February 28, 2013

Some strings attached u See PAGE 16

PARTLY CLOUDY HIGH 32° LOW 19°

U OF M

MINNEAPOLIS

ST PAUL

THURSDAY

FEBURUARY 28, 2013

POLICE

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT MNDAILY.COM

LEGISLATURE

Same-sex marriage push begins A bipartisan group introduced a samesex marriage bill Wednesday.

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minneapolis police Inspector Kathy Waite looks over updated crime statistics Wednesday in her office at the 2nd Precinct station in Minneapolis. The new inspector was appointed by Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau.

U area gets new top cop After 20 years with the force, Kathy Waite is the new head of the precinct encompassing the U.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

SWAT Negotiator team.

Now she will command the

Inspector Kathy Waite has

2nd Precinct, which covers

seen much of what the Min-

northeast Minneapolis and the

neapolis Police Depar tment

neighborhoods surrounding

does.

the University of Minnesota.

She star ted her 20-year

Minneapolis police Chief

MPD career as a patrol officer,

Janeé Harteau appointed Waite

then worked in the juvenile

last month. As commander,

division and eventually led the

Waite will lead the precinct’s

STUDENT SERVICES FEES

Students protest fees funding recs Students criticized the initial student ser vices fees funding recommendations, especially for the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, at public hearings Tuesday

and Wednesday.

The Student Ser vices Fees Committee issued its initial recommendations Monday and r eceived feedback from student groups, many of which were concer ned funding would cut stipends for staf f and student officers.

Based on these initial

CONGRESS

recommendations, students would pay almost $ 4 3 0 e a c h s e m e s t e r, which is up about $38 from this year.

Amanda Pratt, a thirdyear pharmacy student, said she’s concerned with how GAPSA is spending its fees funding.

“I have day car e to pay for and a mor tgage,

and I just want to see that they’re not spending a lot of money on things that might not be necessar y,” Pratt said.

GAPSA was recommended about $434,000 for 2013-14, about $29,000 u See FEES Page 20 Officer stipends were cut from several other student groups.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Sequestration woes Smith wary of letdown hit U research funds against Penn State The University is preparing for possible cuts to federal funding.

BY BRIAN AROLA AND REBECCA HARRINGTON barola@mndaily.com rharrington@mndaily.com

A trillion dollars in across-the-board federal budget cuts set to star t on March 1 could cost the state and the University of Minnesota millions of dollars in funding and thousands of jobs.

While Republicans call the effects overblown, the White House has said education, defense, small businesses, research and other areas would be hit hard by the cuts, which are known collectively as the sequester. The University could face millions of dollars in cuts to research grants.

University Vice President for Research Brian Herman said in an email u See RESEARCH Page 3 The sequester could also affect work-study programs.

The Gophers beat a No. 1 team Tuesday for the first time since ’89.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

T ubby Smith wants his players to have their cake — but not to eat it yet.

The Gophers beat top-ranked Indiana on Tuesday, and their veteran coach looked back two weeks for a reason to postpone the celebration.

“Each team is dif fer-

u See MARRIAGE Page 7 Nine states have legalized samesex marriage, including Iowa.

GUN LAWS

u See WAITE Page 4

BY CODY NELSON AND MEGHAN HOLDEN cnelson@mndaily.com mholden@mndaily.com

A bipartisan bill to legalize same-sex marriages in Minnesota was introduced at the state Capitol on Wednesday morning.

Sen. Scott Dibble, DFLMinneapolis, is sponsoring legislation that would repeal the state’s 1997 ban and let same-sex couples wed in Minnesota.

It would allow — but not force — Minnesota’s religious institutions to perform and recognize samesex marriages.

With momentum statewide from the mar riage amendment’s defeat last fall, same-sex marriage supporters are heavily pushing the issue in St. Paul.

“The journey has been

long, it’s been hard fought,” said co-author Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis.

“Minnesota spoke so loudly during this last election.

We’re ready to take the next step.”

Dibble, who, like Clark, is openly gay, said it’s time for the Legislature to settle the issue.

Set to be formally introduced for the House and Senate on Thursday, the same-sex marriage legislation is getting suppor t from both sides of the party line — but will still face resistance in the coming months.

GOP activist and former state auditor Pat Anderson supports the bill, and Sen. Branden Petersen, RAndover, signed on as a coauthor, the first Republican lawmaker to do so.

“This is not a par tisan

ent in their personality and makeup,” Smith said.

“For this team, we had a good win against Wisconsin [on Feb. 14], and we didn’t respond ver y well.”

Minnesota followed its over time win against the Badgers with two embarrassing ef for ts at Iowa and Ohio State in which the team lost by a combined 47 points.

Minnesota hosts Penn State at Williams Arena on Saturday, the team’s final home game of the u See BASKETBALL Page 9

Gun debate endures in Senate, on campus Mpls. Mayor R.T. Rybak spoke to College Democrats Wed. about guns.

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

As the debate on whether to change Minnesota’s firear m regulations endures in the state Legislature, the University of Minnesota continues to play an active role.

University students and of ficials, as well as state legislators and the public, have widely var ying ideas on how the state should address gun laws, if at all.

Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak joined about a dozen of the University College

Democrats in a roundtable d i s c u s s i o n We d n e s d a y night to discuss reducing gun violence, and last week the state Senate heard a series of gun control bills.

Rybak, who will finish his third term at the end of year, said he is pushing for universal background checks and allowing local and federal officials to share data about gun purchases.

“We all agr ee ther e are some people with significant mental health issues that shouldn’t have guns,” Rybak said. “What we should do when we are checking backgrounds is have one place where that u See GUNS Page 7 U police say looser campus gun restrictions aren’t needed.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak speaks to the University of Minnesota College Democrats about gun safety Wednesday at Coffman Union.

VOLUME 114 ISSUE 80

2

Daily Review

Thursday, February 28, 2013

THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1953

Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announce that they have determined the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

HISTORYCHANNEL.COM/TDIH

PROTEST Vol. 114 Thursday, February 28, 2013, No. 80

An Independent Student Newspaper, Founded in 1900.

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

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

=

=

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

=

PHOTO BY CHELSEA GORTMAKER

Protesters on the East 26th Street bridge over 35W block traffic for the March On Wells Fargo protest to demonstrate against foreclosures on Wednesday in Minneapolis. Thirteen were arrested for unlawfully assembling and disrupting traffic.

=

=

=

=

WORLD BRIEFING

=

Study: Boozy Brits underestimate their drinking

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — Tr uth and alcohol may not mix, par ticularly when people are asked how much they drink.

That’s the implication of a study released Wednesday that reveals a big gap between the booze Britons own up to drinking and the amount of alcohol sold nationwide. The study indicates that people routinely underestimate their alcohol consumption by around 40 percent.

That may not be particularly surprising, but the study puts a figure to the phenomenon of the drunk who claims not to have anything more than a couple of beers. Lead author Sadie Boniface said the unrepor ted alcohol equates to nearly one bottle of wine per British adult per week — an amount she

said wasn’t just disappearing.

“It has to have gone somewhere,” she said in a telephone inter view.

Boniface and Nicola Shelton, both with the University College London’s Depar tment of Epidemiology and Public Health, derived their figures by comparing self-repor ted data in a public health survey accounting for 14,041 people aged 16 and up to alcohol sales figures kept

by British tax authorities.

The gap was huge.

More than 20 percent of Britons’ annual wine consumption — 69 million gallons — was unaccounted for. Nearly half of Britons’ beer consumption — 1.2 billion gallons — was unclaimed. And Britons seemed particularly reluctant to take credit for gulping down whiskey, vodka, tequila and gin. Nearly 60

percent of Britain’s spirit consumption remained unreported.

Boniface said the more accurate reporting of wine versus beer and spirits might have something to do with the cultural baggage attached to them.

“If you think about drinking wine, you generally think of sitting around a fancy meal,” she said.

“It’s thought of as much more of a civilized drinking occasion than drinking spirits might be, although that’s just speculation.”

The study, published in the European Jour nal of Public Health, considered a host of other possible reasons for the under repor ting. Maybe children under the age of 16, tourists or homeless people — all groups which wouldn’t have been covered by the sur vey — were buying the unclaimed booze. Maybe

the whiskey was being kept on shelves rather than being sipped after dinner. Maybe the wine was being used in cooking, or thrown out when it expired, or being spilled across white carpets.

Boniface said those factors were all considered and then ruled out.

“It can’t be a small minority — such as homeless people — that are drinking vast, vast amounts,” she said. “It’s a widespread problem.”

Issues around self-reporting aren’t new — people routinely overestimate their height or underestimate their weight, for example. And it’s long been known that alcohol intake is par ticularly liable to be under repor ted; Boniface said that many doctors mentally double the alcohol intake given to them by their patients.

=

=

=

=

=

=

=

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

=

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

=

=

=

=

=

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

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

=

After meatballs, Ikea withdraws sausages

US, Europe move to expand role in Syrian conflict

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — The United States and some European allies are edging closer to direct involvement in Syria’s civil war with plans to deliver meals, medical kits and other forms of nonlethal assistance to the rebels battling President Bashar Assad.

The U.S., Britain, France and Italy aren’t planning to supply the Free Syrian Army with weapons or ammunition. But moves are afoot to significantly boost the size and scope of their aid to the political and military opposition.

Such decisions could be announced as early as Thursday at an international conference on Syria in Rome.

Britain and France are keen to give the rebels the means to protect themselves from attacks by Assad’s forces, including Scud missiles fired in recent days against the city of Aleppo, U.S. and European officials say.

Assistance could mean combat armor, vehicles and other equipment not deemed to be offensive, the officials said.

It could include training in battlefield medical care and the protection of human rights, they said.

For now, the Obama administration is advancing more modestly. It is nearing a decision whether to give readymade meals and medical supplies to the opposition fighters, who have not received direct U.S. assistance.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was expected to announce the new contributions at the Rome conference, in addition to tens of millions of dollars intended for rule of law and governance programs.

The shifts in strategy are part of a step-by-step process that could lead to direct military aid to carefully screened members of the Free Syrian Army if the nearly 2-year conflict continues. Some 70,000 people have died in the fighting.

The European Union last week renewed an arms embargo against Syria for three months. But foreign ministers made clear that the decision could be reviewed while they look at ways to increase pressure on Assad to leave.

STOCKHOLM — After withdrawing meatballs from stores across Europe, home furnishings company Ikea said Wednesday its own tests confirmed “a few indications of horse meat” and that it would also remove wiener sausages made by the same supplier.

Meanwhile, Poland acknowledged for the first time that it is a source of horse meat that has fraudulently ended up in processed meat products sold as beef — an admission that came as the country said it found traces of horse DNA in samples from three meat processors.

Ikea said it would withdraw the sausages from stores in France, Britain, Spain, Ireland and Por tugal. Other stores were getting sausages from other suppliers, company spokeswoman Ylva Magnusson said.

No horse meat had been found in the wieners, which are made of ground pork and beef, but they were removed anyway because they came from the same supplier as the meatballs, Magnusson said.

The supplier, Gunnar Dafgard AB, didn’t return calls seeking comment.

The move comes two days after Czech food inspectors found traces of horse meat in Ikea’s Swedish-made meatballs, prompting the company to pull them from store shelves in 21 European countries and in Hong Kong, Thailand and the Dominican Republic.

Stores in other countries, including the U.S. and Canada, were not affected because they received meatballs from a different supplier.

Ikea said results from its own tests confirmed some meatballs didn’t just contain beef and pork, despite what their labeling said.

“Based on some hundred test results that we have received so far, there are a few indications of horse meat,” Magnusson said.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EXTENDED WEATHER FORECAST FRIDAY HIGH 28° LOW 13° Mostly cloudy

SATURDAY HIGH 28° LOW 14° Mostly cloudy

SUNDAY HIGH 31° LOW 21° Sunny

MONDAY HIGH 32° LOW 20° Mostly cloudy

=

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

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

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

THIS WEEK’S POLL Do you think MOOCs (massive open online courses) are good for the future of higher education?

4Yes, it’s always good to broaden access to education.

4No, online classes can’t replace in-person learning in a classroom.

4Yes, but only in combination with in-person classes.

4I’m not sure yet.

4What’s a MOOC? CORRECTIONS A page 1 article, “U students lobby for clean energy,” in Tuesday’s Daily incorrectly stated Rep. Jim Davnie’s district. Davnie represents Minneapolis. errors@mndaily.com The Minnesota Daily strives for complete accuracy and corrects its errors immediately. Corrections and clarifications will always be printed in this space. If you believe the Daily has printed a factual error, please call the readers’ representative at (612) 627–4070, extension 3057, or email errors@mndaily.com immediately.

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

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

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

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

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

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

U. S. Postal Service: 351–480.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Research u from Page 1

to full-time faculty that the University is preparing the best it can since “information is scarce” on how federal research funding agencies will respond to the cuts.

Len Biernat, a law professor at Hamline University and a former DFL state representative, said the looming budget cuts are the latest example of politicians playing the blame game rather than working together for a solution.

“This is a crazy way to operate,” he said, adding that he thinks there’s no chance Congress will find a resolution before March 1.

President Barack Obama isn’t meeting with Senate and House leaders until Friday, when the automatic budget cuts will have already begun.

Research woes Although most federal funding agencies have been quiet on their plans for the cuts, the National Institutes of Health announced it would reduce cur rent grants by 10 percent. The National Science Foundation said it would fund 1,000 fewer grants.

Herman said in his email to faculty that the agency responses will likely var y, so the University can’t make specific plans or recommendations until after March 1.

“You can be reassured by the fact that the University’s financial position is strong,” he said, “and that university and collegiate leadership will do ever ything possible to mitigate the immediate and shor tterm impact of the sequester.”

Medicinal chemistr y professor Cour tney Aldrich said he’s not worried about the cuts because funding agencies have been cutting budgets for years.

The problem, he said, could be for new researchers who are looking to get grants for the first time. In 2012, researchers seeking grants from the NIH had a 20 percent success rate, but Aldrich said this figure is lower for disciplines like his.

“At that point, you cannot distinguish great from good science, so it becomes a luck of the draw,” he said.

Doug Mashek, a food science and nutrition professor, said he knows colleagues at the University and around the countr y who have received high scores on recent grant applications, but they don’t know if they’ll be good enough for funding.

Since he doesn’t know what will happen for existing or proposed grants, Mashek said he hasn’t star ted preparing for the looming cuts yet.

Herman advised researchers to make sure their budgets ar e balanced, to stay in contact with ever yone in their lab groups and to determine where money could be saved if University research grants are cut by 5.1 percent.

Aldrich said he thinks

VP BRIAN HERMAN’S TIPS FOR U RESEARCHERS Forward any funding agency communication to OVPR. Identify where money could be saved from a 5.1 percent cut.

Balance budgets.

Keep spending and progress reports up to date.

Communicate with all lab group members.

Contact Sponsored Projects Administration with questions.

SOURCE: OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT FOR RESEARCH

the cuts could hur t the University’s nearly $750 million research enterprise as a whole, but he’s adapted his research group’s spending to the gradual agency-level budget cuts over the years.

Mashek said he’ll tr y to save money where he can and might have to look to other funding sources, like private industry.

It’s easier for more applied disciplines like computer science or pharmaceuticals to obtain industry funding, Aldrich said, because the companies don’t have to spend as much money for a final product.

But basic research relies heavily on gover nment money, he said.

Microbiology depar tment head Ashley Haase, whose research on infectious diseases and HIV/ AIDS is par tly funded by the NIH, said it’ll be months before people know if their funding will be affected.

“It’s pretty unpredictable right now because the institutes will scramble to keep as much funding as possible out there,” he said.

Regardless of whether Haase’s research is affected, the White House is estimating sequester cuts will fund 7,400 fewer patients’ access to HIV medications and 424,000 fewer HIV tests.

3

WHAT $4 TRILLION IN CUTS WOULD DO NATIONALLY HEALTH

= 100,000

with mental health 373,000 people issues untreated

and children without supplemental nutrition 600,000 women

424,000

EDUCATION

= 1,000

RESEARCH

jobs 10,000 teacher “at risk”

12,000 researchers affected

education 7,200 special jobs cut

fewer grants funded by the National Science Foundation

1,000

10 percent of existing grants cut by the National

1.2 million disadvantaged students’ funding cut fewer HIV tests

2,100 fewer food inspections Delays in new drug approvals AVIATION

= 1,000

70,000 students couldn’t attend Head Start programs 500 fewer work-study jobs in Minnesota universities ENVIRONMENT

$600 million cut to the Federal Aviation Administration

398 national parks partially or fully closed

Delays in flights

$3 million in cuts to environmental funding

Institutes of Health

BUSINESS

= $10 million

$900 million in cuts to small business loans $50 million in cuts to private sector investment 11 percent in cuts to unemployment benefits SOURCE: THE WHITE HOUSE, NIH, NSF

The worst hit will be young scientists, Mashek said, because they won’t want to pursue a discipline where their work can’t get funded. The White House predicts as many as 12,000 scientists and students could be af fected by the cuts.

“I’m just worried that we’re going to scare a lot of people out of science,” Mashek said.

University effects Child psychology senior Laura McCrear y works as an aide for a girl who has autism, but her job could be one of the 7,200 special education teacher and aide jobs the White House predicts could be “at risk” without a deal.

Minnesota could also lose some funding for ser vices to victims of domestic violence, but the University’s Aurora Center would not be affected since its funding largely comes from student services fees.

Though cuts could be made to public health funds, Boynton Health Ser vice won’t be af fected because it’s funded by student ser vices fees and insurance.

Gar y Christenson, chief medical officer at Boynton, said people who use Medicaid or Medicare could be affected, but those people make up a “ver y small” percentage of Boynton’s patients.

“I’m not foreseeing that [the cuts will] have any effect on Boynton itself,” he said.

The University’s workstudy program could face cuts as well. The White House estimates around 500 fewer students in Minnesota will get work-study jobs if the sequester takes place.

University undergraduate students received $6.2 million in work-study funds in 2012, according to Office of Institutional Research data.

But University spokesman Matt Hodson said no cuts will happen until next fall at the earliest. Hodson said student aid programs, which include work study, are already funded for this academic year, so jobs are safe through the summer.

“Until the fall,” he said, “we really won’t know the full extent of how many of these positions may be lost and how we might be able to go forward.”

‘Compromise has become a bad word’

Bier nat, the Hamline law professor, said compromises have become hard to come by as political parties have become more polarized in the past 20 years.

“They’re not in the middle anymore,” he said.

McCrear y said she’s frustrated Congress keeps brokering last-minute deals without finding longterm solutions.

Biernat said the same deadlock between the par-

ties could come up again in about a month when budget resolutions are due.

The consequences of the cuts, McCrear y said, will be far-reaching, both financially and culturally.

“I think a lot of people will lose confidence in the American political system,” she said, “… because we can’t get anything done.”

Haase said representatives are supposed to govern, so he hopes they can find a remedy that’s thoughtful and intelligent.

It’s sad to see ever ything that could be cut, Mashek said, because of Congress’ “finger-pointing.”

McCrear y said members of Congress are blaming each other for cuts that haven’t even happened yet.

“I’m really frustrated,” she said. “I’m fr ustrated with the deadlock, that compromise has become a bad word, frustrated that there doesn’t seem to be a middle ground.”

4

Thursday, February 28, 2013

In final public address, pope recalls joy, difficulty

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI bid an emotional farewell Wednesday on the eve of his retirement, recalling moments of “joy and light” during his papacy, but also times of difficulty when “it seemed like the Lord was sleeping.”

Some 150,000 people, many waving banners proclaiming “Grazie!” flooded St. Peter’s Square, eager to bear witness to the final hours of a papacy that will go down in history as the first in 600 years to end in resignation rather than death.

Benedict basked in the emotional send-off, taking a long victor y lap around the square in an open-sided car, and stopping to kiss and

bless half a dozen babies.

Seventy cardinals, some tearful, sat in solemn attendance — and gave him a standing ovation at the end of his speech.

Benedict then made a quick exit, forgoing the meet-and-greet session that typically follows his weekly general audience, as if to not prolong the goodbye.

Given the weight of the moment, Benedict also replaced his usual Wednesday catechism lesson with a heartfelt final address, explaining once again why he was retiring and assuring his flock of 1.2 billion that he was not abandoning them.

“To love the church means also to have the courage to take difficult, painful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in

mind, not oneself,” Benedict said to thundering applause.

He noted that a pontiff has no privacy — neither as pope, nor in his future role as emeritus pope: “He belongs always and forever to ever yone, to the whole church.”

During his eight years as pope, Benedict said he had had “moments of joy and light, but also moments that haven’t been easy. ...

Moments of turbulent seas and rough winds, as has occurred in the history of the church, when it seemed like the Lord was sleeping.”

But he said he never felt alone, that God always guided him, and he thanked his cardinals and colleagues for their support and for “understanding and respecting this important decision.”

Waite u from Page 1

67 officers and act as a liaison between police and the community.

Waite replaced Inspector Bryan Schafer, who now commands the 1st Precinct downtown.

During his tenure, Schafer pressed Dinkytown businesses to reassess their late-night security and threatened to close doors if problems with unr uly crowds persisted.

Waite was thrilled about the job but said she always saw herself becoming an inspector.

“I knew I would get here someday if I worked really hard,” she said. “And it happened.”

‘A monumental event’

Waite said her most difficult challenge came in 2007, when she was placed in charge of equipment and sup-

ply operations after the Interstate-35W bridge collapse.

She worked 12- to 18-hour shifts for four weeks to ensure response crews had the resources needed to clean up the damage and rescue those still trapped under rubble.

“It was a monumental event for the entire city,” she said. “The response we had down there and the work that we all did was just a pivotal part of my career.”

For her, the hardest part was balancing her personal life with work.

“It was a challenge, but in the end, our goals and objectives in our lives change on a daily basis,” she said.” So, you have to make it work.”

Waite has a unique skill set that was critical in getting the job done, said 4th Precinct Inspector Mike Kjos.

“She’s extremely detailoriented as far as tracking funds and personnel,” he said. “A lot of police officers aren’t really good at those types of tasks.”

‘A fresh view’ Waite is younger than many of the precinct’s previous inspectors, Kjos said, and her youth will be a welcome addition to the precinct.

“She brings a little more of a fresh view on everything in life,” he said. “I think the community will like someone who breathes a more positive, interactive, community breath.”

Waite was born in Roseville, Minn., and raised by two teachers, so she said education was very important to her family.

Waite’s next-door neighbor was the town’s chief of police, and she said she always had an attraction to a career in law enforcement.

“I also probably watched a lot of television in my youth, from ‘Hill Street Blues’ to ‘Starsky and Hutch,’ ” she said. “So, at a ver y young age, it appealed to me to go into law enforcement.”

She graduated with degrees in sociology and psychology from Hamline University in St. Paul. She returned to Hamline to complete a master’s degree in public administration.

As her career has progressed, Waite said she has become even more aware of the important role police play in the community.

“I now have more of a bigpicture view of what we do,” she said. “I need to have a much broader perspective.”

Community engagement

Having the University in her precinct offers a unique and exciting challenge, Waite said.

“The enthusiasm of the [University] and the students makes it a fun place to be,” she said. “That energy encompasses a lot of the neighborhoods around there.”

But she said large events like Homecoming and Spring Jam can make policing the area difficult.

“We train and practice to respond to things as best we can,” she said. “But sometimes you just never know what’s coming, so there’s only so much you can do.”

Waite has spent the first month of her tenure building relationships with some of the community organizations in the 2nd Precinct, like the Northeast and Dinkytown business associations.

Waite has worked near the University before, when she served as a lieutenant in the precinct.

“I’m excited that she’s in the position because I’m familiar with her,” DBA President Skott Johnson said. “I like that she knows a little bit about Dinkytown.”

She hasn’t had any direct interaction with the DBA since becoming inspector, but Johnson said he plans to present her with a new late-night security plan next week.

“She’s attended security meetings with us before,” he said. “She definitely gets involved, and I like that.”

Waite said these relationships are critical in preserving a safe community.

“Often times, people have a perception of crime in the community that is not accurate,” she said. “That line of communication is a critical piece to put people at ease or get people engaged in the community.”

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Rosa Parks statue unveiled at Capitol Parks became the first black woman to be depicted in a full-length statue in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall.

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — The nation’s most power ful politicians honored Rosa Parks on Wednesday by unveiling her statue in a per manent place in the U.S. Capitol. President Barack Obama praised Parks as an enduring reminder of what true leadership requires, “no matter how humble or lofty our positions.”

Parks became the first black woman to be depicted in a full-length statue in the Capitol’s Statuar y Hall.

A bust of another black woman, abolitionist Sojourner Truth, sits in the Capitol Visitors Center.

“We do well by placing a statue of her here,” Obama said. “But we can do no greater honor to her memor y than to carr y for ward the power of her principle and a courage born of conviction.”

The unveiling brought Obama, House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders together in the midst of a fierce standof f over automatic spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday.

Setting that conflict aside, Obama and Boehner stood on either side of a blue drape, tugging and pulling in opposite directions on a braided cord until the cover fell to reveal a 2,700-pound bronze statue of a seated Parks, her hair in a bun under a hat, her hands crossed over her lap and clasping her purse.

Obama gazed up at it, and touched its arm.

At the same time across the street, conser vative Supreme Cour t justices

voiced skepticism about the relevance of the Voting Rights Act, one of the major legislative victories of the movement to which Parks devoted her life.

Parks’ civil rights movement colleague Jesse Jackson, whose son former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. sponsored the bill to place Parks’ statue in the Capitol, said Parks “fought her way into histor y,” and on three occasions, took literacy tests required of blacks who wanted to vote.

She passed all three, Jackson said.

P ar ks’ statue is positioned between those of suf fragist Frances E. Willard and John Gorrie, considered the father of refrigeration and air conditioning. Boehner, R-Ohio, pointed out that Parks’ gaze seems to fall directly onto a statue of Jef ferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.

“Here in the hall, she casts an unlikely silhouette — unassuming in a lineup of proud stares, challenging all of us once more to look up and to draw strength from stillness,” Boehner said.

Parks died in 2005 at age 92. Dozens of her family members, many of them nieces and nephews, attended Wednesday’s ceremony and said they were pleased to see their ancestor honored.

“Racism is a continual struggle,” said Zakiya McCauley Watts, 28, of Detroit. “We have the laws, but we have to have the mindset to back that up.

People see all types of injustice happening and no one is doing anything about it,” Watts said.

Wa t t s ’ c o u s i n F a y e Jenkins, 28, of Cincinnati, Ohio, said she volunteers with inner-city youth providing counseling, helping teenage moms and working with the homeless. She said the statue of Parks will tell the younger generation “to always just do the right thing.”

On Dec. 1, 1955, Parks refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man in segregated Montgomery, Ala. She was arrested, touching off a bus boycott that stretched over a year.

Her act of disobedience, and the masses of protesters who walked for months on end rather than break the boycott, are the reason “that I stand here today,” the president said.

“It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair, a land tr uer to its founding creed,” Obama said. “And that is why this statue belongs in this hall — to remind us, no matter how humble or lofty our positions, just what it is that leadership requires.”

Some at the event echoed Obama’s sentiment.

“The struggle goes on.

The movement continues.

The pursuit is not over. To honor Rosa Parks in the fullest manner each of us must do our par t to protect that which has been gained,” said Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. Dor thula Gr een, 58, took an early train from New Haven, Conn., to join a line of ticketholders waiting in the Rotunda to see the statue on its debut.

“When I heard that this was happening, I said, ‘I gotta be her e,’” Gr een said. “I grew up in South Carolina. I knew the histor y and the kinds of things she went through.”

5

6

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Bill could help those Justices voice skepticism of voting rights law undocumented

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A state bill would allow undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition.

BY MARJORIE OTTO motto@mndaily.com

Undocumented students at Minnesota colleges could pay in-state tuition and get financial aid under a bill proposed in the state Legislature this week.

The bill was proposed Monday by Sen. Sandy Pappas, DFL-St. Paul, who said its introduction has been a long time coming.

“I’ve been working on this for the last decade,” Pappas said.

Similar bills have been brought before legislators in the past, but Pappas is optimistic that this may be the successful year.

For the first time in 20 years, the DFL par ty has complete control of the state Capitol.

Pappas’ bill would allow undocumented students who graduate from a Minnesota high school after attending it for at least three years to qualify for in-state tuition at public

colleges. The bill also authorizes state schools to give private financial aid to students affected by the law.

R i g h t n o w, u n d o c u mented immigrants have to pay non-resident tuition — “which is not affordable for a lot of students,” Pappas said. They are also ineligible for financial aid.

Students would also have to be working toward legal immigration status to qualify.

Non-r esident tuition at the University of Minnesota this year is $8,655 per semester. Minnesota residents get a 30 percent discount, paying $6,030.

Currently, 12 states allow undocumented students who meet certain requirements to pay in-state tuition at public colleges.

Some MnSCU schools, as well as the University’s Mor ris and Cr ookston campuses, already charge all students resident tuition.

Pappas said about 10 years ago, a group of students came to her with a problem: Many didn’t find out their parents were undocumented until it came time to go to college — and the students found out

what things they couldn’t legally do.

“They were young kids, and they were bright students, ‘A’ students,” Pappas said, “and all of the sudden their dream of going to college was snatched away from them.”

Last week, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly passed a resolution in suppor t of the federal DREAM Act, which would allow certain undocumented students in the U.S. to get financial aid, among other things.

The group decided to promote this act after one of its members, Daniel Perez, wasn’t able to get a University graduate student job and had trouble getting loans because of his undocumented status.

“That resonated with the assembly, and that led to us suppor ting it,” said GAPSA Vice President Alfonso Sintjago, a doctoral candidate studying comparative and international development education.

“It’s about ever ybody,” said GAPSA Pr esident Brittany Edwards, a public policy master’s student.

“This is a social justice issue.”

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Cour t’s conservative justices voiced deep skepticism Wednesday about a section of a landmark civil rights law that has helped millions of Americans exercise their right to vote.

In an ominous note for supporters of the key provision of the Voting Rights Act, Justice Anthony Kennedy both acknowledged the measure’s vital role in fighting discrimination and suggested that other important laws in U.S. history had run their course. “Times change,” Kennedy said during the fast-paced, 70-minute argument.

Kennedy’s views are likely to prevail on the closely divided court, and he tends to side with his more conservative colleagues on matters of race.

The court’s liberals and conservatives engaged in a sometimes tense back-andforth over whether there is an ongoing need in 2013 for the part of the voting rights law that requires states with a history of discrimination, mainly in the Deep South, to get approval before making changes in the way elections are held.

Justice Antonin Scalia called the law a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

Chief Justice John Roberts, a vocal skeptic of the use of race in all areas of public life, cited a variety of statistics that showed starker racial disparities in some aspects of voting in Massachusetts than in Mississippi.

Then he asked the government’s top Supreme Court lawyer whether the Obama administration thinks “the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?”

The answer from Solicitor General Donald Verrilli was no.

The question, and others like it from the conservative justices, largely echoed the doubts they first expressed four years ago in a similar case that ended without resolving the constitutionality of the latest renewal of the voting rights law, in 2006.

They questioned whether there remain appreciable differences between the locations covered by the law and those that are not. They also wondered whether there was any end in sight for a provision that intrudes on states’ rights to conduct elections and which was regarded as an emergency response to decades of statesponsored discrimination in voting, despite the Fifteenth Amendment’s guarantee of the vote for black Americans.

The provision shifted the legal burden and required governments that were covered to demonstrate that their proposed changes would not discriminate.

Another part of the voting rights law, not being challenged, allows for traditional, after-the-fact claims of discrimination in voting and applies across the country.

As his administration was defending the voting rights law, President Barack Obama was across the street at the Capitol unveiling a statue of civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who in 1955 famously refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Montgomery, Ala., to a white man. The court will have to decide whether the conditions that gave rise to that seminal event are, like the statue, a part of history, or whether they persist in parts of the nation.

The court’s four liberal justices, including Obama appointees Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor, appeared uniformly to be willing to defer to the decision by Congress that more progress needs to be made before freeing states from the special federal monitoring.

Those justices aggressively questioned Bert Rein, the lawyer representing Shelby County, Ala., in its challenge to the law.

Sotomayor acknowledged some par ts of the South had changed, but she asserted that recent voting rights lawsuits in Alabama suggested that Shelby County, near Birmingham, has not made suf ficient progress.

“Why would we vote in favor of a county whose record is the epitome of what

caused the passage of this law to start with?” Sotomayor asked.

Kagan chimed in that any formula devised by Congress “would capture Alabama,” where she said certain discriminatory voting practices have persisted.

But Rein said the issue was whether the formula in place, using statistics that are at least 40 years old, remains a valid way to determine which locations have to ask for permission to make voting changes.

Debo Adegbile, a lawyer for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, argued to the court on behalf of local Alabama elected officials and civil rights leaders. He sought to show the justices that there is a current need for the law, an effort to counter the court’s admonition four years ago that current conditions, not histor y alone, must justify the continuing application of the law.

In 2011, Adegbile said, a judge in Alabama cited state lawmakers’ derogatory references to African-Americans as a reason to continue to protect minority voters through the Voting Rights Act. But Roberts challenged the lawyer. “Have there been episodes, egregious episodes of the kind you are talking about in states that are not covered?” the chief justice asked.

Absolutely, Adegbile replied.

“Well, then it doesn’t seem to help you make the point that the dif ferential between covered and noncovered continues to be justified,” Roberts said.

The requirement currently applies to the states of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. It also covers certain counties in Califor nia, Florida, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota, and some local jurisdictions in Michigan and New Hampshire. Coverage has been triggered by past discrimination not only against blacks, but also against American Indians, Asian-Americans, Alaska Natives and Hispanics.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

7

Gay marriage, gun laws priorities at Leg. Gun debate endures in Senate, on campus Guns u from Page 1

information is shared.”

He said he is set to travel to Washington, D.C., in mid-March to take up the issue at the federal level.

Suppor ters and opponents of gun control filled two Senate Judiciar y Committee meetings last week as many watched on in overflow rooms.

Now legislators ar e braced with the task of sifting through the proposals and deciding which bills will get sent forward to another committee and possibly make it to the Senate floor.

The state House of Representatives is going through the same process.

University police Lt. David Wilske said the proposals to limit gun access are simply reactions to the nation’s several mass shootings and doesn’t agree with dramatic changes to the state’s gun laws.

“Somebody who wants to get their hands on a gun, they’re going to get their hands on a gun,” he said.

Wilske, along with others, heads gun training for law enforcement at the University’s outdoor firearm training facility in Rosemount, Minn.

He said lawmakers should focus on fixing the loopholes in the state’s background checks for gun buying — the main topic of the discussion at last week’s Senate hearings.

“When you buy a vehicle, you have to go to the DMV, you have to have the title changed, there’s this process that’s associated with it,” Wilske said. “But with guns there is nothing unless you buy it from a dealer.”

Sen. Bobby Joe Champion, DFL-Minneapolis, presented a bill last Thursday that would modify the background check system for person-to-person gun sales.

His bill is trying to make sure people who shouldn’t have guns don’t, he said.

If passed, the bill would require private gun transactions to go through a federally licensed dealer at a $25 expense per permit.

Tony Hill, assistant political science professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, said Champion’s bill is the most promising of the bunch, but overall the gun control legislation isn’t going to pass.

Gov. Mark Dayton is likely going to veto the legislation, Hill said, and legislators don’t normally pass anything that the governor isn’t behind.

Dayton hasn’t spoken candidly about the gun proposals and will likely join the conversation as the session pushes forward.

Hamline law professor Joseph Olson leads the Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance and opposes Champion’s bill that would change the state’s background-check system for gun buyers.

He said instead of altering the state’s laws, the agencies that run the system just need to do a better job.

“The background bill is simply a disguise for a registration system which will allow the government to know every gun that’s in every Minnesotan’s home,” Olson said.

Other opponents of the legislation, like University political science and communication studies junior Drew Christensen, said the gun control proposals are a violation of the second amendment.

“Gun control is unconstitutional,” he said. “If folks believe we ought to have some, they can amend the Constitution. I wish them the best of luck.”

Christensen is a co-chair for the University’s College Republicans student group.

Political science senior Dusten Retcher, officer for

the College Democrats, said there is a fine line between penalizing law-abiding gun owners and tr ying to keep weapons away from violent people.

“What it boils down to is educating people about safe gun usage,” he said.

Retcher said he thinks gun purchasers should have to take a safety class on how to operate firearms.

Other bills discussed last week in the Senate include solidifying gun restrictions for people with mental illnesses, expanding liability for people who help others unlawfully get guns and allowing some retired peace officers to carry without a permit.

The committee chairman, Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis, said the state’s Senate will not discuss an assault weapons ban like one proposed by Alice Hausman, DFL-St. Paul.

Gun violence on campus

Lawmakers, gun activists, gun control proponents and others are tr ying to find the best solution to end gun violence — a problem Wilske said the University has mostly figured out.

“If you look at the size of the University, and geographically where it is positioned in this huge metropolitan area, our gun violence is ver y low,” he said.

In the event of a mass shooting, police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner previously told the Minnesota Daily that his depar tment is fully prepared.

W ilske said with the campus’ 24/7 police depar tment, there’s no reason for people to feel the need to car r y guns on campus, something that Rep. Tony Cor nish, RVernon Center, has talked about pushing legislatively.

Under the current University policy, law enforcement, militar y personnel, people in militar y training and those who receive presidential per mission can car r y fir ear ms on campus.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 21 states ban concealing a firearm on college campuses, while 23 — including Minnesota — leave the decision up to the school.

Five states allow conceal and car r y on public campuses — including Wisconsin.

Wisconsin schools can still restrict guns in campus buildings with proper signage.

Christensen said lawmakers should look into allowing teachers, after they receive the proper firearm training, to have guns in their classrooms to use in case of an attack.

“It’s common sense to have people there to protect children from people who seek to do them harm,” he said.

Retcher said the primar y goal of the University should be to provide a safe environment for students.

He said the University shouldn’t make any changes to its gun policies and, unlike Christensen, he doesn’t think teachers should have weapons in classrooms.

Same-sex marriage push begins

SOMEONE, DAILY

Paul Melchert, left, a pediatrician, speaks to the media Wednesday about his support of the legalization of gay marriage while accompanied by his partner, James Zimmerman, far right, and their two sons, Emmett, left, and Gabriel Melchert-Zimmerman, right.

Marriage u from Page 1

issue,” Dibble said. “This is an issue that is shared broadly because the values that it speaks to — the values that unite us,” like love and family.

Jake Loesch, spokesman for Minnesotans United for All Families and a Republican, said having Republican suppor t is something that’s really important for their campaign to legalize same-sex marriage.

“Folks … from all political backgrounds believe in the freedom to marr y and support it,” he said.

University of Minnesota political science professor Howard Lavine said it’s a “hot-button issue” that will gain a lot of buzz.

The movement is facing heavy opposition from both state and national organizations.

The National Organization for Mar riage, an organization that opposes same-sex mar riages, pledged to spend $500,000 to defeat any Republican legislator that votes for changing marriage laws in Minnesota.

M i n n e s o t a f o r M a rriage, another opponent of the legislation, campaigned in the fall to pass a constitutional amendment to prohibit a same-sex marriage bill, said spokeswoman Autumn Leva.

In November, 52.5 percent of Minnesotans voted down or didn’t answer the ballot question on samesex marriage, which both count as “no” votes.

People statewide have expressed confusion and concer n, Leva said. Just because their vote counted as a no, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re in suppor t of same-sex marriages.

“I think legislators are becoming aware that a vote against a constitutional amendment is not the same as a vote for legalizing gay marriage,” she said.

Leva said the or ganization will speak with legislators as the session moves forward to advocate against the bill.

The likelihood of the bill passing is uncer tain, and proponents will use forth-

coming committee hearings to challenge the views of same-sex marriage opponents, Dibble said.

“I think we’re close, but it’s going to be a lot of work,” he said.

Some DFL legislators from r ural areas are expected to oppose the bill despite their par ty’s tendency to back it, while Clark said she expects some Republican legislators to support it.

The bill would repeal the state’s 1997 law that bans mar riage between same-sex couples.

The legislation is expected to be discussed in the Senate Judiciar y Committee and the House Civil Law Committee in the coming weeks.

The student view Kathleen Hull, sociology associate professor at the University, star ted her sociology of sexuality class this semester with an anonymous sur vey about same-sex marriage.

Of the 50 students questioned, 96 percent said they agree with legalizing same-sex marriage, she said.

“I think the student body is kind of much skewed towar ds acceptance,” Hull said. “Most students don’t really understand why this is even an issue.”

Anthropology senior Anastaisha Lee, a proponent of same-sex marriage, said the state has waited too long to move this for ward and said she hopes it passes this year.

Lee, co-chair of the University’s Campus Atheists, Skeptics and Humanists student group, said the or ganization discusses same-sex mar riage, as well as other gender, sex and religion topics at the group’s meetings.

Although same-sex mar riage suppor ters are typically more vocal on campus, there are student opponents, as well.

Sunny Bang, vice president of the University’s Christian Bible Fellowship, said she is against legalizing same-sex marriages.

Originally raised in a Buddhist home, architecture senior Bang said after attending Bible study two years ago, she realized ho-

mosexuality is “a rebellion against God.” “We’re not respecting our bodies if we’re going to use them against nature. … Nature tells us already that it is one man and one woman,” Bang said.

On a college campus, students who oppose same-sex marriage legislation can often be characterized as homophobic, which Hull said isn’t necessarily accurate.

Homophobia is an outdated term and used as shor thand for people who have clear negative perceptions of sexual minorities, she said “The problem with the term homophobia is it implies any dislike, discrimination or bigotr y towards sexual minorities based on fear — that’s not always the case,” Hull said.

Academics use “heteronormativity” and “heterosexism” instead when discussing society’s “privileging of heter osexual identities and practices,” she said.

“We never called racism people-of-color-phobic,” she said. “We kind of recognized other forms of bigotr y are based on more than just fear of the group.”

Most opponents of same-sex mar riages express their concern about children and their belief that they deser ve to be raised by their two biological male and female parents, Hull said.

“Yes, a dad can provide for a family, but he provides in a dif ferent way,” Bang said. “He loves in a dif ferent way than a mom does. You need both sides to make the family work.”

Hull said the academic

research doesn’t suppor t the claim.

“They’re not comparing apples to apples,” she said. “When those kinds of studies are done, so far, [same-sex parents] really haven’t shown any negative effects on kids.”

She said the data from the sur veys in her course consistently match the national studies.

Students at the University who know someone who is gay are more likely to suppor t the proposed legislation, Hull said.

“People who believe homosexuality is a choice are less likely to suppor t it,” she said.

Beau Miller, a biochemistr y and genetics, cell biology and development junior, said he campaigned against the mar riage amendment last fall with Minnesotans United.

With the movement for legalizing same-sex marriage picking up again this spring, Miller said he’s likely to talk to his legislator about passing the bill.

He said he’s optimistic about it passing.

“A lot of other states have been doing so, and it’s likely that we are going to follow suit,” Miller said.

Nine other states have legalized same-sex marriage, including Minnesota’s neighbor Iowa.

Howard Lavine, University political science professor, said social issues tend to be more divisive in politics.

“Economic issues tend to be technical and difficult for people, whereas sociocultural issues, like gay mar riage, are ver y easy,” Lavine said. “You don’t have to have a lot of information to know if you are for it or against it.”

8

Editorials & Opinions www.mndaily.com/opinion

A senior bucket list Take a class that scares you.

Decide now what you’d like to accomplish before you graduate.

S

Thank someone who deserves it.

If you’re lucky, someone in your college career has had a

profound impact on your life.

Maybe it was a professor who unknowingly inspired you to change your major or the fling who showed you a side of yourself that you didn’t know existed. Even if you haven’t talked in a while, it’s worth reaching out to express your appreciation. It might be too late someday.

I’m pursuing journalism and psychology, yet I’ve taken classes in everything from addiction studies and horticulture to physiology and youth studies. I’ve had to pack a lot of classes into this semester, and my APAS report looks a bit schizophrenic, but I don’t regret a single deviation from my majors’ coursework. In fact, these were the classes that inspired the most introspection and curiosity. Sign up for a class that will teach you to look at the world in a different way. For an especially eye-opening experience, the gender, women and sexuality studies department is a great place to start.

Take a break from Dinkytown.

Lose the “Freshman 15.”

BRONWYN MILLER columnist

Many of you come from outside the area and plan to move back home or elsewhere once you graduate. I love Dinkytown as much as the next girl, but exploring what the rest of the Twin Cities has to offer is a necessity. Branch out beyond the Campus Connector route: discover Eat Street, explore dive bars in Northeast or catch a show downtown, for starters.

These extra pounds have gotten me through three cold winters and many a lonely night, but it’s time to say goodbye. The countdown to graduation means the time when I will actually have to pay for a gym membership is fast approaching. Plus, from what I hear, the weight gain associated with post-grad-job-hunting-fromyour-parents’-basement puts

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 111,390- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,245 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

the “Freshman 15” to shame.

It’s wise to get a head start now.

Do something taboo (YOLO).

There is really no better excuse than being young and dumb, so use this to your advantage as long as possible. Think about how you’d like to end the line, “I remember this crazy night in college ...” 10 years from now when you’re commiserating with other stressed-out parents about how you used to have lives. Streak through a 300-person lecture. Invite a professor to have a drink with you.

Get it on in as many on-campus locales as possible — think of your options like a Dr. Seuss novel (Would you like it here?

Would you like it there? Would you like it everywhere?).

Be open to experiences, and embrace those that humble you. Learn about people who aren’t like you. Recognize your privilege, and think before you judge. Look beyond your textbooks, and don’t let any opportunity for personal growth pass you by.

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@ mndaily.com.

LEARNING

Keep language in the classroom

Online language courses should not be offered at the University.

T

Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR No such thing as a “free lunch” club

In order to form a more per fect University of Minnesota, I have decided to create the “Free Lunch” Club. The “Free Lunch” Club is an all-inclusive student group. Due to our lack of fundraising skills, I will be seeking money from all of you paying your student ser vices fees.

Upon looking at the criteria for funding requests from the student ser vices fees website, I believe our group will meet and exceed them. Each week our club will have a “free lunch” meeting, wher e we will sample foods from different cultures and ethnicities. These lunches will give us a greater perspective of cultures and ethnicities dif ferent from our own. In the meetings, we will discuss topics such as religion, politics, diversity and sustainability.

Even those who are not at the meetings will benefit because we, the attendees, will be further enlightened and will most likely interact with non-attendees at some point in time. I imagine that many students will want to take advantage of the “free lunch;” therefore, I am requesting the average amount requested by a student group for the 2013-14 academic year, which is $42,311. Since only eight of the 76 requests wer e r ecommended $0 and, on average, 64 per-

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

Columnists’ opinions are their own.

EDITORIALS

STUDENT LIFE

eeing more than a few brave souls spor ting shorts this week tells me spring fever must be setting in early. February winding down means that just over two months remain in seniors’ college careers — and it’s time to prepare.

Don’t get me wrong — talking about the end of college is one of my least favorite activities. Ask me what my plans are for next year, and I instinctively undergo a Hulk-style transformation; my hands clench up, and I suddenly can’t form words. All it takes is thinking about the Vitamin C song “Graduation,” and I tear up a bit. But whether we deny or accept it, the end will come, so we might as well live it up until the bitter end. Let these ideas serve as inspiration for your own list of unofficial grad requirements.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

cent of funds requested were recommended, I feel confident we will secure funding.

I know there are some of you out there who think my “Free Lunch” Club is just us looking for a free lunch, but before you pass judgment, I recommend that you check out some of the other clubs being funded through your student ser vices fees. For those of you who do not like my club, I recommend you join the “Student Services Fees Are Out of Control” Club. All you have to do to join is contact the Student Ser vices Fees Committee and let them know that you are tired of “free lunches.”

Garrett Beier University student

Increasing tobacco price saves lives and money

I read the Feb. 27 letter to the editor, “Tobacco tax increase,” about the tobacco tax increase within Gov. Mark Dayton’s budget. The letter made a ver y inaccurate claim that increasing the price of tobacco does not encourage smokers to quit. Extensive research shows quite the opposite. Not only does increasing the price of these products lead to a decline in tobacco use, it’s proven to be one of the most effective ways to help people

quit and to keep young people from star ting. In fact, the 94-cent increase Dayton is proposing is estimated to prompt nearly 23,000 Minnesota smokers to quit and prevent nearly 30,000 kids from becoming addicted adults.

To b a c c o i s t h e N o .

1 cause of preventable death in our state and in our nation. In Minnesota, tobacco is responsible for 5,000 deaths each year.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. By increasing the price of tobacco products, Dayton is standing up for Minnesota kids and for smokers to make it easier to say no to these deadly products. What’s more, he’s doing it in a way that will not only cut health care costs in the future — Minnesota cur rently spends $3 billion on tobacco-related health care costs each year — it will generate more revenue for the state. An increase of 94 cents will generate an estimated $116 million for the state each year.

To b a c c o t a x e s s a v e lives. But if it’s the money that matters to you, the research is clear there, too.

A tobacco price increase like this one will save money and increase state revenue. The gover nor’s budget is the right move for all Minnesotans — that means students, too.

Tyler Cowart University student

he Internet has changed the way that we lear n, including the way we learn languages.

Universities across the countr y have added MEG online options to O’CONNOR their course catacolumnist logues, including the University of Minnesota. While I appreciate an occasional online course to supplement a tirelessly heavy workload, language classes should not be offered online at the University.

Learning a language, as I’m sure we can all relate to, is a tricky business. It requires mastering a new accent, learning how to conduct conversation and being exposed to other speakers. All of which need human contact to achieve.

While most, if not all, language courses at the University have Moodle sites that offer online material, these are usually flashcards or helpful quizzes to work in conjunction with one’s in-classroom time.

Online classes do offer a wide sense of flexibility that other classes do not. However, learning a language isn’t like a math course, where you can watch a lecture and then go home to work on sample problems.

With this said, language-learning software has a time and place. Say, after you finish your four semesters of language for the CLA requirement, you want to keep learning. This may be the time to download some software to stay familiar with vocabulary or simple sentence structure.

But the University should not offer language courses online to fulfill any kind of requirement.

If we could all fly off to the land of our chosen language to be immersed in the language and culture, we would. But since that isn’t available to all of us, we need to experience the language and the culture in the second- best environment: the classroom.

Being a part of a language class is like being a part of a family. Currently, I’m in my second semester of Swedish, and my peers are all supportive and enthusiastic about the course. Simulating the kind of environment that I have experienced in my Swedish class online would be infeasible.

Learning a language is not an independent activity; it is an interactive one.

Meg O’Connor welcomes comments at mo’connor@mndaily.com.

MOOCs and the spread of knowledge Free online courses will help the University fulfill its mission as a public resource of knowledge.

T

he University of Minnesota announced last week that it would partner with Coursera to offer massive open online courses or MOOCs. Though the University has hinted at its interest in MOOCs for some time, now five courses taught by University faculty will be available on the site, which has 2.7 million registered users.

The University, along with 29 other schools that announced the partnership last week, is catching up to elite research schools that have delivered popular MOOCs via Coursera and other sites.

While many are critical of the impact MOOCs will have on the future of higher education and debate the effectiveness of remote, technologyassisted education, the University is right to step in this direction — but not for the reasons one might think.

One of the three prongs of the University’s mission statement is to make the “knowledge and resources created and preserved at the University accessible to the citizens of the state, the nation, and the world.”

In serving this mission, the University maintains several public programs, including its Extension office, which is devoted to public education and access to University knowledge, especially in areas of agriculture, food, economics and the environment.

Because faculty members volunteered to create MOOCs, this initiative will not interfere with the University’s research and development and teaching missions.

As a public institution, the University has an obligation to serve more than just the enrolled student body. MOOCs are another way for the University to fulfill its public ser vice and outreach mission by making knowledge available to the public through this new medium.

Politics as usual Brinksmanship politics in Congress leaves us with only bad options.

C

ongress has been stuck in gridlock since the 2010 midterm elections and the Tea Party wave that gave the Grand Old Party control of the House of Representatives. As a result, a series of crises has characterized federal politics: the debt ceiling, the fiscal cliff and now sequestration.

Although the federal government losing its AAA credit rating and tax rates increasing might not directly affect students — who, for the most part, are in the lowest tax bracket and barely earn enough to pay any federal income tax — the automatic spending cuts known as the sequester will finally bring the effects of congressional gridlock directly to students.

There are tangible consequences to Minnesota students worthy of acknowledgement. Unless sequestration is averted, the state would lose $16.2 million earmarked for primar y, secondary and special education. The most direct and immediate impact for college students will be a decline in the amount of financial aid benefits for low-income students and funding for work-study jobs. Numerous other impacts will affect the state as a whole.

Brinksmanship politics is a result of several factors, first among them is how redistricting has established par tisan congressional districts, resulting in the threat of primar y challenges if members are seen as breaking from polarized positions in order to reach a compromise.

Fur thermore, because so few Americans truly understand the process of compromise and only hear a few seconds of sound bites, any attempt to facilitate a compromise is viewed negatively. This results in behind-closed-doors negotiating at the last minute only to avoid some greater evil instead of transparent and open debate.

Whether the sequestration occurs or is prevented by a last-minute deal, Americans can expect continued brinksmanship unless they work to more fully understand the process.

LETTERS AND GUEST COLUMNS

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

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

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

@mndailyopinions

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

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Sports

@MNDAILYSPORTS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Smith wary of another letdown after upsetting No. 1 Indiana

Seniors remain positive amid lack of NCAA success Leah Cotton and Katie Loberg haven’t played in an NCAA tournament, and the Gophers’ chances this year are slim. positive experience.

“It’s helped me become a better person,” she said.

“I’ve seen a dif ferent side of basketball. Coming of f the bench isn’t something I’m used to. I star ted to learn my role.”

Loberg and Cotton, a 5-foot-8-inch guard who has spent much of her career coming off the bench, said the relationships and camaraderie with their teammates have been incredibly rewarding.

“It’s not even about basketball games for me and [the team],” Loberg said.

“We just have fun being together.”

Borton said the seniors provided leadership and helped guide what she refer red to as “a young team.”

“I really think they’ve helped this group head in the right direction,” she said.

Bor ton also said she’s disappointed the group didn’t qualify for an NCAA tournament.

Cotton expressed disappointment, too, but she’s still not writing off a tournament berth this season.

To make that happen, the Gophers would likely have to win their last two regular-season games and make a run in the Big Ten tournament. “ We h a v e t o g r i n d through a lot of things, but it’s definitely possible,” she said. “Don’t write us off just yet.”

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Wo m e n ’ s b a s k e t b a l l players Katie Loberg and Leah Cotton make up the only one of Pam Bor ton’s senior classes at Minnesota that’s never played in an NCAA tournament.

But both will have a lot to play for Thursday when the unranked Gophers face No. 7 Penn State on Senior Night at Williams Arena.

“It would mean so much,” Cotton said of a possible upset. “This is one of the games you remember — what happens Senior Night, your last time playing at the Barn.”

Cotton and Loberg both said the men’s basketball team’s victor y over No. 1 Indiana on Tuesday was inspiring.

“To get a win on Senior Night would probably be the cher r y on top of the year for me so far,” Loberg said.

This year hasn’t gone as planned for Loberg.

The 6-foot-4-inch forward spent most of her sophomore and junior seasons in the starting lineup.

But a preseason knee injur y forced her to miss the first two games of the season.

When she returned, it was as a reserve, and she’s only played 11 minutes per game since.

Despite the initial disappointment, Loberg said her senior season has been a

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW

VS NO. 7 PENN STATE

MINNESOTA

9

8 p.m., Thursday at Williams Arena

MINNESOTA: The Gophers, who sit eighth in the Big Ten at 5-9, have played the No. 7 Nittany Lions tough in recent years.

In their first matchup on Jan. 24, Minnesota held a second-half lead in University Park, Pa., but was outplayed down the stretch and lost 64-59.

The Gophers pushed the Nittany Lions to the brink in last year’s Big Ten tournament, too, but lost 78-74.

PENN STATE: The Nittany Lions (13-1 Big Ten) are the class of the Big Ten and have already clinched the regular-season conference championship.

Conference player of the year candidate Maggie Lucas leads Penn State, scoring 19.9 points per game.

She scored a game-high 26 points in the Jan. 24 meeting.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Basketball u from Page 1

year.

The Nittany Lions handed Smith another cause for concern Wednesday when they upset No. 4 Michigan 84-78 at the Br yce Jordan Center in University Park, Pa. Smith sang a dif ferent tune about winning Tuesday than he did after the Wisconsin game, when the 61-year-old danced in the locker room.

“Put it in perspective,” Smith said Wednesday.

“It’s not like we were playing for the No. 1 seed in the Big Ten, and that’s what I have to let my players know.”

Although the Nittany Lions are 1-14 in conference play this season, Smith knows his team’s psyche is fragile based upon unstable performances and outside criticism.

“I think for young people, they’re af fected more than old folks like myself,” Smith said.

Minnesota’s coaching staf f had Dr. Rick Aberman, a local spor ts psychologist employed by Gophers athletics, talk to the team last week.

E v e n M i n n e s o t a V ikings quar terback Christian Ponder gave the team a pregame speech before Tuesday’s win.

But Smith denounced the impor tance of those pep talks, saying that a psychologist has talked to his team ever y year he’s been at Minnesota.

The Gophers have several reasons to be confident heading into Saturday’s game.

Smith shor tened his rotation against Indiana, and in turn, his bench produced 16 points, four assists and zero turnovers.

Sophomore center Elliott Eliason’s seven points came at a crucial time, as senior for war d T r evor Mbakwe sat with four fouls late in the second half.

“It just gives me the confidence knowing I can contribute in a positive way,” Eliason said Tuesday. “Going for war d, I know what I can do to help this team.”

The seven-footer’s contributions were key to Minnesota’s upset win,

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota forward Rodney Williams dribbles in the post against Nebraska guard Shavon Shields on Jan. 29 at Williams Arena.

Smith said.

“Those seven points in that stretch when we were down, [we were] looking for someone to step up,” Smith said. “He did.”

Even after the historic win, one Smith called a “milestone” for his program, he doesn’t want his players to be satisfied.

Smith equated all the media attention placed on his Gophers to a crowd cheering or jeering a team.

“You can never stop [your players] from listening to it, but you’ve got to be able to,” Smith said.

“You’re going to be better because of it.”

@dailyinthebarn

MEN’S BASKETBALL PREVIEW

VS MINNESOTA

PENN STATE

2 p.m., Saturday at Williams Arena

MINNESOTA: Behind star forward Trevor Mbakwe, the Gophers (19-9, 7-8 Big Ten) beat top-ranked Indiana on Tuesday – the first time since 1989 that Minnesota has topped a No. 1 team.

After the game, Mbakwe said it was the best victory of his career, adding “nothing comes close.”

But the Gophers are no strangers to letdowns. Minnesota lost by 21 points at Iowa following an emotional overtime victory against then-No. 20 Wisconsin on Feb. 14.

PENN STATE: The Nittany Lions (9-18, 1-14 Big Ten) upset No. 4 Michigan 84-78 on Wednesday at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park, Pa. Point guard Tim Frazier, who averaged 18.8 points last year, ruptured his Achilles tendon in Penn State’s fourth game of the year.

The Big Ten is known as one of the toughest conferences in the nation, and Penn State has shown fight despite its top scorer’s absence.

The Nittany Lions lost at Michigan by eight points Feb. 17 and lost by five at Illinois on Feb. 21 before claiming their first conference victory Wednesday.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SOFTBALL

Gophers seek offensive consistency at Auburn tournament

CHUCK’S CORNER

Sports editor Charlie Armitz’s predictions for Gophers sports games this weekend

GOPHERS

GOPHERS

MEN’S VS BASKETBALL

WIN

BASEBALL

VS DARTMOUTH

PENN STATE

GOPHERS

GOPHERS

WOMEN’S VS BASKETBALL

LOSS

BASEBALL

VS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

GOPHERS

@

WIN UTAH

PENN STATE

GOPHERS

WIN

WIN

BASEBALL

VS NORTHERN ILLINOIS

WIN

INDIANA

GOPHERS MEN’S HOCKEY

GOPHERS

VS

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

WIN

WIN

MEN’S TENNIS

VS

MEN’S VS GYMNASTICS

GOPHERS WOMEN’S

IOWA

LOSS WASHINGTON

BEMIDJI STATE

GOPHERS

LOSS DRAKE

GOPHERS

VS

VS

WIN

DENVER

GOPHERS

MEN’S TENNIS

WIN

WIN GYMNASTICS LAST WEEK: 10-6 SEASON: 116-34

@

LOSS FLORIDA

Minnesota has averaged 3.14 runs and fewer than six hits this season.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

Junior Sara Moulton threw a no-hitter in a win last Sunday for the Gophers.

She almost had to in order to secure the victor y.

The Gophers scattered six hits in defeating Albany 1-0, but they struggled to string any of fense together. Sophomore Tyler Walker’s solo home r un provided the game’s only run.

The Gophers (7-7) will look for some consistency

in their bats this weekend at the War Eagle classic in Aubur n, Ala. Minnesota is averaging 3.14 runs per game on fewer than six hits per contest.

The Gophers have three players with a batting average above .300, just like last year, when it averaged about five r uns per game.

“We’ve got to find a way to string things together,” head coach Jessica Allister said after Sunday’s game.

The season’s only three weeks old, which Allister said could be attributed to a lot of Minnesota’s struggles.

“You can’t be outcomefocused,” Allister said of the team’s of fensive approach. “You’ve got to be process-focused.”

The Gophers’ strong pitching and defense has helped them sur vive a shaky offensive start.

“Once we got the one r un, I knew that our de-

fense was going to shut it down,” Moulton said.

“We’re doing really well with working together this year, so we don’t need a lot of runs.”

SOFTBALL PREVIEW

VS MINNESOTA

MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE

AUBURN

GARDNER-WEBB CHARLOTTE

8 p.m., Friday 12:30 p.m. and 3 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m., Sunday in Auburn, Ala.

PREVIEW: Minnesota improved to 7-7 last weekend by going 4-1 at the FGCU Spring Break Invitational in Fort Myers, Fla. The Gophers outscored their opponents 19-11 last weekend.

With a 12-4 record, host Auburn will be the Gophers’ strongest competition this weekend at the War Eagle Classic. Middle Tennessee State is 0-10.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

10

Thursday, February 28, 2013

MEN’S HOCKEY

Lone senior leads quietly from blue line

JERRY E. LEE, DAILY

Minnesota senior Seth Helgeson during a game against North Dakota at Mariucci Arena on Jan. 19.

Seth Helgeson makes an impact without putting up big numbers.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

Fans who would like to see Saturday’s senior night presentation at Mariucci Arena better not leave their seat for any reason — it’s going to be a quick show.

The No. 2 Gophers have only one senior to honor, defenseman Seth Helgeson.

“This will probably be the fastest [Senior Night] in histor y,” Helgeson said.

“It’s probably going to take 30 seconds, so it’s not going to be such a distraction.”

The Gophers (21-6-5, 13-6-5 WCHA) will honor Helgeson on Saturday before the finale of a twogame series with Denver.

Helgeson was par t of a four-player freshman class for the Gophers in 2009-10 that included Zach Budish, Nick Leddy and Josh Birk-

holz.

Budish was awarded a medical redshir t after an injur y and is a redshirt junior for the Gophers. Leddy left after one season for the pros, and Birkholz left after one season to play in the Wester n Hockey League.

A lot of fans may not notice Helgeson much on the ice, but head coach Don Lucia says that may be a good thing.

“He’s just a guy that’s kind of an anchor back there and does his job quietly,” Lucia said. “He’s not the type of player that’s going to get a lot of notoriety because of the way he plays.

“For Seth, when you don’t notice him, that’s when he’s at his best.”

Being the only senior may mean Helgeson is one of the few players who can tr uly appreciate the Gophers’ success the past two seasons.

Minnesota finished seventh and fifth, respectively, in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association standings his first two

years on campus.

“It was hard at times,” Helgeson said. “Over the past two years, it’s just been a great reward.”

Helgeson has seven goals and 18 assists in his Gophers career — fewer total points than six Gophers players have scored just this season. “ O b v i o u s l y, I ’ m n o t going to be out there putting numbers like Nate Schmidt or anything,” Helgeson said. “I’ve accepted that role over the four years that I’ve been here.

It’s not going to be my role to go out there and score goals.”

But Helgeson leads the Gophers in two statistical categories this season: penalties (24) and penalty minutes (56).

A lot of those penalties were roughing minors he got while using his 6-foot4-inch, 215-pound frame to defend his smaller teammates.

“Honestly, I dare anyone to throw a cheap shot on me, and [Helgeson] will be right there,” sophomore defenseman Ben

Marshall said.

Helgeson has played in 114 straight games for Minnesota and 142 games overall. He has provided consistency among a blue line that, aside from juniors Schmidt and Mark Alt, is made up of freshmen and sophomores.

“I think my leadership role expanded last year,” Helgeson said. “Coach [Mike] Guentzel really put that on me last year.”

Marshall, who has been Helgeson’s defensive partner for most of the season, said he has enjoyed playing with the Faribault, Minn., native.

“He’s really stable, and he lets me do my thing out there,” Marshall said. “I like to be of fensive, and he understands that, but when I screw up he’s always back there to help me out.”

Marshall called his defensive par tner one of the toughest guys on the team and said some of Helgeson’s toughness has rubbed off on him.

“You can’t play soft when you’re with [him],”

Marshall said.

Schmidt said he was impr essed with Helgeson’s ability to be easygoing away from the rink and “flip a switch and be totally dialed in” when he steps onto the ice.

With two weekends left in the regular season, Hel-

geson said he has taken a few walks down memor y lane.

“I love it here so much,” he said, “I could stay for another four years.”

@dailyontheice

MEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

VS NO. 2 MINNESOTA

NO. 10 DENVER

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

MINNESOTA: This weekend will be the last regular-season series for the Gophers at home, and their last series against a ranked opponent. Minnesota is 13-2-3 at home this season.

With two goals against Minnesota-Duluth last weekend, junior Erik Haula now ranks eighth on the list of national scoring leaders. Haula has 39 points (15 goals, 24 assists) this season. Kyle Rau, Nick Bjugstad, Nate Condon and Nate Schmidt are also among the top 50 in the nation in points.

The Gophers’ haven’t played Denver yet this season, nor have they played next weekend’s opponent, Bemidji State.

DENVER: The Pioneers are coming off a series split with No. 6 North Dakota.

Denver goaltender Juho Olkinuora is in the top five in the WCHA in both save percentage and winning percentage.

The Pioneers swept Minnesota in Denver last season.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Bemidji St. brings confidence to first-round rematch The Beavers are the only team to take the Gophers to overtime this season.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s hockey team will enter this weekend’s first round of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association playof fs as the first team in NCAA histor y with a perfect regular season and a 42-game winning streak.

And while Minnesota is the heavy favorite over Bemidji State, the conference’s last-place finisher, the Beavers have one edge on the No. 1 team.

Two weeks ago, Bemidji State became the only team this season to take Minnesota to overtime before losing 3-2. “ We f e e l m o r e c o n fident knowing that we could take them to overtime,” Bemidji State freshman for ward Kaitlyn Tougas said.

Tougas scor ed both of the Beavers’ goals that

game, but according to Bemidji State head coach Steve Sertich, the real impact came from his team’s defense.

He said senior goaltender Jessica Havel had a “Hollywood movie” game, and senior defender Erika Wheelhouse proved she was the best collegiate shot-blocker in the countr y.

Havel saved 41 shots while her defenders blocked nearly as many.

Gophers sophomor e defender Rachel Ramsey said it was clear Bemidji

State had a specific, defensive game plan when playing the Gophers.

Ser tich said he doesn’t plan to change the team’s strategy for the playoffs.

“We typically have to [be defensive],” Ser tich said. “That’s been kind of been our mantra for a number of years.”

Head Gophers coach Brad Frost said his team is expecting the Beavers to fr ustrate the Gophers’ offense. “ We j u s t h a v e t o find ways to get pucks through,” Frost said.

“They’re literally looking to block the shot. … It’s going to be really hard for any beautiful goals.”

Ser tich said the Gophers’ depth of talent makes them a tough opponent.

“They have three lines that are exceptional,” Sertich said. “The top teams

even in our league have two lines that are exceptional. Minnesota is pretty hard to defend. … You can’t take a shift off.”

Sertich said his players played with passion and energy in the over time game and will need to play hard again to keep the playoff games close.

While Bemidji State is the underdog in this David and Goliath matchup, Ramsey said the Gophers know how uncer tain the playoffs can be.

“We’re only guaranteed these next two games,” Ramsey said. “So that’s kind of crazy to think about.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY PREVIEW

VS NO. 1 MINNESOTA

BEMIDJI STATE

6 p.m., Friday, 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Ridder Arena

PREVIEW: The No. 1 Gophers will take on unranked Bemidji State in the first round of the WCHA playoffs.

Minnesota won the WCHA regular-season title with a 28-0-0 record, while the Beavers finished last in the conference at 5-22-1.

The winner of the best-of-three series will advance to the WCHA Final Face-off March 8-9, which will decide the conference tournament champion.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY

Minnesota defender Rachel Ramsey scores against Bemidji State on Feb. 16 at Ridder Arena.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

11

TRACK & FIELD

Adderley contributes in first season with Gophers, aims for nationals Junior Te’Shon Adderley has a shot at qualifying for the NCAA indoor championships in her first year at Minnesota.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

Junior Te’Shon Adderley is on the verge of qualifying for the NCAA indoor championships in the 800-meter run.

But her journey to the Division I national stage started in the fifth grade in her native Bahamas.

When she graduated

high school at age 17, she followed a friend to the U.S. to compete for Iowa Central Community College.

While Adderley won various titles at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) indoor championships in her two years at Iowa Central, she said training at the community college was difficult.

“Unfor tunately, they

WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD PREVIEW

IOWA STATE LAST CHANCE NOTRE DAME LAST CHANCE

@ MINNESOTA

TBA, Friday and Saturday in Ames, Iowa and South Bend, Ind.

PREVIEW: The Gophers will travel to two meets this weekend in hopes of solidifying NCAA indoor championships qualifications in several events.

Senior Alena Brooks is ranked No. 16 nationally in the 800-meter run, and junior Te’Shon Adderley is No. 20. Senior Todea-Kay Willis is ranked No. 14 in the long jump, and junior Laura Docherty is No. 34 in the 5,000-meter run.

One of the Gophers’ distance medley relay teams is also ranked No. 18 in the nation.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD PREVIEW

@ MINNESOTA

ALEX WILSON INVITATIONAL WASHINGTON LAST CHANCE

IOWA STATE QUALIFIER

TBA, Friday and Saturday in South Bend, Ind., Seattle, Wash., and Ames, iowa

PREVIEW: The Gophers have one last weekend to qualify athletes for the NCAA indoor championships March 8-9.

Senior Sean King is ranked No. 20 nationally in the 60-meter dash.

Senior Harun Abda is No. 32 in the 400-meter run and No. 8 in the 800-meter run, and senior Travis Burkstrand is No. 24 in the 800.

Junior John Simons is ranked in the top 25 in two events, and senior Nick Hutton is ranked in the top 45 in two events.

The Gophers’ 4x400-meter relay team is ranked No. 5, and their distance medley relay team is No. 12.

Minnesota has three ranked athletes in the weight throw – senior Micah Hegerle at No. 6, junior Jon Lehman at No. 7 and sophomore Justin Barber at No. 19.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

didn’t have a track,” Adderley said. “So we actually ran on the sidewalk or we would take a bus 20 minutes to a high school track.”

Now, after transferring to Minnesota this year, Adderley has two track facilities for practice.

Head coach Matt Bingle first saw Adderley at the NJCAA indoor championships a year ago and was curious about her ability to be a Division I athlete.

Adderley of ficially signed with the University in May 2012. She proved she would be a good addition to the Gophers at the IAAF World Junior Championships last summer when she ran a sub-2:08 time in the 800.

“The expectation was that she [would be] an immediate impact to our program,” Bingle said.

Adderley has made an impact so far. She had a successful regular season and placed four th in the 800 at the Big Ten indoor championships last week.

While Adderley was disappointed she just missed a medal, she said running a personal-record time was a good tradeoff.

Adderley and teammate senior Alena Brooks are both poised to qualify for the NCAA indoor championships in the 800. Both will compete this weekend at the Notre Dame Last Chance meet to solidify their spots in the top-16 qualifiers.

Brooks said Adderley fit in with the team right away because she always smiles and jokes with people.

“I thought she was crazy,” Brooks said of when she first met Adderley.

“She wasn’t shy like me.”

While the two compete in the same event this weekend, Brooks trains with the sprinters while Adderley trains with the distance runners.

“We always talk trash,

and we have this friendly rivalr y,” Brooks said, adding that the two motivate each other.

Adderley said she’s excited for the opportunity to compete at the Division I

national meet.

“It would be phenomenal,” she said. “It’s the highest in all the universities in the United States, so that is excellent. Being there would be excellent.”

12

Thursday, February 28, 2013

BASEBALL

Handel’s home run lifts Gophers over NDSU Michael Handel atoned for an early error with a goahead home run.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

At 6 foot 1 and 185 pounds, Michael Handel doesn’t fit the mold of a prototypical cleanup hitter.

Looks can be deceiving.

The Gophers sophomore shortstop went 2-for4 with a solo home run and a pair of RBIs, powering Minnesota to a 4-2 victor y over Nor th Dakota State on Wednesday at the Metrodome.

The cleanup spot is typically reser ved for the best power hitter on the team. Handel has been that through six games.

He’s hitting .433, top among ever yday Gophers players. His eight RBIs are second-most on the team, and his home r un is the first by a Minnesota player this season.

“It’s definitely something new to me. I don’t think I’ve ever hit cleanup before,” Handel said. “Batting four th, it’s a compliment, but at the same time I need to keep focused.”

Handel mishandled a ground ball in the first inning, and his error led to a pair of Bison runs.

NDSU star ter Parker Trewin protected the 2-0 lead and kept Gophers hitters in check until the fifth inning.

Designated hitter Alex LaShomb led of f the fifth with a single. Two batters later, third baseman R yan Abrahamson singled.

Then second baseman Tony Skjefte ripped Trewin’s of fering up the middle, driving in Minnesota’s first run.

Left fielder Andy Henkemeyer evened the score at 2-2 with an RBI double.

Simon Anderson r eplaced Trewin in the sixth inning, and Handel sent his 1-2 pitch into the leftfield seats.

“I saw thr ee sliders back-to-back,” Handel said. “Finally I just connected on one.”

The Gophers tacked on an insurance r un in

Sophomore pitchers adjust to starting roles Injuries have thrust Ben Meyer and Jordan Jess into the starting rotation.

the form of a Handel RBI double.

“He didn’t let the [error] r uin his day,” head coach John Anderson said of Handel. “With young players, that can happen.

That was impressive to me that he was able to reset.”

Senior closer Billy Soule took the mound in the ninth and slammed the door on NDSU for his second save of the season.

Junior Kyle O’Shea star ted on the mound for the Gophers and threw three innings, allowing only the pair of unearned runs.

The Gophers’ trio of D a l t o n S a w y e r, D r e w Ghelfi and T y McDevitt held Bison batters in check during the game’s middle innings. Ghelfi was credited with the win.

“We found a way to win the game after getting behind,” John Anderson said.

“Last year, I’m not sure we could have found a way to win that game.”

BASEBALL RESULTS

NDSU Minnesota

1 2 0

2 0 0

3 0 0

4 0 0

5 0 2

6 0 1

7 0 0

8 0 1

9 0 X

R 2 4

H 5 8

E 0 1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

There’s no such thing as too much starting pitching in baseball.

When everybody’s finally healthy for the Gophers, though, they’ll have a lot of it.

Injuries have kept hardthrowing lefty D.J. Snelten and junior college transfer Alec Crawford out of action so far.

But sophomores Ben Meyer and Jordan Jess have joined veteran Tom Windle in the rotation, and they’re growing into quality starters.

Both rebounded from poor outings against No. 12 UCLA in their season debuts and turned in good efforts last weekend against Western Michigan. Minnesota head coach John Anderson said he’s pleased with their development thus far.

“How do you get confidence? You get out there, and you have success,” Anderson said. “We know they have enough ability.”

Meyer displayed some of that ability as a freshman.

He made 15 appearances in 2012, including 13 as a reliever, and finished the season with a 2.37 ERA. He was named to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team at season’s end.

Meyer said he didn’t know he would be added to the rotation until a couple of weeks before the season opener, and he’s still adjusting to higher pitch counts.

“It’s nice to get in a routine and know when you’re going to throw,” he said.

Anderson said the coaching staff had plans to develop Meyer as a starter early in his career.

“He’s on what I say is a natural progression for pitchers in our program,” Anderson said.

Meyer said the experience last year helped ease the transition from the bullpen into the rotation.

Jess also made 12 appearances as a freshman, including five starts. “[Starting] is something I wanted to do since I got here,” he said. “I enjoy the long pitch counts. I love

stretching it out and going seven-plus innings. That’s what I want to do.”

Jess pitched a career-high six innings in his first win of the season.

Anderson said he originally thought of Jess as a midweek starter, but that could change depending on when Snelten and Crawford return.

Snelten, who has dealt with elbow soreness, is back on a throwing program, and Anderson said he hopes to bring him back during the Gophers’ two-game series at Kansas State, which starts March 19.

Crawford is recovering from a knee injur y and is starting to do more throwing, Anderson said.

When everyone’s healthy, the coaching staff will evaluate the situation and make adjustments accordingly.

BASEBALL PREVIEW

VS MINNESOTA

DARTMOUTH

UTAH

6:35 p.m., Friday; 6:35 p.m., Saturday; 3:05 p.m., Sunday at Metrodome

PREVIEW: The Gophers will host the 29th annual Dairy Queen Classic this weekend.

The four-team mini-tournament will feature nonconference foes Dartmouth, Utah and Northern Illinois, none of which have played in the DQ Classic before.

Minnesota’s bats came to life in last weekend’s four-game set against Western Michigan. The Gophers scored 31 runs while winning three of four games.

Dartmouth has yet to play a game this season, Utah is 4-3 and Northern Illinois is 1-7.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SWIMMING & DIVING

GYMNASTICS

Gophers tie for fourth on first day of Big Ten championships

Specialist becomes all-around contributor in second season Jenny Covers has won the all-around competition twice this season, including last Sunday.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers are tied for fourth place out of 10 teams after one night of the Big Ten championships in Bloomington, Ind. Michigan won two events Wednesday and leads the championships with 80 points. Ohio State (66 points), Indiana (66), Minnesota (54) and Iowa (54) round out the top five.

The Gophers finished sixth in the 200-yard medley relay, the first event of the championships. Sophomore Luke Bushman, senior Jared

MEN’S BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS STANDINGS 1 2 2 4 4 6 7 8 9 9

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

80 66 66 54 54 52 48 40 38 38

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota’s Jared Anderson swims in the men’s 400-yard medley relay against North Dakota on Jan. 25 at the University Aquatic Center.

Anderson and juniors Sandy Whitaker and Derek Toomey swam the relay in 1:26.41 but finished more than three seconds behind Michigan.

Toomey had the fastest 50-yard split in the event, swimming the last 50 yards in 18.39 seconds.

The Gophers took fifth in the 800 freestyle relay, finishing nearly 12 seconds behind Michigan. Junior Sean Nesheim led off the relay, followed by freshmen Ben Bravence and Logan Redondo, and senior Hrvoje Capan swam the final leg.

Toomey said he was impressed with the composure Bravence and Redondo

showed on the first night of the championships.

Day two of the championships kicks off Thursday with the preliminary rounds for the 500 freestyle, 200 individual medley, 50 freestyle and 1-meter dive. The finals for those events will be held Thursday night.

Michigan has won four of the past five Big Ten championships, including the last two. The No. 3 Wolverines finished fifth at the NCAA championships last season.

The Big Ten championships run through Saturday night at the CounsilmanBillingsley Aquatic Center in Bloomington, Minn.

Jenny Covers wasn’t content last season competing in only one event.

The sophomore on the women’s gymnastics team was a vault specialist as a freshman.

She told herself when last season ended that she would train harder and focus more on gymnastics so she could contribute more this season.

Covers has done just that in 2013, competing as an all-around gymnast for No. 14 Minnesota. She has competed in all four events in ever y meet but one, which she missed due to a concussion.

Covers is one of three Minnesota gymnasts to compete in the all-around competition this season.

She has won the all-around twice, including last Sunday against Iowa State.

Her average vault score is higher than last season, and it leads the team and is tied for third-best in the conference. She has also improved her consistency on the apparatus.

Head coach Meg Stephenson said Covers worked with vaulting coach Jenny Hansen in the of fseason to improve her landing.

“She had a really power ful, strong vault,” Stephenson said, “but it was not necessarily landing ver y well and wasn’t as clean as it is now.”

Covers said she feels her vault is coming together this season.

“Ever y girl can do a 10.0 vault without the landing,” she said. “[The landing] separates you from ever yone else.”

Stephenson said Covers has become a better gymnastics student in her second year, paying more attention to the coaching and applying it to her routines on ever y event.

“That’s helped her make the kind of corrections she needed to make,” she said.

Covers said beam has always been her weakest

NORTHERN ILLINOIS

fidence level and a more comforting environment.

“I feel at home now,” she said. “Last year, I knew Minnesota was my home, but I had to get my feet wet.”

Stephenson described Covers as a natural leader, someone who is prepared each day in practice and for meets.

“That’s the best kind of leader we can ask for,” she said.

Covers said she learned how to be a leader from the upperclassmen who have taught her.

After reaching her goal, Covers said she hasn’t put any extra pressure on herself in meets this season.

“I forget about the whole [meet],” she said, “and just do what the team needs me to do at that moment.”

event. Yet, she’s often the first competitor on the apparatus in competitions, a sign of consistency and dependability.

Covers has also led of f on floor and uneven bars for Minnesota this season.

She said she was ner vous to hold the first spot in the rotation initially but has grown into it.

“Now I like it,” she said.

“I feel more secure in that spot, and I feel like that’s my job to get the girls star ted of f with a strong routine.”

Midway through her second season, Covers said the biggest difference between her two collegiate seasons has been her con-

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS PREVIEW

@ NO. 14 MINNESOTA

NO. 2 FLORIDA

6 p.m., Friday in Gainesville, Fla.

MINNESOTA: The No. 14 Gophers, who started 12-0, are on a twomeet losing streak after a rough weekend at Iowa and Iowa State.

Coach Meg Stephenson said the team is struggling to compete well on the road, which doesn’t get any easier this week against No. 2 Florida. The Gators will be the Gophers’ final road test of the regular season.

FLORIDA: The Gators have won six meets in a row and have been ranked in the top three nationally all season. Florida has defeated some of the nation’s top programs in that span, including No. 4 Alabama, No. 7 Georgia and No. 21 Kentucky.

Last season, Florida was the runner-up to Alabama at the NCAA championships.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

MEN’S GYMNASTICS PREVIEW

VS NO. 6 MINNESOTA

NO. 8 IOWA

7 p.m., Saturday at Sports Pavilion

MINNESOTA: The No. 6 Gophers lost to the Hawkeyes three weeks ago in Iowa City, Iowa. Both teams were missing athletes that meet because of the Winter Cup in Las Vegas. This weekend, both teams will begin using only five athletes on each event instead of six, meaning every score will count.

Minnesota scored its lowest point total of the season last weekend at Illinois-Chicago.

IOWA: The No. 8 Hawkeyes have scored their highest two-point totals of the season since last seeing the Gophers. The high scores helped Iowa beat Illinois and Nebraska.

Iowa averages a higher score than Minnesota on still rings and parallel bars.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Thursday, February 28, 2013

A&E EDITOR

Sarah Harper (612) 627-4070, ext. 3237 sharper@mndaily.com

ASSISTANT A&E EDITOR Joe Kleinschmidt (612) 627-4070, ext. 3198 jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

RADIO K TOP 7 1. My Bloody Valentine “Who Sees You” 2. Iceage “In Haze” 3. Youth Lagoon “Dropla” 4. James Blake “Retrograde” 5. Fidlar “Gimmie Something” 6. Boris “Neu Years” 7. Myotis “Bad Habit”

13

ONLINE WWW.MNDAILY.COM/AE

CORRECTIONS

errors@mndaily.com 2221 University Ave. SE Suite 450 Minneapolis, MN 55414

ART

Under construction INDUSTRY AND HISTORY INFORM NINE ARTISTS IN THE SOAP FACTORY’S NEWEST EXHIBITION, R.U.R.

BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

B

uilding debris and unear thed rocks lie exposed in a deep pit next to the Soap Factor y. As constr uction crews finish up work on another high-end apartment complex, continuing to mask the former industr y of Northeast Minneapolis, the 25-year-old ar t collective next door examines the past.

R.U.R., the latest group exhibition at the Soap Factory, unveils a tangled web of ecology, manufacturing and more in the 12,000 square foot galler y space of the building, first built in 1882. The title of the show stems from Karel Capek’s 1921 “Rossum’s Universal Robots,” a Czech play that coined the word “robot.”

Although the nine ar tists aren’t tr ying to create artificial intelligence, they’re cognizant of the mechanical history of the Soap Factory.

Housing ever ything from railroad storage to jelly preser ves production and finally industrial soap, the building ceased formal manufacturing in 1991, when the National Purity Soap and Chemical Company moved out.

“Earlier in the centur y, in the 1930s, they also produced insecticides and lots of other chemicals,” said Lillian Egner, program manager at the Soap Factory.

Before Grand Metropolitan passed the building to the No Name Collective in 1995, the future of the building remained uncertain.

PHOTO COURTESY OF ISABELLE HAYEUR Isabelle Hayeur’s “Death in Absentia 01” depicts the murky waters and ship wreckage of a marine cemetery in Rossville, Staten Island, N.Y. The photographer plans to visit New Orleans for her ongoing “Underworlds” series, now on display for the Soap Factory’s R.U.R. exhibition.

“It was being prepped for demolition, they had removed the infrastructure, and then they passed it to the galler y,” Egner said.

“And we got it for a dollar.”

Now a sculpture pays tribute to the past. Judith Hof fman’s replica of the Soap Factor y hangs suspended from a beam in the building, containing symbols from its industrial past — jars of soap and railroad ties.

“The thing that interested me was what was here before the building,” Hoffman said. “Given that, what kind of history did the building contain, and how

could you find ways to deal with that?”

The Brooklyn-based artist’s prior work includes a reproduction of the Quark Art Gallery in Detroit. With local ar tists, she covered the life-size replica in blue paper. The piece’s urban surroundings quickly led to its disintegration, a time lapse she documented over a period of a month.

“I was out of town, and a janitor from a nearby building got so fed up with it and his city looking like trash that he came and took the sculpture off and cleaned it up,” Hoffman said. “It’s perfect.”

Montreal-based ar tist Isabelle Hayeur comments on industrial remnants and destr uction through her series of photographs, “Under worlds.” Since 2008, she’s catalogued eerie semisubmerged shots of lakes and rivers across Nor th America.

“The way I shoot the photos, it’s like you’re in the water. It’s almost like you’re a part of it,” Hayeur said. “I say it’s like sort of like an anxiety, like a lack of oxygen.”

Turbid images indicate the rapidly changing ecosystem she documents — polluted water or debris might obscure an ideal

picturesque landscape. As a former member of Greenpeace, environmental issues form her core artistic motivations. One of the more dramatic images from “Under worlds” depicts a Navy graveyard in Staten Island, N.Y. “It used to be the biggest landfill in North America.

It’s a highly industrial area and very polluted,” Hayeur said. “It’s a kind of no man’s land.”

The inver ted images show rusted ruins of buildings and ship wreckage — now at home on the walls of a building once ordered to be demolished.

WHAT R.U.R. GROUP EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION WHO ISABELLE HAYEUR, COLIN LYONS, NADINE ANDERSON, KIMBERLY GREENE, JUDITH HOFFMAN, AMY RITTER, KATIE MURKEN, PRITIKA CHOWDHRY AND DUSTIN YAGER WHERE THE SOAP FACTORY, 514 SECOND ST. SE, MINNEAPOLIS WHEN 7 P.M., SATURDAY COST FREE

MUSIC

The Tribe Disbands

L

THURSDAY

ast summer, The Tribe and Big Cats! released its third full-length album, “Space.”

It got tens of thousands of downloads, and the hip-hop duo took a successful tour of Midwest campuses and bars. Now, less than a year later, they’re ready to go their separate ways.

“We got to the point where it makes more sense to work individually,” said Spencer Wir th-Davis, known better by his DJ name Big Cats!

“It had already changed so much since it started — different members and different sounds,” he said.

When the group released its debut full-length, “For ward Thinkers, Movers, Shakers,” in 2011, The Tribe half of the group

THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM The Gaslight Anthem gets compared to Bruce Springsteen a lot. It seems lazy to keep hitting on the same analogy, but in this case, it’s hard to overstress the comparison. The music is more pop-punky than The Boss’s, and it’s a little less anthemic, but the similarities are uncanny at times. The group has, with its 2012 transition to a major label, fallen from grace in a lot of indie circles but I’d say the chances are good that the band breaks out a few of the rock sing-a-longs that put them on the map in the first place for their headlining show in the Mainroom.

u Where: First Avenue, 701 N. First Ave., Minneapolis u When: 7:30 p.m. u Cost: $27

WHAT THE TRIBE AND BIG CATS! FINAL SHOW WITH TOKI WRIGHT, MALLY AND DJ SNUGGLES WHEN 9 P.M., FRIDAY WHERE TRIPLE ROCK SOCIAL CLUB, 629 S. CEDAR AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST $7 IN ADVANCE, $10 AT THE DOOR AGE 18+

vis said.

Hooks said it’s more of a name change than a breakup.

“Cats! and I work in the same studio, and he has a few beats on my new record.”

That upcoming CD, due out in May, will be called “All Black Jesus” and will feel more like a raw rap album than Hooks’ previous efforts.

“Minneapolis is pigeonholed in this one sound,”

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY Minneapolis rapper Chris Hooks, Rapper Hooks, works on a new track Tuesday at Waterbury Studios in Minneapolis.

Hooks said. “This album doesn’t sound like a Minnesota album. It doesn’t have that lo-fi, boom-bap sound.”

Wir th-Davis, unlike Hooks, isn’t focusing on any one thing in par ticular. After releasing his solo work, “For My Mother,”

COMEDY SPORTZ So you’ve got a date tonight, but secretly you just want to stay in and watch re-runs of “Whose Line Iis Iit Anyway?”

Lucky for you, there’s Comedy Sportz in Calhoun Square.

Grab a glass of wine from the concession stand, and watch two teams of comedians duke it out through various improv games based on audience suggestions to win the coveted, yet largely inconsequential, points. You might even get dragged on stage to be used as a prop. Alternatively, you can save a couple bucks by coming to their later show, Improv Survivor (it’s exactly what it sounds like), at 10:30 p.m.

u Where: 3001 S. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis u When: 8 p.m. u Cost: $12

last year, he’s spreading out and doing production for Toki Wright, Kristoff Krane and Dem Atlas. “My style depends on who I’m working with,” he said. “Ever y emcee has a different delivery and style.”

Although both par ties

SATURDAY

BY PATRICK MALONEY pmaloney@mndaily.com

consisted of Truth Be Told and DJ Pete. Since then, the former has changed his name to Rapper Hooks, and the latter left the group entirely not long after the first album dropped.

While “For ward Thinkers, Movers, Shakers” kicked of f with dissonant synth sounds, heavy drums and an overall bad-ass feel, the group’s newest effort, “Space,” offers a more melodic, jazzy feel.

One thing that stayed the same throughout the group’s discography was its ability to make “conscious” rap without coming off as melancholy. The lyrics were introspective; the beats sounded most natural banging out of house party speakers. With the disbanding, Minneapolis loses one of its more fun indie-rap groups.

Fortunately for the pair’s fans, the break doesn’t mean the two won’t release any more music.

“We’ll still be putting out music together,” Wirth-Da-

FRIDAY

THE TRIBE & BIG CATS! SAY GOODBYE WITH ONE LAST SHOW.

are ready for the break, they have few regrets.

“We wanted to make five albums, and we did.

We wanted to play the First Avenue Mainroom, and we did,” Hooks said. “We just accomplished all of our goals.”

THE OSCAR NOMINATED SHORT FILMS 2013 If you’re still in film-critic mode from the Oscars, look no further than a theatrical presentation of this year’s critically acclaimed short films. These flicks were available online up until a couple of weeks ago, but The Man pulled them from the Internet because they weren’t doing well in theaters.

Nevertheless, the films are probably worth your money.

The two separate collections, animated and live action, each run for about two hours. One standout short features Maggie Simpson at the Ayn Rand School for Tots.

u Where: Lagoon Cinema, 1320 Lagoon Ave., Minneapolis u When: 4:30 p.m., 9:25 p.m., all day u Cost: $9

CULTURE COMPASS PATRICK MALONEY

14

Thursday, February 28, 2013

A lot has changed in the 15 years since “Seinfeld” ended. Some of the astute social commentar y of fered by the program is now largely outdated, and many of the plotlines revolve around miscommunications that could’ve been prevented if any of the characters had a cellphone. Modern “Seinfeld” of fers 140-character plot summaries of hypothetical episodes in which the characters discover the intricacies of the 21st centur y, including Netflix, Craigslist and the Harlem Shake.

“ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT” With season four of cult favorite “Arrested Development” coming exclusively to Netflix in May, now is the ideal time to watch (or rewatch) the original r un. The series, centering on the dysfunctional Bluth family, relied on recurring jokes and understated humor and launched the careers of Michael Cera, Will Arnett and Jason Bateman. The series ran for only 53 episodes, so the task of revisiting it in the next eight weeks isn’t too daunting, but you’d better star t now.

READ

MODERN SEINFELD, @SEINFELDTODAY

WATCH

FOLLOW

CULTURE COMPASS PATRICK MALONEY “HARRY POTTER AND THE METHODS OF RATIONALITY ” Yes, fan fiction is a cultural anathema. However, if you can get yourself past the initial gag reflex, you might actually enjoy this one. “The Methods of Rationality” is an online work in progress written by Eliezer Yudkowsky. The stor y takes place in an alternate universe where Harr y Potter is raised by a college professor and largely consists of HP poking holes in some of J.K. Rowling’s more irrational additions to the wizarding world. A notable plot point involves Harr y star ting a campaign to permanently remove the snitch from Quidditch, claiming that it makes the rest of the game meaningless. He makes a good argument, too.

DANCE

Folkin’ around TAPESTRY FOLKDANCE CENTER PROVIDES A STAGE FOR BEGINNERS TO TAKE THE FIRST STEPS IN INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE.

BY LUCY NIEBOER lnieboer@mndaily.com

S

traddling a folding chair in a warm, empty studio space at Tapestry Folkdance Center, dance teacher Ed Stern bounces with a youthful exuberance that betrays his long white beard.

While studying biochemistry at the University of Chicago years ago, Stern, somewhat surprisingly, became entangled in the international folk dance social scene.

“It certainly wasn’t that I wanted to dance — I basically grew up a dance-hater,” he said.

While Stern joined a folk dancing group at his alma mater for the diversity of people and music that international folk dance attracts, fellow teacher Theresa Mish joined a similar group at her college because she saw something in the international folk dance arena that she hadn’t experienced anywhere else.

“It had a lot more variety than the other dancing I saw because it pulls from this wide range of things,” she said.

This array of dances, music and culture is now part of

WHAT INTRO TO INTERNATIONAL FOLKDANCE WHEN 7:30-9 P.M., FRIDAY WHERE TAPESTRY FOLKDANCE CENTER, 3748 S. MINNEHAHA AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST $8 GENERAL, $6 MEMBERS, $5 STUDENTS AGES ALL AGES

the core curriculum that the pair teaches in their beginning international folk dance class.

In one class, a traditional 200-year-old Serbian dance may be followed by a modern, choreographed American jazz dance. Each class usually features seven to nine new folk dances with similar basic building blocks.

Unlike other classes around the Twin Cities that focus on certain ethnic cultures or specific eras in folk dance, the class at Tapestry provides the tools for folk dancers to learn and perform a host of dances from all over the world.

“We [want] people to get comfortable doing step, step, step, hop in different guises,” Stern said.

Stern explained that participants in the class usually like to explore the context

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY Instructor Ed Stern teaches dance steps to the Intro to International Folk Dance class Friday at the Tapestry Folkdance Center in Minneapolis. Stern teaches ethnic dances from all around the world.

surrounding a given dance.

“It’s a nice springboard to a lot of different things. If you’re into it intellectually, you learn about culture. You learn about geography. You could learn about languages,” he said.

In Tapestry’s 30-year history, a tightly knit community has traditionally formed among class attendees. Many

dancers who attend the introductory class often stay for the request dancing, which follows the class on Friday nights. This is a time when dancers can look in the extensive library of music at Tapestry and choose a particular dance they love or want to try. For Stern and Mish, it’s a relaxed time to show off their favorite moves.

Executing greatness

The fabled Aesop AESOP ROCK JUST KEEPS ON DOING WHAT HE DOES BEST: WRAPPING AUDIENCES AROUND HIS LITTLE FINGER.

BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

F

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Rapper Terrell Woods, aka Carnage the Executioner, poses at Urban Ventures in south Minneapolis. Woods is going on tour with Atmosphere for the third annual Welcome to Minnesota Tour.

BY PATRICK MALONEY pmaloney@mndaily.com

W

atching Carnage the Executioner per form is like seeing Bob Ross improvise a rap song. First, he’ll sketch a basic beat-box rhythm and loop it with a foot pedal. Then, using only his mouth, he’ll fill it in with bass lines, record scratches and melodies, layering them until he’s fashioned a complete beat.

“I make my music from scratch,” Carnage said. “I’m one man doing the work of three or four people.”

After adding his finishing touches to the loop, Carnage bursts into sporadic raps, rattling off flurries of syllables in his trademark staccato flow.

“I’ve always been a faster, wordier, more syllabic rapper,” Carnage said. “I have a lot to say.”

Carnage toned down the aggressive delivery for his 2012 release, “Respect the Name.”

class is that when people walk through the door, they’ve never danced a step in their lives — that’s where we start,” Stern said.

Although Stern has decades of experience, he mastered every twirl and grapevine by taking a first step.

“You don’t have to have experience,” he said. “You may need to be a little brave.”

MUSIC

MUSIC

LOCAL RAPPER CARNAGE THE EXECUTIONER DEMANDS YOUR RESPECT.

“It’s not taught — in effect it’s like a folk dance discotheque. The music comes on, and you do the dance,” Stern said.

Although it takes some time to get comfortable moving across the polished wooden floors at Tapestry, the staff is very willing to help out a true beginner.

“Our presumption for our

“I’m a very style-driven rapper,” Carnage said. “But you can lose the meaning of what you’re saying if people get caught up in how you’re saying it.”

On “Respect the Name,” Carnage takes a step away from his background in battle rap and instead finds himself in the role of a storyteller.

One of the more unconventional tracks, “God’s Gift to the World,” has Carnage spitting traditional rap pickup lines in the first verse, but after the chorus, a female persona shows up to reprimand him for misogyny and braggadocio.

“I was talking to Slug from Atmosphere. He said that as you get older, you want to start talking about different stuff,” Carnage said. “It’s not just about being a dope rapper anymore.”

Even while focusing more on the stor y-telling aspects of hip hop, Carnage still demands his due respect, hence the name of the new record. The album starts off with a reminder that he’s been rapping since 1992, before launching into the eponymous track.

“It’s about the name Carnage. I’m prepared to live up to what that name represents,” he said. “You’ve got to respect when Carnage is coming through to tear [expletive] down.”

Now, the rapper is taking a break from writing in order to support his latest release. On Friday, he’ll kick off a Minnesota-wide tour with fellow Twin Cities rap veterans Atmosphere and Brother Ali, starting in Bemidji and ending at First Avenue on Tuesday.

“People get bored with their own stuff too fast,” Carnage said. “I’m in a spot that I worked hard to get to. It’s a good feeling.”

WHAT WELCOME TO MINNESOTA TOUR, FEAT. ATMOSPHERE, BROTHER ALI AND CARNAGE WHEN MARCH 1-5 WHERE FIRST AVENUE, 701 N. FIRST AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST $21 AGE 18+

or a droopy-lidded dude who appears forever sleepwalking, Aesop Rock spits verses worthy of Joyce’s “Ulysses.”

Not far from two decades into this roller coaster ride, Aesop Rock is speedy, strong and steady — both the tortoise and the hare in a race he made and is bound to win.

“I feel like there’s music where someone’s talking at you or there are people who make music to completely escape from that,” Aesop Rock said. “I need to dip into fantasy.”

His fantasy is a doozy.

From his breakthrough “Labor Days” to last year’s “Skelethon,” Aesop Rock’s albums feature fast flows that at first pass are strings of non sequiturs.

But his lyrics are DNA helices of weaving and winding rhymes that leave a story behind or, at the very least, a luscious landscape of vo-

cabulary.

“I want people to put on their headphones, and hopefully there are layers that people can peel back over multiple listens,” Aesop Rock said.

Take the track “ZZZ Top” as a random sample: “Homemade curfew, a thousand o’clock/ And a pot leaf tattoo his friend did drunk/ Like a badge of mystique that technically sucked.”

This painting of a disillusioned guy is one of his more straightforward pieces.

Besides touring to promote “Skelethon,” Aesop Rock lends his lips to a new collaboration with folkish singer Kimya Dawson — a match whose oddity is befitting of Aesop Rock. Their debut album as The Uncluded hits shelves May 7.

It’s been a whirlwind of activity of different varieties for Aesop Rock over the past few years. His five-year solo album drought, a byproduct of his former label’s hiatus, gave him the opportunity to birth ideas like this collaboration, as well as numerous side projects and production duties.

“I had been really stockpiling things that I thought were worthy of a solo album, what I considered the best of the best,” Aesop Rock said.

Listening to “Skelethon,” it’s clear some of the scraps that ended up on the cutting room floor will probably show up later — worthy of release, though crowded out by their homonym-filled brethren.

The progression of this laid-back yet heady style remains an enigma to even him.

“I wish I could say I read a thousand books, but I haven’t,” Aesop Rock said. “I think over the years, it’s just evolved. I keep slowly letting more go.”

Not bad for a kid from a conservative Catholic family who accidentally exposed himself to rap in the early ’90s while kick-flipping with his pals.

“Every year it becomes clearer that if I can find the kids that were like me, if I can look in the audience and see me, I feel like maybe I’m doing something all right,” Aesop Rock said.

Unpretentious in the face of intimidating verbosity, Aesop Rock is getting more comfortable in his own skin as the years fly by.

“I don’t have ‘Here’s what it’s about, and here’s the moral of the story,’ ” Aesop Rock said. “It’s more of ‘Hey man, I’m just this dude, slogging through this [expletive] with you, too.’ ”

WHAT AESOP ROCK WHEN 9 P.M., FRIDAY WHERE FIRST AVENUE MAINROOM, 701 N.FIRST AVE., MINNEAPOLIS COST $17 IN ADVANCE, $19 AT THE DOOR AGES 18+

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHRISSY PIPER Aesop Rock’s rhymes are as complicated as he is relaxed.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

15

MUSIC

A blend of past and present THE SOOTHING HARMONIES OF LOCAL SIBLING DUO THE ERICKSONS CAN WARM THE MOST FRIGID OF SOULS.

BY SHANNON RYAN sryan@mndaily.com

T

he union of The Ericksons was created after an encounter with life’s harrowing realities, the death of a loved one. The two women turned to innate musical talent for catharsis.

They produce music that is whetted in melancholy realities, relentless passion for musical expression and deliciously supple and exact harmonies.

While sisters Jenny Kapernick and Bethany Valentini’s sound may be mature, the duo is less than a decade experienced in the entertainment industry. They established their roots in the American folk scene in 2006 after the loss of Bethany’s musical stimulus and first husband Lee Erickson to cancer.

“He was this beautiful artistic spirit and a huge force for me in accepting my [musical talent],” said Valentini.

“My music was this private thing. I would never play for people, and then he died, and I felt kind of forced to pursue it.”

And so the honeyed songbirds took flight, seeking solace in Brooklyn’s vibrant music scene. After recording their first album, “Middle of the Night,” The Ericksons sought to flee the Big Apple for a number of reasons; a second chance at love being the catalyst for the duo’s transfer to Minneapolis —the city they have since established as home.

“We both married ver y Minnesota people,” said Kapernick. “My husband has a

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY Smoldering sounds from the dark and folky blues duo, The Ericksons, will fill the Amsterdam Bar and Hall in St. Paul on Thursday. It’s one of three acts to play the second installment of Local Current Live. Bethany Valentini and Jenny Kapernick are sisters who blend their voices for an impeccable hushed harmony that is instantly pleasing to listeners.

loon tattoo. We’re not going anywhere.”

Since moving to Minnesota, The Ericksons have written and recorded two fulllength LPs, releasing “The Wild,” their latest effort, just over a month ago.

The album is the band’s most fervent set of tracks to date, with an indecipherable layer of twangy guitar grit and raw vocal tones not ostensibly heard in previous recordings.

The duo suggests the addition of an electric guitar is at the helm of the change.

“We were playing, and we just needed something more, so I bought an electric guitar,” said Valentini. “There is something about its sustained sound that allows us to bring [a fuller sound] out.”

This richer sound and extended effort in refining their craft is more of a gift to themselves instead of a deliberate

push for more followers.

“In this culture of frenetic existence, our goal is for our music to get through that and get to the people; get people to sit down and listen to us,” said Kapernick. “Whatever emotional connect comes with that comes, and that’s beautiful.”

Valentini and Kapernick are two down-to-earth women trying to blend the past with the present and make a prom-

ising future.

“It’s just life, and it’s dramatic,” said Valentini, “but everybody has stuff, and it’s about taking that past and that beauty and carrying it forward.”

The duo plays Thursday night at the Amsterdam Bar and Hall as the second of three performances for the second installment of Local Current Live, a showcase of our local music scene.

ging feeling: Is this as funny as I will ever be?” Roy said.

“I think each comedian has that after every joke that they write.”

It’s a good question, and in Roy’s case, the jury’s still out.

He’s been caught in the spotlight since an earlier moment than most comics, so his evolution has had more pressure behind it.

He still struggles with oc-

casional banality, reverting to that painful airport bar comedian.

This can be particularly true when it comes to his stage presence. Roy has that tried-and-true comedic affectation, the one that “Standup Comedy for Dummies” would probably describe in its opening chapter.

His unsophisticated jokes might be more suited to a

WHAT LOCAL CURRENT LIVE WHEN 7 P.M., THURSDAY, PRISSY CLERKS; 8 P.M., THE ERICKSONS; 9 P.M., GREG GREASE WHERE AMSTERDAM BAR AND HALL, 6 W. SIXTH ST., ST. PAUL COST FREE AGE 18+

COMEDY

Johnny on the spot COMEDIAN JOHN ROY BRINGS THE LAUGHTER WITH A SENSE OF URGENCY AFTER HEART SURGERY AS A BABE.

BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

G

rowing up as an only child on the north side of Chicago, John Roy was, on the surface, your average kid. He’d play baseball in parking lots and play war on the beach, using empty Schlitz cans for hand grenades.

But Roy’s unique. He was one of the earliest recipients of a life-saving surger y to fix a congenital heart defect that decreased the amount of oxygen in the blood pumped throughout his body.

“People talk about time travel, like, ‘Wouldn’t it be

WHAT JOHN ROY WHEN 7:30 P.M., THURSDAY; 7:30 P.M. AND 9:45 P.M., FRIDAY; 7 P.M. AND 9:30 P.M., SATURDAY; 7 P.M., SUNDAY WHERE RICK BRONSON’S HOUSE OF COMEDY, MALL OF AMERICA, 60 E. BROADWAY, BLOOMINGTON, MINN. COST $15-$19 AGES 18+

cool to go to the Old West?’

No, I’d be dead,” Roy said.

“You get to be a cowboy; I get buried as an infant.”

Bald by his early ’20s and now pushing 40, it was Roy’s parents’ comedy album collection that got him focused on the craft.

“Ever y year around

Christmas they’d get a new album, and they had all the old vinyl,” Roy said. “So the moment I decided to do comedy, I was like, well this is [my parents’] fault.”

His parents had a lot to be proud of when Roy won the reboot of “Star Search” in 2003. But his sudden thrust into the spotlight had unplanned effects.

“For about a year or two after I won, I was getting booked for gigs I wasn’t capable of doing,” Roy said. “I’d show up knowing 10 of these minutes are going to suck.”

Roy freely admits that he was not that great of a comic in the mid-2000s. Before winning “Star Search,” Roy had only been doing stand-up for six years — only in Midwest airport bars and the like.

Even now, doubt can plague him.

“There’s always that nag-

place with a name like The Chuckle Hut rather than The Laugh Factory, but the raw material is there. His desire is to be hilarious and unique — he’s just not quite there yet.

“When I do a show, I want to give [audiences] something they can’t get for free,” Roy said. “I’m not going to do topical jokes; you can get that online or from six different late-night shows.”

16

Thursday, February 28, 2013

THEATER

FOOD

Some strings attached

College Kitchen: coffee break

IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST BRINGS BACK THEIR PUPPETLAB SERIES FOR A THIRD YEAR, CONJURING TRASHSCAPES, CARTOON EXPLOSIONS AND JERSEY COWCOLORED DINOSAURS.

BY JOE KELLEN jkellen@mndaily.com

S

teve Ackerman tinkered with a cutout of a character named “Tummy da Talking Turtle” on the edge of the stage for PuppetLab 2013. The scaly, 2-D creature is the main character of “Cartooon,” Ackerman’s puppet project exploring the colorful world of the classic animation style.

“It’s pretty crowded in here,” he said.

With four radically different puppet shows undergoing construction for their opening night, this wasn’t a surprise.

The performance space of PuppetLab 2013 hosted ever ything from vintage exercise bikes to jerry-rigged cardboard fortresses filled to the brim with the results of the past six months.

The Heart of the Beast’s PuppetLab series, now in its third year, nurtures the work of four young puppet artists exploring their aesthetic with new works. Alison Heimstead, the curator and creator of PuppetLab, has been supervising the process of the mentor-mentee director teams since last September.

The process puts an emphasis on feedback between the artists and experimenting with the tricky, multifaceted art form.

“How do you have a pile of garbage turn into a character?

How does it function? Puppetry is weird in that you have to mastermind these objects,” Heimstead said.

Not only have the artists been using all of their available resources to create these objects, but they’ve used them to develop new worlds.

Like Ackerman’s highly stylized universe, Eben Kowler’s dance-based puppet show, “I have filthy habits,” and Rosie Jablonsky’s “Five Rules for Walking,” employ a number of figures from other dimensions, such as herds of dinosaur cattle, landscapes made entirely from trash and animated waffle makers.

To make these odd elements work, the artists used each other as sounding boards. Benjamin Brock-

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY A simple tiramisu with chocolate shavings on top and strawberries on the side.

COOK WITH MO’ JOE.

BY LUCY NIEBOER lnieboer@mndaily.com

A MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY Cast and crew rehearse University of Minnesota alumnus Benjamin Brockman’s “Lepus Nacht: A Night in the Warren” on Tuesday, at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.

man, the fourth artist in the program, knew that he could rely on the support of his PuppetLab colleagues.

“When I bring in an idea, I can count on someone giving me a straight answer,” he said.

The productive group dynamic benefited each project’s abstract nature. For example, Brockman’s piece, “Lepus Nacht: A Night in the Warren,” details the cycles of life and death through the post-apocalyptic exploits of a group of rabbits. The show explores backlighting in its visuals and is structurally designed so its environment moves like a living organism, which can provide for stunning imagery but was incredibly time-consuming to create.

“They’d help me build things. We spent an hour and a half of a session cutting flowers out of paper and seeing how we could make them animate,” he said.

Ackerman asser ts the meticulousness required in this medium is what makes it worthwhile.

“With puppetry, the smallest detail takes three hours, and it’s only in the show for 30 seconds. You’re spending so much time on the smallest

thing, and you’re like, ‘People might not even see this,’ ” he said.

But each moment, seen or unseen, contributes to the cohesive whole. Whether they’re handling a phosphorescent rabbit or a Muppetesque character sifting through the garbage of a post-human Earth, the artists involved in PuppetLab seek to surprise themselves and their viewers.

“You can create a world that’s not familiar. You made it. It’s not easy to pin down what the result will be. That’s where the magic comes from; it’s unexpected to the puppeteer and the audience,” Brockman said.

WHAT PUPPETLAB 2013 WHEN 8 P.M., FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS, 3 P.M., SUNDAYS, FRIDAY THROUGH MARCH 10 WHERE IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MASK THEATRE, 1500 E. LAKE ST., MINNEAPOLIS COST $12 OR PAY AS ABLE

s familiar as coffee may be to students in the neighborhood java stop, it is a stranger in the kitchen.

The College Kitchenista has laid the ground work for a savor y dinner and sweet dessert that use our favorite black gold in the kitchen.

When choosing what type of mud you want to sling into your next culinar y masterpiece, choose cof fee a step above the stuff that comes in big red canisters. A strong, fullbodied roast will give your dishes bold flavors but not add an unpalatable bitterness.

TIRAMISU

This Italian desser t is a sweet and gooey lasagna with the full flavor of a morning cup. Tiramisu is impressive and elegant for a dinner party or sophisticated luncheon.

6 egg yolks 3 tablespoons sugar 1 pound mascarpone cheese 1 1/2 cups strong espresso, cooled 2 teaspoons dark rum 24 packaged ladyfingers 1/2 cup chopped dark chocolate In a bowl, beat egg yolks and sugar until thick and light in color — about 5 minutes. To ensure the tiramisu doesn’t make you

ill, use pasteurized raw eggs. Add the cheese, and beat until smooth. Add a spoonful of the espresso, and mix until you achieve an even blend.

In a separate dish, add espresso and r um. Dip each cookie into the mixture. Do not let the ladyfingers soak for so long that they break apar t. Lay the soaked cookies on the bottom of a 13-by-9-inch baking dish.

Spread a layer of the cheese mixture over the cookies. Repeat the layering until all the cookies are gone. Refrigerate for two to eight hours before ser ving. Sprinkle the chopped chocolate on top right before serving. Adapted from Giada De Laurentiis’ Tiramisu.

BARBECUE RIBS

Cowboys may not have a wide variety of ingredients to choose from, but they do have some good, old-fashioned coffee beans.

Make like John Wayne, and hit your slab of meat with a full-flavored savor y rub. Before ser ving, add a cof fee-inspired barbecue sauce to get the full effect.

1 rack baby back ribs 2 tablespoons ground cof fee 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 tablespoon coarse salt 1 teaspoon pepper 1 tablespoon mild paprika 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon hot chili flakes 1 teaspoon garlic

powder 1 teaspoon cumin Sauce 1/2 cup cof fee 1 cup ketchup 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup apple cider vinegar 1/2 onion 2 cloves garlic 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon Sriracha sauce 1 tablespoon olive oil Combine all spices in a small bowl. Mix them thoroughly. Rub the mixture onto the rack of ribs. Wrap in plastic, and let marinate in the refrigerator for at least one hour. Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Place the spiced rack onto a cooling rack that has a cookie sheet with a lip below it to catch the drippings. Cook for one hour and turn the direction of the tray. Do this every half hour for two additional hours.

While the ribs are cooking, you can prepare the sauce. Mince the onion.

Saute it in olive oil over low heat. When soft, add the remaining sauce ingredients. Cook for about 30 minutes. Adapted from Kay Heritage’s Cof fee BBQ Sauce.

Although many of us java junkies are just in it for the brief surge of caffeineinduced energy, we should appreciate the bean for its rich roasted bitterness and deep astringency. These complexities can lend themselves to both sweet and savor y dishes in unexpected ways.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Classifieds HOUSING

HOUSING

DINKYTOWN

DINKYTOWN

COMO

***Studios up to 12 BDs, avail 6/1-9/1.

BEST per person br rates in SE! Email for pricing and showings!

Rent@gopherleasing.com

Beautiful 5 Bedroom Available 9/1/2013Brand new 5 bedroom, 2 bath apartment available 9/1/2013. $2750 per month plus utilities(gas,electric,cable,& internet). Building pays water, sewer, garbage,& recycling. Off street parking available. Large living and dining area.

Granite counters and stainless steel appliances. Ft load washer and dryer in unit. Have your own bedroom for what you would pay to share in other buildings.

Apartment is close to campus, downtown, and on the bus-line. Daily showings.

Please call or text 612-623-1988 evenings and weekends to schedule a showing. www.redmondaptsmpls.com Email redmond1890@gmail.com

HOUSING

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

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

The Minnesota Daily must approve all ad copy, and reserves the right to request text changes, reject or re-classify an ad. The advertiser is responsible for the truthfulness of their ad. Advertisers are also subject to credit approval. Corrections are accepted until 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, by calling 612-627-4080.

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

The Minnesota Daily discourages sending credit card information

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

Assistant teacher Monterssori preschool M-F pm hrs avail.

St. Louis Park area Some college exp req 952-922-8411 Ask for Lisa or Cindy

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

HOUSING 2,3,4 bed for rent, newer off st park Call Jake: 612-600-9101 CLASSIC CITY APTS Dinkytown/Stadium Village AVAIL FALL 2013 Rooms, Studios 1 BR, 2 BR, 5 BR Units OPEN HOUSES Check our website at WWW.classiccityapartments.com for April Dates & Times.

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

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

*Studio,1 br, 2 br Avail 9/1 4 blks to U. 813 University Ave SE. Hdwd flrs, french doors, wifi, garage, Pics: www.813university.com 612-379-1843 501 15TH AVE SE 3 and 4 Bedroom apartments for students Across street from Bierman HallMost utilities incl.

(612) 309-4808 Email JandHPartnership@aol.com Beautiful 4 Bedroom Available 9/1/2013Beautiful 4 bedroom, 1 bath apartment available 9/1/2013. Completely remodeled, hardwood floors, granite counters, stainless steel appliances, stained glass, classic woodwork. Apartment is close to campus, downtown, and on the bus-line. $2400 per month plus utilites(heat, electric, cable, & internet).

Building pays water, sewer, garbage, recycling. Free laundry on site. Daily showings. Please call or text 612-623-1988 evenings or weekends to schedule an appointment. wwwredmondaptsmpls,com.

Other 4 Bedrooms available 9/1/2013 from $1950 per month plus utilities. Great student Environment!

Email redmond1890@gmail.com

***LOTS of homes for rent avail 9/1 3-6brs hdwd flrs, tile, d/w, decks, noboday beats our pricing! rent@gopherleasing.com DUPLEX & HOUSE DINKYTOWN ***4-10 brs houses w/multiple bths, new kitchens, AVAIL for Fall Priced @$450$550 per br!! Text 612-978-1032 *Now Renting For Fall* The Lodges of Dinkytown

Gorgeous 5BR 2BA unit laundry. Off st pkg.

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

STADIUM VILLAGE ***NEW 3&4 Bds 2BA, all amenitites A/C, HTD PRKG, Dishwasher, NEW fixtures, FREE internet, security. Avail 6/1-9/1.

Priced at $1850-2500/mo. ALSO MANY 4, 5, 6, 7,8+bd houses priced at $450-$550 per br. Text or call 612-247-0863 WEST BANK ***Studios, 1&2 br $560-$875+ elec. Blding has pool, A/C, dishwasher, FREE prkg.

Only blks to U of MN and Augsburg. 2 brs8brs price @$400-$550 per br hdwd, A/C, prking avail 9/1 612-710-3183

17

Lg 3+4 BR duplex avlble 9/13. hdwd flrs, dshwshr, ldry, prkg avlble, 2 blks from campus 6512603881 Rent now for fall. The last of the big kahunas!!!!

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

OTHER Lost keys on St. Paul Campus, Ford key chain and mycubrewards, 3 keys

ST. PAUL *** LRG 4BD/2BTH 1BLK from Campus.

A/C, D/W, FREE LNDRY, Pireplc, ONLY $1795 mo avail 9/1 text/call 651-208-4680

Prospect Park 2309 Univ Ave. SE 2 Bed/1 Bath utl. incld. call: 612-990-0600

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

Help Wanted PT seasonal work Rapid Park looking for parking attendent for baseball season pays $15/hr Contact kcash@minikahda.com

ATTENTION PROCRASTINATORS! Why wait to secure your housing needs?

1, 2, 3 BR units near West Bank avl now.

Enclosed pkg, swim pool, exercise rm. A home to be proud of. 20+ yrs of housing students experience. Call us today, well maybe tomorrow! Larry, 612-339-5590

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

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

UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT: Hillel Celebrates Baba Marta WHO: Hillel at the University of Minnesota WHEN: 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Friday WHERE: Coffman Union, St. Paul Student Center, Appleby Hall, Northrop Mall, Office for Equity and Diversity, Disability Services and Hillel PRICE: Free Hillel volunteers will be handing out martinetzas to celebrate the Bulgarian spring festival, Baba Marta, and will tell the story of how Bulgaria saved 50,000 Jews during World War II.

WHAT: University of Minnestoa Dance Marathon WHO: People who want to dance for a good cause WHEN: 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Saturday WHERE: McNamara Alumni Center PRICE: $5 Dance Marathon at the University of Minnesota is a 12-hour annual dance marathon to raise money for One Heartland and Amplatz Children’s Hospital. Register now at http://z.umn.edu/ dancemarathon.

WHAT: Art Exhibition — Beauty Made by the Unseen WHO: 10 Saudi Arabian artists WHEN: March 8-10 WHERE: Vine Arts Center, 2637 S. 27th Ave., Minneapolis PRICE: Free This exhibition offers a forum for expression for 10 Saudi women living in the U.S. On the road to their new home, Saudi Arabian artists travel through a relentless process of self-discovery.

They struggle to find an artistic voice that truly reflects who they are. These voices not only represent the individual artist but also are a venue for expression across the Arab-American community.

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

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

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

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

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

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

18

Thursday, February 28, 2013

BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (2/28): Overall, this year is about fun, love and creativity. Domestic life bustles until summer when romance carries you away. You’ll both teach and study this year. Travel to an ancestral home.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — You’re more responsible for getting your economy growing than you think. Close friends help you surpass obstacles.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Look deeper, and gain insight into your own higher values. Begin planning home improvements. Do what worked before.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Find the perfect balance between work and play, or combine them. It’s possible, but don’t overlook possible breakdowns.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 6 — Be cautious with money. Try not to spend it all, and you could even profit. Give your partnerships some care. It’s best if you don’t force things.

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

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Disagreements motivate action and create a domino effect that helps solve the puzzle.

Your input is key. Go ahead and be decisive.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Love is all you need. Detours may happen on the way to your destination, so you may want to give yourself plenty of time.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Your heart is torn between business and pleasure.

You know which one to choose if you consider carefully. Home calls you tonight.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — You take on a vast project. Being well organized is crucial, especially because not all turns out as it appears. Give it full effort, and get a bonus.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Things may seem upside down today, but your mental powers are strong. Don’t gamble with your reserves, however.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Don’t buy treats now; add them to your wish list. Your experience is worth more than your possessions. Throw your hat over the fence.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — For the coming month, rely on a supportive partner.

You’re very lucky in love now. Add organization to avoid missing an important date.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 6 — There may be conflicting orders, which forces you to be creative. Being prepared is only part of the equation. You also have to learn to improvise.

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

2/28/13

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

All rights reserved.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Thursday, February 28, 2013

overheard Girl: “It’s finally getting nice out, that’s why I didn’t mind it in jail.”

—On the bus

“Humans are hermaphrodites, right?

Or are they not?”

—Molecular and Cellular Biology building Girl: “Can I just get an iced coffee?”

Barista: “Sure.”

Girl: “Wait, is that cold?”

—Java City

“I’m so excited for the conclave. It’s like ‘America’s Next Top Model’ for Catholics.”

—Tate Hall

“The most astronauts have come from the state of Ohio because something about that state makes you want to flee the planet.”

—Coffman Union

“It was really popular. … I mean, everyone was drinking semen.”

—Haecker Hall

“Oh, for the love of penis!”

Guy: “What does she give you that I can’t?”

Girl: “A vagina. Sorry.”

—Molecular and Cellular Biology building

—Campus Connector

“It’s kind of like if your fraternity brother killed your little sister … it’s just awkward after that.”

—Middlebrook Hall

Guy 1: “I can totally take four hobos in a fight!”

Guy 2: “No you can’t, they’ve got that hobo strength.”

Guy 1: “But I have a steak.”

—Folwell Hall

Guy: “You know ‘In Da Club’ by 50 Cent? … That’s like the theme song of my life.”

—Nicholson Hall

What did you overhear?

—Centennial Hall

“I’m hungover, I got two hours of sleep, but I got morning sex, so it’s OK. My walk of shame this morning sucked, though …”

—Science Teaching and Student Services building

crossword

Guy: “Before I graduate, I want to know how many times Goldy got laid this year.”

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

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

4Email submissions to overheards@mndaily.com.

FOR RELEASE FEBRUARY 28, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Send with an email 7 With 22-, 37- or 48-Across, familiar line 14 It has its charms 15 Password accompaniment 17 Mail for King Arthur 18 “Pull it together” 19 Fed. management and support agency 21 Fabric 22 See 7-Across 29 Ken and Lena of Hollywood 30 Tell-all account 31 Mosquito-borne fever 33 Islet 34 Preschool downtime 37 See 7-Across 41 Disapproving sound 42 Ballpark fig.

43 Two-__ 44 Shrill laugh 47 Bookkeeper’s deduction 48 See 7-Across 50 Literature Nobelist __ Bashevis Singer 52 __ Lanka 53 Words often said with a fist pump 57 Easy pill to swallow 62 Where a shopping list may be jotted down 63 Word of exasperation 64 Probable response to 7-/22-, 7-/37- or 7-/48-Across 65 Saved DOWN 1 Gardner of “The Killers” 2 NYY opponent, on scoreboards 3 Cat on the prowl 4 Excitement 5 Forks over reluctantly

2/28/13

By Steven J. St. John

6 __ trade 7 An O may symbolize one 8 Odessa-to-Austin dir.

9 To this point 10 Leaflike parts 11 “Life of Pi” director 12 Unseen “Red” character in “Peanuts” 13 Give off 16 N.T. book 20 “All bets __ off” 22 Buffalo Bill and the Wyoming city named for him 23 Kitchen spreads 24 Frigid forecast word 25 Tech sch. grad 26 “Bingo!”

27 Andy’s TV son 28 Pics 32 To-be, in politics 34 Capone associate 35 Words after crack or fry 36 1996 role for Madonna or Jonathan Pryce 38 Sets a price of

Wednesday’s Puzzle Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

39 Adjust, as to a new situation 40 Prey for a Hauskatze 44 Alpine dwelling 45 Battery not included, perhaps 46 Aurora, to the Greeks 48 Refrain from claiming 49 Prods

2/28/13

50 Like Vivaldi’s “Spring” 51 Joined the choir 54 Scooby-__ 55 Tape speed unit: Abbr.

56 Hanoi holiday 58 John of London 59 Nasty mutt 60 Birthday candle number 61 Prof’s deg.

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

dr. date Dr. Date,

My ex-girlfriend wants to get back together and is acting like we’re still dating. But we broke up a month ago. I think she is trying to just act like nothing happened or that we just had a fight but are still together. How do I kindly tell her that we’re done? Do I have to break up with her a second time?

—She Missed The Boat

Seasick,

It sounds like you haven’t made yourself clear — that, or your girlfriend won’t accept “it’s over” no matter how you say it.

Think back on how you broke things off. Did you wrap it up in protective gear (i.e. “I really love you, and I still want us to be in each other’s lives.”) or did you say flat-out, “I think we should break up”?

If the former is true, then you might need to take a step back á la Chris Traeger and tell your girl exactly what you mean. If she really had no idea you broke up with her the first time, don’t mention that this is the second time around — it’ll just embarrass you both.

Now, I think it’s unlikely that she really didn’t understand you. We all know the break-up clichés. A couple of things could be happening — either she’s willfully ignorant or she’s trying to make the “let’s be friends” thing work.

You didn’t give me too much detail about what “acting like nothing happened” looks like. If she’s not doing anything romantic, then my guess is she’s trying to get used to the friend role. It can take some time to move from girlfriend to friend, especially if the two of you weren’t friends before you started dating.

If she’s being romantic, then a lot of that is on you. And by a lot of it, I mean most of it. If you broke up with her, then that means you have to actually follow through. If she tries to hold your hand,

pull it away. If she tries to kiss you, turn your head. If she wants to stay over, then sum up all your energy, forget how horny you are and tell her no.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My GF and I have been dating for a while now. I just got a great job offer out of state for next year (still within driving distance), and she will be staying to finish her degree. This takes us into long-distance territory. We have never done long distance, and both of us are not exactly fans of it. Is this relationship doomed because we are setting it up to fail? Is it worth it to stay together until I leave? Should we try it and see how it goes?

—Transition To Long Distance

Going The Distance,

One of the things that drove me crazy at the end of high school was when perfectly happy couples refused to try long distance, some even setting a date for when they were going to break up (literally, “We’re breaking up on Thursday.”) It made them miserable, and they went to college feeling weird and lonely.

You say that you and your girl have been together “for a while.” How long is that, exactly? Is it your longest relationship? If so, could you see it being your longest if you weren’t leaving?

Long distance is by no means ideal, but it’s often the best test of a relationship’s strength. If you don’t actually love each other that much, then distance will tell you that.

Now, I’m not sure how your girl feels about all this — aside from the fact that, like you, she doesn’t like long distance — but you don’t seem too keen on even staying with her until you leave. Is that true? Can you imagine your life without her? If yes, then you’ve just answered your own question.

—Dr. Date

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

19

20

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Students protest fees funding recs Fees u from Page 1

less than its requested amount. The assembly received about $392,000 in 2012-13.

GAPSA’s r equest included a $91,650 appropriation for salaries, wages and stipends, which was fully funded in the initial recommendations.

Scott Petty, a member of the Council of Graduate Students, was critical of

this amount.

“I don’t see how you spend $90,000 on 10 people,” he said. “That’s more than 20 percent of their total budget.”

According to GAPSA’s request, $50,400 of that allocation would be spent on

of ficer stipends, with the remainder going to two office assistants for GAPSA and the council.

Pratt said she was concerned that GAPSA overbudgets for expenses like food or travel.

“I just want them to be

reasonable about what students have to pay for,” she said, “not just things that make them more decadent.”

The SSFC recommended $27,000 in deductions from GAPSA’s request for food, travel and parking

expenses, according to the committee’s rationale.

Officer stipends cut ‘across the board’

Several student groups, including St. Paul’s Outreach and Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow, would have to cut stipends for staf f and student officers based on the initial recommendations of the committee.

“It seems like student of ficer stipends got cut across the board,” said Shelley Parlas, for mer president of St. Paul’s Outreach.

In order to receive funding from student services fees, the requests must be “fully and completely justified.”

KATIE SAPHNER chair of student groups SSFC

Paid staf f members are necessar y for the nature of faith-based student groups, she said.

“The staf f members have the background and the training that the students themselves don’t have,” Parlas said. “If we didn’t have them, our group would be nowhere near what it is.”

The SSFC recommended deductions totaling $46,500 from the group’s request — including $30,000 because it said St. Paul’s Outreach didn’t provide “adequate justification” to receive stipends.

In order to receive funding from student services fees, the requests must be “fully and completely justified,” said Katie Saphner, chair of the student groups SSFC. “ We o n l y p r o v i d e d funds for stipends or staf f if we felt that those stipends and staf f were integral to the programming and to the needs of the group,” she said.

Andrew Christensen, a CFACT of ficer, said paying student of ficers holds them more accountable for the group’s work.

C FA C T w a s r e c o m mended $26,000 in cuts to student-of ficer stipends.

The SSFC said the group didn’t justify the need to pay student of ficers, according to its rationale.

Christensen said he disagrees with the initial recommendation because it will affect the commitment of CFACT members.

“It’d be harder to get people to commit to the number of of fice hours that they cur rently commit to,” Christensen said.

“I don’t know if the group could continue to exist in a manner that is anywhere like it exists now.”

SSFC adviser Megan Sweet said this year’s committee reviewed stipend requests more carefully this year.

“This year, the committee reviewed salar y stipends probably with a more thorough eye than they had in the past,” she said.

Speaking policy concerns

C o n c er n s r eg a r d i n g the speaking policy at SSFC public hearings were also brought up Wednesday.

Because of a 2012 policy change, the SSFC allows only University of Minnesota students, staf f and faculty to speak at its public hearings.

Bill Gilles, a CFACT adviser who isn’t af filiated with the University, said he was “taken aback” when he wasn’t allowed to speak at Wednesday’s public hearing.

Sweet said the policy was changed to give University students priority because they pay the student ser vices fee.

“Strictly for the public hearings,” she said, “this time is set aside for students, faculty and staf f of the University.”