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SEXUAL ASSAULT
Protesters rally against rape culture in frat row march The Saturday march came two days after President Eric Kaler unveiled new sexual assault prevention efforts at the University.
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Trish Palermo will lead MSA next year Rachel Cardwell will be PSG’s prez; Lauren Mitchell will lead COGS, ACEC said Sunday. BY NATALIE RADEMACHER AND DAVID CLAREY nrademacher@mndaily.com, dclarey@mndaily.com
New leaders for the three University of Minnesota student government bodies were announced Sunday after votes from last week’s election were counted. Undergraduate students TRISH PALERMO elected Trish Palermo as Minnesota Student Association president for the next school year, the All Campus Elections Commission announced Sunday afternoon. Second-year law student Rachel Cardwell was chosen to be Professional Student Government’s president. Psychology graduate student Lauren Mitchell won the Council of Graduate Students election. In a the four th and final round of ranked-choice voting, Palermo and vicepresidential candidate Erik Hillesheim won 52 percent of the votes, beating presidential candidate Nick Alm by less ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY
Break the Silence Day organized a march on frat row along University Avenue on Saturday. BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com
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olding signs that read “I believe the sur vivor” and “Safety is a human right,” more than 100 protesters marched along frater nity row Saturday to speak out against campus sexual assault. The march — which came two days after University President Eric Kaler announced increased prevention
efforts — included survivors, advocates and fraternity members and comes amid increased attention of sexual assault at the University of Minnesota and its greek life system. “This isn’t just about women. It’s about toxic masculinity and how per vasive that is within the fraternity system,” said Sarah Super, organizer of Saturday’s event and an advocate for sur vivors. University students Abby Honold and Maria Gilber t and
graduate Kayla Pederson spoke about being sexual assaulted by frater nity members and gave their suppor t to others at the rally. “There is a clear problem in greek life when a man known to have committed sexual misconduct is elected president,” said Pederson, a University graduate who was sexually assaulted by a member of
STUDENT ISSUES
U among the worst in nation for black student graduation A new study found that the U has a large gap between black and white student college completion.
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University sees spike in bias incidents on campus About 20 percent of all reports to the U’s bias response team occurred during last month. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota’s Bias Response and Referral Network received at least 18 incident reports in Februar y, the largest number reported in any month since its start in January 2016. Though the Southern Poverty Law Center — an advocacy organization specializing in civil rights — has announced a decrease in bias reports since a spike following the presidential election; other Big Ten colleges
have seen similar surges. Officials from the University and other schools attribute the increase in bias reports to political climate resulting from the presidential election as well as resource awareness. Records from Januar y 2016 through Feb. 22, 2017 show a total of 82 bias reports. The incidents range from the highlyvisible, like a January report of a swastika stomped on to the practice football field, to more personal accounts, like a report from a student worried that a poor grade was given due to bias. One reason for the uptick in repor ts is increased awareness of the team, u See BIAS Page 5
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The University of Minnesota is among the worst schools in the nation for black students’ college completion, a report released Wednesday found. The report, commissioned by the Education Trust — an education advocacy organization based in Washington D.C. — reviewed 676 private and public institutions in the country and found that the University of Minnesota has the 79th highest disparity in the country, with a 23.8 percentage gap in six year graduation rates between black and white students. The University of Minnesota’s gap is the highest among the eight Minnesota schools listed in the report and is second-highest in the Big Ten. “We have been aware of [it] in Minnesota for many years, that we have a challenge with
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HEALTH
Some say mental health funds lag at U coordinate campuses Student-leaders presented their concerns about resources to the Board of Regents last month. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
Olivia Krenz, a sophomore at the University of Minnesota- Duluth, tries to see the same on-campus mental health counselor every week. Krenz, who has depression and anxiety, has used Duluth’s mental health services since her freshman year. She said the stress of classes, loans and past hardships make regular counseling appointments necessary.
“I really don’t know that I would still be in college without it,” Krenz said. “It’s been a lifesaver.” Although she prefers weekly counseling sessions, Krenz said she often has to wait two weeks because the Duluth campus’ counseling services are booked. Some of her friends stopped using the school’s services and have found counselors off-campus that they can see more frequently, she said. “If there was more people, I feel like I would be feeling better,” she said. “If I’m going through a really rough time, I want to go in every week. That’s going to get me through the week.” u See MENTAL HEALTH Page 4
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Boynton Health Chief Medical Officer Gary Christenson gives an update on student mental health to the Board of Regents Academic and Student Affairs Committee on Feb. 10.
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STATE REPORT PLANE CRASH IN PAYNESVILLE INJURES PILOT FROM ST. CLOUD PAYNESVILLE — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a plane crash in the central Minnesota city of Paynesville that left the pilot hospitalized. The Stear ns County Sherif f ’s Of fice says it happened around 2:45 p.m. Saturday. The pilot, 71-yearold Michael Jude, told responders he was flying from Clear Lake to Paynesville when his engine began to overheat. He attempted to land but abor ted his first attempt and was coming back ar ound when the engine failed. He tried to land in a corn field about a half-mile from the r unway. The plane landed hard, damaging the wings and collapsing the landing gear. The pilot was standing outside the plane when rescuers arrived. He was taken to a local hospital then transfer red to St. Cloud Hospital. The plane was a single-engine, amateur-built plane from 2009.
US OFFICIALS TO HOLD MEETING ON ALBERTA CLIPPER PIPELINE MINNEAPOLIS — State Department officials will come to Minnesota on Tuesday to hold the only public meeting on a draft environmental review for the final segment of Enbridge Energy’s project to boost capacity in its Alberta Clipper pipeline, which carries Canadian tar sands oil across northern Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. The State Depar tment’s four-year review concluded that there would be no significant environmental impacts from completing the project, which requires a presidential permit because the last remaining segment crosses the U.S.-Canadian border in Nor th Dakota. But environmentalists and some Native American tribes dispute that and are gearing up for the meeting in the nor ther n Minnesota city of Bemidji. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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than 5 percent. MSA presidential candidates Matt Snow and Charlie Parker were eliminated in previous rounds of the vote. “Thank you to all of you for believing in the change we want to make on our campus. We promise to work our hardest to make you all proud. Today we celebrate; tomorrow we get to work,” Palermo and Hillesheim said in a statement on the duo’s Facebook campaign page. Paler mo, a political science junior, currently ser ves as chair of the Student Senate. Hillesheim is a marketing junior and is president of the professional business fraternity Delta Sigma Pi – Alpha Epsilon Chapter. They ran on a platform that included pushing for food quality in University dining halls, implementing additional T itle IX training for faculty and staf f, adding advocate
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positions at the Aurora Center and holding campus area landlords accountable. More undergraduates — 6,630 — voted in this year’s MSA election, a jump from last year’s 6,439 voters, continuing a 10-year trend of increased MSA election voter participation.
Professional Student Government and Council of Graduate Students results In PSG’s election, Cardwell beat Matt Berg, a first-year public affairs graduate student, with over 55 percent of the vote. Cardwell is currently the president of the University’s Federal Bar Association and has previously said her
experience in law will help her advocate for PSG. Mitchell received 98 percent of the votes in COGS’ election. Mitchell has previously said she wants to help members of COGS feel comfortable saying ‘no’ to things to help reduce burnout. She said she also wants to focus on perennial graduate student problems like student-adviser relationships. Voter turnout for COGS and PSG sharply declined this year. While 192 people voted in COGS’ election this year, last year’s presidential election saw 337 votes. For PSG’s election, 691 people voted in last year, compared to 295 voters this year.
The robbery occurred at 8:45 p.m. on Saturday according to UMPD. BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com
A man was robbed on the University of Minnesota’s East Bank campus Saturday. The robber y happened around 8:45 p.m., according to a University of Minnesota Police Department timely warning. The victim was walking in the courtyard between Williamson Hall and the Nolte Center when the suspect ran behind him and pushed him. The suspect implied he had a gun and told him to give him his belongings. The victim handed over his phone to the suspect, who fled across Northrop Plaza, according to the Sunday campus-wide email. The suspect may have left the area in a silver Ford Mustang parked at Morrill Hall, according to the report. Anyone with information is asked to call UMPD at 612-624-COPS(2677).
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Ex-intel chief denies wiretapping PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump tur ned to Congress on Sunday for help finding evidence to support his unsubstantiated claim that former President Barack Obama had Tr ump’s telephones tapped during the election. Obama’s intelligence chief said no such action was ever carried out. Republican leaders of Congress appeared willing to honor the president’s request, but the move has potential risks for the president, particularly if the House and Senate intelligence committees unearth damaging information about Trump, his aides or his associates. Trump claimed in a series of tweets without evidence Saturday that his predecessor
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determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016.” He said there would be no further comment until the investigations are completed, a statement that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi took offense to and likened to autocratic behavior. “It’s called a wrap-up smear. You make up something. Then you have the press write about it. And then you say, ever ybody is writing about this charge. It’s a tool of an authoritarian,” Pelosi said. Spicer’s chief deputy, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, said she thinks Trump is “going of f of information that he’s seen that has led him to believe that this is a very real potential.”
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“Our goal is to address the issues … and make sure that Aramark is meeting our expectations as a University, for both our students and our leadership team.” MIKE BERTHELSEN University Services Interim Vice President
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ser vice. “We are proud to ser ve the University and are committed to working with the administration and students to collaboratively address the issues outlined in the resolution,” the statement read. Student senators and other attendees Thursday discussed additional concerns regarding Aramark with University administrators. CFANS student senator Shantal Pai questioned the requirement for first-year students to have a meal plan. In response, Associate Vice President of Auxiliar y Ser vices Laurie Scheich said the plan is necessar y because dor m kitchenettes aren’t equipped for a large number of students to rely on them. She also noted a benefit of building a sense of community through dining halls. Kay Akey, assistant director of University Dining Ser vices, said at the meeting UDS plans to start having staff visit and eat at the dining halls daily to better track quality. The University also approved the SSCC’s request for student representation on the University committee that reviews contracts and the creation of a student advisor y council to look into complaints with Aramark. Similar resolutions are being planned by the Council of Graduate Students and the Minnesota Student Association. The University’s Twin Cities campus first signed a contract with Aramark in 1998. A year later, the University Senate passed a similar resolution that noted a perceived decrease in “quality, ser vice and choice” in the food provided by Aramark. A r am ar k spoke sp er son Karen Cutler previously told the Daily that the ethical concerns are a “smear campaign” against the company.
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regards to gaps by race, in terms of post-secondary attainment,” said Larr y Pogemiller, commissioner of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education. The University of Minnesota was one of the study’s 21 bottom-per forming schools for black student college completion in the country. A bottom-per forming school trails its peer institutions’ average of AfricanAmerican student completion by at least 10 percentage points and has completion gaps between black and white student exceeding 20 percentage points. Pogemiller said while the University has made progress, “we just have not been able to solve the problem to date.” Recommended practices based on research, such as first year orientation programs, support services and guidance on a regular basis, have been shown to reduce gaps in graduation, Pogemiller said. “It’s pretty well known what can work. It’s really a question of if institutions can scale that up,” he said. Andrew Nichols, one of the authors of the study, said schools also need to analyze their data to determine the causes behind the gap. Based on that, he said, institutions can determine if there needs to be more supplemental education, advising or financial help. “It’s also a matter of social justice in terms of ensuring that all students have equality,” Nichols said. Nichols said although black student enrollment outpaced other ethnic groups over the past decade, black graduation rates have only gone up two percentage points while white graduation rates have gone up around five. Rober t McMaster, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education at the University, said the school looks at data on graduation and achievement gaps regularly, especially firstyear retention rates and four- and six-year graduation rates. While the University has seen graduation rates going up for both white students and students of color, it is still not where leaders want it to be, McMaster said. “We’re well aware of where we sit with this gap,” McMaster said. He said the most recent data for the University shows the six-year graduation gap between white and black students at around 17 percent, a six-point drop from the data in the study, which looked at academic years 2012, 2013 and 2014. The gap between firstyear retention rates for black and white students sits at
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Both student senate bodies passed a resolution critical of the University of Minnesota’s food vendor on Thursday. The University Stu dent Senate and University Senate passed a resolution calling for Aramark to be held accountable for business ethics concer ns and a lack of dietary accommodations. In both instances, student and faculty senators presented concerns about the company such as expensive meal plans, poor quality food and mistreatment of employees to University representatives. The resolution — brought for ward by the Student Senate Consultative Committee — calls for the University to cut incentives given to Aramark for meeting cer tain quality standards. If there isn’t an adequate response from Aramark by 2018, the resolution calls for the University to not renew the contract with the vendor. The contract with Aramark ends on June 30, 2020. “I’m ver y happy to see it pass unanimously,” said Trish Palermo, Student Senate chair. “I’m looking for ward to Aramark’s response to the ethical concerns.” While it’s good to see students care about quality of food ser vices, it’s not new to hear about these types of complaints, said Interim V ice President of University Ser vices Mike Berthelsen. He said special dietar y needs are more recent issues for the University. Quality concer ns have been discussed for a long time, he said. Ber thelsen said there isn’t a specific timeline for the implementation of various requests. “Our goal is to address the issues … and make sure that Aramark is meeting our expectations as a University, for both our students and our leadership team,” he said. In an emailed statement, an Aramark spokesperson said the company is committed to address any issues with its
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“I’m very happy to see it pass unanimously . . . I’m looking forward to Aramark’s response to the ethical concerns.”
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only one percent, McMaster said. Additionally, for the first time, this year’s first year retention rate for students of color exceeded that of white students, he said.
Still, the graduation gap is where the work needs to be done, he said. The University also recently started a scholarship for low-income students
and added 18 new academic advisors for the whole student body to help alleviate the gap, McMaster said. “The goal is to have zero gap,” McMaster said.
Three new, state-of-the-art engineering labs open to students The 10,000 squarefoot space includes 3D printers and water jet cutters. NEHA PANIGRAHY npanigrahy@mndaily.com
Three new lab spaces with 3D printers and water jet cutters opened at the University of Minnesota Thursday with hopes of giving engineering students first-hand experience with state-of-theart equipment. The $2 million, 10,000-square-foot Anderson Innovation Lab consists of three different spaces, two in the Mechanical Engineering Building and one in the Civil Engineering Building. The lab spaces opened to all students Thursday. “Other spaces like the Medical Devices Center can’t accommodate many students. Additionally, you have to be associated with a course or the center to use their facilities,” said Will Durfee, a mechanical engineering
professor who led the committee that opened the labs. The College of Science and Engineering wasn’t planning on opening the labs until students expressed their need for them. “We were super behind in terms of engineering spaces, especially among engineering schools, benchmark peer instituions and private instituions. It was starting to become a problem because students would look [at] other universities with better facilities,” Durfee said. Design Lab, the largest of the innovation labs, is 5,000 square feet in the Mechanical Engineering Building. The space includes four laser cutters, which can cut wood, plastic and cardboard. It also includes 20 3D printers. Other equipment like large work benches, computer lab spaces and a tool-lending library is also available. The Student Machine Shop includes metal working mills, lathes, computercontrolled milling machines and a water jet cutter.
The Student Shop is about 3,000 square feet in the Civil Engineering Building. It also includes 3D printers, 3D scanners, welding facilities and woodworking tools. “The space is great for experiential learning. Many graduating engineers don’t have hands-on experience or don’t understand the practical side of engineering,” said Ben Guengerich, the lab manager. The lab is open 24/7 via U Card to students trained in using the equipment. Training is open to any student, Guengerich said. “One of the biggest goals was to update the College of Science and Engineering student shop by getting topnotch and industry-standard equipment, so that when students graduate and look for [a] real-world job, they have some experience using computer-controlled equipment,” said Josh Halverson, a senior in mechanical engineering. The space initially opened in November 2015 with
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University mechanical engineering sophomore Evan Humphreys explains the how new water jet cutter works in one of the Anderson Innovation Labs on Thursday.
limited equipment to see how the space was going to run and in order to determine which students and faculty members needed the space, Durfee said.
The space was funded by Carlson School of Management graduate Clifford I. Anderson and Nancy C. Anderson. “We want these to be
places for those who need to see if their imaginations lead to reality,” said Clifton Anderson, a major donor of the Anderson Innovation Labs.
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While increased mental resources on the Twin Cities campus have resulted in drastically reduced wait times and waitlists, some on the University’s coordinate campuses say they’ve been excluded from the additional resources, even as they continue to experience increased demand. At the University’s Twin Cities campus, funding for six mental health counselors was approved last year after a push by students increased. The funding led to a one to more than 2,700 ratio of full-time equivalent counselors to students. Apar t from Morris and Duluth, all other coordinate campuses have ratios that are higher than the Twin Cities. Rochester has no dedicated counselor, and Crookston’s ratio is one to more than 3,500. The recommended ratio is one full-time counselor to ever y 1,000 to 1,500 students, according to the International Association of Counseling Services. “I think that, in terms of funding, system campuses are definitely neglected,” said Mckenzie Dice, the Mor ris campus’ student representative to the Board of Regents. Though Morris has one counselor for ever y 885 students, she said the campus saw an increase in students using mental health resources. The campus employs two full-time counselors and two who split their time between administrative work and counseling. One counselor was hired this semester and helped reduce wait times from three to four weeks to three to four days, Dice said. A mental health presentation at a Februar y Board of Regents committee meeting featured the Twin
Cities’ campus and Boynton Health’s progress, but it also highlighted a lack of funding at the system’s other campuses. While the Twin Cities campus experienced success, Laur en Mitchell, chair of the student representatives to the board questioned funding levels for mental health ser vices at coordinate campuses at the meeting. “My understanding is that … a similar amount of money that was spent here would go a long way towards resolving their problems,” Mitchell said. “System campuses often get forgotten.” She said she reached out to staf f and representatives from the Mor ris, Crookston, Duluth and Rochester campuses and found that they don’t have the resources to meet student requests. “We need to expand this to our affiliate campuses,” said boar d chair Dean Johnson. “It’s a University system and all students ought to have the same opportunity for mental health care.” He said he feels like the University is improving its mental health ser vices for students and said regents asked chancellors of each campus to submit their specific needs for funding in the next budget cycle
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Tim Menard, director of counseling ser vices at the Crookston campus, is the only full-time counselor for nearly 2,700 students and recently filled out a request to fund an assistant counselor. Between September 2016 and Januar y, Menard said the campus saw a 40 percent increase in requests for appointments from the year before. He said Crookston can only provide shor t-term mental health ser vices before referring clients to outside providers.
Though he recently submitted a request for a recurring $24,000 to hire another counselor, other services at Crookston have needs and are requesting additional funding, too. Gar y Christenson, chief medical officer at Boynton Health and co-chair of the University’s Faculty Consultative Committee mental health task force, was one of the presenters of the mental health update at the last regents meeting in Februar y. While Christenson said he is aware of the challenges at other campuses, he said his role is to oversee health ser vices only at Boynton and has been isolated from conversations not concerning the Twin Cities. “The Twin Cities campus is for tunate to be in the midst of a large urban area that has rich mental health ser vices,” he said. “I can imagine where there are even additional challenges and potential barriers to getting care [at other campuses].” While the Duluth campus’ ratio of counselors to students is nearly the same as the T win Cities campus — about one for ever y 2,750 students — a higher percentage of UMD student report mental health diagnoses. At UMD, according to the SSCC memo, 34 percent of students have been diagnosed with at least one mental illness, compar ed to less than 33 percent of students in their lifetime at the Twin Cities campus, according to Boynton’s 2015 student health sur vey. Student appointments increased 50 percent at Duluth in the last 10 years while the campus has only seen its enrollment increase 3 percent according to a Januar y Student Senate Consultative Committee memo. “Simply put, it’s not great,” said Mike Kenyanya, a management information
sciences sophomore and Duluth’s student representative to the regents. He said there was a feeling that once regents addressed the T win Cities mental health issues, the coordinate campuses would get funding for more counselors or services. “Well, [they] addressed it on one campus. The system has five,” he said. Laur en Anderson, a pr e-med sophomor e at the University’s Rochester campus and a student representative to the regents, said Rochester doesn’t employ any on-campus mental health counselors for its 435 students and refers them to outside sources. Since the campus is so small, she said money can’t be reallocated from other sources to a counseling position because most depar tments are made up of just one faculty member. “I think students and administration are fr ustrated because we have been asking with lots of data,” Anderson said. “That hasn’t seemed to be heard as well as we wish.” She said Rochester has
been asking for increased suppor t from the Regents since 2015 but hasn’t seen any. “I understand that we shouldn’t be getting nearly as much money as the T win Cities because of student population, but even if it was distributed just based on student population, we wouldn’t all be getting [ as much as the T win Cities],” she said. “That is what leaves me dumbfounded.” Regent Thomas Anderson said last month’s mental health update shows progress but still doesn’t get to the root of the rise in mental illnesses. “It’s a ver y elusive subject,” Anderson said. “I believe it’s something we have to get our hands around and have to help the students deal with.” He said he wasn’t aware of the specific mental health issues on coordinate campuses but the regents will take steps to solve their problems. “I think mental health statistics on college campuses in general and in young people in general are alarming,” he said.
FULL TIME EQUIVALENT (FTE) COUNSELORS TO STUDENTS ON U CAMPUSES 1 FTE counselor per 3,673 students at Duluth 1 FTE counselor per 2,754 students at Crookston* 1 FTE counselor per 886 students at Morris 0 FTE counselors at Rochester 1 FTE counselor per 2,758 students at Twin Cities 1 FTE counselor per 1,000-1,500 students reccomended by International Association of Counseling Services *Crookston’s counselor is 0.75 FTE for its 2,676 students SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, FALL 2016 ENROLLMENT DATA & MN DAILY REPORTING
Potential ecological cuts worry mayors BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
M I L WA U K E E — A group representing Great Lakes region mayors in the U.S. and Canada is sounding the alarm against potentially drastic cuts to an ecological recover y initiative for the Great Lakes. The Trump administration’s potential cuts to the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative were reported by the Detroit Free Press last week. They would slash annual funding for the $300 million program to $10 million. The initiative combats invasive species, curbs nutrient-fueled algae blooms, cleans up toxic messes and restores sensitive fish and wildlife habitat. “Cuts of this magnitude would be devastating to the efforts of our two countries over the past five decades to restore the resource,” David Ullrich, executive director of The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for a story published Sunday (http:// bit.ly/2mIox0n ). His group represents mayors from more than 125 U.S. and Canadian cities in the Great Lakes basin. Ullrich said the cuts would also undermine all of the lake restoration and protection efforts underway by local governments, which are collectively far more significant than the federal restoration initiative launched by the Obama administration in 2010. “Local gover nments have been investing at over $15 billion per year ... well beyond the federal governments’ investments,” Ullrich said, “and this would be a major step back from the responsibility shared for this resource.” Conser vation groups have also criticized the potential cuts.
Sikh leaders respond to attack in Seattle suburb BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
KENT, Wash. — Fear, hurt and disbelief weighed on the minds of those who gathered at a Sikh temple Sunday after the shooting of a Sikh man who said a gunman approached him in his suburban Seattle driveway and told him “go back to your own country.” “Everybody who is part of this community needs to be vigilant,” Satwinder Kaur, a Sikh community leader, said as several hundred people poured into a temple in Renton for worship services about one mile from Friday night’s shooting. “It is scary,” she added. “The community has been shaken up.” Authorities said a gunman approached the
39-year-old Sikh man as he worked on his car in his driveway in the city of Kent, about 20 miles south of Seattle. The FBI will help investigate the shooting, authorities said. Kent Police Chief Ken Thomas said the depar tment is investigating the shooting as a hate crime. He said no ar rests have been made yet after the victim was shot in the arm but that he did not believe anyone was in imminent danger. “This is a top priority investigation, and we are doing ever ything possible to identify and arrest the suspect,” Thomas said in an email, adding that residents in the city of about 125,000 should “be vigilant” but also not let the shooting hur t
their quality of life. The FBI’s Seattle office said in a statement Sunday that it is “committed to investigating crimes that are potentially hate-motivated,” the Seattle Times reported. The shooting comes after an Indian man was killed and another wounded in a recent shooting at a Kansas bar that federal agencies are investigating as a hate crime after witnesses say the suspect yelled “get out of my country.” Friday night’s shooting was on the minds of many who gathered at a Sikh Temple in nearby Renton Sunday morning for worship. Women in colorful saris and headscarves and men wearing turbans sat on the floor on opposite sides inside the worship space.
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Increase in bias related incidents at University problems people are having,” she said. Multicultural center and counseling staf f have told McCord they’ve met with wor ried students more than they did before the election, she said. But nationally, repor ts of bias incidents and hate crimes have declined since a post-election surge in November, said Alex Amend, Southern Poverty Law Center digital media director. The SPLC, a left-leaning organization, tracks hate crimes as par t of its advocacy efforts. In response to the rise in hate crimes last fall, the SPLC implemented an online repor ting system to assess the situation nationwide, Amend said, adding that the response was over whelming. They received over 850 repor ts in the first ten days following Pr esident Donald Tr ump’s election, he said. The incidents ranged from vandalism to heated exchanges escalating into racial slurs, he said. Since November, repor ts have slowed, possibly because the initial surprise of Trump’s election has worn off, he said. “Some people might feel that they’ve been granted license to kind of be a little more open in their ignorance and their bigotr y than they might have before,” he said. At the same time, altright and white nationalist flyers have popped up at abnormally high levels since the election season, Amend said. Amend said organized alt-right and white supremacist groups see
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said BRRN member and Of fice of Equal Opportunity and Af fir mative A c t i o n D i r e c t o r, T i n a Marisam. The BRRN website just launched last fall, and this spring, the University-wide “We all belong here” ef for t helped spread information about the network, she said. She also attributes the uptick to the political climate. “My sense is that our University is not alone in this. Other universities are also … experiencing more conversation about these social identities and also more bias incidents,” she said. For example, 106 repor ts have been made this academic year at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, which is a significant increase from the last several years, said Associate Dean of Students Justin Brown. “We … put it on the shoulders of the election cycle and the actual inauguration and things happening pretty much directly as a result of a ver y unpleasant political climate,” he said. There has been a slight increase in repor ts at the Indiana University Bloomington, said Associate Dean of Students Carol McCord. However, McCord doesn’t think numbers accurately reflect campus climate because incidents often go unreported. “I don’t believe for a second these are all the stBIAS
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Tr ump’s election as confirmation of their beliefs and a new potential to recruit members. Putting up flyers is protected by the First Amendment, Amend said, but it has been causing turmoil at colleges and universities around the countr y. The University’s BRRN has received four repor ts of white nationalist or altright posters on campus since it launched last year, all of which took place in Februar y. Records show that in three instances, the BRRN did not recommend removing flyers because they did not violate University policy. However, a flyer with “extremely antiSemitic, white nationalist language” that claimed to be from the white supremacist website Daily Stormer was removed by the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment, records show. Editor’s Note: Alex Amend is a former Minnesota Daily reporter.
Demonstrators rally against rape culture in frat row march Protest u from Page 1
Delta Upsilon as a junior. Delta Upsilon was suspended last month by its headquar ters for allegations of sexual assault, among other reasons. Some frater nity men marched in their greek letters, including University Inter frater nity Council President Simon Beck and members of Alpha Epsilon Pi, which suspended a member for allegedly assaulting a pledge in Januar y. For mer DU member Dawson Kimyon — who alerted the chapter’s international representatives about issues of sexual assault at the house — said it would take action from fraternity members to ignite a culture change within greek life. “We’re going to need
tr ue allies on the inside because you guys have the privilege of making change from the inside out,” Kimyon said. Besides recent allegations of sexual assault by some fraternity members, the march follows an increase in the number of sexual assaults repor ted to the University. It also comes in the wake of a sexual assault scandal involving Gophers football players. Kaler announces prevention efforts
ing for students after their first year, a campus-wide sur vey focused on campus sexual assault and the creation of a committee to advise Kaler on sexual misconduct issues. Kaler said the changes, which follow other changes the University has made in recent years to how it handles sexual assaults, were recommended by a working group formed earlier this year. “We all know that even with these actions, we will not eliminate sexual misconduct on campus,” Kaler said Thursday. “But what we can do is stand firm on our values and ef fectively ar ticulate the behaviors we expect and the culture we want to create.”
The University will increase ef for ts to combat sexual assault, President Eric Kaler announced Thursday. T h e c h a n g e s — a nnounced at Kaler’s annual State of the Univeristy address — include required training for faculty and staf f, a public awareness campaign, additional train-
Max Chao contributed to this report.
“Some people might feel that they’ve been granted license to kind of be a little more open in their ignorance and their bigotry than they might have before,” ALEX AMEND SPLC digital media director
NUMBER OF UNIVERSITY BIAS INCIDENT REPORTS
stGAP BLACK AND WHITE SIX YEAR GRADUATION RATES FOR BIG TEN SCHOOLS (3-YEAR WEIGHTED AVERAGE: 2012, 2013, 2014)
18*
93.7% 91.9%
91.9%
ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY
87.4% 87.3% Sexual assault victim-survivors, advocates and fraternity members marched as part of a protest 85.4% 85.2% 84.0% 82.6% along frat row organized by Break the Silence Day 80.7%on Saturday. 79.2%
78.6%
13 11
6
54.6%
56.3%
55.0%
72.6%
68.8%
52.8%
12
Pennsylvania State University
Ohio State University
University of Iowa
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Northwestern University
University of Maryland - College Park
TYPES OF BIAS MENTIONED IN INCIDENT REPORTS
Rutgers University
*through Feb. 22, 2017
Univerisity of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
0 August September October November December January February 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2017 2017
Indiana University - Bloomington
July 2016
Purdue University
June 2016
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
May 2016
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BIAS RESPONSE AND REFERRAL NETWORK
12
70.4%
7
Michigan State University
April 2016
76.4%
2 0
January February March 2016 2016 2016
58.2%
University of Wisconsin - Madison
1
74.0%
67.0%
54.9%
University of Minnesota
0
3
2
72.3%
65.9%
10
9
78.2%
72.7%
White student graduation rate Black student graduation rate
7
SOURCE: THE EDUCATION TRUST
3
3
Anti-Semitism Gender or Anti-Muslim Racism Sexism or or swastikas sexual identity misogyny SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BIAS RESPONSE AND REFERRAL NETWORK
BLACK AND WHITE SIX YEAR GRADUATION RATES FOR MINNESOTA SCHOOLS (3-YEAR WEIGHTED AVERAGE: 2012, 2013, 2014)
78.6%
74.2% 74.1% 69.7% 65.5%
stOPEX 54.9%
ADMINISTRATIVE CUTS TO DATE BY $21.5 FISCAL YEAR
51.5%
45.6%
34.4%
34.2%
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOARD OF REGENTS
Univrersity of St. Thomas
St. Cloud State University
Augsburg College
Minnesota State University - Mankato
2018-19**
Hamline University
2017*
*Approved/In progress **Planned for fiscal year
Concordia University - St. Paul
2016
32.4%
$14.7 million
University of Minnesota - Duluth
2015
47.5%
45.3%
million
$19.6 million $15.4 million
2014
53.4% 47.6%
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
$18.8 million
57.9%
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Sports
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Minnesota basketball staple signs off Dick Jonckowski is one of only two PA announcers in Gophers history. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Dick Jonckowski unassumingly sat down in his chair just below the elevated floor of Williams Arena, with a smile on his face. Jonckowski acted as if the Minnesota-Nebraska game was like any other matchup he announced for Gophers basketball. But this game was different — it was his last. Jonckowski called his final game with Gophers men’s basketball team Thursday — a 15-point victory — after 31 years as the team’s public address announcer. “He’s a legend,” said head coach Richard Pitino. “He’s a staple of Minnesota basketball, so it was good that we could get him out with a win.” Jonckowski was an emcee at funding events for the University of Minnesota before he worked as a public address announcer for the team. He graduated from Brown Institute in 1964, where he studied broadcasting. Jonckowski came home in the late 1960s and worked in public relations for the Minnesota Muskies, a team in the now defunct
American Basketball Association. The Muskies left Minnesota and Jonckowski was out of a job, so he decided to work at a car dealership where he got his renowned nickname, “the Polish Eagle.” “I went to see [the dealership’s] general manager and he said ‘Dick, just to let you know, all our salesmen have nicknames,’” Jonckowski said. “He said to me ‘You’re Polish, who are some of your favorite teams?’ … As soon as I said Philadelphia Eagles, he said, ‘We’ll call you the Polish Eagle.’” He also covered Shakopee sports before receiving a job offer to announce basketball games from former athletics director Paul Giel. Former announcer Julius “Jules” Perlt is the only other voice of Gophers basketball besides Jonckowski. The two have called men’s basketball games for a combined 89 years, with Perlt announcing until 1986. In Jonckowski’s last season with men’s basketball, Minnesota has won 23 games as of Sunday afternoon after winning just eight games a season ago. “It’s been really amazing,” Jonckowski said. “A lot of close games, eight down to the wire, overtime games. I’ve never called so many overtime games in one year.” Jonckowski also announces Gophers baseball games and will continue to do so. He also announces
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University of Minnesota public address announcer Dick Jonckowski at Williams Arena during a Gophers men’s basketball game against Michigan on Feb. 10, 2016.
for Shakopee High School sports. Baseball head coach John Anderson has coached the Gophers during Jonckowski’s 29-year baseball announcing career. “Our relationship has grown considerably,” Anderson said. “His work with our baseball program, his love of baseball. He’s always had a great passion for the game.” The two have seen Minnesota win eight Big Ten regular-season titles,
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Gophers split series with Wolverines in Ann Arbor
including one last year. The Gophers baseball team also won six Big Ten Tournaments with Jonckowski calling games. Besides calling games, Jonckowski works events as an emcee and guest speaker. He said he makes most of his living from public speaking. “I can mix it up with humor and sports,” Jonckowski said. “I do corporate events, I do halftime banquets, just about anything
ELLEN SCHMIDT, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Minnesota regained the Big Ten top spot following Saturday’s 4-1 road victory. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
With the conference lead at stake and down 1-0 in the series, the Gophers came away with a victory Saturday and again put themselves atop the Big Ten. Michigan bested Minnesota 5-3 Friday, but the No. 5- ra nked Gophers weren’t ready to be swept by the Wolverines and won 4-1 Saturday. “We played the game the right way [Saturday],” head coach Don Lucia told reporters Saturday. “It was a good team win. Our goaltender played well. The guys that we need to score, scored, [and] the guys that needed to block shots and defend did that.” Gophers’ for ward and leading scorer Tyler Sheehy got things done Saturday for Minnesota with an empty-netter and the game-winner. He extended his lead in the Big Ten scoring race by notching three points for 52 points total on the season so far, five points above the next closest scorer in the conference. “It’s pretty special,” Sheehy said to the media. “I don’t know if I was really
expecting to do that this year, but I’ve got to give a lot of credit to my linemates and my teammates. They’ve been unbelievable the entire year.” Sheehy’s 52 points are the most for one single Gophers player since Ryan Potulny in 2005-06. Minnesota’s “Road-Runner” line, consisting of Sheehy, for ward Rem Pitlick, and captain Justin Kloos, factored into three of the Gophers’ four goals on Saturday, and were electric with their passing and awareness on the ice. Goaltender Eric Schierhorn stood tall and stopped 27 of the 28 shots he faced Saturday and held off a barrage of chances in the third period. Minnesota regained the lead in the Big Ten regular season standings, which saw the Gophers and Wisconsin tied for first place after Friday’s games. With Minnesota’s loss and Wisconsin’s victory Friday, the Gophers and Badgers were in a dead heat for first place in the conference. A third period collapse led to Minnesota’s demise Friday. “We got of f to a good start tonight,” forward Taylor Cammarata told reporters. “Then the second period wasn’t ver y good, and the third period, we went into it thinking it is a 0-0 game … Then we had a couple of unfortunate plays, and it’s just
MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
FRIDAY No. 5 Minnesota Michigan
SATURDAY Michigan No. 5 Michigan
1 2 0
2 0 2
3 1 5
FINAL 3 5
1 0 1
2 1 2
3 0 1
FINAL 1 4
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
a tough road loss.” The game was back-andforth throughout, with two lead changes in favor of the Gophers, before the Wolverines scored three unanswered goals to secure the victory. The lead built in the first period would not stand, largely due to the three Gophers penalties in the second and four in the third, which gave Michigan prime opportunities to get back into the game. Minnesota also gave up 41 shots to Michigan Friday, tied for the third-highest shots against in a game all season. Saturday, the Gophers improved their defensive tactics and allowed just 28 shots. “It’s not [that] easy to come [into Yost Ice Arena] and win a couple games,” Lucia said. “We’ve been talking about trying to win three out of four every two-week segments, and we put our backs up against the wall a little bit on Friday … and we responded in a positive way [Saturday].”
Jonckowski waved goodbye to fans who stayed around to see the legendary announcer one last time. One day after the game, Jonckowski said that he couldn’t believe that so many people stayed to see him go. Pitino said he also saw the legendar y announcer, and came up to him as he was walking of f after the game. “I said, ‘I’m proud of what you’ve done here, and I’m proud to be a little part of it,’” Pitino said.
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Minnesota ends Final Face-Off run with double overtime loss UMD goalie Maddie Rooney set a new school saves record during the game. BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Sophomore forward Tyler Sheehy skates down the ice at Mariucci Arena on Feb. 4.
you can think of, so I think I’ll stay busy [after basketball].” Jonckowski was diagnosed with diabetes and cancer within the span of a month in 2014. Jonckowski beat stage 4 non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. “We both str uggled through that and we both shed a few tears,” said Arlene Jonckowski, Dick’s wife. “Tr ying to care for him and get him through that crisis … It was a challenge for both of us.”
It took almost 92 minutes for a deciding goal to break through in an all-out grudge match of the WCHA Final Faceoff Semifinal in which Minnesota fell 2-1 to in-state rival Minnesota-Duluth. Prowess between the pipes was highlighted throughout the game, as Gophers goaltender Sidney Peters made 39 saves, including an acrobatic, diving deflection that kept Minnesota alive in the first overtime. Bulldogs goalie Maddie Rooney made a program record 62 saves, just three off of the WCHA Tournament record. “Definitely would like to have some of those back, but [Rooney] stood on her head and played unbelievable and so did our goalie, Sid,” said sophomore for ward Sarah Potomak. “It was just a battle between the two goalies it felt like, but she’s a great goalie so I give her the credit she deserves.” While Minnesota dominated possession, time on attack and shots through regulation and one overtime, the No. 2 Bulldogs’ counter attack proved to be the difference maker.
Minnesota-Duluth senior, and Patty Kazmaier Award finalist Lara Stalder scored the golden goal in the second overtime to send Minnesota packing and advanced her team to play WIsconsin in the WCHA Final Faceoff Championship. “Three breakaways in that first overtime, outshooting them 20-8 in the first over time, over 100 some odd attempts here tonight,” said head coach Brad Frost. “Sometimes you win games the wrong way and lose games the right way … Tonight, the big scoreboard at the end of the game said that we lost, but for us we’ll learn from it and hopefully move on and play next weekend.” Despite the loss, the No. 5 Gophers will still be in the top eight in the nation, which would qualify them for the NCAA Tournament. However, Minnesota should be on the road for the NCAA Quarterfinal for the first time since the 2010-2011 season, where they lost to Boston College 4-1. Redemption may be just around the corner for the Gophers though, as a matchup against the Bulldogs is very possible in the NCAA Quarterfinal. “I think we are in, we are hoping that we are in, but until everything rolls out tomorrow we’re not sure,” Frost said. “I would imagine that if we are outside the top four, which I would think we would
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
FRIDAY 1 2 3 OT1 OT2 FINAL No. 5 Minnesota 0 1 0 0 0 1 No. 2 UMD 0 1 0 0 1 2 SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
be, I would imagine we would head back up to Duluth.” This semifinal game saw the long-awaited return of Minnesota senior for ward Dani Cameranesi. The assistant captain had been out with injury for the last six weeks, and tied a program record with 14 total on the game. “I’m feeling great,” Cameranesi said. “I was actually just joking, saying I missed too many games so they wanted to throw two at me right away. It was a lot of fun battling out there, and being back on the ice with my family feels really great.” Cameranesi was unable to net any of her chances, however, as the lone goal was scored by Sarah Potomak. Potomak evened up the game in the second period with an unassisted goal from the left wing, going coast to coast to beat Rooney, the lone goal for the Gophers in this matchup. “It’s kind of a tough pill to swallow but I’m really proud of our team and the way we played,” Potomak said. “We are not going to dwell on it, we are just going to move forward and do the best we can, hopefully next weekend.”
COURTNEY DEUTZ, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Redshirt junior goalkeeper Sidney Peters defends the goal from the Bulldogs on Feb. 4
Monday, March 6, 2017
SOFTBALL
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Minnesota keeps rolling, wins four games at LSU The Gophers have bested a program victory streak with 18 consecutive wins. BY KYLE STEINBERG ksteinberg@mndaily.com
If what the Gophers faced in Baton Rouge over the weekend could be considered its first exam, consider it passed. No. 10 Minnesota won four games — including a Saturday night tilt over No. 13 LSU — on its way to setting a new programrecord win streak at 18 games. “I’m proud of the way we played,” said head coach Jessica Allister. “We played great defense all weekend … we had great pitching, and we came back in a number of games.” The main draw of the weekend came Saturday under the lights against tournament host LSU. The T igers came in boasting a 16-3 r ecor d and were Minnesota’s first ranked opponent of the season. Senior ace Sara Groenewegen continued her dominance, throwing a per fect game into the sixth inning.
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She gave up three hits total to move her season record to 9-0 and lowered her ERA to 0.50. The Gophers were fairly quiet of fensively until the four th inning when freshman Kendyl Lindaman singled to lead of f and was brought home on a double by fellow rookie MaKenna Partain. Par tain then scored on a Groenewegen sacrifice fly to push the Minnesota lead to 2-0. Excellent base running by Ellie Cowger allowed her to score on a wild pitch for a three-r un Gophers cushion. Groenewegen then held LSU scoreless for Minnesota’s first victor y over a ranked team. “I think it’s huge,” Groenewegen said. “It’s definitely been our toughest game that we’ve had this season, and I think it proves that we can play with anyone in the countr y.” In the early game on Satur day, the Gophers looked to build on a tournament-opening victor y over Troy on Friday night in a matchup with Florida Atlantic. After the Owls took a 1-0 lead in the first
NITI GUPTA, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Gophers junior Sara Groenewegen throws a pitch at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium on April 30, 2015.
SOFTBALL RESULTS
LSU TOURNAMENT FRIDAY
Runs Hits Errors SCORE 0 Troy 2 1 0 6 0 No. 10 Minnesota 2 2
SATURDAY Runs Hits Errors SCORE Florida Atlantic 1 1 1 1 5 1 No. 10 Minnesota 4 4 0 No. 13 LSU No. 10 Minnesota 3
3 7
1 0
0 3
Runs Hits Errors SCORE SUNDAY 3 Illinois State 6 1 3 No. 10 Minnesota 7 11 0 7
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
inning, Gophers pitcher Tori Finucane held FAU scoreless for the rest of the game. She threw 124 pitches. Lindaman provided the bulk of Minnesota’s of fense with a three-r un homer un in the third — a categor y in which she leads all Gophers this year with five. A Par tain home-r un slammed the door on an Owls comeback and solidified a 4-1 victor y for Minnesota. In the final game of the tour nament, Minnesota once again had to grit out a tough win. The Gophers trailed 3-2 heading to the sixth inning with their win streak threatened. But then, their bats exploded. After Sam Macken hit an RBI single, Lindaman came through once again with an RBI single of her own. “It continues to build my confidence,” Lindaman said of her clutch hitting. “This is a whole new level for me — just to get those big hits in big situations; it really brings up my confidence.” The Gophers added three more runs and took down the Redbirds 7-3. With their unbeaten record intact, the Gophers head to Washington for another test. They will play two games against the No. 8 host Huskies — the same team that ended Minnesota’s season in last year’s NCAA tournament. The Gophers look like a dif ferent team this y e a r, h o w e v e r, L i n d a man said the key is how balanced and close the roster is. “ We ’ r e g r e a t a l l through the lineup,” Lindaman said. “Ever yone [has] each other’s backs.”
Gophers fall out in Big Ten quarterfinal
Minnesota defeated Penn State first, but lost to Maryland 9280 on Saturday. BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com
Maryland dashed Minnesota’s hopes of continuing on in the Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament and beat the Gophers 92-80 on Friday. Gadiva Hubbard put in a 28-point performance for a career high. She led Minnesota’s bench to 41 points. Hubbard continues to prove she can score with the best. She matched the points Mar yland’s Shatori Walker-Kimbrough scored. “My teammates and my coaches were telling me to shoot,” Hubbard told reporters. “I know the last game I had an off-shooting game, so I tried to keep shooting and attacking.” The freshman guard has played well in big games before starting her career at Minnesota. Head coach Marlene Stollings is pleased with how Hubbard stepped up in an important game at the college level. “She’s used to big moments, but I’m really proud of how she handled this because it’s even a much bigger moment on this stage,” Stollings told reporters. Minnesota (15-16, 5-11 Big Ten) advanced to the quarterfinals by beating Penn State 70-64 on Thursday, resulting in a rematch against Maryland. The No. 4 Terrapins handled the Gophers 93-60 in the last game of the regular season, in which Minnesota struggled to score. This game played out much different. “I thought we just came out with a lot more heart and intensity,” Carlie Wagner told reporters. “We kept playing with them and kept coming at them and stayed aggressive.” Wagner was the third-
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Freshman Guard Gadiva Hubbard drives the ball up the court on Saturday Feb. 11 at Williams Arena.
highest scorer in the game with 21 points. Consistent scoring helped Minnesota keep up with Maryland in this meeting, but the Terrapins’ high-powered offense was still too much for the Gophers. Mar yland shot over 50 percent from the field, and leading their efficient scoring was Walker-Kimbrough. The Maryland guard shot 11-15, including six threes. “They have a number of people who can score from anywhere on the floor,” Stollings said. “You take away something, there’s another person there.” Minnesota was fighting an uphill battle for much of the game after Maryland (292, 15-1 Big Ten) scored 27 points in the first quarter. The Gophers outscored the Terrapins in the fourth quarter, but the gap
“She’s used to big moments, but I’m really proud of how she handled this because it’s even a much bigger moment on this stage.” MARLENE STOLLINGS head coach
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL RESULTS
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1 2 3 4 FINAL No. 10 Minnesota 14 19 23 24 80 No. 2 Maryland 27 20 25 20 92
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
was too large to make a comeback. Ball movement by Maryland increased the threat its offense posed. Wagner thought their ball movement gave the Gophers extra trouble. Minnesota and Maryland were close in multiple categories. Maryland’s 3-point shooting gave them an edge, which was created from its ball movement. Stollings said they wanted to play deeper into March, but there are positive takeaways from this tournament and the season. She said the freshmen on this team are going to do big things in their time with Minnesota. “They’ll remember this, and it’ll sting a little bit,” Stollings said. “They have aspirations to really put our program back on the map on a national level.”
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Minnesota hosted 30th Dairy Queen Classic at U.S. Bank Stadium The Gophers event experienced a fouryear hiatus prior to its weekend revival. BY LUKE HANLON lhanlon@mndaily.com
After a four-year break, the Dair y Queen Classic retur ned to Minnesota, and the host Gophers went 2-3 over the weekend. They star ted the weekend with a thrilling 4-3 extra-inning victor y over Oral Roberts. The Gophers quickly loaded the bases in the bottom of the 13th, and Cole McDevitt stepped up with no outs. McDevitt hit a fly ball to center, deep enough for Alex Boxwell to tag up and score the winning run. The game got to extras after Matt Whatley hit a solo home run off of Brian Glowicki in the top of the ninth. Whatley was the first Golden Eagle to r each base since the top of the third inning, as Lucas Gilbreath and Jackson Rose had combined to retire 16 straight batters. Minnesota head coach John Anderson said that the pitching per formance was “awesome” by his team, highlighting the confidence that all four pitchers — Gilbreath, Rose, Glowicki and Nick Lackney — showcased in
BASEBALL RESULTS
DAIRY QUEEN CLASSIC FRIDAY Oral Roberts Minnesota
SATURDAY Minnesota Hawaii
SUNDAY Iowa Minnesota
Runs Hits Errors SCORE 3 3 0 3 4 11 2 4 Runs Hits Errors SCORE 0 5 1 0 4 8 0 4 Runs Hits Errors SCORE 3 4 0 3 6 9 0 6
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
their outings. “It was good to see our pitching staff rebound and really pitch the way that we hope they will as the year goes along,” Anderson said. The Gophers couldn’t find any of fensive production Saturday night against Hawaii, as they lost 4-0. Hawaii’s star ter, Neil Uskali, threw a completegame shutout and allowed only five hits. Despite the lack of run production, junior Micah Cof fey said that the team put together plenty of good at-bats against Uskali. “Our approach and the way we hit the ball was a lot better tonight than it has been the last couple of games,” Cof fey said. “Just didn’t end up working out.” Alex Fitchett and Jacob Sniffin both hit solo homer uns against the Minnesota bullpen late in the game, and gave Uskali
Redshirt senior Jordan Smith winds up to hit on Sunday, Feb. 26 at U.S. Bank Stadium.
two more r uns to work with as he shut down the Gophers lineup. The Gophers dug themselves into a hole Sunday after noon against Iowa, as the Hawkeyes scored three runs before the Gophers could record an out. After allowing a hit a n d a w a l k , To b y A nderson gave up a threer un home r un to Rob-
er t Neustrom to give the Hawkeyes the early 3-0 lead. Anderson responded well though and gave up only one more hit in the six innings he pitched. The Gophers tied the game in the bottom of the third thanks to an RBI single from Luke Pettersen and a two-r un double from Coffey.
The game wasn’t tied for long, as Jordan Smith led of f the bottom of the four th with an oppositefield homer un to put the Gophers ahead 4-3. Ben Mezzenga added some insurance in the bottom of the eighth with a two-run single and extended Minnesota’s lead to 6-3. The three-run lead was enough for Glowicki to se-
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cure his fourth save of the season and seal the victor y. Mezzenga said this game meant more considering it came against a conference rival. “Before the game we were saying, ‘We haven’t had the best week, but we all hate Iowa’,” Mezzenga said. “We were really motivated to get this win.”
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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
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Fight against sexual assault needs frats CHANCE WELLNITZ columnist
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his past Saturday, protesters assembled and marched along fraternity row, speaking out against campus SEXUAL ASSAULT !CCORDING TO THE -INNESOTA Daily’s coverage of the event, more than 100 people attended the march, including numerous fraternity members, each with their greek letters on display. This representation from within the greek community is greatly reassuring and necessary for combatting sexual assault on campus — even the cases which happen outside of fraternity walls. Fraternity members are often associated with rape on campus, which isn’t necessarILY AN UNFAIR CHARACTERIZATION ! STUDY PUBLISHED IN THE *OURNAL OF 3TUDENT !FFAIRS 2Esearch and Practice found fraternity members were three times more likely to commit sexual assault than other men on college campuses, and it’s the fraternity experience that led to these increased rates of sexual assault. In an op-ed to CNN, John Foubert, who authored the study, cited it as one of three reports which reached the same statistic. However, as the much-publicized Gopher football team’s alleged sexual assault case demonstrates, this problem isn’t limited to fraternity row. It’s much larger and far more complex. There is no typical profile for a rapist, and sexual assault has various motivating factors. Despite the cases which routinely grab headlines, college rape isn’t solely perpetrated by men with power and influence on campus, either. That said, greek members are the figures on campus whose advocacy has the potential to make a great impact. “We’re going to need true allies on the inside because you guys have the privilege of making change from the inside out,� former Delta Upsilon member Dawson Kimyon said in the Daily’s coverage of the protest. Kimyon was the member who notified DU’s headquarters about sexual assault allegations at the University of Minnesota chapter, which was later suspended by its headquarters. The concept of brotherhood, especially within the context of greek life, has become permanently entangled with discussions of toxic masculinity and rape culture on campus. But when coupled with a sense of accountability and the drive to do good by those who aren’t sporting the same greek letters, ‘brotherhood’ can be a positive and powerful thing. Kimyon told the Daily that he hadn’t received backlash since speaking out, but this isn’t the case for everybody. When fraternity members speak out against their brothers, it is not only their sense of brotherhood which is threatened; their whole lives could be upended. There’s a fear that friends, business prospects and, for many, a second family could disappear in an instant. But staying silent only perpetuates the problems it aims to avoid, and it creates a toxic environment for current and future students, greek or not. Contrary to a letter to the editor published last week, I don’t believe greek life should be dismantled. We need their voices now more than ever. Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com
MSA elections as a springboard for political understanding and activism
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write this as the campus waits with bated breath for student government election results. Four options were on the ballot for president and vice presiDENT OF THE -INNESOTA 3TUDENT !SSOCIATION -3! 4HERE WERE SEVERAL MONTHS of campaigning, and it seems to be a tight race. I myself am only in my second year at the University of Minnesota, but from what I’ve been told — this one’s a doozy. !S SECOND SEMESTER BEGAN AND CAMpaigns geared up, I was closely following ever y move, ever y minor scandal and rollercoaster moment. Students and campaign teams alike were disCUSSING THE MERITS OF -3! INSIDER versus-outsider voices, campus policy issues ranging from water bottle fillers to overall campus climate and inclusivity.
KATE MCCARTHY columnist
The more I watched and with ever y move made by respective teams, the more I could see the parallels between politics on a local or national scale and our smaller campus microcosm. Similar tactics and tensions occurred that we had seen in the recent presidential election. !ND WHILE IT WASN T ALWAYS PRETTY IT MADE me want to educate myself and par ticipate more. What a petri dish of politics in which to learn from. Maybe there are students who didn’t pay much attention to the most recent round of federal elections but are interested in politics now. If you were absorbed by, sparked by, fascinated by this student body election — consider it a call to take action in your communities. Your passion matters. Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com
The more I watched and with every move made by respective teams, the more I could see the parallels between politics on a local or national scale and our smaller campus microcosm.
In the State of the University address, President Eric Kaler emphasized the central role that facts play in the role and mission of the University. Facts matter, and that is precisely why Thursday’s article “In budget fight, UMN finds stiff competition with state schools� was so disappointing. The article would lead readers to believe that the University, in our budget request to the Minnesota Legislature, was unable or unwilling to put a human face on our presentation and show the legislature the direct impact that their support has on individuals, communities and our State. Nothing could be further from the truth. In Wednesday’s House budget hearing, a hearing that the MN Daily reporter attended, the University presented our biennial budget request with presentations that included: s ! COUNTY COMMISSIONER FROM greater Minnesota who spoke to the University’s impact in his community and with his business, citing the high level of ser vice he receives from University
he Editorial Board is dismayed over the recent reports by the Minnesota Daily of a number of sexual assaults committed by fraternity members from a number of different chapters on campus. Throughout our members’ time on campus, and before, the University of Minnesota greek life system has played host to many incidents of sexual assaults. While these assaults are not committed exclusively by fraternity brothers, and they don’t happen only in their homes, the culture of masculinity and brotherhood in these fraternities serves as a chillingly effective way to hide these assaults and intimidate victims from coming forward. There have been many junctures in which our University’s greek community could have changed course in meaningful ways. But any policy changes made have been perfunctory, facile or have not achieved their intended goal of curbing sexual violence and misconduct by greek life members. Their unwillingness to expose the violence in their community and take steps toward creating a safe environment for all students was put in sharp display earlier this year when sexual assault survivor and advoCATE !BBY (ONOLD WAS DISINVITED FROM SPEAKING AT @7ALK ! -ILE )N (ER 3HOES ˆ A GREEK community event aimed at raising sexual ASSAULT AWARENESS ! MEMBER OF THE EVENT S planning committee said Honold could “cause more harm than good.� Honold was later re-invited, and Interfraternity Council president Simon Beck rebuked the planning member’s decision, saying it was made without IFC approval. Nonetheless, the assaults tied to greek life are a part of the wider, complex issue of sexual violence on campus — and we implore leaders of the University’s greek community to take immediate actions to improve education on consent and bystander intervention. It is unfortunate that the greek community must constantly react to its rampant problem OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE !NY RATIONAL MINDED ORGAnization would take necessary, preventative measures when it realizes there is a problem. But, perhaps, the community has deluded itself into thinking there isn’t a problem. If that’s the case, we urge members of the greek community to look around — the statistics, the stories from a bevy of survivors, the protestors chanting just a few steps from your doors. It’s time the IFC and the University’s various fraternity chapters act with accountability and transparency. This campus can no longer bear witness to a greek community that is negligible in its oversight and regressive in its policies. Brotherhood is all well and good when it’s founded on good faith and morality. But a culture that props up and protects perpetrators — that’s no longer brotherhood, it’s morally reprehensible.
L.C. Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.
2017 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.
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Total gun-related incidents: 10,184 Total number of deaths: 2,608 Total number of mass shootings: 61 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In response to ‘In budget fight, UMN finds stiff competition with state schools’
Greek community must immediately take action to stop sexual assault
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Campus politics mirror the real deal, and have the power to spark involvement. Editor’s Note: This column was written before the results of this year’s student government elections were announced Sunday afternoon.
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professionals, particularly in the agricultural sector. s !N OUT OF STATE SENIOR STUDENT WHO spoke to the reasons she chose the University of Minnesota over other institutions and the central role that her experience here, including study abroad, has played in her decision to remain in Minnesota. When she announced that she had accepted a job and would be staying in Minnesota, the room applauded, with the chair of the committee, Rep. Bud Nornes, personally congratulating her. s ! SENIOR STUDENT FROM A SINGLE parent household who was the first in his family to attend higher education. This student spoke of his experience at the University and the suppor t and encouragement he had received from faculty and support staff. s ! MEDICAL RESIDENT WHO DESCRIBED her nationwide search for a family practice program that fit her career objectives. She selected the University of Minnesota, after interviews she described as “coast to coast and all over,� and suggested that our program is the best in the nation.
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Your readers did not hear about these passionate and articulate University champions from outside of the administration, explaining exactly why the University matters and how important state support is. s ! FACULTY PROFESSOR WHO DESCRIBED the impact of MnDRIVE on his research and the incredible work that the University is doing. s 4WO PROGRAM DIRECTORS WHO EXplained the impact of State funding on the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) and the Bell Museum. Your readers did not hear about these passionate and articulate University champions from outside of the administration explaining exactly why the University matters and how important state support is. Rather, they were presented with quotes that one would believe were likely made prior to the University’s presentation and out of context.
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CROSSWORD Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle FOR RELEASE MARCH 6, 3, 2017
Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (3/6): Grow your nest egg this year. Take advantage of surging cash flow from May through October. Business thrives with care. An August escape allows downtime that inspires creativity and vigor.
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 6 — Take it easy and handle household matters over the next two days. Secrets get revealed. Avoid fuss and controversy, and settle into domestic comforts.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Professional challenges require your attention over the next two days. Take care with words; they can come back to bite you.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Speak out, and write your views today and tomorrow. Discuss solutions. Your networks have the connections you need.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 —Travels and studies engage you today and tomorrow. Your adventures take an unexpected turn. Traffic and distractions add to the chatter.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Focus on income and finances today and tomorrow. Send invoices, pay bills and keep the budget. Avoid arguing over money.
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Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Things don’t go as planned. You’re especially sensitive today and tomorrow. Take steps toward fulfilling a personal dream.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Have patience with your partner over the next two days. Resolve a breakdown without saying anything you’d regret later.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 5 — Slow down and consider an obstacle from different angles. Find a peaceful spot for contemplation. It’s easier to finish old projects today and tomorrow.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — The pace is picking up, and something you’ve tried isn’t working. Keep your cool with rising demand. Take extra care of your health today and tomorrow.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Pull together with your team to pass a challenging obstacle. Share resources and stay in communication, despite temporary confusion.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Enjoy fun and games with loved ones over the next few days. Chaos and confusion lead to miscommunications. Stay gracious.
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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,
I’m in quite the quarrelsome conundrum. This might sound like a lot, but my boyfriend of three years proposed to me last week, and I said yes. I’ve always been one to balk at college relationships that take a turn for the matrimonial, but this guy is just right for me, and I didn’t even have to think about whether or not I’d be with him forever. But that’s not where this story ends. My sister is a year older and went to the U for some of the time I did. After she heard about the proposal, she sat me down and dropped a bomb. e ore starte ating y fianc y sister was on the prowl for some underclassmen entertainment and had a onenight stand with my beau. I was shocked, and I’m still shocked. Mainly, I’m not sure whether to be mad at y sister an ianc or ee ing this from me or for doing it in the first place.
What should I do, Doc?
Sincerely, Sisterly Love Dear Sisterly,
T h i s o n e ’ s a d o o z y. I ’ d r e c o m mend you first sit down with your fianc i yo haven t yet to a e s re the fling with your sis meant nothing to him. Next, I think you should tell both your hubby and sister how much their lying impacted you. They should realize this isn’t an acceptable path of behavior in relationships to come. inally ee an eye o t or a ianc that is willing to keep such damning secrets from you for years on end. A lifelong bond has to be built on trust. Luckily for you, it doesn’t sound like the secret was kept for lack of love or for malice. Be understanding of why the two would want to lie to protect you. I wish you all the luck in the world with your bond that will last until death
or divorce. Use this instance as a fond memorial speech in the first case and an incriminating court exhibit in the latter.
—Dr. Date
Dear readers:
I’ve been getting a lot of these questions, so here is Dr. Date’s three-step guide to study group seduction. So you’re stuck in a study group with a total QT 3.14 and you’re trying to wife them up without acting a clown and ruining your class participation grade, huh? Stuck in a rut as a study groupie and can’t get that special someone away from the class schedule? Here’s how to proceed. 1. Test the waters with casual flirtations, only slightly deviating from class work to ensure that no matter what, you aren’t distracting others in the group from getting their grade. This will also let you feel out the situation with
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
your crush and determine if step two is prudent. 2. Ask if they’d like a study par tner. This gives you alone time from the group proper while also covering your ass with the school-related nonsense. If they don’t reciprocate here, it should be understood as a “soft no,” beyond which you shouldn’t attempt further action. If they aren’t interested in you, they’ll likely refuse politely and it won’t carry the same awkward repercussions as a straight-up date invitation. 3. Make things of ficial. Individual study sessions can be less formal, but you’re no sleaze. Use this added closeness to ask him/her on a real date. By this time, you’ve read the signals and know if you should try your luck. Now you’re set for any tests Anatomy 1001 can throw at you!
—Dr. Date
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Administrative cuts hard to make Kaler’s “Operational Excellence” plan has reduced administrative spending by $68.5 mil. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
As the University enters its fourth year in a plan to trim $90 million in administrative costs by 2019, school officials say the last round of cuts will be the hardest. Star ting in fiscal year 2014, University President Eric Kaler — who pledged to reduce administrative costs in his 2011 inaugural speech — implemented a six-year plan called Operational Excellence, nicknamed “OpEx” by administrators, to cut $90 million from the University’s operating budget across all campuses. To date, $68.5 million in administrative cuts have been made or are currently being made. Now, the remaining budget reductions could be the hardest to make. While administrators say the trimmed costs will make the school more efficient, some University offices have been strained due to reduced staff. About 71 percent of cuts so far were personnel, accord-
PERCENTAGE OF NON-PERSONNEL & PERSONNEL SAVINGS TO DATE 29% non-personnel 71% personnel
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOARD OF REGENTS
ing to the University’s Office of Budget and Finance. “These cuts hurt,” said University President Eric Kaler. “These were not reductions in services or work streams of people that had nothing to do.” Julie Tonnesen, associate vice president of the University’s office of budget and finance, said every college and University office has a reallocation target during the school’s annual budget process. Those targets would ideally be reached, she said, but University finance directors said it’s getting harder to do so. “This has been going on for a few years, and a lot of the low-hanging fruit is gone, and so it’s getting much more difficult for colleges to hit those numbers,” said David Pappone, finance director for the College of Science and Engineering. Most savings so far have come from eliminating positions or hiring less-experienced employees at lower salaries when spots open, Tonnesen said. For many office workers and even faculty members, fewer employees means more work. “We have heard even faculty having to do more work than they did before because their support structure has been impacted,” Tonnesen said. “They have fewer suppor t people. That means things take more time and people have to do things they didn’t have to do before.” With a target reallocation of $21.5 million in the next two years, Tonnesen said more layoffs could be in store across the University system. “Depending on who their constituency is … the impact will be different,” Tonnesen said. “I think that’s what we’re going to see more of, which makes those decisions more difficult.” But, she said administrators tr y to limit layoffs as much as they can by
considering non-personnel costs as well. Those expenditures might include energy use, travel expenses and purchasing deals with vendors. This could even mean a need to cut some programs. Pappone said the OpEx process is about balancing efficiency with the desire to keep important programs and services. He said the high demand for CSE programs in recent years has let them grow revenues and offset their “fair share” of cuts. “There might be some other colleges where you would find more cutting because they’ve had less revenue,” he said. “But in CSE we’ve still done cutting.” In 2016, CSE trimmed $400,000 in job positions. Additionally, Pappone said restructuring in the University’s Office of Information Technology has led to the elimination of IT personnel at CSE. There is now a consolidated IT department for all University schools. “At each of those stages of consolidation, the expectation is that there will be efficiencies gained,” Pappone said. Patti Frasher, finance director for the College of Continuing Education, said CCE has also felt the effects of Op Ex. “We’ve become pretty lean,” she said. “We’re handling it, but it hasn’t necessarily been easy.” Over $340,000 was cut from CCE in 2016 alone with the elimination of five positions and replacing staff at lower salaries. She said despite the cuts, the college has kept a focus on advising and student services, but “things are definitely getting a lot harder.” Regent Richard Beeson, chair of the board’s Finance Committee, said these stresses show that the plan is working. “I’m okay with that,” he said. “That means they’ll need
ADMINISTRATIVE CUTS TO DATE BY FISCAL YEAR $21.5 $18.8 million
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2018-19**
*Approved/In progress **Planned for fiscal year
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOARD OF REGENTS
to get even more creative with where they see reductions.” Kaler said the school has been under constant pressure from the state to cut costs. “It certainly causes stress in the organization,” he said. “But at the same time we have a pretty strong mandate from the legislature to become more efficient and that’s what we’re trying to do.” But Beeson said legislators’ claims of wasteful administrative spending are misguided. “My own view is that administrative bloat is an urban myth as it relates to the University,” he said. “Having said that, there’s just a continual need and opportunity to look at those expenses.” Beeson says the difficulty in weighing the impact of the cuts and communicating their significance to the legislature is that the University has few other schools to adequately compare its expenses to. Regents and administrators are already exploring areas to trim costs outside of OpEx, like
certain education programming, services and further office consolidation. “I think we need to step it up and do more,” said Regent Michael Hsu, who sits on the board’s finance committee. “We need to look elsewhere in the organization.” Hsu said the administration should pay close attention to where the money gets reallocated on top of tracking the cuts. “That’s what’s missing right now,” he said. “We’ve taken the money away, we don’t know where it went, and we also have some that came back in. I think we need to do more work.” Kaler said he hopes the plan might soothe the school’s relationship with legislators. “We’re doing this because as a matter of principle, we should be effective and efficient in what we do,” he said. “But we’re certainly responding to conversations with legislators, and hopefully they see what we’re doing and approve of it.”
LOS ANGELES — An Afghan family of five who obtained special visas to relocate to the U.S. were detained by immigration officials when they arrived at Los Angeles International Airpor t on Thursday and have been in custody ever since, according to court records and their attorneys. The mother, father and their three children, including a baby, arrived at LAX for a connecting flight to Washington state, where they planned to resettle. Instead, they were detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement “with absolutely no justification whatsoever,” according to a federal court petition filed Saturday by the Inter national Refugee Assistance Project seeking the family’s release. The petition argues that that the father worked for the U.S. government in Afghanistan and was able to obtain special immigrant visas along with his family after years of intense vetting. In addition to being detained, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has prevented attorneys from communicating with the family, according to the petition. “The betrayal of this family by the U.S. government shocks the conscience,” the petition said. Becca Heller, the director of the International Refugee Assistance Project, said Sunday that the father was being held at a detention center in Orange County. Though his wife and children initially were taken to a similar facility in Los Angeles, more recently they were being detained in a hotel, she said.