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The Book House is in the process of signing a lease at a new location in Prospect Park.

Planning for life after college can be a tricky task.

Junior Tom Windle has evolved into one of the top arms in the Big Ten. u See PAGE 8

Longtime Dinkytown shop finds new home

Are we ever ready?

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FOOTBALL

U adds TCU series, will recoup $800K

FAFSA to include same-sex parents’ income The change is meant to more accurately reflect all households.

The Gophers will play Texas Christian in 2014 and 2015.

BY T YLER GIESEKE tgieseke@mndaily.com

For years, theater ar ts senior Andrew Buckholtz has only had to report the income of one of his two dads on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid. In the past, students with same-sex or unmarried parents who lived together weren’t required to report the income of both parents — potentially qualifying them for more aid.

But next year, that will change.

Beginning with the 2014-15 FAFSA, dependent students with same-sex or unmarried parents who live together will need to report income and other information from both parents.

The change is meant to more accurately reflect the financial picture of all households. Although the modification isn’t expected to apply to many students, those affected could receive less aid when more income is reported.

“I can see how — since more and more states are approving marriage equality — that this should change,” Buckholtz said, adding that a majority of states should do so before the FAFSA is changed.

A bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in Minnesota is currently under debate in the state’s Legislature. If passed, Minnesota would be the 12th state to

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BY NATE GOTLIEB ngotlieb@mndaily.com

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Junior Tommy Winter works with seventh-grader Yohannes Aweke as Julio Nakazono goofs around with him Thursday at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus in St. Paul.

A gender gap in mentors

BY MERITTE DAHL

Minnesota found a significant gen-

mdahl@mndaily.com

der gap in mentoring in the state.

Tommy Winter and Julio bond-

Almost twice as many mentors

ed over sports when they met in

are female than are male, and 29

February.

percent of male youth wait more

The University of Minnesota ju-

than a year before being matched

nior meets the seventh-grader after

with a mentor, according to the

school twice a week to participate

study released this year. That’s

in group activities with other youth

compared to 5 percent of females.

as part of the Athletes Committed

MPM Executive Director Joel-

to Educating Students mentoring

len Gonder-Spacek said there’s a

program.

need for more male mentors.

Winter said he and Julio have a

“Men might not feel as compe-

great relationship, but new num-

tent stepping into a relational role,”

bers show their matchup is a bit of a

she said.

commodity in the mentoring world.

MPM is planning to address the

The Mentoring Partnership of

gender gap by reaching out to the

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u See FAFSA Page 5 The change is expected to affect a small percentage of students.

JUGGLING FINALS AND FUN

Kaler talks smoking ban, DREAM Act

BY ALEXI GUSSO agusso@mndaily.com

The Minnesota Daily sat down with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler on Tuesday for its monthly “Kickin’ It with Kaler” interview.

Kaler, who is nearing the end of his second year, discussed his suppor t for the DREAM Act, which would allow undocumented Minnesota students to pay in-state tuition, why he opposes smoking and the recent resignation of General Counsel Mark Rotenberg.

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Political science and global studies junior Sam Simon juggles Tuesday on Northrop Mall.

u See FOOTBALL Page 8 Head coach Jerry Kill had expressed concern about playing a nonconference BCS opponent.

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The president also discussed the resignation of Mark Rotenberg.

A version of the DREAM Act passed the Senate last week.

You’ve indicated that you’d support implementing the policy at the University. Do you foresee any opposition?

I haven’t heard anything from the [Board of Regents] on this. I imagine I’ll hear some opposition from some corners. It seems to me that it’s easy to find someone who’s opposed to almost everything. But I believe it’s the right thing to do — to provide in-state benefits for undocumented students — and I

The Gophers football team added a quality opponent to its 2014 and 2015 schedules Tuesday, nearly seven months after inciting public scrutiny for backing out of a home-and-home series with North Carolina.

Athletics director Nor wood Teague announced Tuesday that the Gophers will play a home-and-home series with Texas Christian University in 2014 and 2015.

“It was time to add a stronger team into the mix for ’14 and ’15,” Teague said.

The addition effectively recoups the $800,000 the Gophers are paying to cancel their North Carolina series in 2013 and 2014. Teague said TCU will pay Minnesota $500,000 for the 2014 game in Texas, but Minnesota won’t have to pay TCU anything to host the Horned Frogs in 2015.

The 2015 TCU game will replace a home game against South Dakota State University, a Football Championship Subdivision school.

The Gophers would have had to pay SDSU $400,000 to play that game. The fee for the Gophers to cancel the game — also $400,000 — was waived because TCU and South Dakota State agreed to play in 2015.

The Gophers canceled the Nor th Carolina series in October, prompting backlash from fans and media. Critics of the decision questioned the strength of the Gophers’ nonconference schedule, which has featured an FCS opponent four years in a row.

TCU went 7-6 last season, its first in the Big 12 Conference, after years of dominating inferior opponents in the Mountain West Conference. The Horned Frogs lost just 10 games from 2007-11

KICKIN’ IT WITH KALER would advance that for the University.

TAXES

Leg. proposes renters’ credit increase Funding for renters’ credit has decreased since 2009.

BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com

Rep. Dan Schoen, DFL-St. Paul Park, withdrew his bill to expand alcohol sales at Mariucci and Williams arenas. Did you or anyone from the U request the bill’s withdrawal?

We did ask for the agreed-upon two-year trial run of selling alcohol at TCF [Stadium] to be honored, and we’re going to move for ward with that.

Jasmine Hardin is living away from home for the first time this year, and while she enjoys living closer to school, making rent can be difficult.

Hardin, a senior at the University of Minnesota, shares an apar tment with two others and pays $600 per month, which she said is expensive for a fulltime student.

“For $600 each, they are making a lot of money,” she said. “I’m struggling tremendously.”

Low-income renters, like students, can recover some of what they paid for rent, but how much they get back has decreased in recent years. With a new bill that could pass in the state Legislature in the coming weeks, students like Hardin could get more money.

Low-to-medium income renters can currently get up to $1,600 depending on several factors, including income and cost of rent, but the bill would boost the number of Minnesotans eligible for the credit and how much they receive.

u See KALER Page 5 He said the biggest part of his second year was building the U’s budget request.

u See RENTERS Page 5 The proposal made its way into both the House and Senate Tax Omnibus bills last week.

According to the legislative fiscal notes, the University could lose an estimated $175,000 a year with implementing the act.

That really is a very rough estimate. We don’t have a very good estimate of how many undocumented students we have here now, and we also don’t know how many might come if this were made available, so that really is a rough guess.

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DHAKA — Hundreds of garment factor y workers who sur vived a building collapse in Bangladesh protested for compensation, as the death toll from the countr y’s worst-ever industrial disaster passed 700.

The police control room overseeing the recover y operation said the death toll stood at 705 on Tuesday afternoon as workers pulled more bodies out of the wreckage of the eight-stor y building that was packed with workers at five garment factories when it collapsed on April 24. The factories were making clothing bound for major retailers around the world.

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No one knows what the final toll will be, as the exact number of people inside Rana Plaza at the time of the collapse was unknown. More than 2,500 people were rescued alive.

Hundreds of sur vivors blocked a major highway near the accident site in a Dhaka suburb Tuesday to demand the payment of wages and other benefits.

No violence was reported, although traf fic was disrupted for hours.

Local gover nment administrator Yousuf Harun said they are working with the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Expor ters Association to ensure the workers get paid.

The workers, many who made little more than the national minimum wage of about $38 per month, are demanding at least four months in salar y. The workers had set Tuesday as the deadline for the payment of wages and other benefits.

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Of ficials say the building’s owner illegally added three floors to Rana Plaza and allowed the garment factories to install heavy machines and generators, even though it wasn’t constructed for industrial use.

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LONDON — When Ray Harryhausen was 13, he was so overwhelmed by “King Kong” that he vowed he would create otherworldly creatures on film. He fulfilled his desire as an adult, thrilling audiences with skeletons in a sword fight, a gigantic octopus destroying the Golden Gate Bridge, and a sixarmed dancing goddess.

On Tuesday, Harryhausen died at London’s Hammersmith Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for about a week. He was 92.

Biographer and longtime friend Tony Dalton confirmed the special-effects titan’s death, saying it was too soon to tell the exact cause. He described Harryhausen’s passing as “very gentle and very quiet.”

“Ray did so much and influenced so many people,” Dalton said. He recalled his friend’s “wonderfully funny, brilliant sense of humor” and love of Laurel and Hardy, adding that, “His creatures were extraordinary, and his imagination was boundless.”

Though little known by the general public, Harryhausen made 17 movies that are cherished by devotees of film fantasy.

George Lucas, who borrowed some of Harryhausen’s techniques for his “Star Wars” films, commented: “I had seen some other fantasy films before, but none of them had the kind of awe that Ray Harryhausen’s movies had.”

The late science fiction author Ray Bradbury, a longtime friend and admirer, once remarked: “Harryhausen stands alone as a technician, as an artist and as a dreamer. ... He breathed life into mythological creatures he constructed with his own hands.”

Harryhausen’s method was as old as the motion picture itself: stop motion. He sculpted characters from 3 inches to 15 inches tall and photographed them one frame at a time in continuous poses, thus creating the illusion of motion. In today’s movies, such effects are achieved digitally.

MOSCOW — The U.S. and Russia agreed Tuesday to try to convene an international conference this month to come to a political solution to end the two-year Syrian civil war but gave no indication how they would convince President Bashar Assad into talks with the rebels seeking to overthrow him.

Secretary of State John Kerry said that if such a gambit were successful, it might no longer be necessary to consider arming the Syrian rebels. Kerry also said it was up to the Syrian people whether Assad should leave office.

Yet even as Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov hailed their joint strategy as evidence of enhanced U.S.-Russian cooperation, it was unclear how their plan might work toward ending a war that has become even more dangerous in recent months with accusations the Assad regime has used chemical weapons, Israeli airstrikes on weapons convoys and American threats to begin arming the rebels.

“Despite different points of view, committed partners can accomplish great things together when the world needs it,” Kerry told reporters in Russia’s capital. “And this is one of those moments.”

The outcome of more than five hours of meetings in Moscow involving President Vladimir Putin, Kerry and Lavrov essentially bring diplomatic efforts to halt Syria’s violence to a point they were about a year ago. The former Cold War foes, who’ve split bitterly over how to halt the conflict, said they’d work to revive a transition plan they laid out in June 2012 but which never gained momentum with Syria’s government or the opposition. They said this time they were committed to bringing the Syrian government and rebels to the negotiating table.

Speaking about the U.S. strategy, Kerry suggested the Obama administration would consider holding off on any possible plan to provide weapons to vetted units of the Syrian opposition if a peace strategy takes hold.

Kerry said the final proof of whether Assad’s forces used chemical weapons in two attacks in March, as suggested last week by a U.S. intelligence assessment, would go a long way toward determining what course of action Obama takes.

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Longtime Dinkytown shop finds new home The Book House is in the process of signing a lease at a new location in Prospect Park.

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

Entering Dinkytown’s the Book House is like entering a maze.

Follow the bend of ceiling-high bookshelves and there’s a corner table with a book on hair in African art and another one with 3-D landscapes of Israel.

In the next winding stretch of literature, plastic lawn chairs are waiting to be used, and books on everything from botany to Marxism are waiting to be read.

Soon, the Book House and its estimated 60,000 volumes will be packed up and moved to a new home in Prospect Park.

After 37 years of business, the used book store will need to relocate for a new student housing project developed by the Opus Group to take its place.

According to owner Kristen Eide-Tollefson, lawyers from the development company told the Book House it would have 10 days and $2,500 to move out when they take possession of the property.

“We are going to have to move before we even know if they’re going to get their permit,” she said.

“It’s a predicament.”

Matt Rauenhorst of Opus said the company will need to wait until the city approves its plans before it can move tenants out.

He declined to comment on any agreements with the Book House.

Opus hasn’t begun looking to fill the retail on the ground floor of the project yet, he said.

“We still haven’t gone out and started soliciting for those retail spaces at this point,” he said. “We

don’t want to be too far out in front of it.”

University alumna Kirsten Wisniewski said she distinctly remembers her first trip to the Book House.

“I remember thinking this was the strangest but coolest store,” she said. “… To me it was such a staple of campus life — I’m sad that future students aren’t going to get that.”

Employee Kevin Sell said he and others at the store have been searching for a new location in Dinkytown to no avail for the past two months.

“If we stay in Dinkytown, we have to go to a lower level and a smaller space, and that’s something that is not our favorite option,” Eide-Tollefson said.

She said she was also interested in a vacant storefront on 14th Avenue but was dismayed when she discovered the apartment complex across the street was planning to use it as a rental office.

“They’re not just doing their project, they’re taking retail space, and we need to relocate,” she said. “So that was hard to deal with.”

Instead, Sell said the business is in the process of signing a lease with a storefront along University Avenue just past Stadium Village.

That new location, he said, is likely to be a permanent one.

“The prices that they’re asking right now for this [current] building are just exorbitant — double what we pay now,” he said. “We can’t afford that.”

Soon, employees will begin to pack away the thousands of books, all while making sure they can keep their online sales through Amazon during their move.

Employee Ryan Hinderaker said maintaining online sales is

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Continuing education student Stefan Gherghelegiu browses through books Tuesday at the Book House in Dinkytown.

essential, since they account for close to half of the store’s business.

Beginning that process so early, Sell said, is a disappointing but necessary next step.

“A month would be difficult but doable,” he said. “10 days is completely unrealistic.”

Hinderaker said the move itself could be beneficial to the business by allowing it to reorganize its inventor y.

It could also be a chance to grow in other ways, he said, while maintaining the business’ traditions.

“You have to look at it as an opportunity to do things differently,” he said. “There’s going to be a lot of stuff moved and changed, but a lot of it, even more, will be the same.”

Wisniewski said she’ll probably visit less frequently with the new location; other students too, she said, are less likely to travel farther to get to the store.

“I think it’s going to have to start a new loyalty … and rebuild clientele,” she said.

Sell said after the recent months of uncertainty since the Opus project was proposed, it might be time for the store, its employees and its customers to look forward.

“We’ve been living in uncertainty for three months … it’s kind of a frustrating way to work and live,” he said. “Part of us is excited for the future — starting at a new location may be just what we need.”

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Pinterest could be new tool for businesses U study finds the fast-growing site could prove useful for advertisers.

BY MARION RENAULT mrenault@mndaily.com

If T witter is about what’s happening now, and Facebook is about connecting with family and friends, then Pinterest is about stuf f, a new University of Minnesota study suggests.

The website, which functions as a cyber “pin board” where users can “pin” and organize online photos, was the focus of a

study by computer science professor Loren Ter veen and Georgia Institute of Technology’s Eric Gilbert.

The two, along with a pair of graduate students, began gathering information on the social media site last summer and presented their paper last week in Paris.

This was one of the first academic studies of Pinterest, said graduate student researcher Shuo Chang, and the findings revealed that the site — which reached 10 million users faster than any other social networking site — has characteristics and a user base that could be valuable to advertisers.

“We thought it would be interesting because it was ver y fast-growing,” Ter veen said. “It was interestingly dif ferent from other sites in that there was this focus on objects … and [was] heavily dominated by female users.”

After examining more than 200,000 pins, the researchers discovered the language of Pinterest dif fers from social media counterparts like Twitter.

While other social media users tend to use wor ds like “now,” “to day” and “LOL,” Pinterest uses words that focus on things, like “use,” “look,” “want” and “need.”

“Twitter seemed to be

about socializing, conversation and here’s what I’m doing now,” Ter veen said.

“Pinterest was much more about things that I want to do or things that I want to tr y.”

Despite being a social media site, Chang said Pinterest users are more focused on posting new content than interacting.

“There is not much social activity on the site,” he said. “People are more interested in re-pinning a picture that they like.”

Those findings, Ter v een s a i d , s u g g es t Pinterest is evolving into a “culture of almost new domesticity,” which could be useful if tapped into by

marketers.

“If people are curating collections of things,” he said, “that’s a great opportunity to sell those things to them.”

Through images and text, the users create a cumulative profile of interests — a gold mine for advertisers and marketers.

“Deciding the purchase behavior and taste of each user is going to be valuable information,” Chang said. “That’s why retailers are interested.”

Jour nalism assistant professor Shayla ThielStern said the visual element of Pinterest will be both advantageous for advertisers and a hurdle. “[Adver tisers on Facebook] tr y and market based on words,” she said.

“Pinterest is really visual —so this is sor t of new terrain for a lot of companies.”

Ter veen and his team have already begun a second round of research on the site, which will focus on the different categories on Pinterest. He said he hopes to begin analyzing this second set of data in the next couple of weeks.

PINTEREST

BY THE NUMBERS

4,000 PERCENT GROWTH OF PINTEREST IN 2011 ALONE

86 AVERAGE NUMBER OF

FOLLOWERS PER PINNER

MORE THAN 1,000 AVERAGE NUMBER OF PINS PER PINNER

SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Students forage St. Paul campus to de-stress The urban foraging tour was part of a de-stressing event from U of M Libraries.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

A group of University of Minnesota students, staf f and faculty members stood under an oak tree on the St. Paul campus T uesday watching their guide wield a Nut Wizard — a scepter-shaped tool used to gather nuts — and explain ways to har vest acorns and eat them.

The urban foraging tour was par t of a series of de-stressing events put on by University Libraries to help students manage stress before finals week.

Kristen Mastel, outreach and instr uction librarian at Magrath Librar y, said the creative and technology-free study break was created to fit into the topics taught on St. Paul campus.

“Students are so tied to technology,” she said, and having a couple minutes to relax while getting their hands dir ty can be an effective stress-reliever.

In addition to crossing the St. Paul campus to lear n about edible foods, students and faculty planted organic plants and made aromatherapy sachets.

Strolling along Cleve-

land Avenue by St. Paul campus’ miniature “frat row,” tour guide Charley Under wood explained how cattails are the “supermarket of wild food” because ever y par t of them is edible, depending on the time of year.

Raking acorns into the Nut Wizard with a quick sweep across the ground, Under wood talked about the process of preparing acorn flour. Since the nuts are bitter, he suggested boiling them in multiple batches of water before grinding them in a mixer.

The powder can be mixed with wheat flour to make pancakes, he said, or on its own as a glutenfree option.

“A lot of things from the wild are sort of flavorintensive,” Under wood said, and a good forager not only needs to be able to identify plants but also have a “discriminating taste” like a cook.

Educational psychology graduate student Ha Vo said she went to the event because she was stressed from finals week. Since she lives close to campus, Vo said it would be useful to know which plants are edible.

“It’s just cool to know that ther e ar e a lot of them around and, I can eat them,” she said.

Vo said she particularly enjoyed learning about the barberr y shrubs found all around the St. Paul campus, which are currently full of sweet berries that can be eaten of f the stem or made into wine.

Thinking about this new food source made her feel less stressed out, she said.

“I just feel like [I’m] in a dif ferent world, and I can distract myself from my studies a little bit,” she said.

St. Paul libraries operations manager Mark Desrosiers said he found it interesting to learn about how plant species like the ginkgo tree can change gender.

“We Americans don’t really think about food and where food comes from as much as we should,” Desrosiers said.

The other libraries are hosting de-stress events that fit closely with the dif ferent locations, Mastel said. Walter Librar y will hold a gaming study break Monday, and Wilson Librar y will have giant crosswords available throughout the building next week from a faculty member who writes crosswords for The New York Times.

Mastel said she hoped the event helped students get in touch with nature and let go of their stress.

“I think ever yone walked away with a little something and got a breath of fresh air as well,” she said.

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Kaler talks DREAM Act, smoking ban Kaler u from Page 1

UNDERGRADUATES WHO DIDN’T COMPLETE THE FAFSA AND RECEIVED AID IN 2012 SOURCE: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH

to those who need it and “provide an inclusive form that reflects the diversity of American families,” U.S. Secretar y of Education Ar ne Duncan said in a news release.

“What this change does is that it puts families of same-sex or unmar ried parents on the same footing as married parents living with their children,” said Kris Wright, director of the University’s Of fice of Student Finance, in an email.

For most af fected students, r epor ting mor e

“This bill will help all low-income renters and put more money in their pockets,” said Rep. Will Morgan, DFL-Burnsville. “That is something that was taken away from them two years ago, and we are giving some of that back.”

Funding to the renters’ credit program was steady for 10 years until 2009 but has fluctuated since. The proposal working through the Legislature would bring refunds closer to the 2008 levels.

In 2011, more than 87,000 households in Hennepin County received an average refund of nearly $700, according to the Minnesota Budget Project, a tax research and advocacy group.

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Initially, Buckholtz said, one of his dads was upset that only one parent was recognized on the FAFSA, because it seemed like another way the government wouldn’t recognize their partnership.

But Buckholtz said his family recognized he could potentially receive more aid by reporting only one parent’s information.

“This was … a way to get something out of the state,” he said.

Previous versions of the FAFSA weren’t representative of a student’s financial situation when only one parent was reported, said Ginny Dodds, manager of Minnesota state financial aid programs.

“The other parent was kind of ignored,” she said.

Even if a student’s parents were in a state-recognized same-sex marriage, she said the student would still only need to repor t one parent’s information because same-sex marriage isn’t recognized under federal law.

The revision, announced last week by the U.S. Depar tment of Education, is meant to distribute aid more accurately

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income will lower the amount of need-based aid they receive, according to a letter to higher education institutions from the Department of Education.

If both parents have relatively low incomes, Dodds said the student’s aid might not be af fected or could actually increase, if a small amount of income must support a nowlarger household.

Buckholtz said he doesn’t expect a large change in his aid amount.

The change is expected to af fect a small percentage of students overall, according to the Department of Education’s letter.

“I don’t know a whole lot of other people who have same-sex parents,” Buckholtz said.

About 80 per cent of FAFSA applicants won’t be af fected by the change because they’r e either independent students or dependent students with married parents. A large por tion of the remainder includes students who also won’t be affected, because they have parents who aren’t married but live separately.

Students with divorced parents or parents who were never married won’t be affected by the change, Dodds said, but will continue to report information for the parent they lived with the most in the past year.

University and communicating with men where they hang out, like at football games and barber shops, Gonder-Spacek said. She said they’ll ask cur rent male mentors to talk about mentoring.

Gonder-Spacek said she plans to ask University President Eric Kaler about creating a University-wide mentoring strategy to recruit mentors.

Winter said he hasn’t noticed the gender gap, but said ACES needs more volunteers.

“The more volunteers you get, the more kids you can help,” he said.

Winter lear ned about the program through a public speaking course that of fered volunteering as an alternative to a final exam.

Winter said he likely wouldn’t have joined ACES if the program hadn’t visited his class, and he’ll continue mentoring after the class ends next week.

The sports management student and other mentors play sports with students at Linwood Monroe Arts Plus school in St. Paul and help them with homework, he said.

“You just get the camaraderie with them all day,” he said.

Winter was surprised by how fun mentoring is, he said.

About 70 percent of the programs that took part in the MPM study said a lack of mentors was one of the top three reasons youth are put on a waiting list.

When boys come from single-parent families or don’t have many male figures in their life, a male mentor is often requested, Gonder-Spacek said.

Big Brothers Big Sisters requires youth and mentors to be the same gender.

Kinesiology junior Joe Crosariol said he and his “little brother” have met at Pratt Community School once a week since last fall.

He said they play sports and talk about their week, keeping most of the discussion on the fourth-grader.

Crosariol said the program has helped him learn how to better interact with children.

“I feel like girls are more accepting to the idea of being a role model,” Crosariol said, adding that men may not be ready for

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Anything else to add?

It’s graduation season.

We’re about to let about 15,000 Minnesota students loose to change the world for the better. We have some great milestones: the first graduating class at [the University of Minnesota-Rochester], the first graduating class in American Indian Studies Tribal Administration and Governance — it’s a new [master’s degree], and we have the first graduates of that at the University of Minnesota-Duluth — and it’s Morris’ 50th commencement, so that’s a great milestone for them.

And finally, the Legislature has not yet decided on our allocation, so I encourage folks to go to suppor ttheu.umn.edu and contact their legislators and continue to voice their support for the U.

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Pending approval by the regents, William Donohue will take over as general counsel. What went into the decisionmaking process?

I looked at my leadership team and a great many of us are still fairly new to the University, so it was important for me to keep institutional knowledge on the team. Bill has been here a long time and is a valuable link in that respect.

In addition, he’s a great lawyer. He’s been secondin-command at the OGC for many years. He’s highly ef-

What are you looking for ward to in the summer?

Some travel. We’re going to China for two weeks to visit a variety of partners. I’m also looking forward to getting away for a couple weeks with [my wife] Karen in August for some vacation time.

Economics junior Jenna Novotny studies Tuesday on Northrop Mall.

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The student reps are also presenting ways to increase transparency of the University-wide instructor evaluation forms that students fill out for their courses. What do you think about this idea?

I think student evaluations should be more transparent. The information about the class structure … and how it’s taught is information that’s useful to know

University General Counsel Mark Rotenberg recently resigned to take a position at Johns Hopkins University. What was your reaction when you found out?

I was sad for the institution. We lose a great deal of institutional knowledge and a great lawyer, but I’m excited for Mark to have a new chapter in his life. I’ve moved a few times in my career and I found each of those moves to be invigorating and energizing, and I hope he finds that as he moves to Baltimore.

You’re nearing the end of your second year as president at the U. In what ways did your second year as president differ from your first?

I think the first year in any kind of experience is always sort of special; you’re doing everything for the first time. This time around, it was the first time to present a biennial operating budget, so that experience of building the budget and working with our legislators to advance it has been interesting.

Also, I continued to build momentum around the Operational Excellence Program, streamlining and making what we do more efficient, and also bringing additional senior leaders on the team.

But clearly the biggest experience was building our budget and that will complete our biennium activities.

That two-year cycle really is the complete cycle for the University, so I feel like I’ve seen everything we’ll do at the University at least once.

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What are the steps for implementation?

We’ve asked our colleagues at Boynton [Health Ser vice] to develop an implementation plan. It will take a little while to sort out how best to do that. We’ll have conversations about where there might be smoking areas, about the scale of investment we would need in a smoking cessation program and whether or not we’d need to augment what we’re doing at Boynton now.

There are several steps.

The reps will also bring up the Open Textbook Catalog, where faculty select parts of different textbooks and arrange them effectively to save costs for students.

What are some complications that come with this?

First I’ll say I’m hugely in favor of this. We need to do everything we can to ensure that the cost of attendance is as economical as it can be. I think the balance, though, is to make sure that the best teaching information is used. Unfortunately, sometimes that is not going to be available in an open format or a low-cost format, so the faculty member has to balance the cost versus the quality of what’s available.

fective at what he does, and I don’t think we’ll miss a beat as we make the transition.

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At Friday’s Board of Regents meeting, the student representatives are presenting their annual repor t. They’re recommending the University becomes smoke-free, and you’ve indicated you suppor t this. Why do you think the U should be smoke-free?

I’ve always supported this, despite what I read in your paper the other day. What I was eager to do when this came around the first time was ... [to be] sure that we [had] a broad buy-in across the entire University population, and we have that now. It’s come up through gover nance, and I think we have the momentum behind it to make it stick.

At the end of the day, it’s the people at the University and the community that need to want to do this; it’s not me or the police force running around giving people demerits for smoking. It really needs to be a community decision, and I’m glad to support that; I’m glad that’s where we are now, and I’m eager to see it in place.

Both my parents died of cancer related to smoking, so I’m pretty opposed to smoking.

as they make decisions about what classes to fit into schedules.

However, it is clear from the lawyers that the personal information about the teachers’ performance does belong to the faculty member, and so my understanding is that they have to release that voluntarily, but I think some information should be more easily available to students.

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Being a “big brother” is a serious role, Crosariol said, “but if you think about it simply, it’s just being a friend.”

Mentor and MPM employee Nicki Patnaude works with Free Arts Minnesota, a weekly program that leads ar t projects for youth with the Boys and Girls Clubs in St. Paul.

“I see the gender gap every time,” Patnaude said.

She said about 70 percent of the mentees are boys.

Patnaude’s team of four women sometimes struggles to relate to the boys they mentor, she said.

Men may be less likely to mentor because they might not fully understand what’s expected of them in that role, Patnaude said.

“It’s really so simple, easy, it doesn’t take much time,” she said.

There are almost 41,000 mentors and more than 196,000 mentees statewide, according to MPM. Youth are often men-

tored to keep them engaged in school, Gonder-Spacek said, but it can also affect mental health, she said.

Youth who were mentored for 13 months reported fewer depressive symptoms than youth who didn’t have a mentor, according to a study released this year by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation.

“I’m able to be there for my ‘little,’ to be a steady person in her life,” BBBS mentor Morgan Aghjian said.

The family social science sophomore’s “little sister” is 7-year-old Kaylie.

When they make ar ts and crafts, Aghjian said, Kaylie always wants to trade projects, “so she has mine and I have hers.”

She said she wants to continue mentoring Kaylie while she attends the University.

“After being so close with someone,” Aghjian said, “you don’t want to leave them.”

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resident for at least part of the year.

Hardin hopes to claim the renters’ credit for the first time after paying rent in 2013. She said any increase helps. “[The credit] has a big impact,” she said. “I feel like a lot of students and lowincome families are struggling to pay rent and … that’s something to look forward to.”

How to apply According to the Minnesota Depar tment of Revenue, landlords are required to give renters a completed Cer tificate of Rent Paid ever y year. The for m shows how much rent and proper ty taxes were paid during the previous year.

For those living with roommates, the CRP should show each person in the house or apartment paying an equal por tion of the rent, even if some roommates paid dif ferent rates, according to the

MDR. The deadline for filing claims based on rent paid in 2012 is Aug. 15, 2014, and can be filed through the MDR website or by mail.

The proposal made its way into both the House and Senate Tax Omnibus bills last week.

If passed, the renters’ credit legislation will increase refunds for 2013, allowing some Minnesotans to get a higher refund when they file in 2014.

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Nation & World Delaware becomes 11th state to legalize same-sex marriage

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

DOVER — Delaware became the 11th state in the nation to allow samesex marriage when Democratic Gov. Jack Markell signed a gay marriage bill into law just minutes after its passage by the state Senate on Tuesday.

“I do not intend to make any of you wait one moment longer,” a smiling Markell told about 200 jubilant suppor ters who erupted in cheers and applause following the 12-9 Senate vote barely half an hour earlier.

“Delaware should be, is and will be a welcoming place to live and love and to raise a family for all who call our great state home,” Markell said.

Delaware’s same-sex mar riage bill was introduced in the Democratcontrolled legislature barely a year after the state began recognizing s a m e- s e x c i v i l u n i ons.

The bill won passage two weeks ago in the state House on a 23-18 vote.

While it doesn’t give same-sex couples any more rights or benefits

under Delaware law than they have in civil unions, suppor ters argued that same-sex couples deser ve the dignity and respect of married couples. They also noted that if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the Defense of Mar riage Act, which bars mar ried gay couples from receiving federal benefits, civil unions would not provide protections or tax benefits under federal law to samesex couples in Delaware.

“All couples under the law sh ould be tr e at ed equally by their gover nment,” Lisa Goodman told lawmakers near the end of T uesday’s three-hour debate. Goodman is president of Equality Delaware, a gay rights group that drafted the legislation and led the ef for t to get it passed.

Under the bill, no new civil unions will be performed in Delaware after July 1, and existing civil unions will be conver ted to mar riages over the next year. The legislation also states that same-sex unions established in other states will be treated the same as marriages under Delaware law.

“ A s o f J u l y, w e a r e considered mar ried,” said Mikki Snyder-Hall, who mar ried her par tner, Claire, in Califor nia in 2008 and moved to Reh ob ot h , a g a y-f ri en d l y Delaware beach town, two years ago.

The Synder-Halls said that while they don’t intend to have another wedding ceremony, they may have another reception to celebrate their new legal status in Delaware.

Scott For rest, 50, of Newark said he and his partner of almost 21 years, Kevin Fenimore, look forward to having the civil union they entered into last year converted to marriage as soon as possible.

“I am elated,” he said.

Lambda Legal, a national gay rights advocacy group, applauded passage of Delaware’s gay marriage bill.

“Today, we celebrate with the thousands of Delaware same-sex couples and their children who will soon be able to have the full recognition and respect accorded to married families,” Susan Sommer, director of constitutional litigation at Lambda Legal,

Police facing questions in 3 women’s Ohio rescue

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND — One neighbor says a naked woman was seen crawling on her hands and knees in the backyard of the house a few years ago. Another heard pounding on the home’s doors and noticed plastic bags over the windows.

Both times, police showed up but never went inside, neighbors say. Police also paid a visit to the house in 2004, but no one answered the door.

Now, after three women who vanished a decade ago were found captive Monday at the run-down house, Cleveland police are facing questions for the second time in four years about their handling of missing-person cases and are conducting an internal review to see if they overlooked anything.

City Safety Dir ector Mar tin Flask said Tuesday that investigators had no record of anyone calling about criminal activity at the house but were still checking police, fire and emergency databases.

The three women were rescued after one of them

kicked out the bottom portion of a locked screen door and used a neighbor’s telephone to call 911.

“Help me. I’m Amanda Berry,” she breathlessly told a dispatcher in a call that exhilarated and astonished much of the city. “I’ve been kidnapped, and I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.”

Ber r y, 27, Michelle Knight, 32, and Gina DeJesus, about 23, had apparently been held captive in the house since their teens or early 20s, police Chief Michael McGrath said.

Three brothers, ages 50 to 54, were arrested. One of them, former school bus driver Ariel Castro, owned the home, situated in a poor neighborhood dotted with boarded-up houses just south of downtown. No charges were filed.

A relative of the three brothers said their family was “totally shocked” after hearing about the missing women being found at the home.

Juan Alicea said the arrests of his wife’s brothers had left relatives “as blindsided as anyone else” in their community. He said he hadn’t been to the home of

his brother-in-law Ariel Castro since the early 1990s but had eaten dinner with Castro at a different brother’s house shortly before the arrests were made Monday.

A 6-year-old girl believed to be Berry’s daughter also was found in the home, police Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said. He would not say who the father was.

The women were reported by police to be in good health and were reunited with joyous family members but remained in seclusion.

“Prayers have finally been answered. The nightmare is over,” said Stephen Anthony, head of the FBI in Cleveland.

“These three young ladies have provided us with the ultimate definition of survival and perseverance. The healing can now begin.”

He added: “Words can’t describe the emotions being felt by all. Yes, law enforcement professionals do cry.”

Police would not say how the women were taken captive or how they were hidden in the neighborhood where they had vanished.

Investigators also would not say whether they were kept in restraints inside the house or sexually assaulted.

Four years ago, in another poverty-stricken part of town, police were heavily criticized following the discovery of 11 women’s bodies in the home and backyard of Anthony Sowell, who was later convicted of murder and sentenced to death.

The families of Sowell’s victims accused police of failing to properly investigate the disappearances because most of the women were addicted to drugs and poor. For months, the stench of death hung over the house, but it was blamed on a sausage factory next door.

In the wake of public outrage over the killings, a panel formed by the mayor recommended an overhaul of the city’s handling of missing-person and sex crime investigations.

This time, two neighbors said they called police to the Castro house on separate occasions.

Elsie Cintron, who lives three houses away, said her daughter saw a naked woman crawling in the backyard several years ago and called police. “But they didn’t take it seriously,” she said.

said in a statement.

T uesday’s debate included the first public acknowledgment by Sen. Karen Peterson, D-Stanton, that she is a lesbian.

Saying she and her par tner of 24 years entered into a civil union last year, Peterson rejected the notion that people choose to be homosexual, any more than they choose to be heterosexual.

“We are what God made us. We don’t need to be fixed, we’re not broken,” said Peterson, 63, adding that if her pursuit of happiness af fects someone else’s mar riage, perhaps they need to work on their marriage.

But opponents of gay marriage, including scores of conser vative religious leaders from across the state, argued that samesex mar riage redefines and destroys a centuriesold institution that is a building block of society.

“Let’s be careful about the concept of social evolution,” said the Rev. Leonard Klein, a Roman Catholic priest speaking on behalf of the bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, which ser ves more

than 200,000 Catholics in Delaware and Mar yland’s Eastern Shore.

“When you remove male and female from the definition of marriage, all bets are off,” added Klein, who urged lawmakers to show an “appropriate humility” for thousands of years of human experience.

Opponents also argued that the gay marriage will bring unintended and unforeseen consequences on broader issues ranging from religious freedom to school curricula and could be used as a basis to argue for acceptance of even more forms of marriage, such as polygamy.

“We’re about to change the entire definition of marriage in order to make people feel good about themselves,” said the Rev. Chuck Betters, pastor of Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church in Bear.

Betters recounted how he became the subject of scathing attacks in social media recently after posting a sign outside his church suggesting that Christianity was more power ful than the movement for gay marriage.

The new law does not

force clerics to per form same-sex mar riages that conflict with their religious beliefs. But under an existing Delaware law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, business owners who refuse to provide marriage-related ser vices to same-sex couples for reasons of conscience could be subject to discrimination claims.

Delaware joins neighboring Mar yland and the nearby District of Columbia as jurisdictions that have approved gay marriage. Last week, Rhode Island became the 10th state to allow gay and lesbian couples to wed, with independent Gov. Lincoln Chafee signing the bill an hour after its final passage.

Minnesota appear ed poised to legalize gay marriage after the Democratic speaker of the state House said T uesday that a gay marriage bill endorsed by the gover nor and likely to pass in the state Senate also now has enough backing in his chamber.

The House will vote on the measure Thursday, and if it passes, the Democraticled Senate could vote on it as soon as Saturday.

Boston Marathon fund chief: Lower expectations

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BOSTON — The administrator of a fund created to help Boston Marathon bombing victims has a blunt message for them: Lower your expectations.

Attorney Kenneth Feinberg said at a public meeting Tuesday that the $28 million One Fund Boston won’t pay out nearly enough to fully compensate the families of the three killed or the more than 260 injured, and may not pay much of anything to those with less serious injuries.

“Ther e isn’t enough money to pay ever ybody who justifiably expects it or needs it,” he said.

Meanwhile, there was no resolution about where to bur y one of the two suspects in the attack.

An aide to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said he did not want to see Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was a resident of Cambridge, buried in Boston and called the decision “a family issue.”

“He believes he should be sent back to Russia.

It wouldn’t be appropriate for him to be buried in Boston,” Menino spokeswoman Dot Joyce said. “He said his family wants him in Russia and that’s where he should go.”

Worcester funeral home director Peter Stefan says more than 100 people in the U.S. and Canada have offered burial plots for the body, but officials in those cities and towns have said no. Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 bombings.

A Wo r c e s t e r p o l i c e spokesman said Tuesday of ficials are hopeful they can resolve the issue within the next few days. Tsarnaev’s younger brother, Dzhokhar, is in a prison hospital facing charges that could bring the death penalty.

On Tuesday, the area near the marathon finish line, where two bombs went of f, was busy with pedestrians as Feinberg spoke with victims and others at the Boston Public Librar y, directly across from the site of the first explosion.

Feinberg’s warning to lower expectations wasn’t

lost on Dan Loring, whose daughter, Brittany, was so badly hurt by shrapnel from the first blast that she was in the hospital for 11 days. But the severity of her injuries still means she won’t qualify for the largest payments, leaving her father wondering about money for her care, including out-of-pocket expenses associated with her three surgeries and rehabilitation.

Loring, who lives in Lancaster, Mass., said he walked two miles to his Cambridge hotel “just to clear my head” after a similar meeting with Feinberg on Monday night that drew about 100 people. A few dozen were at Tuesday’s session, which Loring also attended.

“After leaving last night, I’m not so confident now we’ll see much, if anything,” he said.

Loring is not relying entirely on One Fund Boston, as an online campaign for his daughter on GiveFor ward has raised nearly $100,000 as of T uesday.

One Fund Boston was nearing $28.5 million, with about $11.5 million in public donations and about $17 million from corporations.

Feinberg’s draft plan for distributing the money reser ves the highest payments for the families of the three killed in the bombings — Martin Richard, Kr ystle Campbell, Lu Lingzi — and for the family of MIT Police Of ficer Sean Collier, who was shot to death by the bombers as they attempted to flee.

Those who suffered brain damage or double amputation of limbs also have top priority.

Next are those who had single limbs amputated, followed by those who were injured enough to require overnight hospital stays.

Although he hasn’t proposed specific dollar amounts for compensation, Feinberg has said the families of those killed or those who had limbs amputated could end up receiving $1 million each from the fund.

Feinberg said as many as 15 to 20 victims needed single or double amputations. That means the number of larger payouts to those most seriously hurt could use up the bulk of the fund.

Gov. Deval Patrick and Menino have made speed in getting the money to those who need it a top priority, said Feinberg, who hopes to begin sending payments June 30.

But Feinberg emphasized the plan isn’t final and asked audience members their opinions on thorny issues that would lengthen the process, including whether a person’s income or insurance should be considered, with people who have more money getting smaller payouts.

During the two meetings, family members of victims presented sometimes excruciating dilemmas, including one woman who on Monday said her daughter lost one leg, and doctors were working to save her other one. The woman asked whether she should file for compensation as a single or double amputee.

Others, including Loring, think money should be given to ever yone who was hurt in any way by the bombings, even if it means less money for those with the worst injuries. He said people who helped save his daughter are still suffering mentally, but aren’t eligible for a claim.

“Of the ... people who donated (to The One Fund), if you polled them, they think it’s going to all the victims, not a selected class,” he said after the meeting Tuesday.

Some weren’t sure what to ask Feinberg. Liz Norden, whose two adult sons each lost a leg in the bombing, said Monday that she’s “just focusing on the care of my sons. ... I don’t know what questions I’m supposed to be asking or not asking.”

Feinburg acknowledged the dilemmas and what he called the “rough justice” ahead in str uggles to be both fast and fair. One example was his guideline under the draft plan that people who didn’t suf fer amputations and who spent an equal number of days in the hospital get the same payouts, even if one person’s injur y is far more severe.

“This is a horrible undertaking,” Feinberg said.

“It raises questions that I believe would defy Solomon in getting answers.”

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Are we ever ready?

Planning for life after college can be a tricky task.

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s college students, we are always thinking of the next step and how we will make that inevitable switch from our role as students to professionals. Although we often dream of the day that we leave this campus behind us, are any of us ever really ready to be spit out into the job market full of fresh faces just like ours?

W ith finals week just around the corner, many students are finalizing summer plans and preparing for fall semester. Others are preparing for their walk across the stage, diploma in hand.

Some graduates have had a job offer since last semester, while others are frantically tr ying to solidify some semblance of an income so as to avoid having to move back in with their parents. Graduation is a much-anticipated time, but also one that brings anxiety and second-guessing.

Questions pop up regarding what the last four years have

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prepared you for, or wondering if you were involved enough to make you stand out from other jobseekers.

I fear that the moment I am no longer a student I will lose all direction entirely.

When graduating from high school, enrolling in a fouryear program at a university was just the next step for me — as I’m sure it was for many. There was never a doubt in my mind as to what I would do after finishing high school.

But graduating from college requires a lot more consideration. Some students head off to further their education in a graduate program, others will move to a new par t of the countr y and tr y to nail a job down there; maybe you will even backpack

through Europe with your best friend. So much is left to be decided, and after four years of stress, it seems that the stress only multiplies.

This past weekend I was in Cleveland helping my older sister find an apartment.

She is enrolled in a graduate program at Case Western Reser ve University that will start at the beginning of July. As we traveled from one apar tment showing to the next, it became exceedingly obvious how ner vous she is to be moving away from home. After growing up, studying and residing in the Twin Cities since we were young kids, this is the area that we know and will always call home. But how do you just pick up your life, move to a new state and start over?

All of this led me to become very anxious about my next step and whether I am ready to move away, or even move on.

Thr oughout my thr ee years at college I have felt ver y prepared in terms of academics and my future as a working professional. But one thing that nobody can be pre-

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pared for is the emotionally taxing reality of moving past college.

Graduation provides a time for people to reflect on what exactly it is they want to do. Don’t jump into something because it is what your parents want for you or because you feel that it is the “right thing to do.” Do what feels right for you.

We have the rest of our lives to be working professionals, so taking a couple years off or even just a summer away to give you a break sounds like a mighty fine idea to me.

I know my sister will do great things throughout the next five years, and I have confidence that all of us will figure out what is right for us. Just don’t rush it. My sister graduated from college four years ago and has only recently figured out that she wants to ear n a doctorate.

It’s more important to figure out what is right rather than what is right now.

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

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Collin Randolph welcomes comments at crandolph@mndaily.com.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Students hurt from proposed sport tax

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

One of the best par ts about college is supporting our Gophers sport teams. I have had season tickets to Gophers football and hockey for the past three years.

What better way to show school spirit than wearing your favorite Gophers jersey and cheering them on? Unfortunately, politicians in St. Paul are not as supportive of this as we are. The proposed budget in the Legislature includes a 13 percent tax increase on licensed, sports-related products in Minnesota.

This huge tax increase would apply to any team registered with the NCAA. That means that the price of all of our Gophers merchandise would increase.

Doesn’t the Legislature understand that college students are the last demographic they should try and increase revenue from? This tax doesn’t end there, though.

It would apply to any Minnesota Vikings, Twins, Timberwolves or Wild gear.

With baseball season in full swing, the last thing we need is a price increase on any Twins merchandise.

Perhaps the worst part about this tax, other than making it more expensive to support our sports teams, is where the revenue will go.

The Legislature is proposing spending $300,000 on a boatlanding bathroom, $300,000 on a bee habitat, $100,000 on a tree museum and $840,000 on exotic, overseas trips for artists, to name a few parts of the recent omnibus bills. Oh, and on top of all this, they also want to increase their own an-

nual salary by 35 percent.

This needs to be stopped.

College students should not be forced to foot the bill for all of this. Please join me in calling local representatives and telling them to remove this tax from the omnibus tax bill!

Susan Eckstein University student

Lessons learned from Spring Jam

Let me open by saying I made a point to save this letter until after Spring Jam. As someone who owns all of Mat Kearney’s CDs, I was not one of the hundreds of angry posts on the Student Unions and Activities’ Facebook page in an uproar over the decision. SUA was put in a difficult situation and made the best of it with the resources it had. However, what did put me in an uproar was its lack of good public relations in dealing with the masses. Here’s what it should have done leading up to Spring Jam. First, as soon as SUA knew it couldn’t get Macklemore, it should have established its scapegoat. Instead of defending why it didn’t get Macklemore for Spring Jam, SUA could have bought the best seats for Macklemore’s concert at the Minnesota State Fair this summer and sold them to students at a reduced cost. Or, if SUA was strategic, it would’ve held on to them until Spring Jam and given them away at the Kearney concert.

Next, SUA should have utilized its social media better and minimized the backlash it would inevitably receive.

Rather than announcing the headliner in video format on its Facebook page, SUA should have made it a Facebook event. The video can be shared, moving it to the top of a friend’s news feed.

With a video, comments appear quickly and allow for people to incessantly “like” comments with similar sentiments. The comments then lose their meaning and become a game of who can hate on the lineup in the most creative way. In an event, it is far easier to pin posts so they are hidden, or delete them from the timeline. In addition, if you share the event, you are not sharing the hundreds of comments that go with it. As it stands, should someone want to share the post in a positive light, they are forced to include all the negative comments with it. SUA set itself up for rapid and easily accessible criticism.

Finally, after the initial backlash, SUA should have swallowed its pride and made up for the mistake. SUA volunteers or employees should have hopped on Twitter and Facebook, asked who students wanted to see for the homecoming concert and moved on. Part of damage control is ensuring the socalled damage doesn’t happen again.

That being said, the weekend was one SUA should be proud of, and it should be commended on the time, effort and creativity it put into a weekend the entire student body could enjoy in one way or another.

Joelle Stangler University student

he Republican Par ty is known for its war against science; whether the war involves its ignorance on global warming, evolution or same-sex RONALD DIXON ri g h t s . S o m e columnist conservatives have a difficult time attempting to justify their laughable misconceptions of reality.

Recent news shows that they continue to impress.

First, some Republicans have introduced and endorsed legislation that would eliminate the unemployment rate. No, this does not create jobs for all (their economic policies actually cut employment), but it removes the ability for the U.S. Census Bureau to collect the rudimentary data that is necessary for economic analysis.

The argument for this abolition is that the government performs an overreach of power, essentially hindering the right of privacy. This is specifically targeted against the American Community Survey, which collects data more frequently than other ser vices within the Census Bureau. In reality, though, the ACS allows consumers and businesses to better track the market in order to make informed decisions. Even if the ACS was unconstitutional, the Census Reform Act would abolish the basic statistics that millions around the world rely upon to measure the state of the American economy.

Also, the Republicans wish to thwart aspects of the scientific process. Conservatives want to require the National Science Foundation to fund research that is considered groundbreaking, important and original. Of course, Republicans, abiding by their austerity dogma, want to slash spending in every sector that does not have a direct benefit for businesses, so their motives make sense. When considering the scientific method, however, we find that this measure catapults the Republicans back to the Stone Age. How are scientists supposed to know the validity of a study before they begin their research? They need the resources before they can start testing, and this process enables scientists to determine if findings are original or even “groundbreaking.”

Add the attacks on fundamental statistics and the scientific method to the Republicans’ list of anti-science legislation and ideologies.

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

Set the liquor market free

Supporters of the Sunday liquor sales ban misconstrue the point of state laws.

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arlier this month, the Minnesota House of Representatives unsurprisingly rejected an amendment that would have lifted the ban on Sunday liquor sales, Minnesota Public Radio reported.

In the process, state representatives touted the usual arguments about how lifting the ban would harm small liquor stores that can’t afford to stay open seven days a week and would thus lose business to larger stores. House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, argued as such and said, “if we do pass this, they feel they’ll be forced to be open on Sundays to compete with the big box liquor stores that are encroaching on territory they’ve had for years,” MPR reported.

While providing an accurate economic analysis, Daudt failed to communicate why it’s the job of the state Legislature to help small businesses fend off competition. State laws and regulations shouldn’t be designed to give certain players in the market a leg up.

In nearly every industry, smaller and bigger businesses constantly fight for customers, offering a variety of benefits for shopping there, and the consumer ultimately makes the decision of where to spend his or her own money. Nobody would force liquor stores to stay open every day of the week, but a ban on selling liquor on Sundays is both arbitrary and an overreach. Rep. Tina Liebling, DFL-Rochester, summed it up best by saying, “Responsible consumers simply want the opportunity to shop on Sunday, which is a day that many people want to go out and shop, a day that many of them are not working.”

While the ban is unlikely to be lifted anytime in the near future, it remains unjustifiable and inconsistent with the true purpose of state laws and regulations.

The sound of music in the Twin Cities The University has a role in developing strong relationships in the arts community.

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ast Monday, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra ended a 191-day lockout when musicians agreed to the latest terms set forth by management. The Star Tribune repor ted April 30 that the details of the new contract agreed upon include a nearly 19 percent pay decrease for musicians and the cutting of six fulltime positions in the ensemble from 34 to 28.

The lockout resulted in the cancellation of about 80 concerts, and the relationship between musicians and management remains understandably strained.

Meanwhile, the Minnesota Orchestra is now in its eighth month of lockout, and no sign of progress in negotiation ef for ts has been made since Januar y.

Both of these lockouts have become embarrassing sores on the face of the Twin Cities’ arts scene. Our reputation as a world class arts hub has been soured and not only have our nationally renowned professional musicians felt mistreated, but students at the University of Minnesota and across the state who study music are discouraged as well.

In these circumstances, the University can play a role. If we are truly invested in the career choices of each University student, we should commit to forming stronger and more suppor tive relationships within the ar ts community as we have done with various medical and biotechnology firms. The future livelihoods — and thus the educational experience — of music students should not be treated with any less significance than those of equally talented science and engineering undergraduates. We owe it to all students to establish the best career networking oppor tunities we can provide.

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and competed in two Bowl Championship Series bowl games.

Gophers head coach Jerr y Kill had previously expressed concern about playing a nonconference BCS opponent early in the team’s rebuilding process.

Kill, entering his third season at Minnesota, had advocated for removing Nor th Carolina from the schedule.

Teague said Kill was “on board” with Tuesday’s

move.

“On board means he’s with us and ready to go and knows we’re playing the game and is ready to move for ward,” Teague said.

The Gophers won’t play a nonconference BCS opponent in 2013. Before Tuesday, the Gophers were the only Big Ten team not to have a BCS opponent on their nonconference schedule for 2014 or 2015.

The 2014 game will fill an empty date on Minnesota’s schedule.

-Sam Gordon contributed to this report.

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AUG 29 SEPT 07 SEPT 14 SEPT 21 SEPT 28 OCT 5 OCT 19 OCT 26 NOV 2 NOV 9 NOV 23 NOV 30

VS. UNLV AT NEW MEXICO STATE VS. WESTERN ILLINOIS VS. SAN JOSE STATE VS. IOWA AT MICHIGAN AT NORTHWESTERN VS. NEBRASKA AT INDIANA VS. PENN STATE VS. WISCONSIN AT MICHIGAN STATE

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AUG 28 SEPT 06 SEPT 13 SEPT 20 SEPT 27 OCT 11 OCT 18 NOV 01 NOV 08 NOV 15 NOV 22 NOV 29

EASTERN ILLINOIS MIDDLE TENNESSEE STATE AT TCU SAN JOSE STATE AT PENN STATE NORTHWESTERN MICHIGAN AT NEBRASKA INDIANA AT IOWA AT WISCONSIN MICHIGAN STATE

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Minnesota junior Tom Windle pitches through sleet and snow during the opening game at Siebert Field on April 5.

Junior Tom Windle has evolved into one of the top arms in the Big Ten.

BY SAM GORDON sgordon@mndaily.com

Gophers junior ace Tom Windle’s slider is so good, sometimes Kurt Schlangen has trouble catching it.

“It’s unhittable. When he throws his best one, it’s filthy,” said Schlangen, the Gophers’ senior catcher.

“It’s a touch pitch to catch sometimes.”

The slider, which Windle refers to as his “out pitch,” has caught the eye of Major League Baseball scouts. He’s projected to be selected in the first three rounds of the 2013 MLB draft.

The pitch has also helped him become one of the best arms in the Big Ten. Windle is 6-2 with a 1.82 ERA — second best in the conference among star ters — in 11 starts this season.

He’s thrown four complete games, and his 69 strikeouts also rank second in the Big Ten. Windle flashed brilliance as a freshman in 2011 and was one of Minnesota’s top relievers.

He was slated to move into the rotation for the 2012 season, but a nagging arm injury kept him in the bullpen.

It wasn’t until last summer, playing in the prestigious Cape Cod League, that Windle finally flourished as a

starter.

“The competition I was playing with, even on my own team, helped a lot,” Windle said. “[I was] able to grow with some of the top players in the country.”

Windle star ted seven games in the league for the Brewster Whitecaps and finished the summer 3-2 with a 2.52 ERA. Scouts took notice, and Windle said they’d watch him pitch on a regular basis, though he was never approached by any.

A dominant March cemented Windle’s status as a big-league prospect.

In that month, Windle threw the program’s first nohitter since 1993 and tossed three complete games.

Pro scouts flocked to the Metrodome to watch Windle pitch against projected top-10 pick Sean Manaea of Indiana State on March 15. Both starters dominated en route to a complete game, but Manaea allowed one fewer run and got the win.

Windle knows he’s being eyed as a draft pick, but he said he doesn’t think about it much.

“It’s obviously something that’s coming up, but right now on the [Gophers], that’s what’s important,” he said.

The draft process is nothing new for Windle.

After a dominant senior season at Osseo High School, Windle was selected by the Chicago White Sox in the 28th round of the 2010 MLB Draft.

TOM WINDLE CAREER STATISTICS YEAR 2011 2012 2013

RECORD 6-2 3-5 6-2

ERA 1.52 3.27 1.82

APPEARANCES 19 18 11

STARTS 2 4 11

INNINGS PITCHED 41.1 41.1 74.1

STRIKEOUTS 35 37 69

Windle said the White Sox never offered him a contract, and he continued his career at Minnesota, where pitching coach Todd Oakes has overseen his development.

“He’s steadily got a little bit better each year,” Oakes said. “To have him in our rotation this third year is crucial to our pitching staff.”

Oakes said Windle came into the program as a pretty mature and responsible kid with a strong foundation.

“It’s been more of a polish job, polishing up on the little things,” Oakes said.

One of those little things was the development of a changeup to complement Windle’s slider and fastball.

As a reliever, Windle only needed the slider and fastball. The changeup has been reliable for him as a starter, and Windle called it “a nice add to my repertoire.”

Windle’s bag of pitches starts with his fastball. He consistently throws it in the low-90s, and it’s topped out at 94 mph this season.

Then comes the slider.

“He’s got what I call a swing-and-miss slider,”

Oakes said. “Some guys got more of a pitch-to-contact breaking ball.”

Windle’s slider breaks away fr om left-handed hitters and down and in against righties.

“If they can have a breaking ball that’s ef fective against right-handed hitters, that’s key,” Oakes said. “That pitch separates him.”

Schlangen said it’s easy to call a game when Windle is on the mound.

“He can throw any of his pitches for strikes,” Schlangen said. “His stuf f is so good, sometimes it feels like it doesn’t matter what the situation is. You can call any pitch.”

The Gophers will rely on Windle’s pitches for the remainder of the season.

They sit atop the Big Ten standings with two series to play, and Windle has set the tone all year with strong outings on Fridays.

“He’s given us a chance in just about ever y game he’s pitched on Friday,” Minnesota head coach John Anderson said. “We’ve won ever y series in the league.

He’s a factor in that.”

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MILWAUKEE

3:05 p.m., Wednesday at Siebert Field

MINNESOTA: The Gophers will play their final midweek game of the regular season Wednesday. Minnesota is 4-2 in Wednesday games this year.

The Gophers haven’t played a home game since April 24 because of poor weather.

MILWAUKEE: The Panthers are 22-19 this season. But they’re just 10-18 on the road.

Milwaukee has played one other game against a Big Ten team this season — a 10-3 win at Iowa on April 30.

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

//FROM OUR BLOG

Reports: Gophers sign second PG Point guard Dre Mathieu has spent the past two seasons at Arizona Community College.

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

The Gophers’ recruiting class of 2013 consists of two point guards, the second of who reportedly signed Tuesday.

Dre Mathieu, rated a three-star recruit by rivals.com, comes from the junior college ranks, and has

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spent the past two seasons at Central Arizona Community College.

The 5-foot-11-inch point guard joins Daquein McNeil in Richard Pitino’s inaugural draft class.

“Minnesota is going to be the team to watch next year their [point guard] they just signed is

a beast!!” Mathieu’s former teammate Calvin Bonner wrote on Twitter.

A Gophers team spokesman wouldn’t confirm the signing Tuesday, but Rivals repor ted that Mathieu took an official visit to Minnesota on Friday.

Mathieu had offers from Memphis and UCLA, among others, according to Rivals.

With Mathieu’s signing, the Gophers have seven guards, two centers and two for wards on scholarship for 2013-14.

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SOURCE: GOPHERSPORTS.COM

NCAA

Gophers gave few multiyear scholarships

BY ANDREW KRAMMER akrammer@mndaily.com

NCAA legislation to approve the use of multiyear student-athlete scholarships happened so fast that very few schools took the first step to distribute them.

The University of Minnesota athletics department awarded only nine multiyear scholarships in 2012-13, the first year the NCAA has allowed them.

Gophers of ficials were not made available to comment but released a statement.

“The University of Minnesota has a long histor y of honoring annual scholarships and ensuring studentathletes maintain their aid as long as they maintain required academic, team and university behavioral standards,” the statement read.

Big Ten programs Illinois, Ohio State and Michigan State of fered many more multiyear scholarships than Minnesota, according to a report by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Illinois mostly replaced single-year offers with multiyear offers.

Illini associate athletics director for compliance Ryan Squire told the Minnesota Daily that the timing of the legislation, combined with Illinois’ philosophy, led to the decision.

“We had to make some quick decisions,” he said.

“We had a signing day like the following week [in October 2011, when the legislation was approved].”

Illinois awarded 192 multiyear scholarships, dwarfing the next school on the list — Florida, which awarded 60.

Communication from the Big Ten offices also led Squire and Illinois to believe that most Big Ten schools

would act as they did and award many multiyear offers.

“Given the slow adoption of it, it seems like we might be an outlier,” Squire said.

For the Gophers, three athletes in women’s track and field led the pack in multiyear scholarships.

No athletes in Gophers revenue spor ts received the extended offers, with women’s soccer, men’s tennis, men’s golf and women’s hockey each nabbing one or two of them.

“The University has offered multiyear scholarships in the past when appropriate to the specific student-athlete situation,” the Gophers’ statement read.

Inside the conference, the Buckeyes handed out 47 multiyear scholarships while the Spartans awarded 30, according to the Chronicle.

Illinois’ decision to offer so many more was about helping change the perception that student-athletes are taken advantage of, Squire said.

“It hopefully provides a little bit more security for them,” Squire said.

He said multiyear scholarships are part of a larger image issue the NCAA is currently battling.

“I think it’s wise for us to continue the route we’re going,” Squire said. “But who knows where we’ll be in five years.”

MULTIYEAR SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GOPHERS WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD WOMEN’S SOCCER MEN’S TENNIS MEN’S GOLF WOMEN’S HOCKEY SOURCE: GOPHERS ATHLETICS

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Today’s Birthday (5/8): Begin the year with confidence and financial luck, and hustle to harvest. Materialism loses glitter; stick with basics and savor savings. Education takes focus, along with wellness and service.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is a 7 — Start getting practical, and compute expenses. Shopping for household items moves into top priority. Talk over the schedule. Friends are on your side.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is a 9 — Today and tomorrow are good for financial planning.

Don’t throw money around. Investigate an improbable theory, and take action on an idea.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 9 — Let the words pour out as you become more confident.

Travel to or over water. New information propels action at home. Prepare to launch.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Look alive and think fast. Then go slow. Let a strong leader take charge. Invest in home, family, land and real estate. Partnership negotiations occur.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Tempers could be short. You’re under pressure to complete old tasks. You get further with an intermediary.

Your dreams are brilliantly prophetic.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Get busy and open a new chapter. Use your imagination. Stand for a new way of doing business. This is the design phase.

Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Set up a meeting to entertain new possibilities.

Move quickly to get the best deal. Adjust the schedule. Circumstances control your actions.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — You score big with creative output. Business takes a new direction. Don’t be impetuous. Use resources wisely. You can ask for more and get it.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is an 8 — Work requires more attention. Don’t speak so freely about money now. Move quickly to find necessary information. Entice your partner.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is an 8 — Slow down and listen, close to home. Family wants attention. Keep talking. Find ways to increase efficiency. Your team is hot.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Fix something before it breaks. Travel conditions improve, and working at home is nice, too. Tap into your passion, and believe you can.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — Be bold without gambling. Push yourself forward. Offer corrections to erroneous assumptions. Enter a two-day learning phase. Write up the proposal.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

overheard “Hey do you want to see what I can do with my balls?”

—Comstock Hall

Professor: “As some of you know, I was up until 2:30 a.m. grading. I’m not doing very well right now. I was also drinking beer.”

—Willey Hall

“It’s not naked if you’re covered in glitter!”

—Superblock

Guy 1: “I’ve gained so much weight since coming to this school. I used to be tall and beautiful.”

Guy 2: “Dude, I’ve seen your Facebook photos. You were neither of those.”

—Ford Hall

Professor: “If it says ‘all of the above,’ it’s probably the right answer. That’s what I did to get a driver’s license.”

—Unknown

Professor: “Here is why grades are not on Moodle. Two words: Moodle sucks.”

—Unknown

Girl, as a penny falls: “Ahh, my college savings!”

—Washington Avenue

“Yeah, it was the part when I asked her to have sex with me that drove her away.”

—Middlebrook Hall

Guy: “I’ve been noticing more attractive guys lately … yet I have been walking with my head up more.”

Girl: “Uh, well that is how you see people, by looking up at them.”

—Sanford Hall

“I feel like my sneeze can be some battle cry in Zelda.”

—Roy Wilkins Hall

“What is up with my digestive system? I think I’m on my period.”

—Centennial Hall

Professor: “I came to this country 22 years ago to write a novel. Now I’m stuck with a Ph.D. and two mortgages.”

Student: “Welcome to America.”

—Anderson Hall

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

ACROSS 1 Fabric named for an Asian capital 7 Letter-shaped lift 11 Suntan lotion letters 14 Eight-time tennis Grand Slam champion 15 Finish line 16 Covert ops gp.

17 *“We’ve got this one!”

19 Snitch 20 Anglo-French fliers until 2003 21 Cuppa contents 22 Haggard 24 *Mischievous child 27 Fuel holder 31 Mind 32 Ferrell’s “SNL” partner in “Morning Latte” skits 33 i follower 34 Some PCs 38 *YouTube piece 42 Opinion sampling 43 Fun unit?

44 Crete peak: Abbr.

45 Like some vaccines 47 Pirouetting 49 *India’s national animal 53 Collar inserts 54 Jack’s place 55 Soho stroller 59 Cyclades island 60 What auditors look for, and, in a way, what the ends of the answers to starred clues are 64 ID material 65 Pound of poetry 66 Render powerless?

67 Night sch. class 68 Gloom partner 69 Biblical poetry DOWN 1 Where roasters may sit 2 16-Across personnel 3 Spar

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4 Yard sale caveat 5 W-4 info: Abbr.

6 Litter box trainee 7 Fine-tune 8 Seafood restaurant freebie 9 Parseghian of football 10 Jamaican genre 11 Deep-clean 12 Scott Joplin’s instrument 13 Like marbled meat 18 “Dang!”

23 More than fans 24 “I feel your __” 25 Sporting footwear 26 “Venerable” monk 27 Sticky stuff 28 Oxygen’s 8: Abbr.

29 Hawk 30 Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” for one 33 ATM access 35 Sub on a screen 36 Modest skirt length 37 Stretch across 39 List shortener, for short 40 Electrical unit

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41 “A Jug of Wine ...” poet 46 Spoke like Vito Corleone 47 Composer Stravinsky 48 On deck 49 Unlikely hit on a 45 50 Preppy collars 51 Like some cavities

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52 Letter-shaped girder 55 Smurf with a beard 56 Little brook 57 Grad 58 Voice mails: Abbr.

61 Dye that comes from the French word for nitrogen 62 Tour golfer, e.g.

63 OR or ER workers

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dr. date Dr. Date,

My boyfriend can be really obnoxious in public; at a concert, he’s the guy yelling dumb things at the stage, and everyone stares at us. I’ve tried to tell him to stop after he does it, and I never laugh, so I don’t know why he keeps doing it.

It’s embarrassing, but I think telling him that would really hurt his feelings. What do I do?

—Dating That Guy

Lover Of Cray,

To this doc, it sounds like your boy’s got mad douchebag syndrome. He’s caught the fever of Dane Cook and injected one too many shots of Daniel Tosh, and let me tell ya sweetheart, ain’t nobody got time for that! But fear not; this disease of repugnance can be cured.

It’s simple, really. All one needs to do is pull the old copycat trick on him.

Teach him how it feels to be sitting next to Mrs. Crazy. He’ll be bitter. He’ll be very, very bitter.

So here’s what you do: Next time he hollers, “Show your ass, Kitty, show your ass!” repeat exactly that: “Show your ass, Kitty, show your ass!” Make your statement loud, proud and clear as a crystal glass. And within seconds, I’m willing to put $20 on a look of annoyance headin’ straight your way from your boo’s eyes. Keep doin’ like shampoo — lather, rinse and repeat until your man asks you what’s up. Tell him.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I’m a squirter. In my experience, guys either love this or hate it. But I never find out which until it’s Niagara Falls down there. It stresses me out so much that sometimes I don’t enjoy sex as much, because I’ll be focusing more on predicting how the guy will react than actually enjoying myself.

—Cleanup In Aisle Me

Gross Me Out,

So your vagina’s got some issues with keepin’ the juices down south, eh? Do they fly all the way across the Atlantic or just to the East Coast? Regardless, that’s uncomfortable, but I’ve been sent to you from the angels up high to respond with my hardearned medical knowledge of love and sex, and that’s what I’m going to do.

So, sweet squirting child of mine, my recommendation is this: Toss a finger to the man and squirt as much as you can.

This unique bodily excretion is seen as a talent to many; it’s a gift. You’re probably one of the few women your lovers have been with that possess such a unique skill, so harness your individuality and enjoy the whole ride to O-town.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

Can you go a whole relationship without knowing each other’s “numbers”?

—Hoping So

Hope Floats Like An Ice Cube,

Greetings, my gender ambiguous patient, so delighted you are able to step into my type of office and inquire about your number-qualm. What a qualm it is — not. The number of people you have slept with is not a direct correlation to how slut-terrific you are.

So take it down a notch, Sandra.

Relationships aren’t built upon the number of partners you’ve had between the sheets, on bridges, etc.

The number of humans you have slept with, whether high or low, isn’t that important in the scheme of life — like your age or the number of siblings you have. You’re awesome and a beautiful child of life. Your number is your number, and it’s fine the way it is, unless of course you’re in triple digits. You dog, you dog.

—Dr. Date

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

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