October 15, 2014 by The Minnesota Daily

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In gay marriage sweep, Children’s Minnesota is already covered. hospital HEALTH

gets $25M

Widespread legalization could follow a recent ripple of courtroom victories for same-sex couples.

School leaders hope the Minn. Masonic Charities donation will spur new disease cures. BY KAYLEE KRUSCHKE kkruschke@mndaily.com

Doctors at the University of Minnesota’s children’s hospital traded in their white coats for ones embroidered with a new name. With its $25 million donation, the Minnesota Masonic Charities became the University’s largest donor, and in honor of the gift, the campus’s pediatric hospital was renamed Tuesday as the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. The donation will primarily go toward finding cures and treatments for childhood diseases, said Eric Neetenbeek, Minnesota Masonic Charities president and CEO. The gift will specifically enhance patient and family experiences, as well as advance pediatric research on neurobehavioral development, rare and infectious disease, and stem cell therapy. Dr. Joseph Neglia, the hospital’s physician-in-chief, said he hopes the gift will create stronger relationships with pediatrics researchers across the University. “Really, to build new bridges is one u See DONATION Page 3

CAMPUS

MSA wants policy for open syllabi

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

h e w a i t w a s ov er. Hand in hand, the couple swapped a warm gaze and a smile before walking up the grassy backyard aisle in step. Family and friends lined their walkway, all beaming with pride and most choking back tears. The long-awaited ceremony signified an end to a fight. Glen Hasler ud and Will Black promised each other a wedding nearly two years ago amid Minnesota’s monthslong, contested same-sex marriage discussion. The young couple’s

The change would require faculty to post past syllabi before students register. BY HALEY HANSEN hhansen@mndaily.com

To assist students in making better course decisions, professors may be required to post their syllabi before the semester begins. University of Minnesota student leaders are pushing faculty to release their past syllabi so students know their impending coursework before enrolling. And so far, faculty members are on board with the idea. The Minnesota Student Association has been pushing for the open syllabi concept since last spring and plans to take the idea to the University Senate in hopes that the senate will move their efforts for ward by creating a new policy. Physiology senior Jake Gustafson said the syllabi would be a valuable resource for him and other students when designing their schedules. “It’s sometimes tough to know what you’re getting into,” he said. MSA hopes to tackle that uncertainty with the new policy, said Valkyrie Jensen, u See STUDENT GOV’T Page 4

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University urban studies senior Glen Haslarud and Will Black walk down the aisle as a newly wed couple on Sept. 19 in Eagan, Minn. The pair started planning their wedding and life together nearly two years ago amid Minnesota’s conversation on legalizing same-sex marriage. Bridget Bennett

engagement, though certain in their minds, remained in flux until the state’s debate resolved, making an official wedding in their home state possible. “I was happy to see ever ything come to an end,” said Sarah Doud, Haslerud’s maid of honor. “It was a long time coming.” Since Haslerud and Black’s proposal, Minnesota’s conversation on samesex marriage has been silenced. Gay and lesbian couples have been making their unions official since last August, and traces of the state’s steps toward legalization are history.

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Sooner or later, it’s going to be universal across the country. Scott Dibble Minnesota state senator

LGBT

Grant will help gather transgender experiences The gift will help facilitate a new project that allows trans people to share their histories. BY MOLLY MICHALETZ mmichaletz@mndaily.com

Editor’s note: Some sources in this story are referenced using the gender-neutral pronouns “they” because they do not identify with masculine or feminine pronouns. Through sharing stories and personal accounts, hundreds of people will engage in a new project that aims to spread awareness

about the transgender community. The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies at the University of Minnesota Library recently received a multi-year grant from the Tawani Foundation that will allow the collection to gather and share transgender experiences to preser ve the group’s history in the Midwest. “There isn’t a lot of documented history or personal experience available for people who want to understand how transgender people have lived their lives in the transgender community,” said the collection’s curator, Lisa Vecoli. During the next three years, the Tretter

Collection will gather the oral histories of 200 to 300 transgender individuals throughout the Midwest. Vecoli said the project aims to include the history of transgender individuals from the 1960s to today, with about 400 hours of oral stories. The Tretter Collection currently contains more than 100,000 items of LGBT history, from a 4,000-year-old statuette to current editions of GLBTA periodicals. But Vecoli said the collection doesn’t hold a lot of historical materials on the transgender community. And in the past u See HISTORY Page 3

PATCHING THE GAP Cementing funds for aging buildings

UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STATE CAPITAL REQUESTS REQUESTED

RECEIVED

A ‘jigsaw puzzle’ of funds Getting bonding funds can be tricky, and some are unsure of the U’s strategy for doing so. BY BLAIR EMERSON bemerson@mndaily.com

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Editor’s note: This is the third installment in a three-par t series examining the University of Minnesota’s efforts to garner state funds for building maintenance. The previous pieces were published Oct. 1 and Oct. 8.

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 *The Minnesota House and Senate did not agree on a final HEAPR amount before the 2013 legislative session ended. SOURCES: MN DAILY REPORTING, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY RELATIONS

For years, the University of Minnesota has waged careful battles with the state Legislature to ensure it has funding for building maintenance and repair needs. And this year, administrators are testing a new strategy to make up for lost ground. The school is planning to capture state suppor t for building projects by shifting how it requests funding from the

Legislature, but some lawmakers are unsure of the strategy. Instead, the legislators are discussing a new method of dividing costs between the University and the state. Administrators ask for state funding each year to cover some of the institution’s largest facility projects, and they have often received far less than requested. Some policymakers argue it’s difficult to pass bonding bills, which allocate these state dollars, especially because requests from the University and the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system are substantial. “[The bonding bill] is always controversial,” said Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, who chairs the House’s Capital Investment Committee. In the last legislative session, the University received just over half of its capital request. And in 2013, no funding was awarded, because lawmakers only agreed u See STRATEGY Page 4

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Dayton, Johnson duel over middle class, minimum wage BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DULUTH, Minn. — Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and Republican challenger Jef f Johnson both tried to grab the mantle of middle-class champion Tuesday in a debate punctuated by sharper exchanges than they have shown before. In the first one-on-one debate of the campaign, Dayton labeled Johnson a “huckster” for promising mining permits on the Iron Range before environmental studies have been completed as a way to endear himself to a Democratic voting stronghold in northeaster n Minnesota. Johnson accused Dayton of furthering a philosophy that “government always knows best how we live our lives.” There were similar scrapes over issues like the minimum wage, transportation, taxes and health care.

Johnson, who hopes to gain ground in a race Dayton leads, was on the of fensive from his opening remarks. The Hennepin County commissioner called Dayton a decent man whose privileged roots have shielded him from having to scrimp like many families to pay a mor tgage or college tuition. “When you’ve never had to worry about that in your life, I think it gives you priorities that probably don’t ser ve the middle-class as well as they could,” he said. Dayton used his record as governor to combat the charge, saying he’s worked to boost school budgets, freeze college tuition and incr ease the minimum wage to give str uggling families a fighting chance. “Commissioner Johnson says he’s for the middle class, and then he’s for lowering taxes on the super-rich and lowering the

minimum wage for people who are working hard,” Dayton said. Under a law passed this spring, Minnesota’s minimum wage will climb to $9.50 by 2016 and then will go up automatically unless an administration applies the brakes. Johnson has said he won’t roll back the prescribed increases but would halt the inflationar y hikes. “This belief the minimum wage is the answer for middle-class families is kind of out of touch with how the middle class lives and what the middle class wants,” Johnson said. “They don’t want low-paying jobs, they want careers in this state and we are not growing them right now.” The pair often of fered competing statistics. Those cited by Dayton — a low unemployment rate and region-leading per capita income — were meant

to show a state on the rebound. Johnson’s batch was aimed at demonstrating an economy only limping forward, par ticularly on new business start-ups and private sector job growth. “You’re so desperate to find something to make Minnesota look bad that you jump on anything you can find,” Dayton charged. Johnson shot back: “I never denigrate Minnesota because I’ve spent almost my entire life here. But I certainly think you have us going in the wrong direction.” The candidates frequently reached back to October debates that included more candidates to accuse one another of shifting stances. That was most apparent on transpor tation, where Johnson mocked Dayton as having proposed new taxes on gasoline one day only to water his intentions down the next.

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Task force attacks Internet co. to expand Minnesota’s child outside of Twin Cities protection system BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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ST. PAUL — A local Internet company plans to play catch-up with advancements made in other states by eventually expanding high-speed ser vice outside of the Twin Cities. The vice president of technology at US Internet told Minnesota Public Radio News the company hopes to begin reaching out to other communities next year, after it finishes wiring in Minneapolis. The Minnetonka-based company wants to learn where the pockets of interest are through a pre-sign up on its website, according to Travis Carter. “We’re currently evaluating pressing on the gas a little harder, growing faster,” he said. Although the Web has come a long way in the past several years, many Minnesota residents want faster speeds at a lower price. One customer said he pays $48 a month for a 100 megabit connection, which allows rapid uploading and downloading of files. US Internet also offers a $65-a-month 1 gigabit connection, which is capable of downloading HD movies in less than a minute. The company plans to enable 10 gigabit connections next year after tweaking equipment in its central office. But because of the company’s limited ser vice area, many Minnesota residents currently have to turn to phone companies or cable providers. CenturyLink has promised to deliver 1 gigabit service to the Twin Cities metro area within the next few years. Comcast offers its top residential speed, a 100 megabit connection, at $114 a month. Other companies, such as Verizon, AT&T and Google, are working to build fiber networks in a handful of cities throughout the country. But those big companies are largely skipping over Minnesota.

ST. PAUL — A local Internet company plans to play catchup with advancements made in other states by eventually expanding high-speed service outside of the Twin Cities. The vice president of technology at US Internet told Minnesota Public Radio News the company hopes to begin reaching out to other communities next year, after it finishes wiring in Minneapolis. The Minnetonka-based company wants to learn where the pockets of interest are through a pre-sign up on its website, according to Travis Carter. “We’re currently evaluating pressing on the gas a little harder, growing faster,” he said. Although the Web has come a long way in the past several years, many Minnesota residents want faster speeds at a lower price. One customer said he pays $48 a month for a 100 megabit connection, which allows rapid uploading and downloading of files. US Internet also offers a $65-a-month 1 gigabit connection, which is capable of downloading HD movies in less than a minute. The company plans to enable 10 gigabit connections next year after tweaking equipment in its central office. But because of the company’s limited ser vice area, many Minnesota residents currently have to turn to phone companies or cable providers. CenturyLink has promised to deliver 1 gigabit service to the Twin Cities metro area within the next few years. Comcast offers its top residential speed, a 100 megabit connection, at $114 a month. Other companies, such as Verizon, AT&T and Google, are working to build fiber networks in a handful of cities throughout the country. But those big companies are largely skipping over Minnesota. “We range between about 20th and 23rd in the country in terms of connectivity and speed,” said Margaret Anderson Kelliher, chair of the governor’s broadband task force. “We actually have been increasing the number of people connected and the speeds. But other states are going even faster.”

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Campus fungal research mushrooming A crew of mycologists and a new student club have rejuvenated fungal enthusiasm. BY PARKER LEMKE plemke@mndaily.com

On a wooded slope of the University of Minnesota’s St. Paul campus, rows of rotting logs and mulch patches form an unusual garden. Pulling off a tarp and lifting the log underneath, Mycology Club members Gerry Presley and Jason Oliver pointed to the mushrooms poking out from the wood. “You usually wait about a year for the fungus to colonize the logs,” Oliver said, a bioproducts and biosystems engineering doctoral student. Growing edible mushrooms has been just one of the fungus-focused group’s activities since the two founded it in 2012 to meet a surge in fungi studies across the University, said Presley, a fellow doctoral student and the club’s president. Interest in fungus has recently risen due to the organisms’ wide range of impacts — from decomposing waste or freeing nutrients for plant growth to damaging crops and playing a role in drug development and climate change studies, said plant biology associate professor Peter Kennedy. “There are not many schools … even at our size, that [have] as many researchactive mycologists as we currently have,” he said. “This is a special place to study fungi.” Kennedy said he joined a core group of mycologists in 2013 when the University recruited him in a fungal evolution cluster hire, which is a hiring strategy that aims to bring more expertise in particular fields to the school. And around that time, the University’s Bell Museum of Natural History also hired a new official fungi curator charged with looking after its

Children’s hospital gets $25M Donation u from Page 1

big part of what I’d like us to do,” Neglia said. “These gifts are vitally impor tant for the hospital.” With the donation, Neglia said he also hopes to expand the hospital’s existing research, like its work on correcting genetic defects in human cells and its pediatric medicine international programs in Kenya and Uganda. Neetenbeek said the Mason’s donations, which total $125 million over the last 60 years, have been essential at a time when new health care research struggles to receive competitive funding from larger organizations like the National Institutes of Health. “There aren’t too many venture capitalists willing to go with untried businesses [and] ideas,” he said. “The same is true when you’re looking at research into health care problems.” In the near future, the Masons will meet physicians at the children’s hospital to discuss which promising research projects to allocate the money toward, Neetenbeek said. Cutting-edge health research, if successful, will likely gar ner additional dollars from other national sources, he said. “We’re sort of a catalyst with regard to new types of research,” Neetenbeek said. University President Eric Kaler thanked the Masons for their $25 million donation in a press release Tuesday. “Top quality in health care is only possible when we have community support,” he said in the release. The children’s hospital was originally named after Dr. Kurt Amplatz; who spent 40 years researching at the University. His daughter, Caroline Amplatz, donated $50 million to the hospital’s construction in 2009 and gave up the naming rights earlier this spring.

100,000 specimens, said plant biology professor emeritus David McLaughlin. “There was sort of a lull for a while,” Oliver said. “This cluster hire is slowly increasing the number of fungal-focused courses being taught.” By increasing its focus on the often-microscopic fungi, Kennedy said the University made a smart investment. “It allows us basically to capitalize on a group of organisms that have amazingly diverse metabolisms,” he said, adding that ongoing discussions are exploring ways to offer more mycology courses and the possibility of creating a fungal-related minor.

The roots of fungal research

McLaughlin began studying fungi at the University in 1969. He said the way scientists look at and understand the organisms has changed a great deal, largely due to genetic research. “They were considered plants for a long time,” McLaughlin said. “They’re actually more closely related to us than they are to plants.” Now, associate pediatrics professor Cheryl Gale is taking the study of fungi inside the human body. She is studying one fungus in particular, Candida albicans, which can cause infections in infants. “Once it gets into their bloodstream, it can pretty much go anywhere in the body and causes very serious infections that are life-threatening,” Gates said. She said the mor tality rate for such systematic fungal infections in premature infants falls between 20 and 40 percent. Gates said she wants to better understand how

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Researcher Peter Kennedy and lab technician Julia Huggins monitor the growth of mycorrhizal fungi on the roots of tamarack seedlings on Monday in the Biological Sciences Center. Kennedy won an International Mycology Association award this summer.

fungal communities form and change over time in infant intestinal tracts. “There is a great need for research to better understand how fungi cause disease so that we can develop better therapies,” Gates said. Some fungal research, like Kennedy’s, focuses on its role in the health of forest ecosystems. This summer, he received the Arthur Henry Reginald Buller Medal, which is an award given to young fungal researchers every four years from the International Mycology Association. “I hope to contribute for as many years as I can,” Kennedy said. McLaughlin is now retired after almost 45 years of conducting his own research.

He still continues his work, however, with the Assembling the Fungal Tree of Life project. AFTL is striving to expand its understanding of fungal diversity. The project estimates that scientists have described only 80,000 of the world’s roughly 1.5 million fungi. Kennedy said the organisms’ simplicity and small size, along with their cryptic and quick underground lifecycles, make fungi challenging to identify. Although field work has taken him as far away as Mexico, Borneo and New Zealand, Kennedy said he’s also made discoveries close to home. Last month, Kennedy said he joined a team of 65 professional mycologists

and mycology students on a fungus-gathering foray about 35 miles from campus at the Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. “We probably added close to 100 new species to the list of fungi that were known just in one weekend,” he said.

Planting fungal seeds across an institution

Without a central department to bring together campus fungal enthusiasts, Presley said the Mycology Club quickly found an audience. “The time was right to get a student organization together,” he said. Oliver and Presley said their fungal biology club’s mix of events, which include journal discussions,

cultivation workshops and outdoor sample collections, cater to scholars across University departments, including plant biology and plant pathology. Presley said amateur fungal enthusiasts and retirees also have found their way into the mix. “When we promote an activity or seminar, we kind of are planting that seed in all these different departments,” Oliver said. The group’s popularity reflects a campus interest in the field, said Jonathan Schilling, a fungal biology professor who serves as the two club founders’ adviser. “It’s pretty much an indicator that there are a lot of people here that are hungry for something like that,” he said.

UMPD expects spike in nightly trespassers Also, four car break-ins during the Vikings game raised concerns. BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com

As temperatures drop to bitterly cold levels, the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment expects to see a rise of cases of people unaffiliated with the University staying overnight in campus buildings, Lt. Troy Buhta said. University buildings are par ticularly attractive to trespassers during winter months, he said. M o s t r e c e n t l y, a 38-year-old man was cited with obstruction of the legal process on Thursday after officers were alerted that he was sleeping on the basement floor of Rapson Hall, a police repor t said. The campus’s expansive size and the area’s large transient population make these sor ts of cases common, Buhta said, but also hard to detect at times. “We’re so big, there’s a lot of cracks and crannies where these people can spend the night,” Buhta said. “It makes it dif ficult to check ever y place.” Because these cases occur across a wide array of locations, Buhta says UMPD relies on staf f and students to call in incidents of this nature.

History u from Page 1 few years, there has increasingly been more interest in the community, she said. “We have material for gay men, less material for gay women, less material for gays of color, and even less for transgender individuals,” Vecoli said. Director of the University’s GLBTA Programs Stef Wilencheck said discrimination that transgender individuals sometimes face

Ramp break-ins An unknown number of suspects broke into four vehicles parked in the Fourth Street Ramp during the Minnesota Vikings game on Sunday, according to police reports. The reports said police found no suspect information and specified that at least three of the four thefts took place in areas unmonitored by security cameras. Buhta said little can be done to catch the suspects after the fact. He cited a similar scenario last year that was not resolved until officers staked out the Oak Street Ramp for three days, waiting for the sound of shattered glass. “It’s a tough one to stop,” Buhta said. “These bad guys are either walking through the ramps or are on bikes just looking into windows. If they see something, they smash the window and they’re gone.” Buhta said that although parking ramps often have cameras at their entrances and exits, it can still be hard to identify suspects. He also said officers often don’t know which footage to focus on since the thefts could’ve occurred over the entire time the vehicles were left unattended. While the lack of surveillance makes it hard to catch offenders of this type of smash-and-grab crime, Buhta said it would be inefficient to implement building-wide cameras.

is partly why their stories and lives aren’t very visible throughout history. “Their voices have been lost and not highlighted, and therefore haven’t been documented,” they said. Because the Tretter Collection doesn’t have access to many printed records of transgender individuals, individuals behind the project decided to use a different approach to presenting the new material — oral histories. In collaboration with the University’s Program in Human Sexuality, Vecoli said the Tretter Collection will

A first for Como bar’s longtime employee

Michael Manning was bar tending at Manning’s Café in Southeast Como on Monday afternoon when a disgruntled woman called the restaurant, according to a police report. The woman called the restaurant repeatedly and claimed that she had eaten at the restaurant over the weekend but didn’t receive all the food she had paid for, the repor t said. “I wasn’t the one working over the weekend, so I suggested she talk to the manager who was working then,” Manning said. “She became ver y agitated and abusive, and it escalated to her coming in here and creating a big scene.” According to the repor t, she threatened to rob the bar during one phone call. Manning said the altercation climaxed when the woman spit in his face, which led the Minneapolis Police Department to file a report for assault. After he consulted with the manager who had worked over the weekend, Manning said he believed it was unlikely that the woman had even been in the restaurant earlier and was instead attempting a scam. “I’ve been working here 36 years,” Manning said. “I’ve never had any situation like that in here.”

be hiring a team responsible for identifying and reaching out to transgender individuals interested in sharing their experiences. She said the group will hand out fliers at events that are targeted for transgender audiences, work with transgender organizations and contact people in the community who have showed interest in the project. Once the team is hired, it will develop questions that will best aid people in understanding the transgender experience and also reflect on what transgender

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OTHER CRIMES NEAR CAMPUS Crime: Obstruction of legal process, consumption of alcohol by a minor and use of force When: Early Thursday morning Where: 17th Avenue Residence Hall Info: A 19-year-old University student who had previously been evicted from the residence hall was found inside the building after a community adviser there heard someone say his name in a room, according to a police report. When police arrived and identified the man, they noted that he had bloodshot eyes, slurred his speech and smelled of alcohol, the report said. The student refused a breathalyzer and was booked at Hennepin County Jail for obstruction of legal process, minor consumption and use of force. Crime: When: Where: Info:

Fare evasion Friday night Green Line light rail’s East Bank station Metro Transit police were conducting fare compliance checks onboard the Green Line light rail when they found that one man hadn’t paid his fare, according to a police report. Officers arrested and booked him for fare evasion at Hennepin County Jail. Metro Transit police always try to monitor for light rail patrons’ payments, but they do these checks sporadically because of a lack of resources and officers, UMPD’s Buhta said. SOURCES: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

individuals are willing to share. T ransgender people may not always feel safe or comfortable sharing their stories because of discrimination they may have faced, Wilencheck said. “It can be dif ficult and unsafe to share your story, and there needs to be a sense of trust,” they said. “But there are people who are willing and excited to share their story.” While the group doesn’t expect to begin obtaining oral histories until 2015, Vecoli said there has already been an enthusiastic

response from people in the community. Creating a transgenderspecific collection is important, Wilencheck said, because the public can learn a lot about the group from hearing firsthand about their experiences. “When you don’t have primar y source material and people telling their own stor y, the people who are writing histor y interpret it through the lens of other people’s viewpoints, and they fill in gaps,” Vecoli said. “What we want is for people to tell their own stories.”

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

CEHD aims to connect diverse students The college will work with five other universities on the project. BY CHRISTOPHER AADLAND caadland@mndaily.com

Students from diverse communities nationwide often face unique challenges that can hinder their success in higher education. To help address that issue at the University, the U.S. Depar tment of Education recently awarded a grant to the school’s College of Education and Human Development. The funding will aid the University in finding strategies, like community engagement, to retain underrepresented students and make them feel welcome. The nearly $3 million grant — which will be implemented over the next

four years — will also aid five additional universities across the country. The institutions will collaborate to find the most effective ways to engage students who are from underrepresented groups. The University’s r esearch will focus on discovering the potential benefits of minority students increasing their engagement with the diverse communities they grew up in. “Our [nation’s] universities sort of have a culture that’s probably a real middle-to-upper-class culture,” said Geof frey Maruyama, project director and educational psychology depar tment chair. “This is one way to try and bridge the different cultures the students come from.” Community-based engagement and lear ning has a positive impact on

a student’s education, Maruyama said. And participation in those activities is an especially important part of ensuring under represented student groups are successful in a university setting, he said. CEHD associate professor Andrew Furco, who is the project’s co-principal investigator, said the project will rely on existing community experiences for students, like ser vice learning, to determine the most effective practices the University currently has in place for engaging minority students. Furco, who is also the University’s associate vice president for public engagement, said these types of community engagement programs are especially powerful for students from under represented backgrounds, as they are sometimes discouraged with the

“This is one way to try and bridge the different cultures the students come from.” GEOFFREY MARUYAMA Educational psychology department chair

lack of diversity on their college campuses and feel unwelcome. “These experiences help them connect their academic work to things in their communities,” he said. Maruyama said another one of the project’s main goals is to become a blueprint for other universities as they also aim to increase the success of students who come from diverse communities. “As universities engage

with the communities around them, they need to know how to do it,” he said. Mar uyama said many universities want to work with all of the communities their students come from to build lasting par tnerships, but those schools may face some resistance. He said some schools in the past have worked with local communities for research purposes and then abandoned the communities when they finish their work. “If you’ve never done it and you go out to communities and you say things like, ‘Hi, I’m from the university, and I’m here to help,’ it’s not going to go over well,” he said. Universities need to make students from diverse backgrounds feel more welcome and appreciated in order for them

to succeed, said Sondra Samuels, president and chief executive of ficer of Nor thside Achievement Zone, a local nonprofit that prepares north Minneapolis children for college. “There are students who would absolutely graduate from college if they had more support and engagement on that college level,” Samuels said. She said the new project’s approach is “innovative” and will help institutions learn what they need to do in order to provide the best ser vices and education to all students without singling out those from under represented backgrounds. “This grant — which is pretty unique [in] looking at how to make universities relevant for diverse students in terms of the communities they come from — it’s pretty powerful,” she said.

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Bikers pass in front of the Armory and the Nolte Center on Pillsbury Drive Southeast on Tuesday morning.

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City, county may boost bike lanes Mayor Hodges’ proposed budget gives $750,000 for protected lanes. BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com

Protected bike lanes are a hot topic for city and county planners this fall. Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’ proposed 2015 budget allocates $750,000 for protected bike lanes throughout the city, and Hennepin County released a draft of its bicycle transportation plan earlier this month that calls for hundreds of miles of new bikeways by 2040. Local government officials say more bike lanes will promote livability and sustainability in the area. But protected bike lanes, which separate bikers and motorists with barriers like pillars or concrete walls, aren’t coming soon to the University of Minnesota area’s bicycle system, city and county officials say.

“There’s nothing definite at this time,” said Simon Blenski, a bicycle planner for Minneapolis. The two closest protected bike lanes in the works are a nearly one-mile downtown stretch on Washington Avenue South and another project on the Franklin Avenue Bridge, he said. Both are slated for completion in 2016. Minneapolis plans to add 30 miles of protected bike lanes by 2020. The county’s draft plan would also add an average of 20 miles of traditional bikeways per year for the next 26 years. Steve Kotke, director of Minneapolis’ Public Works depar tment, said adding more protected bike lanes will increase ridership for what he called “B” riders, or those who bike but aren’t enthusiasts. “The A riders are the ones that are quite confident and don’t even rely on bike lanes,” he said. “But the B riders, which is the more casual group, are the ones that

we really want to encourage [to bike] through facilities where they feel safe.” Making “interested but concerned” riders feel more comfortable is also a county priority, said Kelley Yemen, Hennepin County’s bicycle and pedestrian coordinator. Gaps in existing bike lanes can discourage casual riders from taking longer trips, she said. One gap in the city’s bikeway system is located near campus on University Avenue Southeast between 27th Avenue Southeast and Fourth Street Southeast, totaling more than a half-mile. Another gap located on Pleasant Street Southeast is one-third of a mile in length. Kotke said increasing bicycle ridership can help improve the environment and Minneapolis’ livability. Getting outdoors is also a big motivator for many people, he said. Protected bike lanes would help promote yearround use, since crews could more easily clear them of

snow, said Ward 2 City Councilman Cam Gordon, who represents the University and surrounding areas. Minneapolis already has a protected bike lane on Plymouth Avenue Nor th that has received positive feedback, Blenski said. Another lane, located on 36th Street West, isn’t yet complete. Kotke said Public Works is working on a study to identify which areas would benefit from protected bike lanes. He said he expects those areas to be identified in the next several months. The county wants 90 percent of homes to be located within a half-mile of a bikeway by 2040, Yemen said. Hennepin County’s plan also calls for almost half of the proposed 536 miles of bikeways to be off-street, in an attempt to create a better network of trails between Minneapolis and other cities, Yemen said. The county is accepting public comment on the plan until Dec. 5.

MSA’s University policy and student concerns committee director. The project is still in its beginning stages, she said, but MSA hopes the University will implement the policy within the next couple of years. If implemented, instructors would be required to post their syllabi from previous semesters. The policy change wouldn’t apply to new courses and would only include syllabi for classes taught previously by the same professor, Jensen said. Sophomore Natalie Ward said she thinks seeing syllabi before enrolling would make students less likely to drop classes because they’d know what to expect. “[Students] would be more excited about the classes they’re taking,” she said. The proposed policy may also benefit faculty members. Mechanical engineering professor William Dur fee said he suppor ts an open syllabus policy because it would help students pick classes that are the right fit. “Information that enables students to make wise selections is great,” he said. While he backs the plan, Durfee, who also formerly chaired the University Senate’s faculty senate consultative committee, said it would be important that the syllabi information stays up to date. He said that may be difficult to implement. Some departments, like the design, housing and apparel department, currently offer students access to old syllabi online. But Becky Yust, a professor in the depar tment, said the course information

isn’t very accessible and is hard to locate. “I think there’d be some caveats [with the policy], but I think overall students could have a much better idea about those expectations,” she said. One of those caveats could be regarding the practice of forcing faculty to release their syllabi, which some could argue breaches their intellectual property rights. Chemistr y professor Christopher Cramer said while he supports a policy change, some faculty members may not be so willing to share their syllabi. “There are certain academic fields that feel ver y protective of their syllabi,” he said. It will also be important for old syllabi to include a disclaimer stating that it’s not an official syllabus for the coming semester, said chemistry department chair William Tolman. Jensen said MSA plans to implement a disclaimer with the policy. Other universities currently have different forms of open syllabus policies in place. The University of Maryland-College Park is currently implementing a system in which faculty post their syllabi a few weeks before the first day of class, said the school’s associate provost for academic planning and programs, Elizabeth Beise. The change will allow students more time to prepare their schedules and to get a better sense of what the course entails, she said. The University of Minnesota’s Crookston campus also has a website where students can view course syllabi from the past decade. “Hopefully this will be a good tool for students,” MSA member Valkyrie Jensen said.

For lawmakers and administrators, bonding bills can present a ‘jigsaw puzzle’ Strategy u from Page 1

on a small bonding bill before the session was up. Legislators can’t always give University officials the amount they want, Hausman said, because of the sheer size of the bill and the limited amount of resources they have to pass out. And lawmakers have to tend to other groups with public infrastructure needs, she said, like the penitentiary system and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources. “We just don’t have enough money,” she said.

Divvying up the costs

For each of the University’s capital request projects, it foots one-third of the bill, and the Legislature supplies two-thirds of the building request by issuing state bonds. Lawmakers are discussing

whether to change this formula, Hausman said. Specifically, they’re considering a model in which the state would cover the costs of new higher education buildings, while the University would bear the expenses to operate and maintain them. “The University president has one suggestion. We have another,” she said. But at least one University official said he’s unsure of legislators’ idea and its financial implications. “It probably shifts more of the costs [to] the University because we don’t build that many new buildings,” said Richard Pfutzenreuter, the University’s chief financial officer. The original one-third, two-third arrangement materialized in the 1990s, he said, to ensure that higher education institutions had “a higher stake” in projects. The University currently draws its one-third portion of capital project funding from

three sources: department savings, donations or debt, Pfutzenreuter said. Debt puts pressure on the operating budget, he said, which in turn can affect tuition.

‘Further and further behind’

On the Twin Cities campus, nearly $3 billion worth of projects are listed in renewal backlogs, or estimated facility needs, over the next decade. President Eric Kaler previously told the Minnesota Daily that the school is falling behind in its building maintenance — especially in Higher Education Asset Preser vation and Renovation funds, which the University requests each year. In response, he proposed that the school request millions of dollars fewer in HEAPR funds next year, while asking for an equivalent amount in the operating budget. The Board of Regents formally

accepted this plan on Friday. But some state legislators are skeptical of the new method. “[The University] could end up getting less in both [requests],” Hausman said. “Each committee thinks, ‘Well, the other committee is taking care of it.’ ” Sen. Richard Cohen, DFL-St. Paul, said it’s often easy for the state to deny HEAPR funding as officials debate over the “jigsaw puzzle” that is a bonding bill. Cohen, the chair of the Senate’s Finance Committee and its Subcommittee on Legacy, said that while the University’s new ploy has some merit, lawmakers’ response could set a precedent for dealings with other institutions like MnSCU. “It always seems to be easier to drop the HEAPR requests,” he said. “And so, in the process, we get further and further behind on some of the maintenance

for the higher education systems.”

A widespread issue Across the nation, there’s a growing need for financial support to repair and maintain colleges’ and universities’ decades-old buildings. Many of Ohio’s public colleges and universities are in need of funding for building maintenance, said Tom Walsh, who works in government affairs at Ohio State University. “It’s a constant state of flux,” he said. “There’s always an ongoing need for maintenance and repair.” But a new budget approach streamlines how the state’s institutions acquire funding from the Legislature. In 2011, Ohio Gov. John Kasich started the Ohio Higher Education Funding Commission, a group that brings the public colleges and universities together to create a single capital budget request every two years.

Before that, capital money was distributed based on an algorithm, Walsh said, so each campus received a formulaic funding amount. “You’d have all the universities competing with each other for a handful of limited dollars,” he said. The commission changed that method, he said, adding that in recent years the new process has boosted collaboration between the colleges and universities in requesting limited resources. In Minnesota, Hausman said, it’s ultimately difficult to pass higher education capital funding because the University isn’t as active as it could be in telling lawmakers why projects deserve funding. “[The University] could help us by changing the discussion behind bonding,” Hausman said, “to use their lobbying power to contact legislators all over the state to say, ‘Don’t be afraid to vote for a bonding bill.’”

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Editorials & Opinions POLITICS

Charities are not enough to help the poor Conservative thought is wrong in suggesting that charities are enough to help out the jobless.

ne of the common talking points that I hear from conservatives and libertarians is that we need to “reduce dependence” on government, particularly with regard to unemployment insurance and food stamps. Instead, these people want the economically disadvantaged to rely temporarily upon charities for support. A recent sur vey from the Chronicle of Philanthropy seems to challenge this ideology. According to the Chronicle’s analysis of Internal Revenue Service data, the richest Americans are donating a smaller percentage of their income to charities than they did only a few years ago. At the same time, those in the middle and lower classes are donating a higher percentage of their income to charities. Moreover, according to the Chronicle’s editor, Stacy Palmer, the richest Americans typically donate to the arts and higher education, not social services. Our social safety net is already inadequate. While it’s true that the United States has a much lower unemployment rate than it did just a few years ago, there are still millions of Americans who have given up

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looking for a job after months of tr ying. Meanwhile, many who have jobs are unable to afford basic necessities. Despite these facts, the federal government has unjustifiably cut millions of people from its food stamp and unemployment insurance programs within the past year, and many states have reduced spending on their social safety nets. In North Carolina, Republican Gov. Pat McCrory signed off on cuts so that out-ofstate residents (who he claimed only moved there for the free lunch) would go back to where “they came from.” While I admit that charities have their value, they should not be the only way for the economically disadvantaged to receive basic necessities. However, because of national and statewide budget cuts, the poor have had no other choice but to rely upon non-governmental services. When we test the right-wing theory that charities should be the norm, we find that it fails. Millions of people in the U.S. are still at

Millions of people in the U.S. are still at risk for hunger, and donations to charities have generally been on the decline. risk for hunger, and donations to charities have generally been on the decline. It doesn’t take an in-depth analysis to realize that the charity system is an inadequate means of economic security. Why do conservatives and libertarians then insist that the poor rely on charities instead of government services? It seems evident that these political groups are most concerned with the interests of the rich, despite the fact that the gap between the rich and the rest of us has grown unsustainably wide. Ultimately, right-wing economics fails to address the basic needs of the poor and systematically pampers the rich. The alternative to their theories is a liberal approach. The government should enhance the social safety net, stimulate the economy through job creation and reduce the income gap by increasing taxes on the rich. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

DAILY DISCUSSION Loopholes in the Clean Water Act Minnesota is the land of 10,000 lakes, and as summer has reached its end, I have been reflecting on the importance of Minnesota’s lakes and rivers. They are such a valuable resource for both drinking water and recreation, and that is why it is so important to keep our waterways clean and protected from pollution. It is not solely a matter of clean drinking water; these waterways are a huge part of how we pass time here in Minnesota, especially those in wilderness areas. Personally, I have gone on more camping and canoeing trips in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness than I can count on one hand. I’m not the only Minnesotan who enjoys parks in our state — in fact, about 8.7 million people per year visit a state park in Minnesota that has a waterway system. Despite the cultural and environmental significance of our waterways, a loophole in the Clean Water Act has left 51 percent of Minnesota’s streams vulnerable to pollution. Thankfully, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed closing these loopholes to protect all of the state’s rivers and streams. The EPA is taking public comments on its rule until Nov. 14, but polluters like agribusinesses and big developers are lobbying against it. That’s why it’s so important that everyone who enjoys spending time on our rivers, lakes and streams make their voices heard: so that future generations may continue to visit Minnesota’s beautiful wilderness areas. Lydia Salus Environment Minnesota

Comment on ‘Prayer confuses at DFL rally’

I have a suggestion for anyone who feels marginalized by the mention of God. Firstly, the speaker mentioned in the editorial likely believes she was put on earth by God. Even if you disagree, I bet you can settle on common ground. If you think the cosmos were assembled by a creator, substitute the name of your creator in place of God. If you believe the cosmos were assembled by nothing from nothing, you have just as much reason and more to be as amazed, inspired and mystified as the theists. Use prayer time to ponder the wonder of creation. If you can’t find yourself amazed, inspired and mystified by all creation, you don’t belong at a university; you belong in a fish bowl. umn_student85 via MNDaily.com

Last week’s Minnesota Daily ar ticle titled “Matching the market,” which focused on administrators’ pay, may pique readers’ interest in what the University of Minnesota spends on instruction. It should also prompt questions about the relation between pay, as determined by the market, and value. First, most people teaching at the University earn far less than the six-figure average salary for full professors cited in the article. Full professors are a minority of the regular faculty, most of whom are either assistant or associate professors and earn lower salaries, commensurate with their lower rank. But that’s just the tenure-stream faculty (those who hold tenured or tenurable positions). Many instructors are hired on

EDITORIALS Lawsuits against NCAA continue

United States District Cour t judge last week refused to dismiss two lawsuits against the NCAA that challenge the collegiate athletics association’s ability to place caps on scholarships. These scholarship limits are paramount in preser ving the amateur status of student-athletes. The judge, Claudia Wilken, also presided over the Ed O’Bannon trial this summer. Her r uling in the landmark case paved the way for Bowl Subdivision football players and Division I men’s basketball players to receive higher scholarships and compensation for use of their images and names after graduation. In one of the two current cases, a former student-athlete is seeking a ban on NCAA compensation limits. If the plaintiffs win, the case may be worth millions of dollars in class-action damages. The plaintif fs in the other case aren’t after damages, but they are calling for a free-market NCAA in which studentathletes could be paid. Essentially, both cases say that NCAA rules illegally cap scholarships at levels less than actual college costs. It’s impor tant for colleges to be able to sufficiently incentivize student-athletes with scholarships, as sports take up time they could have otherwise spent working. In addition, they deser ve some compensation for use of their images on TV or in video games. However, it’s impor tant to remember what’s most important in collegiate athletics: education. Most student-athletes won’t make sports their career, and Wilken must be careful not to let college sports slip any further into the professional realm.

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STUDENT LIFE

Meatless Mondays a good idea Skipping meat one day a week is a small sacrifice for the greater good of the environment.

n more than 100 college campuses in several countries, dining halls have taken meat off the menu. Well, at least for one day of the week. All the dining halls at the University of Minnesota offer vegan and vegetarian dishes, but the Meatless Monday movement is a new step forward. I propose that University Dining Ser vices should accept Meatless Mondays in some, if not all, of its dining halls. Decreasing the amount of meat in your diet not only reduces your risk of heart disease, stroke and obesity, but it also reduces the amount of greenhouse gases emitted from cattle. We can replace high protein in meats with beans and peas, which are also higher in nutrients like fiber, magnesium and iron than most meat entrees. When I ate in the dining halls, I had several friends who did not eat meat. I remember they had a hard time finding a variety of

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response to ‘Matching the market’

different terms altogether, often on contingent appointments —without the possibility of tenure — and often course by course, for but a fraction of a regular faculty salary. Second, according to an analysis done three years ago by Howard Bunsis — then secretar y-treasurer of the American Association of University Professors — the proportion of the University’s expenditures that goes to paying instructors of all categories is about 20 percent. Evidently we the teachers don’t consume an outsize share of the budget, and our pay is not a significant factor in its increase. Third, the salaries of full-time University employees are public information because this is a public institution. The information is available online at the Minnesota Public Employee Salaries database hosted by the Pioneer Press at http://extra.twincities.com/ car/salaries/default.aspx. Want to compare your professors’ pay by

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nutritious meat-free entrees. They regularly substituted meat dishes with tofu, veggie burgers and meatless pastas. I’ve never been a vegetarian, a vegan or any other type of person who has tried to limit the meat intake in their diet. I love chicken, turkey, beef, veal and whatever hot dogs are made from. I don’t plan to change that. However, I do recognize that excessive meat consumption has detrimental effects on my health and the planet. Is one day without meat really that great of a sacrifice? Perhaps the University could bring in outside consultants to design veggie dishes that appeal even to the devout meat eater’s palate. Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

Evidently we the teachers don’t consume an outsize share of the budget, and our pay is not a significant factor in its increase. subject or by any other criterion? You can find out right there. Bear in mind that faculty jobs encompass much more than teaching: Research, governance and service to our disciplines and our communities, as well as our institution, are some of the major categories of faculty work beyond the classroom. Nevertheless, lining up what instructors earn with what you learn from them should suffice to disabuse readers of any notion that people’s worth is properly measured by what they’re paid.

n a recent analysis of the ease with which people can use public transit to access workplaces and other destinations, the Twin Cities metropolitan area ranks 13th out of 46 of the largest population centers in the United States. The rankings are part of a report released by the Accessibility Observatory at the University of Minnesota. Using an agglomeration of transit schedule data from buses, trains and light rail networks, the analysis determined the accessibility of each city’s workplaces. Campus transit routes played an integral part in studying the Twin Cities’ system. This type of information is critical, principal investigator David Levinson said in a news release, because “accessibility is the single most important measure in explaining the effectiveness of the urban transportation system.” The Twin Cities’ widespread network of bus and light rail transit options, which run throughout the metro with relatively few problems, is undoubtedly a big benefit for many people. To rank No. 13 in the nation isn’t bad. However, the Twin Cities needs improvements to maintain or improve its ranking. Luckily, the Twin Cities transit system is working on several projects, including new light rail routes. Additionally, a grant from Ladders of Opportunity will provide funding to improve bus shelters throughout low-income areas. The Accessibility Observatory will release more detailed findings to follow up its initial report. Hopefully, those findings will help local leaders improve the Twin Cities transit system and make jobs accessible to more people. EDITORIALS & OPINIONS DEPARTMENT Editorials represent the voice of the Minnesota Daily as an institution and are prepared by the editorial board.

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Wednesday, October 15, 2014

In gay marriage sweep,

Bridget Bennett, Daily Will Black signs his marriage license with newly wed husband Glen Haslarud, a University urban studies senior, standing over his shoulder on Sept. 19 in Eagan, Minn. Since the couple’s proposal nearly two years ago, Minnesota’s conversation on legalizing same-sex marriage has ended.

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But nationwide, the gay marriage movement continues to bubble, stirring a thick mix of deeply rooted political and cultural ideals. Nearly 30 states and Washington, D.C., will allow same-sex marriage in the near future. A cross-country wave of cour troom victories for same-sex couples ignited last week when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear appeals from five states seeking to preser ve their bans on the practice, suggesting the country’s inevitable move toward widespread legalization. Officials will wrestle with the issue on a state-by-state basis until the high court determines a federal resolution, which could happen as early as this term. In the meantime, opponents of legalization are fine-tuning their arguments against the gay marriage advocates, who experts say have louder claims.

A more welcoming place Nationwide support for same-sex marriage is higher than ever, and cour ts and state legislatures are responding to the rapidly changing public opinion, said Kathleen Hull, a University of Minnesota sociology associate professor who specializes in social movements. Hasler ud’s foster dad, University alumnus John Gustav-Wrathall, said instances of intolerance and low suppor t mark their family story, but those sentiments have since disappeared. His histor y as a gay man seeking marriage years ago compared to Haslerud’s exemplifies society’s shift toward greater acceptance, he said. “I grew up in a generation where we were shunned by family,” GustavWrathall said after his foster son’s wedding. “And to go from that to [this] kind of situation where we have our family around us celebrating ... that’s just what it should be.” Gustav-Wrathall of ficially married his partner in California in 2008 just

months before the state banned same-sex marriage and more than a decade after the couple’s commitment ceremony in Minnesota. He was elated that his foster son could exchange vows in a simpler process and that their state legally recognized the marriage. “Will gave me a big hug and said, ‘I’m your son now,’” Gustav-Wrathall said. “… It felt incredibly satisfying.” About 18 percent of Hennepin County couples who filed for marriage licenses in the last year were either gay or lesbian, totaling nearly 2,700 same-sex marriages as of Oct. 7. The state’s debate over the issue has settled, said Sen. Scott Dibble, DFLMinneapolis, who authored Minnesota’s same-sex marriage legislation. And as suppor t in many regions outweighs disapproval, it’s no longer an issue on most people’s minds, he said. “Hundreds of people get married pretty much every day, or every weekend, of all stripes and varieties,” Dibble said, “and while it’s a huge, huge deal in their lives, it’s not a big deal overall.”

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The state-bystate approach As Haslerud continued his coursework at the University and prepared for his future with Black, Minnesota voters struck down a proposed constitutional amendment to define marriage as between a man and a woman. The pair spent years planning their wedding and going on dates near Prospect Park’s Witch’s Hat Water Tower, and eventually, Gov. Mark Dayton signed Minnesota’s same-sex marriage bill into law. The couple finally said their “I dos” in front of about 150 family and friends last month at an outdoor ceremony in Eagan, Minn. “I was ecstatic … that we were actually able to do it here,” Haslerud said. But with many career aspirations, Haslerud and Black plan to move. They’ll avoid moving to states with blatant objections or bans

Bridget Bennett, Daily University urban studies senior Glen Haslarud and Will Black have their first kiss as a married couple on Sept. 19 in Eagan, Minn.

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LOVING V. VIRGINIA After marrying in the District of Columbia, Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter returned to Virginia and faced charges for violating the state’s ban on interracial marriages. The case reached the Supreme Court, which struck down the law prohibiting interracial marriage. Contemporary conversations on same-sex marriage often reference the case, as it is a landmark for marriage law.

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BAKER V. NELSON University of Minnesota law student Jack Baker and his partner, Michael McConnell, filed a lawsuit after their application for a marriage license was denied. The U.S. Supreme Court refused to give it a hearing. Contemporary discussions over awarding federal benefits to same-sex couples continue to cite the case.

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University urban studies senior Glen Haslarud and Will Black pose for engagement photos on April 28, 2013, in St. Anthony Main. Their engagement remained in flux until Minnesota’s debate on legalizing same-sex marriage ended.

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The Minnesota Daily featured Glen Haslerud and Will Black in a May 7, 2013, story, “Engaged at home, but not married,” as the state Legislature considered legalizing same-sex marriage. At that time, the couple was planning to travel to Iowa for their wedding if Minnesota’s legislation didn’t pass. They were elated that they could legally marry in their home state, as about 150 friends and family celebrated their ceremony on Sept. 19. They said they hope that gay and lesbian couples nationwide receive the same recognition in the future.

sex mar riage has risen. People are switching their stances on the issue, mostly due to its per vasiveness, normalizing the practice, Hull said. “People are opening their eyes and realizing, ‘It didn’t affect my life,’” Haslerud said. He said he’s changed the perspectives of former same-sex marriage skeptics firsthand by explaining the differences between a marriage that’s of ficiated by a religious institution and one that’s recognized under law. But opposition toward same-sex mar riage will never completely fade, Johnson said. “A significant number of people in the countr y who have ver y strong religious objections to the recognition of same-sex marriages — those aren’t just going to melt away,” Carpenter said. Officials can legally argue that if gay and lesbian couples didn’t have the right to marriage during the Constitution’s conception and beyond, they don’t today. That argument rose in volume when the Supreme Court mulled over Loving v. Virginia in 1967, culminating with a landmark decision for marriage law. The justices struck down the state of

Virginia’s statute prohibiting interracial marriages. During the deliberation process, the court considered procreation as a main factor for granting the right of marriage, which Johnson said opponents of samesex mar riage could use as a platform. They could claim that marriage should be reser ved for couples who can have biological children together. No same-sex marriage cases are on the Supreme Court’s calendar for its October session, but the court could address the issue in the coming months and “settle this once and for all,” Hull said. Meanwhile, states will gauge public opinion and decipher their place in the fluctuating same-sex marriage landscape. Many states are removing bans and issuing licenses at a pace faster than the country has ever seen. However, Minnesota remains motionless, hosting weddings like Haslerud’s and Black’s, and keeps out of the countr y’s messy same-sex marriage terrain that leaders nationwide are still navigating. “Sooner or later,” Dibble said, “it’s going to be universal across the country.”

INFOGRAPHICS AND LAYOUT BY MARIANA PELAEZ GRAPHICS SOURCES: MN DAILY REPORTING, MINNESOTA LEGISLATIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY, GALLUP POLLS, NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES CHECK OUT: MNDAILYPROJECTS.COM/STMARRIAGE TO EXPERIENCE THE PROJECT ONLINE

Nov. 6

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Feb.

MINNESOTA REJECTS THE CONSTITUTIONAL BAN

MINNESOTA LAWMAKERS INTRODUCE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LEGISLATION

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Legislators proposed several bills to address marriage law, including ones that established civil unions or eliminated the word “marriage” completely. The bill that finally passed legalized marriage between two people regardless of gender and provided protections and exemptions based on religious associations.

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MINNESOTA ALLOWS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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Gov. Mark Dayton signed the legislation, and it went into effect Aug. 1.

e Jun 2

SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN DOMA

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Supreme Court deemed DOMA unconstitutional and struck it down, which allowed the federal government to recognize legal same-sex marriages. The ruling allows gay and lesbian couples to receive federal benefits. e Jun 2

deliberations more willingly, the political arena is changing. Some members of the Republican Party are shying away from voicing opposition, Hull said, due to its seemingly legal inevitability and the strong likelihood that the Supreme Court will strike all bans down. “They don’t want to be embracing a cause that is seen as … divisive or hopeless,” she said. “All of the momentum is in the other direction at this point.” Minnesota Republican candidate for governor Jeff Johnson has backed away from the issue, and state leaders haven’t made any indication that they’ll revisit Minnesota’s marriage law. Republicans realize the debate is over, Dibble said, and raising an issue would be a distracting controversy. The changing national political landscape reflects the shift in public opinion in recent years, which Hull said is due in part to generational replacement, or older, conser vative people dying and younger, more liberal generations replacing them. But other factors are involved, especially given how dramatically and rapidly suppor t for same-

on same-sex marriage out of fear of not being accepted. H o w e v e r, t h e y s a i d sweeping legalization nationwide would ease some of their migration concerns. Though the Supreme Cour t struck down a section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act last summer, granting federal benefits to same-sex couples, states can deny the recognition of gay and lesbian couples who legally wed elsewhere. The state-by-state approach to addressing the gay marriage movement, instead of the Supreme Cour t making a federal ruling, could delay a crosscountry resolution, law professor Dale Carpenter said. A number of states won’t recognize the marriages in the near future, he said, and the political battle will continue even with rising national support. There’s significant pushback against legal same-sex marriage in par ts of the countr y, political science professor Timothy Johnson said. Highly conser vative and southern states are lifting their bans and authorizing same-sex marriage licenses at a much slower pace than others. And for states that tolerate gay mar riage

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CALIFORNIA ALLOWS SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

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PROPOSITION 8 STRUCK DOWN Supreme Court justices lifted California’s ban on same-sex marriage.

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U.S. SUPREME COURT DENIES HEARING APPEALS The high court declined hearing appeals from five states that sought to preserve their bans on samesex marriage. The action automatically allowed those states to start issuing same-sex marriage licenses and granted six others the option of pursuing legalization.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

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FOOTBALL

Defense provides foundation for success Minnesota’s goal is to hold opposing offenses to less than 17 points per game. BY GRANT DONALD gdonald@mndaily.com

After allowing Nor thwestern to put together a 97-yard touchdown drive to tie the game in the four th quar ter, the Gophers’ defense had a new sense of eagerness. “We definitely felt like we could stop them on the next drive. There [were] no heads down. We were still confident in ourselves,” senior linebacker Damien Wilson said Saturday after the Gophers’ 24-17 victor y over Nor thwestern. The defense has been playing with confidence, which is arguably the reason the Gophers have bolted to a 5-1 start. Heading into the year, one goal Minnesota’s coaching staf f reiterated to the defense was holding opponents to 17 points or fewer each game. “If you hold a team to 17 points or less [and] you do that all year, you’re going to be close to the top10 defense in the countr y — at least in the top 15,” defensive coordinator Tracy Claeys said. The Gophers have completed that goal in each of the past three games and are allowing 18.7 points per game, which ranks fourth in the Big Ten. The success has come even with the defense performing without some of its key players because of injuries. After the first game, the defensive line lost three of its players, including junior Scott Ekpe. Also, the secondar y is currently playing without senior Derrick Wells, and

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota defensive lineman Cameron Botticellli celebrates after a play on Aug. 28 against Eastern Illinois at TCF Bank Stadium.

sophomore linebacker Cody Poock will miss the entire year due to an ACL tear. When asked about the defensive line’s per formance, head coach Jerr y Kill said that entering into the season, he didn’t anticipate the young players who have stepped up to be playing at such a high level. “They still make mistakes, but they’re doing pretty well,” he said.

While the young players have stepped up and exceeded expectations, the upperclassmen ar e still the leaders of the defense. Wilson leads the Big Ten in tackles, averaging 11 per game, and redshir t senior defensive lineman Cameron Botticelli leads the team with two sacks. Botticelli has been part of the team for five years.

He said he knows the season is far from over and the defense needs to maintain its success if the Gophers want to keep winning. “[We are] a level-headed, bend-but-don’t-break defense,” Botticelli said. “It has ser ved us well to this point in the season, and I’m excited to see where we can take it with another week’s hard work.”

VOLLEYBALL

Age just a number for young team The Gophers have five freshmen on the team and three upperclassmen.

Freshman offensive lineman Connor Mayes saw his first game action last weekend against Northwestern, and of fensive coordinator Matt Limegrover said Mayes will be a part of the rotation moving forward. “We’re banged up,” Limegrover said. “We felt like he’s a kid that could help us. We’re going to continue to escalate

Mendez paces men’s team to eighth place

CORA NELSON, DAILY FILE PHOTO

mature as a person.” Lohman and Goehner said they think they’ve matured mentally and with their volleyball play. But Lohman said maintaining mental toughness, like the game requires, was a challenge for her coming into college volleyball. Although the team is young, Lohman said age or class doesn’t define the team, and Tapp said the team has a strong relationship with the whole freshman class. The Gophers head into a border battle match Wednesday against No. 5 Wisconsin, which boasts

VOLLEYBALL

tournament at 4-over par with Johnson three strokes behind him. Freshman Rúnar Arnórsson rounded out the young lineup, finishing at 8-over par.

Women finish 13th

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

Freshman volleyball player Dalianliz Rosado practices her defense at the Sports Pavilion on Sept. 9. Rosado is one of five freshmen on the team.

that development and keep bringing him along and continue to get him reps.” Mayes was a three-star recruit out of Van Alstyne High School in Texas. “Being a kid coming from a smaller level school, [we] didn’t know exactly what we were going to get,” Limegrover said. “We knew the physical part, but just the technique and mentality and mind frame — he’s been great.”

GOLF

Both the men’s and women’s team have one more fall tournament.

BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com

Though the Gophers ar e an under classmenheavy team this season, they’re taking it in stride. Of the 14 players on the roster, five of them are freshmen, and each of the young players saw action on the court last weekend. Freshman middle blocker Molly Lohman made the lineup, leading the team with six block assists Friday. Freshmen Dalianliz Rosado and Alyssa Goehner have played since the beginning of the season, and Goehner continues to start at libero. Lohman said she’s seen the improvements in the freshman class since arriving at Minnesota. “I played club with Alyssa, and she’s a completely dif ferent player than she was in club,” Lohman said. Sophomore middle blocker Paige Tapp said the freshmen have done well in their shor t time playing in college. “It’s great to see them come in and work hard with us,” she said. Head coach Hugh McCutcheon said the younger players have gr own physically and mentally. “Tr ying to lear n how to play the game is also about how to control yourself, your emotions and actions,” he said. “That’s not something you lear n in a few weeks. It’s a process that happens as you

Mayes to get reps on the offensive line

The Gophers men’s golf team posted its lowest team score of the season Monday and Tuesday, finishing the three-round Alister MacKenzie Invitational at 8-over par as a team. The Gophers finished eighth in the tournament, led by sophomore Jose Mendez, who tied for 15th. Mendez, who has led the Gophers in each tournament so far this season, finished at even par, posting rounds of 68, 71 and 74. Junior Jon DuToit tied for 20th. Head coach John Carlson switched up his lineup from the team’s last tournament, subbing out sophomore Daniel Luftspring and senior Tyler Lowenstein and adding sophomore Matt Rachey and Riley Johnson. Rachey finished the

The women’s team didn’t have quite the same success, finishing 13th of 15 teams at the Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational. The tour nament was Minnesota’s first of the season that spanned three days. Minnesota shot rounds of 301, 332 and 306 and seemingly struggled in the second round — four players posted scores above 80. Senior Carmen Laguna led the team at 17-over par and tied for 40th. Fel l o w s en i o r A n n a Laorr was one stroke behind her, and freshman Sabrine Garrison also posted a top-50 finish. Freshmen Celia Kuenster and Heather Ciskowski rounded out Minnesota’s scoring contingent. The Gophers will have time to regroup before playing in their next tournament near the end of October.

MEN’S GOLF

WOMEN’S GOLF

PREVIEW

RESULTS

VS NO. 23 MINNESOTA 13-4 OVERALL, 3-3 BIG TEN WHEN: 6 p.m. Wednesday

NO. 5 WISCONSIN 14-2 OVERALL, 5-1 BIG TEN WHERE: Sports Pavilion

RESULTS

GOLFER Jose Mendez Jon DuToit Matt Rachey Riley Johnson Rúnar Arnórsson

RD1 68 69 71 73 72

RD2 71 73 73 72 70

RD3 74 72 73 75 79

TOTAL 213 214 217 220 221

GOLFER RD1 Carmen Laguna 79 73 Anna Laorr Sabrine Garrison 78 Celia Kuenster 74 Heather Ciskowski 76

RD2 78 84 81 89 89

RD3 76 77 78 75 79

TOTAL 233 234 237 238 244

TEAM 1 California 2 Arizona State 3 Oregon State 4 UC Davis 5 Pepperdine

RD1 279 271 274 275 283

RD2 272 278 278 283 285

RD3 288 292 292 291 285

TOTAL 839 841 844 849 853

TEAM T1 UNLV T1 Tulane 3 Baylor 4 SMU 5 Miami

RD1 284 291 288 286 307

RD2 314 314 311 313 306

RD3 297 290 299 301 289

TOTAL 895 895 898 900 902

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

an experienced team that lost in the national championship game last season. Goehner said despite the Gophers’ age — 11 of the team members are un-

derclassmen — the team is experienced, and it is learning match by match. “We are ver y young, but we’ve been winning,” Goehner said.

*out of 16 teams

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

*out of 15 teams

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

sudoku

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.

10/15/2014

Today’s Birthday (10/15): Play your passion with friends for most impact this year. Share community support. Artistic creativity bubbles. Pursue a dream that speaks to your spirit.

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 — Study and prepare for all the contingencies you can imagine. A windfall rains down. Let it sink in. A hidden danger lurks on the road ahead.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Be careful now. A work-related bonus rewards past efforts. Plan your steps before launching new projects. Arrange better storage space.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — The truth gets revealed. Your cleverness with business and communications serves you. Finish an old project.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Call on your superpowers today. Use your secret strengths and determination to breeze past roadblocks.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Avoid impetuosity. Seek private counsel before choosing your course. Don’t get stuck with your pet theory. Learn the rules.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Handle routine chores and mundane paperwork, especially regarding finances. Count the take in private.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Financial shortages could get annoying, while resolvable. Beat a looming deadline. All does not necessarily go smoothly.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Play an old game you enjoy. Don’t overdo the muscle! You can accomplish some of your goals, and some need postponing.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Don’t borrow or lend today. The pace quickens, so increase your intention level to focus on the job at hand.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Someone’s skill level surprises you. Finish an overdue project and breathe in relief. Stand up for yourself. Don’t throw money around.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Make an immediate repair and save money and extraordinary hassle. Increase your equity while you’re at it. Get supplies wholesale.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Show your exotic side. Practice your latest tricks. Plans may need modification. Intellect + intuition = insight.

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

from the archive

Wednesday, October 12, 2005

crossword

FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 15, 2014 13

BACKTALK

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

DAILY CROSSWORD

From Smacky the Bear

Clamburgler, although a lackluster speller, is right. Everyone knows that the upperclassmen around here rock out to Journey or Rick Springfield when they’re drunk. So next time you kiddies hear “Don’t Stop Believing” or “Jesse’s Girl” you’ll know where the party’s at. Net: Don’t forget about Foreigner. “Feels Like the First Time” is the perfect theme to drunken dorm hookups. In other truly head-scratching developments Net: Just admit it. You’ve got lice. there was an editorial yesterday about a new Minnesota law that requires the registration of exotic pets (lions, tigers, strippers, etc.). Net: We had a pet stripper once. Not surprisingly, our dinner guests never complained when she humped their legs. Nothing screams college like exotic pet laws. Net: Take it from us, Bengal tigers don’t belong at house parties … It’s all fun and games until someone cuts in the keg line and gets violently dismembered. Where are the editorials about this new antifatty policy that is uniting both liberals and conservatives across campus? Net: Nothing brings people together like mutual disgust for the obese. That’s the kind of solidarity that gets Smacky all misty in the eyes.

From EVERYTHING_ZEN

Hey pirate_pundit, have you ever noticed that little birthmark on the inside of your mother’s right thigh…Net: It’s a mole, not a birthmark, and it’s damn hairy too. Oh how I kid. Seriously though, you are a douche bag. I didn’t even know it was possible to rip on an organization that has raised over 50 million dollars for cancer research and support. Net: As “Family Guy” has proven, there’s pretty much nothing that isn’t funny. You need to stop being such a little NUTT and complain about things that matter. Like girls with oversized sunglasses that cover up their ugly faces and freshman… cause no one likes freshman. Net: Except drunken freshmen hotties, they seem to do OK at parties. HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:

From IrateLeprechaun

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if the university became the fourth-ranked public research university? I bet Bruininks would have to bring GC back. And then it’d be totally awkward if Bruininks and GC see each other on the way to class or something. Net: “Uh, hey ... how have you been? Yeah, so, I should probably tell you that I got tested and, well, I’ve got the clap … ” Speaking of research, I have a new invention that’s just waiting for the support of some venture capitalist out there in Networkia: a fake udder that you stick in your fridge. It’ll expand the demographic of milk-drinkers from 8 year olds to 8 year olds and frats. Net: Those frat boys do love their bovine breasts. Until next time, and carpe boob.

From CircleJerk

I just love how everyone is a NUTTing comedian because they can add the words “frat boy” in their sentence. Well guess what? Net: Chicken butt? You all sound like a bunch of ignorant NUTTholes because you don’t have a clue what the greek system entails. To pirate_pundit, good crack about frat boys giving to charity since we do actually contribute lots of time and money to non-profit organizations (about as much as you spend jerking off in front of your computer). Net: So you contribute to charities for about five minutes at a time, three times a day? The rest of you haters are just jealous because we have better parties, that don’t get busted (unless some idiot decides to throw a battery through a cop window....and you wonder why we don’t let randoms into our parties). Net: Except for hot chicks. You can never have too many of those. So next time you’re girlfriend ditches you to come to a frat party and ends up cheating on you, don’t get mad at us...we’re just that much cooler than you. Net: If playing soggy biscuit makes you cool, we’d rather stay nerdy.

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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 27 October 15, 2005 Dear Dr. Date,

I went out on a date this past weekend and had a wonderful time talking with this guy, we laughed and had fun. There was one problem, when he kissed me, I felt like he was attacking me and he would bite my lips constantly. I thought I was being tortured, but I didn’t know how to let him know. I kinda pushed him away and that was that, but when I left I looked in the mirror and had these huge swollen lips because he was biting and pulling at them so hard. I seriously put ice on them for an hour so that the swelling would go down. I woke up to my normal lips, but how do I tell him that he is a horrible kisser? Should I tell him? I really don’t want him to torture any other girls, because he’s good looking, funny, and smart, and I’m sure a lot of girls would fall for him. I’m pretty sure he never gets past the first date.

— Swollen Lips

Dear Swollen Lips,

This reminds me of the episode of “Sex and the City” where Charlotte dates the guy who tries to lick her face off. You’re Charlotte, and the guy who bit your face off is the guy who licked her face off. You have to tell him. He hurt you! You would say something if he punched you too hard in the arm, right? Or if he gave you a really bad snakebite? You’d be like “ouch!” This isn’t any different. I’m surprised you were able to stand it as long as you did. But you can’t let him hurt you like that, especially when he probably has no idea he’s doing it. For all he knows, he probably thinks it’s sexy. Tell him it’s not sexy, and that it causes you physical pain. Say no girl would ever think that feels good, and that he should 1. apologize to you for trying to eat your face and 2. never do that again. Ever. I’m not sure if you ever want to see this guy again, but I advise you to clue him in on his choppers of death before he gets beat up or sued.

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

A few weeks ago I did a pathetic thing; I asked out my friend that I liked a lot by putting a note on her timecard. When I next saw her at work she kind of avoided me until I was about to leave and than she started crying because she didn’t want to hurt my feelings since she had no feelings for me. The thing is that I have a small case of bi-polar so I can’t really let this go when I hit depression. Not too long ago, when I was at her house she confronted me since I was acting so depressed and she wanted to know why I was so sad, but I just lied and said nothing and I think she knows that I was lying. She also asked me why I asked her out and again I couldn’t tell her so I kind of made up an excuse so she would stop asking me. Now I feel like such a jerk for lying and I feel like I need to tell her the truth. I have tried and tried to move on and I just can’t. I’ve tried going out with other people but I end up thinking about my friend all the time. I also end up going to sleep with her on my mind and I just can’t get to sleep when I want to. So my questions are: 1. Why do you think she says she has no feelings for me but she cried because she didn’t want to hurt my feelings? (I guess she could just have feelings as friends.) 2. Do you think I should’ve told her the truth about why I was sad and why I asked her out? 3. Should I tell her the truth about the ques-

tions she asked me even though that happened a while ago? 4. Is there any way that I may have a chance with her? If so, what would I have to do to get that chance? 5. If not than how should I go about getting over this and move on? 6. And finally, I’m not the greatest looking person and I’m not trying to generalize, but why do most women need to be insensitive and go for attractiveness? Shouldn’t it be about how the guy treats you and what his personality is like? I guess the saying is kind of true:

— nice guys get screwed over.

Dear nice guys get screwed over,

Oh man. OK, here we go. 1. She said she has no feelings for you because she has no feelings for you. She cried probably because girls can get emotional, especially if they know that what they have to say could potentially really hurt someone. 2. Yes, you absolutely should have told her the truth about why you were sad and why you asked her out. Friends deserve to know the truth. 3. Yes, you probably should tell her the truth now. Make sure you tell her that it’s OK if she doesn’t have feelings for you, and that you’re not going to pressure her into anything. 4. No. She said she’s not interested and you should leave it at that. 5. Getting over anybody isn’t easy. You just have to stop having the mentality that you need to “get” her, and enjoy the fact that you still have a great friend. 6. First of all, let’s settle down on the generalizations. Not all women are insensitive and not all women go for conventional attractiveness. Most women prefer someone they are attracted to, but so do most people. But that doesn’t always mean physical attraction. Yes, it should be about how the guy treats you and what his personality is like, and in most cases, it really is about that. But you shouldn’t just assume that it’s the way that you look that is the reason people don’t like you. You two may just not jibe. Personally, I don’t think nice guys get screwed over. But maybe next time you have feelings for someone, you should just calmly bring it up to them and ask them if they have mutual feelings instead of leaving a note on their timecard.

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

I am a single guy who has been looking for a girlfriend for a while now. So, I ask a few on dates. They seem perfectly nice and pretty and insert-your-own-compliment-here, until we actually go out. Then — BAM! — out comes the crazy. Now, I won’t go into specifics on the crazy other than they are quick to attach and quick to tell me their deepest secrets. I just want a nice normal girl who I can spend some time with and wants to get to know me. How can I screen these girls, or better yet, just be confident that my judgments of these girls i date is right?

— Crazy Because of Crazy Situations

Dear Crazy Because of Crazy Situations,

The bad news is I don’t really have a way for you to tell if these girls are crazy before you get to know them. The good news is you’re doing the perfect thing! You’re taking a chance on them by taking them on an informal date. You have no obligations — just see how the first date goes and take it from there (or not).

— Dr. Date

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dr. date Dr. Date,

Never in my life have I been the type of guy to compete for a girl’s attention — not until this semester, anyway. My two roommates and I are all smitten with the same girl who lives in our apartment complex. For the record, I feel like I have a stronger connection with this girl. And considering our late-night chats, it seems like she digs me, too. But I’m not sure if these seemingly personable talks are happening between her and my other mates as well. My question is, do I confront my roommates about my feelings and ask them to back off, even though they might get hostile about it? Or do I keep the situation in competition-limbo?

—Roomie Rivalry

Go for the Gold,

Late-night conversations can only go on for so long before a girl starts viewing you as a friend instead of a potential romantic interest. If she gives you signs that she wants to be more than friends, proceed without your friends’ permission. They may be upset right away, but those feelings will disappear before you know it. The heart wants what the heart wants, and there will be other fish in the sea for your forlorn roommates.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’ve been seeing this guy for about two months now, and I really like how things are going. We never fight, and we always have a lot of fun together. It’s been great. We made it official a couple of weeks ago. But having a boyfriend is new to me; I’m usually the girl who flies solo and thrives on her individuality. I enjoy doing things alone, and I feel like I’m losing that part of myself with this new relationship. It’s concerning. It’s not that I don’t enjoy his company; I just feel like I’m not as independent as I used to be. My friends have even noticed and mentioned it to me. I don’t like that I’ve changed, and it scares me that I’m relying on him so much. Our lives are so interwoven. How can I restore my

independence without cutting ties with my boyfriend?

—Anonymous

Too Much Togetherness,

Take some “me” time. New love is exhilarating, but even the most passionate of lovebirds need a break from each other. While it’s tempting to spend every waking moment with your boyfriend, dedicate at least one night to friends or yourself. This will allow you to regain the part of yourself that you feel like you’ve lost. From the way you describe your relationship, your boyfriend will understand your need for alone time if you’re upfront with him.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

Why do my friends have such an easy time getting chicks? Every weekend we go out, they’re always bringing back different girls, and it seems like they have the best luck. I’ve watched their pickup technique, and to be honest, it’s really cheesy-lame. Why do girls fall for it? Meanwhile, I’m a good guy over here, always alone and getting rejected whenever I make a move. I just need some answers. Thanks!

—Nice Guys Finish Last

No More Mr. Nice Guy,

Many girls like or fall for your friends’ asshole-loser techniques. But maybe that’s because too many good guys aren’t straightforward and up-front about their intentions with girls. What girls find attractive about assholes is their confidence, which you can develop through finding your strengths, unique points and foibles. Don’t use the techniques and lines your friends do. You’re a genuine, kind guy. And while they may work for the occasional one-night stand, they won’t get you a substantial relationship — use that to your advantage. Make sure you get beyond polite, boring small talk through flirting and exerting boldness. Don’t let your friends’ tactics bring you down, and just be you.

—Dr. Date

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

Wednesday, October 15, 2014