April 29, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

CAMPUS & METRO

SPORTS

Local restaurants had discounts and prizes for the Taste of Stadium Village event.

Student groups have formed to promote the “Fossil Free” movement.

The Gophers’ top two quarterbacks combined for 291 yards and 3 TDs.

Stadium Village hosts tasting event

U groups push for divestment Nelson, Leidner shine from the fossil fuel industry at spring game

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U OF M

MINNEAPOLIS

LEGISLATURE

House, Senate to iron out U funding differences The House offered $18M less for the U in its higher education bill.

BY ALMA PRONOVE apronove@mndaily.com

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DINKYTOWN

A history of evolving Dinkytown will remain an institution, despite constantly changing to serve students.

Then

passed with bipar tisan support.

“It’s hard to be opposed to education,” he said. “Nobody wants to vote against the kids.”

Fourteen House Republicans voted in favor of the tuition freeze, despite concerns of raised taxes to meet those costs.

The House bill includes brief language detailing increased University administrative accountability and legislative oversight but less than in the Senate’s. Legislators argued to increase oversight in response to a late 2012 Wall Street Journal article, which highlighted alleged administrative bloat at the University.

Legislators praised Higher Education Finance Committee Chair Rep. Gene Pelowski, DFL- Winona, for his critical approach to the University’s request.

“Higher education has to report to us differently,” Pelowski said. “There has to be some accountability in administrative costs.”

Both the state Senate and House of Representatives have voted to increase funding to the University of Minnesota, but key differences in their bills still need to be ironed out.

After an hour-long debate, representatives passed a bill Thursday, which, like the Senate, would freeze tuition for in-state undergraduates at the University until 2015.

The House version of the bill spends $18.2 million less on the University over the biennium than the Senate’s, only partially funding research money requested by the University and including less legislative oversight language. Overall, the House allocated $113 million less overall to higher education in the state. u See HIGHER ED Page 4 Rep. Bud Nornes, RSeveral House reps. proposed Fergus Falls, said the bill amendments for more U oversight.

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SPRING JAM

Riot of color rings in spring Holi, a Hindu festival to celebrate spring, has become widely popular.

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

More than 700 students flocked to the East River Flats Park behind Coffman Union for a glorious riot of color and water Saturday.

The color fest, part of the traditional Indian celebration Holi, was organized by Indian student group Bharat, in coordination with the Univer-

LEFT: PHOTO COURTESY UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES, RIGHT: AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Fourteenth Avenue Southeast in Dinkytown before and after Minneapolis approved an amendment requiring the removal of overhanging and freestanding commercial signs and billboards of a certain size to “clean up and improve the appearance of the Dinkytown area.”

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

sity of Minnesota’s Spring Jam festivities.

The annual event marks the onset of spring. Holi is traditionally celebrated in March but a later date was chosen this year due to the unpredictable springtime weather.

The timing was right — during the weekend, temperatures hit 70 degrees for the first time since October.

During the event, participants threw a mixture of herbal color powder and water into the air, covering

the U is having Dinkytown.”

For more than a century, the four-block

A handful of students banded together to save Dinkytown’s character, producing a documentary about its history and soliciting donations.

University of Minnesota’s needs.

The Dinkytown of yesteryear, where the campus trolley ran, Bob Dylan began his

“The faces and names change in Dinky-

musical career and businesses like Bridge-

town, but the heritage remains …” they wrote

man’s Ice cream and Myer’s Grocer y be-

in an editorial. “Now is the time to start pre-

came mainstays, is not so different from to-

serving this heritage.”

day’s. Dinkytown is, and always has been, a

That was 40 years ago.

reflection of what students need and want at

Today, students are still fighting to save

the time.

what they think makes Dinkytown special.

u See HOLI Page 4 Twice as many people attended the event this year over last.

area has shifted and transformed to meet the

Whether it’s adding more bars and chain

“It’s the only place that students have,”

restaurants or new student housing, Dinky-

University sophomore Rebecca Orrison said.

town is constantly evolving — but it’s a trend

“One of the really cool things about coming to

that continues to stir controversy.

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FEES

STUDENT LOANS

Amid fees requests, Loan interest GAPSA asks for a cut could double The Graduate and Professional Student Assembly reverted to its 2012-13 fees request.

BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Preeya Bhakta sprays water at her friends at the Holi Festival of Colors on Saturday at East River Flats.

In an unprecedented move, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly is asking for a reduction of more than $24,000 in student services fees.

The group, which is one of the largest recipients of student ser vices fees, appealed its final recommendation of $416,215 and instead asked for $392,126 — the same amount it received in

2012-13.

Student Ser vices Fees Committee adviser Megan Sweet said she’s never seen a group file an appeal for less fees funding.

“This is unprecedented ... from what I can remember,” she said.

Fees-receiving groups occasionally ask for less funding from year-to-year because of carryover funds, Sweet said, but it’s less common for groups to ask for a reduction during the same fees cycle.

Kevin Lang, GAPSA’s vice president of finance, offered the u See GAPSA Page 5 The group will use its extra money to add a summer grant cycle.

BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com

Students could pay more to borrow federal student loans as early as this summer if a deal isn’t reached in Congress.

Interest rates for Stafford loans — the most common type of federal student loan — are set to double this summer, returning to their 2008 rate.

The law that subsidizes these loans will expire June 30, raising the rate from u See LOANS Page 4 RELATED CONTENT Colleges sue students in loan default u See Page 4

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BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD — Iraqi authorities suspended the operating licenses of pan-Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera and nine Iraqi TV channels on Sunday after accusing them of escalating sectarian tension. The move signaled the Shiite-led government’s mounting worries over deteriorating security amid Sunni unrest and clashes that have left more than 180 people dead in less than a week.

The suspensions, which took ef fect immediately, appeared to target mainly Sunni channels known for criticizing Prime Minister Nouri al-Malik’s gover nment. Apar t from

Al-Jazeera, the decision affected eight Sunni and one Shiite channels.

The government’s action comes as Baghdad tries to quell rising unrest in the countr y that erupted last week after Iraqi security forces launched a deadly crackdown on a Sunni protest site in the central city of Hawija, killing 23 people, including three soldiers.

Since then, more than 180 people have been killed in gunbattles with security forces and other attacks.

The recent wave of violence follows more than four months of largely peaceful protests by Iraq’s Sunni Muslim minority against Prime Minister Nouri alMaliki’s government.

Iraqi viewers will still be

able to watch the channels, but the suspensions issued

by Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission state that if the 10 stations tr y to work on Iraqi territory they will face legal action from security forces.

The decree essentially prevents news crews from the stations from reporting on activities in Iraq.

Sunni lawmaker Dahfir al-Ani described the move as part of the government’s attempts “to cover up the bloodshed that took place in Hawija and what is going on in other places in the country.”

Al-Jazeera, based in the small, energy-rich Gulf nation of Qatar, said it was “astonished” by the move.

“We cover all sides of the

stories in Iraq, and have done for many years. The fact that so many channels have been hit all at once, though, suggests this is an indiscriminate decision,” it said in an emailed statement.

“We urge the authorities to uphold freedom for the media to report the important stories taking place in Iraq.”

The channel has aggressively covered the “Arab Spring” uprisings across the region, and has broadcast extensively on the civil war in neighboring Syria.

Qatar itself is a harsh critic of the Syrian regime. The nation is a leading backer of the rebels and is accused by many supporters of the Iraqi government of backing protests in Iraq, too.

Pyongyang glitters but most of North Korea still dark

BY THE ASSOICATED PRESS

PYONGYANG, North Korea — The heart of this city, once famous for its Dickensian darkness, now pulsates with neon.

Glossy new constr uction downtown has altered the Pyongyang skyline. Inside supermarkets where shopgirls wear faux French designer labels, people with money can buy Italian wine, Swiss chocolates, kiwifruit imported from New Zealand and fresh-baked croissants.

They can get facials, lie in tanning booths, play a round of mini golf or sip cappuccinos.

Nearly 2 million people are using cell phones. Computer shops can’t keep up with demand for North Korea’s locally distributed tablet computer, popularly known here as “iPads.” A shiny new cancer institute features a $900,000 X-ray machine imported from Europe.

Pyongyang has long been a city apart from the rest of

North Korea, the showcase capital dubbed a “socialist fairyland” by state media.

But a year after new leader Kim Jong Un promised publicly to bring an end to the “era of belt-tightening” and economic hardship in North Korea, the gap between the haves and havenots so far has only grown with Pyongyang’s transformation.

Beyond the paved main streets of the capital, life remains grindingly tough. Food is rationed, electricity is a precious commodity and people get around by walking, cycling or hopping into the backs of trucks. Most homes lack running water or plumbing. Health care is free, but aid workers say medicine is in short supply.

For decades, North Korea seemed a country trapped in time. Rickety streetcars shuddered past concrete-block apartment buildings with broken window panes, chipping pastel paint and crumbling front steps.

But since 2010, as part of the campaign to build a new city for their new leader, Pyongyang has been under construction. Scaf folding covers the fronts of scores of buildings across the city. Red banners painted with slogan “At a breath” — implying breakneck work at a breathless pace — flutter from the skeletons of skyscrapers built by soldiers.

Often, the soldiers are scrawny conscripts in thin canvas sneakers piling bricks onto stretchers or hauling them by hand. In 2011, they set up temporary work camps along the Taedong River, makeshift shantytowns decorated by red flags.

Their work focused on downtown Changjon Street, where ramshackle cottages were torn down to make way for department stores, restaurants and high-rise apartments.

Today, the street would not look out of place in Seoul or Shanghai. Indeed, many of the goods — Hershey’s Kiss-

es, Coca-Cola and Doritos — on sale at the new supermarket were imported from China and Singapore.

“What is a ‘delicatessen’?” a North Korean asked as a butcher in a white chef’s hat sliced tuna for takeaway sashimi beneath a deli sign written in English. Upstairs, baristas were ser ving Italian espressos, bakers were churning out baguettes and white wedding cakes.

One new Changjon Street resident, Mun Kang Sun, gave The Associated Press a tour of the apartment she and her husband were granted in recognition for her work at the Kim Jong Suk Textile Factory.

A framed wedding portrait hangs on the wall above their Western-style bed. There’s a washing machine in the bathroom, an IBM computer in the study and a 42-inch widescreen TV. AP was not allowed to visit other apartments to compare whether the furnishings are typical for Pyongyang residents.

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Stadium Village hosts tasting event

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Medical School student John Hokanson, third-year pharmacy student Jenny Wong and first-year Medical School student Kyle Tamminga enjoy mini blizzards from Dairy Queen for the Taste of Stadium Village event Thursday.

Local restaurants had discounts and prizes for the Taste of Stadium Village event.

BY MERITTE DAHL mdahl@mndaily.com

Kerianne Steucke and about 10 of her friends ate at Applebee’s, Dair y Queen, Kitty Corner Café, Dino’s Gyros and Raising Cane’s — all in under three hours Thursday evening.

University of Minnesota students flocked to get a taste of the neighborhood’s food and beer offerings as part of the Taste of Stadium Village.

The event was par t of the neighbor hood’s effor ts to bring customers back to the area now that the heavy light-rail constr uction is over, said organizer Chris Ferguson.

“It’s not a construction mess like it was a while ago,” he said.

Many businesses in Stadium Village suf fered losses during the construction, which began on the University’s campus in 2010.

A year after constr uc-

tion began, Ferguson estimated that area businesses had suf fer ed a 20 to 30 percent loss in revenue compared to the year before, according to a June 2011 Minnesota Daily ar ticle. Customers had a difficult time reaching the businesses due to transit and parking issues.

Now, most work has subsided and the Central Corridor light rail is scheduled to begin ser vice in 2014.

To draw in more customers, some of the restaurants in the neigh borhood of fered $1 food items, and some of the bars of fered $2 pints of beer during the six-hour event.

Steucke, a biomedi cal engineering graduate student, said she and her friends planned to stay for the beer special as well.

Stub and Herbs bar manager Regan Haf fele said more than 100 people came in for the special.

“It was definitely more [people] than usual,” he said.

The event was the first of its kind for the neighborhood, said Ferguson, who owns the Stadium Village Dair y Queen and Bywater Business Solutions.

Some of the businesses had lines out the door, including Dair y Queen, which sold more than 500 food items during the evening, Ferguson said.

Francis Chang said he and five of his friends tried waf fles and chicken tenders that evening.

“It’s good to sample places you haven’t been to,” the University biomedical engineering freshman said.

Architecture sophomore Brad Wicks said he attended Taste of Stadium Village because the regular prices are too expensive.

“I wanted a nice variety of cheap food,” he said.

The Hole Spor ts Lounge, located on the edge of Stadium Village, surprised its customers with its $1 specials, said ser ver and University student Angela Ugorets.

“A lot of people didn’t know before coming in,” the animal science senior said.

Jason Adamidis, the owner of the Stadium Village Dino’s Gyros, said almost 500 people had visited the restaurant, but the warm weather could also have been a factor.

Applebee’s hosted a Summit Brewing Company

CHELSEA GORTMAKER, DAILY

Junior Lauren Metzler spins a game wheel at Applebee’s to win prizes Thursday. Stadium Village held a Taste of Stadium Village event where select restaurants offered $1 samples, and Applebee’s had the wheel and beer tasting.

beer tasting and gave out prizes on its patio.

Several attendees won prizes ranging from Stadium Village-emblazoned products to Campus Pizza gift cards and two Minnesota Twins tickets, Ferguson said.

Steucke spun the prize wheel and won a prize pack, which included a

U groups push for divestment from the fossil fuel industry Student groups have formed to promote the “Fossil Free” movement.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

W ith more than 300 colleges and universities pushing for their schools’ administrations to divest in the fossil fuel industr y, the “Fossil Free” movement has gained momentum in the past few months.

In a push for the University of Minnesota to divest its assets from the fossil fuel industr y, several student groups have formed or re-formed on campus.

Though having multiple groups dedicated to divestment causes confusion, they’re looking for ways to work together to spread awareness about the issue.

Fossil Free Minnesota formed in Januar y after environmentalist Bill McKibben pushed for divestment during a lecture at the University. The group

held a panel last week on fossil fuel divestment and green investment — or investing in sustainable energy — said Patty O’Keefe, coordinator for the group.

The forum reached out to students, faculty and academic depar tments to get the group’s name out, she said.

Eco-Conscious Campus, another student group contributing to the divestment campaign at the University, recently restr uctured its charge from reducing the University’s coal use to addressing broader sustainability issues on campus.

The group planned to write a letter to the Board of Regents urging it to support divesting the University’s endowment funds from fossil fuel companies but found out Fossil Free Minnesota had already sent one, said group President Trent Blomberg.

In a response letter, O’Keefe said the Regents did not give a definitive answer on whether the University will pursue divestment.

“We are looking forward to working with them more this summer and into the coming school year,” she said.

This summer, Fossil Free Minnesota will also develop a proposal for the Minnesota Student Association in hopes that the student government will pass a divestment resolution, O’Keefe said. It may also meet with administrators to discuss the campaign’s options.

The groups will remain in contact to eliminate “redundancies” in the groups’ actions and make plans for the summer and fall, Blomberg said.

While having multiple groups focused on divestment causes confusion, Blomberg said it could be useful for spreading awareness of the issue across campus.

Eco-Conscious Campus recently hosted an Ear th Day event with about 15 other environmental student groups. In addition to raising student support, the event helped the

groups connect — some of them for the first time.

“I didn’t know a lot of these groups existed before this Ear th Day,” said ar t sophomore Cecile DeLong, a member of U Students Like Good Food, a group working to increase the availability of healthy, local food on campus.

“A lot of these groups have overlapping objectives,” said Minnesota Public Interest Research Group member and English sophomore Veronica Schwenn. The event allowed the groups to learn what others are doing.

“I think that ever y group could stand to collaborate a little more,” she said.

The environmental groups on campus could one day form a coalition on divestment, Blomberg said, a tactic other large schools have used.

“Any situation where awareness can be raised on campus is great,” he said, “and that really works [with] a lot of student groups being involved.”

Stadium V illage T-shir t and drawstring cooler bag.

Ferguson and Bywater Business Solutions account manager Emily Stoeckmann planned the event with Summit and the Stadium Village Commercial Association.

The pair asked neighborhood restaurants to

sign up for the event.

Some restaurants that did not par ticipate this time ar ound have said they want to get involved next year, Ferguson said.

He said he plans to make Taste of Stadium Village an annual gathering and hopes to add a similar event in the fall.

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Colleges sue students over unpaid loans

Loan interest could double this summer

About 5 percent of University students defaulted on Perkins loans in 2010-11.

Loans

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

As student debt rises, some schools nationwide are withholding degrees from graduates who default on federal loans.

The University of Pennsylvania and Yale University have both sued former students for unpaid Perkins loans, which provide low-interest loans to help “needy students” pay for postsecondar y education, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Federal Perkins loans are administered to students by their college. The University of Minnesota offers Perkins loans but declined to say if it had ever sued former students over loan debt.

But the University can withhold students’ transcripts if they have unpaid student loans, and the school will use collection agencies to collect student debt, Kris Wright, director of the Office of Student Finance, said in an email.

Of the 735 University of Minnesota students who entered repayment for Perkins loans in 2010-11, about 5 percent defaulted, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

The University of Pennsylvania filed at least 12

lawsuits in 2012 against students who defaulted on their Perkins loans, according to a Bloomberg article.

The university declined to comment.

Students must begin to repay Perkins loans nine months after they leave the University or when their enrollment status is less than half time.

Students are also still liable for unpaid student loans if they declare bankruptcy, Wright said.

Compu t er en g i n eer ing junior Cassie Flug said her private high school wouldn’t send students’ transcripts to colleges if they hadn’t paid their tuition, and she understands why the University would do the same.

“If you don’t pay for the education, why should you get the benefit of it?” Flug said.

While computer engineering sophomore Isaac Gaskin said he understands why universities would withhold transcripts or degrees, he said he doesn’t think it’s practical.

“You need that degree in order to possibly get a career or a job that will pay off the loans,” he said, adding that it puts a “huge hindrance” on students.

Biology senior Nicollette Peters said she didn’t know universities could withhold transcripts and degrees but doesn’t agree with the idea.

“To withhold your actual degree … that’s not right,” Peters said.

Riot of color helps to celebrate Holi festival Holi u from Page 1

each other with the mixture.

More than 1,200 two-tablespoon color packets and water guns were provided free to students, as were traditional Indian vegetable samosas and mango lassi drinks.

“The spirit of Holi encourages the feeling of brotherhood in society and that even enemies will turn friends for a day,” said Naveen Gupta, who works for Bloomington-based Kabobs Indian Grill, which catered the event.

Jour nalism freshman Molly Davis, who rounded up four friends for the celebration, said Holi makes it possible to “bring people together who normally wouldn’t hang out.”

“Everybody was throwing [color] at everybody,” she said. “I dropped a bucket of water on a stranger’s head.”

The event had a much higher turnout than last year, with more than double the number of participants.

Psychology freshman Lauren Kabel said she was excit-

ed to be a part of the color fest for the first time.

“It seemed like a healthy, socially acceptable way to let out some aggression,” she said.

Holi, a religious festival for Hindus, has become popular in recent years with many non-Indian communities and groups.

Ashish Kumar, Bharat’s vice president, said the group had planned months in advance for the color fest — its biggest event of the year.

The event, and others like it, helps support Indian students, specifically ones who are new to the country, said Bharat President Vishakha Mathur.

“It caters to many students who may be homesick or who’d like to connect with other Indian students,” she said, adding that students of many cultural backgrounds participate in the festivities.

Mathur said the color fest has been on campus since 2008, but this was only the second year the festival had coordinated with Spring Jam. “This is really cheers to spring before we all get down to finals,” she said.

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3.4 percent to 6.8 percent and allowing the loans to accrue interest while students are still in school.

The debate on subsidized student loans is a familiar one for Congress.

Last summer, policymakers granted a one-year extension for undergraduate students when the same rate increase was scheduled. Graduate student loans, however, lost the federal subsidy.

“Last year, the undergraduates really benefited from the pressure of the presidential campaign,” said Kris Wright, director of the University of Minnesota’s Of fice of Student Finance. “There was a lot bigger forum to talk about education issues.”

English senior Jena Ohman said the loan increases could hur t students already grappling with debt.

“It’s scar y because it’s hard enough to get a job, and this will add on more debt,” she said. “Ever yone is already in enough debt as it is.”

In 2012, the White House estimated mor e than 7 million students nationwide would pay more for their student loans if the rates increased. In Minnesota alone, more than 207,000 students have taken out the loan, according to the White House.

The rate won’t be retroactive. Borrowers who have taken a subsidized Staf ford loan in the past still won’t be required to pay interest that accr ues until six months after graduation.

If the rate increases, federal Staf ford loans taken out as of July 1 would accr u e i n ter es t at the higher rate, even while students are still in school.

Ohman said having more loans that accrue interest while students are in school concerns her.

“It’s scar y because it’s suggested that I start paying of f the interest on my loans before the six month [grace] period,” she said.

“But with the way jobs are right now, that is going to

be hard.”

At the University, students can seek counseling about student loans from One Stop Student Services. In addition, Wright said the school is working on an online calculator to help students see the longterm impact of the loans they take out.

Other options are available to help after graduation, including the federal Pay As You Earn program.

The pr ogram allows graduates to make payments at 10 percent of their discr etionar y in come, of fering lower repayment plans for graduates with low star ting salaries. The balance of student loans is forgiven after 20 years.

Though the inter est rate increases are widely unpopular, many in Congress are avoiding another one-year extension and instead vying for long-term solutions.

One solution proposed

by President Barack Obama would tie the federal loan interest rates to market rates each year.

Wright said this plan would benefit students in the near future as market interest rates are low.

However, she’s concerned about future rates as the economy improves.

“Unlike a mor tgage, students can’t renegotiate the interest rates on these loans,” she said. “…

If [students] have the misfor tune to go to school in a high interest rate time, they will have to pay those high interest rates for the life of the loan.”

Some consumer groups have also criticized Obama’s plan because it doesn’t provide a maximum rate.

In a statement released earlier this month, the Young Invincibles, a nonprofit group that advocates for policy decisions that af fect 18- to 34-year-olds, said students should pay less for loans when interest rates are low and more when those rates are high.

“However, without the protection of an interest rate cap, a market-based rate could be disastrous for students,” the statement said. “It poses the risk that interest rates will shoot upward.”

SUBSIDIZED STAFFORD LOAN RATE HISTORY July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2008 6.8% July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009 6.0% July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010 5.6% July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011 4.5% BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Madalina Kelner sits on top of Louis Fine’s shoulders in a crowd of people dancing and covered in colors at the Holi Festival of Colors on Saturday at East River Flats.

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Several House legislators proposed additional amendments to Pelowski’s bill aimed at creating more legislative oversight in University spending during the floor debate, but most failed, with Pelowski urging members not to vote on anything yet.

He said more work would be done to ensure administrative oversight in conference committee.

Unlike the Senate version of the bill, the House version doesn’t include any performance goals the University would have to meet to gain full funding in 2015, although a few failed amendments would have had similar effects. The Senate bill outlines five performance goals requiring the University to meet at least three of the goals or it will lose 5 percent of its 2015 budget. Pelowski said he wasn’t convinced performance goals were effective.

Rep. Bob Barrett, R- Lindstrom, proposed an amendment to the bill that would raise out-of-state tuition to $29,000 so the $42.6 million being allocated to the tuition

July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2013 3.4% July 1, 2013 - (projected) 6.8% SOURCE: THE DEMOCRATIC POLICY COMMUNICATIONS CENTER

freeze for in-state students could be used elsewhere.

“There’s a lot of information to support the fact that what’s not needed is more money, what is needed is a change in policy,” said Barrett, referring to expensive administrative costs.

In the 2012-13 academic year, resident and non-resident tuition rates differed by about $2,600, which Barrett said was unusual in the Big Ten. “Taxpayers are supposed

to subsidize resident kids, not non-residents,” he said.

“That’s wrong.”

University President Eric Kaler told the Daily last week that with the growing fraction of out-of-state students, it is time to look at the difference in in-state and out-of-state tuition.

The House and Senate will come together in upcoming weeks to hash out the details and differences in their bills before a final, unified bill reaches the governor’s desk.

HOUSE VS SENATE HIGHER EDUCATION BILLS

HOUSE BILL Allocates $18.2 million less to the University over the biennium Funded 50 percent of MnDRIVE (Minnesota Discovery, Research, and InnoVation Economy) program request No performance goals set to receive 2015 money

SENATE BILL Funded 100 percent of MnDRIVE request Specifies that no state money is to be used for athletic buyouts Mandates that the Board of Regents conduct a study on University salaries and compare those numbers to comparable schools by February 2014 Three performance goals to be met or 5 percent of 2015 money will be pulled Allocates $50,000 for the University to attend a mental health summit among other Minnesota colleges, mental health professionals and advocates to discuss training methods and ways to attract more students into the mental health field

SOURCE: MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE

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Amid fees requests, GAPSA asks for a cut

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Global studies freshman Lee Anne Mills speaks on behalf of La Raza Student Cultural Center to Vice Provost of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Jerry Rinehart during a public hearing Thursday at Coffman Union.

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assembly’s appeal to fees committee members and Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jerry Rinehart at a final public hearing Thursday.

He said the decision to ask for fewer fees was made when considering the final recommendations and GAPSA’s projected budget.

“We actually saved more money than predicted,” he said.

The assembly also considered the GAPSA fee assessed to graduate and professional students, which was about $12 each semester and decided it would make the most sense to not increase that amount, Lang said.

“GAPSA indicated a significant carryover from the 2011-12 school year,” the GAPSA executive board said in its appeal to the fees committee, “accrued mostly through operational cost savings.”

Lang said these cost savings came from various sources, like partnerships with other groups including Boynton Health Service — which cosponsored the Cirque De-Stress event with GAPSA and others in early April.

“Realizing cost savings and being financially accountable is something that’s important to the fees process in general,” Sweet said.

When Lang took control of GAPSA’s finances, he said he wanted to trim the assembly’s budget.

“I made it my No. 1 goal to try to reduce costs … that could be reduced if we did a little extra work,” Lang said.

With the extra money, GAPSA will add a summer grants cycle, Lang said, which graduate students have requested before.

GAPSA offers grants to graduate and professional students for expenses like travel, academic initiatives and social events and has not previously offered grants during the summer.

“A lot of people travel

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Vice Provost of Student Affairs and Dean of Students Jerry Rinehart responds to representatives from student groups during a public hearing Thursday at Coffman Union. The hearing allowed groups that felt their allocation of student services fees funding had been unfairly decided by the Student Services Fees Committee to present their cases to Rinehart.

during the summer because they don’t have class,” he said.

It isn’t known how many students will apply for summer grants, but Lang said

GAPSA has “tried to fund as many grants as possible” this spring.

Although it hasn’t happened before, Sweet said it’s still possible for GAPSA’s re-

quest to be amended, even for less fees funding.

“Ever ything is considered a recommendation until it is approved by the [Board of Regents],” Sweet said.

The committee’s final recommendations will be approved by Rinehart and released May 6. They will go to the regents for review soon after.

Italian policemen shot near new gov’t swearing-in

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROME — In the very moments Italy’s new coalition government was being sworn in, ending months of political paralysis in a country hoping to revive a bleak economy, a middle-aged unemployed bricklayer opened fire Sunday in the square outside the premier’s office, seriously wounding two policemen, authorities said.

The alleged gunman from Calabria, a southern region plagued by joblessness and organized crime, told investigators he wanted to shoot politicians. But finding none in the square, he instead shot at Carabinieri paramilitary police.

A bullet pierced one of the policemen in the neck, passing through his spinal column, doctors said, adding it wasn’t yet known if the 50-year-old officer would have any paralysis. The other one was shot in the leg and suffered a fracture.

The newly sworn in interior minister, Angelino Alfano, said a preliminar y investigation indicated the shooting, which also slightly injured a pregnant bystander, amounted to a “tragic criminal gesture of a 49-year-old unemployed” man.

But the shooting was also a violent expression of social tensions in Italy, where unemployment is soaring, an increasing number of busi-

nesses are shutting their doors permanently and new political corruption scandals make headlines nearly every day.

Politicians described the attack as a disturbing call to fix Italy’s economy.

“From what we understand, it’s mainly personal problems, work, personal debts” that fueled the gunman’s attack, said Guglielmo Epifani, a top official in Premier Enrico Letta’s center-left Democratic Party.

Epifani said in a state TV interview that while the financial crisis has caused some to commit suicide, “this is the first time someone shoots to kill” someone else “in a place filled with innocent people.”

“The symbolism is there,” he said. The political world “must highlight its responsibility during the crisis before the country,” he said.

In brief comments to reporters after paying a hospital visit to the more seriously wounded policeman, Letta said, “it is a moment in which each must do one’s own duty.”

The 46-year-old Letta will speak to Parliament on Monday, laying out his strategy to reduce joblessness while still sticking to the austerity measures needed to keep the eurozone’s No. 3 economy from descending into a sovereign debt crisis. He will then face confidence votes needed to confirm his government.

Prosecutors identified the gunman as Luigi Preiti. Jobless, with a broken marriage and reportedly burdened by gambling debts he couldn’t pay, Preiti had recently returned from Italy’s affluent north, where he could no longer find work. He moved into his parents’ home in Rosarno, a bleak Calabrian farm town where unemployment was already endemic before the last years of stagnation and recession sent youth unemployment soaring to nearly 40 percent nationwide.

His intended target was politicians, but with none in the square, he shot at the Carabinieri paramilitary police, Rome Prosecutor Pierfilippo Laviani told reporters, citing what he said Preiti told him when he questioned him.

Preiti, who was taken to the hospital for bruises, confessed to the shooting and didn’t appear mentally unbalanced, Laviani said.

“He is a man full of problems, who lost his job, who lost ever ything,” the prosecutor said. “He was desperate.”

Mired in recession and suffering from soaring unemployment, Italy had been in political deadlock since an inconclusive Februar y election. Social and political tensions have been running high among voters divided among a center-left bloc, conservative parties and an

anti-establishment protest movement, which capitalized on public disgust with politicians to become Parliament’s No. 3 force in its first national election bid.

The leader of the protest 5 Star Movement, comedian-turned-politician Beppe Grillo, has been criticized for inflammatory statements in the past, including saying during a campaign rally that the Parliament building could be a bombing target.

He incessantly derides mainstream politicians as the root of Italy’s ills.

“Wor ds thr own like stones can become bullets,” Rome’s right-wing mayor, Gianni Alemanno, said after the shooting.

Grillo swiftly moved to distance what he describes as a grass-roots political movement from any calls to violence.

“The movement isn’t at all violent,” Grillo said.

Sunday was supposed to be a hopeful day with a new government, which, only a day earlier, was forged out of two bitter political enemies.

Letta’s forces, with strong roots in a former Communist party as well as centrist Christian Democrats, and media mogul Silvio Berlusconi’s center-right bloc had agreed after days of negotiations to a

kind of truce coalition intent on economic, political and electoral reform.

Then the sound of shots pierced the happy chatter in Piazza Colonna, near a busy shopping street shortly just as Letta and his new ministers were taking their oaths at the sumptuous hall of the Quirinal presidential palace, about a half mile away.

“When I heard the first shot, I turned around and saw a man standing there, some 15 meters away from me. He held his arm out and I saw him fire another five, six shots,” AP Television cameraman Fanuel Morelli, who was amazed at what appeared to be the man’s deliberate calm, said. “He was firing at the second Carabiniere, who was about 4 meters in front of him.”

The gunman was immediately wrestled to the ground by police outside Chigi Palace, which houses the premier’s office. The new ministers arrived at the premier’s office about 90 minutes later, for their first Cabinet meeting, some of them coming by foot as a way to reassure the public the area was safe.

A video surveillance camera on the Parliament building caught the attacker on film just before and during the shooting, Italian news

reports said. In the film, the shooter is seen walking at a steady pace along a narrow street that leads from near Parliament’s lower house to the edge of Colonna Square, where police officers appear to have stopped him to ask where he was going. Shortly after that, the man begins firing, the surveillance camera showed, according to the reports.

Alfano said Preiti wanted to kill himself after the shooting, but ran out of bullets. He said six shots were fired in all.

Laviani said the assailant had obtained his weapons on the black market. Sky reported that Preiti had taken a train to Rome from Calabria on Saturday, and that police found his car parked at a southern train station.

The interior minister said security was immediately stepped up near key venues in the Italian capital, but added authorities were not worried about possible related attacks.

“Our initial investigation indicates the incident is due to an isolated gesture, although further investigations are being carried out,” he said.

The ministers were kept briefly inside for security reasons until it was clear there was no immediate danger.

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A history of evolving Dinkytown

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14TH AVENUE SOUTHEAST

‘You can’t buy a pair of socks now’

Dinkytown today is an entertainment district and foodie destination — more than half of its storefronts are restaurants and bars.

But 50 years ago, service-driven businesses, like hardware stores and dry cleaning were dominant in Dinkytown.

Retail, service and food were equally represented 20 years ago.

Then the city lifted an area liquor ban — put in place to prevent drinking close to campus — and bars emerged.

Today, the transformation from self-sufficient village to entertainment district is complete.

Loring Pasta Bar was then Gray’s Campus Drug; Espresso Royale has taken the place of 115-year-old Simms Hardware and Perine’s Bookstore bookended the Dinkytown stretch of 14th Avenue that now serves Annie’s malts.

In the ’80s, “a person could basically walk into Dinkytown and get everything you’d need, just like it was a small town,” said Jim Picard, owner of Fast Eddie’s shoe repair.

Today, retail has diminished and restaurants rule the business landscape, partly because of students’ increased mobility.

In the past, students depended on nearby Dinkytown for groceries and school supplies, but as they began bringing cars to school, students ventured off campus to shop.

Not everyone is lamenting this change — some students are happy with Dinkytown as a food hub.

Retail, especially clothing, has decreased. Dinkytown has been home to stores like Al Johnson menswear, thrift shop Everyday People and family owned jewelry stores and gift shops.

Today shopping options are limited, Picard said.

“If you wanted to buy, for instance, a pair of socks, you could,” he said. Now, that’s not possible, “unless you want some with a picture of Goldy on it.”

Individual businesses today, especially unique restaurants, are the destination for customers — a trend that has eroded the cohesion of the area, said Mary Rose Ciatti, who’s been a server at Al’s Breakfast for 25 years.

When Steve Bergerson, who was part of student organizers in the 1970s, attended the University, a liquor ban meant the area was more active during the day. The granting of liquor licenses in recent years has “changed the texture of Dinkytown,” he said.

In 1999, Irv Hershkovitz’s Fowl Play was the only bar in Dinkytown with a hard liquor license; today, there are three bars and Hershkovitz’s Dinkytown Wine and Spirits.

Before there were bars, students had to go downtown for nightlife, so having late-night businesses closer to campus has been positive for students, said MarcyHolmes Neighborhood Association President Doug Carlson.

But the dominance of restaurants and bars bothers Hershkovitz.

“I just hate to see Dinkytown be only bars and restaurants,” he said, “it needs these other things.”

Commercializing Dinkytown Dinkytown has also shifted away from local small businesses toward larger chain stores.

The resulting tension boiled over in 1970 when students and residents protested the construction of fastfood franchise Red Barn at the site now housing the Dinkytown post office.

That spring, 300 demonstrators faced off with 100 police officers and sheriff’s deputies.

After protesters were forcefully removed and the site was demolished, students — including Ciatti — moved in and created the “People’s Park,” planting flowers and setting up swings.

Faced with so much opposition, Red Barn representatives gave up plans for a Dinkytown branch.

Today, that sort of resentment remains among longtime Dinkytowners and students.

Ciatti said she began to see major changes in the ’80s, when larger chains drove out historic Dinkytown establishments like Mama D’s Italian restaurant and Gordon’s Campus Bakery.

“All of the restaurants that are big now are chains,

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and they’re driving everything else away,” architecture sophomore Jessica Vetrano said as she stood on 14th Avenue.

Environmental science sophomore Orrison said she felt Dinkytown was doing its best to hold on to long-time local businesses.

“It’s really hard to go anywhere and not find chain stores,” she said. “I think Dinkytown has done a better job at resisting that national trend.”

Chain stores can simply afford the price of a Dinkytown location, Ciatti said.

“People come in and buy the buildings and raise the rents,” she said. “The so-called mom and pops and one-ofa-kinds had to leave because they couldn’t afford it — it’s just really sad.”

The assumption that the proximity to students automatically brings profits is partly why some businesses in Dinkytown fail, Hershkovitz said.

“Everyone — and I mean national tenants, mom-andpop tenants, everyone — thinks because you have 53,000 students across the street, all you have to do is open your doors and you’ll be successful,” he said. “That just isn’t true.”

Four businesses along 14th Avenue now sit empty from recent closings.

Student housing booms

In recent months, the University Technology Enterprise Center was torn down after 90 years of serving as a high school and office space.

Halfway through demolition, the massive building stood mangled and gutted, a carcass of its former self.

The site is now a plot of dirt.

In fall of 2014, a 317-unit apartment complex will sit in its place.

Along with other proposed projects, the UTEC project is ushering in a new era for Dinkytown by addressing the most recent student need: student housing close to campus.

Across the street, a proposed Opus Group apartment building, if approved by the city, would provide 140 more units in Dinkytown as well as retail space. The Book House, House of Hanson and the Podium would be torn down.

The UTEC apartment complex is currently finalizing rental agreements with a grocery store for its groundfloor retail space.

The projects follow a campus trend — in the next two years, more than 1,500 student housing units are slated to open on the University’s East Bank.

Fast Eddie’s owner Picard said such expansive

Dinkytown business breakdown by year 52%

50% 46% 40%

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Retail

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GRAPHICS SOURCES: DINKYTOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION, MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, HENNEPIN COUNTY LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ARCHIVES

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What’s in a name?

1867: Enrollment at the University of Minnesota is 30; the graduating class later grows to 72.

Local vs. chain businesses today

Its ‘dinkyness’ comes from being a small, walkable, self-sufficient area.

FOURTH STREET SOUTHEAST

In Dinkytown’s earliest days as a railway depot, “dinkeys” were small locomotives used for hauling freight and logging.

1897: Simms Hardware is established.

1904: The Grodnik building, which housed Northwestern School Supply, Gray’s Campus Drug and now Loring Pasta Bar, is erected.

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1920s: Dinkytown becomes the social center of campus with popular hangouts like Stiffy’s Gopher Café.

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The University Theater, where Varsity Theater is now, originally had only four rows of seating and was referred to colloquially as “The Dinky.”

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1880s-1900s: Dinkytown booms as lumber and flour mills thrive in the area.

14TH AVENUE SOUTHEAST

The building housing Loring Pasta Bar has the name of an early owner, Louis Grodnik, carved over its doorway. The name “Grodnik” is a loose Slavic translation for “small town.”

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projects would destroy Dinkytown’s unique physical character, which today is defined by its hodgepodge of smaller properties and architecture.

Businesses across the street from Fast Eddie’s, like Mesa Pizza and Hideaway, sit in a patchwork of individual buildings.

On the other hand, the block along 15th Avenue that includes CVS Pharmacy and Chilly Billy’s is dominated by 125-unit luxury apartment complex Sydney Hall.

The overall landscape of Dinkytown, Picard said, is “made sort of plain” by giant buildings that house both residents and businesses.

Mixed-use buildings are common in most business districts in Minneapolis, said Carlson, president of the MHNA, but Dinkytown may still need limits on development.

“The last thing we want to have happen is to … have each block be completely occupied by mixed-use developments that are right up to the sidewalk and straight up five or six floors,” he said.

Carlson and others say they believe the apartment project replacing House of Hanson in particular will encroach on the heart of Dinkytown.

Nearby apartments like 412 Lofts, the Chateau, Sydney Hall and the UTEC project are located closer to the periphery of the district.

For Ciatti, who grew up near the area, the separation of business from residential properties is essential to Dinkytown’s character.

“It pisses me off,” she said. “It’s OK to put in housing around us, but when you move into the business district … that is so wrong. It’s the beginning of the end.”

LO C Some stuAL dents are concerned for the loss of local businesses in the wake of new development.

“It’s kind of a shame that they’re getting rid of all the small businesses around here and building all these big apartments,” electrical engineering junior Eric Kallevig said. “There’s kind of enough, don’t you think?”

The Opus project especially has received pushback from the community, spurring a “Save Dinkytown” group that’s protesting the development and its possible zoning changes.

“There’s nothing that looks like this project,” said Orrison, a University student and member of the group. “[Dinkytown is] this really cool patchwork quilt of pastel colors, and they’re going to take out one of the spots and put in a neon green one.”

In order to preserve Dinkytown’s character, Carlson said the Dinkytown Business Association should pursue a conservation district status and continue working with the city to create a small-area plan with guidelines for developers.

Retrofitting and renovating older buildings, like Loring Pasta Bar and Varsity Theater have done, is another way to continue development without sacrificing character.

“These old buildings,” Picard said, “as beautiful as they are historically, they either have to be restored or saved or something else moves on.”

Enhancing or encroaching?

Dinkytown looks back, moves forward

At night, Dinkytown draws people of all kinds, with the low-key Kitty Cat Klub and the rowdy trio of Library Bar and Grill, Burrito Loco and Blarney Pub and Grill.

“It produces an interesting mix,” graduate student Sam Beddow said. With new apartments, he said he fears Dinkytown will lose its diversity.

As with any major changes, the new projects came with contention and added fuel to an ongoing debate on what parts of Dinkytown shouldn’t change.

New developments are long overdue, said Hershkovitz, and the area needs a face-lift.

Some of the buildings are dilapidated, and the neighborhood has survived several fires that destroyed entire businesses.

“There’s only a couple of buildings left that have character — the rest are just not very nice,” Hershkovitz said. “[Dinkytown] needs new businesses and buildings that don’t look like they’re about to fall over.”

Painted, then faded and worn over the years, names of former businesses remain on the sides of Dinkytown buildings like the height markings of a growing child on a wall.

One hundred and thirty years ago, with a stable, feed store, blacksmith shop and railway depot, Dinkytown developed. It sat outside a handful of buildings that at the time comprised the University of Minnesota.

Many say Dinkytown will continue to be a special place for students, an off-campus campus and middle ground between the University and the city.

But although it’s always evolving to meet student needs, Dinkytown’s tradition as a University institution will remain.

“As long as the University is around, Dinkytown will be around,” Picard said. “It’s going to be different, but it’ll always be here.”

1930s: After the depression hits a waning lumber industry, many area businesses are forced to close or relocate.

War widows begin opening tea and boarding houses in Dinkytown homes.

1940s: A post-war enrollment boom hits the University, and Dinkytown’s business thrives.

1950: Al’s Breakfast, then called the Hunky Dory Lunch, is opened by Al Bergstrom.

1954: Buses replace the intercampus trolley.

1958: The Ten O’Clock Scholar, a small bohemian coffee house, opens as Dinkytown emerges onto the local art and music scene.

1948: The area is officially dubbed Dinkytown when the Dinkytown Business Association is formed.

1956: Vescio’s Italian Restaurant opens.

1958-60: Robert Zimmerman, aka Bob Dylan, plays at the Ten O’Clock Scholar for $3 a night.

1960: Burger King becomes the first fast-food establishment to open in Dinkytown.

Interstate 35-W is built and splits the neighborhoods surrounding Dinkytown, redirecting traffic.

1970: Red Barn Protests take place.

1977: With a $100,000 price tag, Dinkytown gets revamped with new red sidewalks, concrete trash cans and trees.

1975: Multiple fires burn down local businesses.

The 15th Avenue railroad bridge collapses when a freight train derailed and struck a bridgesupport column.

Dinkytown gets its first two banks.

INTERSECTION OF FOURTH STREET AND 14TH AVENUE SOUTHEAST

1990s: The first liquor store is proposed for Dinkytown.

Dinkytown’s most recent fullservice grocery store, Myer’s Food, closes.

Then

1996-97: The bridges at University and 14th avenues undergo reconstruction.

Now 2002: Simms Hardware closes after 115 years.

2010: Sydney Hall opens, marking the first luxury student housing development in Dinkytown.

2012: The UTEC project is proposed.

HISTORICAL PHOTOS COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA ARCHIVES, CURRENT PHOTOS BY AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

DBA begins work on a smallarea plan as well as one to increase the area’s security presence. Implementation is planned for 2013.

1991: Dinkytown’s first annual Rites of Spring — a precursor to Spring Jam — is held.

Up to 500 students and community members participate in anti-war protests after the announcement of a U.S. attack on Iraq.

1998: After 50 years of service, Gray’s Campus Drug closes.

2003: Following the University men’s hockey team NCAA championship win, rioters smash windows and burn trash bins throughout Dinkytown.

2009: On Spring Jam weekend, riots in Dinkytown ensue. After house parties emptied onto the sidewalks, rioters uprooted street signs, lit large bonfires and flipped over and burned cars.

January 2013: The Opus project is proposed, dividing the community over the possible loss of three local businesses.

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Senate and the Second Amendment Amid the gun control debate, those involved portray the issue inaccurately. n the wake of recent tragedies, President Barack Obama’s administration demanded bans on America’s most popular spor ting and defense rifles, bans on standar d magazines and other restrictions on lawful firearms ownership. Most media outlets echoed these calls, and some went so far as to demonize, stereotype and blame the National Rifle Association and firear ms owners for these ter rible crimes.

This is an unfor tunate response. When developing public policy, demonizing those with dif fering viewpoints is counterproductive and solves nothing. Firearm owners are over whelmingly responsible citizens, and they are from all walks of life. Contrar y to the claims o f s o m e m e d i a p u ndits, those of us in the pro-rights

community do care about senseless loss of life and do support measures to reduce violent crime and improve public safety.

Unfor tunately, none of the president’s policies would have done that. Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s bill to ban assault weapons (actually popular spor ting and defense rifles) and high capacity (actually factor y standard) magazines was a rehash of a previous bill in place from 1994-2004.

Academic studies by criminologists and economists, including one commissioned

by Secretar y of State Hillar y Clinton’s own Justice Depar tment, all concluded that the ban did nothing to reduce violent crime. In fact, after the ban expired, violent crime decreased by approximately 15 percent, according to FBI statistics. What is the sense in pursuing a policy that has a proven track record of failure?

The universal background check measure sounds appealing, but in re-

ality it would have required background checks for nearly all firearm transfers.

This means that one would need to r un a background check on a close friend before handing them a firearm while target shooting. The penalty for not doing this?

A felony and five years in prison.

After the Senate voted, many, including a Minnesota Daily columnist, proclaimed that the measures failed because of the insidious “gun lobby.” This suggests that senators voted against these laws because of the influence of several corporate fat cats and weapons manufacturers. Indeed, the term conjures images of wealthy executives smoking cigars in a sumptuous of fice. However, this is simply not the case. The NRA and other pro-gun rights organizations are power ful not because of the influence of wealthy arms dealers but rather because millions of law-abiding, politically active citizens support the Constitution and

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 112,180- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,274 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

oppose trading their fundamental constitutional rights for empty promises of public safety. It is curious that the gun lobby is mentioned, but New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s gun ban lobby, which spent $12 million in ads, is not.

The Second Amendment recognizes our natural right of self-defense and self-preser vation. It is ever y bit as important as our other natural rights, including freedom of expression and religion.

Gun control proponents often question the “need” for firearms, ignoring the fact that we do not live in a needbased society and that we do not have to prove “need” to government bureaucrats in order to exercise our constitutional rights. Simply put, without the right and the means to defend our lives, no other rights matter.

Stuart Baker University student Comments should be sent to letters@mndaily.com.

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‘Too soon’ is too much The “too soon” phenomenon is a poor reaction to controversial topics.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Don’t overlook Facilities Management layers and dollars

Regarding last week’s articles on the University of Minnesota’s bloat, costs and legislative oversight, a letter was sent eight weeks ago by three coworkers and me to Sens. Terri Bonoff and Thomas Bakk, University President Eric Kaler, Board of Regents Chair Linda Cohen, University Services Vice President Pamela Wheelock and Sibson Consulting. The letter detailed Facilities Management’s flow chart of the 25 “upper management” personnel who “administer” the 26 “front-line” supervisory staff for the University’s custodians, mechanics and tradespeople. Whatever methodology Sibson used for their analysis of four department’s layers and spans, all I know is the reality does not have potential to meet any common sense definition of bloat and questionable cost effectiveness.

This reality involves 26 custodial, facilities and maintenance supervisors reporting to 15 team managers and one facilities manager (earned $1,656,908.80 in the 2011-12 fiscal year) who in turn reports to six associate directors (earned $850,266.88, and this job did not exist before January 2008), who in turn report to three district directors (earned $510,550.56), who in turn report to Facilities Management Associate Vice President Mike Berthelsen (earned $236,912) and his Chief Administrative Officer Bradley Hoff (earned $139,068.80).

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letter also stated that Facilities Management has plans to expand from one to three training coordinators, the recently resigned coordinator earning $93,666.51 in 2011. Also, Facilities Management has its own safety division with three full-time employees earning a total of $292,568.53.

In a letter to the editor, published Aug. 8, 2012, in the Minnesota Daily, I wrote that Berthelsen employed a half-truth beginning in 2011 to falsely imply that the custodial workforce suddenly dropped that year from literally 477 full-time employees to 425 full-time employees, allegedly saving $3.1 million annually and necessitating the drastic campus-wide change to so-called “team cleaning.”

According to University Services Human Resources, there were more than 470 custodians in summer 2009 and by July 17, 2011, there were 418.8 custodians; currently that number is about 450 custodians. This $3.1 million figure has been repeated endlessly since then, including in Sibson’s report to Kaler and subsequently in his report to the Legislature on March 12 — listed on page 13 as an “Operational Excellence success stor y” and falsely implying that it is due to the team cleaning system. In my letter, I repeated what I had already communicated to Kaler — many of us both inside and outside Facilities Management believe a thorough external audit of the department is long overdue. With Huron Consulting’s continued analysis of administrative bloat and cost and so many people voicing their concerns for

the same, Facilities Management administration ought to be seriously examined by all those within the University responsible for providing this oversight and by all those throughout the University who care about what value — or not — the University community and taxpayers are receiving for the dollars being spent.

John Knobel Facilities Management custodian

A shameful moment in the Senate

Like The National Rifle Association, many parts of the entertainment industry and legislative bodies are driven by money and power.

It does not seem to matter in these modern times of the damage this is causing to our civilization. The long arms of the NRA are more powerful than the presidency — 90 percent of the American people and those leaders in Washington who want sensible gun control. It seems the government is no longer for the people; it is for the NRA. The gun control bill failed in the Senate on April 17. This was a slap in the face to all the parents who have lost children from gun violence and those who survived senseless shootings.

The shame of the failure to put for ward a reasonable gun control bill in the Senate exists in the votes made by those senators who are more concerned about the NRA than the American people.

Alfred Waddell Daily reader

s soon as any tragedy or media uproar is referenced in the media, the natural reaction has come to be ERIC BEST “too soon.”

Editorials & Opinions The editor trope is new, with online dictionaries and websites like Urban Dictionary creating their first “too soon” entries in 2006. “Too soon” is even a popular theme for parties now.

Perhaps the phrase has been made famous because we’re getting our news faster, and national dialogue happens at the blink of an eye — regardless, “too soon” is a problem for communicators.

The phenomenon is decidedly anti-post-modern, in which the media is discouraged from referencing topics or events that most, if not all, consumers are able to relate or refer to in real life. One only needs to look at Fox Network shows like “Family Guy” or “Glee” to see that referring to modern events, like shootings or controversial topics, such as abortion or sexual assault, now warrant this call from the public.

But why shouldn’t producers and writers reference this national culture?

Interacting with these events or topics invites a crucial dialogue and uses information on common topics that all consumers can understand. Rather than having media consumers “turn off” from reality, we should be inviting the entertainment industry to spur critical thinking on these subjects. Yes, the juxtaposition of information may be uncomfortable for some viewers, but the “need” of talking about controversy outweighs the “want” of some consumers to forget about, turn away from or abstain from uncomfortable realities.

The “too soon” idea also alludes to the concept of adhering to awaiting period of talking about a tragic event. Is the media supposed to guess when it is morally or ethically correct to report on or refer to something? The ability to decide on a proper waiting period asks a lot of a time-oriented, informationgathering industry. The expectation to wait days, weeks or months to talk about or even reference a subject is ridiculous, and this disgraces both the duty of communicators and the lives of those affected by controversy.

The ability for TV or any other media to interact with reality should be supported rather than censored. The “too soon” phenomenon is backward in a post-modern world.

Eric Best welcomes comments at ebest@mndaily.com.

Civilian trial for Tsarnaev

Dzhokar Tsarnaev’s trial belongs in the justice system.

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fter the massive manhunt following the bombing at the Boston Marathon, suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev was captured alive. Immediately, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., called for the 19-year-old citizen to be designated an enemy combatant due to alleged ties to radical Islam. Upon the designation as an enemy combatant, a terrorist suspect would lose all rights to due process and a fair and speedy trial. President Barack Obama’s administration disavowed treating Americans as enemy combatants in 2009 and is to be commended for standing by the principles of the Constitution in the face of terrorism. However, while the administration has dropped the term, it continues to employ indefinite military detention and has yet to close Guantanamo Bay as Obama campaigned for.

In addition to the use of indefinite detention, terrorism has forced other compromises on principles that are held as essential defenses of liberty. Upon arrest, the reading of Miranda rights has been institutionalized in the wake of the landmark 1966 court case Miranda v. Arizona. A confession that occurs due to interrogation of a suspect who has not been read the Miranda rights is inadmissible in court.

Subsequent cases have recognized the need for a public safety exception. In cases of terrorism, the public safety exception is relied upon as a means of preventing future attacks by obtaining information from the suspect before being advised of a right to remain silent. This stretches the meaning of the original intent of the public safety exception — intended to apply to immediate threats to an officer’s or public safety.

However, the decision of whether such testimony is admissible is decided by the court. If the interrogation goes beyond a reasonable effort to protect immediate public safety, it can be thrown out, forcing prosecutors to simply rely on other evidence. In itself, delaying Miranda is not a denial of due process. In the bigger picture, the controversy would be moot if acts of terrorism were not tried in the criminal justice system. While compromises may help protect public safety, they lead to a slippery slope toward the erosion of liberty and require careful public scrutiny.

In search of healthy food University students should have greater access to low-cost healthy food in the community.

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ealthy food options aren’t always accessible in the University of Minnesota community. In a sur vey conducted by the University’s Obesity Prevention Center, nearly 87 percent of the 1,162 respondents said high prices are a barrier to buying healthy food.

With the small grocery store House of Hanson soon closing, the Dinkytown and University community is left without a grocery store. It is common for students to have to shop for groceries at the CVS locations around campus, which are limited in their supply of affordable, healthy food. Though it may have other small shops, the community is void of a grocery store capable of supplying University students these food choices.

The traditionally more upscale Lunds grocer y store in the Northeast neighborhood of Minneapolis is the closest large grocery store in the University student community. The barrier to healthy food may be a problem of both cost and accessibility.

This isn’t just a problem with the University community but also with numerous areas in Minneapolis as well, such as northern Minneapolis and Robbinsdale. The student demographic consists of unique challenges to attain healthy food, such as a lack of vehicles, lack of time, the creation of designated student neighborhoods and generally lower incomes.

While the University offers meal plans to students living on campus that provide healthy food options, students living off campus do not have these options. With plans of a new grocery store at the site where the University Technology Enterprise Center once was, there is hope for the community to offer more healthy food options in the future. The planning entities involved should prioritize a business capable of providing these options.

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Not your baby Street harassment foils enjoyment of the warm weather.

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his weekend, in honor of the d e l i g h t fully warm temps, I happily hopped out the front door in a skir t sans tights for the first time this year. I had barely skipped down my three front steps to the sidewalk when a car full of guys rolled by and they yelled, “Show us your boobs!” among a variety of other color ful statements. After honking up a storm, they then proceeded to blast “Candy Shop” and trail me going five miles an hour for two blocks. Needless to say, my thrilled attitude was crushed immediately.

Street harassment is defined as unwelcome and unwanted attention of a sexual nature, objectifying and targeting people of all genders. Nonprofit organization Stop Street Harassment enumerates its many forms: “catcalls, sexually explicit comments, sexist remarks, groping, leering, stalking, public masturbation and assault.” And like mosquitoes and humidity, street harassment reminds us that warm weather is not all sunshine and rainbows.

When I lived in South America, it was a hissing that sounded more appropriate to shoo away a raccoon than acknowledge a person, a hissing that I literally still hear in nightmares sometimes. Here, it’s the man on the bus who tells me I have pretty eyes and then asks me if I like to be on top. It’s the yelling from car windows, kissing noises and whistles, surprise invasions of personal space and the “compliments” that are in fact just demeaning, threatening and discriminator y.

Street harassment happens ever ywhere: in First and Third World countries, low and high income communities, rural and urban areas and public and secluded settings. It’s not only intimidating, but according to Hollaback!, a worldwide, crowd-sourced initiative to end street harassment, it is a form of gender violence and a human rights violation. And sadly, the majority of women — more than 80 percent worldwide — and lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender/transsexual people will encounter gender-based street harassment in their lifetimes.

But when we complain about street harassment — in the moment or after the fact — we are often chastised for being a bitch, stuck up or ungrateful for the attention. We are accused of misinterpreting “flatter y” for harassment and told to relax and stop being dif ficult and overly sensitive. We are sometimes told to stop getting our feminist panties in a bunch.

More egregious, we are told that it is just an inevitable consequence of our decision to show some skin.

Encountering street harassment is a lose-lose situation. Women are told our entire lives — from the first day we lament the boy teasing us on the playground — to just ignore the treatment.

But not responding to whoever is tr ying to holler at you opens you up to being disparaged as a snob for not being interested in the advances, an outcome that could potentially be accompanied by violence from someone who thinks you deser ve to be taught a lesson. I don’t even want to think about what the response I secretly wish I could entertain — which would be BACK THE F UP — might elicit. On the other hand, being “polite” and giving a short greeting in return is also a slipper y slope. Even the most abrupt and uninter-

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In the current political climate oppression is not in vogue, but Muslims still experience it with little to protest from those with the loudest voices.

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ested “hi” can be mistaken for showing interest and open the door for continued unwanted engagement.

After years of dealing with belittling, of fensive and scar y instances of street harassment, some of us might be slightly guarded. Because for ever y innocuous “good mor ning,” there have been five more instances in which the next words were along the lines of “it would be better if I could tap that ass!” To reasonable individuals who recognize the ubiquity and detriment of street harassment, I think it is understandable that being on the defense might be common at this point.

Yet, rest assured that even those of us who may be slightly guarded can generally discern an innocent compliment from street harassment quite well. A kind word or greeting delivered in a non-menacing way, even if it is from the stranger, will typically not be viewed as overly aggressive and offensive.

The other day, I held the door open for a man with a cane, and he told me I was “a lovely and dashing young woman.” It kind of made my day. The distinction between someone who is just being nice and someone who is being a stage-five creeper is accomplished pretty quickly. It must be in our genes.

On the mor nings of warm days, I sometimes consider the probability of street harassment as I peruse my closet, but I hate that I do. I hate that I have sacrificed comfort and worn pants in the dead heat of summer to avoid street harassment because that implies I am its cause. Our fashion choices should not be dictated by the fear of what a stranger might say or do. An outfit is not an excuse to engage in sexual harassment, and even if we get so fed up that we calculatedly avoid the possibility of showing any leg or cleavage, we’re still leaving the house with a vagina. Our bodies will still be viewed by so many as public property, openly deser ving of commentar y and expectations. Street harassment is a daily reminder for women to sure-as-hell know our place and not forget that we are still seen as objects, around for the whimsy and enter tainment of men, above which they can publicly assert their power.

To the catcallers: Never in my life have I seen a girl chase after a car whose passenger is honking at or yelling out to her.

I would estimate the “success rate” of catcalling at a .00001 percent or less, so I think it’s time to drop the per vy, aggressive comments and tr y a new, less misogynistic strategy. A “Hello, how are you?” will have much greater effectiveness than a “Yo girl, your ass makes me wish I was that bike seat!” And don’t worr y: Our selfesteem will sur vive without you incessantly expressing your “appreciation.”

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.

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very vocal minority of the U.S. population endorses and enables widespread, readily apparent Islamaphobia. The Boston Marathon bombings served as a stark reminder of this fact.

Take Abdulrahman Ali Al-Harbi, a 20-yearold Saudi man who was fleeing the explosions, badly injured, when a bystander who thought he looked suspicious tackled him. He was taken to the hospital while his apartment was searched in “a startling show of force” and has since become the subject of one of Glenn Beck’s insane conspiracy theories. Beck claims that this man is somehow connected to the bombings, should be considered a suspect and is being protected by a massive cover-up.

This conspiracy has been taken to even more absurd extremes, with some Beck followers claiming that Alharbi is the son of Osama Bin Laden.

The Internet has been a breeding ground of unwarranted suspicion and hatred in the time following the bombings. A quick Google search will yield pages and pages of tweets reacting to the tragedy, prematurely blaming it on Muslims and insisting, with plentiful racial slurs, that we ought to bomb predominantly Muslim countries.

These sentiments were acted upon after the explosions when angry Islamaphobic people committed hate crimes against a number of Americans for appearing Arabic. This level of racial assumption was not exclusive to emotionally affected citizens. Prominent members of the media found themselves reporting false information because of a need to have someone convenient to blame.

Two days after the bombings, CNN correspondent John King incorrectly reported that authorities had a “dark-skinned male” in custody as the primary suspect.

The New York Post printed two men on its cover, labeling them “Bag Men,” and implicating them as FBI suspects for the bombings just because they happened to have darker skin than the people standing around them.

It is easy to expect this from Beck and the less reliable news personalities, but King is a fairly well-respected journalist. And though his gaffe hasn’t gone unnoticed, I have trouble believing that, had his report been right, anyone outside of civil rights groups would have raised a fuss. A dark-skinned male is what everyone seemed to be expecting, after all.

The irrational hatred for Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent is often justified with the erroneous argument that their religion is uniquely destructive and that their fundamentalists pose a great threat to the safety of Americans. The idea is that, while the majority of Muslims may be peaceful, good-natured citizens, almost every terrorist attack is committed by one.

It is a widespread assumption that is patently false. In early 2010, researchers at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released a study showing that the threat posed by Muslim extremists has been greatly exaggerated. According to the FBI, from 1980-2005 only 6 percent of domestic terrorist attacks were committed by “Islamic Extremists.”

Add in the fact that since 1970 there have been roughly 3,400 U.S. deaths from terror-

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ist attacks, compared to the 116,000 firearm deaths from 2000-11, and our nation’s gruesome focus on terrorism and lack of resolve on gun control become more ridiculous.

When our news media’s determining factor for content is ratings, this bias toward sensationalism becomes necessary if outlets want to survive. It is for this reason that we’ve seen headlines like “Tax-Funded Jihad?” an absurd attempt to blame welfare for the creation of a terrorist.

And it’s not just our citizens or our newsmakers that hype this threat up and blame it on Muslims. Our politicians are well-seasoned veterans of the process.

In the weeks after the Boston Marathon bombings, politicians have scrambled to use the tragedy for political leverage, primarily using Tamerlan Tsarnaev as an example of how the pending immigration bill will leave our country more open to attack. This isn’t just Islamaphobic, it’s borderline xenophobic.

Politicians using horrific events to further political goals is nothing new, and often it’s necessary. But this borderline non sequitur requires the performance of some truly impressive mental gymnastics to even begin to rationalize. And all it does is contribute to the convenient oppression of a minority. When people argue that Islam is defined by the extremists that get an inordinate amount of media coverage, it’s the same as saying that Christianity is defined by the Klu Klux Klan, or that every HispanicAmerican is defined by the Latin Kings.

The difference is that equating the vast majority of peaceful Muslims with their radical minority is socially acceptable, while the other examples would see you (rightfully) derided and labeled a bigot. We’re lucky to be at a time when social consciousness about oppression is expanding. It is important that our awareness of anti-Muslim sentiment follows suit.

Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.

TERRORIST ATTACKS ON U.S. SOIL BY GROUP, FROM 1980 TO 2005 Communists 5% Islamic extremists 6% Jewish extremists 7% Latino 42% Others 16%

Extreme left-wing groups 24% SOURCE: FBI DATABASE

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Digital literacy and the Boston bombings It’s time to be digitally literate; people’s lives and reputations are at stake.

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he tragedy that recently befell Boston will be remembered for generations.

Unfortunately, the Boston Marathon bombings have highlighted our inadequacies and our strengths. This tragedy has shown us that we aren’t as secure as we think, that we’re still too willing to give up our liberties for safety and that some traditional media may be losing its grasp on reality.

Boston is strong, and Americans are strong. We often pick ourselves up after tragedy and move forward. However, despite our fortitude, this tragedy has shown the changing nature of trust, source material and integrity.

According to the Pew Research Center, 81 percent of all adults over the age of 18 use the Internet. That’s a huge number of people with access to instant and free-flowing information.

Sadly, this information isn’t always correct or trustable, yet some easily consume dubious information. What leads people to actively do this?

Given the ease of information access in the digital age, dubious information spreads like wildfire across the Internet landscape. All it requires is for one person to “like,” retweet or post a story with questionable sources. This ability to transfer information quickly becomes dangerous, and innocent people can get swept up in it.

Trial by media versus verifiable evidence isn’t new. It’s been happening since we’ve had

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media. Given its pervasiveness, social media is particularly prone to trying the innocence through a single tweet or post — for example, Sunil Tripathi.

Tripathi was a Brown University student who went missing last month. He was mistaken for one of the bombers involved in the Boston Marathon tragedy. He had nothing to do with it. But that didn’t stop his name spreading across the Internet quickly. Thanks to Reddit and well-meaning but ignorant users, Tripathi quickly became suspect No. 1. While he may have looked like one of the bombers, he wasn’t. There was no evidence to suggest he was. He just happened to look like someone else, and that was enough to destroy his name.

As disgusting as this misinformation debacle was, it may not have been totally the fault of those who propagated the misinformation.

Some people lack basic digital literacy, and the Boston Marathon bombings have shown that this lack encourages people to uncriti-

cally push information without considering the consequences. If you’ve never been taught or shown how to interact online, how do you know what to tweet and what not to tweet?

Certainly, those who disparaged the name of an innocent person should be held responsible to some degree. But when traditional media makes the same mistakes as amateur Internet sleuths, we need to understand that it’s time to require a strong digital literacy curriculum from kindergarten through college.

Howard Rheingold, noted educator and digital theorist, understands digital literacy in a specific way: “Digital literacies are networked.

In that regard, I see these skills as pointing inward to the individual and outward to the society.” Rheingold’s understanding of digital literacy may be the most applicable to our world.

The ability of someone to understand his or her interactions in the digital world and how that feeds into our society is tremendously important.

Though, perhaps these interactions don’t apply to everyone. It would seem like common sense to not highlight police locations or movements when a dangerous criminal is on the loose. But the Boston Police felt the need to post a warning urging the media not to compromise police movements in any venue. To their credit, the Boston Police Twitter feed (@ Boston_Police) expertly handled the situation.

Still, it’s troublesome that contemporary media is so foolish that they would not consider how or when to report unverified or life-threatening information. Coupled with the reach and speed of social media and the lack of digital literacy, the situation could have easily

become much worse. We need to do a better job with encouraging digital literacy inside and outside of educational contexts. As 21st century networked citizens, it’s our responsibility to use digital technologies, especially social media, mindfully and critically.

The Federal Trade Commission even offers a short work on “Living Life Online.”

While somewhat flawed, it is nonetheless filled with good concepts to consider when interacting in any environment. One part is particularly relevant for digital literacy and social media: “The pictures you post and the words you write can affect the people in your life. Think before you post and share.”

I doubt those who spread misinformation about Tripathi actually thought about their actions. I doubt the news anchors and reporters who spread unverified information from their pulpits thought about their actions, but they should have. This type of illiteracy is no longer acceptable. There are too many resources available to people for them to make these detrimental decisions.

Moreover, it is no longer acceptable for educational institutions, community programs and governmental agencies to not have dedicated digital literacy programs. Smart, mindful and critical digital literacy could’ve stopped the tarnishing of a reputation and a name.

In the digital age, humans may have short memories, but the Internet never forgets.

Trent M. Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.

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FOOTBALL

Nelson, Leidner shine at spring game

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Quarterback Mitch Leidner throws the ball to a receiver during the Gophers’ spring game Saturday at TCF Bank Stadium.

The Gophers’ top two quarterbacks combined for 291 yards and 3 TDs.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Minnesota head coach Jerr y Kill had reason to be pleased with the Gophers’ annual spring game Saturday.

The weather held up.

Mor e than 10,000 fans were announced in attendance. And the Gophers’ of fense — anemic for much of Kill’s first two seasons at Minnesota — scored a combined five touchdowns.

On the warmest day in Minneapolis since Oct. 3, 2012, the maroon team beat the white team 2417 at the Gophers’ annual spring game at TCF Bank Stadium. “ We ’ v e h a d a g r e a t spring,” Kill said. “I still think we have to mentally and physically develop some toughness, and I think we’re doing that as we work.”

The split-squad scrimmage felt like a game in some respects — a full corps of referees called penalties, and the marching band played the Minnesota Rouser after scoring plays — but had a more relaxed feel. Players occasionally switched teams, and defensive players were not allowed to hit the quarterbacks.

Kill watched from

the backfield for most of the afternoon as the two squads rattled of f 26 first downs. Quar terbacks Philip Nelson and Mitch Leidner led the way with a combined 291 yards passing.

Nelson went 2-5 as a freshman star ter last season and had several ups and downs. He threw for 246 yards and three touchdowns in his second star t — a 44-28 win over Purdue — but threw only three more touchdowns in his last five games.

“I thought we had good play overall on both sides of the ball. This is the first time I feel like we’re starting to build a little bit of depth on our team.”

JERRY KILL Gophers head coach

He’s shown improvement throughout spring practice and said he feels more comfor table than ever with his receivers.

Nelson completed his first 10 passes Saturday and finished 13-for-17 with 179 yards and one touchdown, helping the maroon team take a 14-3 halftime lead.

The redshir t freshman Leidner was nearly

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as good, completing 10 of 18 passes for 136 yards and two touchdowns while leading the white team on a second-half comeback.

His 10-yard touchdown pass to redshir t freshman receiver Jamel Harbison gave the team a 17-14 lead near the end of the third quarter.

But Nelson responded by leading the maroon team on a six-play, 65-yard drive to star t the four th quar ter, capped by a fiveyard touchdown pass to senior Derrick Engel.

Leidner briefly quarterbacked the maroon team in the four th quar ter, but the victor y belonged to Nelson.

The two quar terbacks are the same age (19), but Leidner redshir ted last season and quarterbacked the scout team, while Nelson became the Gophers’ star ting quar terback in October.

“We’ve basically gone through this whole college experience together,” Nelson said. “We really push each other, and it really helps us get better.”

Nelson and Leidner put up their gaudy numbers Saturday against a defense that ranked 12th nationally in passing defense last season.

QUARTERBACK COMPARISON Philip Nelson 13-17, 179 yards, 1 TD, 0 int Mitch Leidner 10-18, 136 yards, 2 TD, 0 int

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But the defense played without three key players — defensive tackle Ra’Shede Hageman and defensive backs Br ock Vereen and Derrick Wells, all who were star ters last season. Kill said the trio — along with about 11 other players — was held out of the game for precautionar y reasons.

Even so, both defenses held up and forced one turnover each.

Middle linebacker Damien Wilson, a junior college transfer, led the white team with six tackles and recovered a fumble late in the third quarter.

Wilson has been competing with redshirt freshman Jack L ynn for the starting middle linebacker spot. L ynn practiced with the first team for most of the spring and played with it Saturday, recording six tackles.

S en i or ou t s i d e l i n e backer James Manuel led all defensive players with seven tackles.

“I thought we had good play overall on both sides of the ball,” Kill said. “This is the first time I feel like we’re star ting to build a little bit of depth on our team.”

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Gray, Stoudermire sign with NFL teams; no Gophers players drafted MarQueis Gray will try to play tight end for the San Francisco 49ers.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

Former Gophers quarterback/receiver MarQueis Gray signed with the San Francisco 49ers as an un-

drafted free agent Saturday moments after the end of the 2013 NFL Draft.

Gray’s agent, Mitch Chargo of AMI Spor ts, said Gray will move to tight end.

“I think that was expected,” Chargo said.

“He’s been training specifically for that for the last six or seven weeks.”

Gray will repor t to the

49ers’ rookie minicamp May 9, Chargo said. He’ll likely be invited to the 49ers’ training camp this summer, but he’s not guaranteed a roster spot.

Gray, a highly touted recr uit out of Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis, entered last season as the Gophers’ star ting quarterback but struggled with injuries. Freshman

Philip Nelson replaced Gray as the starter in midOctober.

Former Gophers cornerback and retur n man Troy Stoudermire signed as an undrafted free agent with the Cincinnati Bengals on Saturday as well.

This marks the third straight year that no former Gophers players were drafted.

Harbison shows playmaking ability

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

In the months leading up to the 2012 college football season, freshman wide receiver Jamel Harbison was tabbed as the explosive playmaker the Gophers’ offense has lacked in recent years.

But Harbison tore his anterior cruciate ligament less than halfway through Minnesota’s first game in 2012, ending his season.

Now almost fully healthy, Harbison showed Minnesota fans and teammates a glimpse of that playmaking ability in the Gophers’ spring game.

Harbison caught five passes for 52 yards and scored a touchdown on a slant route.

“That’s an encouraging thing,” head coach Jerry Kill said. “When you come off major knee surgery, it takes a while to get back in it.

“I hope this is like the beginning of the season so when he comes back in the fall, he’s 100 percent.”

Harbison ran smooth, crisp routes and seemed to develop a rapport with quarterback Mitch Leidner, especially in the second half.

“He really understands where he needs to be,” Leidner said. “You get him the ball quick, and he’s going to make some guys miss and get downfield and score touchdowns.”

Harbison had said during spring practice that he was about 85 percent healthy. He revved that number up to 95 on Saturday, citing the excitement of a game-type atmosphere.

“Just because the tempo was up a little bit more, it felt good cutting on it and everything,” Harbison said. “The knee is not a problem right now.”

Harbison said he plans to continue rehab in the forthcoming months.

“Once I take a break, that’s losing muscle, losing power,” he said. “So I can’t take any time off if I want to be at my best.”

Big Ten approves new divisions

BY CHARLIE ARMITZ carmitz@mndaily.com

The Big Ten will adopt new East and West football divisions starting in 2014 and a nine-game conference schedule starting in 2016, the conference announced Sunday.

The realignment coincides with the conference’s recent additions of Maryland and Rutgers. The two schools will give the conference 14 teams starting in 2014.

Minnesota will join Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue and Wisconsin in the West Division. Maryland and Rutgers will play in the East Division.

The two divisions, which began in 2011 under the controversial names “Legends” and “Leaders,” currently include six teams each and are not sorted by geography.

“Big Ten directors of athletics concluded four months of study and deliberation with unanimous approval of a future football structure that preserved rivalries and created divisions based on their primary principle of East/West geography,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said in a release.

Delany also said in the release that the directors of athletics used a fan survey commissioned by the Big Ten Network last December to make their recommendation.

Big Ten teams will play the other six schools in their division once and two schools from the opposing division during the eight-game conference schedule in 2014 and 2015. They will play three teams from the opposing division when the nine-game conference schedule begins in 2016.

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Van Rooyen, team finish second at Big Ten meet

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Gophers settle for eighth at Big Ten championships WOMEN’S GOLF

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS GOLFER Laguna Laorr Shepherd Theinthong Thitiratanakorn Quinn

RD1 76 79 78 79 82 80

RD2 76 73 79 77 81 80

RD3 TOTAL 72 224 78 230 76 233 84 240 78 241 86 246

TEAM T1 Northwestern T1 Purdue 3 Michigan State 4 Penn State 5 Indiana 8 Minnesota

RD1 287 293 303 296 310 312

RD2 295 294 297 305 303 305

RD3 TOTAL 302 884 297 884 289 889 299 900 303 916 304 921

*out of 12 teams

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

Minnesota played its best golf Sunday at the Big Ten championships.

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s golf team shot 57-over par to finish eighth out of 12 teams at the Big Ten championships during the weekend.

Minnesota played its best golf in the final round Sunday despite rain and wind at the Donald Ross Course in French Lick, Ind. Purdue and Northwestern tied for first place at 20-over par.

Coach Michele Redman said she was pleased with her team’s finish given the limited amount of time the team has played outdoors this spring and where it was ranked entering the tournament.

Redman said the team finished rounds better than it did in previous tournaments.

Three Minnesota players had their best rounds Sunday, including sophomor e Car men Laguna.

CHRISTOPHER SELLECK, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota golfer Carmen Laguna practices putting April 17, 2012, at the Les Bolstad Golf Course in Falcon Heights, Minn.

She shot 8-over par for the tournament to tie for ninth place.

“She managed herself around this golf course really well,” said Redman, who walked with Laguna on Sunday. “She made a lot of good key putts at the right time.”

Sophomore Anna Laorr finished tied for 26th, six shots behind Laguna. Laorr shaved 21 strokes of f her score at last year’s tournament to improve from the team’s worst finisher to its second-best.

“She’s become such a

better player than she was a year ago,” Redman said.

“She can just really grind it out on the golf course.”

“The Gophers struggled in Friday’s opening round, shooting 24-over par.

“I think we hadn’t been outside,” she said. “I think it took us a couple rounds, and that’s OK.” Redman said the team and Laguna have a chance to advance to the NCAA regional May 9. The Gophers will learn their fate Monday night when the NCAA tournament field is announced.

BASEBALL

Gophers overcome Fri. meltdown Minnesota won two of three at Iowa after a rough start.

son summoned reliable senior closer Billy Soule to end the jam.

But Soule walked the bases loaded, and Hawkeyes right fielder Kris Goodman sent Soule’s 2-2 of fering over the left-center field fence.

Iowa tied the game in

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

HANNAH STRICKLAND, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota golfer Erik Van Rooyen demonstrates his golf swing March 29, 2012, in the Bierman Field Athletic Building.

The Gophers posted their best result at the meet since 2009.

BY NICKALAS TABBERT ntabbert@mndaily.com

Gophers senior Erik Van Rooyen shot 1-over par to finish tied for second at the Big Ten men’s golf championships during the weekend.

Va n R o o y e n u s e d a 2-under-par opening round and an even-par closing round to lead Minnesota while recording his personal-best finish at the tournament.

The Gophers shot 20-over par to finish second out of 12 teams, their best finish at the event since 2009. But they needed to win the event to potentially keep their season alive.

Illinois edged Minnesota by nine strokes, pulling away late in the final round to win its four th consecutive title.

Minnesota coach John Carlson said he knew his team’s nar row deficit as the Gophers and Illini played their final holes.

He said Minnesota cut the lead to two strokes with four holes left.

“We gave them our best shot this weekend,” Carlson said, “and they certainly had to respond with their best game also.”

Illinois played the final holes, especially the 18th hole, “in championship fashion,” he said.

Minnesota had three golfers finish in the top 12.

Van Rooyen used his driver and shor t game to position himself for an individual title, Carlson said.

He was among the tournament leaders in birdies made.

“He really controlled his trajector y and his flight today with his golf ball,” Carlson said.

Jon DuToit finished tied for eighth place, six shots behind Van Rooyen. The Big Ten Freshman of the Year candidate had sat out of the lineup the past two weeks to rest his wrist.

“He came out and played great this week,” Carlson said. “He looks like a seasoned [veteran] when he plays. He walks around, he’s ver y confident in his ability, and he should be.”

DuToit rebounded from a 6-over-par per formance Friday by shooting 2-over par in the final two rounds.

Senior Rober t Bell finished 12th, one shot behind DuToit. His secondand third-round scores of 1-over par and 2-under par, respectively, propelled the Gophers on Friday and Saturday. “[Robert] putted better than probably anyone this week, anyone in the field,” Carlson said.

Carlson said enter-

MEN’S GOLF

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS RESULTS GOLFER Van Rooyen DuToit Bell Trasamar Lowenstein

RD1 70 71 76 70 74

RD2 73 78 73 78 78

RD3 74 72 70 79 74

RD4 72 74 77 73 76

TOTAL 289 295 296 300 302

TEAM 1 Illinois 2 Minnesota 3 Iowa T4 Ohio State T4 Indiana

RD1 291 285 289 306 299

RD2 294 302 300 292 291

RD3 285 290 301 296 300

RD4 293 295 296 296 300

TOTAL 1163 1172 1186 1190 1190

Blowing a five-run lead in the eighth inning is a demoralizing way to lose a baseball game for most teams.

Not the Gophers.

Minnesota shr ugged of f Friday’s 10-inning 10-9 loss and cruised past Iowa on Saturday and Sunday in Iowa City, Iowa.

The Gophers (9-3 in the conference) sit atop the Big Ten with three more conference series to play.

“A lot of teams would have never recovered from what happened on Friday,” head coach John Anderson said. “It was only one game. We didn’t let it turn into two, three or four. I was proud of the way they responded.”

The Gophers took a 9-4 lead into the bottom of the eighth inning Friday with junior ace Tom Windle on the mound.

Windle issued a pair of one-out walks, and Ander-

“We do a good job of turning the page quickly. We have all year.”

MATT HALLORAN Gophers junior catcher

the ninth and won it in the bottom of the 10th when Gophers sophomore T y McDevitt hit a Hawkeyes batter with the bases loaded.

“It became a matter of ‘Let’s get this game over with, and let’s get on to the next one,’” senior right fielder Kur t Schlangen said. “We didn’t put them away.”

Anderson and his team regrouped after Friday’s game, and the Gophers buried the Hawkeyes early Saturday.

*out of 12 teams

SOURCE: GOLFSTATRESULTS.COM

BASEBALL RESULTS

ing the weekend that he thought Minnesota could win the tournament. “ We w e r e c e r t a i n l y peaking at the right time of the year to come in here and steal a Big Ten championship,” he said.

Minnesota will not advance to an NCAA regional because its record is below .500. Carlson said the team needed to win the tournament to have a chance.

Van Rooyen will advance individually, and DuToit will wait until regionals are announced May 7 to learn his fate.

Carlson said he was proud to see his team challenge for the title.

“Finishing second is a huge step in the right direction for our program,” he said.

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Minnesota 1 0 Iowa 1

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SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Minnesota scored seven runs in the third inning and rode junior righthander Alec Crawford to victor y.

Junior catcher Matt Halloran went 2-for-5 with four RBIs. Senior third baseman Ryan Abrahamson went 4-for-5 with an RBI. Schlangen was 3-for-4 and scored a pair of runs.

Crawford allowed two runs in seven innings, and Minnesota coasted to an easy 10-2 victory.

“We do a good job of turning the page quickly,” Halloran said. “We have all year.”

Sunday’s game followed a similar script. Minnesota held a 6-1 lead after five innings and scored three more runs in the seventh en route to a 9-5 victory.

Schlangen went 3-for5 with two RBIs. Redshirt sophomore shor tstop Michael Handel was 3-for-4 with an RBI. Halloran was 2-for-5 with an RBI. The Gophers had 14 hits Friday and 15 hits in both Saturday and Sunday’s games.

The weekend was easily the Gophers’ best offensive performance of the season. Schlangen said it was the best of fensive output in a series since his freshman year.

Minnesota’s scheduled series against Michigan State last weekend was canceled, and the Gophers spent the weekend at practice focusing on hitting.

Anderson said those practices had something to do with the improvements.

“We had good at-bats up and down the lineup,” he said.

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MEN’S TENNIS

Men fall in Big Ten semifinals, eye NCAAs The women’s season ended in the Big Ten tournament quarterfinals.

MEN’S TENNIS

BIG TEN TOURNAMENT RESULTS

ICHIGO TAKIKAWA, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota sophomore Leandro Toledo plays an opponent from Drake University at the ITA Central Regional Championship on October 21, 2012, at the Baseline Tennis Center.

clinched a berth in the NCAA tournament because their record is above .500.

Young said he was impressed with his doubles squads during the weekend and said that aspect of the team could be a strength in the NCAA tournament.

Minnesota will have almost two weeks of f from competition before the start of the NCAA tournament.

The Gophers have played two matches ever y weekend since late March.

Young said last week that his team is fatigued and that this stretch will ser ve as a good break.

He said it will be “a balance between staying in shape and getting some rest,” but he said there’s no doubt his squad will remain focused in that time.

“We need to recognize that this next phase of the season is another oppor tunity for us to knock off some great teams,” he said. “I’d say we’re playing as well now as we have all year.”

Women end season with quarterfinal loss

The women’s tennis team’s season ended with a 4-0 loss to Nebraska on

Series victory produces 3rd straight 30-win season

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

The Gophers softball team has won 30 games for the third straight season after taking two of three from Ohio State during the weekend.

It’s the first time since 2002-04 that the Gophers have won 30 games in three straight seasons. Minnesota has five games left in the regular season.

The tur naround is in sync with the hiring of Jessica Allister, who is in her third season as the Gophers’ head coach.

“It’s a reflection of the work that they’re putting in every day,” Allister said.

“They’re feisty, and they’re competitive.”

Minnesota beat Ohio State 3-0 on Friday and 7-2 on Saturday before falling 14-6 on Sunday.

“Any time you can go on the road in the Big Ten and win the series, it’s a good weekend,” Allister said.

The Buckeyes held a 3-0 lead entering a rain delay Sunday. They scored four more times after the delay in the bottom of the third inning to take a 7-0 lead.

The Gophers, led by sophomore Erika Smyth’s three-r un home r un, re-

Singles Bonin Toledo Hamburg Froment Weber Ramirez

W W W

Doubles Hamburg/Froment Bonin/Ramirez Toledo/Frueh

W 8-5 L 8-2 W 8-4

3-6, 3-2, unfinished 6-1, 6-4 6-2, 6-2 6-1, 5-3, unfinished 5-7, 3-2, unfinished 6-1, 6-1

SEMIFINALS

SOFTBALL

Minnesota took two of three games from Ohio State.

BIG TEN TOURNAMENT RESULTS

QUARTERFINALS

MINNESOTA 4, MICHIGAN STATE 0

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s tennis team lost in the semifinals of the Big Ten tournament, but head coach Geoff Young said he’s satisfied with the way his team performed during the weekend.

Minnesota defeated Michigan State 4-0 on Friday and then lost 4-3 to Michigan on Saturday in Columbus, Ohio.

“That couldn’t have gone much better against Michigan State, and with Michigan … we knew it was going to come down to the wire,” Young said. “It just didn’t go our way that time.”

The Gophers took the doubles point against the Spartans before sophomores Jack Hamburg and Leandro Toledo and junior Juan Pablo Ramirez won in singles to clinch the match for the team.

Minnesota also won the doubles point against the Wolverines — a team it beat 4-3 earlier this season — but couldn’t hold on. The Wolverines took four of the six singles matches.

“There was obviously some disappointment, but at the same time the guys were satisfied with the way we competed,” Young said.

The Gophers had already

WOMEN’S TENNIS

sponded with six runs in the fourth inning to cut the lead to one.

“It’s a reflection of the work that they’re putting in every day. They’re feisty, and they’re competitive.”

JESSICA ALLISTER Gophers head coach, on another 30-win season

But Minnesota got no closer. Ohio State added runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings to lock up the win.

“We didn’t pitch ver y well, we didn’t play ver y good defense and we didn’t swing the bat so well,” Allister said. “It was a tough day; we’ve got to get two of those three things well to

win.”

Minnesota broke out the bats Saturday en route to its 30th victory.

Sophomore Madie Eckstrom extended an early lead to 5-1 with a two-run home run in the top of the third inning.

Sara Moulton’s one-hitter highlighted Friday’s victory. The junior ace pitched all seven innings, walked two and str uck out 11.

Sophomore leadof f hitter Tyler Walker went 3-for-4 with two RBIs in the game.

“I think we played ver y well on Friday and Saturday,” Allister said. “We did a tremendous job of pitching, playing defense and getting timely hits.”

Allister said she thought Friday’s game was one of the team’s best showings of the season.

Moulton (26-9) earned the win in both of the Gophers’ victories this weekend.

SOFTBALL RESULTS

Minnesota Ohio State

1 1 0

2 1 0

3 0 0

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5 1 0

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1 0 3

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3 0 4

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5 0 3

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7 X X

R H 6 4 14 18

E 2 1

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: golf YEAR: senior

MALE

ERIK VAN ROOYEN Van Rooyen tied for second at the Big Ten championships and helped his team earn the same result. He had the lowest score for the Gophers in three of the four rounds during the weekend to secure his personal-best finish at the championships. Minnesota’s second-place finish was its best since 2009.

SPORT: track and field FEMALE

DISTANCE MEDLEY RELAY TEAM KATIE HILL, ALENA BROOKS, TE’SHON ADDERLEY AND LAURA DOCHERTY

The team came back to win the distance medley relay at the Drake Relays and set a school record. Docherty received the baton in fourth place to begin her anchor leg and made up the distance to cross the line first. It was one of the last relays that retiring assistant Gary Wilson will coach with the Gophers.

Friday in the Big Ten tournament quar ter finals in Bloomington, Ind. The Gophers upset Penn State 4-1 in Thursday’s first round. Head coach Chuck Merzbacher said there’s reason for optimism with this group.

“We wer e r elentless on ever y cour t … and that was what we were really shooting for with this team,” he said.

Merzbacher has emphasized the youth of his squad all season. He said the weekend ser ved as a great oppor tunity for younger players to see

FIRST ROUND

MINNESOTA 4, PENN STATE 1 Singles Pintusava Brichacova Otero Mozia Lambert Palen

W L W W

6-4, 5-4 unfinished 0-6, 2-0 unfinished 6-2, 7-5 6-3, 7-5 6-3, 6-3 6-1, 6-4

Doubles Pintusava/Ricon Otero - 7-5 unfinished W 8-3 Muravnik/Palen W 8-5 Brichacova/Mozia

QUARTERFINALS

MICHIGAN 4, MINNESOTA 3 Singles L 6-4, 6-4 Bonin W 6-1, 6-4 Toledo W 6-7, 6-4, 6-4 Hamburg L 6-3, 6-0 Froment L 2-6, 7-6, 7-5 Weber L 7-6 (7-4), 6-0 Ramirez

NEBRASKA 4, MINNESOTA 0 Singles - unfinished Pintusava L 6-1, 6-0 Brichacova L 6-3, 6-0 Otero L 6-2, 6-0 Mozia - 6-2, 2-3, unfinished Lambert - 4-5, unfinished Palen

Doubles Hamburg/Froment Bonin/Ramirez Toledo/Frueh

Doubles Pintusava/Ricon Otero L 8-2 L 8-3 Muravnik/Palen - 3-7, unfinished Brichacova/Mozia

- 5-6, unfinished W 8-2 W 8-4

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

the ins and outs of a major tournament.

“That’s something you can’t really replace,” he said. “It was good for them to see that kind of environment, and it will help down the road.”

Minnesota won the doubles point against the Nittany Lions. Singles victories from freshman Paula Rincon Otero, sophomore Aria Lambert and senior Alexa Palen clinched the match for the team.

But the Gophers didn’t score a team point against Nebraska. They had struggled similarly in a 6-1 loss

to the Huskers on April 19.

“We’ve got something to build on,” Merzbacher said. “I’m really proud of the young kids. They’ve stepped up all year for us.”

Minnesota will miss the NCAA tournament in a couple of weeks. But Merzbacher said this is just the tip of the iceberg for his team.

“I don’t even feel like the season is really over because ever yone is focused and excited to keep getting better,” he said.

“We’re going to continue to grow and build the program.”

TRACK & FIELD

Gophers continue Drake success Minnesota won three events and set a school record at the Drake Relays.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s track and field teams continued their strong traditions at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, this weekend.

The men won two events while the women won one and set a school record.

Senior T ravis Burkstrand was a par t of both the men’s titles. He won the 800-meter run and the 4x800-meter relay with senior Har un Abda and redshirt freshmen Goaner Deng and Alex Brend.

The 800-meter run pitted Burkstrand, a distance r unner, against Abda, a middle-distance r unner.

Burkstrand edged Abda by a little more than three tenths of a second with his time of 1:49.32.

“I think it was just how the race played out,” Burkstrand said. “He did all the work for the first 500 meters, and I just kind of hung on.”

Burkstrand’s title was Minnesota’s first-ever in the 800 at the Drake Relays. Assistant coach Paul Thornton said the feat was special because the Drake Relays are more of a relay meet.

Burkstrand said he enjoyed collaborating with the distance r unners and his younger teammates in the relay. They clocked 7:26.49 to collect the Gophers’ third-straight trophy in the event.

The Gophers’ 4x1,600meter r elay of juniors Derek Storkel and Bobby Nicolls, sophomor e Blayne Dulian and Brend placed second, crossing the finish line in 16:45.51.

Senior Oladipo Fagbemi finished third in the triple jump at 15.59 meters.

The women’s team won the distance medley relay in school record-setting fashion. Senior Alena Brooks, juniors TeShon Adderley, Katie Hill and Laura Docherty ran the event in 11:06.47 to beat the previous record from 2007 by nearly two seconds.

Docher ty received the baton in four th place to star t her anchor leg, but she made up the distance to cross the line first.

Vo l u n t e e r a s s i s t a n t

coach Sarah Hesser said the team felt it had underperformed in other relays and wanted to make up for it in the distance medley relay.

“They were phenomenal,” Hesser said. “It really meant a lot to [retiring assistant coach Gar y Wilson] … to get a win in that stadium because it’s a place that we have had a lot of history.”

The Gophers’ 4x1,600meter relay team of juniors Maggie Bollig, Ashlie Decker, Docherty and redshirt freshman Becca Dyson placed second with a time of 19:23.25.

Junior Katie Moraczewski competed individually and placed second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a personal-record time of 10:15.37.

Throwers win two titles

The men’s thr owers competed at the UCSD Triton Invitational in San Diego and picked up two titles.

Senior Micah Hegerle won the hammer throw invitational at 64.67 meters, and sophomor e Logan Hussung won the open section of the shot put at 17.49 meters.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Pitino rounds out staff with Tubby asst.

The Gophers announced four new staff members late last week.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

Richard Pitino has taken steps to distance himself from the Tubby Smith era of Gophers basketball, taking ver y little from the national champion coach.

But the University of Minnesota officially announced four additions to Pitino’s staff late last week, one of whom was a special assistant to Smith during his six years with the Gophers.

Steve Goodson, Pitino’s director of basketball operations, will be the only employee crossing over from Smith’s tenure. Goodson graduated from Kentucky in 2005 and served as a special assistant under Smith with the Wildcats in 2006-07 before moving to Minnesota with the same role.

“I have a histor y with

each one of these guys, so they are coming into this situation with knowledge of what is expected of them,” Pitino said in a release.

“They know that they will be playing an integral role as we try and take this program to the next level.”

Pitino originally hired Mike Balado, a former assistant at his old school, Florida International, as the director of operations.

But Balado resigned after less than a week and accepted an assistant position at Louisville, where Pitino’s father Rick Pitino is the head coach.

Pitino’s final assistant coaching hire, Dan McHale, comes from the Big East Conference after spending the last three seasons as an assistant coach at Seton Hall.

“He fits what we already have in place here with [assistant coaches Kimani Young and Ben Johnson],” Pitino said in a release, “which is a love and passion for the game of basketball.”

McHale also spent four seasons with Louisville as a video coordinator and staff assistant.

In the final two years with Louisville, McHale was “responsible for advance scouting video of Cardinal opponents,” according to his profile on Louisville’s site.

Shaun Brown was named the Gophers’ head strength and conditioning coach. He held the same position for three years at Southern California under Kevin O’Neill, who was fired this season.

Brown worked eight seasons in the NBA as a strength and conditioning coach for the Boston Celtics (1997-2003) and Toronto Raptors (2003-05).

Josh Adel will follow Pitino from Florida International to become the Gophers’ assistant director of basketball operations. Like Pitino, Adel spent one year at FIU. Previously, he spent five years at Florida as a manager and later a head manager.

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WHAT: Women’s Water Polo Nationals WHO: University of Minnesota Water Polo Club WHEN: Friday through Sunday WHERE: University Aquatic Center PRICE: $5 student day pass; $10 public day pass; $12 student tournament pass Join the University of Minnesota Water Polo Club as they host the national tournament for club water polo. This event will bring 16 teams from across the nation to determine the overall champions. The Gophers water polo team has games at 9 a.m. and 9:50 p.m. on Friday. Saturday and Sunday games to be determined.

WHAT: Tree-planting volunteer event at Coldwater Spring WHO: Mississippi River Fund WHEN: 9 a.m., May 11 WHERE: Coldwater Spring, 5601 S. Minnehaha Park Drive, Fort Snelling, Minn. PRICE: Free Join the Mississippi River Fund for a morning tree-planting event May 11. Volunteers will be planting Red, White and Burr Oaks, as well as Hackberry and Ironwood trees at Coldwater Spring. Register for the event at http://www. missriverfund.org/.

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BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (4/29): Discover treasures and new resources over the next six months. Recycle and share the wealth. You’ll want to spend, but it’s wiser to sock it away. Your network is buzzing with possibilities.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Share information openly with your friends. Make time to look at your current financial situation, and then discuss with family.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Study your roots, and stimulate intellect at home.

Friends help you solve great philosophical conundrums.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Start the week with a new perspective. There are so many new adventures to begin. Don’t forget to do something you promised.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — Set long-range goals, and prepare for action. Check out an offer’s details. Get into studies for an amazing discovery. Invest in your home.

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

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — You’ve earned a good rest, but the work isn’t done yet. Take a power nap and go at it again. But don’t push yourself too hard.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — New profits become available. Keep a practical focus on continuing the cash flow. Travel in moderate style. Associates deliver good news.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Open communication with partners brings new rewards and increased profits. Let them discover your true value.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 7 — You’re empowered and self-confident, with the Moon in your sign. Accept a new assignment.

Use something you’ve been saving.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — You’re surprisingly productive today. Tie up loose ends, and start planning a new project. Keep track of what works.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — An uncomfortable situation at home leads to more study. Wrap up details. Imagine the finished result. Revise your budget. Clarify your direction.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Romance, art and beauty capture your heart.

Get out of your normal routine and into unexplored realms.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is an 8 — Associates need support now. Ask probing questions, so you can get to the bottom of it.

Accept expert tutoring. Share your vision.

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

4/29/13

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

All rights reserved.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Monday, April 29, 2013

overheard “This weather is orgasmic!”

—Williamson Hall

“It feels weird wearing shorts, and there are still piles of snow hanging around.”

—Walter Library

Girl: “I don’t get how anyone can dislike spring.”

Guy: “Allergies?”

Girl: “No. I get shirtless guys running outside, and you get the return of cleavage and sundresses. Everyone wins.”

—Ruttan Hall

Waitress: “This single spot is all yours.”

Guy: “Hell yeah! I guess there are benefits to waking up on the sidewalk!”

—Al’s Breakfast

Girl: “What even IS Spring Jam?”

—Dinkytown McDonald’s

“I’m just trying to get laid. Not a big deal.”

—Spring Jam concert

Girl on the phone: “But that’s unhealthy! You have to talk about sex!

That’s what — that’s what makes pedophiles!”

—Washington Avenue Bridge

“You guys are so cute, cheating on homework together.”

—Walter Library

Professor: “Time to wear your bikini to school!”

—Humphrey School of Public Affairs

“Did I ever tell you about the time when I got so high that Journey popped out of my iPod and started singing to me?”

—Folwell Hall

“You know it’s only 10:24. The night is still young bitches, I just wanna go streaking.”

—Coffman Union

“Where do all the flies go during winter? They must swim across the ocean or something.”

—Unknown

Girl: “I like your shirt.”

Guy 1: “I like YOUR shirt.”

Guy 2: “You only liked her shirt because her boobs were in it.”

—Centennial Hall

What did you overhear?

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

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crossword

FOR RELEASE APRIL 29, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Under-the-table money 6 Teamster’s rig 10 Tight-lipped 13 Dubuque natives 15 “Once __ a time ...”

16 Chowed down 17 Lacking a strong foundation, metaphorically 19 Corp. board member 20 __ over backward 21 “That feels good!”

22 Florence’s country 24 Snoopy’s WWI plane 28 Prize on the mantel 31 Hors d’oeuvre cracker 32 Northwestern Canadian territory 33 Naval hoosegow 35 Brew in a bag 38 Shutterbug 42 Mork’s planet 43 Senate staffer 44 Lusterless finish 45 Windy day toy 47 Put the blame on 48 Farina-based hot cereal 53 Egypt neighbor 54 Subway whose first line had a terminus at NYC’s City Hall 55 Suffix with wagon 59 Before today 60 Ideal toast color, and a hint to the ends of 17-, 24-, 38- and 48Across 64 Hamlet, to Gertrude 65 Change a manuscript 66 “I, Robot” author 67 Butt in 68 2013 Oscars host MacFarlane 69 Pert DOWN 1 Light-green lettuce 2 Disreputable fellow

By Patti Varol

3 “Heads __, tails you lose” 4 Rogaine target 5 Dr. who treats snorers 6 Bite-size raw Asian dish 7 Water quality org.

8 Start of a wk., workwise 9 Formally charge, in court 10 Sir’s counterpart 11 More than decorative 12 Streep of “The Iron Lady” 14 All lathered up 18 Folksy negative 23 Whirling toon devil, for short 25 “How awful!”

26 Hogwash 27 “__ Noon”: Gary Cooper Western 28 Printing error, perhaps 29 German mining region 30 “Quit nagging! I’ll do it!”

33 To the point 34 “Way cool!”

35 “Black Swan” skirt 36 Immature newts

4/29/13 Thursday’sPuzzle Puzzle Solved Saturday’s Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

37 Set __: name the price 39 Ratón chaser 40 Org. that usually has a community pool 41 Neosporin target 45 Mary __ cosmetics 46 Publicists’ concerns 47 Blue Cross rival 48 Anklet fastener

4/29/13

49 Strictness 50 Dense black wood 51 Boot spec 52 Otto I’s realm: Abbr.

56 Male turkeys 57 What Noah counted by 58 Covet 61 “__ to Joy” 62 Set ablaze 63 Undergrad tech degs.

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

dr. date Dear Dr. Date,

I feel like I won the breakup.

What’s a good way to let my ex know that I’m doing much better than they are?

—The Better Half

Braggier Half,

Yeah, awesome, good for you.

We’re all super happy for you winning the breakup because, you know, that’s totally a thing, and you seem like a real winner with a fantastic personality.

Definitely go rub it in your ex’s face. Maybe post some showy pictures on Facebook or paste a snapshot of you and your new successful life to the inside of your ex’s locker. If you run into your ex? Oh, boy. If you run into your ex, make sure you gloat like a dang bandit. That’s the kind of gracious thing a winner does — it’s not at all a small and petty act of vanity and cruelty.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My man and I are so into this summer weather but don’t have a lot of cash to do the pricey outdoor activities, like concerts or eating out. What are some cheap, sunny dates you recommend?

—Walking On The Sun

Day Trippers,

When my best friend Goldy the Gopher is feeling pumped about this balmy weather, he has one place and one place only on his mind: da beach. Goldy will knock down my door, towel in hand, teeth out, ready to tan. I have to shout through the door for him to cool off a little! “How can I,” he asks, “if I’m not at the lake?!”

Ohhhh, Goldy. Such a good friend.

Loves a nice dip.

So there’s one thing you can do. The beach is free and beautiful, and you might just spot your favorite doctor and

rodent. Lake Calhoun and Hidden Beach are solid bets. No money required, just sunscreen.

Another thing to think about is that summer in the Twin Cities is rife with free stuff — while your image of a concert may entail tons o’ bucks and a lot of time standing in line outside some sticky venue, the truth about summer lovin’ is that free concerts are everywhere, and a lot of ’em are outdoors. Scour the local listings in the alt-weeklies and this very newspaper to find some sweet free events.

If you’re trying to get out of the heat, scope the myriad air-conditioned museums and libraries that are free and open to the public.

Finally, I’ll note that nothing can beat your own backyard, or if you don’t have a backyard, someone else’s backyard. A public park works, too. Lay out a blanket, pack a couple sandwiches, dry hump a little bit.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

What are your thoughts on pulling out? My guy and I only use this method, and it’s always worked.

—Fingers Crossed

Keep It Cummin’,

Wear a condom, you losers! Honestly, did you miss seventh grade? Were you picking your dumb noses in the gymnasium while your classmates learned the basics of sexual intercourse without you, thusly becoming smart and capable adults?

I’m not trying to shame you for being ignorant, but it’s time to smarten up.

You’re adults! Things happen. Babies happen. STDs happen. Wear a condom. If you think cum only comes out when your dude is cumming, it’s time to think again and consult like, I don’t know, a dictionary, a medical book, your mom, a child, the Internet or just about any goddang person you encounter on the street.

—Dr. Date

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

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Monday, April 29, 2013

SPRING JAM

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

Theophilus London performs at Spring Jam on Friday.

ABOVE: Spring Jam attendees listen to Mat Kearney on Saturday.

LEFT: Mat Kearney performs at Spring Jam on Saturday.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY