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HEALTH

U dentistry school tackles rural health disparities

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Experts stress radon gas awareness One in three Minnesota homes has risky radon levels, according to state estimates.

BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Dental assistant Molly Rogers, left, and fourth-year dentistry student Bill Johnson work on a patient at the UCare Mobile Dental Clinic on Wednesday in Diamond Lake, Minn. The clinic, in operation since 2002, provides treatment to UCare patients that might otherwise have less access to dental care.

The Mobile Dental Clinic travels to underserved areas throughout the state.

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

A woman went to the UCare Mobile Dental Clinic with a

that gets done for them,” said Bill Johnson, the four th-year University of Minnesota dentistry student who helped her.

chipped front tooth and walked

The mobile dental clinic

out with a fresh smile and tears

started more than 10 years ago

of joy in her eyes Wednesday

for patients in urban and rural

morning.

areas who have limited access

“That’s fun when you have

to dental health care, said Paul

outcomes like that, with people

Schulz, director of the outreach

who really appreciate the work

program at the University

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TRACK & FIELD

Andrew Gilbert wants Minnesotans to test for radon.

A colorless, odorless and radioactive gas that comes from soil, radon is the leading cause of lung cancer among non-smokers in the United States, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

“We need to stress that this is a persistent health risk in Minnesota,” said Gilbert, a radon program specialist at the MDH. Minnesota and several other states require homes to have working carbon monoxide detectors, but most states don’t mandate radon testing.

“Ironically, the risk from dying from radon that you are exposed to in the home is about 70 times greater than dying from carbon monoxide exposure in the home,” said Bill Angell, a University of Minnesota professor who has studied indoor air quality and radon extensively.

The MDH estimates one in three Minnesota homes has radon levels that pose a severe health risk for people over many years of exposure, and experts say testing is needed.

In 2009, the state passed a law requiring that all single-family homes be built with basic radon-resistant techniques, but the law doesn’t apply to apartments or dorms.

Typically, only first-level apar tment units are at a high risk for radon exposure, Gilbert said.

According to Minneapolis planning department data, only one new single-family home has been built in the University area since the law has taken effect.

Several area landlords declined to comment for this story.

In Maine, a 2009 law required all rental properties to be tested for radon once every 10 years, but the law doesn’t go into effect until March 2014.

“Radon in rental housing can be a little tricky,” Gilbert said. “People who are living in the rental units and are exposed to the gas are not the ones who have the final say u See RADON Page 6 In Minnesota, soil conditions cause radon to be an especially large problem.

HOUSING

Space forces Dorm layouts create gender gaps Big Ten meet off campuses

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

The Gophers track and field teams are used to traveling.

With its outdoor track riddled with fissures and depressions, the teams can only host about three indoor meets a year at the University Fieldhouse.

But the Gophers are not used to traveling to a non-Big Ten facility for the indoor conference championships.

As a freshman living in Bailey Hall on the St. Paul campus, biochemistry freshman Marty Gliva is surrounded by men.

This has more to do with the layout of Bailey than Gliva’s choice: Every floor of the hall is split in half by gender.

Gliva said his mostly male group of friends is probably the result of his residence hall’s floor plan.

“All the guys that I talk to on a daily basis are either from my high school or on the same floor as me,” he said.

Residence hall students at the University of Minnesota face a situation similar to Gliva, as their room assignments may determine the people they’ll spend the most time with.

University Housing and Residential Life divides genders in residence halls according to the bathrooms available, said Mannix Clark,

u See TRACK & FIELD Page 8 Combining the men’s and women’s championships caused space issues.

u See HOUSING Page 20 Studies have shown students living close to the opposite gender acclimate to college better.

The indoor track and field championships will be hosted at a non-Big Ten facility in Ohio.

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Freshmen Ian Niewald, left, Jason Murray, Kevin Wollner and Karl Amjad-Ali relax and play video games Tuesday in Bailey Hall.

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ATHENS — Looking out across a room full of reporters gathered to welcome French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday, Greece’s President Karolos Papoulias gave a stark warning about the state of the countr y after three harsh years of government spending cuts, joblessness and tax hikes.

“We are faced with a societal explosion if any more pressure is put on society,” he said.

In spite of Greece receiving much-needed bailout loans, life seems to be getting worse for ordinar y people.

Not only are Greece’s 1.35 million unemployed un-

able to make ends meet, but a growing number of those in work are struggling as more and more companies can no longer make regular salar y payments. As well finding it harder to feed, heat and clothe themselves and their families, Greek workers also have to pay increasingly hefty taxes the government is relying on to turn the economy around.

Greece’s trade union organization, the GSEE, organized a general strike Wednesday to protest a new series of austerity measures.

It warns that the labor force — which includes a large public sector — has been too badly weakened to help the battered country recover.

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Zimbabwe prisons to review death sentences

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HARARE — Zimbabwe prison officials said Wednesday that they are not in a hurry to engage the services of a newly-appointed hangman to execute the 77 inmates on death row and will review their sentences.

Prison authorities want to give prisoners facing execution a “chance to live,” official Huggins Machingauta said.

He said all death sentences will be brought before the cabinet of ministers for a review to commute them to life.

“We are in no hurry to hang anyone. It is our wish and hope that they get a reprieve,” Machingauta said.

The hangman’s post was vacant for about seven years since the previous one retired in 2005. State media reported earlier this month that prison officials said they found a new hangman.

A new proposed draft constitution endorsed by the country’s two main political parties exempts women, men under 21 and those over 70 from the death penalty. The charter, which will be put to a referendum on March 16, only allows for the imposition of death penalty for cases of “aggravated murder.”

Civic rights groups, however, want the “total abolition” of the death penalty.

Edison Chiota, head of a prisoners’ rights group, Zimbabwe Association for Crime Prevention and Rehabilitation of the Offender, said Wednesday his group is against what he called the selective way the law would be applied under the new constitution.

“People are all the same without taking gender and age differences into account,” Chiota said.

will face further years of economic struggle and protest as too many demands are placed on a shrinking workforce.

Since it was priced out of the international debt markets in 2010, Greece has relied on emergency loans from other eurozone countries and the International Monetary Fund. To continue receiving these loans, the Greek coalition government has had to agree to harsh spending cuts and tax hikes to try and lower public debt.

These measures, however, have also put the brakes on Greece’s economy and hit ordinary Greeks hard.

“The government is thus caught between a rock and a hard place, trying to balance the demands of its domestic

and foreign audiences,” said Mar tin Koehring, Greece Analyst at The Economist Intelligence Unit.

“We expect political risk — social unrest and the instability of the fragile threeparty government coalition — to remain a major focal point in Greece this year.”

The countr y, of nearly 11 million people, is stuck in a five-year recession.

Greece now has the highest unemployment rate in the 17-strong group of European Union countries that use the euro, with 27 percent out of work — 60 percent of those aged under 24. The government-funded research institute KEPE has forecast that unemployment will hit 30 percent this year.

British neighborhood wants its Banksy back

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Last week it vanished, leaving nothing but a rectangle of exposed brick — only to reappear on the website of a Miami auction house. Listed as “Slave Labor (Bunting Boy),” it is due to be sold Saturday with an estimated price of between $500,000 and $700,000.

London authorities concede the sale is probably legal — the mural was on private property. But they hope moral pressure will make the auction house change its mind. “(It’s) totally unethical that something so valued should be torn without warning from its community context,” local lawmaker Lynne Featherstone said.

Featherstone said she had asked the building’s owner for an explanation, but had yet to receive a reply. Poundland, the store that occupies the building, said it had nothing to do with the removal.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Mpls makes recycling easier One-sort recycling collected almost 400 more tons of solid waste.

another section will begin this spring.

Allison Goursky, who graduated with a degree in environmental sciences, policy and management in December, said whatever the city can do to increase recycling and make it easier is great.

“It can definitely capture a lot of misallocated resources,” she said. “It’d be great if they had more programs like that.”

The city will send residents a letter with instructions a week before they get their new cart, and then residents can start one-sort recycling right away.

Chavez said the program will also decrease the number of trucks on the streets because they have fewer routes and will decrease the number of injuries because there are two workers per truck now.

The state has set a goal for Hennepin County to have a 45 percent recycling rate by 2015, according to a city recycling report. Minneapolis hopes to double its recycling rate by that year with the launch of the one-sort program.

“The easier it is to recycle, the more people will recycle,” Chavez said. “We’ll have a higher tonnage rate for recyclables and less garbage, and that was our goal overall.”

BY REBECCA HARRINGTON rharrington@mndaily.com

Minneapolis recovered nearly 400 more tons of waste with single-sort recycling than with the old multi-sort recycling system, the city announced Wednesday.

The results are from the first six weeks of the program, which began for 30,000 residents last November. Another 80,000 households will receive blue carts and join the program this spring.

Michelle Chavez, one-sort project coordinator, said the program will benefit the environment and consumers.

“We expect that more people will find recycling easier because they won’t have to sort as much,” she said.

With the new program, residents can recycle plastics numbers one through seven — like yogurt cups and wine cartons — all in one 95-gallon cart.

Part of the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood near the University of Minnesota campus started one-sort last fall, and

TONS OF WASTE RECYCLED ONE-SORT

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Landscape architecture graduate student Stephen Himmerich works on tracings for buildings in Venice, Italy, on Wednesday at the Landscape Architecture Studio in Rapson Hall. Himmerich is part of the Cities on Water program, where students spend the first six weeks of the semester preparing for studying design in the Netherlands and Venice for the rest of the semester.

Police add more confusion to Oscar Pistorius case

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PRETORIA, South Africa — The prosecution case against Oscar Pistorius began to unravel Wednesday with revelations of a series of police blunders and the lead investigator’s admission that authorities have no evidence challenging the double-amputee Olympian’s claim he killed his girlfriend accidentally.

Detective Hilton Botha’s often confused testimony left prosecutors rubbing their heads in frustration as he misjudged distances and said testosterone — banned for professional athletes in some cases — was found at

the scene, only to be later contradicted by the prosecutor’s office.

The second day of what was supposed to be a mere bail hearing almost resembled a full-blown trial for the 26-year-old runner, with his lawyer, Barry Roux, tearing into Botha’s testimony step by step during cross examination.

Police, Botha acknowledged, left a 9 mm slug from the barrage that killed Reeva Steenkamp inside a toilet and lost track of illegal ammunition found inside the house. And the detective himself walked through the crime scene without wearing protective shoe covers, potentially contaminating the area.

Authorities, Roux asserted, were selectively taking “every piece of evidence to try to extract the most possibly negative connotation and present it to the court.”

The case has riveted South Africa, with journalists and the curious crowding into the brickwalled cour troom where Pistorius, dubbed the Blade Runner for his prosthetic legs, faces a charge of premeditated murder in the Valentine’s Day slaying.

Pistorius says he mistook Steenkamp for an intruder and shot her out of fear, while prosecutors say he planned the killing and attacked her as she cowered behind a locked

bathroom door.

The day seemed to start out well for the prosecution, with Botha offering new details of the shooting that appeared to call into question Pistorius’ account of the moments leading up to the 29-year-old model’s death.

Ballistic evidence, he said, showed the bullets that killed her had been fired from a height, supporting the prosecution’s assertion that Pistorius was wearing prosthetic legs when he took aim at the bathroom door. The athlete has maintained he was standing only on his stumps, and felt vulnerable and frightened as he opened fire from a low position.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Dolan deposed about Wis. abuse cases

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Cardinal T imothy Dolan, the Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, was deposed Wednesday about abuse cases against priests in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which he led from 2002 until 2009.

An attorney for the Milwaukee archdiocese and another lawyer representing people who filed the abuse claims confirmed the cardinal was deposed.

The Archdiocese of Milwaukee, facing allegations from nearly 500 people, sought bankruptcy protection in 2011.

Dolan is one of two U.S. cardinals to be deposed this week. Cardinal Roger Mahony, the retired archbishop of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be questioned Saturday in a lawsuit over a visiting Mexican priest who police believe molested 26 children in 1987. The Rev. Nicolas Aguilar Rivera fled to Mexico in 1988 after parents complained. He has been ousted from the priesthood but remains a fugitive.

Both Dolan and Mahony will soon be in Rome to participate in the conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who is resigning.

Dolan’s deposition was

first reported by The New York Times.

Frank LoCoco, the attor ney for the Milwaukee Archdiocese, said in a phone inter view with The Associated Press that Dolan was asked about his decision to publicize the names of priests who molested children.

“The names were published so that people would come for ward, share their stor y and begin what Cardinal Dolan and all those involved would be a healing process,” LoCoco said.

Chur ch of ficials deposed in connection with the bankr uptcy and lawsuits include another former Milwaukee archbishop, Rember t Weakland; a retired auxiliar y bishop; an archdiocese official who helps victims; the archdiocesan chancellor; and others, according to LoCoco and a spokesman for the Milwaukee archdiocese.

Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the New York archdiocese, said Dolan had long-awaited the chance to discuss his decision to publicize the names as par t of his ef for ts to help victims.

“He has indicated over the past two years that he was eager to cooperate in whatever way he could,” Zwilling said in a statement.

Dentistry school tackles rural health Clinic u from Page 1

School of Dentistry.

Schulz said the mobile clinic is a collaborative effor t between the UCare Health Care Program and the dentistry school. UCare members can get checkups, cleanings and simple restorative care.

Rural par ts of Minnesota are short on dentists compared to urban areas, Schulz said.

“There’s not necessarily a shor tage of dentists in this state,” he said. “But they’re just not equally distributed.”

In 2010, just 26 percent of the 3,908 dentists who renewed their Minnesota license were practicing in rural areas, according to the Minnesota Department of Health.

More than 1,400 facultysuper vised dental, dental hygiene and dental therapy students have worked in the clinic. Schulz said it travels more than 15,000 miles to both metro-area and rural locations in Minnesota.

The mobile dental clinic is one of 12 outreach sites throughout the state where dental access is limited, Schulz said.

“As a land-grant institution, the University of Minnesota has an obligation to give back to the state of Minnesota,” Schulz said.

“And this is one way we feel that we can directly impact the state and their oral health by providing these outreach clinics.”

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The UCare Mobile Dental Clinic on Wednesday stationed in Diamond Lake, Minn.

Students work in the clinic for a week at a time, but Schulz said it also has full-time staf f that travels throughout the year, spending 13 weeks outside of the Twin Cities metro area.

Susan Raden said she’s worked in the mobile clinic as a dental assistant since it began in 2002.

“It’s ver y gratifying,” Raden said. “There’s a lot of great people and fun places to go to besides the metro area.”

Dentistry students don’t usually have the oppor tunity to work with dental assistants, so outreach clinics give them the opportunity to learn more about “fourhanded dentistry,” said Eric Thiede, a fourth-year dentistry student.

“The patients are some of the nicest and most genuinely appreciative as a group,” Thiede said.

As a graduation requirement, Schulz said dental students need to spend at least two months in an outreach clinic.

By exposing students to this type of work, Schulz said they’ll consider living and practicing in rural Minnesota.

Several clinics in northern Minnesota were underserved before the program star ted, Schulz said, but three of the four have since been filled by dentistr y school graduates.

“So, we’re seeing that it does make an impact to bring students to an area where there is a shortage,” Schulz said.

Besides working in the dentistr y clinic, Johnson said he also spent a month at the outreach clinic in

Willmar County.

“The best par t of the dentistry school, I think, is outreach,” Johnson said.

Other Efforts The Mobile Dental Clinic is par t of the dentistr y school’s efforts to reach underserved areas.

The Early Decision Rural Dentistr y Track Program star ted in 2009, recruiting undergraduate students from rural areas who are interested in pursuing rural dentistr y, said Naty Lopez, assistant dean for admissions and diversity.

The r ural-track program has been funded by two grants totaling nearly $200,000 from the Minnesota Department of Health

and the Health Resources and Ser vices Administration, Lopez said.

The program gives students scholarships, Lopez said, and in retur n they are expected to shadow a rural dentist and complete a community project that addresses dental health disparities in those communities.

The dentistr y school is also considering a rural dentistry track program for current dentistry students, but Lopez said the curriculum is still in development.

“Ther e’s a lot more work that needs to be done before we can have this rural education track,” Lopez said. “But we are surely moving along.”

DENTAL WORKFORCE BY COUNTY

Dentists per 10,000 residents 2 3 4 5 6 and above

SOURCE: MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, OFFICE OF RURAL HEALTH AND PRIMARY CARE

Thursday, February 21, 2013

Live Twitter surgeries a hit with hospitals, public

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON — Amy Shireman logged into Twitter early Wednesday to join thousands of people from 60 countries watch live something she had experienced but never seen: a baby boy delivered by cesarean section, in all its graphic imagery.

The live Twitter broadcast brought to viewers by Houston’s Memorial Hermann Health System was the medical institution’s latest foray into a growing trend to gain exposure by showing the world via social media routine procedures that happen daily in operating rooms.

While the Internet and social media have been a par t of the medical industr y for years, hospitals and doctors are now using it to gain leverage in a competitive market. And what better way to do that than provide people with an authentic online version of the kinds of surgeries they’ve been watching for years on fictional TV shows such as “Grey’s Anatomy,” ‘‘House” and “ER?” “It’s fascinating to pull back the cur tain on the myster y of the OR,” said Natalie Camarata, the social media manager at Houston’s Memorial Hermann Hospital who helped broadcast Wednesday’s Csection as well as two other procedures, including a brain surger y done by Dr. Dong Kim, who gained notoriety when he treated former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head in 2011.

Through a variety of matrices that help track online activity, Camarata estimated that 72,000 watched the C-section live on Twitter, while an additional 11,000 viewed it in another format. The viewers were from 60 countries, she said, with the most international followers coming from Germany, Nor way and Israel.

During the procedure, viewers tweeted questions, and doctors or staf f responded. One viewer from Nor way asked about the difference in how the umbilical cord is treated in a C-section. Several tweeted congratulations. In the two hours the hospital was live, it gained more than 600 followers, dozens of them in the first few minutes. Sev-

eral noted the images were gor y, joking they wouldn’t watch it over breakfast.

Shireman, a 35-year-old mother of two from Pittsburgh, was intrigued to see “what was happening beyond the curtain” after having two C-sections herself.

While she had hoped the hospital would focus more on the risks, she said she would watch it again, and would consider watching other surgeries.

“The pictures of watching that baby come out of the womb were just amazing,” Shireman said. “I know it was delayed a bit ... but it did have that live feel like you were right there in the OR.” Previously, when Memorial Hermann live tweeted a brain surgery, more than 235,000 watched, more than 280,000 viewed photos and video and the hospital gained 7,000 new followers.

With each event, the hospital finds more and different people participating, Camarata said.

“When hospitals did it several years back, the online audience wasn’t fully engaged,” she said. “Now people are living Twitter, living Facebook. It’s part of their everyday life.”

Tyler Haney, the vice president of digital marketing at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, said his hospital system has not live tweeted a surger y but also has not ruled it out. For now, it is focusing on innovative things at the center, like providing the online audience an oppor tunity to interact with a brain computer inter face, which increased traffic from social media outlets by 120 percent.

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Consultant’s review of U admin structure underway The consulting firm the U of M hired in late January will finish by March 8.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

An independent consulting firm University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler hired has started its review and is currently cataloguing the various levels of administrative employees as part of its month-long look at the school’s operating structure.

Throughout the next few weeks, New York-based Sibson Consulting will analyze whether the University has the appropriate ratio of oversight.

In March, the company will report to the University and point out areas where efficiency can be increased and how that can best be achieved.

In a letter to the University, Michael O’Malley, Sibson’s higher education compensation practice leader, said the goal is to strike a balance between the appropriate number of managers and the employees they oversee.

“Tall, hierarchical structures with narrow widths of control can be bureaucratically top-heavy, slow moving and expensive,” he said. “Excessively flat designs with few layers and broad spans of control can be uncoordinated.”

Sibson provides services to industries like hospitals, sports leagues, insurance companies and higher education institutions.

It has worked with the University in the past on the school’s employee classification system, said Kathr yn Brown, University vice president of human resources. “[Sibson] had an advantage in that they already had some knowledge of the University, and we could easily bring them up to speed on

this work, which was complementary to the work that they had done for us earlier,” Brown said.

The company has also worked with other schools in the Big Ten, like the University of Michigan and Ohio State University, Brown said.

Sibson spokeswoman Mary Feldman said the company cannot discuss past or current clients.

The University considered working with other national consulting firms — some priced around $100,000 or more — but Brown said most were out of the University’s price range. The University will pay Sibson $48,000 for its five weeks of service. “[Sibson] gave us a very attractive price,” she said.

Sen. Terri Bonoff, DFLMinnetonka, and Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, requested the

University hire an external consultant to conduct a data-driven review of administrative costs and provide guidance to become more efficient and cost-effective.

The request came after a Wall Street Journal article reported excessive administrative bloat.

“The Wall Street Journal was a catalyst for me to say ‘What are we doing at the University of Minnesota?’ ” Bonoff said.

She said she wasn’t familiar with the work Sibson has done but was aware the company had worked with the University in the past.

“I hope [the analysis] will, in fact, be independent, but I called for the report, so I don’t think it was my role to second guess it,” she said. “I will second guess it if I don’t like the detail in the report, but I am giving those folks the benefit of the doubt at

this point.”

Some have questioned why the Legislature didn’t choose the consulting company to conduct the report, but Bonoff said the University’s autonomy keeps legislators from mandating who the school works with.

“Unless we were willing to pay for it, I didn’t feel that it was our role to do that,” she said.

Brown said the consultants were on campus for the first time last week and will visit at least one more time before concluding the analysis on March 8, a week before the report of findings will be presented to the Legislature.

In a Feb. 13 press release giving details of the analysis, Kaler noted that a report showing the University’s operational structure in relation to other universities would soon be made available.

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McCain defends immigration plan

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PHOENIX — Arizona took center stage in the national immigration debate Tuesday as Homeland Security Secretar y Janet Napolitano toured the state’s border with Mexico and Sen. John McCain defended his proposed immigration overhaul to an angr y crowd in suburban Phoenix.

The presence of the top of ficials is the latest sign that Arizona will play a prominent role in the im-

migration debate as President Barack Obama looks to make it a signature issue of his second term.

Napolitano toured the border near Nogales with the highest-ranking of ficial at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the incoming chairman of the Senate’s homeland security committee and an Arizona congressman. Napolitano, Arizona’s former governor, said after ward that comprehensive immigration reform will strengthen the nation’s bor der against criminals and other

threats.

A l s o T u e s d a y, M c Cain hosted two town hall meetings in Arizona, during which he defended his immigration plan to upset residents concerned about border security. A bipartisan group of senators — including Arizona Republicans McCain and Jeff Flake — want assurances on border security as Congress weighs what could be the biggest changes to immigration law in nearly 30 years. Arizona is the only state with both of its senators working on immigra-

tion reform in Congress, a sign of the state’s widely debated border security issues.

Immigration activists and elected officials say it’s only natural for Arizona to continue to take the forefront in the national conversation on immigration after years of internal debate on the topic.

“No state in this countr y has had more experience with enforcementonly immigration laws than Arizona,” said Todd Landfried, executive director of Arizona Employers for Immigration Reform, which opposes the state’s tough immigration laws.

During a heated town hall gathering in the Phoenix suburb of Sun Lakes, McCain said the border near Yuma is largely secure, but he said smugglers are using the border near Tucson to pump dr ugs into Phoenix. He said immigration reform should be contingent on better border security that must rely largely on technology able to detect border crossings.

McCain said a tamperproof Social Security card would help combat identity fraud, and noted any path to citizenship must require immigrants to learn English, cover back taxes and pay fines for breaking immigration laws.

“There are 11 million people living here illegally,” he said. “We are not going to get enough buses to deport them.”

Some audience mem-

bers shouted out their disapproval.

One man yelled that only guns would discourage illegal immigration.

Another man complained that illegal immigrants should never be able to become citizens or vote. A third man said illegal immigrants were illiterate invaders who wanted free government benefits.

McCain ur ged com passion. “We are a JudeoChristian nation,” he said.

McCain’s other town hall meeting took place in Green Valley, south of Tucson.

Arizona gained international recognition as an epicenter of the U.S. immigration debate when it passed its tough anti-immigrant law in 2010. A handful of other states — including Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah — have since adopted variations of Arizona’s law.

Arizona has the nation’s eighth-highest population of illegal immigrants, according to the Pew Research Hispanic Center.

In 2010, illegal immigrants represented roughly 6 percent of the state’s population.

Activists said Arizona’s anti-immigrant laws inspired many illegal immigrants to demand more rights. Last week, some college students rallied outside Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s office for driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants.

“They no longer are afraid to come and say, ‘I am not able to vote, but I

can make my voice heard, and they have to listen to me,’” said community organizer Abril Gallardo.

A repor t released in Januar y showed the U.S. Border Patrol’s T ucson sector remains the busiest along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Tucson sector accounted for 38 percent of all drug seizures and 37 percent of all apprehensions along the border.

Brewer said last week the border cannot be declared safe until the people living near it feel secure from drug and human trafficking.

But Democratic Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona told Latino and black community leaders at a Phoenix luncheon T uesday that Arizonans need to spread the word on how much more secure the border has become.

“There are lots of folks who don’t live in Arizona who have no idea what the border is like,” Sinema said.

Napolitano toured the border Tuesday afternoon with U.S. Customs and Border Protection Deputy Commissioner David Aguilar, Democratic Rep. Ron Barber of Arizona and Democratic Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware. Carper is the incoming chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

She said in a statement after the tour that border crossings are down 50 percent since 2008 and 78 percent since their peak in 2000.

Radon

Angell said cold weather during the winter also contributes to high radon levels in Minnesota homes.

“We are in a cold climate, so we heat our homes,” said Angell. “That creates a suction for the gas and brings radon into our homes.”

A t t h e U n i v e r s i t y, though there are no regularly scheduled tests for radon, the University’s radiation safety of ficer, Brian Vetter, said the school did an extensive study on its campuses in the ’90s as part of a state initiative.

“Since we didn’t see any high levels in the University buildings, no mitigation was necessary at that time, but if people have requests, then we would test,” he said.

Vetter said in addition to past testing in University buildings, the school is currently testing for radon in underground campus utility tunnels to ensure levels are at acceptable conditions for workers.

To r a i s e a w a r e n e s s about the radioactive gas, in 2012 Gov. Mark Dayton named January “Radon Action Month” in Minnesota.

In both 2012 and 2013, the city of Minneapolis gave away free radon-testing kits.

Eliza Schell, the city’s healthy homes grant manager, said in 2013 the city distributed about 400 radon testing kits during January, an increase from about 150 in 2012.

In 2012, MDH put up more than 50 posters in the skyway systems in St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and Rochester to increase awareness.

“If you live in Minnesota,” Gilbert said, “then you should know what radon is, and you should know how to protect yourself.”

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of whether they mitigate it.”

Minnesota residents can purchase radon testing kits from the city for $9.

Speech-language-hearing sciences senior Maddie Graves rents an apar tment in St. Paul and said she’d like to see landlords test for radon.

“Am I going to get upset at my landlord for not testing for radon? No,” Graves said. “But I think for the good of the people who are paying rent, it would be a good idea.”

In Minnesota, soil conditions cause radon to be an especially large problem.

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On heteronormativity The societal bias confines and harms all of us. eteronormativity: It’s the $10 word of the day.

Since the publication of James Castle’s column entitled “Diversity advice for university instructors” on Feb. 18, I have heard a number of sentiments expressed about the suggestions he proposed in order to affirm non-heterosexual students in our classrooms.

Some people believe the ideas Castle discussed, such as incorporating non-heterosexual examples in class and using more neutral terms like partner instead of husband or wife, are insignificant. They marked his suggestions as “nitpicky” and “over the top,” claiming that such “trivialities” do not propagate oppression.

But rejecting these ideas because they do not individually appear to be the magical be-all, end-all to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender alienation illustrates a lack of understanding of the actual issues at play.

Castle offered not only specific suggestions but, as I saw it, en-

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couragement to take a moment to acknowledge and hopefully challenge the “standard practices” and the norms we live among every day. His column was a revelation of the heteronormativity that pervades our classrooms.

I realize that is a 17-letter, frightening word. Don’t lose me. Heteronormativity is defined as a cultural bias resulting in unconscious, automatic assumptions that heterosexuality is universal and natural.

Relations between one man and one woman are seen as the “normal” form of sexuality so that any other forms of sexuality or gender are posed as abnormal. Heterosexuality is considered the standard for “legitimate” identity and results in an internalized set of expectations about gender and sexuality.

Disney movies, advertisements, “his and hers” gift sets and two explicitly labeled bathrooms. Our society is teeming with cultural products that value the privilege of heterosexuals and cisgendered people, or those individuals whose self-perception of their gender matches their sex. Anyone who does not meet these heteronormative expectations is unseen.

Heteronormativity is everywhere. Yet at the same time, it is invisible, hiding behind our acceptance of “just the way it is” as “how it should be.” We are guided to believe in conventional binaries; we are to understand that people are either male or female, should be with people of the opposite sex and should comply with social expectations of masculinity and femininity. After years of digesting heteronormative messages, the ideals are so embedded that we often take them for granted.

As the reactions to Castle’s column illustrate, it can be scar y and threatening to acknowledge heteronormativity.

It is easier to get defensive than to recognize the problematic tendencies that we can perpet-

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uate, even when we mean well.

Intention is important, but it’s not everything. We have the honor of attending college, and with that we have a responsibility to be educated. For many of us, that means recognizing our privilege in a world that showers us with legitimization for our identity. Consider the people who might not be afforded that luxury and are confronted with the exact opposite. Then, consider what it might mean, for example, to see the JCPenney ad featuring two dads after being bombarded exclusively by media representations that depict a relationship that doesn’t include you for your entire life, or like Castle suggested, to engage with a classroom example that includes a hypothetical someone who happens to share your transgender identity. Each of these situations puts a dent in the foundation of heteronormativity, the institutionalized ignorance that imprisons all of us, and that is by no means being “nitpicky.”

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Let them hang Protesting topless should be protected as a woman’s right.

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stating that “it should be placed in the middle of nowhere.”

The concerns in Nevada and Vermont are apparently the result of radiation fear.

The average U.S. resident receives approximately 300 millirems of radiation annually from natural sources like radon, cosmic rays, airline flights and eating foods like bananas and nuts which contain potassium. This radiation has occurred since humans have been on earth, and it doesn’t hurt us or humans would not exist. Persons who work in industries with higher radiation risk are allowed 5 rems per year, or more than 15 times the normal dose.

The individual-protection standard for geologic storage facilities sets an overall additional dose limit of 15 mrems per year for residents living in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain during and up to 10,000 years after the repository closes. Two round-trip domestic airline flights may result in a dose of 15 mrems.

After 10,000 years through the period of geologic stability (out to 1 million years), the individual-protection standard is set at 100 mrems per year, a very safe level.

Opening a Yucca Mountain replacement facility in nor thern Minnesota is a multibillion dollar business oppor tunity with no significant risks to Minnesota’s people and environment. It’s an opportunity worth our consideration.

orth Carolina is not “a better place to be” if you are a woman indulging in topless protest, as its state slogan would suggest.

HEMANG House Bill 34 SHARMA seeks to outlaw columnist any exposure of “external organs of sex and of excretion, including the nipple, or any portion of the areola, of the human female breast.”

Republicans like Rep. Rayne Brown, who introduced the bill in the state Legislature, have proposed that letting the twins out in public be considered a Class H felony that can include prison time of 30 days to six months. Brown’s interest in limiting the baring of women’s breasts was prompted in part by an annual Asheville, N.C., topless protest for women’s rights.

Topless rallies have been a popular way to direct attention toward a neglected issue. Such protests manage to gather many eyeballs and allow for people to indulge in a positive discussion about societal evils.

A 1970 Nor th Carolina law that banned exposure of “private par ts” in public clearly did not account for the titillation caused by nipples as it only covered sex organs. Women kept using their breasts to highlight their causes, much to the chagrin of more prudish individuals who now seek to outlaw any expressive public exposure of nipples.

One exception to the bill would allow for breast-feeding mothers to escape the obscenity charge.

Intellectuals are already suggesting pasties to continue protesting freely. Hey, it’s the American way: Fix everything with duct tape.

No one questions the nipple-exposure of Abercrombie and Fitch gentlemen who stand bare-chested in a place where many minors frequent. Men are often free to walk around without a shir t wherever they may please.

The U.S. Constitution gives us a right to protest. This includes the right of women to protest in a topless manner. To these brave women in North Carolina, it is a matter of standing up for what they believe in.

There is nothing sexual about their nakedness. They’re deliberately using their bodies to draw attention to their respective cause. This bill is indicative of a misunderstanding about partial nudity.

Rolf Westgard professional member Geological Society of America

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Granite: our new mining opportunity

Several years ago there was a report that a driller had struck oil in southwestern Minnesota. Minnesota’s state geologist responded, simply asking whose pipeline they hit. Oil is rarely found in lands where basement rock is close to the surface, areas known in geology as shields. Minnesota is situated on the southern edge of the Canadian Shield.

Shields have relatively few layers of sedimentar y rocks, like shale, from which came most of the ear th’s oil and gas deposits. To our west, the basement rock dips down to form the Williston Basin, which includes the western Dakotas, eastern Montana and Saskatchewan. That basin’s deep sedimentary layers contain its large reservoir of fossil fuels.

As if to compensate for our lack of oil riches, nature provided Minnesota with substantial and useful mineral deposits, especially the world-class iron ore reser voir on the Iron Range.

Most of that ore is gone, having supplied the steel that framed many of America’s buildings and machines.

Minnesota is well-endowed with another rock, not precious, but widely used for buildings, bridges, paving and countertops — granite. There is another potential use for granite: encapsulating nuclear waste.

Thanks to some rigid and technically ignorant Nevada politicians and our nation’s annual need to store thousands of tons of spent nu-

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clear fuel, our granite could become a multibillion dollar industr y in northern Minnesota.

One tenth of a cent per kilowatt hour generated by our 104 nuclear power reactors is placed in a fund to provide geologic storage of the fuel waste generated by those reactors.

The geological storage fund now exceeds $25 billion. A part of it has already been spent for the more than $10 billion needed to build the long-planned storage facility in Nevada’s Yucca Mountain Ridge. Now pressure from Nevada officials has caused President Barack Obama to cancel the project and begin dismantling it.

Sandia National Laboratories was commissioned to study America’s geology for an alternate site. Sandia’s newly released report notes that granite’s properties as a chemically and physically stable rock with low permeability would “strongly inhibit” radiation from reaching the outside environment if waste canisters leaked. The National Academy of Sciences has also concluded that “geologic disposal remains the only scientifically and technically credible long-term solution available to meet safety needs.”

Three of the 12 promising U.S. granite sites identified in the Sandia report are in northern Minnesota. The Minnesota sites are especially effective because of low water content and our lack of seismic activity. The other good site is in Vermont’s granite, but Vermont officials have already vetoed the idea,

DNA and the Supreme Court The Supreme Court will issue important decisions on DNA evidence and patents.

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n the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket are two cases regarding DNA. In the first, Maryland v. King, the right of a state to compel DNA evidence to be taken from a person arrested for suspicion of a crime without a warrant will be evaluated. In the second, Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, the ability to patent a human gene will be decided.

Both involve the application of law to recent developments in science and technology, but the considerations are very different.

The thought of a government being able to compel DNA evidence that can then be used to investigate any crime — past or future — without a warrant is absurd given the understanding of the right to privacy Americans enjoy. Compelling such evidence upon conviction may have a legitimate value in the interest of preventing recidivism and the rights felons give up already. In some states, felons lose the right to vote permanently. Surely compelling DNA evidence is less egregious for those convicted, but Mar yland’s law allows compelled collection from suspects — who are innocent until proven guilty.

While the ability to patent a human gene, at first glance, sounds absurd, note that to isolate and commercialize a gene requires significant capital and research to bring to market. The purpose of the copyright clause is to incentivize this very process by guaranteeing exclusive use by the inventor to recover the investment and provide profit motive. However, in this case, it also prevents other researchers from using other means to study the gene in question. This impedes the very advancement of technology the copyright clause intends to promote. If Dr. Jonas Salk had patented the polio vaccine, perhaps polio would not have been eradicated in the western hemisphere.

Keeping skilled workers here The University should support legislation that would keep talented individuals in the state.

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arlier this month, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, DMinn., co-sponsored a bill with Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that would reform the U.S. visa and green card systems.

The Immigration Innovation Act provides more visas for foreign students who receive degrees at American universities in science-related fields and want to stay in the country.

This bipartisan measure also increases the fees that companies pay for green cards and visas. Those funds will then be used to strengthen American education in STEM fields.

College presidents throughout the state have come forward in support of the legislation, including Dr. Earl Potter, the president of St. Cloud State University.

This legislation is a win-win, especially for research institutions like the University of Minnesota. Ensuring that educated, talented students from other countries are able to stay in the U.S. and the state should be a priority for the University. It should also support increased access to STEM education in the state’s K-12 schools so that Minnesota students are better prepared in these fields before attending college.

Like the president at St. Cloud State, University President Eric Kaler should come for ward in support.

America’s immigration system is broken, and it is holding the countr y, and specifically this state, back from leading the world in research and innovation. We won’t be able to grow the economy and build a competitive workforce if we continue to make it hard for talented individuals who come from other countries to stay here.

As Klobuchar stated in a recent opinion piece published in the Star Tribune, why would we allow unlimited visas for professional athletes but have limits for engineers and scientists?

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warm-up areas, Minnesota could have athletes use the Bierman Field Athletic Building and then shuttle to the Fieldhouse for competition.

The Gophers have also used gyms in the University Recreation and Wellness Center for warm-up areas in the past.

Other options would be to restructure the meet schedule, such as extending it from two to three days and having the men and women compete at different ends of the weekend.

The University is also in the process of creating a facilities master plan that could include a remodel of the Fieldhouse. The renovation would most likely not be a priority, though, as Minnesota wouldn’t be in rotation to host the championships again for another few years, Ryan said.

Plasencia said the track in the Fieldhouse is in good shape, but the building is “dingy” and lacks amenities.

“But we feel like we have a ser viceable indoor facility that we’re able to use,” he said.

The conference will also have to consider the addition of Rutgers and Maryland in 2014.

While the future of the indoor championships is still undecided, Gophers senior jumper Todea-Kay Willis said she is excited to try the new setting for the meet and isn’t letting the unfamiliarity rattle her before competition.

“As long as I have a runway, I have a pit, I got room to jump, no one stands in my way,” Willis said. “I’m good to go.”

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The University Fieldhouse hosted Big Ten indoor track and field championships in 2008 for the women and 2010 for the men. Because of inadequate on-campus facilities, the Big Ten will for the first time host the indoor championships at an off-campus location this year.

ranks his facility the best in the nation. Seating-wise, he said Nebraska was probably the only Big Ten facility capable of hosting a combined meet.

Pepin said one of the only negative comments he recieved about hosting the championships ever y year was that Nebraska would have an unfair advantage.

Gophers senior Harun Abda said he is excited to participate in a neutral event this year.

“At the same time, you kind of miss being in a campus,” he said.

The Spire Institute seats 5,000 spectators with full locker rooms and warm-up areas.

The track itself is a 300-meter oversized track with eight lanes — a layout conducive to running fast times.

“We do believe that the equipment and the set-up that we have does lend itself to the best performance possible,” said Jeff Orloff, chief operating officer at the Spire Institute. “I think what we realize is that this is a weekend that a lot of athletes from the Big Ten are going to remember for the rest of their lives.”

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For the first time, the Big Ten will host the indoor championships at an of fcampus location — the Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio — because of inadequate oncampus facilities.

The Spire Institute is an indoor, multi-sport training and competition facility of more than 750,000 square feet.

The decision was the result of combining the men’s and women’s championships, which had been held separately before last year.

“You double the athletes, you double the fans, potentially a significant increase in officials and volunteers,” said Marc Ryan, Gophers senior associate athletics director for track and field. “So really, it’s a space issue.”

Finding space The University Fieldhouse features bleacher seating for more than 800 people.

When the Gophers last hosted the Big Ten indoor championships in 2008 for the women and in 2010 for the men, the University had to make several adjustments to accommodate about 2,000 people, Ryan said.

Those adjustments included extra bleachers, an area for communications staff and media and port-o-potties for athletes and fans.

“We used every inch of that space when we hosted,” Ryan said. “That was for one gender.”

Nebraska hosted the first combined Big Ten indoor championships last year. The Huskers’ indoor track has capacity for 5,000 people.

Nebraska’s head coach for the combined men’s and women’s team, Gary Pepin,

such as capacity, obstructed views, warm-up areas, number of lanes on the track and whether the track is banked or flat.

Head Gophers men’s coach Steve Plasencia said most schools probably answered similarly.

“I’m willing to bet there were not too many … that said, ‘We could not host a Big Ten championship,’ ” Plasencia said.

Head Gophers women’s coach Matt Bingle said he wants the championships to return to campuses.

“In my opinion … it should be always on a college campus because for the fans, for the connection to the University,” Bingle said.

“Because that’s where we get most of our draw. Because there’s not a ton of fan support for track and field besides moms and dads and friends.

“When we get far ther away from that, it’s just not good for the sport.”

Pepin said he thinks the Spire Institute’s location may discourage spectators.

“When it’s on a campus,

Conflict and compromise

While Bingle, Plasencia and Pepin all want to see Big Ten schools host the championships again, they disagree

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on a central issue.

Minnesota’s men’s and women’s programs are separate, while Nebraska’s is combined under one head coach.

When the conference had separate championships for men and women, coaching staffs of combined teams had to decide if they would coach at the men’s or women’s competition.

Bingle said he can’t see the conference splitting up the meets again since it is unfair to the combined teams.

But without separate meets, Big Ten schools will likely have to settle for championships at off-campus facilities.

“If it was just about running the track por tion of it and the field por tion of it, we could run the meet at most of the Big Ten institutions,” Ryan said. “It’s really warm-up areas, fans, amenities for athletes and coaches.”

The Gophers have been brainstorming alternative ways to host a conference championship.

To solve the problem of

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Controversy around the conference

While this year’s indoor championships will be at the Spire Institute, no future locations have been decided yet.

The conference coaches and administration will meet next week to discuss how the 2013 championships went and if they want to continue the par tnership with the Spire Institute.

The conference sent a survey a few weeks ago to all track and field programs asking questions related to hosting a championship meet,

you generally can get a lot of people that are from that area,” Pepin said. “If it’s just kind of in the middle of nowhere, so to speak, not relatively close to anything, a lot of those people aren’t going to travel that far.”

Nebraska’s team drove 14 hours to the meet. The Gophers women’s team is taking two flights and also driving. Ryan said if the Spire Institute hosts the championships in future years, it would be unfair to the schools that would have to travel farther.

“It’s a huge financial obligation for someone like the University of Minnesota because we have to fly there, both genders,” Ryan said.

Bingle estimated the cost of traveling to be $50,000, and he said the trip will be tiring for athletes and coaches.

“I don’t think I’d want to go there every year,” Plasencia said.

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PREVIEW: The No. 15 Gophers placed second at last year’s Big Ten indoor championships by a four-point margin to Indiana. They finished one point ahead of third-place Nebraska. Minnesota had won three consecutive Big Ten indoor titles, but last year’s final event, the 4x400-meter relay, decided the close meet.

The Gophers return two Big Ten champions from last year – senior Harun Abda in the 400-meter dash and 600-meter run and senior Micah Hegerle in the weight throw.

“It’s a very, very competitive conference,” head coach Steve Plasencia said. “I think over the last few years there’s been more balance in the conference than … in some of the previous years. …

There’s a lot of top-end performers in the Big Ten. It’s tough to score points.”

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PREVIEW: The Gophers had a disappointing Big Ten indoor championships last year. Minnesota placed last in the 11-team field with only 11 points. Nebraska won the team title with 114.5 points, followed by Ohio State and Penn State in second and third, respectively.

The highest finish last year by a Minnesota athlete was fourth place. Head coach Matt Bingle said this year’s team is capable of scoring more points and placing higher than 2012 — especially because all but one athlete are healthy. Seniors Todea-Kay Willis and Alena Brooks both redshirted the 2012 indoor season but are poised to qualify for the NCAA indoor championships this year.

“If it’s not the No. 1 conference in the country, it’s close in terms of its quality depth,” Bingle said. “Eighth place is so much better now than what it was.”

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WRESTLING

Minnesota seeks revenge at National Duals The Gophers could face Iowa and Oklahoma State, two teams it lost to earlier this season.

weeks and an NCAA championship in a month.

Winning the National Duals doesn’t hold the same prestige as a Big Ten or NCAA title, but it’s the last true dual meet of the season.

It’s the last time all 10 Gophers wrestlers will watch matches from the same bench, as the Big Ten and NCAA tour naments are split up by weight class.

“This tournament is just as much of a national championship as the tour nament at the end of March because of the overall dual aspect,” sophomore Scott Schiller said. “They crown a team championship at the

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The toughest par t of the season — a month-long stretch packed with three national tournaments and ever ything on the line — is finally here for the Gophers wrestling squad.

Minnesota will compete at the National Duals this weekend before battling for a Big Ten title in a few

other two tournaments … but the feel is a lot dif ferent.”

Schiller, who has star ted at 197 pounds for the Gophers all season, said the team aspect of matches adds to the intensity of dual meets.

“It’s dif ferent because at both the Big Tens and NCAAs, you’re really more focused on yourself, and you don’t get to see your teammates wrestle,” Schiller said.

Minnesota heavyweight Tony Nelson said the National Duals are “the true team championships.” He said they serve as a chance for the team to build momentum heading into the

two tournaments in March.

“It worked for us last year,” Nelson said. “We won the National Duals and finished second in the Big Ten and in the NCAA tournament, so that was a big swing for us in our season.”

The Gophers are the third seed in the tournament and will take on Virginia Tech in the first round.

If Minnesota advances past the Hokies, it will likely compete against Iowa in the second round and Oklahoma State in the final.

The Gophers avenged early-season losses a year ago to Iowa and Oklahoma

State en route to the National Duals title.

Minnesota’s only dual losses this season have come from those teams.

“It’s kind of set up to have the same stor y this year,” Schiller said, “but we’re not really looking at one or two teams specifically.”

Nelson, who tallied key wins at last year’s National Duals, said revenge will be on his mind. Nelson defeated the two heavyweights he would likely see from Iowa and Oklahoma State earlier this season.

“We were all pretty upset with those losses earlier this season,” Nelson

said. “I hate losing, and to knock them off would be a pretty sweet feeling.”

Assistant coach Luke Becker said this tour nament is impor tant for the team’s mindset entering the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments. He said he feels like the team is starting to peak at the right time of the year and that a strong performance could propel it toward success.

“We’ve lost a couple close ones this year; that kind of bothers our guys,” Becker said. “I think this one means a lot for all of them.”

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PREVIEW: Minnesota enters the National Duals as the defending champion after winning the tournament last season, but it might not be the favorite to repeat. The Gophers have only lost two matches this season, both to teams that are also in the National Duals this weekend.

Minnesota hasn’t lost in nearly a month and has handled its last two opponents with ease. The Gophers like to say they are peaking at the right time, but this weekend will be a little different as they will face seven of the best wrestling programs in the nation.

Oklahoma State and Iowa could challenge Minnesota for the title this weekend in the eight-team competition. Oklahoma State is undefeated and beat the Gophers in early December. Iowa has one blemish on its record this season — a loss to Oklahoma State.

The Gophers will need a strong showing from their lower weights.

That has been a slight weakness on the team, as the upper weights have dominated for most of the season. Minnesota hasn’t lost an upper-weight match since the Southern Scuffle.

Round 1, Mat 2 6 p.m.

NO. 4 OHIO STATE NO. 3 MINNESOTA

Round 4, Mat 1 7 p.m.

CHAMPION

Round 4, Mat 2 7 p.m.

THIRD

Round 2, Mat 1 8 p.m.

NO. 6 VIRGINIA TECH NO. 7 CORNELL

Round 3, Mat 2 1 p.m.

Round 2, Mat 2 8 p.m.

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Minnesota’s Tony Nelson holds down Michigan State’s Michael McClure on Feb. 3 at the Sports Pavilion.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Ex-player lives coaching dream

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Buckeyes hand Gophers 2nd straight blowout loss MINNESOTA 45, OHIO STATE 71

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Former Gophers basketball player and current assistant coach Kelly Roysland works with her players Wednesday at Williams Arena.

dream to work for their alma mater,” she said, adding that Minnesota’s a place she’s “cared about for a very long time.”

Borton said she always wanted Roysland to join her staf f. When longtime assistant Barb Smith stepped down in October 2010, Borton had a chance to make it happen.

“Kelly was the first one I wanted to bring back,” Bor ton said. “She’s been there, done that. She’s been through a lot of success here at Minnesota.”

Roysland’s adjustment from mid-major to Big Ten school was smooth. Having played for Borton, she was familiar with her offensive and defensive systems.

Recruiting in the Big Ten, however, is a completely different animal.

In Fargo, Roysland focused on recruiting more local talent. She’s had to expand her recruiting network in the more competitive Big Ten. Roysland said she’d love to be a head coach some day, but she’s content where she is.

Players love having her around, too.

“She knows exactly what we’re going through and what it’s like,” junior guard Sari Noga said. “Having that first-hand experience and teaching it to us is really beneficial.”

Roysland said being around the team and watching players grow as people is the most rewarding aspect of her job.

“I feel like I’m in my dream job,” she said. “Where else would I go from here?”

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Kelly Roysland was an asset to Minnesota during her playing days. Now she’s trying to be one as a coach.

The 28-year-old Roysland was a guard for the Gophers from 2003-07. She’s in her third year as an assistant on head coach Pam Borton’s staff.

She oversees guard development, assists with recruiting and, perhaps most importantly, helps mentor players.

“She brings so much experience,” sophomore guard Rachel Banham said. “She’s young, so she can relate to us. That’s the biggest thing.”

Roysland retur ned to Minnesota after beginning her coaching career at North Dakota State.

“After I was done being part of a team and finishing school, it made me really miss being part of a team and athletics on daily basis,” Roysland said.

Roysland has been around sports since she was a toddler.

Her dad, Mike, is the head women’s basketball coach at the University of Minnesota-Crookston. Her mom, Kim, coached golf and volleyball for more than 20 years.

Kelly said she observed how her parents coached and handled player situations in an effort to prepare for her own coaching career, which began in 2008.

Roysland was an assistant at NDSU for two seasons, but she knew she wanted to return to Minnesota.

“I think it’s any person’s

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OHIO STATE

5 p.m., Thursday in Columbus, Ohio

MINNESOTA: The Gophers, who are 4-8 in conference play, have dropped seven of their last nine games.

Minnesota beat Ohio State 83-74 at Williams Arena in the teams’ meeting earlier this year.

Rachel Banham led the Gophers with 24 points in that game. Micaëlla Riché scored 20 points and snatched eight rebounds.

OHIO STATE: Minneapolis native Tayler Hill, who averages 21.1 points, is one of the most dangerous players in the Big Ten. She doesn’t have much help, though. The Buckeyes’ second-leading scorer, Ashley Adams, scores 9.3 points per game.

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Mo Walker’s free throw tied Minnesota and Ohio State at 21-21 with two minutes left in the first half, giving Gophers fans abroad hope of an upset.

The Buckeyes went on a 50-24 run to end the game with a 71-45 victor y in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, handing the Gophers their eighth loss in the last 11 games.

Minnesota’s only lead was at 5-4 three minutes into the game, but the Gophers fell into the same trap they’ve set for themselves all season.

OSU’s Deshaun Thomas, the Big Ten’s leading scorer, started off 1-for-6 from the field.

The junior finished 5-for10, effectively bur ying an offensively inept Minnesota squad that scored 23 and 22 points in the first and second halves, respectively.

Minnesota received a much-needed boost from its bench, but the majority of its starters failed to produce points in any capacity.

Sophomore Andre Hollins and senior T revor Mbakwe were the only starters to score a field goal, combining for 15 of the starters’ 20 points.

Austin Hollins added five points in free throws. Rodney Williams and Joe Coleman were scoreless.

For the first time this season, Minnesota’s top five was outscored by its

FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 29 2-5 0-0 2-6 1 3 4 Mbakwe 8 Williams 0-3 0-0 0-1 1 3 0 Hollins, An. 34 4-13 2-2 2-8 1 1 11 12 0-3 0-0 0-1 1 4 0 Coleman Hollins, Au. 31 0-5 5-7 0-1 1 1 5 14 1-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 3 Welch 6 Ellenson 2-5 0-0 0-0 0 2 4 27 2-5 6-6 1-5 1 1 10 Osenieks 5 Ahanmisi 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 17 Walker 3-5 1-3 4-5 1 3 7 8 Ingram 0-1 1-2 2-5 0 2 1 9 Eliason 0-1 0-0 0-2 0 1 0 200 14-48 15-20 13-39 7 21 45 Total Percentages: FG .292, FT .750. Three-pointers: 2-15, .133 (Andre Hollins 1-5, Welch 1-1, Au. Hollins 0-4, Ellenson 0-3, Williams 0-1, Osenieks 0-1) Blocks: 2 (Eliason, Osenieks). Team Rebounds: 4 Turnovers: 21 (Walker 6, Mbakwe 4, Andre Hollins 2, Coleman 2, Osenieks 2, Eliason 2, Au. Hollins, Welch, Ahanmisi). Steals: 3 (Mbakwe, Osenieks, Walker)

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Minnesota forwards Mo Walker, left, and Andre Ingram and Toledo’s Rian Pearson fight for the ball after a rebound Monday, Nov. 12, 2012, at Williams Arena.

bench, which finished with 25 points.

The Gophers’ bench made eight field goals, and the starters made six.

Once the of fense fell apart, so did the defense, as Ohio State had only two turnovers in the second half.

Ohio State’s Aaron Craft, Evan Ravenel and Shannon Scott had three steals each.

Minnesota had three as a team.

The lack of offense, indicated by 29 percent shooting, was expounded by the Gophers’ 21 turnovers, a Big Ten-season high.

Minnesota seemed to have an inside advantage early, as Walker and Mbakwe bullied Ohio State’s post players to start the first half.

Walker looked like an

early-game hero, coming off the bench and netting seven points and five rebounds in the first period — Big Tencareer highs in both categories.

But the sophomore’s only statistical contributions in the second half were three turnovers, adding to his career-high six turnovers in the game.

Mbakwe and Walker combined for 10 of the Gophers’ 21 turnovers.

Walker’s struggles followed Minnesota’s M.O. in the second half, as coach Tubby Smith’s team went 11 minutes without a field goal.

Notes

FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 34 6-16 5-5 1-3 20 1 19 Thomas 19 1-6 4-4 3-5 1 2 6 Thompson 2-2 1-2 1-6 0 4 5 17 Williams 33 2-5 1-2 0-3 4 2 6 Craft 11 2-5 0-0 0-1 1 2 4 Smith 26 3-5 4-4 0-1 5 1 11 Scott 22 4-9 1-1 0-3 1 1 10 Ross 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 2 Rogers 21 2-6 0-0 1-3 0 3 4 Ravenel 2-4 0-0 1-3 0 1 6 7 Della 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 Lorbach 0-1 0-0 1-2 1 4 0 7 McDonald 200 24-60 16-18 10-33 13 21 71 Total Percentages: FG .400 FT .889. Three-pointers: 7-20 (Thomas 2-8, Della Valle 2-3, Ross 1-3, Scott 1-2, Craft 1-1, Smith Jr. 0-1, Thompson 0-1, Lorbach 0-1).

Blocks: 5 (Scott 3, Ross, Ravenel). Team rebounds: 3. Turnovers: 11 (McDonald 3, Craft 2, Scott 2, Ross 2, Ravenel, Della Valle). Steals: 10 (Craft 3, Scott 3, Ravenel 3, Della Valle). A: 16,378. Officials: Jim Burr, Mike Sanzere, John Gaffney

star ted but played eight minutes.

4Reserve Oto Osenieks tied his career high with 27 minutes and scored 10 points.

4The last time Austin Hollins didn’t score a field goal in a Big Ten game was Feb. 18, 2012.

4Rodney Williams, who was questionable to play with a sore left shoulder,

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BASEBALL

Gophers gear up for month-long homestand ence portion of their schedule.

Minnesota went 1611 and won its final eight games during that stretch.

The Metrodome has been kind to Minnesota in recent years. The Gophers are 41-26 under the Teflon roof since 2010. They played their home games at Target Field in 2011 after the Metrodome’s roof collapsed in December 2010.

In April, the Gophers will shift their home games to the new Siebert Field.

Minnesota has practiced at the Metrodome for years, and its players are used to the stadium’s intricacies.

Opponents are more likely to lose pop flies and fly balls in the lights and the roof.

The dome, which housed the Minnesota Twins for more than 25 years, is massive for a college ballpark.

The left field fence is 343 feet away from the plate, right field is 325 and center field is 408.

Teams struggle hitting home r uns at the dome, including the Gophers.

Last season, Minnesota hit-

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

The Gophers were tested by No. 2 University of California-Los Angeles in their first series of the season.

The Br uins boasted some of the best pitching and hitting the Gophers will see all year and took two of three from Minnesota in Los Angeles.

But the Gophers will play their next 17 nonconference games in Minneapolis, and head coach John Anderson said the home field will give his team a chance to build some confidence — especially the younger players.

“Sometimes when you focus on the environment you’re playing in and who you’re playing against, you don’t have a strong level of confidence,” he said.

“Now we’ve got to develop a different routine,” he said. “Back at home, sometimes that’s easier.”

Minnesota got a taste of that routine last season.

The Gophers played 27 straight games at home last year during the nonconfer-

ters hit 11 home runs in 56 games. Gophers pitchers allowed only 20 home runs.

Anderson said sophomore pitchers Ben Meyer and Jordan Jess, who are new to the starting rotation, will benefit from playing at home.

“We want to take these

guys to the next level in their development,” he said.

The Gophers will play without pitchers D.J. Snelten and Alec Crawford, who are injured.

Minnesota will open its homestand with a fourgame set against Western Michigan.

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WESTERN MICHIGAN

6:35 p.m., Friday 2:05 p.m. and 5:05 p.m., Saturday 12:05 p.m., Sunday at Metrodome

MINNESOTA: UCLA challenged the Gophers in their first series of the season, winning two out of three games. Minnesota won 6-2 on Friday but lost 14-0 on Saturday and 14-1 on Sunday.

The Gophers will be at home for the next month, where they were 25-14 a year ago.

The top of Minnesota’s order hit well against UCLA. Outfielders Bobby Juan and Andy Henkemeyer and first baseman Dan Olinger all batted over .400 during the three-game set.

WESTERN MICHIGAN: The Broncos lost all four games of their opening series to Pepperdine.

Western Michigan will need to pitch better to compete with Minnesota. Broncos pitchers allowed seven or more runs in each of their first four losses.

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TENNIS

Wisconsin offers men, women a sneak peek of Big Ten play Most of the teams’ conference matches will come in late March.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s tennis teams will get a sneak peek of the Big Ten this weekend in the form of rival Wisconsin.

Both teams will start the bulk of their conference schedule in late March.

Women’s coach Chuck Merzbacher said Sunday’s match will serve as a measuring stick.

It’ll be the second week in a row that the women will be able to sleep in their own beds before the match. The Gophers had a brutal road stretch early in the season.

“It was tough,” Merzbacher said of the road stretch. “It was three week-

ends in a row, six matches on the road, but they grinded it out, and they hung in there.”

Merzbacher said a big focus this week in practice has been in the doubles realm.

Minnesota earned the doubles point in both matches last week, but it has otherwise struggled in doubles this season.

“It’s star ting to come around for us,” he said. “We just need to make better decisions, and if we do that we’re going to be a good team.”

Merzbacher said he might make a few changes on the doubles side with freshman Paula Rincon Otero in the lineup. He said Rincon Otero could star t this weekend.

Minnesota will return to nearly full strength for one of the first times this season, which gives the team more lineup options. Junior Natallia Pintusava, the team’s regular No. 1 singles player,

was limited last weekend with a cold, but she’s back this week.

Merzbacher said senior Alexa Palen is still “a ways

away” from a return as she recovers from mononucleosis. Merzbacher said he hopes to get her back in the lineup by late March.

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MISSISSIPPI STATE

WISCONSIN

5 p.m., Friday and noon, Sunday at Baseline Tennis Center MINNESOTA

WISCONSIN

Noon, Saturday in Madison, Wis.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers beat Marquette last weekend. They have struggled to a slow start this season against several ranked teams.

Minnesota is 3-5 entering its first Big Ten match of the season.

The Gophers won the doubles point against Marquette last week.

Head coach Geoff Young said his team usually wins the match if it wins the doubles point.

Minnesota has won the last two meetings between the rival schools — 6-1 last year and 5-2 two seasons ago.

WISCONSIN: The Badgers have a better record than the Gophers, but they haven’t played the same level of competition. Wisconsin has dominant wins over a number of second-tier teams, and its only loss of the year came to Clemson in its last match.

The Badgers could be a little fatigued when they play the Gophers, as they had a match Wednesday night against Marquette.

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MINNESOTA: Minnesota has its swagger back after a dominant weekend in which no player on the roster dropped a match. The Gophers won 7-0 against Northern Iowa and Carleton to break a sixmatch losing streak.

Minnesota hasn’t played at home much this season, and head coach Chuck Merzbacher said his team welcomes the two-week homestand. Merzbacher is also happy to have his stud freshman Paula Rincon Otero in the lineup after she sat out the start of the spring season with eligibility issues.

MISSISSIPPI STATE: Mississippi State has only played four matches this season. In its only loss, Mississippi State was drubbed 6-0 at the hands of Oklahoma State. The Bulldogs have wins over Southern Miss, Houston and New Orleans.

WISCONSIN: Wisconsin has struggled as much as the Gophers this season. The Badgers enter this weekend 1-5, and their only win of the season came against Boston earlier this month.

Wisconsin has lost every other match, and Badgers players have combined to win only four sets in those losses.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Return to Mariucci offers excellent chance for Gophers to snap funk Minnesota will play at Mariucci Arena this weekend after struggling during five straight road games.

The Gophers lost only once in December and Januar y.

Playing two of the last three series of the season at home could be the medicine the Gophers need.

Their only road series remaining is a winnable one at Bemidji State to end the season.

Minnesota is 12-2-2 at Mariucci Arena this season.

“It’s been a while,”

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers are ranked No. 2 in the nation, but they sit four th in the WCHA and are searching for consistency down the stretch.

Minnesota (20-6-4, 12-64 WCHA) returns to Mariucci Arena this weekend to take on Minnesota-Duluth after splitting its last three conference series.

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MINNESOTA-DULUTH

7 p.m., Friday and Saturday at Mariucci Arena

MINNESOTA: The Gophers have split their last three series, and they have only one WCHA sweep this season.

Minnesota gained two points in the WCHA standings last weekend on St. Cloud State and North Dakota, which were idle. The Gophers are tied for fourth in the WCHA. They still have played two fewer WCHA games than two of the teams in front of them — NebraskaOmaha and Minnesota State-Mankato.

Sam Warning broke a four-game pointless streak by scoring the first goal Friday at Wisconsin. Warning has six goals and nine assists since returning from an unspecified injury in late November.

MINNESOTA-DULUTH: The Bulldogs haven’t notched a win in their last seven contests. UMD only mustered one point last weekend in a road series at Bemidji State. Before traveling to BSU, UMD suffered consecutive home sweeps against Denver and Minnesota StateMankato.

Senior Mike Seidel leads UMD with 13 goals and 27 points.

Like Minnesota’s situation with Adam Wilcox replacing Kent Patterson, UMD has replaced a reliable backstop because of graduation.

Freshman Matt McNeely has started 20 games this season and has a 8-10-2 record. Junior Aaron Crandall has started nine contests and is 2-5-2.

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head coach Don Lucia said of playing at home. “When you look at 3-2 on the road against the teams we’ve played, that’s good.”

But Lucia said it’s disappointing that Minnesota was unable to sweep its past two series at home following wins Friday night.

The Gophers’ 8-0 nonconfer ence r ecor d has them as vir tual locks for the NCAA tournament.

“You go back a year ago at this time, we were leading the WCHA, and we were a bubble team for the NCAA tournament,” Lucia said. “I like the position we’re in today a whole lot better.”

But if Minnesota wants to repeat as WCHA champions in its last season in the conference, it likely can’t afford a loss the rest of the season.

“Who knows what we have to do — I don’t think we can worr y about that,” Lucia said.

When the Gophers struggled last year, it was almost exclusively during Friday games. While that trend has mostly disappeared this year, the Gophers have dropped the second game in a series in consecutive weekends.

“We have to start being more consistent from Friday to Saturday night,” junior for ward Zach Budish said. “It seems like right now we’re playing really solid game one and then the next night we drop off.”

Minnesota’s last loss was a tricky one — a 3-2 defeat against Wisconsin out-

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Minnesota forward Zach Budish controls the puck against Notre Dame on Jan. 8 at Mariucci Arena.

doors at Soldier Field. But it counted the same in the conference standings.

“It was two huge points in the standings,” Budish said. “You can’t blame the ice conditions because they’re obviously the same for both teams.”

Minnesota outplayed Wisconsin for the majority of Sunday’s game, with the exception of a four-minute stretch in the second period when the Badgers scored three goals.

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“We lear ned that it doesn’t matter what the conditions are —you still have to come out and play 100 percent for 100 percent of the game,” sophomore for ward Travis Boyd said.

“If we play a whole 60 minutes, then we probably win that game.”

Injur y likely to sideline Ambroz

After scoring two goals last weekend against Wisconsin, sophomore for-

ward Seth Ambroz will likely be unavailable this weekend due to an unspecified injur y.

Lucia said that Ambroz could play if it was an NCAA tournament game, but he wouldn’t go into more detail on the injur y.

“We’re going to look at the big picture and probably hold him out this weekend, at least Friday for sure,” Lucia said.

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SOFTBALL

Senior leads from fourth line

Weaker competition awaits Gophers in Florida tournament All six of Minnesota’s losses this season have come to teams that were in the NCAA tournament last year.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

Minnesota forward Katie Frischmann plays against St. Cloud State on Oct. 6, 2012, at Ridder Arena.

Last weekend she scored the last goal in Minnesota’s 8-0 win over Bemidji State.

Head coach Brad Frost said he hadn’t seen his team happier after a goal all season.

Senior captain Megan Bozek is Frischmann’s roommate and best friend.

While her teammates recognize Frischmann’s con-

Katie Frischmann has played on the fourth line since her freshman year.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

Senior Katie Frischmann hadn’t scored a goal since her freshman year.

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ST. CLOUD STATE

7:07 p.m., Friday and 2:07 p.m., Saturday in St. Cloud, Minn.

MINNESOTA: The No. 1 Gophers swept Bemidji State last weekend, though not as easily as expected against the last-place WCHA team.

While Minnesota won 8-0 Friday, the Beavers took Minnesota to its first overtime this season Saturday before the Gophers won 3-2.

The Gophers are 32-0-0 this season and have a 40-game winning streak.

ST. CLOUD STATE: Unranked St. Cloud State is second-to-last in the WCHA with a 9-20-3 overall record. The Huskies tied Minnesota State-Mankato last weekend 2-2 on Friday before winning 2-0 on Saturday.

The Gophers kicked off their conference season against the Huskies, winning 7-1 and 4-0. This weekend ends the WCHA’s regular season.

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tribution to the team, Bozek said it was time for a game to show it as well.

“I’m glad she got that,” Bozek said. “She deser ves to be recognized, definitely on the score sheet.”

Frischmann is a versatile for ward and defender for the Gophers but has spent most of her career on the four th line. While some players would be upset about the lack of playing time, Frost said Frischmann doesn’t let it get to her.

“She’s always been somebody that people really respect because of how she’s responded and put the team ahead of herself,” Frost said.

Bozek said Frischmann plays her role on the team to per fection — whether that’s coming off the bench or motivating her teammates between periods.

“You’ll never see her complaining about anything,” Bozek said.

But Frischmann said it hasn’t always been easy adjusting to her limited playing time. Growing up, she didn’t play on the four th line often, and as a Division

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I athlete, the competitive side of her wants to be a starter.

“At times it’s challenging,” Frischmann said.

“Nobody enjoys coming, working your butt off weekto-week and then watching your team play.”

Frischmann said her perspective has changed since experiencing the four th line. Now she savors every shift she skates and never takes a moment in the Minnesota jersey for granted.

The senior also tries to set an example for younger teammates who are disappointed at playing on the fourth line.

“I think it’s nice to have somebody older than you to try to help you keep a positive attitude,” Frischmann said.

Frost said Frischmann is considered a leader on the team even though she doesn’t have the most minutes.

“I think her personality is one of the best on the team, and people are drawn to her,” Frost said. “And in turn that makes her a great leader.”

The Gophers went 3-6 against stif f competition to open the season. Now the focus shifts to beating teams they’re supposed to beat.

After two weekends of competition against teams ranked in the top 25 and teams fr om last year’s NCAA tour nament, the Gophers enter this weekend favored in most of their games.

Minnesota will compete against Albany, Florida Gulf Coast, Villanova and St. Bonaventure at the FGCU/LaQuinta Spring Break Invitational.

V illanova and Albany have not yet competed this season. Florida Gulf Coast has a 4-3 record, and St. Bonaventure is 1-7. Florida Gulf Coast, which made the NCAA tournament last season, should be the Gophers’ toughest opponent this weekend.

Head coach Jessica Allister said she’s happy with how her team has competed so far this season.

She said she’d like to see

the team limit its mistakes, play more solid on defense and strike out less.

All six of Minnesota’s losses this season have come to teams that were in last year’s NCAA tournament.

Sophomor e infielder Kaitlyn Richardson said after a fast star t, the Gophers cooled of f last year when they failed to beat teams they should have beaten.

Richardson said she felt Minnesota should’ve won series against Penn State, Wisconsin and Illinois during Big Ten play.

“Ever y game matters, and I think that it was a lear ning experience,” Richardson said.

Though Minnesota is favored on paper, Allister said she doesn’t expect to go to Florida and clean house.

“College softball is becoming so much mor e competitive acr oss the board,” Allister said. “At any point in time, no matter where you’re at … if you don’t have your ‘A’ game, you’re not going to win.”

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FGCU/LAQUINTA SPRING BREAK INVITATIONAL

vs. Albany; 11:30 a.m., Friday, @ Florida Gulf Coast; 4:30 p.m., Friday vs. Villanova; 8 a.m., Saturday, vs. St. Bonaventure; 2:45 p.m., Saturday vs. Albany; 8 a.m., Sunday

PREVIEW: Minnesota has a 3-6 record after going 2-3 last weekend at the Arizona State Littlewood Classic. The Gophers defeated Northern Iowa twice in the tournament.

Minnesota will play its first games ever against Albany, Villanova and St. Bonaventure. The team is 2-0 all time against Florida Gulf Coast.

The Gophers have nine home runs in nine games. They had 53 home runs last year in 53 games.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Women tie Indiana on first Big Ten day

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Minnesota’s Rebecca Weiland swims the butterfly in the women’s 200-yard medley relay at the Big Ten championships Wednesday at the University Aquatic Center. The Gophers set a record in the 200 medley relay Wednesday.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

There are six Big Ten women’s swimming and diving programs ranked in the top 25, but Minnesota and Indiana showed Wednesday night that the battle for this year’s Big Ten championship is a two-team race.

The No. 12 Gophers and No. 13 Indiana, who have combined to win the last six Big Ten championships, each won one event Wednesday and are tied for

the lead at 74 points after day one of the 2013 Big Ten championships.

Penn State has 58 points, and Michigan and Ohio State are tied with 56 points.

In front of an energized crowd at the University Aquatic Center, the Gophers won the 200-yard medley relay, coming from behind in the final 50 yards to win the first event of the championships.

The Gophers’ 200 medley relay team trailed Indiana heading into the final

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Fans cheer on the Gophers at the Big Ten championships Wednesday at the University Aquatic Center.

50 yards, but junior Erin Caflisch’s strong final leg gave the Gophers the victory.

Caflisch swam the final 50 yards in 21.69 seconds, helping her relay team to the victory and a school record.

“I’m not surprised by it,” head women’s coach Terry Nieszner said of Caflisch’s swim. “She’s been performing all year, working hard, doing exactly what she should be doing to go fast.”

The Gophers took second in the 800 freestyle relay and this time were unable to overtake Indiana in the final moments of the race.

Minnesota trailed Indiana by more than three seconds entering the final 200 yards of the relay. Indiana held on despite a charge from sophomore Kiera Janzen on the last leg.

The second day of the championships kick off at 11 a.m. on Thursday with the preliminar y rounds of the 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 50 freestyle and 1-meter dive. The finals for those events will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.

The 1-meter dive will be the first event of the competition for Minnesota’s diving corps and junior diver Maggie Keefer, who earned Big Ten Diver of the Championships honors last year.

Keefer and teammate Katie Grunawalt won the 3-meter synchronized diving exhibition Wednesday.

The Gophers won the 2012 Big Ten championships, knocking off threetime defending champion Indiana. They went 10-0 in dual meets this season.

The championships run through Saturday night at the University Aquatic Center.

SWIMMING AND DIVING RESULTS 1. Minnesota 1. Indiana 3. Penn State 4. Michigan 4. Ohio State 6. Wisconsin 7. Purdue 8. Nebraska 9. Northwestern 9. Iowa 11. Illinois 11. Michigan State

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Minnesota’s Maggie Keefer and Katie Grunawalt dive Wednesday at the University Aquatic Center. The pair won the 3-meter synchronized diving exhibition Wednesday.

GYMNASTICS

Rule change forces reduced lineup, difficult decisions Starting next week, teams can only use five competitors on each apparatus, meaning poor routines could be costly.

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Thursday can be the toughest day of the week for Mike Burns.

The ninth-year head coach of the Gophers men’s gymnastics team watches his team carefully throughout practice and meets, thinking about the lineup he will announce the next Thursday.

Some event lineups are tougher to form than others, but ultimately Burns knows his decisions can make the dif ference in a win or a loss.

His job gets a little tougher this week as an NCAA rule change draws nearer.

Sunday’s meet against the University of IllinoisChicago marks the final time this season that NCAA teams can use six gymnasts on each event.

Star ting next week, when No. 6 Minnesota hosts Iowa, only five can be used, and each individual score counts toward the team score.

That means any poor routines will hurt the team.

“It’s going to be really tough decisions to

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Bur ns said when the pressure intensifies even more during the Big Ten championships and NCAA championships, the team is more likely to use an in-

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figure out who’s going to be the top five guys [on each event],” Burns said.

“It’s going to really come down to consistency and the potential to score a big score.”

Sophomore Steve Jaciuk, the Gophers’ most consistent per former on parallel bars and high bar this season, said the team has been aware of the rule change’s meaning since the start of the competition season.

“Almost the first meet, we already star ted talking about the five-up, fivecount,” he said. “We all know how important it is.”

Jaciuk said fighting to make the top five will further motivate the gymnasts who are left out.

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consistent athlete who can post a high score than a consistent athlete who can post moderate scores.

Minnesota will test the new r ule in the next few weeks against No. 8 Iowa, No. 7 Illinois, No. 10 Nebraska and No. 1 Penn State.

The NCAA uses most of a team’s regular-season scores and its Big Ten

championships score to determine the 12 teams that will compete in the NCAA championships.

The Gophers have five meets to improve their team scores before the postseason. Three of those meets will come on the road, where Minnesota has already recorded its highest team score of the season.

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MINNESOTA: The No. 12 Gophers are 12-0 after a dominant win at the Best of Minnesota meet last Saturday. This week, they’ll begin a two-week road campaign by competing twice in three days against two unranked teams.

Junior Dusti Russell made her return to the lineup last week, winning on balance beam. A little more than a month remains until the Big Ten championships at Michigan State.

IOWA: The Hawkeyes posted a team-high score last week in a close loss to Illinois. Iowa hasn’t been ranked in the GymInfo top-25 poll this season and is 1-4 in the Big Ten conference.

The Hawkeyes feature sophomore Sydney Hoerr, who last week scored a career-high 39.35 in the all-around.

IOWA STATE: The Cyclones are 1-5 since their last meeting with Minnesota on Jan. 26. They posted a season-high score in a win over Northern Illinois last week, and they’ve improved their score each week this season.

Iowa State will face Boise State and Nebraska on Friday night before hosting Minnesota on Sunday.

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MINNESOTA: Sunday marks the third time Minnesota and Illinois-Chicago have seen each other this season. Minnesota beat the Flames on both occasions, most recently at home Feb. 2.

The Gophers have lost back-to-back meets but scored a seasonhigh 435.45 points last week against then-No. 2 Oklahoma.

The vault is Minnesota’s highest-ranking event. The Gophers are third in the nation with a high score of 74.45, which they set against UIC. ILLINOIS-CHICAGO: The Flames haven’t competed as a team since their loss to Minnesota almost three weeks ago, and they haven’t competed at home since the Windy Invitational on Jan. 19. UIC sent senior Dan Zerbel to the Winter Cup in Las Vegas on Feb. 8.

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MUSIC

Marquis man XAVIER MARQUIS IS AT A CROSSROADS, ABOUT TO PLUNGE INTO THE UNKNOWN.

BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

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hen the crowd burst into requests for one more song, Xavier Marquis was only too happy to oblige.

His show at the Triple Rock on Saturday was something all too unique in the world of hip-hop: a tight performance with a seven-piece live accompaniment.

The coordinated tambourine action from his two backups, flurries of frantic djembe, two guitarists — one a Slash-esque caricature minus the hat who left his sunglasses on — funky bass and a drummer in his own world of syncopated glor y were altogether a finely tuned machine. But the most important aspect of a Marquis performance is his charisma.

“I’m physically young but mentally old,” Marquis said.

An unfor tunate aspect of the performance is that it may have been the last appearance of Xavier Marquis’ current musical incarnation.

Marquis was slated to perform this week in St. Paul for the 7th Annual Twin Cities Hip Hop Awards, but the show has been canceled.

Marquis has always had beats in the blood, writing rhymes since the fifth grade.

He was the kid in class with two pencils, constantly tapping out beats to the dismay of focused students.

He has finally gotten Adderall for his ADHD, but that was not the case in high school, where Marquis was so distracted that he dropped

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY Rapper Xavier Marquis performs with Gabrielle Samone and Corey Lawson on Saturday at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis. Marquis said this may be his last performance as a rapper before switching to indie-rock.

out in ninth grade.

Now, he has grown dissatisfied with hip-hop as the best means to express himself, lamenting that he wants more options.

That’s too bad. His talent as a rapper and producer is of such a high degree that his sets play like a radio station of popular hip-hop that you’ve somehow not heard.

That point is bolstered by the fact that Marquis was contacted for a private interview by the producers of The Voice, nailing it and getting an invite to Hollywood. He turned it down.

“I didn’t know if that was the direction I wanted to go,” Marquis said.

Mentioning groups like Arcade Fire, Radiohead and

Mumford and Sons on his current playlists, his newly formed band, The Archer Noble, will go in a completely different direction. With the aid of friends and relatives, Marquis is about to embark on a genre-defying venture of uncertain results.

“It’s not going to be what you expect from a band with black guys,” Marquis said.

Less than a month ago, Marquis was stunned to find out about the death of a childhood friend with whom he’d lost contact over the years.

“Life is way too short,” Marquis said. “I started wondering if I’m getting what I want out of music.”

He’s also about to embark on a second marriage, this time to an Australian woman

whom he met via Facebook and who will be joining him in the Twin Cities next year.

She’s giving him the year to focus on his new direction.

Given his production capabilities, the talent of his associates and his charm, Marquis, regardless of direction, will have something worthwhile to show for it — if he can master his guitar.

THEATER

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

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THURSDAY

ark Valdez leaned his arm against a bright yellow cushion in the auditorium of Mixed Blood, hand to his chin. After a nod to the stage manager, the room filled with the chorus of “Jenny from the Block.” It only took 15 seconds for the song to receive a shaking head from the director of the mordant satire “Elemeno Pea.” “I’m trying to figure out how to start the play,” he said.

Although the beats of JLo’s jam about cash weren’t on point for Valdez, her themes were. Money and how it morphs the world are subjects he’s been tr ying to get to the core of for two weeks.

“Our challenge is to make sure that we don’t hit people over the head with any of these ideas,” he said. “We’re not going to make it more than what it is.”

“Elemeno Pea” takes place in the heart of Mar-

tha’s V ineyar d, Mass., abound with yuppies and yachts named after the characters who own them. The piece brings forth a conflict between two sisters, Devon and Simone, the latter of which has been working as a personal assistant for the trophy wife of a fabulously wealthy New York ad man.

When Simone invites her sister from working-class Buffalo to come stay with them for a bonding weekend, cultures clash and relationships simmer as social judgments are revealed, along with some troubling family secrets.

Molly Smith Metzler’s sarcastic comedy draws actors in and encourages them to dive deep into its characters. According to Ron Menzel, the actor who plays Ethan, a self-absorbed denizen of the vineyard, “Elemeno Pea” takes personas that could easily fall into stereotype and makes them human.

“I get paid to take things personally,” he said. “We want to honor who these characters are without com-

PAST THE APOCALYPSE Whether you were a diehard believer in the apocalypse predictions for Dec. 21, 2012, or you wrote it off as more eschatological garbage, there’s no denying that humans have an obsession with the destruction of the world as we know it. This is the theme of Altered Esthetics’ exhibition of the end times, featuring more than 15 artists working in a wide variety of mediums. Today’s your last chance, though — this apocalyptic art show ends its approximately monthlong run at 7 p.m.

u Where: Altered Esthetics,1224 Quincy St. NE, Minneapolis u When: 1–7 p.m. u Cost: Free

menting on them too much.”

But fellow ensemble member Grace Gealey, the performer behind “quintessential trophy wife” Michaela, insists there is a happy balance between caricature and character.

“I watched a lot of “Revenge,” she said, referencing the ABC soap opera.

“You know, the hands and the claws and the hair — she’s throwing things! But she’s the exact opposite of ‘What you see is what you get.’ ” In a phrase, that’s the essence of “Elemeno Pea.” Valdez has made it his goal to bring out what’s beneath the veneer of these people to depict the larger themes of the play: class, power and the staggering effects of perception.

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY Sun Mee Chomet, left, and Grace Gealey rehearse a scene from “Elemeno Pea” on Sunday at Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis.

“[Ethan’s] easy to laugh at because he wears pink pants. But the pink pants are not a costume — that’s actually how he dresses. And it’s not just him. There’s a whole community of people, and these are just clothes,” he said.

Although the pants aren’t the point, seeing whether the audience interprets them to be is pertinent to Mixed Blood, considering the theater has a Tweet Seat event built into this production. The fad, which allows

EELS The acclaimed singer-songwriter is back on tour to promote the release of his new album “Wonder ful, Glorious.” His emotionally complex lyrics, of fbeat persona and multifaceted backing band are sure to produce a wor thwhile experience this Friday. Known for his idiosyncratic live per formances, Mark Oliver Everett’s project will keep you guessing.

u Where: First Avenue, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis u When: 9 p.m. u Cost: $27.50 u Age: 18+

viewers to sit in designated sections and live-tweet performances, has swept the theater world.

“It’s about allowing somebody to engage in a way they want to engage. I was in China, probably like five years ago now, and literally, the glow from the house was as bright as the stage,” Valdez said.

While this trend could be considered a distraction from the intimacy of theater, Valdez asserts that it’s all about the discourse. The themes of

SATURDAY

MARK VALDEZ RETURNS TO MIXED BLOOD TO DIRECT “ELEMENO PEA,” A LIGHTNING-FAST DRAMEDY THAT TACKLES CLASS WARFARE, MARTHA’S VINEYARD AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE TWO BUMP ELBOWS.

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race and interclass relations in “Elemeno Pea” could be better understood with the help of tweets and discussion points from Mixed Blood’s vocal audience.

“This is an audience that has been coming here for 35-plus years and has been engaging in conversations about race and class,” Valdez said.

“They can get into the nuances of it in wonderful ways, in ways that may be more challenging in other theaters.”

“AFTER THE APPLE” The Playwrights’ Center is bringing forth yet another collection of new plays to the table, this time focusing on nine local female artists. Each of these short works is performed in its entirety every night of the run, making for an experience that will bring its audiences to countless states of engagement. The collection is billed as a grab bag of theater that plays across heartwarming morality tales, ridiculously funny satires and provocative experimental pieces, promising that this evening of stories has something for everyone.

u Where: The Playwrights’ Center, 2301 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis u When: 7:30 p.m. u Cost: $16, $14 for students

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BY STNNNG Local art punk mad scientists STNNNG are releasing their new album, “Empire Inward,” on Saturday, and this is its single. Layering distorted guitar that fires like a Gatling gun on top of a pulsating drum line that wouldn’t sound out of place at a tweeked-out gathering for mephedrone-popping percussion fiends, “Brain-Dumb” is a great introduction to the eccentric catalogue of the band. Be wary, though — STNNNG isn’t afraid to shake your eardrums with authoritative force.

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If you haven’t heard about the astronomical insanity that took science news by storm last Friday, here’s your chance to see the incident from multiple vantage points. This YouTube video presents a number of bystander clips and has understandably become viral over the past few days. Not only is the footage awe-inspiring and somewhat terrifying, a compilation of footage like this also reveals a number of things about the cultural significance of catastrophes; what it is about disasters that brings people together is ineffable in its own right, and 28 million views later, it’s crystal clear that something powerful happened there.

“HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU CAST LINDSAY LOHAN IN YOUR MOVIE” THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, JAN. 10, 2013 Everyone’s talking about “The Canyons,” and we’re all waiting for it to finally come out. It could see a theatrical release this summer, but there aren’t any concrete announcements just yet.

Even if it doesn’t ever see the silver screen, reading about the arduous process of making the erotic thriller is definitely more fun than anticipating it. This first-person account of the unsettling relationship between Paul Schrader, Lindsay Lohan and the unfortunate cast and crew of “The Canyons” provides some humorous and slightly disturbing insight on the film. Besides, what better way is there to spend your time than updating your James Deen knowledge?

FASHION

Designer highlights: four to look for MSP FASHION WEEK CLOSES WITH THE SIGNATURE TWONIGHT EVENT THE SHOWS FEATURING TEN DESIGNERS. HERE ARE FOUR OF THEIR MINDS TO PEEK AT.

BY SHANNON RYAN sryan@mndaily.com

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ashion will come to life this evening and the next in the most anticipated event of the week: the runway shows.

Featuring the most promising design talent of Twin Cities fashion, this year’s showcase comes at the tail end of MSP Fashion Week and will present attendees with the Fall/Winter 2013 collections of 10 designers.

We spoke with four of the event’s top talents about their design styles and their readyto-be-unveiled collections.

Two individuals from Thursday’s show, Gina Marie Landes, adored by the vintage darlings, and Max Lohrbach, an eccentric provocateur’s design delight, are ones to note during the evening. For Friday’s show, head back to the ’90s for an acid trip into club-kid digs with Samantha Rei’s collection, and peep the bubblegum and candy corn fusions from Project Runway sweetheart Christopher Straub.

GINA MARIE LANDES Can you describe your design style?

It’s vintage-inspired, and by that I mean I’ve always loved how vintage pieces can stay in your closet for years and [you can] take them out each time and recreate them with current trends and different kinds of styling: with shoes, purses or accessories.

I want to create pieces that aren’t overly trendy and can stick with you and can be worn differently.

Tell me about the inspiration for this fall 2013 collection.

For this collection I wanted to really design pieces that could travel easily and be mixed and matched for different looks with older pieces. This collection definitely has a

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY Designer Max Lohrbach cuts material for one of his pieces Monday in Minneapolis. Lohrbach will be showing his work in the first night of The Shows at Aria.

more fitted and feminine feeling unlike my previous season, which was more bohemian and had more flow.

MAX LOHRBACH Can you describe your design style?

Generally it changes. I guess my aim is to make really unique, provocative, funny and luxur y items.

Often it’s the clothes as an object in itself versus a rack full of gray pants.

Tell me about the inspiration for this fall 2013 collection.

There are a lot of things that I would say were inspiration for it. It’s really not only a runway collection but also a collection of objects.

[The pieces] stand on their own. Aesthetically they fit together, but logically they wouldn’t really. I’m going for the slutty, ’40s, lux aesthet-

ics this time, and I’m doing men’s clothes.

It’s styled as if you’re going to the outhouse — you would just throw on a coat over your underpants, so it’s ver y paired-down. It’s a variation of under wear, shor ts, mittens and hats, mittens and party dresses and so on. That’s how I avoided making too many pairs of gray pants.

SAMANTHA REI Can you describe your design style?

Up until ver y recently I was mostly a Lolita designer, so I did a lot of feminine dresses, sweet and modest types of things, and I’ve been branching out away from that.

Tell me about the inspiration for this fall 2013 collection.

I was really inspired

by ’90s club kids. When I was 13 [or] 14 I used to watch all the daytime talk shows during the summer, and they’d have kids on all the time, and I was like, “They’re so awesome.”

I’ve always really liked that aesthetic. And in the last couple of seasons I’ve star ted doing prints with guest ar tists. The ar tist that did my print this season is a minka ar tist, and she mostly does love stories, but in the last, maybe, five years she has been doing horror comics, and I was like, “Whoa, we could get beautiful and monsters, she’d be per fect for this!” So [the collection] is a mishmash of monsters and club kids and candy and sweetness and scariness and all that kind of crazy outlandish stuff.

It’s all kind of like badass rocker girl waiting for the bus to a par ty. There are a lot of acid plaids and stripes and polka dots and

weird prints.

CHRISTOPHER STRAUB Can you describe your design style?

I love using whimsy in my design aesthetic. I love to use elements that people wouldn’t look at as design inspiration. In the past it’s been things like honeycombs or abalone shells and things like that from nature.

Tell me about the inspiration for this fall 2013 collection.

This time I’m actually taking my inspiration from items found in a candy store and transforming images of those candies into prints that are showcased on the dresses. I took images of red gummy bears and pink rock candy and tur ned them into prints, and then I paired them with texture. I

always have to have texture in every collection, like this collection has some fringe — from hints of fringe to entire fringe outfits.

I’m working with a very nar row color palette on this collection — pink, red and white, so it’s very easy to look at. It’s so romantic looking and very soothing.

In terms of silhouette, a lot of the dresses are ver y bodycon style, really defining a woman’s silhouette.

There are also some exaggerated styles, but mostly this is a feminine, romantic collection.

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MUSIC

Wouldn’t it be ice?

TERJE ISUNGSET BRINGS THE HEAT TO THE COLDEST MUSICAL GENRE KNOWN TO MAN — ICE MUSIC.

BY LUCY NIEBOER lnieboer@mndaily.com

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usicians often look to the natural elements for inspiration; the shining sun and pouring rain provoke sweet ballads and catchy melodies. Earth, Wind and Fire even chose to name their group in honor of nature’s great forces. The inspirational powers of the elements are infinite indeed, but it seems outlandish and impossible to tr y to incorporate these physical elements into musical performances.

Terje Isungset took on the impossible 13 years ago with the creation of a dr um made out of pure, frozen water. The ethereal, gong-like tones of the ice percussion were a hit, and

Isungset has been attempting to tune ice to his fancy ever since.

He admits working with such a volatile medium is not without its challenges.

“The actual temperature, the way the ice freezes [or] how the winter is will change the sound,” he said.

Known for his experimental percussion and composing in and around Norway, Isungset was commissioned in 1999 to create a piece that would be performed inside a frozen waterfall for the Lillehammer Winter Festival. Through trial and error, Isungset created the world’s first-ever ice instrument.

After the success of that first concer t, Isungset began to per form all over Scandinavia, expanding his definition of ice instr uments along the way.

Although trained as a percussionist since the age of 8, Isungset soon added ice hor ns and string ice instruments to many of his

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shows.

As ice music gained popularity, the ice master began to travel farther and farther away from his frozen homeland. He explained that in warmer climates and indoor venues, beating the odds of melting ice can prove difficult.

“There’s nothing I can do with it except be aware of not playing too long [of] concerts,” he said.

Most musicians travel with r oadies. Isungset travels with his own personal ice car ver. This car ver molds huge blocks of ice into musical instru-

Isungset blows an ice horn.

ments — usually the day before the scheduled show.

“It’s ver y dif ficult for me as a musician to actually practice those instruments — they are always new,” he said.

Although songs can be planned to an extent,

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much of the show is improvised due to the constant fluctuation of the ice instruments’ tuning.

Challenges of ice music aside, Isungset loves what he does. He even follows the cold to keep performing. He spent last summer in Australia. He believes his

music — like the elements from which his instruments are created — is universal.

“I’m able to per for m music on the most important resource in the world — water,” he said. “We only borrow these instruments from nature and give them back after use.”

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COMEDY

Tommy boy JUST BECAUSE TOM SEGURA IS LAID BACK AND CONVERSATIONAL DOESN’T MEAN THAT HE WON’T GET RILED UP OVER HIS PERCEPTION OF THE WORLD.

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om Segura looks like a comedian — he’s disheveled, slightly over weight and not the most attractive.

“I’m a sad, sad soul, OK?” Segura said. “I’m sitting here now ready to make the cleaning lady laugh.”

The traveling comic has found a home in Los Angeles, residing there for the past 11 years. While taking improv classes with the Groundlings, Segura was convinced to do standup by fellow classmates already bitten by the bug.

“My initial goal was pretty sensible: I’ll move to L.A., do the Groundlings and then be in movies and acting,” Segura said. “You know, I’ll be a movie star or on SNL within a year.”

Needless to say, that didn’t happen, but success has not been elusive. He has appeared on Conan, recorded his own halfhour special for Comedy Central, released two albums and per formed at festivals in Melbour ne, Las Vegas and Vancouver.

His favorite project is his weekly Wednesday podcast, “Your Mom’s House.”

What can be a dif ficult comedic terrain for some in the City of Angels was not for Segura.

“People tell me L.A. is a tough place to do standup, but that’s for people who plan to do standup,” Segura said.

Originally born in Cincinnati, Segura spent his early life moving around and clowning it up to avoid bullying. His travels even included a stint in Minneapolis. In fact, his first comedy album, “Thrilled,” was r ecor ded at Acme Comedy Company. Quite a rookie ef for t, the album is worth a look just for the cover parody of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” His most recent album is titled “White Girls with Cor nrows.”

He has the aesthetic of Ar tie Lange mixed with Rodney Dangerfield, though he’s in better health than the both of them and much more tuned down.

“I tell a stor y about going to the doctor who accused me of doing cocaine,” Segura said. “He said I had really high muscle enzymes, which means either I’m an Olympic athlete, which I’m clearly not, or I do cocaine.”

In some ways it’s the

usual fodder for comedians, but Segura’s strength comes from his conversational nature and his ability to gauge the crowds’ reaction and react with the appropriate amount of disbelief. It’s a truth-isstranger-than-fiction approach to comedy.

He seems content with his current trajector y, saying that in five years his goal is to simply be closer to the beach. That, and to continue maintaining his freshness. He quickly realized that his miser y on tour was related to not being excited about his material.

“I saw a guy doing the same jokes he was doing eight years ago,” Segura said. “I’m amazed he doesn’t lose his mind.”

His set at Acme will include 30 to 40 minutes of new material peppered with some of his tried-andtrue bits.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF TOM SEGURA Tom Segura insists that everything is on the table when it comes to his sets.

MUSIC

Lost in space with Astronautalis THE LOCAL RAPPER LAYS DOWN SOUTHERN STORYTELLING OVER A BEAT.

BY PATRICK MALONEY pmaloney@mndaily.com

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stronautalis’ music lacks braggadocio and punch lines, so it might seem odd that this artist got his start doing rap battles.

Kicking off in his early teens, Astronautalis worked his way across the country before calling it quits.

“Battling has a pretty shallow creative glass ceiling,” Astronautalis said.

“There are only so many times you can sign up to have some dudes call you gay over and over again.”

Astronautalis used to hone his freestyling skills by having his friends give him unconventional topics to rap about. When he quit battling for songwriting, he evolved that practice technique into part of his nightly performances.

“I take topics from the audience to freestyle about.

I ask that they’re things that people don’t usually rap about,” Astronautalis said.

“I take these disparate elements and tr y to make a story out of them.”

Astronautalis asks for

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around five subjects that no one has ever rapped about before — adding that “there are already so many awesome songs about cars and guns and butts and the stanky leg” — and then composes an impromptu nar rative involving the topics over Top-40 rap beats.

The crowds get pretty into this exercise, urging Astronautalis to spitball about topics like Nicolas Cage, quantum physics and necromancy.

“There’s always something about zombies,” he said.

Astronautalis traces this freestyling back to his roots in Jacksonville, Fla. “It’s like old souther n dr unkard stor ytelling throughout the whole thing,” he said. “That’s a gigantic part of my culture.”

Astronautalis’ songwrit-

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY FILE PHOTO Astronautalis performed at Soundest 2012 on May 27, 2012, in Shakopee, Minn.

ing also draws on storytelling. Over piano- and guitardriven beats, he weaves stories about the Revolutionary War, making out behind vending machines and cryogenic freezing.

Like battling, he says,

rapping about science and histor y can be one-dimensional.

“When you get into that nerd-core and joke rap, it’s basically just like a book report,” he said.

Astronautalis tries to

look a little bit deeper. His writing process is the antithesis of freestyle — long and slow, filled with years of research. However, he strives to make his work to come off more like a song than a TED Talk by incor-

porating intricate rhyme schemes and sing-a-long choruses.

“When you read these stories, there’s a lot of amazing drama there.

That’s the heart of a lot of good art. It’s all there.”

“There’s a bit of ever ything,” said Kari Kelly, a member of Theatre Unbound since 2010.

Music by local female musicians Lingua Luna, Missing Peace and Courtney McLean of the Dir ty Curls will complement the plays.

“People who suppor t women’s theater and people who suppor t women’s music sometimes don’t know about each other,” Poirier said. “It’s a great blending of the audiences.

“Within,” the third play in the five-play festival, doesn’t have any words in it. Using only their movements, the performers tell a story of a traveler and her internal struggles.

“It’s about the dangers of getting too comfor table,” said Anne Bertram, director.

Kelly is a cast member in “Within,” and it is indeed a step out of her comfor t

zone. She plays one of the two characters that comprise an entity refer red to by the cast as “the life force.”

“This one is a little different,” she said. “We’re taking a chance.”

Theatre Unbound is used to taking chances.

Last season, they put on Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar with an all-female cast.

“You have to be uncomfortable in order to grow,” Bertram said.

THEATER

Short Notice THEATRE UNBOUND ISN’T LETTING THE TWIN CITIES STAY WITHIN ITS COMFORT ZONE.

BY PATRICK MALONEY pmaloney@mndaily.com

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ven in the seemingly progressive world of the ar ts, the gender gap is anything but closed.

“We don’t see a lot of female playwrights being produced in the Twin Cities,” said theater producer Stacy Poirier.

The percent of plays put on nationally that have either female writers or directors is around 17 percent, according to Salon.

Enter Theatre Unbound.

Established in 1999 and running off its volunteers, Unbound only produces plays that are both written and directed by women.

“It shortens up the gender gap,” Poirier said. “By us doing our three or four shows a year that are created by women, it does make a dent.”

Now in its 13th season, Theatre Unbound is tr ying something new: Girl Shorts.

“Over the years, we’ve come across a lot of oneact plays, and they don’t get production very often,” Poirier said. “We thought a great way to show these works was to do a festival.”

Girl Shor ts is bringing the members of Theatre Unbound together in more than one way. Unlike most shows put on by the company, the volunteers got a first crack at positions.

The festival lets the volunteers flex their creative muscles over a range of genres: Girl Shor ts includes comedy, myster y, tragedy and a few surprises.

WHAT GIRL SHORTS: “MEDEA,” “THE JUDGE’S WIFE,” “LOST,” “THE OBLIGATORY SCENE” AND “WITHIN.” WHEN FEB. 23-MARCH 3 WHERE:LOWRY LAB THEATER, 350 ST. PETER ST., ST. PAUL COST $12-$42 AGE ALL

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FOOD

College Kitchen: orange you glad?

SQUEEZE WITH EASE.

BY LUCY NIEBOER lnieboer@mndaily.com

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unxsutawney Phil didn’t see his shadow, but we Minneapolitans have yet to see a sprouting tree bud or feel a hint of a warm southerly wind. A long stretch of gray winter days spans ahead of us with no end in sight.

Going to the grocer y store at this time can be depressing. The fresh herbs in Lunds, probably shipped in from somewhere south of the equator, are drooping, and the produce in the House of Hanson is barely identifiable.

Among the soggy, bland and generally gross fruits and vegetables glistens a bright beacon of vitality. The shiny, aromatic peels of the citrus fruits stand apart from the rest.

The College Kitchenista has developed three recipes to keep some pep in your slipping-on-ice, salt-stained step.

TANGERINE GLAZED SALMON Tangerines are oranges’ sweeter, more developed relatives. Their extra sugar and slightly more exotic flavor profile intrigue the palate and add a touch of sophistication when used in sauces and glazes. Paired with steamed vegetables, this dish makes a terribly tasty, guilt-free dinner.

1 tablespoon soy sauce 2 cloves garlic 1/2 cup fresh tangerine juice 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon tangerine zest 2 tablespoons orange marmalade Pepper 2 fillets of salmon (4 ounces each) Tangerine slices Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. In a bowl, mix soy sauce, minced garlic, juice, sugar and zest. Add pepper to taste. Coat each fillet with a generous amount of glaze.

Wrap the pieces in foil. Bake for 20-25 minutes.

LEMON GARLIC PASTA Whoever said, “ ’ Tis the gift to be simple,” must’ve been a wonderful cook. This dish is the easiest thing to whip up in a pinch and appeals to almost any appetite.

With the right garnishes, it looks like it was lifted from the pages of “Cook’s Illustrated.” In reality, it takes no longer than a box of macaroni and cheese.

1 serving whole wheat spaghetti 1 tablespoon butter 2 large cloves garlic 1 handful spinach 1/2 lemon 4-5 sprigs parsley Shredded par mesan cheese Salt To por tion the right amount of pasta for one person, make a loop with your thumb and forefinger. Make that loop about as big around as a quarter. Grab as much pasta as will fit inside that loop. Bring a pot of salted water to a rolling boil. Finely chop garlic. When the water boils, add garlic and pasta to the water. This will give a great garlicky flavor to your dish but mellow out the harsh bite of raw garlic. Add the spinach to the boiling water.

When it shrivels and floats to the top, lift it out with a fork and set aside in a bowl. When it’s tender, drain the pasta. In the bowl with the spinach, add a large pinch of parmesan cheese, butter and the juice of the lemon. Toss. Once plated, sprinkle with the chopped parsley.

SHRIMP CEVICHE

A ceviche is a colorful, acidic seafood dish that is enjoyed in the summertime months, usually in places that promise coastal breezes and high tides.

Being the hearty Midwesterners we are, we silence the ever-present calls of the tropical shores and settle instead for the frigid cold.

Just because we refuse to leave this barren tundra

Lemon Garlic Pasta, topped with a lemon garnish.

doesn’t mean our meals must suffer. Imagine taking a bite of this cool pink shrimp dish sprawled out on a chaise under a cabana while “Girl from Ipanema” plays softly in the background.

1 avocado 3 limes 1 pound cooked frozen shrimp 1 Roma tomato 1 Serrano pepper 1 handful cilantro 1/2 small red onion 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon pepper Overnight, defrost shrimp in the refrigerator; using fresh shrimp is OK, too. Rinse shrimp, devein and peel. Cut into bite-sized pieces and place in large bowl. Squeeze the lime juice over the shrimp, coating completely.

Add salt and pepper. Let this mixture marinate in the refrigerator for about two hours.

Carefully remove seeds from the pepper. Finely dice. Dice tomato, onion and avocados.

Mince the cilantro. Thoroughly mix all ingredients together. Serve with thick corn tortilla chips. Adapted from “Muy Bueno Cookbook” ’ s Shrimp Ceviche.

Moder n day grocer y stores have tricked us into thinking that everything is always in season. Unfortunately for those of us inhabiting cold weather climates, seasonality still plays a huge part in the flavor and freshness of meals. Luckily, as long as those trees south of the Mason-Dixon keep pumping out the produce, we won’t want for fresh fruits all winter long.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

MUSIC

Wandering star RYAN MCPHUN OF THE RUBY SUNS REINVENTS HIMSELF IN OSLO, NORWAY, FOR HIS LATEST POP-ORIENTED RELEASE, “CHRISTOPHER.”

BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

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yan McPhun’s frequent flyer miles are adding up; the musician’s wanderlust never seems to die. He tours around the world with his band the Ruby Suns, visits his father in New Zealand and returns home to Oslo, Norway, regularly.

“Traveling around is the only way for me to get a new perspective,” he said, a testament to the Ruby Suns’ worldly blend of genres and traditions.

The musical wayfarer once carried a Dictaphone around with him in his travels, capturing found sounds to use among recordings on 2008’s “Sea Lion.” Now he’s committed to a frozen pop sheen. The lo-fi sunny homage to both Maori and Kenyan musical traditions feels worlds way from McPhun’s latest project, “Christopher.”

“I was just trying to do something dif ferent — I needed to change,” he said.

A change in temperament unravels on the cold concept album. He’s ditched the beach in favor of the dance floor, replacing the ukuleles and marimbas with glossy synthesizers. After staying in Oslo for the winter in 2010, McPhun worked with digital melodies exclusively, marking “Christopher” with a claustrophobic underpinning.

Where spontaneity drives “Sea Lion” and hints of the Ruby Suns’ follow-up, “Fight Softly,” “Christopher” feels almost clinical. Since breaking

PHOTO COURTESY OF FRODE & MARCUS Ryan McPhun mixed “Christopher” with producer Chris Coady, who’s worked with indie contemporaries Beach House and Grizzly Bear.

it off with his longtime girlfriend and band mate, McPhun plainly bares his soul among forced electronic choruses, often to mixed results.

“I’ve never been this direct before,” he said. “It was kind of painful to hear back in some ways. It was a little bit cathartic — it was good to get my frustrations out I think.”

Exposing his personal anguish in “Christopher,” the album marks a bitter comingof-age story. McPhun’s new

material represents an artist in transition after leaving New Zealand and finding a new home in Scandinavia. None of the universal folk melodies imbue “Christopher” with anything close to a pop oasis McPhun envisions.

The opening track of “Christopher” recalls his chance encounter with Swedish pop star Robyn, whom McPhun dr unkenly met backstage at a music festival in Germany. He channels his

inebriated meeting with her in a strained metaphor as if passing by in awe.

“Flower among the leaves is what you are/cold glass of water in the desert of pop,” he sings in a falsetto on “Desert of Pop.” McPhun’s global collision of styles and tastes still makes the Ruby Suns an exciting modern hybrid; his eclectic listening habits reflect his varied travel. The band pumps Justin Timberlake alongside

Jamaica’s Busy Signal and Malawi’s The Ver y Best.

Nearly 10 years in, McPhun’s penchant for trekking across the globe still informs the band’s artistic modus operandi.

“Sometimes I’ll go an hour north of Auckland,” he said.

“I’ll take some speakers and instruments outside, and I try to work. That’s usually quite helpful — getting out of the city and getting away from my own studio.”

WHAT THE RUBY SUNS WITH PAINTED PALMS WHEN 9 P.M., FRIDAY WHERE 7TH ST. ENTRY, 701 N. FIRST AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST $10 ADVANCE, $12 DOOR AGE 18+

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PRICE: $220 per team of 9-15 players There will be prizes for the winning team, a silent auction, broomball championship games for you to watch in between games, which start at noon, and food and drink specials provided by Lord Fletchers. All proceeds benefit Project Plenty’s mission of bringing common-sense solutions to the fight against hunger.

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (2/21): Happy times at home highlight the first half of the year. Cinch a romantic deal, and get creative. Focus your intention and time-management skills. Career priorities shift.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — You’re testing the limits. Your friends and family help grow your ideas and create new business.

Nurture the necessary partnerships.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Integrity counts double now, especially at work.

Customer satisfaction pays dividends well into the future. Put in the extra effort.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — There’s still a lot of work to do, especially around finances, but with dedication and compassion you make great progress.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Go over your options again before choosing, but choose even if it seems difficult. There are excellent conditions for finding a great deal.

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

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Reaffirm your vision for the future, and get some well-deserved attention. Keep it grounded in reality, though, as fantasies can play tricks now.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — The tension is getting higher for better or worse. You can actually benefit greatly from the situation.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — You can complete a project that you’d been putting off.

Better fix something before it breaks. Avoid impetuous spending.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Review the assignment to avoid errors. Don’t be afraid to ask a special person to help. It’s a good excuse to hang out anyway.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Together, you can achieve amazing things, but you may have to be patient. Saving money is important, but your health comes first.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Listen to others attentively, as if their words could be measured in gold. Your sixth sense is working well. Work out any kinks in communication.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Make up a plan before you start. Include exercise in your routine; a little makes a difference over time. Keep producing excellence at work.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Don’t waste hours on communications that go nowhere. Minutes spent making extra copies of your data can save you time and money later.

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

2/21/13

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

All rights reserved.

To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Written By Linda C. Black

Thursday, February 21, 2013

overheard

crossword

FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 22, 2013

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

“The only good thing about being bald is that you know as soon as you walk outside that you forgot your hat.”

—Folwell Hall

“Wait, so girls have penises!?”

—Anderson Hall

Girl: “Professor, I’m in a seduction class, and I was wondering if you could point me towards some literature that could help me improve in that regard?”

Professor: “Um.”

—Nicholson Hall

“So let me get this straight ... You’re WORRIED about having stuff to post to Reddit? Dude ...”

—Nicholson Hall

“Think about your stomach like it’s a party. If you put too many ethnicities in at the same time, they’re going to start fighting.”

Person 1: “Can I hire you to be my church’s Santa next year?”

Bearded man: “Maybe.”

Person 2: “Can I hire you to be my professional beard?”

—Coffman Union

[Guy answers phone call before class starts] Guy 1: “Who was that? Your girlfriend?”

Guy 2: “No. It was yours.”

—Science Teaching and Student Services building

“You want to genetically splice a cat?

Do something more ... not that!”

—Comstock dining hall

“I’m not ready to have this kid regardless if it is yours or not.”

—Washington Avenue bridge

—Carlson School of Management

“The sandwich line is as long as Massachusetts!”

—Middlebrook Hall

Girl: “And that’s why you don’t date men.”

—Middlebrook Hall “I should talk to more creepy guys, then I’ll get more nice things.”

—Sanford Hall

What did you overhear?

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

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ACROSS 1 Foxx who played Ray 6 Place for shades 10 Hard-hitting sound 14 Look embarrassed, maybe 15 “Metamorphoses” poet 16 He helped get Cassio demoted 17 Carving tools 18 North African prison wear?

20 Bring down to earth 21 “Rats!”

22 Nancy Drew books pseudonym 23 Disinfectant brand 25 Scout leader 26 Went on a date, perhaps 28 Soft material 30 Affectedly reserved 31 Rugrat 32 Trifle 36 Rapper who founded Aftermath Entertainment 37 Lint depository?

40 Bustle 41 __-Indian War 43 It has some crust 44 Makes more elegant, with “up” 46 Pillages 48 Storied swinger 49 Spot for a belt 52 “The Fox and the Crow” writer 53 Fugitive’s invention 54 Helper 56 Begin to dive 59 Really short haircut?

61 “Today” anchor before Meredith 62 Nasty 63 Case for pins and needles 64 Chilling 65 Take away 66 Capital of Estonia 67 Grant player

2/22/13

By Ed Sessa

DOWN 1 Old ski lift 2 Bisset’s “The Mephisto Waltz” co-star 3 Dogcatchers?

4 Phrase in a tot’s game 5 Questioning utterances 6 Nearby 7 Viva by Fergie fragrance maker 8 Big name in artifacts 9 Adobe file format 10 Old and wrinkled 11 Made indistinct 12 Gemini docking target 13 Sat 19 Barely got (by) 21 Spoil 24 Turf mate 25 Banished, in a way 26 Counts (up) 27 Garr of “Mr. Mom” 28 Shoe store array 29 One crying foul 33 Ride a Russian statesman?

34 Notion

Thursday’s Puzzle Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

35 Cap’n’s mate 38 Skin cream target 39 Tijuana relatives 42 Mrs. __ cow 45 Insidious malware with a classically derived name 47 Thereabouts 49 __ Tigers: Sri Lankan separatists

2/22/13

50 Mrs. Kramden of Chauncey Street 51 NyQuil manufacturer 52 WWII Italian beachhead 54 Rwanda native 55 Bleu shade 57 Chuck E. Cheese et al.

58 Review target 60 Opie’s great-aunt 61 Camping org.

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

dr. date Dr. Date,

I have a question about cleanup after making the transition from condoms to the pill. What do other people do after they finish their sessions?

Depending on our mood, we either relegate half our mattress to isolation or try to shuffle over to the nearest box of tissues. The system works fine other than some minor kinks when we’re somewhere other than the bed with no tissues around, but I wonder if there’s a better way. So what do most people do? Rock-paper-scissors for who sleeps on the wet spot?

—Cumkins

Come Again,

I don’t want to be your high school health teacher here, but before I get into post-sex cleanup 101, let me just point out that being on the pill doesn’t mean you should stop using a condom. I’m not suggesting your S.O. has herpes, but things happen. Namely, babies (yes, even with the pill).

Still, I’ve known couples who’ve used just the pill and remained quite happy, childless and STI free. Obviously, it’s completely up to the two of you.

You could always change your sheets after or at least put down a towel. If you’re far from bed, try to remember to bring the tissues with you. Until now, you had to remember to bring the condom, right?

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m starting to lose faith in finding romance. I’m a 21-year-old woman and have never been on a date let alone been kissed. I am always the girl who’s a friend and never the girlfriend, as my dozen guy friends can attest to. I have

tried asking guys out but I am always rejected, and no one has ever asked me out. It’s making me depressed. I don’t know if it’s because I’m too “boyish” because I love video games, D&D and would rather watch a horror movie over a chick flick any day, but I’m starting to feel like something is wrong with me. Do you have any advice to how I can find the player 2 to my player 1 and stop getting shot down?

—Tired Of Solo Mode

Never Been Kissed,

I know a lot of girls (and guys) who are in the same boat as you, and it’s tough.

First of all, nothing is wrong with you. Julia Child was a virgin until she was 40 and then married the best guy ever and they had great sex all the time, according to Nora Ephron, anyway.

I’m not saying you’re going to be a virgin until you’re 40. Don’t worry about that. In fact, what you need to do right now — even though it’s hard — is not worry about any of this. The more you fixate on finding a guy, the less likely you are to notice when he does arrive. Plus, guys can smell desperation a mile away.

For now, focus on having fun with your friends — and maybe try to make a few new ones, if the guys are holding you back. Maybe join a D&D fan club.

There are many guys on East Bank alone who would kill for a girl who’s into video games and horror movies.

As with many things in life, the first time is the hardest. Once you’ve dated someone, even if it’s just for a little bit, you’ll find it’s a lot easier than you thought.

—Dr. Date

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

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Dorm layouts create gender gaps EXAMPLE FLOOR PLANS FOR UNIVERSITY HOUSING WOMEN’S BEDROOMS

MEN’S BEDROOMS

BAILEY HALL

SANFORD HALL

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Freshman Kevin Wollner jokes with Hannah Wiesolek during a late night hangout Tuesday in Bailey Hall. Wollner said it was less common for men and women to wander in the other gender’s hallways at the beginning of the fall semester.

SOURCE: HOUSING AND RESIDENTIAL LIFE

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associate department director for HRL. “We try to integrate [genders] when we can,” Clark said, though the bathroom availability in different halls can make this a challenge.

“It just really depends on the type of housing that you have to work with,” he said.

Clark said studies have shown students living in close proximity to the opposite gender acclimate to college better than students living in same-gender housing.

Though University apart-

ments like Roy Wilkins Hall and Yudof Hall don’t allow more than one gender in each unit, Clark said students have expressed interest in having this policy changed.

Housing and Residential Life may look into lifting this restriction in the future, Clark said.

Since Housing and Residential Life relies on student finance, he said students play a big role in determining what changes it will make.

“You’ve got to change how the students change, because what you don’t want is open beds,” he said. “If the

students are telling us, ‘Hey we want to do something different,’ we try at least to be there when it’s within reason with what we could do.”

Living in close proximity to the other gender can be an important part of the college experience, said gender, women and sexuality studies professor Jigna Desai.

“This is an opportunity to live next door to someone that you might not have gotten a chance to live next door to,” Desai said.

Living with people from the same gender can have both positive and negative results, she said.

“Sometimes homo-social kinds of environments can be really supportive,” she said, “and sometimes they can be ways in which privilege and even misogyny can get fostered.”

Desai mentioned fraternities as a potentially healthy and supportive environment for men that could also possibly expose them to competition and gender stereotypes.

She said this could just as easily apply to women living together, too.

“Sometimes women are meanest to each other,” Desai said.

Computer science and art freshman Nicole Zhang spent most of last semester living in expanded housing with six other girls in Centennial Hall.

The girls Zhang lived with served as her main group of friends at the beginning of the year, she said, and she hung out with far more girls than guys.

She said residence hall students’ social lives have a lot to do with where they end up.

“I think it does have to do with how it’s laid out,” she said. “[It’s] easier getting along with your immediate neighbors — all the girls in my case.”

Though she said she got along with her roommates at the beginning of the semester, living with so many girls proved to be difficult as time went on.

“It’s six girls, six different schedules, six girls with PMS,” she said. “I personally got a little tired of it because we never got any privacy at all.”

In the renovated part of Sanford Hall, biology sophomore Vladimir Petrenko lives in a co-ed wing. His group of friends has almost an equal number of girls and guys, he said.

Living in a co-ed wing, Petrenko said, makes for more gender interaction than on gender-separated floors of Sanford.

“We get a huge compilation of people just walking by,” he said. “It’s ver y sociable, at least where I live.”

Petrenko said though it’s impor tant for women and men to interact in the dorms, it can hinder students’ studying.

“After all,” he said, “you are going to school for education, and having too many distractions can cause a decrease in focus.”

Freshman Eva Thomas, who lives near Petrenko in Sanford, said she really likes living on the co-ed floor.

“It makes a more balanced environment,” Thomas said. “Usually, you first tr y to make good girl friends, but then if you have the guys there then you make really good guy friends, too, at the same time.”