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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Gophers’ season ends with NCAA loss to Florida

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

The Minnesota women’s hockey team celebrates after defeating Boston University in the NCAA title game Sunday at Ridder Arena.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

41-0-0, champs again The Gophers beat Boston University 6-3 on Sunday to cap off a perfect season of unprecedented dominance.

team in the histor y?” Räty said. “No other team has

hockey team repeated as

done this, so we are a better

national champions Sunday,

team than anyone had been

defeating Boston University

throughout the years.”

6-3 to complete a per fect

Minnesota head coach

41-0-0 season full of record-

Brad Frost said after Sun-

breaking performances.

day’s win in the NCAA title

Minnesota’s unpr ec-

game that the feeling of a

edented dominance raises

perfect season hadn’t sunk

a rare question: Is this the

in yet. He said the dif fer-

best women’s hockey team

ence between this national

ever?

title and last year’s was

Senior goaltender Noora Räty let perfection speak for itself.

“freaky.”

“The one last year was so emotional. It was so in-

“Doesn’t that already

credible because it was the

say that we are the best or

first time that I had done it

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

u See WOMEN’S HOCKEY Page 8

STUDY

University officials responded to a request for an investigation into a 2002 study.

BY EMMA NELSON enelson1@mndaily.com

After a request for an investigation into research misconduct in a University of Minnesota clinical drug trial, University of ficials said they investigated and found the concer ns are baseless.

After learning of what appeared to be identical copies of consent forms allegedly from families of multiple study participants, University bioethicist Carl Elliott requested an investigation Feb. 20. If the forms were falsified, it would suggest patients might have been enrolled in the trial without their informed consent.

But according to a March 14 University press release, University investi-

gators found no evidence of falsification in the files of the study’s subjects.

“Dr. Elliott’s claims are ver y serious,” the release said. “That is why the University has investigated the matter thoroughly, and it is why we are clearly and definitively refuting the charges.”

The University’s response

Elliott raised concerns last month about “evaluation to sign consent” forms used in a study, which began at multiple study sites in 2002, of antipsychotic drugs in patients experiencing first-episode psychosis.

The forms determined patients’ abilities to consent to participate in the CAFE study, which was sponsored

by AstraZeneca and compared three antipsychotic drugs.

In a Feb. 1 blog post, u See STUDY Page 16 Dan Markingson, a study participant, committed suicide in 2004.

u See BASKETBALL Page 9 Smith said after the game he didn’t feel his job was in jeopardy.

arguably the best women’s

The Gophers women’s

U: study consent forms not falsified

AUSTIN, Texas — The three kings of Gophers basketball stared in front of their name cards as they sat at the podium, defeated.

Neither Rodney W illiams, Trevor Mbakwe nor Andre Hollins looked up to acknowledge the room full of media members until they had to. They instead shot glances at each other, seeing which one would have to talk first.

Minutes earlier, the Gophers’ season ended with a 78-64 loss to No. 3-seeded Florida in the NCAA tournament round of 32.

A 21-point deficit at halftime turned into a 14-point

loss that marked Williams’ and Mbakwe’s last game in Gophers jerseys.

It could also be Tubby Smith’s last game commanding the maroon and gold cour tside. The Gophers coach hasn’t had a winning Big Ten record in six years at Minnesota, and his lone NCAA tournament win with the program came Friday when No. 11-seeded Minnesota defeated No. 6-seeded UCLA 83-63 in the round of 64.

Smith finished this season with an 8-10 conference record and four losses in the Gophers’ last five

Minnesota forward Rodney Williams fights for a rebound Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas. Florida defeated the Gophers 78-64, ending Minnesota’s season.

A PORTRAIT OF QUEER HEALTH

A push for trans-inclusive health care For the first time this year, the U’s health care plans are trans-inclusive.

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

Labor unions and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender-equality groups are pushing transgenderinclusive health care as

part of the first-of-its-kind national Transgender Month of Action.

Proponents are advocating for equal access to health care for transgender individuals, like coverage of hormone treatments and genderreassignment surgeries, said Gabriel Haaland, a vice president of Pride at Work, a nationwide group of LGBT union workers,

which is sponsoring the event.

For the first time this y e a r, t h e U n i v e r s i t y ’ s student, faculty and staf f health plans of fer transinclusive care, according to University of Minnesota officials.

P r i d e a t Wo r k a n d other groups are educating union members nationwide, asking them to pledge to bargain for

transgender health care through contract negotiations.

In a 2011 sur vey of transgender individuals, 51 percent of respondents said they had some sor t of employer-based coverage, but Haaland said many employee health u See HEALTH Page 4 Labor unions have historically fought for LGBT issues.

HONEY BUSINESS

Company bikes honey to local residents, shops

BY BRIAN AROLA barola@mndaily.com

The sight of a giant honey bee riding down the street on a bicycle might seem unusual in most cities — but not Minneapolis.

Year round, Kristy Allen and Erin Rupp deliver homemade honey in beethemed costumes for the Beez Kneez, their local

company that provides raw honey and honey bee education programs in the Twin Cities.

Cur rently, they bike their product to more than 20 different retail locations and about 15 to 20 homes per week, but the two have plans to expand the company as they raise funds for a new headquarters.

The proposed south

Minneapolis headquarters would help them expand their honey production while ser ving as an educational hub for local beekeepers.

So far, their Kickstarter campaign, “Revive the Hive,” has drawn nearly 700 backers and more than $32,000 of their $35,000 goal.

“That honey house will

be a place for us to extract, in addition to being another community resource for beekeepers,” Rupp said.

She said they use bicycles par tly to reduce car emissions and par tly because the bee uniforms they wear for the trips are u See BEES Page 5 The company also provides community bee education.

CAMPUS & METRO

EDITORIALS & OPINIONS

MEN’S HOCKEY

The group hosted a party for Norooz, the Persian New Year, over break.

What’s hardest to see in Steubenville is ourselves.

Minnesota received a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

Persian student group aims to diversify u See PAGE 3

Dissembling rape culture u See PAGE 7

Gophers lose in Final Five u See PAGE 9

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BANGUI — Rebels overthrew Central African Republic’s president of a decade on Sunday, seizing the presidential palace and declaring that the desperately poor country has “opened a new page in its history.” The country’s president fled the capital, while extra French troops moved to secure the airport, officials said.

The rebels’ invasion of the capital came just two months after they had signed a peace agreement that would have let President Francois Bozize serve until 2016. That deal unraveled in recent days, prompting the insurgents’ advance into Bangui and Bozize’s departure to a still unpublicized location.

Witnesses and an adviser to Bozize said rebel trucks were traveling throughout the town on Sunday hours after the palace was seized.

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France confirmed the developments, issuing a statement that said French President Francois Hollande “has taken note of the departure of President Francois Bozize.”

“Central African Republic has just opened a new page in its history,” said a communique signed by Justin Kombo Moustapha, secretary-general of the alliance of rebel groups known as Seleka.

“The political committee of the Seleka coalition, made up of Central Africans of all kinds, calls on the population to remain calm and to prepare to welcome the revolutionary forces of Seleka,” it said.

Central African Republic, a nation of 4.5 million, has long been wracked by rebellions and power grabs. Bozize himself took power in 2003 following a rebellion, and his tenure has been marked by conflict with myriad armed groups.

The rebels reached the outskirts of Bangui late Saturday. Heavy gunfire echoed through the city Sunday as

A diplomatic star is born in Chinese first lady

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIJING — Glamorous new first lady Peng Liyuan has emerged as Chinese diplomacy’s latest star, charming audiences and cutting a ver y dif ferent profile from her all-but invisible predecessors on her debut of ficial visit abroad to Russia.

A celebrated performer on state television, Peng featured prominently in Sunday’s Chinese media coverage of husband and President Xi Jinping’s activities in Moscow. The visit is Xi’s first since he assumed the presidency earlier this month.

Peng watched song and dance routines at a performing arts school on Saturday, but did not join in as some media reports had suggested she might. Xi’s trip continues this week with stops in Tanzania, South Africa and Congo, during which Peng is expected to hold other public events.

An internationally popular first lady could help soften China’s sometimes abrasive international image and mark a victor y in its so-far unsuccessful struggle to win over global public opinion.

At the same time, she could boost the popularity of the countr y’s new leadership at a time when citizens are feeling increasingly alienated and are fed up with the ruling class’s corruption and regal airs.

In recent years, the wives of China’s top officials have traditionally gone almost unseen at home and attracted little attention while accompanying their husbands on state visits abroad.

the fighters made their way to the presidential palace, though the president was not there at the time.

“Bozize left the city this morning,” said Maximin Olouamat, a Bozize adviser. He declined to say where the president had gone.

The last public news of Bozize’s whereabouts came Friday, when state radio announced he had returned from a visit to South Africa.

Coverseas Worldwide Assistance, a Swiss-based crisis management firm that has contacts on the ground, said it believed Bozize was headed toward neighboring Congo.

Bangui is located along the Oubangui River that separates the two countries.

Congolese government spokesman Lambert Mende, however, said he had no knowledge of Bozize crossing into Congo.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement Sunday that the United States was

“deeply concerned about a serious deterioration in the security situation” in Central African Republic.

“We urgently call on the Seleka leadership which has taken control of Bangui to establish law and order in the city and to restore basic services of electricity and water,” the statement said.

Rebels fr om several armed groups that have long opposed Bozize joined forces in December and began seizing towns across the sparsely populated north. They threatened at the time to march on Bangui, but ultimately halted their advance and agreed to engage in peace talks in Libreville, the capital of Gabon.

A deal was signed Jan. 11 that allowed Bozize to finish his term, which expires in 2016, but the rebels soon began accusing the president of failing to fulfill promises made.

Art world shivers at sale of Henry Moore statue

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON — The massive bronze sculpture is formally known as “Draped Seated Woman,” a Henry Moore creation that evoked Londoners huddled in air raid shelters during the Blitz.

To the East Enders who lived nearby, the artwork was known as “Old Flo,” a stalwart symbol of people facing oppression with dignity and grace.

But now, Old Flo may have to go.

The cash-strapped London borough of Tower Hamlets, one of the poorest communities in Britain, plans to sell the statue — estimated to be worth as much as $30 million.

Art lovers fear the sale of such a famous sculpture would set a worrisome precedent, triggering the sell-off of hundreds of lesser works housed in parks, public buildings and little local museums as communities throughout Britain struggle to balance their budgets amid the longest and deepest economic slowdown since the Great Depression.

“If the sale of Old Flo goes through, it can open the flood gates,” said Sally Wrampling, head of policy at the Art Fund, the national fundraising charity for art and one of the groups campaigning to block the sale.

The proposal embodies a dilemma faced by many struggling households: Do you sell the family silver to get through tough times?

Tower Hamlets, where a recent study found that 42 percent of children live in poverty, is 100 million pounds in the red.

The sculpture hasn’t even been in the borough for 15 years. It was moved to a sculpture park in the north of England when authorities tore down the housing project where it had been placed.

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Persian student group aims to diversify The group hosted a party for Norooz, the Persian New Year, over break.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

After attending a high school with little diversity, Amar Husain wanted to learn about as many cultures as he could.

Although the University of Minnesota sophomore is Pakistani, he got involved with the Persian Student Organization of Minnesota after it reached out to nonPersian students.

The group has tried to include more non-Persian students like Husain to help the University community learn more about their culture, PSOM President Arghavan Abtahi said.

She said PSOM is trying to break away from negative stereotypes often associated with Iran.

“It’s important to show a different side of Iran because a lot of people see things in the media, and it’s not anything like that,” she said.

Persia became known internationally as Iran in 1935, though both names continue to be used in cultural contexts.

PSOM members are working to increase diversity in their group by reaching out to non-Persian students.

Persians tend to seclude themselves, PSOM Vice President Kianmehr Ehtiatkar said.

“It’s in Iranian nature to be together, and they kind of isolate themselves from the rest of the society, which is kind of sad,” Ehtiatkar said.

Husain said after he volunteered for PSOM’s party for Norooz — the Persian New Year which occurs on the first day of spring — he felt included in the Persian

SD’s special sand could be used in ND’s oil fields

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RAPID CITY, S.D. — Officials say western South Dakota could play a key role in energy development in North Dakota and elsewhere because of special sand used to help extract oil and gas.

The South Dakota Geological Sur vey is investigating whether silica sand found mainly in the Black Hills is suitable for hydraulic fracturing operations. Some environmental groups have complained.

Hydraulic fracturing, also known as fracking, involves pumping water, sand and chemicals underground to break up shale rock and allow the oil to flow.

The Rapid City Journal reports that two companies, Sandman Products LLC and Cambrian Enterprises LLC, have obtained exploration permits to test the fine sand.

David Ganje, an Aberdeen, S.D., native who owns Cambrian Enterprises, said the sand is in a prime location to ser ve oil and gas fields of North Dakota, eastern Wyoming and Montana.

“All the consultants I’ve spoken with said this would put us in a unique situation,” Ganje said. “This is a specialized mineral sand.”

The idea of mining sand has some detractors because of the potential impacts on the environment and the health risks from exposure to the fine sand.

The process is being challenged in Minnesota and other states, said Gar y Heckenlaible, a community organizer for ACTion for the Environment.

“We are definitely against it,” said Heckenlaible of Rapid City. “Mining for fracking sands doesn’t present the problems of uranium and gold mining. But it has a host of problems of its own.”

State geologist Derric Iles acknowledged the danger and said that’s why government agencies regulate the mining of sand.

community.

He said he was impressed with how welcoming everyone was to him and to other non-Persian volunteers.

“I think that’s really important because it lets people know that, other than the things you see on TV or the images you have in your own head, overall people tend to have the same things in common,” he said.

PSOM members said being inclusive is important for their group’s mission to educate society about their culture.

“Being exclusive is not positive because you’re excluding people from an experience that could otherwise be beneficial,” said Adeab Azadegan, a PSOM member.

“The more diverse, the better.”

Rafael A De Los Rios

Boulton, a psychology and neuroscience sophomore who is Venezuelan, attended a Norooz party Saturday. He agreed that being inclusive benefited Persians and nonPersians alike.

“In any instance when you have a culture and you want to integrate others, the best way is to be inclusive,” he said.

PSOM also tries to include other students by not affiliating itself with any religious or political organizations, Abtahi said.

She said staying impartial helps to involve more students because they won’t be afraid to join the group for fear of differences in personal beliefs.

“The moment where there’s any sort of exclusion,” Azadegan said. “it’s no longer a good cause.”

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Friends and family cerebrate Norooz, the Persian New Year, on Saturday at Atlas Grill and Clubroom in Minneapolis.

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Group discusses state’s environment Students and others worked together to set environmental goals for the state.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

A year-long process to inform Gov. Mark Dayton on Minnesota environmental policies culminated in a set of guidelines for the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board.

Hundreds of students and conser vationists convened March 15 for the Minnesota Environmental Congress for a discussion of short- and long-term goals for the state’s climate and energy future.

University of Minnesota students in attendance said the event, which included breakout sessions to discuss environmental issues, came to vague conclusions to solve the state’s environmental obstacles.

“It’s difficult to put dozens of people in a room and have them discuss a topic and then come out with one sentence to summarize the most important idea,” chemistr y senior Juan Medina Bielski said. “I fear that the impact will be less than desired.”

The Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, a 14-member committee of

Health u from Page 1

care plans aren’t transinclusive.

University students and faculty members hosted a kick-of f event earlier this month.

They screened a documentar y about transgender health and hosted a panel discussing the connection between the LGBT labor movements, said Alex Iantaf fi, a University Program in Human Sexu-

government agency heads and citizens, led panels on the Minnesota Environment and Energy Repor t Card, a document outlining state water, land, air, energy and climate issues.

The conference used input from six citizen forums held in November and December, where people across the state gathered to discuss the Report Card and voice their concerns on other issues like wolf hunting and silica sand mining.

Recommendations from the Congress will be compiled into a report to help the Environmental Quality Board and Dayton set environmental goals for the state.

Dayton told attendees that though debates on Minnesota’s budget are important, conser vation work is the prerequisite for other political discussions.

“Nothing that we can accomplish will last if we don’t protect, reser ve and improve this planet,” Dayton said.

U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar made a surprise appearance at the event, addressing participants about her efforts to develop and pass a farm bill that would also help with state resource conservation.

Klobuchar said the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam near the Stone Arch Bridge should be

closed to prevent invasive Asian carp from swimming upstream and damaging the local ecosystem. In order to do this, research would need to be conducted to find an environmentally sound way to remove the carp, she said.

“It’s not just about closing locks,” she said. “It’s about putting protection in place.”

Though the Environmental Quality Board reported a low turnout from young people at the citizen forums, a number of students and youth from across the state addressed the Congress.

“Youth anticipate a future, and this future extends beyond semesters, graduation and fiscal years,” Medina Bielski said in his speech to the Congress. “You must make relatively moderate changes now to avoid forsaking future generations.”

He said politicians should make it easier for people to make sustainable choices by improving the public transit system and making streets more bike-friendly. They should also work to replace Minnesota’s fossil fuel use with more renewable energy generation, he said.

“We are not endowed with, but rather impor t, fossil fuels,” Medina Bielski said. “They will not be

around much longer, and we must start acting like it.”

After the speeches, participants broke into groups and narrowed down priorities to present to the entire Congress at the end of the day.

Urban forestr y junior Luke Midura discussed land issues like storm water and resource management at the event, he said.

Though the discussions brought out a variety of viewpoints, Midura said educating people on the political process may have made them more efficient.

“Some of the ideas that they came up with were pretty broad,” he said. “You kind of need to narrow down on some topics that you can actually work on.”

Midura said he hopes the work done at the Congress will influence political action to some degree and that the Dayton administration seems willing to take public considerations into account.

“You have to make your point pretty quickly, but they’re there to listen,” he said, “and it seems like there’s a genuine willingness to work on a lot of these environmental issues right now.”

Medina Bielski said by the time the groups’ discussion points were presented to the Environmental Quality Board at the end of the

ality assistant professor who spoke on the panel.

“There’s a lot of really amazing people in the labor movement here,” said Raechel Tiffe, a University doctoral candidate in communication studies and one of the students who hosted the kick-of f event.

“So it would be really cool to see that ef for t being made.”

Labor unions have historically fought for LGBT issues — like domestic partnership benefits — so including the workforce in the conversation seemed logical, said Cher r ene

Horazuk, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3800 f or U niv ersity c leric a l workers.

“I think the labor unions need to be more visible as leaders in the fight for trans-inclusive health insurance,” Horazuk said. “I think it’s not at the top of people’s awareness, but it fits within the principles of the labor movement.”

Haaland said he hopes the campaign will continue beyond this month, and the coalition will continue

to provide resources for those interested in bargaining for trans-inclusive health care.

On a national level, two major unions, UNITE HERE and the Ser vice Employees Inter national Union, have expressed suppor t for transgender health benefits this month, Haaland said.

“I think it’s a star ting point,” Horazuk said.

“We’ve had those conversations on broader LGBT issues but have had less conversations on transspecific issues and trans health issues.”

Student input

day, most of the ideas were vague and had a “low impact.”

Despite its drawbacks, he said the event was an opportunity to network and boost morale on environ-

mental issues.

“It makes it seem more feasible to make change when you’re surrounded by people that are trying to work toward some of the same goals.”

ENVIRONMENTAL CONGRESS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY BOARD Air/energy

1 The EQB should develop full-cost accounting principles for use in environmental decision making, promoting and/or promulgating their use.

2 Develop policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging the development of renewable energy and smart grid infrastructure.

3 Enable and support local approaches to achieving community-based energy efficiency, co-generation and renewable energy initiatives supporting improved air quality and public health.

Water

1 Manage across all the various regulations and competing priorities to have more effective and efficient management of water resources.

2 A comprehensive water quantity and quality management system integrated across levels of jurisdiction focused on understanding supply and demand as well as roles and responsibilities.

3 Accelerated and continuous improvement on water quality and quantity using science, technology, education and enforcement of existing regulations.

Land

1 Implement better management practices and decision-making for land to protect and conserve water through healthy watersheds and to protect threatened wildlife.

2 Land use planning and management, working together and using a mix of incentives and regulations.

3 The 20th century was the hydrocarbon economy. The 21st century needs to be the carbohydrate economy.

Climate

1 Work toward state carbon neutrality by 2050, reduce fossil fuel, revitalize ecosystems and communities and develop renewable energy.

2 Bold government leadership for immediate change including implementing Minnesota Climate Change Advisory Group recommendations.

SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING

TRANSGENDER HEALTH CARE STATISTICS 48%

of transgender or gender nonconforming survey respondents postponed medical care because they couldn’t afford it.

28%

of respondents postponed medical care due to discrimination.

19%

of respondents lacked any health care, compared to 17 percent of the general population.

51%

of respondents had employer-based coverage, compared to 58 percent of the general population.

SOURCE: NATIONAL CENTER FOR TRANSGENDER EQUALITY, NATIONAL GAY AND LESBIAN TASK FORCE

Monday, March 25, 2013

Skydive site owner: Men didn’t deploy parachutes

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI — Two Icelandic skydivers who died during weekend jumps at a popular southwest Florida camp did not deploy their main parachutes, the coowner of the facility said Sunday.

Deputies found the bodies of the skydiving instructor and a student Saturday after the two didn’t return from a jump with a group, setting off an hourslong air and ground search around the Zephyrhills facility, about 30 miles northeast of Tampa. Pasco County sherif f ’s authorities

identified the victims as 41-year-old instructor Orvar Arnarson and 25-yearold student Andrimar Pordarson of Iceland. The men jumped separately, not in tandem.

The fact that the men didn’t deploy their main parachutes could mean that they lost altitude awareness and didn’t know where they were during the dive, which is unusual, said T.K. Hayes, co-owner of Skydive City.

Both men had backup automatic activation devices, which deploy if the main parachutes are not deployed in time.

“Those devices activated on both of them ... but the reser ves did not have time to deploy fully,” Hayes said.

“They were out of the containers but not inflated in time before they impacted.”

Hayes was at the scene with officials Saturday, sorting through the men’s gear to determine whether all parts had been functioning properly.

“Like most accidents, most of the time it’s human error,” he said. “I doubt there’s an equipment problem here, to be honest.”

But he stressed that authorities are still investigating.

The two men had successfully completed two other jumps Saturday morning with 20 other people. But when they didn’t retur n from their third jump, their disappearance tipped of f a search, Pasco County sherif f ’s spokeswoman Melanie Snow said.

The bodies were discovered by spotters from the air early Saturday evening in woods south of the Zephyrhills Municipal Airpor t, Snow said.

The victims were par t of a group of about 12 who travel from Iceland to Florida every year to jump, Hayes said.

Bees an eye-catching way to inform people.

“People wave and stop and ask questions,” Rupp said. “It’s a great additional way to educate folks.”

Allen, a University of Minnesota alumna who founded the organization, handles most of the delivery duties and posts stories of her interactions on the road on the group’s Facebook page.

Though the outfits are a novelty, the quality of their honey is far from a gimmick, said Tom Hudson, a south Minneapolis customer.

“We love it, not just the fact that it’s local honey, but it’s super delicious,” he said.

The difference between their honey and others is that it’s raw; it isn’t heated up to become a liquid in the bottle, Rupp said.

Hudson said their buckwheat honey — his favorite — is almost like a molasses, and he looks forward to their twice-monthly deliveries to his doorstep.

“The buckwheat honey is pretty incredible,” he said.

“It’s amazing stuff.”

While Allen handles most of the delivering, Rupp, a graduate student at the University’s Humphrey School of Public Af fairs, runs the education wing of the program.

Through their education program, Community Bees on Bikes, the two have set up community bee hives and hosted field trips for local schools.

They’ve also worked with the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board to offer classes to the public. In a city press release, the MPRB said the program is a “unique opportunity to safely explore a working beehive.”

“We’re kind of an intro point of access to honey bees for folks,” Rupp said.

Rupp, who also works at the Bell Museum of Natural Histor y, said the company has a close partnership with the University’s Bee Lab. “They have a very unique program that combines bicycles and bees,” said Marla Spivak, who runs the lab, in an email. “They raise awareness about the importance of bees to healthy diets.”

Education is especially important now because bees and their keepers are facing tough times. Adult bee populations have had average losses of 33 percent annually from 2006-11, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Colony collapse disorder, a problem scientists have struggled to find the cause of, is partly to blame for it.

Rupp said more than a third of the world’s crops are pollinated by bees, and without them, food prices could rise as more labor is needed to fill the gap.

“If we lose cost ef fective fruits and vegetables, the nutrition ramifications of that are pretty dire,” she said.

Biking in business Bicycling has always been at the forefront of the Beez Kneez’s business and educational plans.

Since 2010, they’ve logged more than 4,000 miles biking around the Twin Cities.

“Sustainability of bicycling is so close to our heart,” Rupp said.

The group started when Allen agreed to sell her aunt and uncle’s honey from their Bar Bell Bee Ranch in northern Minnesota. She gave her bike a bee-themed paint job

Spring break brings increase in thefts Car thefts and a stolen phone contribute to this year’s crime spike.

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University of Minnesota alumna Breanna Kelly’s car was broken into over spring break. As a former Marcy-Holmes resident, she said it wasn’t unexpected “I was thinking, you know, it was probably my time,” Kelly said. “It eventually happens to ever yone.”

Car break-ins and thefts are on the rise in neighborhoods surrounding the University. At least five car break-ins occur red over spring break, along with at least six other thefts.

While there have been 20 more thefts in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood than at this time last year, there have been 14 fewer home burglaries, said crime prevention specialist Nick Juarez.

“In the past, I’d say there might be a spike in burglaries over spring break, but we haven’t seen that,” Juarez said.

Car break-ins are among the most common thefts in the 2nd Precinct, which includes the University, Juarez said.

Kelly, 26, first noticed her car had been broken into in the mor ning of March 17.

Her backseat window was shattered, but only a shopping bag full of St. Patrick’s Day hats was taken. The whole bag was worth about $10, she said, but it cost about $150 to replace the window.

“I was a little annoyed,” Kelly said. “Come on, if you’re going to break a window, at least look through my car or something.’ ” Juarez said he’s been Erin Rupp, co-founder of the Beez Kneez.

and wore antennae to complete the image.

They’re an example of some businesses across the country that incorporate bicycling into their business model.

Former Minneapolis resident Benn Schonman, who now owns a sign company in Portland, Ore., started bicycling to his clients six years ago. He said he logs more than 4,000 miles on his bicycle per year, and, if anything, it has helped his business.

“If my car is sitting for three or four days, when I’m

not saving on insurance, I’m definitely saving on wear and tear and on gas,” he said. “I really like when I can let my car sit; it’s a real good feeling.”

Schonman pulls a bike trailer with him to carry his sign-making materials, similar to what Rupp and Allen do.

But bicycles aren’t just a form of transportation for the Beez Kneez.

The group conver ted a hand-powered extractor, which spins honey combs to release honey without break-

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ing them, into a pedal-powered extractor.

Rupp said they have plans for more bicycle extractors, and they might even offer spin classes in their new headquarters for people who want to make honey and get a workout at the same time.

Spivak said it’s an example of some of the exciting and new ideas the two women are bringing to the table.

Though their headquarters could change, Rupp said bicycling will always remain a crucial aspect of the Beez Kneez.

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notifying neighborhood residents about the spike in thefts through email and word-of-mouth. He said to be aware of people lurking around cars, looking in windows and testing door handles.

“Hopefully people are still taking their stuf f out of their cars,” he said.

Smartphone theft University global studies junior Brenna Eschweiler noticed her smar tphone had been stolen out of her pocket during a party over spring break.

“It’s pretty devastating,” Eschweiler said.

“You have your life on your phone. … It’s just a ver y personal attack.”

After she called her phone several times, Eschweiler said someone answered. She said the person told her their daughter had found the phone, and they were willing to meet her and return it.

They decided on a place to meet, but she said the person never showed up.

“I pretty much doubted it from the star t,” said Eschweiler, who thought she heard laughter in the background of the phone conversation. “It was pretty disappointing.”

She said she didn’t know the host of the par ty or many of the people there besides her friends. From now on, she said she’ll only go to par ties where she trusts most of the people attending.

“Know who is at your party,” Juarez said. “If you feel uncomfor table, make sure you take the right steps to protect yourself and protect your property.”

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COMEDY

The face of late-night comedy There needs to be more diversity in comedy.

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BC is seeking two new faces to lead their latenight comedy shows, “The Tonight Show” and “Late Night.” “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno may be replaced with “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon, despite Leno’s verbal disagreement to go forward with a deal.

Rumors point to Seth Meyers or Howard Stern to replace Fallon on “Late Night.” It all sounds reckless, as NBC continues to pick “Saturday Night Live” stars or older white comedians to take hold of their flagship talk shows.

I would never imagine NBC executives to do anything so brash to mess up America’s latenight dosage of humor. Wait, that already happened three years ago. Now, don’t reminisce about how much you hate Leno and bring out your Team Coco T-shirts quite yet. That unfunny ordeal has ended, and the current drama is just heating up.

Let’s pause and give credit where credit is due. Leno has done a great job of hosting “The Tonight Show” for nearly two

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decades. He has seen the kind of popularity that people associated with his predecessor, the legendary Johnny Carson, the funnyman who sat on the late-night comedy throne for 30 years.

Leno, Fallon, David Letterman, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig Ferguson, Conan O’Brien, Carson Daly, Russell Brand — this is America’s line-up for late-night comedy. If these guys weren’t comedians, they would resemble a crop of a Republican presidential primary.

Now, I’m a racial minority, and I would never champion someone getting a job simply because of race, yet this is especially tricky in the ratings-driven entertainment business. Moreover, the “Tonight Show” host has become a symbol of broad-

cast culture, forever altering American entertainment, but I couldn’t help notice the lack of diversity in comedy hosts across the big networks.

What the country needs is someone who is funny, popular, experienced and worthy of hosting such a prestigious show.

You haven’t really “made it” in America unless you have done an HBO special. The comedian I have in mind has done eight; he hosted a live show on HBO for years and created numerous movies. Finally, even our parents know who he is. He is Chris Rock, the fifth-greatest stand-up comedian ever, according to Comedy Central.

Chris Rock would bring the needed audience boost to NBC, a network that chose Bill Pullman — the president from the 1996 “Independence Day” — to play a modern president.

Clearly, the network needs something new, and NBC’s ratings allude to this fact.

People can agree or disagree about Fallon’s range as a comedian, but I think there is an opportunity to put on primetime a comedian who reflects the growing diversity of

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our nation and has more credentials than Fallon. American comedy has been at odds with ethics with numerous racist, sexist and other hateful joke controversies. Now, more than ever, American comedy needs a more diverse face. Rock is famous for his racially charged performances, but he has acted in ways that prove he can think critically about controversial issues while still being funny and relevant.

For the sake of diversity, there are other decent applicants for the flagship position, such as Russell Peters, Amy Sedaris or Wanda Sykes.

Though they may not have the credentials that Rock does, they’re certainly funny and would reflect our diverse American culture.

While it is clear that NBC should not make a decision based simply on race or gender, the host of “The Tonight Show” has been a staple of American TV culture, and having a more diverse host will benefit American comedy.

Hemang Sharma welcomes comments at hsharma@mndaily.com.

TAX CODE

True entitlement reform

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at about 50 percent or worse.

Could it be that I’m the odd one out in one of two senses? Could I be in the one class that has issues like this?

Doubtful. Could I be the only one who cares about their education? Again, certainly not. What this does say to me is that there is a pervasive poison that seems to be running through the world of higher education: entitlement. In most cases, I think feelings of entitlement are a disease, but I will focus my critique on entitlement in higher education.

Students coming out of high school, especially suburban, middle-class students, feel it is their right to go to college.

It’s their right to go party it up for four (or five) years away from home. The only bad part is that courses get in the way, but my generation seems to have avoided that obstacle.

We just don’t care about the education anymore. We hear about how important the “college experience” is. I don’t think we pay tens of thousands of dollars for an experience; we pay for an education.

We choose not to focus on school. We choose to declare majors we know don’t have career prospects, and then we blame the system.

Maybe we’ve begun to take it for granted. This seems to be the normal progression when something becomes a right. We rarely are thankful for the ability to speak freely, or to worship as we wish.

Maybe we should, and maybe we should start appreciating the knowledge we could gain here.

ith budget negations on high in Congress, the American people have gotten an earful from countless talking heads explaining where cuts in our budget need to come from.

One persistent idea is restructuring our welfare system and putting entitlement reform on the table. As one who identifies as more liberal, it pains me to admit that this is the right idea — however, it pains me much less to say that it’s not for the reasons many Republican pundits try to perpetuate.

The true entitlement problem in our countr y comes from a system of corporate welfare — at odds with the free market system that our country holds as a core value. The answer to this problem is not necessarily raising the corporate tax rate or increasing taxes on these businesses but ending the handouts.

Specifically, in more than half the states, big retailers pocket portions of their sales tax through a series of laws aimed at giving compensation to businesses for the cost of tracking transactions and collecting sales tax. This may have been justifiable in the 1930s when many of these laws were passed, but today it is out of date when a majority of the smallest businesses use computers to complete the calculations. This loophole allows Wal-Mart to keep upward of $60 million in state sales tax per year.

Another tax credit in 19 states allows corporations to keep the income tax withheld from their workers’ paychecks. In the name of job creation, upward of 2,700 companies withhold the required state income tax from their employees but instead retain that money and add it to their overall profit margins.

Minnesota has been attempting to combat another loophole, known as the “nowhere income” tax. This is based on a federal law that does not allow states to collect income tax from corporations that do not have physical facilities, or “nexus,” within said states’ borders. So, if a corporation operates its property and payroll out of one state and conducts sales throughout the rest of the country, it is not allowed to attribute any of its income to other states.

Therefore, many companies enjoy a significant amount of untaxed income.

These are just three examples of countless loopholes in our state and federal tax codes that put smaller businesses at a competitive disadvantage, allow companies to pocket income that never trickles down to employees and workers and, frankly, is an affront to our free market.

As a society, we’ve created a culture of dependency within our big-business industries — this is the entitlement reform that needs to be on the table.

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Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandloph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Student responsibility

Monday, March 25, 2013

I’m sure that most of us have heard quite a bit about student debt recently. A lot of you reading this are probably students and, in case you aren’t keeping up with the news, student debt is a problem. I’d rather not throw out a few huge figures to try and make this point more obvious because I’m not even sure that anyone can even truly fathom the concept of the trillion dollars in national student debt.

Whenever we hear about the massive amounts of debt the average student has coming out of college, society thinks a collective “Oh, those poor students.” Next, we hear the president and Congress fighting to keep student loan interest rates from rising and a collective “Thank goodness they are protecting those poor students” is thought throughout the country. Maybe it is my contrarian nature, or maybe I’m the only sane one, but my reactions to these two statements are much different.

My reaction is that maybe it should be harder to go to college.

Before you turn the page and label me a hear tless prick, hear me out because I have most certainly had to hear you out. Maybe the reason students are piling on the debt is precisely the fact that the money is too easy to get.

Artificially low interest rates make more people take out loans, and thus, more people go to college. Universities are not run by dumb people; they understand

how easy the loans are to take out, so in turn, they are able to raise their tuition cost without any adverse impact on enrollment. This would provide an adequate explanation for the massive increase in college tuition in recent years.

However, rising tuition costs aren’t my main point of contention. My belief is that there are too many students attending college right now who shouldn’t be. This isn’t a matter of intellectual capacity though; it’s a matter of personal responsibility and a sense of entitlement.

Don’t believe me? Let’s look at an example that just happened last week.

It’s midterm season so I naturally had a midterm in one of my 3000-level courses that I knew would be difficult.

As I walked into the hall to take the test, I was met with 50 people I had never seen before. In a course that has 100 students enrolled in it, the 100 percent increase was very noticeable.

It shocked me that half of the class, all of who are paying for the opportunity to be here in some way or another, just hadn’t shown up all semester. When the class distribution of grades was posted online, the results didn’t really shock me. More than 75 percent of the students didn’t score more than a 50 percent.

I will admit that the class is not easy, but we were given the ability to use a full-page cheat sheet using both sides of the paper. With this crutch, I would hardly expect to see inexcusable scores hovering

Slouching toward ‘world-class’ Increases in student tuition have provided the investment despite broad public benefits.

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n 2005, the University of Minnesota’s administration announced a strategic positioning plan centered on becoming one of the topthree public research institutions in the world by 2015. The plan and the goal were both approved by the Board of Regents approximately a month later. The administration highlighted several key strategies to achieve the 10-year goal, including attracting the best students, the best faculty and promoting a culture of excellence.

The reality is that each of these strategies requires a significant level of investment to achieve. Over the past eight years, state funding for the University climbed from about $550 million in 2005 to about $700 million in 2008 then dropped off again to the original mark by 2012, despite system-wide growth in enrollment and research spending. However, in-state tuition has increased from $3,570 to $5,825 per semester, not including additional fees.

These funding patterns mirror those found at other top public research institutions with which the University is in competition in a market-like system: for students, faculty and research funding. Despite former Gov. Arne Carlson’s comparisons with elected official’s salaries in a March 12 blog post, University President Eric Kaler’s salary is below those of the presidents of other top public institutions, including the University of California system’s current president, Mark Yudof, who served as president of the University of Minnesota from 1997-2002. To attract and retain top talent in the administration — despite the Wall Street Journal’s focus on only the University would lead readers to believe — and in the faculty, such compensation is necessary in the existing market. Whether this should correlate with public employee salary caps is another debate.

The conclusion that students are paying more as the state divests is hardly a revelation, but what is often overlooked is what benefits students now receive as a result of their collective investment.

In The Center for Measuring University Performance’s 2006 annual report, The Top American Research Universities, the University had seven of nine measures in the top 25, essentially tied with peer institutions like University of California-Los Angeles and the University of Washington. The 2011 annual report stated the University only had six measures in the top 25, falling slightly behind previous peers. However, the total research expenditures climbed in rank from 15th to ninth, with a net increase of more than $200 million. Overall, it seems that the University’s rank among its peers has been nearly stagnant. Peer institutions have faced similar cutbacks in state funding and have also increased tuition rates.

Scholarship indicates that increased research results in economic growth and, therefore, increased tax revenues. Thus, there exists substantial incentive for states to invest in their universities to grow research programs. However, the immediate benefits to students seem somewhat further removed, considering universal increases in tuition rates relative to state funding.

Perhaps the economic growth generated as a result of research growth will provide students a job later in life, but the traditional dichotomy between research and teaching puts the two at odds — stating that professors either conduct research or educate students. What this view fails to account for is that research often is a means for teaching. A research institution trains new researchers, both as graduate students and, more recently, as undergraduates.

Regardless of research rankings, the culture at the University has changed: More students are living near campus and creating a more engaged community. However, as noted in previous editorials, even this comes with an additional cost to students and further increasing student debt.

While students do benefit from increased research programs, it hardly justifies bearing such a large portion of the financial burden required to achieve these goals. These goals are for the public good and deserve to be increasingly financed by the general public and not as much by students.

This is the comparative advantage in the marketplace of top public institutions that Minnesota can contribute to the current climate of state budget austerity.

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Dissembling rape culture What’s hardest to see in Steubenville is ourselves.

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tar ting with its painful real-time narration via social media, the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case has been public every step of the way. To prevent another horrific incident, the nationwide outrage for Steubenville must recognize that the conditions that contributed to this case are not exclusive to Ohio — they persist everywhere.

But when people hear the words “rape culture” to describe our societal framework that breeds tolerance for sexual assault, it is all too easy to write the label off as an overzealous feminist buzzword. Associating our culture — an intimate description of who we are as a people — with such an ugly word is unmanageable. Accepting that a rape culture exists means conceding that we all live within and contribute to a society capable of condoning a hateful act, and we do not want to admit any personal role in tolerating such atrocity. The word “rape” stirs images of the crazy, masked, violent rapist lurking in a dark alley or hiding in the bushes; naturally, we want to refute any notion that implies we would permit or excuse this type of cruelty. Out of defensiveness, fear and denial, we vehemently renounce the possibility that we could propagate a rape culture.

Because sexual assault discourse conjures the “As Seen On TV” attacker, we are able to distance ourselves from the concept of rape. Men and boys who see themselves as very different from the prototypical perpetrators of “Law and Order” episodes and the like feel impossibly far from the term “rapist,” believing such an extreme, hostile word could never apply to them or anyone they know. Women and girls, too, are bombarded with these one-dimensional images that do not accurately account for the potential scope of violation, opening the door for confusion and self-blame.

The myths of what constitute a rape and a rapist become ingrained in all of our minds, and as we saw in the Steubenville trial, the result of these deep-seated, erroneous beliefs is devastating: a society that permits and justifies sexual crimes. Evan Westlake testified to witnessing Trent Mays smacking the unconscious victim’s hip with his penis and to seeing Ma’lik Richmond insert two of his fingers into the victim’s vagina. But when asked why he did not intervene, Westlake replied: “It wasn’t violent. I didn’t know exactly what rape was. I always pictured it as forcing yourself on someone.”

His words encapsulate the confusion that plagues society and contributes to the epidemic of violence against women. The rapist is not the stranger at the comfortable distance we create in order to feel safe. Statistically, the majority of victims and survivors know their rapist. But the myths we rely on placate us enough to ignore or justify rape, as outsiders and in our own lives. In a study of 2,000 college males, researcher David Lisak found 1 in 16 men proudly admitted to forcing sex — as long as the “r-word” was never used.

We cling to the belief that because we pass laws criminalizing rape, we could not possibly support it. We shudder at the word and condemn the theoretical idea of a rapist.

But while it’s easy — and comforting — to presume we’re anti-rape and that’s that, it never plays out in such a matter-of-fact way.

Instead, we grasp for explanations that al-

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Managing digital workflow I love the digital age, but it doesn’t always love me.

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low us to feel safe. Rape is excused by the clothes a woman is wearing, the way she is acting, her past experiences and, like we saw in Steubenville, the amount of alcohol she has consumed. We overlook the painful, common realities of rape as a widespread cultural problem and focus on the unique details of particular cases, identifying errors in individual responsibility. We make exceptions, placing the onus on women to “protect” themselves by doing or avoiding certain things to prevent being raped. And it is this very behavior that constitutes the essence of our alive-and-well rape culture.

Many wonderful, brave advocates like Zerlina Maxwell have recently emphasized the importance of teaching our boys to not rape as a way to shatter rape culture. This idea is of utmost necessity, but there is more to the story. All genders contribute to the upholding of rape culture. The two girls recently arrested for making threats at the Steubenville victim exemplify how rape culture is, by no means, just a male problem.

Females often participate in the hierarchical arrangement of girls and women that condemns so-called “sluts” to a lesser-than categor y, identifying them as somehow more deserving of sexual assault. We comfort ourselves by blaming other women for being too flirtatious or easy or drunk, and in doing so we create a false sense of control. We do it because it is too painful to feel like we could become a victim of rape. Or we need to feel we are “good” by labeling others as “bad” or because male attention is consistently portrayed to us as not only the ultimate prize in life but something for which we need to compete with other girls.

Whatever the motivation, we are, as a gender, not innocent.

Together, we must stop playing into the notion that rape happens because someone was doing something wrong and not taking enough precautions. We are all socialized into an environment of misogyny, complete with media that model victim-blaming and sexist narratives that have formed our understanding of sexual violence. People of all genders need to understand what rape truly is and learn to resist the harmful societal messages that promote sexual violence.

Teaching consent does not mean assuming the default setting of every boy as “rapist.”

Not every teenager is going to get behind the wheel drunk, but we still teach them all not to.

Rape culture creates a setting in which “no” is too often followed up with “Come on,” “Why not?” or “I thought you liked me.”

A culture fer vidly opposed to rape would inform us to look for an active “yes” rather than listen for a “no.” But only once we admit that our society enables rape culture can we go about dissembling it.

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.

hen people say they’ll email me, I always tell them to put some identifiable information in the subject line. That way, I’ll recall our conversation and notice their email. People don’t always believe me when I tell them I receive a lot of emails. I receive hundreds of emails from students, teachers, strangers and haters who didn’t like what I wrote or said.

At the beginning of the spring semester, I was already drowning. I had too many messages spread across too many mediums. All these messages vied for my attention, and rightly so. I’m adept at managing my messages and workflow, but I needed to streamline. I couldn’t go another semester being intimidated by the depth and weight of my inbox.

We don’t always consider our workflow.

I know this is especially true of students.

We feel like the laboriousness of our massive workflow is just the way it is. Indeed, it may not always be that we have more work but that we don’t know how to properly manage the work.

My workflow example might be extreme: I’m working on disser tation research, teaching, consulting, writing both academic and popular ar ticles and answering emails ever y day. But, if you can manage the extreme, you can manage anything.

My strategy is fourfold: identify, purge, categorize and automate.

Identifying what to keep and what not to keep can be tedious. You have to go through the mass of data you already have in order to figure out what you need and want. It must be done.

You should take all your documents and dump them into one folder on your desktop. Then, as you go through the files in that folder, you can create appropriate sub-folders while not cluttering up your system anymore. One sub-folder you should always have is trash. This folder will be the one that goes into sweet oblivion when you’re done.

Once you sor t through all your stuf f and properly file, it’s time to purge. Delete any unnecessary or duplicate files, emails, etc. Highlight them, take a deep breath and delete them. It’s OK. You can do it.

This part was the most difficult for me.

I mean, what if I needed that file, that document or that information? It’s a safe bet that if you haven’t accessed the information in the last year or two, it’s not critical. However, this doesn’t mean delete items at random. You need to be sure and investigate your own data.

Now that you’ve identified and purged, it’s time to categorize. What type of data do you have? What information do you regularly use?

For example: On my desktop, I have a few folders for certain things. I have folders for teaching, research, consulting and miscellanea. Ever y document I download or use goes into one of these folders. I do my best to not have free-floating documents on my desktop. They are distracting.

Finally, I automate as much as possible.

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automation on a laptop is quite dif ficult.

The one place where it is wonderfully simple is in email.

I use Gmail, which the University of Minnesota also uses, and I use filters and labels to automate my incoming email.

For the first time in years, I actually have a zero next to my inbox this semester. At the end of each day, I have a clean and tidy inbox. Do you know how freeing it is to have answered all your email in a timely and productive manner? It’s stupendous.

You should set up a filter for all your course work. When an email comes from a certain person, it goes into a certain emailfiltered folder. Gmail does a good job of doing this.

As far as labeling, you should set up a label system in your email. I adopted one from an information scientist and modified it: I use follow-up, hold and reference as labels in my email.

When I get an email and need to answer it quickly, I label it follow-up. When I need to wait and get back with someone a little later, I label it hold. Reference is my catch all label for things to keep in mind.

These tricks are simple yet reap great benefits. These will help you manage the workflow casting a shadow over your daily work life. During this time of the semester, it’s either all downhill or crunch time.

In order to make the rest of the semester as stress-free as possible, we need to manage our digital workflow. We need to be ready for the worst.

It’s imperative that we all have backup plans. I have an external hard drive that I back up ever y week, and I have online backup with SpiderOak that back ups my data automatically ever y day. There are plenty of ser vices you can use: SpiderOak, Box, Dropbox, CrashPlan and others.

I suggest you pick one, and at the minimum, back up your most valuable data.

“My computer crashed” is no longer an acceptable excuse for lost information, especially when there are so many free backup services.

Unfor tunately, I’ve encountered too many students who don’t manage their digital workflow or back up their data. We can’t be ignorant to the perils of the digital age anymore. If you don’t grab hold of your workflow and back up your data, you risk too much.

Our workflow, our backup and our data are par t of our digital identity. We need to control it and manage access to it. We can’t afford to be buried by it, and we can’t afford to lose it.

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

TRANSGENDER RIGHTS

The bathroom battle A proposed Arizona “bathroom bill” raises awareness of transgender rights issues.

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ast week, in response to a recent expansion of the Phoenix non-discrimination code to include sexual orientation, disability and gender identity and expression, Republicans in the Arizona Legislature proposed a bill that would essentially criminalize being transgender. The law would require males to use the men’s restroom, and females to use the women’s restroom according to their sex assigned at birth, per their birth certificates.

Violators would be charged with a misdemeanor.

With marriage equality slowly creeping up in each state, civil rights advocates are increasingly focused on transgender rights. This proposed criminal law certainly makes salient an important lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights issue: whether transgender persons should be allowed to use the bathroom associated with the gender with which they identify.

For some, the right to use a certain bathroom may seem inconsequential. Bathrooms, however, have always been at the center of civil rights debates. As popular culture illustrates in movies such as “The Help,” the early 1960s saw white people fight to keep black people out of their bathrooms, both publicly and privately. The idea of a black person using a white restroom was viewed as “unsafe.”

The justification was that black people carry certain diseases — the biological/environmental attribution argument that we often see

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conservatives use inconsistently to oppose civil rights for certain groups. This erroneous rationale hid the reality that these laws were based on discrimination and hate, to distinguish whiteness from blackness and to dehumanize black people. Bathrooms have also limited mobility for women and alternatively abled persons.

Today, those who oppose gender-neutral bathrooms for transgender people argue that this would invite sexual predators into the bathrooms of the other sex. In particular, they focus on the safety of women and children, per usual for the anti-LGBT rights folks. Arizona took it one step further, not only opposing transgender access to public bathrooms, but making the use of the “wrong” bathroom a criminal offense. Laws such as the one proposed by Arizona and lack of support for gender-neutral bathrooms, are largely based on misguided assumptions about being transgender, the impact access to public restrooms has on the health and well-being of transgender people and the purpose of gender identity anti-

discrimination laws.

For the most part, everyone is assigned a sex at birth, either male or female, typically by a medical doctor, and this is indicated on a person’s birth certificate. In addition, every person also has a gender identity, which is one’s sense of “maleness” or “femaleness.” Gender identity is psychological and emotional, whereas sex is biological. Sometimes, a person’s sex (body) doesn’t quite line up with that person’s gender identity (mind). Typically, these people identify as transgender.

Transgender is a paradigm term used to describe people whose gender identities are inconsistent with the sex they were assigned at birth. Transgender encompasses other identities, such as transsexualism (a desire to surgically alter one’s sex) and intersex (genitals that are ambiguously male or female).

Some people are gender non-conforming, that is, some people do not meet society’s expectations of female femininity or male masculinity.

The medical and psychological epistemic communities have concluded that changing a person’s sex in order to be consistent with that person’s gender identity is medically necessary, vital to that person’s psychological health and often times life-saving. This is called “transitioning,” a long process where transitioning men and women begin to live their lives in accordance with typical “maleness” or typical “femaleness,” more or less.

For transgender people, the medical and psychological communities conclude, access to the bathroom that is consistent with one’s gender identity is a very important part of the transitioning process. It’s also important for

people who are gender non-conforming. Laws that prohibit discrimination based on gender identity allow transgender people access to this basic human activity in a way that is consistent with their medical needs, not to mention consistent with respect for their dignity.

In addition, the purpose of the gender identity and expression protections are to allow these people access to public accommodations such as restrooms without fear of discrimination. In the places where these protections exist, it hasn’t been the case that males who identify as men are increasingly using women’s public restrooms or vice versa, much less preying on women and children in public restrooms.

Despite some differences, it’s important to recognize the continuities with respect to the issues faced by the LGBT community and the issues faced by other discriminated groups in the past. For transgender and gender nonconforming people, bathrooms are an important part of their health and well-being. While we are fortunate to attend a university and live in a state that both includes gender identity in their anti-discrimination policies, many bathrooms on campus and in the community remain gender-specific. The recent activity in Arizona is a reminder that the bathroom battle is far from finished; it’s a reason to remain mindful of other people’s struggles and to appreciate the privilege of being able to use a bathroom without fear, something many people have perhaps never considered.

James Castle welcomes comments at jcastle@mndaily.com.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers cap perfect season with title

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Minnesota goalie Noora Räty makes a save during the NCAA title game against Boston University on Sunday at Ridder Arena.

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as a head coach,” Frost said. “This one … it’s a little bit of relief and just so surreal.

“We didn’t lose a game all year. I can’t even explain that.”

Minnesota held a comfor table lead for most of Sunday’s title game at Ridder Arena, but it needed two over time wins to get there. The Gophers defeated Boston College 3-2 in overtime in Friday’s NCAA semifinal, and they beat North Dakota 3-2 in three overtimes in their March 16 regional.

The Gophers nearly swept the all-tournament team with Räty, freshman defender Milica McMillen, senior defender Megan Bozek, freshman forward Hannah Brandt and junior for ward Amanda Kessel. Räty earned the most valuable player award for the second year in a row, but Kessel’s weekend was just as impressive.

Kessel won the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award, an honor given to the season’s best Division I player, on Saturday. She scored her 100th point of the season Sunday, becoming the fourth player in NCAA history to do so.

“I can’t stop smiling,” Kessel said. “A lot of people are cr ying, but that hasn’t hit me yet.

“We made the impos-

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Minnesota defender Mira Jalosuo celebrates after scoring the first goal in the NCAA title game against Boston University on Sunday at Ridder Arena.

sible possible.”

Senior defender Mira Jalosuo — whom her teammates nicknamed “clutch” for her big plays toward the end of the season — gave the Gophers the breakthrough goal on a power play midway through the first period.

Brandt scored a shor thanded goal near the end of the first to give the Gophers a 2-0 lead. The Ter riers halved the lead less than 20 seconds later on fresh-

man forward Sarah Lefort’s power-play goal.

The Gophers solidified their lead in the second period. Kessel scored her first of two goals on a one-timer with four minutes left in the second period.

McMillen also scored on a one-timer with 12 seconds left in the period on a power play, widening the Gophers’ lead to 4-1.

The Terriers scored on another power play early in

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The Minnesota women’s hockey team hoists the NCAA championship trophy after defeating Boston University on Sunday at Ridder Arena.

the third, but sophomore defender Rachel Ramsey extended the Gophers’ lead back to three goals with about five minutes remaining. Boston answered about two minutes later, but Kessel dashed any comeback hopes with an empty-net, unassisted goal with less than a minute to play.

“There wasn’t any quit.

There wasn’t any fright,” Terriers head coach Brian Durocher said. “It was a

fight to the end.”

In scene that has become familiar to the Gophers over the past two seasons, players littered the ice with gloves and sticks before bur ying Räty in a celebrator y dog pile at the final buzzer.

While the question over the best women’s hockey team ever is up for debate, Frost said one fact is nonnegotiable.

“This team is a group

that will be imprinted forever in history.”

WOMEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

Boston College Minnesota Boston University Minnesota

1 0 0

2 1 0

3 OT FINAL 1 0 2 2 1 3

1 1 2

2 0 2

3 2 2

FINAL 3 6

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

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Minnesota defender Mira Jalosuo reacts to her team’s 6-3 NCAA title win over Boston University on Sunday at Ridder Arena.

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Loss to Florida ends Gophers’ season

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Minnesota forward Trevor Mbakwe leaves the court after the Gophers’ season-ending loss to Florida on Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.

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Minnesota center Elliott Eliason fights for a rebounded ball Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.

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Minnesota head coach Tubby Smith disputes an official’s call Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.

Mbakwe, Williams say farewell to frustrating Gophers careers

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

AUSTIN, Texas — Trevor Mbakwe walked off a basketball court for the last time in a Gophers jersey after Minnesota’s 14-point loss to Florida on Sunday.

Mbakwe paused as he hit the tunnel and looked back at the floor for a brief moment before resuming his march to the locker room.

“It’s surreal knowing it’s over,” Mbakwe said. “It still hasn’t hit me yet that my time is done at the University.”

The 24-year-old played five years of college basketball but only two full seasons with Minnesota.

Mbakwe and fellow senior Rodney Williams made their farewell speeches from the locker room after the loss.

“I’m happy to have been a part of this team, this program,” Williams said. “Every time we got down, we didn’t give up. We always fought.”

Williams, a Minneapolis native, played four years in a Gophers uniform but failed to live up to the “gamechanger” label many thought he could be.

Mbakwe and Williams combined for 21 points, 11 rebounds and five turnovers in their final game.

“We respected [Florida] but obviously not enough,” Williams said.

The pair’s scoring and rebounding averages both dropped in 2012-13 from their previous campaigns with Minnesota.

Both said they will try to play professional basketball in some capacity.

Mbakwe finished his Gophers career with 33 double-doubles, including 10 this season.

“I’ll be the alumni screaming at the screen,” Mbakwe said. “I wish we would’ve gone to more [NCAA] tournaments when I was here, but it is what it is.”

games.

Smith said after the game that he didn’t feel his job was in jeopardy.

The Gators, behind 57 percent shooting, will move on to the Sweet 16 for the third straight year.

“The [21-point] hole was way too deep for us to climb out of in the second half,” Williams said.

Minnesota was given a taste of its own medicine from a Gators squad that survives by playing a press defense and making a high percentage of its field goals.

Much like its Jan. 12 loss at Indiana, Minnesota faced a large deficit at halftime and staged a comeback in the second half that fell short.

After the loss, Smith appeared to be out of words on how to describe his team’s inconsistent play.

“I don’t know what it is,” Smith said. “Maybe we’re just a slow-starting team.”

Both teams put up 23 shots in the first 20 minutes, but the Gators converted six more than the Gophers.

The eighth-best shooting team in the nation dismantled Minnesota from beyond the three-point mark, shooting 50 percent in the game.

MINNESOTA 83, UCLA 63 Minnesota UCLA

35 48 — 83 25 38 — 63

MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Mbakwe 31 4-7 1-4 3-12 1 2 9 Williams 17 2-7 0-2 3-3 3 3 4 Hollins, An. 35 8-16 7-7 1-9 5 2 28 Coleman 19 7-11 0-1 0-1 0 4 14 Hollins, Au. 36 4-7 4-4 0-0 7 1 16 Welch 6 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Osenieks 19 1-4 0-0 0-1 1 2 2 Ahanmisi 5 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Walker 8 2-4 0-0 2-3 0 0 4 Ingram 5 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 2 0 Eliason 19 3-3 0-1 1-5 1 3 6 Total 200 31-61 12-19 11-36 19 19 83 Percentages: FG .508, FT .632. Three-pointers: 9-16, .563 (Andre Hollins 5-8, Au. Hollins 4-6, Coleman 0-1, Osenieks 0-1). Blocks: 3 (Mbakwe, Ingram, Eliason). Team rebounds: 1. Turnovers: 11 (Eliason 2, Au. Hollins 2, Mbakwe 2, Williams, Andre Hollins, Coleman, Welch, Walker). Steals: 7 (Au. Hollins 4, Williams, Walker, Ingram).

UCLA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player Muhammad 39 6-18 8-10 4-4 1 0 20 20 1-5 2-2 3-5 0 4 4 Wear, T. 37 3-12 1-2 1-4 1 3 10 Powell 30 2-11 2-2 2-11 4 2 6 Anderson 39 1-6 2-2 1-1 3 2 4 Drew II 28 4-8 1-2 3-6 1 3 10 Wear, D. 7 3-3 3-5 1-4 0 5 9 Parker 200 20-63 19-25 19-42 10 19 63 Total Percentages: FG .317, FT .760. Three-pointers: 4-22, .182 (Powell 3-9, Muhammad 0-6, Wear 1-3, Drew II 0-3, Anderson 0-1). Blocks: 2 (Wear, Anderson).

Team rebounds: 7. Turnovers: 15 (Drew II 5, Anderson 4, Wear 2, Muhammad, Powell, Parker). Steals: 5 (Powell 5). A: 13,825. Officials: Raymond Natili, Richard Crawford, Gerry Pollard.

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Minnesota forward Rodney Williams attempts a hook shot Sunday at the Frank Erwin Center in Austin, Texas.

“We weren’t communicating on defense early, leaving guys open for threes,” Williams said.

Hollins, who scored 53 points in his first two NCAA tournament games, finished with 25 against a stingy Gators defense that switched between pressing man-to-man and zone defenses.

The Gophers’ most prolific scorer picked up his fourth foul trying to fight around a screen with nine minutes left in the game and the Gophers down nine points.

Minnesota responded by going four minutes without a field goal.

“A 6’2” point guard going against a 6’9” center, and they called a foul on me,” Hollins said. “I was doing my job to get around, and they just called a foul.”

Mbakwe found himself in similar foul trouble. The senior was benched for sixand five-minute stretches in MINNESOTA 64, FLORIDA 78 Minnesota Florida

27 37 — 64 48 30 — 78

FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts 21 3-7 5-8 4-6 1 4 11 30 3-11 4-5 1-5 2 4 10 31 8-13 3-5 1-5 1 4 25 31 1-2 2-2 0-1 2 3 4 37 3-7 2-2 1-3 1 4 10 7 0-1 0-0 1-2 0 0 0 6 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 4 0-1 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 15 2-4 0-0 3-4 0 3 4 12 0-2 0-0 0-1 3 0 0 200 20-50 16-22 13-29 11 25 64 Percentages: FG .400, FT .727. Three-pointers: 8-18, .444 (Andre Hollins 6-10, Au. Hollins 2-6, Williams 0-1, Welch 0-1). Blocks: 1 (Williams).

Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 14 (Andre Hollins 4, Mbakwe 3, Williams 2, Coleman, Au. Hollins, Welch, Ahanmisi). Steals: 4 (Andre Hollins 2, Williams, Au. Hollins).

Player Mbakwe Williams Hollins, An. Coleman Hollins, Au. Welch Osenieks Ahanmisi Walker Ingram Eliason Total

FLORIDA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF 24 5-7 3-3 0-4 1 5 26 0-2 5-6 3-7 2 4 26 2-8 2-2 0-1 1 0 34 8-12 3-4 1-2 1 1 34 2-3 7-10 0-1 6 3 25 1-1 5-9 1-5 2 3 9 0-1 0-0 0-2 0 0 22 3-3 1-2 1-2 0 2 200 21-37 26-36 6-26 13 18

Fans comment on Tubby

Jeff Krech, a South St. Paul native, lives in Austin, Texas, and was planning on attending the NCAA tournament’s first couple of rounds even if the Gophers weren’t in it.

When he heard the news Minnesota would be in Texas, he had to dig out a few Gophers shirts from the old closet.

But his opinions on Gophers hoops and coach Tubby Smith were fresh. He said the veteran and national champion coach is a big draw for an often-unappealing

program.

“People don’t come to Minnesota for the weather, the arena or practice facilities,” Krech said. “Unless you brought in some hot guy like [Shaka Smart], then players might come [to Minnesota] for the new energy.”

Krech backed Smith, saying “from an outsider’s perspective” that he shouldn’t be fired after his sixth year at Minnesota.

Krech’s son Ben is a University of Texas freshman and had different opinions on what college-aged players might want.

“As far as living in the now,” the young Krech said, “Tubby had success a while ago. Not now.”

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NCAA TOURNAMENT SOUTH REGIONAL KANSAS, 64 W KENTUCKY, 57 NORTH CAROLINA, 78

KANSAS, 70 KANSAS NORTH CAROLINA, 58

VILANOVA, 71

MINNESOTA

Player Murphy Young Boynton Rosario Wilbekin Yeguete Frazier Prather Total

the first and second halves, respectively, and played 21 minutes altogether.

VCU, 88 AKRON, 42 MICHIGAN, 71

Percentages: FG .568, FT .722. Three-pointers: 10-20, .500 (Rosario 6-9, Murphy 2-4, Boynton 1-5, Wilbekin 1-1, Frazier 0-1). Blocks: 3 (Prather 2, Young). Team rebounds: 2. Turnovers: 14 (Young 3, Boynton 3, Wilbekin 3, Yeguete 3, Frazier, Murphy).

Steals: 7 (Rosario 2, Yeguete 2, Boynton, Wilbekin, Prather). Officials: Terry Wymer, Raymond Natili, Richard Crawford.

MICHIGAN MICHIGAN, 78

SDSU, 56 UCLA, 63

MINNESOTA, 64

MINNESOTA, 83 FLORIDA, 79

Pts 15 5 7 25 12 7 0 7 78

VCU, 53

FLORIDA FLORIDA, 78

NW ST, 47 SAN DIEGO ST, 70 OKLAHOMA, 55 GEORGETOWN, 68

SAN DIEGO ST, 71 FGCU FGCU, 81

FGCU, 78 SOURCE: ESPN.COM

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Gophers lose in Final Five

Lucia named head coach of 2014 U.S. National Junior Team

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers played a stretch of games this season without freshman defenseman Mike Reilly because of the World Juniors Tournament.

Next season, the tournament will cause them to compete without their head coach.

Don Lucia has been named coach of the 2014 U.S. National Junior Team. He will lead the team at the World Junior Championships on Dec. 26 through Jan. 5, 2014, in Malmö, Sweden.

“When Jim [Johannson] offered me the opportunity, obviously it’s something you’re going to jump at,” Lucia said.

Johannson, the general manager of Team USA, said he liked Lucia’s experience working with an international-sized ice sheet.

Lucia will head a staff that’ll feature Greg Brown from Boston College, Dave Lassonde from Denver, Bob Motzko from St. Cloud State and Dan Muse from Yale.

Motzko is a former assistant coach of Lucia’s.

“I wanted to get some coaches from the East Coast,” Lucia said. “I thought that was important just from a player pool standpoint.”

Gophers assistant coach Grant Potulny was an assistant coach on this year’s juniors team.

Lucia said he’ll only miss two games next season because of the tournament. Assistant coaches Mike Guentzel and Potulny will be in charge of the team during Lucia’s absence.

“I’ve got a great associate head coach in Mike Guentzel, so no worries there,” Lucia said. “He and Grant can take care of everything back on the home front.”

Lucia said people shouldn’t expect a surplus of players from the University of Minnesota on the team because he’s the head coach.

“In some cases it might be like coaching your own kid — they better be better than some of the other players,” Lucia said. “The last thing you want is certainly any favoritism.”

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Colorado College defender Mike Boivin checks Minnesota forward Christian Isackson on Friday at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul.

Minnesota received a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers had their place in the NCAA tournament locked up entering Friday’s WCHA Final Five semifinal matchup with Colorado College.

The Tigers were in a different boat.

“They have nothing to lose,” Gophers senior Seth Helgeson said after Friday’s game. “They need to win out to make the tournament.”

It was evident Friday who needed the win more.

Colorado College defeated the No. 1 Gophers 2-0 and advanced to the WCHA championship game Saturday night.

Wisconsin defeated Colorado College on Saturday to capture the tournament crown and earn an NCAA berth.

While the win meant a lot for Colorado College, the loss meant relatively little for Minnesota (26-8-5), which was locked in as one of four No. 1 seeds in the NCAA tournament.

Both teams seemed content to feel each other out in the first period, and Minnesota needed time to adjust to the smaller sheet of ice at the Xcel Energy Center.

The T igers attacked

MEN’S HOCKEY RESULTS

1 Colorado College 0 0 Minnesota

2 2 0

3 0 0

FINAL 2 0

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

early in the second. Rylan Schwartz put Colorado College up 1-0 less than one minute into the game’s middle period. Then 3 1 / 2 minutes later, Charlie Taft doubled the lead.

Despite holding a 26-14 shots advantage after two periods, Minnesota looked lifeless at times throughout the game.

Pucks slid off sticks, passes weren’t completed and shots were blocked. A string of completed passes was rare.

And when the Gophers did cleanly possess the puck, they frequently surrendered it to Colorado College. Taft’s goal happened because Mark Alt was unable to clear the zone.

Considering the sloppiness of the game, the Gophers managed a decent amount of opportunities.

But they squandered many of them, and Colorado College goaltender Joe Howe stopped the others.

In the second period, down 2-0, Gophers sophomore forward Sam Warning whiffed on a cross-crease pass from junior forward Erik Haula with a wide-open net in front of him.

MINNESOTA COLLEGE HOCKEY TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE 2014 FRIDAY, JANUARY 24

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25

Game #1: Minnesota State-Mankato vs. Minnesota Duluth Game #2: St. Cloud State vs. Minnesota

Game #3: Consolation Game Game #4: Championship Game

2015 FRIDAY, JANUARY 23

SATURDAY, JANUARY 24

Game #1: Bemidji State vs.

Minnesota Duluth Game #2: Minnesota State-Mankato vs. Minnesota

Game #3: Consolation Game Game #4: Championship Game

2016 FRIDAY, JANUARY 29

SATURDAY, JANUARY 30

Game #1: Minnesota State-Mankato vs. St. Cloud State Game #2: Bemidji State vs. Minnesota

Game #3: Consolation Game Game #4: Championship Game

2017 FRIDAY, JANUARY 27

Game #1: St. Cloud State vs. Bemidji State Game #2: Minnesota Duluth vs.

Minnesota

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28

Game #3: Consolation Game Game #4: Championship Game SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

“It just kind of summed up our night,” head coach Don Lucia said of the play. “We had some looks but just couldn’t get much on it.”

Minnesota was gifted a golden opportunity in the third period when Colorado College’s Joe Marciano was given a five-minute major for a cross check from behind.

The Gophers had one shot on the power play.

“The way we looked on the power play was kind of how some of our guys played tonight,” Lucia said. “They just couldn’t find a rhythm to their game.”

Minnesota went 0-for-3 with the extra man Friday.

“It was embarrassing how bad our power play was tonight,” junior forward Zach Budish said.

Howe continued his im-

The Gophers will take part in a four-team college hockey tournament of schools from the state of Minnesota next season.

The event, which has yet to be named, will run Jan. 24-25, 2014, at the Xcel Energy Center. It will feature the Gophers, Minnesota State-Mankato, MinnesotaDuluth and St. Cloud State.

The tournament was created so that the five NCAA Division I schools in Minnesota continue to play each other despite the conference realignment.

Minnesota will move to the Big Ten, UMD and St. Cloud State will depart to the newly formed National Collegiate Hockey Conference and MSU and Bemidji State will remain in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association.

“There’s a lot of tradition between Minnesota’s five Division I programs,” Lucia said in a release. “We are certainly excited to keep those rivalries intact moving forward.”

The Gophers will headline the tournament, with the other four schools rotating to fill the final three spots.

The tournament will use a fan-based competition to pick its name, and sponsors are still being sought out for the event, according to Minnesota associate athletics director and men’s hockey administrator Tom McGinnis.

Bemidji State athletics director Rick Goeb said the teams hope to create an event similar in structure and appeal to Boston’s Beanpot Tournament. pressive playoff run, stopping 35 shots in the shutout.

The Gophers also lost in the semifinals of last year’s Final Five but rebounded with two wins in the NCAA regional to advance to the Frozen Four. “We’ve had a great season so far,” Lucia said. “We put ourselves in a great position.”

Gophers receive No. 2 seed in NCAA tournament

The Gophers will play Yale this coming Friday in the first round of the NCAA tournament.

Minnesota received the No. 2 overall seed Sunday and is the No. 1 seed in the West Regional, which will be played at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Mich.

North Dakota and Niagara will join the Gophers and Yale in Grand Rapids. Minnesota needs two wins to return to the NCAA Frozen Four, where it lost last season.

Minnesota State-Mankato, St. Cloud State, Denver and Wisconsin will join Minnesota and North Dakota as representatives of the WCHA in this year’s tournament.

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WRESTLING

Nelson repeats as NCAA heavyweight champion

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

A lot of elite wrestlers have walked the campus for the Gophers wrestling program.

Tony Nelson’s name is now definitely on that list.

Nelson repeated as the NCAA heavyweight champion over the weekend at the national championships in Des Moines, Iowa.

“He wrestled very well,” head assistant coach Brandon Eggum said. “He seemed composed throughout the tournament.”

Minnesota finished third as a team behind Penn State and Oklahoma State. The Nittany Lions won their third straight NCAA title.

Nelson beat Mike McMullan of Northwestern 6-2 in the finals — the same man he beat less than two weeks ago to capture the Big Ten title.

Eggum said McMullan is a very offensive wrestler.

“Tony’s defense and counter scoring is so good that if you attack him, you can put yourself in danger,” Eggum said.

Nelson said he’s realized

all season that he’s had a target on his back. That hasn’t affected the way he wrestles.

“They want to be the guy to beat you, [and] to come out and do it again was just a big accomplishment,” the senior said in a press conference after the match.

Nelson finished the season with a 33-1 record. He lost his only match to Dom Bradley of Missouri at the Southern Scuffle.

The junior is the fifth heavyweight wrestler to win back-to-back titles for Minnesota. But he’s not satisfied with that.

Nelson said his ultimate goal, even before he won the title last season, was to be a three-time champion.

He said former Minnesota heavyweights Cole Konrad and Brock Lesnar were his inspiration.

“Brock won it once. Cole won it twice,” Nelson said.

“I’m right up there with [Konrad], and he’s a guy I always looked up to.”

Nelson was the lone Minnesota wrestler to win an individual title, but the Gophers boasted eight All-Americans.

WRESTLING RESULTS

NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS 125 Thorn 133 Dardanes, Ch. 141 Dardanes, Ni. 149 Ness 165 Yohn 174 Storley 197 Schiller HWT Nelson

7th place 6th place 7th place 4th place 7th place 4th place 5th place Champion

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Dylan Ness couldn’t build off his Big Ten championship from less than two weeks ago, and the sophomore finished fourth at 149 pounds. Ness shocked the world last season as the NCAA runner-up at 149.

Logan Storley had a terrible performance at the Big Ten championships, but the sophomore bounced back to finish fourth at the NCAA meet. He lost in the thirdplace match to his best friend from high school, Robert Kokesh of Nebraska. Storley was a force all season long, but he seemed to hit a wall in the two postseason tournaments.

Sophomore Scott Schiller

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Iowa’s Mike Evans (174) wrestles Minnesota’s Logan Storley during the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships on Friday at Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines, Iowa.

Storley won by decision, 3-2.

(197 pounds) finished fifth, sophomore Chris Dardanes (133) finished sixth and both junior David Thorn (125) and senior Cody Yohn (165) finished seventh.

Kevin Steinhaus (185), who was upset early in the tournament, did not place.

Minnesota’s eight total All-Americans are the most in the nation for the second

straight year.

—Dane Mizutani contributed to this report.

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GYMNASTICS

Women finish third at Big Ten meet The men missed opportunities in a loss to No. 1 Penn State at home.

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s gymnastics team finished third at the Big Ten championships Saturday night in East Lansing, Mich.

A week after Minnesota and Michigan shared the first-ever Big Ten regular season title, Nebraska took home the postseason title. Michigan also finished ahead of Minnesota. Illinois and Ohio State rounded out the top five.

Gophers head coach Meg Stephenson said her team hit all 24 routines but that the two teams atop the standings hit them slightly better.

Minnesota put together a solid score despite a few minor mistakes.

The Gophers had high scores from gymnasts on each event, but the other teams matched the performances.

Nebraska’s Emily Wong won the floor exercise and parallel bars competitions outright, but the vault and beam competitions each had five-way ties for first place.

Gophers freshman Lindsay Mable was part of the tie for first on beam with a score of 9.9. Senior Janelle Campbell tied for second on bars with the same score.

Mable finished fourth in the all-around competition with a season-high score of 39.55.

“I felt good about the gymnastics I put out,” she said. “I felt like I did my par t enough and was fortunate enough to have the judges agree.”

Mable, the Big Ten’s Freshman of the Year, said she treated the competition like any other.

Stephenson said Mable’s beam routine to begin the night was arguably her best of the season.

“She just did a nice job ever ywhere,” Stephenson said. “It was just letting herself focus on what we’ve practiced and stay in her bubble.”

Campbell tied her season-high score on bars and said she felt “totally serene” during the routine.

“When that 9.9 came up I knew it was well deserved,” she said. “I know I’m a 9.9 worker.”

Stephenson said Jenison Field House was loud Saturday night, but Minnesota was able to handle the pressure and noise of the meet.

Minnesota star ted the night on beam, which hasn’t happened often this season, but the team handled the rotation cycle well and produced one of its highest beam scores in recent weeks.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Minnesota gymnast Steve Jaciuk competes on still rings Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

MEN’S GYMNASTICS RESULTS

TEAMS Minnesota Penn State

SCORE 428.0 433.65

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

SCORE Bauer, 15.0 Mannon, 15.0 Metcalf, 15.0 Kern, 14.6 Frey, 14.65 Jaciuk, 14.9

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Minnesota was forced to finish on bars, the team’s worst event this season.

Stephenson said the team was confident and prepared to start with any event.

Minnesota will compete in the NCAA regionals in two weeks.

Minnesota has next weekend of f, so it’ll hold a mock meet in practice next Saturday to help the gymnasts stay competitionready.

Men miss routines, opportunity

The Gophers men’s gymnastics team fell to No. 1 Penn State on Saturday afternoon at the Sports Pavilion.

The Nittany Lions outscored the Gophers on five of the six events to win by nearly six points.

Minnesota gave away most of those points on falls and the inability to land dismounts, coach Mike Burns said.

“We kind of kicked ourselves in the butt today,” he said.

Burns said the team recorded five misses, equivalent to about five points. He said the team has to clean up its landings on floor exercise and still rings.

Minnesota had its best performance of the season

WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS TEAMS Nebraska Michigan Minnesota Illinois Ohio State

SCORE 197.8 197.225 196.775 196.475 195.95

*out of 8 teams

MINNESOTA LEADERS SCORE Vault Mable, 9.9 Tomson, 9.9 Bars Campbell, 9.9 Beam Mable, 9.9 Floor Mable, 9.9 Schermann, 9.9 All-around Mable, 39.55

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

on pommel horse. Sophomore Ellis Mannon won pommel horse to lead Minnesota. This event has been a weakness for the team most of the season, but the Gophers have scored well on it in recent weeks.

Penn State scored significantly higher on vault and parallel bars and was able to stretch its lead in the second half of the meet.

Minnesota finished strong on high bar and outscored Penn State by nearly three points, but the damage was already done.

Steve Jaciuk, ranked third in the nation on high bar behind Penn State’s Wasef Burbar and Matt Felleman, scored a 14.9 to win the event.

Jaciuk said he’s had trouble with a release in the middle of his routine and took extra measures to grab the bar Saturday.

Adrenaline affected the team throughout the night, especially on vault, junior Adam Kern said.

“They’re just getting so amped up,” Kern said of some of the gymnasts.

“Their minds are just thinking so fast that they’re for-

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Minnesota gymnast Michael Farquhar competes on still rings Saturday at the Sports Pavilion.

getting their technique just a little bit. Everything is just too fast.”

Burns said adrenaline can be a good thing on vault, as opposed to pommel horse, which benefits from more concentration.

The Gophers have two weeks to improve before hosting the Big Ten championships April 4-5.

Notes 4The Gophers men’s team celebrated senior Adam LaFleur’s final regular season competition at the Sports Pavilion on Saturday with a ceremony after the meet.

LaFleur finished seventh on the vault, the event in which he is nationally ranked.

4 Junior Zack Chase may return to the lineup for the Big Ten championships on the still rings. Chase suffered a broken tibia in a meet against Illinois in Feb-

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota gymnast Janell Campbell jumps through the air during her floor routine March 16 at the Sports Pavilion.

ruary.

4Mable won Big Ten Freshman of the Year on Saturday. She is the first Minnesota gymnast to win the award since Gena Palm in 1989.

“It’s ver y close to my heart,” Mable said of winning the award.

4Stephenson won Big Ten Coach of the Year on Saturday — the third time she’s received the honor.

SWIMMING & DIVING

Women take 10th at NCAA championships The Gophers had secondplace finishers in the 200-yard breaststroke and 1-meter diving.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s swimming and diving team capped one of its best seasons ever Saturday with a 10th-place finish at the NCAA championships at the IU Natatorium in Indianapolis.

The top-10 finish was the third in program history and the first since 2011. Twelve Minnesota swimmers and divers earned All-America honors during the weekend.

“Just being top-10 at the NCAA [championships] is an accomplishment that not a lot of people get to do,” senior captain Haley Spencer said.

Georgia won its fifth NCAA championship, accruing 477 team points. Two-time defending champion Califor-

nia (393 points), Tennessee (325.5), Texas A&M (323.5) and Arizona (311) rounded out the top five.

Minnesota (141 points) was the top Big Ten finisher, followed by Indiana (115), Wisconsin (65) and Purdue (44).

The Gophers came out flat early in the championships, struggling in both relay and individual events, head coach Kelly Kremer said.

Still, the Gophers finished the first day of the championships in 10th place, due in large part to junior diver Maggie Keefer’s second-place finish in 1-meter diving.

Keefer had another strong showing Friday, finishing sixth in 3-meter diving despite a low score on her third dive of the event.

“I knew from the take-off that it wasn’t going to end up so well,” Keefer said of the dive. “I was a little disappointed, but it didn’t really affect the rest of my performance.”

Spencer capped her Minnesota career with an 11th-

SWIMMING/DIVING MINNESOTA ALL-AMERICANS Lauren Votava, fr.

Kiera Janzen, so.

Jessica Plant, so.

Tori Simenec, so.

Rebecca Weiland, so.

Blake Zeiger, so.

Tess Behrens, jr.

Erin Caflisch, jr.

Maggie Keefer, jr.

Sarah McCrady, jr.

Haley Spencer, sr.

Lauren Weis, sr.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke Friday and a second-place finish in the 200 breaststroke Saturday.

Spencer was in seventh place heading into the final 50 yards, but a strong final lap propelled her into second.

“It’s nothing new for me,” she said. “It’s the way I swim.”

While no other Minnesota swimmer or diver besides Spencer and Keefer cracked the top five in an event, many made modest

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Haley Spencer swims the women’s 100-yard breaststroke Dec. 1, 2012, at the University Aquatic Center.

contributions.

Sophomor e distance swimmer Kiera Janzen took 15th in the 500 freestyle Thursday and 11th in the 1,650 freestyle Saturday, despite battling illness throughout the championships.

“I wasn’t sure really how

her mile [1,650 freestyle] would go,” Kremer said. “I think physically she wasn’t 100 percent, and she sure toughed one out. She was as tough as you can be.”

Sophomore Becca Weiland finished 12th in the 100 butterfly, and junior Sarah McCrady took 16th in plat-

form diving.

The Gophers were also relatively successful in relay events. Minnesota’s 200, 400 and 800 freestyle relay teams took 13th, eighth and ninth, respectively, and its 200 and 400 medley relay teams took 11th and 10th, respectively.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

Ball State upsets Gophers in first round of WNIT

Minnesota started poorly at home and couldn’t recover.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Days after missing the NCAA tournament for the fourth consecutive year, the Gophers women’s basketball team ended its season with a 54-51 home loss to Ball State in the first round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament.

Friday’s loss concluded another disappointing season for Minnesota.

The Gophers (18-14) opened the season with six straight wins and took an 11-3 record into Big Ten play.

But Minnesota str uggled in the conference, losing seven of nine games at

one point.

And despite finishing the regular season with a couple of impressive victories, the Gophers were unimpressive in postseason play, losing in the first round of the Big Ten tournament and the WNIT. “Obviously this is a very disappointing loss and something that we weren’t expecting,” head coach Pam Bor ton said in a release.

Ball State, which never trailed, opened the game on an 11-0 run and held a 27-17 lead at halftime.

The 17 first-half points were the fewest by the Gophers this season.

Minnesota’s of fensive str uggles continued throughout the game, as it shot 29.5 percent from the floor and turned the ball over 18 times.

“We got of f to a ver y

slow start offensively,” Borton said. “It’s tough to win a basketball game with those stats.”

A 14-6 Cardinals run early in the second half helped them go up 41-29, and they led by 16 points later in the second half.

The Gophers rallied and made it a game in the final minutes. Junior guard Sari Noga drilled a three-pointer and junior for ward-center Micaëlla Riché made a pair of free throws and cut the lead to four.

Sophomore guard Rachel Banham’s jumper made it a two-point game with less than a minute to play, but she missed a three-pointer on the next possession and Ball State held on.

Riché led the Gophers with 18 points. Banham added 12 points and 10 rebounds.

BALL STATE 54, MINNESOTA 51 Ball State Minnesota

27 27 — 54 17 34 — 51

BALL STATE FT Reb FG Player Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Fontaine 34 2-8 0-0 1-5 0 3 4 Murphy 23 3-6 0-0 3-6 2 4 6 Justice 31 0-4 0-0 1-1 2 2 0 Woody 38 6-14 5-6 2-5 1 2 19 Carter 34 4-10 0-1 0-4 6 1 11 Jackson 23 3-8 0-0 0-2 2 3 8 Smith 17 2-4 0-0 0-5 2 1 6 Total 200 20-54 5-7 11-34 15 16 54 Percentages: FG .370, FT .714. Three-pointers: 9-20, .450 (Carter 3-7, Jackson 2-2, Woody 2-6, Smith 2-4, Justice 0-1) Blocks: 1 (Murphy). Team rebounds: 6. Turnovers: 20 (Woody 5, Fontaine 3, Murphy 3, Justice 3, Smith 2, Jackson, Carter) Steals: 11 (Justice 4, Murphy 3, Woody 2, Carter 2).

SOFTBALL

Gophers sweep Iowa Sunday.

Sophomore infielder Tyler Walker continued her strong season over the weekend. She recorded two hits in each game and had four runs batted in.

Junior pitcher Sara Moulton picked up two of the Gophers’ three wins this weekend. Freshman pitcher Nikki Anderson picked up her third win of the season Saturday in the Gophers’ 101 win.

Many players stepped up with runs batted in throughout the weekend. Catcher Kari Dorle was the only Gophers player to drive in more than three runs in one game.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers softball team continued its hot streak and started its Big Ten season in grand fashion over the weekend.

Minnesota (20-10) swept Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, to open its Big Ten season. The Gophers won 4-1 on Friday and dominated the Hawkeyes 10-1 and 7-3 in a doubleheader Saturday.

The teams played a doubleheader Saturday afternoon because of the cold temperatures in Iowa City.

The third game was originally scheduled to be played

SOFTBALL RESULTS

MINNESOTA FG FT Reb Min M-A M-A O-T Ast PF Pts Player 34 3-9 0-0 2-9 2 1 7 Kellogg 22 5-9 8-10 6-8 0 4 18 Riche 40 5-21 2-2 2-10 2 2 12 Banham 28 0-2 2-2 2-4 4 3 2 Mullaney 34 2-8 0-0 6-8 2 2 6 Noga 10 0-4 0-0 0-1 1 1 0 Cotton 13 3-5 0-0 1-1 0 0 6 Hirt 8 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 3 0 Bailey 11 0-2 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 Loberg 200 18-61 12-14 21-46 11 16 51 Total Percentages: FG .295, FT .857. Three-pointers: 3-19, .158 (Noga 2-7, Kellogg 1-4, Banham 0-7, Mullaney 0-1) Blocks: 8 (Cotton 2, Noga 2, Loberg 2, Kellogg, Riche). Team rebounds: 4. Turnovers: 18 (Mullaney 5, Kellogg 3, Banham 3, Riche 2, Loberg 2, Bailey, Hirt, Noga). Steals: 10 (Mullaney 3, Hirt 2, Kellogg 2, Riche, Banham, Noga). A: 963 Officials: Bob Trammell, Dave Peterson, Katie Lukanich.

Minnesota Iowa

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Minnesota Iowa

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Minnesota Iowa

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4 3 0

5 0 0

6 0 1

7 1 0

R 7 3

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E 1 3

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

MEN’S GOLF

TENNIS

Men win 2, women split vs. Michigan teams Men finish 13th in Georgia Michigan snapped the women’s team’s six-match winning streak.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s tennis team’s six-game winning streak was snapped Sunday at the Baseline Tennis Center.

Minnesota lost to No. 9 Michigan 6-1, falling to 8-7 on the season and 2-1 in the Big Ten. The Gophers performed well on the doubles side during their six-game winning streak.

They looked in position to capture the doubles point again Sunday as the No. 3 doubles pair won its match 8-2., but the No. 1 and 2 doubles teams both lost.

“We just needed to be a little more aggressive on one and two doubles,” head coach Chuck Merzbacher said. “We had some opportunities and didn’t cash in on those.”

The Gophers lost five of their six singles matches — only sophomore Tereza Brichacova won at No. 2 singles.

Michigan’s top singles

player, 2012 Big Ten Freshman of the Year Emina Bektas, beat the Gophers’ top singles player, junior Natallia Pintusava, 6-0, 6-0.

Merzbacher said he was pleased with his team’s performance against the toughest opponent has played so far.

The Gophers were 2-6 before the six-game streak star ted with a 7-0 victor y over Nor ther n Iowa on Feb. 16. The team notched victories over lower-tier opponents like Wisconsin and Michigan State during the streak.

“It was really just getting healthier and getting the lineup that we really wanted to put out there,” Merzbacher said about the streak. “Some of the things just came together for us as far as being healthy and getting our doubles lineup the way we want.”

Merzbacher said seniors Alexa Palen and Doron Muravnik are still recovering from injuries and illness, but he said he is pleased with the team’s progression so far.

“We’re playing the best tennis that we’ve played all year,” Merzbacher said.

Men win a pair The Gophers men’s ten-

WOMEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

MINNESOTA 6, MICHIGAN STATE 1 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Rincon Otero Mozia Lambert Muravnik

W W W W W L

Doubles Pintusava/Rincon Otero Brichacova/Muravnik Palen/Renault

W 9-8 W 9-7 W 8-4

6-2, 6-3 7-5, 6-3 6-3, 7-6 (5) 6-3, 6-3 6-2, 6-2 1-6, 6-4, 1-0 (9)

MICHIGAN 6, MINNESOTA 1 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Rincon Otero Mozia Lambert Muravnik

L W L L L L

Doubles Pintusava/Rincon Otero Brichacova/Muravnik Palen/Mozia

L 8-6 L 8-4 W 8-2

6-0, 6-0 7-6, 6-3 6-4, 6-3 7-5, 6-2 2-6, 6-0, 6-2 6-1, 6-4

MEN’S TENNIS RESULTS

MINNESOTA 4, MICHIGAN STATE 3 Singles Bonin Toledo Hamburg Froment Ramirez Weber

W L W L W L

Doubles Hamburg/Froment Bonin/Ramirez Toledo/Frueh

L 8-4 W 8-4 W 9-8 (5)

6-7 (2), 7-6 (5), 6-3

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

MINNESOTA 4, MICHIGAN 3 Singles Bonin Toledo Hamburg Froment Ramirez Weber

L W L L W W

Doubles Hamburg/Froment Bonin/Ramirez Toledo/Frueh

L 8-3 W 8-6 W 8-6

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

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

nis team won a pair of road matches this weekend, defeating both Michigan State and Michigan 4-3.

The Gophers were 1-6 in matches decided by one point before this weekend.

Tied 3-3 Saturday against Michigan State, Minnesota’s No. 1 singles player, senior Rok Bonin, won the last two sets of his match, clinching the team victory.

The Gophers faced a similar situation against

Michigan. Tied 3-3, junior Juan Pablo Ramirez won his singles match over Michigan’s Michael Zhu. With the victories, the team improved to 6-8 overall and 2-1 in the Big Ten. The Gophers have won three of their past four matches. They lost 4-3 to Miami last Tuesday.

“We can still play better on a more consistent basis,” head coach Geof f Young said, “but we’re working towards that.”

BASEBALL

Longhorns challenge Gophers, win two of three at Metrodome Ace Tom Windle pitched Minnesota to its lone victory Friday.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Spring break gave the Gophers baseball team a break from the classroom.

But on the field, Minnesota saw two of its toughest tests to date — Big 12 foes Kansas State and Texas.

Minnesota split a pair of midweek games with the Wildcats and dropped two of three games to the Longhorns.

The Gophers will play South Dakota State on Wednesday in their final nonconference game be-

fore Big Ten play begins. “ We ’ v e b e e n c h a l lenged, and we’ve been humbled some,” head coach John Anderson said.

“We’re tr ying to develop a team that can compete in the league and win some games at the end of the year. We’re making progress.”

Gophers junior ace Tom Windle pitched his team past Texas on Friday with his third straight complete game. He str uck out 12 Longhorns batters in a 5-1 Minnesota victory.

Texas beat the Gophers 5-4 in 10 innings Saturday, leaving Sunday’s r ubber game to decide the series.

But Minnesota fell behind 6-0 early and couldn’t overcome the deficit. The Longhorns jumped on Go-

BASEBALL RESULTS

Texas Minnesota

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2 0 3

3 0 0

4 0 0

5 0 0

6 0 0

7 0 0

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R 1 5

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Texas Minnesota

1 0 1

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6 0 1

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8 0 0

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H 12 13

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Texas Minnesota

1 1 0

2 3 0

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4 2 0

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6 0 0

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SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

phers starter Alec Crawford for four runs in the first two innings.

Crawford, who made his second start of the season after missing the first month with a knee injur y, said he was a little nervous despite feeling 100 percent healthy.

“It felt good to get out there and get some experience,” he said. “Texas is a good ball club. It’s good to get some innings under my belt.”

The junior right-hander was slated as a starter before the season, Anderson said.

So was junior lefty DJ Snelten, who also returned from an injur y this week.

Snelten took over for Crawford in the four th inning and allowed a pair of runs.

Anderson said it’s important to get Crawford and Snelten experience before Big Ten play starts, and he said it’s impor tant not to expect too much from them early on.

The Gophers put three runs on the board in the seventh inning Sunday.

But Longhor ns pr eseason All-American closer Corey Knebel was untouchable in the late innings, retiring all six batters he faced to secure the win.

Weather shortened the tournament to 36 holes.

Minnesota sophomore shortstop Michael Handel went 2-for-4 and was the lone Gophers player to have multiple hits.

Senior center fielder Troy Larson said he’s happy with how Minnesota’s nonconference schedule played out and said the team made significant progress offensively.

“I’m glad we got to play so many competitive teams,” he said. “I think it’ll translate to a lot more success.”

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s golf team shot 30-over par to finish 13th out of 14 teams at the Linger Longer Invitational on Sunday.

Alabama won the tournament at 16-under par with a team score of 560 at the Great Waters golf course in Greensboro, Ga. Minnesota finished with a total of 606 Weather played a huge factor in the tournament.

Rain and thunder delayed round two, which was ultimately suspended due to darkness.

The tour nament was shor tened to two rounds instead of three because of more bad weather.

Sophomore Tyler Lowenstein had the lowest score for

Minnesota in both rounds.

He and senior Erik Van Rooyen shot 1-over par 73s on Sunday.

Lowenstein tied for 32nd, while Van Rooyen finished three shots back and tied for 46th place.

The Gophers will compete next in the Stanford Intercollegiate tournament March 2830 in Palo Alto, Calif.

MEN’S GOLF RESULTS

GOLFER Lowenstein Van Rooyen Bell Trasamar Gaugert

RD1 75 78 79 76 84

RD2 TOTAL 73 148 73 151 75 154 82 158 77 161

TEAM 1. Alabama 2. Kennesaw State 3. Oklahoma State 4. Georgia Tech 5. Georgia 13. Minnesota

RD1 281 291 289 295 291 308

RD2 TOTAL 279 560 285 576 288 577 284 579 284 582 298 606

*out of 14 teams

ROWING

Gophers continue dominance

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers rowing team defeated Tennessee over the weekend, winning all of its races in Knoxville, Tenn.

The Gophers have won 19 of their 24 races this spring.

They won 15 of 20 races at their first meet of the spring season, the Oklahoma Invite.

Minnesota head coach Wendy Davis said the team looked a lot sharper than it did two weeks ago in Oklahoma City.

“We rowed more as one unit today,” Davis said.

The Gophers’ top varsity eight boat, which won Big Ten boat of the week honors for its performance in Oklahoma City, got off to a slow start, Davis said.

“But after the first five or six strokes,” she said, “we found our rhythm and were able to power through.”

The top varsity eight boat won its race by more than 13 seconds.

Davis said she was pleased with the entire

team’s per formance this weekend against a Tennessee squad that won a Conference USA championship last season.

“They’re a first-class program,” Davis said of Tennessee. “When we can beat them, it always feels good.”

Davis said the team is a long way from peak shape.

She said the team’s stroke rate was about 32 strokes per minute this weekend, but she expects it to be about 36 strokes per minute at the Big Ten championships.

The team will work gradually to increase the stroke rate in order to prevent injuries, Davis said.

“You first have to establish that your blades are getting through the water the way they need to,” Davis said. “Then as [the rowers] get fitter, you can crank the rate up a little bit higher while keeping the blades in the water.”

Minnesota will open the Big Ten season against Iowa on April 13.

Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: wrestling POSITION: heavyweight YEAR: junior MALE

TONY NELSON Nelson won his second consecutive NCAA heavyweight championship, cementing his status as an all-time great Gophers wrestler.

Nelson beat Northwestern’s Mark McMullan in the national finals, the same man he beat less than two weeks ago to capture the Big Ten title. The junior’s only loss in 201213 came at the Southern Scuffle in early January.

SPORT: women’s hockey POSITION: forward YEAR: junior FEMALE

AMANDA KESSEL Kessel had two goals and two assists in the Gophers’ 6-3 victory in the NCAA title game.

The victory gave Minnesota (41-0-0) its second straight national title. Kessel became the fourth player in NCAA history to score 100 points in a single season. The junior was awarded the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award on Saturday, beating out senior teammates Noora Räty and Megan Bozek.

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Monday, March 25, 2013

BACKTALK sudoku

horoscopes

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

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3/25/2013

March 14’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (3/25): The year begins with communications, invitations and opportunities to participate.

Pace yourself, and use the energy to forward a dream.

Budget, save, pay debt and reduce clutter.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — The competition is fierce, but you can handle it.

You’ll feel better as feelings and logic align.

Travel is now an emotional experience.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 7 — Listen to a roommate carefully and without losing your temper. There’s gold to be found in those words. Remember your manners.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Explore new boundaries in places where you didn’t think to look before. Take the time to get your ideas across. Find quiet.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Read emails and respond to phone messages to avoid a misunderstanding. Make new friends on social media, but don’t believe everything.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — It’s a big mistake to think you’re the smartest. That’s irrelevant, anyway. There’s still work to be done.

Dedication is part of the solution.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Stand up for what is right, even in the face of disagreement. But watch out so you don’t come off as obnoxious.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — There’s less than you thought, but the opportunities for more are wide open. Ignore a rude remark or anything that distracts from your commitments.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Ride out the storm, and calm another’s fears.

Take a moment to catch your breath. Then conjure ideas for an additional income stream.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 6 — Stay outside of the controversy; you have bigger and better things to worry about. If you really think it will make a difference, wait a while.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Work out your differences so that you can move forward with ease. You can really handle it. It’s worth taking the time.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Listen.

What you learn today helps you in the long run.

Put your confidence and power behind a great cause. Don’t throw your money around.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — State your position firmly, and be willing to be flexible up to a point. An objective perspective helps.

Boost morale with music and good food.

Monday, March 25, 2013

overheard “We live in a society. We can’t just pee everywhere, otherwise ... anarchy!”

—Route 16 bus

Guy 1: “Just one day more.”

Girl: “ONE MORE DAY TO REVOLUTION ...”

[Runs out doors singing the rest of the “Les Misérables” song] Guy 1: “Did that really just happen?”

Guy 2: “She must be lost. Joy isn’t permitted in the Tate Laboratory of Physics.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

Girl 1: “My head and my butt hurt.”

Girl 2: “I don’t want to know.”

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

“I would LOVE it if someone peed whipped cream on me during sex. That would LITERALLY be the best thing ever.”

—West Bank

“Now I have to find out if I want to kick it in the front seat or the back seat.”

Guy to another guy: “I was about to come into your room, but then I heard the giggles.”

—Campus Connector

“I used to be jealous of every girl around my partner, but then I realized that he only ever slept with his [organic chemistry] textbook.”

—Coffman Union

Guy: “Except it sucks because she won’t be able to party when I get back.”

Girl: “Oh yeah. She’ll be pregnant.”

—Middlebrook Hall

“Yeah, let’s go eat. I need to get something in my stomach other than semen!”

—Unknown

“Sometimes I pick my nose while people are staring at me just to make it memorable for them.”

—Scholars Walk

—Middlebrook Hall

Guy: “Can we take the tunnel back?”

Girl: “We can take whatever tunnel you want.”

—Comstock Hall

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crossword

FOR RELEASE MARCH 25, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Playtex purchase 4 Org. with a “Most Wanted” list 7 Bygone fast flier, briefly 10 Salsa or guacamole 13 Borscht vegetable 15 Aromatic hybrid blossom 17 Corroded 18 Having material that “may not be suitable for children,” per the MPAA 19 Original M&M’s filling 21 Very wide shoe size 22 Downs’ opposites 23 Suffix with web or nanny 26 Considers really cool 29 South American pack animal 31 Vegas rollers 35 Product of boiled sap 38 Monogram component 40 Buffalo nickel or Mercury dime 41 Tree with brilliant foliage 43 Feminine ending 44 Orange container 45 Tickle Me __ 47 Above, to Shelley 48 “__ had enough!”

50 “This is __ test” 54 Brown cow product?

60 Helter-skelter 62 Surround with troops 63 Beverage blend using buds 64 The color of embarrassment 65 Haven’t yet paid 66 Sphere 67 Mandela’s org.

68 Some SAT takers DOWN 1 Author Stoker 2 Fix, as shoelaces 3 One-named singer of “Skyfall”

3/25/13

By David Steinberg

4 Used an épée, say 5 “Little Women” woman 6 “Was __ harsh?”

7 Razor sharpener 8 Flippered fish eaters 9 “Hasta la vista!”

10 Twelve-sided figure 11 Way to the www 12 ... square __ in a round hole 14 Mountain wheels 16 No longer working: Abbr.

20 Tip of a crescent 24 With all one’s strength 25 Strategic WWI French river 27 Muslim official 28 Elaborate celebration 29 ’60s psychedelic drug 30 Fortune magazine founder 31 Bee Gees genre 32 Get used (to) 33 Holder of Cubans 34 State, to Jacques

Saturday’s March 14’s Puzzle Puzzle Solved Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

36 Laze 37 Grades K-6: Abbr.

39 Wrath 42 Banana throwaway 46 “Be right there!”

48 More slippery, as roads 49 Eng. lesson with synonyms 51 Neglect to mention

3/25/13

52 Wedding cake layers 53 Author Horatio 55 Tough row to __ 56 Director Preminger 57 “Mamma Mia!” quartet 58 New driver, typically 59 Sneakers brand 60 __-Magnon 61 By what means

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dr. date Dr. Date,

So I’ve been kind of into this guy.

For a while now I’ve been trying to figure out what to do. But at a party over break he was drunk and started hitting on me. While that’s flattering because it means he has some interest in me, now I’m not sure if I’m actually into him anymore because he was so sloppy. Am I being judgmental? Should I just go with it and see if he likes me sober?

—Want To See Him In The Daylight Day Tripper,

So he shows some interest in you when he’s imbibed — are you turned off by the belligerence alone, or is it worse that he’s never shown interest sober?

There’s no question about it — either way, you are definitely being judgmental. So what if he’s drinking?

Drinking is not a crime for some of us!

So what if he’s too nervous to hit on you while he’s sober?

So what, Day Tripper! You’re judging. But hey, it’s OK, because here’s where I’ll argue that being judgmental is healthy and awesome when it comes to relationships. You gotta judge cuz you gotta watch out! If you’re not into drinkers, then “Next” him for drinking — there’s going to be somebody else in that big black bus, I guarantee ya. Did you know gossip is one of the oldest survival mechanisms there is? Catty cavemen knew what was up.

Still, I think you should give him a shot because I will give him all of the benefits of the doubt and guess that he was scared to hit on you sober and alcohol was his juicy courage.

—Dr. Date Dr. Date,

Since I’ve been dating my guy, a couple former FWBs have unwittingly tried to get with me. I always tell them I have a boyfriend, and it ends there.

But I’m wondering if I should tell my

BF about those incidents — they don’t really matter, but I think if the tables were turned I would want to know about girls coming on to him (especially former flings). I would just tell him, but I don’t want him to think a) I’m just trying to make him jealous or b) that I have such a raunchy past that this won’t stop. What should I do?

—One Year Sober (of FWB) Frienemies With Benefits,

I’m laughing out loud right now, or as the kids would say, I’m lolling because, seriously, what? You think you have to tell your boyfriend this? You’re saying no, aren’t you? You’d only have to tell him if you were saying “YES” to these jokers, but you’re resisting temptation from evil. LOL! LOL! And let me close out by saying that it’s nuts that you’d want your boyfriend to tell you that he’s rejecting other chicks. WHO CARES! You’re with each other. Have a little faith and relax, LOL.

—Dr. Date Dr. Date,

I met a dreamy girl from UW-Madison over break in Florida. We really hit it off — not just during the drunk nights, either; we hung out a lot sober and ended up spending more time together than with the groups we traveled with. Now I’m unsure how to pursue her. I don’t know if she feels like I do (I want a relationship.), so what’s the best way to figure that out without scaring her, but before the magic from #SB2013 wears off?

—Love Hangover Punch Drunk,

Ah, a gopher and a badger meet down south! A story of romance, Skype and uncomfortable Megabus rides.

Pursue her on social media — chat that badge vag all over the ’net — and then hop on a bus to see her. Profess your love without hesitation. If she says no?

Come back to Gopher Nation.

—Dr. Date

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

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Monday, March 25, 2013

Syrian opposition plunges into disarray

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BEIRUT — Syria’s opposition plunged into disarray Sunday as its president quit and its military chief refused to recognize the newly elected prime minister of an interim government for rebelheld areas.

The moves reflected deep splits in the body the U.S. and its allies hope will emerge as the united face of the opposition and advance the fight to topple President Bashar Assad’s regime.

The missteps of the opposition’s mostly exile political leadership drew little notice inside Syria, where rebel fighters dismissed it as ineffective and pushed ahead with their offensive to gain ground near the countr y’s southern border with Jordan. Nearby, the Israeli military in the Golan Heights responded to fire by shooting back at targets inside Syria.

The first blow to the opposition Syrian National Coalition was the surprise resignation of its president, who said he was quitting in frustration over what he called lack of international support and constraints imposed by the body itself.

Mouaz al-Khatib, who

rose to prominence as a preacher in Damascus’ most famous mosque, said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that he was making good on an earlier vow to quit if undefined “red lines” were crossed.

“I am keeping my promise today and announcing my resignation from the National Coalition so that I can work with freedom that is not available inside the official institutions,” he said.

He also blamed world powers for not of fering Syria’s rebels the support they demand and complained that “international and regional parties” tried to push the Coalition toward negotiations with the Assad regime — something most members refuse.

“All that has happened to the Syrian people — from destruction of infrastructure, to the arrest of tens of thousands, to the displacement of hundreds of thousands, to other tragedies — is not enough for an international decision to allow the Syrian people to defend themselves,” the statement said.

Despite electing a new, U.S.-educated prime minister last week to head a

planned interim gover nment, the Coalition has failed to make much of a mark inside Syria, where hundreds of independent rebel brigades are fighting a civil war against Assad’s forces.

Reflecting the growing dissension over that move, the head of the Coalition’s military branch, Gen. Salim Idris, said his group refused to recognize the new prime minister, a little-known IT professional from Texas, because he lacked broad support among the opposition.

“For the purpose of giving power to a prime minister to unite the revolutionary forces and lead the Syrian revolution toward certain victor y, we unequivocally declare that the Free Syrian Army ... conditions its support and cooperation on the achievement of a political agreement on the name of a prime minister,” Idris said in an online video.

An aide to Idris, Louay Almokdad, said many prominent Syrian opposition figures opposed the election of Ghassan Hitto, who received 35 out of 48 votes cast by the Coalition’s 63 active members.

While al-Khatib’s resig-

nation surprised many Coalition members, some said it reflected problems that have caused five other members to resign in the past week.

Coalition member Rima Fleihan told The Associated Press in Cairo that the body did not accurately represent Syrians.

“We have problems internally with the structure of the Coalition and decisions being taken undemocratically,” she said.

Another recently resigned member, Walid alBunni, accused the Gulf state of Qatar, which heavily finances the opposition, of using pressure to install its candidate for prime minister. Others have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of exercising outsized influence.

Late Sunday, the Coalition distributed a statement saying it had rejected the resignation and asked alKhatib to keep doing his job.

Secretar y of State John Kerry said he regretted alKhatib’s resignation, but said it won’t affect U.S. aid to the Coalition.

Speaking to repor ters during an unannounced trip to Baghdad, Kerry also said he had confronted Iraq, Syria’s eastern neighbor, about allowing Iran access to its airspace for flights the U.S. believes are ferrying in weapons and fighters to the Assad regime.

In a small victor y for the opposition, senior Arab diplomats said they would transfer Syria’s seat at the Arab League to the Coalition. The Syrian government’s membership was suspended earlier in the crisis. The Coalition said it would send a delegation to a league summit that begins Tuesday in Qatar.

The Syrian gover nment, which contends the civil war is an international conspiracy being carried out by terrorists to weaken Syria, did not comment on the Coalition developments.

Instead, it hosted a “National Dialogue Forum” in Damascus that included none of the forces seeking Assad’s ouster.

Study u from Page 1

Elliott linked to two of these forms, both from the files for 26-year-old participant Dan Markingson, who committed suicide in 2004 while enrolled in the study.

In 2005, Markingson’s mother, Mar y Weiss, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the University. Weiss said she never wanted her son in the study.

In the years since his death, Weiss, Elliott and others have raised questions about whether study coordinators coerced Markingson into enrolling in the study.

In his Feb. 1 post, Elliott questioned why two slightly different copies of the same form would appear in Markingson’s file.

Following Elliott’s post, several family members of other study participants responded, saying their relatives’ charts contained identical forms, according to Elliott’s Feb. 20 request for an investigation.

The University’s response said Elliott does not possess “any official clinical or research ‘file’ regarding Markingson,” but that there were a number of “legal proceedings and independent reviews.”

“The implication that there is a single Markingson file that contains divergent ‘evaluation to sign consent’ forms is false,” the release said.

One family allowed Elliott to post their form under the condition of anonymity, according to a Feb. 13 blog post. The form appears nearly identical to the form from Markingson’s file — the answers to evaluation questions and signatures from the study coordinator and witness appear identical.

According to the release, University investigators found that the file of every CAFE study par ticipant “who actively participated in the study” contains a different evaluation to sign consent form.

“There is absolutely no evidence that any of the forms used predetermined photocopied answers,” the release said.

In response to the University’s release, Elliott said in an email that he was “stunned” that the Office of the General Counsel shared the University’s response with the press. Elliott said he believes the correspondence should be confidential under a University policy for reporting research misconduct.

According to the Handling Reports of Research Misconduct policy, a review should “be handled with confidentiality.”

“The purpose of the confidentiality policy is to ensure that whistleblowers are protected from retaliation and intimidation,” Elliott said.

Elliott posted his request for an investigation — as well as Associate Vice President for Research Frances Lawrenz’s email response declining to investigate — publicly March 1 on his blog.

Further action Earlier this month, Elliott requested copies of consent for ms through Minnesota’s public records law.

According to his blog, he requested the evaluation to sign consent forms from the CAFE study as well as the CATIE study, a larger drug trial that was funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and tested the same drugs used in the CAFE study, among others.

Elliott said on his blog that his request hasn’t received a response from the University. “… [W]ouldn’t this controversy be easily put to rest if the University just made the redacted forms public,” he said, “so that families could compare what the University says it has against what they say they have found in their own records?”

In the meantime, Weiss and friend Mike Howard have created a petition asking Gov. Mark Dayton to appoint an independent panel to investigate possible research misconduct at the University.

To date, more than 1,100 people have signed, including University alumni and academics around the world.