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Delta Upsilon suspended by international offices due to violations The office was alerted of multiple sexual assaults by the fraternity’s members. BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota’s Delta Upsilon fraternity chapter was suspended Friday after a member aler ted international representatives about multiple sexual assaults committed by members in the last two years. Delta Upsilon’s international offices notified the University’s 31-member chapter by email Friday of the temporar y suspension for “serious violations of the Frater nity’s ideals and principles.” The email didn’t specify the nature of the violations. The chapter was ordered to cease all operations until an investigation is completed, according to the email. Frater nity of ficials wer e made aware of issues at least 10 months ago sur rounding sexual assaults committed by chapter members, when Maria, a University junior studying math who repor ted her assault by a Delta Upsilon member to the University in 2016, emailed Kelsey Morrissey, the fraternity’s international chapter development director, to ask for the revocation of her perpetrator’s membership. Maria asked to only be identified by her first name for privacy concerns. Kayla Pederson, who graduated from the University in December and reported two assaults by members of Delta Upsilon to the University, emailed Morrissey in June to address concerns over her perpetrators’ membership. In August, Morrissey replied, stating both offenders would be expelled from the fraternity. The chapter’s status was left untouched until a member told international of ficials that the Minnesota Daily had learned of u See SUSPENSION Page 12
Utility worker Jeff Berry sorts plastic, aluminum and tin at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Friday, Feb. 3.
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U recycling looks for renewal Once a leader in collegiate recycling, the U’s program asks for new support. BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com
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Russ Pert unloads a container of cardboard into his truck at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Friday, Feb. 3.
achines roar as studentworkers sift through paper on a conveyer belt, pulling out misfit items like PopTarts boxes and broken cellphone chargers. Across the warehouse, classic rock blares from a secondhand stereo. From boxes of professors’ discarded VHS tapes to a stainless steel hot tub tossed by the Athletics Department, the University of Minnesota’s unwanted junk fills the school’s Como Recycling Facility. “You just never really know what’s coming out here,” said Nick Kluge, operations supervisor. At the facility, workers have one main goal: preventing as much material as possible from going to waste. Since the University launched its recycling program in 1984, its recycling rate has grown from zero to 42 percent. In its first decade, college recycling directors from
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around the country looked to the University as an example of waste management success. But as the University’s campus has expanded — and as recycling needs have ballooned as a result — funding for the center has remained stagnant, leaving a limited staff and aging machinery to handle an average of more than 8,600 tons of waste each year since 2006. Now, after years of battling rounds of doubtful administrators who’ve considered cutting or relocating the program, the center may receive approval for its first upgrade in two decades by the end of the year. “We were a top-notch program then. We’re an okay program now,” said recycling super visor Dana Donatucci, who started in his role in 1988. “We’re good. But what I’m trying to say is, we’re not getting the support that we really need to make this program go gangbusters. We can do a lot more.” u See RECYCLING Page 6
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Student leaders Pillsbury may close without funding Uptick in antidecry legislators’ Without state funding, Pillsbury Hall’s renovation will stall, officials say. Semitic cases regent finalists continue at the University
At the U, student leaders say their input was ignored and raised diversity concerns.
One student was arrested by UMPD for vandalism; several anti-Semitic posters surfaced.
BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com
Student leaders say that their input on Board of Regents candidates has been ignored by legislators. As the field of candidates has been narrowed to four finalists — four white men and all current or former regents — student leaders have expressed concern that their input on candidates has been ignored, leading to worries about an increased gender imbalance and lack of diversity on the board. Earlier this month, about 30 student leaders from four of the University of Minnesota campuses sent their rankings of the candidates to the chairs of the Senate and House higher education committees. “We wanted to reach out to our representatives to make sure that they knew not only the candidates [we wanted] … but the values we hope to see in the board,” said Trish Palermo, Student Senate Consultative Committee chair candidate. “However the recommendations came out … and the values were definitely not taken into u See FINALISTS Page 3
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lish depar tment, which cur rently shares space in Lind Hall. But if funding isn’t given this session, the hall may close in definitely later this year. Pillsbur y Hall will be completely empty when the University’s ear th sciences depar tment moves into the newly-revamped Tate Laborator y of Physics this fall, said Mike Berthelsen, interim vice president for
The University of Minnesota continues to see an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. With the discover y of swastika-covered fliers advertising a neo-Nazi website Friday and the arrest of a student for allegedly committing vandalism using a swastika, the University has documented at least eight incidents involving swastikas, neo-Nazi propaganda and other anti-Semitic graffiti since December, according to the school’s Bias Response and Referral Network. “We are profoundly disturbed by a series of ugly and frightening antiSemitic incidents that have occurred over the past two months. Some of these incidents have been publicized, but there have also been other less visible, but equally painful, incidents threatening members of our Jewish community,” University President Eric Kaler, Provost Karen Hanson and Vice
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Pillsbury Hall as seen on Sept. 16, 2015. The building, which is the second oldest building on campus, is in need of renovations. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com
Without state funding, Pillsbur y Hall — a historic University of Minnesota building — is in danger of being shuttered. University of ficials ar e asking the state for roughly $23 million to renovate Pillsbur y Hall, the second-oldest building on campus. Once r enovated, the building would house the school’s Eng-
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STATE REPORT MINNESOTA ZOO SEES BOOST IN VISITS FROM LOW-INCOME FAMILIES APPLE VALLEY — A new pr ogram allowing people to visit the Minnesota Zoo for free by showing proof that they receive public assistance cards was a hit during its first year, bringing in 63 percent more lowincome visitors in 2016 than in the previous year. The Free to Explore Program ushered in nearly 65,700 people on limited incomes last year, compared with about 40,000 people who attended through an access program in 2015, the Star Tribune reported. “I think one of the things that was most exciting to me is that it changed really the face of our visitorship,” said Claire Ross, the Minnesota Zoo’s access programs coordinator. “On a daily basis, when you’d look out the window, you’d see a different demographic at the zoo than you used to.” Minnesota law has required since 1995 that at least one in 10 zoo visitors be “economically disadvantaged” and admitted for free rather than paying the $12 admission price for kids and seniors or the $18 for adults. For two decades, the zoo gave out free admission vouchers to Head Start programs, job centers and community-based nonprofits so they could give them to clients. Ross said just a quarter of the 120,000 passes were used each year. There also wasn’t any way to control who actually received the coupons. The new effort admits people for free if they prove they receive public assistance by showing an Electronic Benefit Transfer card, a Head Start acceptance letter, a Minnesota Health Care Programs card, or documentation from the Women, Infants and Children program. They also need identification and proof of state residency. “What’s unique about the zoo access program is that people don’t need to go through an additional hoop,” said Catherine Fair, senior director of Community Action Partnership of Ramsey and Washington Counties. “This gives our low-income families ... learning experiences with their families outside the classroom, (which) are so invaluable.” ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Israeli leader spurned secret peace offer, ex-officials say BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JERUSALEM — Israel’s prime minister tur ned down a regional peace initiative last year that was brokered by thenAmerican Secr etar y of State John Kerr y, former U.S. of ficials confirmed Sunday, in apparent contradiction to his stated goal of involving regional Arab powers in resolving Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians. Netanyahu took part in a secret summit that Kerr y organized in the southern Jordanian por t city of Aqaba last Febr uar y and included Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian
Car bomb kills 34 in Mogadishu market, Somalia BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s new president visited victims wounded by the Mogadishu car bomb that on Sunday killed 34. President Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed of fered a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of those who planned the blast. The explosion hit a busy marketplace in the western part of the capital, said police Capt. Mohamed Hussein. “It was a horrific and barbaric attack only aimed at killings civilians,” he said from the scene of the blast. Sabriye Abdullahi, an ambulance driver told The Associated Press that some of the injured victims died on their way to the hospitals. “Many of them suffered extensive third degree burns and others were burned beyond recognition,” he said. The blast from a car parked near a restaurant went off when shoppers and traders were gathered inside the market, said district commissioner Ahmed Abdulle. Mohamed Haji, a butcher who suf fered shrapnel wounds, pointed to a clothes shop devastated by the blast. “Someone had parked the car here and left before it was detonated,” he said. Pieces of wood and metal sheets on the ground were all that remained of the shop. Women sobbed and screamed outside the market as rescue workers moved bloodied bodies and wounded victims into ambulances. “It’s a painful carnage.” said Ali Mire, a government soldier who was helping a friend with shrapnel wounds The power ful explosion was the first major attack since Somalia’s new president was elected on Feb.8. Although no group has yet claimed responsibility, it bears the hallmarks of Somalia’s Islamic extremists rebels, alShabab. In addition to visiting the wounded in hospital, President Mohamed condemned the blast in a tweet, saying that it shows the “cruelty” of al-Shabab.
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President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi. The secret meeting was first repor ted by the Haaretz daily. According to two former Obama administration of ficials, Kerr y proposed regional recognition of Israel as a Jewish state — a key Netanyahu demand — alongside a renewal of peace talks with the Palestinians with the support of the Arab countries. Netanyahu rejected the of fer, which would have required a significant pullout from occupied land, saying he would not be able to garner enough suppor t for it in his hard-line coalition government. The initiative also
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appeared to be the basis of short-lived talks with moderate opposition leader Isaac Herzog to join the gover nment, a plan that quickly unraveled when Netanyahu chose to bring in nationalist leader Avigdor Lieberman instead and appoint him defense minister. Herzog tweeted Sunday that “histor y will definitely judge the magnitude of the oppor tunity as well as the magnitude of the missed opportunity.” Two former top aides to Ker r y confirmed that the meeting took place secretly on Feb. 21, 2016. According to the of ficials, Kerr y tried to sweeten the
15-year-old “Arab Peace Initiative,” a Saudi-led plan that of fered Israel peace with dozens of Arab and Muslim nations in return for a pullout from territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war to make way for an independent Palestine. Among the proposed changes were Arab recognition of Israel as the Jewish state, recognition of Jer usalem as a shared capital for Israelis and Palestinians, and softened language on the “right of retur n” of Palestinian refugees to lost proper ties in what is now Israel, the former officials said.
Malaysia looks for 4 North Korean suspects BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Investigators are looking for four North Korean men who flew out of Malaysia the same day Kim Jong Nam, the Nor th Korean ruler’s outcast half brother, apparently was poisoned at an airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysian police said Sunday. Since Kim’s death last week, authorities have been tr ying to piece together details of what appeared to be an assassination. Malaysian police have so far arrested four people carr ying IDs from Nor th Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia and Vietnam. Malaysia’s deputy national police chief, Noor Rashid Ibrahim, said four other North Korean suspects were on the run. The men arrived in Malaysia on different days beginning Jan. 31 and flew out of the countr y last Monday, when Kim died, Noor Rashid said. “I am not going disclose where they are,” he told a room packed with journalists, adding that Interpol was helping with the investigation. Noor Rashid showed photographs of the four men, who were traveling on regular — not diplomatic — passports and are ages 33, 34, 55 and 57. He also said there were three other people police wanted to question. He said that one was North Korean, but that police had not yet identified the other two. It wasn’t clear if they were suspects or simply wanted for questioning. A rotund man in his mid-40s, Kim Jong Nam was waiting for his flight home to Macau when, authorities say, he was set upon by two women. He sought help at an airport customer ser vice desk and said “two unidentified women had swabbed or had wiped his face with a liquid and that he felt dizzy,” Noor Rashid said. Kim died en route to a hospital after suf fering a seizure, officials say. Noor Rashid said Sunday that he expected autopsy results to be released within days. “We have to send a sample to the chemistr y department, we have to send a sample for toxicology tests,” he said.
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U student leaders decry legislators’ regent picks Finalists u from Page 1
consideration.” Legislators will elect four new board members Wednesday. The board cur rently has eight men and four women but will lose one when Laura Brod vacates her seat after the election. It has two nonwhite members. Out of the 13 candidates sent by the Regent Candidate Advisor y Council, which screens and recommends a pool of candidates to the legislative committee, two were female and none were people of color. Out of the top ranked candidates in the letter, cur rent board vice-chair David McMillan and cur rent regent Thomas Devine were for warded by a joint legislative committee. In the third congressional district seat, the committee voted to nominate current regent Darrin Rosha — the student leaders’ lowest ranked option for that seat. Rep. Bud Nor nes, RFergus Falls, chair of the House Higher Education Committee, said their options for making the Board more diverse were limited because of the selection the RCAC for warded to them. Nornes said the committee considers factors like candidates’ likability, leadership skills and previous
“The overriding issue is the [Republican] majority will do what they’re going to do ... they’re going to vote in who they want.” GENE PELOWSKI State Representative
experience. Student input is appreciated, he said, but doesn’t play a big role in the decision. “I’m tr ying to recall the letter off the top of my head,” he said. “It didn’t have any direct bearing on the final selection.” Nor nes said he tries to focus on the best candidates overall, rather than prioritizing a diverse board. “Those quotas to me are just something that I don’t worry about. I should maybe, but I don’t,” he said. While Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-W inona, said he hadn’t read the letter before the Feb. 7 vote, he shares the same diversity concerns as students. “The overriding issue is the [Republican] majority will do what they’re going to do … they’re going to vote in who they want,” Pelowski said.
RCAC concerns Some said the RCAC may need to improve its pr ocesses to factor in student input and enable the board to be more diverse. Minnesota Student Association president and RCAC member Abeer Syedah said the board was not focused on representation. “I don’t believe the RCAC, as a whole, was hyper-concerned with the issue of equitable representation,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it’s race and gender blind . . . but we weren’t looking at any boxes about the persons’ racial or gender identity at all.” She said the makeup of the RCAC itself was problematic but can’t be singled out as the sole problem. “It’s not like the RCAC was the problem, or the applicant pool, or the Legislature. They all collectively came together,” Syedah said. She did not par ticipate
in the post-inter view voting process because she was studying abroad. RCAC member Ter ri Bonof f said this damaged the student input in the process. “Ever yone has an equal vote, and so that she was not there really hur t your students,” she said. “I was really disappointed.” Syedah said that she tried to find a way to vote remotely, but that it wasn’t an option. RCAC chair Ardell Brede said a lack of diverse applicants contributed to the candidate pool. He said the committee needs to improve its recruiting efforts. “We’ve got to make sure they understand that door is open for them, the same as anybody else,” Brede said.
Student concerns Students say that the gender imbalance and lack of diversity on the board influences its decisions. Callie Livengood, who ser ved as student chair to the board last school year, said its decision to delay approving the school’s af firmative consent policy in July 2015 is an example of the board’s makeup impacting its actions. “Whenever I brought up issues like sexual assault, [female regents] are one of the first ones to believe you because they have similar experiences to yours,” she said. “As much as [the regents] tr y not to, their backgrounds do influence the way they act.” Livengood said the committee’s decision to move the four candidates for ward was disappointing. “It’s upsetting that we’re recommending four typically white men who don’t represent … students at this university,” she said.
Mattis to decide soon on troop levels BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said he plans to make some decisions soon on whether to recommend an increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan and whether the totals should be based on militar y requirements rather than pre-set limits. Mattis told repor ters traveling with him that he spoke for several hours by video conference on Sunday with U.S. Gen. John Nicholson, the top American commander there. Mattis said he will collect his thoughts and then send recommendations to the White House where, he said, President Donald Trump is open to his advice. Earlier this month, Nicholson told the Senate
Armed Services Committee that he needs a few thousand more troops to train and advise Afghan forces. At the time, Nicholson didn’t provide an exact number, but argued for greater flexibility in setting U.S. troop commitments in Afghanistan, where the war is entering its 16th year. Defense and military leaders would prefer a troop level based on military requirements, rather than on a specific, predetermined number. “The president has been rightfully reticent on it because he’s waiting for my assessment and the assessment from the intelligence community,” Mattis said during a press conference. “It shouldn’t take too long. I’ve got to integrate a fair number of issues to give a good recommendation for the way ahead.”
The Pentagon chief was scheduled to fly into Afghanistan to meet with commanders and leaders on Sunday, but he said bad weather prevented the trip. He said the call with Nicholson and a meeting Saturday in Munich with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani were part of his effort to get the latest information on the situation both politically and strategically. During the hearing, Nicholson told senators that the additional troops could come from the United States or other nations in the U.S.-led coalition. He noted that when then-President Barack Obama ordered a cut in U.S. troops to 8,400 last year, commanders were forced to hire contractors to do jobs that American forces would normally do.
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Immigration help clinics begin in Mpls Organizers are planning to continue help clinics into March. BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com
Immigration lawyers and volunteers set up a clinic to help Cedar-Riverside residents traverse the now uncertain status of immigrants and refugees in the U.S. But the clinic on Wednesday at the Brian Coyle Center only saw a few takers, something the organizers attribute to poor planning rather than a lack of interest. Amano Dube, director of Brian Coyle, said the clinics, which will continue weekly for the next five weeks, are intended to answer questions residents have about President Donald Trump’s travel ban and the subsequent court order preventing its enforcement. The clinics began a week after the U.S. Ninth Circuit Cour t denied to reinstate the ban after the Trump administration’s appeal.
“Hopefully I will be able to be back to the country I call home” MOHAMED IBRAHIM Univesity global studies student
“Being an immigrant … it’s important to support other immigrants.” MERON AYELE University global studies student
Still, Dube said residents of the Cedar-Riverside community are worried because many travel to Somalia for business or to visit family. Dube said most confusion surounds delayed family reunions and how the ban affects those who are green card holders. “Things are changing so quickly … there’s great confusion and frustration,” Dube said. To ease the confusion, the clinic had two lawyers from Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid and the Immigrant Law Center who were offering pro bono ser vice and advice. Greger Calhan, a lawyer with Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, said they expected more people to show up, but the clinic was only finalized a few days prior. University of Minnesota global studies students Mohamed Ibrahim and Meron Ayele also provided help at Wednesday’s clinic. Ibrahim — who is from
Somalia and has family in Cedar-Riverside — said he’s interning with the Immigrant Law Center to help translate for the clinic’s lawyers. Ibrahim said he will be travelling to Somalia over the summer and worries he might not be allowed back in the U.S., despite being a citizen. “Hopefully I will be able to be back to the country I call home,” he said. Ayele said she’s helping with the clinic because she believes it’s impor tant to empathize with immigrants who are having difficulty trying to acclimate to their new home. “Being an immigrant … it’s impor tant to suppor t other immigrants,” Ayele said, adding that immigrants build communities that are an integral part of the city. Dube said the center will do more to promote the clinics in the coming week.
Hunters charged in remote Texas shooting had blamed immigrants BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PRESIDIO, Texas — T wo hunters accused in a shooting on a remote Texas ranch near the Mexican border had told authorities that they were attacked by immigrants who had entered the countr y illegally. Presidio County Sherif f Danny Dominguez told Odessa television KOSA (http://bit.ly/2llzxzr ) that a grand jur y indicted Michael Br yant and Walker Daugherty last week on charges of using deadly conduct by discharging firearms in the direction of others. The charges stem from a Jan. 6 incident where police responding to call about a shooting on a
ranch near Candelaria found Daugher ty and another man in the hunting party, Edwin Roberts, with gunshot wounds. The men were par t of a group of hunters and told authorities they were attacked by people who had illegally crossed the nearby border and tried to steal an RV some of the hunters were using. An investigation found that Daugher ty shot Rober ts and Br yant shot Daugher ty, Dominguez said. The hunters’ claim became fodder for a Facebook post by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who wrote the attack was another reason why a wall must be built to secure the Texas border to
halt “violent criminals and members of dr ug car tels coming in.” Dominguez at the time suggested the agriculture commissioner “needs to do his job and stick to that, and I’ll do my job.” Miller has attracted attention for his social media posts, and his comments about the We s t T e x a s s h o o t i n g were shared more than 6,500 times before being deleted. Authorities say about 30 law enforcement of ficers searched the perimeter of the ranch where the hunters were staying, didn’t find signs of people approaching the camp that night and that investigators found no evidence of “cross-border violence.”
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Big comeback powers Gophers sweep
Minnesota trailed 2-0 late on Saturday, but fought back to win 4-3 in overtime. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
Late-game heroics from captain Justin Kloos and forward Rem Pitlick led the Gophers to two victories over the weekend. No. 5 Minnesota (20-8-2, 11-3-0 Big Ten) swept No. 9 Penn State (18-8-2, 7-6-1 Big Ten) with late goals from captain Justin Kloos and forward Rem Pitlick to win 6-3 Friday and a thrilling 4-3 overtime win Saturday. The Gophers were down 3-2 Saturday with less than two minutes left following a successful penalty shot goal by Penn State. Kloos provided the goal off of the faceoff to send the game to overtime with only 3.5 seconds left in regulation. “That was the plan,” Kloos told repor ters on Saturday. “Have a couple of guys go to the net, but it all starts with [Taylor Cammarata] doing a good job on the faceoff.” Minnesota had the momentum on its side and kept it through the end of the game with Pitlick scoring the game winner for the Gophers. Despite being outscored 2-0 through the first two periods, Minnesota outscored the Nittany Lions 3-1 in the final period of regulation. “We needed the first one,” head coach Don Lucia told the media on Saturday. “And then the momentum would swing back our way, and I think that happened.” The first-tying goal to knot up the game 2-2 was scored by for ward Tyler
Gophers forward Justin Kloos controls the puck while playing against Michigan at Mariucci Arena on Feb. 26, 2016.
Sheehy — 18th goal of the season — solidifying his point lead on the team and in the Big Ten. Goaltender Eric Schierhorn looked strong in net for the Gophers Saturday, stopping 42 of the 45 shots he saw — his highest save total of the season. Forward Joey Marooney made a quick exit from the game after being in the lineup for the first time since February 3rd. Marooney committed a five-minute boarding major and a game misconduct
penalty, ending his night. Like Saturday, Friday’s game saw another Minnesota for ward, Brent Gates Jr., ejected with a five-minute major penalty and a game misconduct. Despite Penn State scoring during the power play, Minnesota pulled out another comeback, winning 6-3. “It’s never a bad idea to get pucks on the net,” Pitlick told the media on Friday. “That’s really been a focus for me and my game.” Pitlick recorded his first collegiate hat-trick Friday,
bringing his season goal total to nine. “[Pitlick has] such great skills and speed,” Lucia told the media Friday. “We’ve seen him score a few goals like that, he’s even with the [defenseman] and then he’s gone. He’s like the roadr unner out there sometimes.” Though Pitlick scored the hat trick, it was the captain who provided the heroics and game-winning goal. “ We w e r e n ’ t t o o wor ried,” Kloos told the media on Friday. “We felt
pretty confident in our game, obviously some adversity in the first with losing a guy … after that, I think we played pretty confident and pretty strong the rest of the game.” Kloos’ goal also came on Minnesota’s lethal power play, which is ranked No. 4 in the nation. One skater who played well without the puck was for ward Darian Romanko. He was integral to the Gophers’ penalty kill success and was instr umental in creating of fensive
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chances on the forecheck. Schierhorn had an impressive game as well, stopping 40 of 43 shots — his second highest save total of the season.
SOFTBALL
Minnesota wins four more for 9-0 program-best start The Gophers have beaten their first five opponents by a total score of 62-19. BY KYLE STEINBERG ksteinberg@mndaily.com
The beginning of the season is typically a time to shake of f the r ust and lear n what type of team you have, but don’t tell a Minnesota softball team that. The No. 14 Gophers won all four games of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge this weekend in Raleigh, Nor th Carolina to extend their season-opening win streak to nine games — a program record. “It was a great weekend of softball,” said head coach Jessica Allister. “I thought as a team we played well … I’m impressed that different par ts of our game were firing at dif ferent times.” Senior pitcher Sara Groenewegen star ted the weekend of f strong for Minnesota and struck out eight of the first nine batters she faced Friday night against Notre Dame. She threw the full seven innings and finished with 15 strikeouts, giving up just three hits to help the Gophers to a 4-1 victor y. Saturday morning br ought on a r ematch
with the Fighting Irish, and this one proved to be tougher, with the Gophers falling behind by two runs early. They clawed their way back in the bottom of the four th, however, thanks to a solo homer un from freshman Kendyl Lindaman and a sacrifice fly from Groenewegen that tied the game. The scor e r emained deadlocked until the bottom of the eighth, when j u n i o r D a n i Wa g n e r punched a single to the outfield to drive home Ellie Cowger, and the Gophers notched their second walk-of f in as many weekends. “I guess I was just seeing the ball well at the plate,” Wagner said. “Just staying on time and working through my at-bats … they ended up in my favor.” Saturday’s second contest pitted the Gophers against an overmatched North Carolina State team. Minnesota scored runs early and often — eight in the first frame alone — and took a commanding lead. Wagner added her first career home run. Senior Sam Macken found her groove at the plate, going 3-4 with five RBI. Macken is settling into a new position this spring, and is star ting to find her way back in the box again. “It’s just … hard to hit,” said Allister. “You have
“It was a great weekend of softball. ... I thought as a team we played well … I’m impressed that different parts of our game were firing at different times.” SAM HARPER, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Sydney Dwyer edges off third base during the Gophers’ home opener double-header against Illinois at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on April 9, 2016.
JESSICA ALLISTER Head coach
SOFTBALL RESULTS
FRIDAY Runs 1 Notre Dame No. 13 Minnesota 4 SATURDAY Runs 2 Notre Dame No. 13 Minnesota 3
Hits Errors SCORE 3 1 1 10 1 4 Hits Errors SCORE 5 2 2 8 0 3
North Carolina State 0 No. 13 Minnesota 11
4 12
0 1
0 11
Runs Hits Errors SCORE SUNDAY North Carolina State 1 3 0 1 No. 13 Minnesota 7 8 0 7
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
to be stubbornly positive [about hitting], and Sam’s done that.” Minnesota looked to take down the Wolfpack for a second consecutive game on Sunday to bookend a 9-0 start. After a scoreless top of the first, the Gophers of fense again opened the floodgates and scored four runs in the bottom of the inning. T h e Wo l f p a c k w e n t scoreless over the next three innings and the Gophers struck again in the four th when pinch-hitter Taylor Chell hit a two-run homerun, which extended the Minnesota lead to 6-0. Wagner added a solo shot in the sixth to cap the Gophers at seven runs on the day. Groenewegen once again got the star t in the circle and held North Carolina State to just one hit over her five innings. Freshman Carlie Brandt came on in relief and gave up just one r un in two innings to solidify a 7-1 victor y for the Gophers. While 9-0 is a record star t for Minnesota, Allister isn’t letting the histor y get the team ahead of itself. “All it means is it’s over, and we have to move forward,” she said.
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SWIM & DIVE
Minnesota takes fourth at Big Tens Yu Zhou was named Big Ten Diver of the Year for the third season straight. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
The women’s swimming and diving team will go into their next meets with momentum. No. 20 Minnesota finished in fourth place in the Big Ten Championships on Feb. 18 with the NCAA Championships on the schedule for. “If you told me we would swim and dive like that I would have thought
SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS
WOMEN’S Minnesota Wisconsin Indiana Michigan
1086 1101.5 1125 1287
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
we would challenge for the title,” head coach Kelly Kremer told the media. “The fact that we were in a tight battle and ended up in four th speaks to the quality of this conference.” Senior Yu Zhou earned her third straight Big Ten Diver of the Championships award in her final conference championships. Zhou will attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championships at the Zone diving meet on March 6. “Yu Zhou and the rest of our divers are unreal,” Kremer told reporters. “I’m proud we have a true swimming and diving team.” Freshman Tevyn Waddell impressed in her first Big Ten Championships, picking up Big Ten F r e s h m a n o f t h e Ye a r
“If you told me we would swim and dive like that I would have thought we would challenge for the title. ... The fact that we were in a tight battle and ended up in fourth speaks to the quality of this conference.” COURTNEY DEUTZ, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Yu Zhou competes in women’s 3 meter diving at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center on Saturday, Feb. 4 in Minneapolis.
KELLY KREMER Head coach
“Yu Zhou and the rest of our divers are unreal.” KELLY KREMER Head coach
award for her perf o r m a n c e . Wa d d e l l claimed first place in the 200-medley relay and backstroke. She also ear ned second place in the 400-medley relay and third in the 800-free relay. The Gophers also had five swimmers and divers named All-Big Ten First Team. Sophomore Zoe Avestruz, freshman Lindsey Horejsi, junior Danielle Nack, Zhou and Waddell earned the honor. The Gophers ear ned third place in the conference championships last year. Minnesota moves on the NCAA Zone Diving and then the NCAA Championships. The team’s 400-relay group qualified for the NCAA championships. “This quar tet of swimmers was awesome this week,” Kremer told the media. “The next stop is NCAAs.”
GYMNASTICS
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Minnesota falls to Denver on the road
Gophers tie Badgers twice at home
The women went to Colorado while some men’s athletes competed in Vegas. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
The second-highest score of the season from the Gophers wasn’t enough for a win on Saturday. Minnesota fell 197.150196.075 on the road to No. 11 Denver on Feb. 18. “We went in with the goal to hit 24-of-24 routines and we did that,” said head coach Jenny Hansen. “I was really proud of the team. That was the first time we had done that all year long.” Minnesota’s best event of the night was the uneven bars. The Gophers posted a 49.050 on the bars, but the team still fell to Denver 49.150-49.050 in the event. Senior Bailie Holst tied for first place on the uneven bars. She was first among Gophers gymnasts in that event. “She showed why she’s last up for us there,” Hansen said. “She did a really nice job and it was a great routine. Denver’s Julia Ross was the only gymnast to best Holst in all-around competition. Ross tallied a 39.475 to Holst’s 39.350.
GYMNASTICS RESULTS
TEAMS No. 11 Denver Minnesota
SCORE 196.075 197.150
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Holst also earned fifth place in the vault. Senior Baily Abernathy finished first among Minnesota gymnasts with a 9.850 and a second-place finish. Abernathy was also first among Minnesota gymnasts in the floor, placing in a tie for third place with a 9.850. The Pioneers bested the Gophers in the vault, bars and floor routines. Junior Abby DeMuse suffered an injury with two events remaining. Sophomore Rachel Cutler filled in for DeMuse on the last two events after not being in the meet until then. Cutler tallied a 9.700 in the bars and a 9.775 in the floor. Stillwater, Minnesota native Maddie Karr earned a perfect score on the vault for the Pioneers. Minnesota scored 48.125 in the beam last meet against the Cornhuskers. The Gophers earned 48.975 on Saturday, and beat Denver in the beam. “[The beam] was definitely better,” Hansen said. “We stayed on, which is huge.”
ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Rachel Culter competes on the balance beam during a meet at the Sports Pavilion on Feb. 11.
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Nicole Schammel goes after the puck during the Gophers’ game against Wisconsin at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis on Saturday, Feb. 18.
Minnesota and Wisconsin only allowed one goal each in the series. In an always-fierce border battle between the No. 1 Badgers and No. 4 Gophers, it was all about goaltending over the weekend. Minnesota split with rival Wisconsin this weekend. The teams tied twice and went to two shootouts. The Gophers lost the first on Saturday but won the battle on Sunday. “Two great teams,” said head coach Brad Frost. “Both goaltenders were tremendous, ours in particular with another great outing against Wisconsin.” While Wisconsin (27-24, 22-2-4-3 WCHA) already secured the WCHA regular season championship, Minnesota (23-5-5, 19-4-53 WCHA) was playing for pride and momentum over the weekend and going into the WCHA Tournament
next weekend. Sunday night was all Peters. She had a career-best game with 38 saves, not allowing any goals in regulation. Peters even one-upped herself as the game headed to a shootout, making three acrobatic saves to ensure Minnesota won the extra point. “There aren’t many feelings better than beating W isconsin,” Peters said. “Ever y year, they’re one of our biggest rivals, and even though tonight wasn’t about the points… It was all about pride.” Senior captain Lee Stecklein scored the final shootout goal for Minnesota and slid a shot past Wisconsin’s senior goaltending standout, Ann-Renee Desbiens, who had 35 saves on the night. Meanwhile, redshirt junior Peters is getting hot at the right time with the playoffs set to begin. “She was a wall,”
Stecklein said of Peters. “She just played rock solid. I don’t know enough goalie terms to say what she did well, but ever ything was just on point.” Peters showed some of her best stuf f in the first game as well and made 30 saves on the night. The Gophers held it together against Wisconsin on Saturday. The score was 1-1 after regulation. Minnesota got its lone goal of the weekend from for ward Nicole Schammel who was assisted by junior for ward Kelly Pannek — her 40th assist of the season and an NCAA-best mark. After over time, Minnesota was unable to come out on top, and Wisconsin took the extra point. Minnesota has now been undefeated in regulation since its Januar y 14 match against MinnesotaDuluth. The Gophers hope to use the weekend’s success to roll into the WCHA
“Every year, they’re one of our biggest rivals, and even though tonight wasn’t about the points . . . It was all about pride.” SYDNEY PETERS Goalie
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
SATURDAY Wisconsin Minnesota
SUNDAY Wisconsin Minnesota
1 2 3 OT FINAL 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 OT FINAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Tournament and eventually the NCAA Tournament. “It’s incredible we have another quick turnaround this weekend, so we have to stay healthy, and not get complacent,” Peters said.
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Russ Pert pushes a cardboard container to his truck for loading at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Feb. 3.
University recycling center sets sights on renewal Recycling u from Page 1
The business of trash Drivers hit the roads at 5 a.m. to collect recycling and trash across the University’s campus. Sorters arrive at the center two hours later. “We take equipment, and we make it work in this facility. It’s been described as tr ying to make a silk purse from a sow’s ear,” Donatucci said. Drivers drop trash off at the Hennepin County Energy Recover y Center, where it’s bur ned for energy. Then, material from the school’s 15,000 recycling bins makes its way to the University’s facility, where it is manually sorted. Bales of recycled goods are sold to about 20 regular buyers — such as paper mills — that continue the recycling process. The University’s Facilities Management budgets around $2 million for the center annually, about $480,000 of which the facility and the ReUse Program earn through sales. But the recycling program pays the Hennepin County Energy Recover y Center $75 to dispose of each ton of material — a cost totaling around $386,000 each year. If the center can find a way to reduce the amount of trash it sends to HERC, it could use some of the funds to replace machines or subsidize other operational costs, said John Sundsmo, waste recover y ser vices manager. “We’re operating today with the same number of full-time employees that we’ve had for the last 20 years, even though the University has expanded greatly,” Sundsmo said. “The reason we’ve been able to do that is because we’ve been doing these little efficiency gains.” In an ef for t to save money, the program star ted collecting organics in 2007 fr om dining halls, saving the center about $60 per ton in disposal fees. Donatucci and his crew are now working on adding organics bins campus-wide. Managers also constantly search for ways to improve their own workflow. They’ve added compactors outside buildings to reduce the number of times drivers need to pick up the material, for example. And because value goes up based on how precisely materials are sor ted, managers hope to add a full-time staf fer who can ensure that all scrap metals in
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“We’re operating today with the same number of full-time employees that we’ve had for the last 20 years, even though the University has expanded greatly.” ” JOHN SUNDSMO
Waste recovery services manager
the construction debris yard get divided up as cleanly as possible to maximize revenue.
‘A support role’ Managers and staf f have mastered working around inef ficient machiner y, missing tools and a volatile price
Common recyclables by the ton, 2015 fiscal year
53.2 Cardboard
Office Paper
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Dan Krieger carries a container up stairs at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Feb. 3.
Newspaper
81.1 18.3 Aluminum Cans
Glass
SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING
market in order to meet the facility’s daily demands. Depreciation on cardboard or glass values can mean thousands of dollars lost in sales. The center will hang on to materials for months, waiting for prices to rise, Kluge said. “We stored plastic bottles for two years here when they weren’t worth anything,” he said. “We were almost at the crunch point where we didn’t know what to do with it because of our limited space.” Federal regulation changes and corporate decisions can also cause setbacks. Since the center can’t af ford a shredder, University departments have stopped sending the facility legally protected documents, opting to pay an outside contractor to handle safe destruction. As a result, the recycling center has lost about $90,000 in potential revenue, Donatucci said. In 2007, Donatucci presented a proposal that would enable the facility to collect and shred the documents, which was later rejected. Interim Associate Vice President of Facilities Management Bill Paulus, who was par t of the discussion at the time as director of Central Ser vices, said administrators decided against the plan for financial and security reasons. Additionally, the shredder would create dust, which was a health concern, he said. “I’m not convinced that there is a huge savings by the time you get ever ything considered,” Paulus said, adding that administrators didn’t conduct an exact comparison of costs. After Coca-Cola Company signed a contract with the University in 1996, the influx of plastic pop bottles forced the recycling facility’s workers to use the same baling machine for both plastic and paper, slowing down the process.
Recycling, by the numbers 15,000 RECYCLING BINS
14,000
AVERAGE POP BOTTLES IN A BALE
$480,000
MONEY THROUGH SALE
8,617 tons
AMOUNT OF TRASH AND RECYCLING GENERATED BY THE UNIVERSITY
42%
RECYCLING RATE SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING
And when the University negotiated a renewed contract in 2006, Donatucci took a tip from his peers at other colleges, and requested that Coca-Cola fund new equipment to account for the loss in revenue. But the request grew complicated, Donatucci said, stalling the negotiation between Coca-Cola and University administrators. “I got told to drop it,” Donatucci said. Today, workers manually separate the plastic bottles from the rest of the aluminum and tin cans. They tie up bales of compacted recyclables with wire, and clear out the machine with a leaf blower to prevent cross contamination of paper and bottles. W ith an additional, auto-tie baler, workers could speed up the 42-minute
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Life of a pop bottle 1 Student tosses bottle into recycling bin. 2 A custodian empties out recycling and trash bins into hampers at loading docks or designated storage spaces. 3 A driver takes it to the Como Recycling Facility. 4 Hampers of recycling are loaded into the facility’s staging area. 5 Workers dump out material onto a conveyer belt. Tin and aluminum cans, glass and plastic bottles are manually separated. 6 A baler molds about 14,000 bottles into a giant cube. 7 Plastic bottle bales are sold to recycling facilities in Ohio. 8 Plastic bottles can be used for new items like carpets, polyester T-shirts and tennis balls. SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING
“The whole thing we’ve been trying to do for years is trying to change the habits of the entire University community.” ” DANA DONATUCCI
How the recycling program got its start
Recycling supervisor
cleaning and tying process and triple the number of bales produced each day, Kluge, the operations super visor, said. Kluge oversees about 11 full-time drivers and sorters and eight part-time studentstaffers that run the center’s operations. Stacks of 1970s newspapers pulled from the paper stream and a 1987 Macintosh SE sit on the edge of Kluge’s desk. Trinkets like toy recycling trucks and a miniature, pink rollout trash bin decorate his office. He hangs a 4-by-4-foot piece of gray felt with a sketch of the facility’s perimeter near his desk. Tacked onto the board, old and new cardboard pieces indicate existing and wish-list machiner y. He shifts them around, searching for a more efficient layout. More than half of the machines are years overdue for replacement, Kluge said. “Each day’s a great day when all continues working,” he said. “But every year that goes by, there’s more added to that list that already should have been replaced.” Trying times are nothing new for the recycling center’s staff. Though the center has come a long way since 1984, its needs still lag behind other University priorities. “It’s just the nature of the University. We’re about teaching, research and outreach to the community,” said Paulus, who handles funding requests for the center. “[Facilities Management] is a support role,” he said. “We need to be safe, cost effective; we need to be reliable and functional. That’s our zone. That’s where we want to be.”
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Dan Krieger unloads a bag of bottles for sorting at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Feb. 3.
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Worker Michael Berymon takes a container of garbage to his truck at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Feb. 3.
he University hired Robert Reid as an environmental engineer in 1971. Until Reid started a pilot recycling program, the school’s daily accumulation of trash — up to 17 tons at the time — was burned in an incinerator. Ashes were taken to a landfill. Reid star ted manually sor ting through trash in Johnston Hall on East Bank to determine how much office paper the University could recycle. He started his pilot program there, and expanded it to a few other offices on campus. After a column published in the Minnesota Daily suggested the program grow to include “Daily Only” recycling bins, enthusiastic students and faculty star ted calling the Daily and Reid to encourage the expansion. Reid distributed about 17 “Daily Only” barrels, but the program grew too quickly for it to succeed, and was ultimately dropped. With a push from the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, the Board of Regents approved an of ficial office paper recycling program in 1984. The University expanded its recycling collection to include more materials over time. Its next big step will be adding organics bins on campus.
Program found indisposable
For schools as large as the University of Minnesota, in-house recycling centers are commonplace. Experts and industr y veterans say the University is still in the top tier of college recycling despite its financial woes. And across the countr y, many college centers face low budgets and skeptical administrators. “We’re all struggling,” says Kar yn Kaplan, who’s been with University of Oregon’s recycling center since the ’80s. “There’s some administrators that are proactive and understand that you need to deal with things in a waste management perspective, and then there’s other managers who think it’s just an unnecessary add-on.” University of Minnesota administrators have questioned whether to keep the recycling center several times since its inception, Donatucci said. The facility’s last review came after neighboring company Viking Materials asked to buy the space about three years ago. Paulus, who was then directing the recycling program’s umbrella department — Central Ser vices — hired consulting firm Louis Berger to evaluate the pros and cons of keeping the center. “We knew that getting someone who does this as their business would make sense … and to be honest, they’re less emo-
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Operations supervisor Nick Kluge at the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Feb. 3. He eeps some of is fa orite finds pulled from t e rec cling stream at is des .
tionally attached,” Paulus said. The repor t came out in the center’s favor. The consultant compared the center’s services, operational costs and sustainability efforts with private companies’. The University’s operation provides some ser vices that private haulers just can’t, Paulus said of the consultants’ findings. For instance, the school’s center already knows how to handle recycling for large events and is flexible about its 5 a.m. pick-up to avoid campus congestion. A hauler would also place its own dumpsters around campus — an unattractive option. The operational costs for a private company and the recycling center would be about the same, Paulus said. And the University’s sustainability ef for ts, like meticulously sor ting materials, surpassed those of private companies. While campus centers recover materials like Styrofoam, rare plastics and
“We need to be safe, cost effective; we need to be reliable and functional. That’s our zone. That’s where we want to be.” BILL PAULUS Interim Associate Vice President of Facilities Management
glass, most companies would let these materials fall into the waste stream. Companies will only collect a large quantity of any one good if they can make a profit. Still, better sor ting isn’t always profitable if a center can’t find a buyer, said Kent Kiser, publisher for Scrap Magazine. S o f a r, t h e U n i v e r s i t y h a s h a d luck finding buyers for some of its
super-sorted items. “We [found] ser vice is higher, operational costs are equal and environmental and sustainability components are better, so we said we should just keep doing this,” Paulus said. Once administrators decided to keep the program, the University hired consulting firm Bur ns and McDonnell to evaluate whether selling the recycling building and moving the center would be profitable. Ultimately, they decided the cheapest option would be for it to stay at its current Como location. Now that the center can count on staying put, the school’s U-Construction began an assessment in November to judge the facility’s layout. Once the program gets word from U-Construction on what changes are feasible, it will present a proposal for improvements to Facilities Management. This time, managers are optimistic. The center may get its auto-tie baler after all, Paulus said. “The whole thing we’ve been tr ying to do for years is tr ying to change the habits of the entire University community,” Donatucci said. “So things take time, and I keep telling myself, keep working at it, it’ll eventually happen. And I think it’s finally happening.”
U of M Recycling Quirks
Umbrellas
A view outside of the Como Recycling Facility in Minneapolis on Feb. 3.
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TCF Bank Stadium sends the center leftover umbrellas after events, which aren’t allowed into the stadium, and could recieve, at most, hundreds from large events.
U Bookstore bags Because the center doesn’t receive enough bags made with the same grade of plastic, the center can’t recycle the book store bags.
Missing documents
Purses
On multiple occasions, workers have helped people dig through bales to find papers they recycled by mistake.
The center receives up to 30 beer-soaked bags after each Gophers home football game. Workers dry them out and send them to the ReUse Center.
SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING
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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
Stop searching for the love of your life We place so much emphasis on finding a significant other that we overlook other love.
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ow that we’re a week past the chocolate, roses and CVS Valentine’s Day teddy bears, it’s time we have a reasonable discussion about love. This talk is necessar y because the image of love we celebrate ever y Februar y is not — as Mariah Carey would say, “just a sweet, sweet fantasy, baby” — but a lie that undermines all true meaningful connections we make in our lives. I am, of course, talking about our search for “the one,” our “soulmate,” and “the love of our lives.” If we haven’t found “the one,” we’re holding out for them. And why wouldn’t we? They’re our other half, the yin to our yang, the Michelle to our Barack. “The one” has an exciting life stor y which they reveal to us at all the right moments, but not too exciting as to make us feel guilty staying in and watching Netflix. They finish our sentences and our sandwiches. Above all, this idealistic fantasy of a human being who loves us for who we truly are — wrinkles, war ts and all.
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It’s pretty unfair. If the one for us is nothing but an amalgamation of positive traits, then we’re going to be searching for a ver y long time. Or worse, we’ll grow resentful and hur t perfectly good people for not surpassing our impossibly high expectations. This is where the danger of this thinking tr uly lies. We already make the search for decent people more dif ficult by comparing them against the per fect person who lives in our head. But after we find someone who checks all our boxes, we’re so battered and beleaguered from dating that we conclude this other person must have been made for us, and we, in turn, were made for them. On the surface, a soul mate seems like a comfor ting thought, because it allows us to forget that this person who we love could walk out of our life at any time. And if they do leave us, we get to tell ourselves “it wasn’t meant to be” and we’re assured that “the one” is still out there.
But it erases the one thing that makes love meaningful in the first place: another person is choosing to be with us. They didn’t find the person they were destined to meet; somehow our paths crossed and we chose to build something together. A par tner, whether for life or for a weekend, is a privilege that we often mistake for a birthright. No, I don’t believe in “the one,” but I believe in something just as rare: meeting someone at the exact moment we need to. Maybe we realize it, maybe we don’t. But together, we choose to make something special. We support each other, and most importantly, we accept each other for who we truly are. This isn’t just limited to romantic partners either. We place so much emphasis on finding ourselves a special someone that we often overlook the love we receive from our family and friends daily. And yet, these are the people who support us when our romantic partners don’t meet our ideals, or when we didn’t meet theirs. So, this year, stop searching for “the one,” and open yourself to love — in all its forms. Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.
2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 7,964 Total number of deaths: 6,337 Total number of mass shootings: 145 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org
LETTER TO THE EDITOR On Jacob Frey
I think it’s more impor tant than ever for “town and gown” to come together in this unsettled and challenging historical period. For this reason, I was pleased to read your Feb. 16 ar ticle about Council Member Jacob Frey’s mayoral candidacy, “In mayoral bid, Jacob Frey pledges to be visible leader.” The immediate political reality is this: The new Trump administration will strain our ability in Minneapolis to become a successful city, both inclusive and compassionate, with the adequate financial and legal capital to make that a reality. Minneapolis needs strong, assertive leadership to stand up to the right-wing forces that now run our countr y’s government. That means electing a new mayor who will go big and go bold. Of the candidates running today, I believe only Jacob Frey has the energy and the ability to unite us around a common, progressive agenda in Minneapolis. Be sure you’re registered to vote, and make plans now to attend the April 4 precinct caucuses where grassroots organizing will produce the leader of our city for the next four years. John Mehring Local Resident
Editor’s Note: This letter has been edited slightly for grammar and style.
CONTACT THE EDITOR Grace Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com
L.C. Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.
COLUMN
Artistic crossover spurs creativity Working within different mediums can help strengthen and inform your creative work.
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’m a theater major, but I haven’t been in a full production since my senior year of high school when I played Maria in West Side Story — not as good as my usual character, “Young Boy from the Village,” but I persevered. Being in a show now, I have a refreshed appreciation for the team values of this world. In college, stand-up became one of my main pursuits, and I headed out several times a week to work material at open-mics. Now, being back onstage in a different context and playing one role of many in an ensemble piece, I feel out of my former element. I’d become accustomed to the validation in realtime that comes with stand-up — the immediate gratification (or despair) that accompanies solo comedy performance. There’s no middleman; if you screw up, who else is there to blame? You find solace in fellow comedians. But ultimately, it’s you alone — live or die by the audience — a pros-
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pect all at once terrifying and tantalizing. In a play, you succeed and fail together. You trust a group to carry out a story as a unit and spend far too much time together in pursuit of that. I’m constantly dazzled by the ingenuity of my cast-mates, and I’m inspired to bring that fresh energy to stand-up and beyond. Rediscovering theater after focusing on stand-up has reminded me what I love about both. It seems the two can strengthen and inform each other. Maybe lots of artistic crossover is the key to creativity. Or not — come see my show and prove me wrong.
Police training and preparedness in Minnesota has not kept pace with the threats to public safety that seem to be growing in number and severity. But a proposal before the Legislature would help police be better equipped to make calm out of chaos. The plan proposed by Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Vernon Center, and co-sponsored by Rep. Debra Hilstrom, DFL-Brooklyn Center, calls for mandator y training on crisis response, conflict management and diversity. It also makes it easier to hire new police of ficers by allowing those with two-year college degrees to attend a four-month academy to become licensed. Those requirements var y somewhat now, but usually an of ficer has to have
some kind of law enforcement degree and skills training before being accepted for licensure. Extreme cases of violence involving police and suspects seem to have escalated around the countr y in recent years. In Minnesota, two high profile shootings involved people of color in the Jamar Clark and Philando Castile cases. Of ficers were not charged in the Clark case, and the of ficer in the Castile case is awaiting trial on charges of manslaughter. In a Mankato case, Chase Tuseth, a white man, was fatally shot by a Mankato police of ficer on Dec. 31 after a violent encounter. Ever yone can agree more training will only help, and supporters of the plan say the flexibility in licensing may allow people of color and nontraditionally-trained candidates to become licensed quickly
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EDITORIAL Campus can’t be silent following anti-Semitic acts
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h e University of Minnesota campus was hit with a spate of antiSemitic incidents last week, mirroring an unsettling national trend of increased hate speech directed at Jews. Since December, the University’s Bias Response and Referral Network received seven reports of swastikas, neo-Nazi propaganda and other anti-Semitic graffiti on campus. The two latest incidents — an antiSemitic poster found near the McNamara Academic Center on Friday and the Thursday arrest of an 18-year-old University student over a swastika incident at 17th Avenue Residence Hall — come less than two weeks after a Jewish freshman found a drawing of a Nazi death camp emblazoned on a whiteboard in his dorm room. President Eric Kaler, Provost Karen Hanson and Vice President of Equity and Diversity Katrice Albert responded to the anti-Semitic events in a letter Sunday, writing: “We are committed to working closely with all on campus, including the leadership of Minnesota Hillel and Chabad, to determine how best to address these anti-Semitic incidents and move for ward, always together, as a unified University of Minnesota community standing against hate.” It’s reassuring to see our administration take appropriate action. But this dour trend of anti-Semitic rhetoric — which has reached levels unseen since the 1930s, according to Anti-Defamation League Chief, Jonathan Greenblatt — is only worsened by President Donald Trump’s vacuous and apathetic response to the issue. In a press conference last week, a Jewish reporter asked about the rise in antiSemitic acts in the U.S. and worries that Tr ump’s administration is stoking the flames of racist and xenophobic movements across the nation. Like a robot programed without empathy, Trump dodged the question: “Well, I just want to say that we are, you know, ver y honored by the victor y we had. Three hundred and six Electoral College votes. We were not supposed to crack 220. You know that, right?” and ended with “I think that you’re going to see a lot different United States of America over the next three, four or eight years. … You’re going to see a lot of love.” On campus, we’re seeing a dif ferent America play out before our eyes, and it’s characterized by ill will and hate — not love. The escalation of malicious, anti-Semitic acts at the University has been condemned by campus administrators, yes, but it seems that for the majority of campus, where there should be furor, outrage and distress signals, there’s the heavy weight of silence. And let us not forget, many groups have been targeted by hate in public, boastful ways just this school year, even in some cases by student organizations. Silence is a violence of its own and from it spawns ambivalence and normalization. And while Trump continues to flounder when it comes to condemning acts of hate, we must remind our community that antiSemitism and other forms of hate speech have never left our communities but must not be allowed to flourish even with a bigot in the White House.
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DAILY DISCUSSION Legislature must bolster police crisis, diversity training
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and easily. The bill would also fund some of this training. The bill calls for increasing the budget of the Minnesota Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training from $2.8 million to $10 million. If we want law enforcement to have permanent and consistent training in this area, we should commit to permanent funding. The need for calming a public safety environment that seems chaotic and dangerous will far outweigh costs that are relatively moderate for the public good that will result. We urge the Legislature to pass this bipartisan bill and help police officers protect and ser ve a safer Minnesota.
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Initiative brings fresh produce to the U MSA will bring local agriculture produce to University of Minnesota campus. BY NATALIE RADEMACHER nrademacher@mndaily.com
The Minnesota Student Association will launch a new fresh food initiative at the University of Minnesota this fall. Students can register for the Gopher Community Supported Agriculture Program this semester and have weekly boxes of fresh produce delivered to them for a six-week period during the fall. MSA joined The Good Acre — a St. Paul-based nonprofit that works with local farmers to deliver fresh produce — to plan the Gopher CSA program. Last November, Will Macheel, a first-year student
on MSA’s Sustainability Committee, reached out to the Good Acre to create a campus CSA program. “I heard about CSA’s before from family members and friends …. it sounded like a ver y doable thing,” Macheel said. For the next few months, the Good Acre and MSA worked to create a pilot program adaptable to students. The first year will have room for 50 students. The Good Acre had a failed attempt to launch a student CSA program at the University last summer, said Anna Richardson, Good Acre’s CSA manager. “There were a couple challenges we had to consider,” Richardson said of creating the program this time around. “One was the cost of a normal CSA share.” While a typical share costs $600, the rate for stu-
dents would be $100. “This cost can be expensive, even for adults, so we had to find a way to make it more affordable,” Richardson said. When creating the Gopher CSA program, Macheel said they wanted to make sure students receive food they can use. “It can be kind of daunting for a student to look at a CSA and see foods they are not used to cooking,” Macheel said. The boxes of produce for the Gopher CSA will include items such as tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, sweet potatoes and apples. “We tried to create a box that was both desirable to students and includes things that would be easy to prepare and able to be stored through winter,” Richardson said. This is the first program of its type at the University.
Pillsbury hall makeover hinges on state funding Pillsbury u from Page 1
University ser vices. “We have a building that will be empty, and that’s the per fect time to renovate it,” he said. Any fur ther delays to the renovation will only add to its cost, said Sen. Kari Dziedzic, DFL-Minneapolis. Dziedzic, whose district covers the University, said she’s heard complaints fr om English students about the inadequacy of the current space. The department’s location in Lind Hall is also inaccessible because professors are scattered across three floors, said Andrew Elfenbein, chair of the University’s English department. “We want a space where students will be able to find us so they can talk to us,” he said. Lind Hall’s first and fourth floors were renovated a few years ago, Elfenbein said, but the second and third floors are still in bad shape. “Lind Hall now belongs to the cockroaches and the wasps,” he said. Students also have no common areas where they
can discuss their studies, Elfenbein said, which a renovated Pillsbur y Hall would provide. The renovation would also include a “lecture per for mance space” wher e students could stage performances, conduct readings and hold meetings, he said. The engineering department could also use the extra space the English depar tment now holds in Lind Hall, Elfenbein said, making a renovation helpful to both departments. Depar tments need spaces “that have their own signature” to them, said University Regent Richard Beeson. “When depar tments are located in multiple buildings, I think there’s a missed oppor tunity around communication,” Beeson said. But a potential renovation depends on whether the legislature passes a bonding bill this session, he said. Lawmakers failed to pass a bonding package last year that included funds for some of the University’s top capital requests, Dziedzic said, which would’ve brought Pillsbur y Hall’s renovation
“We want a space where students will be able to find us so they can talk to us.” ANDREW ELFENBEIN English department chair
near the top of this session’s priorities. Dziedzic introduced a bill last week calling for state bonding funds for the renovation. Still, she said she’s unsure the project will get funded this year. Elfenbein said he’s worried about “long postponement” of the renovation and the effect it could have on the condition of the building. “It’s not good for buildings to sit empty because it’s important that the systems in them be used,” he said. “Other wise, they fall apart.” Never theless, Beeson and Berthelsen said there are no backup plans to fund the refurbishment. “If the state doesn’t fund it, I don’t see the path in the near term,” Beeson said.
Doctor-senator tries to curb smoking BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FRANKFOR T, Ky. — When Dr. Ralph Alvarado was elected to the Kentucky state Senate in 2014, he found his new colleagues had something in common with most of his patients: They knew smoking was bad, they just couldn’t quit. For more than two years, Alvarado has led the ef for t to restrict smoking in a state with the highest smoking rate in the countr y. He keeps a white lab coat in his Senate of fice, giving him a little more authority with lawmakers and lobbyists. But his ef for ts have so far been thwarted by the cultural legacy of tobacco, which along with coal has declined sharply because of a mix of market and political forces while still maintaining its grip on public policy in Kentucky. Banning smoking in public places is still a politically perilous position for most of the state’s Republican lawmakers, whose constituents view it as an attack on their personal freedoms. Alvarado — also a Republican — is insulated from this, even though his district includes parts of rural Montgomery and Clark counties where he says smoking bans are met with scowls. “The comments from people (are), ‘Well what do you expect, he’s a doctor.’ And so I’m almost excused,” he said. “It takes off the shackles for me a little bit to be able to talk about this issue.” State lawmakers have focused most of their attention to the state’s rising death toll from dr ug
overdoses, including opioids, which killed more than 1,200 people last year. During that same time period, more than 8,800 Kentuckians died from tobaccorelated illnesses, according to Shawn Jones, past president of the Kentucky Medical Association. Kentucky had more tobacco-related cancer cases per 100,000 people than any other state, according to a study from 2009-13 by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “If you’re going to use the word crisis with respect to the opioid epidemic in Kentucky — and I think we should — then we must do the same with regard to smoking,” he said. Alvarado’s first attempts to ban smoking failed. In 2015, he angered his Republican colleagues when he joined Democrats in an attempt to force a vote on a statewide workplace smoking ban. Last year, Alvarado sponsored a similar bill that had the support of at least one major tobacco company and the promised indifference from other tobacco interests. But he could not convince a majority of Republican senators to bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote. Alvarado has since narrowed the legislation and is tr ying again. This week, he convinced the Senate to approve a ban on all tobacco products from public schools and school-sponsored events, something only 36 percent of Kentucky’s 173 school districts had done. The bill still drew opposition from some rural Republicans and Democrats, but it prompted a
reluctant “yes” vote from Sen. Damon Thayer, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate who has long opposed other statewide smoking bans. “The people at a school have no choice to be there,” Thayer said. While the Senate vote gives anti-smoking advocates hope that they have momentum, they still have hurdles to overcome. Since 2011, the tobacco industr y has spent more than $4.5 million lobbying the state legislature, among the most of any industry. And most lawmakers have steered the debate away from health risks and toward the philosophy of personal choices. “You hear the statement that this could save lives. There’s a lot of things we could do to save lives,” Republican Sen. John Schickel said. “For me the question is who should be making the decision? Clearly, we shouldn’t be making it.” A spokesman for Altria, which owns Phillip Morris USA and is consistently one of the top lobbying spenders in Kentucky, said the company did not lobby Alvarado’s 2016 smoking ban bill. But they do support his tobacco ban in public schools. Alvarado says his primary motivation comes on Friday afternoons, when he exchanges his suit jacket for a white lab coat and visits patients. “I’m watching them kill themselves and I see them die with their last dying breath with a cigarette in their mouth,” he said. “You get frustrated for those people probably more so than trying to pass a law.”
“What community supported agriculture does, is it cuts out food miles,” Anderson said of the perks of having a CSA on campus. “There is value in knowing you are supporting the local system.” Another obstacle was the length of a CSA program, she said. A usual CSA season star ts as students begin summer vacation and r uns until October. “Students don’t need as much food or for as long,” said Anderson. Good Acre and MSA decided to shorten the pilot program to a six weeks. Star ting the first week of the fall semester, students who purchased a share can pick up their 10-pound box of produce at one of the drop-off locations around campus. The three spots around
“What communitysupported agriculture does is it cuts out food miles ... There is value in knowing you are supporting the local system.” KRISTEN ANDERSON Good Acre intern
campus include the Good Acre food hub near the St. Paul campus and the Recreation and Wellness Center. Richardson said 19 to 20 far ms par ticipate in the CSA programs through the Good Acre. “A really cool thing is that this is raising
awareness about wher e food comes from,” Anderson said. Still, some ar e con cer ned about what happens if weather conditions cause a bad growing season. “As a shareholder and a member, you assume some of the risk,” Anderson said. Boxes may var y in quality and quantity by season, but Richardson said that could be educational. “You are saying to the farmers that we suppor t you in good times and bad times,” Anderson said, adding most years the CSA program delivers quality produce. “It is exciting to bring fresh fr uit and produce for a ver y reasonable price to the student body,” Macheel said.
Swedes ridicule Donald Trump’s suggestion of major incident BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HELSINKI — Swedes have been scratching their heads and ridiculing President Donald Trump’s remarks that suggested a major incident had happened in the Scandinavian country. During a rally in Florida on Saturday, Tr ump said “look what’s happening last night in Sweden” as he alluded to past terror attacks in Europe. It wasn’t clear what he was referring to and there were no highprofile situations reported in Sweden on Friday night. The comment prompted a bar rage of social media reaction on Sunday, with hundreds of tweets, and a local newspaper published a list of events that happened on Friday that appeared to have no
connections to any terrorlike activity. Foreign Ministr y spokeswoman Catarina Axelsson said that the government wasn’t aware of any “terror-linked major incidents.” Sweden’s Security Police said it had no reason to change the terror threat level. “Nothing has occurred which would cause us to raise that level,” agency spokesman Karl Melin said. Axelsson told The Associated Press that the Swedish Embassy in Washington contacted the State Department on Sunday to request clarification of Trump’s remarks and was waiting for an answer. Former Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt tweeted , “Sweden? Terror attack? What has he
been smoking? Questions abound.” Addressing Tr ump in an ar ticle on Sunday, the Aftonbladet tabloid wrote, “This happened in Sweden Friday night, Mr President,” and then listed in English some events that included a man being treated for severe burns, an avalanche warning and police chasing a drunken driver. One Twitter user said, “After the terrible events #lastnightinSweden, IKEA have sold out of this” and posted a mock Ikea instruction manual on how to build a “Border Wall.” Sweden, which has a long reputation for welcoming refugees and migrants, had a record 163,000 asylum applications in 2015. The countr y has since cut back on the number it annually accepts.
Iran wants respect in place of threats BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MUNICH — Iran’s foreign minister brushed aside new pressure from the United States on Sunday, declaring that his countr y is “unmoved by threats” but responds well to respect. President Donald Trump has repeatedly criticized the 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran, the U.S. and five other world powers, under which Tehran agreed to curb its uranium enrichment in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions, but hasn’t said what he plans to do about it. His administration has said Iran was “on notice” over a recent ballistic missile test, and imposed new sanctions on more than two dozen Iranian companies and individuals. “Iran doesn’t respond well to threats,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told the Munich Security Conference, an annual gathering of top
diplomats and defense officials. “We don’t respond well to coercion. We don’t respond well to sanctions, but we respond very well to mutual respect. We respond ver y well to arrangements to reach mutually acceptable scenarios.” “Iran is unmoved by threats,” he said. “Everybody tested us for many years — all threats and coercions were imposed on us,” Zarif added. He mocked “the concept of crippling sanctions,” which he said didn’t stop Iran acquiring thousands more centrifuges, used for enriching uranium, before talks with the U.S. on the nuclear agreement got underway. Iran has always said it has no interest in nuclear weapons. Asked how long it would take to make one if it did decide it wanted such weapons, Zarif replied: “We are not going to produce nuclear weapons, period. So it will take forever for Iran to produce nuclear weapons.”
Iran’s regional rivals aired a laundry list of grievances about Tehran’s behavior, pointing to the wars in Syria and Yemen among other issues. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Adel al-Jubeir, argued that the Iranians “stepped up the tempo of their mischief” during the negotiations on the nuclear deal and have continued to do so since then. “I believe that Iran knows where the red lines are if the red lines are drawn clearly, and I believe that the world has to make it clear to the Iranians that there is cer tain behavior that will not be tolerated, and that there will be consequences,” Jubeir told the conference. “And those consequences have to be in tune with the financial side.” Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman insisted that the main challenges facing the region are “Iran, Iran and Iran.”
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University committee considers new rep The idea has faculty questiong who participates in governance. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
A University of Minnesota committee’s proposal to add a representative from an outside organization has led some to question who belongs in school governance. A proposal from the Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee (AF&T) to make a representative from the American Association of University Professors an of ficial member has hit a roadblock in the Faculty Consultative Committee, which must approve the measure. Some FCC representatives worr y this could open the gover nance system to
outside forces. AF&T Chair Phil Buhlmann said the committee regularly relies on information from the AAUP, a group that promotes academic freedom in higher education, according to its website. Over two years ago, the committee formally invited the AAUP to send members to committee meetings, he said. “Ther e was nothing really groundbreaking about that because AF&T meetings are open to the public,” Buhlmann said. AAUP members have attended meetings ever since, and the committee now wants to formalize the group’s r ole. Accor ding to the proposal passed last year, it’s helpful to have AAUP representatives present because they provide
resources AF&T relies on to suppor t academic freedom. This ef for t is unique in University governance, Buhlmann said. He isn’t aware of any Universitwy committees with members from outsid e or g ani zati ons , he said. One motivation for the proposal is committee tur nover, said Eva von Dassow, AAUP Twin Cities chapter president and University professor who attends the AF&T meetings on behalf of the AAUP. The committee membership changes ever y few years, she said, so they want to formalize the involvement of the AAUP for future work. “If the incoming chair or co-chair doesn’t know about the AAUP rep,
Gambia’s new president commits to ending abuses BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
As Gambia enters a new era of democracy, President Adama Barrow has reiterated his commitment to ending human rights abuses in the country. “Orders have already been given for all those detained without trial to be released,” he said Saturday before thousands of Gambians who gathered at Independence Stadium Saturday to witness his official inauguration and celebrate Gambia’s independence anniversary. This tiny West African nation has been in the spotlight for gross violation of human rights for more than two decades. The 22-year r ule of former President Yahya Jammeh was marred by clampdowns on dissenting views, enforced
disappearances and detention without trial, creating a climate of fear. Rights groups have called for the release of political prisoners, many of whom have already been freed since Barrow won December elections. Jammeh clung to power, creating a political crisis that forced Barrow to be inaugurated in January in Senegal, which surrounds Gambia except for its coast. International pressure, including the threat of a regional military intervention, led Jammeh on Jan. 21 to finally accept his election loss and fly into exile in Equatorial Guinea. Hundreds of thousands welcomed Barrow’s return to Gambia days later. Barrow has pledged to reverse Jammeh’s repressive policies and promised
to keep Gambia in the International Criminal Court, rejoin the Commonwealth, and free political prisoners. At Saturday’s ceremony, Barrow said his government will undertake key constitutional and legal reforms and said he would highlight them in his first address to the National Assembly. “It (the legal reform) intends to enforce constitutional provisions that are entrenched to protect the fundamental rights of the citizens,” he said. Barrow said the Attorney General and Minister of Justice will receive information regarding all those who were arrested without being found. “An appropriate commission would be established to conduct inquiries into their disappearances,” he said.
it might just fall by the wayside,” von Dassow said. The relationship also gives AF&T ongoing access to exper tise f r o m t h e A A U P, s h e said, and lets AAUP repr esentatives act in the interest of University faculty. Buhlmann presented the proposal to the FCC on Feb. 2. The proposal must pass the FCC to go into ef fect, but some FCC representatives wonder why the proposal is necessar y. FCC Chair Colin Campbell said he isn’t sure why anyone from the AAUP needs to be made an official nonvoting AF&T member if they can already attend meetings and contribute to discussions, as they have for years, he said. Buhlmann said some
FCC members have raised questions about wher e the line would be drawn if a special exception is made for the AAUP. They wonder ed if any other group who asks could get of ficial membership, he said. Fur ther, there could be issues if a group designed to pr omote the University’s interests i n c l u d e s n o n - U n i v e r s ity members, Campbell said. No one is concer ned about the AAUP itself, Campbell said, but he worries about the possible ef fects of letting outside groups into a University committee. Von Dassow said since only University educators can join the University of Minnesota-T win Cities chapter of the AAUP, ther e is no conflict in representation.
“If the incoming chair or co-chair doesn’t know about the AAUP rep, it might just fall by the wayside.” EVA VON DASSOW AAUP Twin Cities Chapter President and UMN Professor
“I understand myself to be representing my colleagues and also the larger campus community that is inclusive of staf f and students,” she said. “As an elected of ficer of the [AAUP] chapter, I am a representative of University of Minneswota faculty, so there’s no contradiction in those elements of my role.”
Uptick in anti-Semitic incidents continue at University campus Incidents u from Page 1
President for Equity and Diversity Katrice Alber t said in a campus-wide email Sunday. Discovery of the fliers at multiple spots near campus came one day after the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment ar rested an 18-year-old University student for an incident involving a swastika at the 17th Avenue Residence Hall. The student was arrested for allegedly committing felony criminal damage to proper ty with bias after a desk was found vandalized with a swastika in a public area of the
residence hall . The vandalism was repor ted Feb. 7. No other details about the incident were immediately available. The student first enrolled at the University last fall, said University spokesman Steve Henneberr y. He was booked in the Hennepin County Jail Thursday mor ning and was released later that night. The Minnesota Daily is not naming the student because it’s unclear if he’s been charged with a crime yet. UMPD is investigating Friday’s flier incident, accor ding to Sunday’s
campus-wide email. The string of incidents at the University involving anti-Semitic symbols and graf fiti — which included a student discovering a swastika and scene of a Nazi concentration camp scrawled in his Pioneer Hall dorm room Feb. 8 — is part of a national trend, according to the University. “These incidents are not isolated. There has been an upsurge in bias crimes locally and nationwide targeting not only the Jewish community, but also other religious, racial, immigrant, and GLBTQ groups and individuals,” Kaler, Hanson and Alber t said in Sunday’s email.
Muslim groups criticize Wilders’ insults BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Muslim organizations in the Netherlands on Sunday criticized disparaging comments about Moroccans made by anti-Islam lawmaker Geer t Wilders, but say they are just the latest in a long string of insults. Launching his campaign Satur day for the Netherlands’ March 15 parliamentar y election, Wilders criticized Moroccan youths for making the Netherlands unsafe, although he qualified the comments by saying they didn’t apply to all Moroccans. “If a Dutch person driving in a car drives five miles too fast he will be fined within a minute wher eas the Moroccan scum in Holland — once again, not all are scum, but there is a lot of Moroccan scum in Holland who makes the streets unsafe
mostly young people and they are not taken seriously,” Wilders said at his first campaign event in the blue collar town of Spijkenisse. Ebubekir Ozture, director of the Muslim umbrella group Contact Organ Muslims and Gover nment, called Wilders comments “reprehensible,” but added that Moroccans and Muslims are accustomed to such outbursts from Wilders, whose Par ty for Freedom is riding high in opinion polls less than a month from the election. “It is not the first time and probably won’t be the last time,” that W ilders has used such language, Ozture said in a telephone inter view. “He has said worse things about Moroccans and Muslims. As crazy as it sounds, people are a bit used to it from him.” Wilders was convicted late last year of inciting discrimination and insulting a group for anti-
Moroccan comments he made before and after local elections in 2014. He branded the conviction “political.” W ilders is appealing the conviction, which centered on comments he made before and after Dutch municipal elections in 2014. At one meeting in a Hague cafe, he asked suppor ters whether they wanted mor e or fewer Moroccans in the Netherlands. That sparked a chant of “Fewer! Fewer! Fewer!” — to which he replied, “we’ll take care of it.” Wilders has a long history of criticizing Islam and Moroccans he says are responsible for a disproportionate amount of street crime in the Netherlands. His onepage election manifesto also is strongly anti-Islam, vowing to ban the Quran, shut the country’s mosques and halt all immigration from Muslim nations.
Trump steps up security aide search BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Donald Trump on Sunday was stepping up his search for a national security adviser, with several interviews on tap, and focusing on health care in talks with his health and budget chiefs, while his team pushed back against depictions of a young administration in disarray. His chief of staff used appearances on the Sunday news shows to echo his boss’ complaints about media coverage of the White House and cited what he said were multiple accomplishments in the first few weeks of the Trump presidency. “The truth is that we don’t have problems in the West Wing,” Reince Priebus told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Priebus also denied a report that Trump advisers were in touch with Russian intelligence advisers during the 2016 campaign, and said he had assurances from “the top levels of the intelligence community” that it was false. After weeks of tumult in
Washington, Trump returned to Florida and his private club for a third straight weekend as he tries to refocus. After a raucous campaign rally Saturday night, Trump and his wife, Melania, stopped by a fundraiser at his private Palm Beach club, put on by the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. A White House official confirmed his attendance, requesting anonymity to discuss the president’s schedule. Scheduled to discuss the job with the president at Mar-a-Lago were his acting adviser, retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations; Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster and the superintendent of the U.S. Militar y Academy at West Point, Lt. Gen. Robert Caslen. Trump pushed out Flynn last Monday after revelations that Flynn misled Vice President Mike Pence about discussing sanctions with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition. Trump said in a news conference
Thursday that he was disappointed by how Flynn had treated Pence, but did not believe Flynn had done anything wrong by having the conversations. Trump also was expected to discuss health care policy in a meeting Health Secretar y Tom Price and Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House budget office. Top House Republi cans last week presented a rough sketch of a health overhaul to rank-and-file lawmakers that would void of President Barack Obama’s 2010 law and replace it with conser vative policies. It features a revamped Medicaid program for the poor, tax breaks to help people pay doctors’ bills and federally subsidized state pools to assist those with costly medical conditions in buying insurance. Also on Tr ump’s Sunday schedule: calls to the leaders of Panama, and Trinidad and Tobago.
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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,
So this morning I woke up under my friend’s bed. I was messed up and decided to crawl under there to sleep it off. Seems weird enough right? Wrong. I wasn’t alone. There was this woman under there, too. We didn’t do anything mischievous together (hell, how could we? I didn’t even realize she was under there until I woke up). But when I woke up, her boyfriend was placing a glass of water and some aspirin under the bed for BOTH of us. Apparently he’s sort of used to dealing with her sleeping under beds. I’m kind of curious, have you ever dealt with this kind of thing before? Sincerely,
Under the Covers (And also the Bed) Dear Covers,
SEE PREVIOUS DR. DATES. I applaud
my constant readers, and I’m disappointed that you’re not one of them. Yes, I have dealt with this thing before, in fact, I’m probably the reason that the boyfriend was placing water and aspirin under the bed for you guys. You have to thank that guy for his courtesy, maybe offer to walk his dogs or something. Clean his house. Do his taxes. He’s a good boyfriend, and a solid bro. Show the fella some appreciation. Sincerely,
Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
I’m dating a guy who doesn’t seem to have any motives for what he does. It seems like he does everything just for the hell of it. Like a dog chasing a car. I like him a lot, but I don’t understand him or what he’s about. Any advice? Sincerely,
Definitely not about the Joker
Dear Definitely about the Joker,
A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I were working for the local government. They were trying to buy the loyalty of tribal leaders by bribing them with precious stones. But their caravans were being raided in a forest north of Rangoon by a bandit. So we went looking for the stones. But in six months, we never met anyone who traded with him. One day, I saw a child playing with a ruby the size of a tangerine. The bandit had been throwing them away. So why steal them, you ask? Well, because he thought it was good sport. Because some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn. Sincerely,
Dr. Date
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issues — which included multiple sexual assaults — within the house, said Dawson Kimyon, physics senior and the member of chapter who reached out to headquarters. Four days later, on Friday, the chapter was suspended. “I feel that the chapter is finally being held accountable for their par t in the way these cases were handled,” Pederson
said Sunday. “Ever ybody involved is finally seeing some justice.” Maria agreed: “On a personal level, it’s, I guess, somewhat freeing to see people being held responsible. To see that after all that, they don’t just get to continue on like they’ve been doing.” In an emailed statement Sunday, a Delta Upsilon headquar ters spokesperson said it will coordinate with the University “to take appropriate action” once an investigation is
complete. The investigation is a result of ongoing “inappropriate chapter culture, behavior and operations,” according to the statement. At least three sexual assault repor ts involving Delta Upsilon members were investigated by the University in the last two years, according to sexual misconduct data obtained through public records requests. T wo Delta Upsilon members were sanctioned by the University
Dams illustrate challenge of maintaining construction BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES— Twelve years ago, widespread destruction from Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast helped compel federal engineers 2,000 miles away in California to remake a 1950s-era dam by constructing a massive steeland-concrete gutter that would manage surging waters in times of torrential storms. The nearly $1 billion auxiliary spillway at Folsom Dam, scheduled to be completed later this year, stands in contrast to the troubles 75 miles away at the state-run Oroville Dam, where thousands of people fled last week after an eroded spillway threatened to collapse — a catastrophe that could have sent a 30-foot wall of floodwater gushing into three counties. Together, the two dams illustrate widely diverging conditions at the more than 1,000 dams across California, most of them decades old.
The str uctures also underscore the challenge of maintaining older dams with outdated designs. “Fifty years ago, when we were evaluating flood risk, the fundamental assessment was the climate was stable, not changing. We now know that is no longer true,” said Peter Gleick, chief scientist with the Pacific Institute, a California-based think tank specializing in water issues. “We need to look at the existing infrastructure with new eyes,” he warned. Back in 2005, Katrina’s deadly path became an arguing point for U.S. Rep. Doris Matsui, a California Democrat who was among those pushing Washington for improvements at Folsom Dam, perched 25 miles from 500,000 people living in Sacramento, the state capital. “I used that, vigorously, to say we are the second-most at-risk river city in the nation,” Matsui said, after the
Categor y 5 storm swept through New Orleans. State officials now face questions about maintenance at Oroville Dam, the nation’s tallest at 770 feet, and why a decade ago they dismissed warnings from environmentalists that more needed to be done to strengthen its earthen emergency spillway. After years of drought, Northern California has become waterlogged this winter from heavy rain and snow. Oroville Lake is brimming, and water managers have been using the main spillway, which is lined with concrete, to lower the water level. The emergency spillway is a brush-covered hillside below a masonry lip and had never been used until last weekend. When water gushed onto it, the ground began eroding, and it was feared the intake lip could collapse and water would surge down the hill. An investigation into what went wrong could take months.
last spring and this fall for committing the three sexual assaults at chapter events in the spring of 2015. One member was expelled from the University after he was found responsible by the school for committing at least two sexual assaults that year. The other member was suspended from the University for one semester for a 2015 sexual assault, after a disciplinar y panel shor tened his original year-long suspension, documents show.
“After deliberating, the Panel members felt that while you did engage in non-consensual sexual contact, your actions were not malicious in nature,” the University’s Student Behavior Committee disposition said. The Minnesota Daily is not naming the members because they were not charged with crimes relating to the sexual assaults. One of the chapter’s advisors, Don Powell, emailed the fraternity’s in-
ternational of fice, defending its current undergraduate membership. “I don’t know about the other fraternities, but as far as our chapter is concerned, I consider this a first-class lynching of a group of guys, many of whom don’t even ‘know’ the person who caused the issue last year,” he wrote. “Compared to some other frater nities at the U, our guys are choirboys!” Powell continued: “I don’t even know what the bloody issue ‘is.’”
SpaceX adeptly launches rocket from NASA’s historic moon pad BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX rocket soared from NASA’s long-idled moonshot pad Sunday, sending up space station supplies from the exact spot where astronauts embarked on the lunar landings nearly a halfcentury ago. It was the first flight from NASA’s legendar y Launch Complex 39A since the shuttle program ended almost six years ago, and SpaceX’s first liftoff from Florida since a rocket explosion last summer. The crowds at Kennedy Space Center watched eagerly as the unmanned Falcon 9 rocket took flight with a cargo ship bound for the International Space Station. They got barely 10 seconds of viewing before clouds swallowed up the Falcon as it thundered skyward. As an extra special treat, SpaceX landed its leftover booster back at Cape
Canaveral eight minutes after liftoff, a feat accomplished only twice before. Most of SpaceX’s eight successful booster landings — rocket recycling at its finest — have used ocean platforms. As they did during the shuttle era, sonic booms heralded Sunday’s return. SpaceX employees at company flight headquarters in Southern California cheered as the 15-story booster landed upright at its designated parking spot at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. SpaceX chief Elon Musk celebrated the successful touchdown via Twitter. “Baby came back,” he tweeted. The celebratory roar grew when the Dragon cargo ship successfully reached orbit a couple minutes later. It will reach the space station Wednesday, delivering 5,500 pounds of food, clothes and experiments. It was SpaceX’s second launch attempt in a row.
Saturday’s effort was foiled by last-minute rocket concerns. The repairs paid off, and even the clouds parted enough to ensure a safe flight. Musk said he’s honored to use Launch Complex 39A. The company hopes to launch astronauts from this very spot next year, bringing U.S. crew launches back to home soil after a longer-than-intended hiatus. SpaceX Mars missions, first robots then people, could follow from here. If the pad weathered Sunday’s launch well, another Falcon could be standing there for a satellite send-up in just two weeks. Kennedy Space Center’s director Robert Cabana, a former shuttle commander who flew four times from 39A, is thrilled to see the pad used for commercial flights like this “instead of just sitting out there and rusting away.” It’s a stark contrast, he noted, to the depression that followed the final shuttle mission in 2011.