February 13, 2013

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The design fraternity has been inactive for more than two decades.

Harteau expects new levels of professionalism and transparency.

It is time to rethink the circulation of the penny.

Minnesota has a lofty goal to add 1,750 names to the bone marrow registry.

Alpha Rho Chi returns to U campus

A penny made is a penny lost

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SUPREME COURT

Ag case to affect patents In a Supreme Ct. biotech case, colleges support Monsanto.

BY REBECCA HARRINGTON rharrington@mndaily.com

Gophers pitching coach Todd Oakes speaks to his players at practice Monday at the Metrodome.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Pitching coach perseveres through leukemia Todd Oakes has returned to the Gophers baseball team after his battle.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

bone marrow cells.

The life-threatening illness

Gophers pitching coach

zapped Oakes of his physical

Todd Oakes knew something

strength and kept him in a hos-

was wrong last spring.

pital bed for months.

Walking up the stairs was tough. He always wanted to sit down. He was “extremely fatigued” all the time.

But it didn’t break his spirit or dim his positive attitude.

Now, mor e than eight months since Oakes was diag-

“You go through the sea-

nosed, his cancer is in remis-

son, and you always get run

sion, and he’s back to coach-

down,” said Oakes, 52. “But

ing.

it got to a point where I knew

“Instead of being one of the

there was something more go-

people that said, ‘Why me?’,

ing on.”

I kind of took the approach

He didn’t expect that something to be acute myeloid leukemia — a cancer of blood and

‘Why not me?’ ” he said.

“What excludes me from getting leukemia?”

Mpls. to expand car sharing

HEALTH

Prof creates male birth control pill Condoms are the most popular contraceptive on campus.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

As University of Minnesota students reach for condoms to prevent pregnancy, one professor is on the verge of creating a male contraceptive similar to the female birth control pill.

The College of Pharmacy’s Department of Medicinal Chemistry head Gunda Georg is working with a team of scientists to develop Gamendazole, a drug that may give males an alternative to condoms and vasectomies.

The drug has shown effectiveness in tests on rats, rabbits and nonhuman primates, Georg said.

The research team will soon begin requesting approval from the Food and Drug Administration to test the drug in a clinical setting.

BUSINESS

‘Closet-sized’ floral shop blooms for V-day

There are five car-sharing stations around campus.

Sheffield’s Floral sells 1,000 to 1,200 roses around Valentine’s Day.

BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com

BY MERITTE DAHL mdahl@mndaily.com

Minneapolis plans to implement a citywide car-sharing program in hopes of offering more convenient transportation options to residents and students this year.

There are currently car-sharing companies in the Twin Cities, like HourCar, and Minneapolis hopes to pair with one to expand access to residents. Car sharing is a transportation service that allows members to rent cars by hour or by day.

By April, the city will choose a company to partner with for a two-year pilot program

“The course of true love ever did run funky,” read the message in a Valentine’s bouquet for John Wright’s wife Saturday morning.

The University of Minnesota professor of AfricanAmerican and African studies has purchased flowers from Sheffield’s Floral for at least 15 years.

“I have always enjoyed the personal touch,” he said.

Sheffield’s has been Sta-

u See CAR SHARING Page 4 Most car sharing agencies use environmentally friendly vehicles.

u See MONSANTO Page 3 The company sued Bowman in October 2007 for violating a technology agreement and its patents.

u See BIRTH CONTROL Page 10 Developing new male contraceptives has been slow because it’s more difficult to block sperm than eggs.

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TRANSPORTATION

A U.S. Supreme Court decision on agricultural patents could have sweeping effects on copyright law.

The case, Vernon Bowman v. Monsanto Co., will begin oral arguments next Tuesday. The Court will decide whether Monsanto can continue to collect royalties after its patented seeds are sold.

Bowman’s argument is that Monsanto’s patents were “exhausted” after selling the seeds, and the company can’t control their use anymore.

But Monsanto argues allowing the alleged violation of its patents and licenses could send shockwaves through intellectual property in any field.

Dozens of organizations have filed

dium Village’s local floral shop for 50 years, said Carly Hall, florist and environmental policy junior.

Valentine’s Day is the busiest season of the year for the “closet-sized” floral shop next to Stub and Herb’s bar, Hall said.

In the days leading up to the hectic holiday, numerous bouquets and balloons lined the wall refrigerators, any counter space was covered. Shelving units reach toward the ceiling.

During the Valentine’s Day season, Shef field’s sells 1,000 to 1,200 roses, Hall said.

On the big day, she said, u See SHEFFIELD’S Page 4 University students make up most of the staff.

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Carly Hall and Tina Zedginidze work on wrapping a floral arrangement Tuesday at Sheffield’s Floral in Stadium Village.

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UK food agency raids abattoir in horsemeat scandal

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LONDON — British authorities on Tuesday raided a slaughterhouse and a meat processing company suspected of selling horsemeat labeled as beef for kebabs and burgers, shutting them down temporarily and seizing all the meat found.

It was the first time since the growing scandal broke across Europe that horsemeat being marketed as beef has been traced to suppliers in Britain, officials said, raising questions about how widespread the practice is.

Millions of burgers and frozen meals have been recalled around Europe and many accusations have been made, but so far it’s not clear how horsemeat got intro-

duced into so many beef products. French authorities have already pointed to an elaborate supply chain that involved Romanian butchers and Dutch and Cypriot traders that resulted in horsemeat disguised as beef being sold in meals like lasagna and moussaka to consumers around the continent.

Britain’s Food Standards Agency said it suspended production at the Peter Boddy slaughterhouse in northern England’s Yorkshire and a company it allegedly supplied horse carcasses to, Farmbox Meats, in west Wales. The agency said it was investigating how “meat products, purporting to be beef for kebabs and burgers, were sold when they were in fact horse.”

“It is shocking that we actually found this practice going on within the U.K.,” Environment Secretary Owen Patterson said.

Horsemeat is largely taboo in Britain and Ireland, though in France it is sold in specialty butcher shops.

While no health effects have been reported, the scandal has unsettled consumers and made clear that unscrupulous dealers in the complicated network of meat wholesalers are benefiting from selling much cheaper horsemeat as beef.

Peter Boddy, the owner of the slaughterhouse, said he would cooperate with police, while the BBC quoted a spokesman from Farmbox Meats as saying “there is nothing we have done

here which is not totally permissible.”

Food Standards Agency director Andrew Rhodes said the companies appeared to be involved in “blatant misleading of customers.” He declined to speculate on how long such alleged fraud may have gone on, saying only that officials have seized documents — including customer lists — from the two venues and are investigating how much horsemeat was sold as beef to how many people.

Horses are slaughtered legally in abattoirs across Britain, and the meat is exported to countries where horsemeat is eaten.

Meanwhile, authorities on the continent have not established where the mislabeling of horse as beef occurred.

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Nigeria journalists Police arrest man accused of mass stabbing charged after polio killings

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KANO — Police in northern Nigeria arrested and charged two radio journalists and a local cleric alleged to have sparked the killings of at least nine women gunned down while trying to administer polio vaccines, officials said Tuesday. Police claimed their on-air comments about a vaccination campaign in the area inflamed the region and caused the attacks.

The allegations against the journalists working for Wazobia FM show the continuing struggle over free speech in Nigeria, a nation that came out of military rule only in 1999 and where simply taking photographs on the street can get a person arrested. Though Nigeria has a rambunctious free press, threats and attacks against journalists remain common and unsolved killings of reporters still haunt the country.

On Friday in Kano, the largest city in Nigeria’s predominantly Muslim north, gunmen in three-wheel taxis attacked women preparing to give the oral-drop vaccines to children, killing at least nine, police said. Witnesses later said they saw at least 12 dead from the attack. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, though suspicion immediately fell on the sect known as Boko Haram, which is waging a campaign of guerrilla shootings and bombings across northern Nigeria.

A few days before the killings, Wazobia FM aired a program in which presenters talked about how one of the station’s journalists had been attacked by local officials and had his equipment confiscated after coming upon a man who refused to allow his children to be vaccinated. The journalists and the cleric on the program apparently discussed the fears people have about the vaccine, which then spread through the city.

Kano state police commissioner Ibrahim Idris ordered the journalists and the cleric be arrested immediately after Friday’s attack.

Nigeria came out of a long period of militar y rule in 1999 and has an unbridled free press, but journalists are often harassed by police and the State Security Service, the nation’s secret police.

HAGATNA — A man accused of killing three people and injuring 11 after crashing his car and stabbing people in a major tourist district in Guam was arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder, police said Wednesday.

The Pacific Daily News reports police have arrested 21-yearold Chad Ryan Desoto of Tamuning.

The wreck and alleged knife attack Tuesday night at a shopping area at the Outrigger Guam Resort sent frightened hotel guests fleeing for safety.

Fire of ficials say a total of 14 people were taken to Guam Memorial Hospital.

Antonio Mura, a spokesman for the Guam Visitor Bureau, said an initial report from Guam police indicated the victims were Japanese visitors. The agency sent Japanese language interpreters to the hospital to help.

Guam Gov. Eddie Calvo issued a statement addressed to “the people of Japan” saying the perpetrator would be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.” Calvo said he is committed to ensuring the safety of visitors to Guam and would increase the police presence in the visitor district even further.

“This was an isolated incident — something that just doesn’t happen in our community,” Calvo said. “We are shocked, we are grieving with the families, and we extend our deepest condolences to those hurt.”

The wreck and alleged knife attack at a shopping area at the Outrigger Guam Resort sent frightened hotel guests fleeing for safety.

A woman at a nearby café with friends told the newspaper that she saw the car plow through the driveway and into an ABC Store fronting the resort. Ashley Quichocho, 18, of Dededo says the driver got out, ran up to bystanders and began stabbing them.

“He star ted stabbing someone, and I star ted freaking out,” Quichocho said. “He was just running back and forth stabbing people.”

Quichocho said she ran to the second floor of the hotel with other guests to escape.

Guam is a U.S. territor y 1,500 miles south of Tokyo and 3,700 miles southeast of Hawaii.

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Alpha Rho Chi returns to U campus The design fraternity has been inactive for more than two decades.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

A group of University of Minnesota design students has devoted more than a year to reinstating a professional fraternity, but many won’t be around when it’s recognized in fall 2014.

Alpha Rho Chi hasn’t been on the University campus since 1991, when it fell apar t due to lack of interest.

But on Saturday, more

than 20 students pledged the Alpha Rho Chi Mnesicles chapter, a professional co-ed fraternity for design students.

At Alpha Rho Chi’s national convention in 2011, University alumni approached members of the national organization to restart the Mnesicles chapter.

That September, College of Design Dean Thomas Fisher put on a presentation for design students to see if there was any interest in the fraternity. Since then, a group of seven design students have worked to recr uit new members and create goals for the

fraternity.

“I have to actually create something that I want to be a part of,” said architect senior and Alpha Rho Chi Treasurer Steven Lees.

The frater nity is now in the colony stage, a probationar y period, and the founders will work for the next year to prepare for its official establishment.

Previously, the Alpha Rho Chi fraternity only allowed men to join, and they had the option to live in the fraternity house, alumnus Darrel LeBarron said.

He said the exclusivity may have led to its demise in 1991.

“It is a wonder ful

change,” LeBar ron said.

“It’s a breath of fresh air.”

LeBar ron and Lauren Wold, both Mnesicles 1968 alumni, have been active in getting the fraternity up and running since 2011.

“I’ve been really impressed with the people and the level of enthusiasm and really the amount of work they have been able to put in it,” Wold said.

Chapter president and architect senior Gar ret Sletten said the College of Design has been ver y supportive of the fraternity.

“They all want to see this take off,” Sletten said.

There has been a na-

tionwide trend of star ting new Alpha Rho Chi chapters. The recent interest may be because of the cur rent economic state, where it is harder for students to find jobs without prior experience, said Mara Braspenninx, national expansion director for Alpha Rho Chi. Wold said the fraternity is impor tant for design students because it acts as a way to develop leadership skills and promote networking.

LeBar ron said participating in the fraternity helped him succeed in the architecture program.

“I would not have grad-

uated if I wasn’t in Alpha Rho Chi,” he said. “This is the only group that will get you there.”

Sletten agreed.

“This is a suppor tive group.”

Although most of the founders will no longer be at the University when the chapter becomes of ficial, Sletten and Lees said they’re happy they got the chance to start it for future students.

The founders will receive a special initiation into the Mnesicles chapter when it becomes official.

“It’s nice because we can leave a legacy,” Sletten said. “It’s bittersweet.”

university biotechnology research because they wouldn’t be able to recuperate the costs with licenses.

“It could destroy the incentives for seed companies to provide suppor t to university research programs,” he said.

vironment.”

After the EPA statement received heavy public attention, the American Seed T rade Association r eached an agr eement with seed companies, which outlined that universities could do this comparative research. Ostlie said he thinks the issue has been resolved because of this agreement.

This brief suppor ting Bowman said companies have too much control over university research when scientists have to sign agreements in order to study the technologies.

But Ostlie said it’s the only way to research the technologies while they’re still protected by licenses.

“If I waited until a product was registered and I could use the seeds without any company approval,” he said, “that would mean for the first couple years I wouldn’t be able to teach growers about these new products.”

Agriculture case to affect patents Monsanto u from Page 1

suppor ting briefs backing either side, including a number of universities in favor of the agricultural company.

But the University of Minnesota is not among the institutions taking sides.

University General Counsel Mark Rotenberg said the school rar ely

signs on to amicus briefs at any cour t level, unless its interests are “directly at stake.”

“But no one should draw any conclusions or inferences from that,” he said.

Background Developing new crop varieties takes years.

In or der to r ecuperate the millions of dollars spent during development, seed companies file strict patents protecting

WHO SIGNED ON SUPPORTING MONSANTO IN THE FRIEND-OF-THE-COURT BRIEF? Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Association of University Technology Managers Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities Association of American Universities The Regents of the University of California The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois University of Florida Duke University Emory University University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. Iowa State University of Science And Technology North Dakota State University Research Foundation University of Iowa University of Missouri-Columbia South Dakota State University Nutech Ventures University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Kentucky University of Kansas Kansas State University Montana State University University of Delaware SOURCE: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION

inventions.

Monsanto patented Roundup Ready soybeans in 1994. The seeds are genetically modified to be resistant to pesticides so farmers can spray their fields to kill weeds without harming crops.

Unlike other crops, soybeans self-pollinate, yielding the same genetically modified strain from year to year.

In order to recuperate the money it spent developing Roundup Ready soybeans, Monsanto put a stipulation in its patent requiring farmers to buy new seed ever y year.

To plant the seed, farmers sign a technology agreement with Monsanto pr ohibiting them fr om selling the Roundup Ready seeds to be planted again.

Bowman, 74, owns a farm in southwestern Indiana. He first bought Roundup Ready soybeans in 1999 and signed the technology agreement with Pioneer, Monsanto’s distribution partner.

For his second crop of ever y year, Bowman bought and planted mixed soybean seeds from a grain elevator. When he planted them, they showed pesticide resistance like the Roundup Ready seeds.

Bowman continued this cycle for the next seven years, until Monsanto found out about it.

Monsanto argues that these seeds were secondgeneration Roundup Ready seeds.

The company sued Bowman in October 2007 for violating the technology agreement and its patents.

Monsanto alleged Bowman had been saving his seeds, but Bowman argued buying unknown seeds from a grain elevator wasn’t banned in the technology agreement.

The district court ruled in Monsanto’s favor, as did the federal circuit cour t, ordering Bowman to pay

$84,000 in damages to the company for patent infringement.

Bowman appealed to the Supreme Cour t, and his petition was granted in October 2012.

Protecting patents Universities develop new technologies in their research. The University filed for 115 new patents in 2012.

More than a dozen universities and higher education organizations filed an amicus brief in support of Monsanto, including Iowa State University.

The school’s Counsel, Paul Tanaka, said it wasn’t about taking Monsanto’s side but about protecting their patents.

“The idea that [after] the first sale of seeds, ever ything after that could be free of royalty payments has huge implications for how these materials are licensed,” Tanaka said. “That would disr upt the way the market works.”

Monsanto’s patent on the Roundup Ready soybeans in this case expires in 2014. They will then become a generic variety that won’t be subject to the technology agreement and strict licensing rules.

But the company has other patents and licenses that aren’t expiring, as do other companies and universities.

“Af firming Monsanto’s ability to enforce its patent rights in the case is critical to promoting continued research in biotechnology and other key fields,” the company said in a statement, “as companies, universities, and research institutions rely on patent law to recoup their [research and development] costs and protect against unauthorized copying of their inventions.”

If the Supreme Cour t r ules against Monsanto, Tanaka said, companies could choose to fund less

Against ‘Big Ag’ In the debate over patents on genetically modified technologies, groups against genetically modified foods have also been vocal.

The Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds filed an amicus brief supporting Bowman.

It outlines how large agricultural companies like Monsanto have control over research at universities.

Its main example is when the company Syngenta prevented researchers from publishing its f i n d i n g s s h o w i n g S y ngenta’s product could be harmful.

One of those researchers was University entomology professor Ken Ostlie. He was one of 26 specialists who filed a statement with the Environmental Protection Agency in 2009 that said biotechnology companies had too much control over their research.

Ostlie said companies varied in response to the situation, but it prevented public scientists’ ability to compare technologies and tell farmers which ones were better for them. “ W hen s eed co m p a nies sor t of said, ‘No, you can’t do research’ on seed that was commer cially available,” he said, “that directly flew in the face of ever ything that public science has been able to do.”

University Boar d of Regents policy states companies can’t prevent researchers from publishing their findings because it would violate the “open teaching and research en-

Gray area James Or f, University agronomy and plant genetics professor, just wants the Supreme Cour t to make a decision on the case.

It takes six to 10 years to develop a new soybean variety, and Or f said he doesn’t want to begin new research until he knows what could become of it after the Bowman case.

Laura Dorle, environmental sciences, policy and management junior, said she doesn’t like genetically modified crops when they are used for “corporate greed,” but the fact that science can make them is “amazing.”

“I think that the lines are less black and white than people make it appear,” she said.

Or f said no matter the decision, researchers should pay attention to it because it could potentially have a large impact in the future.

“It’s not that one is good and the other one is totally bad,” he said. “But it does let us know ... how we need to operate.”

TIMELINE OF EVENTS SURROUNDING THE MONSANTO CASE 1994: Roundup Ready soybeans patented

1999: Vernon Bowman bought his first Roundup Ready soybeans 1999–2007: Bowman used second-generation seeds from a grain elevator that had Roundup Ready properties

October 2007: Monsanto sued Bowman for patent infringement September 2009: Indiana district court ruled in favor of Monsanto September 2011: Appeals court affirmed the decision ruling in favor of Monsanto December 2011: Bowman petitioned for the Supreme Court to hear the case October 2012: Supreme Court approved petition to hear case Feb. 19, 2013: Supreme Court oral arguments scheduled SOURCE: SUPREME COURT BRIEFS, MONSANTO CO.

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MPD chief outlines new dept. direction Harteau expects new levels of professionalism and transparency.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

Two months after swearing in, Minneapolis police Chief Janeé Harteau has a new vision for her department.

Last week Harteau unveiled “MPD 2.0,” her initiative to create more transparency, professionalism and accountability in the city’s police force.

Harteau required all MPD staff to attend a meeting early

last week to introduce her mission to the department.

During the meetings, she told officers and civilian personnel she expects to see staff meet her higher standards, Sgt. Steve McCarty said.

“We’re just tr ying to change the image of our police depar tment,” he said. “Even though there was nothing grossly wrong about it before.”

Internally, Harteau will insist officers address each other by rank and dress well to show more professionalism, McCarty said. She also expects officers to walk the

‘Closet-sized’ floral shop blooms for Valentine’s day Sheffield’s u from Page 1

there’s always a line of men stretched out the door, late for their dates.

“The Valentine’s Day spirit, for me, is when the guys in line bond over buying flowers for their girlfriends,” Hall said.

Sheffield’s specializes in floral arrangements but also sells balloons, cards and small gifts.

The store does a lot of business for nearby hospitals and various holidays as well as the University, Hall said.

President of the Stadium Village Commercial Association Joe Walvoord said Sheffield’s is a value to the Stadium Village community.

“That type of a shop is necessar y for our area,” Walvoord said.

Hall said University students often buy single flowers, faculty members frequently order bouquets for retirees, parents buy flowers for students and the fraternities and sororities have accounts with the shop.

“We get a lot of orders during Sweetheart Week,” she said.

The floral options range from familiar roses to more unusual bouquets. One arrangement even features a miniature Weber grill, Hall said.

Valentine’s Day customers are usually confused when they come into the store, Hall said. When choosing a bouquet, she advises them to think about what they want the arrangement to mean to their special someone.

Although in business for nearly 50 years, for its first 30 years the shop was

owned by a family named Sheffield and had a slightly different location — where the Stub and Herb’s patio currently sits.

The store was on the first floor, and the second floor was the family’s home, she said.

The cur rent building was formerly part of Stub and Herb’s, Hall said.

Soon-ja Han bought Shef field’s 10 years ago.

Han decided to buy Sheffield’s Floral because she has a passion for flowers, said Jinna Seong, florist and the owner’s niece.

University students make up the rest of the staf f, Hall said, and they have a varied list of majors from psychology to art to law.

Hall decided to work at Sheffield’s because of her interest in flowers and horticulture.

History junior and florist Becky Whitmore chose to pursue the job at the recommendation of a friend.

Working at Sheffield’s was over whelming at first, Whitmore said, but it’s rewarding.

Sheffield’s operates under Teleflora, an “umbrella company” that allows shoppers to find a local florist in different parts of the country, Whitmore said.

“People should order local — you get more bang for your buck, and you help local florists,” Hall said.

Amid telephone orders and walk-ins, Hall and Whitmore cleaned, cut and removed thorns from pre-ordered Valentine’s Day roses Saturday.

Leaving Valentine’s Day flower purchasing until the last minute can mean waiting in a long line, Hall said.

“To the guys in line the day-of: Lear n from your mistake, and order early next year.”

streets while on patrol and actively engage with community members.

These new standards are meant to encourage officers to develop better relationships with residents, McCarty said.

“Police officers have done these things in the past,” he said. “But this plan is a resurgence of it.”

In a 2003 report, the U.S. Department of Justice said community policing efforts can have a major impact on police and civilians, like increased public confidence in police and improved public safety.

Though she has made her new standards clear, Harteau has not revealed many specifics on new enforcement or par tnership strategies, crime prevention specialist Nick Juarez said.

“This was just the first meeting,” he said. “We haven’t had any meetings with the front line at the division level or precinct level.”

McCarty added that in his tenure, a chief had never launched a plan of this magnitude.

The University of Minnesota Police Department is just beginning to evaluate Harteau’s plan, University police

Chief Greg Hestness said.

It’s critical for police to constantly re-evaluate how they operate, he said, because ignoring seemingly small issues can hurt a department’s reputation with its community.

“The more you ignore the small things, the less respect people have for their community,” he said. “Then, they can sort of snowball into serious things.”

Hestness said when he became chief in 2004, the department didn’t have a great reputation with some students because officers didn’t really interact with them.

In order to increase the visibility of University police, Hestness said he added more officers to the staff and set up partnerships with various student groups, like the Minnesota Student Association.

As a result, Hestness said he thinks the reputation of University police has improved.

Hestness said he likes the direction Harteau is taking her department.

“I think she’s made some really good choices,” he said. “She’s surrounded herself with people who have high credibility, and I’m pleased with what I see.”

Police seek motive in shootings

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OAKDALE — Police were still trying to determine Tuesday why a 34-year-old man randomly shot at passing vehicles in a suburban St. Paul neighborhood, wounding a female driver and killing her 9-year-old son, an aspiring astronaut whom she’d just picked up from daycare.

A witness told The Associated Press that the man, whom police identified Tuesday as Nhan Lap Tran of Oakdale, was nonchalantly walking down the block the

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where cars will have designated spots in more areas, including on city streets.

While there are private car-sharing services for residents in Minneapolis, the programs in place are not as comprehensive as in many other large cities.

“There’s literally dozens of cities out there that are doing car sharing and many of them have on-street components to them,” said Atif Saeed, the city’s parking systems manager. “So I think it is time for Minneapolis to try some of this out and see how it goes.”

Currently, the University of Minnesota has a partnership with Zipcar, which has five stations around campus in private ramps or lots.

The University’s alternative transportation manager, Steve Sanders, said for now, the University will maintain its 6-year partnership with Zipcar, regardless of which company the city chooses but may consider working with the city in the future if the pilot goes well.

“The advantage of having the same service as the city is to the user because they would have a bigger network of cars they can use,” Sanders said.

While citywide car sharing may make car rental more convenient for residents, it also has environmental benefits.

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night before, as if he was on a stroll, when he began firing.

Devin Aryal, 9, of Oakdale was killed. His mother, Melissa Aryal, 39, was shot in the arm. A woman in another vehicle also was injured, but was expected to survive.

Police Chief Bill Sullivan said it appeared Tran legally owned the handgun used in the attack, and that authorities are not aware of any mental health issues he may have. Sullivan said officials were trying to determine if something happened to trigger the shootings.

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“At this particular point in time it appears to be completely random,” Sullivan said.

Sullivan said Tran was arrested Monday after police responded to the neighborhood on a report of shots fired. Tran was arrested about a half-mile away from where the shooting started, and was in custody Tuesday on suspicion of seconddegree murder and firstdegree assault. Prosecutors expected to file charges Wednesday.

Sullivan said Tran does

not have a history with Oakdale police. Tran did not have a criminal history, according to online court records.

Cheryl Russell, 55, lives across the street from the house where police said Tran lived for several years. She said she was sitting on her couch around 6 p.m. Monday when she looked out her bay window and saw a short, stocky man in dark clothes walking down the street.

Moments later, Russell said, her son shouted from upstairs that a man was outside shooting at cars.

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“Car sharing is probably not the answer to everything, but it certainly allows people to take [mass] transit or use a bike as a primary mode of transportation in the city,” said Brendon Slotterback, the city’s sustainability program coordinator.

He added car sharing is good for hauling items or for quick trips.

The city noted most carsharing businesses use newer, fuel-efficient cars, which may replace older cars on the road as people opt to rent rather than own.

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Some parking ramps in downtown Minneapolis have charging stations for electric cars.

While students who use carsharing can avoid the hassle and initial costs of buying a car, repairs, gas and insurance, there are still annual membership fees and user fees each time they rent a car.

Theater junior Grace Christenson used Zipcar at the University before deciding to buy her own car last year.

“I think cost was the most important factor for not using [Zipcar] more,” Christenson said. “It’s really convenient if you have one quick thing to do but not if you have a job you have to drive to.”

Campus Zipcar rates are from $7.50 an hour or $69 for a whole day.

With the new proposal, the city is looking to combat concerns about price.

Currently, rental cars and car-sharing cars are taxed at about 12 percent, which is more than 4 percentage points higher than taxes on other goods and ser vices in the state. As part of the climate-action plan, the city will consider lowering taxes on car-sharing services.

“In many cities, it is typical to tax car-sharing ser vices at the same rate that rental-car services are taxed,” Slotterback said.

“While that is not a huge amount, it does make some dif ference on what your ultimate bill is as a carsharing customer because the market for car sharing is not the same as it is for a rental car.”

For now, the city will be reviewing proposals from several rental and car-sharing companies in the Twin Cities and hopes to have a car-sharing plan in place by the beginning of May. But Saeed said that date is tentative.

“We want to make sure we do this right,” he said.

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STUDENT LIFE

When you’re the new kid Here are some tips to being a tolerable sublessee.

They lived harmoniously before you came into the mix, so do your best to keep it that way.

s students, sometimes life demands us to sublease our housing. A roommate may study abroad or simply want out of a bothersome living situation.

Nonetheless, being a tenant can get stressful in these situations. One has to walk the line between finding someone who can pay the rent but also get along with the existing roommates. A lot of people deal with these kinds of decisions every day. But, let’s just be honest for a moment: Having a stranger come into your living arrangement has the potential to be hell.

So, for all of you soon-to-be sublessees, I have laid out some ground rules for when you take the plunge into your new living environment. However, it’s important to keep in mind that every house is different.

Just to brush up on some housing lingo; a subleaser is the one who is leaving his or her room behind to be occupied by someone else. A sublessee

You are going to be the new kid, and there is no way around it. If you are moving in with complete strangers, don’t assume that everyone is going to want to be best friends with you.

They may just want to coexist for the timespan you are there, but to assume anything more may be like crossing into no man’s land.

On the other side of things, if your new roommates are making an honest effort to make you a part of weekend festivities, try to go along with it when you can. Show them that you actually want to get along.

Try to keep the line of communication open in case you don’t feel comfortable confronting each other. If you don’t feel comfortable sharing your discrepancies to their faces, maybe you could have a group text or a spot in the house to post notes to one another. That can help to release some of the tension.

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is the person who comes in to take that tenant’s place for a specified time period.

Go with the flow It’s important to come into this new situation willing to adapt to how the new household runs. If you aren’t 100 percent on board with everything that the existing tenants do, at least try to make an effort. And quite frankly, bite your tongue.

Maybe they have a community meal once a week to catch up. Maybe the roommates all have designated rooms to clean on a weekly basis. Whatever it may be, try to make it work with your schedule.

If you don’t want to be a part of these traditions, don’t.

But don’t have a sense of entitlement and tell them how and what they should be doing.

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existing tenants. Your move is altering their world, so try to make the transition as seamless as possible.

The situation is temporar y

Understand that in a matter of months you will be parting ways with these individuals and may never have to see or speak to them again.

Some people will find friends in a sub-tenant where others will become mortal enemies.

Whatever happens, keep that in mind and just try to bear it when the going gets tough.

Unfortunately, many of us will endure some subleasing experiences we would soon like to forget. But, it’s important for both parties involved — the sublessee and the other tenants — to approach the entire experience openly and honestly. Living with peers your own age can be awkward enough without all the drama. So when you unload your car on move-in day, leave your internal baggage at the door and just enjoy the ride.

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ECONOMICS

A penny made is a penny lost It is time to rethink the circulation of the penny.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The right to defend yourself on campus

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This is a response to the Minnesota Daily’s Feb. 5 editorial, “Keeping guns off of campus.”

In the piece, the editorial board criticized Rep. Tony Cornish’s plan to extend concealed carry to campuses.

However, the editorial board’s critique is not supported by the data or by logic. Banning firearms on campus and making the campus a “gun free zone” does not keep guns off campus any more than the laws banning drugs have kept marijuana off of our streets.

There is no shield of safety that magically surrounds our campus. Criminals may ignore the school’s policy and carry weapons on campus regardless of what the Student Code of Conduct states.

Indeed, the tragic shooting outside of Centennial Hall in 2010 is a stark reminder that violent criminals will carry weapons on campus regardless of bans.

Thus, this is not a question of “keeping guns off of campus” as the editorial suggests but rather a question of who possesses them. The current policy ensures that only the violent criminals are armed and leaves the law-abiding citizen defenseless. Extending concealed carry to campuses would allow the same trained, licensed individuals who carry concealed firearms off campus to carry on campus.

Contrary to the editorial’s vague assertions, there is no credible evidence to suggest that such a policy would reduce public safety. Minnesota has approximately 115,000 permit holders, and

these individuals have proven themselves to be extraordinarily law-abiding. According to a 2000 report by statistician William Sturdevant, permit holders are five times less likely to commit violent crimes compared to the general population.

The Daily editorial board also ignores the fact that Minnesota and other states have instituted concealed carr y laws, and there is no credible evidence that such policies worsen public safety. In fact, out of 26 peer-reviewed studies on the topic, none found that expanded concealed carry contributed to increased crime. The majority of those studies actually concluded that concealed carry contributes to a reduction in violent crime. When criminals do not know who could be armed, they are less likely to attack.

There is also the fact that many universities already allow concealed carr y on campus. This includes large schools like Colorado State University and several universities in Utah. Contrary to the editorial board’s predictions, these schools have not had a single violent crime attributable to the policy.

Rather than propose an alternative solution to campus safety, the editorial staff denies the failure of current policy and suggests relying on the police. Certainly the police are an important component, but they cannot be everywhere all the time. Cornish understands this better than most, as he is a former police officer. Since there is evidence that extending concealed carry to campuses will not reduce safety and may

actually improve it, shouldn’t these licensed and trained individuals have the same right to defend themselves on campus as they have off campus?

Stuart Baker University student

What the Vatican needs now

I applaud Pope Benedict XVI for his unselfish decision to resign and thus make tradition subservient to the needs of Catholics. I shame those who criticize him for not “dying at his post” as an increasingly debilitated figurehead.

What the church needs now, perhaps more than ever, is more youthful leadership, the kind we had back in 1979 when John Paul II rose from relative obscurity to become an omnipresent warrior for faith with vigorous and passionate conviction.

Let us have another pope with that kind of fire in his gut, an uncompromising champion of faith who won’t capitulate to voices demanding retreat from 2000 years of “obsolete” values — perhaps a cardinal like 65-year-old Joao Braz de Aviz of Brazil.

This would be an excellent choice since more than 40 percent of all Catholics are Latino.

Whatever the conclave’s choice, I hope it’s one based on needs rather than traditions.This particular pope is to be praised for being both a stable hand at the helm of the Vatican and for putting himself second to the needs of the faithful.

Mark Overholser Daily reader

A call for safety Several Minnesota college presidents have signed an open letter against gun violence.

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ver the past few months, the debate about gun control in the U.S. has grown more heated as lawmakers at both the state and federal level push for more regulation of firearms. With the immeasurable tragedy of the Newton, Conn., shooting and too many college-campus incidents in the last decade, educators at ever y level are fer vently expressing their views about the threat guns pose to children and young adults.

A recent Washington Post article reported Feb. 4 that 350 out of 4,150 college presidents signed an open letter urging the nation’s legislators to consider more stringent gun control measures, including the opposition of guns on school campuses, ending the ‘gun show loophole,’ a ban on semi-automatic assault weapons and the requirement of consumer safety standards for all firearms. Presidents from several Minnesota colleges have signed the letter, and both Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak and St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman are a par t of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns campaign.

The University of Minnesota has one of the largest campuses in the nation, located in a dense urban area, and the University can’t shield its students from all the dangers that come with living in a large city. However, University of ficials can take steps to suppor t measures that would keep risks down. By signing the open letter, University President Eric Kaler would join hundreds of other presidents throughout the nation in voicing a demand not against gun ownership but for stronger gun safety measures that could lead to safer college campuses.

Funding for the stadium

ast week, the Canadian g ov er n m en t ended the production of its penny, announcing that it will no longer be produced by their Royal Mint. They have RONALD asked businesses to DIXON ensure that transaccolumnist tions do not require the use of pennies.

Although one does not often hear debate on the issue of the penny in the U.S., the elimination of the outdated coin would work within our nation’s best interests.

The primar y argument for the abolition of the penny is that it costs more to make than it is actually wor th. Currently, it costs 2.4 cents to produce one penny as of 2011. A counterpoint is that it would be an incredible burden on businesses to update coin-operated machinery that use the penny, but the long-term benefits of elimination outweigh the short-term costs of upgraded technology. Furthermore, most of this technology excluded penny functions in the first place, downplaying the short-term impacts. Finally, the government could help businesses purchase new coin-operated machines, which would alleviate the shor tterm costs from the job creators.

There are still many skeptics in the debate to get rid of the coin. Some have argued that costs would increase, due to rounding.

However, a study conducted by Rober t Whaples, an economist at Wake University, concluded from an analysis of approximately 200,000 trades through the U.S. that consumers and businesses would lose virtually nothing from the reform.

Pennies are ingrained into American culture — from convenient store leave-a-penny/take-apenny bins to Benjamin Franklin witticisms — but they are impractical. When was the last time anyone made a transaction using pennies? It seems as though most make their way into piggy banks, the trash or turn into lucky pennies on the ground.

There are many other arguments for ending production of the penny. Apar t from the economic benefits that the elimination would bring, I would have the comfort of knowing that my piggy bank will not have a wasted capacity due to an abundance of pennies: coins that are utterly useless.

The state Legislature should look to other sources of revenue to help pay for the Vikings stadium.

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

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here is rising concern over the underwhelming amount of revenue being generated from electronic pulltab sales, which are going to help the state pay for its share of the new Vikings stadium. By July, it was projected that 2,500 restaurants would be home to the electric pulltabs, but late last month the Star Tribune had reported that only about 120 restaurants offered the pulltabs, and gross sales were $4.2 million, well below the $17.2 million projected to be raised by the end of July.

Unless pulltab sales pick up, it will be necessary for Gov. Mark Dayton and the state Legislature to consider more viable sources of revenue.

Some officials have considered expanding the number of places that are eligible to purchase electronic pulltabs, like grocery stores. Others have cited a lack of efficiency in the approval process for the manufacturers of pulltab games.

While it’s possible that these factors could indeed be partially responsible for the dismal sales numbers, there remains little time for tinkering before construction of the new stadium is underway. While there aren’t any scheduled bond payments for 2013, lawmakers shouldn’t assume that pulltab sales will get much better.

As budget negotiations and debates over gun control legislation dominate news coverage and the public’s attention, the Legislature should make finding additional sources of revenue for the stadium a priority this session. At the ver y least, it should pass a bill that could include a backup source of revenue that could be raised in a responsible way if the sales of electronic pulltabs continue to fall short of projections. Regardless of how the public views the terms of the stadium bill that was signed into law last year, the state now has an obligation to hold up its end of the bargain.

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Diagnosis and treatment There’s never a good t i m e f o r c a n c e r, b u t Oakes’ diagnosis was especially untimely. His middle son, for mer Gophers star pitcher T.J. Oakes, was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in last June’s MLB draft.

Todd Oakes said the draft took precedence over his health, which is why he waited to see a doctor until after the college baseball season and draft.

“Most males are stupid and stubbor n. I’m definitely both of those,” he said.

Doctors ran a series of tests based on Oakes’ symptoms and found his blood-oxygen levels were abnormally low.

The next day, doctors called him to the emergency room and told him he’d be in this for the long haul.

“I knew it was something, but I never imagined it was leukemia,” said Oakes’ wife, Ter ri.

“You never think it’s going to be you that’s going to hear that your spouse has cancer.”

Oakes began treatment the following week under the care of doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

He was initially treated with a few rounds of intravenous chemotherapy.

He said doctors were happier with the results of the second treatment than the first, but the whole process was brutal.

“It takes its toll physically,” Oakes said. “It’s all the horror stories you hear about. I could care less what I ate. I could care less if I get out of bed.”

“If my wife wasn’t there to force feed me, I probably wouldn’t have eaten.”

Oakes, who normally weighs about 230 pounds, said his weight fluctuated and at times dropped to 190 pounds.

Despite the gr ueling nature of treatment, he said the days went by fast. Oakes worked on the computer and watched a lot of television.

He also started his own website through CaringBridge, a nonprofit foundation that of fers free websites to people with serious medical conditions.

Jour naling on CaringBridge was “great therapy for me,” Oakes said. He posted updates about his condition and of fered encouraging wor ds for

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Gophers pitching coach Todd Oakes works with players during practice Monday at the Metrodome.

visitors. His CaringBridge profile has more than 50,000 hits.

Gophers head coach John Anderson said the journal inspired the team and helped the two parties stay in touch.

Oakes was met with what he described as “over whelming suppor t” during his hospital stay.

He reconnected with many people from the baseball community, including former teammates, coaches, players he coached and Big Ten umpires.

“There were times when I asked myself, ‘Are ther e r eally this many people that car e about me?’ ” Oakes said.

Oakes soon settled into a steady routine filled with visitors, jour naling and tests.

“Ever y time they came back with blood counts, that was the big news of the day,” Oakes said. “It took longer than they anticipated to get my counts back up.”

In mid-August, after 50 days in the hospital, he was finally cleared to go home.

But his homestay wasn’t permanent. He needed a bone-mar r ow transplant to complete treatment, so he checked back in to the hospital in early September.

“I was in no hur r y to get back in [the hospital] even though I knew the transplant was inevitable,” Oakes said.

Doctors matched Oakes with his brother for the donation, and the transplant was successful.

He spent 30 more days in the hospital before going home for good in mid-October.

The team Most Gophers baseball players competed in various summer leagues throughout the Midwest after the college season.

But when news broke of Oakes’ illness, they rallied together.

“It hit the pitchers hard,” senior reliever Billy Soule said. “We all stayed in touch this summer and texted each other and made sure ever yone is OK.” When the team began fall practice, Oakes’ oldest son Tyler, who was brand new to the coaching staf f, handled the pitchers in his absence. Tyler Oakes pitched for the Gophers from 2006-09.

T yler Oakes said the players handled his dad’s absence well and stayed focused, which made the coaching transition easy.

Ter ri Oakes said T yler’s presence around the team took a lot of pressure off Todd.

“T yler was willing to do whatever he could to help his dad. I think this is the best thing,” Ter ri said. “T yler knows what he’s doing, so it helped [Todd] get that time to heal.”

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Gophers pitching coach Todd Oakes hits a ball to players during practice Monday at the Metrodome.

Anderson said he tried not to bother Oakes, but the two still spoke semiregularly.

“He wanted us to go about our work, do our jobs and not worr y about him,” Anderson said.

“His inspiration, his attitude, the way he handled it made it easier on all of us.”

Recover y and return

Oakes’ road to recover y was dif ficult. He said he spent a lot of time on the recliner and stayed off his feet.

By mid-December, he star ted to get antsy. Still, he hadn’t coached in

months and wasn’t sure if he’d be ready.

The Gophers’ thr eeday December baseball camp was coming up, though, and with his cancer in remission, he pegged that out as a perfect trial run.

“When T.O. came back … ever yone was excited,” Soule said. “Ever ything is back to normal now, having him around.”

Oakes coached the first two days and stayed home the third day due to fatigue. But he was confident that he’d retur n for the first day of practice Jan. 25 — and he did.

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Todd Oakes still has to take a day of f here and there, and he said he’s not sure if he’ll travel to Los Angeles for Minnesota’s first series of the season against UCLA. He said a full recover y could take up to a year, but he’ll be with the team for most of the season.

When he’s not with the team, T yler will handle his duties.

“I’m a coach. This whole thing gave me the chance to walk the talk a little bit,” Todd Oakes said. “I don’t know if I was that great at coaching myself. I’d rather coach other people.”

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she said, “and we hope we can add to those numbers.”

Both Vereen and Cosgrove said the team is excited for the chance to impact lives.

“It’s the offseason,” Vereen said, “but Wednesday will feel kind of like a game day for us.”

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has amassed is about 360 people.

But Slipka said she is confident the Gophers can meet the goal.

Junior Brock Vereen said hitting the goal of 1,750 is impor tant to the team, but he said the Gophers really want to raise awareness about Be The Match.

“If we sign up 1,750 people and we help one person, then it was worth it,” Vereen said.

Cosgrove said it is important for people to realize that a bone match can actually save someone’s life.

“I don’t think people realize how simple it is to donate,” he said.

Slipka said matches in bone marrow are based on the tissue type of a patient and not actual blood type, so people match up better with similar ethnicities.

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It’s the of fseason for players on the Gophers football team, but Wednesday after noon they will gather for an all-out blitz around campus.

The Gophers are pairing with the Be The Match organization to add names to the national bone marrow registry — a system used to find bone marrow matches for people with leukemia and other life-threatening diseases.

The Gophers will host the drive in the home locker room at TCF Bank Stadium from 1-4 p.m. Their goal is to add 1,750 names to the registry.

That opened a lot of players’ eyes.

“I think it makes the situation so much more real,” he said. “If we don’t push harder to get people to register … those little kids could lose their lives.”

Julie Slipka, another Be The Match team leader, said the goal is for each player to recruit 10 people to the bone marrow drive. If each player did that, about 1,000 names would be added.

Cosgrove said the team got together and threw numbers around before deciding on 1,750. He said the squad had looked at statistics from East Coast schools with smaller populations who had signed up about 600 people for the registry through their own drives.

Slipka said 353 people are the most she has seen sign up in a single drive.

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Kristine Reed, who helps lead Be The Match in Minnesota, said she first reached out to Gophers head coach Jer r y Kill in 2011 to assemble the drive.

Reed said Be The Match has paired with about 30 East Coast college football teams in the past — but never a Big Ten team.

“I thought we should give it a shot,” she said.

Reed said it took about eight months to get a hold of Kill, but he was ver y receptive to the idea once the two spoke. Both Reed and Kill are cancer sur vivors, which she said helped seal the deal.

Connor Cosgrove, a junior on the football team, is a sur vivor of leukemia and will undergo his final treatment in January 2014.

Cosgrove said two local children with life-threatening diseases visited the team about a month ago.

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BACKTALK sudoku

horoscopes

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.

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2/13/13

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (2/13): Your creative spark is on fire, and the flame’s catching. Fun, sports, family time and cultural activities keep you socially buzzing until June, when work steals your attention.

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 a 9 — You’re the super-hot star of your own movie. Play an everyday hero and succeed. Don’t take yourself too seriously, though. Consider the stress factor.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Anticipate surprises. It could get explosive, so take care. A strong leader takes charge. Vivid feelings and expressions of love occupy you.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 6 — Listen carefully for the next two days. Don’t make any important decisions without consulting a friend first. There’s a brilliant idea in there somewhere.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Expect a heavy workload. Inspiration guides creative effort. Plug a financial leak. Start by reviewing the rules for a startling revelation.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — The competition may be tough, but you’re tougher.

View from a higher perspective. Wait for the right moment to follow a hunch.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — There’s time to relax soon. Confusion is rampant now, so stifle it with snappy comebacks. Romance is a growing possibility.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Take the detour that you crave most, and dive into an adventure. Angels guide you on a mysterious path. Keep your eyes further down the trail.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Emotions increase at home with a confrontation possible. Get into household projects. Follow an exotic idea or unusual interest.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Hold on to your hat; this show is about to begin. There may be a high-ticket price. Keep your eyes on longterm goals. Patience is a virtue, especially now.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Study the situation. Discipline is required. Inspire your team without pressure. Don’t push yourself too hard, either. Someone else already does.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Focus on work and paying bills. Empower and support the strategists, and encourage wild suggestions and brainstorming. Push for big improvements.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Here’s where you start making profits. Ask for what you’ve been promised, and gather resources together. Be careful with an outrageous proposition.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

overheard Professor: “And for those of you who don’t know, out of the little spaceship capsule and Boop! He was gone.”

Student: “YOLO.”

—Astronomy lecture

Professor: “Hmmm, I don’t know that either. Just Google that too.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

“Trains don’t go ‘toodly-doo-doo, I’m stopping. ’ ”

“Yeah, I showed up to work and worked the entire shift. When I got home, I read an email from this morning that said I had been fired.”

Professor: “He was, to use the technical term, coked out of his mind. He was doing some crazy [expletive].”

Guy 1: “She reads, she does yoga.”

Guy 2: “She likes horses though. I don’t think I can deal with that.”

—Folwell Hall

—Amundson Hall

[Baby starts crying in class] Professor: “I know, I know. You’ll be asleep soon. [Sings like a lullaby] Standardizzzed ... Normal Distributionnn ...”

—Willey Hall

“The most used words in this lab are ‘not working.’ ”

—Northrop Mall [Looking at online profiles]

—Carlson School of Management computer lab

Professor: “You’ll be happy to know I’m a legal citizen. My green card got approved this morning. The bad news is that I won’t be deported before the first midterm.”

—Ruttan Hall

—Keller Hall

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crossword

FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 13, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Medical amts.

4 Be accountable (for) 10 Remove, as coupons 14 Ernst collaborator 15 Electronic music genre 16 Spherical opening?

17 Titanic compartment on the lowest level 19 “All __”: 1931 tune 20 Height: Pref.

21 Lord’s Prayer opener 22 Arterial trunk 24 __ León: Monterrey’s state 26 Setup of a sort 29 Okay 31 Okay 32 Project, with “out” 33 Mediterranean capital 36 Farm female 37 Drive-in offering, and what 17-, 26-, 50- or 60Across has, in more ways than one 41 1% of a cool mil 42 Lethargic 43 Stein filler 44 Poet’s contraction 46 Discography entries 50 Country kitchen design option 54 Wash softly against 55 Words after “What a coincidence!”

56 Muppet friend of Elmo 58 Poet’s preposition 59 Italian carmaker 60 Verify 63 “Poppycock!”

64 Find, as a frequency 65 Whopper, e.g.

66 Very dark 67 It has its ups and downs 68 Family guy

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By Janice Luttrell and Patti Varol

DOWN 1 Poolside structure 2 Springtime bloomer 3 Tapering tops 4 Wore (away) 5 Fiery emperor?

6 Clean with effort 7 Fingerprint ridge 8 Ambient music pioneer Brian 9 Parmesan alternative 10 A minor, for one 11 Didn’t quite close 12 Childish 13 Slapstick prop 18 Film Volkswagen with “53” painted on it 23 Singular 25 Mark on an otherwise perfect record?

27 Place in the earth 28 Hot time in France 30 Dawn-dusk link 34 Like the ’80s look, now 35 Tabloid subj.

36 Spa treatment

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(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

37 Aspect of paranoia 38 Person in the know 39 Therapists’ org.

40 Cultivate 41 Smidge 44 Unit of resistance 45 Official orders 47 Defended, as family honor 48 Brady Bunch girl

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49 Fed the fire 51 Cartoonist Guisewite or her title character 52 Depleted layer 53 Blooms for lovers 57 “¿Cómo __?”

59 Justice Dept. division 61 Wish one hadn’t 62 Udder woman?

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dr. date Dear Dr. Date,

I am 19 and have never been kissed. As pathetic as that is, I’ve been on dates and actively socialize with guys, so it’s not like I’ve set myself up for this. I kind of figured that when I came to the U, where there would be a load of awesome guys, I’d finally meet someone who would be a little romantic. I’ve gone out with friends pretty often this year, and there are quite a few guys I’d love to hook up with. I’m not trying to get this over with for the sake of getting this over with, but a Valentine’s Day miracle would be really cool.

Any advice?

—NBK

Dear Josie Geller,

You’re not Josie Gross-ie anymore.

Hopefully the braces are gone and you shower on a semi-regular basis now.

There is no reason for you not to jump on the pucker mobile — except for your quiet inhibitions. Perhaps you’ve NBK because you really do want your first kiss to be with someone your juices really flow for — a Ryan Gosling of sorts.

You need to realize a first kiss isn’t anything major; it’s the peewee league.

I’m going to prescribe you a dose of aggression and urge you to swallow it with a big ole glass of flirt-juice; it kind of looks like Tang laced with vodka. Put your Crest Whitestrips and mascara on because you’ve got some major smiling and eyelash-batting to do, lady.

Next time you’re close-talking with a cutie, move slightly more toward him and playfully touch his leg to start the moves. He’ll take that as the green light into driving his tongue into your mouth: hot, hot, hot!

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m in a long-distance relationship — I go to the U and my girlfriend goes to UW-Madison. We have a good relationship, but since spring semester started, I’ve noticed her talking about a lot of good guy friends. That is new, and it makes me nervous that one of them could come on to her, and I am so far away that I wouldn’t know or be able to do anything. How do I talk to her about

it without sounding overbearing but to ease my fears?

—Not Growing Fonder

Dear Weeded By Fear,

As long as your boo isn’t a “Buzz, your girlfriend, woof” type of gal, your pending suspicions are probably accurate. Hey, hormones are real things!

However, just because guys are coming on to her doesn’t mean she is jumping on their hips and riding into the night with ’em. How much do you trust your babe?

I’m an advocate for actions speaking louder than words, so this what you’re going to do: Make a surprise visit to Mad-town; grab your gal and smooch her like there is no tomorrow in front of her dog pound; repeat smooches and groping for the entire weekend. And that’s how you get the doggies off of your feline’s tail. Y’welcome.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I suspect my boyfriend is cheating.

I don’t want him to think I am a paranoid, psycho girlfriend, but I can’t stop thinking about it, and now it is all I think about when we are apart — I wonder whom he is with and what he is doing.

How can I calm down?

—Hyper

Dear Feverish Friend,

One word: Xanax. Kidding, kind of. But honestly, you’ve got to relax, baby. Unless your man is doing some real bizarre things, i.e. coming home smelling like Marc Jacobs Daisy or has a track phone — in which case he’s probably a drug dealer, not a cheater — then you probably are just smoking a little too much of the paranoia plant.

If your panties really are in a bundle about this, then pitch your fears to him in a nonconfrontational way. Toss the trembles to the side and keep your voice at a single pitch. You’ll be able to gather from the way he reacts to your quiet panic what his real intentions are with you. I grant you permission to slap a boy if your worries become reality.

—Dr. Date

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

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Obama: Nation stronger, GOP should back plans

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Uncompromising and politically emboldened, President Barack Obama urged a deeply divided Congress Tuesday night to embrace his plans to use government money to create jobs and strengthen the nation’s middle class. He declared Republican ideas for reducing the deficit “even worse” than the unpalatable deals Washington had to stomach during his first term.

In his first State of the Union address since winning re-election, Obama conceded economic revival is an “unfinished task,” but he claimed clear progress and said he was seeking to build on it as he embarks on four more years in office.

“We have cleared away the rubble of crisis, and we can say with renewed confidence that the state of our union is strong,” Obama said, speaking before a joint session of Congress and a television audience of millions.

In specific proposals for his second term, an assertive Obama called for increased federal spending to fix the nation’s roads and bridges, the first increase in the minimum wage in six years and expansion of early education to ever y American 4-yearold. Seeking to appeal for support from Republicans, he promised that none of his proposals would increase the deficit “by a single dime.”

In the Republican response to Obama’s address, rising GOP star Marco Rubio of Florida came right back at the president, saying his

solution “to virtually every problem we face is for Washington to tax more, borrow more and spend more.”

Sen. Rubio, in prepared remarks, said presidents of both parties have recognized that the free enterprise system brings middle-class prosperity.

“But President Obama?”

Rubio said. “He believes it’s the cause of our problems.”

Obama also announced new steps to reduce the U.S. militar y footprint abroad, with 34,000 American troops withdrawing from Afghanistan within a year. And he had a sharp rebuke for North Korea, which launched a nuclear test just hours before his remarks, saying, “Provocations of the sort we saw last night will only isolate them further.”

Despite the pressing foreign policy concerns, jobs and growth dominated Obama’s prime-time address, underscoring the degree to which the economy remains a vulnerability for the president and could disrupt his plans for pursuing a broader agenda, including immigration overhaul, stricter gun laws and climate change legislation.

Standing in Obama’s way is a Congress that remains nearly as divided as it was during the final years of his first term, when Washington lurched from one crisis to another.

The president implored lawmakers to break through partisan logjams, asserting that “the greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next.”

“Americans don’t expect government to solve every problem,” he said. “They do expect us to forge reasonable compromise where we can.”

Yet Obama offered few signs of being willing to compromise himself, instead doubling down on his calls to create jobs by spending more government money and insisting that lawmakers pay down the deficit through a combination of targeted spending cuts and tax increases. But he offered few specifics on what he wanted to see cut, focusing instead on the need to protect programs that help the middle class, elderly and poor.

He did reiterate his willingness to tackle entitlement changes, particularly on Medicare, though he has ruled out increasing the eligibility age for the popular benefit program for seniors.

Republicans are ardently opposed to Obama’s calls for legislating more tax revenue to reduce the deficit and offset broad the automatic spending cuts — known as the sequester — that are to take effect March 1.

Obama broke little new ground on two agenda items he has pushed vigorously since winning reelection: overhauling the nation’s fractured immigration laws and enacting tougher gun control measures in the wake of the horrific massacre of school children in Newtown, Conn.

Yet he pressed for urgency on both, calling on Congress to send him an immigration bill “in the next few months” and insisting lawmakers hold votes on his gun proposals.

Birth Control u from Page 1

Georg said the drug will be a “reversible” alternative to permanent vasectomies because men will be able to take the pill to temporarily minimize fertility and can regain it if they stop taking it.

The dr ug would give people another option to plan pregnancy, she said.

Gamendazole faces a long road to the pharmaceutical market because it’s designed for healthy individuals, Georg said. Because of that, the pill is required to be completely free of side effects, like potential sperm damage, before being released onto the market.

“Usually when you develop a drug, it is for a disease, and certainly fertility is not a disease,” she said.

“This dr ug has to be absolutely clean, and that’s a very high hurdle to take.”

Developing new male contraceptives has been historically slow because it’s much more difficult to block sperm than eggs, Georg said.

Every milliliter of semen produced has 15 to 200 million sperm, she said.

“That gives you an idea [of] how difficult that might be to control as opposed to controlling one egg.”

While there’s a perception that men will not want to use a contraceptive pill, Georg said, many men have responded to studies saying they would want to take it.

“I think that men are actually more willing to do this than a lot of people think,” she said.

Some University students said releasing a male bir th control pill into the market could have a positive effect.

Mechanical engineering freshman Dan Sherman said men would probably take the contraceptive as another option to prevent unwanted pregnancy.

“It would make ever ything safer and better,” he said.

Another University student, Katie Hanson, said it would be more practical if

both genders could take a pill.

“I think it makes sense for guys to take birth control,” she said.

Other students showed concern about how people would respond to a new male contraceptive after years of having only the female birth control pill available.

University student Tegan Martin said though she thinks male birth control pills are a good idea, she’s not sure if people will change their contraceptive habits.

“I don’t know how easily it will catch on,” she said.

Shane DeGroy, a student in the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, said having another option to minimize accidental pregnancy would be helpful, but it would work best if both genders took responsibility for birth control.

“If a guy still thinks it’s the woman’s job to do it,” DeGroy said, “I’m not sure [men will use it].”

Condoms for now While researchers continue developing the male birth control pill, University students turn to condoms as their main source of contraception.

Among sexually active University students, almost half reported using a condom the last time they had vaginal intercourse, according to Boynton Health Ser-

U OF M STUDENT PREGNANCY PREVENTION METHODS

vice’s 2010 College Student Health Survey report.

Condoms are the most common method used by University students to prevent pregnancy, followed by the birth control pill, according to the report.

“Sexual health is an important part of health care,” Student Health Advisor y Committee member Lauren Beach said. “It’s important that we raise awareness over ways that people can protect themselves.”

Health and wellness junior Amy Whitburn said it’s impor tant to educate students on sexual health care products because not every student comes to college aware of them.

“A lot of people come from high schools or places that they don’t have comprehensive sex [education], and in college people are starting new experiences,” Whitbur n said. “If they haven’t had a condom demo or they haven’t have some sort of experience with sexual health … that can lead to a lot of issues.”

Whitburn works as a coordinator for Sexual Health Awareness and Disease Education, a Boynton-sponsored group that works to inform students on sexual health.

During 2011-12, SHADE handed out more than 100,000 condoms to students on campus.

“The fact that it’s that popular of a program demonstrates that it’s an incredibly important part of public health outreach and services on campus,” Beach said.

U OF M STUDENT CONDOM USE 0.7% DON’T KNOW

47% CONDOMS 43.4% BIRTH CONTROL PILLS 10.9% WITHDRAWAL

60.5% USED CONDOM 38.8% DID NOT USE CONDOM

5.4% NUVA RING 13.4% OTHER *PERCENTS ARE BASED ON SEXUALLY ACTIVE STUDENTS’ LAST INTERCOURSE

SOURCE: BOYNTON HEALTH SERVICE

*PERCENTS ARE BASED ON SEXUALLY ACTIVE STUDENTS’ LAST INTERCOURSE

SOURCE: BOYNTON HEALTH SERVICE