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Supporters plan to push the proposal next year with more student support.

The Gophers lost just their fifth game of the year Sunday afternoon.

It’s like “date, marry, kill,” but with clothes.

Bill to ban anti-gay therapy for minors falls short

Minnesota looks to rebound against Iowa

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The U will replace Pam Borton with the former head coach of Virginia Commonwealth.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

Marlene Stollings has been hired as the new head coach for the Gophers women’s basketball program, University of Minnesota athletics director Norwood Teague announced Monday afternoon.

Stollings takes over as head coach less than two weeks after former head coach Pam Borton’s dismissal March 28.

“I am extremely proud to be named the head coach at the University of Minnesota,” Stollings said in a release. “Minnesota has a great tradition, and I cannot wait to be part of it.”

Stollings served as the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth for the last two seasons, compiling a 33-29 record. She led a dramatic turnaround this season, as the Rams went 2210 before bowing out in the first round of the WNIT last month. That 22-10 record was the third-best record in VCU program history.

Stollings served as the head coach at Winthrop before she worked at VCU, guiding that team to an 18-13 record in her only season on

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Minnesota goaltender Adam Wilcox, pictured second to the left, catches up with former high school teammates Sunday at Wakota Arena in South St. Paul.

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HOMETOWN BOY ADAM WILCOX LED HIS TEAM TO THE FROZEN FOUR. BY SAM GORDON

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Election results corrected

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The initial GAPSA election results did not factor in votes from the Duluth campus.

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BY BLAIR EMERSON bemerson@mndaily.com

The All-Campus Elections Commission revised its official results for the next president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly on Monday, a day after releasing incorrect figures.

The updated results — which now account for both University of Minnesota-Twin Cities students and students on the Duluth campus who pay a fee to GAPSA — reveal that Alfonso Sintjago received 51.5 percent of the vote and Scott Petty received 39.1 percent. The revised figures don’t affect the election’s outcome.

This was the first year that election officials used separate ballots for students at the medical and pharmacy schools on the University’s Duluth campus, ACEC adviser Anna Sturdevant said. u See GAPSA Page 4

Adam Wilcox grew up playing hockey in the South St. Paul youth circuits before his time with the Gophers.

dam Wilcox returned to South St. Paul’s Wakota Arena one Friday night during his freshman year of college.

Wilcox practically grew up at the 52-year-old rink, but on this night, he was just a spectator — on hand for his younger sister Lauren’s hockey game.

Wilcox bumped into his high school coach, Jeff Lagoo, at the game, and the two struck up what Lagoo described as “a good talk.”

As the conversation progressed, however, swarms of children flocked around the two.

“You can hear them whispering, ‘There’s the Gopher goaltender. There’s Adam Wilcox,’ ” Lagoo said. “The kids look up to him.”

As Wilcox’s high school teammate and

close friend Tim Kohlmann phrased it, “When you are a star hockey player like Adam was, you are royalty.”

“South St. Paul is a blue-collar town built on hard, dirty work,” Kohlmann said. “And hockey.”

Wilcox personifies his hometown, where hockey isn’t just a sport; it’s a lifestyle.

Now, Wilcox is the best goaltender in college hockey, and he’s guided his Gophers to the Frozen Four in just his second year between the pipes.

“We all know the importance of that position,” Minnesota head coach Don Lucia said. “Adam really established himself after his freshman year.”

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DEVELOPMENT

Stadium Village hotel quietly moves forward The five-story, 122-room hotel breezed though a city commission Monday.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

Doran Companies’ Dinkytown hotel proposal is still in flux, but a new Stadium Village hotel is quietly moving forward near the

University of Minnesota.

The Minneapolis Planning Commission unanimously approved CPM Companies’ $13 million extended-stay hotel Monday without discussion. The five-stor y, 122-room hotel would primarily cater to the University of Minnesota’s incoming $160.5 million Ambulatory Care Center, set to open in 2016.

The unnamed hotel, to be located at Essex Street and Huron Boulevard Southeast,

has faced little opposition to this point, a prospect unfamiliar to area developers. As of March 31, the city received no public comment on the project, the city staff report said.

CPM is no stranger to the area. With The Elysian, 700 on Washington and WaHu — the largest proposed apartment building in the University district — the developer owns thousands of beds near campus. u See HOTEL Page 14

FACULTY/STAFF

Using sex to teach science Sehoya Cotner won a coveted teaching award by making students giggle and squirm.

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Sehoya Cotner describes a study on homosexual relationships in a species of bird during her Evolution and Biology of Sex class Monday in the Science Teaching and Student Services building.

Sehoya Cotner is more comfor table talking about sex than her own accomplishments.

And that attitude has landed her one of the most prestigious teaching awards at the University of Minnesota.

The Evolution and Biology of Sex, a class she star ted with another professor in 2007, has become so popular with non-science majors that the University awarded Cotner the Morse Alumni Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, which will place her in the Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

The Board of Regents will recognize

Cotner and seven other award recipients April 16. Each will receive a one-time $15,000 prize.

“It’s fun to make other people uncomfortable,” Cotner said. “Evolution … molecular genetics, DNA and how it works; you can totally teach that from the lens of sex and also do it in an incredibly contemporary way.”

One reason Cotner said she designed the class was to engage with students who aren’t interested in science and just take the class for the biology credit. She calls them “science foes” and said they’re some of her favorite students to teach.

Properly understanding science is a fundamental part of students’ educations, she said, which is why a biology course is required for a liberal arts education at the University. Many of the non-majors who attend her class don’t understand that yet, she said, and she believes helping them u See COTNER Page 3

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‘Promising lead’ emerges in search for missing Flight 370

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PERTH, Australia — After a month of failed hunting and finding debris that turned out to be ordinary flotsam, an Australian ship detected faint pings deep in the Indian Ocean in what an official called the “most promising lead” yet in the search for Flight 370.

Officials coordinating the multinational search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet still urged caution Monday after a weekend that also brought reports of “acoustic noise” picked up by a Chinese vessel also trying to solve the aviation mystery.

The Boeing 777 vanished March 8 while flying from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing with 239 people on board.

The focus of the search changed repeatedly since contact was lost with the plane between Malaysia and Vietnam. It began in the South China Sea, then shifted toward the Strait of Malacca to the west, where Malaysian officials eventually confirmed that military radar had detected the plane.

An analysis of satellite data

indicated the plane veered far off course for a still-unknown reason, heading to the southern Indian Ocean, where officials say it went down at sea.

They later shifted the search area closer to the west coast of Australia.

“We are cautiously hopeful that there will be a positive development in the next few days, if not hours,” Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said in the capital of Kuala Lumpur.

But Angus Houston, the retired Australian air chief marshal who heads the search operation, added: “We haven’t found the aircraft yet.”

The Ocean Shield, an Australian ship towing sophisticated U.S. Navy listening equipment, detected two distinct, long-lasting sounds underwater that are consistent with the pings from an aircraft’s “black boxes” — the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, Houston said.

Navy specialists were urgently tr ying to pick up the signal detected Sunday by the Ocean Shield so they can triangulate its position and go to the next step of

sending an unmanned miniature submarine into the depths to look for any plane wreckage.

Geof f Dell, discipline leader of accident investigation at Central Queensland University in Australia, said it would be “coincidental in the extreme” for the sounds to have come from anything other than an aircraft’s flight recorder.

“If they have a got a legitimate signal, and it’s not from one of the other vessels or something, you would have to say they are within a bull’s roar,” he said.

“There’s still a chance that it’s a spurious signal that’s coming from somewhere else and they are chasing a ghost, but it certainly is encouraging that they’ve found something to suggest they are in the right spot.”

And in “ver y deep oceanic water,” Houston said, “nothing happens fast.”

“Clearly, this is a most promising lead,” he said in Perth. “And probably in the search so far, it’s probably the best information that we have had.”

Houston said the signals picked up by the Ocean

Shield were stronger and lasted longer than faint signals a Chinese ship reported hearing about 555 kilometers (345 miles) south in the remote search zone off Australia’s west coast.

The British ship HMS Echo was using sophisticated sound-locating equipment to determine whether two separate sounds heard by the Chinese patrol vessel Haixun 01 were related to Flight 370. The Haixun detected a brief “pulse signal” on Friday and a second signal Saturday.

The Chinese reportedly were using a sonar device called a hydrophone dangled over the side of a small boat — something experts said was technically possible but extremely unlikely. The equipment aboard the British and Australian ships is dragged slowly behind each vessel over long distances and is considered far more sophisticated.

Little time is left to locate the flight recorders, whose locator beacons have a battery life of about a month. Tuesday marks exactly one month since the Malaysia Airlines plane disappeared.

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UN climate panel chair Vatican ex-sex crimes prosecutor calls for ‘enlightenment’ heads to Scotland

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican is sending its former sex crimes prosecutor to Scotland this week to investigate “recent serious allegations of misconduct” surrounding disgraced Scottish Cardinal Keith O’Brien, who resigned last year after admitting to sexual misdeeds.

The Vatican and the Scottish church said Bishop Charles Scicluna will report on the situation.

O’Brien, once Britain’s highest-ranking Catholic leader, resigned in disgrace as the archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh in 2013 and recused himself from the conclave that elected Francis as pope in 2013 after unidentified priests alleged in British newspaper reports that he acted inappropriately toward them.

The men said they had complained to church authorities about O’Brien’s conduct but that the church had failed to respond. None of the men are believed to have been minors at the time of the purported misconduct.

After initially denying the allegations, O’Brien eventually admitted that his sexual conduct had “fallen below the standards expected” of a priest, archbishop and cardinal.

The Vatican ordered O’Brien to leave Scotland for a period of prayer and atonement, but until the National Catholic Reporter reported Scicluna’s visit, the Vatican had never confirmed it was investigating the allegations.

The matter is particularly sensitive given O’Brien’s rank as a cardinal. It’s only the second known time that a cardinal has been investigated by the Holy See for sexual misconduct. The then-archbishop of Vienna, Cardinal Hans Groer, was forced to resign in 1995 over claims he molested youths in a monastery in the 1970s.

BERLIN — The head of the United Nations scientific panel on climate change urged diplomats and scientists to show “enlightenment” Monday, as they began a weeklong meeting aimed at spelling out in plain terms what options the world has if it wants to prevent catastrophic global warming.

Delegates at the closed-doors meeting in Berlin need to tackle a number of sensitive issues, including how best to cut carbon emissions and how to share the cost of shifting away from the fossil fuels that are largely blamed for producing the gases that are heating the planet. Their conclusions will feed into a landmark assessment report that will form the basis of negotiations for future climate treaties.

“I would urge the distinguished delegates to exercise a high level of enlightenment,” said Rajendra Pachauri, the chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “The world needs a robust, policy-relevant and informative document.”

Experts say that in order to keep global temperature increases below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 F) by the end of the century, greenhouse gas emissions will have to be cut by 40 percent to 70 percent by 2050. But there are sharp differences between nations over how to achieve this and who will pay for it.

Even the language used to describe the billions of dollars that need to be pumped into climate mitigation efforts has become political, with environmental campaigners favoring the term ‘investment’ to reflect the long-term return they say can be achieved by switching to clean energy sources.

“Talking about costs is toxic because you don’t look at the benefits,” said Jan Kowalzig, a climate policy expert at the campaign group, Oxfam.

A new report released Monday showed that renewable energy, excluding large hydropower plants, increased its share of overall power generation worldwide from 7.8 percent in 2012 to 8.5 percent last year. Since 2006, some $1.5 trillion has been invested in renewable energy.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Pro-Russian Ukranians call region independent

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DONETSK, Ukraine — Pro-Moscow activists barricaded inside government buildings in eastern Ukraine proclaimed their regions independent Monday and called for a referendum on seceding from Ukraine — an ominous echo of the events that led to Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

The Ukrainian government accused Russia of stirring up the unrest and tried to flush the assailants from some of the seized buildings, setting off fier y clashes in one city. Russia, which has tens of thousands of troops massed along the border, sternly warned Ukraine against using force.

I n Wa s h i n g t o n , t h e U.S. said any move by Russia into easter n Ukraine would be a “ver y serious escalation” that could bring fur ther sanctions. White House spokesman Jay Carney said there was strong evidence that some of the pr o-Russian pr otesters were hired and were not local residents.

At the same time, the U.S. announced that Secretar y of State John Kerr y will meet with top diplomats from Russia, Ukraine and the European Union in a new push to ease tensions.

The meeting, the first such four-way talks since the crisis erupted, will take place in the next 10 days, the State Department said.

Pro-Russian activists who seized the provincial administrative building in the city of Donetsk over the weekend announced the formation Monday of the independent Donetsk People’s Republic.

They also called for a referendum on the secession of the Donetsk region, to be held no later than May 11, according to the Russian news agency Interfax.

A similar action was taken in another Russianspeaking city in the east, Kharkiv, where pro-Mos-

cow activists proclaimed a “sovereign Kharkiv People’s Republic,” Inter fax said.

It quoted the regional police as saying they later cleared the regional administration building, and the activists responded by throwing firebombs and rocks at the windows and setting tires ablaze. Local news reports said that the pro-Russian crowds then recaptured the building.

Kharkiv Mayor Gennady Kernes said the activists also took control of the TV tower in Kharkiv and demanded it resume broadcasting banned Russian channels. But local police said the assailants later left.

Viktoria Syumar, a deputy head of Ukraine’s Security and Defense Council, said Ukrainian special forces had driven pro-Russian assailants from Ukraine’s Security Service headquarters in Donetsk.

Russia annexed Crimea last month, following a referendum called just two weeks after the Black Sea peninsula had been overtaken by Russian forces.

Ukraine and the West have rejected the vote and the annexation as illegal.

The activists who occupied the gover nment headquar ters building in Donetsk blocked of f the entrance with 6-foot barricades of car tires lined with razor wire.

Inside, dozens of people — almost all men, many of them wearing balaclavas and carrying clubs — stood around in groups. They refused to speak to journalists about their immediate plans.

As darkness fell, people in a crowd of a few hundred fired of f a brief fireworks salute that was greeted by chants of “Russia, Russia!”

The Donetsk and Kharkiv regions — and a third Russian-speaking city besieged by pro-Moscow activists over the weekend, Luhansk — have a combined population of nearly

10 million out of Ukraine’s 46 million, and account for the bulk of the country’s industrial output.

Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk accused Russia of fomenting the unrest to create a pretext for sending troops in and taking another piece of Ukraine.

“The plan is to destabilize the situation. The plan is for foreign troops to cross the border and seize the countr y’s ter ritor y, which we will not allow,” he said, adding that those taking part in the unrest had distinct Russian accents.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt also said the events in eastern Ukraine were part of Moscow’s “destabilization strategy.”

“Those who thought that it ended with Crimea were wrong,” Bildt said.

The Russian Foreign Ministr y rejected the Ukrainians’ allegations but reaffirmed its long-held demand that Ukraine change its constitution to turn the countr y into a federation with broader powers for provinces.

“If the political forces that call themselves the Ukrainian government continue to take an irresponsible attitude to the fate of the country and its people, Ukraine will inevitably face new difficulties and crises,” the ministry said in a statement.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned the Ukrainian government against using force in response to the “legitimate demands” of people in eastern Ukraine.

Eastern Ukraine has a large population of ethnic Russians and was the base of support for ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, who fled to Russia in Februar y after months of protests. Economic and cultural ties to Russia are strong here, and many are wary of the new government, which favors closer ties to the European Union.

U prof wins prestigious award for teaching the science of sex Cotner u from Page 1

ABOUT SEHOYA COTNER PROFESSIONAL LIFE

learn that could make them better people.

“When 99.9 percent of working scientists say that climate change is real, you should trust them without having to do the research yourself,” she said. “When 99.9 percent of medical professionals say to vaccinate your kids, you should trust them without having to listen to Jenny McCarthy.”

Cotner said she’s surprised she won the Morse Alumni awar d because most of the professors she’s seen win it have had research careers more accomplished than hers.

More than 360 professors have won the award in its 49-year history.

But now that she’s won, Cotner said she plans to use the money for a trip with her family — something to “create memories.”

Unorthodox methods Journalism senior Ehren Minkema needed to fulfill his biology credit in order to graduate this semester and said Cotner’s class immediately stuck out to him.

“I went on to Rate My Professors, and Sehoya has, perhaps by far, the best reviews out of any of the options that I had,” he said. Cotner rates four out of five on the website.

The class uses fun topics to learn basic scientific methods, such as forming and testing hypotheses, Minkema said. In last week’s lab, students tested theories about the shapes and functions of human genitalia by using sex toys, he said, and this week they’re testing theories about human mating habits by observing personal ads on Craigslist.

Biology teaching assistant Paul Nelson has known Cotner for three years, and he said part of what makes her class so successful is her en-

1992: Received her undergraduate degree in biology at North Carolina State University.

1993: Attended graduate school at the University of Minnesota for conservation biology.

1998: Received her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota.

1999-2002: Taught at Penn State University as a biology professor.

2002: Began teaching at the University of Minnesota as a teaching associate professor of biology.

2007: Created the course The Evolution and Biology of Sex. 2009: Her first book, “The Chronology of the Evolution Creationism Controversy,” was published.

Has published 3 books and 25 research papers.

PERSONAL LIFE 1969: Born in North Carolina.

1998: Met her husband, University of Minnesota ecology professor James Cotner.

2001: Married James Cotner.

Together they have two children, ages 9 and 11.

She enjoys running marathons.

SOURCE: SEHOYA COTNER

thusiasm and passion in both the topic and her students.

“She’s a fun, fun person.

She’s ver y outgoing, ver y chatty, very uninhibited,” he said.

She’s also very open to tr ying out new ideas and breaking away from established structures, he said, which is one reason he chose to be a TA for her class.

Minkema said he’s glad he chose to take Cotner’s course for his biology credit, even if some of the labs made him uncomfortable.

“I asked the professor to play some Marvin Gaye to set the mood for that class,” he said. “And of course, she did.”

It’s not just about sex Biology professor Randy Moore teaches Biology of the Galapagos with Cotner. It’s a summer class in which they take biology students to the Galapagos Islands to conduct observational research experiments.

When Moore started the class nine years ago, he said, everyone he approached to help him develop it told him it wouldn’t attract enough students and the trip would be

too expensive.

But he said when he told Cotner about the idea, she simply said, “I’m in.” Now the class fills up within a few hours or days ever y year, Moore said.

Moore, who’s been at the University for 34 years, said Cotner is one of the most productive professors he’s worked with.

“What separates her from so many other people is her attitude that she just likes to get things done,” he said.

Cotner’s fellow ecology professor and husband, Jim Cotner, said he sometimes can’t believe how productive his wife is both on and off the job.

“It kind of blows me away how much she’s able to accomplish, not only professionally, but personally as well,” he said. “She’s not just a professor, but she has kids and is a good mom. She runs to keep in shape. It’s amazing.”

Editor’s note: Ehren Minkema previously worked at the Minnesota Daily in an unpaid marketing position. His job responsibilities fell outside the editorial department.

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Alumnus carjacked in Marcy-Holmes Also, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity was burglarized Friday morning.

BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota alumnus’s car was stolen at gunpoint near the intersection of Second Street Southeast and Eighth Avenue Southeast in the MarcyHolmes neighborhood Sunday night.

After parking his car near his girlfriend’s house, Blake Pieper, who graduated in 2013, said he got out of the car to get his bag from the back seat when two men approached him.

One of the men held a gun up to Pieper and demanded his valuables. The other man took Pieper’s phone, wallet, laptop bag and car keys, according to the Minneapolis police report.

The suspects then got into Pieper’s car and drove away.

To track the suspects in incidents like this, police talk to people in the area and look at nearby security camera footage in order to gather information about the suspects, said Minneapolis police public information officer John Elder.

“We try to ascertain who in fact did it and where they might be headed,” Elder said.

Before this year, Pieper said he’s felt safe on campus, but this fall’s uptick in crime has made him more nervous.

Pieper said he wasn’t particularly worried about safety, because the walk from his car to the house is so short.

He said he doesn’t think there’s much he could do in the future to be safer other than to pay more attention to his surroundings.

Pieper said he’s also considering taking personal defense classes.

“If you can’t feel safe on campus, it’s hard to do

OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: Theft When: March 31 Info: A few days after a phone was bought from a woman on Craigslist, the phone stopped working. The victim found that the phone’s previous owner had reported the phone to her insurance company as lost in order to get a new phone.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Shoplifting Thursday Lunds A man was caught stealing by the store’s security guard. He had been issued a trespass warning by the business the week before, and he had a felony warrant for his arrest. The man was brought to Hennepin County Jail.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Arson Friday TCF Bank Stadium The Minneapolis Fire Department responded to a fire alarm inside of a concession stand in the stadium. When the fire was extinguished, coffee dispensers were found in and above the stand’s deep fryer.

Some of the coffee dispensers were melted and burned.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Littering and obstruction of legal process Saturday 12th and University avenues southeast At about midnight, an officer saw a man throw a large rug into the middle of the road. The rug had been taken from Floco Fusion apartments. When the officer tried to speak to the man, he attempted to get away from the officer. The man was brought to Hennepin County Jail, and the rug was inventoried by University police.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Driving while intoxicated Saturday Huron Boulevard Southeast and Fulton Street Southeast An officer saw a vehicle stopped at a light on the wrong side of the road, facing oncoming traffic. The officer stopped the vehicle and found the driver was intoxicated.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Assault Friday Loring Pasta Bar A woman hit a man with a closed fist. The suspect was cited and released.

SOURCES: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

anything else,” he said.

What victims are able to do can var y depending on the circumstances of the incident, including the surroundings and number of assailants, Elder said.

“There may be people who know exactly how to deal with it physically,” he said. “There are other people that would be like, ‘Yeah, nope, don’t want to do that.’ ”

Fraternity house burglarized

A resident of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house reported a burglary Friday after noon. Between the

hours of 1 a.m. and 10 a.m.

Friday, two laptops and a pair of headphones were stolen from a study room in the basement, according to the Minneapolis police report.

It is unknown how the burglar got into the house, but the victim told police that people were “coming and going” at the time of the burglary.

Elder said multi-tenant houses such as fraternity houses tend to be more frequent burglary targets because there are more people going in and out.

Fraternity members were unavailable for comment Monday.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Court Website brings democracy Appeals orders trial for to students’ complaints St. Paul priest Students can voice concerns — and vote for the most important ones — on Echo Spot.

BY VANESSA NYARKO vnyarko@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota students now have a new place to vent and exchange ideas.

The Echo Spot launched last week, and the website is aiming to be the students’ main platform to help solve campus issues. The page’s leaders plan to present common problems to University administrators and departments.

The site has attracted more than 18,000 page views since it launched and 118 people have signed up for an account, according to Echo Spot President Nadya Nguyen.

The inspiration for Echo Spot came from students who felt like they weren’t being heard, said Nguyen, a finance and management information systems senior.

Students can anonymously post their ideas or concerns about the University or campus life on the website.

Those with an account may

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then vote the posts up or down.

If a post receives 30 or more upvotes, Echo Spot’s team of students and recent graduates will identify which administrator or department can address the concerns or ideas in the post. Next, they’ll draft a report based on the post and present it to the relevant people or office.

“There’s really that gap between students trying to drive change and also administration on campus trying to see what students are thinking,” Nguyen said.

The repor ts could be beneficial to address student concerns, said Amelious Whyte, assistant dean of students and chief of staff

of the Of fice for Student Affairs.

“I think anyone who runs a department or organization knows more information is always good and welcome because it gives you a perspective you don’t have,” he said.

The Echo Spot already has suppor t from the Office for Student Affairs, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the Multicultural Center for Academic Excellence, Nguyen said, among other groups and offices.

Whyte helped guide Echo Spot’s creators as they developed the website. Whyte pointed the group to administrators and student boards to

consult, and he was an early beta-tester for the site.

“The campus is so big, students are so spread out, this creates another place for students to connect in a setting that usually doesn’t happen,” Whyte said.

The Echo Spot team wants students to use the site to get other students’ perspectives and solve campus problems.

The Minnesota Student Association’s “What to Fix UMN” initiative works in a similar way, but Nguyen said her website aims to tackle a different set of issues.

While MSA often takes on legislative and campus policy issues, she said there are other, more specific concerns or ideas that should be addressed by a single college or department. Echo Spot is aimed at those issues, Nguyen said, and its leaders have already made contact with leaders of individual colleges at the University.

Jon Melgaard, co-founder of entrepreneurial student group Co-Lab, also tested the website in beta and said Echo Spot’s posts discuss topics that often fly under the radar.

“The content is so diverse but so relevant to the U,” he said.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Cour t of Appeals on Monday reversed a sexual misconduct conviction and ordered a new trial for a St. Paul priest accused of having sex with a woman who was seeking his spiritual advice.

The 22-page ruling said the lower court made several errors during Christopher Wenthe’s trial.

Wenthe was convicted in 2011 of third-degree criminal sexual conduct after a woman repor ted the sexual conduct. State law makes it a felony for clergy members to have sex with people they are spiritually advising.

The incidents star ted in late 2003 while Wenthe was working at Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church in St. Paul.

Wenthe did not dispute that the two had an 18-month relationship, but he denied that the encounters occurred while he was providing spiritual aid. He was sentenced to a year in jail and was released after eight months.

Evidence at trial included at least three possible meetings from

November to December 2003 in which Wenthe and the woman engaged in sexual conduct. A threejudge panel of the Appeals Cour t said Monday the trial judge should have told jurors that to convict Wenthe, they had to unanimously agree on which meeting constituted a crime.

The r uling, written by Judge Gar y Crippen, said the nature of the meeting is essential to win a conviction of clergy sexual misconduct, and “appellant is only guilty of a crime if the meeting is one in which spiritual or religious advice, aid, or comfor t was sought or received.”

In addition, Crippen wrote, because there was c o n f l i c t i n g t e s t i m o n y, prosecutors had to prove that Wenthe knew the purpose of the meeting was spiritual or religious in nature.

The Appeals Court also said the trial judge erred in barring evidence of the woman’s sexual histor y, saying such evidence was allowed once prosecutors elicited testimony in which she por trayed herself as sexually inexperienced.

Canada giving the US retail market the cold shoulder over prices

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

For years, Canadians would cross the border to the U.S. to shop at Target.

Expor ting its cheap chic there seemed like a nobrainer.

But a year after opening more than 100 stores north of the border, Target has found business isn’t so easy.

Shelves are hard to keep stocked. Shoppers complain the prices are higher than at U.S. stores. Sales have

been weak, and the retailer lost nearly a billion dollars in Canada for the year.

Cracking the Canadian retail market, about onetenth the size of the United States’, looks simple. The two countries are neighbors.

They are culturally similar.

And Canada’s malls generate 20 percent more sales per square foot, because there are fewer of them.

But Target’s difficulties expose the challenges of doing business in Canada

that have bedeviled other retailers. Some of the problems are old, like the web of costly regulations. But there are new ones, such as a slower Canadian economy and increasing competition that’s making the retail landscape look a lot like the U.S. economy.

The troubles are not what stores expected just a few years ago during the depths of the recession, when they saw Canada as a risk-free way of expanding

internationally and re-energizing sales growth.

Now, Target is increasing marketing to convey it has unbeatable prices, while trying to make sure it has the right merchandise at the right time.

“I think there was an assumption that Target would come in and be ever ybody’s favorite store, but that hasn’t happened,” said Antony Karabus, president of Hilco Retail Consulting, who is based in Toronto.

Target has to fight hard to win over Canadians like Melanie Randall, a Toronto resident who crosses the border four times a year to Buffalo, N.Y., for shopping sprees at the store.

As for the Canadian Target stores, “It’s not the same,” said Randall, 42, who was recently browsing Target at Toronto’s East York Town Centre. “I don’t feel like I get the same deals or shopping experience.”

Target’s tough time in Canada isn’t unique.

Big Lots Inc. is closing its 78 Canadian stores, which it bought just two years ago. Executives declined comment, but Karabus blamed increasing competition amid discounters. Best Buy announced last year it was closing 15 of its 260 stores in Canada and cut about 5 percent of its workforce in the country as it tries to revamp its strategy.

Thousands of Jerusalem Arabs without water

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JERUSALEM — Tens of thousands of Palestinians living in east Jerusalem have been without r unning water for more than a month, victims of a decrepit and over whelmed infrastructure and caught in a legal no-man’s land caused by the divisions of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict.

The residents of the Shuafat refugee camp are technically par t of the Jerusalem municipality. But they live outside the massive West Bank separation barrier that Israel has built. So Israeli ser vices are sparse, yet Palestinian authorities are barred from operating there or developing the water system.

The local Israeli water authority says the existing system of pipes cannot handle the rapid population growth of the area and it is scrambling to solve the problem. Last week, the Israeli Supreme Court gave of ficials 60 days to find a solution.

But with the scorching summer season approach-

ing, residents are growing increasingly desperate.

Basic tasks like brushing teeth are a challenge. Showers have become a luxur y.

Families often send their clothes to relatives elsewhere in the city to wash them.

“Sixty days — that’s a lot of time for us,” said Hani Taha, a local butcher.

“There will be chaos here.”

Israel captured thenmainly Arab east Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East war. After the war, it redrew Jerusalem’s municipal boundary, expanding it into the West Bank to encompass what were then small Palestinian communities, and annexed the lands that were made part of the city.

The annexation was never internationally recognized. Israel considers all of east Jerusalem, including Shuafat, to be par t of its capital, building a ring of Jewish districts in the city.

Some 200,000 Israeli Jews and 300,000 Palestinians now live in east Jerusalem, which the Palestinians demand as the capital of a future nation.

GAPSA election results revised to include Duluth GAPSA u from Page 1

This could have created some misperceptions with ballot results, said Syressa Lewis, another ACEC adviser, as the original results didn’t factor in Duluth campus votes.

“With the UMD campus, they aren’t classified as Duluth students,” Lewis said. “[They] are University of Minnesota-Twin Cities medical and pharmacy students who are enrolled through our [Twin Cities] campus.”

Souk Phaengkhouane, a

GAPSA member and pharmacy doctoral candidate on the Duluth campus, said he voted in the elections this year and has done so since he got to the Duluth campus four years ago.

He said he believes there was a higher turnout of students from the Duluth campus this year because GAPSA’s executive board members made a greater effort to include them than in past years.

“Sometimes we do get forgotten that we’re part of the University of Minnesota since we’re separated by distance,” he said.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Bill to ban anti-gay therapy falls short Supporters plan to push the proposal next year with more student support.

BY MITCHELL YURKOWITZ myurkowitz@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota students led an effort to ban licensed therapists from providing sexual orientation change therapy to children, but their attempt this legislative session fell short.

Political science sophomores Alec Fischer and Gabe Aderhold pushed for a bill prohibiting the practices after authoring an online petition that attracted more than 114,000 signatures.

Lawmakers denied giving the legislation a hearing, citing the proposal’s lack of crucial details and a strong argument for its passage.

“It’s not enough just to say, ‘ex-gay therapy is bad,’ which is something I would probably agree with,” said Rep. Tina Liebling, DFLRochester, who chairs the committee that blocked the bill. “I’m not an expert on this; I don’t know enough about it, and it’s up to the ad-

vocates to educate people.”

Suppor ters didn’t star t their lobbying efforts soon enough or reach out to impor tant stakeholders, Liebling said. Proponents should have contacted medical licensing boards to discuss the bill’s effects and potential enforcement practices, she said.

“It was disappointing but also encouraging,” Fischer said. “We had never written legislation before, and the whole lobbying process was new to us.”

Rep. Susan Allen, DFLMinneapolis, who sponsored the legislation, said the boards already have active statutes to address unethical therapy practices and proponents didn’t necessarily consider those technicalities.

“There are all these issues that when you tr y to introduce legislation, you have to make it clear enough and precise enough that it actually works,”

Voters in India cast ballots in world’s largest election

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

GAUHATI, India — Voters in India’s remote northeast cast ballots on the first day of the world’s biggest election Monday, with the opposition heading into the polls with strong momentum on promises of a surge in economic growth.

With 814 million eligible voters, India will vote in stages over the next five weeks in a staggered approach made necessary by the country’s vast size. Voters will choose representatives for the 543-seat lower house of parliament.

Results from all 935,000 polling stations are expected on May 16. The opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and its candidate for prime minister, Narendra Modi, are seen as the biggest threats to the now-governing Congress party.

BJP is expected to do well but to fall short of a 272-seat majority, making a coalition government a likely outcome, observers say.

“I’ve made it a point to vote this time because we want change,” said 36-yearold housewife Rumi Nath, waiting to vote in the rural town of Lakhimpur on the Brahmaputra River. “Our area remains backward and underdeveloped 67 years after independence.”

Polls suggest Congress could face a drubbing due to corruption scandals and recent years of economic slowdown. The BJP’s Modi has been credited with ushering in strong industrial growth in the western state of Gujarat, where he has been chief minister for 11 years.

The election will be key to the future of the family

dynasty that has ruled India for much of its post-independence history.

The Nehru-Gandhi family is facing its biggest political threat in over a decade, with Rahul Gandhi, the 43-yearold family scion, leading the Congress’s struggling campaign. While Gandhi has been presented to voters as a youthful leader who can rejuvenate India’s faltering economy, many see him as privileged, aloof and out of touch with everyday Indians.

The party has not even formally declared Gandhi as its candidate for prime minister, political maneuvering aimed at protecting him from being scapegoated if the party — and the family — is forced from power.

But even as Congress faces a backlash, critics of Modi question whether the Hindu nationalist candidate can be a truly secular leader, noting he has failed to take responsibility or apologize for communal rioting that left more than 1,000 dead in his state in 2002. He is accused of doing little to stop the antiMuslim rampage, though he denies any wrongdoing and has never been charged with a crime.

The BJP was the last major party on Monday to release its campaign manifesto, which envisions India’s path toward full development through futuristic infrastructure projects such as highspeed trains, 100 new modern cities and wireless Internet facilities in public places.

But such ambitious plans hold little appeal for most voters in rural Assam, where voting took place Monday in five constituencies as well as in one in neighboring Tripura state.

Liebling said.

The controversial issue also attracts heavy opposition, Allen said, which legislators have limited time and resources to address.

Pro-Family For um founder Kevin Petersen opposes the proposal because he said his life has improved after receiving sexual orientation change therapy as an adult. He said people who seek the treatment should at least have the option.

“I was very active in the gay lifestyle in the ’80s,” he said. “I wish I had had this counseling back then, when I was a teenager.”

Peterson authored a public statement last month requesting that legislators block the proposal. The Pro-Family For um also launched an online petition, which has attracted 176 signatures.

Fischer and Aderhold said they hope to push the proposal next session with a renewed plan to gain stronger support. The students co-founded Minnesota’s chapter of Can’t Conver t Love, a national organiza-

FORMER PARTICIPANTS IN CONVERSION THERAPY 32%

of participants in the conversion therapy courses were informed by the therapist of the APA’s position on homosexuality

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of clinicians were reported to have informed the participants of possible negative effects of the intervention

of clinicians were reported to have told participants that they are not really homosexual

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of therapists told participants of the possibility that the intervention may not be successful in changing sexual orientation

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of clinicians advised participants about the availability of therapists who are not biased against a homosexual orientation

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of clinicians discussed with their clients the option of seeking therapy from a practitioner who would not try to change sexual orientation

SOURCE: JOURNAL OF GAY AND LESBIAN PSYCHOTHERAPY, 2002

tion dedicated to stopping gay conversion therapy, which they said will help raise awareness.

“Our goal now is to rally more suppor t for the bill and bring it back next year with more resources, more suppor t and more attention,” Fischer said.

Liebling said it’s great the students will tr y again next year, but she noted that supporters need to spend months educating people about the issue before the bill’s introduction.

Allen said proponents should consider par tnering with organizations like

OutFront Minnesota to improve their lobbying efforts and ensure success, which Fischer said they plan on doing.

“We’re hoping to take what we learned from this and apply it next year in order to be even more successful,” Fischer said.

GAPSA develops online platform Students and instructors are developing an online platform similar to a MOOC.

BY TAYLOR NACHTIGAL tnachtigal@mndaily.com

As the nature of higher education evolves from traditional classrooms to online, a group of graduate and professional students want to ensure the University of Minnesota follows the trend.

Some students and instructors are working with the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly to develop an online platform for graduate and professional students to pool their knowledge and expertise to address common, University-wide problems.

The website will work similarly to a MOOC, or massive open online course, and ser ve as a virtual learning platform that allows people to connect anytime to explore shared interests or solve common problems.

“The nature of knowledge is changing,” said

Christiane Reilly, a Ph.D. student who is consulting project leaders. “Younger generations are used to solving problems by looking up information on the Internet when they have a problem.”

The platform may work like an online for um or online course, but project leaders aren’t yet sure of the specifics.

Alfonso Sintjago, a Ph.D. candidate studying learning technology and GAPSA president-elect, is leading the project and said he hopes the website will launch this summer.

For Sintjago, it’s most important that users drive the content and development in the direction they want.

The problem with many potential hosts for the project, Reilly said, is that administrators — not students — control content.

Given wher e education trends are headed,

open access to learning is necessar y in today’s learning environment, said Angelica Pazurek, a teaching specialist working on the project.

“Actually putting the users, the students, into the seat of becoming not just consumers of knowledge, but producers of knowledge — it’s a huge paradigm shift,” Reilly said.

Once project leaders decide on a platform for their idea, the first issue set to be addressed is how to increase diversity on campus, Sintjago said.

Once the project goes live, it will include readings and videos of presentations and panelists to facilitate learning and discussion.

Sintjago said it will benefit experts from a variety of fields to have a central place to share ideas.

“We need more than one circle to talk about diversity,” he said. “There may not be ‘a’ solution.”

Because the platform will exist solely online, like typical MOOCs, it will be

free — something Sintjago said is a common draw for prospective users.

Though the platform will allow academics to connect with one another, the opencontent model is not without flaws, said computer science professor Joseph Konstan.

He said user-guided education platforms present issues with program accreditation.

Sintjago said he doesn’t know how academics and the University will respond.

He also acknowledged that credibility issues exist in online education — there often isn’t a tangible way to cer tify people for their work, as opposed to accredited degrees that traditional colleges give out.

Still, Sintjago and other project backers assert the importance of staying current with higher education changes by creating an online platform where students control learning.

“The change needs to be addressed by encouraging much more interaction between students,” Reilly said.

Gunman kills Dutch priest in Syrian city of Homs

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DAMASCUS, Syria — A beloved, elderly Dutch priest who made headlines this year with a desperate plea for aid for civilians trapped in the besieged Syrian city of Homs was assassinated Monday by a masked gunman who shot him at his monastery, the latest attack targeting Christian clergymen in the countr y’s civil war.

The killing of Father Francis Van Der Lugt — a Jesuit, the same order as Pope Francis — under-

scored fears among many of Syria’s Christian and Muslim minorities for the fate of their communities as Islamic extremists gain influence among rebels seeking to topple President Bashar Assad.

The 75-year-old Van Der Lugt, an Arabic speaker, had lived in Syria for 50 years and refused to leave Homs even as hundreds of civilians were evacuated from rebel-held districts of Homs that have been besieged for more than a year by Assad’s forces. Van Der Lugt lived in the monaster y in one of those neighborhoods,

Bustan al-Diwan.

He appeared to have been directly targeted in the early morning attack, according to several people who were in the monastery when the attack occurred. A single gunman walked into the monastery, entered the garden and shot him in the head, said Rev. Ziad Hillal.

“I am truly shocked. A man of peace has been murdered,” Hillal said in a phone inter view from Homs with the Vatican Radio.

A person, who has lived in the monaster y with the slain priest said he was bur-

ied in the convent’s garden late Monday. The person who passed the information of the priest’s burial on the phone did not want to be identified for fear of being targeted.

The motives for the attack were not known, and no one immediately claimed responsibility for the killing.

Over the past year, hardline rebel groups, including the al-Qaida-linked Nusra Front, have become more influential and dominant among the opposition fighters in the central city, as in many other areas of Syria.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 The Editorials & Opinions department is independent of the newsroom. The editorial board prepares the editorials labeled “EDITORIALS,” which are the opinion of the Minnesota Daily as an institution but not representative of Daily employees’ opinions.

Columnists’ opinions are their own.

STUDENT LIFE

EDITORIALS

Move from a room of one’s own

U students elect new leadership

Research has shown that studying in different locations boosts achievement.

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y life is fairly routine. I roll out of bed each morning, get ready, put my shoes on, sprint after the bus and go to class. After ward, I come home, plop myself on my futon and hammer through my homework. A bit boring, but the consistency helps, or so I thought. Recent studies indicate that routine-oriented study habits like mine are actually detrimental to learning. Students would be wise to change their routine in preparation for finals.

Research suggests that studying in dif ferent places ever y day forms deeper and more general memories of the material. While University Counseling and Consulting Services advises students to “tr y to find a fixed place for study,” moving around may just be the thing that helps you remember a key detail for the big chemistr y final.

CONNOR NIKOLIC columnist

In other words, a study sanctuar y may provide consistency, but a fresh cram spot enhances a student’s ability to retain new information.

The reasoning behind this strategy is if students study a particular topic in a particular place regularly, they will start to form subconscious associations with the topic with the room itself and then lose those associations when they leave that study space. If you’re looking at your Adrian Peterson poster whenever you’re straining to remember the discussion points from the last

lecture, you’d better hope that the All-Pro running back is coming with you to your exam.

Unfortunately, schools do not teach this philosophy to students. From a young age, I lear ned to do my homework in the computer room at home. I didn’t think that packing it in and studying at Caribou Cof fee or in the librar y before school would actually help.

It’s even more important to try new study strategies because we tend to follow them throughout our education.

I’ve managed to retain lackluster habits, and they’ve likely hindered me on previous tests, just as much as fatigue from an all-nighter or skimming over an important chapter has hurt me. Questioning our routines early can lead to better study skills later.

Schools and parents alike continue to teach youth to find static study spaces. It’s especially disturbing because research has suggested otherwise since 1978, according to Psychology Today.

While study skills may seem unimpor tant because they’re not directly related to

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 122,464- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,418 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

curriculum, they could have far-reaching effects across all grades and education levels.

Schools should focus on developing true study curricula because, as with any other subject, students need guidance.

Out of curiosity, I started var ying my study spots during the past few weeks. I prepared for midterms in several campus buildings, in dif ferent par ts of my house and at various times.

I’m not sure if this technique had a tangible effect on my test scores, but I know that I walked out of the room each time knowing I knew enough material to answer each question, which has not always been true in years past.

I’ve found a new study routine (or a lack thereof).

Hopefully it will give me an edge for finals next month.

While each person should develop their own study habits, it’s never too late to break from your routine and learn something new — it could help you in the long run.

Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

UNIVERSITY

Northrop Auditorium transforms with the U As the auditorium reopens, we should remember the building’s important role in history.

Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Attacks on CFACT have no merit

The next time a progressive tells me they support the First Amendment, I will laugh in their face. Students for a Democratic Society is laughably trying to shut down Condoleezza Rice and kick Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow off campus. Apparently SDS finds speech from conservatives far too painful for its sensitive ears.

In an April 2 letter, “Revoke CFACT’s student group status,” SDS member Matt Boynton claims SDS had its group recognition revoked because it “hung some banners.” But SDS leaves out the part about noisily disrupting convocation and bypassing security in Mariucci Arena to do so, as if those were just ancillary details.

And despite the humorous allegation of “political bias” toward conservatives, the University administration initially told SDS that it would receive no academic punishment. That is, until I had two columns in the Minnesota Daily that explained how the book had been thrown at CFACT members for sitting in on an improperly closed meeting. I’d hoped to shame the administration into some fairness.

But there is no shaming the Student Ser vice Fees Committee into fairness. Despite the U.S. Supreme Cour t setting the standard of viewpoint neutrality, which means similar groups with dif ferent viewpoints are supposed to be treated the same, the SSFC historically would do

mental backflips to draw distinctions to give progressive counterpart Minnesota Public Interest Research Group more funding than CFACT. The SSFC was clearly setting a standard that ser vices and benefits described in MPIRG’s words would be funded.

CFACT took the hint.

The U.S. Supreme Court gives minority points of view protection from viewpoint discrimination in a public forum if they are modeled after another group. When I chaired CFACT, we regularly modeled our public comments after MPIRG’s application because the SSFC joyfully funded their liberal activity. We actually had marginal success using this tactic because the SSFC saw the unfairness of its biases.

This alleged plagiarism was not dishonest then, and it isn’t now, either.

The charges of plagiarism ring especially hollow because the fees process is not an academic exercise. Besides, MPIRG is a pur veyor of model legislation — that’s right, MPIRG r egularly “plagiarizes” laws from other states to be enacted in Minnesota.

Where’s the outrage?

Get back to me about administrative bias when MPIRG gets about a 90 percent cut for plagiarism or when groups that admit embezzlement, such as the Queer Student Cultural Center, receive any kind of punishment.

Sean Niemic Former CFACT president Former SSFC admin chair

College athletes are just that: athletes

The recent bid by Northwestern University’s players has rankled many, including Ronald Dixon, writer of the April 7 column “Athletes need a new set of standards.”

Dixon argues that if the players unionize and begin to earn real wages and benefits, they should be treated like any other university employees. As such, their wages should take the place of their scholarships. This viewpoint shows a misunderstanding of current jobs. Most employers within the University of Minnesota are ready and willing to work around their students’ schedules, the jobs are often office jobs that afford students extra time to work on homework, and the time commitment is fairly minimal. In a 2011 NCAA survey, some intercollegiate athletes reported spending more than 40 hours per week on their sport.

Paying student-athletes in the form of a real wage and benefits is a step in the right direction. However, pretending that playing a major sport is similar to other jobs within a university is simply ignoring the truth of college athletics. A March 2012 New York Times ar ticle, “The Myth of the ‘StudentAthlete,’” does a good job of unwrapping the myth that college athletes are normal students who should focus on education first. It’s time to stop pretending that colleges want athletes to be anything other than athletes.

Tim Bluhm University student

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orthrop Auditorium has proved to be a central part of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus since it opened in 1929. The monumental structure has blossomed as a center for prestigious art and as a site of many demonstrations throughout our campus’s history. As the University reinvests in this beautiful venue, it also reinvests in its past and its future.

Northrop reopened its doors last week for the grand reopening after a four-year renovation, which cost $88.2 million. In a sense, Northrop has been a long-standing symbol of our campus through time.

In the 1930s, people rallied against World War II at Northrop, as the country was on the verge of joining the war.

On Oct. 15, 1969, Moratorium Day, former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale — who taught on campus until last year — and others called for peace in Vietnam. A few years later, students used Northrop as a safe haven after police sprayed them with tear gas during the Eight Days in May protests.

After 9/11, students, faculty and staff gathered at Northrop’s steps for a vigil to remember their fellow Americans.

Nor throp is more than just an auditorium; it’s the focal point of campus. We host international artists and visionaries on its stage; we meet, debate and advance education in its seats; and we capture the attention of the world on its steps.

While the auditorium provides a venue for students, faculty and other members of our community to enjoy theatrical productions, music and more, it will undoubtedly bring others to our campus. With them, we share our University’s story with the world.

Much of students’ time at the University is passing, but Northrop has been a constant, seeing countless young people become leaders. A new Northrop will undoubtedly become a stage for many future talents who will carry the University’s story with them. This is why the renovation and Northrop’s new face is so important.

According to its website, “Northrop is an epicenter of discovery and transformation that connects the University of Minnesota and communities beyond by celebrating innovation in the arts, performance and academics.” Let’s hope Northrop continues to transform with us all.

TIFFANY TRAWICK columnist

Tiffany Trawick welcomes comments at ttrawick@mndaily.com.

Student government should prepare for next year after students elected new leaders.

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niversity of Minnesota students voted for Joelle Stangler to lead the Minnesota Student Association and Alfonso Sintjago to lead the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly last week. Next year’s leaders should begin preparing for ongoing issues and bringing their platforms to life.

In our endorsement, the Minnesota Daily Editorial Board noted the ambition of Stangler and running mate John Reichl. The two boast a far-reaching and multi-dimensional platform, and we’re excited to see how the two will change campus. Stangler told a board member that she is already working on the logistics for upcoming projects.

While the board did not endorse Sintjago, we believe he is well-qualified to take the reins of GAPSA. However, as we noted in our endorsement for Scott Petty, GAPSA has ongoing problems with str ucture and its balance of power. Sintjago shouldn’t fear digging deep and reforming GAPSA. Outreach is also a critical issue for student government, and this year’s elections continued the trend of poor voter turnout, likely a reflection of lack of awareness. Both elections had turnouts hovering around just 10 percent of the potential voter pool.

While it’s difficult to be knowledgeable about student government candidates, students must realize that these people have the power to change their lives in tangible ways. Low turnout is especially concerning when such a small percentage of students make up the entire voter pool. Student leaders should bolster outreach efforts, but students must also meet them halfway.

The U should keep a better count of vets The University should do more to track and retain veteran students, as other universities are doing.

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n a project that was six months in the making, the Minnesota Daily explored veteran student experiences and graduation rates across the Big Ten and higher education as a whole.

The stor y covered a lot of ground, but the challenges in tracking veteran students were particularly striking. The University of Minnesota does not have a system for keeping tabs on veteran students, nor can the University keep comprehensive records of them or track how many drop out or leave for active duty before earning their degree.

Only 913 students accept GI bill benefits or self-identify as veterans at the University, according to One Stop student ser vices. That number seems too low, given that independent research estimated that there are 18,800 veteran students in the state.

The challenges of keeping track of veteran students — and keeping them on track to graduate — aren’t limited to the University.

It’s a huge problem that needs national attention, but there are steps the University could take now.

The University of Illinois, Penn State University, the University of Iowa and Purdue University provided the most detailed veteran student data. The University should follow their example.

Fur ther, One Stop should kick-star t new initiatives geared toward veteran ser vices and better record-keeping. These improvements were mentioned to the Daily but hedged by phrases like “examining” and “actively looking.”

That’s disappointing. The University should surpass or at least keep pace with its peers in the way it treats veterans. First, we have to find out who they are.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers tap VCU’s coach Basketball u from Page 1

the job. Before that, the Beaver, Ohio, native was an assistant coach at Ole Miss, Saint Louis, Wright State, New Mexico State and Jacksonville.

In the release, Teague highlighted Stollings’ “uptempo style,” which should help the Gophers put more points on the board next season.

Minnesota ranked 149th in the nation at 68.7 points per game last season, despite the fact that it trotted out Rachel Banham, the Big Ten’s top scorer.

Stollings’ VCU squad, on the other hand, scored 75.8 points per contest, good for 36th in the nation.

That new fast-paced offense should bode well with the elite scoring talent that the Gophers will retur n next season.

Stollings inherits a dynamic inside-outside duo, comprised of Banham and freshman center Amanda Zahui B. On top of that, coveted incoming freshman Carlie Wagner — the 54thranked player in the class of 2014, according to ESPN — will likely don the maroon and gold next season.

Wagner’s mother told the Minnesota Daily after Borton was fired that she expects her daughter to honor her commitment to play for the Gophers next season, even with a new coach.

Wagner, who scored 53 points in the Minnesota girls’ basketball state tournament last month, could

MARLENE STOLLINGS’ COACHING CAREER ’00-’01 ’01-’02 ’02-’03 ’03-’04 ’05-’07 ’07-’10 ’10-’11 ’11-’12 ’12-’14 ’14present

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be the third scoring option the team so desperately needed this season. She could also become a huge par t of Stollings’ highpowered offensive scheme.

It’s not surprising that Stollings embraces a highscoring system — as a player, she shot the lights out.

She graduated fr om Ohio University in 1998, but before that, she rewrote Ohio’s high school basketball record books, amassing 3,514 points in her career.

“I am excited for our student-athletes and fans, as Marlene will bring an energetic style of basketball to Williams Arena,” Teague said in the release.

Stollings will be officially introduced as head coach Tuesday at 4 p.m.

PHOTO COURTESY OF VCU ATHLETICS

Marlene Stollings will take over as head coach for the Gophers women’s basketball program, the University of Minnesota announced Monday.

SOFTBALL

Minnesota looks to rebound against Iowa The Gophers lost just their fifth game of the year Sunday afternoon.

SOFTBALL PREVIEW

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BY JARED CHRISTENSEN jchristensen@mndaily.com NO. 14 MINNESOTA

Minnesota will look to continue its dream season Tuesday when it travels to Iowa City, Iowa, for a doubleheader against the Hawkeyes.

The No. 14 Gophers are fresh off a disappointing split in Sunday’s doubleheader against rival Wisconsin, while Iowa is coming off a thrilling walk-off win over Northwestern on Sunday afternoon.

Minnesota played well Sunday afternoon, but fielding errors — three in the first game alone — and baserunning blunders brought the Gophers their fifth loss of the season in a game in which they gave up no earned runs.

Minnesota head coach Jessica Allister said fixing those mistakes will make all the difference against Iowa.

“We have to play defense, but overall, the loss Sunday wasn’t a lack of ability; it was just a lack of execution,” she said. “We know we can fix those things moving forward.”

While the team will need to fix those mistakes, its pitch-

IOWA

3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday in Iowa City, Iowa

MINNESOTA: The Gophers are fresh off a 1-1 doubleheader split against Wisconsin on Sunday afternoon. Minnesota lost the first game despite not giving up an earned run.

Minnesota freshman pitcher Sara Groenewegen will look to continue her impressive freshman season both in the pitcher’s circle and in the batter’s box. Groenewegen pitched a no-hitter through 6.1 innings in the second game of Sunday’s doubleheader, and her seven home runs are second most on the team.

IOWA: Iowa’s 5-4 Big Ten record has it tied for fourth in the conference.

The Hawkeyes won a thrilling upset over Northwestern this weekend, scoring the walk-off run on a wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

STEPHEN OFFERMAN, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Sara Groenewegen pitches against Illinois on March 29 at St. Thomas University.

ing staff has afforded it some room for errors this season.

A big par t of that pitching dominance has stemmed from the emergence of Minnesota freshman Sara Groenewegen.

Groenewegen’s performance against Wisconsin

earned her Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honors and her second consecutive recognition for Big Ten Co-Freshman of the Week. Her rate of 11.5 strikeouts per seven innings is the second-highest in the nation.

Allister said that domi-

nance in the pitcher’s circle has been essential to the team’s success so far this year.

“I think pitching is the name of the game,” she said, “and our pitching staff gives us the opportunity to go out and win games against any team in the country.”

Gophers first-team All-Big Ten infielder Kaitlyn Richardson said the loss to Wisconsin gives the team the opportunity to refocus and improve itself moving forward.

“Nobody likes to lose,” she said, “but if you learn from it, it can be a good

thing for us.”

Though the Gophers’ pitchers have led the team this year, the bats will also look to return to proper form after being quieted by Wisconsin.

Minnesota scored four runs Sunday — tied for the fewest it’s scored in any twogame span this year.

Still, sophomore catcher Taylor LeMay said fans should expect a dif ferent outcome Tuesday.

“I know ever ybody’s pumped for this series,” she said. “We’re ready to whoop Iowa.”

MLB

Oakland ruins Twins’ home opener with 8-3 victory

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — The Oakland Athletics can win a lot of different ways, as evidenced by their two-year hold on the AL West division title.

Yoenis Cespedes proved he can play through a hurting right heel, giving Scott

Kazmir and the A’s a spark with a pair of RBIs that helped spoil the Minnesota Twins’ home opener with an 8-3 victory on Monday.

“When we’re swinging well, we feel like we have a deep lineup,” A’s manager Bob Melvin said.

Cespedes has been hob-

bling around the last few days with the injury, but the team wasn’t worried enough about it to hold him out. The Cuban slugger followed a leadof f walk to Brandon Moss by crushing a double in the second inning for the first run against Kevin Correia (0-1) and hit a sacrifice

fly in the seventh.

Moss added a two-run single in the third and Derek Norris homered in the sixth.

“Ever yone knows their strengths and they don’t go outside of their game, and I think that’s what makes us a great overall ballclub and ver y deadly down the

stretch of the whole season,” Norris said.

Jed Lowrie hit what the A’s believed was a home run down the right-field line in the third inning, but the call on the field was a foul ball and the umpire-initiated review, which lasted more than four minutes, upheld the ruling.

orwood Teague made a helluva splash with his first hire: head men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino.

He might have just made his second one.

Teague announced the hiring of Marlene Stollings from V irginia Commonwealth on Monday afternoon.

Teague caught lightning in a bottle with Pitino, who just completed a successful first season with the Gophers. And at first glance, it seems like Teague is tr ying to do the same with his new women’s head coach.

Stollings, like Pitino, is known to run an uptempo offensive system that maximizes a team’s shooting and athleticism.

Stollings, like Pitino, is considered young for her profession.

Stollings, like Pitino, coached at the mid-major level before arriving at Minnesota.

And all comparisons aside, this looks like a good hire.

The Gophers’ roster was more than talented this season, but former head coach Pam Borton couldn’t get her team to the NCAA tournament.

Stollings should be able to corrects the team’s offensive woes.

That’s what the stats suggest, at least.

VCU’s of fense ranked 36th in the countr y in points per game — 113 spots higher than Minnesota.

The Gophers’ offense was often slow-paced last season, featuring a bit too much Rachel Banham or bust.

VCU women’s basketball didn’t occupy the primetime spot on ESPN, but the team set school records for points per game and 3-pointers made.

She coaches for her team to get buckets and treys.

And that style of offense should reinvigorate Minnesota’s once-passionate fan base.

The Gophers used to be among the nation’s best in home attendance, but spectators have seemed to grow more and more apathetic with each consolation tournament appearance.

Teague fired Bor ton at the end of March after the Gophers failed to make the NCAA tournament for a fifth consecutive season.

Stollings will have even more pressure on her to do what Bor ton couldn’t do: earn a trip to the Big Dance.

She’ll also be looked upon to recruit more instate talent.

Minnesota has become a hot-bed of sorts for women’s basketball, but the state’s elite players regularly pass on the Gophers in favor of other programs.

There have been a couple exceptions in Rachel Banham and incoming freshman Carlie Wagner — skilled, athletic guards who can shoot the long ball.

It sounds like the runand-gun offense will be a perfect fit.

Ya feel me?

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Minnesota goaltender Adam Wilcox grabs the puck during a game against Minnesota State-Mankato on Nov. 2, 2012, at Mariucci Arena.

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Wilcox reps hometown swagger on ice Wilcox

He could easily move on and ‘big-time’ everyone and just kind of disappear, but he doesn’t. That’s why so many people here are so solidly behind him.

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It’s been a joy for Wilcox, but it’s been just as thrilling for South St. Paul.

“You go to a Gopher game, and when they announce him from South St. Paul, the community is proud,” Lagoo said. “They feel like he’s one of us.”

And he is.

Wilcox still returns to his hometown rink, and he will sign an autograph or take a picture with any young fan who wants one.

“I think looking at his picture in Wakota Arena … drives kids to want to work hard at hockey,” said Kohlmann, who works at the arena. “I hear them talk about him like he’s a folk hero.”

South St. Paul r esidents often stop John and Christy Wilcox to congratulate them on their son’s success.

“They have kind of rallied around him … whether he knows it or not,” said Christy Wilcox, a city clerk for South St. Paul.

The town was built around massive meatpacking plants and stockyards — industr y that drove its economy for decades, cultivating a gritty culture.

That culture exists on the town’s rinks, too.

W ilcox’s parents are both South St. Paul natives.

His maternal grandfather played on the first South St. Paul high school hockey team. His uncles proudly wore the Packers sweater in the Minnesota high school hockey tournament.

“It was all about tradition,” Christy said.

And Adam dove headfirst into that tradition.

He started skating when he was 2 years old and was comfor table in net a few years later.

W ilcox’s cousin and cur rent NHL goaltender Alex Stalock lived with the

TIM KOHLMANN Wilcox’s high school teammate and close friend

PHOTO COURTESY OF WILCOX FAMILY

Adam Wilcox plays in a hockey game as a kid. Wilcox idolizes his cousin Alex Stalock, who plays goaltender for the NHL’s San Jose Sharks.

ADAM WILCOX CAREER STATISTICS GP

SV%

2012-13

39

.921 1.88

25-8-5

2013-14

36

.934 1.89

25-5-6

GAA

RECORD

SOURCE: U.S. COLLEGE HOCKEY ONLINE

Wilcox family for a summer and talked Adam into strapping on the goalie pads for some mini-stick hockey in the basement.

“That kind of got him going on it,” Christy said.

After that, Adam didn’t stray too far from the net or the ice.

He grew up with a rink in his backyard and a ministick rink in his basement.

He spent his nights stopping wristers and slapshots — emulating the unorthodox styles of his idols Stalock and former NHL goaltender Dominik Hasek.

Through the experience of backyard and street hockey, Wilcox forged a unique goaltending style, and acrobatic saves soon became the norm.

“Ever y time we were over at his house, we were always playing some kind of hockey,” Kohlmann said.

“We lived for it. And he was always the most competitive player I’ve met. We

would play until he won.”

Everything was a friendly competition for Wilcox, but hockey was always his sport of choice. And he established himself as a standout in South St. Paul’s youth hockey circuits.

“I watched him throughout youth hockey,” Lagoo said. “You knew he was something special.”

While 14-year-olds have the option to play Bantam hockey — the highest level before high school — Wilcox opted to try out for the varsity hockey team.

He was the only freshman to earn significant varsity playing time in Lagoo’s 19 years as South St. Paul’s head coach.

Lagoo said W ilcox’s young age didn’t bar him from fitting into the locker room culture.

W ilcox traded star ts with a senior goaltender, and by the end of the season, the job was his.

And the town was

buzzing. “’South St. Paul’s got a special goalie, and he’s only a freshman,’” Lagoo said.

“It was exciting.”

As a sophomore, Wilcox star ted ever y game, and he drew attention from major Division I programs, including Minnesota and Minnesota-Duluth, where Stalock played.

Still, he was rather mum about his intentions — friends and family had to pr y for information about his recruitment.

“I didn’t even know he was committing, until one night [when] I was working, and he texted me and said, ‘I just committed to the University of Minnesota,’ ” Wilcox’s mother said.

South St. Paul rallied around its sophomore star, but Wilcox knew the writing was on the wall.

In general, top goaltenders leave high school early to play junior hockey — a more competitive level that helps prep players for the Division I level.

Wilcox was no exception.

“It was tough to be away from home senior year,” he said. “I knew for a couple years that’s what I was going to do. I knew the decision was right.”

Wilcox bounced after his junior season and joined the Green Bay Gamblers — a junior team in the United States Hockey League.

He said the stiffer competition helped him polish his game, allowing him to

harness and gain a more complete control of his athleticism.

Wilcox was eligible for the NHL Draft after the 201011 season, and the 2011 draft was held at the Xcel Energy Center — a 15-minute drive from South St. Paul.

“We just decided to go down there for the heck of it,” John Wilcox said. “We didn’t expect him to get drafted.”

In the sixth round, he was drafted by the Tampa Bay Lightning — a stunning but exciting moment for the family, John Wilcox said.

Adam Wilcox said the Lightning still monitor his development and occasionally check in with him.

He split the 2011-12 season with Green Bay and the Tri-City Storm in Nebraska before coming up to Minnesota for his freshman season.

All-WCHA goalie Kent Patterson’s graduation left the goalie spot vacant. Wilcox snagged the job and starred immediately.

As a freshman, he set the school record for goals against average en route to an All-WCHA Third Team selection.

As a sophomore, he’s even better.

His numbers are right on par with his 2012-13 stats, and he’s been the backbone of a team that lost several players to professional hockey.

“It’s a load off my shoulders, because he’s always

going to be ready to play,” Minnesota captain Nate Condon said.

Minnesota will take the ice against arch-nemesis North Dakota in the Frozen Four on Thursday.

Some of the upperclassmen played in the Frozen Four two years ago. Wilcox hasn’t, but don’t expect him to be nervous.

Those who know him well say he relishes these opportunities and has dedicated his whole life to prepping for this moment.

“This is what we trained for after last year,” Wilcox said. “We expected to be here.”

Wilcox returned to Wakota Arena on Sunday afternoon, two days before his team’s depar ture to Philadelphia.

A group of his former high school teammates fiddled with a ball in the middle of the rink, but when Wilcox walked in, they lit up like a pinball machine.

Wilcox joined them in the middle of the rink, and the group exchanged pleasantries and laughs.

“He could easily move on and ‘big-time’ ever yone and just kind of disappear, but he doesn’t,” Kohlmann said. “That’s why so many people here are so solidly behind him.”

He’s the Big Ten Player of the Year.

He’s the Big Ten Goaltender of the Year.

And he’s still what Lagoo calls “one of us.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

UConn beats Kentucky 60-54 to win NCAA title

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARLINGTON, Texas — No conference wanted them. Several teammates and their coach left them.

The NCAA wouldn’t have them.

UConn won it all anyway.

Shabazz Napier turned in another all-court masterpiece Monday night to lift the Huskies to a 60-54 win over Kentucky’s freshmen and a national title hardly

anyone saw coming.

Napier had 22 points, six rebounds and three assists, and his partner in defensive lock-down, Ryan Boatright, finished with 14 points.

UConn (32-8) never trailed. The Huskies led by as many as 15 in the first half and watched the Wildcats (29-11) trim the deficit to one with 8:13 left. But Aaron Harrison, Kentucky’s big-moment shooter in the last three

games, missed a 3-pointer from the left corner that would’ve given the ‘Cats the lead. Kentucky never got closer.

One key difference in a six-point loss: Kentucky’s 11 missed free throws — a flashback of sorts for coach John Calipari, whose Memphis team blew a late lead against Kansas after missing multiple free throws in the 2008 final. The Wildcats went 13 for 24. UConn went

10 for 10, and when Lasan Kromah made his last two with 25.1 seconds left for a six-point margin, the celebration was on.

In all, Calipari’s One and Doners got outdone by a more fundamentally sound, more-seasoned group that came into this tournament a seventh-seeded afterthought but walked away with the program’s fourth national title since 1999.

They were the highest seed

to win it all since Rollie Massimino’s eighth-seeded Villanova squad in 1985.

Napier and Boatright now go down with Kemba Walker, Emeka Okafor and all those other UConn champs of years past. This adds to the school’s titles in 1999, 2004 and 2011.

This one was, by far, the most unexpected.

A short year ago, UConn was playing its first season in the new American

Athletic Conference after being booted from the Big East and not welcomed by any of the so-called power confer ences. Longtime coach Jim Calhoun left because of health problems.

And most damaging — the NCAA made the Huskies sit out of last year’s March Madness because of grade problems, which triggered an exodus of five key players to the NBA or other schools.

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MUSIC

Who should you see at Spring Jam?

BY EMILY EVELAND eeveland@mndaily.com

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pring is finally here! Well, sor t of. Weird weather aside, the star t of spring means two ver y impor tant things: School is almost over, and Spring Jam is about to start. This year’s three-day celebratory weekend is jam-packed with events like trivia, bowling, movies and, most importantly, lots and lots of music.

W ith the annual festivities on the horizon, it’s time to take a look at which events are worth attending.

To make it easier on your screen-sore eyes, A&E has composed a handy little flow chart to help you figure out the weekend.

Do you have a class between noon and 1 p.m. on Thursday or Friday?

YES

How does the term “love rock” make you feel?

NO

AWW, THAT’S SO SWEET!

Have you ever been to San Francisco?

Did you like it?

Do you like rap?

YES

LIKE BASHING MY HEAD AGAINST A WALL

NO

NEVER BEEN

Do you enjoy local music?

I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHY I STILL LIVE HERE

Do you listen to country?

I’D SOONER EAT GLASS

LOVE!

SURE!

TOTALLY!

What about female-fronted synth pop?

HELL YEAH!

GAG ME

HATED IT SORRY. LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE PARTYING ALONE

Do you like hippy rap?

TOTALLY!

NOT MY THING

MOD SON

MAC MILLER

How do you feel about Tyler the Creator?

LOVE HIM!

SORRY. LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE PARTYING ALONE

What about other rappers?

MEH

HE’S GROSS

I’M DOWN

SORRY. LOOKS LIKE YOU’RE PARTYING ALONE

MAC MILLER

WITH EARL SWEATSHIRT, MOD SUN, BATTLE OF THE BANDS WINNER 7 P.M. SATURDAY MARIUCCI ARENA

THE MOWGLI’S

WITH FINISH TICKET 7 P.M. THURSDAY ST. PAUL STUDENT CENTER

GLORIANA

NOON THURSDAY COFFMAN UNION

POLIÇA

NOON FRIDAY COFFMAN UNION

BATTLE OF THE BANDS

5 P.M. FRIDAY COFFMAN UNION

FASHION

The Fashionista is in: Out with the old duds It’s like “date, marry, kill,” but with clothes.

BY MELANIE RICHTMAN mrichtman@mndaily.com

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p r i n g is her e, and that means it’s time to clean out your closet to make room for fun, new things. However, it can sometimes be challenging to part with old clothes — what if you get rid of something and it comes back in style next year? Luckily, you have this handy little guide to what you should keep, toss and repurpose for 2014.

Item: Wedge sneakers

TOSS We all thought wedge sneakers were cool for a moment, thanks to French designer Isabel Marant. But it turns out sneaker wedges were just another fad that became mainstream a little too quickly. I contemplated buying them for months, and that’s about as long as this trend lasted.

You’ll probably have luck selling these to a trendy consignment store like Buffalo Exchange because they might not know that all the cool kids will be getting rid of theirs. If you really like the sneaker look, go buy a flat pair and leave the wedges back in 2013 where they belong.

Item: Turtlenecks

KEEP Believe it or not, turtlenecks are coming back.

Erdem, 3.1 Phillip Lim and Prabal Gurung all featured them prominently in their

A&E EDITOR

Spencer Doar sdoar@mndaily.com

pre-fall 2014 collections. A solid black turtleneck will be a chic layering piece come fall, and chunky turtleneck sweaters are a sure way to stay warm and on trend.

Hold on to these. You might think they look matronly now, but if you toss them, you’ll be digging through your mom’s closet in a few months. Keep your turtlenecks now, and thank me later.

Item: Jean jacket

REPURPOSE How long have you been holding on to this jean jacket? Probably too long, but that’s OK, because denim vests are totally cool right now, and you don’t even have to buy one! Turn the jacket inside-out and use a seam ripper (or scissors if you REALLY trust yourself) to carefully remove the stitching around the sleeves. Voilà: You have a denim vest to add some edge to your pretty spring dresses.

Item: Bandage skirts

TOSS If you own a plain black bandage skirt that isn’t too short, you can keep it. If it’s patterned, colored or too short and tight, you should probably give it to your younger sister to use for dress-up.

As a college student, you’re too close to becoming a real adult to wear a skin-tight, hot pink skir t.

So toss the funky bandage u See CLOSET Page 10

ASSISTANT A&E EDITOR Emily Eveland eeveland@mndaily.com

Does your closet look like this? Time for spring cleaning.

RADIO K TOP 7

1. St. Vincent, Digital Witness 2. Liars, Pro Anti Anti 3. Future Islands, Seasons (Waiting On You)

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

4. Modern Baseball, Your Graduation 5. Young Fathers, LOW 6. La Dispute, For Mayor In Splitsville 7. Buffalo Moon Machista

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dress and also look like you belong in 2014. Just don’t make it too short.

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skirts, unless you enjoy getting cat calls from creepers on your way to Blarney.

Item: Plaid

Item: Graphic tees

Plaid will probably never go away in Minnesota because, let’s face it, we need those warm flannels to survive winter. Even though you’re probably tired of the same four plaid shirts you’ve been wearing since November, hold on to them.

Plaid was shown in at least 10 designers’ fall collections, from Victoria Beckham to Thakoon.

And it wasn’t just plaid shirts. Plaid skirts, dresses and pants are all fair game — the more plaid, the better. Keep anything plaid you own (except maybe your uniform’s skirt from Catholic school).

TOSS It depends on the saying, but in general, T-shirts with words on them are pretty tacky. Any T-shir t with a brand name anywhere other than the back tag needs to go. If it says something that Abercrombie & Fitch might put on a tee, or if it’s actually from Abercrombie, burn it.

If I find out that you have a Tapout shir t or something from Ed Hardy and aren’t an MMA fighter, we will never be friends.

Get rid of them as soon as physically possible.

Of course, there are exceptions to this rule. Anything written in French is usually acceptable. Ask your friends if you look like a tool when you wear said shirt, and if they hesitate at all to say no, throw it away.

Item: High-low hems

REPURPOSE High-low skir ts and dresses, also known as mullet dresses, had a good run back in 2013 but aren’t coming back anytime soon (sorry). If you feel comfortable enough with a sewing machine, you should tr y to hem yours into one consistent length. That way, you’ll get to keep that cute

KEEP

Item: Anything that doesn’t fit

TOSS Whether you’ve changed sizes or just didn’t listen to your mother when she taught you how to properly do laundr y and have shrunk all your sweaters, it doesn’t matter. If it doesn’t fit, there’s no reason to hang on to it.

If you plan to lose weight — and that’s why you’re saving ill-fitting clothes — it’s much more rewarding to buy a new pair of “skinny” jeans, rather than rewearing old ones that have been sitting in your closet for two years. Make room for clothes that fit your current shape.

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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.

4/8/2014

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (4/8): This year of creative fertility begins with an Aries Mercury bang. Communications uncork your thriving. Home roots strengthen as your circle widens. Resolve past conflicts with compassion.

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 6 — You’re especially lucky in love today and tomorrow.

It’s your light-hearted demeanor.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — Your efforts could seem stuck. Push too hard and there’s breakage. Your friends are a big help today and tomorrow; they come to the rescue.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 5 — Household issues demand attention today and tomorrow. Fix something that doesn’t work as you’d like.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Work takes priority today and tomorrow, but circumstances may not follow plans. You could overstep bounds if you force the action.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 6 — Get into the books today and tomorrow. Study new developments, and check all angles. Compare financial notes.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 6 — Make time for an outing over the next few days. It’s a good time to set long-term goals.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Today and tomorrow could get profitable. Gentle persistence works better than force. Enlist some help with a project.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — For the next two days, track calls, orders and income carefully.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Consider the consequences of actions before taking them. Use your power responsibly and with compassion. Don’t strain or push too far.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 6 — A new associate could become a valuable partner.

Keep your promises, and plug away to get the work done.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 5 — Stick close to home today and tomorrow, and take time for quiet contemplation. Consider a loved one’s wishes.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — Actions could seem blocked or thwarted. Huddle up and put your heads together. Take it slow.

Focus on making money today and tomorrow.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014

from the archive

Thursday, April 8, 2004

BACKTALK

crossword 7B

DAILY CROSSWORD

FOR RELEASE APRIL 8, 2014

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

From TABoise

Hey Net, do me a favor and stop your NUTTin bitchin.

That’s all you and your little tree-hugging hippie friends do — bitch about the government. So, you want Pawlenty and the State to fork over money to the Metro-Transit Council in order to settle the strike.

Well, that doesn’t seem so bad, anything else you want? Net: Well let’s see here, how about socialized medicine, free day care, free higher education, jobs, less global bullying on the part of certain rich guys from Connecticut and trampolines on Northrop Mall. I bet there is, since this seems to be a common trend among you liberals — want, want, want, and you have everyone else pay, pay, pay. I don’t know where you have your money tree planted, but I know that Minnesota has no state land designated to any enchanted forest of such. The State is already a NUTT load in the hole because of a number of reasons; one being Ventura’s little, yellow choo-choo train that goes back and forth to, where else but, the Mall of America, or MOA for all you trendy people out there. Net: Two being gigantic Republican tax giveaways for the richest people in the state. If you feel so NUTTin bad for the already overpaid bus drivers, or are just pissed because you can’t get to your favorite coffee shop to sip on your daily espresso, then cut a check yourself and mail it to Metro Headquarters, I’m sure they’ll be much obliged. Pawlenty didn’t raise taxes to alleviate the deficit because he represents the common man. Net: Yeah, how many “common men” do you know who own McMansions in Eagan and get jobs from their friends where they make $60,000 a year for doing nothing? And their wives are judges? But, I’m sure if he had, I would have to listen to you bitch about that everyday in this liberal piece of garbage instead. Here’s my haiku for you: Pawlenty is sweet Network and Liberals suck So do bus drivers

From Teapot Dome

Hi, I’m Teapot Dome, the loser who wrote about global domination and the B-52s (two unrelated but equally cool topics). Speaking of global domination, what’s up with that gigantic Death Star thing hanging in the center of Carlson? Does anyone know what the hell they’re planning to use the “Carlson Death Star” for? Net: We’ll thank you not to refer to great public art that way. On another note, I’ve decided that I like Michelle Branch better than the B-52s. Now, if you were to say: “Teapot Dome, your taste in music is kind of girly” — well, you’d probably be right. But what can I say? Net: Say you like Korn or Linkin Park.

They’re slightly less girly bands. Michelle Branch, I love you “Cuz you’re everywhere to me!” Wow. Sorry about that. Ok, here’s a haiku I wrote when I was in Japan: Hey, cool chopsticks, dude.

Where’s that smell coming from, hm?

Sweet Nippon sushi.

Net: Hmm, that was okay, but not as good as this: Sneaky little thong Peeking out of low cut jeans Warm sun on sweet cheeks I’ve been looking for you, and I’m gonna find you, Net. I imagine that you’re a beautiful young woman (a clever brunette, shall we say). I’ll pass by you one day at the bus stop. It’ll be pouring rain. We’ll both be cold and soaked. Our eyes will meet. You won’t need to say a thing — I’ll just know it in my heart, that you’re the one and only Net. Our lips will meet in a long, passionate kiss as the rain pours down around us. We’ll get on the bus and drive away into the sunset — just keep driving on and on, away from this crazy, crazy school known as the U...

Net: Don’t stop, big stud.

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I’ve worked nights for the better part of this semester. The job is alright, and the pay is great, but it means that I only work with two people. The same two people — every shift.

That wouldn’t be a problem if they were cool or even if they were boring.

But, as you can probably guess, they’re not. One’s a guy, one’s a girl, and they are both the weirdest, most awkward, terrible individuals I think I’ve ever met.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, they’ve both made up their minds to like me.

This isn’t the product of late-night idle thoughts, either. The girl straightup started to give me an (un-arousing) back massage the other day, and that’s just the straw that broke the camel’s back. She’s been flirting and shooting me glances for the last few weeks — you know the ones.

And the guy: This one came out of nowhere. I didn’t think he was gay, until he asked me out for what I guess you’d call breakfast, though it’d be after a shift. …

Anyway, I want to keep getting this money, but I am getting increasingly frustrated and freaked out by my strange admirers. Thoughts?

—Dying In The Graveyard

Grim Outlook,

Looks like you are about ready to dip your foot in the job market! But seriously, is there a supervisor around? (Or is one of these folks your boss, too? Ick.) Is there someone in human resources you could speak with about your apprehensions and the conduct of your coworkers? I’m thinking specifically about the massage situation for that one.

I understand the allure of the almighty greenback, but is continued exposure to these people going to damage your psyche beyond repair?

And are your coworkers aware of their competing interests? This is risky,

but you could try pitting them against each other in an epic jealousy battle.

Is this night job in a warehouse? If it is, I’d resort to playing around on the forklift by myself for hours. Just don’t tell OSHA. If there isn’t a forklift, I’d probably quit.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m wondering about your thoughts on the appeal of musical instruments on the opposite sex. I play the guitar, and previous significant others have enjoyed that.

I just started dating someone new.

So my question is, if it doesn’t come up, or if they aren’t aware, would it be weird to surprise them with a song?

—Anonymous

Troubadour In Training,

It’s not necessarily weird; it’s just a bad idea.

That one fella on the stairwell in “Animal House” knows what I’m talking about.

Playing tuneskies on your six-string may seem like a great way to display your “artistic” or “sensitive” side, but it really just reeks of high school desperation. Practicing around the house is one thing; playing for people in casual situations is another.

I knew a kid once, an all-around good dude. We were rolling up to the home of an acquaintance who had a few friends over. As we were getting out of the car, he said, “Oh, let me get my guitar out of the trunk.” To which I said, “Why?” He wanted to play for them. I know you’re talking about a slightly different situation (one person versus a group), but I’ll tell you same thing I told him.

DON’T. BE. THAT. GUY.

—Dr. Date

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

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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Stadium Village hotel moves forward HOUR AFTER SUNRISE

NOON

HOUR BEFORE SUNSET

MARCH 20

Still, CPM owner Daniel Oberpriller said he is relieved to see the project progress so smoothly.

“We’re looking good,” Oberpriller said. “Sometimes they work out like this — not all the time, but so far, so good.”

In contrast, the Minneapolis City Council recently voted to deny Doran’s hotel proposal until a Dinkytown historical designation study is complete.

While Doran’s hotel would demolish businesses — including Mesa Pizza — CPM’s hotel would displace four houses that the city deemed weren’t historic resources.

The land will also be rezoned — a change supported by planning documents from the neighborhood, city and University, a city report said.

The only hang-up from the city involved the entrance to the hotel’s 41-stall underground parking ramp, Oberpriller said, which has since been changed.

The city’s Zoning and Planning Committee will vote on the project May 1, and the project will go before the full City Council the next week. If approved, Oberpriller said the company plans to begin construction in July.

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The Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association and University of Minnesota Physicians also fully suppor t the project, Oberpriller said.

“Ever ybody likes the design and likes the use,” Oberpriller said. “It’s the right thing for the neighborhood. It’s not another student housing project. It’s providing a need for the University, [and] it’s doing all the right things.”

CPM’s hotel would be the third located within the Stadium Village business district, in addition to the Days Inn and Commons Hotel.

Commons Director of Sales and Marketing Kelly Commer ford said there’s “certainly” enough demand on campus to accommodate another hotel in the East Bank marketplace.

Commer ford said the Commons hotel often runs at high occupancy and sometimes sends surplus customers to hotels on the West Bank. CPM’s hotel will swipe business from hotels on the other side of the river, Commer ford said, rather than the Commons or the Days Inn. “We welcome it,” he said. “No one wants competition, really, but if it’s going to be built … there’s enough demand to absorb that on campus.”

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Minn. panel backs $77M Senate building

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL — A plan to constr uct a $77 million building to house Minnesota’s 67 state senators is moving for ward after the Senate Rules Committee approved the proposal on Monday.

The project matches one that the House Rules Committee approved Friday by a single vote. It would cost $13 million less than the original proposal the Senate Rules Committee approved earlier this year.

Delaying one parking lot, making another userfinanced and halving the number of conference rooms enabled state Department of Administration of ficials to cut the plan’s cost.

The proposed Senate building is par t of a $273 million project to renovate the Capitol.

“I’d like to move the Capitol back to the appearance it had to the public in 1905; that’s what I’d like it to be,” Majority Leader Tom Bakk, D-Cook, said after the hearing.

While the overall renovation has bipar tisan suppor t, Republicans have attacked the proposed project as a wasteful and unnecessar y use of taxpayer money.

“The Capitol already has space for the Senate.

And the State Office Building already has space,” said Senate Minority Leader David Hann, R-Eden Prairie, during the hearing.

“It seems we have twice as many of fices as we have senators. How does that work?”

Democrats have said the building is critical because the renovation will eliminate offices and hearing rooms and provide more Capitol space for the visiting public.

Yet even Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton has questioned the project’s scope.

GOP state senators peppered government officials with questions during the Monday hearing over the new building’s size, the amount of space designed at the Capitol for use by the governor and the number of offices some representatives will have.

“This is too much for me,” said Sen. Paul Gazelka, R-Nisswa, during the hearing. “It’s fr ustrating for me. It’s gover nment math. The costs are going up. As square footage goes up, costs should be going down.”