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It aimed to raise awareness of animal cruelty and plant-based diets.
Four incidents occurred at the beginning of October.
The Gophers tied the Eagles 3-3 on Friday but won 6-1 on Sunday.
Veg Fest breaks down misconceptions
Peeping Toms pop up in University area
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ADMINISTRATION
UMore Park draws concern Some Regents are worried the land won’t be profitable for the University. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Plans for the University of Minnesota’s UMore Park are in full swing, but some University officials aren’t con-
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vinced it’ll generate revenue in the future. The Rosemount City Council approved the Alternative Urban Area-wide Review on Oct. 15, which allows UMore Park to move for ward and hire a master developer. But the University’s Board of Regents is divided on whether the project is right for the University. Development plans for UMore Park include a self-sustaining community for
20,000 to 30,000 people, a sand and gravel mine, and industrial areas. Regents approved the initial plans in 2008. Although a concrete timeline hasn’t been set, the board next has to approve the area’s developer once one is chosen from a nationwide search. u See UMORE Page 14 The project will have posted a net loss of $1.9 million by the end of June 2014.
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TCF offers new classes The finance classes have drawn more criticism about the way the bank sells itself. BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com
Nearly half of teens feel “clueless” about money management, a TCF Banksponsored poll found. To help young people become more financially literate, Wayzata, Minn.-based TCF began offering money management classes this month, both online and at more than 100 high schools in the eight states where it has branches. Nationwide and at the University of Minnesota, the bank has been the subject of criticism for practices that target students, causing some to express concern about the potential effect of the classes. Last month, a U.S. Public Interest Research Group report, using data from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, found that TCF was the bank with the most complaints per billion dollars in deposits. Top complaints included overdraft fees and checking account issues. Associate family social science professor Catherine Solheim teaches personal finance classes, and said her students have u See TCF Page 4 Young people often remain long-term customers of their first bank.
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MSA internship program grows Enrollment doubled in the program, which aims to attract student leaders. LISA PERSSON, DAILY
Minnesota fans celebrate with quarterback Philip Nelson as he leaves the field after the Gophers’ 34-23 win over No. 25 Nebraska on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
With a win over Nebraska, the Gophers beat a ranked team for the first time in the Kill era. BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com
the lead over the University of Nebraska. It was a lead the Gophers
As two defenders surrounded
(6-2, 2-2 Big Ten) never re-
him in the second quarter, Der-
linquished en route to a 34-
rick Engel jumped in the air and
23 win over No. 25 Nebraska
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(5-2, 2-1 Big Ten). With the victo-
grab. After the throw, sopho-
ry, Minnesota became bowl eligi-
more quar terback Philip Nel-
ble for the second straight season,
son sprinted toward the end
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zone, his hands in the air, as the
onto the field to celebrate the big-
University of Minnesota took
gest win in the Jerry Kill era.
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Coleman breezes through easy race The incumbent mayor faces opponents with limited resources and experience. BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com
Three challengers each hope to unseat two-term incumbent Chris Coleman to become the new mayor of St. Paul. But with few political resources and little name recognition, Sharon Anderson, Tim Holden and Kurt Dornfeld don’t pose much of a challenge to Coleman. “In general, I would say it’s probably not a race,” said David Schultz, a Hamline University law professor. Schultz said although Coleman is “vulnerable” on some policy issues, this year’s u See ST. PAUL Page 5 The candidates debated for an audience of about 100 on Thursday night.
BY KYLE STOWE kstowe@mndaily.com
Hoping to one day hold a leadership role on campus, Domingo Ramirez joined the Minnesota Student Association’s Freshman Internship Program last year. As a sophomore, the University of Minnesota finance major is already MSA’s treasurer. In its second year, enrollment in the program doubled to 24 members, and many of last year’s participants have moved into leadership roles. Former MSA President Taylor Williams started the program last year to develop student leaders early in their time at the University. The program also aims to make student gover nment elections more competitive and combat issues with member turnover, Williams said. Joelle Stangler participated in the program last year and is now its coordinator. She said several others involved in the u See INTERN Page 5 Students said the program makes student government more accessible.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Fire destroys Dinkytown apartment Smoke and water damaged other apartments above Espresso Royale on Friday. BY NICOLAS HALLETT, MEGHAN HOLDEN AND SAM GORDON nhallett@mndaily.com mholden@mndaily.com sgordon@mndaily.com
An apartment above Espresso Royale in Dinkytown caught fire Friday afternoon. No injuries were reported, according to the Minneapolis Fire Department. The cause of the fire is unknown and is being investigated, according to fire department Battalion Chief Steve Dziedzic. Crews responded to a report of a building fire at 411 14th Ave. SE at 12:44 p.m. Friday, according to a news release. Dziedzic said the fire star ted on the u See FIRE Page 4 Espresso Royale sustained minor damage, and the coffee shop reopened Sunday.
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A firefighter hands a rescued cat to a resident of the apartment that caught fire Friday afternoon in Dinkytown.
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Israel agrees to release Palestinian prisoners BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Israel agreed Sunday to release 26 long-ser ving Palestinian prisoners as part of a U.S.-brokered deal that led to the resumption of Mideast peace talks. The Cabinet vote set into motion the second leg of prisoner releases agreed upon before Israel and the Palestinians renewed long-frozen peace negotiations in August. At the same time, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning on approving new settlement construction to appease hard-liners who oppose the release. The fate of Palestinian prisoners stirs strong emotions on both sides, highlighting the competing narratives of the conflict. Many of those to be freed were involved in killing Israelis. Most Palestinians view the prisoners as heroes, regardless of their acts, arguing they made personal sacrifices in the struggle for independence. Most Israelis view them as terrorists for targeting civilians. In all, 104 Palestinian prisoners are to be released in four stages during the nine months set aside for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. The vote followed an Israel announcement that it will soon advance new West Bank settlement construction plans — highlighting an apparent settlements-for-prisoners trade-off that got both sides back to peace talks after a fiveyear freeze. The Palestinians consider settlements a major obstacle to establishing a state that includes the West Bank and east Jerusalem, territories Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 war. Israel has built dozens of settlements since that are now home to about 550,000 Israelis. The Cabinet announcement said all the prisoners have served more than 19 years and their crimes preceded the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks in 1993. A government statement said 21 of the prisoners will be released to the West Bank and the other five to Gaza. The actual release of the prisoners will take place at least 48 hours after their names are published to give bereaved Israeli families the opportunity to appeal their release before the courts, which rarely intervene in such cases. Israel insists that any prisoner who resumes hostile activity will be arrested and incarcerated to ser ve the remainder of his sentence.
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Veg Fest breaks down misconceptions The event aimed to raise awareness of animal cruelty and to teach about plant-based diets. BY MELISSA BERMAN mberman@mndaily.com
Elise Armani thinks society has made progress in understanding vegetarianism and veganism, but there’s still work to be done. “There’s a growing understanding of vegetarian and vegan diets, but it’s nowhere where I’d like it to be,” said Armani, a University of Minnesota art and gender, women and sexuality studies freshman. In hopes of raising public awareness of farm animal cruelty and teaching community members how to have a plant-based diet, animal rights organization Compassionate Action for Animals held its second annual Twin Cities Veg Fest on Saturday in Coffman Union. The event drew several hundred vegetarians, vegans and omnivores alike, who learned about animal cruelty and sampled vegan and vegetarian foods. Genetics freshman Veronica Diedrich said by attending Veg Fest, she
discovered new types of food she’d never heard of, like vegan ice cream. Diedrich, a vegetarian, said she might consider transitioning to a vegan diet once she moves out of her University residence hall. But for now, she said, it would be “nearly impossible” to find adequate vegan options in her dorm’s dining hall. Though vocal per formance junior Joni Griffith isn’t a vegetarian, she said she’s still concerned about food sustainability. She said she attended Veg Fest to explore new food options and learn more about alternative diets. Griffith said she thinks vegetarianism has become more prevalent and socially accepted. “People no longer have different, negative connotations, and people from all walks of life can be vegetarians and it’s more accepted,” she said. Unny Nambudiripad, Compassionate Action’s executive director, said college students are generally receptive to the group’s message. “People are looking at their food choices and how their values fit in with what they’re eating,” he said. “I think students are evermore curious and knowledgeable
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Freshmen pre-architecture majors Nathan Manske and Lanie Hei taste free samples of non-dairy soy ice cream sandwiches Saturday at Coffman Union.
about the cruelty of farming, so this is an opportunity to take a stand against that and make different choices.” Raven Dreier-Far r, a management information
systems sophomore and the event’s advertising coordinator, said awareness of animal cruelty and alternative diets has increased, but societal pressure can sometimes
portray those causes as “too activist.” Dreier-Farr said he hopes Veg Fest and other Compassionate Action events will change perceptions and
increase awareness among students. “I think [students] have some awareness,” he said, “but it’s not necessarily at the level we want.”
NYPD: Cousin admits to killing mom and 4 kids BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — A Chinese immigrant who neighbors said struggled to survive in America was arrested Sunday on five counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of his cousin’s wife and her four children in their Brooklyn home — using a butcher knife. The suspect, 25-year-old Mingdong Chen, implicated himself in the killings late Saturday in the Sunset Park neighborhood, police
said. “They wer e cut and butchered with a kitchen knife,” said Chief of Department Philip Banks III. T wo girls, 9-year-old Linda Zhuo and 7-yearold Amy Zhuo, were pronounced dead at the scene, along with the youngest child, 1-year-old William Zhuo — all attacked in a back bedroom, police said. Their brother, 5-year-old Kevin Zhuo, and 37-yearold mother, Qiao Zhen Li, were taken to hospitals, where they were also pro-
Egypt’s constitutional panel votes on changes for new draft BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAIRO — The panel offering amendments to Egypt’s suspended constitution began voting Sunday on a series of changes to the document, as deep divisions remain over portions on the effect Islamic law has on lawmaking and the powers of the military. Panel spokesman Mohammed Salmawy told reporters that only three articles passed by consent by midday. The panel is amending a total of 189 of the constitution’s more than 230 articles. The panel of mostly liberal-leaning members is pushing ahead with its work, aiming to put the draft to a public vote one month after referring it to the interim president. A military-backed timetable calls for new parliamentary and presidential elections next year as well. Authorities suspended the constitution after a July 3 popularly backed military coup toppled Islamist President Mohammed Morsi. The constitution was drafted under his watch by a panel dominated by Islamists. The constitutional panel now looking at changes has no representatives from Morsi’s group, the Muslim Brotherhood. It was invited to participate but refused to join. Other Islamist parties refused to participate, with only the ultraconservative Salafi al-Nour party agreeing to join. Authorities believe putting a draft constitution to a vote will stabilize a still-tumultuous Egypt, were Morsi supporters continue scattered protests that often become violent. They also believe a vote will help legitimize the military overthrow of an elected president. However, the process has hit a number of obstacles. Among divisive portions of the constitution is one article that defined Shariah, or
Islamic law. Prior to constitution implemented under Morsi, the charter only said the “principles of Shariah” were the main source of legislation, allowing for a loose interpretation. The panel is debating whether to delete or amend that portion. That’s a major point for the Al-Nour party, seen as the face of hard-line Islamists. It was the only Islamist party that supported Morsi’s over throw, but it since has threatened to withdraw if the Shariah law portion was taken out of the constitution. Among other divisive portions of the constitution are those that allow for military tribunals to try civilians. Such tribunals often offer swift and harsh verdicts that allow no chance for appeal. Salmawy, the panel’s spokesman, said that the three articles passed included one about criminalizing torture, one preserving dignity and one banning discrimination. He said that unlike Morsi’s constitution, a separate portion has been proposed to specifically combat torture. He said another portion gives detainees the right to appeal their detention within 48 hours of being jailed by authorities. As the panel voted Sunday, a spokesman of Egypt’s interior minister, Gen. Hani Abdel-Latif, told Egypt’s official MENA news agency that an ex-Egyptian army officer was behind the suicide bombing that unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate the minister last month. AbdelLatif said that the officer was sacked from his job in the military more than 10 years ago because of his “extremist ideas.” He also confirmed the man, identified Saturday on a militant video as Waleed Badr, went to Afghanistan and joined terror groups in Iraq and Syria before returning to Egypt.
nounced dead. Chen is a cousin of the children’s father and had been staying at the home for the past week or so, Banks said. Chen came to the United States from China in 2004, the chief said, but neighbors say he could never hold down a job. “He made a ver y soft comment that since he came to this countr y, ever ybody seems to be doing better than him,” the chief said. “We’re not really sure what that means.”
The chief said Chen still speaks only Mandarin Chinese despite being in the U.S. for almost a decade. On Saturday night, Chen apparently had been acting in a “suspicious” way that concer ned Li, Banks said. She tried to call her husband, who wasn’t home, but couldn’t reach him. Banks said Li then called her mother-in-law in China, who also was unsuccessful in reaching her son. The mother-in-law reached
out to her daughter in the same Brooklyn neighborhood, Banks said. She and her husband came to the house and banged on the door. When it opened, they faced a grisly sight: a man they didn’t know, covered with blood. The couple called 911, and officers investigating another matter nearby responded quickly, Banks said. “It’s a scene you’ll never forget,” he said. The victims had wounds in their necks and torsos.
Chen was in custody and not immediately available to comment; it was not clear whether he had a lawyer. Banks said he had at first resisted arrest and, while being processed, assaulted a police officer. Bob Madden, who lives nearby, was out walking his dog Saturday night when he saw a man being escorted from the two-family brick house by police. He was barefoot, wearing jeans, and “he was staring, he was expressionless,” Madden said.
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TCF offers new money management classes u from Page 1
opened TCF accounts for questionable reasons. “It’s not illegal, but it verges on taking advantage of people who really don’t know a lot about financial management,” she said. “You can go up to a line that’s still legal but borders on predator y, par ticularly for vulnerable audiences.” Architecture senior Lindsey May said she opened an account with TCF during her freshman year because she felt a “big push” from the University to do so. “It was confusing, based on what they told us, whether it was tied to your U Card or how the card worked,” she said. May said she doesn’t feel she has a good understanding of personal finance, because she’s never taken any for mal classes. Mark Goldman, TCF’s director of corporate communication, said financial literacy is a critical topic in today’s personal finance environment. “One of the things that has become increasingly clear is that level of financial literacy, particularly for young people, but also just for the adult population in general, is really lacking,” he said. Of the 500 teenagers sur veyed nationwide in the TCF poll, 90 percent said they’re not lear ning ever ything they need to know about money management. Along with the poll, TCF declared a goal to improve the financial literacy of 2 million people over the next three years with its
classes. In a press release, TCF Vice Chairman Tom Jasper called the classes “a genuine ef for t to help people become better consumers of financial services.” “I guess I’m glad if they ar e genuinely of fering education,” Solheim said. “Because they are tr ying to rectify something that is getting people into trouble, which is those overdraft fees and those tricks around accounts that cost people money.” Solheim said students often don’t compare or change banks, so they tend to be long-term customers with their first bank. Sponsoring finance classes also gives TCF brand recognition at an early age, she said. “A good question is, ‘If a 16-year-old has a financial management course sponsored by TCF, would they be likely to bank at TCF in the future?’”
TCF charged global studies junior Molly Rinehart about $60 in overdraft fees after an online money transfer took multiple days. “I wasn’t really happy about it, because I would have paid or put money in my account if I knew right away,” she said. “They send letters; they don’t notify you right away. That’s what made me more mad than anything.” Overdrafts are among the financial topics TCF intends to cover in its classes. TCF has come under fire from consumers in the Midwest because of its overdraft policies, according to the U.S. PIRG
MAKING/RECEIVING PAYMENTS, SENDING MONEY
6%
USING A DEBIT OR ATM CARD
17%
PROBLEMS CAUSED BY FUNDS BEING LOW (OVERDRAFT FEES)
41%
ACCOUNT OPENING, CLOSING OR MANAGEMENT
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DEPOSITS AND WITHDRAWALS
COMPLAINTS PER BILLION DOLLARS IN DEPOSITS 24.9
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report. The bank has had three versions of its overdraft policy since 2011. That year, TCF first adopted a $28-per-day fee. This meant it charged $28 ever y day for up to 14 days, until the account had enough money in it, allowing the bank to charge as much as $392 for a single overdraft. In 2012, the bank altered the policy to give consumers a choice between the $28-per-day fee with a maximum charge of $210, or a $37-per-overdraft fee. Goldman said TCF makes more money working with customers who understand the fundamentals of the financial system and par tnering with them long-term. “It’s our goal to make overdrafts never happen,” he said. “[But] at the end of the day … banks don’t overdraft; individuals overdraft.” TCF ranked first in complaints per billion dol-
lars in deposits for all five issues the CFPB tracked, from opening accounts to using check cards. Legal Ser vices Advocacy Project Super vising Attorney Ron Elwood has been fighting predator y practices against consumers for 15 years and said learning personal finance is just as impor tant as learning how to read and write. He said the need for being financially savvy spans all generations, but students are especially vulnerable because they lack life experience. “It just stands to reason the potential to get into some sort of a scam or trouble is just that much more prevalent [for young people],” he said. Solheim said she doesn’t think banks are intentionally tricking young people. “But, if you can get them as a customer and they are not really paying attention,” she said, “they can end up spending more money over the long haul.”
“We got things cleaned up really, really quickly,” he said. “It was wonderful.” A fire depar tment official on the scene said no one was inside the apar tment when the fire star ted. Firefighters rescued the three cats and one dog that were inside the unit during the fire. Several fire trucks, police and paramedics were on the scene, and more than 10 firefighters took turns going into the building. Thick, black smoke poured out of the secondfloor windows as a couple dozen onlookers watched. University of Minnesota student Phoebe Gulling lives in the building and
was sitting in her room when she star ted to smell melting plastic and smoke. She left her room and found her roommate already on the phone with police. “And then we came down and there were flames coming out of the window,” she said. Vogen said he could smell smoke in the cof fee shop when passerby Andrew Baldridge came in and yelled at customers to get out. Vogen said he evacuated the building and called 911. “Management could have been a little quicker on their response when somebody comes in and says, ‘There’s a fire up-
stairs,’” Baldridge said. Agriculture and food business management senior Brad Reimann was getting coffee in Espresso Royale when it was evacuated. “We went outside, and glass star ted br eaking from the window and almost hit people,” he said. “We backed to the other side of the street and it progressively got worse.” Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson said the community will work to support Espresso Royale. “It’s tough on small businesses,” he said. “We’ll be there for them.”
49% say they are “pretty clueless”
90%
of teens say they know everything about money management
are not learning enough about money management from their parents
60%
54%
learn about personal finance at school
8%
‘Banks don’t overdraft; individuals overdraft’
FINANCIAL IQ OF AMERICAN TEENAGERS
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BREAKDOWN OF COMPLAINTS BY ISSUE
U.S. BANCORP Rank: 22
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Syria has filed details of its poison gas and ner ve agent program and an initial plan to destroy it to the world’s chemical weapons watchdog, the organization said Sunday. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement that Syria completed its declaration as part of a strict and ambitious timeline that aims to eliminate the lethal stockpile by mid2014. The group, based in The Hague, said Syria made the declaration Thursday. The announcement provides “the basis on which plans are devised for a systematic, total and verified destr uction of declared chemical weapons and production facilities,” the group said. Such declarations made to the organization are confidential. No details of Syria’s program were released. Syria already had given preliminar y details to the OPCW when it declared it was joining the organization in September. The move warded of f possible U.S. militar y strikes in the aftermath of an Aug. 21 chemical weapon attack on a Damascus suburb. Syria denies responsibility for the deadly attack. OPCW inspectors were hastily dispatched to Syria this month and have visited most of the 23 sites Damascus declared. They also have begun overseeing destruction work to ensure that machines used to mix chemicals and fill munitions with poisons are no longer functioning. Syria is believed to possess around 1,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, including mustard gas and sarin. It has not yet been decided how or where destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons will happen. Damascus’ declaration includes a general plan for destr uction that will be considered by the OPCW’s 41-nation executive council on Nov. 15. Norway’s foreign minister announced Friday that the countr y had tur ned down a U.S. request to receive the bulk of Syria’s chemical weapons for destruction because it doesn’t have the capabilities to complete the task by the deadlines given. The announcement came among renewed fighting in Syria. Al-Qaida-linked rebels battled government troops for control of the Christian town of Sadad nor th of Damascus, activists said. The rebels have been tr ying to seize the town for the past week, and residents in the rebel-held western neighborhoods of Sadad are trapped in their homes, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Obser vator y of Human Rights. The rebels appear to have
targeted Sadad because of its strategic location near the main highway north from Damascus rather than because it is inhabited primarily by Christians. But extremists among the rebels are hostile to Syria’s Christians minority, which has largely backed President Bashar Assad during the conflict. The of ficial Syrian news agency said troops wrested back control of eastern parts of Sadad, but were clashing in other areas. Also Sunday, Syrian Kurdish gunmen were tr ying to secure their hold over a major border crossing with Iraq after capturing the captured the Yaaroubiyeh post in northeast Syria on Saturday. Abdurrahman said the Kurdish gunmen were fighting pockets of fighters from extremist rebel groups in southern Yaaroubiyeh. Syria’s chaotic more than 2 ½ year-old conflict pits Assad’s forces against a disunited array of rebel factions. Al-Qaida-linked hard-liners have fought other rebel groups as well as Kurdish militias who have taken advantage of the government’s weakness to cement control over territory dominated by the ethnic minority. T h e m a i n We s t e r n backed opposition group, the Syrian National Coalition, accused Iraqi forces of fighting moderate Syrian rebels at Yaaroubiyeh, and shelling the area in cooperation with Kurdish militants. Iraq’s Interior Ministr y spokesman, Saad Maan Ibrahim, rejected the accusations, saying they are “baseless because Iraq and its security forces have nothing to do with the fighting at the Syrian border crossing.” In neighboring Lebanon, another two people were killed by sniper fire during fighting between rival sects in the northern city of Tripoli, the of ficial state news agency reported. It said that a soldier in the city also died Sunday of his wounds. At least 10 people have been killed since clashes flared earlier this week, security officials said. Syria’s civil war ef fectively has spread to Lebanon’s second largest city, where it has inflamed tensions between two impoverished Tripoli neighborhoods, home to Assad opponents and supporters. The Bab Tabbaneh district is largely Sunni Muslim, like Syria’s rebels. The other neighborhood Jabal Mohsen mostly has residents of Assad’s Alawite sect, an of fshoot of Shiite Islam. The latest r ound of fighting began four days ago. Tensions had been mounting since Oct. 14, when a Lebanese militar y prosecutor pressed charges against seven men, at least one of whom was from Jabal Mohsen, for their involvement in twin bombings near two Sunni mosques in Tripoli on Aug. 23 that killed 47 people.
lice. Once, she and her roommates saw a man peering in a window using his cellphone camera. On another occasion, they noticed a man looking through a small hole in a wall. Ouyang said they patched the hole and have been more careful to close window blinds and lock doors, but the man has continued to return. “He’s just been getting more aggressive with his attacks,” she said. Ouyang said she and her roommates felt unsafe after the incidents, and she was concerned the incidents weren’t getting an appropriate response. “We’re pretty freaked out since it happened,” she said. “We all got Tasers.”
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per spray,” she said. “I’m not going to let those two guys make me feel unsafe.” University student Angela Ouyang said she and her roommates have encountered a Peeping Tom at their house more than once. The most recent incident was on Oct. 9. “A man has come by on multiple occasions,” she said. Ouyang hasn’t reported each incident to police, she said, because at first she wasn’t sure that the incidents were Peeping Toms. “We heard rustling, but we didn’t really go outside to check,” she said. Ouyang and her roommates have formally reported two or three incidents to po-
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saw a man’s hand through the textured glass window in her shower two weeks before the incident. “I told my roommates about it,” Jurik said, “but we all kind of just blew it off.” On Oct. 8, Jurik said, her roommate saw something from her bedroom window. “She saw this guy walk past, and he had a camera in his hand,” she said. Her roommate saw the man climb on a railing and point his camera into the bathroom window. Jurik’s roommate called 911, and they saw another man walk by the bedroom window. Jurik said she felt uncomfortable at home after the incidents but has since started to feel better. “I bought some pep-
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The University of Minnesota and one of its surrounding neighborhoods had four reports of Peeping Toms during the week of Oct. 3. Police aren’t yet sure if the incidents are related. Three of the incidents occurred in the Southeast Como neighborhood in one 24-hour period. Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said in an email statement that they were similar in time and location. “I don’t believe that at this
are uncommon on campus. The best thing to do in such a situation is to make noise and then contact police, he said. “Yell, scream, make some noise and exit the restroom as quick as you can,” Miner said. Peeping into windows is a misdemeanor in the state of Minnesota, and repeat offenses are felonies punishable by up to two years in prison and/ or a fine of up to $5,000. The three incidents at the University-area residences occurred between 22nd and 27th avenues southeast. Two of the incidents affected University students. Biology, society and environment junior Marissa Jurik was the victim of an incident on Oct. 8. She said she thought she
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point we have enough information to definitively say [all three] cases are linked,” he said. The other incident occurred in the second-floor restroom of Peik Hall on Oct. 3. A female faculty member was using the restroom when she saw what appeared to be a man’s pair of feet step down from the toilet in another stall, according to the police report. The victim left the restroom and asked a male coworker to find the suspect. She and her coworker saw the suspect leave the restroom while concealing his face. The suspect was gone when police arrived. University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said incidents like the one in Peik Hall
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second floor in one of several units in the two-stor y building. That apar tment was “completely destroyed,” while the others have smoke damage, he said. Espresso Royale store manager Rex Vogen said the shop sustained minor damage, mostly from water, including a ceiling panel that collapsed from water pressure upstairs. The cof fee shop closed over the weekend and r eopened Sunday after approval from the Minneapolis Health Department, Vogen said.
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Joelle Stangler leads a Minnesota Student Association Freshman Internship program meeting on Sunday at Coffman Union.
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program’s first year have since moved into campus leadership roles in MSA and other groups. She said working on numerous projects as an intern helped her gain leadership skills and a better understanding of how MSA operates.
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challengers lack the resources and platforms to seriously challenge him. For Coleman to have any serious opposition, Schultz said, the DFL would have to produce a candidate who has backing from small businesses and neighborhood advocates — two policy areas in which Schultz said Coleman has been weak. The four candidates met Thursday night for a lively mayoral forum where they discussed issues of diversity, economic development and education to an audience of about 100. At the forum, hosted by the League of Women Voters, Coleman pointed to multiple accomplishments he’s made since becoming mayor in 2005, including spearheading the Central Corridor light rail project and managing the city’s budget during tough economic times. “I think over the past eight years we’ve accomplished a lot together,” he said. Schultz said many of Coleman’s accomplishments are a result of being “in the right place at the right time.” Holden, Coleman’s most active challenger, accused the mayor of not being accessible and responsive to citizens.
“I wouldn’t know nearly as much as I do about MSA right now if I hadn’t been an intern,” Stangler said. “It showed me how I can be a difference-maker on campus.’’ Last year, freshman interns helped plan several events, including the voter registration event Voterpalooza, a talent show at the 2013 Spring Jam and a reception for student group leaders last winter. Ramirez said the program
made it easier for him to break into MSA’s “tight-knit” community. Without the program, he said, he may not still be involved with student government. “It can be hard to make connections and feel comfortable when you first join MSA,” he said. “The [program] made that transition a lot easier for me.” Nick Wilson, a current MSA intern, said he joined the program hoping to make
an instant impact on campus. “It’s a fantastic way to get attached to the student group right away,” he said. “The MSA office is already like a second home to me.” Another freshman intern, Chris Ceglia, said he didn’t think he could become involved with student government in his first year. But when he heard about the internship program, he was excited to get involved on campus.
“It seemed like the perfect gateway into student government,” he said. This year, MSA interns will plan events and take on several new projects, including promoting Minnesota’s new medical amnesty law. The interns will also work on relaunching MSA’s “What To Fix UMN” project, which received criticism from some students last year. Stangler said freshman interns can bring new perspec-
tives to MSA. “They have the freshest set of eyes and have great new ideas,” she said. “They’re a very dynamic group of students.” Williams said he’s excited to watch the program continue growing and to see where past interns go. “I’m ver y proud of the work the interns did last year,” he said. “I’m pleased to see what many of them are doing now.”
Coleman’s office didn’t properly respond to businesses struggling because of light rail construction, said Holden, a real estate agent and owner of a small contracting business on University Avenue. Coleman admitted that construction has been tough on small businesses, but he said it will benefit the city by bringing new businesses and more housing. “It’s been a difficult process,” he said. “But we set out to minimize the impacts of that.” Schultz said Holden has “good criticisms” of Coleman’s business policies but lacks a “viable set of policies and proposals” to address those issues. Holden also disagreed with Coleman’s public spending strategy, especially on the $63 million St. Paul Saints downtown ballpark project. “The people were never given a vote,” Holden said. “This was the mayor’s pet project.” Dornfeld, a city street maintenance worker who’s r unning for political office for the first time, said if elected, he would offer a “perspective that best represents all of the people of St. Paul.” He said his priorities as mayor are unclear, but he’d give the position “a fresh set of eyes.” Anderson, who has been
St. Paul mayoral candidate Sharon Anderson makes an opening statement at a St. Paul mayoral forum Thursday at the St. Paul School District offices.
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running for public office for decades, spoke candidly at the forum, often ducking questions and accusing the city of “stealing” her car and her Summit Avenue home. Dressed as a pirate at the forum, Anderson compared St. Paul and Minneapolis to Sodom and Gomorrah and likened the Central Corridor light rail to Nazi trains that took victims to the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Holocaust. As of the Oct. 22 campaign finance filing deadline, Coleman had received more than $150,000 in campaign contributions. His closest challenger, Holden, had received $2,250 in con-
tributions, but he loaned his campaign thousands more. In Minneapolis, 35 mayoral candidates are looking to replace outgoing Mayor R.T. Rybak, who isn’t seeking a fourth term. Like Minneapolis voters, St. Paul voters will use the ranked-choice voting method, where voters will be able to list their top three choices for mayor on the Nov. 5 ballot. Schultz said unlike St. Paul, Minneapolis has a “weak mayoral system” and a “more fragmented” DFL par ty, which he said produces more competition for mayor. “St. Paul has a really strong mayor position com-
bined with a unified, single party, [giving] Chris Coleman an incredible platform for running for his third term,” he said. Iris Page, a University of Minnesota studio art sophomore from St. Paul, said she’s more familiar with the Minneapolis mayoral race because she’s seen campaign material from multiple candidates. However, she said, she hasn’t seen many Coleman campaign ads in the few times she’s been back to St. Paul this year. “I have not been ver y aware of what’s going on [in St. Paul] because I haven’t heard or seen anything
about the candidates,” Page said. Histor y junior Carson O’Doubhlain, who lives in St. Paul and commutes to the Minneapolis campus ever y day, said she’s seen campaign signs for Holden around the Midway area in St. Paul but thinks most people are only aware of Coleman. “Chris Coleman has been around for a really long time,” she said. “People trust him.” O’Doubhlain said that she and most people she knows from St. Paul will vote for Coleman on Nov. 5. “He hasn’t really given us a reason not to,” she said.
Lou Reed, iconic punk poet and star, dead at 71 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Lou Reed was a pioneer for countless bands who didn’t worr y about their next hit single. Reed, who died Sunday at age 71, radically challenged rock’s founding promise of good times and public celebration. As leader of the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, he was the father of indie rock, and an ancestor of punk, New Wave and the alternative rock movements of the 1970s, ‘80s and beyond. He influenced generations of musicians from David Bowie and R.E.M. to Talking Heads and Sonic Youth. “The first Velvet Under-
ground record sold 30,000 copies in the first five years,” Brian Eno, who produced albums by Roxy Music and Talking Heads among others, once said. “I think everyone who bought one of those 30,000 copies started a band!” Reed and the Velvet Underground opened rock music to the avant-garde — to experimental theater, art, literature and film, from William Burroughs to Kurt Weill to Andy Warhol, Reed’s early patron. Raised on doo-wop and Carl Perkins, Delmore Schwar tz and the Beats, Reed helped shape the punk ethos of raw power, the alternative rock ethos of irony and droning music and the
art-rock embrace of experimentation, whether the dual readings of Beat-influenced verse for “Murder Mystery,” or, like a passage out of Burroughs’ “Naked Lunch,” the orgy of guns, drugs and oral sex on the Velvet Underground’s 15-minute “Sister Ray.” Reed died in Southampton, N.Y., of an ailment related to his recent liver transplant, according to his literary agent, Andrew Wylie, who added that Reed had been in frail health for months. Reed shared a home in Southampton with his wife and fellow musician, Laurie Anderson, whom he married in 2008. Tributes to Reed came Sunday from
such friends and admirers as Salman Rushdie and former Velvet Underground bandmate John Cale, who mourned his “school-yard buddy.” His trademarks were a monotone of surprising emotional range and power; slashing, grinding guitar; and lyrics that were complex, yet conversational, designed to make you feel as if Reed were seated next to you. Known for his cold stare and gaunt features, he was a cynic and a seeker who seemed to embody downtown Manhattan culture of the 1960s and ‘70s and was as essential a New York artist as Martin Scorsese or Woody Allen. Reed’s New York was a jaded
city of drag queens, drug addicts and violence, but it was also as wondrous as any Allen comedy, with so many of Reed’s songs explorations of right and wrong and quests for transcendence. He had one top 20 hit, “Walk On the Wild Side,” and many other songs that became standards among his admirers, from “Heroin” and “Sweet Jane” to “Pale Blue Eyes” and “All Tomorrow’s Parties.” An outlaw in his early years, Reed would eventually perform at the White House, have his writing published in The New Yorker, be featured by PBS in an “American Masters” documentary and win a Grammy in 1999 for Best Long Form
Music Video. The Velvet Underground was inducted into the Rock and Roll of Fame in 1996 and their landmark debut album, “The Velvet Underground & Nico,” was added to the Library of Congress’ registry in 2006. Reed called one song “Growing Up in Public” and his career was an ongoing exhibit of how any subject could be set to rock music — the death of a parent (“Standing On Ceremony), AIDS (“The Halloween Parade”), some favorite movies and plays (“Doin’ the Things That We Want To”), racism (“I Want to be Black”), the electroshock therapy he received as a teen (“Kill Your Sons”).
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A fare-free zone alternative Making the U-Pass mandatory would simplify the fare-free zone situation, among other benefits.
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free LR T zone star ts and ends could raise concerns. Students unaware about the zone boundaries could accidentally continue riding past the boundaries. Police could fine these students $180 for not having a valid ticket. As exemplified with bike tickets on campus, students don’t like to be fined. In the long term, required U-Passes could help the University increase its transit ridership by encouraging students to take the bus instead of driving alone. The reduction of vehicles near campus could ease congestion and reduce pollution. This alternative would be a win-win for the three parties at stake: students, the University and Metro Transit. The good news is this
idea has been in discussion for a while. David Busacker, co-director of the Minnesota Student Association’s Facilities, Housing, and Transit Committee, said PTS and the University have considered adding a U-Pass to student ser vices fees to make the fare-free LR T zone more viable. Of course, the issue of idealism always boils down to the cost of implementation. Like I said, there is no such thing as a free lunch. At least a fraction of the required UPass costs would have to be burdened by students. Yes, I know most of you are already thousands of dollars in debt and will complain to me about being swamped by student loans. But forgoing your Starbucks lattes or choosing to take the bus instead of driving could cover the cost, and the mandator y U-Pass could be cheaper than it is now. “The normal $97 that a U-Pass costs now would be a fraction of that price if all students participated, by the sheer advantage of scale,”
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Busacker said. As much as we want to complain about the University ripping us off with extra costs, these costs would go down if we share them. Yes, the discounted mandator y U-Pass would be another added cost, but the positive externalities would outweigh the negatives every day of the week. If you think this is a rare move, you would be wrong. Other colleges have issued mandator y bus passes. The University of Colorado-Boulder has had a mandatory bus pass fee included in its bill since 1991. A mandator y U-Pass would simplify the fare-free LRT zone and encourage students to get out of East Bank and visit Uptown, the North Loop, St. Paul and the Mall of America, which are all along major transit corridors. If lunch is on the table in front of you, go ahead and enjoy it — you’ve already paid for it. Chris Iverson welcomes comments at civerson@mndaily.com.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR Ranked-choice voting empowers student voters
Historically, off-year elections in Minneapolis have had very little student participation. In the last few municipal elections in Minneapolis, University of Minnesota precincts had the lowest turnout rates in the entire city. I have been an organizer at the University for years, and students have told me many times why they choose not to participate in the democratic process. Among other things, they often feel that local elections are not competitive or that the candidates are too negative. That will all change this year as students at the University can play a pivotal role in electing the next mayor of Minneapolis thanks to ranked-choice voting. RCV, a voting reform passed in 2006, ultimately gives every voter more power within the political system and will change the way that students participate in elections. Using RCV, voters rank three candidates on their ballot in order of preference, instead of choosing just one. This gives voters the power to cast a vote for their favorite candidate without fear that that vote is being “wasted,” knowing that if he or she doesn’t have enough votes to win, their vote will count toward their second choice. In an RCV election, candidates need to strive for a majority of the votes. This change has drastic effects that increase the influence that students and other historically underrepresented groups have in elections. RCV eliminates the need for a local primary in August. Under the old system, local primaries were required to narrow a large set of candidates, which left voters with
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here is no such thing as a free lunch. However, if you could make your lunch and others’ lunches cheaper, why wouldn’t you? I’m a little hungr y today, but I’m actually referring to a fare-free zone along the light rail that’s been repor ted on by the Minnesota Daily and others. In shor t, University of Minnesota Parking and Transportation Ser vices and Metro Transit are in talks about cr eating the zone along the Green Line when it opens next year. Although a fare-free zone would cer tainly be nice, there is another alternative: make all students get a UPass. If we had a fare-free LR T zone without a mandatory UPass provided, there may be unnecessar y consequences. Understanding that students’ attention spans are shor t, issues with where the fare-
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only two choices come November. Further, primar y turnout was extremely low, and these voters were given the power to prematurely whittle the field. This minority was not representative of the city as a whole: They were generally older, less diverse and more devoted to one particular party than the average voter. Additionally, primaries are now held in early August, meaning thousands of students would be excluded from the process simply because they don’t live on campus during the summer. Getting rid of primaries is a big boost for student voters. Under the old primar y system, candidates only had to appeal to a small minority of voters to make it to the general election in November, thereby often ignoring students, communities of color and other underrepresented groups. By combining the primary with the general election, all voters have an equal say in who is elected. RCV allows for more candidates — and therefore fresh ideas, creative solutions and more opinions — in the general election. It levels the playing field for all candidates and requires winners to appeal not only to their base, but also to a broader group of voters. Because no candidate in the Minneapolis mayoral race is likely to receive a majority of first choices, candidates are forced to campaign for second- and third- choice support as well, thus making campaigns more positive and focused on issues that resonate with voters. RCV forces candidates to be clear about what issues distinguish them from their opponents, as well as what issues they have in common. They can’t resort to negative campaigns because they want all voters to con-
sider them for their second or third choice. There has been a lot of discussion among critics of RCV about how students, elderly people and communities of color won’t understand how to rank their votes. This is simply untrue. RCV is as simple as one, two, three, and all voters are capable of it. If they are truly concerned about voter understanding of RCV, they should help educate voters instead of trying to get rid of RCV, which was supported overwhelmingly by voters in a referendum in 2006. Critics want to take us back to a time when only a small minority of voters participated in the August primary, where their influence carried further. RCV empowers all voters, including students, elderly people and communities of color, not just a small sliver of them. While the old system silenced the voices of students, we seek to amplify them. The organization I work for, FairVote Minnesota, is running a campaign teaching groups of all backgrounds, including University students, about RCV. I’m proud that we’ve teamed up with the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group and registered thousands of students to vote for the first time, while also educating thousands more about how to rank their votes. As we count down to Election Day, I urge you to play a role in ensuring that RCV is a success. Think not only about your favorite candidate for mayor, but also which candidates you want to rank as your second and third choices. Now that we have all the benefits of RCV, make sure that you show up Nov. 5 and rank your vote. Mike Griffin FairVote Minnesota
t this time in the semester, students are busy preparing for midterms. During these time crunches, students prioritize assignments based upon importance relative to other tasks. Unfortunately, though, some professors fail to realize the cost-benefit analysis with each book we read. Students see this with professors who assign readings for the next class. When students are busy, they will skim the readRONALD ings, getting the DIXON gist of the mescolumnist sage, or skip the text altogether. In general, students ask themselves three questions when they are deciding whether to do a reading. The first question is: How interested am I in this? If a student must read a 30-page text that has a promising title or first few pages, there is a greater chance that the student will read the rest. The second question is: How long is the reading? A text may be interesting, but if it’s 60 pages or more, students may cast it aside for more important tasks. The final question is: What impact will this reading have on my class participation and grade? Generally, students strive for an A or a B in a class, but would skipping the readings lower the probability of obtaining an insufficient grade? Certainly there is value in reading course texts, but in an atmosphere where students are pressured by courses, jobs or internships, they are going to naturally perform a cost-benefit analysis for each reading. Each individual’s value system may be unique, and some students have more free time than others, but we all, nevertheless, give certain tasks higher priorities than others. As a solution, I offer two recommendations to professors. First, teachers should not assign numerous general readings. Course texts should be heavily focused on class material so students don’t have to guess at what they need to take away from a text. Second, professors should implement readings as a part of graded class discussions or to test the students on the material. These two approaches would do the most justice for students that want to learn but may be too pressed to tackle texts. During midterms, students have a myriad of responsibilities; professors should understand this reality and reform their syllabuses appropriately. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.
Necessary renovation
The state Legislature should approve the funds for a Tate Laboratory of Physics renovation.
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he Minnesota Daily repor ted last Wednesday that funds for a Tate Laborator y of Physics renovation are included in the University’s 2014 Capital Request, which asks for $233 million from the Legislature for renovations and other building projects on the Twin Cities, Duluth and Crookston campuses. Renovations to the 86-year-old physics building were also included in last year’s request, but the $6 million needed to begin planning a building overhaul was left unfunded by the Legislature. The current request asks for a heftier $56.7 million for Tate, more than half of the renovation’s estimated $85 million price tag. Physics and astronomy depar tment head Ron Poling was quoted and told the Daily the building hasn’t been renovated since the 1990s. The building has accessibility issues and a leaky roof, which continues to cause water damage from time to time, he said. The Tate Laborator y of Physics needs renovation more than any other building on Northrop Mall. While Smith, Ford and Kolthoff Hall all have modern interiors and white boards in the main lecture halls, physics professors in Tate still use chalkboards in the large introductor y physics lectures that nearly all CSE and many CBS students are required to take for their degrees. The Northrop and University Recreation and Wellness Center renovations have bolstered the University’s commitment to health and culture, and while the new Physics and Nanotechnology Building increases space for many of Tate’s research labs, students are now in need of an updated educational facility. If a badly needed renovation is denied again, it’s possible students will be receiving subpar course instruction in Tate.
Authorizing election reform Lawmakers must be given the opportunity to examine online voter registration.
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ast year, Minnesota voters rejected an amendment that would require voters to show photo identification. In Januar y, an elections task force created by Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton released its recommendations regarding how to improve the state’s election process. The group’s suggestions for the state Legislature included switching to electronic poll books, allowing early voting and online voter registration. DFL Secretar y of State Mark Ritchie, a member of the task force, is currently in yet another tangle with Republican lawmakers after he launched a website without authorization from the Legislature allowing Minnesotans to register to vote online. Republicans, as well as some Democrats, have raised legitimate questions regarding Ritchie’s decision to bypass lawmakers and unilaterally authorize online registration. Dayton told the Star Tribune the site is “a good idea but one that we should get legislative support.” Indeed, while implementing online voter registration is an important step to modernize the election process, it’s one that should come through the Legislature. Changes to election procedures can be beneficial, but if they’re made incorrectly, they could disrupt the democratic process. Ritchie’s response to criticism has been troubling. Last week, he told Minnesota Public Radio the courts can resolve the issue. A legal battle would be completely unnecessar y. Given the problems with the launch of MNsure, Ritchie should suppor t lawmakers’ willingness to look into the website and resolve any potential snags. Ritchie should suspend the online registration website and allow the Legislature to formally authorize it.
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ewsnight’s Jeremy Paxman interviewed British comedian Russell Brand last week, and according to Gawker, Brand “may have started a revolution.” Needless to say, the inter view is making its rounds on social media. Russell Brand did not begin a revolution last week. I know, a bunch of your Facebook friends thought he did, so every other stor y on your news feed linked to the inter view on Gawker or another website. In the video, the immaculately condescending Paxman asked trivial questions to the ver y funny, ver y distracting British comedian regarding his guestedited, revolution-themed issue of The New Statesman, a British political magazine. Throughout the inter view, Brand denounced the power in voting to af fect change regarding income equality, climate change and a disengaged political process. Many of you may have listened to a bit of it, found his sarcasm in the face of disdain entertaining and agreed with some of the general ideas he was talking about. It’s possible some of you actually agreed with everything he was saying. But to treat this poor excuse for an inter view as anything more than two oddly unqualified men arguing with each other about nothing is to delegitimize the real progress that the women and men who spend their lives working on humanity’s problems actually make. It reminds me of a scene in “Wag the Dog,” David Mamet and Hilar y Henkin’s spectacular 1997 black comedy about a group of political operatives and major Hollywood filmmakers who stage a war with Albania to distract the public from a presidential sex scandal. In the scene, the filmmakers sit around and discuss how, even though they are currently engaged in a propaganda campaign to compel the American public to choose their candidate, none of them vote. The difference here is that Mamet and Henkin are laughing at both the absurdity of the political system and the people who are too disconnected to actively attempt to fix it. And for all of Brand’s claims to the opposite, his suggestions, that young people ought not to vote and ought not to work within the system, will not make the world a better place. To begin, let’s assess Brand’s common refrain that we all shouldn’t vote because people have been voting for centuries, and all it’s done is put us here, where inequality and environmental destruction run rampant. I am going to adopt an Americentrist voice here, as sifting through the entirety
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Turning off your news feed Russell Brand’s recent interview is a joke, as is its social media relevance.
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of world histor y takes more words than I have. Not only does this apathy ignore the fact that for many people, simply achieving the right to vote required monumental political, militar y and social struggle; it also devalues the immense progress brought about within the system from laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964. To Brand, the fact that hierarchy exists at all is evidence that any social mobility is meaningless, and those of lower social strata have no say. It’s especially ironic because, as he points out a number of times, he is a product of those lower social strata. But his disregard for actual, measurable achievement does not stop in the past; it extends happily into the modern political climate, as well. This comes from three major and very reasonable declarations Brand made: We shouldn’t destroy the planet, create massive economic disparity and ignore the needs of the people. Each of these is an idea that the vast majority of reasonable people can get behind. Where Brand loses his way is in asserting that, since people have already voted and the world is extremely imperfect, the mechanism of voting is inherently broken. Forget that fixing problems like global climate change will demand a comprehensive effort from the world’s governments. Forget that ensuring that human rights are upheld requires sufficiently motivated political entities. Ignore that the top 1 percent of U.S. citizens control more than a third of the wealth. According to Brand, if those of us who believe that this concentration of wealth is immoral, universal human rights are important and we shouldn’t treat our planet like a dumpster refuse to vote, the problems will improve. He neglects to specify how, but he assures us that abstaining from the political process is to no longer participate in an illusion. Central to Brand’s argument is the assumption that politicians of all ideologies, parties and affiliations are ultimately the same. It’s the point that your resident Facebook troll with the “Ron Paul 2012” profile picture makes on ever y political post that you see. They all accept campaign donations, or so the stor y goes, so electing one is no different from electing another. Voting makes no difference, because candidates are not individuals with actual beliefs; they’re just talking puppets for the machine to control. To Brand, Paul Wellstone and Newt Gingrich are one in the same within the paradigm. This is both philosophically and empirically incorrect. It doesn’t take a sociologist to understand that we would not be inching toward universal health care if Mitt Romney had been elected. If people did as Brand wanted and didn’t vote in 2012, that’s exactly what would have happened. The criticisms that Brand offers are often legitimate and ought to be addressed by our elected officials quickly. His ver y tenuous outlines for solution, though, require an awful lot of mental gymnastics to justify, and, in reality, contribute more to the problem than to its solution. So please stop sticking this in my news feed.
Admit it: There’s a problem
George Washington University’s admissions controversy symbolizes a deeper problem in our education system.
BRIAN REINKEN columnist
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fficials working at George Washington University’s admissions office have been misrepresenting the school’s admissions policy for years, according to GWU’s student newspaper. GWU’s student newspaper, The GW Hatchet, broke the story last Monday. Although GWU has ostensibly followed a “need-blind” policy, its dean for undergraduate admissions recently revealed that accepted students can be downgraded to waitlisted status if school officials thought they needed more financial aid than their peers. Need-blind admissions policies do not take into account an applicant’s financial status when determining whether that applicant will be admitted. Need-aware policies, on the other hand, factor in student finances or may even reserve admission for students who can pay the full cost of attendance. The University of Minnesota’s admissions process is based on need-blind principles. George Washington University’s process, it’s now known, is not. Studies indicate that 11 percent of GWU students qualify for Pell Grants. The national average is 27 percent. Furthermore, the needaware admissions policy affects roughly 10 percent of GW’s applicants each year. At the University, approximately 26 percent of students qualify for Pell Grants. Although socioeconomic diversity at the University is close to the national average, it is expected to increase due to the inadvertent applicant deterrent that is President Eric Kaler’s 2014-15 budget, which will increase out-of-state tuition by $1,000. Technically speaking, GWU has no obligation to adopt a need-blind admissions policy. As a private institution, it’s run much like a corporation. Those who can’t afford to pay can’t play. And considering that the school’s tuition and fees cost $47,343 a year — the fourth-most expensive among private universities, according to U.S. News and World Report — there will be plenty who aren’t able to pay. From a strictly economic standpoint, the decision makes sense. The school’s endowment is $1.3 billion a year, which pales in comparison to Harvard’s $32 billion. GWU simply cannot afford to provide its students with as much financial aid as some of its competitors. Financially, the need-aware policy should disturb no one, then. Far more disconcerting is the fact that GWU, presumably because
But before we tackle that subject, it’s imperative we consider Condé Nast’s move. Instead of paying federal minimum wage — currently set at $7.25 per hour — the media company decided it will just stop using interns. This effectively states that if Condé Nast cannot have free intern labor, it would rather not have intern labor at all. Condé Nast has become yet another company unwilling to properly pay for services rendered by its workers. While challenges to such definitions grow, the Fair Labor Standards Act makes a distinction between “employee” and “unpaid intern.” Indeed, the U.S. Department of Labor provides a handy cheat sheet. It outlines various points as to whether an intern should be paid. For example: The intern is supposed to receive training in the same way they would at an educational institution. The intern should not replace existing employees. The list goes on. Yet, as Shakespeare suggested, “All that glitters is not gold.” Often, these unpaid internships turn into nothing more than free or inexpensive labor in the name of experience. As in, experience is your payment. I ask you: Does experience pay your car insurance? Does experience pay your grocery bill? Unfortunately, no. Money pays the bills. Certainly, all internships can provide wonderful experience and help interns understand their life’s trajectory. However, this doesn’t mean said interns suddenly do not need financial support. If internships were to replicate an experience at a company, they would be paid because people are generally paid for work.
I’ve long been an advocate for eliminating unpaid internships. Such internships take advantage of students’ requirements at universities and other higher education institutions. In some programs, students are encouraged to complete internships. In other programs, internship completion is a requirement. Even more despicable is that students pay for internship credit at an internship where they must work for free. In other words, students pay to not be paid. As a result of unpaid internships, it seems that only the independently wealthy can afford to take them. In the case of Condé Nast, former interns included a daughter of Ariana Huffington and a daughter of a CBS chief executive. In essence, those of privilege are able to pay to not be paid in order to foster relationships with people who may help them out in their careers. Those who need internships and are not sufficiently privileged are left to their own devices. In many ways, this type of arrangement is counter to the promise of higher education. I don’t imagine many students enter college to be taken advantage of in such a way. The ways in which universities leverage students is unfortunate but not unusual. But such leverage that extends beyond the confines of the university and into the world outside is unacceptable. Instead of creating an opportunity for students to reconcile their education with a non-university experience, they become a cheap and never-ending source of labor for many companies. Only in our perverse world would this ar-
need-blind schools traditionally attract both more applicants and more alumni donations, deliberately misrepresented this policy. It is when viewed from a moral perspective that the problem of need awareness becomes more demanding. Tuition is rising across the country, and more students are being forced to accept loans to merely finish college. As a direct consequence, graduates are entering the “real world” with a burdensome amount of debt. Need-aware policies can be construed as a way to deter students from accumulating copious amounts of debt. If GWU were to eliminate its need-aware policy and start to accept students regardless of their financial status, it could be argued that the students who would otherwise have been excluded would only be forced, eventually, to struggle harder to work off their loans. Morally, whether a university should effectively have the power to forbid its applicants from taking on loans is debatable. Complicating matters are the accusations hurled at needaware schools. These are denounced as havens for the privileged, colossal ivory towers in which commercially aristocratic adolescents can ride to success on their parents’ money and connections. Certainly, America’s educational system is under stress. Although education may be one of the few points on which Republicans and Democrats can rhetorically unite, “education” is a very vague term. Whether the two parties will be able to agree on how best to reform the system remains to be seen. For the moment, the skyrocketing costs and increasing student debt are precisely the causes of GWU’s admissions policy. If the American system were to function in such a way as to keep the price of education at an affordable level, there would be no need to distinguish between need-blind and need-aware systems. GWU has updated its website to include an honest description of its admissions policy, but the policy itself isn’t going anywhere. Nor, technically, does it need to. GWU is by no means the only school in the United States that includes financial need in its admissions process. In all probability, then, the hullabaloo surrounding GWU will eventually fade into the background of the news and be forgotten. Debates on how to best reform higher education, however, will persist. And that is an issue that can’t be forever postponed.
EXAMPLES OF “NEEDBLIND” AND “NEEDAWARE” SCHOOLS NEED-BLIND Georgetown University, D.C. Amherst College, Mass. Northwestern University, Ill. Yale University, Conn. University of Chicago, Ill. NEED-AWARE Macalester College, Minn. Oberlin College, Ohio Carleton College, Minn. Gettysburg College, Pa. Occidental College, Calif. SOURCE: U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT
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Free student labor We should not tolerate unpaid internships.
TRENT M. KAYS columnist
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majority of college students graduate with internship experience, yet we debate on whether to pay interns. This thorny subject creates problems when students seek out internships in order to prepare for the “real world” but can’t pay for the bare necessities. Reflecting this brier patch, media company Condé Nast decided last week to end its popular internship program after two former interns sued under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The interns were taken advantage of in the name of experience. This follows a rise of lawsuits by unpaid or underpaid interns against their employers. While it rears its ugly head, the debate about the value of unpaid internships is relevant for the University of Minnesota community.
rangement be OK and sanctioned by a university. Unpaid internships prove problematic for those who need to finish coursework and work to pay for the internship at the same time. Students have value. Students have knowledge, passion and expertise that they can bring to any experience. Through unpaid work, students are being treated as though they are rubes to be used and discarded. Higher education should not allow its precious charge to be sullied in such a manner. Students deserve better than to simply be a group of cheap labor. I’m sad to see the Condé Nast internship program canceled. But, I’m equally disheartened by the fact that such a powerful media company would rather cancel a program than pay a college student $7.25 per hour. It seems workplaces, publications and other institutions are expecting more from their workers for less pay. There are some instances where I don’t mind working for free. It depends on the importance of my contribution, but as a rule, I would like to have food to eat and heat in the winter. Those things aren’t luxuries; they are necessities. By denying interns any pay, companies basically declare their interns aren’t important enough for the necessities of life. In a perfect world, experience would be enough. Yet, we don’t live in a perfect world, and I can’t pay my rent with “experience.” Trent M. Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.
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Gophers beat Nebraska 34-23
BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com Minnesota 34, Nebraska 23 Saturday, Oct. 26 TCF Bank Stadium RECAP The Gophers won a second consecutive Big Ten game, obtained bowl eligibility and beat Nebraska for the first time since 1960 on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium. The Cornhuskers took a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, but Minnesota responded with 17 unanswered points. The Gophers brought it to 27-13 late in the third, but Nebraska had 10 points of its own after that. A late touchdown for the Gophers sealed the victory. Minnesota head coach Jerry Kill addressed the team before, during and after the game, but he remains on leave for his epilepsy treatment. IT WAS OVER WHEN: Sophomore quarterback Philip Nelson rushed for a 1-yard touchdown on third and goal with 48 seconds left in the game. That gave Minnesota a two-score lead. KEY PLAY Nelson’s 33-yard touchdown pass to redshirt senior wide receiver Derrick Engel midway through the second quarter. The Gophers never trailed again. FIVE OBSERVATIONS 1. Minnesota’s offense keeps improving. The offense scored four touchdowns Saturday, ran for 271 yards and won the battle for possession time by more than 10 minutes. It gave Nebraska fits with wide receiver sweeps and by motioning receivers and backs before plays. The strong running game opened up opportunities with the playaction pass, and Nelson threw for a season-high 152 yards. 2. The defensive line is playing at a high level. Redshirt senior defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman had another big game, recording two tackles for a loss and a sack. Redshirt sophomore defensive end Theiren Cockran recorded 1.5 sacks and leads the team with 5.5 sacks this season. The Gophers’ line wasn’t great at stopping the run, but it contained Nebraska’s shifty quarterback, senior Taylor Martinez. 3. David Cobb is a threat at running back. The junior carried 31 times for 138 yards Saturday, both career highs. Cobb has the speed to break off long gains, but has found success this season running straight ahead behind the offensive line. 4. The Gophers continue to play disciplined football. Minnesota committed just three penalties and turned Nebraska over twice. The Gophers haven’t turned the ball over since late in their Oct. 5 game against Michigan, and they have forced five turnovers in that stretch. 5. Nelson continues to play well at quarterback. Nelson continues to play well at quarterback. Redshirt freshman Mitch Leidner started for a second consecutive week, but Nelson checked in midway through the second quarter. He finished 7-for-15 for 152 yards and a touchdown. He also ran for two scores. QUOTE OF THE GAME
We just didn’t make plays at ever y position … [and] when you play a tight ballgame and a hungr y football team, it comes back and bites you right in the ass. Nebraska’s offensive coordinator Tim Beck
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“We’re starting to believe, and that’s really all that needs to be said right now,” Nelson said. “We have the confidence … we’re finally starting to realize how good we really can be.” Kill, who is currently on leave to focus on his epilepsy treatment, watched the game from the coaches’ box for the second straight week. Gophers defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys said he thought last week’s 20-17 win at Northwestern was a big boost for the team’s confidence. The Gophers flashed that confidence Saturday, particularly in the Nelson-to-Engel connection. In last week’s game against Northwestern, Minnesota elected to play it safe and settle for a field goal at the end of the first half. Gophers kicker Chris Hawthorne missed the field goal, and the team went into the locker room tied. Minnesota didn’t settle this week against Nebraska. It was 4th-and-10 from the 33-yard line and they opted to go for it, instead of punting or trying a long field goal. “[We] said, ‘You know what, we didn’t come here to lay up,’ ” offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover
@WCCORosen STUDENT ENTHUSIASM REPORT The student section was quiet at first. But it intensified as the game went on, and most students rushed the field after the game. Nebraska’s fans were out in full force but were a non-factor. UP NEXT The Gophers play Indiana (3-4, 1-2 Big Ten) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Bloomington, Ind.
said. “That’s kind of a saying around the office. We didn’t come to be passive in that situation.” That bold call played a big role in the bowl-clinching win. Still, Claeys said the Gophers are not happy with just six wins this season. “We’ve got a lot left we can accomplish, and we’re playing very confident right now,” he said. “[The players] have to learn now how to handle the success. If we do that, then we’re going to look to finish strong.”
A little ‘soulsearching’
After the Gophers’ 23-7 loss to Iowa on Sept. 28, Limegrover said he did a lot of “soul-searching” to jumpstart the offense. He said he decided it needed to shake up its game plan. “We needed to get the ball on the perimeter more and kind of loosen people up,” Limegrover said. That’s exactly what the Gophers did against Nebraska, running jet sweeps with receivers like redshirt senior Engel and wide receiver Donovahn Jones. Jones, a true freshman, finished with 42 rushing yards on four carries. Minnesota was creative and unconventional on offense all game, motioning and constantly shifting offensive sets to keep the Nebraska defense off-balance. That of fensive creativ-
ity was especially noticeable early in the third quarter. The Gophers trotted out a jumbo package with offensive lineman Ben Lauer lined up as a wide receiver. Lauer jumped up and down calling for the ball after the snap, which caught the attention of the Cornhuskers’ defense.
“We’re starting to believe, and that’s really all that needs to be said right now. We have the confidence … we’re finally starting to realize how good we really can be.” PHILIP NELSON sophomore quarterback
Nelson sold the fake to Lauer, then fired a 21-yard dart over the middle to tight end Drew Goodger. Goodger finished the game with a career-high 68 receiving yards. Limegrover said the play is called “Husker Bob Y-Go.” Nelson said the team was excited about the game plan this week. “We knew going into this week that Nebraska’s the type of defense that you can’t let them get comfortable,” he said. Limegrover said that the motivation for the offensive focus against Nebraska
SCORING SUMMARY SCORE BY QUARTER Nebraska Minnesota
1 10 7
2 3 10
3 7 10
4 3 7
TOTAL 23 34
1ST QUARTER
NEB
MINN
NEB
TD
12:26
Imani Cross, 2 yd run (Smith kick)
7
0
NEB
FG
7:06
Pat Smith, 45 yd field goal
10
0
MINN
TD
0:18
Mitch Liedner, 1 yd run (Hawthorne kick)
10
7
NEB
MINN
2ND QUARTER MINN
TD
6:21
Derrick Engel, 33 yd pass from Philip Nelson (Hawthorne kick)
10
14
MINN
FG
3:01
Chris Hawthorne, 26 yd field goal
10
17
NEB
FG
0:03
Pat Smith, 42 yd field goal
13
17
NEB
MINN
3RD QUARTER MINN
TD
9:01
Philip Nelson, 1 yd run (Hawthorne kick)
13
24
MINN
FG
2:33
Chris Hawthorne, 45 yd field goal
13
27
NEB
TD
0:14
Sam Cotton, 3 yd pass from Taylor Martinez (Smith kick)
20
27
NEB
MINN
4TH QUARTER NEB
FG
9:26
Pat Smith, 37 yd field goal
23
27
MINN
TD
0:48
Philip Nelson, 1 yd run (Hawthorne kick)
23
34
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stemmed from the Cornhuskers’ 70-31 loss to Wisconsin in last year’s Big Ten championship game. “We watched the Big Ten championship game a lot,” Limegrover said. “We loved what Wisconsin had done [in that game] and started picking and pulling pieces from that.”
‘Unbelievable’ Minnesota hadn’t beaten a ranked team in Kill’s tenure prior to the upset Saturday. It had lost 16 straight games to Nebraska and hadn’t topped the Cornhuskers since 1960. The Gophers weren’t thinking about that history Saturday. “I wasn’t here back then.
I wasn’t here 30 years ago,” Claeys said. “I was a freshman in high school. Those [games] have no meaning to us.” After committing to a program that only won three games during his senior year at Mankato West High School, Nelson said he couldn’t believe the turnaround the Gophers have made during his time with Minnesota. “I can’t even put it into words how unbelievable of a feeling it is to go out there and come out victorious with my teammates and coaches and all of the fans out there,” he said. “It was unbelievable.”
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Nelson, Cobb pace squad to signature win Philip Nelson and David Cobb led a well-balanced run attack in the game.
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“Those last 3 hours were also the best possible recruiting tool the Gophers could have asked for!”
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Minnesota running back David Cobb attempts to break free from a Nebraska tackle on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
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Minnesota coaches have remained rather coy about the quarterback competition between sophomore Philip Nelson and redshirt freshman Mitch Leidner this season. They also have yet to name a concrete starting running back, rotating between three players all season. It might be an easier decision after the 34-23 win against No. 25 Nebraska over the weekend. “If you’re going to win Big Ten football games, you’ve got to be able to run the ball,” defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys said after the win. That was the clear recipe
for success Saturday. The Gophers boasted a strong running game headed by Nelson and running back David Cobb. Nelson and Cobb both played pivotal roles in the upset win over the Cornhuskers and seemed to secure the starting quarterback and running back spots, respectively. Minnesota finished with 271 yards rushing, and Nelson and Cobb combined to account for more than 70 percent of those yards. “We know who we are, and we know what we like to do,” Cobb said after the game. “We feel like we have a great [offensive line], great skill players, so we just took it to them.” Nelson finished the game 7-for-15 for 152 passing yards and a touchdown. He also plunged into the end zone twice on quarterback sneaks from one yard out. Cobb, however, might have outshone Nelson, car-
rying 31 times for 138 yards. Cobb started the year as a third-stringer but has since emerged as the go-to guy in the backfield.
“We know who we are, and we know what we like to do. We feel like we have a great [offensive line], great skill players, so we just took it to them.” DAVID COBB junior running back
He has looked like a prototypical running back since he stepped on campus, but he has struggled to crack the lineup. He saw his opportunity this season as Donnell Kirkwood and Rodrick Williams went down with inju-
ries, and he ran with it. “It’s all about opportunity for him,” offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said of Cobb. “He’s running with it, literally and figuratively. … That light bulb’s come on for him.” Cobb has been far and away the most ef fective r unner on the team this year. He’s gashed opposing defenses with his powerrunning style but has also shown a bit of wiggle on the outside. Cobb already has 615 yards r ushing and could eclipse 1,000 by the end of the season. He had one attempt for eight yards during all of last season. “The biggest thing is coaches having confidence in me,” Cobb said Saturday. “When they have the confidence in you, it gives you confidence in yourself to go out there and play.” Limegrover wouldn’t name a starter at either po-
BIG TEN STANDINGS Legends Division Team Michigan State Michigan Nebraska Minnesota Iowa Northwestern
Conference Record 4-0 2-1 2-1 2-2 2-2 0-4
Overall
% Record % 1.000 7-1 .875 .667 6-1 .857 .667 5-2 .714 .500 6-2 .750 .500 5-3 .625 .000 4-4 .500
Leaders Division Team Ohio State Wisconsin Indiana Penn State Illinois Purdue
Conference Record 4-0 3-1 1-2 1-2 0-3 0-3
Overall
% Record % 1.000 8-0 1.000 .750 5-2 .714 .333 3-4 .428 .333 4-3 .571 .000 3-4 .428 .000 1-6 .143
SOURCE: BIGTEN.ORG
sition after the game, but he said different opponents will dictate the starter at quarterback in the coming weeks. After the game, Nelson didn’t seem to mind the mystery. “Whatever we’re doing right now is working,” he said, “and that’s all that really matters.”
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Minnesota wins and ties with BC WITH SAM GORDON
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Minnesota defenseman Mike Reilly skates against Boston College at Mariucci Arena on Friday.
The Gophers tied Boston College 3-3 on Friday but won 6-1 on Sunday. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
The two games between the Gophers men’s hockey team and Boston College this weekend started off similar enough, but they ended ver y differently. While Minnesota scored two goals in about the first five minutes of each game, it only managed a 3-3 tie Friday before a 6-1 win Sunday. Junior for war d Seth Ambroz said the dif ferenc e b e t w e e n t h e two games came down to his team’s mentality. “Friday night, we started of f 2-0. We kind of thought, ‘Oh, you know, this might be a little easier than we thought.’ And with Boston College, that’s never the case,” Ambroz said. “And [Sunday], we really focused on, once we got that lead, staying with
our game plan, not sitting back.” Ambroz scored the Gophers’ second goal just after the five-minute mark Sunday. Senior for ward Nate Condon had put one away about a minute earlier. But instead of relinquishing that first-period lead, like it did in the game Friday, Minnesota kept piling the pucks in the net. Sophomor e defenseman Mike Reilly scored about halfway through the period. Sophomore defenseman Brady Skjei netted the fourth goal toward the end of the period. While the Eagles managed to cut into the deficit with a goal from freshman for war d Evan Richar dson in the second period, third-period goals from Minnesota freshmen defensemen Michael Brodzinski and Jake Bischof f sealed the five-goal winning margin. Gophers head coach Don Lucia said Sunday was a dif ferent kind of game from Friday. “[Friday] was the frenetic transition back and for th,” he said. “[Sunday]
there was a little more str uctur e to how both teams played.” That structure showed in the shot statistics, as the two teams ended each period even for a total of 32 shots each at the end of Sunday’s game. The dif ference was Gophers sophomore goaltender Adam Wilcox, who made several big saves en route to 31 total. The Gophers outshot the Eagles 39-34 on Friday night but couldn’t make those shots count in the end. Freshman for ward Hudson Fasching and junior for ward Travis Boyd scored the first two early goals for the Gophers. But about four minutes later, junior for ward Johnny Gaudreau netted a power-play goal to pull one back for the Eagles. And then, in a surprising turn, Edina, Minn., native and junior for ward Michael Sit scored two goals 11 seconds apar t to give Boston College a 3-2 lead over the Gophers. “We just got comfor table,” Boyd said Friday.
“We’ve got to make sure we keep the foot on the pedal all the way through 60 minutes.” While the Gophers managed to pull even late in the second period with a goal from freshman forward Taylor Cammarata, the score remained at 3-3 throughout the last period and overtime. Though Boston College won the shootout, the game of ficially ended in a tie — marring the Gophers’ perfect record. Lucia said it was “a heck of a game” and that he couldn’t remember the last time his team was involved in such a good game so early in the season. But the shootout did make the ending a bit uncomfortable. “We lose a shootout, and [you] almost feel like you lost the game,” Lucia said, “when in fact, it is a tie.” Boyd, however, said the shootout was a nice change of pace. “It was a lot of fun, actually. It’s something new,” Boyd said. “It’s an exciting thing for the fans and players.” The No. 1 Gophers now
MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY Boston College Minnesota
1 2 3 OT 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 0
FINAL 3 3
SUNDAY 1 2 3 0 1 0 4 0 2
Boston College Minnesota
FINAL 1 6
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have a 5-0-1 record heading into a bye week. Lucia said while his team will focus on specialty plays in the time off, health is the No. 1 concern. Senior defenseman Jake Parenteau went down Friday with a head injur y and Condon took a hard hit late in the game Sunday, to name a few sore spots. Reilly said the early week off might be coming at a good time. “[We’re going to] just regroup going into a team like Notre Dame,” Reilly said. “Rest up a little bit, just kind of get your legs back after the weekend.”
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Brandt scores late, Gophers sweep Beavers Minnesota swept its weekend series with Bemidji State to move to 8-0-0. BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com
The Gophers might not have been at their best this weekend against Bemidji State, but they did enough to come away with two wins. Minnesota won 4-0 on Friday and 4-3 on Saturday in Bemidji, Minn., to run its record to 8-0-0 this season. Junior forward Meghan Lorence said the weekend was an “eye opener” for the team. “They’re just always very aggressive and always put a lot of pressure on just trying to make us make mistakes,” she said of Bemidji State. “It just kind of let us know what we need to work on, and we always can’t take a game lightly.” Minnesota jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead Saturday with a goal from sophomore for ward Hannah Brandt just 29 seconds into the game. But Bemidji State countered with a goal to tie it and took the lead later in the period. On the last shift of the period, Gophers senior forward Kelly Terry scored to send the two teams into intermission tied. Aside from the first and last shift of the period, Minnesota struggled. Brandt said the team
played sloppily and committed a lot of turnovers in the period. Lorence said the Gophers played as a team but didn’t have as much passion as normal. “I think just at times, they wanted it more than we did, and that’s a mistake that can catch us of f guard pretty easily,” she said. Junior for ward Rachael Bona put Minnesota ahead in the second period, but the Beavers tied it again in the third. Brandt deflected a shot by senior defenseman Baylee Gillanders into the net to put the Gophers on top for good. Brandt’s goals were her second and third this season. “It was pretty big for me to score a couple goals tonight, because it’s been a while, so I think that’ll help my confidence,” she said Saturday. Brandt was the nation’s second-highest scorer last year, but she hasn’t been finding the back of the net as easily so far this season. “I think she’s hit more posts this year than she had all of last year,” head coach Brad Frost said. “It’s really hard to keep a great player like Hannah down, and it was just a matter of time before she broke out.” Lorence said the Beavers collapsed the slot area more, and eliminated point-blank scoring opportunities Saturday compared to Friday night. Minnesota recorded 31
ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Minnesota forward Hannah Brandt battles Minnesota State-Mankato forward Kari Lundberg on Nov. 17, 2012, at Ridder Arena.
shots on goal Saturday compared to 46 on Friday. The Gophers outshot Bemidji State 13-3 in the first period of Friday’s game, but the Beavers limited Minnesota’s quality chances. Lorence scored the first goal of the game early in the second period off of assists from senior forward Sarah Davis and sophomore defenseman Brook Garzone. “We’re kind of the line that likes to get under the other team’s skin [and] just be all over them right away,” Lorence said of her line. “Just setting the tempo with that first goal was a relief off
our shoulders.” Minnesota rolled from there. Junior defenseman Rachel Ramsey added the second goal with a shot from the point a few minutes later, and freshman forward Kate Schipper scored her first collegiate goal late in the second period. Lorence capped Minnesota’s scoring in the third period with her second goal of the game. The Gophers played the weekend without sophomore defenseman Milica McMillen, who Frost said was out with an injury. Frost said he hopes to
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS FRIDAY 1 0 Minnesota Bemidji State 0
2 3 0
3 1 0
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3 1 1
FINAL 4 3
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get McMillen back next weekend, when the team takes on Minnesota StateMankato.
or the last three years, Gophers players and coaches have insisted the football program is turning around. They’ve said there have been tangible improvements in practice and claimed it would soon translate to wins on Saturdays. But for the last three years, those improvements, at least on game days, were few and far between — until Saturday. Gophers head coach Jerry Kill and his coaching staff’s vision finally came to fruition with a 3423 upset win over No. 25 Nebraska. It was the Gophers’ first win over the Cornhuskers since 1960 and the most significant win for the football program since it beat Michigan in 2005. Minnesota defensive coordinator and acting head coach Tracy Claeys stopped short of calling it a statement victory, but that’s exactly what it was. Since joining the Big Ten in 2011, Nebraska has established itself as a perennial conference championship contender. And on principle alone, beating one of the most storied programs in college football symbolizes significant progress for a rebuilding program. But it wasn’t just about the win against the Cornhuskers — it was about the way the game was won. This was no fluke win. Nebraska wasn’t missing its two best players like Nor thwestern was last week. Minnesota thoroughly outplayed Nebraska, especially in the trenches. “If you’re going to win Big Ten football games, you’ve got to be able to run the ball,” Claeys said. And for the second straight week, the Gophers did just that, while also showcasing of fensive creativity that fans have yet to see under this coaching staff. Minnesota used a variety of formations and motions to keep the Nebraska defense guessing on the ground while creating mismatches in the air. “We said we’re going to shake it up a bit,” offensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said. “I think the kids enjoyed that.” It cer tainly seemed like they did in the game. The Gophers played with a newfound confidence, and it’s fair to assume that will continue. Minnesota may well be favored against its next two opponents — Indiana and Penn State — and it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the team could sit at 8-2 overall and 4-2 in the Big Ten heading into battle against rival Wisconsin. Claeys said the Gophers will readjust their goals now that they’re bowl eligible. “It’s not enough,” he said about the team’s sixth win. “We’re looking to improve every year.” Now the improvements are evident, and it’s reasonable to expect more. “This is just the win we needed as a program,” defensive back B r o c k Ve r e e n s a i d . “We’ve been in situations like this before, but we finally put all the pieces in the right place.” After Saturday’s win, there’s no reason to think the team can’t keep them in the right place. Ya feel me? Sam Gordon welcomes comments at sgordon@mndaily.com or on Twitter.
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earns Gophers rebound with win Minnesota two wins on road The Gophers beat rival Wisconsin in double overtime and beat Purdue.
SOCCER RESULTS THURSDAY Minnesota Wisconsin
BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
1 2 OT OT2 FINAL 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0
SUNDAY
A lack of consistency has plagued the Gophers all year. But not this weekend. Minnesota swept a pair of conference road matches, following up its 1-0 doubleovertime win over Wisconsin in Madison, Wis., on Thursday with a 2-1 victory over Purdue in West Lafayette, Ind., on Sunday. “I am very proud of our girls for sweeping our final road weekend of the regular season,” Gophers head coach Stefanie Golan said. “It’s never easy to do, but especially in the Big Ten down the stretch.” The wins moved the Gophers (11-5-2, 4-4-2) into a fifth-place tie in the Big Ten. The Gophers jumped on the Boilermakers right away Sunday. Junior midfielder Katie Thyken finished a cross from freshman forward Simone Kolander for a first-minute score. Kolander and Thyken connected again in the 57th minute to give the Gophers a 2-0 lead and all but wrap up the win. Thyken’s two goals give her seven this season, tying her 2012 mark.
Minnesota Purdue
1 1 0
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Freshman keeper Tarah Hobbs finished the match with 12 saves and held the Boilermakers scoreless until the 84th minute. “Tarah made a couple of key saves,” Golan said. Hobbs had already completed a shutout earlier in the weekend, collecting 10 saves in the doubleovertime victor y over the Badgers. It was her fourth shutout of the season. Sophomore forward Haley Helverson’s goal in the 109th minute made the difference in the 1-0 win. The Gophers won despite being outshot 32-17. “Wisconsin is a good team, and to be able to grind out a win like that on the road is such a great reward for our girls,” Golan said. “We rose to the occasion and found a way to win.” The Gophers wrap up their Big Ten regular season slate against Illinois at home on Thursday.
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Minnesota outside hitter Ashley Wittman spikes the ball against Northwestern on Sunday at the Sports Pavilion.
Ashley Wittman led Minnesota to a four-set win over Northwestern. BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com
Following a tough road loss to Wisconsin on Wednesday, the Gophers volleyball team returned home Sunday to beat Northwestern, keeping its home record unblemished in the process. Minnesota dominated every aspect of the match, boasting 17 team blocks, digging 80 balls and combining for a .291 percent hitting percentage. Senior captain Ashley
Wittman put up a huge performance, digging 29 balls while accumulating 17 kills. “I’ve been trying to get better at defense and better at reading the game,” she said. “I’m just trying to do the best for the team, keep myself steady and do what they need me to do.” The Gophers opened the match with a 25-16 set win over the Wildcats, putting on a show for the more than 4,000 attendees. That dominance continued into the second set as the Gophers once again won in convincing fashion. But in set three, the Wildcats woke up. They opened the set with four consecutive points and befuddled Minnesota en
route to a set win. The Gophers tried to claw back in the set but came up short. It was a different story in the fourth set, though, as the Gophers pulled away at just the right time and won four of the last five points to end the match. “The most impor tant thing for us was that we showed some nice resiliency, fighting back from a deficit to get close in the third,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said. “Then battling in the fourth to ultimately get to 20all and take it from there.” Sophomore outside hitter Daly Santana echoed McCutcheon’s remarks. “In practice we battle, and that’s what we did today,” Santana said. “We keep going ’till
VOLLEYBALL RESULTS
1 2 3 4 Northwestern 16 17 25 22 25 25 22 25 Minnesota
FINAL 1 3
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
the end, and I think that was the key to the game.” Junior outside hitter Adrianna Nora was also instrumental in the match. She was second in kills on the team with 15. Nora said she’s feeling much more comfortable with her role on the team than she was earlier in the season. The Gophers have a fourday break before heading on a two-match road trip, where they will face Purdue on Friday and Indiana on Saturday.
Rodgers, Packers cruise past Vikings 44-31 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — Aaron Rodgers has the Green Bay Packers on a roll, even without three of his best receivers. With help from a powerful running game, Rodgers picked apart what was left of Minnesota’s defense on Sunday night. Ignoring the injuries around him, Rodgers threw two first-half touchdown passes to Jordy Nelson and guided the Packers to a 4431 victory over the Vikings on 24-for-29 passing for 285 yards. Christian Ponder’s encore went poorly for the Vikings (1-6), who sent out a different starting quarterback for the third straight week. Adrian Peterson gained a quiet 60 yards on 13 carries, Greg Jennings had just one catch against his old team and the Vikings offense counted only three plays in the third quarter as the Packers (5-2) pulled away in their final game at the Metrodome, now known as Mall of America Field. Ponder didn’t turn the ball
over, but he was again out of sorts in the pocket all night and unable to make much happen at all if his intended target was covered. He finished 14 for 21 for 145 yards against a defense missing three starting linebackers to injury and added a late touchdown run. The Vikings beat the Packers 37-34 last December to make the playoffs. But they needed 199 yards rushing from Peterson and the best game of Ponder’s career to do it, because Rodgers has rarely found resistance from this defense in purple. In his last eight games against the Vikings, he has 22 touchdowns and only three interceptions while completing roughly three-quarters of his passes. The Packers have won seven of those. Micah Hyde had a punt return for a touchdown for the Packers, who never punted and held the ball for more than two-thirds of the game to counteract Cordarrelle Patterson’s opening 109-yard kickoff return for a touchdown. The Packers have won 15 of their last 16 games
against NFC North teams. Patterson put the Vikings in front before Ponder even touched the ball, with a breathtaking run through the middle of Green Bay’s kickoff coverage that was so fast only Hyde, the rookie cornerback from Iowa, had a chance to tackle him. Even the longest possible play in the sport wasn’t enough for the Vikings to feel good about facing Rodgers, though. The Packers scored on their first two possessions, running a total of 31 plays for 160 yards that drained 15 minutes and 48 seconds off the clock. The touchdown to cap the first drive was a Rodgers classic, a laser on a corner route that somehow slipped past Josh Robinson into Nelson’s outstretched hands despite the cornerback being about as close as could be to the receiver without interfering. The Packers helped keep the Vikings close in the first half with a pair of ill-timed penalties. Rookie defensive end Datone Jones was flagged for unnecessary
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Minnesota midfielder Katie Thyken fights for the ball against Louisiana State on Sept. 6.
roughness after Ponder’s nowhere-close incompletion on third-and-6 in the second quarter, extending a drive for a field goal. Then with 14 seconds left before the break, Tramon Williams was called for pass interference along the sideline during an overthrow on Jennings, putting the ball at the 14. Peterson powered through the teeth of the Packers defense for an 8-yard score, cutting the lead to 24-17. The harsh reality for the Vikings was that gutsy run came after the 76-yard catch and run by Nelson on third-and-6 and the 93-yard backbreaking punt return by Hyde, just 2 minutes apart. The Vikings, already having a hard time this season finding reliable play from their cornerbacks, had to play their backup safeties, too. Harrison Smith is out with a turf toe injury, and Jamarca Sanford hurt his groin early in this one. Linebacker Chad Greenway was trying to cover Nelson on the touchdown, and safety Andrew Sendejo was late to help.
CROSS COUNTRY
Johnson wins Jack’s Run, top runners sit Minnesota rested its top runners to prepare for the Big Ten championships. BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com
Minnesota’s top runners had a night off Saturday in anticipation of next weekend’s Big Ten championships. Meanwhile, the rest of the team raced at Jack’s Twilight Run. Though a trip to the Big Ten meet wasn’t on the line for Saturday’s runners, head coach Sarah Hopkins said she was impressed by the way her team performed. “Ever ybody did a really good job of sticking their nose in there and competing and racing to get [personal records] … and not just going through the motions,” she said. To of fset any possible monotony, Hopkins held the race in the evening and changed the course layout. “Nothing says that because we’re r unning at home that we have to do the same exact course every time,” she said. The course was flatter and loopier than normal for Jack’s Twilight Run. “It was fun because you didn’t really know what to expect, and so it kept it fresh and new,” redshir t freshman Haley Johnson said.
Johnson took the top spot for Minnesota. The race was also open to the public. Johnson said she and sophomore Jamie Piepenburg raced alongside a man after they heard his voice at the 4K mark. “It was a good aspect to run with guys, and I think it pushed me the last 200 [meters] because I knew he was behind me, so I was like, ‘I can’t let him beat me,’ ” Johnson said. Hopkins said the race was especially impor tant for the younger runners. She said she talks to the freshman class about the impor tance of getting a little better each week, and races like this are an opportunity to improve. At this point, Hopkins said, the younger group has run enough 6K races to know which strategies work. “Ever y time they r un, they can kind of tweak those a little bit so when we walk into next season, they have a little better idea of what they need to be doing,” Hopkins said. Johnson said she’s gotten more aggressive as the season has progressed, and she said she thinks the rest of the group has done the same. The group that ran Saturday’s race will take a break until Rocky’s Run on Nov. 10. The top group heads to West Lafayette, Ind., next weekend to compete for a Big Ten title.
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
10/28/2013
Thursday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
Today’s Birthday (10/28): Creative projects excite this year. Your muse showers you with love for a springtime rise in romantic status, inciting you to summer travel and a career break.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Monday is for romance (at least today is). Fall in love all over again. You can do more with less.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Surround yourself with common goals and support each other in your dreams. Together you can figure out new ways to make money.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — You’re full of brilliant ideas, which are extremely practical now. Talk it over with your partner for exponential gains.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — You’re in charge and ready to take action. Pour on the steam and advance more than expected.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Avoid distractions and get into detailed work. Now it’s easier to concentrate. Don’t wander off too far from home, as you have some chores first.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Hit the road, Jack, and discover an adventure along the way, the kind to tell your grandchildren about.. Romance figures in the picture, too.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — What you learn now will stay with you for a long time. Focus on the piece of the job you love. Make some honest money while you’re at it.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — You’re being challenged, giving you an opportunity to show your worth. Be tough. You may even surprise yourself.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — You’re on top of the world for the rest of the day. Come down from cloud nine, eventually, and start making some serious money.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — You’ll find it easier to balance romance with career. Start by working on projects you love.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — You’re especially sensitive now. It may look like an uphill kind of day. There’s still beauty to be found along the trail.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Give yourself the room to grow, even if that means letting go of things you’ve been hanging on to for no particular reason.
Monday, October 28, 2013
overheard “I think I just wrote physics porn. Oh yeah, look at dem CURVES!!”
—Stadium View Apartments
Girl: “You’re 21 and still consider tickling a girl as a primary and effective form of flirting.” Guy: “It’s all I’ve ever known!”
—St. Paul bus stop
“I’m not very good at biology. I hate biology. But I’m good at coloring! I’m great in coloring! I have A’s in all my other classes.”
—Unknown
Professor: “One way to think of this is that if you walked along the line, you would want to keep your left arm on the inside of the shape. Wait, I mean left side, not left arm — we don’t want to discriminate against people without a left arm or people with multiple left arms.”
—Anderson Hall
Professor: “It has more spots than an oil spill at a Dalmatian convention.” Class: [silence] Prof: “One second. [starts writing] Never use that analogy again.”
—Science Teaching and Student Services building
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Girl: “What’s a reagent?”
—Organic chemistry lab “Look, there’s cereal in this tortilla. It’s a breakfast burrito.”
—Centennial dining hall
Professor: “If Marshall had ordered Jefferson to honor the commissions, Jefferson could have just been like, ‘Not gonna happen, like, come at me bro.’”
—Unknown
“I’m at a point in my life where crashing on couches is no longer acceptable.”
—Blegen Hall
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ACROSS 1 Forget where one put, as keys 7 Pedro’s eye 10 Golf great Ballesteros 14 Crumbly Italian cheese 15 Lao Tzu’s “path” 16 Slangy prefix meaning “ultra” 17 Computer storage medium 19 When repeated, island near Tahiti 20 Male sibs 21 Kadett automaker 22 Apple music players 23 Vintner’s prefix 24 Quick-on-theuptake type, in slang 26 Athenian walkway 28 Otherwise 29 Persian rulers 31 Irene of “Fame” 33 Used-up pencils 37 Cartoncushioning unit 40 Latin being 41 Latin love word 42 Muslim pilgrim’s destination 43 Tombstone lawman Wyatt 45 Mischievous trick 46 Showy authority figure 51 Facebook notes, briefly 54 Put back to zero 55 Orator’s place 56 Vivacity 57 Fitzgerald of jazz 58 Tense predeadline period ... or when to eat the ends of 17-, 24-, 37- and 46Across? 60 Bedframe part 61 Notes after dos 62 Pop singer Spector who fronted a ’60s girl group named for her 63 Alley prowlers 64 Function 65 Chuck who broke the sound barrier
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DOWN 1 Up-tempo Caribbean dance 2 River of Grenoble 3 Kids’ imitation game 4 Vietnam neighbor 5 Part of USDA: Abbr. 6 Multiple Grammywinning cellist 7 Catchall option in a survey question 8 They’re related to the severity of the crimes 9 Caveman Alley 10 Summoned as a witness 11 Novel on a small screen, perhaps 12 “Falstaff” was his last opera 13 Wipe clean 18 Tax pro: Abbr. 22 Cyclades island 24 Nothing to write home about 25 Applaud 27 Feats like the Yankees’ 1998, ’99 and 2000 World Series wins 29 Opposite of NNW
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30 6’3”, 5’4”, etc.: Abbr. 31 Close associates 32 Roadside assistance org. 34 Preparing to use, as a hose 35 Tampa Bay NFLer 36 RR stop 38 Jamie of “M*A*S*H” 39 Arabian leader
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44 Play a part 45 Discern 46 Take by force 47 “Is anybody here?” 48 Quran religion 49 Underlying reason 50 Relatives 52 Mrs. Eisenhower 53 Snide smile 56 Sicilian volcano 58 French vineyard 59 Earth chopper
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dr. date Dr. Date,
The most embarrassing thing happened. I met this guy at a bar the other night, and he asked for my number. I gave him my number, but it was for my old phone, which my sister is now using. He texted her something that was less than savory the next day, and she totally freaked out. She replied with a text that said, basically, “Don’t ever contact me again, perv.” How can I mend things with my sister? And is there any hope with this guy, or should I just forget about it?
—Wrong Number
Sister Sexts,
There’s no need for hyperboles here — it could have been a lot worse. At least he didn’t send a dick pic to your dad. You didn’t do anything wrong, and there’s nothing to be embarrassed about. Your sister, of all people, should know that mistakes happen to the best of us, especially when alcohol is involved. Tell her the text was for you, and text the guy from your own number. If your sis throws a hissy fit, that’s her problem. Does she think you’re asexual or something? As for remedying your relations with the man in question, that’s up to you. If you were intoxicated enough to give him the wrong number, I’m not sure you should be tracking this fellow down. And OK, now that I think about it, the fact that the dude’s first text to you was explicit is a huge warning sign. I mean, if you’re strictly looking to bone, it sounds like he’s all for it — but maybe wait to look for Prince Charming when you’re sober.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
A couple I know recently asked me to participate in a threesome. I had never really considered doing something like that, but I’m pretty flattered. I think it’d be a fun thing to try, but I’m worried that things will be weird after. Is there a guidebook for this kind of thing?
—Guest Star
Volunteer Third Wheel,
Oh, the infamous threesome. Your situation has the potential to be either really awkward or really awesome, depending on participants’ mentalities before going into it. If only one of them is psyched about the idea, that feeling will translate into the experience, as will any sense of bitterness or hesitance. Sex is a vulnerable thing, people! This ain’t no game! However, if the couple is very confident in their relationship and jealousy isn’t something that fazes them, you could have a great time. Just be warned that one person often ends up feeling left out. Before you get too far into this, I would recommend having an extensive conversation about boundaries, preferences and what to do in case of an emergency — aka when someone is hella uncomfortable and wants to stop. I don’t mean to freak you out; I just want you to look at the situation realistically. Flattery is one thing, but does the thought of sleeping with a committed couple turn you on? Is there a risk of becoming emotionally attached to one of them? If it sounds like the threesome could be a fun, liberating experience for all involved, go for it. There’s no guidebook besides your own intuition.
—Dr. Date
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Regents express UMore Park concerns UMore u from Page 1
The University has owned the 5,000 acr es of land, located 25 miles southeast of the Twin Cities metro area, for more than six decades. In that time, faculty, staff and students have used the land for research. The University plans to implement the development over the next 25 to 30 years. In a 2005 repor t on the project, an executive committee to thenUniversity President Bob Br uininks insisted the money gained from the land would help the University become one of the top three public research institutions in the world by 2015. But during an update on UMore at this month’s regents meeting, some voiced concerns about the project’s progression. Regent Laura Brod said the decision to develop the land predated her time on the board, and that she wasn’t sure if the University should be in the business of development. “I wor r y a little bit about being in development and about competing with the private sector,” she said at the meeting. Brod said the boar d and the University need to examine how they will spend their money and time when considering future projects. Regent John Frobenius, who was on the board when it approved the preliminar y plans, said real estate was booming in the early 2000s when the project started, but it has since slowed. “There were some pretty ambitious development plans that probably were more extravagant than they should have been,” he said. “It probably doesn’t produce as much resources as some of us might have thought
it could initially, but that’s what you learn as you get into a project.” Other r egents questioned whether the project has made any money for the University at this point. University Chief Financial Of ficer Richard Pfutzenreuter said the project hasn’t paid for itself yet, but mining sections of the land is generating revenue. In 2011, the University signed a 40-year agreement for a sand and gravel mine on the site. Of ficials estimated the University would make $3 to $5 million per year off the mine, according to a previous Minnesota Daily article. From when the project began until the end of June 2014, Pfutzenreuter said, its estimated cost to the University will be $10.2 million, and it will have made a total of nearly $8.3 million. But Pfutzenreuter assured the board that the land has increased in value over time. The regents created a legacy fund for the project in 2008, which assures that all revenue ear ned fr om UMor e Park will go toward academic research, education and public engagement. “All of these ef for ts … between the mining and the development will make this venture a positive cash flow and allow funds to flow into the legacy fund as the board adopted that plan,” Pfutzenreuter said at the meeting. “But so far, we’re just a tad short.” Carla Carlson, executive director of UMore Development LLC, said the University is using the land to its “best and highest use.” “We are generating income,” she said. Carlson said in a July Minnesota Daily ar ticle that she estimated the annual budget for upkeep and planning of the development to be about
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$1 million. Regent David Larson said he was concer ned with the cost of maintaining the land and asked whether the University could sell the land in the future if necessar y. “ We s h o u l d a l w a y s
be looking at the alternatives,” he said at the meeting. “In other words, is it much more valuable for someone else’s use at some point in time?” University President Eric Kaler said for now, the University will contin-
ue to use par t of the land for agricultural research. “I think it’s a valuable resource for the University and we should use it to its highest and best use,” he said. Carlson said she couldn’t comment on Lar-
son’s concerns. When asked how much money the project could potentially make for the University, Carlson said it’s too soon to estimate. “It’s har d to predict what will happen 30 years in advance,” she said.