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ELECTION 2014

Low-key race heats up at the U

Stocking the staples

Minnesota’s secretary of state race is one of few in the area without an incumbent running.

BY KEVIN KARNER kkarner@mndaily.com

Four candidates vying to be the next Minnesota secretary of state squared off at a debate held on the University of Minnesota campus Monday.

The race to become the of ficial who oversees election law and some business ser vices across Minnesota has proven to be the sleeper election of this season, experts say, but candidates’ campaigns are picking up steam as Election Day nears.

Monday’s debate, held at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs, spanned questions regarding military voter participation, voter ID, absentee voting policies, expanding ranked-choice voting and how active the office should be in partisan politics.

While the debate was never combative, it highlighted differences between the candidates.

With no publicly released opinion polling or an incumbent to tip the scales, the election has so far gone under some students’ radars.

“It’s weird that it’s a separate election

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Owner Abed Hassuneh works behind the counter at Santana Foods on Monday. Santana Foods sells some staple foods, but the Minneapolis City Council is considering an updated grocery store ordinance that would mandate an increase in required staple foods carried in stores.

The City Council could soon make grocery stores carry certain foods, but some say the new requirements will be hard to meet.

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owners and city leaders say the require-

BY ETHAN NELSON enelson@mndaily.com

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ments may be difficult to meet.

ore fresh fruits, vegetables and oth-

The updated staple foods ordinance

er core food items may be coming

would require grocer y stores to stock

to Minneapolis corner stores this spring.

certain amounts of produce, proteins and

Six years after Minneapolis became

dair y products, among other obligations.

the first city in the country to make stores

The amendment would also redefine which

stock staple foods — which include cheese,

stores are exempt from the policy.

milk and whole grain cereal — the City

The changes would bring healthier food

Council is considering a proposal that

to areas that don’t have easy access to gro-

Despite past worry, the light rail opening hasn’t affected crime rates around its stops.

would mandate minimum requirements for

cery stores, said Ward 2 City Councilman

stores carrying these foods.

Cam Gordon, who authored the proposal

BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com

residents’ overall health, some business

Despite previous concerns from the University of Minnesota community, the Green Line light rail hasn’t brought more crime to the area.

Excitement swept the University area last year as residents awaited the muchanticipated Green Line, but with that came concern from some neighborhood members who thought the new travel option could bring criminals. Law enforcement officials say there hasn’t been a noticeable increase in crime this semester.

A 2012 University survey, which included Prospect Park residents, showed that community members living along existing and planned light rail lines in the Twin Cities associated increased crime with the train stations, but research in other cities has shown that light rail lines don’t tend to boost crime rates.

“I don’t see an uptick in crime on the University campus that directly correlates with the light rail,” said Metro Transit police Capt. Jim Franklin, adding that the data u See TRAINS Page 10

While researchers and Minneapolis officials are hopeful the measure will improve

and represents the University of Minnesota and surrounding areas.

As city law stands now, stores aren’t

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ENVIRONMENT

U celebrates five years of sustainability efforts Even though a 2009 campaign has found some success, some say more work is necessary.

BY MOLLY MICHALETZ mmichaletz@mndaily.com

This fall, the University of Minnesota is celebrating five years of sustainability efforts.

University Services kick-started the “It All Adds Up” campaign in 2009 with the goal of reducing energy consumption on campus and creating a greener community.

While the school has saved energy on a variety of new projects in recent years,

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some sustainability leaders say more needs to be done if campus is to become more environmentally friendly.

With the University’s sustainability efforts in the past five years — ranging from reducing water consumption to cutting coal use on campus — the school has successfully met its goals of becoming a greener campus.

In 2009, the University’s Energy Management group made a goal of reducing campus-wide energy consumption by 5 percent each year. The group met and exceeded that goal ahead of schedule because of efforts such as updating some buildings to function more efficiently.

The University discovered ways to

update TCF Bank Stadium’s mechanical systems, saving nearly $100,000 annually, according to the campaign’s website.

Since its start, the group has reviewed and updated more than 50 buildings to make them more sustainable. So far, renovations like these have saved $7.6 million each year in energy costs.

Energy Management also par tnered with the East Bank Facilities Management team in 2011 to reduce the unnecessar y consumption of nearly 1 million gallons of water each year in the Mechanical Engineering building, according to the campaign’s website. That initiative also saved u See GREEN Page 10

Bringing a new level of play Guard Rachel Banham is set to shatter school records in her senior season with Minnesota.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

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Senior Gophers basketball player Rachel Banham poses at Williams Arena on Monday afternoon. Banham hopes to finish strong as her last season with Minnesota approaches.

Rachel Banham dropped 15 points in the first game of her collegiate career nearly three years ago.

In her debut performance, the guard led her team in scoring.

Fast-for ward to Banham’s senior year and not much has changed.

Though she likely has the most talented supporting cast since she began college, Banham will still shoulder a major load of the Gophers’ offense.

She received the honor of Big Ten Preseason Player of the Year on Thursday after leading the conference in scoring with 22.1 points per game last season. Banham begins

her fourth season in less than a month.

But despite her prolific scoring, her new head coach, Marlene Stollings, said she thinks there’s another level for the star.

“One of the things we’ve done is implement a jab series,” Stollings said. “And [we’re] utilizing shot fakes more, [and expanding] her ability to come off screens more efficiently.”

Banham described Stollings’ style of play as “up-tempo” and said that style matches the one she played in high school.

A more up-tempo style requires a higher level of fitness, and Banham said she has recently been focusing on getting in shape and staying healthy.

“I want to bring it on both ends [of the cour t],” she said. “And I’ve said that in the past, but I think this year, it’s just been more of a continued stressor for me in that I really want to be good on both ends.” u See BASKETBALL Page 5

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DALLAS — Youngor Jallah spent the last three weeks confined to her small apartment with her children and boyfriend, fearing they had contracted the deadly Ebola virus from her mother’s fiance.

But with the household emerging symptom-free from a 21-day incubation period, Jallah’s family members are now tr ying to resume their lives - replacing the personal belongings incinerated in a cleanup at her mother’s home, and overcoming the stigma of the Ebola scare that has gripped Dallas.

O n M o n d a y, J a l l a h beamed as she sent her children back to school with clearance from the Dallas County health

depar tment tucked into their backpacks. Her mother emerged from her own confinement and started looking for a new place to live.

“We were sitting here traumatized,” Jallah told The Associated Press on Monday.

“We just thank God we never came down with the virus.”

Since two nurses who treated her mother’s fiance became infected with Ebola, health workers have been pushing for new standards on protective gear. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released those guidelines Monday, calling for face shields, hoods, boot covers and other garb that leave no part of the body exposed. They also call for a trained monitor to supervise the donning and doffing of protective wear. And they

call for repeated training and practice.

Troh’s fiance, Thomas Eric Duncan, was the first person diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. He died Oct. 8.

Health of ficials said Monday about 50 people have passed the incubation period safely. Others who are still being monitored include health care workers who treated Duncan as well as those who cared for two nurses who had treated Duncan and also became infected.

There are now about 120 people in Texas being monitored for symptoms, with their wait period ending Nov. 7, said Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings. He said the number may fluctuate.

There are also about 140 people being monitored in

Ohio because of contact or potential contact with nurse Amber Vinson, Ohio officials said. Vinson, who cared for Duncan in Texas, flew from Dallas to Cleveland on Oct. 10 and flew back Oct. 13.

An Ebola patient who was being treated in Atlanta since early September has been released from Emory University Hospital after he was determined to be free of the virus and no threat to the public. Hospital and health officials never released his name, in keeping with his family’s wish for privacy.

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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Three states will receive a combined $8.6 million in federal grants to reduce phosphorus runoff blamed for the kind of harmful algae growth in western Lake Erie that left more than 400,000 people without drinkable tap water for two days in August, officials said Monday.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding grants to Ohio, Michigan and Indiana to provide farmers with technical assistance and incentives while improving the measurement of phosphorus loads in Lake Erie tributaries, regional director Susan Hedman said.

“The importance of taking a regional approach to address the impact of harmful algae blooms on Lake Erie is imperative,” said James Zehringer, director of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

Lake Erie, the shallowest of the five Great Lakes, has been plagued with large blooms of cyanobacteria — commonly known as blue-green algae — for more than a decade. They produce a toxin that can kill pets and livestock and cause liver damage in humans. An outbreak in August prompted the drinking water ban for much of northwestern Ohio, including Toledo, and southeastern Michigan.

Experts blame the outbreaks largely on phosphorus that washes into the lake from fertilized farmland, as well as from sewage treatment plants and septic tanks.

After the August incident, EPA officials met with state and federal agencies to determine the most urgent needs for federal money that could help reduce pollution causing the algae growth, Hedman said. Additional funding will be announced soon through the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, an Obama administration program focusing on the region’s most serious environmental threats.

The grants will enable Ohio to expand water quality monitoring in the Maumee River watershed, a leading source of phosphorus, said Craig Butler, director of the state’s environmental protection department.

HAR TFORD, Conn. — A convicted murderer sentenced to more than a half-centur y behind bars is suing the state of Connecticut, saying its ban on pornography in prison violates his constitutional rights.

Dwight Pink Jr., 44, says in the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in July that guards have used the policy to deny him an art book, “The Atlas of Foreshortening,” which uses nude models to help show how to draw the human form.

Pink says the ban is a violation of his free speech rights and serves no meaningful objective in prison.

The state filed its response Monday, saying Pink has not been harmed by the ban and none of his rights were violated.

“Any injury or harm, if any, was caused solely by plaintiff’s own acts, omissions, or conduct and was not due to any wrongful conduct by the defendants,” Assistant Attorney General Steven Strom wrote.

The state Department of Correction put out the administrative directive in 2011. It bans all material that contains “pictorial depictions of sexual activity or nudity” from the prisons.

But it also says the ban should not apply to “materials which, taken as a whole, are literary, artistic, educational or scientific in nature.”

A prison spokesman at the time said the ban was intended to improve the work environment for prison staffers, especially female staffers, who might be inadvertently exposed to pornography.

It led to a letter-writing campaign and threats of lawsuits from inmates upset with the policy.

Jaclyn Falkowski, a spokeswoman for the attorney general’s office, said about a half dozen lawsuits have been filed since then challenging the ban in both federal and state courts. She said those cases are still being litigated.

But a judge in 2012 refused to issue a preliminar y injunction allowing inmate Akove Ortiz to possess magazines like “Playboy.”

“Although prisoners do not forfeit all of their constitutional rights upon incarceration, the fact of incarceration and the needs of the prison system impose limitations on prisoners’ constitutional rights, even those derived from the First Amendment,” the judge wrote in his ruling.

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Police issue 60 citations over weekend An off-duty officer was attacked early Sunday morning as she headed to work.

BY NICK WICKER nwicker@mndaily.com

Over the three-day stretch of the University of Minnesota’s 100th homecoming celebration last weekend, police issued around 60 citations for “incivility,” police Chief Greg Hestness said.

Those instances include all illegal activity associated with rowdy celebrations — like disturbances and public drunkenness — during the parade, concert and football game both on campus and in surrounding neighborhoods, Hestness said.

He said at least 10 students needed hospitalization because of alcohol over the weekend.

Despite the dozens of citations and some instances of alcohol-related medical problems, Hestness said the weekend was relatively smooth for police.

Youths attack off-duty officer

A University police officer was on her way to work early Sunday morning, in plainclothes and driving her own personal vehicle, when her path was obstructed by a group of young people, Hestness said.

According to a police report, the incident occurred between 6 a.m. and 8 a.m. on Pillsbury Drive Southeast between the University Field

House and the Civil Engineering Building.

Hestness said the officer slammed on her breaks to avoid hitting a man who had jumped in the car’s path. He said the man then advanced toward the vehicle while aggressively yelling profanities and making gang signs with his hands.

The officer honked her horn at the group of people, but they did not move. Instead, Hestness said, the individual who had stepped in front of the car then hopped onto the vehicle’s trunk.

The officer accelerated, forcing the man to jump off of the back of the car, he said, then contacted dispatch and received backup.

According to the report, the man who jumped on the officer’s vehicle was booked for disorderly conduct.

“This is kind of juvenile behavior for gang members,” Hestness said. “I don’t know if they are actual members of gangs, or just imitators.”

Peddler illegally sells on campus

A 33-year-old man was cited and issued a trespassing warning Thursday for selling candy bars without a permit on the Washington Avenue Bridge, a police report said.

When plainclothes officers confronted the man — who is not affiliated with

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the University — on the bridge’s pedestrian level, he showed them a permit to peddle in the city of St. Paul and told officers he knew he needed a separate one for Minneapolis.

Hestness said the process for obtaining a permit to peddle, though not particularly strenuous, wouldn’t have helped the man in this case. Even with a Minneapolis peddling license, the man would need permission from the University to sell his wares on campus grounds, Hestness said.

It wasn’t the man’s first offense of this nature. According to the police report, officers had arrested the man “on several occasions” for peddling without a license since 2000. The report said that in 2009 officers also apprehended

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him while trespassing on campus.

Although this case involved a repeat of fender, Hestness said this was UMPD’s first time dealing with a citation for peddling without a license since 2010.

Target assists police in card hunt

A student fell victim to a wallet thief on Saturday afternoon and had more than one ID and a debit card stolen, a police report said.

The thief later fraudulently used the debit card at TargetExpress and “an unknown gas station,” the report said. The card was also declined at Dinkytown’s McDonald’s location.

Officers tried but were unable to get video surveillance footage of the culprit

Damage to property by graffiti, carrying a knife 2:12 a.m. Friday Marcy-Holmes neighborhood Police discovered a man tagging a building on Central Avenue Southeast, Elder said. The man was also carrying a four-inch knife, which added to his charges.

“If you commit a crime while holding a deadly weapon or wearing a bulletproof vest, it can aggregate the crime,” Elder said.

According to a police report, the man was charged with damage to property by graffiti and carrying a knife and was booked at Hennepin County Jail.

Crime: Assault on police, obstruction of legal process, disorderly conduct and use of force When: Between 12:38 and 1:00 a.m. Sunday Where: Eighth Street Southeast Info: Minneapolis Police officers were arresting two individuals for outstanding warrants and recovering stolen property when a third man hit an officer with a hard object, MPD Public Information Officer John Elder said.

“It may have been a brick, a rock, a stone,” Elder said, “something of that ilk.”

According to a police report, the aggressor was charged with assault of an officer. The other two individuals’ charges included disorderly conduct and obstruction of legal process. Though one of the men was formerly a student at University of Minnesota-Duluth, the other two are not affiliated with the University.

The officer required medical attention, but her condition is unknown.

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Officials transported an underage victim to Hennepin County Medical Center, and officers issued one University student with a social host citation, the report said.

“Social host is where the person who is responsible for the property engages in or allows engagement in violations,” Elder said, “often of underage drinking or other quality of life issues.”

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from Target, so the company’s security service, Assets Protection and Loss Prevention, will follow up on the footage, according to the report.

Hestness said Assets Protection’s forensic

investigation abilities add to Target’s usefulness and cooperation with police.

“We might work with any business, but Target in particular is kind of a rock star with working with law enforcement,” Hestness said.

Low-key secretary of state race heats up on campus Debate u from Page 1

and not just appointed by [Gov. Mark] Dayton,” said political science senior Mitchell Ness.

Ness said he thought secretar y of state was an appointed position until viewing a recent television ad.

“Secr etar y of state doesn’t always capture the public imagination, but people in the elections and political field realize it’s an important job,” said Doug Chapin, debate moderator and director of the Humphrey School’s Elections Academy, where the debate was held. “I wouldn’t doubt it gets more attention as Election Day gets closer.”

Aside from widely divergent opinions on the use of voter ID, all candidates at Monday’s debate seemed willing to make investments in the election process.

Third-par ty candidates Bob Helland and Bob Odden, endorsed by the Independence Par ty and the Liber tarian Par ty, respectively, shifted between jabs

at the dominant two-par ty system.

“Throughout the last eight months, the media nar rative has been that [third-par ty candidates] are no-names, but the Independence, Green, Libertarian parties — we’ve put up a huge effort,” Helland said, noting that at age 29, he would bring a younger perspective to state government.

State Rep. Steve Simon, DFL-Hopkins, who is one of the candidates, touted election reforms he’s authored — like a recent no-excuse absentee voting law — as well as the importance of a politically moderate secretary of state.

“Do we want an honest broker or someone who is a par tisan warrior on an ideological crusade with an axe to grind?” Simon said in his closing remarks.

GOP nominee Dan Severson is on his second attempt for the of fice after coming in a few points short of current Secretary of State Mark Ritchie in 2010.

Severson highlighted a recur ring theme of his campaign: election integrity.

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Minnesota secretary of state candidates Dan Severson, Bob Helland, Steve Simon and Bob Odden debate at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs on Monday afternoon.

“We have to secur e our ballot box,” Severson said, adding that he would suppor t optional voter IDs and major refor ms of the vouching system.

Having overseen several

close recounts in two of the last thr ee primar y elections, the Minnesota secretar y of state’s of fice has been a focus of attention, par ticularly during the 2008 Franken-Coleman recount for U.S. Senate in

Turkey says it helps Kurdish fighters enter Syria

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SURUC, Turkey — Turkey said it was helping Iraqi Kurdish fighters cross into Syria to support their brethren fighting Islamic State militants in a key border town, although activists inside embattled Kobani said no forces had arrived by Monday evening, raising questions about whether the mission was really underway.

The statement by Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu came hours after the U.S. airdropped weapons and ammunition to resupply Kurdish fighters for the first time. Those airdrops Sunday followed weeks of airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition in and near Kobani.

After a relative calm, heavy fighting erupted in the town as dusk fell, with the clatter of small arms and tracer fire, as well as the thud of mortar rounds and big explosions of two airstrikes that resounded across the frontier.

“We are helping peshmerga forces to enter into Kobani to give suppor t,” Cavusoglu said at a news

conference, referring to the security forces of the largely autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. The Kurdish government there is known to be friendly to the Turkish government.

A peshmerga spokesman said he had not been ordered to move units to Syria.

“They have not given us any orders to move our units,” said the spokesman, Halgurd Hekmat. “But we are waiting, and we are ready.”

The Kurdish activists in Kobani said there was no sign of any peshmerga forces.

Still, it was unprecedented for Turkey to promise to give Kurds passage to fight in Syria. That, combined with the U.S. airdrops, reflected the importance assigned to protecting Kobani from the Sunni extremists of the Islamic State group, which has rampaged across Iraq and Syria in recent months.

It also underscored the enormity of the challenge in battling militants who have been tr ying to seize Kobani since last month to spread their rule along the

mountainous spine of the Syria-Turkey border, an area dominated by ethnic Kurds.

Ankara views Kurdish fighters in Syria as loyal to what Turkish of ficials regard as an extension of the group known as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. That group has waged a 30-year insurgency in Turkey and is designated a terrorist group by the U.S. and NATO. The government is under pressure to take greater action against the IS militants — not only from the West but also from Kurds in Syria and inside Turkey who accuse Ankara of standing by while their people are slaughtered. Earlier this month across Turkey, there were widespread protests that threatened to derail promising talks to end the PKK insurgency.

Although a significant departure from previous positions, Turkey’s announcement to allow fighters to cross its territor y is not a complete policy reversal, since it involves peshmerga fighters from Iraq and not those from the PKK. It remains uncer tain whether Ankara would allow

heavily armed Iraqi Kurdish fighters to make the journey in large numbers. It is also unclear if many of those peshmerga troops would even do so, given that the IS militants still threaten their areas in Iraq.

Cavusoglu did not give details of where and how Turkey would allow the Kurdish fighters to cross into Syria.

In Washington, State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf called Turkey a “close NATO ally and partner,” and said the U.S. has a “very close relationship” with Ankara. She said the Obama administration is still discussing ways Turkey can play a larger role in the coalition, and praised steps Ankara already has taken to stem foreign fighters and funding from moving to the militants across Turkey’s borders.

However, Har f also indicated the U.S. did not seek approval from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before dropping weapons and aid to Kurdish fighters. She said the Kurdish fighters and the PKK are not legally linked.

which Sen. Al Franken, DMinn., ultimately won by only 312 votes.

Simon stressed the importance of making it easier to vote.

“No matter what our No. 1 issue might be as a

society … all roads lead to the ballot box,” he said.

“Unless we have open elections, we won’t get far in any of those areas.”

The candidates will debate again next Tuesday at Augsburg College.

Colorado proposes edible pot ban, then retreats

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DENVER — Colorado health authorities suggested banning many forms of edible marijuana, including brownies and cookies, then whipsawed away from the suggestion Monday after it went public.

The Colorado Depar tment of Public Health and Environment told state pot regulators they should limit edible pot on shelves to hard lozenges and tinctures, which are a form of liquid pot that can be added to foods and drinks.

The suggestion sparked marijuana industry outrage and legal concerns from a regulatory workgroup that met Monday to review the agency’s suggestion. Colorado’s 2012 marijuana-legalization measure says retail pot is legal in all forms.

“If the horse wasn’t already out of the barn, I think that would be a nice proposal for us to put on the table,” said Karin McGowan, the department’s deputy executive director.

Talking to reporters after the workgroup reviewed the

department’s proposal, McGowan insisted the edibles ban was just one of several proposals under review by pot regulators.

Lawmakers have ordered state pot regulators to require pot-infused food and drink to have a distinct look when they are out of the packaging. The order came after concerns about the proliferation of pot-infused treats that many worry could be accidentally eaten by children.

Statewide numbers are not available, but one hospital in the Denver area has reported nine cases of children being admitted after accidentally eating pot. It is not clear whether those kids ate commercially packaged pot products or homemade items such as marijuana brownies.

The Health Depar tment’s recommendation was one of several made to marijuana regulators.

“We need to know what is in our food,” said Gina Carbone of the advocacy group Smart Colorado, which says edible pot shouldn’t be allowed if it can’t be identified out of its packaging.

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Editorials & Opinions SCIENCE

Australian cuts make synergistic solutions F or the past several years, the Australian government has struggled to satisfy researchers and develop the sciences. Although the country’s economy has been booming for the last decade, recent cuts to various research programs have concerned many people in the nation’s scientific community.

This community heavily criticized the Australian gover nment when a Parliamentar y Librar y analysis showed that spending on research and development in 2014-15 fell to only 0.56 percent of Australia’s gross domestic product — the lowest value in over three decades.

Thankfully, it seemed like these cuts made way for a new reform. The Australian government recently appointed five business leaders and five leading researchers to form the Commonwealth Science Council to develop a stronger link between Australia’s industry and research sectors in medicine, green technology and many other par ts of the Australian economy.

This policy kills two birds with one stone. First, it continues to boost the Australian economy. Second, it helps develop the countr y’s research sector. This move will not only help Australia’s economy, but it will also help the countr y develop competition within the research industry.

ANANT NAIK columnist

One of the primar y objectives of research is to produce products that solve society’s problems. In order to actually help people, research requires the assistance of industr y, which allows scientists to make medicine and other useful products in large quantities.

If there is more cooperation between Australia’s industrial and research sectors, both can respond to each other’s needs.

For example, if there is a demand for a certain drug, the research sector can optimize a certain procedure, and then the industry sector can produce a product and deliver it.

Professor Les Field of the Australian Academy of Sciences says this new program could help researchers overcome “the valley of death,” which is a transition state during which research outcomes aren’t able to attract significant investment.

The synergistic relationship between

industr y and research also increases competitiveness. This isn’t a bad thing.

Under the new policy, research firms will compete against each other to produce the most effective, cost-efficient product. That helps consumers acquire the best possible drug available in the market.

The benefits of this new policy are not only economic, as it also may affect school reform. For decades, we have heard about a gap between graduates’ knowledge and the skills that are actually needed in the workforce. Even in Australia, this gap remains prevalent. This new inter-industr y cooperation provides an oppor tunity to help Australian students better prepare for a competition-driven workforce.

This policy is a great step for ward for Australia, but it’s also something that we need to consider in the United States. In the Twin Cities, there are many corporations that hire University of Minnesota undergraduates and graduates who are heavily involved in research. However, economic growth remains slow across the U.S. — perhaps the government should also revitalize the role of the research sector in the economy.

Anant Naik welcomes comments at anaik@mndaily.com.

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What exactly is “appropriate” these days, though? Surely someone can and will be offended by any costume, even just for the sake of being offended.

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POLITICS

Skill gap refocuses the market Even with lower unemployment rates, a lack of talent in certain areas can be addressed.

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innesota added 7,200 jobs in September. The state’s unemployment rate has dropped to 4.1 percent, the lowest it has been since 2006.

In a way, this represents a victor y for Minnesota, and state representatives up for re-election in November will likely treat it as such. However, the issue has a nastier side: Will the state’s employers have enough employees to fill the vacancies left by baby boomers who are preparing to retire?

Companies have to target skilled workers and encourage them not to look for work elsewhere. After last month’s Manufacturing Awards, Dunwoody College of Technology President Richard Wagner told Minnesota Business Magazine that “talent is a scarce resource” in all industries, especially manufacturing jobs.

This same problem may arise in fields that are currently recovering, which includes the professional and business

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response to ‘Demilitarizing the ‘militar y-industrial academic complex’’ Last week, I was sitting in a classroom on West Bank waiting for my class to start when I read something disconcerting in a recent letter to the editor. By this, I am talking about the complete demonization of military ties to University of Minnesota life.

To begin, from 2006 to 2014 there had been no issues with the use of M-16s by the University’s Police Department. Nobody has been harmed by these weapons, yet the UMPD has been the subject of criticism for accepting tools to train with.

Firing a weapon multiple times in training can degrade how the weapon functions. By using M-16s, which are fairly similar to the AR-15s, the UMPD would be able to maintain the integrity of the AR-15s the UMPD currently possesses. In an active-shooter

Trigger warnings need specification

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he Minnesota Student Association approved a resolution last week that will ask instructors to add trigger warnings to their syllabi to prevent students from being exposed to material that could trigger adverse psychological reactions.

While the resolution has no real power, it advocates a policy that has some troubling implications. Topics that warrant trigger warnings, according to MSA, include graphic descriptions of abuse, torture, sexual violence and self-harming behavior. They also include depictions or discussion of people going through severe mental health or body image issues.

We recognize that there are victims of serious trauma on campus and that they would benefit from the inclusion of trigger warnings. However, if trigger warnings were to become a requirement at the University, there must be a way to make sure that students tr ying to shirk work don’t take advantage of them.

One solution to this could be to require students to seek an exemption from classwork on certain topics from their instructor or from the University’s Mental Health Clinic in private if they feel they cannot speak with the instructor.

Higher education, especially the liberal ar ts, is only successful when the classroom takes time to address difficult topics head-on. Given the broad and often vague nature of these trigger warnings, they may offer too easy a route out of class. We feel that being required to gain an exemption would be a fair compromise if trigger warnings become commonplace.

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When were the highest government offices not held by political elitists? Even if a good guy does get in, power corrupts. Different things make different people happy.

The incentive for companies to do well comes from profit. If it is more profitable to get into favor with a politician, they will do so.

If they don’t, someone else will.

A Minnesota Daily article last week discussed the Minneapolis City Council’s plans for a new deconstruction waste policy in Minneapolis. Waste from demolished buildings is typically landfilled, but as much as 50 percent of that waste may be salvageable for reuse elsewhere.

Finding a way to take advantage of repurposed materials is important both for the environment and the economy.

Recycling construction materials may even help meet Mayor Betsy Hodge’s initiative to make Minneapolis a “Zero Waste” city. We’re glad to see Minneapolis reduce its waste even as the city continues to grow.

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situation on campus, I would much rather have the UMPD’s AR-15s working properly than risk possible weapon malfunctions from overuse.

The criticism of a military presence on campus did not cease at weapons alone in the letter, as the Reserve Officer’s Training Corps was singled out as having ties with the military. The largest complaint was about federal funding.

The question then becomes, what harm does the ROTC inflict on the University?

From what I can tell, a relatively small program is providing funding to help the entire student body thrive. The ROTC provides leadership and skills training for students who wish to become commissioned officers in the armed forces.

These are the men and women who will one day be responsible for the lives of their subordinates. Ridding the University of the ROTC would be a detriment to the safety of

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sectors, education, health ser vices and construction fields.

Companies that want to keep a steady flow of talent to fill the void left by baby boomer retirees will have to change the way they hire. Appearing at high schools, hosting field trips and working closely with colleges and universities even more than they have been will be the best way to attract talent. Additionally, schools must place a greater focus on science technology, engineering and mathematics skillsets.

It’s our job to allow students to have an opportunity to succeed, and focusing on subjects that will provide them with in-demand skills is the best way to do this.

Connor Nikolic welcomes comments at cnikolic@mndaily.com.

the men and women serving in the military, as it would deny important leadership building and decision making opportunities to future officers.

Finally, the closing line provides the end goal — to completely demilitarize the University. To this end I ask, are we back in postVietnam War America?

Looking to completely demilitarize a campus would be ridding it of men and women who have fought for America in these so called “dirty wars.” The veterans coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan who have sweat, cried, lost and bled for this nation now appear to find themselves unwelcomed at an institution which strides for “tolerance” and “acceptance.”

The University tends to be neither tolerant nor accepting if you happen to wear a uniform or any clothing identifying your service. In times like these, I am ashamed to be a Gopher.

ast week, a group of Harvard University Law faculty members criticized the school for its new sexual misconduct policy. They say the policy is heavily slanted against the accused.

Harvard is one of 85 colleges currently under federal investigation for possible violations of the Title IX gender equity law. Universities whose sexual misconduct policies are deemed inadequate could lose federal funding.

The law professors suggested that the fear of losing funds inspired Harvard to implement its new sexual assault policy, which they say violates basic constitutional rights, including the accused’s right to seek representation, confront witnesses and mount a defense.

The professors also criticized the centralization of the entire trial process into a single Title IX compliance office, not a “structurally impartial” department.

Proponents of the Harvard’s policy argue that it fosters a nondiscriminator y environment for sexual assault survivors.

Many argue that the provisions don’t go far enough, saying they would like to enact an affirmative consent provision such as the “yes means yes” law recently implemented in California.

What happens at Harvard may become a precedent for schools across the country. We firmly support Title IX and the ongoing nationwide reforms to universities’ sexual misconduct policies. To that end, Harvard and other institutions should adopt a “yes means yes” provision. However, to further the interests of due process, we would also like Harvard to supply the accused with no-cost representation, as low-income defendants currently may not be able to afford an attorney.

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Gophers guard Rachel Banham dribbles past Green Bay guard Megan Lukan at Williams Arena on March 19.

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Stollings said Banham’s improved level of fitness will ultimately prepare the star for the professional game.

But before that, Banham has her senior season to think about.

Banham currently sits at 1,993 points, and barring injur y, she should easily shatter former Gophers star Lindsay Whalen’s 2,285 alltime point record this season.

Banham is on-pace to shatter numerous other program records, too, likely earning more national recognition along the way.

But one of the most impor tant things Banham hasn’t accomplished is within

reach, and she has her eyes set on it: reaching the NCAA tournament.

The Gophers talk about the tournament every day in practice, Banham said.

During her freshman season, the Gophers won the Women’s Basketball Invitational, a third-tier tournament.

As a sophomore, Banham and company lost the Women’s National Invitational Tournament in the first round.

Last year, they lost in the third round of the WNIT. “Every year, I think we’ve gotten even closer, and I think every year I’ve continued to get better and continued to bring myself to a new level, and I just try to do everything I can,” she said.

“We’re just so close.

In her freshman year, Banham scored nearly 24 percent of Minnesota’s points. In her sophomore year, that number rose to 30 percent and in her junior season, it topped 32 percent.

This year, Banham will be an offensive leader for the team, but the Gophers have more depth around the court, which should alleviate some of the pressure she’s felt in the past.

“I think what you’re going to see is her becoming … a more efficient scorer, shooting percentages go up and not all the pressure [will] be on her every possession to score,” Stollings said.

“And we’re excited about that par because I think it’s going to improve her allaround game.”

Sophomore center Amanda

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Zahui B., who averaged a double-double last season, is a year older, and the Gophers added transfer Shae Kelley, who averaged 17.8 points per game last season at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. “Being at my previous schools, I had a lot of attention on me and same for [Banham and Zahui B.],” Kelley said. “It’s going to take a lot more pressure off of them, and I think we’re going to have better looks, easier looks at the basket.”

On top of that, Banham won’t be required to bring the ball up the cour t as much.

When junior Shayne Mullaney went down with an injury last season, Banham shifted from playing shooting guard to point guard,

and she dished out 131 of the team’s 545 assists.

But in an ideal world, Stollings said Banham would mostly play shooting guard.

Still, her coach said she’s more than capable of playing at the point if the Gophers need to use her there.

And that’s not the only thing Banham’s more than capable of.

She has one more season, which officially begins Nov. 14, to cement her name in the Gophers’ record books.

“I think the sense of urgency is upon her. I think she realizes once the tip-off happens, [she’s] got about five months left,” Stollings said. “And what kind of a legacy do you want to leave here? You have an opportunity to do some very special stuff.”

SOCCER

Gophers plagued by injuries in midfield Two of the Gophers’ starting midfielders could miss this weekend’s games.

BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com

The Gophers’ midfield has not been short on success this season. But right now, it may be shor t on players.

Freshman Rachel McCloskey, who made an impact early on this season, watched her team lose 4-1 to Wisconsin Saturday night from the sideline while propped up by crutches.

During that game, the Gophers saw another starting midfielder and a key team leader, senior Katie Thyken, get hurt.

At that time, it was unknown if Thyken would be able to play next weekend against Maryland and Rutgers, though she was optimistic after the game. The team will play just one of its original starting midfielders if she can’t play.

Thyken would be a painful loss not just for the midfield but for the team — she helps with the team’s organization and communication on the pitch.

“That kid is somebody who gives everything, and she helps everybody else be able to do the same thing by just keeping them aware of what’s going on and keeping us very organized,” head coach Stefanie Golan said.

When Thyken had to leave the game, the Gophers and Badgers were tied 1-1.

The Gophers were outscored 3-0 the rest of the game.

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Gophers senior midfielder Katie Thyken dribbles the ball against Wisconsin on Saturday at Elizabeth Lyle Robbie Stadium.

“She leads by example with her fight,” Golan said.

“We are still looking for someone to step up and fill that void when she’s off the field.”

If Thyken misses a match this weekend, the player who will have the first opportunity to fill in for her will likely be junior Jen Larrick.

Lar rick has one goal on the season and has appeared in 11 matches. When Thyken got injured, Larrick substituted in and played the remainder of the match.

While the Gophers may

have to worry about replacing Thyken’s leadership and toughness on the field this week, they have already seen a player successfully step into the other midfielder spot.

Senior Taylor Wodnick has star ted the past two games in place of McCloskey, and she has scored two of the team’s three goals during those games.

One of those goals was a double-overtime game winner at Illinois. “ I t ’ s h u g e f o r h e r, especially now that Rachel’s

out of our defensive midfield,” Thyken said.

Thyken said Wodnick has always been ready to contribute to the team. Even before getting the star ting nod, Wodnick had appeared in all of the team’s matches.

And after her per formance last weekend, Wodnick has three goals — the same number McCloskey had before being injured.

“Just being able to represent my team, it’s a great experience … especially being my last year,” Wodnick said.

Despite starting for the second game in a row, Wodnick was understandably disappointed after the team’s 4-1 loss to Wisconsin. Wodnick and the team will have to push through the injuries this weekend to stay above .500.

“We just have to put it behind us, and we have a really big weekend with Maryland and Rutgers ahead of us,” Wodnick said, referencing the team’s loss to Wisconsin.

“We just have to move past it and have a good week of practice.”

or what seemed like the first time in a long time, Minnesota traveled to face the Wisconsin Badgers last weekend as the secondbest team in the nation.

After tying MinnesotaDuluth the week before, the No. 2 Gophers needed to earn their title back from top-ranked Wisconsin.

Though it needed some extra time on Saturday night, Minnesota took care of business in Wisconsin and found itself back on top of the college hockey world Monday.

And the Gophers will likely not move in the rankings again for the remainder this season.

That isn’t necessarily because of the team’s talent or its histor y of winning — though the Gophers have both — but because of what happened last March.

Minnesota could only watch as gloves, sticks and helmets flew into the air in exaltation when Clarkson knocked off the reigning back-to-back NCAA champions to capture the 2014 title in March.

The old saying is that a team learns more from losses than from victories, and the Gophers will prove to be no exception to that cliché this season.

For the first time in their last couple of seasons, the Gophers can add “chip on their shoulders” to the long list of characteristics that will help them dominate their opponents.

“It was actually a little release to have someone else take over the No. 1 spot,” senior forward Rachael Bona told the Minnesota Daily on Saturday.

“It kind of put a chip on our shoulder to get it back.

And this weekend, we proved that we are still the No. 1 team in the country.”

The Gophers didn’t get star Amanda Kessel back this season because of lingering symptoms from a concussion sustained while training with Team USA. However, the return of sophomore Lee Stecklein from the national team has already helped solidify a talented group of defensemen.

Junior Hannah Brandt and sophomore Dani Cameranesi are both in the top five in the nation in scoring.

And junior goaltender Amanda Leveille was Minnesota’s rock this weekend, giving up just two goals to a team that possesses four of the nation’s top 10 leaders in points.

“We gave up a lot more shots [Saturday],” head coach Brad Frost told the Minnesota Daily after the game. “And when that happens, your goalie has to be lights-out. And the only goal they got was a tough rebound, so aside from that, [Leveille] played extremely solid.”

The Gophers put together an unbelievable season last year that led them straight to the national title game.

Now that it is back on top of the women’s college hockey world, don’t expect Minnesota to deviate from its current spot this season.

The scars left from last year’s championship will help ensure that.

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

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FASHION

Street Style: Sweater weather Fall calls for sweaters. Most days are too warm for a substantial coat but too cold for just a shirt. Sweaters serve as the perfect middle ground during this seasonal shift. But some sweaters’ poor fit, clumsiness and dullness ruin the autumn look. Bulky, billowing sweaters are the norm around campus, and people often slouch inside them like they’re wearing a protective shell. Sweaters should announce who you are, whether it’s with a sophisticated turtleneck or classic merino V-neck.

These four style mavens show how to wear sweaters the right way.

By Grant Tillery

Charly Renk

Annie Lux

Calvin Lee

Henri Magjistrai

Chunky shawl cardigans are warm and debonair. They’re a stellar transition piece for colder weather, and they look good paired with a crisp button-down or a well-loved tee.

Renk’s cardigan was a vintage find at Ragstock, and its draped fit radiates bohemian nonchalance.

While it’s easy to deride Native American prints as trendy and misappropriated, they add Southwestern flair to a cold weather ensemble. Lux keeps it simple with a navy T-shirt and blue jeans, which allow her blanket-like Charlotte Russe cardigan to shine.

Sailor stripes bring out the inner Francophile of the wearer. Lee’s H&M sweater is on point, thanks to the classic color and suede shoulder patches. The white and navy combination accentuates his burgundy New Balance 574’s, which are a great way to finish off any outfit.

Nordic prints pop, and Magjistrai’s does so more than the average number, thanks to the green background. The slim fit and unexpected color pairings (courtesy of Zara) keep it from veering into frumpy territory.

COMEDY

Tig Notaro to perform at the Women’s Club After battling cancer, break-ups and the death of her mother, Tig Notaro’s bounce back in life and stand-up has been a steady, upward climb.

BY JARED HEMMING jhemming@mndaily.com

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s most comedians know, tragedy plus time equals comedy.

More than two years ago, stand-up Tig Notaro’s life was stalled on the former half of that equation.

“I am just at tragedy right now,” Notaro said in her comedy album “Live” in 2012. “I have cancer.”

In the astounding performance, Notaro jokes about a period of four months during which she contracted an inflammator y bowel disease, developed breast cancer and received news of her mother’s death.

Amid the album’s tragic tumult, Notaro said she’s now doing “oddly great.”

And she’s got good reason to be: After selling about 75,000 copies in its first week of release, “Live” received a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album last year.

This week, Notaro is bringing her act to the Women’s Club in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

“As far as careers go, I really can’t complain,” Notaro said.

Notaro ear ned her success with jokes like “Wheelchair Becky,” which exemplifies her simple, precise wit.

“It’s about a Mattel toy, Barbie’s friend that’s in a wheelchair,” Notaro said.

“If you’re tr ying make her seem normal, why not just call her Becky?”

Throughout her career, Notaro has refined her delivery by performing with a toned-down, calm demeanor.

“There’s never been anything too zany about

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what I’ve done,” Notaro said. “I’m still obviously ver y low-key. It’s really my personality. There’s not any huge jump for me, onstage or off.”

Though Notaro’s comedy veers toward the lighter side, joke titles of f of “Live,” including “No Questionnaires to Dead People,” “Tapped Out” and “You’re Gonna Get Cancer!” reflect the emotional spiral her life took two years ago.

Comedian David Huntsberger, with whom Notaro and comedian Kyle Dunnigan host the podcast “Professor Blastof f,” said working with Notaro during her emotional and physical distress was challenging.

After Notaro received her breast cancer diagnosis, Huntsberger said an episode of “Professor Blastof f” took a dramatic turn.

“Ther e’s an episode of the podcast where we talk about and deal with exactly what she was going through, in realtime,” Huntsberger said.

“She’s a tough character, and to see her struggling and being emotional was dif ferent. It’d feel so helpless.”

While Notaro suffered from C. dif ficile infection and then breast cancer, Huntsberger said the playful nature of their comedic chemistr y was affected. “[I’d] go to visit her at the hospital laughing and joking because it almost didn’t seem like anything serious,” Huntsberger said. “Like, ‘this is T ig: She’s always up for stuf f being funny.’ We were goofing around, and she’s just laying there. She had lost so much weight and was

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Comedian Tig Notaro, who recorded her stand-up album “Live” in 2012 after contracting breast cancer, is in remission and on tour in Minneapolis on Wednesday.

miserable, and she was like, ‘Guys, can you keep it down?’ She was really sick.”

Compounded by her various illnesses and her mother’s sudden death, Notaro was also dealing with a break-up.

“From a thir d par ty point-of-view, there’s a par t of you that’s like, ‘Wait, life doesn’t do that,’ ”

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Huntsberger said. “It doesn’t do that many terrible things in a row.”

After “Live,” a double mastectomy sent Notaro’s cancer into r emission.

Healthy and recovering, Notaro said the happiness in her current performance reflects new relationships and career success. “[In] my show now, I mention what I went

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through and how my life is now,” Notaro said. “I am in a really good place, and it doesn’t make sense for me to get too heavy about stuff because I’m just not feeling that.”

This newfound optimism inspired her to put goofier bits into her new show.

“People always ask if I worry about if the audience

just wants to hear heavy stuff,” Notaro said. “I move into the silliness ver y easily.”

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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.

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (10/21): Your creativity cup runs over this year. Changes in a partnership lead to a boost in income (especially after the 10/23 eclipse). There’s more coming in (and more expenses) through 12/23.

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 7 — Turn down a costly invitation. Everybody’s more willing to compromise for the next few days. Don’t give up, even if the action slows.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Focus on transforming your space. Create surroundings that reflect who you want to be.

Finish chores quickly.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Passion flairs. Deadlines may loom and work could seem overwhelming. Don’t get anxious.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Think twice before taking action. Stay objective in a tense situation. You’re under pressure to complete old tasks the next few days.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Love’s a comfort when money’s tight. Delve into fun passion projects. Enter a generally happy and cuddly two-day phase.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Work smarter and for a bit longer. You can make changes now. An uncomfortable situation spurs you into action.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Make time over the next two days for family rest and recreation. Don’t buy toys, especially to impress peers. Share some fun at home.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Career opportunities show up for the next two days, so grab on. Some actions could backfire.

Disagreements could slow things.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Advise a loved one not to stir things up ... not yet, anyway. Get into an intensive learning phase today and tomorrow.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Make time for an outing over the next few days.

Travel and romance both look good. Get sidetracked with an interesting diversion.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — The next two days you can make extra cash. Some may come from work done previously, and some actions today pay off later.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Plan a business trip for fun along the way. Schedule out to visit distant loved ones. Budget to manage it.

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

from the archive

Tuesday, October 18, 2005

From Gophergal

Hey Net! I’d like to complain a bit, if you don’t mind.

Net: Complaining? Well, you came to the right place. It’s about the nether regions of the Backtalk page. What the hell happened to Dr. Date? Net: We can’t say for sure, but we’ve heard rumors of frontal lobotomy. Last year, Dr. Date was hilarious.

The column was insightful, funny and gave GOOD advice. Net: Indeed. Those top ten lists about Barry Tallackson were chock-full of helpful wisdom.

Now it’s mindless dribble that I could figure out myself. Net: And yet they keep writing in … Dr. Date no longer gives a straight answer — it’s all about skirting around the questions to appease everyone.

What happened to our crass doctor? Net: Forced retirement. And don’t give me any of that bull about how “Dr. Date is the same person from last year.” I know it’s a different doctor. First of all, the top tens are less frequent and unfunny. Net: We don’t know what the (tr)uck you’re talking about. So Net, I ask you again, what happened and how can we get our old doctor back to freshen up the nether regions?

Net: Our nether regions are plenty fresh thank you very much. At least you’re funny again and give me something to do during those damn lectures. Net: Oh stop it, you’re making us blush.

From Pro-Not Being Stupid

Hey Net, let me begin by saying EvenOnDrugsRushisRight is the moron. Net: Good one.

Very original. First of all, because of cancer research, lives are being saved everyday. So if being anti-cancer makes me pro-saving lives, call me anticancer. Secondly, I bet EvenOnDrugsRushisRight would say he was pro-world peace. Net: As a fan of Rush Limbaugh, we wouldn’t be so sure. Yet it is way more likely that cancer will be cured before world peace is achieved. Net: That’s depressing.

Just look at the different approaches. Some guy, HEY! SEND YOUR ENTRY, NAME & PHONE TO:

we will call him Lance, says, “I want to cure cancer.” Net: Was it Lance Bass? That guy is an assgoblin. So he raises money for research that helps people live longer. Some other guy, we will call him George, says, “I want to spread world peace.” Net: Saying and doing are two very different things. So he starts a war. Net: You have to break a few eggs to make an omelet. Besides, there is like, an assload of oil over there and stuff. Hmmm, I wonder whose plan is working better.

From AngryBBW

Network!! Net: What now? AHH! Okay so first of all why are guys the only ones on this campus allowed to have fat on them? Net: Because men are from Mars and women are from Venus and everyone knows that Mars totally kicks Venus’ ass.

When I hear ignorant guys in Network talking about how “Fat girls are the issue at hand” I have to comment! It seems to me that guys feel they can be big as a house and any girl will want them. Net: Doesn’t every girl want a man with a belly and hairy man-breasts that they can play with? Then, in turn girls starve themselves to the point of anorexia to make a guy happy? I don’t think so! So many guys on this campus have the Fred Flintstone complex. Net: Actually those are just hippies. Given the beards and bare feet, we understand your confusion. I am a girl that has all the right places filled with lovin’ goodness and I am proud to say that I am beautiful and sexy. Net: Loving goodness, eh? Is that what your doctor calls it? To add another thing, I should say skinny scrawny guys are the issue at hand! Net: Make up your mind already. So I want some guy to make a snide comment on what I have to say. Net: You asked for it. Come on I dare you! Net: Watch what you say Networkia … being smothered to death by “loving goodness” is no way to go.

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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 31 October 18, 2005 Dear Dr. Date,

Ok, so I’ve got this roommate that likes to have sex when she is drunk.

Sometimes with her boyfriend of 6+ months, sometimes with others that she decides she wants a piece of. Here is the problem: she fights with her boyfriend non-stop because he is a moron who thinks she will change. He expects her to be faithful when he leaves for a study abroad session, but she has cheated on every boyfriend she has ever had. So, my idea is to let the boyfriend know about the medley of guys she has made out with and (some) had sex with.

He knows she is at least flirty with everyone when she is drunk, and that he shouldn’t trust her, but they stay in this conflict rather than resolve it. I am just looking to end the arguments on the phone that I overhear without trying. Whattya think?

— annoyed by stupidity

Dear annoyed by stupidity,

Not doing this for the noblest of reasons, are we? In fact, I’d say you’re doing this purely through self-interest — and there ain’t nothing wrong with that.

I say think about the repercussions of your actions before you jump headlong into Awkwardville. You’re going to be messing up your roommate’s (albeit unhealthy) relationship, and you’re going to have to deal with whatever ends up hitting the fan.

If you were doing this to prevent your roomie’s boyfriend from looking like a fool, if you were friends with him, I’d say go for it. But since you’re pretty much doing this so you don’t have to overhear their arguing, you’re in that gray selfish area we so often find ourselves in.

I say if you really want to end the madness, tell him what’s up, but don’t tell him that you’re doing it purely for personal gain, say you’re doing it because you don’t want to see him wasting his abroad experience while his girlfriend has the time of her life with every dude in town.

But be forewarned, your floozy of a roommate is going to be pissed that you’re out there narking on her, and you may forever be marked a rat and thrust from her circle of friends.

If that’s the least of your concerns though, who cares?

— Dr. Date

Dear Good Dr.,

I have this friend ... nevermind, we both know it’s me. I’m having trouble getting over this guy.

We met a year ago through mutual friends.

There was an instant attraction on both sides, but it never developed into anything solid. He goes to Madison, but I see him everyday during the summer and have made trips, always with friends, to see him during the year. We have “hooked-up” a number of times, but nothing serious and have continued to become better and better friends.

I left the country for the summer and had a “talk” about our relationship with him right before I left. He basically told me that he has had strong feelings for me ever since we met (what timing!), but that he was afraid he would screw it up with me. I hadn’t given it too much thought before that, but on my trip, I had a lot of airplane time to think about it, and by the time I returned really wanted

to make something work.

Now, the part I left out is that my guy is something of a man-whore. It is well known among all of our mutual friends and one of the reasons I initially kept my distance. Now, of all things, he goes and gets an actual girlfriend over the summer, AFTER we had our little talk. I have been back for a couple months and see him once every week or two, as he moved back to MN for the semester (timing! Have I mentioned timing?) and is only 10 minutes away. It is impossible for me to get rid of the idea of “us” that I built up over the summer and I have found it hard to even be around him any more. I haven’t seen him for a few weeks and am feeling much better about the possibility of us as friends. However, I’m worried I may have a relapse when I see him. Any ideas (top ten lists come to mind ... ) about ways to keep him off my mind?

— Falling off the Man-Wagon

Dear Falling off the Man-Wagon,

First off, “Man-Wagon” sounds like a parlor game at Liberace’s house. Second, the best way to get your mind off one man (or woman) is to get yourself a new one.

That should be the end-all, be-all. That, in truth, is your answer …

But since you requested it, and because the Good Doctor (you even addressed me as such) never disappoints, here it is …

Top 10 ways to get your mind off him (or her): 10. Go to a hypnotist. If they can make you quit smoking (though I don’t know why you’d want to), they sure as hell can make you forget some dude.

9. Get hit on the head with a blunt object. Get all mementoed out, live your life as a series of flashbacks, watch hilarity ensue.

8. Become a nun/monk.

7. Grab yourself a “forget-me-now.” It’s an old magician’s trick.

6. Contact Lacuna Inc. Just don’t befriend a guy named Patrick.

5. To prepare the stock, brown the onions, garlic and tomatoes in olive oil over high heat. Add the soup fish. Stir together for about 15 minutes until consistency is pasty. Pour in boiling water and allow to boil for at least one hour.

4. “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot! / The world forgetting, by the world forgot. / Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! / Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d.” Repeat it, ad nauseum.

3. Drugs. Let’s mix it up, I heard the milk-plus over at the Korova Milk Bar will have you guffing your guttiwuts out in no time. While you’re getting all horror-show, you can make up your rasoodocks about what to do with your nadsat fellow. Or get yourself some drencrom, mix with vellocet, repeat.

2. “Forget him!?! Why not just move in and steal him?” God, you would say that … heartless bastard.

1. Get ’choself a new man. There are millions of them out there, a great number of whom aren’t man-whoring lushes. Find a good one, fall madly in love, have tons of babies, retain your girlish figure and watch as your current crush gets older and fatter and balder … but remain friends.

Posse out,

— Dr. Date

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

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dr. date Dr. Date,

My girlfriend and I have been dating for a couple of years, but I’m not attracted to her — not like I once was.

She is smart, kind and completely committed to our relationship. She has also overcome some tough troubles, and I admire her strength. We share some of the same nerdy interests, which is awesome. We have a lot of fun when we hang out, and she’s so supportive.

We have a deep emotional connection.

But she’s not that attractive to me physically. I don’t really look forward to anything sexual with her anymore. I really wish I were attracted to her, because I care about her. In most other respects, our relationship is better than it ever has been.

I haven’t told her any of this, but I just don’t know if — or how — I should keep this relationship going.

Yeah, I get it. I’m an asshole (especially considering that I’m kind of ugly).

But what should I do? I don’t want to hurt her.

–Even Assholes Need Assistance

Spark Fizzler,

Don’t let it get you down. Long-term relationships often run this course. You fade in and out of love, attraction and an array of feelings as you grow and change with your partner.

Relationships take effort. If you want to go the distance with this girl, you need to spice up your sex life. Tell her you want to try something new. Surf the web and find some crazy stuff you’re both into.

If that makes you uncomfortable, try to think back to your relationship’s dynamic when you first started dating.

Were there rituals you two used to share that you’ve since trashed? Revive the past and revel in what made the beginning of your bond shine.

There are innumerable things you can do to get your relationship back off the runway. You just have to be willing to try to make some changes in your life.

And if you can’t make it work again, maybe it’s time you two had a serious talk about the future.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I just started dating this girl about three months ago, and things had been going so well. She always seems really into me, and I like her a lot, too.

But recently I went to her place to meet her family, and I noticed the way she treated her sister is really weird.

They’re way too touchy-feely with each other. It’s not just hugs or kisses on the cheek, either. They stroke each other’s hair, and I even saw them kiss on the lips (just briefly, not like they were tongue wrestling).

The rest of the family doesn’t really seem like the physical-affection types, so I think there’s something going on between them. I don’t know what it is, but it’s giving me the creeps and making me uncomfortable.

Am I just not being understanding or something? This seems so messed up.

—Not Incest-rested

Kissin’ Cousins,

I’ll let you in on a little secret, friend: People are weird. And sometimes their weirdness manifests in an affectionate way.

I used to have two female roommates who shared a room upstairs. Almost every time I hung around them, they’d be touching in some fashion.

They often slept in the same bed, wrapped in a big hug. Initially, I thought this was strange.

As I got to know them, however, I realized that this kind of affection was the way they showed love for one another.

You and I may be the type of people who just give our close friends hugs, but my roommates were cuddlers. Some people are verbal about how they feel, while others are crazy kinesthetic.

Everybody is different, and I think that incest is a pretty huge jump from sisterly affection.

So unless you witness some serious macking, I think you’re just fine. Don’t make assumptions, and remember that this world is full of touchy-feely folks — maybe one day you’ll join their ranks.

—Dr. Date

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

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY

Fresh produce for sale sits on on a refrigerated shelf at Santana Foods on Monday. The Minneapolis City Council is considering an updated grocery store ordinance.

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY

Melissa Laska, associate professor in the School of Public Health, speaks at a hearing at City Hall on Monday. Attendees discussed a proposed increase of staple foods in grocery stores.

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required to carry any juice products, but the new amendment reverses that.

Also, the current form of the rule doesn’t include minimum quantities for food.

Abed Hassuneh, owner of the Santana Foods deli and grocer y store in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, said the changes would pose challenges.

If the amendment passes, he said, the store might have to operate as just a deli.

“At that point, we’d probably have to dismiss the grocery license,” Hassuneh said.

Gordon said it may be difficult for some stores to comply with the stricter guidelines.

“There might be unintended consequences in lost revenue,” he said.

But Gordon said a survey completed earlier this year found that a large number of stores already meet the proposed requirements.

Stores would be exempt from the requirements if they sell staple foods as a supplement to their primary business, or if they sell only specialty foods and don’t accept federal benefits like food stamps.

Around 20 residents and community suppor ters spoke at a public hearing at City Hall on Monday before a city committee unanimously approved the proposal.

Around 68 stores in Minneapolis would be exempt, Kristen Klingler, a senior public health specialist for

the city, said at the hearing.

She noted that about 262 stores, including stores like CVS and Walgreens, would have to follow the new guidelines.

Ward 8 City Councilwoman Elizabeth Glidden said at the hearing that there might be extra stress on the city’s health department staff to make sure stores comply with the new requirements.

“It’s a complicated ordinance from a depar tment that came to us just a few months ago saying that they didn’t have enough staff to meet their existing priorities,” she said.

If the full City Council supports the change to the city ordinance at its next meeting on Oct. 31, the amendment will take effect in April.

Melissa Laska, an

associate professor at the School of Public Health, worked with the city on the amendment. She said the first year of the policy’s implementation would, in part, be devoted to monitoring compliance and informing store owners about the new requirements.

The city would not issue any warning letters or citations for stores not abiding during the first year.

Laska and her team have applied for funding to research the change’s impact on Minneapolis communities, pending the ordinance’s approval.

Some University students say stores near the institution lack healthy food options.

“There could be more vegetables and fr uits at CVS or Walgreens,” said

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he has show steady trend lines.

Still, the ease of transpor tation of fered by the Green Line has helped facilitate isolated incidents of crime.

In late August, two suspects used the train to escape after a robber y in the early morning hours, said University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner, adding that video evidence was used to eventually identify

and locate the suspects.

Miner said concer ns about the light rail running through campus largely pertain to pedestrian safety when crossing tracks — not crime.

“My feeling is that there’s been not a net negative or a net positive regarding crime on campus,” said Ross Allanson, director of the University’s Parking and Transportation Services.

Franklin said he’s noticed some students even feel safer with the light rail on campus.

“I think what you’re finding

is that students are embracing the light rail rather than fearing it,” Franklin said, “and we’re seeing that in our ridership numbers.”

UMPD has worked closely with the Metropolitan Council and Metro Transit to ensure signals are functioning as efficiently as possible, Miner said.

While Miner said UMPD has not taken extreme measures against crime on campus specifically related to the light rail, he said officers have collaborated with Metro Transit police and stationed officers to patrol

the Green Line.

But Miner does recommend that riders stay aware of their surroundings, especially keeping an eye out for people watching valuables.

Franklin said he thinks the partnership with UMPD has been successful.

“We’re sharing information, we’re sharing intelligence and we’ve got a strong foundation solidifying the University Police Department and the Metro Transit Police Department,” he said, “which strengthens us and our public safety efforts on campus.”

Low-key secretary of state race heats up at the U

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about $2,000 in annual energy costs.

While the school is upgrading buildings to be more sustainable, Beth Mercer-Taylor, the Institute on the Environment’s sustainability coordinator, said new buildings sprouting up on campus are “tied into a fossil fuel system.”

“How are we going to become a carbon-neutral campus if we keep doing this?” she said, noting that the school took a pledge to become carbon-neutral by 2050. “Obviously we can’t keep doing that.”

The school also made savings in smaller places.

In the past three years, the University has replaced more than 2,000 lamps with more efficient alternatives, saving an estimated $25,000 each year, according to the campaign’s website.

The most recent, and one of the largest, efforts

by Energy Management is the renovation of the Old Main Heating Plant to build a combined heat and power plant that will generate electricity and steam that will be used on campus, said Shane Stennes, sustainability coordinator for Facilities Management. The project, he said, will eliminate coal use on campus, reducing the

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Wilson Williams Bierman Carlson Library Arena Athletic School Building SOURCES: IT ALL ADDS UP, SUSTAINABILITY COORDINATOR SHANE STENNES

school’s overall fossil fuel use. The $96 million construction project is expected to be complete in June 2016.

“Projects like these that increase the reliability of our utility systems will be cost-ef fective for the University as a whole,” Stennes said.

More efforts needed While the University has successfully reduced energy costs campus-wide since “It All Adds Up” began, sustainability coordinators agree that there’s still much to be done to make the school as efficient as it can be.

“Looking ahead to the future, our goal is to increase the campaign’s visibility as well as allow it to stay relevant,” Stennes said.

“There are large decisions the University needs to make.”

Sustainability coordinator for Facilities Management Stacey White said the University needs to make sure to stay committed to its goals and the campaign to ensure the efforts it has made thus far will have long-term effects.

She also said there are a lot of opportunities to incorporate more sustainability programs on campus.

Interior design sophomore Hailey Wrasman, who has worked with the group Students for Sustainability, agreed and said the University’s work is not complete.

The school needs to educate its students on how they can be more sustainable on campus, she said.

“I think they are making good steps, but everything needs to be more ironed out in order to make a bigger impact,” Wrasman said.

Students have played a large role in helping the University reach its green goals.

“We star ted out being focused on energy conservation and trying to get the broader campus engaged in conser ving energy and thinking about ef ficiency and its impact,” Stennes said. “It then evolved into a campaign about how we live and interact with campus.”

Students from a variety of majors have come together during the campaign to contribute to the University’s carbon footprint reduction.

For example, Wrasman, an interior design student, said she has unique ideas about how to incorporate sustainability into daily life that a student with a scientific background may not have.

“Sometimes I have a different perspective because I don’t have this predetermined idea of how something should be,” she said.

PROPOSED STAPLE FOOD REQUIREMENTS At least Five gallons of milk

At least Six pounds of cheese

At least 30 pounds or 50 items of fruits or vegetables

At least Five pounds of whole grains

At least Six one-dozen containers of fresh, large eggs

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industrial engineering sophomore Madeline Hoch. “They go bad in a day, so you can tell they’re not good quality.”

But nursing freshman Brandon Hubbard said he hasn’t noticed a lack of

healthy food near campus.

“I always go to Walgreens, and they seem to have enough food,” he said.

“But it’s definitely good to encourage people to eat healthier.”

Palestinian president becomes desperate

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RAMALLAH, West Bank — The Palestinian president has been speaking in increasingly belligerent tones in recent weeks, accusing Israel of committing “genocide” in Gaza and calling on Palestinians to defend a contested Jerusalem holy site “by any means.”

The heightened rhetoric is a departure for the normally staid Mahmoud Abbas — and an apparent sign of desperation as he tries to halt a slide in his own popularity following this summer’s war between Israel and the Islamic militant Hamas in Gaza.

Abbas has staked his decade-long presidency on the pursuit of an independent Palestinian state through negotiations with Israel. But he seems out of ideas after another failed round of talks that collapsed in April, a war that boosted the popularity of the rival Hamas, and a bumpy attempt to win new recognition at the United Nations.

Fiery rhetoric is an easy way to appeal to his public at a time when many Palestinians believe Israel is not serious about negotiating a partition deal that would end half a century of Israeli military occupation.

Yet Abbas has also carefully avoided any steps that would irreversibly harm his relationship with Israel.

The disconnect between words and action was on jar ring display over the weekend when Abbas’ security forces beat West Bank protesters marching in support of a Muslim-run holy site that is widely perceived

by Palestinians to be under threat of a Jewish takeover.

Just hours later, Abbas urged activists from his Fatah movement to defend the shrine “by any means” against “cattle herds of (Jewish) settlers” who he said “have no right to enter and desecrate it.”

The Al Aqsa Mosque compound is Islam’s third holiest shrine. It also contains remnants of the biblical Jewish Temple, making

it Judaism’s most revered site.

Last month, Abbas accused Israel in a speech at the U.N. of committing “genocide” during the Gaza war in which some 2,100 Palestinians were killed, many of them civilians, along with 72 people on the Israeli side.

Scarred by memories of the Holocaust, Israel, along with the U.S., condemned his choice of words.

Palestinian analyst Diana Buttu said Abbas’ lack of a political vision is behind his new populist tone and attempts to tap into a consensus issue such as Al Aqsa.

“He has nothing to hang his hat on any longer,” she said. “He is making more forceful statements because he knows that public opinion toward him and his par ty is at an all-time low.”

No serious challenger to the 79-year-old Abbas has emerged during his decade as president. But an October poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, a respected research center, indicates he and his Fatah Party are in serious trouble.

His approval rating has dropped by 11 points, to 39 percent, since the Gaza war, according to the poll, which had an er ror margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

If pr esidential elections were held today, Abbas would come in last in a three-way race against Ismail Haniyeh, a Hamas leader in Gaza, and Fatah’s Mar wan Barghouti, an uprising leader who is in prison in Israel.

Hamas’ popularity soared during the Gaza war, after it fired thousands of rockets and mortar shells at Israel, though support has since dropped somewhat.

Hamas, which seized Gaza from Abbas in 2007, was also forced to hand over the reins, at least nominally, to an Abbas-led unity government that is coordinating international reconstruction aid. Still, the heavily armed militant group remains the main force on the ground.