February 18, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

Grad students mischarged for health insurance Some students were temporarily charged $950 in the mix-up.

EDITORIALS & OPINIONS

Diversity advice for university instructors u See PAGE 6

SNOW SHOWER HIGH 32° LOW -6°

U OF M

MINNEAPOLIS

LEGISLATURE

Same-sex marriage bills to be introduced

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

With momentum from the marriage amendment’s defeat, Minnesota lawmakers will introduce a bill in the coming weeks to try legalizing same-sex marriage.

More than 2,000 Minnesotans rallied at the state Capitol on Thursday to drum up support for the forthcoming legislation.

Minnesotans United for All Families, which fought the November ballot question that would have constitutionally defined marriage as between one man and one woman, hosted the Valen-

IOWA 72, GOPHERS 51 Minnesota blew a 16-point lead once Iowa turned to a zone defense.

Here are some tips to help non-heterosexual students feel welcome.

u See PAGE 3

Supporters, hoping to ride the wave of a November victory, still face foes.

SPORTS

tine’s Day rally.

The group wants Minnesota to join nine other states that have legalized same-sex marriage.

“We’ve been through quite a campaign, we’ve had quite a debate in Minnesota, and I think it’s time to consider this debate legislatively,” said University of Minnesota law professor Dale Carpenter.

While proponents are hopeful, any bill to change marriage laws still faces strong opposition by legislators and the public.

u See PAGE 8

MONDAY

ST PAUL

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

MEN’S HOCKEY

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minnesota forward Nick Bjugstad keeps the puck from Wisconsin forward Nic Kerdiles on Sunday at Soldier Field in Chicago. The Badgers beat the Gophers 3-2.

Badgers freeze Gophers outdoors

u See MARRIAGE Page 4 A bill will be introduced this week or next.

Minnesota lost its first outdoor game in the modern era and split its series with Wisconsin.

RELATED CONTENT The U’s GLBTA Programs Office celebrates 20 years

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

u See Page 4

games, although many only attended one. Notre Dame defeat-

CHICAGO — Playing in their first outdoor game in the modern

ACADEMICS

U to work out kinks of yearround calendar Financial aid and summer jobs are possible complications.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota will implement a year-round calendar pilot program this fall, an alluring prospect to schools around the nation that are under pressure to be more efficient and cost effective.

The new year-round option for two College of Design programs mir rors a nationwide trend in higher education.

“This is the future of higher education,” said Edwin Sexton, associate

academic vice president for curriculum at Brigham Young University-Idaho, which went year round in 2007. “Colleges can’t af ford to just leave their campus sitting empty all summer.”

Schools see increased tuition revenue, higher student enrollment and year-round facility use as benefits to a trimester system.

But schools in a trimester model battle possible complications with financial aid disbursement, employment and inter nship oppor tunities and research conflicts with faculty. u See CALENDAR Page 3 Purdue University also wants to implement a year-round system.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT MNDAILY.COM

ed Miami (Ohio) 2-1 in the first game.

era, the Gophers learned Sun-

The atmosphere was a hit for

day that it’s nearly impossible to

the fans. The crowd was evenly

erase a three-goal deficit outside.

divided between Minnesota and

Wisconsin defeated the No.

Wisconsin fans for the late-after-

2 Gophers 3-2 at Soldier Field

noon game Sunday.

— the football stadium for the

“It was amazing,” University of

Chicago Bears — in the second

Minnesota alumnus Jake Thom-

game of the OfficeMax Hockey

son said. “A lot of fans traveled

City Classic.

from each school.”

More than 50,000 fans were

Thompson said he bought his

announced in attendance for both

tickets as soon as they went on

u See HOCKEY Page 7

FACULTY

Prospective faculty members audition Most candidates give ‘job talks’ for the hiring process.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

Jazz music screeched loudly for an audience of mostly University of Minnesota faculty members and graduate students as they

waited patiently for musicologist Michael Gallope to explain its significance.

But Gallope, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, wasn’t the traditional lecturer.

He was trying to land a job at the University.

Many potential faculty members at higher education institutions give

practice lectures as part of the hiring process. These “job talks” of fer faculty and graduate students the chance to evaluate candidates’ research and teaching ability.

“I think [job talks] are absolutely essential,” said Keya Ganguly, a professor in the cultural studies and comparative literature de-

partment.

Gallope is one of four finalists applying for an assistant professor position within the CSCL depar tment this year. The total number of applications was nearly 600. u See JOBS Page 4 Graduate students often go to job talks in their department.

DINKYTOWN

Co-op wants to save Dinky The group is opposed to changes to the area’s zoning and character.

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

At the University of Minnesota’s Students’ Co-op, the kitchen is the heart of the beast. Racks of spices, containers of grains and a hodgepodge of cans and boxes sit across from a wall dotted with painted stars.

The co-opers pull tofu out from industrial-sized fridges and plop dishes in equally huge sinks. They prop their

elbows on the counter to grab a bite over an hour or two of socializing.

In a house full of bike racks, mismatched furniture and murals, it seems it all belongs to no one and yet to everyone.

It’s that sense of sharing and pooling of resources that influenced the group of 29 students and alumni to vote to officially support the Save Dinkytown coalition. The two groups oppose changes to the zoning and character of Dinkytown.

The Save Dinkytown group began in response to the for thcoming Opus development, which will re-

place the building that holds House of Hanson, Book House and The Podium. No other student group on campus has officially supported the coalition.

Resident and University alumna Jilla Nadimi said there’s a perception that needs to change that students aren’t invested in their communities.

“If you invest in your students, they will invest back in the community,” she said. “We’ve seen that.”

Student cooperatives are u See CO-OP Page 14 The co-op is part of a national student housing cooperative.

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY

Students’ Co-op members and guests gather for a Chinese New Year dinner Saturday at the co-op.

VOLUME 114 ISSUE 73

2

Daily Review

Monday, February 18, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1885

Mark Twain publishes his famous — and famously controversial — novel “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.” Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.”

HISTORYCHANNEL.COM/TDIH

SLIDESHOW Vol. 114 Monday, February 18, 2013, No. 73

An Independent Student Newspaper, Founded in 1900.

2221 University Ave. SE Suite 450 Minneapolis, MN 55414 Phone: (612) 627-4080 Fax: (612) 435-5865 Copyright © 2013 The Minnesota Daily This newspaper, its design and its contents are copyrighted.

OFFICE OF THE PUBLISHER Cali Owings cowings@mndaily.com Co-Publisher and Editor-in-Chief (612) 435-2759 Morgan Hay-Chapman mhay-chapman@mndaily.com Co-Publisher and President Nathan Moen nmoen@mndaily.com Co-Publisher and Business Operations Officer =

=

=

NEWS STAFF Katherine Lymn klymn@mndaily.com Managing Editor Lisa Bain lbain@mndaily.com Managing Production Editor Charlie Armitz carmitz@mndaily.com Sports Editor Sarah Harper sharper@mndaily.com A&E Editor Joe Kleinschmidt jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com Assistant A&E Editor Mark Vancleave mvancleave@mndaily.com Multimedia Editor Jenn Moe jmoe@mndaily.com Copy Desk Chief Claire Fenimore cfenimore@mndaily.com Assistant Copy Desk Chief Kelsie Klaustermeier kklaustermeier@mndaily.com Visuals Editor Josh Jones jjones@mndaily.com Chief Page Designer Kevin Burbach kburbach@mndaily.com Policy Editor Tony Wagner awagner1@mndaily.com City Editor Jill Jensen jjensen@mndaily.com Campus Editor Jeff Hargarten jhargarten@mndaily.com Web Editor =

=

=

=

=

=

=

=

=

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY

Wisconsin dropped Minnesota 3-2 during an outdoor game at Soldier Field in Chicago on Sunday.

View the full slideshow and others online at mndaily.com/multimedia/slideshows.

=

=

=

WORLD BRIEFING

=

Ecuador leader Pope blesses huge crowd re-elected

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

QUITO — President Rafael Correa, a dynamic but polemical leftist who has spent heavily on the poor, confidently celebrated his second re-election Sunday even before the first of ficial results were announced.

An exit poll gave the incumbent, who first took of fice in 2007, 61 percent against 20 percent for his closest challenger, former banker Guillermo Lasso.

A beaming Correa appeared on state TV hugging jubilant suppor ters at the Carondelet presidential palace less than an hour after polls closed.

Flanked by his immediate family and closest aides, he addressed a cheering crowd from its balcony.

“This victor y is yours.

It belongs to our families, to our wife, to our friends, our neighbors, the entire nation,” Correa said. “We are only here to ser ve you. Nothing for us. Ever ything for you, a people who have become dignified in being free.”

None of the other six candidates won more than 5 percent, according to the poll by Cedatos-Gallup. It inter viewed 15,000 voters and had a 3.7 percentage point error margin.

The 48-year-old Correa has raised living standards for the lower classes and widened the welfare state with region-leading social spending. Critics including inter national human rights group call him a bully as intolerant of dissent as his Venezuelan ally, Hugo Chavez.

Cor r ea has br ought uncharacteristic political stability to this oil-expor ting nation of 14.6 million people that cycled through seven presidents in the decade before him.

He won re-election in April 2009 after voters approved a constitutional rewrite that mandated a new ballot, and he would be legally bar red from r unning again if victorious.

To avoid a runof f, Correa needed a simple majority or 40 percent of the vote plus a 10-point margin over the No. 2 vote-getter.

VATICAN CITY — His arms outstretched in a symbolic embrace, Pope Benedict XVI blessed tens of thousands of cheering people on Sunday in one of his last appearances as pontiff from his window overlooking St. Peter’s Square.

Last week, 85-year-old Benedict shocked the world by announcing his resignation. He will step down on Feb. 28, planning to retreat to a life of prayer in a monastery behind the Vatican’s ancient walls.

The noontime appointment in the vast cobblestone square also served as a kind of trial run for how Rome will handle the logistics, including crowd security, as the city braces for faithful to flock to Rome for the election and installation of the cardinal who will succeed Benedict as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.

Rome Mayor Gianni Alemanno said upward of 100,000 people turned out Sunday and that everything went smoothly. But while there was still space in St. Peter’s Square for more, many couldn’t get in — or easily out — because entrances from

the main boulevard were just too narrow.

The huge crowd — including parents with babies in carriages and strollers, elderly people using canes, and the disabled in wheelchairs — tried to squeeze through two spaces police left open in the metal barricades edging the square. Some people panicked or called out to police to help them get in or out of the square.

Pilgrims and tourists had an easier time if they entered through spaces in the elegant colonnade that architect Gianlorenzo Bernini designed to cradle the sides of the St. Peter’s Square.

Benedict seemed touched by the outpouring of affection after his decision to go down in history as the first pontiff in some 600 years to resign.

The pontiff told cardinals last week that he no longer has the mental and physical stamina to vigorously shepherd the church.

Looking into hazy sunshine Sunday, he smiled shyly at the sight of the crowd below, filled with pilgrims waving their countries’ flags and holding up banners with words of support. One group of Italians raised a banner which read: “We love you.”

Partly cloudy

WEDNESDAY HIGH 15° LOW 7° Partly cloudy

EDITORIAL STAFF Eric Best ebest@mndaily.com Editorials & Opinions Editor William Bornhoft wbornhoft@mndaily.com Senior Editorial Board Member =

=

BUSINESS STAFF Megan Grossardt mgrossardt@mndaily.com Sales Productivity Director Stacia Burtis sburtis@mndaily.com Advertising Production Manager Tyler Hamilton thamilton@mndaily.com Distribution Manager Dan Ries dries@mndaily.com Controller Nick Lundquist nlundquist@mndaily.com Retail Sales Manager Lisi Arnstrom larnstrom@mndaily.com Classified Sales Manager =

=

=

=

=

=

ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF Morgan Goronkin mgoronkin@mndaily.com Human Resources Manager =

Daniel Barnard dbarnard@mndaily.com Online Manager Justin Tan jtan@mndaily.com Information Systems Manager Justin Schlitz jschlitz@mndaily.com Marketing Communications Director =

=

=

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DAILY Freelance audio/video: Contact Multimedia Editor Mark Vancleave at mvancleave@mndaily.com.

Letters to the editor: Email submissions to letters@mndaily.com Guest columns: Emails submissions to Editorials & Opinions Editor Eric Best at ebest@mndaily.com.

All submissions are welcome, but there is no guarantee of publication.

THIS WEEK’S POLL Do you think same-sex marriage legislation will get far at the Capitol this year?

4No, I think it will stall.

4It’s too early to say.

4Yes, I think it has a strong chance of becoming law.

4What same-sex marriage legislation?

EXTENDED WEATHER FORECAST TUESDAY HIGH 6° LOW -7°

=

THURSDAY HIGH 18° LOW 18°

Few snow showers

FRIDAY HIGH 27° LOW 17° Snow

CORRECTIONS errors@mndaily.com The Minnesota Daily strives for complete accuracy and corrects its errors immediately. Corrections and clarifications will always be printed in this space. If you believe the Daily has printed a factual error, please call the readers’ representative at (612) 627–4070, extension 3057, or email errors@mndaily.com immediately.

THE MINNESOTA DAILY is a legally independent nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization and is a student-written and student-managed newspaper for the University of Minnesota’s Twin Cities campus.

The Daily’s mission is: 1) to provide coverage of news and events affecting the University community; 2) to provide a forum for the communication and exchange of ideas for the University community; 3) to provide educational training and experience to University students in all areas of newspaper operations; and 4) to operate a fiscally responsible organization to ensure its ability to serve the University in the future.

The Daily is a member of the Minnesota News Council, the Minnesota Associated Press, the Associated Collegiate Press, The Minnesota Newspaper Association and other organizations.

The Daily is published Monday through Thursday, during the regular school year and weekly during the summer, and is printed by ECM Publishers in Princeton, Minn. Midwest News Service distributes the 22,000 issues daily.

All Minnesota Daily inserts are recyclable within the University of Minnesota program and are at least 6 percent consumer waste.

One (1) copy of The Minnesota Daily per person is free at newsstands in and around the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. Additional copies may be purchased for $.25 each.

U. S. Postal Service: 351–480.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Passport services may return to Coffman Union

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

COFFMAN SERVICE CENTER

Students will soon be able to apply for passports again in Coffman Union.

The Hennepin County Service Center failed an audit in October, said Mark Chapin, director of taxpayer services, but is close to having its passport services reinstated.

The Coffman location still handles other official documents, like birth certificates and driver’s licenses. But new regulations ef fective May 1 will require passports to be separated from all other official documents, so a second campus location may be necessary.

Officials handled almost 250 passport applications at the Coffman location in 2012, Chapin said.

A U.S. Depar tment of State audit in October repealed the Hennepin County Ser vice Center’s ability to handle passport applications, Chapin said.

“We didn’t follow their rules to the T,” Chapin said.

Four other county service centers — Southdale, Ridgedale, Maple Grove and Brookdale — still handle passport applications.

The Department of State didn’t return multiple calls for comment.

Passport services should be available to students at the University, biochemistry freshman Paige Larson said.

“I feel like if there’s study abroad programs, there should be something correlated to it,” Larson said.

The Learning Abroad Center tells students where to go for passport ser vic-

SERVICES PROVIDED IN 2012

826

241 MOTOR VEHICLE, DRIVERS LICENSE, ETC.

es but doesn’t walk them through the process, said Lindsey Lahr, resource center adviser at the LAC. “It’s a step in the process of being independent,” Lahr said.

LAC handouts used to list the Coffman location as one place students could go to file applications, but they now refer students to other locations.

“It was really nice to have one on campus,” Lahr said.

The Hennepin County Ser vice Center has been working to rectify any problems pointed out in the audit, regional manager Bruce Jindra said.

“The few things we know about were corrected within a few days,” Jindra said.

He said there have been more regulations in the past five years because of national security concerns.

“It adds a level of difficulty that I wish we didn’t have to deal with,” Jindra said.

Neuroscience freshman

BYU-Idaho adopted the trimester system in 2007. The school operates year round with three distinct 14-week semesters and assigns individual students to one of the tracks. Students only have to go to two out of the three semesters, but they can apply to attend all three and graduate

GRADUATION RATES OF UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA STUDENTS

(CLASSES BEGINNING IN 2005–07) 69.2%

70.5%

54%

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 2011 NHS STUDENT GRADUATION/RETENTION REPORT

COFFMAN SERVICE CENTER HOURS

10 a.m.–2 p.m.

Wednesdays Katia Stie said one of her friends almost missed her study abroad trip because something went wrong with her passport application at the last minute.

“She was freaking out,” Stie said.

She added having resources on campus would cut down travel time and make it easier to sort out problems.

Jindra said he hopes the center in Coffman can handle passport applications again soon.

“It’s a valuable ser vice, we’re glad to be able to provide it and we’d like to see it continue.”

(COHORT YEAR 2004)

Overall Public institutions

Private, not-for-profit Institutions Private, for-profit Institutions 65.4%

62.9% 58.3% 53.9%

52.4%

56%

50.6%

37.9% 31.3% 25.8%

28.4%

20.4%

4 YEARS 5 YEARS 6 YEARS SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, NATIONAL CENTER FOR EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS

faster.

Sexton said the system has allowed the school to accept thousands more students than was previously possible. At any given moment, the school has about 15,500 students on campus, with about 27,000 annually.

“The biggest benefit is that we’re able to provide an education to a larger number of students than we would in a two semester calendar,” Sexton said.

It took a while for students at BYU-Idaho to become accustomed to breaking from the traditional two-semester system, but Sexton said it has now become “part of the norm.”

He said the school works hard to make sure all resources, classes and professors are the same in each trimester so students “don’t feel cheated.”

Although BYU-Idaho is a very different school from public universities in the Big Ten, Sexton said he believes state schools will begin to switch over to the three-semester system.

With a trimester calendar, facilities and resources would be used all year long, a costefficient approach for schools, Sexton said.

“I think a lot of state legislatures are going to start looking at this and say ‘we’ve got to get some return on this investment during the summer months, we can’t just leave an asset idle.’”

Potential conflicts Fall 2007 Fall 2006 Fall 2005 Cohort Cohort Cohort 4 YEARS 5 YEARS 6 YEARS

VITAL RECORDS (BIRTH, DEATH, MARRIAGE)

NATIONAL GRADUATION RATES OF FIRST-TIME BACHELOR’S DEGREE-SEEKING STUDENTS

u from Page 1

Trimester model

MISCELLANEOUS

SOURCE: MARK CHAPIN, HENNEPIN COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER

Calendar Last year, University president Eric Kaler assembled a small ad hoc committee to assess whether or not the University should seriously consider adding a full third summer semester to the academic calendar.

After meeting with officials in each college, the committee determined that while a University-wide full summer calendar was not yet necessar y, there were cer tain places where the University could expand its summer curriculum.

College of Design Dean Thomas Fisher said the idea was considered in the past but was always limited by “bureaucratic obstacles.”

“One of the big issues is to get rid of some of those institutional barriers that had been put into place over the years just assuming that ever ybody wanted the summer off,” he said.

Fisher said now that the University suppor ts the idea, the program is likely to be successful.

PASSPORTS

Implementing a threesemester system similar to BYU-Idaho may be tricky for large public research universities.

Some professors conduct research and schol-

Grad students mischarged for health insurance Some students were temporarily charged $950 in the mix-up.

82

176

arly work in the summer, making it difficult to teach classes.

It’s unclear whether or not the University would adopt a similar system of assigning semesters to students. However, due to the popularity of seasonal intercollegiate athletics — something BYU-Idaho doesn’t have — the idea could prove difficult to catch on.

The University is also looking at issues dealing with financial aid and scholarships. About 82 percent of University undergraduate students receive some form of financial aid, according to the Office of Institutional Research.

Most federal financial aid is distributed on a twosemester basis, so students considering a full-year course load may not be able to get aid for the whole year. Also, due to budget cuts, Pell Grants are not available for summer terms, said Robert McMaster, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education.

In an email, McMaster said the University would need to come up with new financial aid models to redistribute existing funds into three terms. This would likely include a “repackaging” of federal and state grants, as well as University scholarships and loans.

Student employment Since many students rely on the summer months to work full or part time to fund college costs, many may be war y to sign up for summer courses.

Neuroscience sophomore Tricia Wagner said she spends her summers

3

BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com

Mike Rowe almost threw away his insurance card when he received a new one from a different provider in the mail last month.

Upon realizing that the card — along with a $950 fee charged to his student account — was sent by mistake, Rowe found his real card and said he was left confused.

Rowe wasn’t alone.

Last month, many graduate students were automatically enrolled in the University of Minnesota’s Student Health Benefit Plan while waiting for determination of their eligibility for the Graduate Assistant Health Plan, which temporarily left a $950 charge on some student accounts.

Current University policy mandates that students admitted to a degree program and registered for six or more credits per semester are automatically enrolled in the Student Health Benefit Plan if they don’t have their own health insurance.

Graduate assistants are able to enroll in a different program, but the Office of

working a full-time job in order to pay her rent thr oughout the school year.

Although she would consider taking on a full course load during one summer, she said she’s more likely to seek internship opportunities later in her college career.

“Summer is a good time to catch up on work and make money,” she said.

“It’s also a good time to take a break from classes and find volunteer or internship oppor tunities to build my résumé.”

At BYU-Idaho, Sexton said students who go to class in the summer semester find it easy to get internships in the fall or spring. Since most students throughout the countr y are looking for inter nships in the summer, BYU-Idaho students have little competition for internships the rest of the year.

BYU-Idaho’s accounting students are especially at an advantage, Sexton said. Students who attend class in the summer and take the winter semester of f are easily able to find internships at accounting firms during tax season.

Students in the two CDes pilot programs will also get this oppor tunity.

Fisher said CDes students can choose to take classes in two of the three terms and look for internships in their “off semester.”

“We believe it will expand the opportunities for those students who still want to go to school four years but may want to have a different time off than the summer,” he said.

Trimester in the Big Ten

Like the University of Minnesota, Purdue University is considering the pros and cons of a year-round calendar.

Purdue Associate Vice Provost Frank Dooley said the first step is to expand summer options for students.

Last summer, Purdue offered roughly 20 courses to undergraduates, but this summer there will be about 290, he said. Pending approval, Purdue will likely begin to offer students two seven-week “mini terms” in the summer where students can take six to nine credits each term.

Dooley said it might take two to three years be-

Student Health Benefits needs to verify they still have their positions to determine eligibility for the Graduate Assistant Health Plan, said Susann Jackson, director of Student Health Benefits.

Similar situations regarding these charges happen every semester, but Jackson said this semester had more cases because of a process change.

Before last fall, University policy allowed all students to self-repor t their insurance.

But when studies found approximately 10 percent of students were incorrectly repor ting their insurance enrollment, Jackson said, the University moved to a policy that required her office to manually verify insurance enrollment and eligibility.

Jackson said this manual work takes more time and can slow down the process, leading to the $950 charge that was temporarily placed on some graduate student accounts.

One graduate student, Wes Burdine, said he didn’t realize the extra charge right away because almost 13 percent of his salary already goes to fees. When he realized the charge to his account, he was confused but said it was not unexpected.

“I’ve been fr ustrated

enough with the University’s bizarre policies that unfortunately I’m used to it by now,” he said.

Robb St. Lawrence said the charge could have a financial impact on graduate students. “ We ’ r e f i n a n c i a l l y strapped by the nature of being grad students, so no one was rushing to pay their fees … if someone had, they would have been charged that extra $950,” he said.

St. Lawrence said most graduate students in the Department of English were charged, which he said is about 100 people.

Jackson said her office tries to get verification of graduate assistantship complete before tuition is due, but because there are 4,000 students to verify, this isn’t always completed on time.

“It’s more of a workflow process,” Jackson said. “It’s not a mistake.”

Delayed updates to graduate student positions can also slow the process, she said.

St. Lawrence, a graduate student in the Department of English, said communication and transparency issues were an inconvenience.

“We didn’t hear anything from anybody … there was no warning, it was just a $950 fee,” he said. “It was really dumb that no one told us about it.”

fore the mini-sessions are fully implemented.

“We’re looking at this ver y, ver y carefully, and my gut tells me that we will do this before we start doing trimesters,” he said.

In order to switch to a trimester system, officials at Purdue say 180,000 credit hours must be taught in a summer. Last summer, there were about 30,000 credit hours, Dooley said, while this summer Purdue hopes to add about 7,000 credit hours with the increased course offerings.

“By changing the calendar, we’re hoping that we can demonstrate that students will show up,” Dooley said. “If students don’t show up in the summer, I think we still have a better calendar than we do right now.”

interest.

“This is a big change,” he said. “We have such an ingrained patter n of two terms of school and summer term of f that changing it may take some time.”

For now, McMaster said the University will continue to expand summer curriculum and work out system issues. One step is to partially standardize the current summer calendar to a seven-week term that begins and ends on the same day.

Another goal is to offer summer courses in each liberal education program and to add more online classes to accommodate students living off campus in the summer.

“Our plan is to continue looking at some of the thorny issues over the next year and reassess the status in a few years,” McMaster said.

“I am hoping that we might find a few additional pilots.”

Next steps Fisher said the College of Design is allotting three years to test the summer cur riculum because it will take time to generate

4

Monday, February 18, 2013

GLBTA office reflects on 20 years

BY MARION RENAULT AND EMMA NELSON mrenault@mndaily.com enelson1@mndaily.com

In November, Minnesota became the only state in the nation to reject a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage; now, after remarks from Gov. Mark Dayton in last week’s State of the State address, the debate is heating up again.

But today’s conversations began decades ago, when lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender movements stirred up support across the nation, including the University of Minnesota campus.

The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Ally Programs Office has had a voice in that conversation and will be celebrating its 20th anni-

versary Monday.

The event will showcase LGBT and gender research, host a panel of experts and feature artists and performers.

The GLBTA Programs Of fice, which opened in 1993, focuses on educating various on-campus groups about topics including sexuality and LGBT identity.

Jason Jackson, the office’s assistant director, said the anniversar y event is meant to connect researchers from across fields and figure out where LGBT research is headed next.

While the event looks to the future of the program, panelist Susan Raffo knows a little something about where it’s been. She was a staf f member in the program’s early years and is now returning for the 20th anniver-

sary to reflect on its growth.

“I think the way the broader leadership of the center is asking questions feels ver y in line with its founding and its early years,” she said.

Like Jackson, Raffo said she’s looking forward to discussing issues that spread across studies.

“I’m looking forward to those intersectional conversations,” she said.

A larger community In the early 1990s, many universities star ted programs to support LGBT students, faculty and staff.

Michigan State University founded the Office of LBGT Concerns after a task force completed a report in 1992 on the University’s climate for gender and sexual minorities.

The task force found through focus groups that more than 70 percent of LGBT students felt “somewhat or ver y unsafe on campus.” Similarly, about 41 percent of faculty members and more than half of staff reported the campus environment made them worry about LGBT individuals’ safety.

In 2009, a follow-up report found the university’s climate has improved and is even slightly better than that of its peer institutions, said Allegra Smith, a program media assistant in what is now called the LBGT Resource Center.

The center is currently working to develop allies and increase its supporter base, Smith said. A recent project of Smith’s involved reaching out to LGBT inter-

national students.

At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, LGBT student groups have had a presence on campus since the 1970s. In 1991, the Homophobia Awareness Committee, now the Committee for GLBT Concerns, was officially founded after first meeting informally in 1989.

In fall 2007, the University’s LGBTQA Resource Center was founded.

Center Director Pat Tetreault began working at the University in 1992 as a sexual education coordinator for the University Health Center. Part of her job was working with LGBT students because, she said, “it really wasn’t anybody’s responsibility to do that on campus.”

The following year, members of the campus’ LGBT student group distributed

Same-sex marriage bills to be introduced Marriage u from Page 1

At the Capitol A bill will be introduced this week or the next, and it is expected to be heard in committee in both the Senate and House shortly after, said Sen. Scott Dibble, DFLMinneapolis, who will likely author the legislation.

“It’s impor tant to respond to what elections tell us,” he said. “The last election told us this is where people want us to go, so we would not be doing our job if we weren’t taking up this issue and going ahead with it.”

In the fall, 52.5 percent of Minnesotans voted down or didn’t answer the ballot question on samesex marriage, which is also counted as a “no.”

Compared to the proposed amendment, Dibble said the new ef for t is “a completely dif ferent animal” because rather than convincing the whole state to vote in favor of same-sex marriage, they need to target 201 legislators.

“Of course there is going to be var ying opinion at the Capitol, but ever yone is [in one location] that we are counting on,” said University political science freshman Gabe Aderhold, who volunteers with Minnesotans United.

Carpenter, a same-sex marriage suppor ter, said he will get involved by talking with legislators once the bill moves forward.

Sen. John Mar ty, DFLRoseville, said he’s optimistic about a bill passing this session.

“I think there’s a really good chance that it’s going to pass this year,” Mar ty said, “and if so, things will happen very quickly.”

Dibble, who is openly gay, said there are lawmakers lined up in the state House to author a bill, including Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, who is also openly gay.

“It’s hard to say when it will be taken up by the full Legislature, but I’m sure it will get through the committees — I have no doubt about that,” Dibble said.

Gov. Mark Dayton has made it clear he will sign a bill if it gets in front of him, but Dibble said it’s important to hear all legislative opinions.

“Even if we had all the votes in the bag and we could just ride this one home, it’s still ver y important for us to really engage in a debate and conversation,” Dibble said.

Opposition Same-sex marriage proponents will face opposition from groups like Minnesota for Mar riage and the National Organization for Marriage.

Kenny Deutz, a veterinary medicine junior at the University, also opposes the upcoming bill.

“I believe marriage, in itself, should be between one man and one woman and that sex belongs only in marriage,” Deutz said.

“What happens in marriage is a supernatural thing, a creation of life that can only be done between a man

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Clark McDonald and Walt Oberstar kiss while gay marriage supporters rally Thursday at the Capitol. McDonald and Oberstar have been together for 30 years and were married in 2008 in Toronto.

and a woman.”

Deutz, who ser ves as vice president of the University’s Catholic College Student Group, said his religion isn’t the only reason for his stance, but it gives him the background and a “good place to come to terms with” the same-sex marriage conversation.

He said the change to the state’s law on marriage is “adult-centered” and people should direct their focus on children and their “right to parents — a mother and father.”

Deutz said he has family members who are gay and that he agrees with samesex unions.

“They are together, and they have a great relationship,” he said, “but it’s not a marriage.”

At the star t of the legislative session, Minnesota for Marriage issued a press release urging Minnesotans to stand against any legislation that would change marriage laws in the state.

Republicans, as well as some DFLers, have said reducing the state’s proposed budget deficit should be the Legislature’s priority instead of social issues.

ried in California years ago — an opportunity he’d like to extend to Minnesotans.

About a hundred clergy members of various faiths attended the rally, and a handful of leaders testified as proponents of the bill.

“In the eyes of Judaism, marriage links us to the basis of our faith,” like family and love, said Rabbi Melissa Simon of the Shir Tikvah congregation.

Carpenter said any bill will need to provide balance for competing interest if it’s likely to pass.

“I think the bill needs to address the legal needs of same-sex couples and, at the same time, provide protection for religious freedom,” he said.

Audience members at the rally held signs and chanted in unison, “Now is the time, this is the year!”

The nation Nine states and Washington, D.C., have legalized

same-sex marriage, while a handful of states recognize marriage on a conditional basis.

Molly Tafoya, a spokeswoman for One Iowa — an organization similar to Minnesotans United that raises awareness for LGBT Iowans — said she’s hopeful for Minnesota’s attempt to legalize same-sex marriage this year.

Iowa legalized it in 2009.

“To have Minnesota stand up and say, ‘No, we don’t want this amendment, we don’t want discrimination written in our constitution,’ ” Tafoya said, “and then to ride that wave of momentum into what I hope will be a successful push in the Legislature,” is highly important for the state.

Although legal, she said opponents still fight samesex marriage in Iowa.

“Since then, we’ve seen our opponents basically try to attack the marriage rul-

ing at ever y turn,” Tafoya said. “We do have a pretty vocal and power ful — in that they are well-funded — opposition.”

Mar ty’s 2008 same-sex marriage legislation was denied, and there have been a handful of unsuccessful efforts since.

“This issue has been heavily discussed in the last three, four, five years or so,” Marty said. “I don’t think we’re going to hear a lot of new arguments.”

Legislative action will begin once the bill is formally introduced.

Regardless of this session’s outcome, both sides agree debate on the issue is constructive.

“Whatever happens, as long as people keep discussing it — questioning it with the idea that people need to understand that they can be wrong, that’s all that matters,” Deutz said.

“We’re going to get whatever is right.”

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LAWS IN THE U.S.

Jobs u from Page 1

“The academic job market is extremely tight,” Ganguly said.

The College of Science and Engineering looks both at candidates’ research and how well they can deliver clear lectures to an audience, said Wayne Gladfelter, associate dean for academic affairs.

Similarly, CSCL applicants give job talks on their research to help faculty decide how well they fit the job description, said John Archer, chair of the department.

Specific hiring procedures can vary among departments.

For example, most departments within CSE have candidates give two presentations, Gladfelter said.

One presentation is open to both students and faculty members and highlights the candidate’s previous work, Gladfelter said. The second is usually open only to faculty members and describes the work that, if hired, the candidate would like to do within the department.

Although job talks are generally open to the public, the main attendees are University faculty members and graduate students.

“I think it’d be great if undergraduates attended,” Ganguly said, but added they might not feel like the talks apply to them.

In contrast, graduate students will often go to job talks in their department, said Niels Niessen, a CSCL doctoral candidate.

He said graduate students are interested in learning about new faculty members that could potentially be their adviser or on their dissertation committee. Also, students entering the academic job market are interested in seeing the hiring process.

Although a new faculty member could play a large role in a graduate student’s education, graduate students in CSCL have little say in who’s hired.

“I’m just an audience member,” Niessen said.

“Since it affects graduate students, I think it would be important if graduate students have some say.”

Archer said students can send emails, write a letter or meet personally with faculty to express their views.

In the School of Physics and Astronomy, a group of postdoctoral and graduate students went out to lunch with candidates last year before being asked for their recommendation, said Ronald Poling, head of the school.

‘Through the wringer’

‘Minnesota’s conversation’

Political and religious leaders took to the podium Thursday to share their views as waves of supporters cheered on.

“I cannot think of anything more intrusive than the gover nment telling people who they can marry and telling churches which marriages they can solemnize,” Marty said.

He said he’s talked to same-sex couples who are discouraged that they don’t have any legal protection because the law won’t let them marry.

Viewed as “legal strangers in Minnesota,” Dibble said he’s grateful that he and his spouse, Richard Leyva, were able to get mar-

stickers with pink triangles — a symbol of LGBT rights protest since the late 1970s — to faculty members. It drew a negative reaction from some students and faculty, Tetreault said.

“I remember thinking, ‘Maybe doing a little bit of education with something like that would be helpful,’ ” she said.

Today, the resource center works extensively on educational and social programming, awareness events and addressing student issues.

Like at many universities, a current project is working with the institution to allow students to use preferred names and pronouns.

“Some of that’s educational,” Tetreault said.

“Some of that’s trying to change the way certain parts of the institution do things.”

SAME-SEX MARRIAGES ALLOWED NO STATUTORY OR CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE RECOGNITION OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE THAT HAS NOT YET TAKEN EFFECT CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS DEFINING MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN ONLY STATUTORY PROVISIONS DEFINING MARRIAGE AS BETWEEN A MAN AND WOMAN

SOURCE: NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF STATE LEGISLATURES

Departments at the University can begin a hiring round when their college allows them to, “which isn’t often enough,” Archer said.

Ganguly said new faculty member searches don’t happen every year.

“I wish that were true,” she said, adding that she felt fortunate the department had permission to search even in a hard economic situation.

After an initial search committee — which sometimes includes graduate students — looks at the entire pool of applicants and selects candidates to interview, the pool is narrowed to a select group of finalists who are invited to campus for job talks and further interviews with faculty members.

“We really put these folks through the wringer,” Poling said.

Editorials & Opinions www.mndaily.com/opinion

A waiting game The male equivalent to the birth control pill is long overdue. hen I first saw the article, “U prof develops male bir th control pill” in the Feb. 12 issue of the Minnesota Daily, I felt immediate excitement. The prospect of finally leveling the playing field of contraceptive responsibilities made me ecstatic, and I was proud that the research is taking place here on campus.

But before I started celebrating, I realized that I’ve been getting my hopes up over this same song and dance for years. We’ve been hearing that the male equivalent to the birth control pill “will soon be a reality” for years, yet nothing has come to fruition. The words of Dr. John Amory, a researcher at the University of Washington, illustrate that scientists share these frustrations: “The joke in the field is: The male pill’s been five to 10 years away for the last 30 years.”

I do not doubt that developing a safe, reversible method of male birth control is a challenge when men can release

BRONWYN MILLER columnist

between 40 million and 1.2 billion sperm cells in a single ejaculation. But that’s simply not all there is to the story. The history of male contraceptive research reveals an ugly truth: strong lack of pharmaceutical support. As researchers bemoan, various male contraceptives have shown promise in testing at major companies but were abandoned on account of perceived lack of public interest and, consequently, profit potential.

The idea that men would not be interested in a pill or other new contraceptive with little to no side effects in order to prevent female pregnancy can not only be refuted by an abundance of survey data but also presumptuously takes a lot of credit away from males. Contrary to the lovely hate mail I

get calling me man-hating, I happen to think there are great guys out there who recognize the importance male contraception would have in promoting gender equality and shared responsibility in relationships.

Many men acknowledge and appreciate the sacrifice and burden females place on their bodies to prevent pregnancy, and I know they would be happy to relieve some of the pressure.

I sense another source of support exists among those men who insist that all women want nothing more than to have their children and thus “commonly” develop elaborate hole-poking or turkey-baster schemes in order to procure semen. In fact, we don’t all have such nefarious plans, and “entrapment pregnancies” really do not appeal to nearly as many women as these men seem to think — hence the current widespread demand for female birth control.

Obviously, one form of male contraception already exists: the condom. In casual interactions, most of us would agree it’s a necessity, and I applaud ever yone who makes condoms a mainstay

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 111,152- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,245 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

in sexual activities. But the condom is not suf ficient. It can be a hassle, as well as uncomfortable, and it’s not foolproof. Fur thermore, many people who have been tested together and are in monogamous relationships mutually decide to forgo condoms, but preventing pregnancy relies solely on a woman’s willingness to alter and risk her body with birth control pills — which, in a delightful double whammy, has also exclusively opened females up to the hypercritical stigma that associates pill takers with promiscuity.

We are not asking for a replacement for the condom, which would obviously remain applicable in a variety of situations. But for the specific issue of preventing pregnancy, we have the chance to address the responsibility disparity with a new form of male birth control. If two people are interested in experiencing sexual pleasure minus the baby making, both should be proactively involved in the process.

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.

SEXUAL HEALTH

National Condom Week Spreading STIs is no way to show your love during the Valentine’s Day season.

W Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Adopting sustainable energy sources

Rolf Westgard’s Thursday letter to the editor asser ts that replacing nonrenewable energy sources with renewable ones creates “an expensive double infrastr ucture” and ends by suggesting that we should pause our investments and see “what is really happening with our climate.”

We s t g a r d ’ s l e t t e r blithely glosses over the fact that fossil fuels are not renewable. As in, they don’t come back. Our energy infrastr ucture is built around r esources that will either run out or become prohibitively expensive, possibly within our lifetime. Imagine the ef fects of paying $20 for a gallon of gas or thousands of dollars for an electric bill.

R a t h e r t ha n w a iting until we ar e for ced to change by prohibitive expenses or dramatic shor tages, we should begin adopting sustainable energy sources and begin the process of changing our infrastr ucture. Westgar d claims we should delay investing or developing these energy sources because they are far too expensive. It’s easy to accuse renewables of being too expensive or

5

The Editorials & Opinions department is independent of the newsroom. The editorial board prepares the editorials labeled “EDITORIALS,” which are the opinion of the Minnesota Daily as an institution but not representative of Daily employees’ opinions.

Columnists’ opinions are their own.

EDITORIALS

BIRTH CONTROL

W

Monday, February 18, 2013

unproductive when they have had far less time to develop and a pathetic amount of financial investment in comparison to fossil fuels. Additionally, skeptics ignore many of the hidden costs of fossil fuels and the expense of global warming, wars, regulation and subsidies we pay to either the fossil fuel industr y or to the government.

We must adopt and research renewable forms of energy and continue to increase energy ef ficiency if we are to leave future generations with an energy infrastr ucture that will actually suppor t them. There is no time like the present to begin our investment in renewable energy and to step up to our responsibility.

John Sens Daily reader

Support the FairTax

Economic exper ts may dif fer in opinion as to where we stand in the economic cycle today in the U.S. Whether we are mired in the most stubborn recession in modern times or we are poised on the brink of a fiscal clif f, a couple of recent developments point toward a return to prosperity if we have the common sense

to make them happen.

The first is the exploitation of shale oil, which has already made it possible for us to cut impor ts significantly. The second is replacing the income tax with a national sales tax, something called the FairTax. The FairTax would eliminate the personal income tax, corporate income tax, capital gains, the Alternative Minimum Tax, the payroll tax (Social Security and Medicare withholding) and the estate tax. Don’t take my word, you should do your own research, but please don’t criticize until you have done a thorough examination of the plan.

Those who understand the FairTax demand its passage.

Yo u r r e p r e s e n t a t i v e in Congress, Rep. Erik Paulsen, R-Minn., will play a key role in passing HR25, the FairTax Act, because he ser ves on the power ful House Committee on Ways and Means, where all tax reform must begin. Ask him to suppor t this common-sense measure and repor t it out for general debate on the floor of the House. It’s time to breathe new life into our economic engine.

David Boone Daily reader

Send comments to letters@mndaily.com.

hat were you up to — dear Minnesota Daily r eader — this Valen tine’s weekend?

I hope you were celebrating with someone special. But, wait, did you know Feb. 14-21 is also National Condom Week? Should the oppor tunity arise, I hope you’ll join the rest of the young people around the countr y and use a condom.

In Minnesota, sexually transmitted infections are the most commonly repor ted communicable diseases and account for nearly 70 percent of all diseases repor ted to the Minnesota Depar tment of Health. In fact, the number of cases in 2011 grew to 19,547, an 8 percent increase from the previous year.

This week, Planned Parenthood is encouraging ever y sexually active person in Minnesota to use condoms consistently and cor rectly and to get tested for STIs. Data shows many people who have an STI don’t even realize it because many people with an STI experience no signs or symptoms. So it’s impor tant to let your par tner know that you want to use condoms ever y time you have sex to keep both of you healthy.

People rely on Planned Parenthood ever y day for accurate information about condoms and nonjudgmental, confidential health care. For nearly a centur y, we’ve been helping men, women and teens prevent unintended pregnancies and STIs. We also advocate for ever y person’s right to accurate health information and access to health care.

Regardless of who you are or where you live, you deser ve high-quality, af fordable health care — no matter what.

This National Condom Week, and ever y day, make sure you and your par tner are doing ever ything you can to stay healthy.

I know, I know — negotiating condom use isn’t always easy, but the numbers don’t lie; this problem isn’t going away.

Giving or getting an STI is no way to say “I love you” around Valentine’s Day. Alison Griffin Minnesota public affairs manager Planned Parenthood

State of the climate Obama proposes ineffective means to fight climate change.

P

resident Barack Obama’s State of the Union address continued to advocate for the progressive vision laid out in his second inaugural address. The reser ved, run-tothe-middle character of the first term is gone.

The State of the Union addressed some important climate-change issues that were largely ignored in the debates prior to the election.

Climate change, much like the catastrophic events that have made gun violence legislation even remotely salient, must be viewed in light of the trends the nation has faced in the past decade.

Although the president adequately conveyed the consequences of inaction, the proposals set out are simply more about political points than real ef for ts to address the problem. A cap and trade system should not be the center of the debate: The cap itself should be the debate. The international Kyoto standard is significantly higher than what would be necessar y to prevent catastrophic temperature changes, and even compliance with Kyoto would require expending huge political capital.

Increased energy ef ficiency standards sound like a great idea as well, but the economics of energy consumption indicate that the more efficient transportation is, the more energy is consumed. A tax on energy consumption would be politically unpopular but is the best way to economically incentivize using less energy. Behind the useless, politically motivated climate-change agenda, the president stated he would continue to speed up oil and gas permits.

The one proposal that could be useful was the Energy Security Tr ust, which would direct oil and gas profits into energy research but wouldn’t be necessar y if real steps to put economic disincentives on fossil fuels were taken.

A new rule for lawmaking A new policy on amendment deadlines passed in the Minnesota House.

I

n the wee morning hours of Tuesday, the Minnesota House passed a bill requiring amendments to be posted 24 hours in advance to debate.

This is a small but conceptually important step to more transparent political practices. With more time to become familiar with bill amendments, lawmakers can come to discussions with advance notice and advanced knowledge. Also, this could allow for less highly partisan amendments or pork updates in the state bills.

This legislation won’t solve all of the problems in the political system, though. While amendments to bills are short and not particularly complicated, the bills they amend often are.

This may limit political action for quick and necessary updates to bills, but overall this will make lawmakers plan through potential amendments.

Lawmakers should also be reading and researching the bills they vote on, even with this new update to the rules that govern the Legislature.

For the first lengthy floor session of the year for the Minnesota House, this is an important discussion to have. This rule isn’t new. It has been floating around committees as an important but unofficial policy. Now it would openly apply to all issues brought up on the Minnesota House floor.

This updated legislation calls for clearer deadlines and unrushed amendments. The public will have more time to be a part of the committee process, which can be ver y quick and untimely. A full 24 hours allows for concerned citizens to have even more time to be knowledgeable about Minnesota House debates and have their voices heard. Conceptually, this legislation is an important step for a more efficient and fundamentally transparent state government.

LETTERS AND GUEST COLUMNS

The Minnesota Daily welcomes letters and guest columns from readers. All letters must include the writer’s name, address and phone number for verification. The Daily reserves the right to edit all letters for style, space, libel and grammar. Letters to the editor should be no more than 600 words in length. Readers may also submit guest columns.

Guest columns should be approximately 350 words. The Daily reserves the right to print any submission as a letter or guest column. Submission does not guarantee publication. letters@mndaily.com Fax: (612) 435-5865 Phone: (612) 435-1578 Letters and columns to the editor 2221 University Ave. SE Suite 450 Minneapolis, MN 55414

Look for online exclusive columns at www.mndaily.com/opinion.

@mndailyopinions

EDITOR IN CHIEF CALI OWINGS = EDITORIAL EDITOR ERIC BEST = SENIOR EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBER WILLIAM BORNHOFT = BOARD MEMBERS CASSANDRA SUNDARAM, JONATHAN MORRIS

6

www.mndaily.com/opinion

Opinions POLITICS

The State of the Union A few things stood out to me during President Obama’s SOTU address.

P

resident Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address last week. His message — let’s tr y to make it work, America, for the middle class.

In a speech that has already been subjected to trivializing, out-of-context sound bites, partisan spray painting and dubious punditry on right-wing radio, the president managed to raise a few good points about his, and hopefully Congress’, course of action.

“For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change,” remarked the president to a nation that has taken quite the beating from natural disasters lately. Obama called for a bipartisan effort to tackle the issue of climate change — an issue that didn’t even come up in the presidential debates. The problem is ‘bipartisan efforts’ and ‘climate change’ are not something that the Republican Party believes in.

The kind of bipartisan effort that the president is hoping for would be the Climate Stewardship Act, an effort championed by the moderate Sen. John McCain along with his pal Sen. Joe Lieberman. This kind of reform made sense environmentally because it called for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and implementing a cap-and-tradestyle U.S. Environmental Protection Agency enforcement strategy. The fate of this act, on three separate occasions, was stomped electorally to death by House and Senate Republicans who continue to disregard the overwhelming majority of scientists’ reports clearly documenting climate change.

The 12 hottest years on record have taken place in the past 15. Historic droughts, storms and other climatic revelations continue to ravage this planet and demand our foremost attention. Yet, the president is stuck with people like Sen. Marco Rubio, his official rebuttal man, who answered a scientific question about the Earth’s age by offering theological accounts from the Bible. The Republicans have behaved like spoiled children who continue to ignore scientific facts. The thing with children is that you can actually teach them science. Maybe if the president’s push for universal preschool passes, we would have kids that depict a basic understanding of the world and science at an earlier age.

“Today a full-time worker earning the minimum wage earns $14,500 a year,” the president enlightened a chamber full of people whose salaries come out of the pockets of many of those minimum-wage workers in America. His call to raise the federal minimum wage to a more-livable, mere $9 per hour is seen by the likes of House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy as potentially devastating to small businesses, resulting in ‘job creators’ feeling the pain and a stagnant economy.

On the contrar y, giving a $1.75 bump to some of the hardest working Americans would provide them with increased purchasing power and inject more money into the economy. The people living paycheck-topaycheck would spend it to make ends meet.

It would be a matter of shame if the Republicans don’t get behind this proposition to help

HEMANG SHARMA columnist

the self-reliant, hardworking Americans they claim to represent. I urge the skeptics in Congress to live on $7.25 per hour for the next year and see how they can provide for their families.

“Ask any CEO where they’d rather locate and hire: a country with deteriorating roads and bridges or one with high-speed rail and Internet, high-tech schools and self-healing power grids,” asked Obama rhetorically.

The fact is that in order to remain a firstrate country, we must continue to invest in our infrastructure. Obama’s Fix-It-First program believes in fixing our 70,000 broken bridges and then steadily building new projects that would help us in the long run. This is a claim backed by the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has laid out detailed reports of our crippling infrastructure. He has, before this address, on numerous occasions proposed bills that would further increase our cities’ ability to facilitate safe and economically efficient commerce, something which the Republicans continue to mock as overreaching government.

“Send me a comprehensive immigrationreform bill in the next few months, and I will sign it right away,” urged the president. Illegal immigration is now at a 40-year low, hence all the Republicans who scream ‘secure our borders first’ every time immigration is debated have nothing to complain about now. It would have to be absolute political mudslinging if they do not pass a bill just to make the president look bad.

The president talked about the victims of gun violence and how they deserve a bipartisan voice. Here is one word the president should delete from his dictionary: compromise. He must recall how compromise got him nowhere in his first term and operate with absolutely no care for hurting their feelings. Last week, Republicans held Chuck Hagel’s appointment for secretary of defense over Benghazi. If the Republicans had asked this many questions about 9/11, we’d have dodged the Iraq War. He has been more than fair to the Republicans who have delivered to him much less respect than the office of the president of the U.S. deserves, regardless of the party. Almost all the efforts in his political caravan continue to get pulled over by a gang of Republican outlaws, dressed as sheriffs, who then rob him of all his political substance before allowing him to embark on another journey, hoping this time they would let him pass without paying a toll to the political thugs.

Hemang Sharma welcomes comments at hsharma@mndaily.com.

Monday, February 18, 2013

HIGHER ED

Making the grade Grades are far from critical.

I

n terms of frivolous lawsuits, the case of the graduate student suing her professor for a better grade must be on a special pedestal.

Megan Thode, a graduate student at Lehigh University, received a C-plus grade for one of her courses. This grade prevented her from continuing her chosen master’s program, and she was forced to graduate with a different M.A. degree. She argued that she lost out on $1.3 million in potential wages, and as such, she had to sue her professor for not giving her the appropriate grade.

This sort of lawsuit not only bogs down the legal system, it represents a woefully present sense of entitlement. It’s understandable that a graduate student who normally receives As or Bs as grades would be upset upon receiving a C-plus. Graduate school is a place where often the best of the best go, and if you’re used to getting As, then you expect them. However, the transitory nature of the grade is oddly juxtaposed against the goal of learning. We have to ask ourselves: Is a lower-than-expected grade an opportunity to complain or an opportunity for retrospection?

Both as a student and teacher, I understand the importance of grades within the higher education system. That is to say, I understand the role they play. I do not, however, understand why the chokehold of arbitrar y letters masquerading as assessment continues in the 21st century. I always consider our system slightly more enlightened. But, my disappointment abounds.

Regardless, the issue of suing a professor for the grade one wants is ludicrous.

There are instances of grading errors or complaints against professors, and those instances are normally handled through the grade appeal channel at the university level. There is a process, and for better or worse, the process normally works. By the time the grade appeal reaches the upper administration level, probably more than ten independent individuals have looked over said appeal and offered an opinion. This is not a process that is taken lightly; it is a serious process for serious accusations and appeals.

While sympathetic to Thode’s predicament, no one is entitled to a grade they don’t deser ve. In this case, a judge threw out Thode’s lawsuit, so her frivolousness will not clog the legal system anymore. Yet, this issue has elucidated the ridiculous nature of our evaluation systems.

It’s important to note that assessment and grading are dif ferent things. These things are often convoluted and lumped together, but they represent two distinctive ways of thinking. Assessment is the act of looking at a body of work, understanding the strengths and weaknesses of said work and making an outline of improvement available. Grading is the act of assigning a concrete and static value to a body of work. The static nature of the grade is what irks many, including myself.

What is an A? Does an A mean you showed up ever y day and passively listened to the instr uctor? That you did your work and turned it in on time? The problem arises out of the subjectivity surrounding letter grades. I most cer tainly

TRENT M KAYS columnist

believe that ever ything is subjective and objectivity is a myth we sell ourselves to justify our perspectives, but in the case of letter grades, there are few things more subjective.

Moreover, letter grades perpetuate an understanding that learning ends. It is the stopping of a course of learning, and it provides a reason to those involved to wash their hands of the course. Yet, in many courses, instr uctors declare that learning is a process and students shouldn’t worr y about their grades. This is easy for instructors to say because they aren’t the ones whose academic career lives or dies based on a grade.

Perhaps most troubling is that many instructors will adamantly suggest they only want students to understand the learning process and its importance, but then they do nothing to change the arbitrar y and loathsome grading system.

This type of hypocrisy is spread throughout higher education, so it isn’t surprising that students become over-stressed and over-concerned with their grades in a class. Many have offered nothing more than hollow words.

I abhor grading. I’m pro-assessment but anti-grading. I’ve never found grading par ticularly useful as either a motivator or an accurate representation of a student’s abilities. More often than not, grades are simply categories of direction.

Meaning, if the students followed all the directions, they received the appropriate grade. It seems that little learning is involved. Then again, why should learning be involved at all?

In our society, higher education is becoming more interested in training than lear ning. Higher education trains students to follow the r ules and get good grades and then spits them out into an over-burdened economy. Good grades are not assurances of good jobs, though some universities would have you think this is true.

Grades are meaningless outside of the university environment. Without the context through which the grade arose, a grade is just a letter. That’s it; it’s a simple and arbitrar y letter, more in line with telling students what they aren’t than what they are.

We work to instill strong critical thinking and engagement in our students because we know it will help them achieve success. We owe it to our students to bring that same critical thinking and engagement to how we assess and value their learning process and work.

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

DIVERSITY

Diversity advice for university instructors Here are some tips to help non-heterosexual students feel welcome.

are openly gay. Some guys behind me started laughing, and I felt very uncomfortable and quickly regretted mentioning the show. But the instructor took notice of the laughter and went on to explain to the class in detail how much he loved the show. He was pretty awesome.

B

eing non-heterosexual in a large university setting can be a ver y positive experience with lots of potential for self growth. This is especially true for those of us who come from rural or not-so-accepting areas where we had limited opportunities to engage with other non-heterosexuals.

What makes that experience even more positive, however, is having instructors who acknowledge our contribution to a diverse classroom setting in affirmative ways. Here are some tips for instructors that might be useful in affirming non-heterosexual students.

Make homophobic language unacceptable in your classroom.

You may feel it’s unlikely that one of your students will say something homophobic or transphobic to another student. And it may be true that it’s unlikely. Making a simple declaration in your syllabus that you will not tolerate homophobic language in your classroom, however, allows students who are not heterosexual know that your classroom is a safe space for them. At the very least, they will be less likely to be afraid to share personal experiences that often make class discussions so rich.

Don’t let homophobic behavior go unnoticed.

If you do happen to catch homophobic remarks from another student, perhaps the worst thing you can do is let it go unnoticed.

Watch your word choice.

JAMES CASTLE columnist

Depending on what you perceive to be the intent of the offender — whether their behavior was clearly malicious or unintentional — certain responses may be more appropriate than others. In the event of a malicious homophobic remark by a student, it may be appropriate to call that student out in class or ask him to leave. On the other hand, if the remark is homophobic but unintentional, it may be more appropriate to address what was said and explain to the class the implications of that particular language and why they might be more careful.

In a third scenario, you might simply voice your support for non-heterosexual people in more indirect ways. I can recall a situation from my undergraduate experience. It was the first day of a discussion section for a course on Western civilization. The instructor, being a movie guru, asked each of us to give introductions and provide some information about ourselves, including our favorite television show. I remember telling the class that my favorite show is “Will & Grace,” an NBC sitcom with two main characters who

Perhaps you’re making a personal anecdote about the conversation you had with your husband or wife that morning. Instead of using husband or wife, try using more neutral terms, such as partner. Not every consenting adult can become someone else’s husband, wife or spouse. It might seem a little silly to some, but these sort of nuances can make a big difference for that small portion of your audience who may not be straight.

Use same-sex or transgender examples.

If you’re preparing for class and brainstorming examples or hypotheticals for a discussion session, from time to time, try using some examples or hypotheticals that include same-sex couples or couples where one partner is transgender. The sexual orientation or gender identity of the fictitious characters in your example may not be material to the subject or point you are trying to make, but it might catch the attention of certain students and engage them in the discussion.

Avoid reinforcing gender stereotypes.

This might seem like a no-brainer for some, but it might happen more often than you might think. For example, when I wrote for another college newspaper, a faculty ad-

viser was discussing professional attire for interviews and made a joke at orientation about how men can’t tie bow ties properly, but women can. Although I understand this was in good spirit with no intention to slight women or men, when you state that, “women tend to be good at this” or “men tend to be better at this,” you’re really talking about stereotypes that apply to heterosexual men and stereotypes that apply to straight women. My friends and I, who happen to be gay, happen to wear bow ties quite a bit, and we’re actually pretty skilled at tying them. Statements like the one by my former adviser, aside from the problem that they involved stereotypes, made me feel a little excluded from his hetero-centric world where women are always helping their men with tying their bow ties. A former boyfriend of mine taught me how to tie a bow tie, actually.

Some of these tips may seem subtle and insubstantial, but they might mean a lot to members of a non-heterosexual subculture.

Similar subtleties can mean a lot to members of other groups, too.

Being conscious of diversity can be a bit complicated, but perhaps even more challenging is acting prudently around diverse groups and effectively welcoming diversity, especially when one is a leader of that group.

If you would like to learn more about diversity and how you can better communicate across differences, consider the University of Minnesota’s Equity and Diversity Certificate Program. You can learn more about this certificate program by visiting the University’s diversity Web page.

James Castle welcomes comments at jcastle@mndaily.com.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Sports

7

@MNDAILYSPORTS

MEN’S HOCKEY

Hockey u from Page 1

sale and looked for ward to the game all season.

Outside the stadium, fans from all four teams tailgated before and during the games, despite a lack of parking due to Soldier Field’s downtown location. The temperature hovered around 30 degrees all day.

“It’s great. I love it,” said fan Jef f Eberlein, who lives in Minneapolis.

“I wish they would have more outdoor hockey.”

Eberlein drove from Minneapolis to Chicago on Saturday and attended both outdoor games Sunday.

Though the fans were happy to be outside, the Gophers didn’t look like they wer e. Minnesota, which beat Wisconsin 3-2 on Friday in Madison, Wis., battled different conditions throughout Sunday’s game.

The Gophers (20-6-4, 12-6-4 WCHA) got goals from sophomore Seth Ambroz and junior Zach Budish at the beginning and end of the third period, but they couldn’t overcome the three-goal deficit.

The condition of the ice quickly dropped of f after the beginning of each period.

“When we first came out in the first period, I thought the ice was pretty good,” junior defenseman Nate Schmidt said. “As the game went on … it started getting choppy.”

The Gophers outshot the Badgers in the first period, but Wisconsin got three pucks behind freshman goalie Adam Wilcox in a span of 3:19 in the second.

Minnesota, a team built around speed, str uggled to enter its of fensive zone at times. Wisconsin didn’t.

“In a situation like this,

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minnesota forward Zach Budish and Wisconsin defenseman Jake McCabe fight Sunday at Soldier Field in Chicago. Both were given penalties for roughing.

you’re not going to get pr etty goals,” Gophers head coach Don Lucia said.

The Badgers’ goals w e r e n ’ t p r e t t y. K e v i n Schulze scored on a wrist shot that got a piece of Wilcox, John Ramage scored by deflecting a shot off Minnesota defenseman Mike Reilly and Sean Little made it 3-0 on a rebound

goal.

“Those are the types of goals that you need to score,” Schmidt said.

“Ours just came a little later than when we wanted.”

Power play sparks Friday win

Minnesota’s power play helped it beat Wisconsin on Friday in Madison.

The Gophers got

power-play goals fr om sophomore Sam Warning, junior Nick Bjugstad and Ambroz and held off a late charge by the Badgers.

Minnesota went 3-for4 with the extra man, and W isconsin went 0-for-1.

The Badgers didn’t get their power play until the third period.

“We do a pretty good job of not taking unnec-

essar y penalties,” Lucia said. “It wasn’t going to be a penalty-filled game. The dif ference was we were able to conver t on our chances.”

Despite peppering Wisconsin goaltender Joel Rumpel with 20 shots in the first period, the Gophers ended the first tied 1-1.

“It was a tough first

period for us,” junior forward Nate Condon said.

“We got a lot of shots, but I don’t know if they were good, quality chances.”

Despite cooling of f from their 60-shot pace after the first period, the Gophers outshot Wisconsin 43-30. @dailyontheice

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers’ winning streak survives unlikely scare Minnesota won its first overtime game of the season Saturday.

BY CHARLIE ARMITZ carmitz@mndaily.com

The Gophers wanted adversity, and they got it this weekend from an unlikely source: Bemidji State.

Minnesota extended its NCAA-record winning streak to 40 games with two wins at Ridder Arena against the Beavers, the last-place team in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

The top-ranked Gophers (32-0-0) clinched the WCHA regular-season title two weeks ago, but after beating Bemidji State 8-0 Friday, looked as vulnerable as they have all season Saturday in a 3-2 overtime win.

Senior Mira Jalosuo scored the game-winning goal with less than two minutes left in over time.

The Gophers had not led until that point.

It was Minnesota’s first over time game and first one-goal win of the season.

“We want to create as much adversity as we can for our team,” head coach Brad Frost said. “All those things are good for us as we keep going for ward to the ultimate prize.”

That prize is a second consecutive national championship, which Minnesota is the over whelming favorite to claim. Not only are the Gophers the most talented team in the countr y, but they’ve shown they can conquer adversity.

Even if they don’t face it often.

Minnesota has trailed in five games this season.

Saturday’s game marked the second time it has trailed more than once in a game.

The Gophers responded to both of their deficits Saturday by tying the game less than three minutes later.

“It’s not that big of a deal to be down by one goal,” Jalosuo said, “because our of fense is so good that we will easily score like five goals per game, and [goalie] Noora [Räty] doesn’t let more than two goals in.”

Räty has allowed two goals or fewer in 27 of 30 games this season, and she leads the WCHA with a 1.02 goals-against average.

But Bemidji State’s goaltender Jessica Havel stole the show Saturday.

She had 41 saves to Räty’s 12 and stood her ground behind a Beavers defense that blocked dozens of shots, many of which came in rapid succession.

Minnesota outshot Bemidji State 19-3 in the third period, when each team scored an early goal. Sophomore Rachel Ramsey’s game-tying goal at the 4:22 mark came 90 seconds after the Beavers took their second lead of the game.

Like the Gophers, the Beavers played their best after allowing a goal, which prevented Minnesota from pulling away like it’s done against many teams this season.

“We had a lot of good scoring chances in the third period, but we just didn’t get one in,” Jalosuo said. “That makes things a little bit more complicated.”

Junior and national scoring leader Amanda Kessel scor ed the Gophers’ first goal with five minutes left in the second

period.

Kessel had two goals and an assist in Friday’s rout, which the Gophers led 4-0 after one period.

Fr ost said goaltending was the dif ference between the two games, but he said the Gophers had more jump Friday and didn’t play up to their standards Saturday.

Senior captain Megan Bozek said the Gophers’ quick star t Friday — they scored two goals in the first 1:07 — made the difference. Minnesota has the firepower to dominate games from start to finish, but it has struggled lately in the first and second periods. “ We ’ r e g o i n g t o b e down games,” Bozek said.

“We’re going to be in a little bit of a slump and not playing Gopher hockey for the full 60 minutes.”

Bozek and her teammates have used “Gopher hockey” to describe Minnesota’s ideal style of play — fast-paced, high-scoring and energetic.

When Minnesota hasn’t played that way, it has still found ways to win — and rarely has it needed overtime to do it.

“I think there’s always doubt,” Frost said about winning close games. “But I think that’s when our team star ted to play their best [Saturday] — when they just went out and played.”

- Megan Ryan contributed to this report.

WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS 2 0 3

Bemidji State Minnesota

1 0 4

3 FINAL 0 0 1 8

Bemidji State Minnesota

1 2 3 OT FINAL 0 1 1 0 2 0 1 1 1 3

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota defender Mira Jalosuo passes the puck against Bemidji State on Saturday at Ridder Arena. Jalosuo scored the game-winning goal in overtime Saturday.

8

Monday, February 18, 2013

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Iowa’s zone baffles Gophers, Smith in worst loss of season

The Gophers blew a 16-point lead and lost by 21 points to the Hawkeyes.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

IOWA CITY, Iowa — In some ways, the Gophers’ 7251 loss at Iowa on Sunday resembles their rollercoaster year.

The Gophers jumped out to a 21-5 lead in the first seven minutes at the CarverHawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa, much like their 15-1 record to start this season.

Minnesota looked poised to build on its emotional overtime victory against No. 20 Wisconsin at Williams Arena on Thursday.

But the Hawkeyes ran off a 67-30 run to end the game, capitalizing on the Gophers’ turnovers, poor shot selection and struggles against a zone defense.

“It’s about as disappointing a loss as I’ve had,” coach Tubby Smith said.

The Gophers had 22 second-half points, a letdown much like their 3-7 record across the past 10 games.

“We were up by 16,” Smith said, shrugging his shoulders emphatically.

Smith’s squad fed the post early, giving Trevor Mbakwe the game’s first four points.

Andre and Austin Hollins followed it up with a threepointer each, but midway through the first half, Minnesota relapsed into its own bad habits.

The Gophers accumulated six turnovers in a little more than two minutes in the first half as the Hawkeyes ran the floor, beating Minnesota at its own game.

“It’s embar rassing,” Smith said.

Once Minnesota’s lead vanished, so did the Gophers’ energy.

“Our intensity fell of f a bit,” Austin Hollins said.

“That’s something we can’t have. No team is going to lay down when you get up on them.”

Minnesota had four field

IOWA 72, MINNESOTA 51

Minnesota Iowa

29 22 — 51 34 38 — 72

MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Mbakwe 31 4-8 5-10 2-6 1 2 13 Williams 10 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Hollins, An. 19 1-8 0-0 1-4 1 4 2 Coleman 27 3-8 0-0 3-5 0 2 6 Hollins, Au. 31 4-7 5-5 0-0 1 0 14 Welch 7 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 1 0 Osenieks 20 1-5 1-2 2-4 3 1 3 Ahanmisi 16 2-3 0-1 0-0 0 2 5 Walker 7 1-4 1-2 2-3 0 2 3 Ingram 4 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 1 0 Eliason 28 1-2 2-3 1-4 4 3 4 Total 200 17-47 14-18 13-31 11 19 51 Percentages: FG .362, FT .609. Three-pointers: 3-14, .214 (Andre Hollins 1-5, Ahanmisi 1-2, Au. Hollins 1-2, Osenieks 0-2, Welch 0-1, Eliason 0-1).

Blocks: 5 (Eliason 4, Williams). Team rebounds: 2.

Turnovers: 17 (Au. Hollins 4, Coleman 3, Osenieks 3, Ahanmisi 2, Williams 2, Mbakwe, Andre Hollins, Eliason). Steals: 7 (Coleman 2, Ahanmisi 2, Andre Hollins, Welch, Osenieks).

IOWA Player Basabe Marble White Woodbury Gesell Olaseni Oglesby Clemmons Rickert Denning McCabe Ingram May Stokes Total

Min 22 36 31 9 30 8 8 9 1 1 17 2 24 2 200

FG M-A 2-3 3-9 4-6 2-3 5-10 0-0 0-0 0-2 0-0 0-0 1-4 0-0 3-5 1-1 21-43

FT M-A 0-0 7-8 7-9 0-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 7-7 1-2 3-3 0-0 25-31

Reb O-T Ast PF 1-3 1 3 1-4 2 1 0-4 2 0 2-3 0 4 0-0 1 1 1-2 0 2 0-0 0 0 0-0 1 1 0-0 0 0 0-0 0 0 0-5 1 2 0-0 0 0 2-7 1 4 1-1 0 0 8-30 9 18

Pts 4 15 15 4 11 0 0 0 0 0 10 1 10 2 72

Percentages: FG .488, FT .806. Three-pointers: 5-9, .556 (Marble 2-4, McCabe 1-3, Gesell 1-1, May 1-1).

Blocks: 6 (White 3, Basabe, Gesell, Clemmons).

Team rebounds: 1. Turnovers: 12 (Marble 4, Olaseni 2, Clemmons 2, McCabe 2, White, Woodbury).

Steals: 12 (Gesell 4, Marble 3, McCabe 2, May 2, Basabe). A: 15,400. Officials: Pat Driscoll, Tim Clougherty, Steve McJunkins.

goals and eight turnovers in the 13 1/2 minutes leading up to halftime.

Iowa switched to a zone defense early in the first half, stifling the Gophers’ post play and forcing errant shots on the perimeter.

“It changed the complexion of the game,” Iowa coach Fran McCaffery said about his defense. “Rarely are you down 15 and win by 20.

It didn’t feel like a 20-point win.”

The Hawkeyes’ 61-percent shooting in the second half made it tough for a possible comeback.

“We knew that they were going to do it,” Mbakwe said of Iowa’s zone. “They forced us to take perimeter shots, and we took a lot of shot clock violations.”

Minnesota’s 17 turnovers were the most it’s committed since a Jan. 12 loss at Indiana.

Austin Hollins led Minnesota with four turnovers, his most since the loss at Indiana.

His backcourt partner,

Minnesota guard Maverick Ahanmisi grabs the ball against Wisconsin on Thursday at Williams Arena.

Andre Hollins, got into early foul trouble and shot 1-for-8 in 19 minutes. Andre Hollins followed up one of his best games against the Badgers, in which he scored 21 points and zero turnovers, with one of his worst.

The sophomore point guard finished Sunday’s game with three points, one turnover and no free throw attempts. “[Hollins] is having trouble defending people off the

dribble,” Smith said. “There was ver y little defense being played once Iowa came back.”

After starting the game 6-for-9 from the field, the Gophers shot 29 percent the rest of the game.

With Andre Hollins on the bench, reserve guards Maverick Ahanmisi and Julian Welch faltered in running plays, often passing the ball around the arc until lobbing up a shot.

“It was like a hot potato,” Smith said. “Just pass it to somebody else.”

Center Elliott Eliason led Minnesota with four assists.

After the game, Mbakwe answered critics who might say Thursday’s win over Wisconsin was a flash in the pan followed by a letdown to Iowa.

“It’s not a fluke,” Mbakwe said. “If [some fans] want to jump off the boat, that’s unfortunate for them. We

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

still believe. [Iowa] is not 20 points better than us.”

Shoulder injury nags Williams

Rodney Williams was held out of most of the game because of a lingering left shoulder injury, Smith said.

Reser ve Oto Osenieks played more minutes (20) than Andre Hollins (19) and Williams (10). @dailyinthebarn

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Season continues to slip with upset loss at home Minnesota lost to Northwestern as Rachel Banham struggled to stay on the floor with foul trouble.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Rachel Banham has carried the Gophers women’s basketball team to plenty of wins in her first two years on campus.

On Sunday, though, she was forced to watch from the bench while Northwestern dominated the most crucial stretch of the game.

Minnesota fell to Northwestern 70-63 at Williams Arena and dropped to 4-8 in the Big Ten with four conference games left.

The Gophers have dropped seven of their past nine games.

Banham, who led Minnesota with 19 points, was plagued with foul trouble all game. She picked up her fourth foul midway through the second half and was forced to sit out a key stretch, during which the Wildcats went on an 8-0 run.

“I just played dumb — really stupid fouls,” she said.

“I just have to play smarter than that.”

Minnesota’s offense went stagnant without Banham on the floor, and possessions ended in long jumpers and turnovers. At one point in

the second half, the Gophers went nearly six minutes without scoring.

“We needed some other people to step up and really hold the fort down for a few minutes,” Minnesota head coach Pam Borton said.

Minnesota has struggled to find another consistent scoring option alongside Banham all season.

On Sunday, forward-center Micaëlla Riché scored 17 points on 6-for-10 shooting, and guard Sari Noga added 12, all on three-pointers. But without Banham, neither could stop the bleeding in crunch time.

Riché was ef fective in the post, but the Gophers’ guards had trouble feeding her down low. Borton said her team needs to improve at making entry passes.

“She’s our go-to player inside,” Borton said of Riché.

“We didn’t get her as many touches as we wanted to during the game.”

The Gophers trailed by eight points with 4:51 remaining when Banham checked back in. Both squads exchanged buckets and free throws, and Banham hit a long three-pointer to cut Northwestern’s lead to three with 42 seconds left.

Minnesota could’ve played defense for the duration of the 30-second shot clock and hoped for a turnover or a missed shot, but for ward Kionna Kellogg intentionally fouled a Northwestern player.

NORTHWESTERN 70, MINNESOTA 63 Northwestern Minnesota

29 41 — 70 30 33 — 63

NORTHWESTERN FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts 37 9-16 1-1 2-8 1 1 20 36 3-8 8-10 1-7 2 4 14 35 3-9 5-6 1-7 5 2 12 39 7-10 0-0 0-3 4 2 16 38 2-3 2-2 1-3 5 2 6 7 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 3 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 4 1-1 0-0 0-2 1 2 2 200 25-48 16-19 6-35 19 13 13 Percentages: FG .521, FT .842. Three-pointers: 4-14, .286 (Lyon 2-5, Diamant 1-5, Hackney 1-2, Douglas 0-2). Blocks: 4 (Diamant 3, Douglas). Team rebounds: 4. Turnovers: 16 (Roser 7, Diamant 3, Hackney 2, Douglas 2, Lyon 2). Steals: 6 (Roser 3, Hackney, Douglas, Diamant).

Player Hackney Douglas Diamant Lyon Roser Cohen Kedem Taylor Popovec

MINNESOTA Player Kellogg Riche Banham Mullaney Noga Cotton Hirt Bailey Loberg Total

Min 27 37 29 23 31 16 13 21 3 200

FG M-A 0-5 6-10 7-17 1-4 4-10 2-4 1-3 1-4 0-2 22-59

FT M-A 1-2 5-7 2-3 1-2 0-0 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 11-16

Reb O-T 1-2 3-8 0-0 0-2 1-4 2-2 1-2 1-2 1-2 12-30

Ast 5 1 3 1 1 0 1 1 0 13

PF 3 3 4 0 1 2 4 3 0 20

Pts 1 17 19 4 12 6 2 2 0 63

Percentages: : FG .373, FT .688. Three-pointers: 8-22, .364 (Noga 4-9, Banham 3-8, Mullaney 1-3, Bailey 0-2). Blocks: 1 (Kellogg). Team rebounds: 6. Turnovers: 14 (Kellogg 3, Mullaney 3, Banham 2, Hirt 2, Noga, Cotton, Bailey). Steals: 8 (Kellogg 2, Mullaney 2, Riché, Banham, Cotton, Bailey). A: 5,174. Officials: Felicia Grinter, Cameron Inouye, Tim Daley.

She split the free throws to make it a two-possession game, and Banham missed a three-pointer on the Gophers’ next possession, essentially ending the comeback.

Banham shot 7-for-17 from the floor.

The Wildcats switched up defenses throughout the game, at times guarding Banham with a box-and-one and denying her the ball.

The Gophers looked great early. Noga made a trio of three-pointers in the game’s opening minutes, and

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota forward Michaëlla Riché shoots against Northwestern on Sunday at Williams Arena.

Minnesota took its biggest lead of the game at 12-5.

But Banham picked up

her second foul eight minutes into the first half and sat for the next 3 1/2 minutes,

allowing Northwestern to settle down and get back in the game.

9

Monday, February 18, 2013

BASEBALL

Gophers return to earth after upset win Minnesota upset UCLA on Friday but was outscored 28-1 in two losses.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Beating a preseason All-American pitcher is a great way to start the first series of the season.

Getting blown out in the next two games is a bad way to end it.

Minnesota’s baseball team dropped two of three games to No. 5 UCLA over the weekend in Los Angeles.

The Gophers beat the Bruins and their ace Adam Plutko 6-2 in extra innings

Friday, only to follow that up with two blowout losses — 14-0 and 14-1.

Minnesota’s bats — a huge problem for the team a year ago — were dormant for much of the weekend.

Junior lefty Tom Windle’s return to the rotation helped keep Br uins bats quiet Friday.

But UCLA’s sluggers took advantage of inexperienced star ters Ben Meyer and Jordan Jess on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

Meyer allowed seven runs, five earned, on nine hits Saturday. He lasted three innings, but changing pitchers didn’t help. UCLA rocked freshman Dalton Sawyer for five runs in 1.1 innings.

Br uins star ter Nick Vander Tuig threw six shutout innings, and UCLA’s bullpen followed suit.

O n S u n d a y, U C L A roughed up Jess for six runs in the opening frame and cruised from there.

First baseman Dan Olinger drove in the Gophers’ lone r un. He also had the go-ahead hit in Minnesota’s win Friday.

Olinger batted 2-for-5 on Friday. Right fielder Bobby Juan went 2-for-5 and drove in a pair of runs.

Shor tstop Michael Handel batted 3-for-5 with two RBIs, and center fielder Andy Henkemeyer went 3-for-5 as well.

Windle threw four shutout innings, but reliever T y McDevitt gave up a

GYMNASTICS

BY NATE GOTLIEB AND NICK TABBERT ngotlieb@mndaily.com ntabbert@mndaily.com

Minnesota junior Dusti Russell made her season debut as the No. 11 Gophers women’s gymnastics squad won the four-team Best of Minnesota meet Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

Russell competed on the uneven bars and won the balance beam. Her return adds depth to a Gophers squad that is of f to its best start ever.

“Not only is it great to have her back as a competitor that helps our team score,” head coach Meg Stephenson said, “it’s great for the chemistr y of the team to have her competing again.”

The Gophers began the season 9-0 despite Russell’s absence and improved to 12-0 Saturday, defeating Gustavus, Hamline and Winona State in front of their largest home crowd of the season.

Russell, an all-around qualifier for the 2012 NCAA championships, missed the Gophers’ first five meets this season with a foot injury.

She did not compete in the vault or floor exercise Saturday, but Stephenson said she hopes she will compete in all four events soon.

“We’ll just kind of see how it goes and play it by ear,” Stephenson said.

With Russell out, the Gophers have received contributions in the allaround competition from freshman Lindsay Mable and sophomore Jenny Covers. Covers finished first out of six in the all-around Saturday, placing in the top six in all four events.

Mable scored personal bests in the vault and floor exercise Satur day. She finished second in the allaround competition despite falling off the uneven bars.

The uneven bars was the Gophers’ lowest-scoring event for the four th time this season.

RESULTS

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

R

H

E

Minnesota UCLA

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

4

6

12

1

0

0

0

0

2

0

0

0

0

0

2

6

1

Minnesota UCLA

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

6

4

3

2

2

0

5

1

1

0

X

14

16

1

Minnesota UCLA

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

1

6

2

6

0

0

1

0

1

1

5

X

14

17

1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

two-run double in the fifth inning.

The Gophers tied the game in the seventh inning. Handel led of f the frame with a single. Juan knocked him in with a

double, and second baseman Tony Skjefte singled in Juan. All of the damage came off Plutko.

Veteran relievers Billy Soule and Kevin Kray combined to throw three shut-

out innings to push the game into extra innings.

The Gophers scored four runs in the top of the tenth, and Kray pitched a scoreless bottom of the tenth.

SOFTBALL

Russell returns, Gophers cruise Dusti Russell made an emphatic return to the women’s lineup.

BASEBALL

“It’s more of a confidence thing now than anything else,” Stephenson said.

The Gophers are one of three undefeated teams in the NCAA. They will compete against Iowa and Iowa State next weekend before traveling to top-ranked Florida on Mar. 1.

Men Th e G o ph e r s m e n ’s team scored its highest point total of the season Saturday night, but it didn’t matter as it lost to a hot Oklahoma squad.

No. 6 Minnesota recorded season-high scores in five of the six events, but the No. 2 Sooners defeated the Gophers 443.35-435.45 in Norman, Okla.

Minnesota outscored the Sooners on vault, but Oklahoma pulled away in ever y other event, especially on pommel horse and still rings.

Steve Jaciuk led the Gophers with career-highs in three events. The sophomore won the high bar, finished second on parallel bars and took third on rings.

Jaciuk said it was dif ficult for the team’s voices to be heard through the first half of the meet.

He said when he began his night on rings, Minnesota’s four th rotation, he wanted to give the team “a pick-me-up” to get it back in the meet. It worked, although Minnesota couldn’t overcome its deficit.

Gophers head coach Mike Bur ns said Jaciuk was the team’s most valuable per for mer of the night.

Sophomore Sean Bauer had a season-high on floor exercise to finish third, and junior Zack Chase won the vault.

Minnesota has str uggled on pommel horse this season, but Burns said all six competitors on pommel horse stayed on the apparatus Saturday.

As a result, Minnesota scored 70.95 points on the event, more than 1.5 points higher than its previous best at the Windy City Invitational.

“It was the highlight of the meet right there,” Bur ns said. “We’re just really pleased the whole

team was able to go through it and set the pace pretty much for the rest of the night.”

Bur ns said he was pleased with the high score, and the team has its sights on breaking 440 points by the season’s end.

Last week against Iowa was a struggle, as untimely illnesses coupled with three gymnasts in Las Vegas for the Winter Cup competition led to the Gophers’ lowest team score of the season.

On Satur day, things were much different.

“This week we’re getting of f of injuries; we’re getting healthy from sickness,” Jaciuk said. “It was just good to have all the guys back together again.”

Jaciuk said the past few weeks have shown the team can overcome adversity.

Oklahoma also set a season-high total Saturday in its first home meet of the year. The Sooners have not lost at home since 2007.

Minnesota will be on the road for the third consecutive week next Sunday at Illinois-Chicago. It will be the Gophers’ last meet before teams begin to use five gymnasts on each event instead of six.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota Oklahoma

SCORE 435.45 443.35

MINNESOTA LEADERS Floor Pommel Horse Still Rings Vault Parallel Bars High Bar

SCORE Bauer, 15.45 Mannon, 14.95 Jaciuk, 15.1 Chase, 15.2 Jaciuk, 15.15 Jaciuk, 15.35

Offense struggles as Minnesota loses three of five in Arizona tourney Minnesota had two runs combined in its three losses over the weekend.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Freshman first baseman Paige Palkovich hit two home runs, including a game-winner Saturday night, but Minnesota finished with a 2-3 record at the Littlewood Classic at Farrington Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.

The Gophers (3-6) scored two r uns in their three losses — two in two games against Illinois State and none against No. 3 Arizona State. Their two wins this weekend came Saturday against Nor thern Iowa.

Palkovich broke a 1-1 tie Saturday night with her second home r un of the season. With two outs in the bottom of the sixth inning, Palkovich hit a shot of f the left-field foul pole, giving the Gophers a 3-1 lead, which stood.

Palkovich knew she hit the ball hard when it left her bat, but she said she wasn’t sure it was a home run.

“I wasn’t going to start my home run trot too early, ’cause I wasn’t sure it was over,” she said.

Palkovich batted 4-for14 with two home runs and three RBIs on the tourna-

SOFTBALL RESULTS

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

R

H

E

Minnesota Illinois

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

1

8

2

3

0

0

2

0

0

X

5

7

0

Illinois Minnesota

0

0

0

0

0

3

0

3

8

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

6

0

Minnesota Northern

1

0

2

0

0

2

0

5

5

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

2

Northern Minnesota

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

1

4

2

1

0

0

0

0

2

0

3

2

1

Minnesota Arizona

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

1

0

0

2

1

5

8

9

0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

ment, but the Gophers s t r u g g l e d o f f e n s i v e l y, scoring 10 runs in the five games.

The Gophers rallied Saturday around junior pitcher Sara Moulton.

Sophomore shor tstop Tyler Walker led of f Saturday after noon’s game with a solo home run, and Moulton pitched a complete-game shutout, striking out 12.

Moulton took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, but gave up a single in the seventh as the Gophers won 5-0.

Moulton allowed one earned run in seven innings Saturday night as the Gophers defeated Nor thern Iowa 3-1. She started four games on the weekend, giv-

ing up seven earned runs in 22 2/3 innings and striking out 30.

Minnesota struggled offensively again Sunday as Arizona State pitcher Dallas Escobedo held the team to one hit and struck out nine batters. Arizona State scored five runs in the fifth and cruised to an 8-0 fiveinning victory.

“She’s a national championship pitcher,” head coach Jessica Allister said of Escobedo. “We swung at some pitches out of the zone, we took some pitches in the zone, and against a pitcher of that caliber, you better attack strikes.”

The Gophers will travel to Fort Meyers, Fla., next weekend for the Florida Gulf Coast Tournament.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: gymnastics YEAR: sophomore

RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota Winona State Hamline Gustavus

SCORE 196.000 184.975 184.675 177.450

MINNESOTA LEADERS Vault Bars Beam Floor All-Around

SCORE Slechta, 9.925 Campbell, 9.875 Russell, 9.875 Mable, 9.925 Covers, 39.125

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

JAAK JENSEN. DAILY

Minnesota junior Dusti Russell performs her balance beam routine Saturday at the Sports Pavilion. Russell won the balance beam with a score of 9.875 at the Best of Minnesota meet.

MALE

STEVE JACIUK Jaciuk had a career night Saturday on all three of his events. He won the high bar, finished second on parallel bars and finished third on still rings. The Gophers lost to No. 2 Oklahoma but scored their highest team total of the season.

SPORT: gymnastics YEAR: junior

FEMALE

DUSTI RUSSELL In her first meet of the season, Russell competed on the uneven bars and balance beam. She won on beam, helping the Gophers improve their record to 12-0. Russell was an all-around qualifier for the 2012 NCAA championships and is hoping to compete in all four events soon.

10

Monday, February 18, 2013

TENNIS

TRACK & FIELD

Men, women win eight titles each

Women snap six-game losing streak with two dominant wins

The men’s team also won with relative ease Saturday.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Minnesota’s women’s tennis team has struggled for most of the past month, but it bucked that trend over the weekend.

The Gophers snapped their six-game losing streak with a pair of dominant wins over Northern Iowa and Carleton on Saturday at Baseline Tennis Center.

Both opponents were second-tier competition, but head coach Chuck Merzbacher said the wins gave his squad a much-needed confidence boost.

“We felt pretty confident about the matches,” he said, “so I think these matches were used to prepare for next weekend.”

Minnesota began its 10 hours of competition Saturday against Northern Iowa.

The Gophers showed from the start that they were the more talented team. They dominated the doubles matches and didn’t drop a set on the singles side en route to a 7-0 win.

Minnesota was equally impressive a few hours later in a 7-0 victory against Carleton.

“I felt we were better at every position that we played, but we didn’t take anything for granted,” Merzbacher said Saturday. “We played hard and didn’t waste any games.”

Merzbacher chose to switch the lineups around in the second match because he wanted to get everyone involved. He said he was satisfied with the effort this weekend.

Merzbacher said a pivotal component this weekend was getting freshman Paula

Rincon Otero into the lineup for the first time. Rincon Otero hasn’t competed this season as the team sorted out eligibility issues.

She dominated in her career debut with the Gophers and dropped two games all weekend.

“She’s good to go,” Merzbacher said. “She has been anxiously waiting, so it’s good to have her in the lineup.”

He said everyone is starting to settle in after what he called “a tough adjustment period” with the new coaching staff this season.

“They took care of business,” he said. “We’re really trying to build on this weekend for the rest of the season.”

Men The Gophers men’s tennis squad beat Marquette 5-2 with relative ease Saturday night.

They traveled an hour south to compete in Rochester, Minn., and head coach Geoff Young said he was excited to bring the Gophers to another section of the state.

“We had a pretty nice turnout down there,” he said. “It was a good thing to be able to put on a show for our fans in Rochester.”

Minnesota kicked off play by winning the doubles point.

Young said the doubles point has been key for the Gophers this season.

“We haven’t won it much this season,” Young said. “It seems the way it’s been going is if we win the doubles point, we win the match.”

That proved true Saturday night.

Young said he was especially satisfied with the pair of Brendan Ruddock and Jack Hamburg. Both have battled injuries in their careers, but now that they’re healthy, they seem to be clicking as the No. 2 doubles pair.

“They’ve only lost once together, and they have good chemistr y,” Young said.

“They’re doing pretty well and could be a big pair later this season.”

Leandro Toledo, who normally plays at No. 1 or No. 2 singles, didn’t compete over the weekend. Young said Toledo is healthy, and the team wanted to give other players a chance to compete.

Young said this match served as a confidence booster with the Big Ten season looming next weekend. The Gophers will kick off their Big Ten schedule at Wisconsin next week.

WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

MINNESOTA 7, CARLETON 0 Singles Rincon Otero Mozia Lambert Umanets Frechette Gilbert

W W W W W W

6-1, 6-0 6-0,6-2 6-3, 6-2 6-0, 6-0 6-0, 7-5 6-1, 6-2

Doubles Rincon Otero/Muravnik Mozia/Lambert Frechette/Renault

W W W

8-2 8-5 8-0

MINNESOTA 7, NORTHERN IOWA 0 Singles Brichacova Rincon Otero Mozia Lambert Muravnik Umanets

W W W W W W

7-6, 6-1 6-0, 6-1 6-0, 6-1 6-2, 6-2 6-0, 6-2 6-1, 6-0

Doubles Brichacova/Muravnik Rincon Otero/Pintusava Mozia/Umanets

W W W

8-7 8-3 8-0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

MEN’S TENNIS

Both teams will compete in the Big Ten championships next weekend.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s track and field teams each claimed eight titles at their respective Snowshoe Open and Parents Day Invite — warmup events for the Big Ten indoor championships next weekend.

Senior Har un Abda won the 800-meter run in a Fieldhouse and Snowshoe record time of 1:49.68.

That time is still nearly three seconds of f Abda’s school record from last season. Abda said he isn’t concerned that he hasn’t run as fast as his record-breaking 2012 season.

“I kind of started early.

By the time I get to nationals, [I was] kind of tired from the long season,” Abda said. “So this year, we changed the workout so that now I can start slow and maybe try to [perform better] at nationals.”

At the NCAA indoor championships last season, Abda had the fastest time in the nation in the 800-meter run but failed to make it out of the preliminar y heats.

While this year’s regular indoor season may not be as impressive as his last, he said it is all part of the plan

to avoid repeating his disappointing 2012 NCAA meet.

Abda’s time also helped solidify his qualification for the NCAA indoor championships this season.

Senior Micah Hegerle also cemented his NCAA spot in the weight throw with a 21.84-meter toss — a mark that ranks second in the nation from last week’s poll.

“Sometimes the harder you tr y to get those kind of marks, then it doesn’t come,” head coach Steve Pl as en ci a s ai d Fri d ay.

“When it’s a relaxing environment, sometimes people loosen up and do some big things. And for Micah tonight, that was the case.”

Minnesota’s other six titles came from all across the track and field events.

Sophomore Mark Jennings won the shot put with a Snowshoe record 17.65 meters.

Senior Oladipo Fagbemi won the triple jump at 15.21 meters, and senior Sam Kettenhofen won the long jump with a Snowshoe record 7.34 meters.

Senior Sean King won the 60-meter dash in 6.75 seconds while redshir t freshman Goaner Deng won the 600-meter r un in 1:20.12. Junior Derek Storkel won the 3,000-meters in 8:27.49.

Women While the women’s team rested many top competitors before the conference

championships next weekend, several athletes used the Parents Day Invite to prove their wor th on the Big Ten roster.

“There were some things on the line in terms of tr ying to make the Big Ten team,” head coach Matt Bingle said. “There were some people who … made it and lost their spot, too.”

The eight title winners from the Gophers may have done enough to claim their spot next weekend.

Junior Kaitlin Mincke set a school record in the 1,000-meter r un with a time of 2:56.80. Mincke was also a part of the Minnesota A team that won the distance medley relay.

She, along with redshir t freshman Becca Dyson, senior Heather Brunn and junior Jamie Vandenberg ran 11:48.04 to set a Parents Day record.

Sophomore Lauren Domski led a top-three sweep of the 800-meter run with a time of 2:15.50.

Junior Missa Varpness led a top-five sweep of the mile run in 4:55.82. Junior Te’Shon Adderley led a onetwo finish in the 600-meter run at 1:33.23.

Sophomore Tina DeLakis won the shot put with a toss of 15.03 meters. Also in the field, redshirt freshman Bria Halama won the triple jump in 11.90 meters, and senior Melissa Flucke won the high jump in 1.66 meters.

RESULTS

MINNESOTA 5, MARQUETTE 2 Singles Bonin Froment Ruddock Weber Ramirez Frueh

W W W L L W

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

Doubles Bonin/Froment Ruddock/Hamburg Frueh/Ramirez

W W

unfinished 8-4 8-4

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Minnesota’s Harun Abda runs the 800-meter dash Friday at the University Fieldhouse. Abda set a Fieldhouse record with a time of 1:49.68.

Monday, February 18, 2013

Classifieds

11

RATES PER LINE/DAY • PREPAID: $2.70, BILLED: $3.10, CREDIT CARD: $2.70 To place a Classified linage ad, call: 612-627-4080 or email: classifieds@mndaily.com To place a display ad, call: 612-435-5863 For billing questions, call: 612-627-4080 *$60 minimum billing Linage hours: Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

E-mail address: classifieds@mndaily.com Classified Sales Manager: Lisi Arnstrom 612-435-1562

The Minnesota Daily must approve all ad copy, and reserves the right to request text changes, reject or re-classify an ad.

The advertiser is responsible for the truthfulness of their ad. Advertisers are also subject to credit approval. Corrections are accepted until 2 p.m., Monday through Friday by calling 612-627-4080.

To cancel an ad call 612-627-4080. In order to ensure proper credit, cancellations must be made by 1 p.m., otherwise the ad will appear in the following day’s paper and be charged accordingly. Prepaid ads will be refunded by mail or in person if cancelled before the end date. Please check the ad carefully after its first run, linage will not be responsible for any errors after that.

The Minnesota Daily discourages sending credit card information through email.

EMPLOYMENT BARTENDING! $300/Day potential No Exp Nec, Training available. Age 18+ OK. 1-800-965-6520 xt114

SALES PROFESSIONALMULTI MILLION DOLLAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY IS EXPANDING ITS SALES DEPARTMENT TO HANDLE MOST RECENT STORM DAMAGE. WORK SIX MONTHS AND TAKE A WINTER OFF. OUR TOP SALESPERSON MADE OVER $300K LAST SEASON. SALES EXPERIENCE PREFERRED BUT NOT NECESSARY. WE WILL TEACH YOU EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO SUCCEED. PLEASE EMAIL YOUR RESUME OR YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION TO SCHEDULE AN INTERVIEWEmail greg@ablerestorationgroup.com

DINKYTOWN CLASSIC CITY APTS Dinkytown/Stadium Village AVAIL FALL 2013 Rooms, Studios 1 BR, 2 BR, 5 BR Units OPEN HOUSES Check our website at WWW.classiccityapartments.com for Dec/Jan Dates & Times.

5BR/2BA Lofts incl 46 inch TV starting at $2700/mo. Call 612-623-1888 for appt.

Email info@classiccityapartments.com WHY share a room when you can stay in an apt for around same price???

501 15TH AVE SE 3 & 4 bedroom apartments Across from Bierman Hall Most utilities incl.(612) 309-4808

DUPLEX & HOUSE DINKYTOWN

*Now Renting For Fall* The Lodges of Dinkytown Gorgeous 5BR 2BA unit laundry. Off st pkg.

Starting at $630/BR. www.dinkytownrentals.com or 612-378-2413

Rent now for fall. The last of the big kahunas!!!!

528 14th Ave. 9BR+ $650/BR all util paid. www.dinkytownrentals.com or 612-378-2413

NORTHEAST

HOUSING 2,3,4 bed for rent, newer off st park Call Jake: 612-600-9101

Studios and 1 BR, avail ASAP, Crpt, A/C, ldry, sec, pkg, $660 and up, heat pd 612-237-6941. www.uofmhousing.com

*Studio,1 br, 2 br Avail 9/1 4 blks to U. 813 University Ave SE. Hdwd flrs, french doors, wifi, garage, Pics: www.813university.com 612-379-1843

MPLS NE, 350/mo utils incl 10ft x12ft unfnshd rm lots of strg in 4 BR 3 BA new rambler,1 mile from Univ + DT Mpls m or w to share hm with 2 f. safe nbrhd, avbl now, all amenities, n o smoking or drugs $300 sec. depst appl+ ref needed call Joyce 612-623-0157

Events HAVE AN EVENT YOU WOULD LIKE TO PROMOTE IN THE DAILY? The Minnesota Daily now promotes events in the new Events section for free.

If you would like your event promoted here, go to mndaily.com/contact and fill out the provided form.

UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT: Amnesty International Spring Kick-Off Meeting WHO: Amnesty UMTC WHEN: 5 p.m., Monday WHERE: Science Teaching and Student Services building, Room 121 PRICE: Free Come learn to be active for human rights with a branch of the largest human rights organization in the world. Free pizza and pop.

WHAT: Ethiopian Film Fundraiser WHO: Minnesota returned Peace Corps volunteers WHEN: 3-5 p.m., Feb. 24 WHERE: Minnehaha Academy South Campus Chapel, 4200 W River Parkway, Minneapolis PRICE: Prices online: $15 for adults, $10 for children. Prices at the door: $17 adults, $12 for children.

The film “Town of Runners” was released in the U.K. to popular acclaim during the 2012 summer Olympics as Ethiopian runners were sweeping away the long-distance competition. What is the secret to their ongoing success? See this film to get the answer. The producer will join us live via Skype for discussion.

WHAT: Free Yoga Session WHO: The Art of Living Club WHEN: 5:30 p.m., Feb. 28 WHERE: Akerman Hall, Room 319 PRICE: Free Open to everyone. Relax and rejuvenate with yoga and meditation.

Featured Student Group HAVE A STUDENT GROUP YOU WOULD LIKE TO PROMOTE IN THE DAILY? The Minnesota Daily now promotes student groups in the new Student Group section for free.

If you would like your student group featured, email studentgroup@mndaily.com with contact person, contact phone, contact email, student group name, group description and a photo if possible (limit 250 characters). Don’t have a photo? Contact us in advance to take your group photo.

The Minnesota Daily Classifieds page is now a service for student groups. Student groups can promote themselves for free in the featured section.

Featured student groups run for one week and are published on a rolling submission basis.

This page is independent from the Minnesota Daily’s editorial content and is operated by the advertising staff.

The subject matter, for wording, illustrations and typography of featured groups are subject to approval by the Publisher. Any content that attacks, criticizes or demeans any individual, race, religion, sex, institution, firm, business, profession, organization or affectional preference shall not be accepted.

12

Monday, February 18, 2013

BACKTALK

horoscopes

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.

2/18/13

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (2/18): Fix up your place to match your new possibilities this season, as friends, family and fun fill your schedule. Summer romance and social life prove to be charming. Express creativity through new doors.

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 — When others succeed, you succeed. Work together and make magic. You enter a one-month review period.

Return to basics. Add humor to reduce stress.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — You may want to back up your data, as Mercury goes retrograde soon (on Feb. 23). During this next phase, you’re extremely creative.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — For the next four weeks, focus on your special bond with friends. Creative projects undergo revision while Saturn is in retrograde. Add love.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — There’s not quite enough for something you want. Make the best with what you have for now, which is plenty. You’re lucky in love.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You’re hot and only getting hotter; resistance is futile. You’re going to have to accomplish the wonderful things you’ve been wanting to do.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Use your common sense and gain respect.

Focus on home and family. Going back to basics brings some freedom and relaxation.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 7 — Now is not the time to overextend. Slow and steady wins the race, but you don’t even have to enter the competition. Take it easy and meditate.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Take the time to study and practice. Avoid the temptation to spend; rely on your imagination instead. Review your budget. No gambling.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Stay home instead of going out. You don’t have to explain it yet. For the next month, your partner can be a great leader. Support and follow.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Clear up misunderstandings as they happen to avoid making a mountain out of a dirt clod. For the next month, you’ll do well financially.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — You’ll be most effective working with and through others.

Start finishing up old business one piece at a time and invent something new.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Confront old fears to make them disappear. Your natural genius flourishes. It’s not a good time to travel, though. A fabulous opportunity appears.

Monday, February 18, 2013

overheard Girl: “NO! Fight like you did before — with no clothes on!”

—Centennial Hall

“Yeah my eyelashes are so long they’re getting in the way. Maybe I should donate them. I think there’s an organization called Lashes For Love.”

—Moos Tower

“Why do you poop in your hand?

That’s not a normal thing to do.”

—Frontier Hall

Professor: “I just had this dream where I was getting triple teamed by three Ryan Goslings. There’s got to be something behind this, and it’s not just more Ryan Goslings.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

“I’m taking this art class, and I’m feeling so stressed by it! Yesterday I couldn’t sleep ’cause I think I picked the wrong color.”

—Hanson Hall

“And THAT is why I date multiple people.”

—Territorial Hall

Teaching assistant: “So the researcher captured the killer jellyfish and then stung himself to prove it was the culprit.

Don’t do science this way.”

—Zoology class

“Do you think the chances of a wardrobe malfunction make it worth going to the Shawn Johnson thing?”

—Blegen Hall

Guy: “You need to log onto PlayStation, hop onto Black Ops, blow some [expletive] up and clear your brain.”

Girl: “That sounds pretty good right now.”

Guy: “That’s my plan for Valentine’s Day.”

—Chipotle Mexican Grill

Guy: [Talking on the phone] “Oh, what am I wearing today? Well the same thing I wore yesterday and the day before, but it doesn’t count because you didn’t see me those days.”

—Folwell Hall

What did you overhear?

4Post submissions on the “overheard at U of M Facebook group.

4Visit mndaily.com and look for the “Connect with the Daily” box on the homepage.

4Email submissions to overheards@mndaily.com.

crossword

FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Old flatboats 5 Stag party attendees 10 Fixes with thread 14 Skid row sort 15 River joining the Missouri near Jefferson City 16 “Is there __ against that?”

17 Skating maneuver 18 Gnatlike insect 19 Strauss of blue jeans 20 Jefferson 23 Hibachi residue 25 18-wheeler 26 Black cats, to some 27 Washington 32 Baton-passing event 33 Singer Brickell who’s married to Paul Simon 34 “You got that right, brother!”

35 In first place 37 Crab’s grabber 41 Impressionist 42 Chicago airport 43 Jackson 48 Coffee lightener 49 Word with popper or dropper 50 Fishing stick 51 Truman 56 Bump up against 57 Jeweled headpiece 58 Reverse, as a computer operation 61 It ebbs and flows 62 Kauai and Tahiti, for two 63 Read bar codes on 64 Large amount 65 Gets things growing 66 Number picker’s casino game DOWN 1 Leatherwork tool 2 Brazilian port, for short 3 Lumber blemish 4 Frosh, next year 5 Christina Crawford’s “__ Dearest”

By Dan Schoenholz

6 Italian cheese region 7 Youngsters 8 “Simply delicious” waffle maker 9 Tea leaves reader, e.g.

10 Deli meat in round slices 11 Dreaded business chapter?

12 Greeting from a distance 13 Deli cheese 21 Wild revelry 22 Went off the high board 23 Taj Mahal city 24 Come across as 28 Competed in a 10K 29 Back in style 30 Altar vow 31 Pants seam problem 35 Not shut, in verse 36 Just out of the box 37 Comedian Margaret 38 “Sons and Lovers” novelist

2/18/13 Thursday’s Puzzle Puzzle Solved Saturday’s Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

39 Florence’s river 40 Crab grass, e.g.

41 Military force 42 Black-and-white cookie 43 Middle East language 44 1971 Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo 45 Scooted 46 Brought to maturity

2/18/13

47 Cardiac surgery technique 48 Chews the fat 52 Spunkmeyer of cookie fame 53 Get out of bed 54 Auto racer Yarborough 55 Elephant’s incisor 59 “The Da Vinci Code” author Brown 60 John’s Yoko

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

dr. date I was talking about current events with my newish boyfriend, and gay marriage came up. He said he doesn’t support it, which I disagree with. I am OK with dating someone who has different political beliefs than me because I don’t believe that defines a person, and I can separate a person from his or her leanings. But I am concerned about the gay marriage thing because I can’t tell if he is simply discriminatory. Basically, how can I tell the difference between my boyfriend being just more conservative than me or him being a bigot?

but I have a hard time meeting men my age or older, much less ones that I would date or would want to date me.

I am reasonably attractive (not what you typically think of when you hear “military girl”); I have gained some weight since leaving the military, but I am on my way (slowly) back to my normal weight. I have tried just about everything and still have no luck finding a guy. I don’t know if it is a confidence issue because of the weight, feeling different because I have life experience beyond my years or if I’m just unlucky. Any advice on how to meet a good guy who can understand that?

Tough Love,

Vet Love,

Dear Dr. Date,

—Same Love

While the Doc is all about crosspartisan pairings, this one is worlds away from the donkey/elephant breeding I typically support. The Doc believes that people who don’t want gays to marry hate gays. That’s a fact of life, a fact of nature. They can hide it behind conservative policy and that wonderful tome the Bible, but the fact o’ the matter is that if they had respect for all people, they’d let ’em enjoy all the same rights the rest of us enjoy.

Tr y to change your boyfriend’s mind in a non-threatening way. Then try to change it in a threatening way.

Then dump his ass.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I am a 23-year-old woman working on my undergrad here at the U. I am behind in school due to my military commitment. I try to participate in campus life and meet new people,

—Vet Looking For Love

What you wrote about having life experience beyond your years is a big part of the problem. You’ve served our country; you’re a hero. Look around you.

Here at the University of Minnesota, the pickings aren’t too slim, but the pickings are indeed young and immature and guzzling and weird and hanging up ugly posters. You’re a hawk among some truly ridonkulous roosters.

I always feel uncomfortable doing this because there are about a million people who attend this fine institution of higher learning and about a million activities happening on it, but I have to do it: Go off-campus to find love. Instead of participating in campus life, participate in off-campus life. Depending on where you go and what you do, you’ll find a slightly older pool of bachelors who will be much more appreciative of your transforming figure and your rich life experiences.

—Dr. Date

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

13

14

Monday, February 18, 2013

Co-op wants to save Dinky Co-op u from Page 1

the polar opposite of luxury apar tment projects like Opus’, said co-op President Corey Poland.

The cooperative, which sits in the middle of University Avenue’s greek stretch, was originally a fraternity house.

During World War II, all but two of the Psi Upsilon chapter members enlisted, forcing the conversion of the former fraternity into the existing cooperative in 1940.

The co-op members each own a share of their University Avenue home, which allows them to set low rent rates — $300 per month on average with a meal plan included.

The cooperative structure, Poland said, is a student housing model worthy of investment.

The University district’s heavy development could also affect the co-op in other ways, said member Ryan Below, by raising property taxes and threatening historical buildings — like the co-op’s 105-year-old house.

Rebecca Orrison, another student co-oper, said she worries more about the effect of razing older buildings and replacing them with new ones.

She pointed to Loring

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY

Former co-op member Alex Beyer leaps into member Andrew Morrison’s arms Saturday at the Students’ Co-op.

Pasta Bar’s renovation of an old drugstore as the kind of development she wants to see more.

“That’s the kind of evolution that allows you to still appreciate the character and historic value of Dinkytown, rather than a Walgreens down the street from a CVS and a six-story shadow cast over Fourteenth [Avenue] and Fifth Street,” Orrison said.

The cooperative model

The cooperatives near campus have a vested interest in the increased development because they’re so rare. But at other large universities, like the University of Wisconsin-Madison and

the University of Michigan, cooperatives are well-established on campus.

Founding a new co-op on campus requires finding the funds to buy the right kind of building outright, Below said.

Oftentimes, he said cooperatives search for large, abandoned buildings to purchase — which is made dif ficult at the University because large buildings are often purchased to tear down and develop into newer projects.

Funding a new co-op is also dif ficult because the real estate and financing markets often overlook cooperatives, said Ryan Allen, associate professor at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. “[In] today’s real estate market, the cooperative structure is sort of an afterthought,” he said. “You either rent or you own, those are kind of the options you have.”

Since cooperative houses are bought outright, Allen said, there’s no payoff for a bank to help finance the original purchase of a house.

Co-opers are skeptical of luxur y housing because of the high cost of living, loss of green spaces around campus and the lack of diversity.

“There’s been a redefinition of what it means to have affordable housing,” Orrison said. “There’s an expectation you’re going to have to take out loans to pay for the cost of living.”

An excess of luxur y housing influences student’s expectations, Nadimi said.

“If you’re going to be more surrounded by luxury apar tments, you’re going to think that that’s a standard way of living,” she said. “You are going to want that.”

Sharing space, resources, culture

Sharing is more than just caring for the cooperative members: It’s a way of life.

Food, furniture, appliances and their three bathrooms are shared by 29 people.

“It’s really satisfying to live with people, to share our resources, to share our food, to share our time and to build back up this house — a place we all love and cherish,” said house member Jennifer Schreiter .

Sharing resources also has ecological benefits, said Robin Welling, a biological sciences junior.

“I like the idea of having a smaller environmental impact,” she said.

For Below, it’s the sharing of culture that makes the cooperative experience so valuable.

The co-op is home to people from Malaysia, Canada, Somalia and Belarus and is not limited to students.

Allen said cooperatives are useful places for learning, since students manage a proper ty on their own, with an equal stake in major decisions.

“It’s a good model for helping people learn how to operate in a democratic society,” he said.

It’s also certified by the North American Students of Cooperation, which means it’s only one of hundreds of co-ops across the country.

W ithin the national NASCO community, houses pool their resources. The University’s house has lent money to other co-ops for things like food — and now that they’re looking to expand, they said they’d rely on those connections.