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Also, women returned to a burglar in their Como home.

Ten U students showcase their original garments at a student design competition and fashion show.

Whitney Taney went undefeated in her six years at Edina High School.

Student robbed near Marcy Park

Weisman Art Museum hosts “Threads”

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HEALTH

U to try historic HIV cure U doctors will attempt to cure a 6-year-old of HIV and leukemia.

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

A team of University of Minnesota doctors will at-

tempt a groundbreaking transplant Tuesday to cure a 6-year-old boy of HIV and leukemia.

The procedure is the first of its kind to use umbilical cord blood, which is left in the placenta after a baby is born. A similar transplant, conducted in Germany in 2007, success-

fully used bone marrow to achieve the same results.

“Cord blood doesn’t have to be as per fectly matched as marrow does,” said Dr. John Wagner, one of three doctors who will be per forming the transplant.

That makes it easier to find a sample containing a

rare HIV-resistant genetic mutation that is crucial to the transplant.

“We’ve been waiting for this event to occur,” Wagner said. “Once we show the safety of it and its u See TRANSPLANT Page 12 A transplant like this could move science closer to an HIV cure.

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Booze-to-food sales ratio rule could loosen

Only 40 percent of a restaurant’s revenue can come from alcohol sales.

BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

KICKER

Gr eg Pillsbur y sold more food last year than ever before, but he also sold more booze.

For the first time in nine years, the city found Burrito Loco Bar and Grill violated the 60-40 r ule, which requires at least 60 percent of a restaurant’s revenue to come from food sales.

Some Minneapolis City Council members are working to change the 1983 city ordinance and provide some relief to restaurants that str uggle to balance food and alcohol sales as more expensive craft beers and wines gain popularity.

“We get here at eight in the morning, and we don’t lock up until five the next morning,” Pillsbur y said.

“We deliver until 1 a.m.

ever y day, we do caterings and it’s all in ef for t to sell more food.”

Council members Gar y Schif f and Meg T uthill have proposed changing the ratio to 50-50.

The ordinance was originally put into place to prevent excessive drinking near residential neighborhoods, but Schiff said the ratio is outdated and does more harm than good.

“Small, locally owned restaurants are most affected by this,” he said.

“And if we want to be a city that encourages independently owned businesses instead of chain restaurants, then we need to make sure we don’t put unnecessar y burdens on them.”

Tuthill said alcohol has gotten more expensive in recent years, which is why an increasing number of businesses have been found in violation of the 60-40 rule. u See ALCOHOL Page 3 Schiff said he hopes to put the change into effect by this summer.

MEN’S BASKETBALL CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Hundreds rally at the state Capitol to support sustainable energy Monday in St. Paul. University students attended the rally in support of renewable energy.

Ralliers pack Capitol for Earth Day Students joined citizens and policymakers to rally for clean energy and jobs.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

Dozens of students elbowed their way into the

and other speakers call for suppor t to raise state renewable energy standards and create jobs.

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BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

Johnson High School senior Celestine Xiong makes minimum wage working at the Dinkytown McDonald’s.

Hoping to attend the University of Minnesota next fall, Xiong has been saving her $7.25-an-hour wages to pay for school.

Minnesota is one of several states that follow the federal minimum wage, but legislators want to change

Richard Pitino will continue efforts to woo top local players for 2014.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

The Gophers’ recr uitment of Apple Valley High School star Tyus Jones began four years ago, and the nation’s top-ranked point guard prospect for 2014 hasn’t even started his senior year of high school.

Former Gophers coach Tubby Smith visited Jones at his first practice before eighth grade in 2009, which helped initiate a storm of interest around the hometown recruit.

Four years later, Smith is fired, and 30-year-old Richard Pitino is slated to pick up where the 61-year-old

left off in the recruitment of Jones and other nationally coveted recruits from Minnesota.

“I wouldn’t say it was a setback at all,” Apple Valley head coach Zach Goring said of the coaching change. “I think the Gophers are still ver y much involved for Tyus [Jones].”

The premier pool of local talent includes 2014 recruits Jones, Robbinsdale Cooper’s Rashad Vaughn and De La Salle’s Reid Travis.

Minnesota’s chances for those three are considered slim because other potential suitors include legendar y basketball programs like Kentucky, Kansas and Duke. u See RECRUITING Page 8 Pitino is looking for guards to fit his fast, demanding style of play.

PROSPECT PARK

Minimum wage increase in the works at Leg. One bill would make it $10.55 by August 2015.

Coaching change doesn’t set back U’s recruiting efforts

that.

Policymakers have introduced several bills this session to increase the minimum wage, but Rep. Ryan Winkler’s proposal is the only one still being considered.

T h e G o l d e n Va l l e y Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party member introduced a bill that would incrementally raise minimum wage to $10.55 by August 2015.

The bill also calls for the establishment of a system that would adjust minimum wage to reflect inflation. u See WAGE Page 12 Businesses make up much of the opposition to raising the wage.

Area to welcome ‘Surly’ neighbor Prospect Park is hoping the $20 million project will help spur new growth in the area.

BY KELSEY SHIRRIFF kshirriff@mndaily.com

A concrete-laden, polluted industrial area will soon be replaced with a “destination brewer y,” long-awaited by Prospect Park and Surly Brewing Co. The Brooklyn Center-based brewers purchased the land last week in a move that comes as a win for a neighborhood rapidly capitalizing on recent development.

When the Prospect Park East River Road Improvement Association first got wind of Surly’s plans for a brewer y, the neighborhood approached company owner u See BREWERY Page 5 The $20 million brewery fits well into Prospect Park 2020’s vision for a destination area.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

An industrial site in Prospect Park will be the new location of Surly Brewing Company. The company spent $1.8 million on the Minneapolis site.

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Eric Justin Toth was detained Saturday in Esteli, a city near Nicaragua’s border with Honduras, and will be immediately deported to the United States, said National Police chief Aminta Granera.

“Toth will be depor ted immediately because he was in our countr y illegally,” Granera said at a news conference in Managua, the capital.

She said Toth entered Nicaragua with a false passpor t and also had a fake driver’s license and credit cards.

Toth was being handed over to FBI agents present at the news conference and they planned to take him to the U.S. in a special plane, Granera said.

A thin and nervous-looking Toth dressed in creamcolored shirt and pants was briefly presented to journalists and photographers who took his picture, but he wasn’t allowed to talk and was quickly taken away.

Granera said Toth first entered Nicaragua on Oct. 24, 2012, and left on Jan. 27.

He returned on Feb. 12 and that’s when Nicaraguan police began keeping a close

watch, she said.

“He was captured in a house in the Panama Soberana neighborhood in Esteli, even though he resisted,” Granera said.

Toth taught third grade at Beauvoir, a private elementar y school on the grounds of the Washington National Cathedral. He was escorted off campus in June 2008 after another teacher repor ted finding sexually explicit photographs on a school camera in Toth’s possession. He had not been seen since he lost his job.

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Osama bin Laden and purported Boston mobster James “Whitey” Bulger have both been featured on that list, but the FBI said it put Toth on because there were no reliable clues as to his whereabouts and because his Internet skills and alleged penchant for grooming children made him especially dangerous.

Red Cross: At least 187 killed in Nigeria violence

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAGOS — Fighting between soldiers and Islamic extremists in nor theast Nigeria killed at least 187 people, the worst single incident of violence in the region since an insurgency there began three years ago, an aid agency said Monday.

Nigeria’s military blocked access for relief of ficials to enter the town of Baga, which sits along the shores of Lake Chad in the nation’s far northeast, said Nwakpa O. Nwakpa, a Red Cross spokesman. Another 77 people are receiving medical care there in the ruins of a town where some 300 homes burned down, he said. Local residents blamed angry soldiers for burning down neighborhoods where they knew civilians were hiding.

“Our volunteers are on standby,” Nwakpa said.

“We are yet to be provided

clearance.”

The fighting in Baga began Friday and lasted for hours, sending people fleeing into the arid scrublands surrounding the community.

By the time Borno state officials could reach the city Sunday, a local government official said at least 185 people were killed, something not disputed by a brigadier general who attended the visit.

Officials could not offer a breakdown of civilian casualties versus those of soldiers and extremist fighters.

Many of the bodies had been burned beyond recognition in fires that razed whole sections of the town, residents said. Those killed were buried as soon as possible, following local Muslim tradition.

U.N. Secretar y-General Ban Ki-moon expressed shock and sadness at the high civilian casualty toll and large number of homes destroyed and called on extremist groups to cease their

attacks, U.N. spokesman Martin Nesirky said.

“The secretar y-general reiterates his firm conviction that no objective sought can justify this resor t to violence,” Nesirky said. “He underscores the need for all concerned to fully respect human rights and safeguard the lives of civilians.”

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who appeared at an event Monday on the nation’s power supply at the Aso Rock presidential villa in the country’s capital, did not comment on the killings there. A few hours after Ban’s statement, Jonathan’s office issued a release saying he had ordered “a full-scale investigation into reports of high civilian casualties.”

The “administration will continue to do ever ything possible to avoid the killing or injuring of innocent bystanders in security operations against terrorists and insurgents,” the statement

read. “Rules of engagement for the military and security agencies are already in place for this purpose and the investigation ordered by President Jonathan into the incident in Baga is to amongst other things, determine whether or not these rules were fully complied with.”

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Members of the Is lamic extremist network Boko Haram used heavy machine guns and rocketpropelled grenades in the assault Friday, which Brig.

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Student robbed near Marcy Park Also, women returned to a burglar in their Como home.

BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com

A University of Minnesota student was robbed early Sunday near Marcy Park, according to a Minneapolis police report.

The victim, 19, was walking alone at about 1 a.m. one block away from Marcy Park when three men approached him and asked for

money, said Minneapolis police Sgt. Steve McCarty.

When the victim said he didn’t have any money, one of the men demanded his cellphone, and he gave it up, McCarty said.

The three men left the victim unharmed, and McCar ty said they fled the scene before police arrived.

The victim gave up the phone because he felt intimidated by the suspects, the report said.

The robbery might have been avoided had the victim not walked by himself, McCarty said. Police encourage students to walk in well-

lit areas and with groups, especially late at night.

He added that he thought the victim was smar t to give up his cellphone without a fight.

“A lot of people are inclined to tell these potential robbers ‘no,’” he said. “But you don’t want that refusal to end up with someone getting hurt.”

Burglar surprises students near Como Avenue

Four women returned home to find a burglar in their house Sunday afternoon, a Minneapolis police

report said.

The women, three of whom are University students, arrived at their home near the Como Student Community Cooperative and discovered a man in their house, McCarty said.

Wh en t h e ma n s a w them, he did not confront them and instead fled the scene through the side door, McCarty said.

The man dropped some of the items he was carr ying in the house, but he still left with electronics and jewelry, McCarty said.

Though it is rare for people to come face to face with

a burglar, McCarty said it is best not to confront them.

“You never know if the person is armed,” he said.

“You never know what they’ll do.”

UMPD issues few drug citations on 4/20

University police responded to few repor ts of dr ug use on campus Saturday. The day is known as a holiday by marijuana users, characterized by heavy public smoking.

Officers only handed out three citations for narcotics violations and possession of

drug paraphernalia Saturday.

Campus has seen large April 20 celebrations in the past. A 2010 event drew about 100 people to Nor throp Mall to smoke marijuana and hookah tobacco.

University police Lt. Troy Buhta said large April 20 celebrations are generally not as prevalent at the University.

“I know it’s a day where people show suppor t by smoking,” he said. “Fortunately, it’s not as big a problem on our campus as it is with others.”

Minn. school district gets bulletproof whiteboards

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MINNEAPOLIS — A central Minnesota school district where two students were killed in a 2003 shooting is getting a new device that of ficials hope adds another layer of defense should a gunman enter school grounds: bulletproof whiteboards.

The Rocori School District plans to equip each classroom and common areas with whiteboards made out of Dyneema, a material that the manufacturer said is 2 1/2 times stronger than the material used in police-issue bulletproof vests. The boards can hang on a classroom wall like any other marker board, but in event of a shooting, a teacher could

use it as a shield. “ We a r e o n e o f t h e handful of schools in the nation that knows what’s it like to put kids in lockdown for real. We heard loudly what that did to those students,” Cold Spring Police Chief Phil Jones told The Associated Press on Monday. “This is the best development in school safety I’ve ever seen in my life.”

T h e m a n u f a c t u r e r, Mar yland-based Hardwire LLC, has been working on armor protection devices for militar y vehicles and personnel for years. But after the Connecticut elementar y school shootings in December that killed 20 children and six educators, the company decided to expand to school security.

The whiteboards are 18 inches by 20 inches, weigh less than 4 pounds, have handles on the back, and are said to absorb rounds from handguns or shotguns without ricochet, according to Hardwire’s website. Company of ficials said the whiteboards are already in schools in Nor th Dakota and Mar yland, and are being rolled out in Pennsylvania and California districts. Jones said Rocori schools are the first to use them in Minnesota.

But at least one security exper t questioned whether the boards would be ef fective. Bill Nesbitt, president of school security consulting firm Security Management Ser vices International, said he wasn’t familiar with the white-

boards but said his initial reaction was that they may provide a false sense of security. The prudent thing to do would be to retreat from danger rather than hide behind a whiteboard, he said.

After the Connecticut school shooting, people began talking about ever ything from arming teachers to bulletproof backpacks — but they continue to miss the nuts and bolts of lockdown training and other proven measures, said Ken Trump, a school security consultant and president of National School Safety and Security Ser vices.

“People are going to radical, extreme ideas. In reality they are just short of ridiculous,” he said. “People are grasping for straws and

in doing so, they are creating a false sense of security because they are shifting their attention away from doing those fundamental things that will actually make them safe.”

Jones and Scott Staska, the Rocori superintendent, noted that the boards only supplement their larger security plan, which includes lockdown drills, school resource of ficers and a single point of entr y.

Staska said many teachers see it as an extra layer of defense, but he noted that school security is a sensitive issue. Staska said he had some initial reservations, mostly because he didn’t want to acknowledge that such security is necessary.

“Hopefully the board will hang on the wall for

50 years and never have to be used as anything but a marker board,” Staska said.

“If you don’t have it, you have a classroom with no protection. With it, you at least have an opportunity to have some protection.”

In 2003, a 15-year-old boy brought a gun to Rocori High School and fatally shot 14-year-old Seth Bartell and 17-year-old Aaron Rollins.

The gunman, who is ser ving a life sentence, was convinced by a teacher to put the gun down.

Rollins’s father, Tom Rollins, said he doesn’t believe the whiteboards would have saved Aaron or Seth. But he said it’s a good idea, adding that if the teen gunman had decided to keep shooting, such a board may have helped other students.

Booze-to-food sales ratio rule could loosen

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minneapolis resident Richard Chasse has a beer and dinner Sunday at Burrito Loco. A policy change could affect the food-to-alcohol revenue ratio required for local businesses.

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“Craft beers and signature wines cost a lot more these days, and we’re doing what we can to help out those small businesses that are working ver y hard to sell food,” she said.

When more businesses are in compliance, Tuthill said the city liquor patrol staff has more time to focus on those businesses that consistently fail to comply with city ordinances.

“I’m more interested in going after those businesses that are chronic offenders of city rules, not businesses that are on the edge of the 60-40 ratio,” she said.

Big Ten Restaurant and Bar co-owner Todd DuPont said he understands how the ratio could pose

a problem for local businesses, but an ordinance change would not af fect his business “one iota.”

The Stadium V illage sandwich shop brings in 70 percent of its revenue from food, and DuPont said they’ve never had a problem meeting the 60-40 ratio.

“Beer has gotten a lot more expensive, so it’s har der and har der for some of the locals to reach the 60-40 ratio, especially if they don’t have a real strong lunch business,” DuPont said.

In neighboring Dinkytown, Pillsbur y said Burrito Loco has to worr y about being in compliance with the city r ule because his customers are more likely to order several drinks than several plates of food.

“I can’t force you to get food,” he said. “You’re not

going to have three entrées and a beer, but you might have an entrée and three beers.”

He said the influx of r estaurants opening in Dinkytown over the past decade has brought more customers into the neighborhood but has also created more competition for food sales, which is why Burrito Loco didn’t meet the 60-40 rule this year.

In late Febr uar y, the City Council gave itself the power to revoke business licenses of uncooperative businesses that have repeatedly violated city laws.

Pillsbur y said the new powers of the Council make a ratio rule unnecessar y.

“I think we should look at why there is a ratio at all if [City Council] already has the ability to shut places down,” Pillsbur y said

Schif f said he hopes to have the rule change in effect by this summer.

“There is broad support on the Council for making

this change.”

He said he hasn’t received any complaints from residential neighborhoods regarding the ratio change.

“The dif ference between 60-40 and 50-50 won’t be noticeable to anyone walking by,” Schiff said.

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Ralliers pack Capitol for Earth Day

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

University of St. Thomas senior Jesse Stock rallies at the Capitol in support of sustainable energy Monday in St. Paul.

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divestment campaign.

Organizations from across the state launched the Minnesota Clean Energy and Jobs campaign earlier this year.

Campaigners encouraged legislators to raise the state’s renewable energy standard to 40 percent and solar energy standard to 10 percent by 2030 and save consumers money by making it easier to generate ef ficient and local power.

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campus,” Gilyard said. “Culture and arts are going to be a very big part of this. We think that’s going to result in a different clientele.”

Cam Gordon, city councilman for the 2nd Ward, said it can be challenging to bring big developments like the light rail and the brewer y into neighborhoods.

“That’s one of the tricks — how do we meet the growing needs of ever ybody in the area?” he said. “I think it’s healthy when we have a real mix of people in our communities.”

The $20 million brewery fits well into Prospect Park 2020’s vision for a destination area that compliments nearby University research facilities, Prospect Park’s Textile Center and the rest of the neighborhood. Gilyard said the location could be a place for the arts, retail and science to come together with new housing developments north of University Avenue.

Breaking ground on Malcolm Midway has to wait until an environmental clean-up

As Ellison addressed the crowd of environmentalists, his statements were met with roaring applause.

“The defining issue of our time is climate change,” Ellison said.

“Not only us as human beings, but the species of this world cannot live with what we’re doing to it with fossil fuel.”

H e u r g ed a t t en d ees to retain the enthusiasm they showed at the rally to show government officials what clean energy means to them.

“We can talk about energy,” Ellsion said, “but

the energy in this room can fuel the change we need.”

A cultural shift Minneapolis mayoral candidate Mark Andrew said he participated in the first-ever Ear th Day celebration in front of Coffman Union as a University student in 1970.

“All of these years later,” he said, “we’ve come so far and yet we have so far to go.”

Andrew said the enthusiasm behind the campaign was among the strongest he’d seen on Earth Day — and students

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“The site was once upon a time a swamp and kind of mucky, then it was used as a dump,” Calvert said. Years of industrial use left behind contaminants, she said.

“They’re the type of thing that, if you’re going to start going out and digging up the site, you have to deal with,” she said.

The Metropolitan Council, Minnesota Department of Employment and Eco-

nomic Development and Hennepin County each gave environmental grants totaling $2 million to the clean-up effort.

Calvert said the brewery will likely attract visitors to a little-known slice of the city.

“It’s really a part of the city that a lot of people are pretty unaware of right now,” she said. “I think it’s going to be ver y good for the area that way.”

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Omar Ansari with the idea for the site, known as “Malcolm Midway.”

“For us, this is the result, in part, of a proactive approach to attracting them to this area,” said Dick Gilyard, a member of a planning group for the area called Prospect Park 2020. “We think it’s a very unique and catalytic environment that can be created here.”

Surly teamed up with Minneapolis project coordinator Ann Calvert and a consultant group to identify different prospective sites in the city in summer of 2011.

By last fall, planners had narrowed down four sites, including Malcolm Midway, Calvert said, 94 and recent transit development in the neighborhood drew the craft brewers to the site.

“That was a very important factor for Surly in selecting the site; they wanted the light-rail transit and bike paths in the area, etc.,” she said.

Prospect Park 2020 was started after construction plans were finalized for lightrail transit along the Central Corridor, or Green Line, which will start service down University Avenue next year.

The organization saw an opportunity to create a different image for the area as a result of development, Gilyard said, but didn’t want it to become student-oriented like other University neighborhoods.

“The thing about Stadium Village and Dinkytown is their unique and treasured personalities, but they are in large measure geared to the

As a University of Minnesota senior, Racquel Maronde said she cares about the availability of green jobs in the future.

“This is a field that needs to grow,” she said.

Maronde said having students from so many dif ferent schools at the Capitol proves this is an issue that affects all young people.

“Seeing young faces at events like this get people’s attention and makes people realize that we do care and it does matter to us and our future,” University sophomore Katy Nordhagen said.

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“These are tomorrow’s leaders, and they are imbued with a sense of purpose around the environment,” he said. “To be able to come out and be a part of what has become a national tradition is a powerful statement that the environment will continue to be a priority in this generation.”

Augsburg College junior Ellie Klueger said she attended the event because some people fear clean energy will take away jobs.

She said it was refreshing to be sur rounded by people who believe the

two can go together, especially since many of them were students.

“It shows a great shift in our culture,” she said.

In addition to rallying, Augsburg freshman Hannah Withers said it’s important for students to talk to state representatives to voice their support of clean energy.

“We are a collective generation of people who really care about the future,” W ithers said. “It doesn’t matter how old we are. We’re par t of what’s happening now, and we’re par t of what’s going to happen tomorrow.”

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Weisman Art Museum hosts “Threads”

Ten U of M students showcase their original garments at “Threads,” a student design competition and fashion show.

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ollaboration between ar t and fashion is at the nucleus of “Threads,” a design event showcased at the Weisman Ar t Museum tomorrow evening.

“Threads” is a design competition that will feature 10 original garments designed and executed by 10 selected individuals from the University of Minnesota’s apparel design sophomore class.

This event is the followup to 2012’s “No White” design competition, which insisted designers not use white materials during construction. 2013’s competition follows a similar formula, albeit a dif ferent restriction. The designers could not use traditional materials, i.e. fabric, buttons, zippers, etc.

The inspiration for

this avant-garde approach to design comes from “The Greenheads Series,” which comprises 43 gouache paintings by ar tist Laylah Ali. The Greenheads are a group of ambiguously sexed, round-headed beings that per vade a dystopian world where eccentric and sinister exchanges are customar y. The gar ments that will parade the runway are interpretations of Ali’s series.

Students used a number of unconventional objects to construct their projects: braided and frayed ropes, cof fee filters and puzzle pieces that were dyed to mimic Ali’s color palette, among others. Sophomore Lauren Kacher used a piece of her everyday transportation for the base of her garment.

“I used bike tires to execute my interpr etation and to communicate a message of being bound, oppressed and taken away from society and forced to watch while ever yone else was free,” Kacher said.

The designers’ garments not only parody the physical construction and

appearance of Ali’s paintings but also a selected piece of the rather ambiguous message her work signifies. Allise Prew, one of the presenting designers at “Threads,” communicates this idea not only in her nail-covered mini-dress but also in the ambiance of her r unway presentation.

“I went a darker route with my music,” Pr ew said. “I drew inspiration from her [Ali’s] meanings, which are somewhat dark, so my song correlates with that. ‘Such Small Hands’ [by La Dispute] is a little bit scar y, a little bit harsh.”

This design class project turned public fashion event definitively combines artistic thought with creative execution, which is something the Weisman Art Museum Collective — the student group behind the event — wanted to do.

“Threads” is their brainchild.

“We were tr ying to connect two ideas: how Ali’s work is done through stor ytelling and how these students are expressing those stories through fabrics or threads in this

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case,” Emily Macy, campus relations manager of WAM Collective, said.

And those threads will parade the runway juried by five local ar t, fashion and design enthusiasts in hopes of being the best to wholly craft and execute “The Greenheads Series.”

“Threads” attendees are urged to view the series, which is currently the featured exhibit at the Weisman, before attending the event.

“I would encourage people to look at her work because I think they’ll walk away with a deeper understanding of some of the themes she’s [Ali]

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY Apparel design sophomore Lauren Kacher, left, poses with her model, Amanda Spencer, Monday at the Weisman Art Museum. Spencer is also a Minnesota Daily business employee. Kacher’s design will be shown in the Threads Fashion Show on Wednesday at the Weisman.

talking about,” WAM representative Katie Covey said, “and also a deeper

understanding of where the designers are getting their inspiration from.”

time working with Drake on his first two releases.

“Although, he was ver y strong.”

In fact, Boyd said, he holds a record in the 100-yard dash at his school in Wiltshire.

Most people remember Drake for his voice, though acclaim among critics and fans would only arrive years later.

In response to Drake’s resurgence of popularity, Boyd organized various tribute concer ts in 2009.

“Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake” collects the best live renditions of the folk singer’s spare songs.

“Recording a live concert is the closest I get to working the way I used to work in the studio,” he said, “because ever ybody these days works ver y differently.”

Countless musicians, including Kate Bush and Beck, give Drake credit for influence. On “Way to Blue,” both Robyn Hitchcock and Vashti Bunyan appear in especially haunting performances of “Parasite” and “Which Will.”

“To get that live feeling and energy that I like to get on a record — the only way to do it is to put people up on a stage and record them that way.”

Boyd’s relationship with Drake represents a brief time in his life, but the producer still held onto song rights in 1999, when an advertisement sparked even more interest for “Pink Moon.” Recorded in two midnight sessions spanning four hours, the album suddenly received interest from a car company.

“I got a message that Volkswagen wanted to use ‘Pink Moon’ in a car commercial, and I said, ‘Forget it.’ That didn’t sound like a good idea at all,” Boyd said.

When he later looked at the stor yboard for the commercial, he realized no voiceover would taint the lyrics to the title track of Drake’s final album.

“I thought it looked to me more like a commercial for Drake than a commercial for Volkswagen,” he said.

Boyd accepted Volkswagen’s offer, and the use of “Pink Moon” led to more appreciation for Drake’s music. “White Bicycles,” B o y d ’ s 2 0 0 6 m e m o i r, chronicles his time in the psychedelic and folk scene among British artists in the ’60s and ’70s. But Drake still holds a special place in his memory. At the very least, “Way to Blue” offers a small window into Drake’s legacy.

“I do feel that it’s wonderful music, and it’s gratifying that people appreciate it now,” he said.

“I wish they would’ve appreciated it sooner.”

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A Nick Drake Tribute Producer Joe Boyd remembers his time with the influential English singersongwriter and pays tribute with “Way to Blue.”

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nly slight traces of Nick Drake remain today. Before his death in 1974 from an overdose of antidepressants, the English singer-songwriter

refused to give inter views or regularly per form in front of audiences.

Without widespread success, the Cambridge University graduate recorded his feathery but grave voice with American producer Joe Boyd. Boyd, who’s

worked with everyone from R.E.M. to Pink Floyd, gives a human understanding of the folk musician now mythologized.

“People felt very protective of him because they thought he was fragile,” Boyd said, recalling his

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A struggle for intimacy A documentary in the UK captures some people’s struggle for intimate experiences.

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HEMANG SHARMA columnist

This encompasses individuals who have never had an intimate moment in their lives, like 26-year-old John, who suffers from a learning disability, to people who acquired their disability much later in life, like the recently paralyzed Karl, who, as the film’s website describes, “is coming to terms with life without an erection.”

As the film’s title suggests, it’s more than the physical ability, it’s the desire of these people that counts in their pursuit of finding or redefining their sexuality. It’s clear that these individuals, along with the 11 million people in the U.K. with disabilities and the many more in the international community, want and should be enjoying the physical, emotional and psychological revelations of an intimate experience.

So what’s the issue? Well,

in the U.K., laws have gotten in the way of people with various needs seeking sex. Earlier this year, many care homes were under investigation on prostitution charges because of the “services” that were provided to residents. I do not think that these care homes, alleged sexual surrogates or “sex workers” or the families of these residents who have helped set up intimate encounters have truly committed a crime. These people with physical conditions or needs possess just as much desire as you or I. I would ask the 70 percent of British people who said in a newspaper survey that they wouldn’t consider being intimate with a person with a physical disability to consider how they’d feel if they were disabled.

In the U.S. we have even refused to debate the legalization of prostitution, mainly because of our overemphasis on “family values” and antiquated viewpoints about embracing sexuality. We have leaders calling homosexuality a choice.

We have sexual surrogates like the real-life equivalent of Jane Lynch in “Boston Legal” and Helen Hunt in “The Sessions,” who are almost assured to be

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publicly shamed, thus criminalizing what may be one of the happiest moments for someone who has been through a life of enough trials and tribulations already.

I know it is too much to ask to forward our society’s views on “prostitution,” but I would suggest an alternative to the legal hassles of sexual surrogates. A disability card identifying someone with a disability should be necessary, which has been adopted in a variety of forms in the U.S. and abroad. I see no real need to demonize, criminalize and/or penalize these surrogates who seek to help people with disabilities.

We have the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which ensures that the constitutional rights of people with disabilities are protected and that they have every option available to cater to their needs so they can live life as normally as possible. It is illegal to discriminate against a person with a disability. Intimacy is happiness, and we shouldn’t infringe on the ability of people with disabilities to pursue it.

Hemang Sharma welcomes comments at hsharma@mndaily.com.

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Internet privacy in danger CISPA will obstruct Internet rights.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Response to Kaler on the SDS referendum

In his response to a referendum passed by students in the All-Campus Elections Committee, President Eric Kaler both mischaracterized the referendum and publicly rejected students’ efforts to constructively and democratically reform the University of Minnesota.

First, Kaler falsely suggested the referendum was about a tuition freeze. While “No Tuition Hikes” has been a Students for a Democratic Society campaign dating back long before his arrival at the University, that is not what the referendum states.

The referendum advocates for the introduction of a new democratic process at the University that would allow tuition-paying students to have a say in both the cost of education and the level of increased debt being bestowed upon them.

This new mechanism is directly related to the second point of the referendum, which is to demand complete budget transparency through a public disclosure of the budget before it is sent to the legislator. The timing of this disclosure was chosen explicitly so that students would have a chance to understand how the administration proposes spending their tuition dollars before the budget is submitted to the Legislature. Kaler is wrong in his assumption that transparency means a “public” budget presented before the Board of Regents.

“Public” budget disclosure means presenting the budget to students for them to share in the process of review and critique before decisions are made final.

Finally, an informed student can quickly learn the facts about University financial mismanagement from

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SEXUALITY

an people with severe disabilities have sex?

This is a legitimate question that is often considered taboo in America due to our sensitive attitudes toward sex and physical disability and our primal instinct to shy away from debating our most primal instinct.

Channel 4 in the U.K. is set to air a documentar y called “Can Have Sex Will Have Sex.” The production will feature the lives of four individuals who suffer from a wide variety of medical conditions that have left them in a state largely without the possibility of and/or desire for an intimate experience, until now.

In what I believe is a very noble and humane thing to do, these men and women with disabilities are given the opportunity to experience the feeling of being intimate with someone and are able to recount their experiences in testimonials in the Firecracker Films documentary.

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reading former Gov. Arne Carlson’s critique of University spending or attending any current legislative hearing. Kaler is wrong in his assessment that the media has somehow been unfair in its criticism of the University.

Carlson and the Legislature have both been strong voices in a public outcry about the administration’s financial mismanagement of the University.

This referendum is an important part of the criticism of the administration’s financial mismanagement of our University. This referendum is in line with cuts demanded by the Legislature. If Kaler believes that these demands are unrealistic to ask at a public university, then perhaps he and his administration do not serve the educational mission of this institution. If it is unrealistic to ask the administration to share in the burdens bestowed upon students, staff and faculty here, then perhaps they should return to the private sector.

The only point SDS can agree with Kaler on at this time is that students should find out who their elected representatives are on campus and at the state Capitol and write to them. Tell the Minnesota Student Association, the state Legislature, Gov. Mark Dayton and the media that Kaler and his administration are denying the tuition-paying students of our University the democratic reforms and budget transparency we voted for.

Christopher Getowicz Students for a Democratic Society

Praising Social Security benefit cuts

The Obama administration’s plan to cut Social Security benefits has received resounding approval by cor-

porate media as a courageous move toward the center by President Barack Obama as well as an effort to use a more acute measure of inflation.

Neither claim is trustworthy.

Part of the administration’s plan is to change how inflation is calculated by switching to the “chained consumer index.” This would result in a small reduction in benefits that compounds over time, so the cuts get larger as retirees get older. Many in the corporate-controlled media depicted this as a bold centrist move.

Who exactly wants to see Social Security and Medicare cuts? Not many people, according to a recent Washington Post poll. Just 17 percent supported cutting Medicare benefits, and 21 percent said the same for Social Security.

This finding is hardly surprising; throughout the past few years, budget deadlines and the budget cliffs, the American public has at no time expressed any robust backing for cutting Social Security expenditure to decrease the budget deficit. This inference in much of the corporate coverage of the issue is that both “extremes” will be unhappy, and thus the “center” will be content.

But this middle ground is a manifestation of the concentration of corporate media talking points. Corporate media has been part of the extensive campaign of misinformation as it relates to Social Security’s supposed funding crisis. The Obama administration is supporting an effort to cut benefits in the name of deficit reduction; it is not surprising that some in the media are championing those efforts and framing them as valiant centrism.

Roberto de Freitas University student

ast week, the House

p a s s e d the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act with mixed suppor t from both Democrats RONALD DIXON and Republicans. columnist This piece of legislation should not be passed into law.

What the bill essentially does is grant the government the capacity to share private information that pertains to Internet security with companies. The rules are so broad, however, that they open the floodgates for abuse.

For example, private companies can obtain far more information than they really need. Due to the broad wording of the bill, the data can include personally identifiable information, which is online information that identifies an Internet user, such as banking or social media accounts.

Moreover, through the transfer of this data, the companies are not restricted in how they use the information; if they use the information in a questionable manner, the bill would protect them from any criminal liability.

Also, the requests that the companies can make would not require subpoenas or warrants. This means that the right to privacy, an implied right that stems from the Fourth Amendment, would be infringed.

The bill, if passed into law, would be unconstitutional.

Finally, given the fact that the companies would be shielded from any lawsuit that would stem from the apprehension of the data, they could use the information in any way that they choose. If they want to sell the data to advertisement agencies, for example, nothing would stop them from squeezing money from our personal information. Also, if a hacker steals the data from the company, the companies would not be legally responsible for having an inadequate security mechanism.

Several politicians believe that CISPA is a better alternative to the controversial Stop Online Privacy Act and Protect IP Act bills that died in Congress, but that is far from the truth. As groups from both sides of the political spectrum, from the American Civil Liberties Union to FreedomWorks as well as President Barack Obama, oppose the bill, we find that the idea of protecting basic Internet privacy rights should be near the forefront of legislative priorities. CISPA, however, runs contrary to the rights of privacy.

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

A salute to University security Thank you for your diligent service for the University.

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n the wake of the incredibly horrific and surreal events the nation suffered through last week, we were reminded once again of the tremendous bravery and unity that defines the spirit of freedom that was exemplified by millions of Americans in their words and displays of support after the Boston bombings last Monday.

The cooperation and dogged determination demonstrated by the Boston Police Department in conjunction with the National Guard, FBI and local Massachusetts authorities were what led to the successful capture of the second suspect in the marathon bombing investigation Friday.

As we anxiously await more answers, now is an important time not only to return to normalcy but also to reflect on last week’s turbulence. A student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, could have just as easily been one of our peers at the University of Minnesota. And instead of the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology officer Sean Collier, any number of University police officers or University student safety and security volunteers could have been slain on our campus.

We want to take our time of reflection to thank the University Police Department and all the student security officers — including 624 -WALK escorts — who so selflessly help ensure our safety on campus. They do not often get the credit deser ving of their profession, and they are ultimately here to serve and protect this University and its students. In the aftermath of the unspeakable violence that has rocked the nation, as well as a recent history of gun-related threats and violence plaguing several campuses across America, we cannot thank them enough for their dutiful and honorable service.

A bold education finance bill HF 630 includes smart proposals that provide a much-needed shakeup for state education.

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ast week, MinnPost reported on the ambitious efforts to improve Minnesota education proposed in HF 630, the Omnibus K-12 Education Policy and Finance Bill currently making its way through the Minnesota House. Goals include achieving universal literacy by third grade as well as reaching a 100 percent high-school graduation rate.

Perhaps the bill’s greatest achievements are increasing both freedom and accountability at the most local level. One of the bill’s aims is to reduce the state’s wide achievement and opportunity gaps. However, it allows each school district to define its own approach in doing so, stating that “the school board of each eligible district must formally develop and implement a long-term comprehensive plan” that works to “increase the academic achievement of all students.” The school districts can’t simply create a plan and not implement it, however. Nor will districts be able to afford to hold on to a failing plan. Under the bill, each school district would have to hold an annual public meeting, where it would provide data demonstrating progress in closing the disparity in student academic achievement among all racial categories. As MinnPost reported, districts not showing progress will have to forfeit up to 4 percent of their funding.

Another noteworthy change that would come under the bill is the end of the infamous Graduation-Required Assessment for Diploma exam. The elimination of the GRAD is perhaps long overdue, as the exam has proven to mostly be just another hoop for students to jump through, while providing little more than additional stress for high school seniors.

After much outcry about the achievement gap both in the media and by the public, HF 630 finally provides a meaningful path to reducing it. The annual public meetings as well as scrapping the unnecessary GRAD exam are both solid reforms and show that the state Legislature is seeking to pass far more than a status quo education finance bill.

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New coach doesn’t set back recruiting Recruiting u from Page 1

Considerably younger and less experienced than the coaches of those programs, Pitino will tr y to compete on the recruiting field before he gets a shot on the court.

“There’s a fine line you have to walk because of [Pitino’s] youth in recruiting,” West Virginia assistant coach Ron Everhar t said. “You’re so close to the players, there could be a misconception.”

Everhar t hired Pitino to his first assistant coaching job at Northeastern in 2005.

“One thing [Pitino] did best was draw the line between relationships by coaching the kids as a professional,” Everhart said.

The depar ture of Gophers big men T r evor Mbakwe and Rodney Williams leaves Pitino with a lack of immediate depth in his frontcourt. A third big man, Andre Ingram, will graduate in May. The three recr uits are among the best talents to come out of Minnesota recently, but only one — Travis — can play in the frontcourt.

But Pitino’s colleagues say his style of play, which he pr eaches as a fastpaced, r un-and-gun offense, will need immense depth at the guard position.

Minnesota has three available scholarships for 2013 after Pitino signed Daquein McNeil last week. Pitino r ecr uited McNeil while coaching at Florida International University.

McNeil, a guard, will bolster an aging Minnesota backcourt that graduated Julian Welch this year.

The Gophers recently lost two of Smith’s 2013 recruits, guard Alvin Ellis and for ward Alex Foster.

But that hasn’t fazed Pitino, who’s looking for his own players to fit his demanding style of play.

“I just value the right fit in recruiting,” Pitino said.

“If we can get guys to stay [in Minnesota], I think it’s great for the state.”

Vermont Academy head coach Jesse Bopp, who coached McNeil for three years in high school, said guard depth is key in Pitino’s system.

“I’d imagine at Minnesota they’re going to play such a frantic pace,” Bopp said. “They’re going to play a lot of people.

It’s going to be ver y, ver y hard to play 40 minutes for Richard Pitino.”

Minnesota lacks a true point guard, as Bopp said McNeil is a “pure scorer” and current Gophers floor general Andr e Hollins played shooting guar d through most of his high school days.

Cue dream candidate Tyus Jones.

The point guard, who’s one of the most cour ted recr uits in the countr y, has nar rowed his list of suitors to seven — Baylor, Duke, Kentucky, Kansas, Michigan State, Ohio State and Minnesota, all of which have of fered him a scholarship.

Some asser t that Jones keeps Minnesota on his list to please locals as he dominates the high school courts around the state.

But the Gophers have been on Jones’ list from the star t, and Goring said Pitino’s hiring doesn’t change that.

Pitino met with Jones on April 14 and with Goring the next day. Goring said the meetings “went well,” but Jones wouldn’t show which schools he was leaning toward.

“His next step is to select which schools he wants to take an of ficial

visit to,” Goring said. “Tyus said [the unofficial visit to Minnesota] went really well.”

NCAA r ule changes last summer allow college recruits to begin taking official visits star ting Jan. 1 of their junior year, which is 2013 for Jones.

Per NCAA r ules, he can take of ficial visits to up to five schools. Those schools will then cover travel expenses for him and his family to tour the program and its facilities.

But recruiting is a process, and unof ficial visits are the first step in selling a Gophers program that is fighting mediocrity and has worse facilities than its Big Ten competitors.

First-year athletics director Nor wood Teague has a master facilities plan that he says has a men’s basketball practice facility at the top of the priority list. Associate athletics director Mike Ellis said on 1500ESPN this month that the plan’s of ficial announcement has been pushed from April to June.

Pitino said the lack of a practice facility at Minnesota is an overblown factor in recruiting and developing players.

“I’ve worked at places with practice facilities,”

NEXT SEASON’S SHOES TO FILL Player

Height

Weight

PPG

RPG

PF Trevor Mbakwe

6’ 8”

245 lbs

10.0 ppg

8.7 rpg

F Rodney Williams

6’ 7”

205 lbs

10.1 ppg

5.0 rpg

F Andre Ingram

6’ 7”

213 lbs

1.8 ppg

1.8 rpg

G Julian Welch

6’ 3”

194 lbs

3.0 ppg

1.4 apg

SOURCE: ESPN.COM

2013 RECRUITS Player

Height

Weight

G Daquein McNeil

6’ 3”

170 lbs

G Alvin Ellis

6’ 4”

185 lbs

F Alex Foster

6’ 8”

205 lbs

Key:

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Rating

Decommitted SOURCE: ESPN.COM

THE 2014 “BIG THREE” Player

Height

Weight

SF Reid Travis

6’ 8”

240 lbs

G Rashad Vaughn

6’ 6”

200 lbs

G Tyus Jones

6’ 1”

171 lbs

Rating

SOURCE: ESPN.COM

Pitino said. “Louisville had the nicest arena in the countr y. We didn’t get our players because of that. We got our players because of the people, coaching staff and players around them.”

He also said his youth won’t hurt his recruiting.

“I embrace the fact that I’m young. Hopefully I can relate to [recr uits] in a dif ferent way [than other coaches] — doesn’t necessarily mean it is better.”

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Assistant brings hometown swagger back to the Gophers Whitney Taney went undefeated in her six years at Edina High School.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Whitney Taney is arguably the most dominant women’s tennis player to ever walk the halls at Edina High School. She ended her high school career six years ago with a 166-0 record, one that might never be matched.

Then she took her talents to the University of Michigan, where she holds the record for the most career doubles wins.

Now, in her first year as an assistant coach at Minnesota, she’s tr ying to help turn around a struggling Gophers women’s tennis program.

Taney was promoted to be a full-time assistant before the 2012-13 season after spending one year as a volunteer assistant.

“I’m focused on helping build this program,” she said. “I’m glad to be back in Minnesota.”

Taney has been hooked on tennis since she first picked up a racquet at age 6.

“I always played other spor ts growing up, but tennis was the spor t I really loved,” she said, “and I knew I wanted to excel

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Gophers assistant women’s tennis coach Whitney Taney talks to a player between games Friday at Baseline Tennis Center.

in it.”

She met that goal because of support from her father, Ted Taney.

“He has been with me ever y step of the way,” Whitney Taney said. “I am the person I am today because of him.”

Ted Taney played tennis for the Gophers in the mid-1970s. He said he knew his daughter was a special player when she was about 10.

“She had a passion,” he said. “She always wanted to get better and took ever y step to get better. I knew back then that she truly wanted to be good at it.”

Whitney Taney said she and her father played tennis ever y night after her practices. She said tennis was consuming at times,

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but she knew she had to commit to it to succeed.

“I’ve had people always come up to me and say, ‘How were you able to work with your daughter?’ ” Ted Taney said.

“That was never a problem for us.

“I don’t think we’ve ever even played a set,” he added. “I was there to tr y to get her better and help her reach her goals. It was never about us competing against each other.”

Whitney Taney’s commitment paid off when she got to high school. She downplayed her 166-match winning streak but said she “never took it for granted” and tried to approach ever y match the same way.

But her father said it was a huge deal at the time.

“It was more dif ficult for her as it continued because expectations were always so high,” he said. “I was just concerned whether she was still having fun with the sport.”

Her dominance on the tennis cour t attracted colleges from all over, but Taney said she wanted to stay in the Midwest. She took a handful of unofficial college visits her junior year before picking Michigan, one of the top teams in the Big Ten. “I love Minnesota,” she said. “I lived 15 minutes away, but at that time it was about going out and tr ying something new. It kind of made me grow up, being in a different state.”

Though her father graduated from Minneso-

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Gophers assistant women’s tennis coach Whitney Taney cheers on her players Friday at the Baseline Tennis Center. Taney, who went 166-0 during her career at Edina High School, was promoted to assistant coach this season.

ta, Taney said he fully supported her choice to go to Michigan.

“I told her nothing is forever,” Ted Taney said.

“I told her the option was always there to come back to Minnesota, so she knew that.”

Taney contributed right away at Michigan and found her niche as a doubles player.

She held a 114-34 doubles record in her four years at Michigan and finished 35-4 in the Big Ten. “She just knew the doubles cour t so well,” Wolverines head coach Ronni Bernstein said. “She wasn’t a huge ser ver or a person that came for ward super aggressive. She just

put the ball in the right spot.”

Taney also played in the middle of the Wolverines’ singles lineup and posted an 89-35 career record. She was named All-Big Ten her freshman, junior and senior seasons and was elected captain her final two years with the team.

“She was definitely somebody our players could count on in her time,” Ber nstein said.

“She just did the right thing on and off the court.

She walked the walk, and that’s what set her apar t from the rest.”

Taney said she enjoyed her four years at Michigan, but she called her-

self a “Minnesota girl” at heart.

And she proved it when she retur ned home after college in 2011. She chose to coach at Minnesota despite opportunities to continue her playing career.

“I just loved coaching tennis,” she said. “I saw my coaches do it and shadowed them, and I fell in love with it.”

Taney coaches with energy and can relate to the players on the team because of her youth.

“We really hit a home r un with Whitney,” head wo m en ’s co ach Chu ck Merzbacher said. “I’ve coached for 23 years, and she is one of the best assistants I’ve ever had.”

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horoscopes

sudoku

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

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4/23/13

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

All rights reserved.

Today’s Birthday (4/23): For the next three weeks, renew old friendships. The first six months bring a nice financial boost, so hide away savings. Discover hidden resources. Communications go further.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 9 — A hero comes to your rescue when least expected.

Continue to put in the effort, though. Don’t depend on others to do the work for you.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — You’re stronger, more self confident and sensitive for the next two days. Watch out, world! Take charge of your destiny. Get outside, and play.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Two days of intense work begin. Getting it done is easier than thinking about doing it. Avoid distractions; you’ll have time to stop and notice efforts later.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Be sensitive to a loved one’s wishes. You’re under pressure regarding deadlines. If you can get away, it’s also a good time for treasure hunting.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You’ll have more time for love and relaxation. How will you take your romance to a new level?

Don’t look at what you want right now.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Celebrate accomplishments. Your friends are your inspiration, and they provide solid support.

Get out, and play together.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Repetitiveness can be especially tiresome right now. Break the routine, and add some wild creativity. Get outside, too.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 6 — This phase brings lots of career action. Take charge, and manage responsibilities. It may require discipline, determination and patience.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — There’s still plenty of work to do, but suddenly everything starts making sense. Continue exploring new directions in your career.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — By now you should know how much you can spend. If you can get away for a little while, go.

Watch the big picture, and plan your agenda.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 8 — Your ideas are attracting attention. Cash flow improves.

Pay expenses before splurging. You’re really cooking now, and the orders flow in.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Focus on finances; get organized and practical. Things are beginning to shift. Consider an investment in your education. Study profitable ventures.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

overheard “I don’t give blowjobs, I give blowcareers!”

—Science Teaching and Student Services building

Guy 1: “I have, like, a cramp right now.”

Guy 2: “You on your period?”

—TCF Bank Stadium

“I put my penis in her lots of times, but it wasn’t sex.”

—Middlebrook Hall

Guy [singing]: “We’re up all night to get stoned, we’re up all night to get stoned, we’re up all night to get stoned, we’re up all night to find cookies.”

—15th Avenue on 4/20

“I’m going through menopause right now, and I’m just a man and I pause a lot!”

—Middlebrook Hall

Girl 1: “The poop’s gone.”

Girl 2: “It’s not gone!”

—Pioneer Hall

Conductor: “Enjoy the D.”

—Ferguson Hall

Guy: “My shorts are falling down; I need more butt! White people problems.”

—East River Flats

“Parents are like gateway drugs.”

—Coffman Union

“I was gay once for a long time. It’s OK, we all do it!”

—Bus outside Folwell Hall

Guy 1: “Cyborg cats are good. Except cyborg dogs. We want real dogs so they’ll love you.”

Guy 2: “But then you could program them not to eat their own poop.”

Guy 1: “I think you have to give them the freedom to eat their own poop for them to really love you.”

—Middlebrook Hall

Student: “I just don’t get how to draw breasts.”

TA: “They don’t hang straight forward.

They have to be separate — like church and state.”

—Regis Center for Art

Girl 1: “Follow my voice.”

Girl 2: “Where is your voice?”

Girl 1: “My voice is right here.”

—Sanford Hall

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

ACROSS 1 Pink drink, briefly 6 Arson aftermath 9 Hutt crime lord of sci-fi 14 According to 15 Grazing area 16 Light purple 17 O’Neill drama set in Harry Hope’s saloon 20 Tailor’s target 21 Many a Beethoven sonata ender 22 Popeye’s __’ Pea 23 Jabber on and on 24 __ in November 25 Likable prez 27 More than feasts (on) 28 With 30-Across, drama based on ’70s presidential interviews 30 See 28-Across 32 Aspiring doc’s course 33 Walked alongside one’s master 35 On the Pacific 36 Fertilizable cells 38 “Just __!”: “Be right there!”

40 Drama about Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine 45 “Friendly skies” co.

46 Greatly feared 47 Comstock Lode find 48 Fred of “My Cousin Vinny” 50 Oozed 52 With 54-Across, “Viva La Vida” rock group, and what 17-, 28-/30and 40-Across each is?

54 See 52-Across 55 Pottery “pet” 58 Smooth transition 60 Pastoral poem 64 Invisible vibes 65 More than most 66 Wine tasting criterion 67 Quilting parties 68 Corrida cheer 69 Neuter, horsewise

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DOWN 1 Slyly spiteful 2 Irish actor Milo 3 Say what you will 4 Golda of Israel 5 “The Lord of the Rings” baddie 6 Answering the penultimate exam question, say 7 Actor Connery 8 How lovers walk 9 “Jersey Girl” actress, to fans 10 Goals 11 Emulated Mt. St. Helens?

12 With __ breath: expectantly 13 Pains’ partner 18 Answering machine button 19 Journalist Roberts 24 Name, in Nîmes 26 Program file suffix 29 Not counterfeit 31 “The Good Earth” mother 32 “Nonsense!”

34 Tractor manufacturer

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35 Give __: yank 37 By way of 39 Believability on the street, slangily 41 Driver’s license fig.

42 Threat words 43 Actor Snipes 44 Thought 49 “March Madness” games, informally 51 Sizing up

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53 “Whip It” band 54 Like the driven snow 55 Red wine choice, for short 56 Tint 57 Wrath 59 Salon goop 61 Mommy deer 62 Initials on L’Homme fragrance 63 Took the reins

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dr. date Dr. Date,

This guy and I have been seeing each other for a while, and we had sex for the first time this weekend. It was definitely not what I was expecting, though. I have had a lot of partners, and this experience was horrible. He is not knowledgeable about positions, the angles got messed up and his body was not sexy at all. I am a fit, petite girl, and I got buried alive by a fat dude.

I don’t want to pursue this any longer because I have had some good sex and this is definitely on the bottom of the list. If we get more serious, I fear he is going to want to become exclusive. But based on our sex, I would cheat because I am not attracted to him at all. I am not a cheater, but after we just had sex, I do not want him to think that I dumped him only because of that. I don’t want to seem full of myself even though I keep my standards quite high. What’s a girl to do?

—Lay Or Dump?

Humpy-Dumpy,

Bad sex — that stuff is the worst. I’m sorry your pleasure play with your new man left you running for the nearest exit, but that doesn’t give you the excuse to be a total brat about it. Sit your “petite,” ellipticaltoned ass down because I’ve got a big loogie of truth on the tip of my lips and aimed at your face.

I know in this day and age we often talk about doin’ the nasty like we would about a water-skiing competition. How many tricks can you do? Was it fast or slow? How quickly did you cross the finish line? The good doctor is as guilty as anyone when it comes to this attitude.

Listen, this may come as a shock to your icy soul, but for some people, sex means something. Maybe for this guy it was an expression of how much he cares about you? Chew on

that for a second. You taste that?

That’s the bitter, slimy taste of the realization.

Obviously, you were attracted to this guy enough to get naked with him in the first place, so don’t use that as a cop out.

You know, after all, maybe you should break it off — anyone who is nice enough to sleep with someone so crass, pompous and morally corrupt is far too kind.

—Dr. Date Dr. Date,

Every so often, my ex will contact me — even though we broke up two years ago. I try to keep things short and brusque with him, but in a way, I hate when he contacts me because then I start thinking about him and how much I wish we would’ve worked out and how I know that, deep down, I still have feelings for him despite some rather serious character flaws. I know it was not the right relationship for me and that a better man will come along. When the heart and mind are in conflict, it only makes sense to follow the mind. So what can I do to make my heart stop feeling little pangs when my ex tries to contact me?

—Forget Me Now

Forget,

Time heals all wounds, but it’s hard to leave the past in the past when the past keeps Facebook messaging you.

I would keep doing what you’re doing.

You’re being polite but not inviting the exfactor to invade your life or rekindle old flames.

The pangs may never stop, but the more you move forward with your own life, the fainter they will become.

Cut ties if things are too painful. If you can manage having a polite but not intrusive relationship, keeping in communication can be healthy.

—Dr. Date

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

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STATES WITH NO MINIMUM WAGE LAW STATES WITH MINIMUM WAGE RATES THE SAME AS THE FEDERAL STATES WITH MINIMUM WAGE RATES HIGHER THAN THE FEDERAL STATES WITH MINIMUM WAGE RAGES LOWER THAN THE FEDERAL

HIGHEST AND LOWEST MINIMUM WAGE RATES BY STATE $8.60

$8.95

$9.19

and Means Committee but will likely be voted on by the end of the month.

Metsa said he thinks there will be an increase t h i s y e a r, t h o u g h t h e amount is still unclear.

“Overall, I don’t think anyone is arguing the fact that we need to do something,” he said.

Washington

the business.

“Most people don’t stay at minimum wage at our place for that long,” she said. “… Obviously, it would affect our overhead costs, but it would also af fect employee satisfaction.”

Winkler’s bill still has to go through the Ways

$5.15

Vermont

SOURCE: UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

$5.15

Oregon

$6.15

Minnesota

Biomedical engineering freshman Sara Russett already makes $10 an hour working at Grand Ole Creamer y in Minneapolis, but she said that as a student, more money would help.

“The money I make right now helps me pay for books,” she said. “But I’m always open to making more money.”

Xiong is the oldest of seven children, so she has to stretch her paycheck to help out her family.

“Yester day my mom asked me if I could help pay for car insurance, and a raise would allow me to help out,” she said. “$7.25 doesn’t really meet the realities of daily life.”

Kris Jacobs, executive director of Jobs Now Coalition, has testified in favor of increasing the minimum wage.

“Demand for good jobs is outpacing the number

MINIMUM WAGE BY STATE

Wyoming

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of good jobs in the economy,” she said. “Businesses reap the rewards of lower wages, but workers are getting the shaft.”

Jacobs and other consumer advocates say that, based on their research, the minimum wage should actually be closer to $14 to meet the realities of job availability and basic living costs.

Rep. Jason Metsa, DFLVirginia, who co-authored the bill, challenged himself to live on minimum wage for a week earlier this month, which he said gave him a new perspective on the issue.

“I really took the challenge because I believe we need to do something,” he said. “$7.25 is not enough to get by on, and we need to address that.”

The most common complaints heard in opposition to raising minimum wage rates have come from businesses.

Alyssa Johnson, manager of the Purple Onion Cafe in Dinkytown, said a minimum wage increase would have little ef fect on

Georgia

Wage

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Still, some just don’t put a lot of weight on the minimum wage.

University marketing sophomore Jessica Gross works as a ser ver at Sally’s

Saloon and Eater y to put herself through school.

“The minimum wage seriously doesn’t do anything,” she said. “I make all my money in tips.”

University to try historic HIV cure Transplant u from Page 1

effectiveness, then we may broaden this.”

More than a million Americans had HIV in 2008, according to the National Institutes of Health. Of those, more than 20 percent were unaware of the infection, which suppresses the immune system and causes AIDS. AIDS first appeared in the U.S. in 1981 and has since become a worldwide epidemic. Curing the disease used to be seen as “an unachievable task,” according to a March article in Nature Reviews Immunology.

The first and only known person cured of the infection was Timothy Ray Brown —

“the Berlin Patient” — who received the bone-marrow transplant in 2007.

The University team will keep the patient under close watch for the next 100 days to see if the transplant was successful, according to a news release. If it is, the cord blood procedure could be viable for other HIV patients as well.

“If we’re able to show, in a number of patients, that this approach works,” Wagner said, “then I think this is going to compel the field forward.”

He said he hopes the transplant will increase interest in cord-blood banking, which has only been in place since the 1990s.

If the transplant is successful, Wagner said, the patient won’t have to con-

tinue taking the antiretroviral drugs necessary to keep HIV at bay.

Those drugs can make patients more vulnerable to other infections and diseases because they suppress the immune system, said Melissa Pavek, a secondyear medical student.

“We encounter so many infectious organisms all the time that our immune systems just take care of,” Pavek said. “Patients that are immunosuppressed are more vulnerable to things … that healthy people are able to fight off.”

She said a transplant like this could move science closer to an HIV cure.

“It’s exciting to know that my institution is at the forefront of that kind of research.”