April 3, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

Internship program aims to bring more diverse workforce to city The program places students of diverse racial backgrounds in city departments. u See PAGE 3

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Students told the officials stories about paying for college.

Junior Nate Schmidt signed a two-year deal with the Washington Capitals.

Dayton, Franken discuss college costs u See PAGE 4

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MINNEAPOLIS

HOUSING

Seeing hoarding as a mental health disorder U grad students created a program that addresses unspoken issues.

BY KELSEY SHIRRIFF kshirriff@mndaily.com

For more than 20 years, Kris never invited anyone inside her apartment.

Most of her friends and family lived outside of Minneapolis, so it didn’t seem odd that she never had them visit. Something seemed amiss, but they had no idea that she was actually a hoarder.

Stacks of newspapers, clothes, books and decorations piled up in Kris’ home

Schmidt leaves Gophers for NHL; others may follow soon

over the decades.

“They had no idea how bad it was,” said Kris, whose last name is withheld because her hoarding is still a secret to some of her family.

Hoarding is a mental illness that affects at least between 6 million and 15 million people nationwide, according to Janet Yeats, co-founder of the Hoarding Project.

But chronic disorganization doesn’t just affect the hoarders themselves. It also ripples through families, neighbors and communities surrounding the hoarders, Yeats said.

u See PAGE 8

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ADMINISTRATION

U libraries are model for admin structure analysis U Libraries didn’t actually reduce its budget in the restructure.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

While University of Minnesota President Eric

Kaler pointed to the recent restructuring of the University Libraries as an example of how administrative costs can be minimized, the reorganization resulted in no budgetar y reduction.

Amid criticism for administrative bloat, state legislators called for a re-

view of the University’s administrative structure in January.

“Right now we are in the midst of analyzing our organizational structure to learn if and how we can be more efficient,” Kaler said in his Feb. 28 State of the University address. “The Libraries have already completed a

THE TRANSITION

similar analysis with tremendous impact.”

A preliminary report of four administrative units b y S i b s o n Co n s u l ti n g found the University had few areas to improve. u See LIBRARIES Page 4 The analysis wasn’t spurred by concerns about spans and layers.

what comes next for student-athletes

u See HOARDING Page 5 Yeats and Sampson studied patterns between hoarding and loss.

NEIGHBORHOODS

Prospect Park gardens prepare to blossom The community gardens provide space to grow vegetables and other plants.

BY MERITTE DAHL mdahl@mndaily.com

In Shanda Demorest’s sunroom sit rows of tomato, thyme, cucumber and romaine seedlings.

Demorest has lived in Prospect Park for three years, but until recently didn’t have space to garden in Minneapolis.

RELATED CONTENT U students can apply for a plot of land on campus to do research or plant a garden. u See Page 12

“It is hard to have plants as a student,” said Demorest, a University of Minnesota nursing senior.

Soon Demor est will move her plants to a new community garden in Prospect Park.

The Prospect Park Community Gardens provide gardeners with land to grow vegetables and other plants.

Sam Johnson helped create the program for apartment dwellers and other residents of Prospect Park, where it’s often too shady for vegetables to grow.

“It’s a great opportunity for community building,” the five-year resident of Prospect Park said.

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY

University alumnus Nate Augspurger warms up with former teammates on the University’s club team March 21 at the Sports Dome. Augspurger hopes to make the U.S. Rugby World Cup team this summer.

Nate Augspurger hopes to represent the U.S. in rugby at the 2016 Olympics.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

plate and six screws to heal.

Augspurger injured himself while

Rugby is one of the most violent

playing for a U.S. developmental

sports in the world, but Nate Augs-

team after an opponent tackled him

purger didn’t pick up his first major

and landed on Augspurger’s ankle.

injury until February.

u See GARDEN Page 4 The PPCG has 25 gardeners — and a waiting list.

“Not an ideal rugby tackle, let’s put

The former University of Minne-

it that way,” Augspurger said. “It wasn’t

sota club player got into the sport at

cheap or anything like that. Just ...

age 12. Now as a 23-year-old on the

that’s how tackles happen sometimes.”

U.S. Men’s Sevens team, Augspurger

The bone took six weeks to heal,

is recovering from a broken fibula

and now Augspurger is facing eight

and ligament damage that required a

to 10 weeks of recovery.

u See AUGSPURGER Page 7

ADMINISTRATION

Kaler talks Tubby, alcohol, Legislature

U celebrates Siebert Field before first games

He said buyouts, like $2.5M for Tubby, are ‘unfortunately part of the business.’

The Gophers will play Ohio State at the new field this weekend.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Nursing and horticulture senior Shanda Demorest waters plants for the Prospect Park community garden Tuesday at her home in Prospect Park. “These plants need a little extra boost before we start planting in early to mid-May, hopefully,” she said.

BASEBALL

The Minnesota Daily sat down with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler Tuesday for its monthly Kickin’ It With Kaler interview.

This month, Kaler also fielded questions from students and Daily sports reporters.

Kaler discussed Tubby Smith’s firing — a nearly $3 million buyout — in-state tuition for undocumented students and his final bud-

KICKIN’ IT WITH KALER getary expectations.

The University fired Tubby Smith last Monday. What was your initial reaction?

First, to thank him for what he’s done for the program. He’s certainly made impor tant contributions, but I also think that the program was a little bit stuck and not as competitive in the Big Ten as our fan base would like to see. I wish him luck in what comes next for him. u See KALER Page 5 Kaler answered student questions about the community around the U.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

John Anderson fought back tears as he stood before Gophers players, alumni, faculty and donors at the new Siebert Field on Tuesday.

These people helped make Anderson’s dream — a baseball stadium on the University of Minnesota campus — a reality.

“This is my 37th year connected with the Golden Gopher baseball family,” Anderson said, “and this may be the proudest

day in my 37-year history.”

Anderson, the head Gophers baseball coach since 1981, had been campaigning for a new Sieber t Field for more than a decade.

Anderson, with as sistance fr om University President Eric Kaler, Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Paul Molitor and several others, of ficially unveiled the new facility to the public Tuesday.

Siebert Field will host its first games this weekend when the Gophers play Ohio State in a threegame series. u See SIEBERT Page 8 The field cost about $7.5M, with $2M from the Pohlads.

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Israeli planes strike Gaza after rocket fire

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JERUSALEM — Israeli warplanes str uck targets early Wednesday in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire toward southern Israel, the first air strikes launched by Israel since an informal cease-fire ended eight days of cross-border fighting between Israel and Hamas-ruled Gaza.

An Israeli military statement issued Wednesday said its planes targeted “two extensive terror sites” with “accurate hits.” Palestinian of ficials said no one was hurt in the air strikes and no damage was reported in northern Gaza.

The air raids followed the third successful rocket attack on Israel since the November cease-fire. The military reported that Gaza militants on Tuesday fired at least one rocket toward souther n Israel. No one was hur t and no damage

was caused. The attack was the first since rockets were fired during President Barack Obama’s visit to Israel two weeks ago.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the rocket fire. The Israeli militar y says it holds Gaza’s Islamic Hamas rulers responsible for any attack against the Jewish state.

Rocket fire has been rare since an informal cease-fire was reached last November. During eight days of violence in November, the Israeli militar y said 1,500 rockets were fired at Israel, including the first from Gaza to strike the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem areas. The rocket attacks killed six Israelis and wounded dozens.

Israeli airstrikes killed 169 Palestinians, many of them militants, and caused considerable damage.

Earlier T uesday, Palestinian prisoners rioted following news of a fellow

inmate’s death of cancer, and Israeli prison guards fired tear gas to quell the disturbances, an Israeli official said.

Palestinian officials said Israel was responsible for the death of Maysara Abu Hamdiyeh, charging medical negligence. The 64-yearold was ser ving a life sentence for his role in a foiled attempt to bomb a busy cafe in Jerusalem in 2002.

As news of Abu Hamdiyeh’s death spread, Palestinian prisoners in several jails began banging on their cell doors and hurling objects. Later, protests spread to Jerusalem and parts of the West Bank.

Prisons Authority spokeswoman Sivan Weizman said three prisoners and six guards were evacuated for medical treatment after inhaling tear gas.

She said Abu Hamdiyeh was treated well by Israeli specialists and died in a hos-

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Weizman said the prison ser vice asked the parole board for the prisoner’s early release after his cancer was diagnosed as terminal last week, but the appeal was still being processed at the time of his death.

Palestinian prisoner affairs minister Issa Karakeh blamed Israel. “This is a serious, ugly crime committed against the prisoner Maysara due to medical negligence and reluctance to release him,” Karakeh said.

In Ramallah, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said he was working to free Palestinians from Israeli prisons.

“We wer e surprised with the death of our brother prisoner,” Abbas said.

“We attempted to have him released and take him for treatment, but the Israeli government refused to release him, which led to his death.”

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UK minister asked to make good on welfare pledge

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LONDON — A British government minister is being asked to put his money where his mouth is.

Opponents of a raft of welfare changes that took effect this week want Work and Pensions Secretar y Iain Duncan Smith to make good on a claim that he could live on $80 a week — the amount one welfare recipient said he has left after paying for housing and heat.

Asked on national radio Monday whether he could get by on so little, Duncan Smith replied: “If I had to, I would.”

By late Tuesday, some 300,000 people had signed a petition urging him to prove it.

That would mean living on $11.43 a day in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world. It would also reflect a huge comedown — a 97 percent cut in his government minister’s salary.

Duncan Smith defended himself, telling a local newspaper that he’d been unemployed twice and knew what it was like “to live on the breadline.”

“This is a complete stunt which distracts attention from the welfare reforms, which are much more important and which I have been working hard to get done,” he was quoted as saying by the Wanstead and Woodford Guardian.

The Conser vative-led government’s welfare reforms include changes in disability payments, below-inflation increases to benefits and, eventually, the replacement of a patchwork of housing, unemployment and parental benefits with one payment called the Universal Credit.

UN adopts treaty to regulate arms trade

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly approved the first international treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade Tuesday, after a more than decade-long campaign to keep weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists, warlords, organized crime figures and human rights violators.

Loud cheers erupted in the assembly chamber as the electronic board flashed the final vote: 154 in favor, 3 against and 23 abstentions.

“This is a victor y for the world’s people,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. “The Arms Trade Treaty will make it more difficult for deadly weapons to be diverted into the illicit market. ... It will be a powerful new tool in our efforts to prevent grave human rights abuses or violations of international humanitarian law.” The United States, the world’s biggest arms exporter, voted yes.

Iran, North Korea and Syria — all facing arms embargoes — cast the only no votes. They argued, among other things, that the agreement favors major arms suppliers like the U.S. over importers that need weapons for self-defense.

Russia and China, which are also major arms exporters, abstained along with India and Indonesia, while nucleararmed Pakistan voted in favor. Many Arab countries, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Qatar, abstained, while Lebanon voted yes.

Never before has there been a treaty regulating the global arms trade, which is estimated to be worth $60 billion today and which Amnesty International predicts will exceed $100 billion in the next four years.

“Today’s victory shows that ordinary people who care about protecting human rights can fight back,” said Frank Jannuzi, deputy executive director of Amnesty International USA.

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Defining the St. Paul student A survey would identify needs of students on the St. Paul campus.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

To m a k e l o n g - t e r m plans for the smaller, quieter and more agricultural par t of the T win Cities campus, the University of Minnesota’s Of fice of Institutional Research may create a sur vey to collect St. Paul student opinions.

Students on the St. Paul campus have not been studied in the past because of the dif ficult task

of determining what a St. Paul student is, OIR director Ron Huesman said.

Whether a student lives on the campus, is enrolled in a St. Paul-based academic program or spends a lot of time there would be taken into account before collecting any data, Huesman said.

Studying St. Paul students’ satisfaction with academic programs, faculty and facilities would help the University develop campus improvement projects for its long-term capital plan, said Peter Radclif fe, executive director for the University’s Office of Planning and Analysis.

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City to collaborate with local artists Artistic teams will work to preserve Dinkytown’s character.

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

As a middle school student in the late ’70s, Roger Cummings’ field trips took him to Dinkytown.

He rode the bus with Marshall University High School students and frequented its record shops and pizza places.

He also spent time in Dinkytown as a University of Minnesota student.

Now, 30 years later, Cummings is one of a handful of local artists teaming up with Minneapolis city planners as part of the Creative CityMaking initiative to apply a creative approach to city planning — and engage students in the process.

The artist-planner teams, which include actors and graphic and urban designers, will collaborate on five different planning projects throughout the city in 2014.

Among those projects is Dinkytown’s upcoming small area plan, which in part aims to preserve the town’s character and guide future developers of the area.

The small area plan, which would need Minneapolis City Council approval before becoming city policy, would define Dinkytown’s stance on issues like land use, transportation and parking.

Developing a small area plan involves lengthy discourse between residents, business owners and the city, city planner Haila Maze said.

Not all important stakeholders take par t in that conversation, said Gülgün Kayim, director of arts, culture and creative economy for Minneapolis.

“In the past, planning has utilized straightforward meetings as the way to gather information,” she said. “Because of this previous formula of meetings, what has ended up happening in the past is that some people just don’t show up.”

Because students are living in the area transitorily, Cummings said there’s little incentive for them to get involved with the neighborhood.

“To take time out to create or give input on a plan that you might not be here in its implementation in the next three, five to 10 years doesn’t seem tangible,” he said. “We have to make that angle relevant.”

Doug Carlson, president of the Marcy-Holmes Neighborhood Association, said he’s had trouble getting students involved, although MHNA offers a board seat for students.

“A lot of times our board seats are empty for sometimes a year at a time because we can’t find anyone to come to meetings,” he said. “So even though we’ve tried valiantly, we haven’t had much success.”

Now a team of artists and planners is looking to find creative ways to engage students in those discussions through Creative CityMaking.

“This is the attempt to get as many different voices in the planning process as possible so that it’s not all the usual suspects saying all the usual things,” Kayim said.

Artist Samuel Ero-Phillips, who will be working on the small area plan, said those ideas include partnering with students from student organizations and surveying the University’s College of Design.

He’s also working on plans to create mobile art that would travel around campus and raise awareness about the small area plan discussions.

Kayim said using social media, photography and mobile units to interview residents are other methods being devised by artists.

Modern art’s practicality

After receiving a $325,000 grant from ArtPlace America, Intermedia Arts approached Kayim, and together they established Creative CityMaking, she said.

Four teams of artists were chosen from 60 applicants to work with planners.

Maze said collaborating with the local artists proved to be a natural fit.

“A lot of artists … [are] looking for ways to engage folks and to tell important stories and to address important issues, and we do that too, in a very different way,” she said.

“Even though there’s different media, there’s some common interest.”

For Cummings, it’s just an example of modern art’s practicality.

“When you think of art, you think about a painting on a wall at the Walker somewhere,” he said. “[This] is the potential to transform society, neighborhoods, youth and environment.”

This will mark the pilot year of a program Kayim said she hopes to see expand to other city departments in coming years.

“We have our goals and our ideas of what will happen,” she said, “but this kind of thing hasn’t really ever happened before.”

Committee on Educational Policy will determine in the coming months whether a new sur vey should be created.

Since creating a survey is expensive and timeconsuming, Huesman said OIR staf f may look into ways to use information from the Student Experience in the Research University project, a sur vey the University gives to undergraduates to measure student per formance and opinions.

“We’ve kind of put all our eggs in one basket, so to speak, because that’s the one sur vey that we concentrate on doing,” Huesman said.

Using SERU responses to lear n about St. Paul campus students would require determining who spends the most time there, Radcliffe said.

“T r ying to isolate a tr ue St. Paul student … isn’t always a possibility,” Radclif fe said, “but we are looking at … where students are spending the bulk of their time and seeing what insights we can glean from that.”

The sur vey may also be used to compare students’ sense of community on the St. Paul campus with that of Minneapolis, Huesman said.

Interior design freshman Samantha Klapper-

ick, who lives on the West Bank but takes all of her classes in St. Paul, said students on the St. Paul campus don’t feel the same sense of community as students on the bigger and busier Minneapolis campus.

“I think they feel like it’s a whole other place over here, Klapperick said.

“They’re kind of left out of ever ything.”

Bailey Hall freshman Emily Engeriser said the quieter atmosphere on the St. Paul campus creates a stronger community, not a detached one.

“Even if I’m not connected with ever y single person,” she said, “I still

know their face.”

Graphic design professor Steve McCar thy, who works on the St. Paul campus, said he’s surprised a sur vey targeting students on that campus wasn’t conducted 50 years ago.

“Sur veying the user is the most critical piece of information you can have,” he said.

Though it would be useful to study students who spend most of their time in St. Paul, he said no student belongs exclusively to that campus.

“I don’t think there is a St. Paul student,” McCarthy said. “I think there’s a University of Minnesota student.”

Internship program aims to bring more diverse workforce to city The program places students of diverse racial backgrounds in city departments.

BY MARJORIE OTTO motto@mndaily.com

Sixteen Minneapolis college students will intern with the city this summer as it works to close one of the biggest racial unemployment gaps in the nation.

The Urban Scholars program, which began last year, takes 14 undergraduate and two graduate students from diverse racial backgrounds and places them in one of 16 city departments.

Karen Francois, director of employment equity for the City of Minneapolis, said the paid internship program star ted in light of a 2011 study that found Minneapolis had one of the biggest racial unemployment disparities in the country.

While the overall unemployment for the city is 5 percent, the rate is 18 percent for African-American residents and 25 percent for American Indians, according to the city.

After the repor t, Francois said the city created One Minneapolis Equity in Employment, an initiative aimed at reducing the racial disparity in the city, which included the Urban Scholars program.

This summer, the city will offer twice as many positions to students looking to intern with the city.

Past students said the program gave them a taste of working in the public sector.

“It allowed me to grow … from a student to a professional,” said Ahmed Abdulle, an urban studies sophomore at the University of Minnesota who

interned with the city last summer.

“I lear ned a lot about how the city actually works from the inside,” he said.

Apart from the city’s unemployment gap, Francois said the internship could also bring more young people and people of color into city government.

Francois said people of color make up about a quar ter of the city workforce, but according to the 2010 U.S. Census, they make up about 36 percent of the city’s population.

In 2016, about a fifth of city workers will be able to retire, Francois said.

“We call that the ‘Silver Tsunami.’ ” She said because of that, the city wants to bring

a younger workforce into Minneapolis government.

Urban Scholars students work in one of 16 departments within the city’s government, ranging from the fire department to the civil rights depar tment.

Occasionally students also get to work closely with the mayor.

“It opened some doors for me,” Abdulle said. “I am now a little bit interested in

obtaining maybe a degree in urban studies.”

By the end of the inter nship, Francois said students develop a strong network with city officials, which can lead to future employment opportunities.

“I felt par t of the city, not just a citizen, not just a resident, but part of it,” Abdulle said.

Applications for the internship are due April 8.

“I felt part of the city, not just a citizen, not just a resident, but part of it.”

AHMED ABDULLE University urban studies sophomore

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

U libraries are model for admin Dayton, structure analysis Franken discuss college costs Libraries u from Page 1

BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com

State and federal leaders discussed the struggle students face to pay for college Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., Gov. Mark Dayton and other state higher education of ficials hosted a roundtable discussion at Saint Paul College about reducing student debt and increasing loan accessibility.

“We put an impossible burden on young people,” Dayton said.

Nearly a dozen college students, including University of Minnesota Student Association President Taylor Williams, shared their stories about how they’re paying for their degrees.

“This helps me a lot when I go back to D.C. and I’m on the education committee in the Senate,” Franken said.

Impressed by the panel of students working hard to minimize their debt, the of ficials noted the challenge of working full time and tr ying to go to school simultaneously.

“You never have time to just enjoy college and actually savor the experience,” Dayton said. “I don’t know how you find time do anything other than work and study, work and study.”

Williams said, like many students, he works up to 40 hours a week to manage his loans while working toward an entrepreneurial degree at the Carlson School of Management.

“If I didn’t have to work so much, what could I have focused my time on academically?” Williams said.

“What other majors could I have pursued?

Where would my grades be

right now?”

The average University student who graduated in 2011 was nearly $30,000 in debt.

Franken said state and federal of ficials need to partner in discussions like Tuesday’s to work toward lowering the cost of college and helping students who are overcome with debt.

The combination of institutional support and direct financial aid is the best way to make sure students are “not cr ushed by this debt,” said Larr y Pogemiller, director of the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.

He said University Pr esident Eric Kaler’s 2014-15 budget request for the state Legislature that would freeze tuition for in-state students and fund research at the University would also provide loan forgiveness for students.

“We’ll tr y to see that through,” Dayton said.

The gover nor announced in Januar y his budget proposal includes boosting the state’s spending on higher education by $240 million — $80 million of which would be set aside for the University’s tuition freeze.

Pogemiller said “the whole program is underfunded dramatically,” and Dayton’s proposal is the first step toward fixing the gap so people who want to pursue an education at the University and other schools “have a fair shot.”

Franken said the students’ stories about working to earn scholarships, receiving funding and having jobs while going to school gives him optimism about the country’s future.

Captivated by the super-achievers’ stories of facing adversity to secure their finances, the governor asked the panel of students: “What do you do in your free time?”

Williams answered blankly: “Work.”

she said. The reorganization dealt with the cuts and with positions that were open due to retirement incentive programs.

The restructure resulted in several reductions in spans of control, or the number of employees that report to super visors.

For example, the number of super visors with fewer than five individuals repor ting to them decreased by 43 percent as a result of the analysis, according to Libraries data.

Also, the number of

super visors with five or more employees increased by 16 percent, from 25 super visors to 29.

Although Kaler used the Libraries’ reorganization as an example of how administration can be streamlined, the organization’s analysis wasn’t motivated by concer ns about spans and layers, Lougee said. Rather, the review aimed to increase efficiency and address the fact that libraries are shifting toward holding more digital items.

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Students told the officials stories about paying for college.

Although the Libraries reduced the number of super visor y positions by 22 percent through the restr ucturing process — which occurred largely in fiscal years 2011 and 2012 — its budget will remain the same. No positions were added or removed, and no employees took pay cuts or raises.

Rather than lowering budgetar y costs, the goal of spans-and-layers reorganizations is to “ensure that we have put our resources — as much of our resources as we can — to-

ward our mission-specific work,” said Kathy Brown, vice president for human resources.

If the Libraries received any money through the restructure, like if a previously open position wasn’t filled, that money was reallocated, said Wendy Lougee, University librarian. “[The reorganization] wasn’t done at all for budgetar y reasons,” she said.

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Prospect Park gardens prepare to blossom Garden u from Page 1

Residents can reser ve a 200- or 400-square-foot lot for $20 to $30 per year.

The PPCG has 25 gardeners and a waiting list, Johnson said.

The group is diverse, ranging from parents and their children to people in their eighties and college students, said Vera Marshall, longtime resident and member of the Prospect Park Gardening Club.

“Some have gardened forever, and some are new to gardening,” she said.

Demorest, a hor ticulture minor, said she got her green thumb from her grandparents.

“I love being in nature and playing with my food,” she said.

Demor est will move her seedlings into her 20-feet-by-20-feet garden plot later this spring. She said she’ll maximize her space with keyhole gardens and a path r unning through her plot.

A keyhole garden is a circular garden, where the gardener can stand in the center and reach all of the plants. Keyhole gardens are popular in urban gardening, where space is

limited, Demorest said.

“For students, it’s really neat to have community gardens close by,” said Prospect Park Garden Club member Kent Petterson.

Petterson has lived in the neighborhood since the 1970s, when he was an economics student at the University of Minnesota.

Petterson now owns Terrace Hor ticultural Books in St. Paul.

P et t ers on , w h o g a rdens in his own yard, said his plot will house a brick oven, where he can bake bread and pizza and will also ser ve as a gathering spot.

PPCG co-coordinator Del Hampton taught a vegetable growing class for the gardeners in March.

Hampton is a University of Minnesota Extension Master Gardener and member of the Prospect Park Garden Club.

Master Gardeners are required to complete 48 hours of horticulture training from the University and 50 hours of internship volunteer time.

Hampton gave the gardeners tips and ideas for their plots and helped them plant some seeds.

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“For students, it’s really neat to have community gardens close by.”

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The community garden is divided into two triangular sites of f of Ar thur and Yale avenues. They

are both near sound walls adjacent to Interstate 94 and were formerly “wasted space,” Demorest said.

Johnson, who helped urban youth garden with AmeriCorps from 2008-10, said he hopes to expand the program to include activities and events with elementar y schools and hospitals.

A lot of children never get the chance to see where their vegetables come from, Johnson said.

“It feels good being able to grow your own food,” he said.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

The Prospect Park community garden begins early planting by growing cucumber, chili peppers, romaine lettuce and calendula flowers at University student Shanda Demorest’s home.

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

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Kaler talks Tubby, alcohol, Legislature Kaler u from Page 1

Who was involved in the decision to fire Tubby Smith?

The athletic director makes the decisions on coaches, but [athletics director Nor wood Teague] cer tainly consulted with me before making the final decision.

How does the University justify paying more than $3 million to fire a coach?

Well, the buyouts in big-time college athletics are unfor tunately par t of the business. I think it’s a challenge for institutions to pay these, but unfortunately they’re a fact of life.

The University’s athletics depar tment recently shared nine contract extensions it gave to coaches privately last summer. What was your role in these extensions?

I had approved all of those extensions.

Again, they were recommended by the athletic depar tment, and I OK’d them.

And again, the repor t was that these were done privately, and what happened was that the transition of leadership in the athletics depar tment fell between the cracks and weren’t publicized as they normally are done, but there was no intention to hide them. It’s kind of silly to think that you could hide a coach extension contract because a coach shows up to coach. People will notice.

What are your thoughts that the athletics depar tment must pay him more than $3 million when the department already has to borrow from the University general fund to balance its budget?

The University’s athletic budget is about $80 million. It receives about $25 million a year from the Big Ten. … It receives substantial revenue from ticket sales and other medium. So the athletics budget is able to suppor t expenditures for athletics. If there’s a cash flow issue,

they can bor row money from central funds, but it’s a loan that is paid back.

Last week, Rep. Gene Pelowski, [DFL-Winona], said that Tubby’s buyout could hurt the U’s chances of receiving state funds for athletics facilities in the future. What do you think about this?

The amount of state money and tuition money that flows to athletics is $1.6 million. It’s decreased from $6.8 million in fiscal year 2003, so the amount of money that flows to athletics from the central budget has decreased dramatically in the last 10 years.

It’s dedicated to help support athletics facilities, and again, the great bulk of athletics revenue comes from sources that aren’t state or tuition.

It was recently repor ted that the University lost $16,000 in alcohol sales in its first season at TCF Bank Stadium. Did this surprise you?

I thought we were on target to break even. We wound up a little bit negative.

There were lots of startup costs associated with the alcohol sales; obviously those costs will not reoccur next year. Again, when you start doing something like that, the startup costs can limit your ability to make money in the first period, but you’ll do better in later years.

Do those numbers change how the University approaches alcohol sales at Mariucci and Williams?

We’ve asked the Legislature to let us complete our two-year experiment at TCF, which was our original agreement with them. Then we’ll evaluate how that works — both the pros and cons in terms of fan experience, and then we’ll evaluate what we might do in Mariucci and Williams.

Gov. Mark Dayton and two legislators have proposals to allow undocumented students to pay in-state tuition and receive grants and scholarships. As you know, the Legislature can’t force the University to act, but the bills suggest the University adopt a policy. What do you think about it?

I’m in favor of that policy, and if that law is passed, I will recommend to the regents that we do that. But as you noted, it is a regents decision.

What challenges could the University possibly face in adopting this policy?

I don’t think we’d have any challenges.

Should we decide to do it, we could implement it.

Rep. R yan Winkler, [DFL-Golden Valley], has suggested the state should be allowed to make funds to the University contingent on cer tain conditions. What are your thoughts on the Legislature wanting more say in how the University operates?

An impor tant foundation of the University is that we are constitutionally autonomous. We have existed longer than the state of Minnesota has existed. So that limits what the state can require us to do. Having said that, I’m cer tain that the legislators and I have the same goals in holding the University accountable and having the University run efficiently and be as effective as it can be at what it does.

This week and next, the House Higher Education committee will discuss and decide how much money to appropriate to the University. After months of lobbying, what are your final expectations?

I think we’re in pretty good shape. In both the House and the Senate we’ve had good hearings, and we’ve been as open and transparent as we can be. We’ve given them a ton of information about the value of the University, and I’m optimistic that we’ll come out in good shape.

How is the University prepared to respond if it doesn’t receive the full amount requested?

Unfor tunately, the public disinvestment in higher ed has caused costs to increase for students and families, and we’ve been pretty clear with the policy makers about that connection. But I still remain hopeful that the state will support us.

From the students: The University’s presence influences so much development in the surrounding area. How are you involved in ensuring there is good development for the campus community and surrounding neighborhoods?

We start with having high standards for our own development. We’re careful about where we build things and how we build them. We’re active in community engagement — we have two people in community relations whose job is to represent the University in all the communities that we neighbor. We’re key partners in the University District Alliance, which is developing a vision for the University district.

We’re one player, but the students who live nearby are citizens of those neighborhoods, and I hope they are engaged as well.

After 15 years without a grocery store in the University District, would you consider supporting a student co-op that a coalition of student groups is currently tr ying to put together?

I certainly would support the creation of a grocery store in the U district. I think that would make the quality of life better. But I’d look carefully at the business plans. Grocery stores are tough businesses economically, and you want to be sure that even as a co-op or a nonprofit that you have a robust business plan; making sure you have the population density and the customer base to meet your business needs is important.

Anything else to add?

I started my office hours for students last week, which was great. I had several groups come by to see me, and I’ll take this chance to advertise … if you’d like to talk to me, you can find my office hours schedule on my website.

Seeing hoarding as a mental health disorder Hoarding u from Page 1

New insight into the roots of hoarding

Yeats created the project with fellow University of Minnesota family and social science graduate student Jennifer Sampson in 2009.

Sampson noticed patter ns of unr esolved trauma and loss while researching hoarders and their families. She reached out to Yeats to explore the subject.

“We said … ‘Let’s do something about this,’” Yeats said.

Yeats and Sampson lear ned that often the hoarders they worked with had been traumatized by loss through death, divorce, the end of a relationship or another stressful life event.

“Instead of pr ocessing it and doing the grief work, they kick into avoidance,” she said. “And hoarding can be a nice way to avoid.”

Kris’ hoarding stems back more than 35 years.

She had a happy childhood and suppor tive family, but at age 20, she fell into a serious depression.

Once an avid student, Kris dropped out of the chemical engineering program at the University of Minnesota.

“School had always come easily to me,” she said. “So it was like my brain, which I most trusted, [had] failed.”

The hoar ding developed as a sort of “cocoon” around her depression to shield her from others, Kris said.

Renae Reinardy, a psychologist who specializes in hoarding, said obses-

sive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit disorder and family influence can also cause hoarding.

“If you grew up in a household with hoarding, you get that genetic predisposition, but also you get that modeling,” Reinardy said.

Hoarding has traditionally been associated only with OCD, but it doesn’t completely fit there, Reinardy said.

In May, the definition is set to be changed from ‘compulsive hoarding’ to ‘hoarding disorder’ in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which better reflects the illness, Reinardy said.

“It’s great for research, it will lead to new treatments [and] insurance reimbursement,” she said. “There’s lots of good things that come with that.”

Combating stereotypes

Yeats and Sampson also want the Hoarding Project to better inform the public.

“There is a stereotype about people who hoard that they are lazy, dir ty, uneducated, ‘this close’ to being homeless,” Yeats said. “[But] men and women hoard, young and old hoard, people from all income levels hoard.”

Reinardy said she has seen hoarders ranging in age from 4 to 80 years old.

Many hoarders she has treated are highly educated and high functioning.

“I’ve worked with lawyers [and] with religious figures that have engaged in compulsive hoarding behavior,” she said.

It’s a common misconception that cleaning out a hoarder’s home is the answer, Yeats said.

Sometimes cities will

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A hoarded home during a 2012 visit by City of New Hope inspectors.

declare a residence unsafe to live in and evict the hoarder, complete an emergency cleanout or give them a deadline to clear it out themselves.

But forced cleanouts don’t get to the core of the issue, she said.

“If it’s a mental illness, then treatment must include mental health,” she said. “The forced cleanout … doesn’t get at why a person hoards.”

Hoarders who are forced to clean out their homes usually re-hoard within three to six months, Yeats said.

“They end up re-cluttering and they just get better at keeping it a secret or they get better at distancing people from their lives,” Reinardy said.

An empty home, an empty slate

For Kris, it took the threat of eviction to confront her hoarding.

After 20-plus years without any visitors except repair workers, Kris called a private cleaning company to come clear out her apartment.

She gave the cleaners a list of items to save and hid in the bathroom as they did their work. The process was draining, but “not hear t-rending,” Kris said.

“I just wanted to go back to the place and get a sleeping bag and camp out on the floor and not see anybody,” she said.

J o A n n Ve l d e , h o u s ing inspections ser vices manager with Minneapolis, said the city sends 20 to 25 clean-up war nings per year, but rarely has to force people out of their homes.

“It’s ver y resource-intensive,” Velde said. “If the hoarder’s actually there watching us, it’s ver y painful. They don’t want to let go of anything.”

Velde has retur ned to hoarders’ homes multiple times with warnings and said sometimes hoarders simply move and require another cleanout later.

Roger Axel, a New Hope building of ficial, described forced cleanouts as a “roll of the dice” as to whether hoarders will reclutter.

“Sometimes people just need this help to get back on their feet again,” he said. “We’re ver y limited in how much time we can delegate to this one thing.”

Shedding the cocoon Kris considers herself lucky. But it wasn’t without serious action that she could arrive at this point.

After being threatened with eviction, Kris decided to finally come clean about hoarding. She told family members and brought them to therapy sessions and doctor appointments.

“There’s a lot of shame tied up with it, moral fail-

ings,” she said. “So I mean it was hard for me to admit I was depressed, but it was even harder to do this.”

Kris still feels afraid she might hoard again, but it’s gotten easier, she said. She has visitors at least ever y other week and attends therapy sessions weekly.

“It’s really easy for me to sit back and say ‘Well you know I should be doing this and this,’ but that

just isn’t healthy or realistic,” she said. “So it’s kind of this balancing act.”

Yeats said the Hoarding Project plans to open a clinic in the coming years. She also hopes that through awareness of hoarding, more people will come for ward as hoarders and seek the treatment they need.

“The more we can get the word out,” she said, “the better it is.”

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EDITORIALS

DIET

Go green, eat green Students should strive to consume less meat.

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f ever yone in the U.S. ate no meat or cheese one day a week for a year, the ef fect on emissions would be the equivalent of taking 7.6 million cars off the road.

If that didn’t get your attention, I don’t know what will. The act of cutting back on meat and dair y consumption means more than losing a few pounds or the personal benefits of it. It can impact global warming and deforestation.

Last week I hunkered down and watched “Vegucated,” a documentar y encouraging the vegan diet.

Now, while I am a vegetarian and have been for the past two-and-a-half years, I was unaware of the implications meat production can have on the environment.

Following my viewing of “Vegucated,” my poor roommates had to endure my long-winded rants about meat production and the lack of emphasis that is placed on its impact. Have

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you ever learned about the livestock industr y’s ef fect on the environment? I sure hadn’t.

I became a vegetarian to be healthier, eliminating the temptation of fast food out of my diet. While I consider myself to be an animal lover, it was not animal rights that weighed heavily in my decision. In fact, it may have been because I was a new college freshman and wanted to be hip and progressive. Whatever my reasons were, I am tr uly grateful I made the lifestyle change.

While at times this choice has proven to be dif ficult, including family holidays or dinner out with friends, it’s documentaries like “Vegucated” that keep me on the

right track and solidify my decision to be a vegetarian.

One of the greatest problems with how we obtain our meat and seafood products is our complete disregard for the environment. For ever y pound of fish caught, several of those pounds of fish typically go to waste.

By the year 2048, all seafood and commercial fish species will be in collapse, meaning these species will see their numbers drop to 10 percent of their highest known population.

According to a U.N. repor t, the livestock industr y takes up more than 30 percent of the world’s usable land and contributes to a fifth of all greenhouse gases.

Each time I speak to someone about the direct impact we have on the environment, specifically due to meat consumption, they immediately jump to questions like, “Well, what can I do?” or “Even if I make a change, how will that help? I’m only one person.”

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DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 111,842- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,264 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

are only one person, but if enough people make the change, then it goes beyond just an individual.

If you don’t believe me, hop on to your computer and do a little research. The amount of research available is astounding in comparison to how often this issue is discussed.

As students, we have the opportunity to make a great change. There are about 50,000 of us on campus,— think of the benefits for the environment if we were all to give up meat for at least one day a week. Not to mention the money you will save; meat is expensive — vegetables are not.

So, forget about that Prius Hybrid you were saving up to buy after graduation.

Just cut back on meat, and your impact on the environment will be similar.

It star ts with the little things, and you can start today.

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

ABORTION

Developing personhood Power and personhood are central to the debate on abortion rights.

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Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Stop using the phrase “studentathletes”

The NCAA and most Division I universities do not care about their athletes.

The aftermath of the Duke and Louisville basketball game this past weekend in which Louisville player Kevin Ware gr uesomely broke his leg threw the NCAA’s uncaring attitude into stark relief.

A typical employee in a typical job is entitled to workers’ compensation to make up for missed wages when injured on the job.

But Ware and other “student-athletes” are not entitled to this (or any other compensation) because the NCAA took specific action decades ago designed to deny their athletes due compensation. Many players, potentially including Ware, wind up unable to pay hospital bills or remain uncompensated for future loss of wages caused by their injur y — because the NCAA refuses to treat them as employees.

As Robert and Amy McCormick explain in their 2006 paper “The Myth of the Student Athlete,” the NCAA made up the term “student-athlete” in response to a 1953 Colorado Supreme Cour t decision, University of Denver v.

Nemeth, that a University of Denver athlete qualified as an “employee” under the state’s workers’ compensation statute; therefore ,his widow was entitled to workers’ compensation and death benefits for his football injuries. Similar to

the McCormicks’ paper, Taylor Branch repor ts in his 2011 article published in The Atlantic, “The Shame of College Sports,” that the NCAA responded with a vigorous public relations campaign that mandated their players be called “student-athletes” and that this term be used repeatedly in legal defenses.

This strategy was hugely cynical and hugely successful. The McCormicks come to a damning conclusion: “The NCAA purposely created the term ‘student-athlete’ as propaganda, solely to obscure the reality of the university-athlete employment relationship and to avoid universities’ legal responsibilities as employers. In the ensuing fifty years, the NCAA, colleges and universities have profited immensely from the vigorous defense and preser vation of this myth.”

Given the specific histor y and meaning of the phrase “student-athlete,” it has no place in the Minnesota Daily’s pages outside of a direct quotation. Rather than being an objective descriptor, “student-athlete” has a specific legal meaning, a specific promotional purpose and makes a contested claim about a player’s status.

While the Daily’s spor ts section does a good job of covering each Gophers team as it would a professional team, usually using the term “player,” spor ts and the newsroom (in coverage about, for example,

athletes’ graduation rates) should commit to no longer using “student-athlete” as a neutral phrase.

In an ideal world, I could also make the same request of the University of Minnesota’s athletics depar tment and athletics director Nor wood Teague (w hose b as e sa lar y is $400,000, compared to the $0 salar y of those who produce the product that allows him to be paid). But of course I’d have to be crazy to think that an organization greedy enough to skim millions in profits from exploiting the unpaid labor of its players would ever voluntarily jeopardize such a beneficial arrangement.

The campaign for NCAA players to get justice from their employer has to begin with the destr uction of the NCAAcreated and self-ser ving myth that players do not deser ve the protections or compensation that we af ford to typical employees, a myth which has enriched the NCAA and athletics depar tments across the countr y — at the expense of players — for decades. This myth has been perpetuated by NCAA’s creation of the insidious phrase “student-athlete,” created for specific legal and promotional purposes, a phrase that those not actively pursuing those purposes should hencefor th eliminate from their vocabular y.

Eric Murphy University alumnus

everal states are in the process of enacting harsh restrictions on the reproductive rights of RONALD DIXON women. In columnist fact, Nor th Dakota recently passed a law that outlaws abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detectable, at about the sixth week.

I am adamantly against Republican attempts to circumvent the constitutionally mandated rights that women have to control their own reproductive health; however, I believe that pro-choice and feminist activists are losing the debate.

We can see this with the argument that women should have authority over their bodies and not be forced to bear a fetus. Although this is a perfectly legitimate claim, when it is challenged by the point that “abortion is murder,” the killing of an “innocent child” is always going to rhetorically trump the women’s rights argument.

As a society, we deem murder as the premeditated killing of innocent people. We must deconstruct the phrases “innocent” and “people” in order to disprove the conservative argument that abortion is murder.

“People” implies that the fetus is a person, but they lack an adequate amount of self-awareness, cognition, perception, self-consciousness and other fundamental factors that make someone a person. Unfortunately, though, “baby” and “fetus” are often used interchangeably, which perplexes the abortion debate.

“Innocent” implies that the fetus is not doing any harm. Although a fetus did not choose to be in its position, because it is hampering the living functions of the woman, preventing her engagement in several activities and sapping nutrients out of her, the fetus is, by definition, not innocent.

Thus, we return to the question of whether abortion is murder. Conservatives often use this argument, whereby labeling the fetus as a person. This false identification of the fetus is commonplace both on the left and the right.

Ultimately, the debate comes down to where power is going.

Whether it is the mother or the “child” — sometimes as a literal surrogate for the father — this new North Dakota law further questions what we label as a “person.”

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

Growing GAPSA involvement The graduate student governing body continues to struggle with involvement.

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he three candidates currently running for Graduate and Professional Student Assembly president would essentially decide who becomes elected themselves, by having two of the students running drop out before elections, the Minnesota Daily reported March 28.

Despite its honest and best intentions this year, GAPSA is still running into the tired issue of encouraging and maintaining valuable student involvement.

When the election for GAPSA president can be determined by the consensus of three people, when none of the candidates know for sure whether they will be able to fill the position, there is a clear need for a more wor thwhile incentive to be put in place for students to get involved.

It’s likely that students and their advisers do not view student roles within GAPSA as par ticularly significant or beneficial for their academic careers, especially when there is research to be conducted and papers to be written.

While a bigger financial stipend might draw a smattering of additional students, a larger structural change appears to be necessar y in order to encourage perennial involvement.

For example, a role within GAPSA could be thought of more as a “ser vice fellowship” for graduate students, and an administrative role could include benefits similar to those teaching assistants receive.

With advisers on board to encourage and recommend these types of positions, students might be more willing to make a greater effort to be involved with GAPSA and, thus, create practices and policies that will directly benefit themselves and their peers.

College athletes deserve better Kevin Ware’s injury sheds light onto the unjust practices in college sports.

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n Sunday, during a highly contested matchup against the perennial basketball powerhouse Duke University, Louisville’s Kevin Ware suffered what might have been one of the most gruesome injuries in college sports. Ware left the court on a stretcher before shaken players and fans.

Ware’s injury not only reminded fans and participants of college sports about the inherent dangers of competing at an elite level, but again revealed just how unprotected college athletes are as a result of the strong financial interests of college sports programs and the NCAA as a whole.

CBS News reported Monday that Ware’s injury could have resulted in his scholarship getting rescinded as well as being saddled with enormous medical bills. Of course, because of the high profile nature of Ware’s injury and the sport he plays, it’s unlikely this will happen. Doing so would draw a wave of criticism aimed at Louisville and its basketball program, which could deter future students.

However, the cold calculative nature of the University’s decision-making was on full display when a spokesperson, asked whether Louisville could guarantee Ware’s scholarship, said that he wasn’t sure the question was relevant because “doctors are expecting a full recovery,” CBS reported.

It makes little sense that an academic scholarship a college athlete receives would be tied to his or her performance on the court. Regardless of what might transpire during competition, an athlete’s scholarship should be guaranteed unless academic performance is deemed unsatisfactor y. Furthermore, college athletes should be guaranteed medical insurance that covers them even if their injuries last long after graduation.

Ware’s injury unfortunately has the potential to end his college basketball career. It shouldn’t also have to end his academic one.

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Sports Augspurger u from Page 1

But Augspurger said he is channeling Min nesota V ikings r unning back Adrian Peterson, who dominated the NFL a season after tearing his anterior cruciate ligament.

Augspurger is aiming for a six- to eight-week recover y in hopes of making the U.S. Rugby World Cup team at the end of June in Moscow. He also has his sights set on the 2016 Olympics.

While his goals may seem lofty, Augspurger’s former coaches and teammates said he’ll come back from this injur y stronger.

“He had the talent, but there’s a lot of kids who have the talent,” University men’s club rugby coach Loren Lemke said. “The thing that breaks Nate from ever yone else is his work ethic.

“I think for me as a coach, Nate’s probably a player I’ll be lucky enough to see once ever y 10 years.”

Drive to thrive Augspurger doesn’t look like a typical r ugby player at 5 feet 8 inches and 165 pounds. But his size has never held him back.

“It’s definitely inspirational,” former University teammate and current senior co-captain Peter Makredes said. “I worked out with Nate for over a year. … I’m 185 [pounds], and he can beat me in the weight room ever y day.”

Augspurger star ted his career playing on the wing, but his former youth coach and mentor Sam Robinson — who played professional r ugby in his native Samoa and in

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Australia — helped him transition to his cur rent playmaking position, the scrum-half.

“He was a little tiny kid on the wing,” Robinson said. “He just reminds me of myself because I played high-level r ugby back in Australia and stuf f, and I was the smallest guy on the field.

“And when I saw him I knew he was small, but I knew he was something special.”

U.S. national team coach Alex Magleby said most scr um-half players shy away from contact, but Augspurger excels at defense and tackling.

“He’ll tackle anyone,” Lemke said. “He’ll tackle the biggest guy on the field.”

Senior Dominic McQuer r y, a for mer University club teammate of Augspurger’s and current co-captain, played against Augspurger in high school before they joined forces in college.

“They ended up just destroying us, and he was a big reason for that,” McQuer r y said. “He’s the best player I’ve ever played with or seen play with my own eyes.”

Augspurger went to nationals twice with the University club team and was a Midwest Collegiate AllStar in 2010 and 2011 for rugby union, the more traditional form of the sport.

Each team in r ugby union fields 15 players during two 40-minute halves. But Augspurger is more interested in rugby sevens, a form in which each team fields seven players in two seven-minute halves.

Augspurger played men’s sevens for a Minneapolis club in the summers and earned honors such as Midwest Men’s All-Star in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and Collegiate All-American in 2012.

These awards put him on USA Rugby’s radar and ear ned him an invitation to tr y out for the national team last September.

Augspurger knew by his freshman year of college that he wanted to pursue rugby as a career, but he decided to finish his sociology degree last spring before making the professional jump.

“In addition to him being an extraordinar y athlete, his work ethic is just amazing,” Makredes said.

GOPHERS IN THE POLLS LAST WEEK’S RANKING

THIS WEEK’S RANKING

19 19

CHANGE

NO CHANGE

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

MEN’S TENNIS

47 37

+10

SOURCES: USTFCCCA.ORG, ITATENNIS.COM

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY

Augspurger is recovering from a broken fibula and ligament damage that required a plate and six screws to heal.

“He didn’t have to finish college in order to get to where he was, but he did it, and he did it with flying colors.”

Road to Rio Augspurger moved to San Diego, Calif., for a month in September to try out for the team with no guarantee he would make the roster.

But Augspurger impressed coaches enough to earn a contract through the USA Men’s Sevens Residency Program. He is one of the younger players on the 18-man roster, but Magleby said Augspurger’s talent isn’t going unnoticed.

“He’s a grinder type of a player,” Magleby said. “So [he] works ver y hard in training and in the match.”

Magleby said there are five scrum-half players on the national team competing for one starting position, making it the most competitive position. But Augspurger made the top 12 on the team for two tournaments before his injury.

Augspurger said his first tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates in late November didn’t make him a breakout star, but it provided the experience he needed to gain confidence and playing time.

“It definitely made me fall in love with it,” Augspurger said. “To go on an international trip and be on the international scene — I know I can compete at that level now.”

Even before he went to his second tournament in South Africa last December,

his dad, Andy Augspurger, realized his son had made it.

Andy Augspurger started playing rugby when Nate and his older brother were toddlers. He introduced his son to the sport that Nate is now making a career.

“When he was in Dubai … his mom and I were watching him on the computer streaming, and he’s starting, and we’re like, ‘Oh my God, there’s our little boy out there,’ ” Andy Augspurger said. “You know what? He looked like he belonged. And in my book, that’s all that mattered.”

While Nate Augspurger is just starting his national team career, his goal is to make the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. Rugby sevens will make its first appearance at the upcoming Summer Olympics after the International Olympic Committee adopted it in 2009.

Rugby isn’t as popular in the U.S. as in other countries, but Magleby said USA Rugby is preparing the national team for a quick rise to the top of the world rankings, with goals to be top 12 this year, top eight next year and top four in 2015.

“Our goal is to win the gold in 2016,” Magleby said, “and there’s no doubt we can do it.”

The team’s high hopes come with intense competition for spots on the Olympic roster. “[Nate] has competition, which is good,” Magleby said. “I think that’s how he would want it.”

But Augspurger said he doesn’t just want to make the

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Tubby time begins at Texas Tech The fired Gophers coach will try to revive another struggling program.

BY ASSOCIATED PRESS

LUBBOCK, Texas — Tubby Smith’s time at Texas Tech has begun. And he says he will fit in just fine in West Texas, where cowboy hats and cowboy boots are more prominent than other many other places he’s coached.

“I already have some,” Smith said of his cowboy boots. “I just didn’t bring them with me.”

Texas Tech is counting on Smith to bring the same

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touch he’s used to revive other programs. Texas Tech hasn’t had a winning conference record since 2006-07 and it finished 1943 overall the past two seasons, including a 4-32 mark in the Big 12.

The Red Raiders last went to the NCAA tournament in 2007, Bob Knight’s final full season in Lubbock.

It’s been mostly downhill since then.

Smith won a national title and five Southeastern Conference championships in 10 years with Kentucky before leaving for Minnesota in 2007. Smith, who was replaced at Kentucky

by Billy Gillispie, has also taken Tulsa and Georgia to

the round of 16.

Now he’ll tr y to do it again at Texas Tech, where he succeeds Gillispie.

Smith is the fourth person to lead Texas Tech in as many seasons.

“It’s my goal to build this program into one of the top programs, not just in the Big 12 but in the countr y, and that’s not going to be easy,” he said Tuesday at his first news conference in Lubbock. “It’s going to be hard work.”

Smith was fired by Minnesota last week after six seasons and landed a new job almost as quickly as the weather changes in West Texas. The 61-year-old got a six-year deal from the

Red Raiders that will pay him $1.8 million a year, his agent Ricky Lefft said. It is the largest paycheck for a Texas Tech basketball coach.

Smith told Texas Tech fans gathered for his introduction that he was ready when athletic director Kirby Hocutt came calling last week.

“I wanted to get back on the horse right away because I feel like I have a lot to of fer, a lot of energy,” he said. “There’s a lot of good years left in me to coach.”

He said he plans to head to the Final Four in Atlanta this weekend to begin putting together his staff.

Olympic team — he wants to be the centerpiece of it.

Along the way, he’s hoping to gain national team experience for rugby union. That would help him play professionally overseas after the Olympics in places like France, Australia, New Zealand or South Africa.

“To me, r ugby never gets old. It’s always dif-

ferent,” Augspurger said.

“Part of it is that I love it, but part of it I’m tr ying to improve so I never feel stagnant.

“It’s so much fun.”

Now that Augspurger has put in the work, he said he can finally chase his dreams.

“I’ve got one foot in the door,” Augspurger said.

“I’ve just got to keep going.”

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

BASEBALL

U celebrates Siebert Field before opener cility, which broke ground last June.

Minnesota played just a handful of games at the old, decrepit field in recent years, when the Metrodome ser ved as its primar y facility.

The Gophers said goodbye to the old Sieber t Field last May with a 9-2 victor y over St. Thomas.

The new stadium was completed in time for fall practice, and Gophers outfielder Andy Henkemeyer said the team practiced there about 20 times.

The team’s T uesday practice, the first of the spring at Sieber t Field, was open to the public.

Anderson and Molitor both spoke at the ceremony, thanking donors, former players and coaches for helping bring baseball back to campus.

“Any time people have a vision of something that needs to be done, and then you go through the process

Siebert u from Page 1

Dozens of suppor ters, including Minnesota Twins owner Jim Pohlad and several for mer Gophers players, braved freezing temperatures to take par t in a roughly 45-minute grand opening event.

The new field cost approximately $7.5 million, and $2 million was donated by the Pohlad family.

Longtime baseball public a d d r e s s a n n o u n ce r Dick Jonckowski emceed the proceedings and said after ward that the facility is “like a dream come true” for Anderson.

“It’s something he always wanted,” Jonckowski said.

Anderson and Molitor, a former Gophers player, were at the center of fundraising efforts for a new fa-

… and finally having a day where ‘here it is.’ It’s special,” said Molitor, the honorar y chair of the Siebert Field Legacy Campaign.

“The Metrodome ser ved its purpose,” Molitor added. “It helped this club, but I’m really, really glad the University baseball team has a place to call its own.”

The entire playing sur face, sans the batter’s boxes and the pitcher’s mound, is made of synthetic turf.

“So far it’s been nice. It played a little slow in the fall, but I think the snow will help pack it down a little bit,” Henkemeyer said.

Anderson said the decision to install turf was partially influenced by Minnesota’s cold-winter climate.

“If we had natural grass, there’d still be frost on the ground,” he said.

“We knew we’d be able to get on it earlier and have a better playing surface.”

The ballpark will seat 1,400, and other ameni-

ties include an underground drainage system, a revamped concession stand and a $500,000 video scoreboard that sits above the right-field fence.

But the facility is far from complete.

Anderson and Molitor both said the field, as it cur rently stands, is finished with “phase one” of its completion.

There are plans for a “phase two” expansion that will include lights and a hitting and pitching area

outside the stadium.

The groundwork is already complete for the lights, Anderson said, and they’ll go up when there’s money for them.

Future expansions are slated to include a clubhouse, suites and additional concession stands.

“I j u s t s ho wed [the blueprints] to a donor recently, and it was pretty exciting,” Anderson said.

“They were amazed as to what it’s going to look like when it’s all done.”

BASEBALL PREVIEW

@ MINNESOTA

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE

3 p.m., Wednesday in Brookings, S.D.

MINNESOTA: The Gophers will conclude their home-and-home series with South Dakota State on Wednesday.

Minnesota won last week’s meeting 5-1 in its final game at the Metrodome.

This is the first of a handful of nonconference games that the Gophers will play between Big Ten series.

SOUTH DAKOTA STATE: The Jackrabbits beat the Gophers 3-1 last year when the two teams met in Brookings.

South Dakota State won two of three games at Northern Colorado last weekend.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Gophers baseball head coach John Anderson, far right, cuts the ribbon at the Siebert Field grand opening Tuesday.

MEN’S GOLF

MEN’S HOCKEY

Senior gets his game back at the right time

Schmidt leaves Gophers for NHL; others may follow soon

Robert Bell has the Gophers’ secondlowest scoring average this spring.

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

Robert Bell struggled to find his confidence and his golf swing last fall.

Now he has it back.

The senior on the Gophers men’s golf team has mostly returned to form halfway through the spring season.

Bell has the second-best scoring average for the Gophers and has played in all three tournaments this spring.

“It’s kind of satisfying to finally see results starting to show,” he said, “and doing things on the golf course that I know I can do.”

Last fall was a different story. Bell played in just two of the Gophers’ five tournaments and had the worst score for the team in both of them. His average score per round was nearly six strokes worse than it is this spring.

Bell said he had to focus on his golf swing heading into the winter months. He spent nearly four months working with coaches John Carlson and Tyler Stith to improve his ball-striking ability.

Stith said the coaches changed Bell’s setup and adjusted where he positioned his club before following through.

After numerous repetitions, Bell emerged with a new swing that produces a straighter ball flight. His draw has been reduced, and he has become more consistent off the tee, which has allowed him to hit more

ROBERT BELL’S SPRING STATISTICS Tournaments Rounds Strokes Average Low 18 Low 54 Top 10 Top 20 Best finish

3 8 580 72.5 68 212 1 1 T6TH

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

fairways.

The putter has always been Bell’s “forte,” but he said he has also improved his iron shots and his course management skills.

“I think all of those things have reflected on a successful spring thus far,” Bell said.

His improvements showed last weekend at the U.S Intercollegiate. Bell shot under par in two of the three rounds and tied for 26th, his best finish as a member of the lineup this season.

Stith walked with Bell the last two rounds and said the senior was comfortable and in control during those 36 holes.

Carlson said it was just as impor tant to restore Bell’s lost confidence as it was his swing.

Bell’s confidence skyrocketed in Februar y after a tournament in Arizona.

He was excluded from the lineup after losing a qualifying round against freshman Charlie Braniff, but he played as an individual and tied for sixth with teammate Jon Trasamar to lead Minnesota.

“After that, it’s just been a renewed focus for him,” Carlson said. “Now he has some better fundamentals.

He can go out there ever y single day, and he can bring the same game to the golf course.”

Carlson said Bell is as big of a boost to the lineup as he’s ever coached and brings a lot of talent — especially in putting.

“He has the ultimate weapon that a lot of people don’t have in their game, and that’s a good putter,” Carlson said.

But Bell said he wants to work on becoming a more consistent all-around player.

“I can’t take a leap from where I am now to the PGA Tour or the Web.com [developmental tour],” he said.

“It doesn’t happen like that.

It happens with taking baby steps and improving each part of your game individually.”

The Big Ten championships take place April 26-28 in French Lick, Ind. If Minnesota is going to challenge for the title, it will likely need Bell in the lineup.

Junior Nate Schmidt signed a two-year deal with the Washington Capitals.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

Nate Schmidt was one of the few undrafted players on this year’s Gophers squad. On T uesday, he also became the first underclassman to declare he won’t be wearing maroon and gold next season.

The junior defenseman has signed a two-year, entr y-level contract with the Washington Capitals, the NHL team announced Tuesday.

Schmidt’s signing with the Capitals could be the first of many depar tures from the Gophers this offseason.

Seth Helgeson is the only player that will graduate, but juniors Nick Bjugstad, Erik Haula, Zach Budish, Nate Condon and others could follow Schmidt’s path.

Haula hinted Tuesday on Twitter that Budish and Schmidt had left the Gophers, posting: “Congrats to two of the bigger beauties I know @Burdish24 @nateschmidt29 #roomies #goodluck.”

The tweet was later removed but sparked controversy about whether Budish has signed with the Nashville Predators, the NHL team that owns his rights.

Schmidt said he hadn’t given much thought to his future after last Friday’s NCAA tournament loss to Yale.

Four days later, his collegiate career is over.

“This wasn’t an easy decision to make,” Schmidt said in a release, “but it is the right decision.”

The St. Cloud, Minn., native played in 96 career games for the Gophers and had 12 goals and 62 assists. His tur naround from one point his freshman season to 41 points his sophomore campaign helped Minnesota surprise

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota defenseman Nate Schmidt plays against Minnesota State-Mankato on Nov. 2, 2012, at Mariucci Arena.

many with its r un to the NCAA Frozen Four last season.

“This wasn’t an easy decision to make, but it is the right decision.”

NATE SCHMIDT former Gophers defender

This season, Schmidt was fifth on the team in points with nine goals and 23 assists.

“He had two tremendous years and felt he was ready to take his game to

the next level,” Gophers head coach Don Lucia said in the release.

Schmidt was Minnesota’s most reliable defenseman and the pilot of the team’s first power-play unit. He was the Gophers’ lone representative on the All-WCHA First Team this season.

While Schmidt was one of the team’s best players, he was also one of the few who hadn’t been selected in the NHL draft. That freed him to sign with any NHL team.

Schmidt’s signing likely didn’t surprise the Gophers’ coaching staf f. Associate head coach Mike

Guentzel told the Minnesota Daily in December that he believed Schmidt would be a “quality free agent candidate.”

Schmidt’s signing is the only one that has been confirmed as of Tuesday.

@DailyontheIce

NATE SCHMIDT CAREER STATISTICS SEASON 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 TOTALS

GP 13 43 40 96

G 0 3 9 12

A 1 38 23 62

PTS 1 41 32 74

SOURCE: USCHO.COM

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (4/3): Your connections keep you participating and involved. Ease with communications empowers queries, launches, promotions and networking. It’s a personal growth and love year.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Persistence pays off with a breakthrough.

Push ahead, and results add up. Don’t be stopped by old barriers.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 6 — You’re entwined in a controversy. Move quickly without promising money. Decrease financial risk-taking this week, and increase cash flow.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Holding your tongue surpasses annoying moments with minimal damage. Take care not to provoke jealousies. Spend time with a partner.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Reduce your personal workload this week. No need to participate in gossip; it’s a time suck.

Find resources nearby, and complete the job.

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

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 7 — Take slow, calculated actions and anticipate resistance. Have a backup plan. Use timetested methods. Don’t give up or overspend.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 7 — Resolution is possible soon, although an attempt doesn’t work. Don’t run away from your work or controversy.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Draw your line in the sand. Decrease personal obligations in the coming week. Your time is precious. This goes for your money, too.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — Get cozy. Traveling or fast motion could provide hazardous, so take it easy. A secret gets revealed that provides an advantage.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Keep increasing your skill level this week. Shift your emotional direction. Reduce doubt.

Argue key points in your head first.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 7 — Wait to see what develops. Worrying messes with your dreams. Patient, careful measures succeed. Cross things off your private list.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — There’s a temporary domestic meltdown. Learn a new balancing act. Compromise isn’t possible yet.

Aim high and add elbow grease to do it right.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Request participation. Increase your social activities, while cautiously making commitments. Your team will make it happen if they’re invested.

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

4/3/13

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

All rights reserved.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

overheard

crossword

FOR RELEASE APRIL 3, 2013

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

Girl: “Oh, a little procrasterbating going on. I see how it is.”

“Wait, so you went out on a Thursday night?”

Guy: “When I saw her again, she burst out into laughing, and her face went through 50 shades of red.”

“Ornithologists are obsessed with sex: They’re all about boobies, tits, peckers and cocks.”

Girl: “I love when I try to capitalize numbers!”

Professor: “In public health we tend to shy away from actual knowledge.”

Professor: “So, when your kid says to you someday, ‘Hey, I think I’m going to try out for football.’ You should tell him, ‘Nah. How about you go do some drugs instead?’”

“Do you believe in paying utilities?”

—Bailey Hall

—Tate Laboratory of Physics

—Lind Hall

—Physics lab

—St. Paul campus

—Mayo building —Mesa Pizza

—Science Teaching and Student Services building

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ACROSS 1 Pressured, with “on” 7 NASA citrus drink 11 Digital doc format 14 Cry from an oversleeper 15 Smokehouse order 16 Meyers of “Kate & Allie” 17 *Career soldier 19 Quaint curse 20 Yellowish green 21 “Gotcha!”

22 Small craft concern 23 End of a New Year’s song 24 *1995 movie flop dubbed “Fishtar” by some critics 26 Word before chi or after mai 28 Long tale 29 *Much-soughtafter celebrity 35 Baker’s 13 38 Campfire residue 39 Beijing-born, say 41 Madhouse 42 Green stuff 44 *Sun emanation responsible for the northern lights 46 Unveiler’s cry 48 British verb ender 49 *Petal pusher?

54 Walrus feature 58 Dieter’s gain?

59 Singer Erykah 60 Political channel 61 Word of repulsion 62 Brangelina, e.g.—or, in a way, each of the answers to starred clues 64 “__ Big to Fail”: 2009 account of the financial crisis 65 Gets to 66 Mourn 67 Clairvoyant’s gift 68 Soft “Yo!” 69 Beginning bits DOWN 1 Oscar night rides 2 “Our Town” girl

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By Erik Agard

3 Too pooped to pop 4 Unworldliness 5 Sermon ending?

6 Deal-busting org.

7 Behind-closeddoors event 8 ’Til Tuesday lead vocalist Mann 9 Cavs and Mavs 10 “The Pyramid” channel 11 29-Across chasers 12 Dryly amusing 13 Not likely to move 18 River valley formation 22 Disco adjective 24 Fingers-crossed thought 25 Angler’s gear 27 Place to play “Space Invaders” 29 “Skyfall” director Mendes 30 GI’s hangout 31 Image-editing software 32 “__ a pity” 33 Year abroad?

34 Fam. reunion attendee 36 Years and years

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

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37 Bob of hope, maybe 40 Take a trip by ship 43 Congressional output 45 Triathlon attire 47 Vine yards?

49 Champagne glass 50 Java’s coffee cup et al.

51 Stares stupidly

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52 Latin clarifier 53 1921 robot play 55 Shoe top 56 Simultaneous weapons discharge 57 Oft-patched clothing parts 60 Trite stuff 62 Humdinger 63 Software-driven film effects, for short

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

Dear Dr. Date,

dr. date

I met a girl at a bar that I have been frequenting since fall semester. Recently (over spring break) we went out to dinner and both had what seemed to me to be a wonderful time. I have seen her since the “first date” and finally built up enough confidence to ask her on a second one; however, I have yet to hear a response.

I’m not really sure where to go from here.

Because I often see her around on weekends, should I ask her about a second date again? Or is this just a sign she’s not interested?

—Hopeful Springtime Lover

Spring Into Action,

Though you have not specified the type of second-ask you performed — inperson, over the phone, via text message or social media — a non-response is never a good sign, my man. There is a smidgeon of a possibility that she in fact did not receive the question you posed, and therefore I will encourage you to semi-inquire one more time. Feel her out for the reason she never answered your second question.

Here’s how. Next time you see your prospective beau in person, jokingly ask her why she never responded to you after the first date. Don’t get aggressive, or you’ll get a rabid-dog rep — ruh-roh, Scooby. Play it cool, and see how she responds. If she says she’s not interested, then she intentionally blew you off, but if she acts puzzled, then try for round three.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

So, I have a problem. There’s a guy in one of my classes that I’ve talked to a few times, and I think he’s pretty cool. I’d like to get to know him better. The issue is I can never tell what guys are thinking.

I’m pretty bad in particular at figuring out what guys think of me. The same holds true for this guy as well. So I turn to you for help, Doctor. Honestly I’m afraid of rejection if I ask him to hang out directly.

I’m not exactly sure if my ego could take that hit if he says no. So, short of mindreading this guy’s thoughts, how should I approach this situation?

—Crushed

Orange Crush,

I refer to you as Orange Crush for a very specific reason: It is the soda I used to drink as a youth, and your inquiry reminds me of myself as a nervous teen.

I digress; asking someone out is not as

bad as you think. It’s a rite of passage, so to say, like your first beer bong or night with a lover in the sack. My first prescription is for you to muster up the courage to approach your prey, and invite him to a relatively low-key event, like a happy hour after class or a concert you’ve got an extra ticket to.

If one-on-one play isn’t in the cards for you, then be the millennial you are and invite the dude to a “group hang.” Convince your buddies to throw a party, and encourage your crush to come, or simply ask him his plans for the evening and “coincidentally” have similar ones. Take a big ole breath, girl — you got this.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My (now ex) boyfriend and I broke up a couple of weeks ago. He said that he wants to do the whole friends thing. We continued to hang out for a few more hours after the break, and I haven’t seen him since then. What’s the protocol for “post-breakup friends?” I miss having him around because he’s a cool dude and whatnot, but I don’t want to come off as the creepy, clingy ex-girlfriend.

—Je Ne Sais Pas

Frenched and Confused,

This doc has been around the dating block a time or two, so I’m familiar with the post-breakup friendship plight.

And it is messier than a seventh grade make-out session.

The longing to be friends with an ex shortly after a split is all too common if you ended on relatively amicable terms; however, therein lies the problem. Because the two of you didn’t have a major blowout — I presume — the inner distaste for the other person is not there. Instead, a mutual respect and attraction is still at play during the first couple of months post-breakup, which makes a true friendship nearly impossible.

One of you will likely develop relationship feelings for the other, which will be difficult to digest and even more hellish if the other is not on the same page of your romance novel. It’ll feel like a second breakup, a breakup more devastating than the first.

Put a pause on your friendship move in this chess game until you’re positive all romantic emotions are not connected to your ex. Don’t force a friendship — let it happen organically.

—Dr. Date

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

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Wednesday, April 3, 2013

University implements Living Lab program

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

Evelina Knodel wants to plant a garden on the University of Minnesota campus so students living in residence halls can grow their own fr uits and vegetables.

“It seems to fit in really well with what the University is doing sustainabilitywise,” she said. “Ideally I could see it being a huge

community garden plot.”

So the architecture and German freshman has applied to the University’s new Living Laborator y program, which allows students and faculty to apply to use University land for research and educational projects.

Shane Stennes, sustainability coordinator for the University, said the project will open up campus land and “facilitate the use of that for more than just what it is today.”

While the Living Lab website defines the projects as turning the campus grounds into “a medium for innovation, testing,

demonstration, and learning,” Stennes said there isn’t a set model for projects in mind.

“It’s really open, and that’s the beauty of it,” he said.

Proposals are due Friday, and Stennes said he’s expecting a handful of applications this year.

The best applications will dovetail with current or planned campus renovations and identify possible sources of funding up front, according to a plan for the Living Lab pilot process.

Some campus land, like Nor throp Mall or the Old Campus Historic District, near the intersection of University and 15th avenues, will not be available for Living Labs, according to the plan.

Other areas, like sports fields or Housing and Residential Life spaces, would have to be coordinated with other University departments.

Stennes said there’s no formal size restraint on potential projects.

He cautioned: “If somebody said, ‘I want to take the whole West Bank,’ that might be a bit much.”

world experience, said Phill Kelly, the Minnesota Student Association representative on the Living Lab Review Panel.

“You get to have this personal development opportunity where you’re not just learning about something but you’re applying those ideas,” Kelly said.

For students who plan on working in environmental fields, “real-world experience … is probably hard to come by,” College of Liberal Ar ts freshman Isabelle Krier said.

“I feel like [the Living Lab project] is the right thing to do,” she added.

Kelly said anyone applying for a Living Lab should consider how they’ll fund the projects, although in the future the panel might look into securing research grants for proposed projects.

“But at this point, you need to come with your own funding because we don’t have those resources set up for you,” Kelly said.

If Knodel’s community gar den pr oposal is approved, she said she hopes to get funding from student groups and research grants.

“More people should star t getting into the Living Lab,” Knodel said.

“I think [the University] is definitely on the right track.”

Valuable experience While Living Lab projects will hopefully improve campus, they will also provide students with real-

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