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The proposal would reallocate funds if the lockout is not settled.
Students for Education Reform will bring ninth graders to campus.
Delegates and students should consider these candidates at the DFL caucuses and conventions.
Minnesota will play Nebraska on Tuesday in a doubleheader.
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Endorsements for local candidates
Student group hopes to bridge achievement gap
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Boston Marathon bombing kills three
SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE
President Obama: Those responsible will ‘feel the full weight of justice.’ BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Under the House’s proposal, the U would have to report how it spends state money. BY JESSICA LEE jlee@mndaily.com
The state House granted the University of Minnesota increased funding to freeze tuition Monday, but it came with a few strings attached for the future: to show legislators where the money’s going. The House Higher Education Committee approved legislation Monday that would require state-funded colleges and universities to be more transparent with how they spend taxpayer dollars — a concern that follows alleged administrative bloat. Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL-Winona, who chairs the committee and sponsored Monday’s proposals, said he wants to hold schools accountable for their use of state funds and make sure that the extra dollars aren’t being used to pay for administrative bonuses. “… The regents leave much to be desired in their ability to explain how these tuition increases were raised and what they were raised to cover,” Pelowski said at the hearing Monday. He said the amendments to the bill — which increases state funding to freeze undergraduate tuition for Minnesota students and invests in research — would encourage more oversight from the Legislature in light of high tuition costs and student debt. “Something’s got to change,” Pelowski said. University Regent Linda Cohen said the proposal is something that can be discussed further. “I think there is some work to do as we look at all that and with the budget,” she said. Because of its autonomy, the University doesn’t have to follow guidelines set by the u See FUNDING Page 5 The U also wouldn’t be able to spend direct appropriations on administrator bonuses.
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Mark and Bruce Koepp on their farm in Belle Plaine, Minn. Mark will pass the farm, which includes more than 3,000 acres of land and 30,000 hogs, on to his son, Bruce, in the future.
Through the rapid changes and uncertainties in farming, Minnesota families persevere. Without a current Farm Bill and with the
BY REBECCA HARRINGTON
worst drought in 25 years, Minnesota farm-
rharrington@mndaily.com
ers managed to fare better financially last When Mark Koepp started farming in
year than they have since the 1970s. A study
the 1980s, he joined 16,000 other pig farm-
released last week from the University of
ers in Minnesota. Today, about a quarter
Minnesota Extension and Minnesota State
are left.
Colleges and Universities showed overall,
Fewer people are staying on the family farm, and the farms are getting bigger. Technology and improved methods have made crop yields skyrocket.
BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com
Koepp always knew he wanted to be
But some things never change.
previous generations. His son, Bruce, will
Farmers can always count on the weath-
eventually take over the now-3,000-acre
er to be unpredictable, and recently they’ve
family farm in Belle Plaine, Minn., as the
been able to count on volatile crop prices
sixth generation of Koepps.
and uncer tain legislation funding their work.
“I’ll never sell,” Mark Koepp said. “It’ll just go down the line.”
u See BOSTON Page 12 Officials said there was no immediate claim of responsibility.
u See FARMS Page 5
FOOTBALL
Weekend gun crimes could be related
REPORT
percent last year. a farmer, and he’s built on the success of
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the average net farm income increased 47
University of Minnesota police responded to two gun crimes in the Southeast Como neighborhood over the weekend, and police suspect the crimes may be related due to their timing, location and suspect descriptions. Two men were robbed at gunpoint near Talmage
Avenue Southeast early Saturday, the report said. Both victims, who are not associated with the University, were walking together just before 2 a.m. when two men approached them, the report said. One of the men drew a u See CRIME Page 4
After rocky start, Hageman becomes leader Though he’s past a troubled youth, Gophers senior Ra’Shede Hageman still has ‘untapped’ potential. BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com
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A car crashed into the Tea House restaurant in Stadium Village on Monday night, leaving a hole on the 25th Avenue side of the business. There were no injuries, but a Minneapolis police officer on the scene and Tea House employee said the driver may have been intoxicated.
He stands at 6 feet, 6 inches and weighs 311 pounds. He draws double teams from opposing defenses because of his strength and physicality. His coaches and teammates say a career in the National Football League awaits him. Gophers senior defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman shoulders great athletic expectations. But he’s not focusing on his future. “I try to stay out of the hype,” Hageman said. “I kind of surround myself with just my teammates.” After a turbulent childhood and a rocky star t to his Gophers’ career, Hageman is the unquestioned leader of the Minnesota defense heading into the 2013 season. He has impressed his coaches during spring
BOSTON — Two bombs exploded in the crowded streets near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing at least three people and injuring more than 140 in a bloody scene of shattered glass and severed limbs that raised alarms that terrorists might have struck again in the U.S. A White House of ficial speaking on condition of anonymity because the investigation was still unfolding said the attack was being treated as an act of terrorism. President Barack Obama vowed that those responsible will “feel the full weight of justice.” As many as two unexploded bombs were also found near the end of the 26.2-mile course as part of what appeared to be a wellcoordinated attack, but they were safely disarmed, according to a senior U.S. intelligence of ficial, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation. The fier y twin blasts took place about 10 seconds and about 100 yards apart, knocking spectators and at least one runner of f their feet, shattering windows and sending dense plumes of smoke rising over the street and through the fluttering national flags lining the route. Blood stained the pavement, and huge shards
practice with his strength and focus. Hageman delivered the early highlight of spring ball, pancaking 288-pound offensive lineman Joe Bjorklund in a linemen drill. “He’s really showing himself to be a leader,” Gophers’ defensive line coach Jef f Phelps said, “not only of the defensive line but of the defense and of the team.” Two years ago, Hageman was a second-team defensive lineman whose academic struggles got him a three-game suspension from interim head coach Jeff Horton. When the Gophers hired Jerr y Kill as head coach in December 2010, Hageman wasn’t sure Kill would keep him on the team. u See HAGEMAN Page 8 He grew up in 12 foster homes before being adopted in 1998.
CITY COUNCIL
Caucuses to kick off for Mpls. City Council Two DFLers are vying for the Ward 3 nod in May. BY BRIAN AROLA barola@mndaily.com
City Council hopefuls in Minneapolis have had Tuesday circled on their calendars for a long time. That marks caucus night for the Democratic-FarmerLabor Party in Minneapolis. Around 7 p.m., constituents of wards across the city will discuss local policy and nominate delegates for endorsements to city positions. Delegates then go on to the DFL convention to vote on which candidates should receive the party’s endorsement. In the city’s 3rd Ward, which includes some of the University of Minnesota area, caucuses will take place in each of the ward’s nine precincts. The closest caucus u See CAUCUS Page 4 Frey is challenging incumbent Ward 3 Councilwoman Hofstede.
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MANILA — A Chinese boat that ran into a coral reef in the southwestern Philippines held evidence of even more environmental destruction inside: more than 22,000 pounds of meat from a protected species, the pangolin or scaly anteater. The steel-hulled vessel hit an atoll on April 8 at the Tubbataha National Marine Park, a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site on Palawan island. Coast guard spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Armand Balilo said Monday that 400 boxes, each containing 25 to 30 kilograms of frozen pangolins, were discovered during a second inspection of the boat Saturday. The World Wide Fund for Nature Philippines said the Chinese vessel F/N Min Long Yu could have been carrying up to 2,000 of the
toothless, insect-eating animals rolled up in the boxes, with their scales already removed. “It is bad enough that the Chinese have illegally entered our seas, navigated without boat papers and crashed recklessly into a national marine park and World Heritage Site,” said WWF-Philippines chief executive officer Jose Ma. Lorenzo Tan. “It is simply deplorable that they appear to be posing as fishermen to trade in illegal wildlife.” The boat’s 12 Chinese crewmen are being detained on charges of poaching and attempted bribery, said Adelina Villena, the marine park’s lawyer. She said more charges are being prepared against them, including damaging the corals and violating the country’s wildlife law for being found in possession of the pangolin meat. It is not yet clear which of
Anti-Putin activist Alexei Navalny ready for trial BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW — Far from the streets of Moscow where he galvanized tens of thousands in anti-government protests, Alexei Navalny faces trial this week on charges that could send him to prison for 10 years. The trial, starting Wednesday in Kirov, 500 miles northeast of Moscow, accuses Navalny and his former colleague Pyotr Ofitserov of leading an organized criminal group that embezzled $500,000 worth of timber from a state-run company. The charges not only threaten him with serious prison time, but strike at the essence of his image as a vociferous anti-corruption campaigner. Even before Navalny became a key figure in the anti-government protests that erupted in 2011, the lawyer was a persistent thorn in the establishment’s side with his extensive blogging on Russia’s staggering high-level corruption. Authorities admit the trial is connected to his prominent activities, although they deny overt political motivations. Navalny, 36, insists the charges are a fabrication intended to silence him on the orders of President Vladimir Putin, who has cracked down on dissent since returning for a third term. “Everyone’s known for years that if Putin ever made the decision to shut me down, then he’ll shut me down,” Navalny said Monday. Navalny’s conviction appears all but certain. More than 99 percent of Russian trials end with a guilty verdict, according to Vadim Volkov and Kirill Titaev of the University at St. Petersburg.
the four Asian pangolin species the meat comes from. The International Union of Conser vation of Nature lists two as endangered: the Sunda, or Malayan, pangolin, and the Chinese pangolin. Two others, including the Philippine pangolin endemic to Palawan, are classified as near threatened. The animals are protected in many Asian nations, and an international trade ban has been in effect since 2002, but illicit trade continues. The meat and scales of the pangolin fetch hundreds of dollars per kilogram in China, where many believe they cure various ailments. The IUCN says rising demand for pangolins and lax laws are wiping out the toothless anteaters from their forest habitat in Southeast Asia. Alex Marcaida, an officer of the government’s Palawan Council for Sustainable Development, Philippine
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LONDON — British police are reviewing security plans for Sunday’s London Marathon, the next major international marathon, because of the bombs that killed two people at the race in Boston. But there is no known specific or credible threat against the hugely popular British race at the moment, a security official said Monday. Police already were preparing a major security operation for Wednesday’s ceremonial funeral for former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, an event at St. Paul’s Cathedral that will be attended by Queen Elizabeth II and many dignitaries. The plans call for a procession through the streets of London, with Thatcher’s flag-draped coffin to be carried on a horse-drawn carriage. The funeral’s security plans are expected to be reviewed in light of the Boston bombings. London has long been considered a top target for international terrorists, with the government saying the threat level is “substantial.” In 2005, a series of suicide attacks on the public transport system in the British capital killed 52 people. London and mainland Britain also face a moderate threat from Northern Ireland-related terrorism, according to the government. Two bombs exploded near the finish of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and wounding more than 80 others, race organizers and police said. The situation sparked alarm bells in Britain, where a massive security operation was put in place last summer to protect the successful London Olympics. Last year, some 37,500 athletes competed in the London Marathon, with many more watching the springtime event. Chief Superintendent Julia Pendry, police commander for the London race, said Monday that “a security plan is in place for the London Marathon. We will be reviewing security arrangements in partnership with (the) London Marathon.”
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Student group hopes to bridge achievement gap
A day in the life Disparities in education-
IMMEDIATE COLLEGE ENROLLMENT AFTER HIGH SCHOOL IN 2010
MINNESOTA HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION RATES BY RACE IN 2011
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Gus Gleiter wants underser ved kids to know they can go to college. He and other members of Students for Education Reform will give local ninth graders a taste of life at the University of Minnesota on Thursday as par t of their efforts to combat the educational achievement gap. “What we’re tr ying to do is kind of plant the seeds of college,” the history and communications senior said. Students from the Minneapolis College Preparatory School — a public charter school that opened last year — will take a campus tour, see a chemistr y demonstration and meet with student groups at Thursday’s “College 101” event, Gleiter said. “The thing about SFER is that we want to make it clear to these kids that they can go to college,” he said. “We want to combat … the defeatist mentality of ‘this wouldn’t even be possible’ for them.” MCPS students visited the University in October, said college counselor Taylor Wright, but they mainly interacted with the Office of Admissions. “The kids just didn’t really get a lot from it,” Wright said. Because most MCPS students don’t have collegeeducated parents, Wright said, “they just don’t know what college really means.” Wright said she thinks Thursday’s programming will better suit MCPS’s diverse student body.
80 percent of students from high-income families who graduated from high school in 2010 attended college right away, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. About half of students from low-income families did so. Thursday’s event is designed to show kids what a day in the life of a college student is like, SFER member Kenneth Eban said. “If you never come to a college campus, there’s always going to be that barrier in your mind,” said Eban, a political science sophomore. He said his group is working with MCPS because they’ve had a good relationship in the past. “We knew that char ter schools don’t really have the resources to necessarily do this as often as they’d like,” Eban said. Wright said she hopes the kids will be able to interact with college students with similar backgrounds. “When that oppor tunity’s not there,” Wright said, “It’s really hard to then find it’s something to reach for.”
MIDDLE-INCOME STUDENTS
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al achievement across racial and economic lines — often referred to as the “achievement gap” — have received attention nationwide. In 2011, about 84 percent of white high school students in Minnesota graduated on time, according to the Minnesota Department of Education. Less than half of all black students accomplished the same. “We cannot be competitive going into the near future with the kind of graduation rates that we have,” said Sondra Samuels, president and CEO of the Northside Achievement Zone, a nonprofit that prepares children living in north Minneapolis for college. Samuels said the achievement gap is preventable and that children rise or descend to the expectations set for them. “We’ve never, as a countr y, done right by particularly low-income Americans and Americans of color,” Samuels said. “Our remedy for kids who go astray … the only thing we guarantee them is prison.” Nationwide, more than
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Students for Education Reform will bring ninth graders to campus.
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House calls for more University oversight Funding u from Page 1
state, but it may do so if it wants full funding in future bienniums. Under the new proposal — which passed the committee unanimously — the regents would be asked to submit a summar y repor t for legislators ever y other March that outlines the investments the institution made with the state funds allocated to it in the previous biennium. Pelowski said the Legislature needs to know more about why tuition rates increase, what the money is being used to cover and exactly where state money is being used. The proposal, which was added as an amendment to the committee’s final, all-encompassing omnibus bill also states that direct appropriations to the University from the state cannot be used to pay for bonuses or incentives for deans, provosts, directors and other administrators employed at the institution. “Is [tuition] being raised for contractual and operational expenses or is it being raised for something else?” Pelowski asked the committee of bonuses. He said it’s not fair that administrative employees receive pay bonuses “on top of ver y generous salaries” when the University is facing tuition increases, cuts and loads of student debt. “I’m hopeful that in the next year and a half as this repor ting language goes into effect, we will be able to establish some oversight relationship that will be productive,” Pelowski said.
R e p . R y a n W i n k l e r, DFL-Golden Valley, said the revamped House bill is a good first step to improving conversations between the Legislature and the state’s higher education institutions. In mid-March, Winkler suggested legislators establish a “middle ground” when it comes to internal involvement and that they should be able to, in par t, “set conditions” for tuition and spending at the University. “I think we largely agree that we need to take a dif ferent direction,” he said Monday. Although the University doesn’t legally have to follow the potential new statute like other state schools, the Legislature’s more than $1 billion biennial funding could pressure it to do so. David Schultz, a Hamline University law professor, said because the University has constitutional autonomy from the state, the Legislature likely cannot mandate what the University does, but it “can use its money to place limitations or to stipulate things that they’d like the University of Minnesota to do.” Taylor Williams, president of the Minnesota Student Association, said the University needs to be more transparent with its state money. “I think there’s a general feeling from students, members of the community and people in Minnesota in general that administrative spending is too high and perhaps out of control,” he said. “The only way we can legitimately assess that is to have some idea where the money is going.” Because it’s publically funded, Williams said the University should strive for transparency. “It’s a process that a
public institution should have to go through.” The House and Senate higher education committees both passed their final funding appropriations for the University on Monday. The House recommended about $100 million less than the Senate and governor’s proposals. The two committees will need to iron out the differences in funding, but Pelowski said he sees the two chambers agreeing on several points. Both pr oposals give money to hold tuition down for University resident undergraduate students and increase state investments in MnDRIVE, a University research program, although the House provided less for research. “The good news to me is ever ybody is thinking we care about student tuition and we care about student debt and we care about being efficient,” Cohen said. University Chief Fi nancial Of ficer Richard Pfutzenreuter said he’s appreciative of the legislators’ “tough questions” during this “long, dif ficult session,” and he looks forward to the upcoming discussions as the legislation gets finalized. The House bill will be discussed on the chamber’s floor in the coming weeks. Also, the Senate higher education bill passed through the Committee on Finance on Monday. “I’m cer tain that the legislators and I have the same goals in holding the University accountable and having the University r un ef ficiently and be as ef fective as it can be at what it does,” University President Eric Kaler recently told the Minnesota Daily. —Brian Arola contributed to this report.
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Proposal would redistribute orchestra funds The proposal would reallocate funds if the lockout is not settled. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
Jonathan Magness misses his family. He’s on the road, filling in as a violinist for the Philadelphia Orchestra while he waits for a deal to be made with the Minnesota Orchestra. “It’s wonder ful to be able to play with these other orchestras and great musicians and stuf f,” he said. “But I have two small children and am married, so it is also a bit of a burden.” The labor dispute that has stopped orchestra performances hit the six-month mark this month. But the orchestra isn’t getting much more time from the Legislature. Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFLMinneapolis, proposed an additional piece to the Legacy omnibus bill that would mean funds normally appropriated to the ensembles are given to different arts organizations if a deal isn’t made soon. As of this week, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is close to reaching an agreement and will begin concerts, assuming the musicians and the American Federation of Musicians ratify the agreement. The Minnesota Orchestra is still in a lockout. Kahn said the proposal would offer alternative options for artists to perform outside of the orchestras if a deal isn’t made within 30 days of the bill being enacted. “Instead of giving [the musicians] this money directly, we are giving it to the Minnesota Arts Board,” Kahn said. “It puts money into a fund that could be used to go towards concerts.” A stipulation in the proposal prohibits the Minnesota State Arts Board from giving any of the funds to the Minnesota Orchestra or the SPCO if performances remain at a standstill. The bill moved past the House Ways and Means committee last week, and Kahn said it’s likely to pass. She said many Minnesotans are “devastated by the lack of music,” and her bill will encourage a deal between musicians and board members. “I was talking to one person … and she said she’s left half-a-million dollars to the Minnesota Orchestra in her will and she wants to change it,” Kahn said. “A lot of people have said they are pulling back their funding.” University of Minnesota School of Music Director David Myers said he’s concerned about the consequences of moving funds away from the orchestras because of the impact it will have on the musicians. “If you disadvantage the institution, there is going to be a domino effect where ultimately you disadvantage the musicians,” he said. Some musicians have decided to leave the Minnesota orchestras for other opportunities while the concert hall remains silent, which Magness said will make coming back more difficult if a deal is made. “The reason the orchestra was great is because of the people who were there,” he said. “And when those people leave, you aren’t as good as you were, even if you hire 24 outstanding positions. “It’s about chemistry.”
Impact on the U Musicians in both orchestras aren’t the only ones impacted by the hiatus. At the University, students in the School of Music are missing out on a partnership the school normally holds with the Minnesota Orchestra. Students usually attend
concerts by the orchestra and speak with its music director, Osmo Vänskä, Myers said. “I think it has been discouraging not to have that opportunity this year,” he said. The School of Music boasts several faculty members from the Minnesota Orchestra and St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, but Magness said it doesn’t replace the benefits of seeing artists perform live. “I can say for sure in all of my schooling years, I’ve learned more from going to a great recital of a great violinist or a great orchestral concert,” he said. Violin performance senior Megan Poppe said the impasse has caused a huge loss for music enthusiasts and students in Minnesota. “It was one of the top orchestras in the country, and the fact that we’ve lost them for this year and maybe longer is sad for any future orchestra players,” she said. Myers said the openings aren’t an advantage for students because most graduates will need more musical experience before trying out
for either Minnesota orchestra. The Minneapolis and St. Paul orchestras aren’t the only ensembles to have disagreements in recent history. Myers said the disputes are a trend and an indication of a changing climate for orchestras around the country. “Any time musicians are not able to sustain their work and their incomes, naturally our faculty and our students will feel concerned because our job is to prepare career musicians,” Myers said. “So yes, we feel concerned about the future.” In response, Myers said the School of Music is incorporating more business lessons into the curriculum by tapping resources at the Carlson School of Management. “The question is, ‘How do we sustain the orchestra, and how do we try to sustain the musicians even in the face of a ver y challenging economy?’ ” he said. “And I don’t think any of us have the absolute answers to those questions. I think we need a lot of research and a lot of dialogue.”
ORCHESTRA FUNDS DIVIDED The Minnesota State Arts Board
$47.4 million Minnesota Historical Society
$26.4 million Department of Administration
$18.35 million Department of Education
$6 million Minnesota Humanities Center
$5 million Minnesota Zoo
$3.5 million Department of Agriculture
$2.8 million Indian Affairs Council
$2.3 million Perpich Center for Arts Education
$2.05 million SOURCE: H.F. NO. 1183
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Somalia leader: Foreigners aided attack on court BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somalia’s prime minister said Monday that several experienced foreign fighters took par t in the most serious Islamic extremist attack on Mogadishu in years, while other officials indicated the explosive devices were more advanced than normal, a possible indication of greater involvement by al-Qaida. Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon said the presence of foreign fighters during Sunday’s twohour assault on the Supreme Cour t complex showed that the attack was international in nature. He ordered an investigation into the attack, which included six suicide bombings and two car bombs. The Somali militant group al-Shabab claimed responsibility for the twohour bar rage. Al-Qaida announced a merger with al-Shabab early last year, but the group has been plagued by inter nal tensions between nationalist Somali fighters and foreign fighters. Most of al-Shabab’s re-
cent bomb attacks have been small and ineffective. Sunday’s was far deadlier than normal. “ We a r e c o n c e r n e d about the foreign involvement in this attack and this is why we are working so hard with our international partners on security and intelligence sharing. Once again we see that terrorism is an international problem,” Shirdon said in a statement. He did not specify the nationalities of the foreign fighters. The U.N. Security Council on Monday condemned the attacked, and in a statement said they “underline their willingness to take action against those whose behavior threatens the peace, stability or security of Somalia.” The death toll has risen to 35, including the nine attackers, according to a member of parliament. The prime minister said 29 died; it wasn’t clear if that total included the attackers. Al-Shabab boasts several hundred foreign fighters, including those with from the Middle East with experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. AlShabab also recruits fight-
ers from Somali communities in the United States and Europe. Two Western of ficials who spoke to The Associated Press suggested that Sunday’s attack may have had broader par ticipation by al-Qaida fighters than more recent suicide bombings in Mogadishu. One official said the explosive devices were more sophisticated — and numerous — than normal, while a second official said there are signs that al-Qaida is trying to assert itself in Somalia more than in the past. Both officials work on Somalia issues but both demanded anonymity because neither was authorized to speak publicly on the matter. Dahir Amin Jesow, a Somali legislator who heads a security committee in parliament, said Monday that the death toll stood at 35 and that it could rise even further because of the number of wounded. The interior minister said Sunday that nine attackers died, including six who detonated suicide vests. Shirdon said the victims would be honored with a state funeral.
Al-Shabab once controlled almost all of Mogadishu. African Union and Somali forces pushed the militants out of the city in 2011, but the fighters have continued to car r y out bomb attacks. I n s i d e Ma d i n a H os pital on Monday, blear yeyed nurses walked from room to room to assist the wounded. Nurse Amal Abdi said he has been up since Sunday to attend to victims. “There are many horrific wounds in the hospital, so there’s no time for rest for us,” Abdi said as she pushed a wounded man on a stretcher into an operating room. One of the sur vivors from Sunday’s barrage was the countr y’s chief justice, who stepped out of the besieged court complex and angrily yelled at soldiers, according to an AP repor ter who witnessed the exchange. The countr y’s deputy attor ney general was not so lucky. “I was sitting in my office when the men entered and star ted fighting and killing,” said Sheikh Hassan Abdinur, the deputy attorney general, who lay in
a hospital bed Monday with bandages on his stomach and hands and a tube connected to his nose. “It was beyond my imagination. There is no safe place.” Abdirashid Hashi, the deputy dir ector of the Mogadishu-based Heritage Institute for Policy Studies, said the attack shows that al-Shabab can strike the government at will and that the group can come quite close to “decapitating” a vital government arm. The Supreme Court was in session when the attack occurred. The attack “will force the government to revisit its priorities,” Hashi said by email. “Because if it fails to provide security to the citizens in the capital, it will have difficulties justifying its demands in extending its writ to other parts of the country.” Hashi noted that Somalia’s intelligence agency and foreign governments had predicted a major alShabab attack. Britain’s Foreign Of fice released a statement on Friday saying it believed a terror attack was imminent. Mogadishu, a seaside capital with whitewashed
buildings and pristine beaches, is recovering from decades of war that left the city largely in ruins. Gover nment troops — former militia members — have played a key par t in ousting militants from towns near Mogadishu. But the militants continue to carr y out a steady stream of insurgent attacks. In mid-March an alShabab suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a civilian bus near a convoy carr ying Mogadishu’s intelligence chief. Seven people died; the intelligence chief was wounded. Earlier in March a suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a seaside restaurant, killing himself and one diner. A similar attack in Februar y killed only the bomber. “They are inhumane,” Nur to Abdi, a mother whose son’s legs were seriously wounded by shrapnel in Sunday’s attack, said as she sat close by him. “The so-called national ar my always gives them the chance. They must declare it publicly if they cannot protect us, because even civilians are legitimate targets now.”
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WASHINGTON — A bipar tisan proposal to expand background checks to more gun buyers seemed in jeopardy Monday as a growing number of Republican senators expressed opposition to the proposal, perhaps enough to derail it. But there was plenty of time for lobbying and deal-making to af fect the outcome, and the sponsors seemed willing to consider car ving out at least one exemption in an ef for t to dr um up votes. The White House said President Barack Obama was calling lawmakers, as both sides hunted support for a nail-biting showdown. As of Monday evening, some senators were saying the vote now appeared likely late this week, rather than midweek as top Democrats have hoped. Such a delay would give both sides more time to find support. “The game hasn’t even started yet, let alone over,” said Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who reached a background check compromise last week with Sen. Patrick Toomey, RPa., on which the Senate was preparing to vote. In one sign of the bargaining under way, Manchin and Toomey seemed willing to consider a change to their deal that would exempt gun buyers from background checks who live hundreds of miles from licensed firear ms dealers, said one Senate aide. The change might help win support from senators from Alaska and perhaps Nor th Dakota, said the aide, who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe private discussions. At stake is what has become the hear t of this year’s gun control drive in response to December’s killing of children and staff at an elementar y school in Newtown, Conn. Suppor ters consider a broadening of the buyers subjected to background checks to be the most ef fective step lawmakers can take, and Obama urged near universal checks in the plan he unveiled in Januar y. Sixteen Republicans voted last week to reject an effort by conser vatives that would have blocked the Senate from even considering a broad bill restricting firearms. W ith that debate under way, Democrats hope to win enough suppor ters from this group to gain passage of the first amendment to that bill — the compro-
mise between Manchin and Toomey, which expands background checks but less broadly than Obama has wanted. By Monday evening, n i n e R e p u b l i c a n s e n ators from that group said they would oppose the Manchin-Toomey plan and one was leaning against it. Combined with the 31 senators who voted against debating the overall gun bill last week, that would bring potential opponents of expanding background checks to 41 — just enough votes to block the Senate from considering the compromise. “I’m not going to vote for it. It’s not the right thing to do,” said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., who was among the 16 who voted last week to allow the debate to begin. But in the heated political climate and heavy lobbying certain in the run-up to the vote, minds on both sides could change. Opponents say expanded checks would violate the Constitution’s right to bear arms and would be ignored by criminals. They are forcing suppor ters of the backgr ound check plan to win 60 of the Senate’s 100 votes, a high hurdle. Fifty Democrats and two Democratic-leaning senators voted last week to begin debate. If all of them suppor t the Manchin-Toomey plan — which is not guaranteed — they would still need eight additional votes. So far, three Republicans who backed beginning debate have said they will vote for the ManchinTo o m e y p l a n : To o m e y and Sens. Mark Kirk of Illinois and Susan Collins of Maine. A fourth, John McCain of Arizona, said he is strongly inclined to do so. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., missed last week’s vote after saying he was suf fering fr om muscle weakness, but spokesman Caley Gray said he hopes to be in the Senate for votes this week. T wo Democrats, both facing r e-election next year in GOP-leaning states, voted against beginning the gun control debate last week: Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska and Mark Pr yor of Arkansas both said they are still deciding. Backgr ound checks, designed to keep guns from criminals and the seriously mentally ill, are cur rently required only for sales handled by the nation’s roughly 55,000 licensed gun dealers. The Manchin-Toomey measure would extend that to sales at commercial venues like
gun shows and online, while exempting other transactions like those between relatives and friends. “There’s no debate that that’s not an infringement of the Second Amendment” right to bear arms, said Toomey as he and Manchin touted their measure on the Senate floor. White House spokesman Jay Carney said the gun legislation was “an absolute priority” and said Obama has been contacting senators, though he declined to say which ones. But Car ney said the vote would be “a dif ficult challenge.” He said that because the Senate had voted last week to begin debating the measure “does not mean we have gotten to where we need to be, which is passage of legislation that is commonsense and that will reduce gun violence in America.” The White House originally had hoped for much more, including a ban on militar y-style rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines. The National Rifle Association said it was r unning an ad on cable television’s Sportsman Channel and online criticizing Mayors Against Illegal Guns for r unning an ad showing a man holding a gun unsafely as he describes his suppor t for expanded background checks. “Is it possible he’s an actor?” the ad asks, just before showing the NRA’s “Stand and Fight” slogan. Some relatives of the victims of the Connecticut families are planning a retur n trip to Capitol Hill this week to meet with senators they weren’t able to visit on their lobbying trip last week. That trip was par tly credited with helping move the Senate to debate the gun bill. Also scheduled to be lobbying lawmakers this week are former Rep. Gabrielle Gif fords, DAriz., and her husband Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut. She was severely wounded in a 2011 mass shooting in Tucson, Ariz. The Manchin-Toomey deal also would expand some firearms rights, easing some restrictions on transpor ting guns across state lines and protecting sellers from lawsuits if buyers pass a background check but later use a gun in a crime. The compromise is an amendment to broader gun control legislation to strengthen laws against illegal gun traf ficking and to slightly increase school security aid.
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handgun and demanded the victims’ wallets and electronics, said Minneapolis police Sgt. Steve McCarty, whose depar tment will oversee the investigation. The victims gave up their valuables, and the suspects fled before police arrived. Shortly before the robbery near Talmage, another University student had been confronted by a man with a handgun. Chemical engineering senior Kyle Mcdermand was walking to his home near Rollins Avenue Southeast when he saw two groups of men arguing, he said. “I stopped to watch what was going on,” he said. “Then I saw a guy raise a gun in the air.” Mcdermand, 23, started walking away from the
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locations to the University are at St. Lawrence Church and Newman Center in Dinkytown and the First Congregational Church in the MarcyHolmes neighborhood. Incumbent City Councilwoman Diane Hofstede is challenged by political newcomer Jacob Frey for the city’s 3rd Ward. The recently redistricted ward now includes parts of Downtown, but the studentheavy areas of Dinkytown and Marcy-Holmes remain. Both candidates are hoping for a strong showing from students at the caucuses.
scene when the gunman noticed him, he said. “He pointed the gun at me and started saying, ‘Keep walking, keep walking,’ ” Mcdermand said. Mcdermand called 911, and a University police officer arrived at the scene. The two groups had already left by the time the officer arrived. The same of ficer responded to the robbery call, the report said. University police emailed a campus-wide crime alert Saturday discussing the crimes. In addition to the robbery, the suspect can be cited for second-degree assault because he drew a handgun, McCarty said.
Student assaulted in Centennial Hall
A University student was assaulted in Centennial Hall on Sunday afternoon, according to a University po-
Conrad Zbikowski, a University student who works on Frey’s campaign, said he expects many students to come out to support Frey. “I think we’re really excited to see what happens tomorrow night in Dinkytown and Marcy-Holmes,” he said. Frey’s campaign will hold pre-caucus events for every precinct. The University area’s pre-caucus event will be held at Burrito Loco at 5:30 p.m. Hofstede said she hopes students turn out for the caucus because it’s a great opportunity to have their voices heard. “I just hope students get out and participate because it’s a real grassroots piece of
lice report. The student, 18, heard yelling outside his dorm room, said University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner. He saw one man yelling obscenities and racial slurs at two other men. The student knew one of the men being yelled at, so he joined the other two men and tried to get the man who was yelling to leave the hallway, Miner said. The man who was yelling suddenly entered a “fighting stance,” punched the student in the face several times and then left the hallway, Miner said. The student noticed he had a cut on his face and walked to the University Medical Center for treatment, Miner said. He received stiches for his injury. University police are still investigating the incident, Miner said. The student declined to comment.
making change,” she said. “Having students engaged is very important.” Frey said he’s excited for the first step toward a potential party endorsement. “We’ve got a ton of momentum,” he said. “We hope to show how to run a grassroots organization.” Frey said the endorsement at the convention will essentially determine the election, so the caucuses will be extremely important. Both candidates plan to make appearances at various precincts throughout the night. Check Wednesday’s Minnesota Daily for further coverage of caucus night.
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Congress is supposed to pass a Farm Bill ever y five years, and it’s “embarrassing” that it hasn’t been updated yet, said Lakefield, Minn., farmer Dan O’Connor. Colloquially known as the Farm Bill, the Agricultural Reform, Food and Jobs Act is comprehensive legislation that also funds environmental and food stamp programs. The U.S. Senate passed its version of the Farm Bill in September, but it didn’t pass through the House by the 2008 bill’s expiration date. When Congress passed legislation avoiding the sweeping budget cuts known as the fiscal cliff in Januar y, it included an extension of the 2008 Farm Bill through September of this year. Some members of Congress want to discontinue direct payments to farmers based on the number of acres they farm. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates direct payments make up 6 percent of farmers’ net income nationwide. Greg Schwarz — corn, soybean and turkey farmer in Le Sueur, Minn., and Minnesota Corn Growers Association board member — said many farmers
have their plans laid out for the next few years, so their decisions aren’t af fected much by varying Farm Bill. But bankers need to know how the government will subsidize farming to decide how to finance farmers. Schwarz is more optimistic about this session and said he thinks Congress might act as early as the end of the month.
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The Koepps have around 30,000 hog and 3,000 acres of land.
“Ther e’s some optimism,” he said. “There’s understanding that this is something that farmers need to get done.”
STAYING OPTIMISTIC
Mark Koepp said he’ll plant his corn and soybeans as soon as weather permits, and he can’t afford to waste a single day. “If we make another five bushels an acre by getting our crop planted on time,” he said, “on 3,000 acres is 15,000 bushels. … I won’t sleep for two days, and I’ll make $100,000.” While most of the countr y was hit hard by last year’s drought, Minnesota farms did better financially than they have in years, according to research from Extension economist Dale Nordquist. The lack of a current Farm Bill has only a “minor” effect on crop prices, land sales and farm income, Nordquist said. Crop prices last year for corn and soybeans — Minnesota’s two most commonly grown crops — nearly doubled from 2010. But production costs were also high last year, as the prices of land, fertilizer and technology continue to rise. Nordquist said he was surprised to see livestock farmers did well last year because high crop prices generally mean high feed costs. But many Minnesota livestock farmers grow their own feed and are more isolated from volatile crop prices. Minnesota farms were luckier than most other drought-ridden states, Nordquist said. “You don’t want to benefit from other farms’ disasters,” he said, “but that’s what really did happen.”
INHERITING THE FAMILY WAY OF LIFE
family for at least four generations. When his parents were ready to pass it on to him and his brother, John, the family went to a University of Minnesota Extension workshop for advice. The Farm Transfer and Estate Planning workshop has helped families navigate the legal paper work, tax laws and realities of passing the farm on to the next generation for nine years. Gar y Hachfeld, an Extension educator who helped start the program, said it has helped families transfer more than $355 million in assets. If far m owners pass away without having a plan in place, Minnesota law requires farm assets and holdings to be equally distributed among the heirs. This could result in tax consequences, loss of the farm or a “family feud,” Hachfeld said. “The ultimate result of that is the family doesn’t come together at Thanksgiving and Christmas and Easter,” he said, “and no one talks to one another.” To avoid this, Hachfeld said it’s important for families to identify their goals and decide what’s best for them. When the O’Connor brothers inherited the family farm, they put another succession plan into place that determined what would happen to it in every worst-case scenario imaginable. And then one came true. John O’Connor was killed in a farming accident in 2010, and his brother inherited John’s half of the family farm. Dan O’Connor said ever y family should have a plan in place that outlines what to do in these situations.
Dan O’Connor’s farm has been in his
“The wonderful thing about a family farming operation is that it’s built on generations of hard work and commitment and to waste that by not having a plan in place is a mad thing to do,” he said.
THE FUTURE OF FARMING
When O’Connor was young, working on the farm with his family was second nature. By the time he was in junior high, he was averaging 40 hours per week — and loving it. “I don’t wanna lose that,” he said. “I want my children to experience that burning desire to go get goin’ and get to work and work with the animals that you love.” O’Connor said he thinks individual farms will get bigger over the next 50 years because fewer young people are staying to take over the family farm. Mark Koepp agreed farms will either be large family operations or small organic ones. The Koepps have always been expanding their farm. Br uce Koepp bought his own acreage that he farms under his dad’s farm business so he can learn the ropes before taking over. They just built a hog bar n last year to house their 30,000 hogs, and Mark Koepp said he plans to have several hundred cattle in the next few years because he “has to” keep expanding. “We’r e always looking for profit areas,” Mark Koepp said, “some way of making money to keep it getting bigger.” O’Connor said
2012 MINNESOTA FARMS BY THE NUMBERS 81,000 FARMS 27 MILLION ACRES OF FARM LAND $15.14 BILLION IN SALES IN 2010 RANKED 5TH IN TOTAL AGRICULTURE BY STATE it’s got to be “in your blood” to be a good farmer. Mark Koepp agreed, saying it’s easier to learn things from the family over the years by helping out on the farm. “What you need to have ingrained in you is [that] the pure, raw str uggle that you go through from time to time is normal,” O’Connor said, “and you’ll get through it.”
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The Fashionista is in: on being a shop owner Advice from local shopgirls on the ups, downs and turn-arounds of owning your own clothing store. BY SHANNON RYAN sryan@mndaily.com
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o ever y budding fashionista, owning a clothing store is an ideal job. To be able to curate your own collection, albeit designed by others, sounds like the finest way to execute your fabulous personal vision of what constitutes style. It sounds glamorously intoxicating from afar, but underlying questions about the good, the bad and, the ugly side of the trade arise and advice from those who have suc-
ceeded would be beneficial. This week, I sought that advice from two local boutique owners — Barb Heinrich from Local Motion (2813 S. Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) and Bridget O’Brien fr om Cover ed (1201 Lagoon Ave., Minneapolis). With their knowledge in your closet, you’ll be one step closer to being a shop girl yourself.
Barb Heinrich, Local Motion What are some of the benefits to owning your own boutique? Well, I get to travel a lot and see the next season’s clothing lines — what’s going to be the hot thing for
the season — before many others. And you get to make your own hours. What are some downfalls? Everything affects retail, so you have to be able to weather a lot of things that happen in society. Wars really af fect people’s habits in buying clothes and so do fluctuations in the economy. You can’t predict retail; it’s so affected by outside things. Is there any set of skills that’s particularly valuable to have when opening a store? I think you just have to have a good eye and figure out who your client is going to be. And have a backup plan, too. It is a fluctuating
financial business to be in. It’s hard to just rely strictly on one boutique to be your employment. Have any advice for budding shop owners? If you want your store to last as long as mine has [27 years], you have to be persistent and weather a lot of different stuff. I want to zero in on the caution scale, but don’t get too discouraged. Be smart about it.
and she] decide ever ything that happens here, so having that kind of control and being able to execute what you envisioned is great.
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What are some downfalls? It’s so hard because you’re on your own. Growing a small business is an a w e s o m e o p p o r t u n i t y, but it’s time-consuming and costly, and there’s a lot more that goes into it. The business side, which people don’t initially think about, is a huge attribute.
What are some of the benefits to owning your own boutique? Having creative freedom. We [her two partners
Is there any set of skills that’s particularly valuable to have when opening a store? You need to have good determination and drive,
and you need to be able to manage yourself and others. And if you’re looking to open a store, you need to have a business background. But if you don’t have the eye for it — for fashion — your business is not going to succeed. Have any advice for budding shop owners? Know it’s really hard. It’s a business. One thing I can’t stress enough is experience, experience, experience; get as much experience as you can and have good suppor t around you — financial and emotional. And hire people that know how to do things that you don’t. You need to be knowledgeable in ever y realm of the business.
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Suicidal Tendencies’ original “Cyco” is back Front man Mike Muir’s intimidating appearance veils a laid-back guy who wants to put out his best effort. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
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t’s the early ’80s in Venice, Calif. Punk is evolving, skateboarders are becoming the stuff of legend and “Cyco” Mike Muir star ts the band Suicidal Tendencies. Fast for ward 30 years, and Muir’s byproduct of teenage energy is credited with pioneering the cr ossover of punk and metal, thrashing its way into the hearts of fans. But it wasn’t easy. The divided nature of the genres the band was tr ying to meld did not help its efforts. “When our first record came out, all the punk fans said it sucked, that it wasn’t punk; all the metal fans said it sucked, that it
wasn’t metal,” Muir said. “Four years later they said our second record sucked and our first one was a classic.” The band’s exposure was aided in the early success of “Institutionalized,” a hit single from its self-titled 1983 album that made waves with significant MTV airplay. Cinephiles might recognize it from the soundtrack of “Repo Man.” Now the band is hitting the road yet again, this time in support of “13,” its 13th album, the first in 13 years, which features 13 songs. “It used to be you do a record, tour for a year, get back, take a couple months off, then went into the studio to record,” Muir said. “In 2001 we got back, went into the studio and recorded, and were like, ‘Why are we putting a record out? Is this purpose or habit?’ ”
Couple that with two back surgeries, and Muir had to give it a rest — unwilling to fully give up Suicidal Tendencies but physically incapable of doing it the way he wanted to. When his health r eturned and word got out that they’d done a few shows, Muir and Suicidal Tendencies began their slow wade back into busier scheduling. They star ted accruing material for their next studio project, which turned into “13,” released last month. “Whether [making a timeless record] is possible or not, I don’t know, but for us that is more important than doing a genre-saturated album,” Muir said. “It’s like a cupcake with a lot of icing: It tastes good, but you’re not going to live off it. You’re going to pay for it eventually.” “13” brings the same raucous, rebellious feel necessar y for thrashy
PHOTO COURTESY OF ADRENALINE PR Mike Muir, crouching center, is the only original member of the punk metal pioneers Suicidal Tendencies.
punk-metal to be successful. Black Sabbath undertones, par ty chor uses befitting punk anthems and stick-breaking drumming quickly shift songs into high gear. Top it of f with guitars that wail in far from fuzzy ways: piercing, slicing and climbing their way through songs like an intrepid Sherpa in the Hi-
malayas. Muir clearly hasn’t lost the intensity that gave the bandana-wearing, muscled man his initial reputation as one to be reckoned with. But his humor and “take-it-with-a-grain-ofsalt” mentality are what make the man behind “Cyco” oddly endearing. “People were listening
to [our music] for what they thought it was going to be rather than what it was,” Muir said. “You know, if you’re expecting to eat pizza and you go to a Thai restaurant and there’s no pizza, some people will be disappointed. But other people will be like ‘Wow, that smells good, this is a chance to tr y something.’ ”
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Not so funny now The line between news and entertainment is getting blurrier, and our national discourse is suffering because of it.
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toward inter views and other opinion-based segments. Ironically, in a recent segment on “The Daily Show,” correspondent John Oliver investigates why CNN had decided to eliminate its investigative jour nalism depar tment. In the segment, media analyst Brad Adgate of fers his explanation: This type of reporting is just not profitable, and so it has no place in modern media. This is the core of the issue. networks like Fox and MSNBC have shown that profitability comes from having big personalities comment on current events. It has become more important for newscasters to have an opinion on a topic than to understand it. The result is that ever y stor y is contorted into
a false dichotomy of right vs. left, liberal vs. conservative. Take, for example, the perennial hot-button issue of gun control. Outside of the nar rative, its fundamental disagreement is relatively simple: Some believe that the safety of innocent civilians is paramount; others believe that the rights defined in the Second Amendment take precedent. There are legitimate debates to be had about exactly what those rights are and whether they are the superior method of keeping civilians safe, but people often forget that no one wants a madman to murder a bunch of children. Unfortunately, this debate gets twisted into one between “gun nuts” and “constitutional oath-breakers,” and it leads to ridiculous events such as Alex Jones’ rant on “Piers Morgan Live” or the current congressional gridlock taking place between Republicans and Democrats. We ought to remember that putting a person like Alex Jones on live national television will likely end in insanity and that, of the 535
DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 112,043- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,265 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN
people responsible for enacting national gun laws, 288 of them — 54 percent — have received donations from the National Rifle Association. Our news coverage broadly compounds these problems. If people are only exposed to the national discussion through the framework of left vs. right, it follows that they will par ticipate within that framework. All of this stems from the need for ratings. News organizations strive to create the most entertaining product so their ad revenues are as high as possible. And it’s pretty entertaining to watch two clearly af fected people scream at each other about something that, in the grand scheme of things, probably doesn’t matter all that much. Unfor tunately, its entertainment value does not correlate highly with its journalistic importance. This fusion of news and entertainment is responsible for the rapid decline of the news industry. Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.
POLITICS
Bachmann vs. Graves: round two
Jim Graves will run against Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann for a second time.
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gun purchase, have been scaled back considerably from their initial form. Most of these proposed policies, including banning assault weapons and large-capacity magazines and adjusting firearm possession penalties, do not even acknowledge the implications of gun availability on suicide. One of the few bills, House File 184, which attempts to address this by creating a voluntary registry for someone who does not wish to be allowed to purchase a firearm, has not been scheduled for a committee hearing. We should never discount the importance of ways to address mental health problems, including reducing stigma, building community support structures and providing better access to treatment services. These policies require long-term planning and investment, as well as a change in culture that will take time. But by starting with polices that prevent people who are most at-risk of suicide from accessing a firearm, we can address the most immediate cause of death, the gun itself. In public health, we aim to prevent injury and death within the population. Limiting access to guns is not just about keeping students and the community safe from violent crime. It’s about keeping our friends, neighbors and fellow students safe as they continue through what is likely one of the most stressful periods of their lives.
ast week, I was ecstatic to read that Jim Graves, the founder of AmericInn, has decided to run against Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann for a RONALD DIXON second time. columnist As a constituent of Minnesota’s 6th Congressional District, I have proudly volunteered against Bachmann. My first experience was during the 2010 elections with state Sen. Tarryl Clark, where I phonebanked and knocked on doors around Blaine, Minn., the town where I live. My second experience was phone banking on the University of Minnesota campus in support of Graves. Now, I will be gladly contributing to the 2014 campaign of Graves against Bachmann. Graves does not have a legislative history, given the fact that his career has been mostly focused on developing the AmericInn hotel chain, which has created several hundred jobs in Minnesota. However, he would push for other kinds of meaningful reforms, too. He believes in education investments — he also used to be an elementary school teacher — as well as retaining Social Security. He supports same-sex and reproductive rights as well. Not only is Graves a great congressional candidate, but Bachmann is a terrible legislator. She has not sponsored any piece of legislation that has been signed into law and has used her years in office to obstruct bills and to promote extreme rhetoric. She is currently under an investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics for unfair treatment of campaign staff members. She has spent more time attempting to promote herself than actually legislating. Her biggest accomplishment in the House was the creation of the Tea Party Caucus, an infamous subsection of the Republican Party. Of course, let us not forget when Bachmann actually spouts her rhetoric. From the claim that human papillomavirus vaccines are linked to “mental retardation” to the accusation that Obamacare “literally” kills people, to her ignorance on climate change and the environment, she appears to lack a basic understanding of reality. Graves was only 4,300 votes away from defeating Bachmann last November; let’s hope that he is successful this time around.
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Suicide and gun policies
In Minnesota, guns kill one person and injure another each day. While the media draws attention to murders and mass shootings, three-fourths of fire-
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n 2009, an online poll by T ime Magazine found that Jon Stewar t was America’s most tr usted newscaster. Simultaneous joy and hor ror aside, this result is telling in regard to the current state of the news media. When a comedian on a fake news show is the most trusted anchor in America, there is a problem. This is not meant as a slight against Jon Stewar t. I, like many Americans my age, get much of my news fr om “The Daily Show.” Rather, this obser vation is meant as a criticism of our more traditional news outlets, CNN, Fox, MSNBC and so on. It is well documented that the cur rent trend in news media is to move away from investigative journalism and
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arm deaths are suicides, not violent crimes. In 2010, of the approximately 600 Minnesotans who committed suicide, nearly half used a gun. And University of Minnesota students should be concerned about suicide, especially as it relates to mental health. Depression is our students’ most frequently repor ted mental health condition, and the percentage of students reporting a diagnosis of depression has consistently increased, from 12.3 percent in 1998 to more than 25 percent in 2012. Suicide is in the top-three causes of death for young adults in Minnesota and nationwide, and 6 percent of students in Minnesota have reported having serious thoughts of suicide in the last year. That’s around 4,000 students at the University of Minnesota campuses. Suicide rates are tied to gun availability; the more guns that are available, the more suicides occur — and not just gun-related suicides. However, guns are a particularly lethal tool, so having access to a gun gives someone who is depressed and considering suicide a much higher chance of succeeding. Over the last several months, many policy solutions have been proposed to attempt to reduce or eliminate shooting deaths. But efforts to limit or reduce access to guns have been met at the state Legislature with staunch opposition. So much so that several bills introduced in the House and Senate have not been voted out of committee or, as in the case of a bill designed to require universal background checks for any
Energy Options campaign Residents should support a resolution to include a referendum for municipal power.
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he Minneapolis Energy Options campaign has worked to educate citizens and encourage Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party precinct caucus attendance to support resolutions to help make Minneapolis’ energy more sustainable and cost effective. The resolutions would include adoption of preference for several options in the upcoming renegotiation with Xcel Energy and CenterPoint Energy franchise agreements, with DFL support to place and pass a ballot referendum in November to authorize the city to pursue the option of municipal ownership of energy utilities. Other options include support for tougher negotiations over sustainable energy adoption and shorter contract periods — the current contract has been in effect for 20 years. The city recently adopted a plan to study the challenges associated with public ownership of the energy utilities, including what legislative changes would be necessary to implement other possible options. Under existing state law, the city would not be able to establish municipal ownership without voter approval and is severely constrained in negotiation authority. Passage of the ballot referendum as proposed by the Minneapolis Energy Options campaign would give the city approval from the electorate and remove the first of these obstacles to improve its negotiating position, even if municipal ownership is not fully realized. Boulder, Colo., recently began the process to convert to municipal ownership instead of continued reliance on Xcel after a similar ballot referendum passed, despite Xcel and the Boulder Smart Energy Coalition outspending supporters by 10-1. Although there have been challenges, including litigation from Xcel over efforts to acquire infrastructure, Xcel has accepted a conciliatory stance and has substantially improved efforts to meet municipal sustainability goals instead of shareholder profit goals.
Endorsements for local candidates Delegates and students should consider these candidates at the DFL caucuses and conventions.
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he Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party caucuses are Tuesday night at 7 p.m., where Minneapolis residents can volunteer to become delegates to ward and city conventions. Students and members of the University of Minnesota community should participate regardless of what candidate they support or if they remain undecided on local candidates. We currently support Gary Schiff for mayor of Minneapolis. Schiff is tied to the University, having worked with numerous groups of students and young people, and he is also a University alumnus. Schiff’s work on foreclosures, affordable housing and effective public transportation addresses major problems in Minneapolis. We urge residents of Ward 3 (Dinkytown and Marcy-Holmes) to support Jacob Frey for City Council. Frey has spoken about important issues for University students and our community, such as early voting and no-excuse absentee voting, restoring cuts to the renter’s credit and addressing parking and transportation issues. We urge Ward 6 (West Bank) residents to support Robert Lilligren for City Council. Ward 6 has arguably seen the greatest change with the redrawn wards. But residents should continue to support Lilligren’s leadership, which has been proven in his efforts with the Midtown Exchange, reopening of Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street and his commitment to the diversity of his constituents. We urge Ward 10 (Uptown) residents to support Lisa Bender for City Council because she will work on eliminating or reducing parking minimums, creating protected bikeways and supporting bus and streetcar systems. She will bring urban planning expertise and experience to the City Council. For ward and precinct locations, check the City of Minneapolis website or contact any of the candidates’ campaigns.
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After rough start, Hageman becomes leader it was pretty clear that he was a special talent and had some abilities that most kids never have.” Though happy to be in a stable home, Ra’Shede said kids looked at him differently because he had white parents. He also struggled to fit in, especially in his freshman and sophomore years of high school. In that time, he turned to sports. “It wasn’t popular to focus on school,” Hageman said, adding that many of his Washburn High School classmates joined gangs instead. “Doing some type of after-school program kept me focused and out of trouble.” Hageman was one of the top-ranked high school tight ends in the nation and was also a highly touted basketball recruit. But he decided to pursue collegiate football. Hageman received football scholarship offers from top schools such as Florida and Ohio State, both of which had won national championships in the past 10 years at the time. Despite the offers from prestigious programs, he chose to stay near home. “He really knew at that time that he needed to be close to home so he could mature,” said Giovan Jenkins, Hageman’s football coach at Washburn.
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But Kill gave him the oppor tunity he needed. Hageman has since developed into a force in the middle of the Gophers’ defense, commanding double teams and giving his teammates oppor tunities to make plays. “For what he’s done in his life to get where he’s at now, credit his high school coach, credit his family that he’s with and credit Ra’Shede for wanting to change and be an impact,” Kill said.
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weat soaking through his tripleXL jersey, Hageman stands away from the other defensive linemen, hands on his massive hips. When the drill resumes, he channels his energy and past fr ustrations into the offensive lineman in front of him. “I’m the type to just bear my emotions and leave it on the field,” Hageman said. “That’s why I’m so physical and so angr y on the field.” That anger stemmed from a turbulent childhood. Bor n in 1990 in Lansing, Mich., Hageman never knew his father. His mother struggled to care for him and his younger brother, Xavier. She put the boys in foster care, where Ra’Shede struggled with anger issues. Ra’Shede and Xavier went through 12 foster homes in their early years, but they found a permanent home in 1998. That year, Eric Hageman and Jill Coyle, a pair of Minneapolis lawyers, were looking to adopt. They came across a video made by Ra’Shede and Xavier’s social worker and decided to adopt the boys. Hageman and Coyle gave the boys a stable home — and Ra’Shede a chance to play organized sports. His new parents soon recognized his athletic potential. “He was always extremely athletic and was always ver y big for his age, too,” Eric Hageman said. “So in combination,
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ageman lines up in a three-point stance and stares at the offensive guard across from him. Of fensive coordinator Matt Limegrover blows his whistle, and Hageman explodes off the line. The guard blocks his way. Hageman tries to go left but is pushed fur ther outside. “There’s no [expletive] room here!” he yells loud enough for everyone to hear. Hageman is still learning the nuances of defensive tackle, a position he started just two years ago. He said he is working on improving his strength and explosiveness this spring. Hageman predominately played tight end in high school but switched to defensive end after arriving at Minnesota. He redshirted the 2009 season while learning the position, contrib-
RA’SHEDE HAGEMAN STATISTICS 2009 2010 2011 2012 TOTAL
Games played redshirted 8 12 13 33
Tackles 5 13 35 53
Unassisted tackles 1 10 20 31
Assisted tackles 4 3 15 22
Sacks 0 2 6 8
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
PHOTO COURTESY ERIC HAGEMAN
AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY
From left to right: Ra’Shede Hageman, his biological brother Xavier Hageman, and his adoptive family: brother Joel Hageman, mother Jill Coyle, father Eric Hageman, sister Lizzy Hageman and brother Hank Hageman.
Defensive lineman Ra’Shede Hageman rests between drills April 6 at the GibsonNagurski Football Complex. Hageman will anchor the Gophers’ defense in the 2013 season.
uted minimally in 2010 and switched to defensive tackle in 2011. Hageman str uggled academically in his first two years on campus and was suspended for the last three games of 2010 for his poor academic performance by then-interim head coach Jeff Horton That offseason, the newly hired Kill sat down with Hageman to discuss his future on the team. “He made it real simple,” Hageman said. “Either you’re going to go this way or you’re going to go that way. And I just chose the right direction.” Since his talk with Kill, Hageman has focused more on school and football, though he has gotten in trouble with coaches for two off-the-field incidents. In the summer of 2011, Hageman got a citation for throwing a “party that was out of control,” he said. He went incident-free through the 2011 season and played in all 12 games. But Hageman had another incident last summer. He was arrested at Sally’s Saloon & Eater y last May after tr ying to break up a fight between his teammates and high school friends. He was charged with disorderly conduct, but the charge was later dropped. “I got caught in the action,” Hageman said. “Just me being the biggest one out there, the police grabbed me and started asking me questions and what-
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Ra’Shede Hageman has devoted his offseason to improving his strength, according to coaches.
not.” After the incident, Hageman focused mor e on school and football and also broke off relationships with some of his high school friends. That decision led to a successful 2012 campaign. Hageman recorded three sacks and a forced fumble in his first four games last season, all Gophers wins. He contributed more modestly during the Big Ten season and finished with 35 tackles and six sacks, which earned him honorable mention all-Big Ten Honors. This offseason, coaches say Hageman has been locked in. “He’s comfortable, he’s not thinking, he’s strong,” Kill said after an early spring practice. “This is the most focused I’ve seen Ra’Shede since I’ve been here.”
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Minnesota defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman lines up against Michigan State on Nov. 24, 2012, at TCF Bank Stadium. Hageman has played in every game in the past two seasons after playing minimally in 2010.
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ageman sits out the next few plays while Phelps gives him coaching. He eventually jumps back in. This time around, he wins. He gets ar ound the of fensive lineman and into the backfield. But he doesn’t show any emotion. He runs back to the defensive line and gets ready for the next play. Hageman will graduate this summer with a bachelor’s degree in youth studies though he’ll still be with
SOFTBALL
Gophers take schedule changes in stride an ominous weather forecast caused a postponement. The doubleheader will come two days after Minnesota was forced to play a home series more than 500 miles from Jane Sage Cowles Stadium. The Gophers took that schedule change — a result of bad weather in Minnesota
BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com
Awful weather has forced the Gophers softball team to be flexible early in the Big Ten season. Minnesota will play Nebraska on Tuesday in a doubleheader that was scheduled to take place last week before
SOFTBALL PREVIEW
Nebraska sits in third, so the doubleheader could be crucial in determining seeds for the Big Ten tournament. Nebraska has won two of three games against both Iowa and Wisconsin this season. Minnesota won two of three against Wisconsin and swept Iowa. Nebraska is 2-0 against Northwestern, a team that took two of three from Minnesota.
BIG TEN BASEBALL STANDINGS
LAST WEEK’S RANKING
THIS WEEK’S RANKING
BIG TEN PERCENT
OVERALL RECORD PERCENT
TEAM
RECORD
Minnesota
7-2
.778
22-13
.629
Michigan
7-2
.778
20-14
.588
Indiana
8-4
.667
26-7
.788
Nebraska
8-4
.667
14-19
.424
Ohio State
7-5
.583
23-11
.676
Illinois
5-4
.556
22-10
.688
Michigan State
5-4
.556
21-11
.656
Northwestern
4-8
.333
14-13
.519
Purdue
4-8
.333
11-22
.333
Iowa
2-7
.222
12-18
.400
Penn State
0-9
.000
7-24
.226
SOURCE: BIG TEN
BASEBALL PREVIEW
GOPHERS IN THE POLLS
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— in stride and swept Illinois in its own stadium. The team left Illinois on Sunday night and traveled directly to Lincoln, Neb. Minnesota head coach Jessica Allister said Sunday that she planned to get a practice in Monday, which was the silver lining in traveling directly from Illinois to Nebraska. Minnesota sits in second place in the Big Ten, and
the Gophers for his senior season. He said after his football career ends, he’d like to become a firefighter. “I don’t ever want to be behind a desk doing paperwork and falling asleep,” he said. “I want to do something active.” But for now, he’s focused on football. “He’s going to keep getting better,” Kill said. “He stays healthy and continues to do what he needs to do in school and all those other things, he’s untapped.”
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4 p.m. and 6 p.m., Tuesday in Lincoln, Neb.
3:05 p.m., Tuesday at Siebert Field
MINNESOTA: Sophomore shortstop Tyler Walker was named Big Ten Co-Player of the Week after a weekend in which she had three home runs and five RBIs. The Gophers jumped to No. 2 in the Big Ten standings after sweeping Illinois last weekend. Minnesota is 9-3 in the conference and trails only Michigan (12-0). With Tuesday’s doubleheader, the Gophers will have played five games in four days.
MINNESOTA: Fresh off a three-game sweep of Northwestern, the Gophers are scheduled to play a midweek game for the first time in three weeks. Minnesota’s last three midweek games were canceled or postponed, two because of poor weather. Tuesday is expected to be partly cloudy with temperatures in the mid-40s. The Gophers have won six of their last seven games while allowing fewer than two runs on average.
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NEBRASKA: The Huskers have an 8-3 Big Ten record and are third in the conference standings. Nebraska won two of three games at home against Wisconsin last weekend. Three batters in Nebraska’s lineup are batting above .300. SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
AUGSBURG: The Division III Auggies haven’t played since April 7 because of poor weather. But when it does play, Augsburg is pretty good. The Auggies are 146 this season against other lower-tier schools. The Gophers defeated Augsburg 7-1 last April. SOURCES: TROESTER.COM
SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM
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BACKTALK
horoscopes
Today’s Birthday (4/16): Personal growth colors this year, as you shed limitations and develop healthier, happier practices. Self and public image both get a boost, as communication buzz opens new doors.
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Stay close to home, and celebrate your friends and family. Others may come to you with problems. Simply listening can be a great help.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Establish your message clearly, and maintain team communications. You’re entering a two-day responsibility phase. Use it to forge ahead.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — What you learn now can help you immensely. Study intensely. Your partner has some constructive criticism; listen like each word is worth gold.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Write down long-range goals. Strategize to increase your reserves. Don’t talk about money, or offer to pick up the bill.
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 an 8 — Natural beauty catches your eye. Provide detailed information, and listen for what others can provide. Keep careful notes.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Manage finances. A lack of funds threatens your plans. Be frugal, and keep quiet about money for now. Better cash flow lies ahead.
For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Believing in yourself is part of the game. Go and accomplish the impossible. It’s worth trying. You’re especially charming, too.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Today and tomorrow are especially good for compromise, which is useful when controversy arises. Keep accounts separate.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Complete projects now. Listen to advice from an authority figure. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Learn new tricks. Postpone a shopping trip.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — There’s too much work coming in. Gather support from partners, and make your workplace more comfortable. Select what you want carefully.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Gather input from others. You’re learning quickly. Don’t shop for a few days or get sucked into distracting discussions. Stay focused.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Your nerves will become less frazzled soon. Ignore a nasty tone. A goal gets achieved. Accept a loved one’s support and a compliment.
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013
overheard Girl 1: “Oh, I have to have you listen to this new band I found!” Girl 2: “What are they called? Girl 1: “They’re called The Beatles. They must be some sort of new hipster band.”
—Science Teaching and Student Services building
Girl 1: “American mangos are so gross.” Girl 2: “What, are African mangos better?” Girl 1: “Yes! Way better! It tastes like sex in your mouth!”
—Target
“I’ve never hated winter as much as I do this spring.”
—Outside Akerman Hall
Guy: “Everytime I pass a buffet, I say ‘God bless America.’ ”
—Dinkytown
“I was literally walking around campus with two bags full of sexy toys.”
—Middlebrook dining hall
Girl: “I’m not as drunk as you think I do!”
—Dinkytown
“Me seeing my son shouldn’t have anything to do with me getting my weed.”
—Outside the St. Paul Student Center
Girl: “He gave me a Ravenclaw shirt with my name on the back. That was so cute.”
—Outside Annie’s Parlour
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Girl: “I told him I didn’t wanna [expletive], and then he poked me with his penis.”
—Unknown
“I’d suck a man’s dick for a donut right now.”
—Middlebrook Hall
“I’ve only been in one fight, and I’m a soccer player … so I threw him to the ground and kicked him.”
—Health and wellness class
Professor: “Males, what makes you cry?” Guy 1: “ ‘ Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.’ ” Guy 2: “When the dog dies in ‘I Am Legend.’ ” Guy 3: “ ‘ Toy Story 3.’ ”
—Mechanical Engineering building
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ACROSS ACROSS 1 Soccer officials 5 “You __ dead!”: “I’m telling mom!” 10 Location 14 Berry in healthy smoothies 15 “No way!” 16 Jazz classic “Take __ Train” 17 Lost color in one’s cheeks 19 Greasy spoon grub 20 Hit hard 21 Like blue hair 22 “Faust” dramatist 24 Fred’s dancing sister 26 Bartender’s twist 28 Beer to drink on Cinco de Mayo 30 Four quarters 31 Tax agcy. 32 Archaic “once” 33 Talk show pioneer Jack 36 Residential bldg. units 38 Stack of unsolicited manuscripts 41 Bush secretary of labor Elaine 43 Madeline of “Blazing Saddles” 44 Emails the wrong person, say 48 U.S./Canada’s __ Canals 49 Sunrise direction, in Köln 51 Buyer’s “beware” 53 Tribal carving 57 Go 58 City on the Rio Grande 59 Feed the kitty 61 “Cool” monetary amt. 62 Even-handed 63 It may be filled with a garden hose 66 Helsinki resident 67 Actress Burstyn 68 Hip-swiveling dance 69 Vexes 70 Extremely poor 71 Ruin Bond’s martini
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DOWN DOWN 1 Daily grind 2 Besides Chile, the only South American country that doesn’t border Brazil 3 __ market 4 Break a Commandment 5 “Toy Story” boy 6 Fend off 7 Dance around 8 Somme salt 9 Where Nike headquarters is 10 Considerable, as discounts 11 Terse critical appraisal 12 Ties to a post, as a horse 13 Art gallery props 18 Delightful spot 23 “Paper Moon” Oscar winner Tatum 25 Many, informally 27 Change from vampire to bat, say 29 Kwik-E-Mart owner on “The Simpsons” 34 Extend an invitation for
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dr. date Dr. Date,
I have a biological problem. I used to be able to come with flying colors every time my guy and I had sex. But lately I haven’t been, and I really don’t know why. We are trying to figure out what works for me, but it isn’t helping and is only putting a strain and pressure on both of us. What can I do to figure out how I can get back to the best part of boning? How can I tell my guy that it’s not his fault but still suggest things he can try?
—WTFrustrated
Dear F***strated,
Welcome to the miserable Island of Dry Spell. It is natural for every relationship to vacation here every once in a while. The trip usually doesn’t last long, and with a few of my helpful hints, I’m sure you can draw your own roadmap back to Pleasureville. First of all, I would be surprised if you and your long-term partner had amazing, acrobatic, simultaneous-orgasm sex every time — surprised and jealous, so stop freaking out. Remember, this isn’t forever. Your big O finish will return, but the more you put that pressure on yourself, the less likely you are to have a happy ending. Next, remember the journey is the destination. Perhaps you are having trouble building to that moment of ecstasy because you aren’t in the moment. It all adds up in the end. As far as your man friend is concerned, I would take some time to do a little solo travel before you sign him on for the orgasm-rescue mission. Once you arrive safely, it will be easier to give him concise and clear direction. Bon Voyage, and Godspeed.
—Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
I recently went to my new boyfriend’s apartment for the first time. He lives with five other guys, and it was disgusting. There were dirty dishes on the living room
floor, there was moldy food in the fridge and the bathroom looked like it hadn’t been cleaned in years. I really don’t want to go back until it’s clean — and I definitely don’t want to stay the night there — but I’m not sure how to bring it up without offending him.
—Grossed Out
Dear Gross Patrol,
I’m shocked at how shocked you are at six college-age dudes sharing a living space. It’s going to be gross, duh. Here’s what happens when a bunch of bros live together. They never put the seat down. They give everything the sniff test before they put it on. They use a single sponge for an entire year. They don’t establish boundaries about food or common spaces, so they assume that everything is another guy’s problem, and they don’t deal with it. They will attempt to clean — spray some Lysol and maybe take out the trash — before a big party, and then the house gets trashed to the point where it is worse than before the cleaning. The cycle repeats. They wallow in their filth and then move out and let their landlord deal with it. Welcome to college. You have two options to deal with this situation. If you really want to stay at your boy’s party palace but can’t stay in it in its current state, you can clean it. You’ll be comfortable, but if you’re not careful, you’ll quickly become a live-in maid. The other option is to never stay at the dude’s house. If he asks why, tell him that it’s because his house is a pigsty and you don’t want to wake up smelling like gin-vomit and hotdogs. You may be surprised that your little proclamation will inspire a very Martha Stewart attitude in the house. Because your boy likes you, he’ll want you to like him — and that includes his living quarters. They may not be perfect after his first sweep-through, but his effort should be enough for one sleepover at least.
—Dr. Date
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were missing from window panes as high as three stories. “They just star ted bringing people in with no limbs,” said r unner Tim Davey of Richmond, Va. He said he and his wife, Lisa, tried to shield their children’s eyes from the gr uesome scene inside a medical tent that had been set up to care for fatigued r unners, but “they saw a lot.” “They just kept filling up with more and more casualties,” Lisa Davey said. “Most ever ybody was conscious. They were very
dazed.” As the FBI took charge of the investigation, authorities shed no light on a motive or who may have carried out the bombings, and police said they had no suspects in custody. Officials in Washington said there was no immediate claim of responsibility. Police said three people were killed. An 8-year-old boy was among the dead, according to a person who talked to a friend of the family and spoke on condition of anonymity. Hospitals repor ted at least 144 people injured, at least 17 of them critically. The victims’ injuries included broken bones, shrapnel wounds and ruptured eardrums.
At Massachusetts General Hospital, Alisdair Conn, chief of emergency ser vices, said: “This is something I’ve never seen in my 25 years here ... this amount of carnage in the civilian population. This is what we expect from war.” Some 23,000 r unners took part in the race, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious marathons. One of Boston’s biggest annual events, the race winds up near Copley Square, not far from the landmark Prudential Center and the Boston Public Librar y. It is held on Patriots Day, which commemorates the first battles of the American Revolution, at Concord and Lexington in 1775.
Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis asked people to stay indoors or go back to their hotel rooms and avoid crowds as bomb squads methodically checked parcels and bags left along the race route. He said investigators didn’t know whether the bombs were hidden in mailboxes or trash cans. He said authorities had received “no specific intelligence that anything was going to happen” at the race. The Federal Aviation Administration bar red low-flying aircraft within 3.5 miles of the site. “We still don’t know who did this or why,” Obama said at the White House, adding, “Make no mistake: We will get to the bottom of this.” With scant of ficial information to guide them, members of Congress said there was little or no doubt it was an act of terrorism. “We just don’t know whether it’s foreign or domestic,” said Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security. A few miles away from the finish line and around the same time, a fire broke out at the John F. Kennedy Library. The police commissioner said that it may have been caused by an incendiar y device but that it was not clear whether it was related to the bombings. The first explosion occurred on the north side of Boylston Street, just before the finish line, and some people initially thought it was a celebrator y cannon blast.
When the second bomb went off, spectators’ cheers turned to screams. As sirens blared, emergency workers and National Guardsmen who had been assigned to the race for crowd control began climbing over and tearing down temporar y fences to get to the blast site. The bombings occurred about four hours into the race and two hours after the men’s winner crossed the finish line. By that point, more than 17,000 of the athletes had finished the marathon, but thousands more were still running. The attack may have been timed for maximum car nage: The four-hour mark is typically a crowded time near the finish line because of the slow-butsteady recreational runners completing the race and because of all the friends and relatives clustered around to cheer them on. Runners in the medical tent for treatment of dehydration or other race-related ills were pushed out to make room for victims of the bombing. A woman who was a few feet from the second bomb, Brighid Wall, 35, of Duxbur y, said that when it exploded, r unners and spectators froze, unsure of what to do. Her husband threw their children to the ground, lay on top of them and another man lay on top of them and said, “Don’t get up, don’t get up.” After a minute or so without another explosion, Wall said, she and her family headed to a Starbucks and out the back door
through an alley. Around them, the windows of the bars and restaurants were blown out. She said she saw six to eight people bleeding profusely, including one man who was kneeling, dazed, with blood trickling down his head. Another person was on the ground covered in blood and not moving. “My ears are zinging. Their ears are zinging,” Wall said. “It was so forceful. It knocked us to the ground.” Competitors and race volunteers were cr ying as they fled the chaos. Authorities went onto the course to carr y away the injured, while race stragglers were rerouted away from the smoking site. Roupen Bastajian, a state trooper from Smithfield, R.I., had just finished the race when he heard the blasts. “I star ted r unning toward the blast. And there were people all over the floor,” he said. “We started grabbing tourniquets and started tying legs. A lot of people amputated. ... At least 25 to 30 people have at least one leg missing, or an ankle missing, or two legs missing.” The race honored the victims of the Newtown, Conn., shooting with a special mile marker in Monday’s race. Boston Athletic Association president Joanne Flaminio previously said there was “special significance” to the fact that the race is 26.2 miles long and 26 people died at Sandy Hook Elementar y School.