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WOODSTOCK, BELOVED THERAPY CHICKEN, DIES AT 10 PAGE 10
■■ In captivity, primates lose good gut bacteria
ONE OF THE ‘PAWS’ FOUNDERS DIED THIS MONTH.
■■ Gophers volleyball sweeps home tournament
U scientists studied monkeys in St. Paul and Vietnam. PAGE 6
The team played three matches over the weekend. PAGE 4
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Graduate student-parents struggle to find affordable child care.
U will not spend taxpayer, tuition funds on faculty union legal fees The University told the Daily that they will cover legal fees using other revenue sources. BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Annabelle Stalboerger reads to her two children, 18-month-old E.J. and 5-year-old Clara, on Thursday at their home in Sartell, Minnesota. Stalboerger’s fiance, University of Minnesota third-year law student Edward “Teddy” Fleming, testified in March to help pass a bill to modify child care grant eligibility to include graduate students.
Despite state subsidies, rising child care costs an enduring burden BY RAJU CHADUVULA AND RILYN EISCHENS rchaduvula@mndaily.com, reischens@mndaily.com
W ith child care costs doubling in the last 25 years, student-parents are seeking additional resources to help pay their bills. In the spring, after professional and graduate studentparents lobbied the Minnesota legislature, a law was passed opening child care grant funds to all postsecondar y students in need. The amount, $2,800 per year, is provided by Minnesota’s Postsecondar y Child Care Grant. But average child care costs in Minnesota amount to a hefty $12,500 each calendar year. And to make matters more complicated, the University of Minnesota’s child care service for faculty, staff and students — offered through the Child Development Center — has been plagued by a waitlist for
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
5-year-old Clara watches her 18-month-old E.J. color on Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 at their home in Sartell, MN. UMN student Edward “Teddy” Fleming, back left, testified in March to help a bill pass to modify child care grant eligibility.
decades. Minnesota’s grant subsidizes child care costs for those parents attending a college or university in the state, said Ginny Dodds, manager of the State Grant program in the Minnesota Of fice of Higher
Education. Before this year, the funds were exclusively for low-income undergraduate students. Members of the Council of Graduate Students and the Professional Student Government researched the program
and found there were usually large sums of money left unused. Dodds said that although the government eased eligibility requirements several times, the program ran a surplus of about $1 million in most fiscal years. “There was enough money in the state’s budget to be involving graduate and professional students, so it didn’t make sense to exclude those groups,” said PSG President Max Hall, adding that it’s especially impor tant when those students are more likely to have families and higher debt loads. The program will continue to receive about $6.4 million in state funding each year, which is dispersed throughout all of the University’s coordinate campuses, Dodds said. The schools are responsible for deciding which students receive money and how much, she said. Students qualify for the maximum award — $2,800 — if their household income is
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Islamophobia, CVE spotlighted by protest Hundreds congregated outside Mayday Books on Saturday to raise awareness about CVE. BY KACEY HOLMEN kholmen@mndaily.com
About 200 demonstrators marched through Minneapolis’ West Bank Saturday to rally against Islamophobia. Beginning around 1 p.m., demonstrators met outside Mayday Books for opening speeches. After ward, they marched to the Republican Par ty of Minnesota headquar ters on Franklin Avenue and chanted phrases including, “No racist war,” “No war no more” and “Defend our civil rights.” The demonstration began with about 200 people and surged to 250 throughout the march, with passers-by joining in. “This is an impor tant protest. People came out of their homes to join the march, and that’s a power ful thing,” u See MARCH Page 5
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Protesters high-five a spectating woman as they pass during the march against Islamophobia on Cedar Avenue on Saturday.
The University of Minnesota won’t use taxpayer and tuition money to pay for legal fees incurred in connection with faculty unionization efforts, school officials said. The Minnesota Daily repor ted last week that the University used more than $500,000 from a fund of tuition and state money to pay for an outside law firm as it clashed with faculty union supporters in court. After Thursday’s stor y, University officials said legal fees associated with union efforts won’t come from accounts funded by federal, state or tuition money. The University will also review records from fiscal year 2016 to ensure that no taxpayer or tuition money is used to cover legal fees from the unionization push, according to an emailed statement from the University. Additionally, money already taken from the state and tuition fund to pay the University’s fees for external counsel will be returned to the account, said University Interim Vice President and CFO Michael Volna. He said he’s unsure why the money was pulled from that account for the fees. The five invoices from the law firm Fredrikson and Byron, totaling nearly $515,000 between March and mid-July, were discovered by the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group through a public records request. The group released its findings Wednesday. The disclosure angered some state legislators, who said the University should not be using public and student money to fight union efforts at the school. “It is a ver y poor use of money that students use for an education,” Rep. Bud Nornes, R-Fergus Falls, chair of the House Higher Education Policy and Finance Committee, told the Daily last week. “Legal fees should be a separate fund.” The Ser vice Employees International Union (SEIU) filed for a faculty election in Januar y with the Bureau of Mediation Services. u See FEES Page 2
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Slashed budgets push UW faculty to Minnesota In Wisconsin, some profs have left the system due to shrinking state funding, tenure changes. BY KEVIN BECKMAN kbeckman@mndaily.com
Christina Ewig and her husband Will Jones each spent 11 years teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. But shrinking state funding to the UW system and the adoption of controversial new tenure policies by the school’s Board of Regents led Ewig and Jones — part of a group of faculty members who have fled Wisconsin to work at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere — to consider other job offers. “In many ways, being at UW Madison was a dream job for both of us,” Jones said. “We had, in the past, been asked to consider other options [at other schools], and we never really took them seriously.” Ewig accepted an offer to be faculty director of the Center on Women, Gender, and Public Policy in the University’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She started this fall. Jones, a history professor, also came to Minnesota in the fall for a position in the University’s Department of History. u See PROFS Page 8
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STATE REPORT MINNESOTA MAN FREED AFTER DECADE IN PRISON FOR 1979 KILLING MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota man says freedom from prison is “wonder ful” after ser ving a decade behind bars for a 1979 murder he says he did not commit. Ter r y Olson, 57, was released from Faribault Cor rectional Facility on Tuesday. Olson received credit for time ser ved, but did not receive a legal declaration that he did not commit murder, the Star Tribune reported. Olson was convicted in 2007 in Wright County of killing Jef f Hammill, whose body was found on a road outside of Buffalo, Minnesota, in August 1979. Olson’s attor neys and the Innocence Project of Minnesota fought for his release. He faced seven more years in prison and said he accepted the deal that freed him so he could help his mother, who lives in a Twin Cities nursing home. “I’m ecstatic for Terr y and his family,” said Julie Jonas, legal director of the Innocence Project of Minnesota, who estimated that about 3,000 hours of legal time were spent on the case. “It’s been one of the best weeks in my life.” In an inter view Friday in his lawyer’s Minneapolis of fice, Olson said that prison “was lonely” and his incarceration “was a nightmare.” “I’m innocent of a crime that in all likelihood never occur red. You feel like you’re standing on top of Mount Everest screaming for help, and nobody’s listening,” Olson said. B u t Wr i g h t C o u n t y Attor ney Tom Kelly said Friday he continues to believe Olson was guilty of killing Hammill. “I don’t have a hard time sleeping at night,” Kelly said. The prosecutor said his of fice agreed to Olson’s release because he had already ser ved more time than he would have faced under 1980 sentencing guidelines. Hammill’s mother agreed to Olson’s release, Kelly said. ASSOCIATED PRESS
UMN clarifies source of legal fees funding Fees u from Page 1
The University has publically disclosed that it hired external counsel for its court battle with union supporters, who have tangled with the school since March over which faculty members could be included in a union vote. Experts and the University say it is common for institutions to use outside legal counsel for union organizing procedures where there has been a push to unionize. In this case, the
Chris Aadland contributed to this report.
Authorities call NYC explosion a bombing, say motive unknown BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Investigators scrambled Sunday to find out who planted a bomb that rocked a bustling New York City neighborhood, scouring shrapnel, forensic traces and sur veillance video for any link to an unexploded pressure-cooker device found just blocks away. Hours after the Saturday night blast that injured 29 people in Manhattan, there seemed to be more questions than answers. All the injured had been released from the hospital by Sunday afternoon. “We just know there was a bombing,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at briefing at New York Police Department’s headquarters. “That much we do know.” Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who toured the site of the blast in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, said there didn’t appear to be any link to international terrorism. He said a second device found blocks away from the bombing appeared “similar in design” to the first. That device — described by a law enforcement official as a pressure cooker with wires and a cellphone attached to it — was removed early Sunday by a bomb squad robot and was being examined by forensic experts. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing investigation. Homemade pressure cooker bombs were used in the Boston Marathon attacks in 2013 that killed three people and injured more than 260. The Manhattan blast followed a pipe bomb explosion earlier Saturday in Seaside Park, New Jersey, before the start of a charity 5K race to benefit Marines and sailors. The devices contained different materials and didn’t appear to be connected, officials said, but added that they weren’t ruling anything out yet. The race was canceled and no one was injured.
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University said external lawyers were necessar y to combat SEIU’s “unprecedented request to create a bargaining unit that does not conform to state law.” Supporters of a union say the law firm was hired to help thwart their efforts. “These one-time costs are necessar y for the University to fully address the complex legal and practical issues involved in this issue,” the University’s Office of the General Counsel said in an emailed statement Wednesday.
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Man stabs 9 at St. Cloud mall, killed by cop BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. CLOUD, Minn. — A man in a private security uniform stabbed nine people at a Minnesota shopping mall, reportedly asking one victim if they were Muslim before an off-duty police officer shot and killed him in an attack the Islamic State group claimed as its own. None of the nine people who were stabbed in Saturday night’s attack received life-threatening wounds, St. Cloud police Chief Blair Anderson said. He said it doesn’t appear that anyone else was involved in the attack at the Crossroads Center in St. Cloud, which began at around 8 p.m. and was over within minutes. At a news conference Sunday, FBI Special Agentin-Charge Rick Thornton said the attack was being investigated as a possible act of terrorism and that agents were still digging into the attacker’s background and possible motives. An Islamic State-r un news agency, Rasd, claimed Sunday that the attacker was a “soldier of the Islamic State” who had heeded the group’s calls for attacks in countries that are part of a U.S.-led anti-IS coalition. It was not immediately clear if the extremist group had planned the attack or even knew about it beforehand. IS has encouraged so-called “lone wolf” attacks. It has also claimed past attacks that are not believed to have been planned by its central leadership. Authorities didn’t identify the attacker, but the Star Tribune of Minneapolis said the man’s father identified him as Dahir A. Adan, 22, a student at St. Cloud Technical and Community College. Speaking to the newspaper through an interpreter, Ahmed Adan, whose family is Somali, said his son was born in Africa and had lived in the U.S. for 15 years. He said police told him at around 9 p.m. Saturday that his son had died at the mall, and that police had raided the family’s apar tment, seizing photos and other materials. He said police said nothing to him
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about the mall attack, and that he had “no suspicion” that his son had been involved in terrorist activity, the newspaper reported. Anderson said police had had three previous encounters with the attacker, mostly for minor traffic violations. According to Anderson, the attacker, dressed in a security uniform and wielding what appeared to be a kitchen knife, began attacking people right after entering the mall, stabbing people in several spots inside the building, including corridors, businesses and common areas. Five minutes after authorities received the first 911 call, Jason Falconer, a part-time officer in the city of Avon, shot and killed the attacker, whose name hasn’t been released. Anderson said Falconer fired as the attacker was lunging at him with the knife, and continued to engage him as the attacker got up three times. “He clearly prevented additional injuries and potential loss of life,” Anderson said. “Of ficer Falconer was there at the right time and the right place,” he said. Anderson earlier said the man reportedly made at least one reference to Allah and asked a victim if they were Muslim before attacking them. The attack in St. Cloud, a a city of about 65,000 people 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of Minneapolis, began shortly after an explosion in a crowded New York City neighborhood injured 29 people. A suspicious device was found a few blocks away and safely removed. Hours before that, a pipe bomb exploded in Seaside Park, New Jersey, shor tly before thousands of runners were due to participate in a charity 5K race. There was no immediate indication that the incidents were linked. The mall remained closed Sunday. Of the nine victims — seven men, a woman and a 15-year-old girl — three remained hospitalized, officials said.
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Despite aid, child care expenses endure Care u from Page 1
at or below 185 percent of the federal pover ty guidelines, she said. Still, for 12 months of child care, the average cost is more than four times the maximum amount of aid allocated.
With rising costs, families feel financial burden
In some cases, parents pay more for day care than they do for their schooling. According to the Economic Policy Institute, average child care costs in Minnesota exceeded that of in-state tuition at public universities in 2014. Law student Edwar d Fleming has two children and commutes to the University from St. Cloud. He said that on top of tuition, his child care expenses range anywhere from $1,200 to $1,500 ever y month. In the spring, Fleming testified in front of the Minnesota Senate, advocating for an amendment to the grant. He testified that al though he and his fiancé — who works a full-time job — may be in a better financial position than other students, and while he’s able to take out extra loans for child care
STUDENT PARENTS IN MINNESOTA The average annual cost of child care in Minnesota is $12,500
2 in 5 African American students are parents
1 in 3 Native American students are parents
1 in 4 Hispanic or Latino students are parents
1 in 5 white students are parents SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PROFESSIONAL STUDENT GOVERNMENT
expenses, they still barely get by as costs add up. Last Thursday, Fleming was denied a grant because students are only eligible for funds during the first four years of graduate school, which he had surpassed. Murid Amini, father of a six-month-old, also testified to the legislature, and said any suppor t studentparents can get for child care helps. Amini, who graduated in the spring with a Master of Business Administration, said the grant would
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Eighteen-month-old E.J. eats a snack with his parents Annabelle Stalboerger and Edward “Teddy” Fleming on Thursday at their home in Sartell, Minnesota. UMN third year law student Flemming testified in March to help pass a bill for child care grant eligibility to include graduate students.
make school expenses a little easier and more palatable. Advocates faced a few opponents who questioned if sharing the subsidies with professional and graduate students was as impor tant as undergraduate degrees, said Levi Bursch, a professional student
who lobbied for the child care grant change. And others prefer red that undergraduate students receive more money or be allowed to receive the grant for five years instead of the current maximum of four, Dodds said. But members of PSG urged legislators to con-
CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY
Five-year-old Clara watches her brother E.J. color on Thursday at their home in Sartell, Minnesota. Thier parents spend about $18,000 per year on child care expenses.
UN holds first-ever summit on refugees and migrants BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS — The issue of what to do about the world’s 65.3 million displaced people takes center stage at the United Nations General Assembly Monday when leaders from around the globe converge on New York for the firstever summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants. With more people forced to flee their homes than at any time since World War II, leaders and diplomats are expected to approve a document aimed at unifying the U.N.’s 193 member states behind a more coordinated approach that protects the human rights of refugees and migrants. “It’s ver y interesting because if we are able to translate that paper into a response in which many actors are going to participate, we will solve a lot of problems in emergency responses and in long-term refugee situations like the Syrian situation,” Fillipo Grandi, the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees told The Associated Press. That may prove an uphill struggle, however, as the document is not legally binding and comes at a time that refugees and migrants have become a divisive issue in Europe and the United States. A number of countries rejected an earlier draft of
the agreement that called on nations to resettle 10 percent of the refugee population each year, something that has led a number of human rights groups to criticize the document as a missed opportunity. The U.S. and a number of other countries also objected to language in the original draft that said children should never be detained, so the agreement now says children should seldom, if ever, be detained. “Instead of sharing responsibility, world leaders shirked it. The U.N. summit has been sabotaged by states acting in self-interest, leaving millions of refugees in dire situations around the world on the edge of a precipice,” Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty said in a statement. Shetty said the agreement merely kicks the can down the road by calling for separate global compacts for refugees and migrants to be adopted within two years. Secretar y-General Ban Ki-moon, whose repor t on refugees and migrants laid the basis for the summit document, said he was aware of the criticism from non-governmental groups. “While we all wish it could be a stronger outcome document ... all 193 member states had to agree on their commitment. As you will see, my report was
a strong one,” Ban said. “I hope that, as the two compacts are adopted over the coming year and a half, some stronger language and commitment and elements from the report will reappear in the course of this negotiation.” More concrete progress is expected at a followup summit on T uesday called by President Barack Obama, where at least 45 countries are expected to make pledges that are in line with U.S. goals of increasing humanitarian aid by $3 billion, doubling resettlement and increasing access to education for one million youngsters and access to employment for another million of the displaced. “You hear all around the world the U.N. hasn’t handled the refugee crisis. The way the U.N. will handle the refugee crisis is if all of us countries within the U.N. step up and dig deep and face those political headwinds that we all face, to do more, to give more, to take on a greater share of the resettlement challenge,” said Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Power said prior to the pledging summit with world leaders, Obama will host a meeting with top executives from 50 companies to discuss what the private sector can do to help address the problem.
sider how the extra money could benefit disadvantaged students who want to pursue graduate and professional degrees, Bursch said. “What it came down to is … providing equal access,” he said.
Families still struggle to find care
Fleming and Amini both said when they first came to the University, they tried looking for child care programs or financial aid but had trouble finding a sympathetic ear. “The initiative, more often than not, is on the studentparent to find out about aid,” Fleming said. Fleming and Amini, who both use child care outside of the University, said they struggled to find affordable child care programs in the area. Fleming said aside from the Student Parent HELP Center, he isn’t aware of any other campus resources for student-parents. Susan Warfield, director of the SPHC, said the HELP Center serves 200 to 300 undergraduate students and 30 to 40 graduate students each semester. She said the HELP Center also distributes information about other child care resources, such as the Como Student Community Cooperative. But direct child care is in limited
supply at the University, mostly because of legal liability. Child care is heavily licensed and regulated; the University is legally liable when it admits the care of a child, she said, and if a child is hurt on University property, that would be grounds for a potential lawsuit. The University has one primary child care facility, the University Child Development Center, Warfield said. The Child Development Center accepts a limited number of children of University faculty, staff and students, she said. “Very few students get in because the waitlists are so long,” Warfield said. The waitlist for the facility is not a new topic. According to a Minnesota Daily article from 1985, there was a waitlist for the program as it gained notice. “I can’t tell you what a good deal it is,” said Chris Brown Mahoney — a graduate student in 1985 — in the article. “When you can’t find decent child care, it’s really awful to be thinking about that all day when you really care about how your kid grows up.” War field said there are a lot more resources and suppor t programs to ease the financial tensions student-parents feel now than there were 20 years ago. “Our primar y target is the parent themselves,” she said.
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Minnesota earns three victories in Diet Coke Classic Samantha Seliger-Swenson, Alexis Hart and Sarah Wilhite were named to the All-Tournament team for the Gophers. BY TOMMY SLETTEN tsletten@mndaily.com
Minnesota had a strong showing in its home opener over the weekend, winning its three matches. The matches — victories over Nor th Dakota, Toledo and UW-Green Bay — were the last three nonconference competitions for the Gophers before Big Ten play begins. “It’s dif ferent playing at home for us because of the crowd, the support and the energy in the building,” said head coach Hugh McCutcheon. “It was great to be able to play through that and really connect with playing at home.” No. 3 Minnesota (8-1) won its first match against North Dakota Friday with a score of 3-1. Senior middle blocker Hannah Tapp electrified the Sports Pavilion crowd of 4,271 with 20 kills on the night, followed by senior outside hitter Sarah Wilhite with 14. While Minnesota cruised through the first set, the second set was not as straightfor ward. Minnesota had a litany of hitting errors and dropped the set 25-21. Despite the setback, the Gophers easily won the following two sets, with scores of 25-20 and 2518, respectively. Minnesota did not let the next morning’s early 10 a.m. start impede its momentum. The Gophers fired on all cylinders against Toledo and swept the Rockets in straight sets. Minnesota stifled its opponent in the first set, dominating Toledo with a score
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of 25-14 and hitting a matchhigh .500. Minnesota saw more competition from Toledo in the second set, but a hitting er ror by the Rockets and a kill from Tapp ended the set in favor of the Gophers 25-22. Minnesota dominated the final set 25-14. A kill from redshir t sophomore middle blocker Taylor M o r gan and a To le d o ser vice error gave Minnesota the set and match victory. Minnesota tr ounced Green Bay in the final match of the tournament Saturday evening and added another sweep to their season total. Morgan finished the match with 10 kills, tied for second on the team. “From a young age, I’ve been coming to these games, praying, hoping, that I would be able to come here and play volleyball,” Morgan said. “It’s great being here with such a great team. It’s just awesome. I’m living the dream.” Minnesota star ted the match on a 6-3 run before Green Bay bounced back to tie the set at 10, but it
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Sophomore setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson serves the ball during a game against North Dakota State at the Sports Pavilion on Friday where the Gophers won 3-1. The game was a part of the Diet Coke Classic.
didn’t last long. Junior libero Dalianliz Rosado tallied an ace, and kills fr om W ilhite and freshman outside hitter Alexis Hart closed out the set in a 25-21 Gophers victor y. The Gophers then hit
.500 in the second set en route to a 25-13 victor y. Minnesota and Green Bay traded points early on in the third set. It was not until halfway through that the Gophers took their first lead. Minnesota won the set 25-21 and the
match 3-0. Sophomore setter Samantha Seliger-Swenson was named the Diet Coke Classic tournament MVP while Har t and Wilhite were also named to the All-Tour nament Team.
“I’m excited to get going into Big Ten play,” Wilhite said. “I think ever yone is going to be coming after us but just wor r ying about our side and approaching [the game] the same way ever y time is key for us.”
SOCCER
Gophers go unbeaten in first two Big Ten matches
Minnesota held its opponents to only one goal in its first conference games. BY DOMINIC DAVIS ddavis@mndaily.com
The Gophers soccer team finished their weekend games with a win and a draw in their first two matches in the Big Ten. Associate head coach Kr ystle Seidel said getting points from both games was huge. “ We p l a y e d t w o r e ally good opponents on a national scale,” Seidel said. “[The results] are huge when they look at who they are going to put into the NCAA tour nament.” No. 10 Minnesota (7-21) claimed their first win in the Big Ten over No. 19 Ohio State (6-3-1) 3-0 at home on Sunday. Senior midfielder Josee Stiever opened the scoring in the four th minute to give Minnesota an early lead. After a few passes, Stiever found herself in a good position to score off a
rebound. “It was really a total team ef for t,” Stiever said. “It star ted with Molly Fiedler in the center of the park. She played a really great chipped ball over to [junior Kellie McGahn] on the left, and Kellie ser ved the ball in. I found myself at the right place at the time.” Ohio State goalkeeper Megan Gelder nick made four saves in the first half. The Gophers were testing Ohio State’s defense. Minnesota was awarded a penalty in the 24th minute, but the Gophers could not add to their lead. “When we made a mistake, we got right back up, and that’s one of the reasons we got such a good result today,” Stiever said. Minnesota went into halftime with a one-goal lead. In the second half, Ohio State star ted to test Minnesota senior goalie Tarah Hobbs. Hobbs made five saves to help keep the clean sheet for the Gophers. “Our outside backs do a lot of running going
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for ward to help our attack, but they also get back, cover and defend,” Hobbs said. “We frustrated them a bit because they’re not used to our high pressure.” It was a close game until the 71st minute, when Minnesota senior for ward Simone Kolander scored her ninth goal of the season of f of an assist on a through ball by junior Julianna Gernes. Junior for ward Sydney Squir es added another goal in the 86th minute, assisted by freshman defender Nikki Albrecht, to make the final score 3-0. “Ever y game poses its own way to close it out. They came fur ther out of their shape to tr y to put numbers for war d,” Seidel said. “When we could
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Gophers forward Sydney Squires finds space in the opponent’s box at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium while playing against Penn State on Friday.
win it and connect with our for wards that do really good at showing at the ball, we were able to hold it on their end and get at them a little bit.” On Friday, Minnesota played at home against No. 16 Penn State to a 1-1 draw after reaching double overtime. Penn State keeper
Amanda Dennis kept Minnesota of f the scoreboard in the first half, recording four saves. She ended the night with six saves. After a scoreless first half, junior Megan Schafer gave Penn State the lead in the 59th minute. That lead was shor t lived. Minnesota came
back with a goal less than two minutes later to even the game at 1-1. April Bockin assisted Kolander from a cor ner kick. Penn State attacked Hobbs’ goal in the second half. Hobbs made four saves in the half and finished the game with five.
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West Bank protest calls for end to CVE
ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY
Protesters march against Islamophobia and the Countering Violent Extremism program on Minnehaha Avenue on Saturday.
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said Matt Boynton, a University of Minnesota graduate student and a member of Students for a Democratic Society. The march was geared toward raising awareness against Islamophobia in the United States, protesters said. Demonstrators passed out flyers calling to end the Countering V iolent Extremism program —described as racist and Islamophobic in the group’s literature. The federal pilot program — as described by the Depar tment of Justice on its website — consists of community leaders working to “eliminate conditions that lead to alienation and violent
extremism … and reject destr uctive ideologies.” The depar tment launched the program in 2014 in Boston, Los Angeles and Minneapolis. “CVE is par t of the growing national security, and the program will continue as long as Islamophobia goes unchallenged in the media, politics and br oader American cul ture,” the handout read. The rally was also intended to raise awar eness about other social movements such as Black Lives Matter and protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline Project. Minnesotans Against Islamophobia and the Anti-War Committee co-sponsored the event. Meredith Aby-Keirstead, who said she has been an anti-war activist for over 20 years, assisted in organizing the
“I wanted to help organize for something where people could stand together so they know they wouldn’t be alone.” MEREDITH ABY-KEIRSTEAD anti-war activist
event. “I went to Cleveland to protest the Republican National Convention, and I wanted to bring that fire here to Minnesota. I wanted to help organize for something where people could stand together so they know they wouldn’t be alone,” AbyKeirstead said.
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U of M researchers study gut bacteria in primates Monkeys in captivity lose their wild gut bacteria and gain the human version. BY MELISSA STEINKEN msteinken@mndaily.com
Studies of monkey fecal matter have recently shown that captivity hurts the diversity of helpful gut bacteria in primates. To better understand what captivity does to the gut bacteria of monkeys, University of Minnesota researchers studied animals from St. Paul’s Como Park Zoo, a Singaporean wildlife conservatory and wild animals from Vietnam — using the same methods scientists use to research human diets. Jonathan Clayton, a University College of Veterinary Medicine Ph.D. student, sampled the feces of two primate species for the project — the red shanked douc and mantled howler monkey. “This is a tool for monitoring that allows us to establish if wild and
captive populations are different,” Clayton said. The tests showed monkeys in captivity lost most of their wild gut microbes and acquired less diverse, human bacteria, he said. These “microbiomes” of gut bacteria help digest food, train the immune system and protect against pathogens. Dan Knights, lead advisor on the project, said the microbiomes may have been disrupted by monkeys eating less plant fiber in captivity. A low fiber diet is the least alarming explanation, Knights said, but the change could also be an effect of migration to the West. “It makes me wonder if the bacteria we think are humans’ are just really good at competing against the others and are just harder to displace should we ever want to go back to a primitive setting,” he said. Monkeys that live in zoos are fed food substitutes — replacing plants found in their native climates — due to cost, said Dr. Micky Trent, head veterinarian at
Como Park Zoo. “They don’t thrive well in captivity,” said Tim Johnson, advisor on the project. Trent said some vegetarian primates get processed food or leaf biscuits in lieu of plants. For his research, Clayton also collected samples from monkeys at zoos across Southeast Asia, Central America and the U.S. At Vietnam’s Endangered Primate Rescue Center, which features semi-captive dwellings, primates were fed three times a day with a higher level of native plants; the mammals were left alone during lunch time, giving the redshanked doucs time to digest and rest, Clayton said. Doucs have a four-chamber stomach and only eat unripened fruit, which takes time to digest. Clayton said he was surprised to find that five of the nine doucs in captivity died from gastrointestinal-related diseases within a year of the sample collection. Johnson said these less-diverse microbiomes could also cause diseases in humans,
such as obesity and diabetes. “It’s also clear in a number of studies we have been co-evolving our gut bacteria throughout human evolution,” Knights said. According to the study, results could provide a model for further understanding effects of modernization and human migration on human diseases linked to gut bacteria. “I think just as the way it’s going in the human world, very similar in the primate world,” Clayton said. Now, University Ph.D. student Pajau Vangay, is conducting a study on immigrant populations from around the Twin Cities. She will join University advisors and West Side Community Health Ser vices to study the microbiomes of the Hmong and Karen populations in the upcoming year. “The primate study gives us a nonhuman way of looking at microbiomes,” Vangay said. “That gives us preliminar y support of why we’re even doing this immigration study.”
Nations condemn Korean nuke test BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — The United States, Japan and South Korea on Sunday roundly condemned North Korea’s recent nuclear test and called for tough new measures to fur ther isolate the communist state. Meeting on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, U.S. Secretar y of State John Ker r y and the Japanese and South Korean foreign ministers said the North Korean test earlier this month would not go unanswered. The test was Nor th Korea’s fifth and, along with recent ballistic missile launches, has been widely criticized as destabilizing to regional and international security. Kerr y said the U.S. remained deeply committed to its mutual defense obligations with Japan and South Korea and would not shirk in “rolling back the provocative, reckless behavior of” North Korea. He said the U.S., Japan, South Korea and others would “make it clear to a reckless dictator that all he is doing through his
actions is isolating his countr y, isolating his people and depriving his people of genuine economic opportunity.” “The global community will not be intimidated and will not pull back from our obligations,” Ker r y said. He called for North Korea and its leader Kim Jongun to freeze Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs immediately and return to denuclearization talks. The South Korean f o r e i g n m i n i s t e r, Yu n Byung-se, echoed Kerr y’s comments, calling North Korea’s missile and nuclear tests a “ticking time bomb” and a threat to world safety. “What we see is a looming per fect storm that may not only pounce on Northeast Asia but sweep over the entire world,” he said. The Obama administration has been nudging allies Japan and South Korea to set aside historical dif ferences and cooperate more closely in diplomacy and security as the threat posed by Nor th Kor ea intensifies.
17 soldiers killed in attack at Kashmir base BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SRINAGAR, India — Suspected rebels using guns and grenades sneaked into a crucial army base in Indian-controlled Kashmir early Sunday and killed at least 17 soldiers in the deadliest attack on a militar y base in the disputed Himalayan region in recent years, the army said. Four rebels were killed as the soldiers returned gunfire after the surprise assault before dawn on the base, located near the highly militarized Line of Control dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Loud explosions were heard and several barracks caught fire in the initial hours of the attack. Afterward, militar y helicopters hovered over the base as the army conducted what it described as “mopping up” operations. Officials said at least 30 soldiers were wounded in the attack, including about a dozen who were in critical condition. The casualties were high because a large number of soldiers were turning over
the base to new units and were stationed in tents and temporar y shelters that caught fire in the attack, the army said in a statement. The base, located in the town of Uri, west of the region’s main city of Srinagar, houses the Indian army’s regional brigade headquarters along the de facto border separating Indian- and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir. Soldiers were conducting searches in the area, but army officials said it appeared that they had killed all four rebels involved in the attack. Army of ficials said the rebels had infiltrated into the Indian side of Kashmir from the Pakistani-controlled part. Lt. Gen. Ranbir Singh, the army’s director general of military operations, said that all four gunmen killed were “foreign terrorists,” and that initial investigations suggested that they belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed, a militant group that has been active in Kashmir for more than 15 years. India blames the
outlawed group, which is based in Pakistan, for a series of attacks in the Himalayan region and Indian cities, including the attack on India’s Parliament in 2001 that brought nuclear rivals India and Pakistan to the brink of war. Singh said the gunmen were carr ying “some items that had Pakistani markings.” He said he had spoken to his Pakistani counterpart and conveyed India’s “serious concerns.” The army officials said the rebels entered the sprawling camp after crossing a stream and breaching the fencing Saturday night. What made Sunday’s attack different from earlier attacks in the region was that instead of storming into the camp, the rebels quietly entered the base and later launched their attack, said a senior army officer who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to reporters. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned the attack and tweeted, “I assure the nation that those behind this despicable
attack will not go unpunished.” Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh called an emergency meeting of top defense of ficials and blamed Pakistan for the attack. “I am deeply disappointed with Pakistan’s continued and direct suppor t to terrorism and terrorist groups,” he tweeted. Pakistan’s army said in a statement that the allegations were “unfounded and premature,” reiterating Islamabad’s stance that no infiltration is allowed from Pakistani soil. Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan, but is claimed by both in its entirety. Most people in the Indian-controlled portion favor independence or a merger with Pakistan. A militant uprising and subsequent army crackdown since 1989 have killed more than 68,000 people. India accuses Pakistan of training the militants in its territor y, then helping them to infiltrate into the Indian side. Islamabad denies the charge, saying it only gives political and diplomatic suppor t to the rebels.
Editorials & Opinions
Monday, September 19, 2016
COLUMN
A step forward, or a step to the side? Thank you for accepting my identity, but don’t use it to validate your sexism.
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hen searching for an apartment near campus, a person is often forced to choose between two extremes — do they go with the cheaplybuilt, yet ornately-furnished apar tment that’s split between eight Bacardi-binging underclassmen? Or the roach-infested nightmare with the news crew parked out front? There are maybe five apartments in the campus locale that don’t fall into either of those categories, so when one is vacant, you must move quickly — both in replying to the Craigslist ad and deciding which aspects of yourself you suppress, or heighten, to ensure you’re a good fit for any potential roommate. I had my eyes set on a two-bedroom apar tment, rooming with a female senior who’s in the University’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication, like me. The apar tment was clean, the bedroom was a decent size and the rent was right in my price range. In short, it was a gem, so I pulled out all the stops. I spoke in my email about how I’m pr etty much the same “quiet” and
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“well-behaved” kid my Catholic elementar y school teachers said I was while neatly glossing over my irregular sleep, bathroom and dishwashing schedules. When I toured the apartment, I made sure I appeared interested in her cat without engaging the pet directly. The only opinion pet owners hold above their own is that of their pet — if her cat didn’t like me, I wouldn’t have an apartment. A couple days later, I received a 1 a.m. email apologizing for wasting my time. Apparently, my potential roommate’s boyfriend wasn’t comfor table with his girlfriend rooming with a guy. My knee-jerk reaction was “Wow, this is some sexist bulls--t” — not because I was out of an apar tment for being a guy but because I received an apology over a boyfriend’s trust issues. I’d understand if my potential roommate told me she’d rather live with another girl. Growing up in a small, Catholic town, I was familiar with this attitude toward co-ed living situations: Women are pure, angelic figures while men are sex-crazed lunatics,
and the only way they’re able to coexist is through marriage and church ever y Sunday. Attitudes rooted in possessive attitudes toward women persist due to dated gender stereotypes and the desire to be perceived as proper. Was my potential roommate’s boyfriend sexist for not wanting his girlfriend to room with a guy? Maybe, maybe not. That’s not to say I’m justifying any of what happened. No matter which way you slice it, a guy’s discomfort with his girlfriend rooming with another guy is problematic at best, but the reasoning behind it of ten splinters upon closer examination. I can speculate and filter this experience through my own upbringing; even if he thought I posed some threat to his relationship, here’s the thing: I’m gay. I thought I’d encountered ever ything, but never once did I think I could use my sexuality to get something I wanted. Yet here I am, sitting in my clean, reasonably-priced, two-bedroom apartment with my female roommate and her cat, wondering if this is what progress feels like. Chance Wellnitz welcomes comments at cwellnitz@mndaily.com.
2016 U.S. GUN VIOLENCE Total gun-related incidents: 40,319 Total number of deaths: 10,345 Total number of mass shootings: 278 Data compiled by gunviolencearchive.org
GUEST COLUMN Dear campus, consider writing a guest column for the Daily. Share your perspective with your peers through our section’s newest feature. We are happy to introduce a brand new feature to the Minnesota Daily’s Editorials & Opinions page: The guest column. Each paper will highlight the perspective of a different member of our community. Whether you’re the leader of a student group on campus — or a perceptive individual that has an engaging story worth sharing — we’re looking for your voice. The new guest column section will replace the content traditionally housed in “Daily Discussion” — readers’ comments from our website, which the Minnesota Daily’s editorial board decided was not cultivating a thoughtful, productive dialogue on issues affecting our campus community. While we’ve always accepted letters to the editors from our readers, we hope this new section will serve a broader purpose. If you’re a leader of a group on campus, you could use the space to pitch your group to perspective members; or iron out misconceptions some may have about the purpose of your organization. Or, perhaps you’re a student wanting to articulate your opinion on a University policy that affects our campus community; or maybe you’d like to illicit support for a specific event that your fellow students may find important. Our hope is that this space will be a hub for discussion of important campus topics. We want our readers to be engaged, and learn from the great diversity of perspectives and lived experiences on our campus. Have an idea? Email our Editorial & Opinions editor, jthomas@mndaily.com, if you are interested in participating. We look forward to hearing from you. CONTACT THE EDITOR John Thomas jthomas@mndaily.com
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Assistance should start sooner
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s I enter my third year at the University of Minnesota, I’ve noticed that mor e and mor e students I know are turning to the Disability Resource Center (DCR) for assistance with pursuing their education. My concern, however, is that many of those that are meeting with the DRC are also over halfway done with their education. The disabilities that these students have are not recent developments: ADHD, anxiety and depression are all disorders that people can struggle with for years. Students who have to live with these disabilities often don’t realize that they have them, or in other instances, don’t consider them to be disabilities — despite the fact that they may have been a hamper on one’s academic career. While it is definitely possible to make it through college with a learning disability or mental illness, it isn’t easy without help. There are two things that need to change when it comes to disability services at the University. First, we need to educate students on what is considered a “disability.” We need to expand our definition to include mental illnesses and learning disorders — not all disabilities are
LETTER 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-T win Cities. Minnesota families have always understood the value and power of a quality education. In the 21st centur y economy, a highly educated workforce is essential to our competitiveness. When our leaders in Washington fail to suppor t students like Renée, they’re failing to suppor t the future of the middle class. I’m r unning for Congress to fight for policies that make it easier for any American who wants a college education to make that dream a reality. In Congr ess, I’ll work to alleviate the
cr ushing burden of student loans. We can begin helping future students by strengthening Pell Grants. If Pell Grants were indexed to the Consumer Price Index to keep up with rising costs, 9.2 million students would see an increase of $1,300. We should also help those who have already taken on student loan debt by allowing them to refinance their loans at a lower interest rate. The private sector should be par t of the solution, too. Across the board, we’r e seeing mor e employers of fer a new perk: student loan reimbursement. By making student loan payments par t of a benefits package, companies aren’t just helping their recr uiting and r etention ef for ts — they’r e helping grow the economy. Congress can help more companies do right by their employees by incentivizing student loan
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apparent. While the DRC already recognizes this, some students remain unaware of the fact that their struggles could be considered a disability that the DRC can provide support for. Next, we need to stress to students that they can gain accommodations for their illnesses or disorders as soon as they begin their education. Many of the people I know with disabilities struggled during their high school career, and it is apparent that they could have been much more at ease if they had received necessar y assistance. Ultimately, it is cr ucial for the University to emphasize a broader definition of the term “disability.” If we are proactive, I believe we can save students a lot of fr ustration when it comes to continuing their education in a healthy fashion. Kaylee Anderson welcomes comments at kanderson@mndaily.com.
r eimbursement with a business tax credit. This is about renewing America’s most basic bargain: if you work hard, take r esponsibility and play by the r ules, you should have the oppor tunity to succeed. For too many families like Renee’s across the District and state, the high cost of education is undermining that bargain. We simply shouldn’t accept that. And we don’t have to; we can do better for our students. As a mother of four and the daughter of a public school teacher, education is a top priority. That’s why I’ll tackle the student loan crisis head-on in Congress. Angie Craig is a former executive at a local For tune 500 company and the Democratic candidate for Congress in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District. Editor’s note: The first half of this letter was published in last Thursday’s paper due to space constraints; par ts of this letter have been rearranged for clarity purposes.
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EDITORIALS Union busting legal spending a blight on U On Thursday, the Minnesota Daily broke news that University of Minnesota administrators had spent mor e than $515,000 of state taxpayer and tuition money in its litigation against faculty unionizers. The funds, spent between Mar ch and mid-July of this year, were paid to an outside law fir m — Fredrikson & Byron — a legal counsel the University continues to work with. The use of funds in such a fashion has drawn criticism from some faculty members and state legislators, alike. Rep. Jim Davnie, DFL-Minneapolis, told the Minnesota Public Interest Research Group in a press release last week, “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 attor ney’s fees fighting the University’s own employees in exercising their right to form a union.” Hours after the Daily published its repor t, University of ficials contacted the paper via email, saying they would ensure no tuition, state or federal funds were used to pay any legal fees incur red during their continued battle with faculty union advocates in cour t. Interim V ice President and CFO, Mic h a e l Vo l n a , s a i d h e ’ s u n s u r e w h y money was pulled from that account to cover the costs of the fees. In July, Pr esident Eric Kaler ad dressed his colleagues in a statement, saying, “For my par t, I do not suppor t a faculty union. […] I fir mly believe our work as faculty members depends fundamentally on our autonomy as individuals executing our three-par t mission of teaching, research, and ser vice.” Kaler argues that there is little evidence to suggest that unionization would enhance research — though, it seems likely that $515,000 could spur great forays into teaching, research and ser vice, had the University doled out its money dif ferently. A c r o s s t h e n a t i o n , f a c u l t y m e mbers lament cuts to higher education, low pay and tenuous job security — es p e ci al l y ad j u n ct an d n o n - t en u r ed faculty members. At the University, of ficials suggest that the creation of a bargaining unit between faculty and the Ser vice Employees Inter na tional Union would “not confor m to law.” One fact remains salient: If the faculty union push is successful, the University could be home to one of the largest faculty unions in the nation. While the University may peddle empty rhetoric — highlighting concer ns over potential financial and s t r u c t u r a l r e v e r b e r a t i o n s u n i o n i z ation could have on the University — it seems plausible that the school’s real concer n lies in the power a unionized faculty would wield. While some faculty members ar e opposed to the union ef for t, a strong, unionized faculty would surely ser ve as a watchdog against its administration. In its mission, the University states that the school is “founded in the belief that all people ar e enriched by understanding [and] is dedicated to the advancement of lear ning and the search for tr uth.” So, we ask administrators: How does the University intend to fulfill its mission when the conduit for the “advancement of lear ning” — its teachers — are the ones being suppressed? EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.
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With cuts, profs flee UW system Profs u from Page 1
Ewig said she wouldn’t have left Wisconsin had it not been for the budget cuts and tenure policy changes. “It wasn’t an easy decision,” she said. “[But] the broader climate … made it a bit perilous to stay there.”
Budgets shrink In July 2015, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker approved a plan to slash state funding of the University of Wisconsin by $250 million between 2015 and 2017. Steep cuts in the state are nothing new — funding per student has dropped almost $4,000 since the early ’00s. While tuition has remained stable throughout the cuts, the school has limited educational resources, which makes it hard to maintain faculty, according to the nonpartisan Wisconsin Budget Project. Last year’s cuts created an $86 million budget deficit for the school, which expects to lose 418 faculty and staff positions through layoffs and attrition in the next two years as a result. Ewig said such a significant decline in state funding will have the greatest impact on smaller departments. Though UW of ficials said they won’t know for sure how much the budget cuts will impact faculty departures until October, the system has already been allocating funding to retain professors. UW-Madison spokesman John Lucas said the school has invested nearly $16.5 million in research grants and salary increases for faculty to help ensure the school can stay competitive with offers from other universities. The school does not yet have data that suggests that this year represents a larger than average number of faculty departures, Lucas said. Hamline University political science professor David Schultz said Wisconsin has experienced an almost generation-long political conflict, partly due to pressures from conservative lawmakers to cut taxes to make the state more businessfriendly. However, Schultz said higher education is a major employer and driver of jobs. Continued cuts to the
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system may have a detrimental economic impact on the state including tuition increases, loss of graduates to other states and fewer outof-state students. Schultz said decreasing support to the UW system could also be due to political motivations by conservative lawmakers who see UW — par ticularly the Madison campus — as a left-leaning political threat. “It’s basically government taking reprisals against people because they politically disagree, and that really r uns serious First Amendment types of issues,” Schultz said. Larry Jacobs, director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the University’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the Department of Political Science, said attempts by the legislature to influence the way the UW system operates has had a damaging impact not only on faculty morale but on the strength of the UW system. “This is probably one of the ver y best university
systems in the country and in the world,” he said. “The governor’s [actions] and the budget cuts had a material impact on that. It’s really done damage.”
Faculty flee to Minnesota
After nine years of research and teaching chemistry at Wisconsin’s Madison campus, Mahesh Mahanthappa left Wisconsin this year to teach chemical engineering at the University of Minnesota. The political climate played heavily into his decision, he said. “The current [state] administration in Wisconsin has done a lot to devalue the worth that faculty members bring,” he said. Changes to policies adopted by the Wisconsin Board of Regents weren’t just about tenure, Mahanthappa said, but also about what departments may be discontinued. Similar concerns were also expressed by other science faculty members due to political pressure from the Wisconsin Legislature to
avoid topics such as climate change, he said. “Their jobs could potentially be at stake … if someone is doing something unpopular. Even in the sciences, those rules could lead to serious ramifications,” Mahanthappa said. Chris Terry, a journalism professor who came to Minnesota from UW’s Milwaukee campus this fall, said the lack of resources in Wisconsin was a driving factor in his decision to leave. “It was hard to get any sort of movement towards a better contract,” Terry said. “Promotions were almost unheard of.” Terr y said cuts to Milwaukee during his time there fundamentally changed the programs he was teaching. “A temporary cut would have been one thing, but these are long-term structural cuts,” he said.
No simple fix Will Jones said it may be difficult for the system to replace the faculty members it has lost, especially ten-
ured professors. “When people retire or take jobs elsewhere, it’s ver y difficult for a department to get authorized to rehire in that position,” he said. The cheaper, more common option would be to replace professors with assistant professors, Jones said. But that would mean a loss of experience and institutional knowledge for the schools. “They’ve retained a lot of people,” Jones said. “But the ones who have gone, I think, are going to be very difficult to replace. I think it’s going to be a long time before they can rebuild in the places that they’ve lost.” Mahanthappa — whose research lab brings in about $600,000 in external funding — said that between research funding, salaries and benefits, the capital investment made by a university into each faculty member is very large over time. “Losing people is losing that investment,” he said. Jacobs said a hostile climate in Wisconsin makes it easier for other institutions, such as the University of Minnesota, to recruit UW professors. “Faculty are in a global labor market,” Jacobs said. “You start targeting faculty, and the best people always have options to go elsewhere.” Terry said having a hard time replacing faculty isn’t the only impact that state funding cuts could have on the system. Consolidating departments could also lead to larger class sizes and fewer class options. “I think you’re just starting to see the beginning of the structural changes to the UW,” he said. Schultz said a politically hostile environment in Wisconsin could potentially encourage lawmakers in other states to erode support for state-funded educational institutions. “It sets this political precedent that says it’s okay to attack higher education,” Schultz said. Jacobs said the costs of eroding state suppor t far outweigh the benefits, and that other states may see that. “I think what Walker’s doing may well end up deterring other conser vative Republican governors from doing what they’re doing,” he said. “This is not a win for Gov. Walker; it’s going to be a stain on him.”
Merkel’s party sees setback in German elections BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party endured a second setback in a state election in two weeks on Sunday, as many voters turned to the left and right in Berlin, according to projections based on exit polls. The Social Democrats (SPD) and Merkel’s Christian Democratic Par ty (CDU) emerged from the Berlin state election as the strongest two parties, but both lost enough suppor t that they won’t be able to continue a coalition government, the projections show. The SPD won 21.6 percent of the vote, dropping 6.7 percent, while the CDU won 17.5 percent, down 5.8 percent, ARD public television reported. At the same time, the anti-capitalist Left Party, a descendant of the former East German communists, gained 4 percent to 15.7 percent overall and new nationalist anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD, easily entered its 10th state parliament with 14.1 percent of the vote. Voter participation was up to 66.6 percent from 60.2 percent in the last election, and the AfD drew a lot of its suppor t from new voters, though it was also able to attract supporters from both the SPD and CDU and other parties. The vote comes two weeks after Merkel’s CDU was beaten into third place in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by the AfD, in which the chancellor’s decision to open Germany’s borders to migrants last year featured prominently. Sunday’s showing — her par ty’s worst ever in the capital — will keep up the pressure on the chancellor a year ahead of national elections. However, it was largely local issues that drove the vote in the city of 3.5 million. Among other things, disillusionment is high over the capital’s notoriously inef ficient bureaucracy and issues such as years of delays in opening its new airport.
Syrian truce sees new blows with airstrikes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT — Syria’s fragile cease-fire star ted to unravel on Sunday with the first aerial attacks on rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo and a southern village that killed at least eight people, violations that came as tensions between the American and Russian brokers of the deal worsened following a deadly U.S. strike on Syrian government forces. The air raid by the U.S.led coalition killed dozens of Syrian soldiers and led to a harsh verbal attack on Washington by Damascus and Moscow. The U.S. military says it may have unintentionally str uck Syrian troops while carr ying out a raid against the Islamic State group in eastern Syria on Saturday. The seven-day cease-fire is supposed to end at midnight Sunday, according to a Syrian army statement issued last week. The U.S. and Russia have said that if it holds for seven days, it should be followed by the establishment of a Joint Implementation Center for both countries to coordinate the targeting of Islamic State and al-Qaida-linked militants. Despite largely holding, the cease-fire has been repeatedly violated by both sides, and aid convoys have not reached besieged rebel-held neighborhoods of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city and one-time commercial center, which has been the center of violence in recent months. Aid deliver y to
Aleppo is part of the U.S.Russia cease-fire deal. Earlier this month, Syrian government forces and their allies captured areas they lost south of the city, re-imposing a siege on its opposition-held easter n neighborhoods. More than 2,000 people were killed in 40 days of fighting in the city, including 700 civilians, among them 160 children, according to a Syrian activist group. Syrian state TV reported Sunday that dozens of residents had left rebel-held areas in Aleppo and were taken to shelters in the government-controlled part of the city. Also Sunday, Aleppo’s governor, Hussein Diab, called on insurgents in the eastern neighborhoods to turn themselves in, hand over their weapons and take advantage of an amnesty decree issued recently by Syrian President Bashar Assad. “We are at a new stage that requires making the decision to embrace reconciliation,” Diab said in a statement carried by the state news agency, SANA. He urged insurgents to halt what he called the bloodshed and destruction and af firmed that all who turned themselves in and surrendered their weapons would be treated well and allowed to return to normal life. Moscow laid the blame for Sunday’s violence squarely on the opposition. Russian Defense Ministr y spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said in an
emailed statement that both “terrorists and the opposition” are using the truce to “boost their forces and prepare for renewed hostilities.” Konashenkov says Moscow still has not been able to contact the U.S.-backed opposition to coordinate cease-fire ef for ts despite Washington’s assurances. He said the U.S. has not even tried to get the opposition to hold its fire. U.S. Secretar y of State John Kerry fired back in an interview with CNN, saying Russia needs to stop Assad from attacking the opposition and blocking aid delivery. Kerr y said Assad was a “spoiler” in the cease-fire, and called on Moscow to “stop the grandstanding, stop the showboating, and get the humanitarian assistance going.” Kerr y also said it was important to set up the Joint Implementation Center in order to prevent the “terrible thing that happened yesterday, that we all acknowledge and regret but it happens when you have conflict.” He appeared to be referring to the U.S.-led airstrikes in eastern Syria. Earlier Sunday, Islamic State militants shot down a Syrian warplane as Syrian forces regained ground lost to the extremists following Saturday’s airstrike, state media said. Syria called Saturday’s U.S.-led strikes on the outskir ts of the eastern city of Deir el-Zour a “dangerous and blatant aggression against the Syrian Arab
Republic and its army.” T he Fo r ei g n M i n i s tr y’s statement, sent to the U.N. Security Council, said American warplanes repeatedly attacked Syrian army positions on Saturday afternoon. It said the airstrikes were “on purpose and planned in advance,” and killed dozens of Syrian soldiers. Russia’s militar y said it was told by the Syrian army that at least 62 Syrian soldiers were killed in the Deir el-Zour air raid and more than 100 wounded. The Russian air force has been carrying out strikes across Syria to bolster Assad’s forces for nearly a year, and the two militaries work in close coordination. The Britain-based Syrian Obser vator y for Human Rights, which relies on a network of activists inside Syria, put the toll higher, saying the U.S.-led coalition struck army positions in Tharda mountain and a nearby artiller y division, killing 90 troops and wounding 110. Russia said the United States was being obstructive and deceptive regarding the airstrike. A Foreign Ministry statement on Sunday said that in an emergency U.N. Security Council session the United States took “an unconstr uctive and indistinct position.” The Americans “not only turned out to be unable to give an adequate explanation of what happened, but also tried, as is their custom, to turn everything upside down,” the statement said.
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Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Good news comes from far away. A professional opportunity is ripening. Plan an adventure. Kindle passions and gain support for your project.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Make an investment in your own comfort. Clean messes and get into domestic projects. Conserve resources and stick to your home base.
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Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Speak up. Hone and refine your message, and then deliver it far and wide. Don’t give up on your vision. Study the angles. Put your talent to work.
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DR. DATE Dear Dr. Date,
Breakups suck. Nobody wants to have to tell someone that they aren’t interested anymore. My situation is a bit complicated though. The girl that I am planning to break up with has this real qt3.14 friend. Gorgeous smile, rocking personality and a penchant for thinking that her personal opinions are more valid than everyone else’s. The total package. I am going to be freshly single and not interested in a relationship, but I would love to get to know her in the biblical sense. You know what I mean? Make the beast with two backs. Mess up the sheets. Pretend to make a kid. All that jazz. But I think that as soon as I break up with the girl that I am currently seeing, any chance I have with her friend goes right
out the window. Any advice?
—Flipping between friends Dear Flip,
I definitely got the first euphemism for sex. I’m not an idiot, I am a doctor for Chrissake. Condescension aside, you have found yourself in quite the conundrum. First, you need to break up with the girl that you are in a relationship with. The fire has obviously sizzled. And no, breaking up doesn’t mean ignoring the situation and the person until they give up. If you are nice enough, maybe she won’t talk too much s*%# about you to her friend. Give it a couple weeks after you two are broken up and try to grab coffee or something with her friend. Maybe watch
the Lord of the Rings if she is a Tolkien fan. Tread lightly though, College Casanova, I can easily see some hurt feelings coming from this.
—Dr. Date
Dear Dr. Date,
I saw one of the questions last week about the person who had a pattern of sleeping under beds. My boyfriend has what I consider to be a disgusting bed-related habit, but after reading your column, I’m not sure. Every night, he takes the leftover food from dinner and stores it in plastic bags. Pretty simple so far. Sometime before bed, my beau will cover the whole bed in painter’s plastic — the stuff used to keep dripping paint from staining the floor. Once bed time rolls around, he grabs
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the leftover bags and brings them into the bedroom. Then, he gets into bed on top of the plastic sheets and rubs the leftover food all over himself. He literally caresses himself with half-cold massaman curry for a good ten to fifteen minutes. After he is done with his food bath, he calls for our cat to come into the room. Poor little Greg (that’s our cat) has to the lick the food off of my boyfriend. He says that it helps him relax and fall asleep. I think it’s creepy. Sometimes I have nightmares about the squeaking noise he makes rolling around on that plastic. Help!
—Food nightmare Dear Food,
Yeah, that’s super weird.
—Dr. Date
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Tanya Bailey from the Animal-Assisted Interaction Programs holds Woodstock, a therapy chicken, on Dec. 9, 2012, at the Learning and Environmental Sciences building in St. Paul. Woodstock, one of the founding members of PAWS, died earlier this month.
Earlier this month, Woodstock, a founding member of PAWS, died of old age. BY KEATON SCHMITT kschmitt@mndaily.com
Woodstock, the therapy chicken known campus-wide for her calm nature and work ethic, died earlier this month. She was 10. Woodstock joined the Pet Away Worry and Stress team at the University of Minnesota’s Boynton Health Service as a founding member four years ago. Since her first day on campus, she worked to impact the lives of countless students. Woodstock and her owner, Tanya Bailey, visited campus every week in a small basket, patiently waiting for students
to walk by and say hello. “[When going to PAWS] I just was immediately attracted to Woodstock,” said senior German, Scandinavian and Dutch major Trevor Mitchell, who has visited PAWS for two years. “[She] was probably the calmest bird I’ve ever interacted with.” Woodstock, a novelty among her canine colleagues, was popular with PAWS regulars and newcomers alike and enjoyed the human interaction, he said. “When I’d pet her or scratch behind her head or something, she’d fall asleep in the basket,” Mitchell said. Wo o d s t o c k w i l l b e
remembered for her distinct hairstyle and an afro-like tuft of fluff atop her head, said junior Olivia Trudeau, who has frequented PAWS for two years. “[Woodstock’s owner] would say you don’t want to touch her hair even though it’s fluffy because, like all women, she doesn’t like her hair touched,” she said. Bailey, an animal-assisted interaction program specialist with the school’s Center for Spirituality and Healing, said she loved Woodstock’s ability to help stressed students calm down and take time for self-care. Beyond her quirky pluck, students interacting with Woodstock connected on a close, chicken-to-human level, said Dave Golden,
director of public health and communications at Boynton. “We learned a lot from the chicken,” Golden said. “In a lot of ways, I feel like we got schooled by her.” Around campus, she’ll be remembered as a celebrity. “We got a lot of requests for Woodstock,” Golden said. “She was a hardworking chicken.” Woodstock, who retired several months before her death, was replaced at PAWS this summer by Attila the Hen, also known as Tilly. Tilly attends most East Bank PAWS events, similar to Woodstock. She’s already leaving her mark at the University, “[Tilly]’s fantastic,” Golden said. “She’s a great chicken.”
As Utah waits to see if President Barack Obama will designate a new national monument in the state, this weekend’s 20th anniversary of another national monument rekindled memories of an event that ignited simmering western frustrations about federal ownership of public land. President Bill Clinton created the Grand Staircase Escalante-National Monument on Sept. 18, 1996, by signing a declaration at the south rim of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. It was lauded by environmentalists, with actor and Utah resident Robert Redford appearing at the ceremony with Clinton. But in heavily Republican Utah, he move was viewed as a sneaky, stab-in-the back example of federal overreach. About 70 miles north of Clinton’s ceremony in the Utah town of Kanab, just outside the new monument, flags flew at half-staff, residents wore black ribbons of mourning and high school students released 50 black balloons as a sign of protest. More black balloons were hung around town, along with signs that said “Shame on you Clinton.” The monument and the way it was created remain a sore spot for many Utah Republicans and local residents, who say it closed off too many areas to development — including one of the country’s largest known coal reserves — that could have helped pay for local schools. They also argued it was too large — enveloping about 1.9 million acres — the largest national monument in the contiguous United States and
an area about the size of Delaware. Many of those same people who now oppose the proposed Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah cite Grand Staircase as proof of why monuments are bad news for rural residents. In 2015, Garfield County declared a state of emergency for falling school enrollment, and county commissioners laid some of the blame on Grand Staircase. “That is the worst thing that has ever happened to this county,” Garfield County Commissioner Leland Pollock said Friday. Pollock said the monument put the kibosh on a planned coal mine that would have brought 1,100 jobs to the area. Tourism to the monument has only created seasonal, low-paying jobs and families have moved away, Pollock said. “You can’t do anything on a monument,” he said. State tourism of ficials and conser vation groups tout the monument’s natural wonders, and a record number of 900,000 people visited its scenic clif fs, canyons, waterfalls and arches last year, according to the monument’s federal managers. The monument deser ves to be hailed as a high-water mark in conservation, said Steve Bloch of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance. Past presidents who created monuments that later became Zion and Arches National Parks were commended for their actions, Bloch said. “These are federal lands, and this was a step made on behalf of all Americans,” Bloch said.