February 25, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

U professors close TCF bank accounts

Following a letter of protest, some profs removed their accounts.

SPORTS

EDITORIALS & OPINIONS

Gophers complete first undefeated regular season in NCAA history

Cupid called

He’s wondering where fair and balanced sex went.

Minnesota shut out St. Cloud State twice to finish the regular season 34-0-0.

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ACADEMICS

U to join MOOCs wave The University will offer five MOOCs in various science fields.

The University last week was one of 29 schools to announce it will partner with California-based Coursera to produce classes available for free on the Internet.

Administrators began considering working with Coursera in the fall and asked professors who already had extensive online content if they’d be interested in conducting MOOCs. The University will offer

BY KELSEY SHIRRIFF kshirriff@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota will create and offer free massive open online courses for students and the general public this year.

five science courses in May, which students can already sign up for.

Senior Vice President for Academic Af fairs and Provost Karen Hanson said there’s no substantial financial impact on the University as a result of the MOOCs right now.

“We don’t expect any big monetar y effect in the short run,” she said. “The production of the MOOCs

has been proceeding essentially by volunteer work.”

Although the classes are free, Coursera generates revenue through small fees for course certificates, records and career services that connect employers with students. The University will share any revenue u See MOOCS Page 14 Coursera reaches more than 2.7 million students.

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BUDGET

Breaking down college budgets

BY REBECCA HARRINGTON rharrington@mndaily.com

In the last two decades, the share of the University of Minnesota’s budget that comes from the state has dropped by more than half.

Tuition in that time has increased by more than six times for undergraduate state

residents.

University data from the end of fiscal year 2012 on June 30 shows that tuition accounts for an average of 44 percent of a college’s operating budget.

Chief Financial Officer Richard Pfutzenreuter said u See BUDGETS Page 14 President Kaler has proposed a two-year tuition freeze.

ATHLETICS

Gophers dominate for tournament titles

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Minnesota swimmer Haley Spencer celebrates after winning the 100-yard breaststroke at the Big Ten championships Friday at the University Aquatic Center.

Minnesota’s Logan Storley (174) takes down Virginia Tech’s Austin Gabel on Friday at Williams Arena.

Women’s swim and dive won its second consecutive Big Ten championship.

Wrestlers avenged midseason losses for the second year in a row at the National Duals.

BY NATE GOTLIEB

est team score at a Big Ten

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championship since 1996.

They won nearly half the events over the four-day cham-

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

The Gophers made a state-

mers and divers broke at least

ment to the college wrestling

This squad has preached

one personal record.

world this weekend at Wil-

that it wants to peak at the

liams Arena as they repeated

end of the season, and with

as National Duals champions.

the win, it appears to be on

It all led to a second consec-

finishes. They broke 10 school

utive Big Ten championship

records and earned the high-

for Minnesota.

No. 4 Minnesota avenged

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Bill would expand liquor sales at arenas

A state legislator introduced a bill Thursday that would allow alcohol sales at Mariucci and Williams Arenas.

Rep. Dan Schoen, DFLSt. Paul Park, wants to allow alcohol to be sold to the general public at University of Minnesota sporting events in the arenas.

Currently alcohol is only served in premium seats.

win its second straight title.

track. The Gophers (16-2) will

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DIVERSITY

LEGISLATURE

BY KEVIN BURBACH kburbach@mndaily.com

and No. 1 Oklahoma State to

Twenty-five Gophers swim-

pionships and earned 45 top-10

Now, alcohol is only allowed in premium seats at Williams and Mariucci.

midseason losses to No. 2 Iowa

The Legislature passed a bill last year allowing alcohol in TCF Bank Stadium and the University Board of Regents approved the measure in July.

Again, the regents must approve alcohol sales before the bill could take effect.

The University brought in more than $900,000 in sales from alcohol at TCF last season, according to school officials.

The bill was referred to the House Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy Committee with 13 co-authors signing on. A hearing for the bill is not scheduled yet.

Black History Month not forgotten BSU has worked to educate the U on black history this month.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

For University of Minnesota alumnus Robert Bailey, Black Histor y Month isn’t just about dates in a textbook.

Bailey, who said he grew up down the street from Mar tin Luther King Jr. in Montgomer y, Ala., and is related to Rosa Parks, was on the University’s campus during the Civil Rights Movement.

“A lot of the young folks may not know what has

happened here to get certain programs, and they need to know the price that was paid,” Bailey said.

Black Histor y Month is celebrated throughout Februar y, but some, like Bailey, said the past actions and achievements of black Americans still go unnoticed.

On Friday night, the Black Student Union and the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity held a “Dinner with Legends” to honor those who were part of the Morrill Hall takeover.

On Jan. 14, 1969, about 70 students sat in Morrill Hall for 24 hours in an effort to have their demands for equality heard by the University.

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Associate professor Keith Mayes poses a question to the panel and audience during an open discussion of the movie “Beasts of the Southern Wild” on Wednesday in Coffman Union.

Bailey attended the University during the protest but said he didn’t

u See HISTORY Page 4 Nearly three-quarters of Twin Cities undergrads are white.

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Hiram Rhoades Revels, a Republican from Natchez, Miss., is sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first African-American ever to sit in Congress.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Hazratullah Khan, who lost his right leg below the knee in a car bombing, answers immediately when asked whether the Pakistani government should hold peace talks with Taliban leaders responsible for attacks like the one that maimed him.

“Hang them alive,” said the 14-year-old, who survived the explosion on his way home from school.

“Slice the flesh of f their bodies and cut them into pieces. That’s what they have been doing to us.”

Khan, who is from the Khyber tribal region, pondered his future recently at a physical rehabilitation center in Peshawar.

“What was my crime that they made me disabled for the rest of my life?” he asked as he touched his severed limb.

In recent weeks, the

Pakistani government and Taliban forces fighting in nor thwestern tribal areas have expressed an interest in peace talks to end the years-long conflict. An estimated 30,000 civilians and 4,000 soldiers have died in terrorist attacks in Pakistan since Sept. 11, 2001 — many at the hands of the Pakistani Taliban.

To many victims of Taliban violence, the idea of negotiating with people responsible for so much human pain is abhorrent.

Their voices, however, are rarely heard in Pakistan, a country where people have long been conflicted about whether the Taliban are enemies bent on destroying the state or fellow Muslims who should be welcomed back into the fold after years of fighting.

The Associated Press spoke with victims of terrorist attacks in Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, Quetta and the tribal areas and their families to find out

how they felt about negotiating peace with the Taliban.

Khan’s classmate, Fatimeen Afridi, who was also injured in the same bombing in Khyber, said he would be happy to see negotiations with the militants — but only after those who maimed him were punished. Afridi’s left leg was amputated below the knee, shattering his dream of becoming a fast bowler on Pakistan’s cricket team.

“If I find them, I will throw them in a burning clay oven,” he said.

The push for peace talks gained momentum in December when the leader of the Pakistani Taliban of fered to negotiate. The gover nment responded positively, and even hinted that the militants would not need to lay down their weapons before talks could begin. That would be a reversal of the government’s long-held position that any

talks be preceded by a ceasefire.

So far, there have been few concrete developments, and it’s unclear whether Pakistan’s powerful militar y supports negotiations.

Skeptics doubt the militants truly want peace and point to past agreements with the Taliban that fell apart after giving militants time to regroup. Others say negotiations are the only option since numerous militar y operations against the Taliban have failed.

The biggest question — especially for many of the Taliban’s victims — is whether the Taliban will have to pay any price for the people they are believed to have killed and wounded. The gover nment hasn’t said whether it would of fer the Taliban amnesty for past offenses.

Many of the victims feel forgotten, saying no one has asked their opinion about holding peace talks.

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Cuba’s Raul Castro announces retirement

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HAVANA — Raul Castro announced Sunday that he will step down as Cuba’s president in 2018 following a final fiveyear term, for the first time putting a date on the end of the Castro era. He tapped rising star Miguel Diaz-Canel as his top lieutenant and first in the line of succession.

The 81-year-old Castro also said he hopes to establish two-term limits and age caps for political offices including the presidency — an astonishing prospect for a nation led by Castro or his older brother Fidel since their 1959 revolution.

The 52-year-old Diaz-Canel is now a heartbeat from the presidency and has risen higher than any other Cuban official who didn’t directly participate in the heady days of the revolution.

“This will be my last term,” Castro said, his voice firm.

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Pope gives final Sunday blessing

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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI bestowed his final Sunday blessing of his pontificate on a cheering crowd in St. Peter’s Square, explaining that his waning years and energy made him better suited to the life of private prayer he soon will spend in a secluded monastery than as leader of the Roman Catholic Church.

On Thursday evening, the 85-year-old German-born theologian will become the first pope to have resigned from the papacy in 600 years.

Sunday’s noon appearance from his studio window overlooking the vast square was his next-to-last appointment with the public of his nearly eight-year papacy. Tens of thousands of faithful and other admirers have already asked the Vatican for a seat in the square for his last general audience Wednesday.

Perhaps emotionally buoyed by the warm welcome, thunderous applause and the many banners reading “Grazie” (Thanks) held up in the crowd estimated by police to number 100,000, Benedict looked relaxed and sounded energized, in sharp contrast to his apparent frailty and weariness of recent months.

In a strong and clear voice, Benedict told the pilgrims, tourists and Romans in the square that God had called him to dedicate himself “even more to prayer and meditation,” which he will do in a monastery being renovated for him on the grounds behind Vatican City’s ancient walls.

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U professors close TCF bank accounts Following a letter of protest, some profs removed their accounts.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota faculty members have kept their word.

Last month, a group of 14 professors sent a letter to TCF Bank protesting the financial institution’s notice to close at least eight Iranian students’ accounts, accusing the bank of discrimination.

The professors promised to move their direct deposit accounts in defiance of the bank’s actions and have all done so, said Karen Ho, associate professor of anthropology. Some will also begin to move their TCF mortgages and other accounts.

Students, faculty and organizations like the National Iranian American Council spoke out after the Iranian students

received account closure letters in late December without explanation.

A week after the professors’ Jan. 22 letter, the bank responded, explaining the federal laws it must abide by.

In the letter, TCF expressed concern for the faculty members’ protest and outlined the bank’s legal obligations.

It cited economic and trade sanctions. The banks also must monitor transactions to detect and prevent money laundering under the Bank Secrecy Act. TCF was fined $10 million in late January for “inadequate monitoring” by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which is part of the U.S. Department of the Treasury.

Ho, the primary author of the faculty members’ letter, said this could’ve been the basis for the closure letters.

“It’s almost like overcompensating for the fact that they had been fined,” she

said, adding that TCF’s actions targeted a “vulnerable” population.

“In the course of performing this due diligence,” TCF said in the letter, “the institution may be required to … close an account and discontinue the customer relationship.”

Adherence to U.S. sanctions against Iran is “complicated,” the bank said in the letter. “[I]t is necessary that a depository institution ensure that funds do not originate from a U.S. blocked Iranian financial institution,” TCF continued in the letter, “and this may not be easy to do, especially when funds are deposited in cash.”

But faculty members working with the affected Iranian students said the students didn’t violate any laws, and TCF’s response didn’t say they had either.

Anthropology professor William Beeman said faculty members and the bank are

at a standoff, pending further action by the bank.

“You can’t sue anybody unless you actually can show damages,” he said. “But I believe their actions … have been discriminatory.”

Beeman said he worked with about a dozen students who received the closure letters, while public health graduate student Alireza Asary said he knew of at least 21 Iranian students who received the letter.

Jason Korstange, a TCF spokesman, previously told the Minnesota Daily that the bank sent closure letters to more than just students and Iranian individuals and that not every Iranian student at the University received a letter.

“We don’t close accounts just to close accounts,” Korstange said.

Ho said since TCF has a “special relationship” with the University — a contract allowing students to link their TCF account with their U card for

free — it should embrace the University’s ideals like diversity and public engagement.

Student says accounts are still open

Ho said many students weren’t able to talk to a bank employee about an explanation and some were told they had a day to respond to a questionnaire about their account activity.

“There’s been a very uneven handling of questions, reasons, rationales,” Ho said.

“How they’ve handled the aftermath has been probably as unfortunate as the letter itself.”

In order to avoid an involuntary closure of his account, Asary did so after he consulted with the University Student Legal Service.

Other students filled out the questionnaire about account activity that TCF provided when the students followed up, but according to TCF’s response letter, the account could still be closed.

Asar y said TCF didn’t close the Iranian students’ accounts on Jan. 29, as the bank had claimed originally.

He said students hadn’t heard from the bank in some time.

As of Sunday, TCF still hasn’t closed the accounts, he said.

‘A slap in the face’ Both TCF and University community members have contacted Minnesota Congressman Keith Ellison, who sits on the House Committee on Financial Services, to see what can be done about the issue.

Beeman said one student tried to open an account with a local credit union but wasn’t able to once he told the union he was Iranian.

“There’s a certain prejudice that has attended to the Iranian students who are trying to get accounts set up elsewhere,” Beeman said.

Some Iranian students at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where TCF also has a contract, also received letters saying their accounts would be closed, but gradu-

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participate for fear of losing his football scholarship.

“We shouldn’t take for granted what they’ve done for us,” youth studies sophomore and BSU Black History Month Chair Mesgana Tesfahun said of the protesters.

Tesfahun said the Morrill Hall takeover not only led to the creation of the Depar tment of African American and African Studies but also the establishment of depar tments for Chicano and Latino Studies, American Indian Studies and what is now Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies.

In the past, BSU has recruited civil rights leaders like Black Panther Par ty co-founder Bobby Seale for the event, but organizers wanted to keep the legend “close to home” this year, Tesfahun said.

BSU star ted its celebration of Black Histor y Month with its annual kickoff event Feb. 4. It has hosted events throughout the month to inform students and the community about the importance of black history.

“This is impor tant for our campus because we’re on a predominantly white campus,” said Kynesha Patterson, a youth studies senior and BSU president.

Nearly three-quarters of University undergraduate students on the Twin Cities campus this semester are white, according to University data. Fewer than 5 percent were black.

Patterson said most of her professors fail to acknowledge Black Histor y Month. She said the University could do a better job of recognizing it.

Tesfahun agreed and said sometimes professors have felt uncomfor table talking about black history and issues in class.

But she said it’s important that teachers talk about black histor y because it’s

ate student Farid Peiravi said in an email that the company later apologized to him and didn’t close his account.

Peiravi said he recently recommended TCF to an Iranian student who just arrived and the student was able to open an account without an incident.

“I don’t know if TCF’s change of heart was a statewide or a country-wide decision, but we have not had any problems with TCF in the past month or so,” he said in an email.

Although Ho said she was pleased TCF responded to the faculty members’ protest letter, she said the bank didn’t give the Iranian students an explanation.

The fact that the students received a response because of the faculty members’ actions, she said, is demeaning.

“It was sort of a slap in the face,” she said.

TCF BANK LETTER TIMELINE OF EVENTS DEC. 26

TCF sent letters to at least eight Iranian students stating that their accounts would be closed Jan. 29.

EARLY JANUARY

Iranian students meet with University faculty members and the National Iranian American Council.

JAN. 22

Faculty members send a protest letter to TCF stating they will move their direct deposit accounts.

JAN. 29

TCF sends a response to faculty members.

FEB. 24

TCF has not yet closed Iranian students’ accounts as it promised `originally.

SOURCES: AFFECTED STUDENTS AND FACULTY MEMBERS, TCF BANK

part of American history.

“Throughout our school years, from kindergarten to 12th grade, we’ve learned about white American history,” Tesfahun said. “Let’s flip the script a little bit.”

African American and African studies professor John Wright, who spoke at Friday’s dinner about drafting the demands of the black students for the Morrill Hall takeover, said there’s a divide between educators on teaching black history.

BSU members said they hoped their events this month helped to inform all students about black histor y, especially what occurred at the University to promote equality.

“There’s a lot of rich histor y,” Bailey said, “and a lot of untold stories.”

BLACK HISTORY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 1882

Andrew Hilyer becomes the first black student to graduate from the University of Minnesota.

1904

Robert “Bobby” Marshall becomes the first black athlete at the University.

1904

Scottie Primus Davis becomes the first black woman to graduate from the University.

1923

Roy Wilkins graduates from the University of Minnesota. Wilkins later became the executive director for the NAACP.

1954

Brown vs. Board of Education declared public segregated schools as unconstitutional.

1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 officially ended the segregation of public schools.

1969

Morrill Hall Takeover

1969

Establishment of Department of African American and African Studies at the University

SOURCES: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE, UNITED STATES SENATE, MN DAILY REPORTING

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Just an intern All internships should pay at least the minimum wage.

Star ted from the bottom, now we’re here,” Drake raps. This is also what people sing when they get of fered a full-time job upon the completion of an internship. Others get nothing out of it, quite literally so.

A transitory phase, an internship takes us from being an inexperienced college student to being a slightly less inexperienced college student, one that is ready to be embraced by the workforce.

Professors, counselors and parents tell us how important it is to have an internship or two before we graduate.

Internships seem to be a necessar y evil — the notion of “paying your dues” is all too common. They need to be worked around classes, a social life and part-time job(s), as internships are often unpaid or come with a stipend, which isn’t often a fair compensation.

Students who acquire a position with a reputable company, one that actually relates

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to their major in college, often compromise on the financial aspect in light of other important things. They gain essential skills and connections resultant of them showing up and putting in the work to catch the eye of the supervisors who might whisper a good word to the company’s human resources department and help the intern with a full-time job.

If it is a reputable business, students don’t care whether the position is paid or unpaid because the goal isn’t to make money, it is to learn. The company ends up making a profit by saving the money that would go to an actual wage. The interns are hungry for work, not the money. By accepting these positions, though, students create demand for jobs regardless of a

wage, which is a huge incentive for businesses.

But as it happens, the work that interns end up doing tests them physically and mentally.

Deadlines, pressure, the desire to impress senior staff and depict productivity, often take a toll. Employers seem to overlook the fact that students who work as interns have expenditures of their own, which they must incur in order to be able to work, like lunch, travel expenses, etc.

There are some big companies who pay their interns a decent amount of money for the short term they employ their services, often more than what a full-time employee would make. I understand that not all companies can afford to treat their interns like professionals, but there has to be a safe middle ground.

There are several factors that limit what a student intern can do. Students often don’t have the time nor the skill of their professional counterparts — thus, there are clear reasons why they can be paid less.

Yet, unpaid internships don’t fall under minimum wage requirements. I implore all

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business to try to pay their interns instead of relying on the notion that students need to grapple with additional obstacles to be treated like a typical employee. Not only will paying at least minimum wage help unpaid interns with expenses, it would allow them to focus on their internship instead of working at another part-time job simply to pay rent. Paying interns a realistic amount will provide them exactly that: representative, professional expectations of the industry.

Interns don’t need to start getting medical and other benefits. I’m simply advocating that interns be paid at least minimum wage. I have had both paid and unpaid internships — and I know from those experiences that I have put more effort into jobs where I earn something tangible at the end of the day. Rather than treating young people like they need to pay their dues, employers should provide both realistic job expectations and realistic job benefits.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Whether you read it online, saw it on the news or your professor went on a rant about it, you have likely heard that Washington has an accountability problem. Our nation’s leaders — in Congress and in the White House — are often focused more on par tisan politics than doing what’s right for our countr y. They’re focused on scoring points instead of solving problems — and the upcoming sequester is just one more example of it.

On March 1, our nation is set to hit automatic, across-the-board spending cuts — cuts that were never supposed to happen. So how did we get here?

In July 2011, Republicans and Democrats were in a standof f on the debt ceiling. Democrats wanted to raise our nation’s spending limit with no restrictions, and Republicans wanted to cut spending to of fset raising the ceiling.

It came down to the wire and at the last minute, President Barack Obama and Congress agreed on a deal: They would raise the debt ceiling and create a “super committee” charged with finding $1.5 trillion in spending cuts by Dec. 23, 2011. But here’s the catch: If the super committee didn’t agree on the cuts, the sequester would go into ef fect Jan. 1 — automatic, acrossthe-board spending cuts

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split between defense and nondefense discretionar y spending.

At the time, the sequester seemed almost laughable. Ever yone knew it wasn’t going to happen; ever yone knew Washington would find another way to reduce spending.

But as we came to the end of 2012, our leaders didn’t have time to deal with the sequester so they kicked the can down the road a few more months to give themselves the oppor tunity to deal with it.

But here we are, just a few days away from the deadline, and lawmakers haven’t dealt with it.

Leaders haven’t even met to talk about the cuts. Instead, they’re spending all their time blaming the other party, making sure they come out on top politically when the dust settles.

While leaders play political games, they’re not looking out for the best interest of the countr y.

They’re not doing the jobs they were elected to do.

In this case, they’re politicians first and lawmakers second.

This isn’t how our gover nment is supposed to work. The sequester was merely created as a penalty, something for Congress and the president to keep in the back of their minds when they were coming up with a better plan. Decisions shouldn’t be made like that: They should be made by careful

deliberation between our lawmakers.

That’s what nolabels. org, a grassroots movement of hundreds of thousands of Republicans, Democrats and ever ything in between, is calling for.

No Labels is pushing lawmakers to sit down with one another, meet across the aisle and find solutions to our countr y’s biggest problems. We’ve already seen huge success with the passage of No Budget, No Pay, a bill we proposed in December 2011 that was enacted this month and will withhold pay if either chamber of Congress doesn’t pass a budget on time. These are the kind of common-sense reforms our government needs so that the process leads to problem solving, not more penalties for the American people.

No one thought the sequester was going to happen. But now we’re just a few days away from the cuts, and lawmakers are more concerned with how the cuts play out politically than what happens to the countr y. We need a process that works; we need a plan, not a penalty. Join the No Labels movement to stand up for problem solving, not political point scoring.

Bill Galston No Labels co-founder, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and former policy adviser to President Bill Clinton

Ensuring Dinkytown’s security An apt new addition to Dinkytown businesses’ security accommodates safety concerns.

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s Dinkytown develops, additional security is necessary to maintain safety and guarantee continued growth.

A new security plan developed by the Dinkytown Business Association is a good step in this endeavor. The plan details include four additional police officers patrolling 14 nights, labeled as highincident occasions for the Dinkytown neighborhood. These include popular sporting events and Spring Jam — which erupted into a now infamous riot in 2009. At these events, our campus should be a proud representation of our values as we host numerous families and tourists from out of town.

This plan is especially important as Dinkytown continues to grow and change into the University of Minnesota community’s entertainment district.

With the addition of the light rail going through campus, security problems — trespassing, vandalism, robbery, etc. — will only be exacerbated.

This is a critical point in Dinkytown’s early stage as a developing entertainment district, not entirely unlike Uptown; thus, detriments to its image as a place for students, tourists and other shoppers is to the advantage of the University community to invest in.

This plan can only be successful with a community of Dinkytown businesses footing the bill, as well as support from the neighborhood. We urge the businesses of Dinkytown to fund this measure because it is a necessary stepping stone for the future of the neighborhood, as well as minimizing numerous security threats to students and business owners. The University community is familiar with crime near and on its campus — we shouldn’t allow our neighborhood to foster fear of criminal activity.

Higher ed witch Too big for hunts Shaming intellectuals for “harboring” schools of thought is misguided.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Joseph Welch’s famous shaming of Sen. Joseph McCar thy’s communist witch hunts has lived in our collective imaginations as a vivid example of condemning political bigotr y.

So I was disappointed when I came across Sen. Ted Cruz’s, RTexas, recent claim, outlined in a New Yorker expose that Har vard Law had been “harboring” 12 communists during his time as a student there.

Whether this charge is true or not is irrelevant. Rather, I want to point out that this insipid comment ignores the value that Mar xist thought has brought to our intellectual life.

Unfortunately, Cruz’s commentar y is not an isolated incident.

Sarah Palin’s characterization of President Barack Obama as a socialist and Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell’s accusation that her opponent was a “bearded Mar xist” are other prominent examples.

Communism aside, Mar xist thought has had a major impact on various fields. A histor y student could tell you that Marxist historiography — that is, thinking about change over time in terms of conflict between the classes — is in large part derived from Marxism.

Economic historiography is another example. One could argue the same for the field of economics itself. Moreover, a law student could tell you the same of the field of law and economics. And the list could go on.

Universities exist to educate and engage in intellectual discourse and discovery. To condemn one for “harboring” people who engage in that discourse, even if it’s outside the norm, is anti-intellectual. We should embrace anything that adds to our intellectual life.

Thinking about the world in new, and sometimes uncomfor table, ways can be a door to intellectual growth. The University of Minnesota itself has several Marxist professors. They were among the best educators I have ever encountered, and I am no communist.

Alex Rich University student

justice

Powerful banks get a pass from the Department of Justice.

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he United States has been embroiled in a “war on drugs” since the 1930s, well before President Richard Nixon coined the phrase that now describes America’s prohibition, foreign inter vention and foreign militar y aid intended to reduce the use of mind-altering substances. More recently, the “war on terror” has become another major pillar of both United States domestic and foreign policy. The print edition of this page publishes the statistics of the American soldiers who have been killed in action in two of the campaigns of the war on terror.

Millions of Americans are incarcerated for possession and sale of illegal drugs every year.

However, when HSBC, the largest European bank, was caught laundering money for drug cartels and terrorists and helping nations like Nor th Korea evade sanctions, it was able to reach a settlement of just $1.9 billion. This figure equates to about five weeks’ profits for the corporation. Not one executive faced criminal charges.

The wisdom in allowing this settlement betrays the American soldiers who have been fighting the wars on terrorism and drugs and the individuals incarcerated for simple possession.

While American soldiers have risked their lives, HSBC has been helping terrorists and extremists finance operations. In an inter view with “Frontline,” Lanny Breuer, who serves as assistant attorney general for the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, explained that the settlement took into account the effects that bringing a case against HSBC would have had on the entire economic system. The Justice Department decided that pursuing a case against the corporation would have sent shockwaves through the fragile economic system, in essence admitting that the bank was too big to prosecute and indicative of a larger problem with the banking system.

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Monday, February 25, 2013

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Cupid called

Set knowledge free

He’s wondering where fair and balanced sex went.

We should make all publically funded research open access now.

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emember “making love?” Yeah, me neither.

These days, our vernacular is saturated with many different ways to talk about getting it on. But between “beat it up,” “smash,” “bang” and “cut,” the most common references are over whelmingly laced with violence, confusing our perception of the dynamics of sex.

The first issue is that many of these phrases encompass only the feelings and desires of the male, or the one who is named as the initiator of the aggressive action. The language has been conditioned to very clearly delineate who — or rather, what body part — is responsible for the “beating up” as well as what object is being “beat” or “cut,” and such discourse condemns women and our genitalia to an inferior and subser vient space, ready for conquest.

The language problematically connotes sex with a one-sided act of violence rather than a shared, symbiotic experience between two people. Sex is described in terms that are illustrative of a takeover and hardly indicate that the experience is consensual.

Promises to “beat the [expletive] up” or “cut you up” sound much more like threats than seduction.

One of the most common perpetuators — or more aptly, perpetrators — of this language is rap music. But rap cannot be discussed as if it exists within some cultural vacuum with a limited scope of effects. Rap music is Billboard 100 music is radio music is Grammy-winning music is “music.”

While rap was once confined to a subculture, it is now a fixture of the mainstream, with ubiquitous influence. Consequently, rap’s references often inspire common parlance, at least among a young demographic.

The first time I was introduced to this discourse was with the 2006 “Wait (The Whisper Song)” by the Ying Yang Twins, which sounded like a date rapist’s anthem.

And ever since the artists of this Grammynominated song promised to “beat that [expletive] up like bam, bam ...,” the similes for beating it up or “hitting it” have continued: baseball bat, Derek Jeter, punching bag and Klitschko, just to name a few. Pounding, drilling, pop her, smack that — sexual violence is normalized behavior.

Rap music has historically involved braggadocio and egotism, which inevitably includes flaunting one’s ability to get girls. But unlike past rappers who asserted a superior ability to give women sensual pleasure (here’s looking at you, LL Cool J), today’s artists declare sexual prowess with what amounts to assault, bragging about this “skill” as if that should appeal to women.

People have lamented rap’s misogynistic tendencies for years. But the strange twist in today’s discourse is that the same words that have historically been correlated with punishing women are now used under the guise of wanting to provide pleasure.

The language is identically aggressive and denigrating, but because of its placement in songs discussing allegedly consensual, ultra-satisfying sex, women are sent the message that we should be impressed, intrigued and turned on by these messages.

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My interest is not in classifying what sex should look like between consenting adults. Many people enjoy rough sex, to which I say, “Kink on, kinky people.” But while exchanged expressions of dominance are entirely healthy among a couple with mutual respect and compatible interests in mixing pleasure with pain, the fact that our overarching cultural understanding of sex is inherently conjoined with violence is not. This breeds the expectation that men should be not lovers, but forceful dominators while women should only want sex that is synonymous with taking a beating.

Gone is the idea of sex as a mutually satisfying act of negotiation and compromise. It has become socially acceptable to think of women’s sexual organs as something to be “destroyed,” resulting in great delusions of grandeur among the understanding of what women want.

Men asserting that they will “beat it up” or “bust it open” as though this is some sort of favor creates a strong mood of unease. The analogies make the proposals even more crass and disrespectful. So, you would like to “beat it up like Tyson?” You want to control and abuse me to the point of inflicting pain in order to garner victory in what I thought was an act of reciprocity?

Oh. Neat.

Finally, one simile went far enough that people spoke out. Recently, a remix of Future’s song “Karate Chop” leaked online, in which Lil Wayne raps, “Beat that [expletive] up like Emmett Till.” Till was a 14-year-old black teenager in 1955, when a group of white men beat him to a pulp, gouged out one of his eyes, shot him in the head and then tossed his body into a river.

Many people, including the Till family, expressed shock and outrage at the lyric, so Epic Records apologized and removed the reference from the song. Here, the line was drawn — but lyrics have been going too far for years.

Music is art, which many argue cannot be taken literally. Indeed, my main concern is not that men are performing the acts mentioned in these songs verbatim and, say, approaching our lady parts with a baseball bat. But even metaphorically, the mood connoted by these lyrics socializes intense aggression in sex. If a beating has been conditioned to not only be acceptable but desirable in a sexual sense, this undoubtedly influences the perceived tolerability of disrespect for women and physical abuse. We must ask: What role do these lyrics — and the ways in which they inevitably ooze into our own understanding of sex — have in the epidemic of violence against women?

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.

ast week, President Barack Obama’s administration issued a directive instructing federal agencies to prepare plans to make federally funded science research publicly and openly available to U.S. taxpayers. This is a productive step for ward in the battle for access to federally funded scientific knowledge.

Cer tain federal agencies are directed to develop a plan for open access within six months. This accelerated timeline should easily be achieved by even the most swamped federal agency. The ways in which to move toward open access are not complicated. We need only look to open access-suppor ting universities to find models worthy of emulation.

The attention the Obama administration has paid to this issue is commendable. I find it encouraging that the U.S. government sees the value in making federally funded scientific research open and readily available. I’ve been an advocate for open-access issues for a long time, and the only way I saw research becoming open on a massive scale was a powerful entity sanctioning it.

However, the administration’s latest directive isn’t without issue. The language of the directive is uninspiring. It directs federal agencies to make a plan to move to open access, but that’s about it.

The directive reads as a way to appease open access advocates while putting of f the main issue of public research access to a later date. I suppose this isn’t necessarily a negative thing. The federal government often moves at a snail’s pace, so it could’ve been a more active directive. I guess it’ll just have to work for now.

That being said, I am getting wear y from having to acquiesce on issues of open-access research. I’ve said, “I guess it’ll just have to work for now” so many times that the words feel like acid on my tongue. I’m tired of asking, and I’m tired of waiting. I’m becoming impatient. I want all research at publically funded universities to be open to the public upon publication. It seems fair that if the public funds an institution where research takes place, they should have access to said research.

It feels unbelievably selfish and silly to publish research in places — journals, books, etc. — where the public can’t see or have access to it. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act addresses similar questions and issues as the administration’s open access directive. However, if passed, FASTR will carr y the weight of Congress. I don’t know if that really means anything, but it will appear to secure important policy for the masses.

FASTR and the administration’s directive coupled together, of fer a solid front and oppor tunity for federally funded research to not languish in closed-access academic publications. This is a wonderfully refreshing thing, but something is missing from both of them: the humanities and social sciences. It appears that the humanities and social sciences don’t really matter that much to Congress or

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the administration.

I don’t find this shocking. The assault on the humanities and social sciences has been ongoing for some time. In some fields, the ability to boil down data into explicit and clear percentages or numbers is not easy. The hard sciences and related fields have this aspect of research more readily available. It’s easy to synthesize some data, put in some graphs and numbers and spoon-feed it to politicians and financial decision-makers.

Still, I am disappointed that Obama — a man who comes from a humanities background — would seemingly care so little for the fields that made him who he is today. Obama is not a scientist; he’s a once community-entrenched lawyer and organizer. Yet, he continues to favor science, technology and math fields in prestige, backing and policy. I ask you: Why should STEM fields be treated so dif ferently than non-STEM fields?

This binar y of one set of fields against another set of fields abounds in higher education. While I’ve always preferred to see such arguments as ill-informed and brash, there can be no science without humanities, and there can be no humanities without scientific progress. This is a mutual relationship. I believe that both FASTR and the administration’s directive, while laudable, are lacking. They do not explicitly include humanities and social science research. Though, some of these fields do receive funds from the National Science Foundation, and as such, would be included.

However, why can’t ever y university that receives public funds be required to make research publications open to the public? Why can’t this be a condition of funding? It can be, and it can be quite easily. While I would love to see the president take charge of this issue, I would much rather prefer public institutions of higher learning make the first move. We can no longer allow research and scholarly publications to be locked behind a pay wall.

Scholars and researchers publish research that the ver y same university they work for then must pay to access.

We need to stop allowing this to happen.

Scholars need to step up and only publish in open access venues, and the greater public community needs to demand access.

It shouldn’t matter that the work is in science or the humanities; the goal of higher education should be to disseminate knowledge, and that can’t happen behind a pay wall.

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

LAW

Legendary ladies of litigation The current lawsuit between Lady Gaga and a former employee resembles a famous contract case.

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istor y repeats itself with the filing of a complaint by Jennifer O’Neill against popular music star Stefani Germanotta, a.k.a, Lady Gaga. The complaint was filed in a federal court in New York on June 7, 2012.

O’Neill is Lady Gaga’s former personal assistant, and she was primarily employed from Feb. 2010 through March 2011, when Gaga’s career was at its peak. O’Neill was paid a salary of $75,000 per year but is now claiming that, because she needed to be available to Gaga 24 hours a day, Gaga owes O’Neill timeand-a-half for every hour she worked beyond the forty-hour work week, per the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and New York State Labor Law. In addition, O’Neill claims she is entitled to an additional hour of pay at minimum wage for every day in which she worked more than ten hours, per New York State Labor Law. Most members of the legal community can recall at least the name of a somewhat similar case commonly studied in the standard first-year contracts course: Wood v.

Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon. Wood is a 1917 case that ends in the New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest state court, and involves an employment contract between a famous dress designer and her agent, Wood. Lady Duff-Gordon agreed to hire Wood to mar-

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ket her designs through sales or licensing agreements with companies to market her designs. Lady Duff-Gordon entered into her own agreement with Sears, however, without Wood’s knowledge, and kept the profits for herself rather than splitting them in half like they had agreed.

To be fair, the legal issues underlying these two cases are completely different.

While the O’Neil case involves a dispute regarding overtime wages that would fall under the heading of labor and employment law, the Wood case primarily concerns a dispute about implied obligations — whether Wood was under any obligation to find an outlet through which to market Lady Duff Gordon’s designs. This would fall under the heading of contract law.

Nonetheless, the cases share enough overarching similarities to warrant a quick note, albeit merely on the facts. Both Lady Gaga and Lady Duff-Gordon, who was originally addressed as Lucy Christiana until her

marriage to Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon, reside or resided in New York City and are internationally famous in their respective times for their artistic talents. Both “Ladies” are the defendants in their respective cases, and in both cases former employees seek earnings they believe to be withheld.

Thus far, both cases appear similar in procedure, though the Wood case took place in a state court, while Gaga’s case takes place in a federal court. After Wood filed a complaint against Lady Duff-Gordon, Lady Duff-Gordon filed a motion for “judgment upon the pleadings,” where the moving party believes no material fact of the case to be in dispute, and should win the case as a matter of law based on those undisputed material facts. Lady Duff Gordon believed there was no real contract between herself and Wood because Wood, she argued, had no obligation to market her designs. The motion was denied by the trial court, and in the end, Lady Duff-Gordon lost her case, the New York Court of Appeals holding that the circumstances surrounding the agreement implied that Wood had an obligation to make reasonable efforts to market her design’s, creating a binding contract. Today, this is called a motion for summary judgment, the procedural move Lady Gaga has chosen against her plaintiff.

In her motion for partial summary judgment, filed on Jan. 29, 2013, Lady Gaga, in short, argues that the plaintiff, O’Neill, is not entitled to any overtime compensation under New York law for work done outside of the state. She also argues that, although

she was on call 24/7, O’Neill was nonetheless allowed to use her on-call time for personal use. She is not entitled to an additional hour at minimum wage for 10 hour-plus work days because she already makes more than minimum wage even if working 24/7 on-call shifts. And finally, that any overtime compensation should be calculated using a half-time method rather than a time-and-ahalf method.

A motion for partial summary judgment, however, is not used to dispose of a case in its entirety; rather, such motions are a tactic for simplifying trials, to avoid wasting resources by ridding the case of certain claims or accepting certain claims.

The O’Neill case appears to be particularly heated. In her deposition, Gaga wasn’t shy about her feelings toward O’Neill, calling her a “hood rat,” broadcasting that she thinks O’Neill is an ingrate and directing swear words at the opposing counsel. Gaga also mentioned that she intends to pay her current assistants the money for which O’Neill is suing, just to spite her. Lady Duff-Gordon’s case made its way to the highest court in New York, and, given Gaga’s strong negative feelings toward O’Neill and her outspoken desires to spite her, it’s likely that Gaga will attempt to drag the litigation out as long as she can, which will only increase O’Neill’s attorney’s fees and thus subtract from her overall award if she prevails. The moral of this story: Ladies of New York aren’t afraid to litigate.

James Castle welcomes comments at jcastle@mndaily.com.

Monday, February 25, 2013

Sports

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SWIMMING & DIVING

Women dominate conference meet Swim and dive u from Page 1

The Gophers earned 831.5 points over four days, dominating the field to win the women’s Big Ten swimming and diving championship Saturday at the University Aquatic Center.

Indiana finished second (671.5), and Penn State (498.5), Ohio State (384) and Purdue (363) rounded out the top five.

“It shows just how dominant we are in this conference,” senior captain Haley Spencer said. “It seems like every year, we’re still seen as the underdog for some reason, and I think that this might have opened people’s eyes up to finally recognizing that talent and the depth we have on this team.”

Minnesota head coach Kelly Kremer said this week’s performance was probably the best in women’s Big Ten championship history.

Kremer earned Big Ten Swimming Coach of the Year honors for the second straight season. Junior diver Maggie Keefer claimed Big Ten Diver of the Championships honors, winning 1-meter and 3-meter diving and finishing sixth in platform diving. Gophers diving coach Wenbo Chen earned Big Ten Diving Coach of the Year.

The Gophers set the tone in the opening event of the championships Wednesday, coming from behind in the last 50 yards to win the

200-yard medley relay.

Junior Erin Caflisch swam the final leg of the relay in 21.69 seconds, helping her relay overtake Indiana, and setting the first of 10 school records. Indiana won the second event of the championships, leaving them tied with the Gophers after the first day.

But by the end of the second day, the Gophers had broken open a 92-point lead.

The team won three titles Thursday night, including a second relay title.

The Gophers stretched the lead to 151 points Friday night behind a strong showing in the 100 butterfly. The team accrued 64 points in the event, placing five swimmers in the top 11, while Indiana scored just three points.

Sophomore Becca Weiland won the 100 butterfly with a time of 51.61 seconds, breaking a Big Ten record.

The Gophers stretched the lead over Indiana to 176 points Friday with seven topfive finishes in the 200 freestyle and 100 breaststroke.

Indiana cut it to 134 with a strong team performance in the 100 backstroke, but Keefer and the Gophers’ diving corps quelled any serious chance of a comeback in 3-meter diving.

Keefer won the 3-meter dive as the Gophers closed Friday with a 151-point lead.

Indiana cut the lead to 110 points Saturday when it placed five swimmers in the top-10 of the 200 backstroke.

But the Gophers responded with four top-10 finishes in the 100 freestyle.

2013 BIG TEN SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS AWARDS SWIMMING COACH OF THE YEAR Kelly Kremer, Minnesota DIVING COACH OF THE YEAR Wenbo Chen, Minnesota DIVER OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS Maggie Keefer, Minnesota FRESHMAN OF THE YEAR Brooklyn Snodgrass, Indiana SWIMMER OF THE CHAMPIONSHIPS Lindsay Vrooman, Indiana

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

2013 BIG TEN SWIMMING AND DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS FINAL STANDINGS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 11

Minnesota Indiana Penn State Ohio State Purdue Michigan Wisconsin Northwestern Nebraska Iowa Illinois Michigan State

831.5 671.5 498.5 384 363 309 249 203.5 195 113 56 56

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Spencer and freshman Kierra Smith punctuated the victory Saturday with a onetwo finish in the 200 breaststroke. Spencer, who won the event at the 2011 NCAA championships, set a Big Ten record with a time of 2:05.98, the third-fastest in the NCAA this season.

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Minnesota’s Erin Caflisch and Lauren Votava jump into the pool after the Gophers’ victory in the Big Ten swimming and diving championships Saturday at the University Aquatic Center.

The Gophers finished the championships with a victory and a school record in the 400 freestyle relay.

Then the celebration began, and the women and

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compete in the Big Ten championships in a few weeks and the NCAA championships in late March.

“At this time of the year, it’s always good to have good momentum,” assistant coach Brandon Eggum said.

“That’s probably the biggest thing we take from it.”

The meet played out just like last year, when Minnesota beat Iowa and Oklahoma State after losing to them in the regular season.

This year, Minnesota beat Iowa in the semifinals with a dramatic but dominant performance.

The Gophers trailed 9-0 after two matches against the Hawkeyes. The match looked like it would take a similar path to the Gophers’ Jan. 26 loss, when Minnesota trailed Iowa 15-3 after six matches.

But sophomore Nick Dardanes changed the momentum with a major decision at 141 pounds, and sophomore Dylan Ness

“We’re going to prove that the Big Ten can make an impact nationally,” head women’s coach Terry Nieszner said. “And we intend to be in the top 10 at [the] NCAAs.”

TENNIS

WRESTLING

Wrestling

Goldy Gopher took a plunge in the diving well.

But come Monday, the Gophers shift their focus to their next goal: the NCAA championships.

electrified the crowd with a pin in the next match at 149 pounds.

Ness entered his match as the favorite and said he brought a sense of urgency to his game plan with his team trailing in the dual.

“In my mind I was like, ‘I’m not coming off the mat until I get that fall,’ ” the redshir t sophomore said, “and I got the pin.”

That’s all the momentum the Gophers needed, as they won four of the next six matches for a 22-15 victory.

That set up a date with top-ranked Oklahoma State in the finals.

The teams split the first six matches with three wins apiece, which made the 174-pound bout especially important.

Logan Storley was up for the challenge.

Storley, a sophomore and the No. 1 ranked 174-pounder in the nation, battled No. 2 Chris Perr y.

It was quiet for most of the match, but in overtime Storley flipped Perry on his back for the defensive pin after starting on the bottom.

Storley said he couldn’t

see the actual pin but knew he did something right when the home crowd roared.

“I heard the crowd, and Eggum was pointing and they called the fall,” he said with a grin. “I can’t argue with that.”

That pin sparked momentum for Minnesota, which closed the dual with three straight victories.

Junior Tony Nelson capped the Gophers’ title with a pin at heavyweight.

Junior Kevin Steinhaus, who is one of the leaders on the team, said the Gophers won’t forget this weekend for a while.

“It was great being at home and having the National Duals here,” Steinhaus said, “but to beat Iowa and Oklahoma State in the same day was a great feeling.”

Eggum said the team’s focus now shifts to the Big Ten championships March 9-10.

“It always makes it easier to keep the guys believing when we win,” Eggum said. “We got that tonight, and we’re going to ride on that a little bit.”

Women get 2 big wins WRESTLING RESULTS

MINNESOTA VS. OKLAHOMA STATE 125 Thorn 133 Dardanes, Ch. 141 Dardanes, Ni. 149 Ness 157 Zilverberg 165 Yohn 174 Storley 184 Steinhaus 197 Schiller HWT Nelson

W/L (score) W (5-2) W (4-2) W (14-5) L (6-4) L (3-1) L (7-2) W (fall) W (4-3) W (6-2) W (fall)

MINNESOTA VS. IOWA 125 Thorn 133 Dardanes, Ch. 141 Dardanes, Ni. 149 Ness 157 Zilverberg 165 Yohn 174 Storley 184 Steinhaus 197 Schiller HWT Nelson

W/L (score) L (8-2) L (fall) W (12-4) W (fall) L (7-4) L (4-2) W (3-1) W (4-0) W (9-3) W (3-1)

MINNESOTA VS. VIRGINIA TECH 125 Thorn 133 Dardanes, Ch. 141 Dardanes, Ni. 149 Ness 157 Zilverberg 165 Yohn 174 Storley 184 Steinhaus 197 Schiller HWT Nelson

W/L (score) L (10-7) W (14-4) W (9-2) W (7-6) W (5-0) L (18-2) W (8-2) W (fall) W (9-7) W (4-0)

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

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Minnesota head women’s tennis coach Chuck Merzbacher said this week his team needed both wins over the weekend.

They got ’em.

The Gophers have struggled to start the season, but they appear to have hit their stride in the past couple of weeks. They stretched their winning streak to four matches this weekend with wins over Mississippi State and Wisconsin at the Baseline Tennis Center.

Minnesota beat Mississippi State 4-3 on Friday night and beat rival Wisconsin 7-0 on Sunday to kick off the Big Ten season.

“I think people are starting to come together,” senior Doron Muravnik said Sunday.

“It was an adjustment period with the new coaches and new teammates, but it’s coming together.”

Muravnik has battled injuries all season, and her right arm was laced with three separate bags of ice after her match with Wisconsin.

It didn’t seem to affect her this weekend, as she didn’t lose a match.

“I’m still pretty beat up,” she said. “I’m not going to lie, but I don’t really think about it in the matches. It worked for me this weekend.”

Merzbacher said players on the team are still healing from injuries, but he said his team is about as healthy as it’s been all season.

He added he was impressed with the way his team responded from its early season struggles.

“I had a feeling that we could do this,” Merzbacher said. “I felt once we healed up and got all our players, we’d be a different team. In the last 10 days or so, we’ve really started to develop an identity.”

Minnesota will now have three weeks off from matches before it resumes play March 18 against Connecticut.

Men

Minnesota’s Kevin Steinhaus (184) takes down Virginia Tech’s Nick Vetterlein on Friday at Williams Arena.

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The Gophers men’s tennis team continued its recent struggles with a 4-3 loss to Wisconsin.

Minnesota entered the match ranked higher but didn’t play like it Saturday af-

ternoon in Madison, Wis. Minnesota head coach Geoff Young said he was upset with his team’s performance. He said he felt the team gave a good effort but didn’t make good decisions.

“It’s different for ever y guy,” he said, “but we have to be better all around.”

Young said earlier in the week that the doubles point was important for his team, as it has coincided with wins this season.

The Gophers got the doubles point against Wisconsin, but that was one of their only bright spots. And it wasn’t that bright in Young’s eyes.

“We won it, but it doesn’t mean we did well,” Young said. “We’re trying to be as good as we can be, and we can definitely play better.”

Rok Bonin and Leandro Toledo were the only Gophers players to capture a win on the singles side Saturday.

Bonin and Toledo dominated in their respective matches at Nos. 1 and 2 singles, but their teammates didn’t follow suit.

MEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

WISCONSIN 4, MINNESOTA 3 Singles Bonin Toledo Froment Hamburg Ruddock Weber

W W L L L L

Doubles Bonin/Froment Hamburg/Ruddock Frueh/Toledo

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

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

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WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

MINNESOTA 4, MISSISSIPPI STATE 3 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Rincon-Otero Mozia Lambert Muravnik

L W L W L W

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

Doubles Pintusava/Rincon-Otero L 8-4 Brichacova/Muravnik W 8-6 Mozia/Umanets W 8-6 MINNESOTA 7, WISCONSIN 0 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Rincon-Otero Mozia Lambert Muravnik

W W W W W W

6-3, 3-6, 1-0 (10) 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 6-1, 6-4 6-3, 6-3 3-6, 6-3, 1-0 (10-1) 6-0, 6-2

Doubles Pintusava/Rincon-Otero W 8-2 Brichacova/Muravnik W 8-1 Mozia/Umanets L 8-7 (9-7)

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Monday, February 25, 2013

MEN’S HOCKEY

Three points doesn’t satisfy Gophers Minnesota hasn’t swept an opponent in more than a month.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

Three points are nowhere near as good as four for the Gophers hockey team.

As a tight race for the Wester n Collegiate Hockey Association crown winds down, the No. 2 Gophers picked up three out of four points against Minnesota-Duluth at Mariucci Arena this weekend. The teams tied 2-2 on Saturday night after the Gophers won 5-3 on Friday.

After splitting their previous three series, the Gophers (21-6-5, 136-5 WCHA) talked openly about the impor tance of playing a complete weekend with UMD and getting a sweep.

“I don’t think we’re satisfied with three of four points,” freshman defenseman Mike Reilly said.

Minnesota surrendered two one-goal leads Saturday en route to the tie.

Reilly scored a powerplay goal in the first period, but the Bulldogs answered in the second with a powerplay goal of their own.

Both teams traded goals in the third period but couldn’t score in the final seven minutes of the period or in the five-minute overtime.

The Gophers improved their defensive and goaltending efforts Saturday.

“We definitely tightened it up [defensively],” sophomore for ward Travis Boyd said Saturday. “We went over video this morning and definitely made

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

Minnesota-Duluth Minnesota

1 2 3 FINAL 0 3 0 3 1 2 2 5

1 2 3 4 FINAL Minnesota-Duluth 0 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 2 Minnesota

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WCHA STANDINGS 1 2 3 3 5 6 6 8 9 10 10 12

St. Cloud State Minnesota Nebraska-Omaha North Dakota MSU-Mankato Denver Wisconsin Colorado College Minnesota-Duluth Bemidji State Michigan Tech Alaska-Anchorage

33 31 30 30 29 27 27 22 21 16 16 10

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some adjustments.”

But it didn’t translate to a win. UMD also played well defensively Saturday, blocking 23 shots.

“That’s a team competing,” head coach Don Lucia said. “You could tell that they were dialed in.”

Both Adam Wilcox and UMD goalie Matt Mc Neely had at least 35 saves Saturday. Wilcox gave up three goals on 29 shots Friday, and McNeely gave up four on 33.

“I told [McNeely] today, ‘You’re going to be tested,’ ” UMD coach Scott Sandelin said Saturday. “I knew [the Gophers] were going to come with more of an of fensive push, and they did.”

The Gophers’ defensive unit played one of its worst games Friday but was aided by UMD’s inability to capitalize on opportunities.

The Bulldogs’ poor fin-

Minnesota forward Kyle Rau chases the puck against Minnesota-Duluth on Saturday at Mariucci Arena.

ishing kept it from pulling away from Minnesota all weekend. UMD didn’t lead in either game.

UMD hit three posts Friday and fanned on many solid oppor tunities throughout the game.

The Gophers’ Kyle Rau scored the game-winner in the third period Friday when a deflected puck found his stick in the high slot. That goal spiced up an other wise uneventful third period.

UMD scored three second-period goals — two on the power play — to make it close before the Gophers pulled away in the

third.

Minnesota went 0-for-5 with the extra man Friday.

“Early on it just kind of summed up our game,” Lucia said of Minnesota’s power-play str uggles. “I thought we moved it better later in the game.”

In a game in which they could have trailed, the Gophers stayed in it with big plays Friday.

“I thought our top-end guys made the plays when they had the opportunities to make the plays,” Lucia said. “And they finished.

That was the dif ference tonight.”

In the second period,

junior for ward Zach Budish dropped a pass to Erik Haula on a penalty kill for a short-handed goal. Later, Sam Warning went coastto-coast and notched a highlight-reel goal.

Haula’s goal gave the Gophers a shor t-lived, two-goal lead.

“Sometimes you get a 2-0 lead and you feel like it’s almost over,” Lucia said Friday. “I never felt that way tonight.”

The Gophers still have a shot at the WCHA title, as they sit two points behind conference leader St. Cloud State with two series left.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers complete first undefeated regular season in NCAA history, Räty ties shutout record Minnesota shut out St. Cloud State twice to finish the regular season at 34-0-0.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

In a season loaded with records, the Gophers women’s hockey team claimed two more to end the Western Collegiate Hockey Association regular season this weekend at St. Cloud State.

With their 2-0 win Friday and 3-0 win Saturday, the Gophers became the first team in NCAA histor y to complete a perfect regular season.

Senior goaltender Noora Räty added another individual record by tying the NCAA record for career shutouts with 39. She is also one shutout away from tying the single-season record.

“It’s always nice to make some NCAA history,” Räty said. “I get my name on that record, but I feel like a big part of it also belongs to my team.”

Räty could’ve broken the record if she had played Friday night, but head coach Brad Frost decided to rest her. Räty said the day off from competition allowed her to put extra practice time in.

“I feel like I’m going to be more fresh now since I got a day off,” Räty said. “And going into [the WCHA playoffs], I feel like that’s going to help me.”

Frost said the decision to rest Räty was twofold. He also wanted to give freshman goaltender Amanda Leveille playing time.

“Amanda’s played ver y well for us this year,” Frost said, “and it’s been a hard situation as a freshman

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota goalie Noora Räty blocks a shot during the 2012 NCAA championship game against Wisconsin in Duluth.

goaltender playing behind the best goalie out there.”

Leveille made 24 saves Friday, while sophomore defender Rachel Ramsey and freshman for ward Mar yanne Menefee scored the Gophers’ two goals.

Räty wasn’t the only key player missing Friday. Junior for ward Amanda Kessel sat out the entire weekend.

“She’s dinged up, and so we’re just trying to get her as healthy as we can before playoffs,” Frost said. “It was a hard decision with her chasing the NCAA record for points, but her health is more impor tant to her and to us down the stretch here.”

Frost said it was difficult to play without the team’s leading scorer and powerplay unit leader, but Kessel’s teammates played well.

Freshman forward Hannah Brandt said her team had to make adjustments without Kessel.

“It’s different without her in the lineup,” Brandt said.

“It jumbled up the lines a little bit, which was kind of tough.”

Brandt scored the first

goal Saturday, followed by senior forward Becky Kortum and freshman defender Milica McMillen. Brandt called the Huskies a ver y defensive team that made it hard for the Gophers to get close to the net.

The Gophers, who clinched the WCHA regular-season title three weeks ago, are 34-0-0 heading into next weekend’s WCHA playoffs. Frost said it will be a welcome change for his team to have something tangible to chase again.

“I feel like since we clinched our [regular] season championship, it’s been hard to kind of get excited for a game since there’s nothing on the line,” Räty said. “So I feel like the whole team is just excited for playoffs.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

Minnesota St. Cloud State

1 0 0

2 2 0

3 FINAL 0 2 0 0

Minnesota St. Cloud State

1 0 0

2 1 0

3 FINAL 2 3 0 0

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Monday, February 25, 2013

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TRACK & FIELD

Men finish fifth, women seventh at Big Ten indoor championships The men came within four points of first place, and the women fared better than expected.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s track and field teams finished fifth and seventh, respectively, at the Big Ten indoor championships Friday and Saturday in Geneva, Ohio.

While the places may not seem impressive, the team scores show the meet was more competitive than last year.

The men’s team finished second last season by four points to Indiana. This season, the men finished fifth by that same margin to champion Wisconsin. Only 1.5 points separated second and fifth place.

“I’ve never seen a Big Ten meet as close as that was,” head coach Steve Plasencia said.

Minnesota ended with 86 points. Wisconsin tallied 90 while Illinois had 87.50, Penn State had 87 and Nebraska had 86.66. Defending champion Indiana placed sixth with 72 points.

“We didn’t get any individual champions,” Plasencia said, “and to be that

close without individual champions, that’s something I wouldn’t have expected.”

Senior Harun Abda was the Gophers’ best finisher on the weekend. He was the defending Big Ten champion in the 400- and 600-meter runs but finished third in the 400 and second in the 600 this year.

Abda said instead of splitting the 400 final into two sets of four, all eight finalists ran together — causing a lot of traf fic on the track.

In the 600, Abda ran in the heat before the winner with a personal-record time, so he couldn’t compete head-to-head with the eventual champion.

“This is the closest finish I’ve ever seen, and it just tells you that Big Ten’s not just an easy conference,” Abda said. “I think it’s the best conference in the nation.”

Abda also competed in the 4x400-meter relay with junior Jacob Capek, senior Cameron Boy and freshman Goaner Deng. The relay placed second, and Plasencia said it picked up the team’s energy at the end of the meet.

“I felt like toward late in the afternoon, we kind of sagged a little bit emotionally,” Plasencia said. “The guys who came out on the track after that continued to

do a really great job.”

BIG TEN INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Women show improvement

The Gophers women finished last in the 11-team Big Ten field a year ago with just 11 points.

This year, the Gophers placed seventh with 56 points and were one point away from sixth.

“Obviously, seventh is not where we want to be, and it’s not acceptable,” head coach Matt Bingle said. “But it’s a lot better than last year, and we’re moving in the right direction.”

Bingle said the ultimate goal is to build the team back to its pinnacle when it won three-straight Big Ten indoor championships from 2007-09.

While the Gophers performed better than expected, Bingle said they could have finished even better if they had competed as well Saturday as they did Friday. He said his team made some mistakes in the sprinting events.

Senior Todea-Kay Willis finished sixth in the 60-meter dash while her teammate, senior Kylie Peterson, finished ninth.

“We made a few mistakes and the results show that we did,” Willis said.

“We really felt bad afterward because we wanted to come in and execute the

RESULTS MEN’S

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Wisconsin Illinois Penn State Nebraska Minnesota Indiana Iowa Ohio State Michigan Purdue Michigan State

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Illinois Nebraska Michigan Penn State Ohio State Michigan State Minnesota Wisconsin Purdue Indiana Iowa

90 87.5 87 86.66 86 72 49 40 39 35.83 29

WOMEN’S

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Harun Abda competes in the 800-meter run Feb. 15 at the University Fieldhouse.

way … we practice.”

Willis made up for her subpar performance in the 60 with a second-place finish in the long jump. Willis broke the school record at 6.29 meters.

“That was one of my goals coming into the meet,” Willis said. “It was really that accomplishing feeling. I was really happy.”

Bingle also singled out junior Laura Docherty and sophomore Molly Kayfes as important point scorers for the Gophers.

Docherty finished third in the 3,000-meter run and second in the 5,000-meter run. Kayfes placed sixth in the 3,000 and third in the 5,000.

New atmosphere

The Spire Institute hosted the Big Ten indoor championships this weekend, becoming the first non-Big Ten facility to do so.

Willis said the atmosphere was not as bad as she thought it would be, while Bingle deemed it OK. “It’s a great facility to r un fast and have great marks and those types of things,” Bingle said. “But in terms of having that college feel — where it’s a little smaller building and ever ybody’s on top of each other and the cr owd’s loud, those types of things — it’s a whole dif ferent ball game.”

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Abda said since the facility didn’t have much else around it, the athletes and fans missed out on the real Big Ten experience.

“You kind of miss the fun part of being [at] some school, some campus,” Abda said.

Fewer fans attended Friday’s competition than Saturday. Since the facility is so big, Plasencia said the meet felt hollow at times.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers can’t finish Purdue as Banham struggles in second half Rachel Banham scored four points on 2-for-12 shooting in the second half of Minnesota’s loss Sunday.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Again, Minnesota’s women’s basketball team found itself locked in a tight game late against a quality opponent.

Again, the Gophers couldn’t get it done.

Minnesota fell to No. 22 Purdue 75-63 in a Sunday matinee at Williams Arena.

Days after an emotional victor y at Ohio State, the Gophers (5-9 Big Ten) squandered a four-point halftime lead to the Boilermakers, who had dropped four of five games before Sunday.

“We put ourselves in a position to win with about three- and-a-half minutes to go,” Minnesota head coach Pam Bor ton said.

“Our inability to get stops and rebounds down the stretch really affected us.”

Sophomore guard Rachel Banham scored 17 of her team-high 21 points in the first half. She shot 2-for-12 in the second half.

Minnesota rode Banham’s hot hand to a 40-36 halftime lead. She shot 6-for-8 in the first half and made a couple of of fbalance three-pointers, including a shot seconds before the first-half buzzer sounded.

As a team, the Gophers shot 50 percent from the floor in the first half.

But the Boilermakers adjusted at halftime and began double-teaming Banham on pick-and-rolls and cutting of f dribblepenetration.

“I wasn’t able to hit shots. That forced other people to step up,” said Banham, whose buzzerbeater lifted the Gophers to a 57-56 victor y over Ohio State on Thursday.

“It was definitely much harder.”

Purdue seized a 51-50 lead six minutes into the second half and rode it all the way to the finish.

W ith Banham str uggling, the Gophers turned to junior post player Mi-

caëlla Riché on offense.

Riché had no problem establishing a deep post position, but she str uggled to finish around the basket.

She finished the game with 13 points on 6-for-18 shooting.

“I think Micaëlla was playing a little too fast,” Bor ton said. “Sometimes she’s getting the ball and going of f of one foot or fading away instead of taking it to the rim.”

Banham scored her first points of the second half on a layup with 11:19 left.

But Purdue answered that basket and almost ever y other Gophers basket the rest of the way.

Riché cut the deficit to two on a layup with 3:30 left, but the Boilermakers pushed their lead back to four with another bucket.

The Gophers tur ned the ball over on their next possession, and Purdue

MINNESOTA 57, OHIO STATE 56

PURDUE 75, MINNESOTA 63 Purdue Minnesota

36 39 — 75 40 23 — 63

Minnesota Ohio State

MINNESOTA

PURDUE Player Mingo Ostarello Moses Williams Houser Clemons Wilson Poston Manuel Total

Min 35 31 36 31 37 5 5 11 9 200

FG M-A 4-5 5-11 7-13 1-3 4-9 0-0 1-3 2-6 1-1 25-51

FT M-A 4-5 0-2 6-6 0-1 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 3-4 16-22

Reb O-T Ast PF 1-6 3 4 2-10 1 3 1-4 1 0 0-1 4 2 0-5 7 0 0-2 0 1 0-0 1 0 2-3 1 0 1-2 0 3 9-37 13 16

Pts 14 10 23 2 14 0 3 4 5 75

Percentages: FG .490 FT .727. Three-pointers: 9-12, .750 (Houser 3-5, Moses 3-4, Mingo 2-2, Wilson 1-1). Blocks: 5 (Ostarello 3, Mingo 2). Team rebounds: 4. Turnovers: 10 (Houser 2, Manuel 2, Mingo, Ostarello, Moses, Wilson, Poston). Steals: 6 (Moses 2, Houser 2, Ostarello, Wilson).

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

26 31 — 57 20 36 — 56

FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF 34 4-5 2-2 1-6 3 3 34 6-18 1-2 4-9 1 2 39 8-20 3-4 1-3 6 3 20 1-2 0-0 1-2 1 2 33 4-7 0-0 1-2 3 2 16 0-2 0-2 1-1 1 2 1-4 0-0 0-1 0 0 6 12 0-1 2-2 0-3 0 1 0-3 0-0 0-0 0 0 6 200 24-62 8-12 12-33 15 15

Pts 10 13 21 3 12 0 2 2 0 63

Percentages: FG .387, FT .667. Three-pointers: 7-15, .467 (Noga 4-6, Banham 2-6, Mullaney 1-1, Kellogg 0-1, Bailey 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Riche, Banham). Team rebounds: 6. Turnovers: 8 (Banham 2, Hirt 2, Cotton, Mullaney, Riche, Loberg) Steals: 5 (Noga 2, Cotton, Banham, Riche). A: 4,018. Officials: Barb Smith, Kevin Pethtel, Angie Enlund

scored back-to-back baskets to seal the victor y.

Boilermakers guard Cour tney Moses scored 23 points, and guard KK Houser added 14 points

Player Riche Banham Mullaney Kellogg Noga Cotton Hirt Bailey Loberg Total

FG FT Min M-A M-A 22 7-12 3-4 37 6-16 4-4 12 1-1 2-2 37 1-1 0-0 39 2-5 0-0 29 0-3 5-6 0-1 1-2 4 0-1 0-0 4 16 2-5 1-2 200 19-45 16-20

Reb O-T Ast PF 0-5 2 4 1-8 2 2 1-1 0 0 0-8 2 3 1-4 0 3 1-2 2 5 0-1 0 0 0-0 0 1 2-4 0 1 6-36 8 19

Pts 17 17 4 2 6 5 1 0 5 57

Percentages: FG .422 FT .800. Three-pointers: 3-10, .300 (Noga 2-5, Banham 1-5). Blocks: 1 (Loberg).

Team rebounds: 3. Turnovers: 19 (Banham 6, Riche 4, Kellogg 3, Mullaney 2, Noga 2, Cotton). Steals: 4 (Loberg, Kellogg, Cotton, Riche).

OHIO STATE Player Dobranic Adams Stokes Hill Alston Honeycutt Kynard Moore Ellerbe Scullion Ferguson Harmon Total

FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T 6 0-3 0-0 0-1 29 1-5 0-0 1-5 33 4-9 2-4 2-4 40 5-17 14-14 1-5 22 2-4 1-4 1-3 7 0-3 0-0 0-1 7 0-2 0-0 1-1 11 2-6 0-0 2-4 7 0-0 0-0 0-0 4 0-0 0-0 0-0 27 4-7 0-0 2-7 7 0-2 0-0 2-2 200 18-58 14-22 13-35

Ast 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 7

PF 0 1 3 2 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 14

Pts 0 2 10 25 5 0 0 4 0 0 10 0 56

Percentages: FG .310, FT .773. Three-pointers: 3-16, .188 (Ferguson 2-3, Hill 1-7, Honeycutt 0-3, Kynard 0-2, Alston 0-1). Blocks: 3 (Hill 2, Moore). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 12 (Hill 2, Stokes 2, Scullion 2, Ferguson, Harmon, Kynard, Adams, Alston) Steals: 6 (Stokes 3, Hill 2, Ferguson). A: 2,952. Officials: Mark Zentz, Gina Cross, Bob Enterline

and 7 assists.

Gophers juniors Sari Noga and Kionna Kellogg scored 12 and 10 points, respectively.

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota guard Rachel Banham looks to pass against Purdue on Sunday at Williams Arena.

Minnesota reser ves combined for four points, a disappointing total to Borton.

“That’s what you really need in a game like this,” Bor ton said, “people of f

the bench stepping up and giving you some type of production.”

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Monday, February 25, 2013

BASEBALL

Gophers take three of four, gain confidence with solid opening homestand Minnesota played solid defense and showed progress offensively against Western Michigan.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers will play at the Metrodome a lot in the coming weeks. This weekend, they gave their hometown fans a preview of what they can hope to expect during the long homestand.

Minnesota took three of four games from Wester n Michigan during its first home stand of the season. The Gophers won 7-1 on Friday, the teams split two games Saturday, and Minnesota won a 9-2 matinee Sunday.

“It was a good star t for us,” head coach John Anderson said. “We got done what we wanted to get done here. … We really needed to make an adjustment here in our confidence level.”

The Gophers lost 14-0 and 14-1 to No. 6 ranked UCLA last weekend after winning their season opener against the Bruins.

Minnesota (4-3) will play 17 of its next 19 games under the Metrodome’s Teflon roof.

After trading r uns in the first four innings Sunday, the Gophers broke it open in the fifth when senior third baseman Ryan Abrahamson launched a double to left field that plated a runner. Anderson said he thought the ball left the yard, but after a conference the umpires left Abrahamson on second base.

“I’ll defend [the umpire] — it’s not an easy

Chase breaks tibia in “forgettable” win

The women’s team lost for the first time this season.

BASEBALL RESULTS

1 Western Michigan 0 Minnesota 0

2 0 1

3 0 0

4 0 0

5 0 2

6 0 0

7 1 4

8 0 0

9 0 X

R 1 7

H 5 13

E 2 1

1 Western Michigan 0 Minnesota 0

2 1 0

3 0 0

4 1 0

5 0 0

6 0 0

7 0 0

8 0 0

9 0 0

R 2 0

H 9 3

E 0 0

1 Western Michigan 0 Minnesota 3

2 1 4

3 0 2

4 0 4

5 0 2

6 0 0

7 0 X

8

9

R H 1 5 15 12

E 2 0

1 Western Michigan 0 Minnesota 1

2 0 0

3 1 0

4 0 0

5 0 3

6 0 0

7 0 5

8 0 0

9 1 X

R 2 9

H 5 14

E 2 0

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call,” Anderson said. “It might have hit the top [of the wall] and came back, but I thought it hit the seat.”

Abrahamson went 2-for4 with three runs batted in Sunday. Anderson said he was excited to see such production from a third baseman, which was a question mark entering the season.

Minnesota had a threerun lead after five innings.

Senior leftfielder Andy Henkemeyer had one of the Gophers’ three doubles in the fifth.

“We made an adjustment at the plate [in the fifth],” Henkemeyer said.

“We started seeing the ball deeper and hitting it to opposite field. That definitely turned it around.”

The Gophers scored five runs in the seventh to put the game out of reach.

Jor dan Jess had the best game of his career on the mound Sunday. He went six innings, gave up one earned r un on three hits and struck out seven.

The innings and strikeouts were career highs.

“He came out of the bullpen sharp in the first

GYMNASTICS

inning and struck out the side,” Anderson said. “I thought that really set the tone.”

Jess said it felt good to be back pitching at the Dome after he got roughed up in his last outing against UCLA. “Throwing five, six innings is what I want to do for most of the year,” Jess said.”

Minnesota’s three wins over the weekend came in blowout fashion, which Anderson said was encouraging.

“When we’ve been able to score five or more, you can see what the recipe’s going to be,” Anderson said. “I think we’re making some progress of fensively compared to where we were at the end of last year.”

The Gophers also pitched and defended well.

Western Michigan did not score more than two runs in any game, and the Gophers had only one error on the weekend.

“Our [defense] is always flawless,” Jess said.

“They’re solid, so I’ve got to give them a lot of the credit.”

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s gymnastics team defeated Illinois-Chicago on Sunday afternoon in Chicago, halting a two-meet losing streak.

Minnesota’s win came at a price, though. Junior Zack Chase fractured his tibia while doing a warm-up pass on floor. Chase said he’ll see a team doctor Monday and will likely wear a soft cast. Chase and coach Mike Burns said they don’t know if the injury will be seasonending.

Chase has been a consistent contributor on still rings and vault this season.

Burns described the day as forgettable. Minnesota’s score of 419.2 was its lowest of the season.

“It was hard to put your finger on what the problem was,” he said. “Whatever it was, we didn’t perform near as good as we could have.”

Minnesota had nine falls on routines. Beginning next week, all NCAA teams will be forced to count poor routines due to a rule change.

Only five gymnasts will be allowed on each event.

The Gophers had to use five gymnasts on floor exercise Sunday due to Chase’s injur y and counted three falls, Burns said.

Adam Kern won the floor exercise and tied for second on vault.

The junior said he was finally able to put all three of his events together at one time Sunday.

Kern said his routines on floor and vault gave the team some momentum heading into the next event of the meet.

Par t of the reason the team struggled with consistency Sunday may have been fatigue, Kern said. The team did not fully recover from its meet a week ago in Oklahoma and had an extra day of training this week, he said.

Kern said the Gophers’ home meet next week comes at the right time to build confidence and momentum using the new

rules, as consistency will play a large role in the outcome of future competitions.

Pommel horse has been a weakness for Minnesota this season. On Sunday, it was the team’s lowest-scoring event.

Kern said pommel horse is the event all NCAA teams will likely struggle with using the new system.

“It’s so easy to make one little mistake and come off on that,” he said.

Minnesota will face Iowa at home Saturday.

phers on every event Friday against Iowa to win the allaround competition. She followed that up by leading the team in three events Sunday.

Mable said she has been trying to keep mentally focused and calm each week.

She said she also has confidence in her routines.

Stephenson said Mable’s confidence has helped her remain a consistently strong performer all season long.

On Friday, the Gophers lost to Iowa by 0.175 points.

Minnesota scored higher than Iowa on vault and balance beam, but it was outscored on uneven bars and floor exercise.

Stephenson said Friday that if the Gophers had not been forced to count a fall on bars, they would have won.

Minnesota will compete at top-ranked Florida this Friday.

Women drop pair The Gophers women’s gymnastics team lost for the first time this season over the weekend. Minnesota was upset twice — first at Iowa on Friday night and then at Iowa State on Sunday afternoon.

The dif ference in the meet Sunday was the uneven bars, as Minnesota had three missed routines and scored a season-low 47.9 points. Junior Kayla Slechta tied for third to lead the Gophers on the event.

Stephenson said she was disappointed in her team’s per formance on bars but pleased with its per formance on floor and beam Sunday.

She also doesn’t know why the team is struggling with bars in competition.

“They don’t do the same thing they do in practice and warm-ups,” Stephenson said. “Right now it’s in their hands to figure it out as individuals.”

Stephenson said some gymnasts have figured bars out while others continue to struggle.

Freshman Lindsay Mable said there isn’t one par ticular challenge each week that leads to the struggles on bars, but the team focuses on certain aspects of the routine more than others.

Mable said the team will spend more time in practice talking about improving bars but will need confidence to turn it around.

Minnesota scored well on vault, sweeping the topthree spots. Mable and sophomore Jenny Covers led the way by scoring 9.875.

Mable had a dominant weekend. She led the Go-

MEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota UIC

SCORE 419.2 409.6

MINNESOTA LEADERS Floor Pommel Horse Still Rings Vault

SCORE Kern, 14.8 Kern, 13.8 Metcalf, 14.75 Kern, 14.7 Bauer, 14.7 Jaciuk, 14.6 Jaciuk, 14.55 Wokurka, 81.85

Parallel Bars High Bar All-around

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota Iowa

SCORE 195.55 195.725

MINNESOTA LEADERS SCORE Vault Mable, 9.875 Covers, 9.875 Bars Mable, 9.8 Beam Mable, 9.85 Floor Mable, 9.875 All-around Mable, 39.4 TEAMS Minnesota Iowa State

SCORE 195.025 195.55

MINNESOTA LEADERS SCORE Mable, 9.875 Vault Covers, 9.875 Slechta, 9.775 Bars Mable, 9.9 Beam Mable, 9.9 Floor Covers, 38.95 All-around

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SOFTBALL

Moulton’s no hitter highlights Gophers’ improvements Minnesota won four of five games and evened its record to 7-7.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers softball team struggled last season to beat teams they felt they should’ve beaten.

That wasn’t a problem this weekend.

Minnesota won four of its five games at the FGCU/ LaQuinta Spring Break Invitational in Fort Myers, Fla. The Gophers defeated Florida Gulf Coast once, St. Bonaventure once and Albany twice. They lost to Villanova 5-4 in nine innings Saturday.

“Obviously we would have liked to have a fifth [win], but I’m proud of our team for coming out and winning four,” head coach Jessica Allister said.

Junior Sara Moulton star ted all five games for Minnesota and has a 7-4 record this season. She tossed the third no-hitter of her career Sunday against Albany as the Gophers won 1-0. Sophomore Tyler Walker scored the game’s only r un on a solo home r un to right-center field in the third inning.

“It was just one of those good days,” Moulton said, adding that her catcher, Kari Dorle, did a great job of framing her pitches.

“I was really comfor table,” she said. “I was just

rolling the team ground balls, and then we were hitting the ball, so it made my job a lot easier.”

Moulton also came up big in Friday’s 3-0 shutout of Florida Gulf Coast.

“It’s huge,” Allister said of Moulton’s performance over the weekend. “That’s all you can ask — I mean, you can’t even ask for that.

She was trusting her stuff, she was going after hitters.”

Minnesota defeated Albany to open and close the invitational. The Gophers won 4-2 on Friday. Senior Alex Davis led the offense by going 2-for-3 with a double and a home run, and sophomore Kaitlyn Richardson went 2-for-3.

The Gophers used a five-r un third inning to beat St. Bonaventure 7-4 on

Saturday. Walker went 3-for3 with three runs scored and one batted in.

Minnesota’s lone blemish on the weekend was an extra-innings loss to Villanova. The Gophers blew an early 3-0 lead and a 4-3 ninth-inning lead to lose 5-4.

Minnesota rebounded from the loss by winning its next two games, which Allister attributed to the team’s poise and leadership.

The Gophers’ of fense was balanced over the weekend, with dif ferent players stepping up at different times. Allister said she’d like her team to be more consistent on offense.

“The good news is we’re getting hits,” Allister said.

“We’ve just got to find a way to string them together.”

SOFTBALL RESULTS

1 0 0

2 0 1

3 0 0

4 0 1

5 0 2

6 2 0

7 0 X

R 2 4

H 5 6

E 1 1

1 0 Minnesota Florida Gulf Coast 0

2 0 0

3 0 0

4 0 0

5 0 0

6 0 0

7 3 0

R 3 0

H 10 1

E 2 0

1 0 0

3 1 0

4 2 1

5 0 1

6 0 1

7 0 0

8 0 0

9 1 2

R 4 5

H 7 9

E 2 5

St. Bonaventure Minnesota

1 0 0

2 0 0

3 0 5

4 1 0

5 3 0

6 0 2

7 0 X

R 4 7

H 6 5

E 1 0

Albany Minnesota

1 0 0

2 0 0

3 0 1

4 0 0

5 0 0

6 0 0

7 0 X

R 0 1

H 0 6

E 1 0

Albany Minnesota

Minnesota Villanova

2 0 0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Monday, February 25, 2013

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Monday, February 25, 2013

BACKTALK sudoku

horoscopes

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

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2/25/13

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (2/25): You’re a student as well as a teacher this year. Keep your schedule and budget, and finances work out. Home is where your heart is for the first six months, and a move, remodel or family addition is possible.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Love can help you grow. Postpone a meeting with friends and get to work. Diversity plays an important role in your long-range plan. You don’t have to explain a thing.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Take time for private meditation, as often as possible. Love insinuates itself into your life, but don’t ignore other obligations. Your social life takes a turn.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Consider the consequences. The possibility for mistakes is high, but don’t let that stop you. Through playfulness and creative thinking you can work it out.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Surround yourself with friends who are motivated and be inspired and inspiring. Consider all possibilities, and identify the final objection.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Draw energy from those who love you and reflect some back so that the relationship’s sustainable.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Keep up to date on the latest information, but don’t get sidetracked from goals. Possible conflicts may appear for the next two days.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — The money is following you, so you must be doing what you love. Avoid wasting a lot of energy — it’s easier than you think. Instead of watts, burn calories, smartly.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — There’s a detour ahead. Enjoy the adventure and mystery of the uncertainty (this is possible). Don’t believe everything you’ve read.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — You may have to choose between love and money now.

Consider carefully and choose, remembering that money can’t buy you love.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Review financial arrangements to increase income, now and over the next month. Keep focused to find opportunities, and get plenty of rest. Be gracious.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Your efforts are being recognized, and you’re only getting hotter. Navigate through today’s maze with ease. Make changes as needed.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — It’s getting interesting. Put your money where your mouth is when it comes to work. Get out of the way of your own success. Don’t overanalyze it.

Monday, February 25, 2013

overheard Girl talking on phone: “Call her fat, but don’t call her Precious!”

“Sorry, I don’t mean to be terrifying, just excited.”

Guy talking about hockey referees: “Sometimes I suck at my job, too. But it’s usually when I’m hungover.”

Guy: “Wanna come for a swim?”

Girl: “Wait, can you masturbate in water?”

Guy: “Wait, Vulcans? Like from ‘Star Trek?’ ” Girl: “No Balkans, like the people.”

[Playing Super Smash Bros] Guy 1: You called me a [expletive] rodent you [expletive] jerk!

Guy 2: You’re Pikachu!

—Unknown

—Mariucci Arena

—Blegen Hall

“Oh shoot, there’s still shrooms in my mug.”

—Sanford Hall

Girl 1: “What are we doing tonight?”

Girl 2: “We are going to YOLO.”

—Mariucci Arena

“Yeah, we’re passing it off as a regular pregnancy.”

—Coffman Union

“If you’re gonna get into crystal meth, you gotta do it this summer!”

—East Bank

Guy: “She looked like a mosquito.”

Girl: “How is that possible?”

Guy: “She pulled it off.”

—Sanford Hall

“It’s so hard to find good vampire porn ... I tried to find some for like two hours yesterday, but it’s all so [expletive].”

—Unknown

—Pioneer Dining Hall

crossword

—Centennial Hall

—Unknown

“OK, here is the deal: I am going to just drink another bottle of Nyquil. Let me know when you finish.”

—College of Science and Engineering computer lab

Guy 1: “Dude, I wish that kissing guys was socially acceptable.”

Guy 2: “Like, just for practice though, right?”

—Middlebrook Hall

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FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 25, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Apt. parts, in ads 4 Talking head 10 Big name in ATMs 13 Charged particles 15 Black-and-blue mark, e.g.

16 Suffix for pay 17 Soft hit that barely makes it over the infield 19 Cranberrygrowing area 20 Africa’s Sierra __ 21 Fed. retirement org.

22 “T” on a test, usually 23 Like dodos and dinosaurs 26 Foray 28 Archaeological age-determination process 31 Texting units: Abbr.

34 Rowboat mover 35 Wish granter 36 “How was __ know?”

37 Abrasions 40 Sinus doc 41 Not exactly robust 43 Simpsons neighbor Flanders 44 Makes really angry 45 Completely absorbed 49 Lawyer’s customer 50 Accessory often carried with a wallet 54 Merle Haggard’s “__ From Muskogee” 55 N.J. neighbor 57 Lightened 58 Libertarian politician Paul 59 Sign in a limo that aptly concludes the sequence formed by the last words of 17-, 28- and 45Across 62 Mystery novelist Grafton 63 Houston team 64 Statistician’s input 65 NHL tiebreakers 66 Tinkers (with) 67 Figs.

2/25/13 Thursday’s Puzzle Saturday’s PuzzleSolved Solved

By Don Gagliardo and C.C. Burnikel

DOWN 1 The Good Book 2 Pricey watch with a gold crown logo 3 Nose-in-the-air type 4 “Nova” airer 5 Ocean State sch.

6 Convent dwellers 7 Starts to eat with gusto 8 Manhattan is one 9 Golf ball’s perch 10 Choice you don’t have to think about 11 Metaphorical state of elation 12 Violent anger 14 Former (and likely future) Seattle NBA team 18 ’90s Cabinet member Federico 22 Lug 24 Gator’s kin 25 Skier’s way up 27 Glad __: party clothes 29 Long-armed primate 30 Comprehends 31 Tick off 32 Went down swinging

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

33 Touchdowns require crossing them 37 Leonard __: Roy Rogers’s birth name 38 Mountain top 39 Advantage 42 Nastase of tennis 44 Security checkpoint request 46 Ultimate application

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47 Big bomb trials 48 Binoculars user 51 Made in China, say 52 Look after 53 Icelandic sagas 54 Estimator’s words 56 P.O. box inserts 59 Printer problem 60 Stooge with bangs 61 Pack animal

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Dear Dr. Date,

dr. date

I’ve never been the type to care much about romantic relationships until recently, but now that I do, I have no idea where to start. It seems like everyone around me is happy with whatever relationship status they have right now, be it single or in a relationship or friends with benefits. I don’t know if it’s post-Valentine’s pheromones-rich air or what, but it’s gotten to the point where it’s been starting to affect my ability to concentrate on schoolwork.

It’s been very difficult to talk to guys, either as potentials or just making a friend. I just get nervous to the point where I decide to avoid the awkward and leave.

Honestly, I don’t know where to begin. I just want friends and relationships.

—Obnoxiously Lonely Kid

Lonely Girl,

You’re not obnoxious. You’re just lonely. It happens to everyone, especially at the beginning of college when everything is hectic and new. Although I’m in the love game, I really think the most satisfying relationships are friendships. College is a really exciting time to meet people and start building lifelong friendships.

So talk to the friends you have and see what they’re up to this weekend. Are they going to a show? Ask if you can join them. During the week, try striking up a conversation with someone in class. Ask if they thought the reading was too long or if it annoys them when your professor mispronounces “nuclear.”

Believe it or not, I was super shy before I came to college. For some of us, talking to new people just doesn’t come naturally. You have to make yourself do it. People love to talk about themselves, so ask them questions. And if things go well, ask them to hang out — or if it feels right, just ask them out.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I have a bone to pick. You see, I am gay. And one of my closest, dearest friends does not support gay marriage and knows I am gay. She is warm, caring and compassionate. She was raised Catholic and shows so much love for everyone. Just because someone does not support government sanctioning of gay marriage does not mean they hate gay people, as you so myopically put it. She’s stated her reasons, and none are hateful.

I simply disagree with her. And thus, I also disagree with you.

Truth be told, I think the government would do best to stay out of marriage altogether and leave it to individuals in consensual relationships. The only reason we have this issue is because government stuck its nose into people’s relationships to begin with. The purpose of government is to protect our inalienable rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” rather than doling out special tax breaks to married folks like it does now.

Please Dr. Date — keep your mind open! I’d expect better from someone who should’ve learned all about fallacious arguments in your journalism classes.

—Adam Looking For Steve

Adam,

First thing’s first: The Doc would never major in something as inane as journalism. Nah, the Doc majored in love and then slaved away for another few years to get a Ph.D., a pretty huge … degree.

I’ll say this: Whether the government has its doughy hand in marriage is a red herring. The fact of the matter is that the government does hold the power. That’s not the issue: The issue is how the government uses that voter/lobby-given power.

I think it should be used so that we can all have big, fat, Greek weddings, regardless of how low the heat we’re packin’ hangs.

—Dr. Date

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

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Monday, February 25, 2013

Metro Transit conducts survey to analyze transportation options in Mpls.

Streetcars, light rail and bus rapid transit are options for the Midtown Corridor.

BY MERITTE DAHL mdahl@mndaily.com

For Minneapolis transpor tation, histor y could repeat itself.

Metro Transit is conducting its first study to examine alternative transportation options along Lake Street and the Midtown Greenway, which could mean bringing streetcars back to the city.

Streetcars were a common sight in Minneapolis up until the 1950s, when they were phased out and the idea of their return is growing in popularity, with Mayor R.T. Rybak a prominent backer.

Those working on the study say streetcars are one of the more likely options.

Other alternative transpor tation possibilities include light rail and two bus options.

Metro Transit’s study will analyze the benefits, costs and impact of the four options on more than four miles of Lake Street and the Midtown Greenway, a bike and walking trail that runs between the Hiawatha light rail and future site of the Southwest light-rail line.

Bus rapid transit or streetcars are likely options for Lake Street, while streetcars or light rail are more realistic options for the greenway, according to project manager Michael Mechtenberg.

“The cur rent bus service on Lake Street can be really slow during peak times and this is a corridor that’s got a high demand,” he said.

Streetcars and bus rapid transit share traf fic lanes with other vehicles, he said, while light rail and a dedicated busway — like the University of Minnesota Campus Connector — require their own lanes.

Both bus options are distinct from ordinar y city buses, Mechtenberg said.

They are faster and have a

station and payment structure more similar to light rail.

Two rapid bus lines are currently under construction in Minneapolis.

“A busway on the greenway would work from a technical perspective, but we know that there is not community suppor t for that,” Mechtenberg said.

Soren Jensen, executive director of the Midtown Greenway Coalition, said he is excited about the possibility of streetcars on the Greenway but only if the streetcar track can be embedded in the grass.

“We want to keep the green in the greenway,” Jensen said.

Better public transportation along Lake Street would cut down on congestion, said Madie Fredericks, a University retail merchandising senior.

Fredericks, a sales associate, commutes through heavy traf fic to get to My Sisters’ Closet off of Hennepin Avenue.

“There’s a lot of traf fic up there but not a lot of parking,” she said.

New public transpor tation would be beneficial for the greenway but not Lake Str eet, said L ynLake Business Association member Peggy Schatzlein.

“They have a greenway.

They should use it,” she said.

Schatzlein, co-owner of Schatzlein Saddle Shop, said, “The new ideas would be great for the greenway, but it would hur t small businesses — we wouldn’t have Lake Street.”

Mechtenberg said streetcars are one of the more likely options for new, alternative transit.

Streetcars have a rich, long histor y in Minneapolis, said Metro Transit spokesman John Siqveland.

“The streetcar system that used to r un in the Twin Cities was one of the most extensive and wellr un in the countr y,” he said.

Twin City Lines, which star ted operating streetcars in 1870, later added buses in the mid-19th centur y before selling to the

public sector in 1970 and becoming the forebear to Metro T ransit today, Siqveland said.

Today’s streetcars are ver y dif ferent from 100 years ago, Siqveland said.

Contemporar y streetcars are a little bit smaller and lighter than light-rail vehicles, Mechtenberg said.

Metro Transit and the Metropolitan Council will decide on a public transit option for the area in early 2014. They will rely on community feedback to make a decision.

The planning and constr uction that will take place after the study ends will be deter mined by which mode is chosen, Mechtenberg said.

This study is the first of its kind, Siqveland said, because usually city or county planning agencies conduct them.

The city of Minneapolis is conducting a similar study for a nine-mile stretch along Central and Nicollet avenues.

The city is considering express bus or streetcar

ser vice for the area, according to Project Manager Anna Flintoft. The city may also decide not to make any changes, keeping the area’s existing city bus ser vice.

The city is working with the Metropolitan Council and Metro Transit on the project and will come to a decision by this summer.

COST PER MILE OF TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS BUS RAPID TRANSIT Kansas City, Mo., Oakland, Calif., Seattle $2–6 million per mile

BUSWAY Boston, Cleveland, Los Angeles $10–50 million per mile

STREETCAR Portland, Ore., Seattle, Toronto $30–60 million per mile

LIGHT-RAIL TRANSIT Minneapolis, Dallas, San Diego $80–125 million per mile SOURCE: METRO TRANSIT

UNIVERSITY DATA REVEALS TUITION IS BIGGEST BUDGET SOURCE BUDGETS FROM PAGE 1 the decline in state funding has made colleges more dependent on tuition money to cover costs.

“That means, I think, that colleges have had to pay a lot more attention to student needs,” he said, “because the students are paying an increasing share of the cost of education the state’s not.”

University President Eric Kaler has proposed a tuition freeze for the next two years, but it has to be approved by the state Legislature and would cost the state $28.4 million.

Brian Arndt, a youth studies, sociology and social justice junior, said he fully supports Kaler’s proposal to freeze tuition.

“We think of [money] spent on education as a public good,” he said, “but the burden of that cost is being pushed onto families and individual students.”

Although 36 percent of University students graduate without debt, those who do take out loans have an average of $27,578 in debt.

Tuition, state appropriations and other University funding flows directly to the colleges.

The majority of this money is spent on faculty and staff salaries and benefits because the University is a “people business,” Pfutzenreuter said.

Cost pools make up the next largest expense for colleges.

These are ser vices and materials the University charges the colleges for, like utility bills, technology, libraries and building maintenance.

Pfutzenreuter said cost pools are calculated based on the best unit of use. Utility costs are based on how much energy the colleges use, for example, but cost pools like technology services are based on the number of students, faculty and staff in a college, so the bigger colleges pay a larger share.

The cost pool methodology, Pfutzenreuter said, is a fair way of charging colleges for services.

For the most par t, colleges spend exactly, or close to exactly, what they receive by the end of each fiscal year. The Office of Budget and Finance makes sure the colleges don’t spend more than they have, Pfutzenreuter said.

If they don’t spend it all, he said, it’s usually because they are expecting a big expenditure the next year — like a new piece of equipment or a costly new hire — or they received money close to the end of the year and didn’t spend it.

When colleges submit their budget proposals each year, Pfutzenreuter said Kaler and senior academic leaders sit down to talk about what the college needs and how the University can accommodate them.

Transparency, Arndt said, is an important step in showing the University is being responsible with taxpayer and tuition money.

“Ever y institution, especially one as large as the U of M,” he said, “needs to be accountable to how they’re spending their money.”

38.8% 32% 31.4%

32%

27.2%

TUITION MAKES UP AN AVERAGE OF 44 PERCENT OF THE COLLEGES’ BUDGETS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. From tuition

GO ONLINE FOR AN INTERACTIVE GRAPHIC Number of faculty and staff

CBS 311

CCE 2,073 19.9 M

227

Number of students

CEHD 4,537

843

1M

4,841 56.7 M

1,041

CSOM

1,324 15,131 13.8 M 1,176 7,257 140.6 M

390

$130 M

CDES 4,179

$249.4 M

1.2 M

214

461

LAW 3.6 M

184

$19.2 M

NURSING 153

826

$30.1 M

DENTISTRY 779

1.2 M

478

570

$49.4 M

253

553

MEDICAL 10.3 M 2,510 2,020 199.9 M

$62.2 M

PHARMACY 5.3 M

2M

1,586

$94.1 M $233.7 M

128

2,615 54.6 M

$99.4 M

CSE

HUMPHREY

Budget

CFANS

$30 M

$53 M

CLA

Research awards

Other sources of money

9.9 M

$395.5 M

PUB HEALTH

VETERINARY

562

541

991

77.7 M

469

21.8 M

19.5% 18.6%

’89

’96 ’97

’02

’08

’11 ’12

$25.3 M

$39.2 M

UNIVERSITY BUDGET: PERCENTAGE FROM STATE FUNDINGS

$48.5 M

$76.7 M

SOURCES: OFFICE OF BUDGET AND FINANCE, OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH

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generated from the MOOCs with Coursera.

While some say MOOCs are the future of higher education, others argue online courses take away from the learning experience of faceto-face time with faculty and peers.

Hanson said the MOOCs will be advantageous for both faculty and students, such as allowing faculty to get feedback from a larger sample of students.

“They’ll be able to tell from a massive number of people what has gotten through in the course and what people are still struggling with,” she said.

Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera, said the company has more than 2.7 million students.

“We started Coursera because with the technology one professor can teach not just 50 students in a class but 50,000,” Ng said. “I think there’s a potential to transform higher education and give everyone in the world access to a great education, not just the privileged few.”

The content University of Minnesota professors develop for MOOCs will be the property of the school but can be used in credit-worthy classes on campus.

Pros and cons Michael Oakes, an associate professor in the School of Public Health, said he’s excited about working with MOOCs because students from around the world can collaborate and learn “in a way that’s simply impossible in a traditional classroom.”

But MOOCs also come with a lack of personal interaction, Oakes said.

“I think the principle disadvantage is the inability to have that Socratic dialogue in a more classroom-traditional setting,” he said. “I think that’s going to be impossible in the MOOC or online format.”

The lack of student-professor interaction and the crediting system are other disadvantages, said Chris Cramer, the University’s faculty liaison for e-learning initiatives who helped move the MOOC idea forward at the University.

“Taking a MOOC is still a little bit of a labor of love. You just want to know more, and you think it would do you good to know more,” he said.

“But you won’t necessarily be credentialed in a way that carries with it any common value to people you might want to present a credential to.”

Hanson said MOOCs might not be the most viable

option for certain students, like prospective researchers.

“You can’t train the next generation of researchers, for example, through MOOCs,” she said. “You have to have them engaged in research, and that really does require access to laboratories and to researchers who can train them in the way researchers have been trained for a very long time.”

But MOOCs can provide education for students who don’t necessarily have the means to experience traditional higher education, Hanson said.

MOOCs “clearly will play a role in education in some other parts of the world, and they’re helping people in remote areas. They’re helping people who don’t have access to bricks and mortar campuses or faculties right now,” she said.

Cramer said students may take the fast-growing

online courses for a variety of reasons, like checking out a subject area.

Epidemiology master’s student Bryan Labore said he wouldn’t take a MOOC because he doesn’t have time, but he still supports the idea.

“I’m all for educating people. If I don’t have to pay for it, I don’t really care.”

The University and Coursera’s contract doesn’t have a set timeframe. Both the school and the company can request course material be taken down.

What’s next for MOOCs and higher education is unclear, Hanson said.

“I don’t think anybody really knows for sure how the MOOCs will play a role in higher education in the United States in the future,” she said. “I think that MOOCs may be part of the future of higher education, but they aren’t all of higher

education.”

Nationwide trend The latest par tnership doubles the number of universities offering free online courses this year with Coursera and edX, another leading MOOC provider.

Of the new institutions, 16 are outside the U.S. Ng said Coursera is pleased the University decided to partner with the company because of its forwardthinking views on higher education.

“Many people in Minnesota are taking a leadership role in thinking through what legal structure surrounding higher education should be,” he said. “So we’re deeply honored when the U of M decided to work with us on creating MOOCs.” —The Associated Press and Marion Renault contributed to this report.