July 10, 2013

CAMPUS & METRO

New diversity VP brings ideas, laughter

Katrice Albert is the first VP for Equity and Diversity in more than 2 years. u See PAGE 4

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The University of Minnesota pays its professors more than many colleges and universities nationwide but ranks far lower when it comes to instructor salaries.

In 2012-13, the salaries of full University professors, associate professors and assistant professors were higher than at most four-year institutions nationwide and all colleges and universities in the state.

But University instr uc-

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MINNEAPOLIS

U salary gap wide in Big Ten, state

BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com

For local artists, residencies provide stability as well as their own set of problems.

Tori Dixon will be one of the leaders on the Gophers next season.

HIGHER ED

The U has the biggest pay gap in the state for profs. and instructors.

HOME SWEET HOME

Dixon embraces Team USA experience

tors were on the lower end compared to their peers, according to data compiled by the American Association of University Professors and released by the Chronicle of Higher Education.

Instructors rank below assistant professors and work on contracts that are renewed annually.

The average annual salar y for University professors has climbed steadily in recent years — reaching $134,300 for full professors in 2012-13. But average instructor salaries have leveled of f near their rate in 2000 of slightly less than $50,000 per year. u See SALARIES Page 8 Only Mich. State has a wider salary gap than the U in the Big 10.

SUMMER EDITION

ST PAUL

Espresso Royale’s future undecided

BRIDGET BENNETT, DAILY

Espresso Royale barista Natalie Miller helps a customer on Sunday. The coffee shop has been at its 14th Avenue Southeast location in Dinkytown for more than two decades, but the future of the space is now uncertain.

A local businessman bought the building last year and may replace the coffee shop with a bar.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

State tackles grey area of synthetic drugs

BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com

Stadium Village’s Smokedale Tobacco location was raided for synthetic drugs about two weeks ago.

Store manager David Yousef said a U.S. marshal and Drug Enforcement Administration agents stormed the building, looking for synthetic marijuana and amphetamines — commonly called spice, K2 or bath salts. Yousef had to close the store for the duration of their search.

Though the agents didn’t find any illegal substances at Smokedale, state officials say synthetic drugs are a problem

in Minnesota. In response, a newly formed House of Representatives select committee held its first hearing in St. Paul on Tuesday.

The committee will study the synthetic drug problem and present possible solutions during the 2014 legislative session.

Synthetic drugs are federally outlawed and treated like their drug equivalents, if prosecutors can prove they have similar chemistry and effects.

University of Minnesota Police Sgt. Jim Nystrom said UMPD hasn’t prosecuted anyone in the University area for synthetic drug offenses but said there’s likely usage on campus.

“I’m convinced in my u See DRUGS Page 4 More research on synthetic drugs is needed, but difficult to fund.

ONLINE EXCLUSIVES AT MNDAILY.COM

DINKYTOWN

LEGISLATURE

Current policy makes synthetic drug laws difficult to enforce.

JULY 10-16, 2013

Royale and Al’s Breakfast on 14th Avenue Southeast.

Espresso Royale has been a part of

Under the impression they’d have

the University of Minnesota commu-

to leave the space next summer,

nity for more than two decades, but

Espresso Royale Regional Manager

now the coffeehouse’s future in Din-

Dan Zielske has been looking for a

kytown is uncertain.

new location in Dinkytown.

Last August, Green Mill Restau-

Now, Zielske doesn’t know where

rants CEO Paul Dzubnar purchased

Espresso Royale will be in a year

the building that houses Espresso

when their current lease is up.

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GREEK LIFE

Greeks lease space in new dorm The dorm will serve as an “incubator” for new chapters.

BY ROY AKER raker@mndaily.com

After signing leases in early June, two University

of Minnesota greek chapters will have dedicated housing and meeting spaces in the 17th Avenue residence hall fall semester.

The one-year lease agreements are par t of a University-wide ef for t to help former and new chapters establish themselves on campus — all for the

ultimate goal of increasing the University’s greek population.

Frater nity Theta Chi and sorority Chi Omega have reser ved residence hall living spaces for some members for the 2013-14 academic year and have also signed 12-month leases for two large meeting

FAMILIES

Food program expands to meet demand A federal program for lowincome kids is serving more families than ever in the city.

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

On his first day of summer day camp at Van Cleve Park, Como resident Karen Brown’s 4-year-old son was one of several children excited to eat a free lunch after a swim in the Van Cleve Park wading pool.

Brown said her son enjoyed the chicken, mandarin oranges, applesauce, bread roll and milk in the pre-packaged lunch.

“I think it’s wonderful,” said the 37-yearold stay-at-home mom. “Parents are busy working and stressed and don’t have the money to make lunch happen sometimes.”

The free lunch offered at the park is part of the U.S. Depar tment of Agriculture’s Summer Food Ser vice Program, which provides free food to children who don’t JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Food Service Coordinator Bobbi Varichak hands a free lunch to University alumna Claire Winkels for her son Benjamin Colehour at Jackson Park in Northeast Minneapolis on Tuesday.

u See FOOD Page 7 Last year, the program provided 387,845 meals in Minneapolis.

spaces.

According to the 2012 Greek Community Strategic Task Force Repor t, the residence hall meeting spaces are part of the University’s goal to add 1,000 u See DORM Page 8 Fraternity and sorority alumni will help furnish the new spaces.

BUSINESS

High taxes could push out architects TCF Stadium is raising property values and some are struggling to keep up.

BY MEGHAN HOLDEN mholden@mndaily.com

In the 1970s, Darrel LeBarron fought to save the old fire station on University Avenue Southeast.

Now he’s struggling to keep the property he’s owned there for more than three decades.

Because of his love for the building’s design, LeBarron helped to make Fire Station 19 a historic landmark in 1982.

Since then, LeBarron has put more money into the building than his company, Station 19 Architects, can recoup.

Because the property taxes for the building have gone up so much in the last decade, LeBarron said he might be forced to sell. u See STATION 19 Page 5 Higher property taxes have hit businesses throughout Stadium Village.

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Taliban close Qatar office to protest flag fracas

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ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban have shuttered a newly opened of fice in the Gulf state of Qatar, vowing to fight on against President Hamid Karzai’s government while abandoning a diplomatic approach seen as the best hope of finding a political end to the protracted 12-year war.

Exper ts said Tuesday that the final withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan in 2014 of fered the Taliban the hope of a military victory while limiting their incentive to press ahead with peace talks. The Taliban, they said, envisioned the talks more as a means of gaining legitimacy than as a road to peace.

“I think the big gorilla in the room is the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It decreases the likelihood of a settlement because it raises the prospects of Taliban militar y gains,” said Seth Jones, a counterinsurgency exper t at the Rand Corp., a Washington-based think tank that receives U.S. funding. “Settlements usually occur when both sides reach a stalemate and see little prospect for change in the foreseeable future.”

The Taliban of fice, which opened less than a month ago to facilitate peace talks with the U.S. and Afghan government, was mired in controversy from the outset after the religious movement was accused of tr ying to set

up a government-in-exile by identifying its office as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It also hoisted the same white flag flown during the Taliban’s fiveyear r ule of Afghanistan that ended with the 2001 American-led invasion.

Karzai reacted furiously and the Taliban lowered the flag and removed the sign. Both the U.S. and Qatar quickly chastised the Taliban and accused them of reneging on a promise to refrain from using either the name or the flag.

Now the office itself has been temporarily closed, a Taliban of ficial familiar with the talks in Qatar said.

“They (the Taliban) do not go out of their homes in Doha and have not gone to the office since the removal of the flag and the plaque,” the Taliban official said in a telephone inter view. He said the Taliban blamed Karzai and the U.S. for the breakdown in talks, accusing both of using the name and the flag as an excuse.

A diplomat in the region who is also familiar with the negotiations said: “The (Taliban) Political Commission has stopped all international political meetings and is not using the office.”

Both the Taliban official and the diplomat spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject and because neither was authorized to speak publicly with journalists.

In Doha, the of fice remained guarded Tuesday

by Qatari-appointed secu-

rity along the outside walls.

There were no signs of the flag or former sign. The gates to the compound were open, but there was no evidence of Taliban officials inside.

The two Taliban spokesmen at the Doha office did not respond to telephone calls T uesday from The Associated Press. The Taliban official said all communications with the movement’s negotiators have been cut.

In Washington, White House pr ess secr etar y James Carney said reconciliation would not be easy.

“It has been a dif ficult process, and will continue to be,” Carney told reporters Tuesday. “And if this effort, the Doha office effort, does not succeed, we will pursue other means and other avenues for peace.

Because, ultimately, peace in Afghanistan depends on a reconciliation between Afghans.”

The Taliban also flatly rejected Karzai’s peace offer made Tuesday ahead of the start of the holy month of Ramadan, when devout Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset.

“On the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, I once again call on Taliban, especially those Taliban who are sons of this homeland, to respect the holy month of Ramadan, to take the way of peace, compassion and kindness and to stop killing of people,” the Pashtu-language statement read.

But Taliban spokesman

Qari Yasouf Ahmadi said in a statement that they saw jihad, or holy war, as an even greater obligation during the holy month.

“We will continue with our attacks on the infidels and their slaves,” he said.

Anthony H. Cordesman, a security exper t at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, said he wasn’t ready to write the peace talks’ final epitaph.

“Look, quite frankly this is not necessarily a forlor n hope but what is going on is you have a Taliban increasingly convinced that it can win in the field,” Cordesman said. “It finds these peace talks an extension of their insurgency by other means,” using them to gain respectability, exposure and set themselves up as a direct competitor to the Afghan government.

The of fice’s closing, however, could threaten a possible prisoner exchange that could free U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, a soldier from Hailey, Idaho, that’s been held captive by the Taliban since 2009.

The Taliban in their opening gambit offered to free Bergdahl in exchange for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. A U.S. official has confirmed that talks of a prisoner exchange had taken place, including timelines for the release, as well as a promise from the Taliban to show fresh and verifiable proof of Bergdahl’s health.

METRO BRIEFING

Minneapolis finalizes car sharing expansion The Minneapolis City Council recently voted to partner with Hourcar and Zipcar rental programs.

BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com

For Minneapolis residents without a car, it will soon become easier to rent one for short-term use.

City Council voted in late June

to expand car sharing with Hourcar and Zipcar programs for the next two years, according to a news release.

Minneapolis officials say car sharing reduces the need for people to own cars and offers a convenient option for renting one.

The University of Minnesota is already partnered with Zipcar, with rentals available at five locations around campus. Rates are typically $66 per day or $8 per hour, but students, faculty and staff first have to purchase a

$35 membership.

Other cities have more extensive car sharing options than Minneapolis, prompting officials to take action.

In addition, car sharing will help the city meet some of its climate action plan goals, which aim to decrease greenhouse gas emissions and the number of people driving alone.

A University of California-Berkeley study found one shared car can replace up to 13 individual vehicles.

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Council campaigns quiet but steady

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Minneapolis lawyer and DFL-endorsed City Council candidate Jacob Frey discusses plans for the third annual Big Gay Race on Monday at his home in Northeast Minneapolis.

DFLers Jacob Frey and Diane Hofstede are running for the same City Council seat but are campaigning from different perspectives.

BY CODY NELSON cnelson1@mndaily.com

Months after the Democratic-Farmer-Labor party endorsed attorney Jacob Frey, he and incumbent Diane Hofstede are still vigorously, but quietly, campaigning to represent the University of Minnesota area on the Minneapolis City Council.

Though Frey nabbed the party’s endorsement in May, he’s working on building the name recognition necessary to unseat Hofstede, who promises to run a campaign similar to past years.

As the 2013 election nears, Frey is tapering off his work schedule at Minneapolis law firm Halunen & Associates to campaign for the Ward 3 seat.

He instead favors spending more time at his loft in Nor theast Minneapolis, which now ser ves as campaign headquarters for the estimated 650 “happy warriors” working on his campaign.

Meanwhile, seven-year incumbent Hofstede is simultaneously campaigning and working full time as the city councilwoman for the area that includes the Marcy-Holmes and Dinkytown neighborhoods.

Her campaign is different. As a “public ser vant,” Hofstede says she’s always involved with constituents — not just during the election cycle.

“Campaigning and doorknocking are things I do all the time,” she said.

Though both candidates are r unning with similar Democratic platforms in a decidedly liberal area, key differences in their positions lead to contrasting campaigns.

Frey: transitioning to campaigning fulltime

The Frey campaign is stationed out of his apartment in Northeast Minneapolis. The loft is filled with campaign posters and a large calendar outlining the week’s events.

On Monday night, a group of volunteers gathered in Frey’s living room to plan the third annual Big Gay Race, an event that raises money for gay rights activist group Minnesotans United For All Families and that Frey has helped organize since its first year.

A cat walked around the room as Frey of fered his guests beer and pizza, taking an informal tone with them, something campaign field director Margaret Zadra said is common.

“It’s ver y rare that you meet somebody who is authentic and capable,” Zadra said of Frey.

The Big Gay Race isn’t an official campaign event, but his supporters are expected to have a large turnout.

Frey’s campaign has made an effort to engage the Ward 3 community, especially students.

Recent political science graduate Laura Hof fman works as the campaign’s deputy field director. As a student at the University, Hof fman said she wasn’t interested in city politics because she thought the national level was what really mattered.

But when Hoffman began to get involved with Frey’s campaign, she said, she found city government to be more accessible and satisfying.

“It’s not all about Republican vs. Democrat,” she said. “It’s about getting the pothole on your street fixed or getting the garbage down the block picked up.”

His campaign’s student engagement efforts went as far as creating a registered University student group, Students for Jacob Frey, which Hoffman helped start.

Hofstede’s full-time job at City Hall makes her campaign tactics different, but that doesn’t stop her from doing outreach work.

As councilwoman, she attends many neighborhood meetings and community events in the 3rd Ward to talk to constituents and prospective voters, she said, while also working on city council projects that affect them.

The extensive outreach involved with an election cycle is nothing new to Hofstede.

“For me as a policymaker,” she said, “the most

important part of that is going out and talking with the community.”

The Minnesota Daily previously repor ted that Frey had hoped Hofstede would end up suppor ting his campaign after the DFL endorsement, but the councilwoman is still running the “very robust campaign” she always has, she said.

Though she doesn’t have the resources that come with the DFL nod, Hofstede gained some prominent endorsements, including former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale and City Council President Barb Johnson.

Like her competitor, much of Hofstede’s engagement efforts focus on students.

When talking to students, she said one issue stands out: “Their No. 1 concern is public safety.”

The councilwoman said she aims to address this issue by educating students on safety risks, how to prevent them and how to report their concerns.

She also said she helped implement a policy that brings city and University officials together twice a year to talk about public safety.

“The idea and the goal [of public safety initiatives] is to make ever ybody successful,” she said.

Hofstede said she’s impressed with University student engagement in city government, and added that that she’s had University students work as interns in her office.

Jacob Frey

Diane Hofstede

Hofstede: ongoing outreach

OCCUPATION: Attorney at Halunen and Associates

OCCUPATION: City councilwoman

EDUCATION: Villanova School of Law

EDUCATION: Masters in educational administration from the University of Minnesota

EXPERIENCE: Former Team USA runner, organized the Big Gay Race, years as a Minneapolis attorney

EXPERIENCE: Ward 3 councilwoman since 2006, served on many metro area boards and commissions, former financial adviser and school teacher

KEY ENDORSEMENTS: Congressman Keith Ellison State Senator Scott Dibble City Councilman Gary Schiff DFL Party The Minnesota Daily Editorial Board Minnesota Young DFL DFL Senior Caucus

KEY ENDORSEMENTS: Former U.S. Vice President Walter Mondale State Rep. Phyllis Kahn Councilman Don Samuels City Council President Barb Johnson Hennepin County Commissioner Peter McLaughlin The Police Officers Federation of Minnesota Minneapolis Regional Labor Force AFL-CIO

SOURCES: JACOBFREYFOROURCITY.COM, HALUNENLAW.COM, DIANEHOFSTEDE.COM

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

City Council member Diane Hofstede listens to public hearings during a City Council meeting on Monday at Minneapolis City Hall.

While in office, Hofstede has helped establish programs like the University District Alliance and Pack and Give Back, which helps students recycle goods on move-in and move-out days.

Pack and Give Back was established after an old moving day program lost its funding, said former Graduate and Professional Student Assembly member Chet Bodin.

When the program stopped, Bodin said it caused friction between students

and permanent residents in University neighborhoods because students would sometimes leave a mess when they left a property.

Bodin, a Hofstede suppor ter, said the councilwoman acts as a facilitator between students and permanent residents.

“I think that sometimes she’s in a difficult spot with the UDA,” he said, “because there’s a lot of people that get upset with the city, so she gets stuck in the middle.”

Hofstede said she plans to continue the program this fall and manage it better to get more students to recycle.

Hofstede said sustainability and environmental issues are of special importance to student constituents. She looks for ward to hearings discussing the possibility of Minneapolis forming a municipal power utility next month, which councilmembers tout as a way to set sustainable and affordable energy goals for the city.

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July 10-16, 2013

New diversity VP brings ideas, laughter Katrice Albert is the first VP for Equity and Diversity in more than 2 years.

of Social Work, “but she definitely made a good move.”

southern girl in Minnesota.’ ” But after talking with her colleagues and mentors at Louisiana State University, where she served as vice provost for Equity, Diversity and Community Outreach, Albert heard nothing but encouragement to head up north.

In June, Albert started her new job as the University’s vice president for equity and diversity, a role that had been vacant for more than two years as the University struggled to fill it.

Alber t has a big task ahead of her, but friends and colleagues from Louisiana say she’s the right person for the job.

“I’m sorr y that we lost her,” said Pamela Monroe, a professor at LSU’s School

In her short time at the University, Albert has been busy meeting with community members and other University administrators to talk about their diversity successes and concerns.

Albert said her top priorities for the University include increasing the number of underrepresented students in undergraduate and graduate populations and recruiting and retaining diverse faculty — a goal that includes hiring more women in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

“I’m really working with the team to hear about their visioning for each of the areas that report to [the Office of Equity and Diversity],” Albert said, “and then offering

BY BRANDEN LARGENT blargent@mndaily.com

For her new position at the University of Minnesota, Katrice Albert brought from Louisiana her warmest clothing, her favorite artwork and her infectious laugh.

“When I first heard about the position, I said to myself, ‘Minnesota?’ ” Alber t said with a big laugh that echoed through her office. “ ‘ Not a

HIRING PROCESS OF NEW VP FOR EQUITY AND DIVERSITY SUMMER 2010

VP for Equity and Diversity Nancy Barcelo leaves for Northern New Mexico College

‘A global vision’

NOVEMBER 2011

Search for replacement for Barcelo begins

Search committee announces three candidates for VP for Equity and Diversity. After public interviews, none of the candidates were deemed viable for the position

OCTOBER 2012

Search comittee selects fresh batch of VP candidates, including Katrice Albert

DECEMBER 2012

JUNE 2013

Albert begins her position at the University

SOURCE: MN DAILY REPORTING

After the first three candidates made public presentations in May 2012, University President Eric Kaler decided to start the search process again because none of the finalists “emerged as exceptional,” said College of Education and Human Development Dean Jean Quam, who co-chaired the search committee.

“He didn’t want to settle for someone who could do the job,” Quam said. “He wanted someone who could stand out in the position.”

After meeting with Albert in person and watching her give a community presentation via Skype, Quam said most of the committee members were very impressed with her.

Albert’s ability to define diversity beyond just race and ethnicity, as well as her strong community engagement in Louisiana, factored strongly into the decision, Quam said.

“We hope she’s here for a very long time,” she said. “I think we found the right person to do this job.”

A career in diversity Throughout her life, Albert has been a career counselor, a professor, a program coordinator and a community volunteer, among other things.

In 2005, when Albert was in her early 30s, she became the youngest vice provost in LSU history. For some, this raised concerns.

But many of her colleagues said she quickly dispelled any worries.

In her position, Albert continually championed new initiatives to improve diversity throughout the LSU system, said Carolyn Hargrave, LSU’s vice president for academic affairs and technology transfer.

During her final months at LSU, Albert was instrumental in opening a new home for the university’s Women’s Center and its African American Cultural Center, Hargrave said.

“Her leadership was key in making that happen,” she said. “If you want a job done … she will not give up.”

A passion for art Although she never learned to play an instrument or draw, Albert said she’s long had a passion for the arts.

“I think art transforms lives,” she said.

She is decorating her new corner office in Morrill Hall with original artwork from Louisiana, including her favorite piece: a painting of two people, one white and one of color, holding hands.

Alber t ser ved on the boards of multiple arts organizations in Baton Rouge to

Finding Katrice Albert

APRIL 2012

University President Eric Kaler announces Albert chosen for the position

a global vision for the office.”

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Vice President for Equity and Diversity Katrice Albert in her office on Tuesday. With her new position, Albert said she’s interested in focusing on student development, closing the achievement gap and maintaining the University’s commitment to excellence.

The hiring process for the new vice president for equity and diversity — a position responsible for diversity initiatives on the five University campuses across the state — was a long one.

During the more than two years the position was vacant, a University search committee went through two batches of finalists before deciding on Albert in December.

help bring people of color, people without adequate resources and children into the audience.

“Her vision for being able to see the intertwining of arts and the way it can celebrate diversity … brought people together through that purpose,” said Renee Chatelain, executive director of the Manship Theatre at the Shaw Center for the Arts in Baton Rouge.

When they met for the first time, Albert told Chatelain she knew they would be great friends.

“And she was absolutely right,” Chatelain said.

Albert said she’d like to continue this work in the Minneapolis arts community once she gets comfortable in her new position.

‘A force of nature’ Many of Alber t’s colleagues noted her distinctive laugh and vibrant personality.

“I’m not the only person who will describe her as an absolute force of nature,” Monroe said.

Jane Shank, CEO of Volunteers of America Greater Baton Rouge and longtime travel companion of Albert’s, agreed Albert’s laugh is one of her defining features.

Shank said everyone at Volunteers of America — which Albert is involved with — always knew when Albert was in the building because of her laugh and jovial demeanor.

“She’s a beautiful human being,” Shank said. “Your gain is our loss, but everybody’s probably already said that.”

Prospect Park hones neighborhood vision A new nonprofit hopes to add businesses and keep students close to campus.

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experience here that [synthetic drug use] does exist,” Nystrom said. “There’s no doubt about that. It’s just a matter of the frequency and the amount of use.”

Yousef said synthetic marijuana came onto the market about four years ago and was sold in small baggies, commonly labeled as incense.

“The profit margin on it was just unbelievable,” he said.

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Construction crews work on the site located on the 2700 block of 4th St. SE on Monday in Prospect Park. While some residents hope new construction will bring more businesses, many students are looking for lower-cost housing.

smaller neighborhood group.

She said the neighborhood is “one of the greatest development oppor tunities along the new light-rail line.”

The Cornerstone Group plans to develop a 200-unit housing complex near the corner of 29th Avenue Southeast and Fourth Street Southeast, Carey said. While students could live there, she said, it won’t be geared toward them.

“We think there are enough other student housing options being developed,” Carey said. “Our interest is in creating more of a community that has a wider range of housing options.”

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While Prospect Park 2020 board members have said they want to avoid an increase in student housing, some University of Minnesota students said it’s what the neighborhood needs.

Health and wellness senior Andy Aldrich lives just east of Prospect Park. He said he likes the area because it’s safe and “very welcoming.”

Though he said his rent is affordable, Aldrich said he would like to see more student housing in the neighborhood.

“For being so close to the

In recent years, however, state and federal laws have cracked down on synthetic drugs, making them illegal and stepping up raids on stores suspected of selling them.

“All it takes,” Yousef said, “is [someone saying] ‘Smokedale or the Hideaway is selling synthetic marijuana,’ and they raid it.”

Laws banning synthetic dr ugs can be dif ficult to enforce because of slight dif ferences in the drugs’ ef fects, said medicinal chemistry professor David

Ferguson.

“Whenever you’re talking about [synthetic drugs],” he said, “it gets grey quick.”

Cody Wiberg, executive director of the Minnesota Board of Pharmacy, testified before the committee Tuesday and echoed Ferguson’s point, saying prosecutors have difficulty proving that synthetics are analogs for illegal drugs.

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University of Minnesota,” he said, “it’s disappointing to see [a lack of student housing].”

Computer science senior Jungwoo Jang said more housing for students would be good if it drove rent prices down.

“This neighborhood is nice,” he said, “but right now, it’s too expensive.”

One of Prospect Park 2020’s main goals is attracting more businesses to the neighborhood.

The organization has been collaborating with the Textile Center, a business located on the edge of the neighborhood, to expand its space and attract other arts-based businesses to the area.

St e e r i n g c o m m i t t e e member Tom Tierney owns Tierney Brothers, Inc., an audiovisual company near the Witch’s Hat water tower. Tierney said he probably won’t benefit from lightrail traffic because he does mostly business-to-business sales. But new businesses in the area could be potential customers.

Other property owners are war y of setting a plan for the neighborhood’s future in stone.

Prospect Park 2020 is “creating an atmosphere where developers are interested in the neighborhood,”

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Prospect Park officials, business owners and residents all agree the Central Corridor light-rail line will change the neighborhood when construction finishes next year.

But they don’t agree on how the neighborhood should deal with it.

Members of Prospect Park 2020, a nonprofit organization created in March, hope to bring new businesses and affordable housing to the neighborhood. They want to avoid the large student apartment complexes that have dominated new construction in Marcy-Holmes, where members say the demand is already being met.

“We have no opposition to student housing,” said 2020 board member Dick Gilyard.

“But we’d like to nudge that closer to campus.”

Gilyard said the group is looking for developers who match their vision for the neighborhood rather than reacting to proposals on a caseby-case basis.

“We’re pretty confident that the area was going to develop with or without us,” he said.

A market research report the organization commissioned last year predicted that Prospect Park could handle adding 75,000 square feet of retail space and nearly 2,000 housing units in the next 16 years.

“This is a decade-long effort, at least,” Gilyard said.

Colleen Carey, president of The Cornerstone Group, said her development company has been working with Prospect Park 2020 for two years, when they were a

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Existing housing: Prospect Park 2020 wants to “preserve the integrity, character and diversity” of the neighborhood. They plan on adding parking to the neighborhood to keep new residents and visitors from parking on the street.

Research park: This proposed research park could add some 3,000 jobs to the neighborhood. New housing would provide a place for new researchers to live.

The group hopes to get the University involved in populating the park.

Proposed housing: The goal is mixed housing accommodating a wide range of incomes, with roughly 1,200 to 1,700 units on Fourth Street Southeast. Student housing, or “mini-dorms,” should be kept closer to Stadium Village.

U of M: The Biomedical Discovery District could link up with the proposed research park.

L.H. Liner housing: These will separate the street from taller buildings along the Transitway to avoid the “canyon effect”: a sudden drop from high buildings to street level.

Mixed-use commercial: The group wants to add restaurants and a grocery store to University Avenue Southeast as a way of keeping the street vibrant in the evening. More retail will make Prospect Park a popular destination along the Central Corridor.

P Embedded parking: Locating parking in the middle of city blocks will minimize its effect on the street. The group hopes to increase bike and pedestrian traffic so parking eventually won’t be needed.

Surly Brewing site: Surly Brewing Company purchased this site in April and plans to build a “destination brewery,” drawing visitors to the neighborhood. They need to clean up contaminants on the site before breaking ground.

Light industrial: In the past, industrial districts were often separated from other development. Prospect Park 2020 wants to change that by mixing office buildings with industry.

Parks/open space: Green space will add value to the neighborhood and promote sustainable transportation.

SOURCE: PROSPECT PARK 2020, MN DAILY REPORTING

said Jef f Barnhar t, property manager with Prospect Park Proper ties, which owns four retail buildings in the area. But market demand should drive development, he said.

Several developers have approached Prospect Park

Proper ties to buy their land on University Avenue Southeast, Barnhart said.

“A lot of people call us,” he said. “A lot of people want to talk.”

Barnhar t said he suppor ts what 2020 is doing, but he and his father are

worried that a single vision for the neighborhood might restrict them if they ever decide to sell or develop their property.

“If people go too far down one path with one vision,” he said, “that could be a limiting approach.”

difficult to prove the effects are also similar, which is necessar y to get a conviction.

This is largely because there hasn’t been a lot of research on synthetic drugs, Wiberg said.

“They haven’t really been studied in humans,” Wiberg said. “Instead, you have to rely on more anecdotal evidence, which is not as reliable.”

Research on the substances could help with drug abuse and prevention programs, Ferguson said.

But funding is hard to get because there’s “no public good” in making analogs of illegal drugs, which he said researchers have to do in order to analyze them.

Wiberg said legislators should do more to increase criminal penalties for people trafficking the substances.

“It needs to be a multifaceted approach,” he said.

Data on synthetic drug use has been historically hard to get, Ferguson said, because people won’t readily admit to usage and hospitals rarely ask about them.

Though little data is available, the American Association of Poison Control Centers reported calls for synthetic marijuana exposure have decreased nationwide by nearly 60 percent since last year.

Ferguson said he’s unsure if the committee will be effective, especially if they don’t reach out to appropriate experts in the area.

“Unless you really get down to the science,” he said, “I’m not sure what kind of progress you’re going to make.”

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From 2011-12, the building’s proper ty taxes increased by more than 9 percent.

After TCF Bank Stadium opened in 2009, proper ty taxes were too high for tenants to af ford.

Of fice spaces had to be gutted to make room for Buf falo Wild Wings — a $700,000 loss for the company, LeBarron said.

“I love that building,” LeBar ron said, “but I’m not sure we can economically stay there.”

Because the city’s historic requirements only apply to the fire station’s exterior, University of Minnesota assistant architecture professor Greg Donofrio said the remodel kept the required historic integrity of the building.

T he utilita ria n-style firehouse opened in 1893 during the city’s industrial

movement, according to the Minneapolis Heritage Preser vation Commission.

The building is also the bir thplace of kittenball, a form of softball a firefighter invented.

Nicole Thompson, LeBarron’s daughter, now runs the architectural firm but doesn’t know how long the company can survive in its current location.

“When you watch your father go through it and see him fighting,” she said, “it’s not an interest to hang on to it.”

Donofrio said most business owners wouldn’t want their building to be historic because the costs of upkeep outweigh the benefits.

“As a rational investor,” he said, “that doesn’t look good.”

After the stadium went up, area proper ties became much more valuable, causing proper ty taxes to increase, said Chris Ferguson, Stadium V illage Commercial Association member.

“I think this will be an ongoing issue,” Ferguson said, adding that the light rail will fur ther increase proper ty taxes for area businesses.

For local business owners like LeBar r on, it’s more dif ficult to keep up with the rising taxes, Ferguson said.

“It would be a shame to lose all the locally owned businesses,” he said.

If they decide to sell, the 120-year-old building won’t have a problem finding a new owner.

When plans began for TCF Stadium, LeBar ron and community members were worried about the University exercising eminent domain over Fire Station 19. As a state institution, the University can legally seize private properties for projects benefitting the public.

Leg i s l ato rs ad d ed a provision to the stadium funding bill preventing the University from acquiring Fire Station 19 for any sta-

dium constr uction, in order to protect the historic property.

University Chief Financial Of ficer Richard Pfutzenreuter said the University wasn’t planning to exercise eminent domain on the property but always has an interest in buying buildings near campus.

If Fire Station 19 goes up for sale, the University would definitely look into buying it, Pfutzenreuter said.

“The University’s always looking for places in the boundaries of campus,” he said.

Pfutzenreuter said the University wouldn’t tear down the building if it did buy it because of its historic significance.

Thompson said she will be evaluating the space and deciding if they can stay when their lease is up in December.

“It’s something we need to consider,” she said, “in order to stay alive as a small business.”

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This portrait was given to President Eric Kaler from the students of Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University.

Academic agreements were signed with 10 Universities in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler and members of his delegation returned from their tour of China on Sunday after signing academic par tnership agreements with 10 top-ranked universities in Greater China.

Of those 10, the Confucius Institute and National Ya n g - M i n g U n i v e r s i t y were the only two renewing existing agreements.

The agreement is intended to “establish cooperative academic relationships” between the University and institutions in Greater China, according to the agreement text.

Based on funding and interest from the institutions involved, this could include student and faculty member exchanges and joint activities.

Even though the agreement doesn’t require a

student exchange, Global Programs and Strategy Alliance communications director Jennifer Schulz said she expects many of the universities will participate in one.

The agreements went into ef fect immediately and can be re-negotiated and renewed ever y three years.

According to the University’s Storify account, which was updated throughout the trip, the renewal of the agreement with National Yang-Ming University focused on the University of Minnesota’s “nationally ranked strengths in informatics and nursing scholarship.”

Schulz said Yang-Ming wants to exchange more students with the University and potentially share research programs. The agreements will make it easier for faculty members and graduate students from both schools to collaborate on research, she said.

Students at one of the new par tner institutions, Shanghai’s Jiao Tong University, presented Kaler with a gift — a caricature of himself.

“He loved it,” Schulz said.

UNIVERSITIES THAT SIGNED ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS WITH THE U *Renewal of existing agreements

BEIJING, CHINA Peking University Chinese Academy of Sciences Tsinghua University Confucius Institute* TIANJIN, CHINA Nankai University Tianjin University of Sport SHANGHAI, CHINA Shanghai Jiaotong University TAIPEI, TAIWAN Yang-Ming University* National Taiwan University HONG KONG, CHINA Hong Kong University of Science and Technology SOURCE: JENNIFER SCHULZ, GPS ALLIANCE

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Fire Station #19 became a historic landmark in 1982 and has since been used as offices and, more recently, a Buffalo Wild Wings. Property owner Darrel LeBarron is struggling to keep the building after property taxes for the building have risen since TCF Bank Stadium opened in 2009.

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New Regents profs join elite ranks CAREER FACTS: NEW REGENTS PROFESSORS Tim Lodge Chemistry; Chemical DEPARTMENTS Engineering and Materials Science RESEARCH AREAS AT THE U SINCE

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Chemistry professor Tim Lodge in his office on Monday in Smith Hall. Professor Lodge and Professor Stephen Polanksy were both named Regents Professors in June.

Tim Lodge and Steve Polasky were named Regents Professors in June.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

Tim Lodge and Steve Polasky hold rare positions at the University of Minnesota — they’re both tenured in two departments.

And now, they share another uncommon experience — last month, they were both named Regents Professors.

Established in 1965, the Regents Professorship is the highest honor given to faculty members at the University. Professors are nominated and then selected by the University president.

The award comes with a $50,000 annual stipend — a $20,000 salar y increase and $30,000 to fund their research. There are only 30 Regents Professors at the University, including Lodge and Polasky.

‘A fantastic career’ Growing up in England with a father who taught math and engineering at the University of Manchester, Tim Lodge knew from an early age what it was like to be a professor.

He said his father never complained about his

work.

“He enjoyed what he was doing; it wasn’t work,” he said. “I found it to be the same thing.”

Now a professor in the chemistr y and the chemical engineering and materials science departments, Lodge said being a professor is “a fantastic career.”

“No one’s telling you what to do,” he said. “You get to do r esear ch on things that interest you, and you get to work with great students who are interested in all kinds of things.”

Lodge’s research focuses on block copolymers — molecules made of two or more chemical units. With a team of graduate and post-doctoral students, he’s experimenting ways to combine proper ties of dif ferent man-made materials like plastic and r ubber to better understand how they can be used in technology like medical equipment.

His student research assistants said Lodge is always available to talk about research and answer questions, despite how busy he is.

Because communication is impor tant to him, there’s a r ule in Lodge’s lab that research assistants must check their email at least three times a day, said post-doctoral student Megan Hoarfrost.

The students working

in Lodge’s lab also said he has a good sense of humor. Because many of them have worked there for years, they know Lodge’s quirks, like his quick laugh, dubbed the “T im Laugh,” said research assistant Lucas McIntosh.

“It’s a delta function of laughs,” McIntosh said.

“It’s an infinitesimally short laugh, and it’s over.”

Lodge said he enjoys working with his research team and collaborating with other professors to advise students. His research stipend will save time, he said, because he won’t have to apply for grants before star ting a new project anymore.

“If there’s a student … who comes up with a new idea, we can jump on it right away,” he said. “It’s a really wonder ful opportunity to branch out in new directions.”

It’s “ver y appropriate” that Lodge was given the Regents Professorship, said Frank Bates, a current Regents Professor and CEMS depar tment head.

“He’s an intellectual leader,” Bates said. “He’s somebody that has set the pace of advancement in the field.”

A ‘really interesting juncture’

Applied economics and ecology, evolution and

Judge says Bakdash owes $140,000 to hit-andrun victim Timothy Bakdash owes nearly $139,000 to a woman injured in the 2011 Dinkytown hit-and-run that killed a University student.

BY KIA FARHANG mfarhang@mndaily.com

Timothy Bakdash owes nearly $140,000 to the victim of a 2011 hit-and-run that killed a University of Minnesota student and injured two pedestrians, a judge ruled last week.

Bakdash drove the wrong way down Fifth Street Southeast in April 2011, striking then-University student Sarah Bagley and three other pedestrians, including University student Ben Van Handel, who died six days later.

A Hennepin County district judge ruled in a civil suit July 2 that Bakdash, who’s currently serving a 40-year prison sentence, owes Bagley more than $138,000 for medical expenses, past wages lost and emotional distress.

Bagley suf fered from post-traumatic stress disorder after the crash, the

judgment said. She was out with friends, celebrating her acceptance into graduate school that night, when Bakdash, who admitted to being “extremely intoxicated,” hit her with his car.

Bakdash testified he drank 15 to 20 mixed drinks and about three to five shots at the Library Bar and Grill that night. A man slapped Bakdash in the parking lot, he said, tr ying to star t a fight.

After getting in his car with a friend, Bakdash testified he thought he saw the man who slapped him and swerved the car on the sidewalk to “scare him.”

Bakdash testified he remembered hitting two people, one of whom cracked the windshield, but actually hit four, injuring three. Witnesses of the crash testified they heard screams and saw a body fly through the air.

He fled the scene after the accident because he

“didn’t want to get into trouble,” Bakdash later testified.

A complaint from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office alleged Bakdash sold his car the day of the accident in an attempt to elude police.

The incident culminated in a six-day trial, where a jury found Bakdash guilty of second-degree murder and criminal vehicular homicide — meaning he was guilty of intent but not premeditation.

Peter Riley, Bagley’s attorney, said a different judge still needs to rule whether Bakdash’s insurance company is liable to pay the money he owes Bagley.

Bakdash’s attorney, Brad Colbert, said the insurance company is contesting any obligation to cover Bakdash.

They wouldn’t have to pay if a judge determines Bakdash intentionally caused the accident.

Colber t said Bakdash “feels awful” about the accident and isn’t contesting his guilt. The judgment is reasonable, Colber t said, but Bakdash can’t afford to pay if his insurance doesn’t cover it.

behavior professor Steve Polasky was always interested in the environment.

A self-proclaimed math nerd, Polasky found economics useful for thinking about environmental issues.

“I’m at this really interesting juncture between economics and ecology,” he said.

Since coming to the University in 1999, Polasky has done research on sustainable development issues.

He said he’s most proud of his recent collaboration with the Natural Capital Project, working to bring environmental thinking to ever yday consumer, government and business decisions.

Polasky said he appreciates the visibility that comes with being a Regents Professor and hopes to use the stipend to hire administrative help for his office so he can spend more time doing research and working with students.

EEB professor Sarah Hobbie, who teaches a global environmental policy course with Polasky, said he’s “fabulous to work with.”

Because Polasky is “stretched extraordinarily thin,” Hobbie said, she hopes the new professorship will make it easier for him to do research.

“He’s extraordinarily successful, but he’s also a really down-to-ear th per-

son,” she said.

Brian Buhr, who heads the applied economics depar tment, said Polasky brings a useful skillset to the depar tment with his environmental background.

“That inherent interdisciplinar y link is really a hallmark of his,” he said.

‘An all-star’ Being a Regents Professor makes it easier to communicate with people outside of the University, Bates said. Regents Professors also have better access to the Board of Regents and University administration.

Lanny Schmidt, a CEMS professor who was named a Regents Professor in 2002, said it’s a humbling experience because so much of the work professors are recognized for is carried out by graduate students.

“You don’t want it to

go to your head,” he said.

“We don’t do what we get credit for. Our students do.”

It’s a great honor to be a Regents Professor, but there are lots of other qualified professors at the University, said physics Regents Professor Allen Goldman.

“There are probably more people around who are deser ving of the accolade than actually get it,” he said.

The distinction doesn’t change professors’ ever yday responsibilities, Bates said, but they’re expected to per for m at a higher level and are looked on as leaders.

“It’s like being named an all-star on a baseball team,” Bates said. “It’s a great distinction to be on the all-star team, but you still have to go back to your home team; you still have to get up and swing the bat.”

REGENTS PROFESSORS PER DEPARTMENT Chemical Engineering and Materials Science: 3* English: 3 Psychology: 2 Chemistry: 2* Political Science: 2 Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior: 2* History: 2 Pediatrics, Hemotology-Oncology: 1 Neuroscience: 1 Physics and Astronomy: 1 Mechanical Engineering: 1 Institute of Child Development: 1 Microbiology: 1 Medicine: 1 History: 1 Geological Sciences: 1 Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature: 1 Pharmacology: 1 American Studies: 1 Forest Resources: 1 History: 1 Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development: 1 Law: 1 Applied Economics: 1* *Includes Lodge and Polasky’s double departments

SOURCE: U AWARDS AND HONORS

Espresso Royale’s future in Dinkytown undecided Espresso u from Page 1

“There’s a lot in limbo right now,” he said.

Zielske said he was led to believe the new owner wouldn’t renew the coffee shop’s lease in June 2014, but Dzubnar said he doesn’t have any plans for the space yet.

“We just bought the building as an investment,” Dzubnar said. “I haven’t made a decision one way or another what I’ll do with it.”

He said the site isn’t part of his plans for this year.

Zielske said they’d love to stay in the building if they don’t have to leave.

If he does develop the space in the future, he said, it wouldn’t be a Green Mill restaurant, but it could be a new Town Hall Brewer y location.

Town Hall Brewery, the West Bank taproom Dzubnar co-owns, is currently expanding in the city. It has a location in South Minneapolis and has another one under construction in Uptown. Dzubnar also owns the building that houses Al’s Breakfast, but Dzubnar said he “won’t touch Al’s” even if he does develop the space.

Dinkytown Business Association President Skott Johnson said he heard the Espresso Royale space was going to be a taproom, but Dzubnar hasn’t approached him yet.

“None of us are happy to see Espresso Royale leave the space,” Johnson said.

There are two other Espresso Royales in the Twin Cities, and nationally they are in five states.

Last summer, the previous owner sold the building to Dzubnar without telling Espresso Royale about the deal until afterwards. Johnson said the cof fee shop should’ve been given a chance to buy the building.

“We’re not happy with the landlord selling it without conferring with Espresso Royale,” he said. “That just didn’t seem right.”

An ‘iconic’ space Since 1988, Espresso Royale has ser ved Dinkytown residents with a place to chat, study and caffeinate.

Matthew Williams went to graduate school at the University in 2005 and has used Espresso Royale as his “second of fice” ever since.

“Ever ything I did in school, I wrote here,” Williams said. “It’s a stopping point in Dinkytown with a

big sense of community.”

He had some of his favorite intellectual conversations at the café’s tables, he said, where he used to meet with students in the English classes he taught.

“This space seems like it’s irreplaceable.”

Originally from Pittsburgh, Espresso Royale customer Morgan Dysert said she came to the University because of Dinkytown, but she now feels the area has become commercialized and unoriginal.

“It’s expected for a place to grow and expand,” Dysert said, “but when it comes to iconic places … you don’t touch that.”

If the coffee shop moves, she said she’ll miss the artwork hung on the walls by local artists. She’ll also miss the regulars who have become so familiar, she said.

Zielske said he’s tried to nurture a place where students can sit down, drink from real mugs and actually have conversations — “not just a kiosk, but a coffeehouse.”

Espresso Royale assistant manager Rex Vogen said he hopes they can stay in Dinkytown but agreed the area’s atmosphere is changing.

“The direction things are headed isn’t optimal,” he said.

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Profs want University to rethink course approval process Some say the process is too long and competition for enrollment pits departments against each other.

BY HAILEY COLWELL hcolwell@mndaily.com

When new University of Minnesota courses are approved, it’s expected they’ll be taught for many years to come.

But some University of Minnesota professors say the process is too long and labor-intensive, making it dif ficult to update course cur ricula and cr eating competition between departments.

“The idea of having this permanent course list is really a relic of an older university,” said histor y professor J.B. Shank.

Courses that are taught for many years can become “rigid and unable to adapt,” he said, and having such a long approval process makes it dif ficult for professors to introduce more modern courses.

When Chemistr y De-

par tment Chair William Tolman created a course on green chemistr y three years ago, he said it was “a somewhat protracted process.” The course had to be cer tified to meet an environmental theme requirement and to be considered writing intensive — an even more challenging process, he said.

Tolman said he didn’t encounter problems in the process, but “it just took time.”

He doesn’t plan to create a new course any time soon because it can be difficult to find instr uctors to teach them, and a lot of reading and preliminar y work goes into developing the content.

Part of the long process at the University may be due to its size.

Carleton College in Nor thfield, Minn., has a student population of about

2,000. There, instructors’ proposals go through individuals but don’t need committee approval unless problems arise, said Registrar Roger Lasley. It sometimes only takes a few days to get a course approved.

“We don’t have to wait for a committee meeting,” he said.

Competition for students

New courses have to go through a separate approval process to be cer tified to fulfill liberal education requirements.

Because depar tments are given funding according to enrollment, professors say there’s an added pressure to create courses that fulfill enough requirements to attract students.

“It’s no doubt producing a dif ferent curriculum than … if these pressures weren’t there,” Shank said.

Food science and nutrition junior Misen Luu said it’s dif ficult for him to fulfill his liberal educa-

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have regular access to nutritious meals during the summer. Since its creation more than 30 years ago, the program has expanded to meet rising demand — and this was its biggest summer yet.

More than 65 percent of students attending Minneapolis Public Schools qualified for free or reduced lunch in 2012, an increase of almost 30 percent from three decades ago.

Minneapolis Public Schools manages the city’s summer food pr ogram and offers meals at parks, schools, churches, apar tment complexes and youth organizations, even if the children don’t qualify for free or reduced lunch.

About 30 percent of the sites are at Minneapolis parks, with high-demand sites giving out about 100 free meals per day, said Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board recreation manager Larry Umphrey.

Van Cleve Park director Chad Collins said the free lunches and snacks are one of the park’s “marquee summer programs” that draw more families to the park and its facilities.

“You see 30-40 lunches being served a day, and you know the program’s worthwhile,” Collins said.

Although par ticipants don’t have to be eligible for

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free or reduced lunch, Umphrey said a large portion have said they are.

Growing to meet demand

Last year, the program provided 387,845 meals in Minneapolis — a 12 percent increase from 2011.

The program expanded to 115 sites this year to keep up with demand, said Karina Swanson, of Minneapolis Public Schools Culinary and Nutrition Services.

This summer, the Minneapolis program added a food truck in addition to the new sites. The truck provides meals to children who live near distribution centers that don’t have refrigeration facilities, Umphrey said.

“This is a great alterna-

tive for those kind of sites,” Umphrey said. “It’s pretty much a big refrigerator on wheels with smiling people handing out lunches.”

For the first time this year, the program will also sell parents and guardians $15 punch cards good for 10 lunches.

Swanson said both parents and children can eat meals bought with the punch card, which creates another incentive for parents to bring their children to the sites.

The food program runs through August, and Umphrey said he’d like it to become available year-round and provide food on weekends and evenings during the school year.

“I hope it keeps expanding,” he said. “It’s a muchneeded program.”

JAAK JENSEN, DAILY

Gina Morro helps her daughter C.C. Carpenter eat a complimentary lunch from the Summer Food Service Program at Jackson Park in Northeast Minneapolis on Tuesday.

tion requirements because his major requires a high number of credits.

“It’s a lot of commitment outside of your major,” he said.

Luu said he might have to go to college for five years to fit in all of his liberal education requirements.

He said he wishes a wider variety of courses met multiple liberal education requirements.

English professor John Watkins said the current system is more complicated than it needs to be.

“Students think about going through the U as a series of hurdles that you have to jump,” he said.

These r equir ements should be replaced with a simpler process that makes it easier for students to design their degree in a creative way, Watkins said. This would also eliminate the revenue-centered competition to create courses that fulfill liberal education requirements, he said.

FALL 2013 COURSES THAT FULFILL LIBERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS* WRITING INTENSIVE: 953 PHYSICAL SCIENCES: 365 SOCIAL SCIENCES: 203 GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES: 196 MATHEMATICAL THINKING: 172 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES: 159 ARTS/HUMANITIES: 152 ENVIRONMENT: 151 BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES: 146 DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE U.S.: 133 CIVIC LIFE AND ETHICS: 109 LITERATURE: 81 TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY: 35 CONSTANTS IN SEARCH CRITERIA ON ONESTOP: TERM: Fall 2013 SUBJECT: All subjects COURSE DELIVERY: Classroom or partially online, primarily online with some classroom, completely online or distance SECTIONS: Open sections only DAYS: M, Tu, W, Th, F, Sa, Su *as of July 9, 2013 SOURCE: ONESTOP.UMN.EDU

“We need to get rid of bureaucratic str uctures that are distracting people

from creating interesting and compelling courses,” he said.

Girl at center of Supreme Court ruling dies

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MINNEAPOLIS - The 7-year-old girl whose rare cancer led to a precedentsetting malpractice ruling by the Minnesota Supreme Court has died after fighting the disease since infancy, according to the family’s attorney.

Jocelyn Irene Dickhof f was just 2 weeks old when

her parents noticed a suspicious lump and took her to a doctor, who they alleged told them to keep an eye on the lump but not to worr y because it may be just a cyst. But when she was 13 months old, a specialist diagnosed her with a muscular cancer.

Jocelyn died Saturday at Rice Memorial Hospital in Willmar, according to lawyer Kay Nord Hunt.

Jocelyn rar ely complained about her cancer treatments or the pain, except maybe when the migraine headaches got severe, her mother told the Star Tribune.

“She was a spunky little girl,” her mom said. “She was ver y witty and had a comment for just about everything.”

But cancer — and its side effects — took its toll.

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Smith Hall could be a coincidence, because one happened afterhours and the other one occurred during the day.

Minneapolis police have recorded 539 thefts so far this year in the 2nd Precinct, which includes the University.

Man assaulted at party

A man was assaulted at a par ty in his Southeast Como home early Sunday mor ning, according to a Minneapolis police report.

The man gave his debit card to a co-worker and asked him to go buy cigarettes, the repor t said.

When he asked for his card back, the co-worker star ted hitting him in the face with his belt buckle until two neighbors pulled them apar t. Both the victim and the suspect then left the party.

W itnesses found the victim lying under a street sign a block away about an hour later, the report said.

The victim told them the co-worker had at-

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More laptop thefts Someone broke into a University alumna’s Como Avenue Southeast house on the Four th of July and stole two laptops, a suit-

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The new 17th Avenue residence hall recently signed leases with one fraternity, Theta Chi, and one sorority, Chi Omega, and will have dedicated front entrances for greek students along University Avenue.

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greek students by 2018.

As of 2011, the University had 1,856 active undergraduate greek members, the fewest in the Big Ten. “A part of that growth strategy was to have incubator space for new chapters,” said Director of Housing and Residential Life Laurie McLaughlin.

The designated residence hall spaces are meant to help the chapters grow large enough to move into their own houses, she said. The amount of time a chapter spends in the residence hall will depend on how quickly they recruit new members and find funding for a house.

Alumni and University support

Theta Chi president Austin Cariveau said when the Housing and Residential Life office was looking for chapters to fill the residence hall spaces last spring, Theta Chi was the first to express interest.

The fraternity left the University in 2000 after occupying the house that is now Bordertown Coffee and is returning with both alumni and University support, he said.

Cariveau said the new space is part of Theta Chi’s larger goal of obtaining a charter and becoming a University-recognized fraternity.

Unlike Theta Chi, Chi Omega will be active on campus for the first time this fall. Until spring semester, the University was the only school in the Big Ten without a Chi Omega chapter.

Panhellenic Council spokeswoman Reed Mosimann said Chi Omega was chosen to join the University last spring because of its leadership program, financial sta-

bility and marketing plan.

The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life has also said they plan to invite the sorority Phi Mu, which was active on campus more than 40 years ago, back to the University between 2015 and 2017.

Chi Omega will be allowed to use a special recruiting process in the fall. After participating in the first round of recruiting, they’ll wait a week and then star t recruiting again after other sororities have finished formal bidding.

Women who drop out or wish to join a sorority outside of formal recruitment will also be eligible to join Chi Omega

Recruiting new members

The new space will benefit Theta Chi’s recr uitment process, making the fraternity more attractive to prospective members, Cariveau said.

Ann Boarman, project manager for Chi Omega, agreed. During the formal recruitment process, she said, housing is always the first thing prospective members ask about.

She said the space is a prime spot for students, with its close proximity to campus and the houses on

fraternity row.

Cariveau said Theta Chi’s space will have new couches, a flat-screen TV and a video game console. Chi Omega members haven’t yet decided what they want their space to look like.

A l tho u g h the s p ace won’t have bedrooms, many greek members have reser ved rooms directly above the meeting areas. A third of all beds in the new residence hall will be reserved for greek members from other chapters who don’t have housing.

Furniture and extra décor for the meeting spaces were donated by Chi Omega and Theta Chi’s alumni associations.

Boarman said Chi Omega has a strong concentration of alumni in the area — more than 1,100 within a 25-mile radius.

She said its alumni network and University suppor t is “cr ucial” for Chi Omega’s success.

“We are extremely grateful for the space,” Boarman said, “and ver y excited about the opportunity that it gives us — right away — to start functioning like a sorority on campus.”

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investigating.

Only four other assaults have occur red in Como this year, according to Minneapolis police data.

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tacked him again. But another witness told police he saw the victim throw the suspect to the ground and kick him in the face.

Police found the suspect about 20 minutes later with head injuries.

He and the victim were both taken to the hospital. Neither of them were cited, and police are still

MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY

But the gap between fullprofessor pay and instructor pay is significantly higher at the University than at any other Minnesota school that employs instructors included in the data — nearly $48,000 higher than the average gap.

The University of St. Thomas has the smallest average pay gap out of the Minnesota institutions included in the data, and is the only school where average instr uctor pay is more than assistant professors.

Jim Winterer, director of media relations for St. Thomas, said the data is slightly skewed because two of the five instructors at St. Thomas are in highpaying fields.

“If we didn’t have those two higher ones, the average would be in the low [$70,000s],” he said. “It would be lower than the assistant professors.”

But even with those two instructors out of the equation, the school would still have the highest-paid instructors in the state — a fact that is more coincidental than strategic, Winterer said.

Jay Kiedrowski, senior fellow in the Humphrey School of Public Af fairs, said he’s surprised University instructor pay doesn’t rank at the top of Minnesota schools but added the University offers other benefits, including the prestige of working at a top research university.

“Salaries are always a function of the market,” he said. “So if the University is able to attract instr uctors that are willing to work for less, it’s because they want to work at the University.”

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Consumption of liquor by a minor Saturday 13th Avenue Southeast The suspect matched a description in a theft case and fled on foot when police approached him. Though he wasn’t the culprit in the theft, police cited him for consumption of liquor by a minor and fleeing police officers.

Police action: Case closed.

SOURCE: MINNEAPOLIS POLICE DEPARTMENT, UMPD

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Greeks lease space in new dorm

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Bike theft Thursday-Friday Delaware Street Southeast Victim left his bike in his apartment garage on the Fourth of July. The bike was missing the next morning, and he filed a report with 311.

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The pay gap between full professors and instructors at the University is one of the highest in the Big Ten and is the highest in Minnesota.

Only Michigan State has as wide of a gap between its full professor and instructor salaries as the University of Minnesota, which on average pays its full professors $85,600 more per year than its instructors.

It’s impor tant to find a balance between the highest-paid and lowest-paid workers in any organization, said professor John Budd, chair of the Department of Work and Organizations in the Carlson School of Management.

“If those gaps get too big, it might be hard for those people to work together,” he said. “But if they get too nar row, it might fail to provide an incentive for people to move up the ladder.”

In Minnesota, the University ranks No. 1 for full professor pay out of the 20 colleges and universities included in the AAUP data — $21,000 more than Macalester College, the second highest paying school that also employs instructors.

When instr uctor salaries statewide are compared, though, the University slips near the middle of the pack, with salaries nearly $6,400 less than at Macalester.

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case and about $100 in cash while she was out watching fireworks.

Ariane Foster said she was the first to notice anything missing when she and her roommates came home around midnight.

The dresser drawers in Foster’s bedroom had been rifled through, she said, but none of her things were stolen.

She later found a hole in a window screen on the front porch and said she thinks that’s how the suspect got in.

“It’s kind of eerie in your house after people come in that you don’t k n o w, ” F o s t e r s a i d .

“There’s this … feeling that kind of just lingers.”

Police have recorded 29 other burglaries in Como this year.

A University student had his laptop stolen from his upstairs apar tment on Sixth Street Southeast on July 3, according to another police report.

The common door to the victim’s building was unlocked, the repor t said.

His laptop was stolen from his bedroom, which was also unlocked.

Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said police don’t yet have enough information to know whether the laptop thefts are related.

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA

The salar y gap

Possession of drug paraphernalia Sunday Oak Street Southeast Police pulled suspect over and found he had marijuana in his car. Suspect was also cited for giving false information to a police officer.

Police action: Active case.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

Professor and instr uctor salaries ar e deter mined by various factors, said Arlene Car ney, vice provost for faculty and academic af fairs. These factors include where a professor or instructor got their degree and the overall experience they bring to the University.

The field the faculty member works in also makes a dif ference, she said.

“What we have at the University is what we call market pr essur e,” she said. “If you want to hire the best of the best, you may pay more for someone who is, say, in engineering than you may for someone coming in for a graphic design position.”

When compared to other Big Ten schools that employ instr uctors, the University lands near the middle for full professor and assistant professor salaries but near the bottom for associate professor and instructor salaries.

Only two schools in the conference pay instructors and associate professors less in each categor y.

Car ney said schools classify and use instr uctors dif ferently — some schools have a lot of tenure-track instr uctors, for example — which could account for some of the differences in average pay between institutions.

“As a r ule, we don’t have ver y many instr uctors on the tenure track,” she said.

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Burglary July 2 University Avenue Southeast Victim didn’t report laptop stolen at first because he thought a friend took it. He watched surveillance footage and saw a man walk into a side door and take the laptop.

Police action: Further investigation.

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tries to use instructors to teach lower-level courses, Carney said, while other colleges and universities may have more instr uctors teaching higher-level classes.

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UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

University of Minnesota police didn’t cite anyone for possessing illegal fireworks over the Four th of July weekend.

Deputy Chief Chuck Miner said the holiday is usually “fairly quiet” around campus because many students leave the area to visit family or go on vacation.

“That held tr ue again this year,” Miner said. University police didn’t step up patrols for the Four th of July.

Citywide, violent crime over the week of July 4 has increased 41 percent over last year. A man died July 4 from a gunshot wound to the chest on South Grand Avenue, according to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s office.

Miner said police sometimes receive calls about fireworks that actually turn out to be gunshots, but he can’t remember that ever happening to University police.

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T wo thefts have occur red in Smith Hall so far this month, according to University police reports.

Michelle Driessen, associate chemistr y professor, said she left her office for less than 30 seconds on Monday to fill her water bottle.

She passed a ner vouslooking man on the way back, she said.

“As soon as he got past me, he took of f running,” Driessen said. She chased after him but couldn’t catch up. The man stole Driessen’s iPhone and iPad Mini from her desk.

Miner said suspects in of fice thefts often wait to see when their victims leave or walk around campus, looking for unlocked doors and offices.

Chemistr y graduate student Zahra Sohrabpour said she and her coworker had their work laptops stolen from their Smith Hall of fice sometime between July 1 and 2 .

The window to the basement of fice is usually locked, Sohrabpour said, but that night somebody left it open. Police found fingerprints on the window the next morning.

Miner said the fact that both thefts occur red in

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Two thefts from Smith Hall

No arrests for illegal fireworks, but Smith Hall has seen two thefts so far this month.

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Tweet the crash

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ast Saturday, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crash landed at San Francisco International Airport. Plane travel is often considered the safest form of transportation; however, the occasional mishap does occur, and it normally gives flyers a short pause. Fortunately, there was minimal tragedy caused by the crash with the death of only two individuals. While all death is certainly tragic, the consequences of the crash could have been much worse.

Social media has given rise to the rapid dissemination of information about tragic and life-changing events around the world. From coup d’états to crime to violent protests, often all you need to do is log onto your favorite social media site and you can get a handle on the situation. The speed and reach of social media is not something to be dismissed or underestimated. Despite this, I was surprised to see a picture of a downed commercial air-

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plane zoom across my Twitter feed. I am accustomed to seeing shocking images via social media, but there was something about seeing a smoking downed airplane that made me queasy.

David Eun, an executive at Samsung who was on the flight, tweeted: “I just crashed landed at SFO. Tailed ripped off. Most everyone seems fine. I’m okay.

Surreal…” A photo of the airplane he was on with smoke billowing out and the tail missing followed his tweet. People were trailing off in the photo, heading to the terminal. It’s certainly a “surreal” photo, or it feels surreal to me. It reminds me of the fragile nature of the machines we rely on.

Perhaps most disheartening wasn’t the crash itself but the reaction of some traditional news media. A reporter on CNN expressed disbelief that passen-

gers were tweeting photos. Of course, news outlets like CNN traditionally held the domain over such news and regulated what viewers watched. This isn’t the case anymore. What does it matter that photos were tweeted? The old paradigm has changed.

We see this change enacted over and over. The Arab Spring turned protestors into citizenjournalists tweeting for freedom. The protestors were able to give insight into areas that traditional reporters couldn’t.

That’s good. It’s a hallmark of 21st centur y society that citizens are both witnesses to history and participants in it.

The photo that Eun tweeted shocked me, but I’m thankful that I saw it.

Along with access to information, social media has created a new way of thinking and communicating. Is it now the responsibility of citizens to broadcast tragedy so it may be recorded? Was it Eun’s responsibility to post a photo of his downed airplane? Of course not. People are entitled to their own choices. However, would the impact of this airplane crash have been lessened had Eun not tweeted a photo? I’m not sure.

DEATHS IN IRAQ: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 4,802 — IRAQI CIVILIANS: 113,241- PLUS DEATHS IN AFGHANISTAN: U.S. & COALITION TROOPS: 3,337 — AFGHAN CIVILIANS: UNKNOWN

There have been many other plane crashes, but not many of them have been as broadcasted by people who were once on those planes. It’s a rarity for so many to survive, so it’s particularly unusual to see photos from surviving passengers. Considering how much social media has changed our interaction with news, I can’t imagine not seeing photographic evidence of a plane crash on Twitter. That’s one of the great things about Twitter: it shows you things you would never have seen 50 years ago.

The airplane crash was terrible, and it will certainly give me bad dreams and pause the next time I fly. However, I know that this is how information is accessed in the 21st century. It is fluid, fast-moving and uncensored. It is often unverified, at least until it shows up on your local news station. The role of the citizen is now to create raw information, and social media is the citizenry’s greatest tool to do so. I can only hope that traditional media will curate and verify.

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

FINANCIAL AID

Tackling student debt There are many ways Congress could aid college students in limiting loan debt.

A Maxwell Smith welcomes comments at msmith@mndaily.com.

GUEST EDITORIAL Our view: Term limits for Duluth City Council, mayor worth debating Should Duluth’s city councilors and mayor be limited to two terms? At its meeting next week, the Duluth Char ter Commission will consider a proposal to add term limits to the city char ter for the first time. The proposal is coming from commission member Eli Miletich, whose head-butting with Mayor Don Ness over retiree health care is wellpublicized and well-known and whose motives can thus fairly be questioned.

But his proposal just as fairly and rightly deser ves communitywide attention and debate.

There is that old adage, after all: Elected leaders and baby’s diapers need to be changed often — and for the same reason.

“It’s not [a personal beef],” Miletich, a former police chief in Duluth, insisted in an inter view with the News Tribune Opinion page. “I’ve been in favor of term limits for as long as I’ve had my nose into things political. I don’t have any anger or dislike for [Mayor Ness]. I just feel he handles himself as an immature, quote-unquote ‘leader’ of the city.

“I think we need to have a changeover ever y four years, whether it’s mayor or City Council,” Miletich continued. “That’s what the original framers of the Constitution thought. It’s a citizens’ government.”

Mayor Ness, in his second ter m after r unning unopposed for re-election, agreed a community discussion is wor th having.

Pr os and cons abound when it comes to term limits.

“But I think it’s difficult to have that objective discussion when it is coming for ward with such specific political intent,” the mayor told the Opinion page.

“This has ever ything to do with [Miletich’s] politics.

He is attempting to use our city char ter to accomplish his political goal of removing me from of fice.

It’s that simple, and it’s that transparent. Eli was [former Mayor] John Fedo’s biggest advocate. Not only did Mayor Fedo ser ve three full [terms, he] was running for a four th term with Eli’s strong suppor t.

[Miletich] obviously didn’t think term limits were impor tant at that time. Eli’s an old pro at these political games. If you can’t win, you just change the rules of the game.”

The city of Duluth really isn’t a good example of the need for term limits. T ur nover has been healthy among councilors and in the mayor’s of fice.

Three of the past four mayors left office because they lost an election.

“In our democracy, that seems the best way to determine whether a person should ser ve another term or not,” Ness said. “Have an election and let the voters decide.”

Ness said he doesn’t know whether he’ll seek

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another term in 2015.

“From my perspective, that decision should be made with my family and [with] a vote by the people,” he said. “It shouldn’t be deter mined because someone with an ax to grind wants to change the charter.”

Miletich insists he has no ax. Whether that’s true, his proposal probably won’t get beyond news coverage and a buzz in social media. Only one or two of the Char ter Commission’s 15 members suppor t his idea, Miletich said. The rest, he said, line up obediently behind whatever Mayor Ness’ administration favors.

“But I still want to see what people in the community think,” Miletich said. “My intent was to see if we can generate some interest from the public to show up at the meeting … I don’t think it stands a ghost’s chance in hell, but I just thought the public might want to contribute.”

The public can. And should. At next Wednesday’s 5 p.m. meeting in the Council Chambers. In social media. And on the News T ribune Opinion page.

No matter what motive may or may not have brought up this issue, it deser ves — not unlike a baby’s bottom — a thorough airing.

Duluth News Tribune This editorial was originally published July 3. Comments should be sent to letters@mndaily.com.

s we ended our first month of summer vacation, the federal RONALD DIXON student loan columnist rate doubled from 3.4 to 6.8 percent. This means that for future loans we will need to spend twice the amount on interest payments as we begin to pay back the thousands of dollars needed to obtain our diplomas.

Thankfully, though, there is a shimmer of hope.

The congressional inaction that led to this increase may be corrected retroactively if Senate democrats keep their promise to propose their own solution. However, the rate increase will continue to harm the vast majority of college students if Congress does not act soon to pass legislation.

This is especially impor tant when considering the fact that student debt has a negative impact upon the economy and the lives of future graduates.

As the total debt for all college students exceeded $1.1 trillion not too long ago, recent graduates are delaying basic life steps. These include obtaining a car, renting a house and star ting a family. Not only could this have a psychological impact upon young adults, but it also prevents these recent graduates from spending, which naturally depresses the economy.

There are many solutions to the student loan dilemma. One potential fix is to bring down the rate to 0.75 percent, the same rate that big banks pay and what Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has been recently promoting.

Another option would be the par tial forgiveness of debt via the Student Loan Fairness Act, a bill that requires students to pay 10 percent of their income to student loans but forgives the rest after a decade.

Finally, opening up several debt options to students that they currently do not have, such as refinancing or bankruptcy, could give them the flexibility that may allow them to get back on their feet.

Whichever option, or several options, they choose, Congress needs to act now to prevent more harm to college students as well as the rest of the economy. Additionally, retroactive legislation is the fair solution to correct Congress’ inaction.

Ronald Dixon welcomes comments at rdixon@mndaily.com.

TFA must prove itself to the U

A solution is needed for Minnesota’s achievement gap, but TFA has not proved they’re it.

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lthough discussions of a partnership between the University of Minnesota and Teach For America are said to be preliminary, the Minnesota Daily reported last month both parties could reach a decision by the end of the summer.

The speed of these talks is out of step with growing skepticism of TFA in the state at a time when Minnesota needs real, well-tested solutions to close an alarming racial achievement gap.

More than 200 University community members, many of them College of Education and Human Development graduate students, signed an open letter opposing the deal. The letter cites TFA’s “unearned legitimacy,” saying the influential organization has not shown it significantly improves students’ lives or education.

These same issues were raised in St. Paul earlier this summer, when Gov. Mark Dayton vetoed a $1.5 million allocation to TFA in the omnibus Higher Education bill and the Minnesota Board of Teaching denied the organization a waiver that would get its teachers into schools faster. Both Dayton and the Board of Teaching cited a lack of independently verified information on TFA’s practices and benefits.

There’s no question Minnesota badly needs solutions to narrow the gap in achievement between white students and students of color, which is among the worst in the nation. There are many potential causes for the disparity, however, and they are not limited to the sheer number of teachers.

In discussions with the state government and the University, TFA seems to have considered its potential benefit to be a forgone conclusion.

The organization needs to make a stronger case to the University this summer. In turn, the University must be critical when considering this partnership, consulting with concerned students and Hamline University, the only other school in the state that partners with TFA.

Convention shows weakness in DFL party The DFL mayoral convention became an acrimonious learning experience.

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he June 15 Minneapolis Democratic-Farmer-Labor convention ended without endorsement and visibly weakened the party.

The convention was not without its antics. One of two leading candidates, Councilwoman Betsy Hodges, led a walk-out after the fourth vote, making a quorum doubtful. Rumors of dubious actions — which convention leader Mark Andrews described as “questionable back-room tricks” — only reassured the benefit of having no official DFL endorsement. Without an endorsement, however, the election now has at least some diversity of candidates.

Though there is ranked-choice voting (RCV) come Election Day, the city convention only has a single endorsement after a candidate brandishes 60 percent of delegates’ votes. Candidates who do not prevail at the convention are expected to abide by the endorsement, or risk turning the party against itself or disrespecting the decision of delegates. This is largely why local elections are decided on the endorsement.

RCV, which began in the 2009 city elections, could ensure an array of candidates if used in future DFL conventions. It would leave the party more organized than what we’ll see with the nearly dozen candidates on the ballot in November. This year there was no primary because of RCV implementation, and with so many candidates, it might take vote transfers from among the top three or four finishers before a victor is found with a majority of preferences.

The DFL convention set up the Minneapolis mayoral race to be an exciting, albeit bitter election.

An endorsement coming from a chaotic city convention would benefit no one. This is the first Minneapolis mayoral race without an incumbent in decades.

Ultimately it should not be delegates deciding such an open election, it should be voters.

Finally, if RCV is to be used, the DFL should fully commit to maintaining organization and implement the voting method in conventions.

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Jones, Travis impress in summer league The two Gophers recruits have held their own against older NBA talent.

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It’s one thing to watch Gophers recruiting targets Tyus Jones and Reid Travis dominate players their own age and size.

It’s quite another to see them compete — and often succeed — against current and former Gophers players with NBA talent.

Jones, a senior point guard at Apple Valley High School, and Travis, a senior forward at DeLaSalle High School, play on the Howard Pulley Academy team in the Howard Pulley Pro City Summer League.

The team features many players from the recruits’ squads in the Amateur Athletic Union, a competitive organization that attracts the nation’s top high school players. Also competing in the seven-team league are numerous past and present Gophers players.

“They get a lot of good experience,” said former Gophers for ward Rodney Williams, who played with Jones and Travis on the Pro City team for its first two games. “If they can get out here and play with those guys, they can hang with the big boys in college.”

Jones, the No. 2 recruit in the nation according to rivals.com, and Travis (No. 40) are coveted 2014 recruits. Both have received scholarship offers from the Gophers.

Travis and Jones’ Howard Pulley squad faced the Sutherland Raiders team featuring former Gopher Trevor Mbakwe and current Gophers players Kendal Shell and Oto Osenieks last week. The Raiders won the game 113-88, but Jones scored 34 points and Travis held his own, scoring 19 while battling with Mbakwe in the post.

“They’re really great players,” Mbakwe said after the game. “They’re going to have very successful careers. Tyus is probably the best player in the countr y, and Reid Travis is not too far behind.”

Mbakwe said he and Travis are similar players.

Travis said Mbakwe provides the best matchup in the league for him, though other Gophers big men like Mo Walker also participate. “[I’m] just tr ying to match their physicality,” Travis said. “I think the biggest thing is not tr ying to back down, just trying to stay strong with them because [they’re] a measuring stick.”

Travis said he doesn’t win the matchups with the older players down low, but he doesn’t think he’s far behind.

W illiams said Travis’ ability to be physical, hit the midrange jump shot and get up and down the court will trouble future college teams trying to defend against him.

Jones is tested as well.

He faced Gophers guard and All-Big Ten performer Andre Hollins in a June 29 game.

Jones starred, scoring 43 points.

Jones said he looks forward to playing against cer-

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tain players in the league each week.

“It just pushes me,” he said. “I want to play against the best, so good, elite guards like [Hollins] — playing against them only makes me better.”

Jones said he doesn’t hesitate to get to the rim, even with players like the 6-foot-8inch Mbakwe waiting there to meet him. He drove right at Mbakwe multiple times in the loss.

“You’ve still got to attack,” he said. “You can’t change your game because of who’s down low.”

The Pro City league provides an oppor tunity for Jones’ AAU team to improve as it heads to the Nike Peach Jam, the finals for its Elite Youth Basketball League season that starts July 11.

“That’s why we’re in [the Pro City league]: so we can get better as a team,” Jones said. “Playing against gr own men — bigger, stronger guys — just gets you better.”

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Howard Pulley Panthers guard Tyus Jones dribbles at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League tournament May 26 at the High Performance Academy in Eagan, Minn.

MEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Mbakwe, Williams start slowly The ex-Gophers have struggled in the NBA’s Orlando summer league.

BY JACE FREDERICK jfrederick@mndaily.com

Former Gophers forwards Trevor Mbakwe and Rodney Williams’ reunion in the Philadelphia 76ers’ summer league team won’t last long.

Mbakwe has agreed to join the Toronto Raptors for the NBA’s Las Vegas Summer League July 12-22, he confirmed via text message.

Mbakwe and Williams, who both went undrafted in the NBA’s June 27 draft, are currently par ticipating in the NBA’s Orlando summer league. The league r uns from July 7-12.

The forwards both have to perform well in summer league play to earn invites to NBA training camps in the fall and fur ther their chances of making NBA rosters.

Mbakwe started slowly in two games with the 76ers (0-2). He’s averaging just 3.5 points and 3.0 rebounds per game in fewer than 13 minutes of action.

As a Gopher, Mbakwe often had size and strength advantages, but he doesn’t with the 76ers. He hasn’t been able to establish the position in the post necessar y to create scoring opportunities for himself due to his lack of size. He’s had just three field goal attempts.

While he’s not expected to be an offensive weapon, he also str uggled on defense in the 76ers’ 88-80 loss to the Houston Rockets on July 7. Mbakwe had

a plus-minus rating of minus-26 points, the lowest on the team.

But Mbakwe has had some bright moments.

He provided a spark with blocked shots on back-toback possessions in the 76ers’ 96-75 loss to the Indiana Pacers on July 8, but he saw just two minutes of action in the second half.

Williams has received plenty of opportunities — he’s star ted both games and played at least 24 minutes in each. But he’s already suf fering from the same inconsistency that plagued his career with the Gophers.

He scored 12 points and blocked three shots in Philadelphia’s loss to the Rockets. He also displayed his highlight-reel potential, finishing an alley-oop from three-quarters court. Williams is attempting to play on the perimeter at the NBA level, something he never became comfortable with in his time with the Gophers.

His str uggle to adjust to the position was evident during the 76ers’ loss to the Pacers. Williams appeared lost on the of fensive end, floating around the threepoint line much like he did in college, unable to dissect the defense off the dribble with his cutting ability.

Williams finished with just one point and no rebounds.

He’s also 0-for-5 on three-point attempts in two games. Williams shot 25 percent from beyond the arc in college.

He has been solid defensively, using his length to match up with smaller guards and alter shots from all areas on the court. Williams’ defense has likely

Vaughn picks Las Vegas prep school The Gophers recruiting target is ranked No. 7 in the class of 2014.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

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Former Gophers forward Rodney Williams dunks during a game against Nebraska on March 3 at Williams Arena.

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R a s h a d Va u g h n h a s decided to attend Findlay Prep in Las Vegas, Nev., for his senior season of high school, his mentor Pete Kaf fey confir med July 9.

Vaughn, a coveted Gophers recruit and the No. 7 recruit in the class of 2014 according to Rivals.com, starred at Robbinsdale Cooper High School in New Hope, Minn., the last three seasons.

“Rashad went and saw Findlay Prep, and he liked what he saw,” Kaffey said.

“It was a matter of the team he has coming back [at Findlay]. He knows that he’ll be pushed.”

Vaughn has continued his dominance in the AAU circuit this summer and has received high praise from scouts.

“He adds a lot to our program with the level of intensity he brings and his ability to score,” Findlay assistant coach Andy Johnson said.

“We’re really excited to have him in our program.”

Vaughn’s father, Troy Vaughn, said June 19 that Huntington Prep in Huntington, W.Va., was the frontrunner.

Huntington Prep head coach Rob Fulford also assumed his team was the favorite less than a month ago.

“I’ve never lost a kid that I’ve wanted,” he told the Minnesota Daily in midJune. “If we want them here at Huntington, we usually get them.”

Johnson said Vaughn will have to compete for a starting spot at Findlay, but he said Vaughn’s talent speaks for itself.

“Based on his ability and his work ethic, he has a great chance to have a great impact,” Johnson said.

Troy Vaughn said June 19 that his son’s decision to enroll in a prep school does not take the Gophers out of contention to land the talented shooting guard.

Kaf fey reiterated that point July 9. He said only time will tell if this was the right decision, but he is confident this move will make Vaughn a better player.

“I feel like at the end of the day this is where he wanted to be,” Kaffey said, “and that was the decision in the end.”

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more games in Orlando before moving on to Las Vegas.

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Gophers recruiting target Rashad Vaughn plays at the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League tournament May 26 the High Performance Academy in Eagan, Minn.

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VOLLEYBALL

Dixon embraces Team USA experience Tori Dixon will be one of the leaders for the Gophers next season.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

Over the last two weeks, Gophers senior Tori Dixon got a taste of what it’s like to be at the bottom of the totem pole again.

And this summer, there’s no place she’d rather be.

The stud middle blocker was one of three college players invited to work out with Team USA in Anaheim, Calif., for the team’s regular summer practices. She said she felt like a freshman again as soon as she walked into the gym.

“It was a challenge, and the biggest check for me was the speed of it,” she said. “It was so much faster than I’ve ever even seen.”

Dixon said it took a while to adjust to the speed of the game, but once she did, she held her own with the other players on the court.

She impressed with her talent and fierceness, said former Gophers teammate and current Team USA middle blocker Lauren Gibbemeyer.

Gibbemeyer was a senior at the University of Minnesota when Dixon was a freshman, and the veteran said she took Dixon under her wing that season.

That wasn’t necessary this time.

“It wasn’t like she came in the gym and ever yone could pinpoint that she was a college player on the court,” Gibbemeyer said. “If someone watched our practices, they wouldn’t know that she is a college player. She fit right in with the rest of the team.”

Dixon said the culture in the gym was different than a practice with the Gophers.

She said it was a lot more intense and she was intimidated at first, but she didn’t let it show.

Dixon said Team USA doesn’t usually allow college players to train with the squad.

“They invited me for a reason, and I was supposed to be there,” Dixon said. “That’s the mentality I came in with, and it worked well over the two weeks.”

Gibbemeyer said she has seen immense growth in Dixon’s game over the last three years. She recalled that Dixon was a little timid in her first season with the Gophers, but she has evolved since then.

Gibbemeyer has watched Dixon play at times over the past three years, but the last two weeks were the first time they’ve played together for an extended period since their time with the Gophers.

“She has become a lot more confident,” Gibbemeyer said of Dixon. “She really trusts herself now, and she’s become a well-rounded player.”

Dixon will serve as one of the best players on the Gophers this upcoming season.

But Gophers head coach Hugh McCutcheon said as her career wraps up, that skill won’t be enough to make it at the next level, when consistency becomes more important.

“She’s a wonderful collegiate volleyball player, but at this level it’s good to be good nine out of 10 times, and internationally it’s got to be good 99 out of 100,” he said.

Dixon said a goal this season is to implement what she learned with Team USA with the Gophers.

“I don’t know if it’s the skills themselves but rather the overall attitude and mentality that goes around,” Dixon said. “It’s a much different style than what I’m used to.”

Dixon’s Gophers teammate, senior outside hitter Ashley Wittman, also trained with Team USA in its A2 program earlier in July.

Dixon said this short trip has motivated her to take her game to another level.

She said she has thoughts of Team USA in the back of her mind entering the 2013 season.

“I’m going to finish strong this season,” Dixon said. “If they like what they see and I continue to improve, hopefully I get another invitation in May.”

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Gophers middle blocker Tori Dixon spikes the ball during a game against North Dakota State on Sept. 10, 2012, at the Sports Pavilion. Dixon was one of three college players to work out with Team USA this summer.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Ballard returns home after eight NHL seasons Ex-Gophers player Keith Ballard just signed a two-year deal with the Wild.

BY DANE MIZUTANI dmizutani@mndaily.com

For mer Gophers defenseman Keith Ballard per formed his best Zach Parise and Ryan Suter impressions July 4 when he signed a two-year, $3 million contract with the Minnesota Wild.

It wasn’t anywhere close to the media circus the coveted Parise-Suter duo cr eated with their signings exactly a year ago. But to his family about 300 miles nor th of the Twin Cities, this acquisition might have been just as important.

Ballard, an eight-year NHL veteran who recently was bought out of his contract with the Vancouver Canucks, hails from Baudette, Minn. He said most of his family was together July 4 when he called home to tell them the news.

“It all happened so fast,” his sister Jessie Ballard recalled. “He called us, and we were at a big family get-together, and ever yone was really, really pumped.

“It’s awesome to have him close to home again.”

Ballard said while he is excited to play closer to home, this career decision had nothing to do with the fact that Minnesota is his home state. Ballard said his career needed a change of scener y and

Minnesota provided that fit.

“It seemed like a good hockey fit with where they felt I could contribute and what role I’d play,” he said.

“It all seemed to fall into place, and it was a really exciting time.”

Ballard played a vital role on the Gophers teams that won national titles in 2002 and 2003. He said those memories are still entrenched in his mind.

He left the Gophers after the 2004 season and played in the American Hockey League for a season before he reached the NHL. There, he developed into a standout two-way defenseman with the Phoenix Coyotes and Florida Panthers. Ballard averaged nearly 30 points per season and played in 97 percent of games with those teams.

Ballard was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in 2010 and str uggled in three seasons with that squad. The Canucks bought out his contract this of fseason, which had two years and about $8.4 million left on it.

That opened the door for the Wild.

Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher is familiar with the skill Ballard brings to the table and said he’s confident Ballard can return to that high level.

“I remember working in Pittsburgh, and we’d go down and play the Florida Panthers, and they would play Keith Ballard against Sidney Crosby,” Fletcher said at a press conference

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Vancouver Canucks defenseman Keith Ballard defends Minnesota Wild center Kyle Brodziak in a 2011 game at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The Canucks bought out Ballard’s contract this summer, and Ballard signed a new two-year deal with the Wild on Thursday.

July 5. “And it was a tough night for Sidney Crosby.”

Ballard will join a young group of defensemen headed by Suter and breakout blueliner Jonas Brodin. Ballard will likely fill a role on the second or third defensive pair, but the depth chart is yet to be determined.

Fletcher said Ballard will fill a critical role with his experience amid the youthful contingent.

“We wanted to add another quality player, and Keith is cer tainly a player that … brings a lot of experience to the table,” Fletcher said. “He’s a guy

that can skate, he can move the puck, and he competes.”

Jessie Ballard said the family has seen Keith play at least one game at the Xcel Energy Center ever y season of his career, but she said it will obviously be a lot easier now.

“It’ll be really nice because a drive to Minneapolis is nothing compared to two flights and a hop, skip and a jump all the way to Vancouver,” she said.

Ballard said he’ll have to balance his hockey career with his family now more than ever. He said he’s more than up for that

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challenge.

“We’ll be able to see a lot of people that we don’t see during the season,” he said. “They’ll be able to watch games, but it’s a fine line between enjoying that

side of it and letting it become a distraction.

“That’s something we’ve also taken into consideration, but I really couldn’t be happier to be back.”

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For local artists, residencies provide stability as well as their own set of problems.

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hey can be the sleeper picks, the guys who go unnoticed in weekly venue billings hyping the hottest indie hunks or the latest from the trap.

Some of them rage, some of them groove and some merely hang in the background, the pleasing ambiance for a quiet dinner or coffee with your beau.

These are the residents, the artists with recurring gigs about town.

Bands to make ’em dance

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he New Primitives regularly garner props as one of the sickest Minnesota reggae bands, playing Thursday nights at the “old side” of Nye’s Bar and Polonaise Room for the past five years.

“It gives us the chance to stay new and fresh — we’ve made mistakes and had train wrecks, but we can make it what we want,” lead singer Stan Kipper said. “Nye’s has made the Primitives fearless: It helps us build.”

Jam band Soap has similarly honed their craft at the Cabooze for the past two years.

Previous house bands The Big Wu and God Johnson established the versatile jam rock vibe over the course of a decade, making Soap’s installation two years ago a logical business move. Plus, they’d already spent the previous two years holding court at the now defunct Downtime Bar & Grill.

However, with this much exposure, bands can oversaturate the market. Residencies affect rehearsals, too — devoting time to a regular engagement can take precedence over working on albums.

In Soap’s case, it also means there isn’t the opportunity to collaborate on original material, with songs coming in mostly complete from one of the members.

But one of the bright sides of carrying out a residency is making smart connections. Soap’s manager is Brad Solheim, who also works at the Cabooze and books Wednesday’s openers.

“It allows us to trade favors,” Solheim said.

Say a Denver band opens for Soap; maybe Soap gets to open for that band at their local club.

The upscale Loring Pasta Bar is a far cry from both the Cabooze, where Wu-Tang’s Redman is just as likely to have a show as Umphrey’s McGee, and Nye’s, the bar that time forgot.

Loring’s recurring acts reflect this dinner crowd difference.

Friday nights at Loring see Minnesota blues treasure James

“Cornbread” Harris (still tickling the ivories at 86 years old) calmly play like no one’s there, only to have salsa music take over later in the night.

The Calhoun Square Famous Dave’s BBQ & Blues has experienced a regular Sunday night takeover for 13 years, except instead of salsa, it’s entirely the audience’s doing.

Blues axeman Moses Oakland hosts an open jam session there.

“There’s one requirement — if you can write your name, I’ll call it,” Oakland said.

For Oakland, a guy who got back into playing after a hiatus via an open jam session, it’s a democratic chance to give back and educate younger folk about the blues.

“There’s an equation with three things, and only two of them have to be there [to play the gig]: the money, the people and the music,” Oakland said. “I’m enviable in that I have all three of those.”

With all of these local residents’ talent, success and apparent chemistry, there looks to be a lot of enviable musicians.

The view from above

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ouse bands like the New Primitives allow for venues to transform their image from night to night, drawing different demographics. It’s a convenient alternative to booking a different group every night.

Bunker’s Music Bar & Grill epitomizes this practice. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights, the Warehouse District joint witnesses R&B funkiness from Dr. Mambo’s Combo, followed by reggae and then the Classic Rock All-Star Project (or C.R.A.P.) “The [Warehouse District] has become so residential, I kind of thought we could go with covers [on Wednesday] to get some people in after dinner, people walking by to pop in and hang out,” said James Klein, the talent buyer for Bunker’s. “It’s not rocket science.”

But it isn’t a game of Go Fish either.

“The downside of so many residencies: It’s hard to bring up-and-comers in and try to develop them when you don’t have an off night,” Klein said.

Klein has been managing artists for the past 30 years while booking Bunker’s for over 20. It probably doesn’t hurt that his wife owns the place or that he took the helm a year after Dr. Mambo’s Combo started cranking up the heat. Still, there will always be a few issues with the residency set-up, in spite of its fundamental convenience.

The view from the bar

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ll of these groups and all of these venues mean one thing: community and the ongoing chance to build it further.

“It’s not Nye’s when we play, it’s the ‘Voodoo Lounge,’ ” Stan Kipper of the New Primitives said. “It’s a great clubhouse.”

People are busy, and their lives are hectic; recurring gigs allow for fans to leisurely meet up at the hang, knowing they’ll see the other regulars. It’s a time to mingle and bond — and maybe get to know the musicians during one of their breaks.

Soap’s previous Pink Floyd cover nights illustrate this potential. Soap has a regular cohort of 20-something fans, but when the chords of “The Dark Side of the Moon” waft onto the patio shared with the Joint Bar, faded-tat bikers drift in to listen.

To top it off, it’s all so accessible — you aren’t going to break the bank with these shows. And if you miss one night, you’ll have countless other nights to soak up the funky milieu.

People know these things walking in on a given evening, probably exchanging nods with a familiar bartender as they do so.

That’s what makes these venerable talents such an important part of the musical landscape — there’s no question that residents are here to stay.

July 10-16, 2013

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Deaf to the static With Culture Cry Wolf in his rearview mirror, rapper Botzy is amped for the road ahead.

BY SPENCER DOAR sdoar@mndaily.com

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ike his father and grandfather before him, Adam Botsford goes by Botzy. But this is the first time the family moniker has belonged to a successful rapper.

The Massachusetts-born Botzy moved to Minnesota after going to college in Arizona, rapping for the first time at 21. He quickly found the limelight as the emcee for the musical blender that was Culture Cry Wolf, a ska, rock and hip-hop fusion group.

While Culture Cry Wolf still has some new material and an upcoming show, the band is through.

“You know when you’re dating someone, and you know it’s not going to work out, but you end up kicking it anyways?” Botzy asked, drawing a parallel to the last year or so of the band.

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He’s ready to move on, sick and tired of the type of material he rapped over with Culture Cry Wolf.

“I’ve never rapped over stereotypical beats,” Botzy said.

But he gave himself that chance with his new release

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Hip hop artist Botzy.

“Buck Fotzy.”

Saying “stereotypical” isn’t even meant as trash talk — Botzy wanted hip-hop beats, and that’s what he made happen. On the track “Burger Jones,” Botzy even says, “This is rap for the sake of making rap music.”

It can be cringe-inducing to hear from a white rapper.

There’s a good chance the music will seem trite and an even better chance the artist will be ignorant of rap’s origins (see: Macklemore). But Botzy is sincere — he likes rap because he likes to rap because he likes rap ad infinitum.

“Sometimes it’s just styling — I’m not as concerned

with what I’m trying to tell people,” Botzy said.

Once you come to terms with his willingness to be clever for the sake of being clever, and there are plenty of examples on the album, “Buck Fotzy” is a catchy and palatable addition to the rap landscape.

The album exposes Botzy

as a kid in the candy shop, amped on that musical sugar, unable, or maybe unwilling, to slow down — though he claims after the release of “Buck Fotzy” he will take some time to chill out.

Maybe he’ll just spend more time on his day job. College gave Botzy a solid background in programming.

For one of his contract jobs, Botzy revamped outdated baby monitoring software for a children’s hospital, a gig that freaked him out given there were actual lives in his hands.

Whether through music or adjustments in medical technology, it’s safe to say that Botzy will leave his mark.

ART

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ndres Guzman and Allegra Lockstadt both complained of sores on their hands.

“Don’t you get calluses from working with concrete or sanding things all day?”

Lockstadt said.

Neither artist has been doing any manual labor, but the two Minneapolis College of Art and Design grads drew feverishly under a nearing deadline for the opening of “Candy Arena” at the Paper Darts PopUp. The joint exhibition features large-scale works.

“I use flesh and abstract colors — like bile colors mixed with candy-coated ones,” Guzman said.

Guzman was inspired during a trip to Peru, where he saw the grotesque image of an open chicken strewn in a market shop.

“They looked like ornaments — all these orbs of organs were the brightest, most beautiful colors,” he said. “It was a strange pairing of these morbid things, but they were so beautiful.”

Lockstadt complements Guzman’s abstract and stomach-churning art with detailed floral patter ns.

She matches his work

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDRES GUZMAN Allegra Lockstadt’s half of “Candy Arena” features a row of flowers against Andres Guzman’s abstract orbs.

the inner pages of their Moleskines.

An illustrator of hiphop album covers for I Self Devine and Greg Grease, Guzman is already a prominent local illustrator. “Candy Arena” allows him to play with gutsy juxtapositions he left on the cutting room floor. Brandishing his trusty Micron pen, he extols the value of transferring his ideas on paper instead of a laptop.

“It’s been nice to not look at my screen — other than just putting on You-

Dan St. Germain Stand-up comedians often have to rely on appearance, and unfortunately, New York-based Dan St. Germain’s reddish facial hair looks just like that of fellow comedian and beard enthusiast Zach Galifianakis. St. Germain’s humor comes across as more incisive than sarcastic, though, so the comparison ends there. He’s been a talking head on “Best Week Ever” and appeared on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon,” so the guy’s still paving his way in the comedy world. If you prefer more marijuana-themed jokes, you can also catch fellow “Best Week Ever” correspondent Doug Benson at 10:30 p.m. u Where: Acme Comedy Company, 708 N. First St., Minneapolis u When: 8 p.m. u Cost: $15 u Age: 18+

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Tube,” he said. “Not to have that vulture talon claw behind the mouse.”

“Appointment with Death” A group of travelers stay at the King Solomon Hotel in Jerusalem in this play from famed murder mystery novelist Agatha Christie. The show is partly based on the writer’s own travels in the Middle East — Christie spent several seasons at archaeological field sites with husband Max Mallowan. “Appointment with Death” is a prime example of Christie’s prowess at crafting the psychological thriller. The cast of characters include a psychiatrist, a former member of Parliament and an American family — all possible suspects in the murder of Mrs. Elmore Boynton. u Where: 245 Cedar Ave., Minneapolis u When: 8 p.m. u Cost: $22

PHOTO COURTESY OF ANDRES GUZMAN Andres Guzman and Allegra Lockstadt debut “Candy Arena” on Wednesday at the Paper Darts Pop-Up.

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with an ice cream sundae color scheme for her side of “Candy Arena.” Lockstadt, a freelance illustrator, could test more colors she normally wouldn’t have the chance to use when working for a client.

“If you’re working for an editorial that’s about yoga or feeling tranquil — you shouldn’t use bright red or an angr y color, for example,” she said.

“Candy Arena” marks a chance for the two artists to act like kids in a candy store — they’re the only ones setting the limits.

Between coming up with visuals for a company’s brand or cr eating editorial illustrations for magazines, the life of a freelance illustrator doesn’t allow for much creative (or physical) space. Artists like Guzman and Lockstadt are tied to the client’s vision as well as a digital medium.

“With illustration clients, it really doesn’t matter if the final object isn’t there,” Lockstadt said. “Usually it’s a digital send-off.”

No physical tie also means they don’t have to use a large canvas if they’re simply emailing work. “You could draw it on a Post-It note,” Guzman said.

“Candy Arena” gives the two artists an opportunity to experiment on a whole new scale — a five-foot canvas is on the playing field.

Guzman and Lockstadt aren’t confined to the specifications of a logo or even

friday

Two illustrators team up for “Candy Arena,” an exhibition of sprinkle-colored ideas from their exploding sketchbooks.

Twin Cities’ Roots, Rock, & Deep Blues Festival Patrick’s Cabaret, Harriet Brewing and Mosaic Café are hosting an all-day concert of roots, rock and deep blues music. The third annual festival this year includes the Meat Puppets, Chastity Brown Band, Spider John Koerner, Zoo Animal and L’Assassins. With four stages and 28 bands, the festival boasts a diverse line-up full of local blues-blasting bands. Pair that with plenty of beer and food trucks, and you’ve got one of the year’s most accessible fests. u Where: Patrick’s Cabaret, 3010 Minnehaha Ave. South, Minneapolis u When: 1p.m.-10 p.m. u Cost: $20 u Age: All Ages

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by David Lynch Legendar y filmmaker David L ynch’s second album is of ficially due out Tuesday, but you can stream the entire album online via Pitchfork. Featuring 11 original tracks and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Ballad of Hollis Brown,” “The Big Dream” combines L ynch’s atmospheric touch and modern blues. His debut LP, “Crazy Clown Time,” felt fragmented — better suited to a lost “Twin Peaks” episode. This time around, the songs are fully fleshed out. On “Star Dream Girl,” L ynch’s heavily filtered voice creeps over guitar rif fs reminiscent of “Time Out of Mind”-era Dylan. Until his next film, “The Big Dream” will have to satisfy your surreal side.

“The Last of Us” Steal your roommate’s PlayStation 3 to play one of the year’s most anticipated video games. Like many modern games, you wield a bunch of deadly weapons to kill hoards of enemies. But what sets “The Last of Us” apar t is the stor ytelling — the game plays out like a cross between Cormac McCar thy’s “The Road” and a classic George A. Romero zombie flick. Joel and Ellie are the main characters, journeying across the United States and avoiding the “infected.” The game’s engrossing stor y compliments the visually stunning graphics on screen — this is the stuf f of nightmares.

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CULTURE COMPASS BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT “Pacific Rim” Monsters have been duking it out on screen since the Gamera and Godzilla movies of the ’50s and ’60s. Now Guillermo del Toro conjures up giant machines to battle sea-dwelling beasts. If anyone can give a spectacle-driven treatment a tr ue update to the B-movie cliché, it’s del Toro. The fair y-tale obsessed director’s the brains behind both “Pan’s Labyrinth” and the “Hellboy” franchise. (See selections from del Toro’s filmography at the Tr ylon Microcinema this month in preparation for the new movie.) “Pacific Rim” already has Kanye West’s seal of approval—he declared it one of his favorite movies of all time. Let’s hope Yeezus is right about this one.

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Like Mike?

Mike Midwestern ditches punk immaturity for some cliché acoustic ballad duds on “Oh My Soul.”

BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

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reen Day’s “Dookie” made an impression on a 14-year-old Mike Cunningham.

“That’s really what made me want to play an instrument,” he said.

Known as Mike Midwestern, the singer-songwriter’s dissatisfied timbre sounds like a less sarcastic Billie Joe Armstrong, and Cunningham likes to think he’s less whiny than the Green Day singer, too.

“A lot of people tell me [I play] sad music,” he said. “They joke around that my music’s ‘sad bastard music.’ ” The title to Cunningham’s second album, “Oh My Soul,” is a red flag, a warning of a singer with an overly emotional disposition. Underneath the folk LP’s cheesy name, Mike Midwester n writes easygoing summer time anthems alongside some average ballads.

“Costumes and Covers” feels the most upbeat among the gentle, sparse melodies of the rest of the album. Cunningham attributes the record’s mild tone to the bir th of his new daughter.

“I’d come up with the melodies and sing to her as I was rocking her — it was a really chill setting when I was writing this stuff,” he said.

While that means he’s a long way from Green Day’s boredom-fueled lament about masturbation on “Longview,” Cunning-

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Indie rock artist Mike Midwestern.

ham’s kept the genre’s DIY spirit alive, recording “Oh My Soul” with friend Andy Keech on a tape housed in an old reel-toreel.

Compared to his first solo release, 2010’s “Inhibitors,” the new material is stripped down to skeletal melodies. Most of the songs bleed together without much consequence — the lullabies drift in and out without any Rancid-era punk edge.

But Cunningham said

the minimal arrangements gave him a chance to hone his live performance.

“I want to make sure that it translates to a live setting, that it’s not just a bunch of instr uments missing when you’re seeing me,” he said.

Cunningham’s self-impor tant singer-songwriter syndrome takes a hold of the acoustic ballads of “Oh My Soul,” and the confessionals mostly fall flat. On “Higher” and “Like Silver,” he relies on hackneyed cli-

chés even Dave Matthews would wince at.

Cunningham said the inspiration for his lyrics stems from “life events” and “stuf f you talk with your therapist about” — he’s not exactly reinventing the wheel here, but if you can get past some of the sentimental schlock, he’s a gifted pop songwriter.

Mike Midwester n’s talent lies in his past projects. His Ramones-esque punk band Suburban Core

dissolved in the late 1990s and paved the way for his solo career. Before “Oh My Soul,” he even planned on reviving that time in his career — he formed a new pop-punk outfit that only lasted nine months. “ We w e r e g o i n g t o record the EP right before my second daughter was bor n,” he said. “We weren’t all on the same page.”

Parenthood does give lyrical maturity to his solo album, but leaving behind

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ART

Fun and other drugs Six artists embrace their own scrawling sensibilities for “Looks Like Fun.”

BY JOE KLEINSCHMIDT jkleinschmidt@mndaily.com

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ho doesn’t like to add a shrewdly placed Hitler moustache to a stern portrait? What better way to pass the time than doodling a meandering trail of geometric shapes? Local artist Leanna Perry has taken this kind of mindless sketching to another level.

Per r y’s illustrations bleed neon colors, her own font and countless vibrant symbols that embody this type of ar tistic freedom.

She only draws for fun, and her drawings are intentionally imperfect, giving life to what she found stale in digital design.

“I decided that I was more interested in analog graphic design instead of doing stuff on the computer all the time,” she said.

From Kansas City, Mo., the Minneapolis College of Ar t and Design senior brings her work to life with a local collection of kindred artists for the new exhibition. Eddie Perrote, Josh Manoles, Bill Rebholz, Kelsey Dusenka and Mr. HBAK join the fun, transmitting the energy and youth alongside Per r y’s scribbles.

“When I describe my work to people, one of the

phrases I’m always throwing out is, ‘It just looks like fun,’ ” she said.

Splotches of uneven markers shade the background of a pyramid in one of her drawings, with the massive letters “Looks Like Fun” overlaying the entire piece. A retreat to ’90sstyle patterns make Perry’s works feel like a kid’s pizza party or a handmade ’zine.

In other words, she distills pure, unadulterated fun.

Uniform typeface and tessellations never enter her ar t — Perr y remains staunchly opposed to working within what she sees as a cold substitute for human scrawling.

“I feel like it loses a lot of the soul of the piece,” she said. “Is it by anyone? Is it even human?”

Perr y looks up to illustrator Ed Fella as an influence for her roundabout drawing technique. His hand-rendered typography mirrors the lively cur ves of Perr y’s lettering, something she sees as a trend.

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“I think there’s definitely been a resurgence in handlettering,” she said.

At MCAD, the current program still encourages a schedule full of courses that require a working knowledge of various illustration programs.

“The design program’s mainly focused on what you can do with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.”

Obviously, Per r y employs the use of a computer, but she doesn’t want to rely on the programs. On the periphery of one of her designs, the phrase, “Fun is created by stimulating the

PHOTO COURTESY OF LEANNA PERRY Leanna Perry’s confetti-covered doodles make for bold artwork without relying on Photoshop.

brain with novelty” accompanies a bold backdrop of faces, coins, rings and oth-

er symbols.

“It expr esses some thing about the person

who made it,” she said. “A lot of that gets lost when it’s just a pixel of color.”

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Today’s Birthday (7/10): Dreams come true with persistent action this year. Embrace change in a partnership. Physical actions with concrete results provide greatest satisfaction. Soak up new skills and tools.

July 3-9’s solution © 2013 Michael Mepham. Distributed by Tribune Media Services.

All rights reserved.

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

Written By Linda C. Black

Aries (3/21 - 4/19): Today is an 8 — Social planning takes on new importance. A happy reunion is possible. Get persuaded to take time for fun with friends. Count your blessings.

Libra (9/23 - 10/22): Today is an 8 — Home is where your heart is. Wait to start a new project.

Budget for savings. There’s a new opportunity with food involved.

Taurus (4/20 - 5/20): Today is a 7 — Trust a hunch for a beneficial revelation. Sort out your resources. It’s a lucrative moment. Social obligations take center stage.

Scorpio (10/23 - 11/21): Today is an 8 — Dig around, and find more of value. Keep the good stuff. Get a feel for the ideals you seek. Follow your star. Assume responsibility.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9.

Gemini (5/21 - 6/21): Today is an 8 — Savor a welcome assignment, a sweet deal. You can solve the puzzle by untangling details. You have more than you expected. Relax, and enjoy it.

Sagittarius (11/22 - 12/21): Today is a 9 — Outdo even yourself. Beautify a corner. Do the work yourself and save? You can get whatever you need. Handle it privately.

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Cancer (6/22 - 7/22): Today is a 9 — Make sure friends know you care. With what you save, get something nice. All’s well that ends well.

Rely on your support group.

Capricorn (12/22 - 1/19): Today is an 8 — You’re having more fun at work. Set priorities, which may include postponing romance. It pays off. You’re making a good impression.

Leo (7/23 - 8/22): Today is a 9 — Increase your security (especially online). You’re very popular. Grab a sweet deal, and make it your own. It’s more fun than expected.

Aquarius (1/20 - 2/18): Today is a 9 — Begin with balance in mind. You have what you need. You’re comfortable being alone. Make it beautiful, too. You’re very persuasive now.

Virgo (8/23 - 9/22): Today is a 7 — Focus on love for a happy ending. Your status is also increasing. Join a good team doing fun work that makes a difference.

Pisces (2/19 - 3/20): Today is a 9 — This is going to be fun. There’s a change at the top.

Begin a new project, but finish the old stuff first. Go for harmony. You’ve been planning.

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overheard Any guy out there wanna have a Nicholas Sparks movie marathon? I’ll provide the tissues!

—Promised a movie marathon with my roommates who all have boyfriends

Girl in Purple Hula-Hooping on the Mall,

You did things with a hula-hoop that I didn’t know were possible. Including being thoroughly captivating.

—Wondering what else those hips can do

Boys who live on 22nd and Como,

Thank you for playing DJ for the whole neighborhood. I like to think you are personally serenading me from your balcony through my window. Thank god you have good taste in music.

—Neighborly Love

PS: Play some Beyoncé, please.

Is there anyone that would cuddle on a contractual basis? Like I buy you chipotle and you make me feel like I’m not alone in the world for an hour or two?

Anyone care to negotiate?

—Unknown

Jenny,

If at any time you want to trade in your strapping boyfriend for a chubby nerd, I would be willing to audition for the chubby nerd role.

—Chubby Nerd

President Mike Schmit,

Can I be your Monica Lewinsky?

—A secret admirer wanting to get into politics

To the boy dancing and singing to himself while rollerblading across the bridge today,

Rock on bro, rock on. Your jazz hands were unreal.

—Unknown

The last two girls that I’ve been interested in were tango dancers, but I have two left feet. Are there any girls at the U that need a remedial dance partner for the summer? I’ll cover costs in exchange for a few lessons!

—Unknown

To the girl who was Snapchatting herself on the treadmill,

You were cute enough to begin with, but the faces you were making into your phone were downright adorable. Snapchat with me?

—Guy who had just run 5 miles and wishes he could have stuck around longer

Do you have a secret crush?

4Post submissions on the “University of Minnesota Secret Admirers” Facebook group.

4Visit mndaily.com and look for the “Connect with the Daily” box on the homepage.

4Email submissions to overheards@mndaily.com.

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FOR RELEASE JULY 10, 2013

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

ACROSS 1 Urban rails 4 “__ life!”

9 Self-satisfied 14 2002 NBA Rookie of the Year __ Gasol 15 Put back to zero 16 Total 17 “ ... book by __ cover” 18 Author Jong 19 Many times 20 Member of a “joint” military group 23 “__ evil ...”

24 Time of one’s life 25 Pub. of an oftquoted journal 28 Franklin invention 33 Full of mischief 36 Like much of King’s work 37 Verbalized sigh 38 Buddhist shrine 41 Injured, in a way 42 Jazzman Jackson and cartoonist Gross 44 More easygoing 46 Make a relay race connection 49 Kalamazoo-toCincinnati dir.

50 Billion-year span 51 Waits 55 Cocktail accessory 59 Traditional Islamic garment 62 Dough raiser 63 One of the Khans 64 Words before “Gave proof through the night” 65 Clerical residence 66 Short snooze 67 Incessantly 68 Like one’s big brother 69 Chowed down DOWN 1 “Lawrence of Arabia” and others 2 Bat maker’s tool 3 “Wake Up, Little __”

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4 Girl Scouts emblem 5 Protagonist 6 “Yeah, like that’ll happen!”

7 Sleuths, briefly 8 New York’s __ Island 9 Hardly G-rated 10 Win by trumping, in bridge 11 Que. neighbor 12 Beehive State native language 13 Put on 21 Doesn’t need to be drafted 22 Bush spokesman Fleischer 25 One-way sign shape 26 Wavy pattern 27 “Doe, ___ ...”

29 APO mail recipients 30 FDR’s successor 31 Opposable digit 32 Start the assignment 33 Moistens 34 Inventor Howe

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35 Ballroom dance, in Burgundy 39 Green veggie 40 Flight stat.

43 Wine list presenter 45 Maine dish 47 __ polloi 48 Digestive protein 52 Rigg who played Mrs. Peel 53 Brilliance

7/10/13

54 Internet calling service 55 One of 16 in a 4x4 tile: Abbr.

56 Enthusiasm 57 Catch, as a fish 58 Being, to Brutus 59 Storage receptacle 60 Colorful card game 61 Actress Charlotte

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dr. date Dr. Date,

I think my girlfriend is cheating on me. My friends told me they saw her out with another guy and they were getting pretty comfortable together.

How do I bring this up to my girl without sounding like I’m accusing her?

—Cheetah, The Cheated

Cheetah,

The fact that you’re concerned about your tone is already a good omen! Most guys would bust down her door in the middle of the day, frothing at the mouth, screaming “J’accuse!

J’accuse!”

You’re miles ahead, Cheet.

As long as you’re as sensitive as you appear to be, you’ll be fine. Just tell your girlfriend that you’re feeling worried because your friends saw her out with another guy. She’ll fess up or explain, and yeah, maybe she’ll cry, but that’s not your fault. Don’t worry too much about how you sound — just be honest.

The crazy thing about life is that sometimes things really aren’t how they appear! For all we know, this is a Sid/Cassie situation and the other guy is a gay Scottish rugby player! You just don’t know. You’re smart to realize that you should be respectful and noncombative about this.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

I just graduated college and am ready to move into the real world.

There’s one problem, my love life in college wasn’t great. I’m not a virgin, but I’m still a novice when it comes to bedroom gymnastics. How do I improve my game so non-college girls don’t think I’m lame in the sack?

—Aspiring Gymnast

Aspiring,

Don’t worr y about it, Gymmy!

Here’s a wild thing about the world: Not every college graduate has had

tons of sex! A lot of people don’t swipe their v-cards until well into adulthood.

Even more people swipe their v-card and then lose their wallet, so to speak.

There’s one weird, old tip that will make you excellent in the sack, no matter how experienced or virgy you are. And no, I’m not going to make you enter your credit card number to get it! Here it is: communication. You can read her body language and pick up on her signals; you can also just ask her what she likes — and tell her what you like, too. Whatever you do, keep the channel of communication wide open, whether it’s through dirty talk or verbose foreplay. The great thing about being two adults is that you can create a safe space together where you can explore — in fact, it will probably be a much more comfortable set-up than what most people have in college.

Plus, older women know what’s up sexually — their experience might compensate for yours.

A par ting word of confidence: I think you’ll be surprised by how much you already know. If you’re not sure, do a little research. Look up cunnilingus on WikiHow, bra. Also look up how to take off a bra, bruh. Then be yourself and go forth and multiply.

—Dr. Date

Dr. Date,

My boyfriend and I have been dating for four years. Earlier this summer, we talked about him proposing on the 4th of July under the fireworks. But the weekend came and went, and we’re still not engaged. I’m worried he might have got cold feet. Do I bring it up to him or just wait and see?

—Almost Married

Almost,

I smell cold feet, but who can be sure! Maybe he just wants to surprise you. Maybe he couldn’t find the right ring. Either way, bring it up!

—Dr. Date

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

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Kaler talks China, tuition and light rail In his monthly interview, the U president also discussed the recent DOMA ruling.

BY JANICE BITTERS jbitters@mndaily.com

The Minnesota Daily sat down with University of Minnesota President Eric Kaler Monday for its monthly Kickin’ It with Kaler interview.

Kaler talked about his recent trip to China, new administrators, the effect of the recent DOMA ruling on the University and more.

You visited China at the beginning of this month.

Can you talk about what you did, or some of the highlights?

It was an amazing trip. I’m still recovering, but [it was] a great opportunity to meet a lot of our partners in China.

I visited many research universities … [I] also met a group of entering students who will make their way to Minnesota in the fall and their parents, so that was fun to hear some of their concerns and just feel some of the excitement that they have for their trip to Minnesota. … There are students and faculty that are coming here, so the faculty who I met

KICKIN’ IT WITH KALER at various places on the trip were also working with their colleagues and collaborators, identifying some opportunities for joint research. So, really the full range.

You said your goal was to increase the number of students learning abroad and to increase opportunities for international students. Can you talk specifically about how you plan to increase the number of students learning abroad?

I think the biggest step we’ve made is opening an office in Beijing, which opened in ’09. That’s a great location for Minnesota programs to have visibility and have a point of contact for students. … Again, it’s face time. It’s having a footprint in Beijing. … That promotes contact. We also have a very strong global studies alliance — very effective in establishing student mobility opportunities, both students coming here … and our students going there. … 32 percent of our undergraduates have a study abroad experience here, and that’s a very high fraction. I think that puts us third in the nation in terms of fractions.

You really want to have that

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Egan Company’s Derek Rodgers, left, and Tom Peterson continue to work on the light rail expansion on University Avenue on Monday in Prospect Park.

because it’s a pretty interconnected world. You go out, and to have that international experience is a plus.

[The Defense of Marriage Act] was recently struck down in the Supreme Court of the United States. How will this impact the University in terms of faculty, staff and students?

To be honest with you, I don’t know what impact that’s going to bring, and our [human resources] people are looking carefully to be sure that what we do is completely in line … A) with the law and B) is in the interest of our faculty, staff and students.

So we will be looking at what the impact of that is, and if we need to make changes, we will communicate them and take as much feedback as we need to move those policies, but I don’t have a specific knowledge of what changes we will need to make.

Affirmative action was also addressed in the Supreme Court recently. In a statement, you said the University would examine its current standards. [Are there] any other specifics that you might have, such as a timeline or anything you know of right now that might need to change?

Sure, and I have a little bit of a disadvantage in having been out of the office for two weeks when all of that happened. I have asked our folks to look at it. It looks to me, at first glance, as a confirmation of the [Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin] case, so I don’t think that means much has changed for us, but again, it’s something our folks have to look at.

As we move into your third year in of fice, you will be working with fully three-quarters new administration, according to the Board of Regents. I’m interested in knowing the ‘whys.’ Was this strategic at all?

I think it’s just sort of a natural thing that happens.

President Kaler in his office in Morrill Hall Monday.

President [Bob] Bruininks had been in office for a reasonably long period of time, and his senior leaders had reached oppor tunities or times in their careers to either move elsewhere — as the provost did — or to separate from the University. … I’m very happy with the new people that we’ve hired. I think they are doing a tremendous job. There is, of course, a loss of institutional memory when you have senior leaders depart, but we also have a core of people who have been with the University for a long time.

The light-rail construction on campus is going to be ending in 2014. What are the chances of a farefree zone on campus?

Well, we are very interested in a fare-free zone, and we are in conversations with the [Metropolitan] Council with how to do that. I think probably until those conclude, it’s just enough to say that they are ongoing.

Many are happy with the resident tuition freeze, but some are wondering about non-resident tuition.

How much of a priority will non-resident tuition be in the future?

EMILY DUNKER, DAILY

Well, I think when you look at non-resident tuition — even with the increase that we have — it is still well below non-resident tuition for many of our peer institutions, and it represents still a good value for students who want to come the University of Minnesota. I do believe that it is important that the University be affordable to all students, but I think it’s also fair to have a differential between the [in-state] and out-of-state students.

brought together a great leadership team.

He’s also brought a variety of new faces to bear. I’m very excited about, in particular, our new basketball coach. I think he brings an enormous amount of energy and connection to the team. I think the statewide tour that he’s just finishing reached a large number of fans and did a great job to enhance the image of Gopher athletics across the state, which I think is important to do.

So in coming years do you anticipate more increases? Would you say probably not a freeze for out of state students?

I don’t think we will be able to freeze out-of-state tuition, so I would anticipate that it would continue to increase but at as modest a rate as we can manage.

Anything additional that you’d like to add?

We do have a Board of Regents meeting coming up, and they are going to have the opportunity to vote on a resolution around the DREAM Act, so we have some enabling legislation to enable undocumented students to have in-state tuition. That’s impor tant to me. I think you’ve heard me on this before. I think education is really an important thing, and to be able to have access to it regardless of documentation is going to be a good thing.

So, my hope is that they will pass that resolution that puts us in compliance with the law that was passed earlier this year.

How might you review [Norwood] Teague’s performance? His review is coming up, and we’re interested in a preview of what you think.

He got a review with all the other members of my senior leadership team … I’m very pleased with the progress he’s made. I think he’s