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A decision by the high court legalized same-sex marriage in five states on Monday.

BY JOHN THOMAS jthomas@mndaily.com

Same-sex marriage is legal for the majority of country as of Monday.

The U.S. Supreme Cour t declined to hear appeals from five states that sought to keep same-sex marriage prohibited, surprising most obser vers. The decision immediately legalized gay marriage in Wisconsin, Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia.

University of Minnesota experts say the Supreme Court’s decision could put federal legalization of gay marriage on hold for years.

“They have effectively delayed the point where we’ll have a uniform national legal outcome on this issue,” said Kathleen Hull, a sociology associate professor at the University.

Hull said everyone on both sides of the

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The WaHu apartment complex undergoes construction on Sept. 28. CPM Companies owns at least five completed or under-construction housing complexes in the University area, and all of them except WaHu are stick-built.

In the recent student housing boom near campus, developers have often opted to use wood over steel or concrete.

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use when constructing housing for hun-

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

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many of the University of Minnesota-

area’s newest apartments.

down to cost and resource availability.

In the recent wave of near-campus construction, wood has emerged as the mate-

Slender wood pillars and a sheath of ply-

rial of choice for many developers, who say

wood, or a similar material, wrap some of

the product is more cost-effective, easier

the rooms inside housing complexes like

to use and just as structurally sound as any

the Marshall, the Knoll and the Elysian.

other material.

Other new complexes are made of concrete or steel.

An interim coach will take over after the old one resigned after investigations of her behavior.

BY DAVID NELSON dnelson@mndaily.com

dreds of University students often comes

ong, thin pieces of wood hold up

The now-formulaic “stick-built” constr uction style — with retail space on

The decision about which material to

the bottom floors with 100 or 200 rooms

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The University of Minnesota women’s gymnastics team is under new leadership following the resignation of former head coach Meg Stephenson, who left Aug. 28 after federal and school investigations into her behavior with team members.

On Tuesday, athletics director Norwood Teague officially named Jenny Hansen the interim head coach for the 2014-15 season.

She has ser ved as a coach for the team since 2007, and she has helped lead the program following Stephenson’s resignation.

“I’m excited for the opportunity to lead this program as it is one I have great passion for as both an alumna and member of the coaching staf f,” Hansen said in a u See HANSEN Page 7

Targeted programs could stop terror recruitment City and neighborhood leaders are working to boost resources for Cedar-Riverside youth.

BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com

After months of scrutiny surrounding terrorist organizations’ recruitment in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, residents and city leaders are calling for more community resources and youth programs.

Local policymakers say they’re working to provide more ser vices in the area, but

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some residents say neighborhood groups are already doing the best they can to combat youth isolation with their limited funds.

The FBI collected information in June about Cedar-Riverside residents who may be at risk of leaving the countr y to fight overseas.

Ward 6 City Councilman Abdi Warsame, who represents part of Cedar-Riverside, said he’s currently in talks with local politicians about supporting current educational and athletics programs in the area and creating new ones.

“They need to be tailor-made,” he said.

“The solution isn’t to throw money at [the

neighborhood].”

Warsame said he advocates for hiring more East African police officers and firefighters, a policy he said would provide jobs for Cedar-Riverside residents.

The city should also support local community colleges and trade schools to create opportunities for neighborhood residents, he said.

Warsame said the city, the county, the state and local groups need to work together to address underlying problems.

“The question is, ‘How do we get all the u See YOUTH Page 3

Nice Ride adding keys Key kiosks aiming to make the bike sharing service easier to use will hit campus in April.

BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com

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Freshman Cally Ahlin picks out a Nice Ride bicycle at the kiosk outside of Coffman Union for her ride home on Friday afternoon.

A first-of-its-kind key kiosk system could soon make Nice Ride bicycles a more convenient transportation choice than before.

Nice Ride stations on the University of Minnesota campus and across the Twin Cities will get new key-dispensing kiosks come April, an appeal to users looking to evade the current five-digit code system for checking out bikes. Students say the key system will streamline the service, provided they can stomach a small extra fee.

The Twin Cities’ bike-share program, which rents public bikes for short commutes, began in 2010 and has since been most popular at its Coffman Union location,

Nice Ride Marketing Director Anthony Ongaro said.

Currently, Nice Ride offers a $6 pass for 24 hours and a $15 pass for 30 days of access, both of which require the biker to insert a credit card and retrieve a five-digit code every 30 minutes to avoid additional usage fees. Bikers can also purchase a oneyear membership online for $65, which allows for 60 minutes of riding time and includes a key sent in the mail.

The change in spring will allow passholders to instantaneously receive a key at the kiosk that users keep, Ongaro said, for an extra $3 fee. Riders can insert the key into a receptor next to any bike and go, he said, avoiding the kiosk completely.

While the keys will be optional, he said, they’ll be faster for checking out a bike than the five-digit codes. u See BIKES Page 4

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OMAHA, Neb. — An American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia stepped off a jet Monday under his own power on his way to a Nebraska hospital where he will be treated for the disease in a specialized containment unit.

At the bottom of the jet’s steps, Ashoka Mukpo was loaded onto a stretcher for the ambulance ride to the Nebraska Medical Center.

Mukpo, 33, was working as a freelance cameraman for NBC News when he became ill last week. He is the fifth American with Ebola to return to the U.S. for treatment during the latest outbreak, which the World Health Organization estimates has killed more than 3,400 people.

Mukpo’s parents said they tried to talk him out of going to Liberia last

month, but he told them he wanted to report on the severity of the epidemic.

“I told him I thought he was crazy,” said his father, Dr. Mitchell Levy.

“And I begged him from a mother’s perspective. I said, ‘Please don’t go,’” Diana Mukpo said. “But there was nothing to do. He was determined.”

Before returning to Liberia last month, Mukpo had lived there for two years while working as a researcher for the Sustainable Development Institute, a nonprofit focused on the concerns of workers in mining camps outside Monrovia. He only returned home to Providence, Rhode Island, in May. It’s not clear how Mukpo was infected, but Levy said it may have happened when he helped clean a vehicle someone died in.

On Monday, his symptoms of fever and nausea

still appeared mild, Levy said.

During his treatment, his parents will have to rely on a video chat system in his hospital room to communicate with him.

Meanwhile in Texas, a Liberian man with Ebola who started showing symptoms while visiting the U.S. remained in critical condition at a Dallas hospital.

Texas Gov. Rick Perr y said he would create a state task force to ensure Texas develops a rapid-response plan if an outbreak develops in the state.

Perry also called on federal officials to implement screening procedures at all U.S. points of entr y. He said screeners should take travelers’ temperature and conduct other assessments to determine their overall health.

Doctors at the Nebraska isolation unit — the largest of four in the U.S. — will

evaluate Mukpo before determining how to treat him. They said they will apply the lessons learned while treating American aid worker Rick Sacra, who was allowed to return home to Massachusetts after three weeks, on Sept. 25.

Sacra received an experimental drug called TKMEbola, as well as two blood transfusions from another American aid worker who recovered from Ebola at an Atlanta hospital. The transfusions are believed to help a patient fight off the virus because the sur vivor’s blood carries antibodies for the disease.

In Dallas, the Liberian man was listed in critical condition. Thomas Eric Duncan has been hospitalized at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital since Sept. 28. He is receiving an experimental medication called brincidofovir.

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WASHINGTON — Democrats are pumping more money into competitive House races to protect four incumbents in Minnesota, Illinois and New York while cutting back spending on once-promising takeover opportunities in California, Pennsylvania and Michigan that have diminished four weeks to midterm elections.

The party also is increasing its spending on two Republican-held seats in Nebraska and Iowa that represent some of the Democrats’ best chances to win on GOP turf, a campaign official said Monday.

Republicans are expected to pad their majority on Nov. 4 as President Barack Obama’s low approval ratings in the sixth year of his tenure remain a drag on Democrats who are trying to mitigate the losses. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has outpaced its GOP counterpart in fundraising, and the party has increased its advertising spending $12.5 million on top of its initial $43.5 million ad buy earlier this year.

House Republicans currently hold 233 seats to 199 for the Democrats with three vacancies.

The shift in spending underscores the challenges for Democrats, who early on set their sights on GOP incumbents in California, New York and Illinois as well as open seats in Pennsylvania and Michigan but have been forced to bail in a number of races.

Democrats hope to knock out eight-term Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska, who is struggling to recover from comments he made during last year’s government shutdown about keeping his salary. Democrats also are trying to capture an open seat in Iowa, where former state Sen. Staci Appel faces David Young, who has worked as Republican Sen. Charles Grassley’s chief of staff.

BOSTON — A prosecutor told a jury Monday that a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lied repeatedly to the FBI during the investigation into the deadly attack, while the friend’s lawyer said he was a frightened 19-year-old whose memory was clouded by heavy marijuana use.

The starkly different descriptions of Robel Phillipos were presented during opening statements at his federal trial. Phillipos, 21, of Cambridge, is charged with lying to the FBI about being in suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s dorm when two other friends removed Tsarnaev’s backpack and other potential evidence.

Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin told the jury that Phillipos “created a fiction” about his movements the night of April 18, 2013, three days after the bombing and hours after the FBI released photos of Tsarnaev and his brother as suspects.

Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two bombs exploded near the marathon finish line.

Tsarnaev has pleaded not guilty to 30 federal charges and is awaiting a trial scheduled to begin in January. He could face the death penalty if convicted. His brother, Tamerlan, was killed in a shootout with police several days after the bombing.

Capin said Phillipos and two friends entered Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth after the photos were released. He said Phillipos saw the men remove the backpack and later said, “Do what you have to do” when one of them said he thought he should get rid of it.

Capin said Phillipos told a string of lies to the FBI during several interviews until he finally confessed to being in Tsarnaev’s dorm room and seeing the men remove the backpack, which contained fireworks that had been emptied of their explosive powder.

“He understood the significance of seeing those in Tsarnaev’s dorm room,” Capin said.

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Fed grant to fund new bus shelters Metro Transit will work to decide where to apply the funds.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

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People wait in a bus shelter in front of Coffman Union on a rainy Thursday evening. Metro Transit will use federal funding to improve some existing shelters and build new ones throughout the Twin Cities.

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organizations working together?’” said Phil Kelly, executive director of the West Bank Community Coalition. “Right now, we’re not all working together.”

The Brian Coyle Center, a community gathering place for Cedar-Riverside residents, already has youth programs designed to give middleschool- and high-school-aged students business experience.

But some community servants say more needs to be done.

“We don’t have adequate ser vices,” said Mohamed Jama, general director of the Cedar Riverside Youth Council. “These are very ambitious kids. They want to get college preparedness, but most fall through the cracks.”

Some people who come from war-torn areas may have missed a few years of school, and they might not be able to compete with other students, Coyle Center director Amano Dube said.

“There’s no way they can think about high school, so they have identity crises,” he said. “When kids don’t have meaningful opportunities, they end up doing whatever makes them feel like, ‘This is my place. ’ ” That place may be among terrorist organizations, Dube said, though he stressed that most Cedar-Riverside residents know nothing about recruitment in the area.

Most people in the area hear about recruitment from the media, he said, not from each other. Dube hadn’t heard of any tangible evidence that people in the area have left to fight for terrorist organizations.

Although there’s an existing push to offer more resources for youth in the neighborhood, some organizations say they don’t have enough funding to succeed.

A new grant from the Minnesota Vikings will implement the Cedar-Riverside Explorers program, which connects young people with local colleges for on-campus programs and events.

Student from those colleges and other organizations are also participating in the Match Up Teen Program, a new service that will start this month, pairing high school students with university tutors.

But because of a lack of continued funding, Jama said the area’s programs often fizzle out.

Though he’s optimistic about most youth programs, Jama said, he sees many that exist for only a month or so before they run out of resources.

It’s a common problem for the neighborhood, Dube said, adding that the Brian Coyle Center mostly relies on private donations and volunteers.

“Compared to the density of the population of kids, our resources are limited,” he said.

The Coyle Center serves more than 300 K-12 students every year, he said.

Dube said youth programs will work in the short term, but long-term economic development will make the ultimate difference.

Employment, leadership opportunities and a stable home will help prevent radicalization and terrorist recruitment, he said.

“If you do all that,” Dube said, “nobody will think about shooting each other or leaving the country to commit crimes against humanity.”

Twin Cities’ hospitals prepare and train for potential Ebola cases

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota hospitals are among those around the countr y making sure they’re prepared to handle any potential cases of Ebola.

Hennepin County Medical Center already had a 4-hour Ebola preparedness drill planned before the case in Dallas surfaced last week. Organizers tell Minnesota Public Radio News most of the lessons learned from the drill are minor.

But there was a key issue that emerged, they said. HCMC discovered a communication gap in its electronic medical records system. Crucial questions that triage nurses ask patients about fever and travel histor y weren’t easily visible in electronic medical charts for all health providers to see, according to Dr. John Hick, HCMC’s medical director for emergency preparedness.

That could potentially cause a situation similar to the communication gaps that caused a Texas hospital to mistakenly send home a

patient who had Ebola.

“It wasn’t necessarily flagging on our electronic board,” said Hick. “So we’re working with Epic, our electronic health record, to create a flag for that patient so there’s an alert on that patient when their chart is opened. That’s something I think we’ve learned already from experiences that others are having.”

Triage nurses at HCMC are expected to pass along important travel details verbally to emergency room physicians and nurses if they suspect a patient has a highly infectious disease. If that doesn’t happen, it’s important to be able to rely on the electronic health record as a backup, Hick said.

“Communications errors happen, and it’s a matter of tr ying to make sure you drop the forks and not the china,” he added.

The Minnesota Department of Health has been encouraging hospitals to post more signs in their emergency depar tments and clinics reminding patients to disclose if they’ve traveled in the past 21 days.

make some improvements.”

Of ficials hope to build 150 new shelters, Kerr said, and add improvements like heating, lighting and transit information to 75 existing locations.

Metro Transit hasn’t finalized which spots will face new construction and improvement, but a map showing potential areas for enhancements includes broad swaths of north and central Minneapolis, as well as central St. Paul and suburbs such as Brooklyn Park.

Report finds hazards at UMore The U doesn’t expect the findings to delay development plans for the 5,000-acre land.

BY CHRISTOPHER AADLAND caadland@mndaily.com

Cr umbling building foundations, scattered debris and contaminated soil are among the main areas of concern listed in a recent report on the University of Minnesota’s UMore Park property.

The Minnesota Department of Health released the report late last month that revealed the land’s potential health hazards left over by a WWII-era gunpowder factory on the site.

B u t t h e U n i v e r s i t y, whose data contributed to the assessment, said it was aware of the potential contaminants and said they won’t yet impact development plans for the area.

The University’s Board of Regents approved plans in 2008 to develop part of the 5,000-acre land located in Dakota County into a self-sustaining community for 20,000 to 30,000 people over the next three decades.

University Ser vices spokesman Tim Busse said the University isn’t in a hurr y to clean up the hazardous materials left behind by the former Gopher Ordnance Works facility until development plans move forward.

“The understanding all along was that there was going to be some work that was going to be needed to be done,” he said.

The report highlighted hazards that could endanger the health and safety

of the public, like soil contaminants such as lead, m e r c u r y, a r s e n i c a n d asbestos.

But the repor t found that the most urgent thing that needs to be addressed is the dangers associated with the remainders of the former gunpowder facilities, like crumbling foundations and exposed pits on the site.

Emily Hansen, coauthor of the assessment and MDH environmental research scientist, said those factors can make it dangerous for onsite workers.

She also said it’s clear that people have trespassed, and a fence should be built to help keep people away from the structures.

The health department recommended that the structures and building materials left from the facilities be removed before there is any cleanup of the chemical contaminants.

Though the report didn’t find any unsafe contamination levels in the area’s groundwater supply, Hansen said, continued monitoring is necessar y to ensure that the water remains safe and that there are no contaminants they haven’t yet tested for.

Although addressing the chemical soil contamination wasn’t a top priority in the report, Hansen said it would be necessar y if people lived on the land.

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A federal grant will help cover the cost of building new-and-improved bus shelters in areas of poverty throughout the Twin Cities beginning next year.

Metro Transit received a $3.26 million grant late last month from the Federal Transit Administration, and the funds will provide the “areas of racially concentrated pover ty” with new, renovated or improved

bus shelters, according to a press release.

The construction likely won’t begin until sometime next year, giving officials time to consult with the affected communities and learn where improvements should be made, Metro Transit spokesman Drew Kerr said.

“We need to go out to the communities and engage them in the conversation,” he said. “After several years of having resources available to maintain, we now get to

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there were children on the site or oppor tunities for more contact with the soil,” she said.

Since the University anticipated finding hazards on the site from the get-go, Busse said, cleanup costs were included in the project’s overall budget.

But to what extent the proper ty will need to be cleaned depends on how its individual parcels are developed in the future, Hansen said.

For now, Busse said there’s no timeline for when the University will implement recommendations for the site or conduct testing on a wider scale.

“Much like remediation, any additional testing or investigation will be

performed as needed,” he said. “If land use or ownership changes, then obviously we’d do more investigation.”

Although some cleanup will be required for the project to move forward, there shouldn’t be any delays with the long-term plan, Busse said.

University Regent John Frobenius, who was on the board when it approved the initial development plans, said though it’s unknown how the report will af fect development plans, the University should be cautious when spending money on the property.

“I for one am hopeful the University can limit its capital expenditures in that area,” he said.

Pope Francis’ sex abuse panel makes progress

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ sex abuse commission has made new progress after languishing for much of the past year.

It approved its legal statutes, proposed new members and divided up work to focus on reaching out to sur vivors, holding bishops accountable and keeping pedophiles out of the priesthood, The Associated Press has learned.

The commission met over the past weekend for the third time since it was announced last December.

While Francis’ other exper t commissions looking into Vatican finance and administration worked at a frenzied pace through 2014 and finished their projects in recent months, the sex abuse commission never seemed to get off the ground. It lacked organization, a clear mission statement, of fice space, funding and a full membership roster.

But commission member Marie Collins, herself a sex abuse survivor, told AP on Monday that much progress was made this weekend. It was the first meeting since Francis put the Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor, Monsignor Robert Oliver, on the job full-time as the commission’s secretary, or No. 2.

Headed by Boston Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the nine commission members — four of whom are women — approved their

provisional statutes laying out the scope of their work that will now be put to Francis for approval, Collins said. They also finalized a list of other member candidates whom Francis must approve: There will be fewer than 20 comissioners altogether, adding experts from other fields and geographic locations and including another survivor of abuse.

The commission will soon have permanent office space and members have divided themselves into working groups focusing on a laundr y list of issues, including training of priests, education outreach, accountability, guidelines and policy issues and reaching out to survivors so their input to the commission can be heard, Collins said.

“Listening to their views on what is wrong and what needs to be put right has to feed into the overall learning,” Collins said.

Francis named the initial members in March after coming under criticism from victims groups for having ignored and underestimated the sex abuse issue. The aim of the commission is to provide the church with the best advice and practices on how to keep children safe, how to keep the priesthood free of abusers and how to care for victims.

O’Malley has pledged that the commission will develop “clear and effective protocols” to hold accountable bishops who covered

up for abusive priests.

Collins said she had been fr ustrated earlier in the year with the slow pace of work on the commission, but was now more hopeful after the weekend’s progress.

“I want to see change as fast as possible. But on the other hand if we’re going to bring in change, it has to be the right change and it has to be well thought out and it has to be something that will last,” she said.

“There’s no point in rushing something into place and then finding it has flaws.”

In July, Francis had his first encounter with victims of abuse, meeting individually with a half-dozen men and women for more than three hours. Collins helped organize the meeting, attended one of the encounters and said she hopes Francis would meet with other survivors in the future.

“No matter how much you read, or learn or know about abuse, nothing brings it home to you like speaking to someone who has actually experienced it, and hearing what it has done to their lives and their family,” Collins said.

Collins said that after witnessing Francis with the sur vivors, she is confident that he now “gets it.”

The commission met just as Francis convened bishops from around the world to tackle a related issue: church teaching and Catholic family life. Francis

opened the two-week meeting by urging the bishops to speak their minds without fear about contentious issues like contraception, gays, marriage and divorce.

The run-up to the meeting has been marked by mudslinging between conser vative and progressive churchmen over issues such as whether Catholics who divorce and remarr y without an annulment can receive Communion.

Church teaching says such Catholics are living in sin and cannot receive the sacraments.

A top synod official, Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungar y, said one answer to the problem was to simplify the annulment process, suggesting that the Vatican might actually endorse the previously taboo call to make it easier to get one.

Divorcing couples should better know how marriages can be annulled since “it does not seem hazardous ... to believe that many marriages celebrated in the church may be invalid,” Erdo said in the keynote speech.

Francis has quoted a former archbishop of Buenos Aires as saying half the marriages celebrated in the church are invalid, primarily because the bride and groom didn’t fully know what they were getting into or appreciate that marriage is a life-long commitment.

Erdo said doctrine was not up for debate but that the church must better discern pastoral responses on a case by case basis.

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U police deals with fleeing students Also, two student bystanders tried to help a man who was being harassed.

BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com

Police foot chases have become more common in recent weeks because of the University of Minnesota Police Department’s tightened enforcement of alcohol violations.

Officers will sustain their push to crack down on underage drinking and other alcohol-related violations until temperatures drop in the upcoming weeks, Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said.

Students are particularly prone to fleeing from police during alcohol-related stops and citations, Miner said. It’s a misdemeanor to flee from an officer, he said, and that charge is added atop any other citations.

“People are not always using their best judgment when they’re under the influence of alcohol,” Miner said. “They might think that they can get away.”

He said in these cases evasion is unlikely, pointing to a

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recent case in which officers caught up with a University student who had a blood alcohol content of 0.303 percent.

“Generally, you’re not able to run at marathon speeds when you’re at that level of intoxication,” Miner said.

allegedly shoplifted a sandwich from the University Avenue Southeast Metro Petro gas station on Wednesday, Miner said.

He is not affiliated with the University and is presumed homeless, Miner said.

Over the past few weeks, the man has collected a handful of citations.

He was arrested in a bathroom stall at the Commons Hotel for trespassing on Sept.

10, Miner said, and again on Sept. 25 at the Washington Avenue Southeast Starbucks.

Officers mull tactics for repeat offenders

For the third time in three weeks, UMPD officers arrested a repeat offender of violent crimes against law enforcement.

The 21-year-old man

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Obstruction of legal process 1:15 a.m. Sunday Loring Pasta Bar An off-duty Minneapolis police officer helped building security escort a woman out of the restaurant, according to a police report. When she returned, the officer cited her, but she refused to leave.

When the officer attempted to arrest her, she punched the off-duty officer in the face four times, the report said, and was arrested and booked at Hennepin County Jail.

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Obstruction of legal process 1:30-2:30 a.m. Sunday Fourth Street Southeast Minneapolis police responded to a loud house party early Sunday morning, according to a police report, and were met at the door by an “uncooperative” individual who is not affiliated with the University.

Officers had to use “takedown techniques” to arrest him, the report said.

Minneapolis police public information Ofoicer John Elder said there are a “myriad” of department-approved techniques officers can use to get individuals on the ground for an arrest.

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In two of his three arrests, the man grew violent with police.

He was wrestled to the ground at Starbucks, Miner said. And most recently, police had to resort to using a Taser and pepper spray after the man attempted to flee officers on Wednesday, he said.

“This is fairly unusual to have somebody that’s this physically aggressive with officers,” Miner said.

UMPD reached out to the Minneapolis City Attorney’s office to seek a more severe

punishment for the repeat offender. Miner said one offered solution is to classify the man as a “top offender,” which would allow prosecutors to give any of the man’s future cases extra attention.

Dinkytown assault Two University students and roommates said they were walking home from a night out early Thursday morning when they encountered a group of men harassing a man in Dinkytown.

From across the street,

Ryan Kennedy and Gabriel Berlovitz said they saw a group of men loudly insulting an older man at about 1:30 a.m.

The men shoved the individual, yelled obscenities at him and eventually tried to pick him up and put him on a nearby table, Berlovitz said.

Berlovitz and Kennedy then yelled across the street for the men to stop. That’s when Kennedy said he and his friend became the aggressive group’s target.

“We said, ‘We can’t let you do this,’” Kennedy said.

“Then they crossed the street towards us.”

One of the aggressors swung at Kennedy, landing a solid blow to his face and sending him careening back against the storefront window of Royal Cigar & Tobacco, Berlovitz said. When Kennedy hit the concrete sidewalk, he lost consciousness, he said.

The group then ran away, and police followed their path soon after, Berlovitz said, adding that he stayed to help his friend.

When Kennedy came to, the police had chased down and arrested the assailant but were also assaulted in the process, Kennedy said.

Tiananmen haunts Hong Kong protests

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A promotion for Nice Ride’s “pay-as-you-go key” is displayed on one of its bicycles outside Coffman Union on Friday afternoon.

The keys, which are currently free for Nice Ride members, will be dispensed at station kiosks as early as April.

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Mechanical engineering freshman Erika Beek said she thinks the keys are a good idea because the added time it takes to punch in a code might discourage students from using the bikes.

“It seems really convenient,” she said.

Steve Sanders, alternative transpor tation manager for the University’s Parking and Transpor tation Ser vices, said Nice Ride plays a prominent role in many students’ commutes.

“People can couple their Nice Ride trips with transit trips,” he said.

So far, one key kiosk is in place outside Minneapolis’ Hyatt Regency on Nicollet Mall, Ongaro said. Kiosks will continue to pop up around the Twin Cities starting in April, he said, including one at the Coffman station.

Ongaro also said this technology is the first in the world for bike-share systems, which include Nice Ride and a similar program in Seattle.

Health economics doctoral student Coleman Drake said he has used a Nice Ride key since he purchased a membership online, adding that he enjoys the convenience of avoiding the kiosk each time he needs a bike.

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“[Ther e’s] less time involved in swiping when you do it like that, so it just makes the transaction easier,” he said.

Still, Drake said he feels students will have to get over the additional $3 price change before the key kiosk can take of f on campus.

“I think [the key] makes the experience easier, but I don’t think it changes the initial cost bar rier people have,” he

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said. “Initially, I don’t think it’s going to have that big of an impact.”

Sanders said Nice Ride is working well for members of the University community because they

don’t need to worr y about maintenance and other day-to-day issues that come with owning a bike.

“For getting ar ound campus, you can’t beat it,” Sanders said.

HONG KONG — The legacy of the 1989 crackdown in Tiananmen Square looms larger in Hong Kong than in mainland China, where the Communist Party has virtually erased all public mention of it. In this former British colony, hundreds of thousands attend candlelight vigils each anniversary to commemorate the grim end to the Beijing movement that was vanquished before many of the pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong’s streets were even born.

Hong Kong’s student-led protesters insist they are not challenging communist rule, just details of Beijing’s plans for political reforms in the city.

But many of their elders fear the protesters risk going too far if they stay in the streets in defiance of demands to leave in the biggest challenge to China since it took control of Hong Kong in 1997.

One urging the Hong Kong protesters to bide their time is reform-minded Bao Tong, former aide to thenCommunist Party general secretary Zhao Ziyang, who spent the last 16 years of his life under house arrest after sympathizing with the students who occupied Beijing’s Tiananmen Square to seek democracy on the mainland.

“The seeds have already been sown, and they need time to lie fallow,” Bao wrote in a commentar y Sunday for Radio Free Asia. “Take a break, for the sake of future room to grow. For tomorrow,” wrote Bao, who has been under house arrest himself after spending seven years in prison.

The memories of the June 4, 1989, military assault that ended the sit-ins in Tiananmen, killing hundreds, are vivid among Hong Kong people old enough to have lived through the exhilaration of the protests and the gloom that followed the crackdown.

Many of Hong Kong’s 7.2 million people moved to the city to escape poverty, political pogroms and repression of dissent in the mainland, and they value the city’s democratic, Western-style civil liberties.

Benny Li, 46, was a university student in Shanghai at the time of the Tiananmen protests and has been living in Hong Kong for several years.

“I participated in the 1989 protests because I wanted the same things that Hong Kong people want now. All my friends in my generation, and those younger than us probably, morally support Hong Kong protesters. We

agree with and understand what they are doing,” Li said.

The protesters who have camped in some of the city’s busiest commercial districts for over a week, and the tens of thousands of their supporters who have poured into Hong Kong’s streets, are exercising civil liberties nonexistent in the Chinese mainland, where the government bans public dissent, censors the media and harshly punishes those deemed to be challenging the Communist Party’s monopoly on power.

Hong Kong’s protesters are peacefully condemning China’s decision to require that a committee of mostly pro-Beijing figures screen the candidates for the city’s top leader in the first-ever direct election in 2017. The protesters also have demanded Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying resign.

He has refused.

The protests in Hong Kong, like those in Tiananmen, are a legacy of student and intellectual dissent stretching to the anti-colonial May Fourth movement of 1919.

Jeffrey Huang, 22, was sitting with other protesters in Hong Kong’s Admiralty area, where traffic was blockaded for an encampment festooned with canopies, banners and posters. He said he learned about Tiananmen during secondar y school when teachers talked about it at an assembly marking the June 4 anniversary.

“For us, we believe that democracy will help us improve our lives in general and we think that not having democracy is the cause of many problems in Hong Kong, for example the high property prices,” said Huang, who recently graduated from law studies.

“The government pays much attention to the proper ty developers because they maybe have the power to elect the chief executive,” he said, “and people think if there is more democracy the chief executive and the government will be more accountable to the citizens ... instead of to the privileged class only.”

So far, China’s central gover nment has lashed out at the protests, branding them illegal and saying Leung has its full support in restoring order. But it has left the handling of the crisis to Hong Kong, which has its own legal system and police — a force of 28,500 officers and 4,000 auxiliar y police who at times have appeared hard stretched to keep order with tens of thousands of people in the streets.

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Too much faith in the Internet’s security?

Recent blunders involving user information should make us consider Internet security risks.

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ast week, I received an unsettling email from TCF Bank informing me that I would receive a new card because my old one had been compromised.

In a panic, I r ushed to my nearest branch. The cashier — who was much calmer than I — looked at my account and saw no suspicious charges. She said this is VISA’s standard policy after recent cardhacking scandals at Cub Foods, Home Depot and Target, suggesting that I should monitor my account closely. I chuckled to myself for a moment, remembering that I’d bought groceries at Cub just the day before. Later, I received my new card in the mail, and that was that.

My life had had enough privacy concerns before I read about Facebook’s recent error. The social media giant has admitted to manipulating users’ news feeds for a study on user emotions. The research was conducted on nearly 700,000 users in a one-week span in 2012, without the consent of the individuals studied.

The scariest part of this is that Facebook, with help from two universities, conducted this study two years ago. For two

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years, people were unaware that this research had taken place. That’s the type of power that social media sites like Facebook have.

Last week, JP Morgan Chase filed an SEC-mandated disclosure of details on the company’s substantial summer security breach. More than 76 million households’ data and 7 million small businesses’ data were compromised. Undetected hackers accessed 90 of JP Morgan Chase’s servers for weeks. Fortunately, no financial information or social security numbers were compromised, according to the firm.

We’ve been told that it’s our own responsibility to protect our data. We’re told to change our passwords twice each year and to use a mix of letters, numbers and symbols. Don’t forget to throw in difficult security questions for good measure. Pay with cash at the registers. Manually enter your card number for each online purchase you make, as opposed to allowing the sites to conveniently hold your data. Review all

We’ve been told that it’s our own responsibility to protect our data. of your accounts regularly, at least once or twice each week. Don’t open email attachments from strangers.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. Use this opportunity to talk with family about safe Internet use.

Of course, the safest way to protect your information is to go of f the grid. While that’s certainly a nice thought, it’s nothing more than a pie in the sky to most Americans today.

We need the web and its connectivity in dozens of aspects of our lives. I’d be all but incapable of performing my job without the Internet, and this discussion would reach significantly fewer readers if the Minnesota Daily didn’t publish online. The Internet is part of my life. It is part of all our lives, and it will be an even greater part of our lives in the years to come. It is our responsibility to protect ourselves.

Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

DAILY DISCUSSION Response to ‘Grad and professional degree tuition freeze raises questions’

As I said during my inter view for the Wednesday Minnesota Daily story titled “Grad and professional degree tuition freeze raises questions,” I fully support the tuition freeze at the graduate and professional degree level — not to mention the undergraduate level.

The work University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler is doing on behalf of our students and the University when it comes to holding the line on tuition is paramount.

Further, while the article insinuated that I believe the public’s role in higher education should decrease, I in fact hold the exact opposite opinion and said as much during my conversation with the reporter.

I applaud the cost-cutting initiatives enacted by the University’s administration and take pride in our cost-cutting efforts at the College of Design.

Part of my responsibility as a dean is to balance our budget. While the article draws a connection among college budgets, a tuition freeze and our ability to excel, I didn’t intentionally draw such a connection during the interview — nor do I believe one exists.

Our students, at all levels, deserve a quality education that doesn’t have severe, negative impacts on their financial future. Partnering with the state to hold the line on tuition is not only the right thing to do for our students, but for our state and region as a whole. The future of the community at large depends on it.

College of Design Dean Thomas Fisher

Council votes unanimously on militar y actions

We applaud the decision of the Minneapolis City Council to require public notification before allowing military training exercises.

Acknowledging distress that certain residents experienced from military helicopters flying overhead at odd hours, we feel that it’s common courtesy to notify those who live nearby that they’ll have a loud disruption in their lives. This will allow affected residents to plan accordingly, which seems like a fair compromise.

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Once again, the University of Minnesota has decided money trumps values.

An outside rich donor decides to bring an event to campus, serious questions are raised about whether it is appropriate to host such an event, and the University sells out.

Last spring, it was for mer U.S. Secretar y of State Condoleezza Rice speaking at Nor throp Auditorium, with University President Kaler conspicuously appearing by her side while her arguably criminal past conduct was ignored. A major donor to the University paid $150,000 to bring her here, and the University clearly did not want to displease that rich donor.

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EDITORIALS Awareness week set before game

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ast week, Vice President for Equity and Diversity Katrice Albert announced an educational program designed to foster awareness of Native American culture before the Nov. 2 football game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Washington Redskins.

The program, which begins about a week before the football game, is a response to the controversy surrounding the Redskins’ name and mascot, which many people feel are racist, and thus unfit for use at a publicly funded institution.

To design the awareness program, the University of Minnesota consulted the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, the National Coalition Against Racism in Sports and Media, and others.

The awareness week includes a documentary film about Native American sports mascots and a discussion panel addressing different perspectives of the Washington naming controversy.

Although the University cannot stop the Washington Redskins from playing at TCF Bank Stadium, University President Eric Kaler has expressed a desire to prohibit the team’s name from being used in promotional and game-day materials. However, the stadium will admit fans wearing Washington football gear on game day.

We commend the University for designing such an inclusive awareness program. It would have been easy for the school to formally denounce the team’s name and then ignore further discussion. However, the University is making an obvious effort to address both sides of a controversial issue, fulfilling its responsibility as an educational institution.

Diversity week misses the point

L Lea Graber welcomes comments at lgraber@mndaily.com.

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Feast of Nations unites the U

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usic rang from amplified speakers on a stage on Coffman Union’s front plaza as the Feast of Nations celebrated traditional cultural dances, songs and food throughout Saturday afternoon and into the night.

Participants saw traditional Native American dances, Chinese and Indian singers performing in their native languages, a fashion show dedicated to traditional cultural clothing and more.

At the end of the night, participants ate food from countries around the world. It was interesting to see the ways that different cultures celebrate, worship and appreciate art.

Many of the song and dance performances underlined the values of love, friendship and unity.

Although different cultures have different clothing, music or languages, ultimately it seems that we’re not so different from each other.

We may interpret and translate them in our own unique ways, but most Americans value friendship, love and unity just as people from other cultures do.

I feel that people should pay more attention to these types of details. Culture

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and mascot.

To rationalize the use of TCF Bank Stadium for the Minnesota-Washington football game, Kaler explains: “We are leasing the stadium to the Vikings, but our contract does not allow us to dictate their schedule and who they play,” the Minnesota Daily reported yesterday.

Kaler, of course, fails to mention that the University was not forced to lease the stadium.

It made a choice to do so, just as it made a choice to enhance the credibility of Rice by providing the Northrop Auditorium setting — with the visible presence of Kaler and Board of Regents Chair Richard Beeson — and the distribution of advertisements that lauded Rice’s accomplishments.

In the cur rent situation, when the University decided to lease its facility for $250,000 per game, surely it knew that

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influences how we interpret our surroundings. If we can understand other people’s cultures, we can learn to recognize and appreciate the values we share instead of always focusing on our minute differences. This will ultimately make us well-rounded people.

The Feast of Nations proved to be an effective way to promote and share facets of different cultures. Despite the fact that the University of Minnesota hosts only one Feast of Nations per year, the school also hosts many other events that promote appreciation for other cultures, as do the Twin Cities. Everyone should continue to seek out unique traditions other cultures bring, even if it’s only a simple meal or a performance.

Destanie Martin-Johnson welcomes comments at dmartin-johnson@mndaily.com.

When the University decided to lease its facility for $250,000 per game, surely it knew that there was a possibility Washington would be on the schedule. there was a possibility Washington would be on the schedule.

This time, the University is at least providing of ficial University programming that recognizes the offensiveness of the event to some people. With Rice, the University administration made no such equivalent statement.

In both cases, however, the University’s rich donors’ future contributions or present expenditures are the bottom line, so to speak.

eaders at the University of Minnesota hosted what they dubbed the campus’s first “diversity week” last Monday through Friday.

The week aimed to celebrate what campus leaders are already doing to diversify the campus and think of new ways to make the University more welcoming for all students.

While these are worthwhile conversations, they seem to be missing one of the main facets of creating a diverse campus: recruiting a wider variety of students.

Discussions of campus diversity focus on the fact that the student body is 67 percent white and how that statistic affects the University. But by focusing on how we can change things in the short term, we neglect to make larger changes for the future.

If the University truly wants to make its student body more diverse, it must begin to do so at the recruiting level — particularly by targeting undergraduates.

One way to diversify could be to focus more resources on recruiting students from north Minneapolis, rather than targeting the most promising students across the country.

The General College’s shuttering in 2005 and the upcoming closure of the Department of Postsecondary Teaching and Learning aren’t positive signals that the University is taking steps to increase diversity among its undergraduate population — both of these institutions were popular access points for lowincome students and students of color.

We encourage the University to put more resources into recruitment of diverse students and to provide opportunities for them to get into this increasingly selective school.

If more students are sufficiently represented on campus, that will mean a more welcoming environment for all.

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MUSIC

Falling in love with a traveling band

Tennis released their latest album, “Ritual in Repeat,” last month and will be playing at the Fine Line Music Café on Tuesday.

BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

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laina Moore received three law school rejection letters days before she got an offer from a record label with her band, Tennis.

The band consists of Moore and her husband, Patrick Riley, as a singersongwriting duo, alongside dr ummer James Barone.

The trio has released three full-length albums; its most recent, “Ritual in Repeat,” debuted last September.

After returning from a tour with HAIM this year, Tennis embarked on a new tour to promote their work and will play at the Fine Line Music Café with Pure Bathing Culture on Tuesday.

During the creation of the latest album, the band worked with the Black K e y s ’ P a t r i c k C a r n e y, Spoon’s Jim Eno and the Shins’ Richard Swift on separate occasions.

“It’s nice to be able to see our music through

someone else’s eyes,” Moore said. “At the end of the day, we still write all the songs. It feels very selfdetermined, but it’s more like us seeking out a mentoring relationship.”

Their first album, “Cape Dor y,” was a serendipitous success.

Moore and Riley met in college as philosophy majors, and post-graduation, the two decided to take a sailing trip. After ward, they tur ned to music to express the experience, using a 1950s pop theme to parallel their nostalgia for the trip. The collection of songs eventually turned into “Cape Dory.” But starting off, the duo wasn’t aiming for a musical career as an end result.

“We only wrote those songs for ‘Cape Dor y’ because we wanted to commemorate that experience, and now I write songs for myself to feel like I am actualizing some genuine desire I have for artistic expression,” Moore said.

Throughout their time as full-time musicians,

Moor e and Riley have found a reliable collaboration process.

“We kind of separate and we write in a way that fits us, and then when we have a song that’s kind of like halfway formed — maybe 60 percent of the way fleshed out — then we’ll show each other what we have,” Moore said, adding that then they swap pieces to make them complete.

Moore said she thinks of music first, often singing “nonsense syllables until the melody feels right.”

“Bad Girls” from “Ritual in Repeat” was a first-time exception. Moore said she began work on the song after writing the line “Even bad girls can do good things.” The visceral ballad stands out on the album, as it presents an emotional defense of someone who has made poor decisions in the past.

“Definitely to me it’s like a working out of my spiritual identity,” Moore said. “I don’t want it to hit you over the head with

emotion, but I want it to be buried in there, like a nugget of tr uth, the way that I feel like you would come upon any truth in the world.”

Moor e followed her typical process with “Never Work For Free.” She kept her melody in her head for several months until finally sketching out the line that appears in the chorus, “I fell in love with a traveling band.” She said that listening to early ’60s Cher songs inspired her to create a “howly, belty” sound.

“For me, it’s more about the melody, and to me, the lyrics are just a medium for the melody,” she said.

Moore sings and usually plays the keyboard, while Riley primarily plays guitar. Though they are the main brains behind the music, Moore said Barone has been their dr ummer ever since they asked him to help engineer their first album.

The trio is aware of its image as a husband-andwife duo. They poke fun at Barone as the third wheel

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in several of their group por traits, including one with Moore and Riley posing together near a Christmas tree with Barone sitting by himself.

Their sense of humor also comes through in their official band website.

Upon entering the site, the format transforms into a ’90s Windows desktop.

One can click on the folder icons or use the “parodic” star t menu to navigate through tour dates, music and pictures. The theme is complete with a functioning “Minesweeper” application, and spins ever yone for a throwback with the notice: “Please inser t the floppy disk labeled ‘Doom,’ and click OK.” “Our management is afraid that our website is too hard to use and confusing,” Moore said. “Ever yone wants us to change it to just like a basic standard band website, and we refuse.”

Riley first thought of the theme, and Moore’s longtime friend and former roommate used his smarts

to set it up.

“I know that it doesn’t really mirror the sound of our music, but I think it’s more indicative of our generation. We are kind of just this hodgepodge,” Moores said. “We have this rich inheritance of things that we directly grew up with in the ’90s. And then ever y other thing that ever existed, I don’t think anyone feels tied to any era anymore.”

As far as her own future, Moore said that the group plans to continue to promote Tennis’ new album, especially since it has yet to release in Canada and the U.K. Moore said that the band will be “infinity touring — touring until our heads explode, probably.”

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MUSIC

Unleashing the beasts of the animal kingdom The band Filthy Animals stimulate art musically and visually.

BY LAINI DEVIN ldevin@mndaily.com

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igh school friendships come and go, but some just never end. For the Twin Cities-based band Filthy Animals, these relationships are the foundation of the group.

The four-man piece encompasses a funky indie rock style and is preparing for its upcoming show on Wednesday at Honey in Northeast Minneapolis.

Har mony vocals and bass player Ross Hackenmiller said “psychedemia [sic], R&B, classic rock

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and James Brown funk” influence the band.

The movie “American Graf fiti” was the inspiration for the group’s initial band name, Dir ty Birds, which later morphed into Filthy Animals. “ We n e e d e d a n e w name. Filthy Animals kind of stuck out,” lead singer and guitarist Jake Eisenbeis said.

Close friends for years, the band members create their music in a collaborative way. Eisenbeis brings song ideas to the group during rehearsals, and each band member hashes out their parts and contributes ideas.

“A typical r ehearsal for us consists of meeting up — messing around for about an hour — and we’ll

listen to recordings that we’ve made from the previous practices,” Hackenmiller said, “and take notes about things that we can improve upon and other ideas that might occur to us”.

The band has been together for a year and a half, playing all original music and more than 30 songs. “ Wr i t i n g m u s i c a n d writing songs is par t of why we’re a band,” Hackenmiller said. “The creative process itself is why we do it.”

Aside from writing songs, Filthy Animals is a visual arts outlet for Eisenbeis and Hackenmiller.

The two joined forces to cr eate album ar twork, posters and social media

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for the band.

Eisenbeis went to Minnesota State-Mankato for graphic design and printmaking.

“I do a lot of work with ink — a lot of abstract, and I approach it the same way I write music,” Eisenbeis said. “I do a piece that’s mostly ink work, and I give it to Ross. And he’ll add drawings on top.”

Filthy Animals’ upcoming EP will feature distinctive artwork for each song.

“We’re only releasing 150 hard copies, and each CD has individual unique art on them,” Hackenmiller said.

The band hopes to expand its listenership with the release of their new EP, he said.

“So far, we’ve just been

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a local band playing in the Twin Cities, but we would love to get on the road sometime and expand our listening base,” Hackenmiller said.

But the band isn’t ready to completely abandon its local roots just yet.

“I really enjoy Minnesota,” Eisenbeis said. “I have a lot of love for the nature around here. It doesn’t necessarily come through in the lyric writing, but a lot of the ar t will come from the world around me. “ The hard part about expanding a fan base, Eisenbeis said, is getting out there.

“You can make it your life, work as hard as you can, and still nothing will come from it,” he said.

The members of Filthy Animals are striving to make their music stand out through their live per formances in the meantime.

“A lot of it is the writing and the way that we approach the song and deliver,” Esienbeis said. “We tr y to make it our own, and that’s really what I can stand behind. We believe in the songs, and they’re truly us with the writing.”

Filthy Animals and Dylan Mcfarling Band Where Honey, 205 E. Hennepin Ave., Mpls.

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A COACH?

Teague garnered a lot of attention when he haired Richard Pitino as head coach of the men’s basketball program in April 2013.

In his first year at Minnesota, Pitino made significant changes to the team’s style of play. The Gophers played a faster-paced offense and pressing defense.

The Gophers finished 25-13, setting a school record for most victories in a season, while winning the NIT championship.

Now, with a few recruits primed for his style of play and an understanding of what the Gophers can achieve, Pitino’s system seems to be gaining traction in Minnesota.

“If you’re going to play a certain way, you better recruit to it,” Pitino told the Minnesota Daily in June.

Teague appears to have confidence in Pitino’s ability to draw in quality players, too.

“Richard and his staff — they are excellent recruiters,” Teague told the Daily in June.

BY SAM KRAEMER skraemer@mndaily.com

Athletics director Norwood Teague said he’s impressed with the group of coaches he has for the 23 sports teams at the University of Minnesota.

“I cannot be prouder of the group that we have,” Teague said.

Teague said he looks for three traits, among others, in coaching candidates:

integrity, strong recruiting skills and the ability to “develop the men and women off the field, on the field and in future endeavors.”

Teague, now in his third year at Minnesota, has made multiple coaching moves since he was hired.

“It’s a terrific group, and they have us on a great path moving forward,” he said.

BRAD FROST

HUGH MCCUTCHEON

Brad Frost, now in his eighth year as head coach of the women’s hockey team, deserves much credit for the team’s success so far.

Under Frost, the Gophers have reached the national championship the past three seasons, winning back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013.

For Frost, that kind of success starts with recruiting.

“Our recruiting philosophy, and it always has been, is to recruit great people from great families that happen to be good hockey players,” he said.

Senior forward Rachael Bona said Frost and his staff excel in simplifying the lives of student-athletes.

“They make it easy for us, even though it’s a very hard task,” she said.

The coaching staff takes into account the work ethic of potential players.

“We just feel as a staff that if we develop our players as players but not as people, what are we here for?” he said.

Frost said he thinks their process improves his players as people.

“We tell our players and [their] parents that we’re going to develop them as people. We’re going to care about them and stretch them. We’re going to be hard on them when they need it, but they’re going to be better people when they leave here,” he said.

Hugh McCutcheon was extremely qualified for the head coaching position of the Gophers volleyball program.

He coached both the men’s and women’s Olympic volleyball teams for the United States. In 2008, McCutcheon led the men’s team to a gold medal before winning a silver medal at the 2012 London Olympics with the women’s team.

In adjusting to the college game, McCutcheon and his staff seem to have transitioned rather well. Like Frost, he acknowledged the importance of the recruiting process.

“It’s important to recruit with integrity,” he said. “We value the idea of forming relationships with these potential student-athletes.”

For McCutcheon, who’s in his third year at Minnesota, transparency is key. He and his staff are honest with their players, senior Morgan Bohl said.

“They always stress that if we need someone to talk to, we can come to them,” Bohl said. “[McCutcheon] is pretty open with us.”

In developing his student-athletes as better people, McCutcheon said he relies upon the similar principles of success in both life and sports.

“The great thing about sport is that it’s very analogous to life,” he said. “You have to work with your teammates to manage the problem you’re faced with.”

CHUCK MERZBACHER

MARLENE STOLLINGS

As head coach of the women’s tennis team, Merzbacher establishes familiarity with his players from the start.

Merzbacher himself was a member of the men’s tennis team from 1984 to 1986, winning two Big Ten conference titles and three All-Big Ten selections.

Teague hired him in summer 2012.

He uses this past experience in his coaching to understand what the players are encountering.

“Without my opportunity here, I never could have played beyond college,” he said. “We all go through things in our lives that affect our tennis. I feel like I’ve done it all. I feel like I’ve experienced the good and the bad of being an athlete, so I encourage my players to hang in there and stay positive.”

In his recruiting, Merzbacher said it’s important for him to get to know his recruits before signing them.

“When I was hired here, I told my bosses that I just want to know who we’re getting. It’s very important to me,” Merzbacher said. “We need to know who we’re getting because we’re trying to do something special here.”

Merzbacher said he tries to make his players realize the importance of seizing the opportunity they have.

“I kind of lived it, and now I just want to keep enlightening them on what a great opportunity it is to play here and get a degree from here,” he said.

One of Teague’s newer hires is Marlene Stollings, the head coach of the women’s basketball program.

Stollings spent the past two years as head coach of Virginia Commonwealth University. Teague was VCU’s athletics director prior to taking the job at Minnesota, although he did not hire Stollings at VCU. Stollings’ style is quite similar to that of Richard Pitino. Her teams score points — at least 90 points with VCU five times — just like she did when she played, in bunches.

In her home state of Ohio, Stollings holds the record for most career points, among both boys and girls, with 3,514. That’s almost 1,000 more points than LeBron James’ high school career total at 2,657.

But beyond her playing career, Stollings has seen success coaching as well.

“Coach Stollings is a proven head coach, a proven recruiter and at each step in her career, she has improved the program from which she worked big-time,” Teague said at the press conference announcing the hire in April.

At the same press conference, Stollings said “recruiting will be the lifeblood of this program.”

She expressed the need to keep Minnesota’s best players in their home state.

Head volleyball coach

Head women’s hockey coach

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VOLLEYBALL

Volleyball a family affair for Beal Freshman Maddie Beal’s brother and father played volleyball in college.

BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com

Volleyball was not originally in the cards for Gophers freshman Maddie Beal.

When she was younger, the sport wasn’t a priority, despite strong family ties to the game.

The Colorado native tried her hand at a variety of spor ts, including lacrosse, swimming and soccer.

“I loved watching volleyball when I was younger, but it wasn’t really like, ‘This is what I want to do when I’m older,’” Beal said. “I used to think, ‘I never want to play volleyball in college,’ because I wanted to do something different from my family.”

The family tradition was playing college volleyball.

Beal’s older brother, Mitch, is a senior at Ohio State playing volleyball, where their dad played and coached.

Their father, Doug, has had a lifetime of experience with volleyball and is now the CEO of USA Volleyball.

After coaching at Ohio State, Doug went on to play for the U.S. men’s u See VOLLEYBALL Page 8

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Gophers freshman Maddie Beal competes in a match at the Sports Pavilion. Beal’s father is the USA Volleyball CEO.

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release. “I’m looking forward to a season of continued success.”

The promotion follows a year of changing leadership for the program. Former volunteer assistant coach Jim Stephenson — Meg Stephenson’s husband — resigned last fall amid a school-led investigation into his behavior with team members, some of whom allege he sexually harassed gymnasts.

“After careful consideration, this department felt the need to make a change to women’s gymnastics for the good of the students and the program,” Teague said in an Aug. 28 release following Stephenson’s resignation.

Hansen competed for the Gophers from 2000 to 2003. As a competitor, Hansen placed fifth at the 2003 NCAA regional championships with a career-high score on vault of 9.850.

Her 9.925 score on balance beam ranked third at the time among Gophers gymnasts.

As assistant head coach, Hansen focused on the vault, as well as beam and floor routines.

The women’s gymnastics team is just a year and a half removed from a trip to NCAA championships.

Juniors Lindsay Mable and Hanna Nordquist competed for NCAA individual titles last season. The Gophers will look to build upon that success this season.

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Beal continues family tradition Volleyball u from Page 7

national team. He later coached that same team until 2005, when current Gophers head coach Hugh McCutcheon took over.

McCutcheon said he first met Doug in 2001, and he ser ved as an assistant coach under Doug at the 2004 Olympics.

Maddie said her dad never pressured her or her brother to play the spor t, despite his large influence on the volleyball world.

“The fact that our two kids play volleyball is wonder ful,” Doug said. “The fact that love the spor t so much is better.”

Maddie and her brother spent time at the gym while they were growing up, hanging out with their father and his team. Mitch said those experiences influenced his decision to play in college.

Growth at Minnesota

Over the years, McCutcheon has gotten to know the Beal family well.

But Maddie isn’t with the Gophers because of McCutcheon’s relationship with the family.

“The reason we recruited Maddie was because of her volleyball ability,” McCutcheon said. “The other stuff is there and it’s great, but it was never a part of the

decision-making process.

Maddie is here because she can play [and] she can help our team be successful.”

Doug said it’s ter rific that his daughter is playing for McCutcheon, and he said knowing the coach and being comfortable with him was a big part of Maddie’s decision to go to Minnesota.

Since arriving on campus, McCutcheon said she has been doing great, adjusting to the transition from playing middle blocker with her club team to right side when needed.

Mitch said he and McCutcheon remain good friends and occasionally chat about Maddie’s improvements.

“Whenever I chat with him about Maddie, he has nothing but good things to say,” Mitch said.

During her time with the Gophers, Maddie said she has learned more than she ever has playing volleyball.

But her new coaches aren’t her only resource — she also continues to learn from her father and brother, too.

“My dad, he coaches me and helps me out a ton,” Maddie said. “I really look up to him.”

The same goes for her older brother. “[Mitch] is the one who pushes me,” she said.

Mitch said he’s seen his sister grow exponentially on and off the court recently.

“It’s really cool from a

big brother standpoint,” he said. “She’s matured so much since the last time I saw her.”

Mitch surprised his sister at the Gophers’ September tournament in Toledo, Ohio.

And Maddie said she hopes to go to Ohio to cheer on her brother during his senior year, despite the Big Ten rivalry.

“My dad can join in [on the rivalr y] because he played for Ohio State,” Mitch said. “It’ll be two Buckeyes against one Gopher.”

With a family full of volleyball players, the spor t grew on Maddie’s mom, Nonie Beal. She never played volleyball, but Maddie said that doesn’t stop her from tr ying to coach the Gophers player after games.

“She loves coming to our matches,” Maddie said.

“She’s my brother and [my] biggest fan.”

Doug said he and his wife are proud of both of their kids.

“Whatever level they play at [and] whatever contributions they make, my wife and I are pretty big fans of the kids,” Doug said.

Maddie has seen action in five matches this season, and she will have opportunities to play more.

“We’ll coach the heck out of her,” McCutcheon said, “teach her [the] best we can, [and] the rest is up to her.”

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Maddie Beal is a freshman on the Gophers volleyball team.

She has competed in five matches so far this season.

Doug said he hopes to see his daughter improve so she can earn a larger role on the team.

Even though it’s dif ficult to crack the star ting lineup as a freshman, the program’s successful track

record is one of the reasons Maddie said she chose Minnesota.

“I think I’ve grown so much by coming here,” she said. “I love it here. I can’t wait for the next four years.”

MLB

Nationals win, avoid elimination

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — Br yce Harper screamed out in delight as he crossed the plate with Washington ahead at last. After all those extra innings and a subdued cross-countr y flight, the Nationals had broken through — with a little help from Madison Bumgarner.

Doug Fister pitched seven shutout innings and the Nationals capitalized on Bumgarner’s one off-target throw, staving off elimination in the NL Division Series with a 4-1 win over the San Francisco Giants on Monday.

Fister dazzled again in San Francisco, helping the Nationals cut their deficit to 2-1 in the best-of-five series. They ended the Giants 10-game postseason winning streak that started with Game 5 of the 2012 NL Championship Series against St. Louis.

Wa s h i n g t o n s c o r e d two runs on Bumgarner’s throwing error in the seventh inning to end the ace’s 21-inning scoreless streak.

Harper punctuated the victor y with a solo homer in the ninth.

“Really it came down to ever y pitch,” Fister said.

“Fortunately a ball bounced our way.”

Drew Storen allowed to the first two batters to reach in the bottom of the ninth but shook off his postseason struggles, allowing a run in closing it out as Washington forced a Game 4 on Tuesday night.

Now, the 96-win Nationals will send left-hander Gio Gonzalez up against San Francisco right-hander Ryan Vogelsong.

“We just needed one break,” Storen said. “It’s been a tough couple innings here to start and we got our break. It’s just a matter of building on it, and we live to see another day.”

On a day Bumgar ner had been nearly untouchable, his own miscue prevented a three-game sweep.

Bumgar ner fielded Wilson Ramos’ two-strike sacrifice bunt between the mound and the first-base line and fired to third rather than going for the sure out at first.

“We probably should have taken the out of first. I made a mistake telling him to throw to third,” catcher Buster Posey said. “It hap-

pens. We’ll come tomorrow, go through the pre-game routine and be ready to go.”

Bumgar ner’s throw sailed wide of Pablo Sandoval’s outstretched glove and bounced all the way to the tarp along the left-field wall before rolling over the bullpen mounds where two relievers were warming up.

Sandoval nearly did the splits tr ying to make the play and stayed down in pain as the two runs scored.

Trainers checked on the third baseman and he remained in the game.

“We don’t have Ramos bunt with two strikes,” Harper said. “So if we don’t have him get that bunt down, at least get us on second and third, having that errant throw by Bumgarner was huge for us.”

Asdr ubal Cabrera followed with an RBI single.

He spent the final eight innings watching the Giants’ 2-1, 18-inning victory Saturday night after his ejection for arguing a called third strike.

Fister outpitched Bumgarner at AT&T Park for the second time in four months after a June gem, leaving behind the frightening memory of his October outing here in Game 2 of the 2012 World Series. Fister took a line drive to the right side of his head that day — while also opposing Bumgarner — but stayed in the game and carried a shutout into the seventh before Detroit lost 2-0 and was swept.

Fister hardly needed that Japanese good luck figurine that appeared in the NL East champions’ dugout Monday morning courtesy of backup catcher Jose Lobaton. The righthander, who grew up about two hours away in the Central Valley city of Merced, gave up four hits, struck out three and walked three.

Storen, the beleaguered closer who gave up the tying run in Game 2, allowed Brandon Crawford’s sacrifice fly in the ninth before finishing the 2-hour, 47-minute game. It was a far cr y from Game 2, which took a postseason record 6:23.

Five days after pitching a four-hitter in an 8-0 wild-card win at Pittsburgh, Bumgarner was on a roll again, this time for the orange towel-waving sellout home crowd of 43,627.

he image of Matt Koalska leaping over the boards of the Gophers’ bench after scoring the game-tying goal in the 2002 national championship game still remains firmly ingrained in the minds of many Minnesota hockey fans.

The Gophers went on to take home the title in an overtime victory and won the championship again in 2003.

But those moments and memories took place more than a decade ago.

After a year in which Minnesota fans watched a national title slip through their team’s maroon and gold gloves, the expectations for head coach Don Lucia’s guys couldn’t be higher this season.

The Gophers will begin their season this weekend ranked No. 1 in the country.

Despite a subpar first period, Minnesota took care of business against the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in an exhibition game last Saturday, defeating the Ooks 5-0.

In his postgame comments, Lucia acknowledged that the game wasn’t perfect, but he said he thought it was a good team effort.

Many fans will be quick to consider this game a dominant victory over an inferior opponent.

And while I agree the team is definitely in contention to return to the NCAA title game, it’s far too early in the season to crown the Gophers the 2015 NCAA champions.

Fair or not, the fans will inevitably apply pressure to win it all this year.

Then again, why shouldn’t they?

As Lucia noted in his press conference a week ago, the core that helped take this team to championship last April remains very much intact.

“Obviously we have a constant with Adam Wilcox in net,” Lucia told reporters. “Five returning defensemen with a lot of experience, and then nine of our 12 for wards who played in the final game last year.”

Senior for ward Kyle Rau scored two goals in the team’s exhibition game and should provide invaluable leadership the rest of the season.

After giving up six goals in the 2014 NCAA title game, Wilcox — a junior — should come back this season with a chip on his shoulder.

Junior Mike Reilly also returns to lead a quality defensive unit for Minnesota.

The Gophers have talent at every end of the ice and should lock up the Big Ten for a second consecutive season unless Wisconsin or Michigan overachieves.

Minnesota’s storied history could see a new chapter written at the end of the season, and the players seem to understand that the pressure to do so comes from being a part of the Gophers program.

“I hope we make it to the last game and win it,” Rau told reporters. “That should be the only goal here at this program.”

Lucia’s contract expires at the end of the season.

How he and the team handle the pressure could determine not only where the Gophers are at the end of the season, but where he is.

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

@DavidNelson18

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

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All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (10/7): Growth and happiness intertwine with community, friends and family this year.

Serve a vision for greatest reward. This month’s eclipses (10/8, 23) spark a new phase in partnership

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 9 — You’re distracted from work. Expect transformations today and tomorrow. Wear your confidence with aplomb.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Partnership negotiations occur today and tomorrow. Recognize your own stubbornness, and let go some. Compromise.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Schedule carefully. Something’s coming due.

Over the next two days, clean up old messes.

Creative insight fixes them secretly.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Focus on your work today and tomorrow. It could get busy and even intense. Meetings conflict with family time.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — A new money-making scheme occurs to you. Your friends are a big help over the next few days.

Listen carefully.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Get into a two-day luxuriously lovely phase.

You’re looking especially good. Public duties could take from private time.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Consider career advancement today and tomorrow. Plan every move before launching.

Give thanks for willing hands.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — You’re good at solving problems. Get what you need delivered. Sink into a two-day homebody phase. Get fully into a household project.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — The next two days are good for travel. Clean and organize. Don’t touch savings. Chart your course.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Share feelings over the next two days. Unexpected costs could alter a plan. You’re exceptionally intelligent.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Take on more responsibility. Publicize your efforts today and tomorrow. Prayer and meditation are powerful tools.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Things could get lucrative today and tomorrow.

Contemplate the costs before buying new stuff.

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

from the archive

Tuesday, October 4, 2005

From RiseUpGophers

Hey BADger fan, NUTT you!!! Congrats on beating the weakest team in the Big Ten at home! Net: Kind of like being the AL Central Division champ, eh?

You really should celebrate after a feat of that magnitude. But in all seriousness, which type of person are you? Are you the sconnie student who reads The Minnesota Daily because you’re too wasted to go to class and too upset that you missed last week’s OC? Or are you the Minnesota student that didn’t get into Wisconsin, so you decide to write into the Daily about how you hate the Gophers in between your crying fits? Net: The real question is who the better Van Halen frontman was: Diamond Dave or Sammy Haggar? What say you, Networkia? Seriously, suck it up; no one wants to hear your NUTT. Madison isn’t even a real NUTTing city!! Net: It’s like the Matrix, it exists only in the mind. Except instead of Neo and his kung fu cronies, there’s just a bunch of young, horny students who drink obscene amounts of cheap beer.

From Voice of Treason

Net, first and foremost: NUTT you. Net: Watch it, or we’ll take away your porn privileges. You know what you did. Second, I would like to leave an open ended insult that I hate everything about everyone. I hate your favorite band/food/country/deity and you suck for liking them. Net: Kind of sounds like U.S. foreign policy. Third, to the bikers who don’t watch where they are going: NUTT you too. You kids have to obey almost the same god-damned laws as cars, so stop getting angry every time you almost run pedestrians over. I swear to god I will take a steak knife and etch biking instructions into you NUTTing forehead. Net: A magic marker would probably suffice. Fourth, next time I see someone riding the campus connector across Washington Ave bridge I will kill someone. Net: You seem a little highstrung. Maybe you ought to take a break and treat HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:

yourself to a pedicure or something. Jesus-H-TapDancing-Christ, you lazy NUTTs. Fifth, to whatever retard thinks Dr. Date is a man, try again. Net: We already told you. The doctor has no gender. Just like those frogs in “Jurassic Park.” Dr. Date should be a man, mind you, then the column would be about two sentences, let me give you a form copy of the new Dr. Date: “If you like someone, talk to them, and/or ask them out. If they are being a bastard leave them or don’t talk to them anymore.” Net: That makes way too much sense to actually work. Besides, rejection is scary. And last but not the least, sixth, and I’m going to spell this one out so all you thickskulled worthless piles of NUTTing NUTT can get this into your NUTTing head: I.F. Y.O.U. G.O. T.O. T.H.E. U. O.F. M. S.T.O.P. A.C.T.I.N.G. L.I.K.E. T.H.E. B.A.D.G.E.R.S. A.R.E. Y.O.U.R. T.E.A.M. Net: Maybe it’s just us, but extended acronyms don’t seem like the most effective way to communicate. I mean, it is fan-NUTTing-tastic that you care to show your support for a school you couldn’t get into, but get over it. And quit wearing all the damned Wisconsin gear around campus, it makes you look NUTTing retarded for forgetting where you are. We need police to go around rounding them up and beating the stupid out of them. Net: School pride is important, Networkia.

If you’re not proud of Minnesota athletics, you should at least take pride in attending a future top three research institution.

From Slanted&Enchanted

Hey Net. I’ve got a little haiku for you based on my experience in the Coffman men’s room today.

Brown poo floats un-flushed Who would do such a thing?

Someone likes peanuts Net: Doesn’t that just inspire a lovely mental image?

NETWORK@MNDAILY.COM

Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 21 October 4, 2005 Dear Dr. Date,

I need advice on something very hard. I need to tell my friend that I have been sleeping with his girlfriend. Since this is something hard to tell someone I could use some options. So if you could make a top ten list of ways to tell your friend that you are sleeping with his girl that would be awesome.

— probably gonna get hit

Dear probably gonna get hit,

You asshole. How are you going to do that to your buddy? Sleeping with your friend’s girl behind his back is punishable by death in a lot of circles I hang out in. Then again, in some of the other circles it’s thought of quite highly.

You’ll have to reconcile the fact that you’ve pretty much (tr)ucked up your friendship, but since you’ve already accepted that you’re going to get your ass kicked, perhaps your buddy will be able to see what you’ve done in a different light.

I suppose that is where this top ten list comes in …

The good doctor obliges, and as always, the pronouns are completely interchangeable.

The Top Ten Ways to Tell Your Friend You’re Screwing Their Special Someone 10. “Dude, your girlfriend’s a total slut … you won’t believe who she’s been cheating on you with.”

9. “So I was walking around your apartment one day and I just kinda fell in … ” 8. “You ever seen that movie “9 1/2 Weeks”?

Yah, that one scene was really hot … well, I’ve got sort of a similar thing going on, except I’m Mickey Rourke and your girlfriend is Kim Bassinger.”

7. Plan to tell him sometime around the death of a close relative. The closer to your age the better. I’m not saying you should wish death upon another friend, just secret hope.

6. “I’m telling you, it was like a diving rod … apparently that well is pretty deep.”

5. Just man up, tell him it was just about sex, that that chick probably isn’t worth it, but your friendship is. Wear a cup and be prepared to take one to the kisser.

4. “So when Robert Plant sang ‘I wanna be your backdoor man,’ do you think he was talking about your girlfriend? Cuz she keeps telling me that’s our song.”

3. “Dude, I’m a dick, I’m sorry … Where did you get that knife?”

2. “What has two thumbs and has been (tr)ucking your girlfriend? This guy!”

1. Don’t tell him until after they break up, that way you can be like, “You were better off without her anyways … now you can find someone who gives a decent blow job.”

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

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I have been with my boyfriend for a little over a year now and it has been great. My problem is his friend. She has caused so much drama since the start.

She is a very two faced, self centered person and whatever I get that but she likes to call me and tell me how I shouldn’t date my boyfriend.

Recently while she was out she called me and told me that my boyfriend doesn’t love me and every nice thing he has ever done for me was really directed at her cause he loves her instead.

I have since told my boyfriend what she said and neither of us talk to her anymore. The problem is that, she is now bad mouthing me to EVERYONE she meets and when we are at the same place (cause she is friends with all my

boyfriends other friends) she talks STUFF about me when I am right there.

I up to this point have only told her not to talk to me anymore but I feel more needs to be said now because of the way she is acting. How do I tell her off in a tactful way so that I don’t come off as the bitch or give her more amunition?

— Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands (name supplied by Dr. Date) Dear Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands,

If you don’t give me a name, I must give you a moniker. Regardless … lady you have got quite the psycho hose beast on your hands right now. You need to set this chick straight, but you don’t want to come off like the crazy bitch she clearly is. You also don’t want to turn a social gathering into one giant catfight (yeah-yeah catfight). Understandable.

The problem is, when you’re dealing with crazy, sometimes crazy is all that’s gonna solve your problems.

Think about it. If a crazy guy comes running up to you jabbering on about lights in the sky and banana people, you don’t try to explain to him that he’s crazy, you don’t try to speak rationally to him … you start barking like a dog and screaming obscenities, hoping he’ll get bored or scared off.

The same principle applies to bears. If a bear attacks you, you don’t sit there looking like a human, you make yourself look big and scary … like a bear.

If you want to avoid a public scene, get yourself into crazy mode, head over to her house and tell this chick off. You can’t live your life with the fear that she’s out there spreading lies about you.

Frankly, your boyfriend should probably be pretty concerned about this little nutjob, next thing he knows she could be cooking up a little rabbit stew with his favorite pet.

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

I recently got out of a serious relationship. I was with him for almost 2 years and we lived together for over a year. A few months ago we moved to different places (not that far apart) for school. About a month ago he decided we should take a break. He informed me of this via text message. (Talk about a bad breaker-upper).

So my question is, is there anyone else in the world that would break up with someone after such a long time via text message? How can I ever trust anyone after someone that supposedly loved me could be so heartless? Do you have any suggestion on getting over this betrayal?

— ticked off with text messages

Dear ticked off with text messages,

The answers to your questions are yes, because you have to and yes.

Yes, there are tons of jerks and cowards out there who can’t face the awkwardness of the breakup. Granted, there are fewer who have been with someone for two years and would still text it over. Did it go something like this?

“No time 2 talk rt now but need time apart, I don’t h8 u, don’t worry, just a lttle brk.”

You can trust other people after this because you have to. Otherwise you’ll be stuck at home, gaining weight and eventually washing yourself with a rag on a stick.

As far as suggestions, just go out on a date with some other fella, cut off communication with the douche who sent the text, rinse, repeat.

— Dr. Date

Need relationship advice? E-mail Dr. Date at drdate@mndaily.com.

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dr. date Dr. Date,

So I’ve been dating this girl for about six months. We have great sexual chemistry, and she can give me an orgasm like no other woman has before.

I love going down on her, but whenever I’ve insinuated that she do the same for me, she backs away, and it’s starting to offend me — it makes me really insecure about myself and our relationship.

How do I tell her bluntly to get down there and make my day for once?

—Anonymous

Craving Some Lovin’,

I think the best way to bluntly say you want her to go down on you is to bluntly say you want her to go down on you.

It’s as simple as that. Express to her why you feel the way you do and that your sexual chemistry is off. Don’t automatically assume she’s disgusted by you or that you should feel insecure. It’s possible that she’s uncomfortable with thirdbasin’ it for a multitude of reasons that have nothing to do with you.

So — similar to much of the advice I’ve given in the past — quit being passive and have the conversation. It might be awkward, but you know what else is awkward? Having an imbalanced relationship in the bedroom that you’re both aware of and unwilling to talk about.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My best friend and I hooked up a few times, and it was fun. Even though I enjoyed it, I started to get a weird feeling about our relationship at that level.

I eventually called it off, but when I told her that we’re better off as friends, she got pretty upset, and now things are awkward between us.

I want to continue being friends because she means a lot to me, but I don’t know how to break the awkwardness. How can I make her see that our relationship is better off without hookups and sex?

—Friends Without Benefits

Just Friends,

Dr. Date has had a fair share of f’s with b’s, and, though it sucks to admit, the setup rarely works if romantic feelings are involved.

Though you may not have fully developed a romantic frame around your relationship, it sounds like she got a little ahead of herself. Similar to a breakup, the best solution to this issue is the

passage of time.

Yeah, you’re friends and playing the waiting game sucks, but you need to give her the necessary time to deal with the shift. And don’t be so quick to think that you’re unaffected by the change either — are you sure you’re cool with the way things stand? Why did you end up feeling weird about the hookups in the first place? Answering those questions will potentially get you a little closer to understanding why your relationship turned awkward.

When the time comes, be honest with your friend and explain why the new setup is better for your relationship.

If she disagrees, you might have to deal with the consequence of having sex with friends.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’ve done everything imaginable with a guy: I’ve licked that, yanked that and sucked that — yep. Except I haven’t done one thing: sex.

I grew up in a home where religion was a huge part of my life. My family and I went to church every week, and it was a big part of my upbringing.

But recently, I’ve been seeing this guy, and I really want to go all the way. Yet every time we come close to having sex, I stop because I feel like I’m doing something wrong. I feel bad because I feel like I’m leading him on and it never happens.

He seems generally accepting of my morals and beliefs, but I know it must be hard for him. How do I keep him interested while I figure out where I stand on premarital sex? I’m afraid he might leave me to find someone else who will give him what he wants.

—Catholic Guilt

Premarital Probs,

If your boyfriend supports your belief system, you have nothing to worry about — just explain that you need some time to decide. Sex is a phenomenal thing, and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying it, whether you’re married or not. If you want to do it, go ahead and do it. No one’s smiting you.

Give it time and, like you said, try not to leave him hanging. Make your decision, and feel good about it. At the end of the day, if your beau leaves you for sex elsewhere, you’re probably dating the wrong person.

—Dr. Date

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

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Micro-tech center rethinks computing said. “Maybe there’s a better way to do this.”

As one of six research centers funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation’s STARnet program, C-SPIN boasts sponsorship from industry and government partners like Intel, IBM and the U.S. Department of Defense.

“It’s critical for the semiconductor industry to fund long-range research,” STARnet executive director Gilroy Vandentop said. “For the furthest-reaching research, the most risky research, we basically use universities as our research arm.”

Researchers at the C-SPIN want to harness electron spin for computing.

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A University of Minnesota-led research effort is putting a new spin on how computers work.

Facing growing limitations of current computing methods, the $28 million Center for Spintronic Materials, Interfaces and Novel Architectures has narrowed in on harnessing electron spin to create faster, energyefficient computers.

Less than two years into the center’s five-year grant, its 32 experts hailing from 18 universities still have obstacles to overcome, including how to integrate cutting-edge research into usable devices.

But according to C-SPIN director and electrical and computer engineering professor Jian-Ping Wang, the center has already made several important discoveries since its opening in 2013.

A decades-old scientific law says the processing power of microchips doubles roughly ever y 18 months.

But as the traditional transistors that power electronics grow smaller and smaller, it’s becoming more difficult to match technology with computer power, Wang said.

In as soon as five to 10 years, he said, technology will reach a point where it can no longer shrink at the same exponential rate at which computer per formance is growing.

“Virtually any technology has this sort of scaling problem,” physics professor Paul Crowell said. “What do you do when you start approaching that atomic scale?”

In the past, manufacturers have increasingly added miniscule transistors, said Crowell, who is also one of C-SPIN’s co-directors.

“As a physicist, I can say that’s not really creative,” he

Electrons don’t just carry charges, though — ever y electron also has an up or down spin.

“Our circuits rely on the fact that electrons have charge, but they’re [also] carrying around this extra piece of information,” said Crowell, who works on transmitting spin information between different materials. “For the most part, we waste that.”

Controlling this extra component of electrons — which tend to spin in the same direction in magnetic materials — can open up new ways to compute data, said Caroline Ross, a C-SPIN researcher and materials science and engineering professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

“The way you would be encoding data could be not so much whether there’s a charge or not,” Ross said, “but whether you got a spin up or a spin down.”

Hard drives already use electron spin to magnetically store information, Wang said.

Today’s technology then

Charge vs. spin Conventional transistors work as on and off switches for gates that control electron current, Wang said.

Computer commands are based on whether charged electrons are flowing through various transistors.

But powering computing processes with electrons’ charge tends to waste a lot of energy, Wang said.

transfers that magnetically stored information onto traditional charge-based computer processing and memory.

Now C-SPIN is trying to use electron spin as a lowenergy alternative to electron charge.

“In order to accomplish this, you need advances in a lot of different areas,” Ross said.

Turning theor y into devices

The University’s laboratories are one in C-SPIN’s nationwide network of researchers and collaboration across 18 institutions.

The center, which the University leads, divides its workload into five themes that focus on areas like developing materials, transferring spin and building prototypes, Crowell said.

He said the development of materials like metal and semiconductors — as well as research on how they can be combined — has formed the basic components of spin-based

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rooms stacked on top — isn’t exclusive to the area, but is part of a growing trend across the Twin Cities.

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How to do stick-built Building an apartment from wood means relying heavily on state and international building codes.

Minnesota laws, along with the International Building Code, dictate that woodframe apar tments cannot be taller than six floors, with some exceptions.

That restriction is based on the height of firefighters’ ladders, said associate architecture professor Blaine Brownell, in the case of an emergency in which a firefighter has to reach a building’s top floor.

Contractors can also use wood treated to be less susceptible to flames, mold and other types of wear and tear.

In some cases, they’re mandated to do so.

The height limit on stickbuilt apar tments can be slightly extended with the addition of a sprinkler system, according to the IBC. But Brownell said adding a sprinkler system rarely yields a return in investment, since it’s often an expensive addition that doesn’t create much more living space in a building.

On the other hand, concrete or steel buildings can reach well above six stories, though their height limits vary by geographic area.

All but one of developer Kelly Doran’s six luxury student housing projects are made of wood. The Bridges, which opened in the fall, is 11 stories high, said Scott Casanova, Doran Companies’ vice president of major projects.

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issue expected the court to take up one of the five cases this session, so its decision to leave them alone is a surprise.

Before Monday, samesex marriage was legal in 19 states and Washington, D.C. Minnesota legalized the practice last year.

Same-sex marriage legalization had been challenged in the five states the Supreme Court declined to rule on.

By tur ning down the chance to rule on the issue, the high cour t legalized same-sex marriage in those five states, all of which can immediately star t issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples, said Timothy Johnson, a political science professor at the University.

But six other states — Colorado, Kansas, Nor th Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming — fall in the same federal court circuits as the five that were in contention.

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many complexes sit on a concrete base often used for retail space, like TargetExpress and Gina + Will under the Marshall and the Venue, respectively.

The timeline for building wood-frame projects generally falls around a year, Brownell said.

With the pace of construction that the stick-built method allows, Brownell said concern is natural.

“Speed can sometimes mean that something is put together less thoughtfully or carefully,” he said, “but at the same time, there are demonstrated practices where construction can occur incredibly quickly and be tightly coordinated.”

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son said.

It’s unclear if or when the Supreme Court will take up a same-sex marriage case.

Four other cases are currently making their way through the federal appeals process, Johnson said.

“They’re asking essentially the same question, and that is if there’s federal protection for gay marriage,” he said.

Since ever y federal appeals court has struck down bans on same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court probably won’t feel the need to rule on the subject until a ban is upheld, Johnson said.

“It could be a couple of terms from now,” he said, “but it could be that they hear it this term.”

Though LGBT leaders nationwide celebrated Monday’s news, at least one student leader at the University worries the success of the gay marriage movement has drawn resources from other LGBT issues that she views as more important.

Anya Titova, facilitator of Arch, a University student group that specializes in helping students come out as LGBT, said she sees same-

materials, industry experts say wood typically emerges as the most cost-effective answer — which is a big part of why developers and architects tend to select it for housing both around and beyond the University area.

While it’s logical to assume that wood construction is also the most fragile, Brownell said, the reality is that stick-built apartments are built to last.

“Just because a structure is made out of wood, psychologically it might seem to be cheaper or less stable or sturdy,” he said, “but then you’d really just have to just look at the way that something was designed and built versus the material that was used.”

Brownell said the cost of the manpower to construct a building, rather than the price of the resource itself, can drive the decision about what

kind of construction material to use.

Building with steel or concrete requires hiring crane operators and more workers.

Wood calls for fewer resources, making it a more attractive option, Brownell said.

Industry experts say concrete and steel buildings are preferable if the structure’s lifetime needs to exceed 100 years, but they say woodframed apartments will last long enough for their purposes.

Daniel Oberpriller’s development company, CPM Companies, owns at least five completed or under-construction housing complexes in the University area.

“Obviously a concrete building will last longer than a wood building over the course of hundreds of years,” he said, “but how many hundreds of years do you need

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these buildings to last?”

WaHu, a project currently under construction on the corner of Washington Avenue Southeast and Huron Boulevard Southeast, is CPM’s only steel complex.

Oberpriller said it’s a “gateway building” that sits at an entrance to the campus area, so it was designed to be large and visible. That kind of size, he said, requires a steel skeleton.

Still, Oberpriller said, wood-framed construction isn’t an inferior alternative.

Concrete and steel are preferable for offices and hotels, Brownell said, because those buildings tend to be taller.

And because the walls in steel or concrete office or apartment buildings typically aren’t all weight-bearing, they can be remodeled into different types of buildings — which isn’t an option for stickbuilt complexes.

Because it’s more expensive to construct with concrete or steel, once the six-floor maximum has been reached, it’s better to build even taller than seven or eight stories, said Dean Dovolis, owner and founder of DJR Architecture.

Because the materials and labor cost more money, he said, a developer can get his or her money’s worth out of a project by pushing the project upward.

Ward 3 City Council member Jacob Frey said though he understands that the wood-framed structures meet a local housing need, he prefers tall, thin concrete structures.

“The benefit of building tall and elegant is that you free up activity to take place on the ground level,” he said. “If you did a six-story building, you would have to build this wide behemoth structure that blocks out the sun.”

sex marriage’s federal legalization as inevitable.

But, she said, that legalization isn’t an “end-all solution.”

Gay marriage advocacy has sapped resources that could have been employed elsewhere, Titova said.

“There’s going to still be the issue of employment discrimination, health care discrimination and international issues as well,” she said.

Most of the people who benefit from same-sex marriage being legal already

have a lot of privilege within the LGBT community, Titova said.

Meanwhile, issues like transgender rights and queer youth homelessness aren’t receiving attention, she said.

“I know that [same-sex marriage] benefits a lot of old people especially, but I feel like there are things that I’m more concerned about on a regular basis,” Titova said.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Illinois teen sought to fly to Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CHICAGO — A 19-yearold American left a letter expressing disgust with Western society before trying to board an international flight in Chicago, the first step in his plan to sneak into Syria to join the Islamic State group, according to a federal criminal complaint released Monday.

Mohammed Hamzah Khan, who lived with his parents in the Chicago suburb of Bolingbrook, was arrested Saturday at O’Hare International Airport trying to board a plane on the first leg of connecting flights to Turkey, which borders Syria. He is charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist group, which carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence.

Investigators said Khan left a three-page, handwritten letter in his bedroom for his parents that expressed anger over his U.S. taxes being used to kill his “Muslim brothers and sisters,” an apparent reference to a bombing campaign against Islamic State militants.

“We are all witness that the western societies are getting more immoral day by day,” he wrote, then signed letter, “Your loving son,” according to cour t documents.

Khan appeared in a federal court Monday in orange jail clothes, calmly telling a federal magistrate he understood the allegations. As marshals led him away in handcuffs, the slight, bearded young man turned to smile at his parents — his father putting his arm around Khan’s weeping mother.

Turkey: NATO has plan to defend the country

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processing.

“The next step after that is to turn it into something useful,” Crowell said.

That’s where electrical engineering doctoral student Angeline Klemm comes in.

She spends her weeks in C-SPIN’s labs fabricating, testing and tweaking tiny devices. “[I] kind of repeat, adjust what I need for the new samples [and] do the fabrication again,” she said.

While the center has made progress in each of its themes, Crowell said, the ones focused on building devices rely on a pipeline of advancements from the other, more foundational research.

But impediments like the fragile nature of some new materials can make them difficult to work with at times. Crowell said they can be particularly sensitive to temperature.

“Things work fantastic at low temperatures — below r oom temperatur e — but of course that’s not where computers are used,” Crowell said.

ANKARA, Turkey — The NATO alliance has drawn up a strategy to defend Turkey if it is attacked along its border with Syria, a Turkish official said Monday.

Defense Minister Ismet Yilmaz, whose country is a NATO member, said the alliance did that at his government’s request as Islamic State militants, who have captured a large swath of Iraq and Syria, are trying to take the Syrian town of Kobani near the Turkish border.

“If there is an attack, NATO’s joint defense mechanisms will be activated,” Yilmaz told reporters.

“From the moment the incidents relating to Syria first star ted, we asked NATO to prepare for possibilities to make plans. NATO prepared a plan taking various alternatives into account.”

“Therefore,” he said, “if there is an attack on Turkey, NATO will bring about the provisions of Article 5

of the Washington Convention.” Article 5 states that an attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against all members.

NATO’s new secretar y general, Jens Stoltenberg, appeared to confirm what Turkey was saying during a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday.

After expressing concern about the violence in Syria and the fact that it has spilled over into Iraq, he said: “The main responsibility for NATO is to protect all allied countries. Turkey is a NATO ally and our main responsibility is to protect the integrity, the borders of Turkey, and that’s the reason why we have deployed Patriot missiles in Turkey to enhance, to strengthen their air defense of Turkey.

And Turkey should know that NATO will be there if there is any spillover, any attacks on Turkey as a consequence of the violence we see in Syria.”