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Friedman, AHC VP, to step down
Dr. Aaron Friedman was only set to occupy the position for two to three years. u See PAGE 5
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Prostitution should be legal
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced Friday that students entering two degree programs in the College of Design can take yearround classes and graduate in three years, starting this fall. The University is using the graphic design and retail merchandising programs to test the water before deciding whether to allow year-round courses for all degrees. The pr ogram is designed to give students the option to take full course loads in the summer. The traditional four-year option will still be available. Last year, Kaler said
The Gophers played well but ran into a hot Huskies goaltender.
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U to test year-round calendar BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com
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Laws criminalizing adult prostitution need to be re-examined.
REGENTS
Kaler made the announcement at the regents meeting Friday.
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in his State of the University Address that he had assembled a committee to examine how the University could better utilize its academic programs and facilities in the summer. The committee came up with a three-point plan, which includes the College of Design pilot program. Kaler’s plan would also standardize most summer undergraduate courses to a seven-week term that would begin and end on the same date star ting in 2014. In 2012 there were 69 different star ting dates and 59 different ending dates, he said. The three-point plan would require every categor y in the liberal education
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The U hired a firm to review administrative structure.
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Freshman Emily Simmons gazes at James Rosenquist’s “World’s Fair Mural” on Jan. 24 at the Weisman Art Museum. Simmons says she tries to come into the museum once a month because she finds art very relaxing, and it takes her mind off other things.
In a crunch, turning to art Small schools selling art for profit has some worrying about the effect on the industry. had officially resigned from her position and the
BY EMMA NELSON enelson1@mndaily.com
paintings — worth millions — were gone. In recent years, money woes have led col-
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On a quiet Monday evening in October 2007, police in Lynchburg, Va., surrounded the Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College.
GUN LAWS
State is torn on gun proposals Hearings last week drew hundreds to the Capitol for gun law proposals. BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com
From the University of Minnesota to Washington D.C., gun control is taking center stage. State legislators heard a slew of bills last week in the House of Representatives that would tighten gun regulations, and last Monday, President Barack Obama came to north Minneapolis to tout his gun proposals. The increased focus on firearms comes after several mass shootings in the past year that have drawn the attention of legislators and the public. In November, Mageen Caines, a University gradu-
ate student in Community Health Promotion, surveyed students about their attitudes toward guns on campus. The study found about two-thirds of students surveyed favored the current University policy, which bans guns except for a few exemptions. But after the Sandy Hook shooting in mid-December and recent gun control bills, Caines repeated the study and found about 86 percent now favored the same no-gun policy. “What we’d like to do with this data is reinforce that we have a strong opinion against wanting to have guns on campus,” Caines said. “U of M students don’t want exposure [to guns], and they don’t feel safe if u See GUNS Page 5 The Senate will hold similar hearings later this month.
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leges nationwide to find new ways to stay in the black. Randolph-Macon was one of the first in a line
The president of the college strode into the museum with art handlers, an attorney and
of cash-strapped schools that turned to their art collections for a bailout.
members of his staff and told the museum
Selling or sharing art —perhaps one of the
director that a truck from Christie’s Auction
most unusual ways — has become increasingly
House was on its way to pick up four paintings.
common. Some in the higher education com-
Phone and computer lines in the museum
munity argue that selling art is the only way to
had been cut, so staff members inside couldn’t
stay afloat. But to the art world, where selling
tell anyone what was going on. When people
pieces for financial gain is typically taboo, it’s a
outside tried to find out what was happening, a
controversial trend — especially as recent cases
police officer said there was a bomb scare.
give rise to fears that this will become the new
By the next morning, the museum director
norm.
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HOUSING
In housing boom, U of M is not alone Development is on the rise across Big Ten campuses. BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com
More than 1,000 highend luxury-apartment units are planned for around the University of Minnesota in
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THE CHANGING BUSINESS OF STUDENT HOUSING
the next two years, but Minneapolis is not alone in a development boom. Across the Big Ten, university districts are experiencing a boom in off-campus student housing development, especially luxury,
high-rise apartments. “We’ve heard very clearly that we’re not an anomaly here,” said Minneapolis principal city planner Haila Maze. “There is a national trend in student housing to build sort of higher-amenity housing.” There’s a push to construct in West Lafayette, Ind. — home of Purdue Uni-
versity — said development director Chandler Poole. “The pressures we have here are pretty immense,” he said. “[There’s] tremendous pressure for more dense, nicer, student facilities with more amenities.” u See HOUSING Page 4 Some worry there will be more housing than students.
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STUDENT ISSUES
Volunteers train for the Aurora Center A record-high 45 volunteers signed up for the training. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY
Senior Jaekook Lee and University sign language interpreter Melissa Lund act out case studies during a 40-hour volunteer training session at the Aurora Center on Friday in Scott Hall.
Positivity filled the room where 45 new faces trained to be volunteers for the Aurora Center for Advocacy and Education last week, with the highest number of volunteers ever for the annual training process. Each year, the Aurora Center holds a weeklong, 40-hour training session for new advocates and
educators to lear n to be violence-prevention educators and helpline and office advocates. T h e A u r o r a C e n t e r, which ser ved 465 new clients last school year, provides information and advocacy to members of the University community on sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking. Throughout the week, volunteers learned how to help clients while working through various scenarios that could occur while volu See AURORA Page 5 This is the first year men can go to the hospital with victims.
Students rally at Capitol Students directly lobbied for the tuition freeze. BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com
More than 200 University of Minnesota students crowded the state Capitol rotunda Thursday to demand higher education support from state legislators. Issues like a proposed tuition freeze, medical amnesty and student debt brought out more students to Support the U Day from all University campuses than in past years.
The day began with a rally that included speeches from students, state lawmakers and University President Eric Kaler and allowed students the chance to meet with legislators. Both legislators and students, like finance freshman Domingo Ramirez, said Thursday that student lobbying efforts impact policy decisions. “If we don’t rise up and actually say what we want, no one else is going to help the students out,” Ramirez said. u See SUPPORT Page 4 Kaler proposed a tuition freeze dependent on state funding.
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CAIRO — A Cairo court on Saturday ordered the government to block access to the video-sharing website YouTube for 30 days for carrying an anti-Islam film that caused deadly riots across the world. Judge Hassouna Tawfiq ordered YouTube blocked for carrying the film, which he described as “offensive to Islam and the Prophet (Muhammad).” He made the ruling in the Egyptian capital where the first protests against the film erupted last September before spreading to more than 20 countries, killing more than 50 people. The ruling however can be appealed, and based on precedent, might not be enforced. A spokeswoman for YouTube’s parent company, Google, said in a statement that the firm had “received
nothing from the judge or government related to this matter.” The 14-minute trailer for the movie “Innocence of Muslims” portrays Islam’s Prophet Muhammad as a religious fraud, womanizer and pedophile. It was produced in the United States by an Egyptian-born Christian who’s now a U.S. citizen. Egypt’s new constitution includes a ban on insulting “religious messengers and prophets.” Broadly worded blasphemy laws were also in effect under former President Hosni Mubarak prior to his ouster in a popular revolt two years ago. Similar orders to censor pornographic websites deemed offensive have not been enforced in Egypt because of high costs associated with technical applications. Blocking YouTube might be easier to enforce, though it
also can be circumvented by active Internet users. Rights activists say Egypt’s ministry of communications and information technology has appeared unwilling to enforce such bans. The Cabinet spokesman could not be immediately reached for comment. Human rights lawyer Gamal Eid said the decision to ban YouTube stems in large part from a lack of knowledge among judges about how the Internet works. Activists say this has led to a lack of courtroom discussion on technical aspects of digital technology, leaving cases based solely on threats to national security and defamation of religion. “This verdict shows that judges’ understanding of technology is weak,” Eid said. “The judges do not realize that one wrong post on a website does not mean you have to block the entire website.”
Eid, who is executive director at The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, said the government should file an appeal and make it clear to judges that, at most, only specific pages on websites should be blocked. His group released a statement saying that the decision to block YouTube is counterproductive, citing thousands of videos that seek to promote a better understanding of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on the website. Google declined requests to remove the video from the website last year, but restricted access to it in certain countries, including Egypt, Libya and Indonesia, because it said the video broke laws in those countries. At the height of the protests in September, YouTube was ordered blocked in several countries, including Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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LONDON — Iran-hostage drama “Argo” continued its journey from awards-season outsider to favorite Sunday, winning three prizes, including best-picture, at the British Academy Film Awards. Ben Affleck was named best director for the based-on-reality story of a longshot plan to rescue a group of American diplomats from Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and the film also took the editing trophy. Affleck, who has made a remarkable journey from little-regarded actor to award-winning director, dedicated his directing prize to “anyone out there who’s trying to get their second act.” George Clooney, a producer of “Argo,” quipped: “I don’t know what you’re going to do for a third act.” Daniel Day-Lewis won his universally expected best-actor trophy for “Lincoln” — the only prize out of 10 nominations for Steven Spielberg’s historical biopic. Day-Lewis — a famously intense actor who reportedly stayed in character as the 16th U.S. President throughout the “Lincoln” shoot — cracked a joke as he was given his prize. He said that in anticipation of having to make an acceptance speech, “I’ve actually stayed in character as myself for the last 55 years.” Emmanuelle Riva, the 85-year-old French film legend, was named best actress for Michael Haneke’s poignant old-age portrait “Amour.” It also was named best foreign-language film. Made-in-Britain French revolutionary musical “Les Miserables” won four prizes, including best supporting actress for Anne Hathaway. James Bond adventure “Skyfall” spied some elusive awards recognition, winning trophies for music and best British film. The British awards, known as BAFTAs, are increasingly glamorous — despite a well-earned reputation for dismal weather — and ever-more scrutinized as an indicator of likely success at the Hollywood Oscars. In recent years they have prefigured Academy Awards triumph for word-of-mouth hits such as “Slumdog Millionaire,” ‘’The King’s Speech” and “The Artist.” This year they spread their honors widely, with multiple trophies for “Life of Pi,” ‘’Silver Linings Playbook,” ‘’Amour” and “Django Unchained,” as well as “Argo.”Kathryn Bigelow’s Osama bin Laden thriller “Zero Dark Thirty” was shut out of the prizes, despite five nominations.
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Former prime minister of Somalia visits Mpls. with hopeful outlook
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Former Prime Minister of Somalia Abdiweli Mohamed Ali responds to questions about freedom and protection of journalists in Somalia on Friday at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. first time since 1991. pecting development,” he have a favorite memor y Ali is considered by said. “And also they are of a beautiful place, and many to be responsible for expecting to use the re- I still have that picture,” enacting a permanent gov- sources of the countr y for she said. “That’s why I ernment in a countr y that the welfare of the Somali want to go back to see if for many years had fallen people.” that picture in my mind into lawlessness. Masheye said those confirms reality.” “He’s one of the intel- who have lived in the U.S. Warsame said the perlectual giants of the Somali and acquired skills and manent gover nment is diaspora, and it’s good to education could go back a new dawn for Somalis have him in Minnesota,” and help Somalia’s renew- looking for the oppor tusaid Abdulkadir Warsame, al. nity to reclaim their heriexecutive director of the “The people that live tage. But for many SomaRiverside Plaza Tenants here, they have two coun- li-Americans, the ties to Association. “It means a tries now — the United both countries are equally great deal — he’s a histor- States and Somalia,” he emotional. ic figure now.” said. “America is our home; Somalia has had several Zeynab Egale, a global we will never leave Amertransitional administra- studies senior at the Uni- ica,” he said, “just like we tions since 2004. Ali was versity, said she already can never leave our Somali appointed as prime min- bought her ticket to go identity.” ister in June 2011 and set back after she graduates up a timetable for drafting in May. —The Associated Press a constitution, which was “I left in 1992, but I contributed to this report. approved in August 2012. EMILY DUNKER, DAILY It was quickly followed Fowsia Isse, center left, and Ilhan Omar, center right, listen to former Prime Minister of Soby the U.N.-backed formalia Abdiweli Mohamed Ali respond to questions about rape and women’s rights in Somamation of the Somali parlia on Friday at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. liament and the election of the current president. who led the countr y from English to a diverse crowd The armed extremist The visit 2011 to 2012, conducted at the University of Min- group al-Shabab, which highlighted the for ums in English and nesota’s Humphrey School controlled most of the optimism of Somali on Friday and Sat- of Public Affairs on Friday nation for nearly two deSomali-Amerians. urday, focusing on his per- night. “Hopefully this will cades, left Mogadishu, sonal account of ending also bring a substantive the capital city, in 2011. BY KELSEY SHIRRIFF the transitional gover n- to the morale and mate- The gover nment has kshirriff@mndaily.com ment and his hopes for the rial being of the Somali since pushed the milicountr y’s future. people.” tants out of 90 percent of The former prime minAli’s visit highlights the T h e f o r m e r p r i m e major towns in southern ister of Somalia, who over- stabilization of the East m i n i s t e r ’ s v i s i t c o m e s Somalia, Ali said. saw the drafting of the new African countr y in recent about three weeks after a Hamid Ali Masheye, constitution and helped years and the optimism of visit from current Somali who was Somalia’s State lead the countr y toward Somali-Americans to re- President Hassan Sheikh Minister for Foreign Afstabilization, visited Min- turn and contribute. Mohamud, as well as the fairs under Ali, said the neapolis over the week“This ushers a new era United States’ decision to past few years have filled end. and a new beginning for officially recognize the So- Somalis with hope. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the countr y,” he said in mali gover nment for the “All Somalis are ex-
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U will partner with 17th Avenue dorms Up to a third of the 600 beds will be reserved for greeks. BY KELSEY SHIRRIFF kshirriff@mndaily.com
Freshmen won’t be the only students calling the 17th Avenue residence hall home this fall. Administrators have set aside up to a third of the 600 beds for fraternity and sorority members in an effort to encourage greek participation and alleviate housing issues, which have especially affected sororities. If the program is successful and the University of Minnesota’s greek population continues to grow, the University could build more facilities to house greek students, said Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jerry Rinehart. The University decided to support fraternity and sorority life because of greek students’ high engagement, Rinehart said. “They have so many posi-
tive attributes in terms of contributing to leadership in the University, doing well academically, doing well in terms of graduation rates,” he said. “Many of the alums from the greek system have become very strong supporters of the University both financially and otherwise.” In March 2012, University President Eric Kaler formed the Greek Community Strategic Task Force to develop a “sustainable and robust relationship between the University and the greek community,” which made recommendations for more housing in the face of growing numbers. Greek membership has been climbing steadily since 2004, said Matt Levine, program director for the Office for Fraternity and Sorority Life. Sororities in particular are facing problems with housing all their members. “I’d rather not call it a crisis — let’s call it a challenge,” Levine said. “We’re very full. It’s a great problem to have.” Many chapters have more participants than they have beds available in-house, he
said, so the extra space at 1701 University Ave. would allow members to remain close by. Abby Johnson, president of Delta Gamma, said more than 40 women were looking to live at the chapter house this fall, but there were only 34 beds available. “We will be looking forward to having the opportunity over the next few years with being able to expand,” she said. As more chapters try to come to the University, the need for housing becomes stronger, Levine said. “That has been a common question from national groups: Can we acquire a facility, if so, where? And what does it look like?” he said. The University has the lowest greek participation rate of all the Big Ten schools — 6 percent of the students at the University were enrolled in greek life in 2011, as opposed to 22 percent at the University of Illinois. The task force outlined goals to grow membership to 9 percent of the undergradu-
ate student body by 2018. Matt Niezgoda, former president of Beta Theta Pi, which is right across the street from the 17th Avenue residence hall, said he hopes the convenient location of the hall will make the option of greek life more viable for new students. “I view it as an opportunity because that means we have more exposure,” Niezgoda said. “So that becomes a tool not only for recruitment, but also [for] image improvement.” The sorority and fraternity members who choose to live in the residence hall would be bound to the same housing contract as any other student living in the dorms and would be required to buy a meal plan, according to the Greek Community Strategic Task Force. Leah Sample, president of Lambda Delta Phi, said her chapter is looking to reserve some beds in the new dorms because of overflow issues, but she’s concerned they’re too expensive. “It’s pretty much going
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For a variety of schools, the development boom is filling a need for housing close to campus, experts said. “There’s absolutely a demand for student housing,” said Annette Irwin, city administrator in East Lansing, Mich. — home of Michigan State University. Jeff Davidson, director of planning and community development in Iowa City, Iowa, said he also sees a trend. “That’s a huge growing market right now,” he said. “And people are looking to invest money in those projects.”
“Up, rather than out” Daniel Oberpriller, a prominent Minneapolis developer, said the housing boom is about more than simply meeting demand. More expensive construction materials, high-priced land and students’ willingness to pay big for amenities all contribute to the decision to build luxury student housing. Oberpriller said high-rise apar tments, like his own upcoming 333-unit WaHu project, are a necessity near urban campuses. “You have to go up rather than out because there’s not a lot of property,” he said. “More density in the air is more expensive.” Developers are also competing for students’ attention, Oberpriller said, and the need to out-do each other is constant. “All it takes is one person to build a nicer building than you, and somebody has to build a nicer building than that,” he said. “So it’s kind of a domino effect.” Tom Carrino, economic development manager for Urbana, Ill., said he sees money as part of the equation but does the math a little differently. During the economic slowdown, he said, financing large development projects wasn’t easy. Financial institutions are lending again, he said, making large-scale projects viable once more. “I don’t know that the market really changed very much,” Carrino said. “But the lending situation, I think, has changed.”
Trending in the Big Ten
City planners and community developers across the Midwest, like Michigan State University community liaison Erin Carter, said students are willing to pay more for their apartments. “Development companies have figured out that students are willing to pay for these things,” she said. “People see it as an opportunity to make money.” According to Maze, students are not only attracted by the amenities or added safety of luxury housing but
also proximity to campus. East Lansing community development analyst Tim Schmitt said there’s a reason students are being drawn back to campus. “When you’re out in that far suburban-type development, you’re sort of disconnected from the university and the city in general,” Schmitt said. “You want to be … closer to where things are happening.” Students are sharing rooms less and less, said Iowa City’s Davidson. Iowa City has passed a number of zoning code reforms, he said, so developers can only build units with up to three bedrooms. Schmitt said the trend to one person per bedroom is the biggest trend he’s seen in the past 15 years.
‘A real delicate balance’
Proposals for new projects in Dinkytown have incited a showdown between developers and longtime business owners, who feel development will threaten Dinkytown’s historic character. Minneapolis is not alone in this struggle. Experts said other Big Ten communities are trying to leverage new development with the preservation of historic areas. “It’s a tremendous issue,” said Chandler Poole, development director for West
Lafayette. “It’s a push and a struggle between trying to invite new development in nearcampus neighborhoods, yet also protecting the historic neighborhoods that surround the campus.” University of Michigan urban planning graduate student Matthew Lonnerstater said oftentimes the development is at odds with older neighborhoods. “These tall developments don’t necessarily fit into the character of these older neighborhoods,” Lonnerstater said. In the end, he said, it’s important to protect historical neighborhoods, but zoning departments have to remain objective in their roles. “You want to bring in new development,” he said. “You don’t want to give up everything and ruin your neighborhoods in order to achieve that. It’s been a real delicate balance.”
The exception to the rule
The big question in city planning is “Which project is the last one?” Maze said. For now, she said, they keep coming and low vacancy rates are a good indicator of continuing demand. But at schools like Ohio State University and MSU, some are worried that soon there will be more housing than students. Although
Columbus, Ohio, has added more than 10,000 new housing units in the past five years, very little of the development is actually happening around campus. “There is no significant construction of new units currently under way in the university district,” said Ohio State spokesman Dave Isaacs Even still, OSU student government President Taylor Stepp said the school is revamping existing buildings. He said that for students, it’s the quality of housing, not the quantity that needs attention. In 2016, Ohio State will require sophomores to live on campus — Stepp said he worries there will be too much housing then. Annette Irwin, East Lansing city administrator, said she shares the same concern. “Eventually we’re going to have more apar tments than we need,” she said. For now, developer Daniel Oberpriller said he’s not worried. “It’s still unknown how much the glass can hold, especially with the amount of density that is coming,” he said. “But it will come down to management, it comes down to amenities, it comes down to price, it comes down to being a good owner and manager.”
HOUSING UNIT ADDITIONS AT BIG TEN UNIVERSITIES IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS 4,025 new residential units University of Minnesota enrollment: 48,846 POPULATION OF MINNEAPOLIS: 387,753 675 new dwelling units University of Iowa enrollment: 31,498 POPULATION OF IOWA CITY: 68,947 151 new apartment units Michigan State University enrollment: 48,906 POPULATION OF EAST LANSING: 48,666 10,161 new multi-family and residential units Ohio State University enrollment: 63,058 POPULATION OF COLUMBUS: 797,434
to be just as expensive as living in a regular dorm, and you have to purchase a meal plan,” she said. “A lot of our girls think living in our house is a lot cheaper.” Rates for living in the 17th Avenue residence hall will be comparable to living in Middlebrook Hall, said Mannix Clark, associate director of University Housing and Residential Life. Sample said Lambda Delta Phi’s house in St. Paul only has 17 beds, but there are 32 members in the chapter. Sample said the chapter will likely reserve five to 10 beds. There will also be two chapter rooms or “incubator spaces” for use by greek students, especially for chapters that don’t have a permanent meeting space yet. In addition to the 200 reser ved beds, the Pillar House Living Lear ning Community will provide 40 spaces for first-year students who are interested in greek life or leadership opportunities on campus. “There’s not a lot of people, especially not in the Big
Ten colleges, that are doing a partnership with the greek community,” Clark said. Rinehart doesn’t expect to have any issues filling the 600 vacancies in the dorm. “We’re not worried about filling the beds,” he said. “We just want to make sure we’re maximizing the opportunity.” Rinehar t said if greek membership continues to grow, there’s a possibility for an all-greek University facility in the future. The difficulty to upkeep large chapter houses could also contribute to the model of larger allgreek housing. “We need to do something with the current facilities so they’re in good shape and they’re safe and ever ything,” he said. “But for the future, the idea of building mor e chapter houses is probably not very viable.” Greek Task Force administrators have asked fraternities and sororities to provide a list of names for the reser ved spaces by April 1.
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voting for their cause. “It’s not just the student then,” he said. “It’s their parents. It’s friends. It’s who they know voting for higher ed.” Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFLMinneapolis, said students should make their pitches to legislators “information related.” “Instead of just saying ‘Keep tuition low and keep the appropriation high’ … they can give explicit, relevant data,” she said. “[Students] can be a ver y important lobbying force.” Students in attendance Thursday said they thought their lobbying ef for ts were impor tant to getting concer ns addressed. Minnesota Student Association President Taylor Williams emphasized the importance of student lobbying efforts in his speech at Thursday’s rally. “A strong relationship with legislators is the key to breaking down barriers we face as students,” he said. Marketing senior Luis Guitar t said if students don’t advocate for their concerns to lawmakers, “the message gets lost.” While some students said legislators were receptive, economics freshman and MSA member R yan Olson said the representatives he met with were “apprehensive” regarding how they want to fund the University. Zer was said high administrative spending at the University, specifically the “administrative bloat” mentioned in a recent Wall Street Journal article, was discussed with students. “We need to make sure that the Legislature is working close with President Kaler to make sure that the University is operating in the best interest of the students,” Zerwas said. He also emphasized the importance of keeping tuition rates low for Minnesotans. “It doesn’t really matter how great your school runs and how great money is spent in administration if students from the state of Minnesota can’t af ford to attend,” he said. Pelowski said he wants more detailed reporting of higher education spending to increase accountability but said he was unsure how much money would be available for University funding. “I’m not sure how much money there’s going to be here for higher ed,” he said.
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Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, wore a red sweater to symbolize the need to “stop the bleeding of higher education,” he said. It’s impor tant for students to meet with legislators and continue to follow up throughout the session, he said. “There hasn’t been a follow through and what have the results been?” Pelowski said. “The biggest cuts in the histor y of the state, the biggest tuition increases in the histor y of the state.” T uition could be frozen at cur rent levels for in-state under graduate students in 2014 and 2015 if the state fulfills the University’s budget request. Kaler, who proposed the tuition freeze in Sept e m b e r, s a i d h e w a s “thrilled” by Gov. Mark Dayton’s suppor t of the University in his State of the State address Wednesday night. “We need to do ever ything we can to make the University af fordable and accessible for qualified Minnesota students,” Kaler said Thursday. Senate Higher Education Committee and Workforce Development Division Chair Terri Bonof f, DFLMinnetonka, said tuition rates are the “biggest obstacle” for students. Bonoff, DFL-Minnetonka, gave her support of the proposed tuition freeze Thursday. “You are the key to our economic recover y,” she said in a speech to students at the rally. Matt Forstie, Minnesota Student Legislative Coalition chair, said student turnout from the Twin Cities campus at Suppor t the U Day has been “extremely low” in past years, but this year, more than 400 students pre-registered to attend. In addition to the rally, students met with more than 40 state legislators to talk about issues. Rep. Nick Zerwas, R-Elk River, said meeting with students is good for legislators because it “puts a face to the numbers,” but it’s impor tant students meet with representatives of their home district. They will get a better response from those legislators, Pelowski said, because more people will be
424 new units University of Illinois enrollment: 41,782 POPULATION OF URBANA-CHAMPAIGN: 122,809 4,175 new dwelling units University of Nebraska enrollment: 24,207 POPULATION OF LINCOLN: 262,341 163 new single family and complex rentals Purdue University enrollment: 39,256 POPULATION OF WEST LAFAYETTE: 29,921 SOURCES: CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU, CITY OF URBANA, RESPECTIVE UNIVERSITIES, MN DAILY REPORTING
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University supporters congregate in the Capitol rotunda Thursday in St. Paul.
Monday, February 11, 2013
Northeast slowly recovering from giant weekend blizzard BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
N E W P O R T, R . I . — Travel eased and life slowly returned to normal for most New Englanders after a massive blizzard, but many remained without power in cold and darkened homes and a forecast of rain brought a new worr y: Weight piling up dangerously on roofs already burdened by heavy snow. The storm that slammed into the region with up to 3 feet of snow was blamed for at least 15 deaths in the Nor theast and Canada, and brought some of the highest accumulations ever recorded. Still, coastal areas were largely spared catastrophic damage despite being lashed by strong waves and hurricane-force wind gusts at the height of the storm. Hundreds of people, their homes without heat or electricity, were forced to take refuge in emergency shelters set up in schools or other places. “For all the complaining ever yone does, people really came through,” said Rich Dinsmore, 65, of Newpor t, R.I., who was staying at a Red Cross shelter set up in a middle school in Middletown after the power went out in his home on Friday. Dinsmore, who has emphysema, was first brought by ambulance to a hospital after the medical equipment he relies on failed when the power went out and he had dif ficulty breathing. “The police, the fire depar tment, the state, the Red Cross, the volunteers, it really worked well,” said the retired radio broadcaster and Army veteran. Utility crews, some brought in from as far away as Georgia, Oklahoma and Quebec, raced to restore power to more than 220,000 customers — down from 650,000 in eight states at the height of the storm. In hardesthit Massachusetts, where some 180,000 customers remained without power
on Sunday, of ficials said some of the outages might linger until Tuesday. Driving bans were lifted and flights resumed at major airpor ts in the region that had closed during the storm, though many flights were still canceled Sunday. The Boston-area public transpor tation system, which shut down on Friday afternoon, partially resumed subway ser vice and some bus routes on Sunday. Beverly Scott, general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transpor tation Authority, said full ser vice was expected on Monday — albeit with delays. “Give yourself mor e time and expect that it is going to take us more time,” Scott advised riders. Boston public schools were among many in the region that had already decided to cancel classes on Monday. Boston recorded 24.9 inches of snow, making it the fifth-largest storm in the city since records were kept. The city was appealing to the state and private contractors for more frontend loaders and other heavy equipment to clear snow piles that were clogging residential streets. On easter n Long Island, which was slammed with as much as 30 inches of snow, hundreds of snowplows and other heavy equipment wer e sent in Sunday to clear ice- and drift-covered highways where hundreds of people and cars were abandoned during the height of the storm. More than a third of all the state’s snow-removal equipment was sent to the area, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said, including more than 400 plow trucks and more than 100 snow blowers, loaders and backhoes. The National Weather Ser vice was forecasting rain and warmer temperatur es in the r egion on Monday — which could begin melting some snow but also add considerable weight to snow already piled on roofs, posing the
danger of collapse. Of gr eatest concer n wer e flat or gently-sloped roofs and of ficials said people should tr y to clear them — but only if they could do so safely. “We don’t recommend that people, unless they’re young and experienced, go up on roofs,” said Peter Judge, spokesman for the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency. In Middlefield, Conn., two cows were killed when the roof of a barn gave way under the weight of heavy snow — one of two such incidents in the state that prompted agriculture officials to issue an advisor y to farmers. Officials also continued to warn of carbon monoxide dangers in the wake of the storm. In Boston, two people died Saturday after being overcome by carbon monoxide while sitting in running cars, including a teenager who went into the family car to stay warm while his father shoveled snow. The boy’s name was not made public. In a third i n c id e n t , t w o c h il d r e n were hospitalized but expected to recover. In Webster, a 60-year-old of f-duty member of the Worcester Fire Depar tment died Saturday after suf fering a heart attack while clearing snow at his home. A fire depar tment spokesman said in each case, the tailpipes of the cars were clogged by snow. Authorities also reminded homeowners to clear snow from heating vents to prevent carbon monoxide from seeping back into houses. In Maine, the Penobscot County Sherif f ’s office said it recovered the body of a 75-year-old man who died after the pickup he was driving str uck a tree and plunged into the Penobscot River during the storm. Investigators said Gerald Crommett apparently became disoriented while driving in the blinding snow. Christopher Mahood, 23, of Germantown, N.Y.,
died after his tractor went of f his driveway while he was plowing snow Friday night and rolled down a 15-foot embankment. In eastern Long Island, hundreds of cars were stuck on roads, including the Long Island Expressway, a 27-mile stretch of which was closed Sunday for snow-removal work. Officials hoped to have most major highways cleared in time for the morning commute Monday. In Massachusetts, eight teams were formed to assess damage from flooding along the state’s coastline, with the hardest hit-areas including historic Plymouth and portions of Cape Cod. “Considering the severity of the storm, the amount of snow and the wind, we’ve come through this pretty well,” Gov. Deval Patrick told CBS’s Face The Nation after meeting with local officials in Plymouth. The U.S. Postal Ser vice said that mail delivery that was suspended in the six New England states, as well as par ts of New York and New Jersey, because of the snowstorm would resume Monday, where it is safe to do so. Utility companies also reported steady progress in restoring power to customers. In Massachusetts, some 180,000 customers remained without power on Sunday — down from 400,000 at the height of the blizzard, the vast majority in the southeastern part of the state. Rhode Island reported about 34,000 outages Sunday, down from 185,000. Connecticut still had about 4,700 without power, while in New York, about 500 remained without power. Newpor t resident Christine Car reiro, who spent time at a shelter with her 2-year-old son, who suf fers from asthma and needs treatment from an electrically powered nebulizer, said she was thankful for the ef for t by line workers. “Whoever was fixing the power lines left their families to help us,” she said. “I’m ver y grateful.”
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their friends have that exposure.” The state Legislature is torn on the issue, with officials from both parties influenced as much by geography as political association. Three back-to-back hearings in the House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee last week gathered hundreds of suppor ters and opponents to listen to bills ranging from mandating mental health screenings to banning the sale of new assault weapons. Some DFLers have pushed a multitude of legislation they hope to package as a comprehensive “gun-violence protection bill” in the coming weeks, said Rep. Michael Paymar, DFL-St. Paul, at a committee hearing last Thursday. But others in the party aren’t sold. “I’m just not convinced,” said Rep. Paul Marquar t, DFL-Dilwor th. “I haven’t seen the evidence that these gun control measures are going to achieve our goals.” Marquart, a gun owner, has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association since his second election in 2002. Marquar t, like some other rural DFLers, isn’t on board with the wide-sweeping gun control proposals. He said he isn’t supporting any of the Minnesota gun control bills because he views guns as tools for hunting, recreation and
protection. Proponent and author of gun control legislation, Rep. Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul, said she doesn’t like the idea that her grandchildren are fearful of shooters when they are doing daily activities, like attending afternoon matinees. “Something major is happening in this country,” she said. Hausman is pr oposing two of the 11 bills discussed last week that would prohibit purchasing new assault weapons and highcapacity magazines in Minnesota. She said the phrase “shall not be infringed” in the Second Amendment is “shouted over and over,” but one part is ignored — “a well-regulated militia being necessary for the security of a free state.” “We’re not talking wellregulated militia here, so I think it’s been such a distor tion of the Second Amendment,” she said. Rick Wilder, manager of Metro Gun Club in Blaine, Minn., said he can’t imagine a world without “self-protective” weapons. “If fir ear ms wer en’t available, wouldn’t there be knives or bats or some other methods for violence?” he said. W ilder said his club gives lessons and has police of ficers and NRA-trained overseers that teach the ethics of firearm safety. He said he’s against the proposed restrictions and regulations because guns are used more often for recreation than for violence. Sen. Paul Gazelka, RNisswa, said gun control
has irked constituents of his rural Minnesota district more than any other issue he’s dealt with since being in office. “Everyone from some of our county sheriffs to some of our local police officers, down to the spor tsmen,” Gazelka said. “They’re all just saying ‘Don’t do this, it’s not going to solve anything.’ ” Marquar t said r ural legislators from both parties are not as keen on gun control because guns are less taboo in their home districts. “Many of us that are rural legislators, we grew up being trained how to maintain a gun properly, gun safety and hunting out in the woods,” Gazelka said. “We don’t have the fear of guns because it’s a tool that needs to be handled properly. Zachar y Sudman, president of the University’s Hunting and Fishing student group and a civil engineering senior, said he thinks proposals to regulate guns further have good intentions but that they aren’t going to have dramatic effects. “No one wants gun violence,” Sudman said, “but as far as how successful [the bills] are going to be, I don’t think they are going to curb any gun violence.”
‘Mental health first’ Gun control dissenters argue that legislation needs to focus more on mental health and less on regulating firearms. “Ultimately, these are ver y troubled people, and it doesn’t really matter
what kind of gun or knife or whatever — they are going to be violent,” Gazelka said. “That’s why I’m not advocating that we try to somehow reign in those law-abiding citizens that have guns. I just don’t think that’s where the problem lies.” One bill proposed last Wednesday, sponsored by Rep. Dan Schoen, DFL-St. Paul Park, would expand mental health screenings for people applying for firearm permits in Minnesota. Marquart also stressed the impor tance of mental health over gun legislation. “Everyone is passionate about this issue, and anyone can have a strong opinion on this,” he said, “But I think we need to concentrate on mental health first.” On the federal level, mental health is also a major concern. Obama, University police Chief Greg Hestness and many other city of ficials met in north Minneapolis early last week to articulate ideas to keep weapons away from people who are mentally ill, as well as other strategies to prevent gun violence. More than a quar ter of students at the University’s Twin Cities campus reported being diagnosed with a mental illness within their lifetime, according the Boynton Health Service 2010 College Student Health Survey. The public safety committee didn’t vote last week on any of the proposals. Later this month, the Senate Judiciar y Committee is planning two days of hearings to discuss similar legislation.
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Friedman, AHC VP, to step down Dr. Aaron Friedman was only set to occupy the position for two to three years. BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com
Aaron Friedman will step down as vice president for health sciences and dean of the University of Minnesota’s Medical School at the end of 2013, University President Eric Kaler announced in an email to faculty and staff Friday afternoon. Friedman has ser ved these roles since Januar y 2011. When Friedman was appointed by former University President Bob Bruininks, it was supposed to be a temporary job set to last for two or three years. “[Friedman] has been a strong leader through a time of transition and a strong voice for the health sciences,” Kaler said in the email. The University will begin a national search for Friedman’s replacement in the next two weeks, Kaler said. Friedman is out of the country for the next week, according to Academic Health Center office communications and was unavailable for comment. The AHC houses the University’s six health science
colleges: the schools of dentistry, nursing, medicine, pharmacy, public health and veterinary medicine. AARON A 2011 FRIEDMAN internal review of the AHC found the position of vice president for health sciences and dean of the Medical School should be split. But in Friday’s email, Kaler said he would keep the two positions combined based on a separate external 2012 review. Because of Friedman’s dual roles, he reports to himself and has direct access to the president, which the 2011 review found to be a possible conflict of interest. The committee said Friedman’s role as AHC vice president gave him unequal access to the president compared to other deans. The search committee will be co-chaired by Bobbi Daniels, CEO of University of Minnesota Physicians, and Leon Assael, dean of the School of Dentistry. The Medical School will postpone its search for a new head of medicine because of Friedman’s stepping down, Kaler said. Wes Miller will continue as the interim head of medicine through 2014.
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unteering. “We use them to help volunteers get their feet wet,” said English junior Jennifer Snider, who has worked at the Aurora Center since her freshman year. This is the second year men were able to go through the training process and the first year male advocates are able to go to the hospital with clients, though they are currently not allowed to go in the patient’s room. Clients have a choice of talking to either a male or female advocate on the helpline, said Aurora Center director Katie Eichele. So far, clients’ responses to male advocates have been “over whelmingly positive,” she said. Mitchell Daas, a child psychology junior, said he thinks he will be a good listener for the helpline. “I feel like guys bring something else to the field,” he said. The new volunteers said they were ner vous but mostly excited to complete training and have the chance to work with the University community. “I just want to be there for that person,” sophomore Bronte Stewart said, “because no one should have to go through something like sexual assault
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alone.” Eichele said the center has experienced a spike in University freshmen who have been sexually assaulted in high school and visited the center for help. “It’s concerning for us,” she said. Because of this increase, the Aurora Center focuses especially on riskreduction strategies. Volunteers also learned how to best help their clients from guest speakers ranging from the University police depar tment to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender ally organization OutFront Minnesota. Volunteers also provide educational presentations on sexual assault, relationship violence and stalking to student groups, faculty, staff and community members, Prevention Program coordinator Traci ThomasCard said. “ We k n o w t h a t t h e more education, the more outreach, the more awareness we raise,” she said, “the more sur vivors are accessing ser vices, the more concer ned people are calling with questions and the better the prevention efforts become.”
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Monday, February 11, 2013
When money gets tight, schools
CASH IN ON ART ART
STRUGGLING SCHOOLS
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So far, it’s been mostly small liberal arts colleges that have turned to their art in times of trouble. Financial difficulties hit harder for small, specialized schools that are struggling to stay relevant and attract students. Randolph was historically a women’s college but became co-ed in the wake of decreasing enrollment and a 2006 financial warning from their accrediting agency. When it became co-ed in 2007, the school changed its name from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. “What you have are schools that themselves have become less viable in contemporary society,” said Laura Katzman, an associate professor of art and director of the college’s museum studies program at the time of the 2007 incident. Shortly afterward, she resigned her professorship. Rockford College, a small liberal arts school in Illinois, sold most of its art collection in 2006 for $1.1 million. The same year, it sold part of its rare books collection, too. On the opposite end of the spectrum, the University of Iowa drew attention in 2011 when the state Legislature introduced a bill proposing the Board of Regents sell its prized Jackson Pollock painting, a 1943 piece entitled “Mural.” The painting’s value is estimated at $140 million. If the bill had passed, proceeds would have provided scholarships to Iowan undergraduates majoring in art. This summer, Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., got $30 million just for sharing part of its collection with a museum. The historically black institution arranged to share half of its Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Modern American and European Art with Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Ark. The
pieces will move between Nashville and Bentonville every two years. The deal sparked a lot of controversy, including a 7-year legal battle over donor intent. Given to the university in the late 1940s and early 1950s by Georgia O’Keeffe, the 101 pieces, from her private collection and that of her husband, photographer Alfred Stieglitz, include works by prominent artists like Picasso, Renoir and O’Keeffe herself. But when the university encoun-
tered financial trouble and possible closure in the early 2000s, administrators started looking for money in new places. The decision was made for multiple reasons, but it was primarily financial, said Sara Estes, gallery coordinator in the university’s Carl Van Vechten Gallery, where the Stieglitz collection is housed. “They were in a dire financial strait,” she said, “and this was what they needed to do in order to get money for the university.”
THE ROLE OF A COLLECTION
College and university art sales
FISK UNIVERSITY
decided to share about 50 pieces: August 2012 PICTURED HERE (unknown value) “Radiator Building — Night, New York” by Georgia O’Keeffe ALSO INCLUDED (total cost $30 million) Pieces by Georgia O’Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir
RANDOLPH COLLEGE
sold four pieces: October 2007 PICTURED HERE ($7.2 million) “Troubadour” by Rufino Tamayo ALSO INCLUDED (total cost unknown) “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Edward Hicks (unsold) “Men of the Docks” by George Bellows (unsold) “Through the Arroyo” by Ernest Hennings (unsold)
THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
sold 3 pieces: April 2007 – April 2008
The more important an art collection is to a campus, the safer it is from being taken to the auction block. But at many institutions, art is not seen as part of the school’s mission, said Mark Gold, a Massachusetts attorney with a background in museum studies. “The trustees look at it and say, ‘OK, of the resources we have available to us … which are the closest aligned with our mission?’ ” he said. “ ‘ Is that painting really closely aligned with the mission of providing education, or is the library? Or are the computers?’ ” But some argue that campus art collections are part of their schools’ educational missions in the same way that libraries and other learning resources are. “People often use the argument, ‘Well, you have [the art] in storage anyway, so why not sell it and make some money?’ ” said Lyndel King, director of the University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum. “But I make the analogy of the library — you don’t necessarily sell the books just because nobody’s checked them out in five years.” A vast majority of the Weisman’s collection is in basement storage. The Weisman is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, which requires museums to accept a “statement of permanence” — an agreement to keep the collection intact. Because of this, the Weisman cannot sell art except for the purpose of buying other art. Its 21,500-object collection is made up mostly of gifts, King said. Frank Sorauf, a former University faculty member and dean, lent pieces to the Weisman’s ceramics collection. As the owner of “a very eclectic collection of art,” Sorauf said he has donated or shared pieces with a number of different museums.
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY English for a Global Citizen student Zcho Yan Liu, right, spends the afternoon at the Weisman Art Museum on Feb. 1.
If one of his donated pieces was sold, Sorauf said, he wouldn’t donate again in the future. But, he added, “That’s the hard world of philanthropy.” One piece in the Weisman collection, Arthur Dove’s “Gale,” is a favorite of second-year psychology graduate student Kristin Barstad. She first saw the piece during her freshman orientation and likes that it’s still on display. By exhibiting local artists’ work and serving as an educational resource for students throughout the state, she said, the museum holds value both for the University and the community at large. “It’s not just a university museum on a campus,” she said. “It incorporates such a wide community that’s all around us.” Because the University is a public land-grant institution, the Weisman has more of a public trust role than museums at private schools. “It is part of our responsibility to preserve and extend our culture,” said Karen Hanson, senior vice president for academic affairs and provost, “and the artworks that people have given to us to hold in trust are part of the way in which we do that.” And the building, designed by the architect Frank Gehry, has its own value and visibility as a destination. “Build the museum, and they will come,” Katzman said. “That will protect the Weisman collection.” The University administration has been consistently supportive of maintaining the collection, King said. “For some people in the arts and humanities … museums and collections are akin to laboratories for some scientific researchers,” Hanson said. “You’re in dire straits if you think that you want to part with some of the things that you may have lovingly collected in order to use, in part, for research and education.” At other schools, though, the attitude has been different. When Randolph’s Board of Trustees decided to sell the four paintings, Katzman said, it didn’t think about the effect on the collection as a whole. “It’s like cutting off someone’s arm and saying, ‘Well, you have another arm,’” she said.
PICTURED HERE ($68 million) “The Gross Clinic” by Thomas Eakins ALSO INCLUDED (total cost unknown) “Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand” by Thomas Eakins “Portrait of Professor William S. Forbes” by Thomas Eakins
Acceptable reasons for selling art
(ACCORDING TO THE AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF MUSEUMS) DUPLICATE EXAMPLE // A museum owns two multiple copies of one piece. FORGERY // A piece created not just as a copy, but with the intention to deceive.
ROCKFORD COLLEGE
sold about 2,000 pieces: September 2006 PICTURED HERE ($38,400) “Centenary of the Imprimerie Mourlot” by Joan Miro ALSO INCLUDED (total cost $1.1 million) Pieces by Francisco Goya and Pablo Picasso WWII prints, Student work
NOT RELEVANT TO THE MUSEUM’S MISSION // A piece that doesn’t fit with the rest of the museum’s collection. POOR OR INHERENTLY UNSTABLE CONDITION // A piece that is damaged and cannot be repaired, and so is not of museum quality. REPATRIATED // Returning cultural pieces to their country of origin or to their original owners. SECONDARY EXAMPLE // A piece that is very similar but inferior to another piece in the museum’s collection. EXTENSIVE RESTORATION // A piece that has been restored so extensively that most of it is not original.
SOURCES: MN DAILY REPORTING, WEISMAN ART MUSEUM, MINNEAPOLIS INSTITUTE OF ARTS, GOLDSTEIN MUSEUM OF DESIGN, WALKER ART CENTER
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Local collection stats
2,500 paintings
554 paintings
3,500 drawings
1,115 drawings & watercolors
1,500 photos
1,032 photos
280 sculptures
65 sculptures
3,100 ceramics
n/a
9,700 prints
5,660 prints
225 mixed media
1,168 mixed media
Total objects at local museums
GOLDSTEIN WEISMAN ART WALKER ART MUSEUM OF MUSEUM CENTER DESIGN 21,500 pieces 12,329 pieces 29,000 pieces
ALL THINGS CONSIDERED Despite the controversy, some say selling art is as good an option as any — and that, when done right, it can save a dying school. When a college is in trouble, Gold said, every option should be considered — including selling art. “I’m not saying ‘Go after the art,’ ” he said. “But I’m saying it’s not any more sacrosanct than faculty positions … everything has to be considered.” But a lot of art donated to museums comes with the condition that it can never be sold, like with the Stieglitz collection. But donors don’t necessarily think about what will happen if the receiving institution goes under. “You give a gift with certain stipulations, and it’s hard for you to perceive how those stipulations will be perceived in a different era,” Katzman said. When Rockford College sold part
of its collection, it was deeply in debt. There were also issues with maintaining the art — the college didn’t have enough storage space, and what it did have wasn’t climatecontrolled. Afterward, other schools contacted Rockford to ask how the sale was orchestrated, said John McNamara, the college’s senior development officer. Rockford avoided controversy, he said, because the process was discussed with trustees, faculty members, alumni and students. The only pieces sold were those either not used for educational purposes, without significant historical value and didn’t have any donor restrictions. “We really attempted to make sure that we were not disturbing the past or jeopardizing the future of the college by treating this cavalierly, just kind of back up a truck and put everything in it,” he said.
WINDOW SHOPPING
Today, one of the art world’s most controversial players is the 63-year-old daughter of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton. A variety of buyers have come forward to purchase art from colleges and universities, but the Crystal Bridges Museum has been one of the most talked about. The museum, founded by heiress Alice Walton, opened in 2011. It has raised eyebrows in the art world, in part because of its patron’s uncommon ability to outbid others. “No other museum can match their wealth at this moment,” King said. The Walton Family Foundation gave $1.2 billion to establish the museum’s endowment, and admission to the museum is free, thanks to $20 million from the Wal-Mart Foundation. In 2007, Walton, along with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., offered $68 million to Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia for Thomas Eakins’ “The Gross Clinic.” The offer, made through Christie’s, caused an uproar in the Philadelphia art community. Ultimately, local museums matched the offer and kept the painting in the city, where it’s now shared between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. The Crystal Bridges Museum was able to purchase Eakins’ “Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand” from the university for an undisclosed amount the same year. Museum spokeswoman Diane
Carroll said Crystal Bridges had not considered purchasing pieces from any other colleges or museums, including Randolph. But according to Katzman, Walton visited Randolph in 2007 when the school was in the midst of trying to sell pieces in its collection. Though Walton did not make an offer on any of the pieces in the collection, Katzman said she was invited to campus and was shown around. “Probably to the disappointment of those who invited her,” Katzman said, “she was clearly not there to make any deals right then and there.”
CHANGING VALUE
For a long time, many schools didn’t even know what their art was worth. In the 1970s, the market value of American art began to increase drastically, Katzman said. Many schools had accumulated eclectic collections over time, she said, and hadn’t assessed the value of what they had. Randolph had a large collection of American art that was initiated in 1907 by the college’s first art professor. “The [Randolph] board was probably starting to look at the collection and think, ‘Oh, maybe our Edward Hopper shouldn’t be right outside the dining hall,’ ” Katzman said. Unlike sales of other educational assets, like library books or scientific resources, there’s a lot of publicity with art sales and the money that comes with it, King said. Not all art is valuable though, she said, and there are additional costs that come with making a sale. And as art is monetized, Katzman
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said, there’s less interest in holding on to it. “It’s not just economics, it’s also priorities,” she said. “The priorities are not art museums, typically, because they’re not moneymakers.” As more schools flock to auction houses and wealthy museum patrons, some worry the trend will only continue to spread. Decisions about campus collections could impact the museum community as a whole. “It hurts all of us when a few museums do this,” King said, “because donors think, ‘Well, if this museum did it, why not the museum I’m thinking about?’” The result of the Fisk litigation, for example, could discourage potential donors not just there, but elsewhere. Estes said the decision at Fisk could encourage other schools to think about selling art in the future. “Now that this has happened once, it could very much be a solution that is brought up in other cases like this,” she said. At Randolph, the effect has already been felt. Katzman said donors have called her to say they were considering donating art to the Maier Museum, but were worried about what might happen to it. The 2007 incident has made the collection vulnerable, she said. “It will be tapped into,” she said. “Once you set a precedent, it’s a lot easier
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY Interior design sophomore Allison Bradford studies the lighting in the museum for a class assignment on Feb. 1, at the Weisman Art Museum.
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U hires consultant for $48K review A report will be provided to the state Legislature in March. BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com
University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler announced Friday that the University will spend $48,000 on an outside consulting firm to review the University’s administrative structure. Two state senators requested a repor t after recent repor ts of excessive administrative spending. Sibson Consulting, a New York-based human resources consulting firm, will generate an interim
repor t of findings for the Legislature by March 15, as requested by Sen. Terri Bonof f, DFL-Minnetonka, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook. Kaler said the analysis will provide the University with new data and tools to ensure administrative efficiency and will also provide recommendations for future cost savings. “In shor t, the analysis will answer the question, ‘Does the University have the appropriate number of organizational levels, and do managers at various levels oversee the proper number of people?’ ” Kaler said. In addition to the preliminar y analysis of the University’s administra-
tive structure, the consulting firm will also provide a repor t on spending in the University’s finance, information technology, human r esour ce s , a n d purchasing depar tments compared to other institutions. The repor t will come in time for the Legislature to decide whether to fund the University’s request for an 8.4 percent increase in state funding for the next two years. Kaler said he was confident that the repor t will show “progress and ef ficiency.” “We must drive administrative costs down … so that we get the dollars to address our core goals,” he said.
Solar industry grapples with hazardous wastes BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SAN FRANCISCO — Homeowners on the hunt for sparkling solar panels are lured by ads filled with images of pristine landscapes and bright sunshine, and words about the technology’s benefits for the environment — and the wallet. What customers may not know is that there’s a dirtier side. While solar is a far less polluting energy source than coal or natural gas, many panel makers are never theless grappling with a hazardous waste problem. Fueled par tly by billions in government incentives, the industr y is creating millions of solar panels each year and, in the process, millions of pounds of polluted sludge and contaminated water. To dispose of the material, the companies must transport it by truck or rail far from their own plants to waste facilities hundreds and, in some cases, thousands of miles away. The fossil fuels used to transpor t that waste, exper ts say, is not typically considered in calculating solar’s carbon footprint, giving scientists and consumers who use the measurement to gauge a product’s impact on global warming the impression that solar is cleaner than it is. After installing a solar panel, “it would take one to three months of generating electricity to pay of f the energy invested in driving those hazardous waste emissions out of state,” said Dustin Mulvaney, a San Jose State University environmental studies professor who conducts carbon footprint analyses of solar, biofuel and natural gas production. The waste from manufacturing has raised concerns within the industr y, which fears that the problem, if left unchecked, could undermine solar’s gr een image at a time when companies are facing stif f competition from each other and from lowcost panel manufacturers from China and elsewhere. “We want to take the lessons learned from electronics and semiconductor industries (about pollution) and get ahead of some of these problems,” said John Smir now, vice president for trade and competitiveness at the nearly 500-member Solar Energy Industries Association. The increase in solar hazardous waste is directly related to the industr y’s fast growth over the past five years — even with solar business moving to China rapidly, the U.S. was a net expor ter of solar products by $2 billion in 2010, the last year of data available. The nation was even a net exporter to China. New companies often
send hazardous waste out of their plants because they have not yet invested in on-site treatment equipment, which allows them to recycle some waste. Nowhere is the waste issue more evident than in California, where landmark regulations approved in the 1970s requir e industrial plants like solar panel makers to repor t the amount of hazardous materials they produce, and where they send it. Califor nia leads the consumer solar market in the U.S. — which doubled overall both in 2010 and 2011. The Associated Press compiled a list of 41 solar makers in the state, which included the top companies based on market data, and star tups. In response to an AP records request, the Califor nia Depar t ment of Toxic Substances Control provided data that showed 17 of them repor ted waste, while the remaining did not. The same level of federal data does not exist. The state records show the 17 companies, which had 44 manufacturing facilities in Califor nia, produced 46.5 million pounds of sludge and contaminated water from 2007 through the first half of 2011. Roughly 97 percent of it was taken to hazardous waste facilities throughout the state, but more than 1.4 million pounds were transpor ted to nine other states: Arkansas, Minnesota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, Nevada, Washington, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. Several solar energy experts said they have not calculated the industr y’s total waste and were surprised at what the records showed. Solyndra, the now-defunct solar company that received $535 million in guaranteed federal loans, repor ted producing about 12.5 million pounds of hazardous waste, much of it carcinogenic cadmiumcontaminated water, which was sent to waste facilities from 2007 through mid2011. Befor e the company went bankr upt, leading to increased scr utiny of the solar industr y and political fallout for President Barack Obama’s administration, Solyndra said it created 100 megawattswor th of solar panels, enough to power 100,000 homes. The records also show several other Silicon Valley solar facilities created millions of pounds of toxic waste without selling a single solar panel, while they were developing their technology or fine-tuning their production. While much of the waste produced is considered toxic, there was no evidence it has harmed human health. The vast majority of solar companies that generated hazardous waste in California have not been
cited for waste-related pollution violations, although three had minor violations on file. In many cases, a toxic sludge is created when metals and other toxins are removed from water used in the manufacturing process. If a company doesn’t have its own treatment equipment, then it will send contaminated water to be stored at an approved dump. According to scientists who conduct so-called “life cycle analysis” for solar, the transpor t of waste is not cur rently being factored into the carbon footprint score, which measures the amount of greenhouse gases pr oduced when making a product. Life cycle analysts add up all the global warming pollution that goes into making a cer tain product — from the mining needed for components to the exhaust from diesel tr ucks used to transpor t waste and materials. Not factoring the hazardous waste transpor t into solar’s carbon footprint is an obvious oversight, analysts said. “The greenhouse gas emissions associated with transpor ting this waste is not insignificant,” Mulvaney said. Mulvaney noted that shipping, for example, 6.2 million pounds of waste by heavy-duty tractor-trailer from Fremont, Calif., in the San Francisco Bay area, to a site 1,800 miles away could add 5 percent to a par ticular product’s carbon footprint. Such scores are important because they provide transparency to gover nment and consumers into just how environmentally sustainable specific products ar e and lay out a choice between one company’s technology and another’s. The roughly 20-year life of a solar panel still makes it some of the cleanest energy technology currently available. Producing solar is still significantly cleaner than fossil fuels. Energy derived from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, for example, creates more than 10 times mor e hazar dous waste than the same energy created by a solar panel, according to Mulvaney. The U.S. solar industr y said it is repor ting its waste, and sending it to approved storage facilities — thus keeping it out of the nation’s air and water. A coal-fired power plant, in contrast, sends mercur y, cadmium and other toxins directly into the air, which pollutes water and land around the facility. “Having this stuff go to ... hazardous waste sites, that’s what you want to have happen,” said Adam Browning, executive director of the Vote Solar Initiative, a solar advocacy group. Environmental advocates say the solar industr y needs greater transparency.
Regents approve looser alcohol ad restrictions The new policy will allow flexibility regarding alcohol advertising. BY ALEXI GUSSO AND MARJORIE OTTO agusso@mndaily.com motto@mndaily.com
On Friday, the Board of Regents voted to revise the University of Minnesota’s alcoholic beverages on campus policy, which formerly prohibited sponsorship and signage of alcoholic beverages in University facilities. The amended policy allows for looser guidelines around the adver tising, promotion and marketing of alcohol with permission from the president, at nonUniversity events, like concerts. Vice President of University Services Pam Wheelock presented the proposal to the Facilities and Operations Committee on Thursday. She said the amendments would allow the University to maximize the use of its facilities and will accommodate the possible use of TCF Bank Stadium by the Minnesota Vikings in 2014. “The intent of this is to promote the possibility of revenue generation from the use of our facilities for non-University sponsored events, such as concer ts at [TCF Bank Stadium],” Wheelock said. Since opening in 2009, TCF Bank Stadium has only hosted one major concer t, when U2 per formed a sold-out show there in 2011, which brought nearly 60,000 people to campus. In December, Scott Ellison, associate athletics director, noted that the amendments are consistent with current practice among other Big Ten institutions.
University spokesman Chuck Tombarge said that as it stands, ar tists and performers can’t sell alcohol on campus, but he said the new policy could allow “more potential opportunity to serve alcohol.”
Merger Regents also ratified the merging of fundraising organizations University of Minnesota Foundation and the Minnesota Medical Foundation. The merger, approved by Kaler last year, was designed to better serve University donors by providing one organization for private giving. Regent Laura Brod praised the merger as a positive step in transforming the University. “As we tr y to efficiently leverage ever y single dollar to the greatest impact, this merger is significant in making that happen,” she said.
Funding approved for lab move, power plant renovation
The board also approved funding for the Engine Research Lab remodeling and construction on the Combined Heat and Power Plant. The committee added about $78 million to the 2013 Capital Budget to fund the nearly $96 million renovation of the Old Main Heating plant on the University’s East Bank. The building holds coal and gas boilers last used in 2000. The renovation will fix up the current building as well as add newer, more efficient turbines. By 2014, there will be a high risk for the current boilers to be over capacity during the winter, preventing the boilers from heating all campus buildings, according to docket materials. When Facilities Management makes energy decisions for the University, it
follows three principles: “reliability, sustainable and cost ef fective,” said Mike Berthelsen, associate vice president of Facilities Management. Despite the approval, some concerns arose. Regent David Larson questioned whether the University should continue to use its own power plant or if that should be contracted out. But Berthelsen replied there are no other steam power plants or companies that would be able to take over. Regent Laura Brod asked whether the new turbines will be obsolete in just a few years. Ber thelsen said these turbines are not the newest, but they’ve been around and tested, assuring their reliability. The relocation of the College of Science and Engineering’s Engine Research Lab to the University’s Reuse Center will cost the University about $5 million, with $1.8 million coming from the 2010 Lab Appropriation Lab Pool Fund and $3.1 million from CSE. The lab, located on the fourth floor of the Mechanical Engineering Building, needs to be moved from its current location because it’s no longer up to code, said CSE Dean Steven Crouch and Associate Vice President of Capital Planning and Project Management Suzanne Smith. Smith said with the move, graduate students who use it for research will be able to expand their work. The lab used by undergraduates will remain in the Mechanical Engineering Building. The equipment and other materials from the lab will be moved to the new space this summer and be ready for use by this fall. This move will be permanent.
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Chair Linda Cohen addresses the Board of Regents meeting Friday at McNamara Alumni Center.
University to test year-round calendar Calendar u from Page 1
curriculum to have one offering in the summer both in the classroom and online. “This will ensure that students will continue to make progress on their degrees no matter where they are living in the summer months,” Kaler said. Fifth-year graphic design student Sarah Nguyen said that graduating in four years is a concern for students in the College of Design. Nguyen plans to graduate next year and said she would have taken advantage of the new summer program if she had the opportunity. “If I had the chance to graduate in four years, I would do it, but since there were no design courses in the summer I can’t,” she said. Nguyen changed her major to graphic design from mechanical engineer-
ing after her sophomore year, which she said took her off the track to graduate in four years. According to a Star Tribune ar ticle, the college tried adding a year-round academic calendar to the same two programs in the past, but students did not sign up. In a September 2012 policy brief, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities wrote that skeptics of a three-year degree option argue that it “does not address underlying financial dynamics affecting college affordability, ignores the realities of most students’ life-work balance, and may compromise core learning and personal development objectives.” Graphic design senior Margo Helvick said she may have considered taking the summer courses earlier in her college career. “I probably would have taken [summer courses] after my freshman or sophomore years, but after that I would have probably gotten an internship in the sum-
mer so that I could get work experience,” she said. But Helvick came to the conclusion that she probably wouldn’t have taken summer courses even if she had the option. Graphic design freshman Chloe Crimmins said that she would definitely consider taking a full course load in the summer if it meant graduating earlier. “It’d be nice because I was thinking about adding a marketing minor so not graduating in four years was definitely a concern for me,” she said. “But if taking summer classes is an option, that might not be an issue.” Crimmins lives in Minneapolis and said commuting to campus would only take about 20 minutes in the summer. She has a job on campus, which accommodates her class schedule. Crimmins said that balancing the full-course load while enjoying the summer wouldn’t be a concern. “I don’t see why you couldn’t do both.”
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WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Stop frivolous lawsuits Women’s rights to contraception coverage must remain.
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n light of a longstanding legal battle with employers making religious objections, the Obama administration recently announced new rules for the contraception coverage requirement of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in order to clarify which employers are exempt from providing nocost contraception for their employees. Using the Internal Revenue Code’s definition of “religious employer,” the government exempts churches and other religious organizations from providing contraceptive coverage to their workers. Organizations that can self-certify that they are nonprofits and have religion as a core part of their mission are now allowed an accommodation so that they would not have to contract, arrange or pay for contraception coverage. Rather, their insurance companies would need to give plan participants the option to receive
separate, individual health insurance policies, through which free bir th control would be provided. The insurBRONWYN ers would be MILLER paying — not columnist the nonprofit nor the employee. Everybody wins, right? Some public entities are still expressing disdain for the government’s plan, claiming they are being forced to assist with access to birth control. Worse, the owners of many secular, for-profit businesses engaged in non-religious activities — like Minnesota-based American Manufacturing Company — are suing the federal government for exemption, too. Such lawsuits claim that because the owners of the companies have deep religious beliefs, the contraception mandate violates religious freedom and requires people to act against their convictions. We are talking about voluntary engagement in for-profit
enterprise with a non-religious mission to make money in the commercial sphere. Where do we draw the line? Can a Jehovah’s Witness employer who does not believe in blood transfusions rightfully deny insurance coverage for a blood transfusion to an employee? Should those who believe in the Bible’s assertion that one must honor God with his or her body be exempt from providing care for smoking-induced lung cancer treatment or ailments caused by overeating? Curiously, it is only the contraception mandate with which business owners are publicly refusing to comply. The only issue being taken up in widespread lawsuits against the federal government is that which relates to a woman’s right to control her own body and reproduction. In a society consistently guilty of misogyny, this is hardly surprising — but that does not in any way condone the sexism illustrated through these refusals to provide basic elements of a female’s health care. There is an important legal differentiation between a corporate entity and its owner, meaning the requirement to
DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 111,151- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,245 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN
cover contraceptives is not required of the owner personally but of the company’s health care plan. While people have freedom of religion, private companies with no stated religious mission do not have distinct religious interests or rights. In a 1990 Supreme Court decision, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, “The free exercise of religion means, first and foremost, the right to believe and profess whatever religious doctrine one desires.” It is not, he said, “a private right to ignore generally applicable laws.” This rule has been widely cited ever since, serving as the basis for rulings stating, for example, that Christian landlords cannot refuse to rent to unmarried couples even if they believe this type of cohabitation is a sin. Similarly, courts must now refuse the feeble-grounded exemption requests of the for-profit companies suing the federal government and ensure every woman has her legal right to contraception. Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.
PEACE CORPS
The dividing line
Recent legislation draws a clear line between the Peace Corps and the U.S. military.
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Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolphy@mndaily.com.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Valuable teaching experience “What are you doing after graduation?” This one question kept bothering me during my senior year of college, mainly since I couldn’t give my friends a concrete answer for the longest time. I wanted to do something right out of college that would give me some experience in a school setting and help me determine if I wanted to become a teacher. The Minnesota Reading Corps and Math Corps ended up being the per fect fit for me. I feel that I am making a dif ference here in Minnesota while earning valuable career experience. Minnesota Reading Corps is a research-based AmeriCorps program targeted at Minnesota students from 3 years old through third grade with the goal of helping them get on the track to reading proficiency by the end of the third grade. I work one on one ever y day with my students, monitor their progress weekly and have a file full of graphs to show their growth that I can share with their teachers. With one in four Minnesota third graders struggling to reach proficiency in reading — that’s 15,000 kids. It’s inspiring to be able to see the number of letter sounds or words they can read in a minute increasing each week. The personal interac-
tions I have with my students and fellow staf f are what really drew me to Minnesota Reading Corps, however. It’s a great feeling to see the excitement on a child’s face when they finally are able to read to the bottom of a page with no mistakes, or when you get ambushed by 30 excited first graders ever y time you walk into their classroom. I get to know each of my students on a personal level, and it is truly inspiring to see their confidence bloom along with their literacy skills. I also work ver y closely with their classroom teachers, which helps me better ser ve students and has also provided a great resource for professional development. I can honestly say that I love what I do and look for ward to ser ving at my site ever y day. Minnesota Reading Corps is a great oppor tunity, and not just one for future teachers, for me as an aspiring teacher and also for my fellow tutors with other car eer goals who want to give back to their community. And since my Minnesota Reading Corps position is only a yearlong commitment, it’s great for taking a chance to discover more about myself and prepare for my next step in life. Kate Ryan AmeriCorps
The time to move Working this fall to
get out the vote and get out the “vote no” with the Minnesota Public Interest Research group was exhausting. On Nov. 7, 2012, my peers and I were weary and sleep deprived but proud. We were part of an ef for t that made histor y. Students turned out to vote in record numbers and overwhelmingly voted no. At MPIRG we’ve decided that now is not the time to kick back and rest on our accomplishments. Now is the time to move. Before the term ended, we had redefined our structure as a chapter and divided into new task forces — equality, environmental-sustainability, corporate accountability and higher education. These new task forces will be tackling policy change at every level. Our higher education task force had a strong presence at Support the U Day, talking to legislators about Opportunity Minnesota. This is a bill that will reimburse students through a tax credit to help pay off their student loans if they stay and work in Minnesota for five years after they graduate. Laying the groundwork for another successful semester, all our task forces are looking for new ideas to add to MPIRG’s list of successes. We hope students will join us in improving the University of Minnesota community and making students’ voices be heard. Michelle Thimios University student
would like to congratulate the University of Minnesota for being among the nation’s top-20 universities in the number of graduates ser ving in the Peace Corps. The latest rankings clearly reflect the high caliber of alumni from the University and as a member of Congress representing Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District, I join the entire state of Minnesota in taking great pride in both academic institutions. The latest rankings ser ve as a reminder of what Washington can do when we work together — something foreign to many in the partisan environment of Congress. A few years ago, it was brought to my attention by Peace Corps alumni and others of a well-intentioned law that — in an effort to expand public service and the concept of national service — allowed military recruits to meet part of their service obligations by serving in the Peace Corps. To encourage militar y recruiting, military volunteers were being given the option of completing their military service in the Peace Corps. Peace Corps alumni were alarmed at this law because they believed it would jeopardize the safety of current Peace Corps volunteers. They were worried the perceived links between militar y ser vice and the Peace Corps might undermine Peace Corps volunteers, who provide essential humanitarian service in remote locations. If Peace Corps volunteers were seen as an arm of the U.S. militar y — as soldiers in disguise — their safety could be at risk overseas. Peace Corps alumni and I agreed: Both military and Peace Corps service are important to the countr y, but a clear line needs to be made keeping them separate and distinct. After careful study of this issue, I introduced legislation to end this practice. My bipartisan legislation, which removes the Peace Corps as a military recruitment option and reestablishes the distinction between Peace Corps volunteers and our military service members, was quickly signed into law. This is a good example of bipartisan legislation that results when we in Congress listen to our constituents and learn about the issues important to them. Today, more than 8,000 volunteers are working with local communities in 76 host countries in numerous fields. The Peace Corps is creating goodwill to build bridges between America and the rest of the world, and I will continue to work to proudly support the important work they do. John Kline congressman Minnesota State House
The threat of MOOCs Online courses are an important challenge to our higher education model.
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s Massive Open Online Courses become more prevalent, many in higher education are worried for the increased competition. MOOCs challenge the traditional higher education model by providing access to learning without the overhead of a physical school. This certainly causes a conflict when students are asked to pay thousands in tuition, sometimes for a degree that won’t yield job placement or even personal satisfaction. Yet, institutions have little to fear from MOOCs, at least not at the moment. Currently, MOOCs are available from private companies, as well as public and private universities throughout the world. Even the University of Minnesota has expressed interest in developing MOOCs. Yet MOOCs are just one product in the business of higher education in which the University, for example, is simply a more expensive product. With a university, you access a community — such as the Big Ten — and take an active role in a social education environment. MOOCs are important because they are indicative that higher education is too expensive and should be accountable for its effectiveness — which should be a reminder to all. They exist because some have realized it is valuable to gain education, though at a high cost of losing many important extraneous attributes of a university. While it is important for MOOCs to be available for those that find them effective and costefficient, the marketplace of higher education has little to fear from these courses. However, the concept of MOOCs is ultimately one that the physical higher education model must react to in order to create a more ef fective and efficient system of learning for its consumers — students.
The goal of a cigarette tax Taxes on cigarettes shouldn’t be seen as a viable source of state revenue.
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art of Gov. Dayton’s proposed budget includes an additional 94 cent-excise tax per pack of cigarettes, estimated to generate an additional $370 million in revenue over two years, allocated to the general fund. In comparison to other proposals in the state Legislature, 94 cents is on the low end of the spectrum. Other proposals would increase the tax to $1.60 per pack. For many, excise taxes on cigarettes are easy to support — they tax a behavior detrimental to public health. Cigarette taxes are also one of few regressive taxes to receive support amidst a trend in the public debate to ask the wealthy to contribute more. Opponents argue on economic paradigms that tax evasion will increase and question the validity of the revenue estimates. Few Minnesotans ever file (or are even aware of) the required tax form to pay the tax required on outof-state purchases. However, much of the debate fails to engage the real issue involved: What is the purpose of an additional tax on cigarettes? Implementing health policy through a tax that the general fund will rely on to pay for state programs jeopardizes the goal to reduce smoking. If not linked to the concept of a “sin tax,” it is accepted that regressive taxes for the purpose of revenue collection merit no place in state policy. In this case, the policy may even lead to revenue shortfalls that could harm other policy goals. In order to rectify the stratification of the debate, excise taxes on tobacco should be earmarked into treatment of and prevention of tobacco-related health problems — which by design should decrease revenues collected by the tax itself. The standard of judgment for the cigarette tax should be its effectiveness in reducing burdensome public health costs, not the revenue collected.
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LIFESTYLE
Do we all live ironically? Being a hipster in the Twin Cities constitutes a unique set of lifestyle choices.
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hen I was a child and in middle school, I discovered what it is to posture and pretend to know something. I vividly recall sitting in a video production class and tr ying to figure out something on a now antiquated video camera. I assured my teacher at the time that I knew how to work the camera. I assured her I was an expert on its use. After fiddling with the device for 20 minutes, she saw through my ruse. Yanking me out of my chair, she promptly scolded me for lying. She told me that I should never pretend to know something and waste ever yone’s time. That event was an important one in my life. My teacher told me that there are people who dedicate their lives to some things and, as such, know a lot about those things. She wasn’t mad or upset with me; she was just teaching me about life. Yet, we all know that there are some who never learned this lesson. They didn’t have the same luxur y as me. This story is particularly relevant to discussions of education in the U.S. That is, ever yone — no matter their expertise — seems to be an authority on education. Given the democratic nature of our society, we tolerate this seeming perversion. We allow people who aren’t education experts to tell education experts how to do their jobs. We allow people who’ve never taught before to tell teachers how to do their jobs. Certainly, we need some oversight, and we need outside points of view; these things help us to not live in a vacuum. However, we have experts for a reason. Experts are the people to which we turn for advice because we know that they are an authority on the subject in question. It seems too many people pretend to know how to work that video camera. Politicians, business magnates and venture capitalists have become the educational experts now. In the 21st centur y educational system, more stock seems to be put in the perspective of a venture capitalist than someone who is actually an expert on education. Many educational startups are nothing more than glorified techno-utopist-aligned learning management systems aimed at a supposedly underser ved market: online education. But, these startups aren’t really dedicated to education; they’re dedicated to profit. That’s a symptom of a capitalist economy. Some enterprising and businesssavvy individual finds a hole and plugs it with millions of dollars and ill-formed ideas of how to “fix” education. Make no mistake: Education is broken in this country, and it’s limping toward an agonizing death of a thousand cuts. The list of “experts” goes on: Bill and Melinda Gates, George Lucas, Mark Zuckerberg and other magnates are considered more worthy of voice on education than those involved with it. They want to make education the new business. Education is hardly a business, yet that’s one of the main approaches being hailed for the crisis we find ourselves in. CEOs have declared that education needs to be
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reformed into a “profitable business.” We don’t need to look far to see what those “profitable businesses” look like. For-profit universities are some of the most unscrupulous and unethical businesses around. They take advantage of students and cast them aside. This is the future that America’s business magnates would have for education in this countr y. Perhaps most frustrating is that there are dedicated educators and researchers who are actively trying to change and improve education. But, their voices become minimized because they’re not millionaires, billionaires or have started a company in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, this may be the eventual end to a long and storied histor y. States are funneling money away from education, students are being taught more and more by underpaid and over worked teachers and students are continuing to be indoctrinated to be nothing more than simple test takers. Of course, it doesn’t matter. We trust our politicians to tell us what’s wrong with education instead of people who actually study education. The problems of the education system certainly don’t have anything to do with cuts in financial support, antiquated tests that research shows don’t work, over worked teachers, an overburdened system, high tuition and a rise in cost of living without a comparable rise in the minimum wage. These things couldn’t possibly af fect the education system, right? We’re in trouble. I don’t think anyone would dispute this. The American educational system is slowly and painfully marching toward its demise. We must stop it. We must change it. But, I don’t think entrusting the most vital part of our future existence to individuals who often bet on the fluctuations of a capitalist market is a wise idea. Moreover, I don’t think entrusting shortsighted politicians worried about pleasing everyone should hold great sway either. We need to start listening to our educational experts, our professors, our researchers and our students. We need to talk with them. Then, we need to talk to organizations outside of education and see how we can help students develop skills that will allow them to succeed. We shouldn’t outright trust those who are more comfortable selling stock shares off for profit than helping a student achieve a great future. Our students are not stock shares to be traded on Wall Street, so let’s not treat them as such.
he term “hipster” has been characterized as a sub-culture that fears falling victim to mainstream fads. Hipsters may be spotted at thrift or vintage stores rummaging through hand-me-down bins tr ying to find the most ironic garments. Or, they may be scouring the aisles of Dinkytown Liquor for a deal on their drink of choice: PBR. Whatever they may be doing or wherever they may be, the hipster community has catapulted itself into the Twin Cities community, which ranked 16th on Travel & Leisure’s list for the most hipster-friendly cities in America. I have decided to take on the burden of defining what being a true hipster is and how living this ironic lifestyle can be a benefit despite the stigma it can carr y in the eyes of some. It’s interesting that almost ever y dictionar y definition of “hipster” seems to leave out ver y common associations with the word. Oxford dictionar y defines it as “someone who follows the latest trends and fashions.” Merriam Webster’s dictionar y defines a hipster as “a person who is unusually aware of and interested in new and unconventional patterns.” Ol’ MerriamWebster is getting closer.
Technology has given a voice to everyone, which then takes away the power of having a voice in the first place. To stay current and to continue being an individual, independence must be achieved.
Because a definitive hipster culture fails to be defined, we seem to create various things to associate with hipsters: fixed gear bikes, vinyl, coffee shops, old books, oversized spectacles, etc. The list could go on tirelessly, because like other subcultures, it continues to change. In my own experience, hipsters tend to be 20- or 30-something individuals living out their youth by rejecting the ordinar y. Many times they reside near a college town and generally congregate around a city. Trends within the hipster culture can vary from city to city, but one thing can be most certain about hipsters: You’re not one of them. At least, that is what you want to believe. Whenever someone is labeled as a hipster, they suddenly become flushed in the face, start glancing at their outfit and shaking their head frantically back and forth tr ying to rid themselves of this terrifying label, “hipster.” Many fear to be called one but still strive to become one. Is this just another way to be ironic? If you have had a chance to check out the show “Portlandia” on the Independent Film Channel, you would know that many people get a laugh out of watching the stereotypes of hipsters. I found it comical. The couple sitting at a table in an all-organic resTrent M Kays taurant then getting in their car to drive 30 welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com. minutes to the farm where their soon-to-be
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dinner was raised is hilarious. Clearly a sketch is an exaggeration of reality, but there is some truth in a show like this. We love to laugh and ridicule hipsters for how they live, but have we ever stopped to think that maybe we all have a little hipster in us. So here comes the argument that being a hipster and living “ironically” can be a beneficial lifestyle. In a column published in The New York Times, an assistant French professor at Princeton University addressed the ironic lifestyle. She said, “To live ironically is to hide in public.” Because we are part of the millennium generation, we have great difficulty in finding pieces of culture that are representative of us and us alone. As the argument goes, everything has already been done. If you look at the hipster style, it all stems from past fashions. And the lifestyle dwells on the past, bringing it into our culture. Maybe we are all struggling to find a true identity within this community, so many revert backward, thus, being labeled as hipsters. In an age where we attach ourselves to our computers, phones, iPads and the like, a hipster is simply tr ying to reject these tools to attempt to become an individual. Many will harp on hipsters for tr ying to be too “out of the ordinary,” but shouldn’t we be commending it? Shouldn’t we be applauding someone’s ability to set their self apart from the rest? In fact, what used to be labeled as being “hipster” is now nestled into mainstream culture. Musicians like Bon Iver or even Mumford and Sons used to be played out by hipsters, but now it seems that everyone has listened to a song or two. Hipsters are always placing themselves one step ahead of the mainstream to achieve individuality, and once the masses become attune to pieces of their culture, they too have to change. Yes, many may continue to hold a negative connotation with the word “hipster.” It seems that even the most hipster of us are rejecting the word. But, put the word aside and you have a subculture of people who are trying to find an independent voice in a time when that is often difficult. Technology has given a voice to everyone, which then takes away the power of having a voice in the first place. To stay current and to continue being an individual, independence must be achieved. Maybe after all of this, we should just admire hipsters for always being ahead of the curve and never settling for being mainstream. Meg O’Connor welcomes comments at mo’connor@mndaily.com.
PROSTITUTION
Prostitution should be legal Laws criminalizing adult prostitution need to be reexamined.
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nder Minnesota statute, and under federal laws in most U.S. jurisdictions, prostitution involving consenting adults is a criminal offense. Minnesota law defines prostitution as “hiring, offering to hire or agreeing to hire another individual to engage in sexual penetration or sexual contact or being hired, offering to be hired or agreeing to be hired by another individual to engage in sexual penetration or sexual contact.” But laws criminalizing prostitution make little rational sense, with respect to both purpose and outcome. Although we usually don’t hire another and exchange or offer to exchange money for sexual activity, most sexual activities between consenting adults involve some sort of transaction. Often, these transactions involve an exchange of affection or pleasure. Moreover, it is legal to hire another person to engage in sexual activities for commercial use, such as with pornography. Juxtaposed with these facts, the criminalization of the private hiring of others to engage in sexual acts appears to be nothing more than moral policing. For whatever reason, there is something immoral about sexual activities that involve an economic transaction where services are exchanged for valuable consideration — and the activities not being for public consumption. This reasoning, although on the surface
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appearing persuasive on its own, ignores the purpose of the laws criminalizing prostitution. Prostitution can be distinguished because many who prostitute themselves are doing so because they are indigent. Prostitutes do not consent to being prostitutes; rather, they are coerced into prostitution in order to escape economic detriment. The indigent status of the prostitute creates unequal bargaining power between the prostitute and the other party. Prostitutes are easily susceptible to physical, sexual and drug abuse and disease. The law seeks to deter prostitution because it’s in the best interest of those who would otherwise engage in the act, as well as those who would seek to induce others into, or enable others to continue, such a life. These laws fail because, rather than address the conditions that lead prostitution to be something that should be criminalized, they stigmatize prostitution and offer little deterrence for those engaging in or who desire
to engage in the act. If prostitution were legal, it could become a viable profession, where regulations protect members of the profession and penalize those who seek to maintain the negative conditions of illegal prostitution. For example, if prostitution was legal, prostitutes will be less likely to fear seeking help from the police if a client tries to abuse her. Regulations can demand that prostitutes be licensed and require prostitutes to be screened regularly for sexually transmitted infections in order to maintain the license. Professional prostitutes would have better access to information about safer sex and sexual health and access to condoms.
“Prostitution’ means hiring, offering to hire, or agreeing to hire another individual to engage in sexual penetration or sexual contact, or being hired, offering to be hired, or agreeing to be hired by another individual to engage in sexual penetration or sexual contract.”
Minn. Stat. § 609.321, Subd. 9. (2012).
In a study published in 2010, the effects of the legal status of sex work on public health was examined in three Australian cities, as
prostitution is legal in some parts of Australia. In one city, licensed sex work was legal. In another city, unlicensed sex work was legal and in the third city all forms of sex work were illegal. In the cities where sex work is legal and where licensed sex work is legal, the sex workers saw increased access to health promotional services. Furthermore, when an act such as prostitution becomes legal, discussion is provoked, and the conditions of prostitutes are exposed. The services provided are no longer “underground” services. As the conditions better, the work of a prostitute loses its stigma. A more visible profession of prostitution with increased community support will likely make these services safer and increase the bargaining power of licensed members. As it stands, the law seems to reflect that exchanging private sexual acts for valuable consideration is immoral. Prostitution is not an acceptable means through which a person may procure an income through labor. If the law seeks to prevent the effects of prostitution, however, it should target the effects, rather than the sexual acts themselves. The negative conditions of prostitutes can be mitigated with positive state intervention. The law should seek to promote safer sex between consenting adults, rather than maintaining archaic penalties for them. Legalizing prostitution is a step toward a society with greater interest in promoting healthy sexual behaviors and thus, healthier lives. James Castle welcomes comments at jcastle@mndaily.com.
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MEN’S HOCKEY
Minnesota splits with St. Cloud State, remains five points behind in WCHA
The Gophers played well but ran into a hot Huskies goaltender. BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com
S T. C L O U D , M i n n . — The Gophers and St. Cloud State gave two capacity crowds at the National Hockey and Event Center something entertaining to watch this weekend. The two teams split their regular-season conference series in St. Cloud, Minn. The No. 1 Gophers won 4-2 on Friday, and the No. 8 Huskies returned the favor with a 4-3 win on Saturday. Gophers head coach Don Lucia said he wasn’t terribly disappointed with a split in St. Cloud, and he was happy with how his team fought back Saturday. “I think going in, I was hopeful maybe we’d get three points this weekend,” Lucia said Saturday. “We won [Friday] night and played our butt off tonight, so games like this make you better.” St. Cloud State goalie R yan Faragher made 36 saves Saturday, including several dif ficult ones. He had 38 saves in a losing effort Friday. “If you get a goalie like that, with the crowd behind him, it’s going to be tougher on our team,” Gophers junior for ward Nate Condon said. Faragher’s saves allowed the Huskies to jump out to a 2-0 lead Saturday. St. Cloud State caught the Gophers on a line change for its second goal of the evening. “T wo of their goals came directly off of our line changes,” junior captain Zach Budish said. “We’ve got to sharpen that up and
work on that so it doesn’t happen again.” Junior Nate Schmidt scored near the end of the second on a 5-on3 power play to cut the lead to 2-1 after two periods. St. Cloud responded to Schmidt’s goal with two of its own in the first seven minutes of the third. The Gophers dominated the final 10 minutes of the game and got goals from junior Nick Bjugstad and Condon, but the three-goal deficit proved to be too much. Saturday’s game with its streaks and momentum changes was very similar to Friday’s. Minnesota used its speed to its advantage Friday night and scored both the game-winning goal and another 58 seconds later on a 4-on-4 situation. Lucia said the team had spent time working on its 4-on-4 play during the offweek that preceded the St. Cloud series. “It’s one of the things we talked about — we should be a better 4-on-4 team that what we had been,” Lucia said. The goals that put Minnesota ahead were highlight-reel worthy. Junior Erik Haula scored the game-winner after receiving a feed from Schmidt and maneuvering around Faragher. Haula, who was back at center for the first time since late December, had two goals Friday. “It felt great,” Haula said of being back at center. “That’s where I’m comfortable at, and back with the linemates that I’ve been playing with the whole year.” Schmidt put the game on ice when he found himself alone at the point after a nice feed from freshman Brady Skjei. The St. Cloud native wound up a slap shot
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Minnesota defender Nate Schmidt drives down the ice Saturday at the St. Cloud National Hockey and Event Center. Schmidt has scored a goal during each of the past four games.
from the right circle for a couple of seconds and blasted it off the left pipe and in. “I couldn’t believe Brady backhanded it all the way from the goal line,” Schmidt said. He said his initial thought was to pass the puck to Bjugstad, but the play wasn’t there, and his only option was to “tee it up.” The Gophers put three pucks past Faragher in the first period, but two by Budish were waived of f after
WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Gophers survive poor starts, extend streak Minnesota swept Ohio State despite continuing a recent trend of struggling in the first and second periods. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
The Gophers women’s hockey team swept Ohio State over the weekend in Columbus, Ohio, and extended its record- winning streak to 38 games. But that’s not the only pattern Minnesota continued. In the past few games, the Gophers have kept the contest close in the first two periods before dominating the game in the third. “I don’t think we’ve been playing our best lately,” junior for ward Amanda Kessel said, “and that’s something that we need to get back on track here for the last couple weeks.” On Friday, Minnesota gave up a 2-0 lead in the second period before eventually pulling away for a 5-2 win.
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On Saturday, the Gophers trailed after the first period for the third time this season. They fell behind after one period a week ago against Minnesota-Duluth. While the Gophers won 5-3, junior forward and captain Bethany Brausen said she has noticed the team’s play improve throughout games. “I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing,” Brausen said, “but we’re definitely working, making sure that we’re playing that full 60 minutes.” Brausen scored the first goal in Friday’s game two minutes into the first period. She said she told her teammates to step it up early to prevent a slow start. “Ohio is always kind of a hike to get out here with the plane and ever ything,” Brausen said. “So I knew that our team probably wasn’t going to come out as much as we might come at home series.” Megan Bozek scored in the second period to give the Gophers a 2-0 lead. But they gave up their lead after Buckeye goals from sophomore for ward Danielle Gagne and senior forward Hokey Langan. Kessel regained the lead for the Gophers at 14:37 in the second period before third-period goals from sophomore for ward Rachael Bona and Brausen put the game away. Saturday’s game star ted of f worse for the Gophers. Ohio State
sophomore defender Kari Schmitt scored about five minutes into the first period. Bozek tied the game at 1-1, but Buckeye’s senior for ward Tina Hollowell responded to put the Buckeyes up 2-1 at the first intermission. “Today we started a little slow, but as the periods wear on we tend to gain our legs,” head coach Brad Frost said Saturday. “We were able to, with our depth and our speed, continue to wear them down.” Freshman for ward Mar yanne Menefee and sophomore for ward Meghan Lor ence both scored in the second period for the Gophers. Two thirdperiod goals from Kessel sealed Minnesota’s comeback victory. Kessel said she thinks her team’s slow starts stem from a lack of concentration. “Getting deeper in the season, we just have been winning so much lately that we just lost focus,” Kessel said. She added that the problem won’t be hard to fix. To refocus, Brausen said her team needs to get back to the basics, including bringing the same intensity as its opponents to ever y game. “If they come out and they beat us, who have been having a great season, it really, really says something about their program,” Brausen said. “And I think that sometimes for us, it gets a little complacent.”
the officials’ review. The first one was waived off because Faragher’s helmet was knocked of f. On the second, the officials determined sophomore Kyle Rau inter fered with the goaltender. The split means Minnesota (19-5-4, 11-5-4 WCHA) gained no ground on the Western Collegiate Hockey Association-leading Huskies. Minnesota remains five points off the lead and tied for third.
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However, the Gophers have one more WCHA series remaining than almost every other team in the conference.
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St. Cloud State (31) North Dakota (28) Minnesota (26) Nebraska-Omaha (26) Denver (25) Minnesota State-Mankato (25) Wisconsin (25) Colorado College (20) Minnesota-Duluth (19) Michigan Tech (13) Bemidji State (13) Alaska-Anchorage (10)
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SWIMMING & DIVING
Toomey, Herrild star as Gophers dominate Minnesota Challenge, prepare for Big Ten meet The women’s Big Ten championships start Feb. 20. The men’s start Feb. 27. BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com
Junior captain Derek Toomey set a career high in the 50-yard freestyle as the Gophers men’s and women’s swimming teams dominated their final home meet of the season this weekend. Thir ty-six Gophers swimmers and divers notched victories at the 10-team Minnesota Challenge on Friday and Saturday at the University Aquatic Center. Toomey swam the 50 freestyle Friday in 19.83 seconds, tying him for the 14th-fastest time in Division I this season. “The 50 felt awesome,” Toomey said. “Right when I hit the water, I knew I was going sub-20.” Toomey swam the race not rested and unshaved, which made it that much more impressive, according to men’s and women’s head coach Kelly Kremer. “We expect him to go 19 ver y low at the end of the year,” Kremer said, “but this time of year getting under 20 — we just haven’t had many people do it.” For about 20 Gophers swimmers and divers, this weekend’s Minnesota Challenge was their last meet of the season.
These swimmers tapered their training regiment and shaved their legs in preparation for the meet. They also wore special compression swimsuits over the weekend. “Even though there’s just a few of us tapering for this meet, we have the whole team behind us,” senior Natalie Herrild said. “And that’s a really cool feeling.” One of the tapering swimmers, sophomore Jimmy Rafter, won five races and set a career high in the 100 backstroke. Twenty-one men’s swimmers won races on the weekend, including senior captain Jared Anderson, who won the 100 breaststroke for the third consecutive weekend. Anderson said he tried to improve his first few laps after a slower star t two weekends ago. “It’s a good confidence booster knowing that I can go out as fast as I want to
and I can still come home in the same time,” he said. Anderson also won the 200 breaststroke. On the women’s side, junior Monica Radecke and freshman Marina Spadoni both won five races. Sophomore Christie Clarke won three individual races, and junior diver Maggie Keefer won the 3-meter dive with a careerhigh score. In the final meet of her Gophers career, Her rild won the 200-medley relay and the 400-freestyle relay. “At the end of a career like this, all you really want to do is look at the board and smile,” Herrild said. “I’d say that a win is a really good way to do that.” With 10 days until the star t of the women’s Big Ten championships, Kremer appeared pleased with his team’s performance. “I think we’re in good position for what’s to come,” he said.
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Minnesota’s Derek Toomey swims in the men’s 100-yard breaststroke during the Minnesota Challenge on Saturday at the University Aquatic Center.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
Skid continues with blown lead at home Rodney Williams did not play with a sore left shoulder. BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com
Coach T ubby Smith shook his head at the podium Sunday after the Gophers’ 57-53 home loss to Illinois, looking for answers to explain his team’s struggles. “We found another way to lose,” Smith said. “We need to find ways to win. This was a huge game for us, could’ve put us over .500 [in the Big Ten].” No. 18 Minnesota lost its sixth game of its past eight in front of an announced sellout crowd of 14,625 at Williams Arena. Junior Austin Hollins led the Gophers with 16 points, four steals and no tur novers, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the mistakes and the absence of senior Rodney Williams. Williams, the Gophers’ co-captain, missed his first game since March 12, 2010, with a sore left shoulder. “It felt a little strange,” Williams said about not playing. “But we have a lot of guys that can step up.” “It’s a long season,” senior Trevor Mbakwe said. “But it’s a hard loss for us. We know we’re right there — we just have to stop hurting ourselves, and we’ll be fine.” Williams said he hur t his shoulder in a collision at the end of Saturday’s practice, but he insisted he will play Thursday against Wisconsin. “It definitely hur ts not having Rodney,” Mbakwe said. “But it’s not an excuse. We still felt we were a good enough team to beat them.” Mbakwe drew double teams all night from the Illini, as the Gophers made it a priority to go to their sixthyear senior. But with 50 seconds left and Minnesota down one point, Mbakwe was doubled and threw the ball out of bounds, intended for Joe Coleman. “It was a bad pass, I guess,” Mbakwe said. “Couple bad mistakes down the stretch, and that’s the game.” Mbakwe finished with 13 points and 10 rebounds, his eighth double-double of the season. Fresh of f an emotional victor y over No. 1 Indiana on Thursday, the Illini didn’t hit a field goal in the first nine minutes of the game. But that didn’t stop the Big Ten’s most frequent three-point shooting team from staging a comeback.
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Minnesota center Elliott Eliason takes a rebound away from Illinois forward Nnanna Egwu on Sunday at Williams Arena. ILLINOIS 57, MINNESOTA 53 Illinois Minnesota
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ILLINOIS FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts McLaurin 24 1-4 2-2 1-2 0 2 5 Egwu 21 3-5 0-0 1-3 0 2 6 Paul 31 3-10 2-4 0-4 1 3 10 Richardson 34 4-9 2-4 0-3 2 1 13 Bertrand 21 1-3 0-0 0-1 2 2 2 Abrams 33 2-9 0-0 2-6 6 3 5 Griffey 30 4-9 4-4 3-4 0 2 16 Henry 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Langford 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Total 200 18-49 10-14 9-26 11 15 57 Percentages: FG .367, FT .714. Three-pointers: 11-23, .478 (Griffey 4-7, Paul 2-6, Richardson 3-5, McLaurin 1-2, Abrams 1-2, Bertrand 0-1). Blocks: 3 (McLaurin, Egwu, Griffey). Team rebounds: 3. Turnovers: 7 (Egwu 2, Paul 2, Richardson 2, Griffey). Steals: 4 (Richardson 2, Paul, Egwu).
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FG FT Min M-A M-A 31 4-9 5-6 28 2-3 0-0 34 6-11 2-3 27 1-8 1-2 36 2-10 2-2 0-1 0-0 5 12 0-0 0-0 11 2-3 0-0 1-3 0-0 9 1-2 0-0 7 200 19-50 10-13
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Percentages: FG .380, FT .769. Three-pointers: 5-17, .294 (Au. Hollins 2-7, Andre Hollins 2-5, Coleman 0-2, Welch 1-2, Osenieks 0-1). Blocks: 6 (Eliason 2, Ingram 2, Mbakwe, Au. Hollins). Team rebounds: 5. Turnovers: 13 (Mbakwe 4, Eliason 2, Andre Hollins, Osenieks, Ingram, Welch, Walker, Ahanmisi). Steals: 5 (Au. Hollins 4, Ingram). A: 14,625. Officials: Tim Clougherty, Ted Valentine, Jim Schipper.
The Gophers spr ung out to a 26-14 lead, but they failed to hit a field goal in the last five-anda-half minutes of the first half. M inne sota was o u t scored 43-27 the rest of the game. “The main thing was getting out on the threes,” Hollins said. “They hit a ton of threes, and that’s what they do.”
Minnesota guard Andre Hollins drives the ball down the court against Illinois on Sunday at Williams Arena.
The Illini shot 48 percent from deep, including the game-sealing shot from Tracy Abrams with 18 seconds remaining. Minnesota has str uggled to defend the perimeter and handle the basketball throughout this season. Illinois is the third team in the Gophers’ last four
games to shoot nearly 50 percent from beyond the arc. Michigan State hit 50 percent last Wednesday and Nebraska went 64 percent from deep Jan. 29. The Gophers also committed 13 turnovers. “It’s the same issues as we’ve had before,” Smith said. “Taking care of the
basketball. It’s something that’s still happening, and it’s a real concern.” The Gophers forced four Illini turnovers in the first seven minutes, but Illinois had three in the last 33 minutes.
Notes 4 Elliott Eliason made
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his first start of the Big Ten season in place of Williams. He had four points, 10 rebounds and two blocks in 28 minutes. 4 Andre Hollins and Coleman str uggled all night, combining to shoot 3-for-18 from the field. 4 Minnesota’s bench was outscored 21-9.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Another road loss hampers Gophers’ Big Ten goal Minnesota needs to go 4-1 to finish .500 in Big Ten play. BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com
There’s something about playing on the road that the Gophers women’s basketball team can’t figure out. Minnesota, fresh of f a 72-60 home win over Iowa, scrapped and fought at Illinois on Sunday but lost 76-66. The Gophers are 1-6 on the road and 4-7 in the Big Ten with five conference games left. Minnesota head coach Pam Bor ton said last T uesday that the team’s goal is to finish with a .500 c o nf er e n c e r e c o r d . To make that happen, the Gophers will likely need to win their last three home games and steal one on the road. The Gophers had several chances to take the lead down the stretch Sunday, but Illinois played a zone defense that forced the Gophers into untimely tur novers and tough shots.
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MINNESOTA
IOWA
FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 28 1-2 1-2 1-5 0 2 3 Kellogg 27 5-12 2-2 0-6 1 4 12 Riche 37 4-14 8-8 0-1 6 3 17 Banham 17 2-3 0-1 0-1 0 0 4 Mullaney 18 0-0 0-0 0-0 3 2 0 Noga 28 5-8 2-4 1-2 4 4 12 Cotton 15 3-5 2-5 1-2 0 0 8 Hirt 21 2-5 0-0 1-3 0 3 6 Bailey 9 2-2 0-0 1-3 1 2 4 Loberg 200 24-51 15-22 6-27 15 20 66 Total Percentages: FG .478, FT .682. Three-pointers: 3-8, .375 (Bailey 2-4, Banham 1-4) Blocks: 3 (Kellogg 2, Cotton). Team rebounds: 4. Turnovers: 20 (Banham 7, Mullaney 4, Cotton 3, Kellogg 2, Hirt 2, Bailey, Loberg). Steals: 9 (Riche 4, Cotton 3, Banham 2).
FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Doolittle 28 3-7 2-2 0-3 0 2 8 Johnson 35 3-9 7-7 4-10 2 1 13 Logic 31 0-3 0-0 2-3 5 4 0 Taylor 20 3-8 2-4 0-5 1 5 9 Printy 34 6-22 4-5 1-5 0 3 21 Nesbitt 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Thomas 13 1-2 0-0 0-1 1 0 3 Dixon 27 2-10 0-0 0-3 2 2 4 Peschel 8 0-0 2-2 0-0 1 1 2 Timmerman 2 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 1 0 Total 200 18-63 17-20 9-34 13 19 60 Percentages: FG .286, FT .850. Three-pointers: 7-20, .350 (Printy 5-9, Taylor 1-3, Thomas 1-1, Dixon 0-6, Logic 0-1). Blocks: 4 (Doolittle, Johnson, Taylor, Thomas). Team rebounds: 4. Turnovers: 13 (Logic 5, Doolittle 2, Printy 2, Taylor, Thomas, Peschel, Timmerman). Steals: 10 (Doolittle 3, Printy 3, Johnson 2, Logic, Dixon).
ILLINOIS FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts 38 9-15 2-2 4-10 3 3 20 36 6-13 8-8 0-7 3 2 25 40 8-13 6-9 2-11 1 3 22 23 1-5 0-0 0-1 0 4 2 39 0-2 4-4 0-2 9 3 4 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 1-4 1-2 0-0 1 1 3 17 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 5 200 25-54 21-25 7-34 17 16 76 Percentages: FG .463, FT .840. Three-pointers: 5-18, .278 (Moore 5-12, GodBold 0-3, Crawford 0-2). Blocks: 5 (Penn 3, GodBold, Smith). Team rebounds: 3. Turnovers: 17 (Moore 6, Penn 5, GodBold 2, Crawford, Smith, Piper, Tuck). Steals: 7 (Crawford 3, GodBold 2, Moore, Penn). A: 2,703. Officials: Bob Trammell, Gina Cross, Brian Hall. Player GodBold Moore Penn Crawford Smith Piper Tuck Oden Total
Illinois closed the game on a 16-6 run. Rachel Banham led Minnesota with 17 points. She was in attack mode early, but her shots didn’t fall. She finished 4-for-14 from the floor. Three Illinois players scored 20 or more points. Karisma Penn and Adrienne GodBold both had
MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 25 1-2 0-0 0-4 1 0 2 Kellogg 31 3-8 0-0 2-13 1 3 6 Riche 35 10-19 11-14 0-9 2 4 34 Banham 30 3-5 4-4 0-0 3 2 11 Mullaney 34 2-9 0-0 4-6 4 2 5 Noga 19 1-6 0-0 2-3 1 1 2 Cotton 15 5-7 0-0 0-4 0 2 10 Hirt 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 2 Bailey 1-1 0-2 0-3 2 3 2 9 Loberg 200 26-58 15-20 10-48 14 17 72 Total Percentages: FG .448, FT .750. Three-pointers: 5-12, .417 (Banham 3-4, Mullaney 1-2, Noga 1-5, Bailey 0-1). Blocks: 9 (Loberg 3, Hirt 2, Riche 2, Banham, Cotton). Team rebounds: 5. Turnovers: 16 (Riche 4, Mullaney 4, Banham 3, Cotton 2, Hirt, Loberg, Kellogg). Steals: 5 (Mullaney 2, Noga, Riche, Banham). A: 3,528. Officials: Lisa Mattingly, Maj Forsberg, Bob Enterline.
double-doubles. Both squads started out slowly before picking up the pace of fensively midway through the first half. Banham didn’t make a field goal in the first half, but the Gophers still hung around and trailed by just five at halftime.
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY
Minnesota forward Michaëlla Riché holds onto the ball after a rebound against Iowa on Thursday at Williams Arena.
They crawled back from several small deficits throughout the second half before fizzling out at the end. Minnesota had no problem closing out Iowa on Thursday when Banham
had 34 points, including a late NBA-range three-pointer with the shot clock winding down. In the win, Banham passed for mer Gophers great Lindsay Whalen for most points scored
through her sophomore season. “I had a lot of confidence. I was attacking the rim,” Banham said Thursday. “That’s something I needed to do from the start.”
Monday, February 11, 2013
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WRESTLING
Gophers finish Big Ten season strong
Minnesota won nine of 10 matches Sunday en route to a 34-5 victory at Wisconsin. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Minnesota continued t o p r ov e t he G o p he r sBadgers rivalr y doesn’t really exist in wrestling Sunday in Madison, Wis. The Gophers coasted to a 34-5 win at Wisconsin in their final Big Ten dual of the season. It was Minnesota’s third straight win against the Badgers and second blowout in as many years. Minnesota has now won two straight matches in impressive fashion after a midseason loss to Iowa two weeks ago. The Gophers finished their Big Ten regular season schedule with a 7-1 record, one win behind the conference champion Hawkeyes. They will have a week of rest before the National Duals Feb. 22-23. Junior David Thor n star ted the dual at Wisconsin with a pin, and the Gophers built on their lead from there. Minnesota’s only loss came at 133 pounds. Sophomor e Chris Dardanes, the usual star ter, missed his second consecutive week with an illness.
Sophomore Corey Hodowanic filled in for Dardanes and lost 18-2 to Tyler Graf f of Wisconsin. Hodowanic has filled in at both 125 and 133 pounds this season, but he was overmatched this week. Danny Zilverberg picked up his second Big Ten win of the season. In the week leading up to the dual, assistant coach Luke Becker said Zilverberg needed one win to get his confidence heading into the bulk of the season. The Gophers’ upper weights contr olled the tempo at the end of the dual. That has proved to be a cr ucial strength of Minnesota’s all season. The Gophers will host the National Duals in two weeks in their last tuneup before the Big Ten and NCAA championships in March.
WRESTLING RESULTS
WRESTLER 125 Thorn 133 Hodowanic 141 Dardanes 149 Ness 157 Zilverberg 165 Yohn 174 Storley 184 Steinhaus 197 Schiller HWT Nelson
W/L (score) W (pin) L (tech fall) W (8-2) W (10-0) W (5-4) W (6-1) W (4-3) W (forfeit) W (6-1) W (9-2)
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
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Minnesota’s David Thorn wrestles against Oklahoma’s Tyler Dorrell on Dec. 2, 2012 at the Sports Pavilion.
EMILY DUNKER, DAILY
GYMNASTICS
Gophers finish strong on floor exercise, top Illinois The men’s team competed without three regular gymnasts and lost. BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com
The Gophers women’s gymnastics team outlasted Illinois on Saturday night at the Sports Pavilion, pulling away in the final rotation to notch a 196.775-196.35 victory. Minnesota won all four events as a team and individuals won three of the four events. The score was tied after three rotations, but Minnesota used a strong floor score to pull away. All five Gophers gymnasts scored 9.8 or higher on floor and bars. Coach Meg Stephenson said she’s pleased with the team’s level of performance at this point of the season. Minnesota had one fall of the night, one short of the team’s overall goal to hit all 24 routines. The night started a little quieter than usual. Stephenson said the team could’ve been better in warm-ups, and senior Janell Campbell said the team wasn’t as vocal early on. But by the end of the meet on floor exercise, both the crowd and the Gophers were getting into the meet. The floor continues to be an asset to Minnesota, especially at home. Campbell said the gymnasts know they can put up big scores when they end a meet on floor because they’re relaxed. “It’s just awesome to
exert that energy and that motivation,” Campbell said. “To end on floor is just a fun event because you get to put everything out on the line.” Sophomore Jenny Covers said the team’s passion for gymnastics is noticeable on floor because of the effort put into performing it. Covers, who was out of the lineup last week with a slight concussion, responded this week by winning the vault competition and finishing third in the all-around. “I think what you can lear n about [Covers] tonight is that she is a competitor,” Stephenson said. “She doesn’t let obstacles get in her way.” Covers said she was in a little bit of pain Saturday but was pleased with her performance. Freshman Hanna Nordquist replaced junior Kayla Slechta, one of the team’s top contributors on three events, on floor. Stephenson said Slechta has been “a little bit more sore lately” and didn’t want to risk anything by using her at this point in the season. Campbell and sophomor e Cier ra Tomson shared the top score on bars. Tomson’s 9.9 score is a career high. Sophomore Kylie Schermann ended the meet for Minnesota with a solid floor routine. Her 9.925 score tied for first on the event and set a career high.
Short-staffed men lose at Iowa
The Gophers men’s team fell to Iowa on Friday
afternoon in a low-scoring affair in Iowa City, Iowa. Minnesota competed without three of its regular contributors, who were in Las Vegas to compete in the Winter Cup. The Gophers scored their lowest point total of the season, 419.45, in the loss. Iowa won four of the six events and dominated on parallel bar and high bar, outscoring the Gophers by about four-and-a-half points in the two events combined. Minnesota had the topfour scores on floor and three of the top-four scores on vault to outscore the Hawkeyes by about five points. The pommel horse made the difference, as Iowa outscored Minnesota by more than three points. Pommel horse has been a struggle for the Gophers all season, and the team scored a season-low on it Friday. “It was a train wreck,” coach Mike Burns said of the team’s performance on pommel horse. The Gophers had three gymnasts fall on pommel horse and counted four missed routines of the night. “If you count a point on each [miss], that would have been the difference,” Burns said. Junior Adam Kern said the pommel horse is the toughest event in gymnastics because of the precision and touch it requires. Ker n said Friday was a “gut-check” kind of day because so many athletes were under the weather. “Sometimes you need
BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY
Minnesota’s Jenny Covers competes on beam Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.
these types of weeks where you’re just feeling the lowest of low,” he said. “That way you can really learn to appreciate how good it feels to win.” Kern won the vault despite shaking as he prepared to r un toward the horse. He also tied for second on floor with teammate junior Josh Wokurka. Wokurka became the first Gophers gymnast to compete in the all-around this season. He scored 82.9 to finish second behind Iowa’s Javier Balboa. Junior John Scallon finished four th on pommel horse in his return to the lineup. He had battled
GYMNASTICS
DiBenedetto competes in Winter Cup finals Teammates Zack Chase and Ellis Mannon battled illness during the competition. BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com
Gophers freshman Daniel DiBenedetto finished seventh on high bar at the Winter Cup finals in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Minnesota sent three athletes to the event. Junior Zack Chase and sophomore Ellis Mannon battled the flu Thursday and did not qualify for the
second day of competition held Saturday. DiBenedetto finished 34th in the all-around competition with 77.35 points. He scored 13.25 on high bar, 12.9 on parallel bars and 13.2 on pommel horse in the finals. He said he felt he was underscored on high bar. “I went out there, and I hit my set, and that’s all I really had control over,” he said. After competing in his first Winter Cup, DiBenedetto said he likes competing in NCAA competitions more because of the higher energy level. “[In the] Winter Cup you’re out here competing
for yourself,” he said. “I just didn’t like it as much.” DiBenedetto finished fourth on high bar in the preliminary round. He earned 17 points overall and was one of 42 athletes who advanced to the finals. On Thursday, Chase scored 12.35 on still rings and 13.75 on vault. Mannon scored 12.2 on pommel horse and 10.8 on parallel bars. The Winter Cup is held to determine the final seven members of the U.S. men’s senior national team. All three gymnasts will be back with the Gophers next Saturday when the team travels to Oklahoma.
WINTER CUP RESULTS THURSDAY Daniel DiBenedetto Pommel horse 11.55 High bar 14.2 Parallel bars 12.25 Zach Chase Rings 12.35 Vault 13.75 Ellis Mannon Pommel horse 12.2 Parallel bars 10.8
SATURDAY Daniel DiBenedetto Pommel horse 13.2 High bar 13.25 Parallel bars 12.9
SOURCE: USA GYMNASTICS
MEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS
WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS
TEAMS Minnesota Iowa
SCORE 419.45 422.75
TEAMS Minnesota Illinois
MINNESOTA LEADERS Floor Pommel horse Still rings Vault Parallel bars High bar
SCORE Frey, 15.1 Coleman, 14.0 Farquhar, 14.65 Kern, 15.3 Jaciuk, 14.15 Jaciuk, 14.15
MINNESOTA LEADERS SCORE Vault Covers, 9.9 Bars Tomson, 9.9 Campbell, 9.9 Beam Nordquist, 9.875 Golich, 9.875 Floor Schermann, 9.925 All-around Mable, 39.35
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
SCORE 196.775 196.35
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
a wrist injur y the last two weeks. Freshman Michael Farquhar finished third on still rings after missing last
week’s meet. The men will look to improve their performance next week in Oklahoma.
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MEN’S GOLF
TRACK & FIELD
women notch Match play shows Men, top results as Big Ten team’s weaknesses championships approach Minnesota tied for ninth place at the Big Ten Match Play Championship. BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com
The Gophers men’s golf team finished tied for ninth at the Big Ten Match Play Championship over the weekend. Minnesota lost two close matches Friday to Michigan and Penn State at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Fla. The Gophers rebounded Saturday with a match victory over Nebraska. Illinois won the championship by going undefeated in its three matches. This is the first of six spring events for Minnesota before the Big Ten championships in late April. Coach John Carlson said the team lost leads on the back nine of the course Friday. “We didn’t drive the ball
ver y well this weekend on a really tight, tough golf course,” Carlson said. “We were out of position during most of the rounds.” That proved to be the deciding factor in the close matches Friday, he said. On Saturday, the team was able to win the close matches. Freshman Jon DuToit won his match by two strokes, and Jon Trasamar won by one. Senior Erik Van Rooyen and Trasamar led Minnesota with a pair of match play victories. Van Rooyen led from the start in his first match and cr uised after trailing early in his second match victor y. Carlson said Van Rooyen’s round Saturday was one of the best of the weekend. “He played a flawless round of golf today,” Carlson said Saturday. “He played a Nebraska freshman who really didn’t have a chance against the arsenal of shots that Erik had today.” T rasamar, a redshir t junior, did not compete
for the Gophers in tournaments last fall. In his match against Penn State on Friday, Trasamar turned a one-hole deficit into a match victory after his opponent shot 5-over par in the final three holes. On Satur day, T rasamar never trailed in a win against Nebraska. Carlson said Trasamar’s victories were important for adding depth to the team. “He has played in quite a few collegiate tournaments for us,” Carlson said. “It’s nice to see that he’s coming back into form.” Minnesota’s players had their weaknesses exposed at the challenging course, Carlson said. The larger goal of the tournament, though, was to add depth to the lineup. “We have more depth in our lineup than we had in the fall,” he said. “We’re really going to compete ever y round of ever y tournament.” Minnesota will compete in two weeks at the Snowman Getaway Invitational in Arizona.
TENNIS
Men snap losing streak, women drop two more amid injuries The men’s team won 4-3 on Friday and lost 4-3 on Saturday. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
The Gophers men’s tennis team split matches with Louisville and Boise State over the weekend at Baseline Tennis Center. Minnesota snapped its four-match losing streak Friday in dramatic fashion with a 4-3 win against Louisville, but it lost 4-3 to Boise State the next night. Brendan Ruddock was the hero Friday night as he won a three-set match that spanned more than three hours to clinch the win. Minnesota won the doubles point against Louisville with victories by its No. 2 and No. 3 doubles squads. The Gophers dropped three out of six singles matches and were forced to lean on No. 5 and No. 6 singles at the end. Ruben Weber fought back to win at sixth singles after losing the first set. His coach Geof f Young said he was impressed with how the freshman battled. “He lost the first, and he was down 3-0 in the third, but I think he learned a lot that match,” Young said. “He showed some patience and finished.” We b e r ’ s c o m e b a c k paved the way for the senior Ruddock to play hero. Ruddock missed last spring’s season with se-
vere knee tendinitis, but he looked fine Friday night. Players from both teams watched and cheered as Ruddock battled his Louisville opponent. Ruddock finished the match with a power ful ser ve. He then pounded his chest, let out a scream, looked at his teammates and shook hands at the center of the net. “We’ve been working so hard, and we’ve had a lot of close matches,” Ruddock said. Young and his squad looked tired after the match, and he said Friday that the team needed to get some rest for Boise State the following night. But the Gophers star ted slowly Saturday, dropping the doubles point to star t the match, and they couldn’t rebound. No. 1 singles player Leandro Toledo struggled throughout the weekend and lost both of his singles matches.
Women The Gophers women lost at Oklahoma State and Oklahoma over the weekend, extending their losing streak to six matches. Minnesota was shut out Saturday against Oklahoma State and scored only one point Sunday against Oklahoma. Sophomor e Ter eza Brichacova and freshman Jessika Mozia battled tough in their singles losses Saturday. Both players endured a 20-game third set but ultimately lost. On Sunday, sophomore Aria Lambert was the only Gophers player to win
against Oklahoma. Minnesota competed without senior Alexa Palen for the second consecutive weekend. Merzbacher said last week that Palen was diagnosed with mononucleosis.
WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS
OKLAHOMA STATE 7, MINNESOTA 0 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Umanets Mozia Lambert Muravnik
L L L L L L
6-3, 6-3 1-6, 7-5, 11-9 6-1, 6-1 2-6, 7-5, 11-9 6-4, 6-0 6-1, 6-3
Doubles Pintusava/Brichacova L 8-5 L 8-4 Umanets/Mozia Lambert/Muravnik W 8-4 OKLAHOMA 6, MINNESOTA 1 Singles L 6-1, 6-2 Pintusava L 6-2, 6-4 Brichacova L 7-5, 6-1 Mozia L 6-0, 6-4 Umanets W 7-6, 6-2 Lambert L 6-1, 7-6 (0) Muravnik Doubles Pintusava/Brichacova Umanets/Mozia Lambert/Muravnik
L 8-3 L 8-2 unfinished
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
MEN’S TENNIS RESULTS
MINNESOTA 4, LOUISVILLE 3 Singles Toledo Bonin Froment Hamburg Ruddock Weber
L W L L W W
Doubles Bonin/Froment Hamburg/Ruddock Toledo/Frueh
7-6, 6-3 6-0, 6-3 7-6, 6-3 6-4, 7-6 (2) 6-7 (3), 7-5, 7-5 2-6, 6-2, 7-5
6-6, unfinished W 8-4 W 8-6
BOISE STATE 4, MINNESOTA 3 Singles L 6-4, 6-2 Toledo W 7-6, 6-4 Bonin W 7-6, 6-2 Froment L 3-6, 6-3, 6-1 Hamburg L 6-4, 6-2 Ruddock W 1-6, 6-4, 6-4 Weber Doubles Froment/Bonin Hamburg/Ruddock Toledo/Frueh
L 8-5 L 8-3 7-6, unfinished
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
The Gophers’ track and field teams split up to compete at several meets. BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com
Both the men’s and women’s track and field teams recorded promising results in their last big meets before the Big Ten indoor championships Feb. 22-23. The men’s team split up over the weekend to give all the athletes the best chance at their best results. The sprinters, hurdlers and jumpers traveled to the Iowa State Classic in Ames, Iowa, and set eight personal records. “The overall goal is to star t getting some [personal records] when you get into these bigger facilities,” assistant coach Paul Thornton said. Senior Oladipo Fagbemi won the triple jump in 15.29 meters and placed second to teammate senior Sam Kettenhofen in the long jump. Fagbemi’s 7.30 meters and Kettenhofen’s 7.32 meters were both personal records. “Nor mally I don’t do ver y well in the long jump,” Fagbemi said. “I just use it basically to train. But this season I’ve been doing a lot better,
and having Sam to jump with has impr oved my jump and his, too.” Thor nton said Fagbemi’s triple jump result was good for this point in the season. “The biggest thing with him is that he’s healthy,” Thor nton said. “That’s something that we have worked on for many, many years with him so that he is healthy going into the Big Ten meet.” Redshir t freshman Goaner Deng also set a personal record in the unseeded 400-meter dash. He won the event in 47.89 seconds. Senior Sean King tied for first place in the 60-meter dash at 6.77 seconds. In the 200-meter dash, King placed fifth but set a personal record at 21.67 seconds. Senior Cameron Boy also set a personal record with his second-place time of 21.26 seconds. Senior John Holton, Deng and Boy, along with senior Har un Abda, won the 4x400-meter relay as par t of Minnesota’s ‘A’ team with a time of 3:09.59. The throws team traveled to the site of the upcoming Big Ten championships in Geneva, Ohio, for the 2013 SPIRE Division I Track and Field Invitational. Junior Jon Lehman continued his steady improve-
ment in the weight throw with another personal record-setting toss. Lehman’s 21.46 meters ranks third in the nation this season and second in Gophers histor y.
Women The women’s team notched two first-place finishes and a school record at the Iowa State Classic this weekend. Senior Kylie Peterson won the 60-meter dash in 7.46 seconds, just one-hundredth of a second off her personal record. Peterson r edshir ted the 2011 season and spent much of last season getting back into shape. But head coach Matt Bingle said Peterson is back to peak form. “She’s looking the best she’s ever looked,” Bingle said. “Each week it keeps getting better.” Peterson said she has extra motivation to make her final season her best. “I definitely feel that this season I’m coming back into my own,” Peterson said. “Going out strong is kind of the point right now.” Senior Todea-Kay Willis placed second in the event at 7.53 seconds. Bingle said she’s usually faster but had trouble with the starting blocks. Willis placed second in the long jump at 6.19 meters.
SOFTBALL
Gophers start season 1-3 against stiff competition in Vegas Minnesota beat UNLV after losing its first three games. BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com
After three losses in its opening weekend, the Gophers softball team is probably hoping that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Minnesota went 1-3 against tough competition in the Spor tco KickOf f Classic in Las Vegas. The Gophers lost 1-0 to DePaul, 5-3 to Texas Tech and 16-8 to Louisville before defeating host University of Nevada-Las Vegas 4-0. A four-run sixth inning against UNLV provided some of fense for sophomore Sara Moulton, who pitched her first shutout of the season. Moulton (1-2) scattered three hits in her complete-game victor y. Three Gophers players had RBIs in the game. No. 18 Louisville pr oved it deser ved its ranking against the unranked Gophers in the
first game Sunday. Af ter a close first couple of i n n i n g s , the Car d i n al s pulled away by scoring 10 r uns in the final three innings. Gophers thir d baseman Kaitlyn Richardson went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and four batted in. The sophomore hit her second home r un in as many days Sunday. Nikki Anderson was baptized by fire in her first car eer star t. The freshman gave up 15 hits and 11 earned runs in 3.1 innings of work against Louisville. Minnesota struggled to generate of fense in their
season opener Saturday against DePaul. The Gophers managed two hits. Moulton gave up only two hits herself, but DePaul played small ball in the first inning to produce the game’s only run. Minnesota’s bats awoke in its second game against Texas Tech, but the Gophers surrendered two leads in four innings to fall 5-3. Texas Tech was able to compensate for six errors by scoring four r uns in the final four innings. Richardson went 2-for3 at the plate against Texas Tech with one r un scored and two batted in.
SOFTBALL RESULTS
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2
3
4
5
6
7
R
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Minnesota DePaul
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
X
1
2
1
Texas Tech Minnesota
0
0
1
2
1
1
0
5
10
6
1
0
1
1
0
0
0
3
6
2
Louisville Minnesota
1
5
0
1
4
5
X
16
21
1
4
0
2
0
0
2
X
8
9
0
Minnesota UNLV
0
0
0
0
0
4
0
4
6
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
0
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: track & field POSITION: thrower YEAR: junior MALE
JON LEHMAN
JAAK JENSEN, DAILY
Minnesota senior Rok Bonin returns a shot against Boise State on Saturday at the Baseline Tennis Center.
Lehman won the weight throw at the 2013 SPIRE Division I Track and Field Invitational, breaking his personal record for the second time this season. He threw 21.46 meters, eclipsing his previous mark of 20.97. It’s also the third-best throw in the nation and second in Gophers history.
SPORT: swimming YEAR: senior
FEMALE
NATALIE HERRILD Herrild won two races in the last meet of her career, the Minnesota Challenge. The senior was part of the winning 200- and 400-yard freestyle relay teams, and she also finished second in the 100 butterfly.
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UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT: 3rd Wave Feminism(s): A Panel Discussion WHO: Presented by WSAC, the Women’s Center and GLBTA Programs Office WHEN: 6:30-7:30 p.m., Tuesday WHERE: Coffman Union, The Whole PRICE: Free entry and dinner provided. Explore feminism(s) today, including how it overlaps with other movements, the strengths and weaknesses of the movement, and explore its potential for growth and collaboration.
WHAT: Upcoming Audition! WHO: Everyone WHEN: Noon-4 p.m., Wednesday WHERE: Center for Performing Arts PRICE: Free We are looking for you! One of the nation’s largest improv theater companies is holding its once a year open casting call, seeking exceptional local acting talent to staff our Minneapolis Troupe. This is paid, non union work. Those chosen will be able to act in up to 300 performances annually with low rehearsal time. Acting and potential full-time positions available.
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BACKTALK
horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (2/11): Creativity, communication and play lead to a career opportunity that keeps you busy for the rest of the year. As work increases, balance for health with new exercise practices. Radiate love.
sudoku Complete the grid so each row, clumn and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
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Thursday’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — There’s more going on than meets the eye, and there’s no time for idle chatter. To avoid arguments, blast by them with targeted focus.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Dress for public action. Get the agreement down in writing, and provide what was requested. Cut superfluous costs.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — There’s some instability at work. You get the necessary data. Check it through twice, and read between the lines. Use imagination. Take a trip.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Humility is a quality worth practicing. It’s easy to push ideas forward now, but there’s no need to rush. Thank others for their input.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Express your vision with optimism. Others bring amazing ideas; let them take leadership. Spend less money partying, and enjoy a fuller wallet.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Put off travel and avoid an interrogation; take risks later. Let your partner carry the load for a bit but stay active.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — A lofty scheme may encounter difficulties when you and a partner disagree. Fix something before it breaks; clean up or ignore a thoughtless remark.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Accept a sweet deal. Go ahead and get yourself a little treat. Increase your personal space by decreasing stuff.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Listen carefully to someone who doesn’t make sense initially. Choose love over money, and resist the temptation to splurge. Keep a low profile.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Restate your intentions, and stand up for what’s right. Work interrupts your research. You’re gaining respect.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Imagine how the next project gets moving. Some ideas are too expensive, so be creative. Smooth rough edges before proceeding.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — You identify a new starting point and make a bold move. Let your partner balance the books. It’s good timing for an important conversation.
Monday, February 11, 2013
crossword
overheard Guy: “No, don’t worry about it. We’ll take care of everything. You just get drunk.”
Girl 1: “What do you do with over 50 boxes of Girl Scout cookies?” Girl 2: “You live the life.”
Guy: “I don’t make awkward hand gestures. I make sexual hand gestures.” Friends [in unison]: “No. They’re awkward.”
“Aw, I forgot to order fallopian tubes.”
—Centennial Hall
—Campus Connector
Guy: “If I don’t like this Shamrock Shake, I expect $1.99 from you.” Girl: “Do you accept FlexDine?”
—Dinkytown McDonald’s
“You know you live in a country of excess when they use food as decoration for your food.”
—Applebee’s
Guy 1: “Man, I got dumped by my girlfriend yesterday.” Guy 2: “You mean you got thrown into a sea of thousands of sexy, single women?”
—Unknown
—Village Wok
“Murder’s not my thing, yo.”
—Mariucci Arena
Guy 1: “The dining hall food isn’t that bad here.” Guy 2: “I’d rather eat crack.”
—Pioneer dining hall
Guy: “The earth explodes in a supernova before you get into a relationship.”
—Dinkytown
“You are not helping; your hands are covered in poop!”
—Middlebrook Hall
—Southeast Como
Drunk Guy: “Hey you want some meth?” Stranger: “Is it gluten free?”
—Outside Dinkytown McDonald’s
“They should install a blow dryer next to the regular ice dispenser. We can have dry ice.”
—Comstock Hall
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FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Lewis
ACROSS 1 Tip, as one’s hat 5 Empty spaces 9 Subsides 14 Suffix with switch 15 Wilson of “Wedding Crashers” 16 Texas shrine 17 Tall tale teller 18 “Deck the Halls” syllables 19 Tear to shreds 20 Residential loan 23 About to happen 24 Bronze from a day at the beach 28 René’s friend 29 Appear to be 31 __ Lingus: Irish carrier 32 Russian fighter jets 35 “I’d like to hear the rest” 38 Italian violin maker 40 Squeak stopper 41 Rigs on the road 42 1974 Jimmy Buffett song 45 Reasons for extra innings 46 “Tastes great!” 47 Poet’s inspiration 48 Sow or cow 50 What social climbers seek 52 Curtail 56 Office communication, and what can literally be found in 20-, 35- and 42-Across 59 Gangster John known as “The Teflon Don” 62 Twice-monthly tide 63 Paths of pop-ups 64 Place on a pedestal 65 Show some spunk 66 “That makes sense” 67 Saunter 68 Vehicle on runners 69 Proof of ownership
2/11/13 Thursday’s Puzzle Puzzle Solved Saturday’s Solved
By Gail Grabowski and Bruce Venzke
DOWN 1 New __: India’s capital 2 Hunter constellation 3 Heads on beers 4 Hint of the future 5 “Take a shot!” 6 Informed (of) 7 Attack, as with snowballs 8 Stocking tear 9 Military practice 10 Visitor from afar 11 Treat jet lag, perhaps 12 Earthbound Aussie bird 13 Dip, as bread in gravy 21 Dad’s partner 22 “Lemme __!” 25 Vocalist Judd 26 Really strange 27 Bride’s purchase 29 Base runner’s option 30 Scat legend Fitzgerald 32 Flagship store at New York City’s Herald Square 33 Words from one with a bad hand
(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.
34 Letter after beta 36 Long, long time 37 Parking ticket issuer 39 Resistance to disease 43 Expel 44 Like a slingshot handle 49 Christmas, e.g.: Abbr. 51 Proof of ownership
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52 Simple trap 53 Far from talkative 54 Intro giver 55 Snooped (around) 57 Pulls the plug on 58 More than lifelike 59 Precious stone 60 Big name in kitchen gadgets 61 Profs’ helpers
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dr. date Dear Dr. Date,
I have been with a girl a few months, and I’m nervous about the future — I am starting to get really attached, but I already know we will be apart this summer and maybe even longer than that. When I ask her about it, she says things like, “I know whatever we do will be the right choice,” etc., which leads me to believe she is not as worried/is just thinking about the present. I see the merit in that but also kind of wish she was a little more worried like me, or at least open to talking about things. Otherwise I worry: If she is not in this for the long haul, what are we even doing?
—Anxious
UHaul,
First, I’d like to point out that you’re not allowed to start freaking out about the summer until the first few days of March. You’re jumping the gun a little bit, which I find upsetting, but I’ll answer anyway because that’s what I’m here for. So what are you doing? For some people, the present is enough. It’s their “present,” so to speak! For others, a preoccupation with the future prevents them from enjoying the moment and turns them into worrywarts who can’t function as happy people in normal relationships. They see their boo do something weird and rather than the appropriate response of thinking, “Huh, that was a weird thing,” they have the wildly inappropriate response of thinking, “That was weird, I could never marry this person; we can’t even date.” Or, they see the summer nights approaching and they start to flip out, wondering if they’ll still have a hand to hold come autumn. Then they go crazy, fretting about whether they’ll have that same hand for the rest of their life! So what if you’re not going to have her for the long haul? What is the long haul, anyway? ’Til death do you part? I think you should ask her! Ask her if she wants to marry you. Get down on one knee. Tonight. Or play it cool and start to under-
stand that your girl has a lot on her mind. Your big guesses about her are that she’s not as worried as you/just thinking about the present. If you ask me, she’s doing it right. I think you should take a page from her book and start to chill out. It sounds like the real worry here, though, is that she’s kind of aloof and perhaps a go-with-da-flow type, while you’re the kind of person who likes to plan and figure stuff out and talk about it with people. Maybe you’re not compatible in that respect, but there’s nothing wrong with that. You just have to figure out a way to coexist like this. Make compromises with yourself and with her, and soon you’ll find that you’re the yin to her yang.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I’ve been in a slump for the past six months or so, and it’s starting to affect my confidence. Got any tips for how to get the swagger back?
—You’re The Best, Ned
Ned Baby,
Thanks for saying I’m the best. I tell ya, compliments like that just don’t get old, and that brings me to my first tip: a positive attitude. Give out some compliments! I bet my bottom dollar you’ll get some in return. Boy, that’ll feel good. Along with the swell attitude you’ll get from being a sincere compliment machine, you may score some digits! We have another thing to talk about, and that’s how you look. How good looking are you? Hop up out the bed and look in the mirror, then hit the swag switch accordingly. You may want to start working out more, or less if you’re feeling muscle-bound. Ask one of your more stylin’ friends if they can help you pick out a stunning new outfit. Hope you can take these two tips as jumping-off points. Soon you’ll be a great dude to be around and easy on the eyes, too!
—Dr. Date
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