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WEDNESDAY
APRIL 9, 2014
ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT MNDAILY.COM
ADMINISTRATION
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aftermath University of Minnesota student Anarae Schunk died in September. Every day since, her family has struggled to put together the pieces of a new and foreign life.
U maps out long-term mission Every president establishes broad goals for the University, and Kaler’s will roll out in fall. BY HALEY HANSEN hhansen@mndaily.com
With ever y new wave of University of Minnesota leaders, the institution re-establishes goals to hold the administration accountable and make sure the school is moving forward. The plan under University President Eric Kaler’s administration is underway and will launch this fall. Though most strategic plans come and go with the administrations that created them — and with little accountability for achieving what they set out to do — this plan has been touted as more aggressive than its predecessors. Officials say the plan is intended to ensure that members of the University community are working toward similar goals and that measures to evaluate success are uniform across departments and colleges. “It’s important for all of us to feel like we’re accomplishing something and for students to feel that their education is as good as it can be,” Senior Vice President for u See PLAN Page 3
STUDENT GOVERNMENT
Grad students question Senate election process Mariana Schunk sits in the living room of her family’s Burnsville home Saturday, March 8. A collage Anarae made of their family hangs above Mariana’s head along with other family photos.
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narae Schunk’s room student’s death in September, the house hasn’t changed. where her family has lived since just beClothes hang in fore her birth has become too still. her closet, a pair There are more than 20 years of signs of her shoes sits of Anarae. For each one, her mother has a neatly near the door story. and books line her Mariana Schunk, 60, laughs remembers h e l v e s — “ T h e ing her daughter attaching a Christmas Chronicles of Narnia,” “Life of Pi,” edges bow to a photo of herself on the piano in worn and greyed. On a full-length mirror the living room. She smiles when pointing hanging on the door, “You are beautiful” to a collage Anarae made with a series of is written in dry erase marker, staining the photos: Mariana and her husband, Monty, glass with the round, lilting penmanship of at their wedding, a shawl joining their a young girl. shoulders and wreaths crowning their Outside, a wall is lined with trophies heads; nearly identical baby photos of from chess tournaments, and a table Mariana and Anarae stacked one over the where she used to tutor elementary and other, which people often confuse. middle school students is still set up. But after the University of Minnesota see AFTERMATH page 6
Turnout was low and most graduate and professional candidates ran as write-ins. BY BLAIR EMERSON bemerson@mndaily.com
After a recent change to the Student Senate’s bylaws that guaranteed seats to graduate and professional students, some scrambled to run as write-in candidates before last week’s election. But because the bylaw amendment took effect so late in the process, some graduate student leaders are now taking issue with how the election was handled. Graduate and professional students weren’t previously guaranteed senate seats proportional to their representation in individual colleges. To change that, Council of Graduate Students President Andrew McNally proposed the bylaw amendment at last month’s Student Senate meeting. Last year, a bylaw amendment removed the Graduate School as a voting unit and grouped undergraduates and graduates together within their respective colleges. Though McNally’s amendment, which u See ELECTION Page 5
STUDENT GROUPS
Crowd split on Coulter The conservative author and columnist spoke to a crowd of about 100 on Tuesday evening. BY TAYLOR NACHTIGAL tnachtigal@mndaily.com
Outspoken conser vative author and pundit Ann Coulter, was met with support and some opposition at her speech in Willey Hall on Tuesday night. The speech glided through a number of controversial topics — including health care reform, gun control and immigration — infusing anecdotes and jests met, mixed reactions from the crowd The event was partially sponsored by two University student groups, but it was mostly older community members who filled about 100 seats in the West Bank auditorium. Only a handful of students uninvolved with the sponsoring organizations attended, and many of them weren’t Coulter supporters.
Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, the larger of two student groups cosponsoring the speech, declined to comment for this story. Students for a Conservative Voice was the other group. Political science sophomore Mason Schraufnagael said it’s beneficial for the University to hear from conservative leaders like Coulter, who he thinks are often underrepresented on campus. “I think it’s important we are here and to acknowledge ideas that we don’t really see a lot ’cause most of the campus is liberal … even if we don’t agree with it,” he said. Tuesday’s visit was one of Coulter’s regular speaking engagements at college campuses and other venues. She’s promoting her new book, “Never Trust a Liberal over 3 — Especially a Republican.” Coulter visits campuses frequently, and she’s been met with stern opposition at times. u See COULTER Page 4
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Conservative author and columnist Ann Coulter talks politics and more at Willey Hall on Tuesday.
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