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■■ University will appeal state ruling on union

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■■ University crime reports increase in 2015

Faculty union advocates called the move ‘obstructive’. PG 7

The U has spent $4M on campus security since 2013. PG 6

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Police documents show that the four wrestlers were implicated in the team’s drug ring. BY JESSIE BEKKER AND BRIAN EDWARDS jbekker@mndaily.com bedwards@mndaily.com

Four University of Minnesota wrestlers have been suspended from competition until January, a team spokesman confirmed Wednesday evening. An informant also previously named the four men as drug dealers, according to police documents, although the reason for their recent suspension is unknown. Redshirt freshman Larry Early and sophomores Ethan Lizak, Tommy Thorn and Brandon Krone will remain on the team but are barred from competition until Jan. 1, 2017 for violating team rules, said Jake Ricker, the team spokesman. u See SUSPENSION Page 3

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Group claims U broke law with fetal research The University is being sued by a Chicago pro-life law firm over fetal research practices. BY DAVID CLAREY AND ETHAN NELSON dclarey@mndaily.com enelson@mndaily.com

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Council of Graduate Students President Mia Divecha counts votes during a General Assembly meeting in the Cargill Building on Monday.

Following concerns over funding inequities, several graduate student groups butted heads over how the Council of Graduate Students should distribute certain funds. EXPECTED PASS-THROUGH FUNDS 2016-17 $1,560 Pharmacy College Board $1,950 School of Public Health Student Senate

$336 Public Affairs Student Association

$1,093 School of Dentistry Council

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total expected funds $6,525 GradSEHD

$1,968 Medical Student Council $1,265 College of Veterinary Medicine Student Council

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A pro-life group is suing the University of Minnesota to prevent it from performing research on fetal tissue, which the group says is a violation of state law. The Thomas More Society filed a petition in Hennepin County District Court Wednesday that asks the court to stop the school’s fetal tissue research, claiming it violates the Minnesota state statute prohibiting most fetal tissue testing. The Thomas More Society, which is representing other petitioners, such as Pro-Life Action Ministries, says the school’s policy — which allows acquiring tissue from clinics outside of Minnesota — is an illegal circumvention of the law. The state law the society cites allows testing tissue from aborted fetuses if it is “necessary for the health of the woman or her future offspring, for purposes of a criminal investigation u See SUIT Page 3

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graduate student council fund that distributes thousands of dollars each fall was withheld this year, creating tension after some groups claimed they had no say in the change. The Council of Graduate Students (COGS) typically distributes the funds to constituent college councils for operating costs, but this year they might tr y a new system because of inequity concerns. Some councils, like Graduate and Professional Stu-

dents in Education and Human Development (GradSEHD), said they were left out of the decision-making process and believe students will suffer as a result. Tensions between GradSEHD and COGS about the withheld funding came to a head at a series of meetings Friday. The councils arrived at an agreement in which COGS will vote on giving GradSEHD a third of their expected por tion and the other six councils, so far, receive nothing. Medical Student Council (MSC) u See FUNDS Page 9

STUDENT LIFE

On campus, some say conservative voices are muffled In a 2012 survey, 21 percent of freshman reported having farright or conservative views. BY DAVID CLAREY dclarey@mndaily.com

For some conser vative students at the University of Minnesota, the presidential election has silenced their political speech. Fear of being ostracized for vocalizing suppor t for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has created an uncomfortable situation for some conser-

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vative students, who say the University’s left-leaning campus has left little space for their opinions. Communications and management senior Ashley Reut said she noticed differences in the political situation between the University and Southern Methodist University in Texas where she was formerly a student. She considers herself a strong conservative and wasn’t surprised by the political differences between the two campuses. “Going to the U, you kind of feel like a minority in your opinion”. Mason Nuss, president of Students for a Conser vative Voice and editor-in-chief

of The Minnesota Republic said the campus political atmosphere is “heated.” “I think all conser vative students go into a class … with the assumption that the majority of people here are liberal or ver y liberal and vehemently disagree with their opinion,” he said. “They think it’s a lot smarter to just not discuss [their opinions.]” Nuss, a senior, said his group provides an outlet for students to come and talk about their views with other likeminded individuals. These meetings, he said, come as a welcome respite for him u See POLITICS Page 12

Campaign bolsters visibility of healthy relationships A new social media campaign by the Aurora Center shows what healthy relationships look like. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com

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Second-year Ph.D. student Nai-Chia Chen and third-year Ph.D. student Hsuan Lin get their photo taken by sophomore Niti Gupta on Wednesday on West Bank.

With Domestic Violence Awareness Month in full swing, campus representatives are working to shed light on an otherwise dark topic. The University of Minnesota’s Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education is holding events throughout the month focused on healthy relationships and victims of domestic violence. Taylor Roberts, a student coordinator

with the Aurora Center, said the focus on sexual assault sometimes causes domestic violence to be ignored. To start the conversation, she said she and another student coordinator, Prerna Subramanian, came up with an idea for a social media photo campaign. The coordinators asked students what healthy relationships look like and then posted their photos on social media, Roberts said. The idea, she said, was modeled after the Minnesota Student Association’s “how are you?” campaign, which ran last spring. “The reason [we chose] healthy relationships is because we wanted to put a u See AURORA Page 14

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STATE REPORT EDINA MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL APOLOGIZE OVER POLICE INCIDEN EDINA — Edina’s mayor and city council have apologized for an incident involving a white police officer and a black man from Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports a bystander video posted on social media shows police Lt. Tim Olson grabbing Larnie Thomas by the back of his jacket and reprimanding him for walking in the street near a construction zone Oct. 12. Thomas objected to the treatment, sometimes swearing at Olson, who wasn’t in unifor m. Thomas was cited, but the city dismissed the citation Monday even though it said Olson followed protocol. City leaders T uesday told a crowd of about 150 people that they were sorr y about the incident. The Minneapolis NAACP demanded an independent investigation after the incident. Mayor Jim Hovland said T uesday that the state crime bureau declined.

VIKINGS DONE WITH DISCIPLINE FOR DC EDWARDS AFTER DWI CHARGE EDEN PRAIRIE — The Minnesota V ikings have completed their discipline for defensive coordinator George Edwards, following his dr unken-driving ar rest this spring. Coach Mike Zimmer said Wednesday that Edwar ds has fulfilled his obligations to the cour ts and to the team. That included “a huge monetar y commitment” the Vikings required of him after he was pulled over May 21 in Chanhassen, a Minneapolis suburb near the team’s headquarters. The Vikings said Edw a r ds imme d ia t e ly i n formed the team when the incident occurred. He’s in his third year on the job under Zimmer. Practice squad of fensive lineman Isame Faciane was released Tuesday, a week after he was ar rested on suspicion of drunken driving. ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Trump refuses to say he will accept election BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS — Threatening a fundamental pillar of American democracy, Donald Trump refused to say Wednesday night that he will accept the results of next month’s election if he loses to Hillary Clinton. The Democratic nominee declared Tr ump’s resistance “horrifying.” Tr ump has spent the days leading up to third and final presidential debate warning voters that the election will be “rigged.” Asked whether he would accept the outcome if Clinton emerges victorious, he said, “I will tell you at the time. I’ll keep you in suspense.” That contradicted pledges by his r unning mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, as well as his daughter, Ivanka.

Tr ump denied any relationship with Putin and said he would condemn any foreign inter ference in the election. But he notably declined to back the intelligence community’s assessment that Russia was involved in the hacking of Democratic organizations. The Clinton campaign has said the FBI also is investigating Russia’s involvement in the hacking of a top adviser’s emails. The 90-minute contest in Las Vegas came just under three weeks before Election Day and with early voting underway in more than 30 states. Trump has struggled to expand his support beyond his most loyal backers and must reshape the race in its closing days if he hopes to defeat Clinton. The candidates clashed repeatedly over their drastically different visions for

the nation’s future. Trump backed Supreme Court justices who would overturn the landmark Roe vs. Wade ruling, while Clinton vowed to appoint justices that would uphold the decision legalizing abortion, saying, “We have come too far to have that turned back now.” The businessman entered the final debate facing a string of sexual assault accusations from women who came for ward after he denied in the previous contest that he had kissed or groped women without their consent. That Trump denial followed the release of a video of in which he’s heard bragging about exactly that. Tr ump denied the accusations anew Wednesday night, saying the women coming for ward “either want fame or her campaign did it.”

North Carolina, Georgia, NYC mayor: Police see efforts to delay vote- shooting of woman, 66, registration deadlines BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RALEIGH, N.C. — Some Nor th Carolina voters who want to expand early in-person voting in the presidential battleground state lost their case before a federal appeals cour t Wednesday, and in Georgia a federal judge refused to extend the voter registration deadline again for counties stricken by Hurricane Matthew. But a voters’ group in Virginia still held out hope of extending that state’s registration deadlines. A thr ee-judge panel on the 4th U.S. Circuit Cour t of Appeals denied the emergency motion focused on five Nor th Carolina counties that include cities such as Charlotte, Greensboro, Winston-Salem and Wilmington. A trial court judge refused the same request last week. The voters’ lawyers argued the counties weren’t complying with the 4th Circuit’s r uling in July striking down portions of a 2013 law that reduced the early-voting period by seven days. The period now covers 17 days, beginning

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Wednesday’s contest quickly shifted from a calm, policy-focused faceoff into a bitter and deeply personal confrontation. Trump repeatedly called Clinton a “nasty woman,” while the Democrat panned him as “unfit” to be commander in chief. Clinton, who began the debate with a lead in nearly all battleground states, forcefully accused Trump of favoring Russia’s leader over American military and intelligence exper ts after the Republican nominee pointedly refused to accept the U.S. government’s asser tion that Moscow has sought to meddle in the U.S. election. She charged that Russian President Vladimir Putin was backing Trump because “he’d rather have a puppet as president of the United States.”

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Thursday. The voters said election of ficials should have allowed additional early voting on Sunday, during the first seven days of the period, or on the Saturday afternoon before Election Day. Lawyers for the state and GOP Gov. Pat McCror y told the cour ts that county and state election boards abided by the ruling, which rever ted ballot-access laws to where they were before the 2013 law approved by Republican legislators. They also wrote this week that making 11th-hour changes would create more voting confusion and administrative burdens on election officials. The cour t clerk, on behalf of the three judges who struck down the 2013 North Carolina law, filed a three-sentence order denying the voters’ request. It wasn’t immediately clear if the voters would seek relief at the U.S. Supreme Cour t. The panel ruled in July that Republicans had appr oved the 2013 law with “discriminator y intent” against black voters, who dispropor tionately support Democrats.

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NEW YORK — New York City’s mayor castigated a police sergeant We d n e s d a y f o r f a t a l l y shooting a mentally ill, 66-year-old woman brandishing a baseball bat, saying her “tragic” and “unacceptable” death resulted from failure to follow basic policies. “Our of ficers are supposed to use deadly force only when faced with a dire situation. It’s ver y hard to see that standard was met,” a somber Mayor Bill de Blasio said. “Something went horribly wrong here.” The unusual rebuke came less than 24 hours after Deborah Danner, who is black, was shot to death in her Bronx apartment. And it came even as investigators were still looking into why the white officer didn’t call for an emergency ser vices unit and didn’t use his department-issued stun gun. “Deborah Danner should be alive right now, period,” the mayor said. “If the protocols had been followed, she would be alive. It’s as simple as that.” Wednesday night, a

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group of more than two dozen protesters marched from Danner’s apartment to a local police precinct chanting “no justice, no peace” and “send those killer cops to jail.” Earlier, New York police Commissioner James O’Neill said his department “failed” by not using means other than deadly force. “That’s not how it’s supposed to go,” O’Neill said. “It’s not how we train; our first obligation is to preser ve life, not to take a life when it can be avoided.” The head of the police union representing sergeants, Ed Mullins, said the shooting was self-defense and bemoaned what he characterized as a politically motivated rush to judgment. “We could be sitting here talking about how a 66-year-old ... fractured his skull,” Mullins said. Police were responding to a 911 call about an emotionally disturbed person around 6:15 p.m. Tuesday when an eight-year veteran of the force, Sgt. Hugh Barry, encountered Danner in her seventh-floor apartment, police said.

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Four members of U wrestling team suspended for rule violations Suspension u from Page 1

Ten other wr estlers were identified as dr ug users in the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment investigation documents. When reached for comment Wednesday evening, Krone denied any involvement in the team’s alleged dr ug ring. He said the suspension resulted from a violation of the school’s conduct code, but he declined to go into more detail. The other three wrestlers could not immediately be reached for comment. Ricker declined to comment on the nature of the violations. The suspensions come after the University fired J Robinson, its longtime wrestling coach, last month after an inter nal

investigation found that he obstructed attempts by law enforcement to investigate a dr ug problem on the team. An anonymous reporter aler ted the University in April to the distribution and abuse of prescription anti-anxiety medication Xanax among team members, launching a monthslong investigation by law enforcement and the school. It’s unclear when school of ficials knew of a problem, yet evidence suggests an Athletics Depar tment administrator and several staf f member¬¬s knew of at least one wrestler using and selling dr ugs as early as December 2015 — about three months before a University internal investigation said the depar tment and wrestling coaches became awar e of a drug problem on the team.

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U of M participates in new voter registration contest The Minnesota College Ballot Bowl encourages young adults to vote. KRISTINA BUSCH kbusch@mndaily.com

Encouraging college students to go out and vote has, historically, been a tough feat. Hoping to reverse that trend, the University of Minnesota is participating in the Minnesota College Ballot Bowl, a program created to encourage students across the state to register to vote. The University is one of 68 campuses in the contest, which pits colleges throughout the state against each other to get the most voters to the ballot box on Election Day. The program will award the schools with the highest student registration with prizes and a visit from Minnesota Secretar y of State Steve Simon, whose of fice is putting on the event.

In order to encourage younger voters to register, Simon thought the contest would spur some friendly rivalry. “It’s bragging rights,” Simon said. “What we envision is a traveling trophy, not unlike something you’d see at a Gopher game.” Voters ages 18 to 24, in 2014, only voted at a rate of 20 percent, Simon said. In the last presidential election, a little over 50 percent of young voters participated, compared to 76 percent of older voters. Minnesota was number one in voter turnout nine elections in a row, until the 2012 election when it dr opped to number six, he said. University professor and political science chair Paul Goren said young adults vote at much lower rates because they are less familiar with the political system and have less experience with voting as a whole. “It takes young people a while to develop ties to the local community and get into the habit of voting,” he said.

College students move around a lot, and they can feel disconnected from their community if they’re not involved with local groups, said University political science professor, C. Daniel Myers. “Low voter tur nout among young adults shows the importance of campus groups and providing students that social push to vote,” he said. Young adults also are less involved in the political system because they usually do not have to pay certain taxes, and many have not yet started families, Goren said. But this election cycle, some students say they are refusing to vote because they dislike both major party candidates. Simon said he understands the polarizing nature of this election. “In past years, people would say the candidates are basically the same,” he said, “but nobody I know can say that with a straight face this year.” He said there is a stark

“It’s in everyone’s own self-interest to vote. Whatever issue you care about ... all roads lead to the ballot box.” Steve Simon Minn. Secretary of State

contrast between — not only the right and left political sides — but also the Independent and Libertarian parties. Simon said even for those disillusioned by the election, it’s important to show up on Election Day. He said people feel the impulse to make a statement by refusing to participate, but he cautions this notion, saying that a lack of a vote means a vote for the opposing side. “It’s in ever yone’s own self-interest to vote,” Simon said. “Whatever issue you care about; … all roads lead to the ballot box.”

Girls refuse to leave Boko Haram Chicago pro-life law firm Lawyers BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ABUJA, Nigeria — Nigeria’s gover nment is negotiating the release of another 83 of the Chibok schoolgirls taken in a mass abduction two-and-a-half years ago, but more than 100 others appear unwilling to leave their Boko Haram Islamic extremist captors, a community leader said Tuesday. The unwilling girls may have been radicalized by Boko Haram or are ashamed to return home because they were forced to marry extremists and have babies, chairman Pogu Bitrus of the Chibok Development Association told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. Bitrus said the 21 Chibok girls freed last week in the first negotiated release between Nigeria’s government and Boko Haram should be educated abroad, because they will probably face stigma in Nigeria. The girls and their parents were reunited Sunday and are expected to meet with Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday or Wednesday, Bitrus said. Buhari flew to Germany on an official visit the day of the girls’ release. Buhari said Monday that his government is prepared to talk with Boko Haram as long as the extremists agree to involve organizations like the International Committee of the Red Cross, which was an intermediary in last week’s release.

Some 276 schoolgirls were kidnapped from a school in nor theaster n Chibok in April 2014. Dozens escaped early on and at least half a dozen have died in captivity, according to the newly freed girls, Bitrus said. All those who escaped on their own have left Chibok because, even though they were held only a few hours, they were labelled “Boko Haram wives” and taunted, he said. At least 20 of the girls are being educated in the United States. “We would prefer that they are taken away from the community and this country because the stigmatization is going to affect them for the rest of their lives,” Bitrus said. “Even someone believed to have been abused by Boko Haram would be seen in a bad light.” All Nigerian institutions and the freed girls’ communities and families must “stand strong” to “protect them from stigma, ostracization and rejection,” the U.N. special rapporteurs on the sale of children, on slavery and on the right to health said in a statement Tuesday. One Chibok girl, Amina Ali Nkeki, escaped in May. Chibok Parents’ Association chairman Yakubu Nkeki said the young woman has been reunited with her freed classmates, all of whom are being treated by doctors, psychologists and trauma counsellors at a hospital in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, run by the Department of State Security, Nigeria’s secret service. Human rights advocates

and the Bring Back Our Girls Movement have been asking if the girl is a detainee of the government and have been demanding she be allowed to return home, as she has requested. One father of a newly freed girl, Emos Lawal, said his daughter was “praying that let the rest of them have the chance to come out.” The freed girls have told their parents they were separated into two groups early on in their captivity, when Boko Haram commanders gave them the choice of joining the extremists and embracing Islam, or becoming their slaves, Bitrus said. The girls freed and those whose release is being negotiated, numbering 104, are believed to be in the group that rejected Islam and Boko Haram, he explained. The freed girls said they never saw the other girls again. Bitr us said the freed girls were used as domestic workers and porters but were not sexually abused. He said that was why only one girl in the freed group is carrying a baby, and her parents have confirmed that she was pregnant when she was kidnapped. An aid worker had told The Associated Press that he had seen the girls on their release and that all but three carried babies. Bitrus said that report was incorrect. Previous negotiators in talks that failed also had cor roborated that more than 100 of the girls did not want to return to their parents, Bitrus said.

Protesters berate university head BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JOHANNESBURG — Student protesters berated the vice-chancellor of one of South Africa’s top universities on Wednesday, venting their anger over school fees at what was supposed to be a peace-building event. “You are a ver y cr uel man. I hate you,” student leader Vuyani Pambo said into a microphone as Adam Habib, vice-chancellor of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, sat quietly in a pew at the front of the Holy Trinity Catholic Church where the meeting was held. The tense scene, which eventually eased when Habib left through a side door, reflected the bitter divisions still simmering after weeks of university student protests for free education across South Africa. While there is widespread support for the idea of free education, the South African government says it can only cover fee increases for poor students next year and has been critical of

student protests involving vandalism and stone-throwing. Meanwhile, many students want to study rather than go along with protesters’ calls for disruption. University administrators like Habib seem caught in the middle, trying to get classes back on track while calling for more state investment in education. Protesters also have blamed him for campus battles with police who say, in turn, that their role is to keep order. On Wednesday, a Johannesburg court denied bail to Mcebo Dlamini, a student leader at the University of the Witwatersrand who was arrested for alleged violence and intimidation during protests. The next hearing in his case is Nov. 15. A group of academics at the University of the Witwatersrand called for a meeting at the church, which is adjacent to the university, with the goal of working toward “a peace accord for the university, so that it can unite to solve the goals cur rently facing higher

education.” It didn’t turn out that way. Father Graham Pugin, the church’s pastor who was hit in the face by a police rubber bullet during an Oct. 10 skirmish between police and protesters, gave a brief introduction. But students quickly expressed outrage that Habib was present. “Habib must go,” they chanted. Several people stood around Habib, fearing the hostile crowd might close on him. He eventually left after Pambo, the student leader, said the vice-chancellor should be able to leave unharmed “to show the country that we are not criminals.” On Friday, protesters encircled Vice-Chancellor Max Price of the University of Cape Town outside a campus building, and he was pushed and took two punches to the body, according to the university. Managers at the University of the Witwatersrand said they had been invited to the church meeting by its organizers.

claims University broke bid for state research law conviction University has adjusted in child case Suit policies surrounding fetal tisu from Page 1

or determination of parentage prior to disposing of the remains.” The petition claims that University research on fetal tissue constitutes as testing and is illegal. Erick Kaardal, an attor ney on the case, called the University’s actions “criminal” at a pr ess confer ence near campus Wednesday afternoon. “We will not accept it,” he said. At the press conference, Bridget Busacker, a University graduate student, said the allegedly illegal research undermines the school’s reputation. Concerns over the University’s research practices — which allow using fetal tissue for transplantation research — emerged last October when Alpha News, a conser vative-leaning news website, discovered that the University researchers had acquired fetal tissue. The summer before, University of ficials told state legislators it didn’t use fetal tissue in r e search. The school later said that questions from legislators and journalists didn’t specify fetal tissue research. Since then, the

sue use amid scrutiny from some state lawmakers. The same month that Alpha News published receipts of fetal tissue purchases, the school mandated that fetal tissue be acquired and disposed of through the University’s Anatomy Bequest Program. Under state law, aborted and miscarried fetuses have to be disposed through burial, cremation or other methods approved by the state’s health department. In Febr uar y, it began requiring the Stem Cell Research Oversight Panel to give input to the Institutional Review Board. And in April, the Stem Cell Research Oversight Panel changed its name to the Fetal Tissue Research committee. In an emailed statement, University spokesman Evan Lapiska said the school has not reviewed the lawsuit and said it lawfully conducts research with fetal tissue. “The Board [of Regents] and administration obtained a thorough legal analysis of whether the University can conduct research utilitizng fetal tissue in compliance with state and federal law,” the statement from the University said. “This included a review from independent, exter nal counsel af firming that it does.”

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NEW YORK — Revisiting a crime that shattered a bygone era’s sense of safety, prosecutors on Wednesday launched their second bid for a conviction in one of the nation’s most influential missing-child cases, the 1979 disappearance of Etan Patz. After a jury deadlock last year, suspect Pedro Hernandez is back on trial in a case that eluded investigators for decades, ratcheted up Americans’ consciousness of missing children and now centers on whether a chilling confession was true. “It’s a cautionar y tale, a defining moment, a loss of innocence,” Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi said as opening statements began. “It is Etan who will forever symbolize the loss of that innocence.” With his father and Hernandez’s wife and daughter looking on, the trial began as an echo of the haunting story that unfolded over four months last year - so haunting that eight of the prior jurors and alternates were in the audience Wednesday to watch. Prosecutors say Hernandez, 55, hid a brutal secret for more than 30 years. His lawyers say he’s mentally ill and falsely confessed to waylaying and killing 6-year-old Etan as he walked to his school bus stop on May 25, 1979.

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Celestin emerges as elite linebacker The junior linebacker leads Minnesota in tackles this season with 43. BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com

Linebacker Jonathan Celestin dropped an interception against Maryland on Saturday. That wasn’t why defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel wanted to hug him. After dropping the potential pick-six, Celestin put his hands on his head, walked in circle, dove to the ground and did four push-ups as a way of punishing himself. “I think that’s awesome. I could have given him a big hug,” Sawvel said. “You get a guy during the game who’s doing push-ups because he dropped an interception, that’s tremendous.” The push-ups are something the defensive players usually do in practice after dropping a ball, Celestin said.

He just decided to do it in a game. The interception would’ve been a nice way to top off Celestin’s game against Maryland. The linebacker was constantly around the ball, leading the team in tackles and recording one sack. It’s all part of Celestin’s strategy, he said. “I guess I’m a ball-hawker, I would say,” Celestin said. “I have a nose for finding the ball, whoever has the ball, so I want to get him down as soon as possible.” That nose has led the junior to new levels of success this year. Celestin has been one of the stronger linebackers in the Big Ten this year, according to Pro Football Focus (PFF). He has the highest stop percentage among Big Ten inside linebackers, as he has made 17 stops across 115 run snaps. Celestin’s strong hits were the first thing his teammates

noticed about him. It earned him a nickname: Thumper. “That’s like my name in the locker room,” Celestin said late last month.. “[My teammates would] probably ask, ‘Who’s Jon?’ They’d be like, ‘Oh, Thump?’” It’s not just the players who call him Thumper.. Head coach Tracy Claeys said he’s called Celestin Thumper since the day he arrived at Minnesota. “He’d hit … and knock guys down that he wasn’t supposed to,” Claeys said. Sawvel said when Celestin’s pass defense needed work when hefirst got to Minnesota. “His understanding of the whole game is getting better. He’s come a long way with that,” Sawvel said. “He’d hit you, but [his] pass game, he wasn’t real good.” His pass defense could still improve, though. His grade is 60.2 defending the pass while his run defense grade is at 73.9,

FOOTBALL

Offense battles multiple injuries for second year

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Gophers linebacker Jonathan Celestin prepares for a play against Iowa at TCF Bank Stadium on Oct. 8.

according to PFF. His defending grade is considered below average and bordering on poor by PFF, while 73.9 for run defense is average. However, his grade in coverage is 81.3, which is an above average grade. Celestin attributes his success to time spent studying film. He and redshirt sophomore running back Rodney Smith both went to the same high school in Jonesboro, Georgia.

Smith’s dad was the offensive coordinator of their high school football team and taught the two of them how to study film. The film studying has helped Celestin read opposing running backs better. “[The running back] usually gives [the play] away. Fullbacks, tight ends, they usually tell if it’s a run or a pass,” Celestin said. “You can tell because their eyes are either keying me or keying a certain spot on the field

MEN’S HOCKEY

Freshman forward off to strong start for Minnesota Gophers Gates Jr. leads the team in goals through two games this year.

MEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

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BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com NO. 7 MINNESOTA

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Gophers offensive lineman Jared Weyler, center, blocks on a running play against Iowa at TCF Bank Stadium on Oct. 8,.

Multiple players on the team are suffering from injuries. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com

With redshirt senior Jonah Pirsig and junior Vincent Calhoun injured on the Gophers’ offensive line, the team’s other offensive linemen have responded. Junior Connor Mayes, redshirt sophomore Jared Weyler, redshirt sophomore Donnell Greene, redshirt junior Chad Fahning and redshirt freshman Nick Connelly all made appearances in the Maryland game. The team had 229 yards rushing — the most it has put up since the game against Colorado State on Sept. 24. “They’ve done a great job,” said offensive coordinator Jay Johnson. “Just with our tackle situation and then Garrison [Wright] got hurt, and all of the sudden [Connelly] and [Fahning] were in the game, so I give credit to [offensive line] coach [Bart] Miller because they did a good job and stepped in and allowed us to do some positive things.” Weyler made his fourth start of the season Saturday. Weyler can play all three interior lineman positions and has been in the platoon lineman role for Minnesota. He said his goal was to help the offensive line any way he could. “Obviously working on depth on the O-line. I’ve been proud to be that swing guy,” Weyler said “I’ve taken pride in that, and I’ve just been

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VS MINNESOTA 4-2, 1-2 Big Ten WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday

RUTGERS 2-5, 0-4 Big Ten WHERE: TCF Bank Stadium SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

doing anything to help this team.” Connelly is in his first year of collegiate playing time. The redshirt freshman made his debut against Indiana State. Greene made his first-ever start against the Terrapins last week. Both Greene and Connelly saw an increased role in the game against the Terrapins. “[Greene] had to step in here the last couple weeks in the Iowa game and then this week,” Johnson said. “Boy for his first start, there’s certainly technique things and things that we can improve upon, but I was very pleased with how he played.” Minnesota needed all the help it could get from its offensive line when starting quarterback Mitch Leidner suffered a concussion. Redshir t junior Conor Rhoda made his first start last game and threw for 82 yards. “We didn’t want to get in a situation we had somebody running through on a blitz, got a sack fumble or put pressure on him through an interception,” said head coach Tracy Claeys. “We felt good the way the defense was playing. What we did, we got very conservative about it.” Minnesota’s r un-first

“We played better... I still think we can improve on what we did... but we still got to be able to make improvement up there.”

where they plan to go.” Celestin said he played safety until his senior year in high school. The change has paid off. “I feel like it has helped me in the long run because at first I was thinking me going to linebacker, I was undersized,” Celestin said. “I wasn’t going to get recruited by many colleges, but Minnesota believed in me, and now I’m weighing 230. Right now everything’s looking pretty good for linebacker.”

In two games, B r e n t G a t e s J r. h a s accomplished what took him 35 games last season. Gates has at least one goal in ever y game so far this year, and he has an of ficial total of three goals in the twogame series in Alaska in early October. He also recorded two goals in Minnesota’s exhibition victor y Friday. “I’ve just been tr ying to keep it simple,” Gates J r. s a i d . “ I k n o w m y shot is one of my strengths. It’s just been a matter of being able to get to open ice. Now that my skating has improved, and I’m healthy, I think I’m able to get to the open ice — and therefore, I can get the puck, and my shot takes over.” The sophomore scored seven total points over the course of 35 games played last season, consisting of three goals and four assists. This season, Gates Jr. has r ecor ded thr ee goals and no assists in two games. Though it doesn’t of ficially count, Gates Jr. also scored two goals and one assist in

NO. 14 ST. CLOUD STATE

WHEN: 8 p.m. Friday

WHERE: Mariucci Arena

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: St. Cloud, Minn. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

an exhibition game last week. Forward Vinni Lettieri, Gates Jr.’s linemate from the 2015-16 season, said he likes talking about Gates Jr. a lot. “He’s improved so much from his freshman year,” Lettieri said. “I’ve seen him in the summer time putting in his extra work in the weight room. It’s unbelievable how much he has improved in his skating and his shooting, and he’s having a gr eat year so far, and we’ve only played three games.” Head coach Don Lucia said he has seen a “noticeable dif ference” in Gates Jr.’s game. Lucia obser ved a lot of the same things that Lettieri does in Gates Jr. “His skating is better, [he spent] another year in the weight room,” Lucia said. “He’s lear ning how to compete at a higher level day in and day out.”

A l t h o u g h G a t e s J r. has scored three times in the first two games of the season, No. 7 Minnesota is now focused on the next opponent on the docket, No. 14 St. Cloud State. Minnesota comes into the weekend with a record of 2-0-0 and one week removed from an exhibition game that saw a goal-scoring surge from six dif ferent plays and eight dif ferent point producers in a 9-0 victor y over the U.S. Under-18 Team. St. Cloud State is the first ranked team Minnesota will play this season. “They’re always a really good transition team,” Lucia said. “They’re good off the r ush, and they’re going to make plays.” Gates Jr. has the opportunity Friday and Saturday to get on a goal-scoring streak and ultimately help his team win. “I feel r eally good,” Gates said. “I’ve just been tr ying to keep it simple and find the open ice.”

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offense will go up against Rutgers for the Gophers’ Homecoming game Saturday. The Scarlet Knights are ranked No. 123 in the nation when it comes to rush defense, giving up more than 263 rushing yards per game. With Leidner still out with a concussion, Minnesota will likely put the workload on its offensive line and running backs. Claeys said the offensive line has been improving lately. “We played better,” Claeys said. “I still think we can improve on what we did. But we did finish some blocks, gave the backs a few more seams to be able to hit the seams, but we still got to be able to make improvement up there.”

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Gophers forward Brent Gates chases down a Duluth player attempting to catch the puck in the second period at Mariucci Arena on October 16.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Seidel has grown as a coach and a teammate The associate head coach is in her eighth season with Minnesota.

SOCCER PREVIEW

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers to face off against familar face

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BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com

Associate head coach Kr ystle Seidel has evolved from a Gophers player to having a significant coaching role with the team. Seidel developed a love and passion for soccer at an early age, but she never imagined she’d make a career out of the sport. “I never thought coaching was going to be my profession,” Seidel said. “I always thought I was going to coach on the side.” Once she received the of fer and joined the Minnesota coaching staff, she couldn’t picture doing anything else. In her one year playing for Minnesota after transferring from West Virginia, Seidel helped lead the 2008 Minnesota team to 17 shutouts as a defender. She was a par t of both of Minnesota’s NCAA Sweet Sixteen appearances, once as a player in 2008 and again as a coach in 2010. Seidel said going from being a teammate to a coach is a tricky thing to do. This transition was especially tough for her because she went from playing on a team with her sister to coaching her sister the next year. Director of soccer ope r a t i o n s T a m Wa r n k e also experienced Seidel’s transition from player to coach.

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NO. 13 MINNESOTA 12-3-2, 6-1-2 Big Ten WHEN: 6 p.m. Saturday

NO. 23 NORTHWESTERN 13-1-2, 6-1-2 Big Ten WHERE: Evanston, Ill. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

“She was a defender, and I was a for ward my freshman year, so I was against her in ever y training session,” Warnke said. “She kind of taught me the ways of Minnesota soccer. She was just so coachable as a player. It was a fun experience to get to learn from someone of that caliber.” Seidel coached Warnke the next season when Seidel joined the coaching staf f after her senior season. “She knew ever ything about that defensive system, but she has grown so much in the attacking mind too,” War nke said. “She has become such an overall coach.” Seidel said all the different aspects of coaching are dif ficult to learn. She had a smaller role for her first few years on the staf f, but her responsibilities took off when Stefanie Golan became head coach. “I lear n from [Golan] ever y year,” Seidel said. “The soccer piece is certainly a huge par t, but all that of f-the-field stuf f that nobody knows going into coaching is some of the trickiest stuff to get.” Tactics have changed

during the years she’s been with the program. Seidel said the culture has remained the same, but she thinks that this team has more unity because of Golan. “Team unity is something [Golan] specializes in,” Seidel said. “I think that this is the closest-knit team we’ve ever had. Hard work and [a] competitive mentality have always been part of the program’s culture.” Freshman defender Nikki Albrecht has benefitted greatly from Seidel’s coaching in her first season in Minnesota. “She always tells me ‘Nikki, I believe in the player that you are,’” Albrecht said. “That is the biggest confidence boost. She always gives us this sense that we belong on this team, and we are here for a reason.” Albrecht said players, especially the defense, love Seidel as a coach and a person. She has a positive impact on the team. “[Playing soccer] is hard to give up at any stage,” Seidel said. “Certainly right after college, it was really difficult. I am just glad I get to be a par t of it in a way.”

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Gophers forward Sydney Squires passes the ball on Oct. 9 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

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Junior forward Kelly Pannek skates against the Lindenwood Lions on Sept. 30 at Ridder Arena.

Minnesota will play Ohio State and will face a former assistant BY EMILY POLGLAZE epolglaze@mndaily.com

Minnesota will travel to new territory this weekend, but one familiar face will be there — this time on the opposing bench. The Gophers will go up against Ohio State this weekend where former Minnesota assistant Nadine Muzerall recently took the helm as head coach. “I’ve never experienced it before, but it’ll be a lot of fun,” said Gophers head coach Brad Frost. “[Muzerall] has earned the right to be the head coach there, and so far they’re doing a really good job. I would imagine that their team will come out with a lot of jump, and she’ll have them ready to play.” Ohio State’s former head coach, Jenny Potter, was fired in August for violating various NCAA rules during her tenure. When the spot opened, Muzerall, a former Minnesota standout herself, left her assistant coaching position of five years to take the reigns in Columbus. The Buckeyes (3-2-1, 1-21 WCHA) have gotten out to a solid start with Muzerall in charge. The team split a series with Bemidji State last weekend, like Minnesota, but did play to a tie with No. 1 Wisconsin on Oct. 8, though it ended in a shootout loss.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

VS OHIO STATE 3-2-1, 1-2-1 WCHA

NO. 2 MINNESOTA 5-1-0, 3-1-0 WCHA WHEN: 5 p.m. Friday & 2 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: Columbus, Ohio SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

“It’s a coach that we’re very familiar with, and I think their results have shown how much they want to play for her,” said junior forward Kelly Pannek. “So going into this weekend, we have to be ready for a battle and know that they’re going to give us two really good games.” The Gophers are ranked No. 2 in the nation but have already taken a loss this season. This time last year, they were 9-0. Minnesota (5-1-0, 3-1-0 WCHA) swept No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth last weekend, but both were one-goal games, and one victory came in overtime. The Gophers are finding their rhythm in some respects. The power-play was successful last weekend with four goals, and their penalty kill was 9-11 in the two games. In addition to special team success, the team is starting to find some consistency in lines as the season presses on. “I was really happy with how we played Saturday. Though we didn’t get the lead, we star ted out quickly,” Frost said. “We were applying a lot of pressure, winning races,

winning battles, and those are things we want to do for 60 minutes, and if we do those things, we’re going to win a lot of hockey games.” The Gophers are riding a 40-game victory streak against the Buckeyes, which included six victories last year. A sweep on the road would be extra special for the team, as its head coach is approaching an important milestone. Frost is currently 298-4622 in his all-time record at Minnesota, and two victories would put him over the 300 mark. Frost was modest about the possibility, saying that many coaches could be approaching their 400th or 500th victor y and that it’s more of a testament to his staff and players than anything else. His team, though, gives him a bit more credit. “Anytime you can sweep a series, it’s really fun, and when your coach can have a milestone like that, it’s huge,” Pannek said. “He won’t make a big deal out of it … but he deserves it. He’s awesome, and he’s a great coach to play for.”

WOMEN’S GOLF

Gophers finish third tournament of season in eighth place in Texas Senior Emie Peronnin was the Gophers’ top golfer of the tournament. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com

The women’s golf team looked to improve on their first two competitions this season after nearly three weeks without an of ficial tournament, Minnesota finished the Betsy Rawls Invitational Tuesday in eighth place out of 14 teams in Austin, Texas. The Gophers scored 299 in the first round, 307 in the second, and 291 in the third, which totals to 33-over-par. The thir dround score was only 3-over-par, a 16-stroke improvement on the second round. “I think the first two rounds we were tr ying to force it,” said junior Sabrine Gar rison. “We worked a lot on staying patient.” The Gophers significant improvement came in almost all the player’s individual scores, too. Senior Emie Peronnin was Minnesota’s top golfer at the tour nament, and her scores per each round were 74 in the first, 76 in the second and 70 in the third. At 2-under-par, she had a 6-stroke improvement

WOMEN’S GOLF RESULTS

TEAM 1 Kent State 2 Miami 3 Texas 4 Baylor 5 Texas Tech 8 Minnesota

GOLFER Peronnin Garrison Wu Ciskowski Ward

RD1 282 285 288 299 300 299

RD2 296 285 296 292 296 307

RD3 284 293 282 286 285 291

FINAL 862 863 866 877 881 897

RD1 74 75 74 76 79

RD2 76 78 76 77 80

RD3 70 72 76 73 79

FINAL 220 225 226 226 238

*out of 14 teams

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

in that round from the second. Gar rison shot a 72 in the final round, a 6-stroke improvement on her third round score. Junior Heather Ciskowski shot 73 in the third round, which was a 4-stroke improvement on the second. The entire team practiced a lot over the break from tourn a m e n t p l a y, h e a d coach Michele Redman said, and one thing that was prevalent in ever yone’s routine was putting. “It really does come down to putting,” Redman said. “The more we practiced it, and the more we practiced it properly, the more I think that’s really going to help us.” Redman wasn’t

Emie Peronnin plays golf at the Minikahda Club during the Minnesota Invitational on Sept. 15, 2015.

finished praising her team, applauding their ability to improve and finish higher in tournaments. “They listen on the golf course,” Redman said, “They’re eager to get better, and they’re always giving me 100 percent.” Finishing strong in a tour nament is one thing

that is harder to simulate in practice, but that skill did not escape Peronnin this week. The senior golfer finished in the top-20, tied for 16th place at the tournament Tuesday. “It’s really nice [to finish in the top-20],” Peronnin said. “I had been playing pretty well at

practice for the past couple of weeks, so I knew I had the ability to do it.” The overall tournament champion this week was Kent State, which finished with a score of 862, 2-under-par. The overall individual tournament champion was Miami sophomore Dewi Weber, who had a score of 201, 15-under-par.

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The Gophers look to carr y the momentum from this tour nament to their next, which star ts on Oct. 23. “ We ’ v e b e e n r e a l l y close the last two tournaments,” Gar rison said. “We’ve just been waiting for us all to have a good day and have our putts drop.”

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Crime increased last year, report shows An annual report showed an increase in total crimes in Minneapolis. BY KRISTINA BUSCH AND KEVIN BECKMAN kbusch@mndaily.com kbeckman@mndaily.com

While serious crime rates have gone down at the University of Minnesota over the last decade, crime increased slightly last year compared to 2014. According to the University’s latest Annual Security and Fire Safety Report, there were 24 robberies in Minneapolis in 2015 and 14 the year before. The repor t on crime statistics over the last three years for the University and surrounding area are provided in accordance with the Jeanne Clery Act. “The Cler y Act focuses on being aware,” said University Cler y Compliance Coordinator Daniel Alberts. “If we can’t name a problem, we can’t fix it.” When comparing the total number of burglaries between 2015 and 2014, though, the number stayed at 31 for both years. “The seven-year average for burglaries is 23,” said Alberts. “In 2009 there were 74 burglaries.” When relating the data between 2013 and 2015, some numbers fluctuate, Alberts said.

In 2013 there were 12 repor ts of aggravated assault, only three in 2014 and seven instances in 2015. University of Minnesota Police Depar tment Chief Matthew Clark said the department hasn’t seen a significant increase in crime on campus despite the numbers. He said the statistics can be impacted by property crime. “When you look at violent crime at campus, it’s less than 1 percent,” he said. “It’s 4.5 percent in Minneapolis neighborhoods.” Clark said it’s important to judge the level of crime compared to surrounding areas, and to look at individual incidents to determine how crime affects the community. Only 0.3 percent of the violent crimes that happened in Minneapolis in 2015 occur red on the U campus. University assistant pr ofessor of sociology Michelle Phelps said the data is based on how many people report crimes to law enforcement and doesn’t account for those who don’t report. According to violent crime data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, violent crimes repor ted last year increased slightly compared to 2014, but violent crime rates were still at a historic low compared to the last 10 to 20 years.

VIOLENT CRIME IN THE US VIOLENT CRIMES 2010-15 2010

2015 2011

2012

Violent crime breakdown 2015 2013 2014

63.8% aggravated assaults 27.3% robbery offenses 7.5% rapes 1.3% murder SOURCE: FBI Last year, the reported violent crime total was 0.7 percent lower than in 2011 and 16.5 percent lower than 2006, according to the FBI data. Campus Security The University has invested mor e than $4 million in security on the Twin Cities campus since 2013 to improve building access measures, lighting, video sur veillance and expand the student monitor program. About 3,000 security cameras, 4,000 card readers and 60,000 alar ms were added. Additionally, the University’s Police Depar tment

was the first in the state to have all its of ficers complete crisis inter vention training. In the past ten years, the University experienced a 33 percent decline in serious crimes — such as robberies and assault — on campus. Par t 1 crimes — m u r d e r, n o n - n e g l i g e n t homicide, forcible rape, robber y, aggravated assault, burglar y, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft and arson — have steadily declined on campus since 1990 but rose slightly from 485 in 2013 to 546 in 2015. Interim Vice President for University Services Mike Ber thelsen

said thefts make up a vast majority of these crimes on campus. In 2015, 13 violent crimes occurred on campus: seven robberies, one aggravated assault and five rapes. “I’d love to say that that number should be zero, but realistically it’s a fairly low number,” Clark said. Berthelsen said the University started to integrate new security measures during constr uction and renovation of buildings in part because of a spike in criminal activity a few years ago. “We said, ‘we’re going to ramp up some of our investment,’” Ber thelsen

said. “The criminal activity was primarily of f-campus, but … we pay attention to security on campus and the impact of our students who are off campus.” He said boosted security in Gopher Way tunnels and upgraded cameras are the next priorities for campus security. Regents still had questions about safety, especially lighting on and around campus. Ber thelsen said the University’s Energy Management depar tment coordinates with the Minneapolis Public Works Depar tment to identify areas where lighting can be added or upgraded.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks at University The Supreme Court justice discussed Scalia’s death and the political climate. BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com

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United States Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor speaks with University professor Robert A. Stein at Northrop Auditorium on Monday as part of an annual lecture series.

Pacing through the aisles of Nor throp Auditorium Monday evening, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor shared her experience as a younger justice on the Court, her thoughts on Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death and her position on the upcoming presidential election. “What comes through, I think, is her humanity, her care for people,” said Robert Stein, a University law professor who interviewed Sotomayor at Monday’s event. Stein said he organizes talks ever y year for the campus community to meet the justices and better understand their positions. “She’s been on the court [for a] relatively shor ter time — just in Supreme Cour t time — but she’s already made quite a mark for herself,” Stein said. Sotomayor spoke about her experience as the first Hispanic woman appointed to the court. “What has taken my breath away is to see the emotion that other Latinas

have in seeing me in this position,” she said at the talk. “For many of them, I see in them a source of pride that gives them hope.” Sotomayor discussed the importance of respecting others’ opinions and how to find common ground when disagreeing with other people. While Sotomayor said she often fought with Justice Scalia, the whole court felt as if it lost a member of the family. “It has been a deeply, deeply felt loss,” she said during the interview, adding that despite their fights, she and Scalia were good friends. Sotomayor also discussed the 2016 presidential race. She stressed the importance of being informed on the issues and encouraged audience members to vote. “Who we vote for is who you think we should vote for, not who I think we should vote for,” Sotomayor said during the discussion. “And you shouldn’t vote until you’re informed about the issues and until you’ve thought clearly and carefully about the consequences of your vote.” Terri Wipperfurth, a political science alumna, said she was moved by how humble Sotomayor was, especially when she walked through the aisles of the auditorium. “[She] was unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” she

said. “For someone of her status to be touching hands like that was just … a very humble thing.” Wipper fur th said Sotomayor delivers a message of hopefulness and inspiration to people of all kinds. “I want you to know that I’m a human being,” Sotomayor said during the discussion. Devin Driscoll, a second-year University law student, said he was impressed by Sotomayor, a longtime role model of his. As a law student, Driscoll said she brought up impor tant themes of what it means to be a justice and a citizen of the country. “She gave some great, practical advice for what it’s like to be an attorney,” he said. “But then also to hear about her mindset and what the idea of justice is … for a lawyer … reminded me why I came to law school.” Sotomayor, who has worked directly with Sen. Amy Klobuchar and Sen. Al Franken, ended her talk by acknowledging the elected of ficials in Minnesota. “You should be ver y pr oud of your elected leaders in this state,” she said at the end of the talk.

European Mars lander’s fate unclear, signs “not good” BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The European Space Agency lost contact with an experimental Mars probe shortly before its planned landing on the red planet Wednesday. Scientists said that wasn’t a good sign for the Schiaparelli lander, but it was too soon to give up on the craft. ESA successfully put Schiaparelli’s mother ship, which will analyze the Martian atmosphere, into orbit. But several hours after the lander was supposed to have touched down at 1448 GMT, there was no firm word on its fate. “The signal (from Schiaparelli) went through the majority of the descent phase but it stopped at a cer tain point that we r eckon was befor e the landing,” Paolo Fer ri, ESA’s head of operations, said at mission control in Darmstadt, Germany. “To conclude more on this, because there could be many reasons for that, we need more information,”

he said. “It’s clear that these are not good signs.” An update is expected on Thursday, he said. Schiaparelli was meant to test technology for a future European robotic mission to Mars. It is part of a larger international mission called ExoMars that will help in the hunt for life on the planet. Schiapar elli was r eleased from the mother ship, the Trace Gas Orbiter, on Sunday. Scientists said the gentle approach would tur n into a sixminute hell ride when the probe plunged into the hot, dusty Martian atmosphere and hur tled toward the sur face at 21,000 kilometers an hour (13,050 mph). The plan was for Schiaparelli to deploy a parachute and then thrusters to slow down to 10 kph (6.2 mph) before hitting the surface. Landing a spacecraft on Mars is notoriously difficult and several past missions have failed, including the European Space Agency’s previous attempt in 2003

with the rover Beagle 2. It made it to Mars but its solar panels didn’t unfold properly, preventing it from communicating. While Schiaparelli has some scientific instr uments on board, its main purpose was to rehearse the landing and test technology for a European rover mission to Mars in 2020. NASA has successfully placed several robotic vehicles on the planet, including the Opportunity and Curiosity rovers. The ExoMars program, which comprises the current and 2020 mission, is ESA’s first interplanetar y mission jointly undertaken with the Russian space agency Roscosmos. Schiaparelli took off for Mars in March aboard a Russian rocket together with the Trace Gas Orbiter. The orbiter, which also has NASA-made instr uments on board, will act as a radio relay for future missions from the surface of Mars, as well as analyze methane and other gases in the atmosphere.

Thursday, October 20, 2016

U will appeal state mediation on faculty union Union advocates called the move an “obstructive court action.” BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota will appeal a state decision from last month that grouped tenure code and non-tenure track faculty together in a potential faculty union at the school. On Monday, the school announced it would challenge a Minnesota Bureau of Mediation Services decision to the Minnesota Court of Appeals. The contested ruling — part of the University’s long-running legal battle with union organizers — included some faculty positions, such as teaching specialists and lecturers, in a union vote. In an email to faculty, Patti Dion, director of employee and labor relations in the Office of Human Resources, said the University disagrees with the BMS decision to place faculty members like lecturers and teaching specialists members in the school’s instructional unit — Unit 11 — with tenure code faculty. “The Bureau’s recent decision diminishes t enur e, ov e rlook s o ur dedication to research and under values ser vice,” she said in an email to University employees. An emailed statement from Douglas Peterson in the University’s Office of the General Counsel said the University’s lecturers and teaching specialists have a “distinctly different” focus than faculty covered by the tenure code.

“It is important for Minnesota’s judiciary to address that dif ference before a union vote is taken,” he said in the statement. Minnesota Academics United, the group organizing the faculty union push, called the move by the University an “obstructive court action,” in an emailed statement. Dion’s email said the University recognizes the value in contingent faculty, but the state’s decision undervalues the ser vice of tenure-track faculty. “I really appreciate, quite deeply, what Patty Dion said in her email that she recognizes the contributions that non-tenured track faculty make,” said University Spanish and Portuguese senior teaching specialist Mary Pogatshnik. “I also appreciate that she said we contribute in different ways than tenure-track faculty do.” Pogatashnik said contingent faculty want to keep their classification with customized contracts. “Just because we’re in a union does not mean we’re going to have one contract imposed on us,” she said. “That’s not what we’re trying to do.”

“Just because we’re in a union does not mean we’re going to have one contract imposed on us. That’s not what we’re trying to do.” Mary pogatashnik Senior teaching specialist

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Bias team fights discrimination The team has responded to 25 incidents of racism and homophobia. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s Bias Response Team has responded to 25 incidents ranging from allegedly discriminator y tweets to an instr uctor allegedly perpetuating stereotypes about Asians since the group was formed last Januar y. Out of the 25 incidents repor ted to the team, students and faculty members were refer red to other campus of fices 20 times and contacted directly by the BR T five times. The repor ts and responses — which were obtained through a public records request — demonstrate the wide range of incidents the BR T has responded to. Other repor ts pointed out anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic language on flyers, among other complaints. Last month, a University employee repor ted that a man made homophobic and transphobic comments in front of a group of students on West

Bank. The employee felt threatened and was worried for the safety of those he was speaking to. In response, the BR T clarified that the University does not censor freedom of expression, but connected the bias reporter to the Transgender Commission and the Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life, according to the emails. In an incident reported in July, someone emailed the group with frustrations over a lack of transparency fr om the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment. The repor ter felt that neighborhood safety notices only cited the race of a suspect if they were a person of color. The BR T referred the bias reporter to the UMPD and outlined policies on what identifiers are used in campus crime notices. The BR T mainly refers bias repor ters to other campus ser vices. While the group doesn’t have investigator y powers, some University faculty members wor r y that its role is too ambiguous or undefined. “It’s providing information and referrals and notifying individuals of their rights on campus,” said Katie Eichele, director of the University’s

Aurora Center and a member of the BRT. T ina Marisam, assistant director in the of fice of Equal Oppor tunity and Af fir mative Action and staf f lead for the BR T, said the team consistently communicates with offices around the University who help with the incidents. “In terms of response, it’s impor tant to note that our team doesn’t have [an] ... investigative or

disciplinar y role,” Marisam said. “The kind of responses that our team works with is providing care and suppor t to those that are impacted.” The team has worked with EOAA, Student Unions and Activities and the Of fice for Student Affairs the most, and in two cases, the University police depar tment, according to the data provided by the University.

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Former Congo VP interfered with witnesses BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The International Criminal Court on Wednesday convicted a former Congolese vice president and four members of his legal team of interfering with witnesses, saying the case should send a clear message that attempts to corrupt trials will

not go unpunished. The verdicts against JeanPierre Bemba and his legal team marked the first time the global court has found suspects guilty of attempting to pervert the course of justice. “No legal system in the world can accept the bribing of witnesses, the inducement of witnesses to lie or the illicit

coaching of witnesses. Nor can the International Criminal Court,” Presiding Judge Bertram Schmitt said after convicting the five men. “Today’s judgment sends the clear message that the court is not willing to allow its proceedings to be hampered or destroyed,” he added. “It sends the message that those who try to distort and

interfere with the administration of justice of this court do not go unpunished.” Bemba’s attempts to influence his trial ultimately failed. Earlier this year he was convicted and sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for commanding a militia that went on a deadly rampage in the Central African Republic in 2002-2003. He has appealed.

Leaks put Assange at odds with VA internal watchdog announces Ecuador’s warming up to US audit of wait lists in Colorado BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

QUITO, Ecuador — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finding himself in open conflict with his Ecuadorean protectors as the group’s latest dump targeting Hillar y Clinton’s presidential campaign runs afoul of the South American government’s goal of warming up to Washington. Ecuador’s move to cut of f his internet access at its embassy in London was a stinging rebuke from leftist President Rafael Correa, who in 2012 heralded Assange as a digital-age Robin Hood and granted him asylum over protests from the United States, the United Kingdom and Sweden, where he faces allegations of rape. Correa’s government said Tuesday that WikiLeaks’ publication of a trove of damaging emails from Clinton’s campaign had impacted the U.S. election in violation of Ecuador’s traditional respect for other nations’ sovereignty. Analysts say Correa is unlikely to now kick Assange out into the streets of London where he faces certain arrest. But allowing him to keep leaking secrets from the embassy risks putting the small Andean nation unwittingly on Russia’s side of a brewing cyber-battle with the United States, Ecuador’s top trade partner, at a time of deep economic stress. “Before, the costs for Ecuador of hosting Assange were minor,” said Santiago Basabe, a political analyst at the Latin American School of Social Sciences in Quito. “But they are growing bigger now because they involve questions of U.S. national security, its tense relations with Russia and the presidential elections.” The cascade of disclosures of Democratic operatives’ hacked emails, including this week’s publication of Clinton’s speeches to Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs, has been hailed by Republican candidate Donald Trump

as evidence of his rival’s dishonesty. However, U.S. intelligence agents say the hack is the work of the Kremlin, although it’s not clear how the files ended up with WikiLeaks. Regardless, Ecuador has plenty of reasons to tr y to curr y favor with Washington. The oil-dependent, dollarized economy is fighting a recession made worse by low crude prices, a destructive earthquake in April and a strong U.S. dollar. Adding to the uncer tainty is Correa’s imminent depar ture from office after a decade in power that provided a sense of stability after years of coups and revolving-door presidencies. Analysts say whoever wins February’s election — Correa’s preferred successor currently leads polls — is almost certain to turn to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout. In such a scenario the support of the Washington, the biggest shareholder in the IMF, will be key in determining how severe an austerity program is required. “Assange has inser ted Ecuador in the U.S. presidential campaign and exposed it to retaliation in case Clinton wins,” said former Foreign Minister Mauricio Gandara, adding that the publication of stolen documents is considered a crime in Ecuador. Cor rea, who in 2009 closed the only U.S. military base in South America and two years later expelled the U.S. ambassador, still peppers his speeches with anti-Yankee harangues in the mold of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. But with Venezuela in economic freefall and ideological allies losing power in countries like Argentina and Brazil, Correa has quietly extended an olive branch to the Obama administration and sought to deepen commercial ties. This week he’s hosting an American trade delegation. Cor r ea also praised Clinton in an interview last

month with Moscow-based broadcaster RT. “For the good of the United States and the world, and for my personal appreciation of her, I’d like to see Hillary win,” he said. Tensions between Assange and his hosts have sur faced before. In 2013, Correa criticized him for shooting a video from the embassy mocking Australian politicians during a political campaign. On Tuesday, Ecuador said WikiLeaks’ “journalistic activities” would not be affected by the “temporary restrictions” on Assange’s communications. Assange accused Ecuador of bowing to U.S. pressure and alleged that Secretar y of State John Kerr y discussed the issue with Correa last month in Colombia, something both Washington and Quito deny. It seems unlikely he will submit to the internet ban quietly. Over the weekend WikiLeaks released three lines of code it described as “pre-commitments,” labeling them “John Kerr y,” ‘’Ecuador,” and “FCO” — an apparent reference to Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Pre-commitments are cryptographic functions that can be used to verify the integrity of material released subsequently. Security exper ts interpreted that as a warning to the named par ties that WikiLeaks has ammunition in reser ve that could embarrass his hosts as well. For most Ecuadoreans, Assange’s case seems like a Hollywood spy movie with little bearing on their daily life. But even Correa’s opponents have shown little enthusiasm for revoking the Australian’s asylum. “We can’t just throw him out of the embassy from night to day because he could be exposed to risks,” opposition presidential candidate Guillermo Lasso said last month, even while arguing that Assange was breaking the conditions of his asylum.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — Gover nment investigators said Wednesday they are looking into allegations that Department of Veterans Affairs employees in Colorado kept unofficial lists of veterans waiting for health care that could conceal how long it takes to get an appointment, possibly broadening a nationwide scandal. The VA’s internal watchdog announced an audit in a letter to Republican Sens. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Cor y Gardner of Colorado. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter. Johnson and Gardner asked for the inquiry after a whistleblower told them the

Unofficial or secret lists have been used at VA facilities across the country to hide lengthy delays in care for veterans. Forty veterans died while waiting for appointments in Phoenix.

lists were allegedly used at the Denver VA Medical Center, VA health clinics in Colorado Springs and the Denver suburb of Golden. The inquir y by the VA’s inspector general also will look into the whistleblower’s allegations that records at the Colorado Springs clinic were falsified after a veteran took his own life while awaiting treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Unof ficial or secr et lists have been used at VA facilities across the country to hide lengthy delays in care for veterans. Forty veterans died while waiting for appointments at a Phoenix VA hospital. The scandal led Congress to fund the Veterans Choice program, which allows veterans to seek private care at government expense if they have waited 30 days or longer. It also led to the ouster of VA Secretar y Eric Shinseki. Johnson and Gardner asked for the inquir y four weeks ago. Wednesday’s letter from VA Inspector General Michael J. Missal was the first confirmation that the audit would be done. It also confirmed that

the alleged wait lists were unof ficial r ecor ds that could hide true wait times. In a written statement, Gardner said he welcomed the inspector general’s announcement. He called the allegations serious and said they should be reviewed thoroughly. Inspector general’s spokesman Mike Nacincik described it as an audit rather than an investigation. He said auditors could refer the results to investigators, depending on what they find. VA wait times in Colorado have been an issue before. In Febr uar y, the inspector general said workers at the Colorado Springs clinic incorrectly repor ted that some veterans got appointments sooner than they actually did, while at least 288 people had to wait longer than the 30-day target. Investigators didn’t say whether the records were deliberately falsified. The inspector general’s of fice said in May that it found no indication of improper scheduling lists at an endoscopy clinic in Grand Junction and clinics for prosthetics and audiology in Denver.

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Police brutality task force a good first step Clear goals must be created for Dayton’s new task force to be helpful in minority communities.

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a s t w e e k , G o v. M a r k D a y t o n announced the assembly of a statewide task force to improve policing in minority communities. This action seems to be the appropriate next step after the death of Philando Castile in July as well as other deaths around the countr y resulting in widespread criticism of law enforcement. In an ef for t to bring about dif ferent perspectives, the task force is bringing together law enforcement of ficials and various community leaders. The objective is for them to discuss solutions that will improve policing practices. This is a valiant ef for t by Dayton. There is no doubt that this is a necessar y and impor tant first step — just getting into the same room to discuss the issues at hand. Still, this policy r uns the risk of becoming simply a pat on the back. If this is just a self-ser ving action, our state can’t af ford it. I have a few recommendations for Dayton when it comes to

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making real change with this commission. First, there need to be deadlines and markers set. Unfor tunately, solving police br utality is a convoluted process. We’ve been discussing this issue for years without real change. It’s naive to believe that policy change will suddenly be spurred because the conversation is happening in a more “legitimate” setting. If there aren’t time limits set on this type of commission, the momentum that they’ve har nessed will dissipate. This issue deser ves more attention and str ucture. Ever y day gone by without policy change is another day that has the potential for more violence and bad policing. Second, the solution must be datadriven. Given that the debate on this issue has gone on for several years, it’s unlikely that relying on emotionally charged

statements will have any impact those who have yet to be moved to action. In contrast, data is more compelling. Studies, methodologies and research can be utilized in policy-making. Studies that show the ef ficacy of novel technology should be considered in protecting the average citizen and police officer. Finally, the objectives and outcomes must be clear. The primar y objective should go beyond a restatement of the problem. Most people know what the problem is. It’s time that we evaluate the impact and the ef ficacy of the solutions proposed. The commission should investigate police depar tments in Minnesota that have tried to use recommended policies and modalities to improve policing. Without a commission or task force that is guided by data — as well as adherent to a timeline and str uctured around specific, high-impact objectives — this good idea r uns the risk of failure. And another failure when it comes to the issue of police brutality is entirely unacceptable. Anant Naik welcomes comments at anaik@mndaily.com.

2016 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 45,439 Total number of deaths: 11,708 Total number of mass shootings: 306

Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org

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Most art is accessible to students No matter your income level, art around the Twin Cities is available to enjoy.

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n Thursday night, you can zip over to the Walker between 5 and 9 p.m. and get into the museum … for free! On Friday night, you can crash Mixed Blood Theatre and reap the benefits of their “radical hospitality” system and see a show for, no fooling, free. Come Sunday, head to Boy Kisses — the finest comedy showcase around — that also happens to be, incidentally, totally free. As a resident of the Twin Cities, watch your entire weekend fill up with an artistic and financially inclusive dreamscape for all! As a kid, I took many after-school walks through downtown San Francisco en route to swim team or the old library nearby, and I felt at home in the steaming metropolis. But I couldn’t help noticing an odd juxtaposition that strikes me now that I’m in Minneapolis. The areas of the city housing the fine art and cultural centers were usually located in poverty-stricken zones, existing among the ver y demographics that didn’t

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Comment on “End Trump and Our Old Notions of Romance” I am sorry, but I cannot fail to at least point out some concerns I had about Kate McCarthy’s opinion column, “End Trump and Our Old Notions of Romance.” No doubt the “developmental myth,” though summarily debunked by countless philosophers from Plato to Foucault, is comforting. Still, when McCarthy uses it comme preuve to argue — without any anecdotal evidence, at all — that in the “old days” romance functioned in a Trumpesque manner, although now “more and more” women recognize the toxicity of these practices, she vastly oversimplifies gender relations both in the past and today. For example, producers more often camouflage blatant sexism on film and television to render it more palatable to audiences who imagine themselves modern and knowing. Even a cursory

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h i s past Friday, the Board of Regents endorsed the request to the legislature, increasing the University’s requested budget by 10 percent over the next two years. The extra $126 million dollars would be directed toward improving graduation rates, holding down tuition costs and advancing research. Other more auxiliary requests have been made to operate the Bell Museum and Planetarium and restore funding for a medical training program. These requests, we believe, should be accepted. It’s imperative that funding be provided for improving academic performance and keeping tuition down. However, we also urge reform for how money is spent by the University. Earlier this year, our newsroom broke the disturbing story that the University was using taxpayer and tuition money to pay for legal fees incurred from its efforts to curb faculty unionization efforts — a clear violation of the spirit of these funds. But even more systemic problems exist, which harm the University’s credibility when making such demands. The first one is the gross expansion of salaries by the football coach at the University. Consistently, football coaches at our University have received prime treatment when it comes to their payroll. Former Gophers coach Jerry Kill received contract extensions and annual salary raises that wouldn’t have been worth it even if we had the most winning college football team in the country. In 2014 alone, he earned $2.1 million. All the while, associate professors earn a small fraction of his earnings, yet provide the basis for education at our University, which is the purpose of any academic institution.

In a time when the University is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars from the legislature, the administration needs to reevaluate its financial practices.

Dear campus, consider writing a guest column for the Daily We are happy to introduce a brand-new feature to the Minnesota Daily’s Editorials & Opinions page: The guest column. Starting this semester, each paper will highlight the perspective of a different member of our community. Whether you’re the leader of a student group on campus or a perceptive individual that has an engaging story worth sharing, we’re looking for your voice. The new guest column section will replace the content traditionally housed in “Daily Discussion” — readers’ comments from our website, which the Minnesota Daily’s editorial board decided was not cultivating a thoughtful, productive dialogue on issues affecting our campus community. While we’ve always accepted letters to the editors from our readers, we hope this new section will serve a broader purpose. If you’re a leader of a group on campus, you could use the space to pitch your group to perspective members or iron out misconceptions some may have about the purpose of your organization. Perhaps you’re a student wanting to articulate your opinion on a University policy that affects our campus community. Or maybe you’d like to elicit support for a specific event that your fellow students may find important. Our hope is that this space will be a hub for discussion of important campus topics. We want our readers to be engaged and to learn from the great diversity of perspectives and lived experiences on our campus. Have an idea? Email our Editorial & Opinions editor, Grace Thomas (jthomas@mndaily.com), if you are interested in participating. We look forward to hearing from you.

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look at any one of a few films that have reached “beloved” status among current college students, such as “Mean Girls,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Say Anything,” “Rushmore” or even “Star Wars,” quickly reveals a sexism so slippery and coy that few young women would term it “toxic.” Further, in 1946 women had 15 times, not 15 percent, more screen time in feature film leading roles than women did in 2014. As The New York er’s Anthony Lane pointed out only l ast week, popular Hollywood films such as Woman of the Year (1942), The Second Woman (1950), and His Kind of Woman (1951) have been replaced by so many girls. Final girls: girls who gossip, ride trains and are even maybe “gone,” populate our recent film diet to the extent that “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” alone has spawned 91 “girl” titles. Now, do you want me to tell you how my female students refer to one another? You guessed it.

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have the financial means to access them. In San Francisco, Davies Symphony Hall sits adjacent to the historically troubled Tenderloin neighborhood. In Minneapolis, Hennepin Avenue is teeming with theater, music, comedy — and poverty. But here in the cities, we’re so lucky to be equally surrounded by art exhibits that challenge the notion that only elites can participate. By nature, art should reflect a wide variety of experiences and hold a seat for everyone to enjoy. It’s a real badge of honor for the Twin Cities that efforts are being made to honor that quest for inclusivity — so venture out and take advantage of our city’s incredible art scene. Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com

This may seem like a small detail, but there is a much more serious world underlying my response. Sexual assault and femicide are not notably on the decline, both in the United States and certainly world-wide: The situation in Mexico is so horrible that I will not go into detail. I suggest that you view Lourdes Portillo’s Senorita Extraviada. So I am just writing to ask the Minnesota Daily to understand that ageism is bigotry, and remind McCarthy that “Her Mother’s Feminism” helped make it possible for her to attend college where she may want to take a few more history classes. A corny story that a columnist’s grandfather used to amuse his grandchildren at the dinner table does not constitute the background for a perspective. Dr. Michelle Lekas Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature University of Minnesota

Our current coach, Tracy Claeys, is signed for a three-year, $4.5 million deal. When financial priorities are set, education and the well-being of students must always take the lead, without exception. Students go to school first to learn, not to watch football. That priority must be reflected when allocating budgets this upcoming year. Last year, the University also approved the construction of the Athletes Village. This construction was started via a plan to borrow $89.5 million through longterm debt, which would be repaid by the athletics department . Athletics facilities are important to the atmosphere at the University. Still, it points to what priorities the University has. The loan of nearly $90 million is money that isn’t going to activities that help aid students’ education. In a time when the University is asking for hundreds of millions of dollars from the legislature, the administration needs to reevaluate its financial practices. If the University continues to prioritize football and union-busting over the learning env i r o n m e n t s t u d e n t s o u g h t t o e xperience, it’s absurd to expect legislators to simply give in. There must be accountability from the University’s end. 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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Third-party candidates set sights on capitol But the dominant two-party system points to a difficult run. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com

As the election nears, some third-par ty candidates believe political upheaval could benefit their races, but experts looking back at past fringe movements aren’t convinced. Voters stuck in their ways, a weak political infrastructure and the dominant two-par ty system all point to a dif ficult campaign road for third parties, according to exper ts and the candidates themselves. “It’s gotten to the point where, if you’re not a Republican or a Democrat, there’s no chance,” said Mar tin Super, the Legal Marijuana Now candidate r unning for state senator in district 60, which covers the University of Minnesota, Nor theast Minneapolis and Cedar-Riverside. Super said he’s not optimistic about his chance to unseat incumbent Sen. Kari Dziedzic, DFL-Minneapolis. “I expect to lose, being a third-par ty candidate,” he said. “But we want to get our message out.” Though third par ties don’t often win elections, they can influence par ty platforms and even ser ve as spoilers to election races, said Larr y Jacobs, director of the University’s Center for the Study of Politics and Governance. He said third-par ty candidates also tend to be more welcome in Minnesota than other states because of their two-party frustrations. “The histor y in America is the dominance of the two-party system, with

“The history in America is the dominance of the two-party system, with very occasional appearances by third parties, which usually fades.” LARRY JACOBS Humphrey School

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ver y occasional appearances by third par ties, which usually fade,” Jacobs said. And these frustrations are something Gabe Barnett — an independent candidate for House district 60A — hopes will help him win in November. “People seem r eally ready to break away from the status quo,” he said. A Nor theast Minneapolis resident, Bar nett said he’s canvassed, doorknocked and distributed yard signs as par t of his campaign. Still, vying for the spot in a minor political par ty has been difficult. “Without the big par ty money, I still have to live my day-to-day [life] while scrambling to engage with as much of the community as possible,” Barnett said. Aside from the help of a few friends and neighbors, he said, he’s essentially campaigning by himself. He said he briefly considered challenging incumbent Rep. Diane Loeffler, DFL-Minneapolis, in the par ty’s primar y, but opted to r un as an independent. “The fact that you have this power of the par ty label is almost insurmount-

able,” Jacobs said. “Third par ties are going to be a feeble vehicle for expressing [voter frustration.]” He said voter habits are a major bar rier for third par ties, adding that most people have always voted for the two predominant parties. Super said he has felt the pressures that comes with being a minor par ty candidate, especially so considering his par ty affiliation. Still, Barnett said he’s been well-received by people who hear he’s a third-party candidate, adding that Nor theast Minneapolis holds many independent values. “Almost ever yone I engage with is excited at the prospect of a nonmainstream candidate,” he said. But unless voters change their attitudes on the way they approach voting, Jacobs said it’ll be impossible for third-par ty candidates to beat those affiliated with the two-party system. “ Yo u n e e d t o h a v e a change in the mindset and the draw of a par ty label; you need to have changes in the rules of the game,” he said.

Professors on strike at 14 Pennsylvania state universities BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WEST CHESTER, Pa. — Professors at 14 state universities went on strike Wednesday, disrupting classes midsemester for mor e than 100,000 students after contract negotiations hit an impasse. Members of the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties went on strike at 5 a.m. because no agreement was reached with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The union represents more than 5,000 faculty and coaches across the state. This is the first strike in the system’s 34-year histor y. State-related schools — Penn State, Temple University, the University of Pittsburgh and Lincoln University — are not affected. The state told students to repor t for their scheduled classes unless their schools indicated otherwise. “We are headed to the picket lines, but even on the picket lines, our phones will be on, should the State System decide it doesn’t want to abandon its students,” union president Kenneth Mash said. No updates were provided fr om either side Wednesday evening on whether negotiations might resume. The union includes faculty from Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Str oudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slipper y Rock and West Chester universities. C o a c h e s , h o w e v e r, haven’t set a strike date. They can choose to strike with faculty, strike independently or not at all. The Pennsylvania state system is one of the nation’s largest public university systems. State funding for the system, at

$444 million this year, is about the same as it was 17 years ago, even as fulltime enrollment has risen more than 10 percent. Around the state, faculty members walked picket lines, chanting and carr ying red signs declaring “On Strike.” At West Chester University, outside Philadelphia, dozens of professors, students and suppor ters marched outside the school. Picketers, many of whom were up most of the night watching strike developments, carried signs and chanted, “Two, four, six, eight — why don’t you negotiate?” Victoria Tischio, a fulltime tenured English professor and the university’s picket chair woman, said some 500 of the university’s about 950 professors had signed up for the walkout. About 77 percent of the university’s professors are full-time union members, she said. “I got my education from state schools and what motivates me to be here is that my students are ever y bit as worth that same quality education,” Tischio said. “(State system negotiators) say this is a money issue, but we’re really out here for work rules and for students.” The school’s approximately 17, 000 students received an email from administrators reminding them the university will not close. Spokeswoman Nancy Gainer said students are expected to attend classes because not all professors will strike. Some professors who walked out also provided assignments in advance, she said. Emily Keller, a sophomore accounting student from Royersford, said she hopes the strike won’t last too long. “It’s nice to have a few free days of f going into homecoming, and I’m sure ever ybody feels that way,

but I personally pay for college so I’m a little concerned,” Keller said. State System spokesman Kenn Marshall said they are disappointed the union decided to strike because they felt they made significant progress overnight toward a settlement. “We will do ever ything we can to get this settled, but it takes two. We need cooperation,” he said. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said that he was “extremely disappointed” that the two sides failed to reach an agreement and urged both sides to return to the bargaining table. The state school system said prior to the walkout that its latest proposal would provide raises to all permanent and temporar y faculty members and a health care package identical to what other system employees have. In an effort to reach an agreement, the state said it withdrew several proposals including one that would have required fulltime temporar y faculty to teach an additional class each semester. However, some professors at West Chester University said Wednesday that is still a sticking point for them because they fear it could be revived. The last faculty contract expir ed June 30, 2015.

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President Erica Levine said about 60 smaller student groups rely on MSC event grants from the COGS passthrough fund. If their nearly $2,000 portion of the pass-through fund is withheld this year, as many as 10 groups will be affected, she said. “We [would] have less funding to help develop our community-service projects, [and] … less to give towards creating student well-being events,” Levine said.

‘Fundamentally inequitable’

In September, COGS members proposed to withhold the money and funnel it into existing communitybuilding grants. COGS Speaker Jonathan Borowsky said COGS executive board members think pass-through is unfair for colleges that don’t have graduate councils, but these other grants are accessible to all graduate students. According to spring 2016 enrollment data, about 52 percent of the University’s 12,070 graduate students were represented by a council that received this money. The COGS pass-through fund — about $14,600 this year — comes from a yearly $10.56 fee paid by all graduate students. The money is collected by the University and given

to COGS specifically for pass-through. It’s then divided among constituent graduate councils based on student enrollment by college. GradSEHD requested $6,500 from the fund for this school year — about half of their annual operating budget, said GradSEHD President Jeremiah Dean. The money goes to providing travel grants to students. Dean said that in mid-September they hadn’t received the money and lear ned COGS executives voted to withhold pass-through earlier in the semester, Dean said. “The fact that they’re doing this is quite audacious,” he said. “We didn’t know we were going to get suckerpunched like this.” GradSEHD Diversity Officer Sarah Sirna said the group was blindsided. “There was no transparency in this. We found out about it … through the grapevine,” she said. MSC wasn’t involved in the changes either, Levine said. “We were given the opportunity to get involved … but it was more of a post-decision courtesy,” Levine said. Borowsky said they verbally informed councils of the change at the beginning of the semester, but he regrets the way the situation was handled. “As soon as we star ted talking about this, we should’ve reached out,” he said. Two of the seven councils impacted by the change, the

“We [would] have less funding to help develop our community-service projects.” ERICAN LEVINE President

University Pharmacy College Board and the Veterinar y Medicine Student Council, declined to comment. At two tense meetings Friday, the groups agreed the system should be reworked but clashed over the process. Dean wondered why the decision couldn’t wait until next year. “Why is ever yone on the COGS exec board … so adamantly opposed to distributing pass-through this year and … working on an agreement to how this can be worked out for next year?” he asked at the meeting. Borowsky said COGS is also considering returning the money to the student services fee fund or giving it back to students in the form of a rebate. Each graduate student would receive about $1.21 if the rebate idea goes through. Talks are still ongoing and a discussion was scheduled for the COGS General Assembly meeting Monday, but was tabled until November. “It’s still absurd that we’re going to have to negotiate for money that should be given to us,” Dean said.

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THEATER

“Marisol” arrives on University stage Talvin Wilks is directing “Marisol,” a play written by Jose Rivera in 1992 that holds ground in 2016. BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com

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Director Talvin Wilks coaches actor Alyse Brown in a rehearsal for “Marisol” in the Rarig Center on Oct. 15.

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Director Talvin Wilks coaches a rehearsal for “Marisol” in the Rarig Center on Oct. 15. Wilks calls the play “a visceral, hallucinatory experience that speaks a truth that is relevant today.”

Talvin Wilks, a visiting faculty member of the University of Minnesota’s theatre arts and dance department, is bringing Jose Rivera’s “Marisol” to the University stage. Approaching any play is a laborious process. Contemporar y and fantastical, Marisol focuses on the end of the millennium, a dying God and Marisol Perez — the titular character at the center of the drama. A daunting task, yes, but Wilks is well-equipped to pull it of f. With nearly 30 years of experience as a dramaturge, director and playwright, Wilks has built a skill set based in multiple artistic disciplines. “I’m pretty much engaged as a theater-making practitioner, known mostly for collaborative work with poets and new ideas in the theater. … [I’m] more of a ‘downtown theater’ kind of guy, as opposed to an ‘Uptown Broadway’ kind of guy,” Wilks said. Wilks was brought to the University after faculty members encountered his work with other Twin Cities theater companies. “[He’s] incredibly thoughtful and ver y generous as a director. He’s willing to share his ideas and listen. He’s not an autocrat — it really is a tr ue collaboration with [Wilks],” said Marcus Dilliard, depar tment chair and associate professor in the theatre ar ts and dance depar tment. “I’m looking for war d to being surprised. [W ilks] always finds things in a

production that I don’t see when I read it.” And audiences should expect the unexpected. At the show, attendees will be seated on two sides of the stage. They’ll face each other, allowing a communal viewing experience. During intermission, the ensemble will transform the stage into the more chaotic world of the second act in a choreographed movement sequence. Wilks made these changes to better develop a difficult, layered script. “It’s a myster y play. There are expressions of extreme physical and emotional states, humor, violence and extreme violence. We pass over [these] in some type of commentar y on economic disenfranchisement and social issues of the late ’80s [and] early ’90s,” Wilks said. Now 24 years old, “Marisol” feels distinctly representative of its time. It is a play — albeit a contemporar y one — that examines an era not so long gone. “A lot of playwrights [were] looking at apocalyptic-esque issues. The idea of plague, growing homelessness and proliferation of war and the beginning to become aware of climate change,” Wilks said. While he chose to set “Marisol” in the post-Reagan era, Wilks sees flickers of the current day in the play. “I feel that it’s a window or mirror … a window of reflection — you’re seeing through something to see yourself,” Wilks said. Despite thematic and technical challenges, Wilks has worked to ground the

play in its emotional sensibilities, even with more fantastical characters like the Angel. “We had chal l en g es casting the Angel, so I’ve been playing the character. There was one rehearsal where I stepped into the role … I just had an incredible cathartic moment and was bawling by the end of it. [Before that] I didn’t fully understand the weight that she’s taking on her shoulders and the terror inside of that,” Wilks said. “Marisol’s” pr oduction elements have been designed by current University MFA students. Students in the cast are exposed to the ambiguity that Wilks sees in the play. “[The actors are] always asking questions, and I’m always like, ‘Yes to both.’ [They say], ‘That’s not an answer,’ [and I reply], ‘But I’m interested. Can you make something of that?’” Wilks said. “I’m always interested in the non-choice.” While students are at the forefront of “Marisol,” W ilks does not see the show as an amateur production. “This is a professional production to me. This is my work. … I’m proud of the collaboration.”

“Marisol” Where Kilburn Arena Theatre in the Rarig Center, 330 21st Ave. S., Minneapolis When Nov. 3, 4, 5, 10, 11 and 12 at 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 6 abd 13 at 2 p.m. Cost $6 to $16

Q&A

Q&A: Memories in print Minneapolis still-life photographer talks Europe, pre-visualization and purity. BY GUNTHAR REISING greising@mndaily.com

Karl Herber’s home doubles as an of fice — the walls are covered with photographs and paintings. Knick-knacks litter all available shelf space; Herber is a collector of memories. In an ar tist statement, Herber explained his peculiar style and subjects. “I don’t understand a lot of what I do, but I don’t see comprehension to be a prerequisite for expression,” he wrote. A&E sat down with Herber, a Minneapolis still-life photographer, to gain a little more insight into his “no thought process” thought process. How did you get your start in photography? I’ve been doing it in some form or another since I was a kid. There was a study abroad program in Salzburg, Austria. That was a pivotal year because I figured out that I can really do photography [as an occupation], and I became who I was as an artist. What was it about your time in Europe that was so influential? It was just really productive — seeing a lot of other work, taking a lot of photographs, being in Europe and having experiences. It

slowly cr ystalized over the course of the year so that when I came back to the United States it all gelled. What motivates your personal style and your subject? I don’t pre-visualize. I don’t think to myself, “ I’ m go ing to go ta k e pictures of trees.” It works better if I’m out somewhere just responding. I like photographing in museums; I like shooting dioramas. Inanimate objects are a consistent theme throughout your work. Why is that? I don’t know why that is. When I’m in these stimulating environments … that’s when I feel like photographing. If I liked baseball, I would go shoot ballgames, but I like museums and cities. The less I pre-visualize, the more pure my images get. I think I’ve always known that, I just haven’t trusted it. Sometimes I feel like I’m taking the same pictures, but it’s like how you want your eggs done a cer tain way. I’m always going to be stimulated by these kinds of images. With your still-life images, there’s almost a surreal feeling to these

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Sophia Vilensky svilensky@mndaily.com

ordinary objects. How do you obtain that? By getting closer — it’s a process of refinement and purification, stripping away all of the other stuf f. I just use one lens; I always find myself wanting to get closer to subjects. Purity is one of those overriding concepts that I think a lot about … purity and memor y. On your website there’s

a portfolio called revisionist nonfiction — what do you mean by that? It’s nonfiction because all the images are true — they all happened to me. It’s revisionist in the sense that I’m changing the story by putting the images in pairs. Why do you think photography is important? I don’t understand a lot

of my work and that’s why I keep doing it — there’s some kind of curiosity or interest. I think that ar t is a simple human activity, at least the ar t that I like. Ar tists like Mark Rothko have a purity to them. I’m not drawn to ar t that has a big stor y or requires context to appreciate it. The other par t is memor y — our memories make us who we are.

What you remember, what people remember about you … I don’t believe in an afterlife. We remember people, we remember life — that’s all we have. I think photography is a way to record these things. [However,] it’s not a tr ue r ecor ding; it’s fallible just like memor y. Editor’s note: This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Photographer Karl Herber rolls out prints of his work at his home in South Minneapolis on Oct. 15.

RADIO K TOP 7

1. DEVANDRA BANHART, Fancy Man 2. LVL UP, Pain 3. DUCHESS SAYS, Poubelle

4. PREOCCUPATIONS, Stimulation 5. Y LA BAMBA, Ojos Del Sol 6. DOM LA NENA, Scenic World 7. ITA SCA, G. B.

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

CULTURE to CONSUME /

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By Joe Cristo, jcristo@mndaily.com

Watch this:

Listen to this:

Listen to this:

“The Birth of a Nation”

“A Seat at the Table” by Solange

“Wild Firth” by Wild Firth

This new film is about the slave insurrection led by Nat Turner in the early 1800s. The movie is directed by, and stars, Nate Parker. It became Parker’s pet project over the last few years, and there are already whispers about possible award nominations. The directing is a bit stilted (this is Parker’s debut behind the camera), but it’s an interesting retelling of an underexplored stor y.

Up until recently I didn’t understand why Solange was liked so much less than her sister. After “Lemonade”, I sort of got it, but Solange’s new record, “A Seat at the Table,” is ever y bit as good — just ver y different. Raphael Saadiq of Tony! TonI! Toné! is the band leader and producer responsible for the beautiful aesthetic. The accompanying videos are worth a watch, as well.

The band Wild Firth is originally from Appleton, Wisconsin but has recently relocated to Minneapolis. After seeing them play last week at Eagles 34, I checked out their debut record on Bandcamp — it’s incredible, and it’s definitely worth a listen. Will Fraser writes some of the best songs in the scene right now.

MUSIC

Kicking Sass The new Minneapolis punk band Sass just realeased its first single. BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com

The name “Sass” was not their first choice. “I wanted to name the band Sassy after my stage name in [Cher r y Cola] and the dog in ‘Homeward Bound,’” singer and guitarist Stephanie Jo Murck said. “Unfortunately — or rather for tunately — the name was taken by a soul singer in Fiji. We decided Sass sounded even cooler.” Murck started Sass so she could sing the songs she’d been writing for the past year. The project was formed in July. “[Bassist Alex McCormick] and I talked about being in a band together long before I joined my other bands,” Murck said. “He heard me dr unkenly play my songs for him in the backyard [one] summer and thought they were cool.” The band finally came together when Murck met songwriter and guitarist Willem Vander Ark,

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Members of the band Sass, from left to right, Willem Vander Ark, Stephanie Jo Murck, Alex McCormick and Joey Hayes, pose in their practice space in the Southeast Como

who had been at several shows that Murck’s other band, Tony Peachka, played. “I’d been longing to play in a band after my last one broke up,” Vander Ark

said. “I told [Murck] if she ever needed a guitar player to hit me up. My unofficial audition happened that night after the show when I played her some of my own songs.”

McCormick, Murck and Vander Ark star ted practicing together and recr uited McCor mick’s roommate, Joey Hays, as drummer. “[Hays] was just gonna

fill in for us, but fortunately he was down to become our full-time dr ummer,” Murck said. Groups like Speedy Or tiz and Sleater-Kinney inspire Murck’s songwriting. Along with moder n rock bands that emphasize pop str uctures, Sass is heavily influenced by ’70s and ’80s alternative rock like Sonic Youth and Television. “When I met [Vander Ark] I told him I wanted to start a glam rock band,” Murck said. Murck usually writes one to three songs a week and then brings them to the band to see which ones fit. The band writes their own parts, and from there, the songs develop from their initial form. “I write a song at my house, in a moving car or in a closet — wherever the mood hits,” Murck said. “Typically with an acoustic guitar and moody thoughts in my head.” Recently, the band has been experimenting with

how they approach songwriting. Murck and Vander Ark now consider themselves the band’s primar y songwriters. “I think our chemistry is really developed,” Vander Ark said. “But Stephanie is the pivot on which the band revolves and her clear and powerful voice is the lighthouse guiding the rest of us.” Sass recorded their first single, “Ragged Strawberr y” and a few other tracks at The Pearl Recording Studio in Minneapolis. “Ragged Strawberr y” will be released digitally near the end of October. The band is planning a Midwest tour for January. “We’re gonna record more songs in the coming months and release [another] EP in the spring,” Murck said. “We haven’t decided on a title yet. It’ll be released on me and [Vander Ark]’s cassette label, Dangit! Records.” Sass’s next show is Nov. 5 at the 331 Club with Mrs. and Fiji-13.

FASHION

The fashionista is in: thrift shop spooks Thrift shops offer cheap thrills and easy fixes for Halloween costumes. BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com

Halloween is just around the corner. Maybe you’ve been dreaming of the perfect costume for months — Eleven from “Stranger Things?” Joanne the Scammer? Or maybe you’re comfortable throwing on any pair of cat ears on your way out the door. Either way, local thrift shops are the best way to save time and money. On Oct. 15, Dinkytown’s Gina + Will was full of shoppers scouring the racks for the perfect spooky ensemble. Thrift shops constantly cycle through new merchandise which can be both a blessing and a curse depending on what your costume needs are. “I think it’s great to come in with a couple ideas but keep an open mind,” Danielle Stager, the general manager of Gina + Will, said. “It’s about getting excited about how you can create your own [look.]” Something you can always find? Accessories. Lots of them. Don’t shy away from non-traditional costumes, either. Stager’s go-to is the 100-year-old grandma look: hat, jogging suit, tennis shoes and prescription sunglasses. Three Gina + Will customers on Oct. 15 ended up

finding their perfect Halloween ensemble, from flashy and fun to clever and cozy. Calla Saunders, 18 Costume: “The Green Party” Saunders, a freshman studying filmmaking at Sarah Lawrence College, found her inspiration in those looking to elect Jill Stein in November. “The upcoming election is a really topical choice for costumes. There are going to

be a lot of Trumps and a lot of Clintons. You can set yourself apart from the game but still be current,” Saunders said. To get the look, grab anything green-hued and accentuate with funkier accessories,, such as a shiny headband. Saunders already owned her polka dot Forever 21 tights and Doc Mar tens, proving that a good costume doesn’t have to be made of new pieces from head to toe.

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Freshman Cassidy Drummond poses for a portrait on Oct. 15 outside Gina + Will’s in Dinkytown.

CULTURE COMPASS /

Claire Rude, 18 Costume: “Dad.” Rude’s costume might seem like a homage to a Disney tourist, but it’s really a tribute to classic dad fashion. All she needed was a tool box and a grill. “I love my dad. Everyone loves their dad. Dads are kind of getting their moment now with the rise of the dad bod,” Rude, a freshman at the U studying biosystems engineering, said.

Funny costumes like Saunders’ and Rude’s will keep you comfortable at any Halloween gathering. In case of colder weather, switch out high-waisted jorts for fulllength jeans or pleated khakis. Cassidy Drummond, 18 Costume: “Flapper” Another monochromatic gem, Drummond’s dress and headband came together in a set from Walmart. Her red

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Sarah Lawrence College freshman Calla Saunders poses for a portrait on Oct. 15 inside Gina + Will’s in

sparkly pumps are Dorothy’s ruby slippers’ cooler older sister. If you’re looking to dance Halloween night away, this is your costume. Dr ummond, a freshman at the Udouble-majoring in statistics and women’s, gender and sexuality studies and minoring in urban studies, chose this look for three reasons — “It’s fun to move around in. It’s bright. It’s cute.”

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Freshman Clare Rude poses for a portrait on Oct. 15 inside Gina + Will’s in Dinkytown.

By Joe Cristo, jcristo@mndaily.com

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Kesha at TCF Bank Stadium

Hocus Pocus Drag Brunch + Costume Contest

Boy Kisses at Universe Games

This year’s homecoming concert will feature Kesha and Jidenna. While she hasn’t been able to release any new music following her legal battle with producer Dr. Luke — and isn’t touring on the strength of a new record — this round of shows is supposed to be pretty elaborate. At the very least, the tickets are relatively inexpensive, and your friends will be there.

Doesn’t this sound like the greatest thing ever? The theme is Disney’s Halloween classic “Hocus Pocus”, (one of Sarah Jessica Parker’s best works). There will be hundreds of people in hilarious costumes, and the brunch is supposed to be pretty good. Tickets are going fast; if it sells out, you can always get a spot at the bar.

Where TCF Bank Stadium, 420 SE 23rd Ave., Minneapolis Hours 7:30 p.m. Cost $25 (students) and $45 (public)

Where Union Restaurant Rooftop, 731 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis Hours 10:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Cost $8, cash only

This comedy troupe is one of the best in the Twin Cities. Each Sunday they do a free show at Universe Games. The troupe is made up of Turner Barrowman Casey, Robert Fones, Drew Janda and Collin Klug. Each Sunday show has a theme (such as “Wilderness Survival” or “Parallel Universe”). We don’t know what the theme is for this week yet, but it’s sure to be good.

Where Universe Games 711 W. Lake St., Minneapolis Hours 7:30 p.m. Cost FREE

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Some conservative students on campus feel their voice is stifled Politics u from Page 1

and the others who attend. “The people agree with you, or at least aren’t going to cr ucify you for your opinions,” he said. “Frankly, it’s kind of relieving, it’s kind of nice.” The discord on campus has led to some students becoming disenchanted when politics are brought up, said R yan Russell, a jour nalism and English sophomore. Expressing his views has, at times, led to conflict for Russell. Now, he suppresses his viewpoint during political discussions, he said, and made note about how he was hesistant to even talk to t h e M i n n e s o t a D a i l y. “Sometimes we feel it’s wrong to feel the way we do.” About 21 per cent of incoming freshman characterized their political views as far-right or conser vative, according to a sur vey by the University’s

Cooperative Institutional Research Program, which was last taken in 2012. Liberal and far-left students totaled about 37 percent. Political communication theor y shows that people feel more comfor table speaking out when they believe they’re in the majority, said Stacey Kanihan, associate professor in strategic communication. In her classes, Kanihan said she’s seen unce r tainty fr o m bot h moderates and conservatives expressing their views. “People who sense they are in the minority point of view do not feel comfortable speaking up, they don’t want to be ostracized,” she said. Reluctance for more conser vative-minded students to speak out may come from not wanting to be associated with two of the least popular candidates in American political histor y, she said. “If you look back at the caucuses, Minnesota did not support Trump,” Kanihan said. “Conser vative

students who might just not parrot back the Trump phrases don’t want to be put in the categor y of students who did that.” Never theless, she said that students who support Hillar y Clinton have also been hesitant to speak up in class because of her unpopularity. Reut said her unease about voicing her opinion in class isn’t just limited to fellow students’ views of her, but also the kind of environment that’s curated in the classroom. “You do feel a little less likely to raise your hand and speak up in class,” Reut said. “[People] can label me what they want. They can think I’m closedminded if they want to, but I have my opinions and my beliefs about dif ferent policies.” Sophomore Peter Lewandowski said he is willing to voice his opinions in his classes, but he said that even though he faces a different environment as a Carlson School of Management student, it is still uncomfortable at times. “It can definitely feel a

little odd when ever yone’s sharing their opinions and you’re the one person who has the complete opposite,” he said. The University’s political orientation is in stark contrast with his r ural Wisconsin roots, Lewandowski said, but it’s not a bad thing for him to experience differences in opinions, which he views as a learning experience. “[The progressive political climate] almost made me stronger in some of my beliefs, having to confront them with other’s opinions,” he said. In April, Young Americans for Liber ty, a political student group on campus, hosted a free speech event. One girl at the event initially hesitated, but finally expressed that s h e s u ppor t ed D on a l d Trump’s run for the presidency, said mechanical engineering junior Cor y Blunk, who is president of the group. “I don’t necessarily agree with that statement, but it seemed to be a little cutting to me that a college student … felt that

was something they had to do in secret,” Blunk said. “It’s saddening to me that people have to feel they are unsafe even holding an opinion that is unpopular.” The divisive election, Blunk said, has exacerbated concerns with being associated with a candidate like Trump. “I do think it’s difficult for conser vative students, in general, on college campuses [that typically lean liberally.] But I think it is par ticularly bad because of the candidate the Republicans have chosen,” he said. T r ump’s views have even caused students like R yan Russell to move away from the Republican Party. “Because I see what [T r ump] is saying, he kind of takes it from a ver y hateful standpoint,” he said. “That’s kind of changed some things for me. I realized how tough this could be for some people,” adding that he withdrew his registration from the party. The unwelcoming atmosphere on campus is

something that Russel said he hopes will change, but it isn’t going to distract him from his day-to-day life. “It just seems like life is too shor t for me to tr y so hard to make ever ybody so upset and to get so upset about what other people are saying,” he said. “That why I’m not really politically involved on campus.”

“I do think it’s difficult for conservative students in general, on college campuses [that typically lean liberally.] But I think it is particularely bad because of the candidate the republicans have chosen.” CORY BLUNK Student

Economists and biologists join forces for food study

Man sentenced 30 years for aiding the Islamic State

A collaborative study compared plant products from all over the world.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com

At the University of Minnesota, economists and biologists joined forces to tackle research on food growth and consumption. A new study — published earlier this month — found that countries tend to produce the same products they have been producing for years despite new possibilities for diversity between climates. University r esear chers joined others fr om schools like the University of Mar yland to analyze data of plant products traded and grown around the world from 1992 to 2010. While biologists focused on the diversity of plant products, economists tested how comparative advantage theor y could explain such trends. “Even though it is easy

to access more diverse food, now we tend to produce food more relevant to cultures we grew up in,” said Erik Nelson, an economist who worked on the project. Comparative advantage is the theor y that some countries are better equipped to produce cer tain products over others, Nelson said, adding that crop specialization across climate zones means some countries may produce only one or two crops. As a result, increased global food output from specialization could help feed a growing human population. But University of Minnesota Agronomy Professor Don Wyse said the study left out crop specialization that occurred within the U.S. before 1992. The countr y star ted to specialize soybeans and corn to feed its livestock industr y between 1940s and 1970s. Soybean and cor n specialization in Minnesota causes soil erosion and could lead to other problems in the future.

CROPS PRODUCED IN US DURING 1996 63,409

59,371

325 Wheat

Rye

6,774 Barley

1,323 Soybeans

Sugar beets

SOURCE: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Nelson said people should question whether growing diverse crops is the best use for land when crop specialization could create more food overall. Meanwhile, project biologists studied the “tree of life” to look closer at plant product diversity, said Jeannine CavenderBares, University ecology, evolution and behavior associate professor said. Cavender-Bar es said they looked at how much evolutionar y distance

there is between the foods people eat and found people’s diets var y based on the climate they live in. Plant products in temperate zones like the U.S can be traced back to fewer lineages in the tree of life compared to the tropics, she said. There have been many studies of this s o r t i n b i o l o g y, C a v ender-Bares said, but it’s unusual to combine those with economics research.

SANTA ANA — A former California college student was sentenced Wednesday to 30 years in prison for trying to aid the Islamic State group. Muhanad Badawi, 25, was also sentenced to a lifetime of supervised release during a hearing in federal court in Santa Ana. He was convicted earlier this year of conspiracy to aid a foreign terrorist organization and other crimes. Authorities said Badawi and now-25-year-old Nader Elhuzayel concocted a scheme for Elhuzayel to fly to the Middle East to fight for the Islamic State and that Badawi lent him his debit card to buy a one-way plane ticket to Israel with a sixhour layover in Turkey. The men, who were arrested last year, shared their support for the Islamic State in conversation and on social media. In recorded conversations, the pair discussed how it would be a blessing “to die in the battlefield,” the U.S. attorney’s office said. “The significant sentence the defendant received illustrates the gravity of this

crime and the threat the defendants posed to the United States,” Deirdre Fike, assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said in a statement. Federal authorities had asked for the 30-year sentence for Badawi with lifetime super vised release, which is the same sentence that Elhuzayel received last month from U.S. District Judge David O. Carter. Defense attorney Kate Cor rigan, who has said Badawi never actually intended to fight for the Islamic State, had requested half the amount of prison time and 20 years of supervision. She cited his lack of criminal history and age and said she planned to appeal the sentence. “The real message from today’s hearing is that anyone who thinks they want to support ISIS or even dabble in its rhetoric better be ready to serve a lot of time in prison,” she wrote in an email. Badawi was bor n in Sudan but moved to the United States as a child and lived in Orange County, where he studied engineering, Corrigan said.

Philippine police van rams protesters i n f ront of US E m b a s s y in M a n ila BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine police van rammed into protesters, leaving several bloodied, as an anti-U.S. rally turned violent Wednesday at the American Embassy in Manila. The van’s driver, police of ficer Franklin Kho, told reporters he did not deliberately hit the protesters but was trying to drive away from them because they were hitting the vehicle with wooden clubs and he feared they would commandeer it and use it to attack other policemen. “They were already trying to seize the vehicle,” Kho told reporters. Associated Press TV footage showed the van repeatedly ramming the protesters as it drove wildly back and forth after activists surrounded and started hitting it with the wooden batons they seized from police. In front of hor rified crowds, the van suddenly charged backward then sprinted forward twice over a space of about 20 meters (60 feet), barreling through the scattered protesters and hur tling some to the side like bowling pins. A few were run over but somehow managed to stand. Some screamed in

surprise, others hurled stones at the van and yelled invectives. A speaker called the police “puppies of imperialists” on a loudspeaker. At least three student activists were taken to a hospital after they were run over by the van, protest leader Renato Reyes said.

“Even as the president vowed an independent foreign policy, Philippine police forces still act as running dogs of the U.S.” RENATO REYES Protest leader

“There was absolutely no justification for it,” Reyes said of the violent police dispersal of about 1,000 protesters. “Even as the president vowed an independent foreign policy, Philippine police forces still act as running dogs of the U.S.” More than two dozen policemen were injured, police of ficials said, adding that police observed “maximum tolerance” but rowdy protesters kept assaulting the law enforcers. Police lobbed tear gas and ar rested at least 29

protesters who broke through a line of riot police and hurled red paint at the officers and a U.S. government seal at the start of the rally at the seaside embassy compound. A firetruck doused the rowdy protesters with water to push them back, but they took hold of the water hose and confronted the outnumbered police with rocks and red paint. After breaking through the police corridor, they scribbled “U.S. troops out now” and other slogans at the embassy’s tall fence with red paint. The national police said in a statement that the violent dispersal was “unfortunate” and an investigation would tr y to determine if the riot policemen followed crowd-control procedures. Investigators will also evaluate criminal and civil liabilities of the protesters and their leader for an alleged illegal mass assembly. A left-wing legal group, the National Union of People’s Lawyers, condemned the police violence and said it would help the injured and detained protesters file criminal complaints against the police for violating their constitutional rights to free assembly. The protesters, consisting of students, workers and tribespeople, were demanding an end to the pres-

ence of visiting U.S. troops in the Philippines and to support a call by President Rodrigo Duterte for a foreign policy not dependent on the U.S., the countr y’s longtime treaty ally. The activists came from the largest left-wing umbrella group, Bayan (Nation), which has organized regular antiU.S. protests in front of the embassy for decades, most of which are peaceful. Duterte was on a state visit to China, where he is seeking to repair relations strained under his predecessor over territorial conflicts in the South China Sea. He is also seeking to expand trade and investments and financing for badly needed infrastructure projects. Amid an uneasy relationship with the U.S., Duterte has tried to reach out to China and Russia, bringing uncertainty to his country’s long alliance with America. But the protesters also opposed the president’s effort to lean toward China. “The Philippines will not be dictated on, whether by the U.S. or China,” they said in a statement. The violence happened as the police and Duterte are under increased international scrutiny for their alleged role in the killings of thousands of drug suspects and pushers as part of the president’s war on illegal drugs.

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Thursday, October 20, 2016

Aurora campaign features healthy relationships

Criminal probe of Wells Fargo begins in Calif. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

The Aurora Center’s Domestic Violence Awareness Month event coordinator, Taylor Roberts, creates a sign for the “Healthy Relationships” social media photo campaign on Wednesday on West Bank.

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positive spin on what can be considered a very negative topic,” Subramanian said. Last year, there were 34 domestic violence homicides in the state, according to a Minnesota Coalition for Battered Women report. Sophie Glaesemann, a University global studies junior and campaign participant, said she thinks Aurora’s dissemination of positive messages through social media can influence people. “If you can get the positive images and attitudes through peoples’ feeds … they’ll inevitably … internalize it,” she said. Subramanian said she hopes the campaign will

spur people to act as allies when they see someone suf fering from domestic violence. Student feedback on the media campaign has been positive so far, said Katie Eichele, director of the Aurora Center. She said since the campaign began, the center has seen an increase in traffic and likes to its social media pages. “One of the things that we know about our students is they like to engage and be a part of changing the world,” Eichele said. The center is also running the Silent Witness Project this month, which pays tribute to domestic violence homicide victims, she said. Eichele said the project involves placing life-size wooden figures around

campus, which represent Minnesota victims. The figures are painted red and display descriptions of victims’ names, ages, hometowns and causes of death, Rober ts said. One of the models, Eichele said, displays the information of Ashley Hasti, a University medical school student killed by a University of California, Los Angeles gunman — her husband — last spring. Rober ts said student dormitories such as Sanford Hall, 17th Avenue Residence Hall and Frontier Hall have agreed to let them display the models in their lobbies. Flyers explaining the project’s purpose accompany the displays along with trigger warnings, she said.

“One of the things that we know about our students is they like to engage and be a part of changing the world.” KATIE EICHELE Director of Aurora Center

Roberts said she hopes outreach will help people realize the scope of domestic violence. “Getting the word out there and making people’s voices heard and talking about the fact that domestic violence … happens to real people,” she said.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California’s attorney general is conducting a criminal investigation into whether employees at San Franciscobased Wells Fargo bank stole customers’ identities in the sales practices scandal that rocked the bank and cost its CEO his job, documents released Wednesday show. A search warrant and suppor ting af fidavit released by the state Department of Justice show that agents sought evidence related to allegations that bank employees created up to 2 million bank and credit card accounts without customers’ approval in order to meet sales goals. The war rant, first reported by the Los Angeles Times, was ser ved Oct. 5. Copies obtained by The Associated Press under a public records request show Attorney General Kamala Harris’ of fice sought the names of customers who had accounts opened without their permission, the names of employees who opened the accounts and their managers, and fees associated with the improperly opened accounts. “We can’t comment on an ongoing investigation,” Kristin Ford, a spokeswoman for the attorney general, said in an email. Wells Fargo spokesman Mark Folk said in an email that the bank is cooperating in providing the requested information. Justice Depar tment Special Agent Super visor James Hirt said in a 14-page affidavit seeking the search warrant that “there is probable cause to believe that employees of Wells Fargo Bank unlawfully accessed the bank’s computer system to obtain the PII (personal identifying information) of customers.” Employees then used

the illegally obtained information “to commit false impersonation and identity theft by opening unauthorized accounts, credit cards and various other products that resulted in the accumulation of fees and charges for Wells Fargo,” Hirt said. One Los Angeles customer was surprised to learn last year that a Wells Fargo employee had opened a $10,000 line of credit linked to his accounts without his authorization, according to the affidavit. Another was shocked when she and her husband began receiving notices from the bank on payments they allegedly owed on three life insurance policies they had never purchased. Bank employees repeatedly opened and closed her bank accounts, causing her to bounce checks and pay bank fees. A third found her money transferred from her checking account to a savings account without her permission. The 74-year-old woman also reported receiving multiple bank credit-debit cards and being signed up for online banking without permission. The bank previously said it has fired about 5,300 employees for improperly engaging in fraudulent account sales. “This is a huge case of fraud,” said Beth Givens, executive director the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a nonprofit San Diego-based consumer advocacy organization. “At its face value, these individuals’ identities have certainly been stolen.” “I think one of the effects this case could have, par ticularly on Wells Fargo, is a loss of trust in this institution, but that could spread out to the banking industr y in general,” she said. “I would be concerned about the reputation of the entire industry.”