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■ Minnesota STI cases rose significantly in ’16
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■ U officials call for more higher education funds
An MDH report shows large increases in syphilis, gonnorrhea. PG 3
The U could receive far less from the state than requested. PG 2
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The changing face of drag Masoudae Rezvani, a gender non-binary University of Minnesota student, is one of the Minneapolis drag scene’s up-and-comers. Minnesota Daily photographer Maddy Fox documented the evolving drag culture. BY MADDY FOX mfox@mndaily.com
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he first time Masoudae Rezvani competed in a drag competition — they won. In the six months since that per formance, Rezvani has become a regular par ticipant in the amateur drag shows at LUSH, a queer bar in nor theast Minneapolis. Rezvani, a linguistics junior at the University of Minnesota, identifies as gender non-binar y. As their drag persona — Heda Thrasher — they are one of many queer performers changing the face of drag. The ar t of drag has been a critical element of LGBTQIA expression and community since the rise in its popularity in the ’70s and ’80s in large urban centers, such as New York City. Traditionally consisting of gay, cis-gender men dressing as women, the definition of drag is constantly evolving as individuals who exist outside of the gender binar y continue to gain visibility and perform. “For me, drag means being able to bend gendered expectations while expressing myself creatively and building a community based on ar t and acceptance,” Rezvani said. Cultural icons like RuPaul and Divine have helped bring drag to the masses through television and film, but local communities are what truly keep the culture thriving. Rezvani par ticipates in the local drag community at LUSH while also balancing school and work. Though time-consuming and often expensive, the hobby is ultimately rewarding. “Drag is an artistic expression of myself,” Rezvani said. Minnesota Daily photographer Maddy Fox followed Rezvani through a per for mance night on March 23. u See PHOTO ESSAY Page 5
CAMPUS
Police search underway for U student who fell in river A Wednesday evening prayer vigil was attended by roughly 250 people. BY NATALIE RADEMACHER nrademacher@mndaily.com
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Masoudae Rezvani puts on makeup in their bedroom, transforming into their drag persona, Heda Thrasher.
Masoudae Rezvani takes a dollar bill from a LUSH patron while performing as Heda Thrasher.
GREEK LIFE
STUDENT ISSUES
New sexual assault prevention training slated for University Greek members The Interfraternity Council will work with two U groups for the training next fall. BY NATALIE RADEMACHER nrademacher@mndaily.com
Trained sexual assault advocates and additional training could be next steps in University of Minnesota Greek life sexual assault prevention efforts. The Interfraternity Council is working with The Aurora Center and the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action to provide Greek members
with information on how to address accused perpetrators and victims in their community and will train some members to respond when a sexual assault occurs. The new prevention measures will start in the fall. “We will be giving them the resources to provide people within the Greek community with additional knowledge, skills and a sense of community surrounding sexual assault prevention,” said Aurora Center Director Katie Eichele. u See TRAINING Page 3
LEGISLATURE
Student service fee proposal may violate U autonomy, some officials, experts say The measure would allow students to opt-out of paying student service fees at the U. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH AND DAVID CLAREY rfaircloth@mndaily.com dclarey@mndaily.com
A legislative proposal to make student ser vice fees optional at the University of Minnesota could violate the school’s constitutional autonomy
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A University of Minnesota student is missing after he was swept into the Mississippi River Tuesday evening. Chris Stanley, a neurobiology senior, fell into the rivernear St. Anthony Falls. Stanley and a friend were sitting near the river when a large wave knocked them into the water, according to the Minneapolis Park Police Department. The friend pulled himself out of the river after he went over St. Anthony Falls but couldn’t locate Stanley, authorities said. As of Wednesday afternoon, authorities had searched the river near Waterpower Park and the 3rd Avenue Bridge, a Hennepin County Sherif f ’s Of fice spokesman said. About 250 family and friends gathered a prayer vigil Wednesday evening at the Oak Grove Lutheran Church in Richfield. Shir ts with the hashtag “Find Chris” were distributed. “Keep your faith,” said Stanley’s mother, Melissa Melnick, who is also pastor at the church. “Walk with each other, pray with each other.” Throughout the vigil, people hugged and sang songs for Stanley, whom friends described as smart and kind. “Chris … is such an empathetic person,” said his friend, biology senior Lisa Persson. The University of Minnesota Police Department have also assisted the search. “There is no news right now,” Melnick said. “We don’t really know what happened. There isn’t an answer.” Stanley is about six feet tall and was last seen wearing a blue rain jacket and plaid shirt.
from the state. If passed, the measure would request that the University make student service fees optional, but if it didn’t, the state would penalize it by withholding some state funding. University leaders, officials and political experts say the penalty could be a violation of the school’s independence from the state and trigger a legal battle. The University’s constitutional autonomy gives the school the power to u See PROPOSAL Page 10
Some U nonresidents uneasy with possible tuition hike Despite nonresident, non-reciprocity tuition hikes, enrollment has been stable. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com
As University of Minnesota officials consider nonresident tuition hikes, many are split over how they might impact students. The University is considering a tuition hike of up to 10 percent for nonresident, nonreciprocity students. University officials say the bump will likely have minimal impact on nonresident student retention because the school has one of the lowest nonresident rates in the Big 10. However, some current nonresident University students say a potential increase could hur t them financially. Since 2012, nonresident, non-reciprocity tuition at the University has risen roughly 28 percent — or $4,900. Still, the University’s nonresident tuition is the second-lowest in the Big 10. But while tuition for nonresidents has risen swiftly in the last five years, demand hasn’t fallen, said Bob McMaster, University vice pr ovost and dean of undergraduate education.
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Kai Saito, a junior from Colorado, attends a meeting for the Minnesota International Student Association on Tuesday at Coffman Memorial Union.
The number of nonresident applications rose from 12,990 in 2012 to 19,963 in 2016. Enrollment has also increased. “There’s been no dampening ef fect at all,” McMaster said. “In fact, the rate of increase from [nonresident, non-reciprocity] students in terms of applications has been faster than any other categor y.” The University has also ramped up its nonresident
recruitment ef for ts, he said, which has helped increase the number of applicants. Some nonresident students at the University are unhappy with the tuition raises — including the possible 10 percent hike that could come this fall. For Kai Saito, a University junior studying biochemistr y and microbiology, the school’s u See TUITION Page 10 VOLUME 117 ISSUE 55
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Associate Vice President for Budget and Finance Julie Tonneson, Dean of Undergraduate Education Robert McMaster, University of Minnesota-Rochester Chancellor Stephen Lehmkuhle and Faculty Consultative Committee Chair Colin Campbell address the higher education conference committee at the state Capitol on Tuesday.
U officials voice funding concerns State and U of M officials testified at a higher education committee meeting. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com
Tuition hikes and program cuts may be in store for the University of Minnesota if state lawmakers don’t boost proposed funding. Members of the Minnesota House and Senate higher education committees held a conference committee meeting Tuesday to hear testimony on higher education spending bills. At the meeting, school and state officials said the current proposals would have negative impacts.
The conference committee must resolve spending and policy differences between the two bills before sending a final combined version to Gov. Mark Dayton. The University asked the Legislature for a $147.2 million budget increase this session, but current House and Senate omnibus bills would only fund up to $29.6 million of that request. Rochester campus Chancellor Stephen Lehmkuhle, who spoke on behalf of University President Eric Kaler at the meeting, said the current proposals would have system-wide consequences. “The lack of funding could lead to tuition increases as high as 5 percent,
including increases for all students on all campuses,” he said. University programs will also see cuts if funding isn’t raised, Lehmkuhle said. Rep. Ilhan Omar, DFLMinneapolis, asked University officials at the meeting if the school could dip into its endowment or reser ve funds to compensate for decreased state investment. But Julie Tonneson, University associate vice president for budget and finance, said money received from donors is typically earmarked for specific uses like student scholarships and can’t replace state funding. “The endowment is actually a highly restricted pot of money,” she said. Speaking on behalf of Dayton, Lar r y Pogemi-
ller, commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education, said at the meeting overall funding in the current bills falls far short of what Dayton recommended. “The lack of investment in campus support at [Minnesota] State and core mission at the University of Minnesota, combined with tuition freezes, will lead to a degradation of educational quality for our students,” he said. Dayton, who recommended the University receive $96.8 million of its request, has said he’d veto the current proposals. Pogemiller said lawmakers also included several policy provisions — like requiring automatic admission of high school
applicants who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class that put the bill at risk. The policies would be mandates for Minnesota State but only requests for the University due to the school’s constitutional autonomy. A veto threat would likely influence future omnibus talks, said Rep. Bud Nor nes, R-Fergus Falls, chair of the House Higher Education Committee. Nornes said he doesn’t understand Dayton’s stance on the policy provisions but thinks some will likely be left out of the final bill. “When it’s all done … it will be maybe at least close enough so that he can say, ‘let’s get it done,’” he said.
STATE BRIEFING
Woman gets probation for supporting al-Shabab BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota woman who sent money to the militant group al-Shabab in Somalia was sentenced to five years’ probation on Wednesday after she cooperated with prosecutors, who said the light sentence would send a message to community members who shunned the woman yet supported other defendants who remained defiant. Amina Mohamud Esse, 43, pleaded guilty in 2014 to one count of conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. She faced up to 15 years in prison, but prosecutors sought probation because she provided substantial assistance to the government. “I accept responsibility for what I did,” Esse told the judge through an interpreter. “I’m willing to do all I can for the rest of my life to correct the mistakes I did.” Her cooperation included nearly 60 meetings and phone calls with authorities, as well as testimony in the trial against ringleaders of an online network of women who used an
internet chat room to raise thousands of dollars for alShabab, which the U.S. says is involved in terrorism. Assistant U.S. Attorney Charles Kovats said Esse was the 21st person to be sentenced in terrorism cases in Minnesota in the last five years. The sentences have ranged from probation to 35 years in prison. Kovats noted Esse’s case is the first in which his office has recommended probation, saying it would send a message that “working with the U.S. is the right thing to do, even when the loudest community voices don’t seem to agree.” Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States. More than 20 young men have left the state since 2007 to join al-Shabab in Somalia, and roughly a dozen people have left in recent years to join militants in Syria. Many members of the local Somali community have condemned terror recruiting over the years, and have urged cooperation with the government. Several community groups have been working hard to help at-risk youth before they are lured by terror propaganda.
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Still, Kovats said Minnesota has a problem with ter rorism. He said Esse has been ostracized by the Somali community since she began cooperating — while defendants who remained defiant were placed on pedestals. He showed video of community members who spoke in suppor t of those defendants, including video of a man who said one defendant deserved a Nobel prize. Kovats also pointed to fliers for fundraisers that were held to raise money for families of defendants who got the highest penalties. Hearings for other defendants have drawn dozens of supporters, but just one community member — an uncle — attended Esse’s sentencing. “Look who’s here today,” Kovats said, pointing to the gallery. “Look at the community support for the defendant who did ever ything right ... there is no one here.” Kassim Busuri, a Somali youth activist listed as a contact for one of the fundraisers, said the families of other defendants were struggling after spending all of their money to defend their sons.
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Fraud case stirs new legal ripples years later in Minnesota BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL — Minnesota lawmakers are considering changing the rules on money that may be recovered for victims of businessman Tom Petters’ $3.7 billion Ponzi scheme. The change would limit the recovery of investment income earned by charitable or religious organizations that took gifts from Petters or his associates, Minnesota Public Radio reported. The law change would make clear that multiple kinds of donations can be protected after a certain time limit. Some charitable foundations confronted by claims from a court-appointed receiver support the change. But the receiver, Minneapolis attorney and former white-collar prosecutor Doug Kelley, says it could take $35 million of f the table. “That would be borne not by the taxpayers, but by the victims of the Ponzi scheme,” Kelley said Tuesday before a House-Senate conference committee hashing over dif fering public safety and judiciar y budget plans.
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Petters is ser ving a 50-year prison sentence after being convicted in a multi-count fraud in 2009. The scheme involving money laundering and fake invoices related to Petters’ electronics retailing spanned 15 years and affected over 250 victims. Under the law change, any profits earned on a security, such as a stock or bond, wouldn’t be treated differently than cash. Some religious organizations or charitable foundations received something other than cash from Petters or his associates, such as promissor y notes that resulted in lucrative returns. The Nor thwester n Foundation, which is affiliated with the University of Nor thwester n, a private Christian college in Roseville, was among them. “If gifts from a long time ago are reclaimed from foundations, you create a new set of victims, namely all of the folks that have donated money that will now be used to pay the old claim,” said Grover Sayre, a board member of the foundation. “Because often the funds from old donations are long gone.”
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Law school faces ideological imbalance Eighty percent of U law professors are liberal, according to a recent study. BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com
Ideological imbalances in law school faculty across the nation may not prepare students for legal careers, according to an article by a Case Western Reserve University law professor. While some professors and students at the University of Minnesota Law School agree an imbalance exists, they say it doesn’t necessarily have a direct negative impact. Professors also raised questions about the consequences of trying to fix the imbalance. “The ideological imbalance that pervades legal academia not only fosters groupthink, it undermines the ability of law schools to train effective legal advocates,” Jonathan Adler said in his article. But law professors Herber t Kritzer and Richard Painter said the faculty members’ political views don’t have a significant impact on students. Painter, a former ethics lawyer to George W. Bush from 2005 to 2007, said law schools are committed to free speech and teaching to argue for both sides is integral to a legal education. “In my experience, both sides are ver y well represented,” said Seth Zawila, president of the University’s American Constitution Society for Law and Policy. A recent University of
Chicago study identified just 15 percent of law professors as conservative. In the same study, a review of the top 50 law schools showed most universities’ law faculties were more than 50 percent liberal. More than 80 of the University’s law school faculty are liberal, based on donation trends the study showed. Adler claims in the article that the ideological debate over Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court confirmation and his judicial views is due to misinformation, much of it from the ideological imbalance found in schools. “Training lawyers requires teaching students how to understand and get inside the arguments of those with differing interests, outlooks and orientations,” Adler wrote in the article. “Doing this effectively requires exposure to differing points of view, and that’s difficult to achieve when faculties are ideological monocultures.” Even though professors’ biases do come through in class, Zawila said most take time to ensure all sides of the argument are covered. “All perspectives are talked about at the end of the day,” Zawila said. “When you do well in law school, it’s because you understand both sides of the argument.” While the evidence shows a liberal majority in law faculties, a trend for nearly three decades, there are also schools that trend conservative, Kritzer said. In the study, law schools at George Mason University, Brigham Young University and Pepperdine
University were the only schools where most law professors were identified as conservative. A certain level of selfselection goes into how law faculties form, as professors might choose to go to schools that lean more toward their own ideologies, Kritzer said. One of the suggestions the Chicago study gives to rectify the ideological disparity of law faculties is to take ideological diversity into consideration when hiring professors. But professors say ideological diversity alone should not be a factor in hiring. Law professor June Carbone said when a law school hires for diversity, it could lead to an emphasis on ideological purity, which isn’t ideal in hiring or teaching, Carbone said. And Kritzer said groups like minority populations are more likely to lean liberal, while white male lawyers are more likely to be conservative. Kritzer said hiring involves trade-offs, especially when considering diversity. “The question is: what do you prioritize?” Carbone said more can be done to ensure diversity in viewpoints, but the alternative is an ideological litmus test, which schools don’t engage in. “You don’t want a system that says, ‘Today is the liberals’ turn, today is the conservatives’ turn,’” she said. “When we do that, we end up looking for people who are thought to be ‘true’ representatives of a brand and we don’t do that here.”
Minnesota’s STI cases rose significantly last year A report from MDH shows double-digit increases in syphilis and gonorrhea. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
Sexually transmitted infections in Minnesota rose again last year, with large increases in syphilis and gonorrhea. The 2016 Minnesota Department of Health’s annual report found that syphilis cases rose by 30 percent, gonorrhea 25 percent and chlamydia cases increased by seven percent. Health professionals say the increase, part of a 4-year trend, is the result of a decline in condom use and a lack of education. “It’s not a huge surprise,” said Krissie Guerard, MDH’s STD/HIV and TB section manager.
STIS IN MINNESOTA From 2015-2016, the number of Chlamydia cases rose
7% 2015 21,238 cases 2016 22,675 cases From 2015-2016, the number of Gonorrhea cases rose
25% 2015 4,097 cases 2016 5,104 cases From 2015-2016, the number of Syphilis cases rose
30% 2015 653 cases 2016 852 cases SOURCE: MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
At the University of Minnesota, 52.5 percent of students used a condom the last time they had vaginal intercourse, according to a 2015 Boynton Health survey. Syphilis infections rose by 58 percent in greater Minnesota. There were also reports of infections in females of child-bearing age, though most infections are seen among males, particularly men who have sex with men. “It’s in broader communities now,” Guerard said. “It’s a very large increase. Syphilis nationally is going back up compared to what it used to be.” She said MDH is educating more people and providers on syphilis than ever before. “It’s all about getting tested and actually knowing what your STD status is,” Guerard said. To provide greater access to testing for youth, MDH partnered with Community Restoring Urban Youth Sexual Health, an organization that works with clinics around the state to educate and provide youth with low-cost testing. University master’s student J’Mag Karbeah, a CRUSH coordinator, said that many people won’t know they have an STD until they try to have children. Gonorrhea and chlamydia frequently show no symptoms. “You can be infected, you can get other partners infected with no intent,” Karbeah said. “But you’re just unaware of the fact that you
have an infection.” Left untreated, gonorrhea and chlamydia can cause pelvic inflammator y disease and reproductive complications in women, she said. People aged 13 to 25 and communities of color are the most likely to be infected with an STI, Karbeah said CRUSH’s goal is to tell young people that STIs are treatable and get them tested once a year, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, she said. Karbeah said MDH’s 2016 data is “dishear tening,” showing 22,000 new gonorrhea and chlamydia cases. Keith Horvath, an epidemiology professor, said it’s important to make sure gay and bisexual men — the demographic with the highest STI rate — are getting the necessar y education and can be proactive about their own sexual health. “That’s always a perennial issue with young folks,” he said. “The other thing is just changing … attitudes and norms around having protected or unprotected sex.” Horvath said the stigma surrounding gay or bisexual men and seeking care for their sexual health can keep them from getting help, something he said he hopes will change. “Something we should be thinking about is how do we engage, especially youth, in these topics?” he said. “How do we really tailor those messages and get youth involved and aware?”
Protest shooter sentenced to 15 years BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MINNEAPOLIS — A white Minnesota man who was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison Wednesday for shooting and wounding five black protesters said he’ll live with the consequences of his actions for the rest of his life, but stopped shor t of apologizing. Allen Scarsella’s sentence of 15 years and two months was short of prosecutors’ request for the maximum 20 years but within state guidelines. The 25-year-old Blooming-
ton man was convicted in Febr uar y on assault and riot charges for shooting the five men at a Black Lives Matter protest encampment outside a north Minneapolis police station following the fatal police shooting of a black man, Jamar Clark, in 2015. “I recognize the severity of the events of November 23rd, 2015,” Scarsella said as he stood before Hennepin County District Judge Hilar y Caligiuri. He said the shootings were not what he wanted to happen that night when he
and three friends went to the protest, where demonstrators chased them away because they were wearing masks. “I’ll live with the consequences the rest of my life.” Prosecutor Chris Freeman dismissed selfdefense claims that Scarsella made during his trial. He called the crime, “five unarmed black men gunned down in what can only be described as a mass shooting” by a man whose numerous racist texts to friends made his motivations clear to the jur y.
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Professor June Carbone teaches a property law course in Mondale Hall on Wednesday.
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Professor June Carbone teaches a property law course in Mondale Hall on Wednesday.
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EOAA added resources for the community after Greek members asked the office how it responds to sexual misconduct cases, said EOAA Director and Title IX Coordinator Tina Marisam. “The idea we had was to talk to the Greek organizations about how to respond to sexual assault. Both how the University responds, how [EOAA] handles it, when we investigate and how we investigate,” Marisam said. The office will also provide
resources for the community on how to confront members accused of sexual assault and what to do after having those conversations, she said. At the Aurora Center, Eichele said she is working with IFC to train one member in each chapter as an advocate. Unlike Aurora Center advocates, trained Greek life members will not be mandatory reporters, Eichele said. Advocates will be taught how to respond when sexual violence occurs and which resources to provide victims. “We are ecstatic to work with The Aurora Center to
combat incidents of sexual violence in our community and on the greater campus,” said IFC President Simon Beck. In addition to advocate training, the center will expand its bystander intervention training for Greek life to include sexual assault prevention and response. “The Aurora Center has done a great job...with the prevention aspect and also some response,” Marisam said. “With this training [EOAA] is more response ... in terms of how the University [responsive] and how Greek organizations can respond.”
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The changing face of drag Masoudae Rezvani, a gender non-binary University of Minnesota student, is one of the Minneapolis drag scene’s up-and-comers. Minnesota Daily photographer Maddy Fox documented the evolving drag culture.
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FILM
Festival Season Hosted by Minnecinema Studios, the third annual Minnesota Independent Film Festival took place on April 21.
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Minnecinema club members Andrew Schmidt, Kevin Olson, Sebastian Swanson, Eden Palmer, KC Schomas, pose for a portrait together in Northrop Memorial Auditorium on April 21. BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com
Before the dream of a debut at Sundance or Tribeca is realized, many student filmmakers set their sights on local, smaller-scale events like the Minnesota Independent Film Festival. The festival showcased eleven student-made short films on April 21, one of which was produced by Minnecinema Studios — the University of Minnesota’s on-campus filmmaking club. “We do have a studies in cinema and media culture major, but it’s not specifically a film major,” said Eden Palmer, the president of Minnecinema Studios and a junior studying SCMC at the University. “We wanted a space for people to be able to showcase their films but also network with other filmmakers on campus.” Minnecinema Studios
accepted eleven short films into the festival, all of which presented a range of student talents. “I think ever y film that we’re screening is cohesive and well thought through,” Palmer said. “We always tr y to get a range of films … I think our longest film ended up being 15 minutes long.” Given that Minnecinema Studios is a large student group, their filmmaking crew can var y from 20 to 40 people any given day of shooting. To accommodate so many budding filmmakers, Minnecinema Studios approached their filmmaking process with all hands on deck. “We always tr y to give everyone the opportunity to handle equipment,” Palmer said. “We want people to learn, be on set and then hopefully take those experiences to their own sets.”
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Viewers watch screenings at a film festival hosted by Minnecinema, an on-campus film club, at the Best Buy theater in Northrop Memorial Auditorium on April 21.
Cour tney Reistad, an SCMC junior at the University, presented her own narrative short film at the festival. “I applied to a study abroad program in Prague. One of the requirements was a 15-minute narrative film, and I did not have a
15-minute narrative film,” Reistad said. Reistad tur ned to her family and a roommate in the University’s BFA acting program for help, and created the film over the course of two and a half months. “It’s a goofy story. It follows a girl [who wakes up
from a coma]. She is told that she needs to go to a group for people going through similar experiences, but she goes to a bingo club instead and meets some interesting people,” Reistad said. Just one short year away from graduation and the star t of a filmmaking career, Reistad appreciated the oppor tunity for feedback on her work. “I think one of the most impor tant things for filmmakers … is the distribution of their films,” Reistad said. “Being able to see what an unbiased audience thinks [and] hearing their reactions are always equally important in making meaningful media.” Peng Wang, a senior majoring in SCMC at the University, also screened his short film, which he made last year, at the festival. Wang found character inspiration listening to the
piano players in Cof fman Union and in his own difficulties communicating as a non-native English speaker. “Nobody cares about [the character’s] language, and no one cares about his music in Cof fman,” Wang said. “One day he finds a girl who plays the same music as him in Coffman. … They can understand each other even though they don’t have the same language.” For emerging filmmakers like Wang and Reistad, the Minnesota Independent Film Festival offers the opportunity to hear vital feedback, allowing them to keep growing and improving as artists. “It was a good experience because you can show your work on a big screen,” Wang said. “I always want to make a better one to show people … so it’s always good to hear what people think about your work.”
MUSIC
Cassette tapes: an impractical labor of love The prospect of enjoying music on tape begs many questions; listeners have answers. BY KATIE LAUER klauer@mndaily.com
Cassette tapes are impractical, and the people who buy and produce them agree. Yet, a community of listeners continue to keep them alive. “It’s ridiculous buying cassettes and having a cassette player,” said Jordan Bleau of No Problem Records, a local cassette label. “It’s impractical in the most basic sense. But … I don’t know, if you can get down on a level of wanting to have a more personal experience and wanting to have an object, then tight.” While many order their cassettes online, Dead Media, a book, record and tape store in Minneapolis’ Seward neighborhood, is one source for tapes in the
Twin Cities. “No store in this town has a tape selection like this,” store co-owner Colin Wilkinson said. “No one. There’s a need for it and a void in the whole area.” Wilkinson said it’s absurd how many tapes Dead Media sells. It’s hard to keep their collection stocked. So, why do people buy tapes? Wilkinson isn’t really sure. Thanks to labels like Burger Records and Gnar Tapes, a subculture star ted to emerge in the early 2000s. Here in Minneapolis, Bleau and Alex Uhrich star ted No Problem Records in 2014. When it comes to music, they produce “whatever man” and
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have developed into a label for many new bands’ first release. Does the music sound better on tape? “Technically it’s worse, but sometimes it’s better,” Wilkinson said. “Hip-hop on cassette sounds rad. You get the analog sound, the rustic too and the warmth. On a tape, you get that little, shitty quality to it. It’s a little compressed, a little dir ty and it just sounds dope.” It’s this personal, more intimate sound that bands and listeners enjoy. How do people get into cassettes? “People used to just go to shows,” Bleau said. “Going to a local show and seeing a local band in a basement and getting blown away — if a band is doing that type of show they are probably releasing stuff on
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tape. A lot of people that buy tapes are in a band and have a tape out, run a label or a tape store, stuf f like that.” Why would a band produce a tape in the first place? In a word: economics. According to Bleau, it only costs a few dollars to produce a cassette. Cassette production provides access for bands who may not have the resources or time to produce in other ways. It’s a “DIY” style of production. Tapes also add a physical value to the music that’s on them. “It’s like, ‘Yeah, there is value to this,’” Bleau said. “By going through the process of producing a physical thing, you’re assigning value to that. This is a real thing.” Since they’re cheap to produce, there’s really no
money in it for anyone. But Bleau said that’s alright — it’s a labor of love. “It’s that finding something that feels super personal to you, and like secret or something,” he said. “That’s really cool, and really not the case with how music is typically released these days.” In fact, cassette culture is almost the opposite of mainstream music consumption, and Bleau said that rejection is part of the appeal. However, the mainstream culture is star ting to bleed into the cassette world. Should more people start listening to tapes? Bleau said the simple answer is yes, of course. But he thinks that has the potential to co-opt the subculture and exploit it. The majority of tapes at Dead Media and online
are either vintage or new from bands who want tape releases. However, next to Grateful Dead bootlegs and No Problem’s artists, there are cassettes from The Shins, Fleet Foxes and Kanye West. “At some point that bubble will burst — hopefully — and just be back to weirdos,” Bleau said. So why are tapes still alive? It’s the combination of many little pieces that make cassettes what they are: the sound, the physical object, the accessibility, the secrecy, the community. While they may be impractical, the tapes themselves keep people pressing play. “That’s really it, that is what it comes down to,” Bleau said. “Honestly we all do this because we love it, and that’s the only reason to do it.”
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Thursday, April 27, 2017
CULTURE to CONSUME /
By Joe Cristo, jcristo@mndaily.com
Watch this:
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“The Fate of the Furious”
“The World’s Best American Band” by White Reaper
“Survivor”
Arguably one of the final films in the “Fast and Furious” series, go see this if you’re like me and enjoy fast cars. No, seriously — this franchise has only gotten better with time. What started out as the cheesiest of all series has embraced its campiness and delivered some of the best, albeit most emotionally vacant, action movies of the last few years.
White Reaper is unequivocally one of the best bands to rise from the garage-punk post-2000 era. I first heard them on commercials before watching them rip it up live last year. This record is no different, receiving critical acclaim from most national publications. The tongue-in-cheek title says it all: they really are the best American band (they’re at least in the running).
I know, I know. Survivor has been on for more than 30 seasons. So? This season has seen the most controversial and morally bankrupt moments yet. I’m a relative newbie to the franchise, but let me just tell you this: if you want to see the perfect blend of reality television and gross-out action challenges, then this is the show for you. The early 2000s pop culture phenomenon has the staying power needed to reach — dare I say it — 40 seasons.
ART
A good time for good spaces GoodSpace Murals integrates community and art into city paintings and murals.
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Greta McClain, lead artist of GoodSpace Murals, paints a new project for The John & Denise Graves Foundation on Tuesday in Minneapolis. The muralist group works mostly with schools and non-profit organizations to bring art into the community. BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com
Wester n ar t may be centered on the individual, but one local ar t group is working to unite the viewer and the creator. A community-based method is part of the inspiration behind GoodSpace Murals — a collaboration between lead ar tist Greta McLain and administrator and ar tist Candida Gonzalez. The collaboration makes murals in Minneapolis and sur rounding cities. “It’s the power to change a landscape and a community,” McLain said. “To alter people’s and the
public’s perceptions of a place forever.” The project was bor n out of a desire to blend practicality and community integration with artistic expression. McLain has taken cues from her travels to Latin America and Europe. “Murals are all about the joint ownership and the, ‘Look what we made!’ moment,” McLain said. “I take inspiration from studying abroad in Mexico City under Malaquias Montoya.” McLain said these experiences have been invaluable in informing the ethos behind the project. “She has 10 years of
“Murals are all about the joint ownership and the, ‘Look what we made!’ I take inspiration from studying abroad in Mexico City under Malaquias Montoya.” GRETA MCLAIN GoodSpace Murals, Lead artist
m u r a l - m a k i n g e x p e r ience spent exploring the ways that ar t can bring communities together,” Gonzalez said. “The power of visual language to activate voices and the potential of ar t as a vehicle for hands-on organizing and educating.” The community muralmaking process requires
MUSIC
Q&A: UMN School of Music professor talks the world of world music A&E sat down with professor Scott Currie to discuss the School of Music’s master class and the roleof world music on the U’s campus. BY KATIE LAUER klauer@mndaily.com
As spring semester nears its end, the University of Minnesota School of Music’s “Worlds of Improvisation” course will put on its fourth and final public master class, featuring South Indian classical Veena musician Nirmala Rajasekar. The series is open to the University community and interested members of the community. The Minnesota Daily recently sat down with music professor Scott Currie to discuss the series. How did this whole series and class get started? “Worlds of Improvisation” is a very special thing to me. We decided to structure a whole seminar around guest artists; the idea was to flip the classroom. It’s a graduate seminar and all of the [students] are presumably musicians of one suit or another. The argument was, “Why not just prepare them for master classes with artists in various traditions?” The seminar requires that people are actually willing to pick up an instrument or sing or do whatever. I think that’s impor tant in
talking about improvisation. Why did [Rajasekar] say yes to being involved? [Rajasekar] is a real catalyst for not just her own tradition that she’s mastered, but also reaching out beyond that. She’s somebody that you really should know if you’re in the Twin Cities and have any interest in world music. She’s motivated to spread knowledge and really engage people’s interests in the tradition that she loves. She’s really been a force of nature. How do you pick the music that’s in the series? There are lots of traditions where people improvise without really thinking about it or considering it, it just comes with the territory. I pick the tradition and then I find who’s available. Why do you think it’s important to provide this access to world music that some might not otherwise have? Well, I think that’s the answer — they might not otherwise have it. I mean, the University of Minnesota is insanely fortunate. [Minneapolis] is a real city, it’s rather diverse with lots of refugee and immigrant populations. It’s
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A mural by Goodspace Murals is seen on the side of the Community University Health Care Center on Tuesday. The group of muralists has more than 30 murals throughout the Twin Cities, many of which are made and displayed in South Minneapolis.
the kind of place where you can do something like this whereas, I don’t know, this would be insanely expensive and very hard to do in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. We really need to make the University a focal point for culture in the Twin Cities. The students are coming here from all over Minnesota and frankly may never have had a chance to check out some of this music. We’ll tr y to make the School of Music someplace that’s seen as a resource for artists in the community. What can people who attend the master class expect? For someone who’s coming off the street, the bottom line is you’re going to hear some amazing music. Then you’re going to hear a story of where that music came from, how that creates everything, how it was cultivated and how it was possible to get to the point where someone could give anywhere from a five-minute to a five-hour per formance of music without any score or notation. We’re fortunate to have people in the Twin Cities like [Rajasekar] who champion this kind of mindset. Let’s have her do it right here on campus. Light a fire here. Editor’s note: this interview has been edited for length and clarity
a significant amount of research into the community the piece will be painted in. First, the ar tist converses with community members, inviting people to share and draw their ideas. They design, edit and review the mural with the community befor e finally painting it
with members. “The goal is to reclaim the stories and identities of community members within public spaces,” Gonzalez said. “We work toward making a piece that is inclusive and about a shared interest.” While ar tistic expression is inevitably going to be filtered through the eyes of the lead ar tists, GoodSpace Murals emphasizes listening and engaging rather than interpreting. “You don’t have to be a community organizer. In fact, you shouldn’t be,” McLain said. “You should be par tnering with community
organizers instead.” Finding a balance between looking at the artistic process traditionally and with a moder n sense of community is tricky. Engaging the community in high-quality ar t making can be even harder. Still, ar tists can keep their eyes open and their ears tuned to the hear tbeat of the city, as demonstrated by GoodSpace Murals. “How exciting is it to make work wherein people get to see themselves celebrated?” McLain said. “[They get] to share what they love about wher e they live.”
Thursday, April 27, 2017
Sports
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MEN’S HOCKEY
SOFTBALL
Gophers announce new leadership for 2017-2018 Tyler Sheehy will serve as captain as a junior with three alternate captains. BY EMILY POLGLAZE epolglaze@mndaily.com
A brand-new leadership core began its run for Minnesota men’s hockey Monday. The team announced its new team captain, junior Tyler Sheehy, and three alternate captains — Mike Szmatula, Leon Bristedt and Ryan Lindgren — for the 2017-2018 season. “I think we have a good
group,” head coach Don Lucia told Gopher Sports. “They’re good away from the rink, they’re extremely hard workers and obviously core players for our team moving forward that we’re going to count on on the ice.” Tyler Sheehy will captain the team as a junior. It is the fifth consecutive season that the team is set to have a twoseason captain, with Kyle Rau and Justin Kloos starting as juniors previously. “It’s obviously a great honor to be a leader in this kind of organization, this kind of program,” Sheehy told gopherspor ts.com Monday. “I got to grow up a
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Clockwise from left, Mike Szmatula, Leon Bristedt, Tyler Sheehy and Ryan Lindgren. Sheehy was named captain of the Gophers men’s hockey team, while Bristedt, Szmatula and Lindgren will serve as alternates.
little bit watching leaders in the past … being able to wear a ‘C’ after them is really special.” The for ward comes off a career season in which he was named a First Team AllAmerican, Big Ten Player of the Year and Hobey Baker Top Ten finalist. He led the Gophers with 20 goals and 33 assists. Mike Szmatula is the first-ever Michigan native to serve as an alternate captain at Minnesota. The incoming senior forward just finished his first year with the Gophers after transferring from Northeastern. Szmatula was seventh in scoring on the team with 10 goals and 15 assists. Leon Bristedt, a Stockholm, Sweden native, is the second European-born player to wear an ‘A,’ with Erik Haula as the last in the 20122013 season. The for ward was Minnesota’s fourth-best scorer this past season with 33 points. Defenseman Ryan Lindgren will be the first sophomore to wear a letter since Jordan Schroeder served as an alternate captain in the 2009-2010 season. Lindgren was injured late in his rookie season but had seven points with one goal and six assists and was named to the Big Ten AllFreshman Team. The announcement came early, as the last announcement of new captains didn’t take place until September in the 2015-2016 season. Lucia said the process hasn’t changed. “We have individual meetings with our players returning … What are their thoughts of who they think the captains should be and why?” Lucia told Gopher Sports. “Obviously, the coaches have input on that as well, but it’s always nice to know that the players are thinking the exact same thing as the coaches.”
WOMEN’S GOLF
Peronnin shines in final collegiate outing, Minnesota 8th at Big Tens
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Emie Peronnin tees off during the Minnesota Invitational on Sept. 15, 2015.
Peronnin finished first among Gophers golfers during the conference meet. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Senior Emie Peronnin finished third in what might be her final competition as a Minnesota golfer, just two strokes shy of the Big Ten Championships victor. But the senior wasn’t completely satisfied with her performance. “If you had told me the week before that ‘you’re going to finish third and shoot four-under,’ I would’ve been like ‘hell yeah,’” Peronnin said. “Coming so close at the end, it’s a bit of a mixed feeling, but overall, I’m pretty happy.”
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Peronnin was first among Minnesota golfers, shooting a 212. The Gophers finished eighth out of 14 teams and shot a 911 at the Big Ten Championships. “Considering we only had five players there, I was actually really happy with how we played,” said head coach Michele Redman. “They worked really hard during the tournament. It was really fun.” Junior Sabrine Garrison was the next-best Gophers golfer and tied for 31st place. Garrison shot a 229. Junior Heather Ciskowski was third among Gophers golfers, shooting a 238 and tying for 55th overall. Sophomore Niamh Ward was the four th-best Gophers finisher, shooting
a 246 and finishing in 71st place. Michigan State won the conference championships with an 866. Michigan’s Elodie Van Dievoet won the tournament individually by shooting a 210. After being tied through the first two rounds, Van Dievoet shot a 70 — compared to Perroninn’s 72 — in the third round to win the tournament. The Gophers top four tied for seventh when scoring six eligible golfers and tied for eighth with five eligible golfers. Minnesota returns all of its golfers except Peronnin next season. Redman said she looks forward to having a full team. “Getting better ever y year, that’s the idea,” Redman said.
Lindaman sets new HR record in sweep
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Freshman Maddie Houlihan throws her bat after a base hit against Wisconsin on April 12, 2016 at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.
The freshman has hit 16 home runs with six games left in regular season. BY KYLE STEINBERG ksteinberg@mndaily.com
Non-conference, no problem. That was the case for the No. 4 Gophers softball team (45-3, 15-1 Big Ten) on Wednesday, as it took down Nor th Dakota State (20-28, 7-5 Summit League) in a mid-week doubleheader at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium. The Gophers jumped on the board early in game one when right fielder Maddie Houlihan continued her hot streak with a two-run double in the first inning. In her last seven games, Houlihan is 13-for25 with 10 RBI. “The thing about Maddie is she has so many different ways to beat you,” said head coach Jessica Allister. “She’s fast, she can beat out infield hits, she’s got power … she’s just the complete package of fensively.” Senior Sara Groenewegen again pitched lightsout in the circle and finished her 16th complete game of the season with just one ear ned r un. In
addition, she tied current Gophers pitching coach Piper Ritter for secondmost car eer strikeouts in program histor y with 1,122. “I’m so proud of her, she deser ves ever y single thing — she’s worked so hard for this,” said catcher Kendyl Lindaman. “It’s amazing just catching her.” NDSU pitcher KK Leddy rebounded to shut down the Minnesota offense until the sixth, when an Allie Arneson solo shot closed the Gophers scoring. The Bison would add a run in the final frame, but the Gophers held on for a 3-1 victor y. The Gophers once again started fast in game two, this time using a Sydney Dwyer RBI single to take a first inning two-run lead. Dwyer extended her Big Ten lead in RBI with her 61st and 62nd on the season. “Dwyer’s RBIs are a testament not only to her coming up big with r unners on, but she hits with runners on a lot,” Allister said. Amber Fiser continued her improvement in the circle, pitching a complete game shutout. She is now 11-0 in her freshman sea-
son and boasts an ERA of 1.61. “I think watching Sara [Groenewegen] and Tori [Finucane] and their emotions on the mound has r eally taught me a lot,” Fiser said. “Going in there and throwing one pitch at a time, not worr ying about the last pitch has really helped me a lot.” The big hit of the night came in the bottom of the sixth, when Lindaman hit a hard liner over the left field fence for her 16th home r un of the season, which broke the program single-season record. “It feels unbelievable right now,” said Lindaman. “I think just seeing my teammates and my coaches [greeting me] made it that much better.” Lindaman has won six Big Ten Freshman of the Week awards — out of just 11 possible. For the Gophers, a midweek, non-conference doubleheader pr ovides a break from the grind of the Big Ten, but they aren’t letting it affect their focus. “Ever y game we play we have the mentality of ‘This team’s in our way,’” Fiser said. “We really focus on one game at a time, one pitch at a time.”
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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
The Minnesota Daily will need your help When the time comes, be ready to support this important community institution.
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ext week marks the end of my time with the Minnesota Daily. I’ve been here in some capacity for three years. First, I was a reporter on the policy desk then web editor for a year. I took a semester off after that then came back this year to run the section you’re reading now. To tell you the truth, it feels a little like I’m about to lose a limb. But I don’t mean to use this space to simply wax nostalgic about all the memories I have here, the friends I’ve made, the triumphs and the heartbreaks of working at the Daily. I do mean to tell you that the Daily needs your support in order to continue its vibrant journalistic contributions. We are a resource to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus — and the entire Twin Cities — because we cover such a vital part of the campus community more than most other outlets. I’m so proud of the reporting that’s been done during my time at the Daily. In just the
GRACE THOMAS columnist
past semester, the newsroom has gone indepth on a variety of sexual assault allegations that were presented in articles that gave a holistic view of this issue on campus, its history and what changes are needed. Reporters have presented stories about clashing voices on campus with nuance and respect not found in a number of nationally popular outlets. Most importantly, the quality and scope of our coverage has not faltered even as we have undergone major changes in the last year — cutting back print and bolstering our online presence. The digital landscape for media is fraught with challenges, but we’ve been striving to excel and innovate. But these challenges won’t become easier as time passes. Nonprofit news organizations like the Minnesota Daily, Minnesota Public Radio or Twin Cities Public Television need your readership and financial support. Funding cuts and strict budgets affect the salaries news organizations can pay their repor ters, editors and staf f members. The Daily, like other media organi-
zations, has had to make its budget leaner. But being able to pay competitively is important in order to ensure that a newsroom is filled with a group of reporters from diverse economic backgrounds. If news organizations’ funding continues to suffer, only financially affluent repor ters will be able to work in our local newsrooms. The pay is already a boundar y for many. My first semester here as a reporter meant I worked every day of the week between the Daily and my other job in addition to my classes — just to pay the rent. Further funding cuts won’t just impact the scope of our coverage, they’ll impact who’s telling the stories that make up our coverage. When the time comes and we put out the call, I hope that you listen to it and support the Daily in a way that respects the impact it has had on the Twin Cities for over a century. Keep your ears open. Grace Thomas welcomes comments at gthomas@mndaily.com.
2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 19,181 Total number of deaths: 4,717 Total number of mass shootings: 106 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org
DAILY DISCUSSION Congress: End the chronic budget showdowns Here we go again. Congress returned from a two-week recess Monday with yet another budgetar y crisis front and center. The current “continuing resolution” — the legal authorization for the Treasur y to spend money — runs out at midnight Friday. We saw this game of budgetar y chicken played out repeatedly during the Obama years, at least after the Republicans gained control of the House. Once, in 2013, there was a 16-day shutdown of the federal government, which cost the nation an estimated $1 billion-plus a day. This time the Republicans at least nominally control all the levels of government, but as we saw earlier this year on health care, that does not guarantee anything. The GOP is fractured, key portions of President Donald Tr ump’s budget proposal have been publicly rejected by key Republican leaders, and the minority Democrats haven’t been given much reason to come to their aid. Some budget exper ts even suspect that Tr ump is quite willing to see the government shut down, figuring that it will be blamed on Congress. Others believe that Trump and the various factions of the GOP realize that a shutdown will be blamed on the Republican Par ty as a whole and will therefore do what must be done to avoid it. Congress has been dysfunctional for some time now, and both parties deser ve blame for that. That the gover nment continues to run on a seemingly endless series of continuing resolutions rather than an actual, official budget is sufficient evidence of that. This week figures to test the Republicans’ ability to effectively function as a government. Another, more telling, test will be if the Republicans can break this cycle of continuing resolutions. Editor’s Note: This editorial was originally published by the Mankato Free Press.
Helen Teague welcomes comments at hteague@mndaily.com.
COLUMN
New bill curbs free speech New Minnesota bill to end discrimination doesn’t do service to the issues at hand.
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ast week, the Minnesota Daily reported on a state bill that’s kicking up a fuss. It’s easy to see why. The legislation that was proposed at the Capitol would prevent the state of Minnesota from contracting for $1,000 or more with vendors that discriminate against Israel or Israeli people and organizations. Minnesota ACLU Legislative Director Ben Feist addressed the concerns over infringement of free speech rights that pepper the bill in its current form. “The proponents of the bill want to stop very specific conduct, and I’m not sure how they could achieve that in a way that doesn’t have some First Amendment red flags,” he told the Minnesota Daily. As it stands, the bill does not ser ve to continue the intelligent conversation that a multifaceted topic like this one warrants. So many wildcards go into these kinds of dealings, and completely neglecting a business with a certain belief would be unproductive. I can speculate where the many roots of anti-Israel beliefs come from and through
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Facebook: Fake news won’t go away anytime soon Facebook’s profit topped $10 billion in 2016 and that profit continues to grow. When Facebook first star ted, users would post updates to their “wall.” In 2015, when Facebook launched Instant Ar ticles, a way for Facebook to keep users on its site when they clicked on news stories, they changed the name of the place you post and view content to “News Feed.” But even before this change, Facebook was full of sensationalist, and untrue items that people posted as click bait. Until recently, Facebook would minimize their responsibility by arguing that they were a ‘tech company, not a media company.’ That was until after the election of 2016 when its news feed was exploited by
Russian and other fake news operations to overload the site with content that wasn’t true, and wasn’t news at all, and that may have swayed the outcome of the election. With the recent addition of Facebook Live, now people can stream video to a wide audience. Since its launch it has been used by criminals and psychopaths to share in real time, murder, rape, bullying and other despicable acts. After the recent broadcast of a murder in Cleveland, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a brief statement in which he promised to review its protocol for monitoring and removing violent videos. The Cleveland video stayed online for more than 2 hours before Facebook took it down. Facebook has star ted taking some steps to tr y to address the fake news situation. They’ve par tnered with some fact check sites to help rate what shows
THE EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS DEPARTMENT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE NEWSROOM
TAYLOR SHARP columnist
what process a business comes to establish such a belief as part of its identity. I can’t throw in anything more expensive than my two cents, but considering that all perspectives are intricate and nuanced and built up across years and experience, I don’t believe the proper handling of controversy of antiIsrael sentiments comes from the prohibition of a business simply seeking business opportunities. The fight against free speech deser ves a well-guided director y. But free speech reduction is an unnecessary complication. Alongside a debate that inspires a plethora of opinions, enforcing businesses to hold their tongues seems slightly misplaced. Hate speech, discrimination and bigotr y in general need to be limited, but it’s a question of how we define those terms. Is opposition to a countr y’s policy hate speech? When these limits impose themselves on that sort of speech and advocacy, they’ve gone too far. Taylor Sharp welcomes comments at tsharp@mndaily.com
up in your feed as fake or not. They are working with some newspapers (the big ones) to help them distribute news responsibly. But these steps are minimal and can be viewed as mostly public relations ploys. It is extremely dif ficult to monitor the real-time posts of more than 2 billion worldwide users, it would take an army of monitors, and Facebook has little incentive to do so. Until advertisers and users hold Facebook to a higher standard, fake news will continue to drown out real news. Facebook will continue to wallow in money and real journalism will continue to suffer. The people’s right to know what their government is doing is being diluted and diminished with the flood of Facebook “content.” Dominance and monopoly power of any business in a democracy would be seen as a problem. Facebook, it seems, sees it as a profit.
Thursday, April 27, 2017
EDITORIALS U funding is at an unacceptable low
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n Monday’s edition of the Minnesota Daily, reporter Ryan Faircloth explored the fact that funding for the University of Minnesota and Minnesota higher education at-large has not bounced back since the Great Recession of 2008, and in fact data shows that each subsequent recession has fur ther constricted funding for higher education in the state. Brian Burnett, the University of Minnesota’s senior vice president for finance and operations explained the situation to the Minnesota Daily: “You’re watching a change in who’s the primar y provider of funds for the education of the students at the University of Minnesota … And it’s changing from the state to the parents and students.” What’s more, University of Minnesota tuition has risen about 40 percent since 2007. And accor ding to data from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, state funding per student for all Minnesota higher education institutions has dropped 15 percent since the Great Recession (when adjusted for inflation). This shift is entirely unacceptable. Have students and their parents become more financially able to support the burden of higher education in recent years? No. Most incomes, and especially middle class incomes, haven’t risen even by the rate of inflation. (The median household income in the U.S. is still 8 percent lower than it was in 2008.) This simply cannot be allowed to continue at any rate, especially the dire one the current legislature has set, with Larr y Pogemiller, commissioner of the Minnesota Of fice of Higher Education, echoing these sentiments in the same Minnesota Daily repor t: “The House currently provides less than half and the Senate less than a third of the postsecondar y investment the governor deems appropriate and necessar y. If we don’t invest … close to the governor’s level, tuition will go up and quality will go down.” Tuition will certainly have to increase, but any such increase within the realm of reason may not be able to match the current funding shor tfalls for this school, for this community and for the students already in the process of getting their degree who may be attending a ver y dif ferent university than the one they applied to. University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler said that if the current level of funding becomes law, there will be program cuts. “We will not be able to sustain the totality of our efforts at the proposed funding levels,” he wrote in a recent statement on the matter. What is happening here? We have a budget surplus in this state of $1.65 billion, and we cannot meet the demands of higher education even to the point of keeping it at its current level of quality and affordability? That’s shameful. We urge the State Legislature to fully fund the University’s request. Anything less is an of fensive, ill-conceived af front to higher education in our home. If that doesn’t happen, we will seriously be jeopardizing the future of education in our state.
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I’ve been out on a couple of dates with this girl I met from the club, and e see e prett coo on t e first fe dates. But after a while, she always seemed to be “busy” whenever I tried to make plans, and she turned down a couple of advances toward physical interaction. I just don’t understand how she can go on dates with me and smile, laugh at e er t in sa ca e cute an confident, seem to have a great time but not want to further the relationship. I’ve even spotted her at the club once, and at the bar another time, after she turned down a date earlier that day. Both times I’ve pretended not to see her to ensure things don’t get awkward. I’m 99.9 percent sure she saw me as well. Thoughts on what is going on? Or just tell me the cold hard truth: “These girls ain’t loyal.”
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This woman does not want to date you. Why do you chase her? As someone who plays the field, I sympathize with the lady in question and think you should take a page from her playbook. Hate the playa, not the game. Most women are not shady. They like casual sex as much as men do, and you rue the fact that the girl you fell for has no intent of pursuing a committed relationship with you. Your intentions were mismatched, which was clear from the get-go, but you were too smitten with her to accept that. Have you considered that the club is a bad place to meet a potential girlfriend? Your crush rebuffs your advances because she thrives on the chaos and energy of nightlife. Since you crave something more substantial, get out of the club and into the real world. That’s where you’ll meet the kind of girl you seek.
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Nonresidents uneasy about tuition hike FALL SEMESTER DOMESTIC NONRESIDENT, NON-RECIPROCITY FRESHMAN APPLICATIONS AND ENROLLMENT SINCE 2012 AT UMN-TC Applications Enrollments
19,693 17,881
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16,128 12,990
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745 2013
743 2014
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UNDERGRADUATE NONRESIDENT, NON-RECIPROCITY TUITION OVER PAST FIVE YEARS $22,210 $20,660 $19,310 COURTNEY DEUTZ, DAILY
Kai Saito, a junior at the University, poses for a photo on Tuesday at Coffman Memorial Union. Saito is an out of state resident from Colorado.
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low out-of-state tuition was a key factor in her decision to leave her home in Colorado. Saito, also the external finance director for the Minnesota Inter national Student Association, said she wouldn’t have come to the school if she knew tuition would increase each year. “I didn’t expect it at this
scale, and I don’t think they understand when students come here … they don’t plan for such a large … tuition increase in their expenses,” she said. Without financial suppor t fr om her family, Saito had to work two jobs since her first year to pay for school. Now, she works thr ee jobs to help cover costs since last year’s tuition increase. Still, other nonr esident students say the tuition is manageable
despite increases. Enoch Kan, an international student from China studying statistics and biology, said he’s not too concerned about the tuition hikes. Tuition increased 7.5 percent for nonresident, non-reciprocity students last year, but the school gave waivers to hold the increase to 5.5 percent for enrolled students. Kan said while he hopes the nonresident increase won’t hit 10 percent this fall, he still thinks it’s
affordable for him and his family. University Regent Richard Beeson said he expects Pr esident Eric Kaler to propose a similar mitigated increase for continuing students this fall. Going for war d, Rep. Randy Jessup, R-Shoreview, said he hopes the University will be careful with nonresident tuition hikes so demand doesn’t suffer. “Just thinking of the supply and demand, hoping that the [University] does
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not go too quickly and too aggressively on their tuition hikes because we certainly don’t want to … impede outstate students from attending our University,” Jessup said. The University is likely raising its nonresident tuition faster than other conference schools,
McMaster said, but will reevaluate its approach if demand drops. “That’s why the strategy we’ve used so far is not to apply a dramatic increase,” McMaster said, “but to tr y to step-by-step increase it, see what the yield rate is, incr ease it again.”
University slated to drop Student services fee bill could in violation of U autonomy Uof M Secure network be Proposal
The school expects to complete a network revamp by January of 2018. BY SAMIR FERDOWSI sferdowsi@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota will soon drop its notoriously slow Wi-Fi network — UofM Secure. Starting this month and continuing through the end of the year, the University’s Office of Information Technology will bolster Wi-Fi ser vices across all five of the University’s campuses. Called the Next Generation Network Project, changes consist of eliminating UofM Secure and opening up more ser ver space to create faster inter net speeds through a Wi-Fi network called ‘eduroam.’ “We identified that the students wanted a change, and really it was time to update the system,” said Louis Hammond, University IT service owner. The University has been using eduroam in addition to UofM Secure since 2012. However, until this current project UofM Secure was the main Wi-Fi network available to students and
staff, Hammond said. Switching to eduroam full-time will help the school keep up with security and usability demands. It also won’t add any costs, Hammond said. Cur rently, there are more than four dif ferent Wi-Fi networks a student can join on campus. Interference between the networks causes decreased internet speeds or some networks to drop, Hammond said. By switching to an eduroam-focused internet service, students will be able to log on to networks across the countr y. With 530 colleges and universities using eduroam, Hammond said that it was time the University plugged into the trend. “We want our network to be a modern and cutting edge system for all University of Minnesota campuses that will connect students here and wherever else they may go,” Hammond said. “Whether a student is here, at Boston College or Ireland, there are eduroam networks available to use — and soon we will be a part of this network.” Schools like Har vard, Princeton and Nor th Dakota State have already
been using eduroam with an upgraded network for multiple years. “The biggest benefit of having this Wi-Fi is being able to just plug in wherever a student is in the countr y, really,” William Brown Jr., a technical support specialist at Princeton University’s IT department said. “Really, the only thing that is slightly different are security practices.” This trend to re-route ser vice to eduroam has been growing among colleges since about 2014, Brown said. Nor th Dakota State University was among the institutions that made the change that year. “Eduroam is Wi-Fi for students — it keeps ever ything standard for students ever ywhere. Plus it’s secure,” said NDSU Information Technology Ser vices student representative Kelvin Boatey The University of Minnesota network revamp is scheduled to be completed in January 2018, Hammond said. “We’re going be presented with a new interface and IT leaders from all U of M colleges are excited for the updates,” Hammond said.
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refuse enactment of certain policies requested by the Legislature. “The Minnesota Legislature would not be respecting the constitutional autonomy of the University if it said, ‘Do what you want,’ and then put a gun to its head,” said Larr y Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Gover nance at the University’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. He said the proposal, if enacted, may warrant a cour t battle if not vetoed by Gov. Mark Dayton, where he thinks the University would have a solid case. The measure, which has been opposed by students, is meant to help drive down the cost of higher education, especially for students who can’t afford to or aren’t interested in participating in campus activities funded by the fees, according to the bill’s author, Rep. Drew Christensen, R-Savage. Christensen, a recent University graduate, said he doesn’t think the bill violates the state constitution. “The constitution doesn’t say anything as far as how much money the Legislature has to allocate to the University of Minnesota,” he said. Dean Johnson, chair of the University’s Board of Regents, said he expects Dayton to veto the bill. If the proposal passes, Regent Darrin Rosha and Johnson said clashing with the state over autonomy issues may not be worth the political costs. “To challenge autonomy has to be used ver y judiciously and sparingly,” Johnson said. “You could
“The constitution doesn’t say anything as far as how much money the Legislature has to allocate to the University of Minnesota.” DREW CHRISTENSEN State representative
“The Minnesota Legislature would not be respecting the constitutional autonomy of the University if it said, ‘Do what you want,’ and then put a gun to its head.” LARRY JACOBS Center for the Study of Politics and Governance director
win the battle but lose the war.” The Legislature has a perception that the University is arrogant about its standing, said Ste phen Kelley, a Humphrey School of Public Af fairs researcher. Taking the state to court would likely inflate that perception, he said. But if students or a gover ning body like the Minnesota Student Association joined a lawsuit, the appearance of the case could change, Kelley said. In an emailed statement, the University’s Office of the General Counsel said the proposal raises constitutional concer ns but other wise declined to comment. Student fees help fund a wide range of student gr oups, media centers and activities on campus, including Boynton Health, The Aurora Center, Student Legal Ser vices and the Disc Golf Club, among others. The fee, which has increased ever y year since at least 2006, was $432.18 this school year. Whether the measure is included in a final higher education spending bill will be determined in the coming weeks as the House and Senate work out dif ferences between their proposals in conference committee sessions before sending a finalized bill to the governor.
Students raise concerns
On Sunday, almost 60 student government leaders from all University campuses urged legislators to reject the student ser vice fees provision in a letter to the Senate and House higher education committee chairs. “This is not a policy students have asked for, as it would result in the diminishment of the quality of our educational experience and jeopardize
critically needed student ser vices,” the letter read. Student leaders also said in the letter that the measure would create inequitable conditions where only students who can af ford to pay the fee can par ticipate in funded activities — resulting in limited programming that would make other schools more attractive. “I’m quite wor ried,” said Minnesota Student Association President Abeer Syedah. “I think what concer ns me the most is that this is a process that students have been ver y vigilant about … in some ways this takes some of [students’] autonomy away.” Professional Student Gover nment Pr esident Max Hall signed the letter and said legislators’ focus on student ser vice fees was misplaced. “I think there’s a broader conversations to have about the af fordability of college,” Hall said. Professional students have traditionally had concer ns over the fees, he said, but eliminating mandator y fees entirely isn’t a solution. Graduate students have always been concer ned about fees, said Council of Graduate Students President Nicholas Goldsmith, adding that he opposes the provision. “There are lots of things that it could have impacts on … it would decimate [things] that COGS care about, like the child care center and COGS itself,” he said. Danita Brown Young, vice provost for student af fairs and dean of students, said her of fice has not been planning for situations where the bill passes. “ We a r e d e f i n i t e l y aware of what the potential impact could be,” she said. “But we would have to come together as an institution to see what those plans would be, but right now we have not.”