February 4, 2013

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Typically called “stomach flu,” it has no relation to the flu

The Minnesota Insurance Marketplace Act must be signed by March 31.

Austin Hollins made the game-winning 3-pointer.

A power outage at the Superdome delayed the game for 34 minutes.

Norovirus spreads across nation

Health act working way through Legislature

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PUBLIC SAFETY

UMPD trains for active shooter The department is prepared for such an attack, the deputy chief said.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

With several high-profile mass public shootings in the past year, higher education officials are evaluating how prepared they are for a possible attack.

A recent sur vey found that a quar ter of campus security of ficials repor ted their schools are unprepared for an active shooter.

University of Minnesota police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said his department is fully prepared for such an attack.

“We’re one of the largest universities in the countr y, and we’re aware that [a shooting] could affect us,” he said. “We as a police department are prepared for it.”

T ypically, University police train for an active shooter situation once per year, he said.

During training, University police reser ve a building for the day and go through a simulated active shooter attack, Miner said.

They use non-lethal weapons, like paintball guns, to simulate the stress of being shot at.

Although Minneapolis and University police rarely train together directly, Miner said the two departments communicate thr ough their dispatch centers. If a shooting were to occur on campus, he said Minneapolis police would be notified.

The University does not have its own active shooter training program for faculty and staf f, said Lisa Dressler, depar tmental director of University Emergency Management, but it’s using the National Incident Management System as a guide as they develop one.

For now, the University of fers free online emergency response courses, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, to students and faculty. The training courses cover multiple emergency situations, including active shooter response.

One of Emergency Management’s primar y roles is to provide resources like emergency medical ser vice to University police in emergency situations, Dressler said.

“Our main role is to suppor t [University police],” she said. “We of fer them support through our

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Freshmen Annie Whelden and Sarah Divine practice the trap and roll with the help of Matt Tomm from the the Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Club on Friday at the Alpha Chi Omega house.

A lesson in safety The Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Club taught a lesson at the Alpha Chi Omega sorority on Friday.

Sorority members and potential recruits

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

in jeans and boat shoes grappled with their more appropriately dressed peers in a self-

A group of University of Minnesota

defense demonstration led by members of

students in the Alpha Chi Omega sorority

the University of Minnesota’s Brazilian Jiu

house stood up in unison Friday.

Jitsu Club.

Then they sat down.

“If I see any of you on campus and you

Then they stood up again.

don’t get up like this, I’m going to push you

The women were “basing out” — using

[back down],” Jacob Sajevic, the club’s vice

a wide stance to lower their center of grav-

president and a mechanical engineering

ity and make it harder for attackers to pull

sophomore, told the group.

them in.

The demonstration was par t of the

u See SAFET Y Page 3 U police have a video online on how to respond to an attack.

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BUSINESS

Stadium Village films TV ad The neighborhood is trying to draw visitors on nongame days.

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

Stadium V illage isn’t just for game days, according to a new advertising campaign from the Stadium Village Commercial Association.

The SVCA shot its first-ever commercial Friday to highlight the ways students, residents and visitors can enjoy the area when the Gophers aren’t playing.

“There’s lots of reasons to come,” local business owner Chris Ferguson said, “Not just on game day but ever y day.”

The shoot began at Espresso Expose and demonstrated how one could spend a whole day in Stadium Village.

Following a theme of “eat, meet, play, stay,” the commercial featured a variety of Stadium Village businesses including Big 10 Restaurant and Bar, Bun Mi sandwich shop and the Commons Hotel.

The final location was The Hole Spor ts Lounge, which gave away a trip to Las Vegas and T-shir ts

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

KSTP commercial producer Nick Tieri sets up the camera to shoot a scene of the Stadium Village commercial Friday at the Hole Sports Lounge.

with the “not just for game day” tagline.

u See AD Page 14 The ad highlights local businesses over national chains.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers quickly claim WCHA title

The Gophers became the fastest ever to win the WCHA regular season trophy.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

In a season full of recordsetting performances, the Gophers women’s hockey team achieved its first real goal this weekend at Ridder Arena — in record fashion,

of course.

The Gophers beat Minnesota-Duluth 5-0 on Friday to claim the WCHA Conference’s regular-season title, becoming the fastest team ever to do so.

“We set three goals at the beginning of the year,” head coach Brad Frost said Friday, “and our team just accomplished the first.”

The Gophers added a 6-2 victor y Saturday to extend their record winning streak to 36 games and complete their first season sweep of

the Bulldogs in program history.

Minnesota last won the WCHA regular-season title in 2009-10. The team has won seven titles in all.

In addition to the trophy, senior goaltender Noora Räty broke the NCAA Division I record for career wins Friday with 101. With the win Saturday, she now has 102.

“It was a good game to break the record so people are more focused on our regular-season champion-

ship than my record,” Räty said.

Räty’s feat didn’t come easily, as she saved 24 shots from the Bulldogs — even more than the Gophers’ 22 shots on goal.

But the extra offensive chances didn’t help UMD. Senior forward Becky Kortum star ted the scoring with a shor thanded, firstu See HOCKEY Page 8 Frost said he wasn’t concerned about his team losing motivation.

ECONOMY

DFLers push for higher min. wage The state raised the minimum wage to $6.15 in 2005, but most businesses pay the federal level of $7.25.

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

As one of only four states below the federal level, lawmakers are looking to raise Minnesota’s minimum wage.

W ith three bills this legislative session so far, and more likely to come, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Par ty legislators want to raise the state’s minimum wage to at least $7.50 — 25 cents above the federal level — and upwar d of $9.38.

Proponents cite a stronger economy as a reason to raise the current $6.15 level, while opponents say it will lead to inflation of goods.

The state’s basic minimum wage is $6.15, but federal law requires all employers grossing over $500,000 to pay the minimum $7.25, the assumed

minimum level for most businesses in the state.

University of Minnesota global studies freshman Matt McGilvray works for minimum wage at Br uegger’s Bagels in Dinkytown. He said the money he makes at his job isn’t enough to pay for rent or other expenses.

“It would definitely be great to get a raise in pay,” he said.

Under state exemptions, some small businesses in the state pay their employees $6.15 per hour, less than the standard.

“Some folks make less than minimum wage,” said Sen. John Hof fman, DFL-Champlin, who is authoring a bill to meet the federal minimum. “Now what we’re saying is we value minimum wage as a baseline of this community, and hopefully it will help it grow as well.”

Jay Kiedrowski, a senior fellow at the University’s Humphrey School of Public Af fairs, said this u See WAGE Page 3 DFLers have created a committee on “living wage jobs.”

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Paraguay presidential hopeful Oviedo dies in crash

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ASUNCION — Paraguayan presidential candidate Lino Cesar Oviedo has been killed in a helicopter crash, authorities said Sunday, ending a dramatic political career that included coups and repeated attempts to lead this impoverished 6.5 million-person country.

Oviedo was retur ning with his bodyguard from a political rally in nor thern Paraguay Saturday night when his pilot encountered bad weather. All three were killed in the crash, said Johnny Villalba, a spokesman for Paraguay’s airport authority.

Defense Minister Maria

Liz Garcia said she traveled to the scene Sunday with Oviedo’s daughter, congresswoman Fabiola Oviedo, and confirmed that the helicopter “disintegrated.”

“One resident who lives near the accident scene said they heard a single explosion Saturday night,” she added. “The aircraft ended up disintegrated and out of respect to the families of the victims, I won’t release details about the cadavers.”

The air traf fic control tower in the provincial city of Concepcion received the pilot’s last communication, Garcia said — a brief message that they were changing course due to a storm at 9 p.m. local time.

Lino Oviedo, 69, was running in April’s elections

as leader of Paraguay’s third-largest opposition party, the National Union of Ethical Citizens.

A retired general and former army chief, Oviedo had tried for years to take the helm of his nation, and not always through democratic means.

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A diminutive cavalr y officer, only 5-foot-3 inches tall, Oviedo was promoted to brigadier general three months after capturing Stroessner. By 1992, he had become a division general, and then President Juan Carlos Wasmosy named him army chief.

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In April 1996, a shor tlived coup in which Oviedo participated and other maneuverings led to his firing and forced retirement.

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Barclays’ finance director stepping down

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LONDON — Finance director Chris Lucas and a senior legal adviser are stepping down from scandal-hit British bank Barclays, it said Sunday.

Barclays said Lucas and general counsel Mark Harding will leave once successors have been found. The bank said in a statement that given the men’s seniority, that could take “a considerable time.”

Lucas did not disclose reasons for his departure, but said his six-year stint as group finance director had occurred during “the most eventful period during which anyone could have occupied a role such as mine.”

Lucas is one of several past and present Barclays staff being investigated over whether the bank broke the rules when it took big cash infusions from Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund in 2008.

He also was one of the most senior survivors of a period that saw several top executives, including CEO Bob Diamond, leave since a rate-fixing scandal erupted last year. Barclays was fined $453 million by U.S. and British authorities after it emerged that executives had been involved in a campaign to rig a key interest rate known as LIBOR. Barclays also is one of several British banks involved in a scandal over the mis-selling of payment protection insurance, in which consumers were signed up for inappropriate and expensive insurance products. That scandal has already cost Barclays hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation.

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New Notre Dame bells make history

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PARIS — The cathedral of Notre Dame — French for “our lady” — has finally got the prima donna worthy of its name.

Weighing in at six and a half tons or 6,000 kilograms of glistening bronze, this lady is no ordinary person: she’s a bell named Mary.

Mary is in fact the largest — and loudest — of nine new, gargantuan Notre Dame bells being blessed Saturday in the cathedral’s nave by Archbishop Andre Armand Vingt-Trois.

“They are beautiful (bells)... We will hear them ringing today during the celebration, and we will hear them during coming years as Notre Dame’s chimes,” Father Edouard, a priest from outside Paris who had come for the blessing, said.

The nine casts were ordered for the cathedral’s 850th birthday — to replace the discordant “ding dang” of the previous four 19th century chimes. After the originals bells — including the original Mar y — were destroyed in the French Revolution, the replacements were widely said to be France’s most out-of-tune church bells. There’s some irony that in Victor Hugo’s classic novel “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” the solitar y bell-ringer Quasimodo was deaf.

For Catholics, as well as visitors with pitch-perfect ears, it’s a historic moment for the cathedral.

“During the French Revolution, they (the original bells) were all brought down and broken except (one) and four other bells that were recast in the middle of the 19th century ... This will complete in a definitive manner the entire set of 10 bells as conceived ... in the Middle Ages,” Notre Dame rector Patrick Jacquin said.

Jean-Marie, Maurice, Benoit-Joseph, Steven, Marcel, Dennis, Anne-Genevieve, Gabriel will ring together with Mary to add a harmony to the French gothic landmark, not heard since 1789.

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Israel suggests blame for Syria airstrike

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MUNICH — Israel’s defense minister strongly signaled Sunday that his country was behind an airstrike in Syria last week, telling a high profile security conference that Israeli threats to take pre-emptive action against its enemies are not empty. “We mean it,” Ehud Barak declared.

Israel has not officially confirmed its planes attacked a site near Damascus, targeting ground-to-air missiles apparently heading for Lebanon, but its intentions have been beyond dispute. During the 22 months of civil war in Syria, Israeli leaders have repeatedly expressed concern that highend weapons could fall into the hands of enemy Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militants.

For years, Israel has been charging that Syrian President Bashar Assad and Iran have been arming Hezbollah, which fought a monthlong war against Israel in 2006.

U.S. officials say the target was a convoy of sophisticated Russian SA-17 antiaircraft missiles. Deployed in Lebanon, they could have limited Israel’s ability to gather intelligence on its enemies from the air.

Over the weekend, Syrian TV broadcast video of the Wednesday attack site for the first time, showing destroyed vehicles and a damaged building identified as a scientific research center. The U.S. of ficials said the airstrike hit both the building and the convoy.

Turkey, which seeks the ouster of Assad and suppor ts the opposition that is fighting against his regime, harshly criticized Israel regarding the airstrike in Syria. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Er dogan said Sunday that Israel engaged in “state terror” and he suggested that its allies have nurtured wrongdoing on the par t of the Jewish state.

“Those who have from the ver y beginning looked in the wrong direction and

who have nourished and raised Israel like a spoiled child should always expect such things from Israel,” Turkey’s Hur riyet Daily News quoted Erdogan as saying.

Erdogan, who also criticized Iran for suppor ting Syria, is a frequent critic of Israel, a former ally of Turkey. Relations hit a low in 2010 when Israeli troops raided a Gaza-bound Turkish aid ship, and nine activists on board were killed.

Both sides accused each other of initiating the violence.

In his comments Sunday in Munich, Barak came close to confirming that his country was behind the airstrike.

“I cannot add anything to what you have read in the newspapers about what happened in Syria several days ago,” Barak told the gathering of top diplomats and defense officials from around the world.

Then he went on to say, “I keep telling frankly that we said — and that’s proof when we said something

we mean it — we say that we don’t think it should be allowed to bring advanced weapons systems into Lebanon.” He spoke in heavily accented English.

In Syria, Assad said during a meeting with a top Iranian official that his country would confront any aggression, his first comment on the airstrike.

“Syria, with the awareness of its people, the might of its army and its adherence to the path of resistance, is able to face the current challenges and confront any aggression that might target the Syrian people,” Assad was quoted as saying by the state news agency SANA. He made the remarks during a meeting with Saeed Jalili, the head of Iran’s National Security Council. Iran is Syria’s closest regional ally. Jalili, on a three-day visit to Syria, has pledged Tehran’s continued support for Assad’s regime.

Jalili, who also serves as his countr y’s top nuclear negotiator, condemned the Israeli raid, stressing that

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Assistant manager Rex Vogen, left, and employee Chris Buchel of Espresso Royale prepare drinks Friday in Dinkytown. Vogen says he thinks that a raise in minimum wage would be a good thing because minimum wage needs to be livable. “If people can’t make ends meet realistically [with the current minimum wage], then it’s not working.”

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isn’t the first time Minnesota lawmakers have discussed the state’s lowest pay wages.

For the last decade, he said, conser vative Republicans have blocked any legislation for modifying the state’s minimum pay.

“Opponents of minimum wage would argue that the price of goods would go up and that would slow economic activity,” Kiedrowski said.

“Proponents would argue that this is just the cost of doing business, and prices might go up, but that’s not going to change the basics of economic activity.”

This session, with a DFL-led Senate and House and a DFL governor, the bills are getting more consideration.

The bills haven’t had a hearing yet but are set to be looked at fur ther in committee meetings later this month.

“It’s embar rassing for Minnesota’s minimum wage to be so low,” said Rep. Joe Muller y, DFLMinneapolis, whose proposed bill would increase the wage to $9.38 per hour.

Washington has the highest minimum wage in the countr y, at $9.19.

“If you look at states with a high minimum wage, usually they have a good economy,” he said.

“Like Washington has the highest in the countr y and the state of Washington is doing pretty good economically.”

Muller y said if the state increases the minimum wage, fewer people will be below the pover ty level, which means they wouldn’t need as much assistance from the government.

“If a person is working a full-time job for today’s minimum wage, they can’t meet the barest of necessities, and taxpayers have to make up for it,” Muller y

said. “In essence, taxpayers are subsidizing companies that pay their employees minimum wage.”

The minimum wage conversation is one many legislators are having in hopes of boosting the economy while the state faces a predicted $1.1 billion budget shortfall in the next biennium.

“The best spending for the economy is not gove r nm e nt sp e nding b u t spending by working families,” said Hof fman. “Fixing Minnesota’s budget includes things like this.”

McGilvray said higher pay would help him with school expenses, like textbooks.

“It would be nice,” said global studies and German junior Brittany Hanes, who also works at Bruegger’s.

“I might actually be able to pay my rent without having to work two jobs as a student.”

Hof fman said people working at this level are mostly in the ser vice industr y.

Most businesses around the University pay abo ve m inim um wag e, but Alex Ragaller, a shift leader at Jimmy John’s in Dinkytown, said they have a few employees who work at minimum wage.

“This [legislation]

spoke by telephone from Turkey.

While Israel has remained officially silent on the airstrike, there seemed little doubt that Israel carried it out, especially given the confirmation from the U.S., its close ally.

Israel has a powerful air force equipped with U.S.made warplanes and has a histor y of carr ying out air raids on hostile territor y.

In recent years, Israel has been blamed for an air raid in Syria in 2007 that apparently struck an unfinished nuclear reactor and an arms convoy in Sudan believed to be delivering weapons to Hamas.

Israel has not confirmed either raid, but militar y officials routinely talk about a “policy of prevention” meant to disrupt the flow of arms to its enemies.

In the days preceding the airstrike, the Israeli warnings were heightened.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a series of dire comments about the threat posed by Syria’s weapons.

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it has proven the “aggressive nature of Israel and its threat of the region’s security and stability.”

The chief of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that Tehran also hopes Syria will strike back against Israel.

Syrian opposition leaders and rebels have criticized Assad for not responding to the airstrike, calling it proof of his weakness and acquiescence to the Jewish state.

The Syrian defense minister, Gen. Fahd Jassem alFreij, said Israel attacked the center because rebels were unable to capture it.

Al-Freij called the rebels Israel’s “tools.” He told the state TV, “The heroic Syrian Arab Army, that proved to the world that it is a strong army and a trained army, will not be defeated.”

Ahmad Ramadan, an opposition leader, said Syria’s claim that the rebels are cooperating with Israel “is an attempt by the regime to cover its weakness in defending the country against foreign aggression.” He

would be an equalizer for minimum wages in Minnesota,” Kiedrowski said.

“In other words, if Burger King has to increase its minimum wage, so will McDonald’s, so there is no competitive advantage or disadvantage for one or the other.”

Muller y said various unions and coalitions will propose to legislators that the minimum wage be raised above $10.

R e p . R y a n W i n k l e r, DFL-Golden Valley, said they will discuss minimum wage, as well as unemployment and income inequality, in the Select Committee on Living Wage Jobs — a House committee he chairs which will hold its first meeting Monday.

“There are a number of bills that will be introduced related to minimum wage, so there is a good conversation to be had about what the right level is,” Winkler said.

At a hearing in Februar y, economic experts and legislators will discuss a targeted level for the state’s minimum wage and its economic impact, he said.

“This helps close the gap between what Minnesota has in the books right now and the federal level,” Hoffman said.

MINIMUM WAGE BY STATE STATES WITH NO MINIMUM WAGE LAW STATES WITH MINIMUM WAGE RATES THE SAME AS THE FEDERAL STATES WITH MINIMUM WAGE RATES HIGHER THAN THE FEDERAL STATES WITH MINIMUM WAGE RAGES LOWER THAN THE FEDERAL

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resources.”

Miner said University police also offer active shooter training courses and presentations to student and faculty groups.

“It’s less of a hands-on training and more of what to do if you ever face that situation,” he said.

Minneapolis Police Sgt. Steve McCarty said his department does not offer any training for civilians, but they do offer advice.

“Getting out of the building first would be ideal,” he said. “But if you can’t, close the door, barricade it, shut off the lights.”

University police also has an instructional video online that discusses how to respond to an attack.

“It’s just as impor tant to train as many members of our community as possible,” Miner said.

Nor thwestern University police Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer added that most police depar tments do not have specialized active shooter units anymore.

Ever y officer is trained to respond to a shooting, he said.

“What police depar tments have been taught since Columbine High School is you can’t wait,” he said. “Because the shooters are usually intent on causing as much carnage as possible.”

Public Perceptions The number of mass shootings, along with the frequency of gun violence in general, has declined in the past decade.

Mass public shootings were on the rise in the U.S. until they peaked at 42 in the 1990s, according to Grant Duwe, the director of research and evaluation at the Minnesota Department of Corrections. There were only 28 such shootings during the 2000s, he said.

“One of the things I’ve seen in the coverage, especially after the school shooting in Connecticut, is a lot of confusion over what’s meant by mass murder, mass shooting, mass public shooting,” he said.

That confusion can lead

to a public perception that mass public shootings occur more often than they do, Duwe said.

According to the FBI, mass murder occurs when four or more people are killed during the same incident with no distinctive time lapse between the murders.

Mass public shootings, like the attacks at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999 and Sandy Hook Elementar y School in Newtown, Conn., in December 2012, fall under a subcategor y of mass murder called mass public shootings, which occur less frequently.

“Those ar e types of mass murders that involve use of a gun, that take place in a public location,” Duwe said. “But, they exclude those shootings that also occur in connection with criminal activity like a robber y or a dr ug deal that went bad.”

In addition, FBI statistics show that the overall number of gun-related homicides decreased ever y year from 2007-11.

“One thing we have seen with mass murders, in general, and mass public shootings, in particular, is that the trends in their prevalence tend to mirror those for not just homicide but also crime in general,” he said.

There are about 30 mass murders that occur nationally ever y year, but only about four of them fall under the categor y of mass public shooting, he said.

“It’s extreme violence, but for tunately, it’s still ver y rare,” he said.

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15% Somewhat disagree

11% Neither agree nor disagree

SOURCE: CAMPUS SECURITY MAGAZINE

Prevention

As police train to react to an active shooter, Duwe said the best way to combat mass public shootings is through preventative measures.

“If we target some more of our resources towards prevention, I think that would be time and money well spent,” he said.

Nearly 60 percent of shooters have been diagnosed or show signs of severe mental illness, he said.

“That’s not to say that everyone who is mentally ill is at risk for committing this type of violence,” he said.

“But, it does suggest that it is a risk factor.”

Only about one-third of shooters who were or showed signs of mental illness actually sought or received any help, he said.

“It suggests, to me at least, that we have a treatment gap among those who commit this type of violence,” he said.

TOTAL U.S. FIREARM HOMICIDES SINCE 2007

2007

10,129 Firearm homicides

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2008

9,528 Firearm homicides 2009

9,199 Firearm homicides 2010

8,874 Firearm homicides 2011

8,583 Firearm homicides

14,916 total 14,224 total 13,752 total 13,164 total 12,664 total

SOURCE: FBI UNIFORM CRIME STATISTICS

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Monday, February 4, 2013

Norovirus spreads across nation Typically called “stomach flu,” it has no relation to the flu.

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

For students with stomach pains, vomiting and diarrhea, University of Minnesota experts want to remind them the flu isn’t the culprit.

A new strain of the norovirus — typically misnamed the “stomach flu” — has been spreading throughout the countr y, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention .

Symptoms for norovirus include diarrhea, vomiting and nausea, and sometimes fever, headache and body aches that last up to three days.

Boynton Health Service has seen several patients with norovirus symptoms but not a widespread outbreak, according to Gar y Christenson, Boynton’s chief medical officer.

Some of the patients with norovir us-like symptoms were treated for dehydration, Christenson said, but Boynton won’t test for the disease unless cases become more frequent.

Flu confusion Many people call norovirus the “stomach flu” or “flu,” although Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy research associate Nick Kelley said the disease is not related to influenza.

“There are over 200 different infectious diseases that cause symptoms similar to the flu,” Kelley said. “So people just associate anything with influenza-like illness with influenza.”

Influenza is primarily a respiratory virus with symptoms including fever, achiness, chills and respiratory symptoms, while norovirus has mainly gastrointestinal symptoms, said Craig Hedberg, an environmental health sciences professor.

New strains of norovirus usually emerge every two or three years and cause outbreaks during the fall and winter months, Hedberg said.

This season’s strain started in Sydney and has spread throughout the world. Unlike the flu, Hedberg said, no vaccine can prevent norovirus.

Christenson said people with norovirus symptoms should drink plenty of fluids because dehydration is a risk with the virus.

Food service response Norovir us is a foodborne illness, Kelley said, and can spread quickly through nursing homes, cr uise ships, restaurants and residence halls.

Paul Allwood, University director of Occupational Health and Safety, said statewide food industr y regulations mandate that people with norovirus symptoms cannot come to work until they are symptom-free for 72 hours.

Food ser vice workers are also restricted from handling kitchenware and ready-to-eat foods for an additional 72 hours.

“The big thing is to keep [sick] employees from showing up at work,” said Mark Rossi, a University environmental hygiene officer.

University Dining Services employees are union workers, which makes it easier for employees to stay home when they’re sick because managers find temporar y replacements for employees, Rossi said.

“It’s pretty easy not to come in sick here,” he said.

UDS serves more than 5 million meals a year and has never had a widespread outbreak, Rossi said.

The second barrier of

prevention for UDS is constantly washing hands, using gloves and cooking foods at high temperatures.

“Something’s got to go pretty wrong for [norovirus] to be an issue, he said.

But Rossi said fresh, ready-to-eat foods are the main culprits of widespread outbreaks.

According to the CDC, produce accounted for 46 percent of food-borne illnesses.

Rossi said UDS changed its procedure in Centennial Hall to prevent patrons from handling scoops and tongs.

“If you get Mr. Poopy Hands in line, he can transfer that up to 20 times to the next person,” Rossi said.

is contagious, Rossi said.

The distinctions between the two diseases are crucial, Allwood said.

“They are caused by com-

NOROVIRUS AND FLU SYMPTOMS: A SIDE-BY-SIDE COMPARISON NOROVIRUS SYMPTOMS HEADACHE*

INFLUENZA SYMPTOMS

FEVER*

FEVER RUNNY OR STUFFY NOSE COUGH VOMITING SORE THROAT

HEADACHE FATIGUE

MUSCLE OR BODY ACHES

STOMACH PAINS

Prevention Norovir us prevention mostly relies on good hygiene, like frequent hand washing, Kelley said.

Alcohol-based hand sanitizers don’t kill the norovirus, so Kelley said they shouldn’t be a replacement for soap and water.

Christenson said people with symptoms should thoroughly wash their hands and bathroom surfaces for two minutes.

Chlorine bleach should be used for cleaning surfaces in a 20-foot radius surrounding vomit because the virus

pletely different organisms and have different courses, dif ferent treatment and dif ferent prevention,” Allwood said.

DIARRHEA

ACHINESS*

*Less common symptoms

SOURCE: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION

A lesson in safety Jiu jitsu u from Page 1

sorority’s informal recruitment process. Chloe Philion, a kinesiology sophomore and Alpha Chi Omega’s vice president of philanthropy, said it meshed well with the sorority’s philanthropic focus on domestic violence awareness.

The roughly two dozen women practicing on the shag carpeting of the sorority’s lounge cheered as Lauren Schreffler, a physiology sophomore, demonstrated how to throw Sajevic to the ground.

“A lot of martial arts, it’s a huge disadvantage to be smaller and weaker,” Schreffler said. “But jiu jitsu is tailored specifically so that the smaller, weaker person is not at a disadvantage.”

Matt Tomm, an accounting senior and club member, said jiu jitsu is “something you can always have in your back pocket.”

It’s a relatively new martial art — it’s a couple hundred years old instead of a thousand, said Christoph Noetzli, head instructor at the Minneapolis School of Jiu Jitsu.

Noetzli said jiu jitsu is an “inside art” because practitioners want to be as close as possible to an attacker.

“Size, gender, anything — doesn’t matter,” Noetzli said. “Small women can do a lot of damage to a big guy.”

Jake Sajevic and Matt Tomm demonstrate a Trap and Roll on Friday at the Alpha Chi Omega house.

Attackers in street assaults are looking for what is familiar, said Mary Brandl, who teaches self defense classes at the University.

“They’re looking for what feels easy,” Brandl said. “A number of the robberies in

and around campus have been them coming up from behind to people that have been on their cellphone or texting.”

Brandl said in her classes she teaches students how to look “strong but neutral.”

The demonstrators also focused on conflict avoidance.

“If you get attacked and don’t get hurt, you consider that a victory,” said Sajevic, who founded the club in fall 2011 with Rob Klink, a biolo-

gy, society and environment junior.

Philion said Alpha Chi Omega would host the demonstration again.

“The girls had a lot of fun, and it’s nice to give them something they can

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take away with them,” she said.

At the end of the demonstration, when one participant asked Sajevic to “do something cool,” he had only one response.

“Come to jiu jitsu club.”

Monday, February 4, 2013

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Health act working way through Leg. The Minnesota Insurance Marketplace Act must be signed by March 31.

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

Lawmakers are ironing out the details of Minnesota’s new marketplace for health coverage — an exchange that’s expected to have almost a million Minnesota users in its first year.

The new health insurance exchange, which should be operable in October, will of fer an online setup where people can compare premium rates and sign up for health plans.

Febr uar y committee meetings in the state Senate and House of Representatives will focus on hammering out the details of the exchange’s financing and oversight.

W ith two months to sign the bill before the federal deadline, the Minnesota Insurance Marketplace Act is not flying through the Capitol with full compliance.

Rep. Greg Davids, RPreston, is one of two Re-

publicans co-authoring the bill. He said he wouldn’t vote for it at this point, but he wants to work with his colleagues at the Capitol to get it to where he would.

“They’re going to have to clean it up,” he said, “or I’m going to pull off it.”

Last session, the health exchange discussion didn’t last long because of Republican critics. Now, with a Democratic-Farmer-Labor-controlled Legislature and a governor who backs the plan, the bill is on track for passing.

“I’m not fighting the fight to get rid of it because it’s the law of the land,” said Jim Abeler, RAnoka, co-author of the bill. “So now my work is to tr y to make it so it causes minimal amounts of harm and maybe the benefit that people hope for.”

Lawmakers agreed in Januar y that they’d rather take the state’s approach to changing Minnesota’s health insurance system instead of having the federal standard plan implemented in the state — a rule under the federal Affordable Care Act signed

by President Barack Obama in 2010.

“We think we could do a

little better job of running it than having the federal government do it for us,” said Rep. Joe Atkins, DFLInver Grove Heights, author of the bill.

Davids agreed and said he would rather call a 612 area code than a 202 area code for health care.

“We’ve dealt the cards already, and I think we’ve done the right thing by the state taking control of this,” Sen. Jim Metzen, DFL-South St. Paul, said at a Senate committee meeting Wednesday. “We’re all players in this. We’re all going for ward, so let’s tr y to make it better. Let’s all work together.”

L ynn Blewett, director of the University of Minnesota’s State Health Access Data Assistance Center, a program to help states monitor rates of health insurance coverage, said a lot of people think ever yone will have to purchase through the exchange, which she called a misconception.

“Most of us get our h ea l t h i n s u ra n c e f r om our employers who work on our behalf to get the best deal in the market,” Blewett said. “If I work for a large employer, like the University of Minnesota

or the state of Minnesota, they have a lot of leverage in the market, and I don’t have to go out and negotiate my own premium.”

Atkins said at a committee meeting Friday that par ticipating in the exchange is completely voluntar y.

“If a Minnesotan doesn’t want to participate in this, they don’t have to,” he said.

The reason exchanges are set up is so individual buyers, and workers of a small business with 50 employees or less, can get the advantages large employers and their employees already get, Blewett said.

This targeted group of insurance buyers is called the “small group” market, Atkins said.

“Twenty-somethings are anticipated to be one of the largest users of the exchange,” he said.

When the exchange is fully operational in 2016, Atkins said it’s estimated that almost 1.3 million people would use it — including 300,000 individuals who are uninsured now.

Critics of the exchange say the health plans will pass the fees on to insurance customers by increasing their premium

rates, making coverage more expensive for ever yone.

H o w i t s t a n d s n o w, the bill calls for health plans sold through the exchange to withhold 3.5 percent of their total premium rates.

Minnesota has received $110 million in federal grants so far to create the health exchange.

The federal deadline fo r s i g n i n g t h e b i l l i s March 31, so lawmakers have two months to hash out the exchange’s details.

“People think we walk up to the table and we’ve got all the answers, and really we don’t,” Atkins said.

Health insurance coverage from the plans purchased through the exchange are required to begin Jan. 1, 2014.

There are House hearings to discuss more details about the exchange scheduled for T uesday and Wednesday in the Health and Human Ser vices Policy Committee.

There is also a Senate meeting Monday in the Health, Human Ser vices and Housing Committee and one in the Senate Committee on Taxes for Thursday.

HEALTH CARE LEGISLATION TIMELINE March 23, 2010 The Affordable Care Act became a law which mandated if states don’t develop their own individual health insurance exchange then the U.S. Department of Health would implement its standard plan in the state.

Jan. 1, 2013 Deadline for states to prove they will have an exchange of their own ready for consumers.

March 31, 2013 Federal deadline for legislators to sign the Minnesota health insurance exchange.

May 17, 2013 Strategies and rates of prospective health plans that might be included on the exchange are reviewed by the Department of Commerce.

July to late fall 2013 The system will be tested to confirm it fits with the federal exchange.

Oct. 1, 2013 Open enrollment begins and Minnesotans can sign up for plans on the exchange.

Jan. 1, 2014 Coverage begins for plans purchased on the exchange.

Jan. 1, 2016 The exchange must be selfsufficient by federal law.

SOURCE: LEG.STATE.MN

Minnesota shooting victim’s son pushes for change

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn.— Sami Rahamim has committed statistics about gun deaths to memor y, folding them into sentences that make his case. He talks like a lawyer, not a high school senior — no pauses or filler, no public trace of his pain.

On Sept. 27, Sami’s father Reuven Rahamim was shot and killed along with five others at Accent Signage Systems in Minneapolis, the company he founded, by an employee who had just been

fired.

In the months since, Sami has become a 17-year-old lobbyist for reducing gun violence.

Sami has been at the state Capitol nearly every day for a month, missing school to push for legislation that would boost background checks and tighten gun regulations.

He’s spoken at churches, synagogues and gun violence forums.

He flew to New York last month to talk with Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a staunch gun control supporter. He’ll

be at President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address late this month with Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison. And on Monday, when Obama visits Minneapolis to pitch his proposals for reducing gun violence, Sami will be there — not just as a victim, but as a committed advocate.

“Nobody would blame him if he were curled up in a corner crying even until this moment,” Ellison said. “But he’s on his feet. He’s talking to people about gun violence.

He has truly harnessed his grief.”

Sami said he’s not sure if his work is an outlet for the pain of losing his father.

“I haven’t totally broken down yet,” he said. “Until that happens, I’m going to stick with this and see to it that we

can pass the things we want to pass to make a real positive difference.”

Sami traces his political activism to his father, who emigrated from Israel in the 1970s. Sami went to Wash-

ington, D.C., last summer to learn how to lobby with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. U.S. relations with his homeland were the only issue that mattered to his father, Sami said.

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ike many young women, my adolescence was inspired by a hearty dose of magazines I stole from my older sister. I pored through sections with titles like “For His Thighs Only” and took mental notes about weird things I could do with ice. As a result, I developed a better knowledge of male sexuality than my own.

The University of Minnesota’s April event, The Female Orgasm: A Program About Sexual Health and Women’s Empowerment, is a much-needed challenge to the general absence of attention to empowered female sexuality. In a patriarchal culture, certain ideals pervade all levels of society — including the bedroom. Standards of male dominance and female submissiveness shape our history and continue to problematically dictate expectations of gender roles. Women are socialized not to speak up and to place others’ needs above their own.

Furthermore, we are a so-

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ciety that both objectifies the female body and commodifies sex, breeding the tendency to forget that sex involves cooperation between two people, not a “thing” that men “get” from women. Women are forced into a space that not only necessitates a keen talent for satisfying men, but simultaneously informs us that our own sexual pleasure is our responsibility. This is something we must figure out ourselves and then teach to our partners. We are to become every man’s sex goddess and consider the capacity to please our partner as reward enough, unless we rely on ourselves to dictate our own enjoyment.

With today’s women challenging the traditional gender power relationship in many ways, the eradication of the

“gender gap” is a constant hot topic. But among talk of income disparity and workplace discrimination, let’s not forget about the discrepancy between orgasm rates. Research says that in sex with a partner, we’re getting our rocks off less than half the time as guys — and my girlfriends’ accounts make that number look generous.

Nothing anatomical says that females can’t get their casbah rocked as often as guys can, but the way society “educates” us about sex is riddled with patriarchal stereotypes and misinformation (thanks, porn!), shaming women about what should be “normal.” Resolving these issues and focusing on equal consideration for men’s and women’s needs should be a clear priority in the fight for gender parity.

The University’s decision to host the April event as a way to educate all genders certainly acknowledges the importance of abolishing the “orgasm gap.”

Sadly, the intense ridicule the University has received for this event serves to illustrate that we have a long way to go before we will reach sexual justice. So ludicrous was the idea of the event to Rush Limbaugh that

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 111,001- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,245 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

he sincerely supposed whether it was a prank or satire, while an outraged U.S. News editor dubbed it a “blatant appeal to hedonism.” Calling education on female sexual health “hedonistic” affirms the oppressive dialogues that females receive throughout our entire lives. We live in a time in which male sexuality is so accepted that Cialis is advertised during primetime television — but women are still forced to feel guilty about our sexuality.

I encourage all students to save the date for the April event, especially males. Attending this event grants men the opportunity to display their respect and support for female sexual health, as well as — dare I say it — learn something.

Within a sexist discourse that too often leaves it up to women to educate men on their sexual pleasure, the prospect of a man who just knows what he is doing is tantalizing — ask anyone reading “50 Shades of Grey.” So mark your calendars, and in the meantime, for god’s sake, use the Internet.

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.

GUN CONTROL

Firearms on campus The University’s exemption to state conceal and carry laws doesn’t create a safer campus.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Poor energy decisions In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama described the science-proven threat to “our children and future generations” from global warming.

He pledged that the U.S. would “lead on the path toward sustainable energy sources.” His address did not offer any specific programs for achieving reductions in carbon emissions. But we can look to the administration’s current energy policies and those of the past four years. They provide answers on how Obama plans to upgrade the U.S. from its current position as a major greenhouse gas emitter to becoming a leader in the effort to curb GHG emissions.

What we actually observe in the administration’s record is a litany of ill-advised, expensive and premature attempts to put into production solar, wind and biofuel projects. In general, those projects lack the technology base for effective large-scale implementation, and they are not competitive with current market-based energy sources. In my opinion, the result has been a loss of billions of dollars from taxpayers, rate payers and investors, with minimal impact on global warming.

Solar energy, whether photo voltaic or concentrated, has potential for research improvement and cost reductions. It is more predicable than wind energy and peaks when demand is highest.

But it is currently expensive and low density, and large investments in companies like Solyndra and Abound Solar have resulted in losses.

Undaunted, the Obama administration is now supporting a $2 billion concentrated solar power installation near Ivanpah Solar Power Facility in the Nevada Desert. Ivanpah’s developer is estimating annual electricity production of about 1 million megawatt hours. By comparison, a typical 1000 MW nuclear plant produces eight times that amount, rain or shine, clouds or fair, night or day.

Wind energy’s intermittent output requires continuous backup in order to avoid damage to the integrity of delicately balanced electric grids. This backup power is usually supplied by natural gas plants running in an inefficient start-stop mode to match the wind. This increases GHG emissions, wastes fuel and shortens machinery life. The wind industry lobbies hard for the 2.2 cents/ kwh production tax credit, without which new wind farm installations would essentially cease. The 2.2 cents is nearly 50 percent of the wholesale price of electric power. Undaunted, the Obama administration is supporting the $2 billion Cape Wind project, which would place 130 Siemens wind turbines in the sea off Cape Cod. In testimony before the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Board, Cape Wind’s developer conceded that Cape Wind would actually operate at about 100 MW for much of the time, with lowest output in summer, when demand is highest.

Former Rep. William Delahunt, D-Mass., provided his own estimates: “This will be the most expensive and most heavily subsidized off-

shore wind farm in the country at over $2.5 billion, with power costs to the region that will be at least double.”

I suggest that the administration’s biggest energy folly is support for turning 40 million prime crop acres and 40 percent of our corn crop into 6 or 7 percent of our gasoline supply. The result is increased world grain prices and stresses to soils, ground water and the environment from monoculture corn and additional nitrogen fertilizers. Microbes turn the fertilizer into the powerful GHG, nitrous oxide. A University of Minnesota study led by Professor Sangwon Suh showed that on average in the U.S., 142 gallons of water are needed to grow and process the corn for one gallon of ethanol. In irrigation states like Kansas and Nebraska, it takes 500 water gallons per ethanol gallon, helping to drain the Ogallala, our most important fresh-water aquifer.

There are tough climatesaving measures like carbon taxes that encourage conser vation and provide funds for energy-ef ficient public transpor t. That’s one of the measures used in many developed nations that consume half the energy per unit of GNP than we do. But carbon taxes are a politically unpopular choice that are rarely seen in the programs offered by either of our major political parties. It is easier to rely on “technology will save us” pipe dreams.

Rolf Westgard lecturer University of Minnesota Lifelong Learning program

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A female orgasm workshop event is a triumph for gender equality.

Monday, February 4, 2013

believe that the recent proposal

by Rep. Tony Cornish, R-Vernon Center, of the Minnesota House of Representatives to allow those who have a permit to carry a handgun in Minnesota to also carry on campus makes sense. Currently it is not against state law for an individual to carry on campus, but the University of Minnesota has its own policy of prohibiting possession on University property.

What is the justification for the exception? Does one who is considered by the state to be a responsible firearm carrier off campus suddenly become irresponsible simply by entering campus? What is the rationale for the Board of Regents to have its own fiefdom of gun regulation independent from the state’s rules?

The University can only properly enforce this policy against students and employees of the school, whom it can expel from college or fire from their job. Since this isn’t a concern to anyone else, those permit holders not affiliated with the school can carr y on campus without punishment. Why is it good policy to disarm students and University staff while allowing anyone else to be armed?

Why has the Board of Regents pursued this policy? Ostensibly, it is an effort to make students safer, but is this really the case? Similar policies have not stopped shootings in other parts of the country.

The school in Connecticut was a “gun-free” zone. In Aurora, Colo., the shooter had a choice of seven movie theaters within a 20-minute drive of his home that were showing the Batman movie he was obsessed with.

The Cinemark Theater the killer ultimately chose wasn’t the closest, but it was the only one that posted signs saying it banned concealed handguns. All of the other theaters allowed Colorado adults who have a concealed handgun permit to enter with their weapons.

Indeed with just one single exception, the attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz., in 2011, every public shooting since at least 1950 in the U.S. in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns. With these facts in mind, it is fair to question whether preventing legal handgun owners from carrying their gun in places like University grounds makes those areas safer.

We can have a legitimate debate about how we want to regulate guns in our society, but that debate should take place at the state Legislature where it belongs. The law that applies to the rest of Minnesota should apply to campus as well, without exceptions.

Micah Roos University student

A call to action The University stands to benefit from providing more on-campus housing options.

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he Minnesota Daily editorial board has witnessed numerous changes to the University of Minnesota housing market. Yet, one thing that fails to come into the discussion is the University itself. Among a dynamic housing market, one would think a main player would be the University’s Housing and Residential Life department. Yet, the University seems to remain hands-off and reserved on the hot-button issue of housing.

The issue arises amid a huge demand for University housing. The University expects to see an overflow of on-campus housing each year. In fact, 300 to 400 students are placed in conver ted housing, such as lounges or overcapacity rooms, each year. Among Big Ten schools, there is a clear shortage of on-campus housing at the University.

This follows recent power plays for land in the University community, but it should also be signal to University Housing and Residential Life that there is a need for more on-campus housing. The University stands to make money, while also keeping its obligation to house freshmen, if it expands its role in the housing market.

The University is currently in the process of building a new residence hall, the yet-to-benamed 17th Avenue hall, in a prime Dinkytown location. This is one good decision to help secure the University’s future in the housing market, but more residential choices are necessar y to compete with developers eyeing to break ground.

There are students willing to pay for oncampus housing, and the University would be well-advised to both take advantage of demand and to provide its students appropriately priced residential options near campus.

Liability for gun owners Gun owners should be required to buy liability insurance to cover the damage firearms cause.

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he debate surrounding how far the protections of the Second Amendment really go has been framed in the light of mass shootings. Minneapolis was home to one such incident at Accent Signage Systems in September when an employee went on a shooting spree after being fired. Last week, the family of one of the employees who was killed filed a wrongful death suit against both the company and the estate of the shooter. The suit alleges that that the company was negligent in giving the shooter advance notice of his termination, for employing him for years despite poor performance and displaying signs of mental instability and for failing to have security on the day of the firing. Regardless of the outcome of the suit, it brings to light the idea of liability in gun violence incidents.

Economists describe the gun violence problem as a negative externality of gun ownership.

When a gun is purchased, the consumer only considers their own value in owning the product but fail to account for the possibility that the gun could cause pain, death and suffering to others.

With about 9,000 gun deaths in the U.S. per year, each of which could be grounds for a wrongful death suit, mandator y gun liability insurance would force consumers to account for the externalities of their purchases.

Facing additional costs, perhaps the mother of the alleged Newtown gunman Adam Lanza may not have purchased the assault rifle used in the school shooting — or would have taken steps to reduce her insurance premiums like locking it up. Insurance premiums increase for unsafe behaviors or products, allowing economic incentives to discourage them — and therefore, prevent gun violence. Such legislation may also draw support from business owners as a way to reduce their risk from these types of suits.

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Location, location, location Should Dinkytown stay dinky?

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ocal news outlets are b u z z i n g about the potential new apar tment complex proposed by the Opus Group in the hear t of Dinkytown. Is this good for students, campus and sur r ounding businesses?

DEREK OLSON Is this what columnist the neighborhood wants? The transformation is part of a larger wave of building projects in Minneapolis.

According to a Minnesota Daily poll, 68 percent of voters believe that “as more and more luxur y apartments replace old gems, Dinkytown is losing the charm that makes it so special.” With a change such as this, those who oppose it are likely to be the most vocal. The sentiment to preserve that Dinkytown character that many have grown to love invokes an emotional appeal. Family businesses and small-town character are near and dear to the hearts of Americans.

Trouble lies in tr ying to quantify the value of Dinkytown’s historic character.

To some, particularly those who have real memories of the neighborhood’s history, it may be priceless. But for the macroeconomy of the University of Minnesota community, it is tougher to gauge.

The Dinkytown neighborhood is already changing. In 2010, Doran Companies opened Sydney Hall Apartments kitty-corner from McDonald’s. In 2011, Floco Fusion opened on University Avenue, and 412 Lofts opened on Fourth Street. Two more apar tment complexes are up and coming on University Avenue, another two on Fourth Street and one across Fifth Street from the Opus Group’s proposal. With or without this controversial edifice, Dinkytown is in the middle of an upswing in population density. This demographic change will inevitably alter the climate for local businesses.

The upswing in population density is part of two broader trends. Within the last decade, the popularity of commuting to the University has fallen as more students wish to live near campus. In addition, apartment complexes are popping up fast throughout Minneapolis; the number of building permits issued by the city hasn’t been this high in years.

It has become common to criticize the upswing in “luxur y student apartments” near campus. Students are upset that they cannot find “affordable housing” close to their classes. The irony is that this new outcry is a perfect reflection of the fact that more students want to live near campus.

Apartments in close proximity to campus are in high demand, and if developers are unable to meet that demand, prices will continue to rise.

But why luxur y apartments? Students want budget-friendly options. At most of the “luxury student apartments,” the competitive prices are approximately $1,000 for a one bedroom and $2,000 for a two bedroom. If rooms are shared, the cost is about $500 per month.

Putting that in perspective, it costs

about $569 per month to live in the Superblock. For $69 more in University housing, you get a smaller room that is not as wellfurnished and sans a private living room, kitchen or bathroom. In comparison to the dormitories, most of these “luxur y apartments” are fairly economical options. “Luxury,” after all, is a great word for marketing.

For students in search of less expensive housing, one can hope that the light rail will create more possibilities.

Neighborhoods are full of what economists call externalities. If a dirty factor y sets up shop next to your home, your home loses value and appeal to potential buyers.

In the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, social stigmas have fomented strict zoning laws on fraternity houses and limited the number of unrelated occupants living together.

Externalities can also be positive. If your neighbor builds a beautiful garden that fills the sidewalk with fresh smells and beautiful sights, your house has gained appeal and value. Zoning laws can be helpful in maximizing the welfare of externalities, but the public voices for or against individual externalities have a temptation to be overzealous and unrepresentative of the whole community.

A simple axiom is that when economies grow, they evolve, sometimes, substantially. Resistance to the evolution of economies is quite common, and it is often driven by nostalgia. The trouble is that nostalgia doesn’t always show its face in the market. It becomes dif ficult to measure the fundamental value suppor ting that sentiment. Because preventing an economy from changing will curtail, if not stop it, from growing, it is important to think rationally about the costs and benefits of our neighborhood changes.

There are a number of examples that display the effects of housing restrictions, or lack thereof. Houston is the four thlargest city in America, yet, it is one of the 15-least expensive housing markets of 319 studied by Coldwell Banker. Houston does not have any zoning laws. From 1980 to 2000, the population of Las Vegas nearly tripled, yet the real median price of houses remained flat because building restrictions there are some of the countr y’s lightest. In the decade of the 1970s in Palo Alto, Calif., the average price of houses nearly quadrupled although there was no concurrent population increase.

Severe building restrictions sprouted in Palo Alto in the 1970s, and after those restrictions, not one house was built in the city for 10 years.

The economic evidence is highly suppor tive of loose restrictions on housing development. Rent control is among the most universally opposed policies by economists. It is difficult to balance this evidence against the sentimental value of Dinkytown’s character and the goods and ser vices provided, and perhaps threatened, by a changing local economy.

I happen to have a rather personal connection to the Opus proposal: Its construction will displace my current place of residence. I have come to adore Dinkytown.

We signed our lease two days after it went public in order to seize this location. Living on the same block as Mesa Pizza, Al’s Breakfast and Burrito Loco is a treat. That must be why so many people want to move here.

Derek Olson welcomes comments at dolson@mndaily.com.

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Don’t blame the Harvard cheaters Why should we care about some students cheating in a Harvard intro course?

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here are cheaters at Harvard University. This shouldn’t come as news to anyone; however, a scandal of this magnitude at supposedly one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning stings. Close to 75 students will be forced to withdraw after being caught cheating in an Introduction to Congress course.

But, Har vard isn’t like other schools. It’s different.

The elite students at Har vard are not being thrown out for cheating; instead, they are being required to take a leave of absence and find full-time employment for six months. This is their punishment.

I don’t know how finding a job is punishment, but for the kids at Har vard, it must be. All throughout the country, people are waiting in subzero weather for a chance at employment. Yet, for Har vard, full-time work is a punishment.

The students in question collaborated to correctly answer questions on a takehome exam. These students worked together to attempt an outcome that benefited ever yone. They got caught, and now they have to go to work. When I was an undergraduate student, I was a double major in professional and technical writing and history. I did this while working a fulltime, 40-hour per week job and commuting up to 50 miles a day from my home to campus to my job. I would leave my house at about 6:30 a.m. and be gone until midnight. I worked on the weekends. I had no breaks.

So, I find it insulting for a university to consider full-time work a punishment.

There are people starving and begging for work, while Har vard throws around silly punishments aimed at some students’ ingenuity. Certainly, I wouldn’t say all cheating is ingenuity; however, this incident is about more than simple cheating. It’s about plagiarism and about a society that wants people to work together but then punishes those who do so.

I’ve always found conceptions of plagiarism troublesome. As a writer and a writing teacher, I’ve encountered plagiarism many times, and I always discourage it. I do so because I’m supposed to. Fundamentally, I believe plagiarism to be wrong and an ethical quagmire. In a society where you can be shamed for using your own work or ideas more than once, I find this issue obstructed, like tr ying to stare through ice blocks.

In higher education, you are told to be original. When you aren’t original, you’re punished or ridiculed. If you can’t be original, then you need to be creative and collaborate. Or, you need to restructure an existing argument or idea so it appears to present new ideas. If you can’t do any of this, you’re denigrated. Honestly, I hold no ill will toward those Har vard cheaters.

I guess they did what they felt they had to do. The American ethic often seems to be about doing the least amount of work for the greatest reward. We need only look to Wall Street to understand this ethic.

Most egregious is that instead of asking why there was a test and why these students felt they had to cheat, we simply

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dismiss it as a great scandal and move on. There’s more at work here. Cheating is symptomatic of far greater problems in higher education. Often, people seem to cheat because they feel they can’t succeed if they don’t or because they’re lazy. I understand the latter, but I always hope for the former. I work from this point of view.

I never want to consider my students in an unethical light. It’s hard. But, we should ask ourselves a simple question: Why was a test created in which cheating was so easy? Or, better yet, why was there even a test?

I’ve never been a fan of tests. I once had a French professor tell me that tests only really exist to check what one doesn’t know — not what one does know. That being said, formal tests might be good for some assessment. I’m not sure where this would be good, though. So, why is everyone surprised that a bunch of students collaborated on answers on a take-home exam? Did no one see this coming? It’s not that shocking. What’s shocking is that Harvard would ever consider itself above a base human instinct: to survive at all costs.

Now, some Harvard cheaters will go off and find work for six months to show they can follow directions, and then everything will go back to normal. Ah, the joys of privilege and elitism, no? It’s a wonderful world we live in.

Let’s not forget the great irony in the room either. Some students cheated in a class meant to introduce them to Congress. These students did exactly what many have done to get to Congress: cheated, lied, swindled and worked with others to ensure their sur vival. We seem to accept it in one of the most important bodies in this countr y, yet higher education comes down hard on students who did the same. Double standard? Well, of course.

It seems as though this is the “American way.”

I don’t suppor t cheating in any case, but we can’t simply ignore the whole host of other issues swirling around this incident of cheating. Privilege wears many masks — none so more than the mask of judgment. We need to examine the context and understand the drive of these Harvard students before we disparage their reputation and “punish” them with employment.

I’d much rather give that punishment to someone struggling to feed his or her family than some hyper-advantaged student who crowdsourced an answer to some test that probably should’ve been administered in class anyway.

Trent M Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

More barriers to equal rights Affirmative judgments on Proposition 8 and DOMA likely won’t affect Minnesotans.

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he U.S. Supreme Court plans to hear oral arguments on two very important civil rights cases next month, but the impact of affirmative results in these cases likely won’t affect Minnesotans.

The first case is titled Hollingsworth v.

Perry. The Perry dispute originated in California in May 2009 when Kristen Perry, her partner Sandra Stier and another couple, Paul Katami and Jeffrey Zarrillo, filed an 11-page complaint against then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other state officials in a federal district court because the couples were denied marriage licenses as a consequence of their sex. The city and county of San Francisco intervened as plaintiffs, and the proponents of Proposition 8 intervened as defendants, since the California government officials refused to defend the law. Proposition 8 is a voter-enacted amendment to the California Constitution that defines California marriages as between one man and one woman. The complaint alleged that Proposition 8 violates the plaintiffs’ right to equal protection of law and due process, per the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The plaintiffs also sought an injunction under U.S. code.

The Federal District Court found for the plaintiffs, holding that Proposition 8 violates the equal protection and due process clauses under the 14th Amendment because it is not rationally related to any legitimate state in-

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terest. The defendants appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

The Court of Appeals, before upholding the District Court’s ruling, asked whether the defendant interveners have standing to bring an appeal before it. The California Supreme Court ruled that the proponents indeed have standing.

Here is where it gets tricky. Although the Court of Appeals upheld the District Court’s ruling, it did so on narrower grounds, in such a way that the ruling only applied to California. Unlike other states, California originally allowed same-sex marriages prior to Proposition 8. Thus, the law was actually taking away a right that had been granted before. In addition, domestic partnerships in California provide the exact benefits from the state that marriage does, so there is only a discriminatory difference in title. The appellate court did not decide whether same-sex couples have a right to marry under the Constitution;

rather, they decided that Proposition 8 violated the Equal Protection Clause because it served no purpose other than to signify that same-sex relationships are inferior. The defendant interveners — Hollingsworth is one of the interveners — petitioned the Supreme Court to request the case file from the appellate court for review. The Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari.

The Supreme Court will review this reasoning by the appellate court. The Court, adding the issue on its own, will also address whether the defendant inter veners have standing. If the interveners have standing, affirming the appellate court’s decision would only result in legal same-sex marriages for Californians. If the interveners don’t have standing, the case is dismissed and the narrow appellate decision still stands.

In the second case, United States v. Windsor, to be heard the day after the first case, the original plaintiff is Edith Windsor, who was married in Canada in 2007 to her samesex partner, Thea Spyer. When Spyer died in 2009, Windsor was a resident of New York, and she was considered a surviving spouse under New York law. Although New York did not permit same-sex marriages until 2011, they nonetheless recognized marriages from other jurisdictions. When Windsor collected her inheritance from her spouse, the federal government taxed Windsor as if she and Spyer were strangers, rather than spouses. Normally, under federal law, surviving spouses are exempt from certain taxes, such as estate taxes on their home.

A federal act called the Defense of Mar-

riage Act, however, in Section 3, federally defines marriages as a union between one man and one woman and defines “spouse” as “a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife.” Because of DOMA, Windsor was required to pay more than $363,000 in federal estate taxes.

Windsor challenged Section 3 of DOMA in a federal district court, seeking a tax refund. She argued that DOMA violates her right to equal protection under the Fifth Amendment, which applies to the federal government, while the 14th applies to states. She won. The appellate court upheld this ruling.

If the Supreme Court upholds the decision of the appellate court, however, only in states where same-sex marriage is already legally recognized will same-sex couples receive any benefits, because, without DOMA, the federal government only recognizes marriages a state does. Since Minnesota currently does not recognize same-sex marriages, Minnesotans will not see any material benefit from an affirmative result here, either.

These cases are without a doubt landmark cases for gay rights in the U.S., and they are incredibly important to millions. But decisions favorable to the gay and lesbian couples in these cases will not materially affect Minnesota and many other states. That is why it is important for Minnesotans to continue to fight for same-sex marriage in their own state, rather than erroneously relying on the Supreme Court’s upcoming decisions.

James Castle welcomes comments at jcastle@mndaily.com.

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Junior for ward Amanda Kessel added a goal in the second period before the Gophers broke it open in the third.

Junior for ward Sarah Davis, Kessel and freshman defender Milica McMillen each scored in the final stanza.

Freshman for ward Hannah Brandt, who assisted on both of Kessel’s goals, said the WCHA title is especially exciting for the freshman class.

“We hear all about last year, and it kind of sucks that we weren’t there for it,” Brandt said, referring to the Gophers’ NCAA title. “Winning this trophy is a great start for us.”

Senior captain Megan Bozek accepted the trophy for the team. She said even with the Gophers’ winning and unbeaten records, this team trophy feels different.

“We’ve had a lot of big weekends,” Bozek said Friday. “But always getting a trophy and being able to hang a banner in Ridder Arena is a very special feeling.”

Frost said Friday he wasn’t concerned about his team losing motivation.

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records … throughout the whole year and still coming back the next night and playing extremely hard,” Frost said. “So nothing changes for us.”

After a slow start Saturday, the Gophers backed Frost’s words. Minnesota trailed 1-0 after one period — just its third time trailing this season — but it scored four goals late in the third period to secure the victor y.

Halfway through the first period, Bulldogs senior for ward Per nilla Winberg conver ted a rebound to give her team the unlikely lead.

“That first period was probably our worst of the year,” Frost said.

The Gophers tur ned the game around in the second period with power-play goals from Brandt and McMillen.

But the Bulldogs evened up the score at the 5:39 mark of the third on a shorthanded, unassisted

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Minnesota forward Amanda Kessel handles the puck against Minnesota-Duluth on Saturday at Ridder Arena.

goal from sophomore forward Jenna McParland.

For the first time since Minnesota’s last loss almost a year ago, the Gophers had a tie score with eight minutes left in the game.

But Kessel came to her

team’s rescue, scoring the first of three Gophers goals in a two-minute span.

“I knew that we needed a goal badly,” Kessel said, “and so I put ever ything I had into that [play] to get open there.”

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chael Bona and sophomore for ward Meghan Lorence added the second and third goals. Sophomore defender/for ward Jordyn Burns netted the final goal with 35 seconds left.

Frost said it was good the team had to grind out

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Austin Hollins hit a game-winning 3-pointer Sunday.

The Gophers have lost five of their last six games despite stellar play from sophomore Rachel Banham.

the win Saturday.

“I want our team to be put in some tough spots,” Frost said, “because we just haven’t faced a ton of adversity on the ice.” @dailyontheice

Hollins’ late heroics lead Rematch with Huskers follows same losing script Gophers past Iowa for second win in a row

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

The Gophers almost took one more step toward another Big Ten season collapse Sunday at Williams Arena.

But Austin Hollins wasn’t about to let that happen.

Hollins drained the game-winning three-pointer with 11.6 seconds left and had a late steal as the No. 23 Gophers rallied to beat Iowa 62-59.

The game-winner came on a catch-and-shoot inbounds play out of a Gophers timeout.

“It was pretty much drawn up like that,” Hollins said. “I saw some daylight, so I let it go.”

On the Hawkeyes’ following possession, Hollins stole the ball from Iowa guard Mike Gesell with five seconds left.

Hollins’ 17 points were a game-high and the most for the junior guard since MINNESOTA 62, IOWA 59 Iowa Minnesota

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IOWA FT Reb FG Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts White 32 3-10 4-7 3-5 2 0 10 Basabe 15 3-6 1-2 1-3 0 4 7 Woodbury 15 2-3 0-0 3-4 0 3 4 Marble 17 0-2 0-0 0-3 2 2 0 Gesell 30 4-12 1-3 0-6 3 1 11 Olaseni 6 0-0 0-0 2-2 0 2 0 May 24 2-3 1-1 1-1 1 3 5 McCabe 19 3-6 1-2 0-0 1 4 10 Clemmons 21 1-5 2-2 2-2 5 2 4 Oglesby 21 3-11 0-0 0-1 3 0 8 Total 200 21-58 10-17 18-35 17 21 59 Percentages: FG .362, FT .588. Three-pointers: 7-23, .304 (Oglesby 2-8, McCabe 3-5, Gesell 2-4, Marble 0-2, White 0-2, May 0-1, Clemmons 0-1).

Blocks: 2 (Basabe, May). Team rebounds: 8. Turnovers: 10 (Marble 3, Woodbury 2, Olaseni 2, White, Basabe, Gesell). Steals: 8 (May 2, White 2, Oglesby 2, McCabe, Clemmons).

Minnesota’s Jan. 17 loss to Michigan.

Minnesota hadn’t led in more than 13 minutes until Hollins’ game winner.

“We had one foot in the grave,” coach Tubby Smith said.

The Gophers have won back-to-back games after losing four straight, and Sunday’s victor y is Minnesota’s third February victory in the last three seasons.

A season in the Big Ten causes bumps and bruises, and it’s clear the Gophers are not devoid of theirs.

Joe Coleman limped around the locker room after the game with a bag of ice on his right ankle and one on his left knee.

“It was a big shot,” Coleman said of Hollins’ final bucket. “It’s what [Hollins] is supposed to do.”

With the Gophers trailing late in the second half, sophomore Andre Hollins huddled his team near half court to talk.

“From your point guard, you expect stuf f like that when times are getting hectic,” Rodney Williams said.

Andre Hollins had 15 points and a career-high eight assists.

Minnesota kept its turnovers low, committing just 12 against the Hawkeyes. But Coleman had a game-high five turnovers, which is also his Big Ten season-high.

Smith’s squad carried its momentum from a lopsided win against Nebraska, jump-

ing out to a 14-2 lead early.

But the Hawkeyes adjusted to the Gophers’ tall lineup, as Smith played Elliott Eliason at center for about half the game.

The Hawkeyes finished with an 18-12 advantage on the offensive glass, giving them plenty of secondchance opportunities.

After his 19-point first half against the Cornhuskers, Rodney Williams finished with 10 points and a Big Ten season-high seven rebounds.

“Other guys had it going today,” Williams said. “I wasn’t looking to force anything.”

Minnesota had a 29-28 lead at halftime and lost its lead early in the second half.

Eliason was the only productive bench player, as the Gophers’ reserves were outscored 27-0 by Iowa’s bench.

The 7-foot sophomore had six rebounds, two steals and two blocks in 19 minutes — his most time logged in a Big Ten game this season.

No other Gophers reserve played more than six minutes, as all of Minnesota’s 49 field-goal attempts came from the starters.

“I hope we haven’t peaked,” Smith said. “We have a lot more to do, a lot more to learn. But this is a good start.” @dailyinthebarn

The good news for the Gophers women’s basketball team was that it snapped a four-game losing streak Thursday with a blowout win over Michigan.

The bad news was that the Gophers followed it up with an 80-56 loss Sunday to Nebraska.

More than halfway through the Big Ten season, Minnesota has lost five of its last six games and is tied for eighth in the conference standings.

The Gophers’ rematch w i t h t h e Cor n h u s k ers played out almost the exact same way as the teams’ first meeting two weeks ago — a tightly contested first half and a one-sided second half.

Minnesota shot 46 percent from the field in the first half, and while 12 bench points offset a poor half by Rachel Banham, the Gophers trailed 38-30 at NEBRASKA 80, MINNESOTA 56 Minnesota Nebraska

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Minnesota guard Austin Hollins looks to pass against Iowa on Sunday at Williams Arena.

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Minnesota forward Micaëlla Riché and Minnesota guard Shayne Mullaney fight for the ball against Michigan on Thursday at Williams Arena. The Gophers defeated the Wolverines 82-67.

halftime.

Micaëlla Riché hit a quick jumper at the beginning of the second half to cut Nebraska’s lead to six, but that was as close as Minnesota got.

The Cor nhuskers stretched their lead to 19 points with a 19-6 run and later led by 28 points.

Nebraska for ward Jordan Hooper, who scored 17 points in the first meeting, had 27 points on 10for-17 shooting this time.

Lindsey Moore added 12 points and seven assists.

The Cornhuskers held Banham to 11 points on 5-for-13 shooting. She had scored 69 points in her last two games.

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Percentages: FG .414, FT .750. Three-pointers: 2-8, .250 (Banham 1-4, Noga 1-3, Bailey 0-1). Blocks: 5 (Riche 2, Kellogg, Banham, Loberg). Team rebounds: 3. Turnovers: 19 (Mullaney 4, Banham 4, Kellogg 3, Cotton 3, Riche, Bailey, Noga). Steals: 4 (Banham 2, Noga, Hirt).

MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 30 6-7 0-0 0-1 1 2 12 Coleman 33 5-11 0-0 2-7 1 0 10 Williams 33 2-5 4-7 1-6 2 2 8 Mbakwe Hollins, Au. 35 5-12 4-6 2-5 1 2 17 Hollins, An. 37 4-14 6-8 3-6 8 3 15 19 0-0 0-0 2-6 2 3 0 Eliason 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 6 Welch 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 Ahanmisi 0-0 0-0 1-1 2 1 0 3 Osenieks 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 1 Ingram 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 Walker 200 22-49 14-21 12-35 17 15 62 Total Percentages: FG .449, FT .667. Three-pointers: 4-16, .250 (Au. Hollins 3-8, Andre Hollins 1-5, Williams 0-2, Coleman 0-1). Blocks: 7 (Williams 2, Mbakwe 2, Eliason 2, Coleman). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 12 (Coleman 5, Williams 2, Welch 2, Au. Hollins, Andre Hollins, Ahanmisi). Steals: 7 (Eliason 2, Andre Hollins 2, Coleman, Au. Hollins, Ahanmisi). A: 14,625. Officials: Jim Burr, Larry Scirotto, Bill Ek.

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FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Cady 33 3-6 4-5 2-7 2 0 10 Hooper 27 10-17 4-4 1-7 0 1 27 Moore 31 3-5 6-6 0-1 7 0 12 Sample 25 1-4 0-0 1-4 1 1 2 Theriot 24 5-5 0-0 3-7 5 0 11 Laudermill 22 5-15 1-1 1-3 1 1 14 Williams 13 1-3 0-0 1-3 1 2 2 Jeffery 16 1-5 0-1 1-2 1 2 2 Simon 0-4 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 9 Total 200 29-64 15-17 12-37 18 8 80 Percentages: FG .453, FT .882. Three-pointers: 7-22, .318 (Hooper 3-7, Laudermill 3-8, Theriot 1-1, Jeffery 0-4, Simon 0-1, Moore 0-1) Blocks: 3 (Cady 2, Sample). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 9 (Cady 2, Laudermill 2, Hooper, Moore, Sample, Williams, Simon). Steals: 11 (Cady 3, Hooper 2, Laudermill 2, Theriot 2, Moore, Sample). A: 6,935. Officials: Bob Trammell, Barb Smith, Kevin Pethtel

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MICHIGAN FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Jordan 34 3-9 3-6 5-5 1 3 9 Sheffer 32 7-15 2-2 2-9 2 1 17 Thompson 34 6-11 1-2 1-2 1 2 18 Elmblad 26 1-2 0-0 2-3 2 2 2 Ryan 36 1-3 1-2 1-4 8 1 3 Harris 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 6 Ristovski 14 4-5 0-0 0-0 2 0 10 Arnold 18 3-6 2-2 1-4 1 2 8 Total 200 25-51 9-14 13-29 17 11 67 Percentages: FG .490, FT .643. Three-pointers: 8-19, .421 (Thompson 5-8, Ristovski 2-3, Sheffer 1-5, Jordan 0-2, Arnold 0-1). Blocks: 4 (Sheffer 3, Arnold). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 12 (Sheffer 5, Elmblad 2, Thompson, Ryan, Ristovski, Arnold).

Steals: 1 (Sheffer).

MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 1-3 0-0 1-3 2 4 2 17 Kellogg 32 6-10 3-4 1-4 0 2 15 Riche 39 11-15 4-4 0-4 4 2 32 Banham 28 4-6 0-0 2-2 8 1 8 Mullaney 38 3-7 0-0 1-2 5 3 9 Noga 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 Johnson 1-1 2-2 1-2 2 3 4 9 Cotton 22 5-8 0-0 0-1 0 1 10 Hirt 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 6 Bailey 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 2 8 Loberg 200 32-54 9-10 7-22 21 16 82 Total Percentages: FG .593, FT .900. Three-pointers: 9-17, .529 (Banham 6-8, Noga 3-7, Bailey 0-2). Blocks: 1 (Cotton). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 4 (Kellogg, Riche, Mullaney, Hirt). Steals: 4 (Riche 2, Banham, Kellogg). A: 2,845. Officials: Cameron Inouye, Angie Enlund, Bruce Morris.

“We did a good job of containing Banham within our zone,” Cor nhuskers head coach Connie Yori said. “We always knew where she was.”

Sunday’s loss canceled out the impressive victor y Minnesota had Thursday.

The Gophers cr uised to an 82-67 victor y against Michigan, which had recently dropped out of the top 25. Banham scored 32 points, and Riché added 15 in the win.

The Gophers of fense, led by Banham, looked as ef ficient and as fluid as it has all season. Minnesota shot 59 percent from the floor and tur ned the ball over four times.

“I thought we moved the ball extremely well, penetrated the gaps in the zone and we knocked shots down,” Gophers head coach Pam Bor ton said Thursday.

It all star ted with Banham, who ran the of fense to per fection. She shot 11-for-15 from the floor, knocked down six threepointers and found open teammates when she wasn’t scoring.

Minnesota guard Sari Noga said ef fective ball movement made the offense successful.

“We were able to find the open person, which was a big par t of the win for us tonight,” she said Thursday.

After leading by four at halftime, Minnesota tightened up defensively, forced turnovers and led by 18 in the second half.

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Yohn gets pin on Senior Day in victory Cody Yohn helped the No. 4 Gophers beat Michigan State 32-6.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Cody Yohn took a long stare at the crowd, waved his arms and headed to the locker room at the Sports Pavilion for the final time.

He had just recorded a pin on Senior Day — the first at home in his career — and after the match, he

admitted his emotions started to kick in.

“It was my last hurrah, and to have a match like I did coming of f a pin was definitely something I’ll remember forever,” Yohn said after the No. 4 Gophers’ 326 win over unranked Michigan State on Sunday.

Yohn’s pin gave Minnesota a 14-6 lead, and the Gophers coasted to an easy win.

M inne sota assista n t coach Brandon Eggum said Yohn’s pin helped the team build momentum. He said

the pin was a fitting way for any wrestler to go out.

“We talked about the fact that it was Senior Day a little bit before the dual started,” Eggum said. “The guys wanted to do well for Cody, and it was great.”

Minnesota dropped only two matches in the dual and asserted its dominance over the lesser Big Ten team.

Yohn, the only senior star ter on the roster, was visibly excited after the dual win. He said his stare into the stands after his match was his way to soak in the

moment of his final home competition.

“If I won, I wanted one last mental picture for the books,” Yohn said.

Yohn said his pin proves he is peaking at the right time. The senior’s season has been up and down so far.

“This is an up-and-down sport, and to be on top all the time is damn near impossible,” he said, “but I’d rather have my wins later in the season.”

Eggum said he was satisfied with his team’s aggressiveness in the afternoon.

He’s preached his team needs to earn bonus points all season, and it did so in six matches against the Spar tans. Michigan State isn’t on the same level as conference powerhouses such as Iowa, but Eggum said the bonus points are a step in the right direction.

Yohn’s pin fall win might have been more of a leap.

But the senior still has a lot to prove.

“I know the fact that my career is going to end is inevitable,” he said. “But whether or not I’m going

to become a champion and leave a champion is still up for grabs.”

Robinson returns J Robinson returned to the sideline for the Gophers on Sunday afternoon. It was the first time in a month he’s coached in the Minnesota corner.

Though Eggum still handled most of the coaching, Robinson coached wrestlers on the bench and even gave the occasional yell from his chair.

“It was a refresher to see him back in action,” Eggum said. “We kept our eyes on him to make sure he didn’t do anything crazy at the end, but it was good.”

Thorn, Dardanes sit out

David Thor n (125 pounds) and Chris Dardanes (133) both sat out Sunday.

Eggum said the goal was to give both men a “mental break” from competition. He said Dardanes has been “banged up” in recent weeks, and this was a good chance to give him a dual off from competition. @dailyonthemat

WRESTLING RESULTS

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota’s Cody Yohn pins Michigan State’s Nick Proctor on Sunday at the Sports Pavilion.

WRESTLER 125 Hodowanic 133 Hanson 141 Dardanes, Ni. 149 Ness 157 Zilverberg 165 Yohn 174 Storley 184 Steinhaus 197 Schiller HWT Nelson

W/L (score) W (2-1) L (7-5) W (18-6) W (17-6) L (7-6) W (pin) W (13-4) W (15-2) W (11-3) W (4-0)

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

GYMNASTICS

Men enjoy comfortable home win, women weather cold at MSU Steve Jaciuk had a career-best 15.3 on high bar.

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

An energized Gophers men’s gymnastics team used season-high scores on three events to beat Nebraska and Illinois-Chicago on Saturday night.

In front of an equally excited Spor ts Pavilion crowd, No. 6 Minnesota won all six events as a team and enjoyed a comfortable win.

Coach Mike Burns said the team increased its hit percentage this week and only had to count one fall on routines.

“I guess you can always ask for a better per formance,” Burns said. “But at this time of the year, these guys are doing a wonderful job.”

Highlighting the Gophers’ win was the performance of Steve Jaciuk. The

sophomore finished second on rings and parallel bars and won the high bar competition.

His stuck dismount on the high bar ended the night for Minnesota.

“Unbelievable finish to the meet,” Burns said.

Jaciuk said he lives for those types of moments rather than getting nervous. Having his teammates there with him made it most wor thwhile, though.

“This place can get loud, but the only people I ever hear is my teammates,” Jaciuk said. “That’s what drove me to that exclamation point.”

Minnesota’s gymnasts showed their emotion early and often Saturday night, high-fiving and jumping around after stuck dismounts and landings.

Jaciuk said the environment mimicked that of the Big Ten championships, which will be held at the Spor ts Pavilion in early

April.

The Gophers had their worst per formance of the season on pommel horse.

Burns said the team had a few routines with falls, and tougher judging lowered the scores.

“Even though we scored a little lower, I think our routines were actually a little bit better,” Burns said.

Ellis Mannon, who won the event Saturday, said the team needs to spend more time in practice working on pommel horse.

“If you hit the routines in practice, it’ll happen in the meets,” he said.

Bur ns said Mannon, who competed in five events Saturday, is a workhorse for the team. Mannon will compete in the Winter Cup next weekend in Las Vegas.

Adam Ker n finished second on floor and tied for first with teammate Adam LaFleur on vault. Minnesota swept the top-three spots on rings and had three of the top-four scores on parallel bars.

Women beat Michigan State

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Minnesota’s Adam Kern competes on the pommel horse Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

The Gophers women’s team continued its hot start this season with a win against Michigan State on Friday night in East Lansing, Mich.

Despite losing Jenny Covers, a dependable allaround performer who fell during warm-ups, No. 10 Minnesota outscored the Spar tans on ever y event to win 194.325-192.625.

Individuals won three of the four events for the Gophers.

Coach Meg Stephenson said Covers wasn’t injured badly but was held on a precautionar y measure.

Covers is expected to be back in the lineup this weekend.

Stephenson said another obstacle Friday was the gymnasium’s temperature.

Minnesota’s athletes used hand warmers and wore sweatshir ts under their warm-up clothes to stay warm and keep loose, and fans attending the meet

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Minnesota’s Steve Jaciuk competes on the rings Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

kept bundled up.

“Nobody took their coat of f,” she said. “It was like being at a hockey game.”

Janell Campbell and Justine Cher wink filled in for the absent Covers, though the Gophers only used five gymnasts instead of six on vault.

Stephenson said she was impressed by the poise of three veterans: Shannon Golich, Kayla Slechta and Kylie Schermann.

“They are just steady, consistent per formers,” Stephenson said. “It just shows the confidence and competitiveness in those three.”

Slechta, the nation’s top vault-scorer, finished second on vault. She also finished second on floor and fifth on bars.

Golich won the balance beam competition with a

9.85. The senior also finished tied for eighth on vault.

Scher mann won the floor exercise and finished fourth on beam and fifth on vault.

Slechta said she and her teammates had to adjust their mentalities to overcome challenges.

“Not ever ything is go-

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota Michigan State

SCORE 194.325 192.625

MINNESOTA LEADERS Vault Bars Beam Floor All-around

SCORE Slechta, 9.825 Campbell, 9.85 Golich, 9.85 Schermann, 9.88 Mable, 38.85

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

ing to be perfect when you go to a competition or go to an arena,” she said.

Golich said the team demonstrated its ability to perform under pressure.

“We’re able to step up individually,” she said. “It’s ver y comfor table, and it’s very positive having such a strong team.”

MEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota Nebraska UIC

SCORE 431.2 419.75 392.1

MINNESOTA LEADERS Floor Pommel Horse Still Rings Vault

SCORE Kern, 15.15 Mannon, 14.5 Chase, 15.0 LaFleur. 15.15 Kern, 15.15 Mannon, 14.55 Jaciuk, 15.3

Parallel Bars High Bar

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Gophers sweep triple, quad duals in Wisconsin The men’s and women’s teams backed up their ranking against quality opposition.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

MADISON, Wis. — The Gophers men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams won all five of their dual meets this weekend at the Natatorium in Madison, Wis. The men’s team def ea t ed P u r d u e 2 0 9 -1 4 4 and W isconsin 196-157, improving to 6-1 in dual

meets this season.

The women’s team defeated Purdue 268-85, Wisconsin 210-143 and Illinois 291-62 to improve to 10-0 in dual meets.

While the No. 16 Gophers women pulled away early in the weekend, it took an improved ef for t Saturday for the No. 15 men’s team to win.

Holding just a 10-point lead over unranked Wisconsin after Friday’s events, the Gophers pulled away behind strong races from sophomore CJ Smith and junior captain Derek Toomey.

Smith, who finished second in the 1,000-yard

freestyle Friday, won the 500 freestyle Saturday.

While Smith was the only Gophers men’s swimmer to win a race Saturday, Toomey finished second in the 100 freestyle and the 400 freestyle relay, helping Minnesota solidify its lead over Wisconsin.

“A lot of guys stepped up today,” Smith said Saturday.

The men’s team also improved on the boards.

After an of f-night Friday, two Gophers divers placed in the top three in the 1-meter dive Saturday.

“The male divers today were so much stronger

MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS

and more consistent than t h e y w e r e y e s t e r d a y, ” head men’s and women’s coach Kelly Kremer said.

“They just came in much more focused.”

On the women’s side, freshman Kier ra Smith won the 200 breaststroke and the 400 individual medley Saturday, and senior captain Haley Spencer won the 100 breaststroke and placed second behind Smith in the 200 breaststroke.

Sophomore Tori Simenec won the 200 freestyle and 200 IM, and sophomore Rebecca Weiland set a Natatorium record with her 100 butter-

WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS

#15 Minnesota #18 Purdue

FINAL 209 144

#16 Minnesota #25 Purdue

FINAL 268 85

#15 Minnesota Wisconsin

FINAL 196 157

#16 Minnesota #19 Wisconsin

FINAL 210 143

#16 Minnesota Illinois

FINAL 291 62

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

fly victor y Saturday.

Sophomore swimmer Kiera Janzen won three races over the weekend, including a victor y Saturday in the 500 freestyle.

Janzen said she tried to swim a smar ter race Saturday, saving more of her energy for the later par t of the race.

“I was a little bit more conser vative on the front end than I normally am so that I could build into it a little more and have some speed coming home,” Janzen said.

Janzen also won the 1,000 freestyle and the 800 freestyle relay.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Freshman diver Jessica Ramberg edged teammate Katie Gr unawalt in the 3-meter dive Friday. Junior diver Sarah McCrady won the 1-meter dive Saturday.

Both the men and women will compete next weekend in the Minnesota Challenge at the University Aquatic Center, with less than a month until the Big Ten championships. “[There is] lots we need to work on,” Kremer said. “But I think we’re in the right spot.”

TRACK & FIELD

Women set personal records vs. tough competition

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s track and field team encountered some of its toughest competition so far this season at the Notre Dame Meyo Invitational on Friday and Saturday in South Bend, Ind. Minnesota only won one event at the meet, which didn’t keep team scores.

The Gophers’ ‘A’ team won the distance medley relay without much of a challenge. Redshir t freshman Becca Dyson, senior Alena Brooks, junior Te ’ S h o n A d d e r l e y a n d junior Maggie Bollig ran 11:28.31 to claim first by

more than five seconds.

“There was no competition, and so we were way out in front,” head coach Matt Bingle said. “They know they can run faster.

But it’s always good to win.”

Several athletes also set personal or season records at the meet.

Brooks placed second in the 800-meter r un at 2:06.24 — the second-best time in school histor y.

“I felt so blessed because … I thought about it. I dreamt about it,” Brooks said of the personal record. “I’ve been working hard toward it, and for it to finally come tr ue, I was just overjoyed.”

Junior Laura Docher ty

and sophomore Molly Kayfes both set personal records in the 3,000-meter run. Docher ty ran 9:28.45 for second place, and Kayfes ran 9:32.02 for third place.

In the field, sophomore Katie Murgic made a season-best height of 3.85 meters to place four th in the pole vault on a judge’s decision. Senior TodeaKay Willis also finished fourth in the long jump on a judges’ decision with a distance of 5.93 meters.

The women will return to action next weekend at the ISU Classic in Ames, Iowa, and the St. Thomas Invite in St. Paul.

TENNIS

Losing streaks continue for men, women Both Gophers teams have lost four matches in a row.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Minnesota’s women’s tennis team lost matches to Louisville and Virginia Te c h t h i s w e e k e n d i n Blacksburg, Va., to move its cur rent losing streak to four.

Head coach Chuck Merzbacher said the streak isn’t indicative of the way the season will turn out.

He said the team has been plagued by injuries and misfor tune that has contributed to the skid.

“We’re putting together a good doubles and singles lineup with what we have,” he said. “I can’t complain about the ef fort.

It’d just be nice to throw our full throttle at these teams.”

Minnesota battled Louisville on Saturday but fell 4-2 in the first match of the weekend.

The Gophers ear ned the first point of the afternoon after wins from their No. 1 and No. 2 doubles squads.

But Minnesota dropped all but one singles bout as freshman Jessika Mozia collected the only point with a 6-3, 6-0 win.

O n S u n d a y, a g a i n s t Virginia Tech, Minnesota lost the doubles point and won only two matches on the singles side en route to a 5-2 defeat.

Natallia Pintusava and Tereza Brichacova were the lone bright spots on the team, as the two bounced back from losses Saturday with wins Sun-

day.

Despite the four straight losses, Merzbacher said his team isn’t feeling sorr y for itself.

“It’s going to be good for them in the long run,” he said. “It’s just the short term is not as much fun.”

Minnesota will continue its cr oss-countr y road trip next weekend at Oklahoma State and Oklahoma.

Men also lose two The Gophers men’s tennis team traveled across the South this weekend but couldn’t find a win.

Minnesota fell to Tulsa in T ulsa, Okla., and to Arkansas in Fayetteville, Ark. The team has now lost four straight matches.

The No. 37 Gophers hung with No. 22 T ulsa but couldn’t finish of f the upset.

Minnesota failed to capture the doubles point as two match wins gave Tulsa the decision. Minnesota’s No. 1 doubles pairing of Rok Bonin and

MEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

TULSA 4, MINNESOTA 3 Singles Bonin Toledo Froment Hamburg Ruddock Ramirez

L W W W L L

Doubles Froment/Bonin Toledo/Ramirez Ruddock/Hamburg

L 8-5 L 8-5 unfinished

6-7 (4), 6-2, 6-2 6-3, 6-1 6-4, 6-3 7-6 (4), 6-4 7-5, 6-1 6-4, 6-4

Mathieu Froment lost its first match as a duo.

The Gophers battled on the singles side as Leandro Toledo, Froment and Jack Hamburg won their respective matches.

Still, Minnesota couldn’t squeak out a four th win and fell 4-3 to the Golden Hurricane.

Minnesota fell to Arkansas 4-3 on Sunday. The Gophers’ only wins of the day came on the singles side from Toledo, Froment and Brendan Ruddock.

Minnesota will host Louisville and Boise State next week at the Baseline Tennis Center.

Palen out with mono

Senior Alexa Palen didn’t compete for the Gophers women this weekend. Merzbacher said she was diagnosed with mononucleosis.

Mer zbacher said he hopes to have her back for the meat of the spring schedule.

WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

VIRGINIA TECH 5, MINNESOTA 2 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Umanets Lambert Mozia Muravnik

W W L L L L

7-5, 6-2 7-5, 0-6, 6-2 7-5, 6-0 6-3, 6-0 2-6, 6-2, 7-5 6-2, 6-3

Doubles Pintusava/Brichacova L 8-5 L 8-3 Mozia/Umanets Lambert/Muravnik W 8-7 (4)

ARKANSAS 4, MINNESOTA 3 Singles L 7-5, 6-3 Bonin W 6-4, 6-1 Toledo W 4-6, 6-2, 7-6 Froment L 6-3, 7-5 Hamburg W 2-6, 6-1, 6-2 Ruddock L 7-6, 7-5 Weber

LOUISVILLE 4, MINNESOTA 2 Singles L 6-4, 6-3 Pintusava L 6-3, 6-0 Brichacova L 6-2, 6-0 Umanets L 6-4, 6-2 Lambert W 6-3, 6-0 Mozia – 5-7, 5-2 Muravnik

Doubles Fromont/Bohin Toledo/Ramirez Hamburg/Ruddock

Doubles Brichacova/Pintusava W 8-7 W 8-3 Mozia/Umanets Lambert/Muravnik L 8-3

L 8-2 L 8-6 W 8-4

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Lehman leads throwers Most of the Gophers men’s track and field team took the weekend of f from competition, but the throws team traveled to the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational in Lincoln, Neb. Junior Jon Lehman won the weight throw on a judge’s decision and recorded a new personal record with a toss of 20.97 meters.

“I think that’s a mark that will for sure get Jon Lehman into the national meet now,” assistant coach Lynden Reder said. “So any time you can come away from a meet with a national qualifying mark, you feel like that was worth the trip.”

Lehman said achieving

such a far throw early in the season gives him peace of mind.

“Last year I was one of the last people left out [of the national meet], so I was a little upset about that,” Lehman said. “It really helps knowing that the rest of the season I can train hard, and I don’t have to chase a mark.”

In the shot put, redshirt freshman Luke Johnson had the Gophers’ best finish in ninth place. “’We would have liked to have done a little more [in the shot put],” Reder said.

“It’s a pretty young group. … It’s a pretty major regular-season meet.

“It’s a good learning experience for those guys.”

Reder said it’s important for the younger throwers to learn how to throw well in their first three attempts so they can make the finals.

“This is really when our season begins now,” Reder said. “Here in Nebraska and then now in the next three weeks is really when our guys are going to round into form and be ready for the Big Ten championships and the national meet.”

The Gophers also sent a group of pole vaulters to the Thundering Herd Classic in Fargo, N.D. Senior Jack Szmanda placed third with a height of 5.05 meters on a judges’ decision.

The full men’s team will compete at a variety of meets next weekend.

SUPER BOWL XLVII

Ravens stave off rally, beat 49ers

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS — A power outage at the Super Bowl put the nation’s biggest sporting event on hold for more than a half-hour Sunday, interrupting an other wise electric, back-and-forth game that ended with Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens as NFL champions thanks to a 34-31 victory over the San Francisco 49ers.

Flacco, voted the MVP, threw three first-half touchdown passes to cap an 11-TD, zero-interception postseason.

Jacoby Jones returned the second-half kickoff 108 yards, a Super Bowl record, to give Baltimore a 28-6 lead.

Moments later, lights lining the indoor arena faded, making it difficult to see.

When action resumed, Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers scored 17 consecutive points, getting as close as 31-29.

But Baltimore stopped San Francisco on fourth-andgoal from the 5 with under 2 minutes left when Kaepernick’s pass sailed beyond Michael Crabtree in the end zone.

The biggest deficit a team has ever overcome to win a Super Bowl is 10 points, and there were moments were it appeared San Francisco had a chance to better that mark.

Instead, the 49ers lost for the first time in six trips to the Super Bowl.

The AFC champion Ravens (14-6), a franchise that moved from Cleveland to Baltimore 17 years ago, improved to 2-0 in the big game.

They also won the championship in 2001, when linebacker Ray Lewis was voted the game’s MVP. Lewis was not a major factor this time, but he was a center of attention, playing in the final game of his 17-year career before retiring.

The 49ers str uggled early in the first Super Bowl coaching matchup between brothers: Baltimore’s John Harbaugh is 15 months older than San Francisco’s Jim Harbaugh.

Baltimore led 28-6 after Jones opened the second half with the longest kickoff return in a Super Bowl, his eyes glancing up at the videoboard, presumably to watch himself sprint to the end zone. The 49ers showed they were capable of a comeback in their previous game: They trailed by 17 against the Atlanta Falcons before winning the NFC championship game.

Shortly following Jones’ return, the sudden, odd power outage arrived. Escalators weren’t working. Officials stopped play about 1½ minutes into the third quarter, and the bizarre delay lasted 34 minutes in real time before action resumed. Some players sat. Others stretched.

Some fans chanted, “Let’s go,

Ravens!” Others passed time by doing the wave.

When play resumed, NFC champion San Francisco (13-51) began making things more interesting, scoring 17 points in less than 4½ minutes.

First, Kaepernick threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to Crabtree, pulling them within 15 points midway through the third quarter. Then, with 5 minutes left in the third quarter, Frank Gore swept around right end for a 6-yard TD run, making it 28-20, before Ravens running back Ray Rice’s fumble gave the ball right back to the 49ers.

San Francisco tacked on David Akers’ 34-yard field goal to get within 28-23 after he missed from a longer distance but the Ravens were whistled for running into the kicker.

About 2 minutes into the fourth quarter, rookie kicker Justin Tucker made a 19-yard field goal to stretch the Ravens’ lead to 31-23. Not long later, Kaepernick’s 15-yard run around the left side — the longest TD run by a quarterback in Super Bowl history — made it 31-29. His 2-point conversion pass intended for Randy Moss was incomplete.

A 38-yarder by Tucker made it 34-29 with 4:19 left in regulation. Baltimore purposely gave up a safety in the closing seconds to run time off the clock, setting the final score.

Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: wrestling WEIGHT: 165 YEAR: senior MALE

CODY YOHN Yohn recorded his first-ever home pin on Senior Day at the Sports Pavilion, helping the No. 4 Gophers beat Michigan State 32-6.

Yohn, who is ranked 14th at 165 pounds, had lost to a lower-ranked opponent from Iowa last week in a match the Gophers needed to beat the Hawkeyes.

SPORT: basketball POSITION: guard YEAR: sophomore FEMALE

RACHEL BANHAM

Banham averaged 26.7 points in three games, during which the Gophers went 1-2.

She helped Minnesota break a four-game losing streak Thursday against Michigan, when she scored 32 points on 11-for-15 shooting. She scored 37 points, including her 1,000th career point, Monday in a 91-86 loss to Illinois.

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (2/4): Fun and romance blossom like early spring flowers. July and December are ripe for career advancement this year. Explore promotional opportunities around April; June’s great for launching.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Travel at your own risk. News affects your decisions for the next two days, so remain flexible. Don’t stress; keep studying. Cut the fluff. Keep a low profile.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Request copies of missing documents. You’ll find it easier to concentrate. Irritate no one. Stick with what you have. Relax and enjoy it.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Appearances deceive, and changes require budget revisions. Craft inspiring goals that push the boundaries of what you consider reasonable.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Morale gets a boost. Others buy in to your plans. Don’t fuss about something that doesn’t fit expectations.

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

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Vivid feelings and expression of love occupy you for a while. Good judgment is still required. Keep your home clean to avoid an argument.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Take a solitary walk. Answers raise new questions.

Provide comfort. Heart and mind are in sync today and tomorrow; let practical optimism guide you.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — The next few days get busy. Don’t spend over budget, speculate or take financial risks. Discipline is required. Get team opinions before committing.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Watch for surprises, and keep secrets. Work through some old business. Figure out what you really have together.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Romance blossoms, but there could be difficulties, like temporary confusion or misunderstanding.

Ignore insubstantial irritants.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Guard against being impetuous, and hold your temper. Keep following your dream, and do what you promised. Set up a meeting.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Change takes time. Plan a project privately without rushing. No detail is too small. Research the full story and impress an elder.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — There’s a test or challenge coming up. Get quiet to find your focus. Determine priorities. New information dispels an old fear.

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Written By Linda C. Black

Monday, February 4, 2013

overheard Girl: “So is there like good weed and bad weed?”

—Frontier Hall

Girl: “I hate Valentine’s Day! It’s just a commercialized holiday to sell chocolates!”

Guy: “Oh, did you forget to get a boyfriend this year?”

—St. Paul Campus

“How do you say boner in French?

A Swiss friend told me, but it must’ve been some kind of Swiss French.”

—Hard Times Café

Girl: “Want to make out?”

Guy: “Nah. I want a shot.”

—Blarney Pub and Grill “My dad literally looks like a child molester.”

—Centennial dining hall

Guy: “From Minneapolis, born and raised.”

Passing biker: “On the playground is where you spent most of your days?”

—Unknown

Girl: “You don’t understand my feelings!”

Guy: “No, because I murdered mine long ago.”

—Smith Hall

Girl 1: “Why are you walking around wearing a blanket as a cape?”

Girl 2: “Because the temperature tonight has a negative sign in front of it, and I don’t want to be cold when I pass out later.”

—Dinkytown

Girl: “He looks like a penis when he’s dancing. His arms get all flaccid.”

—Stadium Village

“Don’t be surprised if I show up on campus with a sword naked.”

—Outside Centennial Hall

Guy 1: “I’ve found something way more fun than video games.”

Guy 2: “Whoa man, you’ve got bubble wrap?!”

—Frontier Hall

Professor: “The class next door seems to cover advanced topics in acoustic chalkboard torture.”

—Vincent Hall

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis

ACROSS 1 David Copperfield’s forte 6 High-ranking Indian 10 Like the Sahara 14 Last new Olds 15 Alike, in Lourdes 16 Madcap 17 Main idea, as of an argument 20 “__ Pinafore” 21 Handy bags 22 Inventor Howe 23 Candy in a wrapper 24 WSW’s opposite 25 Stick to a strict budget 32 Beauty parlor 33 Saying to remember 34 Tool for a lumberjack 36 Cultivate the soil 37 Car pedal 38 Needed a BandAid 39 Till now 40 __ fatale 41 Town near the tip of Cape Cod 42 To the point 45 Notes after mis 46 Contents of a cruet 47 Saltwater candy 50 Rested (against) 53 __ Beta Kappa 56 Burnout cause 59 Part of USA: Abbr.

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5 Have inside 6 Take a break 7 Flu-like symptoms 8 Pokes 9 Three racing Unsers 10 Colorful garden shrub 11 Wife of a 6-Across 12 Ancient Peruvian 13 Turns blue, perhaps 18 Campus residence 19 Like someone pacing back and forth 23 Forehead 24 Rim 25 Comical Soupy 26 Material 27 Cheese city in northeast Italy 28 End of Rhett’s sentence that begins “Frankly, my dear” 29 Like a newborn 30 Relative worth 31 Put forth, as effort 32 Le Carré character

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48 Prefix with sphere 49 Guitar ridge 50 Volcanic output 51 City west of Tulsa 52 Does some sums 53 Ashen 54 Hurries 55 Legal memo opener 57 Carpentry tool 58 Feel bad about

Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.

Dear Dr. Date,

dr. date

How do you talk about important sexual things? What I mean to say is, there are some things that are too important to talk about mid-coitus. But when we’re not about to have sex or already doing so, it seems awkward to just bring something like that up. How do I go about doing that?

—Not For Pillow Talk

Snap Chat,

The Doc believes pretty strongly that, in a healthy relationship of course, mid-coitus talk should be limited to words like “yeah” and “oh God” and “yeah” and “ow, [safe word.]”

So if you can manage, avoid midcoitus talk. Post-coitus? Depending on what you want to discuss, it very well may be too late at that point. We’re left with one option, and that’s pre-coitus.

Yup, you have to fit the talk in pre-coitus — even if that means that there’s going to be no coitus.

I’ve come up with a few strategies for you, which are all dependent upon what issue of the dark you want to shed a little light on: If you want your partner to stop doing something: Bring it up as soon as you can. Be very straightforward. I know it sounds nerve-wracking to change the subject of a normal conversation into an awkward one, but what must be done must be done. Bring it up during the day. Be in private. Make coffee. Have the TV on in the background. Hold hands. But be very clear that you don’t want whatever is happening to keep happening. Hold fast and don’t compromise.

If you want to try out something new: Go for the text. That’ll give your sex mate time to think it over. Make sure you preface your text with “I’m being serious” because there’s a good chance you’ll get an “LOL” in response, depending on how wacky your idea is.

But smart sex mates know there’s a truth to every goof. God bless ’em.

If you want to stop having sex altogether: It depends on how long you’ve been having sex and on your commitment/ exclusivity status. If you’re not really together and you haven’t been doin’ it for that long, an assertive but warm phone call is acceptable. If you’ve been smashin’ for a while or if you’re

in a relationship, whether it be FBO, a face-to-face announcement is considerate and kind.

Oh baby, it’s a wild world, and I know there are more scenarios than these three, but I hope these are good jumping-off points for you to decide how you want to open the channels of communication. Whatever you decide, the cardinal rules are to be honest and have respect for yourself and whoever it is that you’re boinkin’.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I was chatting over the Daily with my girlfriends about you making fun of the girl who didn’t like her ex’s fake diamond studs.

I also saw the A&E column about fashion faux pas. So I felt I should bring it to your attention that SPARKLY FAKE STUDS IN GUYS’ EARS ARE NOT ATTRACTIVE. They look majorly ridiculous, especially on white guys. Fashion faux pas!

No p goes in my v if you are hitting on me and wearing those. Plus, in a few years they’ll probably want to slap their own face when (if?) they look at how dumb they looked after graduation. The classics never go out of style.

Later!

—The Devil Wears Prada

Ice Ice Baby,

Thanks for piping up, weirdo! Glad you agree with the company line on fake diamond studs. The Minnesota Daily? On the whole, we are squarely against plastic ice. And ice in general!

Burrr, right? If any of our employees or content has suggested otherwise, we apologize? I guess?

Alright, Devil, hope you have a great day. While I question the meaningfulness of your existence, I’m hear tened that you’re passionate about something. It’s a cold world we live in! A little spunk is welcome.

Give the gals my regard! This? All of this? The paper, the website, the swag on the mall? We do it for you.

Keep on chattin’ and feel free to comment on our articles, even if our writers leave out certain inconsequential faux pas that are apparently a huge deal to you and yours.

Later!

—Dr. Date

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

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Stadium Village films TV ad Ad u from Page 1

Ferguson said the commercial is meant to highlight local business instead of national chains.

“We tried to pick businesses that were unique to Stadium V illage,” he said.

T he S V CA ho p es to bring more people back to the area, Ferguson said, after constr uction on the Central Corridor light-rail line kept them away.

“A lot of people during the constr uction period changed their habits and chose not to come into Stadium Village,” he said.

“Now would be a good time to come back.”

Kelly Commer ford, director of sales and marketing at The Commons Hotel, said he’s looking for ward to seeing more people come back to Stadium Village.

“We can’t get the word out fast enough that the businesses along the green line are open for business,” he said.

Sam Kleiner, a waitress at The Hole, said she’s

seen business pick up since heavy constr uction ended. She also said the bar has had success with deals and promotions of its own.

This is the first time the SVCA has made a commercial for the area, The Hole owner Jeremy Mahany said.

The association received a $40,000 grant from the city to use toward promotion for Stadium Village. The grant will pay for the ad and other ef for ts to drive traffic back to the area.

Ferguson said he was excited to see the first cut, which could be ready as early as Monday.

The final product will broadcast Feb. 11 and run for about seven weeks.

Later this year around Spring Jam, the SVCA is planning promotional events and giveaways to continue spreading their message.

Mahany said he’s hopeful the commercial will draw more people to Stadium Village.

“It’s hard to say what it’s going to bring right now,” he said. “Hopefully it’ll be good for us and the whole area.