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University will review sick policy Boynton aims to revise its policy for excused absences, though some worry about its impact. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
Steve Stokowski interviews artist Michael Johnson for his podcast “Artists @ A-Mill” at the A-Mill Artist Lofts on Oct. 13.
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Local art, in conversation “Artists @ A-Mill,” a podcast curated by Steve Stokowski, showcases local artists’ histories. BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com
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fter moving into the A-Mill artist lofts a year ago, one tenant wanted a way to explore and document the work of his neighbors. To do this, Steve Stokowski created “Artists @ A-Mill,” a podcast where he interviews artists living at the historic lofts to document their stories and projects. Stokowski, an avid podcast fan, said he wanted to start his own podcast to familiarize himself with the artist community he lives in. He said he hopes the podcast will
showcase the working artists who live in his building. Stokowski said he eventually will include other people from the surrounding area as well. Stokowski tried to fund the project with a number of public and private grants, but forged ahead on his own when his requests were turned down. Now, he said he’s determined to continue the podcast regardless and tries to reach artists over a wide range of age, gender and art media. Stokowski wants the podcast to serve as an insider’s view into the artist’s creative process. From star t to finish, each episode
takes roughly eight hours to complete. “I don’t need specific questions because I really know where we’re going to go,” he said. “A lot of it is dependent on the spontaneity of the person who is being interviewed.” Renee Faucher, a chef featured in a recent episode of the podcast, said Stokowski is keenly interested in other people and their creativity. “I think he’s so good at this,” Faucher said. Ar tists like her are naturally introver ted, she said, and Stokowski’s u See PODCAST Page 8
As sick students come to campus clinics in droves during the flu season for notes excusing their absence, Boynton Health hopes to change the University of Minnesota’s absence verification policy. Under the current policy — which applies to all University campuses — instructors have the right to request verification for absences. Due to concerns about administrative strain and student stress, Boynton wants the policy to apply only to recurring medical absences, such as longterm illness. Some faculty and students say they would welcome the change. Carl Anderson, Boynton Health’s director said the clinic issued over 7,000 notes last year, and at times almost 100 per day during the clinic’s busiest season, which is about half the academic year, he said. Filling out notes has become enough work for one full-time employee, he said. “Even if we had the resources to manage it, it still wouldn’t be a good use of resources and medical costs,” he said. Students are also more likely to come in u See NOTES Page 4
BOARD OF REGENTS
U will raze 115-year old grain tower Regents approved the tower’s demolition as part of a plan for a new track and field facility. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
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depression over time and lets them identify behaviors that help them, Moen said. Christenson said Moen approached the University last year about partnering to provide more support to students, but the app wasn’t developed enough for the University to use. However, Boynton isn’t opposed to using Marbles on campus in the future, he said. “We’re always interested in anything that would suppor t students,”
The University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents voted Friday to demolish the grain elevators near TCF Bank Stadium in order to make way for a new track and field facility, but didn’t decide where to move the sports bubble, which would be displaced by the project. The board’s Facilities, Planning and Operations Committee voted 5-1 Thursday to demolish the 115-year-old elevators, saying the buildings’ risk of injur y for urban explorers represents a liability to the University. Regents also voted to allocate $13 million to build a new track and field facility in tandem with the Athletes Village project, but they couldn’t agree on where to relocate the recreational sports bubble. Regent Darrin Rosha voted against the demolition proposal Thursday and Friday, saying the community nearby should get more time to see if they can give the University money to preserve the structures. The regents’ vote came amid pushback from community members.
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HEALTH
New mobile app could help students with depression The self-help app, Marbles, can provide daily help for students in non-crisis situations. BY KEATON SCHMITT kschmitt@mndaily.com
A new self-help app could help University of Minnesota students who struggle to find non-crisis oriented help. Despite academic accommodations and free counseling, students looking for one-on-one suppor t face long
wait times. Amid the addition of four additional mental health counselors and par tnerships with various crisis lines to help those in trouble, a University alumnus is now looking to give students another option. Adam Moen, a University alumnus, is working on an app designed to connect students and of fer 24/7 suppor t. The app helps students focus on self-help, and connects them to others dealing with the same issues. The self-help app, Marbles, tracks how people are ef fected by their
FOOTBALL
Gophers get first conference win against Maryland, 31-10 Despite missing their starting QB, Minnesota snapped a two game losing streak on Saturday. BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com
It was late in the game and Minnesota was up by 14, but Rodney Smith decided that the Gophers weren’t done. The redshirt sophomore running back broke through Maryland’s defensive line and dodged a defensive back to walk into the end zone for a 70-yard touchdown, his second of the day.
The score put the Gophers up 24-3 in the fourth quarter, and they held that lead for a 3110 victory at Maryland, despite injured starting quarterback Mitch Leidner missing the game. “It’s tough to win on the road, especially when you go with a backup quarterback,” head coach Tracy Claeys told reporters after the game. “Our kids believed in him and they did what they needed to do on offense for us to win. Upfront we blocked better and created a few more seams to let our backs do what they need to do.” The Gophers (4-2, 1-2 Big Ten) ran the u See FOOTBALL Page 5
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Gophers running back Shannon Brooks races into the end zone for a touchdown at TCF Bank Stadium on Oct. 8. Brooks scored the Gophers’ only touchdown of the game.
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2 MEN DIE IN PICKUP ROLLOVER IN CENTRAL MINNESOTA PIERZ — Two men are dead after a pickup rolled in central Minnesota. The Morrison County Sheriff’s Office says the crash south of Pierz was reported early Saturday. The victims were identified as 24-year-old Nathan Brill and 25-year-old Nicholas Kroll, both of Pierz. The truck crossed the center line and went into the ditch before striking a road approach and going airborne. Both men were thrown from the pickup and died at the scene. The Star Tribune reports authorities have not yet said which man was driving the pickup.
ELECTRICAL OUTLET CAUSED DOWNTOWN MINNEAPOLIS FIRE MINNEAPOLIS — Officials say a faulty electrical outlet caused a three-alarm fire at a historic apartment building in downtown Minneapolis. The fire broke out in the three-stor y brick building last Sunday. The blaze sent smoke billowing hundreds of feet into the sky. It took firefighters about two hours to get the fire under control. ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Rolling Stone heading to trial over debunked story of rape BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RICHMOND, Va. — For the first time since Rolling Stone magazine’s shocking stor y about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia hit shelves two years ago, the public may hear from the young woman at the center of the now discredited article “A Rape on Campus.” A defamation trial against the magazine is set to begin on Monday over the November 2014 article about the woman identified only as “Jackie” and her harrowing account about being gang raped in a fraternity initiation. University administrator Nicole Eramo, who counseled Jackie and claims the story
protecting the university’s reputation. After it was published, Eramo, who then served as associate dean of students, received hundreds of emails and letters calling her a “wretched rape apologist” and “disgusting, worthless piece of trash.” Eramo still works for the university, now in a different administrative role. An investigation by Charlottesville police found no evidence to back up Jackie’s claims and details in the lengthy narrative did not hold up under scrutiny by other media organizations. Rolling Stone officially retracted the story in April 2015. Since then, three lawsuits have been filed against the maga-
zine. A judge earlier this year threw out one case brought by three fraternity members, but a $25 million lawsuit filed by the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at UVa is scheduled to go to trial late next year. Eramo’s trial will focus heavily on whether Rolling Stone editors and the article’s author, Sabrina Erdely, acted with “actual malice,” meaning that they knew what they were writing about Eramo was false or at least should have known it wasn’t true. U.S. District Judge Glen Conrad ruled in September that Eramo should be considered a public figure, which means she must prove actual malice in order to get certain monetary damages.
Truck plunges off Idaho company debuts San Diego bridge, solar energy sidewalks killing 4 in crowd BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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SAN DIEGO — A member of the U.S. Navy was arrested after the pickup truck he was driving plunged off a San Diego bridge, killing four people and injuring nine at a festival below, authorities said. Authorities identified the driver as Richard Anthony Sepolio, 25, who was stationed at the naval base on Coronado Island across the bay from San Diego. His rank or job description was not immediately available. Sepolio was alone in the truck Saturday afternoon when he lost control and it struck a guardrail and fell 60 feet onto a vendor’s booth at Chicano Park, California Highway Patrol Officer Jake Sanchez said. He was taken to the hospital with major injuries and was later arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs causing deaths and injuries, the officer said. It wasn’t immediately known when Sepolio would be arraigned. “It’s horrible. It’s horrific. We had innocent people down here having a good time, and now they’re gone,” Sanchez said. The California Highway Patrol identified the deceased as a 62-year-old man and 50-year-old woman from Chandler, Arizona, and a 59-year-old man and 49-year-old woman from Hacienda Heights, a suburb east of Los Angeles. Authorities did not immediately release their names. Eight people on the ground were injured. One suffered major trauma, and seven others had minor to moderate injuries, said Lee Swanson, a spokesman for the city’s Fire-Rescue Department. Witnesses said the GMC pickup truck with Texas license plates landed on a vendor’s booth set up for La Raza Run, a motorcycle ride that ends with a celebration at the park and typically draws hundreds of participants. The crash took place steps away from a stage where a rockabilly band was playing.
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cast her as its “chief villain,” is seeking $7.85 million. Jackie was forced to answer questions about the case in April, but her comments have been kept under wraps. Now, Eramo’s attorneys have said they intend to call Jackie as a witness at trial, although it’s possible the jur y will watch a video of her deposition instead of hearing from her in person. An attorney for Jackie declined to comment. The stor y described in alarming detail Jackie’s account of being raped by seven men at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house in September 2012. Eramo’s attorneys claim the article portrayed her as indifferent to Jackie’s plight and only interested in
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SANDPOINT, Idaho — Scott Brusaw has a vision for the nation’s roads. He believes the solar-powered glass pavers his company makes could transform thousands of miles of pavement into a new energy source. His business, Solar Roadways, recently unveiled its first public installation, in a downtown plaza in this northern Idaho resort town. It’s 150 square feet of hexagonshaped solar panels that people can walk and bicycle on. The company is working on proof that the panels, for which it has a patent, are strong enough and have enough traction to handle motor vehicles, including semitrailers. “Our plan is to replace all the asphalt and concrete,” said Brusaw, noting concrete occupies over 48,000 square miles in the U.S. “If you cover it with solar panels, we can make three times our energy needs.” Going Green Solar Roadways is among a growing number of companies embracing renewable energy as the U.S. aims to reduce carbon emissions by one-third from 2005 levels by 2030. But it is the only business receiving federal highway research money in pursuit of solar road panels, part of the Federal Highway Administration’s efforts to fight climate change, said Doug Hecox, a spokesman for the agency in Washington, D.C. Brusaw and his wife, Julie, got the idea for their Idaho business after watching the Al Gore movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and deciding they also wanted to join the battle against global warming. They aren’t the only ones eyeing roads and sidewalks as a potential energy source. A solar bike path was built in the Netherlands in 2014, and Germany and France have announced plans to build solar roads in the future. The Brusaws hope to beat them into mass production. Incorporated in 2006, Solar Roadways has received three FHA grants, totaling $1.6 million, and funding from the state and a local economic development agency. It also drew 50,000 donors who raised $2.2 million on Indiegogo, a crowd-sourcing site.
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Board agrees to raze grain towers Board u from Page 1
The school hired thirdpar ty evaluators to assess if the abandoned buildings could be reused but found few cost-ef fective options. Opposition fr om the community means the school will consider preser vation options for one or more of the elevators, including rebuilding them at a different site.
Six-year capital plan The Board voted unanimously Thursday and Friday to approve the University’s six-year capital plan to enhance the Medical School and increase statewide agricultural research. The $1.6 billion plan would renovate and expand medical and health science facilities, construct
and upgrade research and laborator y space for the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences and the College of Biological Sciences.
2018-19 biennial budget request
The University will ask the Minnesota Legislature for nearly $1.4 billion over the next two years once the legislative session convenes in January. The school’s requests wo uld fund e f for ts t o improve student retention and graduation rates, grow STEM programming and keep tuition from rising for Minnesota students, among other goals. The University will also request $8 million to supplement a loss of funding from UCare,a nonprofit health care
insurer that used to provide financial suppor t to the University. It will also request $5 million in additional funding to expand programming for the new Bell Museum and Planetarium on the St. Paul campus. Regents reviewed Univ ers i t y P r es id en t Eri c Kaler’s recommendations in September and voted to adopt the proposal at meetings Thursday and Friday.
2017 state capital requests
Regents also voted unanimously Friday to approve Kaler’s recommendation for the 2017 budget requests to the state, which included over $245 million for infrastructure and laborator y upgrade projects.
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Staff Affairs committee voted Thursday to approve a collective bargaining agreement with the Minnesota Public Employees Association, which represents 52 police officers and sergeants on the Morris, Duluth and Twin Cities campuses. Under the agreement, employees covered by the Association will get a onetime lump sum of their salar y by signing the contract, and a 1 percent salary increase. The new contract establishes processes for setting officers’ sick leave and vacation time along with language that addresses taking time off to vote. Negotiations on the contract star ted in Februar y 2016, resulting in a tentative agreement in June. The union’s contract was ratified at the end of August and approved unanimously by regents Thursday and Friday.
Nigerian parents reunite with freed girls BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ABUJA, Nigeria — Joy, jubilation and dancing er upted Sunday when a gr oup of Nigerian parents were reunited with 21 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram 2 ½ years ago and freed in the first negotiated release organized by the government and the Islamic extremist group. The girls were hugged and embraced by their parents when they were presented by the government, according to video obtained by The Associated Press. “I never expected I will see my daughter again and I pray that those girls still left behind, that God will bring them out safely the way our own daughter came out alive,” said a mother of one of the
released girls, Raha Emmanuel, in the Hausa language. The girls were released Thursday and flown to Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, but it’s taken days for the parents to arrive. Most arrived Sunday after driving hours over potholed roads slowed by militar y checkpoints and the danger of attack by the insurgents, said community leader Tsambido Hosea Abana. The parents came from the remote nor theaster n town of Chibok, wher e nearly 300 girls were kidnapped on April 2014 in a mass abduction that shocked the world. Dozens of schoolgirls escaped in the first few hours but after last week’s release, 197 remain captive. The government says negotiations are continuing to win
their freedom. Muta Abana, the fa ther of one of the released girls, has been living in Nasarawa state neighboring Abuja, expressed anxiety as many of the girls reportedly have been forced to mar r y Boko Haram fighters. “Some of them came back with babies, but think about it, are we going to kill the children?” Abana said to The Associated Pr ess, speaking in Hausa. “We won’t be able to kill the children because it would be as if we don’t want the girls to come back. God knows why it happened. It’s God’s will.” He also said the girls’ abduction has been politicized, complaining that, “People’s children aren’t money, people’s children are not clothes you wear
to campaign, people’s children are their pride.” The girls are getting medical attention and trauma counselling in a hospital, said Tsambido Abana, the Chibok community leader in Abuja. Some are “emaciated” from hunger, he said. There are conflicting reports about how the girls were freed, with two militar y officers telling the AP they were exchanged for four detained Boko Haram commanders, and a Nigerian who negotiated previous failed attempts saying a large ransom was paid by the Swiss government on behalf of Nigerian authorities. The officers and the negotiator, who did not take part in the latest talks, spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter with the press.
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Student sexual harassment suit nears trial Mentor allegedly made advancements toward former doctoral student in 2011. BY RAJ CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com
A Minnesota Court of Appeals decision filed earlier this month could bring a former University of Minnesota doctoral student’s sexual harassment case closer to trial after almost a year. Stephanie Jenkins sued her mentor, Ted Swem, last fall after he allegedly made unwanted sexual advances during a falcon research expedition in the Alaskan wilderness in 2011. Earlier this month, the Cour t of Appeals denied Swem qualified immunity — a rule that government employees can invoke when their conduct does not violate “clearly established statutor y or constitutional rights.” According to court documents, Swem violated Jenkin’s right to be free from sexual harassment — a right he should have known is clearly established. Swem argued that he wasn’t aware that sexual comments could amount to harassment. The court said his reasoning was invalid because unwanted physical contact and comments are both considered harassment. According to past Minnesota Daily coverage, Swem frequently asked Jenkins about her romantic life during the research trip. These comments made her uncomfortable, she said. At a dinner, Swem allegedly told Jenkins that she could sit in his lap and kiss him if she ever wanted to pursue a relationship
with him, according to the documents . Swem had allegedly told Jenkins “that his behavior could be construed as sexual harassment because of the power dynamic, but suggested that his role could be changed if she was interested in pursuing a relationship,” according to the court documents . Jenkins’ lawyer, Joe Larson, said Swem has 45 days to take any next steps, such as petition for a rehearing in front of the Court of Appeals or take the case to a jur y trial. Jenkins also accused Swem and the University of Minnesota of creating a hostile work environment — a Title VII offense. Former University General Counsel Bill Donohue previously called her claim against the University illegitimate . “The person that engaged in the behavior was a federal employee — he wasn’t our employee. All of the events take place in Alaska,” he told the Daily last year. Jenkins also sued her academic advisor — depar tment of fisheries, wildlife and conser vation professor David Andersen — for neglecting her concerns in the first place. The case against Andersen has since been dropped . If Swem takes no action within the next month and a half, the trial will go back to the District Court of Minnesota, Larson said. At that point, a date can be set for the official trial to start, he said.
Late Thai king’s confidant confirmed as temporary throne caretaker BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BANGKOK — A 96-year-old confidant of late King Bhumibol Adulyadej has been formally confirmed as the regent to manage the throne in the place of the crown prince and heir apparent, but it wasn’t clear how long the car etaker ar rangement would last. In a speech late Saturday, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said that Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkor n invited him and regent Prem Tinsulanonda for an audience to discuss the situation “as his royal highness was deeply concerned for the Thai people during this time of national bereavement.” Prem heads the Privy Council, a body of advisers to the monarchy, and was the closest adviser of Bhumibol. He is also
known to be close to Bhumibol’s highly popular daughter Maha Chakri Sirindhor n. Vajiralongkor n, who should have ascended the throne, has asked for more time to grieve along with the nation before taking over the monarchy. The constitution dictates that the Privy Council head be the regent in such a situation. “His Highness’s on ly wish is to not let the people experience confusion or wor r y about the ser vice of the land or even the ascension to the throne because this issue has the constitution, the royal laws and royal traditions to dictate it,” Prayuth said in his message broadcast on television. The 64-year-old crown prince implor es ever yone to help each other get through the grief first befor e thinking of his
ascension to the throne, Prayuth said. “Once merit-making and the cr emation has passed ...then it should be the right time to proceed. This pr ocedur e should not impact the work plan or any steps,” he said. No date has been set for the cremation, which in royal families is usually months if not years later. Of ficials have suggested it would be at least a year. Buddhist funeral ceremonies have already begun at the Grand Palace complex in Bangkok’s historic center where Bhumibol’s body is kept in an ornate hall for the royal family members to pay respects. The hall will be opened to the public on Oct. 28. Analysts say the question of succession is impor tant because the late king had been the unifying glue that had held Thailand’s often fractious
politics together, and diffused tensions during crises when the dominant militar y was pitted against the civil society. While the institution of monarchy is generally revered and respected in Thailand, it is more so because of Bhumibol’s popularity that no other royal member commands. “His death means that the Thai political system must find an alter native focal point around which to unite the countr y’s factionalized population,” s a i d To m P e p i n s k y, a Southeast Asia exper t at Cornell University. F or or d i n a r y T h a i s , succession was not particularly top on their minds for now as they were consumed by grief at the loss of a man many saw as their father and a demigod. Tens of thousands of people are thronging at
the palace complex to pay their last respects to a beloved monarch who dominated the memories of generations of Thais. Authorities have allowed people to enter the complex for a limited time, and only to sign condolence books in another hall. The king of Bhutan is also expected to visit later Sunday. Bhumibol’s death after 70 years on the throne was a momentous event in Thailand, where the monarch has been glorified as an anchor for a fractious society that for decades has been tur ned on its head by frequent coups. Over the past 10 years, Thailand has suf fered par ticularly intense political turmoil pitting archr oyalists against those seeking a redistribution of economic and political power, allied with Thaksin
S hi n aw at r a, a p o p u l i s t prime minister ousted in a 2006 coup. But in r ecent years, Bhumibol had suf fered from a variety of illnesses and seemed far removed from the upheavals of Thai politics, including the 2014 coup that br ought cur r ent prime minister, an army general, to power. A one-year mour ning period for the government has been declared together with a 30-day moratorium on state and of ficial events. But no substantial demands have been made of the private sector. The gover nment has only urged people to refrain from organizing enter tainment events for a month, apparently mindful of the need to ensure that the sputtering economy, which relies heavily on tourism, does not suffer too much.
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Monday, October 17, 2016
Q & A: Daily interviews Bill Huntzicker
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Journalist and author Bill Huntzicker poses with his newly released book, “Dinkytown: Four Blocks of History” in Minneapolis on Friday.
The Daily sits down with the author of “Dinkytown: Four Blocks of History.” BY ELIA N A S C H R E IB E R eschreiber@mndaily.com
The Daily sat down Friday with Bill Huntzicker, author of “Dinkytown: Four Blocks of Histor y.” Huntzicker talked about his experience as a University student in the 1970s and how the area has changed. Dinkytown has a rich histor y behind it. What is it about Dinkytown that compelled you to write “Dinkytown: Four Blocks of Histor y?” I was covering the development issues of Dinkytown for the T win Cities Daily Planet, an online publication … the publisher … asked me to pull together material on it. I didn’t star t out to write a book about Dinkytown, but it’s actually fun. I’ve grown to really like it… I’ve always liked Dinkytown. But it’s changing fast. Some of my friends and neighbors say the only constant about Dinkytown is change …
While writing the book, was there anything you discovered that you didn’t previously know about Dinkytown? Several things … Minneapolis was considered a hotbed of anti-Semitism in the 1940s. But [in] Dinkytown, there were always important Jewish leaders, like Marv Davidov, who was a strong antiwar civil rights leader locally … There was a bookstore owned by a Jewish family, the Butwins. In the 1940s, they started translating the … classic Jewish stories that later became the basis for Fiddler on the Roof, which is America’s interpretation of Jewish culture … There is a strong linkage between Dinkytown and the University of Minnesota. Why do you think this overlap is important to its histor y? It wouldn’t be close to what it is without the University ... The original buildings of the University faced Dinkytown… There was a semicircle, [it] goes the Armory, Pillsbur y Hall, Eddy Hall and Burton Hall and Shevlin Hall … that was the center of campus before the redesign in the ‘20s started being built with the campus mall facing the river … that’s when I say
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
In Minneapolis, a mural painted in Dinkytown shows a few of the historic businesses that once thrived.
campus turned its back on Dinkytown because it started facing the other way … A recent apar tment proposal in the building that cur rently houses Mesa Pizza and Chatime has stir red up a lot of controversy lately because some people are worried new apar tment complexes are compromising the histor y of Dinkytown. Where do you think we should draw the line when it comes to pr eser ving Dinkytown’s histor y? We should have drawn the line some time ago … I got involved in this when the fights over ‘Save Dinkytown’ got star ted. And people who were displaced … the Book House primarily, were really upset when Laurel Hanson Bauer sold that building and went out of business. Her grandparents star ted their family business there, and that was not an easy decision for her … Well, now they want to build 16 stories … that would put it as tall as the Chateau, which ever yone in the neighborhood thinks was a mistake. I mean the Chateau is a wonder ful cooperative
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
The Loring Pasta Bar now stands in place of the former Gray’s Drug Store. Gray’s drug was once the terminal for the first horse drawn streetcar in Minneapolis.
operation, but it’s really tall … Stadium Village … that’s all been leveled and [is] being rebuilt … There’s a fear in Dinkytown that that’s going to happen to Dinkytown … If you build a 16-stor y building there, where it was once one-stor y buildings and occasional two-stor y buildings … you don’t have Dinkytown anymore … You have an entire chapter dedicated to Bob Dylan. Why do you think he’s such a key figure in Dinkytown and its histor y? People get in real fights over that. Jason McLean, who owns the building that he had a room in, says nothing … he’s opposed to historic preservation because historic
preservation wouldn’t have allowed him to make the changes he did to [Gray’s] Drug building … A lot of people like [Loring Pasta Bar] because it revitalized Dinkytown in many ways … but there were businesses upstairs where Bob Dylan had his room … But, Bob Dylan, he lived there for only about 15 months, but some people believe that was key to his development … he changed his name in Dinkytown, his persona and performed at coffee shops before he went to New York. Now, the New York Times today says he became who he was from New York. Positively Fourth Street could be New York City, but he lived on Fourth Street in Minneapolis … He didn’t find it particularly friendly here, but people here told him to go get
exposed to music and poetry elsewhere. So, he decided he was going to go to New York … and meet Woody Guthrie. And the rest is history … I took a music histor y course once in which the professor said, “Bob Dylan, the greatest folk singer of our time, failed my music history class. I don’t ever want to make that mistake again, so if you’re not inclined to write a term paper, do a musical composition, performance, something as an alternative. I don’t want to fail the greatest folk singer of our time.” [Minneapolis] was formative for [Bob Dylan], but it was transition. I tend to agree with the New York Times that he became what he was in New York City … I don’t know if his folk singing would have developed in Dinkytown, the way it is now …
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to the clinic for conditions that don’t usually require medical attention — like a cold or flu — if they need a note, Anderson said. “We don’t … want them coming to the clinic and spreading their germs to others [when] self-care is usually the best course of treatment,” he said. Some of ficials also see sick notes as an issue of respect between students and faculty, he said, adding that faculty should generally trust students who say they’re sick. “The context we’re putting it in is how we like to be treated as employees,” he said. “Most of us as employees wouldn’t appreciate being asked to go to the doctor if we’re out one day.” Last week, University officials authorized Boynton to ask faculty not to require notes for one-time illnesses, but they aren’t sure if it’s cut down on note requests yet, Anderson said. Susan Wick, chair of the University Senate Educational Policy Committee (SCEP), said some faculty are concer ned students won’t be held accountable under the proposed policy. “It’s one thing to say, ‘Okay, I was gone this week because I had a cold,’ [but]
it might be something else the next week and the next week,” she said, adding that instructors are especially concerned about absences on exam days. She said the change would be complicated because the current policy encompasses more than just medical absences — it includes others, like University athletic events and religious observance. Jennifer Goodnough, a Morris campus chemistr y associate professor and the campus’s representative to SCEP, said faculty at Morris wonder if changing the policy system-wide is necessary. There are several potential problems, like defining prolonged absences and setting a makeup work procedure, that would have to be considered, she said. Wick said the committee is working on the proposed change and will hopefully present it at the next SCEP meeting in November. “We want to make sure that we get the wording exactly optimal so that if someone has a recurring … incident … at some point an instructor has the authority to say, ‘I’m sorry, but … there’s no way to make up all the things that you’ve missed,’” Wick said. Graduate instructor Susan LoRusso said she sees why the change could be problematic if students are
dishonest, but she would welcome the amendment. She said students frequently go to Boynton for notes once they’ve recovered from an illness, making it especially difficult for the clinic to verify absences retroactively. Marketing junior Becca Desens said the policy change would help students avoid stress like she experienced when she was sick and had to miss a class with mandatory attendance. “I woke up the morning of my first midterm … [with this] super bad cold. I could barely even walk over to Boynton,” she said. “I knew that it probably wasn’t a disease they could cure, but I needed the note.” Desens wouldn’t have gone to Boynton if she didn’t need proof to excuse her absence, she said. She didn’t want to waste their time and would’ve rather rested. Psychology junior Alex Keip said he understands why some faculty members are reluctant to endorse the change. “It could be problematic because some students could abuse it,” he said. But he thinks it would benefit student health. “There have been times that I haven’t felt great, but I went to class because I didn’t want to go all the way to Boynton,” he said.
Monday, October 17, 2016
Sports
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FOOTBALL
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Gophers running back Shannon Brooks after scoring the Gopher’s only touchdown of the game at TCF Bank Stadium on Oct. 8.
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ball 48 times and made only 15 pass attempts in light of Leidner’s absence. Smith and running back Shannon Brooks combined for 230 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. Brooks also had a 17-yard touchdown reception 14 seconds before the end of the first half. In his first career start, quarterback Conor Rhoda threw for 82 yards on 15 attempts with one touchdown. “I felt good once I got out there and took a couple hits,” Rhoda told reporters. “Everything settled in from there and we got things cooking on offense.” While the Gophers running game shined, their defense had an equally impressive game, holding the Terrapins (4-2, 1-2 Big Ten) to one touchdown. The defense also created four turnovers and scored a pick-six. “We’re just starting to get all our guys back and the secondary healthy to do some of those things that we’re trying to do,” Claeys told the media. “I think they’re getting more comfortable and that’s why they’re playing more aggressive and getting faster.” Brooks’ 17-yard touchdown reception put the Gophers up 14-0 at halftime. Their first touchdown of the day came from Smith, who scored on an 8-yard touchdown run with 13:27 left in the second quarter. Smith finished the day with 144 rushing yards, two touchdowns and one recep-
tion for 10 yards. His 144 yards were a new career high in a game while the two touchdowns tied a career high. “[Smith] has been patient about it all season,” Brooks told reporters. “Even last season, we were motivating him saying ‘come on you have to break one’ so it was good and fun as a teammate to see.” Just as Minnesota was without its starting quarterback, the Terrapins were without their starter, Perry Hills. Hills was questionable to play before the game after sustaining a shoulder injury in Maryland’s game on Oct. 8 against Penn State. Quar terback T yr rell Pigrome took his spot and threw for 161 yards on 18 completions of 37 attempts with two interceptions. “They’re very similar with the quar terback running game,” Claeys told reporters. “[Our] defensive staff did a good job planning for both quarterbacks.” Maryland came into the matchup with averaging 274 rushing yards and 3.2 rushing touchdowns a game. Minnesota created a different story on Saturday. The Terrapins were held to 130 yards on 36 rushing attempts with one fumble by Pigrome. Running backs Lorenzo Harrison and Ty Johnson had nine attempts for 58 yards as Pigrome did the majority of the running. Mar yland’s only touchdown of the day was an 11-yard pass from Pigrome to wide receiver D.J. Moore to bring the Terrapins within 14 with 5:42 left in the fourth quarter.
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Redshirt sophomore running back Rodney Smith carries the ball on Saturday, Sept. 24 at TCF Bank Stadium, where the Gophers beat the Rams 31-24.
“We tried to play as many of our small guys on the perimeter that we could against Tyrrell because he’s like a water bug,” Claeys told reporters. “He’s hard to tackle so we wanted quicker guys to keep him contained and make him go back towards the middle and take as many hits as he could.” Pigrome and the Terrapins were marching down the field again — threatening to make it a 7-point game with over a minute left in the fourth quarter.
Freshman safety Antoine Winfield intercepted Pigrome at Minnesota’s 18-yard-line and ran the ball 82 yards for a touchdown. The interception was Winfield’s first of his career and the Gophers’ first defensive touchdown of the season. “Defensively, we continue to play aggressive and get after people, and so it’s good to get the first Big Ten win on the road,” Claeys told reporters. “Hopefully it’s a good start, and we can keep it going.”
SCORING SUMMARY SCORE BY QUARTER Minnesota Maryland
1 0 0
2 14 0
3 3 0
2ND QUARTER MINN MINN
TD TD
FG
TOTAL 31 10 MINN UMD
13:27 00:14
Smith, Rodney 8 yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) 7 Brooks, Shannon 17 yd pass from Rhoda, Conor 14 (Carpenter, Emmit kick)
08:21
Carpenter, Emmit 37 yd field goal
3RD QUARTER MINN
4 14 10
0 0
MINN UMD
4TH QUARTER
17
0
AWAY HOME
UMD MINN UMD
FG TD TD
11:15 09:30 05:42
MINN
TD
01:08
Greene, Adam 32 yd field goal 17 Smith, Rodney 70 yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) 24 Moore, D.J. 11 yd pass from Pigrome, Tyrrell 24 (Greene, Adam kick) Winfield, Antoine 82 yd interception return 31 (Carpenter, Emmit kick)
3 3 10
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
FOOTBALL
Running backs help Rhoda to win in first career start The redshirt junior threw a touchdown pass and no interceptions. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Quar terback Conor Rhoda didn’t need to be per fect to help the Gophers earn their first Big Ten win on Saturday. He completed seven passes for 82 yar ds in the victor y. The per formance was enough for
Minnesota to defeat Mar yland 31-10 in Rhoda’s debut start. The redshir t junior filled in for the injured redshirt senior Mitch Leidner, who was out with a concussion. “It was a great experience. The whole week in general was awesome,” Rhoda told repor ters. “The team and staf f did a great job of not acting like anything was dif ferent, which gave me a ton of confidence. I prepare each week to play if something
does happen to [Leidner].” Rhoda completed his first pass at end of the first quar ter to sophomore Rashad Still for a 26-yard gain.. Redshir t sophomor e Rodney Smith finished of f the drive with an 8-yard touchdown where he spun of f a tackler and cut back to the other side of the field. Rhoda completed his first touchdown pass in the second quar ter. He dropped back under pressure and completed a
screen pass to Shannon Brooks. The play worked to per fection, and Brooks ran in for the 17-yard score. . “With who we were playing with upfront, we weren’t going to take any chances,” head coach Tracy Claeys told reporters. Rhoda only threw two passes on Minnesota’s next scoring drive. The of fense star ted with the ball on Mar yland’s 20-yard line. The redshir t junior completed a 5-yard pass to senior Drew Wolitarsky and threw an incompletion.
The team only moved the ball to Mar yland’s 18-yard line, but the drive ended with a field goal from redshir t sophomore Emmit Carpenter. Smith put the game out of reach in the four th quar ter when he ran for a 70-yard touchdown to make it 24-3 Minnesota. The run was the longest of his career. Rhoda did not throw a pass on the drive. “[Smith] broke a long run for us to get another score, and we felt like the defense was playing
well enough to win us the game,” Claeys said. . Rhoda kneeled down with 27 seconds left and handed the ball to Wolitarsky. The redshir t junior completed his first victor y without throwing an interception. “He managed the game well,” Claeys said. “Works hard at it. Threw one bad ball into coverage and got away with it. Besides that, I thought he managed the game well and played well enough and gave us the opportunity to win.”
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Monday, October 17, 2016
MEN’S HOCKEY
Pitlick’s hat trick highlights exhibition win Minnesota had six different players score in Friday’s exhibition game. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
Minnesota played the U.S. Under-18 Team Friday with an explosive offensive showing in the 9-0 exhibition victor y. Even though the game won’t count for the Gophers, it wasn’t grounds for easy-going on the group of teenagers. Minnesota was ver y competitive throughout the entire contest and used it as an experimental game. “ We g o t o u t o f t h e game what we hoped to, mainly with the goaltenders,” said head coach Don Lucia. “I was happy for both [goaltenders] Nick [Lehr] and Brock [Kautz] for how they played, and they each made a couple of good saves.” During the game, Minnesota used its three goaltenders for each of the three periods. Sophomore star ting goaltender Eric Schierhorn played during the first period while the two backups, Lehr and Kautz, played the second and third period, respectively. While these three
players kept the net on the back end closed to the U.S. U-18 team, the Minnesota of fense kept the goal light on almost all night. Minnesota scored nine goals Friday with a mix of six goal scorers. It was the first time the Gophers had scored nine goals in a game at Mariucci Arena since they played Sacred Heart in October 2011. The Gophers had a pair of sophomores score their first collegiate goals, though unof ficial, Friday. For war ds Jack Ramsey and Darian Romanko each scored for the first time. Though the points won’t count on the of ficial scoresheet, they were still big for the team. “It only took a year and in an exhibition game,” Ramsey said. “Glad to get it under the belt, but [I] still have got to get one in a real game.” Sophomore for ward Brent Gates Jr. continued on his scoring tear after he tallied three goals in the team’s first two games in Alaska. Gates scored twice more in Friday’s game and had one assist. “[I’m] keeping the game simple,” Gates said. “The puck’s been bouncing my way, and fortunately, it’s been going in the net.” Gates cur rently leads the Gophers in goals and
SOCCER
CHRIS DANG, DAILY
Forward Brent Gates Jr. loses his stick while fighting for the puck against the U.S. Under-18 Team on Friday, Oct. 14, 2016 at Mariucci Arena.
has scored at least once in each game. Freshman for ward Rem Pitlick continued to showcase his scoring prowess in the team’s exhibition game. He scored a hat trick and tallied one assist. “[Pitlick’s] a dynamic of fensive player,” Lucia
said. “He’s conscious on the defensive side of pucks, and he’s one of those guys who can beat goalie from 30 or 40 feet out.” Minnesota’s offense was firing on all cylinders, but the defense was also strong in the game. The Gophers staved off
30 U-18 shots and went 6-6 on the penalty kill. Eight different Minnesota players had a multi-point night, and the game was an opportunity for widespread scoring production. “It was good from the standpoint that everyone got to play,” Lucia said. “Now
MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
FRIDAY
1 US National Under-18 0 Minnesota 4
2 0 4
3 FINAL 0 0 1 9
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
the real work begins next week.”
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Minnesota tallies win, tie in weekend games
Gophers earn sweep over Bulldogs
CHRIS DANG, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Gophers forward Sydney Squires passes the ball on Oct. 9 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.
The Gophers played to their second draw of the season Sunday afternoon. BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com
The Gophers played through two overtime periods in a road match against Michigan on Saturday. Despite putting four shots on goal after regulation, Minnesota couldn’t concert on any of its chances. “We knew we still had some energy left in the tank [going into overtime],” sophomore midfielder Emily Heslin said. “We were going to try to continue to press them and find a way to break down all their numbers in the box. We just unfortunately couldn’t do it.” No. 15 Minnesota (12-3-2, 6-1-2 Big Ten) played to its second draw of the season Sunday in a two-game road finale at No. 25 Michigan (9-32, 5-2-2 Big Ten). The Gophers found it difficult to score on Michigan early on. Sophomore goalkeeper Sarah Jackson made six saves in the first half of regulation to keep Minnesota scoreless going into halftime. “We could have done a little better with some of the opportunities that we got,” said Minnesota associate head coach Krystle Seidel. “[Jackson] certainly had a good game as well. She was able to prevent things from becoming second chances.” Jackson continued to keep the game even by grabbing three more saves in the second half. She finished the match with 11 saves. The Gophers took 10 shots of their 17 total in the first half of regulation. Senior for ward Simone Kolander put five of her seven shots on target against the opposing goalie. Michigan had 12 shots with three on target, but senior goaltender Tarah Hobbs didn’t let in the few shots
WOMEN’S SOCCER RESULTS
THURSDAY
1 1 1
Michigan State Minnesota
SUNDAY Michigan Minnesota
1 0 0
2 0 1
FINAL 1 2
2 OT1 OT2 FINAL 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Michigan sent at her. The Gophers threatened with a few chances in both overtime periods, but ultimately tallied their second draw of the season. Thursday’s game had gone much smoother for Minnesota. Sophomore midfielder Molly Fiedler played a cross to junior forward Kellie McGahn who tapped it in to give the Gophers an early 1-0 lead and McGahn’s second goal of the season. Michigan State (5-10-1, 2-7-0 Big Ten) sophomore midfielder Michaela Kovacs finished a chance provided by junior defender Madison Duncan to get the match back at 1-1 before halftime. Junior for ward Sydney Squires only had the goalie to beat after receiving a pass from senior midfielder Josee Stiever. Squires rolled the ball past Michigan State junior goalie Savanna Wojtanowski in the 79th minute to win the game 2-1 for Minnesota. The Gophers continue to show their depth even without sophomore forward April Bockin in the lineup. The Gophers took 18 shots in the game compared to Michigan State’s seven shots. Seidel said this was the best the program has done on the road during this weekend since she has been a part of the program. “We want to get all six points and I think we played well enough to earn those,” Seidel said. “After the game we were disappointed. Certainly I think the girls wanted that to be a win just because we had so many opportunities in this game.”
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Junior forward Kelly Pannek skates against the Lindenwood Lions on Sept. 30 at Ridder Arena.
Kelly Pannek scored her 100th career point in Saturday’s game. BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
The Gophers nearly let a conference sweep slip away Saturday afternoon, until Sarah Potomak stepped in. The sophomore for ward scored with just over a minute remaining in over time to help seal a Minnesota victor y over Minnesota-Duluth for the second consecutive game. “I don’t really wor r y about that,” Potomak said. “I just tr y to put it in the net as best as I can, and I was happy to get the win.” No. 3 Minnesota (5-10, 3-1-0 WCHA) saw success over the weekend with a close sweep over in-state rivals No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth (3-2-1, 2-20 WCHA). The Gophers won 4-3 Friday and 3-2 in over time Saturday at Ridder Arena. Despite Friday’s victor y, Minnesota struggled of fensively early in Saturday’s game. The Gophers outshot the Bulldogs 19-6 in the first period, but found themselves
trailing 2-1. The second period was mar r ed by Minnesota penalties, but the Gophers managed to kill them all to keep the Bulldogs of f the boar d for the entir ety of the period. Minnesota, however, couldn’t generate any offense either. “ We w e r e t r y i n g t o stay out of the box as much as we could, but we were getting called, so we were just tr ying to stick together,” Potomak said. “Those things are going to happen and it’s how we respond as a team, and I thought we responded really well.” The third period was cr unch time for the Gophers as they were still down one goal. That hunger led to a game-tying power play goal from junior for ward Kelly Pannek, her first of the season. The goal also marked Pannek’s 100th point with Minnesota. “It was pretty cool,” Pannek said. “Just to be on a list with really special players who have done that, it’s pretty cool.” Minnesota pressed on but was unable to break through, so the game headed to overtime.
“It was one of those nights where standing on the bench in over time, [I was] just thinking, regardless of what happens, how proud we are of our team for the way they battled and gutted it out,” said head coach Brad Frost. “Obviously we carried the play and had a lot of great chances. It was just a matter of finding a way to get that puck in the net.” Potomak found the net for the game-winner in familiar fashion — she had also closed out Friday’s game for Minnesota. She scored two goals to lead the Gophers while senior defenseman and captain Lee Stecklein had two assists. Both teams used penalties to their advantage and tallied two power play goals each. The squads had 22 penalty minutes combined. Minnesota’s freshmen led the way in the first period as defenseman Patti Marshall and forward Lindsay Agnew both scored to put the Gophers up 2-1. Minnesota-Duluth continued to pressure Minnesota in the second period and tied the game 3-3. The Gophers needed a spark in the third period that came from Potomak,
WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS
FRIDAY Minnesota-Duluth Minnesota
1 1 2
SATURDAY 1 Minnesota-Duluth 2 Minnesota 1
2 2 1 2 0 0
3 0 1 3 0 1
FINAL 3 4
4 FINAL 0 2 1 3
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“This was such a gritty effort tonight from our team,” Frost told reporters Friday. “To beat obviously a very good team like Duluth the way we did was great.” BRAD FROST Head coach
who netted the gamewinner with 5:40 remaining to put the game away and hand MinnesotaDuluth its first loss of the season. “This was such a gritty ef for t tonight from our team,” Frost told repor ters Friday. “To beat obviously a ver y good team like Duluth the way we did was great.”
Monday, October 17, 2016
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VOLLEYBALL
Minnesota falls to MSU in five sets The Gophers were coming off a sweep of No. 1 Wisconsin earlier in the week. BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Minnesota split the first two matches of a four-game road trip with a win at No. 1 Wisconsin and a five-set loss at No. 14 Michigan State. The Gophers star ted out strong against their rival and easily won in a 3-0 sweep Wednesday. “In the Big Ten, ever y game is a battle, and we need to come prepared,” said senior outside hitter Sarah Wilhite. “We need to come in to ever y game no matter who our opponent is and take care of business.” Wilhite led all players with 12 kills and eight digs, followed by senior middle blocker Hannah Tapp with 11 kills. Senior middle blocker Paige Tapp had nine kills. Junior libero Dalianliz Rosado led the team defensively with 11 digs. Sophomore setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson had 41 assists. No. 3 Minnesota took the first set 25-20 and hit 0.242 compar ed to
Wisconsin’s abysmal negative 0.029. Hannah Tapp closed out the set with a timely kill on match point. The second set saw Minnesota hit a match high .452, en route to a 25-18 set win. The set was won on consecutive kills from Hannah Tapp and freshman outside hitter Alexis Hart. The Gophers won the match after a dominant 2514 third set victory. Minnesota hit .242 compared to Wisconsin’s negative .056, its worst mark of the match. Following the victor y, Minnesota came out firing on all cylinders in its first set against Michigan State, winning 25-12. The Gophers hit a staggering .483 to stifle the Spar tans at every turn. The second set was more of a reverse, and Michigan State and won 25-20. The Spar tans had five blocks and prevented Minnesota from gaining any rhythm. Minnesota let the third set slip after leading for a majority of it. The Gophers started the set with a 7-2 run and had the lead as late as 20-17. Michigan State rallied back to win the set 25-21. “We did well at times, but
VOLLEYBALL RESULTS
WEDNESDAY Minnesota Wisconsin
1 2 3 FINAL 25 25 25 3 20 18 14 0
SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 FINAL Minnesota 25 20 21 25 13 2 Michigan State 12 25 25 18 15 3 SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
there were other times where we let the game slip away,” Seliger-Swenson said. “That’s definitely something we need to improve on.” With their backs to the wall, the Gophers won the fourth set 25-18 to force a fifth and final set. Minnesota hit .389 compared to Michigan State’s .368 but lost the set 15-13. “I think they defended really well and the first contact for them was so important,” Seliger-Swenson said. “Mostly, they showed up to play at the end.” Wilhite had 20 kills and tied a career-high 19 digs. She was followed by Hart with 15 kills and Hannah Tapp with 13 kills. Seliger-Swenson had 50 assists and 13 digs for a double-double match to help right the ship for the team. Despite the loss, head coach Hugh McCutcheon
CROSS COUNTRY
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Gophers senior Paige Tapp strikes the ball on Sept. 23 in the Sports Pavillon.
saw this as an opportunity to learn and improve for the rest of the season. “I don’t think it’s a
surprise that this game was close. Obviously disappointing to lose, but the kids battled, and
there will be all kinds of opportunities for improvement. There’s chances to get better for us,” he said.
SWIM & DIVE
Gophers successful in Wisconsin meets Minnesota split its teams for three meets in Wisconsin over the weekend.
Minnesota teams split season-opening meet
BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com
The Minnesota cross countr y teams split this weekend to compete in the Nuttycombe Invitational at the University of Wisconsin Friday and the Jim Drews and Tori Neubauer Invitational Saturday. The women’s team took 16th out of 31 teams at the invitational against some of the top teams in the countr y. The Gophers fell 80 points short of a top-eight team finish. “I thought we had a really good fight today. Obviously, it’s one of the deepest fields in the countr y,” said head coach Sarah Hopkins. “I was really pleased with the fight of our group. Ever ybody really battled through the whole race. That’s the mark of a good team. [It] just keeps fighting all the way through. I was really pleased with them for that.” The top r unners for the women’s team were fr eshmen Megan Hasz in 28th (20:44.0) and Bethany Hasz in 42nd (20:54.7). “I’m really happy with how I raced and how the team did as a whole. I think we all had a really good day,” Megan Hasz said. “It was really exciting to do as well as I did in such a deep field, and there was some great competition for everyone today.” The men’s team placed 22nd out of 30 teams with a score of 540. Junior Obsa Ali was a key runner for the men’s team Friday afternoon. He placed 48th (24:35.5), followed by junior Charlie Lawrence (24:52.5) and freshman Connor Olson (25:02.9). The Minnesota men’s r unning club and the Gophers women’s team competed in Ettrick, Wis. at the Jim Drews and Tori Neubauer Invitational Saturday mor ning to finish off the road trip. The men’s r unning club took fifth out of 20 teams in the Jim Drews Invitational and beat instate opponent Gustavus Adolphus College by a narrow six points. The women finished third out of 22 teams with 117 points and trailed
MEAGAN LYNCH, DAILY
Junior Connor McHugh swims the men’s 200 meter breaststroke at the Gophers’ first meet of the season against the Wisconsin Badgers at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatics Center on Oct. 13.
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Junior Obsa Ali runs in the Merrill Fischbein Men’s Gold race at the Roy Griak Invitational on Sept. 24 at Les Bolstad golf course.
“I’m really happy with how I raced and how the team did as a whole. I think we all had a really good day. It was really exciting to do as well as I did in such a deep field, and there was some great competition for everyone today.” MEGAN HASZ Freshman
only Nebraska Wesleyan University and the University of W isconsin-La Crosse. Redshir t junior Naomi Ollila led the team in 14th (23:14.9), followed by redshir t freshman Ally Smith (23:20.5) and redshirt junior Sarah Klecker (23:21.2). “We all feel like there are points on the board that we can keep getting, which is fun,” Hopkins said. “It’s a confidence builder in some ways to know that we succeed
MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
NUTTYCOMBE INVITATIONAL 1 Northern Arizona 2 Stanford 3 BYU 4 Syracuse 22 Minnesota
JIM DREWS INVITATIONAL 1 Iowa Central 2 UW-La Crosse 3 St. Olaf 4 Nebraska Wesleyan 5 Minnesota Running Club
WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
NUTTYCOMBE INVITATIONAL 1 Washington 2 North Carolina St. 3 Providence 4 New Mexico 16 Minnesota
NEUBAUER INVITATIONAL 1 UW-La Crosse 2 Nebraska Wesleyan 3 Minnesota 4 St. Olaf 5 Iowa Central
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
and we beat some really good teams and didn’t feel like we had the perfect day. I think knowing that there are places we can improve makes ever ybody excited going for ward.”
The men’s team won the border battle while the women fell short. BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota swimming and diving teams held their sea son o pener a ga ins t W isconsin Thursday afternoon. The men’s team defeated rival W isconsin 185115, but the women fell shor t and lost by a close 158-142 total. “I’m proud of both teams. It’s the details th at we’ve been work ing on ever y day, and to see it come through here where it counts, we know we’re making progress,” said head coach Kelly Kremer. Senior Dar yl T ur ner was an impor tant asset to the Minnesota men’s team Thursday afternoon. He won the 100-yard backstroke by almost three seconds with a time of 48.21 and also claimed a victor y in the 100-yard butter fly with a 47.85 mark. Tur ner also anchored the 400-yard freestyle relay and finished strong to lock in the victor y for the relay team of Turner, senior Noah Busch, senior Paul Fair and sophomore Bowe Becker. “It felt really good. I wasn’t really knowing what to expect going from the 100 fly to
[the relay],” Turner said. “It’s a pretty quick tur naround, but I just had to tr ust in my training and work on the details and under waters, and then it all turned out well in the end.” The breaststroke events were a strong suit for both Minnesota teams Thursday, even through the women’s team lost. Freshman Lindsey Horejsi won her first collegiate race in the form of the 100 breaststroke with a time of 1:01.54. Senior Kier ra Smith and junior Rae Bullinger came in behind Horejsi for the second and third spots. Smith earned her first victor y back in the Minnesota pool after taking an Olympic year in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:12.18. McHugh took the top spot for the men in the 100 and the 200 breaststroke. Minnesota was successful on the diving boards as well, securing the top spots in 1-meter and 3-meter for both the men’s and women’s contests. Senior divers Yu Zhou and Matt Bar nard were key scorers for the team. “I think this year I’m more confident, and I think I’m just enjoying the per formance better than the r esult,” Zhou said. “Being a senior, I will do my best to help the team score the points. That’s my goal.”
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The teams were originally scheduled to open their seasons in Florida last weekend but were unable to because of Hurricane Matthew. Missing the contest set the teams back a week in scheduling, but had little ef fect on training for the border battle meet. “I think [missing the Florida meet] didn’t hur t us, and it didn’t help us,” Kremer said. “I think [the teams] were ready to go today, and they gave the best ef for t. I think this was a r eally good way to star t our Big Ten season.” Both teams will take the week off from competing to prepare for home meets against Iowa on Oct. 28 and 29. “We’re going to keep doing what we’ve been doing,” Kremer said. “[We’ll] talk to each individual about some of the things that we have to work on as we move through the season, and hopefully we’ll keep seeing the progress as we go. I know at Iowa I just want to see us be a little bit better.”
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Podcast showcases A-Mill artists’ work Podcast u from Page 1
cause I really know where we’r e going to go,” he said. “A lot of it is dependent on the spontaneity of the person who is being inter viewed.” Renee Faucher, a chef featured in a recent episode of the podcast, said Stokowski is keenly interested in other people and their creativity. “I think he’s so good at this,” Faucher said. Ar tists like her are naturally introver ted, she said, and Stokowski’s podcast lets them share their stories and think dif fer ently about their work. Faucher said she loved listening to the other podcasts to learn more about the people in her building. JoDee Schumer, a fiber and textile ar tist, said the podcast helps people in the building connect and suppor t each other. “It opens the door to dif ferent kinds of friendships,” Schumer said. Nedra Granquist, a weaver, said she’d never
heard of a podcast before Stokowski approached her. N e ve r th e le ss, G r a n quist said she felt honored to be asked to record an episode and felt it was a chance to describe the histor y of her work. “It was stuf f I hadn’t thought of putting into words,” she said. Granquist, who has lived in the A-Mill for the past 10 years, said the podcast also ser ves as a histor y for the people living within the historic building. Michael Johnson, a community ar tist and painter, said this documentation is impor tant because the A-Mill never housed people before the lofts opened. Johnson said the podcast could ser ve as a reminder that ar tists lived in A-Mill, even if they all eventually leave. “It brings this building to life,” he said Stokowski said pursuing the podcast made him realize how similar people are. “I do think essentially people are the same,” he said. “We [just] have dif-
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Podcast host Steve Stokowski interviews an artist at the A-Mill Artist Lofts on Thursday. Stokowski’s podcast, “Artists @ A-Mill,”
ferent methods we go about doing what we do.” Stokowski said while
the podcast still has a small reach, he has received positive feedback
from dedicated listeners in the community. “I’m enjoying what
I’m doing,” he said. “I can’t be measured by other people.”
Gov. Dayton critiques Minnesota’s health care laws BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. PAUL, Minn. — G o v. M a r k D a y t o n ’ s declaration that the federal health care overhaul is “no longer af fordable” for more and more Minnesota residents could be the spark that sets of f major health care changes. The Democratic gover nor’s remarks this week r enewed calls to address rising costs in t h e in d iv id u a l m a r ket, where unexpectedly high medical claims have resulted in doubledigit premium increases
and has some top state of ficials wor ried that it can’t sur vive. Here’s a look at the issues at play and the ideas to fix them.
Who is af fected? It’s a major political issue in Minnesota, but the impact on its residents is quite small. The vast majority of people are covered through employers, so the eye-popping premium increases — 50 percent and more — will only hit some of those who are not. Minnesota’s offering of a so-called basic health plan, a subsi-
dized public program called MinnesotaCare, reduces the individual market even more. All told, less than 5 percent of residents purchase health care individually — through the state’s health insurance exchange, from an agent or directly from insurers. That’s among the smallest individual markets in the country. “I know that it only affects 5 percent of Minnesotans, but it scares every Minnesotan,” Republican House Speaker Kur t Daudt said Friday.
What’s the problem? The small size is a big
part of the problem. Depar tment of Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman blamed a small and severely sick pool of insured people for driving up costs — as much as 67 percent for next year. Those high costs can only spread out so far in Minnesota’s small individual market. “We’re asking a ver y small group of people to car r y the responsibility for the (sickest) people,” said Sen. Kathy Sheran, DFL-Mankato. Unable to sustain the business due to financial losses, insurers are eyeing the exit — and some have left. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota’s depar ture for 2017 makes it the second major insurer to leave since the Af fordable Care Act was implemented in 2013. And the whole market is on the precipice. State regulators scrambled to stop all seven remaining insurers from following Blue Cross’ lead. Rothman called on lawmakers to act to ensure an individ-
ual market could sur vive into 2018 and beyond. “Ever yone needs to hear the sirens and the red lights,” he said earlier this fall.
What can be done? There’s no shor tage of ideas swirling for how to get costs under control and stabilize the health care market. But there’s also little agreement on them. Both parties agree that shor t-term relief is necessar y to of fset the 2017 premium increases, particularly for those Minnesota residents who ear n too much to qualify for federal subsidies, but it’s not clear how that would be doled out and paid for. Democrats have suggested using leftover money meant for a tax relief bill that failed this year, while R e p u b l i c a n s h a v e p r oposed tapping into some health care funds. But the longer-ter m fixes are more dif ficult. One option is a state program that would help
insurers cover high medical costs, hopefully controlling premiums long-term. But it’s costly — $590 million to r oll back the rate increases slated for 2017, according to estimates from the Department of Commerce — and the funding source is again a question. And those potential fixes could get bogged down in other, familiar par tisan battles. Republicans have renewed calls to abolish MNsure and move to the federal exchange, while Democrats say the state should consider allowing all Minnesota residents to pay for a spot in a public health care program. It could lower rates for those residents who make the switch, but the GOP views the idea as a gover nment takeover and it could fur ther harm the individual market. Dayton agreed some state-level fixes will help, but he put the onus on Congress to make major changes that could drastically help in Minnesota.
US, UK say support is weak for military action against Syria BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON — The United States and Britain on Sunday acknowledged the Western world’s weak suppor t for any militar y action against Syria’s government as they sought ways to pressure President Bashar Assad and his chief backer, Russia, to halt a deadly offensive in Aleppo. They tried to present it as a possibility, nevertheless.After a meeting of 11 gover nments opposing Assad’s rule, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secretar y Boris Johnson each insisted all options were on the table. But their stark explanations about the danger of resorting to militar y force appeared to rule out such a move. The result was a somewhat schizophrenic threat that was unlikely to scare Assad’s gover nment or Russia as they move to crush the last rebel-held areas of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. “When a great power is involved in a fight like this, as Russia has chosen to be by going there and then putting its missiles in place in order to threaten people against military action, it raises the stakes of confrontation,” Kerry said after the meeting in London. He said no one should be “lighting a fire” under a larger sectarian war in the Middle East or one drawing in superpowers against one another. Johnson said Britain wanted to “ratchet up” pressure on
Assad, Russia and Iran. “No option is, in principle, off the table,” he told reporters. Quickly expanding his answer, he added: “Be in no doubt that these so-called militar y options are extremely difficult and there is, to put it mildly, a lack of political appetite in most European capitals and certainly in the West for that kind of solution at present.” “So we’ve got to work with the tools we have,” he said. “The tools we have are diplomatic.” The gathering in London came amid mounting international frustration with the 5½ year conflict, which has killed as many as a half-million people, sparked Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II and enabled Islamic State militants to emerge as a global terror threat. Ker r y on Saturday launched a new diplomatic process with what he described as the major international players in the war — the U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. The renewed effort replaces last month’s U.S.-Russian cease-fire, which collapsed within days, and Washington’s now-abandoned talks with Moscow on a military partnership against the Islamic State group and alQaida militants. Sunday’s gathering included America’s Arab allies from the meeting a day earlier along with European countries that were left out. Not
everyone sounded convinced about Kerry’s effort. “There is no step for ward for a cease-fire,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said. Even the U.S. has expressed skepticism about the chances for a diplomatic agreement with Assad’s military supporters, Russia and Iran. But President Barack Obama doesn’t seem likely to approve an American military intervention before leaving office. He has consistently rejected such action against Assad, including three years ago when the Syrian leader crossed Obama’s “red line” by using chemical weapons. Kerr y tried to keep the threat alive Sunday. “Let me make it clear,” he said. “President Obama has not taken any options off the table at this point in time. So we’ll see where we are in the next few days in the context of the discussions we’re having.” Just a moment earlier, however, Kerry implied the opposite. He emphasized that the U.S. and its partners must exhaust diplomatic possibilities, even if the situation in Syria becomes more dire. “Now, some people ask what happens to Aleppo if it were to fall,” Kerr y said. “Well, the Russians should understand, and Assad needs to understand, that that does not end the war. This war cannot end without a political solution.
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Expecting respect isn’t censorship I acted irresponsibly by passing judgment based solely on speculation.
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ast week, I wrote a column discussing the lack of “pro-wall” voices in the coverage of the College Republican’s defaced “Build the Wall” mural on the Washington Avenue Bridge. The articles I read presented two sides: People who oppose Trump’s proposed wall and support with the ensuing defacement of the mural with the words “Stop White Supremacy;” and conversely, people who oppose the wall but defend the College Republican’s freedom of speech. I didn’t know whether the lack of perspectives was an oversight by reporters, or due to the dif ficulty in gathering sources. I conceded in that column that I could point out the missing perspective, but I couldn’t provide it. However, I made a critical error: I assumed the intentions of the College Republican’s mural and judged them based on my own speculations. Several readers took issue with my ending sentence: “While I’m opposed to the suppression of free speech, when you make a statement to provoke a response, you cannot be surprised when you get just that.” One reader even compared it to rape culture, just as the article in the Minnesota Republic did two weeks ago. I agree that I was wrong in making that statement. I acted irresponsibly by passing judgment on the College Republicans based solely on speculation — especially when I wrote that we hadn’t heard from the group and like-minded students
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on campus. I began the column by striving for understanding, but ended it by ef fectively saying, ‘I haven’t heard your perspective on this event. Never theless, I’ll judge you anyway.’ I sincerely apologize for that statement and for using this platform to spread ignorance and intolerance, and I’m thankful I receive feedback from readers that force me to reexamine my views. However, I must say that while I understand the point being made — comparing ef faced speech to the silencing that occurs by rape culture is an extremely dangerous connection to make. Sexual assault isn’t something to trivialize and apply to any situation at will. A person must recognize that these two situations are vastly different, and as such, must be examined and dealt with differently. That said, the College Republicans should receive fair and impar tial treatment, and that means hearing more from them. I suggest we star t by examining the College Republicans and their President, Madison Faupel, who continuously mock “trigger warnings” and “safe spaces” on their social media accounts. Faupel even tweeted a picture of the other bridge panels, calling it, “24 feet of pure liberal triggering.” None of this justifies vandalism, a point I should have clarified in last week’s column, but it suggests far
“That isn’t to say that I’m not sometimes guilty of the same disrespectful attitudes toward those who think differently than I. We could all benefit from a reexamination of how we treat other’s views — especially now.” more awareness on the par t of the College Republicans than their official statement — “We find it highly disturbing that someone would vandalize a simple statement such as ‘build the wall’” — would suggest. It also calls into question why College Republicans feel their opinions deser ve respect when they don’t respect the opinions of who think differently from them. That isn’t to say that I’m not sometimes guilty of the same disrespectful attitudes toward those who think differently than I. We could all benefit from a reexamination of how we treat other’s views — especially now. College Republicans say that the wall is just a “policy position” from “[their] par ty’s nominee,” and not indicative of any racism, xenophobia or anti-immigrant views within their group. However, if they endorse Donald Trump for President and a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, then they invite others to respectfully ask, ‘Why?’ cwellnitz@mndaily.com welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.
DAILY DISCUSSION Kaler needs to suppor t minitority groups Dear President Kaler, I’m writing to urge you to make a bold and visible response to the recent “Build the Wall” panel painted in the Washington Avenue Bridge walkway. A statement emphasizing the University’s stance against racism and xenophobia is essential to building trust — especially among our students of color, our immigrant students and those who come from immigrant families, our students with disabilities, our Muslim students, our queer students and more. Many of our students feel directly targeted by the College Republicans’ “Build the Wall” panel in the Washington Avenue Bridge walkway. At the studentled rally held there on Oct. 1, I heard one student state that she no longer feels safe on campus and feels she no longer belongs on this campus. I saw another student moved to tears as she described her experience as the daughter of a Mexican immigrant seeing the “Build the Wall” panel as she walked through the bridge walkway. I heard numerous students describe deep pain at seeing that slogan on the University of Minnesota campus. Our students showed up and peacefully made their voices heard during the campus conversation event held on Thursday, Oct. 6. They were bold, clear, eloquent and inspiring. They took risks to appear before faculty, staff and students to describe the impact “Build the Wall” and your email response had on them. The American Civil Liber ties Union, which shares your position regarding the ideal of freedom of speech and the need for conversation around these dif ficult matters, “believes that the best way to combat hate speech on campus is through an educational approach that includes counter-speech, workshops on bigotr y and its role in American and world history, and real — not superficial — institutional change.” I urge you to directly respond to our students’ concerns about the “Build the Wall” panel by emphasizing one of the University of Minnesota’s guiding principles — we strive for an environment that “provides an atmosphere of mutual respect, free from racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice and intolerance” (University of Minnesota mission statement, amended 2008). Please speak words that validate and empathize with the pain many of our students felt upon seeing “Build the Wall” in the Washington Avenue Bridge walkway. Organize events to directly address and educate people about the negative impacts of racism and xenophobia on excellence in all aspects of our university’s operations and in our nation. With kind regards, Lee Penn University of Minnesota professor of Chemistry
L.C. Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.
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Visual sports are sports, too Unconventional athletics deserve more funding and support from the University. When you look around at a ballroom dance competition, ever ything you see screams money. From the specialty shoes to the rhinestone dresses, the travel expenses and the enrollment fees — nothing seems to come cheap. This isn’t as much of an issue when it comes to older competitors, but when you’re a college student, ever y penny counts. I had never been involved in spor ts before coming to the University, but as soon as I began dancing with the school’s of ficial Ballroom Dance Club it instantly became clear to me that administrators do not have the same af finity for visual, artistic sports as they do for conventional ones. The funding for the ballroom dance competition team seems minimal at best, especially with all of the specialty equipment dancers have to buy. But because our heels and practice shoes aren’t cleats, they aren’t seen as wor thy investments by the school. It’s easy for a Big Ten university to cast something like ballroom dancing to the wayside because of the substantial hype sur rounding popular spor ts teams, but the U should also be investing in student activities that keep people active in alter nate ways. The Ballroom Dance Club, in par ticular, has grown exponentially in the past few years and along with it, the competition team. It’s hard to ignore such a large group
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It’s easy for a Big Ten university to cast something like ballroom dancing to the wayside because of the substantial hype surrounding popular sports teams. of athletes with minimal financial means when their club is associated with the U. Yes, ballroom dancing is a visual spor t, but it is still a sport. I may wear makeup and high heels when I compete, but I can assure you that my calves are just as toned as a soccer player’s, and I’ve had my feet stepped on far more often than a football player. Ultimately, the University should invest more in spor ts that aren’t mainstream. Developing the liberal ar ts side of athleticism would get more students involved on campus and keep campus healthy, too.
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EDITORIALS Dylan’s Nobel win shows shift in literature In a surprising tur n Thursday, the Swedish Academy awarded Minnesotanative and vagabond folk singer Bob Dylan, 75, the Nobel Prize in Literature — a radical move for a well-deser ving artist who was once dubbed “the spokesman of a generation.” Dylan — who according to the Academy “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition” — is the first musician to win the Nobel since the award’s genesis in 1901. He now joins the ranks of other vaunted laureates such as John Steinbeck (1962), Gabriel García Márquez (1982), Wole Soyinka (1986) and Toni Morrison (1993). After growing up in Hibbing, Minnesota, Dylan spent a year at the University of Minnesota before making the pilgrimage to New York City in 1961 where he found success. In a 1963 poem, “My Life in a Stolen Moment,” Dylan rif fs of his college days: “I got expelled from English class for using four-letter words / in a paper describing the English teacher / I also failed out of communication class for callin’ up / ever y day and sayin’ I couldn’t come.”
Dylan’s Nobel win, in a way, reflects a-changin’ vision of “literature” — one that slowly has grown to shun the constraints of genre, structure and form. Words, whether sung or written, retain in incisive, cultural importance. Perhaps the classroom wasn’t Dylan’s for te, but it was in Dinkytown where he changed his sur name from “Zimmerman” to “Dylan” and spent nights performing at the now-defunct Ten O’Clock Scholar — though lore says he was booed of f the stage too many times to count. Folk singer Pete Seeger introduced Bob Dylan at a 1964 Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, saying, “He said he ran away from home 17 times and got brought back 16.” Dylan surely transported the influence of the Midwestern way of life to Greenwich Village, and perhaps the streets of Dinkytown are responsible for helping him distill his distinct, poetic voice. In the ‘60s, a harmonica-clad Dylan cawed about racism, pover ty and social change; his resonant body of work — especially the 1964 release of his “The Times They Are a-Changin’” — awoke the social and political consciousness of many listeners who were seeking clarity in a time when Cold War turmoil was mounting. Dylan’s Nobel win, in a way, reflects a-changin’ vision of “literature” — one that has slowly grown to shun the constraints of genre, str ucture and form. Words, whether sung or written, retain an incisive, cultural importance. It’s clear in the case of Dylan, that ar tistic merit can be found not just in the creases of a book, but also on the radio — with millions of people eagerly listening. 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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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,
I am so fed up with my boyfriend. Late last night, we lit some candles, put on some Marvin Gaye and set out to test how squeaky our $165 IKEA futon is. Things started off steamier than a Scandinavian-filled sauna in Ely in the middle of February, but the night quickly took a turn for the worse. All of a sudden, he started saying stuff like, “You can’t handle the truth,” and, “Here’s Johnny!” I turned around and saw that he was wearing his Facebook©®™-owned Oculus Rift©®™, which can be had for $800 — or a meager €730 in communist dollars. Instantly, I realized what was happening, and the mood was killed quicker than Martin Sheen in “The Departed.” “Are you watching a Jack-Nicholson-topquotes compilation while we are making feet for children’s stockings?” I screamed audibly. Ever since then, it has been really hard to be intimate. All I can think of is Jack
Nicholson wearing a University of Michigan football sweater while sitting a campfire in Easy Rider. What should I do?
—Nicholson’d
Deeeeeeeeaar Johnny,
Did you know that Jack Nicholson, born John Joseph Nicholson, has won three Academy Awards, has been nominated for 12 and has supported seven different charities, according to Look to the Stars, a useless online resource dedicated to letting you know which of your favorite celebrities donate to charities? For an exclusive offer this week, text 7645 to 1-800-DOC-DATE to receive a Jack Nicholson fun fact each day. Standard messaging and data rates apply. As for your boyfriend’s virtual reality fetish, I would talk to him about it. With the new TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE®, all of us are bound to develop weird sexual habits, such as solarpowerphilia and
that weird obsession that everybody has with Apple products. The important part of any healthy relationship, however, is talking about what you both are into and making sure you are comfortable.
—Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
My roommate is the grossest person. She never cleans her room, leaves her dishes in the sink, lets food sit in the fridge until it rots and hardly showers. There are four of us in the house, and the three of us who bathe constantly talk about how much she needs to clean up her act, pun intended. We have tried leaving notes around the house and hinting at it when we talk to her but haven’t had any success. Any advice?
—A Bad Scent Dear Scent,
First off, I want to help out readers
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understand the gravity of the situation at hand. To smell what Scent’s house is like, scratch and sniff the underlined text! On to the question. I think that one of the biggest problem here is you and your roommates’ passive-aggressiveness. Sometimes Minnesota Nice can be too “nice.” Having a good relationship with a roommate requires good communication from all parties. Now, I’m not saying that anyone can be a terrible roommate and not feel bad about it if it goes unmentioned. But it is entirely possible that your roommate has no idea what you and your other friends think about her. To quote three-time British Academy of Film and Television Arts award winner Jack Nicholson, “There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I’m not in that state now and that makes me sad.”
—Dr. Date
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health of college students, Moen said. Erik Bensen, an Ecology, Evolution and Behavior senior was diagnosed with depression at Boynton last year. Bensen said he was diagnosed after he went to Boynton for help with another issue. After his first meeting with a counselor, Bensen said he was only able to
schedule meetings once ever y four weeks, and his second session was canceled due to overbooking. Boynton Health and Student Counseling Services host free daily mental health counseling, but busy conditions can mean counselors aren’t always available, said Gar y Christenson, Boynton’s chief medical officer. “I don’t think [Boynton] has enough people to help all the needs of the school,” Bensen said, adding that he’d approve of more fund-
ing to fix the problem. He said his depression doesn’t make him feel suicidal, but takes away his motivation and there’s no real resource to suppor t him throughout a given day. Christenson said the number of students looking for counseling has increased ever y year. About 20 percent of University students have been diagnosed with depression, according to a 2015 Boynton survey. Bensen said he was told about available University
ser vices and crisis help, but there weren’t a lot of options for day-to-day care. Eventually he sought a therapist outside Boynton. He said he likes the idea of the app, and that giving those with depression the chance to talk to others like them could help when counseling is sparse. “I have great healthcare, I can see someone else. Not every student has great health care,” Bensen said. “Boynton is their only option.”
South African police arrest protest leader BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHANNESBURG — South African police raided a university student r esidence in Johannesburg early Sunday, arresting a leader of sometimes violent protests for free education who caused an outcr y last year when he declared admiration for Adolf Hitler. The ar rest of Mcebo Dlamini, a for mer student council pr esident at the University of the Witwatersrand, followed recent clashes between protesters and police that led the university to impose tighter r estrictions on access and movement on its campuses at night. Police confirmed that a 32-year-old man was arrested at a student residence at around 1 a.m. as par t of investigations into “recent violence, criminality and acts of intimidation,” but declined to reveal his identity pending his appearance in court.
Pr otests have r oiled many South African universities since last month, leading to dozens of ar rests, arson and vandalism as well as the suspension of classes at some institutions. While there is widespread suppor t for the idea of free education, the gover nment says it doesn’t have the funds and many students would rather study than go along with protesters’ calls for disruption. Still, Dlamini has often delivered fier y speeches to crowds of students who feel the University of the W itwatersrand, a leading university in Africa, is not responsive enough to poor blacks who struggle to pay school bills. They link the problem to the legacy of white minority r ule, whose ending in 1994 brought democracy but failed to lift many in the black majority out of poverty. Echoing similar protests in 2015, student
demonstrations star ted again after the South African government recommended on Sept. 19 that universities raise 2017 fees by no more than eight percent, but said it would cover next year’s increases for poor students. On Sunday, about two dozen protesters danced and chanted outside the police station where Dlamini was being held as police in riot gear guarded the entrance. T wo students entered to meet Dlamini, who conveyed a typically inflammator y message through them to the throng outside: “Comrades, continue the revolution.” Dali Mpofu, a lawyer who has assisted student protesters, said on Twitter that he spent an hour with Dlamini at the police station. L a s t y e a r, a d i s c i plinar y panel at the University of the Witwatersrand found Dlamini guilty of “mis-
conduct” for an unspecified incident in 2014 and he was removed from the Students’ Representative Council. Also in 2015, the university said Dlamini’s remarks praising Hitler were abhorrent but were protected under the constitutional right to free speech. Dlamini had posted “I love Adolf HITLER” on Facebook and compar ed the Nazi r egime to Israel. In inter views, Dlamini praised the Nazi leader’s “organizational s k i l l s ” w h i l e a l s o s a ying there is an “element” of Hitler in white people. Dlamini was also involved in a fund-raising drive that raised about $140, 000 f or poor s t udents, South Africa media r epor ted. A r ecent photograph shows Dlamini at a campus demonstration, wearing a helmet, car r ying a plastic shield and brandishing a rock.
Montenegro wins BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PODGORICA — Montenegro’s ruling party has won the most votes in the small Balkan country’s parliamentary vote on Sunday, according to unofficial results, but without enough votes to govern alone and assure the country’s chartered course into NATO and other Western institutions. The tense election was marked by the arrest of 20 people suspected of planning politically motivated armed attacks after the polls closed in the vote during which Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic faced the toughest challenge yet to his quartercentury rule. The independent CeMI election monitoring group said that with 100 percent of the vote counted, the Democratic Party of Socialists won 41 percent, while two opposition parties — the Democratic Front and the Key Coalition have — 20 and 11 percent respectively. The monitoring group used its own vote count at the polling stations. Both the ruling party and the opposition claimed they have enough seats to form the country’s future government. They will have tough time to form post-electoral coalitions with small groups that enter the 81-seat parliament. The outcome of those negotiations will determine whether the state continues on its Western course or turns back to traditional ally Russia. Official results are expected Monday. The parliamentar y vote pitted Djukanovic’s
Democratic Par ty of Socialists against a cluster of pro-Russian and pro-Serbian opposition groups that staunchly oppose the government’s pro-Western policies, especially its NATO bid. Police Director Slavko Stojanovic said those arrested Saturday night came from Serbia and planned to collect automatic weapons to attack state institutions, police and possibly state officials after the vote. Serbia’s former special forces commander, Bratislav Dikic, who was removed from the post in 2013 because of his alleged criminal activities, was among those arrested. Stojanovic said they were charged of “forming a criminal organization and terrorism.” He said one Serbian is still on the run. The prosecutor’s office said the group planned to attack people who gather in front of the parliament when the vote results are proclaimed, then storm the building in the capital and declare the victory “of certain parties” in the election. The statement said they also planned to arrest Djukanovic. Police vans were seen bringing in the handcuffed suspects to the prosecutor’s office in Podgorica, the capital. There have been fears that violence could erupt on the streets of Podgorica between opposition and government supporters after the results of Sunday’s vote were announced. The government also said hackers have attacked several web sites, including that of the ruling party.