CAMPUS & METRO
U students gear up for MN entrepreneurship event
For the past seven years, five of the student division winners were from the University. u See PAGE 4
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FAIRVIEW
Leg. aims to prevent Fairview merger
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SOFTBALL
The Harlem Globetrotters’ Paul “Tiny” Sturgess is the world’s tallest professional basketball player.
Sara Moulton’s statistics have improved in her three years with the Gophers, but now she’s more focused on the team’s success.
Moulton matures as Gophers’ ace
‘Tiny’ goes globetrottin’
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U OF M
MINNEAPOLIS
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APRIL 9, 2013
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BEER
LAW
In push for looser laws, local breweries unite
U’s top lawyer to step down in summer Mark Rotenberg has led the Office of the General Counsel for 20 years. BY BRANDEN LARGENT AND KATHERINE LYMN blargent@mndaily.com klymn@mndaily.com
Three bills were proposed Monday to block or dissuade a Sanford-Fairview union. BY CODY NELSON AND BRANDEN LARGENT cnelson@mndaily.com blargent@mndaily.com
State legislators proposed bills Monday to intervene in the Fairview Health Services merger talks. Two proposals would outlaw South Dakotabased Sanford Health from taking over Fairview, which includes the University of Minnesota Medical Center. Another would force Fairview to return state funding if it was run by an out-of-state entity. Two bills proposed by Reps. Joe Atkins, DFL-Inver Grove Heights, and Dan Schoen, DFL-St. Paul Park, would outlaw the acquisition of Fairview by an out-of-state entity, either permanently or through 2014. Another bill, introduced by Jim Abeler, RAnoka, and Peter Fischer, DFL-Maplewood, would take state funding from Fairview if it sells or transfers control to an out-of-state entity. The bill says Fairview would have to return any “charitable assets” it received from the state back into the general fund. “Minnesota money and the goodwill of non-profit benefits have been poured into Fairview,” Fischer said in a news release. “I don’t think we should walk away from all the state has invested.” Atkins said the potential merger doesn’t take into account how much the state has invested in the education of physicians at the u See FAIRVIEW Page 4 In a letter, Atkins asked acting Fairview CEO Chuck Mooty to testify at a hearing for the bill.
FUNDING
House grants tuition relief in U funding proposal BY CODY NELSON AND CALI OWINGS cnelson@mndaily.com cowings@mndaily.com
For in-state students at the University of Minnesota, tuition relief may be coming. The House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee recommended $42.6 million for the University to freeze undergraduate resident tuition for the next two years. The committee’s recommendation for tuition relief mirrors those from Gov. Mark Dayton and the Senate higher education committee, but the House committee allocated about $19 million less to the University overall. The University had requested that amount for MnDRIVE, which would focus on research critical to Minnesota industry and business. The governor and Senate allocated $36 million to the University for the initiative. The House also recommended only about $11 million more to the state grant program. Dayton and the Senate recommended an $80 million increase. Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, who chairs the House committee, said the tuition relief component will help students pay for school. “This will be the first time where students can honestly say ‘I won’t have to pay more for tuition, and I won’t have to borrow,’ ” he said. The Senate will officially appropriate funds to the University on Tuesday. Dayton released a bonding proposal Monday that allocated roughly $70 million to the University. While his proposal would fund the University’s request for nearly $57 million to renovate the Tate Laboratory of Physics, it provides only about $15 million for upkeep of campus buildings and facilities — $110 million less than the school’s request. The House Capital Investment Committee will release a bonding proposal Tuesday. The Senate has not yet set a date.
ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY
Fulton Brewery staff member Justin Janicki serves beer to customers Saturday at the Fulton Brewery Tap Room in Minneapolis.
Since 2010, 35 breweries have opened statewide, eight of which are housed in Minneapolis. BY BRIAN AROLA
opened statewide, eight of which
barola@mndaily.com
are housed in Minneapolis, according to the Associated Press.
Beer enthusiasts of Minne-
Now, owners are again work-
sota have been congregating at
ing together, but this time it’s to
a more serious watering hole in
raise a limit on the sale of growl-
recent years: the state Capitol.
ers, or 64-ounce jugs of beer.
A recent brewing boom in
Currently, breweries can only
Minneapolis has led to more
sell 3,500 barrels annually, but
competition among craft brew-
owners say that number is far too
ers, but also collaboration as
low, and they’re lobbying to raise
breweries fight together for
the threshold to 20,000.
more craft beer-friendly legisla-
A bill has been included in a
tion in the face of restrictive state
package of liquor-related legisla-
and city laws.
tion and will be considered later
After a major victory in 2011,
After 20 years at the University of Minnesota, General Counsel Mark Rotenberg will step down this summer, he announced Monday. As the University’s top lawyer, Rotenberg defends the University against all sorts of lawsuits. Rotenberg will take over the position of vice president and general counsel at Johns Hopkins University in June, according to a University press release. “It has been a great honor to represent the University of Minnesota as General Counsel for the past two decades,” Rotenberg said in the release. “While it is terribly difficult to leave the U … Johns Hopkins offers a unique and very special professional opportunity that I cannot pass up.” He announced his resignation amid turmoil at the University: Both the University and South Dakota-based u See ROTENBERG Page 4 He also frequently advises regents.
this session.
when brewer y owners lobbied
Two major proponents for
to allow onsite beer sales, the in-
the measure spoke last week at
dustr y has exploded across the
Republic bar at Seven Corners
city and state.
as part of an annual brewing fo-
Since 2010, 35 breweries have
MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY FILE PHOTO
University of Minnesota General Counsel Mark Rotenberg takes notes as former Regent Steve Sviggum announces his resignation from the Board of Regents on Thursday at McNamara Alumni Center.
rum hosted by the West Bank
u See BREWERIES Page 4
ADMISSIONS
U snags record 42,000 applications for fall 2013 in part of decade-long trend Less than a third of accepted applicants actually enrolled in the University in 2012. BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com
Despite a statewide decrease in the number of high school graduates, the University of Minnesota received a record number of applications for fall 2013 admission. The University has had more than 42,000 freshman applications for fall 2013 admission already — an increase of about 12 percent over the year before. An official application count won’t be available until fall 2013, since the University is still receiving applications. Students seeking admission applied for about 5,400 spots in the class of 2017. Because of the increased number of applications, more academically capable students — who likely have many college choices — are offered admission, said Bob McMaster, vice provost and dean of undergraduate education. Of the almost 19,000 applicants who were offered places at the University in fall 2012, less than a third actually enrolled. That’s an 11 percentage point decrease from fall 2003. The increase in applicants was surprising because of the declining numbers of high
school graduates in the Midwest, McMaster said. In the past six years, Minnesota’s number of high school graduates has dropped by almost 9 percent, or 5,200 students, according to a report from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education.
“Our whole [collection] area is going down,” McMaster said. “So we thought that we’d see the same trend in applications, and u See APPLICATIONS Page 3 Recruiting efforts by the Office of Admissions could have contributed to the increase in applicants.
FRESHMAN ADMISSION TO THE UNIVERSITY 40,000 35,000 30,000 25,000 20,000
FRESHMAN APPLICANTS
15,000 OFFERS 10,000 5,000
ENROLLEES
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SOURCE: OFFICE OF UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION
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