April 17, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

Agriculture Day brings St. Paul to East Bank

Students used animals to teach everyone about food production. u See PAGE 3

CAMPUS & METRO

CSE groups reach out to students

The groups work to pique high schoolers’ interest in CSE. u See PAGE 5

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BEER

Brewery to set up in U’s backyard

U OF M

WOMEN’S SOCCER

CAMPUS & METRO

Sophomore forward Taylor Uhl scored 21 of the Gophers’ 44 goals last season.

Student groups gathered for the 3rd annual Mental Health Awareness Day.

Students unite to support mental health

Top scorer asks for release, will transfer

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MINNEAPOLIS

ST PAUL

WEDNESDAY

APRIL 17, 2013

SCIENCE

Crashing science into dance

HEALTH

Now past talk of mergers, U and Fairview look forward New leadership and legislation could still affect Fairview, which includes the U Medical Center.

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

Administrators, students and state legislators are looking to the future of Fairview Health Ser vices and the University of Minnesota Medical Center after two merger proposals fell through last week.

The potential acquisition of Fair view

by South Dakota-based Sanford Health caused a stir among Minnesotans last month; a similar proposal from the University came to light a week later.

Minnesota Attor ney General Lori Swanson held a public hearing to investigate the Sanford merger’s effects on the state and the UMMC on April 7. Sanford CEO Kelby Krabbenhoft pulled out of talks three days later, and Fair view announced it would not consider a merger with the University.

Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, attended the hearing last Sunday and said she thinks the announcement was a reaction to Swanson’s heavy interrogation of the Sanford executives.

“They saw the public process in Minnesota as opposed to South Dakota, and I think they just decided they didn’t need to get into this,” Kahn said.

Many medical students were glad the merger between Sanford and Fairview didn’t go through, said University Medical Student Council president Amin Alishahi. But, he added, they hope a deal between Fair view and the University is still viable.

Several schools throughout the countr y u See FAIRVIEW Page 3 Some think the University could benefit from buying UMMC from Fairview.

Lecturer and alumna finished race before bombs

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

After running 26.2 miles in four hours on little food and water, University of Minnesota alumna Brittany Pentek needed Gatorade and a change of clothes.

Jennifer Bhalla, a lecturer in the University’s School of Kinesiology, had just returned to her hotel room after finishing her second Boston Marathon.

Then the bombs went off.

The women were blocks from where two bombs exploded Monday at the finish line of the Boston Marathon — an attack that killed three people and wounded more than 170.

“I just said ‘What was that?’ That was not a normal noise for a marathon finish,” Pentek said.

FBI investigators found the bombs consisted of explosives placed in 1.6 gallon

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

u See SURLY Page 12 The company received more than $2M in grants for environmental cleanup of the “blighted” site.

BOSTON

The women were blocks away when bombs exploded near the finish line Monday in Boston.

Prospect Park will soon be home to Surly Brewing Co.’s ‘destination brewery.’

Hell, Furious and Bender can already be found at more than 500 Minnesota bars and restaurants, but now Surly Brewing Company will be closer than ever to the University of Minnesota campus and its students.

The Brooklyn Center-based brewer y announced Monday its purchase of more than eight acres in Prospect Park, about five blocks from TCF Bank Stadium.

Construction for a $20 million “destination brewer y” including a bar, restaurant, beer garden and event center will begin in the fall, pending environmental cleanup of the site.

The location suits Surly’s need for a brewer y that will produce 100,000 barrels of beer a year, Surly founder and president Omar Ansari said in a news release.

“It took us two years to find the perfect location, and now we’re finally ready to plant the Surly flag in the Prospect Park area,” Ansari said.

Chris Ferguson, who owns the Stadium Village Dair y Queen/Orange Julius, said he was ver y pleased with the purchase.

“I think it’s great,” he said. “The more places you have that drive traf fic and drive people into the area, that’s going to be good for the area.”

City Councilman Cam Gordon, who represents the site’s ward, said he shared

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u See BOSTON Page 5 State Sen. Scott Dibble also competed but finished before the explosion and didn’t see or hear anything.

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Black Label Movement dancers rehearse the collaborative piece of biomedical engineering professor David Odde and dance associate professor Carl Flink on April 9 at the People Center’s Gym on the West Bank campus.

A U engineering prof. and dance prof. collaborate to create demonstrate cell science through dance.

BY REBECCA HARRINGTON rharrington@mndaily.com

biomedical engineering profes-

Jessica Ehlert, feet black-

Ar ts and Dance Depar tment

ened from the rehearsal floor,

Chair Carl Flink started collab-

ran full-speed across the dance

orating four years ago after at-

studio. She leapt, latching onto

tending a workshop on finding

another dancer, who caught

chaos in different disciplines.

sor David Odde and Theatre,

her and crashed into two oth-

Odde said he saw Flink’s

ers, knocking them around the

dancers per for m, and the

rehearsal space like pool balls.

dance reminded him of what

An unlikely partnership be-

cells look like under a micro-

tween a dancer and a scientist

scope.

inspired the choreography.

It can take years of re-

The dancers will per form a

search to design mathematical

portion of it at the TEDMED

models simulating the interior

talk in Washington, D.C., on

of a cell on computers, Odde

Wednesday night, as well as

said. But dancing the motions

demonstrate the activity inside

is much faster.

a cell through dance.

“We’re simply brainstorm-

University of Minnesota

ing competing ideas on how

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Pitino set to follow role models’ paths Gophers coach Richard Pitino learned under two national champion coaches.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

Empty white walls draped Gophers men’s basketball coach Richard Pitino’s office. Only hooks remained from what could have been Tubby Smith’s old décor.

Twelve days into his new position, Pitino has been buzzing through individual player workouts, hiring staff and taking the first steps in recruiting.

But he’s not settled in yet.

“Far, far from it,” Pitino said. “We’ll get there eventually. Don’t have time for that yet.”

Granted his first big-time gig at the age of 30, Pitino won’t let his one year of head coaching experience dwarf the fact he’s learned under some of the game’s greatest minds.

The Massachusetts native worked u See PITINO Page 8 In his first year as head coach, Richard Pitino led FIU to its first winning season in 13 years.

CITY POLITICS

Frey, Hofstede vie for DFL support The Ward 3 City Council candidates caucused across U area neighborhoods Tuesday.

BY BRIAN AROLA barola@mndaily.com

University of Minnesota students overwhelmingly supported Jacob Frey to be their next city councilman Tuesday night at the DFL precinct caucuses near campus.

Minneapolis City Councilwoman Diane Hofstede and her challenger Frey were looking to grab delegates and suppor t Tuesday in hopes of securing their party’s endorsement in early May. Hofstede and Frey are contending for the City Council spot representing parts of the University area. Each spoke throughout the ward in hopes of securing residents that will ultimately vote on which candidate should receive the party’s coveted endorsement.

The two are the only candidates for the council seat and are both DemocraticFarmer-Labor Party members, so a party endorsement could determine who wins the election in November.

While University students in Dinkytown

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minneapolis lawyer and Ward 3 City Council candidate Jacob Frey, center, talks to marketing and international business senior Gage Kaefring, right, and global studies junior Marissa Kramer at a pre-caucus party for Frey on Tuesday at Burrito Loco in Dinkytown. and Marcy-Holmes largely supported Frey, u See CAUCUS Page 4 different precincts offered glimpses of Hofstede’s support looked strong among the where support lies for each candidate. middle-aged and senior citizen attendees.

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RABAT — Mor occo on Tuesday canceled its annual militar y exercises with the United States after the Obama administration backed having the U.N. monitor human rights in the disputed territor y of Western Sahara, U.S. of ficials said.

The 13th annual “African Lion” exercise — involving 1,400 U.S. servicemen and 900 Moroccan troops, as well as foreign obser vers from places like France and Germany — had been set to start Wednesday with many personnel already in place.

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Morocco annexed the former Spanish colony of Western Sahara in 1976, sparking a decades-long battle for independence by the Polisario Front group, which ended with a U.N.brokered 1991 cease-fire.

Mustapha Khalfi, the spokesman who doubles as the minister of communication, summoned journalists Tuesday to express his government’s anger over

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Bowler-hatted impersonators mark Chaplin birthday

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ADIPUR — Canes in hand and bowler hats atop their heads, Charlie Chaplin impersonators tramped through the streets of a small por t town in western India to celebrate the birthday of the Hollywood silent-film legend.

Chaplin has an odd resonance in this industrial town. Surrounded by salt flats bordering the Thar deser t, Adipur’s only claim to fame is the annual parade — now in its 40th year — to honor the filmmaker and comic actor known for his “Tramp” character.

More than 100 people participated in the parade that included brass bands, camel car ts and open jeeps carr ying life-sized cut-outs of Chaplin. Men and women dressed in cr umpled black suits and car r ying canes practiced the cheerful bowlegged walk of the Tramp as the parade made its way through the streets.

“Charlie Chaplin is our hero. Ever y year we celebrate his bir thday with a parade,” said Ashok Aswani, founder of Charlie Circle, a club that has been celebrating Chaplin’s birthday since 1973.

Women dressed in color ful local costumes performed traditional Indian dances around the Chaplin impersonators as boom boxes loaded on small trucks belted out Hindi film songs.

The two-hour long parade winds down with club members per forming skits mimicking Chaplin and the day’s festivities end with a screening of one of his classic films. Chaplin’s filmography includes “City Lights” and “Modern Times,” both still considered among Hollywood’s greatest films.

Chaplin, born in London in 1889 and one of the most significant figures in early Hollywood, has long had a following in film-loving India.

Boston Marathon bombs put world’s cities on alert

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LONDON — With two high-profile events in the days ahead — Margaret Thatcher’s funeral and the London Marathon — British officials are looking anew at security precautions following the bombings in Boston.

Terror threat levels in Europe and elsewhere, however, have remained unchanged, in contrast to other recent bombings and thwarted attacks that raised alarms and travel warnings.

Such warnings have been issued in the past when threats are considered imminent and with potential international links.

Threat levels also remained unchanged at U.S. defense installations at home and abroad after Monday’s deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, according to a Pentagon spokesman who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press about security.

Britain made last-minute efforts to tighten measures for Wednesday’s funeral for Thatcher, the former prime minister, at St. Paul’s Cathedral, which is to be attended by hundreds of diplomats and dignitaries, including Queen Elizabeth II. The chief of London’s Metropolitan Police, Bernard HoganHowe, said the force will carry out more searches and put more officers on the streets of the capital in the coming days as a precaution.

Police with bomb-detecting dogs were seen Tuesday around such London landmarks as Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Trafalgar Square, but officials said the searches were routine and unrelated to the Boston attacks.

“The (Boston) attacks mean that we will be assessing our security protocols,” said a British security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to be publicly named. “There is some initial information coming out ... but it is too early to draw any conclusions. There doesn’t appear at this point, however, to be a wider threat.”

More than 37,000 runners and a half-million spectators, including Prince Harry, will be at Sunday’s London Marathon.

Marathon officials said the race would go on as planned but security was being evaluated.

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Ag. Day brings St. Paul to East Bank

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Animal science junior Emily Boser walks Comet, a llama, down Church Street on Tuesday as a part of Agriculture Awareness Day.

Students used animals to teach everyone about food production.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

Growing up on a dair y farm in southeast Minnesota, agricultural education sophomore Lauren Servick would get up at 4 a.m. to milk cows.

But some University of Minnesota students don’t even know where their food comes from.

“Being in the hear t of

the cities, there aren’t a lot of students here who grew up on farms and understand agriculture,” agricultural education junior Kelsey Gunderson said.

“A lot of people think that their food still comes from the grocery store.”

The University Agricultural Education Club’s fourth Annual Agriculture Awareness Day, held Tuesday on the East Bank, was an effort to get students in touch with their foods’ origins and teach them about what students do on the St. Paul campus.

“There are a few students on Minneapolis who

Now past talk of mergers, U and Fairview look forward

don’t even know that we have a St. Paul campus,” said agricultural education freshman Sarah Marketon, who taught students about pork production at the event. “That’s why we’re over here today.”

More than 100 students flooded the cobblestones of Church Street on Tuesday after noon to pet llamas, pigs, sheep, cows and goats while learning about the roles the animals play in the agriculture industry.

They browsed tables staf fed by r epr esentatives of dif ferent par ts of the business, learning about biofuel production

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have bought back their medical centers from private institutions in recent years, Alishahi said.

“I think that the U and Fairview need each other,” he said. “I think at the end of this, Fairview and the U have been closer than ever, and I think eventually they’ll evolve.”

REP. JIM ABELER R-Anoka

Although Fair view does a good job of training medical students, he said, some think the University could benefit from buying UMMC from Fair view.

Physicians who are considering working at the University might view Fair view’s control over the medical center negatively if they want to focus on academia, Alishahi said.

“I think from a training perspective, and to recruit the top talent around the countr y, it might be better to have the Medical School own its own hospital,” he said.

University of Minnesota Physicians CEO Bobbi Daniels said she is confident Fair view will continue working with the University to meet their respective missions.

“I don’t think we’r e back at square one. The relationship has evolved

and improved significantly over time,” she said.

Fair view will also rekindle its search for a new CEO, said University Medical School Dean Aaron Friedman, who’s on Fairview’s board of directors.

Rep. Jim Abeler, R-Anoka, who introduced a bill last week that would force Fair view to retur n any public funding if it merges with an out-of-state company, said he thinks the merger talks have benefited the University’s relationship with Fair view.

“I think that the U and Fair view need each other,” he said. “I think at the end of this, Fair view and the U have been closer than ever, and I think eventually they’ll evolve.”

Abeler will continue to push the bill, which will be heard in the House’s Commerce and Consumer Protection Finance and Policy Committee on Wednesday after noon — along with two bills that would prevent out-of-state companies from acquiring Fairview.

Although he’s unsure of the bills’ chances, Abeler said the merger talks and the ensuing bills have created a “ver y good discussion” about the University’s future.

Since the end of 2011, leaders from the Academic Health Center, Fair view and UMPhysicians have star ted a process to move the UMMC and the Amplatz Children’s Hospital into the top 10 academic medical centers in the countr y, Daniels said.

“The work that we’ve been pr oceeding on is designed to do that,” she said. “We intend to continue and accelerate that moving for ward.”

in the process.

Materials science junior Rochelle Zordich said ever y year after Agriculture Awareness Day, she becomes a bit more driven to look into different food options and learn how it’s produced.

“I think that [interest] lasts longer ever y year,” she said.

Computer engineering junior Taylor Trimble said he’s come to the event for the past three years, and he now calls it “touch-a-pig day.”

Though he considers himself a city kid and spends most of his time on

the Minneapolis campus, Trimble said he worked on his grandparents’ farm for a few summers growing up.

“A lot of people’s opinion of farming is that it’s older [and] it’s not really high-tech,” he said.

“There’s definitely a science to it.”

Trimble said he appreciates the event because it gives students a more realistic look at what farming is.

“It’s not just Mom and Pop living on the land and having a few cows and chickens,” he said. “It’s an industry.”

Crashing science into dance Dance u from Page 1

Fairview

and the health benefits of dair y. They tested their farm knowledge with trivia games and munched on protein-filled bars while being filled in on soybean farming.

“They really brought the part of campus that we never really get to see as a [College of Science and Engineering] student over here,” chemical engineering freshman Rena Wang said.

Though she doesn’t normally think about where her food comes from, she said seeing the animals and talking to food producers made her more interested

the cell works,” he said, “except we’re using our bodies to manifest the ideas.”

During the TEDMED talk, the dancers move around the stage to demonstrate the scientific concepts Odde discusses. The movement is supposed to be as random as possible and often looks like there isn’t any order.

The dancers walk, run and jump around the stage, bumping into each other — much like the internal parts of a cell sometimes do — increasing the collisions as the “heat” increases in the presentation.

Dance senior Margaret

Johnson said it takes some time for her mind to clear, achieving the randomness.

“There comes a point where you’re not really thinking about anything, and your body just makes decisions,” she said.

“You’re just completely blank.”

This is the four th TED talk that Flink’s Black Label Movement dance company has been involved in, but it’s the first to tell “its own stor y” instead of just complementing what the presenter is saying, he said.

Odde’s lab group has discovered new ways of modeling brain cancer cells through the par tnership, and Flink has been inspired to choreograph new dances.

“HIT,” one of the pieces

Black Label will per form at the TED talk, is ver y physical, with the dancers smacking into each other.

The dancers said they love performing this new form because the physicality of it “feels good.”

They hit each other hard enough to hear the slap against their skin, but Flink said the moves are as safe as playing any physical sport.

Odde’s lab studies cell division, which has many applications in cancer research. His work specifically looks at how the cytoskeleton of a cell controls cell migration and division and how computer models predicting these events can lead to therapeutic cancer treatments.

Using dance to model these processes is easier to understand than using

computers, Odde said, because “a computer won’t talk to you.”

He often goes back and for th between the studio and the lab when tr ying to understand what’s happening in the cells. “ Yo u s t a r t t o g e t a sense of why things are happening,” Odde said. “[We get] new insight that we might have gotten from the dance that we wouldn’t have gotten from the computer.”

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BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

University dance senior and Black Label Movement dancer Margaret Johnson rehearses April 9 at the People Center’s Gym on the West Bank campus.

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Frey, Hofstede vie for DFL support Caucus u from Page 1

Student Frey suppor ters made up the majority of the delegates at the 1st Precinct’s caucus at St. Lawrence Catholic Church and Newman Center in Dinkytown.

At a pre-caucus event held at Burrito Loco, Frey made an appearance, shaking hands and expressing confidence in his chances.

Many of the students at the event went down the street to the church to serve as delegates.

Biomechanical engineering senior Karl LaFleur said he came to suppor t Frey because he has a fresh perspective on issues affecting students, including housing.

“He’s younger, and he’s got new views on things in the city,” he said.

Frey is a lot more in touch with student concer ns, said Minnesota Student Association President Taylor Williams. He showed up in Dinkytown to pledge support for Frey.

“He’s ver y enthusiastic — you can tell he legitimately cares about student issues,” Williams said.

Williams said he has grown frustrated with an inability to reach Hofstede

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Incumbent City Council candidate Diane Hofstede greets members of one of the Ward 3 DFL Party caucuses in her home precinct Tuesday at the Catholic Eldercare center in Northeast Minneapolis.

with concerns.

So m e stude nts sa i d Tuesday was their first experience caucusing. For

them, it was the first taste of the early stages of democracy Global studies junior Brenna Eschweiler said she had never gotten involved in politics until Frey came and spoke at her apartment, The Chateau. She and 50 others were able to become delegates for the 1st Precinct, while 12 volunteered to be alternates.

In the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, student supporters were again mostly for Frey but made up a smaller portion of potential delegates. Suppor t from neighborhood residents varied.

Across the ward in the

5th Precinct caucus, held at the Catholic Eldercare center, the crowd was decidedly older. The tur nout was also much larger than in the Dinkytown and Marcy-Holmes neighborhoods.

More than 90 people showed up in hopes of becoming delegates, with only about 48 spots up for grabs.

Unof ficially, 48 attendees were Hofstede supporters, 37 supported Frey and nine were undecided.

While the University area seemed to favor Frey, the 5th Precinct leaned toward Hofstede. With an initial advantage in delegates, Hofstede’s support looked

strong among the middleaged and senior citizen attendees.

Todd Roeder, 55, who lives in the St. Anthony West neighborhood in the 5th Precinct, said he has suppor ted Hofstede since she first ran in 2005.

“I’ve recognized her activism on a number of causes that are pertinent to the neighborhood,” he said.

Roeder said Hofstede’s work on libraries and on the Mississippi River waterfront also drew his support.

After Tuesday, 3rd Ward delegates will go on their May 4 Ward Convention to vote on which candidate

should receive the DFL nomination.

Delegates wer e also chosen for mayoral and park board endorsements Tuesday. Several people spoke at the caucuses in favor of dif ferent mayoral candidates.

At the First Congregational Church in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFLMinneapolis, spoke in favor of mayoral candidate Mark Andrew.

At the Catholic Eldercare center, candidates Don Samuels and Jackie Cherr yhomes spoke.

The mayoral convention will be held June 15.

Chavez heir charges US is behind unrest over vote

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CARACAS, Venezuela — President-elect Nicolas Maduro and his opposition rival traded accusations T uesday over blame for post-election violence that the government said had caused seven deaths and 61 injuries across Venezuela.

Maduro accused the U.S. of fomenting the violence, which appeared less serious than he suggested, while opposition candidate Henrique Capriles accused him of creating a smoke screen to diver t attention from the opposition’s insistence on a vote-by-vote recount of Sunday’s surprisingly close vote.

In Washington, the U.S. State Depar tment backed that demand, saying it would not recognize Madu-

ro without a recount. It was joined by the governments of Panama and Paraguay.

Maduro, the chosen heir of the late Hugo Chavez, spent the day on state TV at various events demonizing Capriles as “a murderer” and coup plotter. He also heaped blame on Washington — always a popular target of Chavez, the leader Maduro ser ved as foreign minister for six years.

“The (U.S.) embassy has financed and led all these violent acts,” Maduro said during a televised meeting at the headquarters of the state oil company.

The countries have been without ambassadors since 2010 and Maduro’s rhetoric did not sound designed to encourage the rapprochement that he has told various visiting American politicians he is seeking.

Earlier, Maduro said he would bar an opposition protest march planned for Wednesday in Caracas, saying Capriles was “responsible for the dead we are mourning.”

He said he wanted to avoid the kind of violence that preceded a failed April 2002 coup attempt against Chavez that Washington initially recognized. But then Maduro upped the ante, calling on his own suppor ters to take to the streets Wednesday in the capital.

Capriles subsequently called of f the opposition mar ch. It was to have converged on the regimefriendly National Electoral Council, which quickly ratified Maduro’s victor y Monday.

“Whoever goes out into the street tomor row is playing the government’s game,” Capriles said. “The government wants there to be deaths in the country.”

According to the electoral council, Maduro won by 262,000 votes out of 14.9 million ballots cast.

Capriles says Chavistas stole the election and provided reporters with some examples: At 283 polling stations, election monitors were forced to leave before vote counts, some at the point of a gun, he said. At one voting booth in the western state of Trujillo a total of 717 people voted when only 536 were registered, he said.

People marched in various provincial capitals Tuesday to demand a recount, heeding a call by Capriles.

At least one turned violent.

In the capital of Barinas, Chavez’s home state, police and National Guard troops fired tear gas and plastic shotgun pellets at protesters marching toward the provincial headquar ters of the electoral council. Opposition leaders repor ted 30 ar rests and three minor injuries.

B a r i n a s G o v. A d a n Chavez is a brother of Hugo Chavez, the charismatic but divisive leader who succumbed to cancer March 5 after 14 years as president. The opposition blames Chavez for Venezuela’s economic disarray, chronic and worsening power outages and rampant crime, including one of the world’s highest homicide rates.

Justice Minister Nestor Reverol accused Capriles of numerous crimes, including insurrection and civil disobedience. National Assembly speaker Diosdado Cabello called for a criminal investigation, which he said should include two top Capriles aides: Lara state Gov. Henr y Falcon and Carlos Ocariz.

Security analyst Adam Isacson of the Washington Of fice on Latin America said the rising tension increases chances that the gover nment could arrest opposition leaders, although he wonder ed

whether security forces would comply with a wave of arrest orders.

He said he was more concer ned about “mob violence against opposition figures, and perhaps progovernment ones, too.”

The Chavistas have long used a loyal criminal justice system to repress the opposition, human rights groups say.

Gover nment of ficials have kept up a drumbeat of attacks alleging since Monday that Capriles is plotting a coup, including a claim

by Maduro that opposition protesters had attacked government health clinics and the house of electoral council President Tibisay Lucena.

Chief prosecutor Luisa Or tega, who announced the death toll, said 135 people had been detained in protests, presumably on Monday, when Capriles’ suppor ters protested in Caracas and other cities, including Barinas, Merida and Maracay.

Ortega did not provide identities for the dead and injured or say where the violence occur red. She said the dead belong to the “working class.”

Officials said one death involved a man in the capital supposedly shot by opposition supporters in front of a health clinic. The Associated Press visited the scene and could not establish in inter views with neighbors whether the killing was politically motivated. It did determine, however, that he was not killed near the Cuban-run clinic.

Reverol said other shooting deaths, in the states of Sucre, Tachira and Zulia, were being investigated.

Capriles said the government is to blame for any violence.

“The illegitimate one and his gover nment ordered that there be violence to avoid counting the votes,” Capriles tweeted.

“They are responsible!”

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Marathon officials know better security difficult

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — A marathon course runs 26.2 miles along an open road. Much tougher to secure than an arena with doors and walls.

Yet across the U.S. and around the world, from West Bend, Wis., and London this weekend, to Nashville, Tenn., next week and Copenhagen next month, organizers of road races are tr ying to figure out how to improve security after the Boston Marathon bombings.

Paris Marathon director Joel Laine, whose race was held earlier this month, put it this way Tuesday: “There will be a ‘before’ and ‘afterBoston’“ from now on.

Still, with thousands — and sometimes hundreds of thousands — of spectators and entrants scattered along the route, there are limits to how much can be done to protect ever yone, marathon officials, experts and r unners cautioned.

They spoke in dozens of interviews with the AP a day after a pair of bombs went off seconds apart near the finish line in Boston, killing three people, including an 8-year-old boy, and injuring more than 170 others.

“This is what ever yone thought might happen” following the 9/11 attacks, said Tom Derderian, coach of the Gr eater Boston Track Club and author of a book about the Boston Marathon.

“This is a 26-mile foot race. With both sides of the street, that’s 52 miles to secure,” Derderian said.

“How? You can’t have ever yone go through metal detectors.”

Marathons aren’t just for elite athletes: They have steadily increased in popularity among recreational runners and those raising money for charity. In the aftermath of Monday’s attack, which President Barack Obama called an act of terrorism, some marathons heard from runners wondering whether races would be canceled. Yet nearly 40 events, all over the globe, are set for this weekend alone — including Hamburg, Belgrade, Salt Lake City, Lansing, Mich., and

the Jersey Shore. There was no indication that any would be called off.

Scott Dickey, CEO of Competitor Group Inc., which manages more than 35 marathons and half marathons around the world, said he’s “been in deep conversations already” with the FBI and government agencies “to talk about enhancing security protocol and personnel” for the St. Jude Countr y Music Marathon and Half Marathon in Nashville on April 27.

“What we’re going to do with yesterday’s event is we’re going to learn from it, and we’re going to increase, certainly in the near term and probably permanently, the number of security personnel, both private and public, at our start lines and finish lines,” Dickey said.

“We’re going to review the protocol and procedures that are in place and enhance and improve them so that we’re in a better position to prevent these types of tragedies from taking place.”

Susie Smisek, director of September’s Omaha Marathon, said Boston does, indeed, change the way race organizers go about their job now.

“We’ll make sure we have more security available, that people are more aware and are aware of their sur roundings,” Smisek said. “Will it make us more vigilant in what we do? You bet.”

Rick Nealis, director of the Marine Corps Marathon since 1993, pointed to factors that make these races unique among sports — and, therefore, more of a challenge to secure.

“It’s a par ticipator y sport. At any running event, especially Boston, world champion and Olympic athletes stand at the start line, and at the same time, there’s someone from Boise, Idaho, or Duluth, Minn., that did the qualifying time and are in the same field, on the same course, in the same weather as these champions, competing,” Nealis said.

“In stadiums, turnstiles, hardened buildings, you can control who’s going in, and do all the safety checks and have a secure event,” added Nealis, whose race

course cuts through Virginia and the nation’s capital, ending near the Iwo Jima Memorial. “On roads, in an open venue, when you take 26.2 miles of open space, it’s the beauty of the spor t and at the same time, in this day and age, par t of the risk assessment. Unless we decide we’re going to run around a track in quar ter-mile loops hundreds of times.”

The New York City Marathon’s finishers grew from nearly 28,000 in 1992 to more than 47,000 in 2011, and organizers estimate they’ve had as many as roughly 2 million spectators in a year. The race was not held in 2012, after Superstorm Sandy hit the area, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday: “It’s certainly our intention to have the marathon” this November.

“A marathon is 26 miles long, so, you know, there are points of vulnerability — by definition, there are going to be,” New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said, noting the race’s security plans will be reevaluated.

According to Running USA’s website, a record 30 marathons had more than 10,000 finishers in 2012, led by Chicago with more than 37,000, followed by London with more than 36,000.

The Honolulu Marathon ranked seventh on that list with just over 24,000.

“You can’t plan to stop ever ything, but cer tainly ever yone will look at tightening things up, for sure.

You have to strike some balances between what is feasible and what is possible and what is necessar y,” said Jim Barahal, president of December’s Honolulu race. “It’s going to have effects outside the marathon world, which in reality is a pretty low-profile world. It can happen anywhere, at any time.”

Dorte Vibjerg, organizer of the Copenhagen Marathon, said “the incident in Boston means we will have more focus on security.”

“We can never prevent anything from happening,” she said, “but we can minimize and react fast should anything happen.”

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household pressure cookers inside black duffel bags.

One bomb was packed with nails and the other contained shards of metal and ball bearings.

President Barack Obama deemed the attack an act of terrorism Tuesday.

He said in a statement that “America is strong and resilient … and won’t let cowardly acts get in the way of our lives.” He also promised the full force of the law in tr ying to “uncover whoever was responsible.”

It’s not known if the bombing was the work of a single person or a group.

Sen. Scott Dibble, DFLMinneapolis, also competed in the marathon and finished before the explosion but didn’t see or hear anything, Minnesota Public Radio reported.

‘Anxiousness in the air’

Pentek boarded a bus at 4 a.m. on Monday to take her to the site where she’d begin the Boston Marathon seven hours later.

Pentek qualified to compete in Boston last year at the Eau Claire Marathon after taking the University’s marathon training class.

While on the bus, Pentek was struck by the wide variety of people the marathon attracted.

About 23,300 people competed in the Boston Marathon this year — 452 from Minnesota, according to the Boston Athletic As-

sociation.

“You feel like you’re in a different world at that point, like you’re in a global community,” Pentek said.

She started the race feeling good but said the last stretch was tough. She decided to stop at a medical tent in order to subdue the cramping in her legs before finishing the marathon.

After completing the race fueled by crowd support and a handful of jellybeans, Pentek said all she wanted to do was find food, water and warm clothes, but she felt she had conquered something.

Pentek was changing clothes in a tent about four blocks from the finish line, she said, when she heard a muf fled boom. As she walked toward the site of the explosion, she felt “anxiousness in the air.”

“People were embracing,” she said. “But not embracing because ‘Hey, you finished the race!’ they were embracing because, ‘Hey, you’re alive.’ ”

A good start Bhalla, who’s been running marathons for nearly 15 years, said the Boston Marathon is one that most runners strive to compete in and that this year’s was off to a good start.

“It was an awesome day,” Bhalla said. “It was beautiful weather and everything was perfect.”

She said she finished the race satisfied with her time and then walked to her hotel near the finish line.

Soon after, she said a friend told her a bomb had

gone off near the finish line.

Bhalla figured she missed the explosion by about 20 minutes.

“At first I was in disbelief, and then I just felt a deep sadness,” she said.

Cellphone ser vice at the time was disconnected, so Bhalla updated her Facebook status to let her friends and family know she was OK. “I don’t have any idea why someone would do something like this,” she said, “but I don’t think it will stop me from running again in Boston.”

—The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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CSE groups reach out to students The groups work to pique high schoolers’ interest in CSE.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

Erin Syverson, president of the University of Minnesota’s Society of Women Engineers, first considered studying engineering in high school after attending an outreach seminar for women in science.

Every fall and spring, the group brings 70 to 80 high school girls to campus to try to increase the percentage of female engineers at the University, Syverson said.

The group also takes trips to local high schools to talk about their experiences as women in science and engineering majors. Syverson said a high percentage of the girls who work with the group are admitted to the College of Science and Engineering.

SWE is one example of CSE students reaching out as mentors to local elementary, middle and high school students to promote careers in science. The school’s more than 40 student groups all participate in outreach to high school students, Science and Engineering Student Board Vice President Evan Symons said.

“We’re here in college, and we really have an opportunity to do great things,” Symons said. “We like to see change happen.”

CSE student groups have made ef for ts to increase their outreach throughout

the past few years, an initiative the board is passionate about, Symons said.

Nick Hammes does his outreach through GOFIRST — a student group that builds robots and mentors robotic teams in Minnesota.

“Aside from building our own robots, that’s a big part of our mission,” he said.

For ever y student enrolled in CSE each semester, $1 is given to the student board, and a portion of that money goes to outreach activities, said Susan Kubitschek, director of CSE Collegiate Life.

Multiple outside donors also fund CSE outreach programs, Kubitschek said.

“They want to instill a passion and love for STEM [science, technology, engineering and mathematics] education, something that might be close to a donor’s background,” she said.

Chris Nolting, secretary of the Society of Physics Students, said his group also

reaches out to students in the community regularly.

In the past two weeks, SPS held two dif ferent events for young students in the metro area, and members hope to increase the number of outreach events in the future, Nolting said.

“It’s ver y important for us to get younger students interested in sciences,” Nolting said. “We’re always on the lookout to do more outreach and help out more.”

GOFIRST has also made it a priority in recent years by helping more middle and high school robotic teams, Hammes said.

L a s t y e a r, H a m m e s started a summer robotic seminar program for high schoolers — a program he hopes to continue when he is president of the group next year, he said.

“They are our future,” Hammes said. “The younger they build their skills, the more they can contribute to the world.”

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Too soon after Newtown The most recent episode of “Glee” was insensitive given recent events.

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MEG O’CONNOR columnist

wrenching and catastrophic event be followed only a few short months later by a similar event being played out on a television show is hear tless and certainly not in good taste.

An email circulated through Newtown by the Newtown victims advocacy group warning them not to tune in that week for the episode.

The shooter in the episode was one of the Glee characters, Becky, who also has Down syndrome. She was frightened about what the world out there is like and scared that one day she will have to leave the comfort of her school.

Some fans gravitated toward the episode and found it to be emotionally moving,

while others deemed it to be very disrespectful.

Some are arguing that not only are “Glee” producers proceeding with an extraordinarily sensitive topic, but they are also placing the gun in the hand of the student who has Down syndrome. I don’t take as much issue with that piece, however.

All of these students are teenagers, living in the same town, attending the same school and dealing with all of the anxiety that any high school student would feel.

Anyone could have brought a gun to school, even the student with Down syndrome.

I found it to be an attempt to reinforce that we all deal with the same things regardless of race, religion or need.

Newtown resident Andrew Paley was pleased to have seen a “content warning” at the beginning of the episode but said, “Wounds are still fresh for many of the communities families.”

At my ver y own high school in Chaska, a student sent out a hor rifying and threatening email to the school and the administra-

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tion. The email was sent a mere two weeks after the shooting in Newtown.

I remember hearing accounts from my friends who are still students there and the sheer ter ror that was brought to the halls that I once walked.

Currently, this is a ver y real issue and one that I believe should be addressed but not in the form of a television show. People turn their television sets on in the evening to escape for an hour or two from the hectic nature of their day. When families who have been victims can no longer find solace in a quiet evening at home, that is where things have gone wrong.

Fox should have been more supportive to the families who are still dealing with recent events and chosen not to air this episode at this time.

The time now is for healing and not to rehash the fear and sadness that families across the country are trying to put behind them.

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

RELIGION

A test of faith Religion is not needed in 21st century society.

RONALD DIXON columnist

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Here is what’s going on: The Minnesota House of Representatives is tr ying to limit the number of people a person can vouch for on Election Day from 15 down to eight.

As a student in Minnesota I appreciate our system, which currently allows someone to vouch for up to 15 people they know on Election Day. Last fall, I had several friends who ser ved as vouchers for others at the polls. Most college students live in high-density apar tments, so they tend to know many people in their precinct.

Many of these people do not have utility bills and have no other way of proving their residency other than through vouchers.

The organization I volunteer for, Minnesota Public Interest Research Group, believes in making the Election Day process go smoothly since the college years are formative in determining electoral participation. If a student has a bad experience at the polls early on in their voting career, this could hinder them from participating in the future. Minnesota has repeatedly had the highest voter turnout in the nation thanks to our accessible Election Day registration system — let’s keep it that way.

s a young boy growing up in Hibbing, and Blaine, Minn., I had several experiences with the seemingly default religion of Christianity in my family. Although my parents were not ver y religious, I assumed that Christianity was the correct religion due to my parents’ beliefs.

By the time that I entered high school, however, that drastically changed.

As a teenager, I began to grow skeptical of the religion that is omnipresent in contemporar y American society. The super natural claims that were found in ancient texts lacked the evidence that I sought. Finally, through research, dialogue with friends on both sides of the religious spectrum and maturing, I deduced that I lacked the faith in an ever-present, supernatural being.

That is the definition of atheism, which may include agnostics, secularists and other skeptics.

Specifically, according to Professor Richard Dawkin’s Scale of Theistic Probability, I am a “de-facto atheist,” an individual who doesn’t know for sure if there is a god but realizes that there is no evidence for any, and thus, lives life as if a god does not exist.

Of course, I have been criticized for my belief. Anything that I say against Christianity or Islam seems to be matched with claims of intolerance. What I can safely say, however, is that beliefs that have been used to justify misogyny, racism, slaver y, homophobia and cruelty should not be part of any human moral systems.

Others claim that religion is a force of good, but religion is not needed to be a good person. I have heard the claims that I lack a “basis” for my morality because I do not have a god, but there is a natural sense of right and wrong that exists within most people.

In a 21st centur y society, religion is not needed. Children should not be indoctrinated to believe in a religion. We can function without a god commanding us, and as a member of a relatively secular college campus, I welcome the further advancements of society.

Mary Einspahr Minnesota Public Interest Research Group intern

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Boston Marathon tragedy When tragedy strikes as it did Monday, we naturally ask why. We often do this in the retroactive sense, wondering: “Why was this allowed to happen?”

That is, “Why weren’t the proper precautions taken to ensure this wouldn’t happen?” From 9/11, to Aurora, to Monday’s nauseating hor ror, respectively, we question, “Why were they allowed to board the plane?” and “Why was someone with a mental illness allowed access to a gun?” and “Why was security so porous at the countr y’s most prominent marathon?” So we call for stricter airport regulations and universal background checks and more comprehensive security. And these are great questions and appropriate solutions, but the harsh reality is that these retroactive fixes are just that — retroactive.

The apparent randomness of Monday’s attack is a stark reminder that proponents of terror and destruction will continue to search for and pick out our most vulnerable venues. And while we’ve done much to deter such attacks, deterrence isn’t prevention.

For ever y thousand plots, say 999 fail — the dire fact remains that one succeeds.

And that one could be as unspeakably calamitous as any before it. So maybe, in addition to countering terrorism retroactively, we should consider doing so proactively as well.

I believe our proactive

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ver the past few years, threats of, and actual school shootings, have plagued our newspapers and the homes of Americans. School shootings have become a reality for many families across the countr y and are a real, tangible issue.

However, that doesn’t mean that it should be portrayed by a group of high school a cappella-singing outcasts on the Fox Network television series “Glee.”

Last Thursday evening the episode “Shooting Star” aired for the nation to see. After the students heard two gunshots fired, they ran to find cover and proceeded to send messages to their loved ones in case they didn’t make it out alive.

We need not be reminded that on Dec. 14 of last year 20 children were killed at Sandy Hook Elementar y School in Newtown, Conn.

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solution can be found by asking “why” in the proactive sense. Why is it that these monsters are driven to kill so arbitrarily and massively?

It is not enough to conjecture that they are somehow static killing machines and that we are powerless to curtail whatever joy they take in killing innocent people? Terrorists seek terror. They crave notoriety.

They revel in the panic-induced fear that washes over people as they realize how gravely susceptible they truly are and how little control they have to stop it.

It is not my opinion that we ought to become numb to tragedy. Nor do I believe that we should treat it as an inevitability as we treat, say, tax season as an inevitability. Rather, I argue that we’re to mourn and grieve as ever and that we find solace not in the firestorm of rage and revengefulness that our enemies so hope to provoke but instead in the peaceful solemnity that blossoms as we forge on, unhindered in virtue, while the opposition lingers futilely, waiting for the hate and terror that refuses to materialize.

In accordance with the work of our troops abroad as well as our regulations at home, this sor t of proactive anti-terrorism may ver y well bring us that much closer to rendering the question, “Why do terrorists do what they do?” unanswerable, for both innocents and terrorists alike.

Chris DePauw University student

Current Election Day vouching system helps students vote

Entitlement reform is necessary Despite criticism from his own base, Obama’s entitlement reforms deserve support.

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ut of all the groups unhappy with President Barack Obama’s budget proposal, which was released a week ago, perhaps the angriest are people within his own base.

Within his budget proposal are cuts to both Medicare and Social Security, two popular entitlement programs that are particularly dear to liberal Democrats. The most controversial proposal in the budget would tie the growth of Social Security benefits to a slower rate of inflation, known as “chained CPI.” Minnesota Public Radio reported that if enacted, chained CPI would save roughly $130 billion over 10 years. MPR also reported that on Thursday, members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus spoke out against the Social Security cuts, appearing to be surprised and feeling betrayed.

Obama likely knew how his entitlement reform proposals would anger the liberal wing of his own base and probably planned on it in hopes of coaxing Republicans into supporting additional revenue increases. Regardless of the motives, members of both parties should be supportive of his entitlement reforms, despite how politically unpopular they may be. In order to ensure a bright future for the next generations of Americans, federal expenditures on Medicare and Social Security must become more sustainable.

In exchange for the reforms, the budget calls for much needed additional spending on infrastructure and early childhood education. It also includes several revenue increases, including the “Buffet Rule” which with some exceptions would impose a minimum 30 percent effective federal tax rate on people with incomes above $1 million.

Overall, Obama’s budget is a good mix of bold but necessary policy reforms, revenue increases and new investments. It has received criticisms from both sides, which is a good indication that it should be taken seriously.

The University’s disappointing global health The University could do more to influence health issues worldwide.

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esearch is often the first thing that comes to mind when people think about the University of Minnesota. The legacy of past research, as well as exciting and groundbreaking work, has given the University a golden reputation as a leader in research that benefits the common good. But while the University’s role in producing important research for the U.S. and other developed nations is unquestionable, perhaps it is time to re-evaluate our role in the sphere of global health research.

The New York Times reported April 8 that several well-reputed American and Canadian research universities have received average or lower grades in policies and research that benefit the povertystricken people around the world. The report cards, developed by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines and released on the website globalhealthgrades.org, gave the University an overall global health impact grade of D. In categories of innovation, access and empowerment, the University received grades of D-, D and C-, respectively. However, there are roles that students and faculty take in promoting global health awareness that the report cards did not address — like student service-learning trips abroad and the service of the University’s public health graduates.

But the fact remains that four other Big Ten schools placed ahead of Minnesota (50th of 54) in the rankings, suggesting our global research and educational impact policies might need substantial modification. By expanding undergraduate access to global health courses and programs, as well as considering more wide-ranging medical technology licensing policies, the University has an opportunity to expand its commitment to research in the global community.

Encouraging University students to study biological and economic impact of neglected diseases will spur health care innovation both at home and abroad.

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Gophers Young coach Pitino set to Former player named follow role models’ path Pitino’s 3rd asst. “[Pitino] has a gift,” Shyatt said. “Whether you’re young or old, that doesn’t matter. He has a gift to develop relationships and tr ust that ver y few of us have.”

Relationships are key to recr uiting, which is a cor nerstone to building a program. But with the Gophers losing two frontcour t star ters in Trevor Mbakwe and Rodney Williams, Pitino’s of fice walls might remain barren a little longer as he tries to fill the holes.

Pitino noted the role Mbakwe and W illiams played in the Gophers’ success last season and quickly tempered expectations for next year’s campaign.

“My point is we’re losing two star ters in the frontcour t,” Pitino said.

“Two ver y good players, and we don’t have the depth necessar y just yet.”

Pitino touted his style of play as “fun” for fans and players when he was intr oduced as the Go phers’ coach April 5. As of Tuesday, Pitino had r un three 40-minute individual workouts with each player.

He said all of them were

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under the likes of Florida coach Billy Donovan and his own father, legendar y Louisville coach Rick Pitino, before taking the reins of his own program at Florida Inter national University last season.

Pitino is in line to follow in his role models’ footsteps.

“Billy [Donovan] was in the same boat I was in,” Pitino said. “He was 29 years old when he took over at Florida. Now he’s going head-to-head with my dad and the likes of Kentucky.”

Former Gators assistant Lar r y Shyatt, who worked with Pitino for two years at Florida, said the young coach is just a few years behind br eakout coaches Shaka Smar t and Brad Stevens.

Smart and Stevens have led mid-major programs Virginia Commonwealth and Butler to deep runs in the NCAA tournament recently. First-year Gophers athletics dir ector Norwood Teague hired Smart when he was at VCU.

focused on offense.

Because freshman forward Charles Buggs and sophomore big man Mo Walker have missed some time during individual workouts due to illness and injur y, Pitino said he still has to wait to assess where recr uiting needs lie.

available for the upcoming season.

“Maybe from Rashad’s p o i n t o f v i e w, h a v i n g somebody younger reach out might help,” Bur ton said. “I remember getting my first job at 26; people weren’t sure I should be coaching either.”

Ron Everhar t, an assistant coach at West Virginia, hired Pitino to his first assistant coaching job at Northeastern in 2005 at age 24.

Even then, Ever har t said he could tell Pitino had been garnering experience long before he was earning a paycheck for it.

“He’s basketball matured beyond his years,” Everhar t said. “He’s been around it since he’s been a young kid.”

Everhart used the same comparisons as Shyatt by saying Stevens and Smar t are only a few steps ahead of Pitino on the timeline.

“Richard [Pitino] was able to do what they did in one year at Florida International,” Everhar t said, referring to FIU’s first winning season in 13 years.

“No question in my mind this guy has big-time success written all over him.”

“Whether you’re young or old, that doesn’t matter. He has a gift to develop relationships and trust that very few of us have.”

Larry Shyatt Former Florida assistant

Robbinsdale-Cooper High School coach Steve Bur ton leads one of Minnesota’s most touted 2014 recr uits in Rashad Vaughn. Burton said youth might help the Gophers net the budding star.

Former 2013 Gophers recr uits Alvin Ellis and Alex Foster were released from their letters of intent after Smith was fired Mar ch 25, and Minnesota has four scholarships

BASEBALL

Gophers beat Augsburg for 7th victory in 8 games Sophomore utility player Mark Tatera hit a game-winning two-run single.

Todd Oakes.

To d d O a k e s s a i d i t was bittersweet coaching against Tanner.

“Did I want to see him give up [four runs]? Probably not,” Todd Oakes said. “Did I want the Gophers to win? Yeah. That’s who I coach for.”

The elder Oakes said he had a feeling Tanner was going to pitch Tuesday. The two shared an embrace after the game.

“I was proud how he stood out there after giving up four runs and kept pitching,” Todd Oakes said. “He’s a great competitor.”

Though the Gophers won, they didn’t look as crisp as they had in weeks past.

Minnesota committed three errors, and its base r unners were picked of f twice.

“We didn’t play well, really,” head coach John Anderson said. “Sometimes that happens. You play a lot of games, you have some success, you lose that edge just a tad.”

With the team riding a hot streak, Anderson said he thought the stumble was a good wakeup call entering the weekend.

Augsburg took a 1-0

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Sophomore utility player Mark Tatera is used to doing all the little things.

So when the Gophers called on him to pinch-hit with the game on the line, he was quite comfortable.

Tatera’s pinch-hit, twor un-single in the seventh inning broke a 1-1 tie and helped the Gophers beat Augsburg 4-1 on Tuesday at Siebert Field.

“My fr eshman year, that’s pretty much the role I was in as a bench player,” Tatera said. “As time goes on, you get more and more comfortable with the chances you get.”

Minnesota (23-13) has won four games in a row and seven of its past eight.

The game was Minnesota’s first midweek tilt since March 27. Poor weather had led to the cancellation of two other scheduled games.

Tatera’s game-winning single came of f Auggies pitcher Tanner Oakes, son of Gophers pitching coach

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Minnesota senior JT Canakes hits a foul ball against Augsburg on Tuesday at Siebert Field.

BASEBALL RESULTS

Augsberg Minnesota

1 0 0

2 0 0

3 0 0

4 0 0

5 0 0

6 1 0

7 0 4

8 0 0

9 0 X

R 1 4

H 4 7

E 1 3

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

lead in the sixth inning and threatened to extend it in the seventh when an errant pickoff attempt by junior catcher Matt Halloran helped Auggies runners advance into scoring position.

But the Gophers aver ted the jam when freshman reliever Dalton Sawyer replaced junior Alex Tukey and str uck out Augsburg catcher Zach Pavlisick.

“I tend to pitch pretty

good in jams, whether self-induced or other peoples’,” Sawyer said. “I kept fastballs down. I knew that would get guys out.”

Sawyer pitched a scoreless eighth inning as well and picked up the first win of his college career.

Senior closer Billy Soule slammed the door in the ninth inning for his seventh save of the season.

SOFTBALL

Gophers struggle at plate, fall back to earth with two losses Minnesota scored only two runs in a doubleheader at Nebraska.

Big Ten) was swept by Nebraska in a doubleheader Tuesday in Lincoln, Neb. The Huskers beat the Gophers 3-2 in the first game and 4-0 in the second.

Nebraska pitcher Tatum Edwards helped her own cause in the bottom of the sixth inning of the second game when she launched a game-winning grand slam to left field.

Edwar ds also thr ew

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers softball team fell back to ear th Tuesday after flying high to start the Big Ten season.

Minnesota (26-15, 9-5

SOFTBALL RESULTS

Minnesota Nebraska

1 0 0

2 0 0

3 2 1

4 0 0

5 0 2

6 0 0

7 0 X

R 2 3

H 4 8

E 1 0

Minnesota Nebraska

1 0 0

2 0 0

3 0 0

4 0 0

5 0 0

6 0 4

7 0 X

R 0 4

H 3 6

E 0 3

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

seven innings and had a three-hit shutout.

“We str uggled a little bit of fensively,” Gophers head coach Jessica Allister said. “We had some good at-bats, but we had some bad at-bats with runners in scoring position.”

Minnesota had a golden oppor tunity in the top of the four th inning when it loaded the bases with one out, but Edwards str uck out senior Alex Davis and sophomore Erika Smyth to end the inning.

In the first game, freshman Kayla Wenner and sophomore Kaitlyn Richardson both hit solo home runs in the top of the third inning to give the Gophers a 2-0 lead.

But Nebraska clawed back with one run in the bottom of the third and two

in the bottom of the fifth.

The Huskers chased the winning run across the plate thanks to a great twoout at-bat by Hailey Decker.

After working a full count, Decker drew a walk and eventually scored when Gophers junior Sara Moulton hit a batter with the bases full.

“They had a couple infield singles, just unlucky hits,” Allister said. “We were a little snake bit.”

Moulton, the Gophers’ ace, pitched five innings and gave up three earned runs on eight hits.

Nebraska pitcher Emily Lockman threw all seven innings and gave up two earned runs on four hits.

Minnesota did not record a hit in the first game after its two-r un thir d inning.

Ben Johnson was a two-time captain of the Gophers in the mid-2000s.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

Gophers basketball coach Richard Pitino added some Big Ten experience to his staff Tuesday.

Ben Johnson, a former Gophers player and Nebraska assistant, was named Pitino’s third assistant, according to a release.

“I have been impressed with what I have personally seen and heard from a variety of knowledgeable people when they talk about Ben Johnson,” Pitino said in a release. “In addition to being a proud Minnesota alum, he brings the work ethic I am looking for and a knowledge of the University, the Midwest

and the Big Ten conference.”

The Minneapolis native spent one season under Tim Miles at Nebraska. Before that, he was a part of Northern Iowa’s basketball staff for four seasons.

Johnson, 32, won two state championships at DeLaSalle High School and was a twotime captain as a basketball player with the Gophers.

“I want great chemistry,” Pitino told the Minnesota Daily on Tuesday. “I need guys that complement each other and guys that make me better. I don’t want all the same guy.”

Johnson will join Kimani Young and Mike Balado on Pitino’s staff. Pitino said Tuesday that Balado, who has been hired by Minnesota, is being allowed to talk with Florida International University about taking the top assistant job with its basketball program.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Top scorer asks for release, will transfer Sophomore forward Taylor Uhl scored 21 of the Gophers’ 44 goals last season.

BY MEGAN RYAN AND CHARLIE ARMITZ mryan@mndaily.com carmitz@mndaily.com

Gophers soccer star Taylor Uhl has asked for a release from her scholarship and will transfer, the team confirmed Tuesday.

The sophomore forward was one of the top players in the nation. She had 21 of the Gophers’ 44 goals and led the Big Ten in points last season.

She was the Gophers’ top goal- and point-scorer in both 2011 and 2012.

“I’ll always be a Gopher fan at heart,” Uhl posted to her Twitter account Tuesday afternoon. “Thanks to everyone at the U who has helped me in my time here. Trusting God through this new journey.”

Uhl could not be reached for comment, and the team did not say why she is leaving.

Uhl will likely be eligible to play at another Division I school next season because this is her first transfer. As a soccer athlete, she has fewer transfer restrictions per NCAA rules than athletes in football, men’s basketball, baseball and men’s hockey, who usually have to sit out a year before playing for their new school.

“I respect and understand Taylor’s decision to transfer,” head coach Stefanie Golan said in the release. “We wish her the best as she continues her education and athletic career elsewhere.”

Minnesota missed the NCAA tournament in both

ANTHONY KWAN, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Sophomore forward Taylor Uhl will transfer to another school after two seasons with the Gophers.

of Uhl’s seasons after finishing in the middle of the Big Ten. The Gophers showed improvement last season, Golan’s first with the team, but lost on penalty kicks in the first round of the Big Ten tournament.

Golan replaced Mikki Denney Wright, who resigned unexpectedly last May as head coach, citing family reasons. Denney Wright recruited Uhl to play at Minnesota.

Uhl was a top recr uit out of Eden Prairie High School, where she earned numerous accolades. She was named Minnesota’s Ms. Soccer and the Minnesota Gatorade Player of the Year her senior season, when she led Eden Prairie to a state championship.

She earned many more awards with the Gophers, including Big Ten Freshman of the Year in 2011.

TAYLOR UHL CAREER STATISTICS Year Games 2011 21 2012 20

Minutes 1556 1656

Goals 15 21

Assists 4 9

Points 34 51*

Shot % .208 .256

Game-winning goals 5 3 *Led Big Ten

SOURCE: BIGTEN.ORG

GOPHERS IN THE POLLS LAST WEEK’S RANKING

THIS WEEK’S RANKING

22 24

CHANGE

-2

MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD

MEN’S TENNIS

40 32

+8

SOURCES: USTFCCCA.ORG, ITATENNIS.COM

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

sudoku

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

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

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

4/17/13

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (4/17): It’s easier to advance for the next six months, and relationships deepen. Changes require adaptations. Pay debt, and review insurance and investments. The focus shifts to home and family.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — There are some dangers in taking on more than you know how to handle, as well as some rewards. It could be fun. It requires a shift in thinking.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Don’t waste a cent. A change in plans is required as conditions are unstable. Don’t be stopped by past failures or take things personally.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Resist the temptation to spend. Concentrate on generating income, and avoid depleting reserves. Enjoy a hike with a loved one.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Expect change on the financial front. The best things are still free. Stick to basics. Entertaining doesn’t have to be expensive.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Money does buy power, but it’s not the only way to get it. Recharge your batteries by focusing on what you love and what you’re passionate about.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Feelings run very deep. Adopting another perspective increases your authority. Learn from an adversary. Show you understand.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Your hotness is contagious. Don’t take yourself too seriously, and you’ll advance to the next level. A sense of humor is key. Give something away.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Make quiet inroads. Find out what’s really going on. Streamline your business procedures.

Don’t leave before you’re sure the job is done.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Grow your mind through meditation. New data threatens old assumptions. Call home if you run late.

Don’t get a loved one stirred up.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Gather information and schedule carefully.

Practice with your tools. Try not to provoke jealousies, and watch for hidden dangers.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — New responsibilities lead to changes at home. Save opinions and advice until solicited. Simplify matters, and reassess priorities.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Cool down a scandal. Listen to all the considerations to get the whole story. You see what all the fuss is about. Try to turn down the heat.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

crossword

overheard

FOR RELEASE APRIL 17, 2013

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

“Cerrada? Is that German?”

—Middlebrook Hall

“You know you’re planning on being broke for the summer when you sell a textbook to Amazon and use the credit to buy a case of deodorant from Amazon.”

—Unknown

“What? I get distracted by livestock!”

—Outside Mechanical Engineering building

“Dude, you guys wanna heat up a condom and try fitting in it?”

—Jimmy John’s

Person 1: “So it’s like a mouse pooping in your brain?”

Person 2: “Sounds pretty hot.”

—Middlebrook Hall

“Oh my god. I was doodling, and I accidentally drew a swastika.”

—Unknown

“I’ll just go to a farm and buy one of the runts they’re going to kill anyway for like $10.”

—Outside Walter Library “So ... yay marijuana!”

—Science Teaching and Student Services building

What did you overhear?

4Post submissions on the “overheard at U of M Facebook group.

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ACROSS 1 Insectivore’s meal 5 Toppled tyrant 9 Circus chairman?

14 The “Aeneid,” for one 15 Squeegee, e.g.

16 Layer to worry about 17 Cutting-edge brand?

18 Yoked team 19 Spa wear 20 *“Jolene” singer 23 Tax shelter, briefly 24 Place for a date 25 Hibiscus plant’s family 27 Once in a blue moon 30 Little bit 32 Weight Watchers meeting need 33 Software with crop and marquee tools 36 Vintner’s vessel 37 Illicit exam aids, and places where the first parts of the answers to starred clues can be found 38 Egg cells 39 Baked snacks often dipped in hummus 42 Bond-Bond link?

44 Easter flowers 45 Death Valley, for example 46 Oscar winner Charlize 48 Salty seven 49 Though 50 *Rush hour jam spots 56 Medicare insurance segment 58 Breakfast chain 59 Many a blog post 60 Backspace through text 61 Word heard in 37-Across 62 Low card 63 On the say-so of 64 Furry sci-fi creature 65 Glasses, in ads

4/17/13

By Howard Barkin

DOWN 1 Abacus slider 2 __-the-minute 3 Miss 4 “Grey’s Anatomy” prop 5 Like more absorbent paper towels 6 Workday alarm hr.

7 Copycat 8 “La Vie Bohème” musical 9 Carrier to Oz 10 __ dye: foodcoloring compound 11 *Residence in a park, often 12 Start of el año 13 Sat through again 21 New Haven’s biggest employer 22 Skips 26 Some cellphones 27 Invitation abbr.

28 Trendy berry 29 *Rickety wheels 30 Uses FedEx 31 “Flash” gatherings

Tuesday’s Puzzle Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

33 “Je vous en __”: “Please” 34 CBer’s “Your turn” 35 Former time 37 Sturdy material 40 Go public with 41 Knock into next week 42 Composer Sibelius 43 Strongly maintains

4/17/13

45 “Spiritual Solutions” author Chopra 46 Go-go personality 47 Pays heed to 48 NFL highlight reel technique 51 Hourglass figure?

52 Deice?

53 Beef, or a fish 54 Joint with a cap 55 Netherworld river 57 “Cats” initials

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dr. date Dr. Date,

My girlfriend is looking for jobs in other states. I’m still in school here, and I want to stay with her no matter what. How can I help both of us stay positive at this time of unknowns?

—Crossroads

Chicken Who Crossed The Road,

From your note, dearest inquirer, it sounds like you’re being awfully selfish. “I want to stay with her no matter what.” Well, are you certain your darling date wants to stay with you? I hate to be the bird poop all over your windshield, but that’s something to take into consideration.

For now, though, try and spruce things up with your lady. Applying for jobs — if you do it right — is a full-time job in and of itself, so treat her to some fancy meals and many evenings just the two of you. And above all else, spice things up in the boudoir. Don’t ever let her forget that you’re the match who lights her fire.

Perhaps try one of these: Bring inanimate objects into the bedroom; desserts to be licked off of various body parts — if ya know what I’m sayin’ — or a third person, to simply watch or to participate in your tasty twosome. Rawr.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I think my boyfriend needs a top10 list of when texts are not appropriate.

—Gf Of “Sry 2 Hear Ur Dog Died” Dear Top Tens-A Lot,

For one time only, the doc will be your Westley and you can be my Princess Buttercup: as you wish.

Greetings, humans. Never text about the following things to your beloved: 1. You have decided to become a

furry.

2. Someone’s holding you at gunpoint.

3. You’re going to jail — again.

4. How big your “poop of the day” was 5. Any photos from 4 6. You got or will be fired from your job.

7. You’re moving to another city.

8. You actually already moved to another city.

9. There’s a fire in your apartment, and you’re still inside, what should you do?

10. You’re deathly allergic to nuts, and you just ate 30 peanuts, but your friends think you’ll be fine.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

If you end up kissing a gal you hardly know who has a boyfriend, but you stop right away, are you in the wrong? She was all over me, and she initiated the kiss, which I understand does not make it any more OK, but should you talk to the person or hope she doesn’t tell people and move on?

—Just A Kiss

Homewrecker By Kiss,

Dang, boy, you’re freaked, aren’t ya? Good thing you sought out the Doc because I’ve got just the thing that’ll wipe those fears off your dry erase board real quick: Pretend you did whatever memory loss procedure they do in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” and forget about it.

Judging by your note, it sounds like the kiss was merely a peck or two or three, which really doesn’t amount to anything if you’re over the age of 15. I am going to assume you are. And in that case, so what?

Who cares? Best to just pretend like the SOB never happened, and move on to some other lovely lady sans beau. It’s the lady-in-dating (lol) whose choice it is to tell her very blind boo the truth.

—Dr. Date

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

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Students unite to support mental health Groups raised awareness for U students, a quarter of which report having been diagnosed with a mental health condition.

BY MARION RENAULTZ mrenault@mndaily.com

More than a quar ter of all University of Minnesota students reported being diagnosed with at least one mental health condition in their lifetime, according to Boynton Health Ser vice’s 2010 College Student Health Sur vey.

In the face of such mental health statistics, students gathered Tuesday on the Washington Avenue Bridge for the University of Minnesota’s third annual Mental Health Awareness Day. Though their interests ranged from building houses to practicing yoga, seven student groups and nine of f-campus groups united to spread aware-

ness, educate passersby about mental health and remember those who have committed suicide.

The event also included meditation, discussion, art, music and professional speakers.

Boynton spokesman Dave Golden said he was ver y pleased to see students unite.

“It’s such a critical issue on campus,” he said.

“It’s so good to see the high level of awareness that’s going on.”

While last year’s event focused on a display of 1,100 chairs representing the number of college students who commit suicide nationwide each year, this year’s event focused on education and relaxation, said communications se-

nior Danika Hunt.

Among the involved groups was the Ar t of Living Club, a student group that practices free yoga each week.

“Students have a lot of stress in their life,” graduate student Sandeep Fadnavis said. “Yoga really helps — you can be mentally and physically fit at the same time.”

This year’s focus on education addresses a misunderstanding of mental health and how to treat it, said Hunt, president of Active Minds — one of the event’s organizers.

“I think it’s something that people don’t understand,” she said.

“A lot of times people don’t see it as an illness because they don’t see it.”

MARK VANCLEAVE, DAILY

Gender, women and sexuality studies sophomore Connor Wright reads notes taped to chairs representing the 1,100 college students who commit suicide nationwide in an average year Tuesday on the Washington Avenue Bridge.

Brewery to set up in U’s backyard Surly u from Page 1

that excitement for the project.

“I just think it’s fantastic news,” he said. “It’s going to spur new development in Prospect Park and North University [Avenue].”

But Gordon said he has a few “minor apprehensions” about the construction phase of the project.

With the area just coming out of light-rail constr uction, Gor don said neighbors will be sensitive to how Surly handles access and traf fic during

construction.

“I can’t anticipate any [specific problems],” he said, “Sometimes, you k n o w, w i t h c o m p a n i e s there will be issues with trucks, traffic, odors.”

Ferguson said Surly was smar t in positioning itself so close to nearby public transportation.

“I think we need to get more places moving in and taking advantage of the light rail and all the oppor tunities for development along the corridor,” he said.

In Januar y, the company received more than $2 million in grants to assist in the cleanup from Hennepin County, the Metropolitan Council and the

state’s Department of Employment and Economic Development.

Minneapolis Mayor R.T. R ybak said in the release that the city has been working closely with the brewer y — first in helping pass legislation that made the project possible, then helping it turn a former food processing plant and “blighted site” into a destination brewer y.

“It’s a great example of how government can work with a great small business that makes a great local product,” he said.

Monday marked the end of a two-year search in which Surly considered 80 possible locations in 30 cities around the Metro.