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U uses tuition, state funds to pay legal fees The U has paid an outside law firm $500K as it battles faculty unionization supporters in court. BY KACEY HOLMEN AND JACKIE RENZETTI kholmen@mndaily.com, jrenzetti@mndaily.com
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University Director of Marching and Athletic Bands Betsy McCann directs a football pre-game performance at TCF Bank Stadium on Sept. 1. McCann is the first female director of a marching band the University has had, as well as in the Big 10.
For McCann, a historic ‘surprise’
The University of Minnesota has spent more than $500,000 of state taxpayer and tuition money in legal fees as it battles faculty unionization advocates in court. Records obtained by the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group through a public records request show the money — nearly $515,000 from a University fund of tuition and state money — was used to hire the law firm Fredrikson & Byron as the school clashed with faculty union suppor ters to determine what faculty positions could be included in the union vote. While the University defended the expenses as necessar y to defeat an “unprecedented request to create a bargaining unit that does not conform to state law,” supporters of a faculty union say the money was used by the University to hire the law firm to tr y and thwart the unionization effort.
Betsy McCann is the first female marching band director in Big Ten history. BY RAJU CHADUVULA rchaduvulaa@mndaily.com
Nearly half a centur y after the University of Minnesota Marching Band begrudgingly welcomed its first female percussionist, a woman is running the show. Betsy McCann is the first female marching and athletic bands director in the University band’s 125-year history — and the first woman to lead a marching band in the Big Ten Conference. But getting there wasn’t easy. “I knew the University never had [a woman director] … but being the first in the Big Ten came as surprise,” McCann said. The flutist joined the University marching band in 2000 as an alto saxophonist, looking to stretch her skills in preparation for a future career in music education. After graduating from the University
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For some grad students, voice lacking at U The FCC has discussed adding a new senate committee geared toward graduate education. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY MARCHING BAND
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sue, and the law is much stricter.” Golden said the rise in the amount of University housing options has decreased the number of students who drive around campus. He believes this might have had an impact on lowering the amount of DWI arrests. Donna Berger, Minnesota Of fice of Traffic Safety director, said the popularity of ride-hailing services like Uber has also helped lower the number of students driving drunk. u See DRIVING Page 11
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DWI arrest rates decline in state and at University BY KRISTINA BUSCH kbusch@mndaily.com
Minnesotans, it seems, are making wiser choices when it comes to driving under the influence. According to the Minnesota Depar tment of Public Safety, DWI arrests have declined by 40 percent since 2006. Efforts
to curb drunk driving at the University of Minnesota have had similarly positive effects. The University of Minnesota Police Department made 57 DWI arrests in 2014, according to UMPD data. That number dropped by over 40 percent to only 34 DWI arrests last year. “[Avoiding driving drunk] is one of those things that people can generally agree on when it comes to alcohol use,” said Dave Golden, Public Health and Communications Director at Boynton Health. “There’s been a lot of campaigns on this is-
BY OLIVIA JOHNSON ojohnson@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota graduate and post-doctoral students feel they lack a voice on campus. At a Thursday Faculty Consultative Committee meeting, University faculty members discussed one possible remedy for students’ concerns — to create a separate post-doc and graduate committee in the student Senate. “The graduate … students are central to the University, yet there’s nothing ... that focuses in on graduate education issues,” said Scott Lanyon, vice provost and dean of Graduate Education Council. “The closest might be SCEP.” The faculty Senate’s Educational Policy Committee — called SCEP — deals with education policy that affects the University as a whole, but its area of control is ver y broad, said Colin Campbell, FCC chair and
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Syedah ‘pushing boundaries’ In her tenure as MSA President, Abeer Syedah aims to spotlight social justice, inequality issues. BY RILYN EISCHENS reischens@mndaily.com
With a dynamic following on Twitter, Minnesota Student Association President Abeer Syedah has embraced the connectivity of social media, posting her musings on topics, such as xenophobia to heteronormativity, to her thousands of followers. And while she has sometimes been criticized, like when she asked her followers to reflect on queerphobia after the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida — in turn receiving countless hate-mongering replies, she has continued to use the plat-
form to speak about social justice and issues of diversity. “I didn’t get into this role to sacrifice who I was, and I do think that there are people who would rather I did,” Syedah said. “I wasn’t elected to be anything other than who I am.” MSA Vice President Samantha Marlow said Syedah’s candid demeanor has helped her become an icon for underserved communities on campus. “She is pushing boundaries in who’s being represented in … key positions in University administration,” Marlow said. Syedah’s role as a woman of color in a visible leadership position is especially important for students of color at a time when few minorities occupy those spaces, said Evonne Bilotta-Burke., u See PREZ Page 6
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STATE REPORT INTERSTATE 35 BRIDGE TO GLOW BLUE FOR JACOB WETTERLING ST. PAUL — The Interstate 35 West bridge across the Mississippi River will glow blue for 11 days in honor of Jacob Wetterling. Minnesota Gov. Mark Dayton on Wednesday ordered the bridge to be cast in blue light starting Friday. Jacob was 11 when he disappeared near his home in St. Joseph and sported the number 11 on spor ts jerseys. The blue lights represent child abuse prevention. Jacob was abducted on Oct. 22, 1989. After nearly 27 years of cold leads and myster y, Danny Heinrich recently confessed to abducting, sexually assaulting and killing him. Heinrich led authorities to the field in Paynesville where Jacob’s remains were recovered last month. Jacob’s memorial ser vice will be held Sept. 25. That’s when the blue light memorial will finish.
MINNEAPOLIS LAWYER SUSPENDED OVER ‘PORN TROLLING’ LAWSUITS ST. PAUL — The Minnesota Supreme Court has indefinitely suspended a Minneapolis lawyer over “porn trolling” lawsuits. Thirty-five-year-old Paul Hansmeier built a career suing people nationwide for downloading internet porn. He can petition for reinstatement in four years. The Minnesota Of fice of Lawyers Professional Responsibility asked the court last year to disbar or suspend Hansmeier. Hansmeier said his copyright lawsuits were “a very new and emerging area of practice” that protected the rights of pornography producers. But he dropped his opposition to the disciplinary proceedings. Hansmeier also has been criticized for filing what some call “nuisance lawsuits” against small businesses that allegedly fail to comply with disability access laws. Hansmeier tells the St. Paul Pioneer Press he’s not sure he’ll seek reinstatement but will continue to work on behalf of the disabled. ASSOCIATED PRESS
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J E F F E R O N C I T Y, Mo. — Missouri’s Republican-led Legislature used its supermajority Wednesday to override a gubernatorial veto of a voter photo ID requirement, then took the first step toward enacting a measure that would significantly relax the state’s gun laws. The elections law change would require people to show a governmentissued photo ID at the polls star ting in 2017, if voters also approve a proposed constitutional amendment on the November ballot. The sweeping guns legislation would allow most adults to carr y concealed weapons without needing
a permit while also expanding people’s right to defend themselves both in public and private places. Both measures passed earlier this year with enough suppor t for lawmakers to overturn Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon if they stick to their original votes. The House voted 115-41 Wednesday to override the photo ID veto. Then after about two hours of debate, Senate Republicans used a procedural motion to shut of f Democratic discussion and complete the veto over ride on a 24-7 vote. Both votes exceeded the required two-thirds majority. Although no Democrats backed the override, one
Authorities: Arrest made in arson fire at Florida mosque BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A 32-year-old Florida man has been arrested and is facing a charge of arson and hate crime in a fire that heavily damaged a mosque that Orlando nightclub gunman Omar Mateen attended, authorities announced Wednesday. Joseph Michael Schreiber was arrested without incident Wednesday afternoon and was being interrogated by investigators looking into the fire set late Sunday at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce, said Maj. David Thompson of the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office. Thompson told a news conference that Schreiber was taken into custody on a street in For t Pierce by authorities acting on tips from members of the community and aided by surveillance video taken from the mosque and elsewhere. He said the arson charge, coupled with a hate crime enhancement under Florida law, carries a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
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The fire was set late Sunday on the 15th anniversar y of the 9/11 terror attacks. The blaze also coincided with the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha. Thompson said a search war rant was executed at Schreiber’s home, where investigators reported finding evidence linked to the arson, as well as anti-Islamic social media posts. Schreiber was previously sentenced twice to state prison for theft, according to records from the Florida Depar tment of Cor rections. The records show he ser ved his first sentence from March 2008 to July 2009 and his second from June 2010 to August 2014. At the news conference, Thompson said detectives were still questioning Schreiber on Wednesday evening, and he didn’t say if Schreiber had a lawyer. No one was injured in the fire, which burned a 10-by-10-foot hole in the roof at the back of the mosque’s main building and blackened its eaves with soot.
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independent state representative joined all 114 House Republicans and all 24 GOP senators in voting for the photo ID bill. After an additional hour and a half of debate on the guns legislation, senators again voted along par ty lines to shut off discussion and override Nixon on a 24-6 vote. A final House vote is needed to complete the override. The Republican supermajorities meant lawmakers had a good shot of adding to Nixon’s record as the most overridden governor in Missouri histor y, a distinction made possible by an era of extreme political division in the Capitol. Heading into Wednesday, lawmakers had overridden
Nixon on 83 bills and budget expenditures over his two terms in office — nearly four times more overrides than the combined total for all other governors dating back to 1820 when Missouri was still a territory. Nixon vetoed about two dozen measures this year, including ones already over ridden this spring blocking pay raises for home-care workers and changing the state’s school funding requirements. During debate Wednesday, sponsoring Republican Rep. Justin Alferman argued that the photo ID requirement would “protect our elections against fraud.”
Clinton’s doctor says she is ‘fit to serve’, healthy BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Hoping to put the issue of her health behind her as she gets ready to return to the campaign trail, Hillar y Clinton on Wednesday released an updated review of her physical fitness and details about a recent bout of pneumonia. “She is recovering well with antibiotics and rest,” said her doctor, Lisa Bardack, in a letter released by her campaign. “She continues to remain healthy and fit to ser ve as President of the United States.” The details made publ ic by th e D e m o c ra t i c presidential nominee included a description of the pneumonia diagnosis she received last week. Her illness became public after she left Sunday’s 9/11 memorial ser vice in New York early and was seen on video staggering while getting into a van. The health episode
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fueled long-simmering conser vative conspiracy theories about Clinton’s health and provided a fresh line of attack for rival Donald Tr ump, who has frequently questioned whether Clinton has the stamina to ser ve as commander in chief. At a Wednesday evening rally in Canton, Ohio, T r ump noted the room filled with 5,000 people was hot. “ Yo u t h i n k H i l l a r y would be able to stand up here for an hour and do this?” he asked. “I don’t think so.” Tr ump later added at the same rally, “We want her better, we want her back on the trail.” The Republican nominee, meanwhile, handed over a one-page summar y of a recent physical exam to the celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz while taping an episode of Oz’s talk show. But voters will have to wait another day for details: the show does not air until Thursday.
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Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine talks to students on Tuesday at Coffman Memorial Union. Kaine was on campus for a surprise visit to engage with students one-on-one about issues important to them.
He spoke with students one-onone at Coffman Memorial Union. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
Democratic vice presidential candidate T im Kaine visited Cof fman Memorial Union Tuesday amid a swarm of TV cameras and young voters hoping to catch a few minutes of the senator’s time. The unannounced visit came hours after Sen. Kaine, D-Virginia, spoke at the University of Michigan campus. Karen Finney, Kaine’s communications director, said Kaine was in town for a private fundraiser.
“Basically we’re talking to students about the importance of the election and tr ying to encourage people to register,” Kaine said. “We r eally want to do well with students under age 30, and that’s why we’re here.” Kaine said he also wanted to talk to students about the campaign’s efforts to make college debtfree for all students and tuition free for families who make less than $125,000 per year. Staff members from the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Par ty were also speaking with students, encouraging them to vote. Kaine spoke briefly with Minnesota Student Association diversity and inclusion committee codirectors Brianna Hanson
and Simran Mishra about campus accessibility for nontraditional and commuter students. “He was actually really interested in learning more about our work with inter national students [and] making financial aid and fees more transparent,” Hanson said. Students spoke with Kaine one-on-one on a variety of issues, from mental health awareness to American Indian issues. Andr e Montoya-Bar thelemy, a first-year public health student and Clinton suppor ter, spoke with Kaine about the Dakota Access pipeline and other issues with the marginalized Native American population. “I definitely got the impression that
he was listening,” Montoya-Barthelemy said. “He didn’t give any specifics, and he didn’t promise anything, cer tainly, but I did get the impression that he was listening, and I really appreciate that.” W ill Dammann, a senior and director of gover nment and legislative af fairs for MSA, said that though he normally votes Republican, Clinton and Kaine will get his vote this year. “When I’m looking at these two candidates, I look at Donald Trump and see that he is ver y divisive and not representing tr ue Republican beliefs,” Dammann said. “Ultimately, I can put my trust in Hillar y and I trust that she will be able to do the job well.”
Legal fees top $500k in faculty union fight Fees u from Page 1
“It is a ver y poor use of money that students use for an education,” said Rep. Bud Nor nes, R-Fergus Falls, who chairs the House Higher Education Policy and Finance committee. “Legal fees should be a separate fund.” The five invoices date back to Mar ch and go through mid-July. Fredrikson & Byron is still working with the University, said University spokesman Evan Lapiska. The University, on a school website, has said it has used outside legal counsel. “I’m sure no one in the legislature … intended for over half a million taxpayer dollars we appropriated to the University of Minnesota’s general fund to be used for attorney’s fees fighting the University’s own employees in
exercising their right to form a union,” said Rep. Jim Davnie, DFL-Minneapolis in a Wednesday MPIRG press release. “[The University] … ought to be spending their limited taxpayer dollars on what should be their top priority: educating their students.” The Ser vice Employees International Union (SEIU) filed for a faculty election in January with the Bureau of Mediation Ser vices. Since then, the University has been involved in a legal battle over which types of faculty positions, such as non-tenured faculty, can be included in the union vote. “I think all of us were a little dismayed, perhaps not completely surprised … that the University administration was par tisan in this endeavor since their statements to us led most of the University community to believe that they are neutral in this,” said cultural studies and comparative
literature professor Tim Brennan. Acquiring outside legal counsel for union organizing procedures is common for universities or organizations where there’s been a push to unionize, said John Budd, a Carlson School of Management professor who specializes in labor studies. Still, the University’s motion filed in state cour t in March challenging a state decision to hold hearings about the classification of non-tenured faculty was unusual, Budd said. “Essentially, the University is tr ying to say their exper tise is better than the exper ts’ expertise,” Budd told the Minnesota Daily at the time of the lawsuit. Once the Bureau of Mediation Ser vices decides who can vote, SEIU plans to move for war d with the election, Brennan said. “These one-time costs
are necessar y for the University to fully address the complex legal and practical issues involved in this issue, which will have great effect on the University’s faculty, staff, and students far into the future,” the University’s Of fice of the General Counsel said in an emailed statement.
“I think all of us were a little dismayed ... that the University administration was partisan in this endeavor since their statements to us led most of the University community to believe that they are neutral in this.” TIM BRENNAN University Professor
Prosecutors: Silva ‘commander’ of graft scheme BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazilian investigators on Wednesday charged former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with money laundering and corruption, calling him the “maximum commander” of the mammoth graft scandal roiling Latin America’s largest nation. While the charges against Silva were expected — police recommended them last month — the characterization of his role in the kickback scheme at state oil company Petrobras was stunning. The so-called Car Wash investigation the last two years has led to the jailing of dozens of businessmen and top politicians. While Silva, president between 2003 and 2010, has long been implicated, before Wednesday prosecutors had never said that he was anything more than a beneficiary.
Silva was “the maximum commander of the corruption scheme identified as Car Wash” Deltan Dallagnol, head of the task force investigating, said during a televised news conference from the southern city of Curitiba. “We are not judging here who (Silva) is or was as a person, but what he did or didn’t do to the people,” Dallagnol said. Dallagnol put up diagrams that purpor ted to show Silva’s connection to various players in the kickback scheme going back more than a decade. He said prosecutors could show that Silva had met at key times with people involved in the scheme, such as Marcelo Odebrecht, the former president of the big Odebrecht construction company who has been jailed. Dallagnol alleged that Silva, who left the presidency
with very high approval ratings, used a network of illegal campaign financing and kickbacks for political support in Congress. Silva’s lawyer, Cristiano Zanin Martins, blasted Dallagnol, saying he had shown himself unfit for the job. “His political behavior is incompatible with the role of a federal prosecutor,” said Martins. Despite a litany of accusations against Silva, there were only two actual charges: money laundering and corruption. Silva, his wife and five others were accused of illegally benefiting from renovations at a beachfront apartment in the coastal city of Guaruja in Sao Paulo state. The improvements, valued at about $750,000, were made by construction company OAS, one of those involved in the kickback scheme emanating from Petrobras. Prosecutors also
believe Silva benefited from OAS paying the rent of storage unit to house symbolic gifts that Silva received while president. Silva acknowledges having visited the penthouse but says he never owned it. Sergio Moro, the judge overseeing the probe, must now decide whether Silva will stand trial. In a separate case related to Petrobras, Silva will go on trial on charges of obstruction of justice. While his Workers’ Party has lost much support amid corruption scandals in recent years, Silva continues to enjoy popularity nationwide and has signaled his intention to run for president in 2018. The yawning gap between the verbal accusations Wednesday and what Silva was accused of raised many questions about the future of the investigation.
A new justice advisor y group in the state wants to help underrepresented Minnesotans voice their environmental concerns. The group will be tasked with advising the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on how to incorporate environmental justice into the organization while keeping it accountable. David Thornton, assistant commissioner of the MPCA, said the agency has been working to form the group since last winter, with members of the group announced by the MPCA on Sept. 6. “It was something that had been suggested to us from some outsiders, and we decided that it was a good idea,” he said. While the group establishes its roots, Thornton said it will have the opportunity to pitch issues that members believe can help shape environmental justice policy. “We want to get some input on how well we’re doing and what we can do better because this is a new area for us and it’s going to be something that we’ll have to learn,” he said. But some have found giving input to the MPCA difficult in the past. Shirley Nordrum, a University of Minnesota extension educator and member of the advisor y group, said she’s found the MPCA hard to reach. “I think the people are not being heard,” she said. Because of this, Nordrum said the group must figure out a way to better facilitate communication between the agency and residents. “In order to engage the … average citizen, which is, I think, critically important, things need to be streamlined a little bit,” she said. Janiece Watts, environmental justice organizer for Neighborhoods Organizing for Change and
“We want to get some input on how well we’re doing and what we can do better because this is a new area for us ...” DAVID THORNTON assistant commissioner
member of the advisor y group’s selection committee, said she also thinks the agency should be more accessible. “Having access to the MPCA is not just something that I think that a lot of people feel like they have,” she said. Wa t t s s a i d t h i s can be fr ustrating for community members, since many don’t know where to turn when they see issues in their neighborhoods. The advisor y group, she said, will make sure the MPCA is accountable to community needs. “Now, having this advisor y group, I think it would be a really great opportunity to … come together and say, ‘What are these pertinent issues that we should be focusing on?’ and … star t making the plan,” Watts said. Some problems she said she’d like to see the gr oup addr ess ar e the Northern Metal Recycling plant in Nor th Minneapolis, the industrial corridor the plant sits in, lake pollution and water quality issues. Watts said she hopes this advisor y group will be able to encourage the MPCA to aggressively pursue polluters. Nordr um said raising awareness and acting on these issues will help improve the environment for state residents. “No one’s going to be in disparity if we can … reach ever yone and do a good job at it,” Nordr um said. Regar ding planning, Thornton said the group will meet “at least quarterly,” with the first meeting coming sometime next month.
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First female band director takes helm McCann u from Page 1
with a degree in music performance and education in 2003, McCann completed a master’s degree in conducting at Northwestern University and taught high school band. McCann took a position as assistant director for the University’s band in 2013. A new mom to two young children, she felt the part fit her schedule well. “[And] every year I was doing that, I ended up picking up more responsibilities,” she said. Three years later, she’s at the top. “I was just fortunate that I’ve been doing this for a number of years, and people were happy with the work that I was doing,” she said.
Working toward gender integration
The band exclusively recruited men at its inception in 1892, the band’s historian, Mark Gaffron, said. Women filled in for men who left home to fight in World War II, but after the war, the school resumed its male-only policy, he said. Female divisions of the band existed on-and-off between the end of the first World War and the late ‘60s, but as the the decade came to a close, women pushed for total inclusion in the band, Gaffron said. In 1973, Joni Sutton — soon-to-be the band’s first female percussionist — tried out for the ensemble but received pushback from the male-dominated team. One man said he’d quit the drum line if Sutton and other women joined. Another thought that even if the band welcomed
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Members of the University of Minnesota Marching Band peform at the Gophers’ game against the Oregon State Beavers on Sept. 1 at TCF Bank Stadium.
women, the drum line surely wouldn’t. Though some men wondered if a coed band would negatively affect its atmosphere. “Once I was in and proved myself, that I wouldn’t hold [the band] back], I was treated like anyone else,” Sutton said. By 1974, the student president of the marching band was a woman. Within a few years, the band fully integrated, though there were still kinks to sort out; with only seven uniforms
for 35 women, the rest of the female team members acted as a dance group in their first year, Gaf fron said. Uniforms soon became available, but they had to be re-fitted for female bodies, said Ellen Sorenson, who joined in 1975. “By the time I came, there wasn’t really any weirdness,” she said. And because the band facilities in Northrop Auditorium had only one men’s locker room, women were forced to change in a hall-
way with slanted floors and doors that didn’t quite lock — until TCF Bank Stadium opened in 2009 — Sorenson said. Women continued making strides in the University’s marching band as years passed. In the ’90s, the application process for student band leadership changed, making way for more women to take on greater responsibilities. In 2006, Molly Watters became the band’s first — and only — female drum major.
For McCann, an outpouring of support Since accepting the offer, McCann has received emails and letters from former band members offering their support. One such letter came from a former member blocked from the marching band in 1967because, the letter said, “the long and strenuous hours would be exhausting to the average girl.” For McCann, the
congratulations are motivational. “I need to make sure that I do a great job for the all the reasons I should – for the students, the school, for myself – but also for these people who are happy that this milestone has happened,” she said. In her new role, McCann will serve as a role model for young Minnesotan women, Sutton said. “[McCann] isn’t there as a token,” she said. “She’s there because she can get the job done.”
City residents discuss cooperative housing proposal A proposed city housing ordinance spurs debate in Minneaoplis. BY ELIANA SCHREIBER eschreiber@mndaily.com
Some Minneapolis residents are challenging a housing ordinance that limits how many non-family members can live within the same
house. At a meeting organized by the University District Alliance on Monday, people from University of Minnesota neighborhoods gathered to voice concerns and give input on a potential change to legalize intentional communities. Current Minneapolis zoning codes forbid more than three unrelated adults from living in the same household in low-density areas, with a maxi-
mum of five for high-density ones. Intentional communities are certain properties with groups of two or more people living co-operatively together. Many area residents want to make intentional communities legal, but others ar e concer ned amending the code may let landlords profit from increased occupancies. To address the concerns, Ward 2 City Council member
Cam Gordon and Regulatory Services Director Mike Rumppe met with Minneapolis residents to address the potential impacts. At the Monday meeting, Gordon said the current housing code is arbitrary and prevents the expansion of cooperative housing. He presented a proposal to let intentional communities register with the city and be protected. According to the proposal, the communities must have an adopted set of rules and follow other standards like sharing expenses and remaining at the address for at least one year. “It’s really been a challenge,” Gordon said at the meeting. “We’ve done a lot to create more housing options.” S ome a t t h e meeting voiced concerns that landlords would abuse the changes and use the ordinance to legally over-occupy rental units. “Why create something that again is going to be impossible to enforce?” said area resident Robin Schow at the meeting. Schow said a house in her neighborhood has seven unrelated residents,
wher e the city hasn’t enforced its zoning code. Others at the meeting echoed her concerns. But Rumppe said enforcement won’t change based on this proposal. According to the proposal, intentional communities cannot be registered from “problem properties.” “Sometimes it’s easier for them to cheat … but that’s just something that we deal with on a consistent basis,” he said. Gor don said at the meeting his proposal only allows landlords to designate one property as an intentional community, as a safeguard to prevent them from abusing the ordinance. Similarly, tenants who break other city r ules risk losing their permission to be classified as an intentional community, he said. Minneapolis Coalition for Intentional Communities member and Prospect Park resident Rebecca Orrison said those who violate code shouldn’t stop law-abiding citizens from forming legal intentional communities. Orrison — a University graduate — lived in the Students’
Co-op on University Avenue for four years. “These programs that they have aren’t able to be advertised because they aren’t operating legally,” she said, adding intentional communities must follow an extensive process to register with the city. Mechanical engineering senior and Students’ Co-op resident Gabe Korinek said he prefers the co-op to traditional student housing because residents stay longer and it feels more personal. Korinek said he hopes the proposal passes because it could allow for more co-op style housing and reduce the number of landlords taking advantage of students. Gordon said the changes to the ordinance are mostly finalized in writing and will be presented at two public hearings next month before advancing to a city council committee in early November. “I’m hopeful that this will pass,” Gordon said at the meeting. “I see this as potentially a relatively small step … I don’t think it’s going to be a mad rush.”
Split Cyprus’ rival leaders to meet UN chief on peace talks BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The rival leaders of ethnically split Cypr us said Wednesday they would meet with U.N. Secretar yGeneral Ban Ki-moon later this month to take stock of ongoing reunification talks and ask him to step up his personal involvement in the months ahead. Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, a Greek Cypriot, and the breakaway Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci, said that much progress has been achieved in 16 months of talks, but key differences remain. The Sept. 25 meeting with Ban will cover both what the two leaders have
so far agreed, but also obstacles they still face in reaching a deal that would end the island’s 42-year-old division. The leaders “will exchange views with (Ban) and will request him to intensify his personal engagement in the process in the months to come,” the statement said following the end of an intensified, eight-meeting phase of talks held at the disused Nicosia airport inside a U.N.-controlled buffer zone. Ban won’t be assigned any role as arbitrator during the meeting, Anastasiades said, addressing concerns of a deal being tilted to favor one side over the other.
Ban told repor ters at U.N. headquarters in New York that “the United Nations is fully ready to support their initiative.” “I’m encouraged that the Cyprus talks ... continue to make ver y good progress with active participation and leadership and commitment of the two Cypriot leaders,” he said. “And I’m also encouraged at their strong commitment that they will complete the process within the year.” Ban stressed that “this is a Cypriot-owned and Cypriot-led process.” “The United Nations is facilitating this one, and you can count on us and on me,” he said.
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Editorials & Opinions COLUMN
Rape culture and your mother’s feminism Young women are expected to hold the banner of a feminism we no longer identify with
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b out a year ago my mother saw a photo of me, arms raised in a white cropped shir t, revealing a good portion of my stomach. It was a silly picture. The triumphant pose was paired with a mischievous grin. However, she emailed me to express her disapproval, asking why I felt it necessar y to “bare my stomach.” I was at once confused, embarrassed and defensive — explaining that in a fleeting moment of confidence, I actually felt comfortable enough to take that picture. I felt like I was joining the ranks of similarly confident women I admired. So why was my mother, the strong, single parent and career woman who had raised me, dismayed? “I remember being questioned about how much I had to drink, and the impatient tone of the detective who told me this ‘probably wasn’t gonna go anywhere.’” This is what the rape sur vivor of the Daniel Drill-Mellum case wrote in a lacerating victim’s impact statement reprinted with permission by FOX 9. Two months prior, father of Stanford rapist
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Brock Turner penned an abhorrent letter in his response to his son’s sentence — bemoaning Brock’s ‘ruined’ life, and attributing his actions to a college culture of alcohol and excess. A pattern emerges. My mom came of age in the ‘80s in New York City, a young, California transplant making her way as an international, career-jour nalist right out of college. She’s highly educated, ambitious and more independent than anyone I know. And yet, she has always warned me to temper my attire, watch what and how much I drink — to be on guard at all times. When she saw that picture of me, the flippant snapshot that I’d chosen to use as the profile photo for my Twitter account, a gut reaction hur tled for ward from the recesses of her generation — she’d been conditioned to be wear y, In her gr uf f, male-dominated workplace of the Associated Press, my mother mimicked the feminism of the times: be
tough, downplay your femininity, don’t give them anything to use against you. Conversely, my generation has a new brand of feminism which continues to push the boundaries and conventions of society’s treatment of gender. I’m sur rounded by self-actualized women who call for the desexualization of the female body — show your stomach in a picture! We all have them! They work to make it okay for us to be whatever iteration of woman we want: femme, butch, “girly girl” or “tomboy” — the full spectrum. In these assault cases that continuously emerge, a young man does wrong, and we find countless justifications. Even in this day and age, society looks for a way to erase male blame, instead placing it on women. But the dialogue is beginning to shift, building on the work of my mother and her peers. New generations of young men understand that the power of decency and respect lies in their hands. While safety is always paramount, we can no longer have sympathetic, defensive attitudes of rapists. Kate McCarthy welcomes comments at kmccarthy@mndaily.com.
2016 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 39,635 Total number of deaths: 10,181 Total number of mass shootings: 272 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org
GUEST COLUMN The case for a third option: Vote your values this November
People on the left and right have been pushed into a corner by the mainline parties and told that, “A vote for someone else is a vote for him/her!” Now, we find ourselves in an election year where the two main party candidates are more hated than any others, yet they still pull an incredibly high amount of suppor t, nationally. Some people may ask themselves why someone so disliked by the American public, such as Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, is doing so well, and the answer is simply fear. People on the left and right have been pushed into a corner by the mainline parties and told that, “A vote for someone else is a vote for him/her!” Now, I have never understood this sentiment. Even though I may disagree with Ted Cruz on a great many things, his urging of individuals to “vote their conscience” at the RNC has stuck with me. When individuals are deciding something as important as the Commander-in-Chief of the most power ful countr y in the world, I would hope they will vote not against the person whomever they hate but rather for the one they align with the most, be it Gar y Johnson, Jill Stein, Darrell Castle, or someone else. So this election year, I urge individuals tired of the gridlock, the crony capitalism, the money being used to buy elections, and the blatant corruption within the government to listen to their hearts and conscience and to vote for whomever is their ideal choice on election night.
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EDITORIALS With proposed nurse shortfalls, compromise must be reached
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urses working for Allina Health are continuing a strike for a second time in the past three months. The 4,800 nurses that work for the organization are currently being replaced by 1,500 replacement nurses. The strikes star ted because nurses wanted better health insurance benefits. In the past, Nurses Union members received a health insurance plan which Allina claimed was far too expensive. This plan provided premiums between $10,272 and $20,148 dollars per year per family, whereas their health insurance plan for non-union employees was far less generous. Allina predicted that this plan would become even more expensive by 2020 when the Affordable Care act would start charging 40 percent taxes on premiums that exceeded approximately $10,200. But the purpose of the strikes has transcended beyond health insurance. According to Union Executive Director Rose Roach, in an interview with the Star Tribune, the strikes have also become about providing compensation for a job that has high risk of on-the-job illnesses and injury. Improving the state of security in hospital emergency departments was on the table during the last round of negotiations on Sept. 3 of this year. Without listening to the demands of the nurses, the problems may get worse. Currently, nurses are currently the largest segment of the workforce. Yet, by 2025, the U.S. is projected to have the largest shortfall of nurses since the ‘60s. As population increases and also ages, the demands for health ser vices are projected to skyrocket. Without appropriate compensation for a profession that may soon be significantly strained, it won’t be possible to guarantee appropriate health care to all Americans.
Without appropriate compensation for a profession that may soon be significantly strained, it won’t be possible to guarantee appropriate health care to all Americans.
RYAN T. HANSON Guest Columnist
I have been following political elections for as long as I can remember. I don’t truly know what has caused this, but I can take a stab at many different things that may have led to it such as: watching the first AfricanAmerican President get elected back in 2008, seeing my father run for both mayor and city council in my small hometown, and watching the rise of both Ron Paul in 2012 and Bernie Sanders just this last year. I’ve followed elections from a very young age, but until now, I never gave any third party option — be it the Greens, Libertarians, Independents, or Constitutionalists — even a passing thought.
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What it means to be a columnist Writing opinions necessitates thoughtful, tactful critiques.
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a st week, C.J., a columnist at the Star Tribune, made national news for her criticism of KARE 11 reporter Jana Shortal’s attire while she was reporting on the Jacob Wetterling case. Like many people, I found her remarks to be completely out of place. But it also made me think about where I find myself as a writer. As an opinion columnist, I thought I’d share a few personal rules I try to follow that ensure my pieces are respectful while still being contrarian or controversial. Here are a few tenets: 1. Whenever possible, tr y to focus on ideas rather than people. Tr y to address what’s flawed in behaviors or ideologies, as opposed to an individual. 2. If you do choose to criticize people, focus on public figures. Think religious figures and politicians as opposed to local folks, unless there is some serious wrongdoing that needs to be put in the spotlight. And please, leave your prejudices out
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of the discussion. 3. Do your research and tr y to understand commonly held arguments — this will ensure your argument is balanced. 4. Never write in an attempt to self-validate. I know I’ve made this mistake before, but public pieces of writing that are actually thinly-veiled justifications of one’s personal life will come across as weak and pointless. 5. Lastly, tr y to focus on topics you’re passionate about. Generally you will have the most experience and expertise in these areas and will be more productive to any given discourse. Of course these are all personal rules, and I have no expectation that others will follow them, but I hope that each writer puts real thought into forming their own arguments. It helps keep your writing consistent, and allows you to center your voice.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Mortgaging a Future If you ask Renee Rippberger’s parents to name their proudest moment as parents, they won’t hesitate to tell you that it was the day they watched their daughter open her acceptance letter to the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. Minnesota families have always understood the value and power of a quality education. And that’s what makes the student loan debt crisis so unsettling. This issue is personal to me. Growing up, I watched my mom work hard for nearly a decade to earn her college degree and teaching credentials, all while making ends meet and raising three kids as a single parent. She taught us that a college degree was within our grasp as long as we worked hard. I have tried to pass down those same principles to my four boys. But with the rising cost of college and soaring levels of student debt, that lesson isn’t as
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straightforward as it should be. Renee graduated from Burnsville High School a few years ago. Now, she’s a rising senior at the University of Minnesota. So far, she’s borrowed nearly $25,000 for her Bachelor’s degree. By the time Renee walks across the stage to receive her diploma, she’ll be carrying nearly $32,000 in student loan debt — an amount she fears will take over a decade to pay down. Unfortunately, Renee isn’t alone. Seventy percent of all Minnesota’s college graduates have taken on some form of debt in order to finish their education. The average debt load? $27,578. There are only four states in the country where getting your degree leaves a bigger dent in your pocketbook. There’s a saying that gets tossed around a lot — that today’s students are “mortgaging their future” in exchange for a degree. Well, there might be more truth to that than we thought. A recent study from the National Association of Realtors found that 71 percent of
The following steps are necessary: First, negotiations must be bound to both parties, and media should not be used as a medium to convey messages to the other party. Allina released a statement recently that drew criticism from the Union. In this statement, they complemented the nurses who were not on strike, seemingly chastising those who were on the picket lines. We urge the Obama Administration to reconsider the “Cadillac Plan” tax, the main reason why the nurse’s health insurance premium would become so costly. People working in a profession that is bound for a major personnel shortage should be provided incentives to stay. We also think that the Union should be willing to compromise. The point of negotiating is not to guarantee all demands but to ensure that the best possible choice is made. Ultimately, the costs of the strike have been substantial. In addition to nearing the $20-million mark in terms of financial cost, patient care is also being jeopardized. Both sides must be work together with the objective of reaching a solution and refrain from grandstanding or obstructing any legitimate solution to this problem. Patients still need to be ser ved. Nurses need to be compensated. Healthcare must prevail. EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.
non-homeowners with student loan debt said they believe that debt has delayed homeownership. Despite making what they’re told are the right decisions, students are taking on a burden that is pushing a critical part of the American dream out of reach. The payments Renee will make toward her $32,000 debt is money she won’t be banking for her first down payment on a home or saving for retirement. She said she gave up on the dream of homeownership when she saw her third bill. The alternative many recent grads are facing? Moving back in with their parents — a step more and more young people are taking. It’s the most common living arrangement of young adults aged 18-34 as of 2014 according to a Pew Research study. It’s a huge drag on our economy and it’s just wrong. Angie Craig, DFL-endorsed candidate for Minnesota’s Second Congressional District Editor’s Note: The second half of this letter will be published on Monday; the letter has been edited for accuracy.
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Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence events coordinator. Syedah hadn’t always planned on r unning for president, Marlow said. After lots of convincing — including a Facebook page called “Run Abeer Run” with accr ued over 1,000 likes — Syedah agreed to put her name on the ballot with Marlow as vice president. They competed against Cameron Holl and Nidhi Khurana for the position, in a contentious election. Holl filed a request by the All-Campus Elections Commissions to review possible r ule violations after the vote was tallied, because Syedah and Marlow went door-knocking during the voting period, which is against ACEC and University Housing and Residential Life rules. The election committee eventually r uled that Syedah and Marlow would have won even if they hadn’t gone door knocking. Holl declined the Minnesota Daily’s of fer to
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An outspoken presence
This will be Syedah’s four th year in MSA; after star ting as a firstyear inter n, she held several other positions, she said, including a diversity position designed for her, and a stint as vice president last academic year. Members of MSA have respected Syedah as a reliable source for information since her freshman year, Marlow said, when she quickly established herself as an individual focused on social justice. “She was the kind of first-year that did not care about getting into an open discussion with other staf f,” Marlow said. Bor n in Canada, Syedah has lived in three other countries — Pakistan, Bahrain and Indonesia — and several states, she said. Syedah said she’s been interested in social justice issues since high school, but didn’t know how to articulate her concerns. “I went to high school in Texas, and you weren’t necessarily being taught words like ‘queer’ or … ‘inequality’ and ‘oppression,’” she said.
Her experiences — in tandem with coursework in ethnic and gender studies, have impacted her perspectives and leadership style — though she’s sometimes reluctant to share those experiences, she said. “I live in this cautious world where I think someone’s going to look at me and be like, ‘Oh, she’s a Canadian who lived in Pakistan? We should look into that,’” she said. Syedah said she polices her language and appearance more than previous MSA leaders, which can be frustrating. “I’ve had … ver y political predecessors who were not given the treatment I’ve been given,” she said. These experiences make her a more considerate leader, said BilottaBurke, “A lot of the sor t of hidden, invisible barriers students experience on this campus, she’s gone through,” she said. “She works with a sor t of lens that always incorporates other people’s perspectives and lived identities, even if it’s not par t of her own nar rative,” she said. Syedah’s use of social media has put her in the national spotlight several
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Minnesota Student Association President Abeer Syedah listens during the association’s forum in Mondale Hall on Tuesday. Syedah, who previously served as vice president, was elected president earlier this year.
times this year. Her tweets received attention from a congressman and model Chrissy Teigen, among other notable people — but the recognition isn’t always positive. People are more skeptical of Syedah because she is a woman of color, Marlow said. She said Syedah faces more scr utiny than past presidents for voicing her opinions. “She’s ver y diplomatic in how she holds herself,
and she’s ver y considerate,” she said. Still, she isn’t willing to silence her opinions, even in the face of criticism, S yed ah s ai d , al tho u g h she’s looking for ward to having a low profile after graduation. “I want my Twitter to not matter to anyone for just a little while,” she said. She would also like to see MSA take a step back next year, Syedah said.
“I think members of the organization want to do more than is realistically [possible] … and I know I’m beyond guilty of it,” she said Wo r k i n g t o a c h i e v e lofty organizational goals hasn’t left Syedah much spare time to consider her future, she said. “I fully expect her in the White House one day,” Bilotta-Burke said. “I don’t see her as slowing down.”
Chain restaurants in Stadium Village on the rise Over the summer, three new businesses have appeared in Stadium Village. BY TIFFANY LUKK tlukk@mndaily.com
Businesses in the University of Minnesota’s Stadium Village neighborhood have faced extreme turnover in recent years. The area’s mainstay restaurants have given way to new chain locations and luxur y apar tments, which — along with the additions of TCF Bank Stadium and the Green Line train — have drastically changed the neighborhood’s composition. Ward 2 City Council member Cam Gordon said he has mixed feelings on the area’s rapid new development, lamenting closures of independent shops like Bun Mi, Big 10, Espresso Expose and
Abdul’s Afandy. Their depar ture marks the end of most of the neighborhood’s independent business. “It’s hear tbreaking to see these businesses close,” Gordon said. Stadium Village rental prices are similar to those downtown, said Chris Ferguson, Stadium V illage Commercial Association representative and owner of the local Dair y Queen. He said this means new developments have challenges ahead. “You might see people come into the area,” Ferguson said. “If the market suppor ts it, it’ll stay, but maybe not for the long term.” Gordon said the changes echo what he saw happening to Dinkytown in years past. “What happened with Stadium Village could happen with other neighborhoods,” he said.
Blaze Pizza and Sprout Salad Company were the first businesses to move in below WaHu Apar tments, which still has open commercial spaces standing idle. For Sprout, the Stadium V illage location, which opened in August, is a chance to try out new business ideas like staying open seven days per week and offering breakfast, said general manager Tim Collins. In July, Middle Eastern chain Naf Naf Grill opened a location in the space left behind when Dino’s Gyros closed this spring. Naf Naf manager Roger Santillan said it brought jobs to the area, and the coming construction of a new luxury apartment down the street will bring the store more traffic. Managers of various chain restaurants in Stadium Village said they’re expecting business to pick up with the return of students as the
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A pedestrian walks past empty retail space underneath WaHu Student Apartments in Stadium Village on Wednesday.
fall semester starts. Blaze Pizza general manager John Shelley
said he likes the location because it’s so close to campus, where there is a
sense of community his former location in St. Louis Park lacked.
Doctor: Hunger-striking exGitmo prisoner slips into coma BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MONTEVIDEO, Ur uguay — A former Guantanamo prisoner on a hunger strike slipped into a coma Wednesday, said a doctor in Uruguay, where the exdetainee was taken in as a refugee nearly two years ago but has been demanding to move elsewhere to reunite with his family. Abu Wa’el Dhiab was unconscious and extremely dehydrated when paramedics arrived at the apartment where he is staying in Montevideo, said Dr. Julia Galzerano of the Medical Union of Uruguay, who was treating the former prisoner from Syria. “We hope that it is reversible. We can’t know” for a while, Galzerano said. The doctor said she was told Dhiab had gone 12 days without water. Dhiab was being treated at an apartment in keeping with his wishes not to be hospitalized during his protest. He drew international attention by hunger-striking during his 12 years of occasionally confrontational confinement at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. He was released from Guantanamo in December 2014 but could not return to his homeland and was allowed to resettle in Uruguay. Dhiab has grown increasingly disgr untled in the South American country and launched the hunger strike to pressure the government
to allow him to join his family in Turkey or to go to another country. Christian Mirza, the former prisoner’s liaison with the Uruguayan government, said officials have been working “at the highest levels” to find another country to accept him. The 45-year-old Syrian was one of six freed Guantanamo prisoners taken in by Uruguay as a humanitarian gesture by then President Jose Mujica. While the others settled in, Dhiab has struggled. He announced in a Sept. 6 video that he had been on hunger strike at that point for 23 days and that he had taken nothing but water over the preceding five days. His weight was not publicly known. At Guantanamo, where he was detained as an enemy combatant with suspected ties to militants but never charged, his weight dropped at one point to about 155 pounds (70) kilograms, gaunt for a man over 6 feet tall (183 centimeters). Authorities there said he often struggled with guards, who forcibly removed him from his cell at least 48 times in less than a single year of his protest. Troops also said he assaulted them with feces and vomit several times. In Uruguay, Dhiab has stayed out of the public eye recently, protected by activists from several generally anti-government groups who have taken up his cause. Jon Eisenberg, a
California lawyer who represented Dhiab in the past, said he had not spoken with him since Aug. 31 and was unable to get direct information. “I have no doubt that he is quite ill and in despair, but I fear that the people now surrounding him are exploiting his personal despair in pursuit of their own political agenda and are not acting in his best interest,” Eisenberg said. It was the latest turn in the case of a man who has become an international headache for Uruguay’s government. Less than two months after his arrival in Uruguay, Dhiab turned up in neighboring Argentina, in violation of an agreement not to travel, and denounced the U.S. failure to close Guantanamo. He appeared in a mock orange prison jumpsuit, an icon of the prison that was opened in 2002 to hold suspected enemy combatants in the war against al-Qaida and the Taliban following the 9/11 terrorist attack. Dhiab then began publicly complaining about life in Uruguay, to the increasing irritation of the government, and protesting outside the U.S. Embassy, angering members of Congress. In July, he set off alarms when he vanished for several weeks, then turned up in Venezuela, which rejected his request to be sent to Turkey to join his wife and children and sent him back to Uruguay.
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A canvas dance floor Local painter Shawn McNulty is on top of his art — literally. BY GUNTHAR REISING greising@mndaily.com
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he studio — a long rectangular corridor — is lined from floor to ceiling with works-in-progress. Elvis Costello plays loudly in the background; a pug roams. In the center of the floor is a canvas, still recovering from hosting the palette knife dance that is Shawn McNulty’s preferred painting technique. McNulty, a Minneapolitan abstract expressionist painter, is lounging in the artistic freedom of having recently completed a painting for the U.S. Bank Stadium. “Focusing on the Vikings project for so long, just being released from that and going back to open form is exciting,” McNulty said. T wo of his paintings will be on display in the stadium’s Valhalla Suites. McNulty was one of 34 ar tists chosen from almost 1,200 submissions. McNulty, a Minnesota native, studied art and psychology at St. John’s University. He never anticipated a future as a painter. “We had a house in Uptown. Somebody moved out and as an artist I was like, ‘Can somebody paint in there?’” McNulty said. Since his humble beginnings in an abandoned room, McNulty’s career and technique have burgeoned simultaneously. “The method itself has evolved to be shoe-paletteknife almost exclusively,” McNulty said.
The shoe-palette-knife, a painting utensil that McNulty invented, is at its core, a palette knife attached to sneakers. The tool is used to accomplish his signature aesthetic of soft color fields amid sharp, geometric textures. To be clear — no eccentric marketing plan is at work. “I wouldn’t come out and say I paint like this,” McNulty said about his technique. “I think the method is important, [but] I think the piece that exists is of ultimate importance.” In fact, McNulty spoke very little of his unique technique. Instead, he chose to elaborate on the unique forms and colors that inhabit his pieces. “I think the forms happen organically, but they need nur turing,” McNulty said. “I allow enough spontaneity in the first layer that the forms appear and I just choose.” Abstract expressionism is nothing new, but McNulty has made his own space on the galler y wall. “[My paintings] are a weird combination where my process is more action painting. It’s jagged and violent, but the result is more peaceful,” McNulty said, addr essing predecessors like Jackson Pollock. McNulty isn’t worried about being labeled with modern and abstract ar t’s oft-pretentious reputation. “I think that people who aren’t into ar t in general don’t get abstraction,” McNulty said. “It’s like music
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Artist Shawn McNulty works on a painting in his studio on Sept. 9. McNulty’s process of painting includes a shoe palette knife and is being featured at the Fall Fine Arts Show through the Northeast Minneapolis Arts Association.
or jazz. Like, why is Miles Davis good and why is someone else bad? I think a lot of it is instinct … I like to say, ‘If you like it for whatever reason, then that’s fine.’” McNulty’s personal affinity for abstract painting comes from the ambiguity. “[It’s] more mysterious — more confusing — to some people. You can be on two totally dif ferent sides of things, and I like that,” he said. Despite a degr ee in p s y c h o l o g y, M c N u l t y
wasn’t too interpr etive of his painting’s deeper meanings. He did, however, settle for one explanation. “One interpretation of my work that I kind of like is an interaction between the id and the superego … I think the paintings could represent that.” McNulty will be exhibiting a painting at the Fall Fine Ar ts Show for the Nor theast Minneapolis Ar ts Association from Sept. 16 to Sept. 25. As for his future with
“I think that people who aren’t into art in general don’t get abstration... It’s like music or jazz. Like, why is Miles Davis good and why is someone else bad? I think a lot of it is instinct ... I like to say, ‘if you like it for whatever reason, then that’s fine.’” SHAWN MCNULTY Painter
painting, McNulty wants to continue to explore the medium. “There [are] still places
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Review: KBOP Korean bistro Not just in Stadium Village anymore ... Korean food has arrived in Dinkytown.
Show not tell A river’s renaissance shows historical bonds between the river and Dakota culture.
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BOP — the resident Dinkytown Kor ean bistr o — opened late last year to rave reviews and heavy foot-traffic. Throngs of college-aged foodies have talked this place into oblivion. I usually don’t listen to what I call the “Chipotle demographic” and their “meat-first ethos,” but I thought I’d give it a try. When you first look around the place you’re immediately struck by how busy it is. The impressive smell wafts onto the street corner, dragging you happily inside until you’re bombarded by long lines. (I’m impatient and irascible, but that’s not KBOP’s fault.) I’d call the restaurant’s decor “Spar tan” — there aren’t knickknacks or ornate wall trimmings. Instead, everything is simplistic with a cafeteria-like vibe. Full disclaimer: I know a few things about Korean food. My neighbor (and first love) used to have her grandma make us various foodstuffs that I’ve long forgotten. I also watch a lot of YouTube videos on Korean barbecue. As it goes, misremembering food from nearly a decade ago and watching three minute video clips make me more than qualified to discuss Korean cuisine. Let’s begin. First — the bad stuff. The wait was one of the longest I’ve experienced in recent
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KBOP Korean Bistro serves up a Bulgogi entree with a choice of marinated chicken or beef on top of a sizzling cast iron skillet in Dinkytown. The entrees include a variety of
memor y. I was told that this is because everything is cooked from scratch and made to order. I hope so? Also, like the schlemiel I am, I fell out of my chair and onto the floor in front of the entire restaurant while waiting. The cashier asked if I was okay over stifled laughter. My face got all red. Now for the good stuff, namely the food. KBOP’s prices are more than reasonable. Everything is around $10 — lunch specials are $7.25 — and you get a ton of food. It’s also very easy to share. The first thing I tried was kimbap — an unusual little Korean sushi roll that I’d never heard of. Apparently, it’s a popular street food in South Korea. It was fine.
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Next, I got the sundae guk. Sundae guk is a pig intestine and beef tendon soup. I’ll admit I was wary because anything having to do with pig intestines and blood usually tastes really bad. This stuff, however, was incredible. The contents were slow stewed and it had a good mouthfeel. The real highlight, and the thing that took absolutely forever to deliver, was the bulgogi. Bulgogi is a classic South Korean dish that literally translates to “fire meat.” It’s meat marinated in a soy sauce and sesame oil mixture and then grilled with onions and peppers. If a Korean restaurant serves bulgogi and it’s bad, they’ve failed at the whole
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to go with painting that we haven’t gone yet,” he said. One shoe-palette-knife at a time.
“restaurant” thing. I got chicken instead of the more popular beef option. It came with an array of sides like kimchi and a horseradish-like sauce. Variety in any meal usually wins out; this was no exception. Everything was cooked perfectly and tasted delicious. I even had leftovers — which were eaten cold and in a frenzy later that night. The wait was tor turous, but the food was truly great. I’d recommend going at a time when the place isn’t completely packed, other wise you may have to wait just to order. For the price though, it can’t be beat.
1. Sister Species, Wind Wolves Wild 2. Good Morning TV, Advice for a Lonesome Body 3. Kweku Collins, Ego Killed Romance (feat. Jamila Woods)
central facet of St. Paul’s topography, the mighty Mississippi, may soon be the go-to weekend spot for city residents. Organizers of the River Balcony Prototyping Festival along Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul last weekend hope that participants will experience the potential of a new development proposal — the River Balcony. Prototyping — a way of using art to envision how a community wishes to revitalize a space — is part of St. Paul’s Great River Passage Plan, an outline created by the city to develop symbiosis between city residents and the Mississippi River; the proposed balcony calls for a 1.5 mile pedestrian path along the river. To envision the space, the St Paul River front Corporation held a competition in the spring for citizens, organizations and artists to submit prototypes of art installations. These installations would connect the city to the river’s histor y, culture and environment. So, on Sept. 10, citizens meandered along Kellogg Boulevard to check out 11 chosen prototypes, listen to music, enjoy local food and connect with their community.
4. Mild High Club, Skiptracing 5. Tobacco, Dimensional Hum 6. Haley Bonar, Hometown 7. Hoops, Going Strong
“As you walk the festival, you’ll see words that are related to water ... we’re talking about how water is the substance that gives us life.” SAMANTHA MAJHOR U Ph. D. Candidate
Along the walk, volunteers like Nathaniel Hood, a transpor tation planner, staffed booths with maps of the festival and information on the River Balcony itself. “I think the St. Paul River Corporation does amazing things. I saw that they were doing this prototyping festival, which looked like a great way to engage the public in a genuinely cool project,” Hood said. The 11 prototypes on display included interactive art exhibits, music and a water bar where visitors could taste local tap waters. “We p ar tn er ed wi th Healing Place Collaborative and the Dakota Language Society to do a water bar that would help people understand a little bit about Dakota places, place names and relationships to water,” Shanai Matteson, the artist behind the water bar, said. The Dakota Language Society also stenciled words on the sidewalk to map the connections between the river and Dakota u See FESTIVAL Page 8
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By Gunthar Reising
Listen to this:
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Jack White’s “Accoustic Recordings 1998-2016
“Valley Uprising”
“Revisionist History” Podcast
The critically acclaimed, restless Jack White released this new compilation of acoustic recordings, which give his famous electric blues sound a ghostly feel. As White said in an interview with NPR, “Why don’t we strip that back and take those elements out and let people hear the way it started off?” Well, why don’t we?
Explore the outlawed “salad days” of rock climbing in Yosemite Valley. This documentary investigates the dangerous and rebellious counterculture that developed in the ‘70s. The bohemian society fostered pariahs who would breach new frontiers and shape the world of professional rock climbing for decades to come.
Malcolm Gladwell, New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author, now has a voice in podcasts. In his series “Revisionist History,” Gladwell picks moments in history to examine with a close, critical lens. Topics range from the history and paradox of satire to the Pentagon’s 1965 studies of Saigon.
MUSIC
Parental guidance suggested Minneapolis rock band Fiji-13 — approved for (appropriate) audiences. BY JOE CRISTO jcristo@mndialy.com
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’m told Fiji-13’s name is a joke. This seems appropriate — the Minneapolis punk-ish trio’s songs always make use of catchy word-craft that blends the topical with irony. “We were going to be [called] ‘PG-13,’” said singer and guitarist Heidi James. “But that was already a band locally. We were bemoaning the fact to our friend John, and he was like ‘Oh you should just call yourself Fiji-13.’” It’s at this point in our inter view that I notice a grimace on other singer and bassist Hilar y James’ face. Something is wrong. “There’s a fr uit fly in the bottom of my cup,” Hilar y James said. “And I just noticed it.” This realization, of course, comes on the heels of Hilar y James and dr ummer Steve Crowley playing expensive flute recorders — call and response style. “Oh, you’re recording recorders, huh,” Hilar y James said. Hilar y James and Heidi James are sisters bor n three years apar t. After growing up in Golden, Colorado, they eventually settled in Minneapolis. Both
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Guitarist Heidi James, bassist Hilary James and drummer Steve Crowley of the band Fiji-13 pose for a portrait on Sept. 10.
have explored art and music for most of their lives. Hilar y James also plays cello and keyboard in another local band, We Are The Willows. “I star ted playing on cello and pipe or gan,”
Hilar y James said. “Because I’m a fucking nerd.” Eventually, the sisters decided to star t their own band. They brought in their friend Steve Crowley to play dr ums and soon started performing locally.
I ask Crowley where he’s from. “I’m from eBay,” Crowley said. “They bought me from eBay.” “Is that a real place?” “Yeah, they paid the minimum bid,” Crowley
said. After playing a few shows in basements and clubs, the group decided to record an EP in Northfield, Minnesota. “My friend Michael Morris has a studio,” Hilary James said. “We had only been a
band for a few months. We had no idea what we were doing, but we just went in there and recorded five songs.” The record, “SLEEZY”, was recorded to tape and includes off-kilter surf-goth musings. It tows the line between deathly serious and quirky. It’s deadpan. “I feel like [the way we recorded] was pretty unique,” Crowley said. “We did all of the songs live with no overdubbing other than vocals, so it was kind of nerve-wracking and challenging to get it right.” The record has been out for about a month. Since its release, the band has played on Radio K and has received recognition from regional press. The group is currently focusing on playing live and extending their fan-base. Their next show will be at Eagles 34 with Mary Allen and the Percolators on Sept. 16. After that? We’ll have to wait and see. “Things are definitely up in the air right now,” Hilary James said. “But we might want to record more, and we are planning on touring soon.” Crowley flutters on the recorder again. “We’d return him [to eBay],” Hilary James said. “But they had a no-return policy.”
FESTIVALS
COMICS
Show not tell
Comic book artist combines art, science Comic book artists, musicians and poets gathered at the Bediam Theatre. BY GUNTHAR REISING greising@mndaily.com
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Landscape architect Jennifer Krantz hangs up folded paper birds for the River of Birds installation on Sept. 10 at Culture Park in St. Paul for the River Balcony Prototyping Festival. .
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culture and history. “As you walk the festival, you’ll see words in Dakota that are related to water … we’re talking about how water is the substance that gives us life,” Samantha Majhor said. Majhor is an organizer with the Dakota Language Society and a cur r ent
Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minnesota. The design consulting firm Kimley-Horn installed two interactive art exhibits for the festival. “Wrapped in Anticipation” allowed visitors to share what they were most excited to see on the River Balcony by wrapping different colored bands around a railing. At “River of Bir ds,” visitors could craft four dif ferent types of origami
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birds to help recognize the Mississippi River as a major flyway. And at Conversationalist’s Café — a project created by ar tist Taylor Baldr y — visitors could converse with each other about topics ranging from the weather to hobbies and their beliefs. Thanks to prototypes, festival visitors were able to see the vibrant future of the River Balcony — no need to wait for completion.
n one end of the room, a folk quar tet sang covers. The other end rang with the nerdy conversations that occur when people congregate over a mutual passion. Tables displaying the works of local comic book artists stretched in-between. Welcome to Moving Bodies at the Bedlam — a one-time event intended to garner interest in Chance Wyatt’s Kickstarter-funded comic book “Moving Bodies.” “I don’t know if you’re into comics or if you’re into music or if you’re into booze, but I hope you get into all three tonight,” local comic book writer and the event’s emcee Lucas Munson said. The eclectic event opened with Nomad, a folk quartet that performed synchronously as the comic book convention heated up. “I just happen to know
some people in music and comics who are losers like me and want to get their work out,” Wyatt said. The evening’s entertainment continued with Kathleen Towell reading her poetry to the over-stimulated crowd. Towell, like most of the artists present, was a friend of Wyatt. They met at a local coffee shop. “We’re just some pretentious nerds getting together and talking about our creations,” Wyatt said with the most charming self-deprecation. Wyatt’s project and the event’s namesake is a science fiction graphic novel. “[It’s] an attempt to show the kind of interstellar world we might live in in the future,” Wyatt said. “If we did live inbetween stars, what would that look like?” Despite no background in science or art, Wyatt is determined to combine the two. “The goal is to have a lot of science that you can look at through a keyhole … it’s stuff to think about,” he said. Posters of illustrations from “Moving Bodies” gave the venue a dark aesthetic you’d find in a Ridley Scott film. Although his work’s
name suggests a zombie apocalypse, Wyatt said he has no desire to make comic books for popular appeal. “I feel like Kickstarter is the place for me because my comic books aren’t about superheroes,” he said. The Kickstarter campaign to get “Moving Bodies” published has raised just over $5,000. “I was asking for $750 … so we’re doing well,” Wyatt said. On stage, Munson demanded the audience give the performing artists a bigger round of applause. He then took a break from his emcee duties to return to the comic book tables where he was also exhibiting some of his work. Munson is the author of “Siamese,” a science fiction comic about a man who encounters a woman identical to his late wife. “I had this dream that I thought would make the most incredible story. I thought, ‘What the hell, I want to try to write one of these things,’” Munson said. From 10 p.m. until 2 a.m., enthusiastic comic book artists merged with musicians over art and alcohol — just as Munson had hoped.
By Gunthar Reising
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Demitri Rallis & Friends at Shaws
Cemetary Cinema
Biggest Little Italy
Psychedelic funk-rock band Frogleg’s Demitri Rallis will set the tone for your weekend with a storm of smooth guitar licks coupled with JT Bate’s jazzy drums. The Hendrix-esque sound will be on display outside of Shaw’s Bar and Grill at their tent festival, crafting the perfect environment to grab a burger and soak in one of the last few evenings of summer.
Free fall into Halloween season by watching a classic horror film — in a cemetery. Terence Fisher’s 1958 masterpiece “Horror of Dracula” will be playing at Minneapolis Pioneers and Soldiers Memorial Cemetery in order to raise money and educate the community about the historic cemetery. There will also be a food truck and a smartphone scavenger hunt to appease the hungry and the scholarly.
Spend a day pretending you’re thousands of miles away in Europe and experience the largest display of Italian cars in the Midwest. The Lake Calhoun Center will be bursting with Italian food, live music, Italian heritage displays and bocce. After all, carbo-loading will be necessary if you want to properly absorb all the beer you’ll be consuming during the Vikings vs. Packers game at the new stadium later that day.
Where 1528 University Ave. NE, Minneapolis, MN 55413 Hours 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Cost Free
Where 2945 Cedar Ave. S, Minneapolis, MN 55407 Hours 6:30 p.m. Cost $10
Where 3033 Excelsior Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55416 Hours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Cost Free
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MPD gun buyback programs do little to reduce gun violence in Minneapolis MPD co-hosted a gun buyback program but did little to affect gun violence in the city. BY KRISTINA BUSCH kbusch@mndaily.com
Over 14 years ago, Minnesota hosted its first gun buyback program. Since then, there have been six buybacks with the most recent occurring in August. The programs have seen large turnouts with owners bringing in between 100 and 200 guns at each event — barring the first buyback, which had over 5,000 guns exchanged in the span of six days. Nevertheless, some studies and city residents are questioning the effectiveness of the programs. A 2012 University of Cincinnati study found no evidence that gun buyback programs effectively reduce the number of guns available to criminals or the amount of gun violence in a city. And according to Minneapolis Police Department data, the city has seen a nearly 47 percent increase in the number of gunshot wound victims this year compared to last year. Phillip Murphy, a Minneapolis citizen, attended the buyback program to see whether the program was effective. “I own a business in Nor th Minneapolis that had to be closed after Father’s Day because of all the shooting around here,” he said. “My primary concern is for the safety of myself and secondarily of my clients.” He said his understanding of the program was that it would help remove guns from young people who might commit crimes. But the majority of attend-
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A University of Cincinnati study found the positive effects of gun buybacks are hard to trace.
ees that Murphy spoke to at one of the buyback locations were older people from rural areas. “A lot of what was coming in were guns rights activists who were bringing guns of little value and cashing in,” Murphy said. He said he saw groups of people intercepting others in order to make their own offers for older, used guns. Never theless, Minneapolis police officer Corey Schmidt said any ef for t taking guns off the street is still a good thing. “The guns that we took in … are no longer just sitting in someone’s house waiting to be potentially stolen in a burglar y,” he said. “There’s always go-
ing to be criticism in anything anyone does. Someone’s always going to have a differing opinion.” The original buyback was spearheaded by Mike Freeman, Hennepin County Attor ney and a teaching specialist at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. “When I became county attorney, I had always read the newspapers and understood a little about gun violence,” he said. “But I was shocked by the number of people with handguns, and I was shocked at the number of people using them, particularly young people.” The 1992 program had about 25 drop-of f stations
across the Twin Cities at dif ferent firehouses, he said. Citizens could bring in guns and receive a $50 voucher in exchange. “I didn’t ask the firefighters to check out which kind of gun it was or if it did or didn’t work. I just wanted to get it off the street,” he said. “When somebody sticks a gun in your back, you don’t care whether it works or not, you want the gun out of your back.” After the initial gun collection, Freeman was faced with a court case by gun owners who wanted him and his colleagues to check the serial numbers of the guns to see if they were stolen, he said. The judge denied the gun own-
ers’ request, but buyback programs were still altered to include serial number checks, though the most recent event did not. “[Checking serial numbers] costs a lot of time, energy, and money and has slowed things down,” Freeman said. The August program was hosted by the MPD and the nonprofit Pillsbury United Communities. The exchanges took place at two fire stations in the city. The exchanged guns were decommissioned and will be given to artists for an exhibit called Art is My Weapon, which is currently asking for ar tist submissions. “This is a continuation
of a national exhibit called Guns in the Hands of Artists, which we had brought here earlier this summer,” said Brenna Brelie, PUC senior communications and public relations director. She said there’s not really a way to combat people taking advantage of these programs, though most older, inoperable weapons received the minimum compensation of $25. Though critics like Murphy are skeptical of the success of buyback programs, he did say there is a bit of a positive effect. “The only for tunate event that came out of this was that none of these firearms can be stolen or used again,” Murphy said.
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Sports
@MNDAILYSPORTS
VOLLEYBALL
Rookie Hart on track to have big year The freshman is currently second on the team in kills.
VOLLEYBALL PREVIEW
DIET COKE CLASSIC TOURNAMENT
BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Freshman outside hitter Alexis Har t was a talented thr ee-spor t high school athlete, and those skills have ser ved her well on the volleyball cour t in her first season for Minnesota. Hart was integral in two victories over the weekend in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge over Louisville and No. 8 North Carolina, leading the Gophers with 30 kills. “She’s been doing really well,” said head coach Hugh McCutcheon. “Obviously, at the net she’s been killing the ball and taking a good share of the responsibility of the setreceive, and she’s holding up as a blocker, ser ver and defender as well. I’m ver y happy with the start.” Har t excelled in basketball, track and field and volleyball in her career at Truman High School in Independence, Missouri. Har t was a state champion in the long jump as a sophomore and held the school record in both the long jump and triple jump. She also played basketball in high school and put up 116 points in her sophomore campaign. Har t shined the most on the volleyball cour t. She was named an Under Ar mour First Team
VS NORTH DAKOTA 6-5
NO. 03 MINNESOTA 5-1 WHEN: 7 p.m. Friday
WHERE: Minnesota Sports Pavilion
VS TOLEDO 6-3
NO. 03 MINNESOTA 5-1 WHEN: 10 a.m. Saturday
WHERE: Minnesota Sports Pavilion
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First-year outside hitter Alexis Hart practices in the Sports Pavillon with her team on Tuesday.
“Obviously, at the net she’s been killing the ball and taking a good share of the responsibility of the set-receive, and she’s holding up as a blocker, server and defender as well. I’m very happy with the start.” HUGH MCCUTCHEON Head coach
All-American by the American Volleyball Coaches Association and had 1,284 kills total in her high school career. Hart also came from an athletic background. Her mother, Knea RobinsonHar t, was a basketball player for Oklahoma. The bond between the two athletes has helped Har t adjust to her first year as a
student-athlete. “After games and practice, I can call my mom and talk to her and she understands what it means to be a college athlete,” Hart said. “She’s like my big suppor t, but she understands if I have things going on.” While such a huge step from the high school level to the college level can
rattle some, Har t has shown maturity and composure early on. The outside hitter is second in kills for the Gophers behind senior outside hitter Sarah Wilhite. She’s played in ever y set so far this season and has been named Big Ten Freshman of the Week two weeks in a row. Wilhite, who plays the same position as Har t, said she sees a lot of potential in her teammate already. “I feel like my freshman year I felt more pressure that wasn’t really there,” she said. “I just put [it] on myself, and I don’t see that a lot in Lexi, which makes me really excited for her that she doesn’t have to
VS NO. 03 MINNESOTA 5-1 WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday
GREEN BAY 7-2 WHERE: Minnesota Sports Pavilion SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
push through that at all.” Har t’s of fensive output has been helpful for the Gophers to make up for the loss of former Big Ten Player of the Year and outside hitter Daly Santana, who recently played for Puer to Rico in the Summer Olympics. Early success is nothing new for Minnesota. McCutcheon said that has been evident in players like Har t and sophomore setter Samantha SeligerSwenson, who star ted in ever y match as setter in
her freshman season. Hart dif fers from some of her teammates in that less than half of the squad is from outside of Minnesota, but she said she’s taking the adjustment well and gets by with a solid suppor t system in her hometown. “Back at home, a lot of my friends, they understand where I come from,” Hart said. “So they’re really suppor tive. All my family and friends say that if I keep working hard, it will all pay off.”
WOMEN’S GOLF
Gophers finish ninth in first tournament of season Junior Heather Ciskowski finishes tied for third in the tournament. BY DREW COVE dcove@mndaily.com
Despite two career-best individual finishes, the Gophers finished near the bottom of the field in their first tournament of the year. Minnesota shot a 43-over-par 907 to finish in ninth place out of 11 teams in the Minnesota Invitational at the Minikahda Club in Minneapolis Monday and Tuesday. Junior Heather Ciskowski finished in a two-way tie for third place individually. “I saw some things that I really liked, and I saw some things that we need to work on,” said head coach Michele Redman. “When we start playing well, we’re going to be competitive.” Ciskowski got out to a hot start Monday and was in a four-way tie for first place after the first two rounds, shooting one-under-par. “I was hitting really good shots,” Ciskowski said. “I just tried to give myself the best position to try to win.” She closed out the tournament with a third-round 74, for a one-over-par total of 217 — Ciskowski’s best collegiate finish. Redman said the mark was a result of hard work that Ciskowski has been putting in recently. “A couple of the days she didn’t get of f to the star t she wanted, but she just showed a lot of resilience,” Redman said. “She had a lot of really good quality shots — she had a really good chance to win.” Sophomore Muyu Wu also had a strong tournament. Wu had a solid first 18 holes on Monday morning, but played her best golf in the later rounds. She shot a 77 and a 73 Monday to put her in a tie for 22nd place after the first day of competition, but a 73 on Tuesday allowed her to
Junior Heather Ciskowski plays at the fourth annual Minnesota Invitational on Tuesday at the Minikahda Club.
finish the tournament in a tie for 13th place. It was the first top-20 finish for Wu in her college career. Wu said she was nervous to star t the tournament, but as time went on she began to relax. “It’s not about the swing,” she said. “It is about the confidence.” Minnesota was consistent throughout on the team side of the tour nament. The Gophers were in ninth place through the first two rounds and ended the meet ninth after a third round score of 307. Pur due and Fur man shared the team title of the tournament and both teams shot an 18-over-par. The Gophers tee of f again Sept. 23. While they’ve had some individual success, there’s also
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WOMEN’S GOLF RESULTS
TEAM T1 Furman T1 Purdue 3 Texas 4 Wisconsin 5 TCU 12 Minnesota
GOLFER Ciskowski Wu Peronnin Garrison Heggerston
RD1 299 293 296 306 298 306
RD2 297 298 294 293 296 294
RD3 286 291 301 293 301 307
FINAL 882 882 891 892 895 907
RD1 74 77 78 77 80
RD2 69 73 75 77 81
RD3 74 73 78 82 82
FINAL 217 223 231 236 243
*out of 17 teams
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
plenty to lear n from the meet from the team standpoint. “On the other side of it, we’ve obviously got some work to do,” Redman said. “We just had a little rust, and it’s the first tournament of the year.”
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Junior Heather Ciskowski, right, talks to head coach Michele Redman before her swing at the fourth annual Minnesota Invitational on Tuesday at the Minikahda Club.
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Drunk driving decreases in Minn. and U
Taking a page from the state
The University has seen its dr unk driving
NUMBER OF DRUNK DRIVING-RELATED DEATHS IN MINNESOTA PER YEAR 164
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2015
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COLLEGE STUDENTS WHO REPORTED BINGE DRINKING* 42
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1995
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1994
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numbers decline in similar fashion to the state as a whole. “It’s a change in culture,” Berger said. “People don’t believe that dr unk driving is OK.” In 2015, ther e wer e 95 dr unk-driving related deaths in Minnesota — and for the past five years, dr unk driving-related deaths in Minnesota have been generally decreasing. Still, enforcement and educational efforts are not a per fect solution; dr unk driving deaths increased in 2015, from 88 to 95, compared to the year before. Berger said by continuing to use education and enforcement campaigns to highlight the dangers of drunk driving, people will continue to become more aware of the issue. Repeated of fenses for DWIs are also less frequent, as more than 50 percent of DWI ar rests in 2015 were first-time offenders. “I believe people drive
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NUMBER OF DWI ARRESTS BY THE UMPD PER YEAR
2012
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For students that have been ar rested for drinking and driving, the DWI and Alcohol Awareness Class at Boynton usually qualifies for probationar y requirements, Golden said. The class discusses the ef fects of alcohol and the impact of alcohol abuse. “[The class] is a good time to go through screening to see if there’s other more serious issues related to alcohol,” he said. “For some folks, it’s a bad decision and bad outcome.” Last year, about 34 percent of students aged 18 to 24 engaged in high-risk drinking, according to a Boynton Health Ser vices sur vey. “This [University] is a tough school for students,” Golden said. “But students who go here have the proven ability to be successful. Usually when people have trouble, it’s stuf f like this. It’s not the rigor, it’s the thing associated with life, like highrisk drinking or physical conditions and mental health.” But getting students involved in treatment programs and raising awareness about drunk driving can help curb issues before they occur, said University spokesman T im Busse. “This is the result of some really good public awareness campaigns,” he said. “It shows why we have so few student DWIs on campus because it’s known to be doing something.”
“I believe people drive drunk many times before they get caught,” Berger said. “Each time that they do it, it kind of enforces in their mind that it’s OK. The problem is people make that choice after they’ve been drinking, so they’re not clearheaded when they’re making the choice to drive.”
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Driving
*Five or more drinks in a row in pervious two weeks SOURCE: MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, UMPD, NIDA drunk many times before they get caught,” Berger said. “Each time that they do it, it kind of enforces in their mind that it’s OK. The problem is people make that choice after they’ve been drinking,
so they’re not clearheaded when they’re making the choice to drive.” Still, 60 percent of firsttime of fenders do not receive another DWI, she said.
In the end, however, some of the blame for dr unk driving deaths is attributed to the amount of driving deaths in general. “What happens with drunk driving is it tends
to be a steady percentage of overall traf fic deaths,” Berger said. “Traffic deaths, themselves, increased in 2015 … 23 percent of those deaths were dr unk drivingrelated.”
University researchers release 3-D elevation maps The images they released could inform climate change research. BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com
In the past year, a small team of University of Minnesota researchers compiled 3-D maps of Alaska to help understand and combat climate change. The University’s Polar Geospatial Center (PCG), Ohio State University and Cor nell University used satellite images to form topographical maps of the region, which they released this month — almost a year after President Obama’s
call to protect the Arctic wilderness and increase scientific obser vations of the region. The 3-D digital elevation models help researchers monitor erosion and water flow and study permafrost collapse and geological mapping, said Claire Porter, Polar Geospatial Center research fellow and remote sensing scientist. Porter said similar maps of the entire Arctic will be released in stages throughout the coming year. “I’m not even sure what all people are going to do with this,” Porter said. “So we made it so they can be creative and come up with things.” While photos collected
from aircraft can have higher resolutions, they often cost more and are restricted to certain times of the year, said Paul Morin, director of University’s Polar Geospatial Center. Meanwhile, satellite images offer an easy method of data collection with less shadow interference, said Joe Knight, a forest resources associate professor. “We need to be able to study the ear th and … what’s on the surface of the ear th and how it’s changing,” Knight said. For example, the maps show permafrost collapse, a melting and collapsing of ice caused by releases of the greenhouse gas methane, said Mike Willis,
research associate and professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. “The temperature especially in the Arctic region is increasing much faster than the rest of the planet,” Knight said. Stages of supercomputing Because the University team had only six to seven people, each member was critical to the project, Morin said. “If there had been a larger team, there’s always someone behind them to back them up,” he said. To process the satellite images with so much data, the team used the National Center for Supercomput-
ing Applications’ Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one of the world’s most powerful computers. Without borrowing time from the computer online, the team wouldn’t be able to work across universities on the same scale. Computer time replaced funding for the researchers, Morin said. Only around 30 projects are allowed on the computer at a given time. “We think it’s the fifth fastest computer on the planet — you have to use it in a certain way. It’s very delicate,” Willis said. Morin said the researchers will start their efforts to release images of the whole
Arctic with low-resolution shots and make their way to more exact images. Once data is collected from satellite images at eight meters, the team decides if it was a high enough quality to make a two meter image, Willis said. Usually images of the Arctic and other regions are taken at 19 to 30 meters, but the PGC and its collaborators will be the first to map such a large area at two meters, Willis said. He said one of the biggest challenges has been time constraints. “The topography is beautiful to look at,” Willis said. “It’s visually striking to me, and it would be great to have more time do it.”
Plan divvies up desert for conservation and energy projects BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Swaths of public land in the California desert will be opened to solar and wind farms under a federal plan released Wednesday that preserves much of the landscape for conservation and recreation. The long-awaited blueprint finalized by the U.S. Interior Department after a yearslong process seeks to balance renewable energy development and species protection on 17,000 square miles (44,030 sq. kilometers) of desert managed by the federal government. The plan drew sharp criticism from clean-energy producers who warned it would severely limit development. The California desert — a mix of sand dunes, jagged canyons and colorful rock formations — stretches 350 miles (563 kilometers) from Owens Valley east of the Sierra Nevada to near the Mexican border. Home to the threatened deser t tor toise, bighor n sheep and other animals, its vastness and ample
sunshine make it an attractive hotspot for sprawling solar, wind and geothermal plants. The plan would allow construction on 606 square miles (1,569 sq. kilometers) of public land away from ecologically sensitive habitats. Developers who propose projects in the zone would get preferential treatment. Another 717 squar e miles (1,857 sq. kilometers) would also be potentially open to clean-energy development, but companies would have to jump over more hurdles to get projects approved. The majority of federal deser t land would be of flimits to development, with government land managers designating 10,200 square miles (26,418 sq. kilometers) for conser vation and 5,617 square miles (14,548 sq. kilometers) for recreation. Environmental groups generally suppor ted the plan, saying it safeguards scenic desert vistas and corridors that allow animals to move within their habitat.
“We can have a strong clean-energy economy while protecting nature,” said Erica Brand of the Nature Conservancy. The renewable energy industr y said it was disappointed that more land wasn’t made available for development. The federal government “missed a golden opportunity,” Tom Kimbis, acting president of the Solar Energy Industries Association said in a statement. “This plan permanently locks up some of our greatest untapped solar and wind resources, and chooses regulation over innovation and progress.” Wind energy advocates said the dozen wind projects under construction on public land when the plan was being formed are now defunct and many developers have fled the state. “This plan will largely end wind energy development in California,” Nancy Rader, executive director of the California Wind Energy Association, said in a statement. The tension between the
renewable energy industry and conser vation groups was highlighted in the development of the Ivanpah solar plant, which opened in 2014 on roughly 5 square miles (13 sq. kilometers) of federal land near the California-Nevada border. An environmental group unsuccessfully sued the federal government in an attempt to stop construction that displaced desert tor toises. In the end, the developers spent more than $20 million to relocate the animals. The rush to the desert comes amid ambitious climate goals set by the federal government and the state. California is on track to meet a state goal of having a third of its energy come from renewable sources by 2020. It recently set a higher bar to generate half of its electricity from the sun, wind or geothermal power by 2030. President Barack Obama has called on the Interior Department to approve renewable energy projects that generate 20,000 megawatts of power on public
land by 2020. Since 2009, the department has signed off on 59 large-scale renewable energy projects on federal land in the West including 35 solar plants, 11 wind farms and 13 geothermal projects. State and federal officials said the newly carved California development zone should help reach both goals. During a signing ceremony Wednesday at a national monument near Palm Springs, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said it took a “village effort” to draw up the plan. Work began in 2008 during a time when developers armed with gover nment subsidies were eyeing the Mojave Deser t and elsewhere to erect solar panels and wind turbines. State and federal energy and wildlife agencies tasked with creating the road map consulted with environmentalists, developers, scientists, American Indian tribes and others. A draft plan was released in 2014 covering 22 million acres of public and private land that sought to bring
order to the green building boom. Planners decided to tackle the public land por tion first and are currently working with several counties to pinpoint private deser t land suitable for clean-energy projects and other areas for conser vation. The Center for Biological Diversity called the latest plan a positive step but said it doesn’t do enough to conserve wildlife habitat. The lands eyed for development are either already disturbed or considered less valuable from an ecological perspective. By confining the renewable energy industry to regions that are less controversial, land managers said companies should have an easier time pushing projects through while facing less resistance from environmental groups. “This gives more certainty” to developers, said Jerr y Perez, state director of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, adding that companies will still have to get permits and do environmental reviews.
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Arboretum director ready for new role Peter Moe will become the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum director Sept. 16. BY RYAN FAIRCLOTH rfaircloth@mndaily.com
Growing up in Richfield, Minnesota, Peter Moe — soon-to-be director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum — often gardened with his mother. His admiration for hor ticulture deepened in high school at one of his first jobs in the field: a garden center. “I already knew I was interested in hor ticulture … and then I decided to enroll at the University of Minnesota in the horticulture science depar tment,” Moe said. On Friday, Moe will become the director of the place where he worked as an undergraduate in 1973. Brian Buhr, dean of the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, said he elected Moe, who was previously the interim director, because of his experience with the arboretum, and his hor ticulture background. “His learning cur ve is virtually zero,” Buhr said. He said one challenge for Moe will be maintaining the qualities that draw people to the arboretum. “He’s got his hands full with both that managerial side, and then how do you move programmatically ahead,” Buhr said. Moe said while keeping up the arboretum’s grounds is a priority for him, he’s also
PETER MOE AND THE U OF M 1973 Started working at the Arboretum as a student gardener 1975 Received bachelor’s degree in horticulture 1981 Received master’s degree in agriculture 1991 Began as director of operations and research at the Arboretum January 2016 Began serving as Interim Director of the Arboretum Sept. 2016 Will serve as director of the University of Minnesota’s Landscape Arboretum SOURCE: COLLEGE OF FOOD, AGRICULTURAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE SCIENCES, MN DAILY REPORTING
looking toward new projects. One of those projects, the Tashjian Bee and Pollinator Discovery Center, will open Sunday. The center will provide education and outreach on bee research through means such as classes and interactive exhibits, Moe said. “We’ll be of fering programs about how important bees and other pollinators are for K-12 classes, as well as adults and even professional bee keepers,” he said. In addition to overseeing the new bee center, Moe said he wants to increase student engagement and the arboretum’s diversity.
Future director of the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, Peter Moe, poses for a portrait on Wednesday.
“We definitely would like to have students involved in a bigger way here at the arboretum,” he said. To do this, Moe said they’ll need to solve the issue of transportation. “It’s a great place for students to engage, but we understand too that … it is, I think, about 30 miles from campus,” Buhr said. “It’s tough to access.” As for solutions, Moe said they are in talks with SouthWest Transit to pos-
sibly route buses between the arboretum and the University. But bringing in more visitors will present another challenge for the arboretum. Todd Wagner, president of the arboretum foundation’s board of trustees, said they hit maximum capacity for visitors last Mother’s Day. “There’s been tremendous growth in visitorship, and the population of the Twin Cities … continues to grow,” he said.
Wagner said attracting more people to the arboretum, while also having the capacity to do so, is something they’ll need to address. “The question will need to be answered in the strategic plan on how much more development or enhancement can occur at the arboretum, and how many visitors can it suppor t comfor tably?” he said. Moe said one of the main problems caused by the
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large holiday turnout has been parking. To combat this, he said they’re looking to utilize alternate parking areas, as well as implementing a shuttle service from other lots. But apar t from the logistics of the job, Moe said working at the arboretum is simply “fun.” “It really means a lot to m e t o c r e a t e t h e s e beautiful experiences and educational experiences for people,” he said.
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broad, said Colin Campbell, FCC chair and pharmacology professor. “I know our grad students feel like they’re left out,” Campbell said. “It is an inherently complex and disorganized grouping of individuals.” But it wasn’t always that way, said Joseph Konstan, FCC vice chair and computer science and engineering pr ofessor. The disorganization came
after the University’s elimination of its overarching graduate school in 2009, he said. Before it shut down, the graduate school had a governing body, where graduate students were admitted, enrolled and received their degrees, Konstan said. Now, that body is segmented by each academic department. “When all that was dissolved as a par t of the graduate school going away, the question was, where is that governance going to come from?” Kon-
stan said. “The Graduate Education Council took some piece of that, but that’s an advisor y group to the dean, and it doesn’t have a lot of policy authority.” Lanyon said graduate education issues keep arising, like whether the school was preparing students for a wide enough variety of careers, or how to effectively advise graduate students. Campbell said the FCC is debating whether they should create a new Senate committee of graduate
students, potentially including post-doctoral students. Three years ago the office of Academic Af fairs and Provost and the FCC recommended that a senate committee on graduate education be formed, Lanyon said. “That was considered, and instead it was thought to have SCEP really focus more time on graduate education,” he said. “That’s where it stood until last year.” Sue W ick, professor of plant biology and chair
of SCEP, said a str ucture hasn’t been finalized, but she would like to reconfigure SCEP to include subcommittees for graduate, undergraduate and professional students. She said when there are decisions specific to a cer tain educational demographic, the cor responding subcommittee —undergraduate, graduate or professional students — would resolve it; when University-wide decisions are debated, representatives from all three subcommittee would be
present at the meetings, providing more perspective. Campbell said if a Senate vote were to happen, it wouldn’t be until spring. Nicholas Goldsmith, graduate student and Council of Graduate Students president, said he would like to have a subcommittee for graduate and postdoctoral students because undergraduates are centralized during policy-making. “To craft good policy it’s good to consider both perspectives,” he said.
Routine patrol turns South African park kills 350 hippos, to horror as car buffalos amid drought plows into police BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
PHOENIX — Thr ee Phoenix police officers, including a rookie on his first night on patrol, were taking a break in front of a convenience store when they became the target of an attack. A car barreled across the parking lot toward the officers, slamming into two of them and smashing into the front of the store. An officer who escaped getting hit ran up to the car and pulled out the driver. A struggle ensued. The rookie officer, reeling from a head injury after the careening car sent him flying through the air, managed to deploy a stun gun to disable the man. The attack Tuesday left authorities searching for answers about the driver’s motivations and decr ying it as an unprovoked assault on both police and public safety. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomer y said Wednesday. “When someone targets a police officer, it places the entire community at risk.” Two officers suffered serious injuries, but both have been released from the hospital. A judge has ordered Marc LaQuon Payne to stay behind bars on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal damage and resisting arrest. Payne, whom police said
seemed impaired by drugs or alcohol, could face more charges when the results of a blood analysis come back, Sgt. Jonathan Howard said. Payne didn’t have an attorney who could comment on the allegations when he appeared in court Tuesday night after being treated at a hospital. Cour t documents describe Payne as a transient. He has not provided investigators with a motive, Howard said. The attack comes during an especially violent year for police officers nationwide, including separate deadly attacks in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Dallas over the summer. Phoenix Police Chief Joseph Yahner denounced the crash as a “violent, intentional act” in which officers were targeted. Authorities released a store sur veillance video that shows a vehicle backing out of a parking space, circling the parking lot and then speeding toward the officers. The rookie officer is thrown several feet in the air and hits the front windshield of the car. Deputy County Attorney April Sponsel said during Tuesday’s brief cour t hearing that Payne should be jailed without bond because he attacked officers and posed a threat. She said the public and police needed to be protected “from individuals such as this, individuals who coldly attack officers.”
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JOHANNESBURG — Rangers in South Africa’s biggest wildlife park are killing about 350 hippos and buf falos in an attempt to relieve the impact of the region’s most severe drought in more than three decades. The numbers of hippos and buffalos in Kruger National Park, about 7,500 and 47,000 respectively, are at their highest level ever, according to the national parks service. Officials plan to distribute meat from the killed animals to poor communities on the park’s perimeter. The drought has left millions of people across several countries in need of food aid. Hippos and buffalos consume large amounts of vegetation, and many animals are expected to die anyway because of the drought, said Ike Phaahla, a parks service spokesman. A drought in the early 1990s reduced Kruger park’s buffalo population by more than half to about 14,000, but the population rebounded. Rangers are targeting hippos in “small natural pools where they have concentrated in unnatural high densities, defecate in the water, making it unusable to other animals,” Phaahla wrote in an email to The Associated Press. Parks officials have described drought as a natural way of regulating wildlife populations. Earlier this year, they said they didn’t
plan any major inter vention to try to save wild species in Kruger park, but the drought’s impact intensified. Hippos are in particular trouble because they can’t feed as widely as other animals, returning to water by day after grazing by night. The hippo species in Kruger park is not defined as endangered, though it faces threats from poaching and human encroachment elsewhere in Africa. There are large populations of buffalos in parts of the continent. South Africa’s parks ser vice stopped killing elephants to reduce overpopulation in 1994, partly because of public opposition. Around 1900, hunting had cleared out elephants in the area that became Kruger park. Today, there are an estimated 20,000 elephants there. Poachers killed 36 elephants this year in the park, raising concerns that the Africa-wide slaughter of elephants for their ivor y is finally affecting South Africa. Poachers have already killed large numbers of rhinos in the park, which borders Zimbabwe and Mozambique and is almost the size of Israel. Generations ago, an estimated 15,000 people lived in the area that was of ficially proclaimed as Kruger park in 1926. Some communities were removed from the wildlife reser ve under white minority rule at that time.
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CROSSWORD Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 13, 15, 2016 Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
HOROSCOPES Today’s Birthday (9/15): Your personal influence expands this year, proving especially profitable. Use your talents to further a passion. Grow your family nest egg. Change directions with a partnership later this month.
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Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 5 — Keep commitments and handle responsibilities on time. Start with basic facts and rules. All is not as it appears.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Highenergy activities have your attention. Keep your promises, and take refreshing pauses. Old assumptions get challenged.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Work with friends on a shared dream. Envision it accomplished and done. Schedule regular communication with your partners and team.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Relax and enjoy time with family and friends. Hide out, maybe. Sell stuff you don’t need. Stifle rebellious tendencies, to keep the peace.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Professional visions and dreams tempt, and there’s a challenge. Prepare for a test. Clarify your objectives and list potential costs and problems.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Make a surprising discovery at home. You understand more than ever now. Get expert ideas on managing a domestic change.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Expand your boundaries. Get outside of your normal terrain and explore. Speculate and visualize perfection.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Intellectual exercises and puzzles come easily. You’re especially clever. You can figure out and learn whatever you need.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Financial matters have your attention. Keep accounts current, and revise budgets. Work out priorities with your partner.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Cash flow velocity increases. There’s more coming in and going out. Track it to keep it positive. Avoid parking tickets or unnecessary expense.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Share the load today and tomorrow, while maintaining responsibility. Keep track of the big picture. Rely on someone else’s experience. Compromise.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Take charge of your destiny. You’re ready to make changes for the better. Ask for what you want, and follow through with necessary actions.
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CLASSIFIEDS Dear Dr. Date,
My boyfriend still thinks that Axe Body Spray is an acceptable cologne choice for a college junior. Every single time he sprays that aerosol-based libido killer, he thinks I am turned into some wobbly-legged damselin-distress who can only be saved by his seventh-grade-scented action hero ego. I guess advertising works better than I thought. I’ve tried to push him toward some more adult-oriented fragrances, but every time I try, he brushes me off. Trust me,one more sniff of his “cologne” is not going to turn me into a ‘50s sex-crazed housewife who will bake him an apple pie as foreplay.
—“Scent”sually Frustrated Dear Scent,
Part of me wants to tell you that it shouldn’t matter what kind of cologne he wears because a good personality should trump any kindergarten-esque
style inadequacies. But, it seems like you are in a relationship where he doesn’t value your opinion. If you two had sat down, talked about his ill-fated attempts at being Johnny Depp in the new Dior commercial and he told you that wearing Axe made him happy, then I would have suggested you learn to love the scent. However, it sounds like he has gleaned some macho complex from the 30-second spots on TV showing women crawling all over Axe’s supposed customers. I would take one more opportunity to sit down with him and talk about the issue. If he doesn’t respect your complaints, then you need to dump his over-fragranced ass. If he is willing to reconsider, then I would suggest you two run to the nearest Nordstrom and find him a cologne that doesn’t make the rest of us have acid flashbacks to the boy’s locker room in grade school.
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