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Kaler heads to China for outreach The president hopes to strengthen the U’s already firm ties to China. BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com
Nearly 100 years ago, three men from Shanghai were the first Chinese students to graduate from the University of Minnesota. Today, there are nearly 2,500 University students from greater China on a campus that boasts one of the longest-held U.S. university relationships with
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China. University President Eric Kaler, his wife Karen and five others went to Hong Kong on Sunday as part of an 11-day tour of the country. It is Kaler’s first international trip as president. Jennifer Schulz, communications director for the University’s Global Programs and Strategy Alliance, said Kaler visited the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology on Tuesday to meet u See CHINA Page 6 The U opened its first international office in Beijing in 2009.
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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints member Victoria Paider hands out cookies to stalled cars after the rainstorm caused flash floods along University Avenue on Friday outside the Minneapolis LDS Institute of Religion.
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U could partner with TFA Teach For America wants to someday create its own altlicensing program. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota is in talks with Teach for America about a potential partnership and could reach a decision in the coming weeks. University faculty members and administrators have discussed “in depth” the possibility of partnering with TFA and “consulted
Mormon students face misconceptions, social choices and major decisions because of their faith. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com
widely with educators in the community and at other universities,” according to a written statement from Jean Quam, dean of the College of Education and Human Development. TFA has partnered with Hamline University since 2008 but is now looking to work with the University to establish their own alternative licensing program in the state. While the conversations between TFA and the University are in the
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Breakfast could prevent Type 2 diabetes U experts say students need to develop better eating habits for long-term health. BY LIBBY RYAN eryan@mndaily.com
It’s not unusual for college students to hop out of bed and run to class. There’s maybe time to grab a banana or granola bar on the way out, but that depends on what’s left from the last grocery shopping trip. Students’ busy schedules can make it difficult to set aside time for breakfast. But new University of Minnesota research shows eating breakfast can reduce the risk of high blood pressure, Type 2 diabetes and obesity. The study recorded how many people ate breakfast each week on a range from infrequent to daily, instead of simply tracking whether people eat breakfast or do not. “Most of the previous studies have been yes/no, do you eat breakfast?” said Andrew Odegaard, the study’s lead author and a BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY
Incoming freshmen Liz Lemirande and Anna Paradies eat breakfast in Comstock Hall on Tuesday morning. University research has shown eating breakfast can help reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes.
u See BREAKFAST Page 7 Nearly 10 percent of college students said they don’t eat breakfast at all.
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U to re-evaluate admissions policies A Supreme Court ruling could affect affirmative action at the U, nationwide. BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com
As a result of the U.S. Supreme Court sending a significant affirmative action case back to the lower courts Monday, the University of Minnesota will re-evaluate its own admissions policies. The 7-1 decision on Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin limited the use of racebased college admissions and ordered the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to use the highest level of scrutiny on admissions programs that employ racial categories. In the case, native Texan Abigail Fisher claimed she was denied admission to the university in 2008 because she is white. She claimed the university’s policy of considering race in admissions violated the U.S. Constitution’s Equal Protection Clause. u See AFFIRMATIVE ACTION Page 3 University officials will make sure its race-based admissions policies pass strict scrutiny.
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LONDON — “Pride and Prejudice” novelist Jane Austen looks set to replace Charles Darwin as the face on Britain’s 10-pound note. The outgoing governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, made the suggestion Tuesday, after the bank drew complaints that women are ignored when it comes to choosing historical figures on British banknotes. The bank recently confirmed that it will replace 19thcentury social reformer Elizabeth Fry with wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill on the 5-pound note, prompting protests that no woman except Queen Elizabeth II would be represented on Bank of England bills. Almost 30,000 people have signed an online petition on the issue, and a group of 46 lawmakers wrote to the bank last week to ask it to reconsider the predicted decision. Some have even argued that the move will not conform to equality laws and raised the possibility of legal action. King sought to reassure lawmakers on Tuesday that such fears are unfounded. He said the bank always has a “reserve” system of bills that are not circulated and Austen has been used on them for two years, making her a likely figure to appear next on the real notes when they are changed. “I think it’s extremely unlikely that we will ever find ourselves in a position where there are no women among the historical figures on our banknotes,” he said. “Jane Austen is quietly waiting in the wings.” British bank notes celebrate a range of historical figures, some better-known than others. The bank has not yet made a decision on when the 10-pound note will be changed, and King said the final decision would be made by his successor, Mark Carney, who takes over on Monday. Aside from the queen and Fry, who has featured on the 5-pound bill for more than a decade, only one other woman — Florence Nightingale — has appeared on the bills since historical figures were introduced in 1970. The bank has said the Churchill note replacing Fry isn’t expected to be issued until 2016. Austen, whose novels include “Emma” and “Sense and Sensibility,” is one of Britain’s best-loved authors.
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin bluntly rejected U.S. pleas to turn over National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden on Tuesday, saying he is free to travel wherever he wants and insisting that Russian security agencies haven’t contacted him. Snowden is in the transit zone of a Moscow airport and has not passed through Russian immigration, Putin said, meaning he is not technically in Russia. After arriving Sunday on a flight from Hong Kong, Snowden registered for a Havana-bound flight from Moscow on Monday en route to Venezuela and then possible asylum in Ecuador, but he didn’t board the plane. Snowden’s whereabouts since then have been a mystery, and Putin’s comments were the first time Russia has made clear it knows where he is. Speculation has been rife that Russian security agencies might want to keep Snowden in Russia for a more thorough debriefing, but Putin denied that. “Our special services never worked with Mr. Snowden and aren’t working with him today,” Putin said at a news conference during a visit to Finland. Putin said that because there is no extradition agreement with the U.S., it couldn’t meet the U.S. request. “Mr. Snowden is a free man, and the sooner he chooses his final destination the better it is for us and for him,” Putin said. “I hope it will not affect the business-like character of our relations with the U.S. and I hope that our partners will understand that.” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday that though the United States does not have an extradition treaty with Russia, it wants Moscow to comply with common law practices between countries where fugitives are concerned. Putin’s staunch refusal to consider deporting Snowden shows the Russian president’s readiness to further challenge Washington at a time when U.S.-Russian relations are already strained over Syria and a Russian ban on adoptions by Americans. A Kremlin decision to provide even temporary shelter and safe transit to Snowden would embarrass Washington. And despite Putin’s denial, security experts believe the Russian special services wouldn’t miss the chance to question a man who is believed to hold reams of classified U.S. documents and can shed light on how the U.S. intelligence agencies collect information.
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Students build boards, community Two U students are using their new shop to work with Cedar-Riverside youth. BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Above an old jewelr y store near the University of Minnesota, two college students work to perfect their custom longboards — but boards are only part of the business. Drew Swanson and Phillip Kelly, co-founders of TurtleKing Longboards , are hoping to build their skills as young business owners while also bridging the gap between the University and the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood, where they opened shop last week. Now that they have a physical location to supplement online sales, Swanson and Kelly have started an internship and set up a youth program for middle and high school students in the area. Combining their passions for longboarding and community engagement into a small business has been the
dream of Swanson and Kelly for the last two years, said global studies senior Kelly. Their business venture began in 2011, when they applied for a $2,000 Purpose AND Profit grant from the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship in the Carlson School of Management, which they received in fall 2012. Shortly after, they were awarded $500 by the 2013 Acara Challenge, an Institute on the Environment student program and competition. Swanson and Kelly’s business plan “encouraged an active lifestyle on and around campus,” said John Stavig, director of the entrepreneurship center. Although creating a sustainable transportation alternative is an important part of their business, Kelly said, they wanted to focus on addressing the “disconnect” between the University and the Cedar-Riverside area. “There’s a missed interaction,” Kelly said, “but there’s a lot of potential.” For their first step, Swanson and Kelly started a program with the Cedar Riverside Youth Council where
middle and high school students in the neighborhood can do hands-on work at their shop. “Their commitment to the youth in the community is a good step toward mending the disconnection,” said Mohamed Jama , the council’s general director. The Youth Council is currently recruiting kids, and they plan to have five to 10 program participants in July. At the shop, students will learn how to make longboards and eventually get to build their own to keep, said Swanson, a bioproducts, marketing and management junior . T h r o u g h t h e Yo u t h Council, Swanson and Kelly learned of the city’s STEPUP internship program that pairs youth with local businesses. Suad Yusuf, 16, who lives down the street from TurtleKing Longboards, joined the STEP-UP program to build her resume for college applications. She started interning at the shop Monday. Although she was apprehensive to ride the longboards, Yusuf wants to design her own board this sum-
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Bioproduct marketing and management junior Drew Swanson, left, and global studies senior Phil Kelly prepare to silk screen their logo onto a board at Turtleking Workshop Friday, April 26, 2013, in Minneapolis. The Turtleking co-founders have partnered with the Cedar Riverside Youth Council and the AchieveMpls program to teach local youth how to design, build and sell longboards.
mer. Swanson said they want to create a work atmosphere that’s “beyond longboarding,” where the kids can share their ideas and contrib-
ute to the business. Kelly and Swanson are also hoping to start a weekly longboard ride in Minneapolis this summer. Their goal is to establish the business
and make enough money to keep the space before they go back to school in the fall. “We’re both big dreamers,” Kelly said, “but we like to act on those dreams.”
OIT cuts Microsoft student discount Discounted software will still be available to students through U Bookstores. BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com
Starting in July, the University of Minnesota Office of Information Technology will charge students more for Microsoft products, including Microsoft Office Suite. The Board of Regents approved a new agreement with Microsoft in mid-June that no longer allows students to buy Microsoft Office for the discounted price of $40 through OIT OIT will also no longer offer discounted Windows Operating System upgrades. Bernard Gulachek , OIT’s associate vice president, said the decision to end the discount was prompted by a decline in the number of students purchasing the products in recent years. The drop in sales was causing the University to lose money. OIT sold more than 8,700 Microsoft Office licenses in fiscal year 2013, which ends this week. The numbers represent a drop of nearly 3,000 sales from a year ago . Since 2010, OIT has seen
a 46 percent decrease in Microsoft Office Suite sales alone , but spent more than $780,000 on the Microsoft agreement last year, Gulachek said. “Because the volume [of purchases] has gone down over the last several years, the cost per license has gone up,” he said. “It no longer makes any sense for the University to be spending these kinds of funds … when there isn’t the volume that there used to be.” Gulachek said several factors have contributed to the decline in Microsoft sales at the University, including a growing market of free software alternatives and the fact that many students purchase computers before attending the University. “That money could be more easily used towards something that is more important to students,” he said. “We can repurpose that money for the academic mission of the institution.” University junior Adam Carlson said he prefers Microsoft software to other alternatives, because it makes his classwork simpler. “It’s easier to do what the teachers are doing,” he said. Another factor in the sales decline, Gulachek said, is the growing use of Google ap-
plications on campus, which can replace software for some students. Sophomore John Prondzinski said Google applications have come in handy for him — particularly Google Docs, which he uses for group projects. “That kind of gives [Google applications] an advantage over the Microsoft products,” he said.
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The r uling said when examining race-based admissions policies, cour ts must decide that “no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity.” University of Minnesota interim General Counsel William Donohue said the Cour t’s decision was unexpected, since many thought the decision would be close but decided one way or the other. Although the decision doesn’t af fect current affirmative action policies, the University’s Of fice of the General Counsel will work with administrators and the Of fice of Admissions to ensure its policies are in line with cur rent standards, Donohue said. University of ficials will make sure its admissions policies pass strict scr utiny, meaning that all racebased policies are narrowly tailored to achieve a diverse student body, Donohue said. The University’s admissions process considers both primar y and secondar y factors. Primar y factors include high school GPA and standar dized test scores, while secondar y factors include less measurable criteria like
militar y ser vice, volunteer work, race and gender. “No single factor in our admissions decision review is a deciding factor,” said Rachelle Hernandez, director of admissions, adding that academic factors receive the highest emphasis. After the review is complete, the OGC will communicate its key findings with administrators whose work could be directly affected by the Supreme Court decision, University President Eric Kaler said in a statement Monday. “We would expect that [re-evaluation] is what will be happening across the countr y,” Hernandez said. The University currently follows the standard set by the Supreme Cour t’s 2003 decision in Gr utter v. Bollinger, which upheld the University of Michigan Law School’s use of affirmative action in admissions. When accepting the case again, the Supreme Cour t said the appeals cour t must use the standard of scrutiny decided in Grutter. “[The decision] provides stability to the legal analysis of af firmative action,” Donohue said. “In that way, it’s a good thing.” When Fisher applied to the University of Texas at Austin, the school filled three-quar ters of its freshmen class by auto-
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After learning OIT was discontinuing Microsoft Office Suite sales, the University Bookstores’ M Tech computer stores have geared up to accommodate students who still want to buy the software. Jim Kyle, M Tech’s buyer manager , said the store will now sell Microsoft Office 365 for $69.99. While the cost is higher than OIT’s, it’s still $10 less than Microsoft’s current price for students and educators. “I decided we should try to get the students and faculty and staff the lowest possible price we can,” Kyle said. The store is able to offer the discount because Kyle said M Tech bought the software in bulk this year.
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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION TIMELINE
1964 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Title VI authorizes vol-
untary affirmative action by public and private schools, colleges and universities to overcome conditions limiting participation by persons of a particular race, color or national origin.
1978 Regents of the University of California V. Bakke:
The Supreme Court strikes down an admissions program that set aside a specific number of places for “disadvantaged” minority students in a medical school, but allows colleges and universities to consider race as a “plus” factor in admissions for the purpose of fostering educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body.
2003 Gratz. v. Bollinger:
The court ruled the University of Michigan’s undergraduate admissions policy was unconstitutional because the use of race wasn’t “narrowly tailored” enough. Grutter v. Bollinger: The court ruled the University of Michigan Law School’s use of race as one of many “plus factors” in an admissions program considering individual applicant contributions if the program passes strict scrutiny.
2013 Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin: Supreme Court votes 7-1 to send case back to lower courts.
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matically accepting Texas high school students who ranked in the top 10 percent of their graduating class. For the remaining quar ter, other factors — including race —were considered in the admissions process. The University of Texas at Austin currently accepts Texas students from the top 8 percent of their graduating high school classes automatically. In 2011, more than 80 percent of
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black and Latino students admitted to the university were automatically accepted. As a land grant institution, Hernandez said the University of Minnesota has an obligation to ensure student enrollment represents a cross section of the state. “We want students to become future leaders in their professions,” she said, “and diversity is an important factor of that.”
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Those who graduate by June 30, 2014, and have purchased a license from OIT would be allowed to keep their software indefinitely. Computers purchased by the University won’t be impacted by the change, including those bought for faculty and staff use. Gulachek said the University is working with Microsoft
to create an agreement that would allow students to keep their software purchases regardless of their graduation status. The current agreement is “a worst-case scenario,” he said. “I have every confidence in the world that we will come to an agreement that is more student-friendly.”
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The Andrew Riverside Presbyterian Church in Marcy-Holmes was razed in 2003. Its lot sat vacant for nine years and is now the site of The Elysian, a five-story apartment complex.
The neighborhood is updating its master plan, a document laying out goals for the next 10 years. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
Marcy-Holmes officials are planning the neighborhood’s next 10 years. At a public meeting last week, residents of the oldest neighborhood in Minneapolis commented on its master plan, a Minneapolis City Council-approved document laying out goals for the neighborhood’s future. Residents expressed a desire for housing catering to new families, seniors and long-time homeowners to supplement the student apartment complexes, which have divided public opinion. “They don’t want to become a monoculture of just students,” said Pierre Willette, economic and community development manager at the University of Minnesota Foundation. After two more public meetings, neighborhood representatives will bring the new plan back to the City Council this winter. Minneapolis city planner
Haila Maze said residents can use plans in negotiations with developers or investors to help ensure new development fits with their vision for the neighborhood. City of ficials also consider neighborhood plans when hearing proposals from developers, Maze said. “If there is something that seems really out there,” she said, “[developers] are going to have to answer for that.”
Looking forward, looking back
Marcy-Holmes residents worked with the city in the 1980s to increase singlefamily and senior housing. Increased University enrollment and student apartment complexes have led to traffic congestion and deteriorating buildings since then. The old Marcy-Holmes plan focused on keeping high-density housing on the neighborhood’s edges while maintaining a “sol-
id core” of single-family homes on Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth streets southeast. The new plan will focus on introducing a middle ground between singlefamily dwellings and large housing complexes over the next decade — what Andrew Dresdner, an urban designer for the plan, calls “gentle density.” As new housing development wraps up, “the pendulum will swing” toward a more student-dominated neighborhood, he said. “Mar cy-Holmes welcomes students,” Dresdner said, but eventually the push for new student development will subside. The neighborhood needs more housing for young families, he said, to get students to stay in the area after graduation. Families with children under age 18 make up slightly less than 4 percent of the Marcy-Holmes population, according to data from Minnesota Compass. That same demographic makes up more than a fifth of the Minneapolis population. University alumnus and master plan steering com-
Faculty say U discourages communityengaged research Some think a push for more lucrative research options may be a violation of faculty members’ academic freedom. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
While some faculty members at the University of Minnesota get federally-funded research grants, others turn to the community when looking for research opportunities. But some faculty members have said University officials discouraged them from conducting community research, which can be less lucrative for the University. The University Senate’s Academic Freedom and Tenure Committee met with representatives from the University’s Public Engagement Council in April to discuss faculty members’ concerns around the issue. Now, the committee is looking into whether discouraging faculty members from pursuing certain research grants is a violation of their academic freedom. The PEC was created in 2011 to advise University members on public engagement issues. These issues have increased as the Office for Public Engagement pushes faculty members to incorporate engagement in-
to research and teaching in addition to community outreach, which they are also required to do. Another goal of the Office for Public Engagement is to maintain relationships with community organizations rather than work with them on a project-by-project basis, said Associate Vice President for Public Engagement Andrew Furco. A couple of faculty members have told the PEC they’ve had to choose between community-engaged work and grants that would make more money for their departments, Furco said. University professors do community-engaged research with a large number of nonprofits that do not provide the standard indirect cost rate — the University’s requirement for reimbursement of processing fees, Furco said. It costs 62 cents for every dollar to process a grant, he said. The University asks for a 52 percent reimbursement for on-campus research and 26 percent for off-campus research to reduce that cost. When the University accepts a grant with a low in-
direct cost rate, Furco said, it has to absorb more of the cost. Furco said he’s looking into whether being deterred from doing communityengaged research is a common issue among faculty. At the meeting, other faculty members raised questions about whether limiting community-engaged research is unfair to professors in certain disciplines. Community research is especially important to faculty in the arts, said School of Music Director David Myers. “The ar ts, by nature, have to engage people in a process,” he said. Violin professor Sally O’Reilly directs Bravo!, a summer music program that lets students from the community, across the state and around the world come to the University to study music with faculty members. Though engaging with the community is important, O’Reilly said, there aren’t a lot of big grants out there for arts faculty. “If we knew of resources that could help us address some of the expenses that we have, we probably would jump on them,” she said. “But it’s not like the sciences where you have big institutions that fund all sorts of … research.”
mittee member Paul Buchanan said the University suffers from a lack of student housing, so the swell of development in recent years makes sense. “There’s a need for it,” he said, “and that’s why it’s happening.”
Getting Involved Buchanan said working with the neighborhood has helped him “take some ownership” of where he lives. “I think a lot of people don’t realize they have that option,” he said. University of Minnesota urban studies senior Shannon Evans said she joined the steering committee partially because she’s one of the few students aware of how neighborhood groups function. “I wanted to make sure that students’ voices are heard,” she said. When the neighborhood started holding public hearings, Evans said, she was surprised by how highly residents spoke of the undergraduate population. But she said it bothers her when residents make generalizations about 28,700 undergraduate stu-
dents based on negative interactions they’ve had with just a few. Only two of the 14 steering committee members are University students, which Evans said doesn’t surprise her — compared to permanent residents, transient students aren’t as invested in their neighborhoods. “I think people just don’t care as much about their local politics,” she said. As the only developer on the steering committee, CPM Proper ty Management President Daniel Oberpriller said it’s his job to represent landlords in the planning process. Oberpriller’s company owns a number of properties in Marcy-Holmes and will begin construction on a six-stor y, 643-bedroom apartment complex on 15th Avenue Southeast in August. He said it’s important for Marcy-Holmes to use space wisely in the next decade by finding higher-density uses for large houses. “Nobody needs a 10-bedroom house,” he said. “Can you cut that up and make it into a better use of space?”
MARCY-HOLMES 2010 STATS
POPULATION
10,015
11% OWN
OWN VS. RENT
89% RENT
14% FAMILIES
HOUSEHOLDS
86% NONFAMILIES
SOURCE: MINNESOTA COMPASS
Rights case ruling favors Colo. transgender girl BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DENVER - Colorado officials say a suburban Colorado Springs school district discriminated against a 6-year-old transgender girl by pr eventing her from using the girls’ bathroom, in what advocates described as the first such ruling in the next frontier in civil rights. Coy Mathis’s family raised the issue after school of ficials at Eagleside Elementar y in Fountain said the first-grader could use restrooms in either the teachers’ lounge or in the nurse’s office, but not the girls’ bathroom. Coy’s parents feared she would be stigmatized and bullied. On Monday, the Mathis family and its lawyers celebrated the ruling on the steps of the state capitol. Coy, dressed in a glittering tank top, jeans and pink canvas sneakers, ran around a towering blue spruce tree as her mother spoke to reporters. “Her future will be better if we get to this place where this is nothing to be ashamed of,” Kathr yn Mathis said, noting the family hadn’t sought a civil rights battle but was happy for the Colorado Division of Civil Rights’ ruling. As the gay rights movement has won mounting legal and electoral victories in recent years, advocates hope the latest decision will lend momentum to the str uggles of transgendered people. “This is by far the high-water mark for cases dealing with the rights of transgendered people to access bathrooms,” said the Mathis family’s attorney, Michael Silverman of the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund. He and other advocates said the case is one of several potentially groundbreaking transgendered civil-rights cases winding their way through the nation’s courts. The Maine Supr eme Cour t is considering the
case of a 15-year-old transgendered girl who was forbidden from using her school’s girls’ bathroom. Mat Staver of Liber ty Counsel, which focuses on religious and family litigation, said transgender cases are “a mocker y of civil rights.” He said his group got involved defending a depar tment store employee who was disciplined for ordering a person who was obviously male to leave the women’s changing room. “How do you know if someone is really thinking this way or not,” Staver said, adding that Coy is too young to decide on such a dif ferent identity. “How do you know if someone just wants to go in the restroom and be a peeping Tom?” Coy was born a triplet with two sisters and identified as a girl before she began attending elementar y school in FountainFor t Carson School District 8, an area heavy with militar y personnel near an Army base. Her father, Jeremy, is an ex-Marine. At 5 months, she took a pink blanket meant for her sister Lily. Later, she showed little interest in toy cars and boy clothes with pictures of spor ts, monsters and dinosaurs on them. She refused to leave the house if she had to wear boy clothes. After her parents accepted her identity, they said, Coy come out of her shell. Coy was diagnosed with “gender identity disorder” — a designation the American Psychiatric Association removed last year from its list of mental ailments. The removal reflected the growing medical consensus that identification as another gender cannot be changed. The Mathises said they feared the district’s decision would stigmatize Coy, who was reduced to tears when her teacher briefly put her in the boys’ line. When she came home, according to legal records, she cried to her parents: “Not even my teachers know I’m a girl!” When
Coy rose to first grade, the district forbade her from using the girls’ restroom. The Mathises filed their complaint in Febr uar y. The civil rights board’s director, Steven Chavez, found in a legal determination issued June 18 that the district’s solution of letting Coy use staff bathr ooms smacked of “separate but equal” and clearly violated her rights. Since they filed their complaint, the Mathises have moved to the Denver suburb of Aurora because of health problems suffered by another daughter. They said they hope the r uling will make it easier for Coy to star t at a new school without wor r ying about which bathroom she can use. Fountain-For t Carson School District 8 declined to discuss the case Monday. The district, however, can seek arbitration or a public trial, said Cor y Everett-Lozano, a spokeswoman with the Colorado Department of Regulator y Agencies. Silverman said transgendered civil rights are largely where gay rights were in the 1980s. He said progress in gay rights has made it easier for transgendered people to dare to fight in court. Coy, he said, is such an example. Her parents grew up during a more tolerant era for sexual rights and recognized that they should not tr y to force her to be a boy. “That has allowed children like Coy to make their voices heard,” Silverman said. Last year, Vice President Joe Biden called transgendered rights “the civil rights issue of our time.” Sixteen states, inclu d i n g C o l o r a d o , a n d the District of Columbia expressly outlaw discrimination against transgender ed people. In 2011, the 11th Circuit Cour t of Appeals in Atlanta overtur ned the firing of a Georgia state legislative employee who was dismissed after telling her boss she was about to undergo sex change surger y.
June 26-July 2, 2013
Pressure’s on for food transparency
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BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com
Students have pushed for more sustainable food and purchasing transparency at the University of Minnesota for two years. Conversations have increased, but some still aren’t satisfied. The student group U Students Like Good Food has increasingly worked with University Dining Ser vices to bring more sustainable foods on campus in the last year, but the group is still hoping to implement the Real Food Challenge calculator. The RFC calculator would track UDS food purchasing and make the information available to the public. “There’s a huge interest in changing the food on our campus,” said Laura Dorle, president of the group and an environmental sciences, policy and management senior. UDS has been working with the student group more frequently in the last year, and they’re hoping to move for ward with the food calculator this summer, Dorle said. UDS of ficials were unavailable for comment. In 2012, UDS purUDS 2012 chased about LOCAL FOOD 176,000 pounds PURCHASES o f lo cal p r o duce, 26,000 176,479 pounds pounds of of meat local
Apples: 80 percent of all apples grown in Minnesota are from the 27 varieties of apples developed by the U. Apples are imported from Washington in the offseason.
Broccoli: California was the number one U.S. producer of broccoli in 2011.
of dairy products
of produce
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY DINING SERVICES
Pork chops: Andrew Boss Meat Lab foods are sold during games at the TCF Bank Stadium.
WHERE A DINING HALL MEAL COMES FROM
meat a n d 1.2 million pounds of local dair y products, according to their website. However, the website did not give an exact definition for “local.” Jason Hill, bioproducts and biosystems engineering assistant professor, said “local foods may be good in some ways and bad in others,” because it could be preferable to buy food from a sustainable company far away than from a large, local corporation. The University’s Andrew Boss Laborator y of Meat Science has maintained a “fairly regular order” with UDS, said Ryan Cox, assistant professor of meat science and faculty coordinator for the meat lab. UDS hasn’t purchased quite as regularly from Cornercopia, the University’s student organic farm. Last year, UDS purchased $50 wor th of food from
26,060 pounds
176,479 pounds
Milk: Minnesota produced 784 million pounds of milk in April 2013. Land O’Lakes, Inc. has annual sales of more than $14 billion.
SOURCES: UNIVERSITY DINING SERVICES, NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HORTICULTURE SCIENCE, LAND O’ LAKES, RYAN COX
Cornercopia. The year before, it spent about $1,000. The student farm is tr ying to establish a better relationship with UDS, said Courtney Tchida, Cornercopia’s farm manager. Cornercopia and UDS planted about 80 pounds of potatoes last month, which Tchida said will go to dining centers in the fall. Executive Chef Thomas Boemer of Corner Table, a Minneapolis farm-to-food restaurant, said there are a lot of opportunities for the University to incorporate local foods. “You have to take small steps to head in the right direction,” Boemer said.
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Officials are preparing for potential safety issues on the bikeway in light of issues on the Midtown Greenway incidents. BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com
In the last year, bikers on the Midtown Greenway
in South Minneapolis have been attacked, robbed — and one man even had a Molotov cocktail thrown at him from an overpass. W ith the Dinkytown bikeway set to open near
Wallenda walks tightrope high over Ariz. BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER GORGE, Ariz - Nik Wa l l e n d a s t u d i e d t h e plunging walls of the Little Colorado River Gorge before stepping out on a quar ter-mile tightrope cable. “Whoo! That’s an amazing view.” With that obser vation, the well-known aerialist embarked Sunday afternoon on a walk without a safety net or har ness, 1,500 feet above the Little Colorado River Gorge in northeastern Arizona. The successful, 22-minute walk on the 2-inchthick steel cable was monitored by people around the world via television and computer screens during a broadcast of Wallenda’s most ambitious stunt yet. They watched as the winds tested the Florida daredevil, and listened as he called on God to calm the swaying cable and as he paid homage to his famed great-grandfather. The stunt was the leading trending topic on Twitter on Sunday afternoon. “It was unbelievable,” he told repor ters later. “It was ever ything I wanted it to be. It was extremely emotional. I got to the other end and started cr ying.” H u n d r e d s o f p e op le watched from the remote site on the Navajo Nation in nor theaster n Arizona
that led them past roadside vendors selling traditional jewelr y and about a dozen protesters who consider the area sacred. During his walk above the dr y river bed near the Grand Canyon, Wallenda paused and crouched twice as winds whipped around him and the rope swayed. Gusts had been expected to be around 30 mph. He said they sent dust flying into his eyes. “It was strenuous the whole way across. It was a battle. The winds were strong, they were gusty,” he told repor ters. “But there was never a point where I thought, ‘oh my gosh, I’m going to fall.’” Wallenda stepped slowly and steady throughout, mur muring prayers to Jesus almost constantly along the way. He jogged and hopped the last few steps. “Thank you Lord. Thank you for calming that cable, God,” he said about 13 minutes into the walk. The Discover y Channel broadcast the event live. He wore a microphone and two cameras, one that looked down on the river bed and one that faced straight ahead. The 34-year-old Sarasota, Fla., resident is a seventh-generation high-wire artist and is part of the famous “Flying Wallendas” circus family — a clan that is no stranger to death-defying feats. His great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, fell during
a per formance in Puer to Rico and died at the age of 73. Several other family members, including a cousin and an uncle, have perished while performing wire walking stunts. Nik Wallenda grew up performing with his family and dreamed of crossing the Grand Canyon since he was a teenager. Sunday’s stunt comes a year after he traversed Niagara Falls ear ning a seventh Guinness world record. Despite those successes, his next goal is in question. New York’s police commissioner said Monday that Wallenda’s hope of tightrope walking between the famous Chrysler and Empire State buildings was too dangerous. “I would say no,” Raymond Kelly said when asked about the possibility. At the Grand Canyon, about 600 spectators watching on a large video screen on site cheered him on as he walked toward them. A Navajo Nation ranger, a paramedic and two members of a film crew were stationed on the canyon floor. The ranger, Elmer Phillips, he got a little ner vous when Wallenda stopped the first time. “Other than that, a pr etty amazing feat,” Phillips said. Discover y’s two-hour broadcast showcased the Navajo landscape that includes Monument Valley, Four Corners, Canyon de Chelly and the tribal capital of Window Rock.
the University of Minnesota campus in early July, city officials are taking safety precautions before the public is free to ride. The path, which will run from TCF Bank Stadium to the pedestrian bridge crossing the Mississippi River near campus, will mainly rely on a high volume of riders and trail lighting to create a safe environment, said Stephanie Malmberg, the project’s construction engineer. Malmberg said she anticipates the path’s ridership will be high, which could deter crime. “It’s not the right environment to commit a crime,” she said. “There’s more people watching.” Soren Jensen, executive director of the Midtown Greenway Coalition, said a group of volunteers patrols the trail every night to monitor for safety concerns and added the path also relies
on lighting and high traffic. Bikeways have set standards for lighting, but the Coalition has found some darker spots on the Midtown Greenway that still need better lighting, Jensen said. “The real question is,” he said, “is it light enough to make the bad guys feel uncomfortable?” Similar to the Midtown Greenway, the Dinkytown path runs along an old railroad corridor, which partially runs through a trench below street level. To address this potential issue, engineers added an exit at 17th Avenue Southeast, near the path’s midpoint. “Anytime you’re in a railroad trench, it’s always good to have a few different oppor tunities for getting out,” Malmberg said. “You can never guarantee 100 percent safety.” Don Pflaum, a city trans-
portation planner, said designers for the Dinkytown path considered installing emergency phones and surveillance cameras on the path but couldn’t justify the high cost. He added that most trails in the T win Cities don’t use phones or cameras, but the Midtown Greenway has them because of the cor ridor’s more crime-ridden histor y. Jensen said bikers should use their senses and call 911 if they see suspicious activity along a bikeway. “Don’t tr y to just power through it,” he said. Workers are cur rently putting the finishing touches on the Dinkytown Greenway, installing lighting, signs, striping and some landscaping. The path is expected to open in the first week of July.
Honors cap too selective, some say The University only lets 10 to 15 percent of a class graduate with Latin honors or disinction. BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com
LWhile some students think graduating from the University of Minnesota with Latin honors should be a special achievement, others think the program has become too exclusive. Only 10 to 15 percent of each class can graduate with Latin honors or with distinction — awarded to students with a high GPA — which limits the number of students admitted to the University Honors Program as freshmen. The limit has always been that way, said Honors Program Director Serge Rudaz, and the University isn’t planning to change it. Genetics, cell biology and development sophomore Jessie Master said the 10 to 15 percent cap may be unfair for students in smaller colleges like the College of Biological Sciences. About a third of the College of Liberal Ar ts class of 2016 graduated in the top 10 percent of their high school class. In CBS, 82 percent did. Getting into the Honors Program is not just about grades or rank, Rudaz said. Students are admitted to the program through a holistic process. “We look for commitment to a particular inter-
est,” he said. “It can’t be just by the numbers.” Master said she applied to be in the Honors Program for her sophomore year but didn’t get in. Still, she said she likes the competitiveness of the program. “It would be pointless if they let ever yone in, because then it wouldn’t be an Honors Program,” she said. If she does eventually get in, Master said it would be a significant achievement. Physiology major Ornina Bachour, who graduated magna cum laude with distinction, said even if there’s a cap on the number of students who can graduate with honors, students not in the Honors Program who per formed well in high school should be allowed to take honors courses. “They’re clearly qualified in terms of academics,” Bachour said. Omar Ammash, a summa cum laude political science graduate with high distinction, said the enrollment cap makes sense because of the limited supply of honors advisors and seminars available to students in the program. “It just wouldn’t be feasible,” he said. Before the University
Honors Program launched in fall 2008, there were separate honors programs in dif ferent colleges, Rudaz said. These programs had different expectations and were run in different ways. “What it meant to get a Latin honors degree from the University of Minnesota really depended on the college that you graduated from,” he said. Rudaz helped create the current program to make it simpler and more consistent for students to graduate with Latin honors. As for the cap on honors graduates, Rudaz said “there’s no clamoring to change the rules.” “It just makes sense,” he said. “It means that this is a serious endeavor and that students need to really be committed to this.”
GPA REQUIREMENTS FOR DEGREES WITH DISTINCTION To graduate with distinction:
3.75
To graduate with high distinction:
3.9
FOR DEGREES WITH LATIN HONORS To graduate cum laude:
3.5
To graduate magna cum laude:
3.666
To graduate summa cum laude:
3.75
SOURCE: UWIDE POLICY LIBRARY
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Marcy-Holmes burglaries continue Police also responded to shots fired on University and Sixth avenues southeast on Tuesday. BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com
Several Marcy-Holmes residents had their homes burglarized last week, according to Minneapolis police reports. But burglaries across the 2nd Precinct, which includes Marcy-Holmes and the University of Minnesota, are down nearly 14 percent from last year. Someone broke into art history senior Emily Hoyt’s duplex on Four th Street Southeast on June 20 and stole her roommate’s laptop. Hoyt said it’s the third break-in to the building this year. The suspect came in through an unlocked window, and Hoyt said she might have been inside at the time. “I remember hearing someone come in,” she said, but she assumed it was her roommate. Another one of Hoyt’s roommates had a laptop stolen last fall when someone pried open the back door
POLICE REPORT
with a crowbar, Hoyt said. Marketing senior Nate Freeman’s house on 13th Avenue Southeast was burglarized over the weekend. Freeman said he and his six roommates spent the weekend in Wisconsin. When they got back, his laptop and charger were gone. “It would have been pretty easy to get in” to the house, Freeman said, because the lock on the front door is broken. Freeman said someone left a shirt on his bed over the weekend, as well. “I don’t know if he took off his shirt and put on one of mine,” he said. University alumnus Nate Anderson, who worked at the Minnesota Daily as a marketing coordinator until December, had his laptop stolen from his house on Seventh Street Southeast sometime between Sunday morning and Monday afternoon. Anderson was visiting his family and left his
window open because his house doesn’t have air conditioning. When he got back Monday afternoon, he saw someone had cut open the window screen. Cyndi Barrington, Minneapolis police public information officer, said it’s important for people to keep their windows and doors locked — even during hot summer months. Unsecure openings are “very inviting to criminals,” she said. “It’s easy access to your home.” Keeping outside areas well-lit can also help deter burglars, Barrington said.
Gunshots or fireworks
Minneapolis police got two calls repor ting gunshots on University and Sixth avenues southeast early Tuesday morning. Reports of gunshots are “fairly uncommon” in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood, said Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer. But the residents may have heard fireworks because of the upcoming Fourth of July holiday, and Palmer said police have no way of telling the difference between fireworks and gunshots if they’re only responding to calls. Police have found evidence of a discharged weap-
Kaler heads to China China
KALER’S TOUR IN GREATER CHINA
3
2 1. Hong Kong, China June 25-26 2. Shanghai, China June 27-28 3. Beijing and Tianjin, China June 29-July 3 4. Taipei, Taiwan July 4-5
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SOURCE: GLOBAL PROGRAMS AND STRATEGY ALLIANCE
NUMBER OF STUDENTS FROM CHINA STUDYING IN THE U.S. 194,029
200,000
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157,558 ’10-11
150,000 127,628
A rise in Chinese students
After a rise in the influx of Chinese students began five years ago, McQuaid said, growth has remained steady. In 2009, the University opened its first international office in Beijing to recruit prospective students and better ser ve alumni living in China. It’s not uncommon for U.S. universities to have offices and campuses abroad. Ohio State University, for example, opened a Shanghai office in 2010 to support faculty members, international students, study abroad programs and relationships with universities in China. The two-person staff at the University of Minnesota’s Beijing office meets with students at some of China’s top institutions that have an international focus and help with pre-departure orientation for students starting at the University. “It’s difficult for any nonAmerican to figure out how this countr y runs higher education,” McQuaid said. Unlike most countries, she said, the U.S. doesn’t have a central ministr y of education — instead, higher education is structured on a state-based system. “If a student said she wanted to study in America, it’s daunting for them to figure out how they organize what’s private versus public, what’s a four-year and what’s a research institution; it’s really dense,” McQuaid said. Par t of the goal of the Beijing of fice is to make that process easier for stu-
’09-10 98,235 100,000 64,757 ’02-03
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’06-07
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SOURCE: INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
dents.
An ‘ethical dilemma’ There is a growing debate in higher education on the use of educational agents in the international admissions process, McQuaid said. Cur rently, some Chinese students pay agents to help them with the admissions process — everything from filling out applications to booking flights to the U.S. Lan Jiang, a biomedical engineering sophomore, said she and her parents hired a private agent to help her find prospective schools in the U.S. and plan for her departure. Jiang said she’s heard rumors that wealthier Chinese families will pay to have essays and transcripts forged. She described the process as an “ethical dilemma.” McQuaid said the “University specifically does not work through agents, in part because [the University] is well-known.” Jiang, who hired an agent through Beijing JJL Overseas Education Consulting and Ser vice Co., Ltd., said she didn’t know anything about Minnesota before meeting with her agent.
iPad, gift cards never returned
An associate professor of medicine reported an iPad and $300 wor th of Target gift cards stolen on Friday, according to a University police report. The professor was overseeing a study and hired a University student to conduct inter views with research subjects, said University police Deputy Chief Chuck Miner. The student was supposed to give the items to subjects for their participation. After the suspected student stopped coming to work in April, the professor tried to contact her several times but the student said she was out of state for the summer. Miner said it’s not clear if the gift cards and iPad were University proper ty but added he’d be very surprised if the professor had paid for them out of pocket.
Theft from Jackson Hall
A University of Minnesota researcher had his laptop and backpack stolen from Jackson Hall on June 18. Song Lou is a biological researcher at the University. He said he was working
SECOND PRECINCT BURGLARIES
291
UMPD THEFT CALLS
208
13.7% DECREASE
251
30.3% DECREASE
145
2012
2013
SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT
in a lab on the third floor ofJackson Hall when a man came in and said someone was looking for him upstairs. The people upstairs told Lou they weren’t looking for him. When he came back to the lab, his laptop, backpack and the man were
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gone. Miner said nobody saw the man take Lou’s things, but it’s likely he committed the crime. University police have dealt with 145 thefts so far this year, according to the most recent data. That’s down from 208 thefts last year at this time.
Mormon students stick together
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with school of ficials and strengthen their relationship. Schulz said the president hosted a reception Tuesday night for 75 University alumni who live in the Hong Kong area. Meredith McQuaid, associate vice president and dean of international programs at the University, who is joining Kaler on the trip, said he will repeat this process in the other four cities Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and Taipei. The total cost of the trip is $125,000, or $7,450 per person, according to a press release from the GPS Alliance. Expenses for the Kalers, as well as those of Jay Weiner, the president’s speechwriter, will be covered by private funds from the University of Minnesota Foundation. GPS Alliance and the foundation will pay all other costs together.
on six times in the 2nd Precinct this year, Palmer said.
She declined to say how much her parents paid for the consultation but said “it wasn’t cheap.” McQuaid said Chinese students often only consider schools in coastal areas, which is par t of why the University wants to connect with students directly in China. When the U.S. and China re-established diplomatic relations in 1979, the University was one of the first Western schools to reconnect and has been intent on bettering the relationship ever since. But McQuaid said there’s always a risk — for any institution — to place too much reliance on any par ticular source of students. Health, political and economic issues can all contribute to a sudden decrease in the number of students, she said, so the University is remaining “cautiously optimistic.” What’s more, as the University develops its relationship with China, institutions in Asia and Western Europe are also increasing their recruitment efforts, McQuaid said. “But for now,” she said, “we are still seen as the place to come.”
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“I see a lot of similarities between myself and a lot of people from other religions,” she said. “It’s just a matter of people being able to talk about it.” University of Minnesota-Duluth sophomore Jordan Rock said being one of a handful of Mormon students in his college has been a character-building experience. “It’s definitely challenged me and tested me,” he said. Rock goes to par ties with friends outside of the church, but his religion pr ohibits drinking and smoking, so he usually ser ves as the designated driver. Avoiding alcohol on campus can be tough — more than 80 percent of University students said they had drunk alcohol in the last year in the 2010 Boynton Health Ser vice College Student Health Sur vey. But Rock found comfor t in connecting with the Mormon community in Duluth and now in the T win Cities during his summer internship. “It helps being surrounded by people with the same values,” he said. Many Mormon college students from the metro area attend ser vices at the Latter-Day Saints Institute of Religion in Dinkytown, which ser ves more than a dozen local colleges as well as other single adults under 30. Married adults and children attend wards — local congregations — for families. About 60 University students are involved in the institute’s single young adult ward, and about 110 members attend weekly ser vices, said Br yce Gardner, one of the church’s elders. Brown said being par t of the ward “was an awesome experience, because you’r e meeting people who are really close to your own age.” She transitioned to the family ward after getting married. On Friday nights, students from the young
PERCENTAGE OF U.S. POPULATION AFFILIATED WITH MORMON TRADITION 5% 5%
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adult center plan activities like bowling, golfing or grilling. College-age Latter-Day Saints members — and non-members — held a game night on Friday at the Dinkytown Institute, playing Mad Gab and table tennis as a storm flooded University Avenue Southeast just beyond the building’s front steps. When cars stalled in the flooded street, the young church members went outside to help drivers restart their cars and of fer warm cookies to appreciative drivers and passersby.
stones and threats in the late 1800s. The cur r ent chur ch population in the state is more than 31,000, spread across 75 congregations. Brown said many people believe Mormons practice polygamy — or having more than one spouse — although it’s not allowed in the church. Rock added that the church is also misinterpreted as a cult or a form of brainwashing. “It’s never anything like that,” he said. “Ever yone’s self-aware about making the right choices.”
A histor y of misunderstanding
Finding a community
Student Latter-Day Saints members often have to get used to being a smaller community on campus, Brown said. “You’re kind of the oddball out sometimes,” she said, “and that can be a little tough.” Many people have common misconceptions about the Mormon faith, Rock said — that it’s just a scam to sell timeshares in Utah, for example, or that it’s not a Christian religion. “That’s something that I personally disagree with,” Brown said, “because I have a ver y strong faith in Christ.” Church members have a long histor y of being ostracized for their beliefs. Early Latter-Day Saints missionaries in Minnesota were assailed with eggs,
For University doctoral candidate Dennis Chu, the church was an opportunity to find religion for the first time. As an international student at the University, Chu said he didn’t feel connected to American culture after his arrival from Taiwan. “I am in America, but I don’t feel like I have an American life,” Chu said. “After joining the church, I can know my neighborhoods and know what American life should be.” Since attending church ser vices and getting baptized in April, Chu said he feels part of a stronger community living in the United States. “I feel like they love each other,” he said, “and they also love me.”
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U in talks to partner with Teacher for America TFA u from Page 1
preliminary stages, the talks have already sparked controversy among some Minnesota education groups. Robert Panning-Miller, a Minneapolis teacher and cofounder of the education advocacy group Public Education Justice Alliance of Minnesota, said he is opposed to the potential partnership. “A college of education is trying to produce as good of a teacher as they can,” he said. “Pairing with Teach for America, which is trying to create a shortcut to a classroom … is a contradiction.” Talks between CEHD and TFA have been in progress for several weeks and are still in preliminary stages, according to Quam’s statement. But Panning-Miller said
PEJAM members — including some who were at a recent information session — have voiced concerns that the University’s decision has already been made. “Their takeaway was, this wasn’t a discussion, it was a presentation of possibilities,” he said. “That was really frustrating for us.”
Alternative licensing A law was passed in 2011 allowing groups to create ways for teachers to enter Minnesota classrooms faster and without passing all licensing tests. According to a written statement from TFA, the group approached the University because it’s interested in applying to be an alternative licensing program in the state. Quam’s statement said TFA approached CEHD be-
cause of the college’s “expertise in teacher education.” Some who have criticized TFA argue that the five-week teacher-training program for new members is not enough preparation to enter Minnesota classrooms. In its statement, TFA said an agreement with the University could mean a training program that’s longer than the current five weeks, as well as “thinking creatively about ongoing professional development during the first and second years of teaching.” TFA hasn’t submitted a formal application to the Minnesota Board of Teaching because they “want to wait and ensure [they] have a strong program in place that fully meets the law.”
Hamline partnership Currently, the only TFA
par tner in Minnesota is Hamline University. The partnership agreement falls outside of the 2011 alternative licensing law, and the Minnesota Board of Teaching reapproves it annually. Steve Henneberr y, University of Minnesota spokesman, said there has been no contact between the University and Hamline regarding TFA. Nancy Sorenson, dean of the Hamline School of Education, said Hamline’s relationship with TFA is strong. “Our involvement is consistent with Hamline’s commitment to serving its urban communities and our continuing interest in exploring alternative paths for teacher preparation,” she said in a written statement. TFA members are required to have a bachelor’s degree to be considered for
a teaching position. Once selected, Minnesota members attend a five-week teacher-training program before enrolling in a two-year program at Hamline that allows them to work toward a full license while also teaching in Minnesota K-12 schools. “Pursuing alter native certification down the road would be different from our current par tnership with Hamline … where we are currently an experimental program in their School of Education,” TFA’s statement said. The statement also noted that in other regions, the organization maintains relationships with multiple colleges and universities to offer flexibility for members. Quam said the University would also continue to offer traditional teacher educa-
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tion programs, even if a partnership is forged with TFA. “It’s impor tant to note that CEHD is considering the possibilities, advantages and complexities of offering both TFA and traditional teacher education pr ograms.”
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University epidemiology professor. “It’s not really an all-or-nothing thing.” University students say they eat breakfast “sometimes,” depending on a variety of factors: busy schedules, dining hall hours or what they have in the fridge. Julia Farrell, a graphic design senior, said time constraints keep her from eating breakfast. “I’m a roll-out-of-bedand-go person,” she said. “Breakfast is never a sitdown thing.” For students who live in residence halls, whether they eat breakfast can depend on when dining halls are open and what food is offered. Gabriella Vazquez, a senior living in Comstock Hall over the summer while
interning in the University’s microbiology department, said breakfast is the “best meal” at University Dining Ser vices in comparison to lunch and dinner. Other students may not agree. During the 2012-13 academic year, only 16 percent of meals eaten in the six University dining halls were breakfast, according to a UDS spokeswoman.
The importance of breakfast
Students said they have other priorities besides eating breakfast, like sleeping an extra hour. “If I have to get up for a 9 a.m. class, I’ll go to breakfast,” said senior David Carrol. “But if I have class at 11, I won’t get up to eat.” Nearly one-third of Minnesota college students said they eat breakfast one to three times per week in Boynton Health Service’s 2012 College Student Health Sur vey. Nearly 10
percent of college students said they don’t eat breakfast. Boynton nutritionist Maggie Ver talino said breakfast is impor tant to keep from starting the day with a chemical imbalance. It’s common for those who skip breakfast to crave foods high in carbohydrates later in the day, she said. Stress hormones can make cravings for unhealthy foods worse without eating something for breakfast. “If you’re skipping breakfast and you’re stressed out, it raises that [chemical] level,” Vertalino said. “It’s probably why you see people snacking ... your brain saying ‘I need food and I need it now.’ ” In the short term, eating
breakfast can help concentration, energy and sleep. In the long term, the health issues investigated in Odegaard’s study could stem from forming poor eating routines.
COLLEGE STUDENTS AND BREAKFAST 9.7% never eat breakfast
MINNESOTA COLLEGE STUDENTS BREAKFAST HABITS
Forming lifelong habits
Odegaard said he knows college students’ schedules aren’t normal, but it’s worth it to make breakfast a habit. The earlier students can develop lifelong habits, the more likely they are to stick with them as adults, Vertalino said. Social, physical and mental issues can arise from poor habits, she said, like weight gain and obesity, which come with an extensive list of risk factors
29.5% eat breakfast one to three times a week
60.8% eat breakfast four to seven times a week
16% (284,665) breakfasts UNIVERSITY DINING SERVICES BREAKFASTS EATEN IN 2012-13 ACADEMIC YEAR
1,779,178 total meals
SOURCES: 2012 BOYNTON HEALTH SURVEY, UDS OFFICE
including cavities, limited mobility, Type 2 diabetes, strokes and heart disease. Jacqueline Cuellar, a microbiology sophomore, said she worked to keep up her breakfast-eating habit through her first year at the
University. “If you can find a way to incorporate a breakfast meal, it would be a way to start forming good habits,” Odegaard said. “And there may be some benefits on the metabolic side.”
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A gadget life A power outage led me to reflection.
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To be fair, many were probably just surveying the damage to their neighborhood; however, such surveying often appears to be aimless. Eventually, I happened upon a small coffee shop with copious electrical outlets and a nice barista. I charged my smartphone and laptop, I updated family and friends and I checked the power outage map. The urge to find power and charge my gadgets was overwhelming, and I lament the control my gadgets had over me during the power outage. In many ways, my smartphone has become an extension of me. I use it to work, socialize, converse, text, photograph, browse the Internet and do numerous other life activities. Of course, I wasn’t the only one searching for power. As I
sat in the coffee shop, an elderly man talked to me about how he lost power at his house. We sat together for almost three hours; I said little, and he said a lot. We both charged our smartphones. While chatting, it occurred to me that reliance on contemporar y technology — and by extension contemporary power — is an intergenerational issue. Despite the news punditry, this reliance isn’t beholden to the most recent generations. Culturally, our gadgets are part of us. Certainly, technology has always been part of culture, though, perhaps, it is more noticeable now than ever before. But, gadgets and technology are always about more than just what they can do for users. Thomas J. Misa, noted historian of technology and author of “Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present,” argues: “[D] ebates about technology are rarely just about technical details, but rather are about the alternative forms of society and culture that these technical details might promote or deny.” Misa’s argument is
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correct. Our gadgets and technology — dependent on ubiquitous forms of power — not only allow us to operate our day-to-day lives but also allow us to intimately experience our culture and the cultures of others. They are ingrained in our thought. As I considered my dead smartphone, I never understood it as integral to my work in the world. The power outage and my witnessing the aimless roaming of my neighbors in search of a powered electrical outlet cr ystallized for me the importance of our gadgets and technology in our day-to-day lives. Moreover, this experience reminded me — as it should all of us — our culture isn’t what it once was. I’m not sure if it is better or worse than it once was; it’s just different. Whether we embrace it or not, our reliance on gadgets and technology is a defining characteristic of our culture. This is who we are now. Let’s celebrate it. Trent M. Kays Welcomes comments at tkays@mndaily.com.
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GUEST EDITORIAL MnSCU plan shakes up education
Why it matters: Demand for education is rising while resources are tight A new draft report on the future of the Minnesota State Colleges and University System offers bold suggestions for an educational system that certainly has scattered laboratories of enlightenment but still moves like an aircraft carrier. Reading through the “Charting the Future” report summary, one comes across some of the familiar educational themes like “best education” and “accessible to all” along with “high value” and “affordable.” The bold and more interesting suggestions come with words like “relevancy” and phrases like “transformational management” and “strong collaborative leadership at all levels.” MnSCU Chancellor Steven Rosenstone commissioned three working groups to come up with suggestions for changing the behemoth educational system with dozens of campuses across the state in communities large and small. Importantly, he asked them to chart the future not from their positions representing a particular college, community or constituency but from the perspective of a “steward” of the entire system. With such a charge, the hope was that fresh ideas would come for ward. The groups delivered that to a reasonable degree. Some of the ideas will shake up the system and will likely be forcefully challenged by individual constituencies that cannot be underestimated. Ever y college, ever y community with a MnSCU institution will clearly take notice if the draft
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ike many Minnesotans, I weathered the summer thunderstorm over the weekend. My apartment building lost power Friday night, and we didn’t get power back until 2 a.m. Sunday. My building was lucky to get power back so quickly. As of Tuesday morning, there were still 19,000 people in the Twin Cities without power. I am mentally and physically prepared for power outages, loud thundering storms and terrifying climatic events. Still, as I sat in my living room Saturday morning with a dead smartphone and a sleeping cat, I mused about how reliant our society is on gadgetry and technology. I wandered around my neighborhood looking for power. I saw many downed trees that blocked roads, crushed cars and destroyed sidewalks. I soon became frustrated because I couldn’t find a place with power. I observed a mess and people wandering aimlessly.
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report is taken seriously by Rosenstone and others. Three working groups focused on education of the future, the system of the future and the workforce of the future. Former Minnesota State University provost and current president of Winona State University Scott Olson chaired the future of education working group. Joe Opatz, president of Normandale Community College, led the system of the future group and Ron Thomas, president of Dakota County Technical College, led the workforce of the future group. The working groups will take feedback from stakeholders and the public on the draft report and craft a final report to be delivered to Rosenstone in October. The overall goals for MnSCU don’t seem that much different from what they have always been. MnSCU schools work to provide students with educations that align with the careers in demand. They are designed to provide broadbased general educations and career training in various forms at reasonable, affordable prices. Operating more efficiently has always been MnSCU’s challenge, and the strategic priority listed as No. 1 addresses better aligning the system’s offerings to meet the needs of the state, workplace and communities by setting forth a master academic and facilities plan. Action items under that priority include relocating programs, redesigning programs and eliminating duplicative programs. If these ideas were suggested before, they were done so in a relatively low profile manner. That they are included in the first strategic priority
suggests MnSCU is serious about streamlining and creating a more market-oriented educational system. Of course, there are plenty of traditional themes in the report like leveraging shared resources and enhancing faculty education and quality and working more closely with business and community partners. But one needs only look at a map of MnSCU campuses to understand the inevitability of duplication. Some campuses are just a few miles apart. If MnSCU should close programs, relocate others and re-design others, facilities will be impacted. That means communities may lose parts or all of MnSCU institutions that are considered major employers. That will not go over easily. And it’s likely the working groups will hear those concerns early and often in their feedback sessions. The group should keep in mind those facilities were built at a time when access to higher education via geography was a priority and an affordable option. Today, education has to operate like a nimble business, being willing to consolidate production, move closer to markets and provide a better product at a lower price. It’s time MnSCU decided its primary business is education and not community economic development. The “Charting the Future” draft report is bold and will likely shake things up in the ivory towers of MnSCU academia and in MnSCU towns from Worthington to Bemidji. But it’s time. This editorial was originally published June 23 by Mankato Free Press. Send comments to letters@mndaily.com.
ver the last few weeks, critics have spun a myriad of misinformation regarding the National SeRONALD DIXON curity Agency. A f t e r E d - columnist ward Snowden, a defense contractor for Booz Allen Hamilton, leaked classified information regarding the collection of data from Internet providers and phone companies, many politicians, pundits and citizens have called the NSA’s actions “unconstitutional” and “Orwellian.” After the NSA scandal, George Orwell’s “1984” sales went up 6,021 percent in a single day. These claims, however, are far from the truth. The NSA has gathered a multitude of intelligence, but they are not actively searching through the records of millions of Americans. By law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act forbids spying, either domestically or internationally, without approval from the Foreign Intelligence surveillance Court. The NSA obtains judicial permission, whereby protecting them from violating the Fourth Amendment, which forbids warrantless searches. As with any law, though, FISA can be violated, as it was in 2002 with former President George Bush’s order to spy without court warrants. Moreover, the assertion that these revelations equate to an Orwellian society shows just how willing NSA opponents are to exaggerate. In Or well’s “1984,” those that provided any hint of disloyalty to Big Brother were tortured until they began to believe that the government was infallible. The conversions are followed by executions. In reality, can the NSA be compared to telescreens that monitor and punish even the slightest portrayal of anti-government thoughts? Any argument that tries to forge this point relies on a slipperyslope logical fallacy. In fact, the NSA scandal has no impact on nearly 100 percent of Americans,. However, the NSA is far from infallible. They should not broadly obtain the data of millions of Americans, even if they do not intend to analyze most of it. The NSA and the rest of the federal government should also clarify which forms of declassification are legal, who can lawfully leak information to the press and what types of classified data are permitted to release. The NSA is not an unconstitutional, Orwellian entity, and Snowden’s reckless and unlawful leaks should land him in court. Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.
The unpaid internship A recent court decision could put pressure on employers to create more meaningful internship programs.
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ue to a recent Federal District Cour t decision, the dynamic of unpaid internships of fered by companies each year may change dramatically. Judge William H. Pauley III ruled earlier this month that Fox Searchlight Pictures had violated federal and New York minimum wage laws by not paying their interns. The ruling brings to light the legal criteria that must be followed in order for companies to have unpaid interns — criteria that many students don’t know walking into an internship. Forbes Magazine repor ted in April that in Walling v. Por tland Terminal Co. (1947), the U.S. Supreme Court recognized an exemption to the federal law that ever y employee is entitled to a minimum wage. “Trainees” — the legal term for interns — can go unpaid as long as the experience provides educational benefits, the intern does not do the work of regular employees and the employer receives no advantage from the intern’s work. Many in the media are clamoring about how this ruling could put an end to unpaid internships and could ultimately hurt students trying to work their way up the job market. It’s important to put the situation in context. According to a recent report in The Atlantic, the job market advantage of having unpaid internship experience is negligible. This is likely because there has been little in the way of quality control for unpaid internship programs. Additionally, if companies are able to hire unpaid interns as a cost-saving measure with no legal repercussions, the entire workforce is disadvantaged. Pauley’s ruling is fair, and it will hopefully encourage employers to create more meaningful unpaid internship programs or not offer them at all. While unpaid internships can be beneficial for students, this ruling further defends intern work from being abused.
A fleeting victory Kaler’s tuition freeze will not prevent nearly half of University students from paying more next school year.
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he University of Minnesota Board of Regents approved President Eric Kaler’s 2013-14 budget last week, freezing tuition for resident undergraduates at $12,060 for two years. While this freeze is commendable, it comes with unanswered questions. It’s also important to note that nearly half of University students will see as many hikes as they ever have. More than 21,200 students, including all graduate and professional students and non-resident undergraduates, will see tuition hikes ranging from 3 to 9 percent, the Minnesota Daily reported on June 6. Additional hikes to room and board, student service fees and course fees will affect all students. The freeze represents a victory for University students, albeit a limited one. Its benefits will be moot if tuition rises sharply in 2016. “Every time you say that word ‘freeze,’ … there is a cliff to climb at the end of the freeze,” Regent John Frobenius said during Kaler’s budget presentation. “I do think we need to spend a little time understanding what happens three years from now.” Kaler and the administration have not provided sufficient answers to this and other long-term questions about the budget. Finally, by raising non-resident tuition, the University is beginning to reverse one of its most distinctive but overlooked attributes. In the 20122013 school year, the University had the smallest gap between resident and non-resident tuition for a public institution in the Big Ten. Low out-of-state tuition makes the University unique among its peer institutions, and the increased diversity it provides is worth the cost. A $1,000 increase keeps the tuition gap relatively small, but it represents a troubling paradigm shift in the way the University views out-of-state students.
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New culture aids academic turnaround The Gophers have improved in the classroom quickly under Jerry Kill. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Gophers head football coach Jerry Kill was not shy about his program’s struggling academics when he first arrived on campus. Kill said a change in culture was imperative for the program, and with the recent release of the annual Academic Progress Rate report, he appears on track with that goal. APR measures the academic eligibility and retention of each student-athlete, according to the NCAA. A per fect APR score is 1000, and any team that scores below 925 is subject to sanctions, which can include postseason bans or a loss of scholarships. The score is a four-year rolling average. In the June 11 APR report, the Gophers football team earned a score of 994 for the 2011-12 season. Those marks brought the team’s four-year rolling average to 955 — a significant increase from last year’s 932.
Kill said there hasn’t been a magical formula to the firstyear success. He said he and his staff placed an emphasis on players’ actions in the classroom and the overall culture of academics. “We’ve just made them go to classes,” Kill said. “It’s amazing what happens when kids go to class, are on time and do what they’re supposed to.” That 994 score is the highest single-season score in the history of Gophers football and is also one of the highest scores on record for any NCAA football program. Only 10 teams have tied or beaten a score of 994 in the four seasons the NCAA has made single-season APR scores available. Kill said that when he took the job, the football team was one player away from losing scholarships, a group of 25 players were on academic warning and three players were suspended because of academics. “Now all of a sudden [to be] where we’re at with basically only 30 new kids in the program, I’d say give the kids the credit,” Kill said. The Gophers posted low APR scores under Tim Brewster, who coached them from
2007-10, and football produced low scores nationwide when APR was first implemented. The Gophers lost three scholarships in 2007-08 because their four-year running average was below 925. The following season, their average broke 930. “I don’t think our institution was an outlier in the beginning stages,” said JT Bruett, the Gophers’ director of compliance. “There wasn’t a lot of awareness of APR and what it was about at first, so all sports for APR scores tended to be a little lower to start.” Bruett, who worked with Brewster, said Kill is a crucial cog in the success of the program. He said Kill has developed a culture centered on the academic success of players. “I wouldn’t say Tim Brewster didn’t care about academics,” Bruett said. “But I think coach Kill has done a great job creating a culture in the program. “He’s done a tremendous job creating a culture that they take pride in.” Kill and his staff aren’t alone in the academic process that has led to the increase in APR scores. Kill said the McNamara Academic Center for
BIG TEN FOOTBALL APR SCORES* 2011-2012 NORTHWESTERN WISCONSIN OHIO STATE NEBRASKA INDIANA IOWA PENN STATE ILLINOIS MINNESOTA MICHIGAN STATE PURDUE MICHIGAN
996 985 982 972 963 961 961 960 955 955 953 951
*scores are a four-year running average
SOURCE: NCAA
Student- Athletes has played a major role in the success as it helps monitor and assist players. Lynn Holleran, the director of the center, said there’s been a noticeable change in the football team’s academic culture during the last couple of years. “It’s a good group, and that’s why there was such a significant jump,” Holleran said. “They want to play football, but they also want to get their degrees.” Holleran said she and her staff work closely with the coaches to ensure players are
GOPHERS APR SCORES* 2011-2012 BASEBALL MEN’S TENNIS WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WOMEN’S GYMNASTICS WOMEN’S SOCCER WOMEN’S CROSS COUNTRY MEN’S GYMNASTICS WOMEN’S TENNIS MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, INDOOR WOMEN’S HOCKEY WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING MEN’S HOCKEY MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, OUTDOOR WOMEN’S GOLF MEN’S GOLF WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, INDOOR WOMEN’S TRACK AND FIELD, OUTDOOR SOFTBALL WOMEN’S VOLLEYBALL WOMEN’S ROWING MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY MEN’S WRESTLING MEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING FOOTBALL MEN’S BASKETBALL
965 955 955
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 997 992 992 989 989 989 987 987 987 984 984 984 984 983 981 980 979
*scores are a four-year running average
SOURCE: NCAA
accountable for their classroom actions. She said that relationship is pivotal in the success of student-athletes and added that they are on the same page. “We have a system in place, and there is a partnership where I think the numbers will continue to improve on a multiyear scale,” Holle-
ran said. Despite the Gophers’ improvements, they’re tied for ninth in the Big Ten in fouryear rolling average. “If I got fired today, I can say this: It’s a lot farther along than it was,” Kill said. “We’ve moved the program forward, and now we need to continue to do better.”
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Mbakwe nears NBA chance after long wait NBA DRAFT PROJECTIONS Trevor Mbakwe
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BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Trevor Mbakwe appears poised to finally achieve his dream after six years of challenges in college. The former Gophers forward is expected to be selected in the second round of the NBA draft June 27, according to numerous mock draft websites. His rebounding ability, strength and energy could be his ticket to the professional level. “The one thing that always usually translates the best [to the NBA] is rebounding,” said Mbakwe, who led the Big Ten in rebounding last season. “I’ve shown that I’m one of the better rebounders in the draft class.” Though he’s a proven rebounder, the 6-foot-8-inch forward is undersized for an NBA big man. Mbakwe usually had a size advantage in college, but when he didn’t, he often gained an advantage with his strength. He dominated projected top-15 pick and 7-foot center Cody Zeller in February, finishing with 21 points and 12 rebounds in the Gophers’ upset victory against top-ranked Indiana. But most NBA big men are stronger than Zeller, and Mbakwe won’t be able to push them around. “At the next level, I’m not going to be stronger or be able to jump higher than a lot of guys I’m playing against,” Mbakwe said. Mbakwe may find a role as a high-energy player. His relentless effort was evident during his three years playing for the Gophers. “He makes up for [his size] with hustle,” said Houston Rockets head coach Kevin McHale. “He’s a competitor.” Former Gophers head coach Tubby Smith said Mbakwe has a “real motor” and an excellent work ethic. Mbakwe needs to improve his passing at the next level, Smith said, and he’ll be asked to get others open with his passing and screening, rather
than being a primary scoring option. The Minnesota Timberwolves’ President of Basketball Operations Flip Saunders said NBA coaches won’t want Mbakwe shooting the ball, though he did say Mbakwe improved that part of his game. “Nothing that you do average is going to make you that much better in the NBA,” Saunders said. “His strength is not his ability to shoot.” Smith said Mbakwe wants to be coached and accepts it in both positive and negative forms. “He’ll do whatever’s necessary,” Smith said. “That’s what I like about him. He’s a guy that will battle.” Mbakwe’s path to the NBA draft has been unusually long. He’s experienced plenty of difficulties along the way, including two transfers and arrests for felony assault, violating a restraining order and a DWI. He pled no contest and was convicted of the assault, and he pled guilty to the restraining order violation and DWI. He also tore his right anterior cruciate ligament in November 2011, causing him to miss the rest of the Gophers’ season and receive a medical redshirt for a sixth year in 2012-13. Though he didn’t miss a game last season, Mbakwe said his knee is the first issue NBA teams ask him about in the draft process. “I just have to reassure them that my knee is fine,” he said. “I’ve definitely done more to show that my athleticism was there and my explosion is back.” Mbakwe said reaching the NBA would mean a lot after all he’s been through. “I think he’s proven it takes a lot to keep him down,” McHale said. “He’s a tough kid.” Both McHale and Saunders said Mbakwe will get an opportunity in the NBA. Mbakwe said he would embrace a chance to play anywhere in the league. He and fellow former Gophers teammate Rodney Williams are both potential selections.
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Minnesota forward Trevor Mbakwe attempts a layup against Wisconsin on Feb. 14 at Williams Arena.
“We all play the game hoping to reach our dreams to
play in the NBA,” Mbakwe said. “It’s going to be an awe-
some feeling just to hopefully hear my name called or just
[to] get a chance to try out for a training camp with a team.”
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Bickerstaff eyes job as head coach Ex-Gophers player J.B. Bickerstaff has been an NBA assistant since ’04. BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com
Houston Rockets assistant coach John-Blair Bickerstaff remembers drawing up basketball plays in his notebook when he was a little boy. He’s always known his ultimate goal was to be a head coach. Bickerstaf f grew up around the game. He was ball boy for the Seattle SuperSonics while his father, Bernie Bickerstaff, was head coach. Now he’s close to attaining his own NBA head coaching position. After nine years as an assistant, Bickerstaff interviewed for three head coaching vacancies this summer. “I always knew that I wanted to follow [my dad’s] footsteps,” Bickerstaff said. Bickerstaff’s father said his son was a student of the game at a young age. “You could just see how he focused in on what was going on,” he said. “His insight ... was somewhat astonishing.” Bickerstaf f ’s coaching mentality and leadership abilities were evident during his playing career, said former Gophers head coach Dan Monson. Bickerstaf f, 34, transferred to the University of Minnesota in the late 1990s after playing two seasons with Oregon State. His two-year career with the Gophers did not follow the path he expected. Bickerstaff came to the Gophers under the assumption he’d be playing for thenhead coach Clem Haskins. But Haskins was let go by the University in June 1999 amid allegations of academic fraud.
“He was a father figure in all of our lives,” Bickerstaff said. “It was a heartbreaking situation, especially for me not being able to play a game for him.” When the Gophers hired Monson to take over the position a month later, the transition was difficult. Bickerstaff, who’d already been voted Gophers captain without playing a game, was considering transfer ring weeks after Monson’s arrival. It took a while for him and Monson to establish trust both on and off the court, he said. “We’re both pretty set in our ways,” Bickerstaff said. “That took some getting used to.” Over time, the two hashed out their dif ferences and established a strong bond, Bickerstaff said. During his two-year career, Bickerstaff served as a coach on the floor, Monson said. “J.B. was a very intelligent student of the game,” he said. “He studied it from maybe a different angle than most players did.” During his Gophers career, which included a oneyear postseason ban stemming from Haskins’ tenure, Bickerstaf f averaged 9.4 points and 5.8 rebounds while leading Minnesota to a combined 30-30 record. Bickerstaf f felt it was the team’s responsibility to change the program’s image — the players were viewed as cheaters, he said. “I think that that’s what we did,” he said. “I think by the time we left, people started thinking of us as competitors — hard-working, disciplined, good human beings.” Bickerstaff suffered injuries during his time with the Gophers that prevented him from continuing to play professionally. He said he wouldn’t be in the position
he’s in today had he not started his coaching career at such a young age. After graduating from the team, Bickerstaff returned to Monson’s staff as Director of Basketball Operations. Monson said Bickerstaff served as a liaison between the players and coaches. Though Bickerstaff was only 23 at the time, Monson wasn’t concerned by his youth. He said Bickerstaff had the ability to determine the pulse of the team. “He was young enough to where kids would talk to him,” Monson said. “He [had a] non-threatening, playertype friend relationship.” Bickerstaff said player relations are his greatest strength as a coach. “Guys have personal issues that come up that can really af fect their performance or their mind on and off the court,” he said. “They need somebody that they can talk to about that. They need somebody that they can trust.” Bickerstaff helped coach the Gophers for a year before leaving for the professional level. He ser ved as a radio color analyst for the Minnesota Timberwolves during the 2003-04 season when the team reached the Western Conference finals. The position gave him exposure. He appeared on NBA TV and ESPN during the season to discuss the team. The following season, Bickerstaff joined his father — then-head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats — for the franchise’s expansion season. At 25, J.B. Bickerstaff was the youngest assistant coach in the league. “He had the respect from the players because of the way he carried himself and his knowledge of the game,” Bickerstaff’s father said. “He
Gibbemeyer excels after college, preps for Olympics BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Laur en Gibbemeyer stands at 6 feet 2 inches and certainly looks the part as an intimidating force on the volleyball court. Then she opens her mouth. “I was terrified of her at first,” middle blocker Tori Dixon said, referring to her former Gophers teammate’s vocality. “She was super intimidating on the court because she was so intense out there.” Gibbemeyer said she’s heard that a lot throughout her career, but that raw emotion stems from her passion for the game. “I’m not trying to be scary on the court,” the middle blocker chuckled. “I’m really passionate, so sometimes, maybe I’m not as sensitive to the newbies.” Now, Gibbemeyer hopes to carry her passion and recent success into the next three years as she vies for a spot on her country’s squad for the 2016 Rio Olympics. She was one of the last players cut on the 2012 London Olympics team, but she said that has fueled her fire for the upcoming years. “I’m even more ready this time around,” she said. Gibbemeyer helped the U.S. repeat as champions at the Pan-American Cup on June 16.
A natural talent This is a position the child version of Gibbemeyer never imagined she’d be in. She grew up a basketball player and never considered volleyball until her freshman year at Cretin-Derham Hall High School. “I always had people tell me that I was super tall and should try out for volleyball,” she said. “I did, and it came pretty natural to me.”
That natural talent attracted the Gophers from an early stage in her high school career. Gibbemeyer played her first season of club volleyball as a high school sophomore and signed with the Gophers that year. She said her college choice was easy. “I grew up 10 minutes from campus and went to University of Minnesota volleyball games,” she said. “So in my head, from a young age, I wanted to go to the University of Minnesota.” Gibbemeyer wasn’t a stand-out with the Gophers her first couple of years on campus. She was a consistent player but didn’t always dominate at the level that she did in her final two seasons. “She showed up with some great blocking instincts,” former Gophers head volleyball coach Mike Hebert said. “She was one of the best blockers I’ve ever coached.” Hebert said Gibbemeyer needed help with her technique and ability to read attacks, but as she grasped those two concepts, she started to flourish. The Gophers faced adversity in Gibbemeyer’s junior season when All-American outside hitter Brook Dieter quit the team. Gibbemeyer said that was a pivotal moment in her career. “It was for all of us,” she said, “but we didn’t really know whether to let it spiral out of control … or stand together and try to reach our goals without her.” The Gophers chose the latter and surprised people with an impressive run to the Final Four, where they lost to Texas. Gibbemeyer said that success excited her for the team’s potential in her senior season. That sense of excitement turned to heartbreak when Gibbemeyer broke her wrist
two weeks before the Big Ten season started. It was a significant blow to the team’s morale, similar to the loss of Dieter a year earlier. “[Gibbemeyer] was the heartbeat of our team her senior season,” Hebert said. “She missed about a month and our team played well, but it wasn’t the same.” Dixon, a freshman at the time, said there was an initial sense of panic on the team, but Gibbemeyer was able to keep the team calm. “She still led the team even though she wasn’t playing,” Dixon said, “and that was really surprising to me, because if it was everyone else, that wouldn’t be the case.” Gibbemeyer missed 12 matches with the wrist injury, but said she felt 100 percent by the end of the season. She still led the team with 116 blocks but narrowly missed All-America honors because she didn’t play in enough matches. “There’s no question Lauren would have been named an All-American, but she was short by one or two sets,” Hebert said. “It was a quirky season.” The Gophers returned to the NCAA tournament in Gibbemeyer’s senior year but lost in the Sweet 16 to California. That loss ended Gibbemeyer’s amateur career, but it ignited her professional one. She finished with a schoolrecord 593 total blocks.
An Olympic battle Soon after the loss, thenUSA national team head coach Hugh McCutcheon invited her to try out for the team. “It was a chance of a lifetime, so I had to go,” Gibbemeyer said. “I knew I could always go back and finish school, but chances to play for Team USA don’t always
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was very professional for a young man.” Bickerstaff spent three seasons with the Bobcats and four seasons with the Timberwolves — all as an assistant coach — before joining the Rockets in 2011. Rockets head coach Kevin McHale said Bickerstaff often ran the entire offense in practice last season. “He’s just getting better all the time,” McHale said. “I give him a lot of responsibility. He’s great. I couldn’t ask for anybody to be any better.” Bickerstaf f has spent time working under McHale, Washington Wizards head coach Randy Wittman and former Timberwolves head coach Kurt Rambis, though he said the time spent under his father was the most valuable. Bickerstaff’s father said the two talk almost daily. “It’s not just basketball — it’s more personal, I would say,” Bickerstaff said of the relationship with his father. Bickerstaff is starting to garner attention as a head coaching prospect in the NBA. He inter viewed for openings with the Phoenix Suns, the Milwaukee Bucks and the Detroit Pistons this offseason. In Detroit, his interview in-
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Houston Rockets assistant coach J.B. Bickerstaff coaches forward Chandler Parsons during a game.
cluded a conversation with Hall of Famers Phil Jackson and Joe Dumars. He said the inter view processes have been valuable. “They’ve been great experiences as far as how to handle the situations,” he said, “[and] also the opportunity to have basketball conversations with great minds and ask questions and learn from that perspective.” All three of the head coaching positions were filled by older candidates, with Detroit and Milwaukee hiring former head coaches who had been let go by other teams. Bickerstaff said his age was brought up as a concern during his interviews, which he found silly. He said he was inter-
ested in the Gophers’ head coaching position after Tubby Smith was fired in March but was never contacted about the position. The Gophers hired Richard Pitino from Florida International in April. McHale said Bickerstaff’s head coaching opportunity will come. “He’s typical of a guy who’s going to be a head coach in our league,” he said. “He’s very well- versed. He loves the game. He does a great job with it.” Bickerstaff said it’s going to take someone special to break the mold and give him an opportunity, though he does expect one. “Those people that don’t, that’s their out and that’s their mistake,” he said. “I’m OK with that.”
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come around.” Gibbemeyer made the first cut and worked out with Team USA in the summers of 2011 and 2012 in preparation for the London Olympics. McCutcheon said he was impressed with her skills, but she didn’t get as serious of a look as some of the other middle blockers since some had more Team USA experience. “She was certainly in the mix as we cut it down to the final 25 or so,” McCutcheon said. Gibbemeyer has played as a professional in Japan and Italy and recently signed a contract to play in Azerbaijan this upcoming season. She said playing in a different country was a culture shock at first, but she adapted over time. “I went to school basically in my backyard … so making that transition was a challenge for me and kind of a lonely experience,” she said. “It’s made me grow as a person.” Gibbemeyer hopes that growth will help her earn a spot on Team USA for the 2016 Olympics. McCutcheon, who now coaches Gophers and won’t return to head the national squad in 2016, said Gibbemeyer has the raw skills to make it, but it’s tough to speculate three years down the road. “In that Olympic realm, players have to be good at everything and great at one or two things,” McCutcheon
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Former Gophers middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer, right, celebrates a key point for the U.S. versus Argentina.
said. “She’s good at everything right now, but it’s what she chooses to focus on and what ends up being her ultimate strength that will be the defining factor.” McCutcheon said the team generally carries three middle blockers, and two middle blockers that started in the 2012 London Olympics — Foluke Akinradewo and Christa Harmotto — are likely to return for 2016. “If they come back, that makes the competition very,
ver y tough,” McCutcheon said. “It’s going to be a battle for anyone to make that team.” Gibbemeyer said other players’ experience levels aren’t on her mind now. She said her hunger from being cut in 2012 will feed her fire until the Olympics. “I know that if I work as hard as I can … I can make that spot,” Gibbemeyer said. “It’s a mental thing for me. “I just have to keep working at it.”
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Vaughn seeks challenge at prep school Top local recruit Rashad Vaughn said the Gophers are still in the mix. BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com
Troy Vaughn compares his son, local five-star recr uit Rashad Vaughn, to an orange. He wants to squeeze as much juice, or talent, out of him as possible, and at the moment, Vaughn doesn’t feel his son is being squeezed hard enough. That’s the main reason Rashad Vaughn won’t return to Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope, Minn., next year. A few repor ts sur faced June 17 that said Rashad Vaughn — the No. 6 recruit in the nation for 2014 according to Rivals.com — will forego his senior season at Robbinsdale Cooper and instead enroll at a prep school next year. Troy Vaughn confirmed those repor ts with the Minnesota Daily on June 19. “We’ve got a big cup to fill with him,” Vaughn said. “We love it here, but we’re in Minnesota and after a game [when] Rashad ends up with a nice dunk … that guy [he dunked on] wants a picture with him. I’m like, ‘OK, is he really getting squeezed right now?’ ” Rashad Vaughn’s longtime mentor Pete Kaf fey agr eed he needs mor e consistent competition. Kaf fey ser ves as an assistant coach at Robbinsdale Cooper, but he’s known Rashad Vaughn since the stud shooting guard was a little kid. Kaffey said their relationship goes deeper than basketball, so it was easy for him to suppor t Vaughn’s decision to pursue a prep school. “I care about him a lot as a person, because he’s a good kid … and I’ve got to give him the best advice,” Kaf fey said. “He’s got to play with and against the best to get better, and we don’t always have that con-
sistency here.” Troy Vaughn said he’s considered the move throughout the past year. He said his son was initially more excited about the decision than he was. “I was more selfish on my par t at first because I know he’s going to be going to college soon … and he’s a big par t of our family str ucture here,” the elder Vaughn said. “But when we looked at it, we realized that he needed to be in the right environment to succeed.” T r o y Va u g h n s a i d they’ve nar rowed his son’s list of possible prep schools to four, including programs such as Huntington Prep (W.Va.) and Findlay Prep (Nev.). Troy Vaughn has spoken highly of Huntington Prep, a program Vaughn has communicated with since the decision process began. “In our eyes, we have a great relationship with Rashad,” said Huntington Prep head coach Rob Fulford. “We have developed a relationship longer than a lot of other schools.” “I’ve never lost a kid that I’ve wanted,” Fulford added. “If we want them here at Huntington, we usually get them.” Fulfor d said Vaughn has the raw ability to be a special player at the next level, but his work ethic will put him over the top. “That’s one of the first things he asked me when he got here: ‘How late can I stay in the gym?’ ” Fulford said. Fulford seemed confident in his relationship with Rashad Vaughn, but Troy Vaughn said the decision is still a ways out. He said he wants Rashad to focus on his summer basketball commitments now. Troy Vaughn said his son’s decision to leave Minnesota doesn’t r ule the Gophers out as his college choice. He said he loves the direction new head coach Richard Pitino and his staff are taking the program. “That would be a dream for me that I could watch him in my own backyard,”
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Wisconsin Playground Elite guard Rashad Vaughn plays at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League tournament May 26 at the High Performance Academy in Eagan, Minn.
Troy Vaughn said. Kaffey also disregarded the notion that Vaughn’s
decision to enroll in a prep school eliminates the Gophers from contention.
“He’s going to evolve into something special,” Kaf fey said. “That’s why
he wants to make this move. He wants to be the best.”
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Les Bolstad renovation plan adopts academic vision LES BOLSTAD ESTIMATED RENOVATION COSTS
$3,900,000 Golf Course Improvements $2,057,947 Clubhouse Renovation (choice 2)
Total: $6,873,147 Project Limit: $7,500,000
(All privately funded)
$655,200 New Maintenance/ Storage Facility $626,853 Remaining Balance $185,000 New Cart Storage Facility
$75,000 Predesign
*Additional drainage, excavation and research elements could cost up to $1,000,000
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
The U budgeted $7.5M to upgrade the course, which opened in the 1920s. BY CHARLIE ARMITZ carmitz@mndaily.com
The University of Minnesota’s plan for a privately funded renovation to Les Bolstad Golf Course will adopt an academic focus this summer. The University has hired a third par ty to conduct a feasibility study for the renovation, which was included in the University’s recent Six-Year Capital Plan with a $7.5 million budget. The study will help re-
fine proposed changes to the course. Hor ticulture professor and project consultant Brian Horgan said he envisions a sustainable course that can ser ve a variety of purposes. “This golf course will have a laborator y feel,” Horgan said. “It will have a multifunctional feel where athletics and research and teaching and outr each of information all kind of work together.” Les Bolstad, which opened in the late 1920s, has been multifunctional for many years, but it needs repair. A University task force recommended several upgrades last December, including installing a new ir rigation sys-
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Golfer Ivo Masoev finishes his swing on the second hole of Les Bolstad Golf Course on Tuesday, June 18, 2013.
tem and resur facing all tees, fair ways and greens. The feasibility study should gauge how the golf industr y feels about the project. “I think it’s pretty common for any time you’re going to go out and do a private fundraising campaign to go and make sure that the public agrees with the direction the University is going,” Horgan said. His vision right now is focused on incorporating the University’s academic
mission into the course. He has emphasized using the course for agricultural research. But Horgan added that the facility will function first as a golf course. “We can’t create something where it goes beyond what a golf course is,” he said. Alumni and the broader University community have given wide suppor t to renovating Les Bolstad, according to the Six-Year Capital Plan. The Univer-
sity won’t receive state money for the project, so it will rely heavily on that community for funding. About $4 million of the $7.5 million allotted for the renovation would fund course repairs, and about $2 million would be used to renovate the first floor of the clubhouse and enable the use of its second floor. Another $655,000 would fund the constr uction of a new maintenance and storage facility. Gophers women’s golf
coach Michele Redman said she’s most interested in the addition of an indoor hitting facility. The task for ce r ecommended in December that this facility be excluded from the $7.5 million budget but considered part of the overall plan for the property. “Things ar e moving along OK on that side of it,” Redman said. “It’s something that’s on the top of our priority list as far as the men’s and women’s golf teams.”
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Intermedia Arts (2822 Lyndale Ave. S., Minneapolis) Get your Pride started with an evening of love and tenderness from Intermedia Arts and Bedlam Theatre, with performances from a diverse cast that includes students from the St. Paul Conservatory for Performing Artists. We hope there’s another rainbow this year — and given all this rain, we sure wouldn’t be surprised. $12-15
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Hell’s Kitchen (80 S. 9th St., Minneapolis) Cap off your night with something a little sexier. The third annual Pride show from Black Hearts Burlesque will have your toes tappin’ and your hearts fluttering. The stunning Victoria DeVille will host. 21+ $10
Thursday
If there’s any night this summer that will feel something like Christmas Eve, it’s Pride Eve, your night to lay out cookies and milk for yourself, go to a block party and get pumped for a nutty weekend.
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Bryant Avenue and Lake Street A more appropriate name for this no-waste community event might be the Badass Chicks Block Party. All our favorite girls will be there, mics and sidekick boys in tow—Epitome No Question, Sick of Sarah, L’Assassins, Chastity Brown and more are slated to unleash their unbridled attitude on the block party. Free
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Pride is going to be crazy this year — yeah, crazier than usual. The Vote No campaign colored last year’s big weekend orange and it’s a safe bet that the legalization of gay marriage will give this year’s festivities, which will again center around Loring Park, an especially jubilant air. You might be a Pride virgin; you might have more parades under your belt than you can remember. Either way, here are the events we’ve handpicked for your rainbow-flavored enjoyment. Head online to mndaily.com/ae to play with an interactive map and don’t you dare forget to have fun this weekend:
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The Beer Dabbler has come and gone—hopefully you still have plenty of gas in the tank. If you need a few extra to sleep off the hangover, don’t worry, there’s plenty happening Saturday night.
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Presents “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
Target Performance Hall, The Loft Literary Center at Open Book, 1011 Washington Ave. S. Minneapolis Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe, whose support for gay marriage made him a national figure, will read from his new book, “Beautifully Unique Sparkleponies.” We hope he’ll read his already-viral letter to a Maryland state legislator, an appeal for supporting football players’ free speech. Free
Uptown Theatre (2906 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) The one-and-only genre and gender bending cinematic experience is back. Transvestite Soup brings its crew of shadow actors along to heighten the interactive effect of this cult classic. $9
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Loring Park, Minneapolis The Cities are on their brewing A-game, and we’re typically down to taste the varied fruits of its labor. Spend a few hours in Loring Park, sampling from 25 local breweries and 25 food trucks and shaking your hips to Tickle Torture, Koo Koo Kanga Roo and Apollo Cobra. $35 in advance
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Loring Park, Minneapolis Follow the parade to Loring Park and grab a bite from a food truck when you feel your energy waning. Starting at noon, Southside Desire, June Bug, Buffalo Moon and more will play the Pride Festival’s main stage. With over 300,000 visitors last year, this’ll be the hub of the party. Free
Skyway Theatre (711 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis) Don’t be a sucker and miss out on this candy-themed adult dance party. Hopefully you won’t slip on slick, syrupy floors while dancing between the three rooms, each of which has its own DJ. 21+ $10-$20
Here it is. We’re finally here. It’s Pride time. We’re proud of ourselves for holding in our excitement with such dignity and we’re even happier to let it all go tonight. Let’s party.
Lush Food Bar (990 Central Ave.) Considering how many nights we’ve gone to Lush and been greeted by single dollar drink deals, we’re okay with shelling out a few more for the jazzy jazzy Krissy Krissy, songbird Sarah Cotner and the rap and soul duo God-Des and She, who once guested on “The L Word.” $15
11 9:30 a.m. Bitch ‘n’ Brunch
Seven Ultralounge, 700 Hennepin Ave., Minneapolis Enjoy a mimosa and get energized for the oncoming floats at Seven’s all-you-can-eat buffet. Hosted by drag queen Bitch Flowers, the merry gathering on Seven’s rooftop will feature Foxy Tann and DJ Sheik. $25
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Loring Park, Minneapolis Pride’s main musical event features Britain’s sexpot Neon Hitch, identical twin singers Nina Sky, jazz trio the New Standards, and femme fatale punk rockers L’Assassins. All we can say is that when Neon Hitch performs “Fuck U Betta,”which she betta, the park is gonna go nuts, potentially with grinding— that’ll be a sight to remember. 18+ $10
Ted Mann Concert Hall (2128 4th St. S., Minneapolis) Who wouldn’t want to be regaled with “Y.M.C.A.” by the Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus? This event features songs that are anthems of the gay community. $24-53
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Penny Petersen’s “Minneapolis Madams” aims to uncover the lost history of prostitution in the Mill City. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com
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n a bike ride through the Minneapolis Riverfront District, Penny Petersen realized one brick building was out of place among the upscale housing. From what she knew about the late 19th centur y in the city, the design of the house did not fit the bill for industr y. “Rich people were not living on the Riverfront in the 1890s,” she said. “It was an awful, smelly, dirty place.” As a r esear cher for a historical consulting firm, Petersen knew to go straight to the proper ty records to check for more info about the strange location for the architecturally significant townhouse — a clear sign of wealth in an area not known for its residential setting. “If you had a choice then, you didn’t live there,” she said. Petersen found a list of suggestive names in the permit index card — “House of Ill Fame” and “Spor ting House” are among the open euphemisms for the lone surviving bordello in Minneapolis. Though she later discover ed thr ee separate red-light districts in the city, research for her book, “Minneapolis Madams,” was gradual. “Instead of really facing our problems or acknowledging it, I think we just covered it up,” she said. Prostitution in the early days of Minneapolis’ histor y was an inevitable part of the transition to an urban environment, but the Puritanical founders sought to cover up the huge underground economy. Only now, Petersen’s new book sheds light on the “gilded palaces of sin,” a histor y exposing the lives of the “madams” who controlled the area’s numerous bordellos. “And they ranged from Kmar t to Bergdor f Good-
Machines and the natural world collide on the noisy Minneapolis duo’s EP “Field Beat.”
man,” she said. Among the famous brothel owners, the “high priestesses of vice,” was Ida Dorsey, who ran a profitable business entertaining the wealthy elite and working stif fs alike. Not only does “Minneapolis Madams” provide a stirring histor y, it also gives a telling example of the political hypocrisy at the time. In 1879, the city convicted three major madams and sentenced them, an attempt to rid Minneapolis of the notorious houses. “That lasted a few weeks,” she said. “All that did was put them out on the street. Instead of knowing where to reliably find these women, you’d find them ever ywhere.” Former governor John Pillsbur y ended up pardoning the three women, and they were all back in business. Until the early par t of the 20th centur y, these so-called spor ting houses sprang up around the entertainment district, including Main Street and First Avenue. When the advent of the telephone brought call girls, most of the bordellos faded away, Petersen said. “After 1910, the commercial sex trade didn’t have a fixed address,” she said. As a sexual and social histor y, the research into the “Minneapolis madams” gives a por trait of the women controlling the sex trade, often family-oriented, savvy bosses. Most madams gave their wealth away to their families and fought to protect the workers in each bordello. “You don’t really think of prostitution as a familyvalues occupation, but maybe we should,” she said.
WHAT “MINNEAPOLIS MADAMS: THE LOST HISTORY OF PROSTITUTION ON THE RIVERFRONT” WITH PENNY PETERSEN WHEN 7 P.M., THURSDAY WHERE MILL CITY MUSEUM, 704 S. 2ND ST., MINNEAPOLIS COST FREE
Jim Kolles, left, and Erica Krumm together make up Minneapolis band Oaks.
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Femi Kuti & The Positive Force Femi Kuti is the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti, though when you’ve mastered the funky, dance-inducing rhythms from West Africa, it doesn’t matter whose kid you are. (Funny enough, Femi’s son — one of the artist’s six children with five women — has played with the band from time to time.) Perhaps the strangest thing about Femi Kuti is that sometimes when he sings, he sounds eerily like Wayne Brady doing an accented rendition of an afrobeat tune on “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” For those concerned about summer’s harsh onslaught, the Cedar sports a new air conditioning system. u Where: The Cedar Cultural Center 416 S. Cedar Ave., Minneapolis u When: 8 p.m. u Cost: $45 u Age: All Ages
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fter a storm knocked out electricity for more than half a million homes and businesses in the metro, Erica Krumm and Jim Kolles entered their cramped Minneapolis practice space to check the power. The trees littered outside City Sound looked post-apocalyptic, but inside, Krumm embraced the damage. She outlined her lyrical obsessions for Oaks, her shoegaze band, with stark simplicity. “Love and death and nature. That’s a good summary,” Krumm said. Even if her description sounds intensely somber on paper, the married duo’s latest EP, “Field Beat,” finds a wistful introspection amid a wall of sludge. Bass lines from Kolles, awash in reverb, accompany Krumm’s lilting, distorted vocals. Kolles credits post-
punk predecessors in guiding Oaks’ clash of industry and nature. “A lot of those bands — Joy Division and Jesus and Mary Chain — it’s so stripped down,” Kolles said. “The bass lines are melodic and hit the right notes, but not very technical, which was a big guiding thing for us I think.” Taking cues from his work in metal bands like Ganglion and Carnivore, Kolles gives Oaks a palpable heaviness. Since founding the band in 2010, the duo has relied on an organic spontaneity they attribute to their long-lasting relationship. “We just can read each other when we’re writing,” Krumm said. “We don’t ever talk about notes or anything — it really does just flow.” “Feathers,” of f of the duo’s first recording, was the group’s first collaboration to bear fruit; a revelation for the
band, Krumm said. “We just kind of accidentally made this song that we both really love,” Krumm said. Even though Krumm and Kolles held positions in other bands over the years, they find their new partnership most exciting. After hours of tinkering with sounds, the spare demo gave way to a slew of material. “Field Beat” does damage through sheer minimalism — an “artificial as hell” drum machine guides the record. “Clouds” and “All Mine” work a dreamy spin of post-punk. Trying to dissect their roles in Oaks, the duo loses the words. “We really write together, so I feel like we feed each other in a way that’s hard to separate,” Kolles said. The most consistent member of the band remains the drum machine, a ticking clock that both represents a
Country Fest 2013 Four days out in the Wisconsin sticks with a cohort of Stetsonwearing, alligator boot-stomping, truck-driving country nuts sounds like a rollicking good time. Hunter Hayes, Jason Aldean, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry, Brantley Gilbert and Jake Owen are just a sampling of the names making the trip out to Cadott to perform. If the prospect of seein’ more stars-and-bars than stars-and-stripes leaves a nasty taste in your maw, swing by three weeks later for Rock Fest, featuring the likes of Whitesnake, KISS, Megadeth and Korn. u Where: Amphitheater Concert Grounds 24447 S. County Highway, Cadott, Wis. u When: Thursday through Sunday u Cost: $87.50-$525 u Age: All Ages
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mock drummer and a chance to fill in the creative blanks. Through constricting themselves around the simple setup, Oaks forges an alley for variation. Kolles describes the duo’s extended sessions in the practice space as a laid-back chance to find another natural Oaks song. “We force ourselves into situations where you can stumble upon songs,” he said.
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Twin Cities Jazz Festival From the open-air stage at Mears Park to the subterranean atmosphere of the Artists’ Quarter, the Twin Cities Jazz Festival shimmies and writhes into St. Paul like the soaring notes of a cornet. With previous iterations seeing the likes of Chick Corea, Dave Brubeck and John Scofield, you can rest assured that technical proficiency and professionalism will reign supreme at the 15th annual festival. Drop an ice cube down your shirt, and prepare to witness the real birth of the cool. u Where: Downtown and Lowertown St. Paul u When: Thursday through Saturday u Cost: Free u Age: All Ages
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As of 2012, there are merely 368 drive-in movie theaters left in the United States — at their peak in the ’50s, there were some 4,000. Now, events like Movies in the Parks represent rare oppor tunities to get the big-screen cinematic experience in the great outdoors. In Minneapolis, you can catch these flicks at the park: Wednesday: “Little Women” at L yndale Farmstead Park Thursday: “Hunger Games” at Luxton Park Friday: “West Side Stor y” at the Lake Harriet Bandshell Saturday: “Here Comes the Boom” at East Phillips Park
“Soft Will” by Smith Westerns There’s a decent degree of indie-rock posing when it comes to Chicago’s Smith Westerns, af fectedly af fected and clad in the tightest of torn skinny jeans. Their new album is a charming release, rather dif ferent from the uncouth appearance of the three gentlemen. They managed to keep the garage-y attire, while shifting their music in a more mature direction with this third release. It’s a breeze to listen to, the kind of stuf f that makes doing the dishes fly by.
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CULTURE COMPASS BY SPENCER DOAR WW2 Tweets from 1941, @ RealTimeWWII If the timeline of the biggest conflict of the centur y confused you in elementar y social studies, look no fur ther than this ‘real time’ news feed of breaking events. Quotes from leaders, anecdotes, battles, troop movements: Ever ything is on the table. Right now, followers of @RealTimeWWII are being treated to the details of “Operation Barbarossa,” the codename for the German invasion of the Soviet Union, which began in mid-June.
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What happens in Taipei Tao Lin’s techsavvy characters in “Taipei” supposedly represent the current generation’s prevailing apathy. BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com
Under a mountain of inked paper and Adderall, Tao Lin worked tirelessly on “Taipei.” Crafting his third novel — an alienating piece of comic fiction — required copious amounts of drugs and hours of editing. Starting with nearly 25,000 pages of material, the Brooklyn-based ar tist and writer stayed up nights to find the autobiographical novel’s structure. “I had a huge pile— probably 600 pages,” he said, recalling the point where “Taipei” came together. “From there, for three months, I tried to find something that would work as a novel.” Soft-spoken and painfully self-aware, Lin speaks about his writing with plain precision. Over the phone, the guise of an Inter net provocateur diminishes. Now that the 29-year-old landed Vintage Books to publish “Taipei,” he’s forced to answer questions about his own success. Bewildered, he pauses for a few seconds.
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“I just don’t ever think that word,” he said. Between chronicling his Xanax consumption on Vice and writing about shoplifting, Lin garners a reputation as simply a literar y novelty. He occupies a social media sphere of self-promotion via Tweets and extreme transparency. His irony-laden second novel, “Richard Yates,” followed characters named Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning (with no relation to the actual child stars). He even published a profile of himself as a “Great American Novelist” mocking Time’s bombastic coverage of Jonathan Franzen. “I can’t believe I did that,” he said. “That actually has a lot of really accurate information. But people will just say whatever they want to say.” “Taipei” proves the author’s gift exceeds the confines of a Tumblr page — the story follows an author named Paul as he traverses the art world in New York
PHOTO COURTESY OF NOAH KALINA Author Tao Lin emailed Gawker daily updates on his life until they asked him to stop.
and visits family in Taiwan. Lin writes with a cold detachment that seems clinical at first, but he gives much-needed insight into the apathetic world of iPhones and anti-depressants. His characters talk about Wikipedia pages and
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take MDMA, all the while never quite exuding the ironic gestures that “Richard Yates” propped up. Lin’s self-described style, a “concrete literal” prose, feels almost claustrophobic, but Paul’s trip starts to break through the shell.
“In the first trip, Paul thinks of Taipei as a fifth season outside of his life in America, which he star ts to feel is becoming really repetitive,” he said. “Taipei” does not give of f the same novelty appeal of “Richard Yates”
but exceeds its base comedy. Although the novel is supposedly his “magnum opus,” Lin vows to strive for stranger territor y next time out. “I never want to write the same thing twice,” he said.
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Now, it’s a family affair A step back in time Local singer-songwriter Alison Scott returns BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
The packed audience at the Dakota cooed and aww’d when Alison Scott put a picture of her 12-week-old daughter Grace on the television monitors. “Nothing sells merch like babies,” Scott’s guitarist and producer, Kevin Bowe, quipped before taking the stage during Scott’s first public per formance since having her daughter. “We’ve been playing for seven years; I don’t think we’ve gone 10 days without playing a show,” Scott said. While she admitted to nerves and some butterflies in the weeks before her return, by the time she broke into a rendition of TLC’s “Waterfalls,” any lingering thoughts on her composure were dismissed. It was hard not to notice
the adverts for Macy Gray’s performances the next two nights and even harder not to think, “So what?” after Scott’s bombshell voice demolished the cozy confines Saturday night. The TLC cover stood out and showcased Scott’s versatility: part power ballad, part pop, powered by lessons learned from heartache and belted with the sultry force of a woman who was born singing — sort of. She was entertaining her folks with song by the age of two and correcting her father’s pitch, also a musician, by the age of three. Scott went to McNally Smith College of Music for musical theater, a decision that proved fortuitous when she was perusing alumni emails one day. A songwriting contest caught her attention, and, with no thought of winning, she entered. And won. One of the judges for the competition was Bowe, who had a meeting with
Scott shortly after — they’ve worked together ever since. Bowe is Bill Mur ray if Bill Murray was Kevin Bowe. His goofball demeanor is the perfect foil for Scott’s composed stage presence. Bowe introduced one song by reminding the audience that “good artists put three songs on an album about their wife, metal artists will do two about their girlfriend.” It’s in moments like those between songs that the audience is reminded that these are just regular people — with tremendous talent. They closed with “Smash and Grab,” a rockin’, whirling dervish of a number that compares relationship woes to a bit of impassioned thievery. Scott admits that ballads are what come most naturally to her when she sits down to write, which is unfortunate since Scott is at her most compelling when the drums are pumping.
JAAK JENSEN, DAILY Alison Scott performs Saturday at the Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant in downtown Minneapolis.
PHOTO COURTESY CARA ROBBINS Twins included (can you spot the Yudin brothers?), Cayucas comes to the cities this Friday.
Cayucas harken back to when every kid wore Chucks because that was the only sneaker choice. BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com
The Cayucas are searching for an elusive feeling with their debut album “Bigfoot,” a wistful expression of Peter Pan syndrome. Cayucas references Cayucos, a sleepy old surf town of about 2,500 people that lead singer Zach Yudin heard about as a student at Cal Poly. The town is in a time warp, untouched by invading tourists, a last vestige of days when kids stopped playing when it got dark out. The album epitomizes that town — an indie-pop homage to wave-lapped toes and suntouched girls. “I think a couple of songs were written that felt like lyrically something nostalgic made sense,” Yudin said. “I kind of thought that things that happen growing up make good songs.” That sentiment holds particularly true for their single, “High School Lover,” a song
reveling in the longing and awkwardness that characterizes adolescent relationships between the sexes and the ultimate realization that maybe opportunity knocked and no one answered. In this case, it all started the moment “I saw you on the back of some guy’s bicycle.” While audiences can undoubtedly relate to those moments of anxiety and bashful discovery during youth, this kind of subject matter can be negative. Over the course of an album, it can seem a bit overindulgent and opens Cayucas to criticism that their material is devoid of depth, only good for spacing out to during the dog days. Then again, that might be just what they are aiming for. There’s a lot of the Beach Boys to be seen in Cayucas; they’ve embraced that surfrock sensibility and adapted it to make a sort of coastal indie. “I think the songs have a happy vibe, but they are not necessarily lyrically over-thetop joyful,” Yudin said. “There isn’t a song about having a beach bonfire and hanging out with your friends playing guitar. I’d never want to be generic like that.”
Starting at 21, the desire to make music came rather late for Yudin. “I’ve only been playing the guitar for five years,” Yudin said. “I’m not the greatest; I can play just enough to write a song.” While teaching in Japan in 2008, Yudin became exposed to the extensive variety of ways sampling can be used in songwriting — an odd genesis for his interest given that Cayucas does not embody an electronic sound. At roughly two years old, Cayucas is still figuring a few things out; much like Yudin was five years back. It is a clear indicator, however, of a willingness to grow — though up may not be the right direction. They will be well-served expanding upon their jukebox aesthetic.
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sudoku Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve sudoku, visit sudoku.org.uk. Visit mndaily.com to see the solution to today’s puzzle.
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Today’s Birthday (6/26): Personal projects seem easier to complete this year. Settle into a work routine, and refine your space. Pad the budget for unexpected family expenses or work changes.
To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging. Written By Linda C. Black
Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Jupiter and the Sun are in Cancer as Mercury in Cancer goes retrograde. Get stalled projects into motion.
Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Be creative and cut costs. Show the team your appreciation. Keep your objective in mind. Gather records.
Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is an 8 — Venture farther out. Mercury is retrograde, so review old material for new ideas and fine-tune your work routine. Back up digital files.
Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is a 7 — Keep your objective in mind. Increase household comforts. Review recent personal decisions. Be respectful. Share your vision. Relax.
Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is a 9 — Learn an expert’s trick to advance. Revise group objectives and procedures. Have backup plans, and recharge at home.
Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is an 8 — Invest in fixing up your place. Communicate carefully. Keep your receipts. Get a better deal through private contacts.
Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is an 8 — Don’t confront authority. It’s a good time to get financial paperwork in order. Work on project outlines, including creative, futuristic designs.
Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is a 9 — Discuss the situation in private. Watch out for domestic accidents. Be guided by a wise partner. Big promises keep coming in.
Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Financial opportunity knocks. Re-affirm and revise your commitments. Provide illuminating information. Apply some elbow grease.
Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Come up with a new idea. Improve work procedures and develop team goals. Develop the big plan. Others admire your wisdom.
Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 9 — Doublecheck all data for errors. Ignore rumors. More work is promised. Listen carefully. Learn from a friend, or have your partner gather information.
Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 7 — Buckle down and study. A partner lines up the facts. Make sure everybody understands. Take decisive action. You can get what you need.
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overheard Professor 1: “So I just interviewed candidates for my assistantship position.” Professor 2: “Oh really? Any good ones?” Professor 1: “There’s one guy with a good resume, but he was obnoxious to talk to.” Professor 2: “Eh, hire him. It’s a research position so he won’t be talking to anyone anyway.” —Tate Laboratory of Physics “To, who is Team Snapchat?” —Coffman Union “Check out all the Supreme Court judges graduating.” —Williams Arena Student: “Do you like Scheme?” Computer Science: “I would get naked with Lisp. Python is more platonic, I love it like a brother. I lust for Lisp.” —Keller Hall “If you slept with a limnologist, you’d know what upwelling means too.” —Outside Middlebrook Hall Guy 1: [talking about a girl] Guy 2: “She’s fetching, but let’s not be so male here.” —Centennial Hall About a professor carrying finals: “Look at him just carrying in a big box of ‘[expletive] you.’ Just a box full of middle fingers to us.” —Smith Hall
Guy: “Cold sores are only a mild form of herpes. A lot of people get cold sores.” Girl: “Yeah but if you have 20 of them at the same time?” Guy: “Then she probably has herpes. Or she just wants attention.” —Outside Walter Library “Tonight is my last night as a freshman....because I will finish my bottle of Karkov.” —Stadium Village Older woman answering the phone: “Hi, Lucifer!” —Coffman Union “I just need money to buy children” —St. Paul Student Center “Whatever, you can come to lab hung over. No one will be able to tell apart the smell of ethanol on you from the other stuff we’re using. Just be on time!” —Kolthoff Hall
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dr. date Dr. Date,
My boyfriend gave me jewelry that I found out from someone else he stole. What??
-Jaded Lover
Wait, What?
Jaded Lover, we’ve got a stage-five crazy sitch on our hands. Your parting question is so entirely appropriate that I’m going to repeat it. What?? What?? What?? Whaaaaat?? Before you dump him for being a thief, make sure you’re absolutely certain that he’s a good-for-nothin’ stealer. Ask the person who told you how they knew, and ask the person who told them how they knew. Gather evidence. Present the case to yourself. If he really is a robber, get all ADT on yourself before he runs away with your heart.
Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
My boyfriend has smoked pot ever since we started dating. It didn’t bother me, and I even joined him sometimes. But recently he’s started doing a lot of coke. It’s starting to scare me, and I don’t know if it could lead to something worse. Do I leave him or try and get him to stop?
-A Friend In Need
A Friend In Weed,
The minute I see the words “it’s starting to scare me,” I already know the answer. If you’re ever feeling scared in your relationship — whether it be due to your boyfriend stealing a necklace for you (see above) or a particularly powdered nose — it’s time to go. No relationship is worth the agony of feeling uncomfortable or unsafe. Leaving someone is hard, and leaving someone who seems to be developing an addiction is even harder. Your boyfriend deserves respect and help, but you can only give him one of those things. If his love of coke is a problem for him, it’s his responsibility to fix it. Never feel like you have to save somebody — that’s just not what relation-
ships are about. The middle road here is to say you’re going to leave him and why — if he’s worth his weight in blow, he’ll jump up and promise to stop doing so much coke. The risk here is that he’d probably be lying.
Dr. Date
Dr. Date,
My girlfriend and I just graduated the U together. I’ve got a job in California this fall, and she’s going out East. We want to make it work, but we’re a little nervous about the lack of intimacy. Have any tips for long distance lovers who want to get between the sheets virtually?
-Prospective Cybersexer
Long Distance Lovers,
The glory of the Internet makes long distance lovin’ much easier than it once was. Never underestimate the power of Skype — its power to show you your beautiful other half in the buff. Just make sure you lock all your doors. Make sure nobody can hear you. And then get kind of loud. Talk each other up, talk your hands down. Show each other everything — don’t be afraid to leave your computer in one spot and back up, giving your love a full-bod view. Can I recommend eating a romantic meal together beforehand? Maybe taking a shot together to loosen up your inhibitions? Cybersex can happen over the phone, too, and it’s easier to do that if you guys are already kind of verbal with each other. Last but not least, download Snapchat. Give each other little surprises. While you’re going nuts trying to get each other off from thousands of miles away, make sure you’re staying attentive to each other’s emotional needs. There’s nothing worse than feeling like you’re totally alone on the wrong side of the country. Happy sexing.
Dr. Date
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UNIVERSITY AREA CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com
Stone Arch Bridge and President’s Bike Boulevard Will create on-street bikeways to enhance the roads for bike traffic.
Summer time in Minnesota always comes with a slew of construction projects. Road closures, remodeling work and new building projects are prevalent throughout the state and Twin Cities — especially near the University of Minnesota campus. The Minnesota Daily has created a map showing many major projects on campus and in surrounding neighborhoods. Projects range from luxur y apartment complexes under construction to new elevators in University buildings, in addition to some major roadwork.
1. Northrop Auditorium renovation Complete renovation of auditorium which will cost about $100 million. Completion expected by April 2014. 2. The Elysian Apartment complex expected to open Fall 2013. 3. The Bridges Apartment complex of about 150 units, expected to open in 2014. 4. The Knoll Doran apartment complex set to open fall 2013. 5. 17th Avenue Residence Hall A University of Minnesota residence hall that will hold about 600 students. The building’s first students will move in August 2013. 6. 7west A 210-unit apartment complex near the West Bank campus. 7. The Cluster An apartment complex aiming to be a “value” for students. 8. Physics and Nanotechnology Building Reconstruction is set to be complete in fall 2013. Cost: $83 million 9. UTEC apartment project Currently under construction by GEM Realty Capital, Inc. 10. The Station Currently under construction apartment complex with a Walgreens on
Complete street reconstruction Will be complete by late summer/ early fall.
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Sewer reconstruction This project will be completed before the end of summer. Dinkytown Greenway Cost: $2.34 million 18
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Temporary road closures Westbound Washington Avenue closed under Cedar Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis on June 19-21 and June 24-26 from 7:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. daily. Westbound traffic from East Bank to downtown Minneapolis detour via right on northeast Cedar Avenue Ramp and through the northwest Cedar Avenue Ramp.
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5 Scholar’s Walk monument replacement and paver repairment Will take place this summer. 8 10
Central Corridor light rail line The rail line connecting the Twin Cities will open in 2014. Cost: $957 million
Bridge construction causing road closures
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the ground floor. 11. Step repair Will take place summer 2013. 12. Amundson Hall addition Construction will begin this summer and continue until December 2013. Cost: $3,000,000 13. Vincent Hall reroofing Will be complete August 2013. Cost: $636,000 14. Lind Hall reroofing Will be complete September 2013. Cost: $460,000 15. Lily Plaza hardscaping Will be complete this summer.
16. Peik Hall reroofing Will be complete this summer. Cost: $50,000 17. Heating Plant remodel Will be complete in 2015. Cost: $81 million 18. Remodel 19. Nolte Center new elevator Construction begins this summer and will last until January 2014. Estimated cost: $1.7 million 20. Sanford Hall new elevator Construction begins this summer and will continue until February 2014. Estimated cost: $1.2 million
21. Elliot Hall — three new elevators Construction is in progress and is set to be done January 2014. 22. Scott Hall remodels A new elevator and entry door will be complete by winter 2013. Estimated cost: $1.8 million 23. Smith Hall renovations A steam shaft will be moved and pavement will be replaced when that’s finished, expected to be complete fall 2013. Estimated cost of steam shaft: $980,000 24. New Parking — Summer 2013