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Travel ban causes unease for international students
Training will target Gopher football team concerns
“I [would] prefer starting over in another country that feels more comfortable.”
U leaders say they’ll address issues with the team’s culture.
Saeed Hashemi, below, a University of Minnesota Ph.D. student from Iran.
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University Ph.D. student Saeed Hashemi poses for a portrait on Wednesday. Hashemi is from Iran, one of the countries affected by President Trump’s immigration ban. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
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ahdi Ahmadi dreams of going home. At night, his subconscious takes him back to Iran, where his parents and sister live. He hasn’t seen them since Jan. 11, 2011, a date he remembers and recites with ease. The recurring dreams are “compensation” for being without them for six years, he said. Ahmadi, an Iranian citizen and doctoral student at the University of Minnesota, was planning a trip home for next year. His father and
mother are both sick, and he said he would have a hard time forgiving himself if he didn’t make the journey to see them. But President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting U.S. entry for some foreign nationals has left Ahmadi and other members of the University community unsure of when it will be safe to leave and return to the U.S. The executive order bars entry to the United States for citizens Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Libya and Somalia for 90 days. Nationals from Syria are barred indefinitely, and refugee entry from any country
LIBRARIES
Black history focus of U-led archive site Umbra Search has more than 500K African American artifacts. BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com
From handwritten 17th-centur y letters to underground hip hop albums from the 1970s, a whole bevy of African-American historical artifacts are now available via the University of Minnesota’s Umbra search. The site, which houses digital African American archives, is now completely free and open to public — just in time for Black History Month. With more than 500,000 materials from nearly 1,000 institutions, the site was created as a central repository for use by researchers, teachers, students, artists and faculty, said Cecily Marcus, curator of the Archie Givens, Sr., Collection of African American Literature at Anderson Library. The project is a national initiative between several institutions, such as Yale University and the Smithsonian Institution, but was led by the University. Nearly 50 percent of the collection’s materials come from the Digital Public Librar y of America, Marcus said. u See UMBRA Page 5
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDENTS FROM COUNTRIES LISTED ON TRAVEL BAN Syria
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is suspended for 120 days. All of the countries are Muslimmajority. Almost immediately, chaos ensued at airports across the country as citizens from impacted nations flying to the U.S. were detained. The order prompted protests nationwide and sent many University students, staff and faculty reeling. A little over 100 University students called one of the af fected countries home in 2013, according to available enrollment data, and many more have family in those countries. u See STUDENTS Page 10
CHILDCARE
U funding cuts hit daycares Student service fee changes could slash budgets by at least 37 percent.
FINANCE
TCF sued for opt-in overdraft policy A partnership gives the U $37 for every new TCF account. BY ANDREW HEISER aheiser@mndaily.com
The centers’ directors say they were blindsided by the changes, which they didn’t lear n about until a December information session. u See CARE Page 10
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Children sit and listen as they are read a story at the Community Child Care Center on Monday, in St. Paul. The daycare’s funding from student service fees will be cut.
the student ser vice fees process, the two University area centers’ eligible funding will drop from over $85,000 each to a maximum of $55,000 each. Over 70 percent of customers at both centers are students.
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A federal finance protection agency is suing TCF Bank, a bank with close ties to the University of Minnesota, alleging that it tricked customers into accepting overdraft service fees so that the bank could generate more revenue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month said TCF Bank intentionally misled customers during the application process so they would accept an account option that charged $35 for each overdraft. TCF Bank has an exclusive par tnership with the University of Minnesota that allows students to connect their U Cards to a checking account. The CFPB said the bank adopted a “loose definition of consent” and pushed customers to accept the service. The bureau said the bank tricked customers into think-
BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com
Jonathan Ploeger was all set to go back to school for his Ph.D., but he still had one last thing to take care of: his daughter. Ploeger and his wife applied for daycare waitlists for their 16-month-old daughter. His wife would be the sole earner, and they had student loans to worr y about. But they received a call from the Community Child Care Center on the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus telling them they would be eligible for their sliding fee scale. Without the scale, Ploeger, who ser ves as the center’s liaison between the University of Minnesota — which has traditionally funded the center — and the Como Early Learning Center, said the two wouldn’t be able to afford to have their daughter in childcare. But now, after changes to
The Gophers football team sat through four presentations on sexual assault prevention, relationship violence, the University’s sexual assault policies and bystander inter vention in 2016. Just over two months after the last presentation, 10 players were accused of involvement in the alleged sexual assault of a game day employee. Now, University of Minnesota administrators say the answer is more training. The Gophers football team has been in the spotlight since it boycotted all team activities in December in protest of the suspensions against their 10 accused teammates. When the team sat down with University Athletics Director Mark Coyle after the boycott, they agreed there was a need for “positive change” in team culture, he said in a Jan. 23 interview. At the time, the team’s methods for pursuing change were still up in the air. Newly-appointed head football coach P.J. Fleck has yet to meet with his team to talk about sexual assault prevention. He said he plans to discuss team-wide
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Walker Friend holds a sign at a protest against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in Minneapolis on Tuesday. “Immigrants make America great. I’m here to support our brothers,” Friend said.
STATE REPORT JURY CONVICTS MAN WHO WOUNDED BLACK PROTESTERS IN MINNESOTA MINNEAPOLIS — A jury on Wednesday convicted a Minnesota man of assault for opening fire and wounding five men demonstrating against the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police officers. Allen Scarsella, 24, of Bloomington, was found guilty on all charges of assault and riot. Scarsella showed no emotion as the Hennepin County jur y’s verdict was read. Defense attorneys left the courtroom without comment. Sentencing is set for Mach 10. Scarsella was accused of shooting and injuring the five African-American men at a Black Lives Matter protest after the death of Jamar Clark in 2015. Scarsella and three other men, all wearing face masks, went into an encampment outside a police station in north Minneapolis to livestream Black Lives Matter protests that had closed down a city block. Scarsella, who has a permit to carr y a concealed weapon, brought a .45-caliber handgun and fired at demonstrators in what his attorneys say was self-defense. Prosecutors cited a number of texts Scarsella had sent to friends about shooting black people and accused the men of being white supremacists and tr ying to disrupt the protest. Scarsella, who is white, testified he was afraid of being attacked while filming the protest on the night of Nov. 23, 2015. He said a group of protesters accused him of being in the Ku Klux Klan and that someone had already punched him in the face. Scarsella said he and his friends tried to leave the protest but a group of men followed them and one pulled out what appeared to be a weapon, prompting Scarsella to open fire. Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said his office will seek “the stiffest possible sentence” for Scarsella. “We charged him with the most serious possible charge that the evidence allowed,” Freeman said in a statement. ASSOCIATED PRESS
INTERNATIONAL BRIEFING
Israel gov evacuates West Bank outpost amid settlement binge BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AMONA, West Bank — Israeli forces uprooted this West Bank outpost on Wednesday, removing residents and hundreds of their supporters in sometimes violent clashes as they dismantled a community that has become a symbol of Jewish settler defiance. The evacuation, which followed years of legal battles, came amid a flurry of bold new settlement moves by Israel’s government, which has been buoyed by the election of President Donald Trump. Thousands of police officers carried out the removal, squaring of f against hun-
struction, an injustice and a crime. The most basic truth is that the Land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel,” including the West Bank, she said. With some 250 residents, Amona is the largest of about 100 unauthorized outposts erected in the West Bank without formal permission but generally with tacit support from the Israeli government. It was the scene of violent clashes between settlers and security forces during a partial demolition exactly 11 years ago, on Feb. 1, 2006. Those homes were found to be built on private Palestinian land. Israel’s Supreme Court later ruled in 2014 that the entire outpost was built
on private Palestinian land and must be demolished, setting Feb. 8 as the final deadline after repeated delays. In an apparent attempt to temper settler anger over the evacuation, Israel approved thousands of new settler homes a day before the outpost’s removal, signaling a ramping up of settlement construction under President Trump, who has indicated he will be more accepting of Israeli settlement policies. The settler movement is a potent political force in Israel, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s nationalist coalition government is dominated by settlers and their allies.
Former UN chief Iranian defense official Ban won’t run for confirms missile test Korea presidency BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SEOUL, South Korea — Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday that he won’t run for South Korea’s presidency, a surprise announcement that removes a key figure from the scramble to replace impeached President Park Geun-hye and further stirs the country’s already tumultuous politics. The withdrawal of Ban, who had been considered the only major conser vative contender, boosts liberal Moon Jae-in, who has enjoyed a comfortable lead in opinion surveys since Park was impeached in December. Ban told a hastily arranged news conference that he had wanted to use his 10 years of experience as U.N. chief to resolve a national crisis and achieve unity. But he said his “pure patriotism” and push for political reform were badly damaged by political slander and “fake news” that targeted him. He did not elaborate, but Ban has faced growing media questions about his political competence and corruption allegations. “I was also very disappointed by old-fashioned, narrowminded egoistic attitudes by some politicians, and I came to a conclusion that it would be meaningless to work together with them,” he said. Politics in South Korea has been upended by a massive scandal involving Park and her confidant, which prompted millions to take to the streets in protest. Prosecutors accuse Park of letting her friend Choi Soon-sil pull government strings from the shadows and collude with her to extort money from businesses. Park is on a trial at the Constitutional Court, which is deliberating over whether to confirm her impeachment or restore her to power. If she is thrown out, presidential elections, originally set for December, would be held within two months.
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Exhibit incorporates Gopher athletes Slow motion videos of Gophers allow museum attendees to test their skills. OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
As one kid raced a Tyrannosaur us rex, another recorded herself passing a volleyball. Across the room, someone took a running start, hopping toward a basketball backboard seven feet in the air. As par t of a spor ts-focused, interactive exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul, Sportsology features University of Minnesota athletes and is designed to teach the science of sports. The exhibit — co-presented by HealthPar tners and Tria — opened last month and contains about nine interactive stations. Kim Ramsden, a museum spokeswoman, said the idea for the exhibit, which will run for a few years, came out of the general public’s interest and passion for sports. “We can lear n from how our bodies do spor ts actions,” Ramden said. “We’re putting the science into activity.” These activities include a station to measure ver-
tical jumps, and a shor t track wher e attendees can race against Minnesota athletes, a T-rex or the Twins’ mascot, T.C. Bear. Another highlight of the exhibit is a slowmotion lab that records movements that can be r eplayed and compar ed to collegiate or professional athletes such as T wins player Joe Mauer, L ynx player Lindsay Whalen and the Vikings’ Adam Thielen. Four University athletes also contributed to the lab by recording basic movements. Paige Tapp from the women’s volleyball team, Sara Groenewegen on the women’s softball team, Simone Kolander on the women’s soccer team and Abby Demuse from the women’s gymnastics team all volunteered to help with the exhibit. Demuse — a r etail merchandising junior — performed simple skills for the slow-motion lab. “It really kind of focuses on the exact science of all sorts of different sports,” Demuse said. “In the slowmotion exhibit, you can really … focus in on the small details and what really happens when you’re doing a cartwheel.”
The Minnesota Science Museum first built a version of Sportsology for the Perot Museum of Nature and Science in Dallas in 2012. After seeing its success in Dallas, Ramsden said the museum decided to install Spor tsology on its third floor, where the exhibits change periodically for new material. “We saw opportunities to be able to localize it,” Ramsden said, adding that the museum wanted to incorporate Minnesota athletes from the beginning planning stages. The museum typically sees about 1,000 people per day, which doubles on the weekend, she said. Through the course of the exhibit, the museum has had more than 30,000 attendees. She said it’s valuable for children to learn about the way the body works when playing a sport. Sportsology also features a station on nutrition and multiple videos explaining concussions. “That presents a lot of the latest information about what we know [about] how to prevent and treat concussions,” Ramsden said. Andy Claybaugh and his son, Kyle, 13, said they heard about Spor tsology from adver tisements and liked the interactive aspect of the
ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY
The Sportsology exhibit at the Science Museum of Minnesota in St. Paul lets kids compare a video of their sports skills side-by-side with professional or collegiate athletes.
exhibit. “The slow-motion thing is pretty cool,” said Kyle, who plays baseball, football and basketball. Erin Klug, a Minneapolis resident, said she brought her kids to the exhibit and likes that all of the stations are hands-on and incorporate the whole body. “For kids who are interested in athletics, they can lear n some of
“For kids who are interested in athletics, they can learn some of the science.” ERIN KLUG Minneapolis resident
the science,” Klug said. Kelley Nelson, St. Paul, brought her sons Tyler, 12, and Zach, 9, who both play multiple spor ts and said
they liked that there various aspects of the exhibit. “The way this is done is just phenomenal,” Kelley Nelson said.
TCF sued for allegedly unfair overdraft policies TCF u from Page 1
ing overdraft services were mandatory and used “emotionally charged hypotheticals” to persuade customers. Under a 2010 federal rule,
banks must allow customers to affirmatively “opt-in” to overdraft protection for most debit card and ATM transactions. If someone does not opt-in, a transaction that exceeds available funds would be declined. The bank notified the
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University about the lawsuit, but Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations Brian Burnett said the school doesn’t anticipate any changes in its affiliation with TCF. “We’re very appreciative of the relationship the bank has with the U,” Burnett said. “We’ll just have to see how it plays out.” For each U Card set up with TCF, the bank pays the University $37. University-bank partnerships have come under scrutiny in recent years. An analysis of CFPB data by NerdWallet found that college-aged people are among the most chronic overdrafters. Lutheran Social Service Financial Counseling Program Director Darryl Dahlheimer, whose organization provides University students with budget and debt counseling, said college-sponsored banking
arrangements can include costly fees for students who participate. “I’m cer tain that TCF knows that there is a huge incentive for students to bank there,” Dahlheimer said. Dami Oyenekan, a University sophomore from Nigeria, is one such student. Oyenekan said she enjoyed the convenience of the account until she was hit with an unexpected fee while out of the country. She said she had opted- out of the overdraft service, but the bank charged her a nonsufficient funds fee when she tried to withdraw money using her account number. Eventually, Oyenekan received a refund, but she said TCF never told her that she could be charged for overdrafting when not using her card. A CFPB study released in December found that around
10 percent of students with college-sponsored bank accounts incurred 10 or more overdrafts a year, paying an average of $196 in overdraft fees. TCF spokesman Mark Goldman said the bank deals with customers fairly, and the lawsuit wouldn’t impact students. “We provide full and complete disclosure to all customers,” Goldman said. “Everyone is presented with a contract that provides all the information.” He added that customers who opened accounts online opted-in to overdraft protection at a rate of over 60 percent. “It is just like any other transaction you undertake,” Goldman said. “You have an obligation to understand how it operates.” Before the federal opt-in rule took effect, TCF bank
“We’re very appreciative of the relationship the bank has with the U . . . We’ll just have to see how it all plays out.” BRIAN BURNETT Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations
estimated that it relied on overdraft fees for about $182 million in revenue every year. The lawsuit said that William Cooper, the bank’s chief executive when the opt-in rule began, was “particularly attuned to how important overdraft fees are to TCF’s success. He even named his boat the ‘Overdraft’.”
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Local band embraces the political Twin Cities based all-trans band 4th Curtis released their debut full length record. BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com
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he members of local band 4th Curtis are freshfaced and ir ritable. They’re obviously young, and their music is concerned with the political. “We do bill ourselves as an all-trans band,” said singer and keyboardist Ty Gale. “To us, that was not initially impor tant. It was more coincidental that we were three trans musicians. Lex [Noens] just wanted to find people who were good and vibed well.” But as time wore on, the group’s impact on the lives of other marginalized groups informed their creative process. “ We s t a r t e d g e t ting all of these messages on Facebook,” said singer and guitarist Lexington Noens. “They were from other trans kids saying that our songs were helping them get through hard times. I never wanted the band to be focused on topics that would divide people, but then I star ted to realize that helping get a positive message of these people out there was the least I could do.” 4th Cur tis star ted in 2014 as Noens’ solo project. Noens, who was born in central New York, moved to Minneapolis to attend McNally Smith College of Music for songwriting. A couple weeks after meeting Gale at orientation, the pair became friends. Noens began showing Gale songs. “By the time I joined the band I already knew ever y song,” Gale said.
ELLEN SCMIDT, DAILY
From left, Ty Gale, Lex Noens and Maddie Morley of 4th Curtis pose for a photograph in Gale’s father’s office on Sunday in St. Paul. Each member of the band is transgender.
“For a while, [Noens] would show me songs when they would write them and I would just listen.” Eventually, Noens met drummer Maddie Morley. The group was formed. “4th Cur tis is the best project I’ve ever been a part of,” Morley said. “Without a doubt.” Once the group was complete, they began
to create proper studio recordings with Noens’ stockpile of songs and demos. Their newest record, “I Won the Pageant”, was recorded with Andy Halverson at McNally. A record release show is set for Feb. 26 at 7th St. Entr y with Tony Peachka, L ydia Liza and ahem. The record’s songs cover disabilities, queer identity
and mental illnesses — reflecting Noen’s growing cynicism with the status quo. “[Noens] writes the songs, obviously,” Morley said. “[They’re] a monarch of disgusting beauty. There’s a line on the album that says, ‘I ate my words and they gave me the runs.’” The band is as handson as possible when making their music videos, records and building hype.
This control ser ves as an important rallying cry for artists who are marginalized. While the group hasn’t released their debut record, they already have the next few written. “It was great working with [Halverson],” Gale said. “But I would like a little bit more control over our recordings. I was a production student, so I at least sort of know what I’m doing.”
Other future goals? To blend their political leanings with a creative world all their own. “We want to make a complete nar rative with a lot of dif ferent media components that makes a cohesive world around 4th Curtis. And we want to stress the idea of a found f a m i l y, b e c a u s e t h a t ’ s what we are, a family,” Gale said.
CLUBS
Where an adult can be a kid Grown up club hosts events and activities aimed at pushing adults past their comfort zone.
BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com
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ver wanted to recreate your middle school baking soda volcano? A schoolyard game of capture the flag at the Walker Sculpture Garden? So did members of The Grown-Up Club, an activity group for adults cofounded by Taylor Baldr y and Victoria Nohl. “I think the best thing to understand is that it star ted as a joke,” said
Grown-Up Club captain Tim Lovett. “They basically had this idea to put on these goofy [events] for their friends and strangers. It eventually morphed into a real, actual business.” Lovett became involved with the club after participating in many of their events. “I was alr eady friends with [Baldr y and Nohl], and I would go to ever y event that they put on … but I’m not really a person who can just sit and watch,” he said. On Sunday, the Grown
Club hosted a contest for adults, “Tr yorama: A Diorama Fair for GrownUps.” “We had done a science fair last April, and we had people asking if we could do a diorama fair too,” Lovett said. “We’re always looking to push it past expectations … to make it even weirder.” Par ticipants were asked to create a diorama imagining what the United States will be like in 50 years. “We wanted to acknowledge how crazy the world is right now,” Lovett said.
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Patrons drink beer and float around the space during the Grown-Up Club’s Tryorama at Sisyphus Brewing on Sunday.
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“We’re judging [the dioramas] based on originality, creativity and then on presentation.” Another stand-out event that the Grown-Up Club hosts is “The Singles Exchange.” “People give PowerPoint presentations about their single friends [who are not in attendance]. It’s for an audience of people who are also there representing their single friends. Then you send them of f on a blind date,” Lovett said. “It’s great because it gives you an oppor tunity to talk
about why your friend is awesome, but also why your friend is not awesome.” Besides playing matchmaker, the Grown-Up Club encourages participants to retur n to the games and activities they enjoyed as kids. “Ever y year we play capture the flag in t h e Wa l k e r S c u l p t u r e Garden,” Lovett said. “When you have a bunch of people that are just a little too out of shape to be playing capture the flag it’s so much fun. We were actually in people’s
wedding pictur es [one year].” The club provides a combination of escapism and inspiration for its members, the likes of which captains of the club acknowledge are not readily available for adults. “[Adults] don’t have a lot of oppor tunities to get out of our comfor t zone and do something that’s ridiculous,” Lovett said. “It’s not a real club. No one pays for membership, but it’s about being a part of a community that means a lot to people.”
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Emily Stevenson and Alex Post repair their tryorama on Sunday at Sisyphus Brewing. “We’re surprised no one else went dystopian,” Stevenson said.
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Kaler talks lobbying, P.J. Fleck contract Kaler talked the school’s football boycott, Title IX issues and bonding BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
The Minnesota Daily sat down with University President Eric Kaler Wednesday for the first Kickin’ It with Kaler of 2017. Kaler talked about the Gophers football boycott and concerns over immigration policies. The last time we had Kickin’ It, you said all you wanted for Christmas was a bowl victor y for the Gophers and a healthy grandchild. You got the first one, and I know you mentioned your granddaughter Ophelia was born January 9. How does it feel to be a grandpa? It’s wonder ful. People say it’s the most wonderful thing in the world, and so far it has been absolutely a joy. Since the last Kickin’ It in December, the Gophers football team participated in a 48-hour boycott of team activities following the suspension of multiple players who were involved in an alleged sexual assault in September. A few of the players had been suspended following the alleged incident but were reinstated. Can you say why the suspensions were lifted and then reinforced? At the time, the county prosecutor declined prosecution; there were no criminal charges against them. The Student Conduct code activity had begun, but there were no findings. So the decision was to let the players participate in their sport. P.J. Fleck was hired as the new Gophers football coach following the firing of former coach Tracy Claeys. Coach Fleck’s contract will ear n him
roughly $3.5 million a year. What do you say to those who are uneasy about the price tag on Fleck’s contract? It’s an enormous amount of money, I realize that. But it’s also essentially the average salar y for a Big Ten football coach … I expect as his teams perform at a high level that we will drive additional fans to TCF Stadium and that will be additional revenue that will offset that sum. The suspension of the players caused backlash among some, including the rest of the team, who thought the suspended players didn’t receive due process under the Student Conduct Code investigation. Has this raised concerns for you about how the Of fice of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action handles these types of cases? Not at all. The students do have due process … Again, there’s a Student Conduct Code process that generates findings … when findings are found and presented to the responsible office, that office then has an opportunity to take some action … There is no due process around a player being suspended. There’s due process around the Student Conduct Code ... Unfortunately, people have conflated the Student Conduct Code due process with being suspended from the team. Again, you don’t have a constitutional right to play a sport … After President Trump issued an executive order restricting immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries last Friday, you released a statement expressing solidarity with the communities affected by the order.
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University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler fields questions from the Minnesota Daily on Oct. 21, 2016, in his Morrill Hall office.
What effect has that had on the University so far? I’ve received generally positive comments from members of the University community. They appreciate the support, and they appreciate the resources the University has provided to students who might be affected by this executive order. Petitions are being circulated around college campuses nationwide asking school leaders to establish “sanctuar y campuses,” which would protect undocumented students and community members from deportation. A petition was filed to make the Twin Cities campus a sanctuary campus. While you said your administration will do everything it can to protect the welfare of students, some students claimed the response wasn’t strong
enough. To what extent will the University go in establishing a sanctuar y campus? Some students and community members also responded that that statement went too far … we will do all we can to protect those students. But I remind you … the [Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals] order has not changed. So we will react appropriately if that law changes. Some legislators expressed concerns that the University’s priorities in its $147.2 million budget requests reflects wants, not needs. How will you make the case at the legislature this session to communicate the dif ference between the University’s wants and needs? We work hard to identify the resources that the University needs in order to re-
main excellent, and be as affordable as we possibly can ... to my point of view, those are resources that the University needs to be excellent and affordable. With new recommendations to changes in student ser vice fees, groups seeking a portion of the fees would be split into categories — student groups, administrative units and media groups. The recommendations came about after several complaints from student groups said the process was too confusing. How will the recommended changes affect the student ser vice fees allocation process and how will the process be bettered? My understanding is that the fee process will be more transparent and simpler. And I think that’s really what students were asking for …
Since this is our first Kickin’ It since the start of 2017, what are your goals for the University in the coming year? … As you know, we establish our biennium budget in odd numbered years, so success at the legislature is really important. We are also vigorously fundraising in the private sector ... And I hope that the tensions that many in our country feel will begin to dissipate and people will become more comfortable with where we are. Do you have any thoughts on the upcoming election at the Board of Regents? We, from the administration’s point of view, stay far away from that process. We welcome the four new regents that the representatives of the people of Minnesota will send to us.
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community outreach to tackle the issue. The team will also engage in conversations with exper ts about consent, Fleck said. It’s the additional education, he said, that will help prevent sexual assault. “[The players have] got to be able to do skits, they have to be able to role play,” Fleck said. “They have to be able to go through things and experience how it actually feels to talk through it.” This isn’t the team’s first go-round with sexual assault and violence prevention training. The team par ticipated in a 2014 acting per formance staged by GTC Dramatic Dialogues, a theater company that specializes in skit training on topics including sexual assault, racism and LGBTQ issues. Audience members engaged in victim blaming, including football players, making it easy to pick team members out of the crowd, said Michael Agnew, owner and artistic director of GTC. “…The football teams [nationally] tend to be the most vocal in those kinds of responses,” he said. “When we do a show where we know there’s going to be a large number of athletes, we know that we’re in for a wild ride. That’s pretty much just a given.” Toussaint Mor rison, who moderated the 2014 discussion, said he wasn’t surprised by the allegations of sexual assault based on his experiences training athletes nationwide. “For me, the boycott was a sign that clearly the Gopher football team does not get it,” he said. “That they do not understand what the impacts of sexual assault are.” By 2016, four presentations were scheduled after the University’s
“For me, the boycott was a sign that clearly the Gopher football team does not get it. ... That they do not understand what the impacts of sexual assaults are.” TOUSSAINT MORRISON 2014 discussion moderator
then-Title IX Director Kimberly Hewitt raised concer ns about a patter n of alleged sexual misconduct among team members. In emails sent to the athletics depar tment in 2015, Hewitt detailed concer ns of sexual assault, harassment and retaliation involving team members. In her email, Hewitt cited “a concer ning patter n of football player conduct that we believe requires responsive action.” Despite recur ring attempts to educate players on sexual assault and consent through presentations, University President Eric Kaler said administrators will continue to consider how to fit additional training into their prevention efforts. Kaler told the St. Paul Pioneer Press in a Jan. 13 inter view that “an exceptional amount of training … didn’t seem to make the point” after the suspensions against 10 football players led to a less-than48-hour boycott. At the time of the boycott, the team said their “brothers” were treated unfairly by the University, which found the accused responsible through an Of fice for Equal Oppor tunity and Af firmative Action investigation. Kaler r ecommended more bystander training for players to provide them with the “skillset to inter vene” when they see “not correct behavior.” “Everybody on the team needs to understand consent,” he said. “I haven’t inter viewed each football player myself, but I’m pretty sure P.J. Fleck will have every member of his team understanding consent.”
Administrators’ ideas have yet to be formulated into plans. When Gophers wide receiver Drew Wolitarsky announced the termination of the boycott, he promised the team would “use our status as public figures to bring more exposure to the issue of sexual harassment and violence against women.” Several Gophers football players did not respond to the Minnesota Daily’s multiple requests for comment. Wolitarsky said “there’s definitely some of f-thefield stuff happening,” but declined to elaborate. And when two University students and sexual assault victim-sur vivors r eached out to a team member in early Januar y to set up a public meeting, he stopped responding. Kayla Pederson, a University graduate and sexual assault victim-sur vivor, and her friend asked one player to meet with “a neutral, trained moderator” to share “what this issue is like on our side of things.” The player responded within 15 minutes, saying “I’d love to just meet with you guys in person” and “I can never have enough information or too many conversations.” Nearly one month later, he has not responded to two separate attempts to continue the conversation — making the team’s pledge to address sexual assault appear to be “a bunch of false promises,” Pederson said “They really need to follow through with what they’re saying, she s a i d . “ A n d r i g h t n o w, they’re not.”
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The site’s singular focus on African American culture and history makes it unique, she said. “There’s a lot of information you might not be able to get in school,” said Dorothy Berr y, who leads the project’s digitization process. The site collects everything from art and music to letters and clothing, Berry said. It gives users a wellrounded picture of black culture during a given time period, she said. “In that way, Umbra gives you a jumping off point [to learn],” she said. And teachers at St. Paul’s Gordon Parks High School are already using the site in classes. Jamie Tomlin, an English teacher at Gordon Parks, said the accessibility the
search provides is useful for high school students, since similar materials are usually only available at museums or libraries. Tomlin co-teaches a class at Gordon Parks with University professor Catherine Squires on African American histor y in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Aside from using the site during Black History month, Tomlin said senior students are already planning to use it for final projects. Tomlin said the site is proving useful in teaching students, allowing them to engage with aspects of African American histor y that might not usually be discussed in the classroom. “The students are becoming digital historians,” Tomlin said. The Umbra project will continue to digitize items as it goes on, Berry said.
“In that way, Umbra gives you a jumping off point [to learn].” DOROTHY BERRY Lead project digitizer
Currently, Berr y said she is working with the Jean-Nickolaus T retter Collection in GLBT Studies and Kerlan Collection of children’s stories to find archival materials that intersect with African American history. Every four months or so, Marcus said, the University will go through its own and other institutions’ collections to see if there’s anything new to add; the collection could even double over the course of this year. “[The site] gives you a perspective beyond just a paragraph in a textbook,” Berry said.
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Brain-controlled device developed at U The researchers say it could help individuals with disabilities. BY NEHA PANIGRAHY npanigrahy@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota researchers have developed a non-invasive method that allows users to control a robotic arm with their minds. The technology could allow people with spinal cord injuries or other disabilities to be more independent. In the future, the lab behind the research hopes to expand the project to include more parts of the body. To use the device, a user has to imagine the movement they want to per for m. The brain generates electrical activity, which is recorded through an electroencephalography cap, which maps brains signals. “Imagine a left hand or right hand moving and then translating it to an arm,” said Bin He, principle investigator and biomedical engineering professor at the University. After a computer pr ogram analyzes and
decodes the generated signals, the robotic hand moves accordingly in any direction. The r esear ch is an accumulation of decades of He’s research, which focuses on brain computer inter face. He has also done research using MRI technology. More than 70 percent of the study’s subjects — volunteers from the University — succeeded in moving a cup from a table to a shelf about four feet away. Eventually, all the volunteers were able to accomplish the task but not necessarily within the time constraint, He said. This isn’t the first effort to control an object through brain signals, but it is the first to be non-invasive, He said. Other devices require drilling holes in a subject’s skull, said Jianjun Meng, a University postdoctoral researcher and lead author of the December study about the arm. Invasive methods have their own advantages, like cleaner signals, Meng said. Only about 10 patients have used the implantation method, he said. All implantation methods
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Biomedical engineering postdoctoral researcher Jianjun Meng explains how a sensor cap detects brain signals that move a robotic arm in Nils Hasselmo Hall on Monday.
use brain surger y to place a chip into the brain. There are risks involved in putting in and removing the implant
because of the complex procedures, Meng said. Other studies have focused on moving in a
2D plane. He’s research focuses on movements in a 3D space, making it more effective for its users.
The scientists say they hope to make the arm’s movement more fluid with further research.
University police holds active shooter presentation UMPD encourages faculty, students and staff to form a plan in case of an active shooter. BY NATALIE RADEMACHER nrademacher@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota Police Department hopes to raise awareness on proper protocol in active campus shooter cases in a presentation Wednesday. The UMPD held the meeting for students, faculty and staf f on the St. Paul
campus and demonstrated how best to respond to active shooters. UMPD Sergeant Jim Nystrom spoke at the event, encouraging those present to think about their personal environments and use the resources around them to make a plan of action during active shooter cases. Nystrom said in recent years, police departments across the countr y have adopted a three-step plan — run, hide, fight — to help prepare individuals in incidences involving an active shooter. RUN: If the opportunity is available, civilians are
encouraged to run as far away from the situation as possible. “Get as far away from the potential harm as you can,” said Nystrom. He encouraged individuals to find a designated meeting place with classmates and coworkers, in the unlikely event that individuals are forced to flee or evacuate. This way, it will be easier to know who is accounted for. People are also encouraged to leave their belongings behind and take actions necessary to protect yourself. “You are our number one priority,” said Nystrom. “We need to keep you safe.”
HIDE: The next step to take, if the chance to run does not present itself, is to hide. “Get out of the shooters view,” Nystrom said. “If the attacker can’t see you, you aren’t there.” He also emphasized the importance of remembering to silence cell-phones and remain as quiet as possible. During the presentation — held in the St. Paul Student Center Theater — Nystrom walked the audience, composed mostly of faculty, through possible places to hide. “Use what you have around you,” he said. “The key is concealment,” said Nystrom. People are also encouraged to lock or barricade doors. “It may not stop the shooter, but it will slow them down,” said Nystrom. “This provides the opportunity for people to do something else, such as run or hide.” FIGHT: This is the last resort, said Nystrom. The goal is to incapacitate the shooter. Nystrom said the key is to use available resources
as a weapon. At the presentation, audience members called out things around them that could potentially be used as a weapon, like laptops and a fire extinguisher. Knowing what objects are available as potential weapons could allow a civilian to incapacitate the shooter, buying enough time to escape. “The key is to do something,” said Nystrom. “During the 9/11 airplane attacks, people stood up and did something, and it saved more lives than we will ever know or understand.” “Commit to your actions,” he said. Nystrom emphasized how impor tant it for a person to respond during an emergency situation, such as an active shooter on campus. He said it is comforting to him as an officer knowing that people are aware of their surroundings and have taken time to think through and have a plan. “The premise behind this presentation is this:
If we talk about it and get you to think about it, then in the unlikely event anything ever happens, you will hopefully have a plan in place and c a n a c t a c c o r d i n g l y, ” Nystrom said.
WHAT TO DO WHEN THERE’S AN ACTIVE SHOOTER
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Evacuate if you can and call 911 when safe.
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Lock or blockade the door, silence your cellphone, and remain quiet.
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Improvise for a weapon using things around you and act with physical aggression. SOURCE: UMPD
Volkswagen to pay $1.2 billion or more to US owners of big diesels BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Volkswagen has agreed to pay at least $1.2 billion in buybacks and compensation to settle claims from U.S. owners of cars with larger diesel engines that the company rigged to cheat on emissions tests. And the German automaker could pay even more — as much as $4 billion — if it can’t repair many of the cars in a way that satisfies regulators. The proposed settlement filed late Tuesday before Judge Charles R. Breyer in U.S. District Court in San Francisco covers owners of some 78,000 Audi, Volkswagen and Porsche cars with 3.0-liter diesel engines. Volkswagen has already agreed on a $15 billion settlement with owners of some 500,000 smaller, 2.0-liter diesel engines. Volkswagen has now settled most U.S. consumer claims as it tries to repair a tar nished reputation. “All of our customers with af fected vehicles in the United States will have a resolution available to them,” Hinrich J. Woebcken, head of Volkswagen Group of America, said in a statement. The company still faces lawsuits from fewer than 5,000 owners of 2.0-liter diesels who opted out of the settlement, as well as some shareholder suits and numerous lawsuits filed by states for violating pollution laws. VW also has settled a U.S.
criminal investigation by agreeing to pay $4.3 billion, but a probe of employee behavior continues with seven people charged in the U.S. In all, VW will pay more than $20 billion to settle civil and criminal claims in the U.S. alone. Also pending is whether VW can adequately fix some older 2.0-liter engines. If it can’t, VW will have to buy back all vehicles with the smaller diesel engines. A March 3 deadline is approaching. Legal issues also remain in Europe. Former CEO Martin Winterkorn and 36 others are under criminal investigation in Germany, where investors also are suing the company. Volkswagen shares plunged after the scandal broke in September of 2015. Under Tuesday’s proposed settlement, owners of 20,000 older 3.0-liter models dating back to 2009-2012, which cannot be fixed to meet pollution standards, will be offered buybacks or trade-ins. In addition, they will receive compensation ranging from $7,755 to $13,880, according to a statement from owners’ attorneys. People who bought 58,000 newer cars from model years 2013-16, which can be fixed, will get compensation of $7,039 to $16,114. Volkswagen says those cars can be made to comply with pollution limits. If VW can’t fix the newer cars to regulators’ satisfaction, then the owners’ attorneys
will go back to court to seek buybacks. VW’s proposed repair must win approval from U.S. environmental authorities by an agreed deadline. If not, buybacks could push the cost as high as the $4.04 billion laid out in cour t documents. The deal must still get cour t approval to take effect. Volkswagen said final approval would take at least until May. Also T uesday, par ts supplier Rober t Bosch GmbH agreed to pay $327.5 million to settle claims from consumers and dealers regarding 2.0-liter and 3.0-liter engines, while not accepting it was at fault. Typical 2.0-liter owners will get $350 in addition to what they get from VW, while 3.0-liter owners will get about $1,500, said Elizabeth Cabraser, lead attorney for the owners. Bosch made the so-called “defeat device” that enabled the cheating. Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner said the company settled so it could focus on its business. Cabraser said she’s confident that the VW settlements will be completed even if President Donald Tr ump cuts personnel at the EPA, which has to review all of the engine repairs, noting that Breyer and the California Air Resources Board are still involved. The former head of Trump’s transition team at the agency has said he expects significant budget and staff cuts.
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Gophers land 25 recruits on signing day P.J. Fleck’s first class of recruits at Minnesota is ranked 57th in the nation. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Head coach P.J. Fleck has no shortage of recruits for his first season with the Gophers. Minnesota signed 25 new incoming freshmen on National Signing Day, Wednesday. The Gophers are the 57th ranked recruit class in the nation, according to 247.sports.com. “I thought we did a tremendous job finding the most elite talent, not necessarily skill, but talent,” Fleck said. The team ranked No. 46 last season under former head coach Tracy Claeys. However, the Gophers have signed five more recruits than they did a season ago. Five recruits in the class are from Minnesota. Fleck said recruiting is everything. “Our eight-hour radius is everything to us,” Fleck said. “The surrounding states are everything. There are tons of national kids in that radius.” He added that about 70 percent of recruits come from that area. Nine of the recruits in
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the class had committed to Western Michigan before moving with Fleck to Minnesota. Five of for mer head coach Tracy Claeys’ recruits signed with Minnesota after he was fired last month. Fleck, who was hired by Minnesota on Jan. 6, had just 26 days to recruit after leaving his head coaching position at Western Michigan. “The first three weeks, I said it earlier, I kind of compare to drinking out of a fire hose,” Fleck said. “You just never stop.” Three of the recr uits — q u a r t e r b a c k Ta n n e r Morgan, linebacker Trenton
Guthrie and Neil McLaurin — have already enrolled at the University. Offensive lineman Blaise Andries is one of the threestar recr uits who signed with Minnesota. The Marshall, Minnesota native had 23 Division I offers before deciding on the Gophers. Defensive back Demetrius Douglas, another three-star recr uit, previously committed to Oregon before flipping to Minnesota. Douglas’ dad is a former Gophers football player. “Just because the dad played at the University of Minnesota doesn’t mean you are going to get the
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players to graduation, including star ting quar terback Mitch Leidner. Fleck said he loves to play freshmen. “You just think you are going to come in there as a junior or a senior and be an All-American right away,” Fleck said. “Most freshmen need to come in and kind of look around and feel it and experience it and fail.” Defensive back Kendarian Handy-Holly was
one of the more highly-touted out-of-state recruits Minnesota signed. The Jackson, Alabama native received 29 total Division I offers. Fleck inherits a team coming off a 9-4 season and a victory in the Holiday Bowl. “I’m here to be able to take the University of Minnesota football somewhere where ever ybody has dreamed,” Fleck said. “That’s what I’ve dedicated my entire life to as of Jan. 6.”
Special teams become a high point for Gophers
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While injuries are a part of the sports world, they’ve been somewhat rare for the Gophers — until now. Minnesota is dealing with several holes in its lineup due to injuries and illness, and the team is looking to redefine itself and find others to step up. “It’s tough, there’s no question about that,” said head coach Brad Frost. “When you’re without four of your top six for wards, it changes things. Minnesota’s adjustment started when last year’s top scorer, Dani Cameranesi, suf fered a lower body injury earlier in the season. The senior briefly retur ned to the lineup in Januar y but has since had surger y on her ankle. The forward is out indefinitely. The Gophers also lost highly-touted freshman for ward Alex Woken for the season in November due to a lower body injury. For wards Kate Schipper, Cara Piazza and goaltender Emma May have also been scratched recently due to short-term injuries or illness. The inconsistency is a new problem for Minnesota. The team only dealt with two major sideline
kid,” Fleck said. “I think they wanted [my] type of energy level and passion instilled into their son on a daily basis.” Defensive end Boye Mafe made his college decision at 4 p.m. Tuesday. The Hopkins, Minnesota native is also a three-star player. Five defensive linemen recruits committed to the team and join 17 returners next season. Minnesota loses 13
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Rare injuries plague Minnesota, but players step up to fill holes The Gophers have two players out indefinitely and others short-term.
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Gophers football head coach P.J. Fleck speaks during a press conference on Jan. 6 at TCF Bank Stadium.
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situations last season, as for wards Paige Haley and Amanda Kessel sat out for portions of the season. Both had returned by the time the postseason rolled around. The roster scratches have given the Gophers some work to do. “We’ve had the opportunity to continue to switch up our lines. We’d like to be settling in at this point,” Frost said. “It’s just something you deal with. Unfortunately, it’s happened, but you deal with it, and you learn from it.” And learn from it they have. Minnesota has had dif ferent players step up lately, boosting its depth — just before playoff time comes around. Junior for ward Caitlin Reilly has increased her scoring output and has logged more ice time. The Gophers also had two for wards — freshman Kippin Keller and sophomore Tianna Gunderson — score their first career goals in its last series against St. Cloud State.
“We were so excited for Tianna and Kippin to get their first goals. They’ve been working so hard, and they definitely deser ve it,” Reilly said. “I think recently it’s been exciting for other kids to step up with having a lot of our top players out of the lineup right now. That’s what’s expected from everyone now, to make sure we’re playing our best and giving it our all.” W ith a depleted forward corps, inexperienced defensemen could tend to make more mistakes. But Frost said senior Megan Wolfe has stepped up as well as senior captain Lee Stecklein, who is anchoring the Gophers defense. “I think ever yone’s tr ying to do a little bit more,” Stecklein said. “But we still have to remember that at the end of the day, you have to do your role. Even if that role changes if someone is injured, you just have to do that new role. Working together to fill those spaces is what we’ve been trying to do.”
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Junior forward Caitlin Reilly handles the puck at Ridder Arena on Oct. 29, 2016, where the Gophers beat St. Cloud State 3-0.
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Gophers forward Justin Kloos controls the puck while playing against Michigan at Mariucci Arena on Feb. 26, 2016.
Minnesota’s skilled power play is now ranked seventh in the country.
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Penalties haven’t been uncommon for Minnesota’s opponents this season, and the Gophers have taken advantage. Minnesota’s power play is in the top 10 nationally, the penalty kill is improving and it’s no secret that it has contributed to the Gophers’ success this season. “I think a couple of things are important,” said assistant coach Grant Potulny. “Our guys do a good job on faceoffs, so we start with possession. I think that’s understated in a lot of power plays; we do a really good job entering the zone, [and] we come in organized.” No. 7 Minnesota (15-7-2, 6-2-0 Big Ten) will face No. 6 Penn State (16-4-2, 5-2-1 Big Ten) in a weekend series featuring two of the best power plays in the nation. Minnesota’s power play, ranked No. 7, is one of the most lethal units in the country and has converted on 22.8 percent of the chances the team gets. Nine Minnesota forwards have power play goals, and eight of them have more than one. One for ward who has multiple power play goals this
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season is for ward Tommy Novak, who suffered a lowerbody injury and is out for the season. “I think you see the depth of it with the loss of Tom,” Potulny said. “You know, we lose Tom Novak, who’s arguably one of the best passers we have, and his hockey sense is outstanding. Those are two key components to the power play.” The Gophers’ depth has allowed the coaches to insert players into the power play with success, like forward Taylor Cammarata who was in and out of the lineup until Novak’s injury. One player who has continuously improved on the power play is captain Justin Kloos. “When he came in here as a freshman, he was looking up to guys like [former Gophers forward] Travis Boyd,” Potulny said. “Justin’s worked really hard, and now his shot is right on par with those other guys where he can shoot pucks off the pass, and he’s a real threat.” Now, the senior from
Lakeville, Minnesota has 16 career power play goals. Kloos has also been an asset to the team’s penalty kill. He has scored seven shorthanded goals as a Gopher. “One thing that’s important that all of us centermen do is … start with the faceoff every time,” Kloos said. “Getting possession of that puck is huge for the penalty kill.” Puck possession is integral to the success of both units, and Minnesota has done so a majority of the time. The Gophers have won 52.1 percent of face-offs this season. Head coach Don Lucia said that the team’s penalty kill continues to improve, but he hasn’t been as impressed with the power play lately, even though they have scored goals. “I’m looking forward to watching us play this weekend,” Potulny said. “The way that Penn State’s going to kill, they’re going to be very active, and they’re going to pressure hard, so if we can move the puck in a hurry, maybe we could have a couple of scoring chances.”
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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
Barring the nominee, barring the art
Trump’s immigration policies also threaten the livelihood of artistic expression.
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he Academy Awards will be broadcast on Feb. 26, and Asghar Farhadi will not be there. Though he directed a nominated film, “The Salesman,” Farhadi is from Iran, and the Oscars ceremony lies within the 90-day timeframe Iranian citizens are banned from entering the United States — par t of an executive order signed by President Donald Trump last week. Farhadi says he will decline to go even if an exception is made — disfavoring the oppor tunity of the order’s “ifs and buts.” To rant about a Hollywood awards ceremony in a time of fear and oppression may appear to be a case of misplaced priorities, but the scope of President Tr ump’s plan is vast. It includes a variety of ramifications, and by focusing on the Academy Awards, I do not wish to disengage the tr ue ter ror of family separation and the
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refugee crisis. It’s necessar y to accentuate the entire spectr um of negative consequences the President’s decisions will produce. Films are the fruit of years of work and devotion. Even if we may dislike some of the shoddier films nominated, the existence of ar t, like film, is a testament to hard work by caring people who sought to tangibly represent the wonders of human imagination and persistence. The Oscars aren’t vital to filmmakers the way water is to any life form, but they’ve become an impor tant symbol of excellence, that — in a meritocratic society — means more than we may like to admit. I focus on Farhadi because implicit in President Trump’s immigration ban is a repudiation of ar t and creativity. Trump is excluding a man from a ceremony that symbolizes the necessity and significance of art in our ever yday lives — film. He is replacing a life-af firming event of artistic solidarity and unity with complete
ostracism and futility. Along with lives, the President’s system has destroyed a sense of belonging and purpose, and sadly, community. In their lavishness, the Oscars cr ystallize the notion of ar t’s centrality in our culture. The President has devalued what it means to be an ar tist in a community of other ar tists —while the Academy Awards aren’t exempt from criticism of their own, the ceremony, in many ways, features an ethos of respect, where the efforts and passions of various ar tists are recognized. It’s a sense of togetherness that transcends a 6-hour ceremony. Pr esident T r ump’s policies have inter fer ed with the legacy a piece of ar t leaves for those who made it and those who see it, divorcing the creator from his audience. And it’s a dilemma that may appear inconsequential amid the ruination of lives, but nevertheless it belittles the value of artists. Taylor Sharp welcomes comments at tsharp@mndaily.com.
2016 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 5,118 Total number of deaths: 1,342 Total number of mass shootings: 28 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org
GUEST COLUMN This Old House Editor’s Note: This is the third and final segment of this letter, which ran on Jan. 26. The Black Lives Matter movement is necessar y because our society continues to be stratified in what Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson appropriately terms a caste system. But she makes a point to acknowledge that this “ar tificial hierarchy” is “something that we’ve inherited. It’s not something that we wanted... But this is where we are.” We did not ask for a discriminatory, exploitative society. But we did inherit it, and so we must grapple with it. There’s something bad happening in the basement of our old house, and often we are afraid to go see what it is. But, Ms. Wilkerson warns, “if you really don’t go into that basement, it’s at your own peril. Whatever you’re ignoring is only going to get worse. Whatever you’re ignoring will be there to be reckoned with until you reckon with it. And I think that’s what we’re called upon to do where we are right now.” Our countr y is literally founded on institutionalized racism, sexism and discrimination. These conditions are woven into the fabric of our society. What we must do now, Ms. Wilkerson says — and this election demands — is recognize it, take stock of it and recommit ourselves to changing it. What this election shows is that we, those who believe in human progress, have become complacent. We have avoided going into that basement, and this neglect has caused our house to decay upon its flawed foundation. So now it is imperative that we go into that basement, acknowledge the problems that need fixing and, in the warmth of collective effort with a noble shared purpose, come together to undertake the grueling labor of rebuilding our house. Dam Shafto Wilderness Guide Minneapolis
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White feminism can’t succeed
We need to let the voices of all women be heard, allowing for a spectrum of solutions.
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s a high schooler, I star ted a (mostly unsuccessful) feminism club. At our peak, we raised less than a couple hundred dollars for the Malala Fund — an organization that advocates for girls’ education. The remainder of our group’s short-lived existence primarily consisted of me attempting to convince my rural and conservative classmates that there is a need for feminism and that it is, in fact, a thing that exists. This was in 2012, when the fourth wave of feminism was starting to gain traction. I was a young, white woman living in Fergus Falls, Minnesota — a town that was 95.5 percent white, and yes, that’s an actual statistic. While well-intentioned, I didn’t yet understand the importance of intersectionality within feminism. My brand of feminism catered to those around me — my peers who looked like me, and had similar advantages. For example, I cited the oft-quoted pay-gap factoid: Women are only paid 76 percent as much as men for the same job. However, this statistic only applies to white women and
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The U’s interests at the legislature Editor’s Note: This is the first par t of this letter; the second segment will appear in the next issue of the Minnesota Daily on Feb 6. I recently visited the State Capitol to share with legislators how the University of Minnesota has prepared me for my career, and why the University’s students deser ve legislative suppor t. I’d like to share that stor y to raise awareness for the needs of Minnesota’s students. The University of Minnesota helped me plan for my future before I even stepped foot on campus. I grew up in Duluth and was able to take college courses offered by University of Minnesota-Duluth at my high school. Because of this free
opportunity, I was able to complete many of my general courses before I even applied for college. When I arrived at the University as a freshman, I received strong suppor t from my College of Liberal Ar ts advisor in deciding a major that best fit my skills and career goals. I took First-Year Experience classes that prepared me to apply for internships and jobs. In my courses at the School of Jour nalism and Mass Communication, I’ve gained skills that have changed the way I solve problems. I’ve lear ned to think strategically and navigate challenge s w i th c r ea tiv ity a nd c onf idenc e. I’m able to communicate with clarity and purpose. I’ve also been able to take the skills I’ve lear ned at the University and apply them in the professional world. With encouragement from my advisors and
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“[When] white women speak for everyone without listening to the unique perspectives of all other women, their feminism has failed.” white men. In reality, the disparity is much greater for other women. The recent Women’s March on Washington was criticized by many for catering to a similar brand of exclusionary cis-gendered, white feminism. In my observance, when a white woman is turned onto feminism for the first time, it feels radical to simply stand up for her own rights. However, when cis, white women speak for everyone without listening to the unique perspectives of all other women, their feminism has failed. We must listen to and learn from each other.
Thursday, February 2, 2016
EDITORIALS Estimating an executive order
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pponents of for mer President Barack Obama widely criticized his use of executive actions. Issuing a total of 277 orders in his tenure, Obama was accused by Congress of bypassing checks established in the constitution to advance his own political agenda — at that time, the GOP compared him to a king. With President Donald Tr ump now in office, however, this executive branch behavior has continued, and even broadened in scope. In his first week in office, President Trump has issued 7 executive orders and 11 presidential memorandums. The dif ference between an executive order and a memorandum boil down to disparate audiences: The former directs the executive branch to take action in a particular way (unless it violates existing law); the latter, however, simply states a policy directive coming from the president’s office. Both are — under the GOP’s own asser tion during Obama’s presidency — efforts to bypass the legislative process. Interestingly, the need of the Trump administration to for ward such a great volume of executive actions is quite perplexing, considering that the GOP has control of both the House and the Senate. President Donald Trump’s authoritarian actions directly undermine democracy in our countr y. The use of executive actions, despite having control over the legislature, is indicative of a president tr ying to demonstrate control over the legislative branch. This — viewed in the lens of his actions surrounding the press and statements regarding dissent — describes the narrative of a man attempting to consolidate power while undermining the rest of the government. After demanding a blackout of all government agencies — including the Environmental Protection Agency and the departments of Commerce, Health and Human Ser vices — last week, Trump made it clear he had no compunction silencing any inter nal opposition he might face while in office. The recent response from Sean Spicer, the White House Press Secretar y, indicated that Trump’s administration will not tolerate dissent: Spicer’s words, which amount to forcing diplomats out of their job if they don’t get with the program is absurd and highly counterproductive, and fur thermore constr ucts a bubble within the government, preventing necessar y debate over the policy decisions. Another demonstration of the authoritarian actions of the President manifested Tuesday, when the previous Attor ney General Sally Yates refused to enforce Trump’s immigration ban. Immediately following this announcement, President Trump fired her from her position, citing a betrayal of the Department of Justice. With expanded executive action, including orders and presidential memorandums, his appointments to office, and the silence he has forced upon members of his opposition in the government, President Trump is sending a clear message to the people of this countr y — he doesn’t care about democratic values. This not only undermines our democratic institutions, but could jeopardize the trust that American people have in them in the years to come.
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mentors, I was able to land inter nships and gain invaluable experience at companies like Thrivent Financial and, as of this summer, Kohl’s. The oppor tunity to gain real-world work experience in my desired field has given me confidence that I am on the right track toward my career goals. Because of my oppor tunity with College in the Schools in Duluth, the guidance from my advisors, and my focused academics, I’m proud to say that I’ll be able to graduate a semester early and keep my student debt to a minimum.
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Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Catch up on paperwork and administrative details today and tomorrow. Do the filing. Pay bills. Keep a low profile; you can get grumpy without down time.
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Students affected by travel restrictions Students u from Page 1
Some students say they no longer feel wanted here. They worry about the sudden instability introduced into their lives. Many are considering finding positions in Canada or Europe. Saeed Hashemi, a doctoral student from Iran, said even though there are better jobs in the U.S. than other parts of the world, he’s not sure he’ll stay here after finishing his degree. “I [would] prefer starting over in another country that feels more comfortable and more welcoming,” he said. ‘Protecting the nation’ President Trump’s order — titled, ‘Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States’ — states that one of its intents is to allow time for relevant federal agencies to reassess the visa issuance process. The order says the process “plays a crucial role in detecting individuals with terrorist ties and stopping them from entering the United States.” Diplomats and people with specific international organization visas are excluded from the ban. Student visas, which most international students have, fall under the order, said Linda P. Aaker, an attorney with University Student Legal Services. Some other students have green cards, she said, but the impact on those permanent U.S. residents is still unclear. This executive order has introduced an unprecedented feeling of uncertainty into the legal system, Aaker said. “There’s a reason there’s a lot of regulations and detail in immigration law. It’s because it has to be well-tuned to meet diverse needs, and there’s a lot of legal history behind each and every component there that [Trump] washed out in a week,” she said. International students from the affected countries — and even some from outside those nations — have been calling SLS in a panic, wondering what the Trump administration might do next, Aaker said. “It’s extremely hard, and when clients ask me, I have to say I don’t know what’s going to happen,” she said. Nationwide opposition to the executive order was swift. Protesters organized at airports, including MinneapolisSt. Paul International Airport, where many attorneys offered pro bono assistance to impacted travelers. Nearly 1,000 people gathered at an event hosted by Rep. Ilhan Omar, DFL-Minneapolis, to discuss the policy
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Iraqi refugees Hawra Albattat and Saja Alnabi march through downtown Minneapolis to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration ban on Tuesday. “We can’t go home and see our family now,” Albattat said.
Sunday night. About 5,000 assembled in downtown Minneapolis Tuesday to condemn the immigration ban. As of Wednesday, about 220 faculty members from the University system had signed a national online petition called “Academics Against Immigration Executive Order.” Af fected students say the outpouring of support from their communities gives them hope in an otherwise bleak situation. Mohsen — a recent University graduate from Iran who asked to be referred by his first name only — said the demonstrations in support of immigrants have moved him to tears. It’s encouraging to see that not everybody supports Trump’s policies, he said. Saeed Hashemi called these responses “heartwarming.” They help him feel less alone, he said. ‘What did I do to deserve this?’ After accepting a spot in the University’s mechanical engineering doctoral program, Morteza Taherinejad spent months getting a U.S. visa, found a house in the Southeast Como neighborhood, quit his teaching job at an Iranian university and said goodbye to his family. On Jan. 28, at Schiphol
Amsterdam Airpor t, Taherinejad was checking in for his connecting flight to Minneapolis when an airport officer said he couldn’t board the plane. Taherinejad spent three “terrible” days at the airport, he said. After being told by University and government officials that there was nothing they could do to help him, he returned to Iran on Tuesday without a plan for his future. Taherinejad said he can’t understand why this immigration ban was put in place. It’s not fair, he said — he and his fellow Iranians aren’t terrorists. Many students and staff said they have the same questions and wonder what they’ve done to deserve what they see as punishment from the government. For others, there are financial implications as well. An Iranian medical researcher at the University — who asked to remain anonymous — had booked a trip to Iran in March to see her parents for first time in two years. Her $900 plane ticket won’t be refunded. “All of us have lost hope to see our family,” she said. “What did I do to deserve this?” Mahdi Ahmadi empathizes with Americans who feel these policies are necessar y because of
their anxieties about the economy and national security, he said, but he said immigrants aren’t to blame for these concerns. “I understand there is a feeling of insecurity, but it’s very harmful if you don’t diagnose it right,” he said. The executive order is another blow in what feels like a constant stream of aggressions against the Muslim community, said Amera Hassan, public relations officer for the University Al-Madinah Cultural Center. “We’ve become desensitized because there is just so often all this rhetoric against us,” she said. “There is only so much fighting you can do before you feel drained.” As a result of the order, more people are starting to acknowledge the hostilities aimed at Muslim people, said Amira Gadow, a Somali student and public relations intern for the Somali Student Association. Still, this is a new level of hurt, Gadow said. Her grandmother and older brother live in Somalia, and her family is concerned that they may not be able to visit them again. “I’m lucky to be in America, but if this happened 20 years ago, I wouldn’t be here. It just pains me to realize there’s people who won’t get the opportunities that I’ve got,” she said.
A shattered image While the ban doesn’t impact a large por tion of University applicants, it may have broader implications for inter national recruitment, said Aimee Thostenson, director of international recruitment for University International Student and Scholar Services. “In a public relations sense, the U.S. is seen as a less welcoming destination for international students to come and study here,” she said. It’s too soon to tell how the ban will impact enrollment this fall, but if it does have an impact, it will likely be negative, Thostenson said. She said she hopes the University’s high academic ranking will offset some of the negativity. Others say the damage has already been done. A Ph.D. student from Iran, who requested anonymity, said she and her boyfriend will likely leave the country once she finishes her degree. “I’ve been a ver y good citizen here. I’ve paid my taxes. I’ve worked hard,” she said. “Why wouldn’t you want somebody like me? I feel like that’s your loss … I’m going to be a good citizen anywhere I go.” Like many of his colleagues, Saeed Hashemi
said he is thinking about looking for a job outside the U.S. “I don’t feel good about the country anymore,” Hashemi said. “Right now, I cannot feel welcome here.” Mina Kian, a second-year University student whose family is from Iran, said simply lifting the ban wouldn’t be enough to repair the rifts it’s caused. “[Many immigrants] came here because America gave the promise of possibilities, of freedom. Those are ideals I think immigrants value, but suddenly ‘the land of the free’ has become this complete lie,” she said. Though it will be difficult to repair the image of the U.S., Ahmadi said he still has hope for democracy in America. This situation has made him think of Howard C. Baskerville, he said, an American who fought for Iranian democracy in the early 20th century. “This is the famous quote: ‘The only difference between me and these people is my place of birth, and this is not a big difference,’” Ahmadi said, pausing. “I just hope someday this gap between the cultures and the countries will be filled in.” David Clarey and Samir Ferdowsi contributed reporting
After fees revamp daycares brace for funding cuts Care
“There’s nothing left to cut but quality. ... I don’t think providing subpar services at a lower cost is serving our mission.”
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Both centers face employee cuts, increased rates and eliminating their sliding scale, which a majority of parents use. “There’s nothing left to cut but quality,” said Katie Johnson, director of the Como Early Learning Center. “I don’t think providing subpar ser vices at a lower cost is serving our mission.” Neither center is an official University entity, but they have been supported by fees since the 1980s. The Community Child Care Center received $90,890 in funding from the fees this academic year. The Como Early Learning Center received $87,000. With new changes, organizations can request up to $30,000 in programming and $25,000 in operational costs. A committee of students and staff made the change — among other adjustments to the process — based on sur veys and listening sessions with students, said Sara Carvell, associate director of the Office for Student Affairs and the student service fee advisor. As the number of student groups applying for funding has increased, the University has had to find a way to accommodate groups without increasing student ser vice
KATIE JOHNSON Como Early Learning Center Director
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Children play in the snow at the Community Child Care Center on Monday in St. Paul. The daycare’s funding from student service fees has been cut over 70 percent, causing it to change its fee structure.
fees, Carvell said. Since 2014, the amount of available funds has increased at a rate of about three percent each year, which hasn’t kept pace with the number of student groups. In 2016, 112 groups requested funding compared to 83 in 2014, Cavell said. Matt Sumera, an OSA
spokesman, said the survey responses gave clear feedback that students did not want to see the student service fees increase. He said the focus of the changes was to ensure student fees were fairly distributed among the many groups requesting them. “Contingency planning
for how every single group might need to respond was not par t of the process,” Sumera said. The University is developing a parent grant for student parents to apply for star ting next fall, said Laura Knudson, assistant vice provost for student advocacy and support.
The Student Par ent Help Center will handle the grant, she said. The specifics are being finalized, but the grant will have at least $100,000 in funding for feepaying students. Recipients can use the money for any kind of childcare needs. “[The grant] gets the widest variety of students’
money in their hands to use for wherever it makes sense for them,” Knudson said. As the committee weighed in on changes to the student service fee process, it looked to other universities with similar grants for parents, she said. Vice Provost for Student Af fairs and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young announced the grant to parents in an email earlier this week. While the centers tr y to understand the financial necessity of the new policy, they worr y that it may not impact all student groups equally, said Pablo Olivera Firpo, president of the Community Child Care Center’s parent board. “I don’t want to say none of the student groups are impor tant,” he said. “But this student group in particular … this provides a service that is in high need.”