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BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
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Chef and instructor for the School of Public Health Jason Champagne prepares Red Lake walleye for friends at the Department of Indian Work Monday at the St. Paul Area Council of Churches.
4 A men’s and women’s basketball practice facility 4 A football complex 4 A women’s gymnastics facility 4 An Olympic sport indoor practice facility 4 An outdoor Olympic sport track 4 A wrestling training facility 4 An academic center 4 A training table dining area u See FACILITIES Page 11 The public reaction to the plan has been mostly positive, but the price tag has some concerned.
Native American scholarship recipients are graduating and planning ways to give back to their communities. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com
lied on tribal-funded scholarships to help pay for his college degree.
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u See EGYPT Page 8 The students were conducting a field work project at an NGO.
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National protests hit home Man banned BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com
Thousands of people carr ying handmade signs and chanting “No justice, no peace,” packed the Gov-
ernment Plaza in downtown Minneapolis Monday evening to protest the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin last year. Zimmerman, a Sanford, Fla. neighborhood watch volunteer, was cleared of all charges Saturday in the shooting. Mar tin’s death sparked national debate
Four University of Minnesota graduate students sealed themselves in their downtown Cairo apartment for four days while Egypt’s second revolution in two and a half years was happening right outside their window. With enough food to last them a week, they rarely left the two-bedroom apartment, a 10-minute walk from Tahrir Square, the epicenter for millions of protesters nationwide. “We were just right there,” said Edwin Dorbor, one of the graduate students. “It strengthened our relationship. We got to learn more about ourselves and each other.” The Humphrey School of Public Affairs students — who are all pursuing master’s degrees in international development practice — left Egypt on July 3, the day President Mohamed Morsi was ousted by the nation’s militar y. Now, all University students wishing to study in Egypt must get approval from the school. Amid escalating unrest, the U.S. Depar tment of State issued a travel warning for Egypt on June 28. The students agreed to
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Thousands demanded justice for Martin and a Mpls. man killed by police.
Unrest forces grads home Four U graduate students cut their a short amid the Egypian coup.
The $190M, privately funded plan would build a multi-sport complex on 15th Ave. SE.
University of Minnesota athletics director Nor wood Teague’s $190 million plan to build a multi-sport athletics complex on campus will require an unprecedented fundraising effort. Teague presented the plan to the University’s Board of Regents on July 10. He told the regents that the department intends to raise the money privately, meaning it will rely heavily on donors. “We have a lot of passionate people out there,” Teague said at a media session after the meeting, “and I’m trusting if we sell a big vision, we’ll find that we’ll have a great response.” Teague said he hopes the plan will be completed six to eight years from the launch of a fundraising campaign. The plan includes eight facilities to be built at an expanded Bierman Field complex on 15th Avenue Southeast:
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over Florida’s Stand Your Ground law and racial profiling. The Minneapolis rally was organized by the nonprofit MN Neighborhoods Organizing for Change. Monday night’s speakers demanded justice for both u See RALLY Page 5 Several University student groups took part in the rally.
Concerns persist from West Bank over UMore Park Police said area bathrooms have had problems with sexual behavior for 10 years.
Some worry about available resources for the proposed 20,000-plus housing project.
BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
BY LIBBY RYAN eryan@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota police banned a man from all West Bank buildings because of suspected sexual behavior in a bathroom stall in Anderson Hall last week. Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said University police have received complaints about sexual behavior and invasion of privacy on the West Bank for more than a decade. “It’s an ongoing problem,” he said. In March, the department’s Coordinated Response Team used plain-clothes officers to arrest five people for “inappropriate activities” in an Anderson Hall bathroom. “Generally, the folks we’re dealing with, as is the case here, are not affiliated with the University,” Miner said. “They come here for this specific purpose.” Anderson Hall gets the most complaints, he said, but police also hear about incidents in Blegen and Willey halls.
After decades of controversy over the University of Minnesota’s UMore Park, community members continue to voice their concerns over its development. A public comment period on the proposed plans for the 5,000acres of land, located 25 miles southeast of the metro, ended July 10, and worries remain about water use and population growth. Approved by the Board of Regents in 2008, development plans for UMore include a self-sustaining community for 25,000 people, a sand and gravel mine and industrial areas. The Rosemount City Council has to approve the plans in September before the University can move for ward. Carla Carlson, executive director of UMore Development LLC, estimated the annual budget for upkeep and planning the development is about $1 million. Community members and agencies were commenting on the Alter native Urban Areawide Review of the proper ty released in May, which modeled scenarios for the area’s future and addressed
RELATED CONTENT A carjacking on campus was followed by a tense police altercation at the McDonald’s in Dinkytown. u See Page 20 EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Supporters march through downtown Minneapolis at a rally responding to Saturday’s “not guilty” verdict of George Zimmerman in the trial over the death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin on Monday.
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u See BATHROOM Page 4 Police were installing a camera to track restroom use when the incident occured.
u See UMORE Page 3 The proposed housing development would be a self-sustaining model for other cities to mirror.
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The University of Minnesota Board of Regents voted to grant in-state tuition to some undocumented students, fulfilling a May request from the Minnesota Legislature. The resolution, which was approved through a split vote during the regents’ July 10 meeting, places several restrictions on which undocumented students are eligible. In order to qualify for in-state tuition, students must have attended a Minnesota high school for at
least three years and graduated. Undocumented students are required to prove they’ve applied for lawful immigration if a process exists for them to do so. Eligible males must also register for militar y selective ser vice, which is a requirement for all males 18–25 years old in the U.S. The University’s r equirements for in-state tuition are in line with the state Legislature’s requirements outlined in the DREAM Act, which passed last May. But the University, as
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Panama finds suspected weapons on N. Korean ship BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PANAMA CITY — A North Korean ship carr ying weapons system parts buried under sacks of sugar was seized as it tried to cross the Panama Canal on its way from Cuba to its home country, which is under a United Nations arms embargo, Panamanian officials said Tuesday. The ship appeared to be transporting a radar-control system for a Soviet-era surface-to-air missile system, according to a private defense analysis firm that examined a photograph posted on Twitter by Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli. Martinelli said the ship identified as the 14,000-ton Chong Chon Gang was carrying ballistic missiles and other arms, but he provided no specific evidence or details about the cargo. He said on his Twitter account that the arms were “hidden in containers underneath the cargo of
sugar.” The photo posted by the president shows a green tube that appears to be a horizontal antenna for the SNR-75 “Fan Song” radar, which used to guide missiles fired by the SA-2 air-defense system found in former Warsaw Pact and Soviet-allied nations, said Neil Ashdown, an analyst for IHS Jane’s Intelligence. Jane’s isn’t sure where the system in the photo was manufactured but the radar would be useful to North Korea as part of a dense air defense network, Ashdown said. “It is possible that this could be being sent to North Korea to update its high altitude air-defense capabilities,” he said. The U.N. Security Council imposed sanctions against North Korea after its first nuclear test in 2006 and stepped up sanctions after its second test in 2009 to try to derail the country’s rogue nuclear weapons and ballistic missile
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Light-rail, Web shut down tech shop General Nanosystems lost profits due to local construction and online bargains. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Most people might not notice the old blue building that houses General Nanosystems on University Avenue Southeast, and fewer may know the shop was a mecca for area computer enthusiasts for nearly two decades. General Nanosystems, which specializes in custom-built computers and computer products, is closing its doors July 31. When people were first discovering PCs in the early 1990s, Khalid Mahmood started the computer store out of a single room. Throughout the years, General Nanosystems gave a number of University of Minnesota computer science students their first jobs, he said. When Mahmood announced the store’s closing on its Facebook page, dozens of loyal customers posted comments reflecting their disappointment. “It’s sad,” Mahmood said. “The light rail has affected us quite a bit, unfortunately.” The store’s ser vice depar tment will continue to exist in a smaller building next door as a new company, Logic Systems. Computer science senior Chris Dale star ted going to the store with his dad 10 years ago. He’s now building his own custom PC, which he’ll use for video game programming. Dale said he prefers
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General Nanosystems technician Ryan Hamann works on removing a virus from a computer Monday afternoon at General Nanosystems on University Avenue Southeast.
General Nanosystems over big retailers because of employees’ extensive knowledge of their products. “They know way more than the average Best Buy employee,” Dale said. “They’re a rare bird.” Daanish Khan, a General Nanosystems employee, said he sees a lot of young people coming in to build their own computers. “Then they come here
after what they’ve built doesn’t work,” he said. Computer science senior Caleb Bak built his first computer six years ago and has continued to go to General Nanosystems for their customer ser vice and honest expertise. “They’ve never been about tr ying to make a quick buck,” he said. Bak said he’s willing to pay a few extra dollars to
Students feel voiceless in loan debate Lawmakers still don’t have a solution and many students feel disenfranchised. BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com
After weeks of debate, Congress still can’t agree on how to tackle student loans. A bipar tisan plan to lower the recently doubled interest rate on subsidized Staf ford loans was found to be too costly last week, and no fur ther compromise has been discussed, leading some students to feel ignored by Congress. “We say things, but no one listens to us,” said Jiayi Liu, University of Minnesota philosophy senior. “They don’t know what it’s like to be in debt … they just know a number.” The interest rate doubled to 6.8 percent on July 1, and students around the countr y and at the University have voiced concerns about affording school. But if students want to be heard, political science professor Lar r y Jacobs said they need to be more consistent in their lobbying. “Whether it’s fair or not, [students] are just seen as not a group you have to worr y about come election time,” he said. “They need to be more than just a passing presence.” Last week, lawmakers were considering a deal that would’ve tied the interest rates on new student loans to the government’s cost of borrowing, plus an additional percentage to account for administrative costs, according to a Senate aide with knowledge of the negotiations. But with an interest rate cap of 8.25 percent for future years, the plan would cost $22 billion, according to an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office. Subsidized Staf ford loans are the most common federal student loans, and more than 14,300 University students took them
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out in 2012 — collectively worth about $54.7 million. Sociology senior Nicole Beane attends the University par t-time, par tially because she doesn’t want to take out more student loans. She said students need to organize better to get Congress’ attention but don’t always know how to be heard. “It’s hard to navigate Congress and all its relations,” she said. Biochemistr y sophomore Tim Isdahl said he wants lawmakers to compromise on a policy that makes education more affordable. “It didn’t seem like [Congress] really paid attention to us,” he said. Students aren’t alone in their fr ustration with lawmakers — a Gallup poll last month found Congress had a 17 percent approval rating.
Caught in a partisan battle
Student loans are an example of a growing divide among lawmakers over the size of government, Jacobs said, par ticularly regarding how to subsidize things like education. “What led to the lack of compromise is this fundamental war between the
par ties, and students are kind of caught in the middle,” he said. If Congress doesn’t act, the Senate’s Joint Economic Committee predicts this fall the new 6.8 percent interest rate could cost an extra $2,600 overall for the average student taking out Stafford Loans. In 2012, the average University of Minnesota student graduated with more than $27,000 in debt, according to One Stop Student Ser vices. Many dif ferent proposals floated around Congress in recent weeks, but none of them passed. A Democrat-backed bill to bring the rates back down to 3.4 percent, the level for the past two years, failed on July 10 in a close vote that fell mostly along party lines. Last week’s failed plan was similar to both a previous White House-backed plan and a Republican bill, which passed the House in late June but didn’t get Senate approval. “There’s a fundamental divide in Washington that’s as sharp as it’s been in decades,” Jacobs said. The University has expressed support for a market-based plan on student interest rates. University Student Finance Director Kris Wright said in an email that she suppor ted Congress’ attempt to put a long-ter m solution into place. But it’s now unclear what will be done to address the new, higher interest rates. Rates were also set to double last year, but Congress passed a one-year extension of the 3.4 percent rate before the deadline. Pharmacology graduate student Chris Gallardo said it’s “ridiculous” to increase interest rates on student loans. Gallardo completed his undergraduate studies at Chicago’s DePaul University and said his expenses increased even during the economic recession. “Education in general,” he said, “seems more out of reach for people.”
get good ser vice, but he said small, niche businesses like this one don’t usually fare well in the area. While General Nanosystems suf fered from lightrail construction, Computer Mega Mall owner Syed Mia said moving his store nearby actually increased sales. Computer Mega Mall, located down the street from General Nanosys-
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environmental issues that could arise. “The AUAR gives the oppor tunity to prepare for dif ferent scenarios,” Carlson said. “You can’t anticipate all that can happen over decades.”
A histor y of change In the past, members of the University and surr ou n d i n g c ommu n i t i es have taken issue with the proper ty’s contested land ownership, research use and envir onmental impacts. The University bought the pr oper ty fr om the federal gover nment in the late 1940s for $1. For decades, faculty, staf f and students conducted a few dozen research projects on the land each year until the past few years. The University hired a firm to design plans for the land’s future in 2006. The Board of Regents approved the plans two years later for both the community and mine. In 2010, 29 students, faculty and staf f members wrote a letter to the regents protesting plans to turn agricultural research plots into a mine. The University signed a 40-year lease for the sand and gravel mine in 2011. Of ficials estimated the University would make about $4 million per year of f the mine, according to a previous Minnesota Daily article. Les Everett, a University agronomist, said he hasn’t personally lost any research plots at UMore but works closely with some who have. Some research projects in the af fected areas were longter m experiments that now have to star t over in new locations, he said. “I’m a concer ned bystander,” Everett said. “… It’s still unresolved as far as the agricultural side of this.” The University has also conducted wind energy research on the land since receiving a nearly $8 million U.S. Depar tment of Energy grant to build a wind turbine in 2011. Last summer, the University lost a lawsuit over a lease dispute with Jensen
tems, relocated in November after relocating from the University Technology Enterprise Center, which was razed to make way for a new apartment complex in the spring. Because the site has more visibility and parking spaces, Mia said he isn’t worried about surviving as a small computer business. “We haven’t been huge with students,” Mia said,
“but there’s more coming in since the move.” Bak and Dale said no other store in the state has a computer parts selection comparable to that of General Nanosystems. “I’m going to miss them,” Bak said. “Ever ything’s going to convenient, online shopping. There’s still a demand for parts that you can’t get online.”
Field, Inc., a small airport located where the wind turbine is now. The Minnesota Cour t of Appeals ordered the University to pay the airpor t more than $140,000 in r elocation costs.
progress is to change the land use designation from research to development, taking into account the scenarios modeled in the AUAR. Souther n Minnesota resident Mar tha Hendrickson also had concerns about the proposal’s impact on the future of the city. Having grown up in Rosemount, she said she’s seen communities like UMore develop over and over. “Think of the long-term future hundreds of years from now,” she said in an email comment on the AUAR. “Think of our descendants, and ask whether they will have any natural spaces left.” Hendrickson said people shouldn’t have to drive out of their way to appreciate natural spaces. Even though UMore Park has proposed green spaces, she said she worries Rosemount will lose the connection to its prairie roots. “Some cities think a ballpark is green space,” she said. “But a city park with manicured grass isn’t natural space.”
The future community
In its master plan for the community, the University outlines its vision for a development at UMore Park that includes housing, businesses, schools, community centers, parks and hospitals. The master plan calls the project an “unusual opportunity” for a university to design a community that can become a “legacy.” The University plans the development to be self-sustaining, modeling what it hopes other cities can someday mirror. Future UMore residents will depend on gr oundwater, however, which has led to “significant concer ns” from the Metropolitan Council. Long-term research from the Council on groundwater availability suggests water resources in the UMore Park area would “considerab[ly]” decline in the next 30 years. The council voiced its concern with the proposed community’s water use in a letter during the public comment period. Dakota County staf f members expressed similar concerns. “Groundwater may not be an adequate or feasible long-term water source,” the staf f members said in the letter. Rosemount senior planner Eric Zweber said water use issues won’t be solved immediately, but city of ficials will continue to work with the agencies to address these concerns over time. “We understand what the issue is and what the desire is, which is for the region to use more surface water,” he said, “par ticularly more water out of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers than is used now.” But a major challenge is that it’s more expensive to use sur face water instead of ground water, said Jill Trescott, groundwater protection super visor for Dakota County. Zweber said the next step in the community’s
TIMELINE OF UMORE PARK 1947-8 University first buys property 2001 Property officially named UMore Park
2006 University hires a consultant to design development
2008 UMore Master Plan design is approved by regents
2010 CFANS faculty, staff and students write to regents protesting mining plans 2011 Gravel mining lease begins on UMore Park, Wind turbine is built 2012 Jensen Airfield wins payout for relocation costs 2013 AUAR and public commenting period ends 2030-2050 Estimated completion for the development SOURCE: UMOREPARK.UMN.EDU, MN DAILY REPORTING
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U favors paperless pay, some skeptical The U is giving out fewer paper paychecks and job applications. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota custodian Michael Revier has brought a paper paycheck to the bank for the last 37 years. “I like handling it,” he said. “I like going to the bank and depositing it. It’s something I’ve done for years, and I don’t find it to be inconvenient.” In the coming academic year, the University will ramp up its use of electronic employment methods like direct deposit and online job applications. Some employees, like Revier, are apprehensive about the move. The University is looking into moving away from
paper checks in favor of direct deposit, but it’s legally obligated to allow employees to receive paper checks for the time being. Though fewer of his co-workers receive paper checks than in the past, Revier said, the University shouldn’t be able to determine employee payment methods. “It’s something that should be left to the employee to decide,” he said. University Addressing and Mailing Services sends about 7,000 paper checks and pay statements ever y two weeks, much less than in the past, said mailing office specialist Chris Lahren. Nearly 23,000 employees worked on the University’s Twin Cities campus in 2012, according to the Of fice of Institutional Research. Still, Lahren said, he knows a lot of employees who aren’t computer savvy and like to get a physical
copy of their check. “There should always be at least an option,” he said. But some employees aren’t worried about the increase in direct deposits. Of fice of Information Technology executive accounts specialist Lee Ann Afdjeie said she prefers direct deposit because it reduces the number of errands she has to run. “I’m not going to go sit in the bank line,” she said. “I trust a computer, and I don’t have any problems.” She said she doesn’t know of any fellow employees who receive paper checks. Architecture senior Alexa Iverson said although she receives direct deposit from her job with University Landcare she also gets a paper pay statement every two weeks. She uses the statement as confirmation that she was paid, to see her total earnings for the summer and how much she’s
paying in taxes, she said. “It’s useful information to have on paper,” Iverson said. Direct deposit is nice for students, she said, because funds are available right away and they don’t have to wait to deposit their check. B e c a u s e p a p e r p a ychecks are typically preferred by older employees, the use of physical checks “might disappear eventually,” said histor y junior Miki McClellan, who also works for Landcare. McClellan said she receives paper checks now but plans to set up direct deposit. Though employees should be able to choose their prefer red payment method, McClellan said, it would probably be easier for the University to have ever yone on direct deposit. “I think it’s fine if they want to tr y to make it more electronic,” she said.
Egypt Cabinet has women, Christians; no Islamists BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO — Egypt’s interim leader swore in a Cabinet on Tuesday that included women and Christians but no Islamists as the militarybacked administration moved swiftly to formalize the new political order and present a more liberal face that is markedly at odds with the deposed president and his supporters. The changes came at a time of deep polarization and violence in Egypt, in-
cluding new clashes that killed seven people as part of the continuing bloodshed that has marked the days following the armed forces coup that swept President Mohammed Morsi from office and cracked down on the Muslim Brotherhood. Egypt’s military already wields great influence behind the scenes, and the army chief, Gen. AbdelFattah el-Sissi, who ousted Morsi on July 3, was given a promotion in the Cabinet. He became a first deputy
prime minister in addition to keeping his post as defense minister. For most of the two years since the overthrow of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, the countr y has been split into two camps — one led by Morsi, his Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies, and another led by secular Egyptians, liberals, Christians and moderate Muslims. The fault lines remain, except that the Islamist camp is no longer in power.
It does not include members of any Islamist parties — a sign of the enduring division that follows the removal of Morsi, Egypt’s first freely elected president. The interim president’s spokesman had earlier said posts would be offered to the Muslim Brotherhood, but the group promptly refused, saying it would not take par t in the militar ybacked political process and would continue protests until the legitimately elected Morsi is reinstated.
PAPER CHECKS VERSUS U EMPLOYEES Number of employees receiving UMN salary in 2012: 22,688 Approximate number of paper paychecks and pay statements sent every two weeks: 7,000 SOURCE: ADDRESSING AND MAILING SERVICES, OIR
A long-term trend
tronics has “taken all the personal judgment out of the management,” he said. For example, if an employee is late, managers have to file employee tardiness into a computer system — even if it’s a minor tardiness that would’ve been excused in the past based on managers’ discretion. Revier said he’s watched University computer systems develop since he began working here in 1975. “We thought they were going to simplify our lives,” he said. “Our lives were much simpler before the computers.”
Bathroom
said. The man started rubbing the officer’s foot with his shoe. A few minutes later, the officer unlocked his stall door. The man did the same. The officer then left his stall and identified himself as a police officer. The man said he was “just going to the bathroom,” the report said. Police issued the man a trespassing warning and have banned him from all University buildings on the West Bank for a year. In situations like this, Miner said, police most often issue citations for indecent exposure or disorderly conduct. “Here, there was no exposing going on,” he said. “There’s going to be no further prosecution of this case.”
The University has also been using fewer paper job applications, making it difficult for prospective workers without computers to find employment here. Revier said his wife tried to apply for a job at the University but was unable to find an application that wasn’t online. He recalled job opportunities used to be posted on bulletin boards. Now, he said, applications go through a long electronic process involving multiple offices. The University’s increased reliance on elec-
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As part of an effort to combat the complaints, an officer was setting up a camera outside the men’s bathroom July 10 to track when people entered and left, according to the police report. He saw a man, 51, enter the bathroom and waited about 20 minutes before following him inside. The man started tapping his foot on the ground when the officer sat in the stall next to him. The officer tapped his foot, and they continued going back and forth for a few minutes. The officer then heard “loud skin on skin rubbing noises” coming from the man’s stall, the police report
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More campus alcohol sales approved Northrop, Les Bolstad among applicants approved. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota may soon be able to sell alcohol at three new locations system-wide after Board of Regents approval on July 10. The Les Bolstad Golf Course, Nor throp Memorial Auditorium and the University of MinnesotaMor ris campus student center were all approved to sell alcohol on-site. Nor throp was allowed to sell alcohol on-site until 2011, when the license was not renewed because the building was under construction. During the 11 years Northrop held its liquor license, the facility showed it had controls in place to prevent selling alcohol to minors, which is a major
factor in the approval process, said Amy Phenix, University President Eric Kaler’s chief of staff. Even after being approved by the regents, the three new liquor licenses aren’t a guarantee yet. All facilities that want to sell liquor, including the University, must apply through the state. Each University group that applied for a license had to submit an application to the University’s Alcohol License Oversight Committee, which ensures each facility ser ving alcohol on campus follows the same r ules and regulations. Only the application submitted by Cof fman Union was not recommended for board approval. “Our committee felt the Coffman application needed more study,” said Leslie Bowman, executive director of contract administration and a member of the approval committee. “They did a wonderful job of pre-
paring the application, but … there were concer ns about ser ving alcohol in a student union.” The committee also had questions about whether Cof fman would be able to financially support the cost of selling alcohol, Bowman said. Maggie Towle, director of Student Unions and Activities on the Twin Cities campus, said she didn’t expect the Cof fman application to be recommended to the regents. “[The application] was really just a message that we are interested,” she said. “We still needed to gauge student interest, including graduate and professional students.” If the student union applies again, Towle said, Goldy’s Gameroom and the Whole Music Club are possible areas in Coffman that could benefit from alcohol sales.
Approaching the limit
The Alcohol License Oversight Committee has a reason to be selective in their approval process for alcohol licenses on campus. The University is allowed nine alcohol licenses system-wide, according to state law. Cur rently, the University holds licenses for TCF Bank Stadium, W illiams and Mariucci arenas and the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. If the three facilities that were approved to apply for liquor licenses this year are also granted licenses by the state, only two more licenses will be available for the entire University system. To date, only the Twin Cities and Morris campuses have received regents’ approval for liquor licenses at their buildings. The University doesn’t plan to request more licenses from the Legislature until need is expressed by more than nine facilities, Bowman said.
Research VP unveils master plan Brian Herman outlined new funding and collaboration initiatives. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents heard from new Vice President for Research Brian Herman for the first time July 10, when he presented his plan for advancing University research initiatives. One of the University’s long-term goals is to be one of the top three research institutions in the world. “Our research really does define an absolutely critical element of this institution,” President Eric Kaler said at the meeting. During his presentation, Herman highlighted the impor tance of creating new research funding sources, encouraging more research collaboration and increasing the number of times per year the University unveils new discoveries to the public.
Combating scarce funding
A focal point of Herman’s plan included initiatives to combat the impacts of across-the-board federal budget cuts known as the sequestration, which is making research funding scarce. “The University has had tremendous success in the past,” Herman said. “But like many researchintensive public universities, it’s facing some real
constraints in ter ms of resources to carr y on research in the future.” Herman predicted a decrease in research funding at the University in the coming year. His estimated $665 million in total funding for fiscal year 2013 would bring the University back to its 2008 funding levels. To combat the anticipated decrease in funding, Herman outlined several initiatives, including the expansion of the bridge funding program, which provides University money for research projects that temporarily lose funding. During the 2011-12 academic year, seven researchers from the University’s Twin Cities and Duluth campuses received bridge funding. Last month, the Office of the Vice President for Research announced it would increase the amount it could provide from $30,000 per request to $150,000. But the funding comes with conditions. “[Funding] requires a match from the school for the faculty to get this funding,” Herman said. According to the meeting docket, researchers must r eceive one-thir d of their research funding from their college or department in order to qualify for bridge funds. In addition, researchers who request bridge funding must show they are likely to receive funding from outside sources in coming years. The program is meant to “provide some interim
gap funding for the people who have a research grant and have a productive research program but are having trouble continuing to be competitive in the short run,” Herman said. In the 2012-13 academic year, more than 100 University r esear chers received nearly $6 million through various University funding programs, according to the OVPR.
Creating a ‘culture of the whole’
Another one of Herman’s goals is to encourage faculty to work across departments, colleges and universities — something he said has been lacking in past years. “Our research at all institutions has really focused on the culture of the individual rather than the culture of the whole,” he said. Herman used a recent breakthrough in Alzheimer’s research by professor Kar en Ashe to demonstrate how collaboration has recently impacted the University. Ashe built on Herman’s past research, and her breakthrough could lead to a drug that would treat Alzheimer’s and others with neurodegenerative disorders. “The [research] strategy that we’re adopting will depend upon studying the enzyme that Dr. Herman has devoted a lot of his career to,” Ashe told the regents.
Knowledge disclosures
Her man also said he plans to increase the num-
ber of research findings the University shares in the next year, keeping with goals set for the University by the state Legislature in May. “One of the other aspects of the research activity at the University is not only discovering new knowledge,” Herman said, “but it’s taking that knowledge and putting it out into society through the commer cialization pr ocess.” The Legislature has requested the University increase its knowledge sharing with the public by 3 percent between 2013 and 2014, which would bring the number of research disclosures to an estimated 340 for 2014, according to the meeting docket. Between the 2011 and 2012 academic years, the number of disclosures increased by about 22 percent without prompting from the Legislature.
RESEARCH BRIDGE FUNDING REQUIREMENTS NEW LIMIT:
$150,000 per request
PREVIOUS LIMIT: $30,000 per request College must match part of the funding. Must show potential for future outside funding. SOURCE: BOARD OF REGENTS DOCKET
Newborn pandas split time between mom, zoo nursery BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ATLANTA — Two giant panda cubs are being rotated between their mother and an incubator to ensure the newborn twins are properly fed and receive equal doses of maternal nurturing, officials at an Atlanta zoo said Tuesday. A 15-year-old giant panda named Lun Lun gave birth to the cubs Monday evening at Zoo Atlanta. An ultrasound confirmed Lun Lun’s pregnancy in June, but officials say they were unaware she was having twins until the second cub emerged minutes after the first. “It was a surprise to us but not a shock to us that she had twins. Lun (Lun) did not really comply with the ultrasound all that well. This pregnancy she slept most of the time,” said Zoo Atlanta’s deputy director, Dwight Lawson. He said the mother’s long bouts of sleep during pregnancy didn’t leave veterinarians much time to
check her thoroughly via ultrasound. Lun Lun was artificially inseminated in March and has been under 24-hour observation by a camera providing a live Internet video feed from her den. The father is another giant panda at the zoo, Yang Yang. The cubs are the first giant panda twins to be born in the U.S. since 1987. Each came into the world hairless and taking on a pinkish color. Lawson said one weighed about 3.5 ounces at birth and the other just over 5 ounces. Lawson said both cubs appear healthy, but zookeepers are taking precautions because of a high infant mortality rate among panda cubs. The cubs are tiny, undeveloped and able to nearly fit in the palm of a hand. They were born with their eyes closed like many mammals, and they’re unable to regulate their own body temperature. Zookeepers say rotating the cubs between incubator and the mother is
a key step in their survival. “They’re doing well, the trick with panda twins is that the female typically only cares for one and abandons the other. That’s normal, they’re just not able to raise twins on their own,” Lawson said. Rebecca Snyder, curator of mammals, said in a statement released by the zoo that Lun Lun is a “good mom,” but is reluctant to give up whichever cub she has at any time. “We have not been able to swap the cubs as frequently as we would like. Because of that, both have been supplemented with some formula. Both are doing well with this,” she added. Snyder said the first days are critical and will guide the actions of the caretakers. Zookeepers note that the last twin pandas born in the U.S. in 1987 had died, adding twin births raise the likelihood of complications. The twin cubs are Lun Lun’s fourth and fifth children.
Hines said Lun Lun’s 15-year-old partner — Yang Yang — and the cubs’ older brothers — Xi Lan, 4, and Po, 2 — remain on exhibit, and will not be housed with Lun Lun or the cubs for the time being. A third sibling, Mei Lan, 6, was sent back to China in 2010. “Basically, they all go back just prior to reaching sexual maturity so they can be part of the larger breeding pool in China,” Lawson said. The giant panda research program began at Zoo Atlanta in March of 1997 in partnership with the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. Zoo of ficials said their Chinese counterparts were in Atlanta this week to help care for the newborn cubs. The method of switching twin cubs between the mother and an incubator was developed by researchers from Chengdu, and has been successful in China — where zoo officials say twin giant panda cub births are more common.
Despite the limited number of licenses available, several regents voiced concern that other campus facilities had not applied for alcohol licenses. Regent Patricia Simmons specifically mentioned the Weisman Art Museum. “I noticed that the Weisman is not on the list of the people requesting,” she said. “And I’m sort of surprised because arts venues tend to entertain, including
alcohol, and they have so many private events.” But Bowman said she isn’t surprised the art museum didn’t apply for a license because it has existing agreements with caterers who can serve alcohol. “The applications that we looked at didn’t seem to have good alternatives to serve alcohol in a different way,” she said. “We want it to be something that enhances the venue.”
ALCOHOL SALES AT UMN CURRENTLY SELLS
RECENTLY APPROVED TO SELL MARIUCCI ARENA
WILLIAMS ARENA NORTHROP MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM
TCF BANK STADIUM
NOT ON MAP:
LES BOLSTAD GOLF COURSE
MORRIS STUDENT CENTER
MINNESOTA LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM
NUMBER OF ALCOHOL LICENSES LEFT: 2
SOURCE: BOARD OF REGENTS DOCKET, BOR MEETING
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Mar tin and 22-year-old Ter rance Franklin, who was shot and killed by Minneapolis police this spring. Many at the rally held signs drawing parallels between Martin and Franklin, localizing the national dialogue on race relations. Amber Jones, president of the University of Minnesota’s Black Student Union, said the rally made it possible for people to “share their burdens, grieve and support one another.” “It might have been a case involving just one young black man,” she said, “but it hurts for a lot of people who went through very similar situations.” Rally attendees flooded the Government Plaza early in the evening and later marched to Hennepin Avenue and back, with Minneapolis police and rally volunteers redirecting traffic. Community activists and leaders, including local musician Brother Ali, spoke at the rally, calling for “justice for Trayvon” and an “end to racial injustice in the court systems.” The protest was widely attended by members of the University community, including BSU, Voices Merging, Black Motivated Women and several fraternities and sororities. Rally attendees were diverse in age, race and religious affiliation, which Alpha Kappa Alpha President Mer cedes McKay said she was glad to see. Lori Kellers, who was at the rally with members of her church, said she thinks it’s impor tant for people of all “walks of life”
to par ticipate in the “public rhetoric” surrounding Martin’s death. For social change to occur, she said, people need to “step outside their world for awhile and take a hard look at the term ‘post-racial society.’ ”
Taking action Rally par ticipants agreed the event, and the case itself, need to spark a push for widespread change. Jones stressed the impor tance of the rally not being a “one-time thing” and said the Mar tin case highlights a larger issue of “criminalization of black youth in America” and race relations nationwide. “We don’t want to just be reactionary,” she said. “We want to be proactive.” Part of that proactive attitude was demonstrated at the rally by volunteers who helped attendees register to vote and volunteer for future demonstrations. The rally, which was driven strongly by the use of social media, including the Twitter hashtag #hoodiesupmn, needs to be action-driven, McKay said. “With our generation, we’re ver y technologically savvy,” she said. “We’ll say what we want to say on social media, and then we’ll leave it at that and think that we’ve done our part.” Instead of waiting for change to happen, McKay said, people need to take direct action. “We have to organize and make sure our voices are heard,” she said. “As long as we’re just talking and we’re not taking action, nothing will get done.” -The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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Technology supplements University’s paper archives, faculty research Despite technological advancements, the University’s archives and special collections are still serving a purpose in paper format. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
In the last five years, the University of Minnesota Archives has digitized about 1 million pages of records. But that’s only 1 percent of its total content. Despite technology hikes, the University’s archives and special collections have continued to grow, both digitally and not. The University Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections Depar tment houses 16 collections of rare and unique research material. Thirteen of these are stored in an underground room the size of two football fields stacked on top of each other, located beneath the Elmer L. Andersen Librar y and the University Law School. There’s a common misconception that when con-
tent comes to the archives, it’s immediately digitized and put online, said Erik Moore, head of the University Archives, which preser ves items related to the University’s history. “The majority of the material we have is in paper and always will be,” Moore said. Although the Internet has opened doors for researchers to find information on their own, he said, material from the archives is still what they turn to after an initial Google search. Developing research ideas online before coming to the archives can make for a more informed and specific search process, Moore said. Because of the Internet, researchers often come to the archives more prepared than before. “It certainly changes the way we interact with people,” he said. The research process is richer when the original items are available, said Linnea Anderson, archivist for the University’s Social Welfare History Archives. “You’re actually looking at the raw material,” she said. “It’s your responsibility to … form your own critical interpretation of it.” Rather than replacing traditional archives, tech-
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
The University of Minnesota Libraries Archives hold objects including books, documents and drawings in the climate-controlled “High Bay,” which is 80 feet below ground at the Elmer L. Andersen Library on West Bank.
nology is supplementing them by giving archivists new ways to work and deliver materials to researchers, Anderson said, The Internet also helps spread the word about the archives and brings in new
ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
ELMER L. ANDERSEN LIBRARY *Not housed in Andersen Library Caverns
Andersen Horticultural Library* Charles Babbage Institute Children’s Literature Research Collections Givens Collection of African American Literature Northwest Architectural Archives Performing Arts Archives Social Welfare History Archives Special Collections and Rare Books
Immigration History Research Center James Ford Bell Library* Kautz Family YMCA Archives Literary Manuscripts Collections
The Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies University of Minnesota Archives Upper Midwest Jewish Archives Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine* SOURCE: ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
visitors, said Tim Johnson, director of the University’s Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts. “It’s given us a whole different kind of exposure,” he said. University senior Brian Dailey-Arndt said he visited the archives for a sociology research methods class, but he rarely hears of students using them for projects. More students would use the archives if more material was available electronically, he said. “The mor e that the [University] could do to transfer that stuff into that format, the better of f ever yone would be, and the better off the actual materials would be,” Dailey-Arndt said. Though raw material is useful to have for historical preser vation, Dailey-Arndt
said, he doesn’t think it’s necessary. “If you can get it into digital format,” he said, “then I think we should do that.”
‘You have to love it’ Many of the University’s archivists stumbled into the profession and realized they had a passion for it. As a research assistant at the University with a master’s degree in histor y, Moore said he never planned to go into archiving. He “just kind of came across it,” he said, while working on a grant project for the Immigration History Research Center more than a decade ago. He’s been in the business ever since. “You have to love it,” Anderson said, who discovered her love for digging
in boxes as a student at St. Olaf College. “You will not get rich doing this,” she said. Anderson said she especially likes teaching classes to help others hone their information-gathering skills. Working in a stateof-the-ar t building with people who are passionate about archiving keeps Johnson excited about his job, he said. “It’s not too hard to get up in the morning,” Johnson said. Kate Dietrick, who heads the Upper Midwest Jewish Archives, said she loves archives because of the intimate way people engage with them. “With a book, there’s a stor y that’s there,” she said, “but with archives, you get to figure out the story.”
Stadium village growing, catering to students My Burger is opening in Stadium Village this month, while the area continues to expand into a late-night destination. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
As new apartments and businesses sprout up in Stadium Village, the University of Minnesota-adjacent neighborhood could become a new locale for student nightlife. M y B u r g e r, a l o c a l burger and beer chain, will replace the old Oak Street Textbooks site this month. The restaurant will join the new wave of business in Stadium Village as the area experiences more studentfocused development. When looking to grow his business, My Burger coowner John Abdo, said Stadium Village seemed like the perfect spot for a new location. “We want to become a
part of the neighborhood,” he said. The Oak Street location will cater to University students — “Study Hall” will be painted on one wall, while another will display the walking times to campus buildings. The sit-down restaurant is awaiting city approval for late-night and liquor licenses, which would allow them to sell wine and beer until 2 a.m. Although My Burger wants to ser ve the latenight crowd, Abdo said they’re not looking to be a “party bar.” My Burger will follow suit with other Stadium Village restaurants, which typically cater to a calmer, day-time crowd. However, some area businesses are hoping new developments and the light rail will bring a more vibrant night life. Stub and Herb’s Restaurant and Bar manager Josh Zavadil said he’s seen a surge of more young people in the neighborhood and hopes the lightrail will bring more late-night customers.
Area developers are hoping for the same attraction. D a n i e l O b e r p r i l l e r, president of CPM Property Management, said the new housing will bring more students to Stadium Village. CPM will start construction July 26 on a 98-unit apartment complex where Sally’s Saloon and Eater y now stands. CPM will also start construction down the street on the 333-unit WaHu student housing development by the end of the year. Dinkytown restaurants and stores may find a rival in Stadium Village in the future, Oberpriller said. “This side of campus is more appealing as more apar tments come in,” he said. Espresso Expose manager Sam Lewis said Stadium Village has the potential to evolve into a Dinkytown-like area. “It will be interesting to see what happens in the next year,” he said. Other business ownerses disagreed. “The area’s definitely changed,” Zavadil said. “But I don’t see it becom-
ing the new Dinkytown.” Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson said Stadium Village could easily become a late-night gathering place but doesn’t see it replacing Dinkytown. “They have some great places over there,” John-
son said. “We’ve both always been unique in our own way.” Erich Erdmann, chemistr y sophomore, said he’s usually in Dinkytown on weekends but likes what’s happening to Stadium Village. “More people want to live here,” Erdmann said.
“It’s becoming more popular.” More housing will bring students into Stadium Village, said economics and statistics senior Jake Goss-Kuehn, but Dinkytown will stay a latenight destination. “People will still make the trek,” he said.
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY
My Burger owner John Abdo gives directions to a worker Tuesday in Stadium Village. The restaurant is currently under construction and will open later this month.
BP seeks halt to Gulf oil spill settlement payouts BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — BP asked a federal judge on Tuesday to temporarily halt all settlement payments to Gulf Coast businesses and residents who claim they lost money after the company’s 2010 oil spill while former FBI Director Louis Freeh investigates alleged misconduct by a lawyer who helped administer the multibillion-dollar settlement program. BP PLC argues in a court filing that it shouldn’t be required to take the risk that hundreds of millions of dol-
lars in claims payments could be “tainted by fraud, corruption and malfeasance.” “A temporary suspension in ... payments will eliminate the serious risk of any further irreparable harm to BP while having little negative impact upon the claimants,” attorneys for the London-based oil giant wrote. U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier didn’t immediately rule on BP’s most recent request to temporarily halt settlement payouts. In April, Barbier refused to block what could be billions of dollars of payments to businesses after BP argued
that he and court-supervised claims administrator Patrick Juneau have misinterpreted the settlement and forced the company to pay for inflated and fictitious losses. Barbier, who appointed Juneau, upheld his interpretation of settlement terms governing payments to businesses. BP appealed that decision. A three-judge panel from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard the case last Monday. The panel didn’t indicate how soon it would rule. Last month, Juneau announced that his office is investigating allegations that an attorney on his staff, Lionel
H. Sutton III, received a portion of settlement proceeds for claims he had referred to a law firm before he started working on the settlement program. Sutton resigned on June 21, a day after Juneau provided Barbier with a report outlining the allegations. Sutton denied the allegations when Juneau discussed them with him, according to the report. . Sutton’s wife, Christine Reitano, also worked as a lawyer for the settlement program, but her contract was terminated on June 26. A report from Juneau to Barbier dated July 2 doesn’t specify a
reason for the termination of Reitano’s contract. Barbier appointed Freeh on July 2 to lead an independent probe of the allegations involving Sutton and to take a broader look at the settlement program. The judge’s order says Freeh is charged with “fact-finding as to any other possible ethical violations or other misconduct” within the settlement program. Freeh, a former federal judge who ser ved as FBI director from 1993 to 2001, founded a consulting firm in 2007. BP spokesman Geof f Morrell said the company
believes a temporary pause of all claims payments is “prudent and necessary” during Freeh’s investigation. In the filing, BP lawyers argued there is a “material risk that other aspects of the claims process have been compromised.” “ ... Given these risks, business cannot continue as usual,” the attorneys wrote. “On average, the CSSP is making more than $73 million in claims payments per week. It would be impractical if not impossible for BP to recover all tainted payments made by the CSSP during the investigation.”
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U nursing program to partner with VA Student veterans often experience persistant social, physical difficulties. BY LIBBY RYAN eryan@mndaily.com
When Zach Benson came to the University of Minnesota after serving eight years in the U.S. Army, his high school friends had already graduated or moved away. The human resources development senior entered the Army directly after high school. Within a month after leaving the service, he was attending Welcome Week at 26 years old. “After spending eight years … around the world, I came back to Minnesota and pretty much all of my
friends were gone,” Benson said. “… Coming to school, and I had to find new friends, that was a little bit of a challenge.” Besides facing age differences and social barriers, many veterans have health conditions like hearing impairment, joint damage and post-traumatic stress disorder. The University’s School of Nursing received a $5.3 million grant last month that will allow students to work at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Health Care System and learn about treating veterans beginning this fall.
MENTAL HEALTH CONDITIONS OF STUDENT VETERANS
15%
of male student veterans have PostTraumatic Stress Disorder.
22.9%
of male student veterans have depression.
16.3%
of male student veterans have anxiety.
18.6%
of female student veterans have PostTraumatic Stress Disorder.
41.2%
of female student veterans have depression.
38.1%
of female student veterans have anxiety.
SOURCE: BOYNTON 2012 VETERAN COLLEGE STUDENT HEALTH SURVEY
“There’s closeness between us from experiences we’ve shared. We do have our own little support group, a tight little community of friends.” REED EICHELE Group Secretary
Issues facing student veterans
Benson said his worst injur y was a dislocated shoulder, but hearing loss from firing weapons is an issue, too. “The Four th of July is always a test of my mental fortitude,” he said. “I hate fireworks.” Possible psychological damage and recurring knee, ankle and back injuries are also common for veterans, Benson said. Pamela Reid, a recent animal science graduate who ser ved in the Marine Corps for four years, said the difference in life experience between veterans and other students is obvious. Benson agreed. “It’s kind of one of those weird things, where I’ve felt such extr eme stress,” he said, “that something like making sure I get papers tur ned in on time doesn’t stress me out like it does other people.” Reid also did not enroll in college immediately after high school and said she noticed dif ferences between some traditional students’ and student veterans’ dedication to their education. “It was kind of dif ficult to understand other people’s kind of lackadaisical take on attending classes,” she said. But Benson said adjusting to having free time was his biggest transition.
City weighs public utility, similar to the U’s system
Minneapolis is weighing the option of taking public control of its utilities, similar to the way the University of Minnesota does. City leaders are looking into forming a public option for electrical and gas utilities by purchasing necessar y infrastructure, but some question the plan’s feasibility. The University already operates similarly to a municipal power utility by buying its energy from private companies and distributing it, which University Energy Management Director Jerome Malmquist said saves money and provides a more reliable system. For the cur rent fiscal year, the University budgeted about $48 million for electricity and gas. Malmquist said the University is responsible for the operation and distribution of nearly all its energy, including ownership of power lines and responsibility for maintenance. The Minneapolis City Council will hold public hearings on August 1 to discuss the potential for publicly owned utilities and commission a $250,000 study in April from the Center for Energy and Environment to examine how a municipal power utility would work in Minneapolis and how much it could potentially cost. If the city were to provide publicly owned utilities, it would also be responsible for maintenance. The University currently does most of its own main-
2 Councilman Cam Gordon, adding that his constituents have expressed a desire for more locallygenerated energy. McCar ten said the city should instead work with private companies to achieve sustainability goals that are higher than current state regulations. During recent storms in the Twin Cities, more than 600,000 Xcel customers experienced an electrical outage and the company deployed more than a thousand employees to restore their power, McCarten said. Minneapolis’ power grid is connected to firstring suburbs, she said, which would make reconfiguring the system “a hugely complex undertaking.” Gordon said cur rent law makes it dif ficult for Minnesota cities to purchase the necessar y assets to provide public utilities. But some legislators from the metropolitan area have proposed legislation that would make negotiating publicly owned utility options easier for cities. “Right now, the deck is really stacked for Xcel,” Gordon said.
UNIVERSITY FY14 ENERGY BUDGETS $32.8 MILLION
$15.2 MILLION
GAS
BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com
tenance work and has purchased and built necessar y infrastructure like underground power cables and distribution centers, Malmquist said. “It is ver y expensive to purchase, maintain and upgrade an electrical distribution system,” Malmquist said. “That is no small cost, and it takes a fleet of ver y talented people to do that.” The University, one of the Xcel Energy’s largest customers in the state, would have to decide whether it would join the city or keep purchasing energy on its own. Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy currently supply almost all of Minneapolis’ power. Both companies’ contracts with the city are up next year. Minneapolis would need to purchase assets and facilities from the city’s power companies to provide a public energy option, which Xcel Regional Vice President Laura McCarten said could cost billions. She said the City Council is giving itself momentum to change energy policy in a way that could negatively affect customers. “It’s not just creating options, it’s directing the city on a course of action,” she said. “We don’t have the right to just say ‘No.’ ” Los Angeles has the largest municipal power utility in the countr y. Many Califor nia cities built their own energy facilities when electricity was in its infancy, so it was cheaper than making a modern-day transition. Making the switch today, city leaders have said, will provide better ser vice to customers and help achieve sustainability goals laid out in the council’s Climate Action Plan. “There’s a growing consensus and desire to get away from coal,” said Ward
ELECTRIC
The U currently runs its own energy distribution and maintenance.
SOURCE: JEROME MALMQUIST
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Student veteran Zach Benson works on a paper between work and class Monday in the Science Teaching and Student Services building.
“I was going from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on a rigid schedule … [now] I can wake up five minutes before class, or I can show up two minutes late to class, and no one yells at me,” he said. “It’s this extra freedom that I felt suddenly.” Much of that free time was spent in Johnston Hall at the Student Veterans Association, a student group that provides support and assistance to veterans and their families. Benson, the association’s new president, said he got involved with the gr oup his first day on campus and has kept coming back. “It’s been a good place to go and sit down and talk,” he said. “It’s a good place to complain, where there’s nobody to yell at you for complaining too loudly.” Because many of the students involved in the group have been deployed, they can talk about situations other students can’t relate to. “There’s closeness
between us from experiences we’ve shared,” said Reed Eichele, the group’s secretar y. “We do have our own little suppor t group, a tight little community of friends.”
Caring for veterans University nursing students will encounter a similar community through the new program at the Minneapolis VA. Because veterans are exposed to experiences the general public doesn’t face, veterans’ suppor t at the VA is impor tant, said Helen Pearlman, nurse executive at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center . “There’s a real fellowship that develops when you’re in the armed forces,” she said. “And you can continue that fellowship at the VA.” Kaylee Wessel, nursing junior, has worked with veterans before and said she looks for ward to participating in the program this fall. “It’s a dif ferent experience working with veterans,” she said. “There are
dif ferent mental health conditions and sometimes multiple conditions they are facing as compared to civilians.” Pearlman said she hopes that allowing more nursing students to participate in hands-on work at the VA will draw more nursing students to pursue a career working with veterans. The University was one of six schools chosen for the program, said Christine Mueller, nursing professor and co-writer of the grant. The University benefits from a stronger curriculum through which students will learn to treat a variety of issues that veterans face, including PTSD and multiple, chronic illnesses in older veterans, Mueller said. Pearlman said the partnership will benefit the community by bringing more skilled nurses into the VA system. “That’s good for the veterans,” Pearlman said, “because now we’ll have nurses who are more skilled in care of veterans.”
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July 17 - 23, 2013
U group wants to be official community contact
The Board of Community Engagement wants to be the direct link between student groups and neighborhoods. BY KIA FARHANG kfarhang@mndaily.com
While several organizations already exist to connect the University of Minnesota to its surrounding community, one is tr ying to become the official link. The Board of Community Engagement presented a resolution to University, Minneapolis and business officials on July 10 in the hopes of becoming the endorsed liaison between student groups and neighbor hood organizations. The board is unique in the way it connects students to volunteer opportunities. Recent graduate Chet Bodin founded the board last year as a committee of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. He said he wanted to stop community connections from deteriorating after students graduate. “It’ll give a continuity to the relationship,” Bodin said. If the University District Alliance approves the proposal, the board will have more resources and connections when it starts meeting again in the fall. But it’s unclear whether the board would have any power to enforce agreements between neighborhoods and students. District members asked the board to refine its proposal before bringing it back next month. Minneapolis War d 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon referenced the other University units already handling community relations — the of fices of Student and Community Relations and Government and Community Relations. As proposed, the board would be advised by the former. “I’m tr ying to figure out if there are any toes that we might step on,” Gordon said. But Jan Morlock, the University’s director of community relations, said it wouldn’t be a problem. “This doesn’t sidestep anything else going on with students,” she said. Making the board the of ficial go-between will yield actual results, Bodin said, giving both student groups and the surrounding community more accountability. Both sides
would have to answer to the alliance if their par tnerships don’t work out. Bodin said he doesn’t want the board to replace any other community relations offices. “We’re not asking anybody to say this is the only way,” he said. But the board would ser ve as a central hub. Student groups could tell the board what kind of work they’re interested in doing and get matched up with neighborhood organizations in need of help.
Filling in the gaps Doug Carlson, former Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association president, said the board is a good idea. “I think most student groups tr y to do some kind of philanthropy or community engagement,” he said. “We need more volunteers of all types.” Carlson said students could help with neighborhood projects like cleaning up the Mississippi River or helping with r estorative justice pr ograms. Public policy graduate student Julia Eagles worked with the Student and Community Relations of fice last year. Par t of this included helping students look for energyef ficient housing at the University’s annual of fcampus housing fair. “We had a good experience,” she said. “I was impressed about the amount of information they had for students.” Eagles said having a contact point like the board could be useful because many neighborhood organizations have limited funding and staf f members. A board would help fill in communication gaps. “It seems like [the University] should be — and is — a great resource for ge tting stude nt vo lu n teers,” she said. “But it’s hard to know unless you have an in.” Carlson said the board could cut down on missed connections between neighborhood groups and students, which he said have been tr ying to link up for a long time. “It’s been two ships passing in the night.”
COMMUNITY RELATIONS AT THE U UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ALLIANCE
University, Minneapolis and business leaders meet monthly to help make the University area safe and sustainable.
STUDENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS
Works with local government and communities adjacent to the Twin Cities campus. Focuses include matching University plans with city and neighborhood visions and getting community involved with the U. Specializes in the off-campus student experience. Teach students about common problems like landlord/tenant disagreements and party ordinances.
BOARD OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Matches student groups looking for volunteer opportunities with the neighborhood organizations that need them.
COMMUNITY RELATIONS
SOURCES: JAN MORLOCK, MN DAILY REPORTING
All involved agree, sand dune rescue of 6-year-old ‘a miracle’ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — One minute, 6-year-old Nathan Woessner was scampering up a massive dune in northern Indiana with his dad and a friend. He was gone the next, without a warning or sound. More than three hours later, rescuers pulled Nathan out from under 11 feet of sand on Friday. He showed no signs of life: He was cold to the touch, had no pulse and wasn’t breathing. His limp body was put into the back of a pickup truck, which started toward a waiting ambulance. The plan was to take him to the hospital rather than the coroner’s office, even if he was dead, in order to “give the family and rescue workers hope,” La Porte (Ind.) County Chief Deputy Coroner Mark Huffman said Monday. As the truck bounced over the dune, a medic noticed something astonishing: The boy took a breath. Then, a cut on his head started bleeding. The jolt apparently shocked Nathan’s body back to life, Huffman said. Nathan was rushed to the hospital and was crying in the emergency room when Huffman arrived a few minutes later. “Man, I tell you that was such a great feeling,” Huffman said. “This is not something that I as the chief deputy coroner get to report that often. It’s an absolute miracle this child survived.” Nathan, of Sterling, Ill., remains in critical condition
at the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital, but he is expected to recover and be released in 10 to 14 days, Dr. Tracy Koogler said Monday. Of greatest concern is his lungs, as the amount of sand he breathed in could lead to asthma-like symptoms, she said. Don Reul, Nathan’s grandfather, was getting ready for bed after a long day of tooling around on motorcycles in New York state with his wife and another couple when the phone rang. On the other end was the “hysterical” voice of his daughter, Faith Woessner. “She said, ‘Dad, Dad, we can’t find him, he’s under the sand,’” said Reul, a minister from Galva, Ill. But he understood little else, and by the time he hung up, he believed that his grandson had fallen on the beach at Indiana Dunes National Seashore and had been pulled into Lake Michigan. “I said, ‘Nathan has died, he’s drowned,’” Reul told his wife. The Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, running for about 25 miles along the southern shore of Lake Michigan, is a popular vacation spot that has long attracted families, hikers and birdwatchers. The dune Nathan fell feet-first into is one of the tallest, the 123-foot-tall Mount Baldy. Nathan’s 8-year-old friend rushed to where his dad and
Nathan’s dad were, and told them Nathan had vanished. Reul said that by the time Nathan’s father found the hole, he could hear his son, but not see him. The two men frantically dug sand from the spot where Nathan had fallen, but stopped after it was about 4 feet deep, Reul said, realizing they might have driven Nathan “deeper and deeper.” Faith Woessner, meanwhile, was begging people to help them dig. Michigan City, Ind., firefighters soon arrived and excavating companies brought backhoes and other heavy equipment to try to catch up with the boy, who was still sinking into the sand. According to media reports, the first responders pushed a rod down into the sand in the hopes of finding the boy. Hours passed without a sign of Nathan. Huffman, the coroner, who said he had been hanging back from the dig site out of respect for the family, arrived on the scene, which Reul said must have been a sure sign that officials feared the worst: It wouldn’t be a rescue. Then, volunteer firefighter Ryan Miller, the vice president of an excavating company, spotted the outline of what looked like a rotten tree about 11 feet down — maybe more — and pushed the rod until it stopped at the boy. Michigan City firefighter Brad Kreighbaum reached down and “felt what he be-
lieved to be Nathan’s head,” Miller said. It was just in time, as there was no air pocket surrounding Nathan. “He was fully encapsulated in sand,” Miller said, noting it took about five firefighters to pull him out. Once the family heard the boy was bleeding, Reul said, “Hope began to bubble up ... that Nathan’s not gone.” He was airlifted Friday night to the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children’s Hospital from an Indiana hospital. “I expected him to arrive much sicker than he did,” said Koogler, medical director of the pediatric intensive care unit. Nathan was sedated so doctors could remove as much of the sand in his lungs as possible. She said Monday doctors don’t see any more sand particles but believe some are still in there. Doctors also said early neurological tests didn’t reveal any brain damage; Nathan can move his arms, legs, fingers and toes. Koogler also said Nathan’s eyes appear to be fine, adding he must have had closed them while buried in the sand. She said the biggest concern remains the boy’s lungs, telling repor ters Monday that Nathan could develop asthmalike symptoms in the months to come but that the injury to his lungs was “not nearly as severe as I expected it to be.”
Unrest forces graduate students home TIMELINE OF EVENTS IN EGYPT May 19: University graduate students travel to Cairo.
June 28: U.S. Department of State issues Egypt travel warning. Graduate students recommended to stay indoors. June 29: Ragui Assaad, the students’ professor, leaves Egypt. June 30: Millions of protesters urge Mohamed Morsi, the country’s first freely elected president, to step down.
JAAK JENSEN, DAILY
University graduate student Edwin Dorbor speaks about his stay in Egypt at his home on Monday. After almost two months in Egypt, Dorbor and three other graduate students left early due to civil unrest.
Unrest u from Page 1
stay inside their apartment so the University would let them stay in the countr y. By July 3 — hours after they decided to return to the U.S. — the gover nment issued a stricter travel warning that would have required them to come home. The departure was more than two weeks earlier than the students initially planned.
There and back again
The students flew to Egypt on May 19 to work with a nongover nmental organization that prepares youth for the competitive job market. The work was part of a field experience required for their graduate degrees, said Ragui Assaad, a public af fairs professor who was in Egypt advising the students. From the moment they ar rived, Assaad said, all anyone could talk about was the approaching protests against Morsi, the countr y’s first freely elected president. As the end of June approached, people star ted crowding in Tahrir Square to protest either for or against Morsi, Dorbor said. “But ever ything was peaceful,” he said. “People were just expressing their frustrations. But the numbers continued to grow.” When the protests escalated and millions called for Morsi’s resignation on June 30, the graduate students couldn’t go to the NGO’s of-
fice because nearly all of its students and staff members were par ticipating in the protests. Dorbor said all the protests they witnessed were peaceful, but it was hard to tell if they would escalate to violence — or if it already had in places they couldn’t see. It became dif ficult for the students to concentrate on anything besides news of the growing protests and the chanting and marching heard from the streets outside their windows. They learned to sleep through fireworks and other demonstration noises that continued throughout the night. But sitting in the apartment resulted in a mixture of boredom, fear and unpredictability. “We were not sure what was going to happen,” Dorbor said. “We were not sure if we could find our way out if things [got] bad.” Like all University students traveling abroad, the graduate students had insurance that covered an emergency return. They were in constant contact with the insurance company, the University, Assad and their own families. “We explained we are safe,” Dorbor said, “but it’s always difficult for families to believe you when people are marching in Tahrir Square.” He said families became very concerned after 21-year-old American student Andrew Pochter died at a protest in Alexandria, Egypt. After Morsi was ousted, the students decided they wouldn’t be able to com-
plete their work in Cairo and told the insurance company they wanted to leave. Within 10 minutes, the insurance company arranged a return flight for the students. Because the State Department issued a stricter travel warning for the country on July 3, the students would’ve been required to leave anyway, said Stacey Tsantir, director of University international health, safety and compliance. “It went really well,” Tsantir said. “It was a very impressive way that [the students] were able to manage such a stressful situation.” Riding to the airport in a van provided by the insurance company, Dorbor said, they stopped constantly because streets and sidewalks were crowded with civilians, military and police as far as they could see.
Hoping to return Although the graduate students left earlier than expected, Dorbor said they completed most of their fieldwork and are continuing where they left off from home. Assaad and the graduate students will keep working with the NGO in Egypt and hope to return within a year to finish the work, which is part of their capstone project. With the current travel warning for Egypt, Tsantir said students, including the four graduate students, will have to appeal to the University’s International Travel Risk Assessment and Advisory Committee if they want to travel to Egypt. After witnessing a revolution, Dorbor said, he now feels a connection with Egypt and many of its peo-
July 3: Egypt Military Chief removes Morsi from office. University graduate students leave Egypt. U.S. Department of State issues stricter travel warning. July 8: More than 50 people are killed in shootings after clashes between pro- and anti-Morsi supporters in front of headquarters of the Republican Guard in Cairo. SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING
ple. He still worries about people he met in Cairo and wonders if they’re still OK. “I always want to know what’s happening in Egypt right now,” Dorbor said. Violence in Egypt has escalated in recent days, including an open fire by the Egyptian militar y on the Muslim Brotherhood, which Morsi is a par t of, that left more than 50 dead.
An emotional family reunion
Satta Dorbor, Edwin Dorbor’s wife, said it was “heartbreaking” watching the news and worrying if her husband was safe. She emailed him up to seven times a day, but the minutes and hours between each reply were always filled with concern. Satta Dorbor kept her children in the dark about the severity of her husband’s situation because she didn’t want to worry them. “I knew it would be traumatic, so I tried to keep them out of it,” she said. When he finally arrived at the terminal in MinneapolisSt. Paul International Airport, Satta Dorbor brought along their three children and told them they were picking up a friend of hers. When they instead saw their father for the first time in nearly two months, they screamed and ran to him. Their youngest boy screamed, yelling “Dad” and jumping into Edwin Dorbor’s arms. “It was so emotional,” Satta Dorbor said. “We really missed him. Really, really missed him.” -The Associated Press contributed to this report.
July 17 - 23, 2013
Feds to sift through evidence in Zimmerman case after acquittal BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI — The Justice Depar tment will sift through trial testimony, interviews and other evidence during what is likely to be a months-long investigation into whether George Zimmerman violated Trayvon Martin’s civil rights when he shot the black teenager. The key to charging Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch volunteer, lies in whether evidence exists that he was motivated by racial animosity to kill Martin, who was 17 when he was shot during a fight with Zimmerman in February 2012. And while Mar tin’s family has said the teen was racially profiled, no evidence surfaced during the state trial that Zimmerman had a racial bias. Former Miami federal prosecutor David S. Weinstein says it will likely be months before a decision is made on whether to bring charges. Zimmerman, 29, was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges after claiming he fired his weapon in selfdefense only after Martin attacked him. His friends and family have repeatedly denied he harbored racial animosity toward blacks. Florida did not use its own hate crime laws against Zimmerman. Legal exper ts say the FBI and prosecutors will go back through the interviews done before the state case began; look at all the forensics such as crime scene records and medical reports; and review the state’s witnesses to see if any who did not testify might have important information. However, investigators are not limited to existing evidence; they can pursue new evidence and conduct new interviews as they see fit. For instance, federal investigators could look more closely at Zimmerman’s past for any evidence of racial bias. “They are going to need to do a thorough vetting of the facts. It takes time,” said Lauren Resnick, a former prosecutor who obtained a guilty verdict in a 1991 New York hate crime case involving the stabbing death of an
Orthodox Jew. Those defendants had been acquitted in state court. In a speech Tuesday to an NAACP convention in Orlando, Attorney General Eric Holder said “I am concerned” about the Zimmerman case and pledged the Justice Department will conduct a thorough review. “While that inquiry is ongoing, I can promise that the Department of Justice will consider all available information before determining what action to take,” he said. The lone juror in the case who has spoken publicly — known only as Juror B37 because their identities have not been released — said Monday that she did not believe Zimmerman followed Mar tin because the teen was black. Still, supporters of the Justice Depar tment filing civil rights charges say additional evidence could exist in the federal investigation that didn’t come up in the state prosecution of Zimmerman, possibly even witnesses who have not previously been inter viewed or did not come up in the state case. “They have a separate set of evidence they’re looking at,” said Barbara Arnwine, president and executive director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “They might have additional witnesses that were never called upon by the state. I think they will make the best decision that is possible in this case and they will pursue what they think is legally possible.” Several civil rights groups, including the NAACP, are demanding that the Justice Depar tment bring federal charges against Zimmerman, and there have been numerous protests around the country about the outcome of the Florida trial. During a news conference Tuesday, the Rev. Al Sharpton acknowledged there are hurdles. But he said there remains a fundamental question of “does Trayvon Mar tin and the Trayvon Mar tins of this country have the civil right to go home?” He added: “... we have some experience on how to deal with hurdles and we
see that as part of our strategy.” Beyond the exact language of the law itself, the federal probe must navigate between sensitive racial and political issues that arose when Zimmerman initially wasn’t charged in Martin’s killing. “Many people simply cannot process how an unarmed teenager is killed, and yet no one is held criminally accountable for his death,” said Marcellus McRae, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles. Resnick said a federal jury would have to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Zimmerman had a racial motive when he began following Martin and that he did not act in self-defense when he fired his gun. “There remains the serious challenge that prosecutors still have to prove the racial motive,” she said. Zimmerman could get life in prison if charged and convicted under federal hate crime laws. Generally, the Justice Department is reluctant to get involved in cases that have already been tried before a state jury, in part because of concerns about double jeopardy. Perhaps the best-known example where federal prosecutors did inter vene was the case of four police of ficers acquitted after a California state trial in the beating of motorist Rodney King, which triggered deadly riots in the Los Angeles area in 1992. Two of the four officers were convicted in federal cour t of violating King’s rights, but that case differs from Zimmerman’s because they were acting as sworn law enforcement officials, not as a private citizen claiming self-defense. In contrast, the Justice Depar tment declined to prosecute New York Police Department officers after they were acquitted in the 2006 shootings of three men including Sean Bell, who was fatally wounded the morning of his planned wedding. The short Justice Depar tment statement — issued in 2010, four years after the shooting — simply said there was insufficient evidence to proceed.
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Spacesuit water leak ends Italian’s spacewalk BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — In one of the most harrowing spacewalks in decades, an astronaut had to rush back into the International Space Station on Tuesday after a mysterious water leak inside his helmet robbed him of the ability to speak or hear and could have caused him to choke or even drown. Italian Luca Parmitano was reported to be fine after the dangerous episode, which might have been caused by an unprecedented leak in the cooling system of his suit. His spacewalking partner, American Christopher Cassidy, had to help him inside after NASA quickly aborted the spacewalk. No one — neither the astronauts in orbit nor flight controllers in Houston — breathed easier until Parmitano was back inside and his helmet was yanked off. “He looks miserable. But OK,” Cassidy assured everyone. It was the first time in years that a spacewalk came to such an abrupt halt and the first time since NASA’s Gemini program in the mid-1960s that a spacewalker became so incapacitated. Spacewalking always carries high risk; a puncture by a micrometeorite or sharp edge, if big enough, could result in instant death. In a late afternoon news conference, NASA acknowledged the perilous situation that Parmitano had found himself in, and space station operations manager Kenneth Todd promised to “turn over every rock” to make sure it never happens again. Spacewalking is dangerous already, noted flight director David Korth. Then on top of that, “go stick your head in a fishbowl and try to walk around. That’s not anything that you take lightly,” he said. “He did a great job of just keeping calm and cool” as the amount of water ominously increased. “Grace under pressure,” Korth said. The two astronauts were outside barely an hour, performing routine cable work on their second spacewalk in
eight days, when Parmitano reported the leak. It progressively worsened as the minutes ticked by, drenching the back of his head, then his eyes, nose and, finally, mouth. He could have choked or drowned on the floating globs of water, NASA officials said. Between 1 and 1½ liters of water leaked into his helmet and suit, NASA estimated. The source of the leak wasn’t immediately known, but the main culprit appeared to be iodine-laced water that is piped through the long underwear worn under a spacesuit, for cooling. The system holds nearly 4 liters, or 1 gallon. Less likely was the 32-ounce (about 1 liter) drink bag that astronauts sip from during lengthy spacewalks; Parmitano reported the leaking water tasted odd. At first, Parmitano, 36, a former test pilot and Italy’s first spacewalker, thought it was sweat accumulating on the back of his bald head. But he was repeatedly assured it was not sweat. He agreed. “How much can I sweat?” he wondered aloud. It was only his second spacewalk; his first was last Tuesday, six weeks after moving into the space station. The water eventually got into Parmitano’s eyes. That’s when NASA ordered the two men back inside. Then the water drenched his nose and mouth, and he had trouble hearing on the radio lines. Cassidy quickly cleaned up the work site once Parmitano was back in the air lock, then followed him in. The three Russians and one American who anxiously monitored the drama from inside hustled to remove Parmitano’s helmet. They clustered around him, eight hands pulling off his helmet and using towels to mop his head. Balls of water floated away. Parmitano blinked hard several times but otherwise looked fine as he gestured with his hands to show his crewmates where the water had crept around his head. Cassidy told Mission Control: “To him, the water clearly did not taste like our normal drinking water.” A smiling Parmitano then chimed
in: “Just so you know, I’m alive and I can answer those questions, too.” He later tweeted: “Thanks for all the positive thoughts!” Mission Control praised the crew for its fast effort and hooked them up with flight surgeons on the ground. Parmitano used the same suit during last week’s spacewalk without any problems. Before the gush of water made its way into his helmet, the astronaut reported a bad sensor for measuring carbon dioxide in his suit. NASA managers concluded the sensor likely failed due to all the water. Spare spacesuits and equipment are on board for future NASA spacewalks. The four remaining spacewalks planned for this year involve Russian astronauts wearing Russian suits, different than the U.S. models. They’re preparing for the arrival later this year of a new Russian lab. The year’s previous four spacewalks encountered no major snags. This was the 171st spacewalk in the 15-year history of the orbiting outpost. There was no immediate word on when Tuesday’s undone tasks might be attempted again. None of the chores was urgent, simply things that had piled up over the past couple years. It was the fastest end to a spacewalk since 2004 when Russian and American spacewalkers were ordered back in by Mission Control outside Moscow because of spacesuit trouble. That spacewalk lasted a mere 14 minutes. Tuesday’s spacewalk lasted one hour and 32 minutes. D u r i n g N A S A’ s o l d shuttle program, spacewalks occasionally were stymied by stuck hatches and ripped gloves. By coincidence, Cassidy had to end a 2009 station-building spacewalk early because of a potentially dangerous buildup of carbon dioxide in his suit. This marked the sixth spacewalk for the 43-year-old for mer Navy SEAL, who’s midway through a half-year station stint.
Native Americanstudents look to learn, give back to communities Native u from Page 1
Now, many University students, like Champagne, are graduating and plan on improving their communities. After working as a chef for several years, Champagne decided to use his knowledge of traditional Native American dishes to improve the health of tribal communities. As a result of increasing rates of diabetes, heart disease and other diet-related complications, he said, one of his biggest fears is that Native American communities will cease to exist. “It is a huge concern,” Champagne said. “That’s what drives me when I wake up [in the morning].” He’s finishing up his master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition, as well as establishing his own catering business. Eventually, he plans to buy a food truck and travel to reser vations and urban communities throughout the state to teach Native American youth how to cook nutritious meals. “Now I’d like to take that investment [the SMSC] put into me and do some really great things
for native people,” Champagne said, “because I don’t think that I could’ve done it without their assistance.” Students with the SMSC scholarship come from 18 different states and 48 different tribal nations, said Jillian Rowan, associate to the director and senior of the University’s Circle of Indigenous Nations, which helps inform Native American students about scholarships. Students attending any University campus are eligible for the scholarship, which pays up to $10,000 per academic year, depending on financial need. “It’s a wonder ful recruitment tool,” said Rowan, a member of the Lac Cour te Oreilles Band of Ojibwe. Although the number of American Indian University students has increased since 2009, they made up fewer than 2 percent of the University’s total student population in spring 2013. The six-year graduation rate for undergraduate Native American students was 41 percent in 2011, compared to an average of 70 percent for all undergraduates. Rowan said students are able to connect with each other through the
UNIVERSITY AMERICAN INDIAN STUDENT ENROLLMENT
2013 ENROLLMENT BY ETHNICITY 1.7% American Indian
2013 2012 2011 1.5%
1.7%
1.6%
0.2% Hawaiian
1.5% 2010
2009
1.3%
2.3% Hispanic 3.6% Black 4.5% Unknown
1.2%
7.3% Asian
1.0%
SOURCE: OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH
Circle of Indigenous Nations center, as well as through the scholarships they receive. “Students are searching for a connection to other native students,” she said. “And that’s a big goal of our office: to connect students.”
Bringing the native voice to Washington
T iger Brown Bull, a University of Minnesota Duluth graduate, grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reser vation, located in South Dakota in some of the poorest counties in the country. He relied on scholarships, including the SMSC scholarship, to make it through college and graduate school.
Although his family made education a priority, many people in the community told Brown Bull that college wasn’t an option and he should accept living on the reser vation for the rest of his life. “I just didn’t want to be another statistic on Pine Ridge,” he said. Brown Bull is one of the first students to receive a Master of Tribal Administration and Gover nance. Established in 2011, the degree was the first of its kind in the nation. “I wouldn’t have my master’s without the [SMSC] scholarship,” he said. After finishing law school at Michigan State University, where he will
9.9% International 70.6% White
SOURCE: OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH
begin this fall with a fullride scholarship, Brown Bull hopes to work in Washington, D.C., lobbying for or representing tribes. This summer, he’s interning with the House Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. Because the native voice
in Washington, D.C. is very limited, he said, he wants to bring his own unique experience and knowledge to the table as a future lobbyist or politician. “It’s been a tr ying journey for myself,” Brown Bull said. “I know I have a long way to go.”
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Unintended consequences Film piracy has intensified problems afflicting the industry. n my senior year of high school, I pirated a film for the first time. I had lost my copy of the 2001 stoner comedy “Out Cold,” figuring that since I already owned it there was little harm in nabbing a digital copy. The next four years were filled with downloading movies, TV series, complete discographies, software and video games. I filled hard drives at a prolific rate, housing terabytes of illegal media in small black containers. I credit this period with my education in film. Piracy provided a democratization of ar twork that I had never encountered, enabling me to amass a vast collection of films and cinema knowledge. My passion brought me to Los Angeles and led to jobs in the film industr y. There I encountered struggling young hopefuls who shared my love of piracy and the film executives who cursed it.
MATT HOY columnist
I saw in that divide the true nature of the piracy argument — the wealthy producers vs. a bunch of kids who wanted to watch their movies. I maintained this worldview until a few weeks ago, when I heard actress Geena Davis speaking about gender disparity in film. It is an issue that has always bothered me and is easily explained by Hollywood’s need to appeal to the rapidly expanding foreign market. As Steven Soderbergh explained at the San Francisco International Film Festival earlier this year, appealing to the foreign market requires tropes that have damaged the overall quality of cinema. The first, and most de-
monstrable, is that global cinemas want films with little dialogue, prefer ring special ef fects and action scenes to tamer, more thoughtful fare. The second is that they demand characters who are one-dimensional and familiar. For women this means scantily clad eye candy whose only job is to look good and provide the male protagonist with a prize. Davis made this argument then took it in an unfamiliar direction, citing decreased media revenues as the source of Hollywood’s collective overreaction toward big budget monstrosities and their sequels. Indeed, international box office revenues jumped from about $10.6 billion to more than $21 billion from 2001 to 2010, while global media sales and rentals, which peaked in 2004 at about $57 billion, fell to about $43 billion by 2010. Some of this decline can be attributed to the movement from physical media to cheaper digital alternatives like Netflix. But, while impossible to quantify, piracy’s
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ef fect on sales is estimated to measure in the many billions of dollars annually. Davis’ assertion that this has led to the film industr y relying more heavily upon the international market is easy to see in ef fect. Ever y year is the “year of the sequel.” Hollywood executives talk at length about the impor tance of films with international appeal. We can even see that films with African American casts won’t get made because executives are afraid foreign markets won’t find them American enough. This shift in impor tance would have happened anyway, but it has been exacerbated by the rapid decline in media revenue, itself accelerated by piracy. It was enough to inspire me to uninstall BitTor rent and ask my friends to do the same. I’m not saying that piracy has caused these adverse effects. I’m just saying that it really hasn’t helped. Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.
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Unwarranted targeting The ban on blood donations from men who have sex with men must end.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response to ‘CEHD grad students oppose Teach for America partnership’ As an alumnus of both the University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development and Teach For America, I find the recent petition from 10 graduate students in CEHD against a potential partnership with TFA troublesome. As a native Minnesotan and a proud graduate and current Ph.D. student of the University, I’m compelled to share why collaboration between TFA and CEHD is a logical choice for our state. Many in our state pride themselves on our excellent K-12 education system. While Minnesota is home to some of the highest per forming schools in the nation, the unfortunate reality is that our current system is failing many of our children. Teacher preparation programs are in a position of great power to change the status quo and ensure more dedicated professionals are ready and committed to teach in our highest-need schools. TFA and CEHD share a common goal — to provide all students with the best education possible. As the state’s flagship institution of learning, we should be seeking partnerships with community organizations like TFA to find ways to learn from each other — not isolating ourselves
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from approaches or ideas that may be different from our own. CEHD should not perceive collaboration with TFA as a threat to our school of education. A par tnership would only strengthen our already strong lear ning environment by infusing our student body with diverse teachers from across the countr y passionate about fighting for educational equality. We should lean on our University’s core values to share knowledge, understanding and creativity by providing a broad range of educational programs in a strong and diverse community of lear ners and teachers. Our campus’ community should not perpetuate false divides in education and lear ning, such as traditionally versus alter natively prepared teachers. This type of dialogue only distracts us from making sure all of Minnesota’s children are reaching their full potential. As an institution of academic research, CEHD should be interested in tr ying innovative alternative methods in teacher preparation to fuel continuous learning. A par tnership between TFA and CEHD can be one par t of the solution as we collectively work to strengthen the educational opportunities we’re providing all of our children. Kevin Dorn CEHD and Teach For America alumnus
New athletic facilities plan is wrong for the U
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and athletics director Norwood Teague are totally distorting the mission of our beloved university with their wrongheaded plan to raise millions from the private sector to expand the facilities of the Department of Athletics. Athletics have absolutely no connection to the purpose of the University (education) and would take away from private donations to vital education projects. I also refuse to believe our sell-out governor will not, at some point, find a way to get state money involved, just as he did for a Vikings stadium. What difference does it make to anyone whether the University not only wins or loses but even competes at any level in intercollegiate athletics except those whose careers depend on sports? Our teams not only lose more than they win but have brought scandal and shame upon the University by the misbehavior of our “student athletes.” I suggest students, faculty and others who back education over big-time sports publicly condemn this plan, call for Kaler and Teague to withdraw it, urge prospective donors to sports expansion to rethink their plans and to publicly call upon Gov. Mark Dayton and the Legislature to stop this plan in its tracks. Willard Shapira University alumnus
rowing up, my friends and I found it enter taining to search lists of unusual laws and laugh at the absurdity of cerBRONWYN tain mandates. MILLER Dominoes cancolumnist not be played on Sunday in Alabama. It is illegal to take a lion to the theater in Baltimore, Md. And you can’t sell doughnut holes in Lehigh, Neb. While equally ridiculous, the Food and Drug Administration directive that forbids men who have sex with men from donating blood is anything but laughable. The ban began in 1983 and was retained in 2000 and 2006 during FDA reviews of the issue.When the ban was first implemented, tests to screen for HIV-positive blood did not exist, and the nation was in a state of panic over HIV and AIDS. Scientists knew that gay men were affected disproportionately; the ban was a well-intended — albeit imperfect — effort of containing the crisis and preventing infection of the nation’s blood supply. However, with today’s sophisticated testing tools, a blanket policy on account of sexual orientation reeks of discrimination. As the rules stand now, a heterosexual person who has had sex with a prostitute can donate as long as the encounter was more than a year ago. Yet men are permanently eliminated from the donor pool if they answer affirmatively to having had sex with a man at any point, “even once,” since 1977. Women, too, are disqualified if they have had sex with a man who has had sex with another man since 1977, but only if that interaction occurred in the last 12 months. The American Red Cross estimates that someone in the U.S. needs blood every two seconds. The necessity of an ample blood supply is indisputable yet unmet by our current donor pool. In June, with donations down by 10 percent nationwide, the Red Cross received 50,000 fewer donations than expected. An emergency request for blood and platelet donations was put out last week. Last week’s “National Gay Blood Drive,” an event that had 52 participating cities in Minnesota alone, illustrated the willingness of MSM to help combat the blood shortage. In protest, participants took HIV tests that will be sent to the FDA to prove their eligibility as donors. Our judgment of blood quality should be determined by individual behavior, not sexual orientation. The FDA must step up and eliminate its prejudiced policy. Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.
The next step in the arms race A plan for new practice facilities would help the Gophers catch up to the rest of the Big Ten.
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ast week, Gophers athletic director Norwood Teague unveiled an ambitious plan to put the University of Minnesota back on a level playing field in the arms race of college sports. The plan, which lays outs the first of two phases, includes a long-awaited basketball practice facility as well as practice facilities for wrestling, track and gymnastics. It also includes upgrades for the Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex. The cost of phase one is projected to be $190 million. Teague said that he hopes to finance the entire project privately. He added that the plan shows what the athletics department is currently lacking and that the new facilities and upgrades are needs, not wants. In the world of big-time college sports, Teague’s assessment is correct. The University is severely lacking in practice and training facilities, and that certainly has an impact on its ability to recruit talented college athletes. The University and Northwestern University are the only two programs in the Big Ten without a dedicated basketball practice facility. However, while the new facilities are undoubtedly necessary if the Gophers want to compete, the University’s ability to raise all $190 million privately is far from a sure thing. Nothing in this project will bring in game day revenue, and getting donors interested in practice facilities is presumably harder than selling them a full-time sports venue, such as TCF Bank Stadium. The willingness of boosters to donate depends largely on how well the Gophers perform in the upcoming seasons, which is a gamble. Before going any further with the plan, Teague and others in the athletic department should come up with a more detailed finance plan. The department is not known for its fiscal restraint and in the past has had to rely on outside funds to balance its budget. Questions about how realistic the fundraising goal is, and what happens if it falls through, need to be answered. An ambitious goal requires thorough planning.
The inefficiency of course approval The University should make it easier for professors to collaborate in course creation.
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July 10 Minnesota Daily article highlighted many faculty members’ growing frustration with inefficient course approval policies. Professors yearning to update courses and create more interdepartmental, collaborative classes feel stifled by the logistical requirements of the approval process. These obstacles discourage some professors from developing courses further in the future. At the University of Minnesota, new courses must go through college and campus curriculum committees, which take into account student workload, content and number of suggested credits before slating the proposed course for approval. If the course wants to be certified in meeting a liberal education requirement, a separate approval determines its eligibility. The University is not alone in this lengthy process. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an application for a general education requirement must be approved by department, college and divisional executive committees before general education eligibility can be granted. While a higher level of scrutiny may be appropriate for institutions with so many course options, the process should not inherently afflict cross-collaboration between departments. If a course incorporating different departments or colleges must go through endless committee approvals for every department involved, students will be less likely to benefit from a potentially unique and innovative class. By consolidating departmental committee approvals, through joint or mixed department meetings, perhaps faculty will be more encouraged to develop these valuable learning experiences, and students will be able to fulfill requirements in a more creative manner.
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Teague unveils facilities plan
A practice facility for the Gophers men’s and women’s basketball teams would be included in the complex. Former men’s coach Tubby Smith, whom Teague fired in March, had lobbied for such a facility for several years.
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he plan’s price tag is more than twice the $86 million the Gophers raised to help build TCF Bank Stadium in time for the 2009 football season. The stadium was funded primarily with state money. “I do believe that there are donors who are inclined to give to Gopher athletics,” said University President Eric Kaler at the Board of Regents meeting. While Teague said he doesn’t have lead donors for the project yet, he hopes a handful will step up. One candidate for a lead donor could be T. Denny Sanford, a University alumnus and the chief executive of ficer of United National Corporation. Sanford donated $6 million to the TCF Bank Stadium project in 2009 but has said he likely won’t donate to programs other than football. Teague, who became the Gophers athletics director a year ago, estimated the price tag of the plan to be between $80 million and $125 million in Februar y. But he said at the regents meeting that he “probably thought it would be a lot more than that all along.” “I wasn’t surprised at all that we landed at this number,” Teague said, “but I do feel good about being cognizant of expenses, and I think we can do it ver y, very well.” The public reaction to the plan has been mostly positive, but the large price tag has some concerned. “It’s a lot of money in today’s market when there is no money,” said University athletics donor Karen Corneil of Willmar, Minn. Corneil and her husband Thomas donate to the athletics department from time to time, but she said she doesn’t know yet if they will donate to the new facilities fundraiser. The push for donations
will likely center on how much each Gophers team needs its respective facility upgrade in order to compete.
“IT’S GOING TO PUT US HOPEFULLY IN A HIGH-TIER, COMPETITIVE MOLD THAT WE REALLY NEED TO BE IN AND HAVEN’T BEEN IN.” -- Regent Tom Devine Former Gophers athletics director Joel Maturi promised former men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith a practice facility when he hired Smith in 2007. Critics
A training table, which would offer athletes a space to dine, would be one of the smaller facilities in the complex.
A new academic center would give athletes more space to study. Teague says the current academic center at the Bierman Athletic Complex is too crowded and noisy. Conceptual designs courtesy of Gopher Sports
argued that the lack of a facility during Smith’s tenure contributed to poor recruiting and consistently poor conference results. Smith was fired in March. “We think the new basketball facility is needed,” Corneil said. “We should have gotten it for Tubby.” Teague emphasized the need to upgrade by pointing out advancements that opposing Big Ten schools such as the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have made in facilities. He also mentioned Northwestern University’s current facilities fundraiser, which he said has collected $55 million of its $220 million goal. “Our practice facilities are 20 to 30 years old, and we’ve got to get more updated,” Teague said.
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY University of Minnesota Athletics Director Norwood Teague presents his $190 million facilities plan to the Board of Regents Wednesday at McNamara Alumni Center.
RECENT STADIUM PROJECTS SIEBERT FIELD Cost: $7.5 million, $6.5 million privately raised TCF BANK STADIUM Cost: $288.5 million, $86 million privately raised PHASE 1 FACILITIES PLAN Projected Cost: $190 million (all privately funded)
*Numbers are approximate
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, PIONEER PRESS
Kaler and the regents also showed interest in competing with other Big Ten schools. “It’s going to put us hopefully in a high-tier, competitive mold that we really need to be in and haven’t been in,” said Regent Tom Devine at the meeting last week. All of the facilities would be built in the Bierman Field area, where the Gibson-Nagurski Football Complex is already located.
Teague said he hopes to turn Bierman into an “athletic village,” and a 300-space underground parking facility will also be included. Regent David Larson said previous athletics improvements had been handled on a spor t-by-spor t basis, rather than as part of a package. “This is going to be a change from our historic past,” he said at the meeting.
The proposed complex would have one large building spanning three blocks along 15th Avenue Southeast. The current complex has two connected buildings and a track and field stadium.
A new football complex would replace the Gophers’ current indoor complex.
In addition to the basketball and football facilities, the proposed complex would include indoor practice facilities for wrestling and gymnastics, as well as an indoor Olympic sport facility.
An update to Williams Arena was not included in the plan. Teague said upgrades to the concourse area of the basketball facility could be implemented in phase two. Teague said the plan focuses on the department’s needs, not its wants. “I feel like this will change ... the course and the future of Gophers athletics,” he said. “I’m confident that it will.”
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Leddy shares Stanley Cup with state
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Chicago Blackhawks defenseman and former Gophers player Nick Leddy holds the Stanley Cup on Friday at Mariucci Arena. Leddy shared the Cup with thousands of fans at various locations in the Twin Cities area during his two days with the trophy.
The ex-Gophers player won the trophy last month with Chicago. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
A sweltering summer’s after noon looked eerily similar to a winter’s night Friday as fans packed the main lobby and lined the sidewalks of the University of Minnesota’s Mariucci Arena. They awaited the arrival of a shy kid from Eden Prairie, Minn., alongside hockey’s biggest prize: the Stanley Cup. Their wait ended when Nick Leddy, a former Gophers defenseman, arrived to the tune of “Chelsea Dagger” by The Fratellis — the Chicago Blackhawks’ anthem. The crowd went berserk. After each season, in what has become tradition in the NHL, the most recent Stanley Cup champions take turns with the Cup for a day or two during the summer. And this year, Leddy was the first player on the Chicago Blackhawks to get his time with the Cup.
Leddy shared it with thousands of Minnesotans at various locations around the Twin Cities last week. It’s been nearly a month since he first lifted the coveted trophy after the Blackhawks beat the Boston Bruins to win the Cup, but Leddy said it was still surreal when it arrived at his house. “I grew up and dreamed of this,” Leddy said. H o w i e B o r r o w, t h e Keeper of the Cup, arrived at the Leddy household in Eden Prairie in the early afternoon Thursday. Leddy said he had a reception with a small group of family and friends before he star ted his trek around the T win Cities area. “We just took some photos and relaxed with it,” he said. “It was awesome being able to share it with them because I wouldn’t be here without their support.” L e ddy th e n le ft h i s house in a stretch limo with his cr ew and the trophy beside him. They made a brief stop at the corporate offices of Shock Doctor, a sports equipment company and sponsor of Leddy, before reaching Maynard’s Restaurant in
Excelsior, Minn. Maynard’s, a popular summer hangout spot on Lake Minnetonka, was packed from the dining room to the docks. Leddy hung out at the restaurant for a while and then stopped at Brit’s Pub and Seven Sushi Ultralounge and Skybar in downtown Minneapolis. Eric Mueller, a University of Minnesota student from Illinois and diehard Chicago Blackhawks fan, got a picture with Leddy and the Cup at Brit’s. Mueller said the fact that Leddy took the Cup around the Twin Cities for the public to enjoy shows he has high character. “I give the man mad props for that,” Mueller said. “He has the Cup for his day, and he used that to give back to the community he grew up in.” Leddy said the first day of the tour was exhausting at times but said it was also rewarding to share the Cup with fans that care. His second day of the tour was another full schedule with stops at the Eden Prairie Community Center and the University’s Amplatz Children’s Hospital and Mariucci Arena. Leddy said it was spe-
cial to bring the hardware back to Mariucci, where he played with the Gophers in the 2009-10 season. But he said his favorite stop in the two-day stretch was at the children’s hospital. “It was really emotional for me,” Leddy said. “I was so happy to be able to share that with those kids. It was a lot of fun.” While Leddy was at the hospital, a collection of fans lined the sidewalks in front of Mariucci on campus. Blake Delage was the first in line alongside his wife and son. They waited for three hours in the 90-degree heat to assure their spot in line. Delage attended the event at the Eden Prairie Ice Arena in hopes of see-
ing the Cup earlier that day, but he never got a chance to snap a photo. “We got [to Mariucci] at around 1,” he said. “We were the first ones in line, and we never left.” Delage said attending the celebration “means more to me than meeting the president of the United States.” Leddy ar rived a little after 4 p.m. and posed for pictures with the Cup and a small group of people on the ice before meeting the fans in the lobby of Mariucci. Gophers junior for ward Kyle Rau was backstage at the event amid the fans. Rau played with Leddy at Eden Prairie High School and said it was strange to see his former high school teammate with
the Cup. He added he’s proud Leddy brought the title back to Mariucci to share it with the fans. “He could have taken it anywhere, but he’s not forgetting where he came from,” Rau said. Leddy posed for pictures with hundreds of fans for about 45 minutes, flashing his own sheepish smile amid the chaos. And just like that, his time with the trophy was over. As the str etch limo dropped of f Leddy, his family and friends back in Eden Prairie, Borrow took the Cup to the next Blackhawks player. “It went by fast, but I’m just glad I got to have my day with it,” Leddy said. “It definitely gives me some motivation to do it again.”
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FIRST DAY 1. Leddy Household 2. Shock Doctor 3. Maynard’s 4. Brit’s Pub 5. Seven Sushi Ultralounge and Skybar 6. Leddy Household
SECOND DAY 7. Eden Prairie Ice Arena 8. University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital 9. Mariucci Arena PHOTO COURTESY OF CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS
SOURCE: NICK LEDDY
Former Gophers player Nick Leddy holds the Stanley Cup after his Chicago Blackhawks defeated the Boston Bruins to win the 2013 NHL championship.
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Haula impresses Wild at summer camp Erik Haula left the Gophers and signed with the Wild this spring. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Erik Haula has never been the biggest player on the ice, but that has never stopped him. A three-year for ward with the Gophers from 2010-13, Haula has starred at ever y level of his career despite the occasional size disadvantage. Now the 5-foot-11-inch, 170-pound forward will test his luck at hockey’s highest level. Haula demonstrated his leadership skills at the Minnesota Wild Development Camp from July 9-14 at the Xcel Energy Center. “I think he made a positive impression with the coaches and ever ybody involved at the camp,” said W ild assistant general manager Brent Flahr, “and that’s a good thing for him going forward.” Haula signed a two-year deal with the Wild in April — less than two weeks after the Gophers’ 2013 season abruptly ended with an upset loss to Yale. “I felt like I was ready to move on to the next level,” Haula said. “There was a lot of talk with the coaches and family and other people that help me out, and I feel like the common theme was everyone felt like I was ready for the next level.” Haula has the skill set to compete in the NHL, but his lack of size will be a greater disadvantage than ever. “He’s not the biggest body for the NHL, so he’s going to have to learn all the little things to excel in the early stages of his career,” Flahr said. “He’s never going to be 6-foot-4, 230 pounds. He’s aware of that.” This was Haula’s third
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
Former Gophers forward Erik Haula skates during a scrimmage at the Minnesota Wild’s development camp Thursday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. In April, Haula left the Gophers and signed a two-year contract with the Wild.
year at the camp, but he said he still has a lot to prove. A handful of notable prospects were in attendance, including last year’s first-round pick, Matt Dumba. “I kind of know the drill, but I know I’m still competing with a lot of these guys for a spot,” Haula said. The players are on the ice a lot at the camp, he said, but the experience isn’t predicated solely on that. He said off-ice activities include media training, leadership training, nutri-
tion speeches and other training events. Haula said this training is useful for his development as a player, but his main focus is continuing to improve his strength. Flahr said he recognizes Haula’s worked to increase his size since his freshman year with the Gophers, and the growth is evident. He said Haula was a clear leader at the camp, and those intangible skills could outweigh his lack of size. Haula was extremely vocal in the three-on-three
scrimmage at the camp July 11 and led his group with a sense of passion reminiscent of last season with the Gophers. “[Haula] looked like a quality NHL prospect at the camp and was right at the top of the list,” Flahr said. “He came in and worked hard and was a good example for the guys that were coming in for the first time.” Haula said he knows he has a lot to learn to compete in the NHL, but his short stint with the Houston Ae-
ros of the American Hockey League this spring helped his growth. Haula led the Gophers with 51 points last year, but said the AHL was a different beast. “I know I have to get better because the jump from college to AHL is somewhat big and the jump to NHL is even bigger” Haula said. Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher spoke highly of Haula two weeks ago on KFAN and entertained the idea that Haula could be a dark horse to
win the second-line center spot on the Wild next season. Flahr said position battles and roster spots will play themselves out in time but said he’s confident Haula has a future in the NHL. “He’s coming here to make an impression with the coaches and ear n a spot in the lineup,” Flahr said. “We have a number of young players vying for similar spots and similar roles, and he’s right in the mix there.”
TRACK & FIELD
Senior transitions from competition to training Te’Shon Adderley competed for the Bahamas earlier this month. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Te’Shon Adderley is taking a break from r unning. The Gophers senior has been training and competing since August, and earlier this month she placed fifth in the 800-meter r un for the Bahamas, her home countr y, in the Central American and Caribbean Games. Former Gophers team-
mates Alena Brooks and Todea-Kay Willis joined Adderley at the CACs in Mexico. Brooks anchored the gold-medal winning 4x400meter relay for Trinidad and Tobago and will advance to the World Championships in Moscow in August. Willis placed fifth in the long jump for Jamaica. “I was glad to be able to compete for my countr y,” Adderley said. “I ran my second-fastest time for the season, so I was proud of myself.” And after 11 months of work, the break will last all of two weeks before Adderley returns to her training regimen.
After her break is up, Adderley said she’ll return to running a mile a day until the cross countr y season starts. T he tra c k a nd f ield star trained with the cross countr y team last fall and will continue this year. She said she’ll run at least a few full races this year, which can span 6,000 meters. “I’m afraid,” she said, “but I’m looking for ward to it.” Gophers women’s track and field and cross countr y director Matt Bingle said training with the cross countr y team helps Adderley build her strength so she can handle
her more intense workouts better in the track season. “She is a coach’s dream,” Bingle said. “She wants to do exactly what she needs to do.” Last year was Adderley’s first in the Big Ten after she transferred from Iowa Central Community College. In the spring, she placed fourth in the 800 at the Big Ten outdoor championships. She followed that up with a 16th-place finish at her NCAA regional, running the third-fastest time in school histor y (2:06.38). Adderley said she hopes to break the school
2013 CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN GAMES RESULTS JULY 5-8, 2013, MEXICO
EVENT RESULT PLACE Alena Brooks 4x400 meter relay 3:30.64 1st* Te’Shon Adderley 800-meter run 2:06.65 5th Todea-Kay Willis Long jump 6.32 meters 5th *Advances to 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Russia SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
record in the 800 next season. She’s more than five seconds behind the mark of 2:01.05 and has yet to crack the top 10. She also wants to attempt to qualify for the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Bingle said Adderley, a for mer sprinter, has the speed to achieve her
goals. He said Adderley’s ex perience in inter n a tional meets like the CACs helps her prepare for future big events. “Anytime you can r un with that caliber of athletes,” Bingle said, “... the better you’re going to be an d m o r e co m fo r tab l e you’re going to be.”
BASEBALL
SWIMMING & DIVING
MLB ‘pretty confident’ to expand replay by 2014
Steenvoorden brings home two medals
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Major League Baseball is moving ahead with plans to expand instant replay next year. “We’re pretty confident we’ll have it in place for 2014,” MLB Executive Vice President Joe Torre said Tuesday before the All-Star game. Video review has been in place for umpires on home run calls since August 2008. Commissioner Bud Selig initially wanted to add trap plays and fair-or-foul calls down the lines for 2013, but the change was put off while more radical options were examined. Still, Selig has wanted to proceed cautiously. “Look, life isn’t perfect. The sport isn’t perfect, but we live with it, and it’s been great,” he said Tuesday during his annual meeting the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. “We have to be careful in our zest to improve things not to affect the game as we’ve
all known it.” Part of a replay subcommittee that includes former St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and Atlanta Braves President John Schuerholz, Tor re has said all options are being considered, including an NFL-type system that would give managers the ability to challenge calls. He hopes to have plans for owners to consider when they meet next month in Cooperstown. “We certainly don’t want to get stuck in the mud saying we’re not going to do anything when technology is out there saying that we can improve it somewhat,” Torre said. “We’ve got to decide, how much replay do we want? Because if you start doing it from the first inning to the ninth inning, you may have to time the game with a calendar.” Selig said the calendar was an issue in MLB’s refusal to make players available for the Olympics. Baseball was an Olympic medal sport from 1992-2008, then was
dropped for last year’s London Games. IOC President Jacques Rogge says baseball should make its top athletes available, as they are in basketball and hockey. The IOC will vote in September to select one sport from among baseball-softball, wrestling and squash to add to the 2020 Games. Stopping the baseball season for the Olympics is impractical. “First of all, we’d be playing to Thanksgiving, maybe Dec. 1,” Selig said. “It just isn’t possible. I wish it was.” Selig said baseball had stopped discussing a possible future shift of the AllStar game from its traditional Tuesday to a Wednesday slot. He said he’s not concerned that the tied All-Star game of 2002 in Milwaukee, when the teams ran out of pitchers, is mentioned as part of his reign. “I don’t regard this as part of my history. It happened,” he said. “The fate of western civilization, by the way, wasn’t changed one iota as a result of that tie, lest anybody
get too concerned about it.” He also repeated his concern about the Tampa Bay Rays, who are next-to-last in the major leagues with a home attendance average of 17,791 despite contending in the AL East. Selig called the situation “beyond disappointing” and “economically not tolerable.” “You look at a club in the major leagues that’s competitive that’s averaging 18,000 people a game. That may have been OK in 1956. It’s not OK today,” he said. “There’s no question there’s a stadium problem there. There’s no debate about that. The question is what to do about it and when to do and where to do.” Selig repeated his intention to retire in December 2014 after 22 years in office but said there are no definitive succession plans. “I’ve always operated under the theory that if I get hit by a beer truck tomorrow, they’d have to find somebody,” he said. “Somehow, some way they’ll find somebody.”
The U’s Kyler Van Swol also medaled at the World University Games. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Former Gophers swimmer Ashley Steenvoorden earned silver and bronze medals at the World University Games in Kazan, Russia, on July 13 and 15. Steenvoorden, whose Gophers career ended in 2012, placed second in the 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 16:07.89 and third in the 800-meter freestyle with a time of 8:29.79.
It marked the thir d time she’s competed internationally and the first time she’s earned a spot on the podium. The Gophers’ only other medal at the games c a m e f r o m K y l e r Va n Swol as a member of the men’s 4x100 medley relay. The relay ear ned a bronze medal with a time of 3:34.63. Der ek Toomey, who star red for the Gophers last season as a junior, failed to medal at the games. But he set a school recor d in the 50-meter freestyle with a time of 22.37 seconds, placing fifth.
GOPHERS MEDALISTS AT WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES MEDAL Silver Bronze Bronze
SWIMMER Ashley Steenvoorden Ashley Steenvoorden Kyler Van Swol
EVENT TIME 1,500m freestyle 16:07.89 800m freestyle 8:29.79 4x100m medley relay 3:34.63 SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
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A&E got the skinny on Canterbury Park, straight from the horse’s mouth.
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t begins the way it does at tracks around the countr y — Belmont, Arlington, Churchill. A man in red liver y and a black helmet calls the horses to post on a medieval-looking bugle. As the all-too-familiar brassy notes echo through Canterbury Park, Lynn Deichert, who’s been playing that fanfare for “longer than [he] can remember,” lowers his horn, his upper lip just beginning to chap — it’ll be worse by the night’s 10th race. Deichert’s horn is a part of the holdover tradition that seamlessly mixes with the likes of electronic betting booths and a diverse clientele of families, grizzled regulars and 20-somethings looking for a good time. Nothing illustrates the track’s combination of new and old better than one of the escort riders checking her phone atop a chestnut brown mare. Thursday, with its dollar admission and cheap drinks, is by far the most packed night and draws the most youthful crowd. But by any night’s seventh race, when the libations have been flowing through the bettors’ ups and downs, there will be some cadre of bros clamoring to see the race results through double vision. “Did we all win?” a double-fister queries, spilling domestic on his Nikes.
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hen I arrived before the first race, one for quarter horses, I was taken under the wing of Michelle Benson, a media assistant at Canterbur y whose family runs the horse-specializing Wood-Mere Farms.
Her family used to race horses, but when Canterbury closed in 1992, with live racing returning in 1994, they went into breeding. Benson’s been a part of Canterbury “since the womb.” Into the belly of the beast we went, entering the basement level from the winner’s circle — that’s where the winning jockey gets his or her (there are a few females on the jockey roster) moment of glory. Benson had to put a GoPro camera on jockey Juan Rivera before the third race for a promotional video. I found myself smack dab in the middle of what was a bit like an equine green room — guys washing off bridles, a nearby room with all of the colorful silks, a security guard shooting the breeze with a chef who proclaimed himself “the best in Canterbury.” In the middle was the desk of an old, red-nosed, gold-jewelry clad gent who had something to do with weighing-in the jockeys before races. While Benson was waiting on Rivera, she told me to “go talk to Derek, he’s one of our Hall of Famers.”
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erek Bell was wearing glossy jockey boots and glowing white jodhpurs, the brightness offset only by the big ol’ chaw he had sprouting from his lower lip. A weathered face and tired eyes looked up at me: “Whaddya wanna know?” he said, punctuating the sentence with a stream of brown tobacco spit. Most of the luster is gone for Bell, racing horses and the excitement he brings to the crowd outside no longer differentiates his job from others.
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(Top)Nine-year-old Aria Jamison leans over the edge as she watches the beginning of a horse race at Canterbury Park on Friday. (Right) In a close finish, Sarah Louise Benidt-Grave, left, watches her horse lose as her friend, Dodie Harris, celebrates her win at Canterbury Park on Friday. Amanda Snyder, Daily
“Some days it’s great; some days it sucks,” Bell said. The “sucks” part probably has something to do with the time he spent in litigation with racing authorities in Florida after getting embroiled in a race-fixing scandal. At this point, Rivera came out with the GoPro cam on. Bell noticed. “I bet it’ll look good when I go flying by you,” he said to Rivera. “Wait, does it pick up audio? Well, I’ll be yelling, ‘Eff you,’ on the way by, too,” Bell said with a laugh. Bell won the next race atop Machorina, passing Rivera along the way. As he was walking back to change silks, Bell caught my eye, smirking as he said, “And that’s how you do that.” He won the following two races. Of course that meant that by the time I thought it’d be
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p close, all these powerful beasts look capable of the exceptional, with veins popping out the sides of their flesh, seemingly squeezed to the surface by the masses of muscle that make these animals equally beautiful and frightening. All of the workers on the track wear padded vests to absorb potential impact.
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Larry Davila, the man who hits the starting button by the gates, knows this all too well. He speaks in what sounds like a state of laryngitis; back in the day, a horse nailed Davila right in the throat, leaving him with a perpetual rasp. He’s another of the colorful characters that make a night at the track so memorable. The old-timers sitting studying their forms, the lil’ tykes playing in an impromptu sandbox by the music stage formed by spillover dirt from the track, the pageantry of the pre-race paddock promenade, the cumulative roar of “go” and “no” forming a wash that’ll quickly turn to euphoria or despondence in the last furlong — that’s the allure of a balmy night in Shakopee.
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Past performances are helpf ul in determining a horse’s trajectory. In this case, Wunderkind last ran on May 7, 2013 in a six furlong race, finishing third with a time of one minute and 12 seconds. He led down the stretch only to finish third.
Jockeys race their horses during the first race at Canterbury Park on Friday. Amanda Snyder, Daily
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The Wright stuff Local hip-hop impresario Toki Wright is back in the studio, working on his second full-length album. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
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e went to Uganda in the mid-2000s to work with former child soldiers. In May, he went to Sier ra Leone as a musical ambassador — Toki Wright’s efforts have taken him all over. This is what sets the local hip-hop icon apart from other artists: a sense of responsibility and community that he sincerely wishes to cultivate through his various works. “A lot of people like rappers because they don’t give a fuck,” Wright said. “I do give a fuck.” The working title of his new record, tentatively due to be released in the first quar ter of 2014, is “Pangaea,” a reference to the supercontinent and Wright’s belief in the interconnectedness of humanity, undoubtedly influenced by his voyages to Africa. There’s a Gil Scott-Heron tilt to a few of the tracks he and Big Cats were ready to reveal last Thursday, but that’s not really out of place for the socially conscious Wright. Plus, he did get his start in poetry and the spoken word scene of the ’90s. His raps reflect this different cant. For such a visible pillar of the Twin Cities scene, it might be surprising that Wright hasn’t released a full album since 2009’s “A Different Mirror.” He did release an EP, “BlackMale,” in 2010 and a mixtape, “FAD-
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Minneapolis hip-hop artist Toki Wright.
ERS,” in 2012. The mixtape was the byproduct of tragedy. Wright’s former engineer’s house burned down, taking a laptop and hard drive with it — a whole album was contained on that equipment. “FADERS” was the salvaged remains. Wright has started over, using that as motivation to come up with better material. Last Thursday, he rolled up to the studio in a Volk-
swagen Passat, clad in impeccable white low-tops, a white and grey tank, khaki cargo shorts, green shades and 14 years of dreads piled atop his head — he’s a handsome man if you’ve ever seen one. He has a bit of a hobble, though — he recently landed funny on his ankle during a run. The black-lit undercarriage of the studio’s counters proved just how clean those shoes were. They worked casually.
P.O.S. stopped by for a second to say what’s up, Big Cats and I took a break to play Sega halfway through the session — he was drinking Day Tripper, a fitting choice given the Indeed brewery is only a few blocks north. The video game “NBA Jam” got Wright thinking about how he lost interest in baseball. As a teen, he met Barr y Bonds at a store; Bonds refused to look at him, turning away
as he shook his hand. That is the exact opposite of ever ything Wright embodies. He’s a down-to-ear th educator and organizer. He leads the hip-hop studies department at McNally Smith, the first program of its kind in the nation, and teaches six classes. The U.S. State Depar tment has already taken notice of Wright — they were the ones who sent him as a musical ambassador to
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Sierra Leone. That means there is merit here and, unlike some cases, the music to back it up.
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reamHaven Books houses a vast repositor y of lost science fiction gems. Talking cats and floating cubes litter the pages of these ’60sand ’70s-era pulp novels, but simply taking a look at the illustrations on the cover gives a sense of each book’s surreal sci-fi. On one fateful Wednesday, ar tist and collector Lindsay Nohl entered DreamHaven. She visited the South Minneapolis store to add to her own collection of vintage paraphernalia. “I saw all these books just piled on the floors up to the ceiling, on these tables — it looked like my house,” she said. Nohl, the owner of the Light Grey Art Lab, began amassing a massive scifi collection for “Station Zero,” a new poster art exhibition tackling interstellar imager y. She assigned each of the over 80 artists a dif ferent novel from her retro treasure trove. “We realized how exciting it could be to re-envision what the future would look like,” she said. Most of the authors faded away into sci-fi obscurity, but the period “Station
Zero” celebrates is a bounty for the golden era of illustration. “The Universe Against Her” imagines a young girl with glowing eyes next to some ferocious cats; “The Stardust Voyages” depicts a slew of abstract spaceships. “All of the books from that era have this really fantastic sensibility,” Nohl said. “The colors are just vibrant and crazy.” “Station Zero” remembers this lost era when illustration was king. In an age of Photoshop and Google image search, hand-drawn ar twork has been pushed aside. The new illustrations recall the past but keep a contemporar y aesthetic with the ever-present future locked in sight. “They ar e both paying homage to these old styles, but also reinventing and becoming re-inspired,” Nohl said. When artist Bill Ferenc received his worn copy of “The Stardust Voyages” in the mail, he star ted to apply his car toon sensibility to the galactic conflict within Stephen Tall’s stor y. But it wasn’t that simple. “It’s challenging — what should I show and what shouldn’t I?” he said. Ferenc decided to tackle one of the more surreal moments of the Star Trekstyle space epic. A team of scientists and one ar tist flee from a geometric conflagration. “They find out there’s a
Beyoncé She put on one of the most memorable Super Bowl halftime shows in recent years and hasn’t slowed down. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter is set to release her fifth studio album this year and recently lent her vocals to a track on Jay-Z’s “Magna Carta Holy Grail.” She’s a pop cultural force with over 75 million albums sold worldwide. Expect extravagance and her best singles from the former Destiny’s Child star at a packed Xcel Center show. For this leg of “The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour,” get down to “Single Ladies” and “Crazy in Love” while she’s here — this is the first time Bey has stopped in the Cities since 2009’s “I Am… World Tour.” u Where: Xcel Energy Center u When: 8 p.m. u Cost: $47–$252
war going on on this planet between the per fect, color ful cubes and the misshapen, grey cubes,” Ferenc said. His poster looks dynamic with all of the characters on the brink of falling from the car, a distant relation to the dull black emptiness of the original 1955 cover. One of the ar tists for “Station Zero” used the original cover as a springboard. Kelsey King’s version of “The Universe Against Her” por trays a young girl and her cats like the 1964 first edition’s cover. “She’s meditating with her cat, tr ying to develop her psychic powers,” she said. King’s piece embraces the cheesiness of the ar twork like many of the pieces, but nothing’s ever tongue-in-cheek. She was wholehear tedly invested in the stor y, even in its more outlandish moments. “Station Zero” of fers no parody, only a tribute to this cosmic-leaning era. “It’s this per fect 15-year-old girl who’s in college and a genius and has a psychic pet cat,” she said. “You can’t go wrong with that.”
JAAK JENSEN, DAILY Minneapolis artist Bill Ferenc is one of the many artists updating vintage science fiction novel covers from the ’50s and ’60s for the Light Grey Art Lab’s show “Station Zero.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF KELSEY KING Kelsey King’s interpretation of the cover for “The Universe Against Her” depicts the telepathic Telzey Amberdon with her pet feline.
Sixth Annual Middle Eastern Festival For a weekend of tabbouleh, falafel, hummus and baklava, stop by the Sixth Annual Middle Eastern Festival to gorge to your stomach’s content on these fine homemade staples. The festivities will have plenty of beer to wash down the gyros, not to mention camel rides and giant inflatables. The family affair also features live entertainment from the John Khoury band and a performance of the traditional Dabke dance. u Where: St. George Antiochian Orthodox Church, 1250 Oakdale Ave., West St. Paul u When: Noon–10 p.m. u Cost: Free
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Over 80 artists recreate the covers to the pulp science fiction novels of the past for Light Grey Art Lab’s “Station Zero.”
WHAT “STATION ZERO” OPENING RECEPTION WHEN FRIDAY, 7-10 P.M. WHERE LIGHT GREY ART LAB, 118 E. 26TH ST., SUITE 101, MINNEAPOLIS
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PHOTO COURTESY OF BILL FERENC A cartoon aesthetic pervades Bill Ferenc’s book cover for “The Stardust Voyages.”
Summer Beer Dabbler With over 200 brews to sample, the beer festival makes the trip to St. Paul worth the hassle — 65 different breweries will offer plenty of microbrews and craft beers. If that means little to your Pabst Blue Ribbon-influenced palate, the Summer Beer Dabbler will also feature live music from local bands The Cactus Blossoms, Crimes and Strange Names. If you want to become hip with the home-brew crowd, the day’s event also gives you a chance to get educated in all things related to the fermented beverage. u Where: Upper Landing Park, St. Paul u When: 1–5 p.m. u Cost: $35, $45 at the door u Age: 21+
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by Gauntlet Hair This avant-garde noise pop group’s first album was recorded at lead singer Andy Rauworth’s grandmother’s house. The critically lauded, self-titled debut packed a blistering punch in the same vein as contemporaries No Age, even if production suffered from being tied to the basement. Now they’ve left Rauworth’s grandmother’s place for a studio for “Stills,” the Denver group’s sophomore release. If the single “Human Nature” offers a preview of the entire album, Guantlet Hair still offers a bleeding wave of electronica and reverb, a more pop-focused My Bloody Valentine.
“The Chris Gethard Show” Wednesday, 10 p.m. at thechrisgethardshow.com Public access television might not usually make for the most compelling entertainment, but “The Chris Gethard Show” proves that the format allows for unbridled creativity. In the era of stale late-night hosts, the nervous and bespectacled Gethard reigns as a king of spontaneous TV. One hour of the New Yorkbased show featured the cast giving haircuts to willing members of the audience. Amy Poehler and Zach Galifianakis have even stopped by the show. Stream the 100th episode of the Manhattan Neighborhood Network cult favorite tonight via the show’s website.
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CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT “Love and Rockets” by Los Bros Hernandez Since the 1980s, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez have redefined the movement of modern literary comics. Within “Palomar,” a fictional Central American town, Los Bros explore the lives of inhabitants with the intricacy of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The comics use a magical realism similar to the novelist as well, using stark black and white illustrations to follow its many characters. Start reading the entire “Love and Rockets” canon with “Palomar” or “Locas.” The latter series follows teens active in the early California punk scene, if that sounds more up your alley, but both of these collections are accessible and visually engaging for an entertaining beach read.
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Not so regal Pop-rockers We The Kings are content on their teenie-bopper path. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
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e The Kings are the ster eotype of what’s wrong with pop. Their music is banality at its finest — all affected angst, no substance. Whether they aim to or not, with lyrics chalk full of generic platitudes and romantic tropes, We The Kings’ music still ser ves their original teen audience — they formed at Florida’s Mar tha B. King Middle School (hence the name) in an ef for t to “get girls.” Travis Clark, the lead singer, knew they’d made it when he heard their breakout single, “Check Yes, Juliet,” on the car radio some five years ago. “I thought I had the CD playing,” Clark said. So he enjoys listening to his own repetitive schlock. “Check Yes, Juliet,” with the rain falling outside, the disapproving father and the rocks being tossed at a girl’s window, is the passé song equivalent of John Cusack holding a stereo above his head in “Say Anything.” But railing on a group for a song of f their debut album (albeit their biggest hit to date) when they’re potentially still developing their sound and image is a bit unfair. At least it would be, if Clark and We The Kings weren’t still putting out the same lame, rehashed Hallmark Valentine’s Day cards.
If We The Kings are around, beware a slew of excited teens.
Take “Say You Like Me,” the second track of f of 2011’s “Sunshine State of Mind,” as an example: “I wish my heart was always on her mind/’Cause she’s on mine, like all day, all the time.” If you don’t agree it’s trouble when the conversational “like” finds its way into a song, the album’s sixth track is even worse. “Sleep With Me”
calls out a girl who’s “the only game in town.” Apparently that’s enough to get Clark’s “heartbeat beating tonight.” Americans aren’t the only ones subjected to the vapid message of We The Kings. They’ve made it especially big in Australia, being received “kind of like the Jonas Brothers,” a statement indicative of their generally
young, female fans. They’ve gathered a following over the course of three albums and are in the process of recording a fourth. “I will never write the same record twice,” Clark said. But he might write similar lyrics twice, or three times, or five times — a phenomenon that somehow doesn’t leave a bad
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taste in the mouths of fans. Clark says this four th album’s defining characteristic is that the majority of the tracks feature what they call “gang vocals,” which will give it a more anthemic quality. Clark prides himself on being the sole songwriter for the group — it allows him to make a song “perfect” in his eyes before presenting it to the rest of
the guys. Yeesh. WHAT WE THE KINGS WHEN 5:30 P.M. WEDNESDAY, JULY 17 WHERE VARSITY THEATER, 1308 4TH ST. S.E., MINNEAPOLIS COST $20-$22 AGE ALL AGES
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Listen up! Celebrate World Listening Day on Thursday by opening your ears to the environment, one talking plant or sound scavenger hunt at a time. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com
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ometimes the vegetables give of f a reedy low-pitched tone. Other times, Philip Blackburn’s talking plants emit a set of seemingly random percussive beats. “Some of them have more emotive qualities than others,” Blackburn said. “If you can imagine a cr ying plant.” Wired with a brainwavesensing device and prerecorded samples, Blackburn’s cr ying vegetables often generate suspicion. Users will start toying with the rhubarb, causing vibrations to make a surreal plant-human dialogue. “Suddenly it becomes a heuristic problem of using all your human ingenuity to get a rise out of this plant,” Blackburn said. At the heart (or cochlea) of Blackburn’s installations is an appreciation for deep listening, a philosophy first outlined by composer Pauline Oliveros. World Listening Day celebrates a sonic meditation, appreciating everything from birdsong to the hum of an air conditioner. “It’s a practice rather than, ‘Here’s another piece, here’s another song — download it, buy it,’ ” Black-
WHEN THURSDAY, 5-9 P.M. WHERE MINNEAPOLIS SCULPTURE GARDEN, 1750 HENNEPIN AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST FREE LINEUP TALKING PLANTS, PHILIP BLACKBURN 6-8 P.M. THE SONIFEROUS GARDEN, VIV CORRINGHAM 5-9 P.M. WIND HARPS, PHILIP BLACKBURN 5-9 P.M.
burn said. Deep listening promotes newfound awareness to the acoustic ecology, the complex layers of sounds in the environment. While Blackburn’s talking plant experiment yields no scientific data, the artist hopes to inspire thoughtful investigation. “You may wonder what it is, and you may research that, or you may be a little more appreciative the next time you have a salad,” Blackburn said. Listening here lies in appreciating the guts beneath the greener y. Under the fleshy stems, a network of xylem and phloem shuttle water and food across the plant. Blackburn’s art encourages occasions to interact with the plant’s hidden life. “It’s so interactive that you don’t know if it’s the plant performing or the user,” he said. A high-tech medical de-
JAAK JENSEN,DAILY Minneapolis residents gather round the pavilion near the Stone Arch Bridge to listen to local band Silent Agency on Monday.
vice and a MacBook Pro power Blackburn’s installation, but World Listening Day pushes listeners to tune in to the environment anywhere. Vocalist Viv Corringham sees the international holiday as simply a chance to walk. The British vocalist wants listeners to silently enjoy sounds they’d normally ignore. One of her prompts for the Soniferous Garden tour at the Walker’s Sculpture Garden captures this spirit of creativity. “Imagine this is a garden full of sounds, rather than
sculpture. What would you like to hear in it?” she said. Corringham also stresses that World Listening Day is not about identifying sounds as harmonious or discordant. Instead, the practice of her “soundwalks” opens up the world of unappreciated sounds in the same vein as John Cage’s “4’33,” ” the avant-garde composition performed without any deliberate noise. “Listening is a way of opening up to the world and being in the present moment,” she said. Recognizing the land-
scape of noise around the Walker also forces listeners to contemplate how human intervention has altered the environment, Blackbur n noted. “Our soundscape is always changing about us,” he said. “The sounds of old industries or the sounds of certain birds — our ecology is changing all the time.” Blackbur n and Corringham’s work forces passersby to pay attention to their surroundings. This simple tenant of World Listening Day might seem obvious, but at least it’s a
chance to escape the endless cycle of images on the Internet or TV. “Television is so powerful and visuals are so powerful in our culture that we often have our aural imagination stifled,” Blackburn said. Nearing the end of one of the talking plants’ “performance” at a children’s festival in St. Paul, a woman summed up the piece’s potential to breed imagination, however lame her joke. “Now vegetarians may not even eat vegetables,” she laughed.
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3 Bed, avail. 9/1/13, upper unit in duplex, 1 car garage, coin wash/dry onsite, util. incl, $1500/month call Cindy at 763-355-4829
DINKYTOWN
DINKYTOWN
1, 2, 3 BR’s avail 9/1 Crpt, A/C, ldry, secure, pkg, $720 and up, heat pd 612-237-6941 www.uofmhousing.com
DINKYTOWN 1 bed apart., $600/month crpt, AC, call: 952-935-4942
814 6th St SE, 4 BR duplex, free parking, lndry, avail 9/1, $1720 + elec, 651-207-5248
1112/1114 4th St SE 1BR for $795/mo. avail 9/1 2BR for $995/mo. avail 9/1 Call Bryce 612.481.1676
Furn room avail immeidately, $430 util incl, 651-207-5248
STADIUM VILLAGE
$420 Lg room, shared kitch, no parties/ smoking, $420 deposit, 612-819-2660
Lrge 4BR house, $1600, avail 9/1, ldry, A/C, water, furnished, short walk to U, off st prkg, 651-895-4436
4 bed/2 bath, central AC, off st. parking, call Jake: 612-600-9101
FOR SALE
BARTENDING! $300/Day potential No Exp Nec, Training available. Age 18+ OK. 1-800-965-6520 xt114
MOVING 16ft Moving Truck local/out of state resonable rate 612-990-1017
HELP WANTED PROFESSIONAL Part-Time Writer and Researcher. Wanted: talented, witty, engaging writer w/ broad liberal arts background and tenacious research ability for various business & finance related projects. 20 hrs/week, $15/ hr. Submit one fiction & one non-fiction writing sample along with a resume by email to icanwriteforyou@activecallcenter.com.
HELP WANTED BARTENDERS/CASHIERS/BEERPOURERS We are looking for energetic, people friendly individuals to work at Shanghaied Henri’s Beer Garden during the MN State Fair.Must be over 19,available to work August 22nd thru Labor Day September 2, 2013. $9.00 per hour plus tips.Email ellenh@travelheadquarters.us
Rose Hill Apartments 1 & 2 Bed Avail., close to St.Paul/Minn. campus, short walk to #3 bus 651-644-4823 or toni.rosehill@gmail.com Dinkytown 615 15th Ave SE 1 BR $675$725 Free pkg avail 9/1 turne327@umn.edu 612-331-4398 1 bed, avail 9/1/13 $850/month util includ, 1 detach garage, open to single/couple call Cindy: at 763-355-4829 Sandy Hill Apartments Large 1 and 2 br, large patio and gar, heat inc, avail now, www.sandyhillapartments. com, 651-775-0511
WEST BANK Lg 2 BR Remod Condo, Lg Kit, Store Rm w/ extra storage avail, Balcony, Free Ldry, Indoor Pkg, Security Bldg, Near DT, On Busline, Close to LRT, No pets/smoker, Avail Immed, $1230/ month, 952-974-9292
ST. PAUL 1022 Manvel (St. Anthony Park), 2BR, $750, no pets, avail 9/1, 651-635-9336 Falcon Heights Larpenteur near Snelling ns, sunny 1 br $675 2 br $715 ht pd, beau. hwf, gar. av. 1 mi to St.p camp. on busline free avail 6/1 wifi 651-645-1322
Lg. 3 bed/2 bath central air/AC, great rental rates call Jake: 612-600-9101
scooter mint condition. raws0001@umn.edu
CLASSIC CITY APTS Dinkytown/Stadium Village AVAIL FALL 2013 Rooms: Studios, 1 BR, 2 BR Check our website at www.classiccityapartments.com Call 612-623-1888 for appt. Email: info@classiccityapartments.com WHY share a room when you can stay in an apt for around same price???
“Dance For Kali” by Roger Williamson
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
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Today’s Birthday (7/17): Your new year begins with Uranus in retrograde. Go within to tap your creativity. Freedom and independence inspire. Discipline plus action makes it happen.
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 — You’re in a transformative cycle. Gather information, and expand your wish list. Success comes through disciplined efforts.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Today and tomorrow get busy. Hone your skills. Review decisions and develop efficient work habits.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — It’s trickier to achieve consensus. Try new methods. Patient, persistent actions progress forward. Renew old friendships.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Enjoy the spotlight. Review a creative design. Stick to familiar games as passions rekindle. Old love is best for the next few months.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Advancement in your career could be unstable. Your friends can help you navigate choppy waters. What difference will you make?
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Fix up what you’ve got over the next five months, with Uranus retrograde. Conditions are good for renovating your place.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Take a walk down memory lane. Review long-range planning. For about five months, replace what you left behind.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Practice and revise during this phase. Reconsider dreams and insights. Find what you need in old files.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Limit wild speculation. Review financial issues and your budget, and stay current. Leave your money where it is.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Be cautious with your money. Collect old debts more easily. Build your nest egg with steady progress.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — The old ways work best. Renew old relationships, yet remain self-reliant. Rely on time-tested alliances.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Take a step back. Review your progress. This phase is great for scientific research. You’ll advance farthest by using proven methods.
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle I am kind of limited in the stamina department in the bedroom, which has limited my options with the ladies. If there are any gals out there who have two minutes to spare let me know. —Unknown, Lauren, I’ve always liked you, but now that you’re President of the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu club, you’re driving me mad. I love a woman in charge and I can only imagine where else you dominate. —Please Roll With Me To the apartment across the way, We’ve had a relationship all year, from waving to messing with you with our laser pointer to even exchanging numbers. With your penis Christmas light window and your binoculars you’re a good sport. You should get a laser pointer and play tag with us sometime. Or we could meet up in person and see if you all are as attractive and funny as you look through our window. —The apartment above CVS Dear Goldy from the Women’s Basketball/Softball/Spring Football game, We’ve run into each other about four times in the past week alone, and you still haven’t told me your name. I feel like that’s an important thing for a girl to know before she just jumps on a scooter driven by a large mascot. —Call me
Hayley who works at the Rec Center, We had Chemistry together, and now you watch me workout. I think it’s my turn to work you out. —A guy who thinks your glasses are so fine Men who enjoy Chinese food, the show “Friends,” and Queen: Show yourselves. —Unknown Jon, Damn. Watching you talk about language is seriously the sexiest thing in the world. How many languages can you say “Do me” in? —Girl who wants to know what else you can do with your tongue Today I was sleeping in the St. Paul Student Center and when I woke up there was a number in my lap. I lost the number and wouldn’t mind knowing who gave it to me, wanna help me out here? —Unknown
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ACROSS 1 Pearl Harbor mo. 4 Pearl Harbor presence 8 Cuts into 14 Singles out 16 League of Nations home 17 “Right back atcha!” 18 Came down and delayed the game 19 Capital on the Dnieper 20 Bay window 22 Prepare for an attack 25 Words on some blue balloons 30 Ruler in un palacio 32 Story including a time and place 34 “Finished!” 35 Bring down the curtain on 36 Almond __: candy 37 Quran religion 38 Antilles native 40 Penny prez 42 “Affliction” Oscar nominee 43 Name on a range 44 Berserk 46 __ vivant 47 Chinese menu promise 48 Hag 49 “Wish you were here — __ were there” 50 Cirque du Soleil staple 52 Medium’s medium 54 Longtime Chicago Symphony conductor 56 Organ knob 59 Seattle ballpark, familiarly 63 Forgo accomplices 66 Sinuous course 67 It bodes well 68 Table no-nos 69 Bygone blade 70 Watched kids
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DOWN 1 Frisbee, e.g. 2 Hollywood’s Morales 3 “Ally McBeal” genre 4 “Forget it!” 5 Took the cake? 6 Riverdale High brunette of comics 7 North Sea feeder 8 Wetlands nester 9 Skunk, literally and figuratively 10 Secretive maritime org. 11 Cozy retreat 12 Anticipatory time 13 In a funk 15 Strauss of denim 21 Sundial number 23 Harbor hauler 24 U.N. anti-childlabor agcy. 26 Nodding words 27 Popular ’60s-’70s pants, and what can be found in 3-, 9-, 23- and 33-Down? 28 Henry Clay, for one 29 Sana’a citizen 30 Eat one’s words
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31 Fill with love 33 Pachyderm friend of Zephir the monkey 39 Javert’s rank: Abbr. 41 :-( is one 45 “Not __ bet!” 48 Animation still 51 Speeds 53 Capital formerly named Christiania
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55 Puts (out) 57 __ Day vitamins 58 Cooped (up) 59 Leeds-to-London dir. 60 Without exception 61 “Groovy!” 62 “Out of the Blue” rock gp. 64 Pump part 65 Lime ending
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dr. date Dr. Date, My boyfriend and I recently had a pregnancy scare, and he said right away that “obviously” we would get an abortion if I were pregnant. Not that I am against that, but he seemed to make that decision without even asking me what I thought. Now that the scare is over, I don’t know how to bring up those concerns with him without making it seem like I want to get pregnant. Help!
— Lookin’ For Sex, Not A Baby Sexy, Babe, I’m sorry. There’s nothing more stressful than a pregnancy scare — except maybe a partner who reveals a serious lack of care for how you feel. Maybe you would have an abortion, but that’s not something that your boyfriend gets to decide. It’s something that you get to decide. Depending on the type of relationship you have, you might want his input and, in an ideal world, you’ll have his undying support. But at the end of the day, when push comes to shove and pregnancy tests come to little plus signs, it’s your body. That he’d assume you’d go the aborsh route calls for a little summit — why does he think you’d go for that? Why does he think he gets to make that call? Does he feel like you’re in this together? Do you feel like you’re in this together?
Dr. Date Dr. Date, I have a problem. I cheated on my boyfriend last weekend. He was on vacation with his family, and me and my girlfriends went out drinking. One thing led to another, and I wound up at this guy’s apartment. I felt terrible in the morning, but I don’t know what to do. Should I tell my boyfriend or just make sure it never happens again?
— Unfaithful
Faith Hell, Aw heck. You should tell him that you cheated on him. If you want to add, “But if you stay with me, I’ll make sure it never happens again,” feel free. But you owe him the truth — honesty is the bedrock of any good relationship. If you don’t have it there, you might as well not have a relationship. Just try to imagine if he cheated on you — wouldn’t you want to know?
Dr. Date Dr. Date, My girlfriend and I have been dating for about two years, and it’s been great. But there’s one problem. I think things are starting to get a little stale in the bedroom. When we’re getting hot and heavy, it’s just not the same anymore. The passion isn’t there. I don’t know what to do. We love being together, but I think we both know the fireworks have been brighter in the bedroom. Do you have any tips so I can rekindle our passion?
— Lost Lust Lust and Found, Baaaaabe! I got ya. Here are five things that might be effective. Let me know if you want more: 1. Do it in the car: The cramped spaces, the sweaty faces … You’ll be so psyched to get back in a comfortable bed together, you won’t even care how bland the sex is when you get there. 2. Role play: It’s not just for 40-year-olds! 3. Watch porn together: Snuggle up, crack a bottle of wine, pop some corn. And porn. 4. Bring food into the mix: A little chocolate syrup in the kitchen never hurt anyone. 5. Get rough with each other: In a consensual, safe, mutually understood way, duh. Happy trails, bud.
Dr. Date
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Carjacking leads to wave of arrests Later that night, police dispersed a crowd of hundreds at the Dinkytown McDonalds. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
A carjacking outside the University of Minnesota Armory led to a string of arrests on and around campus early Saturday morning. Three men were driving on Church Street Southeast when someone threw a can at their car. The driver rolled down his window, and a group of eight to 12 people pulled him and the passen-
gers out, beating them and stealing their car, according to University Police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner. As of Tuesday, only one man suspected in the carjacking had been arrested. Miner said no one involved was affiliated with the University, which illustrates a larger trend of more outsiders committing crimes on campus. Two of the victims were treated at the scene for bruises and welts on their heads, Miner said. They declined to comment for this story. At least three people drove off in the victims’ vehicle, but only one man was in the car when police approached it
about a block away from the scene. He took off running but was later arrested when another officer found him. One officer who responded to the carjacking call saw about five people running from the scene, according to a police report. He later found three people inside a construction site on Union Street Southeast. The carjacking victims told police the three suspects from the construction site weren’t the ones who stole their car, so police let two go. But one of them had three misdemeanor warrants out for his arrest and was booked in jail. Deputy Chief Chuck Min-
er said he can’t remember the last time he heard of a carjacking on campus. “This is very unique,” he said, “to have somebody’s car stolen while they’re driving it.”
Chaos at McDonald’s About two hours after the carjacking, police responded to a disturbance call at the Dinkytown McDonald’s. People were fighting in the parking lot, and a crowd of several hundred had gathered, according to a police report. An of ficer responding to the scene approached a man at the restaurant who matched the description of the carjacker who had es-
caped police earlier in the night. After the man refused to talk, the officer pinned him to a fence to restrain him, according to the police report. About 50 people outside the restaurant surrounded the officer and started shouting at him, so another officer started firing pepper balls at the ground to disperse them. The of ficer eventually pinned the shirtless suspect to the ground. A University student, who wished to stay anonymous, approached police at the scene and questioned their tactics with the man. Police asked the student to leave but he refused. Police sprayed the student in
the face with pepper spray, according to the repor t. When he refused to go and moved towards police, an officer shot pepper balls, striking his feet and chest. They eventually arrested him for obstructing the legal process. Miner said University police use pepper balls about once every two months. “It’s an ef fective tool when of ficers are dealing with a large crowd,” he said. The man police were restraining had a blood alcohol content almost three times the legal limit. He was arrested for underage consumption.
Two University students issued warnings for alleged sexual activity at Bell Museum Also, a University student helped police catch vandals on Sunday. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
Two University of Minnesota students were warned for trespassing after being caught without their clothes on in a darkened auditorium of the Bell Museum of Natural History early last week. A children’s science camp leader found the students “engaged in sexual activity,” according to a University police report. The students quickly dressed and left the building, but they returned about 15 minutes later to retrieve a phone and watch they’d left behind. Police issued the students warnings, so they can be cited or arrested for trespassing if they return to the
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museum within a certain period of time. University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said most trespass warnings last for one year but couldn’t say the specifics for these students. He said the police could only issue warnings because nobody saw the students in the act. Around 4 p.m., the camp leader found underwear and a condom wrapper on the floor of the museum, according to the police report. She told the students to leave while another camp leader distracted the children. Police came to the museum to take a report and
inventor y the phone and watch. They spoke with the students, who had then returned to collect their belongings. The report said both students appeared nervous. The man, 21, told police he and his girlfriend were “exploring the University.” The woman, 18, said she was unaware children were in the building. The camp leader and one of the students involved declined to comment for this stor y. The other student couldn’t be reached. Miner said reports like this are fairly rare, especially in the middle of the day.
Student helps police catch vandals
On Sunday morning, a University student found three men inside a vacant house on 15th Avenue Southeast, breaking windows and kicking walls. Political science senior Stephen Meyer said he was
walking home with friends when he heard glass breaking. He walked onto the porch and first thought the men inside were fighting. “There was glass everywhere,” he said. “A landlord would be very pissed if they saw this.” Meyer called police and trailed the suspects for about a block until police arrived and arrested them for burglary, according to a Minneapolis police report. He said the men were “most definitely” intoxicated. “It was probably just three guys who were drunk [and] didn’t really realize the consequences of their actions,” Meyer said. Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said police don’t know for sure if the men were intoxicated. Palmer said it’s up to the Hennepin County Attorney to decide whether to also charge them with vandalism or destruction of property.
OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: When: Where: Info:
Underage drinking Friday TCF Bank Stadium Police got a call about four men urinating on a stadium pillar. They later found the suspects, who admitted to the crime. All four were cited for underage drinking. Police action: Case closed. Crime: When: Where: Info:
Laptop Theft Friday-Saturday 25th Ave SE and 4th St SE Victim parked her car on the street overnight. Suspect broke a car window and stole a backpack and laptop. The victim later got the backpack from a man who said he found it in an alley near his home. Police action: Active case. Crime: When: Where: Info:
Misdemeanor warrant Sunday 15th Ave SE and 4th St SE Police found a drunk man sleeping on the sidewalk. They booked him in jail after finding out he had a misdemeanor warrant out for his arrest. Police action: Case closed. Crime: When: Where: Info:
Disorderly conduct Thursday Outside Sally’s Saloon and Eatery Two women were having a loud argument. Police arrested one woman when she attempted to attack the other. Police action: Case closed. SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD