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Protest calls for boycott of Dinkytown businesses Sex abuse claims against Varsity Theater owner Jason McLean prompted a Saturday protest. BY JACKIE RENZETTI AND TIFFANY LUKK jrenzetti@mndaily.com, tlukk@mndaily.com
About 40 demonstrators lined the sidewalk between the Varsity Theater and the Loring Pasta Bar Saturday, quietly holding signs and talking with passers-by. The protest was meant to educate the campus community of sexual abuse allegations against the Dinkytown businesses’ owner, Jason McLean, said the
organizer, Sarah Super. Between December and Febr uar y, four lawsuits were filed against Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theater owner Jason McLean, alleging child sex abuse during the ’70s and ’80s at the Children’s Theatre Company, where he worked as an actor and teaching artist. The lawsuits were filed under the Child Victims Act, which extended the statute of limitations for three years and expired in May 2016. “[The sur vivors] have called for a boycott of Jason McLean’s businesses,” Super said. “People have the right to choose where they spend their money, u See PROTEST Page 9
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Demonstrator Bella Looney holds a sign in support of sexual assault survivors in front of the Loring Pasta Bar in Dinkytown on Saturday.
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FloCo Fusion slashes game day tailgating An online petition is requesting FloCo’s management to rethink its game day party restrictions. BY TIFFANY LUKK tlukk@mndaily.com
Ahead of the Gophers football game Saturday morning, FloCo Fusion residents and guests played beer pong and mingled in the building’s courtyard, some sipping wine out of plastic bags. But in a shift from previous years, security capped attendance at 100 around 9:30 a.m. “It’s definitely minimized,” said marketing sophomore Whitney Wheelock. The apartment complex, known by students for its partying, is discontinuing its sponsored game day events that previously attracted hundreds of people. In an email sent u See FLOCO Page 8
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Officers prepare to spray the crowd with chemical irritant after individuals started throwing plastic bottles and liquid on Saturday in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Demonstrators filled the streets, protesting the use of the neighborhood as the setting for an upcoming HBO show.
In Cedar-Riverside, some residents think an upcoming HBO show may represent their community poorly.
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Pio Hall to get $104M facelift The Superblock dorm will have a new heating and cooling system, and a 850-seat dining facility.
BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com
A block party concert in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood Saturday was disrupted by protesters concerned about how an upcoming TV show will depict their community. The headliner of Saturday’s concer t, K’naan — a Somali-Canadian rapper — co-wrote a for thcoming HBO drama called “Mogadishu, Minnesota.” Some residents of the neighborhood are concerned the show will slight Minneapolis’ Somali-American community. Others, however, think the show — co-produced by Kathr yn
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Members of the crowd and protestors flee the event area after officers spray chemical irritant on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood.
Pioneer Hall, the University of Minnesota’s oldest residence hall in the Superblock, is getting a costly facelift. The University’s Board of Regents approved plans for the $104.5 million renovation by a 9-3 vote Friday after more than a year of debate over the proposed project. The expansion of the outdated building — a dorm students often criticize — will bring it up to code while connecting Pioneer’s two wings with a central spine and increasing capacity. A new 850-seat u See RES HALL Page 4
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STATE REPORT CHARGES: MINNEAPOLIS MAN FLEEING POLICE WHEN HE STRUCK TEEN MINNEAPOLIS — Prosecutors have charged a Minneapolis man who authorities say fatally struck a pregnant Arizona teenager as he was fleeing police. The Hennepin County Attor ney’s of fice has charged 36-year-old Howard William Amos with robber y and fleeing police resulting in death. According to the criminal complaint, police saw Amos’ SUV speeding in north Minneapolis on the night of Sept. 2 and tried to pull him over. Instead, authorities say Amos fled and hit 16-year-old old Diana Garcia-Alvarado of Phoenix as she stood on the curb. Garcia-Alvarado died at a hospital. Doctors reported she was about 12 weeks pregnant. Authorities say Amos tried to carjack a family’s vehicle before he was caught. Police found a handgun in his crashed car. Prosecutors say more charges are possible.
EX-ST. PAUL MAYOR, JUDGE LARRY COHEN DIES AT 83 ST. PAUL — Former St. Paul Mayor Lar r y Cohen, who was mayor of the Minnesota capital in the 1970s, has died. He was 83. Cohen died at home Sunday surrounded by his family, according to his son, Scott. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports Cohen had been suf fering from lung cancer. Cohen ser ved two terms as St. Paul’s mayor, from 1972 to 1976. He practiced law before being elected to the Ramsey County Board in 1970. T h e n - G o v. R u d y Perpich appointed Cohen as a Ramsey County district judge in 1988. After 14 years he retired from the bench in 2002 as chief judge. Cohen was instrumental in renovating the old federal cour thouse in downtown St. Paul, now called Landmark Center. He also served on the Metropolitan Airports Commission for 11 years. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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U proposes new facility The previous track facilities had been eliminated in conjunction with BY EMILY NICOLE POLGLAZE epolglaze@mndaily.com
Minnesota’s cross country and track and field programs could train in a new $13 million facility proposed by the University of Minnesota on Thursday. The project includes a new track and field facility as well as relocation of two current recreational athletic facilities that currently occupy the land of the proposed track, bringing both closer to the new Athletes Village still under construction. “Our goal here is that we can maximize shared amenities with the Athletes Village complex,” University Athletics Director Mark Coyle said Thursday. The track and field team was displaced by the construction of the University’s Athletes Village.
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Initially, no plans were made to replace the destroyed track facility. The lack of facilities for the teams prompted a gender-equity complaint, triggering an ongoing federal Title IX investigation of the school. The track teams have been using facilities at Hamline University for practice in the meantime. If approved by the University’s Board of Regents, construction is slated to be completed by August 2018. Regents are expected to address the proposal in October. The proposed track facility, which would include nine lanes and resources for javelin, shot put, discus/hammer throw, long/triple jump and steeplechase, has been integrated into the Athletes Village project. The proposed track facility will also include 5,600 square feet to accommodate restrooms, a press box, concessions and both permanent and temporary spectator seating for 4,000. The location of the proposed facility currently houses the University’s Recreation
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A 19-year-old man fell from a fifth story FloCo Fusion apar tment balcony Saturday night around 10 p.m., sending him to the hospital. The man, whose name was not released, landed on the concrete and was taken by ambulance to the Hennepin County Medical Center, according to police records. His condition is unclear at this time. Though some speculated he was tried to jump to a different balcony, there wasn’t one below the apartment to land on, said resident and University student Samuel Duchow. He said he didn’t witness the fall. “I don’t know what his intentions were,” Duchow said. University of Minnesota animal science junior Claire Steffenhagen was walking by FloCo when she saw the accident’s aftermath. “There was a guy who was laying on his stomach,” she said. “And we looked up, and everyone was just packed on that balcony, looking down. The paramedics came five or ten minutes later and people started flooding the courtyard, wondering what was happening.” She gave pitchers of water to paramedics to wash blood off the man, she said. “I heard him breathing really hard. I just saw blood around him. It was really upsetting,” Steffenhagen said.
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Hsu discusses his time as a U Regent
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Regent Michael Hsu poses for a portrait at the McNamara Alumni Center on Wednesday.
Regent Michael Hsu has become known as an outspoken regent, willing to ask tough questions of the administration. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
More than 20 years after Michael Hsu toured the University of Minnesota’s Board of Regents chamber as an honors student, he was elected as a member of the school’s governing board. Since taking his board position, Hsu has become known as an outspoken regent, willing to ask tough questions of the University’s administration. He credits his time at the school as well as his private industry experience in helping him find a place on the board. Hsu came to the school from Ames, Iowa as a national merit scholar and chose the University because of its highly-rated electrical engineering program. While at the University, Hsu was involved in the Sigma Chi fraternity and a research aid at Honeywell Systems and Research Center. “I think that [fraternity] experience helped me a lot in addition to the academic experience I got through the electrical engineering department,” Hsu said. After graduation, Hsu got a job with Ar thur Anderson Consulting after he graduated, after turning down an offer from the National Security Agency. “That was really hardcore technology.” As a management consultant, Hsu played a large role in improving the efficiency of different companies’ technology, much like the work he does at the University today. He is currently the president and co-founder of the TeeMaster Corporation, an online ser vice that of fers internet golf reser vations, among other services. As a regent, Hsu said he uses his experience in business and economics to help advocate for the financial future of the University. Many of his comments and questions at board meetings reveal a data-driven mindset about University programs. Other regents praised Hsu’s thorough research on board topics, saying his business background brings a valued analytical perspective to regents’ work.
“He is ver y bright and ver y thorough,” said Regent Thomas Anderson, who was elected with Hsu. “His strongest point on the board is probably his ver y thorough research on subjects.” Regent Thomas Devine said Hsu has been a transformational member of the board. “The board’s been concentrating on a lot more detail than they did … prior to his arrival. He’s a thorough guy,” Devine said. The Daily recently caught up with Hsu and asked him about his time on the board and some of his priorities.
What went well for the University and the board last year?
“We have good agreements on the priorities the board wants to tackle … Some of the things that went well were our discussions around enrollment strategy … Getting the Athletes Village project moving was good. We had some success in the searches for some key positions ... We had some good discussions on sexual assault. We’re now back to a 90,000 square foot Bell Museum.”
What were some things that didn’t go so well last year?
I have never supported a budget so far. I think the budget process is bad. It comes to us and there’s really no time to make changes. I’m ver y disappointed that we haven’t frozen tuition for in-state students. The amount of money that it takes to freeze tuition for in-state students is ver y minimal. The out-of-state students aren’t paying their share. We’re at the bottom of the Big 10 for outof-state tuition … in-state students are subsidizing … It’s not fair for resident students to pay any kind of increase — you should give them a decrease. We could have very easily in the past two years frozen tuition on our own and we could have even lowered it. The thing I was most disappointed in is we have colleges that aren’t full … with 50,000 applications for 5,800 spots, the fact is,
we have more spots than 5,800. We’re not admitting enough transfer students and we’re not admitting enough new high school students. I was also unhappy with the way the definition of sexual assault and affirmative consent was created. They were tr ying to create it as an administrative definition and changing the administrative process. I was not happy that the General Counsel had not given an opinion on how this would af fect the University and the treatment of students.
What are some of your goals for this year?
I’m excited about the four priorities that we have and working on changes to the budget process for the next budget. I believe that the University will get stronger if we provide [students] with the best experience that we can … I think that if we can reduce the amount of negative stories about the University in the next year by being more proactive in dealing with the problems before they become so big that they become controversial — that’s another priority that I have.
What are some of the challenges you’re anticipating for this year?
That’s hard to predict, all of these things are difficult. The Pioneer Hall thing is dif ficult. In the budget, I wanted to make sure we had enough money included for mental health counseling and suppor t for students, so I’m looking for ward to seeing what the new money gets used for and whether or not it’s enough to deal with the mental issues that students are facing these days. M Health is a big one, I think that’s another thing that didn’t go well, but I’m still optimistic. I still think it’s a necessar y thing that we need to get moving on to improve the rankings of our medical school so that we can provide better healthcare for Minnesotans in the future. Editor’s note: The Q&A section was edited for length and clarity.
US nuclear plant up for sale at fraction of cost BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
After spending more than 40 years and $5 billion on an unfinished nuclear power plant in northeastern Alabama, the nation’s largest federal utility is preparing to sell the property at a fraction of its cost. The Tennessee Valley Authority has set a minimum bid of $36.4 million for
its Bellefonte Nuclear Plant and the 1,600 sur rounding acres of water front property on the Tennessee River. The buyer gets two unfinished nuclear reactors, transmission lines, office and warehouse buildings, eight miles of roads, a 1,000-space parking lot and more. Initial bids are due Monday, and at least one compa-
ny has publicly expressed interest in the site with plans to use it for alternative energy production. But TVA says it isn’t particular about what the purchaser does — using the site for power production, industrial manufacturing, recreation or even residences would all be fine with the agency, said spokesman Scott Fiedler.
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dining facility to ser ve all of the Superblock’s 2,800 students will also be included. The transformation will be paid for by an increase in student housing fees, which are expected to climb more than last year’s 3.6 percent increase due to the project, bringing University room and board rates closer to the middle of the Big Ten. Money for University housing can’t come from state appropriations or the school’s general fund. James Far nswor th, a freshman Pioneer Hall resident, said he thinks the renovation will be wor th the increase in housing fees. “People are paying a lot of money to be here, and there’s a cer tain level of expectations and regents should respond to that,” Far nswor th, who lives in the basement level of Pioneer, where one bathroom ser ves 16 people, said. “Compared to other dorms, I can’t even believe they’re at the same university.” While Pioneer’s interior will be mostly gutted, its exterior will be preserved to retain the building’s character. The residence hall was
completed in 1932. The plan’s cost rose $5.5 million from previous estimates. The cur rent plan will force other Superblock residents to walk outside to eat in Pioneer, but University President Eric Kaler said Friday that the school would consider adding indoor walkways. Pioneer will close for the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years. The University will make up for the lost 693 beds by conver ting Roy Wilkins Hall to freshman dor m-style housing and by leasing private, of f-campus apar tments. Regents Michael Hsu, Thomas Devine and Darrin Rosha voted against the option, saying that such a substantial amount of money should be saved for adding a greater number of beds. Hsu said when the University raises room and board rates, private developers usually raise their rates in tandem. “The University is a big par t of the local market,” he said. “Developers are not only looking at each other, they’re looking at what the University does … any increase that we make, they’re likely to follow suit.”
“I’ve been a strong supporter of the Pioneer Hall project since 1990 when I had bats in my room and a tennis racket by my bed” LAURA BROD graduate student
But other regents said Pioneer’s renovations will be worth the costs. “I’ve been a strong suppor ter of the Pioneer Hall project since 1990 when I had bats in my room and a tennis racket by my bed,” said Regent Laura Brod, a University graduate. Regent Richard Beeson said the administration’s recommendation would keep the University from having to revisit the project later, despite the hefty price tag. “I don’t like modest rehabs,” he said. “We’re not going to look back on this in 10 years and wish we had done it better.” Regent Chair Dean Johnson said he expected some reser vations with such a high sticker price on the project.
Kenyan police kill three women during attack BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
One of the women threw a firebomb at of ficers while another pulled out a knife, Mombasa police chief Parterson Maelo said, adding two policemen were wounded in the attack. The women, who were dressed in niqabs, were then shot by police. One of the women had a suicide vest that didn’t detonate, another police of ficial said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. But Kenya faces a constant danger of being attacked by adher ents of the Somali militant group al-Shabab, which has vowed retribution for Kenya’s deployment of troops to Somalia in
2011. Maelo said the women ar rived at the central police station at about 10:30 a.m. (0730 GMT) to report a stolen telephone. “While the of ficers were questioning them about the par ticulars of the stolen phone one of them drew a knife and another threw a petrol bomb at the of ficers of the repor t of fice,” he said. T wo of the suspects have been identified as Kenyans Fatuma Omar a n d Ta s m i n Ya k u b Abdullahi Farah, police spokesman Charles Owino said. One had a suicide vest that didn’t detonate, he added. A raid was conducted at Farah’s house, leading to the arrest of three Somali
refugees for questioning, he said. This is the second attack linked to extremism on a police station this year. In July, a Muslim police of ficer killed seven colleagues in a standof f a t th e K a p en gu ria po lice station in wester n Kenya. Al-Shabab is al-Qaida’s af filiate in the region. It has recruited hundreds of Kenyans and used them in numerous attacks on the countr y, including the April 2015 attack at Garissa University, which killed more than 148 people. R e c e n t l y, a l - S h a b a b attacks in Kenya have been limited to the border towns of Mandera and Liboi near Somalia.
“Any time you have pr ojects that ar e $100 million-plus, each regent takes it ver y, ver y seriously,” he said. “[The regents who voted against the plan] had ver y good reasons why they voted no … the bottom line for all of us is the student experience.” While Pioneer Hall was r enovated in 1977 and maintenance has continued since, no major work has been done in the past 15 years. The residence hall doesn’t meet cur rent building codes in several areas, is not handicappaccessible and is in need of heating, ventilation and air conditioning integration, plumbing and electrical system replacement, bathroom renovation and more community study space. Although freshman English literature major and Pioneer Hall resident Maggie Reese said she likes living in the antiquated dorm, she sees room for improvement. “I like the sense of community here, and I like the proximity to my classes,” she said. “There’s no air conditioning or a functional elevator, and that made moving in pretty miserable.”
PIONEER HALL DORMITORY UPDATED FLOOR PLAN Existing typical floor level
New typical floor level
residential unit support spaces
community/study resident bathroom
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOARD OF REGENTS
PROJECT COST ESTIMATES Total cost for dining $22,775,000 Construction $20,500,000 Non-construction $2,275,000
Total cost $104,500,000
Total cost for housing $81,725,000 Construction $71,000,000 Non-construction $10,725,000
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA BOARD OF REGENTS
Overwatering jeopardizes 400year-old olive trees in Lima BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Per fectly suited to the arid climate, the olive trees thrived as the city grew around them. Their twisting, knobby trunks and shady leaves became the centerpiece of a park named for them — El Olivar — that’s a magnet for lovers, exercise enthusiasts and children on school field trips. However, in a feat of poor planning, officials surrounded the trees with a 25-acre (10-hectare) carpet of crabgrass that ever y week receives more than 2 million gallons (9,000 cubic meters) of water, practically drowning the 1,700 trees. After nearly a century of over watering, many of the slow-growing trees are at risk of dying. Eleven have exposed roots and are in danger of falling, as one did in 2014. The problem
is drawing attention to how residents and city planners waste scarce water resources ornamenting Lima with lush parks unsuited to the capital’s dry environment. The district of San Isidro, Lima’s wealthiest and bestorganized, is looking for ways to urgently fix a problem created by previous administrations. Under consideration are plans to substitute the current grass for a less thirsty species, or using targeted irrigation techniques to prevent over watering. Under normal conditions the trees could live more than 1,000 years, said Fernando de la Vega, who oversees San Isidro’s parks. Salustio Pomacondor, a forestr y expert, said the lack of water planning is endemic to Lima. He cited as an example a 6-mile stretch of parks along El Malecon, which overlooks the Pacific
Ocean and which the city spent years improving without much consideration for the constant watering that such immaculate landscaping requires. Another example of the focus on aesthetics over utility is the preference on downtown sidewalks for willows, a tree usually found next to rivers and which requires 40 gallons (150 liters) of water each week. Pomacondor said the majority of Lima’s 9 million residents have little notion of how scarce a resource water is in the capital despite the fact that annual rainfall rarely exceeds a third of an inch (9 millimeters.) While an estimated 700,000 residents have no access to running water, the rest consume an average of 66 gallons (250 liters) a day, more than their counterparts in other Andean capitals such as Bogota, Quito or La Paz.
Editorials & Opinions
Monday, September 12, 2016
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YouTube needs to clarify its guidelines The social media site must continue to pay controversial creators to create dialogue.
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recent controversy over which videos are allowed to be monetized on YouTube was brought to light by Philip DeFranco, a prominent member of the YouTube community. In a recent video titled “YouTube is Shutting Down My Channel and I’m Not Sure What To Do,” DeFranco expressed his frustration over his discover y that nearly 40 of his videos had been demonetized, meaning he would no longer be paid a share of the cash YouTube receives from adver tisements on those videos. The decision was spurred, according to DeFranco, because YouTube decided his videos did not meet their standards. DeFranco speaks on a number of controversial topics, such as the case of rapist Brock Turner, and conflicts between police and the Black Lives Matter movement. But he is just one of many who use the website as a platform to discuss the relevant social and political issues. Sometimes these content-creators espouse opinions that many would find deplorable, without much room for
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disagreement. DeFranco, however, states that he wishes to create a space where viewers can discuss issues he brings up; he promotes conversations that address multiple perspectives, not just those that he agrees with. For many, YouTube’s new guidelines appear to be a form of censorship. The aspect of this controversy that is most unsettling is the fact that YouTube, according to their “Adver tiser Friendly Content Guidelines,” does not allow creators to monetize videos with “controversial or sensitive subjects … even if graphic imager y is not shown.” This is as specific as the guidelines get, but the phrasing is vague: what constitutes controversy? What makes a subject sensitive? And why are some videos left up while others are taken down? There are numerous problems associated with limiting the discussion of controversial topics on monetized media. While YouTube hasn’t removed DeFranco’s videos after they were demonetized, bar ring creators from making money of f of their videos can stunt their ability to generate meaningful discussion. If
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creators are not able to profit from videos that address controversial, difficult news stories, there is less incentive to produce them. While more impassioned channels will persist, the message this policy sends is clear: Talking about sensitive subjects is something to avoid if you want to be financially successful on YouTube. YouTube is a top choice for millennials who are looking for perspectives on information; for older generations, the nightly news on television was just as influential. Both mediums engage us. If YouTube chooses to limit payouts to creators for broaching controversial topics, they limit the unique oppor tunity their website has to create a place of dialogue and understanding. Further, if YouTube demonetizes some videos with controversial language or opinions, they must do a better job specifying where the line is. If they choose to ignore the millions of viewers who watch DeFranco each week and the millions more who view channels similar to his, they’ll quickly loose the respect of their audience and most popular YouTube personalities. Kaylee Anderson welcomes comments at kanderson@mndaily.com.
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe shouldn’t be considered “trespassers” when protecting their own ancestral land.
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GUEST COLUMN Dear campus, consider writing a guest column for the Daily. Share your perspective with your peers through our section’s newest feature. We are happy to introduce a brand new feature to the Minnesota Daily’s Editorials & Opinions page: The guest column. Star ting this semester, each pa per will highlight the perspective of a dif ferent member of our community. Whether you’re the leader of a student group on campus — or a perceptive individual that has an engaging stor y wor th sharing — we’re looking for your voice. The new guest column section will replace the content traditionally housed in “Daily Discussion” — readers’ comments from our website, which the Minnesota Daily’s editorial board decided was not cultivating a thoughtful, productive dialogue on issues affecting our campus community. While we’ve always accepted letters to the editors from our readers, we hope this new section will serve a broader purpose. If you’re a leader of a group on campus, you could use the space to pitch your group to perspective members; or iron out misconceptions some may have about the purpose of your organization. Or, perhaps you’re a student wanting to ar ticulate your opinion on a University policy that affects our campus community; or maybe you’d like to illicit support for a specific event that your fellow students may find important. Our hope is that this space will be a hub for discussion of impor tant campus topics. We want our readers to be engaged, and lear n from the great diversity of perspectives and lived experiences on our campus. Have an idea? Email our Editorial & Opinions editor, jthomas@mndaily.com, if you are interested in participating. We look forward to hearing from you. CONTACT THE EDITOR John Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com
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Say goodbye to language Slang words are often vague, and ill-informed, and yet they always seem to be relevant.
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istanthrophobia is the fear of trusting people due to negative past experiences. However, you won’t find the word or its definition in any legitimate dictionary; you’ll only find it on Tumblr. It could be an entire plotline of a Sofia Coppola movie, but it’s a feeling we can all relate to. New non-terms don’t always key into specific, yet hashtag-able feelings, though. If you’ve gone out to eat recently, you may have noticed restaurateurs using the term “handhelds” on their menu for — you guessed it — anything you eat with your hands: a sandwich, a mozzarella stick or even a loose sausage. The problem with this isn’t that they’re repurposing a word that’s fallen out of use; it’s that these neologisms seek to make connections out of nothing. A restaurant’s locally sourced sweet potato fries and fusion tacos are more connected by the eater y’s overarching pretention than the method by which they’re eaten.
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Or, perhaps, could it be that the problem is me? Where is the Rocket Power for adults? Where is the show that teaches me the slang I need to know to sur vive, now that I’ve grown out of Nickelodeon and my adolescence? When confronted with this new word, “pistanthrophobia,” my first instinct was to attack rather than to embrace. Even within the context of this short column, a condescending tone toward both trendy restaurants and social media culture was forged. Hell, it’s essentially a piece calling sandwiches “handhelds,” and the title is a reference to a Jean-Luc Godard film. Maybe it’s only a matter of time before I’m spending my days on a porch, reminiscing about the days when sandwiches were sandwiches and handhelds were handhelds. Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.
GUEST EDITORIAL Tax, bonding issues are urgent With the conundr um of paying for needed light rail in the T win Cities now out of the legislative negotiations for a special session, it’s time for Gov. Mark Dayton and the House GOP leadership to come to an agreement and convene the session to provide tax relief and bonding for all of Minnesota. We agree with the frequent GOP ally, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, in calling for an immediate special session to provide tax relief and bonding projects. The chamber issued a statement
Aug. 25 saying once the funding of the Southwest Light Rail T ransit project moved out of the legislative arena, legislators and the governor should convene a special session. While Minnesota Chamber President Doug Loon urged the Legislature to approve a comprehensive funding package that “includes roads, bridges and transit,” noting that was the best way to consider light rail projects or other transit projects in the Twin Cities, he also urged contingencies. “However, any move to fund the Southwest Light Rail Transit line outside of the legislative process should pave the way for a special session to take
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care of unfinished business of the 2016 legislative session to the benefit of all Minnesotans. That is what Minnesotans expect.” We couldn’t agree more. Now, it appears that the Metr opolitan Council and metro area county railroad authorities have str ung together needed funding for the project without going through the Legislature. So we agree with the chamber that now the session should begin. Editor’s Note: This editorial was originally published by the Mankato Free Press.
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EDITORIALS Star Tribune should get rid of gossip columnist
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n T u e s d a y, J a n a S h o r t a l — host of KARE 11’s show “Breaking the News” — ran a segment that delved into the gruesome, hear tbreaking death of the long-missing, abducted child Jacob Wetterling. In the segment, Shor tal was wearing a gray blazer, polka dot shir t and a pair of jeans that have now flir ted with infamy. What she was wearing would not have mattered had notorious Star Tribune gossip columnist C.J. not deigned to highlight what she believed was an unsuitable outfit. “… the skinny jeans did not work. I was among a number of media types who found them inappropriate and, given the gravity of the day’s subject, downright jarring,” C.J. wrote in the since-deleted column. Jar ring to whom? We guess only to those who expect women to fit a cer tain mold in order to be successful — a belief which is outstandingly archaic. This isn’t the first time Shor tal has faced ridiculous adversity in her choice of attire. In fact, she published an Op-Ed piece in the Star Tribune itself earlier this year entitled, “I’m a TV newswoman, and no thanks on the lady uniform.” In it Shor tal details the years of personal and professional strife she has dealt with — all stemming from others dictating how she should present herself on TV and in life. Yet the column reads as celebrator y because Shor tal explains that star ting “Breaking the News” allowed her to finally present herself in the way she prefers. It leads us to wonder, does C.J. read the paper she writes for? Criticizing the way people present themselves and dictating whether or not a person’s wardrobe passes moral muster has never, and will never be, culturally productive. C.J.’s column enforces a cr uel, cyclic trend of telling women how they must look and act; the Star Tribune’s decision to publish it reveals that, even in 2016, some media organizations find the denigration of women permissible. The Star Tribune removed the column and even the cached version was taken down, but ironically, the City Pages — which is owned by the Star Tribune — reprinted it in full. The Star Tribune also issued an apology shor tly after, which expressed sincere regret over publishing C.J.’s column. C.J. also issued her own apology, a paltr y four lines, where she apologized for hur ting Shor tal’s feelings and said she understands the perspective of those upset by her words. That is not the only thing she must apologize for. C.J.’s column has been criticized by a number of national news outlets, including Jezebel, The Washington Times and the Independent. Her misguided, crass and unforgivable musings have embarrassed this city — one that often touts itself as a community of inclusivity and respect. Shor tal herself has suggested that C.J. should have her column disbanded. But we urge the Twin Cities’ newspaper of record to go fur ther. What really is the use of a gossip columnist anymore? In this day and age, it’s abominable to see blithely-uninformed, sexist columns sanctioned by media outlets in the first place. It is time that the Star Tribune washes their hands of C.J, and we hope that they will exercise more dexterity when publishing columns in the future — we have no more room to peddle hatred. EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board. 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.
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In ’38, U works to smash atom Students show U atom accelerators blossomed before newer machines replaced them. BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvula@mndaily.com
For about 40 years, nuclear physicists at the University of Minnesota smashed atoms in hopes of discovering what lies beyond. In 1938, a machine called the ‘Van de Graaff’ was built behind Tate Laboratory of Physics but was torn down in this year’s renovations of the lab. The aim of the project, led by physics professors John H. Williams and John T. Tate, was to make breakthroughs in understanding atomic structure. The basic building block of all matter — the atom — is composed of negatively charged electrons and a positive nucleus, which contains protons and neutrons. The Van de Graaff machine was built to better understand the atom’s nucleus. In the 1920s, nuclear physics was a relatively new field, and breaking apart an atom required a high-powered machine, said Benjamin Bayman, a former professor and current theoretical nuclear physics researcher at the University of Minnesota. This spurred the creation of the Van de Graaff, said biophysics professor, John Broadhurst. The machine shot atomic particles at each other in hopes of either exciting the nucleus or breaking it apart, Bayman said. “[It’s like] covering a piano in a dark room and throwing bricks at it to understand how it’s made based on the sound,” he said. The Van de Graaff machine was one of the most powerful machines at that time, Bayman said, and gave the University a leg-up in nuclear physics — placing the school above most other institutions in the country. Broadhurst said the machine led to correspondence between Williams and physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who told Williams to try new experiments with the Van de Graaff. Oppenheimer was the head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, the lab responsible for creating the atomic bomb. Though the Van de Graaff was an advanced machine at that time, nuclear structure proved hard to smash, though scientists still gathered data, Broadhurst said. After World War II, inter-
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1938 $36,000 given as funding to Van de Graaff. 1938-1966 The Van de Graaff machine runs. 1949 The Linac was built.
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1949 $728,000 given as funding for the LiInac. 1965 $134,822 given as funding for the Tandem Van de Graaff. 1965-1978 The Tandem Van de Graaff runs. SOURCE: UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES
est in nuclear physics spiked due to the atomic bombs used to end the war, Bayman said. By this time, John H. Williams led the physics department at the University and was able to get two new accelerators that were built along the Mississippi River — the Linac in the ’50s and the Tandem Van de Graaff accelerator in 1966. The Linac was the most powerful accelerator at the time, Broadhurst said. Williams died before the Tandem was complete, and Broadhurst was made the Director of Operations of both machines. The Tandem and Linac accelerators made the original Van de Graaff machine obsolete, and it was abandoned, Bayman said. “[But] nuclei are complicated structures … and by the 1970s most possible experiments that can be done were done,” he said. After the nuclear disasters at Chernobyl in Ukraine and Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, public interest in nuclear physics dwindled, he said. This, in tandem with increasing maintenance costs , led to the defunding of institutional atom smashers. Effortsrefocused in national laboratories, Bayman said. The Tandem and Linac accelerators at the University were completely defunded by the ’90s. Both were torn down after Interstate 35W collapsed. Today, nuclear physicists and students must travel to larger, more power ful machines at Fermilab and CERN in Switzerland to do this type of experimentation, he said. Jenny Allan, communications director for Tate Lab, said the largest physics project the University is involved
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Minnesota Daily Archive Photo of Dr. John T. Tate, Dr. H. A. Erikson and Dr. John H. Williams during the construction of the Van de Graaff , image originally published July 26, 1938.
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with is Fermilab’s NOvA Neutrino Project. The University is also par t of preliminar y planning of a larger physics project called the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, Allan said. Broadhurst said after nearly a centur y of experiments, physicists are still not entirely certain how
nuclei are structured, but scientists have gathered a huge amount of data from their experiments. To make matters more complicated, scientists have discovered smaller particles within the neutron and proton of an atom’s nucleus. “Someday there will be a breakthrough,” Broadhurst said.
With her pants pulled down and skin covered in mock injuries, fifthyear senior Madison Estuesta demonstrated what victims of “20 minutes of action” can look like. Around 60 students gathered on the mall outside Coffman Memorial Union and lied down to show suppor t for sexual assault victimsur vivors. Organizers distributed informational flyers about the Brock Tur ner case, how bystanders can stop assaults and the sexual assault resources available on campus. Psychology junior Emma Doran said many passers-by noticed the demonstration and took flyers. Last week, Stanfor d University student Brock Turner was released from jail after ser ving half of a six-month sexual assault sentence. He attacked an unconscious woman behind a dumpster in Palo Alto in Januar y 2015. Turner’s father created backlash by calling the sentence a “steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action,” which became the namesake of Thursday’s protest. “I think [the Br ock T ur ner case] is just a manifestation of white cis male privilege in the legal system,” sociology sophomore June Kuoch said. “How he was treated relative to other sexual violence [and] rape cases was really bizarre.” Estuesta or ganized the event, and star ted the demonstration by lying down in the mall all day starting at 8 a.m. “I want to open up a conversation about … accountability, standing with sur vivors and holding perpetrators accountable,” Estuesta said. A handful of women were wearing makeup resembling blood and
“It’s scary that there could be this many victims of sexual assault, but it’s reassuring that this many people care about it.” MARIT MIEDEMA Scandinavian studies junior
br uises, and some wore disheveled or unzipped clothes. “Just sitting here, looking like the way I am, people get uncomfor table,” Doran said. “The victims over there, even though they’re fully clothed - they’re mentally like us.” According to the University of Minnesota’s Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education, 20 to 25 percent of college women and about 1 percent of college men will experience sexual assault. Most demonstrators Thursday were women. Mechanical Engineering senior Michael Francis said at the event he was “broken-hear ted that ther e ar en’t mor e guys.” Many of the par ticipants were themselves sexual assault victim-sur vivors; the group of demonstrators vocalized that par ticipating together in solidarity made them feel better. “It’s scar y that there could be this many victims of sexual assault,” said political science sophomore Morgan Norton at the protest. “But it’s reassuring that this many people care about it.” Demonstrators said they noticed a lot of people staring as they walked by. “Ever ybody knows about it, nobody wants to talk about it,” said Scandinavian studies junior Marit Miedema. Doran said she wants to see this demonstration become a yearly event. “Sometimes you got to j u s t l ay ar o u n d fo r the things that you care about,” Estuesta said. “Now that I’ve seen how it af fects people, I don’t think I could stop.”
Course evaluation info is now accessible Students are now able to view course evaluations online from past semesters. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens1@mndaily.com
The course evaluations students fill out on the last day of class are now available online, a change that some think will inform decisions about course registration. Last month, the Minnesota Student Association published a Google spreadsheet with course evaluation information, after students asked University officials to make such records publically-accessible, according to MSA President Abeer Syedah. Though simplified versions of the evaluations were published in 2015, the information was put into a spreadsheet over the summer because some students felt the data was hard to find and difficult to navigate on the University’s website. Making the data easy to
find is still a work in progress, Syedah said. University Assistant Vice Provost Ole Gram said data from the evaluations has been requested for years, but information regarding instructor ratings is protected under the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, and must be kept private. Still, in 2014, a compromise was reached, allowing for the publication of course evaluation responses — such as, “I have a deeper understanding of subject matter” and “I would recommend this course” — Gram said. As a result, a 235-page PDF with these responses was put online. The information was buried deep in the University’s class registration site after its publication, Syedah said, and most people — including some faculty — didn’t know how to find it. Members of MSA worked with faculty over the summer to locate the data, she said. The information was then reorganized in August by MSA member Chase
Taylor to make it easier for students to use. MSA’s data team will analyze the information to identify certain outliers, like courses that receive exceptionally low ratings, Taylor said. Ideally, the results will be posted on mainstream University sites like Moodle or MyU, said MSA Director of Academic Affairs Makda Biniam. “We’re hopefully going to be working alongside faculty and administration to be implementing the perfect outcome,” she said. Although many students requested the release of this data, some University professors were hesitant about publishing it, Gram said. “There’s a sense that some of these ratings can be biased,” he said. “Sometimes you have faculty who tr y … to be innovative in their teaching, and sometimes it doesn’t work as well.” But professors recognize it’s more reliable than websites like Rate My Professors, where some respondents tend to have
extreme opinions, Gram said. “I think it will be fairly useful,” he said. “At least it will give some sense of how students reacted.” Fifth-year civil engineering student Nick Menzel said he didn’t know the course evaluations were made public but said he isn’t convinced they’ll help students because they don’t include information about course instructors. “I don’t think it would be that useful,” said Menzel, adding that information on professor quality and suggestions to improve classrooms would be more helpful. Emily Olson, a biology senior, said she would like to know if students felt grading was fair and whether they gained anything from a course. But overall, she doesn’t think the information will be very beneficial. “[Those results] wouldn’t intrigue me to take a class,” she said. “Maybe if the reviews were really bad, I wouldn’t take it.”
Thousands of Catalan separatists rally in Barcelona BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MADRID — Hundreds of thousands of separatistminded Catalans rallied in Barcelona on Sunday to show their support for breaking away from Spain, leaving the country without its powerful and prosperous northeastern region. Barcelona police
estimated on their Twitter account that about 540,000 people attended the rally in support of a legally-binding referendum that would achieve an independent Catalonia. Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont said that he plans to propose a government-approved binding independence referendum
to secede from Spain by next year. Spain, which opposes secession, argues that an independent Catalonia would be ejected from the European Union and left out from using the euro currency. Catalonia held a nonbinding vote in 2014, when around 1.6 million people voted in favor of independence. Most of the region’s
5.4 million eligible voters didn’t participate after Spain’s Constitutional Court ordered the suspension of the ballot. In June, a Catalan judge recommended former regional president Artur Mas stand trial for staging the vote and ignoring the suspension. Mas claims the vote was carried out by volunteers.
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Stadium Village businesses say goodbye Independent business owners reflect on their time in the University neighborhood. BY ANDREW HEISER
With a 27-stor y apar tment complex expected to rise in the rapidly changing Stadium Village neighborhood, several of the area’s most popular local businesses have been forced to close recently to make way for the project. Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors plans to build a residential and commercial tower on the corner of Har vard Street and Washington Avenue, a block that currently holds a collection of Stadium Village business fixtures. While many new luxur y apar tment buildings in the area target students, the housing plan would be marketed to professionals who work at the University of Minnesota or in downtown Minneapolis. But before the tower can be constr ucted, an iconic Stadium V illage block that housed many business with long histories on campus has to be razed. The Big 10 Restaurant and Bar, Village Wok and Espresso Expose are three of the best-known shops that have occupied the block for decades. Bun Mi Sandwiches also shared space on that corner, as did a vacant store front. All of the block’s businesses closed within the last few weeks. Big 10 Restaurant and Bar closed over Labor Day weekend and Espresso Expose closed on Sept. 2. Village Wok and Bun Mi closed Aug. 21 and Aug. 26, respectively. Big 10 and Espresso Expose held events for customers and for mer employees to celebrate the businesses. The displaced businesses’ Facebook pages are filled with memories from past employees and customers that frequented the restaurants. “Star ted going there for lunch with a group of friends ever y Friday. That was in 1983,” said one commenter on Big 10’s Facebook post announcing its closing. “Since then we all graduated [well, most of us], got jobs and had to switch to getting together ever y Monday evening for dinner … We’ve brought girlfriends, wives, kids and even grandkids to the Big 10 … it was always just a dumpy little college bar, but the people made it feel like home.” Espresso Expose owner Patrick Weinberg said his lease was up after this year, so he made a deal with the developers to let them buy out the lease. “I’ve been approached all my life with that location,” said Weinberg, who also owns the Purple Onion Cafe in Dinkytown, “But they’ve been fair with me
and treated me well. I feel okay about it all.” Espresso Expose had been on the corner since 1991 and maintained a strong consumer base despite the arrival of a Starbucks nearby. Starbucks actually tried to buy Weinberg’s corner on multiple occasions, but he defied the coffee giant. “I’ve always been proud to be an independent, to sur vive here,” Weinberg said. “I know there are fans and regulars that are going to miss us.” Sherman Ho, who owned Bun Mi, said he hopes another apar tment complex won’t af fect the Stadium Village culture. “Initially they’ll miss you, but things are constantly changing,” he said. Ho said he would like to keep Bun Mi in Stadium Village. “I would like to be back here because you’re in the hear t of campus, and our fan base is pretty loyal,” he said. Ho is plenty familiar with the local restaurant scene. His uncle ran Village Wok, the recentlyclosed Chinese Restaurant two doors down that was started by several students from Hong Kong in 1975. Between them was the Big 10 — a popular sub shop and hangout spot since 1955. The Big 10 has another location in Hopkins. Bun Mi wasn’t around quite as long as its neighbors, but it has stepped into the shoes of some memorable predecessors. Before the Vietnamese sandwich outfit opened in 2009, the site was occupied by Stadium Village’s only independent barbershop, Har vard Barber Stylists. That’s wher e manager and ordained pastor Larr y “Jake” Delander would tell customers about his days ser ving as a barber on the USS Intrepid during the Vietnam War. Before Jamba Juice opened and subsequently closed, the original Harvard Market convenience store stood on the corner of Washington Avenue and Har vard Street. Established in 1904, the market catered to students in Stadium Village — even cashing checks for students from the nearby dormitories. Owner Brad Mateer shuttered the location in 2007 due to high maintenance and rent costs. A second iteration on Ontario Street, dubbed Har vard Market East, preser ved the shop’s presence until 2011. That’s when the Opus Gr oup began erecting student apartments in the area and the Ontario Street corner
A group of freshmen walk past Espresso Expose’s thank you message during Welcome Week on Sept. 3.
became Stadium Village Flats with a CVS Pharmacy attached as a retail component. Before Opus constructed The Station apartments and a Walgreens Pharmacy at Washington and Walnut, there was Mer cil’s Campus Auto Repair and a Noodles & Company at the location. Originally an Amoco station, Mercil’s was r un by four generations of the family over an 85-year period. Dave Mercil began running the shop in 1936. His grandson, Darrin Mercil, the third-generation owner, said the shop began to look out of place in 2012 with the constr uction of the Green Line and the changing neighborhood. Noodles & Company relocated to the retail level of Opus’s Stadium Village Flats. Campus Pizza closed its doors last year after a 56-year r un. The restaurant moved across Washington Avenue in preparation for the Stadium Village Flats construction, but Green Line construction slowed business to an unsustainable level. The future may be brighter for the cur rent t e n a n t s o f t h e Wa s h ington and Har vard corner. Weinberg said he won’t relocate Espresso Expose and will instead put more focus on the Purple Onion. Ho said he’s considering opening a new Bun Mi somewhere nearby, though nothing’s been decided. Whether or not that happens, it’s clear that change is coming soon to one of the last remaining old blocks in Stadium Village. “It’s a great environment,” said University of M i n n e s o t a s o p h o mor e
White House campaign casts a shadow over 9/11 anniversary BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The U.S. marked the 15th anniversar y of 9/11 with the solemn roll call of the dead Sunday but couldn’t keep the presidential campaign from intruding on what is traditionally a politics-free moment of remembrance. Hillary Clinton left about 90 minutes into the ground zero ceremony after feeling “overheated,” her campaign said. Video showed her knees buckling as three people helped the 68-yearold Democrat into a van in the muggy, 80-degree heat. Later in the day, she said she was “feeling great” as she walked to a vehicle. Donald T r ump, who has repeatedly questioned whether Clinton is physically fit to be president, was also at the ceremony for a time and left after she did. Asked about the incident, the Republican nominee said only: “I don’t know anything about it.” The episode cast a political shadow over an event that has tried to keep the focus on remembrance by inviting politicians but
barring them from speaking. The two candidates had followed the custom of suspending all TV ads for the day. The politics of the moment weren’t entirely absent from the ceremony, where some victims’ relatives pleaded for the nation to look past its differences, expressed hopes for peace or called on the next commander-in-chief to ensure the country’s safety. Joseph Quinn, who lost his brother, Jimmy, appealed to Americans to regain the sense of unity that welled up after the terror attacks. “I know, in our current political environment, it may feel we’re divided. Don’t believe it,” said Quinn, who added that he ser ved in the militar y in Iraq after Sept. 11. “Engage with your community. ... Be the connection we all desperately need.” Nearly 3,000 people died when terrorists slammed hijacked planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on Sept. 11, 2001.
Organizers estimated 8,000 people gathered Sunday at the lower Manhattan spot where the twin towers once stood. They listened to the nearly four-hour recitation of the names of those killed. “It doesn’t get easier. The grief never goes away. You don’t move forward — it always stays with you,” Tom Acquaviva, who lost his son, Paul. For Dorothy Esposito, the passage of 15 years feels “like 15 seconds.” Her son, Frankie, was killed. About 1,000 people gathered for a name-reading obser vance in Shanksville. At a Pentagon ceremony, President Barack Obama praised militar y members and others who have helped the U.S. fight terrorism, urged Americans not to let their enemies divide them and called the countr y’s diversity one of its greatest strengths. “We stay tr ue to the spirit of this day by defending not only our countr y, but also our ideals,” he told hundreds of ser vice members, survivors and victims’ relatives.
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Patrons snap selfies and chat during Espresso Expose’s final late night event, Expo Forever.
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A stark contrast is seen between the former Jamba Juice location and Espresso Expose on Friday, Sept. 2. Espresso Expose closed to make room for the construction of a new apartment complex on Washington Avenue.
Jonathan Giesler, who used to meet friends at Espresso Expose a few times each month. “I’ll miss it. It
definitely feels like you’re taking away par t of the hear t and soul of Stadium Village.”
Andrew Heiser is a University of Minnesota junior studying journalism.
FloCo Fusion slashes game day tailgating Floco u from Page 1
said the party days are over because its insurance provider will not cover them. “It was our intention to continue the tradition this year, however … our insurance provider has threatened to completely cancel our insurance coverage if game day tailgates do not cease immediately,” the email read. Many students, FloCo residents or not, were outraged to hear about the ban. “When we signed our leases, we expected to have tailgates ever y weekend,” said strategic communications sophomore Margaret Andreen. Elementary education junior Keisha Baumgarten and biology, science and the environment junior Kelly Mutua slipped fliers under residents’ doors reading, “Bring back FloCo game day.” The intent was to have residents hang them on their doors as a message to management, Mutua said. “It’s not hurting anyone;
we’re just expressing our opinion,” Mutua said. A Change.org petition to bring back the game days had over 1,500 signatures on Saturday morning. “It’s the highlight of pretty much everyone’s year,” said Jeffrey McHugh, who started the petition. “It’s like a sea of maroon and gold, everyone’s in their Gopheralls.” Last year FloCo had a system where residents were given tickets they could give to guests to allow them to attend the parties, Baumgarten said. Many current residents said bringing that system back would help corral the craziness that occurs during tailgating. Residents recalled incidents like people tripping and finding broken glass at parties. “There really hasn’t been any people getting hurt or anything. There’s, like, occasional people where they get too drunk, but that’s not our fault,” Mutua said. Increased security, time limits for parties, liability waivers and wristbands for attendees of drinking age are among suggestions by residents to
help increase safety if FloCo were to bring back the parties. “Whatever the safety issues, we ask management to consider the many ways they could revamp safety measures to eliminate these issues and ultimately present the new ideas to their insurance providers,” the petition read. In order to make up for the loss of game days, FloCo is offering a party bus that runs through uptown and downtown from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday nights throughout the school year, the email said. “It’s not that cool because they don’t allow food or beverages on there, a party bus can only fit so many people,” said junior Jeeva Palanisamy. “I feel like they’re trying, but we’d love our game days back.” FloCo Fusion managers were not immediately available for comment. “I miss the old FloCo, straight ready to go FloCo. Good for the soul FloCo, fun being the goal FloCo,” wrote one commenter. “Now it’s the lame FloCo, not even flame FloCo, who is to blame, FloCo? I’d rather go to the game FloCo. . .”
Monday, September 12, 2016
Turkey replaces 28 elected officials with appointees BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The removed of ficials are suspected of colluding with groups the gover nment considers terrorist organizations, the Interior Ministr y announced Sunday, adding that the decision was in line with a governmental decree enacted in the wake of a failed military coup. Turkey declared a state of emergency following the July 15 coup attempt that allows the government to r ule by decree. It has since suspended tens of thousands of people from government jobs over suspected links to terrorist organizations. Of the officials replaced with by Ankara-appointed deputy and district governors Sunday, 24 are suspected of ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party or PKK, and four are thought to be linked to the Gulen movement the governments alleges is responsible for the abortive coup that left over 270 people dead. The ministr y said in its statement that when local governments “come under the influence of terrorist organizations, it is the state’s primar y duty to take precautions against those who have usurped the people’s will.” “Being an elected of ficial isn’t a license to commit crimes,” Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag wrote on Twitter. “If mayors and town councilors finance terrorism by transferring public funds allocated to them to serve the people...., they lose their democratic legitimacy.” The United States embassy in Ankara expressed concern over the government’s actions, saying in a statement that it hoped the substitute of fice-holders who took up their new posts Sunday would be tempo-
rary and that “local citizens will soon be permitted to choose new local officials in accordance with Turkish law.” Three of the 28 officials are members of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party; one belongs to the Nationalist Movement Party and the rest to proKurdish parties. The pro-Kurdish People’s Democracy Party, or HDP, condemned the appointments as a “coup by trustees” that violates the Turkish constitution and the European Convention of Human Rights. “This unlawful and arbitrar y action will only deepen existing problems in Kurdish towns and cause the Kurdish issue to be even more unsolvable,” the party said in a statement. The main opposition Republican People’s Party also condemned the move. A delegation of senior party members spoke to reporters in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir, where they called the appointments unlawful and said they would be taking the decision to T urkey’s constitutional court. Addressing the nation on Sunday for the Muslim holiday Eid, President Recep Tayyip Er dogan said he was determined to “save Turkey from the PKK scourge.” “Like the Gulen movement, the PKK cannot possibly withstand the power of the people and the strength of the state,” Erdogan said in a video statement. The private Dogan news agency repor ted that a group of about 200 people gathered in front of city hall in the southeastern town of Suruc to protest the government-installed officials and were dispersed with tear gas and water cannons. A protest in front of Batman city hall was broken up in the same way.
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Clinton’s free education policy could affect U Recent reports showed increase in public institution enrollment. BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
As students grapple with who they will vote for this November, some discussions have turned to what higher education would look like if Hillar y Clinton or Donald T r ump were elected. A recently released repor t by Georgetown University outlined what would change in educational institutions — like the University of Minnesota — if presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s debt-free college policy was implemented. Enrollment at public institutions would swell, while it would drop at private colleges and universities, the report found. “We were asked by various outside groups and individuals to look into this,” said Cary Lou, a senior analyst at Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the workforce and coauthor of the study. “They were interested in what the potential changes and the effects of the policy would be.” The policy outlines a goal of debt-free college for students, according to her campaign website. “Families with income up to $125,000 will pay no tuition at in-state public colleges and universities,” a campaign statement said. “The income threshold will increase by $10,000 a year ever y year over the next four years so that, by 2021, all students with a family income of $125,000 will have the opportunity to receive a college education tuitionfree.” Republican candidate
Donald Trump’s policies on higher education would incentivize and encourage institutions to enroll students who are more likely to pay their student loans. He also wants loans to come from private lenders instead of from the federal government, the Associated Press reported.
PROJECTED EFFECTS OF CLINTON’S PLAN Public college enrollment increase
+23%
The findings In the report, researchers focused on the projected outcome of Clinton’s higher education policy. The report did not examine Trump’s higher education stance. They used similar examples of free college — like the Tennessee Promise Program that made community and technical institutions free in the state — and created estimates about how school enrollment would change if the plan was put into place. Lou said Clinton’s policy would only apply to public institutions, but would also affect enrollment numbers for private schools. The report projects that enrollment at public universities would increase between nine and 22 percent. Private university enrollment could decrease by up to 15 percent. “[The repor t is] really to start the debate” he said. “It’s to get people thinking about what is realistic as well as what ... policy tweaks could be added to make it more beneficial to all sectors and to all students.” Steve Kelley, a senior fellow at the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs, dealt with higher education budgets and policy while in the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives between 1993 and 2006. He said while there are many variables within the policy,
-11%
Private college enrollment decrease
SOURCE: GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY
free tuition could make the University and Minnesota State Colleges and Universities attractive to new students. “I don’t know whether their national estimate of a nine to 22 percent increase for public institutions is right, but let’s assume that it is, and then the question is, how does that apply to Minnesota?” Kelley said. “I think the answer is that it’s hard to predict.” If the policy became law, Kelley said an issue that the University’s Board of Regents would need to discuss is whether they want to physically expand the University. “For example, there’s a lot of demand for the College of Science and Engineering, but the college is running out of classroom space and places to put new faculty members,” he said. “There’d be a limit on how quickly the University could ramp up, particularly in some of the subject areas.” Although the state has discussed free enrollment for certain categories of students, nothing’s been done about it, Kelley said. “When Minnesota has talked about … free tuition,
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE’S COLLEGE PLANS HILLARY CLINTON’S POLICIES At the start of the free college plan, any families making under $85,000 a year will not have to pay tutition at in-state public colleges and universities. The income threshold will increase by $10,000 every year for four years. Families making under $125,000 will not pay tuition at in-state public colleges and universities by 2021. DONALD TRUMP’S POLICIES More incentives will be provided for colleges and universities to enroll students who will be successful and earn enough money to pay back loans. Loans will come from private lenders, rather than the federal government. SOURCE: THE BRIEFING, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
what we’ve ended up saying is that it makes more sense to increase the funding that goes to students for grants based on need,” he said, “because a free tuition program would invariably help middle class families and students who, arguably, could afford some tuition.” Maddie Mercil, a cultural studies and comparative literature junior, is the outreach director for the University College Democrats student group. “I like the idea of giving more people access to higher education,” she said. “Implementation would be complicated.” Mercil said that if the policies wer e put into place, she thinks the pool of students that the University pulls from would grow significantly, of fering up increased diversity on campus. The community would inevitably change as the University would broaden student accommodations, she said.
Protest calls for boycott of Dinkytown businesses
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Demonstrators protest in front of the Varsity Theater on Saturday in Dinkytown.
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and they also have the right to make infor med decisions. I’m choosing to believe the sur vivors and boycott the businesses.” Representatives from the Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theatre declined to comment. To a v o i d t r i g g e r i n g sur vivors of sexual abuse, protesters were asked to not chant or yell, Super said. Rather, she made over 50 signs with messages including “3 sex-abuse lawsuits should hur t your business” and “Boycott t h e L o r i n g P a s t a B a r. Stand with sur vivors.” “That doesn’t mean it will be silent, it means it will open ourselves up for conversation with people walking through Dinkytown and are curious,” Super said. At the protest Saturday, demonstrators handed out paper slips calling for people to “stand with survivors” and to boycott the businesses. “I was really surprised. I hadn’t heard of any of it,” said first-year University of Minnesota neurosci-
ence student Mar yellen Matusovic, who was walking by the protest. “I’ve gone to the restaurant and theater for multiple concerts and it kind of changes my mind on whether or not I’d go back.” Protester Elise Armani said she wants to see the University stop sponsoring events at the venue. “I don’t think most people are aware of the allegations against the owner. It’s my hope that if they were aware, they’d take their business elsewhere,” said Armani, an art and gender, women and sexuality studies senior. Some, however, say that the protest was misplaced. “She could be organizing at a court house or somewhere that decisions will actually be made about this,” said Lily Brown, a sexual assault survivor, in an email, echoing a post she wrote on the protest’s Facebook event page. “The employees are the only ones being hurt.” Super, in response, noted that the boycotting of the businesses was intended to honor the wishes of sur vivors. “I have sympathy for the
“I’ve been a strong supporter of the Pioneer Hall project since 1990 when I had bats in my room and a tennis racket by my bed.”
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University Alum and former Loring Pasta Bar employee Haley Purvis talks to passerby Alex Bogdanov as she protests against Jason McLean in front of the Loring Pasta Bar on Saturday in Dinkytown. Purvis worked at Loring Pasta Bar for four months but quit because of the lawsuits.
SARAH SUPER organizer
employees, who I do believe are innocent and have not participated in any part of the sexual abuse around these victims. I have a lot of sympathy for the people who have come forward … I have no sympathy for Jason McLean,” she said. In the wake of the lawsuits, some performers have moved their shows from the Varsity, including Warpaint, Against Me!, Baroness and The Current’s Jake Rudh. “If they know about this and see a band they like is playing here, they can contact the band and let them know,” said demonstrator and local musician Sanjeev Mishra, who graduated from the University in 2016. Haley Pur vis, a former
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
People prtest in front of the Varsity Theater on Fourth Street on Saturday in Dinkytown.
Loring Pasta Bar server and 2016 University graduate, said she joined the protest as soon as she learned about it. “The entire time I worked here, I had two tables ask me about it,” she said, adding staff had been told not to comment. “It’s like, wouldn’t you want to get the voices of the victims
out rather than protect the perpetrator? So it conflicted with my morals and I quit.” Eight individuals filed lawsuits against the Children’s Theatre Company and some of its former employees for sexual assault of minors before the Child Victims Act expired. Former ar tistic director John Donahue, who was convicted
in 1984 on three counts of criminal sexual conduct with minors, is named in three of the claims. The protest lasted from 5:45 to about 7 p.m. “[It’s been] over whelmingly positive, lots of suppor t,” said demonstrator Jenn Schreiter. “Lots of people walking by and saying, ‘I support you.’”
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MSA strives to broaden relations through diversity Leaders say diverse members allow groups to take on a variety of projects. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
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Officers man the area where K’naan’s stage was set up on Saturday. The stage was taken down after demonstrators disrupted K’naan’s performance to protest his use of the neighborhood for HBO.
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at of ficers, two of whom were hit, but not harmed, Schmidt said. He declined to say what chemicals were used. “I was not expecting this,” she said. “The police were doing what they do best … escalating things,” said 27-year-old Filsan Ibrahim, one of the protest’s organizers. She said she wanted to show the community doesn’t support the new TV show.
Mogadishu, Minnesota
The show — in the early stages of production — tells
the story of life as a SomaliAmerican, said West Bank Community Coalition board Chair Mohamed Jama. Jama said the script is unique because it tells a stor y that hasn’t been portrayed in any other show or movie before. Since K’naan is a fellow Somali, the show reflects real-life experiences in the community, he said. On his Facebook page, K’naan said he has good intentions for the show. “Together, we are about to take on the media’s image of Somalis and Muslims in general, and tell our side of the story — my aim is to present the true and beautiful side that is rarely portrayed in cinema,” he said
in the post. Jama said the show will create 300 to 500 new jobs in the neighborhood and could help unemployed residents. The show will emphasize the struggles of being a Somali in the U.S. today, which many Cedar-Riverside residents feel, he said. Ward 6 Minneapolis City Councilman Abdi Warsame, a Somali-American, said it’s encouraging that a Somali man writes the story. “I think what [K’naan]’s doing is courageous,” Warsame said, adding that he thinks the show will help representation of Somali-American immigrants He said he respects
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Officers struggle with an attendee at a demonstration on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2016 in the CedarRiverside neighborhood.
“Together, we are about to take on the media’s image of Somalis and Muslims in general, and tell our side of the story — my aim is to present the true and beautiful side that is rarely portrayed in cinema” K’NAAN rapper
K’naan, and finds the storyline intriguing. Warsame said he has read par ts of K’naan’s script. The show is fictional, and while it may por tray stereotypes, he said community members should keep an open mind. “You might not like it,” he said. “But HBO is a big deal and this is an ar tist from our community that has been given this opportunity.” Despite the assurances, community activist Omar Jamal said he isn’t sure that the show will be balanced. “I think it will be a typical American show,” he said. “There is a prevailing perception among the majority of the citizens of this countr y about recr uitments, about ISIS, about Islam … and there’s no way they can ignore that.” Burhan Mohumad, a Cedar-Riverside resident, helped organize the protest with youth in the community because he worried the show will negatively portray Muslims and perpetuate stereotypes about Jihadi recruitment. “The show is to promote the fear of Muslims,” Mohumad said. K’naan’s involvement in the production helps, Jamal said, but may not overcome existing stereotypes. While it is fair for the community to be skeptical, concerned community members should wait to see how the show turns out, Warsame said. “I don’t think [K’naan] would intentionally tr y to make the community look bad,” he said
Student government bodies at the University of Minnesota are placing an emphasis on recruiting members from diverse backgrounds this school year. The Minnesota Student Association, Council of Graduate Students and Professional Student Government have reached out to underrepresented groups and will focus on issues that impact minorities and students from other disciplines. While some University students are satisfied with these efforts, others think more could be done. MSA President Abeer Syedah said that this year the group off to a good start. About 40 percent of leaders are people of color and about 50 percent are women, she said. “I would feel very confident saying that particularly representation of students of color and representation of LGBT populations has never been this high,” she said. “I want student government to think about everyone and consider everyone equally.” Working with people of different backgrounds allows the group to tackle a wider variety of projects, but it’s not always easy, Syedah said. “Lots of challenges come with diversity, including the fact that you have to take things slower,” she said. When there are more perspectives to consider, projects don’t move forward as quickly, she said. MSA Director of Membership Charlie Parker said the group increased membership diversity by reaching out to student groups, like cultural and international organizations. Neuroscience sophomore Amera Hassan is a member of the Al-Madinah Cultural Center, which will apply to be represented in MSA this year. She said she’s glad to see minorities, like Syedah, in high-profile student government leadership positions. “If you don’t have representation, it’s not like people don’t want to help, they just don’t think about it,” Hassan said. Erick Domingo, a physiology senior and member of La Raza Student Cultural Center, said he thinks student government could work more with cultural groups on campus. “There should be more cooperation,” he said. “We don’t see [members of student government] around a lot.” COGS President Nicholas Goldsmith said issues impacting minority groups such as student parents and transgender individuals are part of the group’s annual platform. “You often have to give extra weight to underrepresented voices,” Goldsmith said. “We try to be conscious of [that] when concerns come
DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP OF MSA LEADERSHIP AND THE STUDENT BODY WOMEN PEOPLE OF COLOR INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS STUDENT LEADERS IN MSA
50%
25%
3.5%
STUDENT BODY
51.3% 20.4% 9.15%
SOURCE: MINNESOTA STUDENT ASSOCIATION, OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, INTERNATIONAL STUDENT & SCHOLAR SERVICES
forward.” Goldsmith said personal experiences have made inclusion more important to him. “As a gay man myself I benefited a lot from people really taking the time to think about issues that face gay men and to make sure our voices are present,” he said. PSG President Max Hall said he and Vice President Dane Thompson plan to include more disciplinary diversity within the organization’s leadership this year. Hall said they have a small applicant pool, which makes it difficult to include students from many fields of study. There are typically higher numbers of students from the University’s Law School and the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, he said. Parker, MSA’s membership director, said the group’s leadership also wants to include a wider range of majors. While there are many political science and business majors — most likely because those students are more interested in government — including underrepresented disciplines broadens leaders’ perspectives, he said. “We’re able to see problems in various aspects of the University that we might not otherwise know about,” Parker said. “[For example], I’m a political science major. I can’t speak to the issues facing students that are studying agriculture.” The benefits of working with individuals from different backgrounds outweigh any disadvantages, said PSG Vice President Thompson. “It’s not a burden to have [more] viewpoints. It just helps you see the flaws in your ideas more,” he said. “People looking at it from a dif ferent angle helps you make a better decision.”
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FOOTBALL
Gophers win big at home Minnesota posted its highest points in a game since 2006 with the victory. BY JACK WHITE jwhite@mndaily.com
Minnesota’s game was all about of fense Saturday, with the team scoring 58 points and gaining 593 yards in a 30-point victor y over visiting Indiana State. The Gophers led the Sycamores by just one touchdown after the first quar ter in Saturday’s game. After that, Minnesota went on to produce a huge offensive output, with their most points in a game since 2006, for a final score of 58-28 at TCF Bank Stadium. “It’s been a long time since we’ve gotten out to that good of an of fensive star t,” said head coach Tracy Claeys. “[Quar terback Mitch Leidner] threw the ball well and found the open receivers and so [I’m] ver y pleased of fensively with how we played.” Leidner had one of his best career games to date, throwing 295 yards and four touchdowns. Junior r unning back Kobe McCrar y also had a stellar per formance, running for 176 yards and two touchdowns. After several false start penalties to open up the game, the Gophers drove down the field to take a 7-0 lead. The Sycamores came right back and scored on an 85-yard drive. The drive included a pass that hit off two dif ferent players before it was caught by the
Sycamores’ Clayton Smith. But it was all Minnesota after Indiana State’s first score. Redshirt sophomore Rodney Smith scored his third touchdown of the year on a 1-yard run in the first quarter. Minnesota added to the lead when Leidner connected with Drew Wolitarsky in the second quarter to bring the score to 21-7. Leidner added another touchdown pass before the half — this time to freshman Tyler Johnson. The touchdown was Johnson’s first of his collegiate career. “[The] guys did a good job of running routes and getting open, and I think that when you are r unning routes at that depth, it gives the O-line a good idea of how long they have to hold their blocks for,” Leidner said. “I thought they did a great job of protecting for that.” Junior Kobe McCrar y also scored his first touchdown for the Gophers on a 6-yard run to make it 35-7. Minnesota added a field goal to take a 38-7 lead heading into the second half. Leidner added another touchdown pass in the second half. He tied a career high in passing touchdowns with four on the day. He also excelled at spreading the ball around in the passing game. Leidner completed passes to nine different players on the day. “We had a bad taste in our mouth after last week,” Leidner said. “We felt like we could have done some
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Gophers running back Rodney Smith runs after a handoff on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium while playing against Indiana State.
things better and to come out this week in practice and prepare extremely hard, I thought was huge and it really carried over into the game.” Wolitarsky ear ned career highs in receiving yards with 125 and touchdown receptions with two. “Most of those things are done in practice, so when the game comes, it becomes second nature,” Wolitarsky said. “It’s something that you’re used to and it’s something you’ve been practicing. I think that’s what it comes down to.” McCrar y had the final score of the day for the Gophers — a 50-yard touchdown to make the score 58-21. Indiana State scored one more touchdown, but Minnesota held on from there. “There were a lot of … kids getting their first touchdowns,” Claeys
said. “[Of fensively, we did] some things I’m real pleased with.” Although Minnesota’s of fense had a banner day, the defense gave up more than 20 points for the second consecutive week. Indiana State quar terbacks thr ew four touchdown passes with zero interceptions and outscored Minnesota in the second half. The Gophers also struggled to limit penalties. The Gophers committed 10 penalties for 82 yards against the Sycamores. Four occurred from false starts and two others were personal fouls. The Gophers finished with 292 rushing yards and 301 passing yards, totaling the sixth-most yards in school history. “They kept getting points and didn’t quite get touchdowns, but we’re getting to the point now where we get around the 30-yard
FOOTBALL
Transfer shows promise in victory McCrary finished with 176 yards on 17 carries and two touchdowns.
SCORING SUMMARY SCORE BY QUARTER Indiana State Minnesota
1 7 14
2 0 24
3 14 10
4 7 10
TOTAL 28 58
1ST QUARTER
AWAY HOME
MINN
TD
10:46
INS
TD
01:46
MINN
TD
00:07
Wolitarsky, Drew 20 yd pass from Leidner, Mitch 0 (Carpenter, Emmit kick) Tonyan, Robert 7 yd pass from Harker, Isaac 7 (Nunez, Jerry kick) Smith, Rodney 1 yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) 7
2ND QUARTER TD
11:26
MINN
TD
08:41
MINN MINN
TD FG
04:49 00:00
Wolitarsky, Drew 6 yd pass from Leidner, Mitch (Carpenter, Emmit kick) Johnson, Tyler 13 yd pass from Leidner, Mitch (Carpenter, Emmit kick) McCrary, Kobe 6 yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) Carpenter, Emmit 42 yd field goal
3RD QUARTER
14
7
21
7
28
7 7
35 38
AWAY HOME
MINN INS
FG TD
09:51 08:15
MINN
TD
05:21
INS
TD
Carpenter, Emmit 44 yd field goal 7 Harker, Isaac 10 yd pass from Pugh, Bob (Nunez, 14 Jerry kick) Smith, Brian 22 yd pass from Leidner, Mitch 14 (Carpeter, Emmit kick)
41 41
01:40
Tonyan, Robert 2 yd pass from Harker, Isaac (Nunez, Jerry kick)
48
14:49 09:19 04:44
Carpenter, Emmit 45 yd field goal 21 McCrary, Kobe 50 yd run (Carpenter, Emmit kick) 21 Tonyan, Robert 18 yd pass from Harker, ISaac 28 (Nunez, Jerry kick)
4TH QUARTER FG TD TD
7
AWAY HOME
MINN
MINN MINN INS
7
21
48
AWAY HOME 51 58 58
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
line, we’re getting points,” Claeys said. “Defensively
we could have played better in the second half.”
VOLLEYBALL
Minnesota wins two in road tournament Rookie Alexis Hart led the Gophers with 30 kills in two matches on the weekend.
BY MIKE HENDRICKSON mhendrickson@mndaily.com
BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Kobe McCrar y was out to prove something in his second career game. The junior r unning back — who transfer red to Minnesota from Butler Community College during the of fseason — wanted to show the world he was more than a 1-yard running back and not just the third option behind redshir t sophomore Rodney Smith and an injured sophomore Shannon Brooks. He accomplished his goal Saturday against Indiana State, running for 176 yards on 17 car ries with two touchdowns in a 5828 Minnesota win at TCF Bank Stadium. “I just came [to Minnesota] and felt like I can bring some depth,” McCrar y said. “All three of us [are] a three-headed monster, that’s the way I figured.” McCrar y showed what he was capable of during the second half, when he r ushed for 108 yards on only six carries. McCrar y had runs of 43 yards and 50 yards on one drive — the latter giving him his second touchdown of the day. McCrar y almost ran into an Indiana State lineman at the beginning of his 50-yard r un but then stepped to the side, dodged a diving linebacker and kept r unning straight to the end zone. “ I j u s t s a w a l ot of pushing,” McCrar y
Minnesota swept a pair of opponents over the weekend in Nor th Carolina thanks to strong per for mances from veteran players and newcomers. The Gophers traveled to Chapel Hill, Nor th Carolina, for the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge and came away with two victories. Minnesota swept Louisville Friday and beat North Carolina in four sets Saturday. “It was a good couple of matches,” said head coach Hugh McCutcheon. “It’s always nice to get a few wins on the road.” No. 5 Minnesota (51) dominated its first set against Louisville. The Gophers cr uised to the victor y, leading the whole set, which ended 25-10 in Minnesota’s favor. The Gophers star ted slower in the second set and allowed Louisville (4-4) to take an early 4-2 lead. Minnesota capitalized on a 6-1 r un shor tly after, which led to a 25-12 victor y. Minnesota fell behind early in the third set, 3-5, but a kill from freshman outside hitter Alexis Har t and a block from senior middle blocker Paige Tapp and sophomore setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson gave the Gophers a lasting lead that would carr y them to a 25-13 victor y. Senior outside hitter Sarah Wilhite had 12 kills in the match while rookie player Har t posted a
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Junior running back Kobe McCrary runs the ball against Indiana State on Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.
said. “The of fensive line blocked ver y well today, so I just made one cut, and I saw a crease, so I just hit it.” Redshirt senior quar terback Mitch Leidner said McCrar y reminds him of former Gophers running back David Cobb. Cobb, who played with Leidner in 2013 and 2014, finished with the seventh most r ushing yar ds in Minnesota histor y. “Ever ything he does is so similar to Cobb,” Leidner said. “We know he’s an explosive player; a really smooth runner and he can make guys miss. He’s similar to David Cobb where they are not going to truck you and run you over like crazy all over the place. For how big he is, he’s going to make people miss.” McCrar y said that he’s
watched Cobb before and models his game after him. “[Head coach T racy Claeys and running backs coach Pat Poore] know I can catch the ball out of the backfield,” he said. “I feel like I tr y to expand my game a lot watching Rodney [as well].” Smith was the main r unning back during the game against Oregon State, r ushing for 125 yar ds and scoring two touchdowns. Brooks is cur rently injured but is expected to come back after the bye week to play against Colorado State. With McCrar y’s emergence, the Gophers now have three r unning backs who have proven they are capable of big games. Claeys said McCrar y’s role in practice will be ex-
panded this week. “It’s hard to get an oppor tunity the first game when you’re playing with Rodney in there,” Claeys said. “It’s a good problem to have what we’re going to have; the [three] people we’ll have at tailback.” McCrar y transfer red to Minnesota knowing he would be the third option behind Brooks and Smith but said he knew he could provide some depth to the group of running backs. Claeys said that’s what’s great about McCrar y: He loves competition. “When you get a bunch of competition at cer tain positions that’s when you get a lot better,” he said. “He’s created that competitio,n and so I expect the play of our tailbacks will get a lot better here as we move on.”
VOLLEYBALL RESULTS
FRIDAY Louisville Minnesota
1 2 3 FINAL 10 12 13 0 25 25 25 3
SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 FINAL North Carolina 11 12 25 21 1 Minnesota 25 25 22 25 3 SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
“I’m excited to bring what we’ve learned and how we’ve evolved back to the [Sports Pavilion].” HANNAH TAPP Senior middle blocker
hitting percentage of .522 on 13 kills. The Gophers faced a tougher opponent in Saturday’s match against No. 11 Nor th Carolina (6-1). The Gophers jumped to a 6-1 lead early in the first set that lasted for an easy 2511 victor y. The second set was more of the same for Minnesota en route to a 25-12 set victor y. Minnesota hit a match-high .455 and saw two ser vice aces from Wilhite. The third set proved to be a challenge for Minnesota. The Gophers hit only .176 to the Tar Heels’ .375. The Gophers kept the set close, but the Tar Heels spoiled a match sweep with a 25-22 victor y. Nor th Carolina stayed hot in the fourth set, but a u See VOLLEYBALL Page 12
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SOCCER
Gophers split two Simone Kolander scored both goals in Sunday’s victory over Santa Clara. BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com
The Gophers were looking for a chance at redemption Sunday and delivered in a close victor y to split the weekend’s two matches. Minnesota fell 4-1 Friday to Stanford, but capped of f the weekend with a 2-1 win against Santa Clara Sunday to close out the team’s non-conference schedule with a 6-2 record. “We scheduled these tough opponents for a reason,” Gophers associate head coach Kr ystle Seidel said. “We’re talking about top 20 programs in the countr y consistently in the top 20. That’s what we need to prepare for the Big Ten.” No. 2 Stanford, 6-0-1, str uck first in Friday’s
match with a goal from freshman Jordan DiBiasi about five minutes into the game. Freshman Tierna Davidson quickly followed up with a rebound goal to help the Cardinal jump out to a 2-0 lead following the first half. No. 10 Minnesota, 6-20, star ted the second half with a goal from sophomore for ward April Bockin in the 48th minute that came of f a cross from junior for ward and defender Kellie McGahn. Junior Andi Sullivan scored on a free kick in the 66th minute for Stanford to take a 3-1 lead. Minnesota couldn’t forge a comeback, and Stanford scored another goal to seal a 4-1 victor y. The match was Minnesota’s second loss of the season. The Cardinal took 22 shots total and put 11 on target to Minnesota’s 10. The four goals allowed made for the greatest offensive output by any
CROSS COUNTRY
Teams run to winning starts
opponent the Gophers have seen so far. A day of f seemed to suit Minnesota well, and the team star ted strong against Santa Clara, 2-3-3, Sunday. The Gophers were awarded a penalty kick five minutes into the game, and senior captain Simone Kolander converted on the oppor tunity to give Minnesota a quick 1-0 lead. Kolander said her decision- making depends on where she is on the field, and though she likes to get teammates involved in the attack, she took the chance on the kick. Santa Clara struck back with a goal from sophomore Jordan Jesolva in the 33rd minute to tie the game heading into halftime. Both teams had two yellow cards each issued in the aggressive second half, with senior defender Rashida Beal and junior defender and for ward Maddie Gaffney taking the
ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Gophers forward Simone Kolander drives the ball against Purdue at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium on Sept. 25, 2015.
pair for Minnesota. “During games that are really physical it can be a little bit dif ficult,” Beal said. “Ever ybody’s emotions get a little high and people get frustrated with different calls.” Kolander regained the lead for Minnesota in the 70th minute with her second goal of the game, assisted by senior midfielder
Josee Stiever. Minnesota kept attacking Santa Clara’s goal after getting ahead and held the Broncos of f for the remainder of the game to come away with a 2-1 victor y. “[Head coach Stefanie Golan] encourages us to keep pressing and take them on but also to be smar t and not having
WOMEN’S SOCCER RESULTS
FRIDAY Stanford Minnesota
SUNDAY Santa Clara Minnesota
1 2 0
2 2 1
FINAL 4 1
1 1 1
2 0 1
FINAL 1 2
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
defenders join the attack too much,” Kolander said.
MEN’S GOLF
Gophers tie for ninth in season opener, Doeden ties for 11th place in individual
JOE SULIK, DAILY FILE PHOTO
MADDY FOX, DAILY
Redshirt junior Charlie Lawrence approaches the finish line of the Oz Memorial at Les Bolstad Golf Course on Sept. 11, 2015.
The women’s team took first in Friday’s meet, while the men finished in second. BY ALYSSA HODENFIELD ahodenfield@mndaily.com
Both Minnesota cross countr y teams kicked off their seasons on Friday with the Oz Memorial meet, at home. The Gophers went up against Wisconsin, South Dakota State and Drake University in the meet, and combined for six top-10 finishes. Womens’ finish with 12 in top-20: The No. 26 Minnesota women’s cross country team had 12 runners finish in the top 20, propelling them to the team title. “We were really pleased,” head coach Sarah Hopkins said. “The team goal was to win and with Wisconsin there, it’s nice to get a win over a Big Ten school that’s kind of a rival.” Redshirt junior Madeline Strandemo placed second overall with a time of 22:26.1, and fell seven seconds behind Wisconsin’s redshirt freshman, Shaelyn Sorensen . “I was happy to be the first [of the Gophers] obviously, but I think being the first overall would have been better,” Strandemo said. “We had a really tough week of training and this is just the beginning of the season.” Freshman Megan Hasz and redshirt sophomore Bailey Ness finished in third and fourth, respectively. “The rest of the team and I had a pretty hefty week, so I think all of us were a bit tired going in,” Ness said. “But we all still managed to have great races and compete the way that we should.” Mens’ finish second: The Gophers men’s cross country team claimed a sec-
CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS
MEN’S TEAMS
SCORE
1 Wisonsin 2 Minnesota 3 South Dakota State 4 Drake University
25 51 63
WOMEN’S TEAMS 1 Minnesota 2 Wisonsin 3 South Dakota State 4 Drake University
100
SCORE 25 38 71 105
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
ond-place finish, behind No. 10 Wisconsin. The men had three runners finish with top-10 spots, led by redshirt junior Matt Welch who finished fifth. “To open up with a fifthplace finish like that, and as a team we were second to the tenth ranked team in the nation was exciting,” Welch said. “It’s a great stepping stone.” Welch posted a time of 20:06.4, which put him in fifth place overall. The men’s team didn’t open their season with an intra-squad meet, an advantage the women’s team had. “Where we’re at in our training, we haven’t done many hard workouts. We’re very strength-oriented right now,” Welch said. “To be able to compete the way that we did was very impressive to say the least.” Minnesota redshirt junior Charlie Lawrence finished in eighth, while redshirt freshman Connor Olson ran a tenth-place mark in his first race to round out Minnesota’s top finishers of the evening. Both teams will take a week off from competing to prepare for the annual Roy Griak Invitational at home, Sept. 24. “We had a good night to open the season in a very competitive race,” head coach Steve Plasencia said. “Now we know what it will take to have success later this month at the Griak.”
Junior Riley Johnson plays at the Windsong Golf Club during the Gopher Invitational on Sept. 13, 2015.
Minnesota played in home individual and invitational meets over the weekend. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
In its first tournament of the season, Minnesota finished tied for ninth out of 15 teams at the Gopher Invitational over the weekend. The first round had the Gophers “A” team tied for tenth with a score of 298, and after the second round they had settled into ninth with a second round score of 291 and a two-round total of 589. The Gophers three-round total was 884. Senior Justin Doeden, who tied for 11th individually, was the top Minnesota golfer of the weekend. He finished with a score of 3-over, 216 on the weekend, only six strokes behind tournament medalist, Oklaho-
ma junior Grant Hirschman. “I hit 17 of 18 greens [on Sunday], which was very important for my style of golf,” Doeden said. “I putted it solid, which lead to my minus-one round of golf.” The next top Gophers performer of the weekend was junior Riley Johnson, who shot a 220 through the tournament. “For me, I played pretty steady,” Johnson said. “I just hit a lot of good shots … I just got some good positions off the tee that helped me hit irons close enough to have birdie looks.” Johnson was remarkably consistent through all three of his rounds, shooting 73, 73 and 74. This tour nament was played in rough weather conditions, most notably high winds. “The wind wreaked havoc today,” head coach John Carlson said. “Friday in the practice round there was no
wind, and today it was gusting up to 25 or 30 miles per hour. You have to change your game plan, you have to try to stay patient and understand that par is a good score.” Senior Jose Mendez and freshman Mason Fiddle also had strong showings. Mendez shot a 10-over 223 on the weekend to finish tied for 37th out of 78 golfers. Mendez, a two-time All-Big Ten First Team honoree, enters his final season with an impressive resume. “[Mendez is] a first-class student athlete,” Carlson said. “I was happy to see him play a lot more steady.” Fiddle par ticipated in his first collegiate tournament this weekend and had the best score on the team through the first 36 holes. He fired a 71 in the first round and a 74 in the second round, which was tied for 24th after the 36-hole day one. The Gophers travel to
MEN’S GOLF RESULTS
TEAM
RD1 1 Oklahoma 284 2 San Diego State 289 3 Michigan State 292 4 Kent State 286 5 New Mexico 291 Tied Minnesota 298 for 9
RD2 289 282 284 290 290 291
RD3 287 294 290 296 293 295
FINAL 860 865 866 872 874 884
GOLFER
RD2 70 73 75 77 74
RD3 70 74 76 74 81
FINAL 226 220 223 225 226
Doeden Johnson Mendez Longbella Fiddle
RD1 76 73 72 74 71
*out of 17 teams
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Ohio for a tournament at the Inverness Club next week, and the team is looking forward to a more normal practice schedule leading up the tournament. “We’re going to have a few good days of practice,” Carlson said. “[The Inverness tournament] is at a tough golf course but a different golf course.”
VOLLEYBALL
Minnesota wins two in road tournament Volleyball u from Page 11
block from senior middle blocker Hannah Tapp and Seliger-Swenson and two Tar Heels attack er rors gave Minnesota a lead. The Gophers came out on top with a 25-21 set and 3-1 match victor y. Har t had a standout weekend on the road, providing a team-high 30 kills and tallying a careerbest 17 kills in the match against North Carolina. “The team and the coaches are ver y suppor tive,” Har t said. “The girls have really helped me fit
in here, and all credit goes to them.” Hannah Tapp finished the weekend with 14 total blocks and 20 kills, which earned her a spot on the All-Tournament Team with Hart. The two matches marked the end of Minnesota’s opening road schedule. The team will look to feed of f the 5-1 road trip as they head home to continue non-conference play. “We’ve grown a lot on these road trips,” Tapp said, “I’m excited to bring what we’ve lear ned and how we’ve evolved back to the [Sports Pavilion].”
SAM HARPER, DAILY FILE PHOTO
Middle blocker Hannah Tapp spikes the ball for a point on Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 at the Sports Pavilion.
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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date
It is my least favorite time of the year — the beginning of fantasy football season. My boyfriend and I have a great relationship, but it hits a serio u s s n a g b e c a u s e o f h i s fo ot b a l l obsession. S o m e t i m e s I f i n d h i m w a n d e ring around our place at 3 a.m. mumbling incoherent jargon about his flex position and streaming defenses weekly. To top it all off, his favorite team is the Green Bay Packers. Help, please!
—Second Only to Football Dear Second,
First off, I am so sorry about your
boyfriend’s Packers fandom. Nobody deserves that. As for the fantasy football, it is obviously something that he loves. Nevertheless, you shouldn’t disappear when football debuts each year. I would suggest that you both sit down and talk about his hobby and how you feel ignored during the football season. M ay b e h e c a n p a r e d o w n t h e amount of time he spends focusing on fantasy spor ts, or you two could find a way to par ticipate together. Or you could bargain with him — he plays his fantasy football and you play out one of your fantasies with him? Whatever you decide to do, good communication is key to figuring out how to
handle the situation.
—Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date
Okay. This is a bit of a weird one. Whenever my significant other and I go to a party and have a few too many drinks, her odd habit emerges. She likes to sleep underneath people’s beds. I literally mean underneath the bedframe. It doesn’t make sense to me. I think it’s a comfort thing for her, but I worry that people are going to think we are weirdoes. Is this as odd as I think it is?
—Night Time Oddities Dear Oddities,
If it isn’t hurting anyone and there
Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.
aren’t any lingering issues — like alcohol abuse — at hand, I don’t think there is anything wrong with your significant other. I agree that it isn’t the most common of habits, but that shouldn’t matter! We are all odd in our own ways. If sleeping under a bed provides your SO with a level of comfort that she doesn’t get crashing on a friends couch, then more power to her. Be sure to talk to her if you think there are other issues present. Otherwise, put a cup of water and a couple aspirin under the bed for the morning after your night out. She’ll thank you for it later.
—Dr. Date
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HPV vaccine rates under MN target Boynton public health and communications director Dave Golden said.
HPV VACCINATION RATES FEMALE MALE
±7
±1.6 ±10.3
US Wide*
56.5%
±1.9
34.8%
sexual contact, and often shows little to no symptoms in men, according to the CDC. The center recommends children ages 11 and 12 get the vaccine. Sometimes, the immune system can clear the infection naturally, said Linda Carson, the University Medical School OBGYN depar tment chair. When it doesn’t, it can cause genital war ts and in some cases, cer vical, mouth or throat, and anal cancers. For the last four or five years, Dunn said the health depar tment has reached out to doctors, urging them to recommend the vaccine to all boys and girls. The University of fers vaccination information to incoming students, said
42.5%
Health Vaccine Preventable Disease assistant section manager. “For some reason people are treating this vaccine dif ferently,” Dunn said, adding that reasons behind the abnormally low rate are hazy. When the vaccine was r eleased for girls, the CDC left the decision to vaccinate up to individual health car e pr oviders, Dunn said. It has since been recommended for all patients. And while boys are at equal risk of contracting and spreading HPV, “in a lot of ways, we’re five years behind with the boys,” she said. The U.S. Food and Dr ug Administration approved it for use in males in 2009. HPV is spread through
13.6%
While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes 80 percent of Americans will be immunized by 2020, fewer than half of Minnesotans have received the Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, prompting action by some medical professionals. Nationwide, only about 40 percent of teenage females and 22 percent of males receive the HPV immunization, according to the CDC. Though
we’d like, even though they are just as important,” Kristen Ehresmann, director of the Infectious Disease Division, said in the statement. For the last six years, the CDC has pushed vaccination through its Healthy People 2020 campaign, aiming for 80 percent immunization coverage by that year. But because the HPV vaccine was only recommended for girls when it was released in 2006 — and because some doctors are reluctant to discuss protection against sexually transmitted diseases during routine visits — both boys and girls remain under-vaccinated, and at risk for HPV and related cancers, said Denise Dunn, Minnesota Depar tment of
39.7%
BY KEATON SCHMITT kschmitt@mndaily.com
Minnesota’s vaccination rates r un high, historically, HPV coverage falls in line with national levels — 42.5 percent for females and 13.6 percent for males. University of Minnesota students are vaccinated at higher rates, at about 57 percent for women and 35 percent for men, according to Boynton Health Service’s 2015 College Student Health Sur vey. The Minnesota Department of Health released a statement last month, reminding parents to vaccinate their children in light of the state’s low HPV immunization rates. “We are excited to see high immunization rates for [tetanus, diphtheria and per tussis] and meningococcal, but rates for HPV and flu are lower than
21.6%
Despite a national push to vaccinate children, rates still fall short of goal.
MN Wide* UMN Wide *Adolescents aged 13-17
SOURCE: CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL, BOYTON HEALTH
Researchers look to decipher brain connections U researchers won three grants totaling more than $10 million for the project. BY KEATON SCHMITT kschmitt@mndaily.com
New funding, aided by sophisticated MRI technology, will help scientists better understand how the brain develops from infancy to adulthood. Three grants totaling more than $10 million — the most recent of which was bestowed on Wednesday — were awarded to three University of Minnesota-af filiated projects working to chart brain connections in different stages of life. Before the advancement of scanning technology such as MRI, research into the brain was extremely dif-
ficult, said University neurologist Scott Cooper. “It was an unbelievably slow, painful process mapping [brain] connections,” Cooper said. “A single human brain is a more complex network than the entire internet and each brain is different.” Now researchers are able to piece together neurological changes by scanning the brains of people in different age groups. “We’re able to get what normally would’ve been something you only do in a college kid, where you can scan them for hours … We’re able to do it across many dif ferent populations,” he said.
The three projects fall under the umbr ella of the Human Connectome Project, which previously mapped the brains of healthy, college-aged people, said Essa Yacoub, a Minnesota radiology professor and a project lead. The researchers use two dif ferent imaging types to map out the brain, he said. One technique follows oxygenated blood in the brain to show which parts of the brain are working together while another technique measures the spread of water in the brain, which shows researchers how the brain is wired. By comparing these two types of measurements, the team can interpret the brain’s functions. With the new grants,
“It was an unbelievably slow, painful pricess mapping [brain] connections ... A single human brain is a more complex network than the entire internet and each brain is different.” SCOTT COOPER Neurologist, University of Minnesota
researchers are looking to explore the brains of younger subjects. The Baby Connectome Pr oject — par t of the
HCP — will study how the str uctures of children’s brains relate to their behavior over time, said Jed Elison, assistant professor in the University’s Institute of Child Development and a project lead. The BCP will study several behaviors of children including language capacity, a child’s ability to control focus and the regulation of emotions. All of those areas are important factors in predicting how prepared a child is for school, Elison said. “We’re going to be establishing a baseline for typical … brain development to better understand … abnormal development,” he said. Another group will be tracking the development of the brain from
childhood to adolescence, said Kathleen Thomas, an ICD professor and a project lead. The group will look at more than 1,000 subjects from five to 21 years old and study factors such as hormone levels in an attempt to track normal brain development. “Many of us have been studying developmental brain science,” Thomas said. “But in most of my studies, I’m only able to look at a very small sample … [I’ve never had] the oppor tunity to look at 1,300 individuals across this whole age span.” Thomas said brain str ucture, changing hormones and individual personality could all contribute to differences in memory and concentration.