November 6, 2014

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ALSO IN THE SPORTS SECTION:

■■ Soccer gets a Big Ten redemption, 1-0

Senior Taylor Wodnick scored the team’s lone goal. PAGE 7

■■ Men’s hockey fighting the injury bug

Two underclassmen are out the next few weeks. PAGE 7

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TECHNOLOGY

U files patent infringement suits The University claims that four top phone companies used its technology without permission.

BY ANNE MILLERBERND AND CODY NELSON amillerbernd@mndaily.com cnelson1@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota filed federal patent infringement lawsuits against the nation’s four largest wireless ser vice providers on Wednesday.

The institution alleges that Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are illegally using technology developed in

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Loan credit restrictions loosened

part by a University researcher to make their wireless communication ser vices faster and more reliable.

All four companies declined to comment on the suits.

The researcher mentioned in the suits, Georgios Giannakis, is a University professor and the director of the University’s Digital Technology Center. He declined to comment through a spokesman because he will be a witness in the cases.

The quality of the technology and the fact that it makes the companies a lot of money were key reasons for the lawsuits, said University General Counsel William Donohue.

“Our faculty have developed an important

piece of technology, which the University has [patented],” he said. “We think it’s impor tant for us to protect that and to make sure that people pay a reasonable royalty if, in fact, they want to use impor tant technology like this from the University.”

The University made almost $40 million in royalty revenues from licensing and commercializing its various inventions last year, according to the suits.

The University’s complaints, filed in Minnesota’s U.S. District Court, mention no specific dollar amount but ask for royalties and damages from the companies.

Donohue said the University doesn’t often engage in lawsuits like these, adding

that he’s only dealt with a few in more than 15 years with the institution.

The University has enlisted Bostonbased Fish and Richardson, a top national law firm specializing in patent and technology law, to help the school’s legal team argue the case. The historic firm counts Thomas Edison, the Wright brothers and the inventor of the telephone among its past clients.

Because the phone companies are so large, Donohue said, he expects these lawsuits to go on for a long time, though the companies could settle. He expects the companies to submit answers to the complaint in the next several weeks.

POLITICS

Polls closed, votes scrutinized

Updates to the federal parent loan program aim to increase accessibility and help families.

BY TAYLOR NACHTIGAL tnachtigal@mndaily.com

As part of the revamps to the Higher Education Act, the federal government is changing its credit requirements to increase accessibility for parent loans.

The White House announced updates to the Federal Direct Parent Loan for Undergraduate Students Program late last month, which will change definitions regarding loan holders’ histor y and provide loan counseling. The new regulations will likely take effect this summer and are a part of a widespread effort to make student loans easier for families with poor credit history to receive.

“The depar tment’s top priority is to ensure more students can access and successfully complete a postsecondar y education,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in an Oct. 22 press release.

If the Higher Education Act receives reauthorization this spring, the changes will take place in July — the start of the next financial aid year — said Ginny Dodds, the Minnesota Of fice of Higher Education’s manager of state financial aid programs.

But some higher education officials are pushing to enact the regulations earlier, which could happen sooner if enough support is garnered.

The loan borrowers include graduate and professional students and parents with college students.

The changes will forgive borrowers that are a little over $2,000 in debt and will shorten the time-period that the borrower’s credit histor y is considered from five to two years.

“I think it definitely will [be positive for students]. They’re changing it for a reason,” u See BORROWERS Page 16

ALEX TUTHILL-PREUS, DAILY

A students votes at the Weisman Art Museum on Tuesday. Voter turnout statewide was about 50 percent, lower than the last two midterm elections.

Leaders from both major parties discussed low student voter turnout and flaws in the state’s political system on Wednesday.

University of Minnesota’s Humphrey

BY TAYLOR NACHTIGAL tnachtigal@mndaily.com

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School of Public Affairs on Wednesday af-

n election that secured incumbents’

ternoon, with both parties expressing some

positions in two leading political of-

disappointment with results.

fices — governor and Senate — and flipped

About 40 community members and a

the Minnesota House of Representative’s

few students gathered in the Humphrey

majority had political leaders re-evaluating

Forum for an analysis of Tuesday’s election

election tactics Wednesday.

results that featured state Sen. Michelle

GOP and Democratic-Farmer-Labor leaders discussed campaign strategies, key issues and voter engagement at the

Benson, R-Ham Lake, and Ken Mar tin, DFL chair.

Republicans gained control of the state

u See ANALYSIS Page 3

CITY

RESEARCH

Van Cleve Park may get $300K for fix-ups Health, privacy:

A tricky balance

The Minneapolis Park Board superintendent’s budget asks for $72.5M and a tax increase.

As scientists’ understanding of the human genome grows, they grapple with new ethics.

BY JESSIE BEKKER jbekker@mndaily.com

A breezy fall day had Megan Swenson strolling through the Southeast Como neighborhood’s Van Cleve Park with her dog, enjoying the green space and playground.

She was surprised to learn that the recreation space may not be the same in a few years.

The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board is preparing to make improvements to its parks — including Van Cleve — beginning early next year, a process that will extend through 2020. The multimillion-dollar plan aims to revamp deteriorating parks across Minneapolis, although some park users say the University of Minnesota-area Van Cleve doesn’t need the updates. u See RENOVATIONS Page 16

BY PARKER LEMKE plemke@mndaily.com

CORA NELSON, DAILY

A child sits on a toy bike at Van Cleve Park on Thursday. The park board superintendent’s proposed budget allocates about $300,000 to the park in 2020 to help improve its facilities.

Researchers are deciphering increasingly large sections of human genetic code.

But along the way, they sometimes discover genes in their subjects that reveal higher risks for illnesses such as cancer.

It has been almost a decade since the debate emerged over whether and how scientists should inform research participants of the results of genomic sequencing, said Susan Wolf, a University of Minnesota law, medicine and public policy professor.

A public summit aimed at exploring the balance between individual privacy and family health risks will bring that conversation to the Humphrey School of Public u See GENOME Page 4

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MINNEAPOLIS — Withholding their policy agendas for now, Democratic Gov. Mark Dayton and newly emboldened Minnesota House Republicans struck an early tone of cooperation Wednesday that will be put to the test when the Legislature convenes in January.

The mixed result from Tuesday’s election — Dayton handily secured another four years while Republicans grabbed a 72-62 House majority — returned divided government to a state where Democrats had free rein the past two years.

“It’s a prescription for gridlock unless we all rise above that,” was Dayton’s assessment the morning after his win. He also placed a call to Republican Rep.

Kurt Daudt, the favorite to be House speaker, and later told reporters he’s willing to meet the GOP in the middle as long as they enter with a similar commitment to collaboration.

“It takes two to tango,” Dayton said. “You can’t dance alone.”

Daudt, surrounded by veteran members and incoming freshmen at a jubilant news conference, said his caucus is realistic about a two-on-one Capitol dynamic with Dayton and majority Senate Democrats opposite them. The focus, he said, needs to be on the practical.

“The era of divide-andconquer politics needs to be over in Minnesota,” Daudt said. “This group wants to roll up our sleeves and get to work for ever y Minnesotan, and that’s

what we intend to do.”

None of the power players offered much Wednesday about specific policies they’ll pursue. Generally, they stressed a need to work out a long-term transportation funding plan to deal with a multibillion-dollar backlog in road and bridge projects.

But the source of the money could be a source of friction.

Dayton also said there is probably common ground on further streamlining of business permitting and environmental reviews.

But clashes are expected over MNSure, the year-old health insurance exchange launched amid GOP objections. Daudt stopped short of saying his members would dismantle the system, but said Republicans would seek changes and more aggressive oversight.

The GOP may also attempt revisions on a law that allowed for unionization of some day care providers and health care workers, as well as revisiting a 2016 ballot measure that could result in lawmaker pay raises.

The GOP plowed its way to a House majority through greater Minnesota, where most competitive races went their way. Veteran Democratic Reps. John Ward of Baxter, Patti Fritz of Faribault and Andrew Falk of Murdock were defeated, as were several freshman members who came in during 2012’s wave.

Daudt said his caucus would place extra emphasis on rural concerns such as farm policy, starting by bringing back a standalone agriculture committee that Democrats merged with an environmental panel.

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MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota’s Independence Party, which complicated races for Republicans and Democrats for years, is a major party no more.

IP Chairman Mark Jenkins conceded Wednesday that his party will drop to minor-party status later this year when the midterm election results become official. The reduction means the loss of automatic ballot access and a sharp reduction in campaign subsidies that made past IP candidates more credible, even as longshots.

“There’s no change in the attitude of our candidates and supporters, and it doesn’t change our energy,” Jenkins said. “We’re going to fight for fair and open elections and for reasonable governance in our state and in our nation.”

Jenkins vowed the IP would field legislative candidates in 2016 and statewide in 2018. But he acknowledged that success in elections and in regaining the major-party designation will be harder.

No statewide IP candidate got 5 percent or better in Tuesday’s election, the second straight election the party failed to hit the benchmark required to keep its status. Secretary of State hopeful Bob Helland received 4.9 percent in unofficial returns. Governor candidate Hannah Nicollet got less than 3 percent and was hampered by her early failure to raise enough money to unlock campaign subsidies. As Nicollet polled poorly, she was left out of several debates.

The results were a contrast to past years. In 2006 and 2010, IP governor candidates Peter Hutchinson and Tom Horner performed far better and turned those races into true three-way affairs. In 1998, Jesse Ventura won the governorship for the Reform Party, later renamed the IP. “For 20 years the media has been writing our obituary,” Jenkins said. “We took a bit hit this cycle, but we’re not going away. This election showed that 8 to 10 percent of voters still aren’t comfor table with Republicans or Democrats in office.”

ST. PAUL — With open enrollment just 10 days away, officials racing to get Minnesota’s health insurance exchange ready for its second act said Wednesday that there are risks ahead and they’ll need all the remaining time for final testing.

Jesse Oman, assistant commissioner with the state information technology agency MN.IT, gave the MNsure board its final update on system readiness before open enrollment begins Nov. 15.

“This is a high-risk project from Day One and remains a high-risk project and will be so until we go live,” Oman said. “... All of our resources at this point are 24/7, heads down, focused on being able to deliver a quality product and the best consumer experience that we can.”

MNsure got off to a rocky start in its inaugural open enrollment period last year due to serious technical glitches, though it helped reduce the ranks of Minnesota’s uninsured by an estimated 40 percent. About 365,000 people have enrolled in coverage since last October to comply with the mandates of the federal Affordable Care Act. Most qualified for the publicly funded Medical Assistance and MinnesotaCare programs for lower-income people, but the customers also included nearly 56,000 people who enrolled in plans through private insurance carriers via MNsure. Getting them to re-enroll is a major focus of the upcoming campaign.

Brian Keane of Deloitte Consulting, which MNsure brought in to fix the system earlier this year, said the extensive testing before and after a new release of computer code in a few days will have to continue right up until when consumers start comparison shopping again.

“We’re optimistic at this point that we can get through that, but there’s just no guarantee,” Keane said.

“Taking some time to shop and compare is critical,” said Allison O’Toole, MNsure’s deputy director for external relations.

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New name, leader for Dinky biz group Mike Mulrooney, owner of Blarney Pub and Grill, will serve a two-year term as the Dinkytown Business Alliance’s president.

BY ANNE MILLERBERND amillerbernd@mndaily.com

Members of the newly re-named Dinkytown Business Alliance say they hope broader membership and updated bylaws and leadership will better equip the organization to handle sweeping changes to the area.

Those involved say the rebranding won’t change the group’s mission of providing a voice for area business owners.

A sizable grant from the city, combined with the loss of its longstanding president and increasing area development, created an opportunity for the former Dinkytown Business Association to transition into the alliance.

“A time came where we had to renew things,” said new President Mike Mulrooney. “We had to get this alliance going and get ourselves going in a direction that is in connection with the changing time.”

The city of Minneapolis awarded almost $50,000 to the alliance and the MarcyHolmes Neighbor hood Association near the end of the summer, mainly for marketing and new member recruitment.

Mulrooney, who owns Blarney Pub and Grill, said he will focus on area issues like parking, development and attracting more business and property owners to the alliance.

Mulrooney said he’s been involved with the DBA since he opened his pub in 2004. He said it has remained important to him as a tool for those with a stake in Dinkytown to form a collective voice and agenda.

Like many others in Dinkytown, Mulrooney said one of the business district’s biggest issues is rooted in a lack of parking.

Because the alliance is ramping up ef for ts to market Dinkytown to

surrounding cities, he said, it’s critical to add to the area’s parking spaces.

The group is also paying close attention to development and forming a consensus on things like the potential Dinkytown hotel, he said.

Perhaps one of the most important changes the DBA has made is adding property owners to the alliance, said Book House owner and DBA communications director Kristen Eide-Tollefson.

She said the businesses need the property owners, as the roles overlap for many in the area.

“We’re really lucky to still have business owners who are also property owners,” she said.

Since all of the alliance’s leadership positions are voluntary, Mulrooney said he’ll do his best to serve both his own business and the district it calls home.

“I am proud to represent Dinkytown and the other businesses in the area,” he said. “I’m willing to invest my time while keeping my main priorities still the main focus.”

A transition period Skott Johnson took on the brunt of the Dinkytown Business Association’s work for the nearly 20 years he served as its president.

“The amount of work and ef for t and hear t and soul that [Johnson] put into this community and into Dinkytown and into the association is second to none,” Mulrooney said.

But when Johnson left in mid-December, Greg Pillsbury, owner of Burrito Loco and then-DBA vice president, took over the role with a more democratic strategy. Pillsbury said he simply didn’t have time to run the organization way Johnson did.

While the association did well under Pillsbur y’s

Election Day results get evaluated by state political leaders Analysis u from Page 1

House of Representatives — a major victor y for the par ty — and Democrats again secured the top offices of governor, U.S. senator and Minnesota secretar y of state.

Wednesday’s speakers focused on county and district demographics in the discussion, noting a lower-than-usual Republican turnout in the suburbs.

Although Gov. Mark Dayton was re-elected, 53 of Minnesota’s 87 counties voted for Republican challenger Jef f Johnson. Dayton claimed 34 counties, including the state’s most populous.

“Greater Minnesota does not tr ust the DFL,” Benson said.

Mar tin expressed his disappointment with state Republicans taking control of the House, and he said the results of the Senate and governor’s races came as no surprise to him.

“I was not wor ried at the beginning of the year when the candidates were announced,” he said.

One possible deterrent for potential voters, Martin said, could have been politics’ recent shift toward what he called “one perpetual campaign.”

“People are tur ned of f with the politics and are looking for someone who inspires,” he said.

“Someone with a core set of convictions that drive them.”

Both Benson and Martin said ticket leaders need to develop a clear vision for Minnesotans and convey that to voters. “ Yo u c a n ’ t j u s t b e against the Democrats.

You have to give some reason how to move the party for ward,” Mar tin said. “If you’re star ting point is

‘no,’ then there’s no room for compromise.”

Both speakers said they were unhappy with Tuesday’s voter turnout, which was slightly over 50 percent statewide.

The role of the youth vote was also a hot topic during Wednesday’s discussion. Both Mar tin and Benson addr essed the trouble the GOP and DFL have with engaging young voters.

“We’r e not inspiring the next generation of voters,” Mar tin said. “We have responsibilities to put the rhetoric down and inspire people, despite our differences.”

Chang Vang, a graduate student studying social work, said a lack of onthe-ground campaigning that targets young voters was likely a reason for low voter tur nout, despite a large election social media presence.

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, D F L - M inne apolis, w h o represents areas surrounding the University, was re-elected T uesday for her 22nd ter m and attended the discussion.

Although par ty leaders expr essed concer n over rallying young voters, Kahn said her last-minute campaigning ef for ts on campus with the University’s College Democrats were more successful than they were at any point in her 42-year career with the Legislature.

“I’ve never had one with that level of turnout and ef fectiveness,” she said.

Despite disappointments on both sides, party leaders said they will both look fur ther at the election’s results to improve future per formance and strategies.

“I think we are just getting our par ty back on its feet,” Benson said.

presidency, Mulrooney said it was in need of an upgrade.

“Nothing bad happened; there was nothing bad going on,” he said. “There was just the need for more organization and more communication — it’s just that simple.”

The organization’s leadership structure was loosely defined during Johnson’s presidency, current DBA Vice President Randal Gast said. Now, about eight officers are equally involved and have to adhere more closely to their position’s demands.

Despite the changes, Mulrooney said he doesn’t see the alliance as “new,” but it’s better equipped to handle whatever the area’s future may hold.

“I think ‘new’ is a misconstrued word,” he said.

“It’s less of a new DBA, even though it is, and more of new times or changing times.”

ELIZABETH BRUMLEY, DAILY

Top: Mike Mulrooney, the Dinkytown Business Alliance’s new president, completes paperwork inside Blarney Pub and Grill on Tuesday afternoon. The alliance was formerly known as the Dinkytown Business Association.

Bottom: Mulrooney, owner of Blarney Pub and Grill, talks to his employees Tuesday afternoon.

He plans to focus on issues such as parking during his term.

NIH-funded efforts seek support for diverse biomedical research A $19.2 million grant will fund the development of grant-writing seminars.

BY KELSEY CHRISTENSEN kchristensen@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota’s Program in Health Disparities Research will share a $19.2 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health late last month that will provide professional oppor tunities for underrepresented researchers.

When compared to their white counterpar ts, biomedical investigators

from diverse backgrounds are not funded at the same rate.

“The question of ‘why’ is what the NIH is exploring,” said Anne Marie Weber-Main, an associate professor of medicine who is helping the NIH-funded effort.

The University of Minnesota, along with the University of WisconsinMadison, Boston College, Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, and

the University of Nor th Texas, will use the recent NIH grant to hire several multicultural biomedical researchers and develop a grant-writing seminar series for diverse investigators seeking funding for their research projects.

Kolawole Okuyemi, director of the University’s Program in Health Disparities Research, said about a quar ter of the institution’s Medical School students are minorities, as are 10 percent of the school’s faculty.

“This cannot continue,” he said.

Weber-Main said the NIH has known for years about chronic under representation and is now taking steps to invest in attracting and suppor ting diverse researchers.

“For the University to be involved in this is outstanding,” she said.

W ith the help of the grant, Okuyemi said he believes the University will become a national hub for diverse medical researchers nationwide.

“We need scientists from all populations to be engaged to ask the right questions,” he said.

Minnesota GOP regroups after being odd state out

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL — As the GOP faithful in neighboring states celebrated, Minnesota Republicans are coming to grips with the latest series of disappointing losses, especially for federal seats.

Tuesday was a banner night for Republicans nationwide, yet Minnesota’s candidates for gover nor and U.S. Senate barely mustered a fight against Democratic incumbents Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. Al Franken, stretching the prospect of a GOPheld statewide office until at least 2018 — a 12-year drought. Those lackluster per formances also likely dragged down strong Republican hopefuls in tight U.S. House races in northwestern and northeastern Minnesota.

Republicans retook the U.S. Senate by driving out Democratic incumbents in states such as Alaska, Arkansas and North Carolina, while also picking up governor’s seats in the Democratic strongholds of

Mar yland, Massachusetts and Illinois. And though state GOP chairman Keith Downey insisted that taking back the state House was Tuesday’s top prize, other Republicans saw it as a silver lining in an otherwise dismal party showing.

“If there was a wave nationally, it didn’t hit the state here in Minnesota,” Downey conceded.

Gubernatorial candidate Jef f Johnson did worse than 2012 pr esidential hopeful Mitt Romney in all but 15 of Minnesota’s 87 counties; Senate candidate Mike McFadden underperformed Romney in 86 of 87 counties. The GOP’s strongest showing for a Minnesota statewide office came from a Supreme Cour t hopeful whom the par ty essentially disavowed for a DUI arrest. Michelle MacDonald got 46.7 percent of the vote, compared to Johnson’s 44.5 percent.

“If that’s not a glass of cold water in the face of Republicans this morning, I don’t know what would be,” said Michael Brodkorb, a longtime Republican

strategist.

Downey stressed that rebuilding the par ty was still a work in progress after it accrued $2 millionplus in debt — it still hamstr ung spending in this election cycle — and the disastrous showing statewide two years ago.

“We lost ever ything in 2012 here in Minnesota, top to bottom,” he said.

“The fact that we were able to regain the Minnesota House this time around on the heels of that ... overall, I’d say it was a decent gain, a solid gain.”

He also pinpointed Democrats’ steep cash advantages for their easy wins in the U.S. Senate and governor’s contests. Franken outspent McFadden by a nearly 5-to1 margin, and outside Democratic groups hammered Johnson for weeks before he could air ads.

Outside Republican organizations mostly skipped over Minnesota’s statewide races, opting to target more winnable seats in their successful bid to retake the U.S. Senate.

And state groups spent

unprecedented money on efforts to regain control of the Minnesota House.

The damage spr ead down-ticket.

In the tight 8th Congressional District, Franken’s double-digit showing over McFadden gave Democratic incumbent Rep. Rick Nolan a muchneeded boost over Republican Stewart Mills. Nolan eked out a win by less than 2 percent of the vote.

Ben Golnik, whose conser vative-leaning Minnesota Jobs Coalition spent heavily to take over the state House, said his group and others should have gone after Franken and Dayton earlier in the summer. “ We h a d a c o u p l e missed opportunities with both of those guys,” Golnik said.

From fundraising disadvantages to a get-out-thevote infrastr ucture in its infancy to recruiting stronger candidates, Brodkorb of fered a grim critique of the party’s effort: “Republicans really need to throw the playbook out today.”

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Combined power plant to up efficiency The $96M project to renovate the plant will be completed by November 2016.

BY MOLLY MICHALETZ mmichaletz@mndaily.com

In an effort to reduce its carbon footprint and save money, the University of Minnesota is renovating the Old Main Heating Plant building.

The century-old building in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood is undergoing a $96 million renovation to transform it into a combined heat and power plant that will help provide warmth and electricity for campus buildings.

Construction will begin in January and will be complete

by November 2016.

The combined heat and power plant system is a solution to University buildings’ increased demand for steam power. Many of the institution’s facilities are still running off outdated boilers from the 1940s, according to a Board of Regents presentation.

The East Bank campus currently receives all of its steam energy from an

unr eliable, of f-campus source, said University Services spokesman Tim Busse.

And with the addition of many new buildings in the past 10 years, like research facilities and the University recreation center, the current system can’t continue to meet the demand for heat on campus, sustainability coordinator Shane Stennes said.

“What if one of our boilers goes down and becomes inoperable during peak demand in winter?” Stennes said.

Combining heat and power will give the University additional steam capacity, which would allow it to provide sufficient heat in buildings across campus, he said.

By replacing inefficient and unreliable coal burners, the combined heat and power plant will meet the University’s projected need for steam until 2028, Stennes said.

The renovated building will contain a natural gas turbine and a heat recovery

steam boiler that will generate electricity and heat for campus buildings, according to the project’s website.

The technology is initially more expensive than its current system, Stennes said, but because it provides both steam and electricity, it will ultimately be more costefficient.

The project will reduce the University’s overall utility costs by up to $2 million each year, according to the Board of Regents documents.

Along with saving the school money, the new system will be much more energy-ef ficient, which helps the University become greener, sustainability education coordinator Beth Mercer-Taylor said.

“In the process of combining energy, we can significantly reduce our carbon footprint by switching off of burning coal,” she said.

The University isn’t the first college trying to reduce its energy through combining powers.

Schools like Cornell University, Princeton University

“In the process of combining energy, we can significantly reduce our carbon footprint by switching off of burning coal.”

BETH MERCER-TAYLOR Sustainability education coordinator

and the University of Iowa have similar energy-efficient systems in place.

President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2012 promoting industrial energy efficiency, which included the use of combining powers.

In 2011, University President Eric Kaler signed a commitment to create a climate action plan, which includes a goal for the institution to become carbon neutral by 2050. The University’s 2011 Climate Action Plan highlighted the campus’s steam plant as one of its largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.

SE Como seeks improved lighting A property tax hike and additions to existing light poles are among the proposed solutions to increase lighting in the area.

BY BARRY LY TTON blytton@mndaily.com

After the sun sets in Southeast Como, the neighborhood’s residents often become aler t and uneasy as they make their way home down dimly lit sidewalks.

But the Southeast Como Improvement Association is looking for solutions to that problem by administering an online sur vey for residents that aims to better understand the issue and to gauge their interest in various solutions.

“It’s a safe neighborhood, but it’s ver y dark, so you have to look over your shoulder,” said economics and global studies junior Feven Gerezgiher.

SECIA director Ricardo McCurley said the group has formulated four different options for addressing the lighting problem: bumping up area property taxes, seeking outside funding, or improving existing poles by installing LED lights or attaching mercur y-vapor lights to them.

“There’s a lot of complexity to it,” McCurley s a i d . “ A n d s o f a r, o u r research has said it’s a mixed bag.”

Residents living south of Como Avenue

Southeast benefit from additional pedestrian lights, he said. But people located nor th of Como rely on Xcel Energy utility poles alone, which McCurley said are spread out and don’t give much light.

The first proposed lighting solution would charge homeowners an average proper ty tax increase of $4,000 over 20 years, he said, and the additional $200 per year for area residents would go toward installing “fancy new pedestrian-style lighting.”

Craig Janssen, owner of Elmwood Proper ties, which operates 10 rental proper ties in the Southeast Como area, said the price doesn’t sound too steep.

“That’s a bargain,” he said. “I’d be happy to pay that.”

But as mandated by the city, lighting replacements in any four-block area that are funded by a proper ty tax increase require a 70 percent vote of approval from that area’s proper ty owners, McCurley said.

Other neighborhoods have str uggled to garner that kind of majority suppor t, he said.

Neighbors could also choose to instead put pressure on Xcel Energy

to update its existing utility poles by installing new LED lighting or attaching mer cur y-vapor lights to them — a solution that presents its own set of dif ficulties, McCurley said.

“Xcel is dragging their feet on the LED replacement issue because LEDs obviously use much less energy,” he said.

Another alter native proposed remedy would seek outside funding to add lighting.

Some, including McCurley, say the University of Minnesota could be an obvious option for financial support.

“The University should put more funding into it,” said Patrick Dugan, strategic communications junior and former Southeast Como resident. “It’s their students at risk.”

Earlier this year, the University awarded a $15,000 Good Neighbor Fund grant to Project Lighthouse, a project headed by Student and Community Relations.

Phillip Kelly, who led Project Lighthouse this past summer, said SECIA’s ef for ts may be par t of a larger issue. He said he knew of multiple Univ ers i t y n ei g h b or h ood s like Dinkytown and Cedar-Riverside that have

“It’s a safe neighborhood, but it’s very dark, so you have to look over your shoulder.”

FEVEN GEREZGIHER Economics and global studies junior

sought solutions to their lighting qualms.

Janssen said he thinks Elmwood Proper ties s h ou l d ma k e i mpr ov ements for Southeast Como a priority.

“Lighting is the most useful crime deterrent and one of the best things you can do to improve pride in proper ty ownership,” he said.

Walking home safely at night is a major concern for area residents, said current neighborhood resident Gerezgiher.

“If I were mugged, would I be able to describe the mugger to the UMPD?” she asked. “No.” McCurley said he’s found the issue to be surprisingly complex, as other community members have raised concern about the cost and the light pollution the proposed adjustments could incur.

“You’d think ever yone wants good lighting on their street,” he said, “but that’s not the case.”

Student group brings awareness to police brutality Students United Against Police Brutality aims to ensure students are treated fairly.

BY SARAH CONNOR sconnor@mndaily.com

Rows of pairs of shoes lined the Washington Avenue Bridge late last month, each pair representing a life lost in the United States since 2000 as a result of police brutality.

Amid national controversies involving police officers, a group of socialjustice-minded students at the University of Minnesota, Students United Against Police Brutality, is hoping to bring awareness to issues regarding police misconduct, racism and corruption in the campus community and across the country.

Eric Schiltz, the group’s founder and vice president, said the students teamed up last spring after several of them were inspired by the Twin Cities-based Communities United Against Police Br utality meeting they attended as part of a University service-learning requirement.

“I was really moved by

a lot of the stories I heard regarding police misconduct, and it was an education for me as someone who had never experienced police brutality,” he said. “I felt like it would be a good outlet for students to have a campus chapter.”

To ensure that the University’s police department is acting appropriately with students and the community, the group’s president, Eric Bauer, said it’s currently looking into complaints against the University of Minnesota Police Depar tment and any instances of police misconduct through the Data Practices Act. With the findings, the group wants to identify any potential trends of police targeting against specific demographic groups, he said.

Though the students aim to hold the UMPD accountable, they are not working against University police, Bauer said.

“We want to make it very clear who our group is and that we are not against police or anti-police,” he said.

“And that quite frankly, UMPD, while there may be some concerns, is almost certainly much better than other police forces.”

UMPD could not be reached for comment by

press time.

Bauer said the group is also helping students better understand their rights and equipping them with information on how to effectively use the Data Practices Act through training sessions.

Along with ensuring that police treat students fairly, the group wants to address what members call racial profiling in the University’s crime alerts last fall, Schiltz said.

After a number of last fall’s crime alerts included descriptions of black men as suspects, members of the University’s black community raised concer ns about racial profiling on campus.

“We’d heard a lot of stories about people on campus getting profiled as a result [of crime aler ts],” Schiltz said. “And that’s led a lot of people to have more prejudices against black people on campus, especially black males.”

Outside of the University, Bauer said he hopes the group will also be able to help improve relations between the University and the neighboring Cedar-Riverside community.

“Th e two commun i ties are ver y distinctly separate, and there are a

number of issues raised that we are tr ying to move for ward upon regarding how some of the policies and actions of the ‘U’ community have negatively impacted the Cedar-Riverside community,” he said.

The group hasn’t formally reached out to Cedar-Riverside or University leaders to address their concerns, Bauer said, but he said he’s formed personal relationships with some members of the West Bank neighborhood that he hopes will help with the group’s efforts.

Since the 10-person group is still relatively new, its focus for the coming year will be boosting membership through reaching out to the campus community, Bauer said.

Natalie Goodwin, a University freshman, said she joined the group the first week she arrived on campus after researching social justice issues in high school.

“I lear ned how deep and widespread the issues are, but also how invisible they had been to me,” she said. “I realized I couldn’t continue to be blissfully unaware as I had been, and I had to help any way I could.”

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The University identified the combined heat and power plant as a way to reduce the burning of fossil fuels and move the University toward a carbon-neutral

campus.

“This will be a great addition to the University’s portfolio and how we provide energy for our campus,” Stennes said.

The tricky balance of health and privacy Genome u from Page 1

Affairs on Thursday.

To address the emerging topics of bioethics, exper ts at the conference will work to develop guidelines for how genomic researchers should impar t vital health information to family members of study participants.

As geneticists expand their examination of their subjects’ genetic makeup, they inevitably stumble upon individual traits that are potential health risks, Wolf said, raising questions about whether researchers are obligated to relay those findings to par ticipants and their families.

“If somebody is about to step of f a curb in front of a bus, do I have an obligation to pull them back?” said Brian Van Ness, a genetics, cell biology and development professor. “Most people would say, ‘Yeah, you kind of should.’”

But privacy concer ns and research confidentiality can muddle those ethical lines, Wolf said.

Family matters There is a dif ference between research labs and health care providers, said Bonnie LeRoy, a genetics, cell biology and development professor who directs the University’s genetic counseling graduate program.

“Clinical work and research are not the same things,” she said.

In a clinical setting, she said, an individual patient’s health takes priority, while a researcher’s main obligation is to his or her study and obtaining data to improve medicine’s overall practice.

But sometimes research par ticipants go into studies without that distinction in mind and expect to be taken care of, she said.

Thursday’s summit will focus on the question of family access to information about genetic risk factors discovered in genomic research, said Wolf. She chairs the event’s organizer, the University’s Consor tium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences.

“Researchers have had no idea what to do, because they take their privacy [and] confidentiality responsibilities ver y seriously,” she said, adding that they rarely ask subjects at the onset of a project whether they want their families informed of any incidental findings.

Both researchers and health care providers, LeRoy said, should advise par ticipants and patients how to broach the sub-

ject of undesirable and unexpected results with family members, even distant ones. “‘ You haven’t seen me in two years. Guess what, we’re all at risk for cancer,’” she said.

“That usually doesn’t go ver y well.”

Barriers for biobanks Premature results or samples gathered years before a study ends can impede the disclosure of information to participants and their families, LeRoy said.

“Are the results good enough for me to scare somebody and tell them, ‘You have this gene change — I think it could cause cancer — but I’m not sure,’ ” she said. “Who would want to know that?”

Genetics, cell biology and development professor Van Ness said it can also be difficult to identify and locate individuals when working with genetic materials stored in biobanks.

“The bank may be accessed for a study 10 years after they donated the sample,” he said.

Many consent forms for those who provide biobank samples indicate information won’t circle back to them, Van Ness said.

Biobanks are looking at a collection of data and their ability to potentially predict diseases or responses to therapies, Van Ness said, and not advising individuals on health care issues.

Creating guidelines On Thursday, a group of experts will discuss findings on how and whether to provide family access to research at the public conference on campus. The presentation will house an audience of researchers, physicians, federal policymakers, bioethicists, study participants and their relatives, she said.

“We are going to be advocating legal change, policy change, ethics change,” Wolf said.

Next year, the group will finalize its recommendations using feedback from Thursday’s conference and start testing them out.

Van Ness, who studies genetic predictors for bone mar row cancer progression and therapeutic responses, said he hasn’t run into any issues with releasing information to patients’ families in his work, since it focuses mostly on drugresponse genes.

But he said as technology advances, there need to be standardized guidelines.

“It’s getting much easier to look at the entire genome, and so we are soon to be launching projects that will have entire genome databases,” Van Ness said. “The ethical issue will now become front and center for us.”

Editorials & Opinions

Thursday, November 6, 2014

BUSINESS

Live and let stream: Spotify’s importance Love it or hate it, streaming will continue to be the only way any money can be made off music.

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e shouldn’t toss out words like “revolutionize” and “game-changing” lightly, but Spotify has indeed revolutionized the online music world for artists and fans alike. But like all good things, Spotify comes at a cost.

I’m a huge fan of Spotify. I pay the student rate for a premium membership, and I can listen to (almost) whatever I want, wherever I want.

I don’t even remember the last time I paid for a $12.99 iTunes download or a physical CD. To please their fans, artists need to embrace the music industry’s shift to streaming.

However, Taylor Swift recently joined the ranks of artists like the Beatles, Thom Yorke and Beyoncé by opting to have some of her music stay off Spotify. Thom Yorke, frontman of Radiohead, has said that he doesn’t need Spotify as a gateway for his music — people will want to listen to it anyway.

Indie bands have a dif ferent take on Spotify. Some are concerned about not making as much money off streaming as popular, top-40 artists. I present to you the

MARTHA PIETRUSZEWSKI columnist

case of Vulfpeck.

Vulfpeck is an indie band that created a “silent” album for their fans to stream. It was called “Sleepify,” and each song of the 10-track album was only 30 seconds long.

Vulfpeck used the revenue from that album’s streams to fund a tour for their fans — impressive, considering that Spotify only pays between .006 and .0084 cents per stream. This is a tiny amount, but the alternative to a fraction of a penny per stream is no money for pirated music.

While I am not endorsing the questionable ethics of this practice, Vulfpeck stuck it to Spotify and raised money on their own terms. Or at least they tried to. Spotify has since removed the album, saying they prefer Vulfpeck’s earlier works. Spotify may have figured out the scheme quickly, but Vulfpeck made a brilliant ploy that ended up getting the band increased attention.

Spotify tries to create a fair payment model by taking the ar tists’ royalty fee into account. And if its members pay the

premium, revenue from streams is even higher. Unfortunately, $.006 is sometimes pushing it for the popular streaming service. About 70 percent of revenue goes to paying royalties, barely leaving enough for Spotify to cover its costs.

The company realizes what it pays may not be enough to represent the musical value of the artists. But Spotify counters this by saying that the end goal of its services is for all people to enjoy the music in an easier way than ever before.

Basically, Spotify is better than nothing.

It seems greedy and unnecessar y for big-name artists like Taylor Swift not to have their music on Spotify and other streaming ser vices such as Rdio and 8tracks. If artists cared about the fans as much as they say they do, there’s no reason not to release their music to the masses.

Coldplay understands both sides of the argument. They stagger the release of their albums on streaming ser vices in order to encourage listeners to buy the whole album. Streaming services are the future of the music industry whether Taylor likes it or not. But for now, major players may not play anytime soon.

Martha Pietruszewski welcomes comments at mpietruszewski@mndaily.com.

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Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, is one of very few Minnesota legislators with a strong science background. When I testified on the nuclear energy ban, she seemed to be the only one who understood the subject. I am pleased that she is still there.

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Endorsements have clean sweep at elections

We are pleased that all three candidates we endorsed — U.S. Democrat Sen. Al Franken, Gov. Mark Dayton and state Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis — all won re-election this election.

We believe they have already done an admirable job working for Minnesota, especially on behalf of its students.

We hope to see continued progress and help for students, particularly in regard to rising tuition and debt, as well as funding and access to education. We urge the winners to remember that it’s time to take action on campaign promises — and not time to become complacent with their respective positions.

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I find Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., fascinating. He is far from being an archetypal politician, as he does not have much charisma and shies away from the spotlight.

However, his political strategy of “just say no” to the Obama agenda and his ability to unite Republicans in the Senate in opposition to the president’s agenda have earned him recognition from some in the political science and pundit communities as being a pragmatic and effective leader.

Political journalist Matthew Yglesias hailed McConnell as being potentially “the greatest strategist in contemporar y politics” because of his ability to unite Republicans in the Senate and dispel any illusions that bipartisan progress was being made. Ezra Klein agreed, arguing that this made the Democrats look like ideologues who were tr ying to shove their legislative

Political gridlock should be avoided

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hough Election Day had Minnesota bucking the norm in some ways, like re-electing Democrats Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. Al Franken, there were great shifts in power at both the state and national levels.

Republicans took control of the Minnesota House and the national Senate and strengthened their grip on the U.S. House.

With this shift in power comes the possibility of gridlock, especially if the party platforms of many Republicans become reality. New Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., recently stated that just because the United States has a polarized political system with two main parties “doesn’t mean we have to be in perpetual conflict.” However, he also promised to lead the charge against a higher minimum wage, carbon emissions and the Affordable Health Care Act. We urge newly elected Minnesotan lawmakers to focus on passing bipartisan legislation instead of contributing to political gridlock by trying to fight Dayton’s recently passed minimum wage increase bill, for example.

There are a number of areas in which teamwork would be beneficial in order to move forward. Transportation, infrastructure, education reform and continuing to address a battered economy are issues on which both parties campaigned — so they should be able to find some common ground.

Some Minnesotan politicians seem to understand this. Dayton recently said, “It takes two to tango. You can’t dance alone.”

We couldn’t agree more and hope that progress will continue to be a theme of the future.

M Shea Stoner welcomes comments at letters@mndaily.com.

TECHNOLOGY

Yik Yak’s anonymity is an issue

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ast November, two recent college graduates created the social media app Yik Yak. The app is similar to Twitter, but it’s anonymous and connects users so that only Yaks from a radius of just over a mile appear on your feed.

Its purpose is to allow you to “connect and share information with those around you.” While many students have downloaded the app, it has caused more harm than good.

Working with a company called Maponics to locate elementar y, middle and high schools, Yik Yak has tried to ensure concerned parents that this app cannot be accessed in these areas.

According to Y ik Yak co-founder Brooks Buffington, the app requires a certain amount of maturity and responsibility.

However, some college students abuse the app’s purpose. Some examples, such as sending anonymous sex tapes or bomb threats, have highlighted the nefarious alternative uses students have found for the app.

I didn’t come across mature users of Yik Yak when I had the app, and I deleted it after two days. If the original purpose of

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Politics are not policy

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SPLC shows lack of transparency

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The Affordable Care Act is definitely not perfect. We still haven’t reconciled whether we regard health care as a privilege or a right. We have skyrocketing costs, and we do not take care of ourselves the way we should in order to prevent costly diseases that take away our quality of life.

The reason, in part, we have a dysfunctional non-system is because of right-wing hysteria and histrionics about health care reform. The right-wing desire to ensure that we leave the poor and the less fortunate behind is because — to the right wing — if you’re not wealthy and lucky enough to have a comprehensive employer-based plan like the rich and well-connected, tough luck.

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agenda down the unreceptive throat of America.

McConnell’s political strategy for the last six years has been just that: a political strategy, not a policy strategy. It will be interesting if McConnell can translate this success in his stated political goals to policy success going forward.

In a speech following the Republican takeover of the Senate on Tuesday night, a visibly joyful McConnell hailed the end of “the experiment in big government” but didn’t set forth a clear legislative agenda.

“Just because we have a two-party system doesn’t mean we have to be in perpetual conflict,” he stated reassuringly.

However, to expect Democrats to cooperate at this point with Republican majorities in the Senate and House seems naïve and hypocritical. What is stopping Democrats from using parliamentary procedure tricks and President Obama’s veto power

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BROOKE BOVEE columnist

Yik Yak was to read people’s thoughts around you, then it’s not the app’s fault. It’s the users. The anonymity of Yik Yak seems to attract a salacious audience that abuses the app’s original intent.

I don’t think a campus needs to go as far as banning it, but people need to realize what they are getting into when they download Yik Yak. Students should remember that just like how Snapchat’s pictures and videos don’t really go away, the Yik Yak app tracks your phone by using your location, and your identity can be uncovered if you post something that is potentially criminal.

My philosophy is that if you’re looking for something entertaining, read a book, not Yik Yak. Brooke Bovee welcomes comments at bbovee@mndaily.com.

to participate in the same obstructionist tactics that McConnell has been leading, and advocating for, during the last six years?

Mitch McConnell has created a loselose scenario for his Democratic opponents and for America. On one hand, Democrats can cooperate with Republican majorities in the House and Senate and be perceived as weak or unprincipled. On the other hand, Democrats can participate in the same obstructionist tactics mastered

by Republicans continuing the legislative freeze and driving the nation toward more credit downgrades and budget crises.

McConnell seems to assume that Democrats will take the high ground and compromise with the now-majority Republicans, but he has set a dangerous precedent in the past six years and will not be starting his tenure as Senate majority leader with much good faith from his Democratic opponents.

ultiple large public universities around the countr y have in recent years conducted searches for their presidents behind closed doors — defying public records and open meeting laws.

A legal advocacy organization for student journalists, the Student Press Law Center, last weekend launched a campaign aimed at exposing these heinous violations of laws that aim only to create an effective, transparent democracy.

Last year, Ohio State University promised an open, transparent presidential search process, but the SPLC says the school spent more than $600,000 to choose a new leader with hardly any procedural information made available.

The law center says it has received an inordinate number of calls from student reporters experiencing similar closed-off presidential searches. This trend is alarming, as it exemplifies a recent shift in public institutions becoming increasingly closed off.

This newspaper is no stranger to similar issues. The Minnesota Daily and other news organizations won a case against the University of Minnesota in 2004 when the institution wasn’t complying with state open records and meetings laws in its 2002 presidential search.

We applaud the SPLC’s efforts to make known the lack of transparency in supposedly public institutions. In addition, we encourage non-journalists to become aware of these issues and advocate for the Fourth Estate and the crucial checks on power it provides.

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FOOTBALL

To win, Gophers must stop Weisman

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Iowa running back Mark Weisman blocks Minnesota defensive back Jeremy Baltazar on Sept. 28, 2013, at TCF Bank Stadium.

Iowa’s running back has had success against Minnesota the past two years.

BY GRANT DONALD gdonald@mndaily.com

Iowa running back Mark Weisman arrived in Iowa City, Iowa, as a walk-on in 2011 after initially committing to play for Air Force Academy.

Since then, Weisman has earned a scholarship and has crushed the hopes of his northern neighbors multiple times.

In his two career games against the Gophers, the 6-foot, 240-pound senior has combined for 324 rushing yards and one touchdown,

leading Iowa to blowout victories in both games. “[Weisman has] put a lot of good games up against a lot of people. He’s a good football player,” Gophers head coach Jerry Kill said.

In each of the last two matchups with Iowa, Minnesota has come in undefeated.

But the team was unable to come away with a victor y against Weisman and the Hawkeyes.

This year, Minnesota is coming off a loss against Illinois, which has set up essentially a must-win game against Iowa if the Gophers want to keep their Big Ten West title hopes alive.

“If you follow Iowa in the past, they are always a football team that gets better,” Kill said. “Everybody says things,

and then all of a sudden they just keep going in [their] direction. That’s the nature of who they are.”

Iowa started off slow again this year, but after defeating Northwestern 48-7 last week, the Hawkeyes joined Minnesota and Wisconsin in a threeway tie for second in the Big Ten West.

Weisman is yet again at the forefront of Iowa’s turnaround after running for 94 yards and three touchdowns against Northwestern.

Weisman’s longest run against the Wildcats was only 18 yards, a testament to the Hawkeyes’ ground-andpound style of running.

“The one thing [Iowa does] is they put so many guys in the box,” Minnesota defensive coordinator Tracy

Claeys said. “They’re going to block your front seven, your front eight — your secondary has got to tackle well.”

A major reason that Iowa has had success running the ball is their offensive line, one that Claeys said will be the best to face the Gophers so far this year.

“They’re coached ver y well. They have a system that they believe in,” Claeys said.

“They concentrate on execution and make you get off blocks and try to get the ball to the secondary.”

Senior defensive lineman Cameron Botticelli has had plenty of experience against Iowa’s offensive line and said he is ready for a physical matchup.

“What’s going to help us

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compete is not some trick play; it’s going to be having a low pad level, great fundamentals and being tough and aggressive up front,” Botticelli said.

Combine the Hawkeyes’ physical offensive line with a r unning back of Weisman’s size, and it is easy to see why the Hawkeyes’

calling card is running the football.

“Much like Iowa’s offensive line, Mark Weisman has some good size to him,” Botticelli said. “There’s one common theme, and it is getting back to the fundamentals and aggressive play. That is what is going to help us out.”

FOOTBALL

Cobb has eyes, mind on Floyd of Rosedale and Iowa David Cobb and the Gophers last won Floyd of Roseville in 2011.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

When David Cobb was a freshman, he didn’t care about pigs. The Floyd of Rosedale, a bronze hog rivalry trophy, didn’t mean much to him.

He didn’t hate Iowa. He just wanted to win.

That’s what Minnesota did in the star running back’s first season at Minnesota, pulling off an unlikely 22-21 victory against a bitter rival.

When Iowa blasted the Gophers for 182 rushing yards en route to a 31-13 victory the next season, Cobb began to understand the rivalry.

The Hawkeyes ran across the field after the game, seized the trophy and held it up to an announced crowd of 70,585 fans at Kinnick Stadium.

“There’s no worse feeling than seeing Iowa come across the sideline and take your pig,” Cobb said before this season.

The Killeen, Texas, native didn’t do much to stop Iowa from taking the hardware, rushing just once for 8 yards

in the game.

But in his junior season, after over taking Donnell Kirkwood for the starting spot, Cobb was determined to put his mark on the rivalry contest.

The student section at TCF Bank Stadium was packed more than an hour before kickoff, with chants of “Who hates Iowa? We hate Iowa!” echoing onto the field.

With an undefeated record coming into the hypedup contest in front of an especially enthusiastic crowd, the Gophers got overexcited and were outworked.

Cobb only rushed for 20 yards on eight attempts as Minnesota lost 23-7.

After he saw Hawkeyes celebrating with Floyd of Rosedale for a second consecutive season, Cobb developed strong feelings toward the rival.

“I tell these freshmen as a senior, ‘You’re going to learn to hate Iowa and you’re not even going to know why,’ ” Cobb said. “I hate them.”

For the first half of the season, it looked like Minnesota would be a solid favorite in a game against Iowa.

The Hawkeyes’ excellent senior linebackers from a season ago — Anthony Hitchens, Christian Kirksey and James Morris — have gone to the NFL.

But Iowa’s new starting linebackers have steadily improved as the season has progressed. Quinton Alston, now a senior, leads the defense with 60 tackles this year.

Iowa’s defense, and the team as a whole, has vastly improved after a loss to Iowa State and near-losses to Northern Iowa and Ball State earlier this season.

“They always are a football team that gets better [as the season goes on],” head coach Jerry Kill said. “I think that’s the nature of who they are and the job [head coach Kirk Ferentz] does.”

Iowa always seems to have a strong defensive front, which makes it harder for Cobb to run.

Redshirt senior Zac Epping said Minnesota’s offensive line is working on shoring up its technique to try to give Cobb more space than last year.

“Every year I play against them, it’s a bloodbath,” Epping said. “The more physical team is going to win.”

Cobb wanted to defeat Iowa from the beginning. But heading into his senior year, it’s about more than just a victory.

He wants that pig.

“That pig, he has a name.

His name is Floyd, and I want Floyd,” Cobb said.

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Gophers running back David Cobb runs in for a touchdown in the second half against Western Illinois on Sept. 14, 2013, at TCF Bank Stadium.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Injury-ridden Minnesota takes on Irish Two upperclassmen will be out of the series with lowerbody injuries.

BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com

It didn’t take long for the injur y bug to bite the Gophers.

After a fast star t to his senior season, for ward T r a v is B o y d w i l l miss about month due to a lower-body injur y.

Junior defenseman Brady Skjei also has a lower-body injur y, and head coach Don Lucia said he does not expect him back until after Thanksgiving.

Missing the two veteran players will test the Gophers throughout the remainder of their nonconference schedule, and Lucia said he wants to see who on the team will respond.

“We’re going to have to throw some guys into some dif ferent situations, and we’ll see what they can do,” Lucia said.

“I’m kind of looking forward to seeing other players in some dif ferent roles.”

Dealing with injuries early will give Lucia a chance to evaluate some of the team’s more inexperienced players.

W ith the removal of Skjei from the lineup, inexperienced players will have to step up on the blue line.

The Gophers’ three freshman defensemen — R yan Collins, Steve Johnson and Jack Glover — have all seen playing time this year but have not been lineup regulars.

Now the three will have to play some extra minutes and will need to help ease some of the pressure on goaltender Adam Wilcox.

“They have to elevate

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Minnesota forward Justin Kloos skates against Mercyhurst in the first round of the Ice Breaker Tournament at Mariucci Arena on Oct. 11, 2013.

their game,” Lucia said.

“It’s a chance for some of our freshman defensemen to grow. Throw them into the fire.”

At for ward, sophomore Vinni Lettieri will need to step up to center Boyd’s former line, but Lucia said sophomore for ward Justin Kloos could step in certain key situations, like at the end of games.

“I think ever yone is just going to have to step up,” Kloos said. “I think overall, in the locker room, ever yone’s just got to maybe give a little extra ef for t

Lucia ready to face ‘No. 22’

in practice and in games, and then we’ll be able to recover, and we’ll be that much better when they get back.”

Kloos said both of the injured Gophers “eat up a lot of ice [time],” but senior captain Kyle Rau said it was good for the team to have to deal with early adversity.

“We’re missing two key guys, Boyd and Skjei,” Rau said. “It’s good early in the year to get more people chances and kind of see what you’re made of.”

When the Gophers face the nation’s second-leading goal-scorer this weekend, they don’t plan on holding back.

Even if that scorer has the name “Lucia” on his jersey.

This will be the third year in a row that Don Lucia will face his son, Mario, or as Lucia refer red to him this week, “No. 22.”

This season, though, with his name near the

WRESTLING

Minnesota begins season on top The Gophers came in second in last year’s NCAA championships.

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top of the nation’s scoring char t, “No. 22” seems to be making a name all for himself.

“We just have to be aware of him on the ice

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Eggum said they’ve always traditionally used it for their wrestle-offs.

“That’ll hopefully give us a good picture on who’s the front runner,” he said.

“But … that’s the first tournament, and as the season continues, we’ve always left it open. To be the guy … you’ve got to be competing at a high level and scoring points for the team.”

Minnesota also graduated four All-Americans, including Kevin Steinhaus at 184 pounds and heavyweight Tony Nelson.

Nelson recorded a 13116 record with Minnesota and was an NCAA champion in 2012.

Redshir t sophomor e Michael Kroells is slated to replace Nelson.

Br ett Pfar r, another redshir t sophomore, will fill Steinhaus’ role in the lineup.

Kroells finished last season 26-7, and Pfarr was 25-3.

“Those two guys will be key,” Eggum said. “They got some good wrestling time last season and had

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good results, so we’re really comfortable with where those guys are and believe they’ll do well.”

And the Gophers, with a relatively experienced lineup, should be in a good position to begin the season right where they left off.

“The NCAA tournament was really exciting for us.

It was ver y disappointing [in the end],” Eggum said.

“You get that taste, and you want to bring home the national title, so there’s no question the guys have been talking about it from day one of the end of last year to all the way up through preseason. It’s on our mind.”

“We all have the same goal — win a national title. We’ve been there. We’ve been leading the national tournament and came out in second two of the last three years, so I think this year ultimately we want to come home with with a trophy at the end of March.”

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WHERE: Mariucci Arena

and the type of player that he is,” Lucia said. “If we can keep him off the board offensively, obviously we’ll have a better chance to win.”

SOCCER

Gophers advance to tournament semis

BY BEN GOTZ bgotz@mndaily.com

Minnesota’s Logan Storley wrestles Virginia Tech’s Austin Gabel on Feb. 22, 2013, at Williams Arena.

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Senior Taylor Wodnick scored the game-winning goal in double overtime.

BY BETSY HELFAND bhelfand@mndaily.com

The beginning of any season brings high hopes and expectations.

For the Gophers wrestling team, which will begin the season as the No. 1 team in the nation, those high expectations aren’t unfounded.

Minnesota finished second at the NCAA championships in March, just behind Penn State.

“We all have the same goal — win a national title,” senior Logan Storley said.

“We’ve been there. We’ve been leading the national tournament and came out in second two of the last three years, so I think this year ultimately we want to come home with the trophy at the end of March.”

Storley, who wrestles at 174 pounds, is the top-ranked wrestler in his class.

Redshir t senior Dylan Ness also begins the season ranked first in his weight class. He ended last season with a second-place finish at the NCAA championships.

“It’s driven me quite a bit this past summer and this fall. It still bothers me to this day, but all I can do is move forward and continue to improve,” Ness said.

The Gophers will have competition at 125, 149 and 165.

“Those are three of the weights that are probably most up in the air,” head assistant coach Brandon Eggum said. “If we can have guys fill those spots and do extremely well with our … returning All-Americans at the other weights, I think we’re going to be a tough team to beat.”

The Bison Open, the team’s first meet of the season, will give the Gophers an opportunity to gauge where they’re at for those weights.

MEN’S HOCKEY

After the Gophers lost to Michigan in over time during the regular season, they wanted to play the Wolverines again right away.

But the team had to wait a while before getting its wish Wednesday night.

And this time, the Gophers got a 1-0 victor y Wednesday in the opening round of the Big Ten tournament.

“We’ve been looking for ward to this game for a long time now,” senior midfielder Taylor Wodnick said. “As a team, you always look forward to these games to … prove to [your opponents] that you’re capable of doing it.”

Wodnick scor ed the lone goal of the game, which advanced the Gophers to the tournament’s final four.

“We know that this is our chance to prove ourselves,” sophomore midfielder Josee Stiever said.

The Gophers and the No. 25 Wolverines were locked in a tight game for most of Wednesday night, much like the first game the teams played.

“It was ver y similar to the first go-around in that it was a really evenly matched game overall,” head coach Stefanie Golan said.

Both teams limited the other’s opportunities, and the two sides remained scor eless after r egulation and one over time period.

Heading into the second over time period, though, Stiever said the Gophers weren’t ready to settle for penalty kicks.

“We just really wanted it

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going into the second overtime,” Stiever said. “We were ready to give ever ything to finish that game off and take us to the next match.”

With time winding down in the second overt i m e p e r i o d , Wo d n i c k broke the tie.

The play began with a shot that was deflected off a Michigan player in front of the net.

The ball hung in the air until Wodnick was able to get her head on it, giving the program its first victor y in the Big Ten tournament under Golan.

“I saw a few of our players in the box, so I ser ved it in, and Wodnick was there to get a head on it,” Stiever said. “It was an awesome finish.”

The win represented redemption for the Gophers after they lost to Michigan at the beginning of the Big Ten season.

The two teams were tied and battling in over time when a controversial call on a free kick gave Michigan the victory. “ We ’ v e w a n t e d t h a t game back ever since it ended,” Stiever said.

The Gophers will have another chance at redemption during their next game Friday after noon, when they will face Wisconsin.

The Gophers lost to the Badgers 4-1 during the regular season.

“One of the things I love about this team is that they’ve shown a lot of resilience, a lot of fight, a lot of grit … throughout the course of the year,” Golan said. “I really wholeheartedly believe that this team is capable of anything.”

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CROSS COUNTRY

Stillwater duo brings chemistry to the U

Gophers redshirt freshman Wayde Hall.

Eric Colvin and Wayde Hall both ran at Stillwater High School.

BY MATT GREENSTEIN mgreenstein@mndaily.com

To be successful, a dynamic duo must car r y a few attributes — chemistr y, longevity and a catchy nickname.

Redshirt freshmen Eric Colvin and Wayde Hall are no exception.

Originating as par tners in crime on the Stillwater High School cross countr y team, the seemingly inseparable teammates have continued their r unning careers at Minnesota.

“Obviously, one person has to do better in the race,” Colvin said. “But

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usually we know each other well enough [that we] have to be humble around each other, but we don’t hold any hard feelings.”

Teammates of the duo, including their roommate, fellow redshir t freshman Brad Woodford, said the two have great chemistr y and understand each other.

“They just key of f of each other so well. They always know what each other [is] thinking, and they work really well together,” Woodford said.

Head coach Steve Plasencia said the two share a special bond.

“I think those guys know each other so well from high school. What I see is harmony between them,” Plasencia said.

And like any great chemistr y-filled pair, a catchy nickname is an

Gophers redshirt freshman Eric Colvin.

integral part to its success.

Minnesota teammates deemed Colvin and Hall “the salmon boys.”

Hall said the nickname followed a fictitious rapper the two created.

“It came from this rapper that we made up one time called DJ Salmon, and guys thought it was funny,” Hall said.

Some other notable nicknames given to the pair are: “Meat and Potatoes,” “Thunder and Lightning” and “the Ponies” due to their high school alma mater, the Stillwater Ponies.

But for many duos, there is a sidekick to the main hero.

But Hall said Colvin doesn’t fit the name of a sidekick.

“I think you could call me ‘Batman’ and you could almost call Eric

‘Catwoman,’” Hall said.

Though the two love pranking other people and goofing around, Colvin said the bond and chemistr y they share helps them train for the season.

“We kind of get each other. … We know how to pick [each other] up,” Colvin said. “It helps having somebody on the team that gets where you came from. … [We] push each other in the workouts.”

Colvin said the duo recently evaluated their performance this season.

“We sat down and said we’re going to get back out there and work together and push each other,” Colvin said. “We respect each other and want to compete against each other again.”

Hall said he hopes the two can continue to get better, while still maintaining the competitive nature

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between one another.

“We’re really happy for each other all the time, but it makes you want to get on the same level. We both

want to be succeeding simultaneously,” Hall said.

“When we’re both running well at the same time, it’s probably the best feeling.”

MEN’S BASKETBALL

McNeil developing confidence on, off the hardwood

Gophers sophomore Daquein McNeil is vying for a spot in the starting lineup.

BY JACK SATZINGER jsatzinger@mndaily.com

Daquein McNeil slouched in a chair on Williams Arena’s floor, clutching a basketball in his hands, nonchalantly staring at the floor.

When a repor ter walked over to ask him questions, the sophomore guard looked up with a “Who, me?” look on his face. Sur rounded by the team’s stars, DeAndr e Mathieu and Andre Hollins, McNeil was surprised someone wanted to talk to him.

“He’s not a very confident

kid. But he’s playing well,” head coach Richard Pitino said. “He’s made the biggest jump of the guys that came back from last year.”

And it doesn’t appear to be close.

L a s t y e a r, M c N e i l played fewer than 10 minutes per contest and averaged 1.6 points per game with a poor .375 field goal percentage.

In Minnesota’s intrasquad scrimmage late last month, McNeil flashed an improved jump shot and led both teams with a game-high 20 points.

“The improvement came from just ever y day working individuals and just staying consistent and shooting the same shot ever y time,” McNeil said.

The Baltimore native is still timid of f the cour t, but he’s star ting to take

charge on it.

During the scrimmage, he huddled his teammates together and called a play for himself, which Pitino said never would have happened last year.

McNeil wasn’t a huge of fensive thr eat in his freshman season; his true value came as an energetic defender of f the bench.

He uses his 6-foot-3-inch, 195-pound frame to body up guards of all sizes, and he was one of Minnesota’s best perimeter defenders last season.

Add the defense to an improved jump shot and a more aggressive mindset, and McNeil is fighting for a starting spot.

McNeil described himself as a combo guard, capable of playing the point or being a shooting guard.

But Pitino might start him

at small for ward — the spot vacated by last year’s starter, Austin Hollins.

Junior college transfer Carlos Morris is McNeil’s strongest competition for the starting job.

“I’m not going to say what my role is. We’re just going to see,” Morris said.

McNeil wouldn’t say whether he thinks he’ll star t, either, but it’s a determination Pitino is thinking long and hard about.

“I think [Mor ris] and [McNeil] are ver y similar. I don’t think one is way better athletically, defensively, than the other.

So that’s a decision that needs to be made,” Pitino said.

At 6 feet 5 inches with a lanky build, Morris looks the par t of a small forward, and the stocky, more physical McNeil does not.

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But in Pitino’s system, size on the wings doesn’t seem to matter.

“In our offense, there’s no difference,” Pitino said. “ D e f e n s i v e l y, [ M c N e i l has] long enough arms. I mean, obviously you like [6 feet 6 inches or 6 feet 7], but he can play the three for us for sure.”

McNeil also said he has confidence in himself when playing small for ward.

That’s a big step forward for a player who, one year ago, was asking Pitino to redshir t him since he didn’t feel ready for Big Ten play.

“I think he’s going to be a ver y solid contributor, and he’s battling for that star ting spot. That’s what we wanted from him, and he’s shown that and put in a lot of time,” Pitino said.

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Maly spends offseason in the water

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Minnesota’s Derek Toomey swims in the men’s 100-yard breaststroke during the Minnesota Challenge on Feb. 9, 2013, at the University Aquatic Center.

Sophomore Jakub Maly competed in two international meets this summer.

BY DANNY CHEN dchen@mndaily.com

Even after winning the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award at the end of last year, Jakub Maly continued to put in work during the offseason.

Instead of going home to Austria for the summer to relax, Maly spent the majority of his time of f in Minnesota practicing for two inter national events that were in August.

“Once school ended in the spring, Jakub really [just] stayed here to train,” head coach Kelly Kremer said. “[It wasn’t]

until when our group here was getting ready to go to the U.S. nationals that Jakub headed home.”

Maly only spent four weeks in his hometown of V ienna, Austria. He used that time to taper before his inter national meets.

After tr ying to get some down time, Maly got to work. While at the LEN European Swimming Championships, he competed in five events.

“I was not ver y happy with the times,” Maly said.

“I was kind of tired.”

Although Maly’s first inter national meet of the summer didn’t go we ll, h is se co nd m eet in Doha, Qatar, was a success.

There, Maly competed in the 200-meter individual medley and the 400-meter

individual medley, finishing fifth and fourth overall, respectively.

His performance in Qatar qualified him for the 12th FINA World Swimming Championships this December.

“That was the main reason why I decided to go there,” Maly said. “I got the cut, and [ever ything] worked out.”

The meet in Qatar lasted from Aug. 27-28, giving him less than a week to recover before returning to school.

H ow ev er, Ma l y s a i d he didn’t mind his shor t break.

“It kind of helped me transition [into the season],” Maly said. “Some of the guys took longer breaks, and I did not have that problem.”

After a long of fsea son filled with training

and competitions, Maly c a m e b a c k t o t h e G ophers, and Kremer named him an assistant team captain.

“He’s growing all the time as an athlete,” Kremer said. “He’s a little older because he came from Austria, and he had required militar y ser vice before he came to school her e. That maturity is nice because I think it has allowed his improvement cur ve to go straight up.”

Though Maly is just a sophomore, he has experience beyond his age, and senior captain C.J. Smith said the team is in good hands when Smith graduates.

“The experiences that Jakub has [are] really important for a team,” Smith said. “It builds a culture that we are working to-

MEN’S TENNIS

Toledo heads to indoor nationals

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ward, and it kind of creates that atmosphere for our team to have those expectations as well.

Looking into the future,

maybe when I am not here, Jakub will have that experience to step up and lead them to the right direction.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Gophers get week off from midweek match

BY RACHEL TIMMERMAN rtimmerman@mndaily.com

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Minnesota’s Leandro Toledo plays against Drake at the ITA Central Regional Championships on Oct. 21, 2012.

Senior Leandro Toledo is the No. 22 singles player in the nation.

BY BETSY HELFAND AND MATT GREENSTEIN bhelfand@mndaily.com mgreenstein@mndaily.com

Leandro Toledo watched as his teammates participated in the Big Ten Indoor Championships last weekend.

But this weekend, the Gophers’ top singles player will be back on the cour t to compete in the ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships.

T wo years ago, the H a m b u r g , G e r m a n y,

native competed in the tour nament as a sophomore, winning his first-round match before falling in the next round.

“I remember two years ago I was pretty ner vous and ever yone told me to calm down [because] I was so ner vous. People could see it. Hopefully I can take my experience and use it as an advantage,” Toledo said.

This time, he’ll enter the tournament as the No. 22 singles player in the countr y.

He is part of a 32-player field after earning an ITA wild card bid.

Head coach Geof f Yo u n g s a i d h e ’ s l o o k ing fo r war d to se e i n g

Toledo battle against good competition.

“I always just love watching him play against other high-level players.

It’s just a high level of tennis, and it’s fun to watch,” Young said.

Toledo has competed in the ITA All-American Championships and the ITA Central Regional Championships this fall, accumulating a 7-2 record so far and beating ranked opponents in the process.

“All the guys are in the top 30 at least — if not better. The experience playing against those good guys [this fall] definitely helped,” Toledo said.

Though he’ll face stif f competition, Toledo has proven that he’s a force to

be reckoned with.

“I just really think the key is him maintaining the belief in himself that he belongs there and to tr ust his shots,” Young said. “Maybe in his earlier years he thought he belonged there but wasn’t certain. And now, with the amount of results, I really think he believes that he’s ready to make a big run.”

Though Toledo’s goal is to win the tournament, his coach said with such a talented field, it’s really open to anyone.

“There [are] a lot of good players. He could do ever ything right and lose,” Young said. “That’s the nature of this spor t and the natur e of this tournament.”

After playing midweek matches for the past month, the Gophers are overdue for some much-needed time off.

The Gophers had a break this week, and the timing is perfect for the struggling team.

“In light of the struggles that we’ve had on the road, having some time to really train and make some changes — that’s good for us right now,” head coach Hugh McCutcheon said.

The road problems have been evident — the Gophers are winless on the road in the Big Ten and have dropped to 4-8 in conference play.

Sophomore Erica Handley said the team needs to find the “will to win that we know is inside of us.”

She said they were “sick of losing.”

The fr ustrating thing, McCutcheon said, is that the team is able to compete for periods of time and still loses. “[We need] that push for consistent effort, consistent emotion [and] consistent execution,” McCutcheon said.

Minnesota had a chance to improve on all three components this week before leaving Thursday to compete at Michigan and Michigan State.

The consecutive weekend matches, which McCutcheon said are tough, will be the only time the Gophers will play Michigan and Michigan State.

Freshman Alyssa Goehner said she thinks the extra practices will be good for the team.

“Competing in practice is nice because we can always throw in new people and [get] a new look,” Goehner said.

Handley said she has already seen the team improve over the course of the week.

Goehner said the team has been practicing red zone games and working on finishing out sets — something the team has struggled with.

H o w e v e r, G o e h n e r also said having midweek matches allows the team to learn from its mistakes and competitors.

But McCutcheon said Wednesday matches affect the team’s weekly rhythm.

“It makes it very hard to get any real work done during the week,” he said.

McCutcheon said Minnesota needs to make changes to achieve its goals in the remaining time left this season, and having a week to put those changes in place is good for the team.

“I still believe in this group,” McCutcheon said.

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

DONUTS

Crawling for charity The Twin Cities Donut Crawl will donate $3,000 to charity.

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Dustin Herzgoff makes doughnuts before sunrise on Wednesday at Bogart’s Doughnut Co. in Minneapolis. Bogart’s will be one of the shops participating in the Twin Cities Donut Crawl on Saturday.

BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

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his weekend, 1,000 donut fanatics will participate in the first Twin Cities Donut Crawl.

The sold-out pastr y party, which takes place on Saturday and Sunday, came from humble beginnings.

Last December, Angie King and Randy Kowlessar, two of the four masterminds behind the project, organized an event dubbed “Sugar Slam” for about 10 friends to visit different donut shops and discuss each treat. The other two crawl organizers, Jason Westplate and Bill Svoboda, were in attendance.

“We had a lot of donut lovers in our group,” Westplate said. “It was just a fun way to get out and do something that was a little bit different, but not that crazy.”

Their second Sugar Slam in June had roughly 20 attendees, and King said their custom T-shir ts and postings on social media gained even more attention for the idea.

King and Westplate said that based on the positive response, the group saw potential for expanding the event. Westplate said that since he and Svodba have business backgrounds while Kowlessar and King have experience in public relations, the four made the

perfect team.

We s t p l a t e s a i d t h a t media attention skyrocketed attendance, surprising the organizers and shop owners.

“It blew up way more than we ever, ever anticipated it would,” King said. “We were shooting for 200 people … and it just exploded.”

Doughnations From the start, the organizers wanted the crawl to have more attendees and a stronger purpose — to raise funds for charity.

“It’s not just a novelty,” Westplate said. “The donuts are great, but we’re giving to charity, and we want that to be a big component.”

On the morning of the event at registration, MelO-Glaze will provide a giant rectangular donut as a “check” from the donut crawl made out to the Second Harvest Heartland food bank.

King previously worked for an after-school program for low-income families that used snacks provided by Second Harvest.

“I got to see firsthand exactly what they were doing in our community and how helpful it really is,” King said, “That was probably why they were our top choice.”

Their donation of $3,000 will provide funds for over 9,000 meals, said Mar y Sutherland of Second Harvest.

FOOD

Planning for pastries The co-founders selected the three shops for their proximity and because MelO-Glaze and A Baker’s Wife have both previously won City Pages awards for best doughnuts. They also wanted to highlight Bogart’s, which opened last May. “[The owners] kind of laugh about how no one even goes into their shop anymore to try their products; they just hand them the award every year,” Westplate said. “If they’re said to be the best, we want to get peoples’ opinions on those.”

Though representatives from each shop echoed King’s amazement at the crawl’s expansion, they said

their respective businesses have a game plan.

Caleb Garn of Five Watt Cof fee said they plan on spending two and a half hours to brew cof fee for roughly 500 people both mornings.

For donut shops, this strategy involves late-night work, which isn’t too far from the norm. Each shop owner said they make their donuts in the early morning on a daily basis for maximum freshness, and the crawl is no exception.

“Well, we’re just going to make more donuts than usual,” said Drew Parker, a cashier at A Baker’s Wife.

Parker said the only abnormality is that the process will likely begin at 10 p.m. the nights prior to the two crawl days.

Anne Rucker, owner of Bogart’s Doughnut Co., said staff will start frying at midnight of both mornings, and Paulette Wood, manager of Mel-O-Glaze, said they will likely begin at 2 a.m.

“We’re [going to] max out our space and just fry a lot longer and just keep trying,” Rucker said.

Wood said Mel-O-Glaze has experience providing donuts for crowds, since the Twin Cities Marathon route brings in spectators and they have made donuts for schools or fundraisers in the past.

“Mel-O-Glaze is used to putting out 1,000 or 2,000 donuts at a crack,” she said.

As a trick of the trade, she said it helps to “bring in a few people for a short time” to alternate the responsibility.

If all goes well, the cofounders hope to repeat the crawl in the spring with different donut shops and a repeated focus on charity.

“Donuts are fun, but donuts are kind of that food luxury — you don’t ever really need a donut even if you really, really want a donut,” Westplate said. “Food isn’t a luxury. … We’re gonna eat donuts, we’re gonna have a great time, but we’re also gonna give to charity.”

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MUSIC

College Kitchen: Family staples The Sex Rays

move and shake

Pasta and meatballs to share with homesick buddies.

The local band took its name and raw energy from its two biggest influences, the Sex Pistols and Link Wray.

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athering around a heap of pasta lifts appetites and spirits.

Noodles conjure memories of spaghetti dinners, sleepovers and family meals.

Maybe the tomato’s natural MSG makes the dish accessible to people of varying ages. Regardless, pasta and meatballs are easy to prepare.

While there are many brands available in grocery stores, homemade tomato sauce is an ideal food to develop into your own “signature formula.”

My non-Italian mother has done just that with her “red sauce” and meatball recipes.

Gita’s Red Sauce

Pasta shapes with a lot of grooves work well with thicker, chunkier sauces.

Thin tomato sauces coat rod-shaped pastas, like spaghetti. Zucchini strands and spaghetti squash are excellent mild-flavored gluten-

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A selection of homemade tomato pasta sauces among other delicious pasta essentials.

noodle substitutes.

Unsalted whole tomatoes work well for quick preparations. I’ve had good luck with Hunt’s and Trader Joe’s canned plum tomatoes. When available at the farmer’s market, buy a cheap bushel of seconds (fruit with imperfections) and peel them yourself to avoid BPA-lined cans.

Freeze fresh produce in seal-

able bags for winter eats.

High-quality fruit makes a flavorful tomato sauce even if you leave out the spices.

4 tablespoons olive oil 1/2 cup chopped onion 3 cloves minced garlic 1 teaspoon powdered oregano (or 2 teaspoons ajwain) 1 bay leaf 4 whole cloves

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or Minneapolis garage-sur f trio The Sex Rays, the divide between self-aware rockstar image and behavior connects in goofy, pulverizing per formances.

The band’s blistering, self-described “psychobeach par ty” style completes itself with their frenetic live shows.

Guitarist Joe Hastings, bassist Joe Holland and drummer Ben Crunk toss tambourines across the stage and bang power chords out with a pencil.

The Sex Rays are celebrating the release of their new single “Midnight Caller” with a show at Grumpy’s in Minneapolis on Saturday. The importance of image runs deep in the band’s roots.

“I met [Hastings] at a par ty; he looked like he played in a rock band,” Holland said of his first encounter with Hastings. “I went up and talked to him; turns out he was in a rock band, and we started doing some shows together.”

Hastings’ black-jeansand-leather-jacket aesthetic resembles a Guitar Hero III avatar. The look rides the line between authenticity and irony.

“I cultivate a total douchebag image,” Hastings said. “I present an image that is, in a way, my perspective of what I would have wanted to see when I was 14 or 15.”

Staying true to his adolescent self is vital to Hastings, who began his performance in musical defiance early in his childhood.

“My parents had guitars around the house. I thought it was really crazy, so I would destroy them,” Hastings said.

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Rays

MUSIC

A Marble in a Wooden Maze

Chris Koza’s new album “In Real Time” follows the artist down his alt-country path.

BY GRANT TILLERY gtillery@mndaily.com

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or his new album, “In Real Time,” local singer-songwriter Chris Koza made a wooden maze to accompany early press copies.

The maze features a small, shiny marble and 20 holes designed to trap the player.

The objective is to sink the marble in the final hole without hitting any of the others along the way. But hitting the finish is difficult — even Koza hasn’t done it.

“People were like, ‘Hey man, I got that maze. That shit’s hard to solve,’ ” Koza said on Thursday morning at the Common Roots Cafe. “I can [only] get to the 10.”

“In Real Time” is Koza’s sixth solo album. He’s also the lead singer for Rogue Valley, whose song “The Wolves and the Ravens” made an appearance in the 2013 Ben Stiller film “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”

Koza’s solo work is a far cry from Rogue Valley’s drone-based Americana sound. While his roots still play a prominent role, Koza’s acoustic guitar drives the simple, catchy melodies reminiscent of acts like Wilco and recent work by the Jayhawks.

The rock melodies of “In Real Time” are inflected with bits of country. Songs like “Wishing Well” sound straight out of the Laurel Canyon scene of the 1960s and ’70s, and the guitar riff sounds like an early Eagles tune.

Slower numbers like “Radio Wave” highlight Koza’s breathy, nonchalant vocals that belie the simple yet infectious two-chord harmonies.

The theme of the wooden maze carries throughout the album as well. The opening track is called “A Marble in a Wooden Maze,” and Koza said he almost used the title

for the album.

“Originally, the album was going to be called ‘A Marble in a Wooden Maze’ because I like the notion that you have some control about your life, but there’s also some stuff — like pitfalls and other hard corners — that you can’t navigate very easily,” Koza said.

“I liked thinking about that balance of intention versus fate. Some friends of mine suggested, ‘That title sounds too juvenile,’ and [they] were totally right.”

Koza grew up in Portland, Ore., which is known as an indie rock hotbed. He ended up in Minnesota to study music at St. Olaf College, but he graduated with a degree in philosophy and studio art.

“St. Olaf had a great music program, and I thought it would be a good fit for me,” Koza said. “There [are] people there who are so insanely talented at their instruments, and I was OK. I really wanted to focus on pop songwrit-

Chris Koza Where Cedar Cultural Center, 416 Cedar Ave S., Minneapolis When 7:30 p.m. Sunday Cost $12-15

ing. Now, I wish I had gone through all that stuff, because so much of what I work on now, when I’m not doing pop songwriting, is music for film or working with other musicians, so all that theory knowledge would be ver y important.”

Despite that feeling, Koza believed moving to Minnesota was beneficial, adding that the Minneapolis music scene is more conducive to substance than the oddity and novelty often found elsewhere.

“Because of the volume of people with a higher profile [in Portland], you’ve got to be weirder to stick out,” Koza said. “You can’t make some nice folk music and think that

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Local musician Chris Koza, right, and guitarist DJ House will play at the Cedar Cultural Center on Sunday.

people are going to give a shit. Out there, you’ve got to weird it up.”

Koza’s placid folk-rock twang veers toward normality without sounding too mundane. The tunes showcase his musicality at a more tempered stage than his first three solo albums do.

“I feel like working on this solo album has given me a

new perspective on how to use time and perspective as members of the collaboration process,” Koza said. “Before, I was like, ‘I got to get this out.’ There’s enough music out there in the world. If somebody hasn’t heard it yet, it’s new to them. For the people that are really hanging out for that new thing, let’s make sure it’s worth their wait.”

THEATER

Minneapolis theater blends poetry and dance Katha Dance Theatre fuses Indian and Persian artistic traditions on stage.

BY ROBB LARSON rlarson@mndaily.com

“L

ife in a Day” is a millennium in the making.

The Minneapolis Katha Dance Theatre is performing an original production inspired by Persian poet Omar Khayyam’s “Rubaiyat.” The original piece is an 894-yearold work of visionary poetry, and the inspiration behind the music and dance for the theatre’s newest production, “Life in a Day.” The Katha Dance Theatre practices the centuries-old tradition of Kathak, a form of classical Indian dance that uses elements of Persian dance.

“When the Muslim rulers and Mughals from Persia invaded India, they fell in love with Kathak dance and wanted artists to come and entertain them,” said Rita Mustaphi, who is Katha Dance Theater’s director and choreographer.

Because Kathak was a sacred tradition to Indian artists, they did not want to perform it as entertainment.

Instead, the Persian royalty brought in Persian dancers to learn Kathak dance and perform it in the royal courts.

Mustaphi wanted to bring

The Rubaiyat – Life in a Day Where The Cowles Center, 528 Hennepin Ave., Mpls.

When 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday.

Cost $10 student rush

out the Persian elements of Kathak dance through Khayyam’s legendary “Rubaiyat.”

“The vision came about three years ago when I was going through the histor y of Kathak dance,” Mustaphi said. “I had [‘The Rubaiyat’], but I really didn’t get into it until four to five years ago. As I grow more mature, I understand both the philosophical meaning and the layman’s interpretation of what it means.”

Mustaphi contacted composer and vocalist Maryam Yusefzadeh, whom she had collaborated with in the past, to compose the music for “Life in a Day.” “We really loved working together,” Yusefzadeh said of her relationship with Mustaphi. “We found a lot of similarities in our work and decided that we should come up with another project.”

“The Rubaiyat” was originally written in Farsi, a language spoken mostly in Iran and Afghanistan. And although many English translations exist, Mustaphi and Yusefzadeh decided that a new translation was needed for “Life in a Day.”

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PHOTO COURTESY OF RITA MUSTAPHI

Katha Dance Theatre company members perform Kathak dance in unison.

“In Persian poetry, the poet uses nature and elements of life as an expression of the wisdom he’s talking about.

They are never literally talking about what they are trying to say,” Yusefzadeh said.

“It needed to be translated by an Iranian who could speak English well enough to translate it accurately.”

Yusefzadeh collaborated with actor and musician David Jordan Harris to create a translation that was faithful to both the meaning and rhythm of the poetry.

“We would go through each one of the lines, each word and what it meant. The next day, I would try to translate it into English,” Yusefza-

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deh said. “What David did was take what I had given to him and create a narration that he could actually use for the show.”

“The Rubaiyat” is written in four-line stanzas, or quatrains, with specific rhythmic structures. The music for “Life in a Day” is composed around the rhythm of the quatrain.

“In Persian music, we start with the rhythm of the poetry and what it’s intended to say,” Yusefzadeh said. “That defines the mode and the key for the melody, and also the rhythm it should be played in.”

Mustaphi and Yusefzadeh designed the show around

the arc of a person’s life over the span of a single day.

“It begins with a solo as a dawn is unfolding. You will hear a ‘Rubaiyat’ poem being recited in Farsi language,” Mustaphi said. “[Then] it moves into the next piece, which is about childhood.”

Mustaphi hopes the performance will encourage the audience to reflect on the fleeting nature of life in each day.

“Dance is for the moment.

When you read the poems, they talk about a day, they talk about a life,” Mustaphi said.

“Do what your heart is telling you to do, because you don’t know what tomorrow is going to be.”

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brings at least two guitars with him onstage, in the likely event that he breaks one.

“Sometimes I bring thr ee,” Hastings said.

“Strings are going to break.

The last show we played, I broke the guitar in half.”

Holland and Crunk embrace Hastings’ look onstage, where all three members don black shirts and dark sunglasses. Hastings insists, however, that the rockstar image is bravado.

“I’ve never wanted to be a rockstar or anything like that,” Hastings said.

“To me, the connotation of ‘rockstar’ is a negative thing.

When my friends or family say, ‘He’s our rockstar,’ I look at it like, ‘Oh, he’s our stripper.’”

Hastings, who says he has been in about 50 bands in his life, started the Sex Rays with Holland and Crunk after Holland organized the group as a one-off tribute act to Link Wray, an influential early rock ‘n’ roll guitarist.

“For me, it was an inception of the energy of the Sex Pistols and Link Wray being cool,” Hastings said.

For Holland, the most serious member of the group, the name was more of a chore than an epiphany.

“It’s got a little bit of promotional drag,” Holland said of the name. “I don’t think anyone outright objects to ‘sex,’ [but] you can’t really talk to people who don’t understand what it is.”

Though Hastings and Holland began playing together in the early 2000s in bands like F*ck Knights, Crunk said he jumped at the chance to join them for the Link Wray appreciation.

“They called me up, ‘Do you want to play a Link Wray tribute with us?’ ” Crunk said. His reply: “Abso[expletive]-lutely.”

When the three got together, Holland said each member was able to get into the rock ‘n’ roll performance spirit with ease.

“When you’re playing a show and there’s an audience there, it gives the whole thing more meaning,” Holland said. “It’s easy to start having more fun onstage, jumping around.”

Unlike many bands, the Sex Rays don’t incorporate any computerized innovations into their live show, and they often write from the stage.

“We have a few songs based on improvisation,” Holland said. “Ever y time something works, we definitely keep it in there. A song can go anywhere from four minutes to nine minutes in length.”

The band’s guitar-driven live setup is influenced by a dichotomy of the rawness of modern punk with early rock swagger.

“We’re big fans of Elvis Presley. He’s a mover and a shaker,” Holland said.

“I grew up going to punk shows. That’s what I think a band should be like; you’ve got to make it worth the price of admission for people.”

In their existence on the local scene and on the road, Hastings said the band’s angle has kept the music fresh and different from its peers.

“It helps us, being totally niche,” Hastings said. “We don’t make a dime with this band. We don’t try to make money; we tr y to make something that we think is cool.”

The Sex Rays record release party Where Grumpy’s Bar and Grill, 1111 S. Washington Ave., Minneapolis When 9 p.m. Saturday Cost Free Age 21+

By Cecilia Mazumdar-Stranger

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Movie night

The Comedy Corner open mic night

Sparkle

Movie night is easy: make popcorn, find a Netflix flick and curl up on the couch. Easy, but not special. Hearken back to the days when going to the movies was an event, and treat yourself to the silver screen. The thriller “Gone Girl,” starring Ben Affleck, has gotten positive reviews and is playing at a number of cinemas this Thursday, including one just outside of campus. The St. Anthony Main Theatre sits between restaurants and cafés on a cobblestone road beside the river — the quintessential setting for a romantic date night.

Every Friday, the Corner Bar hosts a comedy open mic with 20 sought-after spots. The club boasts a frequently packed house where local and national comics take the stage. The open mic takes place in an intimate basement setting. Newbies interested in performing can sign up online and hope for the best.

The Town House Bar in St. Paul has drag events nearly every night of the week. This Saturday, Mary Brewster kicks off the fourth season of her show “Sparkle.” The bar’s website says the event features a new cast of performers. The particulars of the performance are unclear, but expect glitz, glitter and giggles.

Where St. Anthony Main Theatre, 115 SE Main St., Minneapolis Hours Showtimes from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Cost $6 with student ID

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CULTURE to CONSUME /

By Cecilia Mazumdar-Stranger

Snuggle with this:

Revisit this:

Dance to this:

Campus Club

Sesame Street

Cibo Matto

With oncoming stress season, leisurely Sundays are a must. Access to cuddly animals is ideal, but like the orphaned rhesus monkey, sometimes you have to get by with a furry surrogate. Luckily, super-soft plush blankets exist and fort building is fun. Surround yourself in fleece, and curl up with a cup of hot cocoa. Doctor’s orders. (You can still do homework.)

This week the iconic Muppets show, “Sesame Street,” celebrates 45 years on air. Over time, the creators have made casting and character changes. Recent rumors of veggie monster and puppets with new sexual identities have emerged. Binge watch the show to discern truth from fiction — what are kids these days learning about? After reaching 4,000 episodes, the company continues to produce new material. Fast-forward through the “number of the day” bits and find out what’s happening in the neighborhood.

Miho Hatori and Yuka Honda’s music combines a variety of influences that include jazz, hip-hop, punk, Star Wars and beef jerky. The Japanese expatriate duo working out of New York’s East Village produced two remarkable albums in the late 1990s as Cibo Matto (Italian for “crazy food”), then promptly split. They made a comeback this summer with “Hotel Valentine.” Its tracks feature a number of collaborators, including comedian-musician Reggie Watts. The jams are just as funky and bouncy as their first food-metaphor riddled album, “Viva! La Woman.”

MUSIC

MUSIC

Garland Jeffreys plays again

Local composer blends literary and visual arts

Jeffreys is still rolling after a 13-year hiatus.

BY JACKIE RENZETTI jrenzetti@mndaily.com

A

t 71 years old, singer-songwriter Garland Jeffreys holds playing with Bruce Springsteen, Levon Helm and Lou Reed as his claims to fame.

Jeffreys gained acclaim in the ’70s with singles such as “Wild in the Streets” and “Matador,” the latter of which hit the top five on European music char ts.

His style mixes rhythm and blues, reggae and country vibes.

After a 13-year hiatus, Jeffreys released “The King of In Between” in 2011, followed by “Truth Serum” in 2013. He said he expects to finish another record within the next two months, and he will visit Minneapolis as part of his current tour.

Jeffreys grew up in New York and studied Renaissance art at Syracuse University, where he met Lou Reed.

“I wasn’t one of those guys that, you know, went for the first two semesters and quit. Lou Reed and I graduated,” Jeffreys said.

Lou Reed per formed backup vocals for Jeffreys’ 2011 track “The Contortionist,” in which he softly “doo’s” with Jeffreys’ daughter, Savannah Jeffreys.

Garland Jeffreys recognized his passion for performing music at a young age, but he didn’t seriously pursue music until after graduating college.

“When I was in kindergarten, 5 years old, I would stand in front of the class and sing,” he said. “The other

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2. Throw in the garlic, oregano, bay leaf and cloves.

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3. After the liquid has mostly evaporated, add the tomatoes and a pinch of sugar to cut the acid.

4. Simmer for 15 minutes to an hour. A longer cooking

Garland Jeffreys Where The Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant, 1010 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis When 7 p.m. Friday Cost $35

students, they’d say, ‘Let Jeffreys sing.’ ” As a kid, he heard his parents’ recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Count Basie. He said he used to idolize Frankie L ymon, who heavily influenced his voice.

After he graduated from Syracuse, he lived in New York City’s East Village, where he saw esteemed jazz ar tists Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, Nina Simone and John Coltrane play in small clubs.

He said that while these performances were incredible, music itself inspired him to perform, rather than a specific artist.

“I’m essentially a student of music, a lover of music,” he said. “I’ve loved music, and I’ve always been attracted to it.”

Similarly, his work concerning racial identity also stems from his experiences from a young age. Jeffreys identifies as biracial, which he said led to personal confusion during the ’60s and ’70s.

Though he often touches on issues of race and identity in many of his songs, his 1991 album “Don’t Call Me Buckwheat” specifically focuses on race.

The album cover displays a 7-year-old Jeffreys in his baseball uniform posing for his parents’ camera in front of Ebbets Field during Jackie Robinson’s first major-league game. “[The album cover] is

time produces a thicker sauce with a deeper flavor.

5. Season to taste, and thin with a little water if necessary.

Puree or smash with a fork, depending on the preference for a thin or chunky sauce.

6. Serve over pasta with grated Parmesan and fresh basil.

Mama’s Meatballs

These spicy, savory meatballs are hard to resist. Try them atop pasta, sandwiches, salads or even on their own.

Thanks, Mom.

Minnesota flutist and composer Julie Johnson brings Minnesota literary and visual artists and a New York director together in “This Middle Place.”

BY ROBB LARSON rlarson@mndaily.com

J PHOTO COURTESY OF MARY ELLEN MATTHEWS

Garland Jeffreys will play at the Dakota Jazz Club as part of his ongoing international tour.

very symbolic for me,” Jeffreys said. “It seemed that from that moment on … I was very aware of black and white. I began to become aware of rejection of black.

It’s very interesting, as a man now, approaching 72, I have been writing about race all these years. It began back then.”

Jeffreys uses a cassette recorder as a primary tool for his career.

“I’ll carry one with me in my pocket,” he said. “I just kinda catalogue my stuff, my ideas, and I get back to them.”

His successful single “Matador” relied on this cassette technique. But after documenting his initial musical idea, Jeffreys lost the

recording. He later remembered it, and he immediately re-recorded it.

Still, he faced a battle with his record label that didn’t want him to use it as a single.

But it eventually received support and airplay, topping European music charts. The song still occasionally gets airplay today.

Along with releasing a new album soon, Jeffreys plans to continue touring worldwide.

He said he still considers his college education an important component of his career.

“This is all added stuff that came from the beginning of going to school and then making the decision to be a musician,” Jeffreys said.

1 pound ground pork 2 tablespoons Dijon mustard 3 tablespoons tomato sauce 1/4 cup onion pulverized in a blender, or minced 2 cloves minced garlic 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1/2 teaspoon powdered oregano 1 teaspoon ground fennel seed A pinch of red pepper flakes

large bowl (using your hands works best).

3. Wash your hands and keep them wet. This prevents sticking as you shape the mix into ping-pong-sized balls.

4. Place the balls in a large baking dish or on a cookie sheet with a lip, lined with parchment paper.

5. Bake at 350˚F for approximately 30 minutes. The meatballs should be slightly browned, surrounded by clear liquid.

1. Preheat oven to 350˚F. 2. Thoroughly mix all the ingredients together in a

ulie Johnson wants to be right where art, literature, music and film collide in “This Middle Place.”

Johnson is no stranger to thinking outside of the box. She creates unique soundscapes by overlapping flute parts with a live looping pedal, mixing improvisation with carefully crafted melodies.

She is using these techniques to create musical pieces inspired by the poetr y, fiction, paintings and photography of four Minnesota ar tists. New York director D.J. Mendel will create film sequences that complement Johnson’s flute performance by visually manipulating the ar tists’ works.

“I wanted it to be a show where ever ything was tied together as a whole,” Johnson said. “A big par t of [Mendel’s] job is figuring out how ever ything flows together without feeling disjointed.”

Mendel and Johnson first met in the summer of 2013 when a mutual friend recr uited them to collaborate on a dance performance. When Johnson approached Mendel for a second collaboration, he jumped at the opportunity without hesitation.

“It’s extraordinar y what she’s doing. The compositions are incredible,” Mendel said. “I want to work the visual imagery the way she’s working the flute.”

The show begins by fading in a haunting image of isolated Astragalus trees, photographed in the southern Caucasus Mountains in Armenia by David Sollie.

“They’re weird and spiky; they have these thor ns coming out of them. They look like this huge presence in a barren landscape,” Johnson said. “They’re actually tiny little bonsai trees, but the way [Sollie] captures them makes it look like they’re huge.”

Mendel and Johnson are also adapting Patrick Kemal Pr yor’s “The Pequod,” named after the ship in “Moby Dick.” Pryor combines crisp geometric shapes, primitive line drawings and lucid brushstrokes in a frenetic sea of primary colors.

“I worked on this piece for several years. I was constantly adding things and changing things,” Pr yor said. “I really liked the idea of exploring dif ferent shapes and forms that I hadn’t been using previously. It’s important for me to explore and generate new shapes and new relationships.”

“The Pequod” is an example of Pr yor’s highly refined expressionist idiom and lends itself well to Johnson’s multilayered musical compositions.

“Patrick’s painting really captured what I do with the looping pedals, with dif ferent characters and colors that become

layered,” Johnson said.

“As you add more and more layers, it star ts to become its own entity. It really worked with the crazy sounds that I explore on flute.”

In adapting the literar y and visual pieces to film, Mendel found distinct challenges for each genre.

“The paintings and photography feel like you’re painting with the music.

With the poetr y and the prose, it feels more like a dance. They’re having a dance with their language,” Mendel said. “It’s about staying out of the way.”

Among the literar y pieces selected was a short stor y written by Johnson’s sister, Cheri Johnson, who loosely based her piece on an event from her childhood.

“There was a little girl who was my age. She was in a wheelchair, and she had cerebral palsy. One day there was an accident, and she was r un over,” Cheri Johnson said. “There were all kinds of r umors going through the county about how it happened and if her family had been involved.”

Cheri Johnson’s stor y explores the conflict between the interests of the individual and the needs of the community through the point of view of an outsider who is new in town.

“There’s something about that story — the conflict is so heightened and so tragic,” Cheri Johnson said. “I think [Julie] leans toward the pieces with something really strong and wrenching.”

Sean Hill’s poem “Bemidji in Spring” creates a painstakingly clear narrative of feeling alienated as a person of color in a Minnesota winter.

“Ar t is an empathetic act,” Hill said. “I do the research and tr y to put myself in the shoes of the people I’m writing about, and tr y and communicate the human moments of their life through my work.”

It seems like no accident that the show should take its name from a line in “Bemidji in Spring.”

Hill’s concise meditation on alienation ef fectively distills the essence of “This Middle Place”: that nothing is as placeless and transitor y as the expression of one’s identity.

“Whoever is there experiences it in their own way, and that’s what it is supposed to be at that moment,” Julie Johnson said.

“There will probably be something in this per formance that I never play again, because that’s what it was supposed to be in that moment.”

This Middle Place Where MacPhail Center for Music; Antonello Hall, 501 S. Second St., Minneapolis When 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Cost Pay-as-you-are-able; suggested donation $10

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UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT: McNally Smith College of Music presents “Rent: The Musical” WHO: McNally Smith College of Music Theatre Ensemble WHEN: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday; 2:30 p.m.

Sunday WHERE: History Theatre, 30 10th St. E., St. Paul PRICE: Free Set in New York City’s Lower East Side in the days of Bohemia in Alphabet City, the musical “Rent” is about falling in love, finding your voice and living for today. Winner of the Tony Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, “Rent” is a pop culture phenomenon with songs that rock and a story that resonates for audiences of all ages.

WHAT: Art Attack 2014 at the Northrup King Building WHO: 250 artists and more than 200 art studios under one roof WHEN: 5–10 p.m. Friday, noon–8 p.m. Saturday, noon–5 p.m. Sunday WHERE: Northrup King Building, 1500 Jackson St. NE, Minneapolis PRICE: Free The 17th annual Art Attack at the Northrup King Building offers the widest array of art to date.

The 250 visual artists join forces with musicians, writers, installation and interactive artists for a weekend of engaging art experiences.

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Thursday, November 6, 2014

BACKTALK

horoscopes

sudoku

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

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

11/6/2014

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (11/6): Long-term creative goals are within reach this year, propelling your career. Discover something new about yourself, opening unconsidered options. Hone in on passions at work.

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 — The Full Moon brings a turning point in your finances and income. Friends offer good advice. A fantastic idea could work.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — A busy phase has you raking in the dough with this Full Moon. Creativity blossoms and collaboration flourishes.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Imagine yourself pushing a boundary, with the Full Moon as impetus. Venture farther than ever.

Wear your power suit.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — A partnership takes a new direction under this Full Moon. Confide a dream and be inspired by others. What would it take to realize?

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Reach a personal turning point with this Full Moon.

A brilliant insight illuminates a new road with new options.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — The Taurus Full Moon inspires a new phase at work. Balance intensity with peace. Ease into a bubble bath or hot shower.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — If you’re not getting paid, make sure you’re appreciated. It’s okay to invest in a future. A new opportunity for fun with friends beckons.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Appreciate partners and celebrate an accomplishment. Step into a new game with this Full Moon.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Discover a delightful truth, and make an important connection. Put down roots. Results look better than expected.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Make your home cozier with this new Full Moon domestic phase. Delight senses with color, scent, flavor, mood and beauty.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — A new phase in your education, explorations and travels develops with the Full Moon. Get something you’ve always wanted.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — A new creative opportunity arises with this Taurus Full Moon. Write, sing out, and broadcast your message.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

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from the archive

Monday, November 7, 2005

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DAILY CROSSWORD

Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle

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From FlightsOfFancy

Yo net, what’s up with the idiots that run this place?

Did anyone read the article Friday about Big Ten teams now flying to all their away games? Net: Don’t be silly. Only dorks actually read the paper.

Cool people just look at the pictures. Joel Maturi is quoted as saying “It’s part of the competition of competing in the Big Ten.” Apparently, part of Joel’s competing in the competition must not have included English classes. Net: He was too busy taking Athletics Administration 1301: Recruiting with Strip Clubs. Then the guy is quoted as saying that “recruits might choose a university based on how often the team flies versus drives to games.” Yeah I’m sure that the quality athletes this school really needs are going to give a damn if they have to ride in an air conditioned charter bus. Net: With all time saved by flying, just imagine how much more homework they could not do. Wait a minute, I want my money back; let ’em ride in a Metro bus for all I care. If I have to ride my bike to school, they can sure as hell play in the Metrodome for another 20 years.

From FreedomFighter

So I was thinking ... Net: That’s your first mistake.

We shouldn’t just encourage the war protestors to move to Canada, we should provide busses to ensure the journey to their new home is successful.

Net: Public transportation? What kind of patriot/Republican are you? No, everyone should have their own car, to use as much gas as possible. And for those that refuse to leave, we’ll just put them in a fenced in community with guards at the gates so they can’t bug us patriotic Americans that support our president regardless of his intelligence. Ah ... just imagine the new and improved land of the free where everyone agrees, freedom isn’t free. Net: Magnetic ribbons for everyone!

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From RTisHOT

You know what Network? You should be proud because your readers actually know what a NUTTing dick looks like. Net: Don’t be so sure. Rumor has it Studly McStudlyson doesn’t know a schlong from a hole in the ground. Did you see Dr. Date’s column on Thursday? A grown adult actually asked what the difference between a ‘cut’ and ‘uncut’ penis looks like. Net: Well, these are the same people who write in day after day, puzzled how they should ask out a crush, as if speaking to them face to face never crossed their mind. I can understand if the lights were off and they undressed separately. Personally, I think taking the other person’s clothing off is part of the fun. But if you can’t tell once you get down there ... then somebody didn’t pay very much attention in sex ed class.

From CW

Hi again Net! I thought it might be good to also list some places to avoid when looking for a place to poop. Here are some of the worst I have seen.

1. Blegen Hall, just to the right of the entry door where the bus drops you off. Unless you’re into graffiti art and hobos, steer clear.

2. Science Classroom Building. Net: That place isn’t fit for learning, let alone pooping.

3. Alpha Kappa Psi (they, like, never have toilet paper).

4. Any fraternity house for that matter. Net: Except for Lodge, we hear they love it when people crap in their lawn. Free fertilizer!

5. Huron and Essex (you all know the house I’m talking about). Net: If you say so.

Finally a Public Service Announcement: Don’t try to skybox a deuce off the Washington Avenue bridge unless you have a friend there to hold your hands while you sit up on the hand railing. Net: The buddy system never fails.

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Minnesota Daily Volume 107, Issue 45 November 7, 2005 Dear Dr. Date,

I have a dilemma. A couple of weeks ago I broke up with a girl I had been dating for six months. I still care about my ex, but there is another girl that I’ve started to like since then. I’d really like to pursue the second girl, but I don’t want to rush into anything.

I want to make sure that I’m not doing something irrational because I just broke up with my ex.

At the same time, I don’t want to hurt my ex’s feelings because I started seeing another girl so quickly after our relationship ended. How do I move forward without hurting my ex or myself?

Sincerely, — Trying to do the Right Thing

Dear Trying to do the Right Thing,

I’ve heard about this rule. I’m not saying it’s true, but I’ve heard of it. It’s supposed to be that every year you date your ex equals one month you should mourn the loss before you move on.

I believe there are exceptions, depending on the relationship and the people, but I would say that if it’s been a couple of weeks and you’re sincerely interested, go ahead.

Just keep your motivation in mind. If you’re just looking for some play and can’t really remember her name, then maybe hold off. But if not, I would say that the time is probably right.

Also, I know you want to be sensitive to your ex’s feelings, but don’t let her determine who you can date or when you can date people. That has to ultimately be your decision.

— Dr. Date

Dear Dr. Date,

What’s crack’a’lackin’ popskillet!

Yo, I need some of your help doctor. You see, lately around campus I have been seeing tons of girls riding around on Segways. I find myself irresistibly attracted to these women. Nothing to me is hotter than a girl cruising around in a Segway. But I just don’t know how to “hook up” with a girl on one of these transportation apparati. Could you please solve my Segway woes and tell me the best way to get “hook up” with one of these hot ladies.

— LonelySegwayLover

Dear Lonely Segway Lover,

Weird. I have never seen anyone on a Segway on campus, much less tons of girls.

But, as I am your physician, I shall prescribe you a dose of top 10.

Top 10 ways to hook up with people on a Segway: 10. Buy a Segway. Cruise along next to them.

9. Get a sign that says “I love Segways. And I love you.” Flash it as they ride by.

8. Wear really, really bright clothing. You’ll stand out that way.

7. Start a Facebook group called “Segway stalkers anonymous.”

6. Put signs all over campus, luring them to a “Segway convention” which will conveniently be located in your apartment.

5. Say, “So, you like self-balancing, huh? Maybe we should try a little bit of that on our own.”

4. Try to find them on the Segway Chat, an “independent online community for Segway HT enthusiasts.” Yes, there actually is one.

3. Super-power your rollerblades.

2. “Accidentally” knock one over. “Kindly” help them up. “Conveniently” slip them your number.

1. Get your running shoes on.

— Dr. Date

Folks, I’m gonna finish this off with some of your responses to I Wish Those Were Their Real Names, who wrote in last Thursday about what was more important, personality or curvature,

sense of humor or muscles, intellect or sexual prowess …

Here’s a sample of answers (my favorite first): From one colleague to another, my diagnosis is a classic case of brain vs. penis chess. The sex is great but you really can’t stand anything else about her, and while it may be fun to let the penis win the first couple of rounds eventually the brain will prevail. The brain always seems to have the upper hand.

— Dr. Von Nostrand

I think that it is unfair to the “ugly duckling” to stay with her if he thinks she is unattractive. As for Gwen, I think it’s OK for him to be with her as long as she understands that they are only (tr)uck buddies. He should then be on the lookout for somebody with both looks and personality.

I would also like to weigh in on what women want ... I personally prefer a guy with a great personality who can make me laugh, but that’s nothing without some good looks. Generally I think that if he takes decent care of his body, wears fashionable clothes, grooms himself well (flattering haircut, etc.) then that makes him attractive even if he’s not “cut” or whatever.

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As a woman I think what’s inside is what counts because in the end you’re both wrinkly and too tired for sex anyway. (So maybe I Wish Those Were Their Real Names should go for hotness while he can still get it.)

Plain and simple, a person has to be attractive to get his/her foot in the door. Obviously there are exceptions, like someone becomes attractive over time because of their personality. But initially, looks come first, I know it sounds shallow, but I think most people would agree.

— Fan of Dr. Date

I Wish Those Were There Real Names needs to take the advice I’ve always wished I would have followed: “Ditch the class and go for the ass.” I had the same problem; go for the intelligent, OK-looking one, or the smokin’ hot, great in bed, GC type. I unfortunately chose the former and the moniker (so she doesn’t find out) will tell the rest of the story ...

— Unhappily Stuck

If a guy admits that he wasn’t physically attracted to a girl, it means she’s ugly. Ms. Portman’s name shouldn’t be brought up again, period.

If you can’t hold a conversation with a girl, but she’s cute, call her when you’re drunk and ready to go home and (tr)uck. Schedule Gwen for Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights.

While you’re sober, look for a girl you are attracted to both mentally and physically. Without both, the relationship isn’t going anywhere.

— Missin my Hawaiian Surfer

I’ve always been attracted to guys with confidence, strong character and intelligence. A guy is only truly hot if he possesses these traits. If you couldn’t be friends with your boy/girlfriend (meaning you don’t really have much in common and you can’t hold a decent conversation with him/her) then he/she will really be nothing more than an exclusive (tr)uck buddy.

— He has a huge ... personality

Thanks to all of you who wrote in. You’ve saved the Good (albeit hungover) Doctor a good deal of time …

— Dr. Date

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

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dr. date

— Voting for Hot

— Joanie Hates Chachi (name provided by Dr. Date)

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

Dr. Date,

My relationship question is about my best friend. She’s stuck in a horrible relationship that I see spinning out of control, but she doesn’t do anything about it. She constantly comes to me with complaints and anger concerning her boyfriend, and I always calm her down and give her advice. But my patience is wearing out, and I need a new strategy.

How can I make her see that she and her boyfriend aren’t right together and that things need to change? I’ve told her this repeatedly, but she never takes any action.

—Out of Advice

First Responder,

It’s good that you’re watching out for your pal. It’s clear, though, that your advice is only reactionary. The sole time you talk with her about this — based on what you’ve written — is when she comes complaining to you. If this relationship is truly as bad as you’re describing, you’ve got to set extra time aside to talk with her about this.

After you initiate the conversation, adopt a serious tone and delineate every crack of the crumbling wall of their relationship. It won’t be a fun discussion, but it will help.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

This past weekend, I attended a work party, and brought my best friend/roommate along. I got pretty drunk there, and I received numerous accolades from coworkers, managers, etc. I didn’t know that many people had so much respect for me, and my roommate asked me how on earth I have my life so put together and “figured out.” (I don’t, but I try my best.)

Because of our inebriated states, I had booked a hotel room downtown.

Luck would have it, there were no rooms with two beds available, so we were in a king-sized bed. After the work party and barhopping, we passed out.

Later that night, I woke up to him stroking my junk, so I reached over and did the same to him. It was apparent we

were both incredibly drunk and turned on, but we didn’t do much more beyond mutual stroking and body contact.

He’s known I am gay for many years now. I’ve suspected he may be bi, but he never seemed to act on it, and I don’t really act on my sexuality too much either.

Since that incident, there haven’t been any awkward moments between us whatsoever. But we also haven’t discussed it. If anything, our friendship seems to be a bit stronger. I’m really not trying to date him or anyone for that matter right now, though.

Do I even approach this? Or do I wait until another work party with free-flowing booze to let another encounter take place?

—Plaza Crowned

Bram Stroker,

Roommate relationships make for goofy situations. There’s the obvious issue — what if the two of you hit rocky times? Your home shouldn’t become a combative, unhealthy place. Shared spaces host enough awkward moments, even without romance involved, and hard feelings would only make that worse.

Then again, if the two of you really hit it off and maintain level heads, this could be great for you two. Imagine how rad it’d be to go on a date after slaving away after a shift and then sleeping under the same roof with your beau?

It seems like there’s a bigger problem here, though. You mention that you’re not trying to date anyone. If you’re disinterested in a relationship, are you thinking of something more casual?

If so, maybe you could drop a hint and ask him out for drinks or see if there’s some way to bring it up at home. That’s the easiest way to find out if there’s any chemistry between the two of you beyond the Crowne Plaza.

You could also do nothing. It doesn’t sound like this situation is that highstakes for you, so if you don’t want to rock the boat, don’t. It’s as simple as that. But whatever you decide, good luck, and continue schmoozin’ and boozin’.

—Dr. Date

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

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Community members had a chance to voice their opinions Wednesday during a public comment period r egar ding Park Board Superintendent Jayne Miller’s proposed budget.

The budget allocates $72.5 million over six years for rehabilitation funds and improving park amenities like playgrounds, wading pools and athletic fields.

Many tur f athletic fields are falling apar t, Miller said, which is just one example of Minneapolis parks’ dilapidated features.

The superintendent’s budget allocates $306,495 to Van Cleve in 2020 to make improvements to its playgrounds and site. An ongoing project to reconstr uct the park’s wading pool will use half a million dollars.

But some students who frequent parks like Van Cleve say they don’t suppor t the spending in the budget proposal, which relies on a 4 percent property tax hike.

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Lisa Mur ray said she doesn’t feel Van Cleve needs renovations.

“Overall, I think it’s a waste of money,” she said.

“It’s kind of silly.”

Swenson agreed that the park isn’t in need of repair and said she’s skeptical of the superintendent’s plan to increase the budget.

“I would question where the money is coming from,” she said.

Miller said the board intends to use money from last year’s budget to consult with local community members and determine their opinions on the changes that she said need to be made.

Each park amenity has a specific life span, she said, and many of those have timed out, so it’s time for park improvements regardless of community sentiment.

“It’s a balancing act,” Miller said, noting that she has a duty to take into account both the public tax bur den and the maintenance requirement for Minneapolis parks when making decisions.

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Community members will be able to attend two more public comment sessions this month befor e the pr oposal is up for approval in December.

The suggested spending on park amenities is addressing a backlog of under funded capital projects that is growing,

according to a park board presentation. From 2000 to 2014, there were about $110 million in projects that weren’t funded.

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said Kris Wright, director of the University’s Office of Student Finance.

“That reason is to make higher education more accessible.”

The new regulations will also add an appeal process, which will allow those who have poor credit histor y — but are eligible for the loan — to receive it if another par ty co-signs for the loan or if they agree to participate in loan counseling.

“There is this sort of accountability side to it, too, that [bor rowers are] understanding what they’re getting into,” Dodds said.

“That’s a positive step — that they’re going to have this loan counseling about what their payments are going to look like and what the payment plan is going to look like.”

The changes are based on feedback from many higher education leaders and universities, including historically black colleges, she said.

In 2011, the federal gover nment tightened borrowing standards, which increased the number of loan application denials nationwide, Dodds said.

“Their denials went up dramatically at this time. There was a lot of pushback,” Dodds said. “That really negatively impacted a lot of parent borrowers.”

She said one of the most helpful updates will be the change in the definition of “adverse credit histor y,” which will give those who might have flaws in their credit histor y a better chance at receiving loans.

Federal loans ar en’t regularly updated, which helps maintain loan standards, Wright said. But periodic reviews are necessar y to be consistent with bor rowers’ needs, she said.

“It’s a good thing that regulations are static over time, but it doesn’t mean that they shouldn’t be reviewed periodically,” she said.