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Government promotes loan repayment plan
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Eliason ready to fill big man role for Minnesota
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CRIME
Armed man puts U on alert An alleged robbery attempt put the West Bank on alert Monday afternoon. BY ALEXI GUSSO AND JESSICA LEE agusso@mndaily.com jlee@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota police asked students, faculty and staff to seek shelter at around 3:15 p.m. Monday after an
armed man allegedly attempted to rob a student in Anderson Hall. Police arrived at the scene a little after 3 p.m. Shortly after 4 p.m., a text alert said a search of the West Bank was complete and no shooting had occurred. University police Chief Greg Hestness said the suspect approached a student studying on a stairwell in Anderson Hall, displayed a handgun and demanded her laptop. Hestness said the suspect took the victim’s backpack, which was empty. The
student screamed, and the man fled. The student wasn’t harmed, Hestness said. The suspect was still at large Monday night, and may have escaped through the University’s tunnel system, University Services spokesman Tim Busse said. Hestness said the suspect description, sent via a text alert shortly after the notice to take shelter, was vague and “not too u See WEST BANK Page 3 Police also searched the area around Coffman Union after receiving a call the suspect was there.
A worldwide footprint
New faces join City Council Alondra Cano, Lisa Bender and Andrew Johnson will join four other City Council newcomers. BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com
Following the 2013 city election, the Minnesota Daily will be running a twoweek series that profiles new City Council members. Alondra Cano, Lisa Bender and Andrew Johnson were chosen by voters last week to represent wards 9, 10 and 12, respectively, and will serve on the council beginning in January. u See CIT Y COUNCIL Page 14 The candidates discussed public safety, education and why they decided to run for office.
RESEARCH
Medical magnet is on its way The University will use one of the world’s strongest magnets for brain imaging. BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com
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Established in 1958 by the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, the Landscape Arboretum is the largest public garden in the Upper Midwest. It includes gardens, woods, prairies and plant collections.
The University system owns land for various uses across the state, nation and world. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota owns a mansion on the shore of Lake Superior, apartments in Birmingham, UK, and forests on a Chippewa reservation. Across the state, country and world, the University owns more than 28,000 acres of land and receives the financial benefit of about 56,500 acres of land. It engages in more than 1,400 leases and easements. And each of these proper ties is bought and used in a unique way. All of the University’s land is used for specific purposes, from a peat soil bank
used to restore wetlands to a parking lot that keeps the Minneapolis campus less congested. Long-term plans for properties include multiple uses for the land over time. The way the University goes about acquiring these proper ties is just as varied. Sometimes the Real Estate Of fice acquires a proper ty and determines a use later, and sometimes it hunts for land to ser ve a specific goal in the campus’s master plans. A department may approach the Real Estate Of fice when in need of a research facility, or property owners may contact the office about land they’re looking to sell that might
be useful to the University. Because the Real Estate Of fice doesn’t have a comprehensive land budget, its purchases are made with a combination of sources. State funding, grants, donations, money from academic departments, internal University loans and even land the University sells fund future acquisitions. The office acts as a gatekeeper for University land. It handles transactions for thousands of small chunks of land that collectively form multimillion-dollar spans of property. The following pages provide a closer look at land ownership and leasing at the University.
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PUBLIC SAFETY
Mech E cleared after reported gas leak Police and firefighters responded and reopened the building after an hour. BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com
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A Minneapolis firefighter wraps “fire line do not cross” tape around the perimeter of the Mechanical Engineering building on East Bank on Monday around 4 p.m. Students, faculty and staff were evacuated due to a potential gas leak.
University of Minnesota students, faculty and staff evacuated the Mechanical Engineering building on Church Street Southeast because of a suspected gas leak late Monday afternoon. University spokesman Matt Hodson said responders searched the building for a leak but found none and cleared the building for re-entry around 5:30 p.m. University and Minneapolis police responded to a call from a professor after a graduate student reported hearing a hissing noise. Of ficials evacuated the building around 4:20 p.m. By that time, seven fire trucks, two University police squad cars and four other emergency vehicles were on the scene. Alexi Gusso and Marion Renault contributed to this report.
The world’s strongest imaging magnet is on its way to the University of Minnesota after being delayed more than a year. Come December, the Siemens MAGNETOM 10.5T will aid in brain research as part of the University’s new addition to the Medical School’s Center for Magnetic Resonance Research. A global shortage of helium delayed the arrival of the magnet, which uses the element for cooling. Researchers will use the magnet primarily for brain activity and human body imaging, said Kamil Ugurbil, CMRR director. “Being able to image human brain function improves significantly with magnetic field,” he said. The higher magnetic field will likely provide better imaging of the human body and extremities as well, he said, although they’re much trickier to work with in a high magnetic field. Tested and constructed in England, the u See MAGNET Page 6 A global helium shortage delayed the magnet’s arrival by a year.
CAMPUS
U buildings brace for winter chill Limited funding puts some older buildings on the waiting list for renovation. BY JULIA MARSHALL jmarshall@mndaily.com
Facilities Management employees prepare University of Minnesota buildings for winter every year, but they are limited by funding. University officials say some buildings need improvements to withstand tough winters. But because there aren’t sufficient funds to renovate every building, Facilities Management is forced to prioritize which buildings get fixed first. An outside contractor assesses University buildings so they can be ranked for renovation, said Rob Tunell, associate director for Facilities Management’s St. Paul district. “The need is so much greater than the resources that are allotted to the University,” he said, “so it’s always a challenge to stretch those resources as far as they possibly can be.” u See WINTER Page 3 Some older buildings leak heat because they’re not properly insulated.
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BRUSSELS — The United States and the European Union sought Monday to get past a rough patch in diplomatic relations to resume talks on a free trade deal that would grow what is already the world’s biggest business relationship. N e g o t i a t o r s f o r th e Obama administration and the EU say an agreement would create jobs and boost growth in the two economies, which represent almost half of global output but are still not fully recovered from recession. The trade volume in goods and ser vices between the two economies totaled $1.08 trillion last year. The negotiations, howev-
er, are taking place against the backdrop of European pique over repor ted U.S. electronic espionage of EU citizens, including high-profile leaders like Germany’s Angela Merkel. The Greens in the European Parliament on Monday became the latest political group to call for the trade talks to be frozen in response. Concerns over the talks also grew last week when a Belgian court accused the EU’s top trade of ficial of tax fraud. European Commission spokeswoman Pia Ahrenkilde Hansen assured reporters on Monday that Karel De Gucht’s legal troubles “will not have any impact” on the talks. But both European and U.S. officials have said the benefits of the proposed
Transatlantic Trade and Investment Par tnership are too great to let other issues jeopardize them. The week-long bargaining session in Brussels, which was delayed due to the U.S. government shutdown, was expected to discuss services, investment, energy and raw materials, and regulatory issues. A deal could include a reduction in tariffs. But negotiators say the biggest boon, to business and consumers alike, could come from trimming the red tape that often makes it difficult to buy and sell across the Atlantic. One European study has found that dealing with regulations and bureaucracy on the other side of the ocean can add 10 to 20 percent to the price of an imported
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BUCHAREST, Romania — The Romanian government won’t allow a Canadian company to develop what would have been Europe’s biggest open gold mine, the prime minister said Monday, shortly before a parliamentary commission nixed a bill that would have permitted the project. The decisions were a boost to environmental advocates and come after 14 years of protest and debate about whether the foreign investment and the jobs that would have been created by the mine outweigh the costs to nature. Immediate reaction was muted, with just a few dozen antimine activists rallying outside Parliament. Analysts say Canada’s Gabriel Resources, which has invested hundreds of millions of euros in the project, could still devise a new proposal for the mine. Its original plan proposed using cyanide to extract 314 tons of gold and 1,500 tons of silver in the town of Rosia Montana in northwestern Romania. The plan includes razing four mountains and creating a lake of cyanide. The project appears to have grown increasingly unpopular over time. The commission of lawmakers rejected the bill sent by the government of Prime Minister Victor Ponta with 17 votes against and 2 abstentions. In its report, the commission also suggested the need for a better legal framework covering such matters. The panel also recommended the Canadian company’s 1999 license be declassified and made public. It added that there should be “a correct partnership between the main shareholder and the Romanian state,” suggesting that Romania stood to earn too little from the deal.
TRIPOLI, Libya — The leaders of a movement for selfrule in oil-rich in eastern Libya said they have formed a regional company to handle its sales of crude oil, one of the most serious challenges yet to the central government and its revenue lifeline. The announcement late Sunday closely followed a statement from the country’s prime minister that the government could be unable to cover its expenditures because of the disruption of around 60 percent of Libya’s oil exports, mostly from the eastern region. “Because of the disruption of oil, the government may be facing a deficit,” Prime Minister Ali Zidan told reporters. “Now, 60 percent of the oil production is halted. We may find ourselves next month or the following month in a problem.” The self-rule movement set up a shadow government last month, complaining of what it called the neglect and corruption of central authorities. Along with local tribes demanding better pay and more political rights, it has effectively halted exports from the region’s main oil terminals since summer, blocking a critical government revenue source. Abd-Rabbo al-Barassi, the head of the newly declared shadow government, said Sunday the regional oil company would be temporarily based in Tobruk, before moving to Benghazi. Advocates of the self-rule in the east, which long has complained of discrimination by the government in the capital Tripoli, have been pushing to revive the system established under King Idris in late 1951. Libya then was divided into three states, with Cyrenaica — or Barqa, as it was called in Arabic — encompassing the eastern half of the country. The movement had denied it was advocating self-rule to seize the countr y’s main oil resources, and insisted it would return to a more equitable resource distribution arrangement.
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Health care law could be liability for Democrats BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Rep. Patrick Murphy had been a cautious defender of President Barack Obama’s health care law for much of the last year, telling constituents in his swing-voting district that the far-from-perfect measure is critical to helping cover uninsured Americans. Then the new health care law made its disastrous debut. The federal health care website repeatedly crashed, blocking millions from browsing insurance plans. Questions about its security mounted. And cancellation notices hit people who buy their own plans, undercutting the president’s vow that those who liked their coverage could keep it. Now the South Florida lawmaker — one of nine Democrats representing districts Republican Mitt
Romney won in 2012 — is distancing himself from the administration and heeding GOP calls to delay key par ts of the health care law, illustrating the Democratic Party’s challenge as it fights to keep control of the Senate and retake the House next year. “It’s a complete embarrassment,” the Democratic freshman said recently. “There are no excuses for what happened here.” Nationwide, Democrats are ner vous about the implications of defending an already unpopular law in the wake of the botched r ollout, par ticularly in swing-voting districts and states. Last week, 16 Senate Democrats talked with Obama about fears the problems could hamper their re-election prospects, a day after two gubernatorial elections highlighted the party’s struggles.
Victims of typhoon in the Philippines plead for aid BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TACLOBAN, Philippines — Bloated bodies lay uncollected and uncounted in the streets and desperate survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine as rescue workers took on a daunting task Monday in the typhoonbattered islands of the Philippines. Thousands were feared dead. The hard-hit city of Tacloban resembled a garbage dump from the air, with only a few concrete buildings left standing in the wake of one of the most powerful storms to ever hit land, packing 147mph winds and whipping up 20-foot walls of seawater that tossed ships inland and swept many out to sea. “Help. SOS. We need food,” read a message painted by a survivor in large letters on the ravaged city’s port, where water lapped at the edge.
There was no one to carry away the dead, which lay rotting along the main road from the airport to Tacloban, the worst-hit city along the countr y’s remote eastern seaboard. At a small naval base, eight swollen corpses — including that of a baby — were submerged in water brought in by the storm. Officers had yet to move them, saying they had no body bags or electricity to preserve them. Authorities estimated the typhoon killed 10,000 or more people, but with the slow pace of recover y, the official death toll three days after the storm made landfall remained at 942. However, with shattered communications and transportation links, the final count was likely days away, and presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said “we pray” it does not surpass 10,000.
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Contractors look at wear and tear on the buildings, energy loss from the roofs and windows and the potential to replace them. Each building is given a score based on these factors, and those scores determine how soon a building can be renovated. Ice buildup in cracks on roofs — called “ice dams” — is one of the biggest winter-related problems for campus buildings, St. Paul district senior engineer Emily Robin-Abbott said.
Tunell said. Some older buildings lack proper insulation, which causes more heat to be lost. Heat loss caused by poor insulation forces the University to spend more money on energy to heat the building, Robin-Abbott said. Robin-Abbott said if snow isn’t visible on a campus building after snowfall, it’s because the building is losing so much heat that snow melts off the roof. Facilities Management recently renovated Coffey Hall, and adding insulation to the building was a key part of the project. RobinAbbott said she hopes to see
the people we are with are wounded. Some are suffering from diarrhea and dehydration due to shortage of food and water.” Philippine soldiers were distributing food and water, and assessment teams from the United Nations and other international agencies were seen Monday for the first time. The U.S. military dispatched food, water, generators and a contingent of Marines to the city, the first outside help in what will swell into a major international relief mission. Authorities said they had evacuated some 800,000 people ahead of the typhoon, but many evacuation centers proved to be no protection against the wind and rising water. The Philippine National Red Cross, responsible for warning the region and giving advice, said people were not prepared for a storm surge.
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“When you have ice building up on a roof, it really doesn’t matter how wellbuilt it is,” Robin-Abbott said. “The ice gets into the seams, and it starts splitting stuf f apar t and breaking things off, and that’s really the biggest problem.” In addition to physical problems, building use is also a factor. If a building’s future use is uncer tain, Tunell said, the University doesn’t want to spend money renovating it. “There’s a balance between building need and program need to tr y to get the best solution in an area of limited resources,”
“I don’t believe there is a single structure that is not destroyed or severely damaged in some way — every single building, every single house,” U.S. Marine Brig. Gen. Paul Kennedy said after taking a helicopter flight over Tacloban, the largest city in Leyte province. He spoke on the tarmac at the airport, where two Marine C-130 cargo planes were parked, engines running, unloading supplies. Authorities said at least 9.7 million people in 41 provinces were affected by the typhoon, known as Haiyan elsewhere in Asia but called Yolanda in the Philippines. It was likely the deadliest natural disaster to beset this poor Southeast Asian nation. “Please tell my family I’m alive,” said Erika Mae Karakot as she stood among a throng of people waiting for aid. “We need water and medicine because a lot of
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snow on its roof this year. Virajita Singh, senior research fellow in the Center for Sustainable Building Research, said the University
can also address heat loss by adding insulation to certain buildings and continuously testing heating systems after they’re installed.
“I think the first thing that needs to be done is to make sure that your current buildings are energy-ef ficient,” she said.
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BIRMINGHAM, UNITED KINGDOM
WORCESTER, UNITED KINGDOM BEIJING, CHINA
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY Jefferson City, Mo. MOUNT LEMMON BASE RADAR SITE Tucson, Ariz.
A worldwide footprint NON-U.S. PROPERTIES Birmingham, United Kingdom flats The University of Minnesota-Duluth has had an academic program in the United Kingdom since 1980. Beginning in 1985, the University acquired three flats in Selly Park near the University of Birmingham to house the director of the Study in England Programme and visiting Duluth faculty members. The apar tments were purchased under a leasehold agreement for 125 years — the English equivalent of buying a condominium, Director of Real Estate Susan Carlson Weinberg said. When the Study in England Programme recently moved to the University of Worcester, the apartments were put on the market. One of them has been sold, and a potential buyer has been identified for another, Weinberg said. In dealing with the Birmingham property, Weinberg said, the Real Estate Office learned a lot about the different ways real estate is handled overseas. “It’s kind of an unusual concept,” she said.
SELECTED LEASED LAND The University is involved in more than 1,400 leases and easements in the U.S. and abroad, either as landlord or tenant. Leasing land rather than owning it is attractive to the University because it gives short-term access to land that can be paid for with annual research grants, Director of Real Estate Susan Carlson Weinberg said. It’s also a smarter way to secure land internationally, she said.
Beijing, China The University’s Beijing recr uiting of fice was established in 2009 to strengthen the University’s research par tnerships and connect with its student and alumni population in China. The University leases an apar tment unit in China’s capital city and uses it for visiting faculty members, prospective students and resident staf f in conjunction with the University’s China Center in Minnesota. “We can’t always just pick up the phone and call them,” said Joan Brzezinski, the center’s executive director.
Chinese communication revolves more around phone conversations than emails, Brzezinski said, so the center helps the University connect with its colleagues abroad during the Chinese workday, which is 13 hours ahead of Minnesota’s. “You can do a lot of stuf f online,” she said, “but you don’t know who the people behind the websites and the information are.” The of fice also connects with international students in person before they travel halfway around the world to the University, she said. “It’s a big decision to go overseas and study in a foreign county,” Brzezinski said, “and having that office allows us to really help those students and their parents adjust.”
Worcester, United Kingdom The University leases of fice, classroom and meeting space at the University of Worcester’s St John’s campus for the Duluth campus’ Study in England Programme. It also leases on-campus student accommodations and faculty
housing off campus.
The quirks of University leases University leases tend to get ver y specific. The University leases air rights to a steam line on the underside of the No. 9 Bridge near campus that takes steam from the campus’ heating plant across the Mississippi River. It also leases underground land from the City of Minneapolis for telecommunication networking. Leases include three areas on the state fairgrounds and all of the Crow Wing County fairgrounds in Brainerd, Minn., including the use of buildings, arenas and all grounds. The University also leases power poles and land from a campground in Duluth, Minn., and pays about $133 per month for a storm sewer line in Crookston, Minn., that it’s leased since 1972. The University also leases the antenna on the roof of a building on Third Avenue South in Minneapolis for transportation studies.
Go online to mndaily.com to see an interactive map of the University’s land
GRASS SEED FIELD LAB 40 acres
NOvA LAB 45.9 acres ALLRED TRUST 160 acres
FOREST RESEARCH SITE, KOOCHICHING COUNTY 40 acres
CROOKSTON CAMPUS 108.4 acres NORTHWEST RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTER 1,479.5 acres
SALT SPRING LANDS 1,408.8 acres DAY TRUST 80 acres
COLERAINE MINERALS RESEARCH LAB 25.1 acres NORTH CENTRAL RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTER 899.2 acres
FENS RESEARCH FACILITY 523.7 acres BOONE PROPERTY 200 acres
NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH INSTITUTE 7.6 acres CLOQUET FORESTRY CENTER 3,505.7 acres FOREST RESEARCH SITE, WADENA COUNTY 30 acres
HUBACHEK WILDERNESS RESEARCH CENTER 365.4 acres
TALMADGE RIVER BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH AREA 40 acres
FRITZ (BERTHIAUME) PROPERTY 2.6 acres
PILLSBURY FOREST LANDS 990.6 acres
DULUTH CAMPUS 318.7 acres RESEARCH AND FIELD STUDIES CENTER 112.4 acres LIMNOLOGICAL RESEARCH CENTER 2.8 acres GLENSHEEN 10.6 acres
LAND OWNED BY THE UNIVERSITY TRUST PROPERTIES LAND LEASED BY THE UNIVERSITY COUNTIES THAT INCLUDE PERMANENT UNIVERSITY FUND LANDS
MORRIS CAMPUS 150 acres WEST CENTRAL RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTER 1,097.9 acres CEDAR CREEK ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE RESERVE 5,055.8 acres
STATE-OWNED UNIVERSITY TRUST LAND
O’BRIEN OBSERVATORY 1.1 acres
MINNESOTA POULTRY TESTING LAB 0.8 acres
TWIN CITIES METRO AREA (see other map)
HORTICULTURE RESEARCH CENTER 255.4 acres LANDSCAPE ARBORETUM 933.7 acres BAKER TRUST 20.2 acres
UMORE PARK 4,771.9 acres VERMILLION HIGHLANDS 2,822.8 acres
SANDERS CROP MANAGEMENT CENTER 2,039.2 acres SOUTHWEST RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTER 649.5 acres
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AUSE TRUST 30 acres ELWELL TRUST 158 acres SOUTHERN RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTER 924.7 acres
ROCHESTER CAMPUS 1.8 acres STABILE BUILDING 0 acres
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UNIVERSITY GOLF COURSE 164 acres
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URBAN RESEARCH AND OUTREACH-ENGAGEMENT CENTER 2.2 acres COMO HOUSING AND SERVICE AREA 45.5 acres ST. ANTHONY FALLS LAB 0.9 acres
UNIVERSITY GROVE AND GROVE EAST 32.6 acres
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ST. PAUL CAMPUS AND AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION 537.1 acres
PILLSBURY COURT 2.5 acres WEST BANK OFFICE BUILDING 5 acres EAST BANK CAMPUS 345.5 acres
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WEST BANK CAMPUS 52.9 acres
INTERCAMPUS TRANSITWAY 44.3 acres
MIDWAY PROPERTY 0.7 acres 94
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The University’s School of Physics and Astronomy has been conducting research at Mount Lemmon Radar Base Site near Tucson, Ariz., since 1959, said Bob Gehrz, Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics chair and professor. The lease agreement between the University of Arizona and the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents includes a 60-inch infrared telescope the department uses to observe nova explosions and other events, Gehrz said. Because the telescope is on a dr y mountain site, the depar tment can make obser vations almost all year long, he said. The department will observe a bright comet at the site this fall, he said. Funding two people to go down to the site as objects come into view is expensive, Gehrz said, but having access to the telescope helps the department get research funding. “We can propose it as an asset when we write our proposals to NASA,” he said.
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The University leases an office at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Mo., for the North Central Region Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. The office houses one employee who reaches out to nearby farmers and educators to spread awareness about sustainable agriculture. Joan Benjamin, the program’s associate regional coordinator, uses the office to connect with socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers, helping them apply for program grants to fund sustainable farming ventures. Many of the farmers she works with have never written grants, she said, but have great insights into sustainable farming. Face-to-face communication made possible by having an office in the region helps the program bring farmers’ ideas to fruition, from new labor structures to automatic ladders for apple-picking, Benjamin said. “To be able to work with people and see them carr y out their own ideas is pretty amazing,” she said.
TWIN CITIES METRO AREA St. Paul Campus and Agricultural Experiment Station Younger than the Minneapolis campus by 28 years, the oldest University tract of land in St. Paul dates to 1882. Located about three miles from the East Bank, the St. Paul campus is home to the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and part of the College of Design. The Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station funds about 400 research projects each year. Its researchers ex-
plore ways to improve the state’s agricultural products, human nutrition and environmental quality.
Minneapolis Campus The first tract of land at the University’s Minneapolis campus was purchased for $6,000 on Oct. 21, 1854, from Paul George and Joshua Taylor. The 25 acr es encompassed the Knoll area. Today, the Minneapolis campus’s East and West banks total nearly 400 acres.
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The University purchased this property from the federal government in 1947-48. The land, previously Gopher Ordnance Works, had been used for two smokeless gunpowder manufacturing facilities. The University’s Board of Regents approved creation of the for-profit UMore Development LLC in 2009 to generate revenue to support areas of the University’s mission. “All institutions are becoming much more entrepreneurial about ways of increasing revenues,” said UMore Development LLC Executive Director Carla Carlson. About 1,700 acres on the property’s western boundary are dedicated to sand and gravel mining that will be mined 160 acres at a time over 40 years, Carlson said. The property’s northerly 4,800 acres are dedicated to a decades-long effort to create a self-sustaining community for 25,000 people, meant to be a model for cities of the future. UMore Park planning and maintenance costs total about $1 million annually.
Vermillion Highlands In 2006, the University transferred more than 2,800 acres from UMore Park to the state to generate revenue for the construction of TCF Bank Stadium. The land is now called Vermillion Highlands: a Research, Recreation and W ildlife Management Area. Unlike UMore Park, it won’t be developed. The state is gradually paying the University for Vermillion Highlands, and after 25 years, ownership will be transferred to the state. The University will still have usage rights, UMore Development LLC Executive Director Carla Carlson said.
O’Brien Observatory
To obser ve stars and special astrophysical events like novae, the University uses the infrared telescope in O’Brien Obser vator y. The obser vator y, which opened in 1968, is located about 45 minutes east of Minneapolis. Infrared telescopes need to be off-campus because they require dark sky and no heat interference from other sources, said Bob Gehrz, who chairs the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics and works with students on projects at the observatory. The obser vator y is a great resource, Gehrz said, but sometimes isn’t used for months. There are no full-time personnel and it isn’t open to the public, he said. Physics and astrophysics senior Devin Dykhoff spent the summer going to the observatory to collect data and observe the nova that was visible in August. “It’s a really unique experience,” he said, “being able to firsthand take the data rather than just getting the data from somebody else and analyzing it.”
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Dimitri Von Ruckert columbines seed being used for a protein study at the University of Minnesota Field Plots on Oct. 28.
Minnesota Poultry Testing Lab This lab in Willmar, Minn., provides required disease testing for the state’s poultr y industr y. The lab’s dozen employees work with small and large poultr y producers in the state to make sure they comply with the poultr y regulations set for th by the Minnesota Board of Animal Health, said lab director Dale Lauer, who works for the board. The lab also tests poultr y producers’ samples for Asian influenza, salmonella and other diseases that could potentially be public health issues, he said. The lab’s location is essential to
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Glensheen Mansion was given to the University by the Congdon family, who lived there in the early 1900s.
its work, Lauer said, because it’s near enough to many of the state’s poultr y producers to provide easy access for networking and dropping off samples. It’s also close enough to the Twin Cities to update the St. Paul-based Veterinar y Diagnostic Laborator y on what’s going on in the “real world,” Lauer said. “It’s a good way to touch base and to keep in contact with the industr y out here,” he said. “I think sometimes if you don’t have these outstate locations and outstate contacts, you lose that.”
Glensheen Mansion (Duluth)
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UMore Park is located in Rosemount, Minn. The University aims to construct an eco-friendly community on the site.
The historic 27,000-squar e-foot, 39-room Glensheen Mansion educates 60,000 visitors a year on the histor y of Northern Minnesota and the family who lived in the mansion. The residence’s first occupants, in the early 1900s, were Chester Congdon and his family. Congdon was a state legislator who helped develop ways to extract iron from taconite, said Dan Har tman, Glensheen’s interim director. Present-day mines in the state’s Iron Range would not be in production without Congdon’s actions, Hartman said.
The Congdon family gave the lakeshore property to the University of MinnesotaDuluth in 1968. After discussions of turning the building into a conference center or student dorm, the University settled on preserving it as a museum and opened it for tours in 1979, Hartman said. To this day, the mansion is mostly full of its original furnishings and, unlike many histor y museums, can pay for itself with tour sales, Hartman said. The University of Minnesota-Duluth also uses the proper ty in a variety of other ways. The cold climate by Lake Superior provides for vegetable testing. Glensheen donates 2,500 pounds of produce each year to the local food shelf, he said. The proper ty’s trout stream, which empties into Lake Superior, can be used for outdoor education programs, Hartman said, while the house’s collection of turnof-the-centur y paintings is perfect for an art history class. For histor y majors, he said, the value of Glensheen is obvious. “There’s so many ways that we can complement the classroom experience that you have with students,” he said.
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National education officials are looking to inform borrowers about another way to lower federal student loan payments. The U.S. Depar tment of Education is sending about 3.5 million emails to borrowers in an attempt to increase awareness for an income-based repayment program, which few use. The federal gover nment launched the in come-based r epayment plan created in 2009 hoping to reduce default rates. But only about 6.5 percent of bor rowers used this repayment method in the fourth quarter of 2013. Because these payments are tied to income, they tend to be lower than payments under other plans. The payment can adjust annually based on changes to annual income and family size. But it’s still unclear
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who exactly qualifies for an income-based plan. According to the Federal Student Aid website, a borrower is eligible for an IBR plan if his or her “student loan debt is high relative to [his or her] income.” The website also says bor rowers “must have a par tial financial hardship” to qualify. The website doesn’t give specifics for how income af fects the amount due each month. This type of outreach is new to bor rowers, Institute for College Access and Success spokesman William Swindell said. Swindell said although the outreach is a good star t, the gover nment could explain more about income-based options. He said the sample email the department released failed to mention any remaining debt can be forgiven after 25 years of repayment in an income-based plan. “That’s a big deal that not many people know about, even graduates who might cur rently be defaulting on their loans,” he said. Swindell said students
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cannot use the repayment estimator on the Depar tment of Education website unless they’re logged into the system, adding to student confusion. “It might seem like a small logistical thing, but the process can get really confusing, and it’s already complicated enough,” he said, The push for more
income-based repayment plans came with President Barack Obama’s new higher education agenda. The Of fice of Federal Student Aid will also push incomebased repayment on social media websites. Matt Forstie, Minnesota Student Association Legislative Coalition chairperson, said it’s good the government is increasing
outreach, but it should also push for more financial literacy. Frostie also noted that many borrowers may have graduated alr eady and might have missed the notice if they’re no longer checking their college email. Leah Chaney, president of the University of Minnesota group Students for
Education Reform-Minnesota, said she’s glad the depar tment is reaching out to more students. Chaney said she thinks many students lack knowledge about their federal loans, especially when they’re still in school. “They just let us know we need to start paying — six months after graduation,” she said.
Returning students face challenges, advantages Nontraditional students bring a different view to the classroom. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
Jean Chapdelaine left college in the late 1990s because she had to work. She’s been working constantly since, even after re-enrolling at the University of Minnesota 16 years later so she could move to the executive level at her workplace. Students who choose to go back to college after years in the workforce often balance full-time jobs, parenting or other obligations with their class schedule. And it can be dif ficult to navigate resources when deciding whether to re-enroll, according to a national report released this month. Despite the bar riers nontraditional students
face in balancing obligations, they come back to school with r eal-world experience that benefits them in the classroom. For John Colosey, having five children and a fulltime job made it difficult to re-enroll in college, something he’d wanted to do for about 15 years. “You get into a rut with anything at home,” he said, and it can be hard to make lifestyle changes after falling into a routine. After his kids star ted going of f to college, Colosey said, he decided to re-enroll at the University to “practice what I preached about how important an education was.” A Nov. 4 repor t from Public Agenda found that nontraditional students aren’t always as informed as they could be when choosing a college. Of respondents, 47 percent said a college’s graduation rate is an “essential” par t of the decision-mak-
ing process. And only 18 percent said they used an interactive website to compare colleges. “When you think about a traditional junior in high school, they’re getting inundated with college brochures. Their peer group, for the most par t, ever yone’s talking about college, [and] their parents are there to help them in the selection process,” said Jason Jacobson, director of individualized programs in the College of Continuing Education. Star ting a college search online can be over whelming, said Colosey, who graduated from CCE’s multidisciplinar y studies program in May. “There’s so much information out there, it’s hard to go through it,” he said. Balancing a degree program with other commitments is a common priority for nontraditional students, but they often set more specific career goals
than traditional students, Jacobson said. While traditional students might choose broader majors and change them multiple times before graduating, Jacobson said, students returning to the University are likely to pursue degrees more relevant to their immediate career objectives. The Public Agenda repor t also said more than half of adults sur veyed didn’t really know the difference between a nonprofit and a for-profit university. But some University students were more informed in their choices than the average sur vey respondent. Colosey said he r esearched for-profit schools but felt more comfor table pursing a University degree because he sees it as more legitimate. Chapdelaine said she wanted the credibility of a University degree so she
could go on to get a master’s degree in business administration.
Beginning again Even at an accredited institution like the University, it can be challenging for nontraditional students to balance school, work and family obligations. Claire Baglien, who retur ned to the University full time this fall after a year out of school, said it can be challenging to reenroll, even after a shor t period of time. “After a year of f, you kind of doubt yourself,” she said. Because many nontraditional students balance day jobs and night classes, Chapdelaine said, it can be difficult for them to attend professors’ of fice hours, which are mostly during the day. When night classes aren’t of fered for a required course, it can be challenging to get employ-
er permission to take a class during the work day, Colosey said. But despite the challenges, time in the workforce can give students real-life experience that enriches their academic lives. Colosey said being able to respond to assignments with real-world examples helped in his coursework. For Chapdelaine, working full-time made her studies feel like a refreshing break. In class, Chapdelaine said she enjoys being able to contribute an experienced perspective to discussions. “I’m 40,” she said. “I don’t have any black-andwhite opinions anymore.” Baglien said being immersed in life outside of college helped her understand what to expect after graduating. “You have to really get what you want out of college,” she said.
Israeli prime minister urges US Medical magnet is on its way to make ‘better deal’ with Iran Magnet BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran and the United States on Monday blamed each other for the failure to reach agreement on a deal to limit Iran’s uranium enrichment in exchange for an easing of Western sanctions. In spite of the accusations, ther e was some diplomatic progress as Iran promised to of fer more information and expanded access to U.N. nuclear inspectors — including more openings at a planned reactor and uranium site. U.S. Secretar y of State John Ker r y said Iranian envoys had backed away from a wider deal this weekend seeking to ease Wester n concer ns that Tehran could one day develop atomic weapons. Iran’s foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, countered by criticizing Ker r y’s remarks, telling an Iranian TV talk show that the American’s “conflicting statements” damaged confidence in the process, adding that “considerable progress was made” in Geneva. The flurr y of announcements and comments showed both the complexities and urgency in tr ying to move ahead on an accord between Iran and world powers after the talks in Geneva failed to produce a deal. With negotiators set to resume next week, Iranian of ficials promoted a separate pact reached with the
U.N. nuclear chief Yukiya Amano as a “roadmap” for greater cooperation and transparency, which could move the talks ahead. But the plans do not mention some of the sites most sought by U.N. teams to probe suspicions of nuclear-related work, notably the Parchin militar y facility outside Tehran. “It’s an impor tant step for ward, but by no means the end of the process,” Amano told The Associa t e d P r e s s i n Te h r a n . “There is still much work to be done.” Western leaders, meanwhile, were keen to display a unified front after reports that France had broken ranks in Geneva and demanded more concessions from Iran on enrichment levels and an under-construction heavy water reactor that produced a greater amount of plutonium byproduct, which could be used in eventual weapons production. Kerr y said it was Iran that put the brakes on reaching a first-phase agreement, but gave no details on the Iranian concer ns and suggested it was only a matter of time before a formula is found. “There was unity but Iran couldn’t take it,” Kerry said during a stop in Abu Dhabi. He added: “The French signed off on it, we signed off on it.” Ker r y told the BBC on Monday that negotiators had been “ver y, ver y close ... extremely close” to reaching a deal with Iran. “I think we were separated by four or five different
formulations of a particular concept,” he said. In the BBC inter view, Kerr y acknowledged “the French have been more vocal about one thing or another.” But he said, “the fact is that we had a unity on Saturday in a proposal put in front of the Iranians. But because of some the changes they felt they had to go back and change it.” Later Monday, Zarif criticized Kerr y’s remarks that blamed Iran for lack of a deal when asked about them on an Iranian TV talk show. “Conflicting statements harm the credibility of the one who keeps changing positions and damages confidence. The goal of dialogue is to reduce the lack of tr ust. Conflicting talk doesn’t give credit to the person saying it,” Zarif said. He said “considerable progress” was made during three days of talks in Geneva but claimed that most of the hours were spent with the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany trying “to resolve differences among themselves.” He said he’s still hopeful a deal will be reached, but insisted any agreement must include the lifting of all Western sanctions against Iran. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the world powers presented a united front to Iran at the weekend talks that failed to reach an accord, and although “some gaps” remained between par ties at the talks, “most of those gaps are narrow.”
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magnet is currently on its way to the University, Ugurbil said. “It’s somewhere in the Atlantic right now,” he said. Hospital imaging magnets typically have magnetic fields of 1.5 or 3 tesla — a unit of magnetic field strength. The University’s new magnet boasts a 10.5-tesla field, the highest in the world for an imaging magnet, Ugurbil said. But its massive strength makes creating images difficult, he said. For the first five to 10 years, scientists will focus on using the magnet to develop the necessar y technology to create successful images. Ugurbil said the University has been a leader in research on using higher magnetic fields, developing technology for 4-tesla and 7-tesla magnets at times when there was skepticism that higher fields could be useful for imaging. Many scientists and companies have shied away from the daunting task of developing high magnetic field imaging technology, he said, since the physics becomes extremely complex. But Ugurbil said CMRR thought higher magnetic fields offered enough potential gains to make navigating murky waters worthwhile. “We did that, and we were successful,” he said. CMRR received an $8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health and millions from the Uni-
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versity for the magnet project, Ugurbil said. “CMRR is one of the [best], if not the leading lab in high magnetic field imaging, and certainly one of the leading labs in brain imaging,” he said.
Global helium shortage
Researchers need helium because it has the lowest melting point of any element. Liquid helium cools the magnets, reducing the resistance through its coils and allowing them to reach superconductivity, which produces such large magnetic fields. But until recently, a global shortage of helium kept the 40,000 liters the magnet needs out of reach, Ugurbil said. The helium shortage situation is “a case of demand outstripping supply,” said Paul McGuire, a spokesman for the U.S. Depar t-
ment of the Interior’s Bureau of Land Management. Many devices like imaging magnets and microprocessors require helium, he said. Helium is extracted from natural gas reser ves in a cr ude form, and demand has outpaced the available ways to capture and refine it. The United States Federal Helium Reser ve in Amarillo, Texas, provides about a third of the world’s helium, said John Hamak, a BLM lead general engineer for helium resources evaluation. But the reser ve’s supplies are dwindling, McGuire said, and the government is encouraging private industry to begin providing its own helium. Ugurbil said he’s heard groups in the Middle East are beginning to liquefy helium, which will ease the shortage. “It’s becoming less serious,” Ugurbil said.
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Find safety in self-defense Students should consider all of their options, including selfdefense items, when it comes to their safety.
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LUIS RUUSKA columnist
gram, 20 Code Blue Phones and 2,300 around-the-clock security cameras installed on campus, students are still being caught off guard. So what more can we do? Students should assess all of their options and consider investing in self-defense items if their lifestyle has them out and about at night. After University police released the first fall semester crime aler t, I purchased a Swiss Army knife. Admittedly, I have only used the knife in mundane situations, but I am surprised at how much more secure I feel knowing it’s in my pocket, and in the event of an attack, I might not be entirely defenseless.
But a pocket knife is not the only self-defense option students have. You may be surprised at what’s permitted on campus. Per the University of Minnesota Board of Regents’ possession and weapons policy, students are entitled to carry any sort of weapon, excluding firearms or other dangerous weapons, as defined by Minnesota law. These other weapons include metal knuckles, automatic switchblades and flammable liquids. It’s important to note that most students support keeping firearms off campuses as well. Seventy-eight percent of students surveyed at 15 Midwestern public colleges opposed concealed weapons on college campuses, according to a recent study published in the Journal of College Health. However, common — and no less ef fective — self-defense items such as pepper spray, Taser guns and small knives are permitted on or off campus. These are also approachable investments students may want to consider to feel safe. A quick search on Ama-
DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 115,172- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,384 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN
zon.com yields a plethora of inexpensive but high-quality self-defense products designed to fit safely and inconspicuously on key rings for easy access. A self-defense weapon isn’t right for everybody. Students should question why they need one of these items and what makes them feel safe. However, there are other options for self-defense beyond the pocket security device. University police of fer a number of self-defense classes as well as links to external student groups that practice self-defense techniques. I’m confident that University police and the University as a whole have been doing their best to keep campus safe, but they ultimately can only do so much. Self-defense is also about your peace of mind when UMPD isn’t there or when you don’t feel safe. By taking a proactive interest in their own safety, students can help make campus safer for us all. Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR CO2: It’s plant food
The sky is falling, the weather is unusual, the earth is cooking and world food crops are in peril. Alarmist global warming repor ts dominate the news (U.N.: CO2 pollution levels at annual record high). The Intergover nmental Panel on Climate Change said “star vation, pover ty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease — are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change.” President Barack Obama has joined the naysayer chorus with his Nov. 1 executive order, “Preparing the United States for the Impacts of Climate Change.” The order presents a plan to help the countr y get through “prolonged periods of excessively high temperatures, more heavy downpours” as well as “an increase in wildfires, severe droughts, permafrost thawing, ocean acidification and sea-level rise.” Actually, all these “unusual” weather events are not unusual and have precedents in earlier decades. Tree ring and other research shows the early wester n U.S. had severe droughts lasting 20 years or longer. This is the eighth year with no Categor y 3 or stronger hurricane reaching the U.S. mainland. Largely a Categor y 1 hurricane, Sandy did major damage because we have built so much stuff on flood plains. While
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ith sundown creeping up earlier each day, I would be lying if I said I didn’t feel unnerved walking through campus at nightfall. Due to the recent string of robberies and burglaries and a sexual assault that occurred on or near campus during the past few months, I can’t be alone in my nighttime walking anxieties. In his Oct. 30 letter to the editor, University police Chief Greg Hestness stressed that the crime rate is at a historical low. This doesn’t exactly put my mind at ease. Many of the recent crimes on or near campus seem to have been perpetrated by the same person or people and in similar fashions. Some recent victims were even in groups when they were robbed. Despite security measures like the Security Monitor Pro-
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2013 was the quietest Atlantic hurricane season in 50 years, recent Categor y 4 Typhoon Haiyan in the Pacific reminds us that low-lying regions remain vulnerable to nature’s fur y. People today are living longer and healthier lives than in the million years since Homo sapiens became our dominant ancestor species. And the ear th’s air and waters are generally cleaner than they have been for many centuries. However, there is still plenty of environmental work to do. There are cities like Beijing with major air pollution issues. More than 10 percent of the global population still lacks d r i n k i n g w a t e r. D r u g resistant bacteria flourish from over use of antibiotics. Our growing numbers and appetites are crowding out other species, especially bees, which are essential for food crop pollination. But on the whole, human life gradually improves, thanks in par t to the dependable and concentrated energy available from fossil fuels, with additional output from nuclear energy and harnessing water, wind and solar energy. Sea levels have continued to rise since the last glacier melted, but now the rise has slowed to less than a foot per centur y. And the ear th’s warming since the end of the Little Ice Age in the 18th centu-
r y has essentially stopped for the past 15 years. Judith Cur r y, head of the School of Ear th and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Marcia Wyatt at the University of Colorado-Boulder, authored a new paper in the journal Climate Dynamics. According to the paper, the pause in warming that began as temperatures leveled of f in the late 1990s could extend into the 2030s, and the UN IPCC climate models that predict a hotter Earth are not reliable. The several hundred years of the Roman Empire to about 500 A.D. were a war m period in climate histor y. The next few hundred years turned colder until the Medieval War m Period restar ted warming. We call that inter vening cold time the Dark Ages, when crops fr oze and human lives were short and miserable. When the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air is higher, plants become more ef ficient at pulling the gas out of the air. Faster conversion of carbon dioxide into sugars translates into faster plant growth and more efficient water usage. So it’s OK for the average human to exhale nearly 850 pounds of carbon dioxide per year. It’s mainly plant food. Rolf Westgard Lecturer on energy topics University Lifelong Learning Program
n the front page of last Thursday’s Minnesota Daily was outright blame on ranked-choice voting for a shor t delay in election results from last Tuesday’s mayoral. What was missing from the repor ting was basic research thatwould have explained that with our new voting system (RCV), which is more considerate of voter preferences, many people expected results would come with a minimal lag. Experts and proponents of RCV have predicted this short lag in results since the incumbent R.T. Rybak announced he wouldn’t be running for re-election. RCV was a major success. Nearly 88 percent of voters ranked their second-choice candidates, and about 77 percent ranked a third choice. By taking advantage of this new system, Minneapolis voters had a more representative ballot of candidates by taking out the step of caucusing. Caucusing has historically underrepresented and excluded our student populations because it has been held in August, prior to many students moving into precincts near campus. Simply sharing the ranking of precincts by voter turnout is not only short-sighted, but not surprising at all. The three precincts that are particularly heavily student-populated have in the past municipal elections been in the lowest of this ranked list. What is noteworthy is an exponential increase of student voters coming out to the polls. The increase in voter turnout from these three precincts is greater than the average increase of turnout throughout Minneapolis. The Daily ar ticle included accounts from political organizers, election judges and voters pleased with the turnout and how easy it was to interact with the new system at the polling locations around campus. Nothing went wrong with last week’s election. Actually, ever ything went according to plan or better. Nobody promised immediate results. Tuesday proved for ever yone watching that RCV was successful again in Minneapolis. Democracy won as a more fair system was implemented and a staggering majority of voters took advantage of it. Ryan Kennedy, associate director of the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, said the student voice was victorious, as elections results revealed turnout in studentheavy precincts doubled or tripled from 2009. Kate Dobson Cora Ellenson-Myers Leah Enter Co-chairs Minnesota Public Interest Research Group
Instability in academic advising Students too often face high turnover rates and lack of access to academic advisers.
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s students prepare for another round of class registration this week, many will make urgent phone calls and emails to their advisers with last-minute questions. Academic advisers can provide a sense of relief and assurance to students feeling lost in the sea of 30,000 undergraduates. Managing uncertain class schedules, fulfilling prerequisite criteria and submitting UROP proposals are all issues made easier with the personal relationship and guidance of an academic adviser. But many students are finding issues with adviser turnover and accessibility, and the Minnesota Student Association is planning to take its concerns to the Board of Regents. Developing a personal relationship with an adviser is important for students who are unsure of their major or are looking to create their own. Though a student’s record and notes may transfer when they’re shuffled from adviser to adviser, fostering a meaningful relationship becomes difficult, if not impossible. Month-long waiting periods are also a burden for busy students. Whether it requires hiring more advisers or a policy aiming to decrease adviser turnover, we hope the Board of Regents will take MSA’s presentation seriously and work to make advising a more streamlined, reliable and individually focused resource for students.
Finding funds for Grambling State Colleges like Grambling State cannot rely on their sports programs to fund academics.
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ast month, football players at Grambling State University refused to travel to their game against Jackson State, protesting the dangerous conditions at Grambling’s athletics complex. While we hope the protest will have a positive impact on how schools like Grambling treat their student-athletes, events following the protest reveal issues going beyond college football. In recent years, Louisiana’s governor and lawmakers have sharply reduced state higher education funding by 48 percent, amounting to $690 million in cuts. Grambling President Frank Pogue said the school’s state financing has been cut by 57 percent. Mississippi’s Jackson State, whose homecoming game was cancelled as a result of the Grambling protest, is also dealing with state budget cuts. Jackson State can’t afford to lose any revenue from its football program, and it’s planning to litigate against Grambling State and others, ESPN reported last month. Jackson State director of University Communications Eric Stringfellow said Jackson State’s homecoming game often draws at least 20,000 fans and now has to refund thousands of tickets. While schools in nationally recognized athletics conferences like the Big Ten often face issues balancing athletics and academics, the challenges facing smaller colleges like Grambling and Jackson are unique and even more problematic. Because of state budget cuts, smaller Division I schools are relying on their football programs to help cover costs of academic programs. This strange dynamic, in which the school’s finances greatly depend on the performance of their student-athletes, severely distorts the mission of higher education and can lead to major compromises in academic integrity. While Grambling State officials should not have allowed the athletics complex to fall into such decay, state lawmakers deser ve blame as well, as they have failed in their duty to properly fund public institutions of higher education.
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Gophers basketball stars Andre Hollins and Rachel Banham are the campus’s power couple.
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hey’ve alr eady tried to take contact out of college football, now they’re doing the same thing with basketball. And it’s the right call. T h i s y e a r, t h e NCAA’s Men’s Basketball Rules Committee voted to pass new rules banning hand or forearm contact in effect for the 2013-14 season. The ban is designed “to create of fensive flow,” according to an NCAA release. So far, it’s done ever ything but that. Still, in time, these new rules will make college basketball more watchable. Last year, scoring plummeted across the NCAA. Teams averaged an anemic 67.5 points per game, the lowest since 1981-82. “I think it was getting out of control, just the bumping and the fouling and the pushing,” Gophers head men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino said Monday. He’s right. It’s a little too boring when teams like Wisconsin play that grind-it-out physical brand of defense. The Big Ten as a whole has gar nered a reputation as a physical league, but there’s a balancing act between being physical and being fun to watch. Teams are grabbing and holding down low. Players are getting away with way too much. It takes away fr om the crisp of fensive flow that’s unique to college basketball. In the NBA, isolation basketball is the norm and is proven successful. The most successful teams in college, though, rely on freeflowing of fense that involes all five players. We ’ r e n o t g e t t i n g that. We’re getting these 55-50 games way too often, and fans don’t want to see that. Now let’s be clear here: This is going to take time. Saturday’s game between Seton Hall and Niagara had 73 fouls. You read that correctly. Pitino — good friends with Seton Hall’s head coach — watched the game and said “it was ridiculous.” Minnesota’s game, on the other hand, had 33 fouls — a relatively normal amount. “It may just depend on the referees,” Pitino said about the rule changes. “I think [the rule changes are] great for the game, to be honest with you.” And in time, fans are going to realize that as well. If all goes according to plan, of fense and gameplay will be more fluid. The NBA outlawed hand-checking years back, and players adjusted fine. The same will happen in college. But for the next month, fans will need to bear with refs who are also adjusting to the rules. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better. Ya feel me? Sam Gordon welcomes comments at sgordon@mndaily.com or on Twitter.
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A few weeks ago, Richard Pitino walked into Williams Arena and saw his star junior guard, Andre Hollins, on the cour t with his girlfriend. As she often does, she had a basketball in her hands. Her name is Rachel Banham, and she’s a star junior point guard on the women’s basketball team. “I saw them out on the court, and I said, ‘Hey, this is not … “Love & Basketball.” We don’t have time for this,’ ” said Pitino, the Gophers’ head men’s basketball coach. “And they laughed.” It wasn’t the first time Pitino had seen the couple together on the court. Hollins and Banham trained together for much of the summer in preparation for their respective Team USA tr youts. They didn’t just train together, though. They competed against each other, regularly going head-to-head in games of “horse” on the Williams Arena floor. “I think it’s really good for both of us,” Banham said. “We’re so competitive, and we go back and for th at each other all the time. We always want to be the best.” That was evident spending time with the pair at the Big Ten Basketball Media Day a few weeks ago. At the event, Hollins said Banham is better at finishing at the rim than he is. When she heard him say it, she fistpumped and yelled “Yes!” Hollins complimented Banham, but the two are usually stubbor n when it comes to basketball arguments.
“We just argue about ever ything because we’re so competitive,” Hollins said. “I think that’s just how we are.” Those arguments often center on men’s versus women’s basketball. Banham insists it’s the same game — there are two 10-foot-tall hoops and 10 players on the court. Hollins disagrees to an extent, but he said it’s all in good fun. “It’s [mostly] the same,” he said. “I just do that to get on her nerves.” Banham said Hollins also gets on her about her game. In one of their summer shooting contests, she said, she got frustrated because she’d missed a few shots in a row and Hollins told her to focus and “stop whining.” Banham said their quarrels can get testy at times, but the two don’t usually let them carr y on too long. Minnesota women’s head coach Pam Borton is impressed by the couple’s maturity in handling the arguments. “They can push each other to be better,” she said. “That’s a really positive thing for them to do.” Hollins and Banham said they think their relationship has helped them grow as players, particularly because they have similar goals. “We both talk about being [All]-Big Ten … first team,” Banham said. “We both said we want to get Big Ten Player of the Year.” Banham made the All-Big Ten first team last season, while Hollins received an honorable mention. Banham said she thinks Hollins can accomplish his goals this season if he shoots more. “I’m like, ‘You need to shoot the ball,’ ”she said. “He’s such a good shooter that I don’t know why he doesn’t shoot the ball more.”
Days later, the two were official. “I hope I wasn’t a distraction [during the tournament],” she said. “I don’t think I was, since he played so well.”
Similarities attract Banham’s teammates know her for her goofiness off the court. “She’s always goofy and silly,” said senior forward Micaëlla Riché. “I think she’ll do that if she’s with coach, with us, with Andre, with the guy at the store. She’ll always make some kind of lame joke or weird face.” A similar quality in Hollins drew the two together. “I like how she’s like me,” Hollins said. “We’re both goofy. We play a lot ... [and] we don’t really take life too seriously.” Teammates said the couple makes a hilarious pair off the court. “When they’re both together, I’m always laughing,” senior women’s guard Sari Noga said. While the couple doesn’t have a lot of free time as student-athletes, they find a way to see each other nearly every day. “You can tell that they really care about each other,” Bor ton said. “That’s the first thing that I notice.”
Heating up Banham and Hollins met the summer before their freshman year, but they didn’t interact much until last spring. Borton said a lot of players on the women’s team are friends with players on the men’s team. For Banham and Hollins, those platonic friendships have grown into more. The two star ted talking more than usual while the men’s team was in the NCAA tournament last March. In a first-round tournament win over UCLA, Hollins led the Gophers with 28 points and nine rebounds. Banham said she was impressed. She watched the Gophers’ next game against Florida, and Hollins was hot from the field again. He went 8-for-13 from the floor for a game-high 25 points. Minnesota lost to the Gators 78-64, but Hollins’ impact in the tournament didn’t go unnoticed by Banham.
BASKETBALL TWINS
Mauer moves to first base BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — Joe Mauer will move from catcher to first base on a full-time basis for the Minnesota Twins, hoping to avoid a repeat of the concussion that cut short his 2013 season. The Twins announced the switch on Monday for the 30-year-old Mauer, who missed the last six weeks of the schedule recovering from his head injury. He took a foul tip off the mask on Aug. 19. During a conference call with reporters, Mauer said he’s feeling fine and symptom-free, having begun his offseason workouts. The sensitivity to light and noise, irritable moods and headaches lingered into October, however, prompting him to seek medical advice from Mayo Clinic doctors and team physicians about the prospect of continuing to play behind the plate. “When I kept gathering information, to be honest with you, it wasn’t really even a decision,” said Mauer, who is signed through 2018 with $115 million remaining on his contract. “I kept searching to see if it was going to be OK, if it was going to be safe for me to go back there and catch, and I just wasn’t finding that.” He added: “All it could take is one foul tip in pitcher’s batting practice, and I’m out for two or three months or even more.”
Twins general manager Terry Ryan said the organization would’ve supported whatever Mauer decided was best, even if he felt he could keep playing the position with the most inherent injury risk of anywhere on the field. “I’m happy that he’s chosen to make the transition, but had he decided that he wanted to catch I’m not sure that anybody was going to stand in his way,” Ryan said. Ryan, who traded Mauer’s close friend, first baseman Justin Mor neau, a couple of weeks after Mauer was hurt, acknowledged this move makes the potential pursuit of Morneau in free agency improbable. Mauer won the Silver Slugger award for American League catchers this year after batting .324 with 11 home runs and 47 RBIs in 113 games. Taken by the Twins, his hometown team, with the first pick in the 2001 draft and given the job as a 20-year-old to start the 2004 season, Mauer has been the catcher in 920 games. “I really enjoy going out there and competing, and I’m thankful still be able to do that. ... But it’s frustrating it had to end sooner than I anticipated,” he said. Mauer has three Gold Gloves, three batting titles, six All-Star game selections and the 2009 AL MVP award as a catcher. Can he amass similar accolades at a posi-
tion crowded with top hitters is to be seen. As for the effect on the value of his $23 million annual salary, his rotisserie league worth or his Hall of Fame credentials, well, Mauer predictably said he’s not worried about any of that. First there’s his family, including wife Maddie and twin infant girls Emily and Maren. Then there’s the Twins, who are better off with a healthy Mauer at first base than with an injured Mauer at catcher. The men behind the mask took quite a beating around the majors this season, with Detroit’s Alex Avila, Oakland’s John Jaso and Kansas City’s Salvador Perez all missing time due to concussions. “I had one when I was younger, but I probably had several that went undiagnosed. You’re just kind of wired to play through it,” Mauer said. Mauer said he sustained “two significant blows” to his head that mid-August afternoon, a makeup game against the New York Mets from April rendered meaningless with both teams buried in the playoff race. With problems with his back and legs behind him, Mauer had been feeling as fit and strong as ever the last two years. “We wouldn’t be having this conversation if I didn’t have that concussion,” he said.
VIKINGS
Simpson apologizes, works out with team BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. — Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Jerome Simpson took part with a team in a light practice on Monday and apologized after ward for the attention he brought to the organization over the weekend following his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving. The Vikings play at Seattle this Sunday, and Simpson said he expects to participate. But coach Leslie Frazier spoke in uncer tain terms about Simpson’s availability against the Seahawks and beyond. “We’ll have further clarification as we learn more from the league as well as what we’re going to do internally, but you should have some infor mation that should help you create some clarity regarding Jerome,” Frazier said, alluding to Simpson’s status in the NFL’s substance abuse program. Simpson was suspended for three games last season for violating the league’s policy, and his case has again been placed under review. Two seasons ago, while playing for Cincinnati, a major marijuana shipment was found by authorities at his home. He was eventually sentenced to 15 days
in jail and three years of probation on a felony drug conviction. Simpson declined to comment on specifics of the incident or elaborate on why he expects to be able to play this week. He said he spoke with the entire team but didn’t share the details. Simpson met Frazier in person at Winter Park on Saturday after being released from jail. “I sincerely apologize for the attention that I have brought to the fans, our community and myself,” Simpson said. He added of his teammates and Vikings staff: “I have great support, and I appreciate all they have and will do for me.” Said Frazier: “It’s always disappointing when there’s negative light brought to our organization of any kind. It’s unfortunate when this happens. You have to deal with it, but’s definitely unfortunate for sure.” Quar terback Christian Ponder’s status for Sunday is also unclear. He’s recovering from a dislocated non-throwing left shoulder. “Have to take a look at and just see if he can function. You don’t want to put him in harm’s way. If he can’t protect himself you wouldn’t want to put him out there,” Frazier said, adding: “He’s made progress, which is encouraging.”
Thursday, November 12, 2013
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Leveille steps up for Gophers
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Eliason ready to fill big man role for Minnesota
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Gophers goaltender Amanda Leveille stands in the crease. Leveille took over in net for Minnesota this season.
Amanda Leveille has started every game in net for the Gophers this year. BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com
Sophomor e Amanda Leveille became a goaltender at an early age because she didn’t want to leave the ice, and playing between the pipes meant she didn’t have to. “I hated coming off the ice,” she said. “I used to cry and pout on the ice, so the coaches just stuck me in net.” She’s come a long way since then but admitted last year was a difficult one because she didnt see much ice time. Leveille played in just seven games last season and watched from the bench as two-time Olympian Noora Räty guided the Gophers to a second straight national championship. This year has been the polar opposite for Leveille, who’s been steady in net and has started every game for the Gophers. “I knew I was part of the team [last year], but this year I just feel like I’m part of the team, and I can actually step up and talk,” Leveille said. She said she was confident in her ability coming into college and thought she might have a chance to start. Once she watched Räty, though, she knew it wasn’t going to happen. Räty’s graduation paved the way for Leveille to take control of the starting spot. “We talked a lot just about how there’s no guarantee [of starting] your first year or really throughout your career,” head coach Brad Frost said. “You’re going to have to earn it.” And so far this year, she has.
Stepping into the starter role
Before coming to college, Leveille said, her identity was defined by hockey. “Last year, not being able to play, I had to reset myself. And now, hockey, as much as it is really impor tant in my life, people are more impor tant,” she said. Leveille said she was initially drawn to the Gophers because of the team chemistry and the coaching staff. But advice from Mel Davidson at the Canada Under-18 Development Camp put the decision in perspective. “[She] told ever yone that when we’re picking our schools, we should pick it
on the possibility that the first day we step on campus we could break our leg, and it better be the place you want to spend the next four years of your life,” Leveille said. And though Leveille didn’t play much last season, her game improved. “Even though it was hard to not play … she [was] able to learn from one of the best goalies in the world,” Frost said. Leveille and Räty said they didn’t talk much last year, but Leveille said she was able to learn by watching Räty in net. “I think she told me at one point that she has become a better goalie by watching me, and that’s a good thing that she was able to learn from me,” Räty said. Leveille cited Räty’s rebound control, composure in the net and confidence as aspects she’s tried to replicate. This season, the Gophers are 12-0-0 and have held opponents to an average of 1.30 goals per game. Leveille currently sports a .944 save percentage, which is second among NCAA goaltenders who have played in more than 10 games. Senior captain Bethany Brausen said Leveille has built up a lot of confidence this year — and that’s not just on the ice. Frost said Leveille stayed in Minneapolis during the summer, and she’s matured both on and off the ice as a result. “I think she’s really [come] out of her shell,” Frost said. As someone who’s generally quiet, Leveille has emphasized communication this year. “I try to be as loud as I can on the ice,” she said. “I’m obviously not the loudest person, but I’m working on it.” The team lost a vocal senior class and replaced it with a more timid freshman class, Brausen said, so communication has been stressed this year. She said she can hear Leveille more on the ice. “You put her on the ice, and she’s definitely talking to defensemen and telling them where to go with the puck, and [she’s] a definite leader from that position,” Brausen said. Leveille has stepped into Räty’s role and has been instrumental in the team’s success thus far. “I think what we’ve lear ned this year is that just because there are big shoes to fill doesn’t mean we can’t do it,” Brausen said. “Amanda’s just taken the oppor tunity and r un with it.”
Elliott Eliason had 11 points and 17 boards in a seasonopening victory. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Elliott Eliason knew his role on the team would expand this season — it had to. Eliason was the only big man returning to the Gophers who had played substantial minutes last season after for wards Rodney Williams and Trevor Mbakwe graduated. And when the team announced junior center Mo Walker’s six-game suspension before Friday’s r egular-season opener, Eliason’s role stepped up another notch. So did his performance. Eliason scored 11 points and added a careerbest 17 rebounds in the Gophers’ 81-62 win over Lehigh. It was Eliason’s first double-double in college. “He’s been playing really well. He works extremely hard, plays extremely hard ever y day,” Gophers head coach Richard Pitino said after Friday’s win. “He’s car r ying us right now.” The rebounding production is a welcome addition to a relatively small Gophers roster. Eliason pulled down nearly 45 percent of Minnesota’s boards Friday. “It’s just a mindset, I think, with him,” junior guard Andre Hollins said. “He went after it. He knew it was our weakness.” Eliason said he felt a little untested heading into the season. He played a large role in the Gophers’ upset win over top-ranked Indiana last season but didn’t consistently produce at a high level during the season. He star ted only 24 of the 71 games he played
and averaged just 14.4 minutes per game through his first two seasons. Those numbers were destined to spike when Williams and Mbakwe left town. Eliason is now a focal point on the front line. “Ready or not, here it comes,” he said of the added pressure.
“He’s been playing really well. He works extremely hard, plays extremely hard every day. He’s carrying us right now.” RICHARD PITINO head coach
Eliason said he’s in his peak shape this season, and he said he thinks Gophers strength and conditioning coach Shaun Brown is one of the best in the nation. Eliason provided a spark of f the bench last year and said he hopes to continue bringing the same energy this season in extended minutes. “If I can’t bring that enthusiasm all the time, I probably won’t want to be playing anymore,” he said. “I think that’s just par t of my personality.” The Gophers will need an extra lift with Walker out. “Mo’s a loss,” Pitino said. “Ever y guy on the team is going to have to do a little bit to keep up.” As the team’s only other option at center, Eliason will have to do a lot.
Playing against the zone
Pitino said he expects Montana, the Gophers’ opponent Tuesday, to play zone defense 50 percent of the time in an attempt to slow the Gophers’ uptempo offense. That could be a prob-
SOCCER
Gophers earn NCAA bid, will face Texas Tech Minnesota finished the regular season 11-7-2, and it was enough to qualify. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
The Gophers women’s soccer team sports a record of 11-7-2 — the same record it had at the end of last season. The difference between the two years? The 2013 Gophers are going dancing. Minnesota was selected
for the 64-team NCAA tournament field Monday afternoon, one of eight Big Ten teams to qualify. The Gophers will take on No. 11 Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas, in the first round Friday. Texas Tech (17-2-2) finished second in the Big 12 regular season standings. Minnesota will be tested against the Red Raiders, but it’s proven at times this season that it can compete with top teams. The Gophers’ season featured wins over then-No. 7 Penn State and then-No. 13 Michigan.
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Minnesota center Elliott Eliason reaches for the ball Feb. 26 at Williams Arena.
2013 NCAA DIVISION I WOMEN’S SOCCER CHAMPIONSHIPS FIRST ROUND NOV. 15-16
SECOND/THIRD ROUND NOV. 22-24
QUARTERFINALS NOV. 22-30
*TEXAS A&M (17-4-1) UTAH (10-4-6)
MINNESOTA (11-7-2) *TEXAS TECH (17-2-2) *Host institution for preliminary round games
SOURCE: NCAA.COM
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MONTANA
7 p.m. Tuesday at Williams Arena
MINNESOTA: The Gophers will look to stay perfect Tuesday night in their second game of the regular season. Minnesota’s big men produced at a surprising rate in the opener against Lehigh, with Oto Osenieks, Elliott Eliason and Joey King combining for 39 points. They’ll need to continue that type of production while Mo Walker serves his six-game game suspension. The Gophers are 3-1 against Montana in the all-time series. MONTANA: The Grizzlies won the Big Sky conference title and were an NCAA tournament team last year. They lost to Syracuse 81-34 in the first round of the tournament. Montana returns three starters from last year’s squad, including senior guard-forward and reigning Big Sky Most Valuable Player Kareem Jamar. Jamar averaged 14.2 points per game last season. The Grizzlies last faced a Big Ten opponent in the 2012 NCAA tournament, when they lost to Wisconsin 73-49. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM, GOGRIZ.COM
lem for the Gophers, who have looked stagnant against zones in recent years. Pitino and his staff have placed an emphasis on combating the defense. Junior guard DeAndre
Mathieu said the best way to attack the zone is in transition. “That’s always the first look,” he said.
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FASHION
The fashionista is in: Needlework Sorry, mom and dad. BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com
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have a lot of bad tattoos, from a “Good Burger” stick-and-poke I gave myself with a sewing needle and India ink to a rat on my left calf, which someone once mistook for a snowmobile. While I’ve been able to attach some nostalgic significance to my oft-absurd body art, I’ve come to value good-quality tattoos over the cheap, impulsive variety. Finding a good tattoo artist is the first and most important part of getting a tattoo worthy of your precious epidermis — you don’t want just anyone flooding your skin cells with ink. “You could be the most amazing oil painter in the world, but if you don’t know how to operate a tattoo machine, well, you’re not going to be a good tattooer,” said Spencer Hodgson, a tattoo artist at Northeast Tattoo. Hodgson is a soft-spoken Wisconsin native who’s been tattooing around the Midwest for 11 years. I found him through a chain of friends who trusted his work, so I knew I could do the same. Because Hodgson moved to Nor theast Tattoo from 7th Street Tattoo just last week, he was able to fit me in on short notice. A word to the wise: Don’t follow my lead on this one. Good artists are generally booked weeks or months in advance, so plan ahead. When I talked to Hodgson earlier in the week, I told him I wanted a ram skull on my back, but I didn’t provide pictures or specify details in order to give him breathing room to come up with a design. “I was stoked,” he said of designing the piece. “I was listening to some, like, power fantasy metal.” Hodgson star ted by cleaning my skin with antiseptic soap. I couldn’t see what was happening, but the feeling changed. “Are you shaving my back now?” I said. “It’s just peach fuzz,”
Hodgson said. “I’ve had to shave ever ything. It’s not the best when you have to shave a dude’s butt.” Hodgson then stuck a carbon copy stencil of the design to my back, akin to the purple ink plastic surgeons use. He took a picture so I could check the alignment. On a small cart by his side, Hodgson had set out an array of black ink, a clear Vaselinelike substance, paper towels, needles and three different tattoo machines (two for lining and one for shading and coloring). Just before we started, I asked Hodgson how he usually describes the sensation of being tattooed to first-timers. “I guess the best way I would explain it is that it’s like a sunburn kind of feeling,” he said. “My old co-worker said it feels like being licked by kittens.” Hodgson must have a high pain tolerance, because to me, tattooing feels more like being mauled by a raccoon. The reality is that the feeling depends on the body part being worked on, the individual’s pain tolerance and the artist’s technique. “You’re tattooing somebody that’s living and breathing and bleeding and moving,” Hodgson said. “You have to work with the client.” Tattooing hurts the worst for the first few minutes, while your body is still warming up to the sensation. The cool thing about being repeatedly stabbed with needles is that it eventually triggers the release of everyone’s favorite drug –– endorphins! So while I was sweating, shaking and biting the plastic chair I was sitting in, I was still in a decent mood. Hodgson was keen to remind me that I was good at sitting still, but I did pause midway through to complain that the feeling was like a kitten dangling by its claws from my back. He reminded me that it could be much worse. “Just be glad I’m not [using the] old-school Polynesian tattoo style, ’cause they would use things like sharp teeth and ground-down bones,” Hodgson said. “With the advent of the actual tattoo machine in the late 1800s, it’s
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY Northeast Tattoo artist Spencer Hodgson tattoos a ram’s skull onto Minnesota Daily reporter Emily Eveland’s back Saturday.
changed ever ything about what we do.” In the last 30 minutes of my two-hour tattoo session, I managed to slide down as far as possible in my chair and was sweating from every available orifice in my body. I knew the pattern of scratches on the floor by heart and had even found a few smiley faces in the tiles. Finally, it was finished. Hodgson rubbed a gel designed by the shop’s owner on my tattoo to absorb blood, ink and plasma. Tasty! When sprayed with another substance, the gel was activated and formed a “second skin” on my back. Though it stung like hell, it definitely beat having a trash bag taped to my back for three hours. Hodgson has all the qualities I’m looking for in a tattoo artist: humility, patience and caution. Plus, he didn’t rip me off like a lot of artists are inclined to do. Hodgson charged $200 for the piece, which was a steal considering the quality and size. It’s worth the time and
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY Minnesota Daily reporter Emily Eveland looks at her new ram’s skull tattoo for the first time Saturday at Northeast Tattoo.
money it takes to get good work. Unlike the Blink-182 tattoo I gave myself, the ram skull is something I’m proud to have on my body. Before
you commit to getting something permanently tattooed on your body, take time to think about the design, make sure you trust your tattoo art-
ist and don’t get drunk before showing up — that is, unless you’re okay with the possibility of waking up to a Pikachu tattoo on your forehead.
ROBOTS
Rise of the congenial machines Robots and their human makers flock to St. Paul for the third annual Robotics Alley Conference & Expo. BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com
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efore he began his stand-up routine, the small-statured comedian sat with his elbows propped on his knees and glanced around at the audience. “Hello, ever ybody,” he said. “Can you hear me all right?” He placed his right hand on the floor for support and lifted himself up with some effort. After telling his first joke with a certain mechanical sluggishness, he paused to gauge the audience’s reaction. Was he nervous? Nah, he’s just a robot. Data, created by social roboticist Heather Knight, is the world’s first robotic standup comedian and one of a few non-human guests slated to appear at tonight’s Robotics Alley conference in St. Paul. Minnesota High Tech Association and Edina-based ReconRobotics, Inc., founded Robotics Alley to raise awareness of the local robotics community and facilitate communication between Midwestern roboticists. “[The] purpose of Robotics Alley is to showcase a lot of this really exciting work that’s
been done in the Twin Cities and why it’s an emerging global center for the industry,” said Andrew Borene, Robotics Alley’s executive director and ReconRobotics’ director of corporate development. Among the topics featured at this year’s conference are the ethics and policies of the unmanned vehicle, the use of robotics in medicine and the laws behind ever-controversial drones. “Regulation-wise, we’re having to seriously take a look at this stuff,” said Mike Davin, editor of the Minnesota-based online publication The Business of Robotics. Recent advances in technology and robotics have made for big changes in the entertainment industr y as well. Unmanned aerial machines are being used in place of helicopters for overhead scenes in movies, and robotic cameras have been used for shooting in films like the recent “Gravity.” Knight’s interest lies at the intersection of robotics and entertainment. As a social roboticist, she’s interested in programming robots with human qualities to improve communication between humans and machines. “The cool things about these kinds of machines is that they tap into our psychology,” she said. Knight works for the social robotics company Marilyn Monrobot Labs and the Robot Film Festival, which
WHAT: ROBOT FILM FESTIVAL WHEN: 5:30 AND 7:30 P.M., TUESDAY WHERE: SCIENCE MUSEUM OF MINNESOTA, 120 W. KELLOGG BLVD., ST. PAUL COST: $10-20
she founded in 2011. When she’s not studying for her doctorate at Carnegie Mellon University, she’s working on projects like the Rube Goldberg machine featured in the OK Go music video for “This Too Shall Pass.” As part of the Robotics Alley conference, Knight has compiled 50 minutes of footage from the Robot Film Festival that will be shown Tuesday at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul. The festival welcomes submissions from anyone with a love for robotics. “We really try to emphasize positive stor ytelling,” Knight said of the festival. “It’s just a chance to get people thinking about the everheightening role of technology in our lives.” For some, the thought of robots becoming an integral part of human life sounds like a one-way ticket to total annihilation. “Here in the United States, we have this vision that robots become evil and they’re
WHAT: ROBOTICS ALLEY CONFERENCE & EXPO WHEN: 8 A.M.-4 P.M., TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY WHERE: SAINT PAUL RIVERCENTRE, 175 W. KELLOGG BLVD., ST. PAUL COST: $75 FOR STUDENT ONE-DAY PASSES, $145 FOR STUDENT TWO-DAY PASSES. THE EXHIBIT FLOOR IS FREE FOR STUDENTS WEDNESDAY FROM 1:30 TO 4:30 P.M.
a threat to humanity,” Borene said. Thanks to movies like “Artificial Intelligence: AI” and “I, Robot,” robots are commonly believed to be machines that walk and talk just like human beings. “People think they have arms and legs,” said Alan Bignall, ReconRobotics president and CEO. “Obviously, that’s designed to be attractive and scary in the movie sense, but how practical is it? Not very practical at all.” So what exactly is a robot? Davin said the definition varies wildly depending on who you’re talking to, but he said machines must possess certain amounts of intelligence and autonomy to be considered robots. “I don’t think you always
PHOTO BY LOUIS STEIN Heather Knight with her stand-up comedy robot, Data.
need to have a robot look like a person to be able to communicate in a social way,” Knight said. “I think as soon as we see a moving machine, we naturally lend it character.” Though Knight’s primary interest lies in implanting human characteristics like humor and creativity into machines, she said she doesn’t think robots are headed toward sentience.
“It’s such a simplification of human behavior,” she said. “I’ve never seen a compelling example of that.” There’s still some motherly love in the interactions between Knight and Data, who gathers audience feedback to improve his jokes. “He can be mad at me,” Knight said. “I’ll try to pat his head, and he’ll be like, ‘Don’t touch me!’ ”
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Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
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Today’s Birthday (11/12): Explore your passions, talents and dreams for the world this year. Learn and study. Assess what you love most, and then increase exposure.
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 a 7 — Don’t let technological breakdowns keep you from pursuit of a dream. You can figure out a way around them.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Discuss money now; you have a better chance of making more. It requires dedication and motivation.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Take advantage of the developing situation. Friends are there for you, and they help you soar. Return the favor.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Your artistic side itches to get out and express. You have a lot to say, so sit with it and articulate.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — You can handle more than usual as you gain new responsibilities. Don’t throw your money around just because you have it.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Your wit and intellect are honed and sharp. Use them to your advantage. Pay attention to what’s really being said, and avoid an argument.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Recognize the value of the past and lessons taught. Don’t fear the future and lessons ahead.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Your talent impresses others, but watch out for jealousies. Passions can get intense. Friends offer good advice and help you find a truth.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — You find satisfaction in staying busy now. The money is there. Figure an honest approach to provide well for family. Infuse it with your arts.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Curtail impulsive spending. Focus on making new income and preparing invoices instead. New information points out the weakness of the competition.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Your efforts and dedication are appreciated. Sure, there may be some bumps along the way, but it’s best to focus on accomplishments.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — You’re on fire and you know it. The hurdles in the way are small for you. Keep your temper anyway. Use it to get into action.
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overheard Professor: “I went to the ER yesterday. I am on pain medication, so don’t trust what I say. ... I might say weird things.”
—Ruttan Hall
Guy 1: “She wasn’t THAT weird.” Guy 2: “Dude, she carried around a used napkin as a good luck charm.” Guy 1: “I still would’ve hit it.”
—Washington Avenue
Guy: “What’s Joe’s name?” Girl: “... Joe.”
—Frontier Hall
Girl getting into her friend’s car: “Hey honey, how was school? Did you make good choices? No deep-throating today?”
—Outside Appleby Hall
Guy: “Think how offended my wife will be when she finds out that we had to go with the heterosexual norm.”
—Folwell Hall
“Wait, do babies poop while they’re in their mother?”
—Middlebrook Hall dining hall
Professor: “Would you guys believe me if I told you that the Grand Canyon was formed by overgrazing in the 1930s?” Students: “No.” Professor: “I didn’t think so.”
—Ruttan Hall
Professor: “What you do is you do some crystal meth, drink some Red Bull, take a Viagra and go to an orgy.”
—Anatomy and physiology class
Professor: “What is one thing necessary to learning?” Student: “Adderall.”
—Science Teaching and Student Services Building
Professor: “Who here has shot a white-tailed deer? You’re murdering Bambis out there. I hope you’re proud of yourselves.”
—Ruttan Hall
“Nigel Thornberry is going to come and save my restaurant!”
—Centennial Hall dining hall
“So do you ever feel like you have too much crunk juice and you just need to get rid of some?”
—Nicholson Hall
“An extrapolation from toga-wearing, but let that be a lesson: When giving impassioned speeches, make sure your clothes don’t fall off.”
—Latin class
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
ACROSS 1 In short supply 6 Basics for Dick and Jane 10 XT computers 14 Mandel of “America’s Got Talent” 15 Actress Lollobrigida 16 “La maja desnuda” artist 17 Primary artery 18 First name in advice 19 Baseball’s Hershiser 20 Amt. 21 Playskool’s Rocktivity products, e.g. 24 Mugs, e.g. 25 Old British coin 26 Clinic helper 31 Big concert setting 32 Gambler’s IOU 33 Lawyers’ org. 36 Peer pruriently at 37 Kermit’s color 39 Coffee-brewing choice 40 Boozer 41 High-fiber food 42 Longtime “Masterpiece Theater” host Alistair 43 Decree that spells things out 46 Nighttime shindig 49 TV warrior princess 50 One’s toughest critics, often, and, literally, three different words hidden in 21-, 26- and 43Across 53 Internet letters 56 Uses a straw 57 Fairy tale start 58 D-Day beach 60 Promote big-time 61 Slangy turnarounds 62 Poe’s “ebony bird” 63 Tiny hill builders 64 Criteria: Abbr. 65 Trapped on a branch
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DOWN 1 Cager-turnedrapper O’Neal, familiarly 2 Old grump 3 Haywire 4 “Picked” complaint 5 Olympians in red, white and blue 6 Andre of tennis 7 Netanyahu of Israel, familiarly 8 “Squawk on the Street” airer 9 “Huh?” 10 Outfielder’s cry 11 B in chemistry 12 “Poppycock!” 13 Doritos scoopful 22 “What can Brown do for you?” shipping co. 23 Manhattan’s __Fontanne Theatre 24 Mr. Peanut prop 26 Vietnam neighbor 27 Golden Fleece vessel 28 Suspenders alternative 29 What a hound follows 30 With 53-Down, stadium fans’ rhythmic motion
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33 Yankee infielder, to fans 34 Ride the Harley 35 Copycat 37 Heartrending 38 Scavenging pest 39 Cartoon explorer 41 Uncle Remus’s __ Fox 42 Monarch’s spouse 43 Tears (away) from 44 Superabundance 45 Maiden name intro
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46 Slangy sibling 47 Bulb in a garden 48 Addition to the conversation 51 Attending to a task 52 Like some coffee or tea 53 See 30-Down 54 Roller coaster cry 55 Hand-held scanner 59 Vandalize
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dr. date Dr. Date,
Lately, I’ve been having chilling dreams about my baby boo. The other night, I had a dream he called me dumb. A few weeks ago, I had a dream his exgirlfriend came to stay with him and he kept it a secret from me. I wake up from these night terrors sweaty, upset and nervous. Then I turn over and see my textbook-incredible boyfriend smiling at me like he didn’t just berate me in a dream, ’cause he didn’t just berate me in a dream. I know he would never do this stuff in real life — he’s so sweet, and every kerfuffle we’ve had has been the result of confusion or misunderstanding, never malice — so why has my subconscious been constructing a monster version of him? Not sure how much experience you have with dream analysis, but I hope you can help me out. I have a hunch that this is all coming from unfounded jealousy or from my own insecurities. But I’m wondering if you have any insight. How do I make these dreams stop? Or at the very least, how do I understand them?
—Insane In The Membrane
Yo B-Real,
I have no real experience with dream analysis, but it doesn’t take a guru to parse this one out. As you have already intuited, you’re real insecure in this relationship. There are two things going on here. First, I think that you feel like you are undeserving of such a “textbook-incredible” boyfriend. If this is a true anxiety for you, it might be the source of these negatively themed dreams, because dreams are often the byproduct of stress. Second, you seem prone to overreaction. I mean, these dreams don’t seem like that much of anything. Someone called you dumb? Someone lied about their whereabouts? These situations aren’t dire, serious or “chilling.” The fact that you seem to think they are is the
bigger concern. Just calm down. Everybody deserves a shot at happiness — be content you’ve found such a cool fella. Stop considering your “baby boo” someone you have to cling to, or he’ll run away. By the way, please don’t refer to him as your “baby boo.”
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
Since my best friend started dating her boyfriend, she’s been MIA (and I don’t mean the singer). They’re together all the time, which I get, but it’s starting to worry me. This weekend and the weekend before that, we were invited to parties with a lot of our mutual friends. She posted in the Facebook group for each one, saying how excited she was to go. Then on both nights, she texted the host once the party had already started, asking if she could bring her boyfriend along. Both hosts said yes, but my friend never showed up. I haven’t talked to her much since, so I haven’t had a chance to ask what’s going on. How can I ask about this without making her mad? I know something’s off, because she used to go out all the time. I don’t think she’d suddenly decide she isn’t into parties.
—Worried Friend
Concerned Homie,
“Hey, where have you been? I missed you at the party.” That’s how you bring it up. And I wouldn’t be so quick to assume “something’s off” just because she isn’t going out all the time. I agree, she probably didn’t suddenly decide that she isn’t into parties, but she COULD have prioritized her new boyfriend over parties. It sucks when friends get caught in romantic entanglements to the detriment of your relationship with them, but it’s really commonplace.
—Dr. Date
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New faces join Minneapolis City Council City Council u from Page 1
WARD 10
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Lisa Bender Ward 10 incumbent Meg Tuthill ran for re-election against three challengers to represent a ward that covers southwest Minneapolis, including the Lyndale and East Calhoun neighborhoods. Tuthill, who has represented the ward since 2006, lost her seat to former San Francisco city planner Lisa Bender, who won by nearly 2,000 votes. Bender raised nearly $53,000 in campaign contributions, almost $3,000 more than what Tuthill reported. Bender spent nearly $38,000 during her campaign. Bender is a University of Minnesota alumna and received a master’s degree in city planning from the University of California-Berkeley. Before serving as a city planner for San Francisco, she worked for nonprofit organizations in New York City as a transportation advocate,
WARD 9
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Alondra Cano
and in 2009 she moved to Minnesota to work for the health and transportation departments. What are the biggest issues facing Ward 10 that you plan on addressing? One is transpor tation. Folks in Ward 10 want to see a balance of transportation options, including transit, biking and walking, so those are high priorities for me. Development is a big issue in Ward 10 — and balancing new growth citywide with preserving the neighborhoods in Ward 10. Environmental protection is an important priority as well as social equity. What will you work on first? There are some pressing issues coming forward, including southwest light rail and other transit projects that go through Ward 10, like the Nicollet Avenue streetcar. I think some of those big transportation projects will be first coming forward. In the long term, I’m really excited to work on the city’s Comprehensive Plan update and make sure that our zoning code really reflects the goals and values, you know, that are articulated in our long-range plan. I think right now there is a big disconnect in how our zoning code works compared with what our plans say. What do you think constituents are most concerned about? There are a lot of renters in Ward 10. The ward as a whole is 70 percent rental. Our renters are concerned about finding an affordable place to rent in the city and a lack of rental options. Alondra Cano was listed with five other candidates to represent the ward covering parts of southeast Minneapolis. Gary Schiff, who did not seek re-election, had represented the ward since 2001. Cano won with 1,987 votes, and her closest rival, Ty Moore, trailed by nearly 230 votes. She raised $29,470 and spent nearly $22,700. Cano is a University of Minnesota alumna who worked as an aide in outgoing Ward 6 City Councilman Robert Lilligren’s office. Why did you decide to run for the position? When I worked for coun-
Homeowners are similarly concerned about raising property taxes and the affordability of staying in their homes, especially our senior citizens. The affordability of housing and property taxes is an issue for renters and homeowners alike in Ward 10. Transportation is a huge issue. A lot of people choose to live in the neighborhoods of Ward 10 because they prefer not to drive or they’re not able to drive. It’s a place where making sure it’s safe and convenient to walk, bicycle and take transit — that’s a high priority. People want to make sure we’re getting the most out of development [so] that when new projects come in, we’re adding people to our community and those projects also contribute to our neighborhoods. Anything else to add? I’m really excited to work with the retur ning incumbents as well as the ver y diverse newcomers to the council. I think that we’re going to be able to work together to address bigger citywide issues that are really facing Minneapolis. … I think a lot of us as newcomers come from a generation that is choosing where to live based on not just job opportunities but also a quality of life, and that will influence how we think about economic development, how we think about building our transpor tation system, how we think about our role supporting the schools and all of these things that contribute to how we compete against other regions for the top talent and where people choose to live. cil member Robert Lilligren, I got to see firsthand how someone with my background in community organizing and in representing communities of color or diverse communities could really have an impact on bringing more awareness to City Council about the best way to ser ve our communities. Also, just being aware of the demographic changes of our city. What do you think constituents are most concerned about? There were a lot of concerns about making sure our neighborhoods are safe
WARD 12
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Andrew Johnson Andrew Johnson will replace outgoing incumbent Sandy Colvin Roy to represent Ward 12, which encompasses southeast Minneapolis neighborhoods, including Hiawatha and Minnehaha. Johnson defeated his closest opponent, Ben Gisselman, by nearly 3,000 votes. Throughout his campaign, Johnson was able to raise almost $27,000 — nearly $19,000 more than Gisselman. Johnson spent a little more than $24,000. Johnson received an associate’s degree from Normandale Community College and pursued a political science degree from the University of Minnesota without completion. He spent eight years working for Target Corporate, serving various roles, and spent three terms on the Longfellow Community Council. What are the issues you plan on addressing? One is education. There is an independent [Minneighborhoods for our families to be and grow up in, and that’s a shared concern by many ethnicities, not just one particular group. … Certainly looking at ways that would improve livability through public safety initiatives. What are some of the issues facing the ward that you plan on addressing? We’re looking to make sure we’re providing livingwage jobs for people in our neighborhoods and we’re uplifting the voices of young people in our communities and engaging them early on in programs like STEP-UP
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neapolis] school board, and it’s ver y impor tant to acknowledge that. … I respect the independent nature of the school board, so when I look at lear ning, or education, I look at it holistically, especially what happens outside of the classroom, so things like creating apprenticeships, both in the summer and after school for youth, is a huge priority for me. … I also see, for instance, with the achievement gap, a lot of that is really systematic of underlying issues within the community — whether that’s food and social justice issues and economic oppor tunities for families and even issues of crime and safety. Those are areas where the City Council can have a role in resolving the achievement gap. Besides education, I ran on small business, and that’s an issue ver y near and dear to my hear t. I have actively worked to bring businesses into our ward and will continue to have that role on the City Council. … In fact, one of the restrictions that they put on urban agriculture is unconstitutional. I brought it for ward; I worked with Cam Gordon’s of fice and some of the local urban farmers. They confer red with a city attor ney and agreed, so that’s no longer enforceable, so it’s going to lead to better food choices and better economic oppor tunities across the city. What are the biggest issues facing the Ward? One of the biggest issues for the ward is that ther e ar e many young and other programs available in the Minnesota Department of Health. We’re also promoting affordable housing and making sure that families are able to stay here — that they’re able to call this place home and not get kicked out when there’s new improvements done to the neighborhood. Certainly looking at ways that we can improve and support small businesses, because that’s connected to providing jobs and that’s connected to increasing foot traffic in our neighborhoods, and that will help us establish more presence in
families right now that are weighing whether they stay in the city or whether they go out to the suburbs. It is a huge opportunity that we do not want to miss, because when families plant their roots deep, they’r e mor e engaged, they’re more involved in the communities and we have kids growing up and going to the schools and more diversity in population, and it is overall a much better situation for ever ybody. We want families growing up here. We want children growing up here, and we have to do something about this to make sure folks are making that decision to stay in Minneapolis. What do you think constituents are most concerned about? This education issue is obviously a concern. People are always concerned about the cor e things, such as crime and safety and making sure we have good response times with our police and making sure we are taking care of our roads. People were concerned about ver y localized issues, such as airpor t noise. … People are interested in the new ideas that I bring to the table. Anything else to add? I think it’s impor tant to have a diversity of perspective, and I’m ver y, ver y, ver y excited to work with all of these other amazing people who won their races, and we’re really going to see some great work happening in the city. terms of community policing. We also have a lot of folks who are interested in sustainability ef for ts. Things like urban agriculture and finding a permanent home for the Midtown Farmer’s Market … Looking at ways we can improve biking and walking amenities in our ward so that there’s less smog or pollution in the air. Thirdly, education. That was a big initiative that a lot of people in our ward are interested in. Alexi Gusso contributed to this report.
SOURCES: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, OFFICE OF THE MINNESOTA SECRETARY OF STATE
Germany starts identifying Munich art found online BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Bowing to pressure from Jewish groups and art experts, the German government made public details of paintings in a recovered trove of some 1,400 pieces of art, many of which may have been stolen by the Nazis, and said it would put together a task force to speed identification. The German government said in a written statement that about 590 of the pieces could have been stolen by the Nazis. In a surprise move, it
quickly featured some 25 of those works on the website www.lostart.de and said it would be regularly updated. Officials had so far released few details about the ar t found in the Munich apartment of 80-year-old Cornelius Gurlitt, though it was known to include pieces by Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. The discovery resulted from an ongoing tax probe, adding to secrecy concerns. Among the paintings listed on the site were Otto Dix’s “The Woman in the Theater Box,” Otto Griebel’s “Child at
the Table,” and Max Liebermann’s “Rider on the Beach.” Looted art was stolen or bought for a pittance from Jewish collectors who were forced to sell under duress during the Third Reich. For the heirs of those collectors, the discover y has raised hopes of recovering art, while the slow release of information has stirred frustration. German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman said earlier Monday that the government understood the demands of Jewish groups in particular that the pieces be
Thai Senate kills amnesty bill BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
B A N G K O K — T h ai land’s Senate has defeated an amnesty bill that could have led to the retur n from exile of deposed former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, but opponents of the bill vowed to continue their protests against the government. The main opposition Democrat Par ty called for civil disobedience and a three-day nationwide strike beginning Wednesday in what is seen as a campaign to bring down the gover nment led by Thaksin’s sister, Prime Minister Y ingluck Shinawatra. Critics say the amnesty bill was an attempt by the government to whitewash Thaksin’s alleged crimes
and pave the way for his return. Thaksin, a highly divisive figure, fled the countr y in 2008 to escape a two-year jail term on a corruption charge. The Senate voted 141-0 late Monday to reject the bill after the ruling par ty withdrew its suppor t. Although the more-powerful lower house can legally pass legislation without Senate approval after a 180-day wait, Yingluck and the government coalition par ties have pledged that the bill will not be revived. Demonstrations against the bill have spread since it was passed by the lower house on Nov. 1. Their target was to oppose the bill and Thaksin, who was ousted in a 2006 coup over allegations of corr uption and disrespect for King
Bhumibol Adulyadej. Disputes between Thaksin’s suppor ters and opponents arouse fierce pa s s i on s w h i c h c u l minated in a 2010 militar y crackdown on Thaksin suppor ters that left about 90 people dead. Paving the way for Thaksin’s return has been an unspoken priority of Y ingluck’s gover nment, which won an absolute parliamentar y majority in 2011 elections due largely to Thaksin’s popularity in rural areas and among the urban poor, who benefited from his gover nment’s populist programs. The bill also triggered opposition from the progover nment suppor ters who wanted to prosecute those behind the killings during the 2010 crackdown.
quickly made public. “We can well understand that especially Jewish organizations are asking many questions. They represent older people who were treated very badly,” said the spokesman, Steffen Seibert. The new task force of six experts will be put together by the German government and the state government of Bavaria, with the support of a research group on “degenerate art” at the Free University of Berlin. Such ar t was largely modern or abstract works
that Adolf Hitler’s regime believed to be a corrupt influence on the German people. Many such works were later sold to enrich the Nazis. Some 380 art pieces could fall under the category, the government said. The task force will work in “parallel” with the ongoing legal probe by prosecutors in Augsburg, the government said. Prosecutors had only said there was evidence that one item — a Matisse painting of a sitting woman — was stolen by the Nazis from a French
bank in 1942. Also Monday, Stuttgart state police spokesman Horst Haug said that local police last week took 22 pieces of art from a home in Kornwestheim in southern Germany to a safe location “because par ts of these paintings were associated with the Munich art discovery.” German media identified the owner of the paintings as Gurlitt’s brotherin-law, who reportedly was worried about the safety of his art due to the recent media frenzy.
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helpful.” Police received a number of calls about possible suspect sightings, he said. Police also searched the area near Cof fman Union on the University’s East Bank around 4 p.m., after receiving a call that the suspect could be there. Security cameras caught a man University police believe to be the suspect, and they included a photo in a crime aler t sent to faculty, staf f and students Monday night. Individualized studies sophomore Jack Swift, who works on Anderson Hall’s first floor, said he
was in his of fice when he heard a scream, and he went to help the victim. The University sent a text aler t at 3:15 p.m. warning those on campus to seek shelter until further notice. “He was in a University building, and he had a weapon, so we’re taking ever y precaution necessar y,” Busse said. Paula Pentel, program coordinator for the University’s Urban Studies depar tment, said she arrived for her class on the first floor of Anderson Hall shortly before 4 p.m. Only about five of her 50 students showed up for the class, and she said she hadn’t been notified to cancel classes. Jesse Grindstaf f, a Post-Secondar y Enroll-
ment Options student, said he ran from the East Bank to Anderson Hall to warn a friend there after receiving the first text alert. Grindstaf f said he thinks the text aler t system is useful, but some students didn’t receive the messages. “I think it’s a good thing that the University has that as a means of urgent communication,” he said. Inside Anderson, people wer e usher ed into classrooms, huddling away from windows and doors, he said. “There was a lot of quietness, stillness in the air,” Grindstaff said. Emma Nelson, Cody Nelson and Marion Renault contributed to this report.