act I’m so normal I’m kind of a freak,” Dilorinzo said. “For a while, I harbored a lot of resentment because my parents have been married for 50 years, there was no drug abuse, no sexual abuse. Did they not understand I wanted to be a comedian? They taught me morals and values — really screwed me up.” She peppers her sets with “You know”s and her beaming white smile, appearing to have the time of her life each and ever y set. It would seem like a practiced af fectation if it weren’t for the fact that she’s just like that in the morning without her first cup of coffee — the coffee only aids her manic deliver y and presence. “Unlike a lot of female comedians, I’m quite physical,” Dilorinzo said. “I’m ver y comfor table getting silly — looking silly on stage.” She points out that there’s a “more cerebral
trend in comedy,” where things are funny, though potentially depr essing, saddening or reflective of the audience’s own demons. “Comedy should be fun as well as funny,” said DiLorinzo, who entered comedy after a college speech professor urged students to bring humor into their public speaking. “If you come to my show, it’s about escaping, giving your brain a break from all the negative stuf f you see on CNN.” Funny bones run in the family, too: Her children, ages 9 and 10, already have their own standup bit; a fact that could be the starting premise of yet another reality show. WHAT FRANCES DILORINZO WHEN 7:30 P.M., THURSDAY; 7:30 AND 9:45 P.M., FRIDAY; 7 AND 9:30 P.M., SATURDAY; 7 P.M., SUNDAY WHERE RICK BRONSON’S HOUSE OF COMEDY, LEVEL 4 EAST, MALL OF AMERICA, BLOOMINGTON COST $15-$19 AGE 18+
COMEDY
Growing Haynes
PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDY HAYNES From comedian Andy Haynes’ set on “Conan”: “I’m pretty broke, which is hard to believe because I look like a senator’s nephew.”
Growing older for Andy Haynes means no more drunken trips to Central America, but the standup comic still relies on his proclivity for depravity. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com
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ndy Haynes no longer sleeps on an inflatable bed — now he’s making enough money to af ford an actual mattress. When the standup used to live with fellow comic Ror y Scovel in Los Angeles, he slept on the cr ude blow-up mattress with his wife. “That is a canar y in the coalmine for your financial status,” he joked during his debut on TBS’s “Conan” last year. Haynes trades in selfdeprecation and absurdity, making his more biting remarks completely casual. Though his act mostly centers on his old slovenly lifestyle, he also finds a satiric edge, possibly stemming from his former aspirations. He initially found comedy after considering a career as a political activist. “Then I realized that ever yone in activism was so serious,” he said. “It just wasn’t that fun. I kind of wanted to cause trouble.” The Seattle native comes from a family of politically minded campaign supporters. Haynes might not give fier y monologues a la Bill Hicks, but it’s still embedded in his comedy DNA. “I grew up around a
bunch of lefties,” he said. “We’d picket — my mom’s like a union person, and then my sister’s a gay rights activist.” Haynes never joined Greenpeace, settling on a less serious path toward the national spotlight. He landed on NBC’s “Last Comic Standing” in 2008 for three minutes before being cut. “For a lot of those reality television shows, they want this big personality to come along with whatever this competition is,” he said. “I was just so happy to be there. I guess that’s not what keeps people watching.” Since his exit from “Last Comic Standing,” he’s considering skewering the reality show genre for a show he’s workshopping in his head. Haynes dreams of upping the ante of “No Reser vations,” a travel show hosted by the outspoken chef — and former addict — Anthony Bourdain. “It would be like if Anthony Bourdain was still on heroin,” he said. “He’d still be tr ying to score on all these trips. He’s into the food, but he’s also into the bad parts of town.” Haynes’ proposed satire actually draws from his own misadventures in Central America. Throughout his 20s, he made frequent trips to Colombia, Mexico,
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and ever y countr y in between. Although he claims he wasn’t scoring dr ugs — aside from weed — he recounted a r un-in with a one-ar med man who robbed him, an instance he attributes to his drunken debaucher y. “Most of the time when I was traveling, I was drinking,” he said. “I got into some close calls with guys who were unsavor y types. That’s always something I can draw on — that experience.” The recovering alcoholic decided to focus on his comedy rather than finding the cheapest plane tickets to the closest Spanish-speaking countr y in 2008. Haynes won’t be revisiting Central America to relive his old ways any time soon, but the trips show his sardonic side. Even if he’s gr own up since then, his sense of humor hasn’t. “I got it out of my system,” he said. “I sur vived.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF FRANCES DILORINZO Frances Dilorinzo caught the comedy bug in college, releasing her inner goofball through a required speech class.
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BACKTALK
horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (6/5): Define what’s most important, and recycle accumulated stuff. Less is more. With home and family as central, renovate healthy lifestyle practices like great food and exercise. Prosper overall this year.
sudoku Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
6/5/2013
May 29’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Imagine the real costs of what you consume. A wise purchase gets you out of a tricky spot. A softer voice works better.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Identify the potential. Check with friends to see who’s interested. You and another, possibly older, person are bonded by a shared dream.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Someone else’s fantasy comes with perks. Consider the consequences. Let him or her know what you want.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Imagine ways to improve your home. Gather more data before taking action. Water figures in the plan. Don’t get too grandiose.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — The more you save, the more you can splurge later. Put in the extra effort. Follow the recipe. Use sparingly. Advance with help from your team.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Make executive decisions. Ask about fringe benefits. New information leads to new savings. Seek spiritual advice to heal an old hurt.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Talk privately about finances, and find the funds you need. Cut unnecessary perks. Controversy can be positive. Maintain your independence.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Get your junk appraised, and you may find treasure. Curtail thoughtless spending, and keep to the budget.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Your partner selects imaginative activities. Speak out about what you want, and avoid an unpleasant scenario.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — It’s a good idea to know what you’re talking about. Read the background documents. Connect with someone who shares your dream.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Others rely on you for common sense. Last week’s work is in the past. Follow through on a new idea, even if it seems impossible.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Cash flows. Identify what’s needed for effective action. Travel may be required. Imagine secret success. Your routine gets tested.
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
secret admirers
crossword
FOR RELEASE JUNE 4, 2013
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle To the male barista at the Starbucks off Washington,
I go there just about every day and sometimes even get refills on my iced tea as an excuse to stop in again. You’re always so friendly! Also, I can’t find a non-creepy way to say I love your eyes and 5 o’ clock shadow.
(But seriously, I need it for my insurance.)
—The Girl With The Huge Dent In The Side Of Her Car
To the tall, dark-haired beautiful guy I met while working at the Minnesota Daily barbeque today,
I already miss seeing your gorgeous long hair/flow in class. And your nice runner body. Mmmm. I need a cure for these withdrawals … please help me out!
I think it was around 1 p.m. We chatted briefly outside (and you won a shirt, way to go), then I saw you again when you were sitting in Coffman and I came in to wash spilled root beer off my hands. You probably have a girlfriend because you are fine as hell, but just in case you don’t, I resorted to this (even though I feel ridiculous). Ball is in your court.
Dear new Daft Punk album,
Shelby from Intro to Drawing,
—Swooning Soon-To-Be Sophomore Matt,
—An Admiring Classmate
You have made writing papers 1000 times easier.
—Unknown
IT guy in Coffman,
Your long limbs and slim pants make me weak at the knees. I am so sad you cut your long, flowing, black hair. It’s hard to believe that a man of your charm and looks can have such a way with computers.
—You Can Troubleshoot Me Any Day To the biker I hit with my car on Monday morning outside of Sanford Hall,
I’m sorry my car got in your way. I hope you are OK. I know you have my name, but I have no idea who you are. I wish that would change!
—Centennial Hall
You are gorgeous. Your smile is incredible. I wish I would have actually talked to you! Maybe I will get a chance to redeem myself, who knows. Hopefully I will see your pretty face next semester.
—Your Secret Admirer
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ACROSS 1 King or queen, but not a prince 5 Coffeehouse connection 9 Carnival features 14 Once again 15 Breezed through 16 “99 44/100 % pure” soap 17 Staff symbol 18 Need after a bank job 20 Partner of true 22 Veg (out) 23 Business that cuts locks 26 Change People, say 30 Just manage, with “out” 31 The Brewers, on scoreboards 32 Gal pal of Jerry and George 34 Church gettogether 37 Sikorsky and Stravinsky 38 “Know what I mean?” 41 Blender setting 42 Paste back together 43 8-Down, to Mexicans 45 Ben-__ 46 Spot for a shot 49 Tabloid twosome 50 Jamaican resort 54 Ancient Aegean region 56 Kind of question with only two possible answers 57 Classic Hitchcock film, and a hint to the end of 18-, 23-, 38- and 50Across 62 “No __ luck!” 63 Paddled boat 64 Movie “Citizen” 65 In good shape 66 Put up with 67 64-Across’s Rosebud 68 Current event? DOWN 1 “That’s impossible!” 2 Arctic pullover 3 Call it a night
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4 Nerdy type 5 Shake, as a tail 6 Mixologist’s bucketful 7 Command to Fido 8 Southern neighbor of British Columbia 9 Iranian currency 10 Harvard and Yale are in it 11 Leader of the Dwarfs 12 Stat for Jered Weaver 13 Country W of Iraq 19 Clean with a rag 21 Knocked down a peg 24 Rolling in dough 25 More shrewd 27 A-line designer 28 Legal memo’s “concerning” 29 Parisian possessive 33 Religious ritual 34 Household gadget used on a board 35 Big brute 36 Traffic controller 38 Short burst of wind
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39 Art Deco designer 40 Game with suspicions and accusations 41 Canada’s smallest prov. 44 Luxury hotel chain 46 Preposterous 47 Causing serious nose-wrinkling 48 “Good heavens!”
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51 Cries in sties 52 Spanish tennis star Rafael 53 Sunset dirección 55 Needed to pay 57 Pepsi alternatives 58 Put away some dishes? 59 California’s Santa __ 60 Small bill 61 United
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dr. date Dr. Date,
Last time I had sex with my boyfriend ,he prefaced it with “Let’s make a baby.” What should I do?
—Not Your Baby Mama
But Maybe A Mama,
My hope in writing this column is that my readers are already versed in the basics — that you all know how sex works, have a simple grasp on how babies are made and are comfortable with the ins and outs of Grindr and related apps. But sometimes, a letter like this comes along, and I have to sit ALL of you down for a serious chat. Speaking of serious chats, we need to briefly go over the ones you and your boyfriend have had: Y’all have discussed your contraceptive plan of action, right? If you haven’t, there’s a wild chance he meant this literally. Like, if he said the baby line and then your sex was unprotected, then, uh, maybe he wants a baby? And maybe you have a baby, right now, growing inside of you? In this case, you should saddle yourself up on a CVS horse and get some pregnancy tests and figure that ish out. Then you deal with it how you want to deal with it. Let’s talk the more likely case, which is that you and your boyfriend have a pretty simple no-babies plan and his sexy time comment flew in the face of that. It’s easy to raise your legs Whoa Nelly style, but imagine with me for a moment how gosh dang hot this prospect is for him — the thought of effing you so good that you get pregnant probably made him feel powerful, virile, close to you. I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with this, but if it turns you off or makes you feel stressed, let him know. Tell him you’re not into the baby talk because it hits way too close to your pregnancy-fearing home.
If you’re into it, though, then fly with it. Your bed is a sanctuary where you can say whatever you want, and hell, you can even pretend like you want to get pregnant for the sake of better sex. The fact of fertility may be the stuff of nightmares for a lot of us, but its power is sometimes the reason for the season, isn’t it?
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I was in a four-year relationship with a man, but we ended things amicably about a month ago. Still, he calls me for basic advice or for a favor as if we’re still together. How do I tell him that I can’t be there for him for little things like that and I need to move on (and so does he)?
—Break The Chains
Chain-Breaker,
This sucks because he’s depriving both of you of the chance to be wholly single. He needs the joy of dealing with his problems on his own, and you need the freedom of not having to answer his calls for advice. You’ll both feel much better when you stop relying on each other. Who cares if it’s just little things? This Doc believes that sometimes you gotta sweat the small stuff, especially if the small stuff is getting in the way of both of you moving on to the bigger and the better. Next time he calls, tell him you need him to stop treating you like you’re still dating — you can still be friends, of course, but just tell him you won’t pick up toilet paper for him after work or tell him what kind of present he should give his sister. You’re a woman, and you got to live your life. Think about all the incredible things you both could be doing in the time you spend holding on to a relationship that’s over.
—Dr. Date
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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New tanning salon opens in Dinkytown Some use tanning to treat seasonal affective disorder despite health risks. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Opening a tanning salon in Dinkytown was a no-brainer for owner Debbe Tomberlin. U-Tan, located in the basement of Five Guys Burgers and Fries on Four th Street Southeast, opened in early May during what Tomberlin calls a “dead season” for indoor tanning. Despite the slow star t, Tomberlin said she’s confident her salon will be successful with students in the area because of the demand for tanning and her low prices. Tanning gained popularity in the early 1980s
TANNING AMONG 18-21 YEAR OLD WOMEN
32%
44%
Percentage that used an indoor tanning device in 2010
Percentage residing in the Midwest that used an indoor tanning device in 2010
SOURCE: CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION
and has since become a $4.9 billion industr y. A 2010 National Health Inter view Sur vey found that 44 percent of white Midwester n women ages 1821 tan. Joshua Miller, district manager of Darque Tan on Washington Avenue, said the luxur y-style tanning salon relies on students during the school year, although it’s not their most popular location. SOL Tan and Spa on Como Avenue also has a primarily student-based clientele. Co-owner Grant Vaith says the large student population in Como brings in a lot of customers to the salon. Zach Wagner, a U-Tan customer, said he star ted going to U-Tan because it was close to his work in Dinkytown and it’s cheaper than other tanning salons in the area. Salon staff agreed most customers tan for cosmetic reasons, but many students are seeking relief for mood disorders as well. A lot of customers with seasonal affective disorder come in during the winter, Tomberlin said. “Tanning makes you
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Minneapolis massage therapist Courtney Johnson tans Tuesday at Darque Tan in Stadium Village. Despite known risks, tanning is still popular, especially among young adults.
feel good,” she said, adding that some customers are referred to tanning by their doctors for SAD tr eatment. DeAnn Lazovich, epidemiology professor and co-leader of the Masonic Cancer Center’s Prevention and Etiology Pr o gram, said UV radiation from tanning beds does seem to increase endorphin production but suggested people get endorphins fr om alter native sources, like exercise.
Tanning Risks
The School of Public Health and Masonic Cancer Center’s 2010 study on indoor tanning found that people who use tanning beds for any amount of time ar e 74 per cent more likely to get melanoma — the second-most common cancer for adolescents and young adults — than those who don’t use tanning beds. Liz Bailey, SOL Tan and Spa assistant manager, said she star ted tan-
ning in high school and was aware of the risks involved. “I would prefer to be tan rather than pale,” Bailey said, adding that most people who tan know the potential risks of getting skin cancer. SOL Tan and Spa, Darque Tan and U-Tan all discourage their customers from tanning if they’ve had skin cancer. “Tanning has gotten a bad rep,” Tomberlin said. “There’s good and bad in
ever ything.” Some customers have switched to sunless tanning options, such as spray tans, to avoid skin damage. Miller said 20 percent of their clientele use spray tans — a 10 percent increase from three years ago. Spray tans are a good o p ti o n fo r p eo p l e who don’t tan easily, Miller said, and they will likely become more popular in the future.