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TUESDAY
APRIL 30, 2012
SPRING JAM
Alcohol citations spike Police issued 26 alcohol-related citations over the warm weekend. BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com
University police issued 26 alcohol-related citations
during Spring Jam weekend. Those citations included underage consumption, underage possession, public consumption and driving while intoxicated. “That’s definitely more than a typical weekend,” said University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner. At last year’s Spring
Jam, University and Minneapolis police issued at least 13 alcohol-related citations. Miner attributed the increase in citations to the warmer weather. “People get some cabin fever after all these months of cold weather,” he said. A man was arrested Saturday night after attempt-
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ing to punch multiple University of Minnesota police officers, according to a police report. Officers saw the man, 22, fighting with his friends just after 10 p.m. near Coffman u See CRIME Page 3 Miner said U police were happy with the weekend’s events.
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HEALTH
Boynton to examine int’l student sexual health concerns Cultural and language barriers make sex ed. and awareness difficult. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com
During Welcome Week, Rawnaq Al-Gheithy was shocked to watch students putting on a sex education skit. Sex was a taboo subject for the human resources development major, who grew up in Oman and Jordan. “A lot of cultures are ver y closed of f about sexual education,” Al-Gheithy said. “You just don’t talk about it.” Boynton Health Ser vice of ficials are investigating gaps in international students’ sexual education, possibly due to cultural dif ferences or language barriers. Several Boynton physicians have noticed an JAAK JENSEN, DAILY
Darul Hikmah instructor Mufti Hussain Kamani speaks to Muslim students about the Sunnah, the lifestyle of the Prophet Muhammad, on Friday at the Science Teaching and Student Services building.
Post-Boston, Muslims worry U students say it’s not easy to be a MuslimAmerican since September 11. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Before the identities of
selves in a post-9/11-type situation — defending their religion again.
the Boston bombers were
“Ever yone in the [Mus-
released, Nora Ali was
lim] community shudders
thinking one thing: “I hope
because we worr y, ‘Is this
they’re not Muslim.”
going to be another attack
More than two weeks
on our community?’ ” said
after two men with al-
Ali, a biochemistr y senior
leged ties to radical Islam
at the University of Minne-
bombed the Boston Mara-
sota.
thon, killing three and injur-
The FBI r epor ted a
ing more than 260 people,
1,600 percent increase in
Ali and other Muslims na-
anti-Muslim hate crimes
tionwide have found them-
in 2001, to about 500
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PUBLIC SAFETY
Rape reported over weekend BY JAKE STARK jstark@mndaily.com
A woman repor ted being raped at a campus fraternity over Spring Jam weekend. An unknown person found the woman acting “hysterically” and sitting on the sidewalk across the street from the University of Minnesota Armor y just after 1 a.m. Sunday, University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said. The stranger waved down an ambulance passing by, and the woman told the paramedics what happened, Miner said. She reported it as a rape, according to the University police crime log. Minneapolis police took a report at the scene, Miner said. The woman refused medical attention, and Miner said she didn’t want to press any charges. The fraternity where she was allegedly raped is unknown.
increase in sexually transmitted diseases, abnormal pap smears and positive pregnancy tests among international students this semester. About a dozen physicians and nurse practitioners from Boynton met Thursday to discuss the trend, said Boynton Women’s Clinic associate director Lisa Mattson. “I always think it’s interesting when a whole group of doctors are saying that we’re seeing an increase in this par ticular population,” Mattson said. “So something’s dif ferent than they’ve seen in the past.” A lack of sex education among several international communities could be a factor, Mattson said. She added that many of her patients have misconceptions about the ef fectiveness of condoms and u See SEX HEALTH Page 3 Some international students find it difficult to talk openly about sex.
HIGHER ED
More high school grads delay going to college Some students work or take gap years instead. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
When Chris Kraft was a senior at Minnetonka High School, most of his teachers assumed he’d go straight to college. Instead, the biology sophomore spent a year in Brazil, studying at local schools without ear ning credit before attending the University of Minnesota. “It was so rare to hear about people doing this kind of thing,” Kraft said. “I guess it just didn’t seem like it was even a possibility.” Kraft is par t of a growing share of high school graduates who are choosing not to immediately en-
roll in higher education. A third of all 2012 graduates were not enrolled in a college or university in October — the highest rate since 2006, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Young adults may be forgoing college because the economy is finally star ting to tur n around, said Dave Senf, a labor market analyst at the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development. “Instead of hiding in college, they’re actually going out into the market,” Senf said. But projections show higher education may be incr easingly necessar y in coming years. A 2010 u See DELAY Page 10 Travel, work and time off can be more appealing options.
COMMUNITY
U to reapply for service designation The University was among the first schools to receive the classification. BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com
Blue and pink chalk covered the young girl’s hands as she stood ready to make prints on the sidewalk. Her volunteer caregiver — a University of Minnesota student — spread the chalk for her. Shouts and laughter filled the air as children in bright white jerseys played soccer nearby. Inside, some of their parents took a computer class taught by University students. University students vol-
unteer at Andersen United Community School as part of a Spanish ser vice-learning course, teaching Spanish-speaking community members and providing child care. To gain r ecognition for the ser vice work of its students, faculty and staff, the University will reapply within a year to keep its “community engagement” classification for 2015. The designation, of fered by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, was created in 2006. Andr ew Fur co, Uni versity associate vice president for public u See SERVICE Page 3 The U offered 73 service-learning courses during spring 2013.
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A community child care participant plays under the supervision of University service-learning students Saturday at Andersen Elementary School.
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