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The University of Minnesota Board of Regents will vote Friday to approve a plan that would freeze undergraduate resident tuition but also raise the cost of school for non-residents and graduate students. Last week, University President Eric Kaler presented his proposed 201314 budget that also raises some fees, like room and

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board, for all students. Kaler’s budget would also freeze the collegiate fee, which funds some technology and general expenses, and increase state and federal aid to some students next year. The proposed budget includes about $10 million in administrative spending cuts in response to a legislative request for the University to cut costs by $15 million next year. Kaler said he’s confident the University will find the remaining $5 million in cuts u See BUDGET Page 7 Some are concerned about a long-term funding model for the U. BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Potter’s Pasties & Pies owner Alec Duncan cuts potatoes Saturday at the recently opened location on Como Avenue.

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Second floor redo starts Monday The $2.5 million remodel will be done by the start of fall semester. ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota will begin construction Monday on a $2.5 million renovation of Coffman Union’s second floor, a three-month project that has some students excited and others concerned. On Monday, a pile of unclaimed items was all that remained on the empty second floor — a stark differ-

ence from the usual chaos of the area that has historically housed of fice space for more than 30 student groups. Under the new floor plan, only 12 groups have been allocated of fices — with hundreds of other registered groups set to share two multi-use rooms. The project is pending approval by the University Board of Regents on Friday, but is expected to pass. Rebecca Huebsch, former Biology Without u See COFFMAN Page 7 The second floor renovations have been in the works since 2010.

Owner Alec Duncan brings local artists to his food trucks and pasty shop. and vegetables. Potter’s — de-

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

rived from British slang that means “to wander aimlessly”

Pasties are more than just

— began as a food truck in St.

food to Alec Duncan — they’re

Paul where Duncan worked

works of art.

20-hour days alongside his-

After creating a customer base in the Twin Cities from

then pregnant, British fiancée Fiona.

his food tr ucks, the Pot-

His business grew quickly

ter’s Pasties and Pies owner

and the next year Duncan pur-

opened a store-front location

chased a second food truck and

on Como Avenue to serve col-

expanded to Minneapolis. The

lege students with hot, com-

store front opened in April.

pact food and local art.

“Business is a relation-

Pasties, a British lunchtime

ship,” he said. “It’s about giv-

staple, are flaky, savor y pas-

ing good products, good food,

try pockets stuffed with meat

good value.”

u See PAST Y Page 5

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Bauman chooses music, preps album Unions appeal OIT employee layoffs

The Gophers wrestler is risking his eligibility to pursue his passion.

Union reps. say the jobs were vital, and the layoffs were mishandled.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Joel Bauman made national headlines earlier this year as the college wrestler who chose music and the chance to inspire others over a career on the mat. Nearly four months later, Bauman has not lost his vision. “It’s only grown from all these other things that have happened to me,” he said, with the same sense of conviction with which he always speaks. Bauman is working on u See BAUMAN Page 10 Bauman said he’s not sure he’ll be allowed to compete next year.

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Musician and Gophers wrestler Joel Bauman rehearses in the studio Monday in Minneapolis. By producing music under his own name and identifying himself as a Gophers wrestler, Bauman was ruled ineligible to compete by the NCAA earlier this year.

Union leaders are fighting the layof fs of 25 University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology employees, citing problems with understaffing and the way the layoffs occurred. Representatives from the University’s clerical union have filed grievances on the layof fs and requested the University re-evaluate them. They also addressed the Board of Regents at its public forum on the University budget last week about the layoffs,

which occurred late last month. OIT cited workload reductions as the reason behind the layoffs and insisted they were carried out according to the University’s policy, but union members objected and said it was executed disrespectfully. Employees were given their layoff notices and told to leave on the spot, said Melanie Steinman of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 3800 in an address to the regents. The employees were told to schedule an appointment to collect the rest of their belongings during non-work hours and were u See OIT Page 5 OIT said the process for the layoffs was standard for the industry.

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Potter’s Pasties & Pies owner Alec Duncan cuts potatoes Saturday at the recently opened location on Como Avenue.

COFFMAN

Second floor redo starts Monday The $2.5 million remodel will be done by the start of fall semester. ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

Owner Alec Duncan brings local artists to his food trucks and pasty shop. and vegetables. Potter’s — de-

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

rived from British slang that means “to wander aimlessly”

Pasties are more than just

— began as a food truck in St.

food to Alec Duncan — they’re

Paul where Duncan worked

works of art.

20-hour days alongside his-

After creating a customer base in the Twin Cities from

then pregnant, British fiancée Fiona.

his food tr ucks, the Pot-

His business grew quickly

ter’s Pasties and Pies owner

and the next year Duncan pur-

opened a store-front location

chased a second food truck and

on Como Avenue to serve col-

expanded to Minneapolis. The

lege students with hot, com-

store front opened in April.

pact food and local art.

“Business is a relation-

Pasties, a British lunchtime

ship,” he said. “It’s about giv-

staple, are flaky, savor y pas-

ing good products, good food,

try pockets stuffed with meat

good value.”

u See PAST Y Page 5

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STAFF

Bauman chooses music, preps album Unions appeal OIT employee layoffs

The Gophers wrestler is risking his eligibility to pursue his passion.

Union reps. say the jobs were vital, and the layoffs were mishandled.

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In South Africa, talk of Mandela’s mortality BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

JOHANNESBURG — The desk is spotless and books neatly line the shelves in Nelson Mandela’s office at a Johannesburg-based foundation that carries his name, but the former South African president and anti-apar theid leader hasn’t worked there for years. The meticulously preser ved room is one of many tributes to the legacy of a former prisoner who became so revered for his efforts to reconcile a racially divided nation that many South Africans cannot bring themselves to speak openly about the possibility of his death. That reluc-

tance is gradually eroding as the 94-year-old receives treatment for a recurring lung infection, spending a four th day in a Pretoria hospital on Tuesday. President Jacob Zuma called Mandela’s condition “ver y serious” but said he has stabilized, in an interview with state broadcaster SABC. Prayers are pouring in for Mandela, adding to a mood of urgency about his deteriorating health that has been compounded by a series of hospital stays in recent months. The description of Mandela as “ravaged by time,” in a statement from a foundation led by retired archbishop Desmond Tutu and his wife, speaks to the frag-

ile state of a man who is so mighty in stature. C o n c e r n s a b o u t h is health already had been heightened in recent weeks after a video broadcast on state television in April showed him silent and unresponsive, even when Zuma tried to hold his hand. “He was a ver y fr uitful fighter, but he’s only human,” said Thabiso Masemola, a 21-year-old student. “He’s reached a point in life where he needs to rest. Let him go, let him be. He’s finished his purpose in life.” Such a view is gaining currency as South Africans become uneasy with the protracted decline of Mandela, who endured 27 years

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Nicaragua rushes on for canal deal with Chinese BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Nicaragua is plowing ahead with a plan to dig a Chinese-funded rival to the Panama Canal across the midriff of the country, fast-tracking a proposal through the ruling party-controlled congress despite a lack of details about the $40 billion project. A China-based consortium says it will finance the project and turn over control of the infrastructure to Nicaragua in exchange for a majority of the earnings, which it would share with the Nicaraguan government. Proponents have said the project could capture 4.5 percent of world maritime freight traffic and double the percapita gross domestic product of Nicaragua, one of the poorest countries in Latin America. The canal has won the enthusiastic backing of President Daniel Ortega, whose Sandinista Front controls the national legislature with 63 out of 92 lawmakers. Many outside obser vers and Ortega opponents point out that nearly ever y key detail of the project remains a myster y, from the sources of its funding to Nicaragua’s share of the profits to the route it would take between the Caribbean and the Pacific. Many have been asking whether Central America needs two canals, even in an age of growing world trade. The Nicaraguan congress’ infrastructure committee voted unanimously Monday night in favor of the project, with four opposition lawmakers on the 12-member body abstaining. Committee president Jenny Martinez said the bill was immediately sent to the National Assembly, which is expected to approve it Thursday.

Libya army chief vows end to militias this year BY THE ASSICATED PRESS

TRIPOLI, Libya — Libya’s interim army chief of staff insisted Tuesday that militias will have to lay down their arms or join the military by year’s end after 31 people were killed in protests against the militia forces. Speaking in the eastern city of Benghazi, where the deadly clashes erupted over the weekend, killing mostly civilians, Col. Salem Qineydi said the government still needs militias to assist in securing the country, but that ultimately they will have to either join the army or return to civilian life. The clashes prompted the resignation of the previous army chief of staff, Maj. Gen. Youssef al-Mangoush. He was in charge of the country’s roughly 12 Libya Shield brigades, a largely Islamist grouping of militias paid by the government to help maintain security. Qineydi did not give specifics on how the government would implement the timeline, but vowed that there would not be another special guard like the one under dictator Moammar Gadhafi that pledged allegiance to him. His comments come after some in Libya expressed concerns that Prime Minister Ali Zidan is pushing to create a highly trained force that excludes militias which could protect him against armed pressure from the groups. The issue of freewheeling militias has plagued the country since the overthrow of Gadhafi in 2011. Militia leaders are reluctant to give up their autonomy and join the army. They also refuse to work for officials who served under Gadhafi and are still in the army. The militias helped not only in ousting Gadhafi, but also in securing the countr y’s borders, airports and first free elections last year as the army and police worked to rebuild themselves. Now many Libyans are growing impatient with the parallel security structure that allowed some militias to operate on the government’s payroll.

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University looks to help fund 8th St. reconstruction

U econ professor steps down as state economist After 30 years in his position, Tom Stinson will focus on teaching and research. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

A string of potholes line Eighth Street Southeast.

The U wants to rebuild the street adjacent to the recently renovated Siebert Field. KIA FARHANG kfarhang@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota is in talks with Minneapolis officials to reconstruct Eighth Street Southeast — with the University covering part of the cost. University officials decided to begin the project after the school’s baseball team began playing at the newly reconstructed Siebert Field off Eighth Street this spring. Officials don’t yet have an estimate for the project’s cost. Parking and Transportation Services would fund the project, said Sandy Cullen, University transpor tation systems design manager. If the Minneapolis City Council approves the rede-

velopment, it won’t be the first time the University has paid for city reconstruction. Last year, the University spent more than $550,000 to help redo sections of Talmage and Riverside avenues near University property. Right now, Cullen said, the University is working with the city to start designing the new road, which the city has to sign off on before the two parties can decide how much the University will spend. “We hope to have [the design] set this year,” she said. At this stage, it’s still unclear exactly how far along Eighth Street the new construction would go, said Bob Carlson, engineer for the city’s public works department. But he said it will definitely stretch past the three housing complexes on the north side of the street. The street may be closed a few times, like when new asphalt needs time to cool. “We would tr y to keep

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access open for the majority of the time,” Carlson said. “It isn’t the intent just to say, ‘OK, we’re starting up, you people go away and don’t drive on this thing until we’re all done.’ ” Eighth Street, which tapers off into a dirt road past University recreational fields, has drawn complaints from nearby property owners and residents. “I’ve been waiting for [the development] to get done for eight years,” said Greg Jansma, building manager for Northstar at Siebert Field apartments, which has two buildings on the road. A number of Jansma’s residents have complained about the street. “[When] we go into a rainy stretch like we have recently, those big holes literally never dry up,” he said. “And even when they do, they’re still dealing with the rough road.” Jansma said he’s hopeful the University’s contribution will swiftly move the project along. Art Institutes International Minnesota sophomore Eva Bifulk said she wasn’t worried about the road when she moved into Northstar last summer — she chalked up the poor conditions, which she assumed were temporary, to the Siebert construction. When the road never got fixed, Bifulk said she considered writing a letter to the city about it. University alumnus Charlie Vollhaber lived in a Northstar building until May. He said Eighth Street lead to a lot of problems with parking and accessibility, because it was “filled with potholes.” “It was just ridiculous.”

Tom Stinson has worked two jobs for the past 26 years. As a University of Minnesota applied economics professor, he can write an article for a journal, but he said “it’s not clear that anybody ever reads it.” As the state’s economist, the budget forecasts he makes are in the public eye right away. After projecting the state’s budget since the 1980s under five governors and three recessions, Stinson is retiring from the role to focus on teaching and research. Laura Kalambokidis, also a University applied economics professor, will replace Stinson in July. Stinson came to the University in the 1980s as a researcher for a U.S. Department of Agriculture field office on the St. Paul campus. He was selected as state economist in 1987 after a regional search. His main duty as state economist was to compile a state budget forecast to inform lawmakers as they create a two-year budget, a process he said “gets pretty hectic” when they’re due twice per year. Despite the chaos, Kalambokidis said Stinson has a “calm presence.” “There’s not a lot of harried running around the office,” she said. “He’s calm, he’s steady, he’s deliberate and he’s very generous with his knowledge and his experience.” Despite the long hours he and his small team spend behind the scenes in their offices compiling the forecasts, Stinson said he doesn’t feel like his work goes overlooked. “If you have to stand up and tell people ‘We have … less money than we thought’ in a press conference with

eight or nine television cameras and 20 or 25 journalists standing there, I don’t feel like I’m overlooked at all,” he said. Working with five governors was interesting, Stinson said, because each one had a different style and expected different things from him. “It was my responsibility to figure out how to fit in that kind of environment and make sure that the governor got the best information,” he said. One of the big issues the state faces economically is improving the quality of its workforce. Because high school graduation rates have fallen statewide, Stinson said the quality of the state’s workforce is “under threat.” He also said the size of the state’s budget reser ve could become a problem in the future. “Looking for ward, our budget reserve really is too small compared to the size of the budget to provide protection” in economic turndowns, he said. One thing Stinson said he’d like to focus on in his research is how the state’s tax system has become more volatile. “The highs are higher and the lows are lower and the fall between them is steeper,” he said, adding that measuring tax volatility helps protect against economic shocks. He said he’ll teach a graduate course on public expenditures in public sector economics in the fall with Kalambokidis. The courses he teaches after that will be up to his department.

A thoughtful, ‘professional’ economist

Tracking the nation’s economy as state economist always helped in the classroom as Stinson juggled the two jobs. “It made me a better teacher, I thought, because it was easy to bring in what was going on today and make the class a little bit more current,” Stinson said. Humphrey School of

Public Affairs senior fellow Jay Kiedrowski hired Stinson for the position of state economist in 1987, when Kiedrowski ser ved as the state’s commissioner of finance. “As I look back over my career, it’s one of the best selections I ever made,” he said. Kiedrowski said Stinson has integrity — an important quality for the position that requires objectivity through different political administrations. “He’d ponder what you were saying. He wasn’t quick to respond; he was more thorough than that,” Kiedrowski said. “He wouldn’t be afraid to disagree with you, but he was very polite about it.” One of Stinson’s lasting impressions will be his professionalism, Kiedrowski said. Kalambokidis, a longtime co-worker of Stinson who has a background in tax policy and state government, will take over the position in July.

“It made me a better teacher, I thought, because it was easy to bring in what was going on today and make the class a little bit more current.” TOM STINSON University professor

She said it seemed like a good time to make the switch because she doesn’t have to deal with any major economic issues. “It actually seemed like a pretty logical transition,” Kalambokidis said. She’s looking forward to stretching “all sorts of intellectual muscles,” Kalambokidis said, to answer the wide range of economic questions she’ll be asked on the job. “There’s a lot of challenges,” Stinson said, “but wheels aren’t coming off right now, and we’ll be able to do some development before the next crisis emerges.”

New building to rise in Minn. Capitol’s shadow BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn. — A rapid constr uction timetable surrounds a new legislative of fice building in the shadow of Minnesota’s Capitol, which is about to undergo a renovation of its own. State lawmakers authorized the four-stor y building and a nearby parking ramp. The of fice project was included with little debate in a broader tax package and there was $3 million set aside for planning. It will be used by state senators and their staf fs, a companion to a separate of fice building now used mainly by the House. The St. Paul Pioneer Press repor ted T uesday (http://bit.ly/17Dxbiz ) that state has solicited bidders on what is expected to be an $89.5 million building project that planners hope is built by May 2015. The state will issue bonds and lawmakers will have to appropriate money periodically to pay debt. T wo parking ramps are being contemplated at a $20.8 million combined price tag, according to bidding documents. When the Capitol is remodeled, there will be space for fewer lawmakers there. The new building is

slated to have bigger public hearing rooms. Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, DFL-Cook, said constr ucting a new legislative of fice building was “something that needed to be done in conjunction with the renovation of the Capitol.” In a separate bill approved with strong bipartisan suppor t, lawmakers voted to borrow $109 million to continue restora-

tion of the 108-year-old Capitol. Majority par ty senators will have to vacate the Capitol for a couple of years during the makeover. “We will need swing space when we have to vacate the building, so we started asking, ‘Why not a modern legislative building?’” said Sen. Ann Rest, DFL-New Hope. “This was an economical solution.”

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University of Minnesota professor and former state economist Tom Stinson explains the process of filing state reports at his office in St. Paul on Thursday. Stinson recently retired after more than 25 years as the state’s economist.

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U to save energy in parking structures Replacing lights and adding sensors will cost $3.3 million. MEAGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

The University of Minnesota plans to update every campus building to reduce overall energy use, starting with their lights. Parking and Transportation Services will spend $3.3 million on energy-conserving light fixtures for all campus parking structures, which should be fully installed by 2015. Lighting is a main focus for the University’s push toward sustainability energy because it’s an “easy hit,” said Mike Berthelsen, associate vice president of Facilities Management. Although parking struc-

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tures account for a small percentage of energy consumption compared to other buildings, the poor lighting pushed University officials to start there. PTS estimates the project will save $350,000 per year in energy costs — about a nineyear payback time. The new light fixtures are estimated to last more than 20 years. The Mall of America recently updated the lighting in its parking structures, which are slightly smaller than the University’s, for $3 million. Facilities Management usually shoots for a six-year or less payback time, but anything less than 10 years is “good” for a project of this size, said Alicia Phillips, project engineer and manager. Phillips said they chose to install LED fixtures and daylight- and motion-sensing lights after assessing campus parking structures. PTS will update lighting in 16 parking structures and some of the parking lots. Five parking garages exceeded more than 110 percent of the Minnesota Energy Code targets in 2012-13, according to Facilities Management data. Energy Code targets weren’t a big factor in planning this project since they’re just guidelines, Phillips said, but the new lights will save about 100 watts per fixture. The multimillion dollar project will take two years because it will take a large amount from PTS’ annual budget, Phillips said, which

was more than $35 million in 2011-12. Expensive sustainability projects of this size aren’t uncommon for universities, said Niffy Ovuworie, a sustainability engineer for Ohio State University. “Everyone has their own budget,” Ovuworie said, “but a nine to 10 year payback is absolutely reasonable.” Installing LED lights wherever feasible is something a lot of universities are moving toward, he said. Ohio State will be installing motion-sensored lighting as a part of their $7.1 million energy-saving building upgrades.

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Stairwell savings The University is also in the process of retrofitting all stair well lighting — an $800,000 project. About 5,000 fixtures will be installed in 115 buildings, said Blaine O’Brien, engineer manager for the project. Because University stairwells are only occupied 3 to 7 percent of the time lights are on, sensor lights with dimmers are being installed, O’Brien said. Facilities Management expects the project will save $125,000 per year in energy costs. The project, which started last August, is expected to be finished in June 2014. “[Changing the stairwell lighting] is a visible way for people to see we’re conserving energy,” O’Brien said.

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Bisexuality conference highlights research disparities The BECAUSE conference is the largest of its kind in the country. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

When writing a grant to fund last year’s bisexuality conference, University of Minnesota doctoral candidate Lauren Beach didn’t think it would be the only one focused on bisexuality among the thousands of LGBT-related grants in 2011. “I was really shocked by that because it’s pathetic,” she said. Beach was one of the organizers for the Bisexual Organizing Project’s 21st annual BECAUSE conference, which featured workshops, keynote speeches, films and per formances focusing on the empowerment of the bisexual community. The conference, held at Augsburg College last

weekend, is the nation’s largest and longest-r unning conference on bisexuality. Beach gave a presentation on the state of bisexual research, showing that of the nearly $77 million awarded in grant funding for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues, only $5,000 went to bisexuality in 2011. Her research showed nonprofit bisexual organizations from around the countr y raised $48,500 last year — much lower than money that was raised for gay, lesbian and transgender organizations. She also found that the bisexual community still doesn’t have its own national organization. “We see the disparities are present,” Beach said. “We need specific work to be done in our community.” Bisexual college students in Minnesota who responded to the Boynton Health Ser vice LGB Col-

lege Student Health Survey had higher rates of depression than gay, lesbian and heterosexual students. Bisexual students in the sur vey also experienced domestic abuse or sexual assault at a higher rate than gay, lesbian and heterosexual students.

Society gives bisexuality ‘a minor role’

This was the first year the conference included an academic component, which gave researchers an opportunity to learn the needs of the bisexual community. “We want to make sure the researchers who are doing studies on bisexuals can actually talk to people who are bisexual,” said BECAUSE conference chair Randy Frehse. Frehse, who identifies as straight, said he got involved with bisexual advocacy after his wife came out as bisexual.

Of Minnesota bisexuals sur veyed for the 2012 Bisexual Community Needs Assessment, most said they feel more accepted by the straight community than by the gay and lesbian community. Frehse said bisexuals get lumped in with gay and lesbian identities in mainstream society but sometimes get pushed out as “not gay enough” in gay and lesbian communities. “Bisexuality tends to become invisible and is marginalized in mainstream society and the GLBT community,” Frehse said. During workshops, participants voiced their struggles to fit into gay or lesbian communities because of their sexual orientations. Keynote speakers presented on topics like the existence of male bisexuality, mental health disparities in the bisexual community and bisexual invisibility. University Curriculum and Instr uction doctoral

candidate Mar y Hoelscher held workshops on how bisexual students are poorly ser ved in K-12 school environments. She said the umbrella term LGBT often doesn’t seem sufficient to support the needs of ever yone under it. “We need to star t taking some extra care and concer n to bisexual students,” Hoelscher said. “There’s still a lot of work to be done.” After attending research and community workshops at the conference, bisexuality educator Heidi Br uins Green, who came from San Francisco to attend, said the conference was a good way for bisexual activists and community members to interact in a way that doesn’t normally happen. “I want to suppor t a much stronger bi presence in the LGBT community,” Green said. “The B always plays a ver y minor role.”

Burlesque and drag performer Fox Smoulder performs at the cabaret event during the annual BECAUSE conference on Saturday, at Augsburg College.

Evening entertainment

To add enter tainment to the mix, the conference brought in some local performers for a cabaret Saturday night. The show featured a burlesque dancer, drag king Fox Smoulder performing with a sock puppet to a Meat Loaf song, belly dancers and local nerdpunk band Fuzzy Machete. Drag queen and cabaret host Janessa Jaye Champagne started off the show dancing to songs by My Chemical Romance and Cher to energize the audience. Champagne joked about choosing a pink or a blue dress to wear for the show — a tongue-in-cheek reference to how society wants bisexuals to choose between being gay or straight. “I want to tell people who tell me I have to choose pink or blue to just go [expletive] themselves,” she said.

AMANDA SNYDER, DAILY

June 12-18, 2013

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prevented from communicating with coworkers, she said. The layoffs occurred because of workload reductions and changes in the information technology industry, said OIT Associate Vice President Bernard Gulachek. Several employee groups were affected, including a Professional and Administrative senior manager, civil service employees and union employees from both clerical and technical areas. The affected employees work has changed significantly, and they are no longer needed, Gulachek said. “These folks were mostly folks that built networks,” he said, “and today we’re in more of a maintenance mode.” Gulachek said OIT approached the layoffs with sensitivity and tried to ensure the privacy of affected employees who met with their supervisors and a representative from the Office of Human Resources. Employees were asked not to discuss the matter with co-workers who may not have had a meeting yet. Gulachek said they collected essential personal belongings right away and scheduled a time to return for the rest. Gulachek said the process for the layoffs was standard in the information technology industry and followed OHR and University policies. “This isn’t the IT industry. This is the University of Minnesota,” said AFSCME 3800 President Cherrene Horazuk, who works as aide to the dean of the Humphrey School of Public Affairs. She said in addition to meeting with OHR and OIT, the union has also sent letters to University leaders about the effects the staffing cuts will have on campus operations. Horazuk said she is particularly concerned about cuts in staff members who provide directory assistance. She said there is now one employee to field calls from the Twin Cities campus information line — a duty previously shared by at least three employees. “They said that the work is going away, that there’s just not enough work there for

these positions,” she said. “I think all it takes is calling 6255000 and ask[ing] some complicated questions and seeing how long you’re put on hold.” Of the 25 employees laid off, eight were telecom engineering technicians who wire and repair the University’s telephone network, said Barb Bezat, president of AFSCME Local 3937, which represents University technical employees. There were originally 17 employees in this position, so the layoffs cut the telecom technician workforce almost in half, she said. St. Paul resident David Wenda worked at the University as a telecom engineering technician for almost seven years before being laid off in May. Though he was initially assigned to the health sciences area, Wenda said he also worked on the West Bank, St. Paul campus, the University’s Landscape Arboretum and even the University’s Rochester and Morris campuses because his position was shortstaffed. Wenda’s super visors told him the workload was decreasing, he said, which is hard to believe because buildings like Nor throp Memorial Auditorium, the Physics and Nanotechnology Building and the 17th Avenue Residence Hall still need to be wired into the University system. “That all takes time and people,” he said. “You can’t just plug into the wall.” With nearly half the workforce doing the tasks he was responsible for gone, Wenda said he worries about how long his old customers will have to wait to get repairs done. Wenda, 55, said he plans to stay on the layoff list in hopes of being hired back by the University. “At my age, it’s going to be tough to find a job,” he said. “It’s not going to work out very well for me.” With one of his children still in college, Wenda said he and his wife are trying to figure out how to cut expenses. When the phone rings, he said he keeps hoping for a call from a prospective employer. “The phone keeps ringing,” he said. “Hopefully one of them will be picking me up.”

Como shop serves pies

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Potter’s Pasties & Pies owner Alec Duncan in front of his food truck he parks behind his recently opened location on Como Avenue on Saturday.

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Artistic connections

During the last conversation Duncan had with his sister, she told him to incorporate art into ever ything he did. While on a two-month trip hiking in Nepal, he learned she had committed suicide. When Duncan returned to Minnesota, he began inviting local ar tists to play outside his food trucks to honor his sister’s wishes. “[Music] has always been a par t of his life,” said his wife Fiona Duncan, “and he’ll always include that with him.” With his new store hidden in the basement of Joe’s Market and Deli, Alec plans to expand his support for local artists by hanging and selling their work in the store, giving them 100 percent of the

profit. Alec said he also hopes to have musicians play inside and outside of his cozy store. “He tries to use his oppor tunity to help out as many people as he can,” said pastr y chef Jamie Huberty, adding that this idea drew her to work for Alec.

Perfecting the pasty It took Alec six months, working five days a week, while living in Vietnam to per fect the pasty dough recipe — with nothing but a toaster oven. After his first time working in a kitchen at age 14, he was hooked. He worked in restaurants throughout the Twin Cities during and after attending the University of St. Thomas, but didn’t agree with how a lot of places conducted their businesses. “Tons of people take shortcuts,” Alec said, “and you can taste that.”

So when he star ted his own food business, he wanted to do it the right way. Fiona said her husband isn’t afraid to take chances, putting his own spin on the traditional recipes. “He’s a bit of an artist in his cooking,” she said. Huberty said Alec has a “creative palette” when it comes to developing new menu items. Although he’s open to creative suggestions from his staf f, he refuses to change his pasties based on customer requests. “You don’t buy a painting and paint something new in the background,” Alec said.

‘Live and breathe’ pasties

During Potter’s lunch r ush, the line snakes up the stairs. British flags greet customers as they descend and step up to order at the window, where they can watch their pasty

go in the oven. Rachel Dor n, University of Minnesota communications senior, said Potter’s pasties remind her of the ones she had in England while studying abroad. “I eat here once a week,” Dorn said. “I recommend it.” The feedback from students has been great so far, Alec said, adding that he hopes to open more locations in the future, perhaps a sit-down restaurant. In addition to the art aspect, Alec said he wants to focus on distribution and selling his take ‘n’ bake pasties. He will also keep the food tr ucks r unning six days a week. Although Alec is driven to grow his business, creating a unique culinar y experience remains his top priority. “I live and breathe this,” he said. “If you only think about the money, then good luck.”

June 12-18, 2013

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over the next year to meet the Legislature’s request, adding “operational excellence” is his top priority. While many were pleased with Kaler’s shortterm goals, some voiced concerns about long-term funding for the University.

Despite freeze, fees increase

The tuition freeze satisfies a promise Kaler made to the Legislature last session in exchange for higher state investment in the University. The Legislature granted most of the University’s funding requests in the higher education omnibus bill, which passed last month. Kaler said the high appropriations by the state this year follow a six-year decrease in funding for the University. The Legislature voted to incr ease funding to the state grant program, which Kaler said is another way students will benefit in the coming years. “I have always felt that if you want to know an institution’s priorities, you should look at its budget,” Kaler said. “And I feel that this budget highlights our priorities towards excellence and access.” During his presentation last week to the regents, Kaler heard mostly praise, though many had specific concerns. Regent John Frobenius voiced concerns about long-ter m funding and tuition costs for students after the two-year resident tuition freeze. “Ever y time you say that word ‘freeze,’ … there is a cliff to climb at the end of the freeze,” he said. “I do think we need to spend a little time understanding what happens three years from now.” Outgoing Minnesota Student Association President Taylor W illiams echoed those concer ns and asked the board to focus on reducing costs at the University. “This budget makes some moves in the right

VERONICA HO, DAILY

President Eric Kaler answers questions and addresses concerns about his proposed 2013-2014 budget Wednesday, June 5, 2013, at McNamara Alumni Center.

direction,” he said. “But we must remember that it only makes a small impact in the context of a decadeplus-long trend of cost increases that have fallen squarely on students.” In Kaler’s budget, instate tuition at the Twin Cities campus will remain at $12,060 next year, while non-resident students will see a $1,000 jump in tuition, bringing their cost to more than $18,000 per year. Room and board would increase by more than $300, student services fees would increase by about $95 and specific class fees will rise. Most of the student services fees increase is driven by the new recreational center building and funding for more mental health resources on campus, said Richard Pfutzenreuter, University vice president and chief financial officer.

Tuition increases for some

Graduate and profes-

sional student tuition will rise by 3 percent for most programs in the coming year, according to the proposed budget, but others will rise by up to 9 percent. Graduate student Aaron Beek said his peers “are suf fering from serious pressures” financially because of rising costs. “ We a r e a s k i n g t h e Board of Regents to recognize the need for a stronger financial commitment to graduate education on top of organizational change,” he said. Kaler said though the University had increased state funding this year from past legislative sessions, not all requested appropriations were granted, so some students might not be included in the tuition freeze. “There’s a lot of interest in supporting access to undergraduate education,” he said. “Frankly, there’s less political enthusiasm around the cost of graduate education.”

Among the graduate program increases, firstyear resident law students will see the largest jump of about 9 percent, bringing in-state tuition up to more than $38,000. Second-and third-year law students will see smaller increases. Tuition for first-year Executive MBA students will also rise 8.4 percent, bringing the cost to more than $52,000. “Our law school has strategically decided to move its tuition up to the median of its peer group,” Kaler said, “and to allow access to students from low- or moderate-income families by providing additional financial aid.” Carl Spindler, a recent graduate of the law school, said he’s seen firsthand how the increase will impact law students down the line when paying of f debts and looking for jobs. “I think the biggest concern is that it doesn’t really impact the students now.”

TOP FIVE PROGRAMS WITH LARGEST TUITION INCREASE LAW SCHOOL 9% increase

$19,020/semester

FOR: residents

CARLSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVE MBA 8.4% increase

$26,250/semester

FOR: resident and non-resident students

HUMPHREY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT 6.8% increase

$8,545/semester

FOR: residents

COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MASTERS 5.2% increase

$8,050/semester

FOR: second-year residents and non-residents

MEDICAL SCHOOL 4.7% increase

$11,900/semester $11,366/semester $10,859/semester

FOR: third year residents FOR: fourth year residents

FOR: fifth year residents SOURCE: KALER’S BUDGET FOR FY 2013-14

Second floor redo starts Monday Coffman

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Borders president, said the main loss for the group will be storage space, which the group used to stockpile boxes of international donations each semester. Huebsch said she’s curious to see how much storage space will be available now that the group doesn’t have a dedicated office. Eight large and 36 small storage lockers are planned in the multi-use space, said Student Unions and Activities director Maggie Towle. The lockers will be available to rent for daily use with some set aside for semester-long periods. Meeting space within the multi-use areas will be reserved in a similar process with students allotting group time by online reservation. The move-in date for the groups is slated for late August, with a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for February. Towle said the shorterthan-normal timeframe increased costs for the updated space. The three-month timeline was necessary for students to be able to move back in by fall semester, she said. The multi-million dollar project includes about $160,000 in contingency costs, Towle said, that will be returned to SUA and the University if it’s not needed. Because all of the interior walls will be tor n down, more than half of the expenses will be used on demolition, electrical and installation work.

A three-year process

Renovation discussions have evolved significantly

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since the University first started the project in 2010. After the Student Services Fees Committee claimed the second floor wasn’t “viewpoint-neutral” and not inclusive of all groups, former Vice Provost for Student Affairs Jerry Rinehart began pushing for the renovation, according to an article published in the Minnesota Daily on August 8, 2012. Towle said the multiuse spaces, which are new to the floor, were designed so that more groups would be able to meet in Coffman Union. Outgoing Colleges Against Cancer President Katie Thibert said a representative from the group attended committee meetings, but the group won’t benefit much from the renovation. “We were under the impression that we weren’t going to have an office regardless, so it wasn’t as ad-

vantageous for our group,” she said. The r enovation centers on three key points: having the space be more flexible, accessible and visible, which Towle said could make it easier for gr oups to r ecr uit new members. “As we’ve had these conversations over the last few years,” Towle said, “the student groups got excited about how much more successful their groups will be by having this nice open, collaborative space.” The renovation plan, which she said was completely student-r un, was headed by the SUA Board of Governors, the Second Floor Advisor y Committee and a committee that represented groups without dedicated office space. Huebsch said groups wer e invited to openly share their concer ns about the transition and

what they wanted from the new space. “We really appreciated that they tried to include us in the whole process,” Huebsch said. Architectural and interior design firm Studio Hive also sat down with committee members to discuss specific changes to the floor plan. Bringing in natural lighting and opening up the space was a main objective of the renovation, with removable floor-toceiling glass walls as a main fixture of the design. According to Towle, the walls will make it possible to “change the nature of the second floor ver y easily.” Currently, groups that ar e active in the summer have of fice space in Kolthof f Hall classrooms, and discarded items from the move-out will be given to the University’s ReUse Program.

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Books, computers, trash and other debris litter the floor of Room 226 on Monday in Coffman Union. This room once hosted the Student Organization Activities Center but is now one of many rooms on the second floor of Coffman Union being renovated.

RENOVATION EXPENSES BREAKDOWN $1,315,997 CONSTRUCTION (demo, electrical, HVAC, etc.)

$650,000 OWNER COSTS (furniture, architectural walls, moving expenses)

$193,903 UNIVERSITY PROVIDED SERVICES (voice, data, wireless, security cameras, keys, signage, etc.)

$164,600 CONTINGENCY (unforeseen situations)

$100,500 PROFESSIONAL FEES (architecture, and engineering fees)

$75,000 PROJECT MANAGEMENT FEES (from University CPPM)

TOTAL COST: $2,500,000 SOURCE: STUDENT UNIONS AND ACTIVITIES

June 12-18, 2013

Marcy-Holmes sees several broken car windows Also, a University student stopped a man from breaking into her house Saturday. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

Several Marcy-Holmes residents had their car windows smashed in the last week, according to Minneapolis police reports. Jen Klabo said she heard her car alarm go off early Friday morning but didn’t think anything of it because she’d accidentally set it off before. The former University student saw someone had broken into her car later that day when she went to work, according to a Minneapolis police report. Nothing was taken from the car, the report said, but Klabo said she saw shoe marks in the sand near her car. “My entire rear passenger window was shattered,” she said. “They definitely crawled through my car.” Andy Schnabel saw Saturday morning the front passenger window of his car had been smashed. The only thing stolen from the car was an empty computer bag, according to a Minneapolis police report. Schnabel, who is not affiliated with the University, said he was more upset about the window. “That sucked to repair,” he said. A University student left her vehicle parked on Ninth Avenue Southeast on Friday

POLICE REPORT

night, according to a Minneapolis police report. Early Saturday morning, the student returned to find her back windshield shattered. Nothing was missing, according to the report.

Thefts from Blarney Two women had their belongings stolen last weekend at Blar ney Pub and Grill, according to Minneapolis police reports. A University student was singing karaoke early Friday morning and set her cellphone next to her, one report said. After finishing the song, the student noticed her phone was gone. Another woman had her phone and wallet stolen when she was at Blarney on Friday night, according to a police report. Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said bar thefts can happen quickly, so it’s best for patrons to keep their belongings close and be aware of their surroundings. “From the time that somebody wants to take your cell phone until it’s hidden could just be literally two or three seconds,” Palmer said.

Student stops breakin

A University of Minnesota student stopped a man from breaking into

her home on 15th Avenue Southeast early Saturday morning, according to a Minneapolis police report. The woman was sleeping on her couch when she heard the man opening her window, which was closed but unlocked. She yelled at the suspect, and he ran away, the report said. Palmer said police see a lot of break-ins during the day because the potential thieves expect homes to be empty. “Most burglars don’t want anything to do with people,” he said.

Party thefts Three Marcy-Holmes residents had their valuables stolen from separate par ties after strangers showed up, according to Minneapolis police reports. University alumna Kaila Narum was at a par ty on May 31 at 14th Avenue Southeast when her friends let a man into the house, one report said. “He was the only one we didn’t know,” Narum said. “He said he was locked out of his apartment.” Narum’s mother texted her early the next morning to tell her someone had used her credit card to buy food and pay for a taxi, the repor t said. Narum then canceled all of her credit cards. A University student had his wallet stolen the same night from a party on 11th Avenue Southeast, a Minneapolis police report said. After hearing a laptop had been stolen from the party, the student went in-

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side to check on his belongings, the report said. He saw people running away from the par ty and noticed his wallet and phone missing. Jimmy Notto’s laptop went missing June 1 after his roommate had friends and family over to their Stadium View apartment, according to a Minneapolis police report. “I had arranged for one of my friends to pick up my laptop,” the Art Institutes Inter national Minnesota student said, and when the friend came by early the next morning it was still there. Later that day, Notto’s friend returned and the laptop was gone. Notto said his roommate didn’t know one of the people who had been at the house the night before. “We do see a fair amount of that ‘uninvited guest’ or … ‘friend of a friend’ type of thing,” said University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner. “First rule of thumb would be not to allow people you don’t know into your residence.”

Assault at Fairview A University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview patient assaulted two emergency room staff June 5, according to a University police report. “The patient was intoxicated and under the influence of some narcotics,” Miner said, and was violently pushing staff and swearing at them. Miner said the patient is not affiliated with the University.

U research measures ‘crop per drop’

Humans use more water for agriculture than anything else. Better management and distribution of water could help feed millions of people and tend to their day-to-day water needs. University of Minnesota research published last month investigated the connection between water sustainability and food security. Kate Brauman, a postdoctoral fellow with the University’s Institute on the Environment and lead author of the study, said the focus was on how much food could be produced from each drop of water. “If we’re using water in agriculture,” she said, “are we getting enough food bang for our water buck? If we’r e making tradeof fs, are we making good tradeoffs?” The research took a theoretical approach to isolate the crops that use a lot of water for little caloric gain — like rice growing in a dr y climate, for example. Brauman said improving the ir rigation and yield of these lowest-performing crops could use less water and produce more crops. For rain-fed croplands, the research showed 110

Making models a reality

The next step in making these gains a reality lies in work that researchers are doing on the ground. Brauman’s study looked at 16 dif fer ent crops, including wheat, legumes and some of the other biggest staple foods around the world. IonE program director Paul West said finding out how to actually increase the yields is their next goal. “We help … identify which crops in which places are having the biggest ef fect on water, on climate, on habitats,” he said. Stefan Sieber t, a study co-author from the University of Bonn in Germany, calculated how much water dif ferent crops need. Brauman then combined this data with information on crop yields from the University’s Global Landscapes Initiative to create the “crop per drop” models. Developments in tech-

nology and soil and crop management have huge potential to increase crop yields and reduce gaps in many places, Sieber t said in an email inter view. Here in Minnesota, better irrigation scheduling, management and technology has helped reduce water use, said Warren Formo, a Minnesota farmer and executive director of the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center. Many farmers in Minnesota have switched from an irrigation system that sprays water high into the air to a new system that lowers the water stream, reducing evaporation. Formo said the “check-

book method” has been another major change to irrigation processes for efficiently using water. The method takes into account snowmelt, rainfall and the organic matter in soil to better determine how much water is needed for certain crops. The global numbers ar e inter esting, For mo said, but not excessively relevant to the work farmers are doing on the ground. “Agriculture globally is much dif ferent than on a farmer’s individual 40 acres,” For mo said. “If you look at global averages and then look at my farm in Minnesota, it’s so different.”

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million more people could be fed without using additional water ever y year by adjusting the low performers. Improving the bottomlevel crops for ir rigated croplands could meet the annual household water demands of about 1.4 billion people. “ O b v i o u s l y, y o u couldn’t necessarily get all of these gains,” Brauman said. But small “crop per drop” changes could still make a big difference, she said.

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PHILADELPHIA — A heavy equipment operator with a lengthy rap sheet who is accused of being high on marijuana when a downtown building collapsed onto a thrift store, killing six people, surrendered Saturday to face charges in the deaths, police said. Sean Benschop faces six counts of involuntar y manslaughter, 13 counts of recklessly endangering another person and one count of risking a catastrophe. A warrant had been issued for his ar rest and police had been searching for him. Authorities believe the 42-year-old Benschop had been using an excavator Wednesday when the remains of the four-stor y building under demolition gave way and toppled onto an attached Salvation Army thrift store, killing two employees and four customers and injuring 13 others. Deputy Mayor Everett Gillison said a toxicology repor t showed evidence that Benschop was high on marijuana. That finding, combined with witness statements and evidence from the scene, led to the decision Friday to raid his Nor th Philadelphia home and later seek an arrest warrant, he said. Benschop’s attor ney, Daine Grey, said his client was not at fault. “This was an accident, but Mr. Benschop is not responsible,” Grey said Saturday. “And we believe that, in time, the facts will show that he is not responsible.” Benschop was wearing a bandage on his right arm when he turned himself in. Grey said he had been injured at a worksite, but he declined to say where or when. Gr ey said Benschop was able to operate heavy equipment. “He was co m p l etel y able to operate a backhoe,” Grey said. “ ... He operated it safely, as he always does, and he did not violate the law in any capacity. “He has been doing this for more than 13 years. He is ver y experienced. He has worked for a number of contractors throughout the region. All of the contractors have found him professional and found that he did his work with the highest regard for the safety of those around him.” Mayor Michael Nutter, in a statement Saturday night, called for harsh charges and punishment for Benschop. “It is my hope that the harshest level of charges are brought against Sean Benschop and he is punished accordingly,” Nutter said. “We must also seek answers from proper ty owners Richard Basciano and Grif fin T. Campbell who hired Benschop to do the significant job of operating heavy equipment. These three individuals bear the ultimate and sole responsibility for this tragedy. Justice will only be ser ved if Sean Benschop receives a sentence that buries him in a jailhouse forever, just like his victims were buried on Wednesday.” Benschop, who also goes by the name Kar y Rober ts, has been arrested at least 11 times since 1994 on charges ranging from drugs to theft to weapons possession, according to cour t records. He was twice sentenced to prison in the 1990s after being convicted on dr ug traf ficking charges. Benschop’s last ar rest, on a charge of aggravated

assault, came in Januar y 2012, but the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. As the criminal investigation heated up, at least two sur vivors sued the demolition contractor and building owner, alleging gross recklessness at the job site. The city, meanwhile, promised to crack down on the demolition industr y. “We can do much better,” Nutter said at a news conference Friday. “We will not accept the status quo in the face of this tragedy.” Nutter’s refor m plan for constr uction sites includes random dr ug testing on heavy equipment operators. “If that’s a factor here, that certainly takes things in a ver y dif ferent direction,” he said hours before the charges against Benschop were confirmed. The mayor also pledged to adopt tougher background requirements for demolition contractors, including information about each worker’s experience, and more frequent site inspections when demolitions are under way. His plan could run into resistance from builders who say they’re already highly regulated. “I think that befor e we do anything, before we r ush to any judgment about how to fix what happened, we have to have all the facts,” said Steven Lakin, executive managing director of the General Building Contractors Association, a trade group representing Philadelphia-area contractors. “Ever ybody wants to regulate demolition contractors, but I’m not so sure that’s the answer.” Lawyers for the two sur vivors who have sued accuse demolition contractor Grif fin Campbell — who has a criminal background and has filed for bankr uptcy twice — of violating federal safety regulations. They say building owner Richard Basciano should have picked a more qualified and competent contractor to do the work. No one answered the phone at a listing for Campbell on Satur day, and the voice mailbox was full. Plaintif f Linda Bell, a 50-year-old mother of three, was shopping at the thrift store when the building came down on top of her. She fell into the basement and was covered by r ubble for more than an hour. “She’s still shook up real bad, sore, swollen up,” Bell’s brother, Keith Bell, told the AP on Friday. She’s also suf fering mental anguish from “seeing other people getting killed,” he said. Construction engineers have said the thrift store should have been evacuated during critical phases of the demolition project next door. The Salvation Ar my was concer ned enough about the demolition that its attorneys reached out to a lawyer for building owner STB Investments Corp., a company linked to prominent businessman and developer Richar d Basciano. “There was communication between The Salvation Army and the attorney of the neighboring building’s owner, pertaining to the demolition. The neighbor assured The Salvation Army that they would be taking proper precautions,” Maj. Robert W. Dixon, director of operations of The Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia, said in a statement Friday.

June 12-18, 2013

Diversity workshop program grows Over 400 students have been certified in diversity issues. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

As a new group of freshmen gears up to enter the University of Minnesota this fall, the Office for Equity and Diversity is trying to make their first time on campus a more welcoming experience. After more than a year of of fering diversity training workshops for University students, staf f and faculty, OED is working to expand by training Welcome Week and Orientation Leaders. “We’re tr ying to get more student voices into the workshops,” OED Director of Education Anne Phibbs said. “We would

love to see more graduate and undergraduates involved.” More than 800 people have attended Equity and Diversity Cer tificate Program workshops since its creation in spring 2012, but students make up a small por tion of them, Phibbs said. The full certificate program includes 10 threehour workshops on topics like race, disabilities, gender, sexual orientation and gender identity. Participants develop skills to work and communicate across those dif ferences, Phibbs said. “One of our central frames is that diversity is ever ybody’s ever yday work,” Phibbs said. When par ticipating in the basic and advanced certificate programs, Humphrey School of Public

Af fairs senior academic adviser Katherine Murphy said she noticed fewer faculty members than staf f attended and even fewer students. Most of the students in the workshops were graduate level, Murphy said.

‘A safe space to share their thoughts’

Phibbs presented OED’s introductor y workshop to the Welcome Week leaders in April. More than 400 students par ticipated in the workshop, said Jenny Por ter, University Orientation and First-Year Programs associate department director. Orientation Leaders learn about equity and diversity issues during weekly spring semester courses. The 28 students helped Phibbs facilitate discus-

sions during the Welcome Week leader workshop. “People don’t want to say the wrong thing, so they don’t say anything at all,” Por ter said. “[The training] gives them a safe space to share their thoughts.” University biology senior Margaret Shevik — a Welcome Week leader for the third time — said the training workshop was a great experience for students to share stories about when others made incor rect assumptions about them. “I think there are a lot of instances where the freshmen feel uncomfortable or unsure of where they fit in,” Shevik said. “I think it’s a great way to welcome ever yone and get used to an including environment.” The workshop helped Shevik feel more prepared

for this fall’s Welcome Week than the previous two, she said, and she’s interested in attending more. “Diversity is something that’s very essential for our campus community,” she said. “Understanding that not ever yone is just like you is ver y important, and I think this training did a great job of that.” Since the program is relatively new, trainers are still changing the way workshops are run based on par ticipant feedback, said Kimberly Hewitt, director of the Equal Oppor tunity and Af firmative Action — one of the program’s 15 trainers. Workshops are of fered year-round and continue to fill up, Phibbs said. “The fact that people continue to register tells me that we’re doing something good,” Phibbs said.

EQUITY AND DIVERSITY CERTIFICATE WORKSHOPS

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15 WORKSHOP TRAINERS 30 hours REQUIRED TO COMPLETE BASIC CERTIFICATE

48 hours REQUIRED TO COMPLETE ADVANCED CERTIFICATE

800+ WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS 400+ PARTICIPATING WELCOME WEEK LEADERS

28 PARTICIPATING ORIENTATION

LEADERS SOURCE: ANNE PHIBBS, OFFICE FOR EQUITY AND DIVERSITY

Media: no mistaking how NSA story reporter feels BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — The man who claimed to leak state secrets on U.S. gover nment eavesdropping sought to break the stor y through a columnist for a U.K.-based publication who has made no secret of his distaste for intrusions on privacy. Edward Snowden brought his information first to Glenn Greenwald of The Guardian, illustrating the passion an opinion-driven journalist can bring to a breaking news stor y at the same time it raises questions about fairness. Greenwald, author of three books in which he argues the gover nment has trampled on personal rights in the name of protecting national security, wrote the original stories exposing the extent of the government’s data collec-

tion. Over the weekend, he identified intelligence contractor Snowden as his source at Snowden’s request, and said more stories are coming. “What we disclosed was of great public interest, of great impor tance in a democracy, that the U.S. gover nment is building this massive spying apparatus aimed at its own population,” Greenwald said Monday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Greenwald also told The Associated Press that he’s been contacted by “countless people” offering to create legal defense funds for Snowden. The topic is personal for Greenwald, 46. A former constitutional and civil rights lawyer who was educated at the New York University Law School, he began the “Unclaimed Territor y” blog in 2005 and

wrote “How Would a Patriot Act?” a year later. The book criticized the Bush administration for its use of executive power. Greenwald, now based in Brazil, wrote a regular column for Salon for five years until joining The Guardian last year. He said he wanted to reach a more international audience, a desire that coincided with the news organization’s effort to expand its reach in the U.S. market. One program he wrote about collects hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records. The second program takes in audio, email and other electronic activities primarily by foreign nationals who use providers like Microsoft and Apple. Greenwald described the collection of phone records on Monday as “rampant abuse and it needs sunlight. That’s why this

Feds now back morning-after pills for all girls BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — After setting off a storm of criticism from abortion rights groups upset that a Democratic president had sided with social conser vatives, the Obama administration said it will comply with a judge’s order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions. But in doing so, at least one opponent of easy access to the contraception thinks the president is buckling to political pressure, rather than making the health of girls a priority. The Justice Depar tment notified U.S. District Judge Edward Korman on Monday that it will submit a plan for compliance. If he approves it, the department will drop its appeal of his April ruling. According to the department’s letter to the judge, the Food and Drug Administration has told the maker of the pills to submit a new drug application with proposed labeling that would permit it to be sold “without a prescription and without age or point-of-sale prescriptions.” The FDA said that once it receives the application, it “intends to approve it promptly.” Advocates for girls’ and women’s rights said the federal government’s decision to comply with the judge’s ruling could be a move forward for “reproductive justice” if the FDA acts quickly and puts emergency contraception over the counter without restriction. “It’s about time that the administration stopped opposing women having access to safe and ef fective birth control,” Annie Tummino, coordinator of the National Women’s Liberation and lead plaintiff in a lawsuit over unrestricted access to the morning-after pill, said in an emailed statement. She said women and girls should have “the abso-

lute right to control our bodies without having to ask a doctor or a pharmacist for permission.” NARAL Pro-Choice America President Ilyse Hogue welcomed the decision by the Obama administration. “By making emergency contraception available to women of all ages, the FDA is taking an important step to reduce unintended pregnancies and put women in control of their futures,” Hogue said in a statement. But an opponent of the contraception plan, at the anti-abor tion Family Research Council, criticized the gover nment for not sticking with its decision to appeal. “We’re ver y concerned and disappointed at the same time because what we see here is the government caving to political pressure instead of putting first the health and safety of girls (and) parental rights,” said Anna Higgins, director of the council’s Center for Human Dignity. The gover nment had appealed the judge’s underlying April 5 ruling, which ordered emergency contraceptives based on the hormone levonorgestrel be made available without a prescription, over the counter and without point-of-sale or age restrictions. It had asked the judge to suspend the ef fect of that ruling until the appeals court could decide the case. But the judge declined, saying the government’s decision to restrict sales of the morning-after pill was “politically motivated, scientifically unjustified and contrar y to agency precedent.” He also said there was no basis to deny the request to make the drugs widely available. The government had argued that “substantial market confusion” could result if the judge’s ruling were enforced while appeals were pending, only to be later overturned.

Last week, an appeals court dealt the government a setback by saying it would immediately permit unrestricted sales of the two-pill version of the emergency contraception until the appeal was decided. The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the female hormone progestin than is in regular birth control pills. Taking it within 72 hours of rape, condom failure or just forgetting regular contraception can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent, but it works best within the first 24 hours. If a girl or woman already is pregnant, the pill, which prevents ovulation or fertilization of an egg, has no effect. The FDA was preparing in 2011 to allow over-thecounter sales of the morning-after pill with no limits when Health and Human Ser vices Secretar y Kathleen Sebelius overruled her own scientists in an unprecedented move. The FDA announced in late April that Plan B OneStep, the newer version of emergency contraception, the same dr ug but combined into one pill instead of two, could be sold without a prescription to those age 15 or older. Its maker, Teva Women’s Health, plans to begin those sales soon. Sales had previously been limited to those who were at least 17. The judge later ridiculed the FDA changes, saying they established “nonsensical r ules” that favored sales of the Plan B One-Step morning-after pill and were made “to sugarcoat” the government’s appeal. He also said they placed a disproportionate burden on blacks and the poor by requiring a prescription for less expensive generic versions of the drug bought by those under age 17 and by requiring those age 17 or over to show proof-of-age identification at pharmacies.

person came for ward and that’s why we published our stories.” On “Morning Joe,” he snapped that co-host Mika Brzezinski was using “Obama talking points” when she challenged him with a question. “The wall of secrecy behind which they operate is impenetrable and it is a real menace to democracy,” said Greenwald, who won a 2010 Online Journalism Association award for his coverage of Bradley Manning, who is charged with giving classified documents to WikiLeaks. S n o w d e n , h o w e v e r, didn’t bring his information only to Greenwald. Barton Gellman of The Washington Post wrote on Sunday that Snowden had contacted him about the stor y. He said Snowden had asked that the Post publish within 72 hours the

full contents of a presentation he had made about the collection of electronic activity from the Silicon Valley companies. Gellman said the Post would not make any guarantees and sought the government’s views about whether the information would harm national security. The Post eventually agreed to publish a small sample of what Snowden was offering, but Snowden backed away, writing that “I regret that we weren’t able to keep this project unilateral.” Snowden then contacted Greenwald, the Post said. Greenwald’s clear point of view doesn’t necessarily weaken the stor y, said Jay Rosen, journalism professor at New York University and author of the Press Think blog. “In many ways it strengthens it,” he said.

Greenwald has a clear stance on privacy and national security, but they aren’t par tisan; he’s criticized Democratic President Barack Obama and his Republican predecessor, George W. Bush. “The fact that sources now may choose (outlets) on the basis of commitment is a fact and journalists whose professional stance is no commitment may find themselves at a disadvantage,” he said. Greenwald’s known feelings on the issue “does leave a little opening for critics,” said Ellen Shearer, head of the national security journalism initiative at Nor thwestern University. There’s always a risk that such passion can work against a journalist; some people would worr y that facts contradictor y to a predisposed belief could be overlooked.

School official tells of gunman’s brush with law BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOS ANGELES — Police found bomb-making materials seven years ago in the home of the gunman who killed five people last week in Santa Monica, a school board official said on Tuesday. Police discovered the materials after John Zawahri threatened fellow high school students in 2006, Oscar de la Torre, a member of the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified school board, told The Associated Press. The board was briefed by school administrators after police found Zawahri was learning to make explosives by downloading instructions from YouTube, de la Torre said. “It was some type of devices or materials that would be able to make explosives, and the word ‘pipe bombs’ was what was referred to,” he said. “If it was guns and stuf f like that it would have been more serious, but because it was explosives, it wasn’t deemed ‘Oh my God,’ just that this guy had a fascination.” Zawahri wasn’t expelled, de la Torre said, but he never finished classes at Olympic High, a continuation school for students who have academic or disciplinary issues. The revelation came four days after authorities said Zawahri shot and killed five people during a 15-minute rampage that ended on a Southern California college campus as students were taking final exams. Zawahri, 23, shot his father, Samir Zawahri, and his 25-year-old brother, Christopher Zawahri, on Friday, leaving their home in flames before shooting at strangers in cars and at Santa Monica College. The for mer student at the school was heavily armed and carried a duffel bag with 1,300 rounds of ammunition before officers killed him in the campus li-

brary. The victims included a campus groundskeeper and his daughter, who was a student at the college, and a woman collecting cans outside the library. De la Torre, who was a neighbor of Zawahri, said the gunman’s father told him he was having problems with his son eight months ago. “They didn’t talk to a lot of people, they were ver y reserved,” de la Torre said. “One time he did tell me he had problems with his younger son, knowing I work with youth. He never went into detail about anything.” Investigators were tr ying to determine whether problems in the Zawahri family played a role in the killings. Zawahri’s mother, Randa Abdou, said in court filings in 1998 that her husband threatened her and became abusive five years into their marriage when she moved from Lebanon to join him in the U.S. Abdou has not spoken to the media. Police say John Zawahri had contact with officers in 2006 but wouldn’t divulge details because he was a juvenile. Zawahri enr olled at Santa Monica College in the winter of 2009 and last attended in fall 2010, taking classes in the entertainment technology program, which involves video game design, animation and computer skills for digital media, the college said in a statement that also reported no disciplinar y issues with Zawahri. Neighbors have de scribed Zawahri as reclusive and said his 55-year-old father was friendly though not overly social. Zawahri’s parents married in 1985, and in the mid1990s his father brought his family to the Santa Monica neighborhood of small homes and apartment buildings tucked up against Interstate 10, according to

property records. A neighbor said the couple had a dif ficult divorce and one son went to live with the father and the other with the mother. Wendy Parise, who was a teacher at Lincoln Child Development Preschool and specializes in early childhood education, remembers 4-year-old John Zawahri as “ver y timid, withdrawn and ver y sensitive” while he was in her class. In 1993, Zawahri’s mother contacted the school terrified; not knowing where to go at the time. She told the school that “her husband had pulled a knife on her and her boys,” Parise said. The school contacted a local battered women’s shelter and Abdou went there. When Parise saw a photo of John Zawahri identified as the Santa Monica gunman, she said she thought, “Ooh my God, I know this person, and it started to come back.” “I just picture him as a sad little boy who was not aggressive, very quiet, difficult to engage,” Parise said. Zawahri wasn’t social with the other kids, but Parise chalked that up to him being shy. “Now I look back and I think he was traumatized as a child, he was living through all of that, and part of me thinks, what happened to this boy in subsequent years?” Parise said. “That family was poisoned and he lived in a poisonous environment, and that was devastating.” When Zawahri was 9, his now-separated mother sought a restraining order. He once came to the apartment and told her that he was going to take the children to Canada, she said. “The defendant said that he would do anything to make my life miserable and that he could kill me and no restraining order can stop him,” she said in court papers.

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Religion in the digital age What should we expect from religion now?

TRENT M KAYS columnist

But, religion is a fickle creature in the “no matter what religion one follows” 21st centur y; it is always about connection. The digital age has given us the ability to connect with others at great distances. We can learn about religions we once never knew existed by spending an hour or two on Wikipedia. This is a fundamental change in how religion is disseminated. Now, the Internet is our prophet, spreading the ideas of all religions to the masses. I doubt anyone would disagree that religion has caused numerous problems in the world. Religion has been responsible for death, genocide, war and many other despicable issues in our world. However, unlike in the past, the digital age has given us ac-

cess to hyper-public information, so these types of atrocities can no longer remain obscure. The digital age cer tainly has influenced my understanding of religion. It took me many years to discover my understanding of the world, and the digital age helped me with it. I don’t think our world is ready to be absent of religion. I think this not because I feel religion is the great connector and our world will crumble without it; I think this because religion is a personal choice. As long as people choose to believe, religion will exist. Faith, spirituality and belief are intrinsic for some and extrinsic for others, but either way, it doesn’t matter. People will believe what they want to believe. The advent of the digital age has given religion new pervasiveness. With this comes new hate, new love, new ignorance and new beliefs. The question becomes: What do we want from religion in the 21st century? In many ways, technology has become the new religion.

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 112,976- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,313 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

If Apple were a religion, it would be one of the largest religions in the world. How is Christianity changed by the iPhone? How does Wikipedia spread Buddhism? These types of questions, regardless of our beliefs and spirituality, permeate our understanding of how knowledge works in the digital age; it spreads from one tablet to one phone to one mind. The systems of knowledge that govern religion in the 21st century are more apparent now than ever before. We now know the extent of theocracy, the pretention of gaudy churches and the faux righteousness of televangelists. We know these things now, and we know them thanks, in part, to the digital age. If anything, religion will not disappear in the 21st centur y. The digital age has made it too prevalent and too accessible. Indeed, its rifeness, thanks in no small part to the Internet, has ensured its continued survival. Trent M. Kays welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Nor wood Teague and Title IX

As a University of Minnesota alumna, former Gophers women’s volleyball coach for 13 years and a general suppor ter of the University, I am ver y concerned with the comments coming fr om Nor wood Teague about Title IX. In a June 4 ar ticle in the Star Tribune, it was repor ted that the Big Ten is adding lacrosse as a sport in 2015. When asked if that means the University will be adding lacrosse soon, University athletic director Nor wood Teague replied, “It would be ver y dif ficult for us to talk about adding spor ts, especially on the men’s side because of Title IX.” This is the second time I have heard him make this comment. The first time it was when he was asked about adding men’s varsity soccer. This guy leads our flagship collegiate athletics program in Minnesota. It is an outrageous statement on so many levels. First, let’s blame women — through a not so subtle insinuation — for a federal law requiring equity in athletic oppor tunities. This is an age-old way

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grew up in a non-religious household. My family never went to church, never talked about gods or spirituality and never observed any religious rituals. My parents always told me that should I want to go to church, they would drop me of f there and pick me up. They never forced any religious understanding on me, and they never expected any from me. I loved it. I was left to form my own opinion. In fact, for whatever reason, I was never baptized either. Yet, growing up in a Christian-dominated country does things to you. This is especially true of the southern U.S., where I lived for eight or nine years. Religion is a currency in the South. In many rural communities, it isn’t so much about who you are but where you go to church. I never went to church unless it was for a wedding. I didn’t find churches that impressive then, and I don’t now.

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of pitting women against the men, especially in nonrevenue spor ts. Rather than disingenuously blaming Title IX, administrators like him know they can decide to divvy up the money so ever yone gets by with a little less — just the way families have to manage. He could also choose to manage the rosters of men’s sports rather than have excessive numbers in sports like football which skew the comparison of participation opportunities. Secondly, let’s be clear about the facts. The National Collegiate Athletic Association figures show that men’s collegiate athletics par ticipation has increased, not decreased, since Title IX was passed. Women continue to be under-represented in collegiate spor ts. The gap between men’s and women’s spor ts par ticipation and suppor t is not closing. Also, it is the wealthiest athletics programs in NCAA Division I-A that are dropping men’s minor spor ts, typically because they are shifting these funds to compete in the football and men’s basketball arms race. Have you checked the salaries for

these coaches lately? Next, Teague, in addition to failing to take accountability for the way his own depar tment chooses to spend its budget, fails to acknowledge that Title IX does not require equal spending on men’s and women’s programs. And, one of the great myths of collegiate spor ts is that the revenue spor ts (usually football and men’s basketball) support all the other spor ts. The fact is that less than 12 percent of college athletics programs actually make a profit. Colleges and universities all over the countr y have to supplement collegiate athletics budgets, often at taxpayer expense. Finally, Teague makes the totally out-of-touch assumption that the American public is not suppor tive of Title IX. In fact, more than 8 in 10 voters suppor t Title IX with agreement across all political par ties and among voters with and without children. The American public believes that sports par ticipation is as important for our daughters as it is for our sons. Steph Schleuder University alumna

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ecently, I have accepted a position at a business that outsources of fice and d a t a e n t r y RONALD DIXON e m p l o y e e s columnist to var ying companies. Specifically, I am currently on assignment as a data entr y clerk at a company that produces and processes sur veys for other businesses. Does this, however, relate to my field of study at the University of Minnesota? I am, after all, a declared political science major. In short, there is no relation. I am also not doing it for the money. Given these facts, why did I decide to work as an office temp? The answer is that I need the experience. Year after year, the economic outlook is dismal. The recently released employment data from the month of May, for example, depicts a horrid story that has been getting worse for years. Although 175,000 non-farm jobs were added to the economy last month, the unemployment rate ticked up to 7.6 percent because more unemployed Americans are looking for work. Moreover, austerity measures are projected to decrease the number of jobs by millions in the long term. Finally, the jobs that were recently added were primarily short-term, part-time and temporary employment. The economic forecast is generally bad for us all, but what about for college students? According to the most recent data from April, about half of all new college graduates under the age of 25 are unemployed or underemployed. Even STEM majors, those who are often viewed as having market infallibility, are not likely to work in the hard sciences. Although I would hope to work within a field that is intellectually and mentally stimulating, I would rather gain experience in multiple fields that are educational, realistic and practical. Clerical and professional suppor t work is applicable to most jobs, regardless of background. The lesson that should be learned, especially for underclassmen, is that although you should gain experience in the areas that you are studying in college, be prepared to fulfill not-so-stimulating work that can prepare you for long-term prospects that may not be related to your academic field in college. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

Don’t double my rate Unless Congress can agree on a plan, Stafford loan interest rates will double in July.

artisanship in the nation’s capital could lead to yet another manufactured crisis, this time directly impacting students and their check-

books. On July 1, the interest rates on subsidized Stafford student loans is set to double — from 3.4 to 6.8 percent — unless congressional Democrats and Republicans can agree on a plan to keep the rates from increasing. While there is a general consensus in Washington that Congress must act to prevent interest rates from doubling, there is little agreement on how to do so. Last month, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a bill that would permanently tie the interest rates to government interest rates, despite a veto threat from President Barack Obama. The House bill is similar to the plan laid out in Obama’s budget proposal, but the White House is skeptical of the plan because students and families will eventually be paying more as market rates rise. Under Obama’s plan, the rate would be set each year based on the market but remain fixed. However, his plan does not include a cap, something the House plan does offer. Though the House plan does include a cap on rates, it’s set at 8.5 percent, which does not bring much solace to students. Also, though the plan would initially lower interest rates, they would continue to rise. According to a report in the Washington Post, by 2017 the interest rates are projected to climb to 7.4 percent and continue rising. In which case, it would be better if Congress simply let the interest rates double in July than move forward with the House plan. The best possible plan would be to fix interest rates each year based on the market, as laid out in Obama’s plan, but also include a cap on interest rates. However, while many students might be unaware of the situation, it’s more than likely that partisanship in Washington will prevent any meaningful legislation from passing, allowing Stafford loan interest rates to double in July.

A fine line for activism A recent controversy at Macalester College questions the role of administration to support student activism.

n April, Macalester College student group Kick Wells Fargo Off Campus staged a sit-in protesting the college’s relationship with the bank. Despite yearlong negotiations with KWOC, Macalester administration declined their request to switch their banking relationship to a local community bank. KWOC is targeting Wells Fargo because of their involvement with numerous foreclosures affecting the Macalester community. The sit-in started as a three-day protest with students surrounding an administrative office. However, Rebecca Hornstein, a KWOC member and recent graduate of Macalester, said the protest changed when KWOC heard back from administration on their final decision to stay with Wells Fargo. Then, a smaller group of 17 students began blocking doors, which violated the Macalester student conduct code. The Macalester Conduct Board eventually put a number of these students on probation, restricting them from involvement in sports programs, study abroad programs and student leadership positions within the college. Hornstein said the severity of the punishment was intended to chill activism on campus. Kai Peterson, former vice president of the Macalester student body, said the punishment was fitting, and student activism is “alive and well” at the school. “There’s a fine line to walk,” Peterson said, “the administration can’t give immunity to student activists.” Higher education has long been a sanctuary for protest. It is the responsibility of university administrations to allow responsible activism on campus. The actions of some KWOC protesters violated the conduct code and were irresponsible, despite their positive intention. Going forward, Macalester administration should continue to treat students as adults, responsible for their own actions, and mind the line between punishing poor conduct and chilling activism.

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‘White Cactus’ and white lies

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY Minneapolis teacher Jen Arzayus, left, and lead editor Zane Spang explain the process of shooting and editing a documentary on Thursday at Arzayus’s Minneapolis home. Her documentary “White Cactus”, follows the story of her relationship and reunion with her father, a former Columbian drug lord.

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rash bags marked with red tape carried the cocaine. A tr ucking company would gather the haul like it was garbage at por ts, sites where the cr uise ships docked. In the 1980s, coke fr om Colombia pour ed into American harbors and Jairo Enrique Arzayus knew how to capitalize. His keen business sense allowed him ver tical control over his operation. “Back then, they didn’t have the security like they do now. You could walk on a boat toward the galley on the ships,” said Jen Arzayus, a Minneapolis transplant and filmmaker, looking back on her father’s career in cocaine. “My dad, he knew ever ybody. He could walk in there and grab the bags in there himself if he had to.” Later, as a kingpin, her father even met famed dr ug lord George Jung, the Medellín Cartel smuggler depicted by Johnny Depp in “Blow.” But where the 2001 biopic stops with Jung in jail for cocaine trafficking, Jen’s new documentar y picks up. The impetus for “White Cactus” lies not in a “Goodfellas” glorification, but a family reunion.

Stone Arch Bridge Festival If your bank account just isn’t cut out for the big summer festivals, skip our Saturday suggestion and hit up the Stone Arch Bridge Festival. Solid acts top the lineup — when you’re not watching a printmaking demonstration or getting your bike fixed courtesy of Twin Cities Bike Walk Week, look out for Bloodnstuff, Bomba de Luz, the Honeydogs, Caroline Smith and the Good Night Sleeps, Toki Wright and Dream Crusher performing with Sean Anonymous. Located primarily on the greens by the picturesque Stone Arch Bridge, the free festival lasts all weekend. u Where: Along Southeast Main Street by the Stone Arch Bridge u When: 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday; 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday u Cost: Free

then-13-year-old Jen, her school’s discover y that her dad was a dr ug lord proved especially embarrassing in terms of sur viving eighth grade. Eventually the school put the drug lord’s daughter into a drug rehabilitation program, even though she wasn’t even aware of her dad’s business. “It sor t of set me with all the kids who were doing all the dr ugs at the time — it was this group,” she said. “I ended up starting to get really heavily involved in drugs.” At 19, she star ted heroin. Her life was alter ed by Jairo, a man she would communicate with through the occasional letter and Sunday visits when he still ser ved in New Jersey. Throughout his prison sentence there she became familiarized — Jen recalls herself as a young girl bringing in food and hundred dollar bills to her dad. “My mom used to make us smuggle in stuf f for him,” she said. “I had to smuggle in a steak — it was wrapped up in cellophane; she made me put it in my bra.” Later, Jen’s familiarity with incarceration would land her in Minnetonka, Minn., where she briefly worked at the Hennepin County Home School. Overseeing juveniles committed by the cour t, Jen soon became disenchanted with the cor rectional system’s philosophy —

she wanted to be an ar t teacher. As she settled in Minneapolis away from her siblings and family, Jen’s memories of her father bubbled to the surface — she started writing a play and eventually became interested in a documentar y. Her dad’s eventual move to federal prison in Louisiana meant that Jen’s last encounter was when she still lived in T renton with her mother.The United States depor ted Jairo back to Cali, Colombia. When Jen’s mother became sick in 2009, the up-and-coming filmmaker envisioned the family reuniting one last time. Visits to her ailing mother revealed new infor mation for Jen. Her mother had helped to launder the dir ty money — up to $12 million from the cocaine in total — in the basement of the White Cactus restaurant in Trenton. The secrets of her family suddenly unraveled, and Jen wanted the full picture. Finally she reconnected over the phone with her father, who she hadn’t spoken to in nearly 20 years. When her mother died, Jen knew she’d have to go to Cali. “When she died, I felt this unfinished stor y now that I had her side,” she said. “I had pieces of this puzzle, and I really wanted to know how it fit.” W ith the encouragement of the Independent Filmmaker Project’s Docuclub, Jen hired two videog-

Rock the Garden Sometimes, a garden has to get rocked, and those located next to modern art museums are no exception. This weekend, the Walker Art Center’s big ol’ field is going to get mega-rocked, with a lineup that includes Metric, Silversun Pickups and the Bob Mould Band. Duluth band Low fills the festival’s Minnesota quota while Dan Deacon takes care of the artsy poindexter quota. Look out for photos and a review online as well as in next week’s paper. u Where: Walker Art Center and Minneapolis Sculpture Garden u When: 3-10:30 p.m. u Cost: $55 general admission, sold out

PHOTO COURTESY OF JEN ARZAYUS Jen Arzayus’s father used the family’s restaurant as a front for his cocaine dealing.

raphers and bought tickets to Colombia for a 15-day trip. Watching the footage of her time in Cali and her meeting with her father, Jen still gets choked up. Her adventure to Cali’s slums and Colombia’s rainforest brought back childhood memories of abandonment just as she felt closer to her father, now a balding 56-year-old man who hardly seems capable of multimilliondollar drug deals. The working stor y of “White Cactus” now represents the parallels of Jen’s personal acceptance of her father instead of a crime investigation or family reunion — her other siblings declined involvement. Also, “White Cactus” may prove the tragic consequences of the War on Drugs. Sitting in her Uptown

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Before she would reunite with her father in Colombia, Jen would only wonder about his ar rest, 18 years in federal prison and eventual depor tation. Revisiting his and her past, as painful the prospect would be, originally fueled “White Cactus,” named after the Arzayus family’s restaurant which ser ved as a front for Jairo’s drug business. “I never thought this documentar y was going to be about me,” she said, sitting in an Uptown coffee shop. “I thought I was just going to be going with a camera and finding about him.” She star ted to make sense of the family’s coke business at a young age. In her faux FBI documents, she pretended to gather information about the hidden compar tments under floorboards and the counting machines in the basement of her father’s restaurant. “We knew something was up because we became wealthy really quick,” she said, recalling the family’s move to Hamilton, a suburb of Trenton, N.J. Cr ystal chandeliers, marble counter tops and ’80s proto-video phones lined the house, but the business came crashing down in December of 1991. An undercover FBI agent ar rested Jairo and most of the family, including Jen’s mother and sister. As devastating the incident would be for

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How the daughter of a former Colombian drug lord reconciles with her father and captures the meeting on film.

apar tment, Jen recalls at least one happy memor y from her childhood. Her father forgot to pack a can opener on a camping trip, but he fed the family after splitting the cold can of ravioli open with a knife and rock. The rain poured on the entire Arzayus family that night under the stars. Looking back to her footage, Jen continues to edit. “That’s the best memor y I have of us together is this damn camping trip we took together when I was 7,” she said. J e n A r z a y u s i s c u rrently funding her first feature length documentar y “White Cactus” through Kickstar ter and expects to premiere the film at the 2013 Minneapolis-St. Paul Latin Film Festival .

“Sunset Boulevard” The 1950 classic “Sunset Boulevard” is a harrowing gaze into the trappings of growing old in Hollywood as a woman. The staged adaptation, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is a sight to see — something about the aging Norma Desmond’s sheer desperation and insanity is perfect for the drama of the curtains; her iron grip on cute, young screenwriter Joe Gillis becomes even more intense in person and in color. If you miss it this weekend, it’ll be playing until June 23. Eschewing the Friday or Saturday night show for a Sunday matinee can save you $5. u Where: 615 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis u When: 5 p.m. u Cost: $24-29

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June 12-18, 2013

ART

Living in a perfect word

For Light Grey Art Lab’s motivational poster show, 33 designers collaborated without ever resorting to a cat dangling from a clothesline and “Hang in There, Baby.”

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY Minneapolis artist and graphic designer J. Zachary Keenan works in his studio Tuesday in the Washington North Loop. Keenan is one of the artists featured in the “You Can Do It, Put Your Back Into It” exhibition at Light Grey Art Lab opening June 14. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

ords of encouragement cover ever ything from the walls of fluorescentlit offices to college dorm rooms reeking of leftover pizza — the world runs on the genre of inspirational vernacular. Now that everyone with Internet access can curate the expanding collection of stock images on Google, the motivational poster genre needs a rebirth. Light Grey Ar t Lab’s new exhibition finds artistic flare in the poster world, giving life back to the stale motivational genre. Whereas Michael Scott’s walls are filled with words like “success” and “teamwork” coupled with mountain climbers and scenic vistas, “You Can Do It, Put Your Back Into It” mines the personal motivations of the 33 participating artists. “This show was a freedom to do the thing that they keep in the back of their mind — the thing that

motivates them to keep going for ward,” galler y manager Jenny Bookler said. Ar twork ranges from creative updates of wellworn axioms (“Love Conquers All,” “Take Courage”) to visual typography backing an inspirational quote. Minneapolis-based graphic designer J. Zachary Keenan found the words of famed astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan for his poster. When he picked up a copy of Sagan’s “The Varieties of Scientific Experience,” he knew he struck gold. “He transcends between scientific understanding and religious experience and finds a common ground between them,” Keenan said. “Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known” reads the quote from the late Sagan. A seemingly vague quote may not translate the vastness of space in black and white on print, but Keenan’s design brims with brainy excitement. For Keenan, Sagan’s words reflect the unknown

within the process of design. “For me, design is not creating that end piece; design is a process,” Keenan said. “To me, design is like a glue. It helps me understand other things.” Somewhere between colorful cartoon characters and abstract collage, Minneapolis College of Art and Design student sEason Wu plays with the unknown in his poster. Entitled “;P,” he uses an incomplete phrase as his text to generate a response to the winking emoticon. “It’s kind of open-ended,” Wu said. “People can fill in their own information about their inspiration.” His literal fill-in-theblank feels at home online where the Ar t Lab culls from a wide array of talent. On Twitter and Tumblr, the Ar t Lab adver tises openings to local and international artists looking to contribute, Bookler said. “Put Your Back Into It” also utilized digital collaboration of the pieces, with ar tists meeting online to

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swap ideas and comments on projects. “They could share their idea for their poster and everyone could feed off it,” Bookler said. Wu could experiment with different phrases with his poster, for example. For the digitally inclined artist, feedback via the Internet offered an instant sounding board for his abstract collage. “Because technology makes the spread of information so fast, there’s a lot of crossover — ever ything can be design and ever yt h i n g c a n b e a r t , ” Wu said.

ART BY J. ZACHARY KEENAN J. Zachary Keenan stylized the late “Cosmos” host’s words for his work in the Light Grey Art Lab’s motivational poster exhibition.

MUSIC

Space case Big Black Delta is the byproduct of Jonathan Bates’ technological tinkering. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

ig black deltas are a class of UFO characterized by their dark triangular appearance, hypothesized to be the craft of road-wear y extraterrestrials or a top-secret military project. Mulder and Scully would be surprised that a Google search for “Big Black Delta” returns information on a new lo-fi, electro-rock band. “I love ufology,” Jonathan Bates of the one-man outfit said. “So when I was putting this thing together, I figured I’d name it after something I like, so it was either that or apple pie and spaghetti.” Big Black Delta fits nicely given the ethereal moodiness that ser ves as a backdrop for the percussive focus of Bate’s new self-titled release. Bates was the bassist and frontman for the L.A. rock trio Mellowdrone, but after a decade of the grind, he began to seek other musical routes, messing around with a newfound laptop. “I’d never used any real

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technology before, it was just me being simple and having a good time tinkering in a room,” Bates said. “It was like if you gave a 12-year-old GarageBand on Christmas morning, what would he have two days later?” In Bates’ case, the result is a dark, emotional reflection of fear, anxiety and how to move forward. In the case of “Put the Gun On the Floor” that means a throbbing, primal track with a whip-like snare. But it can also manifest as “Huggin & Kissin,” an ’80s synth-inspired song with a brooding “You’re the best I can do” chorus. “Being in the middle really bums me out — being good enough to just be good enough, being smart enough to know you’re stupid,” Bates said. “It’s painful when you can see how great ever ything is above you, I don’t know, it re-

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES MORIARTY Former Mellowdrone bassist Jonathan Bates found a new direction with his solo project Big Black Delta.

ally scares me. I want to do something cool.” To be cool, Bates realized being on stage with a laptop wasn’t going to cut it. To augment his live performance and do justice to the propulsive percussion that

makes the album so damn great, Bates added dueling drummers and a light array. “I feel like the core of any good song, or at least my favorites, are the kick, snare and bass line — that’s the holy trinity,” Bates said.

“Some people think of it as just the backbeat to a song, but I wanted to make the backbeat and the bass line the [expletive] song.” Normally a quiet guy, Bates will cut loose on stage, shimmying like a

man possessed. No surprise given his admission that he’s “been watching a “[expletive]-load of Fred Astaire videos recently.” “I like to think, if I’m going to a show, what do I want to see?” Bates said.

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Sports

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BASEBALL

Gophers begin life in the Northwoods

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Gophers catcher Matt Halloran, right, waits out a rain delay with his Rochester Honkers team during a Northwoods League game Sunday at Mayo Field in Rochester, Minn. Northwoods is a summer baseball league for NCAA-eligible players.

Ten Gophers players are playing in the Northwoods League this summer. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

The end of the Gophers baseball season means the beginning of a new season for many players: summer ball. And for 10 Gophers, this summer will be spent competing in the Midwest-based Nor thwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league featuring 16 teams from Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Michigan and Ontario, Canada. “It’s one of the premier leagues,” said Gophers

junior Matt Halloran, who plays for the league’s Rochester Honkers.. “You get the most fans here out of any league, and it’s a lot of baseball, so a lot of guys want to play here.” Teams in the league play 70 r egular-season games from late May to August, and four teams advance to the playof fs. Gophers sophomore catcher Mark Tatera said his Duluth Huskies team has just five off-days. “ Yo u ’ r e p l a y i n g e v er y day,” Gophers head coach John Anderson said. “That’s a lot of baseball. If you want to play professionally, that’s what it’s all about.” The stretch can be grueling for college players accustomed to playing

four games a week. “It’s only been two weeks, but it almost feels like two months already,” Tatera said. The number of games gives opportunities to players who didn’t play as many during the college season. Gophers shor tstop Michael Handel played for the Madison Mallards in 2011 after redshir ting his first season with the Gophers. Between pregame work and the games, Handel said he regularly spends 10 hours at the park during a day. The season is a grind physically and mentally, Halloran said. “You’ve got to make sure you rest up that body because it’s a long summer,” Handel said.

During homestands, players without friends or family in the area, like Tatera, stay with host families. Handel’s Madison Mallards have a fan base that averaged 6,200 in homegame attendance last season, he said. In comparison, an announced crowd of 1,161 attended the Gophers’ inaugural game at the new Sieber t Field in April. “Ther e’s only a few teams in college baseball that attract [as] many fans” as the Mallar ds, Handel said. “It’s an unbelievable experience because you’re not used to playing with the crowd and the atmosphere.” Prolonged bus rides from park to park, the high

number of games and the raucous atmosphere provide a minor-league feel, players said. Post-game player autograph sessions can last up to 45 minutes, Handel said. The league, which features talent from college conferences around the countr y, of fers a similar competition level to the Big Ten, Handel said. Northwoods is also full of potential major-league talent. Halloran’s Rochester Honkers had 17 former players selected during last weekend’s MLB draft, including Gophers pitcher DJ Snelten. While the league is competitive, Anderson said the focus is on player improvement. Handel said summer ball is the best time for

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players to improve. “For basically ever ybody your main focus ... is baseball,” Handel said. “Ever y day you wake up and you get to play baseball.”

WRESTLING

Bauman chooses music career, prepares album Bauman u from Page 1

his first album with Foreign Af fairs Media Enterprises, an ar tist development company that assists up-and-coming talent. It’s a better position than Bauman was in four months ago with the NCAA. He received a letter fr om the University of Minnesota compliance that said he wasn’t allowed to use his name in his music. Bauman had to take down his music or use an alias to maintain his eligibility with the Gophers. Bauman chose not to comply with either r equest. “This is bigger than me,” he said in Febr uar y. “I know my calling to make a dif ference is bigger than my eligibility.” His vision made waves on the national stage, but

it also caught the eye of FAME President Jay Escobar, who said he has worked with big-name artists like the Black Eyed Peas and Taio Cruz. Escobar said Bauman’s positive message needed to be expressed. “There is a lot of attraction to a person that can make positive music,” he said. “I saw Joel and he has the raw talent, he takes care of himself, he looks the part and he has a positive message.” Bauman’s song “Ones in the Sky,” which he released in December, has amassed nearly 70,000 views on YouTube. But Escobar said Bauman sounded like an amateur on the track. Bauman agr eed and said his time with FAME has allowed him to better showcase his talents and grow as an artist. Bauman wrote “Ones in the Sky” in one day and said the goal with the

track was to inspire others. Bauman’s new songs are completely dif ferent, he said, and more representative of his ability. “In this first album people are going to see … the ar tist Joel Bauman,” he said. “That other guy was the protégé.” Escobar said the difference is like night and day, and Bauman’s development of flow is a big reason for that evolution. He said he tried to stress to Bauman the way the words and music flow together on a track. Though “Ones in the Sky” was a hit, Escobar said he saw no glimpses of that type of flow on the track. “That was the opposite of flow, in my opinion,” he said. “It just sounded like a speech over a good beat.” Bauman’s progression is noticeable to outsiders as well. Escobar said he conducted a focus group with interns who had never heard Bauman’s music

to illustrate the strides he’s made in his time with FAME. “We really wanted to see if an outside perspective could see the progression we’ve seen,” he said. “We played seven songs out of order, and the interns were able to pick in the exact time in which he recorded those songs because they could hear the development.” Bauman said he works six to seven hours a day for three or four days a week on his new album. He records out of GoodLook Studios in Minneapolis, which is headed by Casey Golden. Golden said he toured with the Black Eyed Peas in his heyday and has worked with Prince and Macy Gray. He has also released a solo record but said he has shifted his focus to helping up-and-coming artists succeed. “I’m taking the 15 years of lessons and the wrong

turns I made along the way and making sure that stuff doesn’t happen to people like Joel Bauman,” he said. Golden said he sees a lot of potential in Bauman because of his ability to take criticism. “He’s got a direction, but he’s open to modifying that on the fly so it works better,” Golden said. “That is a huge thing in the music industr y.” Escobar agr eed and said Bauman has the “it factor” because of his work ethic. “I’ve worked with some really amazing ar tists in the past … the one thing those that make it have in common is star quality,” he said. “I think Joel Bauman has that.” Bauman and Escobar said the album is about half done, and they hope to complete it by mid-July. Escobar said they will then market the album to record labels and gauge interest.

Bauman said the goal in this process is not the album or making money. It’s about making a difference. “I tr uly believe that I was put here to change the world,” he said. “I’ve believed that since I was a little kid and the way things keep falling into place is crazy.” Bauman said he is still technically a member of the Gophers wr estling squad, but he doesn’t know if he’s eligible to compete. He said he’ll worr y about that later, as he has bigger things on the horizon now. Bauman said he has always been passionate about music, but it can be a grind at times. He said he keeps at it because of his original vision. “I wouldn’t just be able to do music if it was just for me,” he said. “If it was me I’d be sitting on a beach or working out or lifting weights. … I’m here to inspire people.”

June 12-18, 2013

BASEBALL

MLB draft turns teammates and best friends Windle and Snelten into rivals The two former Gophers pitchers could play in rival MLB organizations. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Tom W indle and DJ Snelten’s friendship is about to tread into unmarked waters. The two for mer Gophers pitchers have become best friends in their last three years in college. Now — after the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft last week — the two will have to learn how to compete as bitter rivals. Windle, a second-round draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers, and Snelten, a ninth-round pick of the San Francisco Giants, are now on opposite ends of one of the biggest rivalries in baseball. “It was the first thing I thought of when I learned I got drafted by the Giants,” Snelten said. “I star ted laughing and I looked at my parents, and they were on the same page.” W indle said the two met each other on their of ficial visits to the University of Minnesota and decided to room together shor tly after that first encounter. They’ve been best friends ever since. “We were close right away as freshmen, and then we just stuck close and we pushed each other out at the baseball field,” W indle said. “We also lived together our sophomore and junior years, so we’ve been pretty close.” Snelten said amid the close friendship rests a friendly rivalr y between the two men. Windle agreed and said competition helped them develop into a duo with prospective futures at the next level. “We pushed each other a lot,” Windle said. “It was always a sor t of competition, whether that was lifting weights, velocity — anything just tr ying to compete to stay at the same level.” That three-year contest boded well for the Gophers this season. W indle and Snelten were Minnesota’s No. 1 and No. 2 starters, respectively, and were two of the most dominant pitchers in

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Former Gophers starter Tom Windle pitches April 5, 2013, against Ohio State at Siebert Field.

the Big Ten. W indle finished this season 6-4 with a 2.14 ERA and 86 strikeouts. Snelten missed most of the first month of the season with an elbow strain and finished 5-2 with a 2.15 ERA and 42 strikeouts. Snelten said he and W indle leaned on each other for support throughout the grind of the season. Windle said that won’t change in the pros. “We’ll keep in touch and keep tabs on each other to make sure that both of us are staying on the right path and keep things going for our futures,” he said. Many factors will need to fall in sync for Windle and Snelten to compete against each other in the majors, but both Windle and Snelten seemed excited at the potential of the matchup. “That’d be unbelievable,” W indle said, “to grow so close to somebody and to have the same dreams and then eventually be accomplishing that at the same time.” -Jace Frederick contributed to this report

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Former Gophers starter DJ Snelten winds up to pitch against The Citadel on March 24, 2012, at the Metrodome.

TRACK & FIELD

Men’s program faces offseason rebuilding challenges The Gophers concluded a strong season June 5-8 at the NCAA meet. BY CHARLIE ARMITZ carmitz@mndaily.com

The Gophers men’s track and field program isn’t the Midwest powerhouse it was a few years ago, but it took small strides toward regaining its edge this season. Minnesota ear ned 11 All-America honors at the NCAA outdoor meet June 5-8 in Eugene, Ore. That’s eight more than it tallied in 2012, an of f-year by the program’s high standards. The Gophers’ 27thplace finish was one better than their national ranking. The team tied for 12th and earned seven All-America honors — six on the All-America First Team — at the NCAA indoor meet in March. To avoid another letdown in 2014, Minnesota will have to recover from losing seven All-Americans to graduation. Head coach Steve Plasencia said the recover y process begins with more hands-on coaching in the offseason. “I want to make myself ver y available this sum-

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mer to talk with guys and help guide them … and [make] sure we’re all on the same page and nobody’s falling between the cracks,” Plasencia said. “We can’t afford that right now.” The Gophers have had steady success at the indoor and outdoor NCAA championships since Plasencia became head coach in 2009. But they haven’t earned a Big Ten title since winning five straight from 2009-11. Plasencia coaches the team’s distance r unners, who struggled throughout the season. He said he’ll

have to stay “a little bit more attuned” to his athletes while finding time to rest after a 10-month season of coaching track and cross countr y. The Gophers relied on their depth this year, but they’ll have a tougher time doing so next year because of inexperience. To compound the challenge, freshman All-American high jumper Wally Ellenson may quit track to focus on his other spor t: basketball. Dual-spor t college athletes are rare, especially in major spor ts such as basketball in which coach-

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Minnesota high jumper Wally Ellenson practices at Bierman Athletic Field on April 30, 2013.

es often have greater demands. “He’s on a basketball scholarship, so he’s a basketball player first,” Plasencia said of Ellenson, who played nine games and 48 minutes last season. “We cer tainly would like him to continue to be able to jump. I would guess he would probably like to do that as well, but we haven’t had any conversations with Coach [Richard] Pitino or the basketball staff about that.”

Ellenson missed the indoor track season because of basketball, but he made an immediate impact during the outdoor season. He set a personal record with an eighth-place jump of 2.20 meters at the NCAA meet, where he was the only Gophers underclassman to make the AllAmerica First Team. “As the meets got bigger, he got bigger,” Plasencia said. If Ellenson comes back, he’ll likely be the Gophers’

best shot to place high at the 2014 outdoor meet. Junior John Simons, who missed that honor by two places at this year’s outdoor meet, will also carr y high expectations next season. Minnesota will retur n two other outdoor AllAmericans —freshman Goaner Deng and junior Jacob Capek fr om the 4x400 relay — and one indoor All-American — junior Jon Lehman — in 2014.

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Famous people playing themselves is usually a magical occurrence for us normals to behold — for proof, see James Taylor in “Funny People,” Kur t Vonnegut Jr. in “Back to School,” pretty much ever yone in “Zoolander” — and now this Seth Rogen/Evan Goldberg machine, which is taking that to a whole new level. It’s about a par ty at James Franco’s house and all the characters are celebrities in the cinematic equivelant of their bir thday suits — Emma Watson being Emma Watson, Rihanna being Rihanna, etc., etc. The plot? The world ends. It comes out Wednesday and is playing in area theaters.

Father’s Day brunch Sunday is Father’s Day, so go out there and get your br unch on with the man who taught you how to play catch. The fancyshmancy Nicollet Island Inn has a sweet three-course meal deal for $32; Spill the Wine is of fering Hawaiian banana French toast and pork belly burgers to go with its mason jar mimosas. Take Dad to a game after — the Twins are playing the Tigers all weekend. On Sunday, the first 10,000 dudes to get to Target Field will get a free barbecue spatula.

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CULTURE COMPASS BY SARAH HARPER CC: Stand-Up It’s ever y Youtube-sur fing comedy fan’s dream come tr ue, a free app that functions like a TV channel that’s always showing a stand-up marathon. Comedy Central has arranged about 6,000 videos of over 700 comedians on a platform that’s beautifully designed and fun to navigate. I know what this sounds like, but I promise nobody is paying me to write positive schlock—the app really is a joy, the star feature being the discover y section, where, using an interactive web that’s essentially a map of the comedy world, you can find new stand-ups based on the ones you already like.

THEATER

Don’t miss the boat The Minnesota Centennial Showboat’s 55th anniversary production is a tale of misguided love and betrayal at the dawn of the 20th. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

andelion seeds waft in clumps through the air — the summer’s snow — as river scum swirls in eddies around the Minnesota Centennial Showboat’s fat rump. It’s a sliminess shared by the antagonist of this year’s play; the wayward seeds matching the interrupted journeys of the other wise good, but sometimes stupid and misguided, characters. The first boat burnt to a crisp in 2000 due to a stray welding spark, a dramatic turn of events that is only outdone by the antics performed on its stage. “Sweet Revenge!” is a melodrama, drawing on the exaggerated acting of early 1900s nickel theater or Susan Lucci. “It’s a style we don’t see anymore; actors today want everything to be very realistic and naturalistic,” director Peter Moore said. “At the time, people wanted glamour and excitement — they needed an escape.” “Sweet Revenge!,” with its storms, gunfights and general theme of decency attempting to overcome devilry succeeds easily in that regard. Throw in eight musical olios, little numbers unrelated to plot that historically cover scene changes, and you are left with a taste of everything. “It’s fun and really quite a challenge to have all this legitimate singing and then heightened language and heavy action,” sophomore theater major Maeve Moynihan said. Moynihan plays Bunco, a rowdy orphan girl who helps protect an innocent shopgirl and derail the plans of a bank robber to steal the heart of a married woman. That is the tip of the iceberg in this convoluted plotline that leaves plenty of room for last-minute heroics, all while peppered with antiquated cornball language that keeps it more family friendly than HBO-ready. The play is being performed in close to the exact way it would have been dur-

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY Rebecca Wilson and Joseph Pyfferoen rehearse a scene from “Sweet Revenge!,” a melodramatic play filled with silly dance numbers and quirky musical olios, on Friday on the University of Minnesota’s Centennial Showboat in St. Paul.

ing the life of its playwright, Lillian Mortimer. However, to keep it accessible to all audiences and not get too heavy, the murder of a couple’s baby was removed. “It’s kind of dark, but that’s where the fun and excitement comes from,” Moore said. Well, that and musical director Vern Sutton’s olios. This year’s consist of vignettes about trollop opera singers vying for attention, a parade of diseases from typhoid to malaria and a woman using her admirers as shopping carts. (The shopping olio involves four cast members throwing gift-wrapped purchases across the stage to each other, a feat whose success is probably grounded in a break time foursquare habit.) “There is no guidebook on olios,” Sutton said. He may be the closest thing to one, given that he’s directed olios for over a dozen of the Showboat’s productions. It’s under his tutelage that we amusingly get to see the man we know in one setting as John Livingstone, a loathsome conman and bank

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robber, step out from behind the curtain as a member of a joyously hokey barbershop quartet. “I never know what I can do until auditions” Sutton said. “This is the first year we’ve had four men who can sing a barbershop quartet.” Graduated senior Joseph

Pyf feroen’s Livingstone might be the main character of the play even though he’s the villain. His Livingstone is a Boris Badenov, easily imagined leaving a damsel tied to the railroad tracks in the path of an oncoming train. It is toward him that audi-

ences are encouraged to boo and hiss in the manner of the Showboat’s historical predecessors. Despite the pageantry and variety of the Showboat’s productions, one thing remains the same: The cast’s opening “Here Comes the Showboat” greeting to the audience.

MUSIC

Freaking out Leo Vondracek of Hot Freaks shares his band’s love of video game soundtracks, including “The Legend of Zelda” and “Illusion of Gaia.” BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

ith the arcade in mind, pop-funk, five-piece Hot Freaks enter the local music sphere with plenty of quarters and Mountain Dew in hand. Inspired by Nintendo’s back catalog of video game soundtracks — from the NES to the GameCube — the Northeast Minneapolis band might as well hone the same enthusiasm onstage as Link onscreen. When singer Leo Vondracek first tinkered with a spare melody from “The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker,” his experimentation led to a particularly energetic cover of “Outset Island.” OverClocked ReMix, a website devoted to video game music, even no-

ticed Hot Freaks’ reimagining of the song, garnering an unexpected Internet fan base. “It’s funny because if you look on our Facebook page, half the people I have no idea how they found us,” Vondracek said. “Outset Island” gives a pop edge to the typical simplicity of “Zelda” soundtracks, a minimal songwriting approach Vondracek still tinkers with. “I tried to do a hip-hop version of the ‘Bomberman’ theme — it’s got really pretty chords actually,” he said. “I’ve just learned a lot about music from having to learn how to cover those songs.” A Super NES game called “Illusion of Gaia” makes Vondracek’s list for a potential cover, but the influences of Hot Freaks still surpass the pixilated screen. Mainstream pop adds to the group’s upbeat appeal. “Cody [Br own, Hot Freaks drummer] and I play or played — I don’t know if we are actually a band anymore— but we had an all-

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male Britney Spears tribute band,” he said. The South Dakota native plays in both the aforementioned Spearz and Golden Bubbles, groups tied to a bubble gum-pop sensibility. Hot Freaks might take from video games, but the glossy sheen also stands beside the unhinged lyrics of its lead singer. Vondracek adds vulnerability to “Zelda” and Hot Freaks originals under the surface of the catchy melodies. Hot Freaks couple Vondracek’s darker lyrics with a dance backing, and Vondracek said he sees his job as counteracting the desperate words with bubbling enthusi-

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Indie pop band Hot Freaks.

asm. “I feel like our stuff is overwhelmingly depressing — maybe that’s why I try to overcompensate,” he said. As the main songwriter, Vondracek said the new selftitled debut album, produced by Elliot Kozel (Tickle Torture), is a chance for further collaboration. Hot Freaks

now shed the obvious video game influences in favor of a more organic, group-driven process. “It always starts with trying to finish a basic script of something on my own,” he said. “Then we as the band can direct the movie.” The lively pop culture stew of video games and Brit-

ney Spears still surround the Hot Freaks’ sound — it’s just not the guiding principle anymore. Vondracek of Spearz may be a Spears fan but just not the biggest one. “I have a Britney Spears T-shirt, and I was the third or four th biggest Britney Spears fan in that band,” he said.