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CITY COUNCIL

Smoking Frey wins DFL nod for U area seat ban gains traction on campus President Eric Kaler said he would support making the U’s grounds smoke free.

BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com

After years of discussion and debate, the University of Minnesota may become a smoke-free campus.

The University Senate passed a resolution Thursday to make the Twin Cities campus tobacco free. To take effect, the resolution must be approved by University President Eric Kaler — who is now in support of making the University a smoke-free campus.

“Since this issue first crossed my desk, the lack of consensus had been one of the holdups,” Kaler said in a statement. “That is no longer a concern. Frankly, it’s about time for us on the Twin Cities campus.”

Dave Golden, chair of the University Senate’s Social Concerns Committee, said the purpose of going tobacco free is to cut down on secondhand smoke exposure.

“We are a campus community that cares about health,” he said.

As recently as September, Kaler was against the University campus going smoke free. But he now said he will “gladly be prepared” to go smoke free once there is a campus-wide consensus on the final plan.

University officials will work on an implementation plan with the framework laid out in the resolution by Boynton Health Service.

Other Minnesota campuses are already smoke or tobacco free, including

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Minneapolis lawyer and City Council candidate Jacob Frey speaks after accepting the DFL endorsement Saturday at DeLaSalle High School.

Hofstede decided not to abide by the endorsement and will run full campaign.

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u See SMOKING Page 4 More than 800 other schools have gone smoke free.

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STUDENT ISSUES

Ward 3 incumbent City Councilwoman Diane Hofstede withdraws her name from consideration for endorsement during the DFL convention Saturday at DeLaSalle High School.

Jacob Frey won the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party’s endorsement for Minneapolis City Council on Saturday, but the former Team USA runner’s path to City Hall isn’t without hurdles.

Frey grabbed the 3rd Ward DFL endorsement after incumbent Diane Hofstede withdrew from consideration, citing flaws in the caucus system and vowing to continue her campaign.

Frey, in between hugs from an onslaught of supporters after receiving the par ty’s backing, said he was thrilled to receive the endorsement to represent the ward consisting of par ts of Nor theast,

downtown and neighborhoods near the University of Minnesota.

“With grass roots organization and including ever yone in the process, we not only won but won big,” he said.

In front of a sea of red-shir ted Frey supporters at DeLaSalle High School on Nicollet Island, Hofstede said some of her constituents were disrespected and unable to participate fully in the caucuses to elect delegates in mid-April.

“I will take my campaign to the people and let them decide,” Hofstede told the crowd, suggesting the convention goers didn’t accurately reflect the ward as a whole.

She had previously said she’d abide by the endorsement, and her change of heart angered some in attendance. u See ENDORSEMENT Page 5 Hofstede’s decision to continue her campaign angered some in attendance.

Students, MSA clash GAPSA’s appeal approved in final fees review on Facebook STUDENT SERVICES FEES

Some students disagree with how a suggestion page is managed by student gov’t.

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

New Facebook and Twitter accounts hosted by the Minnesota Student Association for students to “fix” things on the University of Minnesota campus have caused controversy since their creation about a week ago.

Of the 10 ideas posted on the Facebook page WTF UMN on April 28 — the day it went live — four were suggestions by University students to carry concealed guns on campus.

MSA said they would re-post the most popular student ideas each week. Although the suggestion to allow “conceal and carry” on campus had some of the most “likes,” MSA did not share it, causing some students to express disappointment with how the accounts have been managed.

The next day, MSA President Taylor Williams, one of the group administrators, commented on a “conceal and carry” post through his personal Facebook account on a link to a YouTube video about how “conceal and carr y” permit holders live in a “dream world.”

“Gun violence right now is an extremely sensitive topic and many people take it seriously,” Williams said. “It’s not something we originally intended our page to confront, as something that’s a very political issue,” he said.

The new “what to fix” campaign on Twitter and Facebook is managed by a few MSA members, Williams said, although he has u See MSA Page 3 MSA said it’s only re-posting ideas that are “doable.”

Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jerry Rinehart approved one of eight appeals.

BY CODY NELSON cnelson@mndaily.com

In one of the final steps of the student services fees process this week, only one of eight groups’ appeals was approved.

University of Minnesota Vice Provost and Dean of Students Jerr y Rinehart responded to all of the appeals Friday but approved only that for the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly — denying many protesting student groups’ requests for stipends to pay workers.

The committee’s final recommendations, including Rinehart’s recommendations, will go to the Board of Regents this week. The board is expected to release

their final decisions in June.

There has been ongoing concern regarding how the current Student Services Fees Committee has funded groups’ requests for stipends to pay students, some of whom work more than 20 hours for their group each week. u See FEES Page 4 Based on final fees recommendations, students will pay a $430 fee per semester next year.

HEALTH

Finding balance, peace with horses

The Minnesota Landscape Arboretum hosted a “horse wisdom” workshop Saturday.

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

Melissa Bieber quietly guided a horse through a labyrinth made of plastic pipes in a large arena at the University of Minnesota Equine Center on Saturday afternoon.

“It was amazing,” said the attorney from Becker, Minn. “When you get to the center, it’s like this peaceful, serene energy.”

The labyrinth was part of the University’s first-ever public workshop helping participants to find balance in their lives by walking through a labyrinth individually with horses.

The workshop’s name, Equusnimity, plays on the words equus — a term for horse — and equanimity.

The workshop was one of several efforts to expand University programming in animal-assisted interactions, a natural healing technique where humans work with animals to improve personal well-

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Kim Oglesby of Hudson, Wis., leads horse Elderberry through the labyrinth at the Leatherdale Equine Center on Saturday.

being, said Tanya Bailey, an AAI program specialist with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum.

u See HORSES Page 5 Animal interactions can lower blood pressure, heart rates and anxiety.

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PARIS — Tens of thousands of supporters of leftist par ties marched through central Paris on Sunday to express disappointment with President Francois Hollande’s first year in power, criticizing the leader for reneging on his promises to rein in the world of finance and enact economic stimulus.

Hollande, a Socialist, rose to the presidency last May, promising to spare France the austerity measures imposed elsewhere in Europe. And the French gover nment has largely avoided the deep spending cuts, big tax hikes and the wide-ranging reforms of many of its neighbors.

Instead, it has nibbled around the edges of its deficit, cutting $13 billion in spending and increasing taxes, largely on the rich, by 20 billion euros. That’s relatively little for a country with 2 trillion euro economy of which 57 percent is government spending.

Still, France’s economy has continued to deteriorate, with growth stagnating and unemployment rising above 10 percent.

Leftists who took the streets on Sunday — largely from parties to the left of Hollande’s mainstream Socialist Party — rejected the notion that Hollande had spared France a worse fate.

“Salaries are frozen.

They continue to reduce hiring in the public sector,” said

Brigitte Blang, a 64-yearold teacher from eastern France. “We’re waiting for true leftist policies. There’s money in the coffers!”

Blang was among tens of thousands of people from around the countr y who gathered around Paris’ iconic Place de la Bastille, named for the prison stormed by French revolutionaries in 1789. They carried signs that said, “Down with austerity,” ‘’Out with finance, humans first” and “OUSTerity — finance should pay.”

Paris police said 30,000 people showed up, although protest organizers said there were 180,000. After speeches, the crowd marched to another Paris square.

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Hollande’s failure to keep the support of those on the far left protesting in Paris on Sunday while also angering the right —who think his economic reforms and budget cuts haven’t gone far enough — has made him one the least popular presidents in modern French history. In a sign of how he is being squeezed from both sides, police said 15,000 people — largely right-leaning — gathered in another part of Paris on Sunday to protest the recent passage of a law legalizing gay marriage.

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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s prime minister told an international assembly of Jews on Sunday that his government has declared “zero tolerance” on anti-Semitism, but his speech failed to impress those gathered who said he has failed to confront the country’s largest far-right party.

Addressing the opening session of the World Jewish Congress, Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledged that antiSemitism was on the rise both in Europe and Hungary, attributing it partly to the economic crisis affecting the region.

“Anti-Semitism is unacceptable and cannot be tolerated,” Orban told some 600 delegates at the meeting, adding that it was his government’s “moral duty to declare zero tolerance on anti-Semitism.”

While delegates applauded some parts of Orban’s speech on Sunday, the WJC was also quick to express its disappointment that he had not specifically talked about the country’s third biggest political force, the far-right Jobbik party, whose politicians in parliament have made numerous anti-Semitic statements.

“The prime minister did not confront the true nature of the problem — the threat posed by the anti-Semites in general and by the extreme-right Jobbik party in particular,” the WJC said in a statement. “We regret that Mr. Orban did not address any recent anti-Semitic or racist incidents in the country, nor did he provide sufficient reassurance that a clear line has been drawn between his government and the far-right fringe.”

Orban’s government, which has been criticized by the European Union and the United States for weakening democratic standards by, for example, overriding court decisions with its two-thirds majority in parliament, has recently tightened laws on hate speech and has banned the use of Nazi and communist symbols in certain instances.

Libya bans Gadhafiera officials from state posts

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TRIPOLI, Libya — Under pressure from armed militias, Libya’s parliament passed a sweeping law Sunday that bans anyone who ser ved as a senior of ficial under Moammar Gadhafi during his 42 year-long r ule from working in government.

The Political Isolation Law could lead to the dismissal of many current leaders, some of whom had defected to the rebel side during the countr y’s 2011 civil war or had been elected to office since Gadhafi’s ouster and killing.

The move is also likely to further stall the countr y’s already rocky transition to democracy by ousting elected lawmakers.

It injects a new dose of uncer tainty into Libyan politics during a still-fragile transition. Liberals say it will give a boost to Islamists, who per formed poorly in recent elections compared to their counterpar ts in other Arab states, although Islamists said they could also be affected by the ban.

The law was par tially driven by the unpopularity of Libya’s current crop of politicians among many of the still-power ful former rebels who toppled Gadhafi, and others who say little has improved since. Backers of the law say it is necessar y to complete the revolution.

But critics say that the law was passed at gunpoint, as militias have surrounded several government buildings in Tripoli for the past several days barring officials from work. Their vehicles mounted with rocket-propelled grenades kept watch on the street during the vote.

Most of the militias have roots in the rebel groups that fought Gadhafi, but they have mushroomed in the two years since his fall. Many of the armed groups have been accused of rights abuses, but the government continues to rely on them to keep order in the absence of a strong police or militar y. Many militiamen say they mostly want jobs and steady pay.

The General National Congress, Libya’s elected parliament, voted over whelmingly in favor of the law. Out of 200 lawmakers, 169 attended the vote.

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personally been reposting and updating the Facebook account.

He said posts given priority are ones MSA “sees as accomplishable,” like additional campus connector stops and more water bottle refilling stations.

“We want to know what students are concer ned about, and I think this is a good way to do it,” he said.

Similar accounts have become increasingly popular among other Big Ten student governments, including Purdue University and the University of Iowa.

But some students expressed disappointment with how the accounts are managed.

Political science and English freshman Brittany Johnson said she’s in suppor t of MSA’s decision to make the page but said “their execution and how they’re using the page is very questionable.

“I think as students we need to hold them accountable to their mission, which at this point seems to be wanting to hear what students have to say and then acting on those issues,” she said, “but what they’re actually doing is not that.”

Though she’s neutral on the issues, Johnson said she wants MSA to acknowledge that students want to talk about a “conceal and carr y” law and the implementation of a smoke-free campus.

During the first few days the page was live, students posted about both issues.

Finance freshman Regan Luker said the “conceal and carr y” issue has received tons of attention.

W illiams said posts about “conceal and carr y” and a smoke-free campus are issues students should bring to MSA general meetings for consideration of a resolution or position

statement.

He said members are still working out how they’re going to manage the page and repost things.

MSA University policy and student concerns director-elect Valkyrie Jensen said administrators share the posts “we think are the most doable and relevant to our goals.”

“We’ve had a number of phenomenal ideas we’ve never considered before brought to our attention,” she said.

On the accounts, many of the shared posts and tweets were from students who are also MSA members.

Williams said MSA members par ticipated in the posting and liking of

comments “to generate interest in the page.”

“As MSA representatives, we’re supposed to represent the student body,” he said. “I think it’s impor tant as a two-way communication channel.”

Johnson disagrees.

She said “it’s a terrible call” for MSA members to use their personal Facebook accounts to post things.

Some of them also use the MSA “what to fix” campaign logo as their profile picture, which Luker said makes it look like they’re posting on behalf of MSA. “Even if their voice in that moment isn’t representing MSA,” Luker said, “it looks like it is.”

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A University of Minnesota student stops for a smoke break in front of Territorial Hall on Saturday.

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Minnesota State University-Mankato and the University of Minnesota’s Cr ookston and Duluth campuses.

Nationwide, more than 800 colleges and universities have gone smoke free, according to the resolution.

But some say these policies are difficult to enforce.

Katie Bobich, a Minnesota State Student Association member at Mankato, said the university’s smokefree policy only slightly cuts down on smoking and isn’t strongly enforced.

“It’s pretty much a slap on the wrist,” she said.

University of Minnesota biology freshman John Lundquist doesn’t suppor t a smoke-free campus policy and said a ban at the University would be difficult to impose.

“Enforcing [a smokefree campus] is a big logistical issue,” he said.

Golden said most campuses use communication and social enforcement to impose smoke- or tobaccofree policies.

“We’re not asking police to stand outside and give

tickets or anything like that,” he said.

About 3 percent of students on the Twin Cities campus reported daily tobacco use in 2010, according to Boynton’s 2010 College Student Health Survey.

But about 18 percent of students repor ted using tobacco within the past month, and more than half of those reported doing so outside on campus.

Haley Webb, a speechlanguage-hearing sciences sophomore, said the amount of smoking on campus was higher than she expected when she started at the University.

“One of the biggest shocks was walking around and ever ybody was smoking,” she said.

The Minnesota Student Association gave its support for a smoke-free campus in November, although two weeks previously it had shot down a similar measure, alluding to a lack of consensus on campus.

About 47 percent of students support a smoke-free campus policy, according to Boynton’s 2012 College Student Health Survey.

There are also concerns that outlawing smoking on campus would disenfranchise some.

Christopher Sheehy, a University research specialist, said a smoking ban would make the University “anti-competitive” with recr uiting professors from other countries.

“Tons of pr ofessors smoke,” he said. “I think it would give a bad impression of the attitude [toward smoking].”

Smokers cost the University’s employee benefit program UPlan at least $4 million in claims every year, according to an estimate from the University’s Employee Benefits office.

Smoking is a way for some to “gather their thoughts,” said economics sophomore Matthias Merz, adding that it’s a personal preference.

“It’s a way to take a break,” Merz said.

Electrical engineering sophomore Ethan Yanna said a smoking ban on campus would be tough on smokers.

He said there should be designated areas on campus that allow smoking if a ban goes into place.

“I’m not a big fan of secondhand smoke, but I also think that people deser ve the chance [to smoke],” he said. “If they want to, it’s their choice.”

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“While not establishing a ‘blanket’ ban on student Groups including La Raza Student Cultural Center, Collegians for a Constructive Tomorrow and the American Indian Student Cultural Center protested at a public hearing last month and filed appeals to their underfunded requests.

But in his responses, Rinehart stood behind the committee’s funding rationales.

“While not establishing a ‘blanket’ ban on student stipends or staff wages, the

13 request and not increase its per-student fee.

“I am hopeful that GAPSA’s financial planning will in the future allow it to avoid accumulation of large carry forwards,” Rinehart said in his appeal response.

GAPSA will use its extra funds to offer an additional grants cycle. Currently, it offers grants once per semester. This summer, for the first time, graduate and professional students will have another chance to get financial support for scholarly, travel or social expenses.

As it stands in final recommendations, University undergraduates will pay $430.33 per semester in student services fees next year.

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committee reviewed each organization’s request individually,” Rinehart said in an appeal response. “The committees were very concerned with the growth of student fee request that are being directed for personnel rather than programming.”

All student groups requested about $660,000 for salaries, wages and stipends, but the committee didn’t fund about 40 percent of those requests.

GAPSA asked the committee for a reduction of more than $24,000 in its fees recommendation.

The assembly asked for a reduction because it had excess money in its reserves, leading it to revert to its 2012-

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MN Daily announces new OP staff Bailey Alto, Morgan Goronkin and Tony Wagner will head the Daily’s three departments.

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

The Minnesota Daily ’s Board of Directors recently selected the new Of fice of the Publisher staf f to lead the Daily in the next academic year.

Bailey Alto, Morgan Goronkin and Tony Wagner will each head one of the Daily’s three divisions, effective later this month.

President Goronkin, who star ted working at the Daily last May, will take over as president.

The business and marketing education senior started out as a human resources representative and was quickly promoted to assistant manager and then manager in the human resources department.

Goronkin said she was drawn to working at the Daily after one of her professors suggested she apply.

When she started working, the relative newcomer didn’t think she had enough experience at the Daily to head it.

The Daily’s cur r ent president then approached Goronkin about filling her

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Interacting with animals can improve a person’s physical and psychological health, said Jean Larson, the Arboretum’s naturebased therapeutic ser vices manager.

Animal interactions can lower blood pressure, heart rates and anxiety, according to the National Research Center for Women and Families.

The arboretum is also proposing an AAI research project where a dog would stay in a classroom with children who have severe behavioral disorders and autism, Larson said.

Bailey said the labyrinth at the workshop was a metaphor for finding balance.

“Horses are beings that

shoes.

“I always thought that I wanted to do it, but [that was] the first time that I thought I actually could,” she said.

Goronkin said she put her “whole heart” into the application process.

Moving for ward, Goronkin hopes to restructure the marketing department and increase brand awareness on campus.

She also wants to look into of fering credit hours for human resources and editorial internships.

“I love this organization,” she said, “and I think we do amazing things here.”

Editor-in-chief Wagner will oversee the Daily’s newsroom, sports, ar ts and enter tainment, editorials and opinions and paper production as editorin-chief.

The jour nalism junior began working at the Daily last spring as a staff reporter for the ar ts and entertainment division.

After working in A&E for the spring and summer, Wagner decided to tr y his hand at news writing and became a staf f repor ter, then senior staf f repor ter for the Daily’s city desk in the fall.

Wagner said he found his “niche” covering the housing and business development around campus.

“It ended up being a really good fit,” he said.

This spring, Wagner became the associate edi-

are ver y in the moment,” Bailey said. “They just don’t have the same worries that we have.”

If people focus on the labyrinth and not other worries, Bailey said, it helps them stay in the moment and be self-aware.

“When we are fully present,” Bailey said. “We live a healthier life.”

Tuni Turner, a registered nurse from River Falls, Wis., said her experience walking with the horse became a partnership because they had to work together and adapt to each other.

She said she took the workshop because she’s in a major time of transition in her life.

“There’s a piece I take away that’s ver y personal and that I will need to reflect on for several days,” Turner said.

After walking the laby-

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Incoming Editor-in-Chief Tony Wagner, Business Operations Officer Bailey Alto and President Morgan Goronkin will lead the Minnesota Daily in the next academic year.

tor for the city desk after only a semester in the newsroom. As an editor, he realized he was interested in heading the editorial department.

“I found myself having more ideas, and I thought I could do a lot,” he said.

As editor-in-chief, Wagner hopes to expand the Daily’s web presence with increased video content and interactive graphics.

He also hopes to increase editorial projects

rinth, the par ticipants carved their own labyrinths out of dinner-plate-sized slabs of clay, which will be fired and glazed.

If participants are struggling with questions or feeling anxious, Bailey said they can pick up their own labyrinths and move through them with their fingers.

“It’s a nice memento for them to have from their work through the workshop,” Bailey said.

Bailey said she hopes to expand the workshop to two days in the future so they have enough time to ride horseback through the labyrinth as well.

As she walked the labyrinth, Bieber said she had personal realizations and symbolic connections.

“It was really intense,” Bieber said. “That was a learning experience … to not have to be in control.”

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Graduate student Megan Mertaugh leads horse Legend around the arena with Leslie Baken on Saturday at the Leatherdale Equine Center.

5 women die in limo fire on Calif. bridge

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO — A limousine taking nine women to a bachelorette party erupted in flames, killing five of the passengers, including the bride-to-be, authorities and the mother of one of the survivors said Sunday.

The limo caught fire at about 10 p.m. Saturday on one of the busiest bridges on San Francisco Bay, California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel told The Associated Press.

Five of the women were trapped, but the four other women managed to get out after the vehicle came to a stop on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, the patrol said.

Rosita Guardiano told the

San Francisco Chronicle that the woman for whom the bachelorette party was being thrown was to be married next month. Guardiano said her daughter was one of the survivors.

Investigators haven’t determined what sparked the fire, but the patrol said the white stretch limo became engulfed in flames after smoke started coming out of the rear of the vehicle.

A photo taken by a witness and broadcast on KTVU-TV showed flames shooting from the back.

Aerial video shot after the incident showed about one-third of the back half of the limousine had been scorched by the fire. Its taillights and bumper were gone and it appeared to be

resting on its rims, but the remainder of the vehicle didn’t appear to be damaged.

The driver of the limo — 46-year-old Or ville Brown of San Jose — was the only person to escape unhurt.

It wasn’t clear if any other drivers on the bridge stopped and tried to help those get out, or how the driver managed to escape without injury.

All five women were pronounced dead at the scene.

Autopsies were being conducted, San Mateo County Super vising Deputy Coroner Michelle Rippy said.

The company that operated the limo was identified as Limo Stop, which offers service through limousines, vans and SUVS.

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Alto said she was originally interested in an edi-

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But the idea stuck with her, and she decided to apply for the leadership position.

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ing a team, and I liked making decisions,” she said.

Alto found out she got the job while studying abroad in Australia. She said she was “overjoyed and relieved” to hear the news.

As business operations of ficer, Alto hopes to improve the website, further develop the Daily’s brand and increase marketing activity, which she said she believes will boost readership.

Frey wins DFL nod for University area seat Endorsement u from Page 1

“She was going to respect the endorsement when she thought she was going to win it,” Frey supporter Christopher Meyer said. “As soon as she realized she wouldn’t, she changed her mind.”

Frey said he was disappointed Hofstede decided to stay in the race but hopes she’ll come around and support his campaign.

“This process has not been jaded,” he said. “It has not been flawed in any way.”

A robust campaign of her own is in her sights, however, as Hofstede said the ward has grown under her leadership.

The issues that led to her withdrawal from the endorsement process included alleged mistreatment of East African and older supporters of hers. She said many were kept from participating in the day’s convention.

“There are just too many irregularities with this caucus system,” she said.

Frey suppor ters questioned the merits of the concerns and said they hadn’t noticed any issues.

State Rep. Phyllis Kahn, DFL-Minneapolis, who supports Hofstede, said she was at various precinct caucuses in April and noticed the problems Hofstede was referring to.

Kahn said large groups of pro-Hofstede Somalis showed up, but surprisingly few of them were on the convention floor Saturday morning.

“None of them ended up being delegates,” she said,

indicating that something in the process cut them out.

Though Kahn is a Hofstede supporter, she said she wished the councilwoman would’ve at least waited to withdraw until after the question-and-answer section of the convention.

“I think that would’ve shown what a deeper insight she has into the city,” Kahn said.

Hofstede, who’s been on the council since 2006, is the latest DFL incumbent council member to not receive the party’s backing. Robert Lilligren, Meg Tuthill and Sandy Colvin Roy all left their conventions without the party nod in recent weeks, but none have officially dropped out of their races.

Andrew Johnson, who’s running for City Council in the 12th Ward, attended Saturday’s convention to support Frey. He said Minneapolis residents are upset with council members like Hofstede, Tuthill and Roy, who voted to bypass a public vote to bring in the new Vikings stadium. That decision has fed the wave of opposition against incumbent, prostadium council members, he said.

With another three current council members running for mayor, the council will likely have a drastically different look in November.

‘Engaged with the students’

Despite an opponent still gearing up a full campaign to beat him, it was a good day for Frey.

After Hofstede dropped out, he gave an impassioned speech rallying his supporters about the strides the 3rd

Ward can take under his watch.

One supporter, matching his passion, yelled “I love you, bro,” to Frey, to which the newly endorsed candidate responded, “I love you right back.”

Johnson said it’s easy to support Frey because of his passionate approach to issues the city faces.

“I’m so excited to see him win,” he said. “He’s going to be a great council member.”

Along with his passion, Frey’s accessibility, willingness to listen and closeness to his supporters have been brought up consistently as reasons people support him.

On caucus day, University students came out in droves to support Frey. Many of them were participating in the early stages of democracy for the first time.

Frey, who has frequently campaigned near the University, has made an effort to engage young people of the ward. Their support carried through into the convention, with large parts of the floor looking decidedly youthful.

Frey supporter Meyer, a former student representative on the University District Alliance, said Hofstede hasn’t had a close connection with students during her two terms.

“Jacob has actually been engaged with the students,” he said, “and Diane has not.”

Frey lauded the work his supporters have done so far, saying he’d been outspent considerably by Hofstede.

He said regardless of Hofstede’s intentions, he fully expects to win in November.

“We’ve got a grass roots organization that’s growing every day,” he said.

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A Raptor Center volunteer releases a red-tailed hawk into the wild during the raptor release event in Bloomington’s Hyland Lake Park Reserve on Saturday.

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Visitors watch a great horned owl during the raptor release event in Bloomington’s Hyland Lake Park Reserve on Saturday.

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Raptor release visitor Esme Miller watches a raptor at the event in Bloomington’s Hyland Lake Park Reserve on Saturday.

Man to be questioned about missing woman dies

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn.

— A man who shot himself in the head outside the Eden Prairie police station before he was to be questioned in the disappearance of a 24-year-old woman has died, police said Saturday.

The Hennepin County medical examiner confirmed the death of David Roe, 24, of Victoria, according to an Eden Prairie police news release.

Mandy Marie Matula was last seen by her family around 11 p.m. Wednesday.

Police believe she was with Roe at Miller Park in Eden Prairie around 1:30 a.m.

Thursday. She was reported missing later that morning after she didn’t show up for her seasonal maintenance job with the city of Eden Prairie.

Roe had agreed to speak with police but shot himself in his vehicle Thursday afternoon in the station parking lot. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead Saturday morning.

Police say Roe and Matula had a romantic relationship in the past, but had not been dating at the time of her disappearance.

Police have not orga-

nized a large-scale effort to find evidence, but Matula’s family and friends have been conducting searches since Friday.

Volunteer sear chers found “a piece of unfired ammunition” Saturday morning near Miller Park, prompting Eden Prairie police to close off the area, police said. They expanded the search Saturday afternoon, closing a half-mile of nearby Eden Prairie Road.

Police spokeswoman Katie Bengston said investigators were not disclosing whether the caliber of the bullet matched the handgun that Roe used to shoot himself. Ballistic tests were under way on the bullet and the gun Saturday afternoon, she said.

Matula’s brother, Steven Matula, said Saturday mor ning that volunteer searchers planned to search the Eden Prairie High School area. Roe and Mandy Matula both graduated from the school in 2007.

“It’s the only area we haven’t sear ched,” the brother said.

Their father, Wayne Matula, confirmed searches were under way as well in the St. Cloud area, where Roe had attended college.

Obama dares graduates to reject cynical voices

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A year to the day after kicking off his victorious re-election campaign on this college campus, President Barack Obama returned to Ohio State University and told graduates that only through vigorous par ticipation in their democracy can they right an ill-functioning government and break through relentless cynicism about the nation’s future.

“I dare you, Class of 2013, to do better. I dare you to dr eam bigger,” Obama said.

In a sunbaked stadium filled with more than 57,000 students, friends and relatives, Obama lamented an American political system that gets consumed by “small things” and works for the benefit of society’s elite. He called graduates to duty to “accomplish great things,” like rebuilding a still-feeble economy and fighting pover ty and climate change.

“Only you can ultimately break that cycle. Only you

can make sure the democracy you inherit is as good as we know it can be,” Obama told more than 10,000 capand-gown-clad graduates gathered for the rite of passage. “But it requires your dedicated, informed and engaged citizenship.”

The visit to Ohio State — the first of three commencement addresses Obama will give this season — was a homecoming of sor ts for Obama, who has visited the campus five times over little more than a year, starting with his first official campaign rally here last May. He made many more stops elsewhere in Ohio as he and Republican Mitt Romney dueled for the Buckeye State, and its 18 electoral votes were pivotal to Obama’s victories in both 2008 and 2012.

There was little direct mention of par ty politics Sunday, but ample allusion to the partisan battles that cramped many of Obama’s legislative efforts in his first term and have continued unabated into his second.

In an apparent reference to his failed push on gun

control, he bemoaned that a small minority in Congress find excuses to oppose things that most Americans support.

“This is a joyous occasion, so let me put it charitably: I think it’s fair to say our democracy isn’t working as well as we know it can,” Obama said.

Invoking the end of the Cold War, 9/11 and the economic recession, Obama said this generation had been tested beyond what their parents could have imagined. But he said young Americans have responded with a deep commitment to ser vice and a conviction that they can improve their surroundings.

He urged graduates to run for office, start a business or join a cause, contending that the health of their democracy “requires your dedicated, informed and engaged citizenship.”

“You’ve grown up hearing voices that incessantly war n of gover nment as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that’s at the root of all our problems,” Obama said.

“You should reject these voices. Because what these suggest is that somehow our brave, creative, unique experiment in self-rule is just a sham with which we can’t be trusted.”

Among the 10,143 students receiving diplomas at this sprawling state university Sunday were 130 veterans, including the first class to benefit from the new GI Bill that Congress passed after 9/11, university officials said.

Ohi o S tate al s o b estowed an honorar y doctorate on Obama, applauding his “unwavering belief in the ability to unite people around a politics of purpose.” Also honored was photographer Annie Leibovitz, whose images of Obama and his family have become iconic reflections on the nation’s first black president.

Obama’s other two commencement speeches this season will be later in May at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., and at Morehouse College, an all-male school in Atlanta.

White House ‘horrified’ hearing of Syria killings

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The White House says it is “horrified” by reports that more than 100 people were executed Thursday in a western Syrian town.

White House spokes-

man Josh Ear nest says those responsible for serious human rights and international law violations must be held accountable.

The State Depar tment has cited repor ts Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime and pro-gover nment for ces destr oyed

Bayda, Syria, with mortar fire, then stormed the town, executing entir e families.

Earnest wouldn’t comment on an overnight airstrike Israeli warplanes car ried out around the Syrian capital. The strike was the second attack by

Israelis in three days. Officials say it targeted a shipment of advanced, Iranianmade missiles believed to be bound for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants.

Earnest spoke with repor ters aboard Air Force One inflight from Washington to Columbus, Ohio.

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Searching for war on YouTube

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shared it on Facebook. It hit the front page of Reddit. And it played more than 3 million times in the first 24 hours.

The video shows a plane crash at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan. A plane ascends and then it tips on its side. And then it falls. Smoothly and silently, and almost slowly, it falls. And then the ground absorbs it, and it disappears. No sound — just an expanding fireball and a plume of smoke and seven people killed.

It almost reminds you of a movie (the Atlantic Wire compared it to sequences in “The Dark Knight Rises” and “Flight”), but not quite. It may be the lack of sound or the fact it was shot on the dashboard cam. It may just be the knowledge that it is real.

But even then, it does not quite seem real. We comprehend the visual destruction and the death, and we tell ourselves that it is real. But it is still a video that went viral on the Internet, and it still does not seem completely real.

It is a continuing testament to the power of the Internet in an age when the Web can start revolutions. But it should

also be a caution about the viral spread of a human tragedy.

The fact is that the video, while a stark reminder about the dangers of flight, represents nothing more than a brief diversion for the majority of viewers. It is a spectacle, not a memorial.

Of course, the idea of human tragedy as a spectacle is nothing new, even for the Internet. The proliferation of helmet cameras in Afghanistan and Iraq has created extensive footage of firefights on sites like YouTube. Quite a few have gone viral, with millions of views each. One channel has specifically documented firefights. In five years, it has had more than 132 million views.

Like all technological phenomena, the proliferation of these videos has both negative and positive consequences.

In the future, it will provide an immense and unprecedented archival record for historians.

It also allows civilians to appreciate the dangers and sacrifices of being a soldier in a completely new way.

But it also transforms war into another form of entertainment media, one regularly

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watched and consumed by viewers entranced by these video game-like sequences.

And it also lends to a glamorization of war that denies its human elements for one of visual spectacle.

At the same time, the Internet has dramatically accelerated the proliferation of these videos to a mass audience. The fact that these videos can go viral means that the people can die one day, and their deaths can go viral on the Internet — seen by millions — by the time their families find out.

This gets at the true problem of tragic videos in the land of viral content. As observers, the millions who have seen the video will never mourn for those who died except in the most abstract sense. They will not comprehend the grief that those families are experiencing while watching the ver y document and symbol of that grief.

Raul P. Quintana This is an excerpt of a column that appeared in the Harvard Crimson on May 3. Comments should be sent to letters@mndaily.com.

GUEST COLUMN

University should review attendance policies

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Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR The importance of sexual education for students

Thank you so much for posting the April 30 article titled “Boynton to examine international student sexual concerns.” I think it is so important for people to be aware of some of the cultural differences at our school. I find it sad that many students are becoming pregnant because they are unaware or have had a lack of sexual education in the past. I think it is also great that they are making a huge point of looking into this subject and seeing what kind of education the international students have received in the past — if any. My hope, though, is that more articles like this one are published, focusing not only on international students but also focusing on student sexual health as a whole. I think so many students are unaware or misinformed about sex. There is so much unsafe sex happening, and this article teaches us about condoms, birth control and how to practice safe sex with our partners. In addition, I hope that students will be willing to talk about what happens when safe sex does not happen. Although it might be hard, I think students need to be aware of what can happen and how their life could change very drastically.

Elizabeth Regalado University student

DREAM Act legislation

The Minnesota state Legislature currently has a state version of the DREAM Act before it that will allow access

to higher education to the highest-achieving undocumented students. The University of Minnesota is amongst many institutions, including the Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, the Minnesota Private Colleges Council, the American Civil Liberties Union, the city of Minneapolis, the Citizens League and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce that support the legislation.

The bill before our state representatives will allow young undocumented students in Minnesota access to financial aid and in-state tuition. The legislation includes three important requirements.

First, the students must have attended a Minnesota high school for three years; second, they must graduate from a Minnesota high school and finally, the students must sign an affidavit of normalized immigration status.

The annual impact of this legislation will be only a fraction of 1 percent of graduating seniors in Minnesota, and estimates predict that number to be only about 332 students.

These students most often have been brought to the U.S. at a very young age, some as young as a few months old. They know only Minnesota as their home. They are high-achieving academically and actively contribute to their communities. Their families have contributed to the Minnesota economy both by spending money in Minnesota businesses and paying taxes via Minnesota state income taxes.

This issue is not a partisan one, as similar legislation has been passed through a Republican Legislature and

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MASS COMMUNICATION

iral content has essentially drowned within itself. It used to signify a particular image or video that represented a particular cultural marker. It was impossible to imitate. Part of the phenomenon’s allure came from the fact that no one knew why exactly it was a phenomenon.

Then, over time, more content started to become viral.

Sites like Reddit provided an easy medium to view all of the available viral content at any given time. Soon memes allowed for the personalization of viral content. And then came BuzzFeed, which turned viral content into an incredibly successful business model.

At this point, viral content changes every day. Each piece of content simply represents a wave in the ocean of the Internet, crashing onto the shore one day before the tide slides it back into virtual oblivion.

Viral content is an endless list of funny gifs and cat videos, strange images and witty lists, but sometimes it can be much more significant.

A video sur faced May 2 that, by all the traditional metrics, has gone viral. People

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governor in Texas. This is a common-sense bill that supports both the ambitions for young people to get an education in the state of Minnesota.

This legislation could offer an incentive for students that could help bridge what is the United States’ worst achievement gap. It will also lead to a more educated and engaged community. Education is a human right, and this legislation will only contribute to the prosperity of Minnesota.

Christopher Getowicz University student

Looking back on the Boston bombings

While the motives behind the Boston bombings are unclear, it is important to remember that killing innocent lives has no justification. As an American Muslim, I find in the Quran (5:33): “Whoever killed a person … it shall be as if he had killed all of mankind.” While the culprits claim to be Muslim, it is clear that they lacked the proper guidance that would have illuminated this Quranic verse.

As a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, I am grateful to have such guidance. Led by Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community champions the separation of mosque and state, while condemning all forms of terrorism. His Holiness is making a historical visit to the U.S. later this month. We invite all Americans to join us in rejecting violence and uniting to serve humanity.

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his year, due to the high rate of influenza, the University of Minnesota temporarily suspended two policies. The first was that students must attend the first day of class or risk losing their spot in the class, and the second was that a student must provide a doctor’s note if they missed class due to influenza or other illness.

Like 34 percent of all employees in the U.S., students get no time off for being sick. Faculty and staff have guaranteed paid sick leave. According to University policy, students must show up on the first day of class even if we are sick, tired, feverish and have a cough that could spread to the whole class, or risk losing our spot in the class.

If we lose our spot, it could jeopardize our full-time status, scholarships and even graduation date. If someone gets the flu, the average cost is $130 between doctor’s visits and all those flu remedies that rarely work. If only 5 percent of students, faculty and staff got the flu this year, that’s a total of $468,000 in direct costs, not including lost wages.

During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the 8 million people who stayed at work while sick infected an additional 7 million people by staying at their jobs. At that rate, if I have the flu or something just as nasty, for ever y five classes I attend, I will infect at least four other people. I guarantee if you call a clinic and tell them you have the flu, they will tell you to stay home lest you infect other people and put a drain on their resources.

Even the Boynton Health Service website recommends me to stay home since most flu cases cannot be treated by a doctor. Since the creation of the policy in 2009, the University has suspended it twice: during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009 and this winter when Minnesota had a particularly large number of influenza cases. If an academic policy has been suspended two of five years since it was created, it is reasonable to question the intention and effectiveness of the policy. According to the University’s website, the reason for this policy is to “clearly indicate the number of students committed to taking this course.” I may be committed to a course, but I’m not committed to making everyone else around me sick. I’m sure my classmates and professor would also appreciate me staying at home.

The University administration needs to create a new, simpler, more effective policy. If you have the flu or a similar illness on the first day of class, stay home. Get well soon. No doctor’s note needed.

Derek Moore University student Comments should be sent to letters@mndaily.com.

The value of a public university

An essay in the Wall Street Journal misrepresents the career prospects for public university

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n April 26, the Wall Street Journal published an essay written by Jeffrey Selingo, the author of a forthcoming book addressing the future of higher education.

While admitting that there are problems with higher education, Selingo’s essay misrepresents earnings potentials as a criticism of the four-year degree from what he calls “Podunk U” as a derogatory term for state colleges and universities, vis-à-vis Harvard University.

First, Selingo states that degrees from those institutions carry a premium over state colleges. However, Selingo offers little to dispel other moderating factors, including geography. Schools that Selingo cites include Harvard and Stanford, both of which are located in two of the highest cost of living areas in the nation. Does Selingo account for regional variations in cost of living in his analysis?

Also, Stanford and Harvard admit far fewer students from those who performed the best in high school and college entrance exams. But what if those same students had attended a state university, as many bright students do for any number of reasons? Does Selingo control for student’s ability when entering?

The next major criticism of state universities Selingo offered is that graduates of two-year technical colleges make more in their first year than graduates with four-year degrees, while admitting that earnings potential throughout a lifetime for those with bachelor’s degrees is higher. Such emphasis on short-term earning potential is poor financial planning.

Curriculum at the undergraduate level is quite similar across many schools: The difference lies in the other opportunities offered outside the classroom and what a student makes of their time in college. While higher education could see some systematic improvements, framing the discussion in terms of pop-stats selected for rhetorical value adds little to the discussion.

Sharing grade information

Publishing grade averages could help students, as well as interested employers and other parties.

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his fall the University of Minnesota may begin sharing grades by program, instead of by college.

The Faculty Consultative Committee recommended providing this information to the public after years of discussion on problems plaguing the University, such as grade inflation and separating grade reporting between programs in the same college. The specific information that may begin to be published online would include the percentage of students receiving an A grade and the average grade received by academic program or major and by level of course. Though a grade only tells employers, potential students and/or parents so much about a particular major, this information is useful in evaluating programs for grade inflation and pinpointing problems in grade assignments. With so many students in each program, the University community will be able to read trends among programs.

It is an assumption that many of those looking at a student’s transcript already use common understandings of “grades-in-context” information, such as stereotypes regarding different majors. This works with students as well, who may not know how to judge their own grades. This in-context information will begin to more accurately adjust these assumptions.

Grade reporting is especially important with programs that do not widely include courses with curved grades, which provide their own context, though curves would not show up online or in a student’s transcript. It is most appropriate for this information to be reported online and not specifically on a student’s transcript. Because this style of grade reporting is not universally accepted among colleges and universities, there is a real fear that grades-incontext may alter the success — such as hiring rate — of University students. Grade reporting opens a dialogue about grade inflation in a transparent way for the academic community to address.

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The long goodbye The need for movie studios to hit a home run every time they produce something is leading the film industry down a very unfortunate path.

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spend a lot of time thinking about movies. Usually it’s in sort of a passive way, like speaking in references, comparing the events of my life with the plot point tropes of my favorite films, figuring out who my friends would be if they were characters in “Blazing Saddles,” stuff like that. To make the process active, I watch between three and five movies a week, reviewing one every weekend.

As anybody who pays even a shred of attention to the film industr y will tell you, the current trend in filmmaking is not a positive one. Stories are becoming less imaginative, characters are more one dimensional and any iteration of ambiguity is a death knell.

As a result, each year is heralded as the “year of the sequel,” where familiar characters and plotlines are chosen instead of new or fresh ideas. This year we’ll see almost 30 sequels released by Hollywood.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this; after all, these films wouldn’t get made if people didn’t go see them. But the film industr y model that results in such repetition is killing innovation.

Danny Boyle recently spoke about this phenomenon, blaming the “Pixarification” of movies — the move from making “adult movies” with complex themes and characters to making kids movies where there are simple and well-defined good guys and bad guys, and nothing about any of them is called into question — for the decline in quality of filmmaking.

As Boyle is quick to point out, this is not meant as a shot at the digital animation studio. Pixar has consistently made the best films of any studio for the past two decades. It is meant to criticize the studios whose audiences are not children.

Boyle is right in pointing out that it is a part of the problem, but it is certainly not the root of it. On April 27, at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh spoke on the “State of Cinema” and came much closer to identifying what is responsible for the decline.

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Collins is not alone While his public revelation is undoubtedly significant, the contributions and challenges of others should not be forgotten.

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Matt Hoy welcomes comments at mhoy@mndaily.com.

ast week, the Sports Illustrated cover stor y featured NBA player Jason Collins, who revealed he is gay. His words on the front cover sum up the significance of his disclosure: “I didn’t set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I’m happy to start the conversation.”

The immense outpouring of support has been heartwarming and inspirational. Kobe Bryant and Minnesota Vikings player Chris Kluwe publicly shared their support, as did former President Bill Clinton, Spike Lee, President Barack Obama and countless other politicians, athletes and celebrities.

Collins’ choice to come out is being hailed as ver y significant for the spor ts world, which some have called the “last closet in America.” Many charge that the world of athletics is homophobic because of its per vasive emphasis on, and persistent requirement of, hyper-masculinity.

As Lauren Rankin wrote in a Policy Mic ar ticle regarding the firing of Rutgers University coach Mike Rice, “The language employed by coaches, athletes and spectators alike demands that our male athletes remain the manliest of men at all times.”

Look no fur ther than the student section at a spor ts game to find proof for her assertion. In the first five minutes of a basketball game, we’re yelling for our team to “Kill, rape, pillage, burn, eat babies.” The sports world, like many other arenas, is an environment in which charges of femininity are the ultimate, most effective way to denigrate someone else’s character. Glorifying and seemingly requiring a rigid, resolute display of stereotypical masculinity, the sports world is indeed historically plagued with homophobia, as well as sexism and violence.

The gay rights movement within men’s sports has already found strong allies in Kluwe and Brendon Ayanbadejo of the Baltimore Ravens, straight men who have shattered the myth that engaging in a “hyper-masculine” spor t is mutually exclusive with suppor ting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. Now, with Collins, the movement to crush homophobia in spor ts has what Richard Rosendall, president of the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance of Washington, D.C., calls, “a walking refutation of antigay stereotypes.” As Rosendall says, “Collins could not be better suited to his new role if you auditioned a thousand people for it. ... He is poised, confident, strong, masculine, at ease with himself and he’s known for being a tough player.”

The Sports Illustrated cover was undeniably a watershed moment for the world of sports. Standing up for his sexuality in a notoriously closeted arena makes Collins a role model for many, including LGBT people of color and athletes. Still, I can’t help but feel that the real victor y will come when people will not have to calculatedly, ceremoniously and ner vously step for ward about who they are. In 2013, we still have to describe this action as bold and courageous. I hope someday soon the sexual orientation of an athlete — and any public figure, for that matter — will not be an issue.

One could argue that the general apa-

Google began of fering its Fiber ser vice in select cities. Google Fiber is a fast Internet ser vice that promises downloads and uploads in gigabytes and to be 100 times faster than current Internet connectivity. So, it’s fast. You would be able to instantly download, play online games at the appropriate speeds and do ever ything you do now online — except at faster connection speeds.

I daresay it might be amazing. I find it amazing because I use the Internet most of the day. I’m an Internet researcher, so Google Fiber excites me. Unfor tunately, I live in Minneapolis, and it isn’t one of the selected cities. However, the mere thought of Google Fiber and its free basic data connection plan seems to have spurred other Internet providers into action.

My current Internet provider is OK. I mean, it’s all I can get where I live,

but it’s expensive. Some providers have star ted rethinking their fiber networks and are increasing connectivity. It is the great plight of capitalism: Improvement seems to come only when faced with competition. I suppose that’s OK; it’s the American way.

As I read about the news circulating Google Fiber, the promise of great connectivity and the allure of uploads and downloads in gigabytes, I wonder if I am not turning into my grandfather. Meaning, I’m the one who now tells younger generations about the past when we had to wait for things. I cer tainly don’t mean to fetishize, but I can’t help realize my students are mostly of a generation that has never been without omnipresent digital connection.

The other side of the coin, of course, is that Google is continuing its march to rule the world. Perhaps that’s a touch of hyperbole, but consider all the Google ser vices that are used now. Take all of those ser vices, and then access them through Google’s own Internet provider.

Is there nothing that Google will not control in the future? I haven’t a clue. I envision a future where our hyper-connected lives are projections of our aggregate selves — ever ything we’ve ever done mashed into digestible view.

I’m not worried. While ser vices like Google Fiber will provide Internet connectivity, humans still have to use it.

Other wise, what’s the point? The service would just exist without definition,

MATT HOY columnist

The first, most important point Soderbergh makes is that there is a difference between movies and cinema: “A movie is something you see, and cinema is something that’s made.” He highlights the economic motivations behind creating imitative films, pointing out that though Hollywood is making fewer films, they are taking up a larger part of the market share.

He describes the effect that this is having “pushing cinema out of mainstream movies.”

What Soderbergh is hinting at is the “Blockbuster Effect:” the need for the film industry to strike it big every time they release a film. In an attempt to ensure that their products are successful, they create movies that are in many ways the same as previously successful ones. “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” was widely reviled, regardless of the fact that if you replace the words “Soviets” with “Nazis” and “aliens” with “God,” it was effectively the same movie as the beloved “Raiders of the Lost Ark.” It grossed $786 million worldwide.

This is the biggest problem facing the film industr y. Movies now make more money in foreign markets than domestically. And the films that travel best are ones with long action sequences, simple characters and little to no dialogue. Why make the next “Of fice Space” when you can just make another “Transformers” movie and gross a billion dollars?

The responsibility, then, falls on the audience. Imploring people to forgo seeing the big-budget recycling experiment of the day and instead support the brilliant little indie that was made on the director’s friend Larry’s camcorder isn’t going to do anything, because as much as “Iron Man 3” might be contrived, shallow garbage, it’s contrived, shallow garbage with robots fighting orange people! And who doesn’t want to see that?

Soderbergh speaks at some length about the fact that the people who run movie studios these days don’t know or watch movies. He presents this as a major issue, one that is causing the film industry to fail.

The problem with this argument is that the barometer for success has nothing to do with how good a movie is, it’s only concerned with the ability of the film to make money. Seven of the ten top-grossing films of all time are sequels. It’s no wonder we’re seeing more and more of them.

The future of cinema seems bleak, as if we are destined to be increasingly assaulted by progressively less-inspired films. I suppose I’ll still keep going to the movies, trying my best to shift some of the viewership from the blockbusters to the indies.

Please do the same.

SOURCE: BOXOFFICEMOJO.COM

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BRONWYN MILLER columnist

thy with which the public regarded No. 1 WNBA draft pick Brittney Griner’s mention that she is a lesbian a few weeks ago is a sign of a more open, accepting society. While Collins’ admission was posed as a “great reveal,” Griner mentioned her sexuality with general nonchalance. The public response to her statement was subdued, despite her prominence as not only the No. 1 draft pick but also the second all-time scorer and top shot-blocker in women’s NCAA histor y. The reaction was nothing close to the experience of Collins, about whom headlines are continuing to erupt. But to account for the vastly dif ferent experiences for Collins and Griner, whose public announcements of their sexuality came just a few weeks apart, more seems to be at play.

This difference highlights a troubling, stubborn trend, in which the sports world is plagued by the stereotype that “ever y female athlete is a lesbian,” said Patrick Burke, a founder of You Can Play, an advocacy group for LGBT athletes. He said that while there has been great success in getting straight male players to stand up for gay rights, finding straight female athletes to do the same has been much more dif ficult “because they’ve spent their entire careers fighting the perception that they’re a lesbian.”

This stereotype, just like that which asser ts there are no gay athletes in the hyper-masculine world of men’s athletics, is ver y damaging. Not only does it harm female athletes, but it diminishes the significance of unequivocal advancements for gay rights effected by athletes like Griner. The fact that Griner feels comfortable enough with her sexuality that she was able to mention it in an off-the-cuff, matterof-fact way to a world audience is substantial, as well as praiseworthy. But she didn’t get a phone call from the president.

As we recognize Collins for his notable move for gay rights, we must also remember the vast, impressive contributions others made before him, like the long list of professional female athletes in both team and individual sports who played or have been playing as openly gay. That female athletes’ public disclosures of their sexuality do not “matter” to the same degree as men’s speaks to patriarchal structures and the problematic qualities it breeds within the professional spor ts world, like the necessity of hyper-masculinity and the assumption that women operating in this traditionally male sphere must be lesbians. In recognizing Collins’ pivotal moment for sports, we should also consider how the sweeping reaction of the public — and erroneous labeling of him as the “first openly gay professional athlete” — marginalizes others’ experiences.

Bronwyn Miller welcomes comments at bmiller@mndaily.com.

INTERNET

Remembering dial-up With Google Fiber, we won’t need to wait for anything.

M

y grandfather is fond of relating his experiences to me. One of his favorite stories is that he was one of the first employees at his company to request a computer. His argument was that ever ything was moving in the direction of computers, so his company needed to jump on board. My grandfather worked in telemetr y and satellite tracking; it made sense, yet his company was still hesitant: Computers were expensive.

I now understand the type of remembrance my grandfather often experiences. Recently, I waxed nostalgic with my students about the “good ’ole days,” when people had to wait for the dial tone to complete. We would click to sign in and wander of f to do housework while the Internet dialed up. I received mostly blank stares from my students. Many of them had never experienced such a thing.

We live in a connected world. We have networked, linked and complicated our lives, but, perhaps, what’s most notable is the lack of patience. Even I — a person born in between the little linked and hyper-linked worlds — have become impatient. I want access to the Internet, and I want it now. I abhor waiting. I ser ved my time in the waiting room, and it wasn’t pleasant.

Now, we may not need to wait at all.

TRENT M KAYS columnist

which is only made through human use. The great hope of Google Fiber is that it might lead to greater connectivity throughout the world. Other ser vices might be spurred to work on connectivity in places that have none.

The connectivity in the U.S. would increase, and with any luck, maybe we can get more of the world online. While some may lament the rise of Google and their Inter net, I welcome it with open arms. It’ll be nice to have reliable and connected Inter net. As it stands now, my Internet sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t — and I pay for this.

I only pay for this because it’s all I can get. That’s how consumers are treated.

It’s like throwing a bone to a dog just to keep him happy. We take the bone and move along.

We could have demanded greater connectivity long ago. But instead, we have tolerated our slow Inter net and paid far too much for something far too impor tant to our day-to-day lives. Our economy, culture and politics are dependent on the Internet, so why wouldn’t we demand the absolute best from it?

Dial-up is long gone. Thanks to Google Fiber, I can download and upload quickly. Also, I’ll be able to watch “South Park” online without hiccups, and isn’t that the entire point of the Internet?

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

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Sports

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BASEBALL

Gophers take 2 of 3 in final road series

Minnesota has a narrow lead atop the Big Ten with two series left.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

As the Gophers baseball season winds down, the magnitude of each Big Ten series revs up.

In that context, winning two of three games in a road series is a ver y good weekend. But the Gophers’ loss to last-place Penn State (2-15 Big Ten) on Sunday kept them from extending their lead in the conference standings.

Minnesota (11-4 Big Ten) beat Penn State on Friday and Saturday before losing in extra innings Sunday to wrap up its final road series in conference play.

Minnesota is a game ahead of Indiana (12-5) and Nebraska (12-5) in the loss column for first place in the conference.

Gophers players and coaches shrugged off Sunday’s loss and seemed optimistic about their performance against the Nittany Lions.

“Anytime you win a series, it’s a positive,” head coach John Anderson said.

The Gophers looked like they would sweep Penn State on Sunday in the sixth inning when sophomore Mark Tatera broke a 1-1 tie with an RBI triple.

Junior catcher Matt Halloran’s RBI double extended Minnesota’s lead to 3-1.

But the Nittany Lions responded in the bottom half of the inning. They took advantage of a misplayed bunt by senior third baseman Ryan Abrahamson and scored two runs as a result.

“It came down to not making a couple plays,” Abrahamson said.

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minnesota infielder Ryan Abrahamson takes a pitch March 12 at the Metrodome.

Minnesota loaded the bases in the top of the 10th inning as well, but it couldn’t capitalize.

“We couldn’t get a big hit today,” Anderson said.

Penn State scored in the bottom of the 10th on a fielder’s choice.

The Gophers dominated the first two games of the series. They cruised to an 11-2 win Friday behind the offense and another strong outing by junior ace Tom Windle.

Windle (6-2) scattered seven hits throughout sev-

en innings and allowed two runs, both unearned. He got all the run support he needed in the Gophers’ sixrun fourth inning.

Senior right fielder Kurt Schlangen was 2-for-4 with three RBIs on Friday. Halloran had an RBI-double.

Freshman second baseman Connor Schaefbauer, batting leadof f for a second straight series, went 2-for-3, walked twice and scored a pair of runs.

Anderson said having Schaefbauer at the top of the lineup “adds a little

more balance.”

Former leadoff man Andy Henkeyemer moved to the third spot in the lineup, and Anderson said the Gophers have “found a lineup we liked.”

A similar lineup pushed home 12 more hits Saturday in a 7-3 Gophers victory. Abrahamson was 3-for-5 with an RBI. Sophomore shortstop Michael Handel went 2-for-5 with a pair of RBIs. “All the guys in the lineup are in a spot where we can be successful,” Abraha-

BASEBALL RESULTS

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SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

mson said.

Junior righty Alec Craw-

ford allowed two runs in seven innings Saturday.

SOFTBALL

Clutch bats, Moulton help team secure top-4 seed SOFTBALL RESULTS

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The Gophers swept Indiana, the last-place team in the Big Ten.

BY DREW CLAUSSEN dclaussen@mndaily.com

Needing wins to secure a top seed in the Big Ten tournament, the Gophers took care of business this weekend against lowly Indiana.

Minnesota swept the Hoosiers with an 8-0 and a 1-0 win in a doubleheader Saturday and 5-4 win Sunday afternoon.

The wins secur ed a top-four seed in the singleelimination Big Ten tournament, which means the Gophers will receive a firstround bye.

Indiana erased a onerun deficit in the top of the seventh inning of Sunday’s game and took a 4-3 lead.

Minnesota came back in the bottom of the seventh and won it thanks to some shaky Hoosiers defense.

Senior catcher Kari Dorle scored the winning run in

her final home game for the Gophers.

“We all knew that we were going to win,” sophomore third baseman Kaitlyn Richardson said. “They made one or two errors that last inning, but we didn’t care. We scored, and we won and we made it happen.”

Richardson hit a two-run home run in the bottom of the fifth inning to break a 1-1 tie. Richardson’s shot, which hugged the left-field foul pole, was her 10th of the season.

Junior ace Sara Moulton pitched around a leadoff triple in the top of the fourth inning to keep the game scoreless Sunday.

The Gophers scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the fourth when senior Alex Davis hit an infield single with two outs that plated sophomore Erica Meyer.

Freshman Paige Palkovich followed with a line drive to the left-center field gap, but Davis was thrown out at the plate trying to score.

Indiana scored its first run of the weekend in the top

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Minnesota pitcher Sara Moulton winds up to throw a pitch against Indiana on Saturday at Jane Sage Cowles Stadium.

of the fifth to tie the game at 1-1, and they scored another in the top of the sixth to cut Minnesota’s lead to 3-2.

After busting out the bats in the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader, the Gophers needed just one clutch hit from sophomore short-

stop Tyler Walker in the second game.

Walker launched a solo home run to right-center field in a scoreless bottom of the eighth inning for the walk-off win.

Both star ters excelled in Saturday’s second game.

Both Moulton and Indiana’s Meaghan Murphy threw complete games.

The Gophers didn’t need late-inning heroics in Saturday’s first game. Minnesota had six extra-base hits and scored eight runs, which was more than enough for

Moulton, who threw a twohit shutout.

Moulton picked up the win in all three games for Minnesota.

“She pitched ever y inning of ever y game,” Richardson said. “She really just put her heart out there.”

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ROWING

Badgers take 5 of 6 races The Gophers’ top varsity crew had Minnesota’s only victory Sunday.

BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

The Gophers women’s rowing team captured the Burning Blade on Sunday at Lake Mendota in Madison, Wis., beating No. 14 Wisconsin’s first varsity eight crew.

But the rest of the threeteam regatta belonged to the Badgers.

Wisconsin won five of six races Sunday, proving why it’s the third-ranked team in the Big Ten. “Right now, Wisconsin would score higher than us at [the Big Ten championships],” Gophers head coach Wendy Davis said. “We’re going to need to work on finding some speed in some of our other boats.”

The Burning Blade award goes to the winner of the first varsity eight race between Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The trophy had stayed with Wisconsin for all of its threeyear history, but Minnesota beat Wisconsin’s top-varsity eight crew Sunday for the first time since 2007.

The Gophers led for the majority of the first varsity eight race, junior rower and first varsity eight crew member Sarah Sobek said.

Sobek, a Madison native, said Wisconsin’s first varsity eight crew made a late push, but Minnesota held on while Michigan State finished third.

“We’d had a rough couple of days because we hadn’t been able to row on the river, so we were a little bit nervous,” Sobek said. “We were all just shocked, but we were so happy.”

The first varsity eight win was Minnesota’s only victory of the day.

The Gophers’ second varsity eight crew finished 4.4 seconds behind Wisconsin.

Both of Minnesota’s varsity four boats lost by more considerable margins.

The first varsity four crew finished more than 25 seconds behind Wisconsin. The second varsity four boat fin-

ROWING RESULTS

BIG TEN DOUBLE DUAL RESULTS VARSITY EIGHT Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan State

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SECOND VARSITY EIGHT Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan State

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SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

ished more than 18 seconds behind the Badgers and posted a faster time than Minnesota’s first varsity four crew.

“The first varsity four should look at that and go ‘uhoh,’ ” Davis said.

Davis said the varsity four crews have struggled with injuries and illness, which she said is common in that event.

“It’s not an excuse,” she said. “It’s something we’re going to need to be more active in overcoming.”

Both Wisconsin and Michigan State made the 16-team NCAA championships last year after finishing third and fourth, respectively, at the Big Ten championships. The Gophers finished fifth at the Big Ten meet but did not participate in the NCAA meet.

Davis said a strong showing at this year’s Big Ten championships could help the Gophers earn their first NCAA championship berth since 2007.

“We have to get through finals, and we have to get everyone healthy,” Davis said, “and then we’ll see again in two weeks what we can do.”

TRACK & FIELD

Gophers scramble in final meets Meet cancellations have made it tough to finalize Big Ten meet rosters.

BY MEGAN RYAN mryan@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s and women’s track and field teams scrambled to finalize their Big Ten outdoor championship rosters this weekend.

Both teams were scheduled to compete at a local meet Wednesday, but it was canceled due to weather.

While two meets ran as planned this weekend, Wednesday’s cancellation delayed the roster announcements by several days.

Women’s volunteer assistant coach Sarah Hesser said the team hoped to make conference team announcements Thursday, but it didn’t actually make decisions until late this weekend.

“We wanted to obviously have that figured out by Wednesday night because then we’d have a whole week left before the actual departure to the [Big Ten] meet,” Hesser said. “That would make everybody’s lives a little easier … in terms of their preparation for the conference meet.”

Some athletes competed for Big Ten spots at the Hamline Meet of the UnSaintly on Friday and Saturday. Others had to prove themselves during time trials in practice late last week.

The Gophers have had to juggle indoor and outdoor training and competition this spring. Hesser called it one of the most challenging and frustrating springs for the team, but she said the athletes have not been fazed.

“For the most part, I’ve been super impressed with the girls just with how flexible they’ve been,” Hesser said.

“They could definitely have let it throw them for a loop when things keep changing.”

The Gophers picked up six titles at the Hamline meet, four from the throwing team. Sophomore Tina DeLakis won the shot put with a throw of 13.92 meters.

Redshirt freshman Lyndsey Thorpe took home the hammer throw title in 53.92 meters. Sophomore Devin Stanford placed first in the discus throw at 45.25 meters. Senior Emily Betz topped the javelin

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY FILE PHOTO

Minnesota thrower Micah Hegerle throws at the Jack Johnson Invitational on Jan. 19 at the University Fieldhouse.

field at 42.38 meters.

Sophomore Katie Murgic won the pole vault at 3.83 meters.

Redshirt freshman Kate Bucknam won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 11:00.74.

While the men’s team also competed at the Hamline meet, most of its best results came at the NDSU Tune-Up meet in Fargo, N.D. The Gophers originally planned to compete at Northern Iowa, but they switched for better weather conditions.

Minnesota picked up five titles in North Dakota, with all but one coming from the throws group.

Sophomore Logan Connors led a top-three sweep in the javelin at 61.47 meters.

Sophomore Mark Jennings placed first in the shot put with a toss of 17.73 meters.

Sophomore Justin Barber topped the discus throw at 57.36 meters. Senior Micah Hegerle won the hammer throw with a distance of 65.51 meters.

Hegerle said this outdoor season has added the challenge of trying to work around the weather.

“You just really have to be flexible,” Hegerle said, “to be able to train when it’s nice and not have to stick to a

schedule.”

Redshirt freshman Christian Skaret also led a podium sweep of the 800-meter run in 1:52.92.

Men’s head coach Steve Plasencia said he has several concerns about the upcoming Big Ten outdoor championships.

“We have to make [Big Ten roster] decisions on lessthan-perfect information,” Plasencia said. “One of my concerns is, if we’re coming out of 40-, 50-degree weather and all of a sudden we get to Ohio State — I saw a prediction in the 80s — that’s a worry for me.”

NHL

Wild beat Blackhawks in OT to secure first playoff win in five years

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Beating the Chicago Blackhawks usually requires a cer tain kind of per formance: br uising, aggressive and unflappable.

That’s precisely what the Minnesota Wild produced, entertaining the fans at their first home playoff game in five years.

They had a little luck, too, when Jason Zucker blindly sent his bad-angle over time shot toward the goal.

Zucker scored at 2:15 of the extra period to give the Wild a 3-2 victor y on Sunday to pull within 2-1 in the Western Conference quarterfinal series.

“I don’t know if I even saw the net. I probably didn’t even look at the net,” said the rookie Zucker, who raced to the cor ner and jumped against the glass to celebrate. “I just tried

shooting it, and it happened to go in for me.”

Pierre-Marc Bouchard had a goal for the Wild after Johnny Oduya scored for the Blackhawks late in the first period. Patrick Kane had two assists for the Blackhawks and has five in the series.

Zach Parise’s first goal of the series came early in the third period, but Duncan Keith got one back for the Blackhawks with 2:46 left in regulation after a slow line change by the suddenly conservative Wild.

That forced the second over time in three games of this best-of-seven series.

But rather than losing their edge in the locker room, the Wild returned to the ice after the third intermission with the same fire they had all afternoon.

“They just took it to another level,” Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews said.

He added: “You can’t go

out there and try to make pretty plays. It’s got to be ugly.

We’re not doing that enough.

Once we start doing that, we’ve got the strength, the speed and skill to get on the board and make things happen.”

Game 4 is here on Tuesday night.

“I think we have to get greasy goals if we want to be successful. There’s too much on the outside. We’ve got to get determined in that front area,” Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville said.

After taking the top-seeded Blackhawks to overtime in Game 1 at Chicago, the Wild fell flat and lost 5-2 in Game 2. They took full advantage of the shift in venue and fed off the noise and excitement in the building.

T r ying to match the Blackhawks and their speed, deft passing and seemingly infinite depth would be an impossible task for the Wild, so they knew they needed to

bring more energy to fuel the announced crowd of 19,238 and a nasty streak to distract the visitors a bit from their finesse-based game.

The hits in the first period were 17-4 in favor of the Wild and 34-13 for the game, with eight by Cal Clutterbuck and seven by Devin Setoguchi.

“They’ve got some physical players, and I think the crowd was really into the game too,” Keith said. “Loud building. They got that rave music going all game long.

It gets the place rocking in there.”

Corey Crawford made 34 saves for the Blackhawks, but the Wild found a potential weakness on the top shelf. All three of their goals went high.

The last two of them came off a feisty forecheck.

Rookie Charlie Coyle fished the puck off the end boards to set up Parise, the first goal of the series for the first line. Then Matt Cullen

didn’t give up on maintaining possession after falling on his stomach behind the net in over time, poking a pass to Zucker before Oduya swooped in.

“I’m a Minnesotan, so I know how long people have been waiting for playof f hockey. It’s a lot of fun,” Cullen said.

Bouchard and Stephane Veilleux are the only two players left from the 2003 Wild team that reached the Western Conference finals, and Veilleux played for two other teams before returning last season. They’re two of five players, with Mikko Koivu, Josh Harding and Niklas Backstrom, remaining from 2008, the last time they made the playoffs.

“You’ve got to go through it, and you’ve got to experience it,” Parise said. “Remember that some of these guys have only been in three playoff games. But the good sign is that we got better

from the first two games.”

The Blackhawks started slowly in the playof fs in 2010, too, when they won the Stanley Cup. With 10 players still around from that season’s roster, including most of their star-packed core, they’re poised to make another run for the title.

Three years ago, they fell behind Nashville 2-1 in the first round before winning the series in six games.

They needed six games to beat Vancouver next, too, before sweeping San Jose to reach the finals.

“We had the momentum going into over time, but we’re just going to have to forget about that one,” Crawford said.

The Wild outshot the Blackhawks 29-17 over the first 40 minutes. Harding stopped 25 shots in all.

“It was a close game, but I think at the end of the day, they deser ved to win tonight,” Keith said.

Minnesota Daily Athletes of the Week SPORT: baseball POSITION: pitcher YEAR: junior MALE

TOM WINDLE Windle improved to 6-2 on the season with another strong performance Friday.

He threw seven innings, allowing seven hits and striking out four, as the Gophers beat Penn State 11-2. The junior ace has been one of the top pitchers in the nation this season, helping Minnesota position itself for its first Big Ten title since 2010.

SPORT: softball POSITION: infielder YEAR: sophomore FEMALE

TYLER WALKER Walker played a key role in two of the Gophers’ three victories over Indiana during the weekend. The sophomore hit a walkoff home run in the second game of Saturday’s doubleheader to give Minnesota a 1-0 win. She scored the game-tying run in the seventh inning of Sunday’s 5-4 win after hitting a leadoff single.

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EMPLOYMENT

EMPLOYMENT

HOUSING

HOUSING

HOUSING

Position Wanted: Dependable male seeking caretaker/maint work around UM rental homes/apt. bldgs Call Randy 612-4016103 rjolson55@yahoo.com

Painters Wanted, 1 summer of exp. needed, $10-13/ hour. Call 651-238-3012 or 651-6991965 Hughes and Faust Decorating

DINKYTOWN

PROSPECT PARK

Deja Vu is hiring entertainers for day & night shifts. Flexible hours, great for students have cash everyday you work. Full & P.T. hours, you pick your own schedule, no experience needed. Apply in person or at dejavu.com 612-333-8130. must be 18+

SEASONAL

CLASSIC CITY APTS Dinkytown/Stadium Village AVAIL FALL 2013 Rooms, Studios 1 BR, 2 BR, 5 BR Units OPEN HOUSES Check our website at WWW.classiccityapartments.com for Dec/Jan Dates & Times.

5BR/2BA Lofts incl 46 inch TV starting at $2700/mo. Call 612-623-1888 for appt.

Email info@classiccityapartments.com WHY share a room when you can stay in an apt for around same price???

Painters Wanted, 1 summer of exp. needed, $10-13/ hour. Call 651-238-3012 or 651-6991965 Hughes and Faust Decorating BARTENDING! $300/Day potential No Exp Nec, Training available. Age 18+ OK. 1-800-965-6520 xt114 Landscape laborer, residential landscape install and construction Vision Landscape Inc. Eden Prairie, MN 952-292-3966 FOOD PREP WORKERS / Sandwich makers / DELIVERY DRIVERSCAFFREY’S DELI & SUBS is looking for dependable, hardworking delivery drivers (must have own car/ valid driver’s license / car insurance), sandwich makers (all shifts. including late night), and early morning food prep people (5 am start). Full and part time positions available. Food handling experience helpful, friendly demeanor required.

Please apply in person at Caffreys Deli, 3008 Lyndale Ave. S. Ask for Klair or Pete.

Email caffreysdeli@yahoo.com

Events

Landcare Student Workers Must be UofM student Beg. PT Apr cont.

FT for summer M-F, Sat-Wed or Wed-Sun 7am-3:30pm $8.25/hr. Go to http:// z.umn.edu/landcarestudent SUMMER WORK: Ntl marketing company will be on campus in CMU from 9-2pm on 4/30, 5/1, 5/6, 5/7 taking applications.

Nationwide locations. Entry level customer sales/svc. Starting pay is $16 base/appt.

Flexible schedules both part and full time avail. No experience needed. Apply online at www.workforstudents.com

HOUSING 1, 2, 3 BR’s avail 8/1 & 9/1 Crpt, A/C, ldry, secure, pkg, $720 and up, heat pd 612-237-6941 www.uofmhousing.com 3 BR Apt. Newer. 2 BA. Central Air. Off st prkg. Great price. Call Jake 612-600-9101 4 BR Apt. Newer. 2 BA. Central Air. Off St Prkg. Great price. Call Jake 612-600-9101 8th St SE. Lg studio, 1 BR. Free ldry/PKG/ Internet. 651-226-1094 Rose Hill Apartments 1 & 2 Bed Avail., close to St.Paul/Minn. campus, short walk to #3 bus 651-644-4823 or toni.rosehill@gmail.com

Summer Housing 3 bed avail in a house in Dinkytown, singles/groups welcome, 2 bath, 1 block to UofM, off-str park, new kitch/bathrooms, laundry in unit, part furnished, high eff heat/AC, rent possibly negotiable 612-210-5342

*Awesome 5 brNow Renting For Fall* 2BA unit laundry. Off st pkg. frplc Starting at $630/BR. all utl pd www.dinkytownrentals.com or 612-378-2413

2000 Sharon Ave SE 2BR. Avail June 1. unfurn $910, heat pd, quiet, parking. rahr003@umn.edu 651-269-6612

ST.PAUL

DUPLEX & HOUSE MINNEAPOLIS

Falcon Heights Larpenteur near Snelling ns, sunny 1 br $675 2 br $715 ht pd, beau. hwf, gar. av. 1 mi to St.p camp. on busline free avail 6/1 wifi 651-645-1322

Fall leasing: 4 BR/2 Bath starting at $564.

Lease by the bedroom. Call 651-644-8400

UMN area, 2 to 5 BR+2 study by 9/1. $800 and up. 2 BA, 2 kitch ldry dw deck PKG/ GA. 651-226-1094

FURNISHED *1 br, 2 br Avail 9/1 4 blks to U. 813 University Ave SE. Hdwd flrs, french doors, wifi, garage, Pics: www.813university.com 612-379-1843 Sandy Hill Apartments Large 1 and 2 br, large patio and gar, heat inc, avail now, www.sandyhillapartments. com, 651-775-0511

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UPCOMING EVENTS WHAT: Great River Gathering celebrates the best of Saint Paul WHO: Saint Paul Riverfront Corporation with support from The Saint Paul Foundation WHEN: 5-8:30 p.m., Wednesday WHERE: Saint Paul River Centre, 175 W. Kellogg Blvd., St. Paul PRICE: $65 As a marquee event during the second annual Placemaking Residency, the Great River Gathering brings people from diverse backgrounds and organizations together to celebrate the best of Saint Paul today; but even more importantly, it will spark conversation about where we want to go tomorrow.

WHAT: Film showing of “Where Should the Birds Fly” WH0: Fida Qishta WHEN: 3:30 p.m., May 12 WHERE: 4200 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapoils PRICE: $5 suggested donation Photojournalist Fida Qishta will lead a discussion on her beautiful and compelling film about life in Gaza before and after Operation Cast Lead.

WHAT: Minneapolis Drawing Workshop’s 13th annual exhibition WHO: Minneapolis Drawing Workshop WHEN: May 18 through June 1 WHERE: Vine Arts Center, 2637 S. 27th Ave., Minneapolis PRICE: Free Eighteen artists, united by their love of the human form, have come together to create a fresh, thought-provoking show of drawings and paintings reflecting recent experiences with the live model.

In addition to exhibiting their various contemporary interpretations of this traditional subject, these experienced artists will be on hand to demonstrate their art by drawing portraits of visitors during the opening party May 18.

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Monday, May 6, 2013

BACKTALK

horoscopes

Today’s Birthday (5/6): Ease with money management, aided by a windfall, allows for profit. Take advantage, and squirrel it away. Studies and research bring adventures after that, while networks unveil new doors.

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — You’re more confident. Somebody else’s crazy idea inspires you. Confront old fears. Come up with a plan and dive into action.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — A partner comes to the rescue, and together you stir things up. Negotiations resume with brilliant insight. Imagine perfection. Review details.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Clarify your direction with friends. Encourage creative thinking. Contemplate potential outcomes. Your views change concerning group membership.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 9 — A colleague demands your time now. Let your subconscious mind help. Quiet your natural curiosity, and listen for a startling discovery.

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 an 8 — Rest and gain clarity. There could be a disagreement about priorities or a difficult situation. Follow a hunch. These days are good for travel.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — This phase is reserved for fun. Don’t let recent successes distract. You have things to take care of at home. Life is getting a whole lot easier.

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

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Practice makes perfect in the coming phase. You have what it takes. Do the harder job first. Keep the faith, even with an unexpected development.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — Focus on home and family. You can see multiple ways to solve problems. Apply that ability to improving the quality of your environment.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 7 — Conditions look good for travel and romance. Financial modesty is appealing. Review your holdings, and do some long-range planning.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Study and practice. You thrive doing what you love.

You don’t have as much as you think you do because you’re so generous.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is an 8 — Do your own research, and prepare to negotiate carefully. Review financial arrangements.

There’s a breakthrough regarding service.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — This week is good for making money. Focus on finances for insight. In a stroke of genius, discover savings or a new income opportunity, and follow through.

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

5/6/13

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, May 6, 2013

overheard Guy 1: “I lost interest in ‘Breaking Bad’ because of the ‘Walking Dead!’ ” Guy 2: “That’s not possible!”

—Folwell Hall

“Wanna hear a secret fear of mine, man?”

“Sure, man.”

“Toilet snakes, man.”

—Como Avenue

“I want to tell my guests at a cookout: ‘Here’s a steak that I raised with care in my yard,’ not ‘Here is a hunk of meat I have been growing in my laboratory!’ ”

“In high school I loved psych! And I was like, ‘Damn, I wanna be a psychic.’ ”

“Contacts are like a little slice of condom on your eyeballs.”

“Oh, I know him. He was my first beer pong partner.”

Guy: “I used to breakdance back in the day.”

Girl: “You used to brokedance?”

Guy: “No, brokedance is what homeless people do.”

Guy 1: “Have we tested our cable box since we got it drunk?”

Guy 2: “I dunno man.”

Guy 1: “I really want it to work ...”

—St. Paul campus

—Middlebrook Hall

—Northrop Mall

“I get he’s from New Jersey, but he needs to calm the [expletive] down.”

—Coffman Union

—Northrop Mall

—Murphy Hall

—Como Avenue

“How do you expect me to get over him? Every time I look at my bed, there he is! [Expletive] cum stains!”

—FloCo Fusion Apartments

“Hey! I own a [expletive] castle!”

—Roof of the Armory

“Siri even knows me when I’m drunk.”

—Comstock Hall

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4Email submissions to overheards@mndaily.com.

crossword

FOR RELEASE MAY 6, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Soak up like a sponge 7 Iranian leader toppled in 1979 11 Chicago transit trains 14 “Hear hear!”

15 Roll down the runway 16 Accessory with a muumuu 17 Kind of deli roll 18 Squadron, e.g.

19 Bedevil 20 Blew a fortune 23 Twittering bird 25 Affectionate squeezes 26 Bat mitzvah scroll 27 Comedian’s asset 28 Comedian’s bit 29 “Consarn it!”

30 Emcee’s opening 32 User trying to get through a firewall 35 Prim and proper sort 39 Stretch (out), like a dog in the heat 40 Burning crime 42 Major blood lines 45 Letters on a tinkerer’s kit 47 Email attachment format 48 See-through 49 Utopia 51 Face-to-face exam 52 Protector of the president 55 Bi- minus one 56 Close margin at the track 57 “__ Fideles”: carol 60 Mohawk-sporting muscleman 61 “The Wind in the Willows” hero 62 “Hold your horses, will ya?”

63 Watch closely 64 “The __ the limit!”

65 Emphatic refusal, and words that precede the ends of 20-, 35- and 52-Across in a restaurant warning

5/6/13

By Jeff Chen

DOWN 1 Pose, as a question 2 Poser’s neckwear 3 Heel type named for a dagger 4 Welles of “Citizen Kane” 5 Is sorry about 6 “Big” 23-Down cannon 7 Hurt, like a barb 8 Underwear brand 9 Revolving point 10 Calls it a night 11 “Mistress of the Dark” film hostess 12 Ogle 13 Trivial Pursuit wedges, vis-à-vis the whole pie 21 Should, informally 22 Lugosi’s genre 23 Conflict that ended Nov. 11, 1918 24 Phone sound 28 Christening VIPs 29 Gives a thumbsup 31 Roll call listing

Thursday’s Puzzle Puzzle Solved Saturday’s Solved

(c)2013 Tribune Media Services, Inc.

33 “How adorable!”

34 More chilly 36 Age abbr.

37 Barista’s concoction 38 Jerk’s concoction 41 Niners’ org.

42 Presuppose 43 Storywriter known for irony 44 Quote by rote 46 To no avail

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49 Test answer in a blue book 50 Scouts do good ones 51 Watery expanse 53 Stole 54 SSN, for example 58 X on a sundial 59 “The Name of the Rose” author Umberto

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

dr. date Dr. Date,

My guy and I are really great friends with another couple. The four of us are really good friends but lately the other couple has kept bugging us about doing a foursome. We’re flattered but we’re not ready for something like that. The other couple just won’t let it go, though, and it’s becoming awkward. How can we firmly tell them “no” without ruining the friendship we share?

—Just Friends

Just Swingers?,

This is officially the best cry for advice I’ve ever received. It’s what I’ve been waiting for my entire career, why I became a date doctor, why I’ve been doing 300 push-ups a night. Here we have two couples, alike in dignity, one with the absolute hots for the other. I can’t stand it — this is incredible.

While I’m in awe of how uniquely interesting this is — most of y’alls’ problems are like, “Help, I want to have sex but I’m too boring to score” — I do think the solution to this is refreshingly simple.

While you and your boo and your two boo pals are hanging out, just tell them straight-up that you like them very much but just aren’t into the swinger lifestyle. That’s not a crazy thing to say! They should then apologize for being so pushy and maybe the four of you should stop uncorking so many bottles of wine together. Take it easy, hot stuffs.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m about to graduate from high school, and I’m going to the University of Minnesota this fall. I’ve been dating this girl a couple years younger than me in high school, and we’re planning on trying to make it work while she finishes high school and I enroll in college.

Do you think it’ll work to stay together when our lifestyles become so different?

She’ll still be living at her parents’ in the suburbs, and I’ll be living on campus.

I’m worried she’ll get clingy and distract

me from those important first few weeks on campus.

—May-December

Cradle Thief,

Let me make one thing clear: Just because you’re living on campus, it doesn’t mean you’re all of a sudden some grown-ass man. You’re living in a dorm? With people scrubbing your bathroom every day and cooking you three square meals each day? You might as well be living in a ’burban mansion.

That being said, you’re going to have a much different mindset from your high school honey. You’ll be thinking about how much your lab partner sucks, what you’re going to do after class, and hell, whether that cute girl down the hall is going to be in the dining hall at the same time as you. I’m sorry to be the one to say this, but it’s inevitable: As the weekend regrets start to pile up, so too will your friendly interest in other women.

Even if she’s not clingy and distracting you (rude of you to speculate, btw), you’re probably not going to be able to give her the type of attention she deserves. My heart aches for her already. Being on the high school end of this deal is pure torture, even if you are faithful.

If it seems like I’m being a little too much of a player hater, wait and see how you feel in a year. I think you’ll be comin’ round behind the ol’ Doc’s counter.

Enjoy your time at the University, bud, and don’t let me get in your way.

If this girl is going to be your girl for life, cling to her with all your strength and don’t let curmudgeons like me get in the way of your happiness.

But yeah, if there’s any doubt in your mind that you’ll be together for a long while, break up with her now.

Throwing in the towel early will mean you’ll both have the summer to recover and hey, maybe even have a nasty fling.

—Dr. Date

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

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Monday, May 6, 2013

Car bomber kills 7 in Somali capital

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Seven people were killed

Sunday morning when a suicide bomber attempted

to ram a car laden with explosives into a military convoy escorting a four-member Qatari delegation.

Gen. Garad Nor Abdulle, a senior police official said the members of the Qatari delegation who were being escorted in the interior minister’s convoy were unharmed and safely reached their hotel.

Abdulle said the interior minister was not in the convoy.

Mohamed Abdi, an officer at the scene of the blast, said four civilians and a soldier died immediately.

Another two people died in hospital and 18 were being treated of wounds from the blast, said Dr. Duniya Mohamed Ali at the Medina hospital.

The Qatari delegates are involved in development projects in Mogadishu, Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said.

Mohamud blamed al-Qaida-linked Somali militant group al-Shabab for the attack.

He said “suspects” have been arrested.

After the explosion soldiers fired in the air to disperse crowds that had gathered at the blast site at the busy KM4 junction.

Separately, four Somali soldiers were wounded Sunday when a roadside bomb struck a government vehicle in Deynile district, in Mogadishu’s northwest, said Ali Jimale, a captain with the Somali police.

The Somali government

reopened key roads in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, four days ago which had been closed for security reasons. The roads were closed after the gover nment received intelligence that militants were planning attacks, officials said.

KM4 is among the busiest roads in Mogadishu, largely used by government officials and African Union forces. It connects the presidential compound and other government offices to the airport.

The car bombing falls into a pattern of attacks blamed on the Islamic extremist group al-Shabab, which has been pushed out of much of the areas it occupied in South and Central Somalia by African Union troops.

Condemning Sunday’s attack, the U.N. representative to Somalia, Augustine P. Mahiga said cowardly and senseless acts of violence will not undermine the remarkable progress Somalia has made in the past months.

“Attacks against civilians are never justifiable. I call on all parties to renounce violence and contribute positively to peace and stability,” he said.

The British gover nment condemned the attack through its Minister for Africa Mark Simmonds.

He said incidents such as these demonstrate the importance of the Federal Government of Somalia and international partners working together to combat violent extremism in Somalia.

Next week’s Somalia Conference in London, cohosted by the British and the Federal Government of Somalia will provide international support to help build Somali capacity to increase peace and stability, said Simmonds.

Al-Shabab once controlled almost all of Mogadishu. African Union and Somali forces pushed the radical rebels out of the city in 2011, but the fighters have continued to carry out bomb attacks.