Identity in three parts A series of plays about Indian heritage hits Mixed Blood Theatre this month. u See PAGE 14
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Shutdown threatens U research Federal workers who review grant applications have been furloughed. BY ALEX CHHITH achhith@mndaily.com
Because of the U.S. government shutdown, federal funding for new research at the University of Minnesota could be at risk. With application deadlines fast approaching, the process for federally funded research grants at the University is inactive, though of ficials are confident accommodations will be made to fill funding gaps.
According to a statement from Brian Herman, the University’s vice president for research, new grant awards are expected to be delayed during the shutdown, but the University will help “bridge shortterm gaps in funding.” The government shutdown began Oct. 1 after legislators were unable to pass a budget resolution with an amendment added by Republicans in the House of Representatives that would delay implementation of the Affordable Care Act. Because nearly 800,000 u See GRANT Page 4 Research grants already awarded likely won’t be disrupted.
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Students try out for the Minnesota Quidditch team on Sunday at the East River Flats. The teams play both intramural and regional competitions each year.
After the end of “Harry Potter,” the U’s Quidditch league is thriving. BY ANNIE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com
City planners teach the basics BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com
Emma Weiss remembers a different landscape in neighbor hoods surrounding the University of Minnesota. Chain-link fences and constr uction company signs now line str eets where familiar shops and businesses stood two years ago when she was an undergraduate. As the neighborhood has changed, community
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evolved past just a shared interest in the series — they see it as a competitive
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members have expressed concern. The city is now helping residents to understand what action they can take. Approximately 40 community and neighborhood leaders attended a land use training session Tuesday, hosted by the MarcyHolmes Neighborhood Association and the University District Alliance. Minneapolis city planners Haila Maze and Jason W ittenberg explained a number of planning terms, like the dif ferences between a variance and a conditional use permit, while u See PLANNING Page 4 Planners will lead another session at the end of the month.
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Artists prep sights, smells and screams The Soap Factory is turning its basement into a den of terror for the seventh year. BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com
The Soap Factory’s staff and volunteers swear the basement is haunted. Over the years, they’ve brought in local paranormal investigators who have confirmed their suspicions using readings and recordings. “Whether or not you believe it, we have so many stories to support it,” company and stage manager Birdie Freitag said. These stories include inexplicable childsize footprints, creeping shadows and falling light fixtures. The Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement is now in its seventh year, and this time around it’s trying a new approach. In the past, local ar tists would submit ideas for rooms, which would then be CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Makeup designer Kristen Leigh and makeup artist Amanda Allery paint costume designer Alli Olwell’s face for a rehearsal of the Soap Factory’s Haunted Basement on Sunday evening.
u See SOAP FACTORY Page 12 When artists bought the factory in 1998, the basement was full of creepy, abandoned equipment.
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Students seek marrow donors A student group is clearing up misconceptions about donating bone marrow. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota student Carl Johnson joined the national bone marrow donor registry in 2008 when he was serving in the U.S. Navy. Three years later, he learned he was a perfect match for a 50-year-old man with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in Finland. Because Johnson donated his marrow, the Finnish man is now 90 percent recovered. Johnson, an economics junior, is now working with the 1-year-old University student group Be the Match on Campus to u See MARROW Page 7 Patients of color are less likely to find a match than white patients.
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TRIPOLI, Libya — An armed mob broke into the Russian Embassy compound in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Wednesday, climbing over walls, breaking down a metal gate and shooting in the air. One of the attackers was killed by the gunfire, and four more were wounded, Libyan officials said. The Russian Foreign Ministr y confirmed the attack and said none of the embassy staff was wounded. Libyan officials said they believed the break-in was in response to the death of a Libyan air force pilot, who they said was killed by a Russian woman. Wednesday’s violence briefly raised fears of a repeat of last year’s deadly attack on a U.S. compound in the eastern city of Benghazi, in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed. In that instance, on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attack, militants fired mortars at the consulate, surrounded it and set it on fire. The Libyan official said Wednesday’s attackers took down the Russian flag that was hanging from the balcony of one of the buildings. Russia’s Foreign Ministry Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Ekho Moskvy radio that according to preliminar y information no one among the embassy personnel was wounded. The attackers were apparently reacting to the killing of a Libyan air force pilot Tuesday. Libyan authorities arrested a Russian woman and accused her of killing him and writing offensive graffiti in his blood. The woman also is accused of stabbing and wounding the pilot’s mother.
PARIS — A French court on Wednesday rejected claims that police identity checks on 13 people from minority groups were racist, saying officers didn’t overstep any legal boundaries. The decision upended an unusual bid to rein in law enforcement officers often accused of racial profiling. The verdict followed a one-day trial in July billed as the first of its kind in France, and a sign that long-silent minorities are increasingly finding their voice. Lawyers for the plaintiffs pledged to appeal — up to the European Court of Human Rights if need be. The French ruling comes amid a public furor over stop and frisk policies of the New York Police Department. But in that case, being closely watched here, a judge has ruled against NYPD practices said to discriminate against blacks and Hispanics. Anti-racism groups say that non-white French — particularly blacks or those of Arab origin — face routine discrimination that diminishes their chances of finding jobs, getting into nightclubs and carving out a place for themselves in mainstream society. Such discrimination, they contend, also subjects minorities to humiliating public identity checks. The plaintiffs — who range from students to delivery personnel — sought $13,000 each in the case. Their lawyers also wanted changes in the law that would require police to provide written reports of ID checks and spell out “objective grounds” for conducting the checks. “The most obvious consequence (of the decision) is that police in this country... have the right to discriminate,” lawyer Slim Ben Achour said afterward. “There is a blank check for police to continue these practices.” The court upheld the state’s argument that the ID checks aren’t illegal under French law.
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Need grows to fix insurance exchanges BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The pressure is on for the federal gover nment and states r unning their own health insurance exchanges to get the systems up and running after overloaded websites and jammed phone lines frustrated consumers for a second day as they tried to sign up for coverage using the new marketplaces. In some ways, the delays that persisted Wednesday wer e good news for President Barack Obama and suppor ters of his signature domestic policy achievement because the holdups showed what appeared to be exceptionally high interest in
the overhauled insurance system. But if the glitches aren’t fixed quickly, they could dampen enthusiasm for the law at the same time Republicans are using it as a rallying cr y to keep most of the federal government closed. “It was worse today than it was yesterday,” Denise Rathman of Des Moines said after she tried for a second day to log onto the Iowa site. Rathman has insurance through Dec. 31 but said she is eager to sign up for a policy because of her psoriatic ar thritis, which has caused her to be denied insurance in the past. David Berge, a pastor with two young children in Shoreview, Minn., tried
unsuccessfully at least 10 times to create an online account on the state-r un site MNsure. His highdeductible plan expires at the end of the year. “I’m anxious to see what the insurance is going to look like for my family at the beginning of the year,” Berge said. “That’s a big unknown right now. I want to figure that out as soon as possible so we can begin planning.” In California, home to 15 percent of the nation’s uninsured, officials pulled the enrollment por tion of the Covered California site down over night for emergency upgrades. It was restored midmorning Wednesday, and 7,770 people had started applications
by then, spokesman Roy Kennedy said. Califor nia is one of a handful of mostly Democratic states that opted to set up their own exchanges rather than let the federal government do it for them. In the 36 states being operated by the federal Department of Health and Human Ser vices, consumer patience was still being tested. Agency spokeswoman Joanne Peters said many Americans successfully enrolled on the first day, but she declined to put a number on it. She said the delays were due to “overwhelming interest” and high volume. It’s not as if nobody war ned them. Just three months ago, the congres-
sional Gover nment Accountability Of fice said a smooth and timely rollout could not be guaranteed because the online system was still getting finishing touches and had not been fully tested. The Obama administration shr ugged of f the evaluation. The bumpy debut has the hallmarks of a technology project that may have rushed to meet the Oct. 1 deadline, said Bill Cur tis, chief scientist at CAST, a software quality analysis firm, and director of the Consor tium for IT Software Quality, which develops standards. “When you ar e in a r ush, you typically make a lot of mistakes and you
don’t have time to test them all out,” he said. High volume can also expose software flaws that were not detected in testing, Cur tis said, like the r ecur ring pr oblem consumers encountered tr ying to set up accounts on the federal site. Dropdown menus that were supposed to provide security questions did not work. The depar tment issued sur vival tips for aggravated consumers after 4.7 million unique visitors logged in to the healthcare.gov website on Tuesday. As new health insurance markets went live around the countr y, the federal call center also received 190,000 calls.
For the love of the game, U Quidditch still popular Quidditch u from Page 1
Taylor Zastrow, president of the Quidditch student group, said membership for both teams has grown every year. Though most gr oup members were “Harry Potter” fans when the team star ted, she said, some players on this year’s roster aren’t familiar with the series at all. “There are quite a few people that just decided
to pick it up because they thought it looked fun or interesting,” she said. “Loving ‘Harry Potter’ isn’t necessarily required anymore.” Leah Vogel has played Quidditch since the league began and said the books and movies are rarely mentioned at practices anymore. “I would say a good chunk of people here aren’t even ‘Harr y Potter’ fans,” she said. Biology, science and environment sophomore Anders Bell said he isn’t a su-
per-fan, but Quidditch “has an appeal beyond ‘Harr y Potter.’ ” Quidditch’s charm lies in the competitive aspect, group members said, which overpowers the wands and capes. Some players said they consider the game and series to be almost entirely separate. “It’s a lot more difficult than people think it is,” team spokeswoman Kayla Millard said. “We tr y to actually separate it a little bit so that non-‘Harr y Potter’ fans … can still come and
play.” For many newcomers, the spirit of “Har r y Potter” is still alive and well. Chicken ‘n’ Quaf fles, a new intramural team, is full of self-professed diehard fans. Theater and music freshman Bradley Prom said Quidditch has survived the end of the “Harr y Potter” series because there are still students who want to immerse themselves in the stor y. “It’s something that wouldn’t actually occur
in real life,” he said, “but then we found a way to somehow do it.” “Some people definitely do it for more than nostalgia,” biology sophomore and league member Ben Spokely said. “Most people are a mix of boththey’re ‘Harr y Potter’ fans but not fanatics.” In Febr uar y, the University will host eight teams from around the Midwest for a tournament. “We wanted to show people around the region that we’re a really strong
team, not just in our players but in our organization,” Zastrow said. Though Zastrow and many of the other original players will graduate this spring, the team will continue on. “I know that people in the community across the United States don’t necessarily equate Quidditch with ‘Harr y Potter’ anymore because it’s not necessar y,” she said. “Because there’s so many people who appreciate it just for the sport that it is.”
Shutdown threatens federally funded University research Grant u from Page 1
federal gover nment employees have been furloughed — put on temporar y, unpaid leave — many government agencies are closed or operating with minimal staff. Applications for federal research grants are usually reviewed by a panel of federal workers. But those workers have been
furloughed, halting the process for obtaining new funding. Researchers are particularly concerned about an Oct. 5 deadline passing without federal gover nment agencies — specifically The National Institutes of Health, which is the University’s largest federal funder — being active and able to process applications. Associate pharmaceutics professor Jayanth Panyam said Oct. 5 is one of
three deadlines throughout the year for his colleagues’ grant proposals to be accepted, and he’s hoping for a grace period and more flexibility. Pamela Webb, the University’s associate vice president for research, said because the shutdown came without warning and researchers didn’t have time to make arrangements, federal funding agencies may accept funding proposals after deadlines.
A University statement r eleased T uesday said University of ficials have been working with federal agencies and University researchers to prepare for the shutdown and are monitoring the situation closely. Webb said the longer the shutdown lasts, the stronger the effects at the University will be. “It absolutely is the case that, sooner or later, it will hit most of our federal portfolio,” she said.
Each month, the federal gover nment awards the University about $53 million in research grants, according to the statement from Herman. Research grants that have already been awarded won’t be disr upted, accor ding to Her man’s statement. The University must continue to submit research repor ts and updates to the federal gover nment in order to receive those funds. But Panyam said if the
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shutdown continues for longer than a few days, there’s a chance that grants that have already been awarded could be reduced. And with uncer tainty about when the shutdown will end, it’s unclear how research will continue. “How do you pay the graduate students, and ho w wo u l d the g rad u ate students do their resear ch?” Panyam said. “This is going to af fect all of us.”
HOW THE CITY APPROVES A DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPER MUST HAVE PRELIMINARY CITY STAFF MEETING AND NOTIFY NEIGHBORHOOD OF DEVELOPMENT
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Ashraf (AJ) Siddiqui of the West Bank Commission Coalition asks a question at a land use training workshop at the Argyle House on Tuesday. The University District Alliance and Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association co-hosted the event to educate community members about building and city development.
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fielding questions about zoning codes and site plan reviews. W ittenberg said residents can voice their opinions on development via three avenues: joining neighborhood organizations, submitting written feedback to the city and attending public hearings. “The city is growing at an incredible rate right n o w, a n d p a r t i c u l a r l y around the University,” Wittenberg said. The next community training will take place
Oct. 29 and focus on “engaging with developers.” Since Weiss’ graduation, many new buildings have sprouted up around the University, and more are on the way. Weiss, now a graduate student, said she attended the training because she doesn’t quite understand how the whole development process works and wanted to learn more. “The neighborhood’s health is impor tant, and I’m not really sure what all this will mean for the neighborhood,” she said. U D A C h a i r m a n Te d Tucker said the training taught attendees the “official” way they should respond to development.
“This is just the facts of how things work,” he said. “This is not a plan to stop things from happening; this is a meeting to manage them.” Developers are buying up land to capitalize on a housing gap, which Maze said widened after the city loosened the approval process during the recession. With a fruitful market in place, a bombardment of student housing has taken the community of f guard, and it’s trying to catch up. “Ideally, this would have happened some time ago, but ever ybody was r unning fast to keep up with … development,” Tucker said. “[There’s] no time like
the present to improve the ability of neighborhoods to assess projects that come before them.” Much of the information session centered on developers and their relationship with the city, which approves their projects and the neighborhoods, where they build. Maze said the city receives emails from bewildered citizens wondering how the process works. “Some people think we can regulate ever ything. Some people say, ‘Oh, you let the developers do whatever they want.’ I like to think it’s somewhere in between,” Maze said. Tucker said community members have a tendency
CITY GRANTS CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY *could be 10-15 days longer if project is subject to Heritage Preservation Commission review SOURCE: HAILA MAZE, CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS
to voice objections on issues the city can’t control. The city can’t tell people not to park on the street in front of someone’s house, for instance, unless it’s in city code, he said. “But there are things that are up for discussion,” Tucker said. “[This training will] be emphasizing where you can have some ef fect and where your arguments will make some sense to the decision-makers.” T ucker, who is also the president of the city’s planning commission, said specific facts and data are welcome at hearings, but
personal attacks aimed at private builders are not. “Don’t come to us and say, ‘I don’t like the developer, he’s no good,’ ” Tucker said. “That’s not an argument. We don’t want to hear that; we want to hear about the project.” Weiss was the only University student at the free session Tuesday. She said she lived in Marcy-Holmes previously and she’s concer ned about the area’s well-being. “I’m not sure how well it was adver tised to the student population, but I would like to see more of them here,” Weiss said.
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U research predicts overfishing threats Commercial overfishing has endangered about 60 percent of fish. BY KATELYN FAULKS kfaulks@mndaily.com
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Minneapolis resident Otis Chappell, catch and release fisherman, on Monday at Lake Calhoun.
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The index is applicable for any multispecies fishery, Burgess said, but doesn’t yet apply to recreational fishing in Minnesota. Minnesota Department of Natural Resources senior fisheries specialist Jim Levitt said it’s hard to know the future effect fishing will have on a population. “It would always be nice to know the fish population when you’re assessing them,” he said. “There’s a lot of variables, so sometimes it’s hard to know until you’re looking backwards what’s going on.” If a threat index is created specifically for Minnesota lakes, he said, it could be worthwhile. But overfishing isn’t currently a huge problem in the state. Minnesota commercial fishermen are only licensed to catch invasive species like
carp, buffalo and bullhead, said Jeff Riedemann, president of the Minnesota Inland Commercial Fisherman’s Association. “Basically … they want us to get rid of them,” commercial fisherman Kenneth Seemann said. Burgess said his index could apply to commercial fishing in the state if they fished more species. He is also developing a second index that could predict the decline of one species at a time, instead of finding the threat level for all of the fish caught. If he succeeds, the eventual threat index could be useful for a broader range of fisheries, he said. C u r r e n t l y, B u r g e s s said, his team is calculating and indexing the eventual threats for more than 500 fish species.
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their populations decline at different rates, said applied economics professor Stephen Polasky, who advised Burgess on the study. “If you have multiple fish species and you have a species that is really common and comes back quickly, you can keep fishing that species,” he said. “But you’re catching the other ones and they could go extinct.” Ocean fisheries manage their populations by using special nets or by shutting down if too many endangered species are caught. Identifying overfishing threats to these species before they occur can help industries prevent closures — resulting in higher profits. “You … have time to research and develop new technology,” Burgess said, “rather than closing the fisheries.”
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University of Minnesota researchers have created a system that can predict if certain fish species will be endangered in the future, helping fishermen prevent overfishing. In a two-year study, researchers predicted the threat level of eight marine species based on their current catch and growth rates. When commercial fishermen want to catch a certain kind of fish, they inevitably catch other unwanted, less profitable types as well. Because fishermen want to maintain yellowfin tuna populations, for example, they are careful to not overfish them. But other species caught accidentally can be overfished, because fishermen don’t closely monitor whether they’re at risk. So ecology, evolution and behavior graduate student Matthew Burgess developed a way to measure the effect on those other fish. Other methods for measuring possible overfishing only identify species that are currently vulnerable. But Burgess’ “eventual threat index” can identify which species will decline in the future based on their vulnerability now. “The advantage of predicting the decline before it happens is to have time to make small changes instead of having to make a big change after the fact,” Burgess said. All the data Burgess used — dating back to the 1950s — was publicly available, and anyone can use the index he developed. The risk for overfishing is most common in the coastal fishing industry, where more than 60 percent of commercial fish are threatened. Multispecies marine fisheries have the biggest problem with overfishing because
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Eatery squeezes into Stadium Village The 450-square-foot Middle Eastern restaurant will focus on deliveries and catering. BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com
Mohamad Abdul Ahmad’s new restaurant is skeletal. It has no food yet — only the basics. The front door sat open on Tuesday as he wiped down the dusty register. As soon as he removed the last
speck of dirt, Abdul walked to the front of the restaurant and yelled, “We’re open! Come on in.” Ahmad, 66, said he plans to open his Middle Eastern restaurant, Abdul’s Afandy, this weekend at the earliest but “definitely” by next week. “I could put a sign up, but I like the mystery,” Ahmad said. The new Stadium Village restaurant is replacing the closed U of M Market, the owner of which Ahmad called a friend.
Passers-by wandered in the open door, looking for the menu’s promised falafel, hummus and shawarma. University of Minnesota economics and math junior Mohsin Almoshawer was among those who came into the store on Tuesday. “I can’t wait,” he said. At Afandy, which means “at your ser vice,” Ahmad said he’ll focus primarily on to-go orders, deliveries and catering because the approximately 450-square-foot space is “just a kitchen.” He said he signed a five-year
Minnesota man convicted of killing wife found in river BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL, Minn. — A jury Wednesday convicted a Minnesota man in the slaying of his wife, whose body was found in the Mississippi River months after she disappeared, though jurors decided he did not intend to kill her. In the second day of deliberations, the jury convicted Jeffer y Trevino on one count of second-degree unintentional murder. The St. Paul man was acquitted on a second count that alleged he intended to kill his 30-year-old wife, Kira Steger. Steger’s body was found in the river in May, more than two months after she went missing. Prosecutors alleged Trevino was angry that his wife
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increase awareness and clarify misconceptions about bone marrow donation. Although most students know about giving blood, donating bone marrow is an entirely different and largely unknown process, group president and advertising senior Greta Diers said. To join Be the Match’s national bone marrow donor registry, people only need to take a swab of their cheek cells. If someone is a potential match, a doctor will call them. Ethnicity is the No. 1 factor in determining a bone marrow match, Johnson said, so the group hopes to tap into the diverse University student body to recruit potential donors for the registry. While white patients with blood cancer have a 93 percent likelihood of finding a matching donor, Hispanic or Latino patients have a 72 percent chance, according to Be the Match data. For black patients, there’s a 66 percent likelihood. Many think marrow donation is an extremely painful process that requires a spinal tap, Johnson said, but the group is trying to tell students that isn’t the case. In bone marrow donations, donors are put under anesthesia and marrow is extracted from their pelvic
was having an af fair and wanted a divorce. The defense attorney contended the forensic evidence did not add up. Ramsey County Attorney John Choi said he was satisfied with the verdict. “The bottom line is we got the conviction. We’re ver y pleased about that,” Choi told The Associated Press. He noted the difficulty in getting a conviction in a circumstantial case. Steger was last seen alive Feb. 21. Her abandoned car was found in a parking ramp at the Mall of America, where she was co-manager of a clothing store, on Feb. 25. Bloodstains were found in the trunk, and a search of the couple’s rental home uncovered blood evidence, leading to Trevino’s arrest.
bones, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser vices. Donors normally return home the same day and feel soreness in their back for a few days to a week. For another type of marrow donation, called a peripheral blood stem cells donation, donors are given a series of shots that boost blood-forming stem cell growth. The injections can cause side effects like headaches, bone and muscle pain or nausea. After five days of the shots, donors’ blood is drawn from one arm and goes through a machine that removes the stem cells and replaces their blood back into their arm. The process usually takes four to six hours. To reorient University students’ perceptions of bone marrow donation, Be the Match members plan to go into classrooms and student group meetings to talk to small groups in person. Having just five minutes with a small group can help clear up misconceptions, Johnson said, and show students that donating is easier than they may think. “It’s a no-brainer because you are the cure for somebody else’s cancer,” Johnson said. Diers said college students are at an optimal age to donate because their cells are healthy and produce rapidly. “There’s such a huge po-
Steger’s father, Jay Steger, said he was happy with the conviction but unhappy Trevino doesn’t face more prison time. Prosecutors plan to seek the maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. “I don’t think it’s enough,” Steger, 49, of Marshfield, Wis., told the AP. “I feel no matter how much time he gets, it’s not enough because it’s not bringing my daughter back.” Defense attorney John Conrad would not say if he plans to appeal “Obviously we’re disappointed with the conviction,” Conard said. But he noted that Trevino faces about half the prison sentence he would have faced had he been convicted of second-degree intentional murder.
tential here,” she said. The group added more than 550 students to the donor registry last year, Diers said, and hopes to add 2,000 this year while fundraising $5,000 to help offset the cost of testing cheek swab samples. All of the group’s board members have their own personal reason for being in the group, she said. Diers joined because her mother needed a bone marrow transplant. Her mother had her transplant a little more than a week ago, she said, and now has a brand new immune system. “She’s starting over,” Diers said. Being involved with Be the Match on Campus, she said, makes her feel like she’s fighting alongside her mother. “For a lot of cancers, there isn’t something like that,” she said, “but for this one there is.” Group advisor Kristine Reed started working with the national Be the Match donor program — the student group’s parent organization, located in Northeast Minneapolis — after surviving a bone marrow transplant. It’s important for students to know that when they join the registry, they’re not just helping people in Minnesota, she said. “It’s not just a local impact,” she said. “It’s an international impact.”
lease and will have about 20 employees when fully operational. One couple walked in and tried to place an order, asking for the Daily Special without bread. “One order with extra bread, coming up,” Ahmad quipped back before informing them he wasn’t open yet. “I like meeting people,” he said. “I did this because of the location. I love this location and being by all the students.” Ahmad claims he opened the first Middle Eastern res-
taurant in Minnesota in 1973, and he doesn’t lack confidence when it comes to cooking ability. “I’m the best. I’m the teacher,” he said. “The line from this restaurant will go down to Walgreens [at the end of the block] all day.” Ahmad previously worked at Wally’s Falafel and Hummus in Dinkytown. Wally’s owner Wally Sakallah said he’s not worried about Afandy taking customers. “If anything, I will help him,” Banat said. “The
[restaurants] are totally dif ferent in what we are providing.” Almoshawer’s excitement was palpable because he only eats Middle Eastern food, he said. He said few Middle Easter n restaurants on campus are genuine and hopes this one will be authentic. “Anyone can make falafel and hummus, but you’ve got to make it right,” Ahmad said. “They like my food because it reminds them of home.”
U pushes grad students to teach elsewhere Most doctoral students must leave their alma mater to teach and do research. BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com
While many doctoral students aspire for faculty positions after graduation, few ever go on to become professors at their alma mater. At the University of Minnesota and nationwide, many who complete Ph.D. programs are encouraged to find work at a new school to gain a wider range of experiences. The University hires back few of its Ph.D. students as faculty — which is common for schools around the U.S., said electrical and computer engineering depar tment head David Lilja . “Dif ferent universities really have dif ferent personalities,” he said. “It’s impor tant to understand dif ferent ways of doing things.” When doctoral students are only exposed to one university’s ideologies and research, Lilja said, they haven’t experienced outside lear ning oppor tunities or alternative ways of thinking. He said University depar tments benefit from employing faculty members who come from dif ferent schools’ research backgrounds. “You want your department to have a richer diversity of thought,” he said. Histor y depar tment chair Ruth Kar ras said it can also be awkward when somebody who just received their Ph.D. is teaching in the same depar tment as the person who advised them in their program. “It’s hard to move from being somebody’s student to being their peer,” Karras said. Some students, like American studies doctoral
candidate Andrew McNally, understand the University’s rationale. While McNally said he likes being at the University, he always expected to go elsewhere after graduation. “I think going to another place after you finish your Ph.D. is definitely something that benefits your research and probably makes you a better professor,” McNally said. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, like the University and other schools nationwide, rarely hires back its doctoral graduates, said Rober t Joynt, chair of UW-Madison’s physics department. Three of 41 tenure-track faculty in his depar tment graduated from UW-Madison — a figure Joynt said reflects the competitive nature of landing a full-time faculty position. “We try to hire the best person that’s available,” Joynt said. “Our applicant pools are filled with lots of qualified candidates from around the country.” Lilja said depar tments are more likely to hire back their own doctoral students after they’ve been away from the University for some time, adding that his department typically wants doctoral program graduates to work elsewhere for four to six years before being considered for a job at the University. Chemistry professor Larr y Que, who received his doctorate from the University in 1973, was hired back at the University 10 years after graduating. In the meantime, he did post-doctoral work and taught elsewhere. “It was good for me to gain some perspective,” he said. “It’s what I tell my students, too.” While it was never his goal to come back, Que said he jumped at a full-time faculty position at the University as soon as he heard it was open. Que said he moved back because he liked living in Minnesota and the University provided him with the oppor tunity to do his
UNIVERSITY TENURED AND TENURE-TRACK FACULTY MEMBERS WHO RECEIVED THEIR PH.D. FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
2.3 percent ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
2.5 percent CHEMISTRY 5SOCIOLOGY percent 7.1 percent HISTORY 7.1 percent KINESIOLOGY SOURCE: UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT HEADS
best work. Some students, however, would rather just stay at the University without working at other institutions first. Cognitive sciences doctoral candidate Nicole Scott said she understands it’s impor tant to have learning and teaching experiences elsewhere, but moving away can be tough on multiple levels. “When I’m done here, I’ll have been here for five years,” she said. “After investing five years in a new place where you have roots, it’s tough to get up and leave. It gets tougher as you get older.” Scott also said she’s made a lot of connections at the University that she would lose if she left. “It’s tough professionally to star t over again,” she said. But for Depar tment of Sociology Chair woman Liz Boyle, it’s impor tant to spread the University’s ideas and reputation to other schools. “We don’t want to create an echo chamber where ever yone is just voicing the same ideas,” she said. “We want them to take their experiences to different audiences outside the University.”
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WOMEN’S ISSUES
Playing the paying field Gender expectations blur the lines between career paths and gender segregation.
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f you’ve seen a campus protest or listened to the president during his 2012 campaign, you’ve heard that women get paid a measly 77 cents to a man’s dollar. However, this statistic doesn’t tell the whole story, especially in terms of college-aged women. The problem with this comparison is that, in a second-wave feminism sor t of way, it implies a sexist narrative. The mind goes to a woman working the same position as a man but simply making less. However, estimates from the Census Bureau show that with adjustments for full-time status, women earned 87 percent of what men made. The rest of the difference is complicated but can start with traditionally low-paying majors women choose in college. Even women that graduate with typically highpaying degrees more often
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than not opt for a less lucrative career. Two professors researching gender segregation studied more than 1,200 women and men who graduated from elite MBA programs. They concluded that women were more likely to seek jobs with higher degrees of life satisfaction and higher percentages of female employees. The research demonstrated that women perceived gender roles in male-centric work environments, such as investment banking, which caused them not to apply. The impor tant takeaway here is women chose a lesslucrative career path based on personal and ethical values — and this extends to degrees. As NPR’s Lisa Chow pointed out last month, wom-
en make up a majority of the least-lucrative majors. Chow gave up an estimated $3 or $4 million in order to pursue mass communication, despite her MBA. The problem of women earning less has two sides. Many women choose lesslucrative majors and career paths, in par t due to professional gratification. But women are also avoiding male-centric positions, such as science, technology, engineering and math fields. The median star ting salar y for an engineering major ($55,000) versus an arts major ($30,000) begins to explain a gendered dif ference in income. Women who choose the “ar ts” path may prefer raising a family over a larger paycheck. They may value emotional gratification regardless of money. The choices these women made raise a question with a blurr y answer: Are women choosing lower-income paths because of gender expectations or simply out of desire? I was always heavily pressured to declare a tradition-
DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 114,836- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,374 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN
ally lucrative major. My parents deemed STEM majors superior over a humanities degree. My experience in communications classes gave me insight into the gender makeup of various majors. While pursuing STEM courses, I witnessed a larger male-tofemale ratio. Parental pressures have weighed heavily throughout my undergraduate experience. My interests have always been more creative. When I chose to switch my major to communications, I went with my instincts and passions. I never made a list of pros and cons inwhich I ranked the importance of the thickness of my paycheck. In an inter view with Chow, economist Anthony Car nevale said oftentimes passion for work tr umps money and skills. Ultimately, the field a student excels in and becomes passionate about is the best fit for them. Aditi Pradeep welcomes comments at apradeep@mndaily.com.
DEVELOPMENT
To build Dinkytown, start in the trenches The underused rail trench could be the least controversial area to grow Dinkytown, despite the cost.
C Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.
GUEST COLUMN Poor college students: Discern between the fad and the reality “How many of you must have a job while in college?” my professor asked on the first day of class. To be honest, I thought the question was unnecessary; certainly every hand would be raised, save for a particularly well-off student or two. As I lifted my arm, though, I was shocked to find only one-third of the class doing the same. With complaints of tuition expenses and incessant remarks about being a “poor college student” running rampant, it’s hard to believe there are so many students who don’t need a job. In fact, being a poor college student has become the new vogue. Rather than bonding over the rigor of academia, we share stories of empty bank accounts. It is no surprise that I was confused about the lack of raised hands, then. If we’re all talking about money — or lack thereof — how are some of us free to be unemployed? That is not a rhetorical question. Frequently, the answer is “because my parents pay for it.” This is where the divide between faddish college poverty and reality begins. Growing up, I went to the food shelf more than the grocery store. If I wanted to go to college, which I did, I
would have to pay for it completely on my own. I attended a community college because I could get a degree online — necessary for someone with a full-time job. And frankly, I’m not the only one; this is a vital schedule for many students. This is not to dismiss the struggles that middle-class students go through. College costs are rising every year, and the only viable solution seems to be taking out more student loans — not a far cry from selling our souls. It is undoubtedly jarring to go from a comfortable life to one in which the burden of expense is a personal responsibility. Hardships in life are relative, as anyone who has uttered the phrase “first-world problems” can attest to, but the primary benefit of being middle-class is the safety net — often in the form of parents. However, when the label of “poor college student” is assigned to ever y college student, those who are truly struggling are treated less seriously. We assume that all students who complain about money have that safety net made of cash held by their parents, just waiting to catch them. Yet, when a genuinely impoverished student worries about paying rent, it is not something to be taken lightly, because they could ultimately be evicted. And it’s not just
rent and tuition college students are stressed about. We have Internet bills, groceries, pet expenses, insurance, medicine and even the occasional trip to Starbucks to pay for. This is no small feat for any student. As a student who grew up fluctuating between poverty and the working class, it is unsettling when everyone assumes college students are middle-class. During college we fall into the mentality that we’re in the same boat. The reality, however, consists of one group sinking with the Titanic while the others float away on lifeboats — a rocky trip, no doubt, but safe. I hate to generalize, as there are many degrees between lower and middle class, after all, but when the experiences of a few become the truth for all, it can be incredibly polarizing — particularly for the minority. There is not an easy solution for this situation, but I hope that by sharing our stories we can try to answer the question: What does it really mean to be a poor college student? Perhaps we can even swap some ramen recipes along the way. Aprill Emig This column appeared in The Statesman of the University of Minnesota-Duluth on Sept. 13. Comments should be sent to letters@mndaily.com.
hange is happening in Dinkytown, whether we like it or not. Some opposed to new construction projects argue developers are building without blinking, whereby destroying the character of the famed commercial sector. So, is there a better location for development to meet this large near-campus housing demand? The Dinkytown Trench, an otherwise forgotten stretch of land cutting through the heart of the neighborhood, is a perfect place to start. Originally built as a railroad bypass from campus, and recently used for the Dinkytown Greenway bike trail, the ditch eats up valuable land that could other wise be used as a base for retail and housing. If extraneous costs were a nonfactor, developers would have the opportunity to build something that caters to all interests without replacing local character. A shop like the Midtown Greenway’s Freewheel Bike Center could attach to the new Dinkytown trail. Developers could build an under-bridge parking garage complementary with street-level retail and above-ground housing. To add to the project, the railway’s gravel ser vice road could be used for a future streetcar line, reducing travel time along University Avenue and Fourth Street Southeast. The existing character of Dinkytown could be salvaged while growing the local population and businesses of the area. However, BNSF Railway still owns much of the ditch. Although a nice idea, costs and negotiating ef for ts with the railway company might be the ultimate non-starter for future development. The rail track is still used for coal deliver y to the University of Minnesota’s power plant, which could prove an impasse in acquiring the land. After all, the City of Minneapolis attempted to acquire the railway parcels before settling with the University to build the bike trail on its property. At the same time, the City considered a plan to build a truck bypass route in the Trench, called the Granar y Corridor. The Corridor might occupy all developable land and squander an opportunity for unique growth. However, if the stars align, developers should take note and create something unique to add to, not replace, the Dinkytown story. Chris Iverson welcomes comments at civerson@mndaily.com.
Don’t opt out of MNsure In the information war surrounding the health care law, students should educate themselves.
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Nsure, Minnesota’s online health care marketplace, launched Tuesday. Like 15 other state-created exchanges, MNsure feeds into a federal insurance marketplace, and together they make up a key component of the Affordable Care Act, sometimes called Obamacare. A boon to students, these exchanges allow the uninsured to compare and shop for coverage. MNsure will also boast the lowest premium rates in the nation, according to research from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Minnesota Department of Commerce. More than 900,000 Minnesotans are expected to use the exchange in its first year, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday. Coverage for plans purchased on MNsure will begin Jan. 1. The health care exchanges that went live Tuesday are the first of their kind. In order to be successful, a wide variety of users need to enroll. In the lead-up to the marketplace launch, several groups have emerged, reaching out to college students and encouraging them to “#OptOut” of the exchanges. One ad by the Koch brothers-funded organization Generation Opportunity shows Uncle Sam preparing to perform a pap smear with the tagline “don’t let government play doctor.” The GOP has also echoed these calls to avoid the exchanges. Rep. Nick Zerwas, R-Elk River, told the Minnesota Daily on Tuesday that since many students are already healthy, costs of coverage through MNsure outweigh the benefits. These groups and many politicians claim they want to save students money and protect their private information. However, most of them seek to defund the federal marketplace by keeping younger, healthier people away. Amid the information war surrounding the health care law, uninsured students should take time to weigh their options on MNsure and get themselves covered. There’s no rush to buy, either; penalties don’t kick in until March 31.
New policies after Penn State Universities should ensure new preventative policies are meaningful and do not harm quality education.
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n the wake of the 2011 sex-abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, a former football coach at Penn State University, several states’ governments and universities nationwide have enacted new laws and policies in the hope of preventing similar gross transgressions on their campuses. Large universities, which are unable to closely monitor every aspect of campus life, are right to display concern about the safety of their students and local communities. The multiple oversight collapses that happened at Penn State — largely at the athletics level — are a driving force behind new policies. The University of Kansas rewrote its bylaws to heighten the consequences for employees who fail to report sex crimes — these employees may now be fired as a result. Similarly, the University of Mississippi created a new policy that prohibits anyone 18 or older from having one-on-one contact with minors. It’s vital that universities and state lawmakers use the lessons learned from the Penn State scandal to prevent similar tragedies from happening again. The changes some schools have made are a good step in improving the safety of students and others. However, it is also important to remember that Jerry Sandusky, a despicable individual, is just that — an individual — and reactionary policies, though some may be effective, can have unintended consequences. As they justifiably implement new protective policies, university administrators nationwide should ensure that the quality of education, as well as the benefits of school-sponsored children’s camps, is not inhibited by new policies. Try though they might, retrospective statutes cannot erase the crimes of one man, nor can they completely shield the public from the crimes of another.
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Gophers prep for trip to the Big House Minnesota needs to bounce back this weekend against No. 19 Michigan. BY JACK SATZINGER Jsatzinger@mndaily.com
Minnesota played host to Michigan last year in front of an announced crowed of 48,801 and lost 35-13. This season, the Gophers will play in front of a crowd more than twice that size at Michigan Stadium. It’s nicknamed “The Big House” for good reason – the stadium held an announced crowd of 115,109 earlier this year in a game against Notre Dame. It holds more fans than any other football stadium in the country. Michigan is ranked 19th in the Associated Press Top 25 poll this year and leads the Gophers 72-24 in headto-head games. Still, the Gophers are trying not to let any of that get to them. “You can’t worr y about what it says on the side of the helmet all the time,” head coach Jerry Kill said. “You’ve got to learn as a player to control what you can control, and that’s play well.” The Gophers didn’t play well last week against Iowa and were outworked up front on the line of scrimmage. Kill said the team prepared adequately for the rivalry game against Iowa but let the excitement of playing a big game get to them. It was homecoming. Iowa was in town. TCF Bank Stadium was sold out. And Minnesota was out of sorts. “I think they were so excited about playing with a great crowd that we played … out of control,” Kill said. “We’ve got to take care of us and play within ourselves. We know we’re better than [how] we played on Saturday.” It’s easy for a young team to play out of control in a big game, and against Iowa, that’s exactly what the Gophers did. Minnesota will look to reverse that on the road this weekend. Some upperclassmen on the team played at “The Big House” two years ago when the Gophers lost 58-0 and admitted to being in awe of its size. “I was a freshman when I first saw ‘The Big House,’
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Minnesota safety Cedric Thompson tackles San Jose State wide receiver Chandler Jones on Sept. 21 at TCF Bank Stadium.
so it was definitely shocking to me,” junior safety Cedric Thompson said. “At the end of the day, it’s just the same game.”
Owning their identity
In Saturday’s loss to Iowa, Minnesota only rushed for 30 yards on 27 attempts — a contrast from the nonconference schedule, when the Gophers dominated on the ground. Minnesota is still averaging nearly 232 rushing yards per game. Redshir t sophomor e center Jon Christenson said technique was one reason the team struggled to run the ball against Iowa. He said the Hawkeyes’ defensive linemen were able to control Minnesota’s offensive linemen with their hands. Christenson said the team has learned how to fix that after watching film this week. The Gophers desperately need to get back to dominating on the ground
this week against Michigan. “We really are tr ying to create an identity,” Christensen said. “We’re a running team. … We play power football, and we love that. That’s a lot of fun for an offensive lineman.” Another factor that could have hindered Minnesota’s r unning game Saturday was the loss of redshirt senior fullback Mike Henry to injury. Christensen said Henr y is an incredible blocker and having a good lead blocker is pivotal for running backs. Kill said Henr y’s absence hurt Minnesota’s offense because it forced the Gophers to move different players into the backfield. Maxx Williams was one of those players, as he shifted from his tight end spot to fill the void at fullback that Henr y left. Williams has emerged as one of Minnesota’s best receivers as a redshir t freshman. Williams has multiple catches of 20-plus yards but hasn’t caught a pass since the
Sept. 14 game against Western Illinois. “Until somebody’s gone, you never know how much you miss him,” Kill said of Henr y. “We had to move people around because of his injury. … I think it hurt us.” Henr y’s status for the game at Michigan is uncertain.
11 on 11 Michigan might fill its stadium with more than 100,000 fans Saturday, but on the field, it’s 11 Gophers against 11 Wolverines. Kill said his team won’t focus on the grandeur that comes with going up against one of college football’s powerhouses. Minnesota hasn’t beaten Michigan since 2005 and hasn’t registered a win over a top-25 opponent since 2010. Still, the Gophers don’t care about rankings and right now are just worried about themselves. “I don’t look at rankings,” Thompson said. “There are
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MINNESOTA: The Gophers will look to bounce back after a disappointing 23-7 loss to Iowa last week. The team had its worst offensive performance of the season and looked completely overmatched at the line of scrimmage. The Gophers have lost 21 of their past 22 games against Michigan, including a 35-13 loss last season at TCF Bank Stadium. The team last beat Michigan in 2005, when a 61-yard run by Gary Russell set up a game-winning field goal. The winner of the matchup wins the Little Brown Jug, a five-gallon earthenware water jug that symbolizes the historic MichiganMinnesota rivalry. MICHIGAN: The No. 19 Wolverines are undefeated, but they have not been perfect. The team needed a goal-line stand to beat an inferior Akron team, and it squeaked past a winless Connecticut team Sept. 21. Michigan redshirt junior quarterback Devin Gardner leads the Wolverines with 12 touchdowns this season. He completed 12 of 18 passes for 234 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for another touchdown last year against Minnesota. Michigan had a bye last week and has won its last eight Big Ten openers. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
11 guys who … are talented just like we are. …They’re guys just like us.”
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Minnesota attempts to take back Little Brown Jug The Gophers have not won the Little Brown Jug trophy in nearly a decade. BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com
Cedric Thompson said he didn’t know anything about Gophers football — much less the Little Brown Jug — until Minnesota recruited him. “I had no idea that we had four trophy games,” said Thompson, a California native. “I had no idea that we could go to the Rose Bowl.” Minnesota has a chance to win the Little Brown Jug this weekend against Michigan. The Little Brown Jug trophy originated in 1903 after the Gophers hosted a powerhouse Michigan squad. After Minnesota tied the score at 6-6 late in the second half, fans stormed the field, and the game had to be called with two minutes left on the clock. Amid the chaos, Michigan left its ear thenware water jug on the field. Fielding Yost, Michigan’s head coach at the time, wrote a letter to L. J. Cooke, head of Minnesota’s athlet-
ics department, asking for the jug back. Cooke was not so polite with his reply. “If you want it,” he wrote, “you’ll have to win it.” And with that, the legend of the Little Brown Jug was born. Minnesota hasn’t won the trophy since 2005, but can take it back this Saturday. That won’t be an easy task. Michigan has won 21 of its past 22 games against Minnesota. The Wolverines, 4-0 this season, beat the Gophers 35-13 last year at TCF Bank Stadium. Gophers head coach Jerr y Kill said a win over Michigan would be a “defining moment” in the rebuilding process. The Wolverines had a bye last week, after squeaking past nonconference opponents Connecticut and Akron in the weeks before. Michigan quar terback Devin Gardner leads an explosive of fense, which scored 100 points in its first two games but sputtered in its last two. Gardner made his first star t at quar terback last year against Minnesota. He dismantled the Gophers
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Michigan linebacker Kenny Demens and running back Vincent Smith carry the Little Brown Jug trophy after the Wolverines defeated Minnesota 35-13 on Nov. 3, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium.
with his arm and legs, throwing for two touchdowns and rushing for another. “I remember him just being real shifty,” Thompson
said. “He’d be in the pocket and out of nowhere, he’d just scramble.” Thompson said the team has moved on after the loss to Iowa last weekend and is
ready to rebound this weekend in its 100th matchup with Michigan. And maybe, finally return the Little Brown Jug to the place where it all started
more than 100 years ago. “We wanted that pig really bad,” Thompson said, “but then again, once we beat Michigan, that’ll be a really good feeling as well.”
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Gophers led by new faces this season Minnesota lost a handful of players to the NHL and will start fresh. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
A lot has changed in a year for the Gophers men’s hockey team. Minnesota lost five juniors to the NHL and graduated its lone senior. Then before the season even star ted, freshman Tommy Vannelli left the team, and head coach Don Lucia suspended freshman Gabe Guer tler indefinitely for violating team rules. “It’s a completely new team,” Lucia said. And to top it of f, Minnesota left the Wester n Collegiate Hockey Association and joined the new Big Ten hockey conference, along with Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State and Penn State. But the Gophers will have time to adjust with an exhibition game against Lethbridge on Saturday and about two months of nonconference action against many familiar WCHA teams. The Big Ten season finally kicks off in late November. Minnesota will need that time to complete the puzzle of a roster it has this year. Along with the departures, the Gophers welcomed seven incoming freshmen — five for wards and two defenders. They’ll also see the first action of redshirt freshman for ward Connor Reilly this year after he tore a ligament in his right knee before the start of last season. Lucia said his team was further ahead at this point last year, with all the veteran players on the roster. It’s a dif ferent stor y this year with all the new faces, and his lineup is far from solidified. “I really don’t have a clue who should play with who at this point,” Lucia said, “so we’re going to have to do a lot of moving guys around [in the] early part of this season.” Against Lethbridge,
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Minnesota goalie Adam Wilcox grabs the puck during a game against Minnesota State-Mankato on Nov. 2, 2012, at Mariucci Arena.
Lucia has the oppor tunity to dress more than 20 players. Lucia said the only exceptions will be the suspended Guer tler and junior for ward Sam Warning, who he’ll rest as a precaution after a minor injur y in practice.
“We don’t have to look for a certain player to score a big goal,” Parenteau said. “We’ve all got to be that guy this year.” JAKE PARENTEAU senior defenseman
Lucia said he will use the Lethbridge game to exercise his roster and will probably rest most of the older players after a period or so. “This is a great evalua-
tion of our younger guys — guys who we may have to look to expand their roles this upcoming season,” Lucia said. “It’s our one dr y r un. We don’t get six, seven exhibition games like the NHL.” This team may be young, but there are still some leaders remaining. Senior for ward Nate Condon and junior for ward Kyle Rau are captains this season and will anchor the Gophers’ offense. Senior defenseman Jake Parenteau said while the captains will lead the team, they won’t have all the scoring pressure. “We don’t have to look for a certain player to score a big goal,” Parenteau said. “We’ve all got to be that guy this year.” Sophomore goaltender Adam Wilcox had a breakout freshman campaign between the pipes, averaging a .921 save percentage and a 1.88 goals-against
average. Lucia said having a solid goalie in the net is comforting. “He didn’t have to make a lot of saves last year — he’ll probably see a few more pucks this year — but he made the timely save,” Lucia said. “He was ver y consistent last year, and we’re going to need that same type of per formance from him this year.” Wilcox isn’t letting last season’s successes gloss this season’s expectations. “Last year was its own stor y,” he said. “Now I’ve got to open up a new book for this season.” And last year’s book ended with a bitter ending. The Gophers tied for first in the WCHA regular season but lost to Colorado College in the conference tournament. Then the team suffered an upset loss to eventual NCAA champion Yale in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
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VS NO. 5 MINNESOTA
LETHBRIDGE
7 p.m., Saturday at Mariucci Arena
MINNESOTA: The Gophers men’s hockey team will begin its 2013-14 season this weekend with an exhibition game against Lethbridge. This will be the Gophers’ only preseason game before they start the games that count next weekend in the Ice Breaker tournament. LETHBRIDGE: The Pronghorns have already played three exhibition games on the road this season and lost all three. On Sept. 13-15, Lethbridge lost to Alberta 10-1, Regina 4-3 and Calgary 4-1. A day after playing the Gophers, the Pronghorns will travel south to play Minnesota State-Mankato. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
The Big Ten named sophomore defenseman Mike Reilly as a player to watch in the preseason and picked the Gophers to finish second to Wisconsin. Reilly said he is ready to wash last year’s sour taste from his mouth. “I was kind of disap-
pointed about last year, obviously as a team, and just how the ending went for me as well,” Reilly said. “I want to step up and tr y to contribute more. And be [better] at both ends of the ice.”
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VOLLEYBALL
Santana stymies sophomore slump, leads Gophers Daly Santana leads the team in service aces and is third on the squad in kills. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
Gophers outside hitter Daly Santana hasn’t changed much between her freshman to sophomore seasons. She’s still a solid starter with a fast arm and even faster jump-spin serve. But the Puerto Rico native admits one big change in a year’s time. “Well, my English has gotten a lot better,” Santana said. “And that makes me really happy.” Santana spent all summer in the U.S., working on her volleyball and her English. And the hard work has paid off — not a sophomore slump in sight. She’s third on the team with 117 kills, averaging just less than three per set with a .254 hitting percentage. She is second in digs with 116. “I think she’s improved in a few facets of the game,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “Certainly, her blocking is a big upgrade from what it was a year ago. I think she’s steadier in reception. And she’s learning to hit the ball with a little more range.” Senior setter Alexandra Palmer, Santana’s roommate last year, said her teammate’s hitting this season has been incredible. “She can use the block, go line and go angle,” Palm-
VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW
@ NO. 8 MINNESOTA
NO. 10 NEBRASKA
IOWA
7 p.m., Friday and Saturday in Lincoln, Neb., and Iowa City, Iowa
MINNESOTA: The Gophers volleyball team kicked off its Big Ten conference season with straight-set sweeps of Indiana and No. 24 Purdue last week at the Sports Pavilion. Minnesota now has an overall record of 14-1. Minnesota moved up one spot in Monday’s American Volleyball Coaches Association poll to No. 8 in the nation. Senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman earned the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week honor for her conference-opening performance. She led Minnesota in kills (24), kills per set (4.0), digs (22) and points (29.5). She averaged 3.7 digs and 1.7 blocks pet set while managing a .404 hitting percentage. NEBRASKA: The Cornhuskers moved up two spots in the national poll to break the top 10. They opened their Big Ten season with a four-set win at Northwestern and a straight-set win at Illinois. Nebraska is 9-2 overall (2-0 Big Ten). Junior setter Mary Pollmiller earned her first conference award Monday with the Big Ten Setter of the Week honor. She had 81 assists, averaging 11.6 per set, and added six total blocks. Nebraska ranked No. 4 in the Big Ten in a preseason poll. IOWA: The Hawkeyes also began their Big Ten conference campaign against Illinois and Northwestern but lost both matches in three sets to start the conference season 0-2. Iowa sports a 9-5 overall record. Iowa did not rank in the top-six teams in the conference in the preseason poll. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
er said. “She’s got ever ything.” There is one aspect of Santana’s game, though, that might outshine her hitting — her serve. Santana leads the team with 16 service aces that either stun a crowd to silence or make it roar to its feet. “I think she’s not quite as error-prone as she was a year ago,” McCutcheon said. “She’s learning how to manage the quality of the toss, keep it in if she needs to. I think there’s still plenty of meat on the bone.” Santana said she doesn’t feel like much of a leader for the Gophers, though
this year she’s more sure of her place on the team. “She takes that [leadership] role not from a vocal standpoint but more of a setting a good example for the girls,” Palmer said. While Santana has another Spanish speaker on the team in multilingual Italy native Clelia De Felice, her improved English skills have helped her improve her communication on the court. “I feel like that was a big part for us,” Santana said. “I feel it’s getting a lot better, and it’s helping us a lot to know more about to each other, and it helps us in the
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Minnesota outside hitter Daly Santana hits the ball on Sept. 25 against Indiana at the Sports Pavilion.
gym.” Still, Santana’s personality is just as much of a pick-
me-up in practice this year as it was last year. “She’s always happy,”
Palmer said. “She’s always yelling, screaming, speaking Spanish. It’s awesome.”
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WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Freshmen ready for year’s first road trip Minnesota played five freshmen last weekend in its two exhibition games. BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com
After losing some of his players to the 2014 Winter Olympics, head coach Brad Frost brought in a slightly larger freshman class this season. With a relatively young roster, the team used its two exhibition games to tinker with lines and tr y out different players on the blue line before Friday’s season opener at Colgate. The two preseason games also offered an opportunity for the freshmen to adjust to the collegiate game. Freshman forward Dani Cameranesi said the games helped calm her nerves. “I know the first and second period of the first game, when I was standing on the line, I was shaking,” she said. Five of the Gophers’ seven freshmen saw action last weekend, and a few made their way into the scoring column. Cameranesi and freshman forward Kate Schipper both scored two goals over the weekend, and freshman defenseman Kelsey Cline added an assist. The only two freshmen who didn’t see the ice were Sidney Peters, a goalie, and Kate Flug, a for ward who Frost said is still recovering from an injury. “I think for the most part, they got their first this and first that under their belt, and now they can be less nervous and just be more excited,”
WOMEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW
@ NO. 1 MINNESOTA
COLGATE
6 p.m., Friday and 2 p.m., Saturday in Hamilton, N.Y.
MINNESOTA: The Gophers will hit the road for their first series of the season this weekend to battle Colgate. This nonconference road trip is one of the longest they have all season in terms of distance. So far, Minnesota has defeated Team Japan 6-0 and the University of British Columbia 7-0 in exhibition games. The nonconference series is an important one for Minnesota, as the team tries to solidify its lines and defensive pairings before Wisconsin comes to town. The Gophers walloped Colgate in their first series of last season. They outscored it 18-0 in a two-game series. Amanda Leveille, then a freshman goaltender, made 21 saves en route to a shutout of the Raiders in the second game of the series. COLGATE: Colgate posted an 11-21-3 overall record last season and went 4-10-2 on its own rink. It finished eighth out of 12 teams in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference. Colgate has only played one exhibition game this season and tied Western University 1-1. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
senior captain Bethany Brausen said. In one of the Gophers’ longest road trips of the year, they will travel to Hamilton, N.Y., to play Colgate for their first series of the regular season. Brausen said there were little things freshmen would pick up on the first road trip of the year, such as studying habits on the road and getting acclimated to the travel schedule. This road trip will offer another bonding experience for the team, though Frost said he thought the players were “very close right off the bat.” “When all of a sudden they’re flying on a couple airplanes and have a little bus ride … it’s always a time for our team to get together and bond a little bit,” he said. Frost said the freshmen
always room with the upperclassmen on road trips. “There’s a cer tain routine that we do every single weekend, so it’s an opportunity for them to just obser ve and learn how they should act,” he said. Schipper and Cameranesi said they were excited but didn’t really know what to expect aside from who their roommate is this weekend. “I just remember being so ner vous,” Brausen said of her first road trip. “You don’t realize how much fun they are until you finally get out there and realize it’s an away trip that you’re just spending with your best friends.” Brausen said the players try to incorporate activities when the team has downtime. A team favorite is “busaroke,” a tradition that
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Moraczewski races into top group after Griak Katie Moraczewski emerged as the second finisher at the Griak race.
is exactly what its name implies — karaoke on a bus. “A lot of times, we throw the freshmen under the bus, so to speak, and we have them go first,” Brausen said. “But we all end up
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Minnesota senior Katie Moraczewski runs at the Roy Griak Invitational on Saturday at Les Bolstad Golf Course.
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY PREVIEW
UW-EAU CLAIRE BLUGOLD INVITE SDSU CLASSIC
@ NO. 23 MINNESOTA
4 p.m and 6 p.m., Friday in Eau Claire, Wis., and Brookings, S.D.
PREVIEW: Minnesota finished fourth at the 28th Annual Roy Griak Invitational, one of the biggest meets of the season. This weekend, the team will split up and head in two different directions. Minnesota will send some runners to Wisconsin and another contingent to South Dakota. The Gophers placed first in both the SDSU Classic and the UWEau Claire Blugold Invite last year. Minnesota had the top nine runners in the SDSU Classic race, with then-sophomore Molly Kayfes and then-junior Laura Docherty taking the first two spots, respectively. Then-freshman Kate Bucknam and then-junior Cassy Opitz finished second and third, respectively, at the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Invite last year. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
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NOTRE DAME INVITATIONAL
MINNESOTA 4 p.m., Friday in South Bend, Ind.
PREVIEW: The men’s team finished eighth at last weekend’s Griak, a performance the team was not happy about. Minnesota had a runner trip and another runner lose a shoe at the beginning of the race, which contributed to the team’s disappointing finish. The Gophers will look to put that behind them at the Notre Dame Invitational this weekend. The tournament lists 28 participants in its Men’s Blue Division, including four Big Ten teams besides Minnesota. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
This isn’t the person that I am, and I’ve got to really get my brain going here,’ ” she said. Moraczewski said her result at the Griak built confidence, but she mentioned that it was still early in the
season. She said she’s working on keeping her mental toughness up. “That’ll be a big step f or me, ” Mora c z ew s k i said. “The mental aspect is my biggest focus for the season.”
jumping in and doing our par t. The coaches sometimes do as well.” Brausen said “bag duty” is a lot more shared these days than when she was a freshman, and it’s on the
upperclassmen to help the freshmen get acclimated. “I remember ever since my first road trip,” she said, “they started becoming just as likable as home games because of the experience.”
SOCCER
Gophers’ offense sputters early in Big Ten play, aims to improve Minnesota has only scored one goal in its first three Big Ten games. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com
Gophers head coach Sarah Hopkins deemed senior Katie Moraczewski’s race at last Saturday’s Roy Griak Invitational her “breakout race.” “That’s kind of what she’s been needing for the last couple seasons,” Hopkins said. “She kind of had that breakout race where she is running where she knows she can be.” Moraczewski placed sixth for the Gophers in both the team’s Intrasquad Meet and at the Oz Memorial. She placed 15th last Saturday at the Griak in a field of 300 r unners. Moraczewski was the second finisher on the Gophers with a time of 21:20.30. “I feel like she really just let go and was like, ‘I’m going to do this,’ ” senior Rachel Drake said. “I’m seriously so proud of her.” Moraczewski raced in her sixth and final Griak race last Saturday. “It’s exciting to finally have a good race,” Moraczewski said. “I didn’t have a ver y good star t to the season. It definitely builds confidence, but it’s still really early.” Hopkins said Moraczewski was on the East Coast during the summer and was away from the team. “I think the first couple weeks were a little bit of reverse culture shock, just to get her brain back engaged,” she said. Moraczewski finished the Oz Memorial with a time of 22:29.00, mor e than a minute slower than her Griak time. Hopkins said she saw a shift in the senior’s focus in practice and workouts after the Oz. “I think after the Oz, it was sort of like, ‘This isn’t the type of runner that I am.
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Gophers freshman forward Dani Cameranesi protects the puck from Team Japan at Minnesota’s exhibition game Sept. 26 at Ridder Arena.
In soccer, the principle is simple – scoring goals wins games. And that standard is making it dif ficult for the Gophers to succeed early in the Big Ten season. Minnesota has netted just one goal through its first three conference tilts (1-2). “I think [it’s] just our intensity and grit to want to score,” junior midfielder Olivia Schultz said. “We got to the Big Ten, [and] we didn’t have that spark to want to score goals.” The of fensive funk comes after the Gophers tallied 18 goals in eight nonconference bouts. They went 7-1 in those games. Sophomore for ward Haley Helverson said the Gophers are lacking some confidence up front. And that lack of confidence could stem from a lack of experience. Freshman midfielder Josee Stiever, freshman for ward Simone Kolander and sophomore transfer for ward Taylor Stainbrook were all major contributors in the attacking zone during the nonconference slate. None of the three have scored in their first tastes against bigger, more physical defenders in the conference. “ B i g Te n [ c o m p e t i tion’s] never easy to go up against,” Helverson said. “You don’t know what the Big Ten is like until you’re actually there. Those nerves were a big issue.” But nerves often deplete with repetition. And if the Gophers can create enough
SOCCER PREVIEW
VS MINNESOTA
OHIO STATE
NO. 7 PENN STATE
7 p.m., Friday and 1 p.m., Sunday in St. Paul, Minn.
MINNESOTA: The Gophers return home for a pair of games after three consecutive weekends on the road. Minnesota was upset by Michigan State last weekend but avoided a 0-3 conference start with a 1-0 win over then-No. 13 Michigan. The Gophers freshman goalkeeper Tarah Hobbs has been remarkable of late, stopping 23 shots over Minnesota’s last three games. OHIO STATE: Ohio State, the defending Big Ten tournament champion, isn’t off to an inspiring start to the conference season and sits at 1-1-1. The Buckeyes are led offensively by freshman forward Nichelle Prince. Prince has netted six goals and added four assists through 11 games. Ohio State is unsettled at goalkeeper, as senior Rachel Middleman and sophomore Jillian McVicker have each seen ample time in net. PENN STATE: The 2012 national runner-up Nittany Lions have won their first three Big Ten tilts by a combined score of 13-4. Senior forward Maya Hayes comes into the weekend tied for the NCAA lead in points with 28. She’s scored 12 goals through 11 games. Penn State hasn’t lost to the Gophers since 2007. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, OHIOSTATEBUCKEYES.COM, GOPSUSPORTS.COM
offensive chances moving forward, some of them are bound to find the net. “We just really have to focus on being on frame and taking the oppor tunities,” Stainbrook said. “When we take our opportunities, they’re good. But we just don’t take them enough.”
Penn State looms The Gophers haven’t beaten Sunday’s opponent, defending national runnerup and current No. 7 Penn State, since 2007. That streak isn’t lost on the Gophers. “Being a senior, we’ve never beat Penn State,” defender Lauren Bauer said. “Coming of f a huge win like [the win over then-No. 13 Michigan on Sunday], we have a lot of confidence.” But before the Gophers get to the Nittany Lions, they must get through Ohio State on Friday night.
Junior for war d/midfielder Taylor Wodnick said the Buckeyes won’t be overlooked. “We’re all excited to play [Penn State],” Wodnick said, “but we ... need to focus on [Friday].”
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The Gophers’ first three Big Ten games were all road contests. Helverson said that stretch was hard on ever yone “Ever yone’s super stressed out,” Helverson said. “I think that kind of affects our play a little bit.” But this weekend, the Gophers r etur n to the friendly confines of Elizabeth L yle Robbie Stadium, where they’re 5-0 so far this season. It’s a return the players said they welcome. “Oh my God, I can’t wait,” Wodnick said. “It’ll be nice being home.”
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Gwar’s front-thing gets sentimental Oderus Urungus, Gwar’s last remaining founding member, played by Dave Brockie, dishes on the Super Bowl, Teddy Roosevelt and total annihilation. BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com
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ince their ar rival on the heavy metal scene in 1984, Gwar has been anything but shy. Dave Brockie, the man behind the Oderus mask, purportedly smoked crack behind a dumpster with folks from the heavy metal magazine Decibel during an interview in 2010. Maybe it’s true, maybe not — after almost 30 years of playing a man-beast with a cuttlefish phallus, Brockie and Oderus have become too inter twined to tell what’s what. This weekend marks Gwar’s first appearance in Minneapolis since the death of guitarist Flattus Maximus, aka Cory Smoot, in 2011. Smoot passed away in Gwar’s tour bus shortly after the band played at First Avenue. The coroner’s report declared that his death resulted from a pre-existing coronary artery disease. “We all breathed a big sigh of relief when we found out it wasn’t a drug overdose, to speak quite frankly,” Brockie said in an interview with Loudwire. Two years later, Oderus and his half-human bandmates are working harder than ever to annihilate humankind in Flattus’ honor. I just read about an effort currently being made to get you guys on the Super Bowl halftime show. How do you feel about that? Well, I think it’s obviously high time that there was a Super Bowl act that was wor thy of the spor t that the act goes with. I mean, come on, Black Eyed Peas, you know? Beyonce, Jay-Z, I mean, Bruno Mars? These people have nothing to do with football whatsoever. The only way I would suppor t them being a par t of the Super Bowl is if they were actually made to play football with no pads, all on one team, and if they just got the shit kicked out of ‘em. I think that this petition for Gwar to play at the Super Bowl halftime show is basically a lot of people in America raising a collective middle finger to this entire process. The bigger we can get this thing, the bigger we can make that finger.
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Frankensteined together and eventually a theme would come through. This year, they started with the theme and added artists after open brainstorming sessions. “We held a series of workshop playtimes where basically we turned the lights off and scared the living daylights out of each other and then talked about what happened,” Freitag said. Some ideas come straight from the artists’ nightmares, and others from universal psychological terrors like claustrophobia. This year it’s going to get messy, so do yourself a favor and keep your classy clothes at home.
A haunted history When artists took over the National Purity soap and chemical company’s building in 1995, they knew they weren’t dealing with an ordi-
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This band wants to destroy you.
So does that mean you’d be willing to do it? Oh, I mean, I’ve signed it already, sure. And if by some strange chance they actually said “Hell, Gwar, we want you to play the show,” of course we’d do it. Why do you guys continue to play shows if your primary objective is to destroy and conquer? Well that is why we play shows, my dear, to draw people into one place where they can easily be annihilated. If we had to track you down one by one, you
So annihilation consists of particularly gruesome acts? Oh yeah, I mean basically just to see Gwar is death. I mean, if you’re not actually killed by Gwar at the show, just the fact that you looked at us, by the time you get home, worms crawl out of your eyes and devour your genitals. Huh. So, why do you guys want to conquer the human race? Because we cr eated you by [expletive] animals, especially apes, and we
“Despite all the adversity, we found a way to rise above it, and I hope people take that as a lesson.” DAVE BROCKIE know, into your bathrooms, into your places of work, into McDonald’s, you know, it would take forever. So what we do is we put on shows that draw humans towards them and get like thousands and thousands of them in one spot under the guise of it being a heavy metal show, and then all the sudden they see their girlfriend has an ax to her head and is going ass cheeks first through a meat grinder, and at that point they’re having so much fun, they don’t really care.
realize now that we made a huge mistake. Humans are so annoying. I mean, there’s occasionally pretty cool ones like Lemmy from Motorhead, for instance. So now we see the human race as a mistake that must be corrected, and the only way we can correct this mistake is by annihilating you, wiping you out and then I can tr y to create another perfect life form in order to create our Gwar army in which we can conquer the rest of the universe. I mean, my plan to do
nary space. The basement lacked plumbing, heat and electricity, and it was full of abandoned factor y equipment, bits of machinery and piles of coal. And it gets worse. “There was animal fat and soap residue all splashed and splashed again,” program manager Lillian Egner said. “Volunteers were basically going room to room power washing and scraping in full hazmat suits.” For Chris Pennington, it was the perfect canvas. In the mid-2000s, Pennington, then a Soap Factory volunteer, asked if he could construct a haunted house in the space. “Before that, we had never thought about bringing patrons down into the basement,” Egner said. Pennington and a crew of volunteers devised the first Haunted Basement in 2007. He worked with the space instead of around it, incorporating the leftover machiner y and cr eepy nooks and crannies.
Advertising for the first Haunted Basement was through leaflets and word of mouth — it worked. “The first weekend, we had people lining up around the block. They would stand in line for hours, and we were completely blown away,” Egner said.
Urine, feces and lavender To enhance patrons’ experiences, the Haunted Basement strives to activate all five senses with disturbing textures, sounds, sights, and smells — and the smells generally touch the taste buds. Mike McGinley and his St. Croix Sensory co-workers began developing scents for the basement in 2008. Though they specialize in odor testing, the St. Croix Sensory staff had always been interested in working with theatrical and artistic productions. They were definitely qualified. “We’ve always had a long history and background of being around bad smells,” McGinley said. “And when
that is to have sex with a living blue whale. I believe the seed transfer of Gwar in a blue whale will create a creature so horrible it will truly be worthy of being in Gwar’s army. Unfortunately, there’s not a lot of blue whales — they swim really deep. I’ve had sex with a few dead blue whales, but that’s just not the same. So I’m constantly on a quest to find my ultimate lover. You said you like someone from Motorhead — is there anyone else you feel particular love or affection for? Well, if he’d been around in my lifetime, I’d say Teddy Roosevelt. I mean, he was a president, he lived in New York, he got shot and then he still made the parade and the speech before he went to the hospital. Now that’s good stuff. I was very sorry to hear about the death of Flattus (aka Cory Smoot). How do you feel about returning to Minneapolis and to First Avenue specifically? Well, it’s gonna be a heavy night, obviously. That was the last show he played. But in a way, I wouldn’t rather have it anywhere else because that venue has always been so ver y, ver y good to us, and we’ve always loved playing there so much. I know that they’re gonna understand how we feel that night, and I think it has the makings
of a truly memorable, amazing, awesome Gwar show. It’s the perfect sendoff Flattus needs to send him back to the stars, and I know it’s a way for the people of Minneapolis to show their years of love and devotion to Flattus and Gwar. It wouldn’t be the same if we were playing in Boise, you know? How difficult was it to keep going forward with the tour? It was hard. Super hard. But the guys are superhuman chaos war riors from outer space, and we weren’t gonna let it stop us. In fact, almost immediately we seized upon the oppor tunity as a way to show to the world that no matter how crappy a card you are dealt, that you can actually use this as a way to prove dominance and master y more than ever. Despite all the adversity, we found a way to rise above it, and I hope people take that as a lesson. Far too many people take the suf ferings of others, make them their own and use them as an excuse for their own pathetic, miserable lives to tur n into [expletive], and we were absolutely not going to let that happen, and I hope in doing so that we made a fine example of ourselves to our fans. So you do have a bit of a sentimental side? Well, I would never admit it, but I guess I just did.
you do that, as chemists would too, you start to know what families of chemicals smell like what.” Over the years, the St. Croix Sensory has concocted an array of odors for the basement, including urine, B.O., decaying flesh and feces. In some rooms, they’ll introduce pleasurable smells like lavender to disorient patrons. “We can take something that’s going to remind people of something soothing in an environment where the visual sense is watching something disturbing,” director Noah Bremer said. As director, Bremer said he’s particularly interested in letting space evolve and transform organically as time passes. “Part of the vision is that this is an artistic experience,” Bremer said. “We’re not corporate scare masters.”
about human responses to fear. “People show fear in so many ways,” ar t director Francisco Benavides said. “You have to learn to adjust to all these different kinds of people and what gets them going.” Benavides said an especially terrified woman once punched him in the ribs. “Most people who have been here for a while have been hit,” Francisco said. “I thought it was great. I kinda got a kick out of it.” For those who can’t handle the horror, there is a way out. “There’s always a safe word,” Egner said. “We treat ‘uncle’ as the word of God.” Two years ago, ar tists built cof fins toward the end of the Haunted Basement and led patrons inside them before closing the lids. Though the coffins weren’t locked and few audience members physically resisted, more than 200 people yelled “uncle” that
The psychology of scary As the weeks and years pass, the Haunted Basement’s actors learn a lot
WHAT: GWAR WITH WHITECHAPEL, IRON REAGAN AND A BAND OF ORCS WHERE: FIRST AVENUE, 701 N. FIRST AVE., MINNEAPOLIS WHEN: 5 P.M., SATURDAY COST: $20 IN ADVANCE, $23 AT THE DOOR
How do you guys prep for tour? It’s ever y bit as chaotic as ever. We’ve spent the last year and a half or so working on this record. Then we basically conjure up all the props, costumes, uh, the slaves who work months upon months to get ever ything together, and now we’re finally at the stage where we actually move ever ything over to the warehouse here, down to the basement of the slave pit and actually do dress rehearsals, believe it or not. They’re chaotic af fairs with lots of people yelling at each other, and generally speaking, it takes about the first week of the freaking tour to get things sor ted out. But when finally the shows start to click, it’s really an amazing experience. Once again, it’ll be par t rock concer t, par t Shakespearean tragedy and all a tribute to Flattus.
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year. “It was so rare that people would push back,” Egner said. Psychologically speaking, Bremer said he’s fascinated with how actors transform when they go into character. “Seemingly normal people come to work on this project and, when given the opportunity and permission to be maniacs, they accept it. There’s a wonder ful catharsis that comes by being crazy for a few hours ever y night,” he said.
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CLUBS
WE LOVE MAGICAL PONIES AND WE DON’T CARE WHO KNOWS IT The Brony Student Organization brings together the passions of young men and “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” BY THOM Q JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com
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hile frater nity row got sloppy on a rainy homecoming Satur day, in a basement room of the Science Teaching and Student Ser vices building, a dozen young men sat broing out to something other than football. These men are bronies: bros who love My Little Pony. “I don’t like going to the game,” a member of the group said. “Ever y time I go, someone just spills beer on me.” Ever y brony nodded in agreement. E a c h S a t u r d a y, t h e members of the Brony Student Organization gather to celebrate their love for the animated series “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic,” in which car toon ponies (and unicorns and pegasi) have magical adventures in the kingdom of Equestria. “We don’t kid ourselves — it’s definitely a show marketed towards little girls,” said Nathan Wendel, an electrical engineering junior and an original founder of the group. “But as you watch the show, you realize there’s a lot more to it.” Four 12-packs of Mountain Dew, a 12-pack of Coke and three pizzas sat at the front of the room. The bronies rif fed on a fan-made music video called “Children of the Night,” which shows the Princess Luna pony stealing away children in the night. W ithout watching an episode, the draw of the show for men aged 20-plus is not immediately obvious. “A lot of children’s
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY Mathematics junior Joe Dubois repaints a My Little Pony character during a Bronies meeting Saturday at the Science Teaching & Student Services building.
car toons, like ‘Adventure Time,’ use things like double entendres to appeal to adults,” Wendel said. “But ‘My Little Pony’ is on another level. The characters, stor y and even animation style have amazing depth.” The episodes also have continuity that most cartoons don’t. In “Dexter’s Laborator y,” for instance, each episode starts with a clean slate. In “My Little Pony,” ever y installment builds on the previous, creating a stor yline over
the course of a season. In brony lore, the show made the jump to an older male fan base after a few fellas started watching the show ironically after a terrible review was posted about the franchise’s 2010 reboot. The bros stuck around, and a phenomenon was born. Now, the bronies organize dozens of brony conventions each year (including one in the works for Minneapolis), a daily news for um and scores of fanmade films.
No women were present at the Brony Club meeting on Saturday, but Wendel said that’s not by design. “We used to have a few girls who came. They called themselves ‘pegasisters.’ For some reason, guys tend to be bigger fans of the show. I think it has something to do with guys liking ’90s cartoons more.” In between seasons, the group spends much of its time doing things that are not related to “My Little Pony.” They play “choose your own adventures” as
a group, discuss the latest announcement of a Steam OS and Steam Box video game system and trade geek culture references. “Brony Club isn’t just about br ushing pony manes,” junior Joe Dubois said as he carefully applied a new coat of paint to a pony miniature. We n d e l a g r e e d t h a t without “My Little Pony,” the dudes in the room would probably find another reason to get together. “We’re all a part of that ‘geek cultur e’ and ar e
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glad to have something to share.”
ART
Objectify this: Stories of the ’70s
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“Sever’s Corn Maze and Fall Festival” When I was growing up, my sister told me to get lost on a daily basis. I bet yours did, too. Even if you didn’t have siblings or if they were nice to you or something, you still ought to take it to heart. Sever’s does a bang-up job with a massive corn maze in its annual autumn celebration. Take a stroll through the Minnesota-themed labyrinth and grab some cider afterward. If you’re planning on taking to the stalks in the dark, don’t forget to bring a flashlight. You’d be surprised at how lost you can really get. u Where: 1100 Canterbury Road, Shakopee, Minn. u When: Oct. 3-27; 1-8 p.m., Fridays; 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Saturdays; 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sundays u Cost: $12 online, $13 on site
WHAT “SHOW AND TELL: OBJECTIFYING THE 1970S” WHEN 6:30 P.M., THURSDAY WHERE MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART PROJECT SPACE, 332 N. ROBERT ST., ST. PAUL COST FREE
ues to change as it’s reinterpreted,” she said. Chang said attaching personal anecdotes and histor y to the submissions gives them power. “I think in some ways, you can’t separate objects from their stories,” she said. Bergs said she’ll keep this in mind as she builds her installation. It’s important to her that she allows the submissions to speak for themselves. “I think the challenge for me as an ar tist is that sometimes you can have an idea that’s a really good idea and you let that override what’s going on visually,” she said. “These ob-
PHOTO COURTESY OF MINNESOTA MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART (MMAA) Mary Bergs will place an installation made from random objects in MMAA’s current exhibition, “The Studio Sessions: Minnesota Artists in the 1970s.”
jects are what make the installation beautiful.” Whether it’s cleaning supplies or a pair of roller skates, Chang said objects
“Birthday Suits” Minneapolis-based punk rockers Birthday Suits will scream at you. Really. They’re known to expend an insane amount of energy in their live shows, so the faint of heart may want to pack some elbow pads if they’re wary of the thrash. If you’re raring to get in a Halloween mood, the hypnotic energy of this loud’n’fast duo ought to be a good substitute for a séance or exorcism. Go ahead, live a little. Feel your eyes roll back into your head and let those two-stepper demons tear you to shreds. u Where: Turf Club, 1601 University Ave., St. Paul u When: 9 p.m., Oct. 5 u Cost: $7
show time’s fluidity. The ’70s may be long gone, but we still experience the consequences of actions from the decade.
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r tist Mar y Bergs loves the discarded. Most of her work comes from junk shops and thrift stores. “I’m interested in objects that have lost their purpose or usefulness,” she said. She’ll have an opportunity to express her interest at The Minnesota Museum of American Art this month. Bergs is creating a new piece of work for “The Studio Sessions: Minnesota Artists in the 1970s.” The exhibit, r unning through Oct. 20, contains a series of photographs devoted to documenting the past of the local art scene. University of Minnesota professor Victor Bloomfield spent the early 1970s snapping candid photos of artists and curators in their natural habitats. Images of multiple ar tists inside their studios and around the Twin Cities sit next to a representative work from their career. Bergs will install more ar tifacts from the decade
in addition to Bloomberg’s cultural time capsule. The catch is that she only gets to choose one of the objects she uses. MMAA wanted to involve the community, so it brought Bergs and Stor y City together to help create the installation. “Show and Tell: Objectifying the 1970s” centers on a group of objects from a pool of submissions. Anyone can submit something that represents the ’70s to them. If chosen, they’ll get to explain their object’s significance at the opening. Bergs hopes the selections will work together smoothly. “I know the submissions so far ar e r eally challenging. … There’s a fire log, an old figurine, a poster about disappeared persons from Chile in the ’70s. … It’ll be interesting,” Bergs said. MMAA curator Christina Chang said the show is an attempt to allow the public to share its impressions of the past. “I think our understanding of the ’70s contin-
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“What I’m hoping for is for people to open up through these stories and think about histor y as a living thing,” she said.
“Eurydice” Sarah Ruhl has become a playwright of insane prominence in the past ten years. University of Minnesota professor Lisa Channer directs one of Ruhl’s early successes, challenging actors to take on the myth of Orpheus from his wife Eurydice’s perspective. Oh, and I forgot to mention, a vast majority of the play’s action takes place in the underworld. If you’re enamored with that sort of thing, you’ll be fascinated by Ruhl’s magical world. Poetic, thoughtful and full of imagination, this adaptation of the Greek tale is not to be missed. u Where: Nolte Xperimental Theatre, Rarig Center, 330 21st Ave S., Minneapolis u When: 7:30 p.m., Oct. 3-13 ; 2 p.m., Sundays u Cost: $6 for students, $16 for the general public
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This Showtime original dangles its lingerie directly in front of your eyes. “Masters of Sex” premiered last Sunday, and if there’s anything we’re sure of, it’s that we’re intrigued. The show details the exploits of two pioneering sex researchers in the 1950s. They brush up closely with each other as well as some unexpected trouble and eventually end up sparking a sexual revolution. If you’re wondering, it’s all based on the real lives of William Masters and Virginia Johnson (paging Dr. Freud). Featuring Michael Sheen and Lizzy Caplan, “Masters of Sex” turns up the heat and probably won’t stop smoldering.
“Kanye West Isn’t Joking Anymore” Pitchfork Media, Sept. 2013 Kanye West, although his music is widely praised, is the celebrity the media loves to hate. Admittedly, it’s not hard to do so. West is a relentless narcissist and goes of f the handle fairly easily. On the other hand, he’s also a dedicated genius and a provider for the family he’s building. This ar ticle centers on West’s recent explosion at Jimmy Kimmel on Twitter and asks us to empathize with him. Perhaps we would see the rapper dif ferently if we could know what it was like to have our ever y action documented by the media.
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CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KELLEN @Horse_ebooks So this is it. Our favorite Twitter account is sort of a hoax. If you’re out of the loop, @Horse_ebooks was an account supposedly hooked up to an entire network of e-books online. Each day, it would spit out nonsensical sentences about ever ything from self-esteem to proper knife skills. It’s completely ridiculous and popular — the account possesses an absurd charm. However, it turns out that the whole thing was a conceptual art piece. Jacob Bakkila and Thomas Bender created the account as a part of a larger project they’ve kept quiet. Even though the two have stopped posting to the account, this new information only deepens the myster y.
THEATER
Identity, in three parts Three plays at Mixed Blood Theatre address gender, heritage, super heroes and finding your place in the world. BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com
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laywright Aditi Brennan Kapil has so much to say about her Indian heritage that she can’t fit it into just one play. So she wrote three. “Originally I tried to write one play, because why would you even think about writing three plays?” she said. “That’s a crazy thought.” Each play’s unique for mat will stand alone on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday at the Mixed Blood Theatre. They will also appear together as “Displaced Hindu Gods,” a marathon per formance on Saturdays and Sundays during the show’s run. “I’m always after that uncommon experience once you get to the theater,” she said. “Brahman/i: A OneHijra Stand-Up Comedy Show” is a one-person comedy routine about ownership of self, the mic and the audience. K a p i l d e s c r i b e d th e second play, “The Chronicles of Kalki,” as a “comic book-infused girl gang thriller” that looks at Indian mythology in the modern world. The final play, “Shiv,” throws post-colonialism into a fantasy world of de-
struction and rebirth. “All of my plays tend toward the ambitious because I like big ideas,” she said. Peter Christian Hansen, a local actor who is also in two of the plays, said commissioning three new plays at the same time is ambitious. “But it’s exciting because it shows that Mixed Blood and the people involved are not afraid to take a chance,” he said. Andrew Guilar te, a New York-based actor who plays a father character in “Shiv” and a cop in “Kalki,” said he liked the project because it sounded like an interesting challenge. “I’m always looking to do something that stretches me and scares me so that I stay sharp and improve,” he said. “This is exactly it.” The actors prepared the plays in four weeks, sometimes rehearsing while Kapil rewrote parts of the script. Kapil said she wants to create a theater experience about complicated things that will make her audience think. The inspiration for “Kalki” came from her teenage years and her love of comic books as a way to reinvent herself. “There’s that moment in puberty where you just want to believe that deep inside this cringing humiliated body there’s a superhero,” she said. Kapil said “Brahman/i” is about “the exhilarating moment of being yourself.” She compared the play to
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Lipica Shah, right, playing Shiv, and Andrew Guilarte, playing her father, rehearse at the Mixed Blood Theatre on Tuesday afternoon. “Shiv” is one part of the trilogy of plays “Displaced Hindu Gods,” written by Aditi Brennan Kapil.
standup comedian Eddie Izzard, who identifies as a transvestite. “He’s up on the stage in heels and a dress, and he owns that crowd,” she said. “If there was a cross-dresser on the street, people would probably throw stuff at him.” Guilar te said being an immigrant from Trinidad enabled him to identify with his character in “Shiv.” “He came here for a better life for his daughter. But he ends up r unning
into walls ... and his work is not appreciated,” Guilarte said. Guilar te said he had a thick accent when he first came to the U.S., which he had to change in order to fit in. “A lot of work in New York is limiting because of the color of my skin,” he said. “Unfortunately, that’s just the way it is. It’s getting better... slowly.” Kapil said a younger and more diverse demographic would be the most
receptive to “Hindu Gods.” “I would love to have the college audience in the house because they’ll get it and they’ll teach the rest of the audience how to get it,” she said. Theater is not what’s on stage, she said, but rather that moment of what happens between the stage and the audience. “Ar t allows us to talk about things other than the really tangible stuf f,” she said. “Things that are of the soul.”
WHAT “DISPLACED HINDU GODS” WHEN OCT. 5-27, TIMES VARY WHERE MIXED BLOOD THEATRE, 1501 SOUTH FOURTH STREET, MINNEAPOLIS COST $20, OR FREE UNDER MIXED BLOOD’S RADICAL HOSPITALITY PROGRAM
COMICS
An illustrated approach to sex Saiya Miller and Liza Bley just came out with a comic book all about sex – and it’s not hentai. BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com
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ot Your Mother’s Meatloaf” sounds like a
particularly unsavory sexual innuendo, but editors Saiya Miller and Liza Bley swear it’s kosher. “It’s sort of an expression that means not the same old thing,” Bley said. “Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf: A Sex Education Comic Book” is a collection of work from more than 50 different
artists, all exploring their own sexual experiences. By focusing on the experience-based comics instead of the instructional, “Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf” encourages discussions about trickier topics like abuse and consent that may otherwise be avoided, especially by youth. Comics give young people
the freedom to declare what their bodies are and how they look, Bley said. And schools are using them as a teaching tool more than ever before. “Not Your Mother’s Meatloaf” was born out of Bley’s senior project at Eugene Lang College in 2008. Teaming up with Miller, she put out an open call for submissions for a sex education comic book. The duo received two types of submissions: instructional and experiential. “It was clear right away that [the experience-based] were the comics that really were the most powerful and that had the most to say,” Bley said. From 2008 until 2012, submissions were compiled into a total of six zines and were distributed by local zinesters, by hand and online. “When it was a zine project, we had all of the zines available online for free download,” Bley said. “It was a very anti-copyright, very free operation.” As the zines grew in size, Bley and Miller realized they needed to try something new and decided to group them together in a book. They pitched the idea to publishers, and Soft Skull Press picked it up in 2012. “The book is a compilation of comics that were in the zines over the last five years and also new material,” Bley said. Additionally, Soft Skull asked the duo to write narra-
PHOTO COURTESY OF NOT YOUR MOTHER’S MEATLOAF Liza Bley and Saiya Miller sort through loose zine pages at a cafe.
tive pieces to introduce each chapter. The final product explores a wide range of sexual issues, from transsexuality to abuse. A comic called “The Appointment,” which tells the story of a woman being sexually abused by a gynecologist, has been of particular interest to reviewers. “From that comic, we’ve heard that others have had similar experiences with gyno providers or other medical professionals,” Bley said. “We don’t often talk about what those interactions should look like.” Miller and Bley said that addressing such heavy issues in comic book format is effective for a number of reasons. “We felt that it was a very accessible form,” Miller said. “A lot of the artists included in the book had maybe never drawn a comic before.” A comic called “Sex Talk”
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explores healthy consent, dwelling in the informative while also using anecdotes to convey real experiences. “Our mantra from the zine was ‘Experiences, not answers,’ ” Bley said. “I think a reader will have to form their own conclusions after reading people’s experiences.” Miller and Bley are currently touring across the country with their book, doing readings and workshops where attendees can make their own comics.
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FOOD
College Kitchen: Purchasing with purpose Don’t let the food desert get you down. BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com
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e’ve all considered hitchhiking to carr y our bags back from the grocery store. Such is life in the University of Minnesota food desert. You don’t have to succumb to hopping in a stranger’s van, though. A backpack’s worth of groceries is all you need to eat well for a week, provided you shop smart. The key is to eliminate
any waste in the kitchen, though using ever y bit of every ingredient takes planning. Ideally, you’ll want to use a single vegetable or meat through a number of different meals. Learning to plan meals ef fectively takes experience. As your recipe repertoire grows, so too will your ability to plan ahead in the kitchen. With enough practice, meal planning will become a natural part of your trips to the grocery store. Soon enough, you’ll be navigating the produce aisle with your eyes closed. Your shopping car t will look like a pro’s. And your
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Something for everyone Underground The Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is for all types of film and people. BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com
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he director of the Minneapolis Underground Film Festival is expecting attendance to double this year. But bigger crowds and increased publicity won’t bring the festival into the mainstream. “It’s more about the content of the films,” festival director and lead programmer Mark Hanson said. “The films deal with topics you wouldn’t find in mainstream movies,” he said. “And there are a lot of subcultures featured, too.” The festival is open to everyone from hardcore cinephiles to festival newbies, he said. It’s an event where an audience member might wind up sitting next to a filmmaker. “They’re really approachable,” Hanson said. “They’re just people who are passionate about film and just want to talk about it.”
‘A magical experience’ The festival will include 48 shorts, 19 features and 10 music videos that festival-goers can watch at St. Anthony Main Theater. Hanson said he will make 30 to 40 additional films available to watch online during the festival. But local filmmaker John Ervin said watching a movie on a computer screen at home isn’t as exciting as having the theatrical experience. “The Internet is great for movie trailers, but it takes away the magic of going to
the theater,” he said. The festival attracted more than 300 applicants, but less than half made it as an official festival selection. Hanson said the two main themes for this year are subcultures and music. He said he also looked for Minnesotamade films, particularly features. If a film didn’t make it into the festival, Hanson said it was because it didn’t quite fit the broad themes. Film subjects range from gender-bending European rockers (“And You Belong”) to cannibal serial killers (“Angst, Piss & Shit”) with a depressed office employee in between (“Connected”).
Breaking from the norm Local filmmaker Adam Jacobs produced the film “Weekend Hat” with classmates as part of a senior project at Perpich Center for Arts Education High School. “The fact that it worked out was amazing,” he said. “But it’s almost a little misleading to call it a high school production because of the quality of the work people put into it.” Er vin’s film “Citizen ‘Caine” portrays the dark side of a middle-class businessman’s life. He said the film “might remind you of your parents if your parents were swingers, had hot tub parties and did drugs.” In “The Demon’s Rook,” a man and his childhood friend battle an ancient race of demons from a foggy cavernous underworld. Director and makeup artist James Sizemore used only practical effects to create the gory fantasyland. He said filmmakers made a lot of movies like his in the
’80s, but now ever yone follows a formula that is old
and has lost its charm. “It’s impor tant to have
movies that are just kind of bonkers and take you
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DANCE
Blurring lines Minnesota Dance Theater concocts a witches’ brew of styles to kick off its season at the Cowles Center. BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com
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ance is never one thing. Sometimes, however, it’s easy to pigeonhole it with images of tutus and leotards. “There are those who don’t want to see another ballet, and I’m probably one of them,” Minnesota Dance Theater ar tistic director Lise Houlton said. MDT’s 2013 Fall Repertor y is designed to avoid presenting another production of “Swan Lake.” The company is showing four pieces in its evening of dance, ranging from modern dance to ballet. Houlton said she has nothing against “Swan Lake” — she’s just interested in exploring new territor y. This is reflected in her world premiere piece for the Repertor y. “ E d i f i c e Wr e c k s , ” Houlton’s work, combines moder n techniques with something that was more foreign to her group of dancers: theater. Houlton collaborated with actor-playwright Dane Stauf fer to add a
touch of acting to her work. “It cer tainly is a dif ferent thing for me,” she said. “I wanted to help create something that went back to dance theater.” Together, Stauf fer and Houlton created a series of scenes and dances that sprout from a “what if” question. These questions lead them into something that is not quite a narrative but allows for the dancers to explore worlds that take influence from Walt Disney to Walt Whitman. “At times they’re dancers, moving about the stage. At times they’re frames, framing the emotions of another dancer,” she said. This sense of genr e bending isn’t unique to Houlton’s work. Charles Askegard, MDT’s new associate artistic director, mashes up separate schools of dance in the Reper tor y’s other world premiere, “Serenade for Two.” Set to Stravinsky’s “Serenade in A,” it’s a bit more traditional than Houlton’s work. You can expect ballet shoes, but the dance isn’t solely concerned with keeping perfect posture. “I’m asking them to reveal something about themselves,” Askegar d
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY Dancers Clifford Williams and Katie Deuitch rehearse “Edifice Wrecks,” a new work by Minnesota Dance Theater’s artistic director Lise Houlton in collaboration with Dane Stauffer, on Tuesday at The Cowles Center.
said. Finding a balance between the two styles is the most challenging thing about the piece, according to Askegard. “You can use the floor, you can use the air, you
can use ever ything. You have to limit yourself,” he said. Aside from its two newest pieces, MDT will be reviving “Boccherini Dances,” originally chor eographed by founder Loyce
Houlton. Like “Serenade,” the dance explores modern and ballet, combining their possibilities. They’re also putting up “A Stair Dance” by the acclaimed Eliot Feld. His theatrical and energetic
work has flair of its own, focusing on something a little more explosive than classical structures. As a whole, MDT’s Fall Reper tor y is meant to display the wide range of dynamics its dancers can handle. “I think it’s ver y important to explore new choreography and to bring awareness to new composers and music,” Askegard said. “It’s a thriving dance scene and it’s exciting.” WHAT MINNESOTA DANCE THEATER’S 2013 FALL REPERTORY WHEN: 8 P.M. AND 2 P.M., SUNDAYS, OCT. 4-13 WHERE THE COWLES CENTER, 528 HENNEPIN AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST $24-36
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HUGE FURNITURE, TREASURE & BAKE SALE Saturday, Oct. 5, 9-4. First Cong. Church, 500 8th Ave. SE, near Dinkytown. Furniture, housewares, books, CDs/DVDs, treasures and more. Plus homemade soup and baked goods sold all day! For more info, find us on Facebook or www.firstchurchmn.org.
RESTAURANTS
EDUCATIONAL SERVICES The Grantsmanship Center of L.A.Hosted by LSS of Minnesota, the leader in grant writing training will offer its five-day Grantsmanship Training Program in St. Paul, October 14-18. Tuition cost is $895. Reserve your place in class by calling The Grantsmanship Center’s Registrar at (800) 421-9512 or go to www.tgci.com.
Taco Bell Job Fair October 4th!! Be part of something big. ATTEND OUR JOB FAIR. Apply in person or online at TacoBell.com/careers Now Hiring:Team Members, Shift & Assistant Managers Instant Interviews Stinson Taco Bell 1540 Stinson Blvd NE - Minneapolis 55413 Friday, October 4th, 20138:30am - 10:30am Now hiring part time and full time!! Hiring for all shifts!Benefit Package includes; Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flex Spending for Medical and Day care, Paid Vacation, Holidays and Sick Time, 401K, Tuition Reimbursement, Fitness Advantage Program, Employee Assistant Program, Discounts with Sprint, AT&T, T Mobil, Dell, HP, MAC and more. Email hknight@borderfoods.com
EMPLOYMENT Deja Vu Deja Vu is hiring for waitress, valet, DJ and doorman positions. Parttime and full time hours avail. Must be 18+. Apply in person at 315 Washington Ave.
EMPLOYMENT Marketing/ Leasing Specialist On-campus, part time job Flexible hours, competitive wages Skills Needed:great customer service, Marketing Skills, Sales E-mail: venue@peakcampus.com for more information
HOUSING Beautiful, Spacious 1 bed apart West Bank, on bus line, utilities paid, off-street parking $695, available now 612-741-0730
HEALTH CARE
CHILD CARE
DUPLEX & HOUSE DINKYTOWN
Flexible, paid healthcare job working with special needs. Must work 12 hr/wk, have car and commit 2 semesters. Email hello@studentexperience.com, call 612-353-3950, or visit www.studentexperience.com
Aide for 9 yo boy with Autism NEED PCA for 9 year old boy with autism. Child/special needs exp pref; energy, patience required. hlymlss@yahoo.com or 651-699-6798.
For the new school yr 2014/15: 12, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3 BR houses available for the next school year Please call 612-708-0529
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UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT: ExploraDome Theater: Evening Shows WHO: Bell Museum of Natural History WHEN: 7:15–8:45 p.m., Thursday WHERE: Bell Museum of Natural History, East Bank, Minneapolis PRICE: $4-6 plus museum admission, which is free for University faculty, staff and students. At 7:15 p.m., see Andromeda’s Treasure — a short film about one of the most ambitious projects ever done with the Hubble Space Telescope. At 8 p.m., see Earth Migration and Human Effect — a short film about how life on earth depends on the energy of the sun and the cycles of seasons and climate.
WHAT: Eurydice WHO: Department of Theatre Arts & Dance WHEN: 7:30 p.m., Friday WHERE: Rarig Center, West Bank, Minneapolis PRICE: $6 for students, $11 for faculty, $16 for general public Professor Lisa Channer directs Sarah Ruhl’s play in the intimate Nolte Xperimental Theatre as the first production of the season. Tickets are available by phone at 612-624-2345 or online at tickets.umn.edu.
WHAT: Health Careers Fair 2013 WHO: Health Careers Center WHEN: 1–4 p.m., Oct. 9 WHERE: Great Hall, Coffman Union, East Bank, Minneapolis PRICE: Free Thinking about a career in a health profession? Come to the fair, and learn about the University’s different academic programs leading to a health professional career. Some non-UMN programs will also be in attendance, representing health degree options not found at the University of Minnesota.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
BACKTALK
horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (10/3): You’re the birthday star, with the moon auspiciously in your sign today. Celebrate! Career and finances captivate this year, and both grow, especially through December.
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — The marketplace expands. Assumptions disintegrate in the face of new facts. The job may be tough, so put in the preparation.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — You’re especially cute and popular now. Recognize your own stubbornness. Laugh at it for extra points. Have the gang over to your house.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 6 — You can get through where a nervous friend can’t. Think the problem through logically. You see the way. Schedule carefully.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Gather valuable information. Important people are saying nice things about you. Meetings conflict with family time.
Complete the grid so each row, clumn and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — Test the limits, and assume authority. Get feedback from a person with great taste. Exercise good judgment.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Keep the important stuff hidden. Get organized and clean up. Pamper yourself with small luxuries.
For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 6 — Figure out how to cut travel costs or home expenses. Stick to basics. Provide information. Entertain suggestions. A partner refreshes your memory.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — A conversation spurs you forward. Get the ones who know to confide in you. Others ask your advice. Show the team your appreciation.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Find time to put together a new project. Don’t buy, sell or trade just yet. Learn about a passion. Careful planning puts more money in your pocket.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — Group activities go well. Reinforcements are on the way. Unexpected costs could arise. Check bank records and re-assess your budget.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Start your planning, and take on more responsibility. Ask for what is due to you. Accept encouragement. Listen carefully.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — The competition is fierce, and you may encounter resistance. Let your partner take the lead. Together, you can push ahead.
sudoku Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
10/3/2013
Yesterday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Thursday, October 3, 2013
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secret admirers To the girl scootering around campus singing the Pokémon theme song: You’re the only one I want to catch.
—Unknown
To all the hot heart doctors in Coffman Union today:
I would let you examine me any day. Love,
—A student who needs her bills paid To the cute blonde guy I talked to the first week of chem lab but haven’t had the lady balls to keep talking to:
I’ve seen you looking at me. The answer is yes.
—Unknown
To Patrick, the biology major/prepharmacy student who works at the CVS Pharmacy in St. Paul:
I just about melted into the floor when you looked at me with those big blue eyes and smiled. Sincerely,
—I have a fever, and the only prescription is seeing more of you around campus (and cowbell, if you’re into that). To the hot guy who works front desk at Frontier Hall:
I use needing garbage bags as an excuse to talk to you every week. Sincerely,
—A girl who isn’t as wasteful as you think Dear Campus Connector Karaoke Girl,
Although I’m glad you got us to sing
“Yeah” by Usher, the only song that was in my head was “3-6-9 damn YOU fine.” Sincerely,
—A man who will sing AND fix your shoe
crossword
Dear Everclear,
[Expletive] you for making me puke everywhere and pass out right before the homecoming concert.… You owe me $20. Sincerely,
FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 3, 2013
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
—White girl wasted
Pretty cymbals girl,
You pretty much steal my heart every football game. What’s your name?
—Boy who wants coffee and a conversation
To the sexy snitch on the Quidditch team:
Sorry we had to take you down to get the points. I only wish I was fast enough to be the seeker who landed on you. Next time I’ll get your name.
—Unknown
Do you have a secret crush? 4Post submissions on the “University of Minnesota Secret Admirers” Facebook group. 4Visit mndaily.com and look for the “Connect with the Daily” box on the homepage. 4Email submissions to overheards@mndaily.com.
ACROSS 1 Like bars in noir films 6 Brouhaha 10 Workout woe 14 Salsa singer Cruz 15 BMW competitor 16 Invalidate 17 See 49-Down 20 Platte River settler 21 Spoil, with “on” 22 “Cagney & Lacey” Emmy winner 23 Scripture section 25 “I am just __ boy, though my story’s seldom told”: “The Boxer” 27 See 49-Down 31 ’60s-’70s “Fearsome Foursome” NFL team 34 Reported for the first time 35 Payable now 36 Is after 37 Oyster’s spot 38 Peak in a Trevanian title 40 Capri crowd? 41 “The Birdcage” wrap 42 Emerges from the wings 43 See 49-Down 47 Cosmetician Elizabeth 48 Governor who opened the Erie Canal 52 Jazz pianist Ahmad __ 54 Moscow news acronym 55 Court 56 See 49-Down 60 1-Down holder 61 Exxon forerunner 62 Hosiery thread 63 Bottom of the sea? 64 Hardly a sophisticate 65 Really worry DOWN 1 Ice cream serving
10/3/13
By Pancho Harrison
2 Conductor Zubin 3 Spreads on the table 4 Flesh and blood 5 Sail supports 6 Get together 7 Rapper __ Fiasco 8 Gator chaser? 9 Paparazzo’s prize, briefly 10 Land of Arthurian legend 11 “Kubla Khan” poet 12 Pop radio fodder 13 “Grand” ice cream brand 18 Hindu mystics 19 Operatic prince 24 Mont. neighbor 25 Elderly 26 Claw holder 28 Massage 29 Plaintiff 30 Bierce defines it as “His” 31 WWII carriers 32 Gaseous: Pref. 33 Go over more carefully 37 Deck department supervisor, briefly
Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved
(c)2013 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
38 Surround 39 Santa Monicato-Jacksonville hwy. 41 Scripps competition 42 Zhou __ 44 Retirees often do it 45 Between jobs 46 Represent officially
10/3/13
49 Diving rotation, and the clue for four puzzle answers 50 Alley Oop’s girl 51 Large jazz combo 52 Prom king, often 53 Sunburn soother 54 In that case 57 Lee follower 58 Granada bear 59 __ Maria: liqueur
Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
dr. gwar Dr. Date,
I’ve been hanging out with this girl for a couple of weeks, and I like her a lot. The problem is, I’m not sure she’s into me. I’ve been out my whole time at college, which she knows, but she hasn’t mentioned anything similar to me. I feel like she’s interested, but I’m honestly not even positive she’s into girls. How can I broach the subject without ruining our friendship?
-Anonymous
Girl Talk,
Be as honest as possible. If you’re hanging out with someone, I take that to mean that you’re doing things together. Maybe you’re having coffee, maybe going to see a movie, maybe having a meal together — so you’re at the stage where you can ask legitimate, honest questions to each other. Ask her a legitimate, honest question. Say, “Hey, is it OK for me to ask you a personal question?” And if she says yes, say, “I’m trying to figure out — are you into girls? Because I don’t see a boyfriend here, and I feel like getting closer, and I feel that I might have some feelings for you. I don’t want to lose you as a friend, but before this goes any further, I thought I would put my cards on the table.” And I think you’ll get a favorable reaction. She’ll either say, “Oh no, no, no, I like boys and I still want to your friend,” or she’ll say, “Oh my God, you’re a lesbian, get out of here, oh you freak!” And if she says that, then you’ll know she’s worthless to begin with. So as I said before, honesty is the best policy. The only way you can [expletive] that up is if you go into it too soon, like if you meet the girl and you’re like,
“OMG, are you a lesbian, I wanna get in your pants!” — that doesn’t work so well. But if you feel like you have a friendship with her, go forward. Take a chance, look her in the eye and be completely honest with her. And if she says she’s not into the relationship part — a spear through the mouth.
-Dr. Gwar
Dr. Date,
I’ve been with my high school boyfriend for four years. He was my first kiss, my first sexual experience, everything. We’re best friends. While he was abroad this summer, I kissed someone else. It was at a party, and we were both drunk, and I obviously regretted it immediately. I decided I wouldn’t tell my boyfriend — and haven’t — but it’s driving me insane. I’m afraid he’ll find out from someone else. Should I tell him?
-Guilty
Guilt Trip,
No, because I guarantee you your boyfriend was up to a lot worse when he was on that trip this summer. It’s just a kiss, and it was a drunken one at a party. If he ever finds out about it, just look at him and say, “Are you serious? I completely trusted you to go to Europe and do whatever they do over there, where they have legal whorehouses and I never asked you a single question about it, and you’re gonna give me shit about one incredibly meaningless kiss at a drunken party that never happened again? Oh. My. God. Maybe you’re not as cool as I thought you were.” And, second part, if he reacts poorly to that, I would say battle ax to the side of the head.
-Dr. Gwar
Turn back to page 12 for A&E’s Q-and-A with Gwar. Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Iowa senator quits after report on Bachmann money BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
IOWA CITY, Iowa — An Iowa state senator resigned Wednesday after a special investigator found it likely he violated ethics rules by taking money from political entities connected to former presidential candidate Michele Bachmann and then denying he’d done so. Sen. Kent Sorenson told The Associated Press that he had already decided he would not run for re-election, and that his resignation was best for his family. He said his decision was “absolutely not” an admission of wrongdoing. “I’ve spent money fighting this that I shouldn’t have. I’m just not going to do that to my family anymore,” he said in a telephone interview. His resignation came after attorney Mark Weinhardt said in a repor t released earlier in the day that it was “manifestly clear” Sorenson negotiated payments in 2011 that eventually reached $7,500 monthly in exchange for his work as Bachmann’s Iowa campaign chair. The money flowed from Bachmann’s political action committee, MichelePAC, and her presidential campaign to a Colorado consulting firm,
which in turn paid Sorenson’s Iowa-based firm, Weinhardt wrote in the report filed with the Iowa Senate. Sorenson’s compensation from MichelePAC is a violation of a Senate rule that bars senators from being paid by political action committees, Weinhardt wrote. Senators will have to decide whether the payments from her presidential campaign also violate the rule since it is unclear, he wrote. Sorenson knew that accepting the compensation was improper, and later made false statements when he denied that he had taken money tied to Bachmann entities, Weinhardt wrote. Those statements might amount to misconduct in office, a felony that would also be a violation of the ethics rules, the investigator added. Weinhardt was appointed to investigate an ethics complaint filed against Sorenson by a former Bachmann aide. Weinhardt’s report went to the Senate Ethics Committee, which is expected to meet to consider the report and what to do about it. Before announcing his resignation, Sorenson said he disagreed with the report’s conclusions that he made false statements or that he had accepted compensation
from Bachmann’s camp. “I was never employed by Michele Bachmann. I was never employed by Bachmann for President. I was never employed by the PAC,” he said. “I had a corporation that worked for a corporation that worked for Michele Bachmann.” Washington-based lawyer William McGinley, who’s representing Bachmann’s campaign, did not immediately return phone and email messages left by the AP. The report contains the most detailed findings yet in a scandal that has swirled around Sorensen since he defected from the Bachmann campaign days before the 2012 Iowa caucuses to suppor t Ron Paul. Bachmann, a Minnesota congresswoman, alleged then that Sorenson was switching allegiances due to payments from Paul’s campaign. Weinhardt’s report said that Sorenson had received a $25,000 check from a Paul backer that Sorenson did not cash. Sorenson also received $73,000 in “deeply suspicious” wire transfers, but Weinhardt said he was unable to connect them directly to Paul’s campaign. Sorenson declined comment on the wire transfers Wednesday.