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U researchers found gravitational waves that support the Big Bang theory.

Minnesota lost to Stanford 75-51 in the NIT final two seasons ago.

Julia Courter was forced out of last season after she had wrist surgery.

Physicists find Big Bang’s smoking gun

Gophers search for redemption in final

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Courter returns from injury, leads team

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CRIME

Campus crime dips in spring University officials credit the school’s efforts but caution students to remain vigilant.

BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

Sigma Chi fraternity members David Lofstuen and Garrett Hulse sit in their room in the main fraternity house Sunday.

Following a spike in crime last fall that worried students, administrators and legislators, the number of violent crimes near campus this spring is far below that of previous years.

While police and administrators tout the University of Minnesota’s response to the crime as the reason for the decline, they warn that the community should remain vigilant.

The University Police Department sent 16 crime alerts for 22 crimes last semester, compared with only three alerts for three crimes so far this semester.

University police lieutenant Troy Buhta attributed the lull in crime to the school’s recent multi-pronged safety initiative, which received $4.1 million in University funding in February.

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Some chapter houses are deteriorating, but as historic landmarks, they can be challenging to renovate. predicament of updating their houses while

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

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historical landmark status.

Southeast known as “fraternity row”

Because parts of fraternity row are con-

is home to some fraternities that settled in

sidered a historic landmark, the houses on

nearly a century ago.

it are bound by strict rules when making

But after years of philanthropy events,

changes or additions.

par ties and changing residents, many

City regulations prevent the removal

houses that decorate the street are begin-

or alteration of historic materials, which

ning to deteriorate on the inside. Now, fra-

makes renovations more costly.

ternities are searching for ways to pay for

“They can’t just pop in 40 new windows.

necessary renovations but are facing some

They have to have 40 custom windows with

roadblocks.

specific materials, installed by a specific

Though some fraternity houses are

contractor and approved by the [Minnesota

doing better than others, many face the

Historical Society],” Office for Fraternity

University of Minnesota graduate students don’t usually stray from their home departments.

Now, a campus group is tr ying to

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Grad students come together to share research

BY CLINT BIRTZER cbirtzer@mndaily.com

Legislators are focusing on new building, while U officials continue to prioritize upkeep.

own programs, and the symposium gives them a way to extend beyond their typical audience.

“We’re able to bring these students from different programs together to talk about their specific research as it pertains to a common topic,” she said.

Scott said COGS hopes to host the event annually and vary each year’s focus.

Nearly a dozen researchers took the stage

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change that by offering a venue for students to share their research across disciplines.

Students from across the University had a chance to discuss their research findings with a wider audience Wednesday when the Council of Graduate Students hosted its first annual symposium at the Mayo Auditorium.

COGS member and event organizer Nicole Scott said graduate students usually only showcase their research within their

U and Leg. disagree on bonding

Recommendations to set aside millions of state dollars for construction projects at the University of Minnesota are on the forefront at the state Capitol, and legislators must compromise on funding amounts in the coming weeks.

University officials say funding for building maintenance and upkeep is the institution’s top priority, but state legislators want to focus on providing funds to construct new buildings.

Several bonding bills have surfaced this session, and all vary in size and content. A Minnesota House committee heard a recent proposal Wednesday that undermines the University’s 2014 capital request — a trend across all proposals introduced so far.

Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, is leading the House’s bonding effort. She said she wishes more state dollars could go toward construction, maintenance and up-

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About a dozen students shared their research and offered ideas at a new symposium.

LEGISLATURE

In 100 years, 90 drawings A campus architecture exhibit showcases the evolution of student designs from 1913-2013.

BY MELANIE RICHTMAN mrichtman@mndaily.com

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

Mary Alice Chaney, exhibitions coordinator at the Goldstein Museum of Design; Emily Marti, communications assistant; and Lin Nelson-Mayson, museum director, set up the exhibition “100 Years of Student Work” at Northrop Auditorium on Tuesday.

The idea of an architecture drawing exhibition may bring to mind a vast display of blueprints.

But Northrop Gallery’s new exhibition, “100 Years of Student Drawings,” is unexpectedly colorful.

“These are works of art, as well as historical artifacts,” College of Design Dean Thomas Fisher said. “You’ll see the incredible imagination of our students at the time.”

The exhibition is a collection of 90 pieces spanning from 1913 to 2013 and showcases design styles from Beaux-Arts to the digital age.

Not only a commemoration of the school

of architecture’s centennial, “100 Years of Student Drawings” also marks the reopening of Northrop Gallery after the $100 million renovation.

“I wanted to represent 100 years of drawings as evenly as possible, to show the evolution of projects done at the University,” curator Jane King Hession said.

The process of putting together an exhibition with a century’s worth of options is not an easy one, especially in a short period of time. Hession, assistant Madelyn Sundberg, adjunct assistant professor Gayla Lindt and Julianne Swanson, assistant curator of the Digital Content Library, had only five months to pull everything together.

“We had to go through at least 1,000 drawings sitting in drawers in Rapson Hall and on the digital collection archives to find pieces that were a good representation of each time period,” Hession said. u See ARCHITECTURE Page 15

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BRUSSELS — The United States on Wednesday called on Europe to wean itself from a dangerous dependency on Russian gas, saying it was time to stand together and bring an end to the Kremlin’s use of energy supplies as political leverage.

Left unsaid was the European Union’s reluctance to follow the United States headlong into shale gas extraction, which has transformed the global energy scene and turned the U.S. from importer into a nascent exporter. Or its refusal to fully re-embrace nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima disaster in Japan.

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JERUSALEM — In an improbable twist, the fate of an imprisoned American who spied for Israel could now play a big role in rescuing Middle East peace negotiations after a dramatic Palestinian rebuff to Secretary of State John Kerry.

With Kerry’s efforts in tatters, a three-way deal that includes the United States releasing Jonathan Pollard could provide incentives for Israel and the Palestinians to break the deadlock and extend the talks.

But critics say the sudden focus on Pollard has turned attention away from the real issues that need to be addressed to end decades of conflict. And it may have raised the Palestinians’ asking price: They realize that with Israel so eager to free Pollard, they may be able to hold out for broader Israeli concessions.

Palestinian officials, for instance, say they have discussed the possibility of seeking the release of the top Palestinian prisoner held by Israel, Marwan Barghouti, as part of any arrangement involving Pollard.

Negotiations on a peace deal hit a major snag late Tuesday when Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas abruptly renewed a campaign for recognition of the “state of Palestine” in international bodies.

Abbas had promised to suspend the campaign when peace talks resumed in July but angrily reversed course after Israel failed to carry out a promised prisoner release. The move forced Kerry to cancel a planned trip back to the region and threatened to derail the talks completely.

U.S. officials said Kerry spoke with Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during the day and that negotiators from the sides would meet later Wednesday in Jerusalem.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A police investigation may never determine the reason why the Malaysia Airlines jetliner disappeared, and search planes scouring the Indian Ocean for any sign of its wreckage aren’t certain to find anything either, officials said Wednesday.

The assessment by Malaysian and Australian officials underscored the lack of knowledge authorities have about what happened on Flight 370. It also points to a scenario that becomes more likely with every passing day — that the fate of the Boeing 777 and the 239 people on board might remain a mystery forever.

The plane disappeared March 8 on a flight to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur after its transponders, which make the plane visible to commercial radar, were shut off. Military radar picked up the jet just under an hour later, on the other side of the Malay Peninsula. Authorities say that until then its “movements were consistent with deliberate action by someone on the plane,” but have not ruled out anything, including mechanical error.

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Police are also investigating the cargo and the food served on the plane to eliminate possible poisoning of passengers and crew, he said.

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UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FRATERNITY FACILITIES Tau Kappa Epsilon 54 members

ST. PAUL CAMPUS FarmHouse 34 members

Sigma Alpha Mu 44 members

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Triangle 18 members

Sigma Phi Epsilon 95 members

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Fraternity houses are at about 75 percent capacity and continue to grow, but the immediate need for renovation can be difficult to address without more funding from membership dues.

Levine said he thinks the new luxury housing popping up across campus will create competition for some fraternities and sororities.

But Sigma Chi President Nelson said the inexpensiveness of living in a fraternity is one of the benefits.

“As far as location goes, amenities go and price goes, I don’t think there’s a better place than a fraternity house,” he said.

Because greek life is expanding on campus, Levine said, beds in fraternity houses are likely to fill up eventually.

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As the University pushes growth in greek life, costly renovations to houses are becoming necessar y. But funding solutions vary among chapters.

Some fraternities have funding from alumni donations to supplement their housing fund, but others, like Delta Upsilon, aren’t as fortunate.

Members live in a rented house close to fraternity row.

Because the house isn’t a historic landmark, members have more freedom to make renovations but aren’t working with the finances other fraternities have. “[Some fraternities’] alumni put a lot of money into getting major renovations done,” chapter President Jerry Weber said. “We kind of have to do everything on our own in

this place.”

Recently, members took it upon themselves to put in wood panel flooring, paint and add couches to the basement, Weber said.

The University is exploring ways to combat the lack of funding for renovations for some chapters but hasn’t settled on a solution yet, Levine said.

One option is to support the Collegiate Housing and Infrastructure Act, a congressional bill that would allow those who donate to fraternities and sororities to use their donation as a tax write-off — something Levine said alumni aren’t currently able to do.

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Sigma Chi fraternity members relax in the living room of the chapter’s main house Sunday. The fraternity, which recently added improvements such as central air and security equipment, is hoping to make more renovations.

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and Sorority Life Director Matt Levine said.

Chi Psi came to the University in 1874 and is the campus’s oldest fraternity. It has owned its space on University Avenue Southeast since 1884, said former chapter President Jacob Lutz.

The fraternity has torn down two previous houses on the property. Its current house, a historic landmark, was built in 1930.

The organization used alumni donations to make $6 million in renovations to the house in 2006, Lutz said. Updates included restoring all the house’s woodwork and the kitchen and turning the top floor into a study area, he said.

Levine said because sororities sometimes restrict visits to their houses, fraternities tend to see more foot traf fic. This makes them more prone to deterioration.

“Our frater nities are where the social events are happening,” he said. “They feel somewhat of a burden to entertain people and to have more people in their house,” he said.

Sigma Chi is one of the University’s most popular chapters, with about 90 members. Some live in its two houses — both with historic designations — on University Avenue Southeast, said chapter President Patrick Nelson.

Over the summer, Sigma Chi added a central air system to replace radiators in its houses, he said. Though the vent tubes are concealed in the house’s main areas, they are visible and low-hanging on the top floors because historic building regulations prevented concealing them in the walls.

Despite the regulations, he said the fraternity’s housing corporation wants to make more changes to the houses, as their interiors are livable but visibly aged.

NO FACILITY Beta Chi Theta 19 members

Alpha Delta Phi 41 members Pi Kappa Alpha 90 members Alpha Tau Omega Sigma Alpha Epsilon 38 members 98 members Kappa Sigma 35 members Sigma Pi 34 members SOURCE: OFFICE FOR FRATERNITY AND SORORITY LIFE

The University is helping this growth by making it a long-term goal to reach the Big Ten median of 13 percent of undergraduates participat-

ing in greek life, according to the Greek Community Strategic Task Force Report.

Levine said despite the housing roadblocks, fraternities

and sororities will survive on campus.

“It’s an investment. I mean, joining an organization like this has costs,” he said.

“But you get out of the experience what you put into it, and we need to tell people what they can get out of it if they go all in.”

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“We’re not competitors with one another,” she said. “We’re concer ned about the overall safety of our students.”

B u t B r o w n Yo u n g stressed that while crime has cooled down, it’s impor tant for the University not to grow complacent.

“No matter if we had an uptick or a downtick in crime, we always need to be concer ned about the safety of our students,” she said.

Taylor Severson was concerned about crime last fall, but the public health and gender, women and sexuality studies junior said she’s star ted to feel more comfortable.

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University programs have made a dif ference, Severson said, but the largest factor is increased student awareness. Crime alerts and other communication from the University keep students informed and help them realize they need to be more aware of their personal safety, Severson said.

Nursing student Brenna O’Toole said the frequent University emails made her more cautious, but she thinks students eventually become jaded from overexposure.

When she gets a crime alert, O’Toole said she usually skips over it.

Vice President for University Ser vices Pamela Wheelock attributed the

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fall’s uptick in crime to a “dramatic increase in population” in the University area, as well as the marketability of technology like smartphones, which made students targets for theft.

The potential for crime isn’t going to change any time soon, Wheelock said, which means the University’s solutions need to be permanent.

“We’ve made good progress, but we can’t take that for granted,” she said.

University police are working to reduce crime in new ways, Wheelock said.

Police Chief Greg Hestness testified at the state Legislature in Februar y in suppor t of a “kill switch”

bill, which would allow stolen phones to be deactivated remotely. Wheelock said she supports any measure that would make stolen technology less valuable.

University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said he’s seen progress in cutting down thefts near campus, and Minneapolis police have seen an increase in burglaries from electronics stores in other parts of the city.

“We feel that our efforts have scared them away to other par ts of town,” he said.

Miner said University police will continue to staf f of ficers for over time

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has been in over the last few months, Buhta said he’s pleased with the University’s response and confident that the improvements will have a lasting impact on campus safety.

University police regularly meet with their Minneapolis counterpar ts to deter mine how to best work together, Buhta said.

“We’ll continue to watch the trends and adjust our resources accordingly,” he said.

Vice Provost for Student Af fairs and Dean of Students Danita Brown Young said many students she spoke to last fall were worried about how to keep themselves safe.

This spring, students have told her that they feel more comfortable on campus, citing the expanded ser vices of Gopher Chauffeur and the Security Monitor Program.

“Students have seen the improvements and feel safer,” she said.

University administrators recently met with a group of landlords from around campus, Brown Young said, but safety

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robbery suppression detail this spring.

Wheelock said she’s proud of the University’s police and security monitors but that the University can’t rely completely on enforcement — students should also take responsibility for their personal safety, she said.

Wheelock said she thinks the University’s strong response has communicated to potential thieves that the University is taking safety seriously.

“You cer tainly want them to know that there’s incr eased police pr esence,” she said.

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Minn.’s new US attorney plans new initiatives

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s new chief federal prosecutor said Wednesday he’s launching initiatives to combat human trafficking, heroin, fraud, violent crime and identity theft, and he’s already reaching out to local authorities statewide for their ideas.

It’s an ambitious agenda for U.S. Attor ney Andy Luger, who was sworn in Feb. 14. He filled a post last held by B. Todd Jones, who juggled dual roles for two years as U.S. attorney in Minneapolis and acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Washington, until the Senate finally confirmed him as director last July. Jones’ critics, including a former head of the Minneapolis FBI office, complained that he was reluctant to prosecute violent gang, drug and gun crimes, leaving the problems to local authorities to solve — a charge Jones’ suppor ters disputed.

Luger had only praise for Jones. “He was asked to do two very difficult jobs at the same time, and he did them extremely well,” he said.

But Luger said in an inter view with The Associated Press that he prepared himself to assume the job by seeking out the opinions of law enforcement leaders from across Minnesota, and a wide variety of other people, who helped inform his vision for the office.

Luger, 54, ser ved as an assistant U.S. attorney in New York and Minnesota from 1989 to 1995 before going into private practice.

He said his plan for a renewed emphasis on human trafficking is one initiative that came from his dialogue

with law enforcement.

“There’s a real role for the federal government to play and for federal prosecutors to play in combatting both labor trafficking and sex trafficking in Minnesota,” he said.

And as cheap, highpurity heroin increasingly flows into the state, Luger said, his of fice will work closely with local prosecutors to try to prevent it from becoming as bad a problem in Minnesota as it has been elsewhere.

“Unfortunately, what we learned from other areas of the countr y is that once it really takes hold it’s very hard to uproot,” he said.

Another priority will be investment fraud, he said, saying he will focus on “these r un-of-the-mill investment advisers who defraud 20, 30 people at a time out of their life savings by promising to invest their money wisely and then they essentially spend it on themselves.”

He said it’s rampant in Minnesota and heartbreaking to investigate. Quick prosecutions of these “con men in disguise” might not recover money that’s already gone, he acknowledged, but it will send them to prison.

Luger also pledged to use the resources of his office “to combat violent crime wherever we find it.” He said his prosecutors are working with local, state and federal anti-gang investigators, and he plans stepped up efforts against violent crime in Indian Country.

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for Wednesday’s daylong program, which centered on how stress affects personal and economic health.

Graduate student Gilbert Gonzales took the podium to talk about his research on how economic stress impacts children. He said the public speaking experience was a helpful way to disseminate his research.

“We all do different types of research,” he said, “and it’s good to be exposed to those different methods.”

Other speakers discussed

topics such as how increased stress causes stronger cellphone dependence and the role food plays in people’s moods.

After presenters outlined their research, audience members from different programs asked questions and challenged findings.

Child development professor Ann Masten, the keynote speaker, said it’s great to see graduate students plan this type of event. She said she thinks it will be successful in coming years.

In addition to getting valuable input from his peers, Gonzales said, having the chance to present his

“We all do different types of research, and it’s good to be exposed to those different methods.”

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research was good public speaking practice.

“This is a great opportunity to get some experience,” Gonzalez said.

Nearly 60 people confirmed attending the event via online invitation, but only about 20 showed up.

Because the event is in its first year, Masten said, the low attendance numbers

are understandable.

“I think [COGS will] figure out how to attract an audience,” she said.

Researchers and COGS members agreed, noting they hope the event gains momentum in the future.

“It’s such a great opportunity for [COGS] to organize and host this event,” Masten said.

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STUDENT LIFE

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PATRICIA GROVER, DAILY

Mechanical engineering sophomore Jon Groom kicks a soccer ball around in Northrop Mall on Wednesday afternoon.

Rabbi loses case over frequent flier miles

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices unanimously ruled Wednesday against a Minnesota rabbi whose frequent complaints about an airline got him tossed out of its frequent flier program.

The court dismissed a lawsuit from Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg over Northwest Airlines’ decision to strip him of his top-level frequent flier status and then end his membership.

Nor thwest, since absorbed by Delta Air Lines Inc., said it cut of f Ginsberg because he complained too much. The rabbi said Northwest did not act in good faith, and was trying to cut costs because of its merger with Delta.

The cour t said in an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito that the federal deregulation of the airline industry in 1978 prohibits most lawsuits like the one

filed by Ginsberg.

The frequent flier program is clearly connected to the airline’s prices, routes or ser vices, which are covered under the Airline Deregulation Act, Alito said.

Ginsberg and his wife flew almost exclusively on Northwest, logging roughly 75 flights a year to travel across the U.S. and abroad to give lectures and take part in conferences on education and administration.

He said he flew on Northwest even when other airlines offered comparable or better flights and in 2005, reached the highest level of the WorldPerks program.

Nor thwest cut him of f in 2008, shor tly after Nor thwest and Delta agreed to merge. Ginsberg said Northwest was looking to get rid of the high-mileage customers.

Nor thwest says Ginsberg complained 24 times

in a seven-month period, including nine instances of luggage that turned up late on airpor t baggage carousels. Northwest said that before it took action, it awarded Ginsberg $1,925 in travel credit vouchers, 78,500 bonus miles, a voucher for his son and $491 in cash reimbursements.

The airline pointed to a provision of the mileage program’s terms that gives Nor thwest the right to cancel members’ accounts for abuse.

Alito said the cour t ruling does not leave airline customers without recourse. The Transportation Depar tment has authority to punish unfair and deceptive practices in air transport and can investigate complaints about frequent flier programs.

Customers also have the option of enrolling in a rival airline’s program, he said.

In a statement, Delta

said it was pleased with the decision and would continue “to provide customers with a loyalty program that offers valuable benefits and rewards our members’ travel.”

Ginsberg’s attor ney, Adina Rosenbaum of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen, said she was disappointed.

“We think it’s one that harms consumers by giving airlines greater freedom to act in bad faith in performing their contracts with consumers,” she said.

A federal trial judge cited earlier Supreme Court cases involving claims against frequent flier programs in dismissing Ginsberg’s lawsuit, including his claim that Northwest did not live up to the terms of the contract. The judge said the contract gives the airlines the right to kick someone out of the mileage program at its “sole judgment.”

AUSTIN, Texas — An advocacy group filed another federal lawsuit Wednesday challenging a new provision of Texas’ tough restrictions on abortion, less than a week after an appeals court reversed a previous suit and found that the stricter limits don’t impose an undue burden on women’s health.

The Center for Reproductive Rights’ suit is the first to challenge part of a new state law that doesn’t take ef fect until Sept. 1, but mandates that all abortions, including those induced via medication, take place in an ambulatory surgical center.

The New York-based center says just six abortion clinics in Texas currently meet those standards and that upgrades to do so are so costly that only about three would be able to meet them by the fall, leaving fewer than 10 clinics in a state with 13 million women. For now, 24 Texas clinics provide abortions.

Passed last summer, the omnibus abor tion law already requires abor tion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of the clinic where they per form the procedure, that they follow strict instructions for pillinduced medical abortions and perform abor tions after 20 weeks of pregnancy only if the health of the mother is in danger or the fetus isn’t viable.

As with the previous suit, this one also challenges the admitting privileges provision, this time on behalf of Whole Woman’s Health in McAllen and Reproductive Health Services in El Paso, which the Center for Reproductive Rights says may close despite being “among the last, if not

the only, providers offering abortion care in their communities.”

Amy Hagstrom Miller, pr esident and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health which operates four Texas health facilities, said building a 5,000 square-foot clinic to meet the surgical center standards could cost more than $2 million.

Critics say the law simply is an effort to over-regulate abortion out of existence in Texas, though supporters maintain that it is about protecting women’s safety.

“These requirements were advanced by politicians, not doctors, and solely based on ideology rather than sound medical practice,” said Nancy Northup, president and CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights.

The law had thrown the Republican-controlled state Legislature into chaos before it was over whelmingly approved in July. It was temporarily delayed by a 12-plus hour filibuster

by Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis of Fort Worth, who is now running for governor, and amid massive protests on both sides of the issue at the state Capitol.

It is now being defended in court by the office of Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott, who is favored to beat Davis in the guber natorial race. Lauren Bean, a spokeswoman for Abbott’s office, had no immediate comment on Wednesday’s suit.

In response to an original suit brought by Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights, U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel in Austin r uled against enforcement of the admitting privileges r ule and requirements for the use of only federally approved protocols for drugabortions.

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Physicists find Big Bang’s smoking gun U researchers found gravitational waves that support the Big Bang Theory.

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ROSTOV-ON-DON, Russia — Defensive and at times tearful, Ukraine’s ousted president conceded Wednesday that he made a mistake when he invited Russian troops into Crimea and vowed to try to negotiate with Vladimir Putin to get the coveted Black Sea peninsula back.

“Crimea is a tragedy, a major tragedy,” Viktor Yanukovych told The Associated Press in his first inter view since fleeing to Russia in February, following monthslong protests focused on corruption and his decision to seek closer ties to Russia instead of the European Union.

Putin said last month that Yanukovych had asked Russia to send its troops to Crimea to protect its people — a request seen as treason by many Ukrainians. Russian troops quickly overran Crimea, which has an ethnic Russian majority, taking over government and military facilities on the pretext of protecting Russians.

Asked about the move, Yanukovych said he made a mistake.

“I was wrong,” he told the AP and Russia’s state NTV television, speaking in Russian. “I acted on my emotions.”

Still, Yanukovych insisted that Russia’s takeover of Crimea wouldn’t have happened if he had stayed in power. He also denied responsibility for the sniper deaths of about 80 protesters in Kiev in February, for which he has been charged

by Ukraine’s interim government.

As the world has watched the tumultuous events in Ukraine, the 63-year-old Yanukovych has

rarely been seen, even as he has insisted he is still the country’s true leader. While Putin has been openly dismissive of Yanukovych, the Russian president has also described him as the legitimate leader and his ouster as illegal.

Yanukovych said he has spoken with Putin only twice by phone and once in person since he arrived in Russia, describing their talks as “difficult.” He said he hopes to have more meetings with the Russian leader to negotiate Crimea’s return to Ukraine.

“We must search for ways ... so that Crimea may have the maximum degree of independence possible ... but be part of Ukraine,” he said.

Russia annexed Crimea last month following a hastily called referendum held two weeks after Russian troops took control of the region. Ukraine and the West have rejected the vote and the annexation as illegal.

Yanukovych’s comments on the Black Sea peninsula appeared to represent an attempt to shore up at least some support in his homeland, where even his backers have deserted him.

While there is no expectation that Russia will roll back its annexation, Yanukovych’s statements could widen Putin’s options in talks on settling the Ukrainian crisis by creating an impression that Moscow could be open for discussions on Crimea’s status in the future.

Echoing the Kremlin’s position, Yanukovych said the Crimean referendum, in which residents overwhelmingly voted to join Russia, was a response to threats posed by radical nationalists

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The telescope is about the size of a bus, he said, and it has to run for eight consecutive months without maintenance because Antarctica gets too cold for planes to operate safely during the winter. Much of the work the team did during the summer was maintaining the telescope to keep it operational while they were away.

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Community reaction Society of Physics Students President Chris Nolting got the news of the discover y when he was on a trip to Duluth with 15 other physics students. They spent their lunch hour talking about what it means for the field.

Nolting said he hopes the discovery leads to better explanations of how gravity works at a subatomic level.

“It’s ver y exciting.

There’s been so many really cool discoveries in physics in the last couple years,” he said. “It’s just an amazing time to be a physicist, to be studying physics.”

Chemistry graduate student Tom Fielitz is a practicing Christian, and he said

Ukraine’s ousted president says he made a mistake on Crimea

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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University of Minnesota physicists, along with a nationwide team of researchers, say they’ve discovered the first evidence that can explain some decades-old mysteries about the infantile stages of the universe.

They’ve obser ved the mark of gravitational waves that provide the first evidence of how the universe expanded uniformly and almost instantaneously after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Researchers announced the finding last month.

“We have discovered what looks ver y much like the expected signature of gravitational waves, spawned in the first tiny, tiny fraction of a second by the process called inflation,” said lead researcher and University physics associate professor Clem Pryke.

Inflation theory explains how the universe, which was once a tiny subatomic speck, expanded to its current size in such a shor t amount of time. The gravitational waves are the first evidence to suppor t the theory, which helps explain many of the features of today’s universe.

“We’ve been tr ying to find evidence for inflation for decades,” said Terr y Jones, director of graduate and undergraduate studies at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics. “We’ve

all just grown up assuming it took place … but with no real hard evidence. And this is the first smoking-gun evidence that inflation took place.”

Jones works in the E and B Experiment at the University, which was looking for the same gravitational waves that Pr yke’s group found.

Jones said he’s glad the evidence was discovered, even if it wasn’t by his team, and that he believes this is the most important scientific discovery of the year.

“What we have at the moment is evidence that inflation did take place,” he said. “Now that we have this, we can … come up with more robust ideas of what inflation was all about.

What happened?”

His lab is working on confirming Pr yke’s data to make sure it is as accurate as possible. Pr yke’s group found the waves with a certainty of 5.9-sigma, meaning there’s only a one in 550 million chance that they obser ved what they did by random chance.

Stefan Fliescher is working on his post-doctorate with Pryke and did data analysis for the project, which gathered its information from the BICEP2 telescope at the South Pole.

Fliescher called the project “an adventure,” but he said the schedule and logistics of running were sometimes difficult due to time constraints.

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in Ukraine.

However, he did not answer several questions about whether he would support a move by Russia, which has deployed tens of thousands of troops near the Ukrainian border, to move into other areas of the country on the pretext of protecting ethnic Russians.

Yanukovych echoed the key Kremlin demand for settling the Ukrainian crisis, pushing for a referendum that could turn Ukraine into a loosely knit federation. He said such a vote should be followed by constitutional reform, and only after that should Ukraine have a national election.

The interim government in Kiev has scheduled a presidential election for May 25.

Yanukovych has now lost the Ukrainian presidency twice in the past decade. In 2004, his presidential win was thrown out after the Orange Revolution protests caused the fraudulent election to be annulled.

Bor n in the Donetsk coal-mining region of eastern Ukraine, Yanukovych worked at a metal plant before becoming an industrial manager and rising through the ranks to become a local governor and then prime minister, the countr y’s second-most powerful job at the time. His critics note his criminal record for assault and robber y during his youth and say he lacks a proper education to qualify for running the country.

After he fled Ukraine, crowds of Ukrainians f l o c k e d t o v i e w Ya n u kovych’s opulent countr y residence outside of Kiev and were shocked by its extravagant display of wealth amid the countr y’s financial ruin.

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this evidence is just another way for him to merge his scientific beliefs with his religious ones.

He said he doesn’t think his spiritual and scientific beliefs have to conflict.

“W ith this Big Bang stuff, this is fantastic, but how did all that get there to

begin with?” he said. “You just kind of go through another series of questions.”

Fliescher said he thinks it’s “surprising” that humankind is even capable of thinking about something as grand as the beginning of the universe, so to be able to take measurements from

that time period and find evidence like this is “an amazing thing.”

“It definitely gives us more confidence in our thinking of the universe,” he said. “There’s a lot of theories out there. Now, for the first time, we know … what we were thinking is true.”

In Mich., Obama presses for higher min. wage

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Pressing his economic case in an election year, President Barack Obama came to Michigan on Wednesday to praise the state’s ongoing effort to raise the minimum wage — and to accuse Republicans who oppose that step in Michigan and in Congress of standing in the way of prosperity for millions of Americans.

An upbeat Obama struck a distinctly partisan tone at the University of Michigan, a day after his administration received an unexpected burst of good news when his health care law beat expectations for its first year of enrollment. Addressing a crowd of about 1,400 in a stadium crowd that included many students, Obama cracked jokes about his GOP foes as he touted his plan to raise federal wages to $10.10 per hour.

“You’ve got a choice. You can give America the shaft, or you can give it a raise,” Obama said.

At Obama’s side for his three-hour visit to this Midwest battleground state was Rep. Gar y Peters, a Senate candidate embracing the chance to appear with the president before voters this year. Some other Democrats have shied away from Obama amid controversy over his health care plan, but Peters opted to appear with Obama as the president echoed his State of the Union af firmation that no American working full time should live in poverty.

“It would lift millions of people out of poverty right away,” the president said of his proposal. “It would help millions more work their

way out of pover ty right away.”

Michigan also has an effort to put a measure on the November ballot to increase the state minimum wage $7.40 to $10.10 an hour, an initiative that polling shows is popular among voters who have been hit har d by the economic downturn in recent years.

Nationally, Obama wants to increase the hourly minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10 as part of an electionyear economic agenda focused on working families.

The White House says that would benefit more than 970,000 workers in Michigan.

The Senate could vote on a bill to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 as early as next week. The Senate’s second-ranking Democrat, Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, said Wednesday that if Republicans block Democrats’ ef for ts he would be open to negotiating a compromise.

One potential compromise could involve moderate GOP Sen. Susan Collins. The Maine lawmaker, who is facing re-election this year, said she’s talked to senators of both parties about a smaller minimum wage increase plus renewing tax breaks for small businesses that buy new equipment or hire veterans. She declined to provide details and said her plan could change.

“What we know for certain is $10.10 isn’t going to get through the Senate, much less the House,” she said, referring to the GOP-run chamber. House leaders have expressed opposition to that proposal.

She said the choice was

between tr ying to craft a bill that might pass, “or do some members simply want one vote and a political issue?”

On their way to the campus, Obama and Peters stopped at Zingerman’s Deli, an Ann Arbor landmark, where they ordered Reuben sandwiches and were served by a Michigan graduate who makes $9 an hour — a rate above the current federal minimum wage.

“That’s worth celebrating,” Obama said.

Peters could benefit from the publicity that a presidential visit brings, since he has not been elected statewide and polls show many voters are unfamiliar with him. Asked whether he was concerned about absorbing backlash from Obama’s unpopular health care law, Peters stressed the president’s economic message.

“I’m happy to be with the president. I work with the president on issues that are impor tant to middle class families here in Michigan and families who aspire to be in the middle class,” Peters said as Obama prepared to take the stage.

Michigan voted for Obama in both his presidential campaigns and his bailout of the auto industry has been popular here. Still, appearing with Obama is not without risk.

An EPIC/MRA poll of voters in the state taken in Februar y showed 61 percent of respondents have a negative view of Obama’s job performance, verses 37 percent positive. The same poll found Peters and his Republican component separated by just a few points in a competitive race.

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Bees, solar and gardens coming to roofs Southeast Como is conducting aerial surveys this month to determine the unused roof space capacity in the area.

BY MEARA CUMMINGS mcummings@mndaily.com

Solar panels, vegetation and buzzing bees could all appear on Southeast Como roofs this summer.

The Southeast Como Improvement Association received a $3,000 grant from Clean Energy Resource Teams, or CER Ts, to survey all of the unused flat roof space in the neighborhood and Mid-City Industrial area and to gauge property owners’ interest in installing the three options on their roofs.

SECIA has par tnered with Minnesota Community Solar and the Minnesota Green Roofs Council to act as a matchmaker between willing property owners and sustainable technologies.

SECIA neighborhood coordinator Ricardo McCurley said the project began with a connection between the SECIA Environmental Committee and Minnesota Community Solar. The groups wanted to install solar panels in the area but realized they didn’t have to stop there.

“Solar isn’t the only game in town when it comes to unused r oof space,” he said.

To broaden the idea, McCurley said SECIA reached out to AD Greenroof LLC to include green roofing in the project and started discussing possible roof farming models and

“I think it gives the community some hope that there are ways to improve the neighborhood and the community as far as aesthetics, energy solutions and water solutions.”

EMMA VOLBRECHT University bioproducts and biosystems engineering sophomore

beekeeping.

“Out of all of that came this project, and we started tailoring the project for the CER T grant and for a broader idea,” he said.

SECIA will conduct aerial sur veys this month to determine what options — solar panels, green roofs or beehives — are most fitting for each space, depending on weight capacity and roof access.

Similar projects in Minneapolis include the Target Center’s vegetated roof and solar panels on the Minneapolis Convention Center, the Seven Corners Apartment building on the West Bank and Fire Station 19 in Stadium Village. University of Minnesota buildings such as Ralph Rapson Hall and the University

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The Southeast Como Improvement Association is surveying flat roofs in the area to see if they would be viable spaces to install solar panels or other sustainable features like green roofs and beekeeping.

Office Plaza Building also have solar panels.

SECIA has also applied for a Green Infrastructure grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, which would allow the group to install more green roofs in the near future.

While Minneapolis residents need a permit to have a beehive in their garden, a permit is not necessary for beehives kept above two stories.

“The neighbors will benefit from the added pol-

lination to their gardens,” McCurley said. “If you’ve got a good working beehive even within a mile of your garden, you’re going to see upticks of anywhere from 50 to 200 percent in your production.”

Erin Rupp, co-owner of Beez Kneez, a local honey bicycle-deliver y business, said bees with a hive on a roof won’t negatively interact with humans like they could if the hive was on ground level.

“Their hive is their

home, so if their entrance is up three stories, it means that they’re not going to bother anyone,” she said.

Rupp said she hopes the project will raise awareness of the struggling bee populations.

“These days it’s really hard to be a bee,” she said.

The project’s overall goal is to get about 10 to 15 businesses interested and conduct in-depth analyses of their properties for the purpose of installation, McCurley said.

University bioproducts and biosystems engineering sophomore Emma Volbrecht, an intern on the project, said she hopes the effort will inspire residents to become more aware of the sustainable options available to them.

“I think it gives the community some hope that there are ways to improve the neighborhood and the community as far as aesthetics, energy solutions and water solutions,” she said.

Syrians adjust to life without limbs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JIB JANINE, Lebanon — Grimacing, Mustafa Ahmad slid the scarred stump just below his right knee into his new prosthetic leg. Extending his arms for balance, he slowly rose and hobbled across the packed dirt floor toward the door of his ramshackle tent.

W ild-haired children peered through a gap in the plastic sheet that serves as the wall of his tent, trying to catch a glimpse of the procedure that finally fitted Ahmad with a prosthesis, more than two years after losing his leg during a bombing raid on his hometown in northern Syria.

“I feel like I want to take a long walk, to go see my friends and neighbors,” he said later, his forehead glistening with perspiration. “I feel like my leg is back. I feel normal, like I’m back the way I was.”

Syria’s civil war, which entered its fourth year last month, has killed more than 150,000 people, but an often overlooked figure is the number of wounded: more than 500,000, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. An untold number of those — there’s no reliable estimate — suffered traumatic injuries that have left them physically handicapped.

Syria’s conflict is not unique in this regard. All wars maim and kill. What varies is the weapon associated with the carnage. In Cambodia, it was land mines.

In Iraq, roadside bombs and suicide bombings. In Syria’s case, the culprit is largely artillery and airstrikes.

It was shrapnel from a government airstrike in November 2011 on the town of Deif Hafer in Aleppo province that tore off part of Ahmad’s leg.

“When I first woke up in the hospital, I felt pain and I knew my leg was gone,” said the shy 19-year-old with a mop of dark hair. “I felt that I was done. I could no longer walk or work or go out. It was me and my bed. I lost all hope.”

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Boynton to cut down ‘unnecessary’ care Several clinics are working to reduce costly and unneeded procedures.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

The new message from doctors: Don’t get that next X-ray unless it’s really necessary.

Physicians say overused procedures, like X-rays, can harm patients and cost hospitals valuable resources. The American Board of Internal Medicine has launched a national campaign to eliminate “unnecessar y” treatments, identifying more than 270 tests or procedures “that should be questioned and discussed between physician

and patient.”

Boynton Health Service at the University of Minnesota is among seven clinics throughout the state that signed on as pilot members of Choosing Wisely, an initiative announced Wednesday that will ax unnecessary procedures and improve doctorpatient communication.

The Minnesota Medical Association received grants from the American Board of Internal Medicine to assist physicians in learning about the avoidable practices through videos, handouts and training for staff. The first training event will be held at the Guthrie Theater on April 11.

“In a few months, we will share the experiences of

Officials: 3 dead and 16 injured at Fort Hood

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FOR T HOOD, Texas — A soldier opened fire Wednesday on fellow service members at the For t Hood militar y base, killing three people and wounding 16 before committing suicide at the same post where more than a dozen people were slain in a 2009 attack, authorities said.

The shooter, who served in Iraq in 2011, had been undergoing an assessment to determine whether he had post-traumatic stress disorder, according to Lt. Gen. Mark A. Milley, the senior officer on the base.

There was no indication the attack was related to terrorism, Milley said.

A Texas congressman said the shooting happened at a medical center. Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, also identified the suspect as Ivan Lopez. But additional details about the gunman were not immediately available.

The injured were taken to Darnall Army Community Hospital at Fort Hood and other local hospitals.

Dr. Glen Couchman, chief medical officer at Scott and White Hospital in Temple, said the first four people admitted there had gunshots to chest, abdomen, neck and extremities and that their conditions range from stable to “quite critical.”

The 2009 assault on For t Hood was the deadliest attack on a domestic militar y installation in U.S. histor y. Thir teen people were killed and more than 30 wounded.

After the shooting began, the Army’s of ficial Twitter feed said the post had been locked down.

Hours later, all-clear sirens sounded.

O n We d n e s d a y e v e ning, a fatigue-clad soldier and a militar y police of ficer stood about a quartermile from the main gate waving away traffic. Other lanes were blocked by a police car and van.

Meanwhile, relatives of soldiers waited for news about their loved ones.

Tayra DeHar t, 33, said she had last heard from her husband, a soldier at the post, that he was safe, but that was hours earlier.

“The last two hours have been the most ner veracking I’ve ever felt. I know God is here protecting me and all the soldiers, but I have my phone in my hand just hoping it will ring and it will be my husband,” DeHart said.

Brooke Conover, whose husband was on base at the time of the shooting, said she found out about it while checking Facebook.

She said she called her husband, Staf f Sgt. Sean Conover, immediately to make sure he was OK, but he could not even tell her exactly what was going on, only that the base was locked down.

“I’m still hearing conflicting stories about what happened and where the shooting was exactly,” Conover said in a telephone inter view, explaining that she still did not know how close the incident was to her husband.

“I just want him to come home,” said Conover, who moved to For t Hood with her husband and three daughters two years ago.

President Barack Obama vowed that investigators would get to the bottom of the shooting.

“Any time you get a test you don’t need, there’s a chance there’s a side effect to it. And so it’s best not to have those things if you don’t need them.”

BARBARA DAIKER Minnesota Medical Association quality manager

these clinics with all Minnesota physicians,” Janet Silversmith, association director of health policy, said in a release. “We hope to learn how to … create an environment where both physicians and patients can say no to unnecessary care.”

Minnesota Medical Association Quality Manager Barbara Daiker said the problem is caused by patients and doctors disagreeing on

whether tests are needed.

Some patients enter the doctor’s of fice with preconceived notions and a strong belief they should receive a cer tain treatment, she said. Many times physicians are unable to dissuade them and then give in to their demands, Daiker said, resulting in superfluous care.

Unnecessary procedures cost hospitals money and put

the patient’s health at risk, she said.

X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans are the most overused procedures and can lead to cancers by exposing patients to harmful amounts of radiation, Daiker said.

“Any time you get a test you don’t need, there’s a chance there’s a side effect to it,” she said. “And so it’s best not to have those things if you don’t need them.”

Dr. Lisa Mattson, director of the Boynton Women’s Clinic, introduced the project to the University and said a reduction could lower the amount of student services fees spent on tests.

Mattson said the fact that the American Board of Internal Medicine is behind the project will tell people that

money isn’t the only motivation, but too much testing is bad for everyone involved.

Mattson said Choose Wisely will help doctors explain to patients why they don’t need tests, allowing them to better understand their care.

Doctors should be clarifying their decisions with their patients already, Mattson said, but often don’t in order to save time. She said the program will put pressure on doctors to do their jobs better.

“It’s really an awesome program, because it is going to help both providers and patients understand that we don’t have to do a lot of tests for ever ything,” Mattson said. “I’ve been saying we should do this for years.”

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BULLYING

Harassment-free higher education Hemp, drone regulations can’t leave the U behind T Public universities have an obligation to create safe learning environments for all.

yler Clementi committed suicide in 2010 after his Rutgers University roommate streamed a video of his sexual encounter online.

Clementi’s death put cyberbullying in the national spotlight as celebrities, politicians, parents and other college students called for tougher measures against it.

C u r r e n t l y, t h e b e s t chance of real change is the Tyler Clementi Higher Education Anti-Harassment Act, a bill from last year. Sen. Pat Murray, D-Wash., and Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-W is., reintroduced the bill last month.

The bill’s previous version had 32 cosponsors, including Rep. Keith Ellison, DMinn. It would require public higher education institutions to expand or modify their harassment policies.

Most notably, the bill requires a revision of the

LUIS RUUSKA columnist

definition of “harassment” to include student speech “through the use of electronic messaging ser vices, commercial mobile ser vices, electronic communications or other technology.”

Though the University of Minnesota’s policies concerning harassment aren’t per fect, they’re quite good and should ser ve as a model to other colleges and universities.

The Board of Regents adopted a sexual harassment policy in 2012 that defined harassment as conduct that may create “an intimidating,

hostile or of fensive work or academic environment in any University activity or program.”

In order to combat sexual harassment, the policy compels each University campus to “adopt procedures on each campus for investigating and resolving complaints of sexual harassment” and “address violations of this policy through disciplinar y or other corrective action up to and including termination of employment or academic dismissal.”

Housing & Residential Life appears to actively use the Board of Regents policy in addition to their Community Behavioral Standards.

These standards include a clause on hazing, which is any activity that “endangers the mental or physical health or safety of an individual.”

This includes acts “intended to cause personal degradation or humiliation.”

Cumulatively, both of these University policies, in conjunction with others, work well to accomplish nearly ever ything the Tyler Clementi Higher Education

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 122,364- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,418 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

Anti-Harassment Act hopes to implement in all public colleges and universities nationwide.

However, where University policies could use modification is in recognizing technological harassment as an equally valid form of harassment.

Though colleges and universities cer tainly can’t change or control people’s prejudices or limit their right to free speech, they can take appropriate action when this prejudice manifests as harassment through a school’s Internet, computers or other digital technology.

The reality is that students’ digital lives are increasingly inter twining with their real ones. Higher education cannot ignore this phenomenon. Even universities with anti-harassment policies as stringent as the University’s should reflect this change in how they regulate student interaction.

Luis Ruuska welcomes comments at lruuska@mndaily.com.

GUEST COLUMN

Minimum wage doesn’t belong in state Constitution Democrats in the state Legislature are starting to push for a partisan constitutional amendment.

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Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Rice’s speech would contradict its effort toward civil rights On April 17, Condoleezza Rice will be speaking at Northrop Auditorium as the 2014 Distinguished Carlson Lecturer. She will be speaking on the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the subject of civil rights. The Humphrey School of Public Affairs describes her speech as an effort to recognize “her effort to foster freedom and democracy.”

Many people on campus and in the community might laugh at such a strange statement, as if it were an Onion headline from 2005. This is no joke, and most people aware of her visit agree Rice is a terrible choice to speak on civil rights or “freedom and democracy.”

Any student of recent histor y can recall that, under her leadership as secretary of state and national security adviser, the United States has been accused of committing widespread crimes against humanity. These accusations include, but are not limited to, an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq and the systematic torture of thousands of people.

In response to her visit, many are rallying to call for her invitation to be revoked and, if not, to rally to remind her of her role in these crimes. These efforts include the University of Minnesota Faculty Senate debating a resolution of

rescinding the invitation and students and community groups actively organizing a rally.

It is with this encouragement for civil dialogue that Students for a Democratic Society is calling upon students and community members to join us to welcome Rice with a clear statement that accused war criminals are not welcome on our campus. We call upon people to help Rice remember that she is not distinguished by histor y as anything other than an accused war criminal. We fur ther call for people to remind her of the atrocities committed at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay during her leadership.

Chris Getowicz Students for a Democratic Society

University needs support from student voices I visited the Capitol last week with more than 150 other students from the Crookston, Duluth, Morris, Rochester and Twin Cities campuses for Support the U Day. Together, we told lawmakers about the impor tance of investing in the University of Minnesota.

I want to thank Sen. Terri Bonof f, DFL-Minnetonka; Sen. Jeremy Miller, R-Winona; and Rep. Gene Pelowski Jr., DFL-Winona, for speaking at our stand-

ing-room-only rally. Those three lawmakers and the 50 others we met with in small groups heard us loud and clear: The University needs $100 million to renovate and repair buildings across the five campuses.

Without these repairs, our cur rent buildings won’t realize their useful lives. Despite this, a current legislative proposal would fund less than onethird of the University’s preser vation and replacement needs. With tuition and student debt at skyhigh rates, students can’t af ford to foot this bill.

While cur rent proposals do a good job of funding much-needed new facilities and laboratories, the Legislature and Gov. Dayton need to do better on repairs and renovation.

Even though it’s called Support the U Day, fighting for the University’s capital investment request isn’t limited to one day. Support for the University and its students must be heard and seen on Facebook, on Twitter and through emails to our legislators.

Student voices car r y influence at the Capitol, and I urge more University students to contact their lawmakers and encourage suppor t for the University’s legislative request this session.

Tyler Hubler Government relations officer Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition

ome people — or at least some politicians — never learn.

Two years ago, the Republican majorities in the Minnesota Legislature, stymied by the Democratic governor, put a pair of partisan amendments on the election ballot. Not only did their bids to enshrine a ban on same-sex marriage and a requirement for photo ID for voters in the state’s fundamental law fail; the overreach played a role in the loss of their majorities.

Last week, the majority Democrats, unable to come to a consensus on their plans to raise the state minimum wage — and in particular, unable to attain a majority to “index” future raises of the minimum wage — started the process of putting it in a constitutional amendment.

It wasn’t long ago that DFL leaders were talking about the need to avoid such partisan amendments.

It wasn’t long ago that they were floating an amendment raising the requirement to put future amendments on the ballot to a legislative supermajority, rather than the current 50 percent-plus one.

If the Legislature can’t reach agreement on what should be done on this contentious issue, it might be a pretty good indication that the state as a whole isn’t in agreement.

On Friday, a Senate panel heard opposition to the amendment plan from both the Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO — two interest groups on opposite sides of the minimum wage dispute but united in agreement on this point: The minimum wage issue doesn’t belong in the state Constitution. It belongs in the hands of the Legislature. (Despite the unified opposition to the amendment scheme, the committee advanced the amendment on a party-line vote.)

If the Legislature can’t reach agreement on what should be done on this contentious issue, it might be a pretty good indication that the state as a whole isn’t in agreement.

The DFL should consider that before following its Republican predecessors down the path of legislative overreach.

This editorial appeared in the the Mankato Free Press on March 31.

Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

Regulation of unmanned aircrafts and hemp shouldn’t trip up University research programs.

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niversity of Minnesota research was implicated in two ver y different conversations at the state Legislature, the Minnesota Daily reported last week.

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, is sponsoring a bill to loosen restrictions on industrial hemp in research at colleges and universities.

University researchers are currently restricted to small amounts of hemp obtained from specific facilities. Making industrial hemp more accessible to higher education could have statewide agricultural, pharmaceutical and economic benefits.

The school is also implicated, albeit indirectly, in the growing discussion of drones at the Capitol. State regulation of drones is a hot topic nationwide, and legislation so far has been patchy and even crude.

At least 10 bills have been introduced in the Minnesota Legislature this session. While we applaud lawmakers for their proactivity, some bills could unintentionally hinder research.

Many of the academic uses for drones are separate from the type of behavior that these bills are meant to regulate.

That doesn’t mean drone use in research should be treated as categorically separate under the law or otherwise be free from regulation.

However, as the University rightfully devotes many resources to lobbying for bonding projects, the school needs to make its stake in drone legislation known. In turn, state regulation of unmanned aircraft must be nuanced and mindful of drones’ many uses.

Let University students decide The Board of Regents should not create new requirements for student representatives.

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niversity of Minnesota Board of Regents policy requires that eight students — four from the Twin Cities campus and one from each of the four other campuses — represent the student voice to the board and assist in deliberations. At the Twin Cities campus, the Minnesota Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly elect student representatives.

The board voted late last month to revise its policy, limiting potential representatives to only full-time students with a GPA of 2.5 or higher, the Minnesota Daily reported.

The board unanimously approved the changes, but some student leaders are concerned that the board may have encroached on what should be a matter left to students.

Matt Forstie, chairman of the Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition, told the Daily that the board’s changes infringe “on the decision-making rights that the students have.”

Joelle Stangler, MSA’s ranking representative to the board, told the Daily she felt the additional requirement was passed with little discussion. She also worries that the requirement reduces the application pool and could bar capable students from the position.

We agree with Forstie and Stangler that the requirement is unnecessar y and the issue is better left up to students.

Though a 2.5 GPA is a modest requirement, grades do not tell the whole stor y regarding a student’s ability to lead. The board originally proposed a 3.0 GPA minimum. Both requirements seem arbitrar y.

Additionally, if the board genuinely respects and seeks the voice of students, it should refrain from overstepping its bounds and creating requirements for the position. Instead, it should leave it up to the students themselves to decide how to select representatives.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers search for redemption in final MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW

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SOUTHERN METHODIST

6 p.m. Thursday at Madison Square Garden, New York

MINNESOTA: This is the Gophers’ second NIT final appearance in three years. Stanford spanked Minnesota, winning by more than 20 points, in the 2012 title game.

Gophers senior guard Austin Hollins has played his best basketball to wrap up his collegiate career. Hollins is averaging 16.3 points over his last nine games.

On Tuesday night with a victory over Florida State, the Gophers notched their 24th win of the season, tied for a school record, excluding vacated results.

SMU: The Mustangs are led by legendary head coach Larry Brown, who’s the only coach to ever win a NCAA and NBA championship.

SMU has 27 victories this year, two of those coming over Connecticut, a Final Four team this season.

The Mustangs barely missed the NCAA tournament this year, finishing as the selection committee’s first team out.

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BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Minnesota guard Andre Hollins drives past a Florida State defender Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden in New York.

Minnesota lost to Stanford 75-51 in the NIT final two seasons ago.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

NEW YORK — We’ve seen this movie before.

The Gophers are back in the National Invitat i o n To u r n a m e n t f i n a l for the second time in

three years. Minnesota’s first appearance didn’t go so hot.

The Gophers were run out of Madison Square Garden two years ago, falling 75-51 to Stanford in the final. That pummeling put a damper on an other wise successful postseason stretch.

The Gophers are hoping to flip the script this time around and finish this NIT run with a championship.

“The way we lost to Stanford, if that’s not motivation, I don’t know what is,” junior guard Andre Hollins said.

This path to the NIT final, however, is dif ferent than it was two years ago. So much has changed since then.

“There’s a lot of differences,” senior guard Austin Hollins said. “We’ve got a lot of new guys on our team.

We’ve got a new coach, new staff, new style of play.

“You can’t compare this run to the last run.”

The 2011-12 Gophers b a r e l y m a d e t h e N I T. They ear ned just six Big Ten regular-season wins, and they were lucky to even play in the postseason.

The 2013-14 Gophers are a dif ferent s t o r y. M i n n e s o t a w a s better than most people expected in Richard Pitino’s first season as the bench boss.

The Gophers won eight Big Ten games in the regular season and just missed the NCAA tournament — earning a No. 1 seed in the NIT. Many teams that garner a top seed in the NIT fall early in the competition, uninterested in the second-tier tournament.

Not the Gophers.

They won three consecutive games to get back to Madison Square Garden.

Gophers junior center Mo Walker said the reason for the perseverance and unwillingness to fold is simple. “ We j u s t l o v e t h e game,” Walker said. “We love to play, and no matter where we play, we’re going to play hard and do our best.”

Playing under the bright lights of Madison Square Garden motivated the Gophers, too, Walker said.

“It’s fun,” he said. “You really feel like you’re on that big stage.”

Still, the lights and glamour of New York can make it dif ficult to focus on the game — something that might have hur t the Gophers the last time around.

“The first time we were here, we were more awe-

stricken,” Andre Hollins said. “It was like, ‘Wow, this is Madison Square Garden. We’re here. This is big-time. This is the big show.’”

Hollins said the veterans are more prepared for the moment this season. As for the bright lights, the Gophers have a been-ther e-done-that mentality.

“It’s much easier to focus now because you’ve already seen ever ything,” Hollins said. “We use that experience and shed that to our younger guys … who haven’t been here before. This is a business trip.”

Whether that increased focus leads to a title will be determined Thursday night when the team hits the court against Southern Methodist.

Austin Hollins said this NIT r un and the Gophers’ last one both pr ovide momentum toward next year. Besides that, he said this r un is different.

And the Gophers are hoping it ends dif ferently, too.

“It stung when we lost to Stanfor d — making it to the championship and then having to lose,” Austin Hollins said. “We don’t want that to happen again.”

GYMNASTICS

Minnesota uses toughness to overcome woes The Gophers have been bitten by the injury bug many times this season.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

As junior Cierra Tomson went down with a back injury moments before her routine at the Big Ten championships, the women’s gymnastics team was thrust into a season-defining moment.

Minnesota needed to replace four routines before the start of the meet.

Some teams might have crumpled, but the two gymnasts who replaced Tomson performed admirably, helping the Gophers to finish third in the team standings.

“I think our backups were prepared to step in,” senior Kayla Slechta said. “We went into [it] like it was nothing … and it worked out really well.”

Minnesota has been forced to respond to adversity time and time again this season.

The Gophers have been without sophomore Hanna Nordquist since late Febr uar y, and Tomson’s tweaked upper back at the conference meet added yet

another name to the injury report.

Still, amid the many setbacks, Minnesota has seemed unfazed, capable of an answer.

“It really has tested our strength as a team,” sophomore Lindsay Mable said. “I think we’ve overcome quite a few adversities this year.

And little or big things, we’ve shown each other and the rest of the world that we can conquer it.”

Slechta called her teammates “fighters” because of the way they’ve overcome hardships.

And while the Gophers went through their share of misfortune, this weekend could play in their favor, as Nordquist and Tomson could return Saturday night.

“Hanna Nordquist is working out, and Cierra gets better everyday,” head coach Meg Stephenson said. “We have three practices this week, and we’re just going to play it day by day.”

And even if the Gophers don’t get Nordquist and Tomson back for the NCAA regional, they’ve proven that they have the depth to overcome problems no matter the stage.

“We’re really lucky to have a lot of depth on the team so that if something

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Kayla Slechta competes on bars March 9, 2013, in a quad meet at the Sports Pavilion.

like that is to happen, we don’t have to worr y about it,” Mable said. “You know that the other people are prepared.”

This weekend, the Gophers will need that preparation to reach a different level when they host the NCAA regional Saturday.

Oklahoma, Illinois, California, Southern Utah and San Jose State will join the Gophers at the competition.

Those teams will be vying for one of the top two spots in the competition — the top two teams will advance.

“We know everybody in the regional … is good,” Stephenson said. “I don’t think

we take anyone for granted.”

Since the turn of the century, the Gophers have qualified for the team portion of the NCAA meet only twice.

Slechta said she and her teammates aren’t intimidated by any of the teams this weekend.

“We all believe that we are top one or two,” Slechta said.

“And I think just having that belief gives us extra confidence going into the meet.

“We’re ready to grow on and keep building upon what we did last weekend and to prove to everyone … that we can make [it] to nationals for a second time. It wasn’t just a fluke.”

GYMNASTICS PREVIEW

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NCAA REGIONALS OPPONENTS

NO. 14 MINNESOTA 6 p.m. Saturday at Sports Pavilion

PREVIEW: No. 14 Minnesota will host a six-team NCAA regional on Saturday where the top two teams advance to the NCAA championships in Alabama.

At last year’s regional in Gainesville, Fla., the Gophers put up their second-highest score of that season — placing second and qualifying for the NCAA meet as a team. Minnesota hopes to replicate that same success at the Sports Pavilion this weekend.

The Gophers, coming off a third-place finish at Big Ten championships, could have their full squad back at full health on Saturday with the potential return of junior Cierra Tomson and sophomore Hanna Nordquist.

Tomson and Nordquist sat out at the Big Ten championships.

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BASEBALL

Minnesota blanks D-III Augsburg 1-0

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota second baseman Connor Schaefbauer bats against Michigan State on March 29 at Siebert Field.

The Gophers had only three hits and one run the entire game.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Minnesota’s bats were held mostly silent, but the one r un the of fense did manage was just enough for its pitching staff.

The Gophers shut out Augsburg 1-0 at Siebert Field on Wednesday afternoon.

Minnesota’s T uesday game against North Dakota State was postponed, so it picked up the game with Augsburg to get some extra in-game experience.

The Gophers were shut out in two games on Sunday, and head coach John Anderson said he didn’t see his team make a lot of adjustments at the plate Wednesday.

“We’re not going to improve as an of fense until we can get some guys to make adjustments … and let us coach [them],” he said. “I think there’s some guys that think they’ve got it all figured out, and it doesn’t look like it to me.”

Minnesota had only three hits all afternoon — one each from junior Mark Tatera, freshman Jordan Smith and sophomore Connor Schaefbauer.

Schaefbauer led off the fourth inning with a triple,

and the next batter, third baseman Tony Skjefte, drove him in with a sacrifice fly.

“I hit it well, but I didn’t know if it would get past [the fielder], necessarily,” Schaefbauer said. “So when … it did, [I knew] I could get a double for sure, and then possibly three.”

Gophers freshman pitchers Cody Campbell, Toby Anderson and Brian Glowicki combined to hold Augsburg to just four hits all game.

“I wanted to get them into any kind of game competition rather than pitching in practice,” Anderson said of his freshman pitchers.

Campbell star ted the game and walked two batters in the first inning be-

fore pitching coach Todd Oakes came out for a visit.

“He just told me to keep it loose, not really worr y about it, just zone back in on mechanics,” Campbell said.

It worked. Campbell settled down and induced a fly out to get out of the jam.

Campbell pitched three scoreless innings, giving up just one hit.

Anderson followed with 3.2 innings of scoreless pitching to earn the win.

Glowicki pitched 2.1 innings to earn the save.

Though one r un was enough to beat Division III Augsburg, the Gophers will face stiffer competition when they return to Big Ten play.

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weekend to take on the Wolverines.

The Gophers won two of three games against Michigan last year, two of which were low-scoring affairs.

Schaefbauer was optimistic that the Gophers would get back on track against Michigan. “[We] got into some trouble this past Sunday, and I think we’re all ready to kind of turn it around

here,” he said.

Anderson was less optimistic.

“You can’t help those who don’t want to be helped,” he said. “If they don’t want to make the adjustment, then they’re going to get the same results.

“What’s the definition of insanity? It’s doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

SOFTBALL

Gophers ready for heated rematch with Wisconsin SOFTBALL PREVIEW

VS NO. 14 MINNESOTA

WISCONSIN

6 p.m. Friday, 1 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium

MINNESOTA: Minnesota has won 11 of its last 12 games and is a program-best 27-4 overall this season.

Gophers freshman Sara Groenewegen will look to continue her dominance both at the plate and in the pitcher’s circle after blasting a home run in each of the team’s first two games and pitching a complete-game shutout in the second game of the series.

And senior pitcher Sara Moulton will be playing for the first time since being drafted fifth overall in the 2014 National Pro Fastpitch College Draft this week. She enters the series just 11 strikeouts shy of the program record.

WISCONSIN: The Badgers sport a 16-14 overall record this year, and their 2-4 Big Ten record is good for eighth-best in the conference.

Wisconsin senior outfielder Mary Massei’s .383 batting average and seven home runs both lead the team.

Badgers senior pitcher Cassandra Darrah will look to lead the charge for Wisconsin from the pitcher’s circle. She leads the team in ERA (2.75) and strikeouts (79).

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota pitcher Sara Moulton pitches during a doubleheader against Wisconsin on April 7, 2013, at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.

Minnesota lost to the Badgers in the Big Ten title game last season.

BY JARED CHRISTENSEN jchristensen@mndaily.com

No. 14 Minnesota will look to continue its best season ever this weekend with a three-game tilt against Wisconsin at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.

The Gophers lost 9-3 to the Badgers in last year’s Big Ten championship game. This year, junior infielder Tyler Walker said the series is about a lot more than the famed Border Battle between the two schools. “ We ’ r e o u t f o r r e venge,” she said. “It’s not about the Border Battle.

It’s about the battle we had with them last spring in the title game.

“And we’re going to

come out on top.”

It’s been a busy week of warm up for Minnesota as two of its players received impressive individual honors.

Gophers freshman Sara Groenewegen was named Co-Big Ten Freshman of the Week following her outstanding ef for t against the Illini, and All-Big Ten first team pitcher Sara Moulton was drafted fifth overall in the National Pro Fastpitch College Draft.

These two distinctions add to the growing list of awards won by softball players this season, and head coach Jessica Allister said she’s never coached a team with this much talent.

“This is a special team,” she said. “This is the most depth we’ve ever had in the pitcher’s circle.

“And on any given day, anybody can come up big for us.”

Moulton — one of the

most accomplished pitchers in Gophers histor y — emphasized that even though she was drafted, her goal is still to win a Big Ten championship this year.

“I’ll be more excited about the draft when it comes time to be,” Moulton said.

While Moulton is being forced to think about her post-Gophers playing days, Groenewegen’s career at Minnesota is just starting to blossom.

In her freshman campaign, she boasts a 7-0 record in the pitcher’s circle and has seven home runs in the batter’s box.

She is the first Gophers softball player to win Freshman of the Week honors since junior Kaitlyn Richardson won the award in April of her fresh-

man season.

Groenewegen said she relishes the opportunity to contribute to the team so early in her career.

“I don’t think a lot of freshmen anticipate having a big role on the team right away,” she said. “It’s been fun to find my role, and the timing has been great for me.”

Even with the early success this year, Moulton said she hasn’t forgotten last year’s conference title game.

“This year, we’ve been working towards getting back to that Big Ten championship game,” she said.

“And to have that taken away from us by Wisconsin last year definitely lights a fire under us.

“It’ll be a bloodbath this weekend, but we owe them three.”

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TENNIS

Courter returns from injury, leads team Julia Courter was forced out of last season after she had wrist surgery.

MEN’S TENNIS PREVIEW

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BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Julia Cour ter can be hear d fr om acr oss the Baseline Tennis Center during competitions. Her voice echoes throughout the facility — either celebrating after a won point or cheering on her teammates.

“She brings a lot to the team,” head coach Chuck Merzbacher said. “She has great energy, and she’s really positive. She sets the tone.”

It’s for that reason that the team is happy to have her back in the lineup after she missed all of last season with a left wrist injur y.

“She’s ver y emotional on the cour t,” senior Natallia Pintusava said, “but that makes the rest of the team fired up.”

In her thir d season with the Gophers women’s tennis team, Cour ter has morphed into one of the steadiest and most influential competitors on the roster.

“She has one way, and that’s all-in,” Merzbacher said. “That has a positive impact across the team.”

And her on-cour t perfor mance is almost as impressive as her leadership skills. Cour ter is 14-3 this season and is an ef ficient 8-2 in her last 10 contests.

“I’m feeling really comfortable with all aspects of my game,” she said. “I’m just really happy to be back this season, so that’s

3 p.m. Friday and noon Sunday at Baseline Tennis Center

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WOMEN’S TENNIS PREVIEW

@ OHIO STATE

MINNESOTA

PENN STATE

3 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. Sunday in Columbus, Ohio, and University Park, Pa.

PREVIEW: Minnesota’s women’s tennis team has been hot for most of the season, and it shows no signs of slowing down at this point in the season.

The Gophers split a pair of matches last weekend, losing to Purdue last Friday before beating Indiana on Sunday.

Minnesota has made the doubles point a focus all season and has won most of its matches in which it takes that point. It will attempt to repeat that success on the road this weekend.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM HANNAH STRICKLAND, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Julia Courter serves the ball April 22, 2012, at the Baseline Tennis Center.

another thing that adds to my fire.”

Cour ter was a highly touted recruit out of Lawrenceville, Ga., and spent most of that season at the No. 4 singles spot. She finished with a 17-12 overall record.

She injured her wrist during her freshman season, just as she was poised for a breakout year, and

had to get surger y in November of her sophomore campaign.

“I love to win and hate to lose, so not being able to help my team last year was really hard for me,” she said. “We had a lot of injuries, and I wish I could’ve stepped up for the team.”

Cour ter rehabbed her wrist for months and said

in that time she was able to hit forehands with her right hand.

Still, she said the rehab was a long and gr ueling process that took a lot of mental strength.

“I thought I could do more than I could because I wanted to push myself,” she said, “but I needed to learn to slow it down so I could actually recover.”

Courter said she didn’t feel 100 percent comfor table playing until after the fall season, but she appears fully recovered now.

Since recovering, Cour ter has been a staple of the bottom half of the lineup. She and two teammates — junior Aria Lambert and sophomore Paula Rincon Otero — have combined for a 38-10 record at the bottom of the lineup.

“We know we have what

it takes to be successful,” Cour ter said, “so we want to keep rolling the rest of the season.”

Merzbacher said it was tough not having Cour ter last season, but in a way, it might have been a blessing in disguise.

“We had to have ever yone else step up and get better in her absence,” he said. “We made the best of it, but we’ve got her now, and she’s doing great.”

SWIMMING & DIVING

Siegmeier ready to repeat as Big Ten champ The concept of trajectory can be a tricky thing, but it hasn’t seemed to be a problem for Gophers senior pole vaulter Zach Siegmeier.

He ended his junior track and field season with a big jump — literally — and won the Big Ten outdoor championships, his first major competition gold.

That success, however, didn’t cut into his focus for the summer and fall. Instead, Siegmeier continued his upward curve by knocking off personal bests before winning another title at the Big Ten indoor championships this season.

Though the outdoor season has just started, the senior is already primed to repeat last year’s title-winning performance after nabbing the Big Ten Field Athlete of the Week honor March 26.

His coach, Paul Thornton, said the turnaround started long before Siegmeier’s first Big Ten title.

When the Gophers lost last year’s Big Ten indoor championships by a slim margin, Siegmeier, who didn’t place in his event, left thinking his performance cost the

PENN STATE

PREVIEW: The Gophers men’s tennis team is coming off a weekend split in Indiana. Minnesota lost to Purdue last Friday before it managed a 4-3 win over Indiana two days later.

The Gophers have been hit-or-miss this season, boasting a 9-8 overall record and a 3-2 record in the Big Ten. They have placed an emphasis on conference play and have a chance to steal two crucial wins against good competition this weekend.

Minnesota will need better production from the bottom half of its lineup to pull out the victories, though. It has received only two wins from its No. 5 singles spot all season.

TRACK & FIELD

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

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team the title.

“When we came back …

Zach and I sat down, and he asked how he can become better,” Thornton said. “And the primary thing was speed.

He was a ver y good pole vaulter, but he needed to be faster.”

So Siegmeier took it upon himself to improve his sprinting and approach, which led him to success — he set a personal best in his first outdoor meet after the disappointing end to his indoor season.

“I wasn’t satisfied with where I was at,” he said. “And I … used that as motivation.”

His teammate, junior Logan Markuson, ser ves as one of his training partners.

Markuson said Siegmeier’s stellar results are a product of focus and hard work.

“He’s one of those guys who brings all the intensity to the weight room,” he said.

“He’s going to get on you if you’re late.”

While Siegmeier may be strong competition in the Big Ten this year, he said he doesn’t feel much like a powerhouse pole vaulter.

“I still see targets on other people’s backs that I’m trying to go after,” he said.

As for his trajectory, Siegmeier said he’s noticed his

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All day Friday and Saturday in Palo Alto, Calif., and Tampa, Fla.

PREVIEW: Minnesota began its outdoor season two weeks ago at the TSU relays.

Gophers senior Katie Loberg tied for first in the high jump, and junior Devin Stanford won the discus throw and the hammer throw.

This weekend, the distance runners will travel to California, while the sprinters and field athletes will compete in Florida.

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Friday and Saturday in St. Paul, and Palo Alto, Calif.

PREVIEW: The Gophers won three titles in the opening weekend of their outdoor season two weeks ago — sophomore Goaner Deng in the 400-meter dash, senior Zach Siegmeier in the pole vault and freshman Jordan Charles in the triple jump.

This weekend, the main portion of the team will travel to Stanford while a smaller group will compete at Hamline.

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development and plans to capitalize on it, even after graduation.

“I’m going to keep training for pole vault and just see

where that can take me,” he said. “I’ve been rapidly improving over the last year, and so I’m really interested to see.”

Minnesota will not renew Dale’s expiring contract force in the Big Ten. He achieved his first Big Ten title as a coach in the 1995-96 season and helped the team win six more titles over the next 11 seasons.

The six-time Big Ten Coach of the Year coached more than 100 NCAA AllA m eri can s an d hel p ed put together a run of five consecutive top-10 NCAA finishes from 2000 to 2004.

“Dennis built our men’s swimming program and has been the guiding force behind its many accomplishments,” athletics director Nor wood Teague said in the release. “You don’t have this amount of consistent success without a truly special individual, and we have had that in Dennis for 29 years.”

Gophers head men’s and women’s swimming and diving coach Kelly Kremer declined to comment on the announcement of Dale’s departure.

Dennis Dale will not return next season after 29 years on the job.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

Gophers head men’s swimming coach Dennis Dale won’t return to the program next year, the University announced in a release Wednesday morning.

University associate athletics director for strategic communications Chris Werle told the Minnesota Daily that Dale’s contract expired and the University decided not to renew it.

Dale arrived on campus in 1985 to coach a team that hadn’t placed higher than fourth in the Big Ten in more than 20 years.

A 1967 University alumnus, Dale reinvigorated the program and helped turn the team into a consistent

ROWING

Hodnett discovers her passion in the water Lynn Hodnett was a softball player, but she took up rowing five years ago.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

L ynn Hodnett was a longtime softball player before she set foot in a boat five years ago. While she loved taking the field, she’s found her true calling on the water.

“I think rowing just felt more right,” she said. “It was a better fit for my competitive outlet.”

While most accomplished athletes crave competition, Hodnett takes it a step further

in the water.

She doesn’t like rowing for the satisfaction of winning or because it’s fun — she likes the sport because it pushes her body to its limits.

“There’s nothing like the moment after you’re done racing and you just know, ‘I could not have pulled any harder,’” she said. “That utter exhaustion is strangely euphoric.”

Hodnett said she found enjoyment in playing softball back in the day, but the pleasure she finds in rowing is different.

She said that as a whole, rowing requires strength in order to have quick and complete strokes on the water but also requires

conditioning in order to last throughout a whole race.

That’s not the case with softball, a spor t in which players can sometimes stand in the field for extended periods of time without moving.

“You have to do it over a matter of minutes instead of just a couple of seconds,” she said. “It’s a different feeling than any other sport I’ve ever played.”

Hodnett only star ted rowing as a sophomore in high school, so she came to campus with a lot to learn.

She learned a lot in her first year on the team but still had room to grow.

Now, after focusing on “one thing at a time,” she’s

developed into one of the team’s most valued rowers in the boat.

“She’s … beginning to be one of those rowers that comes along once in a while that absolutely knows what she’s doing and has the power to back it up,” head coach Wendy Davis said.

Minnesota co-captain Katherine Windsor has also had a hand in Hodnett’s development, by leading with energy and a positive attitude that’s infectious among the rest of the roster.

“I really tr y to just inspire the girls to get after it each and every day,” Windsor said.

Hodnett has gotten after it the entire spring season

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PREVIEW: The Gophers last competed in Knoxville, Tenn., two weeks ago, taking advantage of the warm weather to train on the water.

Since then, Minnesota has spent more time practicing on the Mississippi River after training indoors for most of the winter.

Minnesota will partake in another out of state competition this weekend in Boston.

Lynn Hodnett has emerged as a key rower for the team in her junior season. Hodnett, a St. Paul native, began rowing five years ago and has seen her passion for the sport grow the more she competes.

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in order to achieve that euphoria of post-race exhaustion.

Still, being the competitor she is, she said one of the best feelings is passing

another team’s boat during competition.

“That’s a pretty amazing feeling,” Hodnett said, “to just slowly walk through another boat.”

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ART

Comedy in tragedy

The plays were performed in small, crowded spaces and used minimal sets, if any.

Not all prisoners were able to be audience members because the large population density at Terezín made it hard to get a ticket. For those who could attend, though, the experience was invaluable.

“It was a moment when we could forget that we were in prison, really,” said Justman, who was both a performer and an audience member.

Within this escape, the prisoners were able to find their own power.

“They were having an intensely negative Jewish identity being imposed on them,” Peschel said.

“They could recreate their own identity by acting it on stage.”

Author Lisa Peschel resurrects plays created during the Holocaust.

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Though many of the jokes in these plays get hearty laughs, not all of the humor translates for modern audiences, actor Lindberg said.

“There’s this piece where they talk all about how skinny’s in, like, ‘You don’t want cur ves, you want to be able to see the bones. That’s what’s in.’

How am I supposed to laugh at that?” Lindberg said. “But they did. So it’s funny, and it’s also a fascinating examination of our basic humanity.”

Lindberg spoke positively about the “wall of discomfor t” that sometimes arose when an audience didn’t laugh at a joke.

“You’re fiercely challenging their preconceptions about the Holocaust, themselves and the people that were doing it,” he said.

Local actors Ryan Lindberg and Emily Zimmer rehearse a skit of “Laughter in the Dark” at the Nautilus Music Theater in St. Paul on Wednesday.

BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

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t’s not often that the Holocaust is associated with laughter.

But there were moments of joy amid the horror, as prisoners used humor and art to preser ve their strength and humanity.

University of Minnesota lecturer Lisa Peschel spent her undergraduate and graduate years researching Terezín, a concentration camp and Jewish ghetto in what is now the Czech Republic, and she found that though scholars had paid attention to music and children’s drawings created there, few had paid

attention to the comedy sketches and songs written by prisoners.

Since then, she’s inter viewed more than 80 sur vivors and sought out individual scripts, binding 11 of them together for her book “Per forming Captivity, Per forming Escape: Cabarets and Plays from the Terezín/Theresienstadt Ghetto,” which she first published in German and Czech in 2008.

In honor of the English translation’s debut, Peschel will host a book launch at the University.

Local actors R yan Lindberg and Emily Zimmer will perform various selections, with explanations from Peschel in between.

“The event is about the wide range of the prisoners’ reactions that were performed in many different theatrical performances,” Peschel said.

The legwork Peschel’s research began with her work at the University of Texas and continued through her doctoral dissertation.

“I knew pretty much from the beginning that she would follow this as far as it went,” University of Minnesota associate theater professor Margaret Werry said.

Werr y was the adviser for Peschel’s doctoral disser tation, which examined how a specific group

of sur vivors recounted the significance of theater in the ghetto over time.

“I think [Peschel’s] book and the work that she has done is absolutely invaluable because it’s both scholarly — the scholarship in her book is absolutely impeccable — and at the same time, it’s fascinating,” Holocaust sur vivor and filmmaker Zuzana Justman said.

Setting the stage Terezín was dubbed a “model ghetto” — an effort to hide the nature of concentration camps from the outside world.

About 30,000 people died there from disease, malnutrition and exhaustion.

Prominent Jewish figures were imprisoned there in par t for the sake of using their skills, said Jodi Elowitz of the University’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Some jobs at Terezín were unique from those in typical camps. For instance, writers were given of fice work, such as making char ts, graphs and transpor t lists, which required a typewriter, Peschel said. Access to these typewriters allowed the prisoners to type plays.

The per formances at Ter ezín included both popular works and original pieces written by prisoners, Justman said.

“Laughter in the Dark: Newly Discovered Songs and Sketches from the Terezín / Theresienstadt Ghetto, 1942-44” Where Ultan Recital Hall, Ferguson Hall, 2106 S. Fourth St., Minneapolis When 7:30 p.m. Thursday Cost Free

FOOD

The best of chickpeas

BY GRANT TILLERY gtillery@mndaily.com

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espite its humble origin as a street snack, falafel has a cosmopolitan zing in its ever-meaty bite.

Funny, because falafel is an entirely vegetarian dish made of ground chickpeas.

The heft of the chickpeas and their deep-fried crunch sometimes confuse diners about the falafel’s meatless status.

Though it’s deep fried, falafel is extremely healthy.

Each ball contains about 60 calories, so you can feast on them without serious repercussions. To begin, there are several Middle Eastern restaurants near campus that dish up their own iteration of green, grainy greatness.

Wally’s Falafel and Hummus Wally’s falafel sandwich is the box-Caprice of fastfood sandwiches. It’s initially notable for its enormity, yet it packs unassuming substance. The fixings make the sandwich sing — Wally’s adorns the falafel deluxe with

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tender roasted eggplant and lightly fried cauliflower. Hot sauce is perfectly married with yogurt-based cucumber sauce, consummating the affair with subtly sweet, creamy heat.

The most disappointing part of the sandwich was the falafel itself. Wally’s falafel was the freshest of the bunch, and its intensely green hue was accompanied by a stronger parsley presence, taking on an almost herbal quality. Unfortunately, Wally’s errs in the composition. The falafel is exceedingly crumbly, and its subtle flavors can get lost in the vegetables.

Afro Deli Afro Deli is the crown jewel of sorely underrated West Bank restaurants, its coniferous green brick drawing in diners as much as the aromas do. Customers keep coming back for the falafel.

Though not as fresh as Wally’s, Afro Deli’s offering has the balance of spices down, with garlic to the forefront.

Afro Deli’s falafel is a better fit for a sandwich, too. The fixings are an afterthought, more generic than Wally’s carefully thought-out accoutrements. This allows the falafel to stand alone as the

main attraction, and it helps that the balls are heftily composed and fried to perfection.

423 14th Ave. SE Minneapolis

Abdul’s Afandy This pint-sized storefront dishes up some of the tastiest — and most affordable — Middle Eastern food near campus. Owner Mohammad Abdul Ahmad was one of the key players in introducing Middle Eastern food to the Twin Cities and has influenced many restaurants around town, including Wally’s.

Based on the vegetarian platter, the falafel at Wally’s and Abdul’s couldn’t be more different in taste. Abdul’s falafel was the most blasé of the pack. The chickpea and garlic flavors were not pronounced, and at times, they tasted more like a boxed-mix than restaurantgrade falafel. Abdul’s falafel tastes more at home on a bed of rice and vegetables than overpowered by sauce in a sandwich — the roasted vegetables in Abdul’s vegetarian platter gave the uninspiring falafel a kick of much needed juiciness.

Foxy Falafel If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of East

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and West Bank, take a quick jaunt down University Avenue to Foxy Falafel, situated in the sleepy St. Anthony Park neighborhood. Though it’s not a traditional Middle Eastern restaurant, Foxy dishes up falafel sandwiches that food porn aficionados could only dream about.

They are great, too, and without myriad fixings, the falafel is allowed to shine. It’s bolstered only by fresh tomatoes, cucumber and cabbage, a seemingly odd choice that

adds a sensationally sour crunch.

Their Foxy Falafel is strikingly nouveau, considering it doesn’t deviate from a traditional recipe. The balls are surreally air y on the inside, and the outside crunch emulates tempura.

The impeccable balance between garlic and parsley is highlighted with green tahini dipping sauce, which adds a lemony zest that sweetens the superbly strong flavors.

Foxy’s falafel is also prepared

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ART

A century of student drawings

Selected artwork clockwise from top: Walt Huchthausen, 1928; John Walquist, 1920; Ralph Hummott, 1919

Architecture u from Page 1

The exhibition was originally shown in Rapson from Oct. 25 to 27, where original works were on display in the librar y and reproductions were in the courtyard. Because of the minimal security at Northrop, all works will be reprinted on Sintra, a flexible, durable plastic.

Two of the originals that will be reprinted for display at Nor throp — including “Monument” by Walter J. Huchthausen, which currently resides in Fisher’s of fice — ar e drawings from Monuments Men, the group who volunteered to save historic works of ar t during World War II and whose stor y was popularized by the recent film.

Goldstein Museum of Design Exhibitions Coordinator Mary Chaney was re-

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Mary Alice Chaney, exhibitions coordinator at the Goldstein Museum of Design, and Emily Marti, the museum’s communications assistant, set up the art gallery “100 Years of Student Work” at Northrop Auditorium on Tuesday.

sponsible for commissioning the reproductions and installing the exhibition at Northrop — a rather difficult task due to the unique layout of the gallery.

“It’s a ver y unusual, but beautiful space. It’s 101 feet long and very narrow,” Chaney said. “Putting up 90 pieces will be a challenge, so we’ve been carefully planning the setup for months.”

The reproductions will be displayed in chronologi-

cal order.

“This exhibition is interesting because it covers such a broad scope,” Hession said. “Ever ything had to be communicated graphically because we know very little about what the student was studying at the time.”

The exhibition shows how architectural representation has evolved over time, while still revealing each individual’s aesthetic.

“We can look at these

100 years of student drawings as a form of rhetoric about what was happening in the world,” Fisher said.

Many of the drawings, often showing building exteriors, include landscapes, watercolor and var ying perspectives.

“I find myself enchanted by a number of early drawings from the ’20s and ’30s.

They have a ver y unique point of view,” Hession said. “But I truly love each piece on display. They’re

all beautifully done.”

This exhibition is not just for architecture connoisseurs. It’s for anyone who appreciates aesthetically pleasing designs.

“We all spend most of our lives in buildings,” Fisher said. “You don’t need to have any technical knowledge to enjoy this show. Architecture, on one hand, is a technical, professional field. On the other hand, it’s something all humans share.”

MUSIC

The Meat Puppets minus all of the gristle A&E gets up close and personal with the Meat Puppets.

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

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fter 34 years in the psychedelic souther n rock game, the Meat Puppets are still going strong.

It hasn’t been easy.

The band –– currently comprised of brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood and drummer Shandon Sahm –– has dissolved twice in the past three decades, primarily due to Cris’s struggles with heroin and crack cocaine.

The Puppets are best known for their appearance

on Nir vana’s “MTV Unplugged” session in 1993, just months before Cobain took his own life. During the performance, Cobain sang three Puppets songs, including “Oh, Me,” “Lake of Fire” and “Plateau,” which are often incorrectly assumed to be Nirvana songs.

“It was cool that they wanted us to go on there. It was [expletive] punk rock in a way where it’s like, ‘Hey, way to go, you’re actually going to take people that you dig that aren’t necessarily that commercially well-known,’ ” Cris said.

In 2003, Cris was arrested for assaulting a security guard outside a post office.

The guard shot him in the back, and Cris subsequently

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spent 21 months in prison.

In the meantime, Curt moved to Austin, Texas, where he formed Eyes Adrift with, Nirvana’s original bassist Krist Novoselic and Bud Gaugh, the former drummer of Sublime.

“I was waiting for Cris to get it together,” Curt said.

“For the most part, we never really played when we were messed up. When that started happening, it was kind of hard to play, so we took a break. He took a long one.”

Cris cleaned up in prison and, at the suggestion of Curt’s son (Elmo Kirkwood, who now plays guitar with the Puppets), Cris was asked to rejoin the band.

“We never broke up. I just couldn’t keep doing it, and

Curt carried on,” Cris said.

“It’s my fault. Curt tried and tried until he couldn’t anymore, for his own sake.”

Since recommencing, the Puppets have released four albums (in addition to the 11 they released prior to the breakup), including last year’s “Rat Farm” — a polished departure from their usual chaotic, southern rockinspired sound.

The Puppets have never followed musical conventions. Each of their 15 albums sounds entirely different from the one before it, the only constant being Curt’s warbling voice. They transitioned from hardcore punk on 1982’s “Meat Puppets” to polished Southern rock on 1984’s “Meat Pup-

pets II” to musically complicated and splendidly off-key tracks on 1985’s “Up on the Sun.” In the early 1980s, Cris and Curt lived next to each other in Arizona and practiced in a shed out back.

Though they no longer live in the same city –– Curt lives in Austin and Cris lives in Phoenix –– the brothers still manage to tour, write and record together.

“It suits our personalities in a way,” Cris said. “There was a time when we were young that we played every [expletive] day. But we wouldn’t do this if we lived in the same town — no way.

Not these days.”

Though Cris has been clean for over a decade, he

still struggles to come to terms with the damage his addiction caused.

“It’s a really insidious, horrible thing to do to yourself. I let it all happen,” he said. “The one thing that I don’t mind about the whole story is that I stopped hurting myself that bad. Not only that, but I got myself back on my feet to the degree that I can play again.”

The Meat Puppets with Moistboyz Where The Cabooze, 917 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis When 8 p.m. Saturday Cost $15 Age 18+

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St. Vincent

Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival

Bun B

Fresh off her self-titled fifth album, Annie Clark (stage name St. Vincent) has made the transformation from introspective folk chanteuse to indie-pop superstar. This transformation is a natural fit for Clark’s razor sharp lyrics and lighthearted persona (her personal listening consists of commercial country music and Disney tunes).

If the new “Captain America” film doesn’t strike your fancy and if Lars von Trier’s “Nymphomaniac: Volume II” is too much to stomach, head on over to St. Anthony Main Theatre for the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival. The 17-day festival features over 200 films from 60 different countries. The best prospects from Friday’s selections are “Breathe In” and “Stray Dogs.”

Best recognize that the trillest is coming through town with local rapper Sean Anonymous in tow. While Pimp C may be long gone, the life and times of UGK live strong with Bun B — and he won’t let you forget it. Kirko Bangz is touring along with him — get it? Kurt Cobain? Well, even if you don’t, come round to a small venue to see a big man.

Where State Theatre, 805 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis Hours 7:30 p.m.

Cost $25-29.50

Where Saint Anthony Main Theatre, 115 SE Main St., Minneapolis Hours Various times Cost $6 with student ID

Where Fine Line Music Café, 318 N. First Ave., Minneapolis Hours 8:30 p.m.

Cost $22-25

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By Grant Tillery

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What better way is there to celebrate Throwback Thursday than to listen to Usher’s “Throwback” off his “Confessions” album while you go through your old photos? I had forgotten about Usher until my friend mentioned him the other day, and what was meant to be a quick reacquainting with his canon turned into a 24-hour Usher marathon. While the whole “Confessions” album is classic — it’s hard to believe it’s 10 years old — “Throwback” is arguably its highlight.

If you haven’t watched seasons 1 through 6 of “Mad Men” yet, you have a week to catch up before the seventh and final season premieres next Sunday. If you can actually manage that, kudos. “Mad Men” centers around the journey of one Don Draper, a successful ad man and brooding lothario. While details on the upcoming season are tightly under wraps, the first six make up a masterfully executed period piece that captures the sleek minimalism and shifting cultural tides the ’60s were known for.

If you need a good laugh to get you through Friday’s impending snowstorm, check out this Twitter account. It’s a mocker y of North Korea’s much-loathed fearless leader Kim Jong Un, but the tweets come off like they were written by the man himself. The account is rife with gems like these — “Exit polls: 100% think North Korea is ‘on the right track.’ 100% approve of my handling of the economy. My job approval: 100%. #itsallgood.”

MUSIC

Sun amid the clouds Cloud Cult’s consciousness and vulnerability make for musical gold.

BY GRANT TILLERY gtillery@mndaily.com

he mid-March slush was set against a sky colored what Pantone would call Vaporous Gray.

The austere scene was an argument between winter and spring, as the end of loss and cold blossomed into promise and rebirth. It was the perfect mood to listen to Cloud Cult.

The band was formed in Minneapolis nearly 20 years ago, and their ability to remain relevant can be credited to the vulnerability engrained in their music.

“For the type of people feeling cynical about life, it’ll take them a while to understand it’s not a Pollyanna message we have here,” lead vocalist Craig Minowa said. “We have a lot of pain in our roots as a band and as our philosophy — that was there before we could show the flowery things in life.”

Minowa knows pain. In 2002, his 2-year-old son died in his sleep. Minowa channeled his pain into his music, and the reminder that life is short and precious began permeating his music.

The frontman couldn’t stand per for ming for a crowd during Cloud Cult’s early days, but his son’s death gave Minowa a new take on playing his music.

“When we lost our son, it suddenly made ever ything else dim in comparison, so getting on stage is like, ‘I don’t care if you throw tomatoes at me. I don’t care if you think I’m doing something freaky. I’m going to write this and do this how I feel like how this needs to be,’ ” he said. “And that’s been my personal medicine to get through this tragedy.

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Cloud Cult’s brand of honest earthiness draws crowds.

I lost all necessity to impress anybody else.”

This br utal honesty hasn’t always sat well with the music community at large. Minowa said certain parts of the music community slight the band’s work, especially its lyrics.

“Some people are really turned of f by needing to discuss spirituality and life lessons,” Minowa said.

But he’s able to tune out the critics, and life lessons

still per vade Cloud Cult’s mission. The band is firmly rooted in environmental causes.

Minowa and his wife, Connie, run the Earthology Institute in their adopted home in Viroqua, Wis. The small town is a hotbed of sustainable living, as several notable organic farms that provide produce to local coops are based in Viroqua.

The Minowas’ institute is a catalyst for sustain-

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ability and environmental change. Many of its core values influence how Cloud Cult operates, despite challenges presented by touring.

“Touring is dif ficult — when you’re traveling with 10 people and you’ve got a lot of gear you’re hauling all the way across the country, there’s no way to do that in a battery-powered vehicle,” Minowa said.

But Cloud Cult does what

it can to counteract the environmental impacts of touring. For example, band members plant trees to offset their carbon footprint on tour, aiming to make up not only for their travel but for the electricity they use in hotels and onstage.

Though their music emanates earthiness, Cloud Cult doesn’t seek to overplay their environmentalist leanings.

“I try not to get too literal

about environmental messaging in the music,” Minowa said. “People are aware of the issues, and I don’t want to be on stage pointing a finger.”

Yet, their new album “Unplug,” set for release April 15, feels true to the earth.

An acoustic af fair replete with guitars, accordions and glockenspiel, the album succeeds without amplified or synthesized tones.

The songs are reorchestrated interpretations of Cloud Cult classics that were recorded live in December 2013 at the Southern Theater, a venue picked because its intimacy would lend a studio-like feel to the tracks.

Minowa revealed that Cloud Cult already has a new album on the horizon, which he said could be a double-disc LP with one half of the album being entirely instrumental songs.

“It’s at a stage where it has to take as many directions as it can,” Minowa said, noting that listeners can expect both acoustic affairs and harder-rocking cuts evoking their early albums.

This Taoist musical division succinctly sums up Cloud Cult. They’re an earnest band that succeeds thanks to a time-honored recipe of making music from a place of vulnerability and honesty, something few acts achieve.

Cloud Cult Where The Fitzgerald Theater, 10 E. Exchange St., St. Paul When 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday Cost $25

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MUSIC

MUSIC

The Arditti Quartet

Christian metal rejuvenation Pioneers August Burns Red want to invite, not intimidate — even if their music scares you a little.

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

W The Arditti Quartet challenges ears with their embrace of new music.

From composers like John Cage to the University’s own James Dillon, the Arditti Quartet premiered it all.

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r vine Arditti doesn’t look at his violin like a single instrument anymore — it’s one point of a quadrilateral.

Considering that he’s been one-fourth of a string quartet for 40 years, it makes sense. He’s the only original member left, but the group remains impeccably in tune, creating a united front with their instruments.

“Sor r y, sor r y, sor r y, sorry, sorry!” violinist Ashot Sarkissjan said during a confusing moment in a rehearsal last week. “I stop for a reason, you know.”

His apology wasn’t the result of pressure from the rest of the quartet. Rather, he fits the prerequisite of

membership — loving music enough to only play it with precision.

When Arditti started the coalition in 1974, he sought to give composers a venue for exposure.

“I got bored of classical music when I was 9,” he said.

Then the Londoner coyly mentioned he started playing music at 9.

While he appreciates and occasionally even enjoys classical music, Arditti said contemporary music is keeping the art form alive, which is why the Arditti Quartet has recorded nearly 200 albums of the latest work from composers from around the world.

The group focuses on compositions of all different genres, but most of it could fit under the avant-garde umbrella. For example, the quartet’s performance last Friday at the MacPhail Center for Music showcased University of Minnesota professor James Dillon’s “String Quartet No. 4.” The piece experimented with

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complex music theor y, making it difficult for a nontrained ear to follow the twists and turns in the chaotic-sounding work.

However, the atmosphere created was accessible to ever yone. In one particularly gorgeous moment, each member gently fingered harmonics on their respective instruments to create an eerie, peaceful hum.

“It’s like having a RollsRoyce at your disposal,” Dillon said of composing for the quar tet. “I never would have written for [a] string quar tet without Arditti’s group.”

Dillon said that in his opinion, the quar tet’s existence gives continued strength to the contemporar y music scene and allowed it to expand. They’ve performed new work from performers like John Cage and Jonathan Harvey.

Of course, these artists aren’t as visible or notewor thy to folks who don’t actively engage with the ar tier side of the music

world. Cellist Lucas Fels said the quar tet hopes to expose people to the intricacy and depth of contemporary music.

“New work is fun because it’s surprising,” Fels said.

“You haven’t heard it before, and it will challenge you to see things differently.”

Even the quar tet is often surprised at what composers will throw at them.

“We’ll look at a piece and be totally taken aback,” Sarkissjan said. “I’ll say, ‘What is this? I thought I knew this person!’”

Though the quartet has switched out members consistently throughout its long existence, one thing has remained true for the quartet — the project is the result of love, talent and a tiny dose of obsession.

“We are specimens to be studied in the future,” Arditti said, joking with Dillon and the rest of the quar tet. He suddenly became serious. “We want to preser ve this histor y as it is made.”

hen Christian metalcore band August Bur ns Red formed in 2003, the genre was small but had a loyal following.

The band played cramped venues and honed their sound around the same time that future heavyweights the Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying and Blessthefall were gearing up for commercial success. Their respective fixations on marr ying the speedy rage of hardcore music to metal’s intensity would eventually place these groups on top of the humongous and passionate metalcore-with-adash-of-worship heap.

“The scene gets a lot of attention now, which is great,” guitarist JB Brubaker said.

“Rooms we play are full now, and it’s full of a lot of people who are genuinely excited to be there.”

August Burns Red has changed since 2003. They released their record “Rescue & Restore” last year and have toured all over the world.

Brubaker said the newest album is different for the band in that it experiments with new sounds outside the genre.

“We added a lot of cello support, which changed a lot of the record for us,” he said.

“I think we feel a responsibility to take risks after being together for so long.”

While “Rescue & Restore” maintains the elements that made August Burns Red hit the big time — spellbindingly technical riffs, blast beats on the drums and molasses-thick vocals — the

group allows for moments of calmness and introspection.

“When we first started, we just wanted balls-to-the wall, heavy breakdown music,” Brubaker said. “It’s an important aspect, but it’s not necessarily what I’m drawn to now.”

Even though it may not be clear from their lyrics, August Burns Red has a heavy Christian influence. Drummer Matt Greiner said the religious viewpoint underscores all of their work as a band.

“We want to write lyrics that help people flourish,” he said. “I couldn’t sleep at night if we sent a message as a band that wasn’t helpful to people or put people down.”

This is evident when listening to songs off “Rescue & Restore” like “Treatment.”

Vocalist Jake Luhrs howls lyrics like a youth pastor with fangs: “Too many hands clenched in fists / Relax your grip / Open the gates / Open the gates / Too many hearts filled with hate / Let acceptance in.”

August Burns Red tries to keep their moral undertones thematic and indirect. The band is more focused on giving their fans positive moshing mantras — they understand that listeners may not identify with their religious spin.

Greiner said he’s consistently astounded by the number of people who involve themselves in the metalcore scene. After 11 years, it still feels surreal to approach screaming, crowded rooms.

“Each show, you see a lot of the same faces — it’s like a reunion in a way,” he said.

As far as the future is concerned, the band members only know that they want to sustain this career path as long as possible.

“When it comes down to it, our job is fun,” Brubaker said.

“It keeps us interesting.”

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

sudoku

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

4/3/2014

Yesterday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (4/3): Life seems especially sweet this year. Both solar and lunar eclipses launch your partnership (4/15) and prosperity (4/29) to new levels this month. Barriers resolve. Your creativity thrives.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — There’s plenty to do close to home. Solve a domestic puzzle. Reaffirm a commitment to a partnership or project.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Things fall into place today and tomorrow. An old dream could be newly possible. Plan an adventure. Study options and strategies.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 6 — Apply discipline to your communications for the next few days. Get your message out. Test it on your friends first, and use their feedback for modifications.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — The next few days favor financial planning. The more care you take with details, the better you look. Find ways to save.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — You’re in the spotlight today and tomorrow. Use your power responsibly. Discuss financial implications, and negotiate a win-win.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Review instructions, confirm reservations, and listen to suggestions. You and a partner can stir things up today and tomorrow.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow favor contemplation, study and quiet productivity. Remain obsessed with details. Present or collect expert testimony.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — It gets busy today and tomorrow. A new project demands attention. Work more and increase profits. It may require compromise.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Study the situation. Do the homework you’ve been avoiding. Let go of obligations that you can delegate.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — New assignments keep coming in. You’re motivated by the money. Keep your head down and focus. Get your friends involved.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Make plans for major changes at home. Today and tomorrow are good for testing ideas. Gather feedback, and take notes.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — Today and tomorrow are good for making changes at home. Invest in efficiency. Clean up a mess. Get partners involved, and test new structures.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

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overheard

FOR RELEASE APRIL 3, 2014

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Professor: “If anyone shares the exam questions, I will find you and cut you into pieces.”

—Moos Tower

Professor: “Don’t eat your crayons if you want to be a vegetarian.”

—Ruttan Hall

“Had like 10 things to post on ‘Overheard’ this semester, but I ain’t no snitch.”

Guy: “You know that Bing is an acronym, right?”

Girl: “No, for what?”

Guy: “Because. It’s. Not. Google.”

—Comstock Hall

“A knuckle in the face — that’s how she says hello.”

—Centennial Hall

—Unknown

“What’s ‘earl sweatshirt?’ ”

—17th Avenue dining hall “Maybe my boobs are made of muscle. You never know.”

—Rec center

“I’m gonna go for my Ph.D. to be called a doctor and then take over the world.”

—Coffman Union

“What’s onion powder made out of?”

—Chipotle

Person 1: “What’s Tinder?”

Person 2: “It’s basically where vain people go to stroke their egos and engage in mutual masturbation.”

—Unknown

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ACROSS 1 Lab has lots of them 7 Many a chalet 13 Nielsen of “Airplane!”

14 Purple Label designer 15 Open, as a fern frond 16 Relieving 17 Olfactory detection 18 Rumor starter 22 Spanish pronoun 23 Vintage auto 24 Ballerina’s asset 26 Dress nattily, with “up” 27 Wrinkle-resistant synthetic 29 Alternative to gravel, perhaps 30 Humiliate 32 With 37-Across, what the circled words (shown in the appropriate direction) are capable of doing 35 Poker variety 36 Golfer Isao 37 See 32-Across 39 Part of a process 42 “Bartender, make __ double!”

43 Tie the knot on the sly 47 LBJ’s antipoverty agcy.

48 Sierra __ 51 “Papa-__-MowMow”: 1962 novelty hit 52 Suffix with school 54 Former “The View” co-host 55 Conglomeration 56 ’30s-’50s British Labour Party leader 58 25-Down div.

60 One on a ladder, to a kitten up a tree 61 Property recipient, in law 62 Join up 63 Garden sides DOWN 1 Prefix with scope 2 Shark, maybe 3 Comparable to a cucumber

4/3/14

By Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel

4 Hurtful remark 5 Cocktail with cassis 6 Baseball commissioner under whom interleague play became a reality 7 Wake-up call, say 8 Pilot-licensing org.

9 Red herring 10 __ Nashville: country record label 11 “Stay Fresh” candy 12 Mesh, as gears 19 Tee off 20 Joie de vivre 21 Carrier with a Maple Leaf Lounge 24 “Here’s what happened next ...”

25 Ones getting lots of Bronx cheers 28 Hops driers 31 Speakeasy employee 33 Saturn SUV

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

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34 Physics class topic 38 Bryce Canyon state 39 Cider press leftovers 40 Patricia of “Everybody Loves Raymond” 41 Of a blood line 44 “Va-va-voom!”

45 Self-assured 46 Gushes on a set

4/3/14

49 His last blog post ended, “I’ll see you at the movies” 50 Most Iraqis 53 Mid-11th century year 55 Eye, at the Louvre 57 Some RPI alums 59 Mike Trout’s team, on scoreboards

dr. date Dr. Date,

I met this guy who seems really cool and who’s so far been really open and honest. Because of that, though, I’ve found out some things about him that are making me a little nervous — namely, he’s a recovering addict who has some pretty serious depression issues.

He’s been sober for almost a year, which seems like a good sign, but I don’t know if it’s too early for him to get involved with someone. I’m also not sure how much baggage I’m ready to take on. Should I give this guy a shot, or head for the hills?

—Already Overwhelmed

Not Your Problem,

Well, you do have a heads-up on most people who usually get broadsided with addiction with no sign beforehand.

And if this person has been in the program, then they are ready to realize that most good relationships happen after a year of sobriety.

You fall into this category.

This fellow could really be on the upswing — it’s difficult to realize that sometimes people actually make it through and see the light.

And this merits another question: Are you sober?

This guy may be on the straight and narrow, but if you are completely caught up in your own baloney, then you may in fact ruin this guy’s chances of getting it right.

A large degree of this question pertains to the mental state of the questioner. Are you ready to date a person who’s been through so much? Are you capable of dealing with situations that are potentially beyond your own purview? Are you ready to ask a man who you love if he’s ready to tell you his deepest secrets?

I hope so, because that’s the boat that you bought a ticket on. Just sayin’.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I think my boyfriend might have cheated on me during his last business trip. I didn’t hear from him at all during the time he was gone, and when he got back, he seemed super bummed and is now constantly on his phone. I snuck a peek a couple times, and it looks like he’s been texting this girl he works with. What should I do? I don’t even know where to start.

—Left Behind

Risky Business,

I know where to start — with questions.

Did this dude go out of town for more than a week? Because if he did, he needs a reeeeal good excuse for his antics.

Did this dude go out of town for more than a weekend? Because if he did, he needs to a reeeeal good excuse for his antics.

Did this dude go out of town for more than a weekday? Because if he did, he needs a reeeeal good excuse for his antics.

Did this dude go out of town for more than four hours? Because if he did, he needs to get real and recognize that he has a girl who’s willing to accept a bunch of crap excuses.

And when you say you snuck a sneak peek at his phone — that really means you were prying into his “business” right?

Don’t get me wrong; this guy seems like a total tool, especially if you’ve made it this far and he’s unwilling to have a real conversation with you.

Are you willing to ask if he had an “issue” on his trip?

—Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? Email Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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Legislature, U disagree on bonding Bonding u from Page 1

keep at the University, but the state has many competing needs and funds are limited. This year, the House’s bonding budget is capped at $850 million.

Hausman’s newest bill includes nearly $52 million to construct a new Bell Museum and Planetarium facility on the St. Paul campus, a proposal she’s pushed for nearly a decade.

The bill still shor tchanges the University’s request by nearly $109 million overall, but it includes money to renovate the Tate Laborator y of Physics, construct a new Wellness Center on the Crookston campus and build a new Chemical Sciences and Advanced Materials Building on the Duluth campus, like Gov. Mark Dayton’s proposal and the House’s initial recommendation.

“While we are grateful for the House’s bonding recommendations for three of our projects, we must have a higher level of funding for our top priority, asset preser vation, or [the Higher Education Asset Preservation and Renovation fund],” University

President Eric Kaler said in a statement released after the House bill’s introduction Tuesday.

The proposal doesn’t include funding to construct a new Microbial Sciences Research Building on the University’s St. Paul campus and recommends only $30 million for HEAPR. “It’s generally been that they reduce the amount of HEAPR to fund projects,” said Brian Swanson, chief financial officer for University Services.

The chancellor of the University’s Duluth campus, Lendley Black, said in an email statement Wednesday that he’s pleased the recent House legislation included bonding dollars for the new Duluth campus facility.

He said he hopes the Senate agrees that constructing the facility is impor tant. Dayton did not include the project in his proposal.

“This building will provide much-needed laboratory space for research and teaching, while expanding partnerships with industry,” he said in the statement.

Senate recommendations are due next week.

Soon after, both chambers will compromise, consider Dayton’s proposal and ultimately decide on which proj-

RENDERING COURTESY OF ELNESS SWENSON GRAHAM ARCHITECTS INC.

Renderings of the proposed University of Minnesota Bell Museum and Planetarium. The state would be asked to fund $51.5 million of the project’s price tag of $57.5 million.

ects to fund and how much each will receive.

NEW HOUSE BONDING RECOMMENDATIONS

Beyond bonding Last week, a Senate higher education committee recommended a onetime $2.5 million boost for Duluth’s operational budget, which is down 50 percent from last year.

Sen. Terri Bonoff, DFLMinnetonka, said the funding increase is less than in the past because lawmakers are focused on getting bonding dollars for the Chemical Sciences and Advanced Materials Building, which they feel affects students more directly.

The finance report also included $250,000 to establish an apprenticeship pilot program for the University’s system and an increase in state grant tuition caps to subsidize students’ living and miscellaneous expenses.

$100M

HOUSE

INITIAL UNIVERSITY REQUEST

$56.7M $56.7M $51.5M

$30M

$30M $24M

$10M

Higher Education Preservation and Replacement

Tate Science and Teaching Renovation

$0 Microbial Sciences and Teaching Renovation

$1.1M Campus Wellness Center (UMC)

$12M

$24M

$12M

N/A Laboratory Chemical James Ford Improvement Sciences and Bell Museum of Fund Advanced Material Natural History Building (UMD) and Planetarium

SOURCE: MINNESOTA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Iranians avoid bad luck with festival

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

TEHRAN, Iran — Iranians flocked to parks rich with the smell of grilled kebabs Wednesday to toss around Frisbees, bat badminton birdies and battle one another in chess and backgammon — all to avoid being caught inside on the unlucky 13th day of the Iranian new year.

The annual public picnic day, called Sizdeh Bedar, which comes from the Farsi words for “thirteen” and “day out,” is a legacy from Iran’s pre-Islamic past that hardliners in the Islamic Republic never managed to erase from calendars.

Many say it’s bad luck to stay indoors for the holiday.

“I know a family who stayed in and later in the day the leg of their young boy was broken when he fell down the stairs.” said Tehran resident Fatemeh Moshiri, 48.

Iranian hard-liners have tried unsuccessfully for decades to stamp out the festival and other pre-Islamic events, which are seen as closer to Zoroastrianism, the predominant faith of Iranians before Islam.

“When we go out on Sizdeh Bedar, we take illomens out with us,” Tehran resident Marzieh Rahimim, 64, said. “Otherwise a quarrel may happen or an invaluable dish may be broken.”

Last week, Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, a Friday prayer leader, reiterated a common clerics’ admonition that it is “superstitious” to believe that the 13th day of the new year is unlucky or to think that the popular practice of tying blades of grass together on the day will bring good fortune.

Enjoying nature is commendable, Khatami acknowledged, but he said people should nonetheless keep Islamic values in mind because the festival comes a day before Muslims remember the anniversary of the death of the daughter of Prophet Muhammad.

Islam has been dominant for centuries in Iran, but the countr y’s Zoroastrian past has left its mark through festivals and traditions still celebrated to this day. The number of practicing Zoroastrians is a tiny minority in today’s Iran, however.