April 22, 2014

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Dinkytown owners say they’re taking normal security precautions.

Julia Courter and Natallia Pintusava have amassed a 17-4 record this year.

A&E rounds up this week’s crop of album releases.

Spring Jam doesn’t worry businesses

Courter, Pintusava impress at No. 2 doubles

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New albums: the bad, the timeless and the tacky

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MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH 61° LOW 43°

GREEN LINE

Light rail will run 24/7

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ST PAUL

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For product design, he’s the one

City officials and student gov’t leaders say the longer Green Line hours will benefit riders.

BY BLAIR EMERSON bemerson@mndaily.com

When the Central Corridor light-rail line opens June 14, trains will run 24/7.

The line was originally set to operate seven days a week until only 1 a.m., but last week Metro Transit announced in a letter that trains will run continuously.

Three Minneapolis City Council members, two of whom represent University of Minnesota-area neighborhoods, authored a letter to Metro Transit last month asking officials to extend the Green Line’s hours until at least 3 a.m. each day.

Ward 3 City Councilman Jacob Frey, who helped write the letter, said he supports the extension of hours.

“If we’re going to invest all of this money into public transportation and a largescale new light rail, it makes sense that it’s

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

Assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz demonstrates the Atom Blaster, a Nerf toy developed from his master’s research in 2005, in his office Thursday. Kudrowitz has taught a Toy Product Design course for 10 years, including four at the University of Minnesota.

The College of Design may create a product design major, partially due to the influence of Barry Kudrowitz.

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DEVELOPMENT

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U area on trend for growth

earing bright blue sneakers and

CDES Dean Tom Fisher said a product

a blazer, University of Minnesota

design major is possible, but its formation

assistant professor Barr y Kudrowitz dis-

is contingent on finding more faculty mem-

cussed his favorite car toon, “Adventure

bers. And finding instructors like Kudrow-

Time,” from inside his Rapson Hall office.

itz has proved difficult.

Littered with toys, drawings and in-prog-

“He’s an example of the new generation

ress inventions, the office resembles a kid’s

of faculty coming to the University and into

playroom, and it’s the home base where

higher ed,” Fisher said.

product design program.

Since Kudrowitz, 31, came to the University in 2011, he has been instrumental in

For now, product design is only a minor

the product design program’s growth, Fish-

for undergraduate and graduate students in

er said. Some students say they enrolled

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

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for a major is rising.

Kudrowitz leads the University’s growing

The metro area is set for big changes, and area development mirrors citywide trends.

The Twin Cities’ population is poised to skyrocket, and city leaders are evaluating whether the University of Minnesota area is ready for a smooth transition.

The Metropolitan Council presented its 30-year regional plan to a Minneapolis city committee Thursday, recommending more development around transit corridors to accommodate new growth in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

City leaders say development around the University already follows this trend and existing projects seem to match the Met Council’s long-term recommendations.

The plan predicts a nearly 30 percent jump in the metro area population, with the Twin Cities receiving the largest share.

the College of Design, but student demand

BY VANESSA NYARKO vnyarko@mndaily.com

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ATHLETICS

NCAA council backs unlimited meals for athletes Athletics officials will vote this week on whether to allow unlimited meals and snacks.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

A proposal to allow unlimited meals and snacks for student-athletes appears to have widespread support, including the backing of three former Gophers football players.

The NCAA Division I Legislative Coun-

STUDENT LIFE

cil last Tuesday approved the measure, which aims to help Division I student-athletes meet their nutritional needs. The association’s leadership could make the measure official this week.

Current NCAA rules allow schools to provide three meals per day, nutritional supplements and snacks to student-athletes.

“The details surrounding the food legislation that the NCAA had in place were ver y cumbersome,” Gophers Director of Athletic Medicine Moira Novak said.

If the NCAA Division I Board of Direc-

tors passes the proposal at its meeting Thursday, the new rules will take effect Aug. 1.

“I think it’s a great thing that they’re doing this,” former Gophers offensive lineman Zach Mottla said. “I think it’s a good first step in the direction that the NCAA needs to go.”

Mottla’s former teammates — linebacker Mike Rallis and fullback Mike Henry — seemed to agree. u See MEALS Page 5

Designing for the elements Apparel design students drew inspiration from the Weisman’s exhibit on Siberian life.

BY MELANIE RICHTMAN mrichtman@mndaily.com

ALICIA MCCANN, DAILY

Student apparel designers Catherine Menzel, Lee Tran and Holly Welwood give a sneak peek of pieces from their work before the Weisman Elements Fashion Show.

A vegetable steamer resting in a kitchen is a common sight, but a vegetable steamer worn as attire is far from usual.

At “Elements,” a University of Minnesota student fashion show hosted by the WAM Collective, one designer does just that.

The event, now in its third year, features student designs inspired by another artistic work. This year, designers used the University Weisman Art Museum exhibit “Siberia: Imagined and Reimagined” as their muse.

“This is an opportunity to not only see original, student-made garments in a fullscale runway show, but it’s also a ver y different way to see the museum,” WAM

Collective officer Emily Macy said.

In 2012, WAM Collective — of the Weisman Art Museum — partnered with Northrop Concerts and Lectures to host a fashion show called “No White,” featuring student designs — all avoiding the color white — inspired by costumes from Ballet Preljocaj’s interpretation of “Snow White.”

After the success of the first event, WAM Collective realized that fashion shows were a great opportunity to showcase student work and bring people into the museum.

“We were really inspired by the idea that students could take inspiration from one art and translate it into another,” Macy said. “Last year, we decided to make the competition revolve around the exhibitions from the museum.”

The 2013 theme, “Threads,” challenged students to create looks without using traditional materials like zippers or buttons.

Of the 16 designers in this year’s show, u See ELEMENTS Page 6

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KIEV, Ukraine — Russia has “days, not weeks” to abide by an international accord aimed at stemming the crisis in Ukraine, the top U.S. diplomat in Kiev warned Monday as Vice President Joe Biden launched a highprofile show of support for the pro-Western Ukrainian government. Russia in turn accused authorities in Kiev of flagrantly violating the pact and declared their actions would not stand.

Biden, the highest-ranking American official to visit Ukraine during its conflict with Russia, planned to meet with government officials in the capital of Kiev on Tuesday. The vice president also planned to announce new technical support to help the fledgling government with energy and economic reforms.

Biden’s trip comes days after the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and Europe signed an agreement in Geneva calling for

Moscow to use its influence to get pro-Russian forces to leave the numerous government buildings they now occupy in cites throughout eastern Ukraine. The U.S. asserted on Monday that publicly available photographs from Twitter and other media show that some of the troops in eastern Ukraine are Russian special forces, and the U.S. said the photos support its case that Moscow is using its military to stir unrest in Ukraine.

There was no way to immediately verify the photographs, which were either taken from the Internet or given to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe last week by Ukraine diplomats.

In Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov rejected charges that Moscow was behind the troubles in eastern Ukraine and failing to live up to the Geneva agreement.

“Before putting forth ultimatums to us, demanding fulfillment of something within

two-three days or otherwise be threatened with sanctions, we would urgently call on our American partners to fully recognize responsibility for those whom they brought to power and whom they are trying to shield, closing their eyes to the outrages created by this regime and by the fighters on whom this regime leans,” Lavrov told a news conference.

Words and actions by Ukrainian leaders are “absolutely unacceptable,” he declared.

The U.S. has war ned that it will quickly order new economic sanctions on Russian of ficials and entities if Moscow doesn’t follow through on the provisions in last week’s accord. Gregory Pyatt, the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, said it was still too early to tell whether the deal would succeed, but he added, “The ball is really in Moscow’s court in terms of whether they’re going to take this diplomatic off-ramp.”

“There needs to be concrete results,” Pyatt told reporters in Kiev. He said the U.S. would make a decision on whether the agreement is working in “days, not weeks.”

While last week’s agreement of fered a glimmer of hope that the crisis in Ukraine could be resolved peacefully, the accord appears to be fragile at best.

The ar med pr o-Russia groups have refused to leave their occupying positions in eastern Ukraine until the countr y’s acting government resigns. And there was a burst of violence Sunday, with three people killed during a shootout at a checkpoint that was manned by pro-Russian troops.

Ukrainian and Russian of ficials each blamed the other for instigating the attack. The White House said it was still trying to determine who was responsible and had no independent verification of what transpired.

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Pope John Paul’s Seabed hunt for jet legacy stained by stretches beyond week sex abuse scandal

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VATICAN CITY — Pope John Paul II is rightly credited with having helped bring down communism, of inspiring a new generation of Catholics with a globe-trotting papacy and of explaining church teaching on a range of hot-button issues as Christianity entered its third millennium.

But the sexual abuse scandal that festered under his watch remains a stain on his legacy.

John Paul and his top advisers failed to grasp the severity of the abuse problem until very late in his 26-year papacy, even though U.S. bishops had been petitioning the Holy See since the late-1980s for a faster way to defrock pedophile priests.

Pope Francis has inherited John Paul’s most notorious failure on the sex abuse front — the Legion of Christ order, which John Paul and his top advisers held up as a model.

Francis, who will canonize John Paul on Sunday, must decide whether to sign off on the Vatican’s three-year reform project, imposed after the Legion admitted that its late founder sexually abused his seminarians and fathered three children.

Documents from the archives of the Vatican’s then-Sacred Congregation for Religious show how a succession of papacies — including that of John XXIII, also to be canonized Sunday — simply turned a blind eye to credible reports that Maciel was a con artist, drug addict, pedophile and religious fraud.

Maciel’s fraud, one of the greatest scandals of the 20thcentury Catholic Church, raises uncomfortable questions for today’s Vatican about how so many people could have been duped for so long.

SYDNEY — The Indian Ocean search for the missing Malaysia Airlines jet continued on Tuesday after a week of painstakingly slow sonar scanning of the targeted patch of seabed has so far failed to yield a single piece of wreckage.

Up to 10 planes and as many ships will scour the ocean surface for debris on Tuesday over an area covering 49,500 square kilometers (19,000 square miles) centered 1,600 kilometers (1,000 miles) northwest of the Australian west coast city of Perth, the search coordination center said in a statement.

Searchers will contend with scattered rain showers and swells of up to 3 meters (10 feet).

A robotic submarine was on Tuesday continuing its ninth 16-hour mission scanning the silt-covered seafloor since the search for wreckage shifted beneath the waves on April 14.

The center said the U.S. Navy’s Bluefin 21 had so far covered about two-thirds of the 310-square-kilometer (120-square-mile) seabed search zone, creating a three-dimensional sonar map of any debris. Nothing of interest had been found.

The 4.5-kilometer (2.8-mile) deep search area is a circle 20 kilometers (12 miles) wide where searchers calculated a suspected black box beacon heard on April 8 is probably located. The Boeing 777’s beacons were only designed to transmit signals for 30 days after a crash and their batteries are now assumed dead.

The search coordination center said the sonar scan of the seafloor in that area was expected to be completed sometime this week.

Malaysian Defense Minister Hishammuddin Hussein has said that even if no debris was recovered, the scope of the search may be broadened or other assets may be used.

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Medicaid expansion may help pregnant inmates U researchers say the Affordable Care Act could benefit thousands of prisoners.

BY KRISTOFFER TIGUE ktigue@mndaily.com

The 44 million Americans expected to get health insurance under the Af fordable Care Act this year could include those cycling in and out of the nation’s prison system.

Under the ACA, Medicaid will pay for inmates’ hospital stays longer than 24 hours and will also allow for greater access to insurance coverage later.

This could mean getting health care access to pregnant inmates, which two University of Minnesota professors say are one of the most vulnerable populations in the countr y.

In last month’s issue of the leading journal Health Af fairs, assistant health policy professor Katy Kozhimannil and assistant pediatrics professor Rebecca Shlafer said the ACA may impact inmates by expanding their Medicaid coverage on temporar y medical leave and provide better access to health insurance when they’re released from prison.

“Prior to ACA, incarcerated individuals were not eligible for Medicaid reimbursement, period,” said Shlafer, who is the research director for the Isis Rising project, which provides resources and suppor t to pregnant inmates in Minnesota.

On average, inmates have higher rates of complex health risks, she said, like higher incidence rates of HIV, substance abuse and mental health issues. They’re also costly to cor rectional facilities, she said, and can lack sufficient access to health insurance after they’re released.

Previously, state and federal prisons paid the entire cost of inmates’ hospital stays, Shlafer said.

But under the ACA, inmates staying in hospitals are temporarily eligible for Medicaid coverage beyond 24 hours.

This is impor tant for pr egnant inmates, she said, because typical hospital stays for labor and deliver y are between 48 and 72 hours. And for women who undergo Caesarean sections, that third day of hospital care is particularly crucial, she said.

Shlafer said the Medicaid expansion may also help prevent correctional facilities or county jails from temporarily releasing inmates, or “furloughing” them, to avoid paying for costly medical expenses.

Last fall, the Star Tribune repor ted that the

Beltrami County jail temporarily furloughed an inmate after he had been beaten so badly that he required reconstr uctive surger y.

Minnesota Department of Corrections spokesman John Schadl said medical furloughs are only granted a couple of times per year when cer tain conditions are met.

He said inmates qualify for temporar y medical release only if they require extended treatment for a “grave” medical illness where their needs would be met better elsewhere or if they’re terminally ill and not considered dangerous to the public.

But he said the Depar tment of Cor rections doesn’t release inmates to avoid incur ring medical costs, including for child deliveries. “ We h a v e n e v e r o f fered conditional medical release to a woman because she was pregnant,” Schadl said. “We tr y to provide excellent prenatal, OBGYN and doula [services] on-site.”

He said the biggest impact the ACA will have on state or federal prisons is providing af for dable health insurance for inmates after their release.

“It’s going to be a lot easier for an of fender upon release to obtain health insurance. That’s a big deal,” Schadl said. “That’s a big deal for anyone, really. It doesn’t matter if you’re a recently released of fender or someone recently released from college.”

Kozhimannil said taxpayer dollars pay for almost half of all bir ths in the United States, including those of incarcerated women.

There are roughly 14,000 women in federal prisons nationwide. When they enter jail or prison, 6 to 10 percent of female inmates are pregnant, and more than 1,400 give birth ever y year in prison. The cost of an average deliver y is about $9,000, Kozhimannil said, and that price goes up to about $13,000 for a C-section.

“If you’re a prison system or a county jail that’s strapped for cash … it’s r eally a pr oblem,” she said. “It’s something that they’re wor ried about — taking care of pregnant inmates.”

Isis Rising project director Erica Ger rity has been working with pregnant inmates at the women’s cor rectional facility in Shakopee, Minn., for 10 years. She said she hopes

INMATE PREGNANCIES AND THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

BY THE NUMBERS

75 percent

OF FEMALE INMATES ARE OF REPRODUCTIVE AGE.

6-10 percent

OF INMATES ARE PREGNANT DURING INCARCERATION.

1,400 women

MORE THAN 1,400 WOMEN PER YEAR GIVE BIRTH WHILE INCARCERATED.

$55 billion

TOTAL COST OF CHILD DELIVERIES IN THE U.S., THE NATION’S HIGHEST HOSPITAL EXPENSE.

$9,131

AVERAGE COST OF CHILD DELIVERY IN 2010.

$13,590

AVERAGE COST OF A CAESAREAN SECTION IN 2010.

24 hours TIME AFTER WHICH MEDICAID CAN COVER INMATE’S HOSPITAL STAYS UNDER THE ACA.

48-72 hours TYPICAL HOSPITAL STAY FOR CHILD DELIVERY.

SOURCE: HEALTHAFFAIRS.ORG

the Medicaid expansion will help free up the facility’s budget for other inmate resources.

Right now, Gerrity said the cor rectional facility pays for an inmate’s child deliver y, but under the expansion, the facility could split the cost with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Ser vices.

Isis Rising pr ovides inmates with nonmedical pregnancy support — also known as doula ser vices, she said. This can include educating women on what to eat during pregnancy, what to expect during childbir th, how to properly breastfeed and parenting lessons.

There’s a high need for these ser vices at Shakopee, Gerrity said. But the facility doesn’t have the funding to suppor t them, she said, so their program relies on volunteers and private donors in order to operate.

More than 51,000 women were arrested in 2010 in Minnesota. If Medicaid can help free up funding for Isis Rising, Gerrity said she thinks they could help more inmates while saving taxpayers money.

“We’re talking about [thousands of] pregnancies,” she said. “So, it’s not just this small, nuanced issue. It really affects a lot of people.”

U area on trend for growth Development u from Page 1

Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon, who represents neighborhoods ar ound the University, said leaders in Prospect Park plan to redevelop the industrial land nor th of the University, build a research district and construct mixed-use housing along the light rail Green Line that is opening in June.

Gordon said he agrees that developing near transit is good for cities, noting that there’s an opportunity to redevelop near the West Bank light-rail station.

Building around transpor tation hubs is ef ficient because it helps people commute faster, said University geography Professor Emeritus John Adams.

The Met Council plan also forecasts a higher demand for redevelopment, said Libby Starling, Met Council manager of regional policy and research.

This redevelopment can be mean costly demolition, but it presents less public cost in the long run than building on the Twin

THRIVE MSP 2040 PREDICTIONS 1. Minneapolis and St. Paul will see the greatest share of population growth in the metropolitan area in the next 30 years. Both are expected to have 3.5 percent or more of regional population growth.

2. Minneapolis will see the greatest share in job growth in the metropolitan area in the next 30 years. It is expected to have more than 7.64 percent of the regional job growth.

3. Predicted Minneapolis population: 500,000 464,900 400,000 382,747

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Cities’ suburban edge, Starling said.

Gordon said it’s important that developers — especially in the University area — build at a reasonable pace, because it’s hard to market housing that goes up too quickly.

Another concern is that too many new developments target specific markets like college students.

To counteract that, Prospect Park leaders want a mix of family-oriented, senior and family housing in their new developments, Gordon said.

It’s estimated that retired and single people will increasingly flock to urban areas, potentially choosing apartment complexes near transit hubs instead of single-family housing, Adams said.

The greater population will present the city with both challenges and oppor tunities, Gordon said.

The boost could be a boon to the economy, but the gover nment will need to adapt and provide suf ficient parks, schools and law enforcement protection, which Gordon said could be challenging.

The Met Council is required by Minnesota law to produce a comprehensive 30-year plan ever y decade to help guide cities as they create development plans. The public is able to comment on the unofficial plan until April 28, and the Met Council will finalize it next month.

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Spring Jam doesn’t worry businesses Dinkytown owners say they’re taking normal security precautions.

BY NICOLAS HALLETT nhallett@mndaily.com

Dinkytown business owners say they’re not worried about unruly students during this week’s Spring Jam despite witnessing two chaotic nights after the Gophers men’s hockey team’s NCAA tournament stint.

The annual University of Minnesota event this Thursday through Saturday likely won’t include any unusual precautions from Dinkytown business owners. Many say they will have full staffs and added security, as they always do for Spring Jam. Vescio’s Italian Restaurant owner Frank Vescio said he watched from the roof of his building as the April 12 Dinkytown melee unfolded. He said he’s seen student unrest in the business district on numerous occasions, dating back to the Red Barn and Vietnam War protests in the 1970s.

“We’ve had plenty of that stuff,” Vescio said. “I didn’t see anything that we would have to worr y about [over the weekend]. No one was doing any damage that I could see.”

Vescio said he thinks the media and the University “played up” the notion of rioting, which only encouraged people to come to Dinkytown.

Particularly because his business doesn’t ser ve alcohol, Vescio said, he’s not worried about this year’s Spring Jam causing havoc.

Dinkytown bar owners said they will have all of their security staff on duty during the festivities and may hire a couple of additional bodies, but they aren’t expecting anything out of the ordinary.

The Library Bar and Grill escaped last weekend unscathed, with no incidents or calls to police, general manager Joe Berg said.

“I measure success on sales and lack of incidents,” he said, “and it was a very successful weekend.”

The Library historically hasn’t had problems during Spring Jam, Berg said. The bar will have a little added security only because of the increased foot traf fic the concert creates but not in anticipation of rioting, he said.

“If something does in fact happen,” Berg said, “extra security will prepare us, and we always have a good police presence around Dinkytown.”

Burrito Loco Bar and Grill owner and acting Dinkytown Business Association President Greg Pillsbur y said he watched the raucous activity with other business owners April 12.

He said they saw students cheer and dance and felt things got “rowdy,” but it was mild in comparison to riots in the past.

Pillsbury said most Dinkytown business owners were present on the night of April 12 and most had full staffs working to counteract the crowds. He said that he credits police and the University for keeping the student mob under control.

This year will be Pillsbur y’s 11th Spring Jam as the owner of Burrito Loco.

He said that he will have every employee on the clock this year, including security staff, as Spring Jam is one of the bar’s busiest times of the year.

Pillsbury said he expects the University and the city to be prepared for the weekend with another strong police presence. Throughout the years, he said, Burrito Loco has experienced few problems during Spring Jam and Homecoming festivities.

A rowdy histor y The scenes on April 10 and 12 were not unfamiliar ones for the University and its surrounding neighborhoods — Gophers men’s hockey inspired riots in both 2002 and 2003.

Berg said he witnessed both before graduating in 2005. He said he doesn’t expect Dinkytown to experience rioting during this year’s Spring Jam because the event hasn’t elicited such activity in the four-block area in the past.

The Spring Jam riot of 2009 took place primarily at the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Seventh Street Southeast.

That year, police made 12 arrests after students began partying at 9 a.m. on April 25. That evening, students attempted to flip cars, hurled rocks at police and started multiple fires on the 1300 block of Seventh Street Southeast.

In response, the University shortened the seasonal celebration from six days to three, and police upped their presence the following year.

Vescio, who owns a second location in St. Louis Park, said he has customers who travel from all corners of the Twin Cities. He said Dinkytown’s growing reputation as an epicenter for rowdy activity has discouraged some of those patrons.

“It doesn’t help our business much,” he said. “People don’t come into the area, because they know these things can happen through experience from before.”

Although the students and activity in Dinkytown can “get a little crazy” at times, Vescio said, he doesn’t regret the restaurant location he’s had since 1956.

“Of course you don’t want that kind of thing,” he said.

“But we would never move and like being in the area because we like catering to the kids, too.”

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SAFETY

Shining a spotlight on streetlights Minneapolis needs to maintain and update its many streetlights.

way out. Some LEDs stay lit for nearly 23 years, according to one LED bulb producer’s estimates.

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try to catch the bus after class, but with erratic schedules, I end up missing it at least once or twice each week.

I walk home begrudgingly, remembering the string of thefts earlier this school year and when my own house was broken into in October.

Too often I’m faced with deciding the safest route to my house. Should I take the quicker way, where I know several streetlights have been out for weeks? Or should I go the long way and hope that better lighting and higher traffic make my walk safer? Most nights I take the latter pathway, but I shouldn’t have to make this choice.

The city of Minneapolis does not do a good enough job of keeping its streets lit.

The same lights stay out for weeks at a time on and around campus.

The city also does not do a good enough job of educating the community on what to do if someone sees that a streetlight

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has burned out. Until recently, I did not know that it was the responsibility of city residents to call 311 or Xcel Energy if a streetlight is out. If you don’t see any action after several weeks — the city takes a couple of weeks on average — it’s your duty to continue pestering Xcel Energy or city officials. And residents seem to be trying: The city saw a 46 percent jump in streetlight repair requests in the last year.

How can Minneapolis fix this problem? The city has started experimenting with LED bulbs. Placing these bulbs in all streetlights would be a start. LEDs save money each year over high-pressure sodium lamps and incandescent lights, which are on their

The city should bolster the scanning of city streets in search for broken or burnt bulbs. Local residents can also help by actively reporting issues and keeping their community lit.

Some dissenters say that LED bulbs emit an “ugly” light that’s similar to compact fluorescent bulbs. That’s the primary reason many refuse to convert from the highly inefficient incandescent bulbs. With current legislation phasing out the sale of incandescent bulbs, these naysayers will no longer be able to resort to their antiquated preferences, and that is not necessarily a bad thing.

CFL, or compact fluorescent light, producers never successfully created a compa-

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rably aesthetic light to that of the incandescent bulbs. Several producers have created LEDs that cover the entire visual spectrum of light, without delving into wasted or painful lights beyond what a person can see.

Although these bulbs still cost significantly more than the current ones around the city, they will more than offset in the difference in years of service and efficiency for Minneapolis.

But changing the bulbs will not solve the problem entirely.

The city does not have a system in place to monitor the status of its streetlights, other than waiting for citizens to report a problem. The city should bolster the scanning of city streets in search for broken or burnt bulbs. Local residents can also help by actively reporting issues and keeping their community lit.

Even if research questions how much streetlights affect safety, well-lit pedestrian areas make people feel safer. This citizen comfort is the most important service streetlights provide.

Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

GUEST COLUMN

SCC leads the way on work ed A new project helps the area provide a talented workforce for the future.

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he importance of higher education has never been more pronounced than with the changes occurring in our economy, especially in manufacturing.

Bloomberg News noted that manufacturing accounts for 80 percent of our expor ts and for ever y one high-tech manufacturing job, there are 16 additional jobs to help suppor t it. But with the nation’s overemphasis on four-year college degrees, the challenge has been to train our workforce to meet these 21st-centur y needs.

Dann Wasserman of Tribune Media Services. Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR Celebrate Earth Day by putting less meat on your plate Earth Day has traditionally been the one day each year that people band together to take action for the environment. We bike to campus, we redouble our recycling ef for ts and we pledge to be mor e conscientious about the amount of waste we produce. But did you know you can help save the planet ever y time you sit down for breakfast, lunch and dinner? It’s true; you can join millions of others who are doing something to help the environment by eating more plant-based meals. Simply put, the increasing global demand for meat is fueling the growth of factory farms to the tune of billions of animals raised in conditions that none of us are proud of. In addition to being bad for animal welfare, these industrial operations wreak havoc on the environment. Numerous studies reveal that animal agriculture contributes to some of the most critical environmental issues, like pollution, deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change and water use. As the international relief organization Oxfam notes, it takes significantly more land, water and oil to produce meat than it does to produce plant-based foods.

Animals are typically fed massive amounts of grains in order to yield a comparatively small amount of meat.

So if you’re looking

to reduce your carbon footprint this Ear th Day, star t by reducing your “carbon hoofprint.”

According to a 2013 United Nations report, animal agriculture produces about 15 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s one reason the Sierra Club recognizes the importance of meat reduction, stating, “If Americans reduced meat consumption by just 20 percent, it would be as though we all switched from a sedan to a hybrid.”

And when it comes to water conser vation, we should think in terms of not only how much water we use, but how much water we eat. That’s right; one study reported that the water used to produce one hamburger is equivalent to 30 average American showers. And our planet’s beef with water overconsumption isn’t just with beef. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, it takes 9 gallons of water just to slaughter one chicken — and that doesn’t even include all the water used to raise the bird. In light of such inefficiency, it comes as no surprise that the UN recommends that we “replace meat with another source of protein” as a smar t, water-saving solution. Perhaps the easiest — and tastiest — way to help the environment is practicing the three R’s: “reducing” or “replacing” consumption of animal products and “refining” our diets by choosing products from sources that adhere to higher animal

welfare standards. Millions of Americans are already taking personal action to reduce their meat consumption through simple initiatives such as Meatless Monday and Mark Bittman’s Vegan Before 6 — or by adopting vegetarian or “flexitarian” lifestyles. The current high levels of meat consumption in the United States suppor t inhumane practices in industrial factor y farms and push small family farmers out of business. Eating less meat is better for animals, creates less waste and pollution and places more value on humane and sustainable agriculture, which benefits family farmers and generates more income for rural communities.

Best of all, eating more meat-free meals is af fordable, accessible and easier than ever. Dining halls always have delicious meatfree options. Grocer y stor es stock meat-fr ee must-haves such as protein-packed beans, lentils and vegetables.

Our present environmental problems can oftentimes seem overwhelming, so after a day of Earth Day activities, we all tend to feel good about our individual efforts. Thankfully, each of us has the power to make the planet greener ever y time we sit down to eat by simply putting more vegetables and less meat on our plates.

Krystil Smith Food policy coordinator Humane Society of the United States

Area business leaders have been pushing for expanding the available pool of talented workers as a key to the area’s success. The SCC project fits well in that strategic goal, and this rare chance is notable since only two other states — California and Texas — will have similar projects.

A national pilot project at South Central College will tackle that problem.

The community college will work with companies to provide handson learning at manufacturing companies that likely will lead to wellpaying, full-time jobs.

SCC President Annette Parker is one of 19 people ser ving on the national Advanced Manufacturing Par tnership steering committee that helped develop the program announced by President Barack Obama. One of those companies, 3M, confirmed that in today’s highly automated environment, more skilled trades people are needed.

And once people find out such twoyear training can lead to a wellpaying job, the word will spread.

The average starting wage after an apprenticeship is projected to be about $50,000.

Area business leaders have been long pushing for expanding the available pool of talented workers as a key to the area’s success. The SCC project fits well in that strategic goal, and this rare chance is notable since only two other states — California and Texas — will have similar projects.

This is a pretty impressive start for a new SCC president who has yet to be formally installed.

The Mankato Free Press Please send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

Regulating college-bank relationships The Feds should restrict the subtle ways universities influence college students’ banking decisions.

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trong relationships between banks and universities seem to be an increasingly common sight on college campuses.

The University of Minnesota’s partnership with TCF Bank is clear to every first-year student who goes through orientation. Several other Big Ten schools have similar banking relationships and allow students to link their personal checking accounts with their student identification cards.

Federal government officials are wary of the relationships between banks and universities, and last week, the Minnesota Daily reported that a recent U.S. Government Accountability Office report looked at a sample of large universities in the country. It recommended that institutions make their contract information more public so students can make an informed, unbiased decision about where they do their banking.

The University already discloses some details about its partnership with TCF, and a University statement said that if the government required more transparency between students and University-endorsed debit cards, the school would make those changes.

The U.S. Department of Education recently proposed limits on how universities market debit cards to students. We would like to see more regulations specifically tackle the way that orientation leaders may confuse freshman or transfer students into thinking that a TCF Bank card is required. The Minnesota Daily reported in September that “each active U Card attached to a TCF account was assigned a value of $34 in 2013.” With this monetary sum in mind, it’s clear that the vulnerability of new students at orientation plays into the hands of TCF and the University.

Providing promotional items to students who sign up with TCF may be harmless, but the University can be confusingly pushy in other ways.

The Depar tment of Higher Education will likely draft restrictions before next year, and we hope they include rules that work to keep universities from taking advantage of students in less obvious but more serious ways.

Find a place for ride-share apps The City Council should find a solution that would allow UberX and Lyft to operate legally.

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wo new ride-sharing apps allow Twin Cities residents to get around using their smartphone, but city ordinances bar these rideshare companies from operating legally. Minneapolis should move forward with efforts to allow rideshare companies Lyft and UberX. With UberX and Lyft, passengers may organize rides, split fares or request specific cars — all with the tap of a touch screen on their smartphones. But there is growing controversy among city officials as well as traditional cab drivers over how the city should regulate these companies. Because the apps border the line between chauffeur service and taxi service, cities nationwide have been slow to pass reform.

The Minneapolis City Council is considering new regulations for these ride-share services. The Star Tribune reported last week that the proposed regulations would require companies, rather than vehicles, to be licensed. Companies would be responsible for performing background checks and vehicle inspections and meeting city specifications. The city checks traditional taxicabs.

Some taxi drivers feel that the regulations on ride-share services are unfairly lenient and are concerned that cabs will lose business as more people get smartphones. The city should balance these concerns with industry progress and convenience.

Ward 3 Councilman Jacob Frey, who represents neighborhoods around the University of Minnesota, is sponsoring these new regulations. We support the efforts of Frey and regulators to find a fair, swift solution to the debacle so that these companies can operate legally in Minneapolis.

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ATHLETICS

NCAA council backs more meals Meals

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“Whether you believe that [athletes] shouldn’t be paid or whether you think they should get paid thousands of dollars, I think everyone should be able to agree that they should be fed a well-balanced diet,” Rallis said.

University of Minnesota athletics depar tment of ficials declined to comment for this story.

NCAA President Mark Emmer t praised the proposal during an appearance on ESPN’s “Mike & Mike” show last week.

The NCAA council’s proposal moved forward in the wake of highly publicized comments by University of Connecticut basketball star Shabazz Napier, who said student-athletes sometimes have “hungr y nights.”

Emmert said there was no cor relation between

Napier’s comments and the proposal, noting that it had been in the works for a while.

The council brought up two food-related proposals in October — one that restricted unlimited meals to when student-athletes were in season and another that allowed them year-round.

The council approved the latter proposal.

Jeff Bolin, an associate vice president for research at Purdue University and the Big Ten’s Legislative Council representative, said the conference favored the first proposal, but he noted that the council also supported the more liberal approach.

Bolin said Big Ten representatives go into NCAA meetings “knowing what the conference institutions want, but with the opportunity to vote as we feel appropriate.”

“Relaxing the rules on this is something that I favored,” he said.

Supplemental nutrition

A rationale attached to the proposal noted that the supplemental meals aren’t intended to replace a meal plan or an off-campus board stipend. Instead, they’re meant to meet student-athletes’ additional nutritional needs.

Notably, the proposal does not change the NCAA rule on training table meals. NCAA spokeswoman Michelle Brutlag Hosick said in an email that training table meals are generally considered “enhanced meals designed to replace breakfast, lunch or dinner.”

The NCAA allows schools to provide one of those meals per day. They are covered under athletic scholarships, but walk-on athletes have to pay for them.

Henry — a walk-on during the first two years of his collegiate career — estimated that Minnesota’s training table meals cost between $8 and $10. He said they were worth the cost because the team

served food from top places around the city.

“They treat you like kings there,” he said. “There was always food available, because nothing was worse [than] going to practice when you’re hungry or starving.”

Recruiting concerns The NCAA stressed that the proposal wasn’t designed to give certain teams a financial advantage. Still, some are concerned it could impact recruiting efforts.

Perry Leo, director of the University’s Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department and an NCAA faculty representative for Minnesota, said the proposal could exacerbate the difference between schools that have a lot of money and schools that don’t.

Still, he said he doesn’t think this proposal will change many of the University’s practices.

“I think that we feed the kids what we can feed them; we provide snacks when we

UNLIMITED MEALS AT A GLANCE If the NCAA Division I Board of Directors passes the proposal Thursday, schools will be able to provide student-athletes unlimited meals and snacks starting Aug. 1.

Schools can provide studentathletes the cash equivalent of a meal only if he or she has previously paid for the meal.

The NCAA says the proposal is designed to meet the nutritional needs of student-athletes, not to provide an avenue for institutions to circumvent financial aid limitations.

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can provide snacks, and I just don’t see that we’re going to go overboard,” he said.

“There may be a few more things provided — a little bit more food provided — but I don’t think they’re going to want to make it a major part of who we are.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Courter, Pintusava impress at No. 2 doubles

Minnesota’s Julia Courter and Natallia Pintusava play against Illinois on Friday afternoon at the Baseline Tennis Center.

Julia Courter and Natallia Pintusava have a 17-4 record this season.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

A pair of constant smiles, lots of laughs and a bunch of victories.

That’s been the story of the season for senior Natallia Pintusava and junior Julia Courter on the doubles court.

“We’re always laughing and smiling,” Courter said.

“I think overall our attitudes and our communication have been a key thing this year, and that’s what led to

our success.”

It’s easy to grin and giggle when success comes so seamlessly. Courter and Pintusava have amassed a 17-4 record this season, including a 7-2 mark in the Big Ten. Both players said oncour t communication has keyed the season-long success. The interaction between partners is also crucial for consistent results, Courter said.

“You have to trust your par tners,” she said. “You have to know where they’re going with the ball.”

Pintusava said she and Courter play with a similar style, which has created chemistry on the court.

“We do similar things,

and I can predict what her next step is, so I can adjust accordingly,” she said.

This season, both players have also experienced success in singles play. But Pintusava said she thinks the two are better together because of the way they motivate each other.

When Pintusava has been down this season, Courter has picked her up.

When Cour ter has been down, Pintusava has provided the same lift.

“Sometimes I come to practice and I’m down and Julia is like, ‘Hey, come on.

We can do it,’” Pintusava said. “Then I’m just following her, and it comes naturally … and we’re together on the same wave.”

Pintusava and Cour ter were paired together during the 2011-12 season, but the combo went 1-1 that year and didn’t play together again after those two matches.

“It didn’t really work out ver y well,” Pintusava said, adding that she and Courter have since developed as players.

Pintusava credited head coach Chuck Merzbacher for trusting his intuition in putting the two back together this season to form what she called a “great combination.”

“They do all the things that you want to do well in doubles,” Merzbacher said.

“They’re tough to beat.”

The Gophers, however,

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need to win two out of three doubles matches to steal the doubles point — something the team has struggled to do lately.

Merzbacher said he has to be able to count on Courter and Pintusava for wins down the stretch. He also needs another doubles pairing to step up and help the team claim the point.

That needs to happen for Minnesota this weekend, especially if it hopes to push deep into the Big Ten tournament.

“We need those doubles points,” Courter said. “ We ’ v e b e e n w o r k i n g hard on that point all year, and we feel like we’re going to get it at the Big Ten [tournament].”

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here’s a couple of high-profile men’s basketball coaching jobs still available.

Missouri and Tennessee — both members of the SEC — are looking for the next face of their respective programs.

And Richard Pitino’s name keeps getting kicked around as a possible replacement.

That’s a reality Gophers fans are going to have to live with as long as he’s on campus.

Pitino was exceptional in his first year at the helm, and as the son of a coaching legend, he has the pedigree that bigtime programs look for in a bench boss.

If Minnesota’s program continues to ascend, like many expect, the rumors will continue to swirl.

University of Minnesota athletics director Nor wood Teague stomped out r umors last week that Pitino was considering other options.

P i t i n o , h o w e v e r, should at least entertain other of fers because a lot of the openings are a step up from his current position — which is by no means a destination job.

He’s ear ning $1.2 million per year under his cur r ent contract with Minnesota, the lowest salar y in the Big Ten. Then there’s the dreadful weather in the Twin Cities, which can significantly stymie recruiting efforts. Pitino arrived too late to snag any one of the “Big Three” recr uits from Minnesota, and the overall talent pool in the state isn’t anything to write home about.

On top of all that, the facilities here stink.

Ther e ar e new ones planned, but they’r e probably another five years out at least. Yes, fans love the Barn and its history, but it’s nearly 80 years old and isn’t exactly top-notch. Tennessee and Mizzou both have significantly nicer facilities than Minnesota.

And while SEC basketball may not have the prestige of the Big Ten, it did just send a pair of teams to the Final Four.

Tennessee and Mizzou aren’t exactly elite jobs, but there are still some perks to coaching in the SEC. It’s less competitive from top to bottom, meaning a good coach could make a mark on the conference rather quickly.

Now, I’m not saying Pitino should bolt for greener pastures, but listening to other job of fers would force Teague’s hand and maybe encourage him to open up the wallet a little bit more.

The University just gave Jer r y Kill a pay raise, suggesting there are available funds for Pitino as well.

If Pitino sticks around, Minnesota could become a more desirable job.

Teague and his subordinates need to do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.

Ya feel me?

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

FASHION

Students turn to Siberia for inspiration

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Apparel designer students Holly Welwood, Catherine Menzel and Lee Tran give a sneak peak of their designs for the WAM Collective’s “Elements” fashion show.

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14 are sophomores who were challenged to create a look inspired by the exhibition as a class project. After having three weeks to complete the garment, from concept to construction, the students were encouraged to apply to show their work in “Elements.”

One of the requirements for entering “Elements” is creating a look made using sustainable practices, including reusing materials, incor-

porating an item of emotional significance, making a multifunctional design and nowaste patterning.

“I focused on upcycling for this project. My garment is made from vegetable steamers, pillow cases, a table cloth and an old shirt. I didn’t buy any new fabric,” apparel design sophomore Catherine Menzel said.

Menzel created a short red mini-dress with deconstructed vegetable steamers running down the middle of the garment.

Students said that due to

strict time constraints, upcycling — the process of repurposing old materials — was the most feasible sustainability practice. Other designers used thrifted leather jackets, faux fur and old comforters as materials.

In addition to focusing on sustainability, students’ work had to represent Siberia — or at least how they interpreted Siberia based on the WAM exhibition and research.

“I watched this documentary called ‘Happy People.’

It talked about hunters and trappers during the Revolu-

tion who were placed out in the wilderness by the government,” apparel design sophomore Holly Welwood said.

“That idea became the main inspiration for my garment.”

Welwood, who described her garment as “hardy, functional and textured,” designed a pair of bib-style leather snow pants with a decorative chest piece.

The designers decide how they want their garment displayed. They get full control over hair and makeup as well as the music played as their model walks down the runway.

“The song I originally thought about using was ‘Let it Go’ from ‘Frozen,’ but then I thought it might be a little too cheesy — although the crowd might’ve loved it,” apparel design sophomore Lee Tran said. “So then I found this song by Tydi called ‘Is it Cold?’ that just says ‘Is it cold where you are?’ on repeat — which is especially relevant to Siberia.”

Tran said he thought a lot about how to stay warm in Siberia. Ultimately, he created a floor-length coat made from an old comforter, 20 matching pil-

low shams he found at a thrift store and old faux fur coats.

Designers have a chance to win prizes from Juut Salonspa and Treadle Yard Goods, but competition is far from fierce. The designers worked together in class, critiquing each other’s work and giving advice.

In addition to the show, “Elements” will include tea sampling from Verdant Tea and performances from Mill City Summer Opera.

“We have a lot of really talented designers in our class,” Tran said. “And there’s tea.”

MUSIC

New albums: the bad, the timeless and the tacky A&E rounds up this week’s crop of album releases.

BY GRANT TILLERY gtillery@mndaily.com

Iggy Azalea: ‘The New Classic’

Iggy Azalea’s debut album, “The New Classic,” has already come under media fire. Spin Magazine said Azalea is a “competent rapper with a decent ear for hooks, but that’s about it.” Rolling Stone dismissed her beats as saccharine, making “Top 40 programmers giggle in delight and ‘real hip-hop’ heads shake theirs sadly.” The Guardian assailed her “‘bow down to a goddess’ schtick” as “tiring.”

These outlets miss Azalea’s intentions with “The New Classic.” There’s no trace of depth to be found on the album, but Azalea isn’t gunning for profundity. “The New Classic” aims to be a decadent affair, where the sugary, sexual tracks are designed to flow into one another seamlessly — and by that metric, it succeeds wildly.

The songs touch on Azalea’s yen for sex and excess, reinforcing her aesthetic as a desirable commodity. “The New Classic” is an extension of her ego; on “Fancy,” arguably the album’s best song, the self-absorbed Azalea declares, “First things first; I’m the realest / Drop this, and let the whole world feel it.”

A delightful bad-girl hook, sung by Charli XCX, is designed to reinforce Azalea’s edgy, narcissistic persona as a booty-licious globetrotter.

Azalea’s ear for beats is phenomenal. She extends

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rap’s trend of minimalist pings (popularized by “Yeezus”) and transforms them into two-chord pop melodies.

This starkness brings her hedonistic, superficial lyrics to the forefront, right where they belong. It’s refreshing to listen to an album that’s vapid and knows it.

Rating: 2.5/4

Future: ‘Honest’ Future’s “Honest” is the sonic equivalent of freshman year bad decisions. It’s a soundtrack that goes handin-hand with Friday night mishaps that lead to copious amounts of cheap, cardboard pizza. In a nutshell, it’s not an album for sober listening — doing so would be a fool’s errand because it induces massive ennui.

The beats on “Honest” are indiscriminate and indistinguishable; they’re singlechord, repetitive atrocities cherr y-picked from Fruity Loops’ stock sounds. Future’s in-your-face warble only compensates for some of the beats’ dullness.

The roster of guest artists leaves a lot to be desired (Drake’s vocals on “Never Satisfied” are particularly one-dimensional and blasé), aside from Kanye West’s spot-on “I Won,” an ode to the artists’ fiancées. West outshines an annoyingly Auto-Tuned Future with his signature slow, ar ticulate bombast. West manages to reference his controversial “Bound 2” video (spitting “My trophy on that Bound bike; I gave you only pipe / If people don’t hate then it won’t be right”), giving a shout-out to all his future sisters-in-law and mother-in-law in the process.

Will tracks from “Honest” be club-bangers for months to come? Yes, because that’s the atmosphere the slickly produced beats were designed for. In a sober state, though, it becomes clear that “Honest” is anything but — it is merely another example of stoking the star-maker machiner y (credit to Joni Mitchell).

Rating: 1/4

Kelis: ‘Food’ Though Kelis’ classic song “Milkshake” would have been aptly titled for her latest album, “Food,” it wouldn’t belong musically.

At times, this album is a soul-drenched affair. While some of the numbers fall victim to adult contemporar y R&B underpinnings (à la Sade), Kelis has a phenomenal horn section that excels at lush, Philly-soulinfluenced harmonies and sharp Stax attacks. The licks on “Jerk Ribs” sound straight

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out of 1976 and would be at home on an early disco burner like the Trampps’ “Disco Inferno.”

On “Hooch,” they serve up a hearty portion of Memphis Soul Stew, punctuated with breathy coos by female back-up vocalists.

At other times, Kelis veers away from the album’s classic R&B blueprint into Phil Collins territor y.

“Change” sounds like Collins circa “In The Air Tonight”; Kelis’ decision to belt out the refrain over valiant horns and a subdued drum beat hearken back to ’80s sounds that no one remembers fondly. Kelis also tries her hand at folk rock with “Bless The Telephone.” In a sea of funk, the technically excellent guitar picking is gauche.

The main beef with “Food” is that the song titles mislead. There’s no talk about food on any of the songs, and unlike “Milkshake,” they’re not innuen-

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dos or tongue-in-cheek wordplay. Why would you name a song “Biscuits N’ Gravy” and not mention the titular delicacy in any fashion?

If you’re expecting an

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album that waxes poetic on wagyu beef and Swiss chard, “Food” will sorely disappoint you. But if you get beyond that, there’s a lot to savor.

Rating: 2.5/4

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Tuesday, April 22, 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.

4/22/2014

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (4/22): Reflect on what’s important this year. Make notes, plans and dreams. Dig in the garden and think. Study over springtime and grow partnerships with communication.

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 5 — A disagreement among teammates could interrupt your concentration. Don’t take risks or be hasty. Keep your frugal habits.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 5 — You’ll have more time to relax over the next few days. Use it to learn new tricks and skills, and improve existing ones. Finish a big project.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 5 — Career mattes hold your focus. Stay attentive today and tomorrow. Keep increasing your understanding of the big picture.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 5 — You’re in for a busy few days at home. Ask each person to clean his/her own mess.

Discipline is required.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 5 — Write down long-term goals today and tomorrow, with a budget to get there. Find ways to cut costs and share expenses.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 5 — Don’t push yourself too hard. Decrease your obligations and expenditures, and deal with a critic graciously. Ask questions.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 5 — Organize your finances today and tomorrow.

Keep cutting reckless spending this week.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — The next two days are good for making money and spending it. Keep to the budget or risk breakdowns.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 5 — Actions could fall flat. Keep taking personal responsibility and increase your power. Don’t waste your money.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 5 — You’re eager to move forward today and tomorrow.

You have the resources. Check your course, then full speed ahead.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Keep the action moving forward at work, despite deviations and roadblocks today and tomorrow. Don’t try a new trick now.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 5 — Make the rounds. A confusing situation seems oppressive. Resist the temptation to meddle in someone else’s controversy.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

from the archive

Wednesday, April 21, 2004

BACKTALK

Well Networkia, we hope you all had a pleasant 4/20. Some people felt we should have made a bigger deal about that. But come on, who really finds veiled references to marijuana funny? Stoners? Of course, but this column is not written for them. We don’t cast our pearls before swine.

BTW, what are those idiots thinking when they plaster a big “US Hwy 420” bumpersticker on their VW bus? It’s nothing more than an invitation for every cop from here to Wichita to stop you and search the car. Dumbass stoners.

From Chauvinistic_View

Attention all girls! All of you girls that are complaining about the objectification of the female on campus, get used to it. It is not our fault that girls “boombolatties” protrude so gracefully from their body. When you ladies catch us staring at your girls downstairs, realize that it is because they are speaking to us and naturally we are being polite and giving them the attention they deserve. Net: Delusional sexists! What’s next? And to Sk8erzsister, us guys can get through a conversation without staring at a girl’s bodacious tatas, all we do is resort to the ass or legs. These two features also do the trick at getting the testosterone flowing. Net: Umm, yeah, it’s a pretty good bet that she knew that already. And Pick_the_Tulips, we will not shave our armpits! I am sick of all this metrosexual bullNUTT. If you want us guys to act and dress like girls so much, then go rock the casaba with a girl. Net: “Rock the casaba?” Shouldn’t there be more like four casabas? At least? We won’t complain because we enjoy seeing girls getting freaky together.

It is time for you to realize that we are the dominating gender in society. No matter how hard you girls try there will always be a guy out there that is better than you. So stop being so bitter and accept your role in society as the cooking, cleaning sex objects that you are, because once you do that everything HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:

will not seem so tough for you. Net: Really not planning on dating, eh?

From D-Man

Now, normally I take up a whole chunk of Net going off on some cynical tangent. This time, I’d simply like to say that I agree with Dwnwitfatties and dumbfounded. I agree like so many Spaniards spinnin’ ass and fleeing from a dozen toothless Iraqi militants. And I’m no misogynist, mind you. I love women … just not as much as I do when they are sleeping with me, cooking my meals, and making sure my chinos are lightly starched. Toodles. Net: What you need is a rentboy.

From femme fatale

I would like to extend my most personal gratitude towards Dwnwitfatties and dumbfounded for reminding me why I am pro-choice; so that hateful, mysoginistic NUTTS like them can be aborted and save us all the agony of reading such tripe. Believe it or not, and I’m sure you won’t, Dwnwitfatties, women’s main goals in getting dressed every morning are NOT, in fact, attracting your sexual attentions. In fact, very few, if any, of us actually care what our cleavage does or does not do for your penis. Furthermore, as for “fat chicks in tank tops,” I think I can safely assert that there is more to a female than her dress size. Although I’m sure any woman who would be caught dead seeking your attention isn’t the most modern in her ideals, most females these days have personalities, which tend to reflect a beauty that a naturally slim or larger frame may not. Net: That may be too optimistic.

See Sally’s on a Friday night for proof. Please stop embarrassing your entire sex by encompassing every male stereotype in one compact little email.

Net: That’s probably not the only thing that’s little and compact about those guys, right? Oh, whoops, guess we’re doing it too now.

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By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke

dr. date Dr. Date,

I have a huge problem. The hugest. I have this former TA who I’ve been crushing on for years. He finally asked me out, and I avoided Facebook-creeping on him beforehand. BIG MISTAKE. After our first date (and the ensuing first night together), I found out he’s MARRIED. I can’t believe it. I’m not that girl, and I never have been. I feel terrible and obviously never want to see him again. I freaked out at him when I found out, and I told him it was over. He’s been texting me nonstop since, telling me how sorry he is and that he’s in a bad marriage and wants to leave his wife, blah blah blah. How do I get out of this mess?!

—Anonymous

Shoulda Stalked,

Total, absolute radio silence. Just shut off contact with this guy — you’ve already made your position clear, so don’t even give him the chance to talk himself out of it.

I can easily see how this was a bit of a comedy of errors. You liked him. He probably was aloof for a while, both because he was your TA and because he was a married man. Your continued flirting led him to weigh his options heavily and eventually ask you out. Everybody got what they wanted, and now no one is happy. Classic.

I’m curious how you did end up finding out about his marriage. Was it your later Facebook stalking that revealed the truth? Or did he reveal it to you?

The fact is, he might be in a crap marriage. He might be ready to leave his wife or be in a state of pseudo-separation.

But even if that’s the case, it’s still a bad situation. He’s in a place where he’s looking for something so committed, he’ll leave his wife. You, on the other hand, are looking for a cute TA to date — you’re in totally different places.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m a 22-year-old male, brown hair, blue eyes, 6’4” and a virgin. I’ve hooked up with girls during college but have never actually had sex. Now that I’m about to graduate, I’m really worried. This is already a huge turn-off for women, and it’ll only get worse once I’m out of college.

Part of me (a big part) just wants to get it over with so I don’t have to worry about it anymore. Problem is, I don’t even know who I could get it over with WITH. What do I do?

—Bored

Tall Guy,

From your intro, should I be assuming that you think you’re handsome?

Is that what you were going for? And is your reference to “a big part” meant to be a reference to the size of your penis?

Because if the answer to these questions is “yes,” then I think I have the answer to why you aren’t getting laid — you’re full of it.

If the answer is “no,” then watch how you present yourself, because if people don’t know what you’re getting at, that could also be why you aren’t getting laid.

And why are you telling every girl that you’re a virgin? I’m assuming you are, because how else could you know it’s a “huge turn-off” for prospective partners? If you don’t want to make a big deal of it, just go ahead like it isn’t a thing and stop letting everybody know.

There are confident virgins, and there are nervous nymphos. YOU are going to be the one to give away the cards.

Calm the heck down, and find people who you like. If there’s one thing I know, the harder you hunt, the less likely you are to have a successful and positive encounter.

Drop all of these prefabricated notions about sex that you have dragging you down, and just go about living. Your time will come.

—Dr. Date

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

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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Five cars stolen in U area And despite 4/20, there was no bump in narcotics arrests on campus.

BY NICK STUDENSKI nstudenski@mndaily.com

Police didn’t r epor t more narcotics cases than usual on 4/20, a day often celebrated by smoking marijuana.

Minneapolis police public information officer John Elder said he didn’t notice an increase in narcotics-related crimes this year. Elder said the occur rence of Easter on the same day may have affected the number of incidents.

“I think people were doing a lot of stuf f with family,” he said.

University of Minnesota police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said he typically doesn’t notice a narcotics increase on April 20.

Though it can be dif ficult to monitor, Miner said, University police keep an eye out for marijuana during warmer months, particularly around campus “hot spots,” like residence halls.

Multiple car thefts and one arrest

University and Minneapolis police recorded at least five motor vehicle thefts in the area from last Wednesday through Saturday. Miner said the increase could be related to the warmer weather, but he noted that car thefts are also common in cold weather when owners leave vehicles running to warm them up.

University graduate student Maeve McClellan said she wasn’t aware that car thefts were common in the area until hers was stolen.

McClellan went to work at the Rural Health

OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: When: Where: Info:

Indecent exposure Wednesday Territorial Hall Residents reported a suspicious person to an officer. One witness told the officer that she saw the man naked in the women’s restroom.

The man was found near the restroom, identified by the witness and taken to Hennepin County Jail.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Warrant Friday Rapson Hall A man was singing and swearing loudly in the library of Rapson Hall.

The man smelled of alcohol and had a water bottle that smelled like and appeared to be a sangria. The report said police were unable to determine the “vintner” of the sangria beverage. The man had a trespass warning for East Bank buildings and an outstanding warrant.

The man was brought to Hennepin County Jail for the warrant.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Theft Friday Alliance Clinic A patient’s medication was stolen. The suspect may have been caught on camera.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Theft Saturday Sanford Hall A student said he left his guitar near the elevator on the ground floor and 10 minutes later it was gone. Police didn’t find any clues on security camera footage.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Underage drinking Saturday 15th Avenue Southeast and Fourth Street Southeast An officer saw three men in an alley, one of whom was puking. The men admitted to drinking. The puking man had a BAC of 0.194.

Officers confiscated a can of Four Loco and a liter of Smirnoff.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Underage drinking Sunday 16th and Fourth avenues southeast An officer saw a man throw a trash can into the street. The officer smelled alcohol on the man, who admitted to drinking earlier. The man had a BAC of 0.06 and was issued a citation.

SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

Research Center on Friday. When she left the building at about 1:45 p.m., she said, she noticed her car was missing, though she had seen it out the window a couple of hours earlier.

McClellan called 911 and spoke with University police. When she told officers her location — about a block east of campus on University Avenue Southeast — they redirected her to Minneapolis police, which she said was fr ustrating.

Miner said University

police respond to of f-campus calls in cases when time is an issue. When the crime has already been committed and the caller only needs to file a report, he said, they refer the case to Minneapolis police.

McClellan said security footage — which took still pictures every minute rather than record continuously — showed that the car was parked at 10:57 a.m.

The next minute, she said, it showed the thief pulling out of the parking lot.

On Sunday, an of ficer obser ved a man looking

into car windows at the intersection of 15th Avenue Southeast and Eighth Street Southeast. The officer identified the man by a Hennepin County Jail identification bracelet and cited him for lurking with intent to commit a crime.

Miner said it wasn’t clear whether the man was looking to break into the car to steal from it or to steal the car itself.

The man isn’t currently a suspect for any other crimes, Miner said. Police can sometimes identify suspects for car thefts with physical evidence, like fingerprints near the crime scene or in the recovered vehicle, he said.

While making a deliver y to Yudof Hall on Thursday, Bur rito Loco Bar and Grill deliver yman Cody Allen’s car was stolen. Allen said he left his car r unning outside, as he usually does. He was inside for no more than a minute or two, he said, but when he went back outside, his car was gone.

Allen called University police, and when they arrived, he found out that a purse had recently been stolen from Coffman Union.

Allen said he thought the thief saw his “piece of junk” car and used it as a getaway vehicle.

The vehicle is a blue 1999 Chevrolet Prizm with a broken taillight covered in red duct tape, a severely damaged front hood and a Burrito Loco deliver y sign on the roof.

Allen said the car was later found on the side of the highway and towed.

When he went to pick it up, the car’s engine had seized and wouldn’t star t.

Allen called his car a “delicate flower,” and he said the thief probably wrecked it by driving it too hard.

Because the car wouldn’t star t, Allen said, he had to scrap it.

Public works struggles to combat potholes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SHOREVIEW, Minn. — The pothole always wins.

Mark Maloney knows it.

Standing on a section of Owasso Boulevard in Shoreview, the city’s public works director knows the pothole fixes his crews will make are Band-Aids on years of deferred maintenance. There’s not enough money to meet the yawning need, and there’s no space age pothole filling technology coming to save the day.

“It’s pretty archaic,” Maloney tells Minnesota Public Radio. “It’s still just taking hot asphalt material and packing it into a hole and waiting for it to pop out again.” The patches pothole crews are making this spring will likely “pop out within a week.”

Tax money — including the 48 cents a gallon federal and state taxes on gasoline, registration, license and vehicle sales tax fees — brought in nearly $1.8 billion for road building and repair last year in Minnesota, according to the Minnesota Department of Transportation.

By the time the bills are paid for new road projects, rebuilds of major interchanges and replacement of bridges.

State transportation officials estimate Minnesota this year is short $1.5 billion to properly fix and maintain the state’s 144,000 mile road network, fifth largest in the country. MnDOT oversees maintenance of 12,000 miles of roadway. The rest is the responsibility of counties and cities.

Shoreview will get about $869,000 in state road money this year. “That gets me about three-quarter miles of roadway reconstruction,” Maloney says.

The problem here is tame

compared to busier and older roads. Still, Maloney says, this section of Owasso Boulevard was worn out five years ago. It should have had major repairs then. But, he says, the road probably won’t be rebuilt for five more years because there isn’t enough money. In the meantime, motorists want the potholes filled.

Rebuilding a suburban asphalt roadway can cost more than $1 million a mile.

Given all the competition for tax revenue — public safety, parks, clean water — Maloney doesn’t blame people who are reluctant to pay more in taxes for road repair. “Mills and overlays, and total death reclamations and crack filling, those things just grab the headlines,” he says wryly.

A coalition of city officials wants a law passed this legislative session that would let them charge a wheelage tax, like the one counties can impose if they choose.

That’s not gaining a lot of traction among lawmakers so far.There are other things beyond money that could be done to slow roadway decay.

Minnesota pours ice melting chemicals onto streets and highways as soon as the snow flies. The chemicals turn the snow and ice into water. The water seeps into roadway cracks, freezes and expands the cracks — helping create more potholes.

Pulling back on the treatments might help preserve the roads.Drivers anxious for clear roads, however, don’t buy it, Maloney acknowledges. “’I need to use this, I need to get to work, and I’m not going to tolerate delay,’” he hears the public say. “That is a message that comes through loud and clear to us.”

Thousands celebrate author’s life

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — The ashes of Gabriel Garcia Marquez arrived Monday at Mexico City’s majestic Palace of Fine Arts to several minutes of thunderous applause from admirers paying tribute to the Colombian Nobel laureate, considered one of the greatest Spanish-language authors of all time.

His remains were placed on a black pedestal in the lobby of the dramatic art deco building by his widow, Mercedes Barcha, and his two sons, Gonzalo and Rodrigo.

Thousands of people stood in a line stretching more than a kilometer (a half mile), hoping to pass by the simple ur n decorated with a single yellow rose during the three-hour tribute open to the public.

A cer emony after war d was presided over by the

presidents of Mexico and Colombia, two countries linked to the writer by birth, heritage and career.

Dignitaries took turns as honor guards, including Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera and Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, president of Mexico’s National Council for Culture and the Arts. A classical group and a traditional Colombian vellanato band serenaded mourners.

“Gabo was a watershed in my life,” said Nelly Hernandez, a 52-year-old teacher who was waiting outside the Palace of Fine Arts for the doors to open, holding a pair of yellow paper butterflies, echoing one of the best known images from “100 Years of Solitude.”

“He taught me to relish life through literature,” Hernandez said.

Garcia Marquez, known throughout Latin Ameri-

can and much of the world simply as “Gabo,” lived in Mexico for decades and wrote some of his best-known works here, included the renowned “100 Years of Solitude.” He died Thursday in Mexico City at age 87.

Mexican of ficials said some of Garcia Marquez’s favorite classical music would be performed at the ceremony led by Presidents Enrique Pena Nieto of Mexico and Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia.

Garcia Marquez’s birthplace, the town of Aracataca on Colombia’s Caribbean coast, held a symbolic funeral.

Mourners carried hundreds of yellow flowers and yellow paper butterflies, a reference to the character Mauricio Babilonia, who was always trailed by a cloud of yellow butterflies.

Yellow was Garcia Marquez’s favorite color.

LISA PERSSON, DAILY

Assistant professor Barry Kudrowitz helps students in his Toy Product Design course as they make prototypes of toy product concepts Thursday.

For product design, he’s the one Kudrowitz u from Page 1

Green Line light rail will run 24/7 Light rail u from Page 1

accessible to all dif ferent cultures and age demographics,” he said.

Metro Transit spokesman John Siqveland said the transit authority was already looking to extend over night hours for the new light-rail line when the council members sent their letter, but transportation officials hadn’t made a final decision.

“We hadn’t yet resolved that issue of how to provide that overnight ser vice on the Green Line,” he said. “And so this [letter] was sharing that information with the council members once we sor t of have a better sense of how it’s going to look.”

The 24/7 ser vice is expected to be permanent, Siqveland said, but maintenance work could occasionally halt ser vice in the early morning hours.

The Minnesota Student Association passed

a resolution last Tuesday suppor ting the council members’ letter. The resolution said University students could benefit from extended hours because many are out working or socializing past bar close at 2 a.m. and need a safe way home.

David Busacker, codirector of MSA’s facilities, housing and transit committee, said the longer hours could help keep students safe and he hopes they last. If the extended hours don’t stick, MSA will continue its stance pushing for later service, he said.

Metropolitan Council member Adam Duininck also said he hopes the 24/7 hours stay, but those longer r unning times could mean increased costs.

“Since we’re driven by fare str ucture and costs and budget, we do have to make sure that there’s enough activity and enough riders that it justifies keeping the lines open,” Duininck said.

Busacker said MSA

may reassess its stance when its members get more information about how many people use the late-night ser vice.

“We need more hours, and yes, we are willing to deal with the consequences, [but] I would definitely make sure we have numbers to back it up,” he said.

Under Metro Transit’s cur rent plan, trains will run less frequently in the late night and early morning hours.

Duininck said Metropolitan Council members suppor t initiatives advocating for extended hours of operation for the new light-rail line. He said the Met Council members hope to eventually have a system of buses and light-rail trains r unning 24/7.

“The biggest thing is we want to tr y to be responsive to the city and to other constituencies like the University of Minnesota,” he said. “When they give us public input like this, this is exactly how we want it to work.”

in product design classes solely based on positive recommendations of Kudrowitz’s classes.

“He likes to have a really good time, but he also knows how to deliver the information in a way that engages and challenges the student to lear n,” said interior design senior Jamey Berg, who is a student and teaching assistant in Kudrowitz’s classes.

CDES of ficials had many failed searches for a product design professor, Fisher said, but that changed when Kudrowitz came along.

His unique work and personality have helped land him on “The Mar tha Stewart Show” and “MythBusters.”

When Kudrowitz came to the University, he said, there were few teaching jobs available in the field of product design. So when Minnesota had an opening, it was a natural fit.

As the program’s sole faculty member, Kudrowitz has developed his own cur riculum, which combines inter disciplinar y

skills.

Kudrowitz dabbles in many fields and considers himself a designer, e n g i n e e r, a r t i s t a n d teacher, which has influenced his teaching style.

“The students that go through his class, they don’t all lear n the same thing,” said mechanical engineering graduate student David Brajkovic, who took Kudrowitz’s toy design class.

Barr y’s background Kudrowitz grew up in Boca Raton, Fla., and describes his childhood as “normal,” though he was creating new things like plays and obstacle courses from an early age.

He later went to the University of Central Florida for an undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering because he wanted to build theme park rides for Walt Disney World.

Kudrowitz never worked for Disney, but he did help create an elevator ride simulator that’s currently at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. “He’s obviously sor t of a mad genius, and he’s a real renaissance man,”

said Dave Kapell, Kudr owitz’s colleague and the owner and CEO of Magnetic Poetr y. “He’s a musician and inventor and an excellent artist and writer.”

After getting his undergraduate degree, Kudrowitz applied to several cooking and ar t schools because he wanted to make theme park rides, cook professionally and become a Claymation artist.

But those plans changed, and he ended up at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his master’s and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering.

Kudrowitz didn’t originally intend to become a teacher. But his enjoyment of per forming and a stint as an instr uctor at MIT inspired him to become one.

He’s since discovered that he enjoys the teaching lifestyle, because it allows him to interact with new people each semester and make a dif ference in students’ lives.

Still, it’s his passion for creating things that keeps him going.

“I like making stuff,” he said. “That’s what inspires me to do anything.”