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U STUDENT’S PHOTO PROJECT EMPOWERS WOMEN PAGE 2

■■ U startup receives $7M for cancer treatment

ALI MILLER INTERVIEWS WOMEN ABOUT STRUGGLES.

■■ Gophers hockey takes third at North Star Cup

ApoGen hopes to develop the drug for cancer therapy. PAGE 2

The men’s team lost to UMD but beat Bemidji on Sat. PAGE 5

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POLITICS

Panel to rule on U football players’ fate within week A committee will decide whether to uphold the recommendation to expel some, suspend others. BY CHRISTOPHER AADLAND caadland@mndaily.com

A three-person student panel will decide by Friday whether 10 Gophers football players will be punished for their alleged involvement in a September sexual assault. The players — accused of sexual assault and harassment — pleaded their cases to the panel in all-day, closed-door hearings last week after the University of Minnesota’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action recommended in December that five players be expelled, four be suspended and one be placed on probation. EOAA of ficials found it “more likely than not” that the players had violated the school’s conduct code during a Title IX investigation by allegedly committing sexual assault and/or sexual harassment at an

Ilhan Omar recaps first weeks at the Capitol

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LEGISLATURE

Highway protest proposals could stiffen penalties If passed, new legislation would require protesters to pay police costs in highway obstructions. BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE Idally-steele@umn.edu

Highway protesters in Minnesota could face stif fer penalties if two proposed bills are passed at the state Legislature this year. Rep. Nick Zer was, R-Elk River, introduced the bills Jan. 19 and 23 and was met with animosity from Minneapolis residents who claim they infringe on free speech. The bills would make par ticipants of “an unlawful assembly” or “public nuisance” accountable for the cost of police responses to the events and charge those who obstr uct highways with a gross misdemeanor. Some say the bill unfairly targets political dissent — highway protests in particular. “Let’s be real, this bill isn’t just about protest. It’s specifically black protest they r afraid of and want 2 repress …,” Black Lives Matter Minneapolis tweeted on u See HIGHWAY Page 2

CHRIS DANG, DAILY

Rep. Ilhan Omar, DFL-Minneapolis, answers questions for the Minnesota Daily in her office on West Bank on Friday.

Omar, the U areas’s representitive, sat down with the Daily Friday to talk about her goals, the school’s budget request and President Trump. What’s it been like being the first Somali-

BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com

American lawmaker in the U.S.?

As the 2017 Minnesota Legislature’s session

It’s been great. I think for me there’s a lot of

ramps up, newly elected Rep. Ilhan Omar, DFL-Min-

… talk about freshman and the learning cur ve,

neapolis, sat down to talk with the Minnesota Daily.

but I find that I know a lot of the people in the

Omar, the University of Minnesota area’s

caucus, and I’m able to maneuver around and

House member, talked about her transition

[I’m] kind of getting a really good star t. We’ve

into the legislature, her goals for the session

figured out a way to keep the community en-

and her thoughts on Donald Tr ump’s presi-

gaged and keep the conversations going. So it

dency and how it could impact Minnesota.

doesn’t really feel like we’re starting, it feels like

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STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Report tackles U minority mental health disparities The report found that minority students face different barriers when seeking mental health care. BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

Minority students at the University of Minnesota face barriers when seeking mental healthcare their non-person of color counterparts don’t face. As college campuses boost mental health awareness, students from minority groups have worse access and quality of care, and the

HEALTH

University joint committee of the Council of Graduate Students and Professional Student Government conducted a report to assess how the school’s mental health resources serve minority students. The report is based on interviews with 15-20 undergraduate and graduate students. Common concerns included micro-aggressions, cultural barriers, faculty-student relationships and administrative concerns, said Kelly Wallin, one of the report’s co-authors. The committee plans to deliver the report to the Board of Regents and administration later this month. Last semester, the same committee

delivered a resolution to the administration calling for a reworking of mental health services at the University. The pressures of college are an integral play a big role in mental health, said Richard Lee, a University psychology professor. Lee has researched the way ethnic identity can play into mental well-being, and said that the difficulties a student faces in college can vary based on a variety of demographic characteristics. Students of color may face difficulties trying to find ways to succeed in a trying u See REPORT Page 3

Chef uses cooking class to improve public health After she received a grant, chef Jenny Breen started the class to use nutrition to prevent illness. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

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Professional chef Jenny Breen helps Katelyn Erickson cut a sweet potato at The Good Acre in St. Paul on Jan. 17.

Knives moved hesitantly across cutting boards, and beginning cooks chucked parsnips — or maybe they were carrots — in the oven, while others whisked savor y sauces and dressings. That was the scene at The Good Acre in St. Paul on Wednesday evening. Since last fall, Food Matters, a graduate-level class for new cooks has been offered by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Spirituality and Healing. Taught by chef Jenny Breen and

University assistant professor of medicine Kate Shafto, the class promotes healthy eating as a strategy to improve public health and prevent chronic illnesses. The class teaches healthy cooking techniques and recipes to health care students and future health professionals once a week for six weeks. Breen, the co-founder of the class, has been a chef for over 25 years and started the class last fall. “It is a unique approach,” she said. “I call this applied nutrition.” Breen said she and her co-founder received a grant in 2016 to create the class, and the pilot version last fall was only offered to medical students. Shafto, who teaches with Breen, is a u See CLASS Page 3 VOLUME 117 ISSUE 34

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Daily Review

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Ali Miller hold up her own poster saying “I am not a victim, I am a survivor” on Friday, Jan. 27, 2017 at her apartment in Minneapolis.

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U student gives survivors a voice

Student Ali Miller has interviewed over 100 women telling their stories. BY SAMIR FERDOWSI sferdowsi@mndaily.com

Last spring, University of Minnesota student Ali Miller wanted to help others feel the same sense of empowerment she found in publicly sharing her stor y of sur viving sexual assault. Since launching her project in March 2016, the strategic communications junior has photographed and interviewed over 100 young women around the country about their personal struggles ranging from sexual assault trauma to mental illnesses and body image

concer ns. The project, called the “I Am Movement,” features the photos with the subject’s stories on social media. Last summer, the project garnered attention from national media outlets such as USA Today. Miller found inspiration for the project after Australian blogger Chantelle Baxter featured her on her website. “It was really the first time I got to tell my side, which was amazing. Instead of being told what happened, I was heard,” Miller said. “I realized how often sexual assault and rape happen, which is horrifying, but it also made super clear in my head that what I went through wasn’t OK and something needs to be done about this.” With new insight into

the vulnerability and power of storytelling, Miller wanted to start her own project, open to any women who wanted to share their life experience. The project features many University students though it is not exclusive to them. Sociology senior Liz Ogunkanbi decided to join the movement to raise awareness about artificial beauty standards that oversexualize African American women. “That post made me feel ver y empowered and let people know that everyone struggles, and the definition of struggling is different for everyone,” she said. “It was great to reiterate that I need to feel beautiful for myself, no one else. There’s no common mold to be a woman.” For those participants who

Startup company takes on drug-resistant cancer ApoGen received $7 million in funding to create cancer therapy drug. BY NEHA PANIGRAHY npanigrahy@mndaily.com

A star tup company run by University of Minnesota scientists is developing a dr ug that could transform how cancer is treated. ApoGen Biotechnologies is working on a method to block enzymes that induce mutations in tumors, allowing traditional treatments to be more effective. The startup just received $7 million and is planning to open a research facility in the next year. Treating cancer with dr u gs c a n b e i n e f fe ctive because cancer often stops responding as it grows resistant to the drug. This is common in chemotherapy. Since cancerous cells are constantly evolving and mutating, it’s dif ficult to continue ef fective chemotherapy after some time. “The bigger vision is allowing other cancer therapies to be more successful

“I pursued this because as a scientist, I was excited about the project. The commercial potential for the drug can help thousands of people.” JOHN SANTINI Founder, ApoGen Biotechnologies

by this drug,” said Rueben Harris, one of the founders and researchers of ApoGen. A P O B E C 3 B , a cla s s of enzymes found in humans, has been shown to induce DNA mutations in tumors. The drug ApoGen is working on would block the enzymes to prevent gr owth and mutations. If the cancer cells can’t evolve, they can be destroyed by dr ug therapy methods. “The goal is to develop drug inhibiting APOBEC3B for cancer therapy and eventually make it more curable,” said Daniel Harki, a founding member and researcher of ApoGen. Harki and Harris are working with John Santini, an MIT graduate who has worked with star tups since the 1990s. The company was

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founded in August 2014 in St. Paul. In late November 2016, ApoGen Biotechnologies r eceived $7 million in funding from Accelerator Corporation to further the research. Santini said Accelerator Corporation, a science investment firm, has been helpful in providing funding, initial resources and manpower to make the company run smoothly. In the next year, ApoGen Biotechnologies plans to open a research facility in Seattle. “I pursued this because as a scientist, I was excited about the project. The commercial potential for the dr ug can help thousands of people,” said Santini, another founder and one of the board members of ApoGen.

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describe their experience with sexual assault, advocacy exper ts say projects that encourage victim-survivors to share their stories can be an effective way to heal and empower themselves and others. “I think it is ver y powerful to see the variety of images and faces that help victim-sur vivors realize who aren’t even a par t of a movement,” said Jeanne Ronayne, executive director of the Minnesota Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Ronayne said that social media movements such as ‘I Am’ may have evolved from marches that took places in the 1970s and ’80s. “Movements like the ‘I Am’ directly address the need for finding community and taking something that is very painful, and perhaps uncomfortable, within our

experience and say this is part of me. It can be used to make life better,” said Katie Eichele, Aurora Center director. “It’s breaking the silence and taboo.” Miller said she hopes the I Am Movement will continue to help girls. “I really think this is changing people’s lives,” she said.

Highway

give us hope. We vote for people like you to stand up against garbage laws like this.” After the bill passed in a 9-6 committee vote, activists in attendance chanted “If we don’t get no justice, they don’t get no peace.” Jordan Kushner, Minneapolis civil rights attorney said that “[the bill is] designed to price people out of being able to protest,” and said it infringes “a great deal” on citizens’ First Amendment rights. Kushner said he agreed with pr otesters at the meeting. “After seeing Republican legislators not paying attention to them and who don’t care about what they have to say, I can understand.” In his address, Zer was said the bill to make protesters pay for police fits existing Minnesota law, specifically the state’s ability to sue arsonists for reparations. “If you’re in one of our great nor th woods … and you’re convicted of that intentional fire or arson,” he said, “the state of Minnesota has the ability to sue you civilly for the cost that you’ve incurred upon the state.” Kushner disagreed. He said defendants aren’t made to pay for police response to theft or murder, and the bill therefore singles out political dissidents.

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Jan. 24 in response to the measure that would make protesters pay for police forces. At a House Civil Law and Data Practices Policy Committee meeting last week, Zer was addressed concerns, saying the bill “would not limit anyone’s ability to legally protest… to legally petition their government or to demonstrate.” The bill, he said, would take the financial burden of police response of f tax-payers. In the last 18 months, protests have cost $2.5 million in the T win Cities for enforcement. At one point, Zer was praised the Jan. 21 Women’s March and Jan. 22 pro-life rally for legally exer cising their “First Amendment rights.” But at the meeting, John Thompson, a St. Paul Public Schools employee and friend of Philando Castile — who was shot and killed by a police of ficer during a traf fic stop last year — criticized the proposed law. “We have no voice, so what we do is we vote for people like you to make changes,” Thompson said at the meeting. “We vote for people like you to

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Minority student mental health addressed in report Report u from Page 1

environment, he said. “Any burden or stress that they’re experiencing isn’t necessarily because they aren’t capable … It’s merely because they’re working in a system that was set up for white, middle-class men originally.” In his research, Lee said he’s found the level a person takes pride in their identity can have beneficial effects, but also negative effects when someone’s identity is attacked. In recent months, the political climate and events — such as the Philando Castille shooting and the Washington Avenue Bridge vandalism — have caused an increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms in communities of color, said Jerry Shih, clinical director of University Student Counseling Services. “There are a lot of different ways our counselors need to be equipped to provide good service to a really diverse student body,” he said. SCS counselors take cultural training courses to prepare themselves for the different backgrounds they face on the University’s campus, Shih said. Boynton Health’s leadership team undergoes cultural training as well, said communications director Dave Golden. Shih said SCS considers itself successful when it comes to serving communities of color because the percentage of students it serves from those communities is greater than the percentage of student population at the University from those same communities. Historically, people of color use mental health services at a lower rate than Caucasians, but that is changing for the better, he said. “Partly it’s because people are becoming more informed about the counseling process in general,” Shih said. “I think more and more people know someone who have gotten counseling and benefitted from it.” Discussions between friends is one of the most effective ways to break stigmas, said Dr. Ludmila De Faria, a member of the American Psychological Association and a clinical assistant professor at Florida State University. “Word-of-mouth and peer education … is a contagion effect; they go back and spread the word that ‘Hey, it’s not a big deal,’” De Faria said. Levels of stigma remain among various populations, though awareness campaigns have generally helped lower it, De Faria said. “Overall, I think there has been an improvement, except that I think the people who are benefitting from the destigmatization … are white, Caucasian students,” she said. She said other ways to make the service more

approachable include hiring more people of color as practitioners and cultural competency training. “I don’t think people realize how their lack of cultural competency interferes,” De Faria said. The COGS-PSG mental health report recommends more counselors of color be hired, said Wallin, one of the report’s co-authors. Other recommendations include targeted outreach in communities in non-traditional ways.

For example, contextualizing mental health issues in academics, like asking if anxiety is making a test more difficult, may make personal conversations more approachable, Wallin said. “Many of [the recommendations] are going to be a little bit more broad, but the report isn’t supposed to be something we hand to the administration and now [they] have an instructional manual,” she said. “It’s meant primarily to be a stepping stone, and an initiator of conversation.”

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off-campus apartment after a Gophers football game. The players deny that they sexually assaulted the reporting party and say the sex was consensual. The Hennepin County Attor ney’s Of fice has twice declined to press charges in the case following an investigation by the Minneapolis Police Department. During the hearings, the committee heard testimony from the repor ting party, players and experts, according to one of the players’ attor neys, Lee Hutton. If found responsible,, the players will appeal the decision to Provost Karen Hanson, Hutton said. The players plan to take the case to federal cour t if the allegations aren’t cleared, Hutton told the Minnesota Daily Sunday. “I feel so confident that the University investigation was in foul play that … we do plan on taking this to federal district cour t,”

Med students learn healthy cooking

FALL 2016 VISITORS AT SCS AND BOYNTON VS STUDENT BODY STUDENT COUNSELING SERVICES 68.5% 64.4% MEAGAN LYNCHW, DAILY

Professional chef Jenny Breen demonstrates ways to use a chef’s knife at The Good Acre in Falcon Heights on Jan. 17.

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17.4%

17.0% 12.5%

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African American

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Committee to decide outcome of football players’ sex assault case Hearings

he said. The players’ attorneys have r epeatedly raised concer ns about the University’s handling of the case. Hutton said the school’s investigation was incomplete and riddled with bias. The players’ attorneys have also said the accused players haven’t received due process in the case. A University spokesperson declined to comment on the hearings, citing student privacy laws. The players were suspended from football activities in December by the athletics department after the EOAA completed its investigation. The suspension spurred a less-than-48-hour boycott by the football team of all team activities until their teammates were reinstated. It also sparked counterprotests by sexual assault victim-sur vivors and allies as well as the firing of former head football coach, Tracy Claeys. Star ting in 2011, the federal government under the Obama administration

— concerned colleges and universities weren’t adequately addressing campus sexual assault — directed schools to more seriously address the issue. Though controversial, schools were told to use a “more likely than not” preponderance of evidence — lower than the “beyond a reasonable doubt” standard criminal cour ts use — to determine whether an accused student was responsible for sexual misconduct. In recent years, after government pressure, the number of sexual misconduct cases at the University has increased. About one-four th of University female undergraduates and one in 20 male undergraduates repor t experiencing nonconsensual sexual contact during their time enrolled in college. Those numbers mir ror national data, according to a September 2015 Association of American Universities study. Overall, about 11 percent of students at the University repor t unwanted sexual contact.

pediatrician and assistant professor in the University’s medical school. She said she developed the class after personal experiences helped her realize the need for education on food and well-being. “We’ve tried to make the acute care model work for chronic diseases,” she said, explaining that this model pushes health professionals to find the disease and fix it. Both Breen and Shafto said they want to highlight how cooking with whole foods is accessible, sustainable and closely relates to well-being. “It was a brand new idea to some people,” said Breen of her approach to food. She said many health professionals don’t know how to advise patients on healthy eating. Katelyn Erickson, a second-year doctor of nursing practice student, said she found the class on a course list and felt it applied to her integrative health and

“We’ve tried to make the acute care model work for chronic diseases.” KATE SHAFTO University assistant professor

healing specialty. After the first class, Erickson said she was impressed by Breen and Shafto’s teaching and cooking skills and ability to communicate to health professionals in different fields. During the cooking portion of the class, Erickson said she chopped parsnips, tur nips and sweet potatoes, seasoned them with herbs and oven roasted them. “It was good to combine whole foods that are local and sustainable and rich in flavor into simple recipes,” she said. The class is a way to learn about the food system and how it relates to healthcare institutions, Erickson said. She believes that a change in understanding how food relates to wellbeing could impact healthcare facilities and allow communities to connect with local farmers. “Both as a personal and professional philosophy, [food is] a way of reshaping the current healthcare system,” she said, adding that using local and organic foods with cooking skills can heal patients and prevent chronic illnesses. Once the course is done, Erickson said she hopes she’s equipped with a greater knowledge base of how to integrate nutrition into flavorful meals. “It’s really great to be immersed among a variety of health professional students,” she said. “So

“Both as a personal and professional philosophy, [food is] a way of reshaping the current health care system.” KATELYN ERICKSON student

many are actually interested in this movement.” Tif fany Joy Ralston, a student ser vices specialist at CSH, has volunteered to help the class since its first section. Ralston said she’s always been interested in nutrition and wanted to get involved. “It’s been growing a lot by word of mouth,” she said. “It gives the students a chance to get away from their normal medical school.” She said Br een and Shafto are working to get more grants for the class as well as list it under the medical school’s course offerings. Ralston said she expects demand to grow, noting that the class doubled in students from the first section to the second section last fall. “People are star ting to become more aware of nutrition as it relates to their health,” she said. “This is a concrete way for people to learn about the facts.”

Monday, January 30, 2017

Sports

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers fall 85-78, loss streak continues

Minnesota Gophers have now lost five straight contests vs conference foes. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

Akeem Springs had already been Minnesota’s hero once, and all eyes fell on him in the closing seconds of overtime. The guard, who had sent the game into extra minutes early on, bounced the last shot of f the rim, and the Gophers’ last chance at an upset was spoiled. Minnesota (15-5, 3-4 Big Ten) fell to No. 17 Wisconsin (16-3, 5-1) 78-76 in overtime on Saturday at Williams Arena. “I don’t normally enjoy coaching during the games, but I kind of enjoyed it,” said head coach Richard Pitino. “[Wisconsin] just made one more play.” Springs enter ed the Gophers’ star ting lineup

for just the second time against the Badgers. The graduate-transfer amassed 16 points on 6-12 shooting in the game. “I always saw myself as a star ter; it wasn’t something I was really focusing on,” Springs said. “I want to be able to do all the little things.” Meanwhile, guard Dupree McBrayer moved to the bench for the first time all season and fared well. McBrayer went 5-7 shooting with 14 points — his highest point total since Dec. 27 against Michigan State. Guard Nate Mason str uggled to score in the game with just eight points. However, he did get 10 assists. One of Mason’s 10 assists came on a broken play. Mason was able to find for ward Eric Curr y as the guard fell to the floor. Curr y hit a jump shot from the baseline to help the Gophers take a 76-74 lead in over time. Curr y finished

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with five points and five rebounds. Center Reggie L ynch fouled out of the game for the fifth time this season. L ynch played 20 minutes in the game and led the team in with seven rebounds. Wisconsin for ward Ethan Happ tied the highest point total scored by a W isconsin player this season with 28 points in the game. He also tallied six assists and 12 rebounds. Gophers for ward Bakar y Konate scored two points and grabbed four rebounds in his 24 minutes of play. Konate made an impact as a rim protector when he forced a miss from Happ under the rim

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Two Gophers players netted their first career goals in the two away games.

After finding themselves in more of a rut than they’re used to, the Gophers found a way to sail with an away sweep against St. Cloud State. Minnesota won Friday’s game 2-1, though head coach Brad Frost said it wasn’t their best showing. “Quite frankly, I didn’t think our team played as well as we normally do,” Frost said. “We were flat, for one reason or another, but cer tainly happy to win and get those three points.” No. 4 Minnesota (19-53, 15-4-3 WCHA) opened, scoring in the first period with a goal from freshman for ward Kippin Keller — the first of her career. The Huskies (7-18-3, 5-15-2 WCHA) tied the game in the second period, but for ward Nicole Schammel saved the Gophers from defeat with a third period goal for the 2-1 win. Senior defenseman Megan Wolfe was the playmaker of the day and assisted both goals. The game featured the return of junior goaltender Sidney Peters between the pipes, as last week’s starter, sophomore Emma May, did not dress due to illness. Peters made 12 saves and gave up only one goal. The second game saw a definite resurgence of form

with 3:07 left in over time. Unfortunately for the Minnesota, the missed shot went right to Wisconsin’s Bronson Koenig for the game-winning 3-point shot. Koenig finished with 11 points and went 3-5 from behind the arc. Guard Amir Cof fey led all Gophers players in scoring with 19 points in the game. Coffey shot 8-14 from the field. Coffey drove to the rim and was fouled as he made the contested layup with

15:28 to go in the second half. The shot was a goahead basket for the Gophers, and the team led 40-38. “It’s a physical league,” Coffey said. “You have got to go into ever y game expecting a dog fight.” The Badgers had a chance to make it a twopossession game, but a traveling call on Hill led to the Gophers getting the ball back with 22.2 seconds in the game. Happ’s presence down low led to the Badgers

scoring 44 points in the paint compared to the Gophers’ 24 points. Minnesota will look to bounce back from its three-game losing streak against Ohio State in Columbus, Ohio on Jan. 25. Pitino said he hopes that the team will be able to respond from the defeat. ‘They need to be positive,” Pitino said. “I don’t see a whole lot of negative to look at from tonight besides that we lost. We can only get better.”

MEN’S HOCKEY

Road sweep over St. Cloud State re-energizes Minnesota BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com

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Grad student Akeem Springs drives the ball up the court on Saturday at the Williams Arena. The Gophers lost 78-85 against the University of Maryland Terrapins.

for the Gophers, who won the tilt 5-0 contest with 55 shots on goal. “We came out together and tried to get as many shots as we could, and the bounces went our way today,” said sophomore forward Sarah Potomak. Held scoreless through the first period, Minnesota’s offense exploded in the second and third and scored five unanswered goals and shut out St. Cloud on its home ice. The team played with a new sense of energy and fire, one that had not been seen in many weeks for the team. “I thought tonight might have been one of our best games of the season,” Frost said. “From an effort, energy, and execution standpoint, some players with their first goals as Gophers this weekend … Overall, really happy about the six points.” Potomak sparked the scoring five minutes into the second period with her 15th goal of the season and then assisted sophomore forward Taylor Williamson’s goal less than three minutes later. Schammel wrapped up the second period with her second goal of the series, bringing the score to 3-0. Senior defenseman Lee Stecklein scored next for Minnesota after posting two assists prior. The captain ended with three points on the night. So ph om o r e for wa r d

Gophers take third in final North Star College Cup

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Tianna Gunderson scored her first goal in a Gophers uniform in the third period, which was the last tally of the game for the 5-0 final. Peters had 12 saves in her seventh shutout of the season. This series was a huge step forward for Minnesota after being swept by Minnesota-Duluth and dropping points against Ohio State in its previous two weekends. The sweep gives Minnesota a solid foundation to build on with three regular season series remaining on its schedule, including one with No. 1 Wisconsin. “We’re going to take it one game at a time,” Potomak said. “The biggest thing for us is to not get too far ahead with playoffs coming up.”

“We came out together and tried to get as many shots as we could, and the bounces went our way today.” SARAH POTOMAK Senior forward

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Forward Nicole Schammel skates against Lindenwood Lions on Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 at Ridder Arena. The Gophers won the season-opening game 3-0 against the Lions.

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Gophers goaltender Eric Schierhorn watches the puck against the Bulldogs in the North Star College Cup at the Xcel Energy Center in St.Paul on Friday. The Bulldogs beat the Gophers 3-2.

The tournament of in-state rivals is ending after only four years of action. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

A Minnesota tradition that never was, the North Star College Cup, went out with a whimper for the Gophers Saturday evening. Minnesota lost to Minnesota-Duluth 3-2 Friday night and was victorious against Bemidji State 4-0 on Saturday to finish third out of four teams. “I thought it was a hardfought game,” said head coach Don Lucia Friday. “I thought both teams came out and competed really well.” The No. 6 Gophers (15-72) faced one of their toughest opponents all season Friday in the No. 2 Bulldogs (17-5-4). Down 3-1 late in the third period, Minnesota almost forged a big comeback — thanks to for ward Brent Gates Jr. The sophomore had both of Minnesota’s goals, one of which came with 38.9 seconds left in the game, but the Gophers never found the equalizer. Minnesota opened the scoring on its seventh-ranked power play. Gates — a player who scores in bunches — has three multi-goal games this season. “The guys around me made good plays,” Gates said. “The second one, [with] an extra man at the end of the game, you’re just trying to get

pucks to the net, and that’s what happened.” The Gophers fell short with costly turnovers and sloppy passes, giving the Bulldogs several opportunities to score. Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth traded shot advantages in the second and third period. The Gophers were outshot 15-5 in the second period, but outshot the Bulldogs 22-2 in the third. The Bulldogs forced the Gophers’ offense into oneand-done situations throughout the game and kept Minnesota from settling into offensive possession. Both Lucia and Gates were positive after the loss, though, because they said the team knows what they are capable of now after keeping pace with as good of as Minnesota-Duluth. On Saturday, Minnesota faced yet another top 20 team, No. 20 Bemidji State (16-11-3). The Gophers didn’t have the same start as Friday’s game and allowed multiple breakaways in the first five minutes. “Interesting start,” Lucia said. “Eric [Schierhorn] was good early, you know something we talked about this year, he hasn’t had to win us many games… that was a game he gave us an opportunity.” Goaltender Eric Schierhorn bailed his team out many times on Saturday as turnovers remained prevalent. “I don’t know if breakaways are really what you want,” Schierhor n said. “Both games I did have those shots [to] kind of get me

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in the rhythm.” Schierhorn stopped all 25 shots he saw Saturday — his fourth shutout of the season. Forward Taylor Cammarata scored his second goal of the season. The senior has seen increased playing time following the season-ending injury to forward Tommy Novak. “We played against a good team,” Lucia said. “I said games like that would make us better in the longrun, and they will. Now we have to go back to work, we’re back in the Big Ten. We did much better nonconference this year against a good-quality slate of teams … and it puts us in a much better position.”

“... games like that would make us better in the longrun. ... Now we have to go back to work, we’re back in the Big Ten.” DON LUCIA Head coach

Monday, January 30, 2017

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Community engagement officers are a step forward But are these two new UMPD positions enough for campus?

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ast week, the Minnesota Daily r epor ted on the University of Minnesota police officials’ plans to add two new community engagement officers. These of ficers will be responsible for engaging with University students, faculty and staff, as well as attending local neighborhood meetings. Fur thermore, they’ll host a monthly mor ning cof fee event on campus. Community engagement is essential for police beat work, especially with today’s increasing public scrutiny and mistrust of law enforcement officers. However, working with the community shouldn’t just be delegated to two newcomers; it should be the responsibility of ever yone who wears a UMPD badge.

“Community engagement is esential for police beat work . . . However, working with the community shouldn’t just be delegated to two newcomers; it should be the responsibility of everyone who wears a UMPD badge.”

Mary Tyler Moore and white feminism Her TV show paved the way for traditional feminists, now let’s keep moving forward.

few days ago, pioneering actress and comedienne Mary Tyler Moore passed away. A few days before that, women all over the country marched in reaction to the inauguration of our new president. In a short time span, we said goodbye to an icon partially responsible for planting the first seeds of feminism in mainstream culture and then saw the heights that same movement could reach. And yet, the growing is far from done. Actually, this is not my first mention of Mary Tyler Moore in a column. I’ve previously cited her as having a special place in my heart since routinely watching her sitcom as a kid. The Mary Tyler Moore Show was an unprecedented hit in television: The premise of the series centered around a thirty-yearold woman leaving her fiancé and moving to Minneapolis, where she begins working at a local news station (surrounded by various colorful characters that round out the cast). The show premiered in 1970, and changed the landscape of television. For audiences, MTM normalized the experience of a single woman living for her friends and career — a TV life for a woman made up of more than just kooky dating and klutzy mistakes. And on top of that, it was damn good TV — funny and well-written to boot. The signature moment of the show, and of the actress herself, comes from the opening credits: Mary triumphantly tossing her hat into the air right on Nicollet Ave. Freeze frame, and an indelible image nestles itself into the zeitgeist. It’s an “I am woman, hear me roar” sort of image, and is emblematic of a

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generation of feminism reaching new cultural and political mass in history. With a hit TV show spotlighting such matters, what more needed to be done? In the recent weeks leading up to the highly anticipated women’s marches, contentions arose concerning intersectional feminism — the marches ideally were meant to specifically highlight and support the issues of feminists who don’t exclusively look like Mary Tyler Moore. We have to work against that misconception of feminism, most served to us in media and entertainment as the default. It’s not enough to march once a year, proudly brandishing a “Pussy Grabs Back” sign. There won’t be equality until white and/ or privileged feminists consistently support women of diverse backgrounds, who have been carrying the weight of protests like these for many long years. I will never forget what the depiction of Mary as a character did for me. She was everything I wanted to be, but she was lucky in this world, like me. She was able to leave her relationship, pick up and move, easily find a comfortable job — and do it all in a slender, alabaster frame. This is privilege. We thank Mary and the women who came before her, but this isn’t the end goal yet. I will show up for other women, all the while keeping that famous hat toss in mind as a starting pistol to keep going and going until all voices are heard.

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n a recent episode of the Civil Conversations Project, Krista Tippett spoke with Pulitzer Prize-winner Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns, a mammoth work of non-fiction chronicling The Great Migration, during which 6 million African Americans migrated to the northern U.S. during the 20th century. During the conversation, Ms. Wilkerson vocalizes something we would all do well to absorb. From the early days of colonization until Civil War times — from 1619 to 1863 — our society was being built around slaver y. Our society, culture, economy and government was being constructed upon a foundation in which human beings kept other human beings as their slaves throughout 12 successive generations. Ms. Wilkerson points out that no one alive today will see a moment when the time of black freedom equals the time of black slavery in U.S. history. To put that another way, in the history of the U.S., slavery has existed for longer than it hasn’t. Simultaneously, this burgeoning new society was also being constructed around the expulsion, exploitation and outright slaughter of indigenous North Americans. Given these realities, how could vestiges of slavery and exploitation not still exist

Trump’s executive order is cruel and dangerous

he logbooks of Ellis Island, the railway lines threaded across the U.S., even the common refrain of “God Bless America” are all af fixed with an American histor y deeply rooted in immigration. No artifice, no force can erase the evidence or artifact of that history. There are moments in the last 240 years, though, that have unraveled the claim that we are a nation of, and for, immigrants — policies, like the Chinese Exclusion Act, or Japanese internment; stories, like that of the MS St. Louis, which was denied entry into the U.S. with 900 Jewish refugees tucked in its hull. Of those on the ship, 254 later died in the Holocaust — an odious reminder of the fatal implications of America’s policies toward refugees. With Donald Trump’s decision Friday to temporarily ban entry of people from seven different majority-Muslim countries, as well as curtail Syrian refugee resettlement, we are now witnessing the latest iteration of a dangerous, wholly un-American anti-immigrant era — one that touts empty promises of security under the guise of racism, Islamophobia and xenophobia. And the effects of the ban are already being felt. At airports around the country — from Los Angeles, to Washington, D.C., and Seattle — protesters expressed their inability to accept the detainment of incoming immigrants with visas or refugee status. And while federal judge Ann M. Donnelly’s ruling Saturday evening has halted deportations, the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday that it would continue to enforce the president’s orders. Perhaps most alarming is the irreparable

The very fact that Trump’s order was signed on a weekend reserved for remembrance of the Holocaust speaks to the horrifying lack of sympathy and historical myopia that defines the leader of our nation’s highest public office.

This isn’t an attempt to extinguish a spark before it ignites a flame. I believe these additions to the police force are crucial. That said, the more of ficers who respond to calls within the community, who also work with that community, the better it will be. The responsibility doesn’t rest solely on the UMPD either. The University administration is accountable for ensuring students feel safe and respected on campus, so their relationship with the UMPD is essential. I also hope members of student government and student group leaders take it upon themselves to not only forge relationships with the UMPD, but engage in community work themselves. This way, if a student doesn’t feel comfor table speaking with the campus police directly, their voice will still be heard.

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in the contemporary U.S.? We are a young countr y, and one with a beleaguered history of discrimination, where progress and advances have come only with gargantuan efforts, mass movements and ver y great costs. Ms. Wilkerson compares our country to an old house. “I love old houses,” she says. “But old houses need a lot of work. And the work is never done. And just when you think you’ve finished one renovation, it’s time to do something else. Something else has gone wrong.” Though slaver y was abolished more than 150 years ago, the Civil Rights movement was still necessar y. And though the Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964, we still had to fight until 1967 for the Loving ruling allowing blacks and whites to marr y, until 1974 for women to gain the right to open credit in their own names, until 2015 for same-sex couples to marr y legally. And even today, the Black Lives Matter movement is necessary because our society continues to be stratified in what Ms. Wilkerson appropriately terms a caste system. But she makes a point to acknowledge that this “artificial 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

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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.” Dan Shafto Wilderness Guide Minneapolis

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cruelty of President Trump’s ‘us versus them’ rhetoric which is based on contempt for fact and reality. Since 2001, no one in the U.S. has been killed in an act of terrorism by any immigrants from Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Iran, Iraq or Syria — the countries listed in President Trump’s order, according to terrorism researchers at the University of North Carolina. Yet despite this, refugees escaping the dangers of war — or the real threats of terrorism in their home countries — have now been distortedly defined as “hostile” and counter to the “founding principles” of the U.S. The refugee crisis, cannot and should not be a partisan issue, it’s an issue of humanity. With visa-holders, permanent residents and immigrants of all kinds under attack, it is necessary to sustain a perpetual state of protest. We owe America’s vibrant cultural, economic and intellectual combustion to the benefits of immigrants, and now, more than ever, we must defend them. The very fact that Trump’s order was signed on a weekend reserved for remembrance of the Holocaust speaks to the horrifying lack of sympathy and historical myopia that defines the leader of our nation’s highest public office — his statement Friday, failed to even mention the Jewish people once. On Sunday, Trump’s Chief of Staff, Reince Preibus, doubled down on that exclusion, saying “I mean, everyone’s suffering in the Holocaust including obviously, all of the Jewish people affected and the miserable genocide that occurred — it’s something that we consider to be extraordinarily sad,” and then added more troublingly, “If we could wipe it off of the history books, we would. But we can’t.” We cannot — must not — remain silent in a time when the actions of President Trump have begun to mirror some of the darkest horrors in our world’s annals.

2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 4,554 Total number of deaths: 1,175 Total number of mass shootings: 300 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board. CONTACT THE EDITOR Grace Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com

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HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (1/30): Experiment with new concepts, cultures and views this year. Teamwork propels a shared dream. One door closes and another opens in a partnership this February, before a lucrative phase erupts.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written by Nancy Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Peace and quiet soothe your spirit. Productivity behind closed doors satisfies. An idealist needs to be held to the facts; no excuses.

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Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Friends are especially helpful. Set goals high, and ask for support. More is possible now. Don’t be intimidated. Invest in your own dreams.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — You have a secret source of power. Draw upon hidden resources. Invest in your business, and aim for excellence. It’s a good time to sell.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — A work challenge takes focus. Take charge to grab an opportunity. Team up with a genius for a creative partnership. Discuss future options.

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Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Discuss numbers with your partner. Keep accounts and books current. Share your concerns and support each other to reach goals.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Write down your dreams, stick to the budget and believe in your team. Provide a spiritual component.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — You don’t have to do everything by yourself; delegate! Find tasks that you can give away. Make and receive promises.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Explore options, and choose. Go for what you want. Consider the consequences before acting; all is not in view. Adapt as you go.

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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,

I hate my girlfriend’s niece. Two years ago, my girlfriend’s older sister had a baby girl named Everlyn (which is a dumb name, but not the point). Evvy and I do not get along. Every time I see her, the kid will just stare at me. You might say “She’s a baby, that’s what babies do”, but I know what’s in that gaze: suspicion. She doesn’t trust me at all, and she shouldn’t because I hate her guts. My girlfriend will say “Say hi to Evvy” and I’ll be like “Hey Evvy” and she’ll just keep staring at me until a snot bubble pops in one of her nostrils, so I’ll totally debase myself and go all “Heeeyyyyy Evvvyyyyy” the way lonely white ladies talk to dogs, and still nothing. It’s like, what do you want from me? My girlfriend worships Evvy and wants to be with her constantly. But every time she asks “Would you mind if we spent some time with Evvy?” she might as well

be asking “Would you mind putting your hand on this hot grill for a couple minutes?” Like do you have some Drain-o or bleach I could sip on first? One time my girlfriend left us alone for a few minutes and Evvy and I just stared at each other in silence until I flipped her off and she started crying and it took my girlfriend a half hour to get her to stop. I also hate it when my girlfriend and her sister go crazy over normal bodily functions, like burping, Evvy manages to perform. One time she farted really loud and they both went nuts like “good job Evvy!” First of all, that’s gross. Second of all, yeah, congrats Evvy, you managed to accomplish something that dead people do sometimes, let’s throw a party. My girlfriend adores her though, and I adore my girlfriend. I don’t know what to do. I hate my girlfriend’s sister too. Sincerely,

Baby Blues

Dear Baby,

First of all, why the hell would you ever flip off a baby? They don’t even know what that means. Second of all, your feud is with a baby, but you’re the one who needs to grow up. Dude, it’s a baby. And I get it, babies are no fun. It’s like, get a job, right? But your extreme dislike for this kid seems super unwarranted to me, and I think you need to calm down, especially if you’re as crazy about this girl as you say you are. Everyone has members of their SO’s family that they can’t stand. When I first started seeing my husband, his little brother threw up on me five out of the first seven times I interacted with him. By the fourth time, it was almost like he was doing it on purpose. But we learn to tolerate things we don’t like for the people we love, and that’s what you need to do with Evvy. Make an effort. As for the sister thing, I can’t help you there. I hate my girlfriend’s sister, too.

—Dr. Date

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it’s a continuation of something. What’s it been like going from candidate to representative? We’ve been really intentional about it just being a continuation, and so we’re just continuing the work of engaging the community and the ideas of co-governance …come to fruition. Has there been anything about the job that’s caught you by surprise? I think how quickly the day moves is something I didn’t really expect … There is a lot of people who come to the capitol to visit their legislators, and then you also have your set of meetings already scheduled. You’ve got your committees, and so by the time all of those things happen you feel like you haven’t even had a cup of coffee. What’s it been like so far to work with a Republican majority in your first year? It’s been OK. I am able to get some of the Republicans to cosign on my bills. I’ve cosigned on some of their bills. I think my committee leads are all great in welcoming us and giving us proper time to ask the questions that we need. It’s been better than others would imagine. What are your priorities for the University of Minnesota and [higher education] this session? The really big priority at the moment for this particular session is the appointment of the regents. I’m looking for people who understand that that’s not a management role, but it’s an oversight role and … finding people who are aware of what the University does, they’re doing it for the right

Monday, January 30, 2017 things and have pride in advancing the cause and the mission of the University. Do you have any plans to address tuition costs or student debt this session? Where I’m looking at is how much money the University, and MNSCU and all of the higher ed institutions spend on overhead and see what are some cost-saving methods that they could deploy that would have a trickle-down effect on the amount of tuition students are currently paying. What did you think of the University of Minnesota’s budget request? I’m OK with the University’s budget request. I have asked for meetings to get a deeper understanding and to see where cuts could be made … What are some of your priorities for the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood? My priority right now is that the community understands that they have a legislator that is going to prioritize their issues and their voices and bring them in to the process and [be] an advocate for them. How well has the Legislature been working together this year? Has it seemed like people are more willing to work together this year? I think there is a clear understanding that Minnesotans are really interested in seeing all of us work together. At least f o r n o w, i t l o o k s l i k e there might be [a] move in the right direction, even though the compromises that are being made might be a little lopsided, and some of us are finding ourselves not being able to tr uly advocate for the real needs of Minnesotans ...

How optimistic are you about the Legislature tackling a bonding bill this year? I am optimistic that … that’s going to get done. It looks like there is moving pieces already. The conversation seems to be going on the right track, and I hope that the Republicans keep their promise of saying that they will get it done this year. How have you felt about Trump’s presidency so far? It’s alarming … to see these plans now, inked as par t of an executive order, and to kind of see the strange hypocrisy of his presidency kind of play out, where for years, as a civilian, he criticized former President Obama’s use of executive orders, and this now … in the first week, we have a trail of many executive orders. How do you think he could have an impact on Minnesota? I think what I see is a missed oppor tunity. I think, when you think of elections, it’s one thing for us to have conversations that are a bit polarizing because we’re tr ying to excite our base, but when you become the leader of a nation, you have great oppor tunity to unite that nation. You have an oppor tunity to … prioritize the actual needs of the nation, and I think right now where energy is being spent isn’t on the things that I think the American people r eally car e about. We’re not having a conversation on student debt, we’re not having a conversation on health care, we’re not having a conversation about mental health. And so it is really sad to see the conversations still centered around dividing the nation and not uniting it.

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Representative Ilhan Omar answers questions for the Minnesota Daily in her office on West Bank on Friday.

I also see that Trump’s proposed a ban on refugees coming from Somalia and other Muslim countries. How do you think this could affect our Somali community here in Minnesota? I’m not sure yet. I think we would have to see. I know some of the community members who’ve reached out to me, [have

voiced] some concer n because they have family members who have been going through the process of the resettling here. I know a friend of mine who’s an organizer in St. Cloud, his wife just had her last screening. And he doesn’t know what happens now because she’s just waiting for her papers for resettlement, and has

been going through the process for three years. And so when we have a conversation about vetting the refugees before they’re settled here, it is impor tant to note that it takes three, five, ten years for people to go through the process of being vetted through enormous scrutiny before they’re reunited with their loved ones.