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HOUSING

West Bank fights apts.

Student climbers reach new heights

The proposed apartment complex could block a road to a nearby park. BY ALEX BITTER abitter@mndaily.com

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Minnesota Climbing Team Vice President Joe Zelman climbs Tuesday at the rock wall at the University Recreation and Wellness Center.

Increased interest in the sport is helping the new Minnesota Climbing Team expand. BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

Spence-Zurek hugged his

Recruiting woes hit small frats

flipped his leg over a handDakota Spence-Zurek

hold and pulled his body up to arrive at the top of the wall.

ness around his waist and

His teammates cheered ec-

considered a route. Ska-

statically, and he effortlessly

punk music blasted as he

came back down to earth.

looked at the wall, trying to solve the vertical puzzle.

ing Team, a University student group that started this

I climb, it’s like the world

fall, has benefited from a

goes away,” said Spence-Zu-

new campus climbing wall

rek, a sociology of law and

and increasing student in-

criminal deviance and politi-

terest in the sport.

cal science junior.

Some chapters say size and location make recruitment a “different game.”

The Minnesota Climb-

“I get so focused when

BY MELISSA BERMAN mberman@mndaily.com

Though University of Minnesota of ficials are working to increase student involvement in Greek life, not all fraternities are growing. The five smallest chapters in the University’s Interfraternity Council have experienced varying trends in membership in recent years. Some said their size has hindered recruitment efforts, while others haven’t experienced much change in membership. Phi Delta Theta is down

The University Recre-

He decided on a tough

ation and Wellness Center,

route, and his fellow Uni-

which opened at the begin-

versity of Minnesota Climb-

ning of September, boasts

ing Team members shout-

a rock wall spanning more

ed advice from below.

than 3,200 square feet. The

“I want to try it so badly,”

old wall in the University

aerospace engineering soph-

Recreation Center was just

omore Lauren Olsen said as

just 390 square feet.

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ADMINISTRATION

BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

The list for the new dean of the College of Liberal Ar ts has been nar rowed down to six finalists. After former CLA Dean James Parente announced in March his plans to step down, a committee started recruiting candidates and conducting interviews over the summer to fill the vacancy. The names of the six finalists have not been announced. Over the next month, candidates will participate in public inter views on

to 13 active members this year. Recr uitment Chairman Austin Miller said the challenges of being a small chapter have contributed to the decline. Recr uiting takes a lot of time and effort, he said, and smaller organizations don’t always have enough resources. “Some large chapters could put more men than we have in our entire chapter in charge of recruitment alone,” he said. IFC President Spencer Olson said recruiting can be challenging for smaller fraternities. “They can compete still, but they need to work as hard as the larger fraternities to u See RECRUITING Page 20 Phi Delta Theta is hoping to move closer to fraternity row.

STUDENT MEDIA

CLA dean candidate list narrowed to six The finalists will start giving public interviews next week.

u See WEST BANK Page 4 A historic, century-old former saloon currently sits on the site.

GREEK LIFE

body against a crevice. He

gripped the climbing har-

Cedar-Riverside and the city of Minneapolis are resisting an apartment complex proposed for the neighborhood. Residents say the project, called Five15 on the Park, could increase parking issues, and the city wants to preserve a historic building on the site. Minneapolis-based developer Fine Associates LLC has been working on the project since 2005. The $51.6 million project would add 256 units of mixed-income housing to a vacant lot between Riverside Plaza and 15th Avenue South. Jim White, an associate with Fine, said his firm has consulted with com-

munity organizations in the area each time the project reached a new stage. “We’ve sat and talked for hours,” he said. “If the project evolves, you have to come back and tell them those things.” The firm hasn’t been as receptive to issues raised by residents as it claims, West Bank Community Coalition Executive Director Hussein Ahmed said. Because White attended WBCC meetings when Fine first proposed the project, the neighborhood organization wrote the company a letter of support. The letter stipulated that “ongoing neighborhood dialogue about the plan as it evolves” would be necessar y, but Ahmed said Fine Associates hasn’t met that condition.

campus, give presentations and meet with CLA faculty members and deans from other colleges. “I think they’re all terrific people, and I think there are a lot of very thoughtful notions about the future of liberal arts,” said College of Design Dean Tom Fisher, who chairs the search committee. In July, political science department chair Raymond Duvall was appointed to serve as the college’s interim dean until a replacement is found. The names of the six finalists will not be announced until 24 hours before their respective public inter views “in order to u See DEAN Page 5 The committee conducted private interviews earlier this fall.

Students to rebuild broadcast scene Two groups are aiming to give U students broadcast experience. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

Charlie Weierke transfer red to the University of Minnesota in hopes of building his broadcast journalism portfolio — but that proved to be harder than anticipated. The journalism sophomore said when he arrived, he found an inactive student broadcast group and an academic program with underutilized resources. Now, Weierke and other University students hope to change the situation. After a lull in student broadcast oppor tunities on campus, two groups are

HOLLY PETERSON, DAILY

University of Minnesota students Austin Kedrowski, Kassi Vickerman, Matthew Ogbeifun and Tarek Abdelkhalig review video footage from a G-Eazy concert in the Roy Wilkins conference room Oct. 16.

looking to bring back student broadcast media. Ski-U-Media, a news

broadcast group co-headed by Weierke, became a University student group

u See BROADCAST Page 3 U Broadcast, another group, dissolved due to a lack of structure.

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Syria releases 13 women detainees in prisoner exchange BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — The Syrian government released 13 female detainees, an official and an activist group said Wednesday, in a move that appeared to be par t of an ambitious regional prisoner exchange. The Britain-based Syrian Obser vator y for Human Rights said the women walked out of the headquarters of the Damascus provincial government Tuesday mor ning, but hasn’t been able to contact them. A Syrian government official confirmed the women’s release, but declined to provide further details. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to brief the media. It was not immediately clear whether the women released were par t of a complicated hostage swap last week brokered by Qatar and the Palestinian Authority that saw Syrian rebels release nine Lebanese Shiite Muslims, while Lebanese gunmen simulta-

neously freed two Turkish pilots. Lebanese officials have said a third part of the deal called for the Syrian government to free a number of women detainees to meet the rebels’ demands. The agreement illustrated how far Syria’s civil war, now in its third year, has spilled across the greater Middle East. It also appeared to represent one of the more ambitious negotiated settlements to come out of the war, in which the rival factions remain largely opposed to any bar tered peace. Syria’s crisis began in March 2011 with largely peaceful protests against President Bashar Assad, and slowly turned into an insurgency and then a full-blown civil war. More than 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict, while another 2 million have sought refuge from the violence abroad. The fighting also has destroyed the country’s cities and shattered much of its economy, including its infrastructure. Syria’s state news agency

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Iran lawmaker: No need for 20 percent uranium BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran — A prominent Iranian lawmaker said Tehran doesn’t need any more 20 percent-enriched uranium, a news agency covering the country’s parliament reported late Wednesday night, a key point in negotiations between the Islamic Republic and the West. While lawmaker Hossein Naqvi Hosseini isn’t a government spokesman nor a member of Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, his comments touch on a major concession wanted by Western powers — halting production of enriched uranium that could be used to build nuclear weapons. Hosseini’s brief comments, published online by ICANA, did not say whether Iran will stop enrichment. “Tehran reactor fuel has been supplied and currently no need is felt for production of 20 percent-enriched uranium,” Hosseini was quoted as saying. Hosseini, who serves as a spokesman for the Iranian parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, also said the country is prepared to relieve concerns over its stockpile of enriched uranium. “Tehran is ready to convert its stockpile of 20 percentenriched uranium to fuel rods and remove concerns over its non-peaceful use,” he was quoted as saying. Western powers fear Iran’s nuclear program could be used to build an atomic bomb. Iran says its program is peaceful and is for advances in medical research and power generation. Last week, Iranian diplomats met in Geneva with negotiators from the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany. Iran hopes to ease the crippling economic and oil sanctions placed on its government over its nuclear program.

Merkel calls Obama to discuss surveillance BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BERLIN — German Chancellor Angela Merkel complained to President Barack Obama on Wednesday after learning that U.S. intelligence may have targeted her mobile phone, saying that would be “a serious breach of trust” if confirmed. For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel’s phone calls now. “The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said. “The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges.” However, Carney did not specifically say that that U.S. had never monitored or obtained Merkel’s communications. The German government said it responded after receiving “information that the chancellor’s cellphone may be monitored” by U.S. intelligence. It wouldn’t elaborate, but German news magazine Der Spiegel, which has published material from NSA leaker Edward Snowden, said its research triggered the response. Merkel spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement the chancellor made clear to Obama in a phone call that “she views such practices, if the indications are confirmed ... as completely unacceptable.” Merkel said among close partners such as Germany and the U.S., “there must not be such surveillance of a head of government’s communication,” Seibert added. “That would be a serious breach of trust. Such practices must be stopped immediately.” Carney, the White House spokesman, said the U.S. is examining Germany’s concerns as part of an ongoing review of how the U.S. gathers intelligence.

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Student groups rebuilding U broadcast opportunities Broadcast u from Page 1

Oct. 17 and hopes to rebuild student broadcast opportunities on campus after a similar group, U Broadcast, dissipated years ago. At the same time, a group called Gopher TV is in the process of becoming an of ficial student group. Group founder Matt Ogbeifun said Gopher TV members hope to inform students of campus happenings with enter tainmentfocused videos and skits. Both groups hope to give students hands-on experience they can use in future careers in broadcast, adver tising, management and other areas. Gopher TV and Ski-U-

Media will reach out to students through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, hosting their content on YouTube or their own websites. The University student group U Broadcast formed a few years ago but eventually dissolved due to a lack of structure and commitment from members, Weierke said. Kieran Furey-King, president of the Badger Television student group at the University of WisconsinMadison, said creating a broadcast media outlet on a large campus can be difficult because students have other opportunities to get involved with campus life. “Ever yone has a bunch of other responsibilities,” he said. Badger Television is cur-

rently inactive due to commitment issues. Ski-U-Media is taking its structure very seriously and won’t star t creating content until it has finalized a managerial structure and a number of short- and long-term plans, Weierke said. The group, which currently has 20 members, plans to sustain itself over time by involving freshmen and sophomores, incorporating business students and consistently producing content. “There’s a lot more that goes [into] a club than just, ‘Oh, let’s be a broadcast club, let’s create a two-minute reel, pound it with content …’ and then not continue to pursue that,” said journalism sophomore Valory Schoenecker, a founding member of Ski-UMedia.

Ogbeifun said star ting Gopher TV has been a crash course in the process of making broadcast content. “You have to prepare 150 percent because some things will go wrong,” he said. Recent broadcast journalism graduate Kayla Thom said the journalism school gave her a basic set of skills and knowledge of broadcast, but it would’ve been useful to have more hands-on opportunities on campus. Having a competitive body of clips in your portfolio requires outside experience and lots of practice, she said — not just footage from class projects. “It would have been helpful to have more choices to put in a package reel,” she said. Aside from some upperlevel courses at the Universi-

ty’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, some students say there aren’t many ways to get hands-on broadcast experience on campus. Weierke said the journalism school has a “state-of-theart” broadcast studio, but he thinks it’s not being used to its full potential. “It’s basically being used as a storage room right now,” he said. The group plans to train members on the studio’s equipment, because many students don’t know how to use it. “We’d love to get more use out of that studio,” journalism teaching specialist and Ski-U-Media adviser Dana Benson said. Benson said he hopes students who get involved in Ski-U-Media will bring the

hands-on skills they learn into the classroom. To produce their videos, Gopher TV’s 10 members rent equipment from the Rarig Center or use their own, while combining their previous knowledge in video production, Ogbeifun said. Weston Dockter, another recent broadcast journalism graduate, said that with two jobs and a full credit load while he was in school, he wouldn’t have had time to join a broadcast student group on campus if he’d had the chance. Dockter said he thinks the new groups could run the risk of busy students not having enough time to dedicate to producing content. “I can kind of see a problem emerging with the time commitment that it could entail,” he said.

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US policy on Iran unites adversary Israel, Saudis BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — Israel’s prime minister urged the U.S. on Wednesday to be as tough in nuclear negotiations with Iran as it is about dismantling Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile. The comments put new pressure on Washington to convince two of its key Mideast allies that America will not sell out their interests as it tentatively warms diplomacy with Tehran. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the start of a seven-hour meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerr y, said the world should not accept what he called a “partial deal” with Iran. He said that would include any agreement that falls short of requiring Iran to end all enrichment on uranium, get rid of all fissile material, and close water plants and underground bunkers that he said are only necessar y to build a nuclear bomb. Negotiations between Iran and world powers, which resumed several weeks ago after a six-month lull, have come nowhere near demanding the level of tough restrictions on Tehran that Israel wants. The nuclear talks also have spooked Saudi Arabia, spurring Kerry to meet with top officials from both Mideast nations about an issue that has unified the two longtime adversaries. Iran maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful, and its capabilities necessary for energy and medical uses. “A par tial deal that leaves Iran with these capabilities is a bad deal,” Netanyahu told Kerry at the start of their meeting in Rome. “You wisely insisted there wouldn’t be a par tial deal with Syria. You’re right. If (Syrian President Bashar) Assad had said, ‘Well, I’d like to keep, I don’t know, 20 percent, 50 percent, or 80 percent of my chemical weapons capability,’ you

would have refused, and correctly so.” Netanyahu also said the U.S. should retain its harsh economic sanctions against Iran until it dismantles its nuclear program. “That’s what got them into these renewed negotiations in the first place,” he said. Obama administration officials are weighing whether to ease some sanctions — even as some U.S. lawmakers in Congress are eyeing plans to tighten the economic hurdles — if Iran takes steps to scale back its program. Ker r y, who spent the last three days in meetings with European and Mideast officials that focused mostly on Iran and Syria, said the U.S. would continue to do everything it can to prevent Tehran from building nuclear weapons. But he stopped short of agreeing with Netanyahu’s demands. “We will need to know that actions are being taken which make it crystal clear, undeniably clear, failsafe to the world, that whatever (Iranian) program is pursued is indeed a peaceful program,” Kerr y said. “No deal is better than a bad deal. But if this can be solved satisfactorily, diplomatically, it is clearly better for everyone.” Neither Israel nor Saudi Arabia has been included in the world powers’ negotiations with Iran. Senior Saudi of ficials this week described a widening gulf between Washington and Riyadh over U.S. policy in Iran and Syria. Saudi Arabia also wants the U.S. to send more militar y support to opposition groups seeking to oust Assad from power as an end to Syria’s 2 ½ civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people. The Iranian government has been the key benefactor to Assad, and has sent militar y forces, weapons and funding to support his government against the rebellion. Both the U.S. and Saudi Arabia are working to start

talks between Assad and opposition leaders to create a new government in Syria that, ultimately, would not include Assad. Syrian National Coalition President Ahmad al-Jarba on Tuesday told repor ters in London that he was not ready to agree to the negotiations, but opposition officials will vote on whether to participate in coming days. The impasse over the Syrian negotiations comes as a team of inspectors with the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons work to dismantle Assad’s chemical weapons stockpile, which is considered one of the world’s largest, after a deadly Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack. Kerr y met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal in Paris on Monday in what he described as a “delightful and ver y, ver y constr uctive” discussion. He brushed off suggestions of diplomatic chilliness between the two nations. On Iran, “I think they understand exactly what the United States is engaged in,” Kerry said a day later in London when asked about tensions between Washington and Riyadh. “And I reiterated our position in any negotiation that our eyes are wide open, actions are what will speak to us, not words.” In Rome, Kerry and Netanyahu also discussed ongoing peace talks between Israel and Palestinian authorities who were meeting in Jerusalem even as of ficials warned about threats that would rise in the event of a stalemate. Netanyahu said any agreement must result in “a peace that Israel can defend by itself, for itself against any conceivable threat.” He called the creation of a Palestinian state “a fundament for any peace.” Kerry praised Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for engaging in negotiations but offered no details.

Study: High-dose flu shot better protects seniors BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA — A new high-dose flu vaccine for seniors works better than the standard shot in that age group, according to a long-awaited study by the vaccine’s manufacturer. Exper ts say r egular flu shots tend to be only about 30 to 40 percent effective in people 65 and older, who generally have weaker immune systems. Sanofi Pasteur’s Fluzone High-Dose vaccine boosted that to 50 percent. “I wouldn’t call it great” said Dr. Edward Belongia of the W isconsin-based Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, a flu vaccine researcher who was not involved in the Sanofi study. But any improvement is welcome, and the results could mean fewer illnesses — and, hopefully, hospitalizations and deaths — in seniors, he said. For other ages, ef fectiveness can r un 60 percent or higher for the regular vaccine. The Food and Drug Administration licensed the

higher-dose Sanofi vaccine in late 2009, based on a study that showed it led to higher levels of flu-fighting antibodies in seniors a month after vaccination. The new study is the first to measure how much protection it actually provides against the flu. The study involved 32,000 seniors in the U.S. and Canada during the last two flu seasons. Half got a regular flu shot and half got the high-dose version. Researchers called the par ticipants to see if they had flu symptoms or were hospitalized; tests to confirm the flu were done in more than half of the people repor ting symptoms. The high-dose shot was 24 percent more ef fective than the regular shot at preventing flu, against all strains, the company said. Sanofi has the only high-dose flu shot for seniors on the market. It was used last year in 1 in 5 seniors who got vaccinated, according to Sanofi. The $27 per dose cost is more than twice the $12 for the company’s older version. But Medicare pays for

both, and Sanofi executives say they don’t think cost is a significant deterrent. Instead, they believe doctors have been holding off until they saw realworld ef fectiveness studies. Dr. David Greenberg, a Sanofi vice president, is scheduled to present preliminar y study results on Thursday at a meeting of vaccination exper ts in Atlanta. The Advisor y Committee on Immunization Practices advises federal health of ficials, who then make vaccination recommendations to doctors. The gover nment already recommends flu vaccines for ever yone, except babies under 6 months. The panel is expected to discuss whether to one day voice a preference for Fluzone High-Dose for seniors. Among infectious diseases, flu is considered one of the nation’s leading killers. On average, about 24,000 Americans die each flu season, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Obama administration spells out health care site problems BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — On the defensive, the Obama administration acknowle d g e d We d n e s d a y i t s problem-plagued health insurance website didn’t get enough testing before going live. It said technicians were deep into the job of fixing major computer snags but provided no timetable. Democratic unhappiness with the situation began growing louder — including one call for President Barack Obama to “man up” and fire someone — as the president’s allies began to fret about the political fallout. Democrats had hoped to r un for re-election touting the benefits of the health care law for mil-

lions of uninsured Americans, but the computer problems are keeping many people from signing up. The White House also signaled a change underway in the timeline for signing up for coverage. Consumers have until Dec. 15 to apply for coverage that’s ef fective Jan. 1. Even though open enrollment lasts until March 31, people would face a penalty if they postpone buying coverage beyond mid-Februar y. Calling that a “disconnect,” the White House said of ficials will soon issue policy guidance so that if consumers sign up by the end of March they will not face a penalty. No action from Congress is needed to make that happen, the White House said.

Republican sniping about the website’s flaws continued unabated, with House Speaker John Boehner declaring, “ We ’ v e g o t t h e w h o l e threat of Obamacare continuing to hang over our economy like a wet blanket.” Obama himself, though strongly defending the health care overhaul, has been increasingly willing to acknowledge exten sive problems with the sign-up through online markets. Amid all that, the Health and Human Ser vices Depar tment on Wednesday provided its most specific accounting yet of the troubles with HealthCare.gov — an issue that is also about to get a lengthy, even-lessforgiving airing on Capitol Hill.

Residents oppose long-delayed apartment complex in Cedar-Riverside West Bank u from Page 1

Access to community spaces One issue involved a former city road Fine now owns. Cedar-Riverside residents use the road on the proposed development site to access Currie Park and the Brian Coyle Community Center on the other side of 15th Avenue South, Ahmed said. When residents approached the developer about the road, Ahmed said, Fine Associates confirmed it would close when construction began. “We decided that we had to go to the city,” Ahmed said, because many elders, children and people with disabilities use the road as a major path to the community areas. The city sided with residents, telling Fine it couldn’t block the road since other parties owned parts of it, Ahmed said. White said the road was a concession Fine needed to make to the community in order to move on with the development. West Bank Community Development Corporation Executive Director T im Mungavan said the road issue could’ve been a chance for Fine to work with the neighborhood. “It was a missed opportunity for that project to create a positive relationship with the neighborhood,” he said. Haila Maze, principal planner for the city, said the conflict over the road was one of several obsta-

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The city of Minneapolis has proposed a new six-story apartment complex on the corner of Sixth Street South and South 15th Avenue, near the University of Minnesota’s West Bank. Building Five15 on the Park would destroy the historic Gluek saloon building.

cles that have complicated the development in recent years. “It’s lasted longer than most projects,” she said.

Mixed-income housing

Most recently, Fine and the city have debated over a centur y-old building on the proposed site, formerly home to a saloon run by the Gluek Brewery. The Minneapolis Heri-

tage Preser vation Commission rejected Fine’s request in September to raze the building for Five15 on the Park. This has further stalled constr uction, but Fine is appealing the decision to the Minneapolis City Council. If the City Council overturns the commission’s decision and Fine Associates builds the complex according to current plans, half of the apartments will rent at

half of market rate, while the remaining half will at full market rate, White said. Mungavan said the WBCDC hasn’t of ficially taken a position on Five15 on the Park, but the plans have improved over time. Mixed-income housing is better for the neighborhood than more upscale options, he said. White said the development has to be a par tnership, and he hopes

residents will welcome the development when it’s complete. “We want them to be our customers as well as neighbors,” he said. High-density housing near the light-rail station could allow residents to commute without a car, White said, a trend that he hopes will minimize effects on the area’s already crammed parking situation.

The project’s location near the University of Minnesota and other local employers also makes the development appealing for those who work in or around the West Bank and want to bike or walk to work, he said. But residents are still uneasy. “Development is welcome here.” Ahmed said. “We like it, but we also have needs.”

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U lab looking to crack face blindness The Yonas Visual Perception Lab is seeking treatments and new methods of diagnosis. BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

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provide the candidates w i t h a d e quate time to inform their current colleagues of their participation in this search,” according to a Wednesday email from Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost Karen Hanson. Fisher said the interview process, which starts next

Lab manager Vanessa Adamson and research assistant Ariana VandenHeuvel work on data entry Thursday at Yonas Lab in Peik Hall.

blindness is likely caused by development issues in the region of the brain responsible for face recognition, said University research fellow Kirsten Dalrymple. “We have machiner y in our brains that is allocated for face recognition alone,” she said. “If that machinery doesn’t develop, you’re not going to be able to do that specialized process.” In the Yonas Lab, researchers test children for face blindness by asking them to memorize what three pictures of faces look like, Dalrymple said.

Researchers then present the children with another set of three faces, one from the previous set,

and ask them to identify the face they’ve seen before. But face blindness is a difficult disorder to identify, even for those who have it, Dalrymple said. Many people with the disorder use cues like hair, skin color and clothes instead of faces to remember people. Those with developmental face blindness often spend their lives unaware that they have the disorder, Dalrymple said. They think ever yone grows up “learning who people are” instead of being able to identify their faces, she said. There are indications that face blindness is a genetic disorder, Dalr ymple said, but it hasn’t been linked to one gene yet. Brad Duchaine, an associate professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth, is also researching face blindness, but he focuses on its acquired form. Duchaine said there are two different stages in face processing — the stage where a face is seen and the stage where it is remembered and identified as a person. He believes most instances of face blindness are caused by visual perception problems, though

week, will be “grueling.” “Having worked with most of those on the committee, I can tell you they’re very attuned to the biggest issues facing students and facing higher education,” Parente said. Fisher said the search committee, comprised of students, faculty members and administrators, is looking for a “visionar y” to lead CLA, which is the University’s largest college with nearly 15,900 students.

“Being a dean requires that you’re able to articulate clearly and concisely a vision for your disciplines to both your internal audience as well as the outside role,” he said. “Deans need to be pretty good managers, good listeners and find fundraising enjoyable.” The original candidate list was compiled over the summer by the Illinois-based executive search firm Witt/ Kieffer, which the University hired. The search committee

“Most people don’t know the problem exists, some people grow up to think everybody’s got the problem. ... Some people just have unhappy lives.” DR. ALBERT YONAS Yonas Lab leader

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FACE BLINDNESS TEST DURING TESTING, PARTICIPANTS ARE GIVEN THREE SECONDS TO LOOK AT THREE FACES.

NEXT, THEY LOOK AT TWO FACES THEY HAVEN’T SEEN BEFORE AND ONE FROM THE PREVIOUS GROUP.

THEN, THEY’RE ASKED TO IDENTIFY THE FACE THEY HAD SEEN BEFORE.

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Stephanie Chase used to recognize some of her Valleyfair coworkers by their ponytails. She thought nothing of it until a male coworker had to consistently remind her of who he was. Then Chase realized something wasn’t right. She then happened upon a description of prosopagnosia, also known as face blindness, and she discovered she has the disorder. People with face blindness have difficulty recognizing faces, sometimes even their own. A team of University researchers is working to find the best methods of diagnoses and treatments for the disorder. Dr. Alber t Yonas leads the the Yonas Visual Perception Lab, where Chase is a research assistant. “Most people don’t know the problem exists; some people grow up to think everybody’s got the problem,” Yonas said. “Some people just have unhappy lives,” He said about 2 to 2.5 percent of people worldwide have face blindness. Vanessa Adamson, the Yonas lab’s manager, said the severity of face blindness varies on a case-bycase basis. Someone could forget a face moments after it’s gone or struggle to differentiate any two faces. In extreme cases, she said, someone with face blindness can look at a picture of themselves without recognizing it’s them. Chase said people sometimes think she’s “snubbing” them when she doesn’t recognize them and she hesitates to tell others about her face blindness. “I’ll totally remember a conversation I had with them, just not their face,” she said. “I think that’s a hard distinction for people to make, especially at first.” There are two different types of face blindness, acquired and developed, Yonas said. Generally, those with acquired face blindness have experienced brain damage and lost the ability to recognize familiar faces, he said. The Yonas Lab is focusing its research on developmental face blindness, specifically in children. Developmental face

SOURCE: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS, KIRSTEN DALRYMPLE

this can be difficult to recognize for people with the disorder, he said. “It feels like a memory

problem because when you’re looking at a face for the first time, you have no idea what it should be looking like,”

Duchaine said. “But then when you fail to recognize it again, it feels like a memory failure.”

then narrowed the list. At the beginning of fall semester, the committee started conducting private interviews with each of the remaining candidates. Parente, now a professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, stepped down from his role as dean last summer so he could pursue research and teaching. “I hope they find someone who is passionate about advocating for the liberal arts,” he

said. Fisher said the six candidates are “top candidates that could go anywhere” and the final decision is simply a matter of finding the right fit for the University. “In addition to evaluating these candidates, we need to sell the value of coming to the [University] and the Twin Cities,” he said. “We have bit of a sales job to do.” The public interviews will be conducted at Walter Library and Anderson Hall. The

footage will be streamed live online and available for later viewing. In Wednesday’s email, Hanson encouraged students to attend the sessions and provide her with feedback about the candidates. The last interview is set for Nov. 21, and a final decision will likely be announced in December. The new dean’s starting date is uncertain, according to University spokesman Steve Henneberry.

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‘Undergrad Update’ advises respect Students should avoid culturally stereotypical Halloween costumes.

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ter by Brown and Albert on Wednesday. Brown told the Star Tribune that she hopes the letter causes students to reflect more carefully on their decisions, even if the letter sparks complaints about political correctness. Reading through the comments on the Star Tribune’s article confirms controversy around the letter. Many commenters argue the University, as a public institution with an obligation to uphold the Constitution, shouldn’t have sent the letter because it violates First Amendment rights to expression. As a student who received the update, I was impressed by the progressive message behind the letter. I interpreted the letter as a way to raise

awareness of cultural appropriation. Susan Scafidi, a Fordham University law professor and author of the book “Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law,” describes cultural appropriation as “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission.” The line between cultural appreciation and appropriation is often blurred. The distinct difference between the two, however, is that appreciation comes from a genuine interest in customs and traditions from a specific culture, whereas appropriation takes advantage of the stereotypes per taining to that specific culture, often without facing any of the hardships that group has endured. Cultural appropriation marginalizes the struggle minority groups face while exploiting the stereotypes that foster that same struggle. In September, a 21-yearold white Australian woman threw an “African-themed”

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birthday party. Pictures from the par ty displaying people dr essed as gorillas and KKK members and adorning blackface were posted to Facebook, and they eventually went viral on BuzzFeed. The problem with costumes like these is that they perpetuate stereotypes, often negatively, without the appropriator ever having to deal with the consequences of those negative stereotypes. The white people who painted their faces black, and thus perpetuated the blackface caricature, were able to wash the paint of f when they grew tired of it. For the people that blackface stereotypes, washing away paint isn’t an option. I believe the University has an obligation to make all students feel safe. If that obligation requires advising students to become more aware of how their actions can negatively af fect others, then it’s necessary. Sam Jasenosky welcomes comments at sjasenosky@mndaily.com.

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Men, misogyny and domestic violence It is ultimately up to men to finish the fight for gender equality in a male-dominated world.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The following two letters are in response to the Oct. 16 Minnesota Daily article titled “Four robberies hit U Monday.”

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As a University of Minnesota student, I am beginning to question my safety ar ound campus. These crime report emails that are sent to students do nothing but tell us to be more careful and stay in groups when walking around late at night. Three out of the four robberies from Sunday morning happened to people who were walking in groups. I think University police need to do more than just step up patrols. Police have added patrols before, and I have even noticed them more often when I am walking late at night, but these patrols have not solved the crime problem so far. UMPD needs to figure out why criminals feel so comfor table committing crimes around campus. Adding lighting and video cameras to streets surrounding the campus area might deter those who think nobody is watching. Andrew Kolo University student

Campus crime On Monday, Oct. 14, four separate assaults and robberies were committed on or near the University of Minnesota campus. Within

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he University of Minnesota’s Of fice of Student Affairs sent out its “Undergrad Update” email to students Monday. Under the “Nice to Know” section, the first topic in Monday’s email was “Celebrate Halloween Respectfully.” It encouraged students to be respectful when choosing Halloween costumes and to avoid perpetuating racial, cultural and gender stereotypes. A link in the update goes to a letter emailed to all students earlier this month that expands on the careful costume suggestion in the update. In the letter, Vice Provost and dean of students Danita Brown Young and Vice President of Equity and Diversity Katrice Alber t inform students that certain costumes “can depict identities in ways that are offensive or hurtful to others.” The Minnesota Daily printed a similar let-

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four hours on a Monday night, several students were stripped of their security and left with only a crime report or an injury. As a University of Minnesota student, it is of no surprise that the numerous crime aler t emails that I receive from University police are unsettling. I have been a resident of the University campus for the past four years and have never seen such frequent and uncontrollable crime. The criminal acts that took place last Monday were only a fraction of the number of assaults and robberies that have been repor ted on or near the University campus this fall. According to UMPD, there were 16 simple assaults, aggravated assaults and personal robberies around the University’s Minneapolis and St. Paul campuses in September. In the first three weeks of October there were 12 similar reports in the same area. In the article, University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said staying sober is one way to stay safe, but blaming alcohol for criminal issues affecting college students is just a cop out and is getting old. According to UMPD, there have been repor ted robberies and assaults occurring even in the afternoon while students are walking to work or class. There have been crime reports occurring at var ying times on numerous areas of campus. Regardless if

a victim has consumed alcohol, the reality is that the reported crimes could happen to anyone. Sobriety does not protect against a gun. UMPD’s crime aler ts advise students to walk in groups in order to prevent crimes. Although it is a helpful tip, many of the victims of the many robberies and assaults were repor tedly walking in groups. UMPD has issued countless crime aler t emails to University students. However, the repetitive after-the-fact notifications seem to have little success in preventing crime on campus and protecting the students. Laura Hinueber University student

Well done on crime alerts

I strongly suppor t University crime alerts. They are brief and have the clear objectives of letting us know what, where, when and by whom crimes are being committed. They also tell us how to safely respond to an attempted crime and how to avoid being a victim. U n f o r t u n a t e l y, E d Hahn, in his Oct. 22 guest column, “Crime aler t emails,” failed to recognize the hallmarks of good writing — his own craft — are identifying the audience and purpose for the piece being written. Leslie Everett University staff

ou’ve probably heard some of the following statistics before: Every nine seconds in the United States, a woman is assaulted or beaten; women LUIS RUUSKA get paid 77 cents columnist for every dollar a man makes; and women make up nearly 51 percent of the population but hold just 16 percent of the seats in Congress. These statistics not only paint a dismal portrait of the state of women in our society, but they also highlight what relatively little progress our society has made in changing our perception and treatment of women. So why has progress been slow? It may be because the fight for women’s rights has historically been an uphill battle led by women. If you need proof of this, recall your years in American history class. Try to think of a famous male feminist leader whose name was in a textbook. If you can’t, it’s probably because there were hardly any, if any at all. Women continue to face inequality and oppression because they have too few male allies. In order for this disturbing trend to reverse itself, men need to start speaking up. Women have fought and continue to fight the good fight for gender equality across the globe. I am not denying or diminishing their efforts. With that said, it is up to men to change the way male-dominated culture perceives and treats women. It is up to us to act as allies instead of as passive observers. We need to stand up and say the statistically proven rape culture within some fraternities nationwide is unacceptable. However, violence against women is not just a problematic stereotype in Greek life; it pervades college culture. We need to hold administrations accountable when they fail to take action. For example, the University of Connecticut recently let an assailant back on campus without warning the victim — police allegedly told the victim that women “need to stop spreading their legs.” Lastly, we need to stand up and say that it’s never acceptable to perpetrate violence against women in or outside of the home. Minnesota alone averages one domestic violence death a week. This is an unacceptable statistic. Men have an obligation to make changes in regard to promoting gender equality because we have the ability to — so what’s stopping us? Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

A long-term tuition freeze University administrators and lawmakers must continue to find ways to keep costs low.

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hough there are many benefits to a tuition freeze, one drawback is that it’ll eventually thaw out. Last spring, Minnesota lawmakers voted to fund the tuition freeze requested by University of Minnesota administrators for undergraduate students, holding tuition down for the next two years. Though certainly not a perfect deal — fees increased and tuition rose for non-resident and graduate students — University officials put a lot of effort into working with the Legislature to get the necessary increase in state funding. However, Minnesota Student Association’s then-President Taylor Williams rightly voiced concerns about sustainability. While the budget made steps in the right direction, Williams said “we must remember that it only makes a small impact in the context of a decade-plus-long trend of cost increases that have fallen squarely on students.” Indeed, in order for the University to make a noticeable dent in the cost of tuition, administrators and state lawmakers must continue to find ways to avoid increasing tuition down the road. Earlier this month, Gov. Mark Dayton gave a speech hinting that college affordability may continue to be a major focus in the state Legislature. On Saturday, Minnesota Public Radio reported that Dayton said he’d like to use a projected $750 million budget surplus to help lower the cost of higher education. Given the trend of decreasing state support for the University in the past, the Legislature would do well to use part of the projected budget surplus to continue to keep tuition down. Lawmakers should also work to keep costs down for graduate and non-resident students, who make up a significant portion of the University community. Though a significant victory, the tuition freeze should only be considered the first of many steps in achieving the goal of college affordability.

Justice for student-athletes The players at Grambling State deserve better from their school.

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he tension between student-athletes and the NCAA reached new heights last week when Grambling State University football players refused to travel for their scheduled game against Jackson State on Saturday. The players at Grambling State — a Division I school in Louisiana — were protesting the poor conditions of the athletic complex, citing issues with mold and mildew. Players also said poorly cleaned uniforms increased their risk of staph infection. The floor of the weight room is coming apart, and the attempt of former coach Doug Williams (fired last month) to replace it was met with opposition from school administration, players said. Because the money used to purchase the new floor was not filtered through the school’s foundation, it was decided that it could not be installed and was stored in a building nearby, Sports Illustrated reported. No longer wishing to play in these conditions, the players bravely took a stand and refused to play. In a column, Ramogi Huma, the president of the National College Players Association, told New York Times columnist William Rhoden, “The powers that be in the NCAA are taking notice because their worst fear has just happened, at Grambling State.” While the players announced Monday they would end the boycott, their decision to take a stand should have long-term effects on the league. When the health, safety and respect for the human dignity of college athletes is tarnished, players should remind their school that they’re more than just objects for entertainment. The situation at Grambling State is extraordinary, and college athletes shouldn’t refuse to play in protest, unless the circumstances are extreme. Simply creating a dialogue with the leadership is generally more beneficial to all parties involved. However, the protest at Grambling State should serve as a reminder to the NCAA that while it may have the money, most of the power in college sports ultimately lies with the players.

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Claeys takes lead for team BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

After the Gophers’ 20-17 win over Northwestern on Saturday, defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys returned home and went straight to bed. Filling in as head coach for Jerry Kill, Claeys has a lot more on his plate nowadays. “That’s a long week, and it gives you appreciation for all the obligations that need to be done outside of football,” Claeys said. “It’s a blessing I’m not married and don’t have a family, because I don’t know where I’d have time to spend with them this past week.” Though Claeys may not have children, he often calls his players his “kids” at press conferences. For last week’s game, the Kansas State graduate moved from his customary coaches’ box perch to the sidelines. Claeys still called all of the defensive plays from the sidelines, which he said was an adjustment. Claeys said going against an up-tempo offense like Northwestern forced him to focus on play-calling instead of coaching “his kids” between plays. “When we were on defense, I stayed away from the kids,” Claeys said. “With that no-huddle, you’ve got to think one play ahead. “I did have to take one timeout there late in the game. ... I was talking to [the kids], and I looked up and Northwestern’s ready to snap the ball, so I had to take a timeout. I didn’t have time to get the call in.”

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Gophers acting head coach and defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys coaches from the sidelines at Saturday’s game against Northwestern at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill.

Preparing for Nebraska

Claeys and his squad will have to be disciplined if they want to pull off another upset this week when No. 25 Nebraska comes to the Twin Cities. Claeys said Nebraska has the best skill position players of any team in the Big Ten, starting with its stud quarterback Taylor Martinez. Mar tinez entered this season with 9,449 yards of total offense in three seasons — a school record before the season. The next closest benchmark is 7,915 yards, set by Eric Crouch, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2001. Martinez is known for his ability to run the ball, rush-

ing for 1,019 yards last year. In 2012, Minnesota’s leading rusher, running back Donnell Kirkwood, finished with 926 yards on the ground. But Martinez might not even play Saturday due to a turf toe injury sustained in a game against UCLA. Though he star ted the first three games of the year, he hasn’t played since Sept. 14. Claeys said he’s confident Martinez will suit up and said the Gophers are preparing to face him. The Gophers lead the alltime series 29-22-2, but they haven’t beaten the Cornhuskers since 1960 — the last time they won the national championship. Still, after the Gophers’ win at Northwestern, Ne-

braska has taken notice. “Minnesota is getting better,” Nebraska head coach Bo Pelini said in a teleconference Monday. “I think they believe in what they are doing. I shouldn’t say I’m glad it happened. Hopefully, it caught our guys’ attention. I’m sure it did.”

Staying the course After the Gophers’ defensive per formance last week against Nor thwester n, there’s been some buzz about whether Claeys could become a head coach full time elsewhere. Minnesota had two interceptions Saturday — one by defensive lineman Ra’Shede Hageman and one by linebacker James Manuel,

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Gophers prepare for Huskers fans

MINNESOTA: The Gophers (5-2, 1-2 Big Ten) beat Northwestern 20-17 last Saturday in Evanston, Ill., for their first Big Ten win of the season. Minnesota went 4-0 through nonconference play this year but lost its first two Big Ten games to Iowa and Michigan. Minnesota is currently tied for fourth in the Big Ten Legends Division standings and will become bowl eligible with one more win. The Gophers actually lead the all-time series against Nebraska 29-22-2, but they haven’t beaten the Cornhuskers since 1960. Minnesota lost to Nebraska 38-14 last season at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Neb. Saturday is the second Go-Pher Epilepsy Awareness game, and members of Minnesota’s and Nebraska’s coaching staffs will wear purple ribbons to mark the occasion. Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill has been on leave for epilepsy treatment since Oct. 10. NEBRASKA: The Cornhuskers (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten) had a bye last Saturday after beating Purdue 44-7 on Oct. 12. The team started the season 2-0 before losing 41-21 to UCLA on Sept. 14. It’s since won three straight, including Big Ten wins over Illinois and Purdue. Senior quarterback Taylor Martinez sustained a turf toe injury during the UCLA game and hasn’t played since, but he could return Saturday. He has practiced this week and is “day-to-day,” Nebraska offensive coordinator Tim Beck said Tuesday in a release. Martinez threw for 308 yards and two touchdowns in the team’s win over Minnesota last year. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

which was returned for a touchdown. Manuel credited Claeys with preparing him for the sequence. “It was good play-calling [by Claeys] to get me outside,” Manuel said. “And then me watching film and knowing they were going to do something to that side.” Though his team perfor med well last week, Claeys said it would be difficult for him to take a head coaching position after being on Kill’s staff for 19 years. Still, he said if the opportunity arose, he would entertain it. “If somebody came along and was interested, obviously I’d listen,” Claeys said.

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The last time the Gophers hosted Nebraska, the Huskers dominated the scoreboard. Huskers fans nearly dominated the stands as well. Nebraska last traveled to Minnesota in 2011, winning 41-14. A significant number of the Cornhuskers’ fans made the trip with the team and limited the Gophers’ home-field advantage. The Gophers are hoping to return the favor this Saturday. “Historically, their fans will go anywhere with them, and we welcome that,” said Gophers senior safety Brock Vereen. “It’s going to be a great atmosphere.” Though the University wants to see more fans in the seats this time, its associate athletics director for strategic communications, Chris Werle, said there’s little the

athletics department can do to restrict the number of Nebraska fans at the game. “We can’t stop them,” he said. “We have to rely on our fans to buy up the tickets.” Minnesota gives 3,000 tickets to opponents to distribute however they like, he said. Most schools in the Big Ten and around the country follow the same procedure. For Nebraska, 3,000 aren’t nearly enough to satisfy all of the fans who want to go to the game, he said. “They just have one of those fan bases that travels extremely well,” he said. “They do it everywhere in the Big Ten, too, not just at Minnesota.” He said the athletics department hasn’t tried any different marketing tactics to get more Gophers fans to the Nebraska game this year. For some Gophers fans, seeing thousands of Nebraska fans in the stands two years ago was an embarrassing experience. “It’s just sad that we could possibly get outnumbered at home in terms of fans,” said business and sport management senior Mitch Fiereck. He said he expects to see

a few more Gophers fans this year because the team has improved since 2011. The last time the teams squared off in Minnesota, the Gophers were 1-5 and winless in the Big Ten. This year, the Gophers are 5-2 and riding high following a road win over Northwestern. Still, Fiereck said he doesn’t foresee much of a difference from 2011. “The problem is, it’s mostly the devoted Gophers fans that show up for these games,” he said. “Unless the team is doing great, which they usually aren’t, you don’t see many casual fans.” Economics senior Shaquille Lee said he’s seen away fans dominating attendance at Gophers home games for years. “Wisconsin fans used to come up here when we played it at the Metrodome,” he said. “It’s like someone’s taking over your house. It sucks.” While Minnesota’s football culture might not be up to par, football is king in Nebraska. “There’s not a whole lot like Nebraska football out there,” Nebraska senior Reid Lund said.

Unlike Minnesota, Nebraska has no professional sports teams, Lund said, so Nebraska fans are wild for college sports. That devotion drives its fans to travel. Lund, a Minnesota native, said the football culture at Nebraska is so strong that the University does not even need to promote games. “We’re spoiled to a certain extent,” said Nebraska football head coach Bo Pelini. “No matter where we go, we always have a tremendous showing by our fan base.” Nebraska offers its students its annual Student Migration Game. Every year, the school pulls together as many student fans as possible and sends them to one away game. In 2011, Nebraska chose Minnesota for the migration game. This year, they’ll come to Minneapolis again. Gophers football players said they’re ready, and they hope Minnesota fans are, too. “We know that Nebraska has a great fan base, and they’re probably going to be over here,” sophomore quarterback Philip Nelson said. “We need to be able to counter that with our fans.”

Claeys said he’s not sure he’ll stay on the sidelines going forward, and he’ll “cross that bridge” if Kill returns. For the second straight week, Claeys will focus on calling defensive plays from the sidelines against Nebraska. He said he misses being able to stretch out in the coaches’ box with a Coke Zero in hand and his play char ts laid out in front of him, but it’s not all bad. “I mean, I feel more comfor table in that situation,” he said, “but I did enjoy being on the sidelines with the kids, too.”

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Gophers preparing for Martinez on Saturday

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A mix of Minnesota and Nebraska fans at the Gophers’ homecoming game on Oct. 22, 2011, at TCF Bank Stadium. Nebraska fans represented about half of the game’s attendees.

Crossing the bridge

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Taylor Martinez torched Minnesota last season with 308 passing yards.

Nebraska traveled a sea of red to TCF Bank Stadium two years ago and won.

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Nebraska hasn’t announced whether senior quar terback Taylor Martinez will play Saturday against the Gophers. But Minnesota is preparing as if he will play, acting head coach and defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys said Tuesday. And for good reason. Mar tinez torched the Gophers for 308 passing yards and two touchdowns in Nebraska’s 38-14 win over Minnesota last season. He finished the year with 33 total touchdowns and earned All-Big Ten honors. Martinez is a shifty quarterback who makes plays with his feet as well as his arm and has a knack for explosive plays. “He’s as talented of a quar terback as we’ll play against in the Big Ten,” Claeys said. Martinez hasn’t played since sustaining a turf toe injur y during Nebraska’s 41-21 loss to UCLA on Sept. 14 but has practiced this week. The Cornhuskers (5-1, 2-0 Big Ten) are 3-0 without him but haven’t played a toptier opponent since UCLA. Tommy Armstrong Jr. has star ted in Mar tinez’s absence, but the redshir t freshman was benched in favor of senior Ron Kellogg III two weeks ago against Purdue. Nebraska junior receiver Kenny Bell said Monday he’s optimistic Martinez will return this weekend but has “just as much faith” in Armstrong and Kellogg III. Bell is part of a physical group of Nebraska receivers that could pose a threat to a depleted Gophers secondary. Bell and senior receiver Quincy Enunwa have combined for 638 receiving

yards and 10 touchdowns this season and have made several highlight-reel catches. Claeys said he thinks there will be four or five jump-ball situations Saturday and said those situations will have a big impact on the game. Claeys said Tuesday that junior cornerback Derrick Wells is “banged up a little bit.” In turn, senior safety Brock Vereen could again see time at cornerback after playing in that spot against Northwestern. The Gophers will also have to contain junior running back Ameer Abdullah, who is averaging 7.2 yards per carry this season. “It’s a cat-and-mouse game to try and keep them off-balance and not give up the big play,” Claeys said. “But with all their speed, that’s hard to do.”

Wayzata defensive lineman faces hometown team

Nebraska redshir t junior defensive tackle Tobi Okuyemi grew up in Maple Grove, Minn., and went to Wayzata High School. He’ll face his hometown team for a third time Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium. Okuyemi said the Gophers recr uited him, but he was “more comfortable” with Nebraska. He became the Cor nhuskers’ first Minnesotan in six years when he signed with them in 2010. He’s the only Minnesotan on their roster now. The Okuyemi family still has ties to Minnesota as his dad, Dr. Kola Okuyemi, is the director of the University of Minnesota Medical School’s program in health disparities research. But Tobi Okuyemi said his dad will be cheering for the Cornhuskers on Saturday. Okuyemi graduated from Wayzata in 2010 and was a three-star defensive end, according to Rivals. com. He’s appeared in just two games in his three seasons at Nebraska.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

No. 1 rank irrelevant so early in season Minnesota players downplayed the top spot in the last NCAA rankings. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

At the beginning of this season, there wasn’t much expectation sur rounding the Gophers men’s hockey team. Minnesota lost five juniors to the NHL. One incoming freshman left the team for the USHL, and another received an indefinite suspension. Seven new freshmen joined the 25-man team. With all the new faces, a No. 5 ranking in the national preseason poll seemed generous. But less than a month later, the Gophers are No. 1 in the nation. While the leap to No. 1 so early in the season is impressive, Minnesota isn’t putting much stock in the numbers. Gophers head coach Don Lucia said his team has beaten the teams it was supposed to beat en route to its perfect record so far. “Four games in, we’re No. 1 because we’re 4-0, and we’re Minnesota,” Lucia said. “Lake [Superior] State is 4-0, and they’re Lake [Superior] State. So they don’t get it. And that’s part of it. It’s so irrelevant this early in the season.” Lucia said the next sev-

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NO. 5 BOSTON COLLEGE

7 p.m., Friday and 1 p.m., Sunday at Mariucci Arena

MINNESOTA: The Gophers men’s hockey team will face its toughest competition yet this weekend at home against Boston College. Minnesota swept a road series at Bemidji State last weekend, winning 6-3 and 5-1. The Gophers moved up two spots in the national poll with the wins to take over the No. 1 position. Junior forward Sam Warning and freshman forward Justin Kloos also earned Big Ten weekly awards. Warning took home the conference’s First Star while Kloos was the Third Star. Minnesota is now 4-0-0 on the season. BOSTON COLLEGE: The Eagles come into their meeting with the Gophers at 2-1-0 on the season. Their sole loss was 3-1 at Michigan on Oct. 10. Boston College drubbed Wisconsin at home 9-2 last weekend, helping it move up two spots in the national poll. Junior forward Johnny Gaudreau earned Boston College’s Eagle of the Week award Tuesday for scoring a goal and adding two assists in his second straight three-point game. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

eral series will be the real test for his team as competition starts to ramp up. He said the No. 1 spot could be up for grabs ever y week. Senior for ward and captain Nate Condon said this weekend’s series at home against Boston College will be the first real test of the Gophers’ progress. The Eagles are currently ranked No. 5. “I think that once you see us out there against a talented team like that,” Condon said, “you’ll be able to see how far some of our freshmen have really come and how far we

really need to go this season.” As far as exceeding early-season expectations, Condon said his team was never concer ned about overcoming skeptics. “I think that our coaches always set high expectations for us,” Condon said. “So I think right now we’re tr ying to live up to their expectations first.” After Boston College, thr ee of the next four teams the Gophers will face are nationally ranked. And sophomore defenseman Brady Skjei said the Gophers aren’t entering this tough stretch

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Speed line helps produce Kelly Terry, Dani Cameranesi and Kate Schipper are all quick on the ice. BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

In high school, Gophers freshman for wards Dani Cameranesi and Kate Schipper were opponents. But now they’re not only playing on the same team — they’re on the same line. Along with senior forward Kelly Terr y, the trio has been one of the most productive lines for the Gophers so far this season. Minnesota head coach Brad Frost said all three for wards are similar players, and they’re probably three of the fastest players in the country. “It’s always har d to defend against a line like that,” Frost said. “It’s hard with one player like that, let alone two or three.” Because all three are speedy, they create frustrating matchup issues for opponents. “We just felt like they would be able to apply a lot of forecheck pressure and create some turnovers and get some goals that way,” Frost said. The trio’s speed can be tiring to opponents tr ying to battle for puck possession. “When you get three of us out there at the same time, we have a tendency to pin teams in and get them running around and trying to keep up with us,” Terr y said. Terr y, the line’s leader, said the two freshmen bring a lot of enthusiasm because they’re excited to be playing for the Gophers. “We kind of feed off of each other’s energy, whether that’s on the forecheck or tr ying to score some goals, or even backchecking,” Terry said. “They just like to do it all.” As the line has begun to play together more, and the freshmen have acclimated themselves to the college game, the trio’s chemistr y has developed. The two freshmen aren’t the loudest voices on the ice, but Cameranesi said Terr y has been breaking them out of their shell. Schipper said communication among the three has been getting better, slowly but surely.

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Minnesota forward Kelly Terry fights for the puck against Wisconsin on Oct. 12 at Ridder Arena.

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BEMIDJI STATE

7:07 p.m., Friday and 4:07 p.m., Saturday in Bemidji, Minn.

MINNESOTA: Undefeated, Minnesota will head up to Bemidji to take on the Beavers this weekend. The Gophers beat the Beavers six times last season. In one of the games, Bemidji State battled Minnesota to a regulation tie before Minnesota won in overtime. It was one of the closest games the Gophers played in last year. Minnesota hasn’t lost to Bemidji State since 2011, but the two skated to an overtime tie in early 2012. BEMIDJI STATE: The Beavers will enter the weekend 3-2-1 on the season. They swept Lindenwood in Bemidji last weekend. The series will be the Beavers’ first WCHA matchup of the season. Bemidji State is led by sophomores Hanna Moher and Kaitlyn Tougas, who both have five points on the season. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

“ We h e a r [ T e r r y ] screaming all the time, but we could too … especially when she has the puck and we’re open,” Schipper said. While her linemates aren’t the loudest on the ice, Terry is still able to find them. “We’re … ver y similar players, so what’s not actually communicated on the ice, we still kind of read off each other well and we know where we’re going,” Terry said. Sch ippe r said sh e’s enjoyed playing with linemates that are quick like her. “When we’re actually going full speed ... we usually have the puck and we usually have possession most of the time, so it’s really fun,” Schipper said. Along with communication, a focus of the line has been putting more shots on goal. Schipper said they’ve been focusing on going to the net instead of just circling in the offensive zone. “If you have possession and you’re not doing anything with it, then it’s point-

less,” Schipper said. Terr y said the line sets pregame goals, which help remind them to put shots on goal. “If we have an off period where we’re not playing as well, we kind of remind ourselves, ‘Hey, we’re not hitting our quota yet,’ so we kind of refocus and tr y to do that,” Terry said. She said their initial goal was 10 shots per game as a line, but they’ve since “raised the bar a little bit” because they did such a good job with the first goal. In the team’s first game against Minnesota-Duluth last weekend, the line recorded 11 shots on goal. In the second game, Cameranesi and Terry recorded a combined eight shots on goal and three points apiece. Schipper was injured during the game and didn’t practice Monday, but Frost said he expects her to play this weekend against Bemidji State. And that means the Gophers’ speed line could create mismatches for the Beavers defense this weekend.

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Minnesota forward Nate Condon fights for the puck against North Dakota defenseman Derek Forbort on Jan. 19 at Mariucci Arena.

overconfident. “The top 10 teams

could all beat each other any night,” he said.

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VOLLEYBALL

Women fall to rival Wisconsin on road Minnesota won the first set but lost the final three and fell to 18-4. BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

No. 7 Minnesota entered the match against Wisconsin on a streak of three impressive victories — two over ranked opponents. That streak came to an abr upt halt Wednesday night as the rival Badgers beat the Gophers in four sets in Madison, Wis. With the victor y, Wisconsin moved into a deadlock with the Gophers at third in the Big Ten standings. “Anything can happen on any given night, and tonight was Wisconsin’s night on the court,” senior setter Alexandra Palmer said after the match. “We’ll get them next time.” Minnesota won the first set and looked to be rolling after that, but an inconsistent final three sets led to the four-set loss. “They’re a team that’s playing on right now. They were cer tainly good tonight, and I think it’s just the nature of the beast in the Big Ten,” Gophers head coach Hugh McCutcheon said after the

loss. The Gophers and Badgers played a back-andfor th first set until Minnesota distanced itself midway through the set. It didn’t relinquish the lead after that, winning the first set on a Daly Santana ace. That ace, and the momentum it provided, appeared to carr y over into the second set as Minnesota built an early fourpoint lead.

“They fought hard the whole match, and I don’t know if we were ready for it. They are a good group of girls who pushed us to the end.” ASHLEY WITTMAN senior outside hitter

But after a controversial call early in the second set, the Badgers stole the momentum and held on to it to tie the match at one set apiece. “They fought hard the whole match, and I don’t know if we were ready for it,” senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman said. “They are a good group of girls who pushed us to the end.”

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The No. 16 Badgers looked dominant at times against the higher-ranked Gophers. After the match, McCutcheon spoke highly of the Badgers’ new head coach, Kelly Sheffield, and also credited the new additions to the Badgers’ lineup. “They made plays down the stretch, and they were able to turn a couple and we weren’t,” McCutcheon said. “I think their transition offense was a little bit better than ours. That was really the key to the game.”

Now back home against Northwestern

Minnesota will look to rebound from this loss Sunday against Nor thwestern. This will be the first time the two teams have met all season. Nor thwester n is 13-8 on the season and sits at 5-4 in the Big Ten. “They’re a scrappy team,” McCutcheon said of Northwestern. “They’re going to play hard and I think we’ll have our hands full.”

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Minnesota outside hitter Ashley Wittman spikes the ball against Michigan State on Oct. 17 at the Sports Pavilion.

CROSS COUNTRY

Jack’s Run honors late equipment manager Johnson

Jack Johnson was the Gophers longtime equipment manager who died in 2006. BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Jack Johnson died from liver cancer in 2006, but his legacy lives on at the University of Minnesota. Johnson was a longtime equipment manager with the Gophers, and Saturday evening, the women’s cross countr y team will run in Jack’s Twilight Run

— an annual race in his honor. Former head women’s cross countr y coach Gar y Wilson said Johnson’s passion for the University was unmatched. “I can tell you this,” Wilson said. “There’s nobody in this world that’s ever been at the U that’s loved the U more than Jack Johnson.” Now, the athletics program that Johnson spent years working for remembers him with meets in his honor. The men’s track and field team par ticipates in

the Jack Johnson Invitational annually, and the women’s team runs in the Jack Johnson Classic. For the women’s cross country team, this will be the sixth annual Jack’s Twilight Run. “I just wanted to honor him because without Jack and people like [him] in this program, it wouldn’t be where it is,” W ilson said. Former athletics director Joel Maturi said he thought Wilson and current head coach Sarah Hopkins have done a “really good job teaching the new kids, who didn’t know

Jack, who he was.” W ilson said Johnson didn’t have much family, so the track and field and cross countr y teams became his family. “He just loved the kids and the kids loved him,” Wilson said. “He treated the kids on the team like they were his daughters.” And the job became an integral part of his life. “That job was his life in some ways,” Maturi said, “and the students and the staff were his family. And I think that’s how he looked at it, and I think that it kept him going as long as it did.” Hopkins ran for Minnesota when Johnson was an equipment manager and said he was always around in the equipment room and often traveled to meets with the team. Though track and field and cross country were not the only spor ts Johnson tended to, Hopkins said she thought he took a liking to it because it was easy to figure out. “He would always tell us, ‘Watch out for this one. She’s going to be really, really good down the road,’ ” Hopkins said. “And most of the time he was actually right.” In his time with the Go-

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JACK’S TWILIGHT RUN

MINNESOTA 6 p.m., Saturday at Les Bolstad Golf Course

PREVIEW: Minnesota will rest its top runners as the rest of the team participates in Jack’s Twilight Run. The run is named after former equipment manager Jack Johnson, who passed away from liver cancer in 2006. Anyone is eligible to register for the race. Those interested can sign up at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday. The proceeds for the race go to the Jack Johnson Endowed Scholarship and the Angel Foundation of Minnesota. This year, the race will be held at twilight. Gophers head coach Sarah Hopkins said she got that idea from her colleagues around the country, who had done something similar in the past. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

phers, Johnson developed a close bond with Wilson. And while Johnson was battling cancer, Wilson and his wife, Suzy, took Johnson into their home. Johnson was eventually forced to retire because of his illness. A retirement party was held in his honor at Mariucci Arena, and about 500 people showed up, Wilson said. Johnson was at the hospital on the day of his party, and his nurse told him he had to stay overnight. Wilson said he came and “spr ung him” out of the

hospital anyway. “He walked into the party and said, ‘I hate you. I hate you,’ ” Wilson said of Johnson. “But when he got in there, of course he loved it.” Wilson said he bet Johnson would react similarly to meets in his name. “He would not be happy about all this recognition, but too bad,” Wilson said. “He was a very special person to me. He was like a brother to me.” Along with the meets, his legacy lives on through a scholarship fund he created. Wilson said before Johnson died, he sat down with his lawyer and decided he wanted to star t the endowed scholarship. “Basically ever y dime he had left in the world, he donated to the Jack Johnson [Endowed] Scholarship Fund,” Wilson said. “He didn’t leave anything to anybody else. It was pretty special.” Though Saturday’s race is open to the general public and registration is free, a donation is suggested. Proceeds from the race go to the Jack Johnson Endowed Scholarship and the Angel Foundation of Minnesota, an organization that Hopkins said was helpful to Johnson when he had cancer. “[Until] his dying breath, all he talked about was the kids and how they were doing,” Wilson said.

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SOCCER

Thyken fills important role for Gophers Katie Thyken was named team captain before the season and has stepped up. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

Junior midfielder Katie Thyken is a rock for the Gophers. Steadfast and unwavering, Thyken holds her squad together. And for a Gophers team experiencing a season full of ups and downs as it maneuvers through the Big Ten schedule, Thyken’s leadership has been necessar y. “She’s our glue,” junior midfielder Olivia Schultz said. “W ithout her, our midfield would not be as strong as it is.” In the spring, Thyken was named captain of a team that features just eight upperclassmen and a roster filled with turnover. After graduating seven seniors last season, Minnesota star ted the 2013 campaign with 12 newcomers — leaving Thyken to step up. “I knew that I had to be a bigger leader on the field,” she said. “I knew I needed to make [my voice] even louder.” Thyken said she picked up leadership skills from her father, who captained his collegiate hockey team. “Growing up, you just get used to it and kind of develop into it,” she said. Thyken said while she is probably the most vocal player in the attacking

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WISCONSIN

PURDUE

7 p.m., Thursday in Madison, Wis., and noon, Sunday in West Lafayette, Ind.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers (9-5-2, 2-4-2 Big Ten) head into the weekend winless in their last three outings (0-2-1). Minnesota has been shut out in five of its eight Big Ten battles, but the offense does seem to be on the uptick. The Gophers produced two goals in a 2-2 tie Friday against Iowa, a conference-high for the team, and took 20 shots in their 1-0 loss to Nebraska on Sunday. Gophers junior midfielder Katie Thyken said the border battle with the Badgers always produces tight results. “We need to ... focus on Wisconsin tomorrow and get it done, especially [against] the Badgers,” she said. “It’s always a super close game no matter how each team’s been doing.” WISCONSIN: The Badgers (9-4-2, 4-3-1) have struggled on their home pitch this season. Wisconsin is 3-3 at home in 2013 — a stark contrast from its 6-1-2 road record. Wisconsin is led by sophomore midfielder Kinley McNicoll. She’s netted six goals and dished out 12 assists this year to pace the Badgers’ offense. PURDUE: The Boilermakers (8-7-1, 3-5-0) enter the weekend looking to hop off the slippery slide they’re currently on. Purdue’s lost three consecutive games. Purdue’s struggled in net all season. It has used three different keepers, and they have combined for a .634 save percentage — abysmal compared to Gophers freshman keeper Tarah Hobbs’ .869 percentage. The Gophers have beaten Purdue in five of their past six meetings. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, UWBADGERS.COM, PURDUESPORTS.COM

zone, she leads by example. “I think that’s the most influential,” she said. “I always tr y to do that: work my hardest and maybe my teammates will work hard with me.” Thyken is a fierce competitor. Her teammates notice her relentless style and bulldog mentality. “She’s always the most aggressive — she’s ever ywhere on the field,” Schultz said. “She can run from one half of the field

to the other and not even be tired.” Thyken’s aggressiveness on the pitch isn’t something you’d expect from a 5-foot-4-inch player jockeying with larger Big Ten defenders. But Thyken’s had experience battling more physically developed players from when she used to practice with her brother’s soccer team. “You kind of have to learn to fend people of f,” she said. “I just kind of

VIKINGS

QB Ponder likely to start BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — The quarterback carousel hasn’t stopped turning for the Vikings and it seems to spin more wildly out of control each week. After an awful debut on Monday night, Josh Freeman reported to team headquar ters this week with concussion-like symptoms. The short week will make it difficult for him to gain clearance to play Sunday night against Green Bay. Step right up, Christian Ponder. It’s your turn to hop on for another ride when the V ikings (1-5) host the Packers (4-2). “It’s an oppor tunity to get back in the saddle and be more vocal and take ahold of this position,” Ponder said on Wednesday after practice, “because I don’t want to give it back.” Ponder started the first three games of the season, was injured and then lost his job to backup Matt Cassel. Cassel played well in a victor y over Pittsburgh and poorly in a loss to Carolina two weeks ago, prompting coach Leslie Frazier to turn to the newly signed Freeman against the New York Giants on Monday. Freeman went 20 for 53 for 190 yards and one interception in the loss to the Giants, but coach Leslie Frazier said Tuesday that he would stick with Freeman going for ward as the starter. Then Freeman was diagnosed with the concussion symptoms, thrusting Pon-

der back into the middle of the action. For a team that is looking to stabilize itself during a massively disappointing first six weeks, the ins and outs at quarterback aren’t helping. “At the quarterback position, you want to know who is going to be lining up week-in and week-out,” Frazier said. “But that’s the circumstance where we are and Christian will do a good job for us on Sunday night.” When the season started, it was Ponder who was cast as the franchise quarterback. He had been inconsistent in his first two seasons in the league after being taken 12th overall in 2011. But GM Rick Spielman and Frazier were confident that he would follow the path of Eli Manning and have a breakout season in Year 3. Then they watched Ponder complete just 59 percent of his passes and throw five interceptions to just two touchdown passes in three straight losses to open the season and made the decision that his time as the team’s starting quar terback had come to an end. Ponder was clearly disappointed with the decision, and he didn’t get a lot of help from a lackluster offensive line in the process, but he bit his tongue and moved for ward as Freeman was brought in to take over. “He’s a competitor and he wants to be out there for sure. But he’s handled it well,” Frazier said. “Our conversations have been positive. We even talked last week about the pos-

sibility of something like this happening, just being ready. When you’re in a backup role it takes one play for you to have to be the star ter so you’ve got to make sure your mind is right and you’re doing what you’ve got to do to prepare to go out and play and play well.” Veteran receiver Greg Jennings, who will be facing his former team for the first time this week, said he hopes Ponder has learned from his time on the sideline. “Any time you have to take a backseat, any time you have to sit down for a minute, it gives you time to reflect and I think he’s done that,” Jennings said. “He’s seen how impor tant it is to play at a high level at that position. But even more importantly, how impor tant that position is to the overall success of the team and what it takes to actually hold that position. “It’s not just about your quarterback play, it’s about how you lead off the field as well and on the field, how you command the huddle, how you demand things of your teammates. I think he’s had the opportunity to see that.” Ponder said he was surprised by the “short leash” he had to start the season, and he thinks he was putting too much pressure on himself. Life as a backup has given him a new perspective. “Now is the opportunity to take that deep breath and go out and have fun again,” Ponder said. “I already got benched, so it can’t get worse than that.”

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Minnesota midfielder Katie Thyken fights for the ball against Louisiana State on Sept. 6.

learned to use my body.” Now Thyken and the Gophers are battling another fearsome task: inconsistency. Minnesota experienced upset wins over then-No. 7 Penn State and No. 13 Michigan but also lost

to Michigan State and Nor thwestern, which are currently the bottom two teams in the Big Ten. Despite the rises and falls, Thyken and the other seven upperclassmen are urging the team to stay the course, starting Thursday

in Madison, Wis., against rival Wisconsin. “We’re still OK,” she said. “We’ve had these highs, and we’ve had these lows, but we’ve just got to level it out a bit. ... It’s been a crazy ride, but we’re working on it.”

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WEEKEND

The man behind the masks

A local artist runs a homemade haunted house in his friend’s garage.

Eleven-year old Fiona Nolan waits for customers to scare outside of “The Butcher Shop: House of Gore” in St. Paul on Saturday.

thursday

Reality sucks Last Friday, I met with Etoll outside “The Butcher Shop.” Bloody severed hands and feet dangled in the shop’s door way. Yellow lights illuminated a mummy torso, and feral rats were displayed in the garage window. Blood-curdling screams, spine-tingling cackles and hair-raising wolf cries resounding from the garage warned those about to enter of the terror awaiting them. Etoll walked ahead of me down a dark corridor toward part of the haunted house he needed to set up for the evening. Fishing wire and black fabric hanging from the ceiling grazed my head and arms as I bumped my way

“The Uninvited” (1944) Take-Up Productions is an amazing asset to the Twin Cities film community. Usually operating out of the cozy Trylon cinema in Longfellow, every so often this nonprofit group of cinephiles takes their show to the larger screen. Shown in its original 35mm format, the “The Uninvited” is wartime America’s escape to a haunted seaside English manor by a young and attractive couple. You’ve got your gypsies, your séances, your ghosts, your mysterious villagers and I think there’s a love story wrapped up in all of this too. “The Uninvited” is a fun break from the Hollywood maxim now that you must poo your pants in fright in order to make a good scary movie. u Where: The Heights Theatre, 3951 NE Central Ave., Columbia Heights u When: 7:30 p.m. u Cost: $8

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through the blackness. I caught up to him in a lit hallway, where he wedged his way behind a chicken wire fence to get at the mannequin he wanted to relocate. The mannequin’s head looked like a bear ripped off a layer of skin and then someone threw acid on its face. A blue eyeball hung from the socket. Etoll flipped a switch. A snaggle-toothed old woman with piercing gray eyes and long, scraggly, straw-colored hair began to rock back and forth in her chair. Her witchy cackling provided background noise for Etoll’s commentary on reality, fantasy and social media. “I kind of like to keep my personal life personal, and when it starts to overlap —” He stopped mid-sentence and handed the mauled mannequin head to me. “Can you hold this for a second?” he asked. He said he doesn’t understand the fascination with reality and obsession with social media. He prefers to escape to the fantasy world of movies, or of his own creation, because most of reality “sucks.” “That’s why I don’t like the Soap Factory [Haunted

HOLLY PETERSON, DAILY Fake limbs hang outside of “The Butcher Shop: House of Gore” in St. Paul on Saturday.

Basement], because they do the opposite. They tr y to push real life in people’s faces and go, ‘This is frightening.’ ” Etoll hopes his haunted house will ser ve as a reminder “that there’s a bigger invisible world that you’re not so aware of, that it has nothing to do with your puny little job or how much you hate your boss or how lousy your sex life is. ... That’s not the stuff of reality. The invisible world is more real than the reality you’re confronted with ever y day.” The par t of reality that sucks the most for Etoll is the inevitability of death. He said the scar y element of haunted houses and hor rifying fantasy helps people deal with the fact

E.L.nO. (All-Star E.L.O. Tribute) The Electric Light Orchestra took the music world by storm in the ’70s and early ’80s through a scientifically proven combination of slick tunes and big fluffy hair. This E.L.nO. cover band is a heck of a lot of fun. E.L.nO. is the perfect feel-good music, and this monthly gig at Lee’s Liquor Lounge attracts a cast of regulars, who are alone worth the cost of admission. Farcical as the premise is, E.L.nO. isn’t joking when it says they’re an All-Star tribute. Dave Campbell, from MPR’s “The Local Show,” is one of the band’s leaders. Opening for E.L.nO. is MPR’s Jill Riley and another Bob Dylan cover band. Like we said, star-studded. u Where: Lee’s Liquor Lounge, 101 Glenwood Ave., Minneapolis u When: Show starts at 9 p.m., E.L.nO. on at 11:30 p.m. u Cost: $10

that they’re going to die. “It isn’t so much the fear of death; it’s the bummer of death,” he said. “It really sucks that you have to die.” Several minutes later, he broke the conversation to focus on preparation. A few people were already waiting outside, and he was running late. Once he got ever ything set and the actors took their hiding places, Etoll stood in front of the garage to welcome us in. “Don’t touch the monsters and they won’t touch y o u . We l c o m e t o ‘ T h e Butcher Shop: House of Gore.’ Have fun,” he said. Low, ominous music and cat shrieks played through the speakers. I heard random, tormented

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ike Etoll’s fascination with hor ror and gore began with a traumatizing experience when he was about 5 years old. His uncle put him onto a haunted house ride by himself. He had no idea what it was or what he was about to see. “[B]y the time I came out, I was just like, warped, permanently. … I came out, and I was bawling my eyes out.” A year or two later, Etoll started drawing scar y pictures and hanging them up on his walls. He even created mini haunted houses in his bedroom and made his brother and sisters go through them. “They hated it,” he said. As a teenager, he snuck into R-rated horror films. “I’d watch a movie four times in a row, and I would go home and create the things I saw in the movie out of whatever materials I had,” he said. Etoll thought about horror films and fantasy on a deep level, even at a young age. He said he cared more about recreating the atmosphere of the films than the mechanics. These days, he makes a living doing freelance special effects work for Bmovies like “The Hagstone Demon” (2011) and “Insectula!” (2013). He also directed the music video for Meat Puppets’ song “Orange” in 2011. “I’m not so much a spe-

cial ef fects ar tist. I make special effects and this type of thing out of necessity to realize a vision,” he said. “The Butcher Shop: House of Gore” is one of the most recent manifestations of Etoll’s fantastic artistic vision. He cr eated the DIY haunted house in a shabby black garage three years ago with his wife Eva and some friends, one of whom owns the proper ty just outside the Dayton’s Bluff neighborhood. The initial construction was tough for the Etolls, who worked on a tight budget with limited help and few hours of sleep. But the operation runs a little smoother now that the sets are finished and they’ve accumulated a stockpile of props.

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screeching that sounded vaguely like Etoll, but I wasn’t sure. The two people in front of me buffered most of the shock and scares. Some of the props were too unconvincing to actually be scar y, but the combination of sounds, lighting, actors and labyrinth layout created a tr uly disorienting experience. If the Soap Factor y is the haunted house version of the “Saw” movie series, then “The Butcher Shop” is the less-elaborate “The Evil Dead” version, minus all the squirting blood. “I’m not doing this because I make a lot of money,” Etoll said after ward. “I’m not doing this for any reason other than I purely love things like this.”

Ghost Trolley Ghosts are all that remain of the Twin Cities’ once vibrant trolley and streetcar line. This weekend, you can experience what was a big part of life for a lot of now-dead Minneapolitans and take a ride on the Como-Harriet Streetcar! Organized by the Minnesota Streetcar Museum, a group that runs a corral of wonderfully maintained streetcars, the rides include a warning that the activity may not be appropriate for kids, so we’ll take that as a good sign. Make a spooky day of it and tour the nearby Lakewood Cemetery, nestled in between the Harriet and Calhoun Lakes. u Where: Como-Harriet Streetcar Line, 42nd & South Queen Avenue, Minneapolis u When: 6-9 p.m. u Cost: $4

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Unless you’re planning to visit to the lovely beaches of Mogadishu anytime soon, the Somali Museum at 1516 E. Lake St. in Minneapolis may be your only other option to examine ar tifacts of Somali culture. The museum is a labor of love created by local restaurant owner Osman Ali, who personally collected more than 700 ar tifacts over the years. Ali recently told the Star Tribune his mission is two-fold: helping Somali-Americans appreciate their heritage, and educating others about their countr y.

The Twin Cities Film Festival Make no spooky bones about it; this is a schwanky film festival at a schwanky theater — It’s got a VIP section where you can drink beer! — at a schwanky shopping center on the west side of town. But despite the red carpet events and Lexuses in the parking lot, the films at this year’s Twin Cities Film Fest are mostly unpretentious, genuinely interesting flicks.

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The Fest star ted last Thursday and r uns through Saturday, so you’ve still got plenty of time to catch a show. Check twincitiesfilmfest.org for details on show times or stop by one of the Fest mixers at 9 p.m. each night this week.

“Cold As Ice” Foreigner Okay, so forgive this interpretation of a classic band and a classic song, but are you ready to sacrifice your love? Are you willing to pay the price? Are you ready to make love with a hoodie and socks on? Not Foreigner, anymore, but this is a fact of life for all of us prepping for seven months of something that people in other parts of the country call one of the four seasons. It’s getting frigid, ladies and gents, so prepare yourself. It’s a proven fact that listening to this WILL un-hunch your shoulders. And it’ll hopefully inspire you to ditch the common feeling of cabin fever and get out there to do something awesome.

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FOOD

Junk talks, snark sells

Redditors among us

The University’s ReUse Warehouse has a sassy and successful approach to peddling excess on Facebook. BY THOM Q. JOHNSON tjohnson@mndaily.com

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hen the University of Minnesota doesn’t want something anymore, it’s sent to a warehouse on Southeast Como Avenue. It’s like that basement room where all the Christmas tree decorations and old mattresses are kept, but in a house that belongs to a land-grant university with a student population of more than 50,000. This massive collection of tables and chairs, lab equipment, A/V supplies, musical instr uments and staplers is called the ReUse Program Warehouse, and it boasts one of the University’s most successful Facebook pages. The page has about four times the number of likes as the College of Liberal

Ar ts page and about half the following of the University’s basketball and football teams. The ReUse Warehouse’s Face bo o k h a r ne s s e s a “Myster y Science Theater 3000” brand of sarcastic humor to adver tise its wares. The warm ever yman tone compares complex pieces of lab equipment to Wall-E’s brother and imagines users buying chairs to help facilitate a cult meeting or buying fake plants to form a jungle in their house. The page star ted in 2010, when Stacey White became manager of the ReUse Program and turned to social networking as a way to grow the program’s profile on campus. “At that time, we really didn’t have a way to share our inventory with customers,” she said. “Facebook seemed like a good way to communicate what we had with a photo and a caption.” White handed page administration over to a guy who worked in the of fice and let him do his thing.

That guy, Chris L ynch, a business analyst for the University’s Disbursement Ser vices, naturally let his sense of humor soak into the job. “I’d walk around the warehouse and take 20 to 60 photos and just sit down and tr y to make up stories about them,” he said. These stories included a box of lead pipes with the caption “Colonel Mustard, we’re watching you” and an old futon labeled a “Venus couch trap.” The items are resold to other University campuses. But once a week and on the first Saturday of ever y month, the general public is invited to come in and buy items from the collection. “To reach that kind of audience, you have to make it something that people would want to look at on their own time,” L ynch said. “On one hand, I do wonder how we get away with it sometimes, but on the other, it’s been really successful for us.” The humor that L ynch initiated has since become

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institutionalized within the ReUse Program. Potential employees are screened for wit, and their posts are analyzed each week to see what kinds of jokes are getting the biggest reaction, White said. “The reality is that it’s a business medium. It’s as important as answering the phone or answering email,” she said. “We can have a snarky and fun and sarcastic satire tone, but we still need to provide good customer service.”

FOOD

Q&A with a local super chef Award-winning chef Jack Riebel discusses his past and the future of food. BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

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f you glance at Butcher & The Boar’s sausageladen menu, you might just mistake Jack Riebel for a traditionalist. His cooking may seem sentimental, yet his outlook on food is anything but. His restaurant has won numerous local and national accolades with its old-school menu. Riebel himself was a semifinalist for the 2013 James Beard award — frequently referred to as the Oscars of the food world. Despite all this, Riebel is enthusiastic about the future of the culinary world. A&E spoke with the decorated chef about the changing food culture and his background in cooking. How did you get your start cooking? Washing dishes. Well, my first job in high school was actually cleaning bakeries. Bakery scrubber. Were you interested in cooking initially? Or did the job lead to the interest? Well, when I was a kid, it was a requirement in my family that you had cook one meal a week and wash dishes once a week. You never had to clean any dishes on the same day, so the deal was that you cook the messiest or trashiest thing you could ‘cause your siblings had to clean up. It kinda became a competition. When you were in your early 20s in culinary school and working in restaurants, what would you cook yourself at home? Well, I’m probably not any different than any other chef. If you work until 11:30 or 12 at night you find your-

self going for convenience food. To me, if we had an extravagant late night, we’d cook tacos or frozen pizza. Really anything you could bake on a piece of bread or a tortilla. A couple of beers, y’know. Is that common among professional chefs? Getting burnt out on cooking and not wanting to cook for yourself? I wouldn’t use the words “bur nt out.” I heard the metaphor once that a painter’s house is never painted. You know what I mean? I think of cooking as a craft like painting. It’s really fun for me now that I’m not just a line cook and I have flexibility. When we have days off, we’ll cook for the neighbors and have fun with it. Do you have any advice for amateur chefs? My advice to young cooks would be to make it an avocation, not a vocation. Make it a hobby. The thing that really appealed to me in cooking was that when I grew up as a city kid in St. Paul, there was plenty of stuf f I probably shouldn’t have done, but for me to go into the kitchen, it was one of the first situations where the level of creativity was really limitless. There aren’t really boundaries; there aren’t really rules. I mean, there’s a set standard of techniques and methods, but after that is an amazing level of creativity. Do you think there’s been a shift in how young people look at food? I think we’re really in a cool time now. It wasn’t long ago in the ’50s when it was all about convenience food. It was TV dinners, it was pot pies; you cooked food faster and easier. But now I see young people that want the leisure time. They enjoy cooking. They want to go to the farmers market. Twenty-five years ago when I started cooking, that didn’t exist. I think the younger generations are finding the time to really en-

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joy the entire process. Are there any dishes you think any amateur chef should know how to cook? Well, I can answer that two ways. You’ve gotta lear n how to cook rice. There are kids who come out of culinar y school who can’t steam a pot of rice. Eighty percent of the world is sustained on rice, and these kids don’t even know how to cook it. I think one of the biggest things that separates home cooks from professionals is sauce-making. It may seem a little old hat or old-school French, but I think you’ve really got to have that in your repertoire if you wanna have chops. Julia Child’s beef bourguignon might sound cliché, but if it’s

made right it’s one of the best things ever. Your restaurant serves a lot of meat-and-potatoes type dishes. How do you feel about current health food crazes? It’s awesome. At the end of the day, I don’t know if organic is better than conventional growing. I’m not sure about that trend. But the idea of super-foods like kale or quinoa or blueberries I think is revolutionary. We’re learning more and more about the food that we eat and where it comes from. I think that particular trend is really impor tant. I think stewardship of the food world is really top on the priority of what I see as awareness. Call it a trend, but I think people care, and that’s really important.

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f the Internet is a drug, then Reddit is its most delicious and pure form. The co-founder of the uber-successful, timewasting, click-generating monster comes to campus Thursday night. Alexis Ohanian, 30, is currently touring colleges across the United States promoting his new book, “W ithout Their Permission,” which tells his stor y of Reddit and the changing world of Internet entrepreneurism. Ohanian may be the father of Reddit, but for most users he’s completely invisible. Like Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook, Reddit is just a platform for its users’ conversations and content. If you’re unfamiliar, Reddit runs on a democratic system of upvotes and downvotes. If someone posts a link that ever yone likes, it receives upvotes and is bumped to a higher position on the page. If a link is unfunny, distasteful or not interesting, enough downvotes can banish it away to a dark corner of the site. Brendan Schere, aka sgtscherer, moderator, or “mod” of a few local “subreddit” boards, including /r/Minneapolis and /r/ Minnesota, said the system means things generally take care of themselves. “Generally people are ver y respectful,” Schere said. “We tr y to keep the ruckus down — I’ll remove racist comments, for example — but being a mod is a pretty hands-off thing.” The number of subreddits out there is astounding. “Reddit has its own Rule 34 of the Internet: If you have an interest in something, there’s a subreddit that exists for it,” Schere said. Almost ever y city and college in Minnesota (including the University’s own /r/uofmn) has its own subreddit forum for local fans of music, bicycling, fishing and beer to communicate. Dozens and dozens

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exist in Minnesota alone. Reddit’s sense of community also sets it apart. Its collective of do-gooders and activists has organized gift exchanges and pizza purchases for needy users. Through the work of mods like Brian Grondin, aka grondin, a graphic designer at Allegra Marketing, Print and Mail in Brooklyn Park, Twin Cities’ Reddit users have organized a robust calendar of “meetups” where users can hang out face-to-face. “Minnesota can seem so closed at times,” Grondin said. “You’ve got your friends you went to high school with, your friends you went to college with — the people you were forced to interact with by your teachers and parents, basically.” Through subreddits like /r/TwinCitiesSocial, the group organizes meetups for all kinds of interests. User-organized events include cof fee meetups, boar d games, crappy bar hangouts, book clubs and pickup soccer. Reddit’s not the only site where people tr y to get together, but its combination of general message board help gives it a stronger niche. “It could have been meetup.com, but we would get totally different people,” Grondin said. “Redditors tend to be smart people in their mid-20s, so the groups have a really good energy. … It’s a way to go out and explore the city with people you may not know.” There’s even a meetup planned for after Ohanian’s talk Thursday. The maker will meet the monster faceto-face.

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MUSIC

To hell and back with Jessi Zazu The lead singer of Those Darlins talks about the mental and physical process behind her art. BY CALLIE SACARELOS csacarelos@mndaily.com

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essi Zazu is best known for singing and playing guitar in Those Darlins, a garage rock band from Nashville, Tenn. But lately she’s been drumming up attention for a different venture. In August, she exhibited 40 of her large-scale oil pastel gesture drawings, most of which are self-portraits. She originally began the series simply to improve her drawing but quickly realized that it also helped her dig deeper with song writing. Many of the songs on the band’s third and most recent album, “Blur the Line,” come from Zazu’s drawing and journaling sessions. The band has come a long way since their self-titled debut album, which has much more of a country twang and includes lyrics like, “I got drunk and I ate a chicken.” Zazu talked for almost an hour about her drawings, songwriting and how much of herself she puts into her art. At times it seemed like the conversation was another one of her long art therapy sessions, as though she was hashing out some thoughts that never quite made it onto the page or canvas. Can you tell me a little bit about the art that you’re doing outside of the band?

My parents are both artists, and I had a pencil in my hand since I could hold a pencil. I’ve always been someone who does a lot of different kinds of visual art, especially drawing. I would definitely say that I have more years on that than I do on playing music. I also had my first art show this year. It was 40 pieces out of a body of like 250 drawings that I did over the course of the time that I was writing the album. I was doing a lot of self-portraits, and it was like looking at myself in the mirror, literally. … It was a whole other way of facing myself. Drawing would take my brain into a way more abstract visual place that would help me with the writing. I pushed myself a lot further with my writing than I had ever done before. How does the creative process behind your drawing compare to the creative process behind writing a song? They’re very similar. With writing or drawing, I have to create my own little world, basically, and I have to have all these things in line before I can do it. It sounds really stupid, but my room has to be clean. I can’t let my brain go really out there and abstract and unravel if my room is unraveled. I have to have eaten and feel good and have complete silence or instrumental music. I always burn some sage. It’s literally like a ritual that I go through. It takes me a good hour to get to this certain spot where my brain is free-flowing and everything

just comes out. But I found with the drawing I can get there quicker. With writing you’re actually writing words. It’s so much more black and white in terms of what is coming out of you. Whenever I’m in the exact right mode of getting these drawings out, it’s like a meditation where I look at the subject and don’t really look at the paper. The way I wrote most of these songs was just to write and write and write and not stop and not even think about what I was writing. Like an hour of free writing, basically. And then read back and pick out stuff. What would you write about? I keep talking about this one space that I would get to. It’s kind of like a magic turning point that I feel like is just inspiration. But to get to that point, there’s all this other crap that I would have to get through. Every once in a while I would just pause and think about something from my past and just dwell on it. Instead of just sitting there and thinking about them, I would make myself do a whole journal session just on that one memory and try to write down ever y single thing I could think of. They were sort of like these demons that would haunt me. And I would write it all out as honestly as I could, and it stopped blocking me. It’s seems kind of like a mantra that you’re going through when you’re journaling.

Yeah, I would also say that it was sort of like a selfcleansing of these rotten spots that are in my soul and in my mind. It’s like taking the things you wish you didn’t remember, you wish wasn’t in your mind, and you’re like, “Why do I always think about this?” And then going, “OK, I’m going to sit here and overexamine this moment that I cannot even stand to think about.” I had to look at myself in the mirror and attack these nightmares. Even though you look at yourself in the mirror every day and put your makeup on and fix your hair and whatever, you’re not really looking. You’re used to seeing that face. But when you really look at yourself and then you have to draw yourself, most people have a really hard time drawing a portrait of themselves that actually looks like them because our views of ourselves are actually so distorted. I noticed that none of my drawings really look like me. A lot of the time, if I was feeling some way about myself, it would reflect in the drawing. And the same thing with the writing. Have you ever had a drawing come out that did look like you? A lot of people have said they all look like me, but they all look like weird glimpses of me. That’s what’s kind of cool about the show that I had. The pieces don’t really stand on their own. It makes so much more sense together. It’s like when you take pictures of people and you go, “That picture doesn’t even

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look like you.” It’s hard for me to even tell. I can’t really tell you which ones look like me. My friends can say. But I still don’t have a really good perception of what I look like. Which song on this album is the most personal for you? “Blur the Line” was weird because that night was a re- entire melody right there. ally crazy night. I was alone Within 10, 15 minutes, all in and by myself. But I went perfect order, everything was to hell and back, basically. I there. As soon as I wrote it found out a lot about myself down, I got up and I was like, that I didn’t even know. It was “OK, let’s play this right now,” really scary, but it was also and I showed it to them and like baptism. I can’t even de- we played it and it became a scribe it. song instantly. The next day I went into practice … and I remember thinking, “I don’t even know if I can be around anyone right now without crying.” But luckily my band mates, we’ve been through hell and back together as a group, so it didn’t really matter. We hadn’t really talked or anything, and then all of a sudden, it just hit me. They were setting up or something, and I was just like, “Hold on a second,” and I went over to the couch, sat down, pulled out my notebook and I just wrote the entire song. I took excerpts from all the journaling I had been doing the night COURTESTY OF JESSI ZAZU before, but Jessi Zazu, singer and guitarist for rockers I wrote the Those Darlins, has a lot to say about her artwork.

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Student climbers reach new heights Climbing u from Page 1

“This new climbing wall provided a place to do training and introduce a whole new group of people to climbing,” said wildlife biology senior Joe Zelman, the team’s vice president. With the new facility, campus rock climbing has jumped drastically. “We’ve been averaging between 100 and 125 climbers a day. At the old wall, we’d average about 20 to 30,” said Br yan Karban, climbing and trips

coordinator at the University’s Center for Outdoor Adventure. Karban provided the initial spark for the team by proposing the idea to student climbers and other Outdoor Adventure employees over the summer. “I was sitting in a tent in upstate New York in the rain when I got the email,” Zelman said. “I star ted sending messages to every climber I knew.”

Sharing a passion The Climbing Team, though brand new, fits into a larger community. Weijing Tilleskjor, an

actuarial science junior and manager at Ver tical Endeavors rock climbing gym, said he’s found community through the sport and isn’t surprised that the new University wall has brought climbers out of the woodwork. “Tons of people do it and they’re all really supportive,” he said. The University team has two parts: a small, advanced “gold” team, which SpenceZurek is part of, and a larger “maroon” team for beginners. To join the group, students need only show up for a meeting, introduce themselves and pay for a se-

mester pass at the wall. Usually, between 20 and 30 climbers attend each group meeting. Zelman said he hopes the group will gain more consistency as it finds its footing and prepares to compete this spring. Karban and his cohorts at the Rec Center’s rock wall will host two competitions this academic year, including a regional competition with the Collegiate Climbing Series

and another, University-only event. Zelman said competitions will help get the team on the map and pave the way for Minnesota college climbers. He said competitions are the best way to glean new tricks and build relationships with other climbers. That’s what the Minnesota Climbing Team is all about: learning, sharing a passion and doing so about 30 feet off the ground.

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MUSIC

Luscious Lucius

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Indie band Lucius loves symmetry.

Brooklyn’s Lucius is making waves with their infections, layered indie pop. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

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rubby, mischievous kids having a rollicking good time at the playground. It was a moment watching such innocent miscreants that inspired indie pop quintet Lucius’ album “Wildewoman,” released last week. “It’s an anthem for the wild,” co-lead vocalist Holly Laessig said. The soulful duo of Laessig and Jess Wolfe lead the Brooklyn-based band. They don’t actually look alike, but when performing, they rock similar updos and outfits to match whatever mod mood they’re in. And there is that influence, a sort of ’60s girl-power vibe that isn’t cheesy or tacky; there’s no vestige of the B-52’s or Josie and the Pussycats here.

“Sonically, there’s a lot of symmetr y and mirroring,” Laessig said. “This is a kind of visual representation of that.” All Wolfe and Laessig needed to realize that they wanted to make music together was an overlapping friend circle, some red vino, a futon to sit on and a conversation about the Beatles and Cream. Since that meeting nine years ago while they were at the Berklee College of Music, the central duo have gone through an array of different band lineups before finally finding the right fit two years ago. The fact that Wolfe is mar ried to drummer Dan Molad probably helped facilitate the new cohesion. But Laessig and Wolfe are the hear t of Lucius, similar souls who were both rambunctious outsiders, cut from the same cloth as those cher ubic children on the playground. Their voices combine to make a harmonious whole — it’s frequently impossible to

tell whose voice is whose, or even that two people are singing at the same time. While the music itself might not be “wild” per se, it does embody the mentality of a non-threatening desire to do whatever you want, or to, as Fleetwood Mac would say, go your own way. Laessig and Wolfe describe the epitome of a “wildewoman” in the album’s title track: “Fearless like

Chicago winds in the winter time and her hair is never quite in place and the knees in her jeans have seen better days and she’s no beauty queen but you love her anyway.” (But “Wildewoman” is for all the free-spirited boys and girls.) Lucius manages to build verdant musical landscapes with catchy, layered minimalism that keeps the hips swaying without over-

whelming the ears with wailing guitars, busy synths or double bass riffs. “Jess and I had just moved to New York, we’d broken up with long-term relationships — there was a sense of urgency and hope and anxiousness to get to a good place,” Laessig said. With “Wildewoman,” the duo’s first album with the current band, Lucius has arrived at that good place

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while still spending time reveling in the trials that brought them there.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

FOOD

College Kitchen: Braising Hell

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A simple pulled pork taco with homemade salsa.

Let time cook for you. BY ALEX BRODSKY abrodsky@mndaily.com

Sometimes in life you want to craft a delicate meal to woo a date. Other times in life you want to do the exact opposite: slow cook an enormous hunk of meat. Braising is essentially a fancy word for ver y unfancy process. It refers to roasting a tough cut of meat in a small amount of liquid for hours at a time. Cheaper cuts of meat generally contain large amounts of fat that take time to break down. When cooked long enough, though, the fat melts into pure butter y flavor. This prevents the meat from drying out as well. All you need to star t braising hell is an oven-safe pot or pan and a lid. Any pan with plastic handles or a non-stick coating should not go in the oven. In the

absence of a lid, aluminum foil can ser ve as a makeshift solution.

Old-school pot roast Now, pot roast might not be the “hippest” or “jazziest” meal out there. But let me tell you what’s really “groovy”: cheap, practical dinner. You can cook up a hefty roast and repurpose it for days. Leftovers make perfect sandwich meat, for instance. 1 3-pound chuck roast — alternatively, you can use chuck steak or round steak 3 carrots, chopped 1 onion, peeled and halved 3 garlic cloves, crushed 1 cup red wine 1 tablespoon butter Olive oil Water Salt and pepper Preheat your oven to 275 degrees.

Liberally coat each side of the roast in salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil in an oven-safe pan. Sauté the carrots and onion halves for about five minutes, then remove. In the same pan, heat the butter until melted. Using tongs, brown the roast on all sides. Remove the roast from the pan. Add the wine to the same pan. Using a wooden spoon, scrape up the residue at the bottom of the pan and let it incorporate into the sauce. This process is known as “deglazing” and is a common way to start a sauce. Let the wine simmer and reduce in the pan. This helps burn off the alcohol taste. Return the roast, onions, carrots and crushed garlic to the pan. Add water until liquid covers about half of the roast. Cover and put in the oven for about three

hours. The roast should pull apart with little resistance. Other wise, return it to the oven until it does. Ser ve alongside some real comfort food: mashed potatoes, green beans and the like. You know, like a TV mom would make.

Pulled pork Pulled pork is not the most elegant of foods, but it’s versatile. Throw it on a tor tilla with some salsa (see recipe below) to make carnitas. Slather it in barbecue sauce and throw it on a hamburger bun. Mix it up with some hash browns. The possibilities are as vast as your pork-fueled brain can dream up. 1 3-pound pork shoulder 1 onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, crushed 1 jalapeño, chopped Olive oil 1/4 cup lime juice

1 tablespoon salt 1 teaspoon black pepper 1 teaspoon paprika 1 teaspoon cumin 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Preheat the oven to 275 degrees. Combine the salt, pepp er, p ap r i k a, o r eg an o , cumin and cinnamon in a small bowl. This mixture is called a “dr y r ub” and is common in barbecuing. Completely coat the pork shoulder in the r ub. Really make sure to get it in ever y crease and crevice. Let it sit for at least an hour before cooking. In an oven-safe pot, brown the pork shoulder on all sides. Add the onions, garlic, jalapeño and lime juice to the pot. Cover and put in the oven for about three hours. When you take it out

of the oven, move the pork shoulder to a cutting board and shred with two forks. The meat should fall apart with little resistance. Add the shredded pork back to the pot and let roast for another 10 minutes in the oven. This helps keep the pork moist.

Salsa Fresca Anyone with any kind of chops should have a salsa recipe in their back pocket. Although variations are endless, this basic chunky salsa should ser ve as an adequate base for any future salsa endeavors. 3 tomatoes, diced 1/2 red onions, diced 1 jalapeño, diced 1/4 cup lime juice 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup cilantro, roughly chopped Combine ingredients in a bowl and mix thoroughly.

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (10/24): What kind of creative fun can you get into this year? Opportunities and partnerships grow, blossoming from spring to summer. Pursue passion. Travel for work and learn new ways.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Stay home or close to home for the next two days. Let a loved one teach you a new trick. Watch out for sudden changes. The surprises may be lovely.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Consider new opportunities. Involve the whole group in your plans, which will likely change. Work diligently to assimilate new information.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — You’re very inquisitive for the next few days. It makes everything work out for the best. But don’t blindly follow a friend’s advice.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — You may need your spare change for gas money. Do without treats for now. Don’t spend what you don’t have.

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 9 — Focus on finances. A confrontation could arise, and clarity is quite useful. Clear your workspace. You can make extra cash. Stand up for yourself.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Count dollars and pay bills. Manage your resources carefully. Remember your partner. Be careful during this exercise.

For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Okay, now you can blast forward. Use what you have. Let the old schedule get disrupted. Postpone travel and shipping, though.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Make long-range plans together. Don’t be afraid if you don’t know how. You’ll figure it out. Don’t mash them into place or assume you know everything.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Review your priorities. Design power into the project. Bring comfortable clothing. Meetings conflict with family time. Ignore detractors.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Get to work. Party conditions are excellent, so get ready. Gather supplies and information. Work matters bubble on the front burner, too.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Friends are very helpful. Others think you’re sailing right along. Hold off on making a household decision. Wait to see who wins. Listen carefully.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Feelings boil over, and the past creeps into the present. Choose family and home. Ask for what was promised.

sudoku Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

10/24/2013

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 24, 2013

secret admirers Dear Men,

It’s getting to be holiday season. I need an intelligent man to bring home to meet the parents, play hockey and cuddle with. Plus, smoking and banging.

—A girl who likes to cuddle and get down To the guys with the “Cerebros” Wi-Fi network on Eighth Street:

We should have an X-Men movie marathon together in anticipation for the new one. Sincerely,

—The Girl Next Door

To all of the ladies who are starting to dress for the colder weather:

To all the men that can rock snapbacks: Me likey. Keep up the good work.

—Unknown

Dear future computer engineer who sits near me in class,

A haiku for the female athletes at the banquet tonight: Sweaty and tired, Normally how I see you. Damn you clean up good.

—A sweaty and tired runner To the girl who slipped off her bike this morning on the corner by 17th:

To the guy wearing an orange windbreaker,

—Unknown

You made my day! I see you quite often, and it always makes me smile when I see you on your bike wearing your HOLLAND windbreaker ... makes me feel home. Thanks,

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—Unknown

You look adorable and cozy as hell. It makes me want to do surprise cuddle attacks, but that would surely end in you breaking out the mace.

—Unknown

crossword

I have no idea what you’re talking about, but you sure look good saying it.

I thought it was really cute that you turned around, laughed and said “Nobody saw that.” I saw it and I think you’re beautiful.

Do you have a secret crush?

4Post submissions on the “University of Minnesota Secret —Your Dutch fan Admirers” Facebook group. To the girl with the biker jacket from 4Visit mndaily.com and look for Comstock Hall on Monday: We both made the mistake of eating the “Connect with the Daily” box on a ton of ice cream on a cold day. Let’s the homepage. cuddle. —The guy across from you with 4Email submissions to the root beer float overheards@mndaily.com.

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

ACROSS 1 Like much Oscar-night attire 5 Under-the-sink installation 10 Take a shine to? 14 Jazz singer Horne 15 Island near Curaçao 16 1930s migrant to California 17 Far __ 18 River where Romulus and Remus were abandoned 19 Hot 20 *Garden display 23 Oklahoma tribe 24 Sends regrets 28 Crazed Muppet drummer 31 Bright light 33 Bamboozled 34 *Paper fastener 36 Where Andy Capp ’angs ’is ’at 37 Noggin 38 Go in haste 39 Stretch 40 Med. lab letters 41 *Feature of some kilts 45 Actor Wallach 46 Creatures of habit? 47 Unfancy to the max? 48 Ready to be served 50 Three French horns, in a Prokofiev classic 51 Electrician’s covers, and a hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues 57 Take a verbal shot at 60 Small porch 61 Sitarist Shankar 62 Busy 63 Mel-Tones frontman 64 Place for the first 42-Down? 65 Opens, as a car trunk

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66 Sprinter’s asset 67 Stinky DOWN 1 Pitch indicator 2 Get back on one’s feet 3 “You are __ much trouble!” 4 Supervillain with a whip 5 Pounds a beat 6 Sheer nonsense 7 Hick 8 Disable the security system for, say 9 Lightweight umbrella 10 Domineering 11 Maui strings 12 Tough spot 13 Tina of “Date Night” 21 Abbr. for the nameless? 22 Shipping route 25 Patronize 26 Jet legend 27 Danish seaport 28 Moseys 29 Compass point? 30 Venezia’s land

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31 Innocents 32 Foil kin 35 Deli slicing request 39 Old salt 41 More than suspected 42 Colony residents 43 Sat (down) ungracefully 44 Hang out in the hammock

10/24/13

49 USAF E-6’s 50 Question before “Yeah, you!” 52 ’Vette roof option 53 Pear remnant 54 “Yay, me!” 55 Neck and neck 56 Hole on the green 57 Static jolt 58 Skater Midori 59 Swig

Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

dr. date Dr. Date,

I met this (much older) guy through friends a few months ago, and he’s really, really great. We’ve gone out at least twice a week since we met and text all day, every day. But last night, he dropped a big bomb: He has an ex-wife! And kids! Two of ‘em! I like him so much, but I’m really surprised and, frankly, hurt that he didn’t tell me sooner. I’m 21 and definitely not ready to be anyone’s stepmom, but I also don’t want to lose this guy. What can I do?

—Mom Material?

Not Lookin’ For Fam, on.

Don’t do anything — keep on keepin’

It’s easy to see why a guy who’s divorced with children would be hesitant to drop that bomb on a prospective significant other. That info can immediately color perception of the individual and, honestly, be a turnoff, especially to a (relatively) younger person such as yourself. However, after “a few months” of interaction, it seems like he purposefully hid it, rather than waiting until he was comfortable with you to divulge the information. But, he probably WAS just really worried about how you’d receive the information. Imagine how much he see-sawed before divulging his progeny. Think of it like this: He is comfortable enough with you to include you in his broader life. The very fact that he didn’t mention it for quite some time is probably an indication that he isn’t looking for a surrogate baby mama. So don’t worry about that. All that being said, MONTHS?!? After intense, daily texting?!? This particular topic aside, the situation could be indicative of a greater issue with this gentleman’s overarching secretiveness. That is the point of concern.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

Instead of sending an intimate text to my boyfriend, I accidentally sexted a mutual acquaintance of ours. How do I tell him/talk to the friend to make it not hella awkward?

—Oopsie!

Blunder-prone,

Ain’t no way around this one — it IS hella awkward. No way to untext someone that I’m aware of, so buck up and deal. The best way to do that is laugh it off with supreme honesty and selfdeprecation. Something like, “Well, didn’t think we were friends like this, but now you know I like bondage.” LOL.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

This girl I met at a party recently has been texting me a lot lately. We have long conversations and seem to have a lot in common, but I can’t tell if she wants it to be anything more. How can I move this into real life?

—Digital Dweller

Wookin’ Pa Nub,

Last time I checked, the digital world is the new version of the real world. (But what’s a “long conversation” in text messages?) People who continually text and keep connections going gotta be looking for something. Let’s just say if you ask her out, she ought to expect it. Was there an initial hookup vibe at the first party meet-up? Or do you both have sisters at Madison, share a love of “Homeland” and have cats? ‘Cuz if that’s the case, better recognize that she could be diggin’ that friendship kick. How do you move it into the real world? Ask her out for coffee. This isn’t difficult stuff, Holmes. Ya feel me?

—Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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fraternities face Japanese co.’s office Small recruiting challenges could be big deal

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recruit,” he said. Phi Delta Theta has a chapter house on 12th Avenue Southeast, and Miller said the separation from University Avenue’s fraternity row forces them to recruit more actively than larger chapters. He said the chapter would like to move closer to fraternity row, though he isn’t sure that’s possible because of limited space available in the area. The frater nity’s membership numbers have fluctuated, Miller said, but he’s hopeful they’ll rise this year from an increased emphasis on recruitment. A house on frater nity row and one of the University’s largest membership bases helps Delta Chi recr uit new members, said chapter head of public relations Jack Carlson. “Because we’re right between East Bank and Dinkytown, we have one of the best locations on campus,” he said. Delta Chi is the fifthlargest IFC fraternity on campus with 53 active members, but when Carlson joined as a freshman, it was half the size. “When I came in my freshman year, Delta Chi was kind of on a membership downswing, and there wasn’t a lot of accountability or an organized structure,” he said.

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The University of Minnesota has inked a deal with a Japanese company in hopes of creating a lasting medical devices partnership. Toray Industries, Inc., has more than 40,000 employees worldwide and almost $15 billion in revenue, but only one of its employees will come to campus, and he will work in a 153-square-foot office. The move keeps the state and University on the international radar as a major medical devices hub for future corporate investments. Sarah Walber t, liaison between Toray and the state, said it would’ve been a blow to the medical devices industry in Minnesota if Toray chose to go to the East or West coasts like other Japanese companies have in the past. “Minnesota has been a fly-over state as far as the Japanese are concerned,” Walbert said. “Now, maybe all of our hard work is beginning to pay off.” The Tokyo-based materials conglomerate uses innovative technology to produce low-cost materials ranging from synthetic suede and

effectively. Combining faculty research with corporate expertise can commercialize scientific breakthroughs faster than publishing scientific research can, Herman said. Minnesota has a distinct competitive advantage in the medical technology world because of cooperation between its leaders in academia, government and private industry, said Walbert, who is also a medical devices and biosciences specialist for the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. “We are the global center of medical devices,” she said. Herman said the University is in negotiations to replicate this type of partnership with other companies. Ohno will stay indefinitely in his office, which is located behind the MDC’s back entrance. He’ll be able to network with University researchers and industr y partners like Medtronic and Boston Scientific. “We’re playing matchmaker,” Erdman said. “He’s not part of us, but he’s a potential collaborator.” With Ohno as a global associate in the University’s backyard, there’s potential for further investment dollars and Toray’s expansion within the state. “Clearly the trajectory is set for much bigger things to come,” Erdman said. “This is going to be an interesting possibility for everybody.”

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BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

pharmaceuticals to aircraft. The visiting Toray scientist, Hiroshi Ohno, is slated to arrive in December. Ar thur Er dman, the University’s Medical Devices Center director, said he hopes Ohno’s visit will turn into a long-lasting partnership. The U.S. Department of Commerce identifies central Japan’s industrial theme as monozukuri, or “making things,” with notable companies like Honda and Mitsubishi. But when it comes to composite materials, Toray is the big player. Erdman said interactions between the University and Japan are nothing new since the MDC opened in 2008. Since then, Erdman said, 25 different Japanese companies and government entities have visited the center. Toray Industries gave the University’s College of Science and Engineering a gift between $50,000 and $100,000 in February 2013. That same month, Toray suggested the idea of a visiting scientist after seeing the MDC in February, Erdman said. University Vice President for Research Brian Herman said he expects Toray to bring a unique element to the University’s industry partnerships. “They bring a different kind of competency,” he said. Herman said Toray’s scientific approach to material production could make medical devices perform more

FIVE BIGGEST AND SMALLEST IFC FRATERNITIES BY ACTIVE MEMBERS

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Toray Industries will have one employee on campus with hopes of expanding.

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But after revamping recruiting methods, Carlson said membership has “exploded.” “There’s a lot more effort from alumni and members, and it’s something we’re all pretty passionate about,” he said. Olson said the IFC is working with smaller frater nity chapters to help them reach out to new members. However, he said growth isn’t always best for smaller chapters because some have limited house space or simply want to keep their numbers low. Membership has been down for Triangle, an engineering fraternity, chapter president Chad Booth said. “There were people in the house that weren’t recr uiting and didn’t have their focuses where they

should have been,” he said. Past Triangle members didn’t put much effort into gr owing the frater nity either, he said, but membership is on the rise now because of new members’ efforts. Delta Upsilon is the fifth-smallest frater nity with 16 active members. Its numbers have remained stable and risen in recent years, chapter president Tom Ward said. Though he said recruiting is a “dif ferent game” for smaller frater nities, IFC ef for ts have helped them compete with larger chapters. “They’ve taken a lot of steps to help the smaller houses really get their name out there to continue to grow the Greek community as a whole,” he said.