TOP HEADLINES INSIDE:
U RESEARCHERS CREATE NEW, ARTIFICAL ARTERY PAGE 3
■■ Diversity lacking among state legislators
THE IMPLANT GROWS NATURALLY INSIDE THE BODY.
■■ Police Dept. adopts preferred pronoun policy
The Legislature currently has 11 minority state lawmakers. PG
Police hope the initiative will be more trans-inclusive. PG 4
RAINY HIGH 65° LOW 43°
DINKYTOWN
Apartment plan would close Mesa, Chatime CPM Companies hopes to build a new, 16-story student-housing complex in Dinkytown.
U OF M
MINNEAPOLIS
ST PAUL
LATE WEEK
OCT. 6 - 9, 2016
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT MNDAILY.COM
A&E
Running the parlor with a steady hand Nikki Time, owner of MPLS Tattoo Shop, has become known for her watercolor tattoo technique. A&E sat down with her to discuss stylized tattoos, entrepreneurship and the ideal customer. To read, see page 8.
BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com
Minneapolis developer CPM Companies unvieled a proposal for a 16 floor student housing complex in Dinkytown Tuesday night. The plans, shown to a Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association committee meeting for feedback before the project moves for ward, was met with skepticism from meeting attendees. While the historic and non-historic facades of Mesa Pizza and Chatime Bubble Tea Cafe would remain intact, the rest of their building would be demolished, said Daniel Oberpriller, principal at CPM Properties. “You just ate up Dinkytown with this” said James Sander, husband of Kafe 421’s owner. Mesa Pizza Manager Nathan Coles recalled when Doran Companies attempted, and later backed off, to buy out the same block to build a new apartment building. He said he anticipated CPM would face similar difficulties. “If CPM wants to go down that road… we’ll just see what happens,” he said. u See PROPOSAL Page 6
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
Shop owner and tattoo artist Nikki Time poses for a portrait at MPLS Tattoo Shop on Sept. 30 in Minneapolis. Time specializes in watercolor styled tattoos.
STUDENT ISSUES
Funds will let students join pipline protesters American Indian students will protest the Dakota Access Pipeline at Sacred Stone Camp. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
Students from the University of Minnesota are gearing up to join the ongoing opposition of the Dakota Access Pipeline construction later this month. American Indian Studies students will receive financial help from their depar tment to make the trek to Nor th Dakota, and other students have found ways to support the movement on their own. Second-year doctoral candidate John Little is par t of the Standing Rock Sioux
Tribe and he and other students went to Sacred Stone Camp, the main site where protesters have congregated, about a month ago. “That was the first time I’d been [to Standing Rock] in about a year,” he said. “It was really great to be a part of that for even a few days.” But it’s dif ficult for students to find time to make the 470-mile drive to North Dakota during the semester, he said. “A lot of the indigenous voices speaking on this are not really there as much as they’d like to be,” Little said. He said he and his friends have found ways to support the cause from afar now that the school year has star ted — such u See PIPELINE Page 6
LAW SCHOOL
HIGHER ED
Report: U linked to ‘risky’ financing THE PRICE OF SWAPS BY THE NUMBERS
58% OF SCHOOLS HAVE OR HAD AN INTEREST RATE SWAP ON THEIR BOOKS, ACCORDING TO A FORBES STUDY OF U.S. COLLEGES.
$2.7 billion IN SWAP COSTS INCURRED BY 19 SCHOOLS STUDIED BY THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE.
$50 million PAID BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN SWAP PAYMENTS TO CHASE BANK.
$3.5 million EACH YEAR IS SPENT BY THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA IN SWAPS.
SOURCE: “THE FINANCIALIZATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION,” THE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE
The University is among a group of schools that have lost $2.7B in investment rate swaps. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
Many higher education institutions — including the University of Minnesota — have turned to risky financial deals and increased tuition and fees to compensate for decreased state funding, a recently released report has found. According to a Roosevelt Institute study, 19 public institutions, including the University, have lost $2.7 billion in “risky financial deals”. The report, released by the left-leaning think tank last month, said the University lost money through investment rate swaps and made up for those losses by charging more in student fees. u See FINANCE Page 12
Refocusing the Law School Garry Jenkins, the Law School’s new dean has emphasized job placement, curriculum, outreach. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
Law School Dean Garry Jenkins poses for a portrait in Walter F. Mondale Hall on Monday.
Amid declining enrollment and budget deficits at the University of Minnesota’s Law School, the new dean wants to shift the narrative. Since taking over leadership at the law school in July, Garr y Jenkins has pushed aside stories about mending declining enrollment to focus on curriculum and job placement instead. Applications to the University’s law school dropped by nearly 50 percent between 2010 and 2015, and first-year enrollments fell by over 30 percent, leading to a loss of tuition revenue for the school. The decrease in Minnesota law students
mirrors a nationwide trend of declining applications since a record-high number of students were enrolled in law schools in 2010. “We recognize that there’s a cer tain number of attorneys that the legal market needs,” Jenkins said. “We’re not necessarily trying to get enrollment back to where it was in the past. We’re going to right-size.” He added that many other law schools have had to adjust their enrollment strategies to meet the current supply of applicants. Last year, Hamline University School of Law and William Mitchell College of Law merged to be able to offer more enrollment options. “That often happens when institutions are facing unforeseen situations with respect to annual budget challenges,” Jenkins said. u See JENKINS Page 9
VOLUME 117 ISSUE 10
2
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Daily Review
THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1866 The Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a moving train in the U.S., making off with over $10,000 from an Ohio & Mississippi train in Jackson County, Indiana. HISTORYCHANNEL.COM/TDIH
POLITICS Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016 Vol. 117 No. 10
An Independent Student Newspaper, Founded in 1900. 2221 University Ave. SE, Suite 450 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Phone: (612) 627-4080 Fax: (612) 435-5865 Copyright © 2016 The Minnesota Daily This newspaper, its design and its contents are copyrighted. OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER Dylan Scott Editor-in-Chief dscott@mndaily.com (612) 435-1575 Elizabeth Luke Business Operations Officer eluke@mndaily.com (612) 435-2761 NEWS STAFF Chris Aadland Managing Editor caadland@mndaily.com Allison Dohnalek Managing Production Editor adohnalek@mndaily.com Emily Polglaze Sports Editor epolglaze@mndaily.com Mike Hendrickson Assistant Sports Editor mhendrickson@mndaily.com Sophia Vilensky A&E Editor svilensky@mndaily.com Bridget Bennett Multimedia Editor bbennett@mndaily.com Alex Tuthill-Preus Assistant Multimedia Editor atuthill-preus@mndaily.com Haley Hansen Copy Desk Chief hhansen@mndaily.com Sheridan Swee Assistant Copy Desk Chief sswee@mndaily.com Maddy Bremner Visuals Editor mbremner@mndaily.com Harry Steffenhagen Visuals Designer hsteffenhagen@mndaily.com Brenna Bast Chief Page Designer bbast@mndaily.com Cedar Thomas Chief Page Designer cthomas@mndaily.com Hannah Weikel Campus Editor hweikel@mndaily.com Nick Wicker City Editor nwicker1@mndaily.com Brian Edwards Policy Editor bedwards@mndaily.com Jackie Renzetti Digital Editor jrenzetti@mndaily.com Jessie Bekker In-Depth Editor jbekker@mndaily.com =
=
=
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks to a crowd at Northrop Auditorium on Tuesday in support of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
MADDY FOX, DAILY
=
STATE REPORT ST. ANTHONY ASKS TO JOIN DOJ PROGRAM AFTER POLICE SHOOTING ST. ANTHONY — City officials say St. Anthony has asked to join a federal program after one of its police officers fatally shot a black man this summer. The St. Paul suburb said Wednesday the Depar tment of Justice is reviewing its application to be included in the Collaborative Reform Initiative. The program aims to help cities improve trust between police and communities they serve. St. Anthony police officer Jeronimo Yanez shot Philando Castile during a July 6 traffic stop in nearby Falcon Heights. The shooting’s aftermath was streamed live on Facebook by Castile’s girlfriend. St. Anthony already is taking a closer look at possible racial bias in its police depar tment. Minnesota investigators looking into Castile’s death have turned their findings over to a county prosecutor who will review the case for possible charges.
HEALTH CARE COSTS PROMPT LATEST SPECIAL SESSION CALLS ST. PAUL — Some Minnesota lawmakers say big health care premium increases call for a special session. Of ficials from both par ties agree the rate increases on the individual market unveiled last week that range from 50 percent to 67 percent hikes are unsustainable. The state’s top regulator has said the individual market is in a state of emergency, noting many companies had wanted to pull out. But there are few easy answers to get costs or stability under control. Republican Speaker Kurt Daudt calls it a crisis. He called on fellow legislators Wednesday to help come up with a fix. Democratic Minority Leader Paul Thissen agrees but doubts they can find a solution in the coming months. Open enrollment begins Nov. 1 and ends soon after the Legislature’s scheduled return early next year. ASSOCIATED PRESS
NATIONAL BRIEFING
Nearly 2M urged to evacuate as Matthew edges toward US BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MELBOURNE BEACH, Fla. — Hurricane Matthew marched toward Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas and nearly 2 million people along the coast were urged to evacuate their homes Wednesday, a mass exodus ahead of a major storm packing power the U.S. hasn’t seen in more than a decade. Matthew was a dangerous and life-threatening Categor y 3 stor m with sustained winds of 120 mph (190 kph) as it passed thr ough the Bahamas, and it was expected to be ver y near Florida’s Atlantic coast by Thursday eve-
home about 500 feet from the coast. They moved the pool furniture inside, turned of f the water, disconnected all electrical appliances and emptied their refrigerator. They then hopped in a truck filled with legal documents, jewelr y and a decorative carved shell that had once belonged to April Medina’s great-grandfather and headed west to Orlando, where they planned to ride out the storm with their daughter’s family. “The way we see it, if it maintains its current path, we get tr opical stor mstrength winds. If it makes a little shift to the left, it could be a Categor y 2 or
3 and I don’t want to be anywhere near it,” Carlos Medina said. “We are just being a little safe, a little bit more cautious.” About 20 miles away in the town of Cape Canaveral, John Long said Hurricane Matthew is just hype as his neighbors in his RV park packed up and evacuated inland. Even though his 32-foot RV is just feet from the Banana River and a half mile from the beach, he had no plans to leave. Long, who owns a bike shop and has lived along the Space Coast for 30 years, said he has a generator and enough food and water for himself and his cats to last a week.
Chicago council Trump rebuffs claim that he ‘loves’ Putin approves plan for police probes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHICAGO — The Chicago City Council on Wednesday approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan to create a new agency to investigate police shootings and misconduct allegations even as critics — some on the council — say it’s not strong enough to closely watch a police force long dogged by a reputation for brutality and covering up misdeeds of officers. Over the objections of some aldermen and several people in the audience who angrily shouted their displeasure, the council voted 39-8 to form a new agency to investigate the police force called the Civilian Office of Police Accountability and create a new deputy inspector whose job will be to monitor the department. “Obviously, Chicago ain’t ready for reform,” said Alderwoman Leslie Hairston, who voted against the plan after complaining that it won’t have enough funding and independence from City Hall. She said the new agency is “not what many community organizations and activists want” and that it’s not any more transparent than the Independent Police Review Authority, which was discredited by long delays in completing investigations that almost always sided with officers. But Emanuel echoed several aldermen, saying the plan is not perfect but a significant step in a city where faith in the Police Department was shattered last year by a video showing a white police officer fatally shoot black teenager Laquan McDonald in 2014 and allegations that officers tried to cover up what happened. “I consider this to be the beginning of a journey, not the end,” said the mayor, who fired Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy in the wake of the video that showed 17-year-old McDonald being shot 16 times. Emanuel, who is now waiting for the U.S. Department of Justice to finish investigating the Police Department, credited the move with being the latest example of the city’s willingness to reform the department.
EXTENDED WEATHER FORECAST FRIDAY SATURDAY HIGH 54° HIGH 55° LOW 37° LOW 40° Sunny
ning. At least 16 deaths in the Caribbean have been blamed on the storm, with heavy damage reported in Haiti. The storm was forecast to scrape much of the Florida coast and any slight deviation could mean landfall or it heading farther out to sea. Either way, it was going to be close enough to wreak havoc along the lower par t of the East Coast, and many people weren’t taking any chances. In Melbour ne Beach, near the Kennedy Space Center, Carlos and April Medina moved their paddle board and kayak inside the garage and took pictures of f the walls of their
Partly cloudy
SUNDAY HIGH 64° LOW 53° Sunny
HENDERSON, Nev. — Donald Trump pushed back Wednesday on Hillar y Clinton’s accusation that he’s cozying up to Russian President Vladimir Putin after Mike Pence found himself on the defensive over the issue in the vice presidential debate against Tim Kaine. Trump offered effusive praise for his running mate but also claimed credit for Pence’s strong performance even as both campaigns acknowledged that the sole vice presidential debate was unlikely to alter the race’s trajectory. Picking up where Pence left off, he said his relationship with Russia’s leader would be determined by how Moscow responds to strong U.S. leadership under a Trump administration. “They say Donald Trump loves Putin. I don’t love, I don’t hate. We’ll see how it works,” Trump told a rally outside Las Vegas. Clinton on Wednesday said Trump has “this weird fascination with dictators.” “My opponent seems not to know the difference between an ally and adversar y,” Clinton said at an evening fundraiser in Washington. “There seems to be some misunderstanding about what it means to have a dictatorship and provide leadership.” Clinton said Pence “just bobbed and weaved” when he was asked during the debate to defend Trump’s provocative statements “because, after all, trying to defend Donald Trump is an impossible task.” The billionaire candidate sought to take away an argument that Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, have ramped up in the final weeks of the campaign as they work to portray Trump as dangerous for American interests overseas. While U.S.-Russia relations nosedive over failed diplomacy in Syria, Trump has complimented Putin, calling him a strong leader and even encouraging him to track down Clinton’s missing emails, though Trump later said he was being sarcastic. “You guys love Russia,” Kaine said in Tuesday’s debate. “You both have said Vladimir Putin is a better leader than the president.”
MONDAY HIGH 71° LOW 51° Sunny
TUESDAY HIGH 64° LOW 42° Partly cloudy
=
=
=
=
=
=
EDITORIAL STAFF John Thomas Editorials & Opinions Editor jthomas@mndaily.com Anant Naik Senior Editorial Board Member anaik@mndaily.com BUSINESS Catherine Vaught Retail Sales Manager cvaught@mndaily.com Emma Dahlgren Creative Director edahlgren@mndaily.com FINANCE Pushkar Chaubol • Controller pchaubol@mndaily.com CORRECTIONS The Minnesota Daily strives for complete accuracy and corrects its errors immediately. Corrections and clarifications will always be printed in this space. If you believe the Daily has printed a factual error, please call the readers’ representative at (612) 627–4070, extension 3057, or email errors@mndaily.com immediately. THE MINNESOTA DAILY is a legally independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and is a student-written and student-managed newspaper for the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus. The Daily’s mission is: 1) to provide coverage of news and events affecting the University community; 2) to provide a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas for the University community; 3) to provide educational training and experience to University students in all areas of newspaper operations; and 4) to operate a fiscally responsible organization to ensure its ability to serve the University in the future. The Daily is a member of the Minnesota News Council, the Minnesota Associated Press, the Associated Collegiate Press, The Minnesota Newspaper Association and other organizations. The Daily is published Monday through Thursday during the regular school year and weekly during the summer, and it is printed by ECM Publishers in Princeton, Minn. Midwest News Service distributes the 15,000 issues daily. All Minnesota Daily inserts are recyclable within the University of Minnesota program and are at least 6 percent consumer waste. U.S. Postal Service: 351–480.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
3
U team works to change heart surgery Researchers have created a new, artificial heart artery that can grow on its own. BY KEATON SCHMIDT kschmidt@mndaily.com
Since he was 4 years old, University of Minnesota freshman Anders Jenson has had four open-heart surgeries. When patients like Jenson are missing valves or tubes in their heart, surgeons can implant synthetic ones but must replace them often because they don’t grow with other body parts. Now, after 25 years, University researchers have created a new type of artificial artery that grows by itself and can work in more patients without specialization. The University team behind the project published a study last week showing the success of their implant in sheep. The team hopes using an implant that grows with the patient over time will mean only one surgery in a lifetime, said Robert Tranquillo, a University biomedical engineering professor and co-author on the study. “As the patient grows and the tubes don’t, there’s restricted blood flow, and they need to implant a bigger tube. These are open-heart surgeries. … You can imagine how traumatic that is,” Tranquillo said. Each new surger y can also stress the heart, making additional surgeries more difficult and dangerous. “Over a lifespan, it could
be three or four [surgeries],” said Dr. Gwenyth Fischer, Pediatric Device Innovation Consortium director and assistant professor of pediatrics. Jenson, whose most recent surgery was four years ago, said he now requires surgical specialists after the stresses of previous operations. The repeat surgeries for those with these types of conditions can be extremely draining. Jenson said he gets his operations done over summer breaks and spends the entire period sluggish and unable to do any physical activity. “I don’t even remember the [week after a surgery],” he said. “I was sleeping the entire time. There’s not much else I can do.” Tranquillo said other groups have made artificial, growing tubes, but these devices needed to be laced with patient’s cells before use and aren’t made of organic tissue. Meanwhile, the new tube works “off the shelf” without any patient cells inside it. This helps avoid issues with the host’s immune system, said Zeeshan Syedain, lead author of the study. “Our [implant] doesn’t require patient cells. … We can implant this into any other person without risking a … response,” Tranquillo said. While most other devices are made of plastic or other synthetics, this model is made to let host cells join with
MADDY FOX, DAILY
Containers holding heart valve implants sit in the University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering on Monday.
it and grow like a natural tube after it gets attached to the patient, he said. When the tube is in the heart, cells flowing through fill its structure. These cells can grow with the body, Tranquillo said. “It becomes living again after it’s implanted. … It’s becoming like an artery again,” he said. The tubes also have “growth factors” left from when researchers made
Superheroes honor shooting victim dressed as Batman BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TOWNVILLE, S.C. — Six-year-old Jacob Hall was dressed as Batman for his funeral on Wednesday, and many of more than 1,000 mourners appeared as superheroes to honor the school shooting victim. The first-grader’s mother, choking back tears, wore a Robin costume. Jacob’s family had asked mour ners to celebrate the boy’s life by dressing as the superheroes he loved, and so they d id . C a p t a in Ame ri ca s and Wonder Women filed past his small blue casket, along with Supermen and Supergirls, Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur tles and Power Rangers. His teachers came in handmade blue capes with a Ninja Turtle face and Jacob’s name. Jacob loved to pretend he was a superhero, imagining himself as the good guy, the Rev. David Blizzard recalled. He encouraged mour ners to honor his wishes by forgiving the 14-year-old boy charged with killing him at Townville Elementar y School. “ P r e a c h e r, I k n o w what Jacob would say to me,” Blizzard said Jacob’s mother, Renae Hall, told him. “He’d say, ‘Mama, forgive that boy and love him like Jesus loves him because Jesus loves him.’
That’s exactly what Jacob would probably say.” Blizzard also refer red to the nine people killed in last year’s church shooting inside the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, reminding the crowd that their families forgave that shooter. “We have the same Jesus that Mother Emanuel had, and we can do the same thing if we choose to,” Blizzar d said, be cause “a superhero stor y is about good versus evil. The good always wins. We live in a dark world, but the good’s going to win.” Jacob died Satur day from a bullet that str uck the main ar ter y in his thigh. Authorities said the 14-year-old killed his own father, then drove to the school and sprayed gunfire. Jacob’s classmate and a first-grade teacher also were str uck by bullets, and were treated and released from a hospital. The teen faces charges of murder, attempted murder and weapons possession. A capacity cr owd of more than 500 squeezed into the church’s sanctuar y. H undr e ds m or e watched live feeds in the gym and the youth building, and still others waited outside the Oakdale Baptist Church. A thousand programs were handed out before the funeral began. A 6-year-old friend from
church, Lily Gunby, wore a pink and black Superman shirt. She said Jacob “was really sweet,” and “knew a lot about Jesus.” Lily’s uncle Derek Gunby says Jacob was “the cutest thing ever” at Bible school. John Buckland drove his Batmobile from West Virginia to attend the funeral. Wearing full Batman garb, he gave the kids posters saying “Tough things make me stronger.” “Keep an eye on each other. Care about each other, love each other. If someone’s in trouble, reach out and give them the help they need, because Jacob would,” Buckland said. Students won’t retur n t o To w n v i l l e E l e m e n tar y until Thursday. But the district’s other five schools planned to honor Jacob by par ticipating in Superhero Day, with all employees and students invited to come to school in costume. A Facebook page created for Superhero Day said schools across the state planned to par ticipate, but in central and coastal South Carolina, schools were closed in advance of Hurricane Matthew. District Superintendent Joanne Aver y also an nounced a moment of silence at 1:42 p.m. Wednesday, to mark one week since the shooting.
them in the lab, Tranquillo said. These chemicals help tell the body to adopt the implant. Heart implants are often accompanied by drug regimens to prevent clotting and other complications. The team’s model requires that patients take anticoagulants, but as the cells grow into the tube, patients could potentially go without them, Syedain said — but more research needs to be
done to know for certain. Tranquillo said the lab will also design an artificial valved tube with leaflets, or small flaps that prevent deoxygenated blood from flowing in the wrong direction. This could be used to treat different kinds of heart defects. “If we can make a valve that grows along with the tube, that would allow us to address essentially all … defects,” he said. In the future, Jenson
wants to be a pediatric cardiologist and use new treatments like the artificial tube to treat heart conditions like his own more effectively. “A big concern for me is how long will I be able to continue to have all these open-heart surgeries? … I want to make it easier for kids with hear t disease,” Jenson said. “I’ve experienced the inefficiencies of our current treatments. I don’t think it’s right.”
Diverse voices lacking in Minnesota Legislature The Legislature has had 36 lawmakers identify as a minority. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com
Despite a growing minority population in the state, the Minnesota Legislature continues to fall behind on diversity. In the state legislature’s history, there have been 36 lawmakers who’ve identified as racial or ethnic minorities. Currently, 11 of 201 state legislators identify as minorities — about 5 percent. Sen. Jeff Hayden, DFLMinneapolis, said he thinks the legislature’s lack of diversity is reflective of state disparities. “If you are white in Minnesota, you really do well. You’re well-represented,” he said. “And then if you are a minority in Minnesota, you really are in the gap.” According to 2015 census data, Minnesota’s minority population is 19 percent — about four times higher than the legislature’s. Factors contributing to this gap include a lack of engagement and mentorship for minority communities from governmental officials, said Rep. Rena Moran, DFLSt. Paul. To introduce more minority voices into the legislature, Moran said lawmakers first need to acknowledge the
“If we don’t have more people who understand and represent those communities … then we’re going to ultimately fall behind.” JEFF HAYDEN Senator, DFL-Minneapolis
disparities among elected officials. “[Legislators] have to make that a priority,” she said. Ilhan Omar, candidate for State House District 60B, said many minority candidates that run for office often lack the support from political parties and the political elite. But the lack of support can also come from voters, who sometimes show uneasiness toward black candidates, said Michael Minta, a University of Minnesota political science professor. “Even when you have people that have … similar ideological backgrounds … studies show that there’s still … this discomfort that many whites may have about blacks in general, and they project those onto the candidates,” he said. But officials said there are more issues than the lack of representation, such as income inequality. “That suggests that, when you run for office, you have to be able to have money, or you have to be able to raise some money,” Hayden said.
And the gerrymandering of districts group people together into less diverse communities, Minta said. “The type of districts that are drawn … at the legislative level really affects the type of people that are going to be represented,” he said. Having fewer minority legislators at the capitol also creates a symbolic issue, Minta said, adding that young people may not think they can become legislators if they don’t see anyone who looks like them. “I think that it’s good to have … role models, and people can say ‘hey, I can do that,’” he said. Moran said if more minority voices were in the legislature, there’d be more policies to help reduce state disparities and biases. “There are more people of color in the state and growing than there ever has been, but the legislature is somewhat static,” Hayden said. “If we don’t have more people who understand and represent those communities … then we’re going to ultimately fall behind.”
UN peacekeepers fled, used tear gas on South Sudan civilians BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JUBA, South Sudan — United Nations peacekeepers abandoned their posts when fighting erupted in South Sudan’s capital in July and then used tear gas on frightened civilians who sought shelter at the center of the U.N. base, a new report says. Wednesday’s report by the U.S.-based Center for Civilians in Conflict adds to a growing list of incidents where U.N. peacekeepers have been accused of failing to carr y out their mandate in South Sudan, where civil war erupted in December 2013. More than 12,000 U.N. peacekeepers are in this East African country. More than 200,000 civilians are sheltering in U.N. camps in the capital and elsewhere. The new report, based
on interviews with 59 South Sudanese civilians and 21 officials with the U.N. mission, among others, says some peacekeepers refused orders to protect civilians during the July chaos in Juba. Hundreds of people died in the fighting between government and opposition forces. Peacekeepers with the U.N. force in South Sudan, or UNMISS, largely remained confined to their base during and immediately after the violence, and struggled to patrol the capital for weeks afterward, the report says. The Associated Press has repor ted that peacekeepers also refused to respond to pleas for help as government soldiers looted and raped aid workers at the nearby Terrain compound. Separately, the new report found that Chinese peacekeepers at a U.N.
camp “fled en masse” from their positions in response to heavy fighting nearby, leaving behind some weapons and ammunition. With those peacekeepers gone, and with nowhere in that par t of the U.N. camp to seek shelter from gunfire, about 5,000 civilians “fled over fences and barbed wire” into the hear t of the camp where administrative of fices are located, the repor t says. Over whelmed peacekeepers then struggled to manage the crowd, and civilian witnesses said some looting occurred. A response came the next day. “According to seven independent witness accounts, on the morning of July 12, UNMISS fired tear gas on the civilians with little or no warning,” the report says. In response to questions
from the AP, a spokeswoman for the U.N. mission, Yasmina Bouziane, said two tear gas shells were used by peacekeepers to assure the safety of U.N. personnel, and there were no injuries. She also that in response to some direct and indirect heavy fire, some peacekeepers took cover as a selfdefense measure. T wo Chinese peacekeepers died during the July fighting, and six others sustained major injuries. The new repor t raises concerns that peacekeepers have been unable to learn from past mistakes. After South Sudanese gover nment soldiers in Februar y attacked a U.N.protected camp in Malakal that sheltered 48,000 civilians, a repor t by U.N. Secr etar y-General Ban Ki-Moon found that peacekeepers had a “lack of a
proactive mindset” for civilians and experienced “confusion with respect to command and control and lack of coordination.” “There is ver y little accountability for peacekeeping failures in terms of protection of civilians,” Matt Wells, a senior adviser on peacekeeping at the Center for Civilians in Conflict, told The Associated Press. “As long as there is little consequence to failing to perform under a mandate, events like Malakal and Juba are unfor tunately likely to happen again.” His organization advocates for protecting civilians in conflicts around the world. At the same time, South Sudan’s government has repeatedly hampered the U.N. mission, according to a recent confidential letter from the U.N. chief to the U.N. Security Council.
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, said during the council’s recent visit to the country that she had “never seen a mission that is as obstr ucted as UNMISS in its movement.” In August, the Security Council warned South Sudan’s government to accept 4,000 additional peacekeepers and remove restrictions on the U.N. mission or face an arms embargo. On Wednesday, Martin Elia Lomoro, South Sudan’s minister of Cabinet af fairs, told the AP that the government had accepted the force in principle, and that most of the deployment’s technical areas had been agreed to. “If you insist on bringing 4,000, OK. Let’s see what they are going to do,” Lomoro said.
4
Thursday, October 6, 2016
MPD announces updated transgender guidelines
UDA responds to neighborhood association pleas
MPD announced new policies for interacting with transgender people.
UDA created task force to increase collaboration with neighborhoods.
BY KRISTINA BUSCH kbusch@mndaily.com
The Minneapolis Police Depar tment announced a new policy last month that will require officers to use preferred gender pronouns when interacting with individuals who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming. “We have been working to figure out how to improve issues with the transgender community,” said Andrea Jenkins, a policy aide to City Hall and
ISSUES REPORTED BY NATIONAL TRANSGENDER DISCRIMINATION SURVEY 15% sexually assaulted in jail 16% physically assaulted in jail 22% reported police harassment
46% were uncomfortable asking police for help
SOURCE: NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY
the oral historian for the University of Minnesota’s Transgender Oral Histor y Project. Jenkins said that focus groups identified harassment in police interactions as one of the biggest issues for people who identify as transgender. “Denying a person’s identity is dehumanizing,” she said. “If people don’t respect my own self-determination, it’s disrespectful and harmful.” According to the 2011 National Center for Transgender Equality Sur vey — which sur veyed over 6,400 people who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming — 22 percent reported facing harassment by police. These rates increased for people of color. And 46 percent of people sur veyed reported feeling uncomfor table asking police for help. “I’ve been involved in some research projects that look at police harassment,” Jenkins said, “It’s a cycle.” Because people who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming are af fected by transphobia, Jenkins said, they have trouble being employed.Often, they have to resort to sex work or drug-dealing. This leads to incidents with law enforcement, Jenkins said. During the policy announcement, Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges
said the city was the first to have a nondiscriminatory policy for transgender people back in 1975. According to the National LGBTQ Task Force, Minneapolis was the only city with a statute against the discrimination of transgender people until 1990, when Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Seattle, and St. Paul adopted similar laws. University gender, women and sexuality studies assistant professor Aren Aizura said discrimination against those who identify as transgender or gender nonconforming dates back to the 19th century. “In the 1860s there were a lot of municipal laws that made cross-dressing illegal,” he said. “Police had an agenda to move people if they were gender nonconforming … the logic was these people were a threat to society.” Aizura said these crossdressing laws were used throughout histor y as an excuse for police to arrest transgender and gender nonconforming people — for example, the police raids that resulted in the 1969 Stonewall riots. “There is a certain kind of status quo that people are expected to conform to,” he said. “If police find out they are not maintaining that status quo, they will find excuses to detain them.” According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, in 2013,
transgender people were seven times more likely to face violence from law enforcement than cisgender people. Specifically, transgender people of color were six times more likely to face violence. “If police use your correct pronouns while they arrest you that’s all well and good,” Aizura said, “but what happens after you are arrested?” Jenkins said that while this policy is a great first step, it’s still too early to say whether any change has come from it. “When transgender people are arrested they can be put in custody with people of the opposite gender, and even incarcerated [transgender] people are harassed by guards and inmates,” she said. MPD Chief Janeé Harteau said at the announcement that the guiding principle for the MPD is to evaluate their interactions and determine if their actions reflect how they’d want a family member to be treated. She said to accomplish that goal the depar tment must continue to understand the community itserves. “To our trans residents and to trans people ever ywhere: We see you, we hear you, you are us and we are you,” Hodges said.“We are proud to stand with you. We are proud to stand for you in the work that we do.”
FBI agents in San Fransisco hack iPhone BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Special Agent Jack Bennett was at the FBI’s computer investigation lab in Quantico, Virginia, on a Sunday in March when an outside company showed the bureau how it could hack into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. The tool would end the FBI’s high-profile fight with Apple over access to the phone, but Bennett said there was no celebration. “There wasn’t high fives, and there weren’t people singing down the hallways,” he recalled. “It was ver y much business. ‘OK, let’s move for ward to the next steps. Let’s get on the phone. What do we need to do to purchase the tool?’” The iPhone fight exposed a rift between the FBI and Silicon Valley technology companies over encryption, and sparked a debate about the right balance between privacy and national security. Bennett, 52, was a key figure in that battle as head of the bureau’s digital forensics labs, which extract evidence from computers and other devices and were tasked with accessing the San Bernardino shooter’s phone. Bennett is now in charge of the agency’s San Francisco division, where he views his role, in part, as trying to bridge the divide between Silicon Valley and the FBI.
He took over as special agent in charge of San Francisco in May after nearly 30 years in law enforcement. He started his career as a narcotics investigator with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation and did a stint with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration eradicating cocaine smuggling operations in South America. He has investigated child sex crimes and animal rights extremists for the FBI and previously served as an assistant special agent in San Francisco. “The U.S. government sometimes loses sight of what is impor tant to corporations ... and privacy is incredibly important,” Bennett said during a recent interview at his office, where a Thompson submachine gun like the type used by agents in the 1930s sits in a glass display case on a coffee table. Still, he was unapologetic about the bureau’s desire to access the phone. “We were pretty surprised that this turned in such a way that it became this national debate,” Bennett said. “It was never intended to be. ... We were trying to get on one phone because we had 14 murdered people.” The fight between Apple Inc. and the FBI centered on the work-issued iPhone 5c of Syed Rizwan Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people at a 2015 holiday
gathering of county workers. The U.S. Justice Depar tment demanded that Apple create software to bypass security features on the phone. Apple CEO Tim Cook said the FBI was asking his company to create a “back door” that could be used to unlock other phones, exposing customer data. Agreeing to the FBI’s demand would set a dangerous precedent that could lead to other calls for Apple’s help to obtain private information, Cook said. Apple vowed to fight a judge’s order granting the FBI’s request. It received support from technology giants including Google, Facebook and Microsoft, which warned in a court brief on Apple’s behalf that the order would undermine the security of the countr y’s most sensitive data. The two sides were gearing up for a court battle when the Justice Department announced in March that it potentially found a way to get into the phone without Apple’s help. The Associated Press and two other news organizations sued the FBI in September to learn who the government paid and how much it spent to hack into the phone. Bennett declined to say who helped the FBI, though he said the business was among a number of U.S. and international companies that approached the bureau with potential solutions. FBI Director
James Comey has hinted that the agency paid more than $1 million for the tool. Investigators found nothing of significant value on the phone, Bennett said. He disputed that the FBI was asking Apple for a tool that could access other iPhones, calling it a “oneshot deal.” Bennett’s desire to build a stronger relationship with Silicon Valley companies is laudable, but the two sides might never agree about encr yption, said Denelle Dixon-Thayer, chief legal and business of ficer at Mozilla, which makes the Firefox web browser. “We can still have some healthy tension,” she said. “I think that’s positive.” Ted Schlein, a venture capitalist with Kleiner Perkins who invests in computer security firms, said Bennett’s technology background could help the bureau make better decisions about what to ask of Silicon Valley companies and how to get their help. Bennett acknowledged technology firms and the FBI might continue to disagree over data access, but said the need for dialogue will remain. “There are absolute, good reasons why companies have concerns about cooperating with the FBI. But ther e ar e also oppor tunities we should be able to talk to each other,” Bennett said.
Tagging point of infection that led to orca’s death BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SEATTLE — A satellitelinked tag fired into an endangered Puget Sound orca by federal biologists led to a fungal infection that contributed to the whale’s death, scientists said Wednesday. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries said a 20-year-old whale found dead off Vancouver Island in March was found to have fragments of a dart tag in its dorsal fin. The death prompted the agency in April to temporarily halt its tagging program. Five weeks before it was found dead, researchers fired a small satellite-linked transmitter into the orca to
track where the animals go in the winter and how they find food. The transmitter is the size of a 9-volt battery and attaches with two titanium darts just over 2 inches long. It’s designed to detach over time and leave nothing behind in the whale. A fungal infection entered the orca’s bloodstream at the spot where it was shot, causing the animal’s death, the necropsy found. The fungus may have been introduced by a contaminated tag, or was already on whale’s skin and brought deeper by fragments left behind in the animal’s body, the examination found. The tag may have been contaminated when it fell
into the sea and wasn’t properly sterilized before it was used, possibly contributing to introducing the fungi into the wound, the report by a panel of scientists said. The agency and its scientists “are deeply dismayed that one of their tags may have had something to do with the death of this whale,” NOAA Fisheries’ chief scientist Richard Merrick told reporters in a telephone call. “There’s always a risk involved when you’re conducting research on wild animals. But it’s our job and our obligation to reduce that risks and that’s what we’ll continue to do,” Merrick said. Some advocates have criticized the tagging, saying it injures the orcas
and there are less invasive ways to monitor the small population of whales. There are currently 82 animals. Ken Balcomb, a senior scientist with the Center for Whale Research in Friday Harbor, said he has been raising concerns for years about the use of the tags, which he called “barbaric and risky.” Several factors may have predisposed the whale to a severe fungal infection, including not completely sterilizing the device, Merrick said. The tag also hit the whale near significant blood vessels, and the whale’s health may have been compromised at the time it was tagged in February.
BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com
Following criticism from the Prospect Park Association (PPA), the University District Al liance (UDA) passed a resolution for more joint planning between ar ea neighborhoods and the University of Minnesota. Amid discussions about the University’s proposal to demolish grain elevators near TCF Bank Stadium to relocate an already existing sports bubble, the PPA sent a letter in August criticizing UDA for its perceived lack of collaboration with neighborhood organizations. At its Sept. 22 meeting, UDA passed a resolution to increase joint planning between the University and nearby neighborhoods. “There is a sense of frustration that the whole exercise [of the UDA] is pointless,” said PPA Secretar y Eric Amel. Amel said the UDA resolution acknowledges its lack of joint planning and promises to help engage local community members. The resolution consists of creating a task force of seven representatives from the University, the city of Minneapolis, two neighborhood organizations, a business association, a student leader and an outside party. “I think this can still be a group of a size that will be able to wrangle with the questions and bring back some recommendations,” said University Director of Community Relations and UDA member Jan Morlock . The resolution was also made to address the University ar ea’s high population and neighborhood safety issues which
“There is a sense of frustration that the whole exercise [of the UDA] is pointless.” ERIC AMEL PPA secretary
UNIVERSITY DISTRICT ALLIANCE AT A GLANCE November 2007 University District Alliance formed with the purpose of helping the surrounding University neighborhoods adjust to the new TCF Bank Stadium. 2008 UDA administered first wave of Good Neighbor Fund grants. September 2009 TCF Bank Stadium opened for the first time. September 2016 Joint Planning Resolution passed in the UDA board meeting, appointing a task force of representatives from the University, neighborhoods, businesses, students and local government. October 2016 Board of Regents will discuss and vote on the proposed Athletic Bubble facility at meetings this month. Janurary 2017 Joint planning task force will report back to the UDA. SOURCE: MNDAILY REPORTING
r equir e joint planning, said UDA Chair Doug Carlson . Carlson said the task force will help par ticipant groups come together and understand the driving forces on collaboration. The task force will repor t back to UDA with its recommendations by the end of Januar y. In the meantime, the Board of Regents will vote at its Oct. 13 meeting whether to demolish the grain elevators near TCF to make room for the athletic bubble. “We think … that the spor ts bubble would be best suited where the steel elevators are,” said Board Chair Dean Johnson. Johnson said the elevators are dangerous for people who tr y to climb in them and that the University plans to continue expanding into the Prospect Park area. The board has reviewed numerous letters it received in response to the proposed facility, Johnson said. Amel said the neighborhood doesn’t want the spor ts bubble, and the elevators are an impor tant historical monument in the neighborhood. “They make the University and the neighborhood a unique place,” he said. Amel said PPA wants regents to address feedback from those in the area and consider all options before proceeding with the project.
2 Colombians accused of trafficking 3 tons of cocaine across the US BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — Two Colombian men have been extradited to Los Angeles to face charges that they tried to smuggle tons of cocaine into the United States, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. Dicson Penagos-Casanova, 36, and Juan Gabriel Rios Sierra, 34, allegedly handled at least $70 million worth of cocaine that was seized by authorities after planes carrying the drugs crashed, the U.S. attorney’s office said. The men were extradited to Los Angeles from Columbia on Tuesday and could face up to life in federal prison if convicted of conspiracy and cocaine possession charges. It wasn’t immediately clear whether they had obtained attorneys. An indictment unsealed Tuesday contends that Penagos and Rios arranged for cocaine processed in laboratories outside Meta, Colombia, to be shipped to underground storage facilities near clandestine airstrips in Venezuela. According to the indictment, the cocaine was put aboard jets obtained through straw purchasers, and Venezuelan military and government officials were bribed
to allow the planes to move through that country. The cocaine would be flown to Central American hubs where it would be offloaded for smuggling to Los Angeles, other U.S. points and Mexico, prosecutors contend. Two planes that crashed last year were carrying 2,880 kilograms (about 3.2 tons) of cocaine valued at $72 million on the black market, authorities said. One plane was shot down in January 2015 by the Venezuelan Air Force after takeoff, and Dutch law enforcement later recovered packages of cocaine that were floating near Aruba, authorities said. Another drug jet had engine failure and crashed that May in the Caribbean Sea off of Colombia, authorities said. “By taking key players out of commission, we are disrupting the drug cartels’ ability to import their dangerous narcotics into our country,” U.S. Attorney Eileen M. Decker said in a statement. “These defendants’ arrival in the U.S. for prosecution marks a significant victory for law enforcement here and in Central and South America, which have worked in concert to ensure justice is achieved in this case.”
Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
Expand the City of Peace Project Columbia Heights has created a new project for promoting diversity, others should follow.
I
f this past year has been any indication, Minnesota has work to do to promote racial equality and cohesion. Just this year, the death of Philando Castile revealed an ugly bruise — one that narrated a story filled with racial biases and injustice. National movements that aim to curb gun violence and terrorism seem to be futile. Last month, a stabbing in St. Cloud injured 10 people, which authorities deemed to be an act of terrorism. Countless other cases this year, albeit not in Minnesota, have ravaged the country, spreading animosity and resentment between people of different religions, social classes and economic backgrounds. Though there are few models for how to accelerate the change we need, Columbia Heights is a good example. Their City of Peace initiative offers a potential solution for how policy makers can work to promote diversity and inclusion within their communities. Started after the tension and fear found in the wake of 9/11, Mayor Gary Peterson told me, “It seemed to be the thing to do at the time.” The City of Peace initiative started as a movement aiming to promote a commitment
ANANT NAIK columnist
to building dialogue, unity and diversity within a city. Part of this initiative is to reward other cities that demonstrate this commitment. I sat down with Mayor Peterson, and he told me about how Columbia Heights is building a park in a predominantly Somali community that will begin a larger redevelopment project for minority immigrant communities in the city. I think Columbia Heights has taken a few key steps in the right direction. For instance, their community engagement programs with law enforcement seem to have improved the climate of the community. Despite Columbia Heights having a much lower number of law enforcement officers, its crime rate is still fairly low considering its proximity to more high-violence regions of Minneapolis. Mayor Peterson argued that law enforcement’s involvement in the community is what makes this work. “I mostly work with our police force. They ride around bikes, shaking people’s hands, they have after school programs [with 60-80] kids.”
But from Mayor Peterson’s perspective, the outreach that the city has tried to do with surrounding cities and many other minority groups in their community hasn’t yielded many great results. The key issue is representation. Though there are many programs within Columbia Heights, few of them have resulted in greater representation of minority groups in government bodies like the City Council. The current City Council is composed of five Caucasian individuals despite a very diverse and heterogeneous population. When I asked what representation efforts have been successful, he pointed to the presence of Somali police officers. The City of Peace project has the right pieces. Now it’s a matter of putting them together. More efforts need to be made to address the root causes of these issues. Minority organizations need to be the face of these initiatives rather than perceived as external entities. The Mayor’s office ought to endorse candidates that are more representative of the diversity of Columbia Heights. Until practices such as this take hold, this initiative and others like it won’t hold water. Anant Naik welcomes comments at anaik@mndaily.com.
DAILY DISCUSSION Re: Protesters condemn Washington Avenue ‘Build the Wall’ mural Freedom of speech exists to support a liberal democracy which endows every member of society with the equally important rights of due process and equal protection. Conser vative students who cr y “Freedom of Speech” in defense of their incoherent, and violent fantasy, are intellectually dishonest. To “Build the Wall” is to attempt to permanently dehumanize millions of Americans who would become even more suspect in our national, white supremacist ideology; for the practical effects of any potential concrete barrier are unimportant to those who chant for its construction. The “wall” is a symbolic last defense for a white majority America, it would become a monument to preserving whiteness, to fearing perceived others, and to using federal power to promote a violently anti-liberal agenda predicated around controlling who can and who cannot be considered an American. To construct the wall would be an actual blow to the free exchange of ideas. Graffiti on a bridge mural is laughable compared to this great threat to American liberal democracy. To oppose the wall is to promote liberty. To support the wall is to promote tyranny— plain and simple. We all need to know this. We all need to understand that there are students among us who are fundamentally opposed to every liberal ideal upon which this country stands. And for this reason I support this mural. If the opponents of liberty wish to present themselves, for the rest of us to understand their dangerously-misguided beliefs, let them do so. I’d rather the extreme right exist on the side of our shared walking space than in the recesses of our minds and the gutters of this University. Because I oppose the vision of the mural, this is why I support its existence. The presence of hate organizes its opposition. Corbin Buss UMN Class of 2018
Editor’s Note: This letter has been edited for style conventions. CONTACT THE EDITOR John Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com
Recently, this newspaper and members of this campus decided that some constitutionally protected expression was the worst thing ever. The cause of all this trouble was not a campus march by neo-Nazis or even a visit from Westboro Baptist Church. No, what got our collective undies in a bunch? Paint … on a wall. Some are now proposing that the University president — a state actor — limit “forceful” expression they disagree with. Setting aside the irony of using your speech rights to demand that others lose theirs, to illustrate how preposterous this request is, I will play your game with you. As a staunch defender of first-amendment rights, I’m going to propose that your speech — demanding that the speech rights of others be curtailed, is also dangerous and hurtful. Under your premise, then, President Kaler should make an immediate move to ensure I don’t have to listen to your nonsense on this campus anymore. Sounds ridiculous when I say it like that?
5
EDITORIALS Words are not spoken in a void On Monday, we printed an editorial that was critical of President Kaler’s response to the College Republican’s “Build the Wall” panel, and the ensuing discussion of free speech on campus. A number of members of the campus community, students and faculty alike, have taken issue with that editorial. Particularly the phrase “But, much to our chagrin, we live in a community that protects their speech.” The Daily Editorial Board would like to af firm our support of the right to free speech that ever y member of our community has, especially us as a news organization that has the privilege of condemning perceived hate speech. That being said, we think the context which informed our perspective should be given heed. Two members of our board identify as members of the LGBTQIA community. Their experiences with hate speech have spanned decades, and the memories of the sometimes physical violence that accompanied those words will never go away. We regret how we expressed our perspective on Monday, but many of the responses we received seem to forget the power of speech that they say they want to protect. We reassure you that it’s a freedom we value. Please, however, take a moment to reflect on the wound some speech may leave.
In defense of Dinky shops
Helen Teague welcomes comments at hteague@mndaily.com.
COLUMN
The Chemistry of Free Speech Let the reactions to this weekend’s hate speech continue unhindered.
T
he message emblazoned on that now infamous bridge panel is so hateful it sickens me. In fact, it’s straight up racist, folks. I know it, you know it, we all do. The “Build the Wall” panel’s appearance has sparked renewed political debate and discourse all over campus in the last few days — a perverse silver lining in the middle of a mess. How do we justify the unacceptable fact that many students will now walk past that panel every day feeling fundamentally unsafe, unsupported and unwelcome? I sometimes, like all of us, wish that only the people I agree with had free speech. Those people, for me, are the ones who support progress and opportunity for all. But, that’s not the way it works — free speech can’t be one-sided or discerning. You can’t give it to Black Lives Matter without also granting it to the KKK (unfortunately). But, when an act of brazen, strident, incendiary hate speech occurs, a reaction as extreme should be expected.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Who Gets to Decide?
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Yet, that’s exactly what students are now advocating for — limiting the speech of others just because they disagree with that speech. You force ideas to stand or fall on their own merit by forcing them to compete in the marketplace of ideas. By protecting the worst kinds of speech, the Westboro, the racist, even the pornographer, we create a situation where important speech is automatically protected. Bigotry in all forms is a product of ignorance. The equation to defeat bigotry is not the addition of more ignorance, the solution is education. Likewise, the answer to speech you disagree with is more speech, not less. Students were right to force objectionable ideas into the open with discussion and protest, but to suggest we respond with restrictions on speech that some object to, that’s a slippery slope to a self-defeating demand. Christopher Terry Professor of Law and Ethics, School of Journalism. Editor’s Note: This letter has been edited for style conventions.
THE EDITORIALS AND OPINIONS DEPARTMENT IS INDEPENDENT OF THE NEWSROOM
KATE MCCARTHY columnist
While the College Republicans are able and protected under the First Amendment to trumpet (subtle, don’t miss it) their message loudly, the subsequent vandalism should also be considered an act of free speech. Any step taken in the future around this topic will be another in a string of responses. I think that this issue transcends the question of whether or not spray painting over the panel was ethical. This is a space shared by all members of the campus community and the final word shouldn’t have to come until we’ve all had a chance to share our thoughts with our neighbors and peers. Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com.
SHARE YOUR VIEWS The Minnesota Daily welcomes letters and guest columns from readers. All letters must include the writer’s name, address and phone number for verification. The Daily reserves the right to edit all letters for style, space, libel and grammar. Letters to the editor should be no more than 500 words in length. Guest columns should be approximately 350 words. The Daily reserves the right to print any submission as a letter or guest column. Submission does not guarantee publication.
letters@mndaily.com Fax: (612) 435-5865 Phone: (612) 435-1578 Letters and columns to the editor 2221 University Ave. SE Suite 450 Minneapolis, MN 55414
In 1970 University of Minnesota students could take a short stroll down 4th Street SE in Dinkytown and experience the whole gamut of local, ma-and-pa enterprises — grocers, sundry bookshops, bakeries, even an aptly-named but now-shuttered coffeehouse called “Ten O’clock Scholar.” Throughout Dinkytown’s many metamorphoses in the past half-centur y, storeowners have unhinged their signs, boxed their goods, and left behind blank storefronts for the next crop of entrepreneurship — but their histories are immor talized in the wistful memories of many who frequented their shops. For most, Dinkytown — and its businesses — are integral parts of the University of Minnesota experience. But for the past three years, the diverse commercial community in Dinkytown has been threatened by a continued spate of luxur y student-housing development. And many, if not all, of these projects have been orchestrated by profiteering property management companies that see the student-dominated, University of Minnesota locale as a lucrative market worth plundering.
For most, Dinkytown — and its businesses — are integral parts of the University of Minnesota experience. In September, four mainstay businesses in Stadium Village — Big 10 Restaurant and Bar, Village Wok, Espresso Expose and Bun Mi Sandwiches — were forced to close in order to make way for a 27-stor y apartment complex. Now, two businesses in Dinkytown may meet the same fate. At a Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association meeting Tuesday night, Daniel Oberpriller of CPM Companies — a Minneapolis development firm that manages over 1 million square feet of studenthousing around campus — presented a proposal for a new, 16-floor apar tment complex in central Dinkytown. If approved, the apar tment building would effectively displace Mesa Pizza and Chatime Bubble Tea. In many ways, the parasitic seizure of Dinkytown by the housing development sector mirrors events in 1970. In that year a national fast-food chain — Red Barn — planned to raze a whole swath of buildings in Dinkytown. In response, aggrieved University students occupied the block — attempting to stave off the demolition of historic Dinkytown. At Tuesday’s meeting, James Kander of Kafe 421 responded to the proposed highrise: “You just ate up Dinkytown with this.” We must defend Dinkytown’s quirkiness, its folklore and its histor y from further housing development. At this turning point, it is impor tant to remember that this development isn’t inevitable. If we don’t make our voices heard, our favorite Dinkytown haunts may only survive in photographs. EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.
LOOK FOR ONLINE EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS AT WWW.MNDAILY.COM/OPINION
@MNDAILYOPINIONS
6
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Apartment could oust Mesa, Chatime Proposal u from Page 1
The preliminar y building plans aim to create housing for University of Minnesota undergraduate students. Oberpriller said the design only includes one bedroom, two bedroom and studio units. He said it would be made of concrete, designed to be the greenest building in the area and last for around 100 years or more. Despite the current buildings’ historical identity as an old firehouse, Oberpriller said they’re not “gems” in the community. Committee members raised concerns over elimination of streetscape, parking and leasing availability for other businesses. “It’s really violating Dinkytown,” said Barbara Camm, co-chair of Preserve Historic Dinkytown. “This isn’t going to bring anything into Dinkytown. Services will bring things to Dinkytown because people need something to do.” Oberpriller said he wants to start the project in March 2017, but it will first have to pass more Marcy-Homes and City of Minneapolis approvals.
Pipeline u from Page 1
as donating money and buying buttons to spread awareness to other students on campus. Summer Lara, University American Indian Student Cultural Center’s community outreach coordinator, said the AIS D e p a r t m e n t a g r e e d to cover transpor tation costs for a gr oup that wants to travel to North Dakota this month. They also want to rally groups from other disciplines, such as law and environmental science, because the pipeline could have negative environmental impacts, she said. “I’m mostly wor ried about the fact that it will leak, especially since it does go under neath the Missouri River a few times … especially with a tribe like Standing Rock. That’s … their main source of water,” she said. The Dakota Access Pipeline passes within a half-mile of the Standing Rock Sioux reser vation and would stretch about 1,170 miles from Nor th Dakota to Illinois, passing through South Dakota and Iowa on the way, according to Energy T ransfer Partners. The $3.78 billion pipeline is supposed to be functional by the end of 2016, but the federal government issued a temporar y injunction halting progress in September, said University American Indian studies professor David Wilkins. Sacred Stone Camp is the main site where
Late-night crowds line up for a slice of Messa pizza during homecoming weekend Oct. 14, 2012, in Dinkytown.
“It’s really violating Dinkytown.” BARBARA CAMM Preserve Historic Dinkytown Co-Chair
protestors organize and was set up in April. Sacred Stone Camp is the largest multi-tribe gathering to take place in about 150 years, said University environmental communications senior Kyle Samejima, who went there this summer with her daughter. “We went kind of as allies to suppor t the movement … par tly from the environmental racism standpoint,” she said. Samejima estimated that about 1,000 people wer e ther e that weekend and said the protests were peaceful. There were many acts of solidarity at the gathering, such as the sharing of tobacco peace pipes among members of different tribes. Samejima also opposes the pipeline from an environmental standpoint. She said companies need to stop extracting fossil fuels from the ground. She hopes the Standing Rock protests will provide a model for opposition to pipeline construction elsewhere. “People are fighting [pipelines] all over the countr y,” she said. “It’s encouraging, [but] it’s daunting because I think all these companies are going to give it their all at the end of this.”
MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Syria to reduce airstrikes for evacuations BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — Syria’s militar y command said it would scale back its bombardment of the contested city of Aleppo on Wednesday to allow civilians to evacuate besieged rebelheld neighborhoods. The announcement, br oadcast on state TV, followed 16 days of airstrikes and shelling that have killed over 300 civilians and damaged hospitals and water facilities. Satellite images released Wednesday by the U.N. show the scale of the destr uction since a U.S.Russia brokered ceasefire collapsed two weeks ago. The government is accused by opponents and international obser vers of using violence to forcibly depopulate areas seen as disloyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad. “The gover nment has used scorched ear th tactics against us, and then blesses us with an opportunity to leave? Of course this is refused,” said Ammar Sakkar, the militar y spokesman of the Fastiqum rebel faction inside east Aleppo. Doctors inside the city’s besieged easter n neighborhoods said there were fewer attacks on Wednesday, after two weeks of airstrikes in which Russian and Syrian gover nment jets targeted underground hospitals with bunkerbusting bombs. The Britain-based Syrian Obser vator y for Human Rights said 316 civilians in easter n Aleppo have
been killed in the past two weeks’ violence. U.N. Secretar y General Ban Kimoon has described conditions in eastern Aleppo, where 275,000 people are trapped under a gover nment siege, as “worse than a slaughterhouse.” The gover nment has insisted, however, that rebels inside east Aleppo have been preventing civilians from leaving via the safe corridors it demarcated in July with the Russian militar y. It says hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of displaced people have fled to areas of gover nment control across the countr y. Earlier this year, the Syrian government negotiated the complete evacuation of Daraya, once an opposition hub on the outskir ts of Damascus, after four years of siege left residents with no food or medical care. The U.N. likened the arrangement to “forced displacement” and warned it could not be a precedent for other areas. The U.N.’s satellite imager y program released images it said showed the most recent destruction to eastern parts of Aleppo. “Since the cease-fire has br oken down, you cer tainly see an awful lot of new damage,” said Lars Bromley, a research adviser at UNOSAT. The images, from DigitalGlobe and obtained by the U.N. agency through a licensing ar rangement with the U.S. State Depar tment, show mostly “formerly blasted and blown-up areas” during Syria’s 5-1/2-year war “ex-
periencing a great deal of additional damage,” said Bromley. “To a cer tain extent you’re looking at r ubble being pushed around,” he told reporters. At the White House, spokesman Josh Earnest called the images “deeply troubling.” But he added that it “tragically is not particularly surprising.” “Ordinarily you would be hear tbroken to lear n that this was the result of some sort of accident. But it’s clear that the Syrian regime —backed by the Russians — is engaged in a strategy of bombing those civilians intentionally to tr y to get them to bend to the will of the Assad regime,” he said. The images primarily consist of before-and-after pictures from mid to late September showing the destr uction of buildings, including houses, after the shor t-lived cease-fire broke down. Several images are from nor ther n Aleppo neighbor hoods, where government forces have advanced against rebel fighters who are battling back. Some of the images depict large craters, a “signature” that airstrikes have done the damage. Ar tiller y or mortar fire creates a dif ferent pattern of destruction, Bromley said. The U.N. satellite images could provide significant insights in the aftermath of high-profile, disputed attacks — such as a deadly attack on a U.N.-backed humanitarian aid convoy west of Aleppo last month.
The top U.S. militar y of ficer, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, told a Senate committee last week that he believes Russia bombed the convoy and said Syrian and Russian aircraft were in the area at the time. Russia and Syria have denied that they were responsible for the strike, with Russia saying the damage was caused by a cargo fire. “With our analysis, we determined that it was an airstrike,” Bromley said. UNOSAT appeared to backtrack slightly on that late Wednesday. Program chief Einar Bjorgo said satellite images were an indication of a “possible air strike, however the situation on the ground, the damage that has been caused, it is quite complex and we cannot be completely conclusive that it is an airstrike.” “But there are indicators leaning towards that,” he said The convoy organizers had obtained necessar y clearances from the government and rebels as well as the Americans and Russians, who were operating aircraft in Syrian skies. The U.N. Secretar y General said last week he would set up an inter nal U.N. board of inquir y to investigate the Sept. 19 convoy attack. Also on Wednesday, a Syria monitoring group and a Kurdish news agency said overnight airstrikes, suspected to be T urkish, hit a village in nor thern Syria, killing at least 18 civilians, including three children.
Poland won’t back total abortion ban BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARSAW, Poland — Lawmakers with Poland’s ruling right-wing party voted in a tumultuous parliamentar y commission session to reject a proposal for a total ban on abortion. The decision appeared to doom an effort to add further limits to what is already one of Europe’s most restrictive abortion laws. However, the proposal must still go to a vote to the full assembly of the lower house of Parliament on Thursday. Lawmakers will then vote on whether to reject it outright or whether to return it to the commission level for further consideration. The vote in a chaotic and emotional session on Wednesday evening came after the abortion ban proposal sparked massive protests on Monday, with large numbers of women across the nation donning black, boycotting work and school and demonstrating in the streets.
It came just before the European Parliament held an emotional debate on the situation of women in Poland. Some members called for the need to save unborn lives. Others expressed their solidarity with Polish women, some by wearing black. “We learned today that for the time being the law seems to be off the table, but I would say that this is no reason for celebration,” Dutch lawmaker Sophia in’t Veld said, arguing that that current Polish law “still doesn’t give women the choice.” In the two days since Monday’s protests, Poland’s leaders had signaled they wouldn’t support the divisive ban. Members of the ruling right-wing Law and Justice party, joined by lawmakers from other par ties, voted against the proposal. Some said they don’t approve of imposing criminal sentences on women who seek abortions. The proposal under discussion calls for prison
terms of up to five years for both the women and their doctors. Law and Justice leader in parliament, Ryszard Terlecki, said after the vote that the ruling party doesn’t support the radical draft law. He said the party is working on a separate draft that would largely leave the current law as it is but limit abortions in cases of Down Syndrome, which are now allowed. Earlier Wednesday, Jaroslaw Gowin, the minister of science and higher education, said the protests by women have “caused us to think and taught us humility” and that “there will not be a total abortion ban.” Mariusz Dzierzawski, from the committee Stop Abor tion, which initiated the proposal, said he hopes it might still return to the commission level. But Dzierzawski didn’t sound optimistic, saying the conser vative lawmakers had betrayed their voters.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
7
ART
Frank goes to Hollywood With the help of his dad and his uncle, fifth-grader Frank Kamis has created a series of children’s books. BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com
F
rank Kamish is a simple fifthgrader. His favorite food is raspberr y sorbet. He prefers Samsung to Apple. He loves “The Rockford Files.” Ever y day before elementar y school he slicks his hair back with water and sets it with hairspray. He also happens to be the illustrator of the “Frank Henr y and the Zooband Band” books — a children’s series aimed at teaching the “power of listening.” The books tackle the topic of listening through the use of “Zoobands” — headbands designed to look like animals. Frank can explain: “It was a noisy hullabaloo at the zoo one cool blue day, and all the animals were talkin’ at once. Then, Frank Henr y and his band come with the magical hor n. He blows the magical hor n and Zoobands blow all over the zoo. And it’s set in the Bronx zoo,” Frank said. Kamish’s newest book, “Frank Henr y and the Zooband Band Go to Washington,” takes a satirical stab at Washington’s partisan politics. Frank isn’t the only brain behind the “Frank Henr y” books. Frank’s uncle, Dave Kamish, colors the books while his father, Paul Kamish, writes the stories. Together, the family makes up Pigs and Pens Publishing. In response to the upcoming election, Pigs and Pens have made their newest volume available for free on their website, and Frank has a goal to
MADDY FOX, DAILY
Frank Kamish holds up copies of his books at Elmcrest Park in Ramsey on Saturday. Kamish, who illustrated the books on display, is a fifth grader at Lake Harriet Elementary. Kamish creates books with his father, Paul, and his uncle, David.
get the book in front of all members of Congress. This installment in the “Frank Henr y” series happens to be Frank’s favorite, too. He has seen a growth in his drawings since he star ted. Plus, “there’s more fighting … and there’s rhyming.” “You get these raw lines from [kids]. If I were to draw the lines, they would be ver y predictable. But you get lines from Frank ... you’ve got an eyeball over here … it’s got a lot more energy to it,” Dave Kamish said. Frank’s drawing process is dependent on both his imagination and reality.
“I just look at a picture, and I see what they look like, then I just draw it,” Frank said. Though Frank’s favorite ar tist is Leonardo da V inci, Frank’s gloriously lopsided, wonderfully-skewed drawings are more reminiscent of Salvador Dalí. Whether it’s artistic realism or schoolyard style, Frank refuses to follow the rules. “[Other kids] say, ‘Why do you wear jeans?’ They think [my collared shir ts] are weird,” Frank said, spor ting an orange sweater, blue patter ned pants and, la piece de resistance: s h i n y, M i d a s - t o u c h e d
high-tops. “I like H&M, Macy’s and I get some of my clothes from the thrift store,” Frank said. “If you dress bad, it just … to me, it makes me feel better to know that I dress good. Then it’s not messy.” Though he has lived near Minneapolis for his entire life, Frank’s dreams stretch much further than the Twin Cities. “We’re not going for the Caldecott or the Newberr y Award. We’re going for the Nobel Peace Prize,” Paul said, speaking to the pacifistic nature of the “Frank Henr y” books. However, Frank isn’t just looking to stay in the
publishing world — he’s looking as far as Hollywood. “I’m gonna tr y doing lots of acting classes. I’ve watched videos from the stars, and they said they’ve star ted out doing plays and then Nickelodeon,” Frank said. Frank is mainly interested in taking par t in Nickelodeon TV shows like “Henr y Danger,” a spy show where he’s found inspiration in young actors such as Jace Norman. Frank is cer tainly not a novice when it comes to theatrical craft — he had his debut as one of four Sherlock Holmes in a SteppingStone
Theatre production. Frank doesn’t have a “dream role,” he just wants to be the star. “I would do voice for car toons. There’s a show called ‘The Loud House,’” Frank said, noting his willingness to move beyond traditional movies and TV shows. Though spotlights loom, Frank will never forget where he came from. “I live next to kids I know, and I live next to a park,” Frank said — noting his favorite aspects of his Twin Cities home. “[Frank’s] not afraid to be a little different. I think sometimes you have to be yourself, and when you’re not doing the same thing as ever ybody else it can be hard on kids,” Paul said about his son. Having compiled a more impressive resume than most teenagers in his 10 years Frank knows the hard work required for any creative process. He thanks his parents for “telling [him] not to give up, and just go with [his] dreams.” Whether he ends up in a screen adaptation of the “Frank Henr y” books or with a star ring role in the next Nickelodeon hit, Frank already has his awards ceremony outfit planned out. “I’m wearing all gold shoes — even the laces, even the bottom. Pants … you know the ones that have holes? Then a shir t with a collar.” As for advice for those looking to get into the publishing world? “Just draw and write and put it together. Color it. Then publish it,” Frank said. “Don’t give up, and go with your dreams.”
POETRY
From typecast to recast With a background in performance training, Rachel Wiley found freedom in slam poetry. BY MADDY FOLSTEIN mfolstein@mndaily.com
G
littering metaphors and power ful performance are the key factors to any successful spoken word poem. The poet behind the work is equally important — they bring the personality and stories to the stage.
On Monday, Button Poetr y hosted a poetr y slam with featured artist Rachel Wiley. A pre-show workshop was also hosted. Wiley isn’t a slam novice – she’s a two-time finalist at the National Poetr y Slam Competition and has her own book of poems, “Fat Girl Finishing School.” Her poem, “10 Honest Thoughts on Being Loved by a Skinny Boy,” has received over a million views on YouTube. “I first hear d about slam poetr y in one of my performance classes, but it
MADDY FOX, DAILY
Slam poet Rachel Wiley performs at Button Poetry’s Live show at Camp Bar in St. Paul on Monday.
A&E EDITOR
Sophia Vilensky svilensky@mndaily.com
didn’t register as anything I would ever really do,” Wiley said. A theater major in college, Wiley star ted doing slam poetr y to create her own character and define her own standards. “As a theater person, I was always typecast as mothers. I sort of saw this opportunity [with slam poetry] to be anything I wanted to be ... powerful, and to be playful sometimes — to be allowed to do that on my own terms,” Wiley said. Though she never received any for mal slam poetr y training, W iley shared that this is not always necessar y. Outside of her per formance training from her theater degree, she had a willingness — and perhaps an immediate need — to dive into the slam world. “I just star ted out by watching slams. I was living in a house with really ter rible roommates, so I star ted hiding out at slam … just watching it and sort of applying ever ything I already knew about per formance to it,” she said. Wiley still appreciates others’ slam poetr y and emphasizes its importance in shaping one’s own work. How does she know if she likes a poem or not? It’s pretty simple. “The biggest compliment that I can think of is, ‘Man, why didn’t I write it?’
RADIO K TOP 7
1. Kishi Bashi, Ode To My Next Life 2. Crystal Castles, Fleece 3. Tobacco, Memory Girl
MADDY FOX, DAILY
Slam poet Rachel Wiley performs at Button Poetry’s Live show at Camp Bar in St. Paul on Monday.
If I’m jealous, that’s how I know,” she said. In terms of her own work, Wiley found poetr y as a place of personal development. “When I star ted doing poetry, I was very adamant that I would not talk about my body. If I didn’t talk about it, they wouldn’t notice,” Wiley said. This didn’t last long. Slam poetr y’s malleable, individualized nature became Wiley’s platform for change. “I just decided that I would own this. Like poetr y, [body positivity] is something you never really reach the pinnacle of. Using slam poetr y as a soap box … I found my empowerment that way,” Wiley said.
This is what Wiley considers the key to successful slam poetr y. The language and performance of a poem are obviously impor tant, but success is found in a far more introspective, personal place. “Find the ways that you’re tethered, the things that are really keeping you from going at it, and untether yourself. The [freer] you are onstage … the more people will just go with you. That’s what it is for me: connecting with people,” she said. Before Monday’s poetr y slam, Wiley hosted a free pre-show workshop for those looking to expand their spoken word range. “She had us write about a part of our body that we hated, and then write either
4. Cymbals Eat Guitars, 4th of July, Philadelphia (Sandy) 5. Ezra Furman, Teddy I’m Ready
a love letter or an apology letter to that specific body par t. I thought that was really interesting and a really cool lesson in self-love. She’s also just a really cool person. Very down to earth and very funny,” Gwin Harrison, a freshman at the University of Minnesota studying English, said. Self-love was a r unning theme throughout the night, with slam contestants and Wiley herself sharing work about body positivity from var ying perspectives. For those uninterested in the topic of self-love, Wiley had one message: “I’m going to talk a lot about my body. If this of fends you, I invite you to buy me a fucking quesadilla,” she said.
6. Of Montreal, Let’s Relate 7. Preoccupations, Stimulation
8
Thursday, October 6, 2016
CULTURE to CONSUME /
By Gunthar Reising, greising@mndaily.com
Listen to This:
Watch this:
Read this:
“Reverie” by Tom Misch
“Black Mirror”
Tom Misch’s newest EP does what Tom Misch does best: Smooth jazz guitar is shown off over bouncy, minimalist beats and complemented by Misch’s soft and agreeable voice. Following his album “Beat Tape 2,” “Reverie” emphasizes Misch’s skillful guitar and challenges his vocal abilities.
In this mind-bending science fiction television series, nothing is off-limits. The show investigates human decency, the meaning of our existence and humans’ relationship with technology. “Black Mirror” is a Millennial’s “The Twilight Zone” — “A dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity … ”
“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” Nobody has time to read fiction during the school year, but here’s a pitch for a book anyway. Author Michael Chabon of “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay” delicately weaves an eclectic, multigenerational story about letting go of hatred and escaping to happiness. If this opus doesn’t strum your heartstrings — never mind, it will.
STYLE
Q&A: Tattoo artist Nikki Time
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
Shop owner and tattoo artist Nikki Time tattoos the first few lines on client Dan Wade at MPLS Tattoo Shop on Friday in Minneapolis.
A&E Sat down with the MPLS Tattoo Shop owner to talk entrepreneurial starts. BY GUNTHAR REISING greising@mndaily.com
W
alking into MPLS Tattoo Shop, you always notice a smile behind the front desk, several plush couches and the proverbial skull décor. The woman behind this friendly parlor? Nikki Time. Time, owner and ar tist of the shop, sat down with A&E to explain her beginnings as an entrepreneur, her personal style and the vision she has for
the industry. How did you get into tattooing? I started out in graphic design, and I always loved tattoos. I got sick and tired of the corporate world — having to follow the rules, wear all the suits and not be able to express my artistic freedom. So … one day I woke up and said, ‘Screw everything. I’m going to figure out how to be a tattoo artist.’ Why open up your own shop? I wanted to open up a tattoo shop that was unlike any of the tattoo shops in this area. I wanted to build a positive environment — a happy spot where people could go. Sometimes you walk
into shops and they just aren’t ver y nice to you. I didn’t want that for my shop. While I was doing my apprenticeship, I shoveled snow in the winter to make some money. I opened up this place with seven dollars in my pocket. It was the scariest thing I’ve ever done … it’s been amazing. The hardest and best thing of my life. You have a distinct tattoo style — what’s the inspiration? I always really enjoyed painting before I star ted tattooing, and it just fell into my work. Being here you have to do all types of styles, but the watercolor and painting style is me. Now people are coming to
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
Shop owner and tattoo artist Nikki Time tattoos Dan Wade during the first of two sessions it will take to complete his arm tattoo at MPLS Tattoo Shop on Friday in Minneapolis.
me for that style. Who is the best client you can have? The best client will have an idea and come to you because they like the style of tattoos that you do. They just say, “Create it.” When somebody comes in and wants five leaves and a seahorse and a rainbow in a tiny tattoo — that’s where it can be challenging for us. I would never say there’s a [bad] client; ever y client is great because they’re supporting our art. Do you have time to explore your other artistic interests? Some of the other girls do, but me — as an owner — no. If you’re a tattoo artist … it’s
not a job, it’s a lifestyle. You’re working 60 to 70 hour weeks. When you’re not sitting here tattooing for seven hours, you’re drawing for another four or five. It can get very exhausting, but it’s fun. It’s worth it. All the staff at MPLS Tattoo is female, do you think that changes the dynamic of the shop? It’s about the individual. I’ve had male tattoo artists working here, but my biggest concern is how all of the ar tists get along with each other. If you have a crab dick in the middle who’s angry at everything, it’s going to bring the work environment down. I look for great ar tists with great attitudes who
aren’t egotistical — that can come in any shape or form. Design school doesn’t exactly prepare you to open your own business. What was the lear ning cur ve like? It actually wasn’t that difficult. I worked with a lot of CEOs throughout my life; when working under high profile bosses you learn a lot. Thank god I was open and willing to learn from them instead of being a hotheaded 25-year-old. I was a little more timid — they’re driving fancy cars and here comes my beater. I want to work hard so I can get to that point in life. Editor’s Note: this interview has been edited for length and clarity.
ART
Redefining American art Weisman Art Museum’s new exhibit showcases Latin American modernist art. BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndaily.com
T
he Lowe Art Museum’s travelling exhibit “Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Ar t in Latin America and the United States” is primarily concerned with the reclamation of what it means to be American. The inspiration behind bringing the exhibit to the University of Minnesota campus is twofold. First, the WAM is tr ying to widen the scope in which American moder nism is viewed. The WAM is known for its 20th-centur y American modernist art, and they’re tr ying to create a more accurate view of the genre by enlisting the work of Latin Americans andCentral Americans. “And secondly,” exhibit curator Diane Mullin said, “We are committed to
connecting with our community. That community is becoming more and more diverse in nature, and we have a flourishing Latin community here.” The exhibit features more than 70 works of ar t, including paintings, sculptures, works on pap e r, p h o t o g r a p h y a n d mixed media pieces. Each piece will be a part of a thematic section, helping museumgoers analyze how interconnected the art of the Americas is. “‘Thematic sections’ is a museum term that describes conceptual groupings within a museum,” Mullin said. “‘Pan American Modernism’ has five such groupings that help tell a more nuanced stor y about the larger topic.” Some of these sections will discuss topics like Mexican muralism and its legacy, as well as counterpoints — abstract expressionism and the Cuban avant-garde. Featured artists include Eduardo Abela, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Gordon Matta-Clark and others. The dif ferent mediums
CULTURE COMPASS /
are also impor tant in understanding the scope of the project. Each form is represented as a piece of a larger whole. “ To d a y ’ s t r a n s g r e s sions of such distinct borders [between ar t forms] are in large par t a reaction to the strict hierarchy placed on media,” Mullin said. “By including the more experimental work — especially work from the 1970s — we can see that there were postmodern pioneers across continents.” In tandem with the exhibit, various events will focus on specific movements under the umbrella of PanAmerican modernism. In November, local artist and nationally recognized muralist Rock Mar tinez will lead a workshop on the legacy of Mexican muralism and its role in local communities. “We carefully planned for a diverse set of programs to accompany this exhibit,” Mullin said. This connection is impor tant. There’s typically a strong dismissal of varied, distinctive
MADDY FOX, DAILY
Pieces of art from the Weisman Art Museum’s “Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States” exhibit hang in the museum on Monday. The exhibit opens to the public on Oct. 9 and will be on display until Dec. 31.
voices in America — American ar t critics tend to frame our souther n neighbors as copycats. The goal of this exhibit is to mar r y both movements and make clear that they are
interconnected. “The beautiful thing about this exhibit is that the emerging scholars and curators who worked on it are showing the relationship between many American cultures and how it’s
a lively, networked one,” Mullin said. “Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States” opens on Oct. 9 and will run through Dec. 31 at the Weisman Art Museum.
By Gunthar Reising, greising@mndaily.com
Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Caroline Smith at the O’Shaughnessy
Grrrl Scout: The Upside Down
“Steel Storm”
Indie rock or ’90s R&B? Decide for yourself at The O’Shaughnessy this Friday, where Caroline Smith will coo her groovy R&B rhythms over an atmospheric backdrop. In her record “Half About Being a Woman,” Smith not only explores genre miscegenation, but also the complexities of femininity. Smith approaches the topic with a rare, upbeat vulnerability that’s impossible not to love and respect.
Get into the Halloween mood with Eggos, “Stranger Things” and “The Goonies” at the Nomad World Pub. The pub will be crafting an ’80s ambience that just might stop time for a night. From 10:30 p.m. to 11 p.m., Eggo waffles will be provided in honor of Eleven’s favorite meal, and afterward there will be a dance off. Go gush over how nostalgic “Stranger Things” made you feel — without realizing that you never lived in the ’80s.
Reclaim your forgotten aspirations with the inspiration this stage play provides. “Steel Storm” chronicles a young woman fighting to keep her dream of becoming a famous singer despite society, and her family, constantly trying to break her down. The play examines family secrets, race and the individual’s navigation between good and evil.
Where The O’Shaughnessy, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul Hours 7:30 p.m. Cost $10-35
Where Nomad World Pub, 501 Cedar Ave. S., Minneapolis Hours 9:30 p.m. Cost $6 (21+)
Where The Southern Theater, 1420 Washington Ave. S., Minneapolis Hours 2 p.m. - 7 p.m. Cost $25
9
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Jenkins reevaluates Law School goals Jenkins u from Page 1
Law schools reported to the American Bar Association that almost 38,000 fulland part-time students enrolled in 2014, a 27.7 percent decrease from a record-high of about 53,000 in 2010. Jenkins said the downturn could be a result of an oversaturated job market following the spike of law school grads in 2010. The number of licensed attor neys in the United States has increased by nearly 40 percent since 1990, according to the ABA. Schools saw their application and enrollment numbers drop after law school enrollment hit its peak in 2010. Rather than focus on enrollment, Jenkins said he wants to put a larger emphasis on accessibility and affordability at the law school, as well as curriculum and job placement for graduates. “Right now it’s a competitive environment to bring in the best and the brightest,” he said. “I want to make sure that they have the opportunities to do whatever it is they want to do after graduation and not be encumbered by debt.” Jenkins said he wants the law school to ramp up efforts to raise money for scholarships and expand outreach efforts to alumni and donors. He said he’ll also prioritize relevant curriculum in the school’s programs and build up relationships with the Minnesota State Bar Association, as well as community businesses to help graduates find jobs. “It’s what the alumni and the legal market expects of us,” he said. “We want to
EASTON GREEN, DAILY
Law School Dean Garry Jenkins speaks about the declining number of students enrolling in the University’s Law School on Monday at Walter F. Mondale Hall.
make sure we’re living up to their expectations so that we continue to be a valuable partner for the community.” Julie Tonneson, the University’s associate vice president for budget and finance, said declining enrollment at the law school led to a budget deficit, causing the school to deplete its reserves. She said the law school has reduced their
expenses by roughly $4.6 million since 2014, and the University has increased allocations by $5.5 million to address the imbalance. “Clearly, we’re in a process where we’re tr ying to adjust our budget to our revenues,” Jenkins said. “We’re … adjusting to a reality in which we will be a smaller institution.” Additionally, in 2013, the
Paris climate agreement will take effect Nov. 4 BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after being pushed past a key threshold Wednesday by a coalition of the world’s largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas. President Barack Obama hailed the news as “a turning point for our planet,” and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the agreement’s strong international support a “testament for the urgency of action.” Katharine
Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech, called it: “A moment of bright hope in the increasingly discouraging landscape of climate science.” U.N. Spokesman Farhan Haq said the EU, Canada and Nepal would deposit their instruments of ratification Wednesday, edging the percentage of emissions by ratifying countries past the 55 percent threshold needed for the treaty to take effect. “I am delighted to announce that today the Paris Agreement will cross the second and final threshold needed for entry into force,
and will enter into force on 4 November 2016,” Ban said in a statement issued from Europe. “Global momentum for the Paris Agreement to enter into force in 2016 has been remarkable. What once seemed unthinkable is now unstoppable. “ The deal takes ef fect 30 days after 55 countries, accounting for at least 55 percent of global emissions, have adopted it. Sixty-two countries had done so as of Tuesday but they accounted only for about 52 percent of emissions. A U.N. website said that as of Wednesday afternoon 73 of the 197 parties to the treaty, accounting for 56.87 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, have deposited their instruments of ratification. Obama welcomed the news with a special address in the Rose Garden. “Today, the world meets the moment,” Obama said. “And if we follow through on the commitments that this Paris agreement embodies, history may well judge it as a turning point for our planet.” The Paris agreement commits rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns. It requires governments to present national plans to reduce emissions to limit global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit). While the targets in the agreement are not legally binding, the treaty does require countries to report on emissions and their progress on reaching the goals in the national climate plans they submitted to the U.N. The countries are also required to maintain those plans, update them ever y five years and to pursue measures to implement their stated goals. “It’s clearly a momentous moment in terms of global action on climate change,” said David Waskow, international climate director at World Resources Institute. “This has been much more rapid than anticipated and demonstrates political support for the agreement.”
Board of Regents began authorizing year-end transfers to the school to cover shortfalls. The transfers totaled $13.9 million through 2016. Regent Richard Beeson, chair of the board’s Finance Committee, said the transfers were initially characterized as short-term funding plans, but the board reviews the law school’s budget annually to address the
school’s needs on a year-byyear basis. “We just couldn’t predict if the trend would continue,” he said. Tonneson said the budget shor tage should be mostly eliminated by June 2017, according to the current projections from the Of fice of Budget and Finance. Beeson said the cost of
the transfers is worth keeping up the law school’s national reputation — it is currently ranked as the 22nd best law school in the country by U.S. News and World Report. “This is the legal center for the upper Midwest,” Beeson said. “Any time you have such a high-ranking school, you need to support it.”
Paisley Park visitors will see Prince’s studio and mementoes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHANHASSEN, Minn. — Prince’s handwritten notes still sit out in the control room of Studio A at Paisley Park, where he recorded some of his greatest hits and was working on a jazz album before he died. The room is filled with his keyboards and guitars, and his iconic symbol graces the control panel. Those are some of the highlights visitors to Paisley Park will see when the 65,000-square-foot studio complex, where Prince died of an accidental painkiller overdose in April, opens for the first public tours Thursday, NBC’s “Today” show repor ted from the museum Wednesday (http:// on.today.com/2dSnhQX ). It will open under a temporary permit Thursday — and only two other dates for which tickets had already been sold — instead of daily as originally planned, after city council members in the Minneapolis suburb of Chanhassen delayed
action on rezoning because of concer ns about public safety and traf fic. It’s unclear when the museum will be allowed to begin fullscale tour operations, but the council said it would vote on the issue again “on or before” Dec. 20. Graceland Holdings, which runs Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, is managing the museum for the Prince estate. When tours begin, fans entering the Purple Rain room will see the script, guitar and a motorcycle that Prince rode in the 1984 movie of the same name. The Oscar that he won for music in the movie is displayed in that room, and the movie will play on one wall. Prince kept nearly all of his custom-made outfits — about 6,000 pieces of clothing and 1,000 pairs of shoes — and many are on display. Hallways lined with gold records and other awards guide visitors to the NPG Music Club, where Prince
enter tained friends and perform for small groups. Private living quarters are off-limits. NBC’s reports made no reference to Prince’s remains. But Frank Wheaton, an attor ney for Prince’s half brother, Alfred Jackson, told The Associated Press that artifacts on display will include Prince’s ashes in an urn. One of Prince’s older sisters told NBC that her brother’s energy and spirit is evident in the exhibit. “It’s tr uly Prince. He thought all this through,” Norrine Nelson said. “He had a vision and he finished it.” Prince’s younger sister, Tyka Nelson, said she hopes visitors will come away with a ver y personal experience. “I want them to maybe feel like maybe they saw Prince up close,” she said. “Sometimes when you’re a fan, you get to only to see them from a seat, but this way, you’re almost face-toface with him.”
Pakistan exchanges fire with India BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s militar y on Wednesday accused India of another “unprovoked” attack in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, saying it “befittingly” responded by returning fire, a sign of increasing tension between the two nuclear-ar med archrivals. In a statement, the militar y said Pakistani and Indian troops were still exchanging fire in Kashmir. An Indian army of ficer said Pakistani troops fired small arms and mortars at Indian militar y positions at three places along the Line of Control. The of ficer, speaking on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to the repor ters, said Indian soldiers “befittingly responded to unprovoked cease-fire violations.” No casualties were reported.
The latest fighting took place as Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif attended a joint sitting of the Senate and the National Assembly convened to discuss the Kashmir situation. In a televised speech, Sharif criticized India for a Sept. 28 attack that killed two Pakistani soldiers. New Delhi said it was a “surgical strike” against militants, which Pakistan denied. Sharif said India had broken the cease-fire agreement, and the Pakistani militar y had responded “ef fectively” by returning fire. Pakistan would respond strongly to any threat to its sovereignty, Sharif said. He blamed India for the rising tensions between the two countries but said he wanted to resolve the Kashmir dispute through talks. “We are against war. We want durable peace in the region,” he said. Sharif told lawmakers
that Islamabad will continue to extend political, diplomatic and moral suppor t to the “freedom movement” in Indianc o n t r o l l e d K a s h m i r. Several lawmakers also made speeches condemning what they described as human rights violations in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where security forces have killed dozens of protesters at anti-India rallies in recent months. Also Wednesday, Hafiz Saeed, founder of the Lashkar-e-Taiba militant group, attended a meeting of religious par ties to express suppor t for the Kashmiri people. The meeting vowed to hold a rally against India near the border between the two countries, known as the Line of Control, on Oct. 27. Kashmir is split between Pakistan and India and is claimed by both. Many in the Indian-controlled portion favor independence or a merger with Pakistan.
10
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Sports
@MNDAILYSPORTS
Brian Smith steps up in close loss The redshirt junior had carreer highs in receptions and recieving yards. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Minnesota will need dif ferent players to step up for the remainder of the conference schedule if it wants to find success. Redshir t junior wide receiver Brian Smith rose to the occasion in the first game of the conference schedule, even if it ended in an overtime loss. Sm i t h c a u g ht s eve n balls for 101 yards against Penn State on Oct. 1. “It’s really been positive,” said of fensive coordinator Jay Johnson. “He’s kind of stayed with it and has continued to battle and has really done a good job. I give him all the credit in the world because he’s catching the ball, being assignment sound and
doing things he needs to do to get open. It’s been amazing because we kind of saw it at the star t of camp and sometimes you think there’s going to be the drop of f, but there really wasn’t.” Smith led the team in r eceptions and r eceiv ing yards among wide receivers in the Penn State game. He said he knew there was room in the lineup when former wide receiver KJ Maye graduated. “There was a big door there, big oppor tunity,” Smith said. “It’s my job. It was there whether I was going to take or not. Just make sure I was doing the right things on and off the field, kept progressing in terms of football.” Though Smith was the leading receiver last game and is an upperclassman on the team, head coach Tracy Claeys said they are not going to give him a bigger role. “I just see him keep
ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY
Junior wide receiver Brian Smith is tackled on Sept. 10 at TCF Bank Stadium while playing against Indiana State.
doing the same thing,” Claeys said. “That’s it. Our receivers are catching the ball … who’s ever open, that’s who we want [Leidner] to throw it to and catch.” One of the reasons the team will not look for Smith in the passing game is because of quarterback Mitch Leidner’s successful work. Leidner hit seven different receivers during the Penn State game and has found 13 different receivers
this season. Leidner said he knew Smith was a guy he could count on in the summer heading into this season. “I think it was this summer [he] really grew up, really matured,” Leidner said. “He was a guy that would call to get extra work in, and that’s when I could finally tell he was ready to take his game to the next level. Being a bigger guy, having all the tools, how smooth of a route runner and his hands. I think everybody
Johnson adjusts to death of father The offensive coordinator’s father died over the weekend.
has always known that he has what it takes.” Smith didn’t see action for the Gophers until he earned a starting wide receiver position for the Oregon State game. Claeys said Smith has matured since he walked onto the program in 2013. “Brian has grown up and matured a lot and played a lot more consistently,” Claeys said. “I’m glad to see good things happening for him, but we just need to keep catching the ball the way we’re
Men’s hockey opens play with weekend road series in Alaska MEN’S HOCKEY
MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com
Every Monday, Minnesota quarterback Mitch Leidner would call Dick Johnson, his former coach in high school and Gophers offensive coordinator Jay Johnson’s father. Dick Johnson would give Leidner advice, tell him things to work on and wish his family well. “[This Monday] was a little bit different,” Leidner said. Dick Johnson died Saturday before the Gophers game against Penn State. Jay Johnson found out after the game when his mother called him, head coach Tracy Claeys said. On Tuesday, Jay Johnson was at practice and jogged over to a group of reporters afterward to talk about the impact his father left. “He’s pretty special so it’s been hard,” Jay Johnson said. “People have been great. You figure out what an impact he had on people and that’s been really special.” Leidner and Dick Johnson had a close relationship. He was Leidner’s quarterback coach at Lakeville South High School for all four years of Leidner’s career. He retired the year Leidner left, but the two kept in touch and talked over the phone every Monday. The coach would occasionally sit in on Minnesota football meetings, Leidner said, and would also be a frequent visitor at practices. Lakeville South football head coach Larr y Thompson and Leidner talked on Sunday and reminisced on their favorite memories of the late coach. “We’d be in the wet grass
catching it.” Smith had more receptions in his last game than he had all season so far. Smith credits some of his improvement to his wide receiver coach, Brian Anderson. “I’m still not the fastest, but I’ve learned how to use what I have and make it work to the best of my ability and think that’s credit to [Anderson] and the things he’s taught us as receivers,” Smith said.
PREVIEW
VS NO. 13 MINNESOTA WHEN: 10 p.m. Friday, 7 p.m. Sunday
ALASKA-ANCHORAGE WHERE: Anchorage, Alaska SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Minnesota plays Alaska Anchorage Friday and Alaska Fairbanks Sunday. MADDY FOX, DAILY
Offensive coordinator Jay Johnson, right, watches sophomore quarterback Demry Croft throw a ball in a practice on March 10.
and doing quar terback center exchange and a guy would fumble a snap and [Dick Johnson would] get down there on his hands and knees and stomach and get down there under center to see what the problem was,” Leidner said. “There are so many different stories, I could go on.” Sadly, this isn’t a first for Gophers coaches this season. Defensive coordinator Jay Sawvel’s father died two weeks before the start of the season. “The hardest day for me is actually Saturday … I always talked to my dad after games,” Sawvel said. “It is tough, but at the same token we all understand that we have jobs to do. You have those things.” Sawvel and Jay Johnson had only worked together for under a year, as Jay Johnson joined the staff in Januar y, but Sawvel said Jay Johnson was of fering him comfor t when his father died back in August. “A lot of times when
FOOTBALL PREVIEW
VS MINNESOTA 3-1, 0-1 BIG TEN WHEN: 11 a.m. Saturday
IOWA 3-2, 1-1 BIG TEN WHERE: TCF Bank Stadium SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
people go through that you don’t know what to tell them. You don’t know what to say,” Sawvel said. “‘Do I even text him? Do I even say anything to him?’ When [Jay Johnson] did, [he] reached out. It’s something … [where] you see the true character of people show through. The heart of people show through. Jay Johnson has a big heart. Jay Johnson is a good person.” For Saturday’s game, Jay Johnson will be back up in a booth during the matchup against Iowa and will coach the offense through a headset. Leidner said Dick John-
son would’ve loved nothing more than to beat the Hawkeyes, knowing life and the game must go on. Jay Johnson choked up a few times when bringing up his dad,but after ward kept talking about football and the positives from the game against Penn State. “I keep it in context with what he would want me to do,” Jay Johnson said. “That is to work hard, keep challenging and take care of those quarterbacks and our offense and to take care of the coaches and just do it the right way. That’s constantly in the back of my mind.”
BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
The Gophers looked to tie up some loose ends Wednesday when they held one of their last practices before they open up their season this Friday in Anchorage, Alaska. The reigning Big Ten champions have seen some changes in their team in the past few months but look to count on some veterans for a comfortable start. “[I’m] more comfortable with everything,” said senior forward Justin Kloos. “As far as knowing my duties, making sure communication with coaches and the media [is clear] is a little more stressfree this year.” Though the team hasn’t officially announced its letterwearers for the upcoming season, it’s expected that Kloos will resume his role as team captain while senior defenseman Jake Bischoff and redshirt senior forward Connor Reilly will serve as alternate captains. The core leadership group has already had one season to build chemistry and should be able to capitalize on its abilities even more this season.
The team has an advantage that much of last season’s roster is still intact, and players are familiar with each other. The No. 13 Gophers only lost three players to graduation and gained six freshmen. Junior forward Mikel Szmatula is also eligible to play this season after sitting a year due to transfer rules. Forward Rem Pitlick, last year’s United States Hockey League Player of the Year and leading scorer, and defenseman Ryan Lindgren, a former U.S. Under-18 National Team captain, are big rookie adds for Minnesota. “I think it’s important,” said head coach Don Lucia. “I really like what I’ve seen from the seniors right now. I look throughout our lineup and see guys that have become better players.” Lucia said he believes the best thing for the team right now is to start playing games. He said the team has squeezed what they can out of practice and need to implement the methods from practice into real games. Though the team does gain young talent and has a wealth of experience in its older players, there are still some holes to be filled. One is in the loss of forward Hudson Fasching. u See MEN’S HOCKEY Page 11
Forward Woken off to productive start in rookie season with Minnesota The freshman forward tallied two points in last Saturday’s victory. BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Alex Woken has only played in two games for
Minnesota so far, but she has wasted no time proving what she can bring to the team. Wo k e n s h o w e d h e r scoring prowess early in the team’s opening series against Lindenwood last weekend with a goal and an assist in Saturday’s game. “Alex has come in and already filled some big roles
for us,” said assistant coach Bethany Brausen. “We had her playing with the top line this weekend, and I think that she has definitely impressed. She’s doing some really great things, so we’re super excited about all the potential she continues to show.” Woken, a Fargo, North Dakota native, has made
a name for herself in the hockey world the past few years. Woken was a standout at Shattuck-St. Mar y’s High School, scoring 188 points in 164 games in her three years there. She won a national championship in her senior year with the team — which included fellow freshman
teammate Patti Marshall — after finishing in second as a junior. Woken has experience at the international level as well. She ear ned two gold medals for the United States at the 2015 and 2016 IIHF U-18 Women’s World Championships. She credits the speed of play and skill of her
opponents at the international level in preparing her for the collegiate stage. Woken has already had the oppor tunity to play among plenty of skill in her short time with Minnesota. The winger played on the first line during Friday’s game with senior assistant u See ROOKIE Page 11
Thursday, October 6, 2016
11
For forwards, soccer is all in the family Simone Kolander and Kellie McGahn are first cousins and teammates. BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com
Senior for ward Simone Kolander and junior forward Kellie McGahn are first cousins who share a best friend-like bond. “We were really close [growing up together]” Kolander said. “We lived pretty close to each other. Gr owing up, we would trick or treat together, have sleepovers all the time, after ever y family gathering and holidays, we were always together. Kolander and McGahn — being close in age and the only girls — developed a strong relationship early on in their lives. Their family was active and always played spor ts outside with their siblings and relatives. “We used to race all the time,” Kolander said. “I was a year older than [McGahn] so I always thought that I should be faster ... For a while there I was winning and then we turned a certain age. Obviously now if you come to a game, Kellie is [ver y] fast. I can’t beat her anymor e, but I r emember her beating me. I was like ‘dang.’”
Befor e both became Gophers, they both played on the same soccer team as kids for a few years. “It was like being on a team with your best friend and hanging out with them,” McGahn said. When they got older and both were in high school, they star ted playing against each other. McGahn went to Eastview High School and Kolander went to Lakeville Nor th High School. McGahn had always wanted to go to Minnesota, and Kolander’s enrollment the previous year only made that dr eam better. “It has always been a dream for me to be a Gopher soccer player,” McGahn said. “[Kolander being here] was almost like the icing on top.” These two love playing on the same team together. Their chemistr y and teamwork on the field is fueled by their relationship off the field. “We can talk to each other and get through little conflicts on the field,” Kolander said. “We are not afraid to say anything to each other. We can yell at each other essentially and the message gets through; I know she’s not mad at me and I’m not mad at her.” Associate head coach Kr ystle Seidel said she notices how their bond also brings the team together.
“Of f the field you can kind of feel that closeness,” Seidel said. “When [Kolander and McGahn] are on the bus they are singing songs together. They have a lot of the same jokes. That chemistr y kind of feeds into the rest of the group.” The connection of the two helped McGahn in her transition from high school to college. The two play the same position and Kolander was a resource for McGahn as she lear ned the college game. Both are communication studies majors and
often help each other of f the field with homework. Though Kolander is in her last season with the Gophers and hopes to pursue a pro career, the two don’t plan to be apar t for long. They hope to one day move to California to star t their own business together. “We like to hang out, we like to help people, we’re super organized, we love to plan ahead and we love events,” Kolander said. “Bir thday par ties, weddings, we love that stuf f. If our careers really don’t work out, we’re coming together.”
SOCCER PREVIEW
VS IOWA 7-6-0, 1-4-0 BIG TEN
NO. 17 MINNESOTA 9-3-1, 3-1-1 BIG TEN WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday
WHERE: Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium
VS NEBRASKA 9-4-0, 3-2-0 BIG TEN
NO. 17 MINNESOTA 9-3-1, 3-1-1 BIG TEN WHEN: 2 p.m. Sunday
WHERE: Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Senior forward Simone Kolander tries to keep the ball from Wisconsin at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.
Junior forward Kellie McGahn rushes toward the ball during a home game against Wisconsin on Oct. 1 at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium in St. Paul.
Minnesota swim and dive teams set to start season Both squads will head to Florida for their first meet this weekend. BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com
The Minnesota men’s and women’s swim and dive teams will kick off their seasons on Saturday against Florida State and Duke in Tallahassee, Florida. Head coach Kelly Kremer has high hopes for both
teams this season and said he plans to spend more time focusing on details and technique this year. “I think we have two teams that are better than a year ago. It’s exciting when you’re in that position as a coach,” Kremer said. “There is no question we’re spending a lot more time on details this year. [They’re] little things, but they’re huge in terms of starts and turns and how we’re handling our underwater portion of our swimming. [We’re] making them think a lot more about how we’re do-
ing things as opposed to just doing them.” A bright spot for the women’s team is the return of senior Kierra Smith, a 2015 NCAA champion breaststroker. Smith took a season off last year to prepare to compete for Team Canada in August’s Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Smith competed in both the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke in Rio. She made it to the final and placed seventh in her best event, the 200. “I think that influence [of having Olympians on the
ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY
Minnesota’s Kierra Smith swims the 100-yard butterfly against Iowa State on Oct. 12, 2012, at the University Aquatic Center.
team] helps a lot. The more experienced your team is, the more it raises the bar for everybody,” Kremer said. “It also makes the big college moments not overwhelming.” In addition to Smith’s return, the women’s team adds seven freshmen this year, one of whom is a diver. The men’s team has 13 rookies on its roster, 11 swimmers and two divers. Both teams have fresh faces to add energy and depth to the squad. “It’s been exciting so far with a big freshman class and how often we’ve been training together,” junior Brooke Zeiger said. “We can compete with each other a lot. It just keeps our group bigger, so we race each other, which is good for all of us.” Kremer said Zeiger, one of the team’s veterans, should be one to look for this season after a big performance at last year’s NCAA Championships. Zieger earned All-American status in the 400 IM, 1650 freestyle and 500 freestyle races. “For this meet, [my goals are] to keep my technique sharp. For season goals, I just
Men’s Hockey u from Page 10
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Freshman forward Alex Woken battles for the puck at Ridder Arena on Sept. 30.
Rookie u from Page 10
captain Kate Schipper and junior Kelly Pannek and took three shots on goal. Wo k e n t h e n p l a y e d with junior Caitlin Reilly and sophomore and last season’s National Rookie of the Year, Sarah Potomak. The trio set up for two goals together and combined for seven points. Woken scored on the lone shot she took during the game. “These freshmen are going to do amazing this
year,” Potomak said. “Especially when I was playing with [Woken] this last weekend, it was a lot of fun, and there was a lot of chemistr y there. As the year goes on, we will continue to get better and better.” Woken is adjusting well on the ice so far and has also been more relaxed in her new campus environment than originally anticipated. “I was ner vous coming in because it’s such a big campus,” Woken said. “I was like ‘Oh my gosh, I’m never going to make it to my classes on time. I’m never going to meet anyone. It’s way too big.’ But
these past four weeks have been the complete opposite.” Woken may have a lot on her plate in the future, as she’s interested in pursuing a neuroscience major and eventually going to medical school. Both of her parents are athletic trainers. But if Woken’s progress so far is any indication of how her time with the Gophers will proceed, she should be in good shape on the ice and in the classroom. “It’s a lot of time management [and] fitting ever ything in,” Woken said. “It’s been hard but definitely manageable.”
Fasching was Minnesota’s second-best scorer last season and decided to forgo his senior year to sign a pro contract with the Buffalo Sabres. “He had a great junior season,” Lucia said. “We will probably miss that big-body presence that he provided.” The Gophers also lost two defensemen to early departures. Michael Brodzinski left to begin his pro career with the San Jose Sharks while Nick Seeler left Minnesota after just one season
SWIMMING PREVIEW
VS FLORIDA STATE
MINNESOTA
DUKE WHEN: 1 p.m. Saturday
WHERE: Tallahassee, Fla. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
want to improve my IM,” Zeiger said. “I feel like I kind of swam that event flat last year, so I hope to improve that over the season.” Both the men’s and women’s teams also return key divers in seniors Matt Barnard and Yu Zhou. Barnard was a 2016 AllAmerican after coming in seventh in 3-meter and ninth in platform at the NCAA Championships, and he also won the Big Ten 3-meter title. Zhou was last year’s Big Ten Diver of the Year and won two All-American awards
at the NCAA Championships after finishing second in platform and fifth in 3-meter. Both teams will have the rare opportunity to swim outdoors this weekend to start the season, a change of pace for the Gophers. “I like to compete against teams that are going to challenge us, and we do,” Kremer said. “I think starting with those two [Florida] teams and then going right into our Wisconsin meet is a nice start to the year. It sets the tone for the team and lets us know where we’re at.”
to sign with the hometown Wild. This gives Bischoff ample opportunity to lead the blue line in the coming season. He is the only senior among the nine defensemen on the team. “This is my fourth year now. I know the ropes, the systems that Guentz [associate head coach Mike Guentzel] was trying to teach us,” Bischoff said. “I think, being around for a while, I’m able to really answer some of the questions they have and just try to be there to help in whatever way I can to make them feel comfortable out there.”
The team is under even more pressure to perform this season after failing to make the NCAA Tournament last year. The Gophers have earned five consecutive conference titles and are pegged to add another, but they hope to get out to a better start in early games that make a difference in the long run — especially when it comes to postseason evaluation. “It’s huge,” Kloos said. “You can tell how much nonconference matters. We were playing pretty well at the end of the year, and we lost to a good team, and weren’t able to make it.”
JOE SULIK, DAILY
Gophers forward Justin Kloos controls the puck while playing against Michigan in Mariucci Arena on Feb. 26.
12
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Report links University to investement rate swaps Finance u from Page 1
Andrew Winton, University finance department chair and professor, said interest rate swaps began being widely used in the 1980s. “What they are is just a contract,” he said. “A swap converts a short-term rate to a fixed rate.” When institutions take out a loan from a bank, it comes with interest payments that fluctuate with the economy. A swap conver ts these rates to being fixed, so the entity then pays a certain amount even if the economy shifts, Winton said. “There’s always buyer’s remorse,” he said. “If rates go lower, you no longer benefit.” Although Winton said he does not know specifics about the situation at the University, he said institutions can be taken advantage of by the banks if they are new to using swaps. “Forecasting interest rates is very risky,” he said. “You need to be aware. There’s a chance things
could turn against you.” Though the study points out specific instances of risky swaps and pricey termination fees, Michael Volna, the University’s interim chief financial officer said he wouldn’t call swaps like the University’s, ‘risky.’ In 2011, the University refinanced three series of outstanding debt and had to end the swaps associated with them, which cost $17,195,000. Volna said over the last 20 years, the University has swapped interest rates six times as a way to manage debt. “The cost to terminate the swaps was factored into the overall economic decision to refinance the debt,” Volna said in an emailed statement. He said the University uses swaps “when we think that market rates or interest rate risk … would dictate that it would make sense.” While the study claims certain University fees go towards paying of f these swaps, Volna disagreed. The study also said swaps cost the University $3.5 million a year in payments to JPMorgan Chase.
The study said interest rate swaps cost its sample of 19 universities a total of $2.7 billion. The authors also took a random sample of the top 500 colleges and universities and analyzed their finances, finding that over half of them used swaps. “It’s something that’s really, really costly,” said Dominic Russel, a University of Michigan data science senior and co-author of the study. “We also showed that they’re really prevalent and that this really is a crisis in our education. This is happening at schools all across the country.” He said Roosevelt Institute was uniquely positioned to look into this issue. “We are tr ying to look at one aspect of this financialization of higher education,” Russel said. “The aspect we picked out are these risky financial deals called interest rate swaps.” This risk became a topic of interest during the 2008 recession, Russel said. “Universities are receiving variable rates. They’re paying huge fixed costs back to the bank,” he said.
The terms of many of these deals require schools to pay large amounts of money in termination fees. For example, Russel said, Har var d University recently bought out of a swap deal by paying over $1 billion. “They’re really just locked in and stuck in these really, really long term deals that added a ton of risk and [they] now are realizing that risk,” he said. Russel said his team found the information for the repor t in public documents, such as the University’s annual financial report, that they collected and analyzed over the last two years. Since the repor t is not str uctured to be easily read by ever yone, Russel said, it is often dif ficult to see the risk in these swaps even though the information is public. “We just took one really small piece — the tip of the iceberg — with interest rate swaps,” he said. “Ultimately, what we want to do is use this national narrative to change some of the r ules around how universities interact with financial institutions and Wall Street.”
Jury set for Rose rape lawsuit BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LOS ANGELES — A federal court jury of six women and two men was selected Wednesday for the trial of a $21 million lawsuit by a woman who claims she was gangraped by NBA star Derrick Rose and two other men. Opening statements were expected to begin during the afternoon session. Rose was not present but was expected to be in court Thursday. Rose commented on the case Tuesday in Houston where he was making his debut with the New York Knicks in an exhibition opener. “I wanted to take it to court because I didn’t want to settle,” said Rose, 28. “I don’t feel like I did anything wrong. If I go up there and just tell my side of the story, I think I’ll be alright.” A lawyer for the ex-girlfriend who says Rose and two friends gang-raped her while she was incapacitated said that by talking to reporters Rose had violated the gag order his own lawyer had sought to silence the parties outside the courtroom. “It’s unfair to the plaintif f,” attor ney Waukeen McCoy complained. During jur y selection, a pool of 50 candidates was asked what they know about the case, what basketball team they root for and
whether they can set aside their own sexual moral beliefs and biases. The two other men accused in the lawsuit, Randall Hampton and Ryan Allen, and the plaintiff sat through jury selection on opposite sides of the courtroom. U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald gave prospective jurors an outline of the case, warning that they would hear testimony involving sex acts, vulgarity and profanity. “Sex is essentially at the heart of what has been alleged and denied,” Fitzgerald said. The trial threatens to expose details of Rose’s sex life, including text messages discussing his desire to have group sex. The woman has said she rebuffed those offers and never consented to sex with the trio. She also has said she was drugged, though Rose’s lawyers said there’s no evidence of any drugs. The woman, who dated Rose on and off for two years, told police he and two friends got into her apartment and had sex with her while she was intoxicated in August 2013. She reported the incident to the authorities two years later. Los Angeles police are still investigating and no criminal charges have been filed.
Former Arizona firefighter’s Security Council agrees on ex-wife testifies against him Portugal’s Guterres for UN chief BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
TUCSON, Ariz. — The trial against a former Arizona fire captain who rose through the ranks as police suspected him in three murders concluded its first day with emotional testimony from the defendant’s second wife, who had provided him with an alibi. David Watson is accused of killing his first ex-wife, Linda Watson, in August 2000 and then gunning down her mother and her mother’s friend three years later. The prosecution says both murders were tied to Watson’s desire to keep full custody of his daughter with Linda Watson. Rosemar y Watson, his second wife, said in court on Wednesday that she had covered for her husband on both occasions. “There was no way that I wanted to believe that it was possible that he was involved,” she said through tears. Her testimony came after opening statements in which prosecutors said sufficient evidence will show David Watson killed Linda Watson during a bitter custody battle over their thenfour-year-old daughter and Marilyn Cox three years later during a long legal battle over grandparent visitation. Renee Farnsworth, a friend of Cox who frequently accompanied her to her visits with the girl, was also shot dead.
“These murders were carefully concealed, no doubt about that. These murders were well-executed. But the killer left some stuf f behind. He made some mistakes,” prosecutor Jonathan Mosher said. The defense says there’s no evidence linking David Watson to the killings. Attorney Michael Storie said Linda Watson was str uggling with alcoholism and had just lost her job when she disappeared. He said that her of f-and-on boyfriend was volatile and that Linda Watson feared him. He painted Rosemar y Watson as a scorned woman after a divorce who was vengeful when she went to police in 2007 to say she had falsely provided his alibi on the nights of both murders. “She was crushed. She was shattered,” Storie said. “Rosemar y goes to police in 2007 and changes her story.” Authorities said they believe that David Watson killed Linda Watson on Aug. 20, 2000, four days before a crucial court hearing in an ongoing custody battle over the couple’s child. “It was not your average fight. As nasty as those things can be, this one was worse,” Mosher said. Linda Watson’s skull was found in the desert in 2003 in an area where migrants who cross from Mexico into Arizona have been found dead in the past. It would be
eight years before she was identified through DNA because of a backlog at the medical examiner’s office. Cox and Far nswor th were shot dead in front of Cox’s house on May 7, 2003, following an unsupervised visit she had with her granddaughter. Prosecutors say Cox was worried for her safety and would ask her friend to accompany her when she had to see David Watson. That visit came after a two-year legal battle Cox waged seeking grandparent visitation rights. The judge ruled in her favor and forced David and Rosemary Watson to allow the girl to see her grandmother unsupervised. Detectives from the Pima County Sheriff’s Department suspected David Watson all along, but they never told the Tucson Fire Depar tment about their concerns. Watson worked for the depar tment for 20 years and in 2007 was promoted to captain. He resigned shortly after his arrest in April 2015. Rosemar y Watson said in cour t that she woke up the night Linda Watson went missing, that her husband wasn’t in bed and that he was nowhere to be found. She went back to sleep, woke up around twilight and saw him cleaning out the back of his spor ts utility vehicle through a window, she testified.
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — Portugal’s former prime minister Antonio Guterres won the Security Council’s unanimous backing Wednesday to become the next U.N. secretary-general, winning plaudits for his strong leadership but disappointing campaigners for a woman or East European to be the world’s top diplomat for the first time. The veteran politician and diplomat, who served as the U.N.’s refugee chief until December, topped all six informal polls in the council after his performance in the firstever question-and-answer sessions in the 193-member General Assembly, which received high marks from almost every diplomat. Britain’s U.N. Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said the assembly hearings showed that Guterres “was an outstanding candidate ... who will take the United Nations to the next level in terms of leadership” and will provide “a moral authority at a time when the world is divided on issues, above all like Syria.” Russia’s U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, the current Security Council president, appeared before repor ters surrounded by the 14 other council ambassadors after the sixth informal poll of the 10 remaining candidates was held behind closed doors saying: “You are witnessing, I think, a historic scene.” Churkin then thanked all the candidates saying they displayed “a lot of wisdom, understanding and concern for the fate of the world” and announced: “We have a clear
favorite, and his name is Antonio Guterres.” He said the Security Council would hold a formal vote on Thursday morning and expressed hope that the council will recommend Guterres by “acclamation” to the 193-member General Assembly, which must approve a successor to Ban Ki-moon whose second five-year term ends on Dec. 31. By tradition, the job of secretar y-general has rotated among regions. Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe have all held the post. East European nations, including Russia, argue that they have never had a secretary-general and it was their turn. There has also never been a woman secretary-general and more than 50 nations and many others campaigned to elect the first female U.N. chief. There was disappointment among East Europeans, who fielded many candidates in the race but never united behind one, and among supporters hoping for a woman. Seven of the 13 candidates who entered the race were women. Antonia Kirkland, program manager for Equality Now, which has campaigned for a woman secretary-general since 1996, said: “While it is disappointing that a man has once again been proposed by the U.N. Security Council as secretar ygeneral, we are at least hopeful that he will continue the feminist agenda.” She said this should include “first of all, ensuring gender parity among his staff at the Secretariat, and also prioritizing violence and
discrimination against women as a pivotal issue.” Christiana Figueres of Costa Rica, the U.N. of ficial who played a key role in shaping last December’s historic agreement to fight climate change and one of three candidates who dropped out of the race, tweeted: “Bittersweet results #NextSG. Bitter: not a woman. Sweet: by far the best man in the race. Congrats Antonio Guterres! We are all with you.” In the fifth “straw” poll on Sept. 28, Guterres received two “discourage” votes and there was a lot of speculation about whether Russia would support him. The sixth poll on Wednesday morning was considered key because it was the first to use colored ballots to distinguish the votes of the five veto-wielding Security Council members — the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France. “The permanent members had red ballots and the non-permanent members had white ballots,” Britain’s Rycroft told reporters later. He said “the crucial moment” for him was the announcement of the result of the fifth permanent member which showed Guterres had no “discourage” votes from any council member. In that final vote, Guterres had 13 “encourage” votes, no “discourage” votes and two “no opinions.” He was the only candidate to top the required nine “encourage” votes and no “discourage” vote from a permanent member.
Aussies to appear in Malaysian court BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CANBERRA, Australia — Nine Australian friends who have spent four nights in Malaysian police detention will appear in a court for the first time on Thursday after stripping down to their briefs and drinking beer from shoes at the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix, an official said. The nine have been detained since they stripped down to Budgy Smugglerbrand swimsuits decorated with the Malaysian flag in full view of thousands of spectators at the Sepang track Sunday after Australian driver Daniel Ricciardo won the race. Police say the men were being investigated for intentionally causing insult with intent to provoke a breach
of the peace and public indecency. They face up to two years in jail, a fine or both if they are found guilty. Australian Depar tment of Foreign Af fairs and Trade First Assistant Secretary Jon Philp said he did not know what would happen in court today. “Something could happen quickly, but it’s entirely up to the magistrate and the legal authorities,” Philp told Nine Network television. “We’d like to think that they’ll be home soon, but it’s up to the Malaysian authorities to decide what to do now,” he added. The men, mostly Sydney University graduates, could be charged or police could ask the magistrate for their detention to be extended while they continue their investigation.
Ricciardo, the driver whose success inspired the Australians’ beer-fueled revelry, described the incident as “pretty harmless.” “I respect the laws of Malaysia, but beyond that I don’t think they deser ve any fur ther punishment,” Ricciardo told Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph newspaper. “In Australia, it’s a bit different, but I’m very sure they didn’t intend to offend anyone,” he added. The Australian media has dubbed the men the Budgie Nine, using a spelling variation of the abbreviated name of the budgerigar, a small Australian parrot. The name plays on nine Australians arrested in Indonesia for heroin trafficking in 2005 who became colloquially known as the Bali Nine.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
13
CROSSWORD Los Angeles Angeles Times Times Daily Daily Crossword Crossword Puzzle Puzzle Los FOR RELEASE RELEASE OCTOBER OCTOBER 4, 6, 2016 2016 FOR
Edited by by Rich Rich Norris Norris and and Joyce Joyce Lewis Lewis Edited
HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (10/6): Shine with diamond brilliance this year. Take charge! Network, and share resources. One social door closes as another opens next spring, leading to renewed vitality and health.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written by Nancy Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Get out and explore. Pursue a dream. Make longdistance connections. Call ahead to avoid running all over town.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — This is not a good time to learn the hard way. Stay in communication and keep your word. Talk about what you’re going through, and listen carefully.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Collect accounts receivable and pay bills. A project’s completion opens up time for something more fun. Reinforce your structure.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Keep in action, and cash flows in. Plant constructive seeds. Balance work with rest, exercise and good food.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Collaborate with a partner. Update recent factfinding efforts. Sift through the fluff for solid data. Responsibilities fall into place.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — You know what you want, so go for it. Follow your plan. If in doubt, check the directions and get assistance.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Simple pleasures satisfy; frills are unnecessary. Hold onto what you have. Exercise clears up mental fog. Consider the future, and desired results.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 5 — Keep your wildest ideas private for now. Go ahead and dream; make plans and list the necessary steps.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Use your wit and charm. Patience and discipline also serve you well. Persuade a person who’s been waffling to join a collaboration by expressing your passion.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Contributing to a team effort satisfies. Routine gives you strength. Your friends are really there for you. Determination and persistence pay off.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Focus on what’s best for your family. Play by the rules, and pull together. Listen to an experienced friend’s suggestions. Add love for an unexpected bonus.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Find a way around a problem in your work. Begin with basic facts. Determine the source of the issue, and get expert advice before making a change.
CLASSIFIEDS The Minnesota Daily must approve all ad copy and reserves the right to request text changes, reject or reclassify an ad. Advertisers are responsible for the truthfulness of their ads. Advertisers are also subject to credit ap- proval. Corrections are accepted until 2 p.m., Mon.-Fri., by calling 612- 627-4080. To cancel an ad, call 612-627- 4080. In order to ensure proper credit, cancellations must be made by 1 p.m. EMPLOYMENT $14/hr Full time/part time RECEPTIONISTS for office bldg DT Mpls next to US Bank Stadium. Free parking! Greet visitors, handle incoming calls, must have good customer service, and have excellent fluent Englishspeaking skills. Call 7:30am5:30pm M-F. 612-578-5227 or email basant@511building.com. www.511building.com
ACROSS ACROSS 1 Full of beans 1 Home for Pogo 6 “I don’t need __”: 6 Affirmative regular patron’s answer comment Silences, as a 119 Sellout letters TV 14 Apple app mostly 14 Artist’s prop replaced by 15 Pie __ mode Messages 16 Wagnerian work 15 Connoisseur 17 “Farewell, item 16 Recyclable chérie” 17 OREO 18 CBSrequests forensic 19 TSA drama 20 Aria, usually 19 drug 21 Antianxiety Suffix with social 20 “Bro, I thought 22 Bovine icon you were gonna 24 ORE help” brûlée 28 Crème 23 Many a GI topping 24 Jerry Garcia’s 31 Defensive comeback band, familiarly 32 Little pill with 28 Socializing 33 When workers the queen, may be dressed maybe down?: Abbr. 31 Avril Lavigne’s 34 Terminal “Sk8er __” conveyance 32 Bullets and such 37 Nicki Minaj genre 33 Lots and lots 38 Accessories OR 35 for 42 Langley org. set the highchair 43 City on the 36 Decide in Rhône advance 45 Apartment bldg. 37 Gonzalez boy in info headlines 2000 46 Medina native 39 Look at 48 Offer a contrary lasciviously opinion 40 Hourly charge 50 Reduced to pure 41 “I expected as metal much” 52 O 43 “... ____: saw Elba” 55 Saint 44 Owns Caribbean island 45 More game like a using 56 Card button? the entire deck 46 Is really boiling 57 Goof reaction 48 Reggae kin 61 Mont. neighbor 49 Follow the ethical 62 Muppet’s path explanation of 55 Set to simmer, the four all-caps as a burner clues 58 Spanish eye 66 Title for Anthony 59 Sag Hopkins 60 Southern 67 Serviceable 68 Pointless inflection 69 “The Splendid 61 Looking sickly Splinter” Zola Williams 62 Novelist 70 Having glass 63 Suddenly occurs sections to, with “on” 71 Hen, for one 64 Computer program suffix DOWN 65 Went out with 1 Short shots? 2 Off-the-wall DOWN answer? 1 Close securely
10/6/16 10/4/16 Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved Early Week’sPuzzle PuzzleSolved Solved Monday’s
By Sam Ed Sessa By Buchbinder
3 Stroll Dad ofinHaley, 2 the Alex and Luke on shallows “Modern Family” 3 sure!” 4 “Yeah, California 4 Track event site observatory 5 Made fluffy, 5 Annual rpt. as pillows column 6 boat 6 Millionaire’s Dutch beer brand 7 “Frozen” Like lions, but not princess tigers 8 Actress Minnesota Longoria named 9 college Japanese tech company for Norway’s 10 Broken, patron as promises 9 Spunk 11 Hair salon 10 Moving around technique 11 Morning break 12 Two hour of three sides of a period typical 12 Historical pie slicedoo-wop 13 Classic 13 First stage horn 18 __ wave 21 pasthaul 23 Slip Crook’s 22 Phone button 25 Little devils lettersa next to a 4 26 Take chance 25 27 Political Mideast fugitive dignitary 26 strolling 28 One PC key 27 29 Medicine Like the visiting measures team 30 Harshly Course record? 28 bright 33 Perfectly NFL scores 29 35 “You’re Guy Friday, for 30 talking oneloud” too 36 Puts Servant the 31 thefor worm inn crowd on
©2016 Tribune Tribune Content Content Agency, Agency, LLC LLC ©2016
39 __-ski E pluribus __ 33 40 Sewing Spoils machine 34 41 1914 battle river inventor 44 Radar O’Reilly’s 38 Shaving mishaps pop brand 42 in a 47 Covered, City with aas Penn man-to-man State campus defense 49 Admit to the 44 Axe Enterprise, in a way cries 47 Coyote 50 Rosetta Pronounced 48 __ 51 “Stronger Singer Anthony 50 than 52 dirt!” Top-tier invitees cleanser
10/6/16 10/4/16
53 “Joy Showofthat 51 Cooking” showsRombauer too writer much? 52 __ alone: have 54 Marshy lowland no help 58 Acceptable 53 59 Putting Fragranttarget wood 54 60 Adorned Reader ofwith tea Angel leavesSoft, say 55 every 63 Like It may be other delayed by rain: number Abbr. service 56 Food 64 trade German org.article 65 Attorney’s Black goldfield 57
SUDOKU
RATES PER LINE/DAY • PREPAID: $2.70, BILLED: $3.10, CREDIT CARD: $2.70
Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.
To place a Classified linage ad, call: 612-627-4080 or email: classifieds@mndaily.com To place a display ad, call: 612-435-5863. For billing questions, call: 612-627-4080. *$60 minimum billing
EMPLOYMENT
EMPLOYMENT
WALKER ART CENTER RESTAURANT PREOPENING JOB FAIR. Chef Doug Flicker is opening a new restaurant with us called Esker Grove at Walker Art Center and we’re NOW HIRING. P/T & F/T positions available for SERVERS, BARISTAS, BARTENDERS and COOKS. Flexible Schedules. Apply in Person at our Job Fair on Wed 10/12 & Thu 10/13; 9am - 4pm at Loring Community Arts Center, 1382 Willow Street. If unable to attend, email resume to lhildman@ciemail.com. CULINAIRE is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer.
LIVING SKILLS INSTRUCTOR We are hiring PT staff to teach living skills to persons with autism in a residential setting. These skills include: self-care, recreation, domestic, communication, and behavior management. We provide extensive orientation/ training. Starting pay 14.7014.95/hr, regularly scheduled performance reviews/raises. Call Erin Sipe 9am-4pm, M-F, 763-560-5330. EOE.
HOUSING Sandy Hill Apartments 2 BR, large patio, heat/water & garage incl., high speed internet/cable ready. Avail now & 10/1/16. www.sandyhillapartments.com (651) 775-0511
For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
10/6/2016
Early Week’s solution © 2015 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,
My girlfriend and I broke up three months ago. It was not a clean breakup. Tears were shed, clothes were lit on fire, favorite pairs of shoes were boiled at precisely 183.5 degrees Fahrenheit —totally normal bad breakup stuff. Ever since we split, she has been sending me these really cryptic texts about what I was doing, where I was and who I was with. I don’t want to report her to the authorities or tell anyone, but it is getting really creepy. I just want her to quit it and leave me alone. Help!
—Boiled Boots Dear Boots,
If you still have those boiled boots, sprinkle a little bit of paprika, cumin, oregano, add a dab of lemon juice and throw them out, because why would you keep boiled boots? On to more serious matters, I am glad that you and your girlfriend decided to split. The cyberstalking going on sounds like she
has some serious things going on in her life. If you are ever truly afraid, you should call the authorities — people don’t have the right to make you feel that way. Hopefully, one day she will realize what she is doing and stop, but you need to disengage. Block her number, ignore her calls, do whatever you need to do to make her realize that the relationship is over.
—Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
My boyfriend is a serious weirdo. I’m pretty open with my kinks, but he proposed something in the bedroom that made me turn up my nose. We were getting all hot and heavy like a mid-2000s Chingy club jam when he told me that he wanted to try something new. I said, “Like, okay, whatever.” And he left the room. When he came back, he was dressed head to toe as a furry dog. I have always thought that I am pretty open-minded, but this was just too far.
Let me be clear: I have no problems with furries at all. I’ve gone to conventions dressed as a cat, lizard, bird, cow, bull, chicken, pig, bald eagle, platypus, armadillo, aye-aye, octopus, naked mole rat, lamprey, mole, superb bird of paradise, Cantor’s giant softshell turtle, Gobi jerboa, dodo (extinct furry ftw), hagfish, axolotl, tyrannosaurs rex and hamster. But my boyfriend dressing like a dog is one of the most boring and stupid things that I have ever heard of. I think he is an idiot for wanting to dress up as such a dumb animal. All I can think about is getting down and dirty with a pee-smelling Fido and it makes me feel like I am in some weird R. Kelly wet dream. What the hell!
—Canine Conundrum Dear Canine,
Were you at the ’03 Austin FurryCon? I was there dressed as a chimera with my boyfriend who was dressed as a dog. It ended up being an epic festival, but I initially felt like you did. Who wants to be
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
a top-notch-crazy-kinky-weirdo furry when your SO wants to be a boring dog? There are so many different options! I was embarrassed the whole ride there (he rode with his head out the window the whole time). Much to my surprise, when we got to the convention, everybody loved his costume! They talked about how everyone always tries to dress up in these crazy different costumes and my boyfriend straight killed it because he was there as something that he loved. It made me realize that many times in life, people are too caught up in calling other people’s preferences stupid instead of worrying about their own. I think it would be really helpful for you and your boyfriend to talk about this, but try not to be so judgmental. If it makes him happy, then you shouldn’t disparage him for it. Life is too short to ruminate and complain about someone else’s happiness when you have your own to worry about.
—Dr. Date
14
Thursday, October 6, 2016