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Old fans, new noise

The group released a report as part of its efforts to combat sexual assault on campus.

BY HALEY HANSEN hhansen@mndaily.com

As the White House plans to announce a new campaign to address sexual assault on college campuses this week, student leaders at the University of Minnesota are continuing their own efforts to combat the national issue.

The White House will launch the “It’s On Us” campaign, which will strongly focus on the role men play in sexual assault prevention and the importance of bystander intervention. The initiative will complement a Minnesota Student Association report released Monday, which examined how men at the University think about sexual assault.

Raising awareness about sexual assault is one of the MSA’s top priorities for the year. MSA President Joelle Stangler said parts of the group’s goals are to include more men in campus conversations about sexual assault and to encourage bystander inter vention, ideas that closely mirror those of the White House.

As part of its work to raise awareness, MSA held four focus groups consisting of

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Minnesota Vikings fans gather around a table outside of Blarney Pub & Grill in Dinkytown after Sunday’s game. Many Stadium Village and Dinkytown business owners said they were prepared for the increase of customers.

An influx of Vikings fans gave campus-area restaurants and bars an extra bump in business with few problems.

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Though business owners and police said

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they didn’t experience anything out of the

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A report suggests solutions for the housing deficit in the Twin Cities and U of M area.

Patriots on Sunday, losing 30-7. But the loss

“Can’t beat the sunshine on a fall day,”

didn’t stop a good share of NFL football

said Dave Richardson, a Vikings fan who

fans from making their way to University

was at Big Ten Restaurant and Bar on Sun-

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of Minnesota neighborhood bars and busi-

day. “This sure gives the old folks some-

nesses throughout the day.

thing to remember.”

The Twin Cities metro and the University of Minnesota area need more housing — especially affordable units — to stave off a looming housing deficit, according to the Metropolitan Council’s long-term housing plan.

Citizens gathered to comment on the 2040 Housing Policy Plan, currently in its first public draft, at a hearing Monday in downtown St. Paul. The plan suggests measures that could provide students with more affordable housing options closer to campus, something experts say the area needs for an equitable environment.

“We are just so far behind in terms of the number of af fordable housing units we need compared to the demand,” said Edward Goetz, director of the University’s Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

A swell of student apartment complexes has brought more than 900 units of luxury housing to the neighborhoods around campus in recent years.

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FL fans took over University of Min-

ordinary, the mix of alcohol and a loss for

nesota neighborhoods Sunday, up-

the home team brought new noise to the

ping usual weekend commotion at Dinky-

University area.

town and Stadium Village bars, as the Min-

Busier than a normal Sunday

nesota Vikings made TCF Bank Stadium its long-term crash pad.

In Stadium Village, hoards of Vikings fans drank in the fresh atmosphere, trading

The Vikings didn’t fare well in their hometown outing against the New England

in the skyscrapers downtown for an open stadium and college-town feel.

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Report: Mpls. sex trafficking violent, organized A new University study may help city police better handle the juvenile sex trade.

BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com

A new University of Minnesota report examining Minneapolis’ violent sex trafficking business could aid police officers in squashing the trade.

The study, released last week by the University’s Urban Research and OutreachEngagement Center, found that juvenile, female sex trafficking in the city operates under a brutal business model that relies

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on violence and manipulation. Local police officers say they’ll use the information to improve how they deal with victims and offenders.

University researchers began work in 2013 and looked at six years of police reports, court records and media accounts to conduct the study. They also inter viewed 89 professionals, including law enforcement officials, who work with victims of trafficking.

The study found that traffickers employ high levels of violence and organization, which lead researcher Lauren Martin said was surprising.

“There is a market for exploitation that operates just like any other business,”

said Martin, who is UROC’s director of research.

Martin said she expects that the study’s findings will provide useful background information for people who work with juvenile victims of sex trafficking, like school counselors and police officers.

“It’s always better to intervene with the youth before they get fully involved with trafficking,” she said.

Ever y Minneapolis police of ficer will receive condensed information from the report to help them recognize and react to trafficking situations, said Deputy Chief Kristine Arneson. u See TRAFFICKING Page 4

Rybak continues teaching The former Minneapolis mayor is leading his second class at the University this semester.

BY MOLLY MICHALETZ mmichaletz@mndaily.com

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Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak lectures in his class Monday evening in Rapson Hall. Rybak’s course, “Six Great Places,” teaches students how to use city resources to influence public works.

Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak has gone from teaching University of Minnesota students about leadership to helping them use their own projects and designs to improve the communities around them.

“Six Great Places,” the second class Rybak has taught at the University, focuses on teaching students “city logic” — everything from public transportation to sewer systems — so they can examine real-life problems and use the knowledge to influence public work.

Students in the course can capitalize on the University’s urban location and Rybak’s 12 years of experience leading the city of

Minneapolis, said Tom Fisher, dean of the College of Design.

“Students really value the real-world experience he brings to the classroom,” Fisher said.

Rybak is focusing the class’s attention on six different places — four in the metro area and two in greater Minnesota — for students to evaluate.

Students will examine areas ranging from downtown Minneapolis to Duluth where renovations or construction are currently ongoing. They’ll develop ideas and projects for potential improvements to the areas while emphasizing city logic.

Par t of Rybak’s goal in the class — which is a partnership between the College of Design and the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs — is to encourage discussion between students with different backgrounds. Problems and their solutions u See PLANNING Page 5

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Across Scotland, dinner table talk is getting heated as families argue over how to vote in Scotland’s independence referendum. A generation gap has opened up, with younger voters more inclined to back independence and their elders tending to say they want to remain in the United Kingdom.

Suppor t for the status quo is strongest among the over-60s, who worr y about the consequences that breaking free would have on pensions, health care and savings; the proindependence movement is largely being driven by under-40s. Neck-and-neck in the polls, the rival campaigns have called on core suppor ters to make a last ditch attempt to swing the vote by making the debate a family affair.

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why they should suppor t separation. The No camp has launched a counteroffensive by asking seniors to win young hear ts and minds with their wisdom.

“I was so proud of my grandpa when he told me he was voting Yes that I burst into tears,” said 23-year-old Miriam Brett, a campaigner for Generation Yes. “A Yes vote means so much to my generation. We want to let all our grandparents know that their future is secure in our hands, and with a Yes we can build a better future for ourselves and for our children.”

Some polls suggest the No camp is trailing in every age group except the over60s. Opinion sur veys indicate more than 63 percent of that age group is expected to vote in favor of the union. As older people are more likely to be on the electoral roll, there has been a huge drive to get younger people engaged in the Yes campaign.

Interest in the referendum is sky high. A total

of 4,285,323 people, or 97 percent of the voting-age population, have registered to vote in the referendum. That’s an increase of 300,000 compared to registration figures in 2012.

The turnout for Thursday’s ballot could exceed 85 percent, compared to the just over 50 percent who voted in the last Scottish Parliament elections in 2011, and the 63.8 percent who turned out for the 2010 British parliamentar y election.

Many people in the rest of Britain have recently awakened to the possibility that Scotland might leave. Thousands of Union Jack-waving demonstrators gathered in London’s Trafalgar Square on Monday in a last-minute show of affection for England’s northern neighbor.

Musician Bob Geldof and comedian Eddie Izzard were among speakers at a rally that organizer Dan Snow said was designed to show “that England cares.”

Among the electorate deciding Scotland’s fate are 124,000 16- and 17-year-olds who will be voting for the first time. Many of these new voters are expected to support independence. But conventional wisdom holds that older voters are more likely to actually cast their ballots, a factor that could help the anti-independence “Better Together” campaign.

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Pope meets with NATO: Threats from Argentine judge in Russia, Islamic State Dirty War probe

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis met Monday with an Argentine judge who played a key role in the recent convictions of two former military officers for one of the most notorious crimes of the country’s Dirty War. La Rioja Bishop Enrique Angelelli, an avowed leftist, was killed Aug. 4, 1976 in a car crash, shortly after Argentina’s military seized power and began a crackdown on suspected leftist “subversives.”

For decades, officials insisted the death was accidental.

But the case was reopened in 2010 after a former priest who had been riding with the bishop said their car had been forced off the road.

La Rioja judge Daniel Ruben Herrera Piedrabuena ordered new expert investigations into the crash and determined that Angelelli had been assassinated.

A La Rioja cour t agreed in July and sentenced former army chief Luciano Benjamin Menendez and former Vice-Commodore Luis Fernando Estrella to life in prison.

The Vatican provided no details of Francis’ meeting Monday with Piedrabuena. But earlier this year, the Holy See provided Vatican documentation to the court showing that Angelelli had warned Rome of his problems with the military.

In one dispatch to the papal ambassador in Buenos Aires one month before he was killed, Angelelli complained that many “honorable” people were being imprisoned and that the militar y was justifying its tor turous ways by saying they had to “kill the enemies of God and countr y.”

BRUSSELS — NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Monday that members of the U.S.-led alliance must stand shoulder to shoulder to confront simultaneous security threats from Russia and the Islamic State extremist organization.

In his Brussels farewell speech as NATO’s top civilian official, Rasmussen said the alliance finds itself on the front line of a geopolitical division between “tolerance and fanaticism,” and “democracy and totalitarianism.”

“We must stand strong as a force for freedom,” said Rasmussen. He said NATO and its member nations must face the fact that the new security challenges it is now confronting could last for years.

Rasmussen’s five-year term as NATO secretary general ends Sept. 30. He spoke at a Brussels gathering of the Carnegie Europe think tank.

Rasmussen said NATO must be ready to use militar y force, and to muster the political will when needed. In a question-and-answer session that followed his speech, he said he favored the use of armed force against the Islamic State organization, which he said threatens not only governments in the Arab world, but also Western societies through the export of terrorism.

He said NATO as such is not considering involvement in such operations. He denounced the mass killings that the Islamic State militants have carried out in territory that it has seized as “close to genocide.”

Rasmussen, a former Danish prime minister, said that under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has “trampled all since the end of the Cold War, and conducted illegal military actions against Ukraine.

He said he believes the NATO summit in Wales this month demonstrated to Russia that the alliance is determined to defend its members.

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U pushes for more women in business In response to low numbers of women entrepreneurs, the school hosted a networking event.

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BY CHRISTOPHER AADLAND caadland@mndaily.com

As the University of Minnesota focuses on boosting entrepreneurship, it’s putting a special emphasis on recruiting women.

The Carlson School of Management’s Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship hosted an event on Friday led by three local women entrepreneurs. The event, which is one of many, reflects a growing effort on the school’s part to encourage women to consider entrepreneurial endeavors.

The low ratio of women to men in the field has prompted the University’s recent initiatives. Last fall, there were 15 entrepreneurial management undergraduate female students at the school, compared to 50 male students.

Undergraduate female students usually aren’t interested in entrepreneurial careers because their female peers don’t typically enter them, said John Stavig, program director for the Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship.

“And that’s why they

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CAIRO — Unidentified warplanes conducted four airstrikes on Monday near the Libyan capital of Tripoli, leaving one dead and five wounded, a spokesman for Libya’s Islamist-allied militias and a militia commander said.

A series of mysterious airstrikes, which U.S. officials have previously said were carried out by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, have reinforced the perception that Libya has become a proxy battleground for larger regional str uggles -- with Turkey and Qatar backing the Islamist militias and Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE suppor ting their opponents.

The specter of regional intervention has cast a pall over the increasingly fractured countr y, which was plunged into turmoil following the 2011 NATO-backed uprising that toppled longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi but gave rise to a patchwork of heavily armed and increasingly unruly militias.

Mohammed al-Ghar yani, spokesman for the Libya Dawn alliance, said the airstrikes targeted Gharyan, 50 miles south of Tripoli. He said militiamen told residents to leave targeted areas.

A militia commander, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the strikes targeted Libya Dawn ammunition warehouses and

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need to see some role models,” he said. “We want to show them not only is it all right [to be an entrepreneur], but it’s a good thing.”

Leaders at the center say giving women more opportunities to network with top businesswomen in the area will help boost the number of female students.

Friday’s event, called Women in Entrepreneurship, was part of the Twin Cities Startup week. Speakers discussed their experiences in the business world and ways for female students to turn the women-focused programs and events at the University into success after

graduation.

Entrepreneurial management and finance sophomore Morgan Weber said the speakers resonated with her because she was able to hear about the experiences of powerful women firsthand.

“I’ve seen many great men speakers,” she said at the event. “But the cool thing about this is … they really drew on those comparisons between how a woman would handle a [business] situation and [how] a man would usually handle a situation.”

The speakers were Students Today Leaders

weapons depots, and were aimed at weakening its hold on the capital.

An umbrella group for the capital’s Islamist militias called the Operation Room for Tripoli Revolutionaries said the raid was carried out by Emirati warplanes and described it as “a failure.”

Libya cur r ently has two rival parliaments and governments. One is recently elected but based in Tobruk, where it moved after Islamist militias took control of both Tripoli and Libya’s second-largest city, Benghazi. The previous Islamist-led parliament remains in Tripoli and is backed by the militias.

Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thinni on Sunday accused Qatar of interfering in Libya’s af fairs by sending shipments of weapons to Islamist-allied militias in Tripoli. He told Dubai-based Sky News Arabia that his gover nment received repor ts of three planes loaded with weapons landing in Matiga air base, under the Islamist control.

He threatened to cut off relations with the tiny Gulf country, which until recently was hosting members of Egypt’s now-banned Muslim Brotherhood group and is widely seen as backing it and other Islamists across the region.

Qatar rejected al-Thinni’s accusations, with Deputy Foreign Minister Mohammed al-Rumaihi telling the state news agency

that the allegations were “misleading and baseless.”

The Qatari statement noted that al-Thinni had said nothing about the repor ted Egyptian-UAE airstrikes.

The Islamist takeover of the capital followed weeks of fighting that forced nearly a quar ter million Libyans to flee their homes. In the final days of the battle for Tripoli in August, a set of myster y airstrikes targeted militant positions near the airpor t. But the attacks failed to prevent the militias from taking control of the airport and cementing their hold on the capital.

U.S. of ficials have said that the August airstrikes were car ried out jointly

by Egypt and the United Arab Emirates --with Egypt providing logistical support for Emirati warplanes.

The Emirates has refused to comment on the allegations, and Egyptian officials have repeatedly denied the claims.

Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the UAE have all backed the anti-Islamist campaign of former army general Khalifa Hifter in the eastern city of Benghazi. But Hifter appears to have lost control of the city and is fighting on the outskirts.

Egypt, which shares a long border with Libya, views the rise of Islamist militias there with open concern and hostility, fearing they could be a source of fighters and weapons flowing across the border.

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The women-centered discussion was just one of the events and programs that the center and the Carlson School are using to tighten the gap, Stavig said.

This year, the center

and the Minnesota Cup, a statewide entrepreneurship competition, partnered to launch two new initiatives to increase the presence of women in the field. About one-third of this year’s entrants were women-led teams, according to the center’s website.

Along with encouraging participation in the competition, Stavig said the University aims to hire accomplished

female faculty, has courses designed to encourage women leadership and hosts networking events to connect students with accomplished businesswomen.

“Our mission is to inspire and educate the next generation of entrepreneurs, and if only 30 percent of the existing pool are women, there’s a lot more upside in encouraging women to step forward,” he said.

NASA blasts asteroid protection program

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s effort to identify potentially dangerous space rocks has taken a hit.

On Monday, the space agency’s inspector general released a report blasting NASA’s Near Earth Objects program, which is meant to hunt and catalog comets, asteroids and relatively large fragments of these objects that pass within 28 million miles of Ear th. The purpose is to protect the planet

against their potential dangers.

Most near-Earth objects harmlessly disintegrate before reaching Earth’s surface. But there are exceptions, like the nearly 60-foot meteor that exploded over Russia in 2013, causing considerable damage.

In a 44-page report, Inspector General Paul Martin said the Near Earth Objects program needs to be better organized and managed, with a bigger staff.

NASA’s science mission

chief, former astronaut John Grunsfeld, agreed and promised the problems will be fixed.

For nearly a decade, the repor t noted, NASA has been tracking near-Ear th objects bigger than 460 feet across. The goal was to catalog 90 percent by 2020.

The space agency has discovered and plotted the orbits of more than 11,000 near-Ear th objects since 1998, an estimated 10 percent. It does not expect to meet the 2020 deadline.

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Commons Hotel workers find unexpected guest U of M police also arrested a student after he rolled on top of a police car.

BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com

When employees at the Commons Hotel found a man sleeping under tables in the building late Wednesday night, they soon learned it was his fourth night doing so.

Alex Karls, acting manager for the overnight crew on Wednesday, was doing his nightly security rounds when he said he noticed blankets and pillows piled underneath some tables on the building’s second floor.

Karls said he then rushed downstairs and told a coworker to call the University of Minnesota Police Department.

The previous day, hotel employees had asked the same man to leave, Karls said, but the man had been sleeping in the hotel without permission for four days.

Officers arrived in five minutes, but left when they couldn’t find the suspect anywhere in the building, Karls said.

Karls said he happened upon the suspect again soon after when he walked into the bathroom and saw the man standing in a handicapped stall. He said he called for University police again.

Once officers arrived for the second time, they located the man pacing inside the stall. Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said the man refused to leave and said he had to use the toilet.

After asking him repeatedly to exit the stall, Miner said the officers heard the man rustling through his belongings.

Worried he might have weapons, the officers mounted the adjacent toilet and raised a Taser over the stall’s wall, prompting the man to submit to an arrest, Miner said.

Man arrested after ‘gyrating’ on car

Of ficers witnessed a 21-year-old University stu-

dent “gyrating his hips” against a vehicle on the 400 block of 13th Avenue Southeast in the early hours of Friday morning, according to a police report.

When police asked the man whether he owned the vehicle in question, he “proceeded to barrel roll” over the hood of the of ficer’s unmarked car, the repor t said.

Officers then stopped the student and administered a breathalyzer test after noticing he was swaying for balance, slurring his words and had alcohol on his breath.

The test resulted in a blood alcohol concentration level of 0.23, according to the report. The student was cited for disorderly conduct and brought to the Hennepin County Medical Center.

Following more than 90 alcohol-related citations on the weekend of Sept. 5, Miner said police issued only nine this weekend.

There were fewer people walking around with open containers than the previous week, he said, and the

figure could have been the result of a temperature dip.

Police are tr ying to crack down on alcohol enforcements to prevent students from drinking and making themselves easy targets for robberies and other crimes, Miner said.

Man tries to strangle Fair view employee

University police arrived to the University’s Medical Center, Fair view, on Wednesday to find a suspect of a misdemeanor assault already under citizen’s arrest, Miner said.

One of the hospital’s patients, a man not affiliated with the University, had physically assaulted a clinic employee earlier that afternoon, according to a police report.

Miner said the incident began when the man violently swung his cane at a nursing station technician, alerting the building security.

After he was discharged from the hospital, Miner said the man had planned

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“It’s our investigators and our cops on the street [who] are going into people’s homes all the time,” Arneson said.

“We’re in the schools; we’re in the parks; we’re in all these areas where [juvenile trafficking] is happening. We want to be more educated on what to look for.”

In 2009, the FBI ranked Minneapolis among 13 U.S. cities with high levels of child prostitution.

In 2011, the Minnesota Legislature passed a “safe harbor” law preventing juvenile victims of sex trafficking from prosecution.

That type of protection could soon span the nation.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., authored a bill that would require all states to enact a law mod-

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eled around Minnesota’s law. The U.S. House passed a similar provision in May. She said in a news release that the University’s report shows the need for a strong fight against trafficking. “[The repor t] is more hard evidence that sex trafficking is not something

that only happens half a world away — it’s happening here in our own backyards and we need to take action,” she said in the release.

Characterizing the market

The study took an in-depth look at who victims of trafficking are and how they’re recruited, Martin said.

More than half of the victims studied were runaways or juveniles who missed their curfew, the study said, and recruitment takes place across the entire metro area.

The victims, who were coerced and sold, were also overwhelmingly from poor areas, Martin said.

“There have been similar studies, but none that have pulled the lens back and looked at the wider picture to connect the dots,” she said.

Researchers also discovered that the trafficking

market is structured differently than previously thought.

In addition to the common concept of a pimp acquiring several victims, Minneapolis’ sex traffickers use victims’ peers to lure them into the trade.

Many sex trafficking victims are also victims of domestic abuse, Arneson said, so additional resources for victims in that area could help stop trafficking.

“Juvenile sex trafficking is happening worldwide,” Arneson said. “If people don’t think it’s happening in their town, it is [still] happening.”

In the future, Martin said she’d like to examine federal court cases of juvenile sex trafficking.

“This is a hidden, stigmatized activity,” she said. “For all we know, this has been going on for 40 years. We just didn’t know about it because people weren’t looking.”

Sierra Leone: WHO too slow to help doc with Ebola

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

FREETOWN, Sier ra Leone — Sierra Leone accused the World Health Organization on Monday of being “sluggish” in facilitating an evacuation of a doctor who died from Ebola before she could be sent out of the countr y for medical care.

Dr. Olivet Buck died Saturday, hours after the U.N. health agency said it could not help evacuate her to Germany.

Buck is the fourth Sierra Leonean doctor to die in an outbreak that has also touched Guinea, Liberia,

Nigeria and Senegal. The West African outbreak has been blamed for more than 2,400 deaths, and experts say it is out of control. The U.S. has called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council for this week to discuss the crisis.

At a heated news conference Monday, a Sierra Leonean government official read a statement saying that the Buck is the second doctor from that country to die because negotiations on evacuation had dragged on.

Dr. Sheik Humarr Khan, the country’s top Ebola expert, was being considered for evacuation when he died

of the disease in July.

“In both the cases of late Dr. Khan and Dr. Buck, we have obser ved a sluggish willingness by WHO in facilitating medical evacuation of Sier ra Leonean Ebola-infected doctors for advance treatment abroad,” according to a statement from a presidential communications task force read out by Deputy Minister for Political and Public Affairs Karamoh Kabba.

He added that the two doctors died while their fates “hung in negotiations.”

But the World Health Organization responded

Monday that it can only evacuate its own staff and that, given the number of health workers becoming infected, the solution is not to evacuate them all anyway. Some 300 health care workers have been infected so far, about half of whom have died.

“We would like to help ever yone, but we cannot help ever y health worker that gets infected,” said Tarik Jasarevic, a spokesman at WHO. “We need to ensure enough quality health facilities in those countries so ever yone can get treated, firstly health workers.”

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

Tempering with a motor vehicle 11:30 p.m. Wednesday 400 block of 13th Avenue Southeast According to a police report, officers received a call on Wednesday night about a group of people in Dinkytown who were witnessed attempting to steal bikes and possibly a moped. One suspect was arrested and cited, the report said.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Burglary of business Between Thursday evening and Friday morning 27th Avenue Southeast According to a police report, one or more suspects broke into a former site of a health care facility, which is undergoing construction.

The burglars cut the door’s padlock, and although the inside of the building was mostly empty, they took a pallet of copper wiring and site contractors’ tools.

Crime: When: Where: Info:

Burglary of dwelling Between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Saturday 1200 block of Yale Avenue Southeast One or more burglars threw a rock through the kitchen window of two students’ Prospect Park home Saturday, a police report said. According to the report, the suspect or suspects took both of the victims’ laptops and some of jewelry from inside the house. No fingerprints were found on the window and there is currently no suspect information, according to the report.

SOURCES: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

on taking a taxi home until the cab driver refused to take him, saying the arrestee was being aggressive and begging for money.

The same nursing technician later found him wandering the hospital’s floors with his gown untied and his pants around his ankles, Miner said.

She then followed him to the elevator lobby, where he began to scream and

squeeze both hands around her neck, Miner said.

Miner said the woman later told police she was “in fear for her life.”

Another nearby elevator opened, and it wasn’t until people exited it that the woman was able to free herself, Miner said. Additional staff arrived and helped put the man under citizen’s arrest until officers arrived to apprehend him.

Vikings bring back Peterson despite recent abuse charge

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.

— The Minnesota Vikings have seen the details. They have seen photos of the injuries that Adrian Peterson’s 4-year-old son suffered at the hands of the star r unning back. They have a history of punishing players who have run into trouble with the law.

The Vikings brought Peterson back to the team anyway even as the public furor over the NFL’s approach to addressing domestic abuse reached a fever pitch.

The Vikings reinstated Peterson on Monday, one day after he sat out a 30-7 home loss to the New England Patriots after he was charged with a felony in Texas for using a wooden switch to spank his son. Peterson, who said he was using a form of discipline his father used on him as a boy, is expected to play against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.

“We are trying to do the right thing,” Vikings general manager Rick Spielman said. “This is a difficult path to navigate regarding the judgment of how a parent disciplines his child. Based on the extensive information we have right now and what we know of Adrian not only as a person but what he’s done for this community, we believe he deserves to play while the legal process plays out.”

Peterson didn’t talk with reporters, but issued a statement in which he insisted he is not a child abuser and wanted “ever yone

to understand how sorr y I feel about the hurt I have brought to my child.”

“I am not a perfect son. I am not a perfect husband. I am not a perfect parent, but I am, without a doubt, not a child abuser,” Peterson said in a nearly 500-word statement issued through his agency. “I am someone that disciplined his child and did not intend to cause him any injury.

“No one can understand the hurt that I feel for my son and for the harm I caused him. My goal is always to teach my son right from wrong and that’s what I tried to do that day.”

Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf said they decided to bring back Peterson for practices and Sunday’s game at New Orleans “after significant thought, discussion and consideration.”

The Wilfs said they want to let the case play out before making any more definitive decisions on Peterson’s future with the only NFL team he has ever played for.

“To be clear, we take very seriously any matter that involves the welfare of a child,” they said. “At this time, however, we believe this is a matter of due process and we should allow the legal system to proceed so we can come to the most effective conclusions and then determine the appropriate course of action.”

The Wilfs were not available for further comment on Monday but Spielman said they are going to leave the decision about whether Peterson crossed a line while disciplining his son up to the courts.

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Rybak teaches U students ‘city logic’ Planning u from Page 1

don’t follow interdisciplinar y fault lines, Fisher said.

In Rybak’s class, design students are able to identify the aesthetic possibilities of future communities, while students from the Humphrey school can use their public policy knowledge to implement the ideas.

The class has attracted students from even more programs.

Psychology major Hanna Hillman said she felt she would gain a lot out of the course even though she’s not a par t of the design or public affairs schools.

“What I am looking for ward to is the aesthetic and administrative design aspect of the course,” Hillman said.

Rybak said he also wants to teach students the importance of maintaining a public voice. Being able to debate and express opinions beyond campus is essential for students to make an impact on the community, he said.

Civic engagement helps bring people together in a more diverse world, Rybak said.

“The bigger the city, the smaller the village,” he said.

Fisher said he thinks Rybak’s multi-disciplinar y collaboration is a great model for the University.

Fisher added that he hopes higher education as a whole will move away from academic exercises and instead get students to engage in the types of real-world problems they’ll face after graduation.

Rybak, who also ser ves as the full-time executive director of the coalition Generation Next, is likely to move on after he finishes his contract with the University in the spring.

However, Fisher said Rybak’s course could serve as a basis for the University to tap other professionals in the Twin Cities area and bring their expertise to the classroom.

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Metro lacks affordable housing Deficit u from Page 1

to providing af fordable shelter around the University because the boom will dr y up demand and drive prices down, said Ward 3 City Councilman Jacob Frey, who represents parts of the University’s area.

Neighbor hoods near campus could benefit from mixed-income housing initiatives, said Libby Starling, a member of the Met Council’s Community Development Division.

“Having that mix of income levels helps lead to

the type of neighborhoods that people say they want to live in,” Starling said, adding that such neighborhoods are stronger communities.

She said today’s young adults bring different housing considerations than those who came before, like the weight of student loans and the tendency to have children later in life.

“We’re very interested in how those changing needs and processes will af fect the housing market,” Starling said.

One option to incentivize affordable housing expansion would be to link

transportation funding from the Met Council to communities’ performance in housing options. The council is also looking into appropriating funds from other amenities it administrates for the potential expansion.

Nelima Sitati Munene, who represented the Northwest Community Collaborative at Monday’s hearing, said she advocates for place-based spending, a practice that seeks to bring improvements like housing to impoverished neighborhoods rather than encouraging their residents to move elsewhere.

She said she thinks

such policies will help to diversify schools like the University because they will strengthen primar y and secondary education in those areas.

Housing deficit on the horizon

The Twin Cities region will face a housing deficit if production isn’t significantly accelerated in the coming decades, according to the Met Council’s report.

This is the council’s first such plan in almost 30 years.

“Our region does not have enough af fordable housing opportunities for low and moderate income

households, and those numbers are expected to continue to grow,” Starling said.

The report advocates for increased mixed-income housing around the metropolitan area, and Starling said it gives a wide-ranging view of areas instead of focusing on specific buildings.

Frey said that mixedincome housing should be one of the region’s top priorities and that it is at the top of his platform.

“A successful city is not just a diverse city but a desegregated city,” Frey said.

“Affordable housing in middle- and upper-income areas is essential.”

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Editorials & Opinions EDUCATION

Teach for America responds to criticism TFA institutes longer teaching commitments and a full year of training, among other reforms.

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ake a recent college graduate, put them through a five-week crash course in teaching and then drop them in one of America’s highest-need classrooms to teach for two years. It sounds crazy, but that’s the model Teach for America has used to place its 11,000 corps members in classrooms all over the nation. TFA has faced harsh criticism, especially for its short certification program and lack of teacher retention. New TFA reforms address these concerns, but they can’t rescue an organization based on quick fixes.

The new Education for Justice PreCorps Pilot Program attempts to reform TFA’s five-week teacher training program.

Created to fast-track the certification process, the five-week training is a hallmark of TFA’s mission and a large source of criticism. How can fresh-faced college grads be expected to learn how to manage a classroom, use teaching strategies effectively and plan lessons in just over a month?

A lack of experience is detrimental to any teacher. When you consider the overcrowded and underfunded schools most TFA corps members are sent to, a lack of

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training seems almost like a crime. Those students need the most help, and should get the most experienced teachers. The new pilot program will provide a full year of training to 50 to 100 college seniors who applied to TFA during their junior year. A year of training is significantly longer than five weeks — but is it really enough?

The second new TFA program addresses teacher retention. Members in 12 of TFA’s regions will sign on for a five-year teaching commitment, instead of the usual two. Studies show that a high teacher turnover rate harms students, leaving them with a significant loss in reading and math learning compared to students who experienced low teacher turnover. In a program that practically encourages turnover, more than half of TFA corps members leave their initial low-income placement.

Increasing teaching requirements to five years helps provide stability for students, but TFA is still temporary work.

Despite these promising refor ms,

When you consider the overcrowded and underfunded schools most TFA corps members are sent to, a lack of training seems almost like a crime. one of TFA’s biggest stumbling blocks is how it trivializes the teaching profession.

There shouldn’t be shor tcuts to teacher cer tification, whether it’s five weeks or one year. Teaching is a hard, emotionally draining and vitally important job that too often goes unappreciated. To treat it as a two- or even five-year stint on the way to bigger and better things cheapens the profession.

Low-income school districts deser ve experienced and dedicated teachers who will be able to address the challenges of children living in poverty. TFA can’t meet those needs if it continues to cut corners.

Its willingness to respond to criticism is a good step for ward, but there’s still a long way to go.

Camille Galles welcomes comments at cgalles@mndaily.com.

DAILY DISCUSSION Congress muddies clean water bill A recent Minnesota Daily article, “After population decline, researchers optimistic about monarchs,” shows that we should be doing ever ything we can to protect our rivers, lakes and other water habitats. Unfortunately, it seems that Congress, including Rep. Tim Walz, DMinn., is doing ever ything it can to put them in jeopardy.

Congress just voted to bar the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from restoring protections of the Clean Water Act to more than half of the nation’s rivers and streams, including nearly 47,000 miles of streams in Minnesota. The bill had been left in limbo for nearly a decade after a pair of Supreme Court decisions created a loophole in the law.

The EPA has proposed a rule to close this loophole and again safeguard under federal law the state’s rivers and streams.

Instead of siding with our waters like Lake Nokomis and the Minnesotans who love to fish, boat and swim in them, Congress and Walz sided with the polluters on Tuesday.

That’s a real disappointment. But with enough champions like Democratic Reps.

Keith Ellison, Betty McCollum and Rick Nolan, I hope we can see all of our waters protected once and for all.

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Last Friday, University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler pitched the idea of extending the two-year undergraduate tuition freeze by another year to the Board of Regents. The current tuition freeze is set to expire at the end of spring semester, and if it is not extended, University students are likely to face a hike in the cost of education the following year. This is a good step by Kaler, but it is not enough. We need to see a drop in the cost of education at the University. This has been a consistent demand by student activists for years.

The cost of tuition is already out of control, and it’s getting worse. In the past decade, the cost of in-state, undergraduate tuition has swelled from $5,720 a year in 2002 to $12,060 a year in 2012, when the two-year tuition freeze was instituted — a twofold increase. Has the value of our education really

EDITORIALS Professors’ right to free speech

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oon after the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign offered Steven Salaita a tenure-track professor position in its American Indian studies program, the college’s Board of Trustees overturned that decision because of a series of tweets Salaita wrote.

This past summer, Israel initiated Operation Protective Edge, a series of airstrikes intended to target members of the Palestinian militant group Hamas. However, the operation also killed more than 1,400 Palestinian civilians. Salaita, a vocal critic of Israel’s tactics, tweeted comments objecting to this show of force.

Citing these tweets, the University of Illinois’ president and board fired Salaita, voicing concern that he would be a biased professor unwilling to let students voice opinions different from his own. Salaita has strongly denied this assumption, stating that he is a “fair and open-minded instructor.”

His case has sparked discussion of the limits of free speech at universities. While Salaita has been subject to heavy criticism, many have supported his right to speak freely, including one University of Minnesota professor. Defending Salaita, the American Association of University Professors called his dismissal “inimical to academic freedom and due process.”

We believe that the University of Illinois’ decision to take back Salaita’s job offer sets a dangerous precedent for colleges nationwide.

When professors can lose their positions on the basis of their political views, universities become places of contractually obligated ideological conformity — not centers for open discussion and debate.

We hope that the University of Minnesota will continue to uphold freedom of speech in its classrooms and across its campuses.

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EDUCATION

Online gym not a good solution Traditional gym classes are still superior in allowing students to be well-rounded and active.

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ince elementary school, many of us have faced the excitement of being picked first or the fear of being taken last for a game in gym. However, we often neglect to consider how such excitement or fear can shape a person’s personality and build character.

Some Minneapolis high school students have had trouble earning their diplomas because the district used to require two semesters of physical education to graduate. Minnesota law requires only one semester.

Under a new plan for Minneapolis schools, students who have trouble fulfilling physical education requirements — whether because academic coursework occupies their time or they simply have difficulty passing a gym class — will be permitted to explore alternative options such as online gym.

It’s understandable to give a student more time to make up a failed class. But if you’re set for Harvard or Yale with all of your AP classes and can’t plan well enough to take a regular gym class or be involved in a sport, how good are your chances at an Ivy League school?

Gym and athletics continue to be supplanted by challenging courses. However, physical education and academics may be equally important when it comes to showing colleges that you are a well-rounded student. Regular physical activity can improve memory, atten-

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doubled since 2002? Tuition is already too high, and it is simply not good enough to freeze tuition at a level already unacceptable for a public university. Kaler and the Board of Regents need to take action to reverse this trend now.

It is also not acceptable to excuse bloated tuition costs by deferring to national trends or the existence of a market rate in higher education. In comparison, the average instate tuition and fees for public, four-year colleges is $7,407, almost half of what we pay when fees are added in. Furthermore, this is not just the case for so called second-tier schools and non-research universities.

In-state tuition for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a school ranked in the upper echelon of public research universities, is only $6,423 per year. According to the U.S. Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center,

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tion span and learning ability. It can also reduce the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. Gym class is not just a high school graduation requirement. It helps shape your personality, and it provides a great opportunity for socializing. Gym class can act as a tool to meet new people or relieve stress. In college, you could take a gym class or join an intramural team. When you exercise and converse with others, your brain releases endorphins that cause happiness.

If you’re worried about what potential employers might think of a gym class on your college transcript, you should know that some companies will pay you to get active, go to yoga classes or attend weight management seminars.

Many colleges offer online gym classes, but it’s a better idea to show up in person and take a break from the dense lectures that are commonplace on campus. Better yet, a real gym class will help you lose that “freshman 15.”

Brooke Bovee welcomes comments at bbovee@mndaily.com.

we are two years into the tuition freeze and the University of Minnesota is still on the list of most expensive public schools in the country, ranking 22nd with the highest tuition among public four-year schools. This doesn’t have to be the case. With a $1.2 billion estimated budget surplus, the state government should consider fully funding the University with promises that the additional funding goes directly toward making our colleges more, not less, affordable.

Kaler and the Board of Regents have found money to pay several professors and leaders more than $400,000 a year and $190 million to construct the new “athletic village” training facilities. They now need to find money to make college more affordable for Minnesota’s working families. Students need to raise their voices and tell their legislators and university administration that the tuition freeze is not enough, and tuition needs to drop now.

Pelicans suffer from a chemical dispersant because of the spill.

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he American white pelican, which spends its summers on Minnesota lakes and in other northern areas, faced threats for decades. The species has been recovering in recently, but it’s now facing a new problem — contamination from the 2010 British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Joint research from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources and North Dakota State University has found evidence of BP petroleum and the chemical dispersant Corexit in the white pelicans’ blood, beaks and eggs.

The contamination rate among Minnesota’s pelicans may be as high as 90 percent. The presence of both oil and Corexit in pelican eggs may cause developmental abnormalities and reproductive problems in the birds for generations to come.

Further research is needed to determine the contamination’s full extent and effects.

However, the damage to Minnesota’s pelican population was serious enough to be cited as evidence in the federal case against BP. Earlier this month, a federal judge found the oil company guilty of gross negligence.

Minnesota may be eligible for some of the billions in fines that BP must pay. The state could use this money to help bolster the populations of the American white pelican and other migratory bird species.

As host to a large percentage of the nation’s pelican population, and as a top leader in wildlife research through the DNR, the University of Minnesota and other institutions are worthy recipients of BP’s retributive payments. We hope the state will put any funds it receives to proper use.

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LITERATURE

Q&A: ‘The Last Unicorn’ author Peter S. Beagle The famed author of “The Last Unicorn” talked with A&E before heading to Minnesota for his tour.

BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

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he 1982 car toon “The Last Unicorn” has left its mark on younger generations since its release. Based on the 1968 novel by Peter S. Beagle, the story follows a lone unicorn on her quest to find and save the rest of the unicorns on Earth.

A few years ago, Beagle attended a showing of the film in Texas to answer questions. When the showing sold out two nights in a row, Beagle and his business manager knew there was room for more.

Since April of last year, Beagle has been on and of f tour with screenings of a “The Last Unicorn.”

The tour is set to continue through July 2016. On the side, Beagle is working on two novels, two children’s books and multiple stories.

There’s also been discussion of a Broadway show of “The Last Unicorn” Broadway show, for which Beagle would co-write the script.

This week, Beagle will be in Minnesota for the first time for screenings in Duluth, Minneapolis and Woodbury. But before he hit the road, A&E asked him a few questions.

infancy.

I never imagined that this was going to happen — that this particular book would provoke this kind of reaction, or last this long. … It was like catching lightning in a bottle. … It’s an odd feeling, but I’ve gotten used to it. Reasonably used to it. And there are times when people say things to me that simply leave me speechless.

Like what?

Well, one thing I get a lot is, “It’s an honor to meet you,” and I always want to tell them, “It’s my honor — I mean, you’re here because of a book I wrote well before you wer e bor n, and you’ve come all this way to be here.” … I’m still floored by it. The 15-year-old boy inside of me who sat in the back of the class writing poetr y and dreamed about being a star, being a real author, is still floored.

So you did a tour last year, too?

Yes, yes, I’m going to be undoubtedly touring until there’s a sudden universal cracking of ice, and you realize that Hell just froze over. I’m going to be doing this for a long time.

You mentioned that “The Last Unicorn” tends to overshadow your other work. Does that bother you at all?

Not r eally; I’m ver y much aware of how many writers have real talent and never even get a shot at the kind of miraculous acceptance that “The Last Unicor n” has received.

There are books of mine I like better, but as [my friend] Rober t Nathan said … “It does beat the hell out of not being remembered at all, doesn’t it?” And that’s obviously true.

Do you have any specific goals for the tour?

Mostly to finish what I ’ m w o r k i n g o n n o w.

There’s enough to keep me busy. Just to stay healthy, do my work, look both ways before I cross the street, and when you stay touring — when you stay with friends or fans — see if there is a cat or a dog to sleep with. That’s always comforting.

From what you’ve told me, people do know your other work, so it’s not like it’s completely overshadowed, right?

No, I’m always pleased when someone comes up with one of my other books to sign. ... I’m always delighted, but I’m also star tled because I’m so used to having people tell me, “Thank you for my childhood.”

What is your relationship with your fans like?

I get criers. People to whom the book means so much that they can hardly talk. It’s sometimes ver y intense, but only because they’ve known this particular book and this particular movie since their childhood, since almost

How do you think the theater experience, watching it in a big dark room, how do you think that affects the film at all?

Well, I had the horrors when I knew that Rankin and Bass were going to [produce] it because I hated ever ything of theirs I’d ever seen. But what with

this one, they really shot the works. … The whole thing came out much better than I had any reason to hope.

I found myself, some years back, watching it with a friend, watching the audience’s reaction, and blur ting out, “Oh my God, the bloody thing’s a classic.” Really not what I expected [laughs]. Rankin and Bass didn’t do classics; they did children’s movies.

They did “Frosty the Snowman.” But somehow, they transcended themselves with this.

You mentioned you won a contest in high school.

I was always writing stories and poetr y in high school. … I got into college because, without telling me about it, an English teacher … entered a poem of mine in a scholastic magazine literar y contest, a high school writing contest, and it won first prize.

And that got me to the University of Pittsburg, which was the perfect place for me, oddly enough, because there wer e a couple of wonder ful writing teachers there. ... I still remember it because I was 16. I was away from home for the first time. Pittsburg was funky and dirty and grimy and smelly, and I loved it.

I was wondering if you had a common source of inspiration for your writing.

Whenever someone asks me about that, I always say … “The Last Unicorn,” for instance, is not due to any sor t of inspiration but to desperation.

I’m ver y grateful to have come up in a family of artists because they were professionals as well. They were my role models.

And I almost never heard the wor d “inspiration” used. ... I love a line by my Uncle Moses talking about, you know, working in a studio all day: “If the muse is late, start without her.”

Do you have any advice for developing writers?

There’s a saying that’s not mine, but I agree with it entirely, that your real teacher … is your first million words of crap you write. And I’ve told

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Peter S. Beagle, the author for the screenplay and novel “The Last Unicorn” will be in Minneapolis this week to accompany his film.

writing classes, you know, I’m way past that.

I’m nearing the end of my second million words of crap, and I’ve said, “I won’t make the mistakes you make, because I’ve already made them 15 to 20 times over; I’m on to an entirely dif ferent class of mistake.”

I saw in your bio that you sing folk music as well, or at least that you have at one point. I was

wondering if you still sing folk.

I sing all the time, whether I’m doing it publicly or just in the car. ...

Or, just singing to myself, walking along the street. I sang largely in French in a restaurant in Santa Cr uz, Calif., for 12 years, and I mostly sang in French, sometimes in Spanish … sometimes in Yiddish. …

A while back, I sang with my favorite jazz group, the Hot Club of San Francisco,

and walked away as always thinking, “Damn, this is so much more fun than writing.” I really still think that.

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FASHION

NYFW SS15: Insider tips for a career in fashion Industry pros share tips as they sprint across the Lincoln Center at MercedesBenz Fashion Week.

BY HANNAH GERMAINE hgermaine@mndaily.com

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hallenges of the fashion industr y are never-ending.

And there are plenty of trials, so professionals outside of the Lincoln Center during the Spring/ Summer 2015 shows at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week offered some advice for handling them gracefully.

1. Ask and you shall receive Send your resume out.

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Make a phone call. Talk to people. When you share your ambitions with the world, oppor tunities find you. Apply for positions that you don’t think you’ll get.

Seemingly untouchable designers and magazine editors need interns, too. Anything is possible.

2. Ask again If you don’t get hired right away, follow up. “Don’t take no for an answer,” said TV host and freelance journalist Lauren Ezersky. “Be persistent.”

3. Take risks Don’t let money get in your way, and don’t be afraid to tr y new things.

Many inter nships require a last-minute plane

ticket for an in-person inter view. Living in an unfamiliar city away from family and friends can be daunting, but putting yourself in uncomfortable situations will help you grow.

4. Know what you like Do some research before your inter view. You will be asked about your favorite designers. If you list a label, know the name of the actual person designing the clothes. If it’s a magazine gig, you will be asked about your favorite editors, photographers or stylists.

Have an answer, back it up with solid and insightful reasoning, and keep some facts tucked up your sleeve. Reference current

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press mentions or artistic endeavors.

5. Keep up “Keep up with your trends,” said actress and model Madison Walls. “Always know what’s going on.” She even suggested obser ving cur rent hairstyles.

6. Be a leader, not a follower “Follow your heart,” said blogger Bo Mulder. “Have your own style.” Wear what you like, even if it’s different from your peers. Your authenticity will show, and you’ll stand out.

7. Don’t be afraid to mess up Volunteer for tasks that

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are unfamiliar to you. You will expand your knowledge, become a valuable resource and stand out. You’ll make mistakes, but once you lose your boss’s credit card, you will never let it happen again.

8. Don’t over-apologize No one really cares why you messed up, and they don’t want to hear your excuses. Instead, use your precious time to fix the problem.

9. No work is beneath you Coffee runs, heavy lifting and sprinting across unfamiliar cities with gowns that could pay off your student debt are all equally

important duties. If you believe in the culmination of a collection, event or publication, the work is worth it.

10. Be nice “Don’t burn any bridges,” said photographer Jennifer Neumann. “The fashion world is smaller than you think.”

11. Say yes Take ever y oppor tunity. Fashion overlaps with all aspects of culture, and a diverse skill set will make you more marketable. “Do ever ything even if it seems like nothing at the star t,” said Amy Hicks, head designer of Australian brand the Fifth Label.

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VOLLEYBALL

Rosado adjusts to new home

Dalianliz Rosado joined Minnesota’s volleyball team from Puerto Rico.

BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com

When Gophers freshman libero Dalianliz Rosado first came to the University of Minnesota, she loved everything about the campus, team and coaching staff.

But being away from her home in Puer to Rico proved to be a hard transition for the 18-year-old.

Rosado said the culture shock from the move was difficult; however, she had junior Daly Santana, also a Puerto Rico native, to rely on.

“She’s a really big help for me,” Rosado said. “She helps me with ever ything she can.”

Rosado and Santana have been friends for about nine years, having played both with and against each other in Puerto Rico.

“We were always around each other. We’re pretty good friends — we’re like sisters,” Santana said.

Santana has been helping Rosado work on her English, but Santana said it’s hard with both of them wanting to speak in Spanish.

When Rosado first got to Minnesota, she said she couldn’t understand anything. Two months after the move, she started feeling more confident, even though it’s still a hard adjustment.

“We kind of talk in both, Spanglish,” Santana said.

“We’ll star t saying something and get confused and want to get it out of the way, so we start talking in Spanish to be done with it.”

Another change for Rosado is adjusting to the long distance, more than 2,000 miles away from home.

“I’m far away from my family,” Rosado said. “I miss my family a lot.”

But Rosado said Santana is like a big sister to her because they’ve known

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each other for so long.

“When I don’t have anyone here, and if she doesn’t have her family, at least we can have each other,” Santana said.

The Gophers are a close team, but Santana said she and Rosado have a different kind of connection.

“We’ve been together for a longer time than anyone else here,” Santana said.

The two said they have been busy focusing on school and volleyball since the start of the semester.

Rosado said she’s doing pretty well in her classes, but it’s a challenge to balance academics and volleyball. Right now, she’s interested in majoring in biology.

Outside of school and volleyball, Rosado and Santana spend as much time together as they can.

“She’s great company,” Santana said.

Ready for the opportunity

Though Rosado is dealing with adjustments of f the court, she’s no stranger

to the world of volleyball.

She has excelled at the sport from a young age.

Rosado played with the Puerto Rican Youth National Team in addition to Club Morovis.

Her time with the national team brought her to the Pan American tournament.

At her high school, Carmen Sol, Rosado excelled as the captain and MVP in six tour naments in 2011 and 2012.

The per formances led to Minnesota recruiting her. Since the season’s star t, head coach Hugh McCutcheon has played Rosado as the star ting libero in multiple matches.

As for the future of the star ting libero position, it is uncer tain. But McCutcheon said Rosado is doing a great job in the role — one that he said Rosado has dreamed about.

“She’s really flourishing,” McCutcheon said.

“She’s taken full ownership of the opportunity she has.”

CORA NELSON, DAILY

Top: Freshman volleyball player Dalianliz Rosado practices at the Sports Pavilion on Tuesday. She, along with teammate Daly Santana, are from Puerto Rico.

Bottom: Freshman Dalianliz Rosado poses after the Gophers’ victory against Iowa State at the Sports Pavilion on Saturday.

CROSS COUNTRY

Coach Hopkins brings passion, fire to job Sarah Hopkins is in her second year as head coach of Minnesota’s cross country team.

BY AIDAN COLEMAN acoleman@mndaily.com

Sarah Hopkins has devoted a significant portion of her life to cross country. Starting as a student-athlete, she later transitioned to assistant coach and finally head coach of the Gophers women’s cross country program.

However, the sport wasn’t always her passion.

“My parents wanted me to do a fall sport where I could meet people,” Hopkins said. “I had never [played] soccer or volleyball … and running was a sport that didn’t cut anybody.”

It’s hard to believe that Hopkins, who has worked with the Gophers for 10 years — two as the head coach — only got into the sport because of the whim of her parents.

Before her coaching career started, Hopkins was a member of Minnesota’s cross countr y team, making the team as a walk-on.

“She was not one of our best by far,” said Gary Wilson, the former head coach of the women’s cross country team.

Wilson, who was the head coach for 28 years, said that while Hopkins wasn’t in the top tier of runners on the team, she worked harder than those who were more talented.

“She was one of those kids that wanted to learn,” Wilson said. “She had a thirst for knowledge.”

Through that, Hopkins was able to make the most of her opportunity.

“I came to [the Gophers cross country team] kind of on a whim as a walk-on. I never earned scholarship money, but I loved every minute of my experience and got better every year,” she said.

Wilson said he saw the impact Hopkins had on the team.

“There were a couple kids on the team that were a pain in the ass,” Wilson said. “She was able to really be a positive influence on the rest of the kids. … She was always a natural leader.”

Following her collegiate career, Wilson asked Hopkins to stay on with the team. She accepted, as she was completing her fifth year of school.

Hopkins was with the program for several years before she was offered a head coaching position.

“After a year of grad school, I got of fered the head coaching job at the University of Illinois, which at 23 is sort of a crazy place to be,” Hopkins said. “It was a huge compliment and a huge boost to my ego ... [but] in my gut, I didn’t feel as though I was ready for that.”

Hopkins said she figured that if offers were already coming to her at age 23, there would be other jobs waiting for her down the road.

Following the Illinois job offer, Hopkins said Wilson

PHOTO COURTESY OF GOPHERS ATHLETICS

Head coach Sarah Hopkins has been with the Gophers cross country program for a decade.

and former athletics director Joel Maturi sat down to discuss her future with the team.

“Coach Wilson sat down with [Maturi] and said, ‘If we can guarantee [Hopkins] that this job is hers, she won’t take the Illinois job,’” Hopkins said.

Hopkins served as an unpaid volunteer coach for eight seasons prior to becoming the head coach when Wilson retired.

“If I could have sucked her in [to coaching] for about 10 more years for free, I would have coached till I was 85,” Wilson said. “She did everything: all the paperwork, all the on-campus visits. … She earned her stripes.”

After replacing a Gophers legend like Wilson, the pressure for Hopkins to succeed seems evident now more than ever.

“In college coaching, you can’t get too comfortable because it is a business,” Hopkins said. “As much as I would love to control my own destiny, there’s a lot of other pieces at play.”

Hopkins said not being heavily recruited out of high school made her become a better coach.

“If I was coming from the position of being the full-ride [runner] that was All-Big Ten right off the bat, it’s harder to relate to those kids that are struggling to get a little bit

better every day,” she said.

While this is just her second year as head coach , Hopkins has already earned the respect of her runners.

“She can be a pretty tough coach,” redshirt junior Kate Bucknam said. “She’s very approachable. Her door’s always open. But she can get on us about things when she has to.”

Redshirt junior Liz Berkholtz said Hopkins’ desire for success is evident throughout training and races.

“You can see the fiery side and competitiveness that she brings to the table, which is awesome,” Berkholtz said.

“We need a coach that wants it so bad.”

hat a difference a year makes.

Just 10 months after watching Reid Travis tell the hometown crowd he would be leaving Minnesota for the warmer climate of Palo Alto, Calif., another highly sought-after DeLaSalle High School basketball player stepped onto the podium to announce where he would be playing his college basketball.

This time, however, Gophers fans weren’t disappointed.

Jar vis Johnson announced Friday that he is going to stay at home and play in Minnesota.

Jubilation erupted from the crowd as Johnson pulled out a maroon and gold hat and placed it on his head.

Gophers fans should get used to that feeling, and it’s all thanks to second-year head coach Richard Pitino.

Pitino needed just one year to establish himself as a better developer of talent than his predecessor, Tubby Smith.

I don’t think it will take long for fans to see a difference in recruiting, either.

Smith was often criticized during his days at Kentucky for not landing elite prospects, and he did nothing to shake that reputation while at Minnesota.

Pitino’s tutelage and ability to get the most out of his players helped the Gophers win the 2014 National Invitation Tournament.

No, it’s not the NCAA tournament, but it’s more hardware than the Gophers ever received from 2007-2013.

Last Saturday, when Johnson verbally committed to bringing more hardware to Minnesota, it marked Pitino’s first local marquee recr uit joining the Gophers, and it likely won’t be his last.

Keep in mind that Johnson also had offers from Tom Izzo, Fred Hoiberg and Bo Ryan staring him in the face when he made his decision.

But Johnson decided to go with an up-and-coming Minnesota team.

Last year, Gophers fans watched three extraordinarily talented players from Minnesota announce that they would be heading to greener pastures to play college basketball.

I’m sure Pitino understands that sort of mass emigration can never happen again.

DeLaSalle head coach Dave Thorson told reporters last week that Pitino nearly got Reid Travis to come to Minnesota, just months after getting the head coaching gig.

He also acknowledged that Pitino had to “dig the Gophers out of a hole” to even come close to nabbing him.

So rejoice, Gophers fans.

Gone are the days of mismanaged games and a lack of player development. Pitino brought in a new style of coaching and a fresh personality, that’s already paying dividends with recruits.

And it all started on Friday with Johnson.

David Nelson welcomes comments at dnelson@mndaily.com or on Twitter.

@DavidNelson18

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

sudoku

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

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

9/16/2014

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (9/16): Fortune smiles on good planning this year. Chart your course. Prepare for financial unpredictability with increased frugality and savings.

Nurture your seeds. Share what you grow.

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

Written by Nancy Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 6 — Focus on the task at hand and avoid distractions. Take slow, methodical steps. Repeat, if the first try doesn’t go through.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Consider career advancement today and tomorrow. Balance professional with personal demands. Don’t neglect your health by overworking or skipping meals.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Challenge your gray cells. Get out of the house today and tomorrow. Continue to collaborate with a group. Cut frivolous expenditures.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Don’t act impulsively. Each new advance presents new challenges, so think it over before stepping out.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Fill orders and rake in the money over the next few days. Sidestep barriers and delays. Professional and personal schedules could conflict.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — A conflict could arise between professional status and pay. You won’t have to defer gratification forever.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Your power is growing today and tomorrow.

Use it for good. Expect intense activity. A disagreement about priorities is possible.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Continue to increase production. Reject a farfetched scheme in favor of a practical solution.

Negotiate for the long run.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Conserve resources, and don’t worry about the money.

Take it easy to decrease stress. Review your plans and avoid making outrageous promises.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Continue to cut impulsive spending. The next two days feature some intense work. Schedule carefully to fit it all in.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 6 — Organize your work schedule for creative collaboration.

Team projects go well today and tomorrow.

Keep your money in your pockets.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — A hobby or amusement has you captivated. Don’t get so wrapped up in the game that you miss a date with your partner.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

from the archive

Friday, September 15, 2006

BACKTALK

From -Femme Fatale-

How’s it going, Net? I’m sensing a lack of female presence here, so I’m pushing my way in... Net: No no, the man pushes in. Just like women invaded the workplace, your sports, and even your online gaming.

Net: Well, not ours, since we’re asexual. It’s fun for us; that’s the real reason we do it. On a different note, how’s a commuting girl supposed to meet people?!

Net: Dr. Date is down and to the right. My lack of social skills is a contributing factor, but I blame it on not living on campus. Net: No, you were right on with the lack of social skills. Clubs and teams are out; meetings at 9pm on a Wed.?! In St. Paul?! Net: On top of a mountain?! Call me delicate, but I need more than 5 hours of sleep a night... Living alone in the northern suburbs isn’t as fun as it sounds... Net: Did it ever sound fun in the first place? Oh, btw... Girls are NOT into guys who play Magic... There’s something creepy, and rather dissatisfying, about a guy who invests more time and energy in a pointless game than in getting to know his girlfriend. And if, by some divine miracle, you do get a girlfriend...do her a favor and don’t talk about it. At least then she can pretend you’re a stud. Net: Hear hear.

From Schwans_Man

Booyah, Net! It has been a long time, but the Schwans_Man is back to deliver you some tasty frozen treats that are laced with salmonella. first off I want to give a Cleveland Steamer to the crossword yesterday, as half of the numbers were missing. Net: We think that reaction might be going a little overboard. And that was two days ago. Whatever. It ruined my afternoon as I actually had to pay attention in my class titled, “How to Survive a Gopher Football Season 1001”. Net: Premise of that class: Don’t get too attached to the team. But by paying attention, I actually picked up 2 tips. #1 On game day, start drinking/tailgating by 7am at the latest, this

will prevent you from remembering Mason’s Mediocrity, Net: We’re all about the status quo at this fine University. my predicted 74-0 loss to Ohio State, and you public urination debacle on the 50 yard line. #2 Follow tip #1 or it will be a long season. I’m out like Brett Favres dignity. Net: Along with any semblance of skill he once had.

From darwinistsaredumb

Once long ago an old bonobo knocked a ROCK off a cliff AND watched it ROLL he got so excited he shook his pelvis and one day his offspring gave birth to Elvis...

Net: OK, which greeting card did you steal this poem from?

See Darwinism REALLY CAN EXPLAIN EVERYTHING (except for the fact that I think their community is so blind to their own omnipresent ignorance they need taser eye surgery!). Net: We don’t think Tasers in the eye is going to help anyone see any better.

From N3AT

you stupid NUTTheads, the only thing better than seeing brother jeb escorted off campus Net: Escorted by two young ladies no less. Let’s see you preach against fornication now, Brother! would be to see brother jeb yelling and screaming but no one pays attention, stop trying to debate him, what good does it do? Net: It’s good vocal practice. Maybe you need to warm up for a recital or speech class and you’re a little wound up. Head over to the Mall area and take out all your frustrations on Brother Jed. He’ll understand, that’s what he’s all about. Right?

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And keep the D-10 out of your pockets on dates.

Sincerely, — Akroma

By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke

3) Think of all her negative qualities and the “quirks” that really pissed ya off — and how you don’t have to put up with ’em any longer.

2) Realize how much time (and money) you have to devote to something (or someone) else.

1) Let time and distance work their magic.

And the no-nos: 5) Lock yourself in your room, listening to lots of inspirational (read: depressing) music — like The Pretenders’ “I’ll Stand By You.” Dr. Date, 4) Beg to be back in your babe’s arms. Unless I just wanted to extend a word to Mr. Magic you’re in the doghouse, this likely won’t persuade — you will “look better in the eyes of girls” once your pookie. you gain a little confidence in yourself, especially 3) Watch all your friends disappear as you begin to gamer girls like me. every sentence with a tearful, “We used to … ” Rather than the common misconception that 2) Call up her best galpals for some “condogirls make up one mysterious clump attracted lence.” your friends would be jealous of — but only to muscles and brawn, we actually all have 1) Burn all her possessions left at your house/ you’ll know better than to tell them.

I have an issue: the eighth individual interests and hobbies — my personal key her car/run Since over her puppy. obsession at the moment being my Genesis emu-I have Goodbeen luck, buddy. grade, listening to my lator.

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— RPG lovah Dr. Date, tures with girlfriends and one-night I have a very disturbing problem and don’t stands. While sounds Dear Dr. Date, knowgetting who else laid to turn to. I havegreat this tall, red- I’m in a dilemma. I started my job I’ve just recently read your letter concerning a roommate who does something quite as a barista about a year ago, and right and all, I amheaded not looking for that per se — guy in the IT who thinks there’s something wrong unsavory. when I started, I hit it off with one of with his hobbies. As a fellow geek/nerd, I’d like Sometimes afterjob. he takes a shower, he likes just antooccasional blow I, however, remind him that we exist in both genders of the to run out into our living room and scream the the guys who worked there. Our flirting have only engaged in less rousing species. names of me, my girlfriend andsexual my other roomIn fact, I find it sad to think that it’sactivities either what —mate.

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I just wanted to say that I completely agreed At first, I loved having my bf at work. It So tell me, How do I take it to the with the advice you gave Mr. Magic in Thursday’s Deardoc: HMBIGSWAP, column.

Bet you’re glad it’s September and your lease was ideal! But now I feel like we need next level and finally seal the deal?

Mr. Magic, you should be able to do whatever just began, huh? some distance. We have nothing to talk activities you want. Sure, Magic might be slightly Chances are you’re egging this guy on by turnnerdy, but who cares? Maybe you will find yourself ing away/shrieking/trying to scratch out your own about anymore because we’re always one hot lady who loves playing the game too? eyes. So just like Mama told you when you were together.

Anyways, if anyone is up for some random younger, try ignoring it.

Magic play meet me in Coffman Friday at 4:30 by If your roomie really thinks this is funny (and Do I quit my job and give us space to Most guys lie about their sexual the fireplace. Look for a brunette. continues to do it), um, well, just beexblunt with — Ms. Magic him. alongbelieving the lines of, “While ploits. I have aSomething hard time that I’m allmake sure our relationship doesn’t grow for self-expression, I’m not very comfortable with stale? I really like working at the shop. I most of youryoufriends have been sexually Dear Doc, flashing your flaccid penis” will likely do the I recently broke up with someoneactive who I’d onThat is,grade. if he hasn’t read this column idendon’t want him to quit either, but I know sincetrick. eighth While a trifle ly been dating for a few months, but I’m having tifying him and the situation hasn’t already remhe would if I brought the issue up to him. of their be true, most of a hard time moving on. I still have really strong tales ediedmight itself. feelings for this person but it just wasn’t the friends right — Dr. Date make the stories your probably

dr. date

Dr. Date,

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

—Parched

Terribly Thirsty,

Need relationship advice?

Date about at drdate@mndaily.com. up toE-mail feel Dr. better their own lack

of experience. (Men with the most experience often keep their stories to themselves.)

There is such a thing as being too “nice” to women. That said, most women only fall for “bad boys” since there’s a dearth of men who are confident, authentic, friendly yet firm, and stand for something. “Nice guys” are actually “polite guys.”

Men who are too afraid of rejection by women often flirt without diving deeper than the mundane trivialities of small talk. They don’t allow women to see who they truly are.

Put yourself out there in the path of rejection. Be kind to women but assertive with them. Flirt with them, and if it feels right, ask them to go out or come home with you, depending on the context. You’ll soon be the one with stories

—Claustrophobia-mania

Work/Life Balance,

Though you portray your relationship as the paragon of young romance, you seem more lukewarm about your boyfriend than your job. Having a “solid” relationship is very different from having a spectacular relationship. Solid relationships come from convenience; spectacular relationships never get old.

If you were in a spectacular relationship, you’d have things to talk about with your boyfriend, both at work and outside of it.

Talk to your boyfriend about how you’re feeling. He seems iffy about his job, but it would be rude to force him to leave it. (He’s got to make money, you know.) Plus, your relationship already sounds stale, and if you don’t want to be out of a job and a boyfriend, you should take care of that first.

—Dr. Date

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

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MSA plans to combat sex assault Reports u from Page 1

ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY

Minnesota Vikings fans eat and watch football together at Blarney Pub & Grill following the game on Sunday. The crowd brought a new energy to the University area, but business owners and police said they didn’t experience anything unusual.

Vikings descend on campus bars Vikings u from Page 1

After renovations kept the bar’s doors closed for more than a year, Sally’s Saloon brought back business on Sunday at the intersection of Walnut Street Southeast and Washington Avenue Southeast.

Even though the business’ storefront is still under constr uction, owner Brian Asmus threw a tailgate party outside.

While hamburgers sizzled on the grill and beer flowed, Asmus said he put the impromptu block party together in preparation for the Vikings crowd.

Down Washington Avenue Southeast, Campus Pizza and Pasta buzzed with the purple and yellow

crowd. A Vikings jersey spor ting former Gophers quar terback MarQueis Gray’s jersey number peeked out through the sea of fans.

“It’s a lot busier than a normal Sunday,” said Dave Koch, Campus Pizza and Pasta’s general manager.

Campus Pizza and Pasta wasn’t the only campusarea location that noticed a r ush. Stub and Herbs was so busy that the manager moved to the kitchen to help cook for the NFL devotees.

team’s fans making their way to local watering holes.

A purple and yellow crowd settled down for beer and postgame entertainment at Blar ney Pub and Grill at about 5:30 p.m.

Peering up at the sizable television screens positioned above, the mass of people sipped their drinks and watched the Green Bay Packers str uggle against the New York Jets.

Aside from purple and yellow replacing Minnesota’s maroon and gold, there were other dif ferences between the Sunday and Saturday crowds — the Vikings brought an older mix of people than Gopher game days typically do, Blarney owner Mike Mulrooney said.

Mulrooney said he was ver y happy with the

‘It’s just business as usual’

As its name suggests, Stadium Village may as well be in TCF Bank Stadium’s backyard. But Vikings spillover reached Dinkytown, too, with the

V ikings crowd, though a scuf fle outside the bar briefly distracted him.

“It’s just business as usual,” he said. “It’s more than a nor mal Sunday, sure, but it’s a lot like Gopher games, [and] we are staf fing it about the same as we do a Gopher crowd.”

Multiple local business owners echoed Mulrooney’s sentiment, saying it’s just a different arena.

“It is not a matter of reinventing the wheel,” Koch said.

On the law enforcement side, Minneapolis police sent additional of ficers to the area, but public information of ficer John Elder seemed undaunted before the weekend began.

“We dealt with Vikings games when they were at the dome,” Elder said.

U, state want more disabled employees PERCENTAGE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH A DISABILITY WHO WERE EMPLOYED AGE 16 AND OLDER

’06

’07

’08

’09

’10

’11

26.7%

21.7%

26.9%

21.5%

27.8%

21.8%

32.4%

25.4%

31.5%

25.0%

32.7%

25.6%

As a new state directive aims to increase the proportion of state employees with disabilities, the University of Minnesota is hoping to do the same.

Gov. Mark Dayton’s executive order issued last month would affect the future of Minnesota’s approximately 40,000 employees by requiring state agencies to design more inclusive recruitment and hiring tools, invest in additional human resources personnel and submit progress reports.

While the University would not be directly affected by the directive, the institution has a new affirmative action plan in the works that would include numerical goals regarding employees with disabilities for the first time.

Both initiatives call for at least 7 percent of employees to be people with disabilities, and Dayton specifically requires the change by 2018. But unlike the state’s mandate, the University’s plan doesn’t have a concrete deadline and calls for that proportion to be reflected across dif ferent employee groups, like management and faculty and staff members.

MINNESOTA

29.1%

U.S.

BY KEVIN KARNER kkarner@mndaily.com

23.0%

Both want people with disabilities to make up 7 percent of their employees.

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SOURCE: AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY 2006-12

“There’s a bias in our society towards people with disabilities, and if you’re not keeping track of things and being held accountable, you’ll forget about them,” said Galen Smith, co-facilitator of the Twin Cities chapter of ADAPT, an advocacy group for people with disabilities.

About 10 percent of state employees had disabilities in 1999. But by 2013, that number fell to about 3 percent.

One University student, Edward Genereux, said he’s pleased with the state’s directive because he sees himself in a government position in the future.

Genereux, who’s functionally autistic, said he plans to work for the government as a demographic analyst.

So far, the geographic

information science master’s student said he hasn’t landed an internship in his field.

Although Genereux said he doesn’t think his disability has affected his employment prospects with the University, he feels it was a factor in some jobs that turned him down.

Genereux said he isn’t worried about future employment, as long as he can find an internship that could lead to a job.

As a recipient of federal funds and an institution working for government agencies, the University of Minnesota is required to have workplace policies that meet federal affirmative action guidelines that address hiring people of color, women, people with disabilities and military veterans, said Michael O’Day, assistant

director of the school’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action.

The new policy is a shift from the present, O’Day said.

Currently, the institution doesn’t specifically gather data on employees with disabilities. The new form the school would use, prescribed by the Department of Labor, would rely on self-disclosure and self-identification.

O’Day said his office is in the data collection phase, adding that the new affirmative action policy should be complete early next year.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 56.7 million citizens had disabilities in 2010, which means at that time, people with disabilities made up almost one in five people nationwide.

But their unemployment rate is more than twice the national average of those without disabilities, hovering near 13 percent as of August.

Smith believes the unemployment situation facing people with disabilities often boils down to fear of the unknown —specifically, the steps employers would need to take to legally accommodate a person with a disability.

“Oftentimes it comes down to lack of familiarity,” Smith said. “The governor’s directive was about training also, and I hope that in and of itself will make a difference in hiring — to make it less scary or overwhelming for employers.”

Kerry: US open to talks with Iran on Islamic state

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PARIS — As more than two dozen nations pledged Monday to help Iraq fight the Islamic State militants, the United States said it was open to talking to Iran about a role in resolving the crisis, despite Washington’s earlier opposition to Tehran even attending the conference.

U.S. Secretar y of State John Kerr y ruled out any militar y coordination with Iran, which in the end was not

invited to Paris.

“That doesn’t mean that we are opposed to the idea of communicating to find out if they will come on board, or under what circumstances, or whether there is the possibility of a change,” Kerry told a small group of reporters.

France and Iraq see Shiitepowerhouse Iran as an interlocutor who could bring its influence to bear in the region against the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group, but some Arab states, like Saudi

Arabia, disagree.

The U.S. opposed a place for Iran at the conference. But Tehran, which has political and military influence with its neighbor Iraq, still managed to be part of the conversation.

The absence of Iran underscored the conflicting sensitivities and complex politics in the region as Western countries seek to battle the Islamic State group, which has taken control of large parts of Iraq and Syria.

The meeting of foreign

ministers from Asia, the Middle East and the West was a first step toward deciding who does what in a multilayered of fensive against the Islamic State group. As envisioned by France and Iraq, the effor t would include intensifying airstrikes, cutting off financing, and helping Baghdad cope through humanitarian aid and reconstr uction. There would be no combat troops on the ground, however.

male students this summer to gauge their opinions on the issue.

Eighteen men discussed topics chosen by MSA, which included how alcohol, masculinity, consent and bystander intervention apply to sexual assault on campus. The University’s Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education worked with MSA to form the questions.

MSA Communications Director Drew Coveyou said the par ticipants consistently referenced a “gray area” when it came to situations involving alcohol and were unsure what constitutes consent, which is a problem MSA wants to address.

He said the main purpose of the focus groups was to help form and create MSA’s sexual assault prevention campaign, which will likely roll out in April.

Stangler said information collected from the focus groups will also give direction to the student government while it creates sexual assault prevention training sessions for student groups.

Additionally, Coveyou said MSA may hold more focus groups or create other ways to talk with students about sexual assault this year.

The group also wants to address how the campus’ greek community can take action against sexual assault.

One of the four focus groups was made up of entirely greek men, and Coveyou said their feedback will be helpful when working together in the future.

Inter frater nity Council President Cam Schilling said it was impor tant that men were a par t of the conversation regarding sexual assault. He said many fraternity chapters already take advantage of resources at the Aurora Center regarding sexual assault prevention.

SEXUAL ASSAULT

BY THE NUMBERS

183 clients TO THE AURORA CENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT

5,236 reports

PER YEAR EXPECTED AT THE U OF M IF 1 IN 5 COLLEGE WOMEN ARE SEXUALLY ASSAULTED

26,179 women

UMN-TWIN CITIES FEMALE POPULATION AS OF 2013 SOURCES: OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH, THE AURORA CENTER

Schilling noted that the University’s greek community is only a portion of the student population and said it’s critical that all areas of the campus address sexual assault.

Aurora Center director Katie Eichele said having students work to combat the issue is an impor tant par t of sexual assault prevention because they have a stronger influence on their peers than school administrators.

She said the recent national attention directed at the problem is due to a combination of student activism, new sexual assault research and increased political attention.

Eichele also said conversation has shifted from a focus on women protecting themselves against sexual assault to increasing awareness about bystanders’ role and engaging more men in the discussion.

“It is especially important that we understand this isn’t just a women’s issue,” she said. “It’s ever yone’s issue.”

Stangler said it was impor tant that the MSA research focused on men, but she added that the conversation regarding sexual assault prevention will expand to include ever yone on campus.

“Ultimately, our goal is to get as many people informed and aware as possible,” Stangler said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Wis. election officials scramble on voter ID

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin election of ficials were scrambling Monday to deal with a federal appeals cour t’s ruling reinstating the requirement that voters show photo identification when casting ballots.

The law had been on hold, after being in effect only for the low-turnout Febr uar y 2012 primar y, following a series of court orders blocking it. But a three-judge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Cour t of Appeals in Chicago, just hours after hearing oral arguments, said late Friday that the state could proceed with implementing the law while it weighs the merits of the case.

The decision came after a federal judge’ ruling in April struck down the law as an unconstitutional burden on poor and minority voters who may lack the required identification.

The biggest immediate issue is what to do about more than 11,800 absentee ballots that have already been requested, and perhaps returned, without the voter showing the required identification, Gover nment Accountability Board spokesman Reid Magney said Monday.

The law requires people to submit photocopies of their IDs when requesting absentee ballots by mail, something that those who made their requests before Friday’s ruling didn’t have to do.

In Milwaukee, the state’s largest city, about 8,000

absentee ballots were requested but have not yet been mailed to voters, said Neil Albrecht, who’s in charge of elections there.

Under the law, they have to be sent by Thursday, he said.

“We’re all in a holding pattern right now waiting for clarification,” Albrecht said.

The stor y is much the same in Green Bay, where about 1,500 requested absentee ballots are sitting in the mailroom, said city clerk Kris Teske.

Magney said elections of ficials are discussing what steps to take and will release more information soon. One issue being discussed is what clerks need to do to communicate with voters with absentee ballots, Magney said.

The Gover nment Accountability Board told clerks Friday not to mail out any more absentee forms until it gets instr uctions about what forms to send so voters comply with the law.

The board has already posted information on its website about the law, including the types of IDs that will be acceptable at the polls on Nov. 4. Militar y and permanent overseas voters are exempt from the requirement.

A total of 34 states have passed laws requiring voters to show some form of identification at the polls and 32 of those were in force as of Friday, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Wisconsin would be among nine states with the strictest photo ID laws, the group said.