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U fraternity no longer on suspension The University’s chapter of Delta Upsilon faced allegations of sexual assault this spring. BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE Idally-steele@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota frater nity rocked by sexual assault allegations last fall this spring has been reinstated. Delta Upsilon was removed from its temporar y suspension Friday but will r emain on pr obation until it completes a r edevelopment plan drafted by Delta Upsilon’s inter national of fices, said James Ehr mann, Program Director of Frater nity and Sorority Life. While on probation, the fraternity won’t be able to self-gover n, and all the chapter’s decisions must be appr oved by the headquar ters, Ehrmann said. “Any policy, program or events that the chapter wants to update or host must be approved by the headquarters office,” he said. Some details of the probation are still being decided, like the extent to which the fraternity can par ticipate in Interfrater nity Council activities, like recr uitment. “Moving for war d, we’r e continuing to work with both the fraternity as well as the IFC to suppor t the chapter as they’re working through redevelopment phase but also to determine what their engagement looks like,” Ehrmann said.

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University of Minnesota alumna and researcher Mariah McMahon prepares media that will house cells on Monday, June 26. The Odde Lab, run by Dr. David Odde, researches cell behavior as applied to brain cancer progression, including with tumor cells from surgical cancer patients.

U team works to slow cancer A group of professors are working on a drug that would slow the rate cancer cells can spread and infect parts of the body. BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE idally-steele@mndaily.com

While most engineers work to make the most ef ficient machiner y possible, one University of Minnesota professor is doing just the opposite when it comes to engineering cancer cells. Scientists may be able to stall antsy cancer cells mid-spread by tricking them into sluggishness, according to ongoing resear ch led by David Odde, a biomedical professor at the University and key investigator in a nationwide initiative bringing engineers and other disciplines in treatment research.

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Man carjacked in parking lot of Dinkytown McDonald’s

Last fall, with an $8.2 million grant from the National Cancer Institute, the University launched the Physical Sciences in Oncology Center to pioneer a nontraditional, engineering based approach to cancer research. The University’s is one of ten such centers in the U.S. Odde’s research into how to block cancer cell migration and infection is the product of this new approach, which seeks to draw on the strengths of various STEM fields. “It’s a way for us to jump for ward from basic incr emental knowledge building to a place where we can have an impact today,” said Bo Connelly, the center’s project manager.

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The victim, 25, was run over with his own car after trying to POLICE buy his assailant a meal.

With new training, officers hope to minimize harm for trauma victims

BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com

A man had his car stolen at gunpoint in Dinkytown Sunday night. Just after 11 p.m., a suspect ran down the man with his own car after he tried to buy the assailant a meal. The victim, 25-years-old, had picked up the man near the Dinkytown McDonald’s after he asked the driver to give him $5 for bus fare, according to a police repor t. The driver of fered to buy him a meal at the restaurant. Together in the car in the store’s parking lot, the victim opened his wallet to get money for the suspect’s food, the repor t said. The man then tried to grab all his money and stuck a gun to his side. The driver left his door and moved to the suspect’s window, tr ying to pull him out of his car. According to the repor t, that was when the suspect shifted seats and star ted to drive. The victim jumped on his car’s hood, the repor t said, and the suspect jerked to the left and right until he fell from it. In an inter view, the victim said he was r un over and in pain. He called for help and searched for his phone. He remembered watching bystanders leave the scene despite his cries. He was transpor ted to Hennepin County Medical Center, the repor t said, and the suspect sped away down 5th Street SE. The victim said he was br ought home from the hospital Monday morning, where he str uggled with pain to his back, shoulders, head and hands, making it dif ficult to per for m basic tasks and forcing him to sleep most of the day. H is c o u s i n s l a t er found h is car abandoned with the keys on the floor, he said. The University of Minnesota Police Department provided video footage of the incident, the report said.

The University of Minnesota Police Department learned the new interview method Tuesday. BY BELLA DALLY-STEELE Idally-steele@mndaily.com

When dealing with victims of trauma, changing how police of ficers ask questions can make the biggest difference. Former Special Agent Russell Strand visited the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment Tuesday to train the force on how to conduct Forensic Experiential Trauma Inter views, a special type of inter view that maximizes information

collection and minimizes harm when talking to trauma victims. Funded by University Ser vices and the University’s President’s Of fice, the training was offered to the UMPD as well as 39 other local agencies, including the Minneapolis Police Depar tment, said UMPD Chief Matt Clark. Nearly 129 law enforcement officers attended. Strand said the one-day training included lectures on the neuroscience behind trauma, video examples of FETI inter views and individual exercises officers could use to help them understand what the process looks and feels like for the inter viewer and inter viewee. A longer two or thr ee day FETI

training would include more hands-on exercises, he said. One of the most important parts of FETI inter viewing, Strand said, is letting the trauma sur vivor r un the inter view, not the officer. “The [victim] should do about 80 to 90 percent of the talking,” Strand said, “It’s their experience, you got to let them take their time.” He said he encourages of ficers to think of themselves as facilitators rather than inter viewers since the victim provides most of the information. He said the FETI inter view style also u See POLICE Page 8

ENTERTAINMENT

The Academy keeps pro wrestling alive in Minneapolis The school’s leaders say an open door policy has carried them through the industry’s changes. BY GUNTHAR REISING greising@mndaily.com

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Coach Shawn Daivari demonstrates a move on a student in the ring while other students observe at The Academy in Minneapolis.

In the lobby of The Academy’s warehouse, a cabinet of action figures lines one wall, with plastic versions of coaches throughout their careers as professional wrestlers. In the training room, a ring is surrounded by 10-foot tall prints of the coaches, glaring in their pre-fight stances. The Academy: School of Professional Wrestling opened a year and a half ago, continuing a history of Minnesota-based pro wrestling training that started in the ‘80s with a man named Eddie Sharkey. “He’s a huge deal,” Shawn Daivari, former WWE wrestler and co-founder of The Academy, said. “He’s one of the reasons that we came back to Minneapolis. It’s kind of a hotbed for pro wrestlers.” While Sharkey was training pro wrestling legends like the Road Warriors, he u See ACADEMY Page 4

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STATE REPORT CHAIR’S DEPARTURE TRIGGERS SHAKE-UP AT METROPOLITAN COUNCIL ST. PAUL — The head of Minnesota’s controversial regional planning and transpor tation authority in the metropolitan area is stepping down. Gov. Mark Dayton announced Tuesday that Metropolitan Council Chairman Adam Duininck would leave the post at the end of July for “a new professional opportunity.” He’ll be replaced by state rail director Alene Tchourumoff. The Metropolitan Council runs bus and transit systems in the seven-county metropolitan area as well as housing and wastewater systems. But it’s become synonymous with the politically charged lightrail transit lines like a planned project between Minneapolis and southwestern suburbs. Duininck was elevated to become chair in early 2015 after ser ving on the council board for several years. Dayton appointed Tchourumoff to be the state’s first rail director to oversee train safety in 2016.

STORES UNSURE ABOUT IMPACT OF MINNESOTA’S NEW LIQUOR LAW NELSON, Wis. — Retailers on both sides of the Wisconsin-Minnesota border are on the fence about how Minnesota’s new Sunday liquor sales law will affect businesses. The law taking effect this weekend allows packaged liquor in Minnesota to be sold from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays, The Leader-Telegram reported. Liquor sales on Sundays were previously banned in the state. Some residents near the border have been purchasing liquor in Wisconsin on Sundays. Mandy Davis, manager of Nelson Discount Liquor in Wisconsin, doesn’t expect any big changes. “Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to mean too much for us here because we’re so close to the Minnesota border and customers from Minnesota come in here Monday through Saturday now,” she said. “I just don’t see it having a big impact on our Sunday sales. I could be wrong.” ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Senate GOP shelves health bill, imperils repeal of ‘Obamacare’ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WA S H I N G T O N — Senate GOP leaders abruptly shelved their long-sought health care overhaul Tuesday, asserting they can still salvage it but raising new doubts about whether President Donald Trump and the Republicans will ever deliver on their promises to repeal and replace “Obamacare.” Republican leader Mitch McConnell announced a delay for any voting at a closed-door senators’ lunch also attended by Vice President Mike Pence. McConnell’s tone was matter-of-fact, according those present, yet his action amounts to a stinging setback for the

square in the East Room. Most wore grim expressions. In the private meeting that followed, said Marco Rubio of Florida, the president spoke of “the costs of failure, what it would mean to not get it done — the view that we would wind up in a situation where the markets will collapse and Republicans will be blamed for it and then potentially have to fight off an effort to expand to single payer at some point.” The bill has many critics and few outspoken fans on Capitol Hill. It was short of support heading toward a critical procedural vote on Wednesday, and prospects for changing that are uncertain. McConnell promised

to revisit the legislation after Congress’ July 4 recess. “It’s a big complicated subject, we’ve got a lot discussions going on, and we’re still optimistic we’re going to get there,” McConnell told reporters after the lunch. It hasn’t been easy, as adjustments to placate conser vatives, who want the legislation to be more stringent, only push away moderates who think its current limits — on Medicaid for example — are too strong. In the folksy analysis of John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate GOP votecounter: “Ever y time you get one bullfrog in the wheelbarrow, another one jumps out.”

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CHICAGO — Three Chicago police officers were indicted Tuesday on felony charges that they conspired to cover up the actions of a white police officer who shot and killed 17-yearold Laquan McDonald, saying the officers lied when they alleged the black teenager “aggressively” swung a knife at officers and attempted to get up from the ground still armed after he was shot. The indictment alleges that one current and two former officers lied about the events of Oct. 20, 2014, when Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the black teenager 16 times. The officers’ narratives contradict what can be seen on police dashcam video, in which the teenager spins after he was shot and falls to the ground — seemingly incapacitated — as the officer continues to fire shot after shot into his body. The indictment further alleges that officers lied when they said McDonald ignored Van Dyke’s verbal commands and that one of the officers signed off on a report that claimed the other two officers were, in fact, victims of an attack by McDonald. “The co-conspirators created police reports in the critical early hours and days following the killing of Laquan McDonald that contained important false information,” says the indictment in which the three are charged with felony counts of obstruction of justice, official misconduct and conspiracy. The indictments mark the latest chapter in what has been one of the most troubling stories in the history of a police force dogged by allegations of racism, brutality and the protection of officers who brutalize African-Americans. The video sparked massive protests, cost the police superintendent his job and left the city scrambling to implement reforms to regain shattered public trust. In Januar y, the Department of Justice issued a scathing report that found that the department had violated the constitutional rights of residents for years, including by too often using excessive force and killing suspects who posed no threat.

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longtime Senate leader who had developed the legislation largely in secret as Trump hung back in deference. Now Trump seems likely to push into the discussion more directly, and he immediately invited Senate Republicans to the White House. But the message he delivered to them before reporters were ushered out of the room was not entirely hopeful. “This will be great if we get it done, and if we don’t get it done it’s just going to be something that we’re not going to like, and that’s OK and I understand that very well,” he told the senators, who surrounded him at tables arranged in a giant

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said Tuesday it has detected “active preparations” by Syria for a chemical attack and threatened to retaliate — warning of action that could plunge America deeper into a civil war alongside the fight against Islamic State militants. The chemical threat and sudden White House warning illustrate the challenging complexities of the fighting in Syria, a country whose territory was used by IS to march into Iraq in 2014 and prompt a U.S. return to the Middle East’s battlefield. Washington now has more than 5,000 troops in Iraq and about 1,000 in Syria. President Donald Tr ump has said he won’t stand for Syria’s use of chemical weapons, which are banned under inter national law and are par ticularly wor risome in the Arab countr y because they could fall into extremists’ hands. The Pentagon said the preparations detected by the U.S. occurred at the same air base where Syrian aircraft embarked on a sarin gas strike on April 4, killing almost 90 people. Days later, Trump ordered a cruise missile attack against the base in retaliation. The Syrian gover nment has denied it ever used banned chemicals, and it rejected Washington’s latest allegation Tuesday. Syria’s two main allies, Russia and Iran, joined in bashing Washington. Iran’s foreign minister called the U.S. threat a “dangerous escalation.” A senior Russian lawmaker accused the U.S. of a “provocation.” It was unclear if the U.S. saw a Syrian attack as imminent. Nevertheless, the White House showed it wouldn’t turn a blind eye. Since Trump’s inauguration, U.S. involvement in Syria has deepened. Earlier this month, the U.S. shot down a Syrian fighter jet for the first time. It has twice downed Iranian drones. The U.S. cruise missile strike in April was the first intentional American assault on Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government or military.

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Minimum wage hearing draws crowds While the ordinance has strong support, businesses and employees are still divided on how it can work out. BY CHRISTOPHER LEMKE clemke@mndaily.com

A lively crowd packed into Minneapolis City Hall Thursday for a public hearing on the City Council’s proposed $15 hourly minimum wage ordinance. While the Council and most speakers at the hearing showed strong support for the $15 minimum wage, there were points of contention between how businesses can afford the increase and employees who rely on the wage. The hearing lasted almost 6 hours as 139 people addressed the Council in two minute speeches. Ward 2 Council Member Cam Gordon said it was one of the longest public hearings since he joined city council 11 years ago. Suppor ters chanted, “Pover ty wages have got to go,” from the hallway and many shared stories of financial hardship at the hearing. The ordinance raises the minimum wage to $15 per hour from the state’s wages of $9.50 for large employers with over 100 workers and $7.75 for those with fewer. It would be implemented across five years, with large

employers increasing wages by at least $1 annually, until reaching $15 in 2022. Smaller employers would reach $15 in the same year, but in smaller increments. But some business owners showed concern about how they could af for d the increase in the given time frame. “I believe in $15; I just need to be profitable enough to do it,” said Rod Johnson, owner of Midwest Mountaineering in Cedar Riverside. Johnson said he started paying his employees at least $10 hourly three years ago, despite stiff competition from large and online retailers. Working with the proposed five-year timeline would be a struggle, Johnson said, but more time would help. A 90-day training wage provision, which makes employers pay at least 85 percent of the state’s minimum wage for workers under 20 years old, faced heavy criticism at the hearing. Bridget Peterson, a University of MinnesotaMorris student, said in an interview the training wage hurts students who rely on summer jobs to help with

“I believe in $15; I just need to be profitable enough to do it.” ROD JOHNSON Owner of Midwest Mountaineering

tuition. “The training wage would provide incentive for companies, particularly big fast food and retail companies, to cycle through employees, retaining workers for only 90 days,” Peterson said at the hearing. Gordon said the training wage was meant for certain age groups, but criticism at the hearing made him want to revisit the wording. “I think it would be lousy if every summer, somebody worked at St. Thomas and they kept getting 85 percent of the minimum wage all four years … because ever ybody said, ‘Well, you’re still on the training wage,’” Gordon said. Minnesota state law mandates a youth and a training wage, both at $7.75 per hour. Several Minneapolis restaurant owners and some tipped employees raised another concern at the hearing: the exclusion of a “tip credit” system in the ordinance. In a tip credit system,

University of Minnesota partners with University of Hong Kong The new exchange program lets the U community get global perspective. BY NEHA PANIGRAHY dclareyl@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota joined a research partnership with a Chinese university Monday. The partnership with the Chinese University of Hong Kong was signed by University President Eric Kaler in Shenzhen, China as part of the College of Science and Engineering’s latest international agreement effort. In the new partnership, students and faculty will be able to take classes, do research and par ticipate in student exchanges. The partnership’s research will focus on a number of topics like renewable resources, clean water and equity in communities. CSE has similar partnerships with 13 other Universities, in countries including Nor way, Singapore

and Australia. The first group of students are expected to go to and come from China in fall 2018. “The University would like to expand its footprint to include science and engineering,” said CSE Dean Samuel Mukasa. While the program will span a variety of topics, he said mechanical and aerospace engineering will be a focus. As part of the agreement CUHK will pay for postdoctoral researchers and faculty to work in China, said Mostafa Kaveh, CSE’s associate dean for research and planning. Mukasa said the final financial details for the partnership haven’t been determined yet. Meredith McQuaid, associate vice president and dean of international programs, said the funding will be structured in such a way that the University won’t lose money. Chinese students coming to the University will pay

out of state tuition under the deal, Kaveh said. In the future, the program could expand to include undergraduate internships, he said. “This is something that we hope we evolve once the program gets going in earnest,” Kaveh said. McQuaid said she hopes partnerships like the one with CUHK give students a chance to get exposed to dif ferent backgrounds when they come from abroad, particularly for those who couldn’t other wise study abroad. People of diverse backgrounds working together on research usually have better outcomes, Mukasa said. “We see a lot of merit in partnering with University like the one in Southern China,” he said. Regent Dar rin Rosha called the par tnership a great oppor tunity for the University. “The University’s role as an international institution is critically important to Minnesota,” he said.

U team works to slow cancer’s spread Cancer u from Page 1

Slowing Down Cancer Cells The first wave of Odde’s research, published in May, revealed how two drugs can trick cancer cells into sitting still, rather than moving to enlarge the tumor or form a new one. Odde said cancer cells have two main components that allow them to move: a motor that generates force and clutches that route this force to pull the cell across its terrain. Further research showed the cells also sense the stiffness — and thus navigability — of their environment. Through computer simulation, Odde and his team found the two drugs could forcibly relax the cell’s gripping components, weakening their grip and lessening the force they gain by moving. This makes cancer cells believe the surrounding environment is not ideal for migration and thus slowing the spread, Odde said. In the coming months, Odde and his team will be developing a more realistic computer simulation, in hopes that it will answer some remaining questions like whether individual cells have unique “ideal” environments, or if there is one optimum for all. Still, Odde said knowing

they can manipulate a cell’s environment preferences means they can potentially slow down cells that are sprinting in an “ideal” environment.

Engineering Cancer: The Project

Odde’s research is only part of a larger push to integrate engineers and other STEM disciplines into cancer research. Odde and his colleague Paolo Provenzano head the center’s two main projects investigating the internal workings of cancer cells and the external environments that affect them. Taking this physics-based approach to a typically biologyheavy field opens up new doors in cancer research, Connelly said. He said physicists’ abilities to build models of cancer cell behaviors help them predict, not guess, which mechanical features of the cells are the best to target and with which drugs. “If we can do that, we have the potential to realize that dream of precision medicine and targeted therapies in cancer,” he said. This approach allows for a more efficient and deliberate research process, he said, and could very well become a driving force behind new drug discovery. But the real key to the center’s research is the overlap between the theoretical and experimentation, as well as engineering and other disciplines.

After working through models to predict cell behavior and treatment techniques, the team tests their theories on real cells. The team based their published research from cell simulator experiments and lab experiments done on one patient’s cancer cells — now they’re expanding their horizons. They are accepting and testing sample donations from new brain cancer patients in order to build a more realistic simulator and better understand cell mechanics, Odde said. The team has already studied six new samples. David Largaespada, University genetics professor and principal investigator for the Physical Sciences in Oncology Center, said collaboration between geneticists and engineers has led to discoveries they might have otherwise overlooked had they approached the project from only one angle. To encourage this interdisciplinary collaboration the center depends on, Connelly says they organize monthly leadership meetings and occasional social gatherings to encourage camaraderie. “The center brings together engineers with geneticists and biologists and clinicians and mathematicians and immunologists,” Connelly said, “And all these folks bring different perspectives into the project.”

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Sarah Webstor Norton waits to be called to speak during a public hearing at Minneapolis City Hall on Thursday. She works in the service industry and is in favor of a $15 minimum ordinance.

tipped employees make a base hourly wage below the minimum wage due to earnings from tips. Proponents of the system said it lets employers to give workers more hours. And if tips aren’t enough to meet minimum wage, employers will cover the difference. Detractors of this method said at the hearing the difference is vulnerable to clerical errors and theft by employers, calling the “tip credit” a “tip penalty.”

But advocates of the system said the tip credit system is more financially sustainable for businesses, given how much more tipped ser vers can ear n than non-tipped kitchen staff, like cooks. Jennifer Schellenberg, a tipped employee with 16 years’ experience working in restaurants, said the current city ordinance will stagnate the wages of nontipped workers. “Under [the ordinance], the people of the restau-

rant industr y that you intend to help the most, the lowest paid workers, will lose their jobs” she said. Kelli Dietz, a University of Minnesota psychology graduate working as a server, said she couldn’t find a better-paying job after graduation than ser ving to pay her $60,000 in debt. With big change inevitably coming to Minneapolis restaurants, Dietz is facing an uncertain future. “I need to know if I can pay my bills.”

Minneapolis gets funds for greener communities The City’s Green Zone policy receives $150,000 in funding for environment. BY CHRISTOPHER LEMKE clemke@mndaily.com

A Minneapolis project to help disadvantaged communities fight environmental problems recently received $150,000 in grant money. The Minneapolis City Council adopted two $75,000 grants from the McKnight Foundation and the Funders’ Network June 16 for its Green Zones Policy Initiative, meant to help communities with environmental problems lead their own efforts against them. The funding will help communities combat underlying economic, social and political problems exacerbated by the environmental problems. The city will also hire a consultant to advise the project and lead racial equity training. The City Council established Northern and Southern Green Zones in April, with part of the Cedar Riverside neighborhood falling in the southern zone. Bringing disadvantaged groups into environmental discussions is key because communities of color dispropor tionately neighbor polluters like highways and large infrastr ucture

projects, said Shalini Gupta, executive director of the Center for Ear th, Energy and Democracy, an organization working on the Green Zones. For example, Gupta said the converging highways near Cedar Riverside create a major pollution hotspot. She and Kelly Muellman, Minneapolis’ sustainability program coordinator, both said the city’s communities are aware of the problems they face. Gupta said while Minneapolis’ Green Zones have become policy, communities asked for them from early on. “It hasn’t necessarily been an easy ask.” Danielle Mkali, a program officer with the community engagement group Nexus, sat on a city committee made in 2016 where several organizers examined environmental data, neighborhood disparities and how to implement resources. Muellman said some specific Green Zone actions include addressing soil and water contamination, providing healthy and af fordable housing, helping vegetation and urban agriculture and improving air quality. Minneapolis’ Green Zone project also aims to help businesses become greener.

“Basically, existing members of that community are priced out of being able to live there.” KELLY MUELLMAN Sustainability Program Coordinator

Cutting down waste has built-in economic benefits, said Laura Babcock, director of the University of Minnesota’s Minnesota Technical Assistance Program. Anything that doesn’t get sold as the final product is a waste, costing time, labor and money and pollutes the environment, Babcock said. When taking environmental action, it is important to consider communities’ interests, said Cecilia Mar tinez, director of research programs at CEED. Other wise, environmentally friendly initiatives raise market values and can invite gentrification, she said. “Basically, existing members of that community are priced out of being able to live there,” Mar tinez said. Muellman said it’s important to make the changes with the existing community in mind so new arrivals don’t displaced them.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2017

WRESTLING

No ‘wrest’ for the wicked Inside the world of professional wrestling training: philosophy, race and joining “the biz.”

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Wresting students take turns practicing routines while coach Shawn Daivari observes at the School of Professional Wrestling in Minneapolis.

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took an interest in a small, scrawny 16-year-old: Daivari himself. “I was pretty much a rag doll — they had me there to get the shit beat out of me,” Daivari said. No one would have expected Daivari to be a pro wrestler — even he describes himself at the time as a “skinny bonyjabroni.” But that didn’t stop him from chasing the lights. In fact, this underdog mentality shaped his career and the coaching philosophy of

The Academy. “None of my coaches should have been successful, but we all were,” Daivari said. For this reason, The Academy has an open door policy — no one is turned away. While this might seem like a way to scam skinny high schoolers out of $3,000, tuition is on the low side in the industry. And owner’s Daivari and Ken Anderson take their open door policy seriously. To Daivari, the only things that matter in the industry are care and passion. “That’s it. [Our coaches] would refuse to take ‘no’ for an answer, which I think is a successful formula

for any entertainer,” he said. It’s clear Daivari loves the industry through all of its ups and downs. After 9/11, Daivari felt a sudden wave of prejudice he hadn’t known before. “I never knew I was a minority, but after 9/11 I started noticing that people didn’t like me; I had to come to terms with that,” he said. “I was a super popular wrestler and I did nothing wrong, and then all of a sudden the people who were cheering me were booing me.” But this negative attention wasn’t necessarily a bad thing for Daivari’s role in the

entertainment industry. “Around 2004, T.V. shows started using Middle Easterners as villains … and WWE, they’re just a reflection of pop culture … and they signed me,” Daivari said. “It was red hot.” This burst of prejudice didn’t bother Daivari too much. “I never looked at anything but the result.” With this result-oriented mindset, Daivari is perplexed by the recent rise of political correctness and censorship in the pro wrestling world. But Daivari is quick to recognize, in accordance with his whatever-works philosophy,

that what he thinks isn’t what matters. “I haven’t bought a pro wrestling ticket since 1999 — my opinion is worthless,” he said. Others coaches at The Academy are more optimistic about the changing culture. “Wrestling is one of those things that has to continue to evolve in order to survive,” said assistant coach Arik Cannon. Cannon noted the positive aspects of a more aware industry: “The opportunities that women are getting and guys of smaller stature are getting are way better.”

This adaptability is what originally inspired Anderson and Daivari to build their business. “Me and [Anderson] have always had the open idea that success is in the eye of the beholder,” Daivari said. “What works for you might not work for me or for him.” For this reason, Daivari and Anderson custom-build their curriculum with all their students. The school offers two-day boot camps, and their next class starts June 30. The goal is to look forward, now. As Cannon puts it, “We’re grooming the next generation of wrestlers.”

MOVIES

Review: “Baby Driver” “Baby Driver” spins on an adrenaline pumped turntable, rotating seamlessly through blockbuster action, noir crime plots and sugary musical numbers. BY GUNTHAR REISING greising@mndaily.com

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aby Driver” opens with the eponymous character, Baby (Ansel Elgort), sitting in a car and dancing to “Bellbottoms” by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion while his colleagues rob a bank at gunpoint. The camera moves around Baby as if inspired by the music, breaking the wall between the observer and the observed. While Baby uses the car as his drum set, his blatant enthusiasm is as electrifying as the ensuing car chase. Written and directed by Edgar Wright (“Hot Fuzz,” “The World’s End,” “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”), “Baby Driver” tells the story of every action movie, ever — someone must do one last job to get out of the business, only to find it’s their most dangerous yet. Baby is a getaway driver, and a young one at that. He’s indebted to bank robber y mastermind Doc (Kevin

Spacey) for trying to steal his car when he was younger, and proves himself too good a driver to make a clean break from the business. In short, “Baby Driver’s” plot is one giant cliche — and it’s supposed to be. The enjoyment of the film comes from seeing the expected in an unexpected way. As the dialogue unfolds, it sets itself up to be the same thing you’ve seen and heard in every Steven Seagal action flick. And on paper it would be. But it’s how the lines are delivered that keeps the audience laughing. The movie mocks, but with deep reverence for its genre. When Elgort tells people he’s “Baby: B-A-B-Y, Baby,” the audience has no choice but to think with loving nostalgia of all the crap-action films they’ve ever seen. A deep love for film is Wright’s greatest achievement in “Baby Driver.” Throughout the film, it’s impossible not to be both happy and anxious. Wr i g h t b l e n d s t h e

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star-gazing romance between Baby and Deborah (Lily James) skillfully with the intense yet hilarious performances of Jamie Foxx as Bats and Jon Hamm as Buddy. A fast paced car chase follows a laundromat dance scene, and it’s impossible to tell which is more masterfully done. Nor is it important — what matters is the pure enjoyment in both. The film continues Wright’s tradition of absurdly clear camera work. With the built–in soundtrack and camera that spins playfully around the action, the movie feels as much like a musical as it does an action flick. And the film is more than a fun and clever homage to Hollywood — Wright puts a contemporary twist on the overused plot. Baby is a young man with an inescapable debt who needs to sell his soul to “the man” to get out from under. It’s a storyline all too familiar to millennial college graduates. Yet Baby is still very much

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Left to right: Buddy (Jon Hamm), Darling (Eiza Gonzalez), Baby (Ansel Elgort) and Bats (Jamie Foxx) discuss the next heist in TriStar Pictures’ Baby Driver.

what his name implies — a baby — who makes beats from criminals’ voice recordings and dreams of driving west without responsibility. Simply put, “Baby Driver” is about becoming an adult in a world designed to crush you. With this set up — the job, the girl, the insane colleagues — “Baby Driver” builds up to an intense ending. And if the movie seems to stumble at all, it’s here. The end of the film feels uncom-

1. GUERILLA TOSS, Betty Dreams of Green Men 2. (SANDY) ALEX G, Bobby 3. BORN IDIOT, Underwater

fortable, like it doesn’t know how to answer its own question: does Baby evolve to survive, or is he crushed in pursuit of the music, the girl and the innocence? Or worse — does Wright surrender and give Baby the dream, free of charge? And the romance — how long has Baby really known this girl? And she’s going to runoff with him? Then again, it’s meant to be uncomfortable, and the romance is supposed to be too

good to be true. Baby counts himself king in his dream world and would happily stay there if not for bad dreams. Wright adds in about seven more twists than typical for a film of the genre (you’ll have to wait and see what they are). It’s as if “Baby Driver,” like Baby, is playing with the possibility of adulthood while the song “Only the Good Die Young” plays whimsically on vinyl off in the distance.

4. GIRLPOOL, It Gets More Blue 5. HOOP, Not By Care 6. MANCHITA W/ BIONIK, Shame On Me 7. NEON BLAQUE, Free Fall

Grade: A-

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CULTURE TO CONSUME / BY KATIE LAUER

Listen to this:

Find this:

Watch this:

“Purple Rain Deluxe (Expanded Edition)”

Dough Dough dessert food truck

“Independence Day”

This release of remixed and previously unheard music is worth an immediate listen. From the snap and keyboards of “When Doves Cr y” to the driving extended edition of “I Would Die 4 U” that sounds like a secret band jam, this is just the tip of the music iceberg we may never hear from the Purple One’s vault.

What do you get when you combine the deliciousness of a food truck with the simple joys of an ice cream truck? Cookie dough on wheels. Dough Dough ser ves cookie dough by the scoop, and whether you opt for the sugar cookie “Celebration” or “Monster Cookie” flavor, you’ll be sure to get your sugar fix.

This 1996 film seems like the perfect way to prepare for this year’s Fourth of July. Without giving too much of the plot away (although it’s predicable), alien life attacks Earth on the eve of Independence Day. The rest of the film follows the aliens’ defeat, the saving of the world and the following, festive celebration. Honestly, this dystopian event may not seem too weird on our own news sites these days.

FOOD

Uptown Food Truck Festival brings quality snacks and sights The festival featured food trucks, masses of people and leashed BY KATIE LAUER klauer@mndaily.com

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ride wasn’t the only f e s t i v a l t ha t d r e w dense crowds Sun-

day. The Uptown Food Tr uck Festival, which hosted over 60 tr ucks, brought throngs of people — and dozens of dogs — to Calhoun Square. While streets and parking lots were blocked of f by police to help control traf fic, they couldn’t control the food lines. After a loop around the whole block to assess the situation, I went in. On the corner of Lake and Fremont, billowing clouds of white smoke caught my eye. Luckily, the only fire burning was cooking delicious meats at Run Tell That BBQ. T r u e t o t h e t r u ck’ s tagline, “Your ribs ar e JOKIN if the wood ain’t SMOKIN!” a man named Walter told jokes to keep the long line moving. Before I knew it, I had delicious rib tips at my fingertips. After my eyes, nose and ears drew me in, my taste buds weren’t disappointed. I drizzled barbecue sauce on the $8 tips and dove right in (sans fork). They were gone in minutes. I then spied one of the many beer tents looping around the block. As the sun star ted to break out from behind the clouds, the drinks looked like

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Haley Fritz, co-owner of Dough Dough Dessert Food Truck, hands a customer spoons for their “cookies by the spoonful” at the Uptown Food Truck Festival on Sunday, June 25. The truck had customers waiting for over 40 minutes to get their cookie dough and sold 2800 scoops throughout the day.

the per fect pick-me-up. Even better, each $2 entr y wristband provided five meals for Feed My Star ving Children. While I didn’t grab one myself, the many cans and glasses of Shock Top and Goose Island I saw looked like a nice way to wash the food down while donating a bit to a good cause. Now, it was a bit overwhelming with so many

trucks and tents to look at and sample. I made a rule that whatever truck or employee caught my eye and sold their tr uck the best would win my heart — and money. Next up was Panini Pinups. Historically, pinup illustrations were of “dream girls” without being too risqué; the tr uck’s sandwiches matched that point for point. Per suggestion, I got

the classic Cuban with the “atomic” jalapeno mustard on the side for only $5. The Swiss cheese, grilled ham and chicken sandwich was, indeed, a dream snack. Rounding out my final trek around the block, I ran into a food truck newcomer: Dough Dough. The bold blue truck offers cookie dough by the scoop, but there’s a catch: the line ran almost four

tr uck lengths down the road into the nearby intersection. Deciding it was wor th it, I had a scoop in my hand 30 minutes later. And it was wor th the wait. Opting for the “Monster Cookie” mix, I enjoyed (what I think were) chocolate chips, M&M’s and oats with a bright orange shovel-like spoon. It was the per fect way to end a food-tr uck-filled

morning for a quick $5. While I wish I could’ve stayed all day, the everticking parking meter, ever-thickening swarms of people and my everdwindling wallet of cash begged me other wise. H o w e v e r, t h e f e s t i v a l filled with food, crowds and dogs made for a great way to spend a Sunday in Uptown. Grade: A-

MUSIC

The recipe for a summer song Light, breezy, palatable. BY KATIE LAUER klauer@mndaily.com

“I know a place Where the grass is really greener. Warm, wet and wild There must be something in the water.” J u s t l i k e t h e w a t e r, there were some things in Katy Perr y’s smash 2010 single “Califor nia Gurls” that helped it become one of the summer’s defining songs: the lyrics, beat, length, genre and overall vibe. “It’s pretty undeniably catchy and undeniably a summer song,” said Radio K’s Music Director Luke Michaels. “People are either willing to accept that millions of people love that song or they will reject it

— which I’m guilty of too — and be contrarian for the sake of being contrarian.” When Michaels thinks of “summer songs,” he thinks of pop music that’s light and breezy — like “Minnesota” by The Cour tneys or Gorillaz’ “Satur nz Barz (feat. Popcaan).” He said shor t songs around two minutes are nice and palatable during the season. But why? “It’s really just the tone of the music,” Michaels said. “I’m just, personally, a lot happier in the summer. I love pop music, but when it’s snowing or sleeting, I’d way rather listen to a seven-minute, dark instr umental or electronic track.

“Promoters want to promote songs [in the summer] that people will love to drive around with in their car,” he said. University of Minnesota music theor y associate professor Sumanth Gopinath agreed. “Summer hits often see m to f ea tur e lig ht hear ted themes [such as] romance, dancing, par tying, other fun,” Gopinath said. “[They] might mirror the way that summer film or TV releases are similarly lighter in tone when compared to fall or winter releases.” While this concept isn’t new to anyone, it’s an idea that Jay Gabler, a digital content producer at The Cur rent, sometimes

considers for his work. “You’re going to listen to music that’s upbeat, that’s atmospheric — you put music to communal use and celebrate t h e s e a s o n t o g e t h e r, ” Gabler said. “We’re just tr ying to help people connect with music as they go about their summer activities.” Her e’s a br eakdown of a few tracks vying for 2017’s song of the summer: “Cut to the Feeling” by Carly Rae Jepsen *Luke Michaels’ pick Honestly, Jepsen and summer are synonymous. After “Call Me Maybe,” “I Really Like You” and “Run Away W ith Me,” is this one next?

“Green Light” by Lorde *Jay Gabler’s pick As either the opener or closer of ever y live set this summer, Lorde has been her own promoter for this piano-pop track to take the title. Plus, you can really dance to it. “DNA.” by Kendrick Lamar *Sumanth Gopinath’s pick Lamar has loyalty and royalty in his blood, but does he have a summer song? “DNA.” has been blasted from nearly ever y car stereo, so there’s a good chance. “Slide” by Calvin Harris feat. Frank Ocean and Migos A nice slow down to the rest of the char ts,

“Slide” sounds best played whilst cr uising down I-94 with the windows down. “XO TOUR Llif3” Lil Uzi Vert Why not pair the happy bops of summer with a bit of angst? This track accomplishes that nicely. Choice lyric: “I don’t really care if you cr y.” “I’m the One” by DJ Khaled feat. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper and Lil Wayne This song gets stuck in your head before you can even finish reading its featured ar tist list. As much as we all hate it, it might be “the one.”

CULTURE COMPASS / BY KATIE LAUER

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Antiquarian and Rare Book Fair

Walker Art Center’s Free First Saturday

Go Fest ’17

What’s better than a good book? An antique and collectible book! Starting Friday, over 50 dealers from around the country will sell books in all conditions and fields at the State Fairgrounds. Maps, children’s books and local history will all be there. If you’re not a collector, reading books will also be available at this two-day event.

Enjoy the new pieces in the Sculpture Garden along with the rest of the Walker this Saturday. On top of the new, blue rooster, there will be art projects and a DJ dance party. There’s something for nearly everyone to enjoy, why wouldn’t you take advantage of enjoying art for free?

Co-headlined by Bleachers and MUTEMATH, this full day of music is sure to be a jam. The celebration –— which brings the airwaves of Go 96.3 to life — will also feature The Naked and Famous, MUNA and The Unlikely Candidates. If that wasn’t enough music already, local acts and DJs will fill the air between other acts on the ticket.

Where : The Progress Center at the State Fairgrounds, 1265 Snelling Ave. N., St. Paul Hours 3 - 8 P.M. Cost $7, free with student ID

Where : Walker Art Center 725, Vineland Pl., Minneapolis Hours 10 A.M. - 6 P.M. Cost Free

Where Cabooze Outdoor Plaza, 917 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis Hours 1 P.M. Cost $29.96, 18+

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FOOTBALL

U alumna gets promotion with Vikings Kelly Kleine is one of 14 women in football operations for NFL teams. BY JACK WARRICK jwarrick@mndaily.com

The NFL has 14 women cur rently working in football operations for teams across the league. Kelly Kleine is one of those women. Kleine — a 2013 graduate of the University of Minnesota — was pr omoted to college scouting coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings earlier this month. “Watching how she interacted with ever ybody in the football side of it, you knew she had an oppor tunity to continue to grow,” said general manager Rick Spielman. “If you’re being critical because she’s a female on the football side, then that’s absolutely wrong.” Kleine’s duties with the Vikings include coordinating visits and meetings with fr ee agents, evaluating players and writing r epor ts at pr o days. She also coordinated the V ikings’ trip to the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis. “I’ve kind of been doing some of this already, but now [Spielman] is really pushing me to do more and take on more roles,” Kleine said. “The main thing is, [Spielman] just wants me to do more and more.” Kleine was always involved in spor ts from

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University of Minnesota alumna Kelly Kleine poses for a portrait in front of the US Bank Stadium on Wednesday. Kelly was hired as the college scouting coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings.

a young age. She was a three-sport athlete in high school, par ticipating in golf, basketball and softball. Kleine held many spor ts-related internships before getting a full-time job with the Vikings organization. She inter ned for the PGA when the PGA Championship was at Whistling

Straits. She interned at the Jack Brewer Foundation as well as Gopher Spor ts in her time at the University. “What made Kelly do well was she was willing to do whatever we asked of her,” said communications assistant Sarah T urcotte, Kleine’s boss at Gopher Spor ts. “I’m just not

surprised that it took that shor t of a time for her to become successful with the Vikings.” Kleine took a public relations inter nship with the Vikings in July of 2012 after inter viewing a Vikings public relations employee for a class. After being an inter n for about a year,

BASEBALL

Kleine picked up full-time employment with the Vikings as a college scouting assistant. A n n e D o e p n e r, t h e director of football administration with the Vikings, handles contract negotiations with draft picks as well as other responsibilities. Though the men in

football administrations outweigh the women, Kleine said she does not consider herself a trailblazer. “No one should be afraid of working in the industr y with all men,” Kleine said. “A lot of men are ver y, ver y open to it. It’s just working hard and getting your foot in the door.”

MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers selected in NHL draft in Chicago BY KARIM NABHAN knabhan@mndaily.com

JACK WARRICK, DAILY

Gopher’s catcher Eli Wilson plays for the Willmar Stingers during a game against the Rochester Honkers on Monday, June 19, 2017 at Mayo Field in Rochester, Minnesota. The Stingers have three Gophers spending their summer season with the team.

Northwoods league helps Gophers Minnesota has 13 players currently competing in the summer league. BY JACK WARRICK jwarrick@mndaily.com

The season never ends for members of the Gophers baseball program. After the Big Ten Tour nament concluded, the Gophers jumped right into more baseball with summer leagues all around the countr y. Thirteen Gophers compete in the Nor thwoods League, a summer league in the Midwest and Canada that has had more than 160 players advance to the MLB. “I think for young hitters, it’s a ver y good league because you get a lot of at-bats,” said Gophers head coach John Anderson. “For young pitchers who haven’t pitched much, I think

it’s an oppor tunity to get out there and get on the mound.” The Nor thwoods League has been the most popular league for Minnesota players. There is one Minnesota player in the Per fect Game league, one Gophers player in the Coastal Plains League and three in the Cape Cod League, compared to 13 in the Northwoods. The league has players from all regions of the countr y and is divided into the nor ther n and souther n divisions, with 10 teams in each division. It has a 72-game season, while other summer leagues for college players, such as the Cape Cod League, play 44 games. Anderson said the more experienced pitchers may throw too much in the Nor thwoods League. “I think the Cape Cod League probably has the top talent in the countr y,”

Anderson said. “[It’s a] smaller league and it’s mor e selective in who they take. … The Nor thwoods League has really expanded … and the pitching can get watered down a little bit.” Three Gophers baseball players — Nick Lackney, Eduardo Estrada and Eli Wilson — are currently playing in the Nor thwoods League with the Willmar Stingers. “There’s never really any time to go home and see the family,” Lackney said after a 5-4 loss to the Rochester Honkers on June 19. “Baseball kind of takes over my summer, [but] I mean we have our host families to go home to and they treat us awesome.” Each team in the Nor thwoods League has a host family program to put up the baseball players living in the area for the summer. Most of the players, and all of the

Gophers on the Willmar team, live with a host family when playing in the Northwoods League. Estrada, an outfielder for the Gophers, said it prepares players for professional baseball. “You experience the long treks and bus rides … pr eparing you for a minor league season,” Estrada said. The three Gophers said the Nor thwoods League improves and gets guys ready for the next year of college baseball, with all of the games and potential situations it brings. The team had eight seniors graduate and two players get drafted. Wilson said he’s excited to come back as a team. “Ever yone’s of f in summer leagues getting better individually,” Wilson said. “I’m excited to put it together in the fall.”

Incoming freshmen Scott Reedy and Casey Mittelstadt along with verbal commits Clayton Phillips and Sammy Walker were selected in Friday’s 2017 NHL Draft. Mittelstadt, an Eden Prairie native and incoming Gophers freshman, went eighth overall to the Buffalo Sabres. Mittelstadt became the first Minnesota-born player to be drafted in the top 10 since Erik Johnson was the first pick in 2006. Mittelstadt comes to the Gophers after his high school career for Eden Prairie, where he won the 2017 Mr. Hockey award. Reedy, a Prior Lake native, was selected in the fourth round with the 102nd overall pick by the San Jose Sharks. The Sharks selected Reedy in a trade with the New York Rangers, moving up to select him before he was taken off the board. Reedy, ranked No. 40 in the NHL Central Scouting Rankings. Reedy is the fifth Gophers

player selected by the San Jose Sharks, following Michael Brodzinski, Jay Barriball, Tony Lucia and Ryan Kraft. Phillips was selected in the third round with the 93rd overall pick by the reigning Stanley Cup Champion Pittsburgh Penguins. Phillips is verbally committed to the Gophers and will begin play with them in the 2018-19 season. Phillips plays for the Fargo Force of the USHL and chose to forego high school play with his native Edina. Phillips recorded 20 points in 56 games for the Fargo Force last year. Walker was the final Gophers recruit selected in the draft Saturday, going in the seventh round with the 200th overall pick by the Tampa Bay Lightning. . Walker spent the past season playing for the Edina and the Lincoln Stars in the USHL. Walker tallied 46 points for the Hornets in 25 games last season. He is expected to join the Gophers in 2018, like Phillips, after the two graduate high school.

NBA

Growing up quick: Big spurt turns Patton into 1st-rounder BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Justin Patton almost grew too fast for his own good. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ first-round draft pick sprouted from a 6-foot-1 point guard as a freshman in high school to a 7-foot center by the time he first stepped foot on campus at Creighton in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska. Bluejays coach Greg McDermott had to slow things down for Patton. “I had to learn how to do simple things all over again,

like run, seal and use my body in ways I should, being 7-feet tall,” Patton said as he was introduced Tuesday by his new team. The Timber wolves believe his growth as a player has only just begun. In the era of one-anddone in college basketball, Patton was a rare exception. He redshir ted his freshman year at Creighton to spend it acclimating to his new body, and his new position as a “five” — the number given to centers.

Editorials & Opinions COLUMN

Creating change from the Castile discussion “Reforming our police force and our prison-industrial complex begins with us talking ...”

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ur countr y has once again been swept by waves of indignation and sadness in the wake of the not guilty verdict of Philando Castile’s murder, with thousands of citizens taking to the streets of St. Paul on June 16 to march in protest. The injustice in cases of police violence is cyclical and exhausting — the brutality, the acquittal, the outrage, the futile suf fering. These incidents have brought to the forefront the ugly side of American culture, the violence, racism and excessive force used to uphold the status quo. The sinking feeling that this will continue to happen is, of course, not unjustified — neither is the feeling that something needs to change. But in a society in which prejudice and unjust use of force are so deeply embedded in our essential character as a nation, it’s up to the people to change the status quo, to fundamentally alter the culture and, ultimately, the policies that govern us. As an institution that has continued to uphold systemic racism and inherently sides with power, the government cannot be the beginning of the solution. It’s up to the people to call for change and refuse to accept an alter native, to teach each other empathy and resilience,

ELLEN AILTS columnist

to demand substantial changes such as body cams, bias screening, promoting the use of other weapons besides guns during training, and fur ther safety measures to hold the police accountable and make them more cautious by extent. However, a coalition of citizens needs to begin with a conversation. This issue is, of course, hotly debated — ever yone experiences a dif ferent America and brings dif ferent perspectives and thoughts to the table. But for our countr y to truly have a dialogue, we all must be able to speak freely, admit when we’re wrong or misinformed and move for ward from there. No group should be made to feel like a monolith — including the police — and nobody’s experiences should be invalidated. When it comes to violence perpetrated by the state with innocent civilians as victims, we need to especially listen to those whose lives have been af fected the most by police negligence, bias and brutality. Simply acknowledging the differences in race and class that constitute

a dif ferent experience as an American citizen fosters an impor tant foundation for future understanding. College campuses, of course, are consistently a breeding ground for this kind of debate, and we should welcome it in a free and open forum. The dif ficulty in talking about these issues is that it often challenges entire worldviews. People naturally get defensive when they are told they are par t of the problem, so we should tr y to broach the topic thoughtfully. Hatefulness often simmers silently in dark corners, and people who quietly hold biased beliefs, or maybe don’t even acknowledge their own bigotr y, are essential in upholding toxic power structures. This isn’t just a plea for white people to analyze how they fit into society and how they can personally hold themselves accountable, but for ever yone to work together to recognize our own biases, especially, the social, cultural and political capital we each disparately wield based on our race, sex, class and occupation. Reforming our police force and our prison-industrial complex begins with us talking to each other, tr ying to empathize and understand what is necessar y to hold public figures and institutions of power accountable to the will of the people. Ellen Ailts welcomes comments at eailts@mndaily.com.

2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 30,124 Total number of deaths: 7,474 Total number of mass shootings: 171

Alexander Feng University student CONTACT THE EDITOR Anant Naik anaik@mndaily.com

Lea Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.

COLUMN

Facing prejudice on West Bank Why students at the University of Minnesota need to change their perspective of this area. While some University of Minnesota students will proudly shout, “West Bank, best bank!,” others have given the outskirts of the area a bad name. Cedar-Riverside is a multicultural community that is home to about 8,000 residents, including a large Somali-American community. Despite the culture and familybased community, there is prejudice expressed toward the area. Across campus, the iconic Cedar-Riverside apartments tower over the nearby area. When I first described them to a fellow student as “those big colorful buildings that you can see from West Bank,” I was promptly corrected, and told that they were actually referred to as the “crack stacks.” I’ve heard complaints from friends that refuse to walk through the area because it is “sketchy.” This is entirely puzzling when crime rates in the area are fairly similar to other areas surrounding campus, such as Marcy-

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Weaknesses of wind energy stress competition amongst energy sources Is President Donald Trump bad for the poor and the country as a whole? Let me pose a question a friend of mine who votes liberal asked me last night: “How bad is your headache in this Trump era?” With all due respect, this is nothing more than a Manichean philosophy. Those who subscribe to this philosophy always have an enemy handy, and they mobilize people against defeating that enemy. Here is how one of the leading Democrats is messaging the anger against Trump. Speaking of Trump’s spending budget to

EDITORIALS Tuition hikes a necessary evil

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ast week, the Board of Regents discussed the need to raise student tuitions. In their finalized budget, they raised tuition by 2 percent for residents, and 12.5 percent for incoming nonresident students. T uition hikes are not preferable, but the needs of the University are also increasing. Earlier this year, the state Legislature approved cuts in higher education funding. Given the need to maintain impor tant education standards, it’s important to understand that this tuition hike is necessar y. It’s important, though, that the University continue to cut spending where it can to minimize the harm to students. Furthermore, the University ought to increase the number of departmental and need-based scholarships to students that are high achieving. The University has already cut $68 million in administrative costs since 2013, and plans to cut an additional $20 million by 2019. Cutting unnecessar y administrators from the University is important and is an effective way of cutting costs. However, the University should tread carefully so as not to cut administrators for the sole reason of cutting cost. Efficiency and function should be kept in priority. The University increasing its out-ofstate is preferable to cutting substantial programs that advance education and research. Fur thermore, the University’s out-of-state tuition being on par with other Big 10 schools maintains the University as a reasonable and affordable option for many students around the countr y and will fulfill their goals to remain highly competitive.

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Restricting Menthol-flavored Tobacco Policy

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Campus should be safe for all

DAILY DISCUSSION Thanks to the Minnesota Daily for its story on the Minneapolis City Council looking to restrict the sale of menthol-flavored tobacco (“Minneapolis City Council looks to restrict menthol tobacco,” June 19, 2017). In 2015, Minneapolis took a bold step to protect our city’s youth by restricting flavored tobacco products to stores where only adults can enter. Unfortunately, the policy left out the most popular flavor of all: menthol. Menthol is a cool, minty flavor that has a numbing effect on the throat and makes it easier for youth to start smoking and harder to quit. The tobacco industry uses menthol to lure youth into smoking and targets marginalized communities with menthol tobacco, creating health inequities. As a medical student, I cannot stand by complacently while the tobacco industry continues to sentence these groups to a lifetime of tobacco addiction, disease and ultimately premature death. Now is not the time to falter, as tobacco remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in Minnesota and menthol use continues to rise among youth. I strongly support the ordinance introduced on June 16 that would include menthol in Minneapolis’ current flavor regulations. Minneapolis’ kids are counting on the city council to continue being a leader in the state on health.

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Congress, Senator Al Franken wrote in a recent newsletter, “it’s a reckless spending plan that betrays his promises to Americans by dismantling Medicaid and cutting Social Security.” In truth, anger won’t win over voters. It might take the opposite effect by helping anger turn into a lack of confidence in politicians, leading to loss of seats in heated elections. In fact, yesterday’s runoff elections in Georgia and South Carolina could be a prime example. For instance, anger couldn’t help Democrats win the 6th Congressional District of Georgia, despite being “the most expensive U.S. House race in history,” according to Ballotpedia. My point? There is no good in hating. Actually, there is an antidote to this

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Holmes. I have never heard statements like these about Marcy-Holmes. It’s likely that racism is contributing to the bad name that is given to this area. Somali people are currently facing some of the highest levels of xenophobia in our nation. Being black and Muslim presents systemic challenges and institutional pressures. Prejudice within our campus toward this area needs to minimize. Families live in the area, as do students that attend the University. To truly create an inclusive campus, we need to be accepting of the people in Cedar-Riverside.

a b r a H a s s e n e n , 1 9 , w a s k i dnapped, beaten and then killed because of her status as a Muslim earlier this month. Hate crimes against Muslims have risen across the globe and are all over the media. While some debate whether Hassenen’s death was even a hate crime, and not just caused by road rage, xenophobia towards Muslims continues to grow. Muslims across America are experiencing prejudice and some live with fear any time they are leaving their homes. Our campus has not been free from this prejudice, evidenced by the shooting of two young Somali men that occurred in 2016 in Dinkytown, or the spray painted “ISIS” that appeared on the Muslim Student Association’s bridge panel. As students, it is par t of our duty to make our campus feel like a safe space for all students, including Muslim students. For non-Muslim students, it is important to advocate for resources that Muslim students, specifically, may need. Expanding access to health-related resources, like access to mental health and spiritual ser vices, from a University of Minnesota perspective is specifically important due to many stigmas that exist within the Muslim community. However, more ought to be done to bring together non-Muslim and Muslim students to build dialogue and community within our University. The Al-Madinah Cultural Center has also done important work to become a platform where this collective dialogue may occur.

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Trump-is-bad poison. Instead of sticking to an innate, us-versus-them psychology, politicians are better off focusing on what could bring the country back together. Massachusetts Rep. Seth Moulton suggested a new focus on the future of Americans. “We need a genuinely new message, a serious jobs plan that reaches all Americans, and a bigger tent,” he tweeted. Similarly, David Leonhardt of The New York Times hinted about this in his column (June 2, 2017). He wrote, “passion, righteousness and even anger can certainly be useful. Yet they aren’t enough after a day like yesterday [the day Trump trashed the Paris climate accord].” Editor’s Note: This letter has been edited slightly for grammar and style. Abdiqani Farah Author of “Minority Outcry: for a Dialogue in Education.”

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New director at St. Anthony Falls Lab Lian Shen hopes to transform the St. Anthony Falls lab into a field leader. BY MAX CHAO mchao@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s St. Anthony Falls Lab near the Stone Arch Bridge recently appointed its new director. Earlier this month, Lian Shen was named the new director of the SAFL after a two-year, five candidate search. Shen previously worked in the lab as the associate director of research since 2012. “He appealed to the full diverse spectrum of people that work here,” said Chris Paola, interim director of the lab since 2015 and chair of the director search committee. “He was interested in what people had to say and was interested in moving the lab forward.” Samuel Mukasa, dean of the University’s College of Science and Engineering, made the final decision to hire Shen, Paola said. Shen will officially take the five-year appointment in September. Once in

charge, he hopes to star t work on getting mor e funding through grants and to establish the center as a national leader in research. “What I really want … is to do things that is other wise unfeasible for individual researchers,” he said. During his time at the lab, Shen worked on about 18 dif ferent projects, including studying oil spill clean-up in the Gulf of Mexico. SAFL was founded in 1938 and originally focused its work on hydrokinetic energy, Shen said, but in the decades since has evolved to cover more. It now has workers from various depar tments like aerospace engineering, ear th sciences and civil engineering, and has expanded into researching wind patterns and water flow, Shen said. While the lab still researches sustainable energy, the br oadened work has become one of the center’s strengths, he said. One of the lab’s largest projects is headed by Paola and involves the study of river deltas and how they

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Lian Shen poses outside the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory. The former professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering will start as the lab’s new director Sep. 1.

respond to rising sea levels. The lab also specializes in fluid studies, said Mos Kaveh, associate dean of research and planning for CSE. They’ve researched how water flows in str eams, and modeled the way fluids move in

the human body, he said. The lab also oversees an experimental wind turbine in Rosemount, Minnesota. Kaveh said SAFL is the only lab he knew of located right on the river. Its location on the Mississippi gives it a unique advantage for its

research, par ticularly in hydrokinetics, Shen said. “The lab has history and a lot of [legacy]. We need to continue to make the lab more visible in the community and nationally,” he said. Shen worked as an associate professor in mechanical engineering

before becoming associate director of research for the lab in 2014. He previously was a faculty member at John Hopkins University and received his doctorate in fluid mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hanging gardens to debut at 4th Street ramp The Prospect Park Garden Club hopes that the community culture will bloom. BY MARAYA KING mking@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s Prospect Park neighborhood is moving through its goal to modernize its drearier side with community gardening. A new hanging garden — par t of a larger neighborhood effort to be greener — will enhance an area parking ramp’s appear-

“It’s a brutal presence that could use some help… we are concerned with the fastening and structural components of these gardens.” DICK GILYARD President of Prospect Park 2020

ance while making it more environmentally friendly. The project also looks to bring students, long-term residents and renters

together for planting. President and CEO of the Prospect Park Association, Vince Netz said planning first began in Januar y when designs and logistics of free hanging plants were drafted for review. With $9,405 approved by the University’s Good Neighbor Fund in April, the project is set to begin in July, Netz said. The parking ramp sits between University Avenue Southeast and 4th Street, across from the Metro Green Line light rail station in Prospect Park. “It’s a brutal presence

that could use some help… right now we are concerned with the fastening and structural components of these gardens,” said Dick Gilyard, president of the Prospect Park 2020 board and architect on the project. Netz said the initial funding will build around 40 planters on the south, east and north sides of the ramp. Like many other PPA initiatives this year, this project will involve University and other local students. Del Hampton, coordinator of Prospect Park Community Gardens, said

he and his team are always looking for ways to work with the University. “It is ver y important to me to recr uit University students, faculty and staf f in our community gardens,” Hampton said. The Prospect Park Garden Club also paired with Venture Academy on University Avenue, whose students will help to maintain the plants once they have begun to sprout, Hampton said. Jessica Buchber ger, Prospect Park program manager, said the garden is just one aspect of the Greener 4th Street I n i t i at i ve t ak i n g p l ace

between Malcolm Avenue and the TCF Bank Stadium. One added benefit of hanging gardens is their potential to filter storm r unof f water, Netz said, in accordance with the Greener 4th Street Initiative. Buchberger said the PPA is making changes when possible that will be the most efficient and environmentally friendly for the neighborhood. Construction will begin in July and continue until June of 2018 when the gar den is expected to flourish.

University center explores UMPD undergoes trauma training options for a sustainable future Police For 15 years, the Center has studied converting waste into resources. BY MAX CHAO mchao@mndaily.com

In a workshop in St. Paul, several r esear chers work to advance the future of sustainable energy. For almost 15 years, the University of Minnesota’s Center for Biorefining has researched ways to conver t waste into valuable resources like energy and food. “We saw so much of this waste and it actually causes a lot of pollution to the environment … it’s actually, simply, a waste of the r esources,” said Roger Ruan , founder and director of the center and a University pr ofessor. “We feel like if we can add value to all of this waste, that will be great,” The center has 20 to 30 staf f working on around eight dif ferent projects, Ruan said. They’ve conver ted waste into resources like liquid fuel, electricity and industrial chemicals. The center’s primar y funding comes from grants which fund projects that span from threeyear research initiatives to sprawling decade-long projects. One of the team’s longest-r unning projects involves conver ting scum, a byproduct of treating waste water, into usable biofuel. The scum-conversion method is the first in the field of biofuel synthesis and the center patented it, said Erik Anderson , a doctorate student studying bioproducts and

“We feel like if we can add value to all of this waste, that will be great.” ROGER RUAN Center of Biorefining founder

biosystems engineering. The procedure has been under development by the center for about a decade, and was par tially funded by a $1 million grant from the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources for the past 4 years, Ruan said. “It’s going to ver y exciting if we get funding for this … we’re going to incorporate that into the wastewater plant’s curr ent pr ocess,” he said. “We want to be a par t of what they do ever y single day.” The center’s other work includes finding applications for dif ferent r esour ces — like nonthermal plasma. Peng Peng , a Ph.D student who works in the center, hopes to create ammonia, which has applications as a fer tilizer and a fuel source, in a less resource-intensive fashion with non-thermal plasma. Conventional ammonia production with plasma requires ver y high pressure and temperature, between 400-600 degrees Celsius, resulting in high energy use and pollution, he said. In Peng’s method, the plasma would need to be heated to just 100 degr ees Celsius at under normal atmospheric pressure, substantially lowering pollution in creating ammonia. Peng hopes the technology will be commer-

cially available in the next 10 years. This method could also be reapplied for the sterilization of food like milk powder, said Charlie Schiappacasse , a graduate student working in the center. Along with the funding agencies, the center works with various other companies. One of the center’s earliest par tners was Fiberstar , a W isconsin company that uses natural byproducts to make food ingredients. The par tnership originated in 1998 in Ruan’s University lab, before the center star ted in 2003. Brock Lundberg , president of research and development for Fib e r s t a r t o d a y, w o r k e d in Ruan’s lab at the time and helped create Fiberstar’s byproduct-to-food method. “T h ey h a v e a g r ou p of people that bring in a range of backgrounds and experience that can of fer assistance and insight for a wide variety of areas,” Lundberg said. Over the next few years, the center will work to continue its resear ch and add forays into the uses of algae and hydroponic plants, plants gr own without soil, to clean wastewater while producing energy, Ruan said. He expects the field of biorefining to keep thriving with the growing awareness of environmental issues in the public. “These are major concerns that more and more people are star ting to realize impor tance of environmental [issues]… I think that this area is going to g r o w t r e m e n d o u s l y, ” Ruan said.

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instr ucts of ficers to use short, sensory-based questions about the event’s details, as opposed to the typical “Who, What, W h e r e , W h e n , W h y, How” questions that officers are trained to ask. During a traumatic event, Strand said the prefrontal cortex of the brain shuts down, causing victims to experience difficulty remembering sequences of events or the event itself. Therefore, he said, victims can better recall sensor y details. This unique memor y recording style makes traditional inter view styles fr uitless and sometimes traumatizes victims, said Katie Eichele, director of the University’s Aurora Center. Eichele said recording memor y in a nontraumatic situation is like taking notes in a notebook: the events are organized sequentially and easy to locate. But recording a memor y of a traumatic event is like taking notes on a

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Russell Strand speaks to officers about interview strategies for sexual assault survivors on June 27, on East Bank.

stack of Post-Its, the order of events may get shuffled and sometimes a par t of the memor y is even lost, she said. Strand’s forensic inter view training teaches of ficers how to help inter viewees find and organize these Post-It memories, while other techniques may not take into account that victims need time and help to do so. Eichele, who has led training on the neurobiology of trauma, said she recommended the training to UMPD after seeing firsthand that Strand’s inter view techniques

take into account how trauma af fects a victim’s memory. When UMPD asked for funding for the training, the president’s of fice jumped at the chance to fund it, said Jon Steadland, interim chief of staff. This kind of training is an unexpected offshoot of the University’s larger initiative to curb sexual misconduct, Steadland said, and the office was excited to hear UMPD was pursuing training to supplement the initiative as a whole. “It’s a really good endeavor for them to undertake,” he said

MN schools see positivity with grants BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL — Minnesota schools that were able to hire suppor t staf f with $12 million in grant money say they’re seeing the impact of having the additional support. Almost 80 Minnesota schools were able to hire social workers, counselors, nurses and psychologists thanks to the grant money given in November, Minnesota Public Radio reported.

Counselor Jessalin Karsnia used to split her time between two schools in the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan district, but is now full-time at Somerset Elementary School. She said it allows her to teach lessons on topics like sharing, friendship and anti-bullying once a week in each classroom. It also makes her available to meet with students any day of the week. “To say you can only have problems on Tuesdays and Thursdays, when I was maybe at that building, is

not fair for anyone,” Karsnia said. Fridley previously had no social workers in its district, but the grant allowed it to hire one at each of its schools. At Fridley’s alternative program, the newly hired social worker even goes to cour t with students who have chronic absenteeism. “She has really been able to connect students to resources that they might not even have known they need,” said principal Amy Cochran.

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HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (6/28): Nurture home and family this year. Unexpected shared expenses motivate rising income this summer. Your romantic partnership flowers with regular attention over two years, beginning this autumn.

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 9 — Get physically involved in a project. Productive results reward practical efforts. Words and actions come together harmoniously.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Watch for opportunities at the top. Team projects go well today and tomorrow. Coordinate a group conversation and manage who will do what.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Romance is a distinct possibility over the next few days, if you can avoid squabbling. Miscommunications frustrate the situation.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Your work and health seem energized over the next few days. Get your plans into motion. Communications, shipping and travels flow with velocity.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Fix up your place today and tomorrow. Persuade participation. Coordinate efforts with your family to make common improvements.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Play full out. Get involved in a larger conversation. You’re generating a fascinating buzz, and someone finds that particularly attractive.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — You are stirred to take practical action. Avoid controversy or expense. Speak out respectfully. Stand for your community.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Check your map and your schedule for changes. Travel conditions look excellent over the next few days.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Get moving on a personal priority today and tomorrow. Synchronize words with action. Energize the conversation. Persuade others from your heart.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Grab that low-hanging fruit. A fat harvest is within reach through tomorrow if you go for it. Join forces with another to get the funding.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Lay low and rest through tomorrow. Make plans and connections for an upcoming project. Think about how you’d like things to go.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Romance kindles from simple sparks over the next few days. Fall into a seductive conversation. Talk about what you’d like to do.

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DR. DATE Dr. Date,

So college is all about trying new things and meeting new people, right? Well, I had the ingenious idea of going to the extreme and became pen pals with a girl from Poland. Yes, 4,732 miles away, 7 hours apart. At first, I didn’t give much thought to her at all. I mean, how could it even be possible to fall in love with someone so far away, right? Well, life has its cruel way of toying with me, and now I’m missing my pen pal like crazy, like I have known her for my entire life. We Skype and now talk almost every day online for hours (no, she’s not part of the secret sadistic organization from Hostel). After we discovered how much we had in common, we just became so close, and I can’t stop thinking about her now. She has expressed the same feelings for me, and this is what kills me these days. We’re obviously in love (even though we’ve never said it). Now, I know a lot of people will tell me I’m such an idiot for believing that such a childish fantasy will ever be realized between us,

but everything we have told each other, all the things we talk about, it just seems too perfect to ever fall apart. She really believes that we have something “magical” after what I have managed to do for her even though we’re 4,732 miles apart (but that’s a whole ’nother story!). But the worst feeling ever is that I can’t be with her in person until the next three years are over (grad school commitments...). So, long story short, I just want to know how the hell to stop missing her because that’s all I think about these days. I really like this girl, but it’s like my mind is stuck on the pause button, and I can’t get her out of my mind because she’s so far away that I can’t get out all the emotions by spending just one day with her. Sorry for exploding on you like this, but I would just appreciate a little wisdom from Dr. Date, my hero.

—Polish Problems

#PolishProblems,

Even in this globalized world of digi-

tal pen pals, your case feels extreme. I can see feeling very close to this woman, but you use the word “missing,” as if you once were with her and now you’re separated. Are you really missing her? Or are you just choosing to fixate on this as a distraction from other problems or anxieties in your life? I mean, heck, how functional can you be on a day-to-day basis when you’re so obsessed with someone you’ve never met? In order to regain control of your heart and dick (and life), you have to confirm that she feels the same way you do — for all we know, she thinks of you as a very expressive American friend who makes masturbation more fun. Idea 1: Save up for a quick visit to Poland. I know you’re busy and have a three-year plan, but how about a little jaunt the summer before grad school? Idea 2: You say you’ve never said “I love you.” Test that out. Idea 3: Help her fly out here. Last resort? A chill pill the size of

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

a horse tranquilizer. Maybe just take a horse tranquilizer. Or relax naturally by thinking about the fact that if this is meant to be, then it will be, and three years of waiting will seem like nothing in the long run ... especially if you keep doing the extreme Skype stuff, heh.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I went out with this girl from work last week. I think we had a pretty good time, but now I’m not really sure how to act at work, if I should be flirty and open about it or if I should try and maintain a level of professionalism. I’ve never really been in this position before and don’t want to mess up a good thing we have going

—Work Flirt

Pro Flirt,

You should be professional in the workplace no matter what. Keep the love talk confined to your time off.

—Dr. Date

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University graduates make fidget device The Toppi, created by Carlson alumni, fixes to pencils for quiet classroom use. BY MAX CHAO mchao@mndaily.com

In 2016, a group of University of Minnesota business students were looking to create a way for young students and their classmates to fidget in peace. Not long after, an unexpected craze formed with fidget toys in all shapes and sizes ever ywhere. Along with that craze came backlash to the distraction these toys caused. “Other products on the market tend to be really distracting … so we started working on designing a new product that can be used in the classroom all day everyday by students,” said Anna Wetmore, CEO of Able Mindworks, the company the University group formed. The device, aptly named Toppi, sits on the top of a pencil. It consists of a ball bearing and a movable ring, designed to mimic moving a ring around one’s finger. Toppi is the latest in a wave of fidget devices and toys that have become a cultural phenomenon.

Richard Gottlieb, a toy industry consultant and CEO of Global Toy Group, said the fidget toy craze is a “fad” comparable to Silly Bandz and Cabbage Patch Kids. At a local toy store, Creative Kidstuf f, the trend star ted with fidget cubes and putty in fall 2016, said Sam Olson, a floor lead at the store. About six months later, the fidget spinner trend began to spike, he said. “There’s been a big surge in popularity with all sorts of fidgety things,” Olson said. The fad hit a Lake Harriet, Minnesota fifth grade classroom this past school year. A bar rage of fidget spinners and cubes, with their onslaught of clicking, whooshing and flashing lights led Jessica Larson, a fifth grade teacher at Lake Harriet Community School, to ban them. Larson sent a letter to parents acknowledging their usefulness for students with ADD, ADHD and other similar issues, but they became too much of a distraction. “The more gaudy or flashy the designs became, the more kids brought them in and the more they became a distraction,” she said. Gottlieb speculated the toys have been successful

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A Carlson entrepreneurship group made a silent fidget device that attaches to a pencil top to reduce distractions in schools.

because kids have a lot of excess energy and expects the trend to last about six to eight months in total. While fidget toys are the popular name, Wetmore and her coworkers designed their product to be more of a tool.

The company knows the wide variety of fidgeting toys have productivity and focus benefits, but are banking on the silent aspect and feasibility in the classroom to make their product stand out. “We have to prove to

[customers] why ours is different and better,” said Able Mindworks CFO Jake Shoults. Toppi has cur rently presold around 1500 units to various teachers, principals, occupational therapists and independent customers

and expect to ship out their first batch this summer, Wetmore said. In the futur e, Able Mindworks hopes to corner the school market and potentially create a stylus in response to increasing tablet use in schools.

UMN researcher detects elevated skull pressure More than a dozen astronauts got the condition after time in zero gravity. BY SYDNEY BAUM-HAINES sbaum-haines@mndaily.com

Zero gravity may cause a wor r ying condition in other wise healthy astronauts. Researchers theorize zero gravity is causing increased skull pressure, which is the main culprit in a condition called papilledema, a swollen optic ner ve that can lead to vision loss. Now, a University of Minnesota researcher is pioneering a technique that could help NASA and others detect the condition. So far, 17 American astronauts have contracted papilledema. In outer space, there is no way to test astronauts for high skull pressure, leading to a conundrum for the Na-

tional Space Biomedical Research Institute, a NASApartnered research center. Looking for answers, the NSBRI turned to University of Minnesota researcher Uzma Samadani, to find new ways to measure skull pressure in space. “When you go up into space, ever ything shifts because of the lack of gravity… and so there is a bit of a change in how fluids are distributed,” said Dorit Donoviel, deputy chief scientist of NSBRI. Samadani, an associate professor in the Depar tment of Neurosurger y, and her team wrote a paper illustrating the use of eye tracking technology to show if someone’s skull pressure is elevated. The research, funded by NSBRI and published online June 2 in the Journal of Neurosurger y, involves a person watching a small moving video, like a music video or movie clip, as an

obser ver tracks how their eye moves. “You have three ner ves that move your pupils and we can tell if one of them is impaired because it will show par ticular metrics that are of f,” Samadani said. This condition sometimes persists once astronauts return to Earth and appears to get worse the longer astronauts stay in zero gravity, she said. The most common method of detecting elevated intracranial pressure, or high skull pressure, is unfeasible in space. T y p i c a l l y, a d o c t o r would drill a hole in someone’s head or spine to check pressure, said Cornelius Lam, professor in the Department of Neurosurgery. Back on Earth, trauma, strokes and tumors are all common causes of elevated ICP, Samadani said. “The space program has

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Researcher Keenan Ashby watches as a computer tracks a subject’s eye movement to show pressure levels in his brain in the Hennepin County Medical Center’s Brain Injury Laboratory.

been looking for noninvasive and simple ways to assess whether pressure on the brain is elevated,” Donoviel said. Samadani’s technology is attractive for its simplicity, and astronauts can use it on their own, Donoviel said. Still, the method lacks the ability to measure brain pressure numerically. “The ver y simple, easy to use technology is something that could be ver y easily implemented in the inter national space station, or even on the way to Mars,” she said. Along with Samadani’s research, Donoviel also presented several other re-

searchers’ ideas to NASA for consideration. It is likely that NASA will pick two or three different technologies to send into space, Donoviel said. Diagnosing the issue is just step one of a more complex problem for astronauts, she said. Medication is the go-to treatment for elevated ICP on Earth, but space complicates that. “Astronauts have so many changes going on in their bodies, we’re very reluctant to give them medications,” Donoviel said. The eye tracking method is cur rently awaiting FDA approval, Samadani said.

Back on Earth, the method may have other applications. It could enable quick diagnoses in an emergency room, or help assess treatments of other skull pressure related conditions. She has already used this technology on other brain injuries, like concussions, but this is the first time it has been used to find high skull and brain pressure. “If you have [elevated ICP] for a long time, it can impact cognition, so it slows down your thinking, it can cause headaches … and you can actually even go blind from it,” Samadani said. Untreated, high ICP can even kill.

Universal presses bid to void music deal with Prince estate BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Lawyers for Universal Music Gr oup have r enewed their request that a Minnesota judge cancel the company’s music rights deal with Prince’s estate, saying UMG will other wise have to sue in litigation that could keep fans from hearing new music from Prince’s vault for years. In a cour t filing made public Tuesday, Comerica Bank & Trust, which serves as executor of Prince’s estate, asked Car ver County District Judge Kevin Eide to rescind the Januar y deal with Universal after War ner Br os. Recor ds claimed the agreement conflicted with a contract it signed with Prince in 2014. Prince died in April 2016 of an accidental painkiller overdose. At issue is whether the company that initially man-

aged Prince’s estate and negotiated the UMG agreement — Bremer T r ust, and its advisers, including former Prince attorney L. Londell McMillan — misrepresented the rights that Universal was getting under the deal. UMG says it would not have proceeded if it had known that Warner Bros. would immediately claim that it retained some of those rights and threaten to sue. The dispute has divided Prince’s heirs and generated voluminous filings in the estate case before Eide. The exact nature of the conflicts between the UMG and Wa r n e r B r o s . a g r e e ments, and what Universal agreed to pay the estate, aren’t clear because most of the relevant cour t filings are sealed or heavily redacted. Universal’s attor neys finally got to see Prince’s confidential agreement

with War ner Bros. this month. In a letter to Eide dated Monday, they said their r eview only confir med their desire to cancel the UMG deal. They said the language of the Warner Bros. agreement is so ambiguous that neither they nor the courts are in a position to determine whether the two contracts are in conflict without extensive litigation. W h i l e t h e Wa r n e r Bros. agreement may be ambiguous, they said, the rights that the estate’s previous representatives promised to UMG were not. Universal’s attor neys said canceling the agreement would be in the best interests of UMG and the estate “because it resolves this other wise intractable dispute without the expense of lengthy litigation that will tie up these key rights for years.”